And you've summed up the problem in one. Shit developers can write equally shit code in any language, no matter what it is. If everyone were to switch to MPL (My Pet Language) instead of C, we'd still be seeing endless security bugs, only they'd be bugs in MPL, not in C. In this case as soon as I saw the first line of the article:
Alex is a software security engineer at Mozilla
I knew what was going to happen, as soon as he finished bashing C it'd turn into a sales pitch for Rust, his MPL. And, sure enough, a few paragraphs down, hey, look at MPL, Rust will solve all our problems, no need to think about educating the people writing the code to actually write secure/safe code. Yeah, and relying on abstinence will solve teenage pregnancy problems, we don't need to bother with educating people there either.
I agree, but for a different reason to yours: He's a peacock, and needs the attention. This is giving him exactly what he wants, he'll be all over the news again for as long as he can make it last. Just leave him alone and the world can forget about him.
What is it about Soros and the alt-right? I mean why Soros in particular? I've got some alt-right acquaintances (hey, they weren't that way when we were kids) who seem singularly obsessed with the guy. Is it because he's rich and Jewish? Why Soros in particular?
Shit, I had a curry last night at the Taj Mahal Tandoori that was at least that hot, and it was only a medium. I bet an Fscking Indian Hot would be at least 300 million degrees.
I wouldn't say useless, but overhyped. They're currently doing the same as a half-century-old Black Brant, which has a, well, half-century track record already in place.
In any case the problem of the sand running out is trivially solved, you just flip the world over and it all runs back in the other direction. That's why the poles swap every few hundred thousand years or so, it's so the sand can run back the other way.
The problem is that a doctor's primary, overwhelming purpose is to do whatever it takes to save a patient's life. Unfortunately the people who design... no, I won't dignify most medical IT with the comment that it's been designed, who implement medical IT think that a doctor's primary purpose is to be amazed at all the cool features some geek has crammed into everything they have to use. Have you ever looked at the interface for something as basic as a typical "smart" IV pump? It's packed with a million pointless features, most of which seem designed to show off how clever the programmer was, with endless menus and options and a display crammed full of useless crap that distract a critical care nurse from focusing on the most important thing, the running infusion flow rate.
[Three-page essay on how much "smart" IVs suck deleted]
And that's just one device. You'd need to go to a full book to describe how bad other medical IT is. In fact, entire books have been written on this. The problem is the IT industry, not the doctors (and I'm saying that as a person who used to work in medical IT).
It doesn't matter what the age of the implementation is, see this post for more details. Pretty much any Opal implementation is going to have bugs, security holes, and interop problems because of the way the specification was created. You can take the latest, greatest SSD, choose any one you like, and it'll still be riddled with bugs, it's just that security people don't have the resources to go through every single SSD ever created to find them all.
If you're someone of interest, your opponents will have the resources, however.
No, they're actual flaws. The specs are a clusterfuck of every possible feature that every member of the standards committee could think up, explained in a muddled and confusing manner that practically guarantees interop problems, and implemented by vendors who see it as a necessary checkbox item to allow them to meet USG requirements docs but nothing more. It's exactly, totally what I'd have expected from the design process that created them, the only surprise is that it took this long to find the holes.
Oh, and the root cause of the problem is still there, and it isn't getting fixed any time soon, if ever. These things will never be secure.
Enjoy their innocent tablet-days while you can. Soon enough, they will have smart phones and 500 friends on social media.
It's OK though, a hundred will be pedophiles pretending to be teens, a hundred will be FBI agents pretending to be teens to catch the pedophiles, a hundred will be Russian trolls, a hundred will be bots, ninety-nine will be marketers targeting kids, the the one remaining one will be Sally from next door who she talks to on the bus every day anyway.
Also the phantom menace behind the white genocide myth usually aren't Jews, they're hispanic, black, or muslim. Choose your prejudice and adapt as required.
Depends on what they're taught. Since we're talking New Zealand here, where a nationwide computer retailer sells Windows laptops at lower prices than Chromebooks (as you point out, the belief that Chromebooks are cheaper only holds if you compare them to business-grade laptops and fancy ultrabooks, you can mass-produce cheap shit Windows laptops for less than cheap shit Chromebooks), and where kids are taught Excel, Word, and others (and later on things like programming in Python, the obligatory HTML and CSS, etc) because that's what they'll need to know to get a job.
I'm not sure this is a good choice. Yeah, sure, Chromebooks, Linux, stick it to the man, etc, but teaching them how to create animations on a Chromebook isn't going to help them use Excel in an accounting job.
I don't have a horse in this race either way, but if it was my kids I'd be giving them a Windows laptop, despite the near-infinite suckage of Windows, because my concern is their employment prospects, not making a political statement. The prime thing though would be finding a good school. A so-so school will mess things up with any and all of Chromebooks, Windows, or OS X, but a good school will teach marketable skills, and for that Windows is your best option. Next time you go to some random generic business, lean over the counter/desk/whatever and look what OS the employees are using. Chances are it'll be Windows. Which really sucks, when your upgrade path is the abomination that is 10.
The reason why you'd want to go with Windows is that that's probably what most of them will need to use when they enter the workforce. ChromeOS may make a fine teaching tool, but it's not giving them any marketable skills, unless "I'm a wizard at using Google search and updating my Facebook page" is a job skill.
In fact it's not even certain that it's a good teaching tool, there have been plenty of studies showing that introducing laptops to the classroom has anything from little to no effect on performance, through to a net loss in the worst case (they're busy updating their Facebook pages, not learning). So perhaps the choice of Chromebooks is because if you want to follow a fad, you can at least take the cheaper option.
It surprises me that anyone is surprised by this. The USPS does more tracking of everything imaginable than Google, it's nearly impossible to send something of any real size anonymously. Which also surprises me that the guy sending the bombs wasn't aware of this.
Mind you someone doing what he did clearly wasn't in any rational state of mind, so I guess not knowing you'd get caught almost immediately comes with that.
Call me crazy here, but when I want to have a camera I use a device that pre-dates cellphones by decades, known as "a camera". This functions perfectly well as a camera, for the simple reason that it is a camera, and it outperforms any cellphone camera, no matter how flashy. I don't buy a phone because it also works as a so-so camera, I buy it because it's a phone. So I really don't care whether Apple has the best phone-pretending-to-be-a-camera out there or not.
For some unexplained reason, Google is locking out third-party Qi chargers
I'm sorry, is this Apple we're talking about here or Google? Or is Google finally catching up to Apple's standard operating procedure. In other words we're going to end up with Apple (Business practices) Classic and Apple (Business practices) from the Other Guy.
Actually you do need it. When a large, or even noticeable, percentage of your community expects you to do X (and by "X" I don't just mean a CoC, I mean be seen going to church/temple/the mosque at least once a week, greet people with "Heil Hitler", sing "Druze Tito" at the top of your voice, or whatever), you do it or face the consequences. Having a CoC is protective coloration, you do it to avoid trouble whether you believe in it or not.
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I sense a shitty developer.
And you've summed up the problem in one. Shit developers can write equally shit code in any language, no matter what it is. If everyone were to switch to MPL (My Pet Language) instead of C, we'd still be seeing endless security bugs, only they'd be bugs in MPL, not in C. In this case as soon as I saw the first line of the article:
Alex is a software security engineer at Mozilla
I knew what was going to happen, as soon as he finished bashing C it'd turn into a sales pitch for Rust, his MPL. And, sure enough, a few paragraphs down, hey, look at MPL, Rust will solve all our problems, no need to think about educating the people writing the code to actually write secure/safe code. Yeah, and relying on abstinence will solve teenage pregnancy problems, we don't need to bother with educating people there either.
I agree, but for a different reason to yours: He's a peacock, and needs the attention. This is giving him exactly what he wants, he'll be all over the news again for as long as he can make it last. Just leave him alone and the world can forget about him.
As you can see, they use SSL, so it's perfectly safe.
What is it about Soros and the alt-right? I mean why Soros in particular? I've got some alt-right acquaintances (hey, they weren't that way when we were kids) who seem singularly obsessed with the guy. Is it because he's rich and Jewish? Why Soros in particular?
Shit, I had a curry last night at the Taj Mahal Tandoori that was at least that hot, and it was only a medium. I bet an Fscking Indian Hot would be at least 300 million degrees.
I wouldn't say useless, but overhyped. They're currently doing the same as a half-century-old Black Brant, which has a, well, half-century track record already in place.
SCTP doesn't suit Google's needs. This isn't HTTP3, it's HTTP4, specifically HTTP4Google.
In any case the problem of the sand running out is trivially solved, you just flip the world over and it all runs back in the other direction. That's why the poles swap every few hundred thousand years or so, it's so the sand can run back the other way.
Just wait, the MAFIAA will get them once they've got Switzerland into line.
The allegation is that Switzerland hasn't bent over and lubed up for the MAFIAA like other countries have.
The problem?
The problem is that a doctor's primary, overwhelming purpose is to do whatever it takes to save a patient's life. Unfortunately the people who design... no, I won't dignify most medical IT with the comment that it's been designed, who implement medical IT think that a doctor's primary purpose is to be amazed at all the cool features some geek has crammed into everything they have to use. Have you ever looked at the interface for something as basic as a typical "smart" IV pump? It's packed with a million pointless features, most of which seem designed to show off how clever the programmer was, with endless menus and options and a display crammed full of useless crap that distract a critical care nurse from focusing on the most important thing, the running infusion flow rate.
[Three-page essay on how much "smart" IVs suck deleted]
And that's just one device. You'd need to go to a full book to describe how bad other medical IT is. In fact, entire books have been written on this. The problem is the IT industry, not the doctors (and I'm saying that as a person who used to work in medical IT).
It doesn't matter what the age of the implementation is, see this post for more details. Pretty much any Opal implementation is going to have bugs, security holes, and interop problems because of the way the specification was created. You can take the latest, greatest SSD, choose any one you like, and it'll still be riddled with bugs, it's just that security people don't have the resources to go through every single SSD ever created to find them all.
If you're someone of interest, your opponents will have the resources, however.
No, they're actual flaws. The specs are a clusterfuck of every possible feature that every member of the standards committee could think up, explained in a muddled and confusing manner that practically guarantees interop problems, and implemented by vendors who see it as a necessary checkbox item to allow them to meet USG requirements docs but nothing more. It's exactly, totally what I'd have expected from the design process that created them, the only surprise is that it took this long to find the holes.
Oh, and the root cause of the problem is still there, and it isn't getting fixed any time soon, if ever. These things will never be secure.
Enjoy their innocent tablet-days while you can. Soon enough, they will have smart phones and 500 friends on social media.
It's OK though, a hundred will be pedophiles pretending to be teens, a hundred will be FBI agents pretending to be teens to catch the pedophiles, a hundred will be Russian trolls, a hundred will be bots, ninety-nine will be marketers targeting kids, the the one remaining one will be Sally from next door who she talks to on the bus every day anyway.
Also the phantom menace behind the white genocide myth usually aren't Jews, they're hispanic, black, or muslim. Choose your prejudice and adapt as required.
As long as Apple don't ship the T-800 we should be OK.
I didn't know T2 came in chip form, usually it's either loose-leaf or in small packets.
Since helium is lighter than air, was the problem reported as an Error 4012 3/8ths?
Depends on what they're taught. Since we're talking New Zealand here, where a nationwide computer retailer sells Windows laptops at lower prices than Chromebooks (as you point out, the belief that Chromebooks are cheaper only holds if you compare them to business-grade laptops and fancy ultrabooks, you can mass-produce cheap shit Windows laptops for less than cheap shit Chromebooks), and where kids are taught Excel, Word, and others (and later on things like programming in Python, the obligatory HTML and CSS, etc) because that's what they'll need to know to get a job.
I'm not sure this is a good choice. Yeah, sure, Chromebooks, Linux, stick it to the man, etc, but teaching them how to create animations on a Chromebook isn't going to help them use Excel in an accounting job.
I don't have a horse in this race either way, but if it was my kids I'd be giving them a Windows laptop, despite the near-infinite suckage of Windows, because my concern is their employment prospects, not making a political statement. The prime thing though would be finding a good school. A so-so school will mess things up with any and all of Chromebooks, Windows, or OS X, but a good school will teach marketable skills, and for that Windows is your best option. Next time you go to some random generic business, lean over the counter/desk/whatever and look what OS the employees are using. Chances are it'll be Windows. Which really sucks, when your upgrade path is the abomination that is 10.
The reason why you'd want to go with Windows is that that's probably what most of them will need to use when they enter the workforce. ChromeOS may make a fine teaching tool, but it's not giving them any marketable skills, unless "I'm a wizard at using Google search and updating my Facebook page" is a job skill.
In fact it's not even certain that it's a good teaching tool, there have been plenty of studies showing that introducing laptops to the classroom has anything from little to no effect on performance, through to a net loss in the worst case (they're busy updating their Facebook pages, not learning). So perhaps the choice of Chromebooks is because if you want to follow a fad, you can at least take the cheaper option.
Snaps? The whole thing ain't kosher. Whoever heard of a banker named Snaps?
It surprises me that anyone is surprised by this. The USPS does more tracking of everything imaginable than Google, it's nearly impossible to send something of any real size anonymously. Which also surprises me that the guy sending the bombs wasn't aware of this.
Mind you someone doing what he did clearly wasn't in any rational state of mind, so I guess not knowing you'd get caught almost immediately comes with that.
Call me crazy here, but when I want to have a camera I use a device that pre-dates cellphones by decades, known as "a camera". This functions perfectly well as a camera, for the simple reason that it is a camera, and it outperforms any cellphone camera, no matter how flashy. I don't buy a phone because it also works as a so-so camera, I buy it because it's a phone. So I really don't care whether Apple has the best phone-pretending-to-be-a-camera out there or not.
For some unexplained reason, Google is locking out third-party Qi chargers
I'm sorry, is this Apple we're talking about here or Google? Or is Google finally catching up to Apple's standard operating procedure. In other words we're going to end up with Apple (Business practices) Classic and Apple (Business practices) from the Other Guy.
Actually you do need it. When a large, or even noticeable, percentage of your community expects you to do X (and by "X" I don't just mean a CoC, I mean be seen going to church/temple/the mosque at least once a week, greet people with "Heil Hitler", sing "Druze Tito" at the top of your voice, or whatever), you do it or face the consequences. Having a CoC is protective coloration, you do it to avoid trouble whether you believe in it or not.