Which is also why half my neighbourhood now has automatic updates turned off (that is, set to manual). No auto-updates = chance of malware that screws up the user experience and makes my life a pain, auto-updates = guaranteed malware (Win10) that screws up the user experience and makes my life a pain.
One single neighbour actually wanted to try Win10 so I installed it for them on a laptop. I don't think they've used the laptop since that first day. AFAIK they haven't actually turned it on since their first day with Win10, it just sits in a back room unused.
The More Information section of at least one of the knowledge base articles mention...
So I went to the linked article which pointed me for further information to a MS security bulletin which said I needed to refer to a KB article which sent me back to the security bulletin. I think I saw a white rabbit with a wristwatch at some point too. In any case I think what MS is trying to tell us is that they have a problem with too many levels of indirection through pointers.
If systemd ran on windows 10 would the evil of each cancel each other out?
No, they'd just end up turning into this. "systemWin10d has increased in diameter by 200%. It's moving towards the ship" - "What do we have that's bigger than 240?" - "Uhh, Beastie?"
LOL you use fucking ZDnet, a company whose ads are damned near ALL MSFT ads, as a "citation"?
It's not even just ZDnet, it's Ed Bott, who as far as I can tell is employed by Microsoft's PR department to write for ZDnet. Sheesh. If Microsoft released a Win10 update that reformatted everyone's hard drive, Bott would write an article the next day saying that people are just imagining it, and the fact that he's sending this from an Android phone because his PC has mysteriously died is pure coincidence.
Even the first example is clearly a bug, it registers the Padlock entropy source if the appropriate VIA CPUID flag indicates its presence, but deregisters it unconditionally. It's impressive that it found that, I don't know of any other tool that would check that.
(Just about to submit a feature request to cppcheck...).
If you just want some basic and free for C code, there's splint. Better than nothing at an unbeatable price.
Unfortunately it's also guaranteed to find at least 20x as many problems as there actually are, so it's only free if the developer time spent weeding out FPs is also free. If you want a free alternative to PVS, go for cppcheck.
Well that's easy enough, you just don't put the bugs in there in the first place. For example my code is mostly bug-free, I insert a small number of carefully-placed ones for Dave in Q&A to find and then we split the bug bounty between us.
cppcheck is kinda the budget version of PVS, it catches a lot of the things that PVS does, and in fact there's some cross-pollination between the two. Definitely one of the must-have tools in your dev process if you can't afford PVS.
It's not even obviously $5K, in a field (source code analysis) that's notorious for high prices and opaque pricing practices, PVS is one of the worst offenders, Try finding out what it'd cost to get a long-term license for use by an open-source project of the kind they analyse and publish articles on. I mean an actual hard figure, not a wooly estimate taken from some vague terms on a web page.
More to the point, Zephyr is a new RTOS that's just like FreeRTOS, RTEMS, eCOS, EmbOS, uITRON, ThreadX, VxWorks (shudder), and others, but without the significant support ecosystem and established pedigree.
Despite the source not wanting to discuss this due to "national security concerns", it's almost certainly a nuclear density gauge. If you really wanted one of those, you could steal it from any number of construction or mining firms in whatever country you're in.
It's also far more likely to have been misplaced rather than stolen, it's a generic-looking piece of engineering gear that someone probably set aside and that got lost among the piles of other gear lying around. Think "contractors misplace demolition hammer" in terms of how momentous this story is. If it wasn't for the magic words "Iraq" and "nuclear" this would never have made the news.
Ah, good point, so they were selected by the Guardian to show a particular angle.
It'd be interesting to get some opinions on people in the workforce at the time as to how appropriate/inappropriate this all was, we're measuring it by current standards but by all accounts things were quite different back then.
I would characterise it more as "somewhat weird, possibly creepy". If you look at the notes accompanying the photos, it seems like the guy was also responsible for hiring them all. He then bought them materials to make artwork for the walls. That's just a wee bit odd.
You can obviously interpret it in many ways, ranging from positive to negative: He was a big supporter of women in the workplace, he was overly paternalistic, he was a bit creepy... in any case I don't think you can generalise from this to the computer industry as a whole.
The Obama administration requested $2.973 billion for DARPA for fiscal year 2017, the same amount in its 2016 request, and $105 more than what was appropriated, said DARPA Director Arati Prabhakar.
So that's what, one extra Pentagon-priced can opener in the budget for $105?
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short for 'light fidelity,'
It's not short for anything, it's a play on WiFi, which also isn't short for anything but a play on HiFi, which finally is short for something.
Which is also why half my neighbourhood now has automatic updates turned off (that is, set to manual). No auto-updates = chance of malware that screws up the user experience and makes my life a pain, auto-updates = guaranteed malware (Win10) that screws up the user experience and makes my life a pain.
One single neighbour actually wanted to try Win10 so I installed it for them on a laptop. I don't think they've used the laptop since that first day. AFAIK they haven't actually turned it on since their first day with Win10, it just sits in a back room unused.
The More Information section of at least one of the knowledge base articles mention...
So I went to the linked article which pointed me for further information to a MS security bulletin which said I needed to refer to a KB article which sent me back to the security bulletin. I think I saw a white rabbit with a wristwatch at some point too. In any case I think what MS is trying to tell us is that they have a problem with too many levels of indirection through pointers.
I use STDU Viewer. It displays most e-doc formats (including PDF), does a good job of it, and isn't a piece of monster bloatware like Adobe or Foxit.
If systemd ran on windows 10 would the evil of each cancel each other out?
No, they'd just end up turning into this. "systemWin10d has increased in diameter by 200%. It's moving towards the ship" - "What do we have that's bigger than 240?" - "Uhh, Beastie?"
LOL you use fucking ZDnet, a company whose ads are damned near ALL MSFT ads, as a "citation"?
It's not even just ZDnet, it's Ed Bott, who as far as I can tell is employed by Microsoft's PR department to write for ZDnet. Sheesh. If Microsoft released a Win10 update that reformatted everyone's hard drive, Bott would write an article the next day saying that people are just imagining it, and the fact that he's sending this from an Android phone because his PC has mysteriously died is pure coincidence.
Soviet reactors go to 11! Oh wait...
It's more like 99%, 99%, 99%, 99%, 11,000%, 0%, 0%, 0%...
With nuclear capacity factors close to 90%
Erh no. They reach 90% in the summer but throughout the year they tend to run at 60-70% capacity.
By "nuclear" he meant reactors, not fusion-based energy from the sun.
I disagree. It doesn't just look bad, it's indentation is communicating semantics that aren't accurate. It should be corrected.
A bit like goto fail, which PVS should have caught had it been used on the code.
Its possible that this check in PVS was actually inspired by goto fail, hard to tell without the devs letting us know.
Even the first example is clearly a bug, it registers the Padlock entropy source if the appropriate VIA CPUID flag indicates its presence, but deregisters it unconditionally. It's impressive that it found that, I don't know of any other tool that would check that.
(Just about to submit a feature request to cppcheck...).
If you just want some basic and free for C code, there's splint. Better than nothing at an unbeatable price.
Unfortunately it's also guaranteed to find at least 20x as many problems as there actually are, so it's only free if the developer time spent weeding out FPs is also free. If you want a free alternative to PVS, go for cppcheck.
Well that's easy enough, you just don't put the bugs in there in the first place. For example my code is mostly bug-free, I insert a small number of carefully-placed ones for Dave in Q&A to find and then we split the bug bounty between us.
cppcheck is kinda the budget version of PVS, it catches a lot of the things that PVS does, and in fact there's some cross-pollination between the two. Definitely one of the must-have tools in your dev process if you can't afford PVS.
It's not even obviously $5K, in a field (source code analysis) that's notorious for high prices and opaque pricing practices, PVS is one of the worst offenders, Try finding out what it'd cost to get a long-term license for use by an open-source project of the kind they analyse and publish articles on. I mean an actual hard figure, not a wooly estimate taken from some vague terms on a web page.
So this is the end of open source firmware on basically any device with a radio
No, this is the beginning of an endless arms race of developers rooting any device with a radio as fast as the manufacturers try to lock them down.
More to the point, Zephyr is a new RTOS that's just like FreeRTOS, RTEMS, eCOS, EmbOS, uITRON, ThreadX, VxWorks (shudder), and others, but without the significant support ecosystem and established pedigree.
Just one question: Why?
Despite the source not wanting to discuss this due to "national security concerns", it's almost certainly a nuclear density gauge. If you really wanted one of those, you could steal it from any number of construction or mining firms in whatever country you're in.
It's also far more likely to have been misplaced rather than stolen, it's a generic-looking piece of engineering gear that someone probably set aside and that got lost among the piles of other gear lying around. Think "contractors misplace demolition hammer" in terms of how momentous this story is. If it wasn't for the magic words "Iraq" and "nuclear" this would never have made the news.
I would say Microsoft is pretty brave here, deploying Windows Extra Suckage edition to a client with access to tactical nuclear weapons...
VR is 3D going no where just a big money pit for wall street to collect cash in.
Why do you think Goldman Sachs is so interested in it?
Ah, good point, so they were selected by the Guardian to show a particular angle.
It'd be interesting to get some opinions on people in the workforce at the time as to how appropriate/inappropriate this all was, we're measuring it by current standards but by all accounts things were quite different back then.
Fascinating. Honestly, fascinating.
I would characterise it more as "somewhat weird, possibly creepy". If you look at the notes accompanying the photos, it seems like the guy was also responsible for hiring them all. He then bought them materials to make artwork for the walls. That's just a wee bit odd.
You can obviously interpret it in many ways, ranging from positive to negative: He was a big supporter of women in the workplace, he was overly paternalistic, he was a bit creepy... in any case I don't think you can generalise from this to the computer industry as a whole.
Their summary isn't much better:
The Obama administration requested $2.973 billion for DARPA for fiscal year 2017, the same amount in its 2016 request, and $105 more than what was appropriated, said DARPA Director Arati Prabhakar.
So that's what, one extra Pentagon-priced can opener in the budget for $105?
Or they could store it at the corner of Irving Avenue and Moffat Street, Queens. I'm sure no-one would notice a little extra radioactivity.
They use steam-powered presses shipped from England in the 1890s to make the DVDs.
A B.C. engineering lab has created metal-coated glass that transmits up to 10 per cent more light than conventional glass
They could call the product Windows 10.