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  1. Re:Ooops? on China Halts Work by Team on Gene-Edited Babies (apnews.com) · · Score: 1

    Even Soviet Russiaâ(TM) didn't have 100% control of different internal development, China isn't even close to that in the first place. Think capitalism under the watchful eyes of dear leader Xi Jinping.

  2. Re:China Coverup On Fake Science on China Halts Work by Team on Gene-Edited Babies (apnews.com) · · Score: 1

    Yes China is just one person.
    Fake science is everywhere, false claims are made everywhere* - but only the one Chinese (only one of those remember) is relevant for our brave AC.

    (* Favorite: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... )

  3. Not sure if you are sarcastic or not... No modern kernel have been proven 100%, not even seL4 which have been formally verified (though that is just a bare micro-kernel without drivers and network/storage stacks).
    That Microsoft had to bend backwards for the "anti"virus people _is_ however a bad thing.

  4. Re:Call me when they roll it back on Microsoft Releases Windows 10 Build 18290 With Start Menu Improvements (betanews.com) · · Score: 1

    So now pointing out that one _can_ remove that irritating crap is equal to promiscuously doing sexual favors? How about keeping your sexual fantasies in your diary?

  5. Re:Buy your own stuff on New Parents Complain Amazon Baby-Registry Ads Are Deceptive (wsj.com) · · Score: 3, Funny

    Yeah, they have been here since at least Windows 3.1!

  6. So replace them with mosquitoes that fills the same ecological niche but doesn't carry malaria?

  7. NO! Are you really trying to tell us the anti-virus shit of yesterday that hooked into undocumented* APIs of the OS to do their "magic"** weren't the problem? Do you really expect that the OS should provide everything it ever provided and not patch bugs that your "userland program" abuse? You know what, Microsoft actually tried to do that when possible in the past _IF_ the program was important enough which have created problems.

    (* undocumented for a reason, things Linux would change from version to version expecting anything depending on it to be rewritten and recompiled)
    (** like making the system slow and unstable injecting bugs deep into the core system)

  8. Re:Windows shouldn't be a service! on Latest Windows 10 Update Breaks Windows Media Player, Win32 Apps In General (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    One is a bug and the other a trend.

  9. Re: Queue the standard arguments... on The People of Ohio Can Now Pay Their Taxes in Bitcoin (qz.com) · · Score: 1

    So you and the AC thinks the arguments are ordered, I don't agree.

  10. Re: I'm not sure what's odd about that on That Time The Windows Kernel Fought Gamma Rays Corrupting Its Processor Cache (microsoft.com) · · Score: 1

    Apple II, BBC Micro, Commodore 64, Commodore PET, Atari 8bit series etc. There were many alternatives.

  11. Re:I'm not sure what's odd about that on That Time The Windows Kernel Fought Gamma Rays Corrupting Its Processor Cache (microsoft.com) · · Score: 1

    Can you give an example of a personal computer using an 6502 and SRAM in the 80's? One is fine, I can't think of a single one using it as the main memory.

    The 6502 was used as it was inexpensive and (with the right software) reasonable powerful. Equipping a system with a lower cost CPU and then using enough very expensive SRAM to run real programs seem strange if not stupid.

  12. Re:Uh... Wrong Problem IBM on IBM: Chip Making is Hitting Its Limits, But Our Techniques Could Solve That (zdnet.com) · · Score: 1

    Really? My impression is that problems like those of shot noise inherent in the optical lithographic process are significant for continued scaling.
    Leakage due to quantum tunneling can't be solved anyway except by increasing the gate dielectric thickness.

  13. Re:Extend, Embrace, Enveigle, Extinguish on GitHub's Annual Report Reveals This Year's Top Contributor: Microsoft (github.com) · · Score: 4, Interesting

    How can you extinguish the fire of open source software by dousing it with gasoline? How hard is it for you conspiracy theorists to fork at the first sign of a future problem?

    I don't like Microsoft but this crap is just a symptom of a demented mind.

  14. Re:Not sure what is new here. on The Boring Company's First Tunnel Is All Dug Up (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 0

    This is your brain on Musk.
    Musk: not even once!

  15. Re:Assange's fears were correct? on Justice Department Is Preparing To Prosecute WikiLeaks Founder Julian Assange (wsj.com) · · Score: 1

    You messiah can see far into the future? While impressive how come he didn't see the problem before going to Sweden in the first place?

  16. Re:Julian Assange was right to not to go to Sweden on Justice Department Is Preparing To Prosecute WikiLeaks Founder Julian Assange (wsj.com) · · Score: 1

    The country he without any consideration could go to a few months before it became "dangerous"?
    The country that doesn't just extradite people to the US or elsewhere?
    The country that explicitly refuses to extradite people for political crimes and anything that could in theory lead to a death penalty?
    The country that isn't a NATO member with very close ties to the US?
    The country that _isn't_ the UK which is a NATO member with very close ties to the US, the country that Assange for some reason choose to stay even though "fearing for his life"?

    Yes he was right to not go to Sweden as being convicted as a rapist isn't nice for his image as a messiah. But is it any better to concont this kind of bullshit?

  17. Re:Touch a Nerve or Something? on The Internet Has a Huge C/C++ Problem and Developers Don't Want to Deal With It (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    I think you mean create C for non-idiots?

  18. Re:Not overblown on The Internet Has a Huge C/C++ Problem and Developers Don't Want to Deal With It (vice.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    What exactly is it Ada can't do but C/C++ can?

  19. Re:Architecture and Design on Why is Antivirus Software Still a Thing? (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    So what is that mythological design that is not vulnerable? It can't be a capability system as that is a type of "containerisation" and of course not bullet proof to the degree you are talking about. So what is it?

  20. Re:SCTP on The Next Version of HTTP Won't Be Using TCP (zdnet.com) · · Score: 1

    This isn't a reinvention.

  21. Re:NOOOOOO! on The Next Version of HTTP Won't Be Using TCP (zdnet.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Owning? If Google creates an open standard and it is accepted then it is an open standard, nothing owned by Google or anyone else.
    Is this just another indication that the people here actually don't understand even the basics of the Internet (or even computing)? Scary.

  22. Re:predictive autoimmunity on AI Researchers Predict Alzheimer's Years Before Diagnosis (sciencedaily.com) · · Score: 1

    Don't forget your headwear: https://zapatopi.net/afdb/

  23. Re:So what do they DO about it? on AI Researchers Predict Alzheimer's Years Before Diagnosis (sciencedaily.com) · · Score: 1

    So you choose to listen to the fantasies of your irrational mind instead of cold hard measured facts? Your choice. I'd prefer that you don't try to influence others.

  24. Re:VirtualBox is open source on Disgruntled Security Researcher Publishes Major VirtualBox 0-Day Exploit (zdnet.com) · · Score: 1

    As you apparently don't know the definition of the word forbidding:
    https://dictionary.cambridge.o...

  25. Re: Dear Moron Apple designer on Mac Mini Teardown Reveals User-Upgradable RAM, But Soldered Down CPU and Storage (macrumors.com) · · Score: 1

    There are plenty of camera nerds too.