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  1. If Zerodium pays big for cloud exploits... on Exploit Vendor Zerodium Announces Big Rewards For Cloud Zero-Days (zdnet.com) · · Score: 1, Insightful

    ...it means that Western governments, most often the U.S. and Israel, want exploits to infiltrate cloud servers.

  2. Games shouldn't be loading kernel drivers on Anti-Cheat Software Causing Big Problems For Windows 10 Previews (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    The solution to this is simple: games shouldn't be loading their own kernel drivers.

  3. Wake me when they get to 2048 qubits on Google Has Enlisted NASA To Help it Prove Quantum Supremacy Within Months (technologyreview.com) · · Score: 1

    The original Xbox and I have some unfinished business from 17 years ago.

  4. The First Amendment applies here. on President Trump Can't Block People On Twitter, Court Rules (knightcolumbia.org) · · Score: 2

    "Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances."

    Donald Trump has maintained that his Twitter account is an official outlet, so to block accounts would violate the right to petition. He can't have it both ways: it's either unofficial, or it's subject to Constitutional requirements.

    The "Congress" part was extended to the Executive Branch by the court decision California Motor Transport Co. v. Trucking Unlimited.

  5. Major caveat: Windows Store only on Microsoft Will Bring 64-Bit App Support To ARM-Based PCs In May (engadget.com) · · Score: 1

    They're talking about Windows Store only here, which if you don't want to pay Microsoft 30% of your revenue, or don't want to have to use their application patching system, is bad.

    Visual Studio 2017 does support making ARM64 desktop applications with a bit of hackery, but you'll face an uphill battle, and it definitely won't be supported. As an example of the issues you face, MFC for ARM64 is not provided.

  6. Re:Windows on Arm? Again? on Qualcomm Announces Latest Snapdragon 845 Processor (9to5google.com) · · Score: 1

    WinRT anyone? Or is WinCE? (no, that's dead, and was never truly Windows) Or WP (windows phone)? Or Win IoT (on Rpi3)?

    Are the CPUs finally getting there to run the full windows desktop?
    Not that will be very useful without all the Windows app ecosystem to most peoples...

    This time, Windows comes with an emulator that can run x86-32 programs, even desktop applications. No 64-bit for now, but for developers requiring that, they can recompile their products for ARM64. No requirement to switch to WinStore.

  7. Does the video card come with a slot to insert your credit card for Nvidia DLC?

  8. I get the feeling that we're going to find out that maintaining coherence requires energy that's exponential in the number of qubits, which would making quantum computing mostly useless.

    Our universe has always tended to stop those who try to break the rules; try making a perpetual motion machine, for example.

  9. Re:News flash: on CERN Scientists Conclude that the Universe Should Not Exist (ign.com) · · Score: 1

    Neither does your apostrophe; it has been replaced by something even more bizarre and inexplicable.

    Namely, Slashdot's stubbornness against Unicode.

  10. Very scary on Ask Slashdot: Where Do Old Programmers Go? · · Score: 2

    As a longtime C++ developer, hearing "C++" and "flight systems" together in the same sentence scares me.

  11. Larry would rather sue for imagined damages than compete in the market. Lawyers are better bang/buck than engineers, at least in his thinking.

    That's the thing...they usually are.

  12. Re:So WinRT ARM devices aren't useless now? on Researchers Crack Microsoft Feature, Say Encryption Backdoors Similarly Crackable (thehill.com) · · Score: 2

    My exploit from last year (CVE-2015-2552) already allowed trivially jailbreaking Surface RT tablets to run unsigned Windows programs.

    This new exploit, however, adds the ability to run unsigned (technically, self-signed) .efi files, before Windows boots. In order to run an alternative operating system, you need to be able to run .efi files, because it is not possible to chainload from an EFI OS.

    So yes, theoretically, you could make an Android distro for Surface RT now.

  13. Don't forget VMware. on Software Audits: How High-Tech Software Vendors Play Hardball (infoworld.com) · · Score: 1

    VMware has a software audit clause in all their license agreements, all the way down to the VMware Player.

    Don't use VMware; It's just not worth it.

  14. They'll just stop online signups. on California Bill AB 2867 Proposed To Allow You To Cancel Comcast With 'Click Of The Mouse' (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 1

    This one is obvious: Comcast would simply stop online signups! Then they'd be exempt from the law.

  15. Public-key cryptography is the death of freedom on Crypto Gurus Diffie, Hellman Win 2015 Turing Award (networkworld.com) · · Score: 1

    Public-key cryptography is the source of locked-down computers. It's clear that the entire industry is headed toward locking down computers to run only software signed by the conglomerates. Just look at the major operating systems other than non-proprietary Linux. Linux itself is going to face hard times as the hardware that can run it dwindles to the point that only small devices can use it, or devices made (and locked down) by a large corporation.

    I truly hope that either quantum computers come along to ruin public-key cryptography or the hidden-subgroup problem has a polynomial-time solution.

  16. Not just now, but Apollo too on Apollo Astronaut Edgar Mitchell, Sixth Man On the Moon, Dies At 85 (examiner.com) · · Score: 2

    I'm not sure what the utility of sending a human into space is at the present time. Unless there's an obvious use case, it *seems* like the extra effort of sending a human isn't worth the risk, except as a political statement.

    It wasn't worth the risk in 1969, either, but it sure was a political statement back then.

  17. Once again...too soon to care. on 'Hybrid' Logic Gate For Quantum Computers Demonstrated (ox.ac.uk) · · Score: 3, Funny

    Wake me when I can factor 2048-bit composite numbers. The original Xbox's public key and I have some unfinished business from a decade ago.

  18. This must be Hillary's old office on Providing Addresses for 4 Billion People Using Three Words (mondaynote.com) · · Score: 1

    focal.email.opera

  19. No, it uses standard Windows kernel on Hacker Cracks Lumia Bootloader, Offers Tool For Root Access and Custom ROMs (hothardware.com) · · Score: 3, Interesting

    That's not true. WinPhone uses an ARM port of the same NT kernel used on desktops. It's essentially the same kernel as used on the Windows RT tablets, which had a desktop.

    I know this because I managed to load an unsigned kernel driver using my CVE-2015-2552 exploit long before this release.

  20. It comes down to the old adage... on Anonymous Takes Down Thousands of ISIS-Related Twitter Accounts In a Day (softpedia.com) · · Score: 1

    Keep your friends close and your enemies closer.

  21. "SEAL" is already a used name on Microsoft To Provide New Encryption Algorithm For the Healthcare Sector · · Score: 4, Informative

    "SEAL" is the name of a patented cipher from 1994.

    Let me introduce you to my new encryption algorithm, Alien Encoding System (AES). Because that won't conflict at all with existing ciphers...

  22. Shy gypsy, slyly spryly tryst by my crypt.

    Crazy that I can remember it some 22 years later.

  23. Re:End the drug war on Crime Lab Scandals Just Keep Getting Worse (slate.com) · · Score: 2

    You have to be hit with the asshole stick to not serve. The jury is the very last line of defense from bad law, bad cops, bad lawyers, and bad judges.

    People who think rationally, and who have a healthy distrust of the system, get kicked off the jury during voir dire. I would know =/

  24. The Irvine Company is a commercial company not the government. What Orange County taxes are you talking about?

    Around here, The Irvine Company's power is such that it might as well be the government.

  25. Wake me when someone preimage-attacks SHA-1 on First Successful Collision Attack On the SHA-1 Hashing Algorithm (google.com) · · Score: 1

    The original Xbox and I have some unfinished business.