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  1. Re:Good, then we can scrap that stupid f-35 on Air Force Says F-35 Glitches Mean the A-10 Will Keep Flying 'Indefinitely' (jalopnik.com) · · Score: 2

    Uhh, wrong. You should ABSOLUTELY factor in the sunk cost, especially if it reveals the fact that you've spent waaaaay too much and should scrap the project and start over.

    That won't give your money back.

  2. Re:Because it took five months to fix? on Google's 'Project Zero' Hid A Major Vulnerability in Apple's OS and iOS Cores (thestack.com) · · Score: 2

    Or the more likely scenario would be that the same number of engineers will still work on the vulnerability, except now an exploit was disclosed putting people at risk.

    Has there been a case where that have actually happened? In that a known full access exploit in Microsoft or Apple products has been allowed to take five months to fix? How much negative publicity wouldn't Apple had gotten if it really took them five months to fix it with lots of exploited Apple devices all over the world? Samsung Note 7 would quickly had moved back to device issue #2?

    Whenever a change is made to the software, especially something as complicated as an OS, you need to allow time for regression testing to make sure the modification doesn't introduce a different vulnerability elsewhere.

    I know nothing about the vulnerability and where it existed so I can't comment on that.

  3. Re: Because it took five months to fix? on Google's 'Project Zero' Hid A Major Vulnerability in Apple's OS and iOS Cores (thestack.com) · · Score: 0

    Security by obscurity is when the actual plan is just to keep the code or interfaces secert and hope nobody bumps into it.

    It is security by obscurity in that they rely on not telling others about the flaw in their design to keep systems safe rather than actually fixing the design (for the period which went past until it was fixed.)
    The whole security solution in this case from it was known about until it was patched was to keep the information obscure.

    Both Microsoft AFAIK and Apple do this nowadays where they don't even try to bring out patches as soon as possible and they of course prefer if people don't know about the issues until that happens because they still want their customers to remain secure. Having proprietary code is also one way of obscuring any security flaws which may have been easier to find if the source code was available. "Irrelevance" was a small attack / trying to ridicule the OS X user base and market share on desktops where Microsoft Windows has been larger and hence possibly a more attractive target, of course the smartphone era has changed this quite a bit.

    Maybe 5 months is a long time but just telling the world right away wouldn't make Apple customers safer.

    Well for those where it's serious enough it may have done because they could just had stopped using their Apple devices altogether until there was a fix. Also if the vulnerability was public knowledge both Microsoft and Apple would likely feel the burn and have to work faster with a solution because taking five months to come up with a solution then wouldn't really be acceptable and much too risky.

  4. Re:Because it took five months to fix? on Google's 'Project Zero' Hid A Major Vulnerability in Apple's OS and iOS Cores (thestack.com) · · Score: 1

    Did you read the summary? Apple's initial fix didn't work well, so Google responsibily allowed Apple more time to fix the vulnerability.

    Yes I did. And it was about allowing them 60 days which since the fix didn't even solved the problem completely become 5 months.

    It likely didn't have to take 60 days or 5 months if that wasn't the time they had available to them but since it was that's how long it took. It's like there in Sweden where what the municipality get for each refugee "child" is $77 000 / year and hence that's what their solutions end up costing (or more since so many arrived), if they had only been offered $20 000 / year then they would have had to go with cheaper solutions.

    Of course it could be fixed faster than within 5 months and Apple likely would have had to do it very quickly if the exploit was known in the public.

    That is speculation. Apple was actively working on it and I rather the fix not cause more vulnerabilities simply because someone was impatient.

    True. But it being speculation doesn't make it incorrect. With more vulnerabilities do you mean the implementation of the fix or by just being known? Being known doesn't create a new vulnerability but it may jeopardize more units and users but as said at-least then they can be aware of it whereas not making them aware with of it and taking your time to fix it may also do that and no-one very few know about the risk you're putting them through.

  5. Because it took five months to fix? on Google's 'Project Zero' Hid A Major Vulnerability in Apple's OS and iOS Cores (thestack.com) · · Score: 0

    "Apple products are much more secure!" .. except that they want to be able to take their time and not fix security issues as soon as they are found.

    Security by obscurity and irrelevance ;D

    If Google had told about it immediately the world would had known about the issue five months earlier and could had sorted with it one way or the other and Apple would likely had been forced to fix it quicker.

  6. As far as I'm concerned, shoot them at the border.

    A good start would be to rather than pick them up outside the coast of Libya and ship them over to Italy to just deliver them back to Libya or tug their ships or force them to return once they actually arrived over at Italy.

    No need to start to kill people unless they don't listen and obey and try to invade anyhow.

    I'd shoot you too, given free reign and no repercussions for killing.

    I guess even given a complete free-pass I wouldn't kill people for completely nothing. I can kill some plants and animals with no consequences and I don't go around killing all of them for nothing anyway, but sure the barrier is very low and it doesn't take much of annoyance before they actually are killed in many such cases. I guess that give a more true image of how much we really value the life of others.

    I'd just like to know where that gang raping is taking place. I have no plans for Saturday and need some entertainment.

    As the offender you've got more control over that but as victim it will be hard to know in advance. One good way of lowering the possibility as a victim would be to avoid Africans and middle-easterners, if you want to get the experience a good start would be to instead DO hang around with them.
    (It's all in the old Swedish rape statistics and it's in our neighbors more recent rape statistics.)

  7. Re:Uh..... the price tag?! on Microsoft Announces Ultra-Thin, Pixel-Dense Surface Studio Touchscreen PC (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    You can get an 8 core Xeon chip used on ebay for $100.

    Good start towards keeping up with that Mac Pro for $4000 ...

  8. Re:Uh..... the price tag?! on Microsoft Announces Ultra-Thin, Pixel-Dense Surface Studio Touchscreen PC (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    It's not a Pentium 4.

    A Skylake processor would be newer and a better architecture than the Xeon used in the Mac Pro, the Mac Pro have more cores but the superiority ends there. There's little difference between the server Xeons and the enthusiasts and consumer chips.

    It's not Pentium 4 vs Itanium.

  9. How the fuck do you know that? All the journalists who question policy in Russia have bullets in their necks.

    Are you suggesting someone from the outside run Russia? Putin isn't an insider?

  10. Are countries still democratic if their voting system is rigged?

    In the case of Sweden since you aren't allowed to speak your mind, since data are hidden, since the media is bought by the people in charge, since private interests own social media, since people of the wrong opinion may be jailed and fined, since the view of "racists" "doesn't really matter" it simply aren't a democracy, it's a democrature.

    We don't even have a majority government we have a minority one with by now less than 1/3 of voters support because the two largest blocks have decided to split up all the parties in the government into three blocks and let which ever block of their two which are the biggest rule regardless of what budget for instance the actual majority of the parliament would want to have.

    If information and speech aren't free how can you have a proper democracy? People don't know and can't talk about things and raise awareness and state their opinion in such a country.

    And a democracy will always be against the will of some people anyway so I don't see how even a functional one is good, especially when your nation is flooded by people who just come for the gifts and will be able to vote for more of it to themselves. Hence IMHO a liberal democracy is better than one which aren't liberal but none of them are free enough for me.

  11. Which is why Russia is invading Ukraine

    Russia just see the give-away of Crimea as a mistake done in a different time.

    I assume other nations could think so about historical "mistakes" too. Was it belonging to Ukraine? Sure.

    and supporting terrorists when Ukraine wanted to go their own way and have closer trade relations with the West, right? Because the sovereign nation of Ukraine didn't want to live under the thumb of Russia any longer.

    I'm not saying it's right and of course Russia isn't the most free moral high-ground in the world.

    On the other hand it's not like the US wouldn't pay for and support their own terrorists to get the political outcome and alliances they want either.

    My comment was about Russia wanting to go their own way. That doesn't change or stop because they have wanted to influence others to also go their way.
    Would the leaders or the people of the USA want to be ruled by someone else just because they try to change the political outcome in other places?

    Because people don't want to live under a dictatorship where the guy at the top can steal your business on a whim and hand it over to one of his oligarch friends.

    I'm speaking about keeping sovereignty of your own nation and be able to have your own society, culture and people. You know, Sweden wouldn't have to be a dictatorship even if it let 0 "refugees" and welfare migrants in and remained very Swedish. Sweden have had democracy for a very long time, the oldest still going democracy in the world is Iceland. It's been one for over 1000 years.

    Nor do they want to live in a place where the dictator decides who can and cannot run for political office and where, if you become too popular with the people or reveal the corruption endemic in his rule, he'll have you killed.

    That's kinda a thing in Sweden too.
    The politicians even have a word they throw around for it when they trash-talk the population and what they actually want - it's called populism. It's likely used in the US too.
    The politicians in Sweden especially on the left are obsessed with "equal value" and "(anti-)racism", yet if you don't want things their way then your vote kinda close to have no value (even though that's what it was originally about then they launched the concept to make it possible for the poor to demand socialism from those who had more resources) and judge everything by sex and race and discriminate all over based on it to try to force the system into equal outcome no matter what the individual actually do and have done to deserve it.

    If you can't see the obvious, you might be a Russian troll.

    I'm a Swedish Swede living in Sweden and have no ties with Russia whatsoever.

  12. Countries that want to grow and have large economies are nearly all democratic, with open trade policies. The exceptions are Russia and China. China has focused more on trade than weapons and their economy has grow.

    You need global trade to go forward without you are limited in what you can do.

    Trade yes.

    Global government, socialism and welfare for anyone from anywhere and destruction of all western cultures and people no.

    I'm not against trade, or work.

  13. Where? Yes, I see them on TV, but not on the street. Where the hell are they hiding them and only parading them out when they need to fill a few minutes in the news?

    Yeah that's the usual scenario for those who think they like them, that others should pay for them and that others should live with them - they live far away from them.

    Of the cultural Marxists had their way though that shouldn't be a possibility either because you all need to mix!

    Or you mean in Germany or in some other European nation? How you can't find Muslims in Sweden is beyond me. Sure where I live more than 3/4s likely have an immigrant background but even at the larger Willys super market nearby, at City gross or at ICA Maxi or Coop Forum it would be impossible to miss them.

    If Sweden is doing better than Russia in relative economical terms then that's due to sanctions and the price fall in oil. As for Sweden doing better economically when just comparing the two that's likely because Sweden haven't been as socialistic and more free.

    * The dollar is up 50% vs the SEK over the last 5.5 years.
    * Swedish pupil knowledge results is way down.
    * The number of murder in Sweden is 7 times that of Norway now with 2 the population.
    * The development in the rape area I assume everyone is aware of.
    * Immigrant gang-rapes all the fucking time, rapes of people both <10 years old and those >90 years old.
    * Thrown rocks and molotovs and burn cars without consequences and police which holds back to "not make it worse" (yeah, guess where that will end? How did New York become safer? Was it by surrendering to criminality or actually doing something about it?), apologizing politicians defending the immigrant trash youth by saying "there's too little to do" as if they have less to do than any other kids in Sweden. It's like the feminists who say that it's men who rape and not due to their culture (and yet still the solution is to fight the patriarchy? If it's not a society and cultural thing how can it then be fixed by words and ideas?) even though not everyone with a penis go around raping people (of course that's not their definition of a man so I guess if one view all men as feminized trans-sexuals they may be onto something but I hope "being a man" doesn't have to mean "be a rapist.")

    Everything is chaos and all politics is about is to handle mass-immigration and yet they have of course claimed that there are none and that it's beneficial and what not. Yeah right, that's why no fucking people anywhere actually wants it.

  14. If they would ever attack the United States, they'd hit Yellowstone National Park in the most likely location to set off the super volcano.

    But the people of the US trust in God! So nananana! ;D

  15. Because they want to remain a sovereign nation going their own way and don't confirm with whatever path the globalists of everythings destruction want to take.

    Why the fuck the rest of the European leaders don't go the same way as Russia I have no fucking clue.

    Sweden is destroyed. Germany is destroyed. I guess UK and France also are. Yay!

  16. No software crashes? on Seth's Blog: Hardware is Sexy, But It's Software that Matters (typepad.com) · · Score: 1

    He can't have used web-browsers much.

    Since Chrome goobles up whatever amount of RAM eventually it will be too much and you will want to kill that fucker.

    Twice in a short time period Vivaldi (Chrome based by guys from Opera) and Chrome made Windows either by itself or through swap ~1TB of data each time to my SSD.

  17. Re:having more money on Higher-End Smartphones Make You Happier, Says JD Power Study (cnet.com) · · Score: 1

    Having more money makes you happier!? NO SHIT!?

    Possibly they may have less money because they bought a more expensive phone ;D

    I would definitely be happier with a more powerful gaming PC though. I haven't considered that but I guess I should :D

    I would also be it with a great beautiful house and a garden.

    Any volunteers? Don't I deserve to be happy damnit?! YOU INSENSITIVE CLODS!

  18. I too thought the controller part looked like something which could possibly wear out or get full of dirt but I don't know of any Nintendo product which has really easily break down (ok, connector on the NES possibly require a replacement) so I wouldn't be too concerned considering they have most likely thought about that.

  19. I've been waiting at least that long for Natalie Portman, hold the hot grits.

    I guess this isn't the time to say "fuck her" but I would had taken and waited for Alizee instead. However I had missed she had become single and I thought she had more children (but that was Jolie) and now she's found someone new again.

    It's such BS. Alizee, you know I deserved you when you were young and hot, it should had been us, but chances by now I can't do better so you may still have a chance! ;D

  20. And you actually made it!
    But you posted as AC so no-one will actually know you made it! Great work! Your first ever first post on /. and no-one will know your name or be ever to find out :D

  21. Re: Good to see some patriotism. on Assange Internet Link Cut By State Actor, Claims Wikileaks (rt.com) · · Score: 1

    He should have run. His campaign motto could have been "I told you so". But we got Trump instead.

    Trump is nice for any cultural-conservative European.

    He doesn't look good and may not be the smartest of all people but at-least he has the right values going for him.

    If I were a US voter the guy who would always have my trust to make America great again would had been Arnold Schwarzenegger though... But he can't become a president in the US =P (Sure he's immigrant but whatever, would you mess with the fucking terminator, Mr. Universe, Mr. Olympia, the one who can set that fat comedy guy (like, Italian?), what is he called? - Danny DeVito, in his right place, successful with the ladies, relaxed with drug usage..)

  22. Yea, really the people responsible are the institutions running trading bots that panicked.

    It's even more fun or tragic when someone finds a bot which try to do this automatically and be oh so clever about it and then trick the bot to act in a way which result in a loss and then are sentenced because someone was stupid enough to put up that bot which oh the horrors didn't acted optimally / profit-generating in all circumstances!

  23. That is a suspiciously polite way of saying that Greenland had long been a Danish territory/colony, and the mess was left there whilst Greenland was almost entirely under Danish sovereignty.

    Then again Norwegians / Danes / Vikings was what settled it first.

  24. Re:Indie developer here on Shadow Warrior 2 Developers Say DRM Is a Waste of Time (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    I bought Future80s2 bundle on Groupees:
    https://groupees.com/future80s...

    One could pre-order before the bundle was announced for $2 and there was some pictures posted with some other of their albums which I googled for and at-least some was around on YouTube so I listened to them and it sounded cool so I bought it (even though the music was on YouTube, but whatever, price was fair and it made me smile / got me something new to listen too.)

    However I hadn't bought the old bundle because I don't check Groupees well enough but Future80s hooked me up with the old content too - everyone was a winner :)

    If the stuff is DRM-free I feel safer and while I for instance have had Shadow warrior both DRM-free and Steam key I've added the Steam key to my account even though it could had been sold of and I could had played the DRM-free copy instead but ... Yeah. I paid for the game and that's kinda the reason to pay so .. Whatever (If I sold it off sure my DRM-free copy wouldn't had been "illegal" so I guess that would had been one minor difference but ...)

    Humble Bundle ran a MAD bundle which used some Magztercrap which people complained about because they didn't got PDF files. I checked whatever it could be pirated and at-least much of it seemed to be so that meant that pirates got PDF and/or CBZ files whereas buyers got ... I don't know what they got.
    Anyway I bought the bundle at $1 at first to see how it was and tried to add the code on their site but it didn't even let me to so .. Yeah. No MAD magazines for me and no further $14 for them but I kinda had already decided that.
    If they had offered me PDF and CBZ like more or less every other comic book bundle on HB does I might had bought it since I buy close to all of them but .. Yeah.. I don't want to use a website to watch them or whatever.

  25. Re:Denuvo is the reason DooM doesn't run on Wine on Shadow Warrior 2 Developers Say DRM Is a Waste of Time (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    Linux gamers need to reboot into Windows

    No they don't.

    Linux users who want to play Windows games may have to do that.
    But not all Linux gamers would have to do that.