Very insightful. It is always shades of gray (and worse, which shade it is depends on perspective), even though a large part of the population is too dependent on being told what to think to be able to see that. People that can only see black and white end up destroying morality utterly.
Case in point: What kind of Nazi? On that only talks, or one that does? What kind of child? A real-world one (e.g. below 14) or an "American" one (i.e. 17 years, 11 months and 29 days)? And what kind of molestation? Actual rape or "statutory" rape which was actual sex with her enthusiastic cooperation or even instigated by her? And was the person in any way responsible for getting leprosy?
Actually, academia _needs_ to protect "total dicks". The history of great scientific discovery has quite a few ow them. For example, apparently Newton was a "total dick".
Incidentally, the traditional countermeasure to this behavior is a full-arm slap to the face. Apparently, many women are to wimpy to administer these today, so the bad behavior continues.
The typical reason to keep code secret from everybody is because it is of abysmally bad quality or there are other severe problems hidden in there. Reasonable-quality code gets inspected and audited by 3rd parties all the time under NDA. In this particular case, it may also well be that the code does not do what its creator claims and the patent is bogus. If the expert finds this, the code becomes worthless and the creator may even become a target for litigation.
Indeed. And it also helps you to learn how to use a small embedded CPU and its peripherals. After you have mastered that, you cans till go to larger CPUs.
A successful privilege escalation on the guest gets the attacker several things: 1) all data on the guest and 2) all the communication capabilities of the guest and 3) all the memory and computing power on the guest. Hence it gets the attacker everything he wants. Attacking the hypervisor is a way to get even more or these things, and by a different route. In extreme cases, it may not even need a privilege escalation first.
The hypervisor does not and cannot replace kernel security and hence its mere presence makes things worse.
So far they have not managed to kill all of humanity, but they will keep trying until they succeed. I hope that some day we can screen for this type of evil early on and can drown them a birth.
On the other hand, hairline fractures heal and vanish by themselves and many do not cause problems. Both not true for cancer. And for the _rate_ it does not matter at what time it has been detected. Really, how stupid are you people?
That is nonsense here and rather obviously so. (The lies of the nuclear-apologists are really staggering and so is their stupidity...)
The ultrasound makes you find it earlier, you know when there is a better chance to treat it. It does not make you find more at all. Cancer has a way it making itself known at some point and it has an extremely low spontaneous remission rate (i.e. it almost never vanishes by itself).
It really does not matter. The "2" is a typo though (I am sure _you_ never make those....)
What you seem to fail to see is that you can still attack the kernel of a running VM under a hypervisor and then get all the benefits that brings you within the VM. But in addition, you can also attack the hypervisor and likely have other VMs on the machine which you then own. Not so when you run on the hardware itself, you then have no hypervisor to attack and no other VMs to own. Seriously, this is not difficult to see.
This, incidentally, has nothing at all to do with jails at all.
No, I am not. Even a type 2 hypervisor increases attack surface significantly. The mere presence of a virtualization layer does increase attack surface. And all other attack vectors are still there.
You seem to have no clue how reality works. You cannot train people to be good at something. At best you get mediocre and it is a struggle for them. The only exception are people with specific aptitude and they do usually not even need to be trained. Really, you know nothing.
Nobody is perfect and Linus also makes mistakes. Deal with it. It is either have the Linux kernel with Linus as he is, or it is not have it. You have your priorities all messed up.
Incidentally, from what my mother tells me, I was born as an engineer as well. When I was not yet two years old, I would first look at a coin-operated ride (like a car) from below before sitting on it. When she asked me why, I apparently told her that "I had to make sure it works right" first. While I have no memories of that time, there is zero chance this was given to me by some "conditioning" by "society" or even my parents, as my mother says she has no idea where this came from. At the same time, I clearly did not have the skills to actually make sure "it works right" at that age, or the awareness I did not have the skills, but somehow I had the desire to do so and understand it anyways.
My take is the people do not come into this world as "blanks" at all, but are already complex people with mostly formed personalities. Whether this is something random, or some form of reincarnation, I cannot say for sure, but "random" seems to stretch things by a lot. Memories are clearly lost if it is reincarnation. What may stay is intuition and some preferences. If that is actually what happens, certain types of people may also have a higher chance of becoming female and others of becoming male.
Of course, many people are not particularly good at anything, so they may have personalities weak enough to be formed to a degree. But these people will never find the dedication and level of fascination with coding that is an absolute pre-requisite to ever be good at it.
What we have achieved as society is that people that fall a bit besides the norm have a good chance to get to do what they want and are good at anyways. That is what matters. Coercing/tricking/convincing more girls to go into coding seems to run counter to that freedom and hence would not be a good thing to do.
You seem to be functionally illiterate. For one thing, you are not saying anything that has a clear meaning. For another, it still seems to have nothing to do with what I said.
Obviously, all women that want to be coders and have the aptitude to be good ones have a more than good shot at becoming coders. That is what matters. As most women do not want to be coders (just like most men, incidentally, the tiny reminder is just larger for men), "getting more women into coding" sound like trying to trick or coerce people into doing things they do not want and what they have no reasonable aptitude for. That never has a good outcome.
He is actually spot-on fact-wise. And, quite frankly, putting a wig on the pig by calling it to "kowtow before commercial interests" instead does not change things, just make it a bit less clear. (Unless you are asian, possibly....)
Indeed. And if his stance is ever compromised, Linux will effectively be closed commercial trash within 5...10 years.
At the moment I can still rip out abominations like systemd and build installation without the fragile udev. I can run what I chose. This will go away if commercial and military/industrial interests get too much influence.
Having read this, I agree that it is really stupid. For one thing, it is far too complicated and far too fragile. And for another it is bowing to pressure by MS to only have things work _their_ way. Not good at all. I rather have to be a bit more careful in mainboard selection in order to buy ones where _I_ can add signing keys or disable secure boot entirely.
Incidentally, "secure" boot is not all that secure. It mainly serves to lock you out of your machine and implement DRM.
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Very insightful. It is always shades of gray (and worse, which shade it is depends on perspective), even though a large part of the population is too dependent on being told what to think to be able to see that. People that can only see black and white end up destroying morality utterly.
Case in point: What kind of Nazi? On that only talks, or one that does? What kind of child? A real-world one (e.g. below 14) or an "American" one (i.e. 17 years, 11 months and 29 days)? And what kind of molestation? Actual rape or "statutory" rape which was actual sex with her enthusiastic cooperation or even instigated by her? And was the person in any way responsible for getting leprosy?
Actually, academia _needs_ to protect "total dicks". The history of great scientific discovery has quite a few ow them. For example, apparently Newton was a "total dick".
Incidentally, the traditional countermeasure to this behavior is a full-arm slap to the face. Apparently, many women are to wimpy to administer these today, so the bad behavior continues.
The typical reason to keep code secret from everybody is because it is of abysmally bad quality or there are other severe problems hidden in there. Reasonable-quality code gets inspected and audited by 3rd parties all the time under NDA. In this particular case, it may also well be that the code does not do what its creator claims and the patent is bogus. If the expert finds this, the code becomes worthless and the creator may even become a target for litigation.
Probably the "bigger is always better" crowd of morons. They would replace a hammer with a nuke if they could...
Indeed. And it also helps you to learn how to use a small embedded CPU and its peripherals. After you have mastered that, you cans till go to larger CPUs.
A successful privilege escalation on the guest gets the attacker several things: 1) all data on the guest and 2) all the communication capabilities of the guest and 3) all the memory and computing power on the guest. Hence it gets the attacker everything he wants. Attacking the hypervisor is a way to get even more or these things, and by a different route. In extreme cases, it may not even need a privilege escalation first.
The hypervisor does not and cannot replace kernel security and hence its mere presence makes things worse.
Really, what do you think attackers are after?
Good. Otherwise we would have to burn it and start over....
The thing is that current cancer therapies cause cancer. The the risk is just less than 100%, so it is worth it.
They will. The stupid is strong with these.
So far they have not managed to kill all of humanity, but they will keep trying until they succeed. I hope that some day we can screen for this type of evil early on and can drown them a birth.
On the other hand, hairline fractures heal and vanish by themselves and many do not cause problems. Both not true for cancer. And for the _rate_ it does not matter at what time it has been detected. Really, how stupid are you people?
That is nonsense here and rather obviously so. (The lies of the nuclear-apologists are really staggering and so is their stupidity...)
The ultrasound makes you find it earlier, you know when there is a better chance to treat it. It does not make you find more at all. Cancer has a way it making itself known at some point and it has an extremely low spontaneous remission rate (i.e. it almost never vanishes by itself).
It really does not matter. The "2" is a typo though (I am sure _you_ never make those....)
What you seem to fail to see is that you can still attack the kernel of a running VM under a hypervisor and then get all the benefits that brings you within the VM. But in addition, you can also attack the hypervisor and likely have other VMs on the machine which you then own. Not so when you run on the hardware itself, you then have no hypervisor to attack and no other VMs to own. Seriously, this is not difficult to see.
This, incidentally, has nothing at all to do with jails at all.
No, I am not. Even a type 2 hypervisor increases attack surface significantly. The mere presence of a virtualization layer does increase attack surface. And all other attack vectors are still there.
One scenario for that would be a load-balancer in a specific configuration in the loop.
Cling to your delusions. They are not mine.
You seem to have no clue how reality works. You cannot train people to be good at something. At best you get mediocre and it is a struggle for them. The only exception are people with specific aptitude and they do usually not even need to be trained. Really, you know nothing.
Nobody is perfect and Linus also makes mistakes. Deal with it. It is either have the Linux kernel with Linus as he is, or it is not have it. You have your priorities all messed up.
Incidentally, from what my mother tells me, I was born as an engineer as well. When I was not yet two years old, I would first look at a coin-operated ride (like a car) from below before sitting on it. When she asked me why, I apparently told her that "I had to make sure it works right" first. While I have no memories of that time, there is zero chance this was given to me by some "conditioning" by "society" or even my parents, as my mother says she has no idea where this came from. At the same time, I clearly did not have the skills to actually make sure "it works right" at that age, or the awareness I did not have the skills, but somehow I had the desire to do so and understand it anyways.
My take is the people do not come into this world as "blanks" at all, but are already complex people with mostly formed personalities. Whether this is something random, or some form of reincarnation, I cannot say for sure, but "random" seems to stretch things by a lot. Memories are clearly lost if it is reincarnation. What may stay is intuition and some preferences. If that is actually what happens, certain types of people may also have a higher chance of becoming female and others of becoming male.
Of course, many people are not particularly good at anything, so they may have personalities weak enough to be formed to a degree. But these people will never find the dedication and level of fascination with coding that is an absolute pre-requisite to ever be good at it.
What we have achieved as society is that people that fall a bit besides the norm have a good chance to get to do what they want and are good at anyways. That is what matters. Coercing/tricking/convincing more girls to go into coding seems to run counter to that freedom and hence would not be a good thing to do.
You seem to be functionally illiterate. For one thing, you are not saying anything that has a clear meaning. For another, it still seems to have nothing to do with what I said.
And you think targeted manipulation is somehow acceptable?
Obviously, all women that want to be coders and have the aptitude to be good ones have a more than good shot at becoming coders. That is what matters. As most women do not want to be coders (just like most men, incidentally, the tiny reminder is just larger for men), "getting more women into coding" sound like trying to trick or coerce people into doing things they do not want and what they have no reasonable aptitude for. That never has a good outcome.
He is actually spot-on fact-wise. And, quite frankly, putting a wig on the pig by calling it to "kowtow before commercial interests" instead does not change things, just make it a bit less clear. (Unless you are asian, possibly....)
Well said!
I especially like the macro idea. Kind of a "safe-space faker" for those that cannot deal with reality.
Indeed. And if his stance is ever compromised, Linux will effectively be closed commercial trash within 5...10 years.
At the moment I can still rip out abominations like systemd and build installation without the fragile udev. I can run what I chose. This will go away if commercial and military/industrial interests get too much influence.
Having read this, I agree that it is really stupid. For one thing, it is far too complicated and far too fragile. And for another it is bowing to pressure by MS to only have things work _their_ way. Not good at all. I rather have to be a bit more careful in mainboard selection in order to buy ones where _I_ can add signing keys or disable secure boot entirely.
Incidentally, "secure" boot is not all that secure. It mainly serves to lock you out of your machine and implement DRM.