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  1. I looked ad QCs 30 years ago. They were not very useful back then and that has not changed.
    Incidentally, I just added some context to the false reporting, no discrediting involved. The standard model of Physics _is_ inconsistent.
    But you are obviously an idiot that compulsively cheers for the hype-du-jour.

  2. No, they will not on Quantum Computers Will Break the Encryption that Protects the Internet (economist.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    First, even if QCs ever work for reasonably sized problems, it will take a long, long time for them to get there. If the last 30 years are any indication, they scale decidedly sub-linear with time. And second, nobody knows whether they scale at all or are limited to low qbit numbers.

    Any panic over this is a few decades premature.

  3. No, they did not on IBM Finally Proves That Quantum Systems Are Faster Than Classical Systems (engadget.com) · · Score: 1, Interesting

    They proved that in their mathematical model, quantum systems are faster. No mathematical model that describes physical reality accurately is known at this time though and it is known that the current standard model cannot be true as it is inconsistent. Hence they did not actually prove anything about reality.

  4. Probably inspired by PsyOps on The Army Is Preparing To Send Driverless Vehicles Into Combat (vice.com) · · Score: 2, Interesting

    When they saw how many people have irrational fear of driverless vehicles.

  5. Re:Github.com uses it on Trivial Authentication Bypass In Libssh Leaves Servers Wide Open (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    Move to gitlab. Works better and not owned by MS. github is a has-been. Like anything MS touches, it has turned to shit.

  6. Re:OpenBSD OpenSSH not vulnerable on Trivial Authentication Bypass In Libssh Leaves Servers Wide Open (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    That is the thing libssh is the neglected step child of SSH implementations, is it unused, and it is not surprising bugs are founded in it.

    Exactly. Intensively used FOSS is usually excellent, but obscure, rarely-used one is often not. Sturgeon's law also applies to FOSS, just not equally.

  7. And fail. Absolutely no manufacturing "moved" to China because of small-parcel shipping costs.

  8. Re:Only means US citizens will pay more on US Announces Plans To Withdraw From 144-Year-Old Postal Treaty (thehill.com) · · Score: 1

    Indeed. Start with paying Chinese-level wages. I bet the people already working 3 jobs to make ends meet will absolutely love that.

  9. Re:Only means US citizens will pay more on US Announces Plans To Withdraw From 144-Year-Old Postal Treaty (thehill.com) · · Score: 0

    It's not about isolationism, it's about a level playing field.

    Yes. Make foreign crap aas expensive as US crap, so everybody suffers because they have to pay a lot more than the stuff is worth. That is not called isolationism, it is protectionism and it kills an economy in the longer run as it loses the last of its capabilities to compete. The Dumb does probably even understand that, he does just not care.

  10. Re:Only means US citizens will pay more on US Announces Plans To Withdraw From 144-Year-Old Postal Treaty (thehill.com) · · Score: 1

    If the US thinks it can make everything it needs, or currently gets from China and other such countries, I think it's sadly mistaken.

    I agree. For many things, the price-increase would destroy the market, basically nobody could afford them anymore. And for many other things, the capability is just not there anymore or was never there.

    It is right-wing/fascist ideological thing to claim that you can make everything yourself and need nobody else. It is universally untrue, but the idea appeals so much to these people that they will come up with the most ridiculous lies in order to just be able to believe how great and at the top of everything they are.

  11. Re:Only means US citizens will pay more on US Announces Plans To Withdraw From 144-Year-Old Postal Treaty (thehill.com) · · Score: 1

    An if you believe this will have that effect, then you are dumber than your president.

  12. Re:Wake me up when they make telemetry removable on Microsoft Making More of the Windows 10 Built-In Apps Removable (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    Same here. It is _my_ machine, not theirs.

  13. Re:Gimme the old interface! on Microsoft Making More of the Windows 10 Built-In Apps Removable (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 2

    Win10's interface is an ugly mess. Let users choose the "classic" interface from Win2k and lots of complaints will vanish.

    You need to adjust your language. That is not "ugly mess" that is "innovative interface"!
    Just so you know, the whole OS is also not "spyware", but a "great AI-driven agent that always knows what the user wants and thinks".

  14. What about removing the spyware? on Microsoft Making More of the Windows 10 Built-In Apps Removable (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    I am really not interested before that is possible.

  15. Re:Grad students on Automation is Democratizing Experimental Science (axios.com) · · Score: 1

    They will do experiments. Just not all anymore. Doing experiments manually is both an essential part of their education and necessary for prototyping experiments and for small runs. The article is mostly nonsense, as has gotten so customary when "AI" or "robots" are discussed these days.

  16. Indeed. And with the current messing around, denying and not doing anything, we probably will see enough warming that species survival becomes doubtful. As a group, extinction is probably what the human race deserves for extreme stupidity and shortsightedness.

  17. Only means US citizens will pay more on US Announces Plans To Withdraw From 144-Year-Old Postal Treaty (thehill.com) · · Score: 1

    Because most of the stuff you order from China is actually only made there. So US citizens will have the choice to order for higher shipping fees or pay a lot more for exactly the same goods from an US vendor that imported them from China.

  18. Re:LOL @ open sores on Trivial Authentication Bypass In Libssh Leaves Servers Wide Open (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    Yes, this guy is so insightless it is staggering. There is a lot of really bad FOSS out there, but anybody with a clue knows what to use and what not, because it is pretty obvious. His hate fits nicely in with his lack of clue though.

  19. Re:Uh.... Jedi mind trick? on Trivial Authentication Bypass In Libssh Leaves Servers Wide Open (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    This is a rather obscure implementation of the ssh protocol, and in particular not the well-reputed OpenBSD implementation. Probably almost nothing is affected, calm down.

  20. Re:How about Dropbear? on Trivial Authentication Bypass In Libssh Leaves Servers Wide Open (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    Looking at the Dropbear ssh sources, it looks like it is self-contained, i.e. has its own implementation of the respective functionality. It may still be based on or inspired by the defective libssh. However, it does not list libssh in its copyright statement or acknowledgements and it probably would do so if it had taken code from there. It does list some code it took from putty and from OpenSSH.

    So I would say probably unaffected.

  21. Re:OpenBSD OpenSSH not vulnerable on Trivial Authentication Bypass In Libssh Leaves Servers Wide Open (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    One would think that was a rather extreme difference...

  22. Re:OpenBSD OpenSSH not vulnerable on Trivial Authentication Bypass In Libssh Leaves Servers Wide Open (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 2

    You are welcome. The alarmist headlines and missing information this gets reported with are an utter disgrace.

  23. Re: Security is hard even if you're trying. on Trivial Authentication Bypass In Libssh Leaves Servers Wide Open (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 0

    Are you stupid? If somebody doing engineering selects an inferior product, then that person is in no way a "victim". The appropriate word is "incompetent".

    This is a no-amateur zone as this is a library and in no any way targeted at end-users. In engineering, people are responsible for their choices.

  24. Re:Doesn't affect OpenSSH on Trivial Authentication Bypass In Libssh Leaves Servers Wide Open (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 4, Informative

    It only affects one more-or-less obscure alternate implementation. The mainstream OpenBSD SSH (also the standard on Linux) is not affected at all.

  25. Re:Security is hard even if you're trying. on Trivial Authentication Bypass In Libssh Leaves Servers Wide Open (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 0

    The problem here is that this is not the mainstream libssh. It seems to be a rather exotic stand-alone project. The mainstream SSH is the OpenBSD SSH and it is _not_ affected. Anybody using an obscure alternate implementation of a security library basically gets what they deserve.