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  1. Re:Easy way to rank on Which Programming Language Has The Most Security Vulnerabilities? (techrepublic.com) · · Score: 1

    but giving it to them runs counter to security.

    Wrong. It runs counter to safety.
    But sometimes you need to get on a plane without going through a soviet checkpoint at your airport.

  2. Re: Easy way to rank on Which Programming Language Has The Most Security Vulnerabilities? (techrepublic.com) · · Score: 1

    Any man who made it out of their parents' basement and got a girlfriend learned this long ago.

  3. Re:Not the programming language on Which Programming Language Has The Most Security Vulnerabilities? (techrepublic.com) · · Score: 1

    Are you one of the authors of Zenoss?
    I love that Python script that takes 10 minutes to start on a $4000 machine.

    Sorry, amigo.
    C is still *the* language for focused functionality where performance or detailed control is important.

  4. Re:Ship has not sailed on Apple's Plan For Its New TV Service: Sell Other People's TV Services (recode.net) · · Score: 1

    I think you're terribly confused about how corporate buyouts work.
    Having played part in a couple of them now, it's not just a matter of having the money. People have to want to sell to you.
    Giving them their flat market share value isn't enticing when the company is doing good.

  5. Re: Did anyone... on Flood of 4K James Bond Leaks Further Point To iTunes Breach (torrentfreak.com) · · Score: 2

    there's a decent chance the account information is added to the visuals with subband coding

    Objection- speculation.

    Also, hardware DRM is supposed to prevent the interception of the decoded data.

    It does. HDCP encrypts the stream over external digital interfaces (DVI, HDMI, DP).
    Of course, somewhere, at some point, it must be decrypted for transport to the actual pixel device.

  6. Re:Dietary Studies are NOT Advice!!! on Three or More Eggs a Week Increase Your Risk of Heart Disease and Early Death, Study Says (cnn.com) · · Score: 1
    Your criticism of the study methodology is warranted.
    Your skepticism over the base conclusions smells like denialism.
    Nobody said cholesterol didn't have useful properties. In fact, I'll go as far as to say you'll die without it. The link between dietary cholesterol and serum cholesterol is interesting and confusing, but it is there. For 2/3 of the population, it's a weak link. For 1/3, it's a very strong link. In no population is it a non-link. In all populations, serum LDL is one of the many natural things that will eventually end your life. The trick is making sure you die of other things first.

    Is there something in the egg that counteracts that? Sure, but there's even *less* evidence of that than the claim that it's bad for you. So I'm forced to ask... Are you just trying to find evidence to support some notion you already have and are unwilling to part with?

    Elderly people generally live longer if they have higher cholesterol.

    Citation needed. Not only does this make no sense whatsoever, I can't find anything to back it up.

  7. Re: Dietary Studies are NOT Advice!!! on Three or More Eggs a Week Increase Your Risk of Heart Disease and Early Death, Study Says (cnn.com) · · Score: 1

    Causatively, no. The correlation is quite stark however.
    You continue shoveling it down your throat and help us with the statistics.

  8. Re:Dietary Studies are NOT Advice!!! on Three or More Eggs a Week Increase Your Risk of Heart Disease and Early Death, Study Says (cnn.com) · · Score: 1

    Questioning this study while parroting the rather contentious (study-wise) claim that lecithin reduces LDL is... well, laughable.
    Current estimates are that you'd have to eat about 8 eggs worth of lecithin to counteract 1 egg worth of LDL. I wouldn't bet too much on that lecithin keeping a massive arterial plaque from breaking off in one of your arteries and killing you. But I'm not you. You go ahead and have at it.

  9. Re:Dietary Studies are NOT Advice!!! on Three or More Eggs a Week Increase Your Risk of Heart Disease and Early Death, Study Says (cnn.com) · · Score: 1

    The eggs themselves may not be the causative factor.

    They're absolutely a causative factor.
    Whether they are *the* causative factor for the total statistic is certainly in question.
    Cholesterol will kill you though. Period. How long it takes will depend on other dietary inputs, your genetics, and how much of it you take in.
    Atherosclerosis is a fact of life.

  10. He's correct.
    100% oxygen at 100kPa of partial pressure will in fact kill you. It will take a while (probably in the order of a week)
    But you'll be totally fucked up within a couple days.

  11. Re:Russia hasn't done shit, dipshit on Vladimir Putin Signs Sweeping Internet-Censorship Bills (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    The level of willful ignorance required to truly believe that is nearly impossible to believe. I think you're just gaslighting.

  12. Re: To prevent discourse on Vladimir Putin Signs Sweeping Internet-Censorship Bills (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 2

    Oh, shut the fuck up you gaslighting shit stain.
    Slimy little trolls like you are why this whole thing has gotten so out of control.
    You know damn well those are misleading caricatures.

  13. Re: To prevent discourse on Vladimir Putin Signs Sweeping Internet-Censorship Bills (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    No shit. What the fuck is going on here? Did the Breitbart crowd discover slashdot?

  14. Bingo.

  15. I was invited to speak at one by precisely those kind of people. It was clear to me it was just a big marketing jackoff.

  16. Regarding the Dems, it appears the party chooses the candidate... At least that's what happened last time (they gave up the Presidency doing this, they didn't let the people choose, they manipulated the system).

    You're right that the "party" had a choice. You're right that the party had plans to subvert the will of the party's rank and file membership.
    You're however dead wrong that they gave something to Hillary that she didn't simply win.
    Their bullshit shenanigans didn't change the outcome- the Democratic electorate wanted Hillary by a fucking *massive* margin.
    Was that for better or worse? I don't pass that judgement.

    You however, should stop making shit up to fit a narrative that makes you feel better.

  17. Re:He would get my vote (fist post?) on Beto O'Rourke's Secret Membership in America's Oldest Hacking Group (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    Those same articles you posted pretty solidly debunk the opinion you've been calling fact all over this comment section: That her hire had anything to do with her background, or that she even knew the school listed her as any specific background.

    I can google too, but I try to read more than the headline before I post them as corroborating evidence, lest I look like a jackass. You don't like looking like a jackass, do you?

  18. Re:He would get my vote (fist post?) on Beto O'Rourke's Secret Membership in America's Oldest Hacking Group (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    I too tire of identity politics.
    But I tire more of assholes who didn't pay enough attention in school to understand what the fuck an average is.

  19. Re:Give RX 570s are going for $130 on NVIDIA Launches New $219 Turing-Powered GeForce GTX 1660 (hothardware.com) · · Score: 1

    I can personally speak to this.
    NV drivers on Linux are vastly superior in performance and stability, and lack of quirkiness.
    You want real fun? Try to get good performance on a dedicated AMD GPU on a laptop that shares an integrated Intel GPU.
    DRI_PRIME=1. Come on. Bring back my Catalyst control panel, please.
    Though the fact that AMDs drivers are open source is something I appreciate very much.

  20. Re: Give RX 570s are going for $130 on NVIDIA Launches New $219 Turing-Powered GeForce GTX 1660 (hothardware.com) · · Score: 1

    Sure, but it also says more people are using their integrated Intel chipset than are using the first AMD chip to show up on the list, 17 entries down.
    I have no problem with AMD, and own an integrated AMD GPU on my i7-8705g.
    But I don't get why you so ravenously try to alter reality to make AMD look like rainbows come out of its ass.

  21. Re:my answer and the death ray plasma arc on Tesla Launches Supercharger V3 With 1,000mph Charging, Better Efficiency, and More (electrek.co) · · Score: 1

    You're referring to an archaic system that has no relevance in today's world.
    Kudos on that technicality. You were still wrong on every other point.

  22. Re:Instead of down-modding, explain what is wrong? on John Oliver Fights Robocalls By Robocalling Ajit Pai and the FCC (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    You're representing a problem as intractable because you don't want to either do the work, or be forced to do the work to mitigate the problem.
    The thing is, you're being disingenuous, and you know it.
    As someone who has handled phone routing, like I do, you know full well there is plenty of room for filtration of outbound CID information with registered DIDs.
    We do it with our customers. The large Telcos don't do it with theirs because they're lazy and they don't want to address the problem.

  23. Re:Instead of down-modding, explain what is wrong? on John Oliver Fights Robocalls By Robocalling Ajit Pai and the FCC (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    I too deal with phone switches. And networks.
    The spoofing problem exists in both, and the mitigations for networks work for phones as well, if enforced by the carriers.
    If BGP between AS' on the internet worked like phone trunks, we would have no fucking internet.

  24. Re: Embrace the healing power of AND on John Oliver Fights Robocalls By Robocalling Ajit Pai and the FCC (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    I definitely didn't need anything like that until about a year ago. Maybe a little more.
    I know they've been happening for a long time, but the massive uptick in the practice didn't affect me until recently.
    But this isn't a 'political' thing. This problem has existed for a very long time, and no one has done anything about it. I watched the John Oliver segment, and he wasn't political either. He was criticizing the FCC for having the power to do something about it, but an unwillingness, and the Telcos aren't "regulating themselves" so to speak. It's fair criticism.

  25. Re: What about planned obsolescence? on Apple Is Now Forcing Its Suppliers to Go 'Green' (afr.com) · · Score: 1

    You seem to be interpreting every single figure of speech in this thread literally. Are you autistic, or German?
    I know, I know. Nobody is speaking in this thread, we're transliterating our thoughts into electronically transmitted word components.
    Gosh, you're clever.