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Comment Just like "free" housing solved poverty! (Score 4, Interesting) 262

Just look at the loving way in which the residents of "free" public housing maintain their residences out of gratitude to the all-caring government.

Truly, public housing solved poverty to exactly the same degree that free broadband will "solve" the digital divide. I'm sure that the upstanding U.S. citizens who live in public housing will take it upon themselves to learn how to code and contribute Open Source software to the world in complete gratitude for this benevolent entitlement.

Comment Re: It makes you uneasy? (Score 0) 1007

Have you SEEN some of what goes on at campuses of many universities that is officially sanctioned and paid for by the university?

  A few creationists sitting off in a corner and chatting amongst each other is not even in the same universe of "harm" that is inflicted by so-called "Muslim Studies" and other professors at many tax payer funded universities.

One -- and just one -- case in point would be a few privileged white-male professors and privileged white students forming a racist lynch mob to make sure that the students at Rutgers wouldn't hear the words of the first Black Female secretary of state....

http://dailycaller.com/2014/05...

Comment Re:What does Bennett Haselton have to say? (Score 0) 77

I thought Bennett was busy writing inane and irrelevant "suggestions" about how to treat Ebola (since he's SO MUCH smarter than every doctor & nurse ever) after we intentionally infected him?

Then again, the recovery rate in the U.S. is depressingly high... let's drop him into a random village in Sierra Leone and see how well the local Witch Doctor reacts to his "suggestions".

Comment Re:Why? (Score 1) 226

Sigh... "X IS NETWORK TRANSPARENT!! I MAKE XTERM GO!! TRANSPARENT POWAR!!"

No.. granparent poster is right and you are wrong.

Being able to send stuff over a network pipe != network transparency. Get it through your head.]

Here's an excellent presentation by Daniel Stone, a guy who's forgotten more about X than most of us will ever know, saying the exact same thing: https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

Comment Re:Web services vs. CORBA (Score 2) 122

I've always been a fan of IIOP. You can use IIOP even if you don't want to re-introduce some of the more hangover inducing parts of the full CORBA stack (java's remote interfaces use IIOP IIRC).

Some people complain that a binary protocol is somehow not "open" but I've seen enough "open" XML uber-nested gibberish in my time to question that assertion...

Comment Re:Incorrect Science (Score 1) 27

He claimed that a superconductor would have a uniform temperature over the entire length of the superconductor. It's how Louis Wu kills sunflowers since they heat up part of a superconductive cable while another part of the cable is submerged in water.. the resulting cloud kills the sunflowers.

Obviously there's no existing material that would have high-enough temperatures to do a similar experiment, but maybe a materials science guy could chime in about whether or not these materials actually maintain uniform temperatures when superconductive.

Comment Article written by clueless PR bots (Score 5, Insightful) 26

The non-paywalled article includes some hilarious zingers like "the material also has extraordinary semiconductive properties which could revolutionise the issue of cooling in data centres."

If by "extraodinary" you mean: No bandgap unless you are really doctoring the graphene with other materials, then sure since "ordinary" semiconductors have bandgaps.

Not sure how transistors that can't be turned off will help in cooling data centers, but who knows what revolutions lurk in future press releases!

Comment This exposes systemic insecurities (Score 3, Interesting) 318

Basically, this Bash bug is really only exploitable by remote users because of some questionable decisions made in designing the software stack. This isn't an "open source" vs. "closed source" thing. This is a "We'll just trust data received from untrusted sources!" thing.

If your web/dhcp/print/etc. server is *accepting environment variables from random strangers* and then *executing a full-bore shell program* using those environment variables then guess what: You're freakin' server was already vulnerable and this Bash bug is just exposing the vulnerability, not causing it!!

Seriously, if Windows had a design like this then we'd be hearing the old "insecure by design!" schtick, and I'm not going to hold Linux to a lesser standard.

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