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Comment Re: It's not the language, you stupid jackwagons.. (Score 1) 663

ll web applications are partly written in C.

The vast majority of web applications are not written in C. The operating system and other underlying software is, but that's not what the OWASP paper was talking about.

Your link was deficient because it didn't include web applications, which is where most of the code written today actually is.

My link had columns for XSS and SQL injection. I explicitly mentioned them in my reply. Aren't you tired of being so wrong about obvious things?

A single buffer overflow can't be exploited on a modern system, it takes more vulnerabilities than that.

It depends on the vulnerability. Also, at the minimum, they often result in a crash. But the fact is that buffer overflows are resulting in exploits.

Comment Re: It's not the language, you stupid jackwagons.. (Score 1) 663

If you can't keep track of your memory, how are you going to write secure code?

If you don't eat your meat, how can you have any pudding?

Security? Invalid memory accesses are too hard to exploit these days with things like ASLR and other kernel protections. They can still be exploited but it's not nearly as easy as it used to be.

You just contradicted yourself.

If you want to use C and still be safe, you can create an API for dealing with memory chunks.

Or you can spare yourself a lot of pain and just move to a language where that happens by default.

The most common types of vulnerabilities these days are things like SQL (or noSQL) injection, and XSS. Invalid memory access doesn't even make the top 10, but of course you already know that.

Oh, really? Invalid memory issues still make up around 20%, and it's the single-highest category of security vulnerability, even more than XSS, and more than double SQL injection.

Comment Re: It's not the language, you stupid jackwagons.. (Score 1) 663

It essentially solved all the problems. People who think JavaScript automatically solves memory leak issues are ignorant and need to be educated because their code inevitably sucks.

You keep blathering on about memory leaks when the topic is security and invalid memory access.

Comment Re:It's not the language, you stupid jackwagons... (Score 1) 663

(basically he built a memory library that set things up to easily avoid memory leaks).

So he reinvented the wheel to get around C problems. Of course, that only "solves" one of the least harmful memory issues in C. Memory leaks will cause you to run out of memory, but they don't corrupt it like buffer overflows, use after free, etc., will.

Comment Re:He's not a US citizen... (Score 1) 452

a Federal law that makes it a felony for any foreign national to attempt to influence a U.S. election, and a felony for any U.S. citizen to help them do it

So when are they going to indict and extradite these Australians for helping Bernie Sanders?

When are they going to indict and extradite Christopher Steele, the "ex" MI6 agent that supposedly contacted Russians to compile his "salacious and unverified" Trump dossier? When are they going to prosecute those involved from the DNC, the Clinton campaign, the Department of Justice, and the FBI?

It's funny, we're going on two years of this "Trump-Russia collusion" business, but the bulk of the evidence points to a criminal conspiracy to help the Democrats.

Comment Re:NAFTA was supported by the Heritage Foundation (Score 1) 337

that's why they want "strong borders" (insane immigration restrictions)

*snort* We've got tens of millions of illegal immigrants in the country. The entire state of California has become a "sanctuary" state. Children of illegal immigrants are guaranteed school and food stamps. Illegal immigrants flood hospital emergency rooms as a form of basic healthcare.

But if you want to build a wall, or Soros-forbid even deport illegal immigrants, you're a "xenophobe".

"freedom of speech" (very specific dislike of private censorship against hate speech)

Speaking out against illegal immigration, Islam, or the latest transgender craziness gets labeled as "hate speech".

An American should not think there is meaningfully more of a problem with Islamic extremists than there is with homegrown right-wing terrorism

What percentage of the population are Muslims? If such a tiny percentage is even comparable to "right-wing terrorism", why would you want to import more of such a backwards ideology unfit for the modern world? What part of Islam is your favorite -- sex slaves or non-Muslims being a second-class citizen under Sharia law? Or maybe you like gays being thrown off of roofs? Go on, pretend that has nothing to do with Islam, or that all religions are equally bad.

Now that people are more sensitive to racism

You can't even wear a Halloween costume without some leftist wingbat at Harvard screaming in your ear.

Comment Soros conspiracy! (Score 0, Flamebait) 149

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/1...

"George Soros, the billionaire hedge fund manager and a major Democratic donor, has given $18 billion to his Open Society Foundations, one of the largest transfers of wealth ever made by a private donor to a single foundation."

http://www.latimes.com/local/c...

"As they poured millions of dollars into district attorney campaigns, New York billionaire George Soros and other liberal donors seemed poised for victory in California.

They enjoyed the political momentum, having helped elect more than a dozen prosecutors from Florida to Texas."

https://dailycaller.com/2017/0...

"Leaked documents from George Soros' Open Society Foundations reveal how Soros works to defeat populist candidates and movements in Europe.

Soros, a U.S. citizen, uses a network of nonprofits and partner organizations across Europe to try and affect the outcomes of elections in foreign countries, the documents show.

Through advocacy efforts, education campaigns and media influencing projects, Soros does his best to affect electoral outcomes around the globe in support of his open borders worldview."

https://dailycaller.com/2016/0...

"From July 2013 to February 2015, Open Society Foundations, the network of political organizations controlled by left-wing billionaire George Soros, secretly paid the salaries of three key staffers to then-Moldovan Prime Minister Iurie Leanca, funneling the money through a German non-profit in order to skirt Moldovan laws against doing so, according to a leaked OSF document."

$18 billion buys a lot of fingers in a lot of pies. This is just a small sample.

Comment Re:Population Density Excuse (Score 1) 55

Australia has a lower population density than Canada or the US but pays lower rates than both.

The vast majority of Australia's population is concentrated in cities along the coasts. The United States also has population density along the coast, but it's also much more spread out in the interior. It's a bullshit comparison.

Comment Re:I don't know why he was fired (Score 1) 142

Facebook employees and tech companies in general have moved hard left. You can't wipe away the number 2 position at Facebook's email to Hillary's campaign manager just because once upon a time Thiel was brought on in 2005 and they haven't yet fired him. As I said, it's non-trivial to remove a board member.

You can't wipe away internal reports of just how intolerantly left Facebook's culture is -- even Zuckerberg admitted Silicon Valley is an "extremely left-leaning place" in testimony before Congress.

Comment Re:I don't know why he was fired (Score 0, Troll) 142

Daily caller is not a legitimate news source.

Yes they are. And the article I quoted refers to public record information from Wikileak emails. Since you can't dispute the facts, you smear instead. Disgusting.

They're a propaganda outfit

Then it should be easy for you to demonstrate. But since you're doing nothing but smearing, we know you won't.

making anyone that isn't part of the daily caller/daily stormer/stormfront circle the "others"

And here you expose yourself as the propagandist you claim Daily Caller to be, by trying to align them with neo-Nazi sites. Pathetically transparent.

Comment Re:I don't know why he was fired (Score 0) 142

What about Peter Thiel? He's on the Facebook board and gave far more money to Trump than Lucky did.

Yes, and? Just how much sway do you think a single board member has in the operations of Facebook? It is also non-trivial to fire a board member. And how does that change what I was refuting?

"The kind of folks who run Facebook couldn't care less which side won."

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