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Comment Re:Why is the signing useful (Score 1) 80

Expect this certificate to be revoked in near future. This will close that avenue, and cause all machines infected drivers signed by the cert to refuse to load the malware driver.

And cause all machines with legitimate Sony drivers (if there is such a thing?) signed with the same cert to refuse to load those too.

Comment Re:Yeah, but black and white (Score 1) 122

I'm intrigued by the data transfer requirements.
Even given your extremely low res in b/w, I make that 196TB per second.

Since I can't find any source for your specs and the sample videos are clearly not black and white, I presume you're joking.
If it's just grayscale that they've coloured in later, that's 1.5PB per second; full RGB 4.5PB/s.
These are all under-estimates, too, since it looks like the res is much higher than your 180x96.

What sort of transmission / storage tech are they using? Electrons don't move as fast as the objects they're filming here.

Comment Re:Could it be (Score 1) 255

I have never seen a Blu-Ray disk, and I am not too sure anyone I know has. You must live in the USA (not a device for connecting hardware).

The correct capitalization is Blu-ray. Also, are we going to argue the difference between disk and disc? Most (US) dictionaries list them as being the same. A disk can be defined as any thin, flat, circular plate or object or (when talking computers) any of several types of media consisting of thin, round plates of plastic or metal, used for external storage (magnetic disk, floppy disk, optical disk) (taken from dictionary.com). Admittedly, the BDA does use disc to refer to the media.

In general usage, disk and disc are synonymous (with k being preferred in US English, c in British).
Standard practice in computing, though, is for optical discs - Blu-ray, all the way back to Laserdisc - to use a c, while magnetic disks are k. It's to do with hard disks being pioneered in the US and optical discs being pioneered in Europe.

Comment Re:why? Well here's a bash interpretation (Score 1) 148

not only are there no people on this site able to "understand the topic", but neither are the folks on any other site. In my opinion, physicists are trying to count to zero, in the most intelligent way possible.

I will give you the benefit of the doubt and trust that you are actually aware that the doodad you used to post this comment does not work by magic, even though you seem to be implying that physics is pointless.

Comment Re:Why a Cheshire Cat? (Score 1) 148

“The neutrons behave as if particle and magnetic property are spatially separated while travelling through the interferometer,”

Is it just me, or does anyone else find that completely freaky? Ok, I kinda get how quantum effects don't really occur in a "location", but at a superimposed potential of different locations....but having different properties measured at different locations just freaks me out...

I didn't find it freaky, but I did respond oddly; I burst into a delighted giggle. I'm still grinning like an idiot, and not because of the Cheshire Cat reference.
This news makes me very happy.

Comment Re:What problem does capsicum fix? (Score 1) 71

Improved security models like SE Linux or now capsicum are intellectually interesting, but do they solve a real problem?

After all there are really few working exploits in the wild against up to date Linux systems, and a non up- to date system will be hacked anyway, with or without fancy security models.

Isn't the whole point of dropping privileges (whether using something fancy like Capsicum, or simply switching to a non-root user after initialisation) to mitigate what happens after a process gets successfully attacked?
Whether a zero-day vuln or an old vuln that hasn't been patched, if the attacker can't do anything important once they get in, doesn't that help?

Comment Re:Logic (Score 2) 160

That's not what the study says. It says that the bacteria in these strains that are born resistant to triclosan are also resistant to certain antibiotics. This "sub-lethal" dose, as you described it, killed 999,999 out of 1,000,000 bacteria in those strains. It just so happened that the specific amino acid expression that allowed those mutants to survive not only made them able to survive the triclosan exposure, but also exposure to certain, named clinical antibiotics. What you're describing was just an implication of the study.

So by killing all the ones that are susceptible to triclosan, you leave a breeding pool of only those few individuals that happen to be antibiotic-resistant as well. How is that "just an implication of the study" and not "the exact outcome you really want to avoid" (a.k.a. "becom[ing] resistant to [some antibiotic] by being exposed [to] Triclosan")?

Comment Re:Australia has always been a social engineering (Score 1) 78

-the Orwellian 'department of statistics' has (and uses) the legal power to forcibly 'interview' any citizen, asking them the most intrusive and sickening questions about their sex lives and other personal issues.

Sorry, but what are you even talking about?
I can't find anything online called the Department of Statistics (except for in various universities, of course). Do you mean the Australian Bureau of Statistics?
They're the ones who send out a census form to be filled in and mailed back. I have never heard any suggestion that they send representatives to question people directly, let alone "physical inspection" or wielding the threat of jail time.
Do you have a source for this?
Am I just feeding a troll, here?

Comment Re:This benchmark is pointless (Score 1) 196

I am a scholar and study parallel computing.

aka I'm a second year computer science student.

No, give the guy a break... English is not his first language. You can tell from the "what your compiler is doing in your back", instead of "behind your back", that sort of thing. From timezone, European seems most likely... from the sentence structure... French?

Indeed, godrik's English is quite fluent. It's just those few subtle points that give away that they're probably not a native speaker.
And well picked, AC: godrik has mentioned living in France in the past, so may very well be a French speaker.

Of course, we could just ask... but where's the fun in that?

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