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Comment Re:The process (Score 1) 179

I do not believe that (things are getting better).
I would be really surprised if the real number of holes is going down significantly, the developers are making holes at the same time as these guys are finding them. Perhaps this temporarily gets the hole count down, but after five years the situation will be the same.

The OSS "mind" has been, for 20 years, "a fixed hole is a good thing". Why on earth would it suddenly change to "do not make new holes"?

Comment Re:Open source? (Score 1) 215

One problem here is that the "multiple parties" are looking for holes to take advantage of, not to fix.
Another problem is that for example Linux is generating more holes per week than it is fixing, and the attitude sucks (https://lwn.net/Articles/538600/, https://lwn.net/Articles/313621/, etc).

If OSS were serious about security they would immediately use grsecurity and managed runtimes (JVM and like). I don't expect either happening anytime soon.

Comment Re:For VPNs, or for routing? (Score 1) 213

I would be surprised if every single american made router can NOT be attacked by NSA to gain management console. Which means thay can inspect and re-route your data at will. And they can get the access inside your intranet. Same with british made (is there any?), probably israeli and maybe some chinese. IMHO best bet would be german or perhaps scandinavian ones. Same with VPN, german VPN is very likely without intentional holes.

Comment Re:Lol@posturing (Score 1) 213

My moral prohibits me from taking advantage of the buyer, no matter whether I "misrepresent" the goods or not.

If I have the knowledge that something is not as valuable as the price is, due to reasons the buyer does not understand, I just skip it. I will not sell a lemon car even if the buyer does not have the mechanical knowledge to find out it is lemon. I will not sell lemon eletronic coins because I know they are lemon.

I do not expect you to hold these values.

Comment Re:Lol@fads. (Score 4, Insightful) 213

This is exactly why I think Bitcoin will collapse. Or perhaps, "should". There are quite a few with high percentage of all the money, one with at least 20%.
Sooner or later some of them are going to dump. Getting $1'000'000 for "nothing" is very tempting.
Later, much later, the gullible are going to understand they were ripped of, several times. Then, again it might be so that they never understand as they see Bitcoin as "mathematically proven" money missing the problems entirely.

I hope you have luck. I just cannot do the same for ethical & moral reasons. Damn, parents!

Comment Re:Sockets (Score 1) 286

Or considerably faster, as each process can be given own CPU.

If there is such a need to use libraries that the separation cannot be done cleanly, you might be using the languages or libraries wrong and probably get screwed.
For example I recall Java got faster unzipping after C zlib was replaced with native Java. This although it is likely that the C lib was "faster". YMMV, of course.

Personally I would always try to partition the problem into separate processes. Even if it is somewhat slower. For several reasons (architecturally better, more maintainable, easier to test, easier to understand and fix, network transparency, protection from other parts, ...).

Comment Re:Capital Crime (Score 1) 152

How do you make secure authentication in banks?
You do know people in UK refuse to have ID cards of any kind, therefore in bank a gas bill is considered "identification".
In Finland a (very old) driving licence suffice - the picture usually is so bad as to pass if you look even a bit like.

Banks are not always the culprit.

Comment Re:Media center (Score 1) 246

I once tried DLNA as my blueray player claimed it could do it. What a piece of shit DLNA is, for example two clients won't play same content unless you are lucky (same format content with same settins in the DLNA server). Besides, the implementation was horribly broken.

Now I use Rikomagic as my media player, and have Logitach remote keyboard. The Ricomagic is powered by USB from my amplifier. It also can do whatever Android can, e.g. I have installed some free net-tv applications into it.

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