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Comment Re:The books thing seems a bit harsh. (Score 1) 127

To enforce full restrictions (i.e not be able to read books, newspapers etc) on jailed people has been more and more common. So I don't think that this is done specifically to Warg, for example people who is sent to jail for breaking and entering are also put under those restrictions most of the time.

Comment Re:Well yeah (Score 1) 127

For several years now prosecutors have requested that full restrictions (i.e not be able to read books, newspapers or watch tv, listen to radio and so on) should be in force for most people in jail, at least that is the trend here in Sweden so it would not be a stretch to imagine that the same is happening in Denmark.

Most people never notice this since it only affects "dirty criminals" anyways, but sometimes one or two members of society is put in jail and headlines like this occurs since people for once can see the harsh reality of the judicial system.

Comment Re:XWayland (Score 1) 179

Yes that is true but there is also great motivation from the Wayland and MIR developers to implement support in the current toolkits so even if support won't happen in the stable version from upstream it's quite likely that we will get it anyways. For example Canonical have implemented MIR support in both SDL1.2 and SDL2.x. I assume here that they are also working on GTK2 and Qt, and something tells me that Red Hat will do the same for Wayland.

Comment Re:Broken by design (Score 1) 179

Granted, the last time I checked linux makes the memory space of every process for any uid available to any other process running under the same uid (unless you're using SELinux). It is just that big unixy trust-everything-local attitude.

Which mainstream OS does this differently? AFAIK this is the way it works in Windows and OSX aswell, unsure about the BSDs though but I wouldn't be surprised if they also do it like this (it would be a pain to use things like strace or shared memory otherwise and the MMU tables would be quite big)

Comment Re:XWayland (Score 1) 179

Step 2 can also be "do nothing" since the toolkits can implement support for Wayland without changed the major version of the toolkit so the application can link to the very same .so as it did before. Also the user might run XWayland and then even the old X11-only toolkits will work out of the box.

Comment Re:NSA failed to halt subprime lending, though. (Score 1) 698

According to the article in The Guardian the attack was supposed to be in the guise of a firmware patch and not a looming vulnerability in the BIOS:

"Among the more eye-opening claims made by NSA is that it detected what CBS terms the “BIOS Plot” – an attempt by China to launch malicious code in the guise of a firmware update that would have targeted computers apparently linked to the US financial system, rendering them pieces of junk."

Which of course makes this even more ridiculous, because how could the NSA thwart a fake firmware upgrade from happening by "closing a vulnerability"

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