Of course. They are a bunch of sociopaths that can't wait to screw over everyone else. So are their end users.

Of course sociopaths want to stay well away from the GPL3. It closed a loophole that could be used to subvert the intent of the authors.

The BSD layer is pretty IRRELEVANT to the average user.

To the typical person wandering around the Apple Store, it is the OpenStep layer that is the OS. Those people will never be aware of or interact with the BSD layer EVER. For them, the GUI is the OS.

That is perhaps the most important aspect of this situation for normal Mac users. They don't have to worry about bash because it's invisible and irrelevant.

> If there was no video then how did Spock watch Kirk fight the Gorn?

That was provided by the advanced alien race that created that situation to begin with.

Treat it methodically and there really isn't any difference. Snape is probably just as much of a scientist as any chemist. He just practices in a different domain. The same is probably true of Gandalf.

Make him a member of Psi-corps and suddenly it's all good and obviously sci-fi again.

Spain, Italy, and Greece all seem to validate such 'primitive concerns'.

The problem of negative cashflow is such a basic one that it wouldn't even be disputed in any other context.

Dogs have been eugenically engineered by humans for tens of thousands of years, and are therefore an artificial life form. They usually eat food that comes from a factory, and is artificial. Since you have an artificial life form eating artificial food, it's excreting artificial poop. Its urine is water that has been polluted by artificial processes. Hence the impact study.

By some definitions, anything created by a human is artificial, so all of our bodily wastes are artificial.

The museum of natural history?

If Skyrim has skeleton archers and beserkers, why not skeleton dinosaurs?

As light passes by a sun it is subject to an asymmetric situation where the solar atmosphere is in a magnetice field closer to one pole than another, rotating and having a gradient both radially and with the azimuth. thus there's a strong symmetry breaking effect on this light. On average, for all light passing the sun it's an equal handed effect. But if your planet happens to be subject to light that cam from the left side of the sun versus the right, that light could have a net polarization.

this effect would likely be orders of magnitude greater than this weak force polarization effect.

Fixating on the list of distributions that do or don't default to bash really is kind of pointless. The vast majority of impacted systems are going to be servers and especially corporate servers. The real question is what is the distro breakdown there.

So it's far more interesting that Redhat/CentOS/Fedora is on the "bad" list than any of the more obscure options.

SLES/Suse would also be a good one to include for relevant completeness.

No. The problem is that bash allows functions to be defined AND run in a variable declaration. It's the classic case of muddling the line between data and programs. This is what allows a remote exploiter to feed anything they like into your copy of bash.

Defining functions in environment variables seems like a weird idea. Is anyone crazy enough to use that and if so then why?

All life we know about came from a single origin since all life is based on DNA, RNA and proteins. whatever the origin was it would have had left or right handed DNA and thus so did everything that followed. there's no reason to suppose the need for a bias for one or the other. one of them was going to win. it's like vhs and betamax.

> Of course, as a sysadmin I should also be a software engineer. How stupid of me.

Yes you are stupid. Being enough of a "software engineer" to patch bash is a pretty pathetically low bar for any computing professional anywhere. It doesn't matter if they are "only a sysadmin".

It's not exactly rocket science.

This is what you get when your OS vendor tells you that you can have trained monkeys manage your systems.

If only we had a way to.. automate repetitive tasks? Why, what a world we'd live in!

No.

On Linux we have bugs.

On Windows you still have rampant malware that's taking your data hostage.

Despite Lemming attempts to conflate every software bug with a Windows virus that does actual damage, it simply isn't so.

The strong technical merits are still there. Windows is still a festering cesspit. Legacy apps remain the only real reason to run WinDOS.

This is an optional user level program with a number of alternatives. In terms of change impact and ability to patch, this has to be about the simplest vulnerability to patch possible.

There are a large number of systems where the fix for this is simply to delete the thing.

It's nothing like heartbleed.