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ARM Publishes 64-bit "AArch64" Linux Kernel Support 90

An anonymous reader writes "ARM Holdings has made available Linux kernel support for AArch64, the ARMv8 64-bit architecture. No 64-bit ARMv8 hardware is yet shipping until later this year, but ARM has prepared the 36 patches amounting to 23,000 lines of architecture code for mainline integration."

Comment Why not... (Score 1) 1

Was going to say, why not just put stickers with plain-text info? This is a solution looking for a problem, and there are network latency issues, etc etc.

Of course the benefit of having it on a site is that it is instantly modifiable, if the patient's medication changes...

Comment Re:I still don't get it (Score 1) 328

He abused his position, broke his oath, and acted to place materials whose secrecy he was supposed to protect... into the hands of enemies (and friends, frenemies, neutrals, and basically anyone who cared to look).

Arguably, he was uphholding his oath of defending the US Constitution, and the best way he saw to do that was to expose the whole festering mess that was going on in the military. Machine-gunning kids, how the hell is that acceptable?

Frankly, he deserves what he gets.

OK, I can see you don't put much value in the Constitution anyway... Or your belief in it depends on whether you agree with a particular point or not...

Encryption

Police Encrypt Radios To Tune Out Public 242

Hugh Pickens writes writes "Police departments around the country are moving to shield their radio communications from the public as cheap, user-friendly technology has made it easy for anyone to use handheld devices to keep tabs on officers responding to crimes and although law enforcement officials say they want to keep criminals from using officers' internal chatter to evade them, journalists and neighborhood watchdogs say open communications ensures that the public receives information as quickly as possible that can be vital to their safety. 'Whereas listeners used to be tied to stationary scanners, new technology has allowed people — and especially criminals — to listen to police communications on a smartphone from anywhere,' says DC Police Chief Cathy Lanier who says that a group of burglars who police believe were following radio communications on their smartphones pulled off more than a dozen crimes before ultimately being arrested. But encryption also makes it harder for neighboring jurisdictions to communicate in times of emergency. 'The 9/11 commission concluded America's number one vulnerability during the attacks was the lack of interoperability communications,' writes Vernon Herron, 'I spoke to several first responders who were concerned that their efforts to respond and assist at the Pentagon after the attacks were hampered by the lack of interoperability with neighboring jurisdictions.'"

Comment Re:Yet Another Terrible Flamebait Slashdot Summary (Score 1) 757

I can think for myself, and when I read his writings, I can judge for myself whether he's misrepresenting the facts or not, whether his opinions are defending the truth or defending the evil, and whether I agree with him or not.

And for a lot of things, I agree with him. It's not like I'm hiring him to be my accountant, where it would be a lot easier to hide the facts, how can you not trust the act of writing? His articles are read by a lot of people (oh wait, maybe he's sock-puppeting his audience too!) and if they found lies in it they would've protested, and loudly too.

Comment Re:Yet Another Terrible Flamebait Slashdot Summary (Score 1) 757

He sock-puppeted once, does that mean everything he's done and he's continuing to do is useless in your eyes? Keep thinking that, meanwhile he's turning out to be the champion of uncompromising progressives' causes (unlike those who protested torture under Bush and then supported them under Obama...)

Comment Re:Terms of Service (Score 1) 332

Presumably there's an automated button somewhere to tell Facebook "I believe a third party knows my password" (which will be true) and a script will automatically change the password, and send a reset code to your e-mail address. Now is e-mail still sacred? If so, then the judge/the soon-to-be-ex can't touch that reset code, problem sort of solved...

Comment Re:Just like Siri... (Score 2) 402

Well, thats just because you're an ignorant idiot who either can't read or hasn't actually owned an iPhone so you really don't have any clue what the fuck you're talking about :)

And you're a very pleasant individual yourself, sir! (smiley face).

And what if the user, just like the majority of computer users, just hits OK to close whatever dialog box that popped up? "Well then it's their own fault!", I suppose Mr. Superior I'm-Not-An-Ignorant-Nor-An-Idiot would say.

Comment Re:Just like Siri... (Score 3, Insightful) 402

Yeah, the first iPhone OS was well thought-of and intuitive, but after that it just relies on the user having to know some secrets to get it to work, e.g., who would've figured out that double-tapping the Home button on the lock screen would load Siri? That to move icons, group or delete apps on the home screen you have to hold them until they wiggle, and to group them you have to drag one onto another? Intuitive my butt...

Not that Android apps are any better. On some apps, hitting back actually means "go to the previous screen", even if that means leaving that app. But on my music player, if I load it, it goes to the "Now Playing" screen, which is the least useful screen since I can pause or skip songs on that screen, but I can do that from outside the app as well, so why would it show me that screen? Ok this is just nitpicking, it can't read my mind. But usually I open up the music app because I want to load up a different song. So I press the music app icon, I see the "Now playing" screen. Let's see, how do I see all songs? I press the menu button. No such option. I hit back. Ah, there it is. Real fucking intuitive..!

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