Comment Transcend! (Score 1) 214
And finally develop the Superpowers!
It's good that he has a lot of money, because this is going down the toilet.
There was a time when technology was based on science. Today we learn it's based on faith (Bill Gates said that for several years he has been a believer in the idea of LENR).
corrupt police officers who fined your car that was perfectly parked within the free parking lot
Because someone put a potentially fake note on your windshield saying "nice car".
If only Lonely Planet would advice people what Italian policemen mean when they ask you for a cup of coffee. I's all their fault, I think I'm going to sue them.
Anyone can write a review.
As well as a
Nope. They didn't find the vulnerability by browsing the source code (almost nobody does that) and they only disclosed it so they could collect the bounty.
Wrong on both accounts. The bugs were found through a systematical analysis of the code, and no one earned any bounty for doing so.
It is time to stop painting the open source fantasy as reality. Open source is great in theory but in practice it simply has not delivered outside of a few corner cases.
Actually the opposite is demonstrably true:
http://www.zdnet.com/article/c...
Coverity finds open source software quality better than proprietary code
"In 2013, code quality of open-source projects using the Scan service surpassed that of proprietary projects at all code base sizes, which further highlights the open source community’s strong commitment to development testing."
FYI: Ancient Microsoft headers defined WORD as a 16-bit signed value and DWORD as a 32-bit signed value; then the Windows API declares its functions in terms of those same WORD and DWORD typedefs. As a result, anything attempting to be even remotely cross-platform copied the standard, so now WORD means 16-bit and DWORD means 32-bit. The terms have stuck, and now they're taught in school as hard constants.
This only has meaning in MS proper. Hardware architectures and programming languages that were born in non-16 bits environments have WORDs that are differently sized.
To be blunt, the vulnerabilities were only disclosed so the finders could collect the bounty.
Bounty? What bounty?
And this is just a PRESENTATION LAYER?!?
OMFG!!!
Xorg is more than a presentation layer. It has networking (transport layer) and authentication capabilities, as well as device drivers for some old 2D graphic cards.
It is an antanaclasis, which can be considered a type of pun. You dope.
What does santaclaus have to do with this?
Those who can, do; those who can't, write. Those who can't write work for the Bell Labs Record.