Maybe I’m old school, but this sort of bothers me. One of the nice things about rebooting is that it clears out old crud and gives you a reassurance that the system can bring itself up by its bootstraps. I can imagine live patching giving rise to a scenario where you have a machine that hasn’t been rebooted for years and when a power glitch finally brings it down, you find that what is on disk is different than what was in RAM and your kernel is corrupt or not bootable.

I think live patching would make sense if we had non-volatile system RAM (i.e. universal memory), but until then, it seems like rebooting is a pretty good sanity check that things are alright.

Someone just needs to write a tool that takes source code and translates it into an obfuscated form that only the CPU can understand. Is anyone working on this type of privacy tool?

NASA could send Ted Cruz to Mars.

So if I should happen to live next to a public place, and their signal penetrates my walls into my private residence, can I sue them for trespassing and for intercepting my calls in a place where I would have an expectation of privacy?

Of course not. *sigh*

Condoms are pretty good for safe sex. I think we should be using condoms to protect our bank accounts, for giving everyone safe drinking water, for screening passengers at airports and for securing your valuables in hotel rooms.

They hate us 'cuz they ain't us.

So this is good. This vulnerability was previously disclosed, but they undisclosed it. The undisclosure was done by the NSA using their version of the neuralizer, the existence of which was disclosed by Snowden last year, but has since been undisclosed (which is why you don't know about it).

Microsoft is now backing Android? What happened? Did Santa bring them common sense for Christmas?

3D printed replacement skeletons to the rescue! Installation is a bitch, but you only have to do it once.

This is the reason I recommend that everyone invest in write-only memory for their computers. It is far more secure and hack proof than the alternatives.

An exploit on SDRAM? That’s why I insist on only using write-only memory on my computer.

Kim Jong-Un decided to download "The Interview," thereby saturating his country's only dial-up connection to the Internet.

Shoot. There goes my idea of self-publishing a book written entirely in morse code.

I'm sure actual furniture in traffic would do wonders too. Nothing stops traffic like a beat up sofa in the middle of the lane.

I, for one, am looking forward to watching my DVDs with 10x10 pixels per pixel.