Comment Re:Ellis Island Syndrome (Score 1) 275
No, you're thinking of Raymond Luxury-Yacht (pronounced "'Throatwobbler Mangrove").
Comment Re:Jeez (Score 1) 275
Heinrich Bimmler? From Minehead? I have no idea why the TSA would be interested in him. After all, he wasn't the head of the Gestapo for 10 years... I mean, 5 years... I mean never.
Comment Re:"hacking charisma" (Score 1) 242
There's a special name for a "story to attempt to be positive": "propaganda".
Anyone with ciritcal thinking skills will demand to examine both the negatives and the positives.
Comment Re:I'm a Modern Gamer (Score 1) 166
You gotta cook the beef somehow.
Ok, well, maybe not "gotta"...
Jimmy Wales To 'Holistic Healers': Prove Your Claims the Old-Fashioned Way 517
Barence (1228440) writes with this excerpt from PC Pro: "Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales has issued a sharp response to petitioners calling for his site to "allow for true scientific discourse" on holistic healing. The petition, currently running on the Change.org site, claims that much of the information on Wikipedia relating to holistic approaches to healing is "biased, misleading, out of date, or just plain wrong". It has attracted almost 8,000 supporters at the time of publication. Wales's response to the petition, posted on the same page, is far from conciliatory: 'No, you have to be kidding me,' he writes. 'Every single person who signed this petition needs to go back to check their premises and think harder about what it means to be honest, factual, truthful. What we won't do is pretend that the work of lunatic charlatans is the equivalent of 'true scientific discourse'. It isn't.'"
Comment Re:This whole thing seems like an ad for the Wii U (Score 1) 126
Split screens can often be confusing (being distracted by another player's screen portion and missing something on your screen portion).
And that's why I will always regard split-screen console gaming as overrated and hopefully to never be resurrected.
"Hey, dude, where are you going? You're stuck on a wall!"
"Bullshit, I'm running my ass off. No, wait, I'm looking at the wrong half of the screen."
So I despise split-screen because I'm terribad at it.
Comment Re:This has gone beyond madness (Score 1) 147
Think of it as unplanned pen testing. Kinda like how rape is unplanned sex.
Comment Re: No. (Score 2) 246
False equivalence. Trolls aren't human.
GNU C Library Alternative Musl Libc Hits 1.0 Milestone 134
New submitter dalias (1978986) writes "The musl libc project has released version 1.0, the result of three years of development and testing. Musl is a lightweight, fast, simple, MIT-licensed, correctness-oriented alternative to the GNU C library (glibc), uClibc, or Android's Bionic. At this point musl provides all mandatory C99 and POSIX interfaces (plus a lot of widely-used extensions), and well over 5000 packages are known to build successfully against musl.
Several options are available for trying musl. Compiler toolchains are available from the musl-cross project, and several new musl-based Linux distributions are already available (Sabotage and Snowflake, among others). Some well-established distributions including OpenWRT and Gentoo are in the process of adding musl-based variants, and others (Aboriginal, Alpine, Bedrock, Dragora) are adopting musl as their default libc." The What's New file contains release notes (you have to scroll to the bottom). There's also a handy chart comparing muscl to other libc implementations: it looks like musl is a better bet than dietlibc and uclibc for embedded use.
Several options are available for trying musl. Compiler toolchains are available from the musl-cross project, and several new musl-based Linux distributions are already available (Sabotage and Snowflake, among others). Some well-established distributions including OpenWRT and Gentoo are in the process of adding musl-based variants, and others (Aboriginal, Alpine, Bedrock, Dragora) are adopting musl as their default libc." The What's New file contains release notes (you have to scroll to the bottom). There's also a handy chart comparing muscl to other libc implementations: it looks like musl is a better bet than dietlibc and uclibc for embedded use.
Comment Re:Because all too often, devs are assholes (Score 1) 162
For companies, they're basically pirate ships populated by people who think of themselves as laws unto themselves, as glorious buccaneers
Ok. Who else read this sentence and visualized the Crimson Permanent Assurance sailing the Bounding Main (Street)?
I had to smile, even though the real topic is depressing as hell.
Comment Re:If you believe in full disclosure (Score 1) 162
You don't believe in "chilling effects?" Threats regarding non-disclosure often include themselves in their subject matter... "you can't disclose X, Y, and Z, and you also can't disclose that you can't disclose X, Y, and Z"... and the threat can be sufficiently onerous to be credible.
I think you overrate the intimidating power of nominally legitimate instruments of judicial power, and underestimate the power of simply dragging someone through the courts for years on end. The process is its own punishment, and the threat of the process is quite often enough.
Comment The Idea is Literally Orwellian (Score 3) 133
It was terribly dangerous to let your thoughts wander when you were in any public place or within range of a telescreen. The smallest thing could give you away. A nervous tic, an unconscious look of anxiety, a habit of muttering to yourself -- anything that carried with it the suggestion of abnormality, of having something to hide. In any case, to wear an improper expression on your face (to look incredulous when a victory was announced, for example) was itself a punishable offence. There was even a word for it in Newspeak: facecrime, it was called.
-- Nineteen Eighty-Four
Comment Re:Dear Jonathan Coulton (Score 2) 48
Clueless troll is clueless. And also punctuates poorly.
Comment Re:all PRNGs are deterministic (Score 1) 143
So "this one is deterministic" seems like a weak complaint.
By your standards, this PRNG isn't so bad.
Weak Apple PRNG Threatens iOS Exploit Mitigations 143
Trailrunner7 writes "A revamped early random number generator in iOS 7 is weaker than its vulnerable predecessor and generates predictable outcomes. A researcher today at CanSecWest said an attacker could brute force the Early Random PRNG used by Apple in its mobile operating system to bypass a number of kernel exploit mitigations native to iOS. 'The Early Random PRNG in iOS 7 is surprisingly weak,' said Tarjei Mandt senior security researcher at Azimuth Security. 'The one in iOS 6 is better because this one is deterministic and trivial to brute force.' The Early Random PRNG is important to securing the mitigations used by the iOS kernel. 'All the mitigations deployed by the iOS kernel essentially depend on the robustness of the Early Random PRNG,' Mandt said. 'It must provide sufficient entropy and non-predictable output.'"
