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Comment Everyone "driving" a driverless car? (Score 1) 386

...For driverless cars to work, to decrease congestion, increase safety, reduce lawsuits and lower our insurance premiums everyone would have to be driving one....

For driverless cars to work, they would have to work under more than just ideal conditions. They would have to be able to, for example, navigate around potholes in the road and other stealthy road hazards that the current crop of driverless cars tend to overlook.

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Have a driverless car navigate a New England winter, stop showing them running in sunny California and the western deserts.

Comment Re:Pretty cool vulnerability but.. (Score 4, Interesting) 163

True. But where this attack is unique is that it installs itself in a boot-level device, not on the hard disk, and executed BEFORE the OS starts running. Even re-installing the OS or replacing the hard drive won't disinfect the system.

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Then there's this gem:

The bootkit can even replace Apple’s cryptographic key stored in the ROM with one generated by the attacker, preventing any future legitimate firmware updates from Apple, the researcher said in a blog post.

Comment NTPd is a mess that needs to be replaced (Score 1, Interesting) 115

The ntpd source should have been re-architected and rewritten years ago.

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The trouble is the the ntp.org project seems to be more concerned about adding every last neat new feature, and less concerned about the quality of the software they push upon the world.

It's the openssl fiasco all over again.

Comment I recently bought a book from Amazon... (Score 2) 292

... that had too much use of the word "and," leading to an excessive amount of run-on sentences.

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Maybe I should start hitting the Amazon reviews and flagging all the books whose grammar usage I find confusing.

Let's see, this book uses strange and confusing Capitalization, making it difficult to read. Maybe Amazon should suppress it as well.

Comment What about the Ogallala Aquifer? (Score 1) 330

The Great Plains States on the verge of some significant water problems.

The sprawling Ogallala Aquifer in the Great Plains provides freshwater for roughly one-fifth of the wheat, corn, cattle and cotton in the United States. But key parts of the underwater aquifer are being depleted faster than they can be recharged by rain (see map)....

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