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Comment Re:Law of unintended consequences (Score 1) 202

You want a conspiracy theory? Here's one for ya -

Have you noticed how things seem to have started falling apart about the time they banned Tetraethyllead?
It's almost like stopping suppressing IQs gave enough people just enough extra mental horsepower to spin idiot conspiracy theories but not enough to see the obvious logical fallacies involved.

Comment clinging mostly a cost issue (Score 1) 370

For economy cars its cheaper and has less losses. Robot auto gets the losses to same but that costs more. The less losses part then matter(ed) for gas and to get better acceleration out of the small engines.

Goes for scooters and motorbikes too, cvt is nice and all but for same engine its kinda suck and cheaper smaller engine bikes that sucking kinda matters just for running your errands.

As for ev's so? Are the ev's going to kill small engined econoboxes? Does it even matter when you can just learn to drive it fairly quickly anyway?

Now some 3rd world weirdness perspective. I know some people who "can't" drive an automatic, not really sure why but they just scare it.

Submission + - xz/liblzma Backdoored, Facilitating ssh Compromise

ewhac writes: A backdoor has been discovered in the liblzma data compression library, whose purpose is to facilitate a compromise of ssh. liblzma versions 5.6.0 and 5.6.1 are known to be affected. Debian's "unstable" and "testing" repos yesterday rolled back the library by pushing version "5.6.1+really5.4.5-1" to mitigate the exposure. RedHat is also recommending all users roll back to a pre-5.6.0 release.

The backdoor is not in the source code, but rather is in the test suite contained in the distribution tarballs. Hostile payloads masquerading as test data are decompressed during the ./configure phase to modify the Makefile and drop modified versions of liblzma_la-crc32_fast.o and liblzma_la-crc64_fast.o. When the compromised library is loaded by client programs (such as ssh), these in turn install an audit hook in the dynamic linker, allowing them to intercept lookups/calls to RSA_public_decrypt@....plt, which it then replaces with its own code. This compromise appears to have only been discovered in the last few days; study of the precise nature and scope of the compromise is ongoing.

Comment Re:Copyright owners can change the license (Score 1) 120

Free Enterprise.

More regulation rarely fixes the problems and creates more problems that only large multinational government tied corporations can comply. Example, the repeated problems with the Banking industry, one of the most regulated industries that has been repeatedly bailed out of bad banking by taxpayers. Filed under "too big to fail"

Comment Re:Why? (Score 1) 142

CD Audio is digital. It literally offers no difference to all other Digital Formats, excepting for bitrate differences. Most listening is via some sort of digital conversion.

Vinyl is analog. There is a real benefit to analog, as it does not have some of the clipping effects digital is known for. Can most people tell the difference? Probably not.

Comment Re: Australia lack of sensors and reclassification (Score 3, Insightful) 56

Yeah places like finland have sort of bad air in very few places in few of the cities. Whereas in thailand when the pm2.5 index levels are commonly over 150 going to 200 in ALL of the rural areas. For reference in rural finland it would be something like 5 to 10 (and i have firsthand experience for both of these)

Australia would have great air in most of the country because most of the country is far enough from indonesia. Theres no forests to light on fire in inner australia anyway.

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