Comment Re: Oh fuck right off (Score 1) 27
A shitty harbor may run a Taco Bell better than some people.
Comment Re:Respecting copyright is an important part of FO (Score 1) 109
IF Linux has "Project Monterey" code in it
They can't find it after 30 years.
And they are starting to lose confidence. They only work for Vizzini to pay the bills, not a lot of money or revenge.
Comment Re: Why do you still use checks? (Score 1) 183
As far as I can figure, it's because at best we have a mishmash of electronic means that don't talk to each other. I wish we had a universal method but we don't because we are overall a stubborn society that sometimes needs to be dragged kicking and screaming into the present. Which is somewhat ironic, the country that (at least used to) lead the world in technology innovation can't be bothered to keep up with the rest of the world unless there is a profit to be made.
But "Murica! Yeah haw!"
Comment Re: This guy was hired way back in 2009! (Score 1) 144
Ok he managed to lie and bluff his way up, but at some point he had to have gone through an FBI background check for a security clearance, right??!
Yeah you might get something past Eunice in HR, but a security clearance background investigation??
Comment Re: don't get your panties in a wad (Score 5, Insightful) 42
i would generally agree that recomputing a contract is generally good, IF the competing entities have the experience and expertise in executing the terms of the contract. I think the thought process here is that the contract will be steered towards one of Trump's political allies that has no experience or business running JPL.
Comment Re: Time (Score 1) 75
I was about to make a comment that you had to prove you are a US citizen to get a RealID, but then found that it is for identity only, not citizenship.
https://factually.co/fact-chec...
"The REAL ID regime sets federal minimum standards for state-issued driver’s licenses and ID cards and requires applicants to present documentary proof of identity and lawful status, but the card itself does not definitively prove U.S. citizenship because compliant REAL IDs may be issued to noncitizens with lawful presence [1] [2] [3]. Practical proof of U.S. citizenship remains specific documents — U.S. passport, Certificate of Naturalization or Citizenship, or state-issued enhanced driver’s licenses in some states — and those documents, not the REAL ID star, are what federal and administrative processes treat as evidence of citizenship [1] [4] [5]."
Comment Terrible name (Score 2) 49
Let's call them "Gooboo"
Comment Re: Time (Score 1) 75
This will get kicked down the road again, just like RealID (so important to airline security after all) was kicked down the road 20+ years.
Comment Re: relevance? (Score 1) 59
Only idiots would think that the biggest troll on the world stage wouldn't use a Nazi salute.
Comment Re:relevance? (Score 1) 59
Hold on, did a journalist make Musk do a seig heil?
A news reporter took over Musk's twitter and called a rescue worker a pedo?
It was totally CNN that forced Musk to mockingly run around with a chainsaw as he was cutting off the livelihoods of countless people!
Comment Re: Choke point (Score 4, Insightful) 138
The only way I can express it is by borrowing a line from (I think) WWII British prime minister Winston Churchill: "The Americans can always be counted on to do the right thing, when all other options have been exhausted."
Submission + - Copy Fail exploit lets 732 bytes hijack Linux systems and quietly grab root (nerds.xyz)
BrianFagioli writes: A newly disclosed Linux kernel vulnerability called Copy Fail (CVE-2026-31431) allows an unprivileged user to gain root access using a tiny 732-byte script, and it works with unsettling consistency across major distributions. Unlike older exploits that relied on race conditions or fragile timing, this one is a straight-line logic flaw in the kernelâ(TM)s crypto subsystem. It abuses AF_ALG sockets and splice to overwrite a few bytes in the page cache of a target file, such as /usr/bin/su. Because the kernel executes from the page cache, not directly from disk, the attacker can inject code into a setuid binary in memory and immediately escalate privileges.
What makes this especially concerning is how quiet it is. The file on disk remains unchanged, so standard integrity checks see nothing wrong, while the in-memory version has already been tampered with. The same primitive can also cross container boundaries since the page cache is shared, raising the stakes for multi-tenant environments and Kubernetes nodes. The underlying issue traces back to an in-place optimization added years ago, now being rolled back as part of the fix. Until patched kernels are widely deployed, this is one of those bugs that feels less like a theoretical risk and more like a practical, reliable path to full system compromise.
What makes this especially concerning is how quiet it is. The file on disk remains unchanged, so standard integrity checks see nothing wrong, while the in-memory version has already been tampered with. The same primitive can also cross container boundaries since the page cache is shared, raising the stakes for multi-tenant environments and Kubernetes nodes. The underlying issue traces back to an in-place optimization added years ago, now being rolled back as part of the fix. Until patched kernels are widely deployed, this is one of those bugs that feels less like a theoretical risk and more like a practical, reliable path to full system compromise.
Submission + - Longevity Escape Velocity Achieved Within Three Years (popularmechanics.com)
frdmfghtr writes: Popular Mechanics has a story about the rate at which lifespans are being extended by medical technology will surpass actual aging.
From the article:
"There's a controversial idea floating around the futurist community of "longevity escape velocity." It sounds super sci-fi, but it's basi-
cally the idea that as our life extension technology gets better, our life expectancy could increase by more than we age over a set period of time. For example, as medical innovations continue to move forward, we would still age a year over the span of a year. But our life expectancy would go up by, say, a year and two months, meaning we would functionally get two months of life back."
From the article:
"There's a controversial idea floating around the futurist community of "longevity escape velocity." It sounds super sci-fi, but it's basi-
cally the idea that as our life extension technology gets better, our life expectancy could increase by more than we age over a set period of time. For example, as medical innovations continue to move forward, we would still age a year over the span of a year. But our life expectancy would go up by, say, a year and two months, meaning we would functionally get two months of life back."
Comment Re:A larger trend ? (Score 1) 303
If it is, then given what the administration's actions have borne out time and again, their intention is to put in their own people, so they can get their cut... no matter how much damage it does.
Comment Re:I don't get it (Score 1) 47
Also, for myself, the habit of looking things up is a kind of memory crutch that is weakening some cognitive functions. It's so easy to look up the name of a band or an author or an actor which I've forgotten that I tend to not push my memory. Lately though, I'm refusing the bait more and more, and forcing myself to wait until my slowing memory finds the thing its looking for.
Exercise - it's not just for your body any more!
This reminds me of the line from "Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade" when Dr. Jones (the elder one) is asked about something regarding the grail contained in his diary (at that point being in the possession of the Nazis) but he couldn't remember it. When given the scornful "what do you mean you don't remember?" look, his reply is "I wrote it down in my diary so I wouldn't HAVE to remember!"
