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Comment Opposite effect of that they intend. (Score 1) 81

"The company claims it is doing this for security and reliability". The trouble is, people will go looking elsewhere for those drivers, and download from untrusted sources, which is a bigger security risk. A better thing to do would be to make old driver downloads easier to obtain, with warnings about the specific security problems they might pose.

Comment Re:Two incidents same day (Score 1) 44

Regarding the concrete berm on which the localizer antennas are mounted - there is no "wrong way" to land on the runway. aircraft will typically land in the best direction dictated by the winds. both runways 01 and 19 have localizer antenna arrays,
  https://aim.koca.go.kr/eaipPub... , but the array is mounted much higher on runway 01.

Comment not all calculators (Score 1) 108

As I first started reading, I was confused: doesn't the C clear everything? so replacing it with backspace makes no sense. Then I continued to read, and they described C and CE as functionally equivalent, as though this is universal. It's not: Many TI calculators use(d) C as their 'all clear' button, and CE as their 'clear entry' button.

Comment best-defended companies? (Score 1) 31

"It is highly concerning that a loose band of hackers, including a number of teenagers, was able to consistently break into the best-defended companies in the world,"

Doesn't this demonstrate that they're not actually the best-defended companies in the world ?

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