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Comment Right once, patch away (Score 2) 65

To find a security flaw, you only need to be right once.
So if you have a machine that has a shitload of false positives, and have a way to filter em quickly, you end up with a bunch of true positives.
Now to code, you ideally want to always be right, which is not quite ideal for a machine that does a lot of false positives.
It's a pretty fun scenario, specially if you're not the only one running the security flaw finding machine.

Submission + - Linux Boots On The Atari Jaguar (github.io)

BrianFagioli writes: Remember the Atari Jaguar? The ill-fated 64-bit game console from 1993 just pulled off something nobody expected over 30 years later: it now boots Linux. Developer cakehonolulu managed to port uClinux to the aging hardware, overcoming the Jaguar’s lack of an MMU, tiny 2MB RAM limit, and quirky architecture by writing platform-specific code, custom drivers, and taking advantage of Linux’s existing Motorola 68000 support. The system now reaches a BusyBox shell on both real hardware and in emulation, though input is currently limited to a serial connection. The developer published a detailed technical write-up explaining the process, from kernel memory layout to timer initialization and debugging compiler issues.

Comment Re:We probably would end with two Brazils (Score 1) 68

Same kind of "scenario", land rich in resources being taken over by europeans, people being imported to it by force and eventually being transformed into it's own country, with it's own system and such.
But in the US, the founders of the country came up with a novel constitution and system because they were weird outcasts with different ideas, while Brazil just had "more of the same of the time".
The US was never a monarchy for example, never had a king. that was very weird for 1500ish, it was a country of lunatics.

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