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Comment Not Germany (Score 1) 69

Germany has shutdown all its nuclear reactors, see:https://www.base.bund.de/en/nuclear-safety/nuclear-phase-out/nuclear-phase-out_content.html
The nuclear disaster in Fukushima on 11 March 2011 was the cause for the vote in the German Bundestag(30 June 2011) - and the subsequent decision to phase out nuclear power.
France and China are still building new reactors.
But EDF(Électricité de France) are having serious problems with new reactors(and existing plants) see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

Comment Re:The More Interesting Finding (Score 2) 181

1)There is a very reliable way to assess the accuracy. You wait for them to die. If the researchers did not do this then the study is flawed.
2)The way you breathe has no effect on your IQ. But I am also surprised especially when you consider that about 2% of people have an IQ less than 70(top 2% have IQ greater than 130)

Comment Re:So we've got about 15 million taxi drivers (Score 1) 39

I found this https://www.scmo.net/faq/2019/... which states "In 2016, there were an estimated 18 million taxis in the world."
So I believe the 15 million figure is for the whole world. It is probably a little low but it would also be reasonable to assume that as least some drivers would find other work so is perhaps closer to the mark than it would, at first, appear.

Comment I think this requires rouge software on the device (Score 2) 129

Summary is misleading by giving the impression that devices that are not already compromised by malicious software are vulnerably to Bluetooth attack when this is probably not the case.
From the https://reg.rootedcon.com/cfp/... article
"
Depending on how Bluetooth stacks handle HCI commands on the device, remote exploitation of the backdoor might be possible via malicious firmware or rogue Bluetooth connections.
This is especially the case if an attacker already has root access, planted malware, or pushed a malicious update on the device that opens up low-level access.
In general, though, physical access to the device's USB or UART interface would be far riskier and a more realistic attack scenario.
"
So these chips are probably not vulnerable to Bluetooth attacks unless the device is already infected with rogue software.
There may be a vulnerability to local USB attacks which I guess would most likely be from police(or government intelligence agencies) trying to unlock/compromise a suspects phone.

Comment between (Score 1) 42

It states "between English and Latin American Spanish" it does not state in which direction.
For example if I stated that United Airlines operated flights between New York and London I think it would be safe to say that they operate in both directions.
If they intended to convey a one way operation they could have written "from English to Spanish".

The article itself does not mention "between" it states:
    "Starting today, AI-aided dubbing in English and Latin American Spanish will be available initially on 12 licensed movies and series..."

It may be that the dubbing is performed from subtitles in the required language with no translation performed by the AI in which case "between" is completely wrong.

Comment It teminates with a "useful error message" (Score 2) 99

From the white paper link there is a simple example:-
void gets_input()
{
    char buffer[24];
    printf("Please enter your name and press \n");
    gets(buffer);// TrapC will terminate on overrun!
    printf("%s",buffer);
}
If the user inputs more data than the 24-byte buffer can hold, that is a typical C buffer overrun
error. In C/C++, such an error is not implicitly caught, may crash or enable a hacker exploit. The
action TrapC takes on overrun, or any other unanticipated error condition, such as divide-by-
zero, is termination with a useful error message. That is, unless there is a programmer-supplied
‘trap’ error handler.

It is significantly better in at least 2 ways(if it works):
1)it should catch buffer overruns that may not cause a segfault(and would be potential security issues)
2)the error message should make debugging/fixing problems easier

Also in the whitepaper:
TrapC removes 2 keywords: ‘goto’ and ‘union’, as unsafe and having been widely deprecated from use ...
TrapC compatibility when compiling C code is limited in a small way by the removal of ‘goto’ and ‘union’. Legacy system maintainers who like ‘goto’ and ‘union’ may prefer to keep such code in C.

I suspect that this alone will prevent many developers from converting to TrapC but it somehow makes me think this is NOT too good to be true.

Comment licence (Score 1) 129

Why do you think licence suggests you get something in return?
A few things in the the UK that require a licence
    driving a motor vehicle on public roads
    firearm and shotgun certificates
    owning a dog(only required in Northern Ireland since 1988 when England, Wales and Scotland abolished it)
    selling alcohol

Essentially they all allow you to do something, in the case of a TV licence it allows you to watch or record live TV in the UK.

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