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Comment Re:Hollywood Accounting needs to be banned,prosecu (Score 1) 109

What kind of weird tax write-off rules are those? I'd expect that if you spend $x million making (and possibly marketing) a thing, and then only get $y by selling/renting/... it, you'd write off ($x-$y), no matter if $y is exactly zero or just smaller than $x. What rule is is that requires the thing to be essentially destroyed?

Comment Re: Nothing of value was added (Score 4, Interesting) 162

The coreutils are surprisingly complex. If you know a little about kernel functions, it feels like any of those tools should basically map to just a single kernel call. The requirements of the POSIX-standard(s) that define how exactly the tools should work, including how they should handle and report errors, as well as limitations of filesystems (such as long filenames, unsupported characters, ACLs) make correct implementations quite a chore. I'm wondering if the rust implementations pass the test suite that's included in the gnu coreutils source. Does anyone here know?

Comment Re:Real vulnerabilities? (Score 1) 62

If those 500 "high security" vulnerabilities (in Ghostscript? We're using Ghostscript in high security situations now? Are printer makers running it as root or something?)

That's "high severity," as in e.g. code execution. Ghostscript is a candidate for code execution by just displaying a PDF or printing a postscript file. Ghostscript as an external filter for PS, PDF etc. may still be part of the default installation of ImageMagick on many Linux distributions.

Comment Re:Active Bluetooth transmission 0.7 sq mm? (Score 1) 17

The quote here on slashdot is literally what's in the financial times article:

The devices — made with microchips 0.7 square millimetres in size — are embedded in shipping labels stuck to the shrink-wrapped bundles of items trucked from warehouses to stores

That indicates that the chip is 0.7 mm, but it makes no claim whatsoever about the antenna and potentially other electronics (e.g. capacitors) that may be included in the full device. I'd assume that the antenna covers the back of the entire label.

Comment Re:H2 was always a distraction scam (Score 3, Insightful) 27

Sure hydrogen makes sense for very long distance heavy shit like semis

No, it doesn't. Semis are already available that can easily drive fully loaded for the maximum time allowed between mandatory breaks, and recharge more than enough during that break for the next shift segment. And at least in Europe, the charging infrastructure is a non-issue as well.

Comment Re:Meta probably won't pay a cent (Score 1) 14

They will pay. If they don't, the plaintiff can submit a simple form, and the bailiff will show up at one of Facebook's offices and seize assets to be auctioned off to cover both the full amount of the ruling, the plaintiff's lawyers' fees as well as fees for his own work. Messing with any of the seized assets is of course a felony. If they don't let him in or attempt to prevent him from doing his work, he'll be back with police, or simply seize their entire bank accounts until this is settled.

Comment Re:Missing the obvious (Score 1) 88

[quote]It's not an edge case where something really unusual didn't register - it was a road obstruction. It doesn't matter if it's a barricade, a kid on a bike, or the Ghost of Christmas Past - if there's something in the way, do not hit it. [/quote] I's not as clear cut as you present it. An autonomous ca should not hit the brakes hard for a variety of soft, light objects that the wind might blow into is path, such as leaves or garbage such as plastic bags. I think there may be enough overlap with the characteristics of the caution tape for the latter to be mistaken for a non-obstruction. Still not a good excuse for this failure.

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