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Comment maybe I'm too dumb, but (Score 1) 79

how it's possibly that the file download itself and execute itself without me interacting with it in MacOS? if it's a payload it have to be an .app, .dmg file, because a .sh file need to change permissions to execution to be executed in the gui, otherwise it is treated like a regular file

Comment Who's old enough to remember? (Score 1, Troll) 66

When the planet was cooling too much or when the oil was going to run out? Remember when they said that past the 2000 the planet will start to burn out of heat? Remember when the CO2 was waming the planet? Now is climate change. Government just want you to open your pockets to pay more taxes, that's all.

Comment Thanks to Oil, lives are saved. Here is why (Score 1) 104

The fact is, since humanity start to use fossil fuels the mortality decrease more and more. Thanks to fossil fuels there are ways to develop more and more technology to create cures for all kind of deseases, and the ability to send those cures abroad in days, even hours if necessary. So, when you read an "Study" that correlates the death of childrens of color with the pollution, ask yourself this: Why in Santiago of Chile, one of the polluted cities in the world, the infant mortality is so small compared to USA? USA is a rich country, Chile is a middle class country with per capita income about US$23.000. The problem isn't the pollution, the problem is a health system that fail to th public, and a diet that is killing you people.

Comment Easy way to add a kill switch and Backdoor (Score 1) 78

Is very easy to add a killswitch and a Backdoor at driver level. The backdoor can be address by adding the necessary code at the driver for Windows. The software isn't open source, so the only way to Chinese to knew is by disassembly the binary. Nvidia and Microsoft can kill the certificates to use the old clean drivers. The kill switch is a little more difficult, because you need a way to produce a short using software, maybe isn't possible, but you can try... also can try to stop the fans at the same time the gpu continue working beyond the maximum temperature until is fries itself. On the other hand Chinese government can use the open source drivers under Linux and avoid Windows. That could be a problem is their software need to run under Windows; in that case they will suffer a delay while they rewrite the necessary software to switch to Linux. All of this could mean a good news for the Open Source movement with China increasing the amount of programmers to maintain nvidia open source drivers and other Linux components.

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