So you're saying that homeopathy is like.. Tinkerbell?

The original post from Kapersky doensn't make the unhackable claim.

Then again, it doesn't miss the mark by much...

The risk isn't just about your data. If a device is roped into a botnet, at the time it's supposed to be delivering a carefully calibrated and timed dosage it's instead DOSing some system for all that it's worth. These devices are surely never tested under "extreme load" scenarios because they're not intended to be used that way.

It kind of is, actually - since that's the entirety of what their application does.

Because, for example, you hear the song on the radio. Or it's playing during a commercial on TV. Or in any of various other situations where the audio is originating from a place that the device isn't connected to.

While I wasn't at ChefConf this year, I know several people who attended this discussion. By selective quoting, the 'reporter' has completely misrepresented the statement.

The contextually mangled quote used in the article: "“t’s definitely possible,” Russinovich says. “It’s a new Microsoft.”

THe actual quote as far as I can determine: "You never know, it's definitely possible. Crazy stuff happens."

No OSS was harmed in the making of this post.

How much of this is really from his mind, vs just being paid sufficient sums to allow his name to be stamped on it?

So you're suggesting what, a minimum dollar amount of charity before such a thing can be considered worthwhile? Anything less than 10% and you might as well not bother?

I never get tired of this game, and I still go through month long stretches of time where wheneve rI have spare time, I start playing it.

Lately I've discovered nethack 4 - it's an unofficially blessed fork of nethack and some fo the same core developers are contributing to it. The game mechanics and strategies are the same, but the user interface (still all character based by default) is a lot nicer. It also is a complete architectural change to a client-server model - and one fo the benefits of that is that save files have gotten a lot more robust & streamlined.

I'm not sure that I'd call permadeath 'controvertial'. It's a turn-off for a large portion of the gaming population, so they won't play that style of game. No controversy, though...

Touché.

So we're stuck with either "impossible object" or "ten pounds of shit in a five pound bag".

Naming is hard, but it's not *that* hard.

"At home we have 2 Linux workstations (3, if you count my old development box I normally keep powered down), 2 Linux laptops, 2 Android phones, an Apple desktop, and an iPhone - for 2 adults and a teenager. Note no Microsoft boxen."

Well, I guess MS should fold up their business and go home. Because nobody anywhere is still using them on the desktop...

Actually, Seattle has a lot of local tech people that are employeed by MS and Amazon. Not so many highly qualified . (The company I work for opened up to remote working specifically because it was so hard to find top-tier talent due to MS and Amazon brain-drain, and it's worked out very well for us. )