GCC can do it.
But it didn't.
Good coding practices (setting pointers to NULL after freeing memory) prevent exploitability.
But they didn't.
You can frame it any way you want, the end result is that exploits were found and patched. You assertion that it could have been done another way is irrelevant since those tools and practices have been available for a long time, and yet the zerodays persisted.
..to despise Apple
For cutting the ISP out of the equation, and offering consumers the business model that is most used for mobile phone purchases globally?
You will own nothing AND be perpetually in debt while not owning it.
I mean
There's no spin when reporting revenue figures. Also this is nothing new in the car industry. Subscription fees have been a profit centre big enough to sustain a business model around them for a decade now.
The problem is you only hear about major catastrophes because that's what's ultimately newsworthy. Minor crashes, major crash landings, or water ditchings have a 95% survival rate.
Speaking of ditchings, do you know how many planes have ditched since the landing on the Hudson a few years back? The number is in the double digits per year. But it's only newsworthy when it happens with a major commercial airliner in a spectacular fashion. Even major airlines average 20 significant crashes per year with less than 6 of them on average leading to any fatality, and only 1 to 2 on average leading to total loss of life.
Their LG smart washers sometimes use 42GB of bandwidth per day randomly and nobody knows why.
Firstly it was 3.6GB / day, 40GB in total over the days that the user was monitoring. And everyone who has bothered to follow up on the story rather than committing a headline to memory at one point and never revisiting it knows why. There was a bug that stuck it in a loop downloading a firmware update that wasn't installing correctly. The problem was resolved in a matter of days after discovery.
Their monitors load malware/spam onto your computer randomly, when they feel like it.
No there's nothing "random" about what is going on. There's a very clear causality and a well understood mechanism to trigger the installation of software, something that hardware has been doing for a long time. Read more than just headlines.
Their TVs turn your network into a Tor node or however the fuck this works.
Tor? I'd say you need to read more than just headlines, but you're not even reading the headline in this case.
That's three strikes and it only takes one strike to receive a lifetime brand-wide ban in my game.
I'm surprised you own anything when you issue strikes without having a fucking clue what is going on.
You never did own it. It's amazing that it's taken digital store fronts for people to come out and openly admit they've never once looked at the license terms of their games in the past 40 years.
YOU'VE NEVER OWNED A GAME. You've only ever had a physical copy that you were able to use under restricted licensed terms. The fact that in the past there was no way to properly enforce the license conditions was a technical quirk, not some right of ownership granted to you.
But the games mentioned aren't really license-related games
Every game ever released on any platform has been a license related game. You having the bits on a physical disc doesn't change that. The point is your disc is not readable by PC, so if you have a digital purchase linked to your account you can simply go download it on your PC. If you don't, well I can understand why Microsoft isn't setting up a complex manual proof of license purchase system asking users to send in their physical discs to verify.
Point is, correlation isn't causation. Isn't that Slashdot's favourite catchphrase?
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