I, Steve Wozniak, did not participate in the theft of the BASIC. It was funny to me to see others enjoying doing this. I had never used BASIC myself, at that time, only the more-scientific languages like Fortran, Algol, and PL-1, and several assembly languages. I sniffed the air and sensed that you needed BASIC to sell computers into homes, because of the book 101 Games in BASIC. I loved games and saw games as the key. It was the [MS] BASIC that inspired me to write a BASIC interpreter for my 6502 processor, in order to have a more useful computer.

It's hard to find people with Tim Berners-Lee's integrity. We should 'own' our own lives. It's a lot deeper than just being watched.

Is that really true? Many of the layoffs I've seen over the past year have been legitimately "removing layers", purging loads of fat in middle management.

Companies constantly go through cycles where they stretch to a very vertical structure with a manager for every three employees (exaggerating, but only slightly), and then there's the periodic flattening where they prune it out.

For 20 years, plus or minus, personal computers reversed that idea.

I gave all my Apple wealth away because wealth and power are not what I live for. I have a lot of fun and happiness. I funded a lot of important museums and arts groups in San Jose, the city of my birth, and they named a street after me for being good. I now speak publicly and have risen to the top. I have no idea how much I have but after speaking for 20 years it might be $10M plus a couple of homes. I never look for any type of tax dodge. I earn money from my labor and pay something like 55% combined tax on it. I am the happiest person ever. Life to me was never about accomplishment, but about Happiness, which is Smiles minus Frowns. I developed these philosophies when I was 18-20 years old and I never sold out.

Known VPN services have identifiable server addresses that can be blocked. Instead, you can set up a cheap raspberry pi (or other) at your home and use an encrypted SSH connection to that [raspberry pi] from far away. Then turn on your SOCKS proxy (part of WiFi Details on Macintosh) and check to see that your IP address shows to the world you access as that of your raspberry pi. I do this all the time, including right now. It also helps to watch sports events.

Thanks.

By his own narrative, it wasn't creating PowerShell specifically that got him demoted. It was doing "unassigned" work during work hours.

He details that it was specifically that Microsoft did/does not have the 80/20 type thing some competitors have, where you get some time to free range random concepts and ideas, so some pissy middle manager got mad that he wasn't going through the whole project approval (you know, the let everyone comment on the color of the shed stage) and he got demerits.

*What is YOUR source for this. Do you even have one?*

THE PAPER THAT WAS SUBMITTED. They are very open about the *incredibly* narrow known threat model (basically ASLR pointer obscuring *in the same process*), albeit -- as all papers do -- opining that maybe there is something worse that could be done. These sorts of security papers come out by the dozen per year, and generally no, there isn't any further risk, and the latent risk is negligible to irrelevant.

To be clear, when security researchers are pitching a novel vulnerability, the foundation of their claim is a proof of concept, because the chasm between "well it could...." and the actual can be enormous. No proof of concept. Not even a vague inclination of the knowledge of how to make a proof of concept. And this issue has been very widely disseminated, every hacker group pounding on Augury -- theoretically it is trivial to exploit on an array of pointers -- and no one else has a proof of concept yet. Weird, right?

ROFL. Classic Slashdot. Good god.

"No bias there at all."

Because I have an M1 Mac I have a "bias"? Yeah, not really. I'm typing this on an Intel box. I have servers on AMD, Graviton 2, among many others. That's a modern life.

"Sources are people in the security industry in which I work."

ROFL. Yeah, no you don't. You are claiming ridiculous things.

These sorts of "you know it *could* hypothetically be exploited" (in a profoundly narrow sense) security papers come up by the dozens per month. The overwhelming majority have no real impact whatsoever. This one is particularly spurious.

The "amateur hour" bit in your comment was particularly hilarious, and betrayed that you're just some guy saying dumb stuff.

What source says it's "impossible to mitigate this"? Do you have even one?

Because the notion is preposterous. Not only is this largely a theoretical attack (I'm being generous by not calling it a fully theoretical attack), with extremely little real world consequences, mitigations are *trivial* if it were something real.

"I really want Arm on the workstation and server to succeed."

You seem to know literally nothing about security or chip design, and decided to post some tosser, laugahble anti-Apple screed. Me, I'll keep using my M1 Mac, and have been using ARM on the server for half a decade now. Hurrr.

They're using a payment processor. Meaning a third-party is converting cryptocoins to real money, and the real money is transmitted to Newegg.

Bitpay added dogecoin a month ago, so now they can milk this with every retailer that has Bitpay as an option.

Let's hope people get franchise fatigue! I've heard people here say that these movies are made by comic book fans, which maybe true but that doesn't mean these fans have that much control. When a studio/distributor like Disney spends $230 million just on the film and the same again on marketing they couldn't give a stuff what fans want. They need a return on the money they spent and no one in the project is left free of micro management, they can't be with that type of money being spent.

There maybe parallels with the past here. When tv was biting into the market for cinema film in the 50s and 60s Hollywood decided it was going to concentrate it's wealth in sure fire hits, the musicals. When these started to bomb studios had an issue on it's hands. They responded by making cheaper films by auteur directors, and as a consequence we had the cinema of the 70s. Lets hope Disney & Co lose confidence in what they think people will watch, only then will we get the Taxi Driver and Serpico type films being made again.

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