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Comment Former school IT guy here... (Score 1) 56

If a school gets pwned by a student, that's the school's fault. Not even necessarily the IT team's fault; if teachers leave their login details lying around that's not on the IT team, that's a failure to follow IT policy. If your IT policy doesn't say "don't leave your password lying around" then that probably is the IT team's fault - unless they couldn't get leadership buy-in, which is definitely possible. Some places treat teachers like royalty and such cruel restrictions would simply be beyond the pale... if you work at such a place, I feel your pain.

Of course, I'm not saying the little scrotes should be trying to hack their school but if they can do it then literally anyone can do it, and that is the problem.

Comment Re:Our preoccupation? (Score 1) 108

Go into any supermarket in the UK and look at the shelves. At least 33% of the pre-packaged food products will be screaming "PROTEIN!" from their labels in big bold letters. You want yoghurt with 50% more protein? How about some soup, now with 34% more protein? Chocolate pudding with 68% added protein! Protein pancakes, protein cereal, protein bars, 500g of protein in every 100g! COME GET YER PROTEIN!

Every product that could possibly

have protein added to it has had it added and used as marketing. Somehow, somewhere along the way, the brands managed to convince the masses that protein was the answer to all their health problems. It's really ramped up here in the last few years, to the point where there are entire sections of shelves just dedicated to protein-added versions of existing products. I think because adding protein to things is very cheap and it fools people into thinking that it's beneficial to health, many companies have jumped on the bandwagon.

I avoid the protein-added products because I suspected they were a scam and something like this would eventually come out. Nice to be vindicated for food-paranoia once in a while.

Comment Re:Paranoid (Score 1) 58

Only if you assume every citizen of that country wholeheartedly supports the actions of their government.

The only places where that has ever been true have been the "sovereign nations" that amount to a redneck's shack with barbed wire and a load of misspelled signs around it, and even then they probably have moments where they privately wonder if their government might be insane.

Comment Re: Sued in a US court (Score 1) 103

It's nuts how not too long ago, progressives complained about centralized internet services, lack of net neutrality, the copyright cartel and the centralized financial system, but all of a sudden they love all of that once they realized they can use all of that to shit on the civil rights of people they don't like, because pesky things like the bill of rights gets in the way of them having the government do it.

You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.

Comment Yeah, yeah, I know; fuck Google, but... (Score 4, Insightful) 32

If I'm understanding this correctly, pKVM will enable a single, extensible kernel binary to be used by all Android hardware manufacturers. Vendors just need a pKVM vendor module that enables device-specific functionality. Diverse hardware platforms can now all share the same kernel, which means security patches for Android will, in the future, cover all devices instead of having each vendor having to roll/integrate their own.

The other purpose is to further the security model of Android by fully de-privileging third party code and providing a portable environment in which services are isolated from each another and the rest of Android.

Also, while phones might be the most prevalent use of Android they are far from the only application. Pushing this security model makes Android more attractive for all applications, not just consumer ones.

Google might be unpopular, but I can't see how this is a bad thing unless you really the idea of your data being exfiltrated (by someone other than Google).

Comment Re:Predictable (Score 1) 118

I genuinely think if the majority of Americans were forced to question their position as the #1 country in the world, American society would immediately implode.

I suspect that even the American people who claim they don't think America is #1 still privately, secretly, maybe even shamefully, wave the #1 flag inside their own heads.

Sooner or later the combination of shock and cognitive dissonance will drive them insane...or, more likely, to World War 3.

Comment Re:Power is hardly an issue for China (Score 1) 118

But... they are under trade embargoes. So, the point is the embargoes aren't going to slow down their AI scale-up plans. They burn more energy, but since energy generation doesn't seem to be a problem in China that doesn't matter. Sitting there shouting "but your solution isn't ideeeeeal!" completely misses the point.

Comment Re:Power is hardly an issue for China (Score 1) 118

So not much is getting built, new demand is rising fast, and electric utilities are raising prices. Nationwide they have requested over $18 billion in rate increases, most of which will hit markets this year.

Maybe over the last 50 years instead of handing out massive dividends to investors and bonuses to board members they should have been ploughing money into maintaining and expanding their crumbling infrastructure.

Oh well, never mind, at least you all get to pay more for less energy and the investors continue to laugh away atop their piles of cash generated by a privately-owned public utility that essentially nobody can opt-out of paying.

Comment Re:ntsync (Score 2) 28

Woah, did an ntsync developer sleep with your wife or something?

While it's certainly not going to double framerates in all games it's definitely not snakeoil. Some games show no improvement vs wineserver and fsync, others show fairly massive improvement; it depends on how many syscalls the game makes and the specific hardware it's running on.

PC gamers have always been excited by free performance boosts and why wouldn't they? Some of them need to rein in their expectations, sure, but that's no reason to piss on the entire project.

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