Posts by wtrmute

Huawei savaged by Brit code review board over pisspoor dev practices

Re: ...memory constraints... ...70 full copies of 4 different OpenSSL versions...

Funniest thing is, if they only wrote

<pre>

#define SAFE_LIBRARY_memcpy(dest, destMax, src, count) memcpy(dest, src, (destMax) < (count) ? (destMax) : (count))

</pre>

Then they'd be at least immune to piss-poor stack overflow attacks, even if using plain libc.

SPOILER alert, literally: Intel CPUs afflicted with simple data-spewing spec-exec vulnerability

Re: Virtual Machines?

Playing Devil's advocate here, but back in the savannah, fast and nearly right kept the lions off your back, on average. We're simply not built the way you'd like us to be...

Re: Let's extend this a bit further..

Don't worry, though: when GNU/Hurd comes out, it absolutely won't have any of those issues!

Correction: Last month, we called Zuckerberg a moron. We apologize. In fact, he and Facebook are a fscking disgrace

I'll be pleased if you don't speak ill of Benedict, who resigned on his own initiative and surprised even his closest advisors. It was months before Francis was even elected to the See of Peter so it most definitely could not have been his doing.

The truth is that Benedict resigned so a younger Pope could be elected to deal with the mess in IOR and certain other organizations where entities like the N'dranghetta had sunk their claws.

TL;DR: Benedict did *not* touch any boys or girls inappropriately, and implying otherwise is disgraceful on your part.

Can you tell real faces from fake AI-created ones? It's tough! Plus: Facebook's chief AI scientist talks hardware

Re: So what's new?

https://youtu.be/cQ54GDm1eL0

This is a video of Jordan Peele have a fake Barack Obama call Donald Trump a naughty name. The news is that the technology for doing this is becoming a consumer-level tech so we can all make our political enemies do the worst immoralities our fevered minds can conjure up...

It's a sick, sick world and we're neck deep in it, and sinking by the week...

Renegade 3D-printing gunsmith Cody Wilson on the run in Taipei from child sex allegations

Formally if you're from Brazil you're not Hispanic, though you might be called Iberoamerican. Hispanic is someone from a Castillian-speaking country, so everyone in South America but Brazil and the Guyanas, and everyone in Central America but Belize.

Oof, are you sure? Facing $9bn damages, Google asks Supreme Court to hear Java spat

It's just hit me...

This is what Fuchsia is all about! If they lose the case, it's unlikely they will be able to continue publishing Android versions, so a successor to Android becomes a completely rational thing to do.

I'd been wondering why they were working to replace the leader of the market, considering it's still at the top of its game... Silly me.