Posts by Destroy All Monsters

"Governance"

When you hear that, you know that someone wants to be high up the ladder, walk around like Louis XIV (maybe without the body odour) take decisions without accountability - while the salary and the perks are all top notch.

"Such changes would inoculate Firefox 60 against a similar bug in future."

Or maybe not.

It all sounds like there is some kernel of permanent openness to Internet AIDS in there somewhere.

It could have to do with downloading and executing Turing-complete languages and/or unconstrained input to be parsed by Turing-complete languages from the Interwoops,

I dunno.

The last 4 days ruined EVERYTHING! We HAD IT! I SWAEER!!

Those memos remind me of the times I had to find plausible-sounding waffle sprinkled with technowords to cover "other motives" and various pants-around-ankles in order to explain that what happened was ENTIRELY OUT OF OUR HANDS.

It worked, too.

Doesn't that mean the crap dish can't be replaced by new gear?

Preservation of steam locomotives and like things is fun and rewarding, but I would rather have top gear getting new data on the grave of the venerable dish instead of mouldy reliquia.

Insane!

reduced design validation efforts

Why? Are these people utterly retarded? Does their risk analysis say that it is cheaper to give the customer a good one up the prostate from time to time rather than make sure the chip passes tests?

There is more computing power than ever to formally check the design, either statistically or else using formal methods. I suppose whatever stuff drops off the university conveyor belt is no longer as performant as it used to be.

"They are waiting on a change in public mood"

And so we have the ludicrous situation of encryption Groundhog Day where the same things are said and done over and over again, each day the same.

It's coming from the same "people" who have been offering us the stale puke menu of "Russian Interference" since DNC got its mail server copied to an USB stick. If the public doesn't like it or doesn't care, regular recalls via "newspapers" and, if necessary, "popular culture" will be applied. A little "Steele Dossier", unspecified future "terror attacks" that could be thwarted by decryption. Unconfirmed rumors, retconning and lies as facts known by everyone in secondary sentences.

These people are straight-on satanic, make no mistake.

Completely unastonishing human doings

So far, most of the villains have used it to map the faces of women celebrities onto their favorite smut stars. That's incredibly horrible already

After the safe space has been safely reached, can we have an explanation about WHY this is "incredibly horrible" beyond the implied "this triggers me".

"women celebrities" are merged "favorite smut stars" like butter is merged into bread. That's how people roll.

Trigger arning!

Similar to "chain migration", "master-slave wiring" and "Tom Cotton", I find "brown dwarf" and "fat planet" offensive to our diverse co-inhabitants. I won't literally even go into "black hole". I expect a name insulting to alternate sexuelative persons will occur soon.

Can't something be done?

Intel's approach is backwards, making the fix opt-in. Processors can, when asked, reveal to the kernel that Spectre countermeasures are present but disabled by default, and these therefore need to be enabled by the operating system. Presumably, this is because the performance hit is potentially too annoying, or because Intel doesn't want to appear to admit there is a catastrophic security blunder in its blueprints.

Or maybe someone wants the countermeasures to STAY disabled by default? Nah, can't be. Now, if Microsoft announces that this will be supported by a special patch that must be manually downloaded from a hidden URL, then....

Anyway, this may apply: Saturday Night Live: FIX IT!

8 YEARS OF BUSHBAMA UBERSTATE ORGASM

16 years of pure cancer.

One a hapless clown. One narcissistic with a side-order of playing the race card.

Both beholden to Drone Kills, the $ethnics and the Deep State (the very concept of which has been declared as un-american crimethink by such esteemed propaganda outlets as the NYT)

What should one expect? That liberty rings?

The only amazing thing is that some people believe that the "russian investigation" clownshow has any grounding in any objective reality whatsoever.

But dumb fucks can be found anywhere.

Just be thankful for the slight Trumpian respite. Having The Hillary of Babylon at the helm would have meant immediate borking of everything, and smooth takeover by literally Satan himself, likely followed by a neocon-cheered war with Russia. 4 years of delayed end is nothing to be sneered at.

"Hump or Death"

The self-driving car edition!

I find this kind of "humor" quite disturbing.

I actually laughed.

Additionally, any malfunctions and mis-statements could be ascribed to "Russian Hacking" or "Nork interference". This is a tech challenge that is winnable.

Then the Turing Test: Will Jean-Claude Juncker notice something is off.

I can't decide

...whether this is wild enthusiasts meeting the treacle of the real world for the first time and complaining about it or a brush-off by NHS which considers said enthusiasts as just another annoyance?

(Sternly worded letters by the legal profession are not unusual; room-temperature IQ oozing out of them is testament to the sad quality of many people in that "profession". Just don't let this disturb you.)