Posts by Someone Else

Re: in this case claiming that Tesla was unveiling a robotaxi in August.

Are they going to call it "Johnnie Cab"?

Re: If you read the Windows EULA carefully, you'll note the words...

Uhh, Snake may indeed never have seen Windows 11...as his comment was specifically about Windows 10.

_{Reading comprehension is a skill...}

Re: Ha! Rust Is The Answer To All Our C Programming Security Issues?

They've never claimed to be a silver bullet for all security issues ever.

That's true, and good on your for pointing that out. Rust's fanbois, on the other hand...

Re: Really?

We have hoped we had a chance not seing [sic] the VMS survivor to dye.

I supposed if it going to dye, it will have to be dyed green, to satisfy Wall St. et al.

Re: Grr [Vax wasn't the first 32-bit platform]

I dunno, Liam. The Interdata 7/32 that I was familiar with (and did a good bit of programming on) were strictly 32-bit machines. Well, actually they were 24-bit bit-sliced machines, with a good bit of microcode to make them look a bit like IBM 360s, without the dreaded base-register addressing architecture. (PC-relative addressing, FTW!) I suppose it would have been possible for Perkin-Elmer to supply microcode to make that beast a 16-bit machine, but I'm not sure they would have; the main (marketing) point of the Interdata machines of that time was to pack 32-bit computing power into the footprint of a 16-bit PDP-11.

Re: Have they been hacked?

Counterpoint:

I have a 32GB flash drive that I use for my music stash in my car. It's been in use for about 6 years now, where it rests in the USB port of my car's entertainment system. Occasionally removed to add more stuff to it; it's now about 2/3s full. Now this car is in a US Midwestern state, where we do have both SUMMERS and WINTERS (all caps intentional). Seems to run just fine, and has since Day One.

_{Put a bunch of albums ripped from CDs, Spotify, Tidal (RIP) and even vinyl. Put the selector on "random" and listen. Best damn radio station evah, 'cuz it plays the songs I like by the artists I like, deep tracks and all, and no fackin' commercials!!!}

Re: Just wait

Shirley, you jest.

_{...or are a right-pondian...}

Re: Insurance isn’t a right

If I were to start a business providing insurance or insurance-like services, but were to call it something else (like, "Mishakaboola"); within 3 years I'd be doing 5-10 in Leavenworth for violating several RICO statutes.

_{Nice house you got dere. Shame if sumpin was to happ'n to it...}

Re: What triggers me over here

Stop building there, and stop rebuilding the houses that were washed away (again)...

Well, that's a bit of a problem, you see, because when an (American) insurance company pays out for a total (or substantial) loss, they require that you rebuild in the same place. If you want to move to an ostensibly safer or saner location, they won't cover the loss.

A problem of their own making.

_{Like that surprises anybody...}

Re: As usual, it's cover for taking advantage of old people

Lyrics (c) Malvina Reynolds 1990. I think it must have been Pete Seeger I heard singing it.

Yes, Malvina Reynolds. Yes, Pete Seeger. No, not 1990...more like 1962. I heard this song when I was a kid, and I was not a kid in 1990!

Re: Basics done right and geek's superiority syndrome

It almost amazes me sometimes how some of them can even use a computer without having first opened case then reverse engineered the PCBs and chips therein.

I can tell you there are plenty of folks who presume to be able to program a computer without even knowing what a register is.

_{Prolly a good thing, then, that C and C++ removed the register keyword. Saves much carnage from many heads exploding.}

Re: confidence

As it happens this week after 2 years using Rust I had to return to C++ for a bit. In just 2 days I made one horribly embarrassing integer overflow bug which passed all unit tests - Bjarne Stroustrup might argue the bug was in testing I suppose - of the kind that Rust's compiler would have flagged up immediately and forced me to make the stupidity explicit in the code to easily see, or else fix it.

Wait...wha'?

All this time, the evangelists (read: zealots) were singing hosannas about Rust's memory safety -- that memory safety is all you ever have to worry about to write correct, secure code, yadda, yadda, yadda. I've never heard once that Rust also compiles away integer overflows. When did that become a feature of the language?

Re: Nope

I did a randomized analysis of CVE bugs and I can confirm Google's and Microsoft's finding that approx. 70% of these bugs are related to a lack of proper implementation that failed to take into account C and C++ memory safety.

There, FTFY.

Re: "Those would be big no-nos under US law"

Why is it necessary for the US Labor watchdog to remind US companies of the law ? Isn't the law supposed to be known ?

Of course it is known. The question is whether it applies to "me" ("me" being any large US-based megacorp who owns several Congresscritters and/or Regulatory agencies, or the rulers of such corp's; ref. Boeing, Meta, El Muskrat, t'pineapple, etc.).

_{"One rule for me, another for thee" seems to be written into the bylaws...}

Re: The owner has two Ferraris. They have that kind of money

In the immortal words of Donkey (from Shrek):

I think somebody's compensatin'!

Re: fine, change it

Call it "Perspective" or "Standpoint" or something.

"Standpipe"?

Re: This is where technology lets you down

In which socialist country was that?

Not sure "socialist" is the right word to use in this context.

_{But I'm pretty sure it is the term that Fox Noise would want you to use in this context.}