Posts by Cronus

It'll be interesting to see if AMDs prices go up until they're about as expensive as Intel if they can maintain the lead in performance for a couple of years. Seems like one of the main arguments you always hear for picking AMD is that they're cheaper than intel for roughly the same performance.

Woops

I can't speak to all the other votes but I cast a 'for' ballot on the second article thinking I was voting in favour of the article's viewpoint rather than the previous article. Maybe I was just being thick. Also, how many people voted before the second article was even published? Doesn't really make sense to allow voting before both sides have been presented imho.

I really don't see the point of this feature. If you need a break, just minimise or close the window.

Not related to the article per se but not really sure where else I'd post this. What ever happened to Mr Dabbs? Did I miss some article about him leaving?

Multi-monitor support could perhaps be one area that Eclipse Theia could steal some market share, though I suppose MS could just try and pull in their work.

As someone who had to Xamarin Forms development a few years ago all I can really say is, "stay the fuck away". Worst year of my life.That thing is so buggy and so slow! Not to mention the size of even the simplest application is ridiculous, you're talking easily 50MB and often more.

This seems a bit worrying for Linux users. Unless I'm reading it wrong it sounds like this will give graphics card vendors incentive to not write OpenGL drivers for their cards at all. Making porting drivers to Linux even more effort and thus less likely to be done.

I get the impression that the hype is somewhat needed to get the basic research needed funded. Sure it's never going to deliver on the scale or time-frame that's being claimed but it seems without the hype it may never get delivered at all.

I'm not condoning what they're doing with this technique but hats off to them for the approach. I'm curious though as to why the digital certificate wasn't revoked as soon as a replacement driver was released without the vulnerability. I'm not sure if the limitation is that Microsoft doesn't allow you to revoke on a per-binary basis and you need to go through the hassle of getting a new certificate for each version or if Gigabyte were just incompetent.

Let's be honest, it's not going to happen. It simply isn't in Google's interests to do what they're asking.

Nice how they provide proof of concept code for malware authors to adapt despite their "What Should I Do?" section of the FAQ suggesting they've not made much of an attempt to get this patched first.

Now that's ironic.

At least with the withdrawal of security patches from the 'vendor' in this instance doesn't automatically mean the language is going to become vulnerability riddled since distros et al have access to the source and are free to patch it as necessary themselves.

Absolutely disgusting. It stinks of corruption.

I don't see what's hypocritical about changing your mind some twenty-four years after making a decision when the entire context has changed and new evidence has come to light. He made a decision that made sense in 1995, he's since come to realise it no longer makes sense. Politicians that are capable of re-evaluating their position on things when presented with new findings is exactly what society needs. You shouldn't penalise them for not steadfastly holding to every opinion they've held or decision they've made.

It sucks but I don't blame them given how the US legal system works.

As I understand it an eight character password would have been hashed in a much less secure method back then than now. Modern passwords are hashed in such a way as to take a long time to compute in order to resist brute-force attacks.

The Register has asked Google to comment...

but we all know that if they get one at all it'll be a generic and unhelpful response from a PR droid.

When I saw this all I could think of was that scene in Iron Man where the military tries to create their own version and Tony shows the footage of that robot spinning 180 degrees with a guy inside it...

It's certainly a hole but I'm not sure how you'd work around this without breaking legacy apps. Presumably not breaking legacy apps includes not breaking popular plugins that might have legitimate reasons to access restricted resources.

Windows 10 only, eh, I'll pass.

Avoiding writing malware to disk is not a new idea. An approach (admittedly for Unix/Linux systems) is in fact described in this Phrack article from 2004 — http://phrack.org/issues/62/8.html

I don't get the dig about McDonald's digital ordering system. I've certainly never had a problem with it and it beats waiting in a queue.

I'd have thought this would be of more interest to people working with video editing where disk operations are quite intensive over long periods of time. I would hope that video games are better optimised than to need to constantly access the disk.