Posts by diodesign

"the actual error is still the result of a developer making a mistake"

Rust FWIW works hard to prevent at *compile-time* stuff like double frees, null pointer deref, buffer overflows, etc

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"More informative than the article, in fact"

Please bear in mind we're trying to summarize a paper without reproducing all of it. That's why we link to the original paper.

Thanks for all the feedback, we'll tweak the article.

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"Obama left the US without stockpiles of PPE"

Fact check.

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Re: That much downtime?

Just assume any value after Office is correct. I'd ask our tech team to make an automatic randomzier for the headline but they seem rather busy on actual functionality.

PS: corrections@theregister.com works well for any typo :p

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More detail

Unfortunately, we're going on what the NASA people said on the phone call. If the report emerges, even in a redacted version, we'll go over it.

I imagine it's something like Boeing using a traditional waterfall development process, and SpaceX using an Agile process. At a guess.

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Style guide

It's our emerging style, in line with AP et al, to cap up White and Black when referring to race.

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Northwest

Thanks - it's fixed. Don't forget to email corrections@theregister.com if you spot anything wrong. That way we can fix stuff as soon as it comes in; there's some latency in reading article comments.

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May the odds forever be in your favor.

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NFC?

We're double-checking -- it does appear to have NFC. Don't forget to email corrections@theregister.com if you spot anything wrong so we can fix things right away.

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"Oh, no, forgot, no anti-BREXIT slant possible."

We did cover it here.

We'd love to cover every story possible immediately, though bear in mind we've only got 13 full-time writers and editors, a total of 16 regular contributors and editors, across three continents.

We make a lot of noise for quite a small team compared to others.

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Re: Re: Brexit sat-nav eh?

"My problem is the appalling coverage the press has been giving to all things government to the point where I and a large proportion of the population now reflexively assume that anything in the press that is negative about the government probably isn't true."

I'm afraid to tell you that it really is that bad. We're not going to sugarcoat it. If we let things slide, they become the norm.

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Re: Behnken is not a NASA astronaut

He most certainly is a NASA astronaut.

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Re: So will Tor be using Comcast for DNS? Will my VPN also start going through my ISP?

No, Tor routes DNS through Tor. Your VPN will work as usual. But Firefox, if you use the default and are on Comcast's broadband network, will send its DNS via Comcast over HTTPS.

Bear in mind most or many subscribers send their plain-text DNS via Comcast anyway, due to their cable modem's DHCP setup, so for them this is no change except it's via HTTPS and Moz has made Comcast swear it'll be nice.

In a way, DNS-over-HTTPS was an opportunity to shield DNS lookups and route them where you want, but instead, yeah, nah, Comcast will just handle it anyway.

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Re: The facial recognition report has said outright there were no grounds for arresting anyone.

"A quick google of Robert Williams' name will turn up a copy of the report spat out by the facial recognition system."

If you're referring to this, that's not a direct output from the software – as far as I can tell – it's internal paperwork generated by the police, with a big note on it saying this is just a lead.

The way the officers went about confirming the lead – apparently showing it to a guard who didn't witness the crime – was, well, sub-optimal.

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Protests

Nah, it's 90%+ peaceful protests. What you see as riots is people fighting back after the police lose their cool and fly off the handle unprovoked. If you live in the cities where protests are taking place, it's pretty obvious.

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"The article is therefore of no real technical enlightenment"

Lovely, so can I put you down as 'undecided' on our reader feedback survey?

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"you see them *everywhere*"

Cool, that's not what's happening here. It's pretty blatant. If there were 101 types of far-right coded references, I could see where you're coming from. But there aren't, there's 2 (or 3 if you include HH as well as 88).

Denial isn't a river in Egypt, friend.

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Re: Details?

We're chasing that up. Cognizant told us so far:

"It involved certain personal information related to some current and former Cognizant personnel and individuals involved in corporate transactions."

Edit: It's folks in and outside the US.

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Re: CPU

It's dual *vCPU* -- there's probably one processor inside it, multiple cores, two of which are available for customer use.

I've made it a bit clearer where we mean physical and virtual processor cores.

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Re: What's an "un-carrier"?

See the linked-to article in the story. Un-carrier is T-Mobile US's slogan to distance itself from the other main carriers. As in, it won't treat you badly like the big players, and will offer you features the others can't, allegedly.

In America, T-Mobile US is third place to Verizon Wireless and AT&T, pre-Sprint merger.

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Re: Baffled

Other way around -- baffling is more inclusive than crazy, says Google. I've clarified that sentence.

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"If there is no word for slavery, how can those you enslave fight against it?"

You use it in context. This isn't hard.

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've got me a stalker! Obsessive downvoter alert!

Yeah, same with me, it happens if you irritate the wrong child.

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"Even the 'dont mention the war' episode of fawltey Towers!"

Yeah, mainly due to the repeated use of the N word in the original edit.

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Payload and freight weight

FYI: rather than paraphrase the Russian space boss, I've dropped in his quotes verbatim so you can see where he's trying to come from.

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"just containing e-mail addresses?"

FWIW Diachenko said the data silo contained:

* hashtype (the way a password was presented: MD5/hash/plaintext etc)

* leak date (year)

* password (hashed, encrypted or plaintext, depending on the leak)

* email

* email domain

* source of the leak (I was able to confirm a few of the most prominent ones: Adobe, Last.fm, Twitter, LinkedIn, Tumblr, VK and others).

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Re: Hillarious

"white males are more likely to be killed in an encounter with the police"

Is that because there are more white males than black males in a population (leading to people of color being disproportionately detained, which is the half the point of the BLM message) or do you have some kind of source? Because I r doubt.

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Patches

Patch Tuesday reveals the ways Windows et al can be pwned, with patches to stop that from happening. The patches disclose not only the way in which the bugs can be exploited but provides enough material for reverse engineers to product exploits.

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Data center sales

Yeah, according to Nvidia, 50% of its data-center sales go to top-tier cloud giants, aka the hyperscalers, and data center sales as a whole make up 37% of total revenues.

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"Sons of Obama"

To the folks reporting this ridiculous comment - I hear ya. It's already been shot down and down voted so I'll leave it be for now - not that anyone here agrees with it.

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Re: Test.

There should be no code execution! That would be a security vulnerability.

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Re: Re: Nice stunt...

Yeah, that was a little DHC-2 Beaver. This is a larger Cessna. I've made that clearer in the article.

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"journalistic parasites"

Bear in mind we're the ones sticking our neck out on the line when we report things. Any one can post a theory to Reddit, and if it's right, we're thankful they alerted us and the world. If it's wrong, well, who cares, it disappears into the mix.

When we publish something and it's wrong, there are consequences - legally and reputation-rise - which is part of the reason why we try to get everything right first time (the main reason is none of us go to work to spread misinformation, quite the opposite).

Happy to tweak it to say B&F first reported it - but don't call us parasites. We're the ones who have to stand up the rumors, and carry the can if it turns out to be wrong. 50 percent+ of journalism is figuring out if what you've just been told, by someone on the street or someone in marketing, is actually true.

In Chris's case, he managed to get a confession out of WD, one that made it into a lawsuit. That deserves some kudos.

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Re: How much?

It's cheaper. About $60m new, $50m reused.

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Re: New TLD redirect?

Hi - don't worry, you're not missing any content. It's still the same site and articles.

It's a reflection of the fact that after 20+ years of publishing, we're reaching readers and advertisers in all parts of the world. We're still headquartered in the UK and still have the same core values: irreverent, independent, and investigative.

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Re: not all speech is protected

If you say on the internet that you're going to commit crimes or cause civil unrest, obviously that's going to hamper your ability to enter another country.

But what if you were barred entry because you leaned the wrong way left or right, politically, or you are friends with someone who knows someone whose brother is a bad person, or if you disagreed with a policy of the current or past administration?

That's starting to sound more like Iran or China than a free country.

Hopefully you can see that it's not as clear cut as you think it is.

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How many software companies have been laying people off?

Ah, quite a few. In fact, a lot of tech cos have used the pandemic as an excuse to offload staff, blaming the economic uncertainty.

There's also the drop in productivity as people work from home for the first time, and in stressful circumstances - not just world events, but also things like childcare.

It appears to have had an effect on the number of bug advisories.

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And over in America...

Yeah, true - I've acknowledged that in the article.

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Re: And there is of course also lazarus/freepascal

This is not a sponsored piece - advertorial is clearly marked on the site with 'sponsored' (written by the advertiser) or 'promo' (written for the advertiser) labels.

I can add a mention to lazarus/freepascal.

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