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Comment · 4 months ago
what does it say?
Comment · 5 months ago
How can you write for LWN and not have heard of clone(CLONE_THREAD) and multithreading?
Comment · 8 months ago
Im pretty sure the subscription is optional, and if you don't subscribe, you dont get the AI "features" and copilot.

Seems win/win to me.

Comment · 1 year ago
260ft is around 79m. The bombs can penetrate around 60m of concrete. So one bomb, probably not, but they are able to follow each other in quick succession meaning 2 or three should be able to do the job quite easily, with accurate GPS positioning.
Comment · 2 years ago
The question is unexplored territory, pun intended.

The FAA could deny approval for launch, but its unclear what the basis would be. What happens on Mars is out of it's jurisdiction, literally.

The UN governs Earth, not Mars. It could expand to cover Mars I suppose. It's the sort of pointless activity you could imagine the European Parliament obsessing over, but there is little they could do about an American launch company.

But the reality is we are centuries away from something approaching a land-rush on Mars, or actual competition between nations for control of anything.

I suspect it will be a "watch and wait and see" situation.

Comment · 2 years ago
> The passwords in phpBB3.3 use an exceptionally strong and secure method of encryption

I thought passwords were supposed to be hashed, not encrypted. This is bad.

Comment · 2 years ago
Fair.
Comment · 2 years ago
Exactly.
Comment · 2 years ago
From what exactly? Turkey?
Comment · 2 years ago
Hopefully when we go to Mars we leave cockroaches like you behind.
Comment · 2 years ago
Most memory vulnerabilities are use-after-free which due to the nature of C is a very easy mistake to make.

Buffer overflows are simple inexcusable, especially if its "we didn't bother checking" rather than "we got the size wrong due to human error".

The first case is not normal, people like that should not be programming HTML let alone C code.

Comment · 2 years ago
Am I the only one who finds it highly annoying that exclusive domain names are registered for individual CVEs?
Comment · 2 years ago
No, but I would never, ever, ever, EVER write data to a buffer without specifying the buffer size or reallocing where necessary.

This just smells so much like a Javascript script kiddy who wanted to join the cool brigade and write something h4kor1sh in C. Ugh.

Comment · 2 years ago
For robotics sake, I hope not.

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