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Re:Windows has a new wormable vulnerability, with no patch by johnr2 on Wednesday March 11, 2020 @03:04PM (#22549208)
> Perhaps one day unsafe programming languages will be forbidden to use.

That would mean ruling out a whole lot of performance-critical software (including that written in unsafe Rust). Be careful what you wish for.

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Re:Windows has a new wormable vulnerability, with no patch by speedgoose on Wednesday March 11, 2020 @03:47PM (#22549735)
I'm quite sure the performance hit will be fine in a few decades.
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Re:Windows has a new wormable vulnerability, with no patch by fl0wenol on Wednesday March 11, 2020 @04:38PM (#22550220)
That kind of thinking made sense twenty years ago where you could assume Moore's law was going to hold into the next decades.
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Re:Windows has a new wormable vulnerability, with no patch by speedgoose on Wednesday March 11, 2020 @05:36PM (#22551021)
You don't think we will have budget for a few safety checks?
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Re:Windows has a new wormable vulnerability, with no patch by jsjddbbwj on Thursday March 12, 2020 @03:42AM (#22554636)
That's exactly the line of thinking that has made computers much less responsive than they were 20 years ago.
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