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Re:Emojis are the body language of the digital age on Thursday July 06, 2017 @10:06AM (#14710492)
You will then refer to the standard to find U+1F351 PEACH and U+1F346 AUBERGINE (Eggplant), and be amazed at the bountiful harvest your friends have had this year.
Re:Minoca RTOS on Thursday December 22, 2016 @09:16AM (#13237347)
From the FAQ[0]

> Is it real-time?

> The term "real-time" is often misused or misunderstood. We'll define it as "a provable guarantee of meeting an execution deadline when scheduling a task". In this sense, no, it is not a real-time system. If you have hard deadlines like controlling the robotic arm in an assembly line, this is not the OS for you. On the other hand, if by real time you mean "snappy performance", that we've got in spades. Our interrupt overhead is next to nothing, and there is so little background activity going on that our response time might often rival that of a real-time system.

So... not an RTOS.

[0] http://www.minocacorp.com/support/faq/

Re:Tom Wheeler Resigns from the FCC on Thursday December 15, 2016 @11:54PM (#13191171)
How would you respond if someone replied with:

Yeah, but isn't it in the private roads' owners benefit to reduce congestion, so they create HOV lanes? And what if they want to promote certain kinds of cars like electric and hybrid and therefore allow them to drive in the HOV lanes? Shouldn't they be allowed to?

Edit: Not that I necessarily agree, but this seems like a flaw in the analogy.

Re:Linux 4.9 is out on Sunday December 11, 2016 @06:25PM (#13154127)
In the Linux kernel context, DRM is "Direct Rendering Manager"
Re:The WebUSB Security Model on Wednesday October 12, 2016 @10:20PM (#12697933)
> Only sites whitelisted by the device can even request permission to connect because the device is integrated into the web security model. > Shady sites cannot even request permission to interact with the device.

It seems like a giant flaw in this model is that once the service goes away for any reason your device is completely useless. You don't have the 'driver' any more and the device won't connect to a RE'd or alternate free 'driver'.

Re:Quebec passes law to regulate Uber on Saturday June 11, 2016 @11:48AM (#11883857)
> That was the major point of dispute, since taxi drivers usually get loans to buy these plates knowing that they can re-sell then anytime. Uber changed that.

So fundamentally their complaint is: "My investment carried a risk"

Which automobile?
Why the hell not? It's a proper noun, and we capitalize them. The proper noun "Internet" refers to a specific instance of an "internet", a common noun.
I would be in favor of any new technology for the web requiring TLS. It provides both a carrot (of new features) and a stick (of falling behind competitors) for people to get off their asses and secure the web from a whole host of attacks.

Even if your page doesn't have sensitive information on it, an insecurely loaded page provides an attacker the avenue to inject potentially malicious code. This will be the case until the entire web is HTTPS-enabled.

Re:Electronic Noise Is Drowning Out the Internet of Things on Thursday September 10, 2015 @01:02AM (#10196209)
It only needs access to: Calendar, Internet, SMS, Profile, Start on Boot, Location, Microphone, Call Log, etc...
Re:Researcher discloses zero-day vulnerability in FireEye on Monday September 07, 2015 @03:36PM (#10182709)
Here's the exploit posting that they refer to in the first paragraph: https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/38090/
By deploying the same certificate/key to every machine you really cut down on the 'private' part of the private key.
I just want some CA to offer cheap/affordable name constrained CA certs for domains I own. If I own `foo.com`, I should be able to get a cert that can sign certs for `foo.com,*.foo.com`.

Yes, yes, DANE, but it's not ubiquitous or even all that widely accepted.

Re:Show HN: Print iconic patents for your walls on Sunday August 02, 2015 @03:34PM (#9992072)
I think I would have to go with this one: https://i.imgur.com/4t5xWq2.png