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    Unpatched macOS vulnerability lets remote attackers execute code

    In addition to the other comments about the article's overblown reaction it states this: Opening an email with the attachment does not trigger the flaw. Elsewhere in the article it states you have to click to open the attachment.
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    Rocket Report: NASA installs SLS software, India’s GSLV fails to reach orbit

    What is the infographic flying men to the moon without complexity or high risk?
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    Webb telescope launch date slips again

    You should call them to update their mission statement that begins: 'The United States is a maritime nation, and the U.S. Navy protects America at sea. Alongside our allies and partners, we defend freedom, preserve economic prosperity, and keep the seas open and free.'...
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    Colonial Pipeline resumes operations after ransomware prompted closure

    Or, perhaps you could consider the basic, natural, 'monopoly' of a 5,000 mile pipeline or the legal and environmental thicket that makes building additional capacity impossible. https://constitutionpipeline.com/
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    Buffer overruns, license violations, and bad code: FreeBSD 13’s close call

    Try: errors that children make in an unsupervised playroom. In context: errors by new, poorly trained, and/or unsupervised technologists.
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    Buffer overruns, license violations, and bad code: FreeBSD 13’s close call

    Current Events: MSExchange
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    Buffer overruns, license violations, and bad code: FreeBSD 13’s close call

    Thank-you for such a thorough and well written article. It should be required reading, followed by quiet consideration, for everyone involved in this little tempest. You fully cover the aspects and parties involved. But you also cast a bit of light on the fundamental structure of code...
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    OpenZFS removed master/slave terminology from its codebase

    The Master Lock folks must be hard at work figuring out a new brand.
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    Forget Dragon, the Falcon 9 rocket is the secret sauce of SpaceX’s success

    Nicely written article, thanks.
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    Understanding epidemiology models

    Consider your terminology. 'Model' is opaque and suggests a small but perfect version of something. Just say 'spreadsheet'. Consider what goes into your spreadsheet: What you 'know', and assumptions about how what you 'know' might react to create the future. Just say 'psychic reading'...
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    CDC director claims botched testing didn’t foil pandemic responses

    Funny, I thought the CDC were the 'experts'.
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    Louisiana’s coastal wetlands will disappear—it’s just a matter of when

    Oh, like Doggerland.
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    A look at the airline that flies COVID-19 samples around the country

    Nevermind
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    “I was just shaking”—new documents reveal details of fatal Tesla crash

    Wrong, you are wrong. According to the article, if you can do the arithmetic, the Tesla was about 462 feet from the intersection when the truck pulled out. That is one and a half football fields away. If you still think the truck driver was at fault then you need to sit at every intersection...
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    Not a straight shooter: DOD review cites fleet of faults in F-35 program  

    It was doomed to mediocracy, if not outright failure, from the very first thought.* You cannot design a swiss army knife that is as good as a knife, a spoon, a saw, a corkscrew, etc. at each of those tasks. *unless the first thought and real intent is well paid and full employment for retiring...
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    Ancient poop reveals what happened after the fall of Cahokia

    Climate change. I guess the Cahokiaians did not call it global warming back then. Yet, the world did not end. Curious.
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    Good news! Maryland bill would make ransomware… a crime.

    I am somewhat surprised that none of these comments suggest the MD legislation might be common sense gun ransomware control.
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    Goop’s Netflix series: It’s so much worse than I expected and I can’t unsee it

    This is when it would be good to be prejudiced. What did you expect from a dingbat? If you submit to your intuition once in a while you will avoid many unpleasant interactions with ignorant foolishness.
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    Researcher develops working exploit for critical Windows 10 vulnerability

    Nitfortheday. Since a person's weight is quite variable, this example would be better if the cop did not compare the picture with the person in front of them.
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    iOS 13: The Ars Technica review

    I came back to the future here because my wife's iPad is nagging about updating to 13. I had to read up on the unintended consequences since I am the one who will have to support her on the changes. I am not going to Catalina yet either because it blows up iTunes and I cannot guage the risk to...