Yeah, a bunch of us here on Slashdot moved much of the conversation to Twitter. Unfortunately, Trump seems to get a bunch of the bandwidth there too.

The phone belonged to a Ms. Wu, who recently renewed her phone contract and purchased a 64GB rose gold iPhone 8 Plus

Impressive, seeing as the 8 doesn't come in Rose Gold.

Not in this case. Rust (and similar programming approaches) prevent accidental interference between threads (of the same application) at the code execution layer - i.e. they prevent bugs due to programming errors. This attack is happening at the hardware level - the threads in question could be completely different applications and could be written in any language.

I'm a European living in the US. American's are strangely willing to wait (a long time) for tables, and while reservations are a thing at most mid to high end establishments (opentable.com is very popular, and generally works well), you often still have to wait at least a few minutes because frankly they have no idea how to run a reservation book. Chain and casual restaurants are extremely popular here, and never take reservations, and when people decide they want Olive Garden or Outback or whatever they will literally sit outside for an hour waiting.

Huh? Which is the usable mobile OS that's more free/freed/open (using any definition you prefer) than Android? iOS is much further from free than Android, and yet this type of malware simply doesn't exist there. Say what you like about walled gardens restricting personal freedom to tinker (and they certainly do) - from a security point of view Apple have shown themselves to be great guardians of their devices (and, by extension, their users).

This is reminding me why I pay extra for an Apple device every few years.

If your system relies on a specific machine being up at any given time it will fail. You say you don't want to intentionally reboot, but since you're guaranteed to unintentionally reboot it's better to design things so that doesn't matter. In which case, intentional ones don't matter either.

Within the limitations of the law. Harvard does not get to decide that Murder is OK on their campus, because that's illegal everywhere. Same goes for smoking in a bar, it's been deemed in many places that that should not be allowed given the adverse health effects on staff and the public - if you disagree with that feel free to exercise your democratic rights.

The bakery question is, I assume, about bigoted people not wanting to sell cakes to people of certain sexualities. Sexual orientation, in this aspect, is a protected class. Harvard could not legally exclude someone for being gay, or black, or Christian. Likewise the bakery cannot refuse those people service. Harvard can exclude someone for being an offensive moron, and I'm pretty sure the bakery could refuse those same people service for the same reason (IANAL).

For most people, I totally agree. The prints from those places are fine for general use and certainly cheap. I happen to be a photographer and for decent quality printing on good paper you're looking at a more professional lab, where a large print is at least $10, plus shipping, and turnaround time is more like a week. It costs me maybe $1-2 in paper and ink to do the same thing at home, and I can tell right away if the color matching is off and try again.

I will say though, they sell a good number of those polaroid style printers that connect directly to a phone and pop out little instagram sized prints. I have no idea why but I'm not the target market :)

Sure cheap lasers are great for text, they don't do a good job of photos though ;) I personally have a brother laser sitting right next to my large format inkjet photo printer.

Core i5 is good for games, sure. But most CPU intensive apps work just great on as many threads as you can throw at them. I spend a lot of time in the Adobe apps, as well as things like Handbrake - my (old) i7 gets plenty of exercise and I'm certainly interested in 8 cores or maybe more. We'll see what happens to the pricing...

Compare the amount of code in a Lua JSON decoder to any specific Lua XML reader

And now every client needs both. Yay?

Americans have chosen high government spending over time off. Maybe not consciously, but as a consequence of their aggregate voting patterns.

They mention France in the summary. Employees there are guaranteed a minimum of 36 days off per year (including public holidays). They have basically free university education, free healthcare, and many other perks. There's no way you can persuade me they have "low government spending" - and their tax rates are suitably high to pay for all that.

Tell me again how "high government spending" means you can't take time off?

Sex Trafficking != Prostitution

The latter is legal in (parts of) Nevada, the former certainly isn't. The former also cannot, by definition, involve informed consenting adults.

http://www.duhaime.org/LegalDi...

I can use this to thaw my steaks without accidentally cooking the edges in the microwave? Nice!