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Comment Re:Don't worry (Score 1) 138

by Vomitgod (#65590580) Attached to: Microsoft Says Voice Will Emerge as Primary Input for Next Windows

and chat GPT because I'm sure you will complain about musk.,...

"No, **Bill Gates never actually said** "640K ought to be enough for anybody."

### Here's the background:

* The quote is widely **attributed** to him and has become a kind of urban legend.
* However, **Gates has repeatedly denied** ever saying it.
* There's **no verifiable source or interview** where he said this.
* Tech historians and journalists have **traced the origin** of the quote but haven't found any credible evidence linking it directly to him.

### What might have caused the confusion?

* In the early days of personal computing (late 1970s to early 1980s), **640KB of RAM was a technical limit** in MS-DOS systems — not a personal statement from Gates.
* It’s possible someone **exaggerated or paraphrased** a conversation about technical constraints, and it morphed into this quote over time.

### Gates' own comment:

In a 1996 interview, he said:

> *“I've said some stupid things and some wrong things, but not that. No one involved in computers would ever say that a certain amount of memory is enough for all time.”*

So, it's safe to call this quote **a myth**.
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Comment Mitigation (Score 4, Informative) 66

as per openwall.com -

To mitigate these vulnerabilities, /proc/sys/fs/suid_dumpable can be set
to 0 (SUID_DUMP_DISABLE, "No setuid dumping").

This prevents all SUID programs and root daemons that drop privileges from being analysed in
case of a crash, but it can act as a temporary fix if the vulnerable
core-dump handler itself cannot be patched immediately.

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