Efficiency of an electrical inverter: 90%

Efficiency of a gasoline generator: 20%

A gasoline generator might work as an emergency backup, but would not be economical for daily load leveling.

TFS says the inverter's extra hardware costs $650.

A 10kw gasoline generator would cost at least as much.

Since it involves a flaw in the PXI driver shipped with the TianoCore EDK, how could it possibly have anything to do with iSCSI booting?

You didn't have any hacking skills. Just admit it to yourself and move on with your life.

So now you are going to try to make it sound like it wasn't absurd to say that admin access want needed, but also you have great insight into how it works and would be impossible with more hand waving. Just admit that you have no imagination, but like to pretend you are a security expert on Slashdot. Off you go now ...

"chances are if they can get into a privileged position on the network like this, they have administration capabilities anyway."

I can't take you seriously anymore. All they need is to be able to plug a network cable into the network. You also don't seem to understand the difference between "immediately" and "ASAP."

Nobody needs to take a high severity vulnerability seriously until they don't and find out they should have, at which point it is too late. All high severity vulnerabilities should be patched as soon as possible. Any other attitude is shear incompetence. Major corporations use contractors, and not all employees can be trusted either. Your assumption that it is too hard to do by a determined attacker with internal network access where thousands of servers are installed is just plain wrong. People were just saying that the P2P vuln wasn't a big deal because it wasn't being exploited just last week. Many of us know how long that turned out to be a good argument that it was a nothingburger announcement.

PXE boot is often used to chainload iPXE and most large organizations like Google, Meta, and Amazon use network booting.

" Nobody needs to panic and patch this thing ASAP, eventual deployment of patches should suffice for most organizations."

So "nobody" needs to patch this ASAP because someone will do it eventually? That makes sense.

Network booting is used by most major corporations including Google, Meta, and Amazon. The percentage of physical bare-metal servers using network booting (either traditional PXE or modern variants like iPXE and HTTP Boot) is effectively 100%. While this CVE doesn't come into play with HTTP Boot it does affect PXE boot and iPXE when PXE is used to chainload iPXE. For more information simply commit the blasphemy of entering "For CVE-2026-97631 do systems need to use network booting, and does it affect just PXE or iPXE and HTTP Boot?" into Gemini, Claude or your most hated AI.

Rule 99: "Trust is the biggest liability of all."

Why? Is filling the Super Bowl blimp more important?

If nothing changed in 20 years, perhaps the looming helium crisis is overblown.

Nope. Warner Bros. was losing money before the merger and had accumulated $40B in net debt.

The headcount reduction was sorely needed, and the merger makes it even more necessary.

Then I guess it is good that my ego isn't so weak that I feel the need to impress anyone. Clearly your mileage does vary.

I literally said a discussion can contain counter-arguments. When someone isn't listening to counter-arguments it is no longer a discussion but rather a one-sided argument for arguments sake. I'm sorry this is too complicated for you to grasp.