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Comment Re:How about fruit (Score 2, Informative) 159

I mean I think it's kind of hard to fuck up a banana but if anyone can do it it's large grocery store chains...

I've got bad news for you: all the banana you ever ate are fucked up. "Real" bananas with actual banana flavor called "Gros Michel" are practically extinct since the 1950, when they were wiped out by the banana blight. Nowadays, all you get is literal clones of the tasteless Cavendish.

Comment Re:Yes, probably. And they likely can do even bett (Score 1) 241

The link you provide is a really bad example. Specifically it says In total, six vehicles passed the school bus while it was stopped., and Once stopped, the ADS-equipped vehicle contacted remote assistance with a prompt asking, “is this a school bus with active signals?” [...], a remote assistance agent located in Novi, Michigan, replied “No” to the prompt.

So first of all, 5 human drivers illegally passed the school bus during this specific incident, and the "autonomous" car was explicitly given the go ahead by a human, because the "autonomous" functions were uncertain how to proceed. By my counting, that's 6 bad drivers, all human.

Comment Re:Hollywood Accounting needs to be banned,prosecu (Score 1) 142

What kind of weird tax write-off rules are those? I'd expect that if you spend $x million making (and possibly marketing) a thing, and then only get $y by selling/renting/... it, you'd write off ($x-$y), no matter if $y is exactly zero or just smaller than $x. What rule is is that requires the thing to be essentially destroyed?

Comment Re: Nothing of value was added (Score 4, Interesting) 162

The coreutils are surprisingly complex. If you know a little about kernel functions, it feels like any of those tools should basically map to just a single kernel call. The requirements of the POSIX-standard(s) that define how exactly the tools should work, including how they should handle and report errors, as well as limitations of filesystems (such as long filenames, unsupported characters, ACLs) make correct implementations quite a chore. I'm wondering if the rust implementations pass the test suite that's included in the gnu coreutils source. Does anyone here know?

Comment Re:Real vulnerabilities? (Score 1) 62

If those 500 "high security" vulnerabilities (in Ghostscript? We're using Ghostscript in high security situations now? Are printer makers running it as root or something?)

That's "high severity," as in e.g. code execution. Ghostscript is a candidate for code execution by just displaying a PDF or printing a postscript file. Ghostscript as an external filter for PS, PDF etc. may still be part of the default installation of ImageMagick on many Linux distributions.

Comment Re:Active Bluetooth transmission 0.7 sq mm? (Score 1) 17

The quote here on slashdot is literally what's in the financial times article:

The devices — made with microchips 0.7 square millimetres in size — are embedded in shipping labels stuck to the shrink-wrapped bundles of items trucked from warehouses to stores

That indicates that the chip is 0.7 mm, but it makes no claim whatsoever about the antenna and potentially other electronics (e.g. capacitors) that may be included in the full device. I'd assume that the antenna covers the back of the entire label.

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