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Comment Re:time will tell. (Score 1) 101

by shking on Wednesday December 29, 2021 @08:25PM (#62126641) Attached to: Apple Ditched Intel, and It Paid Off

Has your workplace tried the Gutenprint open source drivers? https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fsourceforge.net%2Fprojec...

Comment When did you stop beating your wife? (Score 3, Insightful) 70

by shking on Thursday January 24, 2019 @04:37PM (#58016504) Attached to: US Pressed Chinese Firms To Show One Example of When They Resisted Request For Data From Chinese Government, But They Have Never

Sounds like the spin doctors have thrown the old loaded question fallacy against the wall to see if it will stick

Comment Is this enforceable outside the US? (Score 1) 373

by shking on Wednesday August 22, 2018 @08:44PM (#57177654) Attached to: Intel Publishes Microcode Security Patches With No Benchmarks Or Profiling Allowed

There are much stronger consumer protection laws in many countries, the EU for example

Comment Re: Donâ(TM)t let inconvenient facts get in t (Score 1) 198

by shking on Monday August 20, 2018 @04:24PM (#57161634) Attached to: Linux Study Argues Monolithic OS Design Leads To Critical Exploits

Hmm... cherry pick much? Lots of critics justifying calling MacOS monolithic despite the Mach kernel, but not a peep about OpenBSD, which IS monolithic and which IS the most secure OS

Comment Donâ(TM)t let inconvenient facts get in the w (Score 0) 198

by shking on Saturday August 18, 2018 @04:28PM (#57151038) Attached to: Linux Study Argues Monolithic OS Design Leads To Critical Exploits

For example: - MacOS has a micro kernel - OpenBSD is a monolithic design and is probably the most secure OS

Comment Re:Autistic-friendly business environment (Score 1) 36

by shking on Tuesday July 28, 2015 @11:34PM (#50201797) Attached to: Interviews: Dr. Temple Grandin Answers Your Questions

It's pretty simple: open environments are significantly cheaper. They put more people in the same space. Lost productivity is a cost that is hidden from the bottom line

Comment Re:Ouch & what _is_ "gold level?" (Score 2) 265

by shking on Thursday July 09, 2015 @01:31AM (#50073945) Attached to: Microsoft Thanked For Its "Significant Financial Donation" To OpenBSD Foundation

You didn't look very hard for that number. It took me less than a minute. Bronze, Silver, Gold, Platinum and Iridium amounts (and donors) are found here http://www.openbsdfoundation.o...

Comment And Now he's working on Obesity (Score 1) 162

by shking on Saturday June 20, 2015 @03:42PM (#49952887) Attached to: Kim Jong Un Claims To Have Cured AIDS, Ebola and Cancer

No, not curing it...

Comment Re:Riddle me this Batman (Score 1) 504

by shking on Thursday September 18, 2014 @03:05PM (#47939017) Attached to: Apple Will No Longer Unlock Most iPhones, iPads For Police

It's like this Mr. Waylon Jones: this minimal information is pretty easy to get without access to your phone. You are almost certainly carrying a driver's license, with your name and address on it. You can probably be traced using your auto's license plate and registration. Police and other emergency services have easy access to unlisted phone numbers... and so on

Comment O'Reilly to the Rescue (Score 1) 238

by shking on Friday September 12, 2014 @08:11PM (#47894477) Attached to: Ask Slashdot: Advice On Building a Firewall With VPN Capabilities?

Get The Book of PF

Comment Re:Will OpenBSD switch to Systemd? (Score 1) 290

by shking on Wednesday March 05, 2014 @05:47PM (#46413041) Attached to: Interview: Ask Theo de Raadt What You Will

Recently both Debian and Ubuntu decided to make the switch to Systemd. With more and more distros switching to Systemd, will OpenBSD do the same?

Systemd's license is incompatible with OpenBSD, thus it would need to be rewritten from scratch (and it would probably refactored too). For systemd to appear in OpenBSD there needs to be a benefit to OpenBSD... not simply convenience for people moving from Linux. This is how pf was born: IPFilter was removed from OpenBSD due to concerns about its license and the pf developers refactored IPFilter's baroque rules syntax for simplicity and consistency.

Comment If you're so rich, why aren't you smart? (Score 1) 745

by shking on Wednesday October 09, 2013 @12:58AM (#45078675) Attached to: US Adults Score Poorly On Worldwide Test

Serfs you, right?

Comment What about Blackberry? (Score 2) 195

by shking on Sunday April 07, 2013 @05:47PM (#43386273) Attached to: Is the DEA Lying About iMessage Security?

Remember the fuss just a year ago when India and other gov'ts complained about Blackberry? How is this different?

Comment The Onion's satire becomes reality (Score 2) 131

by shking on Friday April 05, 2013 @09:03PM (#43374899) Attached to: The ATF Wants To Know Who Your Friends Are

CIA's 'Facebook' Program Dramatically Cut Agency's Costs

Comment Re:ISO 8601 (Score 1) 214

by shking on Sunday March 10, 2013 @06:17PM (#43133555) Attached to: Ask Slashdot: How Many Time Standards Are There?

Mod parent up

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