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Is your point that local user access is valuable? Was that ever in doubt?

Are you asking if anybody has a 0day windows kernel exploit? Or if lots of users are going to click okie dokie when the uac prompt comes up? I'd say yes and yes.

Well, an update was today. Perhaps another transfer? We don't quite have all the facts.

It's not root access. It's access as whatever user was running the browser.

Nothing requires the new owner to immediately change DNS...

"Each kernel release is a different work; the chances that any given piece of code has been modified in a new release are pretty high. One could argue that each kernel release come…

I believe we agree.

Read right over that. But I suspect they can still just download another copy, as the second download would be a new offer, and they can then agree and comply with that one.

You could also align the pointer over the button, shine a laser pointer on your mouse button, and have your cat click it for you. Since you didn't click the button, you didn't acce…

Term 5? All that says is if you don't accept the terms, you don't get to use the software. There's no irrevocable termination of rights. At worst, all they have to do is download a…

yikes, did someone not read the article?

One of the causes of the Revolution was lack of representation and a means to change the law. Now that we have a representative government as a result of that war, one might hope w…

Just like everybody pays for all the movies and music they torrent after they decide which ones they're keeping.

This is the first time he's claimed confirmation from people who are supposed to know.

Why do people keep saying this? The x86 devices are required to allow loading other OS.

Fixing some of the bugs you find internally doesn't mean you need to fix all of the bugs you find internally.

And that's why the link goes to an article discussing usage of Go instead of the golang homepage.

Did any of those people disagree with him before? Has he changed anyone's opinion? If he had said the opposite, that the verdict was correct, would anyone here say "hmmm, he's give…

I think that's it. The phrase "the famous, or even infamous, ..." is fairly common. Monkey see, monkey do.

In the US, it's hovered right around 50% for a while, though it's climbed up between 55-60% for the past couple elections. More people don't vote than vote for any candidate. I wou…

If I don't like how a plugin works, I can uninstall the plugin. If I don't like how the browser works, I can... oh, I guess I can uninstall that too.

Is it possible to reject just the interpretation of the data?

Is it time for Senate hearings about hotspot neutrality?

Not a good week for claiming credit...