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Kent Sharkey wrote: A gamma ray
Are we going to be like Hulk soon? Coooool
M.D.V. 
If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about?
Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you
Rating helpful answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.
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Smart devices need better security and Google thinks KataOS, written in the Rust programming language, could help. This is the Year of KataOS
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How long until it gets buried next to Stadia?
GCS/GE d--(d) s-/+ a C+++ U+++ P-- L+@ E-- W+++ N+ o+ K- w+++ O? M-- V? PS+ PE Y+ PGP t+ 5? X R+++ tv-- b+(+++) DI+++ D++ G e++ h--- r+++ y+++* Weapons extension: ma- k++ F+2 X
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And just across the way from SharpOS[^]. 
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined."
- Homer
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This has more to do with Google and their brilliant ideas that get binned in 2 years.
GCS/GE d--(d) s-/+ a C+++ U+++ P-- L+@ E-- W+++ N+ o+ K- w+++ O? M-- V? PS+ PE Y+ PGP t+ 5? X R+++ tv-- b+(+++) DI+++ D++ G e++ h--- r+++ y+++* Weapons extension: ma- k++ F+2 X
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If you apply for a patent, your invention must have some clearly identifiable new element that has not been seen before. The newness (the "invention height") must be non-trivial. Patent administrations across the world vary in their requirements - the variation is much lower today than it was, say, thirty years ago - but in most jurisdictions, a significant invention height is required.
If developing a new OS - or even more: programming language - required you to obtain in advance something parallel to a patent, a clear definition of the new elements you want to contribute, proving a minimum "development height" of your new OS/language design, then at least 95%, maybe up to 99%, of all new OS/language projects would be rejected.
(To extend the parallel to patents: You may play around with a patented technology in your basement hobby workshop, or in the development lab of your company, or at the university campus, as much as you want. The patent protection only applies to commercial exploitation of the invention. An 'invention patent' allowing you to create a new OS/language should not prohibit any internal or private development, but only the right to seek public recognition of it by publication of it through media or academic channels.)
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Since the world had far more secure OS's before the advent of Unix I don't think any new "secure" OS can be patented based on security. OpenVMS is the only OS that went to a black hat convention and came out unbreached. IBM's OS/360 was also secure. The advent of null based buffers in Unix has become the root source of over 90% of all software breaches.
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Quote: "If the devices around us can't be mathematically proven to keep data secure, then the personally-identifiable data they collect – such as images of people and recordings of their voices – could be accessible to malicious software," note the AmbiML team, who adds that security is often tacked on at the end.
Google of course objects to it's competition also being able to hoover up your data too.
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, weighing all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
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Linux kernel boss Linus Torvalds has released the first release candidate for version 6.1 of the project and added an appeal for developers to make his life easier by adding code earlier in the development cycle. He...does know they're developers, right?
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I'm asking because I'm ignorant.
Are those developers/contributors paid employees or people using their own time to add to the project?
If the former, he's right.
If the latter, be glad you're getting the free help Linus, go give your blanket a squeeze.
I’ve given up trying to be calm. However, I am open to feeling slightly less agitated.
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MarkTJohnson wrote: Are those developers/contributors paid employees or people using their own time to add to the project?
If the former, he's right.
If the latter, be glad you're getting the free help Linus, go give your blanket a squeeze.
Very wise.
BUT.... the kind of people who are hardcore coders (and you have to be a hardcore coder to work on the kernel) tend by nature to be all-nighter sort of people, and this is true whether they are employed or volunteers.
I know that when I'm working on code I really like I don't want to stop. I can't stop! At least, I can't stop until I reach a point where I feel there is a natural break or the job is done. If that requires an all-nighter then so be it.
This isn't a matter of "grow[ing] up" -- it's a matter of personality, of the fundamental kind of people who do this work at all. They are who they are, they are what there are. They must work according to their inate requirements.
I'd have thought that Linus would know this.
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Well there is that too.
I’ve given up trying to be calm. However, I am open to feeling slightly less agitated.
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Mostly the former.
What Linus should do is to make his expectations about when PRs should be submitted to be included in the next kernel explicit. ie for inclusion in the kernel release on day D, all non-vulnerability fix PRs must be submitted by D-5.
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, weighing all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
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Recent explorations of unique geometric worlds reveal perplexing patterns, including the Fibonacci sequence and the golden ratio. One's under the cushions, one's in the corner, two are behind the lamp, three are in the closet, five are...
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This is a series matter.
GCS/GE d--(d) s-/+ a C+++ U+++ P-- L+@ E-- W+++ N+ o+ K- w+++ O? M-- V? PS+ PE Y+ PGP t+ 5? X R+++ tv-- b+(+++) DI+++ D++ G e++ h--- r+++ y+++* Weapons extension: ma- k++ F+2 X
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Three researchers at University of Waterloo in Canada have recently developed a unique comic authoring tool that can automatically create stories and comics based on code. And then they came for the cartoonists and I did nothing as I need some for the newsletter, please!
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A senior Microsoft employee has teased "something exciting" for Windows next week. Icons incoming!
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If they announced Office was going back to menus I'd get excited enough to start saving for it. Otherwise the only exciting thing I can imagine happening is they are going to fire all the executives in charge of that decision...
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I hope it's a new old taskbar and start menu for Windows 11.
How could they mess up an entire OS with something so simple yet so important? 
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Are they bringing back any of the following?
- Windows 10 style start menu that allows customization?
- Color code printing to Visual Studio?
- Easy use of a local Pictures library for desktop slideshow? (It's still doable but not via the control panel.)
- Right click on the task bar for a Desktop list? This is useful for those of us who operate multiple windows.
- Right click on the task bar to get to the Task Manager?
- Ability to put the task bar on any edge of your screen? (I don't use this but many people do.)
If it's not one or more of the above I'm probably not interested in this "announcement."
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There is no one at Microsoft left or new who can code such things...if there was it would have been there...
Caveat Emptor.
"Progress doesn't come from early risers – progress is made by lazy men looking for easier ways to do things." Lazarus Long
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New blinds finally came in?
I’ve given up trying to be calm. However, I am open to feeling slightly less agitated.
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Either that or a "fall colors" theme. 
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As part of the ongoing partnership between Intel and MS, Windows 12 will require 12th- or 13th-generation Intel processors only, 1TB of Optane memory (recently discontinued), and TPM 3.0.
All others need not apply.
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
-- 6079 Smith W.
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are they getting big bonus for shipping icons again !!!
Caveat Emptor.
"Progress doesn't come from early risers – progress is made by lazy men looking for easier ways to do things." Lazarus Long
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