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Comment: Re:This is more than a little bit naive. (Score 1) 709

I'd think that $50B would go a long way to making something more sensible than wind/solar (Which are still and will be a boondoggle with $50B poured into it (Where in the heck do you store energy so that it's sustained instead of feast/famine? Right now, you can't realistically replace coal with either- and without the storage tech to MAKE it so...it's a waste of time and money, bluntly put...)- which would be Thorium reactors.

Comment: Re:Force them to warrenty whole unit.. (Score 2) 526

by Svartalf (#46206741) Attached to: Customer: Dell Denies Speaker Repair Under Warranty, Blames VLC

And one should design for those limits instead of falling back on "it's the software"- it's a brown paper bag moment to have breakable parts like that exposed in the firmware so that drivers or applications can break things.

I don't know about you, but I've spent decades making sure on digital designs and the like you CAN'T do that sort of thing. I can't be the ONLY one doing it- and it wasn't acceptable then for those items (they got REPLACED on the spot...) and it's not acceptable now (and it's illegal, pretty much like I said, to DO it the way Dell's playing it.)

Comment: Re:Force them to warrenty whole unit.. (Score 5, Interesting) 526

by Svartalf (#46206293) Attached to: Customer: Dell Denies Speaker Repair Under Warranty, Blames VLC

And they're not fooling anyone either.



Comment: Re:Unconscionable Contract clause (Score 1) 519

by Svartalf (#45443115) Attached to: Woman Facing $3,500 Fine For Posting Online Review

Actually, depending on the State in question, it *IS* defined as a Deceptive (hint...class of fraud...) Trade Practice. Falls under unconsionable clauses in a contract.

The fact that they're applying to the party absolutely not involved with the deal...heh... That IS clearly Fraud.

Comment: Re:Gpu based paravirtualization rootkit, all os vu (Score 1) 265

by Svartalf (#45299965) Attached to: Airgap-Jumping Malware May Use Ultrasonic Networking To Communicate

Dude...lay down the crack pipe. It's making you post bullshit- and Anonymously at that.

Any OS? Really? This would mean you're using OpenCL or OpenGL/OpenGLES to do things- just for starters. But, in truth, there's no inbound/outbound pathway from or to the GPU (The GPU generally doesn't have I/O access to things and for good reasons...) without an additional OpenGL/OpenCL application as a front-end. Which would be VERY OS specific.

Sorry, but the person in question that claimed that it was possible hasn't the foggiest about what he was talking about. But...nice try.

Comment: I call BS... (Score 1) 265

by Svartalf (#45299869) Attached to: Airgap-Jumping Malware May Use Ultrasonic Networking To Communicate

If it's using some sort of communications ("ultrasonic networking") it's **NOT** airgapped in any way, shape, or form.

"Airgapped" means no remote automated communications of ANY kind would be possible. You can't interact with it by remote, period- you have to have a human being log into a local console to do things with it. This is a failure of the airgapping measures being exploited is all- or it was never really airgapped to begin with.

Debug is human, de-fix divine.