fourcommas

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by fourcommas 6y ago
The lead editors are responsible for maintaining ethical standards, and they represent the NYT. Adjust your impression of the NYT reputation based on this story. Also see the other comment on this article about Naomi Wu being doxxed, where
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by fourcommas 6y ago
And then there's Washington Post whose entire editorial board signed a letter asking the US Gov to arrest and charge their own source. https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/edward-snowden-doesn...
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by fourcommas 6y ago
> the CVEs per LoC better be shrinking by at least factor X (this is where Rust comes in) or else the system is getting less secure Do you really think windows 95 was more secure than win 10? Or that IE6 was more secure than the latest I
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by fourcommas 6y ago
Now divide the number of CVEs in each year by the LoC maintained. You're again looking at completely the wrong number. Line-for-line, C/C++ written today at MSFT/Goog has less memory errors than 10 years ago, and even less ex
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by fourcommas 6y ago
You shouldn't trust someone who misleads with: "Now, 70% of the CVEs originating at Microsoft are memory safety issues, Levick said. “There is no real trend it’s just staying the exact same,” he said. “Despite massive efforts on o
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by fourcommas 6y ago
I've lived in Capitol Hill for 9 years. I've been attacked twice by crazy people. One time it was a physical attack, the other time it was a man singling me and my family out and approaching within a few feet while screaming very
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by fourcommas 6y ago
Snowden passed his trove of classified info to two papers: WP and Guardian. Snowden never published any of his trove, he relied on these two papers to determine what was newsworthy and publish it. WP published various parts of the trove the
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by fourcommas 6y ago
WaPo holds the distinguished title of being the first and only newspaper in the US whose editorial board endorsed the arrest and criminal charging of their own source.