Path: ...!weretis.net!feeder8.news.weretis.net!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: rbowman Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.advocacy Subject: Re: 9.9/10 security vulnerability affecting Linux (and others) set to be revealed on October 6th Date: 29 Sep 2024 02:48:15 GMT Lines: 42 Message-ID: References: <2O1JO.214184$FzW1.145017@fx14.iad> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: individual.net 4Gc2efWgMRZI0RBUeNK21AhmXyEgNp6/d2lAJthozeTdhRVfP8 Cancel-Lock: sha1:ycqdFvO3j07LcZgb1KheZGWSRM4= sha256:z08KGoUV8UdlBy2A4YVzbbpbK74Q25gZkGMaTkpnl10= User-Agent: Pan/0.149 (Bellevue; 4c157ba) Bytes: 2964 On Sat, 28 Sep 2024 17:02:39 -0400, Chris Ahlstrom wrote: > rbowman wrote this copyrighted missive and expects royalties: > >> On Sat, 28 Sep 2024 07:52:11 -0400, CrudeSausage wrote: >> >>> If this indeed solves the problem without compromising functionality, >>> all the better. Considering how it was presented, it truly seemed like >>> an issue whose solution involved crippling the operating system. >> >> The sky is falling! The sky is falling! The tech world loves click >> generating headlines just as much as the MSM. > > 1. What outfits are part of the "MSM". Is Fox News part of the MSM, > based on its popularity? Certainly. I cast a wide net and it's all about advertising, or 'eyeballs' as they say. Not to get into the gun thing but 'Guns & Ammo' magazine offers 'specials' that generally come down to $12 a year subscriptions. I also get the 'American Rifleman' which is part of the NRA membership. The format is a little different so I decided $12 was too much for another mailbox filler and didn't renew. I then got many warning and offers and still didn't renew. The magazine keeps coming. What is important for most magazines is their circulation numbers that they use to peddle advertising. $12 is chump change compared to how many magazines they mail each month. Typically I read https://www.theregister.com/, https://arstechnica.com/, https://betanews.com/, and https://thehackernews.com/. I haven't figured out the first two since they don't seem to be peddling anything. The other two a subtle or not so subtle. https://gizmodo.com/ seems fairly clean. https://www.engadget.com/ can be interesting but it's definitely a huckster site. > 2. All sites want "clicks". It helps pay the bills. The ones that puzzle me are the ones that don't force a registration and don't have 'see the price on Amazon' buttons. Cui bono?