Came here to say this. I’m a designer at a company that sells auto accessories and I have to photoshop out the badges on cars and logos from interiors all the time for my job.

Everyone is going LOL FERRARI but that is exactly is what is going on here. He is using a Ferrari logo in what amounts to an advertisement for his shoes.

I remember that well. I had a BIG crush on both Farah Facet and Linda Carter!

Ferrari HAD to do this. There real customer base is the +$200 million net worth crowd who buys up every new model without question. These customers act like “statesmen” in that they are members of elitist Country Clubs, elitist Yacht Clubs, and various other elitist places that limit the members to one type of…

Between this and the Deadmau Purrari thing, it makes me wish I was rich just so I could buy a Ferrari and troll their delicate sensibilities.

more importantly Geo-engineering doesn’t require the US to magically make China, India and Brazil stop polluting, clearcutting and dumping waste.

The single most effective solution is geo-engineering, but it isn’t some kind of ludicrous sci-fi solution that no one’s ever tested. It’s trees. A shit-load of trees. That will work, and it will be cheap. We have tons and tons of open land. We have wasteful ag subsidies already. Shift some of them into tree planting.…

And that’s just one potential approach to mitigation (and possibly an eventual reversal). Imagine if the U.S. put a moon-landing-level effort into developing tech specifically meant to mitigate and eventually reverse the effects of human-driven climate change? This wouldn’t be a ‘let’s try to make some tech that can…

We’ve ensured that the effects of climate change will be severe enough that multiple countries are going to try to geo-engineer their way out of the pit that we’ve dug for ourselves. I would support a candidate who would support an international agency to evaluate, coordinate and execute such efforts. My worst…

The biggest danger of geoengineering is the potential for unintended consequences we can’t- or don’t have time to investigate. Iron seeding for example might be a great way to spur algae growth, which in turn can be a carbon trap, but how does that affect local ecology? Temperature distribution? Cloud seeding with…

^^^ THIS.

Definitely agree. After reading the details, this does not warrant an immediate uninstall (especially if you are like me and rarely use the program, nor do I have any mkv files). I thought it was a vulnerability in VLC via a background process. Pretty irresponsible to just tell people to uninstall without clarifying…

It’s a gawker site. Do you honestly expect anything more than kneejerk headlines?

And furthermore, the bug only affects opening MKV files. If you don’t download MKV video files from the Internet (torrents), then you are extremely unlikely to encounter a malicious file.

Saw that. NIST entry hasn’t been updated yet. Also, analysis of the bug don’t seem to deserve the “sky is falling” tone of this article (and other sites).

From that link you posted:

Any “here is a new security hole” article should be required to list what the attack vector is. Is it a malformed video file that triggers the memory overflow? Some internal web server that VLC runs in the background that you need access to the user’s LAN to be able to attack? (Hint: it’s a malformed video file)

I don’t think anyone was trying to claim it would change the story. Just that this movie was trying to pretend this jacket the same, and it clearly isn’t. The last movie used a patch for a real tour, this one isn’t. No one’s asking anyone to pick up pitchforks and boycott the movie. This is literally “this is a thing;…

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Because it sets a precedent that Chinese companies are not only taking the movie industry over, they’re using this influence to extend their ideologies and censorship to countries around the world. And that..is very fucking dangerous. Greed let the wolf in the hen house.