On Mon, 17 Dec 2007 03:32:37 -0500, David H. Lynch Jr. wrote: >Rod Whitworth wrote: >> On Mon, 17 Dec 2007 01:29:43 -0500, David H. Lynch Jr. wrote: >> >> >>> The NVIDIA binary blob is popular. >>> >> There you go again. >> >> You don't know the difference between a blob and an application. > The difference has no meaning in the context of values and principles.
Weasel words. > It is like trying to claim that racial discrimination should be >acceptable, in Kenya, but not in the US. No it isn't. Both of them are like you - wrong. > > Further if you try to make values distinctions based on technical >differences, you are eventually going to > run afoul of technology itself. FPGA's make hardware into software. >I can write a decryption algorithm, > in a C like language, compile it into bits that create hardware that >performs the task completely without a CPU or > OS. the "firmware" of the FPGA is hardware, OS, and application all >rolled into one. > Still waffling. > We have courts cases that hinge on law based on technological >distinctions that have been superseded for decades. > Wise men do not tie their values and principles to arbitrary >technological distinctions. Appeal to authority. Dishonest. Lose 50 points. > > The reasons a binary blob are bad do not change when it becomes an >application. > a flaw in a binary blob in a rarely executed part of the OS may be >less significant that a flaw in a binary blob in a constantly used > highly popular application. Security and reliability in the kernel >is critical, but security and reliability in an application is not >pointless. > You are full of shit. Blobs in applications? You gave yourself away there too. Blob is the word. Binary blob is a redundancy. Kinda like you. Binary code in apps is NOT a blob. You are. I got it right the first time - you are a dumb shit full of sophistry. Either that or you know exactly what I mean and you think like Uri Geller that we might fall for all the psychobabble and try to do point by point refutation of a load of waffle. Like I said before, wanker, back to your coven with the fools who respect you or who use you as their tool. <plonk!> Rod/ /earth: write failed, file system is full cp: /earth/creatures: No space left on device
