“But he has nothing on at all,” said a little child at last. “Good heavens! listen to the voice of an innocent child,” said the father, and one whispered to the other what the child had said. “But he has nothing on at all,” cried at last the whole people. That made a deep impression upon the emperor, for it seemed to him that they were right; but he thought to himself, “Now I must bear up to the end.” And the chamberlains walked with still greater dignity, as if they carried the train which did not exist.
I believe it's more that they are a visible target, being in the media and spreading their message as much as they do. Were they a small company that hosted internal webapps (for example) they probably wouldn't have been targeted as much. Imagine, for a moment, if these two attacks in seven years were successful, how many unsuccessful attacks there were as well.
Most, if not all, software after a certain point of complexity has vulnerabilities (yes, even mine). This has absolutely nothing to do with how talented their hackers may be and more with the inevitability of someone, somewhere, working hard to find, and abuse, exploits.
edit: I typed more than I intended to here, but my gist is that you're really taking light of the situation here, trivializing all of the work that has gone into gnu projects when you quote "incredibly talented hackers" and follow it up with a useless throwaway phrase like "lololololo". I thought HN was better than this.
In any sufficiently large group of people, you're going to have assholes. To dismiss the people who've put so much good work into the GNU project would be offensive if it weren't so foolish; it says more about the poster than about the GNU folks. Also, consider the source:
All releases after the 2003-08-01 date will have checksums GPG-signed by
the GNU maintainer who prepared the release. This assures automatic
certification of the integrity of all GNU source from that date onward.
Most people don't enter authentication credentials they use elsewhere or conduct financial transactions on torrented software, like they do on websites.
> Unfortunately, interlacing only works with ancient CRT TVs - modern LCD screens
You'll find expensive high end digital projectors such as the ones from Doremi also do interlacing. It's one of the banes of my life as we project lots of user generated content for our film festivals. Lots and lots of people never look at their films with interlacing, even fewer understand it.
I have shown someone their own film with the fields reversed and consequent shimmering and they couldn't identify the problem, some have even not noticed!
Also, NTSC isn't 30fps it is 29.97
I see lots of temporal artifacts on UK TV from NTSC -> PAL conversion. I use the opening credits of Will & Grace as my canonical example, interestingly that have changed (for the better) as the show got more series.
Final Cut's conversion introduces temporal artifacts.
I have been working on an FFT fps transcoder for a while but nothing to show as of yet.
I've spent quite a bit of time in India and if you watch Star TV satellite broadcasts on a CRT you will see lots of footage with reversed fields.
