On Tue, 12 Mar 2019 13:45:23 -0700, William Herrin said:
In many cases, only the foreground app has a clear understanding of the state of the screen. Not the OS and definitely not the hardware
On Tue, Mar 12, 2019 at 2:50 PM <valdis.kletnieks@vt.edu> wrote: platform.
I'd be super pissed if I died in Overwatch because the BIOS tried to take over the screen to display an amber alert.
Would you be super pissed if you died for real because Overwatch suppressed a tornado or other severe weather alert relevant to your location? Serious question here.
I'd prefer if my computer's BIOS didn't talk to the network at all, that being far more likely to open a path for malware than to save me from a tornado. Some things just have "bad idea" written all over them. Serious answer. Regards, Bill Herrin -- William Herrin ................ herrin@dirtside.com bill@herrin.us Dirtside Systems ......... Web: <http://www.dirtside.com/>