These 'genetic circuits' could, for example, be used by scientists to track key moments in a cell's life or, in biotechnology, to turn on production of a drug at the flick of a chemical switch.
Code-Monkey Translation:
Scientists, lacking a good debugger for living organisms, have made a breakthrough: They're now able to employ the tried and true tradition of adding printf( "Made it here and didn't crash!" );
and/or if ( DEBUG && VK_LSHIFT_DN ) {... }
code into bacteria.
Despite the platform being in open beta for as long as anyone can remember and its undeniable popularity the world over, professional coders experienced with situations that require resorting to this technique in undocumented code, badly supported 3rd party plug-ins, and poorly understood niche embedded systems, are advising the scientists to wait for the more mature 1.0 release of the DNA API specification before implementing their own domain specific language on the platform.
There once was an IDENTIFICATION SECTION
Preceding a formula that defied all reflection.
Using all the chem-lab's powers,
it ran longer than four hours,
To make pills that promoted erection!
The "smart autofill" function is effectively magic; that wasn't added in until at least 2010. If you were hanging out on CS1 or CS2 that would be an easy incentive to upgrade.
That's wrong terminology! Passwords are not Stolen!
Look, if you have a car and I steal that car then you don't have a car anymore.
If you have a password, and I get a copy of it, then you still have your password! We can both use the password, IT'S NOT STEALING.
It will be great if you enjoy strapping a computer to your back and wearing a big ass, heavy helmet with wires everywhere and two joysticks instead of gloves.
Oh and the graphics looked like something from the late 80s DOS PC era.
Mine looks like sun glasses with ear-buds and they can hook up to my smart phone when on the go. Wearing them looks like watching a big 3D (70 inch or so) TV. The 90's came, and so did VR games like Exorex, Dactyl Nightmare, Descent, Quake, etc. The funny thing is that the old Descent game works great on my 3D TV (though I think that 3D TVs are a dead end -- If you need glasses for 3D then you can just put screens in them and take 'em with you). VR never died the first time around, it just wasn't widely adopted. Specialists and Hobbyists still use VR just like back in the 90's: In my last job before I became independent I did sound surveying for industrial noise abatement and I used to use my portable alternate reality glasses, and a custom smartphone app in factories to visualize the 3D sound samplings in real time safely, i.e., while the machines were turned off I could still "see" where the noise had been coming from (that the monitors had previously recorded and our software had turned into 3D volumetric data).
Occulus Rift? Meh, whatever. That'll stay niche if you ask me. Light-weight transparent OLED 3D 'sun glasses', w/ optional flip up light-shields for toggling between AR and VR are the future form factor of head mounted displays... A similar form factor already exists, and I play existing games like Quake 4 and Descent 2 with them all the time (I'm even experimenting with adding a VT101 terminal emulation to my game engine's 3D GUI so I can code in VR -- Imagine it, everywhere you look is screenspace -- API docs? Just turn your head, no need for a wall of screens). I still use VR headgear, but I stopped strapping my head into a bucket with screens a decade ago and I'm not going back. Those who like VR don't have to wait for this Project Holodeck. Also, Games? That's all they can think of to use VR with?
vortexcortex@hivemind:~/vr-vim/build/$ make hacker-movies-jealous
And 57% of respondents agree by 2053 we will be flying around the galaxy in faster-than-light spaceships. You know, like the Millennium Falcon. They saw it in a movie. And most of those believe Obama is a Secret Muslim Nigerian. What are we trying to prove here?
(emboldening, mine)
Correct me if I'm wrong, but it sounds like we're simply trying to prove the validity of a certain method of business...
Hello, I am the Nigerian President of the USA,
As you know, my countries are in turmoil, so I need your help to smuggle my Secrit Muslim inheritance of pressious diamounds from Nigeria into the USA to solve this dire $16.5 trillien nashonal debt problem.
Unfortunately, only the Millennium Falcon is capable of transporting these valuables through the Evil Galactic Umpire's diplomatic sanctions, and they will not accept my payment of carbonite crystels, which is all I have access to in my current situation.
Please, you must help me save my people from Finance Oil Wars so that we may and purchase safe passage from the NASA smugglers. I only need All Social Security Benefits more to pay the smugglers. Please do not forward this message to the police of The Repelican Party or we will surely be found and executed, and our people will suffer great deals. For your assistance with this trouble I am willing to wire transfer you Peece on Earth and Goodwill dollars once this matter is settled.
To help, please make arrangements for payment at this website. Please also reply and include your bank account and routing number and your All Pursonal Online information so I can send you compensation for your good deeds.
I sincerely Thank You in advance for help in these troubling times.
Signed, Obama Hussein Jong il Bin Laden III.
Well, at least he actually knows how to program. Take a look at the CEOs of HP, IBM, Oracle, Dell, SAP, Cisco, . . . etc.
Most of them probably can't even manage to program themselves out of a paper bag.
I'm working on the documentation for my game engine's (domain specific) entity interaction language. Thank you for your help in naming the example project that comes after the eponymous "Hello World". With a small change to the shape of the objects and the forces being applied from within rather than externally, the simplistic collision detection demo shall be dubbed "Paper Bag" so that we may finally have a definitive test with which to quantify the aforementioned skill level.
will people realize that a life that requires copious amounts of stimulants to maintain it, isn't really a life worth living.
The code monkey who likes both Tab & Mountain Dew, has also got you covered.
IMO, life is what you make of it. I may be shortening my lifespan by whipping myself into a caffeinated frenzy so that I can perform my 'day' job while also being an indie game dev 'by night' (those time cycles are actually reversed for me), and also having time left over for some semblance of social life; However, I know that when I look back at the years gone by, my confirmation bias will show me I wouldn't change a damn thing, not a one...
Shouldn't your question be "should it be a federal holiday in the USA"? It is already in China.
The USA is already in China? Well damn, that was fast, sounds fine to me then. On the up side, I can feel prideful about the "Made in China" labels now.
I know people hate Metro on their desktops, but is there a reason it's so despised on what is its intended device use: a touch screen device?
Outside of Metro, what's different between 8 and 7 (especially in tablet form)?
Windows 8 apps are "managed code". That's Balmeric for "Virtual Machine".
It's like the difference between Objective-C and C/C++, or C# and C/C++. Make your Win8 or iOS programs using the Apple or Microsoft tools respectively, they don't run anywhere else without significant changes. The main difference with Windows 8 is the "integrated vendor lock-in" system. This way MS can get a big slice of every program created for the platform, unlike with C or C++... This means either the software developer loses profits to MS, or the developer raises prices to compensate for MS's %30 cut. This means for the app devs to make the same money it'll cost you about $14.50 in the Win8 app store vs $10 on Win7. That's a lot of revenue for MS for not doing shit -- It doesn't costs MS $5.00 per download. It's also why they'll be thinking up new APIs for graphics, to make it harder to port between Android, Linux, iOS, OSX, and Windows. Currently I can just do: git pull && make and "port" the latest changes onto Win/Mac/Linux and make a new build there in my C/C++ or even Java. Can't really do that with C# or Obj-C. Yes, it's theoretically possible, but in practice it doesn't work well if at all.
Interestingly, this isn't really the case with Android Java vs PC Java, even though the API is different I just write a simple (platform / API) abstraction layer, and the rest of the Java code works the same on Android or Mac/Win/Linux PC.
TL;DR: MS can leverage vendor lock-in to make money by directly increasing the price of applications. I'm passing that dev cost gouge on to my customers.
Then leave you fool, or stop letting it bother you. IMO, Life's too short to be annoyed / pissed off all the time. Honestly I was just joking.
"Fuck 'em if they can't take a Joke"
I did mis-read the comment the 1st time through, and then just responded under that interpretation when I realized it could be taken both ways due to the run-on sentence; It wasn't clear which way was meant. No, really, if you're lexing that sentence as you go you don't realize it could be taken an alternate way until the "for free" part that comes later -- It wasn't a deliberate miss-read, it was the only way to read it, temporally.
P.S. Language Nerds existed well before Sheldon Cooper, as did exaggerators such as yourself. Being "sickened" about comments such as these this late in the game seems like a pointless endeavor... That's like being disgusted because gay-bars are full of queers, eh?
Don't buy hardware that can be bricked by flashing the BIOS.
Unfair statement; this was a situation where firmware came out later, and also almost all hardware (video cards, hard disks, network cards, motherboards, etc) has flashable firmware.
No you fool. It's not unfair. You're just ignorant, as in ignoring what he said. Hardware exists that can have a factory read only ROM, and a Flash-able ROM that you update. If a firmware update fails part way through or becomes corrupt the hardware can re-flash itself with the known good fallback copy of the original factory ROM firmware. The stuff like hard drives and video cards that have flashable firmware can be reflashed from another boot media. The onboard GPU can be used until you un-gork your graphics card firmware. Don't have onboard GPU as a fallback? Well, who's fault is that? Buy unbrickable hardware, it's really that simple. Sometimes it'll cost you more, sometimes A LOT more, but if you think it's worth it, then pay for it, we solved this issue. It's fair to make you pay more for the solution you want that most other folks don't actually need. Hardware that's out of warranty probably means the price is now about half of what it was when you bought it new -- Cost less to replace than the time to fix it or the difference between it and the dual firmware model -- Except MOBOs, it's a pretty standard feature there.
True. Except that it can be used to bypass secure boot:
1. Boot secure OS.
2. Hack it, get root.
3. Write hibernate image to the drive containing your hacked kernel, which includes disabling of the code to delete the image after use.
4. Trigger reboot.
5. Pwnage.
OK, I get where you're coming from, but you fail to see that Secure Boot and TPM are completely pointless endeavors, and they're FULL of holes because the OSes are FULL of holes. If there's a mistake in the kernel code that allows a root level exploit to happen then it can simply be re-exploited each time you boot your system, see? No need to mess with the boot-up files. Even if your CPU is running encrypted instructions of signed programs once you find some data that triggers a buffer overflow, you can simply use return oriented programming to build the exploit. This means your exploit is built out of "op codes" of data that jump from one existing piece of signed and encrypted code to another -- You don't even need to know what the code is that's executing, you just log the changes in state the locations perform, and these become your (complex) operations with which to build the exploit. This already exists, it's not hypothetical. Return Oriented Programming is made out of existing code, even if it's signed and encrypted. SecureBoot is pointless so long as kernels have mistakes that allow unexpected stack smashing, or heap function pointer overwriting. There doesn't seem to be any way to prevent the mistakes, since your human race tends to make mistakes. SecurityTheaterBoot is a more apt. name for it.
Ah, but if the kernels could be written correctly -- with no mistakes -- then there would be no exploit vectors to exploit, and thus absolutely no reason for Secure Boot to exist. It's pointless from a security perspective, it serves primarily to make it harder for users to install alternate OSs. That's all. SecureBoot should be considered harmful and avoided if possible.
It'd take some very impressive skill to do that - it isn't something you could just make a script-kiddie toolbox for.
NO, that's just wrong. Do you even know what you're talking about? Yes, it takes more skill than a script-kiddie currently has, but it just takes one skilled hacker to crack the system and add the exploit to an exploit tool kit then the script-kiddie toolbox would contain the impressive exploit.
What? Exploits aren't impressive anymore once they've been automated? Gimme a break man. This happens all the time, it's HOW script kiddies even exist. Ugh, sorry, but your words reek of ignorance -- It's like you don't even comprehend what your words imply (by your logic script kiddies wouldn't exist).
The only way to prevent this is for the kernel to use TPM hardware to sign the boot image. As this isn't yet an option, it's debated if Secure Boot linux should also disable hibernation, in order to be strictly compliant, even though it introduces much user annoyance to provide protection against an attack that would be near-impossible for even the best hacker to pull off.
"Only" -- That word shouldn't be used lightly, because it tries hard to make you a fool, every time. What if we put Linux in the BIOS firmware. The PC turns on and is running Linux. Firmware can check its hash / fingerprint matches the install image on boot, like it does already, (even CMOS checksums for integrity), without requiring anyone to be in bed with a flawed PKI model run by Microsoft. If we simply give users an option in the BIOS boot menu that says: "Enable OS install on next boot", and it would flash part of the firmware with the/boot/ data. That would be TONS simpler than entering a long hex code that they're going to fuck up, and to bypass this unencrypted method of booting securely would require entering BIOS and changing a setting (or cracking BIOS security) -- Which is exactly the same as with Secure boot.
my friends pay money for every little thing I download for free with my android phone. sucks to be them
So, are you saying it sucks to be rich or that you're just a sucky friend? I mean, if they're paying for all of your downloads they're not exactly "free"...
Slashdot Mirror
These 'genetic circuits' could, for example, be used by scientists to track key moments in a cell's life or, in biotechnology, to turn on production of a drug at the flick of a chemical switch.
Code-Monkey Translation: ... }
Scientists, lacking a good debugger for living organisms, have made a breakthrough: They're now able to employ the tried and true tradition of adding
printf( "Made it here and didn't crash!" );
and/or
if ( DEBUG && VK_LSHIFT_DN ) {
code into bacteria.
Despite the platform being in open beta for as long as anyone can remember and its undeniable popularity the world over, professional coders experienced with situations that require resorting to this technique in undocumented code, badly supported 3rd party plug-ins, and poorly understood niche embedded systems, are advising the scientists to wait for the more mature 1.0 release of the DNA API specification before implementing their own domain specific language on the platform.
The use of the word "cyber" is stupid in any computer-related context.
Fuck off idiot. I'm a Cyberneticist.
Why can't there be a headline that doesn't make me want to move to Sweden?
Julian Assange seeks refuge in Ecuador's embassy; Avoids extradition to Sweden on trumped up rape charges
Feel better now?
How are you going to compete when some guy in China can do your job for less than the US poverty level?
Trade Tariffs.
There once was an IDENTIFICATION SECTION
Preceding a formula that defied all reflection.
Using all the chem-lab's powers,
it ran longer than four hours,
To make pills that promoted erection!
You might like Libre Office.
How many people would download cracked versions of Microsoft Windows if Linux were free?
The "smart autofill" function is effectively magic; that wasn't added in until at least 2010. If you were hanging out on CS1 or CS2 that would be an easy incentive to upgrade.
Or just use GIMP, which already had that feature.
Magic? FYI: Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from FLOSS.
That's wrong terminology! Passwords are not Stolen!
Look, if you have a car and I steal that car then you don't have a car anymore.
If you have a password, and I get a copy of it, then you still have your password! We can both use the password, IT'S NOT STEALING.
It will be great if you enjoy strapping a computer to your back and wearing a big ass, heavy helmet with wires everywhere and two joysticks instead of gloves.
Oh and the graphics looked like something from the late 80s DOS PC era.
Yeah, fortunately for me, that's not what my VR Rig looks like.
Mine looks like sun glasses with ear-buds and they can hook up to my smart phone when on the go. Wearing them looks like watching a big 3D (70 inch or so) TV. The 90's came, and so did VR games like Exorex, Dactyl Nightmare, Descent, Quake, etc. The funny thing is that the old Descent game works great on my 3D TV (though I think that 3D TVs are a dead end -- If you need glasses for 3D then you can just put screens in them and take 'em with you). VR never died the first time around, it just wasn't widely adopted. Specialists and Hobbyists still use VR just like back in the 90's: In my last job before I became independent I did sound surveying for industrial noise abatement and I used to use my portable alternate reality glasses, and a custom smartphone app in factories to visualize the 3D sound samplings in real time safely, i.e., while the machines were turned off I could still "see" where the noise had been coming from (that the monitors had previously recorded and our software had turned into 3D volumetric data).
Occulus Rift? Meh, whatever. That'll stay niche if you ask me. Light-weight transparent OLED 3D 'sun glasses', w/ optional flip up light-shields for toggling between AR and VR are the future form factor of head mounted displays... A similar form factor already exists, and I play existing games like Quake 4 and Descent 2 with them all the time (I'm even experimenting with adding a VT101 terminal emulation to my game engine's 3D GUI so I can code in VR -- Imagine it, everywhere you look is screenspace -- API docs? Just turn your head, no need for a wall of screens). I still use VR headgear, but I stopped strapping my head into a bucket with screens a decade ago and I'm not going back. Those who like VR don't have to wait for this Project Holodeck. Also, Games? That's all they can think of to use VR with?
vortexcortex@hivemind:~/vr-vim/build/$ make hacker-movies-jealous
And 57% of respondents agree by 2053 we will be flying around the galaxy in faster-than-light spaceships. You know, like the Millennium Falcon. They saw it in a movie. And most of those believe Obama is a Secret Muslim Nigerian. What are we trying to prove here?
(emboldening, mine)
Correct me if I'm wrong, but it sounds like we're simply trying to prove the validity of a certain method of business...
Hello, I am the Nigerian President of the USA,
As you know, my countries are in turmoil, so I need your help to smuggle my Secrit Muslim inheritance of pressious diamounds from Nigeria into the USA to solve this dire $16.5 trillien nashonal debt problem.
Unfortunately, only the Millennium Falcon is capable of transporting these valuables through the Evil Galactic Umpire's diplomatic sanctions, and they will not accept my payment of carbonite crystels, which is all I have access to in my current situation.
Please, you must help me save my people from Finance Oil Wars so that we may and purchase safe passage from the NASA smugglers. I only need All Social Security Benefits more to pay the smugglers. Please do not forward this message to the police of The Repelican Party or we will surely be found and executed, and our people will suffer great deals. For your assistance with this trouble I am willing to wire transfer you Peece on Earth and Goodwill dollars once this matter is settled.
To help, please make arrangements for payment at this website.
Please also reply and include your bank account and routing number and your All Pursonal Online information so I can send you compensation for your good deeds.
I sincerely Thank You in advance for help in these troubling times.
Signed,
Obama Hussein Jong il Bin Laden III.
(I bet even you want to defend this right now, don't you?)
You lot the bet because I am a rationalist.
What was your wager, again?
Oh, well played... Well played indeed.
I only perceived a reality in which you had made a bet. You've not lost your slimy touch.
Well, at least he actually knows how to program. Take a look at the CEOs of HP, IBM, Oracle, Dell, SAP, Cisco, . . . etc.
Most of them probably can't even manage to program themselves out of a paper bag.
I'm working on the documentation for my game engine's (domain specific) entity interaction language. Thank you for your help in naming the example project that comes after the eponymous "Hello World". With a small change to the shape of the objects and the forces being applied from within rather than externally, the simplistic collision detection demo shall be dubbed "Paper Bag" so that we may finally have a definitive test with which to quantify the aforementioned skill level.
Real men just put OJ in their morning coffee
Close, but no cigar. A real man would eat Mr. Simpson for breakfast.
If you get him in your coffee, you're just being sloppy... or way too kinky for my tastes.
I, for one, was not 14 in 1998 - some of us remember the '70s
If you can remember the '70s, you weren't enjoying them nearly enough.
will people realize that a life that requires copious amounts of stimulants to maintain it, isn't really a life worth living.
The code monkey who likes both Tab & Mountain Dew, has also got you covered.
IMO, life is what you make of it. I may be shortening my lifespan by whipping myself into a caffeinated frenzy so that I can perform my 'day' job while also being an indie game dev 'by night' (those time cycles are actually reversed for me), and also having time left over for some semblance of social life; However, I know that when I look back at the years gone by, my confirmation bias will show me I wouldn't change a damn thing, not a one...
If you are going to do it for Chinese. :P
Remind me again, when are the French, German, and English new years?
Shouldn't your question be "should it be a federal holiday in the USA"? It is already in China.
The USA is already in China? Well damn, that was fast, sounds fine to me then. On the up side, I can feel prideful about the "Made in China" labels now.
So you'd settle for Windows 6.1 over Windows 6.2?
I know people hate Metro on their desktops, but is there a reason it's so despised on what is its intended device use: a touch screen device?
Outside of Metro, what's different between 8 and 7 (especially in tablet form)?
Windows 8 apps are "managed code". That's Balmeric for "Virtual Machine".
It's like the difference between Objective-C and C/C++, or C# and C/C++. Make your Win8 or iOS programs using the Apple or Microsoft tools respectively, they don't run anywhere else without significant changes. The main difference with Windows 8 is the "integrated vendor lock-in" system. This way MS can get a big slice of every program created for the platform, unlike with C or C++... This means either the software developer loses profits to MS, or the developer raises prices to compensate for MS's %30 cut. This means for the app devs to make the same money it'll cost you about $14.50 in the Win8 app store vs $10 on Win7. That's a lot of revenue for MS for not doing shit -- It doesn't costs MS $5.00 per download. It's also why they'll be thinking up new APIs for graphics, to make it harder to port between Android, Linux, iOS, OSX, and Windows. Currently I can just do: git pull && make and "port" the latest changes onto Win/Mac/Linux and make a new build there in my C/C++ or even Java. Can't really do that with C# or Obj-C. Yes, it's theoretically possible, but in practice it doesn't work well if at all.
Interestingly, this isn't really the case with Android Java vs PC Java, even though the API is different I just write a simple (platform / API) abstraction layer, and the rest of the Java code works the same on Android or Mac/Win/Linux PC.
TL;DR: MS can leverage vendor lock-in to make money by directly increasing the price of applications. I'm passing that dev cost gouge on to my customers.
This site is full of that, it sickens me.
Then leave you fool, or stop letting it bother you. IMO, Life's too short to be annoyed / pissed off all the time. Honestly I was just joking.
"Fuck 'em if they can't take a Joke"
I did mis-read the comment the 1st time through, and then just responded under that interpretation when I realized it could be taken both ways due to the run-on sentence; It wasn't clear which way was meant. No, really, if you're lexing that sentence as you go you don't realize it could be taken an alternate way until the "for free" part that comes later -- It wasn't a deliberate miss-read, it was the only way to read it, temporally.
P.S. Language Nerds existed well before Sheldon Cooper, as did exaggerators such as yourself. Being "sickened" about comments such as these this late in the game seems like a pointless endeavor... That's like being disgusted because gay-bars are full of queers, eh?
No problem. Even my cheap ASRock MOBO has dual firmware (read: unbrickable).
Don't buy hardware that can be bricked by flashing the BIOS.
Unfair statement; this was a situation where firmware came out later, and also almost all hardware (video cards, hard disks, network cards, motherboards, etc) has flashable firmware.
No you fool. It's not unfair. You're just ignorant, as in ignoring what he said. Hardware exists that can have a factory read only ROM, and a Flash-able ROM that you update. If a firmware update fails part way through or becomes corrupt the hardware can re-flash itself with the known good fallback copy of the original factory ROM firmware. The stuff like hard drives and video cards that have flashable firmware can be reflashed from another boot media. The onboard GPU can be used until you un-gork your graphics card firmware. Don't have onboard GPU as a fallback? Well, who's fault is that? Buy unbrickable hardware, it's really that simple. Sometimes it'll cost you more, sometimes A LOT more, but if you think it's worth it, then pay for it, we solved this issue. It's fair to make you pay more for the solution you want that most other folks don't actually need. Hardware that's out of warranty probably means the price is now about half of what it was when you bought it new -- Cost less to replace than the time to fix it or the difference between it and the dual firmware model -- Except MOBOs, it's a pretty standard feature there.
True. Except that it can be used to bypass secure boot: 1. Boot secure OS. 2. Hack it, get root. 3. Write hibernate image to the drive containing your hacked kernel, which includes disabling of the code to delete the image after use. 4. Trigger reboot. 5. Pwnage.
OK, I get where you're coming from, but you fail to see that Secure Boot and TPM are completely pointless endeavors, and they're FULL of holes because the OSes are FULL of holes. If there's a mistake in the kernel code that allows a root level exploit to happen then it can simply be re-exploited each time you boot your system, see? No need to mess with the boot-up files. Even if your CPU is running encrypted instructions of signed programs once you find some data that triggers a buffer overflow, you can simply use return oriented programming to build the exploit. This means your exploit is built out of "op codes" of data that jump from one existing piece of signed and encrypted code to another -- You don't even need to know what the code is that's executing, you just log the changes in state the locations perform, and these become your (complex) operations with which to build the exploit. This already exists, it's not hypothetical. Return Oriented Programming is made out of existing code, even if it's signed and encrypted. SecureBoot is pointless so long as kernels have mistakes that allow unexpected stack smashing, or heap function pointer overwriting. There doesn't seem to be any way to prevent the mistakes, since your human race tends to make mistakes. SecurityTheaterBoot is a more apt. name for it.
Ah, but if the kernels could be written correctly -- with no mistakes -- then there would be no exploit vectors to exploit, and thus absolutely no reason for Secure Boot to exist. It's pointless from a security perspective, it serves primarily to make it harder for users to install alternate OSs. That's all. SecureBoot should be considered harmful and avoided if possible.
It'd take some very impressive skill to do that - it isn't something you could just make a script-kiddie toolbox for.
NO, that's just wrong. Do you even know what you're talking about? Yes, it takes more skill than a script-kiddie currently has, but it just takes one skilled hacker to crack the system and add the exploit to an exploit tool kit then the script-kiddie toolbox would contain the impressive exploit.
What? Exploits aren't impressive anymore once they've been automated? Gimme a break man. This happens all the time, it's HOW script kiddies even exist. Ugh, sorry, but your words reek of ignorance -- It's like you don't even comprehend what your words imply (by your logic script kiddies wouldn't exist).
The only way to prevent this is for the kernel to use TPM hardware to sign the boot image. As this isn't yet an option, it's debated if Secure Boot linux should also disable hibernation, in order to be strictly compliant, even though it introduces much user annoyance to provide protection against an attack that would be near-impossible for even the best hacker to pull off.
"Only" -- That word shouldn't be used lightly, because it tries hard to make you a fool, every time. What if we put Linux in the BIOS firmware. The PC turns on and is running Linux. Firmware can check its hash / fingerprint matches the install image on boot, like it does already, (even CMOS checksums for integrity), without requiring anyone to be in bed with a flawed PKI model run by Microsoft. If we simply give users an option in the BIOS boot menu that says: "Enable OS install on next boot", and it would flash part of the firmware with the /boot/ data. That would be TONS simpler than entering a long hex code that they're going to fuck up, and to bypass this unencrypted method of booting securely would require entering BIOS and changing a setting (or cracking BIOS security) -- Which is exactly the same as with Secure boot.
If the OS w
my friends pay money for every little thing I download for free with my android phone. sucks to be them
So, are you saying it sucks to be rich or that you're just a sucky friend? I mean, if they're paying for all of your downloads they're not exactly "free"...
I'll bite.
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