Yeah, I think you guys are doing a great job, sort of what IBM tried to do 15 years ago with their 4758, but failed due to hardware constraints (you had to run some funky embedded OS with equally funky IBM-specific development tools). The one thing that'd be nice to have is what someone suggested in a previous thread, a fibre-optic link that can be used to lock it into a physical location, so an attacker can't steal it and attack it at their leisure.
You forgot one important distinction: ORWL is a ready-to-ship pretty secure computer with a small amount of black-box parts. EOMA68 is a non-secure gedanken experiment with quite a bit of black-box parts if you try and actually implement it.
It's actually some way removed from what's built into POS terminals. Terminals have to be as cheap as possible and the vendors cut corners at every opportunity (what's certified is often not what's shipped). You can defeat the physical security of many POS terminals using a few items you can pick up at your local hardware store. The ORWL is another matter entirely.
Yes. If the loop is cut it doesn't go into shutdown, it goes into brick. You can't remove the device from its environment to attack it at your leisure.
I think I know which industry you work in:-). Yeah, those are a pretty neat safety feature, cut the fibre and the device it's attached to turns into a brick. So if you want to attack it, you have to perform the attack in-place.
I've seen an appreciable number of cases where perhaps 75% of the code for something is either okay or actually pretty nice, but there are also really shitty chunks that appear to have been written by people under the influence of a random assortment of hard drugs sprinkled across the whole codebase.
See my other comment, the Arm environment more or less drives that, you've got 75% that's common and the remaining 25% is semi-documented special-snowflake crap that you have to reverse-engineer from partial docs in order to get it to work.
It's not just the code, it's the hardware environment as a whole. Every single freaking ARM SoC is a custom special-snowflake device with its own special-case add-on IP cores, Chinese-menu instruction set (we'll do this extension, and that one, but not that one over there, and the config register read that tells you whether it's available is privileged to it'll trigger an exception if you try and read it), undocumented memory-mapped crap, or a 1,000-page manual with partial documentation which in any case changes completely if you order an XYZb rather than an XYZa even though it's the same family from the same manufacturer. Just the perfect environment for vendor lock-in, but terrible for devs.
They should just take Paint.NET, rename it Paint for Windows 10, and be done with it. And as you point out, adding a 3D option to a piece of crap is about as useful as filming a crap movie in 3D. Or, as one t-shirt pointed out, "if you can't make it good, make it 3D".
It's more of a nothing thing at the moment, this freely-available source code doesn't seem to be available anywhere. I was curious to see what the code was like, but it's not available anywhere I can see...
"Ahead-of-time compilation"? That's like "compilation" isn't it, the thing that's been used to build code since 1952?
Oracle announces more than half-century old technology as new feature of Java! Press ecstatic! Slashdot reports! And then the next day reports the same thing again! And then a third time just to be sure!
It was largely those "plugins" (addons) which caused Mozilla to struggle so much with improving Firefox
The plugins are about the only reason to keep using Firefox. If it wasn't for those, we might as well use Chrome, which Firefox practically is anyway except for the plugins.
$name, Mozilla's director of $whatever, today announced a new policy of $random. "We have no idea what to do any more with our product so we're announcing a new policy of $random, which we will pursue until $current_time + delta at which point we'll abandon it and leave users hanging". Mozilla creative director $other_name added "We ran out of ideas in 2012 so this is just another attempt to copy Chrome. This position is quite a good job really, I haven't had a single creative thought for four years but I can maintain my position by mimicking whatever Google does and still get paid!". The markets responded through Firefox's market share dropping another 3 percentage points, now rating below WebWombat 2.0 for the Amiga".
It's worse than that, China will burn more coal to power the smog-recycling towers, at an efficiency level way below 1 for removing the stuff, so they'll lead to more pollution, not less.
I pretty much put D-Link on my permanent never-buy blacklist after having to play with a DSL-502. Dear ghod, how can you cram so much fail into such a small box?
Anything is better than eBay's Global Shipping Program:
PitneyBowes: About a week to get to Erlanger, Kentucky (often the opposite direction to where it's supposed to be going), then a week or so there, often with re-packing by semi-trained gorillas armed with sledgehammers, then it falls into a black hole with no tracking or accountability for 1-3 weeks after which it may or may not turn up, but since there's no tracking there's no way to find out. Cost is max( Fedex, USPS, DHL, UPS ) cost + 50%.
If you were to design a pathological bad shipping system, you couldn't do much worse than eBay's GSP/Pitney Bowes.
Of course, this makes discrimination easier and more prevalent. But in many countries discrimination is legal. For instance, many job ads in China will specify "Han only" to make it clear that they don't want to hire any Tibetans, Hui, Uighurs, etc.
And definitely not Greedo. That tricky bastard always tries to shoot first.
It's not so bad, fully 50% of the users were actually FBI agents pretending to be 14-year-old girls. The remaining 99.999% were guys pretending to be teenage girls. The one genuine girl on the site has said she's not too fussed since she didn't use it that much anyway, it was too full of FBI agents and guys.
... we've now had what, about 1,000 stories about Apples fscking headphone jack, isn't it about time to give it a rest? This is getting worse then Bennett Haselton.
NASA were not confident they knew where it would land (even with full control),
It's Australia, apart from a few isolated dots along the coast, what are you going to hit? Russia had the scorched earth policy, Australia just has the scorched earth.
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Yeah, I think you guys are doing a great job, sort of what IBM tried to do 15 years ago with their 4758, but failed due to hardware constraints (you had to run some funky embedded OS with equally funky IBM-specific development tools). The one thing that'd be nice to have is what someone suggested in a previous thread, a fibre-optic link that can be used to lock it into a physical location, so an attacker can't steal it and attack it at their leisure.
You forgot one important distinction: ORWL is a ready-to-ship pretty secure computer with a small amount of black-box parts. EOMA68 is a non-secure gedanken experiment with quite a bit of black-box parts if you try and actually implement it.
It's actually some way removed from what's built into POS terminals. Terminals have to be as cheap as possible and the vendors cut corners at every opportunity (what's certified is often not what's shipped). You can defeat the physical security of many POS terminals using a few items you can pick up at your local hardware store. The ORWL is another matter entirely.
Yes. If the loop is cut it doesn't go into shutdown, it goes into brick. You can't remove the device from its environment to attack it at your leisure.
I think I know which industry you work in :-). Yeah, those are a pretty neat safety feature, cut the fibre and the device it's attached to turns into a brick. So if you want to attack it, you have to perform the attack in-place.
I've seen an appreciable number of cases where perhaps 75% of the code for something is either okay or actually pretty nice, but there are also really shitty chunks that appear to have been written by people under the influence of a random assortment of hard drugs sprinkled across the whole codebase.
See my other comment, the Arm environment more or less drives that, you've got 75% that's common and the remaining 25% is semi-documented special-snowflake crap that you have to reverse-engineer from partial docs in order to get it to work.
It's not just the code, it's the hardware environment as a whole. Every single freaking ARM SoC is a custom special-snowflake device with its own special-case add-on IP cores, Chinese-menu instruction set (we'll do this extension, and that one, but not that one over there, and the config register read that tells you whether it's available is privileged to it'll trigger an exception if you try and read it), undocumented memory-mapped crap, or a 1,000-page manual with partial documentation which in any case changes completely if you order an XYZb rather than an XYZa even though it's the same family from the same manufacturer. Just the perfect environment for vendor lock-in, but terrible for devs.
They should just take Paint.NET, rename it Paint for Windows 10, and be done with it. And as you point out, adding a 3D option to a piece of crap is about as useful as filming a crap movie in 3D. Or, as one t-shirt pointed out, "if you can't make it good, make it 3D".
It's not something hairy, it's just a dark humanoid figure. Like some random hiker in a parka, for example.
I saw a sign at San Francisco International Airport that specifically said Galaxy Note 7 phones were banned from all flights.
Maybe they need to rename it the Samsung Galaxy M67.
It's more of a nothing thing at the moment, this freely-available source code doesn't seem to be available anywhere. I was curious to see what the code was like, but it's not available anywhere I can see...
"Ahead-of-time compilation"? That's like "compilation" isn't it, the thing that's been used to build code since 1952?
Oracle announces more than half-century old technology as new feature of Java! Press ecstatic! Slashdot reports! And then the next day reports the same thing again! And then a third time just to be sure!
It was largely those "plugins" (addons) which caused Mozilla to struggle so much with improving Firefox
The plugins are about the only reason to keep using Firefox. If it wasn't for those, we might as well use Chrome, which Firefox practically is anyway except for the plugins.
The only reason to stay on Firefox is that it's addons are better. Whatever your need, there's an addon for that.
Can't seem to find KillAsaDotzler.xpi for some reason, can you send me a link to it?
Abstract version of every Firefox story every:
$name, Mozilla's director of $whatever, today announced a new policy of $random. "We have no idea what to do any more with our product so we're announcing a new policy of $random, which we will pursue until $current_time + delta at which point we'll abandon it and leave users hanging". Mozilla creative director $other_name added "We ran out of ideas in 2012 so this is just another attempt to copy Chrome. This position is quite a good job really, I haven't had a single creative thought for four years but I can maintain my position by mimicking whatever Google does and still get paid!". The markets responded through Firefox's market share dropping another 3 percentage points, now rating below WebWombat 2.0 for the Amiga".
It's worse than that, China will burn more coal to power the smog-recycling towers, at an efficiency level way below 1 for removing the stuff, so they'll lead to more pollution, not less.
I pretty much put D-Link on my permanent never-buy blacklist after having to play with a DSL-502. Dear ghod, how can you cram so much fail into such a small box?
For faster internet
And great justice!
Anything is better than eBay's Global Shipping Program:
PitneyBowes: About a week to get to Erlanger, Kentucky (often the opposite direction to where it's supposed to be going), then a week or so there, often with re-packing by semi-trained gorillas armed with sledgehammers, then it falls into a black hole with no tracking or accountability for 1-3 weeks after which it may or may not turn up, but since there's no tracking there's no way to find out. Cost is max( Fedex, USPS, DHL, UPS ) cost + 50%.
If you were to design a pathological bad shipping system, you couldn't do much worse than eBay's GSP/Pitney Bowes.
Of course, this makes discrimination easier and more prevalent. But in many countries discrimination is legal. For instance, many job ads in China will specify "Han only" to make it clear that they don't want to hire any Tibetans, Hui, Uighurs, etc.
And definitely not Greedo. That tricky bastard always tries to shoot first.
It's not so bad, fully 50% of the users were actually FBI agents pretending to be 14-year-old girls. The remaining 99.999% were guys pretending to be teenage girls. The one genuine girl on the site has said she's not too fussed since she didn't use it that much anyway, it was too full of FBI agents and guys.
Also:
So what will be the impact of this? Will we see cheaper, lower-power encryption devices? Or maybe quicker cracking times in brute force attacks?
No.
And that's not just applying Betteridge's Law. The answer really is "no", even if someone manages to turn it into a simple algorithmic implementation.
... we've now had what, about 1,000 stories about Apples fscking headphone jack, isn't it about time to give it a rest? This is getting worse then Bennett Haselton.
Hey, cosmic radiation is right here on page 27 of the BOFH excuse calendar. Today's it's day.
NASA were not confident they knew where it would land (even with full control),
It's Australia, apart from a few isolated dots along the coast, what are you going to hit? Russia had the scorched earth policy, Australia just has the scorched earth.