Have clones been produced even without the hardware design source files?
Certainly. Clones can be made at any level of the hardware. The boards can be reverse engineered, entire chips can be cloned at various levels of the design. Portions of a chip that perform a certain feature can be clones, let's say a media decoder or an encryption function. Those blocks of logic are licensed out and pretty expensive, so they have watermarks and fingerprinting codes hidden within their circuits. A company can save millions by copying chunks of IP without paying the designers of it. The tricks is not getting caught.
It's a fascinating game of cat and mouse on the hardware side, there are ways to prevent people using parts or all of your hardware but it adds overhead and complexity. Both sides have a trade off on how much it's worth making or breaking protections based on projected sales and how much it costs to add or defeat a protection.
For an open source hardware project they'd probably just use a watermark and not even bother with fingerprinting individual chips, leaving it wide open to being copied. They don't have a budget for many security techniques.
Mine was previously: password As 8 characters was considered safe back in the day. Now 20-30 is the standard so I've just upped it to: passwordpasswordpasswordpassword Should last me the next decade or so.
(Note: it's perfectly safe to post this as nobody knows my email address)
They should pull a Google Books on the DVD industry and rip all those rental discs. Heck Google didn't need author permission, they can even argue an accessibility exemption as they add captions to everything. Say they're doing deaf and blind a favor by captioning and descriptive audio'ing historical content. If they're lucky they won't even have to write a check to anyone.
It seems to be based on their version of the big.little ARM chip concept. It's technically a 4 core processor but only 2 are active at a time. Previously they used Fusion to mean a magnetic HD along with SSD cache built in. Their OS applies to term to any set of spinning disk and SSD that you combine into one virtual disk.
So unless there's some other reason for it, it appears to be their marketing term for "slow and fast working together".
Whatever happened to those laser mosquito zappers? They were coming real soon at least as far back as 2009. The inventors claimed it was easy to do with off the shelf components and aimed at $100 mass produced devices. There were all those cool slow motion videos of mosquitos shot down in flight. Nothing ever came of it... I'd happily pay $200 or more for a working system. There's a real need for such products, maybe a DIY version could be invented and people could build their own open source control systems for them. Malaria was bad enough, now with Zika all over the news I can't understand why these guys aren't swimming in cash.
Yeah, but Tesla will never lose a lawsuit from someone who jury rigs a clamp to get around safety features. This puts the negligence squarely on the driver.
I wish Apple cared about sites like this. Have you seen their Mac hardware and pro software lately? Ignoring their technical and pro users is the #1 complaint against Apple these days.
iOS users diss android for the same reasons Mac users diss Windows. A failure to understand different criteria for choosing computers. Apple doesn't need to pay people to argue online.
You can actually do all that yourself now with their App Store app on your iPhone. They'll let you walk right out without even checking your bag. Someone keeps an eye on the door and they know when you pay with the app. Can ask for a bag if you want. Pretty slick, hope more stores do that in the future.
I saw it free. T-Mobile gave away I don't know how many free tickets to Suicide Squad. But basically every American subscriber just had to use their Tuesday benefit and there you had it. Wonder how little faith the studio had in it to give away potentially millions of free opening day tickets. Talk about shameless promotion.
I never realized until now that poor people have always had less sex than the middle class. Strangely, I've never gotten that impression before. It's almost like poor boys can't find poor girls to date or something?
True money helps with courtship but this article is about sex not marriage. The idea that poor people have less sex is new to me, it seems contrary to.. Well... The traditional breeding habits of the poorer countries of the world.
Emoji are a system defined font basically. Apple, Google and Microsoft among others do not define the code numbers and meanings, but they do create the images and set a style for the appearance on their systems.
This means everyone you text that does not have iOS 10 still sees a pistol.
It means some foolish Apple user is going to send a water gun emoji to someone maybe saying "Let's take the kids to the park" and some non-Apple user is going to call the cops.
I can't wait to see how this communication breaking move has a real world effect. (Hopefully nobody gets shot or swatted)
Haven't seen it mentioned yet. Another reason to learn assembly (why I am right now) is for debugging closed source apps to earn bug bounties.
You have a few different groups of apps to target, with different rewards and challenges. Web apps, open source apps, closed source programs. Looking for bug bounties, the first pays less and there's tons of people looking for the same bugs. The second group is usually not going to pay unless you're looking at the Linux kernel or a specific server. You can use many source code analysis tools on these. The closed source apps are where the real money is at. Browser escapes, media player RCE, OS exploits, you'll need assembly skills to debug these and see what's going on internally. This is where you find $100,000 bug bounties.
This reminds me of how they will randomly take anyone other than the main character and change them into a __________. Of course the real message is that a _______ doesn't belong in the main characters role.
Fly a drone onto a ship with a GPS jammer. Flip the coordinates around so that it thinks it's going to New York but is really going to Jamaica. The whole time it's transmitting the fake coordinates back to the control office where they think it's on schedule. By the time they realize it's not there, it's already been unloaded and the goods moved on.
Nice wide trackpad allowing you to keep your hand on it's side instead of getting carpal tunnel from angling it in the center to avoid the edges... yeah I'm really missing out.;-)
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Certainly. Clones can be made at any level of the hardware. The boards can be reverse engineered, entire chips can be cloned at various levels of the design. Portions of a chip that perform a certain feature can be clones, let's say a media decoder or an encryption function. Those blocks of logic are licensed out and pretty expensive, so they have watermarks and fingerprinting codes hidden within their circuits. A company can save millions by copying chunks of IP without paying the designers of it. The tricks is not getting caught.
It's a fascinating game of cat and mouse on the hardware side, there are ways to prevent people using parts or all of your hardware but it adds overhead and complexity. Both sides have a trade off on how much it's worth making or breaking protections based on projected sales and how much it costs to add or defeat a protection.
For an open source hardware project they'd probably just use a watermark and not even bother with fingerprinting individual chips, leaving it wide open to being copied. They don't have a budget for many security techniques.
Mine was previously:
password
As 8 characters was considered safe back in the day. Now 20-30 is the standard so I've just upped it to:
passwordpasswordpasswordpassword
Should last me the next decade or so.
(Note: it's perfectly safe to post this as nobody knows my email address)
I'm sorry, it's too easy. I just can't.
X-D
They should pull a Google Books on the DVD industry and rip all those rental discs. Heck Google didn't need author permission, they can even argue an accessibility exemption as they add captions to everything. Say they're doing deaf and blind a favor by captioning and descriptive audio'ing historical content. If they're lucky they won't even have to write a check to anyone.
So it just wears skirts on casual Fridays but pants and a tie the rest of the workweek?
Yeah well, it's trans THAT too!
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I wonder who would stand to benefit from an Internet black out during the US presidential election?
It seems to be based on their version of the big.little ARM chip concept. It's technically a 4 core processor but only 2 are active at a time. Previously they used Fusion to mean a magnetic HD along with SSD cache built in. Their OS applies to term to any set of spinning disk and SSD that you combine into one virtual disk.
So unless there's some other reason for it, it appears to be their marketing term for "slow and fast working together".
It's the G in Alphabet. So it's in the list.
Whatever happened to those laser mosquito zappers? They were coming real soon at least as far back as 2009. The inventors claimed it was easy to do with off the shelf components and aimed at $100 mass produced devices. There were all those cool slow motion videos of mosquitos shot down in flight. Nothing ever came of it... I'd happily pay $200 or more for a working system. There's a real need for such products, maybe a DIY version could be invented and people could build their own open source control systems for them. Malaria was bad enough, now with Zika all over the news I can't understand why these guys aren't swimming in cash.
Yeah, but Tesla will never lose a lawsuit from someone who jury rigs a clamp to get around safety features. This puts the negligence squarely on the driver.
I wish Apple cared about sites like this. Have you seen their Mac hardware and pro software lately? Ignoring their technical and pro users is the #1 complaint against Apple these days.
iOS users diss android for the same reasons Mac users diss Windows. A failure to understand different criteria for choosing computers. Apple doesn't need to pay people to argue online.
Never read your post. Still haven't. That could explain this.
You can actually do all that yourself now with their App Store app on your iPhone. They'll let you walk right out without even checking your bag. Someone keeps an eye on the door and they know when you pay with the app. Can ask for a bag if you want. Pretty slick, hope more stores do that in the future.
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One hopes they would patch local binaries for exploits they've discovered.
I saw it free. T-Mobile gave away I don't know how many free tickets to Suicide Squad. But basically every American subscriber just had to use their Tuesday benefit and there you had it. Wonder how little faith the studio had in it to give away potentially millions of free opening day tickets. Talk about shameless promotion.
I never realized until now that poor people have always had less sex than the middle class. Strangely, I've never gotten that impression before. It's almost like poor boys can't find poor girls to date or something?
True money helps with courtship but this article is about sex not marriage. The idea that poor people have less sex is new to me, it seems contrary to.. Well... The traditional breeding habits of the poorer countries of the world.
Emoji are a system defined font basically. Apple, Google and Microsoft among others do not define the code numbers and meanings, but they do create the images and set a style for the appearance on their systems.
This means everyone you text that does not have iOS 10 still sees a pistol.
It means some foolish Apple user is going to send a water gun emoji to someone maybe saying "Let's take the kids to the park" and some non-Apple user is going to call the cops.
I can't wait to see how this communication breaking move has a real world effect.
(Hopefully nobody gets shot or swatted)
Haven't seen it mentioned yet. Another reason to learn assembly (why I am right now) is for debugging closed source apps to earn bug bounties.
You have a few different groups of apps to target, with different rewards and challenges.
Web apps, open source apps, closed source programs.
Looking for bug bounties, the first pays less and there's tons of people looking for the same bugs. The second group is usually not going to pay unless you're looking at the Linux kernel or a specific server. You can use many source code analysis tools on these. The closed source apps are where the real money is at. Browser escapes, media player RCE, OS exploits, you'll need assembly skills to debug these and see what's going on internally. This is where you find $100,000 bug bounties.
This reminds me of how they will randomly take anyone other than the main character and change them into a __________. Of course the real message is that a _______ doesn't belong in the main characters role.
Sneak a tape recorder into the interview. Get them to admit to age discrimination.... Never have this problem again. Worth a shot.
Fly a drone onto a ship with a GPS jammer. Flip the coordinates around so that it thinks it's going to New York but is really going to Jamaica. The whole time it's transmitting the fake coordinates back to the control office where they think it's on schedule. By the time they realize it's not there, it's already been unloaded and the goods moved on.
Nice wide trackpad allowing you to keep your hand on it's side instead of getting carpal tunnel from angling it in the center to avoid the edges... yeah I'm really missing out. ;-)