whenever a taxpayer funded operation is, ahem, railroaded into poor planing, cost overruns and all the other excessive wastage. Burn that fucker to the ground and walk away from it. It's not worth another cent.
I bought eero since I was excited to fix my hard-to-cable apartment problems. They advertised on their front page "never reboot your router again!".
When I got them they failed to work well, and cabling the back-haul led to even worse performance. When you log into the support system, the first suggestion is "reboot your eero".
Great work, guys. So I returned it and got Plume and it kicks way more arse.
FWIW, eero doesn't say any more that you'll never reboot your router again, but it's still the first item in the trouble shooting guide. I'm not sure I've ever had to reboot any Plume nodes.
It needs a reference to the errata from the vendor. Future revisions may need to tweak code flow and understand exactly what this is trying to achieve.
ie. nobody cares unless it's going up. If there was a decent trading volume when it was stable, that would be an excellent thing for bitcoin. That's not what's been going on.
So it is impossible to simply inform the user that the device has been tampered with?
If you read my original post in this thread, I'm specifically asking for proposals how to do that. In all my security work I don't know how to do this. You seem to know it can be done, so please, do share. Or go out there and build a better product and make mint. I'd love for someone to demonstrate how it can be done, but proof by assertion isn't.
The whole security model of the T2 chip prevents it. You can't get your data or authenticate your password without the chip. Users are guaranteed to notice if you mess with it. If you fail over to "working with some detail", you can use the working side of it to hack around the detail.
I'd have no problem with something like a boot warning of unauthorized repairs, but prohibiting owners from fixing their own fucking equipment stinks.
Do you have a proposal for how to separate these two? What's to stop a malicious change from masking this boot warning?
The security point of the T2 chip is well documented by Apple. The conspiracy theories are the same for the iPhone, though.
Bottom line: You can't make a secure system if you allow random modifications. The tiny market share of people who are going to tweak their devices isn't worth forsaking real security for everyone else.
"Someone With an iMac, iPhone, iPad AND WIRED HEADPHONES Might Soon Need Three Different Headphone Adapters"
You're almost there... they have to have wired headphones, and want to attach them with a wire. There's plenty of wire to bluetooth converters out there. That's one converter to keep the same headphones.
Perhaps people are adopting what works for them, and leaving the garbage to the side?
If there's a persistent reluctance to adopt the whole thing, it's probably not because the missing pieces are making their lives easier and the projects better.
Are you talking about burst performance or sustained performance? Single threaded or multi-threaded? Is the workload saturating the CPU(s) or does it include idle time?
The performance would be EVEN better if you did a lot of things. Building a laptop is all about compromise. The author has no clue about what that takes and just assumes everything can always be "better".
Perhaps laptop vendors think it's a better idea to put in a throttled fast processor than a full-speed slower processor.
Throwing a hissy-fit over a single datapoint without any realistic discussion of what the options are is, as I said, drivel.
Worth noting this guy doesn't compare the performance of the different generations of laptops. He's just assuming any form of throttling must be a step backwards. You couldn't possibly have a company like Intel trying to over-spec the parts they sell.
Also missing, a discussion of how large a battery you need in your laptop to run at 60 Watts for however long the guy wants his battery to last for. Not to mention, compensating for heat dissipation and the size of the heat sinks you need.
If you need performance, you need a desktop. It's simple physics.
i guess pretty soon every kiddy fiddler and other person who is into indecent assault will be working for the TSA, paid for by the US government. Great work.
Given that Ethereum has had a centralized hard-fork and bitcoin has had a mining pool over 50% control, your faith in those coins seems very misplaced...
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whenever a taxpayer funded operation is, ahem, railroaded into poor planing, cost overruns and all the other excessive wastage. Burn that fucker to the ground and walk away from it. It's not worth another cent.
I bought eero since I was excited to fix my hard-to-cable apartment problems. They advertised on their front page "never reboot your router again!".
When I got them they failed to work well, and cabling the back-haul led to even worse performance. When you log into the support system, the first suggestion is "reboot your eero".
Great work, guys. So I returned it and got Plume and it kicks way more arse.
FWIW, eero doesn't say any more that you'll never reboot your router again, but it's still the first item in the trouble shooting guide. I'm not sure I've ever had to reboot any Plume nodes.
It needs a reference to the errata from the vendor. Future revisions may need to tweak code flow and understand exactly what this is trying to achieve.
These aren't lies.
Low trading volume in the stable period means a lack of interest in anything except the speculation:
https://data.bitcoinity.org/ma...
That's not healthy for any security.
I read this as "dull" referring to, very little trading volume:
https://data.bitcoinity.org/ma...
ie. nobody cares unless it's going up. If there was a decent trading volume when it was stable, that would be an excellent thing for bitcoin. That's not what's been going on.
... wake me up when they charge the telcos for every robocall they don't filter. That will make a change.
I think you're confusing the smartest users with the users that claim they're the smartest. The smartest users understand it just fine.
Does it though? Other than Apple's marketing what do you know about how the T2 chip works that satisfies you of this?
Have you read the security guidelines for the T2?
https://www.apple.com/mac/docs...
So it is impossible to simply inform the user that the device has been tampered with?
If you read my original post in this thread, I'm specifically asking for proposals how to do that. In all my security work I don't know how to do this. You seem to know it can be done, so please, do share. Or go out there and build a better product and make mint. I'd love for someone to demonstrate how it can be done, but proof by assertion isn't.
The whole security model of the T2 chip prevents it. You can't get your data or authenticate your password without the chip. Users are guaranteed to notice if you mess with it. If you fail over to "working with some detail", you can use the working side of it to hack around the detail.
I'd have no problem with something like a boot warning of unauthorized repairs, but prohibiting owners from fixing their own fucking equipment stinks.
Do you have a proposal for how to separate these two? What's to stop a malicious change from masking this boot warning? The security point of the T2 chip is well documented by Apple. The conspiracy theories are the same for the iPhone, though. Bottom line: You can't make a secure system if you allow random modifications. The tiny market share of people who are going to tweak their devices isn't worth forsaking real security for everyone else.
If you really like your phone the way it is and are worried about slow downs, don't update. It's that simple.
More features == more bloat == slower than the previous software on the same hardware. This has been true since the dawn of computing.
Like really, how exactly is this a legit question?
... or have I just been asleep at the wheel while it changed slowly?
This kind of BS seems like the norm nowadays. Yawn.
"Someone With an iMac, iPhone, iPad AND WIRED HEADPHONES Might Soon Need Three Different Headphone Adapters"
You're almost there... they have to have wired headphones, and want to attach them with a wire. There's plenty of wire to bluetooth converters out there. That's one converter to keep the same headphones.
Perhaps people are adopting what works for them, and leaving the garbage to the side?
If there's a persistent reluctance to adopt the whole thing, it's probably not because the missing pieces are making their lives easier and the projects better.
You saw this coming but have no idea of the history behind microcode patches?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
The microcode feature is there to help you, not enslave you. Silicon is forever. Patching it on your desktop after the fact is a god-send.
Learn some history before you claim to have predicted the future.
It's good to know that servers, ATMs, IoT devices are all immune from security exploits because they don't have web browsers on them. Phew!
Are you talking about burst performance or sustained performance? Single threaded or multi-threaded? Is the workload saturating the CPU(s) or does it include idle time?
This can't be boiled down to a single number.
The performance would be EVEN better if you did a lot of things. Building a laptop is all about compromise. The author has no clue about what that takes and just assumes everything can always be "better".
Perhaps laptop vendors think it's a better idea to put in a throttled fast processor than a full-speed slower processor.
Throwing a hissy-fit over a single datapoint without any realistic discussion of what the options are is, as I said, drivel.
Worth noting this guy doesn't compare the performance of the different generations of laptops. He's just assuming any form of throttling must be a step backwards. You couldn't possibly have a company like Intel trying to over-spec the parts they sell.
Also missing, a discussion of how large a battery you need in your laptop to run at 60 Watts for however long the guy wants his battery to last for. Not to mention, compensating for heat dissipation and the size of the heat sinks you need.
If you need performance, you need a desktop. It's simple physics.
I'd lol if people asked him to step down
i guess pretty soon every kiddy fiddler and other person who is into indecent assault will be working for the TSA, paid for by the US government. Great work.
Seriously, a hack at a betting company? What are the odds?!
Given that Ethereum has had a centralized hard-fork and bitcoin has had a mining pool over 50% control, your faith in those coins seems very misplaced...
https://www.coindesk.com/ether...
https://arstechnica.com/inform...
That'd be a catchy new name for Apple's first foray into the ad business!