matousec's "argument-switch" attack is fairly reliable
"Fairly reliable" sounds an awful lot like "unreliable" when it comes to avoiding detection. After all, the offending code only has to be detected once before it can be quarantined/deleted/whatever. This also only seems to affect "on execute" scanning, and if it's not being executed, then good luck swapping the code.
He might not be special, but there's really no way to prevent tunneling short of blocking all potential addresses and protocols, which is pretty much all of them in either case. So there's really no way. Hell, I've used www-over-email. Is that an administrative oversight too?
...by having chronic offenders see the "Photo enforcement zone" sign on the side of the road, lock up all four wheels to slow down in time for the van a quarter mile away, and then speed right back up again as soon as they're past the van, secure in the knowledge that there won't be another van for several miles.
I can't speak to these speed camera vans, but one of the favorite games of cops around here (and elsewhere) is to set up a second speed trap 1-2 miles past the first.
One Memorial Day weekend in Maryland, I witnessed speed traps set up every few miles along the entire length of Route 50. (Rt 50 has the only bridge across the Chesapeake Bay north of Norfolk, IIRC, and hence is the shortest route to the beach for anyone in the D.C. area.) I'm not sure how they actually managed to catch anyone, since traffic was flowing well below the speed limit in most sections, but there wasn't a single trap with fewer than three cars stopped.
The difference is pretty much just linguistic. Fur refers to the structure on animals, while hair refers to the same structure on people (and sometimes animals). They're both made of keratin, and while the structure does differ, it differs just as much (or little) between any two non-human species as it does between humans and any other mammalian species.
Well it really depends on the keyboard. Bluetooth keyboards tend to draw less power (and have a longer range) than some other proprietary protocols, in my experience anyway.
At any rate, you should definitely be using NiMH batteries, not NiCd. They have about double the capacity on average (~1400mAh vs ~700mAh for AAs), and they have a much flatter voltage curve, which means you get more useful life in all respects.
Oh, I've heard that one before. He says "In the Army, they teach us to wash our hands," then YOU say, "Well in the Marines, they teach us not to shit on our hands." Then, from one of the stalls, someone shouts "Zing!"
You might be able to simulate it, but the real advance is that Intel developed high-k (very low leakage) transistors. A transistor that's "OFF" still has some amount of leakage current, thus power consumption and heat emission. In "older" transistors (and thus older processors), that leakage current was significant, at least when multiplied over millions of transistors. So even if you deactivate cores on the fly, you won't see nearly the power savings because your deactivated cores are still consuming a significant portion of your power (or thermal) budget. Likewise, if you were to overclock on the fly, you still wouldn't be able to achieve nearly the performance gains (not to mention that overclocking in the CPU by changing the clock multiplier is usually preferable to merely increasing the clock speed, which is the typical method these days).
The $75M cap is only effective if the company was not negligent and was in compliance with all regulations -- something that hasn't yet been established -- and if the "Three Felonies A Day" advocates are right, it shouldn't be hard to find *some* regulation with which they weren't in compliance.
When microsoft tried to stall compliance with Eu's decision, Eu started fining them 500,000 Euros a day. Suddenly microsoft managed to come up with a compliance plan that was implementable in acceptable time.
Well, yeah... It's not that they *suddenly* found a way to do it; it's that it wasn't economical. But the economics change when there are significant penalties involved with inaction. You can hire a lot of very skilled programmers for far less than $500k/day.
I'm actually NOT okay with businesses compiling huge databases of information about me or others, making the whole argument moot. I also think people who willingly post and/or allow untrusted parties to view sensitive information via social networking sites (including photos, friend lists, etc.) are idiots.
Sounds like your boot files or boot block got mangled, possibly by the installation of a boot manager. It's fairly straightforward to fix using the installation media.
Yeah, ok. I'll see your cross-platform MP3 virus with an attack vector that only works when copying files from a Windows machine, and raise you an FSM, two pink unicorns, and a hot chick married to an old man for love.
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matousec's "argument-switch" attack is fairly reliable
"Fairly reliable" sounds an awful lot like "unreliable" when it comes to avoiding detection. After all, the offending code only has to be detected once before it can be quarantined/deleted/whatever. This also only seems to affect "on execute" scanning, and if it's not being executed, then good luck swapping the code.
ZING!
He might not be special, but there's really no way to prevent tunneling short of blocking all potential addresses and protocols, which is pretty much all of them in either case. So there's really no way. Hell, I've used www-over-email. Is that an administrative oversight too?
Blowing is a horribly inefficient way to clean cartridges.
That's why you suck.
...by having chronic offenders see the "Photo enforcement zone" sign on the side of the road, lock up all four wheels to slow down in time for the van a quarter mile away, and then speed right back up again as soon as they're past the van, secure in the knowledge that there won't be another van for several miles.
I can't speak to these speed camera vans, but one of the favorite games of cops around here (and elsewhere) is to set up a second speed trap 1-2 miles past the first.
One Memorial Day weekend in Maryland, I witnessed speed traps set up every few miles along the entire length of Route 50. (Rt 50 has the only bridge across the Chesapeake Bay north of Norfolk, IIRC, and hence is the shortest route to the beach for anyone in the D.C. area.) I'm not sure how they actually managed to catch anyone, since traffic was flowing well below the speed limit in most sections, but there wasn't a single trap with fewer than three cars stopped.
Doubtful.
The difference is pretty much just linguistic. Fur refers to the structure on animals, while hair refers to the same structure on people (and sometimes animals). They're both made of keratin, and while the structure does differ, it differs just as much (or little) between any two non-human species as it does between humans and any other mammalian species.
http://www.wisegeek.com/what-is-the-difference-between-hair-and-fur.htm
Except then I'd be allergic to the ocean you inconsiderate clod.
Well it really depends on the keyboard. Bluetooth keyboards tend to draw less power (and have a longer range) than some other proprietary protocols, in my experience anyway.
At any rate, you should definitely be using NiMH batteries, not NiCd. They have about double the capacity on average (~1400mAh vs ~700mAh for AAs), and they have a much flatter voltage curve, which means you get more useful life in all respects.
Oh, I've heard that one before. He says "In the Army, they teach us to wash our hands," then YOU say, "Well in the Marines, they teach us not to shit on our hands." Then, from one of the stalls, someone shouts "Zing!"
Such an awkward phrase... if only we had a single word for it.
You might be able to simulate it, but the real advance is that Intel developed high-k (very low leakage) transistors. A transistor that's "OFF" still has some amount of leakage current, thus power consumption and heat emission. In "older" transistors (and thus older processors), that leakage current was significant, at least when multiplied over millions of transistors. So even if you deactivate cores on the fly, you won't see nearly the power savings because your deactivated cores are still consuming a significant portion of your power (or thermal) budget. Likewise, if you were to overclock on the fly, you still wouldn't be able to achieve nearly the performance gains (not to mention that overclocking in the CPU by changing the clock multiplier is usually preferable to merely increasing the clock speed, which is the typical method these days).
Some more info is available here:
http://www.intel.com/technology/silicon/high-k.htm
http://download.intel.com/design/processor/applnots/320354.pdf?iid=tech_tb+paper (White Paper, PDF).
The $75M cap is only effective if the company was not negligent and was in compliance with all regulations -- something that hasn't yet been established -- and if the "Three Felonies A Day" advocates are right, it shouldn't be hard to find *some* regulation with which they weren't in compliance.
To be fair, he identifies himself as a Republican (right wing), so that's not a particularly good example.
That's the Iranians' dark secret: They are developing new salad technology.
Salad shooters?
HERETIC!
When microsoft tried to stall compliance with Eu's decision, Eu started fining them 500,000 Euros a day. Suddenly microsoft managed to come up with a compliance plan that was implementable in acceptable time.
Well, yeah... It's not that they *suddenly* found a way to do it; it's that it wasn't economical. But the economics change when there are significant penalties involved with inaction. You can hire a lot of very skilled programmers for far less than $500k/day.
If nanodots are anything like Dippin' Dots, they sound delicious.
I'm actually NOT okay with businesses compiling huge databases of information about me or others, making the whole argument moot. I also think people who willingly post and/or allow untrusted parties to view sensitive information via social networking sites (including photos, friend lists, etc.) are idiots.
Sounds like your boot files or boot block got mangled, possibly by the installation of a boot manager. It's fairly straightforward to fix using the installation media.
Techniques that push chips from 2d into 3d will be the next useful improvement. But after that point we have run out of easy options.
Just keep adding more dimensions... Duh.
Depends on your definition of "unmodified." Providing an EFI bootloader isn't modifying the OS IMO, and certainly no more than running it in a VM.
Mac is the hardware
No, Mac is the label they put on industry standard hardware after placing it in a shiny case.
Yeah, ok. I'll see your cross-platform MP3 virus with an attack vector that only works when copying files from a Windows machine, and raise you an FSM, two pink unicorns, and a hot chick married to an old man for love.
For fuck's sake, Steve, it's my goddamn hardware and I want Flash on it. Stop cock blocking.