Samsung was claiming this is a Linux problem. This needs to be shown to be either a problem with UEFI directly or Samsung's implementation.
The important thing here is that this bug may exist in other hardware with different thresholds. UEFI is just like BIOS in that the only difference between a Phoenix Bios on Dell and a Phoenix BIOS on Samsung is a couple minor changes because of hardware differences. By releasing the code into the wild they are FORCING the parties responsible to fix the problem or face a public relations nightmare of potentially thousands of bricked machines.
BIOS is incapable of handling boot storage larger than 3TB. Given the persistent increase in storage overtime and that Laptops right now are coming with 1TB, it's just a matter of a few years before BIOS can no longer be used without limiting storage to 3TB.
If you are conducting experiments that violate fundamental physics they will fail every single time. You can't beat the laws that govern the universe.
Do you honestly believe that this guy has discovered a fundamental principle of the universe that violates principles that have been known and tested for almost 400 years? EM emissions, Microwaves and EM generated thrust are some of the most studied areas of human knowledge. I wouldn't bet a penny that this guy has figured out anything but how to separate unsuspecting Chinese people from their money.
If EM emissions could generate thrust like he is suggesting your monitor would probably be flying around the room. Hell even if it was regulated to some specific frequency like microwaves you'd have to strap your microwave oven down or it move around every time you turned it on. Fighter jets have large microwave based radars in their nose cones, if that generated thrust you'd have a forward facing thrust which at the power levels he's claiming would probably be more powerfull than the jet engine powering the aircraft.
Water, Gas and Power meters are required to be required to be accurate by federal law. These laws included the establishment of agencies like Underwrites Labratory to certify power meters.
You know all those laws and regulations your parents enacted to prevent people from cheating and keep the system as fair as possible, that certain people today think should go away because all government regulation is bad. Where the reality is they are trying to propagandize people who aren't smart enough to realize what they are suggesting is going to result in the wholesale ripping off of the poor and middle class just like it did before these laws were enacted.
Mod Parent up. The man writing under the pen name of George Orwell was a socialist. He was also a freedom kind of guy and today would be classified among europe's mainstream parties that believe in social democracy.
The book Animal Farm is a analogy to what he experienced working with Stalin's agents in the Spanish Revolution. He was cautioning that Stalin's brand of communism wasn't socialism, it was totalitarianism dressed of as socialism. His experience in Spain convinced him that Stalin and his form of communism was pure evil and he wrote two very famous books (under the pen name George Orwell) to warn the world about what Stalin was and where he would lead us. He also spent quite a bit of time trying to implement social democracy in England under his real name.
The system IS setup to favor claimants as you say but it also has an equally favorable counter-notice system that allows the material to go right back up and afterwards a court ordered injunction is needed to remove the material AND the service provider is immune from legal action.
The counter-notice can be made just as quickly as the original notice and if the noticee is on their toes the material would be inaccessible for only the time it takes for the hosting company to take down then reinstate the material.
I'm surprised this confusion still exists, the counter-notice puts the matter firmly back in the jurisdiction of the court system at only the cost of revealing the noticee's personal information so a lawsuit can proceed.
Functional information with no creative element is specifically excluded from copyright. It would seem that these files compose only functional information and have little or no creative composition and would therefore would be unable to be copyrighted.
Your attempt to traffic in human beings has been noted, the authors clever deal with law enforcement has allowed law enforcement to track your attempt to sell your son and the proper authorities will be by shortly.
You act as if the Navy learned nothing from that. They learned plenty, operational plans changed, engagement tactics have changed and how to react to small vessels has changed.
As has been pointed many times on Slashdot, the Navy's plan for Iran is to sit outside the gulf in the Arabian sea where those small vessels can't reach. They then use air-power to wipe out all those vessels, docks and marinas that could be used before they move any ship back into the gulf.
Everyone likes to run around and say the Navy is a bunch of idiots and they ignored the problem by refloating the group and restarting the war game. The point is that what they could learn from those tactics had been learned and that there wouldn't have been value in continuing the war game on the same rules or declaring the games over while they were spending the money on the games. In other words they learned what they could then continued to learn more about different things. Now there are morons on the DOD that want to build Littoral combat ships but from what I understand they are in the extreme minority. Most of the Navy's leadership understands that the value in a navy is in the carrier grouping and it's air power, not the combat vessels. The future of the navy is to dramatically scale down the number of personal on board with automation and potentially even bring about carriers that carry massive numbers of drones along with carrier groupings armed with rail guns and other offensive weapons that allow even further stand off power.
We have non renewable energy sources that can only be replenished by supernova. I was not arguing that we don't have energy that doesn't come from the sun, only that all energy (and matter) comes from a star, whether current or past.
If you want to play word games your welcome to do it alone. Renewable energy is renewable on any timeframe that matters to human beings. As I said, if you are going to talk in time scales that rely on the heat death of the universe or the demise of the sun your argument isn't rational and neither are you.
If you are so concerned about the heat death of the universe maybe it's time to end the suspense and move your journey forward.
The Sun and planets of the solar system are comprised of the material from a supernova (at least as I understand current theory) that existed in this location long before the Sun you see every day was born.
A solar fusion reaction stops at Iron, it's not possible to fuse elements heavier than iron inside a star. They only way for heavier elements to form is during a supernova where the excess energy from the nova and compression wave it creates is sufficient to fuse the heavier elements. As the saying goes, the only way for Uranium to exist is by it's creation at the center of a supernova.
Everything you see every day was once at the heart of a star.
The US government can ban all travel by US citizens to Antigua. They can make it a criminal offense for an american citizen to spend money or provide money to the nation. They can bar all US financial groups from doing business with the island.
Enacting any of these measures would immediately halt all US tourism in Antigua. This tourism is 90+% of the economy. I'm sure the WTO would allow Antigua to retaliate with equal sanctions to almost no effect to the US but the complete destruction of the Antiguan economy.
They are playing with fire and anyone that suggests it's a good idea is a moron. But make no mistake, the lawyer that convinced them to take this path has already extracted his pound of flesh in the form of millions of dollars. In the end it will end just like the Sanford affair, an american will make off with millions of dollars of Antiguan money and the average Antigua citizen will suffer.
Antigua is being taken for a ride just like they were by Stanford. They are following the stupid advice of this lawyer and paying him millions and in then end it's going to do nothing but cost them more.
Out here in the real world it doesn't matter than the WTO allowed this. The fact is that the US can take sovereign action against Antigua even if it violates WTO rules. Antigua only recourse is another WTO hearing and sanction at which point the US enacts more measures.
In the end Antigua will suffer more than they can inflict damage. It would be trivial for the US to bar all US citizens from spending money in Antigua and overnight their economy would collapse as nearly 90% of their tourism is from Americans.
They are being taken in by another Sanford and he'll make millions and sell them down the river.
We blame civil engineers if their buildings collapse under normal use. We do not blamed them if someone plants a bomb in the building. More actually, we don't blame the architect if someone successfully breaks into your home.
If you are going to use an analogy use the right one. A computer security equivalent in relationship to a building wouldn't be the architect or engineer, it would be the company hired to provide security for the building such as the alarm or security company. And if there was a break-in at a building you most certainly would be blaming the company responsible for that security. Why computer security professionals aren't held to the same standard is beyond me.
If your job is to provide security for a building, a computer or an outhouse and that security is breached you should be held responsible and more importantly if that security is breached and it isn't discovered until a later date there should be even more accountability.
The top three owners of ZTE are all members of the PLA. All three are high ranking officers. One of them is also believed to be a high ranking member of the Chinese equivalent of the CIA.
These men claim that their PLA association is past history and not relevant but they are all still ranking officers in the PLA. Maybe just maybe their ownership is related to the corruption of the PLA and communist party in general and that there is no real connection. The problem is that even if there is no involvement now, the PLA could direct intervention and backdoored firmwares.
I'd be surprised at any government stupid enough to put in place telecom equipment from a company owned by the military of a sovereign nation. You're probably at risk with any non native produced equipment BUT that risk goes up enormously if that foreign company is owned not only by the government of a foreign nation but the military of that nation.
Day to day, week to week and month to month stock manipulation does not hurt the long term investor (unless they are are margin). It generally only hurts the day traders and people treating the stock market like a gambling den.
This kind of manipulation is a flash in the pan that at the longest lasts until the next quarterly report. Long term investors aren't buying and selling in that time frame. If you are the little guy buying and selling on those time frames you're a fucking idiot.
Oh they charge government much more than that and it's not just the FBI, it's NSA and DOD as well. What do you think that huge data center in Utah is for other than to scrape all the Facebook data and compile it along with all the commercial info they can buy and their secure data and mine it for "trouble".
It's not just the pads. It's the steroids. Weights and muscle mass have gone up dramatically since the 70's. Today's wide receivers are the same size and muscle mass of the past defensive line men. We're engineering players that are so strong they can do stuff like tear their own hamstrings when starting to run. There is no doubt the pads make players hit harder and take bigger risks but the muscle factor cannot be discounted.
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Samsung was claiming this is a Linux problem. This needs to be shown to be either a problem with UEFI directly or Samsung's implementation.
The important thing here is that this bug may exist in other hardware with different thresholds. UEFI is just like BIOS in that the only difference between a Phoenix Bios on Dell and a Phoenix BIOS on Samsung is a couple minor changes because of hardware differences. By releasing the code into the wild they are FORCING the parties responsible to fix the problem or face a public relations nightmare of potentially thousands of bricked machines.
BIOS is incapable of handling boot storage larger than 3TB. Given the persistent increase in storage overtime and that Laptops right now are coming with 1TB, it's just a matter of a few years before BIOS can no longer be used without limiting storage to 3TB.
If you are conducting experiments that violate fundamental physics they will fail every single time. You can't beat the laws that govern the universe.
Do you honestly believe that this guy has discovered a fundamental principle of the universe that violates principles that have been known and tested for almost 400 years? EM emissions, Microwaves and EM generated thrust are some of the most studied areas of human knowledge. I wouldn't bet a penny that this guy has figured out anything but how to separate unsuspecting Chinese people from their money.
If EM emissions could generate thrust like he is suggesting your monitor would probably be flying around the room. Hell even if it was regulated to some specific frequency like microwaves you'd have to strap your microwave oven down or it move around every time you turned it on. Fighter jets have large microwave based radars in their nose cones, if that generated thrust you'd have a forward facing thrust which at the power levels he's claiming would probably be more powerfull than the jet engine powering the aircraft.
Now do you understand how silly it is?
Water, Gas and Power meters are required to be required to be accurate by federal law. These laws included the establishment of agencies like Underwrites Labratory to certify power meters.
You know all those laws and regulations your parents enacted to prevent people from cheating and keep the system as fair as possible, that certain people today think should go away because all government regulation is bad. Where the reality is they are trying to propagandize people who aren't smart enough to realize what they are suggesting is going to result in the wholesale ripping off of the poor and middle class just like it did before these laws were enacted.
My personal experience was postgrey alone knocked out 99% of spam as the spam sender never retries regardless of error message type.
Mod Parent up. The man writing under the pen name of George Orwell was a socialist. He was also a freedom kind of guy and today would be classified among europe's mainstream parties that believe in social democracy.
The book Animal Farm is a analogy to what he experienced working with Stalin's agents in the Spanish Revolution. He was cautioning that Stalin's brand of communism wasn't socialism, it was totalitarianism dressed of as socialism. His experience in Spain convinced him that Stalin and his form of communism was pure evil and he wrote two very famous books (under the pen name George Orwell) to warn the world about what Stalin was and where he would lead us. He also spent quite a bit of time trying to implement social democracy in England under his real name.
There is very little of it in my water supply. Mostly chlorine, salt, arsenic and various other chemicals you see in the rocky mountains.
The system IS setup to favor claimants as you say but it also has an equally favorable counter-notice system that allows the material to go right back up and afterwards a court ordered injunction is needed to remove the material AND the service provider is immune from legal action.
The counter-notice can be made just as quickly as the original notice and if the noticee is on their toes the material would be inaccessible for only the time it takes for the hosting company to take down then reinstate the material.
I'm surprised this confusion still exists, the counter-notice puts the matter firmly back in the jurisdiction of the court system at only the cost of revealing the noticee's personal information so a lawsuit can proceed.
Functional information with no creative element is specifically excluded from copyright. It would seem that these files compose only functional information and have little or no creative composition and would therefore would be unable to be copyrighted.
Your attempt to traffic in human beings has been noted, the authors clever deal with law enforcement has allowed law enforcement to track your attempt to sell your son and the proper authorities will be by shortly.
You act as if the Navy learned nothing from that. They learned plenty, operational plans changed, engagement tactics have changed and how to react to small vessels has changed.
As has been pointed many times on Slashdot, the Navy's plan for Iran is to sit outside the gulf in the Arabian sea where those small vessels can't reach. They then use air-power to wipe out all those vessels, docks and marinas that could be used before they move any ship back into the gulf.
Everyone likes to run around and say the Navy is a bunch of idiots and they ignored the problem by refloating the group and restarting the war game. The point is that what they could learn from those tactics had been learned and that there wouldn't have been value in continuing the war game on the same rules or declaring the games over while they were spending the money on the games. In other words they learned what they could then continued to learn more about different things. Now there are morons on the DOD that want to build Littoral combat ships but from what I understand they are in the extreme minority. Most of the Navy's leadership understands that the value in a navy is in the carrier grouping and it's air power, not the combat vessels. The future of the navy is to dramatically scale down the number of personal on board with automation and potentially even bring about carriers that carry massive numbers of drones along with carrier groupings armed with rail guns and other offensive weapons that allow even further stand off power.
We have non renewable energy sources that can only be replenished by supernova. I was not arguing that we don't have energy that doesn't come from the sun, only that all energy (and matter) comes from a star, whether current or past.
If you want to play word games your welcome to do it alone. Renewable energy is renewable on any timeframe that matters to human beings. As I said, if you are going to talk in time scales that rely on the heat death of the universe or the demise of the sun your argument isn't rational and neither are you.
If you are so concerned about the heat death of the universe maybe it's time to end the suspense and move your journey forward.
Heat death of the universe? If that's your argument against renewable energy you aren't very rational.
The Sun and planets of the solar system are comprised of the material from a supernova (at least as I understand current theory) that existed in this location long before the Sun you see every day was born.
A solar fusion reaction stops at Iron, it's not possible to fuse elements heavier than iron inside a star. They only way for heavier elements to form is during a supernova where the excess energy from the nova and compression wave it creates is sufficient to fuse the heavier elements. As the saying goes, the only way for Uranium to exist is by it's creation at the center of a supernova.
Everything you see every day was once at the heart of a star.
All that nuclear material was created from a supernova. Everything on this planet is made from star dust.
The US government can ban all travel by US citizens to Antigua. They can make it a criminal offense for an american citizen to spend money or provide money to the nation. They can bar all US financial groups from doing business with the island.
Enacting any of these measures would immediately halt all US tourism in Antigua. This tourism is 90+% of the economy. I'm sure the WTO would allow Antigua to retaliate with equal sanctions to almost no effect to the US but the complete destruction of the Antiguan economy.
They are playing with fire and anyone that suggests it's a good idea is a moron. But make no mistake, the lawyer that convinced them to take this path has already extracted his pound of flesh in the form of millions of dollars. In the end it will end just like the Sanford affair, an american will make off with millions of dollars of Antiguan money and the average Antigua citizen will suffer.
Antigua is being taken for a ride just like they were by Stanford. They are following the stupid advice of this lawyer and paying him millions and in then end it's going to do nothing but cost them more.
Out here in the real world it doesn't matter than the WTO allowed this. The fact is that the US can take sovereign action against Antigua even if it violates WTO rules. Antigua only recourse is another WTO hearing and sanction at which point the US enacts more measures.
In the end Antigua will suffer more than they can inflict damage. It would be trivial for the US to bar all US citizens from spending money in Antigua and overnight their economy would collapse as nearly 90% of their tourism is from Americans.
They are being taken in by another Sanford and he'll make millions and sell them down the river.
Nice list. Saddam used to be number 4 on that list in 91.
If you are going to use an analogy use the right one. A computer security equivalent in relationship to a building wouldn't be the architect or engineer, it would be the company hired to provide security for the building such as the alarm or security company. And if there was a break-in at a building you most certainly would be blaming the company responsible for that security. Why computer security professionals aren't held to the same standard is beyond me.
If your job is to provide security for a building, a computer or an outhouse and that security is breached you should be held responsible and more importantly if that security is breached and it isn't discovered until a later date there should be even more accountability.
The top three owners of ZTE are all members of the PLA. All three are high ranking officers. One of them is also believed to be a high ranking member of the Chinese equivalent of the CIA.
These men claim that their PLA association is past history and not relevant but they are all still ranking officers in the PLA. Maybe just maybe their ownership is related to the corruption of the PLA and communist party in general and that there is no real connection. The problem is that even if there is no involvement now, the PLA could direct intervention and backdoored firmwares.
I'd be surprised at any government stupid enough to put in place telecom equipment from a company owned by the military of a sovereign nation. You're probably at risk with any non native produced equipment BUT that risk goes up enormously if that foreign company is owned not only by the government of a foreign nation but the military of that nation.
Quite simply because the entertainment division makes less than 1% of the revenue of Windows and Office. Would you get rid of $99 to keep a dollar?
Day to day, week to week and month to month stock manipulation does not hurt the long term investor (unless they are are margin). It generally only hurts the day traders and people treating the stock market like a gambling den.
This kind of manipulation is a flash in the pan that at the longest lasts until the next quarterly report. Long term investors aren't buying and selling in that time frame. If you are the little guy buying and selling on those time frames you're a fucking idiot.
Oh they charge government much more than that and it's not just the FBI, it's NSA and DOD as well. What do you think that huge data center in Utah is for other than to scrape all the Facebook data and compile it along with all the commercial info they can buy and their secure data and mine it for "trouble".
It's not just the pads. It's the steroids. Weights and muscle mass have gone up dramatically since the 70's. Today's wide receivers are the same size and muscle mass of the past defensive line men. We're engineering players that are so strong they can do stuff like tear their own hamstrings when starting to run. There is no doubt the pads make players hit harder and take bigger risks but the muscle factor cannot be discounted.