Little known fact. A raid by the U.S. Secret Service has revealed that this Facebook project was coordinated by Steve Jackson Games with documents camouflaged as rules for a card game named Illuminati. Pass phrase "Orbital Mind Control Lasers".
"The Internet doesn't need an encyclopaedia, it is an encyclopaedia. What it needs, is a decent index."
WP is a shit idea done shittily.
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"Encyclopedia" is to "Wikipedia" what "Library" is to "Some people at a bus stop"
The Internet is nothing like an encyclopedia!
The Internet is indexed - that's the function that search engines provide. Personally, I'd say they're "decent" but not great. (I want searches with parentheses and more operators.)
Wikipedia is a great idea. With less than perfect implementation. A lot of people get a lot of value from it. If it were really that bad, we'd see stronger competitors.
Little known fact - Netflix's entire Internet costs would be $100 per month if NN were in force!
Yeah, NN would require that an ISP charge the same rate for a 4 Mbit service or a 100 Mbit service. And, NN also meant that an ISP couldn't buy more upstream bandwidth if their customer base quadrupled.
You're either a troll or an idiot. Likely both.
NN was in force for years. Did Netflix pay $100 per month during that time? Of course not, because you are full of crap.
The single biggest reason I was happy for the repeal of the imposed NN rules was that there was hardly any big pipe infrastructure being constructed since that time because there was little to no incentive to build since you could not charge larger users more than lesser users.
Little known fact - Netflix's entire Internet costs would be $100 per month if NN were in force!
Yeah, NN would require that an ISP charge the same rate for a 4 Mbit service or a 100 Mbit service. And, NN also meant that an ISP couldn't buy more upstream bandwidth if their customer base quadrupled.
Try finding sub-reddits for topics you care about. They generally have much better content and commentary than the default or most popular subs.
... Reddit though feels much more useful on specific topics and hell I don't even have a reddit account, but a lot of times if I am looking up a subject or troubleshooting something I usually will click on reddit posts that come up in search first because usually comments are more useful, at least more useful than anything I ever saw on facebook.
This. Or, "these" rather.
I never read or browse reddit directly. However, for some topics I find that tossing the word "reddit" into a web search will more quickly lead to useful results.
Capitalism. And a government that has been bought and paid for by those big ass corporations.
You realize that those two things are diametrically opposed? I mean, you admit that one of the problems is the government. Government interference in a market is a socialism thing.
No, not just socialism. Any form of government is going to have something to say about how markets work and what is or is not allowed.
The topic wasn't government influence in a market so much as it was about corporations writing the rules. That's either corporatism aka facism or that's corruption - which is possible in socialism, democracy, or any other form of government.
No. Just no. Absolutely not. Because “being held acccountable for what you post” in some countries means jail time or torture. [... ] I prefer to stay anonymous, thanks.
You didn't post with your real name, but you didn't post as AC either.
Depends on what you mean by "accountable". Reputation systems can work with pseudo anonymity.
I liked how Dark Matter handled this better, where they created a clone at the destination while you were cryogenically stored at the origin, then if the clone made it back to the transmitter without dying you would get all of the memories of what happened.
In the novel the process is more common-place than it seems to be in Dark Matter. Also, IIRC, the novel was set entirely on earth. So, it wasn't about travel; it was about an extra "you" that could get more work done or be sent into danger. And, the original person wasn't put into hibernation while the clone was active.
This is the contorted, tortured logic by desperate believers of the Church of Global Warming to explain away record cold temperatures and winters which contradict their global warming religion. [...]
In what way are record cold temperatures in some particular spot incompatible with an increase in the planet-wide average temperature? An *average* says nothing about the highs and lows of the individual numbers!
Heck, even for a single location, you could have new records for both highs and lows and still see their yearly average go either up or down.
Your argument isn't just a logical fail, it's bad elementary school math - congratulations on making the worst argument seen in a while!
Although we have a good faith belief in our analysis and believe it to be objective and unbiased, you are advised that we may have, either directly or indirectly, an economic interest in the performance of the securities of the companies whose products are the subject of our reports.
So while these exploits might be real, they just straight up fess to being shady as shit. This is some blackballing level of unethical behavior. They literally hit and run AMD for profit. Whoever these engineers are, this whole episode should be the end of any future career they might have had and it just stops short of what I would think would constitute an outright FTC investigation.
Twenty-four hour notice and then posting publicly the exploits isn't research, that's a willful attack.
The exploits are reported as serious by a few independent researchers who seem to have been given extra info, but do require that you have *already* powned the target.
Definitely a money grab by CTS Labs. (I'll make a guess that Viceroy are dupes and are not intentionally doing something worth a visit from the SEC...)
TFS Summarized: It's a cool company!! Ppl are investing! If it works, it's gonna be big! Real big, I tell ya.
Sadly, the "if" part is almost a direct quote.
Seriously, editors, would it have killed you translate/shrink this to: Startup promises metal printing 100X faster for 1/10 the printer price and 1/20th the materials price ?
Paying the ransom or using Tomahawk is a very expensive solution. Why not buy a $200K hardware and crack the RSA-2048 private key used for the encryption?
They say ten days to decrypt? I imagine the encryption took multiple days too. They should have had a good chance at finding a machine where it was still running.
The most recent linux ransomware I've seen was the so-called "motd virus" that used a simplistic python script to do AES-128 encryption with a 512 bit key. That's symmetric. With it running for days as an ordinary process, you can probably spot it and get a core image. It would only take a fraction of a day to try every set of contiguous 512 bits from that image as a key.
Of course, backups are better. But, if they're not using asymmetric encryption and if you can get a process image or an OS image, you can probably search for the key. On a similar note, for wannacry on Windows they found the prime numbers related to the key in memory even after the encryption process was complete.
If you're airborne... and if there's no issues with a need for traffic control, the routes are going to be point to point and without any delays. Perhaps mostly between office buildings and apartments and other multi-person destinations.
Why go with the complexity, maintenance requirements, dangers, and expenses of helicopter technology? I'm guessing a relatively slower lighter than air craft would meet the needs too. Not that I think either is going to happen very soon...
Allowing QoS under network neutrality, requires the government to micromanage exactly what is and isn't QoS. Can you say 'regulatory capture'? It's inevitable and bad.
No. Net neutrality can be more about source addresses and less about type of traffic. There's little need to regulate how an ISP prioritizes VOIP versus streaming video versus e-mail. There *is* a customer interest in whether the ISP is allowed to prioritize Netflix versus YouTube versus their own content.
You realize that the real Comcast vs Netflix battle was about paying for colo space in Comcast's racks. Everybody involved knew that a hog like a big streaming service needs servers at big ISPs. Netflix wanted the space for FREE. Comcast wanted to know what made Netflix so special? Netflix spun that as 'wanting to charge us for fast service to our customers'.
Nope. The *service* doesn't need caching; it will work just fine w/o caching given a big enough pipe.:-) Efficiency needs the cache. Caching means both that the ISP can use a smaller pipe to the backbone and that Netflix can use a smaller pipe to their ISP. Thus colo caching benefits both the service provider and the ISP. Seems like they should share costs.
IIRC, Netflix wanted to pay for the HW in exchange for the colo space (including power and cooling costs). I dunno if that was very even or not, but it's not obviously ridiculous and I imagine that negotiations are possible. Allegedly, Comcast didn't want the CDN colo on any terms because they wanted to extort Netflix to pay for the privilege of having packets flow between Netflix's ISP and Comcast.
"remotely operated robots" are NOT robots any more than one of those remotely controlled model airplanes is a robot.
Real robots are programmed to control themselves and do NOT require a human to operate them.
Read some of the works by Isaac Asimov for an education.
Didn't read the TFA, but I have to guess this is a form of "fly by wire" where, for example, you might tell the robot where to go but not how to dodge obstacles. In other words, somewhere between a fully manually controlled RC plane and a scifi robot.
The need is pretty clear: Processing of data that needs to be secure against the cloud-provider. That this is very likely infeasible [...] a malicious hypervisor could just run on entirely different hardware and simulate all the protection features [... ]
Right - there's a need for secure remote computing.
But, remote security in general is a different topic than discussing VMs on hostile hypervisors. If you don't trust the people who control the hypervisor, any discussion of vectors of access to the VMs is academic. Because there *will* be ways - both software and hardware (for example, dual ported memory and ICE).
So, the TFA seems to be fluff and FUD in attacking the lack of a pointless feature.
Any solutions for secure remote computing probably need to involve a hosting setup where you have full control over the hardware, not a VM on hardware controlled by the site.
We show how a malicious hypervisor can force the guest...
So, having access to the physical hardware means game over? Gee, what a surprise. Preventing one VM from accessing or affecting another is useful. Offhand, I can't imagine much of a need to preventing a hypervisor from accessing the VMs that it controls...
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Little known fact. A raid by the U.S. Secret Service has revealed that this Facebook project was coordinated by Steve Jackson Games with documents camouflaged as rules for a card game named Illuminati. Pass phrase "Orbital Mind Control Lasers".
"The Internet doesn't need an encyclopaedia, it is an encyclopaedia. What it needs, is a decent index."
WP is a shit idea done shittily.
--
"Encyclopedia" is to "Wikipedia" what "Library" is to "Some people at a bus stop"
The Internet is nothing like an encyclopedia!
The Internet is indexed - that's the function that search engines provide. Personally, I'd say they're "decent" but not great. (I want searches with parentheses and more operators.)
Wikipedia is a great idea. With less than perfect implementation. A lot of people get a lot of value from it. If it were really that bad, we'd see stronger competitors.
Eg Ndisasm
There are also a few tools that try to convert to high level languages:
Snowman
REC Decompiler
Little known fact - Netflix's entire Internet costs would be $100 per month if NN were in force!
Yeah, NN would require that an ISP charge the same rate for a 4 Mbit service or a 100 Mbit service. And, NN also meant that an ISP couldn't buy more upstream bandwidth if their customer base quadrupled.
You're either a troll or an idiot. Likely both.
NN was in force for years. Did Netflix pay $100 per month during that time? Of course not, because you are full of crap.
What? They don't have sarcasm on your planet?
Little known fact - Netflix's entire Internet costs would be $100 per month if NN were in force!
I'm surprised you posted this under your username. Most people who spout obviously false garbage on slashdot are savvy enough to do so as ACs.
Yeah, NN would require that an ISP charge the same rate for a 4 Mbit service or a 100 Mbit service.
That's not only wrong, it's also incredibly stupid. Seriously, you have no idea what you're talking about.
You're either a troll or an idiot. Likely both.
Oh, the irony.
What? They don't have sarcasm on your planet?
The single biggest reason I was happy for the repeal of the imposed NN rules was that there was hardly any big pipe infrastructure being constructed since that time because there was little to no incentive to build since you could not charge larger users more than lesser users.
Little known fact - Netflix's entire Internet costs would be $100 per month if NN were in force!
Yeah, NN would require that an ISP charge the same rate for a 4 Mbit service or a 100 Mbit service. And, NN also meant that an ISP couldn't buy more upstream bandwidth if their customer base quadrupled.
You're either a troll or an idiot. Likely both.
Try finding sub-reddits for topics you care about. They generally have much better content and commentary than the default or most popular subs.
... Reddit though feels much more useful on specific topics and hell I don't even have a reddit account, but a lot of times if I am looking up a subject or troubleshooting something I usually will click on reddit posts that come up in search first because usually comments are more useful, at least more useful than anything I ever saw on facebook.
This. Or, "these" rather.
I never read or browse reddit directly. However, for some topics I find that tossing the word "reddit" into a web search will more quickly lead to useful results.
I should have said crony capitalism; that's closer to what the OP was complaining of than fascism is.
Capitalism. And a government that has been bought and paid for by those big ass corporations.
You realize that those two things are diametrically opposed? I mean, you admit that one of the problems is the government. Government interference in a market is a socialism thing.
No, not just socialism. Any form of government is going to have something to say about how markets work and what is or is not allowed.
The topic wasn't government influence in a market so much as it was about corporations writing the rules. That's either corporatism aka facism or that's corruption - which is possible in socialism, democracy, or any other form of government.
JaredOfEuropa writes:
No. Just no. Absolutely not. Because “being held acccountable for what you post” in some countries means jail time or torture. [ ... ] I prefer to stay anonymous, thanks.
You didn't post with your real name, but you didn't post as AC either.
Depends on what you mean by "accountable". Reputation systems can work with pseudo anonymity.
I liked how Dark Matter handled this better, where they created a clone at the destination while you were cryogenically stored at the origin, then if the clone made it back to the transmitter without dying you would get all of the memories of what happened.
David Brin wrote a novel named Kiln People in 2002 exploring that idea - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
In the novel the process is more common-place than it seems to be in Dark Matter. Also, IIRC, the novel was set entirely on earth. So, it wasn't about travel; it was about an extra "you" that could get more work done or be sent into danger. And, the original person wasn't put into hibernation while the clone was active.
This can't be slashdot - TFS is way too well written
This is the contorted, tortured logic by desperate believers of the Church of Global Warming to explain away record cold temperatures and winters which contradict their global warming religion. [...]
In what way are record cold temperatures in some particular spot incompatible with an increase in the planet-wide average temperature? An *average* says nothing about the highs and lows of the individual numbers!
Heck, even for a single location, you could have new records for both highs and lows and still see their yearly average go either up or down.
Your argument isn't just a logical fail, it's bad elementary school math - congratulations on making the worst argument seen in a while!
More heat (= more energy) in the atmosphere means that we get more extreme weather.
This.
A rise of one or two or even three degrees? Our instinct or gut might tell us, "doesn't sound like much".
But, think about how much energy it takes to raise the average temperature of something as big as an entire planet.
TFS says
Retailers estimate 11% of their sales are returned
More than one out of every ten sales are returned? That's not correct.
And, why would they need to *estimate* ?
They literally spell it out on their disclaimer page.
Although we have a good faith belief in our analysis and believe it to be objective and unbiased, you are advised that we may have, either directly or indirectly, an economic interest in the performance of the securities of the companies whose products are the subject of our reports.
So while these exploits might be real, they just straight up fess to being shady as shit. This is some blackballing level of unethical behavior. They literally hit and run AMD for profit. Whoever these engineers are, this whole episode should be the end of any future career they might have had and it just stops short of what I would think would constitute an outright FTC investigation.
Twenty-four hour notice and then posting publicly the exploits isn't research, that's a willful attack.
The exploits are reported as serious by a few independent researchers who seem to have been given extra info, but do require that you have *already* powned the target.
And, somehow a short-seller named Viceroy saw fit to put out a report advising people to short AMD stock because they claimed to believe that this flaw would drive AMD to bankruptcy!
Definitely a money grab by CTS Labs. (I'll make a guess that Viceroy are dupes and are not intentionally doing something worth a visit from the SEC...)
Rephrased - The title was fine, the summary was a waste of space.
TFS Summarized: It's a cool company!! Ppl are investing! If it works, it's gonna be big! Real big, I tell ya.
Sadly, the "if" part is almost a direct quote.
Seriously, editors, would it have killed you translate/shrink this to: Startup promises metal printing 100X faster for 1/10 the printer price and 1/20th the materials price ?
Paying the ransom or using Tomahawk is a very expensive solution. Why not buy a $200K hardware and crack the RSA-2048 private key used for the encryption?
They say ten days to decrypt? I imagine the encryption took multiple days too. They should have had a good chance at finding a machine where it was still running.
The most recent linux ransomware I've seen was the so-called "motd virus" that used a simplistic python script to do AES-128 encryption with a 512 bit key. That's symmetric. With it running for days as an ordinary process, you can probably spot it and get a core image. It would only take a fraction of a day to try every set of contiguous 512 bits from that image as a key.
Of course, backups are better. But, if they're not using asymmetric encryption and if you can get a process image or an OS image, you can probably search for the key. On a similar note, for wannacry on Windows they found the prime numbers related to the key in memory even after the encryption process was complete.
New boom with disaster to whoever is left holding the last "coin".
No boom today. Boom tomorrow. There's always a boom tomorrow.
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No BS; is B5
If you're airborne ... and if there's no issues with a need for traffic control, the routes are going to be point to point and without any delays. Perhaps mostly between office buildings and apartments and other multi-person destinations.
Why go with the complexity, maintenance requirements, dangers, and expenses of helicopter technology? I'm guessing a relatively slower lighter than air craft would meet the needs too. Not that I think either is going to happen very soon...
Allowing QoS under network neutrality, requires the government to micromanage exactly what is and isn't QoS. Can you say 'regulatory capture'? It's inevitable and bad.
No. Net neutrality can be more about source addresses and less about type of traffic. There's little need to regulate how an ISP prioritizes VOIP versus streaming video versus e-mail. There *is* a customer interest in whether the ISP is allowed to prioritize Netflix versus YouTube versus their own content.
You realize that the real Comcast vs Netflix battle was about paying for colo space in Comcast's racks. Everybody involved knew that a hog like a big streaming service needs servers at big ISPs. Netflix wanted the space for FREE. Comcast wanted to know what made Netflix so special? Netflix spun that as 'wanting to charge us for fast service to our customers'.
Nope. The *service* doesn't need caching; it will work just fine w/o caching given a big enough pipe. :-) Efficiency needs the cache. Caching means both that the ISP can use a smaller pipe to the backbone and that Netflix can use a smaller pipe to their ISP. Thus colo caching benefits both the service provider and the ISP. Seems like they should share costs.
IIRC, Netflix wanted to pay for the HW in exchange for the colo space (including power and cooling costs). I dunno if that was very even or not, but it's not obviously ridiculous and I imagine that negotiations are possible. Allegedly, Comcast didn't want the CDN colo on any terms because they wanted to extort Netflix to pay for the privilege of having packets flow between Netflix's ISP and Comcast.
"remotely operated robots" are NOT robots any more than one of those remotely controlled model airplanes is a robot.
Real robots are programmed to control themselves and do NOT require a human to operate them.
Read some of the works by Isaac Asimov for an education.
Didn't read the TFA, but I have to guess this is a form of "fly by wire" where, for example, you might tell the robot where to go but not how to dodge obstacles. In other words, somewhere between a fully manually controlled RC plane and a scifi robot.
The need is pretty clear: Processing of data that needs to be secure against the cloud-provider. That this is very likely infeasible [...] a malicious hypervisor could just run on entirely different hardware and simulate all the protection features [ ... ]
Right - there's a need for secure remote computing.
But, remote security in general is a different topic than discussing VMs on hostile hypervisors. If you don't trust the people who control the hypervisor, any discussion of vectors of access to the VMs is academic. Because there *will* be ways - both software and hardware (for example, dual ported memory and ICE).
So, the TFA seems to be fluff and FUD in attacking the lack of a pointless feature.
Any solutions for secure remote computing probably need to involve a hosting setup where you have full control over the hardware, not a VM on hardware controlled by the site.
We show how a malicious hypervisor can force the guest...
So, having access to the physical hardware means game over? Gee, what a surprise. Preventing one VM from accessing or affecting another is useful. Offhand, I can't imagine much of a need to preventing a hypervisor from accessing the VMs that it controls...