1. We seek comment on the appropriate benchmark for fixed advanced telecommunications capability. Should we maintain the 25 Mbps download, 3 Mbps upload (25 Mbps/3 Mbps) speed benchmark, and to apply it to all forms of fixed broadband?
2. We seek comment on whether a mobile speed benchmark of 10 Mbps/1 Mbps is
appropriate for mobile broadband services. Would a download speed benchmark higher or lower than 10 Mbps be appropriate for the purpose of assessing American consumers’ access to advanced
telecommunications capability?
Meltdown means that userland code, such as JavaScript running in a web browser, can read kernel memory. Not all CPUs are affected by Meltdown and Meltdown is being mitigated by operating system changes. Mounting a Meltdown attack via JavaScript running in WebKit requires first bypassing branch-based security checks, like in the case of a Spectre attack. Therefore, Spectre mitigations that fix the branch problem also prevent an attacker from using WebKit as the starting point for Meltdown.
Most browser vendors are implementing many changes to mitigate Meltdown and Spectre, including things like reducing the precision of high-fidelity timers from 5us to 20us +/- 20us, disabling SharedArrayBuffers and recompiling with Spectre-aware compilers.
Wait until we get to cashless societies. Banks will start changing terms and conditions on a regular basis and sieze your (their) money if they feel you've breached some obscure thing. And there won't be a thing you can do about it.
If it's anything like the last ASUS I owned (a TF101 Transformer) the keyboard will be shit (half the keys will stop working within 12 months) and there'll be a half-dozen dead pixels that, with microscopic examination, turn out to be grass seeds under the glass. How the fuck do grass seeds get inside a screen at the factory?
I used to have a TomTom device years ago... the "free map updates" sitcker on the box only worked for about 12 months. You can buy an Android phone for $79 and get continuously updated maps and navigation directions and any map corrections you lodge are usually updated for everybody within a week.
FYI, Cocoa Touch is the iOS version of Cocoa. Apparently you've missed Apple's Metal 2 UI, which is basically Apple's recommendation for macOS 10.11 onwards. Metal 2 is the same API for macOS, iOS and tvOS, https://developer.apple.com/me...
On macOS they've basically stopped supporting OpenGL at 4.0, Carbon (mostly deprecated in OS X 10.5, 10.7 and finally 10.9) and Cocoa (nothing new since OS X 10.3).
Right now he's letting donor money do the thinking for him.
One day he'll call up Comcast for internet support. He'll play his "Don't you know who I am?" card and the operator will reply, in an Indian accent, "No, sir. We treat all of our customers equally."
On the one hand the US government is banning Kaspersky software because they claim it's a "grave security risk" that contains back doors.
On the other hand the US government is publicly criticising and shaming technology vendors like Apple and Google for refusing to add back doors to their products.
They have been neglecting the security aspect of their browser for 20+ years while continually throwing in new projects like this utilizing developers whose caliber of work would not qualify them for jobs in the professional sector.
20+ years? Really? Mozilla is only 19 years old. Firefox is only 15 years old.
It would be trivial for a manager to camp out at the Coffee Club across the road from a job site one day and observe that Mr Colella never turned up on that day despite having logged an 8 hour time sheet for it.
In the 70s they were probably still better than paper.
You realize that Excel only became a thing in 1987, right? Before that VisCalc ruled the spreadsheet world (and Excel's predecessor, Multiplan, was a poor knock off).
You really should read the entirey of Errata Security's blog post for context (I know, this is/.) but this is so true...
Update: No, it's probably not okay to call people "morons" as Linus does. They may be wrong, but they usually are reasonable people. On the other hand, security people tend to be sanctimonious bastards with rigid thinking, so after he as dealt with that minority, I can see why Linus treats all security people that way.
Insurance companies are (in)famous for taking money for policies and then wiggling out of things they don't have to pay for. Consider the likelihood an insurance company would pay for a crash caused by a publicly known exploit that their customer (the airline) and the manufacturer (Boeing) refused to fix.
Bollocks, MacOS doesn't require internet access. The default things the OS does internet-wise are update checks for apps, XProtect/Gatekeeper config updates, security updates and OS updates, all of which can be turned off from the Terminal using:
Because of Windows's historically crappy programming, this is why AV was created. This isn't just MS's fault. Other operating systems of that time with cooperative multitasking had issues as well, so things like Disinfectant for the Mac that had a program load and run were critical.
You're right that this isn't just MS's fault. The 68x000 series of MacOS (capital M) did all sorts of things to encourage viruses, e.g.:
Hard disk volumes had their own driver code in the first couple of blocks which was dutifully loaded by the OS when they were plugged in/turned on/inserted (in the case of removable volumes like Syquest) to make the entire volume accessible. Naturally these were relocated by viruses and overwritten with their own code.
In its worst "what could possibly go wrong?" decision Apple allowed Resource Forks to contain Code Resources and, to make that even worse, added an "Auto-Execute" flag to them. Naturally this made it easy for viruses to stick auto-execute code resources in the Desktop file on every single hard disk, cartridge and floppy disk they encountered so they could easily spread infections.
A lot of that, patches that break apps, applications that corrupt registry, driver issues, were real and extremely annoying issues a few years ago, not so much now.
Yeah, bullshit. When the last Windows 10 major update came through about six months ago I was greeted with three blank screens instead of a login prompt. Windows 10 had stopped supporting my Nvidia hardware. Eventually I got the machine booted up in Safe Mode with Networking, downloaded and installed the video drivers from Nvidia's web site and was able to start working again.
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Heaven forbid anyone should reply with, like, actual facts...
From 2016 we have:
REF: FCC Fact Sheet: 2016 Broadband Progress Report, Chairman’s Draft, https://assets.documentcloud.o...
From 2017 under Ajit Pai we have:
REF: FCC THIRTEENTH SECTION 7 06 REPORT NOTICE OF INQUIRY, http://transition.fcc.gov/Dail...
Maybe I'm blind but I don't see anything in the second document about changing the benchmark speeds for fixed broadband services.
Meltdown cannot be exploited using Javascript.
Yes it can, even WebKit says so...
REF: https://webkit.org/blog/8048/w...
Most browser vendors are implementing many changes to mitigate Meltdown and Spectre, including things like reducing the precision of high-fidelity timers from 5us to 20us +/- 20us, disabling SharedArrayBuffers and recompiling with Spectre-aware compilers.
How is "high-speed" internet different than "broadband"? Does that mean 56k modems instead of morse keys?
Wait until we get to cashless societies. Banks will start changing terms and conditions on a regular basis and sieze your (their) money if they feel you've breached some obscure thing. And there won't be a thing you can do about it.
If it's anything like the last ASUS I owned (a TF101 Transformer) the keyboard will be shit (half the keys will stop working within 12 months) and there'll be a half-dozen dead pixels that, with microscopic examination, turn out to be grass seeds under the glass. How the fuck do grass seeds get inside a screen at the factory?
I used to have a TomTom device years ago... the "free map updates" sitcker on the box only worked for about 12 months. You can buy an Android phone for $79 and get continuously updated maps and navigation directions and any map corrections you lodge are usually updated for everybody within a week.
FYI, Cocoa Touch is the iOS version of Cocoa. Apparently you've missed Apple's Metal 2 UI, which is basically Apple's recommendation for macOS 10.11 onwards. Metal 2 is the same API for macOS, iOS and tvOS, https://developer.apple.com/me...
On macOS they've basically stopped supporting OpenGL at 4.0, Carbon (mostly deprecated in OS X 10.5, 10.7 and finally 10.9) and Cocoa (nothing new since OS X 10.3).
I wonder if Morgan Freeman will ever get to produce the movie and play the part of Norton? He's pushing eighty now.
People that think ICMP traffic has to be routed the same as tcp traffic are so cute.
Right now he's letting donor money do the thinking for him.
One day he'll call up Comcast for internet support. He'll play his "Don't you know who I am?" card and the operator will reply, in an Indian accent, "No, sir. We treat all of our customers equally."
Take the "esh" out of "Reshaping" and you'll have an accurate story title.
On the one hand the US government is banning Kaspersky software because they claim it's a "grave security risk" that contains back doors.
On the other hand the US government is publicly criticising and shaming technology vendors like Apple and Google for refusing to add back doors to their products.
Because that works so well in advertising where they're already not allowed - by law - to make false claims.
Windows already has plenty of For Fuck's Sake.
They have been neglecting the security aspect of their browser for 20+ years while continually throwing in new projects like this utilizing developers whose caliber of work would not qualify them for jobs in the professional sector.
20+ years? Really? Mozilla is only 19 years old. Firefox is only 15 years old.
It would be trivial for a manager to camp out at the Coffee Club across the road from a job site one day and observe that Mr Colella never turned up on that day despite having logged an 8 hour time sheet for it.
More likely it came from one of the dozens of space vehicles to have docked with the ISS over the years.
From the GUI go to Command-Space > Directory Utility, click the lock and check the Edit menu for "Enable Root User" or "Disable Root User" options.
From a Terminal use the dsenableroot command.
You realize that Excel only became a thing in 1987, right? Before that VisCalc ruled the spreadsheet world (and Excel's predecessor, Multiplan, was a poor knock off).
Insurance companies are (in)famous for taking money for policies and then wiggling out of things they don't have to pay for. Consider the likelihood an insurance company would pay for a crash caused by a publicly known exploit that their customer (the airline) and the manufacturer (Boeing) refused to fix.
Bollocks, MacOS doesn't require internet access. The default things the OS does internet-wise are update checks for apps, XProtect/Gatekeeper config updates, security updates and OS updates, all of which can be turned off from the Terminal using:
There are plenty of dirt cheap AirPort Expresses out there on eBay with AirPlay support built in. Just plug in your favorite speakers!
You're right that this isn't just MS's fault. The 68x000 series of MacOS (capital M) did all sorts of things to encourage viruses, e.g.:
Noobs.
Yeah, bullshit. When the last Windows 10 major update came through about six months ago I was greeted with three blank screens instead of a login prompt. Windows 10 had stopped supporting my Nvidia hardware. Eventually I got the machine booted up in Safe Mode with Networking, downloaded and installed the video drivers from Nvidia's web site and was able to start working again.