Intel should also approach Qualcomm for patent cross-licensing and boundary duties.
Qualcomm has been pursued for antitrust abuse. Relieving that pressure, and perhaps getting access to the best semiconductor foundaries in the world, might be worth a 10% loss of market share.
The funny thing is that VAX VMS is the "parent" of the Windows kernel, and many approaches between the systems are very similar (to the extent that Digital sued Microsoft and won). The ACL permission scheme is the most striking.
VMS had very good security - the best in the business. It's hard to understand how that went so very wrong for Windows. There has been commentary that Dave Cutler himself practically threw the issue overboard.
Both Intel and [most of the] ARM [community] are guilty of bundling opaque processor controls, and the i386/ARM architectures cannot be trusted as the opaque components have unrestricted access to networking, memory, and i/o.
It appears that the best "open" CPU architecture is the decade-old SPARC T2 - the full Verilog source for the CPU is provided, and there is no "management engine."
Unfortunately, no "Raspberry Pi" or otherwise reduced form-factor board is available on the market at this time. If you want to run a SPARC T2, you will likely have to purchase a used Netra server.
As long as you are making design changes, include an sd-card slot, and keep that bootloader unlocked as if your market share and stock price depended on it.
(Which it does, as I'm not touching another one of your products while you lack these features.)
All of this would have been avoidable with removable batteries.
Lithium-Ion batteries are required to implement five separate safety systems to prevent these combustion events.
Samsung is having quality-control issues. If the batteries were removable, the situation would not be trashing the company, but this does serve poetic justice.
I agree that battery replacement is dangerous - I have ordered several replacement batteries for my Note 2 from ebay. They all had Samsung labeling, but exhibited wildly erratic discharge (dropping from 50% to 10% within a few minutes).
I have since replaced them with Anker batteries, which appear to have a good reputation for quality and safety, and are really not much more expensive than the Chinese low-end. People should be encouraged to avoid batteries made in China for safety reasons, unless they are vetted or supplied by an OEM.
The chargers also can be dangerous, and low-end Chinese manufacturers skimp on safety and quality. Look for the "UL" symbol for Underwriters Laboratories on any USB chargers. Also check for spelling and grammar mistakes in the labeling on the device, which are sure signs of a cheap forgery.
Power components must be purchased from reputable suppliers to assure safety.
Samsung, the electronics will last far longer than the lithium battery. Had the note 7 battery been removable, users could have swapped a $10 replacement and kept their phones. Aesthetics/styling are the only benefits to an embedded battery, but this really accelerates product obsolescence and forces your customers to spend more. This is unacceptable.
Bring back removable batteries. If you don't, then I wish more million-unit recalls upon you until you build the product that we want.
I run grub, which has killed previous updates. Microsoft needs to have greater respect for the operating systems that I have installed on my PC. If I have to lose one, I'd prefer it not be Linux or BSD.
The market WANTS removable batteries, and an a removable sdcard. The market wants this BADLY.
Samsung, you spurned the desires of the market, thinking you knew best.
You did this to accelerate planned obsolescence and force the purchase of replacement phones long before the service life of the electronics had reached a reasonable end. Had these batteries been removable, replacement of the faulty/dangerous parts would have been greatly simplified.
Samsung, you have not received a tenth of the market punishment that you deserve.
Is this browser keybridged to Opera Corporate? Is Opera able to decrypt TLS sessions run through the VPN? Does this add Opera-controlled root CAs that allow mitm?
Opera Mini has terrible security, as it uses the native Android WebKit/WebView. Does Opera guarantee that anything it provides for this VPN has current patches and passes all relevant tests (i.e. http://ssllabs.com?
...do not cripple your server with slowdown code. RedHat updates include backported security patches for older versions of their distributed software. From the RedHat wiki: "Red Hat does not update the kernel version, but instead backports new features to the same kernel version with which a particular version of RHEL has been released... Consequently, RHEL may use a Linux kernel with a dated version number, yet the kernel is up-to-date regarding not only security fixes, but also certain features."
The Android ecosystem desperately needs RedHat's model for security patches. The FTC should mandate GPL and CentOS updates for all future Android versions. This would have the side benefit of opening up a great deal of the OEM code as well.
A solution involving government regulation would require keys for any OEM/Carrier choosing to lock the bootloader of any phone. After six months without updates, the keys go public.
The camellia symmetric cipher was developed in Japan, in theory free from NSA influence. The ripemd160 digest, developed in Belgium, is also a non-nsa component usable for secure communication. For asymmetric algorithms, pick something djb-approved, either p-512 or 25519.
Here is a nice fact for you:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wik...
"Responding to homicide allegations, an official of the Armed Forces Institute of Pathology acknowledged that doctors initially were puzzled by a circular wound on the top of Brown's head when his remains were recovered at the crash scene. The forensic pathologist then consulted with others and took extensive X-rays. As a result of these consultations and full-body X-rays, we absolutely ruled out anything beyond a blunt-force injury to the head."
An "unlocked" Verizon phone is allowed on a GSM network. It most certainly maintains a locked bootloader (and the stable of unwanted applications [NFL tracking being the most annoying]). All this bloat updates in Google play and otherwise uses up data unless they are explicitly disabled in a swindle to inflate your data usage.
Attempts to unlock the bootloader with the OEM (HTC, Motorola, etc.) are all met with the reply "this device is not eligible for bootloader unlock."
For unsupported phones, Verizon should be compelled to allow this activity. This is perfidious intransigence for profit and control.
Bearing in mind how often we receive VLC updates, what is your opinion of Google's decision to "carve in stone" the StageFright media libraries into the/system read-only mount point on Android?
Stagefright patch breakdowns were of surprising number and duration: "...over the course of the last year of Android updates, Google has issued patches for 115 media server-related CVE (Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures) flaws. Of those, 49 were found directly in libstagefright, with 35 in libmedia and 31 in libraries on which libstagefright depends."
A related question: if Google had approached you with the intention of burning the VLC player into the equivalent of ROM, would you have asked them to choose another player?
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Intel should also approach Qualcomm for patent cross-licensing and boundary duties. Qualcomm has been pursued for antitrust abuse. Relieving that pressure, and perhaps getting access to the best semiconductor foundaries in the world, might be worth a 10% loss of market share.
Well, then, the author of this book must also be a moron. Should I beg a thousand pardons for reading it?
The funny thing is that VAX VMS is the "parent" of the Windows kernel, and many approaches between the systems are very similar (to the extent that Digital sued Microsoft and won). The ACL permission scheme is the most striking.
VMS had very good security - the best in the business. It's hard to understand how that went so very wrong for Windows. There has been commentary that Dave Cutler himself practically threw the issue overboard.
...where people will go when they cannot access their desired content through approved channels.
Both Intel and [most of the] ARM [community] are guilty of bundling opaque processor controls, and the i386/ARM architectures cannot be trusted as the opaque components have unrestricted access to networking, memory, and i/o.
It appears that the best "open" CPU architecture is the decade-old SPARC T2 - the full Verilog source for the CPU is provided, and there is no "management engine."
Unfortunately, no "Raspberry Pi" or otherwise reduced form-factor board is available on the market at this time. If you want to run a SPARC T2, you will likely have to purchase a used Netra server.
I'm sure a modern operating system will make us all far safer.
You could add a bit of new-user wizard polish, but otherwise, why are you bothering?
Next time, use removable batteries.
As long as you are making design changes, include an sd-card slot, and keep that bootloader unlocked as if your market share and stock price depended on it.
(Which it does, as I'm not touching another one of your products while you lack these features.)
Knox counters to track me loading a new ROM? Samsung, you can keep them - we're done.
All of this would have been avoidable with removable batteries.
Lithium-Ion batteries are required to implement five separate safety systems to prevent these combustion events.
Samsung is having quality-control issues. If the batteries were removable, the situation would not be trashing the company, but this does serve poetic justice.
Would you say that any of this software has done well under Oracle? Is the user community satisfied?
I agree that battery replacement is dangerous - I have ordered several replacement batteries for my Note 2 from ebay. They all had Samsung labeling, but exhibited wildly erratic discharge (dropping from 50% to 10% within a few minutes).
I have since replaced them with Anker batteries, which appear to have a good reputation for quality and safety, and are really not much more expensive than the Chinese low-end. People should be encouraged to avoid batteries made in China for safety reasons, unless they are vetted or supplied by an OEM.
The chargers also can be dangerous, and low-end Chinese manufacturers skimp on safety and quality. Look for the "UL" symbol for Underwriters Laboratories on any USB chargers. Also check for spelling and grammar mistakes in the labeling on the device, which are sure signs of a cheap forgery.
Power components must be purchased from reputable suppliers to assure safety.
Samsung, the electronics will last far longer than the lithium battery. Had the note 7 battery been removable, users could have swapped a $10 replacement and kept their phones. Aesthetics/styling are the only benefits to an embedded battery, but this really accelerates product obsolescence and forces your customers to spend more. This is unacceptable.
Bring back removable batteries. If you don't, then I wish more million-unit recalls upon you until you build the product that we want.
Maybe you'll be a penny stock by then.
I would really prefer that this not happen.
I run grub, which has killed previous updates. Microsoft needs to have greater respect for the operating systems that I have installed on my PC. If I have to lose one, I'd prefer it not be Linux or BSD.
The market WANTS removable batteries, and an a removable sdcard. The market wants this BADLY.
Samsung, you spurned the desires of the market, thinking you knew best.
You did this to accelerate planned obsolescence and force the purchase of replacement phones long before the service life of the electronics had reached a reasonable end. Had these batteries been removable, replacement of the faulty/dangerous parts would have been greatly simplified.
Samsung, you have not received a tenth of the market punishment that you deserve.
Branch delay slots? Register windows? This is one of the first RISC architectures, and it has warts. Fujitsu just abandoned it.
Is this browser keybridged to Opera Corporate? Is Opera able to decrypt TLS sessions run through the VPN? Does this add Opera-controlled root CAs that allow mitm?
Opera Mini has terrible security, as it uses the native Android WebKit/WebView. Does Opera guarantee that anything it provides for this VPN has current patches and passes all relevant tests (i.e. http://ssllabs.com?
...do not cripple your server with slowdown code. RedHat updates include backported security patches for older versions of their distributed software. From the RedHat wiki: "Red Hat does not update the kernel version, but instead backports new features to the same kernel version with which a particular version of RHEL has been released... Consequently, RHEL may use a Linux kernel with a dated version number, yet the kernel is up-to-date regarding not only security fixes, but also certain features."
The Android ecosystem desperately needs RedHat's model for security patches. The FTC should mandate GPL and CentOS updates for all future Android versions. This would have the side benefit of opening up a great deal of the OEM code as well.
A solution involving government regulation would require keys for any OEM/Carrier choosing to lock the bootloader of any phone. After six months without updates, the keys go public.
Put this sequence of tones at the start of your voicemail.
The automatic dialing hardware will mark your number as out of service in their database.
The camellia symmetric cipher was developed in Japan, in theory free from NSA influence. The ripemd160 digest, developed in Belgium, is also a non-nsa component usable for secure communication. For asymmetric algorithms, pick something djb-approved, either p-512 or 25519.
Here is a nice fact for you: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wik... "Responding to homicide allegations, an official of the Armed Forces Institute of Pathology acknowledged that doctors initially were puzzled by a circular wound on the top of Brown's head when his remains were recovered at the crash scene. The forensic pathologist then consulted with others and took extensive X-rays. As a result of these consultations and full-body X-rays, we absolutely ruled out anything beyond a blunt-force injury to the head."
An "unlocked" Verizon phone is allowed on a GSM network. It most certainly maintains a locked bootloader (and the stable of unwanted applications [NFL tracking being the most annoying]). All this bloat updates in Google play and otherwise uses up data unless they are explicitly disabled in a swindle to inflate your data usage.
Attempts to unlock the bootloader with the OEM (HTC, Motorola, etc.) are all met with the reply "this device is not eligible for bootloader unlock."
For unsupported phones, Verizon should be compelled to allow this activity. This is perfidious intransigence for profit and control.
Bearing in mind how often we receive VLC updates, what is your opinion of Google's decision to "carve in stone" the StageFright media libraries into the /system read-only mount point on Android?
Stagefright patch breakdowns were of surprising number and duration: "...over the course of the last year of Android updates, Google has issued patches for 115 media server-related CVE (Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures) flaws. Of those, 49 were found directly in libstagefright, with 35 in libmedia and 31 in libraries on which libstagefright depends."
A related question: if Google had approached you with the intention of burning the VLC player into the equivalent of ROM, would you have asked them to choose another player?
I moved to Face Slim after the developer (re-)enabled messaging. It has the following setting:
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We don't like sponsored posts and ads.
Hopefully developer Krzysztof Grabowski will keep up with the corporate subterfuge. It's a shame that Tinfoil has gone dormant.