> If you want change you have to *Sweep the House*.
Of the remaining Democrats? That doesn't seem all that wise, but I understand how you could want to vote out all Democrats, given that they controlled the House, the Senate, and the Executive back in 2009, when the overbearing linked rules were put in place: https://foiarr.cbp.gov/streami...
The current rules, put in place with a Republican House, Senate, and Executive Branch, are far better than the 2009 rules, as they prevent the search of cloud data, and establish standards for when an "advanced" search can be used.
Unless you mean to elect all Libertarians and Green party members, who will get rid of this routine and disgusting violation of the 4th amendment, I can't imagine why sweeping the house of its remaining Democrats will result in further privacy- the Republicans are apparently better at this than Democrats, but both fall far short of respecting our constitutionally guaranteed rights.
You just tell them you always wipe your shit in case it is stolen in transit. It isn't false just because one government or another is the most likely thief, it's a 100% true statement.
I don't think erasure is always going to work if they plug stuff in, but the newest phones at least have a key that everything is encrypted with that can be wiped. It's still a risk. On a computer of course, you can be pretty safe if you delete an encrypted partition and overwrite with zeros or whatever pattern your religion dictates.
I don't know the exact number, of course, but I know that a raspberry pi is at MINIMUM a thousand times more powerful than computers that took us to the moon. So like, what fucking ever.
You are sending much more information than my Linux box sends, which is NOTHING. More importantly, unless you are routinely port sniffing, you don't even know how much you are sending, and unless you can decrypt their spybot garbage, you have no idea WHAT you are sending either.
The idea that your computer isn't at direct risk of modification from this is very dubious. If there's any way at all to get access to the information that lets you escalate your privs (such as if you could get a root password- I don't care if that one in particular isn't possible for some reason, the idea is the same), then you could also be dealing with data modification on top of everything else.
The blockchain may be an immutable ledger, but it still appears easy enough to launder cryptocurrencies. Whether this laundering is fully effective, I have no idea- but clearly the bad guys believe it to be so, which is all you need for malicious behavior to manifest.
"Mythic Rare" was the shark jumping moment. Foils, as you say, are just there to feed collectors, but when a bunch of power got wrapped up in a rarity that wasn't guaranteed per pack, it changed the old model. It didn't ruin the game or anything, but it was definitely a lot more random than before.
Right, but I probably can't use YOUR provider. The fact that these things are all semi-monopolies is the big reason for this concern. I don't have a free market for internet, I have two choices, and both of their wires were run with taxpayer assistance.
No clue. I've had a pet theory that when Apple is doing well technically or fashionably, they "invest" in bad design and user hostile decisions, and when they need to look good, they revert back to sane industry standard stuff. I think it's just one extra currency they can bank and cash out of, repeatedly.
The last several years have been a progressively funnier joke as regards user servicability and user access. The funniest part was probably the trashcan Mac- a server, and priced as such, in a laughably small package that ends up needing a nest of dust collecting wires everywhere to talk with anything in the modern world, with almost no upgradability- unlike their other products, this one was priced to compete with real servers, and to compete in a market with people who would value some function over form. Lesser jokes include needless cost-shaving risks, such as the decision to drop a headphone jack and replace it with a piece of plastic that does literally nothing (for the purpose of getting everyone talking about their phone, and no other thing), versions of ios that use a flat design that doesn't distinguish between layers of control on purpose, etc.
At some point, Apple will probably choose to revert any of these that they can make people talk about, probably with some Apple-slanted angle when they revert them.
Meanwhile they've been making legitimate strides in stuff like mobile CPUs, but those don't make the press print story. Controversy sells, attention is brought about by conflict, etc.
There was new-ish news about this from the summer. A few privacy-minded places are starting to shut the ME down in various ways, some by spoofing the flag the government uses to disable it on its own systems, others in other ways.
The Samsung advert features a dude getting an iPhone in 2007 and being thrilled with it, then it shows him running out of phone storage space. It then shows his upgrades over the years, with a chick he's dating having a big screen Samsung, etc. There's a pretty great one where he has excellent headphones, plugged through a multi-dongle so he can listen to music on good headphones and change his phone at the same time, and the ad makes sure to show the ludicrous nest of wires while he tries to snuggle with his chick on the couch. You get to see him and his gal fall into the water, and the subsequent iPhone-in-rice trick, while hers continues to work. The final scene shows him with a Samsung looking somewhat disdainfully at the people in line at an Apple store. I'd judge it is reasonable effective as an advert, and I certainly found it amusing- though, I did wonder if Samsungs still have headphone jacks- I thought they got rid of them for no reason, just as Apple and Google did.
The Motorola advert is much smaller in scope, and takes place directly after the Samsung ad, where he shows his chick the scene of them having a great time at the beach, and she throws down her Motorola with a projector addon and puts it on the wall. It's cute, but the whole switch-the-magical-components thing is pretty nerdy, and Motorola is going for another market with that IMO.
lol do you think you can even actually get a permanent license? I don't even think that they actually SELL enterprise. It's the one version you can turn off the spying legitimately, so I think you need some huge number of minimum orders and contract or something?
> I do not like the ME, but at least this is local acess exploit only
It's still fucked up.
The previous ME flaw involved gaining remote access illegitimately. This one involves being able to inject stuff into the super ultra privileged secret area that operating systems can't see or guard against once you have that access. And there's NO REASON to believe that this is the final bug that exists. So far it looks like chained vulns from internet down to a run level that the chip prevents the kernel from seeing.
Even today, Intel admits to this when you look at icc. I think they only have that disclaimer because of the lawsuit: to my knowledge they are still running really slow code on AMD on purpose.
> Let's face the facts. There can only be two choices when it comes to encryption: Ban ALL encryption for consumer devices... or leave encryption alone. Compromising encryption algorithms IS A NON-STARTER.
Non techies don't think this way though. They are forever convinced that they can do this, or that they can claim they aren't doing this while actually doing this. The belief in backdoored encryption seems pervasive, because we have people clamoring for it constantly.
> Other than the fact that all but the most ancient website won't work without it anymore
They don't work without it any more because they suck. Javascript should be reserved for cases where you legitimately need something to act like an application, which is not any forums, etc. All this remote code running locally has caused serious fucking problems, and continues to do so.
> That is fraud. Whether someone died because if is irrelevant.
It's pretty relevant. If my grievance is that you sold me crappy metal, the resulting litigation will ultimately result in some type of restitution based upon loss of value directly, possible loss of market value, etc. If instead my grievance is that your crappy metal, sold to somebody else, cost me a family member, you are facing a much more open ended amount of damages- you could meaningfully be destroyed by a number of such lawsuits.
No, it was probably biological grime. Congealed Dr. Pepper, some Chinese sauce that dropped in there. Gods help you if it was protein-based. What should the Apple people say? "Dust" is a deflection AWAY from the consumer that inevitably drips coffee or doughnut into their keyboard in small pieces every day. The net effect is "lets clean under the keys" for normally built keyboards, and a huge issue for the topic of the article.
I run a keyboard with removable keys, and I occasionally remove and wash them. When I do this, the area UNDER the key is filled with deritus consistent with a devices that comes in contact with HANDS for hours each day. I clean that out too. Because the keyboard is built for functionality, not merely fashion, I could probably go for years or decades before the accumulated filth made it fail physically, if I stopped cleaning it. But an Apple keyboard doesn't have that failsafe, nor does it have an appealing way to clean it (according to the article, there's like NO way to clean it- it's a huge design fail).
> the Bible says quite a few things that reinforces this idea
I mean, the Bible says a lot of things. There's only some things that are so plain and obvious that they have been faithfully and clearly translated, and there's way way more that you can walk into with some prior thought relevant to our society and find some parts that discuss it and don't overtly dispute it. But this is like "God's Daughter"- if you read the Bible assuming that God had a son and a daughter, you won't find anything disputing the existence of the daughter, and you may have some great ideas about why she isn't mentioned- but the moment you talk to someone who doesn't believe that, they'll be digging through, trying to find the oldest usage of the words used to describe Jesus, trying to find something that implies or states, in some way, that the Bible does, in fact, preclude that. Maybe there are documents that wouldn't be subject to this effect, but the Bible is assuredly not one of them.
> Perhaps causality is only a characteristic of our Universe.
There's still a point of crossover, though. If the universe came literally from nothing, then why aren't multiple universes spawning in our sinks all the time? There's gotta be some nothing around still, right? What, exactly, are the rules of this nothing?
It all becomes a philosophical (or, if you are so inclined, religious) point, and not one able to be resolved with our current understanding (or possibly any future understanding, who knows). If the model of physics goes back to a certain point and then basically says "before this point we don't know what rules were present, to say nothing of matter or energy", then that's leaving everything "before" or "outside" of that open to literally anything. It doesn't preclude special creation, it doesn't preclude a mechanic process whose rules we can't glean, it doesn't preclude the idea that everything is a simulation- it doesn't do anything useful. You can assume that whatever was at that time isn't relevant, because even if everything was preordained by the ordering of twenty five shiny blue apple seeds, we'd have no way to test, observe, or predict- we can act as if, scientifically speaking, that space and time don't exist.
But that doesn't mean that science is stating that- it just means that we should assume that, scientifically, because we have no reason not to.
This kind of thing makes me think that their next step might be to push it to some other studio, give them money, and shut down Star Wars: The Old Republic if it looks like whatever their new vision is might conflict with an existing MMO (not that the new game needs to be an MMO to meet this criteria: anything vaguely close enough would probably count).
While a dual Xeon 256GB machine is not the "standard" desktop, nor even the "standard" workstation (maybe the dual CPU part), it is definitely worth pointing out that you can fit way more metal into a box, more practically than before.
But also- the summary is a lie. Here's Microsoft's page for the Surface Book 2, which the summary touts as "desktop brains":
Their most powerful option- the 15 inch, with 1 TB storage, 16 GB RAM, and a 3,300 dollar price tag- offers "i7 quad core" and "GTX 1060". nvidia has been engaging in a new type of shenanigans with their mobile cards, implying that they are the same as desktop cards- and of course, they are not. Arguably, they are shafting their desktop users by even making them close. Meanwhile "i7 quad core" applies to the i7-8650U, I think:
With like triple the whatever-goodness-numbers is appropriate.
Anyway, the takeaway is that the 3000+ version of this thing uses a laptop CPU that isn't really close to its desktop equivalent, and nowhere near close to what you can shove into a desktop, and a mobile version of a card that is close to, but not surpassing, the desktop version.
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> If you want change you have to *Sweep the House*.
Of the remaining Democrats? That doesn't seem all that wise, but I understand how you could want to vote out all Democrats, given that they controlled the House, the Senate, and the Executive back in 2009, when the overbearing linked rules were put in place:
https://foiarr.cbp.gov/streami...
The current rules, put in place with a Republican House, Senate, and Executive Branch, are far better than the 2009 rules, as they prevent the search of cloud data, and establish standards for when an "advanced" search can be used.
Unless you mean to elect all Libertarians and Green party members, who will get rid of this routine and disgusting violation of the 4th amendment, I can't imagine why sweeping the house of its remaining Democrats will result in further privacy- the Republicans are apparently better at this than Democrats, but both fall far short of respecting our constitutionally guaranteed rights.
> My beard is longer than 5 cm. I guess I'm fucked.
Given that you didn't give that in inches, I concur! Everyone knows a cm is a commiemeter.
You just tell them you always wipe your shit in case it is stolen in transit. It isn't false just because one government or another is the most likely thief, it's a 100% true statement.
I don't think erasure is always going to work if they plug stuff in, but the newest phones at least have a key that everything is encrypted with that can be wiped. It's still a risk. On a computer of course, you can be pretty safe if you delete an encrypted partition and overwrite with zeros or whatever pattern your religion dictates.
I don't know the exact number, of course, but I know that a raspberry pi is at MINIMUM a thousand times more powerful than computers that took us to the moon. So like, what fucking ever.
You are sending much more information than my Linux box sends, which is NOTHING. More importantly, unless you are routinely port sniffing, you don't even know how much you are sending, and unless you can decrypt their spybot garbage, you have no idea WHAT you are sending either.
The idea that your computer isn't at direct risk of modification from this is very dubious. If there's any way at all to get access to the information that lets you escalate your privs (such as if you could get a root password- I don't care if that one in particular isn't possible for some reason, the idea is the same), then you could also be dealing with data modification on top of everything else.
The blockchain may be an immutable ledger, but it still appears easy enough to launder cryptocurrencies. Whether this laundering is fully effective, I have no idea- but clearly the bad guys believe it to be so, which is all you need for malicious behavior to manifest.
"Mythic Rare" was the shark jumping moment. Foils, as you say, are just there to feed collectors, but when a bunch of power got wrapped up in a rarity that wasn't guaranteed per pack, it changed the old model. It didn't ruin the game or anything, but it was definitely a lot more random than before.
Right, but I probably can't use YOUR provider. The fact that these things are all semi-monopolies is the big reason for this concern. I don't have a free market for internet, I have two choices, and both of their wires were run with taxpayer assistance.
No clue. I've had a pet theory that when Apple is doing well technically or fashionably, they "invest" in bad design and user hostile decisions, and when they need to look good, they revert back to sane industry standard stuff. I think it's just one extra currency they can bank and cash out of, repeatedly.
The last several years have been a progressively funnier joke as regards user servicability and user access. The funniest part was probably the trashcan Mac- a server, and priced as such, in a laughably small package that ends up needing a nest of dust collecting wires everywhere to talk with anything in the modern world, with almost no upgradability- unlike their other products, this one was priced to compete with real servers, and to compete in a market with people who would value some function over form. Lesser jokes include needless cost-shaving risks, such as the decision to drop a headphone jack and replace it with a piece of plastic that does literally nothing (for the purpose of getting everyone talking about their phone, and no other thing), versions of ios that use a flat design that doesn't distinguish between layers of control on purpose, etc.
At some point, Apple will probably choose to revert any of these that they can make people talk about, probably with some Apple-slanted angle when they revert them.
Meanwhile they've been making legitimate strides in stuff like mobile CPUs, but those don't make the press print story. Controversy sells, attention is brought about by conflict, etc.
Pretty sure there's a meta-achievement for trolling sexconker. OP can you confirm new cheeve?
There was new-ish news about this from the summer. A few privacy-minded places are starting to shut the ME down in various ways, some by spoofing the flag the government uses to disable it on its own systems, others in other ways.
The Samsung advert features a dude getting an iPhone in 2007 and being thrilled with it, then it shows him running out of phone storage space. It then shows his upgrades over the years, with a chick he's dating having a big screen Samsung, etc. There's a pretty great one where he has excellent headphones, plugged through a multi-dongle so he can listen to music on good headphones and change his phone at the same time, and the ad makes sure to show the ludicrous nest of wires while he tries to snuggle with his chick on the couch. You get to see him and his gal fall into the water, and the subsequent iPhone-in-rice trick, while hers continues to work. The final scene shows him with a Samsung looking somewhat disdainfully at the people in line at an Apple store. I'd judge it is reasonable effective as an advert, and I certainly found it amusing- though, I did wonder if Samsungs still have headphone jacks- I thought they got rid of them for no reason, just as Apple and Google did.
The Motorola advert is much smaller in scope, and takes place directly after the Samsung ad, where he shows his chick the scene of them having a great time at the beach, and she throws down her Motorola with a projector addon and puts it on the wall. It's cute, but the whole switch-the-magical-components thing is pretty nerdy, and Motorola is going for another market with that IMO.
lol do you think you can even actually get a permanent license? I don't even think that they actually SELL enterprise. It's the one version you can turn off the spying legitimately, so I think you need some huge number of minimum orders and contract or something?
> I do not like the ME, but at least this is local acess exploit only
It's still fucked up.
The previous ME flaw involved gaining remote access illegitimately. This one involves being able to inject stuff into the super ultra privileged secret area that operating systems can't see or guard against once you have that access. And there's NO REASON to believe that this is the final bug that exists. So far it looks like chained vulns from internet down to a run level that the chip prevents the kernel from seeing.
> but this looks like payback for CNN reporting
People are really going to get upset about the government enforcing anti-monopoly rules now, because it is Trump who is enforcing them?
Gimme a break.
Even today, Intel admits to this when you look at icc. I think they only have that disclaimer because of the lawsuit: to my knowledge they are still running really slow code on AMD on purpose.
> Let's face the facts. There can only be two choices when it comes to encryption: Ban ALL encryption for consumer devices ... or leave encryption alone. Compromising encryption algorithms IS A NON-STARTER.
Non techies don't think this way though. They are forever convinced that they can do this, or that they can claim they aren't doing this while actually doing this. The belief in backdoored encryption seems pervasive, because we have people clamoring for it constantly.
> Other than the fact that all but the most ancient website won't work without it anymore
They don't work without it any more because they suck. Javascript should be reserved for cases where you legitimately need something to act like an application, which is not any forums, etc. All this remote code running locally has caused serious fucking problems, and continues to do so.
> That is fraud. Whether someone died because if is irrelevant.
It's pretty relevant. If my grievance is that you sold me crappy metal, the resulting litigation will ultimately result in some type of restitution based upon loss of value directly, possible loss of market value, etc. If instead my grievance is that your crappy metal, sold to somebody else, cost me a family member, you are facing a much more open ended amount of damages- you could meaningfully be destroyed by a number of such lawsuits.
> There's no fucking way it was dust.
No, it was probably biological grime. Congealed Dr. Pepper, some Chinese sauce that dropped in there. Gods help you if it was protein-based. What should the Apple people say? "Dust" is a deflection AWAY from the consumer that inevitably drips coffee or doughnut into their keyboard in small pieces every day. The net effect is "lets clean under the keys" for normally built keyboards, and a huge issue for the topic of the article.
I run a keyboard with removable keys, and I occasionally remove and wash them. When I do this, the area UNDER the key is filled with deritus consistent with a devices that comes in contact with HANDS for hours each day. I clean that out too. Because the keyboard is built for functionality, not merely fashion, I could probably go for years or decades before the accumulated filth made it fail physically, if I stopped cleaning it. But an Apple keyboard doesn't have that failsafe, nor does it have an appealing way to clean it (according to the article, there's like NO way to clean it- it's a huge design fail).
> the Bible says quite a few things that reinforces this idea
I mean, the Bible says a lot of things. There's only some things that are so plain and obvious that they have been faithfully and clearly translated, and there's way way more that you can walk into with some prior thought relevant to our society and find some parts that discuss it and don't overtly dispute it. But this is like "God's Daughter"- if you read the Bible assuming that God had a son and a daughter, you won't find anything disputing the existence of the daughter, and you may have some great ideas about why she isn't mentioned- but the moment you talk to someone who doesn't believe that, they'll be digging through, trying to find the oldest usage of the words used to describe Jesus, trying to find something that implies or states, in some way, that the Bible does, in fact, preclude that. Maybe there are documents that wouldn't be subject to this effect, but the Bible is assuredly not one of them.
> Perhaps causality is only a characteristic of our Universe.
There's still a point of crossover, though. If the universe came literally from nothing, then why aren't multiple universes spawning in our sinks all the time? There's gotta be some nothing around still, right? What, exactly, are the rules of this nothing?
It all becomes a philosophical (or, if you are so inclined, religious) point, and not one able to be resolved with our current understanding (or possibly any future understanding, who knows). If the model of physics goes back to a certain point and then basically says "before this point we don't know what rules were present, to say nothing of matter or energy", then that's leaving everything "before" or "outside" of that open to literally anything. It doesn't preclude special creation, it doesn't preclude a mechanic process whose rules we can't glean, it doesn't preclude the idea that everything is a simulation- it doesn't do anything useful. You can assume that whatever was at that time isn't relevant, because even if everything was preordained by the ordering of twenty five shiny blue apple seeds, we'd have no way to test, observe, or predict- we can act as if, scientifically speaking, that space and time don't exist.
But that doesn't mean that science is stating that- it just means that we should assume that, scientifically, because we have no reason not to.
This kind of thing makes me think that their next step might be to push it to some other studio, give them money, and shut down Star Wars: The Old Republic if it looks like whatever their new vision is might conflict with an existing MMO (not that the new game needs to be an MMO to meet this criteria: anything vaguely close enough would probably count).
While a dual Xeon 256GB machine is not the "standard" desktop, nor even the "standard" workstation (maybe the dual CPU part), it is definitely worth pointing out that you can fit way more metal into a box, more practically than before.
But also- the summary is a lie. Here's Microsoft's page for the Surface Book 2, which the summary touts as "desktop brains":
https://www.microsoft.com/en-u...
Their most powerful option- the 15 inch, with 1 TB storage, 16 GB RAM, and a 3,300 dollar price tag- offers "i7 quad core" and "GTX 1060". nvidia has been engaging in a new type of shenanigans with their mobile cards, implying that they are the same as desktop cards- and of course, they are not. Arguably, they are shafting their desktop users by even making them close. Meanwhile "i7 quad core" applies to the i7-8650U, I think:
https://www.cpubenchmark.net/c...
What's the "i7" desktop equivalent? Well, it's got 6 cores, and I think:
https://www.cpubenchmark.net/c...
With like triple the whatever-goodness-numbers is appropriate.
Anyway, the takeaway is that the 3000+ version of this thing uses a laptop CPU that isn't really close to its desktop equivalent, and nowhere near close to what you can shove into a desktop, and a mobile version of a card that is close to, but not surpassing, the desktop version.