I'd actually read the article before it hit slashdot. Interestingly, why have they only patched it on recent hardware, when a software update (IIRC) could roll it out to most/all hardware?
Partly it depends on whether you care about being able to write a certain amount of data, or rewrite the blocks the same number of times...
Most consumers of hard-drive services care about how much data they can safely store and retrieve and the speed & cost of the device, not how many times they can rewrite a flash block before it fails...
Sequential I/O with big write sizes can be pretty fast (~180MB/s) on modern large drives. SSDs can be ~4x that, so the tests would only take ~4x as long for similar data sizes.
The headline is wrong. The ISP is removing the mail server's announcement that it supports STARTTLS, and your mail client/server sends your email unencrypted. The solution to that is using SMTPS on 465, where encryption is presumed, not negotiated. But that was deprecated soon after the RFC came out in favor of TLS. It's almost like someone was thinking ahead and wanted the internet to be less secure: http://cr.yp.to/talks/2014.10....
> Will it start reminding us to wash hands — if it hears flushing, but not running water in the sink? That would be awesome! It'd save me yelling it at my GF's two boys (9 & 12)...
Note that you need a new NEO, and you (for good security reasons) can't update the firmware on your old NEO to do FIDO U2F. Or at least I couldn't get mine to work, and AFAICT from reading their announcements that's the case.
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In the long run, everything will be fine.
Of course in the long run we'll all be dead.
I'd actually read the article before it hit slashdot.
Interestingly, why have they only patched it on recent hardware, when a software update (IIRC) could roll it out to most/all hardware?
If you're in the airport and you're using a wireless keyboard, you're a wanker...
You just stop option ROMs from loading when you're patching the firmware.
Only if they (Apple) patch it before the machine is rooted.
You should do presentations in nicer places, so they don't want to get out of the travel :-)
Only if you're crazy enough to live where the temps fall below freezing!
(Sent from sunny CA :-)
"low-ID"? WTF are you talking about?
Well, there was a google paper about drive failures a few years back, but I don't think they named names...
There is. Free/Cheap energy in the form of fusion, or very cheap solar panels.
With that, you could desalinate sea water.
I read that somewhere.
I wrote it down, then I read it.
Partly it depends on whether you care about being able to write a certain amount of data, or rewrite the blocks the same number of times...
Most consumers of hard-drive services care about how much data they can safely store and retrieve and the speed & cost of the device, not how many times they can rewrite a flash block before it fails...
Sequential I/O with big write sizes can be pretty fast (~180MB/s) on modern large drives. SSDs can be ~4x that, so the tests would only take ~4x as long for similar data sizes.
What friends? I'm a programmer, damn it!
At work I've got two 2560x1440 displays (27" dells). I run one horizontal, and one vertical. It works out pretty well.
The headline is wrong. The ISP is removing the mail server's announcement that it supports STARTTLS, and your mail client/server sends your email unencrypted.
The solution to that is using SMTPS on 465, where encryption is presumed, not negotiated. But that was deprecated soon after the RFC came out in favor of TLS. It's almost like someone was thinking ahead and wanted the internet to be less secure:
http://cr.yp.to/talks/2014.10....
> Will it start reminding us to wash hands — if it hears flushing, but not running water in the sink?
That would be awesome! It'd save me yelling it at my GF's two boys (9 & 12)...
In 50 years you never had a bulb fail? I'm skeptical...
You really think that the data is gone when you select 'delete' in the app?
It couldn't get on my network without my hard-to-crack wifi password.
But it could secretly join some neighbors' open wifi, or an xfinity wifi, or...
I took "didn't have physical connectivity to the DB" to mean that they used Wi-Fi for extra security :-)
Actually, prior to just recently the cheapest mac mini was $599. I forget exactly when it jumped up to $599 from the earlier (initial?) $499
Note that you need a new NEO, and you (for good security reasons) can't update the firmware on your old NEO to do FIDO U2F.
Or at least I couldn't get mine to work, and AFAICT from reading their announcements that's the case.
I think it's the thing that Lotus invented in 1991 for NeXTStep:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L...
Divorce? That worked for me... :-)