Honestly, this ban should be extended to all consumer grade devices that have non-removable batteries. Simply put, if your battery cannot be removed from the device, the safety of your device is strictly based on software. Consumer grade software has been known to fail in horrible ways.
If it really is strictly a "ultra-high frequency" jammer then it's range is between 300MHz and 3GHz. What this means is that a 5GHz cellular modem would still be able to operate under these conditions. However, if it's as powerful as they claim, you should add a little aluminum foil to the bottom of your drone.:)
It's an "open" version of IBM's Coherent Accelerator Processor Interface which is basically a specification for how programs can interface with specialized "accelerators" (usually FPGAs) by writing to designated sections of RAM. This method minimizes the number of alternations that need to be made to motherboards, allows the use of standard CPUs and standardizes the unifies the changes that need to be made to the kernel.
if it was a matter of simple differences in the ecosystem, that would be one thing but the reality is that people are simply paid less and there are fewer enforced environmental protections and labor laws. either way, it's not a technological improvement.
I described that two countries could work 60 hours and make 40 chairs with cushions; or they could trade chairs for cushions and work 40 hours making 40 chairs with cushions, leaving 20 hours of labor available to make new things, thus totaling the same work and producing more wealth per individual.
What you described was moving work from one country to another where people have fewer options and thus are paid less. That has nothing to do with technology because it's simply the exploitation of a people. You might as well claim slavery is technology. The only people disingenuous to much so a claim are lawyers, marketers and conmen.
IoT vendors will only secure their devices after it starts costing them money or are legally required to do so.
The best option is to high jack the IoT devices to DDoS their makers because it creates a direct feedback loop. The more insecure devices they sell, the more it will cost them to host their company's website(s). For extra points, only target their parent company.;)
Farm jobs, 1790, 90% of the labor force. Manufacturing took all our hard-working farm jobs. <-- technological improvement Dock and rail worker jobs, 1920. The shipping pallet cut 4 days work down to 4 hours. <-- technological improvement Manufacturing jobs, 1990. Globalization took away all our jobs. <-- moving jobs IT jobs, 2015. H1B foreigners are taking our jobs. <-- moving jobs
There seems to be a problem with your comparison. Frankly, I don't think moving all our manufacturing to China was a good move and the H1B program is a disaster.
I can give you hundreds more, so label Universities as trolls and call each one irrelevant.
hundreds out of tens of millions? that's at least 0.01% of them! oh my, so many!
Point is, young adults come out with unrealistic expectations, have not been allowed to grow up and have trouble making their own decisions, and are prone to depression and disappointment, and their parents are the cause.
Anecdotes? Whoa there, buddy, you're argument about a few people is clearly statistically significant! I guess we should discard what scientists say because it doesn't seem right to you.
While true, backdoors happen less often in hardware because of the additional costs associated development. However, a RISC-V chip made using direct lithography would solve this problem.
If they are concerned about their systems being penetrated, they should focus on moving everything away from the clumsy grasp of Microsoft programmers.
ME is closed source and it should be assumed that it has a backdoor.
In the end the compatibility with existing infrastructure, OS support.... pushed us in the Intel direction.
What this tells me is that you simply lacked the knowledge of how to build a platform, so you cut corners and probably made a deal with Intel.
1) minimized the reach of ME to a good extent [...]
You cannot minimize the reach of ME because it load before everything else. If you believe that you have then you are either ignorant or you have deluded yourself.
2) Most secure solutions today rely on Intel today
no they don't because anything with ME is not actually secured.
We also realized that some of our firmware uses libraries provided under NDA. We will clearly identify which components are protected under NDA and how to go about securing such an NDA.
An NDA does not provide protection. What it does is confirm which parts of your machine and firmware cannot be trusted. Choosing to base their machine around an Intel chip was perhaps the greatest mistake they made.
What if we had a network of LEO satellites that replaced the internet backbone, providing high speed internet access to all people and only a handful of governments were even capable of disrupting this network? Would it be worth pissing off every nation state that censored the internet and possibly causing a war?
Removing math from programing? Is he/she serious? It's required to understand the functions and computer languages. Without it you can't properly make code!
I believe they are speaking about removing the requirement for higher maths like calculus and trigonometry. I suck at both but I'm excellent at Algebra and I'm an above average programmer. I don't make fancy 3d graphics but it's not a requirement for headless embedded systems either.
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that's true but industrial grade code is actually has standards. with consumer electronics, anything goes.
Honestly, this ban should be extended to all consumer grade devices that have non-removable batteries. Simply put, if your battery cannot be removed from the device, the safety of your device is strictly based on software. Consumer grade software has been known to fail in horrible ways.
If it really is strictly a "ultra-high frequency" jammer then it's range is between 300MHz and 3GHz. What this means is that a 5GHz cellular modem would still be able to operate under these conditions. However, if it's as powerful as they claim, you should add a little aluminum foil to the bottom of your drone. :)
It's an "open" version of IBM's Coherent Accelerator Processor Interface which is basically a specification for how programs can interface with specialized "accelerators" (usually FPGAs) by writing to designated sections of RAM. This method minimizes the number of alternations that need to be made to motherboards, allows the use of standard CPUs and standardizes the unifies the changes that need to be made to the kernel.
TL;DR: supercomputing nerd stuff
Yes, we can!
By that standard, exploitation, enslavement, genocide and terrorism are just technologies.
if it was a matter of simple differences in the ecosystem, that would be one thing but the reality is that people are simply paid less and there are fewer enforced environmental protections and labor laws. either way, it's not a technological improvement.
I described that two countries could work 60 hours and make 40 chairs with cushions; or they could trade chairs for cushions and work 40 hours making 40 chairs with cushions, leaving 20 hours of labor available to make new things, thus totaling the same work and producing more wealth per individual.
What you described was moving work from one country to another where people have fewer options and thus are paid less. That has nothing to do with technology because it's simply the exploitation of a people. You might as well claim slavery is technology. The only people disingenuous to much so a claim are lawyers, marketers and conmen.
I've said it before but it's worth repeating.
IoT vendors will only secure their devices after it starts costing them money or are legally required to do so.
The best option is to high jack the IoT devices to DDoS their makers because it creates a direct feedback loop. The more insecure devices they sell, the more it will cost them to host their company's website(s). For extra points, only target their parent company. ;)
Not exactly. Trade is a technical improvement as well.
only if you are a lawyer, marketer or conman.
Tens of millions of Universities? Oh my indeed!
ahh, the troll, the last resort of the defeated. better luck next time.
Farm jobs, 1790, 90% of the labor force. Manufacturing took all our hard-working farm jobs. <-- technological improvement
Dock and rail worker jobs, 1920. The shipping pallet cut 4 days work down to 4 hours. <-- technological improvement
Manufacturing jobs, 1990. Globalization took away all our jobs. <-- moving jobs
IT jobs, 2015. H1B foreigners are taking our jobs. <-- moving jobs
There seems to be a problem with your comparison. Frankly, I don't think moving all our manufacturing to China was a good move and the H1B program is a disaster.
I can give you hundreds more, so label Universities as trolls and call each one irrelevant.
hundreds out of tens of millions? that's at least 0.01% of them! oh my, so many!
Point is, young adults come out with unrealistic expectations, have not been allowed to grow up and have trouble making their own decisions, and are prone to depression and disappointment, and their parents are the cause.
my point is that the exceptions are not the rule.
Anecdotes? Whoa there, buddy, you're argument about a few people is clearly statistically significant! I guess we should discard what scientists say because it doesn't seem right to you.
Intel CPU was recommended by the QUBES OS team for performances and security. TAILS, TOR and QUBES OS all run on Intel...
I've looked over their recommendations and I see no indication that they recommend Intel over AMD or vice versa.
While true, backdoors happen less often in hardware because of the additional costs associated development. However, a RISC-V chip made using direct lithography would solve this problem.
If they are concerned about their systems being penetrated, they should focus on moving everything away from the clumsy grasp of Microsoft programmers.
ME is closed source and it should be assumed that it has a backdoor.
In the end the compatibility with existing infrastructure, OS support .... pushed us in the Intel direction.
What this tells me is that you simply lacked the knowledge of how to build a platform, so you cut corners and probably made a deal with Intel.
1) minimized the reach of ME to a good extent [...]
You cannot minimize the reach of ME because it load before everything else. If you believe that you have then you are either ignorant or you have deluded yourself.
2) Most secure solutions today rely on Intel today
no they don't because anything with ME is not actually secured.
We also realized that some of our firmware uses libraries provided under NDA. We will clearly identify which components are protected under NDA and how to go about securing such an NDA.
An NDA does not provide protection. What it does is confirm which parts of your machine and firmware cannot be trusted. Choosing to base their machine around an Intel chip was perhaps the greatest mistake they made.
What if we had a network of LEO satellites that replaced the internet backbone, providing high speed internet access to all people and only a handful of governments were even capable of disrupting this network? Would it be worth pissing off every nation state that censored the internet and possibly causing a war?
"fuck you, nerds", that's why! ;)
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Removing math from programing?
Is he/she serious? It's required to understand the functions and computer languages. Without it you can't properly make code!
I believe they are speaking about removing the requirement for higher maths like calculus and trigonometry. I suck at both but I'm excellent at Algebra and I'm an above average programmer. I don't make fancy 3d graphics but it's not a requirement for headless embedded systems either.
Stop and think for a moment.. what purpose did this press release serve?
This was not a press release.
Why would the FBI inform the public that they have an iPhone that they cannot unlock?
You do know that the FBI isn't involved here, right? This is about a patent.
Do you see what's really happening here?
I'm not entirely sure but I'm beginning to suspect you forgot to fill your prescription. ;)
I propose anyone still wanting to claim we have Freedom in the United States be charged with criminal ignorance.
We can't do that, that would be unconstitutional. ;)