Google's first contribution will be "a new rack specification that includes 48V power distribution and a new form factor to allow OCP racks to fit into our data centers,"
they aren't going to "allow OCP racks to fit into [their] data centers," they are trying to make OCP adopt their design.
Shanghai officials have put in place a complicated—and expensive—process to purchase the right to add a car to the often-gridlocked roads of this city of 23 million people. To register for the license auction, prospective car buyers must put down 2,000 yuan as good faith money. In exchange, they get a disc loaded with software they can use to bid online. After a couple of rounds of offers, the government figures out the highest price it can charge to completely sell out the year’s new allotment of licenses. Lottery participants who had bid at least that much then get to pay for their plates.
for communism, it sure seems a lot like capitalism at it's finest.
large and powerful companies can buy off some of the people in congress, enough to block any real reform. so the new tactic is to fight them everywhere which companies are not prepared to fight because it means you have to buy off all the little people which would be quite expensive and the little people can't always be bought. i think you will find that after much of the coal industry has fallen, only then will congressional reform be possible.
While it all might simply seem like a neat party trick, the technology does potentially have some very practical applications.
considering all the advancements in soft robotics, i'd say this is the finishing touch before japan comes out with some advanced robotic tentacle porn.
it seems unreasonable to have a job requirement unrelated to the job itself. i realize that unions only exist because of rampant abuses by employers but a hard requirement on membership to a particular union opens the door for abuse of the members of said union. making requiring union membership illegal seems fair despite weakening the grip that unions have on employers.
why has it taken governments so long to realize that if someone you works for asks for something, saying "no" can hurt you and therefore it should be illegal to ask for an employee to do anything that is not directly job related. that bullshit with disney asking for "donations" is a perfect example. i wish our regulatory agencies would do something about this kind of bullshit.
you are free to hack and extort from the little people, just don't mess with the people running the show or they will burn you alive. he would have been safer and richer if he just proliferated ransomware.
This issue also raises another question: How many unsafe features are on Facebook's beta platform that have not been patched simultaneously with the main platform?
better question: why do people use facebook despite the poor service they provide?
he's trying to bring attention to the issue, that the FBI is trying to fool everyone into thinking they cannot crack an iphone.
“That video, on my YouTube account, it has 700,000 views. My point is to bring to the American public the problem that the FBI is trying to [fool] the American public. How am I going to do that, by just going off and saying it? No one is going to listen to that crap.
“So I come up with something sensational,” he continued. “Now, what I did not lie about was my ability to crack the iPhone."...
Later in the interview, McAfee described his method, which involves “decapping” the phone’s processor and acquiring the device’s unique identifier (UID), that may allow someone to brute force the phone’s password
he's not wrong either. a grad student explained this in a blog post from October 2014.
If Apple did their job properly, however, the UID (device encryption key) is completely inaccessible to software and is locked up in some kind of on-die hardware security module (HSM). This means that even if Eve is able to execute arbitrary code on the device while it is locked, she must bruteforce the passcode on the device itself - a very slow and time-consuming process.
In this case, an attacker may still be able to execute an invasive physical attack. By depackaging the SoC, etching or polishing down to the polysilicon layer, and looking at the surface of the die with an electron microscope the fuse bits can be located and read directly off the surface of the silicon.
Since the key is physically burned into the IC, once power is removed from the phone there's no practical way for any kind of self-destruct to erase it. Although this would require a reasonably well-equipped attacker, I'm pretty confident based on my previous experience that I could do it myself, with equipment available to me at school, if I had a couple of phones to destructively analyze and a few tens of thousands of dollars to spend on lab time. This is pocket change for an intelligence agency.
Once the UID is extracted, and the encrypted disk contents dumped from the flash chips, an offline bruteforce using GPUs, FPGAs, or ASICs could be used to recover the key in a fairly short time.
while this may have been a fun exercise in hypotheticals, reconstructing an object from the sound a 3d printer makes is the most indirect, difficult and least precise way of getting the information you want. it's fun to think of but it just has no practical application.
hey developers, if you use open APIs you are no longer at the mercy of one company's "vision" of what a platform should be and can get more users without having to repeatedly porting your code.
there is a lot of DNA that encodes for stuff we don't need... until we do. you could remove lots of genes that are only active under certain conditions if you can be sure you will never meet those conditions. however, the optimal evolutionary pattern is to hedge your bets.
When that one person has the financial capability to go up against, and overcome, the entire TEAM of lawyers that the company will deploy against them.
confirmed! i purposely used pronouns to allow for the real possibility of one company suing another. you would be pissed too if you were the lead in an ISP and you found out the routers you have been using have shit for security.
What "government critter"? The Republicans are the opposition party.
first off, when selecting from a finite set of options, you use "which" rather than "what". second, the "government critter" is a politician. if you bothered to read the rest of my post before flipping your wig, you would have realized that.
"AlterEager"? more like "TooEager". Yeah, that's a sick burn.;)
Please, do not put all my fellowmen(and women) in the same basket. The quote comes from "a French Republican" not from a reasonable person!
slow your roll, my friend. i would never be so callous as to assume the words of a government critter was even remotely representative of how that country's humans feel. i mean, have your read the utter shit our congress critters spew? i've talked to some of your fellow frenchies (who introduced me to the term "frenchie") and they are good people. the task we face now is figuring out how to remove these critters from the bowels of our governments and more importantly, how they propagate. i mean, do they crawl into your ear and lay an egg near your the brain so that when the spawn hatches it will consume the brain of the host and take control? i think Donald Drumpf's brain poisoned the newly spawned critter that ate half his brain before being absorbed because that seems to be the only explanation to his glitchy mess of vitriol and politics.
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Years ago when we told others about the existence of Prism and many other oppressive projects, people say we wore tinfoil
just because you were right about something doesn't mean you aren't a paranoid schizophrenic.
Google's first contribution will be "a new rack specification that includes 48V power distribution and a new form factor to allow OCP racks to fit into our data centers,"
they aren't going to "allow OCP racks to fit into [their] data centers," they are trying to make OCP adopt their design.
just sayin'
Shanghai officials have put in place a complicated—and expensive—process to purchase the right to add a car to the often-gridlocked roads of this city of 23 million people. To register for the license auction, prospective car buyers must put down 2,000 yuan as good faith money. In exchange, they get a disc loaded with software they can use to bid online. After a couple of rounds of offers, the government figures out the highest price it can charge to completely sell out the year’s new allotment of licenses. Lottery participants who had bid at least that much then get to pay for their plates.
for communism, it sure seems a lot like capitalism at it's finest.
e.g. change the vehicle's route, or put up a geo-fence for it (he says he does not now what such a change would cause).
the first use of a geo-fence hack will be used to keep the hacker's in-laws at bay. ;)
large and powerful companies can buy off some of the people in congress, enough to block any real reform. so the new tactic is to fight them everywhere which companies are not prepared to fight because it means you have to buy off all the little people which would be quite expensive and the little people can't always be bought. i think you will find that after much of the coal industry has fallen, only then will congressional reform be possible.
yes but this time it will be a public service. ;)
While it all might simply seem like a neat party trick, the technology does potentially have some very practical applications.
considering all the advancements in soft robotics, i'd say this is the finishing touch before japan comes out with some advanced robotic tentacle porn.
They can't remove this "ability" because this "ability" is just a piece of code that runs on any PS4 you can get kernel code to run on.
you act as if Sony is incapable of altering the kernel. don't be a dullard, think before you post.
it seems unreasonable to have a job requirement unrelated to the job itself. i realize that unions only exist because of rampant abuses by employers but a hard requirement on membership to a particular union opens the door for abuse of the members of said union. making requiring union membership illegal seems fair despite weakening the grip that unions have on employers.
it should only be a day or so before Sony removes this ability for "security" reasons. fuck Sony. yes, fuck Microsoft more but still, fuck Sony.
why has it taken governments so long to realize that if someone you works for asks for something, saying "no" can hurt you and therefore it should be illegal to ask for an employee to do anything that is not directly job related. that bullshit with disney asking for "donations" is a perfect example. i wish our regulatory agencies would do something about this kind of bullshit.
you are free to hack and extort from the little people, just don't mess with the people running the show or they will burn you alive. he would have been safer and richer if he just proliferated ransomware.
This issue also raises another question: How many unsafe features are on Facebook's beta platform that have not been patched simultaneously with the main platform?
better question: why do people use facebook despite the poor service they provide?
he's trying to bring attention to the issue, that the FBI is trying to fool everyone into thinking they cannot crack an iphone.
“That video, on my YouTube account, it has 700,000 views. My point is to bring to the American public the problem that the FBI is trying to [fool] the American public. How am I going to do that, by just going off and saying it? No one is going to listen to that crap.
“So I come up with something sensational,” he continued. “Now, what I did not lie about was my ability to crack the iPhone." ...
Later in the interview, McAfee described his method, which involves “decapping” the phone’s processor and acquiring the device’s unique identifier (UID), that may allow someone to brute force the phone’s password
he's not wrong either. a grad student explained this in a blog post from October 2014.
Why Apple's iPhone encryption won't stop NSA (or any other intelligence agency)
excerpt from the post:
If Apple did their job properly, however, the UID (device encryption key) is completely inaccessible to software and is locked up in some kind of on-die hardware security module (HSM). This means that even if Eve is able to execute arbitrary code on the device while it is locked, she must bruteforce the passcode on the device itself - a very slow and time-consuming process.
In this case, an attacker may still be able to execute an invasive physical attack. By depackaging the SoC, etching or polishing down to the polysilicon layer, and looking at the surface of the die with an electron microscope the fuse bits can be located and read directly off the surface of the silicon.
Since the key is physically burned into the IC, once power is removed from the phone there's no practical way for any kind of self-destruct to erase it. Although this would require a reasonably well-equipped attacker, I'm pretty confident based on my previous experience that I could do it myself, with equipment available to me at school, if I had a couple of phones to destructively analyze and a few tens of thousands of dollars to spend on lab time. This is pocket change for an intelligence agency.
Once the UID is extracted, and the encrypted disk contents dumped from the flash chips, an offline bruteforce using GPUs, FPGAs, or ASICs could be used to recover the key in a fairly short time.
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/03...
seriously, have you no decency slashdot editors?
After the Win 8 mess, I'm sure Microsoft is hugely focused on reliability,
obviously! i mean, why else would they fire so many of their testers?
and yet a series of errors with updates like this happen. Are they hitting a wall of unmanageable complexity?
yeah, despite reducing the QA team, it's someone even more unmanageable!
protip: if your patching system is flawed, firing a bunch of testers isn't the solution.
while this may have been a fun exercise in hypotheticals, reconstructing an object from the sound a 3d printer makes is the most indirect, difficult and least precise way of getting the information you want. it's fun to think of but it just has no practical application.
hey developers, if you use open APIs you are no longer at the mercy of one company's "vision" of what a platform should be and can get more users without having to repeatedly porting your code.
so that's what their calling 50 page walls of text these days, eh?
there is a lot of DNA that encodes for stuff we don't need... until we do. you could remove lots of genes that are only active under certain conditions if you can be sure you will never meet those conditions. however, the optimal evolutionary pattern is to hedge your bets.
how about securing Drupal's codebase before releasing it?
my lawn: get off it!
http://www.spacetelescope.org/...
hey slashdot editors, if you are reporting about space and/or science, stick with links to websites dedicated to that topic!
Easy answer.
then you weren't paying attention.
When that one person has the financial capability to go up against, and overcome, the entire TEAM of lawyers that the company will deploy against them.
confirmed! i purposely used pronouns to allow for the real possibility of one company suing another. you would be pissed too if you were the lead in an ISP and you found out the routers you have been using have shit for security.
What "government critter"? The Republicans are the opposition party.
first off, when selecting from a finite set of options, you use "which" rather than "what". second, the "government critter" is a politician. if you bothered to read the rest of my post before flipping your wig, you would have realized that.
"AlterEager"? more like "TooEager". Yeah, that's a sick burn. ;)
Please, do not put all my fellowmen(and women) in the same basket. The quote comes from "a French Republican" not from a reasonable person!
slow your roll, my friend. i would never be so callous as to assume the words of a government critter was even remotely representative of how that country's humans feel. i mean, have your read the utter shit our congress critters spew? i've talked to some of your fellow frenchies (who introduced me to the term "frenchie") and they are good people. the task we face now is figuring out how to remove these critters from the bowels of our governments and more importantly, how they propagate. i mean, do they crawl into your ear and lay an egg near your the brain so that when the spawn hatches it will consume the brain of the host and take control? i think Donald Drumpf's brain poisoned the newly spawned critter that ate half his brain before being absorbed because that seems to be the only explanation to his glitchy mess of vitriol and politics.
#MakeDonaldDrumpfAgain