regardless of what anyone thinks about systemd, it is becoming the ex officio standard.
i haven't used it on anything since it trashed my VPS. there are entire distros without it.
I used to complain loudly when windowed desktops became the norm and I was "forced" to use them. That was a losing battle. I learned something from that. Pick your battles.
fighting against systemd a fight worth fighting because it's a security nightmare. security should always trump petty quibbles.
Users / non-Nvidia developers do not have the necessary technical documentation to produce their own firmware, so there is no lost of functionality or flexibility. Their video cards designs, ASIC, and firmware are all proprietary design, with almost no technical documentation available to open source developers.
right... because reverse engineering isn't a thing and patents don't contain any information. what this does is prevent people from being able to experiment and succeed at writing their own firmwares.
requiring signed firmware is still open source unfriendly! if the firmware can be changed, we want an open source version of that too! we also want to be able to run our own code on it. signed firmware is a hostile statement saying that you don't want anyone else to be able to write firmware for this card.
i realize they are trying to make hardware upgrades easy for the average joe but they a missing the fundamental problem of upgrades: finding out which part you want. having an idiot select which type of DDR RAM they want won't be any easier just because now the RAM comes in an easy to plug in box.
this is the result of the failure of the Open Group to provide a POSIX standard to do fast file descriptor checking. poll() and select() are absurdly inefficient and just about everyone with a kernel has invented their own faster alternative. your move Open Group!
The military can’t continue to rely on big, monolithic weapons systems that take years to develop. It will never have them in time or in the numbers required to fight advanced adversaries, Walker said.
who the hell is going to fight the US that is sufficiently advanced? serious question because globalization has resulted in making all the advanced countries economically intertwined.
capitalism is the continuous cycle of optimization resulting in a survival of the fittest situation for businesses with the most fit being fully automated. outsourcing to a country with lower wages is simply an optimization. the question is how long we can sustain an economy by using such practices before it either collapses or a secondary post-scarcity economy springs up.
exploit the natural internal resonances of trees within tiny artificial forests capable of generating enough voltage to power sensors and structural monitoring systems.
so they invented self-powered Life Alert system for trees?;)
TPM chips are designed to withstand such attacks by using distributed storage. I really doubt that you can pull it off even in the best lab. And even then the cost of doing it will probably make sense only for highest-grade intelligence, not regular terrorist investigations.
oh please. all they have to do is disable the self-destruct/counter mechanism and the rest is a brute force attack. i'm sure Infineon even has a backdoor mechanism to disable it. I doubt Apple is even using TPM 2.0 which makes this all moot because TPM 1.2 is a joke.
2) The key is contained only in RAM and inside the TPM module that also does fingerprint recognition.
i wouldn't be surprised if... 1) Infineon had a way to subvert their own security 2) FBI decapped the chip to retrieve the key. you can edit silicon circuits with a Focused Ion Beam. it's pricey and slow but it can be done.
FBI director says investigators unable to unlock San Bernardino killer's phone content
things one needs to unlock a smartphone: * fingerprint (sometimes) (difficulty: invalid) * dump the flash memory (difficulty: hobbyist) * to avoid lockout, have machines emulate the phone and try every combination to unlock the phone (difficulty: developer)
conclusion: the investigators had a technician unlock the phone in less than an hour
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Take down all the content on Youtube that Sony is trying to promote (previews for upcoming movies etc.) and replace it with bad parodies. :)
the lead researcher was quoted as say, "it's alive! IT'S ALIVE!"
Have you ever met a teenager?
Because, my recollection of being one is everything you said is utterly false.
not to let the cat out of the bag but... not everybody is adopted, bro. ;)
By the time this is stable, no one will write programs using those Windows APIs anymore anyway.
yeah, i'm looking forward to the year of the linux desktop too! ;)
regardless of what anyone thinks about systemd, it is becoming the ex officio standard.
i haven't used it on anything since it trashed my VPS. there are entire distros without it.
I used to complain loudly when windowed desktops became the norm and I was "forced" to use them. That was a losing battle. I learned something from that. Pick your battles.
fighting against systemd a fight worth fighting because it's a security nightmare. security should always trump petty quibbles.
these kind of experiments will use and further develop the same technology needed to make designer babies.
not judging, just sayin'.
check out the API cheatsheet
the rest of the API documentation is here: https://www.khronos.org/regist...
Users / non-Nvidia developers do not have the necessary technical documentation to produce their own firmware, so there is no lost of functionality or flexibility. Their video cards designs, ASIC, and firmware are all proprietary design, with almost no technical documentation available to open source developers.
right... because reverse engineering isn't a thing and patents don't contain any information. what this does is prevent people from being able to experiment and succeed at writing their own firmwares.
there are too many links in the summary to bullshit that doesn't matter. seven links is to many. keep it down to one or two.
requiring signed firmware is still open source unfriendly! if the firmware can be changed, we want an open source version of that too! we also want to be able to run our own code on it. signed firmware is a hostile statement saying that you don't want anyone else to be able to write firmware for this card.
"5G isn't just about speed, it's how much you owe us for using it!"
i realize they are trying to make hardware upgrades easy for the average joe but they a missing the fundamental problem of upgrades: finding out which part you want. having an idiot select which type of DDR RAM they want won't be any easier just because now the RAM comes in an easy to plug in box.
this is the result of the failure of the Open Group to provide a POSIX standard to do fast file descriptor checking. poll() and select() are absurdly inefficient and just about everyone with a kernel has invented their own faster alternative. your move Open Group!
The military can’t continue to rely on big, monolithic weapons systems that take years to develop. It will never have them in time or in the numbers required to fight advanced adversaries, Walker said.
who the hell is going to fight the US that is sufficiently advanced? serious question because globalization has resulted in making all the advanced countries economically intertwined.
capitalism is the continuous cycle of optimization resulting in a survival of the fittest situation for businesses with the most fit being fully automated. outsourcing to a country with lower wages is simply an optimization. the question is how long we can sustain an economy by using such practices before it either collapses or a secondary post-scarcity economy springs up.
They could call the product Windows 10.
really, Windows only goes up to 10?. Linux goes up to 11... and all the way passed 9000.
fuck off Ubisoft.
nm
I've always assumed the internet cats run the internet. How else do you explain the number of cat videos on youtube?!
it increases your chance of unibrow!
exploit the natural internal resonances of trees within tiny artificial forests capable of generating enough voltage to power sensors and structural monitoring systems.
so they invented self-powered Life Alert system for trees? ;)
TPM chips are designed to withstand such attacks by using distributed storage. I really doubt that you can pull it off even in the best lab. And even then the cost of doing it will probably make sense only for highest-grade intelligence, not regular terrorist investigations.
oh please. all they have to do is disable the self-destruct/counter mechanism and the rest is a brute force attack. i'm sure Infineon even has a backdoor mechanism to disable it. I doubt Apple is even using TPM 2.0 which makes this all moot because TPM 1.2 is a joke.
2) The key is contained only in RAM and inside the TPM module that also does fingerprint recognition.
i wouldn't be surprised if...
1) Infineon had a way to subvert their own security
2) FBI decapped the chip to retrieve the key. you can edit silicon circuits with a Focused Ion Beam. it's pricey and slow but it can be done.
It's not that it's difficult, it's just that it requires more time than the heat death of the universe to execute.
to crack the AES encryption: yes. to crack smartphone security: no.
FBI director says investigators unable to unlock San Bernardino killer's phone content
things one needs to unlock a smartphone:
* fingerprint (sometimes) (difficulty: invalid)
* dump the flash memory (difficulty: hobbyist)
* to avoid lockout, have machines emulate the phone and try every combination to unlock the phone (difficulty: developer)
conclusion: the investigators had a technician unlock the phone in less than an hour
DO NOT BELIEVE HIS LIES.