My 15" 2011 MacBook pro died and was replaced with a 2017 MBP model. I hate the Touch Bar-- screw you to whoever greenlit that idea. And the keyboard is a sorry replacement for the 2011's.
I did find out how to bring my 2011 model back to life! It involves a soldering iron to permanently disable the GPU. Two things don't work anymore-- external monitor support and brightness control. Otherwise, it works great. Here is the link: https://realmacmods.com/macboo...
This might be a strained analogy but here goes. Instead of charging $50,000 and giving a $50,000 waiver for which they will be taxed, why not charge a tuition of $1 and give a $1 waiver. They can pay the extra 25 cent tax on the dollar and call it a day. What is the benefit to the school of charging $50K if they are going to waive it?
Can anyone say confounding by indication? In the same way that people who get a lot of EKGs are at much higher risk of having a heart attack, people who consume artificial sweetners are at increased risk of obesity.
No one would suggest that getting an EKG increases your risk of heart attacks but people who get a lot of them are certainly at a much, MUCH higher risk of heart attacks. That is because if you have risk factors and complain of chest pain and shortness of breath to a doctor, she will send you for an EKG. In the same way, people self select to consume artificial sweetners if they are fat.
As easy as micro-SDs are to lose, I would like to see this in a format that would work with a Raspberry PI 3. Pricing? I'm hoping its not "if you have to ask..."
I agree $400 per year is quite high considering the alternative, i.e. pay attention. At least this keeps the Audi engineers doing something other than cheating on emissions.
It's worse than that. Even having the complete source code offers incomplete protection unless you are sure of your entire build toolchain. See Ken Thompson's hack: http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?TheKenT...
If you extend this to hardware, that's a whole nother layer to the crazyness.
Here's the thing though, that $15 wage is a strawman.
I agree with you about this. With tidal changes in technology and how civilizations do things, there have some businesses made obsolete. For example buggy whip manufacturers with the advent of the car. With robotics and AI, what if humans (labor, thought, creativity, bargaining, etc) are the buggy whip?
You need to send this memo out to Amazon video and Netflix. My macbook gets awfully warm when playing video from these sources. iPad stays nice and cool however. They (Amazon, Netflix, Apple) should fix this but alas, probably never will.
Very few people buy things online? I think the more accurate view is that very few people realize how important strong encryption is to what they already do.
Once you are served with a secret warrant, you are legally bound not to disclose that you have been served. They can however stop updating the "We have not been served" status on their website letting users/people know that they have been served.
If you work on an security project and haven't been served, please do this now. And blink twice if you can't say anything....
If Apple is as serious as they say they are about security and privacy, they need to change the OS/firmware/hardware to make updating a phone impossible without either unlocking the phone or wiping it clean. This way, when this happens again, and it almost certainly will, they can honestly say, we can't rather than we would rather not.
I would imagine being able to encode this video with a ridiculously low bitrate and still achieve great pictures, albeit at low framerates. I would imagine most people would not be able to tell the difference however. 10 hour video, 1080p encoding for 10 MB?
I was not aware of that program. I would like to offer a python alternative, a set of number theory functions written by Wm Stein. You can find a copy on github: https://github.com/LizardM4/Py...
I would argue that seeing how these are computed using fairly short python code gives an appreciation for how things happen. For example, you can see that factor can be implemented using a few lines of python:
def factor(n):... comments were here
if n in [-1, 0, 1]: return []
if n < 0: n = -n
F = []
while n != 1:
p = trial_division(n)
e = 1
n/= p
while n%p == 0:
e += 1; n/= p
F.append((p,e))
F.sort()
return F
And would also introduce him to the projecteuler.net to practice coding and direct his energy. And the greatest gift is your time and devotion-- can't put a price on that.
Not an expert in this field, but what you are advocating would almost certainly not work for natural gas. Imagine a propane tank with an access port where you can add or remove gas (don't know if the gas is liquified at storage temperatures and pressures). If the tank springs a leak somewhere else in the tank, you are not going to be able to seal it with a fluid that falls to the bottom when you pump it in-- unless the leak is at the bottom. What you propose works when the stored fluid is about the same density as concrete but in this case, the concrete will immediately separate and fall to the bottom.
Don't get me wrong, I have no sympathy for the petroleum industry but I am sure they are trying to fix this as quickly as possible given the bad PR.
Can't tell if intentionally trolling or just slightly misinformed. When people talk about carbon sequestration, no one is considering what you just wrote. There are several different methods of carbon sequestration. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
but they involve turning CO2 into solid form, e.g. mineral carbonates (think calcium carbonate, i.e. antacid), that are buried.
Wow. First of all, frack you and the frackers who modded you up as "informative." You are a self-centered misguided narcissist.
Maybe I don't have a second point. Or heres one: imagine if corporations thought the same way about dumping crap into our waterways: inorganic solvents, mercury, hexavalent chromium, CFC? Maybe one factory can't mess things up too bad but imagine if every factory thought they were a snowflake. Thats when lakes catch on fire. You think its OK for you to dump phosphates because its just your little self? How much damage can one little person do? You possibly informed thousands of people how to sidestep an important environmental regulation.
I would be ashamed if I did crap like this and here you are bragging about it, Worse yet, you seem to understand why the regulations are in place. Perhaps you think that if only a few snowflakes did it, no one would know? You shared your secret and now probably more people are going to do it. When do you think they will start regulating the TSP in the paint section? Good job.
If the traces sop up solder well, perhaps tin or wave solder the board before putting on the mask? Solder is likely a lot more conductive than the printed traces. Or alternatively after the traces have been printed, put on a layer of solder paste and reflow.
Even without the detour, what are the security ramifications of connecting a foreign device to your network? Its from Amazon, they have an image to protect, but what if they get hacked or the packaged gets switched/tampered with en route? The device can silently start making its way around your network collecting data you didn't want to upload.
Mixed feelings: Porsche (do want) with nanny controls( don't want). Sort of like watching your Ferrari going over a cliff driven by your mother-in-law.
Dear Mark, I enjoyed watching your movie over the weekend. The Pathfinder hack was OK, but quite frankly, I found it rather weak that you had to have the engineers on earth send you the machine code to reprogram the computer. Would have been a much better hack if you coded and hand assembled the program yourself. I guess you can't expect too much from a botanist. Peter
Problem is that you can reach that content by pointing any browser, including Safari, at ifixit.com and see the forbidden fruit. Should they blacklist Safari because it can be used to get the same tainted information? Taking down iFixit's app was closing the barn door after the horses left-- it did nothing to prevent access to the information.
Not giving pre-production samples to them would be a better way to prevent this. Would have been much better/classier for APPL to take iFixit off their list of developers who receive pre-release models, say lesson learned, and move on.
If you can't blame the kid for eating the marshmallow, then you can't blame Mom for refusing to trust the kid with more marshmallows.
Confusing as it is not a car analogy, but here goes. I think its fine for APPL to stop giving them more developer models of their new products. APPL's dick move was closing iFixit's developer account thereby removing their app from the AppStore. That was just petty and unnecessary.
I see your point but at the same time, what was APPL thinking giving a developer unit to iFixit, a website whose sole purpose is to take apart things?
Apple was daring iFixit to break the NDA. Sort of like giving a two year old a marshmallow, telling him not to eat it, and then leaving the room. Who is at fault, the two year old or the person giving the marshmallow?
Serious question here. I was wondering whether C lends itself to obfuscation of undesired/malicious behavior or whether it is just the preferred language of people able to dream up such deviousness. Would someone with enough python-fu be able to pull this off or would the deception/error be easier to detect by the average coder? i.e. would an underhanded python contest be feasible or would the deception to readily apparent (or at least more apparent)?
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My 15" 2011 MacBook pro died and was replaced with a 2017 MBP model. I hate the Touch Bar-- screw you to whoever greenlit that idea. And the keyboard is a sorry replacement for the 2011's.
I did find out how to bring my 2011 model back to life! It involves a soldering iron to permanently disable the GPU. Two things don't work anymore-- external monitor support and brightness control. Otherwise, it works great. Here is the link:
https://realmacmods.com/macboo...
This might be a strained analogy but here goes. Instead of charging $50,000 and giving a $50,000 waiver for which they will be taxed, why not charge a tuition of $1 and give a $1 waiver. They can pay the extra 25 cent tax on the dollar and call it a day. What is the benefit to the school of charging $50K if they are going to waive it?
Can anyone say confounding by indication? In the same way that people who get a lot of EKGs are at much higher risk of having a heart attack, people who consume artificial sweetners are at increased risk of obesity.
No one would suggest that getting an EKG increases your risk of heart attacks but people who get a lot of them are certainly at a much, MUCH higher risk of heart attacks. That is because if you have risk factors and complain of chest pain and shortness of breath to a doctor, she will send you for an EKG. In the same way, people self select to consume artificial sweetners if they are fat.
As easy as micro-SDs are to lose, I would like to see this in a format that would work with a Raspberry PI 3. Pricing? I'm hoping its not "if you have to ask..."
I agree $400 per year is quite high considering the alternative, i.e. pay attention. At least this keeps the Audi engineers doing something other than cheating on emissions.
It's worse than that. Even having the complete source code offers incomplete protection unless you are sure of your entire build toolchain. See Ken Thompson's hack: http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?TheKenT...
If you extend this to hardware, that's a whole nother layer to the crazyness.
Here's the thing though, that $15 wage is a strawman.
I agree with you about this. With tidal changes in technology and how civilizations do things, there have some businesses made obsolete. For example buggy whip manufacturers with the advent of the car. With robotics and AI, what if humans (labor, thought, creativity, bargaining, etc) are the buggy whip?
You need to send this memo out to Amazon video and Netflix. My macbook gets awfully warm when playing video from these sources. iPad stays nice and cool however. They (Amazon, Netflix, Apple) should fix this but alas, probably never will.
...very few encrypt compared to that.
Very few people buy things online? I think the more accurate view is that very few people realize how important strong encryption is to what they already do.
Perhaps companies/groups that write such software could implement a "warrant canary." See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Once you are served with a secret warrant, you are legally bound not to disclose that you have been served. They can however stop updating the "We have not been served" status on their website letting users/people know that they have been served.
If you work on an security project and haven't been served, please do this now. And blink twice if you can't say anything....
If Apple is as serious as they say they are about security and privacy, they need to change the OS/firmware/hardware to make updating a phone impossible without either unlocking the phone or wiping it clean. This way, when this happens again, and it almost certainly will, they can honestly say, we can't rather than we would rather not.
I would imagine being able to encode this video with a ridiculously low bitrate and still achieve great pictures, albeit at low framerates. I would imagine most people would not be able to tell the difference however. 10 hour video, 1080p encoding for 10 MB?
I was not aware of that program. I would like to offer a python alternative, a set of number theory functions written by Wm Stein. You can find a copy on github:
https://github.com/LizardM4/Py...
I would argue that seeing how these are computed using fairly short python code gives an appreciation for how things happen. For example, you can see that factor can be implemented using a few lines of python:
def factor(n):
if n in [-1, 0, 1]: return []
if n < 0: n = -n
F = []
while n != 1:
p = trial_division(n)
e = 1
n
while n%p == 0:
e += 1; n
F.append((p,e))
F.sort()
return F
And would also introduce him to the projecteuler.net to practice coding and direct his energy. And the greatest gift is your time and devotion-- can't put a price on that.
Not an expert in this field, but what you are advocating would almost certainly not work for natural gas. Imagine a propane tank with an access port where you can add or remove gas (don't know if the gas is liquified at storage temperatures and pressures). If the tank springs a leak somewhere else in the tank, you are not going to be able to seal it with a fluid that falls to the bottom when you pump it in-- unless the leak is at the bottom. What you propose works when the stored fluid is about the same density as concrete but in this case, the concrete will immediately separate and fall to the bottom.
Don't get me wrong, I have no sympathy for the petroleum industry but I am sure they are trying to fix this as quickly as possible given the bad PR.
Can't tell if intentionally trolling or just slightly misinformed. When people talk about carbon sequestration, no one is considering what you just wrote. There are several different methods of carbon sequestration. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
but they involve turning CO2 into solid form, e.g. mineral carbonates (think calcium carbonate, i.e. antacid), that are buried.
Wow. First of all, frack you and the frackers who modded you up as "informative." You are a self-centered misguided narcissist.
Maybe I don't have a second point. Or heres one: imagine if corporations thought the same way about dumping crap into our waterways: inorganic solvents, mercury, hexavalent chromium, CFC? Maybe one factory can't mess things up too bad but imagine if every factory thought they were a snowflake. Thats when lakes catch on fire. You think its OK for you to dump phosphates because its just your little self? How much damage can one little person do? You possibly informed thousands of people how to sidestep an important environmental regulation.
I would be ashamed if I did crap like this and here you are bragging about it, Worse yet, you seem to understand why the regulations are in place. Perhaps you think that if only a few snowflakes did it, no one would know? You shared your secret and now probably more people are going to do it. When do you think they will start regulating the TSP in the paint section? Good job.
And thirdly, don't mod up assholes!
If the traces sop up solder well, perhaps tin or wave solder the board before putting on the mask? Solder is likely a lot more conductive than the printed traces. Or alternatively after the traces have been printed, put on a layer of solder paste and reflow.
Even without the detour, what are the security ramifications of connecting a foreign device to your network? Its from Amazon, they have an image to protect, but what if they get hacked or the packaged gets switched/tampered with en route? The device can silently start making its way around your network collecting data you didn't want to upload.
I'll take off my aluminum Faraday beanie cap now.
Mixed feelings: Porsche (do want) with nanny controls( don't want). Sort of like watching your Ferrari going over a cliff driven by your mother-in-law.
Dear Mark,
I enjoyed watching your movie over the weekend. The Pathfinder hack was OK, but quite frankly, I found it rather weak that you had to have the engineers on earth send you the machine code to reprogram the computer. Would have been a much better hack if you coded and hand assembled the program yourself. I guess you can't expect too much from a botanist.
Peter
Problem is that you can reach that content by pointing any browser, including Safari, at ifixit.com and see the forbidden fruit. Should they blacklist Safari because it can be used to get the same tainted information? Taking down iFixit's app was closing the barn door after the horses left-- it did nothing to prevent access to the information.
Not giving pre-production samples to them would be a better way to prevent this. Would have been much better/classier for APPL to take iFixit off their list of developers who receive pre-release models, say lesson learned, and move on.
If you can't blame the kid for eating the marshmallow, then you can't blame Mom for refusing to trust the kid with more marshmallows.
Confusing as it is not a car analogy, but here goes. I think its fine for APPL to stop giving them more developer models of their new products. APPL's dick move was closing iFixit's developer account thereby removing their app from the AppStore. That was just petty and unnecessary.
I see your point but at the same time, what was APPL thinking giving a developer unit to iFixit, a website whose sole purpose is to take apart things?
Apple was daring iFixit to break the NDA. Sort of like giving a two year old a marshmallow, telling him not to eat it, and then leaving the room. Who is at fault, the two year old or the person giving the marshmallow?
I can continue to never wear a rubber.
Whats the difference between herpes and true love?
Herpes lasts forever. Does Truvada do anything for true love?
Serious question here. I was wondering whether C lends itself to obfuscation of undesired/malicious behavior or whether it is just the preferred language of people able to dream up such deviousness. Would someone with enough python-fu be able to pull this off or would the deception/error be easier to detect by the average coder? i.e. would an underhanded python contest be feasible or would the deception to readily apparent (or at least more apparent)?