First thing to realize regarding these attacks is that SGX protects from other traditional attacks originating from OS. Therefore, there is increased focus on side channel on Intel SGX. I found www.fortanix.com/assets/Fortanix_Side_Channel_Whitepaper.pdf a very comprehensive document. Side channels operate in every digital system. In fact, one can even harden against Spectre type attacks in SGX just like one would outside SGX.
The whitepaper is written by Fortanix guys who are invested in SGX so the whitepaper may be biased but reading through it, seems like side channels are overblown.
Agree that there are lots of unknown. However, Musk has not given me a reason in past to believe that he talks out of his rear end. Between the fire department and Musk proposing conflict theories, I'll take Musk's side.
>> Instagram, the yet-profitless photo-sharing service Make that revenue-less!
Their whole pitch on making money is presented here in its entirety: ". There will be opportunities for consumers to buy extra add-ons like special filters, etc. " So, folks, that's it - special filters, etc. Magical words.
You cannot do anything without having some effect on interstate commerce. Entropy of whole universe must increase with time, so everything is connected including interstate commerce and your poop. Alternatively, if you are alive and you breathe, you must be changing composition of air a little bit, and since all air is connected, you are modifying the air composition of the whole country. This promotes traders who sell purified air across states. Alternatively, if you buy an out-of-state merchandise, of course you impact interstate commerce. On the other hand, if you dont buy from an out-of-state merchant, of course you impact interstate commerce, as your (lack of) activity will have negative effect on the price of the merchandise.
Oh, this would be so funny if this clause were not the most abused clause in the constitution, that has been taken WAAAAAY out of its context.
>> It is unfair to compare US telecom to any other region when almost all the countries are the size of a single state in the USA.
Ever heard of India?
1.1 Billion people. Land area is 40% of USA. 70% of the people live in remote rural areas with sporadic electricity, no roads etc. But, in remotest areas, I got full bar signal from multiple networks.
I don't know exactly how it's done now, but couple of years ago, you paid Re 0.05/minute on outgoing call. That is $0.1/min. No charge on incoming SMS either. Many networks offered free in-network calls. Phone sells without contract, and there are gazzlion models. Priced around $100-400.
No government regulation until very recently when they decided to control 4G spectrum auction and like all the worthy and honorable governments of the world, decided to screw the customers. Massive corruption, sellout and what not.
And, before you say India is cheap, I read somewhere (dont remember the specifics) only 30% of telecom cost is labor. Everything else is tech which is more expensive in India and imported from outside.
FCC is one of the most corrupt organizations. They have been screwing us for last 75 years in the name of protecting us. This time will be different though!
PS2: Since Winklevosses claim to have had the original idea and design, they should have known how much $$ worth was their site. So, how did they got duped by Zuck? Glad judges saw through it..
""The Winklevosses are not the first parties bested by a competitor who then seek to gain through litigation what they were unable to achieve in the marketplace." I wish judiciary was that clear and just in other cases, but this comment made my day.
True! However, there are risks associated with not releasing such documents too. For example, continued support for a war that is not going accomplishing anything, not only wastes money but kills thousands of people.
There are always risks with anything you do, but, I always side with more information and openness than less.
Don't you think it's a problem if someone who voluntarily and freely worked for you, now hates you? JWZ may be jackass (he is not), but you are shooting yourself in foot if you piss people like him. Remember only think volunteers ask in return is happiness.
that is a bad logic. amazon owns the platform so they can do what they want and i cannot complain. but to think that this is good for customers is hopeless.
different people would have different needs. where do you draw the boundary? * can we have different publishers offering same book with identical content? * can we have different publishers offering same book with different formatting? * can we have different publishers offering same book with different spellings (color vs colour)? * can we have different publishers offering same book but one offering annotation by Shakespearean expert MrSupreme? * can we have different publishers offering same book in different language?
at one extreme answer is yes, at another you will think no. the boundary is always subjective. only solution is "freedom as in speech". let customers decide what the heck they want.
today same physical book is offered in 100 different formats (by same publisher) - leather bound, paperback, hardcover, asian edition, EEE cheap edition, school edition, new edition with spelling fixes, new edition with commentery. how does that work?
what amazon needs is to make user feedback system. how hard is to sort by number of copies bought and buy the top selling edition?
MTBF has *nothing* to do with life expectancy. It's failure rate of good drives, that are not expected to fail. More precisely it's failure rate of the drives in the conditions when their failure rate is constant (that precludes high rate failure in the beginning and in the end).
I can make hard drives that are guaranteed to work for 1 day, tell that to my customers and their MTBF will be infinity, since there will never be unexpected failures!
Another example MTBF of a healthy adult in USA may be 10000 years (chances of road accidents are small) but life expectancy is only 80 years!
I've been a regular visitor to the church of Emacs and paying my weekly tribute to RMS on Sundays.
In the beginning emacs more than delighted with built-in debugger/mail/sokoban/all-language-modes and then I learned the power of lisp. Google for 5 minutes and then you can have your own scripts built in the editor to rotate the selection, crop 20% of the text from left, tranlsate the remaining junk into Russian and then to Polish or whatever you want, power is immense! Over time my.emacs has grown to have more than 1k lines.
But, lately I've been thinking about converting to vim family. Vim is what I like in real life - quick (way faster than emacs), not-bloated (still in MBs) and above all cool features. In retrospect, emacs seem to be developed as really bloated thing, include all, nasty to use keyboard shortcuts (although I have replaced all of them with my custom settings).. things that you expect to get on your 10GB windows vista (RMS, pls pardon me for this insane comparison).
OTOH, vim has a taste of elegance, at least in default keyboard shortcuts.. that are rarely longer than 3-4 char. Looks like the developer really cared for what user really needed rather than stuffing everything down the throat. But, my tipping point was vim7.0's "time undo feature" -- something like you tell ":earlier 5m" and it'll take you (or rather your file) 5 minutes back in time. I'm sure I can do same thing in emacs after spending 2 hours on google and adding 10 more lines to.emacs but the joy is not there.
So, here I am in middle of my biggest decision of my life - should I continue emacs, where I am a power user or should I join enemy's camp.
PS: emacs users, pls dont kill me.. I have not YET switched and still visit emacs church. Vim user, you dont kill me either for I am your potential convert. Thanks!
First of all, disclaimer I am an Indian and hate times of india news service, owner of this bullshit economic times, from bottom of my heart.
Did anyone bother to notice how the news failed to mention one single source? Who told this press reporter of this big news? Who was that mysterious "Government official"? This is a big news guys, country of 1B people offering broadband to everyone in 7th biggest country in the world, area wise!
You may be shocked to know, but its fact, 30% of India is still without electricity and they will provide brodband everywhere. BS.
And that too, by 2009. Hah, I'll be happy if Google could provide workable wifi to Mountain view by 2009, forget getting free broadband all over India.
Dont get me wrong - I am proud of my Indian origin, India's doing great. But, watch out for BS news that dont cite any source esp when the news is ludicrously implausible.
And, dont read times of India and its siblings until you want spicy meaningless stories to read or want to watch semi-n*d* Indian babes. Note, first timers may suffer from constipation from excessive spices.
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I more than share your concern and am a Linux devout myself. However rather than whining, dont you think we should believe in free-market theory?
HP/Dell can do whatever they want, MSFT can play its tricks withing legal limits. If linux deserves it and is really needed, someone will start offering it soon.
IMHO, so far OSS have been bogged down by bad user experience. We are at juncture where its changing. Look at Ubuntu frenzy.
I wish Vista crams more DRM and they discontinue anything but $500 enterprise ultimate editoon (or whatever its called). And, Dell and HP dont offer any thing in Linux. That way one day when I am looking for new job, I can create Linux-only-Dell:-)
Bottom line -- we should stop whining and work on making the user experience better and better.
I more than share your concern and am a Linux devout myself. However rather than whining, dont you think we should believe in free-market theory?
HP/Dell can do whatever they want, MSFT can play its tricks withing legal limits. If linux deserves it and is really needed, someone will start offering it soon.
IMHO, so far OSS have been bogged down by bad user experience. We are at juncture where its changing. Look at Ubuntu frenzy.
I wish Vista crams more DRM and they discontinue anything but $500 enterprise ultimate editoon (or whatever its called). And, Dell and HP dont offer any thing in Linux. That way one day when I am looking for new job, I can create Linux-only-Dell:-)
Bottom line -- we should stop whining and making the user experience better and better.
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First thing to realize regarding these attacks is that SGX protects from other traditional attacks originating from OS. Therefore, there is increased focus on side channel on Intel SGX. I found www.fortanix.com/assets/Fortanix_Side_Channel_Whitepaper.pdf a very comprehensive document. Side channels operate in every digital system. In fact, one can even harden against Spectre type attacks in SGX just like one would outside SGX.
The whitepaper is written by Fortanix guys who are invested in SGX so the whitepaper may be biased but reading through it, seems like side channels are overblown.
Agree that there are lots of unknown. However, Musk has not given me a reason in past to believe that he talks out of his rear end.
Between the fire department and Musk proposing conflict theories, I'll take Musk's side.
>> Instagram, the yet-profitless photo-sharing service
Make that revenue-less!
Their whole pitch on making money is presented here in its entirety:
". There will be opportunities for consumers to buy extra add-ons like special filters, etc. "
So, folks, that's it - special filters, etc. Magical words.
Go on..
What happened afterwards? Did you get MSI to accept its fault?
You cannot do anything without having some effect on interstate commerce.
Entropy of whole universe must increase with time, so everything is connected including interstate commerce and your poop.
Alternatively, if you are alive and you breathe, you must be changing composition of air a little bit, and since all air is connected, you are modifying the air composition of the whole country. This promotes traders who sell purified air across states.
Alternatively, if you buy an out-of-state merchandise, of course you impact interstate commerce. On the other hand, if you dont buy from an out-of-state merchant, of course you impact interstate commerce, as your (lack of) activity will have negative effect on the price of the merchandise.
Oh, this would be so funny if this clause were not the most abused clause in the constitution, that has been taken WAAAAAY out of its context.
>> I wish there was a chrome extension to hide referrer data just so that I could avoid that.
You can do it on firefox by setting following key network.http.sendRefererHeader to 0. Not sure if Chrome has something similar, though.
>> It is unfair to compare US telecom to any other region when almost all the countries are the size of a single state in the USA.
Ever heard of India?
1.1 Billion people. Land area is 40% of USA. 70% of the people live in remote rural areas with sporadic electricity, no roads etc. But, in remotest areas, I got full bar signal from multiple networks.
I don't know exactly how it's done now, but couple of years ago, you paid Re 0.05/minute on outgoing call. That is $0.1/min. No charge on incoming SMS either. Many networks offered free in-network calls. Phone sells without contract, and there are gazzlion models. Priced around $100-400.
No government regulation until very recently when they decided to control 4G spectrum auction and like all the worthy and honorable governments of the world, decided to screw the customers. Massive corruption, sellout and what not.
And, before you say India is cheap, I read somewhere (dont remember the specifics) only 30% of telecom cost is labor. Everything else is tech which is more expensive in India and imported from outside.
FCC is one of the most corrupt organizations. They have been screwing us for last 75 years in the name of protecting us. This time will be different though!
PS: the reason I went so ga-ga over this new was because of a much sobering ruling I saw yesterday - http://www.nytimes.com/2011/04/10/opinion/10thompson.html but I digress..
PS2: Since Winklevosses claim to have had the original idea and design, they should have known how much $$ worth was their site. So, how did they got duped by Zuck? Glad judges saw through it..
""The Winklevosses are not the first parties bested by a competitor who then seek to gain through litigation what they were unable to achieve in the marketplace."
I wish judiciary was that clear and just in other cases, but this comment made my day.
Your signature is the best one ever. Too bad, I know your RSA private key now.
True! However, there are risks associated with not releasing such documents too. For example, continued support for a war that is not going accomplishing anything, not only wastes money but kills thousands of people.
There are always risks with anything you do, but, I always side with more information and openness than less.
You listed all the reasons to love, respect, and support Wikileaks even more!
Don't you think it's a problem if someone who voluntarily and freely worked for you, now hates you?
JWZ may be jackass (he is not), but you are shooting yourself in foot if you piss people like him.
Remember only think volunteers ask in return is happiness.
that is a bad logic.
amazon owns the platform so they can do what they want and i cannot complain.
but to think that this is good for customers is hopeless.
different people would have different needs. where do you draw the boundary?
* can we have different publishers offering same book with identical content?
* can we have different publishers offering same book with different formatting?
* can we have different publishers offering same book with different spellings (color vs colour)?
* can we have different publishers offering same book but one offering annotation by Shakespearean expert MrSupreme?
* can we have different publishers offering same book in different language?
at one extreme answer is yes, at another you will think no. the boundary is always subjective. only solution is "freedom as in speech". let customers decide what the heck they want.
today same physical book is offered in 100 different formats (by same publisher) - leather bound, paperback, hardcover, asian edition, EEE cheap edition, school edition, new edition with spelling fixes, new edition with commentery. how does that work?
what amazon needs is to make user feedback system. how hard is to sort by number of copies bought and buy the top selling edition?
Try cutePdf. it's identical to the pdf creator in features, and doesn't come with any BS.
looks like you never make calls to your in-laws! not all calls are more important than tetris app in the background.
MTBF has *nothing* to do with life expectancy. It's failure rate of good drives, that are not expected to fail. More precisely it's failure rate of the drives in the conditions when their failure rate is constant (that precludes high rate failure in the beginning and in the end). I can make hard drives that are guaranteed to work for 1 day, tell that to my customers and their MTBF will be infinity, since there will never be unexpected failures! Another example MTBF of a healthy adult in USA may be 10000 years (chances of road accidents are small) but life expectancy is only 80 years!
Yes, they did fix it!!
There is this post over the fixes - http://blog.pavlov.net/2008/03/11/firefox-3-memory-usage/ As you go through the link, you will realize FF has made a serious effort in fixing it.
And, if you, just like me, give it FF3 a shot - you will be delighted with the speed. It's awesome!
I've been a regular visitor to the church of Emacs and paying my weekly tribute to RMS on Sundays.
.emacs has grown to have more than 1k lines.
.emacs but the joy is not there.
In the beginning emacs more than delighted with built-in debugger/mail/sokoban/all-language-modes and then I learned the power of lisp. Google for 5 minutes and then you can have your own scripts built in the editor to rotate the selection, crop 20% of the text from left, tranlsate the remaining junk into Russian and then to Polish or whatever you want, power is immense! Over time my
But, lately I've been thinking about converting to vim family. Vim is what I like in real life - quick (way faster than emacs), not-bloated (still in MBs) and above all cool features. In retrospect, emacs seem to be developed as really bloated thing, include all, nasty to use keyboard shortcuts (although I have replaced all of them with my custom settings).. things that you expect to get on your 10GB windows vista (RMS, pls pardon me for this insane comparison).
OTOH, vim has a taste of elegance, at least in default keyboard shortcuts.. that are rarely longer than 3-4 char. Looks like the developer really cared for what user really needed rather than stuffing everything down the throat. But, my tipping point was vim7.0's "time undo feature" -- something like you tell ":earlier 5m" and it'll take you (or rather your file) 5 minutes back in time. I'm sure I can do same thing in emacs after spending 2 hours on google and adding 10 more lines to
So, here I am in middle of my biggest decision of my life - should I continue emacs, where I am a power user or should I join enemy's camp.
PS: emacs users, pls dont kill me.. I have not YET switched and still visit emacs church. Vim user, you dont kill me either for I am your potential convert. Thanks!
>>>Any reasonable Indian, when he comes across this story and finds the news hyperlinked to "Times of India" is sure to ignore the news..
/. from TOIlet - http://it.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/04/27/132 9211
Correct version
Any reasonable Indian when reads this story knows it must be coming from "T O I (let)" paper of India.
Another sensational and 100% false story to appear on
First of all, disclaimer I am an Indian and hate times of india news service, owner of this bullshit economic times, from bottom of my heart.
Did anyone bother to notice how the news failed to mention one single source? Who told this press reporter of this big news? Who was that mysterious "Government official"? This is a big news guys, country of 1B people offering broadband to everyone in 7th biggest country in the world, area wise!
You may be shocked to know, but its fact, 30% of India is still without electricity and they will provide brodband everywhere. BS.
And that too, by 2009. Hah, I'll be happy if Google could provide workable wifi to Mountain view by 2009, forget getting free broadband all over India.
Dont get me wrong - I am proud of my Indian origin, India's doing great. But, watch out for BS news that dont cite any source esp when the news is ludicrously implausible.
And, dont read times of India and its siblings until you want spicy meaningless stories to read or want to watch semi-n*d* Indian babes. Note, first timers may suffer from constipation from excessive spices.
Took less than 15 mins to setup the whole thing at the first try and you get to understand the whole thing better.
PS: if you are using kernel 2.16, you dont need to follow the steps in section 4.1 and 4.2.
Enjoy Linux!!
(I goofed up my last comment, posting again)
:-)
I more than share your concern and am a Linux devout myself. However rather than whining, dont you think we should believe in free-market theory?
HP/Dell can do whatever they want, MSFT can play its tricks withing legal limits. If linux deserves it and is really needed, someone will start offering it soon.
IMHO, so far OSS have been bogged down by bad user experience. We are at juncture where its changing. Look at Ubuntu frenzy.
I wish Vista crams more DRM and they discontinue anything but $500 enterprise ultimate editoon (or whatever its called). And, Dell and HP dont offer any thing in Linux. That way one day when I am looking for new job, I can create Linux-only-Dell
Bottom line -- we should stop whining and work on making the user experience better and better.
I more than share your concern and am a Linux devout myself. However rather than whining, dont you think we should believe in free-market theory?
:-)
HP/Dell can do whatever they want, MSFT can play its tricks withing legal limits. If linux deserves it and is really needed, someone will start offering it soon.
IMHO, so far OSS have been bogged down by bad user experience. We are at juncture where its changing. Look at Ubuntu frenzy.
I wish Vista crams more DRM and they discontinue anything but $500 enterprise ultimate editoon (or whatever its called). And, Dell and HP dont offer any thing in Linux. That way one day when I am looking for new job, I can create Linux-only-Dell
Bottom line -- we should stop whining and making the user experience better and better.
You may argue extent to which this will deter terrorists from blowing up innocent people but it certainly doesnt help them, right?
Combine that with the fact nobody genuinely needed to know layout of those sensitive places and we are better off w/o those high res pics.
End of the case.