java-man

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1. 961.▲
   by java-man 7y ago

   Thank you for the link! Not sure I would subscribe to the advanced society, so far all the artifacts we have can be explained by above-the -average achievements of an individual (rather than a group or a society, like, for example, a microp
2. 962.▲
   by java-man 7y ago

   Antikythera mechanism is pretty impressive, possibly the first complex computer. I think the next time we see devices of such complexity around 1,500 years later. Imagine where mankind could be if we did not have this "gap" in p
3. 963.▲
   by java-man 7y ago

   This, I believe, is a systemic [accessibility] problem with any browser, since day one. They all should have additional settings: 1. minimum font size 2. maximum font size to solve this kind of problems once and for all. I am actually very
4. 964.▲
   by java-man 7y ago

   unlikely [0] though Sojourner rover used a rad-hardened 80C85 [1] [0] https://researcher.watson.ibm.com/researcher/view_group.php?... [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_embedded_comput
5. 965.▲
   by java-man 7y ago

   Is there a rad-hardened version of z80?
6. 966.▲
   by java-man 7y ago

   There were attempts to evolve, during Ediacaran period. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tribrachidium [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trilobozoa
7. 967.▲
   by java-man 7y ago

   Mojibake https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mojibake love this word!
8. 968.▲
   by java-man 7y ago

   "anytime a cow eats fresh grass, it creates cream high in conjugated linoleic acid, a heart-healthy unsaturated fat that’s liquid at room temperature. In cream from animals fed grain, however, saturated fats dominate, which makes for a
9. 969.▲
   by java-man 7y ago

   thank you.
10. 970.▲
    by java-man 7y ago

    My bet this is by design.
11. 971.▲
    by java-man 7y ago

    "At the height of the Cuban Missile Crisis, Soviet patrol submarine B-59 almost launched a nuclear-tipped torpedo while under harassment by American naval forces. One of several vessels surrounded by American destroyers near Cuba, B-59
12. 972.▲
    by java-man 7y ago

    Unfortunately, this is the reality.
13. 973.▲
    by java-man 7y ago

    Did you just proved my thesis? ;-) The devil is in details, in other words, it matters how the sandbox/isolation is implemented. I would expect this: some malicious code requests a service object from the OS. An implementation is ret
14. 974.▲
    by java-man 7y ago

    Security must be the primary design goal, at least right now. I don't think the way Sun implemented permissions in java offers enough protection.
15. 975.▲
    by java-man 7y ago

    Android aside, the use of JVM might offer a better alternative (because of bytecode validation). One way to achieve security is to enforce what an application/process can do is via specialized interfaces. For example, java.io.File wil
16. 976.▲
    by java-man 7y ago

    iOS: https://www.cvedetails.com/product/15556/Apple-Iphone-Os.htm... loading dev drivers should be done differently, and limited to dev, not production. the fact that one needs to disable security feature in prod
17. 977.▲
    by java-man 7y ago

    right. https://www.cvedetails.com/product/15556/Apple-Iphone-Os.htm...
18. 978.▲
    by java-man 7y ago

    https://www.cvedetails.com/vulnerability-list/vendor_id-1353... Total number of vulnerabilities : 26
19. 979.▲
    by java-man 7y ago

    what is the rationale for disabling SIP? not only there should be no way to disable this protection, it should be a deliberate design goal to prevent any process or application from accessing protected areas.
20. 980.▲
    by java-man 7y ago

    This basically tells about the state of computer security in general. There is no isolation of OS from applications, or between the applications. This is by design, dated back to early unix times. We will continue to see these issues unti
21. 981.▲
    by java-man 7y ago

    Could we expect the war criminals responsible for this be prosecuted now?
22. 982.▲
    by java-man 7y ago

    That should tell us who is really in charge.
23. 983.▲
    by java-man 7y ago

    IoT, S stands for Security.
24. 984.▲
    by java-man 7y ago

    I would love to see you succeed!
25. 985.▲
    by java-man 7y ago

    I am afraid this business will fail (as a business). People, on average , prefer to have freebies at the expense of losing their privacy, than pay even a moderate amount for a service. One can see this in how quickly various products fall
26. 986.▲
    by java-man 7y ago

    One has to look back some time: original: https://www.maryferrell.org/showDoc.html?docId=53510#relPage... text format: http://www.jfklancer.com/CIA.html
27. 987.▲
    by java-man 7y ago

    in a sibling comment. tl,dr: the first thing one does in this field is to sanitize the input.
28. 988.▲
    by java-man 7y ago

    Exactly. I don't have any evidence to back up my suspicion. If the evidence exists, it exists in a locked safe somewhere at Ft Meade (or other place) and in the brains of a very few people. I can feel what is known as code smell. So
29. 989.▲
    by java-man 7y ago

    To this day I think it was a deliberately placed vulnerability. I don't have any data to back it up, of course.
30. 990.▲
    by java-man 7y ago

    The simplest molecule (dimer, actually) that has self-replication and evolution has a complexity of about 170 nucleic acid bases [0] It is entirely probable, in my opinion, that this is how life originated on Earth in a shallow pool or volc