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by qb45 9y ago
> I just boggle at the idea of a server with 1TB of RAM. MooseFS (a scale-out storage system) keeps metadata in RAM for low latency and is known for pushing the limits of commodity hardware in big installations. I presume the same applie
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by qb45 9y ago
And Linux support for 5-level is being actively worked on since December, a quick git search shows this in 4.11: Merge 5-level page table prep from Kirill Shutemov: "Here's relatively low-risk part of 5-level paging pat
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by qb45 9y ago
Until github decides they don't need or can't afford this PR anymore. Or uses it to exert some pressure on GNOME for whatever ends and reasons.
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by qb45 9y ago
The tendency I see is that old stuff requires more repairs while new stuff is much more likely to become unrepairable. Pick your poison.
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by qb45 9y ago
Taking into account the possibility of memory corruption, I think ultimately they won't get away without some sort of checkpointing to external storage. To actually take advantage of persistent RAM and have fast restarts with no rollba
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by qb45 9y ago
I apologize for jumping at you. Your posts sounded like common faux outrage to me.
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by qb45 9y ago
He "wasn't totally against" caffeine, not cigarettes. people need to pay attention to their caffeine intake and how they do it, just as they do with alcohol or cigarettes Note "as they do" as opposed to "as I
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by qb45 9y ago
Listening through a pitch shifter is wrong, unless you are evaluating the codec for the purpose of listening through a pitch shifter. That's the thing - in normal use, high bitrate MP3 still sounds "the same enough" a lot o
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by qb45 9y ago
Exactly, they are all variations on Fraunhofer's termination announcement which of course recommends modern replacements instead of telling customers to use MP3 for free.
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by qb45 9y ago
I'm not saying they shouldn't be disclosing that the patch is critical, I said that in the case of ancient bugs affecting all versions of Windows they should release all patches at the same time.
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by qb45 9y ago
> The troops on the ground are generally following orders and highly disciplined. Because they had been disciplined, this isn't how military used to work 10k years ago. I agree with your parent that it probably is safer to work o
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by qb45 9y ago
> Either NSA's role involves using zero-day exploits, in which case they shouldn't disclose them; or NSA's role doesn't involve using zero-day exploits, in which case it shouldn't be looking for them and would ha
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by qb45 9y ago
Projects the size of Windows may easily contain enough "organic" bugs to keep all the NSAs of the world happy without adding anything new. However, backdooring of security and cryptographic products by the NSA and others is a thin
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by qb45 9y ago
It did say something, though maybe in a way which was apparently too personally rude.
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by qb45 9y ago
I think I could point you to a dictionary at this point but let's agree on "it's sufficiently hard and unlikely that in practice they pretty much effectively cannot" :)
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by qb45 9y ago
"Impossible" is a bit rhetorical, although in principle the content has to be decrypted to be seen and a Sufficiently Sophisticated Attacker can always somehow extract the decrypted data from the device, in more practical terms th
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by qb45 9y ago
There exists a strong fear of people who are perceived as having some advantage over others and even slightly suspected of maybe wanting to exploit it.
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by qb45 9y ago
> Uncertainty. It is difficult, due to Intel's vagueness, to figure out whether one's CPU even has AMT capability and whether it is turned on ("provisioned") by default. AMT is software so it's part of the BIOS i
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by qb45 9y ago
I don't think there is any proof regarding Windows. However, NSA is strongly suspected of (known to?) having backdoored the Dual_EC_DRBG pseudorandom generator by inserting into the standard numeric parameters which allow cracking by t
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by qb45 9y ago
Maybe not exactly "cannot", but they often don't because the really big costs of shit software are rarely paid and to many users it hasn't happened yet, so it is easy to miss them until you find all of your files encrypt
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by qb45 9y ago
> I've always been OK with DRM in apps You want to eat your cake and have it too. DRM is technically impossible, so problems like the one you described are inevitable. Bummer, I guess.
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by qb45 9y ago
Oh, the Intel Management Engine :) Now quite a lot of eyes are on it after the recently discovered AMT vulnerability so we will see how good this DRM thing is in practice. Can't way for the day Netflix will start demanding running the
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by qb45 9y ago
For example, TFA talks about adjusting seemingly unrelated parameters like working hours to exert influence on gender parity benchmarks. Not that I think working hours aren't too long, considering modern technology, but that's a
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by qb45 9y ago
Publishing a blog post isn't exactly sitting on a vuln. I would understand if they kept it to themselves and I would understand if they reported to Intel, but this?
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by qb45 9y ago
Inflation is a tax on money, not on all assets. It costs those who have their assets located in money. The big fish don't and beggars neither. Lower-middle would be my guess.
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by qb45 9y ago
I surely won't be doing it myself, but I can imagine some spook making this small personal sacrifice of becoming an employee at some Windows XP shop just to smuggle patches to his mothership for vulnerability analysis. I hope that the
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by qb45 9y ago
So a month before patches for supported versions of Windows. Does that mean I can get info on current Windows 0days simply by subscribing to XP support program?
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by qb45 9y ago
Yes, they will have to buy Intel to avoid this bug.
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by qb45 9y ago
Weird, maybe you are IP banned or it actually is some corp firewall on your side. It's a conference presentation titled "Remote Code Execution through Intel CPU Bugs" by Kris Kaspersky and Alice Chang. Google finds copies els
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by qb45 9y ago
> I see nothing in the decision that says the court would have found a contract without these allegations being true. Parent is nitpicking the different between the court ruling that the contract is likely to exists and the contract act

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