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by rst 9y ago
AMD's version is PSP (Platform Security Processor or something like that) -- an ARM core with TrustZone, running code they won't show you. That code has no publicly disclosed vulnerabilities, which means that it's at least as
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by rst 9y ago
Product customization screen has multiple keyboard layouts; "USA English" is not the default, and probably not what's in the shots (though I'm not sure where you can see what it does look like)...
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by rst 9y ago
That's what you get if the tool can't identify the ME version. (I get "not vulnerable" if I run the script with sudo -- ME version too old for these vulns, though likely has other, undisclosed vulns -- but without sudo,
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by rst 9y ago
There are some more obscure systems of interest for which emulators are also available -- Multics (see http://multicians.org/sim-inst.html ), the Burroughs 5500 and MCP ( http://retro-b5500.blogspot.com/ ), ol
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by rst 9y ago
It's a generalization of SQLi, to cover situations where the queries (or commands, or whatever) built up by unguarded string concatenation are something other than SQL. (Though, oddly, the examples in the current draft seem to all be S
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by rst 9y ago
I'm inclined to be skeptical of the prospects of this for all sorts of reasons (airport noise, viability of the "all premium" business concept). But they are now reporting contracts with airlines, including nonrefundable depo
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by rst 9y ago
The first "mail" command that I'm aware of was for the MIT CTSS timesharing system, implemented in 1965: http://multicians.org/thvv/anhc-34-1-anec.html
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by rst 9y ago
The DPRK's first nuclear test was in 2006 --- six years after Clinton left office, and three years after Bush's temper tantrum led to the breakdown of Clinton's deal and the unsealing of the Yongbyon reactor. If you think it&
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by rst 9y ago
That deal had North Korea's weapons-grade production facilities shut down for eight years, despite US foot-dragging on our side (we'd agreed to supply reactors that were not suitable for weapons production, and then the GOP Cong
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by rst 9y ago
Here's their statement, which doesn't actually dispute any of the facts in the article: https://twitter.com/NewAmerica/status/902929634592948224 In a subsequent tweet, Slaughter (the head of New America)
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by rst 9y ago
Relics like this exist today -- there are still Gopher servers out there. Current browsers no longer support the protocol, but you can tour the relics through a proxy -- info here: http://gopher.floodgap.com/gopher/ Th
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by rst 9y ago
They have been doing shutdowns of particular lines for planned maintenance, but almost always with replacement service in place (either other nearby subway lines, or for more isolated lines, buses). And then there are major tunnel repairs,
463.
by rst 9y ago
The trains on the 4/5/6 lines are already the full length of the platforms. (As on every other NYC subway line except for the G and a few of the shuttles.)
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by rst 9y ago
New York's subway system runs 24 hours, and many residents rely on late-night/early morning service.
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by rst 9y ago
Two-track subways are the norm generally, at least in the US. In fact, New York's is unusual in that many trunk lines have more than two tracks, mostly separate express tracks so that express trains can pass locals stopped at a station
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by rst 9y ago
CM-2 was also SIMD, but with different hardware (in particular, it had an actual hardware FPU associated with each group of 32 bit-serial processors). CM-5 was the MIMD version (nodes were SPARCs with a custom vector processor add-on).
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by rst 9y ago
Or they were smart enough to change the size of the box so that it can't be used to easily identify the vendor (from among a very small set of candidates).
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by rst 9y ago
The Wrights might not be the best precedent to cite here -- after they got a patent on the airplane, they wouldn't license for years, until government pressure broke the logjam during World War I. See https://en.wikipedia.or
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by rst 9y ago
There have already been multiple incidents involving bugs in "smart contract" code being exploited to steal funds, one within the past few days[1]. A particularly nasty case involved something called "the DAO", which wa
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by rst 9y ago
The classic (or maybe, time-honored) technique for implementing dynamic binding in Lisp interpreters was simpler yet. When the reader produced list structure, that was in the form of cons cells and "atoms" with string name. The
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by rst 9y ago
The OP suggests "some form of codegen" as a way of getting around the Go dev team's, shall we say ... unusual hostility toward generics. But that way lies C++ templates, which were originally meant to be implemented as macro
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by rst 9y ago
Shame it's the brochure and not the manual. (The sample program is incomplete, missing data declarations --these were in a separate DIRECTORY section, but info on its syntax is ... scarce.)
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by rst 9y ago
To some of us, the "sprawling throw-it-over-the-wall approach to development" is the problem. Particularly when they decide to reimplement services instead of using battle-hardened code, and revive old bugs that haven't be
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by rst 9y ago
Perhaps best read after the blog post from current O'Reilly media president Laura Baldwin, which makes two important points: 1) Book sales have been consistently declining overall, in all media. It's not clear that DRM has much t
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by rst 9y ago
The past state of the universe is encoded in the present state only in the same way, and to the same extent, that the future is.
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by rst 9y ago
I've seen 'ye' for 'the' on tombstones from the 1600s. The stone carvers weren't picking type out of a box.
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by rst 9y ago
ULA does not and cannot offer guaranteed launch at any point in time -- their launches, including launches of government payloads, can be and are delayed for days by anything from technical glitches to unfavorable wind conditions to planes
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by rst 9y ago
C++ did not have templates when the first commercial compilers shipped and the first books were published. It got templates around 1990, five years after the first release of a commercial C++ compiler and the first publication of "The
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by rst 9y ago
Well, you've got two choices about how you want usage of user-implemented generic container types to look: 1) there are no parameters on the container types, every usage involves a cast to or from 'void*', 'interface{}&#
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by rst 9y ago
Thanks!

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