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691.
by rst 13y ago
One tricky issue in porting an existing OS to the Mill is their AS/400-style portability strategy (as outlined by Godard in the comments): binaries are distributed as "Mill IR", and compiled to local binary, which gets cache
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by rst 13y ago
Actually, Go's fairly successful melding of static typing and duck-typed interfaces was a useful new trick. (Which doesn't completely excuse the "C++ tried that and it didn't work for them so WE WON'T" foot-dr
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by rst 13y ago
For one thing, an OTA update mechanism is obviously more subject to third-party spoofing than an update delivered by physical ethernet from the dealership. (BTW, do Teslas apply OTA updates while the car is underway, or store them up for ap
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by rst 13y ago
It's already pretty much known, from the Snowden papers, that the government is doing man-in-the-middle attacks against internet services including Facebook. Here's a story from today's news which discusses one such mode of
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by rst 13y ago
You don't have to suspect a deliberate back-door in the "modem" software to be worried about this; you just need to think that it might have an exploitable bug. And odds are very good that it does. See, for example, the fol
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by rst 13y ago
There would be precedent, in the form of cash seizure "civil forfeiture" proceedings at both the State and Federal level: http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2013/08/12/130812fa_fact_...
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by rst 13y ago
Perhaps you're not familiar with Trader Joe's --- they are known for good food at low prices. And it's hard to see any parallel between a grocery store (open to local residents) and Twitter HQ (where most workers never inter
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by rst 13y ago
Actually, NASA is planning a Saturn V-sized launch vehicle, under the name "SLS" ("Space Launch System"). SLS Block II is supposed to match the Saturn V's capacity, but it won't launch until the 2020s. (There
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by rst 13y ago
Rogue traders at conventional financial institutions (Nick Leeson at Barings; Jerome Kerviel at Societe Generale) each cost their employer over a billion dollars, but they didn't keep the money. So, if the perp here got away with all
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New attack completely bypasses EMET, Microsoft zero-day protection app(arstechnica.com)
3 points by rst 13y ago|0 comments
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by rst 13y ago
Don't get too comfortable with linux --- Debian had its own openssl patch fiasco with consequences that were similarly nasty. http://research.swtch.com/openssl
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by rst 13y ago
Not at all rarely used. But it probably is somewhat rare to let users specify the strings which are supplied as, say, the ":units" argument to the formatting helper, which is where the vulnerability comes from. (If the user supp
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by rst 13y ago
There are people in the world capable of spoofing SSL one way or another (forged certs, suborned CAs, etc.), though it certainly does raise the bar past the script kiddie level.
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by rst 13y ago
Group chats would be multi-party OTR (a/k/a mpotr). There are a whole bunch of people working on this, and it's not hard to find draft specs, but they are drafts; doing the crypto right for this is a really hard problem.
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by rst 13y ago
... or, more likely, the MITM is capable of spoofing selected google searches as well.
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Cryptocat security audit results(github.com)
117 points by rst 13y ago|10 comments
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by rst 13y ago
Buran was carried piggy-back on an expendable rocket (Energia), with no attempt at reusable main engines, less aggressive engineering on the expendable main engines than the SSMEs, and no SRBs. (The equivalent function was performed by liq
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by rst 13y ago
Like a lot of other things, practice matters. OWASP has some deliberately insecure webapps which are meant to give people practice spotting and exploiting vulnerabilities (WebGoat, RailsGoat, PyGoat, probably others). There are also &quot
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by rst 13y ago
Not the first color printer. I'm not sure how long color sandstone printing has been available commercially, but it's at least since 2012 (see item #7 here): http://3dprinting.com/materials/10-game-changing-3
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by rst 13y ago
This is one of the COBOL features that makes a lot more sense if you think of COBOL as SQL for tape drives than as something that is trying to be, say, Pascal or Ada and failing. (Along with, say, pretty much the entire DATA DIVISION...)
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by rst 13y ago
Or you could try programming in Scala, though it's an awkward fit to Android. Scala's standard library is large enough to strain size limits on an Android app, to the point that shrinking things down with ProGuard is pretty much
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by rst 13y ago
Interesting to see that the "Tasks" of the Android library are pretty similar to JS Promises, and the Futures and Promises of frameworks like Akka. All of which do help simplify and structure concurrent code. There are people try
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by rst 13y ago
From Google's official announcement[1], undersigned by Larry Page: "Google will retain the vast majority of Motorola’s patents, which we will continue to use to defend the entire Android ecosystem. " [1] http://goo
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NFL to block mobile streaming video in Super Bowl stadium(arstechnica.com)
3 points by rst 13y ago|0 comments
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by rst 13y ago
Analysis by Marcy Wheeler here: http://www.emptywheel.net/2014/01/27/the-new-transparency-gu... Quoting the nub of it (please note, this is all her, not me): First, you can sort of see what the government re
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Spy Agencies Scour Phone Apps for Personal Data(nytimes.com)
73 points by rst 13y ago|6 comments
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by rst 13y ago
The tinfoil-hat scenario here is that the USPS is doing the bidding of the NSA. So it's a USPS screwup either way.
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by rst 13y ago
Interesting thoughts; it would be nice to have a transcript. (It's somewhat ironic in the light of the content that while he's clearly reading a prepared text, it's presented in a way that makes excerpting or reorganization
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by rst 13y ago
A whole lot of TMC alumni also wound up at Sun Microsystems. These included Guy Steele, Greg Papadapoulos (for a time, Sun's CTO), John Rose (a major JVM developer), Lew Tucker (who was running their cloud computing division for a whi
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by rst 13y ago
The processors on the CM-1 were indeed bit-serial, with 16 of these per processor chip. On the CM-2, pairs of 16-processor chips were lashed up with a Weitek FPU and glue circuitry for floating point computation. For the CM-5, processor n

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