Posts by Charles 9

Re: I'm disappointed

Tell that to everyone with a deadline to meet. They can BS around a wrong answer but not around a missed deadline.

Re: A simple mitigation

Some of these exploits can do a Red Pill and cross the VM boundary, even become a Hypervisor Attack.

Re: A simple mitigation

Can't. They fuck back as a good number of them are government websites. Care to make changes to your benefits and so on? Bend over or explain to your family. And no, the last brick-and-mortar office within practical driving range closed a number of years back.

Re: Access control and process scheduling issue

"So they've discovered you can't run untrusted code at full performance on a modern CPU."

But that's what the customers demand: good, safe, fast--all or nothing. Anything who replies, "I'm sorry I can't do that" gets left for the one that says "Can do."

It raises a real conundrum. What happens when the customer demands no less than unicorns?

Re: Valves!?

You park in a driveway by driving onto it versus just parking in the street. And parkways tend to run through...well, parks.

Re: Follow the airlines lead - issue tix to named individuals

What if the event is open to children? That could raise hackles that don't have the backup of secure air travel directives. Plus, what if the ticket is being bought as a gift such that the two parties can't meet to perform a transfer (gifting tickets IS a distinct possibility; think of prizes).

Re: The Art of War

You underestimate OCR technology. That's how Princeton's ad detector works. By this point, if it's too mangled for a computer to read, it's too mangled for most people to read. Plus how do you stop a wetware attack that uses actual humans?

That may just make the bot designers switch to OCR techniques like Princeton's ad detector experiment. At some point the bots will use the same techniques humans use to figure out how to fill things out, operate out of enforceable jurisdictions, get around geoblocking by using proxies, etc. What man can create, man can RE-create. Then what?

Re: Too easy to fix

So if someone is using an older computer incapable of using a modern browser they're SOL? Sounds like a retroactive restriction to me.

Re: I am producing an API definition for everything

Still need to make it recursive, such that the APIPI is also its own PI, preventing someone making an APIPI.

Re: Feature list?

So how does this josh with, say, IBM v. Compaq, which deals with similar and WAS ruled by the Supreme Court?

Re: @lurker... Nine Seniles

"They lost that ability because they failed to argue it in the Appellate Court. (Read the decision)"

Sure they can. That's why you have an appeals process in the first place.

Re: Foldable? I've already got that.

""You can't rely on the GPS having a signal or giving you the right directions even if it has a perfect signal. You'll never have to wonder if the paper map insists you are NOT currently sitting in the middle of a bloody lake because it thinks you're somewhere you're not.""

But you can't rely on a paper map to tell you where you neighbor moved to that new neighborhood and street that wasn't there just a couple months ago. At least with online maps, it's a lot easier to stay current: very useful if the city in which you live is constantly changing.

Re: cynic

It's always better to have a separate case. Think of it as ablative armor: it breaks, you can always replace it. Can't do that for the phone's housing. Same for separate screen protectors. Not worried so much about cracking as scratching.

Re: Can we please

Hmm...two things put me off. First, the price tag (~$600 for a phone that size? I don't think so.). Second, you can't remove it! And a battery with specs like that is probably going to have longevity issues, so this smacks of "fancy throwaway phone" to me.

Re: and want plenty of storage (say microSD).

Take it from someone who owns a 4. The phone itself can have longevity issues, and apps are getting longer in the tooth (apps sleeping as soon as you switch them is a warning sign). May be time to consider an LG V20.

No one can wrap their heads around the numbers (it's like quizzing someone which is bigger: 21/32

or 2/3). At least 21:9 is easy to compare to say 16:9 (which you'll note can't be reduced).

Re: Silly ratio.

What happens when (not if) the software (even the basic stuff) starts getting too slow to run on your phone (and holding onto the old stuff stops becoming an option)? I've been hanging onto Note 4's for years, but software performance has become increasingly clunky, to the point I may have to eventually jump to an LG V20 if something newer WITH a removable battery doesn't come along before then.

Re: 'Smart amplifier'

"I fully realise this is a little pie in the sky at the moment, but the current situation is one of widespread insecure phones, and excessive levels of waste."

Which is EXACTLY what they want, if you don't realize it. The component manufacturers are string-pullers and are pretty much bigger fish than most of the phone manufacturers or otherwise hold key Trade Secret Sauce protected by patents and so on. Basically, the only things the component manufacturers fear is each other. No one else can force them to do anything; the market's such that they can counter-threaten or simply slide to another market like IoT.

Re: 'Smart amplifier'

"...insisting on open source drivers so when it's out of support someone else can fix it..."

How can you do that when it's the component manufacturers who won't open their specs due to intense competition in their market?

Re: Holding back the tide...

"The backlash would overwhelm them and they know it."

Don't be so sure. There are rumblings of a counter-backlash with "border wall" strength behind it, plus perhaps the only reason the dogs haven't been set loose yet is that the President has more immediate concerns: namely, keeping the drugs from getting in in the first place (or so he believes).

Re: Abroad?

Sure it can. Threaten a tit-for-tat, especially if they sell something in demand in Europe, like say iPhones. Unless the EU can categorically demonstrate it can "go it alone" and not rely on ANY US inputs, it's going to be hard-pressed to enforce an embargo without a counter-embargo. Remember, these are sovereign concerns we're talking here, and President Trump IS domestically-oriented AND tariff-happy right now.

Re: Abroad?

How will they enforce it? Create a Great Firewall around the entire EU? Plus what if they counter with a home law that runs directly counter to it, creating a sovereignty conflict?

Re: Good luck with that

California was able to bully the federal government over pollution because they had a concrete example to point to: Los Angeles, where a thermal inversion zone means any pollutants produced in Los Angeles tended to stay in Los Angeles, risking them running afoul of other federal acts like the Clean Air Act. Meaning they could pit law against law and threaten to tie up the courts. It would be harder to show how ISP regulation would pit law against law in this case, as I don't think there's an existing federal law California could use here as backup.

Re: "Except, of course," it doesn't address the data gathering process

What's to stop them moving outside the EU, making a country REQUIRE it on pain of even greater penalties or even imprisonment, and then present a sovereignty crisis before the UN or something?

Re: laws of this nature need to be enacted by U.S. Congress

But California customers deal with California ISPs, last I checked, making it INTRAstate and within state laws, unless one can demonstrate otherwise.

Re: Artificial, as in Fake Intelligence

"Guess what? That means humans are BORN with a built in semantic. We all internally have some unambiguous internal representation for dogs, that is identical in all humans."

I disagree. We only perceive this because we normally associate with people who are much like us: seen much of what we've seen, including dogs. But what if you head out to the sticks, to peoples who have such limited experiences that they may not recognize such simple things as a pet dog or a housecat...or even a ball. About the only things we recognize solely on instinct (tested on newborns who have the least life experience possible) is another human (and that's likely a survival trait).

I wouldn't say our value system is inherent because it's different from person to person. More that it's acquired but subconscious, thus why we don't understand it ourselves. As for our data storage, I wouldn't call it unambiguous given how easily we MIS-recall things (thus my constant password protest, "Was it correcthorsebatterystaple or donkeyenginepaperclipwrong?")

Re: It's Just Pattern Recognition

The concept of binary: on/off, white/black, 1/0. If we don't understand this, we don't understand anything, AND it's the basis for computer logic, too.

Of course, that doesn't exclude the possibility of things that cannot easily fit into a binary world. The infinite shades of gray and all. That's part of the reason Trolley Problems keep getting brought up; they represent a dilemma that requires a (usually binary) answer that no one can satisfy.

The better question to ask is, "What is intelligence?" Because we don't even have a concise answer to that question yet.

Re: The cost of broken x86 is already significant and rising rapidly...

It's the same problem Microsoft has: having to support backward compatibility. How do you clean things up without getting complaints from people who actually use the cut stuff for their mission-critical stuff? Turn them away and you can end up with defections and bad word of mouth which can domino.

Re: Well currently the problem with ARM is not the CPU

Each handles just ONE of them, though. Why isn't one used to control the bus that has to deal with ALL of them at once?

Re: @mark l 2 - Tere's simply no rational reasons to run ARM servers.

The problem with Office is compatibility. Everyone uses it, and no one except Microsoft can really speak 100% Office correctly (read: bad format conversions and inability to port critical scripts). The Office problem is a lingua franca problem, meaning monoculture of some form is a necessary evil simply because it's required for effective communication; otherwise things get "lost in translation".

OTOH, jumping at any announcement that comes along can have you wasting money tilting at windmills. You lose either way.

Re: I think it's worse, SoC or not.

You may wish to read up on things like the Server Base System Architecture and the Server Base Boot Requirements, both of which are being pushed by ARM themselves. But like I said earlier, while they exist, they are fledgling technologies that are still trying to build up the necessary momentum.