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by hackuser 9y ago
> Their customers prefer ... Sure they prefer it. I prefer a soup-to-nuts high-assurance personal laptop, or a private 747, but I'm not willing to pay for them. I know my laptop can be exploited. My point is that it's an econom
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by hackuser 9y ago
I agree with much of what you say. Most entertaining to me is that I'm the one who used to post such things on HN. It's amazing how quickly the pendulum has swung from extreme libertarian to progressive left. Personally, I think a
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by hackuser 9y ago
> "Let the market run free and everything will be right" sounds good in theory, but that implies that we will be better off without anti-trust laws, and minimum wage rules. I agree; it should not be taken to an extreme and I di
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by hackuser 9y ago
Thanks. Not pedantic at all - it's useful to know.
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by hackuser 9y ago
> Why don't they just ship it with W10 Pro already installed? Are you sure they don't? In the past, many Windows edition upgrades (e.g., Home to Pro) were just a matter of enabling features that were already installed.
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by hackuser 9y ago
How are privacy issues handled, especially for the schoolchildren?
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by hackuser 9y ago
Many on HN seem to dislike Infosys, but let's not let that cloud larger, far more important issues: Most importantly, it sets very dangerous precedents of U.S. federal government interference in the free market and in business decision
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by hackuser 9y ago
Do their customers want high-assurance? As I posted elsewhere, corporate IT is sophisticated enough to know the risks, and they chose to enable AMT widely. Does the level of demand make it profitable enough to justify doing? Personally I w
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by hackuser 9y ago
Corporate IT seems to disagree. Certainly they are sophisticated enough to know the risks, and they enable and use AMT widely. Personally, I hesitate more than most because of the technical reasons you cite, but even turning on a computer i
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by hackuser 9y ago
> they knowingly sold their systems Everyone who sells systems knowingly sells exploitable ones, unless the sellers are naive. Every system you and I deliver to our customers/users is exploitable.
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by hackuser 9y ago
> What was Intel ME trying to solve that couldn't be done without it? ME is an independent platform that runs parallel with the main CPU. ME has it's own CPU, memory, bus, etc. The general purpose is to provide an isolated subs
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by hackuser 9y ago
I was just doing some research on Intel Management Engine (ME), the independent subsystem on which AMT and other security applications run. Since I have them at my fingertips, perhaps these will be of use: * By far the best place to learn a
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by hackuser 9y ago
> confirmation that this system is not as secure as they thought it was I wonder if that's true. Intel has many smart security professionals working for it, and probably they expected there would be exploits; they exist on every sys
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by hackuser 9y ago
I would guess you saw this, but just in case: Step 1: Determine if you have an Intel® AMT, Intel® SBA, or Intel® ISM capable system: https://communities.intel.com/docs/DOC-5693 . If you determine that you do not have
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by hackuser 9y ago
That description is a misconception, IMHO. First, it's an investment; it's not taking away money; it's not robbery. It has a return, a benefit that generally exceeds the cost (I'm not sure how much I paid to fly Cassini
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by hackuser 9y ago
> I can link you to tons of articles of them being political and generally left leaning Isn't that falling into the trap of repetition = truth? People repeat falsehood and rumors as much as the truth, and they rarely check the facts
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by hackuser 9y ago
> "We need to protect minorities and women from the white male oppressors" is basically the slogan of the identity politics wing of the left. No, that's something white nationalists say to each other; I don't see it e
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by hackuser 9y ago
I don't see ESPN's content as politicized. Politicized content would be to support a candidate or political policy (e.g., for or against national health care). I see ESPN addressing social issues, such as abuse of women, but I don
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by hackuser 9y ago
> The amount of people who I've seen, online and in person, citing the absolutely insufferable, constant politicization of ESPN ... How many?
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by hackuser 9y ago
How about directing funding toward creationism, or alternative views of the causes of climate change (i.e., non-human ones), or the benefits of authoritarianism? How about when the Koch brothers fund research into the benefits of their bran
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by hackuser 9y ago
> bias against white males? IME, the premise that such a thing exists (with any meaningful impact at any meaningful scale) almost defines the white nationalists (alt-right). The racists with some intelligence rarely will outright say som
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by hackuser 9y ago
> The Nation is not exactly a great source to use on this particular topic Agreed, they have a clear bias. > I know a lot of moderate people that stopped watching ESPN How many? 10? A statistically significant number?
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by hackuser 9y ago
Monday Night Football has been very popular for years, and rarely does it feature your favorite team.
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by hackuser 9y ago
How do you deal with those problems when developing Octave? Do you stick to one 'dialect', for example? Or is it somehow a non-issue?
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by hackuser 9y ago
> [Professor Michael Jensen] advocated an "agency" theory of management in which management's sole duty was to maximize shareholder value. This upended the long-held "stakeholder" model, in which management was s
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by hackuser 9y ago
> Secure Boot is utterly broken (for general purpose pcs at least) anyways. I can just take an old windows kernel and boot with a configuration that loads a driver with a known vulnerability (a certain gpu manufacturer might be a good pl
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by hackuser 9y ago
What word would you use for the class of machines that are desktops and laptops? It's a real, if not very important, question that I've never found a good answer for.
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by hackuser 9y ago
> started Nautilus in 2012 with a two-year, $5 million grant from the John Templeton Foundation That's very interesting and important. I know the Templeton Foundation as funders of 'research' into creationism. Richard Dawk
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by hackuser 9y ago
Could you provide an example? That's not my experience, but maybe we are looking at different parts of the site.
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by hackuser 9y ago
It was the tone and listening (or lack thereof), not the content. No big deal, but life is too short ...

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