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by zyztem 6y ago
Years later there was another port of OpenSolaris to IBM Power computers called "Polaris": https://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/01/10/solaris_on_power/ And even port to IBM z/VM ("Siriu
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by zyztem 6y ago
I was under impression that "28 pages" document was mostly declassified? Or this is some another documents?
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by zyztem 7y ago
And folks with access to Mentor (Advanced Orion) likely can clone keys from other side of the planet
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by zyztem 7y ago
That requires generating and burning keys to devices during manufacturing. This process will be hacked by NSA & all, exactly like Gemalto https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/feb/19/nsa-gchq-sim..
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by zyztem 7y ago
This is a world after QUANTUMINSERT for you. Somehow everything should be encrypted but key management are still unsolved
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by zyztem 7y ago
People sometimes like challenge in their lives. See Everest climbing & etc
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by zyztem 7y ago
Cell processor shipped for commercial installation in the IBM Blades QS20/QS21/QS22, which was based on Roadrunner supercomputer. Sony also demoed rack-mount with Cell ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zego ) but
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by zyztem 7y ago
Article picture is an IBM iDataPlex system.
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by zyztem 7y ago
Turn of millennium was era before of SSL/TLS. Livejournal did not want to send clear text password during login to the site. SRP was patent encumbered (and anyway implementing proper PAKE in JavaScript of that era was unfeasible). So a
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by zyztem 7y ago
The usual problem is not shutting down the reactor: both TMI and Fukushima was properly shutdown. Important task is cooling down the core (and SFP) after that. Left on its own, halted thermal reactor generates hundreds MW of heat after shut
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by zyztem 7y ago
You might find source of Xv6 - educational version of unix - useful. Here is their implementation of cat, all 44 lines of it: https://github.com/mit-pdos/xv6-public/blob/master/cat.c
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by zyztem 8y ago
Reported murders. We mostly do not know what happens in Africa
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by zyztem 8y ago
Previous analysis of CTBTO hydrophone data (augmented with IMOS, Australian SOSUS clone) back in 2014: https://www.nature.com/news/sound-clue-in-hunt-for-mh370-1.1...
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by zyztem 8y ago
There is better pictures and explanation at TEPCO site: https://www7.tepco.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/handouts_190213_...
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by zyztem 8y ago
Last year S/A wrote pretty interesting article about this situation: https://semiaccurate.com/2017/11/06/qualcomm-opens-apple-leg...
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by zyztem 8y ago
Surprised to see USB-C connector. Has it gone mainstream all the way in place of Type-A?
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by zyztem 8y ago
Unsurprisingly there is no Google container for Firefox
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by zyztem 9y ago
Hard to believe. Worldwide production of Californium is just a few milligrams per year.
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by zyztem 9y ago
Estimating production volume from serial numbers? Looks like a job for a German tank problem: https://www.theregister.co.uk/2014/05/20/german_tank_problem...
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by zyztem 9y ago
That situation can be easily fixed in RPM-based Linux with rpm --setperms and rpm --setugids. Correction will be little harder on Debian derivatives and whole incident can be completely prevented on Solaris with file-mac-profile.
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Maersk forced to reinstall 45,000 PCs and 4,000 servers following NotPetya attack(theinquirer.net)
2 points by zyztem 9y ago|0 comments
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by zyztem 9y ago
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2018-01-18/the-fall-...
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by zyztem 9y ago
Switzerland Cryptostory worth remembering: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crypto_AG#Compromised_machines
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by zyztem 9y ago
I do not think so. Public service must make money somehow. Most times it is advertisment so js required. Sometimes it is spionage, but they must look like usual thing. Get a hosting from shared server account (few dollars a month). Or distr
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by zyztem 9y ago
Seems strangely inexpensive to me. Serious engineering, special train, 1.3 km construction on difficult terrain and only 45 mln. Euro? In comparision, new Dublin tram line - COTS cars, 6 km line for 368 mln Euro. Or Detroit Qline, $180 mln.
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by zyztem 9y ago
You people definetly should fight this. We had something like this under "ban pedo" umbrella, now this thing filter anything that is against the party rule
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by zyztem 9y ago
Survivorship bias. Press releases do not made when equipment work as expected
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by zyztem 9y ago
looks like /etc/shadow, not passwd
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by zyztem 9y ago
Security story of ImageMagick is pretty awful. This service should be very careful.
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by zyztem 9y ago
Desktop processor without ECC memory plus very slow SATA hard drives - not a setup for reliability and performance

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