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> "Apparently, ME is the perfect combination of opaque, obtuse, and obscure. It’s not rocket science, but complicated enough it’s hard to explain well quickly."

The way I see it is Intel ME is a processor-level application that has full control of all computer activity and cannot be blocked or disabled and can be accessed and controlled remotely.

Would like to hear other people's opinions of what it is.
The most interesting bit, for me:

>YouTube says it has thousands of people working around the clock in different time zones to review flagged content.

That's a lot of work, I imagine.
Having just finished this book about 2 months ago, I tend to agree. My only gripe is that the book is about 20% too long. There is a lot of what I call "fluffing", like when I had a book report with a simple topic and a high word-count minimum
Well, I disagree.

Bitcoin is purely speculative market right now. Bitcoin is supposed to be a currency - thing you pay with. Right now constant deflation means nobody uses it to pay, which defeats its purpose.

Bitcoin is also not gold. It has no inherent value, it's not useful in any way besides as payment instrument and right now utility of BTC as payment instrument is close to zero.

Finally, Bitcoin is extremely expensive to maintain (electricity and computing power) and there is no way to lower that cost. Once BTC network processing power is too small percentage of world's total processing power, it becomes feasible to perform an attack on a Network (you need 51% as everybody knows).

So, given that production of Bitcoin has a hard limit, at some point increase in price won't be able to offset resources necessary to mine, which will cause collapse of network processing power, which in turn will make network susceptible for attack.

Mind you, it has nothing to do with product competitiveness(contracts, transaction times etc.). Bitcoin is designed in a way that is not sustainable and it will become clear at some point.
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What you've described is basically a zero hours employment contract, except that Uber conveniently sidesteps minimum wage by using the 'contractor' designation.

I wonder if you've been sold the bill of goods reading your Uber=bad comment.
Some would argue the entire design of ME is evidence that it IS a backdoor.
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> Intel ME and the (assumed [0]) partnership with CIA to design and build this system

I worked at Intel on ME and the things that came before it until around 2013. I can tell you two things --

1. No, Intel ME wasn't born out of a desire to spy on people nor was it -- to the best of my knowledge but I honestly believe I would know -- created at the request of the US government (or others). It was an honest attempt at providing a functionality that we believed was useful for sysadmins. If it was something done for the CIA, I believe it would probably have been kept secret instead of marketed.

2. It was initially going to be much "worse". Early pilots with actual customers -- such as a large british bank -- were going to run a lot more stuff -- think a full JVM -- and have a lot more direct access to the user land.) Security concerns scrapped those ideas pretty early on though.

In retrospect, I personally believe the whole thing was a bad idea and everybody is free to crap on Intel for it. But the thing was never intended as a backdoor or anything like that.
We moved from slack to hipchat at my old job because it was cheaper. Hipchat is just a terrible product, both on iOS and in the browser. Don't even know where to begin, it was just a pain to use and every employee I talked to hated it. I'll just give a few examples:

- Unreliable notifications. Sometimes it notified you about messages sometimes it didn't, no idea why.

- You could get a push-notification about a message, then open the app and have no clue who had messaged you or in which discussion/group.

- Emojis had really unintuitive shortcuts. I remember people used to send some kind of skeleton dancing all the time, because it's shortcut was a (Y) (which is commonly some affirmative/"yes" emoji like a thumbs up).

- Also it looks horrible.
I've had that after a repair (2007 MBP logic board replacement). Facetime refused to work without a serial number.
Yes. Far worse.
banana? ;)
Am I the only person who's thoroughly tired of YouTube attempting to be family friendly? I'm not defending the videos with the kids characters doing sick things, that's NSFL stuff, but the constant focus on family friendly content is killing basically all of the channels I really enjoy watching.

I thought YouTube was supposed to be for everyone, not just the same lowest-common-denominator mashed potatoes content you can get from daytime television.
They fixed the dumbest part (a menu hidden behind the logo.)

Some got used to it.

Some stopped caring. It doesn't help: they've already decided what's best for us.

Me: it still annoys me to a certain degree and I'm also happy to see that companies not only considers alternatives but also actually move to other products.
I like it! I have random ideas all the time, and I'm pleased to have somewhere to post them.

If anybody here works at Google, here's my first post:
http://www.halfbakery.com/idea/Translated_20Search
It's ok for video games, movies, TV but YouTube kids shouldn't categorize better?

give authors a chance to categorize their own content.
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> The concern with the Intel ME is that it has a native network adapter.

Yep, this is the big deal. After I "discovered" the ME, my first stop on my home network was the switch, to block all that crap. (And I found my storage server, equipped with a Supermicro all-in-one motherboard, helpfully grabbed an IP for the ME to listen on with an 'admin/admin' password.)

I just wish the empire builders at the NSA would care about something other than their own little power center. They knew this would happen - it always does. The NSA is probably the biggest security threat to the U.S. people[1] at this point, because they keep building concentrated, high-value targets and then lose control of them.

[1] Not to be confused with 'U.S. government interests'.
True, but what is the lesson people are taking away? Is it "I better stop being corrupt" or is it "if I want to keep being corrupt I better swear loyalty to MBS and make sure he gets his cut". If it's purely the latter, has anything really been won?
Well, their views on gender equality and religious freedom on average tend to be very different from the vast majority of those in the West. So yes, they might well be worse.
That's a bad argument. Firstly, it's my understanding that there have already been root-access 0 days discovered in the ME (and since patched since exposed). AND The USB jtag backdoor is the whole point of this post.

Secondly, a security hole and a backdoor are interchangeable these days. So we'll never be able to prove which new 0-days are deliberate, and as far as impact it kinda doesn't matter if they're deliberate.
> those are not functions with arguments, they're all 0-arity method calls

In other words, they are 1-argument function calls. The "this"/"self" parameter is implicit in many languages, but otherwise it's not different from a normal function parameter. In the "method chaining" version of the example, each method call returns a (reference to) a temporary object which is passed as the next method call's "this" parameter.
This is not a recognized group of individuals, and is likely a pump attempt. Subsequent posts to the list reflect the lack of acknowledgement.
It's a nice thought, but I don't think it'll allow us to flash new firmware. We can already flash firmware on Intel chips, but the firmware has to be signed using Intels keys. The signing verification still happens on the mask rom which is impossible to overwrite.

Maybe this discovery will help us understand more how the verification step works. But I think the best we can hope for is a way of overwriting Intel ME very quickly after it's booted every time.
Sometimes I use Facebook messenger. I guess it has the same effect.
I had a similar experience in some art museums in Britain. In the late middle ages and early modern times a pigeon flying through the painting towards the viewer was a popular motif to symbolize the holy spirit.

You could clearly tell that the depiction of the flying bird got better over time, but even with contemporaries you could see huge differences in terms of skill.
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Will fly to London for this
I subscribe to a bunch of channels (mostly focused around Brazilian jiu-jitsu, powerlifting and video games) and I have not noticed any attempts at "family friendly content" having any impact on those channels. Where are you seeing it?
Presumably because of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Snowden#Publication
Yep. Spot and I hung out together at CMU, when he was working with Andy Witkin doing amazing graphics stuff, and I was working with Brad Myers doing Lisp user interface stuff. That was when I finally bit the bullet and learned X-Windows so I could hate it better, and started porting SimCity from NeWS to TCL/Tk. (The unix-haters X-Windows chapter was the result of that.)

https://www.cmu.edu/homepage/creativity/2012/winter/spot-on....

https://www.cs.cmu.edu/~aw/people.html

http://www.donhopkins.com/drupal/node/69

http://www.art.net/~hopkins/Don/unix-haters/x-windows/disast...
Interesting note though, the Horseshoe falls did run dry naturally during the winter of 1848 [1]. High winds on Lake Erie pushed ice into the mouth of the Niagara River, eventually resulting in an ice jam that blocked the flow of water into the river and stopped both falls.

[1] http://www.niagarafrontier.com/fallsstopped.html
The Prime Minister of Lebanon also turned up in Riyadh and resigned via television on the same day in unclear circumstances (conflicting reports whether he is free to leave or not), which is a particularly weird tie-in: http://edition.cnn.com/2017/11/10/middleeast/lebanon-hariri-...
Baumol cost disease is relevant here. Rent, education and healthcare all continue to go up. All else goes down.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baumol%27s_cost_disease
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I love the inscribed metadata at the top:

Tell Ea-nasir: Nanni sends the following message:

It’s like an email header for a clay tablet.
He was convicted of stealing confiscated property. Maybe this computer was confiscated as well, maybe he stole it, and maybe it already had its serial number filed off.
What I find interesting is when you have parental controls on, and your playing a kids video, the advertisements are not something a kid should be shown.
Company culture is shaped at the top, and forms at the bottom
Mostly agreed.

Alas, people mostly write down the boring stuff like what kings reigned when and what laws they passed. The more interesting everyday stuff tends to be less well preserved in writing. (One of the reasons the cuneiform tablets with commercial and marriage contracts are so interesting.)
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It's (un)surprising how fast YouTube responds to this somewhat mild criticism, while holding steady on their radio silence regarding the large amounts of huge creators who are getting demonetized and community strikes against their accounts. Nearly every big channel I watch has posted a video complaining about it in the past 2 months, with many just this week.

Gives you some good insight on where their priorities are.
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> I have to admit I'm not even sure why they did change licence.

See previous discussion on HN https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12894721 , Apple has a history of it.

I think a lot of companies view it as a liability regardless of whether or not it actually is due to a lot of the legality of copy-left licenses being pretty untested in court, as well as just generally a liability with little advantage (Apple probably doesn't care about external contributions to CUPS). I don't feel like switching CUPS to Apache has any real advantage to Apple practically, apart from the GPL makes them nervous. I guess I could see why they wouldn't want it in other places, but surely CUPS doesn't have much in the way of secret sauce IP.
Cool, congrats to team getting to 1.0.0

We (draw.io) 100% believe in this model, it's absurd that the data should live with the SaaS application provider. It's user lock-in, plain and simple.
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Intel ME Cracked via a Functioning USB JTAG
> the constant focus on family friendly content is killing basically all of the channels I really enjoy watching

If you're not paying for YouTube, they have to get money from somewhere and if those somewheres don't want to advertise on non-family friendly content, what are YouTube supposed to do? Go bankrupt on principle?
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> already have plenty of work and try hard to avoid 'Feature creep'

It seems a basic thing though. Like String and Number and Array literals (these are also Objects in JavaScript).

I think the answer is more likely to be age and stagnation.
Reminds me of the process used to build the most wanted and unwanted song. The most wanted song is a terribly cheesy pop song, the most unwanted song is a bizarre mishmash that is kind of interesting to listen to.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=McIfIx29tSg

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-gPuH1yeZ08
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this needs to be made into a TV show.
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To be fair, "pounding out a message on clay, firing it in an oven for 12 hours, and then sending a servant to deliver it by donkey or camel through hostile territory" was probably just the way long-distance correspondence was done back then.

Maybe Nanni was also instructed to throw it at Ea-nasir's head or something.
«nobody uses it to pay»

Always the same misconception being repeated... Your opinion is not supported by data. Usage is quickly growing:

https://blog.bitpay.com/bitpay-growth-2017/

https://blockchain.info/charts/n-transactions?timespan=all (before someone says "it's speculators": no it's not—buying, holding, and selling BTC on an exchange does not create transactions on the blockchain; the vast majority of speculators leave their BTC in an exchange and never move it)
GPLv3 code can incorporate Apache 2.0 code, but GPLv2 code cannot.
Am curious how and what exactly you blocked?! What precautions can be taken to make systems more secure?!
I am paying for YouTube.
> I thought the feds had already explicitly declared that bitcoin wasn't valid currency.

No, they didn't. You are probably confusing a determination of what category it falls into in tax law as having a broader meaning that it does.

> How can you do "money laundering" by taking something that isn't a currency and moving its location, and at no point converting it into something that is recognized as currency?

The US “money laundering” statute concerns primarily “monetary instruments”, whose definition includes (among other things) “investment securities”. Nothing has to be or be converted to currency. See 18 U.S.C. § 1956.
This was a problem even before Intel ME. Modern server motherboards (and several workstations) have a second Linux installation on your motherboard (known as a "baseboard management controller" or BMC) that cannot be removed. There have been many exploits found in the software running on BMCs, and if you want to "clean up" an infected server then you have to throw out the hardware if you want to be 100% certain.
At least in the U.S., it's a multi-factor test, with schedule being only one part of it. Uber doesn't control when and where you work, but it definitely controls the customer relationship and quality of service. For example, it doesn't merely allow customers to rate drivers, it kicks out anyone who doesn't achieve a relatively high rating. It imposes pretty specific requirements on what kind of car you can drive.

Uber's business needs are somewhat at odds with its legal case here. From a branding standpoint, Uber wants you to think of yourself as interfacing with Uber, not individual drivers. They want you to believe that if you call an Uber, you're going to get a certain level and quality of service.

Contrast something like HomeAdvisor, which is undoubtedly an aggregator for contractors. Home Advisor doesn't tell its contractors what kind of equipment to use, it doesn't kick off contractors who don't achieve a 4-star rating, etc. It's explicitly marketed as a service for finding contractors, not a company that performs the service directly.
I don't have enough experience to speak on it (lived here over 1 year), but my foreign friends tend to try to stay out of JP companies, and smart japanese friends end up working (remotely or moving) w/ western tech companies.
Yeah then it's up to Uber to build that in if it's a problem. That when demand is low it tells them there isn't enough demand currently and they won't get paid. The problem there is if it happens often it's going to take Drivers away from the platform.
Cold emailing bigger blogs would be the least effective method.

Some places where you can promote your new website are, Small bloggers, Reddit, Indie Hackers.

You can try paid advertising if you can afford it.

You can write engaging Medium articles and leave a link at the end of the article to your site.

You can always do it the old fashioned way, if you can figure out where your target users are, go and physically meet them. :) The best way to promote your site.
How is remotestorage.io different to https://tent.io ?

Are there any other data protocols aimed at helping users "own" their data out there?
From a technical perspective there is a difference now that this is public, but from a security stance, physical access is physical access.

Why? Security knows there are always bugs in software, and assumes they exist. Thanks to @h0t_max, the rest of us know this particular bug exists, but this bug has been around for a while - who's to say evil hax0rs didn't find this bug years ago and have been exploiting it since?

Or put another way - you say an unknown USB stick could exploit a driver vulnerability to silently cause mischief, and then claim that this is easily stopped if an administrator sets a security policy to disallow unknown USB devices. (I assume you mean a Windows GPO enforced policy or similar, and not a written social policy.) Who's to say the code that enforces the policy doesn't have bugs that's exploitable? What if the driver for a known USB stick has exploits?

Physical access is physical access, and while there are mitigations for the evil maid attack (like an encrypted drive and shutting down -not just suspending, when the machine is out of sight), there simply is no way around the fact that physical access is game over.
I must be out of the loop here, can you post some context for this?
Worth it just for the phrase, “Although I was trained as an opera singer before becoming a science journalist.”
This is a lousy argument. If he does not hold BTC, people say he is not putting his money where his mouth is. And if he holds BTC, people say he is biased. No matter what, Draper cannot win with these lousy arguments.
well into the early modern era, letters were written as if they were speech.

this explains the three paragraphs of flowery hellos at the opening of most old letters — it’s written as if the writer is standing in front of the reader and speaking.
No, you're reducing the supply of the currency, you're not reducing the supply of stuff the currency can buy. If the amount of stuff drops but the currency stays the same, the price increases but if the amount of stuff the currency can buy increases but the currency stays the same (as in, the number of Bitcoins have capped) the price drops.

If other people build something or sell something they increase the supply of stuff which makes the prices drop if the currency stays the same. In other words, they're less incentivized to build or sell something (since selling and building has costs) than just keeping the money themselves in their mattress if the amount of currency is fixed.
Everyone, please read the letter in full. It's great, and not too long.

Of course it's a translation of an ancient language, but assuming it's fairly accurate, it's awesome to think someone wrote something like that almost 4,000 years ago. I think sometimes we forget that at their core, people in 1750 BCE were just like people today.

> What do you take me for, that you treat somebody like me with such contempt? I have sent as messengers gentlemen like ourselves to collect the bag with my money (deposited with you) but you have treated me with contempt by sending them back to me empty-handed several times, and that through enemy territory. Is there anyone among the merchants who trade with Telmun who has treated me in this way? You alone treat my messenger with contempt!

Love it.
Sure, but where is the outcry from Western media and round the clock coverage of this outrage? If anything remotely close to this was happening in any of "official" adversaries like Iran, Venezuela, Cuba, etc., media would be calling for US troops on the ground. It this was in Russia or China, there would be multiple levels of sanctions imposed as we speak.

But, hey, this is Saudi Arabia, so let's just treat it with bemused detachment like an extended Game of Thrones season.
https://assets.bwbx.io/images/users/iqjWHBFdfxIU/iI77KmfJdUn... that is not what line charts are for.
Fair enough. I think it is too early to say what the outcome is going to be.

I'm also fairly amused at some comments here being critical of the manner in which the changes are happening. An autocratic monarchy is not going to change via committee meetings, legislative votes, or reasoned judicial orders -- not significantly at least.

Moving toward more moderate policies or even further to a constitutional monarchy is going to come from the use of brute force.
Whay about the change of public keys, tampering with pre-release hashes that occured during a time where no-one could reach Assange for about a month? Coincidentally during one of the larger DDOS events of the past year?

I'm stacking the tinfoil pretty hard but ignoring the history/politics you gotta say the technical side behaved in a weird way.
Retro Gamer is one of my favourites here in the UK.
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So what do you think the cost of borrowing bitcoin should be?
We used to let our 3 y/o watch youtube. She learned lots of things from there which was amazing. Colors, Numbers, the alphabet; all by the time she was 2. I'm not a teacher by any means so it was awesome to see this happen.

Then these weird videos started showing up. We took youtube away for exactly these videos that are mentioned in this link.

These are targeting children and it's sick.
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> how fast YouTube responds to this somewhat mild criticism

Fast? People have been complaining about this for ages.
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