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A team of researchers in Saudi Arabia have built a prototype of a self-destructing gadget for the real world that can completely destroy a device in as little as ten seconds, and can be programmed to automatically trigger itself under certain conditions. Paging Mr. Phelps (or Hunt, depending on how old you are)
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OMG... are they late with it. James Bond and the guys of Mission Impossible have been doing this for decades. 
[Evil]
... and Samsung recently too
[/Evil]
I'll go get my coat
M.D.V. 
If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about?
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Quote: quickly expands and crushes the processor of the device
And that won't prevent from the evils to retrieve info from the remains of the phone... The SD card and inner memory are the keys - those have to be destroyed not the CPU...
Skipper: We'll fix it.
Alex: Fix it? How you gonna fix this?
Skipper: Grit, spit and a whole lotta duct tape.
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Don't be silly!
Hollywood says that to destroy a computer, you shoot the monitor, so the same must hold true for smartphones, etc.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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If you shoot the monitor of a smartphone htere are big chances you destroy the whole thingy 
* CALL APOGEE, SAY AARDWOLF
* GCS d--- s-/++ a- C++++ U+++ P- L- E-- W++ N++ o+ K- w+++ O? M-- V? PS+ PE- Y+ PGP t++ 5? X R++ tv-- b+ DI+++ D++ G e++>+++ h--- ++>+++ y+++* Weapons extension: ma- k++ F+2 X
* Never pay more than 20 bucks for a computer game.
* I'm a puny punmaker.
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In my case, the chances are that I'll miss.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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But the phone would be destroyed, thus "self-destroying" is true. Doesn't mean it must be useful 
* CALL APOGEE, SAY AARDWOLF
* GCS d--- s-/++ a- C++++ U+++ P- L- E-- W++ N++ o+ K- w+++ O? M-- V? PS+ PE- Y+ PGP t++ 5? X R++ tv-- b+ DI+++ D++ G e++>+++ h--- ++>+++ y+++* Weapons extension: ma- k++ F+2 X
* Never pay more than 20 bucks for a computer game.
* I'm a puny punmaker.
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Yup. If you've got a dedicated chip holding cryptographic keys (AIUI Apple does this on recent iPride models), you need to kill that chip too to make sure your backups can't be seized and used against you. Just fragging the CPU will only be effective against the same subset of adversaries that current remote bricking tools are able to stop.
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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Wasn't it called "Samsung Galaxy Note 7"?
* CALL APOGEE, SAY AARDWOLF
* GCS d--- s-/++ a- C++++ U+++ P- L- E-- W++ N++ o+ K- w+++ O? M-- V? PS+ PE- Y+ PGP t++ 5? X R++ tv-- b+ DI+++ D++ G e++>+++ h--- ++>+++ y+++* Weapons extension: ma- k++ F+2 X
* Never pay more than 20 bucks for a computer game.
* I'm a puny punmaker.
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Let's say I set a GPS limit of 200 miles, forget that I've done so and jump on a 'plane. Oops!
Let's say I lose my 'phone and decide to trigger the self-destruct just in case. OMG! My sofa's on fire! Damned 'phone fell down the back of the sofa again.
I'm struggling to think of a scenario that isn't going to end in tears.
Slogans aren't solutions.
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Just hand the phone to my oldest; she has a knack for destroying phones.
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Seriously, we've backed up a Linux system to the land much of the Internet forgot. "The street finds its own uses for things"
But really? Really? Do you want people to think your backup is news?
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Maybe for them is news, the NSA already saw its contents and deemed it unworthy,
* CALL APOGEE, SAY AARDWOLF
* GCS d--- s-/++ a- C++++ U+++ P- L- E-- W++ N++ o+ K- w+++ O? M-- V? PS+ PE- Y+ PGP t++ 5? X R++ tv-- b+ DI+++ D++ G e++>+++ h--- ++>+++ y+++* Weapons extension: ma- k++ F+2 X
* Never pay more than 20 bucks for a computer game.
* I'm a puny punmaker.
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Oracle insinuates Google was “a plagiarist” that committed “classic unfair use.” "Insanity is repeating the same mistakes and expecting different results"
I mean, I *know* Java ME was a great system, but move on guys.
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Kent Sharkey wrote: but move on guys
It is about billions of dollars! Oracle can't afford to loose that... Beside that Oracle has more lawyers than developers... they have to occupy them...
Skipper: We'll fix it.
Alex: Fix it? How you gonna fix this?
Skipper: Grit, spit and a whole lotta duct tape.
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Kornfeld Eliyahu Peter wrote: Oracle can't afford to loose that...
Larry Ellison is only the 7th richest person in the world. He needs the money from this case or he'll be selling more of his children. He already sold his soul so that's not an option anymore.
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The real problem is that in 2014 he was the at 5th place...
Skipper: We'll fix it.
Alex: Fix it? How you gonna fix this?
Skipper: Grit, spit and a whole lotta duct tape.
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That's because he spends all his time and money on suing people instead of making decent products 
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MULTITHREAD ALL THE THINGS!
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Joe Woodbury wrote: serviceability
How do you service a chip?
Never mind, I don't want to know. 
Marc
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RAS on not-a-mainframe servers is about being able to disable faulty components and being able to swap them out without turning off the power. eg your data center gets hit by lightning and your UPS doesn't fully protect the hardware, with the result that 3 of your 8 CPUs, 41 of your 256 dimms, and 3 of your 8 ethernet cards fail. A mainframe level RAS server will detect the errors and disable the faulty components automatically and keep running at reduced performance until the needed replacements are shipped in and installed in the running system. IBM's been doing that for something like 50 years. Intel initially acquired the same capabilities for the Itanic, but once it became clear that cluster-elephant had no future started migrating them all over to its most expensive Xeons.
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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Yes lots of $hamsters$
New version: WinHeist Version 2.2.2 Beta I told my psychiatrist that I was hearing voices in my head. He said you don't have a psychiatrist!
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The turtles will be busy.
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