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I decided to dig through open source to examine the state of Google’s upcoming Andromeda OS. Not to be confused with Microsoft's code name, the galaxy, or the starship
Or that nice young lady Perseus rescued.
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Not-so-new-OS would have been equally correct.
It's a merger between Android (which is simply Linux) and "Chrome OS".
Bastard Programmer from Hell 
If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
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No, no it isn't...
"It goes without saying that Google isn’t trying to hide Fuchsia. People have clearly discovered that Google is replacing Android’s Linux kernel."
"If you don't fail at least 90 percent of the time, you're not aiming high enough."
Alan Kay.
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And the next version will be called Autochthe, for the simple reason that nobody will know how to pronounce it.
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In this project, we show that the limitations of ASLR is fundamental to how modern processors manage memory and build an attack that can fully derandomize ASLR from JavaScript without relying on any software feature.
Not only that it has been busted, it has been done using JavaScript.
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Quote: We are releasing the native version of AnC as a library to reverse engineer page table caches. We are not going to release the JavaScript version of AnC in order to protect Internet users from the AnC attack. However, we predict that any sufficiently advanced adversary can replicate our results in a few weeks with the knowledge from our NDSS’17 paper.
Is that responsible behaviour?
Slogans aren't solutions.
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Yes. Irresponsible would be sellingit on black market for money. Knowledge MUST be shared.
* 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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Yes, I quite agree, but wouldn't it be better to just state that the problem exists rather than give people enough detail to exploit it? They may not have sold the information to dodgy parties but it would seem that they have shared knowledge that in all probability will be used maliciously by the very same people that they haven't sold it to.
96.3% of statistics are made up on the spot.
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"Unfortuantely [sic], this cache hierarchy [of the MMU] is also shared by untrustred [sic] applications"
Seems that's the real problem. Why does any application in user space have access to this? (Seriously, does anyone know?)
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Google wants to provide a consistent and scalable global database service that can keep pace with business. The company announced the public beta of Cloud Spanner, designed to be a no-compromise relational database service. Throwing a spanner as the works
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Quote: Data is stored in schematized semi-relational tables; data is versioned, and each version is automatically timestamped with its commit time; old versions of data are subject to configurable garbage-collection policies; and applications can read data at old timestamps
So some form of record-level event stream-ish system or versioned key:value storage?
Interesting - I shall have to have a play.
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Yes, because none of Google's cloud services have had unacceptable levels of downtime.
Oh... wait...
"If you don't fail at least 90 percent of the time, you're not aiming high enough."
Alan Kay.
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Quote: Cloud Spanner features ACID transactions,
Hmmm, this is a could service right?
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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New headline: Google causes acid rain!
TTFN - Kent
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Cool, so now even your databases can be scanned by the google thought police.
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Apple representatives plan to tell Nebraska lawmakers that repairing your phone is dangerous. Because you'll disturb the pixies inside the machine
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Apple said: repairing your phone is dangerous
...just like brushing your teeth with one of these[^] is. 
Sudden Sun Death Syndrome (SSDS) is a very real concern which we should be raising awareness of. 156 billion suns die every year before they're just 1 billion years old.
While the military are doing their part, it simply isn't enough to make the amount of nukes needed to save those poor stars. - TWI2T3D (Reddit)
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The right to repair seems a reasonable thing. Do successive owners of a product have the right to know that these repairs have been made?
Peter Wasser
"The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, and wiser people so full of doubts." - Bertrand Russell
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Works (or should, IMO) that way with cars, doesn't it?
TTFN - Kent
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[Edit] Yes it does.
Not quite. A good service record on a car is an important detail. On most cars scheduled service and repairs by authorised agents is probably the best way to judge a car. That statement can be deconstructed also but as a general principle it holds up.
Peter Wasser
"The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, and wiser people so full of doubts." - Bertrand Russell
modified 14-Feb-17 20:34pm.
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 fair enough. I was assuming, as I've never owned one.
But you're definitely right that things like that _should_ be made known, but often aren't.
TTFN - Kent
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Kent Sharkey wrote: I was assuming, as I've never owned one.
Wait. You can't just get away with saying something like that without a lot of splainin'.
Are you actually saying you've never owned a car?
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Yup, never owned one, never learned how to use one (other than the stereo). Walk, bike, transit (which I will admit is a pain, especially now that I'm in a backwater), cabs.
TTFN - Kent
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Why are you in a backwater?
Is it a Canadian backwater or some other European backwater? (Yes, Canada is Europe.  )
It's illegal to not own a car, here where I'm from.
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You're in Indianapolis?  (I was there training one week - not a sidewalk to be found)
I'm a backwater kinda guy, plus I get to look at a pretty glacier[^] every day.
TTFN - Kent
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