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The database has over 500 million passwords that have been compiled from previous breaches Short version: it probably has
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Go back to 1974 and the dawn of home computing with this Arduino-based kit It worked out pretty well for that other guy
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Craftsmanship is an activity that doesn’t just provide us with satisfaction, but also makes us fundamentally human by enchanting us with the world right around us. It's an artisanal, hand-crafted program, with free range variables and fair trade data access
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WSJ Feb. 24, 2018 [^]Quote: Until now, Apple has stored the codes only in the U.S. for all global users, the company said, in keeping with its emphasis on customer privacy and security.
While Apple says it will ensure that the keys are protected in China, some privacy experts and former Apple security employees worry that moving the keys to China makes them more vulnerable to seizure by a government with a record of censorship and political suppression.
“Once the keys are there, they can’t necessarily pull out and take those keys because the server could be seized by the Chinese government,” said Matthew Green, a professor of cryptography at Johns Hopkins University. Ultimately, he says, “It means that Apple can’t say no.”
Gosh, what could go wrong >?
«... thank the gods that they have made you superior to those events which they have not placed within your own control, rendered you accountable for that only which is within you own control For what, then, have they made you responsible? For that which is alone in your own power—a right use of things as they appear.» Discourses of Epictetus Book I:12
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I can't explain it, Ron, and Tim Cook won't return my calls. 
«... thank the gods that they have made you superior to those events which they have not placed within your own control, rendered you accountable for that only which is within you own control For what, then, have they made you responsible? For that which is alone in your own power—a right use of things as they appear.» Discourses of Epictetus Book I:12
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Chinese law makes storing the data inside their borders mandatory for anyone who lives in China.
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, weighing 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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Because I'm sure the Chinese government requires it. They just demand it, and Apple wants the market. So, whores we are, it's a price thing.
Charlie Gilley
<italic>Stuck in a dysfunctional matrix from which I must escape...
"Where liberty dwells, there is my country." B. Franklin, 1783
“They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” BF, 1759
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Seems apropos;
Rocky: Hey Bullwinkle, we're in real trouble now!
Bullwinkle: Oh good, Rocky! I hate that artificial kind!
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BillWoodruff wrote: Gosh, what could go wrong >?
I bet the chinese think exactly the same about storing customer data in the US.
Remember Lavabit?[^]
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Mathematicians at the Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) have developed a new approach to machine learning aimed at experimental imaging data. Rather than relying on the tens or hundreds of thousands of images used by typical machine learning methods, this new approach "learns" much more quickly and requires far fewer images. It just jumps to conclusions like the humans operating it
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A bug in npm (Node Package Manager), the most widely used JavaScript package manager, will change ownership of crucial Linux system folders, such as /etc, /usr, /boot. npm: No Productivity Mandated
That's "reinstall Linux", not "reinstall npm". Ooops.
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Kent Sharkey wrote: That's "reinstall Linux", not "reinstall npm". Ooops.
Familiarity with the in's and out's breeds wider recognition! The Year of Linux is on its way!
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Only if the owner of the Linux system is so ignorant of the system he uses that he cannot restore the directories' ownership on his own, booting the system in init level 1.
The npm update is botched, but noone can't blame a system for the incompetence of its users... Especially on a system suitable only for knowledgeable sysadmins and programmers (i.e. what 99.99% of Javascript users are not).
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
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Hilarious. And everyone complains about Windows... 
#SupportHeForShe
Government can give you nothing but what it takes from somebody else. A government big enough to give you everything you want is big enough to take everything you've got, including your freedom.-Ezra Taft Benson
You must accept 1 of 2 basic premises: Either we are alone in the universe or we are not alone. Either way, the implications are staggering!-Wernher von Braun
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A reboot of the language to embrace our vision of Dart: as a language uniquely optimized for client-side development for web and mobile. Sharper, faster, pointier
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Microsoft is pushing to further improve the Windows Update process with speedier upgrade times. So you can get to that BSOD even sooner
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Intel Corp did not inform U.S. cyber security officials of the so-called Meltdown and Spectre chip security flaws until they leaked to the public, six months after Alphabet Inc notified the chipmaker of the problems, according to letters sent by tech companies to lawmakers on Thursday. Security through "la la la, nothing to see here"
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I think you mean security through not handing the NSA's department of malicious pwnage a zero day that will remain unpatched for months.
Getting caught after infecting standards with a deliberately broken RNG is like a kick in the nuts to everyone on the defensive side of US Govt cyber security that just keeps on kicking. 
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, weighing 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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And when did AMD & ARM disclose their Meltdown and/or Spectre vulnerabilities?
Director of Transmogrification Services
Shinobi of Query Language
Master of Yoda Conditional
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The research team has developed a novel device called a "memtransistor," which operates much like a neuron by performing both memory and information processing. With combined characteristics of a memristor and transistor, the memtransistor also encompasses multiple terminals that operate more similarly to a neural network. Maybe someone will soon have a bright idea, and we can get mem-LEDs
modified 23-Feb-18 1:03am.
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Kent Sharkey wrote: Chipmaker's latest microcode addresses stability issues faced by previous patches on 7th and 8th gen hardware
belongs to the thread below, methinks. Link seems OK, though.
Software rusts. Simon Stephenson, ca 1994. So does this signature. me, 2012
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If they're going to mimic the human brain they still need to work out the BSOD phenomenon otherwise know as stupidity.
Don't let your mind wander too far.
It's too small to be let out alone.
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