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Submission + - Xtreme Coffee Action Set (youtube.com)

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spicybackpain
spicybackpain writes: "This cartoon is based off of a conversation I had with someone who was actually concerned that their 2 year old son preferred a pink tea set over a monster truck toy. Not fully understanding that grown men do drink tea, they lamented over the fact that he might become confused genderwise in the near future.

I suggested that Mattel come out with a manly coffee set instead of a tea set. Although I was joking, they insisted that I try to patent this 'amazing' idea.

I made this instead."
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Motorola's Sholes Bootloader Unlocked 283

Posted by timothy from the not-the-doctor-with-the-homophonic-name dept.
teh31337one writes "Motorola's locked bootloader for their Sholes-family devices (Droid OG, Milestone, DroidX, Droid 2 etc, not Atrix 4G) has finally been cracked. @nenolod explains on his website: The Motorola Sholes platform uses a trusted bootloader environment. Signatures are stored as part of the CDT stored on the NAND flash. mbmloader verifies the signature on mbm before passing control. mbm verifies all other signatures before allowing the device to boot. There is a vulnerability in the way that Motorola generated the signatures on the sections stored in the CDT. This vulnerability is very simple. Like on the PlayStation 3, Motorola forgot to add a random value to the signature in order to mask the private key. This allowed the private key and initialization vector to be cracked. This comes at the time when HTC are also stepping up their attempts at locking down their phones . The recently released LTE flagship — ThunderBolt is their most locked-down phone to date ... They made signed images, a signed kernel, and a signed recovery. They also locked the memory."

Comment Re:As a hungarian... (Score 1) 185

by Olipro (#34735480) Attached to: Hungarian Officials Can Now Censor the Media
As a non-Hungarian who spends a rather large amount of time in Hungary.

This media law is going to get challenged at the first possible opportunity by someone like Magyar Hírlap and the case will end up being taken to the EU level and Fidesz will quite probably end up in a semi-embarassing climbdown that they will no doubt try to spin in order to save face.

Totalitarian laws are scary only when they have genuine teeth... Hungary as a country does not have these sort of teeth, and this Media law will only descend into debacle in the coming months and years.

Comment Re:I designed ... (Score 1) 162

by Olipro (#34667876) Attached to: UK Banks Attempt To Censor Academic Publication
I wrote a Windows software version of the CAP/DPA card readers; entering the PIN does make a difference; the ARQC generated by the smartcard differs if the PIN hasn't been submitted, the same will apply in a DDA transaction carried out at a terminal; the PIN bypass is only truly going to work if the terminal or card only supports SDA, otherwise, the bank's back end can check whether the PIN was issued or not.

Comment Re:Good. (Score 1) 162

by Olipro (#34667846) Attached to: UK Banks Attempt To Censor Academic Publication
Actually that's only true for SDA (Static Data Authentication) smartcards (or terminals incapable of performing DDA) - if the auth process uses DDA then the ARQC generated by the EMV card will be different and the bank will thus know that the card was not issued a PIN. I doubt any of the UK banks are still issuing SDA cards, however, whether a merchant's terminal supports DDA is another issue. In any case, it's a heck of a lot of effort and risk to go to when fraudsters by-and-large can have a much easier time engaging in CNP transactions.

Comment Re:Oh wonderful (Score 1) 145

by Olipro (#33462070) Attached to: Facebook To Add Remote Logout
depends if the spammer wants control of the account over the long term or simply wants to do a hard and fast smash 'n' grab on the account. In any case, this could easily be mitigated with a captcha or similar.

Comment Re:Technically correct (Score 1) 547

by Olipro (#33285524) Attached to: ISPs Lie About Broadband "Up To" Speeds
This is a terrible analogy; they're advertising a rate of download which you will probably not get, nonetheless, whilst whatever you want to download might well take longer than expected, you'll still get your download. So here's an analogy that works; the advertised weight of the chips/burger/whatever is exactly the same, what you're being told is that you can expect to spend 10 minutes consuming it when in reality the only people who are going to spend that long on it are small children; either way you still got your bag of chips, you're just polishing them off faster than you'd expect.

Comment Re:Curse you, System Idle Process! (Score 1) 382

by Olipro (#32612882) Attached to: How many processes are running on your desktop box?

You, too, can be a PCMac.com columnist.

Here are a few of my gripes - most of them a result of excessive patching. IDLE-TIME PROCESS. Once in a while the system will go into an idle mode, requiring from five minutes to half an hour to unwind. It's weird, and I almost always have to reboot. When I hit Ctrl-Alt-Delete, I see that the System Idle Process is hogging all the resources and chewing up 95 percent of the processor's cycles. Doing what? Doing nothing? Once in a while, after you've clicked all over the screen trying to get the system to do something other than idle, all your clicks suddenly ignite and the screen goes crazy with activity. This is not right.

—John C. Dvorak, 9/29/2003

Yeah, the problem he's describing is completely unrelated to the CPU. It occurs when you've got a very large IO operation going on with your system HDD from a single process, the longer the operation goes on the more likely it becomes for your system to start shitting up because the other processes would quite like to access the disk too thank-you-very-much.

Comment Re:Title (Score 1) 275

by Olipro (#29546681) Attached to: Ballmer Admits, "We Screwed Up Windows Mobile"
the leaked builds you refer to are coming out almost daily my friend, it's like a live action stream of ROMs, the majority of which are, for the most part, usable. The thing is, the ones that see the light of day to the average punter are all cooked ROMs of course, adulterated with additional shit and the cook's branding thrown in, I hate the bloody things, and I say that as the person jointly responsible for the patched SPL that allows you to flash them.

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