My opinion VR is the poster child of the technology having failed for being ahead of its time. Processing power and display technology simply has not existed at a quality and price anyone was willing to pay until very recently.

Even if only compelling use case is playing games that market is still huge. When I can go on new egg and purchase 1000 watt PSUs, 3-way SLI GPUs with thousands of cores each, sub MS ultra polling keyboards, 10 trillion DPI mice rated for use inch above the mouse pad, water cooling kits, motherboards adorned with skulls, low latency lan bullshit and gamer overclock shit... I find it hard to believe there can be no room for a product with a BOM consisting of mobile displays, sensors and ski goggles...all common shit enjoying massive commercial interest, R&D produced at scale.

Whether it is a series of mechanical cogs or a digital controller problem in abstract seems not so much selection of technology as it is proliferation of "nice to have" yet possibly unnecessary capabilities.. widgets which may not offer significant value after closer inspection of all risks. Is remote management really a must have or can you live without? Perhaps read-only monitoring (cutting rx lines) is a good enough compromise... perhaps not all systems need network connections, active USB ports..etc

Then we get to process questions.. can system be designed and isolated in such a way any manipulation is subject to local safety constraints which cannot be remotely bypassed or influenced/tricked?

It is problematic control people have not sufficiently cared about security in terms of product development, deployment and operation.

Also at some level operators must be trusted to not be stupid or evil.... To some extent this means knowing when to ignore the security/bureaucratic guy endlessly pulling what-ifs and CYAs out of their asses and focus on what in the bigger context is actually important.

If something were to go wrong you'd know it..

What does building PC and owning an S4 have to do with your assertion of an already competitive enough market? Makes no sense hence the cookies.

I am forced to use computers and mobile phones just as I am forced to drive a car. It is not possible to elect not to do these things without suffering unacceptable consequences. Hence my desire for viable solutions free of vendor bullshit.

App vendors. They have every interest in the world in maximizing their customer base which means tearing down those silos. Likewise people need to effectively communicate and transact across devices unimpeded by vendor specific hoops and proprietary crap. Todays write 20 times run anywhere nonsense is unsustainable.

I expect hardware vendors to make great innovative hardware and sell it for what market is willing to accept. I don't expect vendors to tell me what operating system I can or can not run or otherwise impose artificial limits on what I can or can't do with the hardware once it has been sold. I vote with my dollar.

I can choose from any of a dozen PSU vendors, DRAM vendors, form factors, a few processor, GPU vendors, persistent storage vendors, plug all manner of expansion hardware into any number of standardized interfaces, dozens of motherboard vendors, cooling solutions, keyboards, displays, mice, printers, audio, network. I am free to run any operating system that will run without artificial limits.. Windows, Linux, Solaris, FreeBSD, ESX, Android, ReactOS, DOS, OS/2...ad nauseam.

In the tablet and mobile handset spaces too often hardware is locked down to where it is not possible to install other operating systems without having to exploit system defects. Windows phone loader is intentionally locked down to prevent execution of anything except windows and carriers are increasingly enforcing the same restrictions on their modified android builds.

The point is anyone's gasoline works in my vehicle in the same way anyone's software should work on my computer.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/F...
is the essence of what makes a commodity a commodity.

Underlying point is no joke. Limiting value to consumer for sake of employment is indefensible Malthusian dogma.

Yea and my oven dispenses delicious chocolate chip cookies if you put the right ingredients inside of it and open the door at just the right time.

As a consumer I am sick of the silos, walled gardens and license to fuck over the customer that comes with each vendors try at "ecosystem lockin"

Reality is there is too much value bottled up for the current state of affairs to be sustainable over the long haul. Both hardware and software will become more modular like PCs in the future. Prior technical excuses of severely limited room and processor space has not been true for a number of years and any added costs in generalizing software and hardware interfaces will quickly pay dividends as the barrier to entry is reduced.

Operating systems are commodities like gas and cookies. The sooner we all get to treating them that way the better off we all are.

Relax, you can always find work in Oregon and New Jersey working the pumps.

It really isn't that hard a concept. If you want to stay in business you provide value customers are willing to pay for. The second you have nothing to offer is the second you die.

Modularization is happening whether OS vendors like it or not. I invite those opposed to ignore it.

Begins with fucking over your customers for selfish reasons.

Hope this works better than audio recordings abused to provide inaccurate pretexts for all kinds of unnecessary unpleasantries.

When you get old.

Must be missing something... I can't imagine how one could reasonably intend to infect millions of machines and not expect their stash of 0-days to be discovered and plugged in short order.. unless NSA plans to social engineer all of their victims to run the "fre3 v1agra" installer seems like a great way for NSA to shoot itself in the foot.

She only does the job when it effects her personally and her power. Does the office monkey who only does any work while the boss is watching deserve a positive review? I believe the CIAs actions were wrong. My only disagreement is with assigning credit to Feinstein for not sleeping while the boss is looking her way.

Each time without exception someone has used the words "I take it" to describe a position I have never asserted they get it wrong.

Attacking people is no way to win an argument yet it communicates a useful function for the purpose of filtering out noise.

While a crackpot might on occasion say something true is it really worth your time to wade through all of their garbage to scrape a few grains of sanity from the bottom of the pan?

She is like all of the other power hungry whackos ... she does not care unless it effects her personally...I'm not going to applaud her for that.

The problem with just supporting any statement from anyone who says anything you want to hear is that doing so negatively effects your credibility.

What if Hitler, Uncle Stalin or Ahmadinejad were to give a speech about the importance of human rights? What do you think would happen to the credibility of the human rights advocate who decides to go ahead and quote it while omitting the emoticon?

I sometimes wonder how monsters like Feinstein get any votes at all while the likes of Feingold can lose to a climate change denier. We have only ourselves to blame.

It seems far fetched someone would go through all of the trouble to deploy such a solution and yet select a key with insufficient entropy to protect the system from any remotely feasible brute force attack.

Looks like all their doing is storing an encryption key on a separate hardware component and offloading all operations requiring said key to hardware. Isn't this what TPM already does? Why reinvent the wheel?

See also
http://tools.ietf.org/html/dra...

This is too one-sided. DST means sun starts peering thru cracks and Windows an hour later than it otherwise would. Where I live this means without DST between May-Aug sunrise hovers on order of 3:40 AM. People tend to sleep better while it is still dark outside.