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iPlayer is the BBC's on-demand video and radio streamer.
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We've added the DoJ's points to the article, thanks for reminding us of them. But they don't change the thrust of the story at all - Rule 41 allows agents to apply for one warrant to one judge to search a very wide area. And it allows the Feds to search infected computers.
Maybe you're OK with that. Fine. But some people aren't.
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We're on it - it's on our radar, we also have other stories to cover too.
Late edit: We published new stuff. Here's a summary of our updates.
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All right, all right. The BTB part is local. It's needed to defeat ASLR. You need to defeat ASLR whether you're coming remotely or local. That part is local.
In other words, we were trying to make it clear that you don't attack the BTB + ASLR from outside and then install your malware. You first gain basic code execution (remote or local) and then exploit the BTB to get past ASLR (local).
I've taken that bit out since it seems to have blown your mind.
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sudo killall -9 Autopilot
Personally speaking, I think it's fair to say that the advertising+media world fucked up pretty bad with shitty bloated Flash ads, invasive popups, and dodgy ad networks that try to infect people. So I get why people use ad blockers to protect their systems and avoid slowing down their browsers.
(FWIW El Reg has a small but able ad ops team who are fast, smart and dedicated to weeding out any crap ads. We try our very best to serve only quality ads that won't piss you off in the hope that ppl whitelist us in their ad block plugins, if they're using them.)
Why are Reg journos anti-blockers? Well, there's a worry that when ads across the web are finally cleaned up - such as using pure HTML5, no creepy JS, no sound, no fucking tricks - no one will see them anyway because the bridge has been burned and everyone's using ad blockers, and then we'll be left with Bloomberg and, er, Bloomberg.
And that's no fun at all.
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This is not a paid-for piece.
This is a serious point: unless an article says otherwise, none of our articles are sponsored. This week we'll run three short messages sponsored by Huawei, each at 1200 midday Australia (0200 UTC), pointing people to the Chinese giant's Connect event and encouraging them to take a look. Those three pieces are labelled as promotional and sponsored, and are separate from editorial. They run alongside Huawei ads.
Please, please don't confuse clearly labelled paid-for messages with articles produced independently by journalists.
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"The Supreme Court’s decision in Campbell v. Acuff-Rose Music, Inc., solidified the treatment of fair use as an affirmative defense. However, treating fair use as an affirmative defense shifts the burden to the defendant while in most fair use cases plaintiffs are able to easily prove a prima facie case of infringement."
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I do - Intel used the StrongARM blueprints for its XScale line of chips for phones, networking and storage chips. They didn't go anywhere either.
From what I can tell, within Intel, if it's not x86, it's not welcome. That also exists within AMD. It's going to push Zen for servers, not ARM.
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Intel produces 99% of data center compute processors, which are x86. I don't think it's in any hurry to build ARM SoCs for servers. With smartphones and tablets, it lost so now it's going a level lower to ruin Samsung's day.
I'm planning a piece or two on the state of ARM server chips v soon, after IDF ends, in fact.
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Here (paywall). Basically, Philip Nye, an IBM security architect, tweeted: "Since Australia doesn’t have mandatory disclosure laws, will we ever find out when Census data is inevitably breached?"
Which ppl took to mean: "Census will be breached." He deleted the tweet, it seems.
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It's kinda unofficial, really. Up to layer 7 is officially defined, then it gets messy. Typically, layer 8 is the human layer.
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Twitter employs 3,900 staff and is based in San Francisco (a 10 min walk from our office). $700m divided by 3900 is $179,487 per head per quarter, which if you factor in server costs and other expenses isn't too crazy.
Sure, not everyone at Twitter works in SF, I appreciate that. Basically my point is, it employs 3,900 highly paid people who burn through cash like it doesn't really matter.
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