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Comment Re: BRIX (Score 1) 49

Sorry, SecureBoot is implemented in the very firmware you can own when WP is busted... so Windows will happily believe all is good. That's the point of these types of vulnerabilities.

The TPM point would be valid if you actually manually configured which PCRs will cause BitLocker and remote attestation to fail. By default the firmware ones are NOT setup this way. Even if they were, it the attacker knew the expected measurements (from the original firmware), TPM has no signing on measurements and therefore you could fake the old numbers by self measuring.

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George Washington Racks Up 220 Years of Late Fees At Library 146

Everyone knows that George Washington couldn't tell a lie. What you probably didn't know is that he couldn't return a library book on time. From the article: "New York City's oldest library says one of its ledgers shows that the president has racked up 220 years' worth of late fees on two books he borrowed, but never returned. One of the books was the 'Law of Nations,' which deals with international relations. The other was a volume of debates from Britain's House of Commons. Both books were due on Nov. 2, 1789."
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Radeon HD 5870 Eyefinity 6 — Gaming On Six Panels 111

MojoKid writes "AMD's 6-output Radeon has been seen in action at a number of events, but today the ATI Radeon HD 5870 Eyefinity 6 Edition is being officially launched. HotHardware paired the card up with six 22" Dell LCD panels in a 3x2 configuration — with a max resolution of 5760x2160 — and ran it through a number of popular titles including Dirt 2, Battlefield: Bad Company 2, Left 4 Dead 2 and Crysis. For specialized, high-end graphics cards like this, the market potential may be relatively small. If, however, the idea of multi-monitor gaming is appealing to you and you've got the means to score one of these cards (along with multiple displays), you won't be disappointed." Reader Vigile adds a different analysis of the card's six-monitor gaming: "PC Perspective found FPS games were basically unplayable because of the bezel through the middle of their vision while RTS and racing games like StarCraft 2 and DiRT 2 were spectacular."

Comment Re:Include the antidote ! (Score 1) 631

Erm, Acetaminophen is not a "Brand name", it is called a "Common name" or "Generic name". And guess what, so is Paracetamol, the European "Common name". A "brand name" is Parocet or Tylenol.

So I guess Europeans have a little bit more trouble differentiating brand names from common names, or were you just trying to get everyone to switch over to the European way of naming things?

The drug name is "N-(4-hydroxyphenyl)acetamide", FYI.

Comment More on the Shim Database... (Score 1) 316

A bit of a shameless plug, but if you'd like more information on these "shims", I've started a series of articles on the technology (still hoping to complete it shortly) on my blog at http://www.alex-ionescu.com/?p=39. FYI, there's over 8000 of them in Windows today, and each time you launch an app, these checks are made.

Comment Re:Page fault madness (Score 2, Informative) 662

That should've been "6.999 million".

Also, to clarify, a soft page fault is when a page is migrated from the standby list to the working set -- which is several orders of magnitude less expensive then a hard fault. Except for some TLB issues, there's no significant performance issue, and no disk access in any case.

Microsoft

Submission + - Microsoft Singularity Now Open Source (codeplex.com)

Alex_Ionescu writes: "Microsoft's Singularity operating system (covered previously by Slashdot here) is now open to the public for download, under a typical Microsoft academic, non-commercial license. Inside is a fully compilable and bootable version of what could be the basis for the future of Windows, or maybe simply an experiment to demonstrate .NET's capabilities. Singularity, if you'll recall, has gained wide interest from researchers and users alike, by claiming to be a fully managed code kernel (with managed code drivers and applications as well), something that would finally revolutionize the operating system research arena. The project is available on CodePlex, Microsoft's version of SourceForge, here."

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