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Oh my god, if someone wrote a bitcoin wallet that protected you chats from the NSA in this List that compiles to GO THIS WOULD BE THE PERFECT HN POST.

right on my knowledgeable homie...

The way that C memory management works is a design decision. that design decision had criteria that informed it...it's no more or less valid than other design decisions that are made in the face of other criteria. It's no more "low level" that lot's of other methods that have been/are being used.

ufo got my point. the modern microprocessor is vastly different than the view of the world that is exposed through C. The fact that C still works is more of a testament to hardware designers than it is something "intrinsically true" about C and its design decisions.

No its not.

sigh.

Lots of people confuse learning to code in C with learning how hardware works. Its close in some ways but not all.

EDIT: WOW. I'm amazed at how many people think that C is "how memory works". Just wow. This is one of those things where you're confusing the map for the territory and ascribing value to something because its "hard". C is a fairly high level abstraction for interacting with a computer...i know that everyone has heard that c is close to being assembler...but what you are forgetting is that assembler is also an abstraction over operands. The reason i think its important to point this out is that malloc and free arent magical. Othér techniques are just as valid and the notion of "low level" is misleading. C makes tradeoffs that actually give rise to all of the vulnerabilities and stability problems in all the software that you have ever used. Those tradeoffs are REAL and just because lots of you get this macho nonsense about not using safe collection types everyone on the planet has to deal with malware. So many of you buy your own bullshit at an astonishing level...its really breathtaking to see how many of you cant see the built in assumptions in what you are saying.

It's really weird that people talk about phones like general purpose computers that they should be in control of...I'm just pointing out that it has NEVER been the case. I'm not even sure what it would take to get to where it could be.

With PC's there was some FCC oversight, being a device without a transmitter meant that there wasn't a whole lot though. With cell phones they are so heavily regulated...and the carrier is such an integral part of the equation. It seems like you might get more of what you want with a wifi handset or device. The carriers have no vested interest in making a handset like you describe and their monopoly status makes market pressures almost non-existent forces for change.

Just rambling...

I think that you missed my point. The guys that was in charge of developing Windows Phone 8 is now the guy in charge of Windows. Windows Phone won't be canceled, it and Windows will become the same thing...just with form factor differences. Same thing with XBOX OS. It's Windows. Things that make sense for the desktop won't be on the XBOX or the Phone...and vice versa. You sound like you aren't a metro fan...They do need to make sure that the desktop is still a useful tool...but here's the thing. In 5 years you will be hard pressed to find a monitor of any size or type that isn't touch enabled.

As to selling off the device division...I don't see that happening either. MS needed Nokia's supply chain, and delivery systems. They needed to have a division that knows how to take a device from the drawing board to the shelf quickly...which Nokia should be able to do now that it doesn't have to make money. It's weird, but taking a long term view with the device department just like bing and xbox gives the people in that org some room to move.

I find it crazy how much people dislike one company while another company...also a legal fiction that exists solely to make money...that company is ok. They "get" me...or "it". Like Google's PR moves like "solving death"? Seriously? They sell advertising. Meaning that they sell YOU. I"m under no illusions about MS prior behavior. I'm also under no illusions that Apple or Google are somehow different. They aren't.

The guy that ran windows phone is now the head of the entire windows division. His name is Terry Myerson. I doubt very seriously that he is going to shitcan windows phone.

For a dead company people sure do like talking about it...

This is dumb. Using a service to pirate material? Jesus?

Another day another dumb dot eye oh...

I have an HP touchsmart haswell i7 that is fantastic with heat and battery life...

Intel is a big ship to get turned around. When they finally do they will end up more than competitive.

@ 2Ghz they can probably produce large quantities. It sounds like they went for a "safe" fabrication process so that the initial rollout is as defect free as it can.

I really hope MS ports windows server to it...

You are correct sir.

I'm with you...I think that they should have open sourced a lot of the supporting software around windows server. I wouldn't really care if the source was available, it would be nice, but I personally think that System Center should be free to any customer with more than 100 servers.

That's idiotic.

They are also open sourcing the chassis management system that they use for these systems.

They open sourced the hyper-v drivers for linux and freebsd and got them integrated into the kernel.

Asp.Net is completely open source and hosted on GitHub.

Here's a list of open source projects that they have started or contributed to on platforms/languages like Java, Node.js, PHP, and Ruby...

http://www.microsoft.com/opensource/directory.aspx

They open source quite a bit of software...

Right, you ever track all the changes in Php or Java? The idea that something being open source means that there aren't changes is just nonsense.

Change happens. It's life. I guess you just pick your poison.

compatibility meant that your printer and scanner kept working...and your programs that you paid for kept working.

but whatever...MS is teh sux0rz! Hah!

Happy now?

Unless someone who just has to get something done needs to print something...The MAC has made a lot of progress in getting people to accept other platforms...

I wish Valve all the success. More platform choices would be good...I just doubt that they will succeed against Sony, MS, and Nintendo...but hey, I've been wrong before.

This gets reposted here every couple of days. I get it...you guys like Go and Rust. Most of you are Open Source all the way. That's cool. Some of us actually like MS technologies. Not all of them, but some of them are great. I guess I'm just getting tired of the fanboy need to run down things you don't like.

Anyway, it sounds like some of the new work at Microsoft gets that they need something closer to the metal without dumping c# developers. I won't link to it, because it too was linked to death around here.

You are right. Thanks for the clarification.

"the Microsofts, Apples, and Oracles of the world that happily vacuum up their code may not be the there in their time of need"...

What about the Linux distro's that didn't lift a finger but continue to ship OpenSSH? Its that kind of attitude that make working with the OS community hard. Someone will bad mouth your involvement even when you are doing the right thing in other area's.

Did anyone even approach those companies? How about Unbuntu or Redhat? Are they supposed to read people's fucking minds?

I'm glad that OpenBSD got it's bills paid...but this guy's blog post might as well read..."Hey, some European guy paid OpenBSD's bills. Alright! Oh yeah, Fuck Microsoft (or Apple) because they didn't help." What the fuck?

Just for the record...I gave. I wonder how much they raised besides the bitcoin rich guy's contribution.

I'm just saying that if you have something that needs that kind of deniability then counting on some software packages claims would be a bad idea.

I get that this is a big deal though, from a "is truecrypt" usable standpoint though...I just think that people should base their security procedures on more practical measures.

If you were counting on TrueCrypt for "plausible deniability" than you are stupid.

That's "magic bullet" security/magic thinking if I've ever heard it...

I donated 50 bucks. These guys have been awesome for a long time. Sorry it took me this long to donate.

EDIT: Here's the thing. I don't directly use OpenBSD, but they have influenced more than just UNIX for a long time.

"I'm on Ubuntu and it's Linux, suck it NSA!" --- now my favorite quote.

I was just listening to Slate's political gabfest podcast...they talked about the NSA. It occurred to me that the media is still only talking about phone call metadata while the rest of us have been in the weeds of the rest of their activities, which are far more intrusive than metadata...

How do you get that message to people?

Wow. And that's why I stopped reading Slashdot. At least the majority of responses here get how stupid the Slashdot post was.

I don't have enough karma to downvote...soon....but I downvoted this so hard...in my mind.

Now that was clever for real. Cheers.

Personally, if I were really worried about privacy I would use burners or get a lineman's handset. It seems like a smart device that you use all the time is going to have the same problems.

So, yeah you can encrypt the voice channel. That's great. You can send encrypted text messages. The people involved are serious cryptographers. All of it sounds good.

You have to ask your self though, what is it you are trying to do? Who is your adversary? Other people here have mentioned it, but what about apps on the phone? Facebook is still Facebook.