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2017-05-22 at 9:32 AM UTC in tfw Surprise Drug Test
Originally posted by Darth Beaver jedi isn't a race.
The Ashkenazim are a genetically distinct population. It was actually found that the median level of middle eastern ancestry may be 50%.
jedis really shouldn't be considered white, there are significant differences, mainly in IQ, personality, and achievement/life outcomes.The following users say it would be alright if the author of this post didn't die in a fire! -
2017-05-19 at 10:52 AM UTC in tfw Surprise Drug TestThe following users say it would be alright if the author of this post didn't die in a fire!
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2017-05-19 at 5:43 AM UTC in Intel's Management EngineSHORT VERSION:
Intel's Management Engine, or Active Management Technology, depending on where you look is a low-level subsystem that's attached to every Intel chip produced after 2008 (I believe). It runs whenever the chip is powered (even if the computer itself is switched off), and it's purpose is to 'provide trust' that the processor isn't compromised. It's completely invisible to the user, but has complete access to the processor as well as access to power up or down the machine, interfere with the boot process, send/receive TCP network traffic through it's own independent MAC forwarded by the network adapter and run arbitrary code locally. Efforts to dump it's code and understand it's workings, potentially leading to an exploit are underway but due to the way the core firmware is compressed and obfuscated, as well as peripheral functions being stored on ROM chips, makes progress very difficult.
When it's exploited, if it hasn't been already, every machine running a recent Intel chip will be outfitted with a rootkit that can't be disabled (breaking or disabling the ME coprocessor forces the computer to shut down on a timer). Don't think switching to AMD will make much of a difference either... They have a very similar system (TrustZone) that's implemented via an on-chip ARM coprocessor.
TECHNICAL:
The AMT unit itself is a separate on-chip coprocessor that has several supporting components such as ROM and RAM for firmware and temporary data storage as well as a 'DMA engine' that allows it unfettered access to memory in use by the user-installed operating system, meaning it can potentially subvert the program flow of Windows, Lunix or whatever OS you're using without any warning or indication. It also has it's own simple TCP stack which has been demonstrated to be insecure in the past; it has a hardcoded MAC address different to the standard NIC and is essentially able to relay through the NIC to forward requests to the internet or LAN. The ME engine itself is composed of the core firmware which is compressed, encrypted and obfuscated, only decoded on the fly to run commands, and modules and components stored on ROM chips, which cannot be dumped or accessed directly.
The original purpose of the AMT was to provide trust for the CPU itself; you may compile applications from source because you want to be able to see what it does before you 'trust' it enough to compile, but you then also need to be able to trust the compiler that builds it, and dependencies that get linked in and anything that runs below the application, ie. the operating system, drivers used and the like. You can continually move down the chain, checking source or watching applications' behaviour to verify they're working as advertised, but once you get to hardware, specifically the processor in this case, it's a black box - there's no way to directly view the source, so the only way to 'trust' that it's not compromised is through a third-party that can verify such. This begs the question of how you can verify that the third-party is trustworthy - you can't. One of it's popular uses now is to facilitate remote installations and administration functionality on behalf of sysadmins.
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It would surprise me if some of the betabet agencies don't already have access to this - it may have even be among the exploits stolen from the NSA's archives, but hasn't been released because whoever released them publicly knew of it's value. Much of the system's code is stored on ROM chips and untouchable; it cannot be reflashed or updated meaning that if an exploit exists in it, there is nothing users can do to protect themselves - they'd literally need to buy a new processor once Intel gets around to patching or rewriting the AMT codebase.
Manufacturers have ostensibly worked with NSA contractors in the past, specifically in the case of harrdrive firmware exploits used to cache and transmit data - without co-operation from the major harddrive manufacturers, such an exploit would take years to develop per manufacturer, and there are around 10 of them.
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At the moment, there's very little that can be done to mitigate your risk of being exploited because even if no exploit exists today, it will. Disabling the AMT platform causes the computer to shut down after a countdown, but it's been observed that if chunks of the WMT's firmware are erased or overwritten, it stays in the 'running' state but stops responding
You may be able to sniff TCP data to/from the platform by enhancementing by MAC address, but I'm not sure how possible it is to mask those requests.The following users say it would be alright if the author of this post didn't die in a fire! -
2017-05-19 at 2:23 AM UTC in The Autism Quotient Test - Everyone here should seriously take it.The following users say it would be alright if the author of this post didn't die in a fire!
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2017-05-19 at 1:17 AM UTC in The Autism Quotient Test - Everyone here should seriously take it.The following users say it would be alright if the author of this post didn't die in a fire!
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2017-05-19 at 1:08 AM UTC in The Autism Quotient Test - Everyone here should seriously take it.The following users say it would be alright if the author of this post didn't die in a fire!
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2017-05-18 at 5:34 AM UTC in The Autism Quotient Test - Everyone here should seriously take it.
Originally posted by Lanny Is it a spectrum or is it a disorder? Doesn't seem like it can be both. People are not on the parkinson's spectrum, not everyone is on some alcoholism spectrum. If it's a spectrum then either everyone has this particular disorder or it's not a disorder to start with. Maybe we can condense people onto some 1d line and say people beyond X point have an extrema disorder but you can't say everyone has X disorder. It seems to challenge the very notion of disorder.
I don't really think being on a 'spectrum' negates the condition being a 'disorder'; the disorder is largely defined by the symptoms and everyone on the spectrum will have the same combination of symptoms to varying degrees. In terms of parkinsons, a mild tremor is as much parkinsons as full-on michael j fox on maracas.
I try not to use the term disorder for autism for that reason though - it's really only diagnosed based on symptoms, we don't know underlying causes or even the exact mechanism that causes it to manifest. At what point does odd or abnormal behaviour become a disorder? Many people are likely mildly autistic and don't even know it, never having been diagnosed.The following users say it would be alright if the author of this post didn't die in a fire! -
2017-05-18 at 2:53 AM UTC in Making HTS e-Famous again
VivaLaEmpire 15 points 3 hours ago
It was very funny when I had to click "Highlight" to see the rest of your comments.The following users say it would be alright if the author of this post didn't die in a fire! -
2017-05-17 at 5:48 PM UTC in Opinions on the homeless?The following users say it would be alright if the author of this post didn't die in a fire!
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2017-05-16 at 8:28 PM UTC in Fucking chirping birds motherfucker!I'm not going to argue with a sadistic idiot. You're trash, fuck off and die.The following users say it would be alright if the author of this post didn't die in a fire!
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2017-05-16 at 6:51 AM UTC in Hackers Hold Unreleased Disney Movies to RansomBeauty and the BARBAROSSA FRONTThe following users say it would be alright if the author of this post didn't die in a fire!
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2017-05-16 at 6:40 AM UTC in Hackers Hold Unreleased Disney Movies to RansomLol, if Disney pays it means they never actually got over the nazi thing. Possible working titles of the movies being held:
My Struggle to Find Nemo
The Prince (and the frog)
Cars 3: Reich On Red
Hitler Youth Musical
Pirates of the Caribbean: Final Solution to the Jack Sparrow Problem
Alice's Aryan Adventures in the Teutonic Reich of the German Nation
Frozen 2: Moscow During Winter Was a MistakeThe following users say it would be alright if the author of this post didn't die in a fire! -
2017-05-16 at 5:49 AM UTC in Suggestion: Give me a custom user title, Lanny. Fuck you.Hahaha, Buzzfeed actually had a pretty good nostalgic overview of the saga: https://www.buzzfeed.com/iexplorer/let-us-remember-the-greatest-internet-hoax-jenkem?utm_term=.uw5X16nQrz#.hox1Bv42kq
"Fruit from crack pipe", "winnie", "Leroy Jenkems", "butthash"
Post last edited by Malice at 2017-05-16T05:53:36.601495+00:00The following users say it would be alright if the author of this post didn't die in a fire! -
2017-05-16 at 5:27 AM UTC in Suggestion: Give me a custom user title, Lanny. Fuck you.Oh my god, I just did a search for Jenkem and am laughing my ass off. The fact that we actually got people to fall for this, major news organizations to report on it, even got a Sheriff to send out an actual alert with Pickwick's picture.
Oh, the nostalgia. And how Pickwick must have felt when it blew up far larger than he would have ever imagined. Man, that was classic TOTSE.The following users say it would be alright if the author of this post didn't die in a fire! -
2017-05-16 at 4:33 AM UTC in Opinions on the homeless?i bet lanny thinks he's cuteThe following users say it would be alright if the author of this post didn't die in a fire!
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2017-05-15 at 6:44 PM UTC in Turns out Anne Frank is alive. And has a youtube channel.
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2017-05-15 at 9:34 AM UTC in teh retraded thred herppppp slober fuk glum editshinPeople are really pissing me off right now in this country with all the pro-Labour pro-Socialism shiteThe following users say it would be alright if the author of this post didn't die in a fire!
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2017-05-15 at 1:56 AM UTC in teh retraded thred herppppp slober fuk glum editshinHe's a libtard.
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2017-05-14 at 8:09 PM UTC in Some theoriesThe following users say it would be alright if the author of this post didn't die in a fire!
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2017-05-14 at 4:49 AM UTC in My go-to keyboard "test phrase" isThere is no j,q,v,or x you noob
