coldskull

these are the kind of articles/blogs/commentary i hate...a hook line with zero substance

so only other player left here is swypcard

Some prototype snaps on : theverge.com/e/7680234 pic.twitter.com/NlK2nCDpIA

I have seen this card in person....so I can vouch for it. It is not vaporware :)

Can the president not declare emergency and bypass the laws? The laws may not help much

Hypothetically, if i were in OP's shoes and 'really' scared, I would be going to a genetic doctor instead of conducting my own research. (i would still look up stuff, but that would be too risky to depend on)

as someone who closely works on qualcomm baseband processors, i can say that security is one of the top priorities of qualcomm. There are whole bunches of teams dedicated to sec/vuln analysis. Not saying that the issues mentioned in the article did not occur...but I believe that those probably occured in older chips (a few generations older)

standard disclaimer Views above are personal and do not reflect views of Qualcomm

perfectly describes some of the top mobile/chipset companies i have worked for. Some of the code is so horrible that you feel it might be worth the time rewriting it. But time is too precious...nobody has time to step back and analyze or point fingers. just get the code fix and ship to it the customer.

scons is a good alternative to make. Make is ok for small projects, but it gets ugly pretty quick...and it allows you to make mistakes easily...

wow....they are using GETs for everything ! :)

i am surprised nobody talked about security...i am guessing the OBD interface in cars can be used to send commands to various components....could somebody hack into your car??

thats correct. i have heard that from a first hand source

it will boil down to corporate principles/culture that Apple has. It has to decide how much max resources it can dedicate to handling a small subset of affected user VS. potential media backlash that could be triggered if some of these 'minority' users are influential.

Big Data Borat ‏@BigDataBorat Man with 1 database know data consistent. Man with 2 database never sure. Man with 3 database brag about it on hacker news. #bigdata

Wow!...perfectly described -- thats all i can say :)

what would really be cool is if someone creates a service that can turn videos into 'ascii art' videos....that would look beautiful...

well, our hadoop cluster went bonkers because of this bug....luckily it was on stage...not production!