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C:\Program Files\MotoAndroidDepacker-1.2alpha3>dir
Volume in drive C has no label.
Volume Serial Number is 0000-0000

Directory of C:\Program Files\MotoAndroidDepacker-1.2alpha3

 5/13/2019            <DIR>         .
 5/13/2019            <DIR>         ..
 5/13/2019                 109,568  MotoAndroidDepacker.exe
 5/13/2019                     405  MotoAndroidDepacker.xml
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C:\Program Files\MotoAndroidDepacker-1.2alpha3>MotoAndroidDepacker.exe

C:\Program Files\MotoAndroidDepacker-1.2alpha3>

UseStorage = ext

• ファイルによっては、コピー／移動できない� �合があります。
• 本 FOMA 端末に保存されている Flash、キャラ電は、microSDメモリーカードにコピー／移動できません。

• Some files can not be copied / moved.
• Flash and Chara-den stored in the FOMA terminal can not be copied / moved to microSD memory card.

Note 13 About the data that can be saved:
Captured image / voice etc

Note 5 About the data that can be saved:
Phonebook / sent / received mail / photographed image / bookmark / voice etc

•本FOMA端末で使用したmicroSDメモリーカードは、FOMA M702iGでもご利用になれます。た� し、その他のFOMA端末とはフォルダ構成が異なるため、そのまま他のmicroSDメモリーカード対応のFOMA端末に差し込んでもご利用できません。

• The microSD memory card used on this FOMA terminal can be used on the FOMA M702iG. However, because the folder configuration is different from other FOMA terminals, you can not use it as it is by inserting it into another microSD memory card compatible FOMA terminal.

unlock
lock
locked
unlocked
The storage card is currently %s. Do you want to %s it?
SD Card Lock
No storage card detected.
Failed toggling card lock.
Operation successful.

Posted by tomman
Almost all FOMA phones use a proprietary DoCoMo platform, MOAP. There are both Linux and Symbian-based versions of MOAP (MOAP-L/NOAP-S). Those Motorola phones are a notorious exception, as they are just standard Motorola P2K05/Synergy phones with the i-mode/DoJa bits replacing the usual Opera/JBlend stack.

IIRC Nokia Symbian phones could password-lock SD cards, but never knew how these phones did it.

All I remember is that it was a pain to reuse that cards on other phones should you forget to unlock them on a Nokia phone...

As for the MotoAndroidDepacker, I just ran it on my ol' XP laptop, where I only have .NET 3.5. But I've just tested on my Debian Stretch laptop:

tomman@himawari:~$ mono --version
Mono JIT compiler version 4.6.2 (Debian 4.6.2.7+dfsg-1)
Copyright (C) 2002-2014 Novell, Inc, Xamarin Inc and Contributors. www.mono-project.com
        TLS:           __thread
        SIGSEGV:       altstack
        Notifications: epoll
        Architecture:  amd64
        Disabled:      none
        Misc:          softdebug 
        LLVM:          supported, not enabled.
        GC:            sgen

...and it runs just fine with that Mono version, FWIW.

Sadly, Argon firmwares are signed, and noone cracked the RSA stuff as it was done for earlier 2G phones (it was pretty much a requirement to get rid of the signed .JAR requirement for accessing restricted APIs, like filesystem access or GPS; for 2G phones on platforms like Neptune LTE all you needed was a hacked bootloader to get rid of the RSA signature crap).

My RAZR V9x does the .dmj shit, but sadly the flex cable just broke a month ago and therefore the displays are dead, so the phone is pretty much unusable for those purposes as-is :/ (Mind you, it STILL works as a phone... as long as you have memorized your phone book, or use it as a modem)

You should assume that if it runs firmware AND works on Licensed Radio Spectrum™, it HAS to be signed. Sometimes it's even a requirement from carriers too. Things like BREW exist for the benefit of the carriers, not for the OEMs themselves (Nokia particularly hated BREW, and this is a reason of why Verizon rarely sold their phones). And then, there is good ol' "protect MUH IP" paranoia.

"RSA" is commonplace. Except for shit-tier garbage Chinese junkphones, all serious OEMs do sign their firmwares, and those phones often have several layers of security for preventing the run of unsigned/modified firmware.

Posted by CaptainJistuce
Intel stopped caring too. That's the problem.

More cores and hyper-threading are complementary, rather than contradictory. And it is frankly embarrassing that they disable hyper-threading on any of their products(just like so many other things they disable so they can charge a premium for something their entire product line is capable of).

On 14 May 2019 ... coordinated with Intel, disclosed their discovery

That and never having an API call generate callbacks, which is something I've never seen another toolkit get right.

Posted by CaptainJistuce
If this were like the 486 SX, I'd agree.

Intel moved several years ago to gating off features and setting clockspeeds based on what they WANTED to sell rather than supply being restricted by yields. It is why you occasionally see a processor model that reliably overclocks by 100%. The reason it isn't being sold as a faster part is because Intel doesn't want there to be a larger supply of faster parts.

Especially obvious with things like ECC RAM and hyper-threading. There's no hardware failure I can imagine that renders them unusable that doesn't also kill the rest of the processor.

Posted by Screwtape
Security issues tend to be subtle, and understanding them usually requires a thorough understanding of the product in question, such as the product's designer might have. If you announce a vulnerability alongside patches and mitigation guides written by the vendor, you've probably found something cool and worth paying attention to. If you announce a vulnerability out of the blue, the best that's going to happen is that people will ask the vendor what's up, and the vendor will say "we dunno, give us a month or two to figure out whether this has any merit whatsoever". Much less dramatic, and hence much less likely to win you the respect of the security industry, or tenure, or whatever.

Of course, the interesting thing with *this* vulnerability is that basically the same thing was found by many individuals and research groups, and Intel made all of them swear to secrecy individually, and strung them all along for up to a year, never letting them know about each other. If they'd been allowed to talk to each other, they might have been able to properly explore the security implications of today's CPUs, maybe even discover the *next* vulnerability-with-a-logo. Instead, they sat and twiddled their thumbs waiting for the responsible disclosure period to elapse.

EDIT: Also, https://make-linux-fast-again.com/

Posted by Content Protection for Recordable Media Specification: Introduction and Common Cryptographic Elements
A properly formatted MKB shall have exactly one Verify Media Key Record as its first Record. Bytes 4 through 11 of the Record contain the value
 D_v = C2_E(K_m, DEADBEEF₁₆ || XXXXXXXX₁₆)
 where K_m is the correct final Media Key value, and XXXXXXXX₁₆ is an arbitrary 4-byte value.
The presence of the Verify Media Key Record in an MKB is mandatory, but the use of the Record by a device is not mandatory.

As an optimization, a device may attempt to decrypt D_v using its current K_m value during the processing of subsequent Records, checking each time for the condition
  [C2_D(K_m, D_v)]_{msb_32} == DEADBEEF₁₆
  where K_m is the current Media Key value.
If this condition is true, the device has already calculated the correct final K_m value, and may therefore stop processing the MKB.

Posted by CaptainJistuce

It really sounds like that WAS what you're saying, but...

God help us all if this kind of rapacious and abusive behavior is considered a good thing now.

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Posted by CaptainJistuce

It is a shift in business model, it gets worse every year, and that R&D budget was CLEARLY not going to actually improving their product if the raft of Intel-exclusive vulnerabilities is any indication.

They've boosted profits wildly over the last several years without actually offering improved products, and in fact with the pace of computer upgrades slowing greatly in part due to a lack of meaningful updates.

I mean, if you want to defend a shift from "manufacturer shipping the best product we can at a competitive price" to "manufacturer shipping the worst product we think people will actually buy at the highest price we think people will tolerate", then okay. It isn't a stance I will ever agree with.

ECC RAM disabling, of course, goes back to before the DRAM controller was even ON the processor. Intel worked hard to get everyone else out of the motherboard chipset business, then immediately turned around and started removing features from their chipsets and telling people it was an improvement because they were removing features people didn't need(except on the new server-grade chipsets that were suspiciously much more expensive despite being the same thing aside from those removed features still being present).

...
Umm,, yes? Have you SEEN the markup on Xeon processors?

Your analogy is also flawed, because I may be paying for software rather than media, but in the case of the processor, I am actually paying for the physical object.

If you bought a car and it had a V8 engine under the hood, but the ECU only fired four cylinders... you'd be mad, right? That's what Intel is doing.

They aren't offsetting R&D costs, they are boosting profit margins.
And I'm not going to thank them for throwing shit at my face just because they didn't actively force it down my throat.

Then they shouldn't have any R&D budget because there's nothing to develop.
(also buttcoin is done on graphics cards or ASICs these days. No one digs for buttnuggets on CPU.)

AMD AREN'T feature-gating, their processors AREN'T frequency-locked(and binned much more realistically in any case), and their profit margins are lower. I don't think that AMD actually respects its customers, but I think they aren't actively raping them in the ass with a railroad spike. I'm not sure why you would paint AMD and Intel with the same brush.

"Everything is terrible, and it is only going to get worse, so take it with a smile."
Ummm, how about no? That's a terrible fucking attitude.

Posted by CaptainJistuce
Why does Apple have a /8 block? And why did they buy it in 1990, while they were otherwise engaged in simply not going bankrupt?

Posted by tomman
And there was this reckless "this intertubes thing will never catch on, so let's squander /8s away because nobody cares" attitude back then. Why the DoD still holds so many /8s to this date!? (ranges that they will never relinquish control over due to "national sekuritah" BS just because they still store their routing tables on 8" floppies). Why radio hams had to waste a COMPLETE /8 too?! (AMPRnet, 44.0.0.0/8). Why Ford Motor Company and an insurance company still have assigned /8s!? (I'm sure your Mustang and its insurance policy doesn't have to be in the public Internet). At least I'm glad that GE turned theirs back to the public interest, albeit very late.

The many new Internet users in countries such as China and India are also driving address exhaustion.

The many new Internet users in countries such as China and the Netherlands are also driving address exhaustion.

I'm still pondering the switch to TEST-NET-3, seriously.
All I would need is to edit some stuff at my routerbox (the interfaces file, a couple of scripts, and my local BIND zones), change the IP on my AP, and call it a day.
I don't expect breakage from any of my real PCs (even the Windows 95 one, as I suppose that example networks weren't a thing back then), but as for smartdevices...

Posted by BearOso
most kernel programmers work for virtualization providers.

I'm not crying over spilt milk, I'm raging over the fact that no one's standing the jug up before the rest of it dumps out on the floor. Things CAN be done.

But whatever. You're actually the enemy. This "take it and be happy because you are powerless" attitude is why things have gotten as bad as they have. I'm wasting time I could spend on literally anything else arguing with either a corporate shill or a consumer whore.

Posted by CaptainJistuce
If only profit margins, processor performance, and feature sets were publicly available data. Oh, wait...
It is rather easy to confirm that having segmented markets for full-featured enterprise processors and kneecapped personal-use processors is a modern business practice that didn't even START until the Core line, and resulted in wildly larger profit margins(because businesses will buy what they need no matter the cost IF there isn't a lower-cost alternative).

So every processor from the 486 onward has made a mistake by integrating the FPU? At the time, it was a niche feature that normal users didn't need. There was some annoyance that people who were only going to need integer performance were being forced to pay for a FP coprocessor.
ONCE IT WAS AVAILABLE, it started seeing widespread usage because, hey, it turns out that it wasn't that useless after all.

It is market segregatoin that largely did not exist before the Core series, and didn't exist AT ALL before the Pentium Pro. The PPro had the excuse of being genuinely expensive to manufacture. The Pentium 2 started the trend of ARTIFICIAL market segmentation, where you disable features on most of your parts so that you can charge a premium for the ones that allow access to those parts.

Actually, you traditionally gain much better warranty terms and support in exchange for the Quadro prices. Though nVidia started feature-gating once businesses started becoming more concerned with the price than the support.
And now they flat-out include usage restrictions in the driver license so you legally CAN'T use cheaper enthusiast cards in a business or research setting REGARDLESS of the performance and feature set.

But not the way it always was, or the way it has to be.

Individuals just get less for their dollar than they used to(and businesses get MUCH less).

I'm paying Intel to manufacture a processor, and I'm willing to pay more for a part that is actually harder to make. But when Intel tells me I should pay more not because it is harder, but because they want a wider profit margin, I get upset.

Even when they were ruling the roost, they binned processors honestly(easy enough to test given that their processors were easy to unlock during their dominance), and didn't gate features.

If AMD ever gets close to ahead of Intel, Intel will ease up on their bullshit. We've already seen that as Zen has proven damaging to their sales and they've responded by offering better products at lower prices. Hooray for some fucking competition.

The performance of applications on the web platform is becoming increasingly bottlenecked by the startup (load) time. Large amounts of JavaScript code are required to create rich web experiences that we’ve become used to. When we look at the total size of JavaScript requested on mobile devices from HTTPArchive, we see that an average page loads 350KB of JavaScript, while 10% of pages go over the 1MB threshold. The rise of more complex applications can push these numbers even higher.

Interesting to not see Google involved on this, but then they would prefer to download an app for that™ on your Android smartdevices, or maybe some Chrome-specific feature.

Posted by some guy who presumably works there
There is a big effort to break up libraries to reduce app sizes. Messenger is especially sensitive to their app size and will ask hard questions to any developer that includes a huge new library, whether on purpose or by accident.

Posted by legolas119
thanks

So:
1) if I untick "Prefer HLE for coprocessors" Bsnes could't correctly emulate games that needs special firmware if i don't have that firmware in the "firmware" folder. Correct? I think that i have every firmware (i have this list https://higan.readthedocs.io/en/latest/guides/import/) so i think that in this way every games will works with the better possible emulation if I uncheck "Prefer HLE...". Am I right?

2) I untick "Fast PPU", "Fast DPS" and "Fast coprocessors": in this way the emulation is good as Higan. If I keep checked these 3 options some games could be emulated in a worse way, correct? "No Sprite limit" is unkeced by default and "SuperFX clock speed" is at 100% by default so i didn't modified them.

thanks

Posted by https://archive.fo/M4TyR (from https://www.washingtonpost.com/education/2019/05/16/coming-soon-sat-an-adversity-score-offering-snapshot-challenges-students-face/)
When students send colleges their SAT scores in coming years, the admissions office might also get another number that rates the level of adversity applicants typically face — or privilege they enjoy — based on crime and poverty data and other demographic information about neighborhoods and high schools.

The “overall disadvantage level,” known in admission circles as the “adversity score,” will be a single number from 1 to 100. With 50 set as the average, under a formula established by the College Board, higher scores will indicate higher adversity.

...

The adversity score, which officials described Thursday, will focus on social and economic factors associated with a student’s school and neighborhood, such as median family income, crime reports, housing circumstances, college attendance rates and parental education, according to the College Board. The formula does not consider race, the College Board said, or individual data about a student’s family or financial circumstances.