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kj4ips commented on Man Asks $75M for 'Lambo.com,' Court Gives It to Lamborghini for Free roadandtrack.com/news/a69... · Posted by u/kerim-ca

paulddraper · 15 days ago

https://trademarks.justia.com/987/65/lambo-98765111.html

kj4ips · 15 days ago

Note that the status on this is entered/not assigned, so it's in the works. However, the court may have required that they do so before proceeding.

The offending use does not have to be a 1:1 match to dilute.

(not a lawyer; not legal advice)

kj4ips commented on Man Asks $75M for 'Lambo.com,' Court Gives It to Lamborghini for Free roadandtrack.com/news/a69... · Posted by u/kerim-ca

ChrisArchitect · 15 days ago

Does Lamborghini have a trademark claim on the word "Lambo" or it just on 'similarity' grounds?

kj4ips · 15 days ago

Trademarks are about recognizability, not about some objective similarity. There's no magic Levenshtein distance from a trademark.

However, they are also scoped to domains, so if there was some non-car business with such a name, they would also be entitled to the name, and the domains tend to be first-come first-serve in those kinds of cases.

Think of all the "Acme" or "A-1" companies that all have different products, and the general public doesn't have an issue conflating them.

(not a lawyer; not legal advice)

kj4ips commented on Why CUDA translation wont unlock AMD eliovp.com/why-cuda-trans... · Posted by u/JonChesterfield

kj4ips · a month ago

I agree pretty strongly. A translation layer like this is making an intentional trade: Giving up performance and HW alignment for less lead time and effort to make a proper port.

kj4ips commented on Nvidia is gearing up to sell servers instead of just GPUs and components tomshardware.com/tech-ind... · Posted by u/giuliomagnifico

thesuperbigfrog · a month ago

What software will those Nvidia servers run?

Are they creating their own software stack or working with one or more partners?

kj4ips · a month ago

They have a Ubuntu derivative called DGX OS, that they use on their current lines.

kj4ips commented on Nvidia is gearing up to sell servers instead of just GPUs and components tomshardware.com/tech-ind... · Posted by u/giuliomagnifico

kj4ips · a month ago

It's my opinion that nvidia does good engineering at the nanometer scale, but it gets worse the larger it gets. They do a worse job at integrating the same aspeed BMC that (almost) everyone uses than SuperMicro does, and the version of Aptio they tend to ship has almost nothing available in setup. With the price of a DGX, I expect far better. (Insert obligatory bezel grumble here)

kj4ips commented on At this SF grocery store, you can't leave unless you buy something sfgate.com/food/article/s... · Posted by u/c420

quickthrowman · a month ago

> That said, I wonder what happens at safeway during a fire or shooter.

During a fire, the gate controller will have a fire alarm input on the terminal block wired to an output from the fire alarm system that will open the gate if the fire alarm system activates. All automatic doors/gates/card access doors and fire alarm systems work the same way, fail open on fire alarm signal.

If there was a duress button system at Safeway, a signal from that could be used to automatically open gates and doors as well during an active shooter incident, but afaik it’s not mandated by code like fire alarm door and gate releases are.

Some automatic sliding double doors actually are able to be pushed open, there’s a hidden hinge in the top that allows it to open up even if the double doors are closed.

kj4ips · a month ago

At least in most jurisdictions, the egress to a gathering area can __never__ be blocked, there is some provisions for delay on emergency exits, but those require NRTL certification, and are actually usually mechanical.

You might be able to lock it down during periods of limited occupancy, and you can rig it to an annoying alarm, and maybe try to identify the person, and ban them from future. It is possible to get variances for this, but you usually need to either be a medical or penal facility.

kj4ips commented on Supermicro server motherboards can be infected with unremovable malware arstechnica.com/security/... · Posted by u/zdw

snvzz · 3 months ago

Why the BMC is not designed around seL4, I cannot comprehend.

kj4ips · 3 months ago

Two main reasons I can think of:

Most current BMC platforms are older than seL4

Most run on hardware that is not supported by seL4, or at least on hardware where it has not been validated.

Not to mention that a task manager would be needed as well as tons of other services which aren't provided out of the box, and don't share the verification provided guarantees.

kj4ips commented on Supermicro server motherboards can be infected with unremovable malware arstechnica.com/security/... · Posted by u/zdw

buildbot · 3 months ago

Signed ≠ enforced.

At least for 4677 Intel stuff, gigabyte & HP and others let you modify the firmware and flash it.

kj4ips · 3 months ago

HPE at least makes you flip a DIP switch, otherwise it complains loudly and halts.

kj4ips commented on Supermicro server motherboards can be infected with unremovable malware arstechnica.com/security/... · Posted by u/zdw

temp0826 · 3 months ago

My favorite supermicro facepalm will always be when you could set the IPMI encryption cipher to "none" (ipmitool -C0) and bypass actually needing any password at all. (Though I don't think this was unique to supermicro actually?)

kj4ips · 3 months ago

Pretty much all of them allow unrestricted access from KMS from factory, tough all of them have a way to disable it once configured, and HPE even throws shade until it's limited. KMS only works from the host itself.

kj4ips commented on Supermicro server motherboards can be infected with unremovable malware arstechnica.com/security/... · Posted by u/zdw

kj4ips · 3 months ago

Do we know if this is also the case for other systems that use Aspeed/ami BMCs, or if the key pair in question is exclusive to SM?