Im not sure if you're kidding or not. Even with things like OBD2 car scanners, when you buy the chinese-made ELM327 knockoffs on amazon you have to factor in the fact that theres a 50-50 chance that your device will be DOA or will die after first use.
China is NOTORIOUS for knock-offs that are "good enough" to get sold and then fall to pieces immediately after. If you dont know about this, you simply havent dealt with very many chinese goods. Go to one of their big marketplaces and try and buy legit Gamecube or Wii games-- theres a nearly 100% chance those games are bogus and simply dont work.
The US has very strong consumer protection laws, China has nearly zero.
Wasnt sandy bridge just coming out in may, 2011? A computer owned at that point would have a nehalem architecture, which i was comparing with haswell (which is in the wild now, and has been for a year).
Seeing it on slashdot means nothing. Wait till a reputable source that DOESNT have a habit of blowing everything up into a crisis reports on this-- schneier's blog would be a good place to start.
You know Im not going to waste time arguing with you point by point because we've been through this before in years past.
Suffice it to say in an enterprise of any size there is zero chance that one could get approval to push out a daily-changing Hosts file to thousands of workstations. If I were to raise the suggestion, it would be immediately denied because it would almost certainly break someone's work setup.
I have a feeling you do not work in an enterprise, so it doesnt really matter how you THINK it should work; in reality this sort of thing causes way more problems than it solves. You want to do filtering? You do it at your DNS servers, your firewalls, your proxies. You do not install zero-routed hosts files with 30,000 entries from a random dude on the internet across several thousand workstations and hope everything goes OK.
If you want to link to a zillion blogs about how "in theory" it should be possible to make this work in an enterprise, thats great, but Im not going to spend time reading them. I am well aware of how Hosts files work, and they are generally considered deprecated for a reason.
Last I checked Musk paid his debt off, and was doing fine.
but see no a priori reason to assume he *isn't* as smart, or smarter, than Elon Musk.
Sure, but generally skill in a capitalist market is measured by "successful businesses built" and "amount of money you have", neither of which categories put Gundlach ahead of Musk.
If I had to choose someone to put my money with, it'd be with Musk, any day of the week.
Except the chip you have now is roughly
* 66% faster across the board, per thread
* 70% faster at multithreaded ops
* 800% faster at AES operations
* 300%+ faster on video transcodes and to top it all off,
* 66% less power draw at any given time, and
* statistically speaking, probably 2x as many cores.
It is, and to use the more secure SNMPv3 where possible, but too many otherwise technically competent people don't really understand SNMP.
Too many somewhat-knowledgeable IT people think they know everything, as well.
In some situations (windows printing) SNMPv3 isnt supported, and v1/2 is a necessity. Others, you have a fleet of X000 devices, half of which do not support v3. Feel like having 2 management systems?
I have had a number of routers in a "nearly-bricked" state. Its not really that much of an edge case, and from the way the documentation is written, it seems very common for people to lose patience and powercycle their router part way through the flash.
Dismissing the threat of a brick with this kind of a firmware flash is kind of irresponsible.
SNMP Write Communities are inherently insecure; you're writing data to a device with a plaintext credential. The whole POINT of a SET vs GET community is that one is considered "non-public".
but if you change the community string all of the vendor supplied utilities and drivers can no longer communicate with the printer, and there doesn't appear to be any way to change it.
For windows printers, the setting for the SNMP string is under the port setting. Many vendors have alternate locations in the queue where they store SNMP strings, like the "communications" tab for Xerox printers.
HP requires the printer to be on "public" during autoconfiguration only, once that is done you can change the string.
Whats baffling is that Bond manager Jeffrey Gundlach thinks hes a better judge of investment than a many-times-over millionaire who has launched 3 wildly successful businesses-- paypal, Tesla, SpaceX.
Hosts files
* Require administrative access and modification on each computer you use. This is an incredibly bad idea on work computers.
* Affect far more than the browser and may impact other programs in unexpected ways, such as a game being unable to properly connect
* Are incredibly difficult to troubleshoot when they contain zillions of entries
* Do nothing about same-origin ads (nor can they)
* Are about as subtle and precise as a sledgehammer; they are likely to wholesale break websites rather than just blocking ads.
But then you know this because you've been told about a half dozen times; Im not sure why you would think _I_ of all people would be up for a hosts-based solution, given our post-history.
Also, the I am Legend movie was a poor shadow of the book, and Dr Krippen is the last person you want to go to for quotes. I suppose its a good poster-child for "unintended consequences", tho.
All of the explainations for why "shes a crank" are out there for the world to see. For starters, a school of thought which teaches that "self interest" can somehow be equated with "ethics" should raise some eyebrows right off the bat.
Hearing Ayn Rand-- the figurehead of a school of thought that endorses such things as infanticide and genocide if they could be truly shown to be in one's true self interest-- talk about "good" and "evil" is a bit rich.
Heres a tip, if you find a good quote of hers that is relevant to a discussion, leave off the "Ayn Rand said" bit, it will get you a lot more credibility.
If restarting Firefox and reloading all the same pages again is enough to significantly drop the memory-consumption, that implies Firefix is leaking memory.
Not really, it implies something related to firefox is leaking.
Over the past decade, by far the largest memory leaks with firefox have come from extensions. Adblockers can be particularly bad culprits here.
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This is like claiming someone has the burden of proof in proving that nearly 90% of hacks are initiated from China, Russia, or eastern europe.
At some point something enters the pool of common knowledge, and you just look ridiculous asking for proof.
Im not sure if you're kidding or not. Even with things like OBD2 car scanners, when you buy the chinese-made ELM327 knockoffs on amazon you have to factor in the fact that theres a 50-50 chance that your device will be DOA or will die after first use.
China is NOTORIOUS for knock-offs that are "good enough" to get sold and then fall to pieces immediately after. If you dont know about this, you simply havent dealt with very many chinese goods. Go to one of their big marketplaces and try and buy legit Gamecube or Wii games-- theres a nearly 100% chance those games are bogus and simply dont work.
The US has very strong consumer protection laws, China has nearly zero.
Overly optomistic. The geese will get used to this thing, and eventually ignore / attack it.
I feel like I heard someone trying this in California with the same result.
Wasnt sandy bridge just coming out in may, 2011? A computer owned at that point would have a nehalem architecture, which i was comparing with haswell (which is in the wild now, and has been for a year).
Seeing it on slashdot means nothing. Wait till a reputable source that DOESNT have a habit of blowing everything up into a crisis reports on this-- schneier's blog would be a good place to start.
You know Im not going to waste time arguing with you point by point because we've been through this before in years past.
Suffice it to say in an enterprise of any size there is zero chance that one could get approval to push out a daily-changing Hosts file to thousands of workstations. If I were to raise the suggestion, it would be immediately denied because it would almost certainly break someone's work setup.
I have a feeling you do not work in an enterprise, so it doesnt really matter how you THINK it should work; in reality this sort of thing causes way more problems than it solves. You want to do filtering? You do it at your DNS servers, your firewalls, your proxies. You do not install zero-routed hosts files with 30,000 entries from a random dude on the internet across several thousand workstations and hope everything goes OK.
If you want to link to a zillion blogs about how "in theory" it should be possible to make this work in an enterprise, thats great, but Im not going to spend time reading them. I am well aware of how Hosts files work, and they are generally considered deprecated for a reason.
Last I checked Musk paid his debt off, and was doing fine.
but see no a priori reason to assume he *isn't* as smart, or smarter, than Elon Musk.
Sure, but generally skill in a capitalist market is measured by "successful businesses built" and "amount of money you have", neither of which categories put Gundlach ahead of Musk.
If I had to choose someone to put my money with, it'd be with Musk, any day of the week.
Except the chip you have now is roughly
* 66% faster across the board, per thread
* 70% faster at multithreaded ops
* 800% faster at AES operations
* 300%+ faster on video transcodes
and to top it all off,
* 66% less power draw at any given time, and
* statistically speaking, probably 2x as many cores.
Other than that, yea! No real changes.
It is, and to use the more secure SNMPv3 where possible, but too many otherwise technically competent people don't really understand SNMP.
Too many somewhat-knowledgeable IT people think they know everything, as well.
In some situations (windows printing) SNMPv3 isnt supported, and v1/2 is a necessity. Others, you have a fleet of X000 devices, half of which do not support v3. Feel like having 2 management systems?
I have had a number of routers in a "nearly-bricked" state. Its not really that much of an edge case, and from the way the documentation is written, it seems very common for people to lose patience and powercycle their router part way through the flash.
Dismissing the threat of a brick with this kind of a firmware flash is kind of irresponsible.
SNMP Write Communities are inherently insecure; you're writing data to a device with a plaintext credential. The whole POINT of a SET vs GET community is that one is considered "non-public".
Sorry, you're not correct.
but if you change the community string all of the vendor supplied utilities and drivers can no longer communicate with the printer, and there doesn't appear to be any way to change it.
For windows printers, the setting for the SNMP string is under the port setting. Many vendors have alternate locations in the queue where they store SNMP strings, like the "communications" tab for Xerox printers.
HP requires the printer to be on "public" during autoconfiguration only, once that is done you can change the string.
Whats baffling is that Bond manager Jeffrey Gundlach thinks hes a better judge of investment than a many-times-over millionaire who has launched 3 wildly successful businesses-- paypal, Tesla, SpaceX.
Access will actually work for a few years before you figure out what a nightmare it is.
Sounds like you'd be better off not worrying about RAID and worrying about an actual backup system instead.
And I don't see any potential downsides
Except for the infeasiblity of shielding it, sure.
Nevermind, it does not.
Doesnt re-locking the firmware make it impossible to get updates unless theyre signed?
Hosts files
* Require administrative access and modification on each computer you use. This is an incredibly bad idea on work computers.
* Affect far more than the browser and may impact other programs in unexpected ways, such as a game being unable to properly connect
* Are incredibly difficult to troubleshoot when they contain zillions of entries
* Do nothing about same-origin ads (nor can they)
* Are about as subtle and precise as a sledgehammer; they are likely to wholesale break websites rather than just blocking ads.
But then you know this because you've been told about a half dozen times; Im not sure why you would think _I_ of all people would be up for a hosts-based solution, given our post-history.
Also, the I am Legend movie was a poor shadow of the book, and Dr Krippen is the last person you want to go to for quotes. I suppose its a good poster-child for "unintended consequences", tho.
Its called "dont go to a website if you dont like their terms; dont provide them info if you dont want it used."
GNU Hurd isnt viable because it never got off the ground.
Stallman had a vision of a completely free as in speech computer system. When he started, that meant, OS, tools,
I believe Linux Torvalds provided the OS, lets not get that mixed up. Stallman provided the tools.
All of the explainations for why "shes a crank" are out there for the world to see. For starters, a school of thought which teaches that "self interest" can somehow be equated with "ethics" should raise some eyebrows right off the bat.
Hearing Ayn Rand-- the figurehead of a school of thought that endorses such things as infanticide and genocide if they could be truly shown to be in one's true self interest-- talk about "good" and "evil" is a bit rich.
Heres a tip, if you find a good quote of hers that is relevant to a discussion, leave off the "Ayn Rand said" bit, it will get you a lot more credibility.
If restarting Firefox and reloading all the same pages again is enough to significantly drop the memory-consumption, that implies Firefix is leaking memory.
Not really, it implies something related to firefox is leaking.
Over the past decade, by far the largest memory leaks with firefox have come from extensions. Adblockers can be particularly bad culprits here.
IIRC USB3 has some improvements designed specifically to fix the whole polling issue when using a device as storage.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/U...