If a user has some method that would let them modify the boot volume, they have a way to modify passwd/shadow/SAM.
Not at all, we invented something called disk encryption which for obvious reasons either doesn't apply to the boot sector, or (and the brute force method) needs to be applied before the BIOS finishes it's job, and that is outside of the OS control and therefore not as common as managed processes such as those applied by the OS.
The other problem I have is that SecureBoot, practically speaking, makes MS the gatekeeper to the PC platform.
Sure, that is also fair game, go ahead and insert your backdoor account with admin privilege.
How? That would require access to the system itself. The point of secure boot is to close of a previously unclosable vector. It was never meant to protected against any changes to the OS itself, just the changes that can happen and persist outside of the OS.
Just because it only targets boot sector based malware doesn't make it ineffectual. Quite the opposite actually since this was a malware vector which was previously effectively not protected against.
1) Bitcoin is NOT mined on GPU, since like 5 years.
It's almost like something happened to bitcoin in the past 5 years that makes it quite viable to use GPUs. Now what was it again? Oh that's right, a 1000x increase in value.
The company in this case is making up a rule about the distance from the pedestrian being critical
No the company is presenting evidence to show that the pedestrian was not even remotely in danger unless they are actively sprinting onto the crosswalk and there's no evidence that even then the car wouldn't have come to a halt.
A pedestrian at that speed, with that much reaction time, stepping onto a crosswalk on a street is not considered crossing the street as much as it is considered attempted suicide.
Despite what you think the criminal system works a bit differently than the anecdote of a single witness and it is quite easy to prove those witness statements legally doubtful.
Police tickets get thrown out all the time all over the world for this reason, sometimes they even get thrown out when they present their own evidence when it could be considered legally doubtful.
Everyone remembers it. We also know what is involved and what it requires. So let's have a quick look at it:
The embrace stage involves embracing a complete system, protocol whatever. Being compatible with it so that MS becomes a proper alternative to the previous use case. WSL only achieves a very small subset of embracing. They are able to run a few select GNU tools, nothing more. They haven't embraced Linux.
The extend stage involves having sufficient market share of the target market to be able to force the market in a certain direction. Even in WSL gets 100% of the use cases it is designed for it will have very little of the overall Linux / Unix use scenarios and a pittance of the market share. They can extend all they want but there are reasons why WSL is not a substitute for running Linux and never will be.
The extinguish stage is a logical extension of extend by adding an incompatibility. Again they can't achieve this without absolute dominance in the target market.
Now for another key difference in the strategies: We all remember EEE, and we remember it quite well. We also remember what Microsoft was like at the time. No I'm not talking about evil corporations, I'm talking about a company with very brilliantly strategic minds at the helm. A company that can see what competitors do and cut them off at the knees in the process. That company died during the Steve Ballmer era, and the corpse was salted and a steak driven through its heart by Satya Nadella's appointment. What Microsoft is now is a behemoth that can do nothing but throw money at the wall and see what sticks. In some cases they have had success. Pissing money into the clouds has worked to some degree and for all the expense they have achieved somewhere between 5% and 35% of the market share depending of which aspect of the cloud you measure and they did so on the backs of open source where their 35% is in the applications area (what should be a borderline monopoly for MS) and yet 40$ of that is running on Linux on Azure. And that was their success which completely ignores the money they have pissed away in the mobile space to achieve 0% market share and writing off the acquisition of one of the world's most famous mobile brands despite the ability to closely tie their mobile and desktop space together with their Windows dominance.
So in summary: We remember EEE, but this isn't EEE. It lacks the market conditions to become EEE, and Microsoft's leadership lacks the strategic competence to implement EEE.
Linux distros inside Windows is like struggling to find a way to mount an Abrams tank on top of a Mini-Cooper.
Except they aren't running Linux or even components of it. They are running a few GNU userland tools. More like mounting the gun from an Abrams tank on a Mini-Cooper to end up with something that is small but still useful if someone is trying to carjack you. *
Probably the worst car analogy on Slashdot in a while.:-)
(it's a *realy tiny* subset of Linux kernel's API. so forget about running anything complex like FUSE, other file systems, Docker/LXC/etc, X11 or Wayland, complex network filtering,...)
It is also highly feature incomplete and still being developed. So while you're right, I expect your post may be less right as time progresses.
Except that revenue numbers don't tell the story about success in the OS space. Rather than just quoting numbers read the report. Windows revenue is down 5% which is better than expectations given the general decline in OEMs. i.e. Windows is doing better than the market and therefore they are just fine in the OS space.
What decline? Looking around at the office. I see HP desktops as far as the eye can see.
So let me paraphrase: "In my own personal bubble I see no change and therefore there is no change because the entire world works like my little office space here."
I see legacy shitty Oracle products
Oh yeah I know right! We also have an ancient Oracle back end sitting on some Intel hardware. That doesn't mean we don't have some 90 people out in the field entering that data into that database using phones and tablets. Incidentally when I walk into the technicians workshop I also see HPs everywhere. I mean sure it's like 2, and it used to be 10, but I see a PC so nothing has changed right?
Just because teenagers and Moms
Ahhh so you do realise that half the world has made a change.
Intel's rating is because of Trump
What the fuck are you talking about. The rating that was changed was done so with a clear description of why it was changed and it had zero to do with any government.
WIndows has 95% marketshare as Mom's and little girls tweeting their friends are not in the same market as business customers who buy a PC for the ecosystem.
He lines it up, he shoots... HE SC..... WTF those goalposts....they just suddenly moved. Are we playing some magical gaelic football here? You've combined moving goalposts with a "No true Scottish PC user" fallacy?
*Posted from a Galaxy Tab while lying in a hammock.
Nearly every western country has something similar
They most definitely do not.
speakers corner in the UK
Is not private land. In fact it is specially designated land for that purpose and most of the examples of Speakers Corners are actually on Crown land.
To Canada where similar places exist.
Again, you said similar places. Completely at odds with your original comment which I will quote for you here: if a place "becomes a regular meeting area" for the public, or an active venue of communication then regardless of whether or not it's private property free speech laws apply Which is a load of crap and just because a bunch of people regularly gather on my front lawn or a shopping centre lobby, or a private park etc doesn't automatically make it public.
Again that "access" based system is a US irregularity and elsewhere if private land is to be protected by free speech it actively has to be designated as such, as is the case with the examples you gave.
I would argue that knowing a language should not be a part of a university degree. Knowing what sits behind the language is important, the concepts. Language change too often to make them a useful part of a course, and in that regard an exam on coding should be done with an IDE.
I remember getting an exam paper back with one question graded: "4.5/5 not a single number on this paper is right". But the process followed was hence the good mark for something utterly wrong.
A private pilot license requires 40 hours of flying with an instructor
Fuck me! Is that all? Are you saying that the USA people actually drive with that little level of training? Hell I had to do 100 hours of driving with a trainer to get a provisional drivers license, part of it in bad weather, part of it at night. I had a time limit on how long I could take to get those 100 hours up before they start adding more hours to the requirement. I also had to do theory tests on rules, and on the vehicle I was driving. Practical tests not withstanding then I got a provisional license that I had to hold for 3 years which had so few points on it that if I so much as ran a red light I was back to square one and re-doing the test.
Second, an airplane's autopilot does not do anything Tesla's Autopilot does./quote?
I know. Which makes it all the more absurd given how technically more advanced Telsa's autopilot is. Really the point is ignorant people should be educated rather than fuck around looking for a single word that can describe a complex system to a wide gamut of possible peoples.
You had a Brexit conversation where the flexibility or shape of bananas was a reason to leave?
Do you not realise what the the bendy banana debacle represents right? You may not know the history of this but the whole bendy banana thing was started by the Daily Mail expressing outrage that the EU would make a rule on the shape of bananas completely ignoring the reason why the rule came into place: To unify the EU labelling laws with the existing international trade rules that the masses had no idea already existed. Stupid part was when it was introduced and the way the Daily Flail presented it caused the news to go international.
I haven't had a shape of banana in relation to Brexit conversation once, I've had it multiple times. It has even come up multiple times on Slashdot. I have educated people about the topic and why their frothing anger against the EU for this rule is completely unfounded multiple times. I have had these conversations before Brexit, and still do it after now after Brexit.
The bendy banana debacle represents a population's willingness to accept everything they are told on face value. It represents senseless outrage driven by ignorance. It represents the people who get their news from the Daily Mail, Breitbart, and Infowars while all the time dismissing every alternative viewpoint as #fakenews.
So yeah... the sad fact is... really. And I'm not happy about it.
There are dangerous germs in and on most things. Our germophobic culture is doing more harm than good in the long run.
And yet cleanliness is something that has caused us to overcome uncontrolled transmission of quite nasty disease. We're not talking about an alcohol swab every time someone looks at you here. We're talking about public facilities with lots of varied traffic bringing in all sorts of nasties.
I haven't washed my keyboard in about 5 years. But I still don't use Dyson airblade driers that don't look like they are perfectly dry already. There's a difference between being a germophobe and not wanting a bacterial cloud sprayed at your face just after washing your hands.
I take it back, I will read and reply because ignoring ignorance is what got the UK to where it is today. So let's discuss and then we can all learn something.
I don't see the EU granting British farmers vast tracts of land in France, Spain or Germany.
Why should the UK let every other cunt out there exploit our natural resources?
Errr yes they do. If you're in the UK, go move to Germany, buy a farm and go nuts. That's how the free movement and common resource model works. The UK is just as free to go fishing off the coasts of EU countries. But as for "why"? Maybe it's because that's what you signed up for.
The EU do nothing to prevent non-EU migration, which is indeed one of the reasons why the UK has such a sizeable population born outside the EU.
The EU prevent migration just fine save for the past couple of years due to the Germans and that has increased migration from a very specific subset of countries. None of which has anything to do with the countries I mentioned from my anecdote... except Eastern Europeans.
I love the way that people that voted to remain
I assume you're talking about me? I didn't vote anything. I don't have any skin in the game at all. From the outside though I see the UK leaving as a good thing. Special little children given nothing but concessions and still unhappy and blaming everyone else for their own economic situation which has nothing to with the EU and everything to do with Thatcherism.
The ignorance involved is indeed ample, but it's repeatedly demonstrated by people such as yourself.
You know the amazing part about all of this. You got through this far and completely missed the point of my post. The reality is that this is just conversations that I overhear, and you have straight away come in passionately at multiple points.
So for the slow people playing at home: The point is that there are multiple reasons for why people vote Brexit, the vast majority not linked to racism, and the vast majority were small issues based with few people actually wanting the whole "leave the entire EU with everything that entails" package.
I can see how my comment would look like ignorance for someone who fundamentally doesn't understand it. That's okay. I hope you learned something from my reply.
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If a user has some method that would let them modify the boot volume, they have a way to modify passwd/shadow/SAM.
Not at all, we invented something called disk encryption which for obvious reasons either doesn't apply to the boot sector, or (and the brute force method) needs to be applied before the BIOS finishes it's job, and that is outside of the OS control and therefore not as common as managed processes such as those applied by the OS.
The other problem I have is that SecureBoot, practically speaking, makes MS the gatekeeper to the PC platform.
Yes now that IS a legitimate concern.
Today I learnt there are people who not only liked live tiles but actually miss them too. I guess it takes all kinds really.
Sure, that is also fair game, go ahead and insert your backdoor account with admin privilege.
How? That would require access to the system itself. The point of secure boot is to close of a previously unclosable vector. It was never meant to protected against any changes to the OS itself, just the changes that can happen and persist outside of the OS.
Just because it only targets boot sector based malware doesn't make it ineffectual. Quite the opposite actually since this was a malware vector which was previously effectively not protected against.
1) Bitcoin is NOT mined on GPU, since like 5 years.
It's almost like something happened to bitcoin in the past 5 years that makes it quite viable to use GPUs. Now what was it again? Oh that's right, a 1000x increase in value.
They won't buy them cuz then they'd have zero resale value after the card is no longer powerful enough to mine.
Mining is not the only market for crunching numbers. These would have resale value to the same people who buy NVIDIA Tesla products.
The company in this case is making up a rule about the distance from the pedestrian being critical
No the company is presenting evidence to show that the pedestrian was not even remotely in danger unless they are actively sprinting onto the crosswalk and there's no evidence that even then the car wouldn't have come to a halt.
A pedestrian at that speed, with that much reaction time, stepping onto a crosswalk on a street is not considered crossing the street as much as it is considered attempted suicide.
Despite what you think the criminal system works a bit differently than the anecdote of a single witness and it is quite easy to prove those witness statements legally doubtful.
Police tickets get thrown out all the time all over the world for this reason, sometimes they even get thrown out when they present their own evidence when it could be considered legally doubtful.
"Embrace, extend, and extinguish"
Everyone remembers it. We also know what is involved and what it requires. So let's have a quick look at it:
The embrace stage involves embracing a complete system, protocol whatever. Being compatible with it so that MS becomes a proper alternative to the previous use case. WSL only achieves a very small subset of embracing. They are able to run a few select GNU tools, nothing more. They haven't embraced Linux.
The extend stage involves having sufficient market share of the target market to be able to force the market in a certain direction. Even in WSL gets 100% of the use cases it is designed for it will have very little of the overall Linux / Unix use scenarios and a pittance of the market share. They can extend all they want but there are reasons why WSL is not a substitute for running Linux and never will be.
The extinguish stage is a logical extension of extend by adding an incompatibility. Again they can't achieve this without absolute dominance in the target market.
Now for another key difference in the strategies:
We all remember EEE, and we remember it quite well. We also remember what Microsoft was like at the time. No I'm not talking about evil corporations, I'm talking about a company with very brilliantly strategic minds at the helm. A company that can see what competitors do and cut them off at the knees in the process. That company died during the Steve Ballmer era, and the corpse was salted and a steak driven through its heart by Satya Nadella's appointment. What Microsoft is now is a behemoth that can do nothing but throw money at the wall and see what sticks. In some cases they have had success. Pissing money into the clouds has worked to some degree and for all the expense they have achieved somewhere between 5% and 35% of the market share depending of which aspect of the cloud you measure and they did so on the backs of open source where their 35% is in the applications area (what should be a borderline monopoly for MS) and yet 40$ of that is running on Linux on Azure. And that was their success which completely ignores the money they have pissed away in the mobile space to achieve 0% market share and writing off the acquisition of one of the world's most famous mobile brands despite the ability to closely tie their mobile and desktop space together with their Windows dominance.
So in summary: We remember EEE, but this isn't EEE. It lacks the market conditions to become EEE, and Microsoft's leadership lacks the strategic competence to implement EEE.
Linux distros inside Windows is like struggling to find a way to mount an Abrams tank on top of a Mini-Cooper.
Except they aren't running Linux or even components of it. They are running a few GNU userland tools. More like mounting the gun from an Abrams tank on a Mini-Cooper to end up with something that is small but still useful if someone is trying to carjack you. *
Probably the worst car analogy on Slashdot in a while. :-)
(it's a *realy tiny* subset of Linux kernel's API. so forget about running anything complex like FUSE, other file systems, Docker/LXC/etc, X11 or Wayland, complex network filtering, ...)
It is also highly feature incomplete and still being developed. So while you're right, I expect your post may be less right as time progresses.
Except that revenue numbers don't tell the story about success in the OS space. Rather than just quoting numbers read the report. Windows revenue is down 5% which is better than expectations given the general decline in OEMs. i.e. Windows is doing better than the market and therefore they are just fine in the OS space.
What decline? Looking around at the office. I see HP desktops as far as the eye can see.
So let me paraphrase: "In my own personal bubble I see no change and therefore there is no change because the entire world works like my little office space here."
I see legacy shitty Oracle products
Oh yeah I know right! We also have an ancient Oracle back end sitting on some Intel hardware. That doesn't mean we don't have some 90 people out in the field entering that data into that database using phones and tablets. Incidentally when I walk into the technicians workshop I also see HPs everywhere. I mean sure it's like 2, and it used to be 10, but I see a PC so nothing has changed right?
Just because teenagers and Moms
Ahhh so you do realise that half the world has made a change.
Intel's rating is because of Trump
What the fuck are you talking about. The rating that was changed was done so with a clear description of why it was changed and it had zero to do with any government.
WIndows has 95% marketshare as Mom's and little girls tweeting their friends are not in the same market as business customers who buy a PC for the ecosystem.
He lines it up, he shoots... HE SC..... WTF those goalposts ... .they just suddenly moved. Are we playing some magical gaelic football here? You've combined moving goalposts with a "No true Scottish PC user" fallacy?
*Posted from a Galaxy Tab while lying in a hammock.
Nearly every western country has something similar
They most definitely do not.
speakers corner in the UK
Is not private land. In fact it is specially designated land for that purpose and most of the examples of Speakers Corners are actually on Crown land.
To Canada where similar places exist.
Again, you said similar places. Completely at odds with your original comment which I will quote for you here: if a place "becomes a regular meeting area" for the public, or an active venue of communication then regardless of whether or not it's private property free speech laws apply Which is a load of crap and just because a bunch of people regularly gather on my front lawn or a shopping centre lobby, or a private park etc doesn't automatically make it public.
Again that "access" based system is a US irregularity and elsewhere if private land is to be protected by free speech it actively has to be designated as such, as is the case with the examples you gave.
I would argue that knowing a language should not be a part of a university degree. Knowing what sits behind the language is important, the concepts. Language change too often to make them a useful part of a course, and in that regard an exam on coding should be done with an IDE.
I remember getting an exam paper back with one question graded: "4.5/5 not a single number on this paper is right". But the process followed was hence the good mark for something utterly wrong.
Write an open source tool to detect dupes.
A private pilot license requires 40 hours of flying with an instructor
Fuck me! Is that all? Are you saying that the USA people actually drive with that little level of training? Hell I had to do 100 hours of driving with a trainer to get a provisional drivers license, part of it in bad weather, part of it at night. I had a time limit on how long I could take to get those 100 hours up before they start adding more hours to the requirement. I also had to do theory tests on rules, and on the vehicle I was driving. Practical tests not withstanding then I got a provisional license that I had to hold for 3 years which had so few points on it that if I so much as ran a red light I was back to square one and re-doing the test.
Second, an airplane's autopilot does not do anything Tesla's Autopilot does. /quote?
I know. Which makes it all the more absurd given how technically more advanced Telsa's autopilot is. Really the point is ignorant people should be educated rather than fuck around looking for a single word that can describe a complex system to a wide gamut of possible peoples.
You had a Brexit conversation where the flexibility or shape of bananas was a reason to leave?
Do you not realise what the the bendy banana debacle represents right? You may not know the history of this but the whole bendy banana thing was started by the Daily Mail expressing outrage that the EU would make a rule on the shape of bananas completely ignoring the reason why the rule came into place: To unify the EU labelling laws with the existing international trade rules that the masses had no idea already existed. Stupid part was when it was introduced and the way the Daily Flail presented it caused the news to go international.
I haven't had a shape of banana in relation to Brexit conversation once, I've had it multiple times. It has even come up multiple times on Slashdot. I have educated people about the topic and why their frothing anger against the EU for this rule is completely unfounded multiple times. I have had these conversations before Brexit, and still do it after now after Brexit.
The bendy banana debacle represents a population's willingness to accept everything they are told on face value. It represents senseless outrage driven by ignorance. It represents the people who get their news from the Daily Mail, Breitbart, and Infowars while all the time dismissing every alternative viewpoint as #fakenews.
So yeah... the sad fact is ... really. And I'm not happy about it.
This was in a relatively professional setting mind you.
Professional working girls by any chance?
Also can someone help me unread something, I don't feel quite right.
There are dangerous germs in and on most things. Our germophobic culture is doing more harm than good in the long run.
And yet cleanliness is something that has caused us to overcome uncontrolled transmission of quite nasty disease. We're not talking about an alcohol swab every time someone looks at you here. We're talking about public facilities with lots of varied traffic bringing in all sorts of nasties.
I haven't washed my keyboard in about 5 years. But I still don't use Dyson airblade driers that don't look like they are perfectly dry already. There's a difference between being a germophobe and not wanting a bacterial cloud sprayed at your face just after washing your hands.
Banning toilets around America, because "your mom" has been offering her services via phone number there for the past 40 years.
I know! It was the single best version of Ubuntu released in the first half of 2007.
It's interesting that you haven't mentioned any that are ignorant. Not sure if this is a good or bad thing.
I take it back, I will read and reply because ignoring ignorance is what got the UK to where it is today. So let's discuss and then we can all learn something.
I don't see the EU granting British farmers vast tracts of land in France, Spain or Germany.
Why should the UK let every other cunt out there exploit our natural resources?
Errr yes they do. If you're in the UK, go move to Germany, buy a farm and go nuts. That's how the free movement and common resource model works. The UK is just as free to go fishing off the coasts of EU countries. But as for "why"? Maybe it's because that's what you signed up for.
The EU do nothing to prevent non-EU migration, which is indeed one of the reasons why the UK has such a sizeable population born outside the EU.
The EU prevent migration just fine save for the past couple of years due to the Germans and that has increased migration from a very specific subset of countries. None of which has anything to do with the countries I mentioned from my anecdote ... except Eastern Europeans.
I love the way that people that voted to remain
I assume you're talking about me? I didn't vote anything. I don't have any skin in the game at all. From the outside though I see the UK leaving as a good thing. Special little children given nothing but concessions and still unhappy and blaming everyone else for their own economic situation which has nothing to with the EU and everything to do with Thatcherism.
The ignorance involved is indeed ample, but it's repeatedly demonstrated by people such as yourself.
You know the amazing part about all of this. You got through this far and completely missed the point of my post. The reality is that this is just conversations that I overhear, and you have straight away come in passionately at multiple points.
So for the slow people playing at home: The point is that there are multiple reasons for why people vote Brexit, the vast majority not linked to racism, and the vast majority were small issues based with few people actually wanting the whole "leave the entire EU with everything that entails" package.
I can see how my comment would look like ignorance for someone who fundamentally doesn't understand it. That's okay. I hope you learned something from my reply.
Skipping the 'I made up a fake view so that I can mock it' entries in your farcical list
Skipping your entire post for dismissing mine. These are just conversations I've had, nothing more. You can take it or leave it.