Can anyone suggest a good home router that will allow me to block all traffic to the IP addresses of vortex-win.data.microsoft.com and settings-win.data.microsoft.com (not sure if hosts is being ignored and the URL addresses are still being resolved or if the IP addresses are hard-coded in the malware). I would like multiple options and the ability to compare price and other features as well. The ability to statically lock a mac address to a local IP address (through DHCP) is a must (amazingly not all routers have this). Lots of other features are very desirable, I'm looking for something capable, not something dumbed down for the average computer illiterate consumer. Will consider a home router with open source replacement software, but want to be very sure that the desired software will be compatible with the hardware if I go that route, and then I need to know both what router (model and version) to spring for and what firmware to go with. Obviously (but I'll say it anyway) I'm looking for a router maker that doesn't have a history of introducing their own vulnerabilities into the system or cooperating with the N.S.A. or including back doors.
As I expect to have to pay more for this ideal fix than many of the dirt cheap router deals, I don't want to cut corners on the hardware. Gigabyte connections are rapidly growing in availability and, while not yet available to my home, it would be short sighted to buy an expensive solution with only 10/100 speeds that would make the router far less useful in the future. So dirt cheat 10/100 solutions are OK but supporting Gigabit speeds are a must for anything pricey that I'll expect to you for years.
Your 2/3 number is absolutely meaningless without numbers on how many are wearing helmets and how many are not, once you see those numbers if you have any understanding of math an no blinding biases you will see that helmets have a negative effect.
The 7/9 number is meaningless. Did you think that some people thought deaths were caused by impacts with cotton balls or bunny rabbits? It has absolutely nothing to do with my comment.
That is completely meaningless, dumbass. The actual statistic is that a third of the fatalities are on riders wearing helmets, but upwards of ninety percent of bike riders are not wearing helmets. So if helmets were not a factor you would expect only about a tenth of the riders to be wearing helmets and if they helped at all then even lower, Clearly the helmets are causing problems, not preventing them.
...more adults across the U.S. are strapping on helmets....
There is your answer right there. These helmets make the riders think they are safe when the evidence indicates they are not. Thinking they are safe makes them careless and so there are more accidents. Clearly we should outlaw helmets. QED
That was my point. Rather than the "researchers" saying that they don't know if the manufacturers were responsible or not and suggesting that the malware could have been inserted after manufacture somewhere in the distribution channel, looking at the ROMs will tell you that the malware was in there at the manufacturing process (distributors are not going to be developing custom ROMs for every model phone when they could just install the malware, and if anyone want to claim that they did then they should be able to find a malware free version of the ROM). So the manufacturer is indeed responsible for the malware. They might claim that they didn't know some lame undesirable piece of bloatware was indeed malware when they wasted ROM space (and system RAM after booting) on it, but they are still responsible for putting it there.
You explanation was flawed. You don't uninstall malware/bloatware from the ROM even with ROOT privileges. You can normally only "uninstall" it by replacing the ROM image with another one (which does require root access). You can however disable an app that is included in the ROM from running or from getting updates. This will prevent the malware from acting and will prevent updates that further waste flash memory. And, of course, not letting the malware/bloatware run when the system boots should save system RAM. You don't need root privileges to do this.
....changing the design for a pair of 3D-printed shoes from size 8 to size 9 might be instantaneous, but asking for a shoe that's a quarter of a millimeter longer than a size 8 would take several minutes to process...
So what they are trying to tell me is that this software, in computing the various options it is going to offer the user, somehow knows the settings to use for standard sizes of shoes but doesn't compute variations other than the standard sizes? And by implication it would know the standard sizes of other 3D objects too (such as caps), since it isn't being presented as shoe software. Isn't this a little far fetched for 3D design software that supposedly will be used much more often on models that don't have specific sizes than for things like shoes (which don't seem very realistic to print with current 3D printer technology anyway)?
The researchers do not believe the manufacturers are responsible for the malware
Perhaps these "researchers" could get their act together and be more sure about their conclusion. If the "apps" in question are installed after manufacturing then they are easy to spot and can be uninstalled, and in such a case they likely (but not certainly) were added in the distribution channel. If, on the other hand, they are in the ROM itself then they can only be "disabled" and not uninstalled and it is extremely likely that the manufacturers put them there (most likely knowingly but there is a slim chance it was out of ignorance). Simply saying that they do not believe the manufacturers were not responsible with explaining why they say that is completely bogus.
Well thank you Mr. genius AC. I had based that comment on all of the climate change "scientists" that are telling us that global warming is causing the increased intensity of storms, but you have explained that they are ignorant liars.
What do you mean "most"? I put Economists in the same fraudster category as Psychics and Clergy and Life Coaches (and somewhat worse than Psychologists). Lets not do anything that might pretend to legitimize these can artists.
I prefer to think of it as banks will play along with whoever is in power. Or, on may cases, both parties. Look how their political contributions go to both opposing sides.
Or you could just ask the Nissin company, who will tell you that it is much better. But to really know you have to spring for a package and try it for yourself.
Naw, the term "fancy" there is likely just a scam. I might be tempted into splurging and finding out if Top Ramen is any better than regular Ramen though.
Yes. It is important to not question if Nazis really went to the trouble of tattooing serial numbers on Jews right before killing them and sending them to the ovens. Once people start questioning why they would do that then they might start questioning other things too. Better to simply outlaw free speech and opposing views.
you've actually got to enforce regulations to get them to work or people will defraud others
Pay attention. Over and over again we see government programs that shouldn't exist at all gamed by fraudsters, from welfare to education vouchers. Now you are shocked that this stupid corporate welfare is being gamed and abused? It was obvious that that was going to happen from the very start, and it should be obvious to you that the government never has a history of properly enforcing regulations to stop fraud. The policy is only to expend a tiny amount of effort to catch one or two offenders and "make an example" of them, but the others ignore this and continue collecting taxpayer money. You don't solve this problem by enforcing regulations, you solve this problem by not creating it in the first place, or admitting that it failed and shutting it down.
Did you summon a grumpy old man? Here I am. Of course I've really impressed by this, the printer can print in 10 different materials,.... just as long as all of them are photosensitive polymers. What a crock! Looks like there is still more room for improvement.
Unfortunately, that is incorrect. Consider the all too common stories of homosexuals who keep their orientation secret and enter into supposedly normal relationships to help conceal it (having children), only to ruin another human being's life later when they come out of the closet. Clearly heterosexuals are more moral than homosexuals, as we never hear of any secret heterosexual who lived a gay life for decades and then came out as straight, destroying their partner's life in the process.
OK, so in Saudi Arabia homosexuality is illegal and may be punished with death, but there are negative things about the country too.
Perhaps if you live in such a country you shouldn't go on a computer network and post information that would lead back to you and get you killed. Sounds like some people earned themselves Darwin Awards.
OK, just kidding, I know we should be more compassionate towards the homosexuals until there is a cure for their sickness,
what system would you propose to better reward drivers
Time and a half for the drivers, with no increase share to Uber itself during times of emergency or extreme demand (it is easy to justify an incentive to get the drivers to work during the crisis, Uber should be working anyway.). Any more would be (and is) gouging.
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Can anyone suggest a good home router that will allow me to block all traffic to the IP addresses of vortex-win.data.microsoft.com and settings-win.data.microsoft.com (not sure if hosts is being ignored and the URL addresses are still being resolved or if the IP addresses are hard-coded in the malware). I would like multiple options and the ability to compare price and other features as well. The ability to statically lock a mac address to a local IP address (through DHCP) is a must (amazingly not all routers have this). Lots of other features are very desirable, I'm looking for something capable, not something dumbed down for the average computer illiterate consumer. Will consider a home router with open source replacement software, but want to be very sure that the desired software will be compatible with the hardware if I go that route, and then I need to know both what router (model and version) to spring for and what firmware to go with. Obviously (but I'll say it anyway) I'm looking for a router maker that doesn't have a history of introducing their own vulnerabilities into the system or cooperating with the N.S.A. or including back doors.
As I expect to have to pay more for this ideal fix than many of the dirt cheap router deals, I don't want to cut corners on the hardware. Gigabyte connections are rapidly growing in availability and, while not yet available to my home, it would be short sighted to buy an expensive solution with only 10/100 speeds that would make the router far less useful in the future. So dirt cheat 10/100 solutions are OK but supporting Gigabit speeds are a must for anything pricey that I'll expect to you for years.
Your 2/3 number is absolutely meaningless without numbers on how many are wearing helmets and how many are not, once you see those numbers if you have any understanding of math an no blinding biases you will see that helmets have a negative effect.
The 7/9 number is meaningless. Did you think that some people thought deaths were caused by impacts with cotton balls or bunny rabbits? It has absolutely nothing to do with my comment.
That is completely meaningless, dumbass. The actual statistic is that a third of the fatalities are on riders wearing helmets, but upwards of ninety percent of bike riders are not wearing helmets. So if helmets were not a factor you would expect only about a tenth of the riders to be wearing helmets and if they helped at all then even lower, Clearly the helmets are causing problems, not preventing them.
There is your answer right there. These helmets make the riders think they are safe when the evidence indicates they are not. Thinking they are safe makes them careless and so there are more accidents. Clearly we should outlaw helmets. QED
That was my point. Rather than the "researchers" saying that they don't know if the manufacturers were responsible or not and suggesting that the malware could have been inserted after manufacture somewhere in the distribution channel, looking at the ROMs will tell you that the malware was in there at the manufacturing process (distributors are not going to be developing custom ROMs for every model phone when they could just install the malware, and if anyone want to claim that they did then they should be able to find a malware free version of the ROM). So the manufacturer is indeed responsible for the malware. They might claim that they didn't know some lame undesirable piece of bloatware was indeed malware when they wasted ROM space (and system RAM after booting) on it, but they are still responsible for putting it there.
You explanation was flawed. You don't uninstall malware/bloatware from the ROM even with ROOT privileges. You can normally only "uninstall" it by replacing the ROM image with another one (which does require root access). You can however disable an app that is included in the ROM from running or from getting updates. This will prevent the malware from acting and will prevent updates that further waste flash memory. And, of course, not letting the malware/bloatware run when the system boots should save system RAM. You don't need root privileges to do this.
So what they are trying to tell me is that this software, in computing the various options it is going to offer the user, somehow knows the settings to use for standard sizes of shoes but doesn't compute variations other than the standard sizes? And by implication it would know the standard sizes of other 3D objects too (such as caps), since it isn't being presented as shoe software. Isn't this a little far fetched for 3D design software that supposedly will be used much more often on models that don't have specific sizes than for things like shoes (which don't seem very realistic to print with current 3D printer technology anyway)?
The researchers do not believe the manufacturers are responsible for the malware
Perhaps these "researchers" could get their act together and be more sure about their conclusion. If the "apps" in question are installed after manufacturing then they are easy to spot and can be uninstalled, and in such a case they likely (but not certainly) were added in the distribution channel. If, on the other hand, they are in the ROM itself then they can only be "disabled" and not uninstalled and it is extremely likely that the manufacturers put them there (most likely knowingly but there is a slim chance it was out of ignorance). Simply saying that they do not believe the manufacturers were not responsible with explaining why they say that is completely bogus.
"No, coriolis effect produces most winds."
So you are saying that the earth has been rotating slower lately?
Well thank you Mr. genius AC. I had based that comment on all of the climate change "scientists" that are telling us that global warming is causing the increased intensity of storms, but you have explained that they are ignorant liars.
If only we had some way to warm the planet, so that there would be more wind. Perhaps by putting more CO2 in the air and letting the sun warm us up.
What do you mean "most"? I put Economists in the same fraudster category as Psychics and Clergy and Life Coaches (and somewhat worse than Psychologists). Lets not do anything that might pretend to legitimize these can artists.
I prefer to think of it as banks will play along with whoever is in power. Or, on may cases, both parties. Look how their political contributions go to both opposing sides.
Absolutely. Citibank is where I go to to get all my unbiased science information. Can't possibly be any politics involved in their science.
Hey, if you have ground beef money you have no business speculating on "What Would You Do If You Were Suddenly Wealthy?". You already are wealthy.
You could pay to have that looked into.
Or you could just ask the Nissin company, who will tell you that it is much better. But to really know you have to spring for a package and try it for yourself.
Naw, the term "fancy" there is likely just a scam. I might be tempted into splurging and finding out if Top Ramen is any better than regular Ramen though.
GDAC can't even do math.
For starters, I could buy the name brand mac and cheese any time I wanted, not just on special occasions.
Yes. It is important to not question if Nazis really went to the trouble of tattooing serial numbers on Jews right before killing them and sending them to the ovens. Once people start questioning why they would do that then they might start questioning other things too. Better to simply outlaw free speech and opposing views.
you've actually got to enforce regulations to get them to work or people will defraud others
Pay attention. Over and over again we see government programs that shouldn't exist at all gamed by fraudsters, from welfare to education vouchers. Now you are shocked that this stupid corporate welfare is being gamed and abused? It was obvious that that was going to happen from the very start, and it should be obvious to you that the government never has a history of properly enforcing regulations to stop fraud. The policy is only to expend a tiny amount of effort to catch one or two offenders and "make an example" of them, but the others ignore this and continue collecting taxpayer money. You don't solve this problem by enforcing regulations, you solve this problem by not creating it in the first place, or admitting that it failed and shutting it down.
Did you summon a grumpy old man? Here I am. Of course I've really impressed by this, the printer can print in 10 different materials, .... just as long as all of them are photosensitive polymers. What a crock! Looks like there is still more room for improvement.
There are no royalties for trademarks. Others are simply not allowed to use the trademark.
Oh, one more thing (obligatory):
I always thought Swatch was a contraction for Shitty watch.
Unfortunately, that is incorrect. Consider the all too common stories of homosexuals who keep their orientation secret and enter into supposedly normal relationships to help conceal it (having children), only to ruin another human being's life later when they come out of the closet. Clearly heterosexuals are more moral than homosexuals, as we never hear of any secret heterosexual who lived a gay life for decades and then came out as straight, destroying their partner's life in the process.
OK, so in Saudi Arabia homosexuality is illegal and may be punished with death, but there are negative things about the country too.
Perhaps if you live in such a country you shouldn't go on a computer network and post information that would lead back to you and get you killed. Sounds like some people earned themselves Darwin Awards.
OK, just kidding, I know we should be more compassionate towards the homosexuals until there is a cure for their sickness,
what system would you propose to better reward drivers
Time and a half for the drivers, with no increase share to Uber itself during times of emergency or extreme demand (it is easy to justify an incentive to get the drivers to work during the crisis, Uber should be working anyway.). Any more would be (and is) gouging.