You could argue it prepares them for the modern workplace, where people have to learn to concentrate in the face of such distractions.
At a company I ran a few years ago I put a piece of paper on the wall each day which told everyone exactly how much money we were burning every day, hour and minute to keep the place going. It really focussed people's minds on making every minute count.
If a student is going to bring a computing device into a lecture maybe it should tell them, in real time, how much of their education loan each minute of messing around on facebook etc is costing them.
First, the official advice is "Concentrate on promoting more than demoting".
Second, there never seems to be enough mod points to downvote all trolls. Better to vote in a way that promotes browsing at 'Score:3 or above' than whack-a-mole the swamp.
In 2015 it installed some Lenovo executables into the system32 dir that ran with admin permissions (so they could download more Lenovo rubbish).
They seem to have stopped doing it. It didn't affect Linux (afaik, since it exploits WPBT which is Windows-only). And ironally I actually own a stack of old 2008 Lenovo thinkpads precisely because they can have the firmware removed and replaced with a safer FOSS version (Libreboot).
So you can indeed trust that these machines don't install unwanted stuff from bios - not even if you put windows on them.
You cannot put Windows on them. Windows is not supported by Libreboot.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... [wikipedia.org] According to its own documentation, it can work with any Linux distribution that uses kernel mode setting (KMS) for the graphics, while Windows is not supported...
X230 cannot support Libreboot in it's current form.
The X230 has an Intel Core i5 (3rd Gen) 3320M / 2.6 GHz CPU.
This CPU has Embedded Security in the form of the Trusted Platform Module (TPM 1.2) Security Chip.
'Embedded' means it's literally embedded, built into the same die as the CPU.
On older Core2 Duo systems like the X200, the Management Engine (ME) is on a separate chip that can be accessed with a chip clamp to read and write data from/to it. When the ME is physically within the CPU, the only code it will run is code that's signed by Intel. The CPU checks the ME code at boot and if the signature doesn't match Intel's public key that's embedded into the hardware of the CPU, the CPU won't boot. There's no way around that by chip-flashing, as is possible with the older Core2 Duo designs.
These machines are not certified to be 'open source', they are certified to be 'free' as defined by the FSF. Those are entirely different things.
Practical Differences between Free Software and Open Source
In practice, open source stands for criteria a little looser than those of free software. As far as we know, all existing released free software source code would qualify as open source. Nearly all open source software is free software, but there are exceptions. First, some open source licenses are too restrictive, so they do not qualify as free licenses. For example, 'Open Watcom' is nonfree because its license does not allow making a modified version and using it privately. Fortunately, few programs use such licenses.
Second, and more important in practice, many products containing computers check signatures on their executable programs to block users from installing different executables; only one privileged company can make executables that can run in the device or can access its full capabilities. We call these devices "tyrants", and the practice is called "tivoization" after the product (Tivo) where we first saw it. Even if the executable is made from free source code, the users cannot run modified versions of it, so the executable is nonfree.
The criteria for open source do not recognize this issue; they are concerned solely with the licensing of the source code. Thus, these unmodifiable executables, when made from source code such as Linux that is open source and free, are open source but not free. Many Android products contain nonfree tivoized executables of Linux.
Old hardware is the only thing Linux runs on without problems.
Linux is the only thing that runs on old hardware without problems.
Only Linux is supported on this libre hardware. Once they strip out the original CPU firmware and replace it with Libreboot, Windows is not supported.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...According to its own documentation, it can work with any Linux distribution that uses kernel mode setting (KMS) for the graphics, while Windows is not supported...
If they spent less time building telemetry into their systems to check how malware-infested they are, and more time actually securing their systems against the malware, they'd have less of this damn ransomware nonsense.
The point is not a personal audit of every line of code, but a network of trust - code that is able to be audited by a network of known individuals who build trust in that code. GNU-Linux, and the code of free software, already relies on the notion of 'standing on the shoulders of giants' and the principle of an auditing process over time is no different. Auditors are motivated to work because they know their contributions build over time to a verifiable and trustworthy system.
It is the complete lack of transparancy that impedes trust in Microsoft's code. Inspecting a code dump does not build trust because there is no incentive for 3rd parties to audit the dump. In the long term it cannot contribute to an open, auditable Microsoft code base.
This, the only truly secure network device has been disconnected form the network.
Data can be exfiltrated with fan noise, blinking lights, leaked radio emissions, thermal pings. Even loud ultrasonic noise that's picked up from windows with laser-mics. Even a switched off computer (via Intel ME)
After reading about these marvels of human ingenuity, there doesn't seem to be a way of protecting computers under any circumstances. Just live in a desert and grow chickens or something.
Even as a fan of the dystopian viewpoint, I don't see it's any more 'broken' that at the inception of the internet.
The cost of entry used to be high, in terms of money, knowledge and creativity required. That cost has been removed. But using the internet in a free, decentralised, uncensored, anonymous, and 'anarchic' way is viable, it just has a high cost of entry.
Long distance communication for the masses hasn't always been free, or un-monitored. News hasn't always been outside state control. But with enough education, knowledge, money, time, and possibly contacts, these things are viable.
In the past. Now. And as far as I can see, in the future.
With knowledge and money, I can buy an old Thinkpad. Libreboot it using a Beaglebone Black. Run Debian (Tails). From a cafe using cash-paid wifi on a random but plausible MAC address. Obtaining information from 'unstoppable' websites running over Tor. Running DAO-style businesses on the Etherium blockchain. 'Laundering' proceeds using Ring-signature Monero because otherwise 'big finance' says my coins are 'tainted'.
Your average person probably wouldn't understand a single sentence in that last paragraph. But they probably wouldn't have understood the computer department staff at UCLA in 1969 or Tim Berners-Lee at CERN in 1991.
For each problem, there is a solution. It just requires some intelligence and work. It might be out of reach of the masses. But that's how the internet (and the subject of networked computing devices in general) was at the start.
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Why did you show me this ignorant person's CV but reject this genius?
Why is my insurance premium so low?
Why did my self-driving car crash?
Why didn't you tell me Ethereum would crash?
Why did you start a war?
Exactly... the pre-minified brigade.
What competent programmer converts the abstraction of code to ENGLISH
Better to convert it to Hungarian
You could argue it prepares them for the modern workplace, where people have to learn to concentrate in the face of such distractions.
At a company I ran a few years ago I put a piece of paper on the wall each day which told everyone exactly how much money we were burning every day, hour and minute to keep the place going. It really focussed people's minds on making every minute count.
If a student is going to bring a computing device into a lecture maybe it should tell them, in real time, how much of their education loan each minute of messing around on facebook etc is costing them.
First, the official advice is "Concentrate on promoting more than demoting".
Second, there never seems to be enough mod points to downvote all trolls. Better to vote in a way that promotes browsing at 'Score:3 or above' than whack-a-mole the swamp.
Can we obtain some genuine, Beijing, polluted air-in-a-can, to 'taste the difference' while we experience our Great Firewalled Internet?
Lenovo crams unremovable crapware into Windows laptops - by hiding it in the BIOS
In 2015 it installed some Lenovo executables into the system32 dir that ran with admin permissions (so they could download more Lenovo rubbish).
They seem to have stopped doing it. It didn't affect Linux (afaik, since it exploits WPBT which is Windows-only). And ironally I actually own a stack of old 2008 Lenovo thinkpads precisely because they can have the firmware removed and replaced with a safer FOSS version (Libreboot).
or IRL
So you can indeed trust that these machines don't install unwanted stuff from bios - not even if you put windows on them.
You cannot put Windows on them. Windows is not supported by Libreboot.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... [wikipedia.org] According to its own documentation, it can work with any Linux distribution that uses kernel mode setting (KMS) for the graphics, while Windows is not supported...
And before every unscheduled landing there's a fight for the oxygen masks.
The safety video is enacted by puppets.
X230 cannot support Libreboot in it's current form.
The X230 has an Intel Core i5 (3rd Gen) 3320M / 2.6 GHz CPU.
This CPU has Embedded Security in the form of the Trusted Platform Module (TPM 1.2) Security Chip.
'Embedded' means it's literally embedded, built into the same die as the CPU.
On older Core2 Duo systems like the X200, the Management Engine (ME) is on a separate chip that can be accessed with a chip clamp to read and write data from/to it. When the ME is physically within the CPU, the only code it will run is code that's signed by Intel. The CPU checks the ME code at boot and if the signature doesn't match Intel's public key that's embedded into the hardware of the CPU, the CPU won't boot. There's no way around that by chip-flashing, as is possible with the older Core2 Duo designs.
These machines are not certified to be 'open source', they are certified to be 'free' as defined by the FSF. Those are entirely different things.
Practical Differences between Free Software and Open Source
In practice, open source stands for criteria a little looser than those of free software. As far as we know, all existing released free software source code would qualify as open source. Nearly all open source software is free software, but there are exceptions. First, some open source licenses are too restrictive, so they do not qualify as free licenses. For example, 'Open Watcom' is nonfree because its license does not allow making a modified version and using it privately. Fortunately, few programs use such licenses.
Second, and more important in practice, many products containing computers check signatures on their executable programs to block users from installing different executables; only one privileged company can make executables that can run in the device or can access its full capabilities. We call these devices "tyrants", and the practice is called "tivoization" after the product (Tivo) where we first saw it. Even if the executable is made from free source code, the users cannot run modified versions of it, so the executable is nonfree.
The criteria for open source do not recognize this issue; they are concerned solely with the licensing of the source code. Thus, these unmodifiable executables, when made from source code such as Linux that is open source and free, are open source but not free. Many Android products contain nonfree tivoized executables of Linux.
source: https://www.gnu.org/philosophy...
Old hardware is the only thing Linux runs on without problems.
Linux is the only thing that runs on old hardware without problems.
Only Linux is supported on this libre hardware. Once they strip out the original CPU firmware and replace it with Libreboot, Windows is not supported.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... According to its own documentation, it can work with any Linux distribution that uses kernel mode setting (KMS) for the graphics, while Windows is not supported...
Why the hell does anyone still care?
Because he has a short attention span, a short temper, twitchy thumbs, and a big button connected to approximately 1481 nuclear warheads
Calling it fake meat would be inaccurate
Fake Meat News! Sad!
They're bolted to the floor BECAUSE they have machine intelligence.
Imagine the havok a sentient CIA snax machine could cause!!!
If they spent less time building telemetry into their systems to check how malware-infested they are, and more time actually securing their systems against the malware, they'd have less of this damn ransomware nonsense.
Why not combine airport security scanning with nanoscale tumor detection for a free hospital checkup every time you fly?
My VPN blocked your Rickroll because Rick Astley isn't allowed in 'Sweden' (youtube: 'sorry about that').
Yayz 4 fully-legal cryptographic Point-to-Point Tunneling Protocol.
The point is not a personal audit of every line of code, but a network of trust - code that is able to be audited by a network of known individuals who build trust in that code. GNU-Linux, and the code of free software, already relies on the notion of 'standing on the shoulders of giants' and the principle of an auditing process over time is no different. Auditors are motivated to work because they know their contributions build over time to a verifiable and trustworthy system.
It is the complete lack of transparancy that impedes trust in Microsoft's code. Inspecting a code dump does not build trust because there is no incentive for 3rd parties to audit the dump. In the long term it cannot contribute to an open, auditable Microsoft code base.
Trump drain the swamp 2020. Build the wall!!!
What if the walled garden is a swamp? Then you really need to get rid of the wall to drain the swamped walled garden.
This, the only truly secure network device has been disconnected form the network.
Data can be exfiltrated with fan noise, blinking lights, leaked radio emissions, thermal pings. Even loud ultrasonic noise that's picked up from windows with laser-mics. Even a switched off computer (via Intel ME)
After reading about these marvels of human ingenuity, there doesn't seem to be a way of protecting computers under any circumstances. Just live in a desert and grow chickens or something.
Well, you're not supposed to put your beer in there.
Unless the computer is actually a fridge
(the famous Silicon Graphics Refrigerator Project, or: How To Turn a $175.000 High-End SGI Challenge DM Server into a Fridge)
Even as a fan of the dystopian viewpoint, I don't see it's any more 'broken' that at the inception of the internet.
The cost of entry used to be high, in terms of money, knowledge and creativity required. That cost has been removed. But using the internet in a free, decentralised, uncensored, anonymous, and 'anarchic' way is viable, it just has a high cost of entry.
Long distance communication for the masses hasn't always been free, or un-monitored. News hasn't always been outside state control. But with enough education, knowledge, money, time, and possibly contacts, these things are viable.
In the past. Now. And as far as I can see, in the future.
With knowledge and money, I can buy an old Thinkpad. Libreboot it using a Beaglebone Black. Run Debian (Tails). From a cafe using cash-paid wifi on a random but plausible MAC address. Obtaining information from 'unstoppable' websites running over Tor. Running DAO-style businesses on the Etherium blockchain. 'Laundering' proceeds using Ring-signature Monero because otherwise 'big finance' says my coins are 'tainted'.
Your average person probably wouldn't understand a single sentence in that last paragraph. But they probably wouldn't have understood the computer department staff at UCLA in 1969 or Tim Berners-Lee at CERN in 1991.
For each problem, there is a solution. It just requires some intelligence and work. It might be out of reach of the masses. But that's how the internet (and the subject of networked computing devices in general) was at the start.
What do you think will happen to global businesses that need to be able to send people around the world.
Less air travel = less climate change. Trump is simply attempting to reverse the effects of withdrawing from the Paris Accord.