Superfish has been added to malware database of Windows Defender (the integrated virus protection of Windows). A lot of Windows machines are already ringing alarm bells.
The intent of loading this tool was to help enhance our users’ shopping experience.
Shut up. It injects advertising into search engine results, and also has the capability to intercept and hijack SSL/TLS connections to websites, thanks to the installation of a self-signing certificate authority on affected machines. You are not enhancing my shopping experience in any way, but you are doing a great job ruining my computer experience. This is nothing more than classic OEM crapware at its best.
Well said, and that is precisely why I try to avoid becoming a fanboy of any companies. Me giving them money for a great product should be the only "thank you" that is needed.
Good point. If the SD card power filtering is parallel to the circuit of the rest of the player, it might even give some extra power filtering to the analog stage.
So what? It does not hurt anywhere to have a degree from a good school. But he already proved that a cool degree from MIT or Carnegie-Mellon is not a strict requirement at Google.
I thought this was the reason a lot of SSDs now have a collection of capacitors to finish out the writes with in the event of a power loss?
Has anyone actually tested that? There has to be some power filtering caps but is there really a write-flush cap, and does the controller actually go in a state where it recognizes "Gee, Mr. McDee, we're going down, gotta do these panic writes".
Of course enterprise storage systems have implemented things like that for ages, but is that mechanism actually present in random consumer/prosumer SSDs?
When it is completely unclear what to expect, no predictions can be made. Hence the question is utterly stupid.
Of course there's millions of possibilities of how alien life could reach earth and it may be something completely different than a Goa'uld ship. But if we look only at his core question, it's not that hard to answer. His starter question was "how good are we at the moment in detecting an alien ship/fleet that jumps into our solar system". What can our space observation gear or closer-to-ground systems such as air traffic control do to detect an alien vehicle?
Exactly. The code has to be fully audited until we can know for sure. Also, if using a compiled app, we have to verify that the binary we are using is actually built from that source.
It's very dangerous to write it all off by saying that it's good because it's "free software" or "open source". The attackers will eventually learn that simply by using those labels to deliver software is a good way to get unsuspecting nerds to blindly install all sorts of shit.
Exactly. I don't even know what is the right or wrong usage of the phrase "begs the question", but I do know that every time it is mentioned, someone starts to whine about it.
I like how HTTP/2 and SystemD are bringing binary data formats to replace slow to parse text formats. Just throwing the controversial opinion on the table.
For starters, on laptops the brightness goes in multiple steps under Debian-based distros. This can be easily pointed out and no one is doing anything about it. Now, show me a similar, repeatable showstopper bug from Windows. I'm waiting for your reply, sir.
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Good question. Why doesn't Defender in general monitor the OS certificate pool more rigorously?
Yes.
Defender quarantizes the software and asks what to do. It knows how to fully remove Superfish too and that is the default recommended action.
Superfish has been added to malware database of Windows Defender (the integrated virus protection of Windows). A lot of Windows machines are already ringing alarm bells.
Good point. I give them a plus for at least properly listening to feedback.
The intent of loading this tool was to help enhance our users’ shopping experience.
Shut up. It injects advertising into search engine results, and also has the capability to intercept and hijack SSL/TLS connections to websites, thanks to the installation of a self-signing certificate authority on affected machines. You are not enhancing my shopping experience in any way, but you are doing a great job ruining my computer experience. This is nothing more than classic OEM crapware at its best.
Well said, and that is precisely why I try to avoid becoming a fanboy of any companies. Me giving them money for a great product should be the only "thank you" that is needed.
Good point. If the SD card power filtering is parallel to the circuit of the rest of the player, it might even give some extra power filtering to the analog stage.
Electrical noise. It's when the electronic signal picks up some crust. It's generally not audible, unless some circuitry happens to make it audible.
So what? It does not hurt anywhere to have a degree from a good school. But he already proved that a cool degree from MIT or Carnegie-Mellon is not a strict requirement at Google.
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I thought this was the reason a lot of SSDs now have a collection of capacitors to finish out the writes with in the event of a power loss?
Has anyone actually tested that? There has to be some power filtering caps but is there really a write-flush cap, and does the controller actually go in a state where it recognizes "Gee, Mr. McDee, we're going down, gotta do these panic writes".
Of course enterprise storage systems have implemented things like that for ages, but is that mechanism actually present in random consumer/prosumer SSDs?
I have no idea what you are talking about, but it sounds professional.
When it is completely unclear what to expect, no predictions can be made. Hence the question is utterly stupid.
Of course there's millions of possibilities of how alien life could reach earth and it may be something completely different than a Goa'uld ship. But if we look only at his core question, it's not that hard to answer. His starter question was "how good are we at the moment in detecting an alien ship/fleet that jumps into our solar system". What can our space observation gear or closer-to-ground systems such as air traffic control do to detect an alien vehicle?
Portable SSD
You mean, a memory stick?
Exactly. The code has to be fully audited until we can know for sure. Also, if using a compiled app, we have to verify that the binary we are using is actually built from that source.
It's very dangerous to write it all off by saying that it's good because it's "free software" or "open source". The attackers will eventually learn that simply by using those labels to deliver software is a good way to get unsuspecting nerds to blindly install all sorts of shit.
Exactly. I don't even know what is the right or wrong usage of the phrase "begs the question", but I do know that every time it is mentioned, someone starts to whine about it.
It's amazing just how fast it runs on a five-year-old i7 950 PC with 16GB of RAM.
Yeah, it's five year old, but even today a very fast CPU. Has a CPUMark of 5600. High TDP of course.
Confirming the same problem.
I like how HTTP/2 and SystemD are bringing binary data formats to replace slow to parse text formats. Just throwing the controversial opinion on the table.
That's funny because any time I install Linux from scratch it "just works". Whenever I try this with Windows, it NEVER does.
Can you describe more specifically what you mean with that?
For starters, on laptops the brightness goes in multiple steps under Debian-based distros. This can be easily pointed out and no one is doing anything about it. Now, show me a similar, repeatable showstopper bug from Windows. I'm waiting for your reply, sir.
Here we go again...
Well, use this comment as a starting point. Or this one from this very PC-BSD discussion.
Very true.
PuTTY allows you to make serial connections and Cygwin allows you to change directory to your native filesystem.