Google has never done this in the past, why would they start now? Plus I only intend to get one of these devices if they are rootable. If they are it means even if there's no vanilla version to flash, you can manually wipe the offensive apps from/system easily enough if you want.
The update has the bad habit of reverting settings that you specifically configured, and persisting settings that should be reverted. For example, if you use other virtualization solutions, you probably turned Hyper-V off since there's conflicts. The update turns it back on for some reason without telling you which can really mess you up. Next, Fast Startup is re-enabled even if you disabled it because it's broken (which it is for me). Lastly, Cortana is designed to be enabled all the time with this update, and the UI switch to disable it is gone. The problem is it should turn itself back on, otherwise it is difficult to determine how to do it without the UI. Sure, keep the registry setting so users who want to risk going into unsupported territory can keep turning her off, but the update really should switch things back to supported territory...
F1 is always handled by the underlying application. I suspect in this case it is simply being handled by the WRONG application... this is not Windows' fault, but the application you're using.
I imagine it's more to keep people from ACCIDENTALLY entering no-fly zones. Yes, you can probably work around it pretty easily, but if you do you know EXACTLY what you're doing as well as providing evidence that you're intentionally violating a no-fly zone.
Traditional cruise control allows you to pick a constant speed, so I would expect it at least can do that. I would also expect the car has no way to know the posted speed limit of the road, thus the driver controls the speed of the car (that said, we have most of the pieces needed to make that work, and in fact I bet self-driving cars in testing do this, but for "semi-autonomous" I expect it's not worth the trouble to implement since any way you do it you need a bunch of extra equipment on the car to figure out what the speed limit is, which makes the feature more expensive... or the user can just set the proper speed himself for free.)
In the end it's the driver who is responsible for the actions of his car, as far as he can control them. The only things I can see wrong with autopilot with everything I've heard so far is the name, which may tempt a driver to assume it does more than it actually does, and the fact that giving a driver less things to concentrate on while driving can be dangerous in some cases if they still need to be able to react.
Chrome will automatically unload the contents of tabs you can't see in low memory conditions. It also drastically reduces the firing rate of JavaScript timers and intervals on such tabs all the time when they are not visible. I think it might even freeze them now unless they are playing audio, not sure.
I personally checked mine, and other sources are also reporting, the Android version does not do this. It seems to be specific to the iOS version so it's probably a bug.
Scaife said. 'Antivirus is really good at stopping things it's seen before [...] That's where our solution is better than traditional anti-viruses. If something that's benign starts to behave maliciously, then what we can do is take action against that based on what we see is happening to your data.
That's called "heuristics" and AV has been doing that for quite a while now. And attackers will work around this system the same way they work around heuristics... if your system is freely available, they can download and test their ransomware against it until they can escape notice.
Easy to counter that. Require the user to leave credit card details when they take the bag. Inform bag holders if they fail to return the bag intact they will be charged a replacement fee. If they bought their ticket online you might already have those details, just make note of their ticket number. Actually, this could also be used to discourage scalping, come to think of it...
If the e-mail application cannot handle a particular file type, it needs to deliver it to an external application. Sandbox will not help since nothing is running inside of the e-mail application; you have to sandbox the user's chosen third-party app (good luck).
About Reddit: One specific subreddit,/r/news, was censoring the story, apparently once news came out the shooter was Muslim with possible connections to ISIS. Other subreddits responding by/r/askreddit responded by allowing a post about it even though it's not within the subreddit's topics./r/the_donald is also talking about it and making the front page with MANY posts, and/r/uncensorednews was established by the community and they have their own thread about it.
Windows 10 was always a free upgrade, and you can choose to not have it (granted, MS is being too aggressive in pushing it but it is possible to deny it) or choose to downgrade if you got it by accident.
CSS selectors are MUCH easier than using document.getElementsByTagName, document.getElementsByClassName, document.getElementById. Those are all a mouthful when I can just type $(".className") and be done with it and have terser code that is easier to read (if you know jQuery).
jQuery's chaining also makes it a lot easier and nicer looking to manipulate DOM elements, unless you really hate chaining I guess. var x = document.createElement("input"); x.type = "checkbox"; x.checked = false; x.click =//etc; OR $("").prop({"type": "checkbox", "checked": false}).click(//etc);. If you're doing a lot of manipulation and.append()s it's a lot nicer looking.
jQuery also handles multiple elements in a selector. $(".red").removeClass("red"); is a lot more terse and easier to understand than a for loop over a set of elements from document.getElementsByClassName. And of course if your selector is more complex that just makes it easier to understand than the vanilla equivalent.
The ability to handle quirks was a big reason to use jQuery, and I think there are still some things in modern browsers it will smooth over, so it continues to be a good reason in and of itself.
It sounds like it's not really a torrent, but that the file it does download tries to get you to download a separate EXE which then elevates itself to install the unwanted software. OR the article is wrong and there is no UAC dialog (they show an Internet Explorer download dialog).
Not clear to me how it goes from being a torrent file to a file downloaded from Google Drive. My only guess is it's not a torrent file but a.url file which lniks to the.exe mentioned. And this is incredibly easy to detect simply by knowing what you're expecting to get, and aborting when you see something unexpected (eg it's not actually a torrent file. the "torrent" didn't download what I expected, what it actually downloaded is incredibly suspicious). There are multiple opportunities to avoid getting infected, including the UAC dialog mentioned which should be a HUGE red flag.
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The last point under "Next Steps" in the blog post seems to address reviews of that nature.
Google has never done this in the past, why would they start now? Plus I only intend to get one of these devices if they are rootable. If they are it means even if there's no vanilla version to flash, you can manually wipe the offensive apps from /system easily enough if you want.
Don't forget blocking ads, which would also soundly defeat this malware.
touch: cannot touch ‘./test’: Permission denied
Doesn't seem to be a problem from that angle at least. Sounds like FUD.
The update has the bad habit of reverting settings that you specifically configured, and persisting settings that should be reverted. For example, if you use other virtualization solutions, you probably turned Hyper-V off since there's conflicts. The update turns it back on for some reason without telling you which can really mess you up. Next, Fast Startup is re-enabled even if you disabled it because it's broken (which it is for me). Lastly, Cortana is designed to be enabled all the time with this update, and the UI switch to disable it is gone. The problem is it should turn itself back on, otherwise it is difficult to determine how to do it without the UI. Sure, keep the registry setting so users who want to risk going into unsupported territory can keep turning her off, but the update really should switch things back to supported territory...
F1 is always handled by the underlying application. I suspect in this case it is simply being handled by the WRONG application... this is not Windows' fault, but the application you're using.
I imagine it's more to keep people from ACCIDENTALLY entering no-fly zones. Yes, you can probably work around it pretty easily, but if you do you know EXACTLY what you're doing as well as providing evidence that you're intentionally violating a no-fly zone.
Which one, Clinton or Trump? Or do you mean both?
Traditional cruise control allows you to pick a constant speed, so I would expect it at least can do that. I would also expect the car has no way to know the posted speed limit of the road, thus the driver controls the speed of the car (that said, we have most of the pieces needed to make that work, and in fact I bet self-driving cars in testing do this, but for "semi-autonomous" I expect it's not worth the trouble to implement since any way you do it you need a bunch of extra equipment on the car to figure out what the speed limit is, which makes the feature more expensive... or the user can just set the proper speed himself for free.)
In the end it's the driver who is responsible for the actions of his car, as far as he can control them. The only things I can see wrong with autopilot with everything I've heard so far is the name, which may tempt a driver to assume it does more than it actually does, and the fact that giving a driver less things to concentrate on while driving can be dangerous in some cases if they still need to be able to react.
It makes more sense if they are referring to the cruising speed before any breaking was applied.
Twitter did not consent.
We may very well see an uptick in legitimate site's ads used to deliver malware because of this.
Chrome will automatically unload the contents of tabs you can't see in low memory conditions. It also drastically reduces the firing rate of JavaScript timers and intervals on such tabs all the time when they are not visible. I think it might even freeze them now unless they are playing audio, not sure.
I personally checked mine, and other sources are also reporting, the Android version does not do this. It seems to be specific to the iOS version so it's probably a bug.
That's called "heuristics" and AV has been doing that for quite a while now. And attackers will work around this system the same way they work around heuristics... if your system is freely available, they can download and test their ransomware against it until they can escape notice.
Also, if players are having a bad experience, word of mouth will spread. Players who might have bought the game may decide to stay away.
Players quitting earlier == less microtransactions. Not all players will spend money on them of course but some will.
I dunno man, blowing up entire planets might make you the tiniest bit evil.
Easy to counter that. Require the user to leave credit card details when they take the bag. Inform bag holders if they fail to return the bag intact they will be charged a replacement fee. If they bought their ticket online you might already have those details, just make note of their ticket number. Actually, this could also be used to discourage scalping, come to think of it...
If the e-mail application cannot handle a particular file type, it needs to deliver it to an external application. Sandbox will not help since nothing is running inside of the e-mail application; you have to sandbox the user's chosen third-party app (good luck).
About Reddit: One specific subreddit, /r/news, was censoring the story, apparently once news came out the shooter was Muslim with possible connections to ISIS. Other subreddits responding by /r/askreddit responded by allowing a post about it even though it's not within the subreddit's topics. /r/the_donald is also talking about it and making the front page with MANY posts, and /r/uncensorednews was established by the community and they have their own thread about it.
Windows 10 was always a free upgrade, and you can choose to not have it (granted, MS is being too aggressive in pushing it but it is possible to deny it) or choose to downgrade if you got it by accident.
CSS selectors are MUCH easier than using document.getElementsByTagName, document.getElementsByClassName, document.getElementById. Those are all a mouthful when I can just type $(".className") and be done with it and have terser code that is easier to read (if you know jQuery).
jQuery's chaining also makes it a lot easier and nicer looking to manipulate DOM elements, unless you really hate chaining I guess. var x = document.createElement("input"); x.type = "checkbox"; x.checked = false; x.click = //etc; OR $("").prop({"type": "checkbox", "checked": false}).click(//etc);. If you're doing a lot of manipulation and .append()s it's a lot nicer looking.
jQuery also handles multiple elements in a selector. $(".red").removeClass("red"); is a lot more terse and easier to understand than a for loop over a set of elements from document.getElementsByClassName. And of course if your selector is more complex that just makes it easier to understand than the vanilla equivalent.
The ability to handle quirks was a big reason to use jQuery, and I think there are still some things in modern browsers it will smooth over, so it continues to be a good reason in and of itself.
It sounds like it's not really a torrent, but that the file it does download tries to get you to download a separate EXE which then elevates itself to install the unwanted software. OR the article is wrong and there is no UAC dialog (they show an Internet Explorer download dialog).
Not clear to me how it goes from being a torrent file to a file downloaded from Google Drive. My only guess is it's not a torrent file but a .url file which lniks to the .exe mentioned. And this is incredibly easy to detect simply by knowing what you're expecting to get, and aborting when you see something unexpected (eg it's not actually a torrent file. the "torrent" didn't download what I expected, what it actually downloaded is incredibly suspicious). There are multiple opportunities to avoid getting infected, including the UAC dialog mentioned which should be a HUGE red flag.