You're barking up the wrong tree, friend.
I have multiple CVEs under my name in the NVD.
Getting root is not the hard part about altering firmware. I'll leave it as an exercise for your apparently godlike knowledge to figure out what is.
Exactly. That's why it's a big deal. Not just persistent malware, but persistent and undetectable malware. It could be installed at any point in the physical delivery of the device to whatever mission critical application ("AMD- It's in your plane!") you have in mind for it.
I'm wondering if the people screaming "it takes root, this is a nothingburger" are shills or... not using their entire intellectual faculties.
The underlying concept of secure enclaves/trust zones/secure coprocessors and such are that root does *not* own them. That they are a safe place to put data even in the case of root misbehaving/having been owned.
Now, the chipset... that's more of a gray area... but still unsigned code execution and *installation* after a simple root exploit is pretty fucking terrible.
It's not hot air. They're have PoCs that are corroborated by research firms.
The company is a pile of shit- these guys are evil- but it's real, and it's a big deal.
I suspect they stand to benefit somehow from the hit against AMD, but the shit they're peddling is legit.
To answer the is it even worth considering question, though- of course it is. And it has been, at great lengths. And plasma physics play a huge role in even standard cosmology. They just don't play a huge role in large-scale cosmology. It's a novel idea, but it's been beaten like a dead horse, and all serious proponents of it disembarked that ship decades ago. The people left blowing the horn are quacks who refuse to be wrong (not even that standard cosmology is "right", mind you- plasma cosmology is simply less right.)
Plasma cosmology would make cool sci-fi. Unfortunately, there's no big magical electrode at the center of our sun. It's just a bunch of gravitationally collapsed gas, as predicted by the models.
Much ado is made about things like a hotter corona than photosphere, and that is morphed by people who are ignorant to prove that the thing can't be internally heated. The density of the photosphere vs. the density of the corona makes it no surprise that the corona is millions of degrees while the photosphere is not. The exact method may not be known- but it's hardly strange. Almost all of plasma cosmology is based on small problems with mainstream cosmology that they take to be "deal breakers" but aren't. They're just unknowns. The model still fits very well.
In response to Mikael- conservation of angular momentum is the most likely reason for alignment, and that is also not weird, so while the person who responded to him was being condescending- there was something of value in it- the correct assertion to make from those scientific papers, vs. the wrong assertion that Mikael made:
Gravity can pull objects together, but it takes electromagnetism to get them to align together.
That would suggest electric fields and currents.
The logic there is wrong. Because gravity cannot align something does not mean electric fields and currents must. It doesn't suggest electric fields and currents- it suggests *something*.
Ultimately- you're right though. A lot of people are being dicks. It can be frustrated to deal with people who ardently defend pseudoscience, because you end up playing the game where you're just beating down strawmen and logic arguments all day. They want you to prove them wrong, which is difficult. We fall into the trap of trying to prove them wrong, when we should be pointing out that the onus is on them to prove us wrong. Our model is the one that works, theirs is the one struggling for acceptance.
You're 100% correct. I erroneously assumed the linked articles were in support of the argument and inferred conclusion he made along with them... It was a finger-twitch move after clicking several other links of his that were bullshit opinion pieces rife with bad conclusions.
The articles are good. They just don't support his assertion.
Jesus Christ. We've truly devolved to the point where the average smart guy is our species' largest weakness. You're too damn smart to tell when you're stupid.
No, his links aren't scientific. They're ridiculous on their face. It takes very little research to see why EU theories don't hold up, or just a touch of common sense.
Ultimately, you need look no further than a picture of our fucking sun, and tell me how the magical plasma universe prevents that thing from becoming a massive ball of gravitationally collapsed fusion fire.
Some bullshit theory about how the extremely macro-scale universe is predominantly shaped by the electromagnetic force is vindicated by scientific paper that indicates there's more electricity in the universe than was generally thought.
It's a lot like claiming your theory about perpetual motion cars has been vindicated because you slightly miscalculated your car's fuel economy.
It's not runaway, no, but there is a real scary element in that the new equilibrium can take an unknown amount of time to be reached.
We make lots of models to try to figure out what that equilibrium is and when we'll reach it, but it's a hard target to hit due to the constant increasing amounts of CO2.
What I mean, is we could pass the point of no return for us (or more specifically, the ecosystem we rely on to feed our civilization) and not realize it until far later.
Precipitation is more likely with overall increases in humidity- however, precipitation is also *less* likely as temperatures raise because for any absolute humidity level, the relative humidity is less as temperature rises. Which wins in the end? Does anyone really know yet?
I really thought that the effect on water vapor being the really dangerous aspect of rising CO2 was well known.
CO2 effects warming of the atmosphere by slowing down radiative flux out to space. A warmer atmosphere can hold more water without precipitating it. Water vapor is a very potent greenhouse gas. This ignores negative forces, but really everyone should have that basic knowledge, and should be able to understand that CO2 levels will be the straw that breaks the camel's back, and really basic processes cause its effect to be amplified greatly.
I wonder if the topic is just too damn complicated for the public to grasp, and we're just fucked.
Sorry, man. lol
I had more a human centipede reaction to it... It was disgusting and all... But I couldn't help laughing a little bit at the whole thing.
My windows machine is nothing but a headless game streaming device, so I don't really have any practical application for WSL at this juncture... but if you're bored some time and have a good sense of humor, it is amusing to play with.
Seeing -Microsoft at the end of a uname -a makes me laugh every time.
It is. As a user of both systems, an (almost) exclusive Linux desktop user, WSL eats Cygwin's lunch. It's a better model all around. WSL can run native Linux processes in Windows. Cygwin requires them compiled to use the Cygwin library, and even in that case, things are really sketch because it uses the standard Windows subsystem API which doesn't correlate well with POSIX. WSL implements its own subsystem which is POSIX compliant, so there's no weirdness. It's cool as hell.
The biggest problem I have right now is you cannot launch windows apps from LSW command line
You absolutely can- I just installed it last night on my game machine to play around with it. One of the first things I tried was-
/mnt/c/Windows/System32/cmd.exe powershell Get-ComputerInfo | grep -P ': [^\s]'
Next thing I tried was installing a windows X server... Was able to run synaptic in a native Windows window. Pretty neat stuff.
It's actually basically Windows' equivalent of Wine. And at least on my Windows machine, it's enabled by default now. It's pretty damn cool. I have used a Linux desktop exclusively for the last 10 years or so (becoming a System Administrator prompted the move) but I still maintain a Windows machine for games. WSL allows windows to run Linux ELF binaries within the userspace environment, as well as running Windows binaries with correct terminal direction... I don't really have a use for this at all... but I still think it's pretty damn cool. It doesn't perfectly emulate all of the Linux kernel interfaces (/proc,/sys are implemented at a limited capacity) but it's enough to do most things. It *could* be seen as an easy way for interested people to learn to use Linux...
/mnt/c/Windows/System32/cmd.exe/C powershell Get-ComputerInfo | grep -P ': [^\s]'
is something you can do from within the Linux environment.
You don't like abortions. I get that, and I respect it.
You however do your argument, and peoples desire to respect your opinion no favors by spinning it to look like something it isn't.
Christ, you are so fucking stupid.
I never called Romney a Nazi, nor would I ever. I haven't called Trump a Nazi either, but he sure enjoys their support, and his embrace of The Big Lie and attacks against any form of truth or reality that doesn't fit his narrative absolutely qualify as "starting to talk like one".
Worst thing I ever called Romney was a corporate raider, an accusation I don't feel was inaccurate. Other than that- pretty good guy. I wouldn't have minded him as President.
You're such a partisan fuckwit, you know that? You're incapable of seeing anything but red or blue, or probably as it is in your head- good and evil.
They give that award out almost every year at CPAC. Sometimes it's presented by NRA people, sometimes by ACU people. LaPierre has given them out as well.
Either way- my understanding is that it has always been an award from the ACU itself.. it just usually seems to be handed out by NRA executives.
"The Left" is the specter named by the Fox News talking heads, and Limbaugh and Jones' two minutes of hate radio shows. It doesn't matter what's really left or right anymore- they just need a bad guy.
No idea if the corresponding media sources on "the left" are as bad about calling things "The Right", because I don't really watch that shit.. I have a nausea-inducing aversion to feeling like I'm standing in an echo chamber, and I don't really need to hear Rachel Maddow drum up stupid fucking reasons for me to be liberal, or construct dumb ass arguments for why that's better than conservative.
All I know is I don't even know if it's politics anymore... It's something sicker than that.
America has never really had a left-wing, and these guys aren't quite Nazis, yet. But they're talking more and more like them.
Electors are selected by the state legislature, by whatever the relevant statutes are. The state is allocated an amount of electors they're allowed to select based on the amount of representatives they have in congress, so while there there is a close relationship to districts, no state is bound to apply any particular strategy to how electors are selected. Technically speaking, a state doesn't even need to hold a popular election to select its electors (and several states have done exactly that in the history of the country).
These days, there are 2 methods in place for elector allocation, the legislature allows the winning party of the popular vote to select all of the electors allocated to the state (making faithless electors less likely) and proportional allocation by parties according to popular vote ratio (2 states)
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You're barking up the wrong tree, friend.
I have multiple CVEs under my name in the NVD.
Getting root is not the hard part about altering firmware. I'll leave it as an exercise for your apparently godlike knowledge to figure out what is.
Exactly. That's why it's a big deal. Not just persistent malware, but persistent and undetectable malware. It could be installed at any point in the physical delivery of the device to whatever mission critical application ("AMD- It's in your plane!") you have in mind for it.
I'm wondering if the people screaming "it takes root, this is a nothingburger" are shills or... not using their entire intellectual faculties.
The underlying concept of secure enclaves/trust zones/secure coprocessors and such are that root does *not* own them. That they are a safe place to put data even in the case of root misbehaving/having been owned.
Now, the chipset... that's more of a gray area... but still unsigned code execution and *installation* after a simple root exploit is pretty fucking terrible.
It's not hot air. They're have PoCs that are corroborated by research firms.
The company is a pile of shit- these guys are evil- but it's real, and it's a big deal.
I suspect they stand to benefit somehow from the hit against AMD, but the shit they're peddling is legit.
Plasma cosmology would make cool sci-fi. Unfortunately, there's no big magical electrode at the center of our sun. It's just a bunch of gravitationally collapsed gas, as predicted by the models.
Much ado is made about things like a hotter corona than photosphere, and that is morphed by people who are ignorant to prove that the thing can't be internally heated. The density of the photosphere vs. the density of the corona makes it no surprise that the corona is millions of degrees while the photosphere is not. The exact method may not be known- but it's hardly strange. Almost all of plasma cosmology is based on small problems with mainstream cosmology that they take to be "deal breakers" but aren't. They're just unknowns. The model still fits very well.
In response to Mikael- conservation of angular momentum is the most likely reason for alignment, and that is also not weird, so while the person who responded to him was being condescending- there was something of value in it- the correct assertion to make from those scientific papers, vs. the wrong assertion that Mikael made:
Gravity can pull objects together, but it takes electromagnetism to get them to align together. That would suggest electric fields and currents.
The logic there is wrong. Because gravity cannot align something does not mean electric fields and currents must. It doesn't suggest electric fields and currents- it suggests *something*.
Ultimately- you're right though. A lot of people are being dicks. It can be frustrated to deal with people who ardently defend pseudoscience, because you end up playing the game where you're just beating down strawmen and logic arguments all day. They want you to prove them wrong, which is difficult. We fall into the trap of trying to prove them wrong, when we should be pointing out that the onus is on them to prove us wrong. Our model is the one that works, theirs is the one struggling for acceptance.
Again, spot on. Embarrassing. Thanks for pointing it out
You're 100% correct. I erroneously assumed the linked articles were in support of the argument and inferred conclusion he made along with them... It was a finger-twitch move after clicking several other links of his that were bullshit opinion pieces rife with bad conclusions.
The articles are good. They just don't support his assertion.
Jesus Christ. We've truly devolved to the point where the average smart guy is our species' largest weakness. You're too damn smart to tell when you're stupid.
No, his links aren't scientific. They're ridiculous on their face. It takes very little research to see why EU theories don't hold up, or just a touch of common sense.
Ultimately, you need look no further than a picture of our fucking sun, and tell me how the magical plasma universe prevents that thing from becoming a massive ball of gravitationally collapsed fusion fire.
Worse, really.
Some bullshit theory about how the extremely macro-scale universe is predominantly shaped by the electromagnetic force is vindicated by scientific paper that indicates there's more electricity in the universe than was generally thought.
It's a lot like claiming your theory about perpetual motion cars has been vindicated because you slightly miscalculated your car's fuel economy.
It's not runaway, no, but there is a real scary element in that the new equilibrium can take an unknown amount of time to be reached.
We make lots of models to try to figure out what that equilibrium is and when we'll reach it, but it's a hard target to hit due to the constant increasing amounts of CO2.
What I mean, is we could pass the point of no return for us (or more specifically, the ecosystem we rely on to feed our civilization) and not realize it until far later.
Precipitation is more likely with overall increases in humidity- however, precipitation is also *less* likely as temperatures raise because for any absolute humidity level, the relative humidity is less as temperature rises. Which wins in the end? Does anyone really know yet?
I really thought that the effect on water vapor being the really dangerous aspect of rising CO2 was well known.
CO2 effects warming of the atmosphere by slowing down radiative flux out to space. A warmer atmosphere can hold more water without precipitating it. Water vapor is a very potent greenhouse gas. This ignores negative forces, but really everyone should have that basic knowledge, and should be able to understand that CO2 levels will be the straw that breaks the camel's back, and really basic processes cause its effect to be amplified greatly.
I wonder if the topic is just too damn complicated for the public to grasp, and we're just fucked.
Sorry, man. lol
I had more a human centipede reaction to it... It was disgusting and all... But I couldn't help laughing a little bit at the whole thing. My windows machine is nothing but a headless game streaming device, so I don't really have any practical application for WSL at this juncture... but if you're bored some time and have a good sense of humor, it is amusing to play with.
Seeing -Microsoft at the end of a uname -a makes me laugh every time.
It is. As a user of both systems, an (almost) exclusive Linux desktop user, WSL eats Cygwin's lunch. It's a better model all around. WSL can run native Linux processes in Windows. Cygwin requires them compiled to use the Cygwin library, and even in that case, things are really sketch because it uses the standard Windows subsystem API which doesn't correlate well with POSIX. WSL implements its own subsystem which is POSIX compliant, so there's no weirdness. It's cool as hell.
The biggest problem I have right now is you cannot launch windows apps from LSW command line
You absolutely can- I just installed it last night on my game machine to play around with it. One of the first things I tried was-
/mnt/c/Windows/System32/cmd.exe powershell Get-ComputerInfo | grep -P ': [^\s]'
Next thing I tried was installing a windows X server... Was able to run synaptic in a native Windows window. Pretty neat stuff.
It's actually basically Windows' equivalent of Wine. And at least on my Windows machine, it's enabled by default now. It's pretty damn cool. I have used a Linux desktop exclusively for the last 10 years or so (becoming a System Administrator prompted the move) but I still maintain a Windows machine for games. WSL allows windows to run Linux ELF binaries within the userspace environment, as well as running Windows binaries with correct terminal direction... I don't really have a use for this at all... but I still think it's pretty damn cool. It doesn't perfectly emulate all of the Linux kernel interfaces (/proc, /sys are implemented at a limited capacity) but it's enough to do most things. It *could* be seen as an easy way for interested people to learn to use Linux...
/mnt/c/Windows/System32/cmd.exe /C powershell Get-ComputerInfo | grep -P ': [^\s]'
is something you can do from within the Linux environment.
Yes. But only on Medium settings
You don't like abortions. I get that, and I respect it.
You however do your argument, and peoples desire to respect your opinion no favors by spinning it to look like something it isn't.
I don't think Trump would fit in a Triumph
LMAO!!!111
Christ, you are so fucking stupid.
I never called Romney a Nazi, nor would I ever. I haven't called Trump a Nazi either, but he sure enjoys their support, and his embrace of The Big Lie and attacks against any form of truth or reality that doesn't fit his narrative absolutely qualify as "starting to talk like one".
Worst thing I ever called Romney was a corporate raider, an accusation I don't feel was inaccurate. Other than that- pretty good guy. I wouldn't have minded him as President.
You're such a partisan fuckwit, you know that? You're incapable of seeing anything but red or blue, or probably as it is in your head- good and evil.
They give that award out almost every year at CPAC. Sometimes it's presented by NRA people, sometimes by ACU people. LaPierre has given them out as well.
Either way- my understanding is that it has always been an award from the ACU itself.. it just usually seems to be handed out by NRA executives.
You guys already had your revolution. You lost. Badly.
Ready to try again?
Good point. You've already got the Russians helping you guys, maybe you can get the Chinese in on it too, then the comparison works.
Constitution
Quit using that word. You have no fucking idea what's written in it.
"The Left" is the specter named by the Fox News talking heads, and Limbaugh and Jones' two minutes of hate radio shows. It doesn't matter what's really left or right anymore- they just need a bad guy.
No idea if the corresponding media sources on "the left" are as bad about calling things "The Right", because I don't really watch that shit.. I have a nausea-inducing aversion to feeling like I'm standing in an echo chamber, and I don't really need to hear Rachel Maddow drum up stupid fucking reasons for me to be liberal, or construct dumb ass arguments for why that's better than conservative.
All I know is I don't even know if it's politics anymore... It's something sicker than that.
America has never really had a left-wing, and these guys aren't quite Nazis, yet. But they're talking more and more like them.
Electors are selected by the state legislature, by whatever the relevant statutes are. The state is allocated an amount of electors they're allowed to select based on the amount of representatives they have in congress, so while there there is a close relationship to districts, no state is bound to apply any particular strategy to how electors are selected. Technically speaking, a state doesn't even need to hold a popular election to select its electors (and several states have done exactly that in the history of the country).
These days, there are 2 methods in place for elector allocation, the legislature allows the winning party of the popular vote to select all of the electors allocated to the state (making faithless electors less likely) and proportional allocation by parties according to popular vote ratio (2 states)