I live in Arizona. We call it "The State of Maricopa County" because all the money and all the politics originate in that one county - with Phoenix at its center.
The rest of the state is not red, not batshit crazy, and not high on their own gasses. Unfortunately through decades the powers in Phoenix wrest more and more resources from the rest of the state to expand their power base.
But hey, it's pretty cool for you to say "Elect better ones." I'll be repeating that to you in November ;)
It's an Ultrabook. You can't change the hardware. The solid state drive (SSD) is on the board and not removable (so it can't be replaced by a cheaper larger one not sold by the manufacturer).
That drive is connected to the built-in on-board controller, which can either do Advanced Host Controller Interface (AHCI) or RAID. Lenovo has elected to have its BIOS only allow the controller to do RAID mode.
As Intel has not released a Linux RAID driver for this chipset -- or even the specifications -- Linux has no way to access this drive through the built in controller.
Note that Intel hasn't released the specs to Microsoft either. That's why their proprietary driver is required for e.g. Windows 10 to boot.
The crux is that there are two issues here: 1. Intel has not provided any drivers for Linux. They have for Windows, and 2. Intel wants Lenovo to put the device in RAID mode so the normal Windows drivers won't attach; Intel's custom driver will; that driver will set some power profile stuff that will make the laptop run cooler longer.
Put those two together and we have a laptop that COULD have linux installed on it except it defaults to putting storage in an unusable state and has the BIOS setting to fix it locked out.
Garret also suggests the Lenovo quote is misunderstood and likely references Microsoft's UEFI requirements, not some dastardly deal with Lenovo.
Attempting to pass that off and gain value from that is.
See, it's easy to make up stuff on the Internet and pretend to be knowledgeable but then look kinda stupid when someone points out that the criminal code is pretty clear about this.
It's not a crime to copy a digital file. It's not even a crime to have "GAINED" something (you know, like that copy). The "value of a license" is the shrill cry of someone who doesn't understand what copyright is for. Go read US Code Chapter 17 and get a clear understanding that the word "license" is not what it's about.
Best of luck with comprehension. It seems you came in here to troll... and no amount of FACTS (what IS and what IS NOT a crime) will change that.
Piracy is the taking of someone's property, usually at sea, to the detriment of the victim. I understand Big Media has managed to get public UJC dictionaries to add "oh and also when they copy our stuff." It is not.
In piracy, only one party gets to have that property; the other is forever deprived of it; there's also a potential loss of life or limb. Pirates didn't just drink rum and sing a lot (they did the former to remain compliant and they did not do the latter). They killed people and TOOK things. Not "made exact identical reproductions" lol.
That is nothing like the "reproduction of content" and no matter how much Gertruding you do to pretend you don't go for Big Media's lie, you've begged the question on your headline and the premise.
Piracy has nothing to do with copying content.
Any attempt to beg that question or pretend otherwise is to accept the lie that Big Media has been selling since Jack Valenti wanted to kill the VCR.
It's not 1984. The VCR did not kill hollywood. Copying is not piracy.
TL;DR - the Internet would need to be redesigned from scratch in a way that wouldn't work with today's applications, web pages, etc. Governments are against encryption and authentication (by others) so this will likely never see the light of day outside of research labs.
Now the part for people with attention spans:
The Internet wasn't designed for its evolution. The original founding fathers of the Internet include Jon Postel (RIP) who famously created "The Robustness Principle" which states "Be liberal in what you accept, and conservative in what you send" (RFC-1122).
The Internet was designed to do something that hadn't been done before -- get interoperability. Prior to TCP/IP (and IMPs nee routers) IBM devices talked SAN. DEC devices talked DECnet. On a lower layer there were token-ring networks, coaxial-Ethernet networks, none of which could communicate effectively with each other.
Jon's philosophy encouraged and enabled interoperability -- the original goal. As a result in "being liberal in what you accept" there were no firewall considerations, very little protocol checking (the IP packet checksum, for example, only provides a rudimentary check that the IP header has not been changed in transit... but now of course a MITM attack does exactly that). There was no crypto consideration so no hashing or signing of packets, port connect request, transmission control protocol streams, etc.
Now we are in a new era. It started somewhere in 1993 when the "commercial Internet" became a thing. The ubiquitous "coasters" sent by AOL, Netcom, and others (originally 3.5" floppies and then later CDs) allowed anyone with a MODEM to connect at incredible speeds of 9600 baud to 52Kbps (yes, baud and bps are different).
The evolutionary phases continued: everyone could get email; web 2.0; e-commerce; social media. With that came companies eager to connect the millions of worldwide businesses to the net, and also the hundreds of millions of worldwide users.
As with any society, once something is open to all that means even that bad guys have access. That had evolutionary phases too. Spam. DoS. DDoS. Malware. Then a combination of those (spam to get you to download malware and malware that put your computer in a botnet to do a DDoS). Now we have the latest which is ransomware, and this "attack vector intrusion tests."
The Internet, as designed, doesn't have the mechanisms to protect against any of this, nor can retrofitting it be done simply. The move to IPv6 (a VERY VERY incremental change) has taken over a decade and is still at less than 25% adoption.
Protecting against DDoS attack vectors requires that intermediary devices block LEGITIMATE-APPEARING-TRAFFIC. That goes against the grain of all the ISPs contracts with their customers. It also requires validation of IP addresses (to prevent spoofing) and elimination of non stream-oriented (UDP) protocols. These changes will not happen on the current Internet and they will not happen in an interoperable ("be liberal in what you accept") way with current TCP/IP.
SO philosophically, yes, we need a new communication infrastructure with signing, encryption, and elimination of Windows (malware/DDoS vector). Governments the world over do not want any of this to occur.
I don't turn my ad-blocker off for Forbes. If a TechDirt link leads to Forbes it just causes me a moment of annoyance until I close that window and shrug.
My preference would be for TD to reference Forbes' links if that is the only possible source for news but not hotlink to it.
Why drive traffic to those who don't want your readers to use their software (web browser and plugins) the way they want it... not the way Forbes wants it?
Cognitive Bias Disclosure: I like Techdirt, and I read it multiple times daily.
Keep doing what you're doing. You're doing it right. The beach of the day site (Digg, Reddit, Facebook, Snapchat, etc.) are all great until everyone goes there. That's when the pristine clean sand becomes filled with toys and chum, and the waters polluted with vim and vinegar, and the vendors go from selling steak burgers and ceviché to dubious-meat hot dogs and "melty" nachos.
That's the problem with beaches. Once everybody hears it's awesome, and the barrier to going there is a click away, it starts to get polluted.
Disclosure#2: I left FB on Christmas 2015 and have looked back but not logged in. I miss some things but I don't miss it. That having been said, I used to DAILY post references to articles here on Techdirt, on arstechnica, and on Scott Greenfield's blog. I'd offer my own 'take' on it and invite people to read the articles.
I was hoping to educate my FB friends. What I did succeed in doing is getting a bunch of them to read TD daily. As you said, the key for TD to be successful is for people to want to read TD, not have a regurgitated version elsewhere.
Erdogan was not good to his people and not good to the other countries around him.
The Turkish military have a strong history of coups to restore democracy, free law, and a secular (non "islamist") society. These are all aligned with not only what *we* (outsiders) want but also what the Turks want.
Erdogan has been slowly working his way up to be President For Life™ and this will put a stop to that.
This is good for Europe. This is good for the US. This is good for Israel. This may improve things with Russia. It won't change anything with Kurds or Syrians.
On the post: Ridiculously Stupid: 4 State Attorneys General File Totally Bogus Lawsuit Against Internet Transition
Elect better ones
I live in Arizona. We call it "The State of Maricopa County" because all the money and all the politics originate in that one county - with Phoenix at its center.
The rest of the state is not red, not batshit crazy, and not high on their own gasses. Unfortunately through decades the powers in Phoenix wrest more and more resources from the rest of the state to expand their power base.
But hey, it's pretty cool for you to say "Elect better ones." I'll be repeating that to you in November ;)
Ehud
On the post: Senate Comes To Its Senses: Does NOT Support Ted Cruz's Plan To Block Internet Governance Transition
Senate comes to its senses
Nothing new. It's just politics.
Ehud
On the post: Lenovo Accused Of Locking Linux Out Of Certain Laptops At Microsoft's Request
Good thinking
https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20160921/06403335582/lenovo-accused-locking-linux-out-certain -laptops-microsofts-request.shtml#c541
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On the post: Lenovo Accused Of Locking Linux Out Of Certain Laptops At Microsoft's Request
Re: LENOVO THREAT
*ROTFL!!!*
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On the post: Lenovo Accused Of Locking Linux Out Of Certain Laptops At Microsoft's Request
Ultrabook
That drive is connected to the built-in on-board controller, which can either do Advanced Host Controller Interface (AHCI) or RAID. Lenovo has elected to have its BIOS only allow the controller to do RAID mode.
As Intel has not released a Linux RAID driver for this chipset -- or even the specifications -- Linux has no way to access this drive through the built in controller.
Note that Intel hasn't released the specs to Microsoft either. That's why their proprietary driver is required for e.g. Windows 10 to boot.
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On the post: Lenovo Accused Of Locking Linux Out Of Certain Laptops At Microsoft's Request
Whom to blame...
The crux is that there are two issues here:
1. Intel has not provided any drivers for Linux. They have for Windows, and
2. Intel wants Lenovo to put the device in RAID mode so the normal Windows drivers won't attach; Intel's custom driver will; that driver will set some power profile stuff that will make the laptop run cooler longer.
Put those two together and we have a laptop that COULD have linux installed on it except it defaults to putting storage in an unusable state and has the BIOS setting to fix it locked out.
Garret also suggests the Lenovo quote is misunderstood and likely references Microsoft's UEFI requirements, not some dastardly deal with Lenovo.
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On the post: How Pirates Shaped The Internet As We Know It
Making up unlawful things to pretend analogies
Attempting to pass that off and gain value from that is.
See, it's easy to make up stuff on the Internet and pretend to be knowledgeable but then look kinda stupid when someone points out that the criminal code is pretty clear about this.
It's not a crime to copy a digital file. It's not even a crime to have "GAINED" something (you know, like that copy). The "value of a license" is the shrill cry of someone who doesn't understand what copyright is for. Go read US Code Chapter 17 and get a clear understanding that the word "license" is not what it's about.
Best of luck with comprehension. It seems you came in here to troll... and no amount of FACTS (what IS and what IS NOT a crime) will change that.
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On the post: How Pirates Shaped The Internet As We Know It
Piracy
Piracy is the taking of someone's property, usually at sea, to the detriment of the victim. I understand Big Media has managed to get public UJC dictionaries to add "oh and also when they copy our stuff." It is not.
In piracy, only one party gets to have that property; the other is forever deprived of it; there's also a potential loss of life or limb. Pirates didn't just drink rum and sing a lot (they did the former to remain compliant and they did not do the latter). They killed people and TOOK things. Not "made exact identical reproductions" lol.
That is nothing like the "reproduction of content" and no matter how much Gertruding you do to pretend you don't go for Big Media's lie, you've begged the question on your headline and the premise.
Piracy has nothing to do with copying content.
Any attempt to beg that question or pretend otherwise is to accept the lie that Big Media has been selling since Jack Valenti wanted to kill the VCR.
It's not 1984. The VCR did not kill hollywood. Copying is not piracy.
Regards
Ehud Gavron
Tucson AZ
On the post: If Someone Is Testing Ways To Take Down The Internet, Perhaps It's Time To Build A Stronger Internet
Internet philosophy
Now the part for people with attention spans:
The Internet wasn't designed for its evolution. The original founding fathers of the Internet include Jon Postel (RIP) who famously created "The Robustness Principle" which states "Be liberal in what you accept, and conservative in what you send" (RFC-1122).
The Internet was designed to do something that hadn't been done before -- get interoperability. Prior to TCP/IP (and IMPs nee routers) IBM devices talked SAN. DEC devices talked DECnet. On a lower layer there were token-ring networks, coaxial-Ethernet networks, none of which could communicate effectively with each other.
Jon's philosophy encouraged and enabled interoperability -- the original goal. As a result in "being liberal in what you accept" there were no firewall considerations, very little protocol checking (the IP packet checksum, for example, only provides a rudimentary check that the IP header has not been changed in transit... but now of course a MITM attack does exactly that). There was no crypto consideration so no hashing or signing of packets, port connect request, transmission control protocol streams, etc.
Now we are in a new era. It started somewhere in 1993 when the "commercial Internet" became a thing. The ubiquitous "coasters" sent by AOL, Netcom, and others (originally 3.5" floppies and then later CDs) allowed anyone with a MODEM to connect at incredible speeds of 9600 baud to 52Kbps (yes, baud and bps are different).
The evolutionary phases continued: everyone could get email; web 2.0; e-commerce; social media. With that came companies eager to connect the millions of worldwide businesses to the net, and also the hundreds of millions of worldwide users.
As with any society, once something is open to all that means even that bad guys have access. That had evolutionary phases too. Spam. DoS. DDoS. Malware. Then a combination of those (spam to get you to download malware and malware that put your computer in a botnet to do a DDoS). Now we have the latest which is ransomware, and this "attack vector intrusion tests."
The Internet, as designed, doesn't have the mechanisms to protect against any of this, nor can retrofitting it be done simply. The move to IPv6 (a VERY VERY incremental change) has taken over a decade and is still at less than 25% adoption.
Protecting against DDoS attack vectors requires that intermediary devices block LEGITIMATE-APPEARING-TRAFFIC. That goes against the grain of all the ISPs contracts with their customers. It also requires validation of IP addresses (to prevent spoofing) and elimination of non stream-oriented (UDP) protocols. These changes will not happen on the current Internet and they will not happen in an interoperable ("be liberal in what you accept") way with current TCP/IP.
SO philosophically, yes, we need a new communication infrastructure with signing, encryption, and elimination of Windows (malware/DDoS vector). Governments the world over do not want any of this to occur.
Ehud
On the post: Professor Eric Goldman Stops Writing At Forbes, In Part Because Of Its Stance On Ad Blocking
No need for Forbes
My preference would be for TD to reference Forbes' links if that is the only possible source for news but not hotlink to it.
Why drive traffic to those who don't want your readers to use their software (web browser and plugins) the way they want it... not the way Forbes wants it?
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On the post: Former UC Davis Chancellor Katehi Way More Obsessed With Her Online Reputation Than Initially Thought
Criminal behavior
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On the post: News Sites Realizing That Relying On Facebook For Traffic Might Not Have Been Wise
Keep doing what you're doing
Keep doing what you're doing. You're doing it right. The beach of the day site (Digg, Reddit, Facebook, Snapchat, etc.) are all great until everyone goes there. That's when the pristine clean sand becomes filled with toys and chum, and the waters polluted with vim and vinegar, and the vendors go from selling steak burgers and ceviché to dubious-meat hot dogs and "melty" nachos.
That's the problem with beaches. Once everybody hears it's awesome, and the barrier to going there is a click away, it starts to get polluted.
Disclosure#2: I left FB on Christmas 2015 and have looked back but not logged in. I miss some things but I don't miss it. That having been said, I used to DAILY post references to articles here on Techdirt, on arstechnica, and on Scott Greenfield's blog. I'd offer my own 'take' on it and invite people to read the articles.
As we all know, nobody's politics are likely to change due to a facebook post. http://www.indystar.com/story/news/2016/08/11/shock-study-your-political-facebook-posts-dont-change- anyones-mind/88579324/
I was hoping to educate my FB friends. What I did succeed in doing is getting a bunch of them to read TD daily. As you said, the key for TD to be successful is for people to want to read TD, not have a regurgitated version elsewhere.
Keep doing what you're doing.
The water's fine, come on in.
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On the post: Houston Law Firm Sues Student With Severe Back Injuries For $200k After She Posts Negative Reviews To Yelp, Facebook
In de haus
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On the post: Copyright Office Intent On Changing The Part Of Copyright That Protects Libraries & Archives, Even Though No One Wants It Changed
Palpitine made them do it
Now which MAFIAA group you want to call Vader depends on the evil of the moment...
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On the post: Dear US Olympic Committee: Tweeting About The Olympics Is Never Trademark Infringement
my tweet
I'm selling genuine NON-OLYMPICS t-shirt. They will have NO olympic logo, and say "NOT RIO". #Rio2016 #TeamUSA #USOC #TrademarkBullies
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On the post: As Erdogan Faces Turkish Coup, The Guy Who Once Banned Social Media Sites, Forced To Address Nation Via Facetime & Twitter
Re: Re: the result seemed to be an improvement.
Way to ignore everything positive about the American Revolution and focus on the one thing that wasn't so good.
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On the post: As Erdogan Faces Turkish Coup, The Guy Who Once Banned Social Media Sites, Forced To Address Nation Via Facetime & Twitter
Educated on Trademark law
I'm a graduate of the Techdirt School on Trademark Abuse™.
Ehud®
P.S. :-) Have a great weekend!
On the post: As Erdogan Faces Turkish Coup, The Guy Who Once Banned Social Media Sites, Forced To Address Nation Via Facetime & Twitter
This is good
The Turkish military have a strong history of coups to restore democracy, free law, and a secular (non "islamist") society. These are all aligned with not only what *we* (outsiders) want but also what the Turks want.
Erdogan has been slowly working his way up to be President For Life™ and this will put a stop to that.
This is good for Europe. This is good for the US. This is good for Israel. This may improve things with Russia. It won't change anything with Kurds or Syrians.
Not all coups are bad.
Ehud
On the post: Another Terrorist Watchlist Leaks, This One Compiled By Thomson Reuters
Re: Re:
They did not say they reduced false positives to 15%.
They said IN SOME CASES they reduced them to 15%.
That means they know the false positive error is greater than 15%.
Imagine having a database where one out of every seven entries is known to be wrong.
Now go sell that for a million dollars.
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On the post: Hillary Clinton's Tech Policy Plan Includes Some Empty Broadband Promises And A Continued War On Encryption
Re: Re: Cars kill more people than "guns"
> The same cannot be said for guns
Still refusing to use a specific word. First guns then weapons but never firearms. Whatever.
> Cars are safe
No, cars cause most deaths. Period.
Now go make up more sophistry while the facts and data are clearly showing cars to be the #1 safety hazzard and the #1 killer in the US.
Best and all that.
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