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Submission + - Malware Preloaded on Lenovo Laptops (techspot.com)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: Right now it's just a couple of forum posts, and some minor tech news/blogs reporting on it. It appears that malware may be coming reinstalled on some Lenovo laptops, and it's not easy to get rid of. The main article doesn't mention the SSL aspect, but this Lenovo Forum Post, with screen caps, is indicating it may be a man-in-the-middle attack to hijack an SSL connection too. It's too early to tell if this is a hoax or not, but there are multiple forum posts about the Superfish bug being installed on new systems.

Another good reason to have your own fresh install disk, and to just drop the drivers onto a USB stick.

Submission + - GCC 5 heads toward release and Fedora 22, with F23 introducing new C++11 ABI (redhat.com)

Submitted by rhmattn
rhmattn writes: Fedora 22 will ship with GCC 5, which brings a whole host of enhancements, among which is a new default C++ ABI. Fedora is going to transition to that ABI over two Fedora releases F22 and F23. This article, written by some of the key players in the GCC community, explains how that will work and what it means for developers, including some useful tips for application developers and packagers.

Comment Re:"Obstruction of Business" (Score 1) 132

by Carewolf (#49069089) Attached to: LG Exec Indicted Over Broken Samsung Washing Machine

The US already has laws for that.

The US also has laws against fraud and racketeering. Doesn't seem to apply to companies over a certain size.

Citation please?

Proof that it doesn't happen? How would that work?

How about you show me cases where marketing boses or CEOs of a large company is indicted for fraud when they do fraudulent marketing?

Comment Re:Taken to the cleaners... (Score 5, Funny) 132

by Carewolf (#49067105) Attached to: LG Exec Indicted Over Broken Samsung Washing Machine

Agreed. Touching a competitor's setup at a trade fair is bush league.

I don't buy that "testing" defense for a second. If you're a company that large you test by buying a machine anonymously at retail, take it to your labs, complete a test plan, then take it apart the see the build and components. Just randomly poking at stuff before a trade show isn't even going to give you much data.

Doing this always breaks our machines. I wonder if our competitor has found a way to avoid it breaking?.... Oh, it appears not. How interesting.
Open Source

Removing Libsystemd0 From a Live-running Debian System 755

Posted by samzenpus from the taking-sides dept.
lkcl writes The introduction of systemd has unilaterally created a polarization of the GNU/Linux community that is remarkably similar to the monopolistic power position wielded by Microsoft in the late 1990s. Choices were stark: use Windows (with SMB/CIFS Services), or use UNIX (with NFS and NIS). Only the introduction of fully-compatible reverse-engineered NT Domains services corrected the situation. Instructions on how to remove systemd include dire warnings that "all dependent packages will be removed", rendering a normal Debian Desktop system flat-out impossible to achieve. It was therefore necessary to demonstrate that it is actually possible to run a Debian Desktop GUI system (albeit an unusual one: fvwm) with libsystemd0 removed. The reason for doing so: it doesn't matter how good systemd is believed to be or in fact actually is: the reason for removing it is, apart from the alarm at how extensive systemd is becoming (including interfering with firewall rules), it's the way that it's been introduced in a blatantly cavalier fashion as a polarized all-or-nothing option, forcing people to consider abandoning the GNU/Linux of their choice and to seriously consider using FreeBSD or any other distro that properly respects the Software Freedom principle of the right to choose what software to run. We aren't all "good at coding", or paid to work on Software Libre: that means that those people who are need to be much more responsible, and to start — finally — to listen to what people are saying. Developing a thick skin is a good way to abdicate responsibility and, as a result, place people into untenable positions.

Comment Re:A good language that'll get slammed... (Score 1) 520

by Carewolf (#49059953) Attached to: Nim Programming Language Gaining Traction

Forcing code indentation is a sign you're going to be working with a bunch of "coders" who took a weekend course and not actual software engineers.

IMO, only lazy, inept, or noob programmers don't indent correctly. So if a language requires them to indent properly, they call it forced indentation because they usually don't indent correctly in other languages.

If I'm wrong, how many different ways can you indent the following code?

for x in range(1,10):

      for y in range(1,10):

            if someCondition:

                    result[x][y] = a[x][y] + b[x][y]

Read parent again.

The issue is this:

database.execute(
    "SELECT col"
    "FROM table"
    "WHERE y"
);

Correct SQL indentation, allowed and easy in a sane language, impossible to do in a stupid language with forced indentation rules that only applies the language itself.

Comment Re:Big Data (Score 1) 439

by Carewolf (#49059107) Attached to: Will Submarines Soon Become As Obsolete As the Battleship?

The idea that Battleships are obsolete is also rather dumb to be honest. It's too financially efficient though for the Gov't to keep ships we already built in service rather than spend hundreds of billions of dollars on new concept ships that suck.

The problem is they are vulnerable to air-attacks so they need a screen like a carrier, but is less useful than a carrier. So why not have a carrier, or just smaller ships with cannons that are cheaper and cost less to lose?

Comment Re:So... nuclear power is still supported? (Score 1) 309

by Carewolf (#49019571) Attached to: The IPCC's Shifting Position On Nuclear Energy

How has their position changed? Nuclear was their primary focus as an energy source in 1990, and is still a part of the strategy to move away from fossil fuels, the only shift is that other renewable energy source have grown more viable.

Apparently it hasn't, but there was a single report being more sceptic about nuclear power, but it was only a single one, and not they are back to supporting it fully.

And then of couse their optimism in whether anyone are paying attention to their recommendations has changed, and is rather tragic if a bit funny reading.
Biotech

Woman Suffers Significant Weight Gain After Fecal Transplant 378

Posted by timothy from the watch-the-upstream dept.
Beeftopia (1846720) writes In a case reported in the journal Open Forum Infectious Diseases, a woman suffering from a drug-resistant intestinal infection gained 36 pounds after receiving a fecal transplant from her overweight daughter. Previous mouse studies have shown thin mice gain weight after ingesting fecal bacteria from obese mice. The woman previously was not overweight. After the procedure, despite a medically supervised liquid protein diet and exercise regimen, the woman remained obese. Her doctor said, "She came back about a year later and complained of tremendous weight gain... She felt like a switch flipped in her body, to this day she continues to have problems... as a result I'm very careful with all our donors don't use obese people."

Comment Re:For profit proganda. (Score 1) 645

by Carewolf (#49003787) Attached to: Does Showing a Horrific Video Serve a Legitimate Journalistic Purpose?

Yes there is. Fox news is officially on record for saying they are an entertainment channel. That is their excuse for broadcasting lies as news, it is the only reason they are allowed to broadcast lies as news, because their news show is just "entertainment". No other news network has had to make such a defense, or needed to because no other news network deliberately broadcast lies as news.

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