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A lawsuit charged Lenovo and Superfish of fraudulent business practices, making PCs vulnerable. Well, that didn't take very long
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The lawsuit is making PCs vulnerable? 
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Good... I bought a 17" Y50 in December, and had no idea it had that Superfish thing installed. Sure, it took 30 seconds to uninstall and kill the root certificate, but I wouldn't have noticed it if not for the news articles, despite being a computer geek...
I took a chance with a Lenovo... Great hardware so far, but this makes me wish I picked a different brand.
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Ditto
They say that the business line wasn't affected, but I'm not looking forward to getting my Thinkpad back from the shop anymore.
TTFN - Kent
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I hope you killed the root cert everywhere, Mozilla uses its own cert-store so just flushing the Windows one won't fix it.
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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No Firefox/Thunderbird on that machine... Just Chrome and IE.
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I ran across this[^] a few weeks back and have been forgetting to post it here ever since. It's a restoration project to get a PDP8 that's been in storage since the late 70's back into working order. After almost a year and a half of work (that appears to have been more EE than CS) they've managed to power it up and it appears like it may be functioning; but a more detailed assessment is being blocked by the need to repair a number of front panel issues.
Doug Ives and I then powered up the machine and began working with the front panel. The switches are balky, but the load address switch worked for clearing the program counter. Repeated use of the examine or deposit switch increments the program counter, although some of the lightbulbs don't light, and the memory address register tracks the program counter (one step behind), with other lights not working. The deposit switch loads from the switch register into the memory buffer register, with yet other lights non working, and the continue and stop switches toggle the run light. When the machine is in the run state, the PC is obviously incrementing. Enough lights are burnt out that it is difficult to see what is going on, so it is clear that further diagnostic work will require replacing a number of front panel lightbulbs. To do this, we will have to disassemble the front panel.
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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My first full time job after college was based on a PDP-8. 
According to my calculations, I should be able to retire about 5 years after I die.
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If they want it, I still have LISP for PDP-8 on paper tape!!!
A positive attitude may not solve every problem, but it will annoy enough people to be worth the effort.
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Doug Jones lists his contact info on his main page[^] if you want to offer it. He has a collection of assorted PDP artifacts, so if he doesn't already have a copy of lisp (or even just not a copy of the version you've got) I assume he'd be interested.
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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The move would signal a more open Apple, after the company began allowing the public early access to Yosemite last year. Where'd they get such a 'different' idea?
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More than half (55%) of 250 IT professionals in the US. surveyed said they had been bullied by a co-worker. "It's not okay because if they take my stapler then I'll set the building on fire.
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Three weeks before one of my co-workers decided that she didn't got a proper answer from another co-worker, so decided to call him 'names'...Today she's looking for new job with no hope to get recommendation from us...
Skipper: We'll fix it.
Alex: Fix it? How you gonna fix this?
Skipper: Grit, spit and a whole lotta duct tape.
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Poor dev. 
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In honor of this post I just called my IT partner wife a bugger face. To wit she replied: "Yeah well you're but dust")
It's scriptural.
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The demand for Linux developers has jumped seven percent in comparison to last year, a study has shown. Well, that's it. *This* will be the Year of Linux (tm)
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Lenovo wasn't the only one using SSL certs that unlock every SSL site on the Internet. What part of the 's' in SSL was hard to understand?
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Finding competent programmers can be a challenge, especially for people who are not programmers themselves. "For a fee, I'm happy to be your back door man"
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Odd. Just tried it and it worked for me. Blocked by work?
TTFN - Kent
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Nope, at home. Just tried with 2 different computers, several browsers, and my (Windows 8.1) phone.
Hm, once I disabled wifi on my phone and just went through the cell service it came up. I guess my ISP (Time Warner Cable) is blocking it or something. Odd.
Disregard - obviously this is just affecting me, and maybe others using the same ISP.
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If you want to hire a developer and you are not a developer I have a script for you to use:-
"I want you to create the very best work you have ever created and I want you to do it for me. If you come and work here, we will do whatever makes that possible".
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A Python developer gets on a London subway, shoves a man and lobs a nasty F bomb. Later that day, the developer gets a surprise, as the man is interviewing him for a job. "Kismet, Hardy"
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Kent Sharkey wrote: A Python developer gets on a London subway
No he didn't. London doesn't have a subway (unless we're talking about that rather skanky sandwich shop). London has the underground; the DLR.
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