Your citing of TDL4 is a completely invalid argument because TDL4 as you cited did not do anything to BIOS/UEFI. With a clean BIOS, MBR virus can easily be cleaned with a bootable USB stick.
What would be more worrisome is a rootkit that resides on BIOS and is impervious to flashing.
It just does not make sense, for me at least, to buy a camera, only to find out one year later that you can buy one twice as good for the same price ( twice the resolution, twice the speed, twice the storage, etc). So I will wait until someone has produce something that
Use solid state storage
Many mega-pixels of resolution
A still camera and a video cam in one
Optionally, it should be fitted with a wide angle zoom _AND_ a tele angle zoom. With the proper synchronization, this will allow for taking of two different angled pictures or video streams at the same time. (One with great details, one record the surroundings.)
While dreaming, I am holding on my Nikon SLR. It is still good enough for me. Knowing it takes time just to organize and enjor looking at pictures, I don't make a lot of them any more. And getting digital copies are cheaper than you might think. Just drop you roll at a store and Kodak or whatever will do a acceptable job scanning it.
Instead of soft and rubery provisions, we need something that is concrete, such as:
Ensure Samba fully inter-operate with Windows.
As a punishment for M$'s convicted transgression in the development of a free and open web technology, Windows web browers and servers must be fully compliant with free and open standards. No proprietary stuff.
To allow more competition in OS, M$ must disclose the API to ensure that Linux can read and write to user data area of NTFS. Dual boot of Linux/Windows must be guaranteed and made simple.
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Your citing of TDL4 is a completely invalid argument because TDL4 as you cited did not do anything to BIOS/UEFI. With a clean BIOS, MBR virus can easily be cleaned with a bootable USB stick.
What would be more worrisome is a rootkit that resides on BIOS and is impervious to flashing.
As a long time AMD/ATI user of CPU/GPUs, this sounds ominous.
If true, either AMD/ATI has to kill it, or we will have to kill AMD/ATI.
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Well, there's not much the US can complain about since it has refused to sign an international treaty banning space weapons advocated by the Chinese and Russians. Ref: http://www.nytimes.com/2007/01/18/world/asia/18cnd-china.htm
Use solid state storage
Many mega-pixels of resolution
A still camera and a video cam in one
Optionally, it should be fitted with a wide angle zoom _AND_ a tele angle zoom. With the proper synchronization, this will allow for taking of two different angled pictures or video streams at the same time. (One with great details, one record the surroundings.)
While dreaming, I am holding on my Nikon SLR. It is still good enough for me. Knowing it takes time just to organize and enjor looking at pictures, I don't make a lot of them any more. And getting digital copies are cheaper than you might think. Just drop you roll at a store and Kodak or whatever will do a acceptable job scanning it.
More $$ for me, no new products or features for you.
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Ensure Samba fully inter-operate with Windows.
As a punishment for M$'s convicted transgression in the development of a free and open web technology, Windows web browers and servers must be fully compliant with free and open standards. No proprietary stuff.
To allow more competition in OS, M$ must disclose the API to ensure that Linux can read and write to user data area of NTFS. Dual boot of Linux/Windows must be guaranteed and made simple.
I'd think Database applications are one of the weakest areas of Open Source Software.