The only problem is that giving up your privacy wont stay within the limits you set as they will extend it to more and more data/information. The Government is like any drug addict and they're drug of choice is that information you don't want them to have. Simply put, like any addict, they not be able to resist their next hit, thus they will break into your home - mug you just to get it.
Basically, you cannot use the Internet without Google - even if you use Bing exclusively, never go to YouTube and other Google projects, there's a ton of other crap hosted by Google that your web experience would suck worse than with NoScript.
Actually I surf quite nicely most of the time as I already block most of Google's data gathering methods and yet, I haven't encountered a website that wouldn't allow me to access it for blocking Google's attempts unlike Facebook. Combine with Ghostery and Noscript along with a pretty comprehensive host file and I'm not giving out as much information as others who simply don't care about the situation.
Themain reason as stated in the damn summary is the lack of LTE towers. This means the blasted system is trying to find a signal more often then it does on 3G. In a Car Analogy you have a longer drive to get to the onramp of the autobahn as it's further away with fewer access ramps. Yes it offers faster travel but if you just need to get across town, it's faster to take local roads and streets instead of driving the distance needed to access the autobahn.
Yea, it's nice that every god damn time there's a high speed pursuit, that all of the news media cut to the situation and stay on top of it, thus discontinuing their news reports as to the weather, sports and everything else as they feel the pursuit is more interesting. If it's that god damn important for us to know, then put the audio on a seperate channel called Radio so people in the actual area in their cars have a chance to avoid the area since if I'm watching the damn broadcast I sure as hell aint driving. There's very little public benefit from the video media following such a pursuit and in fact, some of the crooks/idiots are actually playing up to the damn cameras, so maybe by not filming and giving them air time we'd have safer streets as they wouldn't have the encouragement of the other idiots to get dumb and dumber.
In the event of something like an Amber alert, there's little benefit to people to continue harping on the damn incident unless they're directly in pursuit of the suspect. Otherwise, the only thing they're doing is encouraging the idiot to kill/dispose of their victim in a more expedious manner instead of keeping them alive. In the case of bank robberies, the same issue applies. Let the public know where the problem is so they can avoid it but don't cover the damn situation continuously as the crooks can simply turn on a TV and see where the police are. This one has a flip argument though, If they're surrounded, it may result in them surrendering instead of attempting to escape by shooting their way out. For things like parades, fires and what not that actually are of interest, then yes they can provide a sub picture of the damn thing continuously so folks interested in it can see what's going on. Otherwise drop most of the damn continous media coverage as most of it simply encourages copycat crooks.
What you need is the ARM core to provide the hypervisor/uefi/bios access with the x86 cores being VM's. You then get the best of both worlds and can easily ensure that the best chip handles the apropriate load. Audio and Video get handled by the ARM core and it's DSP's while the x86 cores handle all of the x86 based software.
The explanation as given makes an awful lot of sense. Simply put, as they've purchased many of the products they're offering, they've had mulitple privacy statements. All that is happening now is that they're finally consolidating those items into "Google" tm itself, thus they can finally simplify and consolidate many of the privacy statements into a single version, which in my mind is a "Good Thing" as I'll be able to follow any changes to those services I use on a daily basis.
One thing I've always figured is that Google was using any and all of the information they have collected on me to target their ads to me so this actually pleases me because I don't have to look all over the place for each services privacy statement to know what they actually collect and how they use it. It is important to note that as they've said, some products/services have regulatory compliance issues, thus they will retain individual privacy statements in order to comply with those regulations.
what you and everyone else is forgetting is that the CPU is only part of the power consumption of a phone/tablet. There's the screen, radios, usb/micro-sd and the GPU. In the case of Intel, the Medfield system is already approaching the total power demand of an iPhone/iPad from the SoC. Another factor everyone dismisses is WIn8 and WP8 as the Medfield is x86, it'll be able to run Windows natively.
Another factor that will come into play with Win8 is Corporate purchases. If there's one thing MS knows well, it's corporate purchasing and management. This means that Win8 Phone/Tablet will integrate nicely into AD domains and be controlled how corporate wants them unlike the various droid and iProducts (Remember Apple doesn't care about corporate - not enough profit).
Considering that the walls, roof and floor of an 18 wheeler trailer is not metal, xrays penetrate just fine. What I have a problem with is the amount of irradiated metal that will now be moving down the road, affecting everyone and the damn cockroaches. How soon will it be before we have to bow down before our cockroach overloads?
Thanks for reminding about On Access scanners slowing systems down. That just maybe the issue I've recently started suffering with swap file usage and yes More system RAM would more then likely solve that issue for the time being.
Personally, I like MS Security Essentials as it's about as effective as AVG was. The nice thing is, it ties into Windows Update and does get an update once a month. In fact, I was able to convince a senior friend to pull McAffee from her system (caused to many slowdowns) and installed it. Much better performance for her and it doesn't get in the damn way.
As part of my system security settings, I've enabled DEP for all processes instead of the limited subset that MS enables by default. The interesting thing is, I've only got a single exception listed that is a windows game from 1998 (Call To Power2).
The one thing I do know is that eventually I'll pick up something that infects my system bad enough that the easiest thing is to nuke it from orbit and reinstall. Much faster now that I'm using a bootable 8GB flash drive with Windows on it along with a full copy of all the Updates from MS. This speeds up a reinstall to the next to last patch level before I even allow the computer to connect to the net when it can grab the latest updates and complete the process.
Well, seeing as how I've been using a Pseudonym since I joined Gmail, all I can say is that it accepted it as my given name for my G+ account. Of course I don't have much in my profile to really make it feasible to directly identify me unless you already have that link.
actually, it's pretty damn easy to harden a robot against radiation. It's called Magnetics and only requires a minimal amount of additional power to shield the electronics. Normal electric motors aren't as bothered by high levels of radiation as people think. What causes problems is the electronic motors and sensors tend to be fried due to eddy currents induced in the chips and circuits.
This is actually solvable through use of either basic electric motors or even better the use of hydraulics. As someone else stated, you can easily convert a firetruck to remote control as long as the electronics are shielded. It's the same principle for most of the first response robots. Simply use existing construction equipment (bob cats, bull dozers) that are mainly hydaulic in orperation and have a the electronics for the remote control is the only item needing magnetic sheilding. Keep in mind that this sheilding does not require a very strong magnetic field and with the unit having an alternator, you simply use that to provide the needed power to a small battery that ensures the electronics are continuously shielded.
MS does get it and once they get WP7 fully working, it's going to be on most of the corporate phones as it'll include an Exchange Client, Remote Wipe, Can be locked down by an Active Directory Server tighter then a Black Berry. Simply put, Apple and Google don't get the corporate culture and that's what keeps MS alive.
The main problem with the trolls is their so inefective. I mean goodness, they're not even ugly enough to crack my screen just from looking at their posts. What we need are some ogres that are ugly nuff to curdle milk in the cow, fracture your screen with their reflection and mean enough to untangle a gordian knot
Same here. I've configured an Admin PW with a standard/limited user account for day2day ops. Works fine as the only time I really need admin access is installing/removing software or changing a critical system setting.
Another thing I've done is enabled DEP for all apps except those I've been forced to exclude such as the only game I've had to exclude (Call To Power 2). I haven't seen any issues from any program written for XP-SP2 or later as DEP was an introduced then. It's just one more layer of security.
Since my ISP uses MAC registering, I have to setup the damn router with a specific MAC address and since I'm in there doing that, I may as well configure the rest of the damn thing with it's passphrase and name. This actually saves me lots of trouble as I don't have to reconfigure the damn authorized systems again (they already have the needed connection information) so they're connected as soon as I'm done configuring the router.
In this case, I don't care how old the damn part was. It was sold to someone else before I got it, therefore the Doctrine of First Sale no longer applies, thus the part is used not new.
Well I've had my domain through GoDaddy for the last 10 years and they've not tried to upsell me. Very few issues though they only thing I'm using them for is a MX Record to my Google Business account (Docs/Calendar/Mail). Works nicely and it's been stable.
The problem is that DEP by default is not enabled on all applications. It's only enabled on apps that specifically request it. Safari/Firefox/Acrobat/Flash do not enable it fully.
In order to do so, you need to change the DEP behavior to enable it for all programs except those specifically excluded. I did this when I installed Win7 and have had little to no issues with DEP except for a game written for Win95.
and this is why as a business user, I wont use Ubunta/Debian/Name your distro. If I am going to run Linux on my network, it will be based on LFS and PXE booting with smart terminals (what's a smart terminal?).
A Smart terminal is not a thin client. It includes all of the basic hardware that a normal desktop has except for drives. All storage is on the server, thus a system that dies is simply replaced with a working unit, the person logs back on and they're back to work in minutes. Another advantage is that this allows the complete control of the users desktop, meaning my users don't have the ability to install any software that's not authorized/needed/licensed and all of their work is backed up properly.
The only caveat/issue we encountered during the roll out was localized network overloading. To solve it, we increased all terminals to 8GB from 2GB, thus reducing the level of network traffic (prohibitive cost to upgrade that infrastructre). Our network utilization is now lower then XP was using and we've eliminated many of the problems we had with Windows. Keep in mind that we've been able to do nothing about stupidity, so don't think Linux will cure/fix that issue for you.
I use a local proxy server and all net connections have to go through it. From there, I review the logs and enter the worst offenders into my Hosts file to completely block them. I also use noscript in FF and after seeing how to disable the general running of flash in IE (change the stinking settings of allowed sites) I've managed to restrict flash to those few sites that I absolutely have to use it and I bitch like hell to their webmasters/devs and file complaints for them being uncompliant with ADA access requirements (This includes the EU also). Yes it's a PITA but if it's a business website, I'll bitch like hell to them and file a complaint with the appropriate people, otherwise they've lost my business and I tell them why,.
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The only problem is that giving up your privacy wont stay within the limits you set as they will extend it to more and more data/information. The Government is like any drug addict and they're drug of choice is that information you don't want them to have. Simply put, like any addict, they not be able to resist their next hit, thus they will break into your home - mug you just to get it.
Basically, you cannot use the Internet without Google - even if you use Bing exclusively, never go to YouTube and other Google projects, there's a ton of other crap hosted by Google that your web experience would suck worse than with NoScript.
Actually I surf quite nicely most of the time as I already block most of Google's data gathering methods and yet, I haven't encountered a website that wouldn't allow me to access it for blocking Google's attempts unlike Facebook. Combine with Ghostery and Noscript along with a pretty comprehensive host file and I'm not giving out as much information as others who simply don't care about the situation.
Themain reason as stated in the damn summary is the lack of LTE towers. This means the blasted system is trying to find a signal more often then it does on 3G. In a Car Analogy you have a longer drive to get to the onramp of the autobahn as it's further away with fewer access ramps. Yes it offers faster travel but if you just need to get across town, it's faster to take local roads and streets instead of driving the distance needed to access the autobahn.
Yea, it's nice that every god damn time there's a high speed pursuit, that all of the news media cut to the situation and stay on top of it, thus discontinuing their news reports as to the weather, sports and everything else as they feel the pursuit is more interesting. If it's that god damn important for us to know, then put the audio on a seperate channel called Radio so people in the actual area in their cars have a chance to avoid the area since if I'm watching the damn broadcast I sure as hell aint driving. There's very little public benefit from the video media following such a pursuit and in fact, some of the crooks/idiots are actually playing up to the damn cameras, so maybe by not filming and giving them air time we'd have safer streets as they wouldn't have the encouragement of the other idiots to get dumb and dumber.
In the event of something like an Amber alert, there's little benefit to people to continue harping on the damn incident unless they're directly in pursuit of the suspect. Otherwise, the only thing they're doing is encouraging the idiot to kill/dispose of their victim in a more expedious manner instead of keeping them alive. In the case of bank robberies, the same issue applies. Let the public know where the problem is so they can avoid it but don't cover the damn situation continuously as the crooks can simply turn on a TV and see where the police are. This one has a flip argument though, If they're surrounded, it may result in them surrendering instead of attempting to escape by shooting their way out. For things like parades, fires and what not that actually are of interest, then yes they can provide a sub picture of the damn thing continuously so folks interested in it can see what's going on. Otherwise drop most of the damn continous media coverage as most of it simply encourages copycat crooks.
The funniest thing is, that the designers of the TNG Pads and Graphics now work for Apple.
I'll put my $1M in on this one.
What you need is the ARM core to provide the hypervisor/uefi/bios access with the x86 cores being VM's. You then get the best of both worlds and can easily ensure that the best chip handles the apropriate load. Audio and Video get handled by the ARM core and it's DSP's while the x86 cores handle all of the x86 based software.
The explanation as given makes an awful lot of sense. Simply put, as they've purchased many of the products they're offering, they've had mulitple privacy statements. All that is happening now is that they're finally consolidating those items into "Google" tm itself, thus they can finally simplify and consolidate many of the privacy statements into a single version, which in my mind is a "Good Thing" as I'll be able to follow any changes to those services I use on a daily basis.
One thing I've always figured is that Google was using any and all of the information they have collected on me to target their ads to me so this actually pleases me because I don't have to look all over the place for each services privacy statement to know what they actually collect and how they use it. It is important to note that as they've said, some products/services have regulatory compliance issues, thus they will retain individual privacy statements in order to comply with those regulations.
what you and everyone else is forgetting is that the CPU is only part of the power consumption of a phone/tablet. There's the screen, radios, usb/micro-sd and the GPU. In the case of Intel, the Medfield system is already approaching the total power demand of an iPhone/iPad from the SoC. Another factor everyone dismisses is WIn8 and WP8 as the Medfield is x86, it'll be able to run Windows natively.
Another factor that will come into play with Win8 is Corporate purchases. If there's one thing MS knows well, it's corporate purchasing and management. This means that Win8 Phone/Tablet will integrate nicely into AD domains and be controlled how corporate wants them unlike the various droid and iProducts (Remember Apple doesn't care about corporate - not enough profit).
Considering that the walls, roof and floor of an 18 wheeler trailer is not metal, xrays penetrate just fine. What I have a problem with is the amount of irradiated metal that will now be moving down the road, affecting everyone and the damn cockroaches. How soon will it be before we have to bow down before our cockroach overloads?
Robert Heinlenn covered this in his novels "Time Enough for Love" and "Methusala's Children".
Thanks for reminding about On Access scanners slowing systems down. That just maybe the issue I've recently started suffering with swap file usage and yes More system RAM would more then likely solve that issue for the time being.
Personally, I like MS Security Essentials as it's about as effective as AVG was. The nice thing is, it ties into Windows Update and does get an update once a month. In fact, I was able to convince a senior friend to pull McAffee from her system (caused to many slowdowns) and installed it. Much better performance for her and it doesn't get in the damn way.
As part of my system security settings, I've enabled DEP for all processes instead of the limited subset that MS enables by default. The interesting thing is, I've only got a single exception listed that is a windows game from 1998 (Call To Power2).
The one thing I do know is that eventually I'll pick up something that infects my system bad enough that the easiest thing is to nuke it from orbit and reinstall. Much faster now that I'm using a bootable 8GB flash drive with Windows on it along with a full copy of all the Updates from MS. This speeds up a reinstall to the next to last patch level before I even allow the computer to connect to the net when it can grab the latest updates and complete the process.
Well, seeing as how I've been using a Pseudonym since I joined Gmail, all I can say is that it accepted it as my given name for my G+ account. Of course I don't have much in my profile to really make it feasible to directly identify me unless you already have that link.
I actually find that Bing works better for some searches then Google does. Hell I even still use Altavista and Ask occasionally
actually, it's pretty damn easy to harden a robot against radiation. It's called Magnetics and only requires a minimal amount of additional power to shield the electronics. Normal electric motors aren't as bothered by high levels of radiation as people think. What causes problems is the electronic motors and sensors tend to be fried due to eddy currents induced in the chips and circuits.
This is actually solvable through use of either basic electric motors or even better the use of hydraulics. As someone else stated, you can easily convert a firetruck to remote control as long as the electronics are shielded. It's the same principle for most of the first response robots. Simply use existing construction equipment (bob cats, bull dozers) that are mainly hydaulic in orperation and have a the electronics for the remote control is the only item needing magnetic sheilding. Keep in mind that this sheilding does not require a very strong magnetic field and with the unit having an alternator, you simply use that to provide the needed power to a small battery that ensures the electronics are continuously shielded.
MS does get it and once they get WP7 fully working, it's going to be on most of the corporate phones as it'll include an Exchange Client, Remote Wipe, Can be locked down by an Active Directory Server tighter then a Black Berry. Simply put, Apple and Google don't get the corporate culture and that's what keeps MS alive.
The main problem with the trolls is their so inefective. I mean goodness, they're not even ugly enough to crack my screen just from looking at their posts. What we need are some ogres that are ugly nuff to curdle milk in the cow, fracture your screen with their reflection and mean enough to untangle a gordian knot
Same here. I've configured an Admin PW with a standard/limited user account for day2day ops. Works fine as the only time I really need admin access is installing/removing software or changing a critical system setting.
Another thing I've done is enabled DEP for all apps except those I've been forced to exclude such as the only game I've had to exclude (Call To Power 2). I haven't seen any issues from any program written for XP-SP2 or later as DEP was an introduced then. It's just one more layer of security.
Since my ISP uses MAC registering, I have to setup the damn router with a specific MAC address and since I'm in there doing that, I may as well configure the rest of the damn thing with it's passphrase and name. This actually saves me lots of trouble as I don't have to reconfigure the damn authorized systems again (they already have the needed connection information) so they're connected as soon as I'm done configuring the router.
No - Fox!
In this case, I don't care how old the damn part was. It was sold to someone else before I got it, therefore the Doctrine of First Sale no longer applies, thus the part is used not new.
Well I've had my domain through GoDaddy for the last 10 years and they've not tried to upsell me. Very few issues though they only thing I'm using them for is a MX Record to my Google Business account (Docs/Calendar/Mail). Works nicely and it's been stable.
The problem is that DEP by default is not enabled on all applications. It's only enabled on apps that specifically request it. Safari/Firefox/Acrobat/Flash do not enable it fully.
In order to do so, you need to change the DEP behavior to enable it for all programs except those specifically excluded. I did this when I installed Win7 and have had little to no issues with DEP except for a game written for Win95.
and this is why as a business user, I wont use Ubunta/Debian/Name your distro. If I am going to run Linux on my network, it will be based on LFS and PXE booting with smart terminals (what's a smart terminal?).
A Smart terminal is not a thin client. It includes all of the basic hardware that a normal desktop has except for drives. All storage is on the server, thus a system that dies is simply replaced with a working unit, the person logs back on and they're back to work in minutes. Another advantage is that this allows the complete control of the users desktop, meaning my users don't have the ability to install any software that's not authorized/needed/licensed and all of their work is backed up properly.
The only caveat/issue we encountered during the roll out was localized network overloading. To solve it, we increased all terminals to 8GB from 2GB, thus reducing the level of network traffic (prohibitive cost to upgrade that infrastructre). Our network utilization is now lower then XP was using and we've eliminated many of the problems we had with Windows. Keep in mind that we've been able to do nothing about stupidity, so don't think Linux will cure/fix that issue for you.
I use a local proxy server and all net connections have to go through it. From there, I review the logs and enter the worst offenders into my Hosts file to completely block them. I also use noscript in FF and after seeing how to disable the general running of flash in IE (change the stinking settings of allowed sites) I've managed to restrict flash to those few sites that I absolutely have to use it and I bitch like hell to their webmasters/devs and file complaints for them being uncompliant with ADA access requirements (This includes the EU also). Yes it's a PITA but if it's a business website, I'll bitch like hell to them and file a complaint with the appropriate people, otherwise they've lost my business and I tell them why,.