If they had any evidence of Russian interference, they should have come forward with it.
Rogers said allowing the statute to expire on Dec. 31, unless Congress votes to reauthorize it, would degrade U.S. intelligence agencies' ability to provide "timely warning and insight" on a variety of criminal and national security threats.
Even if we believe they have info they're not sharing, how timely or insightful could it be? The election was half a year ago.
"This is according to a survey -- The 2017 Love List Brand Affinity Index, run by Conde Nast and Goldman Sachs -- that asked 2,345 U.S. millennial and Gen Z shoppers about their fashion, retail and consumer preferences."
Conde Nast and Goldman Sachs? Two names everyone trusts! And they asked a whole 2,345 people! It's guaranteed to be representative! I mean, who even cares that they're asking "shoppers about their fashion, retail and consumer preferences" yet Snapchat came out as number 1? Snapchat filters count as fashion now!
As far as I know, at least with AMD cards, there's no more chore.
You run your monitor off of the built-in GPU, and your dedicated GPU is given wholesale to the VM. Then you just run the VM fullscreen when you want to play a game. The game gets full access to the GPU, and your VM player pipes it all back out to the built-in GPU. I don't know if any noticeable latency is introduced, but I do know performance in game is supposed to be as good as native now.
Running network for a Windows box through an external filter will also work, yes. But then that Windows box is tied to physical hardware with whatever activation malarkey they've got going that could trip on upgrades, you can't snapshot it easily, it's not portable, etc. I just think the VM option is easier.
The point is to have games and whatever other Windows-only critical applications you need when you need them, but to get away from Windows and it's "telemetry" whenever you can. With Windows in a VM, you can block the forced updates and spying. Windows as a host OS will subvert your attempts to block these things, and you'd have to run an external firewall. By running Windows in a VM, the external firewall is simply on the host OS.
No, you get a lot more control, and you only run Windows when needed.
You can easily firewall off all of the bullshit "telemetry" from the Windows VM, block the forced updates, etc. while still having it function normally online for games and other shit. With an actual Windows 10 install, you need an external firewall to do this. The host OS handles it in this case. (Though you could still use an external firewall if you're already doing that, or you have multiple Windows 10 shits you need to block, etc.)
You can freeze the Windows VM, snapshot it, move it wherever, etc. easily without having to worry about shit breaking.
You can upgrade your hardware without worrying about tripping Windows Genuine Advantage or whatever the fuck they call their activation scheme now.
Run Linux on a CPU that has a built-in GPU (most Intel CPUs, any AMD "APU"). Also get a real GPU. Run Windows in a VM, and pass the real GPU directly to the VM.
Are you still going to claim that your "original Motorola RAZR is still going strong"? The original RAZR no longer works on T-Mobile, which has shut down their 2G network.
Are you thinking of the Droid RAZR? This is a Android phone from about 6 years ago that was rebranded as the "Motorola RAZR" for certain SKUs / carriers.
The original Motorola RAZR was a flip phone from 2003 or so. It sold well over 100 million units across its variants. When the remaining RAZRs started going dark a year or two back (due to the legacy networks it's compatible with being shut down) there was a minor bit of interest / nostalgia in them, and that prompted Motorola/Lenovo to release this teaser https://youtu.be/RVzE1YS9UWM . No, they didn't release a new / refreshed RAZR. The date was for their conference where they showed a bunch of shit nobody cared about.
It sounds to me like you're of the opinion that Linux is primarily a desktop OS. You might want to examine some of the history on that.
It sounds to me like you're an idiot.
I never made such a statement. Ubuntu is certainly primarily a desktop OS. It was designed and marketed as being a free (as in beer, speech and fucking "Ubuntu") desktop OS to replace Windows for all sorts of casual users. Ubuntu was the noob-friendly Linux, and for a time it was pretty successful.
Ubuntu is not the distro you want for production servers, cloud-based or otherwise.
Only an idiot uses their $750 phone without a good case. I received my Otterbox Defender for the GS8+ two weeks before I got the phone. I've dropped it several times with no problems.
My original Motorola RAZR is still going strong and I pretty well drop it onto a hard surface every other week. The back snaps off, the battery falls out. But the screens have never been cracked or damaged. And last week I got it so wet that it wouldn't turn on, so into the bowl of rice it went and the next day it was as good as new!
What network are you on? Most networks have killed off all the legacy shit that the RAZR supports, making it pretty fucking useless.
I mean, we knew that about Canonical already with the way they shat all over Ubuntu. But who the fuck can see/hear "Ubuntu is the default platform on cloud computing. Juju, MaaS, and OpenStack are nearly unstoppable." and then decide to throw money at the person who wrote/said it?
Ubuntu isn't the default for anything. A few years back, it was the default for nerds giving their parents/grandparents a machine that wasn't Windows but was still a usable and familiar desktop. Juju? MaaS? OpenStack? I'd wager most nerds have only ever heard of one of those (OpenStack). And I seriously doubt anyone considers it "unstoppable".
The poor and lazy get it for free or dirt cheap. The people in the middle then paid for it all. Premiums and deductibles skyrocketed after the ACA was passed. The poor and lazy sometimes got free care at emergency rooms or at free clinics, but they STILL get that. Those costs haven't gone down, and those are not directly funded by responsible people paying for their own insurance. The idea was to get the poor people paying SOME amount in, and getting them preventative / early treatment to reduce costs. The problem is many are still paying nothing, those that are paying are getting subsidized by the state, and ultimately the middle class, and preventative care ultimately increases costs. Further, the mandate that requires everyone to be insured just allows insurance companies to jack up the prices because fuck you, you HAVE to pay.
It's a fucking joke! The only "pro" to it is that more people are insured. But ultimately, it's a con in every sense of the word.
From what I've seen personally, quality and availability of care went down. (Current doctor/group is shit, other doctors/groups not taking new patients, across various cities in California.)
What we need to do is simple:
Get rid of the mandate that everyone has to have insurance.
Sever health, dental, vision, etc. insurance from employment.
Require all charges to be identical regardless of insurance policy or lack of insurance. Currently, the uninsured or "underinsured" are given bills with line items that are absolute bullshit. Only the large insurance companies see a bill that somewhat reflects reality.
Require all insurance payouts to be given directly to the insured (or beneficiary) and never directly to the care provider. Most of the time the insurance company never actually pays the amount they claim to.
Stop treating uninsured drug abusers, smokers, alcoholics, hyper fatties, etc. with any public money, either directly or indirectly via requirements to treat at ERs, etc. If they're insured and pay their premiums they should be covered as outlined in their plan.
If you want "free", universal healthcare then you have to do something more drastic. You have to legislate costs of drugs, procedures, etc. And all that will end up doing is providing the insurance companies a guaranteed revenue stream that they will directly lobby to increase ad infinitum.
Element of truth? It's true. It's what happened. People decided to troll the media, and the media bought it - hook, line, and sinker - because they do ZERO fact checking.
The "alt-right" (which itself is just a label the media tries to apply in an attempt to attack people and groups) had nothing to do with it. At all. It was all fake. And the media, who is so concerned about "fake news", did what it does best and pushed fake news.
You go on about some bullshit about feelings and humor and again, the alt-right. I gave you a factual account of what happened. It had nothing to do with feelings or the alt-right. It had to do with the media being played for the fucking idiots that they are. Regardless of your politics, seeing that play out exactly as fucking planned is fucking hilarious.
The "alt right" didn't do anything. The entire thing was a farce created by 4chan. They do it for the lulz. The mainstream media is absolutely retarded and when they see a bunch of Twitter posts about something they jump on it and run with it. For another example, see how they got a bunch of idiots to report on the "OK" hand gesture being a secret symbol for white power.
It's still physically in every chip from the last decade or so. Intel just disabled features based on the SKU. Whether AMT is disabled or "disabled" is unknown.
"Let's see a suit and a recall of millions of laptops. I'd love to see Intel out of business" Apple laptops aren't effected, even if they run Windows in a VM. The chips that Intel ships to Apple don't have AMT enabled. Of course if there is a massive revolt against the OEMs who implemented this because Corporate IT lazy-asses requested it, that means more MacBooks sold, which of course will continue to run on AMT-Free Intel chips. Win-Win... but not for Windows.
The chips that Intel ships to Apple don't have AMT enabled.
I'm destroying some mods on this thread by posting, but I need to correct your very wrong post.
It's still physically present. No one except Intel knows what is actually baked into it and what's actually turned on at any given point. That's the fucking problem. That's why we're in this mess to begin with.
What do you have to hide, politician? Papers please, candidate. Assume the position, bureaucrat.
The only difference is citizens have an actual need, and in most cases an explicit right, to know what their government and its officials are doing. I notice how you make no effort to deny the claims, you just bitch about the fact that info got out. Let me guess - you're with "her".
Even if you had a perfect black, even ignoring black body radiation, it wouldn't be an infinite contrast ratio. It would be undefined. Division by zero is undefined.
The law is literal. Literally. You fucking retard. Further, the law says people have the right to remain silent, not that the government has the right to extract items and materials in certain ways. It's written specifically from the side of people having rights and government being restricted, as opposed to the government having powers and people having privileges, for a fucking reason.
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If they had any evidence of Russian interference, they should have come forward with it.
Rogers said allowing the statute to expire on Dec. 31, unless Congress votes to reauthorize it, would degrade U.S. intelligence agencies' ability to provide "timely warning and insight" on a variety of criminal and national security threats.
Even if we believe they have info they're not sharing, how timely or insightful could it be? The election was half a year ago.
"This is according to a survey -- The 2017 Love List Brand Affinity Index, run by Conde Nast and Goldman Sachs -- that asked 2,345 U.S. millennial and Gen Z shoppers about their fashion, retail and consumer preferences."
Conde Nast and Goldman Sachs? Two names everyone trusts! And they asked a whole 2,345 people! It's guaranteed to be representative!
I mean, who even cares that they're asking "shoppers about their fashion, retail and consumer preferences" yet Snapchat came out as number 1? Snapchat filters count as fashion now!
Bing provides much better results for videos and images, especially if you don't like things being censored/filtered.
As far as I know, at least with AMD cards, there's no more chore.
You run your monitor off of the built-in GPU, and your dedicated GPU is given wholesale to the VM. Then you just run the VM fullscreen when you want to play a game. The game gets full access to the GPU, and your VM player pipes it all back out to the built-in GPU. I don't know if any noticeable latency is introduced, but I do know performance in game is supposed to be as good as native now.
Running network for a Windows box through an external filter will also work, yes. But then that Windows box is tied to physical hardware with whatever activation malarkey they've got going that could trip on upgrades, you can't snapshot it easily, it's not portable, etc. I just think the VM option is easier.
The point is to have games and whatever other Windows-only critical applications you need when you need them, but to get away from Windows and it's "telemetry" whenever you can. With Windows in a VM, you can block the forced updates and spying. Windows as a host OS will subvert your attempts to block these things, and you'd have to run an external firewall. By running Windows in a VM, the external firewall is simply on the host OS.
No, you get a lot more control, and you only run Windows when needed.
You can easily firewall off all of the bullshit "telemetry" from the Windows VM, block the forced updates, etc. while still having it function normally online for games and other shit. With an actual Windows 10 install, you need an external firewall to do this. The host OS handles it in this case. (Though you could still use an external firewall if you're already doing that, or you have multiple Windows 10 shits you need to block, etc.)
You can freeze the Windows VM, snapshot it, move it wherever, etc. easily without having to worry about shit breaking.
You can upgrade your hardware without worrying about tripping Windows Genuine Advantage or whatever the fuck they call their activation scheme now.
Run Linux on a CPU that has a built-in GPU (most Intel CPUs, any AMD "APU").
Also get a real GPU.
Run Windows in a VM, and pass the real GPU directly to the VM.
Are you still going to claim that your "original Motorola RAZR is still going strong"? The original RAZR no longer works on T-Mobile, which has shut down their 2G network.
Are you thinking of the Droid RAZR? This is a Android phone from about 6 years ago that was rebranded as the "Motorola RAZR" for certain SKUs / carriers.
The original Motorola RAZR was a flip phone from 2003 or so. It sold well over 100 million units across its variants. When the remaining RAZRs started going dark a year or two back (due to the legacy networks it's compatible with being shut down) there was a minor bit of interest / nostalgia in them, and that prompted Motorola/Lenovo to release this teaser https://youtu.be/RVzE1YS9UWM . No, they didn't release a new / refreshed RAZR. The date was for their conference where they showed a bunch of shit nobody cared about.
It sounds to me like you're of the opinion that Linux is primarily a desktop OS. You might want to examine some of the history on that.
It sounds to me like you're an idiot.
I never made such a statement. Ubuntu is certainly primarily a desktop OS. It was designed and marketed as being a free (as in beer, speech and fucking "Ubuntu") desktop OS to replace Windows for all sorts of casual users. Ubuntu was the noob-friendly Linux, and for a time it was pretty successful.
Ubuntu is not the distro you want for production servers, cloud-based or otherwise.
Only an idiot uses their $750 phone without a good case. I received my Otterbox Defender for the GS8+ two weeks before I got the phone. I've dropped it several times with no problems.
- Necron69
Only an idiot drops their $750 phone.
My original Motorola RAZR is still going strong and I pretty well drop it onto a hard surface every other week. The back snaps off, the battery falls out. But the screens have never been cracked or damaged. And last week I got it so wet that it wouldn't turn on, so into the bowl of rice it went and the next day it was as good as new!
What network are you on? Most networks have killed off all the legacy shit that the RAZR supports, making it pretty fucking useless.
It's Phucking Over
I mean, we knew that about Canonical already with the way they shat all over Ubuntu. But who the fuck can see/hear "Ubuntu is the default platform on cloud computing. Juju, MaaS, and OpenStack are nearly unstoppable." and then decide to throw money at the person who wrote/said it?
Ubuntu isn't the default for anything. A few years back, it was the default for nerds giving their parents/grandparents a machine that wasn't Windows but was still a usable and familiar desktop. Juju? MaaS? OpenStack? I'd wager most nerds have only ever heard of one of those (OpenStack). And I seriously doubt anyone considers it "unstoppable".
Are you retarded?
The poor and lazy get it for free or dirt cheap. The people in the middle then paid for it all. Premiums and deductibles skyrocketed after the ACA was passed.
The poor and lazy sometimes got free care at emergency rooms or at free clinics, but they STILL get that. Those costs haven't gone down, and those are not directly funded by responsible people paying for their own insurance. The idea was to get the poor people paying SOME amount in, and getting them preventative / early treatment to reduce costs. The problem is many are still paying nothing, those that are paying are getting subsidized by the state, and ultimately the middle class, and preventative care ultimately increases costs. Further, the mandate that requires everyone to be insured just allows insurance companies to jack up the prices because fuck you, you HAVE to pay.
It's a fucking joke! The only "pro" to it is that more people are insured. But ultimately, it's a con in every sense of the word.
From what I've seen personally, quality and availability of care went down. (Current doctor/group is shit, other doctors/groups not taking new patients, across various cities in California.)
What we need to do is simple:
Get rid of the mandate that everyone has to have insurance.
Sever health, dental, vision, etc. insurance from employment.
Require all charges to be identical regardless of insurance policy or lack of insurance. Currently, the uninsured or "underinsured" are given bills with line items that are absolute bullshit. Only the large insurance companies see a bill that somewhat reflects reality.
Require all insurance payouts to be given directly to the insured (or beneficiary) and never directly to the care provider. Most of the time the insurance company never actually pays the amount they claim to.
Stop treating uninsured drug abusers, smokers, alcoholics, hyper fatties, etc. with any public money, either directly or indirectly via requirements to treat at ERs, etc. If they're insured and pay their premiums they should be covered as outlined in their plan.
If you want "free", universal healthcare then you have to do something more drastic. You have to legislate costs of drugs, procedures, etc. And all that will end up doing is providing the insurance companies a guaranteed revenue stream that they will directly lobby to increase ad infinitum.
Does nothing to fix it? Are you fucking kidding me? The ACA has made our healthcare system much, much fucking worse.
Element of truth? It's true. It's what happened. People decided to troll the media, and the media bought it - hook, line, and sinker - because they do ZERO fact checking.
The "alt-right" (which itself is just a label the media tries to apply in an attempt to attack people and groups) had nothing to do with it. At all. It was all fake. And the media, who is so concerned about "fake news", did what it does best and pushed fake news.
You go on about some bullshit about feelings and humor and again, the alt-right.
I gave you a factual account of what happened. It had nothing to do with feelings or the alt-right. It had to do with the media being played for the fucking idiots that they are. Regardless of your politics, seeing that play out exactly as fucking planned is fucking hilarious.
The "alt right" didn't do anything. The entire thing was a farce created by 4chan. They do it for the lulz. The mainstream media is absolutely retarded and when they see a bunch of Twitter posts about something they jump on it and run with it. For another example, see how they got a bunch of idiots to report on the "OK" hand gesture being a secret symbol for white power.
It's still physically in every chip from the last decade or so. Intel just disabled features based on the SKU. Whether AMT is disabled or "disabled" is unknown.
"Let's see a suit and a recall of millions of laptops. I'd love to see Intel out of business"
Apple laptops aren't effected, even if they run Windows in a VM. The chips that Intel ships to Apple don't have AMT enabled.
Of course if there is a massive revolt against the OEMs who implemented this because Corporate IT lazy-asses requested it, that means more MacBooks sold, which of course will continue to run on AMT-Free Intel chips.
Win-Win... but not for Windows.
The chips that Intel ships to Apple don't have AMT enabled.
I'm destroying some mods on this thread by posting, but I need to correct your very wrong post.
It's still physically present. No one except Intel knows what is actually baked into it and what's actually turned on at any given point. That's the fucking problem. That's why we're in this mess to begin with.
Show some evidence. Please. We're waiting. You can't and won't.
What do you have to hide, politician? Papers please, candidate. Assume the position, bureaucrat.
The only difference is citizens have an actual need, and in most cases an explicit right, to know what their government and its officials are doing.
I notice how you make no effort to deny the claims, you just bitch about the fact that info got out. Let me guess - you're with "her".
It's MightyMartian. He doesn't think. He will not and cannot point to a single shred of evidence simply because none exists.
Did somebody say LUDDITE ?
Even if you had a perfect black, even ignoring black body radiation, it wouldn't be an infinite contrast ratio. It would be undefined. Division by zero is undefined.
All modern phones encrypt user storage. The pin/password decrypts the files in user storage (through an intermediary encryption key).
Regardless, even if that weren't the case you're still compelling someone to provide immaterial information. That's unconstitutional.
The law is literal. Literally. You fucking retard.
Further, the law says people have the right to remain silent, not that the government has the right to extract items and materials in certain ways. It's written specifically from the side of people having rights and government being restricted, as opposed to the government having powers and people having privileges, for a fucking reason.