I enjoy and "old fashioned" any day, but since if you've upgraded to a Fleshlight, Girlfriend, Mistress or Wife, why go back other than just for nostalgia and shits and giggles?
Woah there, little fella. The order goes hand, fleshlight, girlfriend, wife, THEN mistress, then quickly back to hand.
AND the OS drops it in the same physical space and presents the same virtual offset to the process
The physical address is irrelevant -- nobody except the kernel will ever need to know the physical address of anything. The exploit code just needs to find the virtual address the DLL was loaded into.
If you're FILLING UP MEMORY then you need things to be placed into the same physical space as what you just freed up because if they aren't placed into the same physical space, then that means there were OTHER memory changes you can't account for. Those changes would most likely affect your process's virtual memory space (since that process is the one eating up all the memory). Since operating systems tend to manage memory, especially when usages trends toward 100%, this attack seems unreliable at best.
It's not as hard as it sounds. Create a malicious web page that does something to fill memory (create a lot of javascript objects or something). At that time, put an active-X module on the page. This will probably trigger the loading of the Active-X dll, since it's unlikely that the user will have encountered an active-X page since they last launched internet explorer. (if they have, then this exploit might not work).
Then you are ready to launch some exploit code into the active-X DLL, and you know the address you need to smash the stack for fun and profit.
I don't understand how he knows the addresses. Virtual memory and ASLR result in the a process knowing the following:
Data X is at Location A Data Y is at Location B Data Z is at Location C
A,B,C are randomized offsets. If you fill everything up, you still only have a list of random offsets. You could then kill off some objects and then HOPE that the next thing you load (a target DLL for example) fits into the freed-up space AND the OS drops it in the same physical space and presents the same virtual offset to the process. On a 32-bit system the OS MAY reliably stuff shit into the expected offset IF the whole thing doesn't go tits up when you cross the heap/stack line AND no other process dares ask for a byte of memory during your attempts. But on a 64-bit system you're shit out of luck because you'll never fill up the memory.
Regardless, the fix is trivial - when memory is that scarce, juggle shit around a bit when you allocate new crap.
This is likely out of the hands of your sysadmins. Servers should not be running this POS, EOS. But you know, then some CIO reads about it in a magazine somewhere....
Anyway, my condolences to your build farm.
I'm just glad they don't advertise "business solution" software in Skymall.
I wonder how it compares with that 'NeverWet' or Rain X stuff. Apparently, the contact angle of the former for a drop of water is around 160-175 degrees (close to perfect 180), but may have problems with durability (and is pervious to solvents, detergents, soap and high pressure water). The latter - Rain X - is already in commercial use, namely for car windscreens, but only has a contact angle of 110 degrees, so isn't superhydrophobic.
I refer to my earlier post which gave these stats:
I can tell you right now that buying Rain-X wiper blades and their spray-on shit was one of the worst decisions of my life. No better than stock blades and generic glass cleaner.
If you want a gadget to hold your hand through that process get a DS / 3DS and the Americas Test Kitchen software. Infinitely superior to whatever you've cobbled together.
I see Osgeld has already covered your camera system. Your solution is bulkier, more of a hassle than, and less reliable than dozens of different off-the-shelf products. But I guess if your time is worth nothing and you don't care how your truck looks it could be worth it since you maybe saved tens of dollars.
Oh hai. I'm posting this from an EEE PC netbook, about 4 years old, running Mint... something. I dunno, it Just Works. I ruse it regularly for intardtubes, watching things and also stuff, and even some casual programmorzing. Pew, pew.
Small, cheap general purpose devices - especially with real keyboards - do have a point, and that point is to make it easy to debunk your "spunked from my iPad" chucklehead rant, kthnxbye.
Everyone knows your lying because netbooks can't handle the mountain of shitty javascript required to read and post on Slashdot. Furthermore, my computer weighs over 50 pounds, 46 of which are RAW PERFORMANCE, thank you very fucking much.
when 60% or more of the posts so far attempt to make an extremely obvious joke about scissors? This article even says its from the what-no-scissors? department, so the joke isn't even that inventive.
For crying out loud... you guys call yourselves nerds?
What I want to know is what about the lizard and spock PC's.
Fuck off, nerd. Or, in your native language, "Bazinga!".
Does anyone remember netbooks? I don't. Because they were trash and pointless.
In 6-8 months, these cheapo mini PCs will also be trash and pointless, and people will regret having bought them. There's no actual demand for these types of devices. People are just buying them because they're the "new thing" (even though they aren't actually new). They will soon be forgotten except for a handful of devices that a handful of nerds convince themselves they need for various pointless projects that no one gives a shit about.
If you want to do something useful, get a real computer and get on with it. If you want to diddle about like a 14 year old taking a suspiciously long shower, there's about 93572385 Arduino things and 385269 Android things out there that will do just as well as a these new mini PCs. These things are only good if you want undercapable components for use in your sloppy implementation of a stupid and pointless project you copied from the internet.
This isn't a democracy - it's a Constitutional Republic with democratically elected Representation. Worlds of difference.
Ugh. Here's a quick refresher on terminology: Republic. Or at least a very good overview of the definitions that you'll find in dictionaries. Democracy. Or at least a very good overview of the definitions that you'll find in dictionaries. A democracy is a subset of a republic. A direct democracy is a subset of both a republic and a democracy. A "Constitutional Republic with democratically elected Representation" is a subset of both a republic and a democracy. You can't have a democracy without a republic, but you can have a republic without a democracy (leaders chosen at random is one example).
I really wish conservatives wouldn't invent new meanings to words just so that they don't have to update their world view.
1) You absolutely can have a democracy without a republic. (Good luck getting anything done though.) 2) None of what you said changes the fact that the United States of America is not a democracy. You can cry about conservatives pointing that simple fact out to you, or you can deal with the simple truth of the matter. The USA is democratic (in theory - in practice LOL) but it is not a democracy.
Hyperspace travel wouldn't look like anything special since you're fixed in space (or traveling at subluminal speeds) and doing the bulk of your travel in hyperspace. (And let's face it - that's pure fantasy.)
FTL travel wouldn't look like anything at all either since as you approach the speed of light time slows down for you. If you traveled at the speed of light you would reach your destination instantly (and you'd only be stopped by either colliding with something or being slowed by something, likely a black hole sucking you in to your doom). If you traveled faster than the speed of light you would break all of causality. Not gonna happen.
But once you're in, you're in. The "kicking out" part never happens to any main characters of the games in the universe. In spite of them OPENLY showing off their relationships in discussions.
Which is my entire point. Rules are applied selectively. As a result, you end up in situation where powerful, such as your main characters, have free reign to go fucking around (literally) and still stay in the order.
Wrong. Once you're in you can be kicked out. Jedi Master Dooku was kicked out and became Darth Tyranus / Count Dooku.
Anakin Skywalker was a Jedi (but not a Master) and ceased to be one when he turned to the dark side. "Your father... was seduced by the Dark Side of the Force. He ceased to be Anakin Skywalker and became Darth Vader."
You can trot out all the expanded universe crap you want, but it isn't canon, and it never will be, despite what Lucas or Disney say.
KOTOR takes place in the world where rules are not really enforced all that strictly, even though they are in place. So if new kids in the order bang each other and they get found, they face about the same punishment as the kid in military school getting caught. Stop or be kicked out.
But lore on the Old Republic suggests a lot less obedience to the rulebook then at the time frame of the movies. Jedi order (and by extension sith) are not all that powerful, and there are quite a few force users that openly choose other paths and live to tell the tale.
You can't be a Jedi without the Jedi Order granting you that title. The Jedi Order doesn't allow fraternizing. If you fraternize you're not a Jedi.
They'll kick you out and you won't be a Jedi anymore. You'll just be some washed-up force user, juicing on midichlorians at the age of 48 so you can stay on the D-list and play softball with Kathy Griffin on a mid-season special on Fox.
Well, what has accelerometer data to do with quantity of alcohol? I've happened to dance with my glass, does that count as "drinking fast"? It's stupid, no matter how you look at it.
Accelerometers and IR transceivers. It has to do with the number of sips.
And if you go "dancing with your glass"; you've definitely had too many.
These are valid ways to count the number of sips. Now, as for how the number and rate/frequency of sips relates to the rate of alcohol consumption; it should be approximately proportional to thus.
Assuming the unit is programmed with the appropriate estimates for average sip size, and strength of the drink.
If the guy switches from Beer to shots of everclear in one night, without the unit measuring alcohol concentration or being reprogrammed, the unit would become useless, due to how dramatic the difference.
If it were just accelerometer, the functionality could be put in a wristwatch, without risk of ingesting the electronics.
Accelerometers won't give you anywhere near an accurate measure of number of sips, or the volume of each sip. A far better idea would be to use a straw-like or spout-like device. A straw is brain dead simple. A flow meter, a hydrometer, an antenna, and a impeller to charge a battery as you sip. A spout like device would sit on the rim of a glass, and you would drink through it. Same shit, different shape.
But no, lets put accelerometers in plastic and put those in our drinks and hope that the thing can be more useful than that Shake the Baby app.
You seem to imply the EU countries are fiddling the books on the issue...
Wouldn't this report be grossly neglgent to to normalise its data before publishing?
It's an interesting angle but let's credit them with a little intelligence unless you have actual evidence they've failed to take this into account.
tl:dr
citation needed.
It's not the countries that are fiddling the books, it's the people compiling data failing to normalize the data. Each country has a different set of rules for what classifies live birth.
It's the people who are providing the compiled stats that need to provide evidence of, reasoning for, and methodology behind their claims. Go read the study. The most you'll find is an asterisk saying different countries have different rules for determining what a live birth is.
Then go look up the rules in each country. In the US, if it comes out of a woman, isn't an abortion, and it breathes once, moves once, or has a heart that beats once, it's a live birth. In most other countries it has to be reasonably viable to be considered a live birth.
Only assuming that this US-based study completely failed to account for the differing definitions of those measures in different countries.
Every single study on the matter I've ever seen INTENTIONALLY ignores the differences in order to make the US look bad. The best you'll get is an asterisk admitting that there are different standards in place for what gets treated as a live birth (counting as infant mortality if they die) and what doesn't (not being counted as infant mortality).
You don't NEED it, you just want it. It's a "nice to have", not a necessity.
If I could only have 1 drive in a system, I'd pick capacity over speed as well. Of the top of my head, I can only think of 4 games that really annoyed me for loading times, 3 of them being the S.T.A.L.K.E.R. series, and the other being Torchlight.
If you think about it from Valve's point of view, they'd rather you not have to download the same game over and over again.
Have fun waiting for your I/O bottleneck to shit out the bits you need, I guess. If I need more space I just add more drives. I currently have 2 256 GB SSDs in RAID 0 (with a nightly full-disk backup to an external drive so don't even try try to tell me I'm asking for trouble).
I can go to 2 512 drives, or 4 256 GB drives, or whateverthefuckIwant. I am constrained only by the amount of ports in my system (plenty) and number of drives I can shove in the case and hook up to power (also plenty). I am an adult and as such I have adult levels of money, so paying $1 per GB for ludicrous speeds is a no brainer.
Because some people abuse a system, that we should shut an entire system down and let people starve instead.
Right.
"Am I my brother's keeper?"
Yes, yes you are. Civilization is a lot better than the alternative.
-- BMO
Because some people abuse a system, we should punish the abusers and fix the system. We are currently rewarding the abusers and expanding the broken system.
That's retarded on the face of it, you don't even have to start the debate of whether or not the system should exist in the first place.
Every desktop PC ever. Regardless, the claim was about the technical aspects of an SSD vs an HDD, whether or not anyone needs that speed (they do) is moot.
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I enjoy and "old fashioned" any day, but since if you've upgraded to a Fleshlight, Girlfriend, Mistress or Wife, why go back other than just for nostalgia and shits and giggles?
Woah there, little fella.
The order goes hand, fleshlight, girlfriend, wife, THEN mistress, then quickly back to hand.
The physical address is irrelevant -- nobody except the kernel will ever need to know the physical address of anything. The exploit code just needs to find the virtual address the DLL was loaded into.
If you're FILLING UP MEMORY then you need things to be placed into the same physical space as what you just freed up because if they aren't placed into the same physical space, then that means there were OTHER memory changes you can't account for. Those changes would most likely affect your process's virtual memory space (since that process is the one eating up all the memory). Since operating systems tend to manage memory, especially when usages trends toward 100%, this attack seems unreliable at best.
It's not as hard as it sounds. Create a malicious web page that does something to fill memory (create a lot of javascript objects or something). At that time, put an active-X module on the page. This will probably trigger the loading of the Active-X dll, since it's unlikely that the user will have encountered an active-X page since they last launched internet explorer. (if they have, then this exploit might not work).
Then you are ready to launch some exploit code into the active-X DLL, and you know the address you need to smash the stack for fun and profit.
I don't understand how he knows the addresses. Virtual memory and ASLR result in the a process knowing the following:
Data X is at Location A
Data Y is at Location B
Data Z is at Location C
A,B,C are randomized offsets.
If you fill everything up, you still only have a list of random offsets. You could then kill off some objects and then HOPE that the next thing you load (a target DLL for example) fits into the freed-up space AND the OS drops it in the same physical space and presents the same virtual offset to the process. On a 32-bit system the OS MAY reliably stuff shit into the expected offset IF the whole thing doesn't go tits up when you cross the heap/stack line AND no other process dares ask for a byte of memory during your attempts. But on a 64-bit system you're shit out of luck because you'll never fill up the memory.
Regardless, the fix is trivial - when memory is that scarce, juggle shit around a bit when you allocate new crap.
This is likely out of the hands of your sysadmins. Servers should not be running this POS, EOS. But you know, then some CIO reads about it in a magazine somewhere....
Anyway, my condolences to your build farm.
I'm just glad they don't advertise "business solution" software in Skymall.
This is about MAKE, not the Raspberry Pi. If anything, you should be happy that people are going to meet up and discuss useful applications for the Pi. It has great potential and it's sparking a resurgence in the micro PC market. Even VIA's trying to take a stab at it! http://hardware.slashdot.org/story/13/01/17/2246218/via-unveils-79-rock-and-99-paper-arm-pcs
Stuff looks promising indeed, it's just sad that so many people refuse to even consider the possibilities.
I wonder how it compares with that 'NeverWet' or Rain X stuff. Apparently, the contact angle of the former for a drop of water is around 160-175 degrees (close to perfect 180), but may have problems with durability (and is pervious to solvents, detergents, soap and high pressure water). The latter - Rain X - is already in commercial use, namely for car windscreens, but only has a contact angle of 110 degrees, so isn't superhydrophobic.
I refer to my earlier post which gave these stats:
http://hardware.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=2813771&cid=39813937
I can tell you right now that buying Rain-X wiper blades and their spray-on shit was one of the worst decisions of my life. No better than stock blades and generic glass cleaner.
Custom recipe software? Puhlease.
Look up recipe online.
Read recipe.
Cook recipe.
If you want a gadget to hold your hand through that process get a DS / 3DS and the Americas Test Kitchen software. Infinitely superior to whatever you've cobbled together.
I see Osgeld has already covered your camera system. Your solution is bulkier, more of a hassle than, and less reliable than dozens of different off-the-shelf products. But I guess if your time is worth nothing and you don't care how your truck looks it could be worth it since you maybe saved tens of dollars.
Oh hai. I'm posting this from an EEE PC netbook, about 4 years old, running Mint... something. I dunno, it Just Works. I ruse it regularly for intardtubes, watching things and also stuff, and even some casual programmorzing. Pew, pew.
Small, cheap general purpose devices - especially with real keyboards - do have a point, and that point is to make it easy to debunk your "spunked from my iPad" chucklehead rant, kthnxbye.
Everyone knows your lying because netbooks can't handle the mountain of shitty javascript required to read and post on Slashdot.
Furthermore, my computer weighs over 50 pounds, 46 of which are RAW PERFORMANCE, thank you very fucking much.
when 60% or more of the posts so far attempt to make an extremely obvious joke about scissors? This article even says its from the what-no-scissors? department, so the joke isn't even that inventive.
For crying out loud... you guys call yourselves nerds?
What I want to know is what about the lizard and spock PC's.
Fuck off, nerd.
Or, in your native language, "Bazinga!".
Does anyone remember netbooks? I don't. Because they were trash and pointless.
In 6-8 months, these cheapo mini PCs will also be trash and pointless, and people will regret having bought them. There's no actual demand for these types of devices. People are just buying them because they're the "new thing" (even though they aren't actually new). They will soon be forgotten except for a handful of devices that a handful of nerds convince themselves they need for various pointless projects that no one gives a shit about.
If you want to do something useful, get a real computer and get on with it.
If you want to diddle about like a 14 year old taking a suspiciously long shower, there's about 93572385 Arduino things and 385269 Android things out there that will do just as well as a these new mini PCs. These things are only good if you want undercapable components for use in your sloppy implementation of a stupid and pointless project you copied from the internet.
MOD ME DOWN AND MOD DOWN THE TRUTH
This isn't a democracy - it's a Constitutional Republic with democratically elected Representation. Worlds of difference.
Ugh. Here's a quick refresher on terminology:
Republic. Or at least a very good overview of the definitions that you'll find in dictionaries.
Democracy. Or at least a very good overview of the definitions that you'll find in dictionaries.
A democracy is a subset of a republic. A direct democracy is a subset of both a republic and a democracy. A "Constitutional Republic with democratically elected Representation" is a subset of both a republic and a democracy. You can't have a democracy without a republic, but you can have a republic without a democracy (leaders chosen at random is one example).
I really wish conservatives wouldn't invent new meanings to words just so that they don't have to update their world view.
1) You absolutely can have a democracy without a republic. (Good luck getting anything done though.)
2) None of what you said changes the fact that the United States of America is not a democracy. You can cry about conservatives pointing that simple fact out to you, or you can deal with the simple truth of the matter. The USA is democratic (in theory - in practice LOL) but it is not a democracy.
Perhaps if people stopped submitting nonsense petitions there wouldn't be a need to adjust the threshold for an official response.
Perhaps if the administration stopped submitting nonsense responses there wouldn't be a need to troll the fucking shit out of them.
Hyperspace travel wouldn't look like anything special since you're fixed in space (or traveling at subluminal speeds) and doing the bulk of your travel in hyperspace. (And let's face it - that's pure fantasy.)
FTL travel wouldn't look like anything at all either since as you approach the speed of light time slows down for you. If you traveled at the speed of light you would reach your destination instantly (and you'd only be stopped by either colliding with something or being slowed by something, likely a black hole sucking you in to your doom). If you traveled faster than the speed of light you would break all of causality. Not gonna happen.
But once you're in, you're in. The "kicking out" part never happens to any main characters of the games in the universe. In spite of them OPENLY showing off their relationships in discussions.
Which is my entire point. Rules are applied selectively. As a result, you end up in situation where powerful, such as your main characters, have free reign to go fucking around (literally) and still stay in the order.
Wrong. Once you're in you can be kicked out. Jedi Master Dooku was kicked out and became Darth Tyranus / Count Dooku.
Anakin Skywalker was a Jedi (but not a Master) and ceased to be one when he turned to the dark side.
"Your father... was seduced by the Dark Side of the Force. He ceased to be Anakin Skywalker and became Darth Vader."
You can trot out all the expanded universe crap you want, but it isn't canon, and it never will be, despite what Lucas or Disney say.
KOTOR takes place in the world where rules are not really enforced all that strictly, even though they are in place. So if new kids in the order bang each other and they get found, they face about the same punishment as the kid in military school getting caught. Stop or be kicked out.
But lore on the Old Republic suggests a lot less obedience to the rulebook then at the time frame of the movies. Jedi order (and by extension sith) are not all that powerful, and there are quite a few force users that openly choose other paths and live to tell the tale.
You can't be a Jedi without the Jedi Order granting you that title. The Jedi Order doesn't allow fraternizing. If you fraternize you're not a Jedi.
They'll kick you out and you won't be a Jedi anymore. You'll just be some washed-up force user, juicing on midichlorians at the age of 48 so you can stay on the D-list and play softball with Kathy Griffin on a mid-season special on Fox.
where all men have come bfore...
Macduff:
Despair thy charm,
And let the angel whom thou still hast served
Tell thee, Macduff was from his mother’s womb
Untimely ripped.
Macbeth:
Noooooo
ooooooooooooo
ooooooooooooo
ooooooo!
Apple has serious competition now. Back when they were the only game in town they could do as they pleased
The iPhone marketshare right now is highest in Apple history with >53% of the US market. They were never the 'only game in town'.
http://bgr.com/2012/12/21/apple-market-share-u-s-262731/
Apple sells iPhones outside of the US. What is their global marketshare?
(Hint: It's lower than you want it to be, and it's falling.)
Well, what has accelerometer data to do with quantity of alcohol? I've happened to dance with my glass, does that count as "drinking fast"? It's stupid, no matter how you look at it.
Accelerometers and IR transceivers. It has to do with the number of sips.
And if you go "dancing with your glass"; you've definitely had too many.
These are valid ways to count the number of sips. Now, as for how the number and rate/frequency of sips
relates to the rate of alcohol consumption; it should be approximately proportional to thus.
Assuming the unit is programmed with the appropriate estimates for average sip size, and strength of the drink.
If the guy switches from Beer to shots of everclear in one night, without the unit measuring alcohol concentration or being reprogrammed, the unit would become useless, due to how dramatic the difference.
If it were just accelerometer, the functionality could be put in a wristwatch, without risk of ingesting the electronics.
Accelerometers won't give you anywhere near an accurate measure of number of sips, or the volume of each sip.
A far better idea would be to use a straw-like or spout-like device. A straw is brain dead simple. A flow meter, a hydrometer, an antenna, and a impeller to charge a battery as you sip. A spout like device would sit on the rim of a glass, and you would drink through it. Same shit, different shape.
But no, lets put accelerometers in plastic and put those in our drinks and hope that the thing can be more useful than that Shake the Baby app.
You seem to imply the EU countries are fiddling the books on the issue...
Wouldn't this report be grossly neglgent to to normalise its data before publishing?
It's an interesting angle but let's credit them with a little intelligence unless you have actual evidence they've failed to take this into account.
tl:dr
citation needed.
It's not the countries that are fiddling the books, it's the people compiling data failing to normalize the data.
Each country has a different set of rules for what classifies live birth.
It's the people who are providing the compiled stats that need to provide evidence of, reasoning for, and methodology behind their claims.
Go read the study. The most you'll find is an asterisk saying different countries have different rules for determining what a live birth is.
Then go look up the rules in each country. In the US, if it comes out of a woman, isn't an abortion, and it breathes once, moves once, or has a heart that beats once, it's a live birth. In most other countries it has to be reasonably viable to be considered a live birth.
Only assuming that this US-based study completely failed to account for the differing definitions of those measures in different countries.
Every single study on the matter I've ever seen INTENTIONALLY ignores the differences in order to make the US look bad.
The best you'll get is an asterisk admitting that there are different standards in place for what gets treated as a live birth (counting as infant mortality if they die) and what doesn't (not being counted as infant mortality).
It's where Dell, HP, Staples, etc. send off all your old toner and ink cartridges for "recycling".
You don't NEED it, you just want it. It's a "nice to have", not a necessity.
If I could only have 1 drive in a system, I'd pick capacity over speed as well. Of the top of my head, I can only think of 4 games that really annoyed me for loading times, 3 of them being the S.T.A.L.K.E.R. series, and the other being Torchlight.
If you think about it from Valve's point of view, they'd rather you not have to download the same game over and over again.
Have fun waiting for your I/O bottleneck to shit out the bits you need, I guess.
If I need more space I just add more drives.
I currently have 2 256 GB SSDs in RAID 0 (with a nightly full-disk backup to an external drive so don't even try try to tell me I'm asking for trouble).
I can go to 2 512 drives, or 4 256 GB drives, or whateverthefuckIwant. I am constrained only by the amount of ports in my system (plenty) and number of drives I can shove in the case and hook up to power (also plenty). I am an adult and as such I have adult levels of money, so paying $1 per GB for ludicrous speeds is a no brainer.
Lots of them?
Samsung 840 120 GB
Sequential Read 530 MB/s
Sequential Write 130 MB/s
$100
http://amzn.com/B009NHAF06
Samsung 840 250 GB
Sequential Read 540 MB/s
Sequential Write 250 MB/s
$180
http://amzn.com/B009NHAEXE
Samsung 840 Pro 128 GB
Sequential Read 530 MB/s
Sequential Write 390 MB/s
$137
http://amzn.com/B009NB8WR0
Samsung 840 Pro 256 GB
Sequential Read 540 MB/s
Sequential Write 520 MB/s
$250
http://amzn.com/B009NB8WRU
Because some people abuse a system, that we should shut an entire system down and let people starve instead.
Right.
"Am I my brother's keeper?"
Yes, yes you are. Civilization is a lot better than the alternative.
--
BMO
Because some people abuse a system, we should punish the abusers and fix the system. We are currently rewarding the abusers and expanding the broken system.
That's retarded on the face of it, you don't even have to start the debate of whether or not the system should exist in the first place.
Show me a home application the needs it.
Every desktop PC ever.
Regardless, the claim was about the technical aspects of an SSD vs an HDD, whether or not anyone needs that speed (they do) is moot.