$34 gets an 80 GB HDD $50 gets an ATi 4650 with 512 MB of slow ass RAM $16 for a DVD drive (let's face it - games come on DVDs now, and the only thing cheaper was a PATA CD ROM)
We're at $100!
$35 for the cheapest motherboard $40 for a 1.8 GHz single-core Conroe (The cheapest mobo/cpu combo was over $80) $18 for the cheapest 2 GB ram kit $24 for the cheapest case $16 for the cheapest PSU with 2 SATA connectors
That's $233. No free shipping on anything, either, like you get with Dell.
You won't be playing any modern games on this turd.
Oh, and you need a mouse, keyboard, OS license, and monitor. You get all this included with the $500 Dell (as well as a second OS license, LOL). Oh, and the Dell blows this piece of shit out of the water performance-wise.
"I LOVE the rail systems in Europe." An American rail system you will not love.
"I LOVE the relaxation, the space, the reasonable air and relaxed rules (unlike plane travel)" You will get none of these on an American rail system.
"and the fact that I get to see lots of places without having to be stuck in traffic in them." An American rail system will still have you waiting and being stuck in traffic once you get off the train.
"It's damn nice to go by rail." It won't be for a national US system.
You use an old mouse, keyboard, cd drive, hard drive, case, monitor, etc. You steal windows / scrap your existing machine's installation. (Or you could run WINE, but support isn't perfect, especially for newer titles or STEAM)
When people claim you can build PC X for $Y, they always leave out the details. Most people DON'T have spare parts lying around, or, if they do, don't WANT to use their shitty old parts.
I always build my own. But there is no denying that for budget-based builds, Dell wins every fucking time, plus you get damned easy support and you won't have to dig through some Taiwanese site or wait for Newegg to process an RMA. Their hardware (motherboards and power supplies) are lame, sure. But the CPU, GPU, and other components are the same shit you would get off of Newegg. The cases (interior) are well designed now (yeah, they used to be terrible) and give you room to upgrade later. Plus, the damned thing comes built. Sure, it's fun building a PC, but I have yet to experience a blood-free build, and wire management is always a bitch.
Case in point, for $499:
Intel Core 2 Duo E7400 (2.8GHz, 3M, L2Cache, 1066FSB) 2GB Dual Channel DDR2 SDRAM 800MHz - 2DIMMs Dell 22 inch Widescreen E2209WFP Analog Flat Panel Display (It says analog, but yes, it has DVI-D) 250GB Serial ATA Hard Drive (7200RPM) w/DataBurst Cache 256MB ATI Radeon HD 3450 -supports DVI,HDMI,VGA Connections Single Drive: 16X (DVD+/-RW) Burner Drive FREE Genuine Windows Vista Business Bonus w/ XP Professional downgrade Installed
The OS licenses add a lot to the cost, sure, but most people need them.
Card readers often don't need cameras most of the time, sadly, since your pin is actually on the fucking card (when it shouldn't be, when the banks say it isn't) in many cases.
Finger print readers will be installed over fingerprint readers, cameras will be installed over cameras, and probulators will be installed over probulators.
Authentication MUST be done with secret information. Any biometric that can be unobtrusively obtained is essentially public information.
No, it's the problem of the person and the bank. If some schlub loses his ATM card he's required to report it in order to not be responsible for fraudulent charges. Banks are insured, and any sizable theft is pursued.
I have free checking, free savings, credit cards with no fees that I have never and will never pay interest on, and CDs. Everything is backed by the FDIC. If some retard (let's take Sarah Palin as an example) gets he shit stolen, I don't lose a dime. The only fucking way it could affect me is in lower interest rates on my CDs and savings, but that shit is affected far more (orders of magnitude) by other things.
The only thing that could realistically happen is some former bank employee selling information. Under my scenario though, that shit won't be happening because once you terminate your employee you revoke their access and (if it's a person with knowledge of the encryption scheme) you change your crypt routines.
"My name is Bob, and I would like to access your services."
"Hello Bob, please prove you are Bob."
"Ok, here is my password."
"Thank you Bob, please wait while I check your authorizations. Ok Bob, you now have access."
So fucking simple.
If people can't be bothered to remember passwords, that's their problem. If people choose shitty passwords, that's their problem. If people get their shit snooped sniffed or keylogged, that's their problem.
We have methods of helping retarded users - such as enforcing decent passwords, requiring passwords to be changed, and requiring additional out-of-band passwords to prevent keyloggers and other snooping bullshit.
Regardless of what added layers you add, the key relies in making sure that the system and the user know something that no one else does.
Last I heard, they were logging our keystrokes via the sound of our typing, the em radiation, and the noise in our power lines. Certificate Authorities are just centralized problems waiting to happen. Public-key / private-key schemes are open to many of the same attacks as a password (a private key is a long password), as well as brute force attacks that can be run out-of-band without anyone being the wiser.
Keep the secret in your head.
Secure the secret on the other end. If you're using a typical password scheme, make sure that you're not using bog standard encryption routines that some bum can crack running JohnTheRipper once he grabs the hases. When your IT guy gets fired for playing WoW all day, change your encryption routines.
As the author puts it, rootkits lie "at the intersection of several related disciplines: computer security, forensics, reverse-engineering, system internals, and device drivers."
Subdivide all you want - computer science is a single discipline.
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SO MUCH FAIL
Let's grab the cheapest shit on Newegg.
$34 gets an 80 GB HDD
$50 gets an ATi 4650 with 512 MB of slow ass RAM
$16 for a DVD drive (let's face it - games come on DVDs now, and the only thing cheaper was a PATA CD ROM)
We're at $100!
$35 for the cheapest motherboard
$40 for a 1.8 GHz single-core Conroe
(The cheapest mobo/cpu combo was over $80)
$18 for the cheapest 2 GB ram kit
$24 for the cheapest case
$16 for the cheapest PSU with 2 SATA connectors
That's $233. No free shipping on anything, either, like you get with Dell.
You won't be playing any modern games on this turd.
Oh, and you need a mouse, keyboard, OS license, and monitor. You get all this included with the $500 Dell (as well as a second OS license, LOL). Oh, and the Dell blows this piece of shit out of the water performance-wise.
Between soma and orgy-porgy, I don't think it would be too bad.
It's the transition that would suck.
What the FUCK.
$200 will not get you a gaming PC.
Then why did they lose?
If your answer is "because the judge is a corrupt moron", then what hope do you have for an appeal?
The EU keeps fining Microsoft for the same thing.
They just make shit up and say "Ok, actually, you have to pay 70 million MORE, then you're free".
The EU is treating MS like a piggy bank, regardless of any violations they've actually committed.
You took your car to a dealer for maintenance?
Dude, that's on the level of Hank Hill's "special discount" </whisper>
"I LOVE the rail systems in Europe."
An American rail system you will not love.
"I LOVE the relaxation, the space, the reasonable air and relaxed rules (unlike plane travel)"
You will get none of these on an American rail system.
"and the fact that I get to see lots of places without having to be stuck in traffic in them."
An American rail system will still have you waiting and being stuck in traffic once you get off the train.
"It's damn nice to go by rail."
It won't be for a national US system.
Don't bother - these morons will spout off "making available" and "download != lost sale" and "omg my rights!" endlessly.
Piracy is illegal.
Pirates have some retarded need to justify their actions.
Hell, even the ones in Somalia try to blame someone else.
Fail.
Joan was quizzical, studied pataphysical. Science in the home.
You can put a PC to sleep and keep the NIC alive, thus RDP will be able to wake it.
It's what I do.
I hear you're majoring in medicine.
Bullllllllllllllllllllllshiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiit.
$200 IF
You use an old mouse, keyboard, cd drive, hard drive, case, monitor, etc.
You steal windows / scrap your existing machine's installation. (Or you could run WINE, but support isn't perfect, especially for newer titles or STEAM)
When people claim you can build PC X for $Y, they always leave out the details. Most people DON'T have spare parts lying around, or, if they do, don't WANT to use their shitty old parts.
I always build my own. But there is no denying that for budget-based builds, Dell wins every fucking time, plus you get damned easy support and you won't have to dig through some Taiwanese site or wait for Newegg to process an RMA. Their hardware (motherboards and power supplies) are lame, sure. But the CPU, GPU, and other components are the same shit you would get off of Newegg. The cases (interior) are well designed now (yeah, they used to be terrible) and give you room to upgrade later. Plus, the damned thing comes built. Sure, it's fun building a PC, but I have yet to experience a blood-free build, and wire management is always a bitch.
Case in point, for $499:
Intel Core 2 Duo E7400 (2.8GHz, 3M, L2Cache, 1066FSB)
2GB Dual Channel DDR2 SDRAM 800MHz - 2DIMMs
Dell 22 inch Widescreen E2209WFP Analog Flat Panel Display (It says analog, but yes, it has DVI-D)
250GB Serial ATA Hard Drive (7200RPM) w/DataBurst Cache
256MB ATI Radeon HD 3450 -supports DVI,HDMI,VGA Connections
Single Drive: 16X (DVD+/-RW) Burner Drive
FREE Genuine Windows Vista Business Bonus w/ XP Professional downgrade Installed
The OS licenses add a lot to the cost, sure, but most people need them.
"Kyocera recently unveiled a kinetic energy-powered phone with a flexible OLED display that can be folded up like a wallet."
Uh, no.
They unveiled a concept.
Nothing to see here folks, move along.
You're using windows binaries?!
OMFG YOUR COMPUTER IS NOT FREE!
Filter error: Don't use so many caps. It's like YELLING.
New York isn't looking for ideas for new taxis.
They're looking for ideas for new taxes.
Suggestions will be never actually be implemented well, fully, or in more than a few cabs, but they'll tax the fuck out of you for them!
Uh, the actual reason is that the laborers just drop trou and let loose in the field.
Instead of people shitting out in the fields you'll have robots draining oil out in the fields.
Pick your poison.
Card readers often don't need cameras most of the time, sadly, since your pin is actually on the fucking card (when it shouldn't be, when the banks say it isn't) in many cases.
Finger print readers will be installed over fingerprint readers, cameras will be installed over cameras, and probulators will be installed over probulators.
Authentication MUST be done with secret information.
Any biometric that can be unobtrusively obtained is essentially public information.
No, it's the problem of the person and the bank.
If some schlub loses his ATM card he's required to report it in order to not be responsible for fraudulent charges. Banks are insured, and any sizable theft is pursued.
I have free checking, free savings, credit cards with no fees that I have never and will never pay interest on, and CDs. Everything is backed by the FDIC. If some retard (let's take Sarah Palin as an example) gets he shit stolen, I don't lose a dime. The only fucking way it could affect me is in lower interest rates on my CDs and savings, but that shit is affected far more (orders of magnitude) by other things.
The only thing that could realistically happen is some former bank employee selling information. Under my scenario though, that shit won't be happening because once you terminate your employee you revoke their access and (if it's a person with knowledge of the encryption scheme) you change your crypt routines.
Telephony? WTF are you talking about?
Yeah it's a retarded policy, and it exists because we have to cater to the retards.
How fucking hard is it?
"My name is Bob, and I would like to access your services."
"Hello Bob, please prove you are Bob."
"Ok, here is my password."
"Thank you Bob, please wait while I check your authorizations. Ok Bob, you now have access."
So fucking simple.
If people can't be bothered to remember passwords, that's their problem.
If people choose shitty passwords, that's their problem.
If people get their shit snooped sniffed or keylogged, that's their problem.
We have methods of helping retarded users - such as enforcing decent passwords, requiring passwords to be changed, and requiring additional out-of-band passwords to prevent keyloggers and other snooping bullshit.
Regardless of what added layers you add, the key relies in making sure that the system and the user know something that no one else does.
Last I heard, they were logging our keystrokes via the sound of our typing, the em radiation, and the noise in our power lines.
Certificate Authorities are just centralized problems waiting to happen.
Public-key / private-key schemes are open to many of the same attacks as a password (a private key is a long password), as well as brute force attacks that can be run out-of-band without anyone being the wiser.
Keep the secret in your head.
Secure the secret on the other end. If you're using a typical password scheme, make sure that you're not using bog standard encryption routines that some bum can crack running JohnTheRipper once he grabs the hases. When your IT guy gets fired for playing WoW all day, change your encryption routines.
Authentication requires identification.
Biometrics are useless as identification since, as we have seen, they are easily spoofed.
Biometrics are shit for everything.
As the author puts it, rootkits lie "at the intersection of several related disciplines: computer security, forensics, reverse-engineering, system internals, and device drivers."
Subdivide all you want - computer science is a single discipline.
Maybe you should look at the definition of a scientific theory.
Go out and count them all.
You may be surprised which wins.