The point is that the IP address would be registered to an end user and the police already know who is at the final end point before conducting a raid. The ISP would be subpoenaed for subscriber info first, not get woken up at 6am with a raid. Nothing at all to do with legal regulations.
And the chances they used MD5 - which even hashed and salted is cracked beyond belief nowadays - rather than something sensible? Minimal.
Can't re-hash an old password without forcing a reset or waiting until the user logs in. I would easily believe Yahoo probably has 500 million accounts that have been dormant since before MD5 was useless.
Only if you didn't recommend that they have someone local do manual recovery of the files. Telling people to wipe their own drives is unconscionable if you don't make them aware of the alternatives.
We're talking about your average user. A file named AwesomeMovie.avi.exe will show up as AwesomeMovie.avi with the most common settings enabled on Windows, and you can set the icon to match a real video file.
Charter doesn't want customer-owned DOCSIS 1 or 2 modems on their network messing things up / slowing things down for other people. I owned my own modem at the time of the switch, and they sent me a new modem without changing my monthly rate. Before that, they only charged a rental fee to modem-renters.
The Cisco modem they sent is not a very good one, however - for a while it required a reboot every few weeks to fix a "lack" of signal. But it still did better than my DOCSIS 2 that I was too cheap to upgrade.
I want to see a new tradition - in addition to debates, where both candidates are subjected to Youtube videos of things they've actually said and are asked to defend it.
Who cares if they don't want to own it? They don't have to keep it. If it's cheaper, it's cheaper. Letting the media companies tell you what you want to watch is not appealing.
Racing costs to the bottom because they've killed all the competition is what it's all about. Now that there are no/few physical disc competitors to their streaming service, they're the primary competitor to the service they want to sell.
I'm going to stand by storage for flat discs still being inexpensive. It's almost entirely a factor of physical space, since the rest is the same regardless of exactly how large the catalog is.
I'll agree with you on proprietary RAID, but not on PCIE SSD. That's one of a few fairly standard choices to either move beyond the speed of SATA or just shrink the interface and hardware.
I wonder how many views a lot of that content was even getting.
They had already bought the movies. Storage for flat discs with no cases is somewhat cheap. If those discs are wearing out and need replaced it's because they're being used. They are systematically dumping a lot of their expansive catalog and aren't really being transparent about why. I suspect it's because their disc service still has a better catalog than streaming - and they wanted to dump DVD entirely from their business and offer whatever anyone could ever want over streaming. And they should have fully known that licensing costs would rise to block that from ever happening.
If the content they strip out isn't something I'll watch anyhow, then it doesn't devalue the service I am getting.
These movies/shows were added to my queue when they still had it - so definitely things I would watch. A major part of their value was being able to pick out obscure Canadian or British comedies and them actually having the discs to send you.
Give bad information to other OS's because Microsoft only responds to incorrect information? I'm not sure that's a good way of doing it. Real-world implementation shows just as much fault on the hardware side as on software, but there's a good reason to be able to target each. It's not like the OS can't lie.
It's really not that hard to replace. "Not replaceable by the customer" really just means not consumer friendly. This comes with the territory when you're custom-molding the battery shape to use as much (otherwise wasted) internal space as possible.
a feature I can think of no justification for, at least as far as the user's benefit is concerned.
Seriously? To provide workaround definitons that fit Microsoft's buggy ACPI implementation. But worse is that motherboard makers just have really poorly copy-pasted code in their DSDT - it's amazing that they even boot up. And yeah - they only fix some bugs for the Microsoft branch, but that's just another bad job on the PC/motherboard maker, not intentional sabotage.
Reverse that. They are an extortion racket that tries to get "subscription" fees to remove bad publicity. The customer is only there as a pawn to get the business to pay up.
The word "PC" has a certain meaning in the computer industry and even the general market. If you buy one, you expect to get an x86-compatible computer. This is like buying a toaster and the slots don't accept bread. Even if it toasts other things, you'd have a hard time getting away with calling it a toaster.
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It can't boot from USB for cloning?
Did you at least ask if they had their recovery key? That would make it possible.
The point is that the IP address would be registered to an end user and the police already know who is at the final end point before conducting a raid. The ISP would be subpoenaed for subscriber info first, not get woken up at 6am with a raid. Nothing at all to do with legal regulations.
And the chances they used MD5 - which even hashed and salted is cracked beyond belief nowadays - rather than something sensible? Minimal.
Can't re-hash an old password without forcing a reset or waiting until the user logs in. I would easily believe Yahoo probably has 500 million accounts that have been dormant since before MD5 was useless.
Nothing - are you aware of which thread you're posting on? Hint: You're the one posting off-topic.
Check your BIOS settings for "Fast Boot" and turn it off.
Only if you didn't recommend that they have someone local do manual recovery of the files. Telling people to wipe their own drives is unconscionable if you don't make them aware of the alternatives.
Wipe the main drive after backing up, put a bootable Windows installer onto a SATA drive and boot off off that. No BIOS settings changes needed.
Did you even try to boot it without a main drive?
We're talking about your average user. A file named AwesomeMovie.avi.exe will show up as AwesomeMovie.avi with the most common settings enabled on Windows, and you can set the icon to match a real video file.
and "weaponized" torrent files. What the actual fuck are they saying?
Someone misread .wmv as .wmd again?
They said that when they issued them initially in most markets, but I think they've backtracked on that since then.
Charter doesn't want customer-owned DOCSIS 1 or 2 modems on their network messing things up / slowing things down for other people. I owned my own modem at the time of the switch, and they sent me a new modem without changing my monthly rate. Before that, they only charged a rental fee to modem-renters.
The Cisco modem they sent is not a very good one, however - for a while it required a reboot every few weeks to fix a "lack" of signal. But it still did better than my DOCSIS 2 that I was too cheap to upgrade.
I want to see a new tradition - in addition to debates, where both candidates are subjected to Youtube videos of things they've actually said and are asked to defend it.
Hillary may not be ideal, but at least she's a plumber.
Just because you are upset with your politician, you don't get your plumber to do the job.
Who cares if they don't want to own it? They don't have to keep it. If it's cheaper, it's cheaper. Letting the media companies tell you what you want to watch is not appealing.
Racing costs to the bottom because they've killed all the competition is what it's all about. Now that there are no/few physical disc competitors to their streaming service, they're the primary competitor to the service they want to sell.
I'm going to stand by storage for flat discs still being inexpensive. It's almost entirely a factor of physical space, since the rest is the same regardless of exactly how large the catalog is.
I'll agree with you on proprietary RAID, but not on PCIE SSD. That's one of a few fairly standard choices to either move beyond the speed of SATA or just shrink the interface and hardware.
I wonder how many views a lot of that content was even getting.
They had already bought the movies. Storage for flat discs with no cases is somewhat cheap. If those discs are wearing out and need replaced it's because they're being used. They are systematically dumping a lot of their expansive catalog and aren't really being transparent about why. I suspect it's because their disc service still has a better catalog than streaming - and they wanted to dump DVD entirely from their business and offer whatever anyone could ever want over streaming. And they should have fully known that licensing costs would rise to block that from ever happening.
If the content they strip out isn't something I'll watch anyhow, then it doesn't devalue the service I am getting.
These movies/shows were added to my queue when they still had it - so definitely things I would watch. A major part of their value was being able to pick out obscure Canadian or British comedies and them actually having the discs to send you.
Give bad information to other OS's because Microsoft only responds to incorrect information? I'm not sure that's a good way of doing it. Real-world implementation shows just as much fault on the hardware side as on software, but there's a good reason to be able to target each. It's not like the OS can't lie.
It's really not that hard to replace. "Not replaceable by the customer" really just means not consumer friendly. This comes with the territory when you're custom-molding the battery shape to use as much (otherwise wasted) internal space as possible.
a feature I can think of no justification for, at least as far as the user's benefit is concerned.
Seriously? To provide workaround definitons that fit Microsoft's buggy ACPI implementation. But worse is that motherboard makers just have really poorly copy-pasted code in their DSDT - it's amazing that they even boot up. And yeah - they only fix some bugs for the Microsoft branch, but that's just another bad job on the PC/motherboard maker, not intentional sabotage.
Windows 7 and up support EFI natively - no need for Boot Camp.
Before you get that far, there will be a Linux distro released that works with the proprietary RAID. They're not encrypting it too, are they?
Reverse that. They are an extortion racket that tries to get "subscription" fees to remove bad publicity. The customer is only there as a pawn to get the business to pay up.
The word "PC" has a certain meaning in the computer industry and even the general market. If you buy one, you expect to get an x86-compatible computer. This is like buying a toaster and the slots don't accept bread. Even if it toasts other things, you'd have a hard time getting away with calling it a toaster.