OK, so at 100TB you'd start losing total drive capacity, right? I'll assume for the moment that the drives' controller would detect dead blocks/cells during a write operation and would perform the relocation/remapping seamlessly and not lose any data. But when it suddenly 'failed' would there be any chance of recovering anything from it? Or is it just bricked at that point?
..OK, are you sure about that? I'm not totally convinced. Let's be sure: If I put a 1TB SSD in my DVR, which is constantly buffering two HD video streams simultaneously, how long do you estimate the SSD would last before it ran out of write cycles? Keep in mind that a HDD will last 3-5 years in the same application.
Have SSD's reached a point where they have a lifespan comparable to HDD's in the most extreme applications, though? For instance: Just had to replace the HDD in my DVR. It's dual tuner so it's buffering 30 minutes for each channel, perpetually. The HDD lasted for years; would a current-technology SSD last as long before it ran out of write cycles in the flash memory?
Would you please describe this more for me? Something tells me it's a British or Australian/New Zealander thing, never heard of it here in the U.S.; would love to prevent all the waste-of-paper (i.e. advertisements) to 'Resident' from ever entering my mailbox in the first place.
Why can't someone create an adblocker that pulls the content from the Internet but just doesn't display it, or in the case of something Flash or Javascript based, runs it in a sandbox that likewise doesn't actually render it to your screen? Sites and advertisers wouldn't know the difference, they'd get paid, and if you didn't want to see any ads, you wouldn't see them. Give it an option to be point-and-right-click configurable to block specific elements of a page you find unacceptable, for those things that manage to worm their way past the adblocker. Is such a thing possible?
Hey, buddy, don't come crying to me when you come home one day and discover that Clippy has gone through your underwear and sock drawers, neatly folded and organized all the above, discarded the ones with holes in them, ordered replacements, and emailed you a recommendation for brands of non-chlorine bleach to get those nasty stains out of the crotch of your tighty-whities.
My initial reaction to this was to think it's sarcasm, but based on your apparent Slashdot cred (four-digit user ID) and your previous comments (relatively few and far between, and quality, not the usual Internet snark) I deduce you intended this as a compliment. Thank you for that.:-) However I'd rather lose my left nut than get involved in politics, as I am well-known to not suffer fools gladly, and additionally I'm a terrible poker-player, and as such I would not fare well on the World political stage. Really wish there was better to choose from this time around than the worse-than-normal crop of losers and liars, though; in my opinion the U.S. desperately needs a 'None of the above' choice on POTUS ballots. As-is I'll have to vote for a third-party candidate, not because they'll have any chance of winning, but as a political statement, and also so I can neither be held responsible for whatever idiot/loser/crook gets elected, but also so nobody can look down their nose at me for not voting at all.
When Windows 10 doesn't in the least respect your privacy, what's the point of even having SSH capability? It'll just capture all your keystrokes and everything else and report it all to Redmond anyway. Are they even bothering to do this so you can't capture the packets it's sending to it's corporate masters, so you won't be able to tell precisely what data they're stealing from you?
I, and as previously stated, many many others, heartily disagree with that. See previous comments from others regarding the difference between 'secrecy' and 'privacy'. There is nothing excessive or pathological about not wanting the government or faceless corporations digging into the details of my personal life just because I want to share it with a group of people in my social circle on the Internet. Likewise my personal emails and telephone calls between myself and personal friends should be nobody's business and not revealed as a matter of course to people and organizations they're not explicitly intended for. I'm not discussing committing acts of treason or the commission of crimes, or anything else illegal, immoral, or even fattening for that matter, and again that's not the business of anyone not explicitly intended to see such material. The fact that there seems to be an entire generation that doesn't understand that, and that furthermore doesn't seem to understand the difference between 'keeping secrets' and 'preserving privacy', is what's disturbing.
3)- "I have nothing to hide / you're old if you care"
I, and I'll easily assume that many, many others, are getting pretty damned sick and tired of hearing that line from idiots who have been so thoroughly indoctrinated, that they probably don't even consciously know that they're parroting it. It is a fact that, after a certain point in the development of a human being, desiring privacy is a normal, natural, healthy thing for a person to want. Not wanting or caring about your private life being private is an abberation, a sign that something is wrong. This whole faux culture of 'sharing everything with everyone' is some sort of a sickness and it needs to stop.
By the way, cfalcon, just to be sure you understand me: I'm agreeing with you on all counts, not attacking you.
This is the age of the DVR. Who the hell actually watches a broadcast TV show when it's actually scheduled? Everyone records it on a DVR and watches it later. Wait, not allowed to record it? Gee I guess that show doesn't get watched then. I'm sure content providers will just love that, their shows all die in the ratings because people aren't willing to have their lives rotate around a TV show schedule. This is about as stupid as stupid can get; you'd think some politician thought of it, it's about as pants-on-head retarded as wanting backdoors in encryption. Also it won't work, there'll be hacks around it, and it'll just promote the idea of filesharing those shows even more than they would be otherwise. Stupid idea, needs to die, LET PEOPLE RECORD WHAT THEY WANT.
If you actually think that Porsches' position on so-called 'self-driving' cars is a Luddite attitude, then you don't at all get what Porsche is all about in the first place. It's a driver's car, not just transportation. If you don't understand that, then you've either never driven one, or, like someone with no sense of taste being handed a glass of truly fine wine or well-aged single-malt whiskey, you just aren't capable of 'getting it'. For some people an automobile is just transportation; enjoy your Fords, or Chevys, or Toyotas, or Hondas, or whatever other pedestrian brand of car you care to name; Porsche is not for you, never was, never will be. Neither for that matter are BWM, or Audi, or to a certain extent, Mercedes. Likewise you'd never own a Ferarri or a Lamborghini, even if someone gave it to you as a gift. You'd probably sell it and buy an SUV.
I look forward to your comments filled with hate, outrage, insults, lengthy descriptions of my sexual deviances, and my dubious parentage, along with being slammed down to neg one at a velocity of 0.99C. Nothing quite starts off my mornings like having the villagers, with their pitchforks, scythes, and burning torches, come to batter down my door.
I have an add-on that keeps only the cookies I explicitly select, the rest get deleted whenever I close Firefox, or when I manually delete cache and cookies with shift-control-delete. Just get that and have all the 'fine-grained' control you want.
Great idea. Then they can drive all those pesky small-time mom-and-pop businesses out of the market entirely when they can't afford the exhorbitant fees charged per transaction. The world will be such a better place for everyone when it's all Walmart/Target/{insert name of Big Box Store here}.
Nice when someone other than me is the first one saying this. Yes, someone really needs to figure out how to differentiate between users forced to update at gunpoint, and users who (for some unfathomable reason) voluntarily updated. I think once that was done, we'd see that the adoption rate is as dismally low as you'd expect it to be.
What's the big deal? The drone cost 22.2 cents? They probably have a closet full of them. Are they made of copier paper and office supplies? Dang, those guys at NASA sure are creative, making a working drone from office supplies for a little over twenty-two cents each? USA! USA! USA!
Apparently you haven't been reading the rest of the story. Their 'telemetry' can give them access to any file on your computer. Therefore they can get your entire browsing history. It's more spyware plain and simple.
Microsoft has gone full-blown Big Brother/1984; is anyone at all surprised that their newest browser is also spying on you?
Go right ahead and mod me down to negative one troll, Microsoft shills, I expect it of you; wouldn't want your corporate masters to be angry with you, now would you? By the way I'm going to just keep on lambasting Microsoft ad infinitum, and anyone that doesn't like it can, quite frankly, suck my dick.
Hmm, yes and no. While the athleticism is absolutely necessary, the athleticism is actually the easy part of being a bike racer. Learning to race effectively and race smart is the harder part. A casual 'fit' rider, suddenly given a hundred or so watt mechanical advantage, would not win the TdF. They also wouldn't even come close to winning a finishing sprint.
Of course what we're talking about here are Pro Cat-1 riders on the UCI world tour, literally the creme-de-la-creme of competitive cycling. They've all been riding/competing since they were young teens, and have worked their way up from the literal beginners' amateur category to the very top category, and this is now their day-job. They spend 30-35 hours a week training, have top-tier racing skills, and an entire team backing them up. It's so highly competitive that any small advantage they can get (shaving grams of weight off their bikes or off their own bodies, or in this case gaining a handful of extra watts of power, even if it's for a short period of time) can literally make or break their entire career.
The time to have put a stop to spam email was long before Arpanet was even invented, let alone the Internet, or the Internet being opened up for access by the general public. The time to stop spam was way way back when the first bulk advertising mail to 'Resident' first occurred. If the U.S. Postal Service had said 'Hell, no!' to bulk mail, back in the day, we probably wouldn't have spam email now. As the situation stands right now, it's more or less impossible to stop, I'm sorry to say, and as such it's no mystery to me that any company that offers an anti-spam service would think twice about continuing to offer that service. Trying to herd ferrets on Adderall would be easier at this point than trying to stop the tsunami that is spam.
I'd have to think that the reason for that is one of two things: Either it hasn't been passed around all that freely, or nobody cared enough to bother doing it.
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OK, so at 100TB you'd start losing total drive capacity, right? I'll assume for the moment that the drives' controller would detect dead blocks/cells during a write operation and would perform the relocation/remapping seamlessly and not lose any data. But when it suddenly 'failed' would there be any chance of recovering anything from it? Or is it just bricked at that point?
..OK, are you sure about that? I'm not totally convinced. Let's be sure: If I put a 1TB SSD in my DVR, which is constantly buffering two HD video streams simultaneously, how long do you estimate the SSD would last before it ran out of write cycles? Keep in mind that a HDD will last 3-5 years in the same application.
Have SSD's reached a point where they have a lifespan comparable to HDD's in the most extreme applications, though? For instance: Just had to replace the HDD in my DVR. It's dual tuner so it's buffering 30 minutes for each channel, perpetually. The HDD lasted for years; would a current-technology SSD last as long before it ran out of write cycles in the flash memory?
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Would you please describe this more for me? Something tells me it's a British or Australian/New Zealander thing, never heard of it here in the U.S.; would love to prevent all the waste-of-paper (i.e. advertisements) to 'Resident' from ever entering my mailbox in the first place.
Why can't someone create an adblocker that pulls the content from the Internet but just doesn't display it, or in the case of something Flash or Javascript based, runs it in a sandbox that likewise doesn't actually render it to your screen? Sites and advertisers wouldn't know the difference, they'd get paid, and if you didn't want to see any ads, you wouldn't see them. Give it an option to be point-and-right-click configurable to block specific elements of a page you find unacceptable, for those things that manage to worm their way past the adblocker. Is such a thing possible?
Microsoft is the troll here, NOT ME! Will someone please boot the Microsoft shills off the site or something?
Exactly. It's like NK wants to get stomped into the ground or something, which is what's going to happen if they keep this shit up.
Hey, buddy, don't come crying to me when you come home one day and discover that Clippy has gone through your underwear and sock drawers, neatly folded and organized all the above, discarded the ones with holes in them, ordered replacements, and emailed you a recommendation for brands of non-chlorine bleach to get those nasty stains out of the crotch of your tighty-whities.
I wish you were running for POTUS, kheldan.
My initial reaction to this was to think it's sarcasm, but based on your apparent Slashdot cred (four-digit user ID) and your previous comments (relatively few and far between, and quality, not the usual Internet snark) I deduce you intended this as a compliment. Thank you for that. :-) However I'd rather lose my left nut than get involved in politics, as I am well-known to not suffer fools gladly, and additionally I'm a terrible poker-player, and as such I would not fare well on the World political stage. Really wish there was better to choose from this time around than the worse-than-normal crop of losers and liars, though; in my opinion the U.S. desperately needs a 'None of the above' choice on POTUS ballots. As-is I'll have to vote for a third-party candidate, not because they'll have any chance of winning, but as a political statement, and also so I can neither be held responsible for whatever idiot/loser/crook gets elected, but also so nobody can look down their nose at me for not voting at all.
When Windows 10 doesn't in the least respect your privacy, what's the point of even having SSH capability? It'll just capture all your keystrokes and everything else and report it all to Redmond anyway. Are they even bothering to do this so you can't capture the packets it's sending to it's corporate masters, so you won't be able to tell precisely what data they're stealing from you?
there's a case to be made that America has
I, and as previously stated, many many others, heartily disagree with that. See previous comments from others regarding the difference between 'secrecy' and 'privacy'. There is nothing excessive or pathological about not wanting the government or faceless corporations digging into the details of my personal life just because I want to share it with a group of people in my social circle on the Internet. Likewise my personal emails and telephone calls between myself and personal friends should be nobody's business and not revealed as a matter of course to people and organizations they're not explicitly intended for. I'm not discussing committing acts of treason or the commission of crimes, or anything else illegal, immoral, or even fattening for that matter, and again that's not the business of anyone not explicitly intended to see such material. The fact that there seems to be an entire generation that doesn't understand that, and that furthermore doesn't seem to understand the difference between 'keeping secrets' and 'preserving privacy', is what's disturbing.
3)- "I have nothing to hide / you're old if you care"
I, and I'll easily assume that many, many others, are getting pretty damned sick and tired of hearing that line from idiots who have been so thoroughly indoctrinated, that they probably don't even consciously know that they're parroting it. It is a fact that, after a certain point in the development of a human being, desiring privacy is a normal, natural, healthy thing for a person to want. Not wanting or caring about your private life being private is an abberation, a sign that something is wrong. This whole faux culture of 'sharing everything with everyone' is some sort of a sickness and it needs to stop.
By the way, cfalcon, just to be sure you understand me: I'm agreeing with you on all counts, not attacking you.
This is the age of the DVR. Who the hell actually watches a broadcast TV show when it's actually scheduled? Everyone records it on a DVR and watches it later. Wait, not allowed to record it? Gee I guess that show doesn't get watched then. I'm sure content providers will just love that, their shows all die in the ratings because people aren't willing to have their lives rotate around a TV show schedule. This is about as stupid as stupid can get; you'd think some politician thought of it, it's about as pants-on-head retarded as wanting backdoors in encryption. Also it won't work, there'll be hacks around it, and it'll just promote the idea of filesharing those shows even more than they would be otherwise. Stupid idea, needs to die, LET PEOPLE RECORD WHAT THEY WANT.
If you actually think that Porsches' position on so-called 'self-driving' cars is a Luddite attitude, then you don't at all get what Porsche is all about in the first place. It's a driver's car, not just transportation. If you don't understand that, then you've either never driven one, or, like someone with no sense of taste being handed a glass of truly fine wine or well-aged single-malt whiskey, you just aren't capable of 'getting it'. For some people an automobile is just transportation; enjoy your Fords, or Chevys, or Toyotas, or Hondas, or whatever other pedestrian brand of car you care to name; Porsche is not for you, never was, never will be. Neither for that matter are BWM, or Audi, or to a certain extent, Mercedes. Likewise you'd never own a Ferarri or a Lamborghini, even if someone gave it to you as a gift. You'd probably sell it and buy an SUV.
I look forward to your comments filled with hate, outrage, insults, lengthy descriptions of my sexual deviances, and my dubious parentage, along with being slammed down to neg one at a velocity of 0.99C. Nothing quite starts off my mornings like having the villagers, with their pitchforks, scythes, and burning torches, come to batter down my door.
Please identify WHICH add-on.
'selectivecookiedelete' v4.1.1
Just checked it, it's still doing it's job, keeping the whitelisted cookies, deleting everything else.
..can both go fuck themselves, sideways, with a rusty chainsaw.
End all NSA mass surveillance, now!
I have an add-on that keeps only the cookies I explicitly select, the rest get deleted whenever I close Firefox, or when I manually delete cache and cookies with shift-control-delete. Just get that and have all the 'fine-grained' control you want.
Great idea. Then they can drive all those pesky small-time mom-and-pop businesses out of the market entirely when they can't afford the exhorbitant fees charged per transaction. The world will be such a better place for everyone when it's all Walmart/Target/{insert name of Big Box Store here}.
Nice when someone other than me is the first one saying this.
Yes, someone really needs to figure out how to differentiate between users forced to update at gunpoint, and users who (for some unfathomable reason) voluntarily updated. I think once that was done, we'd see that the adoption rate is as dismally low as you'd expect it to be.
What's the big deal? The drone cost 22.2 cents? They probably have a closet full of them. Are they made of copier paper and office supplies? Dang, those guys at NASA sure are creative, making a working drone from office supplies for a little over twenty-two cents each? USA! USA! USA!
Apparently you haven't been reading the rest of the story. Their 'telemetry' can give them access to any file on your computer. Therefore they can get your entire browsing history. It's more spyware plain and simple.
Microsoft has gone full-blown Big Brother/1984; is anyone at all surprised that their newest browser is also spying on you?
Go right ahead and mod me down to negative one troll, Microsoft shills, I expect it of you; wouldn't want your corporate masters to be angry with you, now would you? By the way I'm going to just keep on lambasting Microsoft ad infinitum, and anyone that doesn't like it can, quite frankly, suck my dick.
Hmm, yes and no. While the athleticism is absolutely necessary, the athleticism is actually the easy part of being a bike racer. Learning to race effectively and race smart is the harder part. A casual 'fit' rider, suddenly given a hundred or so watt mechanical advantage, would not win the TdF. They also wouldn't even come close to winning a finishing sprint.
Of course what we're talking about here are Pro Cat-1 riders on the UCI world tour, literally the creme-de-la-creme of competitive cycling. They've all been riding/competing since they were young teens, and have worked their way up from the literal beginners' amateur category to the very top category, and this is now their day-job. They spend 30-35 hours a week training, have top-tier racing skills, and an entire team backing them up. It's so highly competitive that any small advantage they can get (shaving grams of weight off their bikes or off their own bodies, or in this case gaining a handful of extra watts of power, even if it's for a short period of time) can literally make or break their entire career.
The time to have put a stop to spam email was long before Arpanet was even invented, let alone the Internet, or the Internet being opened up for access by the general public. The time to stop spam was way way back when the first bulk advertising mail to 'Resident' first occurred. If the U.S. Postal Service had said 'Hell, no!' to bulk mail, back in the day, we probably wouldn't have spam email now. As the situation stands right now, it's more or less impossible to stop, I'm sorry to say, and as such it's no mystery to me that any company that offers an anti-spam service would think twice about continuing to offer that service. Trying to herd ferrets on Adderall would be easier at this point than trying to stop the tsunami that is spam.
I'd have to think that the reason for that is one of two things: Either it hasn't been passed around all that freely, or nobody cared enough to bother doing it.