It's an inevitable idea. Also: this 3d printer itself needs a big logistics chain. Not only the printer itself which you can probably buy in 10 years from AliExpress COD Shenzen, but the things like the resins, stable power source, etc. And they haven't made anything that goes boom yet either, cause a 3d printer is not a good chemical laboratory. Even the propellant is lacking. What good is a grenade that doesn't go boom? Shooting training grenades isn't very scary.
Just like producing a normal rifle or other firearm once upon a time was high-tech precision manufacturing, making black powder needed lots of bird shit and caused regular explosions in the factory (more high tech), is now something hobbyists can do. So improving technology will making other stuff reachable by amateurs, in this case, grenades.
>Do we prefer a standardized, cross-platform approach developed with input from users or do we prefer the Sony rootkit approach? Those are the realistic options we can actually choose from. The standards bodies can't prevent DRM, they can only offer a reasonable way of doing it or leave publishers to implement it in all kinds of unreasonable ways.
EME is neither a viable standard nor is it in any way cross-platform and there was zero input from users. The input came from Adobe, Microsoft, Google, etc. EME is basically something like NPAPI. it has a few API/html statements and is otherwise a proprietary blackbox for only very specific OSes, browsers, etc. In this it works exactly 100% the same as Flash did: both have the same propeties. EME is one of the unreasonable ways.
This has happened again with EME: you get non-standard BLOBs which are totally and utter proprietary, exactly the same thing like Flash. And those BLOBs only work on approximately 3 OSes: Windows, some Linux, some Apple OS. And each of them on different ones and only very select few Browsers on that platform.Basically the Big Four and nowhere else. If it works on another browser, then only cause said browser actually is one of the Big Four browsers but with a different theme on top.
"The web has to be universal, to function at all. " As soon as you introduce selective DRM for selected platforms and devices, it's not universal anymore.
"but also the well polished ideas of the century." Something with DRM is always never an idea of the century cause it will never last a century before it's not possible to consume that idea anymore: it is locked away with DRM, illegal to decrypt.
While this is all correct: it doesn't matter at all.
Netflix already has to do all this on top of the geoblocking they do in order to make Hollywood happy. So stopping one of the two reasons why they block different things in different countries is still a win. Only one blocking reason instead of two.
And those 3-4 people lied to us, everytime. Always. They still do on CNN, Fox, NYT; WaPo etc. But by now we also have more people telling us about the news. Yes there is more chaos now, but there is also more truth.
E.g. all the mainstream news about Syria. About how the poor people of Aleppo were bombed by the evil Russians, massacred by the monstrous syrian army. Was shown on every one of the mentioned 3-4 news channels.
All lies.
So good riddance to those 3-4 people from Fox, CNN, NYT, WaPo and fuck them sideways.
One can debate if it's WoW that should depict computer games. Personally I would have chosen Pong oder PacMan, probably Pong. But computer gaming has redefined the world, for better or worse.
MP3 did change the world cause it was first. Just like the cars 100 years ago changed the world, even when a horse and buggy was waayyy more practical and faster and cheaper then. Mrs. Benz' car was simply shit when she made her historical drive to relatives, but the concept of cars changed the world. Same with MP3s. AAC is irrelevant: one in a long string of different forgettable formats. MP3 was the first psychoacoustic format unlike mp2, where you leave out stuff that doesn't matter subjectively, same as with all our video codecs. The only competitor there is JPEG, which IIRC was before MP3, another lossy format. Only that crucial innovation allows us to have digital media across a network, medialibraries in our pockets, etc.
Tho there should have been a few other inventions, more important than all the consumer facing things. Like COBOL, like spreadsheets. Stuff that changed society behind the curtain but changed it nevertheless. But it's easier to bring in people and especially kids going to the museum (schoolchildren who have to go to a educational day trip) with consumer and especially kid facing technologies. They can relate to WoW, better than to Pong, and COBOL ist totally alien to every one of them and therefore booooring.
Cause with Javascript, the user computes all the stuff and pays the electricity. Serverside drives up costs. Amazon wants payment for every single cycle they compute on your behalf.
I don't give a fuck about anything server based like google photos. I want/usr/bin/raisr or it's just another something to enslave users, chain and binding them to an overlord.
You seriously think patent trolls are as bad as genocide? Slavery? Premeditated murder?
You are claiming I've wrote things I didn't write. That is another evil, not pure evil tho. Genocide: the people at Wannsee Conference https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... very clearly and methodically planned genocide, planning similarly to patent trolls: pure evil Slavery: slavers also reason it all out how to do it so they can keep other humans in perpetual slavery. More pure evil Premeditated murder: another thing where someone carefully and rationally plans out an evil deed. Yet another pure evil
Raping and murdering a girl: even when the person actually plans carefully and all, e.g. a serial killer, he is still totally batshit insane and does it for insane reasons. Or the person does it at a whim of sorts, not planning not caring for the consequences. Evil and of course stupid, but not pure evil.
Pure evil requires forethought and actualy knowledge, before the deed, to know it's evil. "I do a bad, evil thing, but I do it anyways and to the best of my abilities I do this evil thing". That's pure evil instead of normal evil.
I kinda disagree. A murdering rapist is a totally batshit crazy insane individual. So far off the reservation there is not even a planet in sight. No standard of behaviour can be expected from such a person. Probably cannot really comprehend what he's doing.
A patent troll however is a totally sane and calculating individual according to any textbook. However he does his actions anyways. That is pure evil.
No. Intel fabbing advantage has been shrinking lately. Back when Intel was doing 22nm, everyone else was still at 28/32nm for 2 years or so, if not longer due to skipping 22nm by others, before they caught up with Intel tech.
Right now, Intel is at 14nm while the competitors (mainly smartphone CPUs) are too. AMD took ages to get away from 28nm, only doing it now with Ryzen due to their abysmal CPU design probably. So ~2012 Intel was way ahead. Nowadays the competitors took longer to get to 14/16nm than Intel, but they are still there at the same time as Intel. Intel of course touts "we have smaller gate lengths than the others!". It might even be true, but they still have lost advantage. Back then when they had the advantage, they didn't make 4 CPUs from the same process either: the did a brutal, fast tick-tock model shocking everyone. As the article itself touts: smaller structures still give you monetary advantage: you can produce more chips per same wafer. So the correct way to maximizse profits would still be to use the smaller process if you can. And Intel can't.
It's normal Android ransomware. "Good" ransomware doesn't care on what Android it runs, be it your phone, tablet, TV, smartwatch or car: it's all the same system, same API. Since that old software in this old TV never got any security updates by the manufacturer, it was probably much easier to root for the malware to install itself very deepy into the system too.
Moore's Law isn't dead, that's why Intel already has the 3rd 14nm CPU family and is planning another one, Coffee Lake, in 14 nm before moving on to 10nm. Intel isn't making 4 different CPU families on 14nm cause the process works so well and is so cheap.
First 14nm, Broadwell, was released 2014, released abysmally late and very underperforming, and the first 10nm is expected to be released 1h 2018. They may sample a few trial wafers in 2017, but there won't be a chip sold. 4 years is not what Moore's Law promised back then, and the Tick-Tock model is totally dead and buried as well.
This IEEE Spectrum rag sounds worse like Popular Mechanic with that much paid cheerleading bullshit.
CM people did the hard stuff before Cyanogen Inc. came along, there is reasonable hope they will do it after Cyanogen Inc. is gone as well. CM isn't even the only group doing custom Android Firmwares, just the biggest.
Cyanogen Inc. the company is dead and bankrupt. Good riddance. This has of course repercussions for the community project cyanogenmod as well. Especially for the name "cyanogen" itself, which belongs to the company but also infrastructure like servers which were used by the community project. But the people behind cyanogenmod, the ones doing the actual work for many phones, not the guys who wanted to simply sell that work, will continue:
A quote from a blog entry at https://www.cyanogenmod.org/bl... "Embracing that spirit, we the community of developers, designers, device maintainers and translators have taken the steps necessary to produce a fork of the CM source code and pending patches. This is more than just a ‘rebrand’. This fork will return to the grassroots community effort that used to define CM while maintaining the professional quality and reliability you have come to expect more recently."
So the name cyanogen/cyanogenmod is dead, the project itself is hopefully not.
Bittorrent will not supplant current methods. The transmission costs are marginal. What costs the real money are the right to transmit, ie. licensing fees. Only for "free" content, the transmission costs matter, things like youtube or as here, public channels, shopping channels, etc. ie where the content is free or pretty much worthless. Besides: streaming via bittorrent exists for quite some time now, but as all things bittorrent which is at the actual technical edge, it's streaming illegal content: Popcorn Time streams movies, tv shows, etc. for at least 2 years now.
Any soviet defector will be in contact with US intelligence aka FBI until the rest of his life, even if he never ever sees them or speaks to them That's their fscking JOB to monitor former agents of another country. So Snowden has no influence whatsoever that he is under permanent surveillance of a counterintelligence agency. Snowden telling them "I was subcontracted to the NSA" is "intelligence", nothing surprising about that.
They have, but they have to have their own geek advising them about it. You will need to sacrifice convenience and possibly even invest some money: buy a used notebook as a computer which deals with the protest using Veracrypt, leaving your normal desktop for other things. Buy a 2nd used phone (less than hundred bucks) with prepaid for the protest only and run CM on it with encryption. Don't use any western companies for messaging. If you can't use decentralized messaging, then use ones in countries like Russia, China or 3rd world. Use normal services like facebook only as PR and as a gateway to the inner network. These are all easy things to do, even if less convenient than normal.
These things are not rocket science but they increase the difficulty for attackes by magnitudes.
By now it should be public knowledge for any protester against any government that their personal communication devices and the communication itself will be always under attack. Whoever goes to such protests and especially anyone who is networking with others about it, needs to encrypt all devices and all communications. Not just at the protest itself but in their private life too. One is always under threat to get arrested. If one is arrested the cellphone is the first thing confiscated and of course tried to access. Any US protester who uses US communication services like google, whatsapp, facebook for anything is simply a dumb fool. How many NSLs have been granted wrt Standing Rock already?
Governments infiltrated protest movements 50 years ago with COINTELPRO including assaults on people, did the same in the 90s cross border in Europe, fathered children with activists even and now of course will attack all communications, in meatspace and online. Attacking communications is the first step since it's easy: they own the means of communication. Google hast to comply, since it's the law. They didn't change the amount of effort they will go to, they just changed their tactics. The amount of effort is comparable to spies going deep undercover, to live whole lives over decades to infiltrate, so eavesdropping on communication is a very small and minor step.
There are not even the barest shreds of any proofs about russian influence or wrongdoing. However the allegations all come from proven professional liars and torturers who then steal and kill to hide their wrongdoings. All of the infamous 17 agencies lie pretty much everytime they go public with anything political. How many russian speakers work at the CIA who can write russian comments? "Rasputin" is now considererd a proof? How many attack servers of the NSA and CIA are located in former soviet republics? Weren't stuxnet servers there too? The CIA/NSA has a lot more reason to do some hacking their own election than Russia: there simply is no reason for Russia to hack cause the conflicts they are in, they are actually winning, unlike the US no matter who wins the election. Also no mather who wins it, the war in the middle east will go on, maybe a little less bloody since the US won't send weapons to Al-Qaeda aka al-Nusra via Saudi Arabia. Russia has realistic goals, and goes rationally to achieve them. The US does not but finances and supports with weapons instead the people they are claiming to fight for the last 15 years.
So if any country wishes to meddle in any election by telling the truth about any sides corruption, I say: more power to them. Even if it is some CIA guy who publicized the campaign emails. I'd be happy if they did the same for the republicans and their campaings, but I guess that hacker there already did a lot for the american public so we can't demand more from him.
The US has meddled in other countries' elections especially their allies, since at least WW2 (Greece, Italy for example), toppled by now probably dozens of governments in clandestine operations and in bloody coups on in middle and southern america alone. So how are they to accuse anyone of doing it? And doing it with the truth instead of bullets like the US customarily does?
Half a watt when "off". Whenever you turn a PC off, it's not off, the ATX standard specifies a 5Vsb (sb=standby) powerline for your PC. Old Baby AT hat a real 120 or 230V powerswitch at the front of the case, meaning you routed a cable with 230V through your case. ATX did away with it since it's sorta dangerous for inexperienced people, making all the nasty voltages contained in the small, shielded power supply case. But now you need a standby circuit to actually turn on your PC, then there are things like Wake on LAN, etc, which also need it. For this: 0,5W are allowed, not more.
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Supposedly it was :
https://twitter.com/FioraAeter...
http://x86.renejeschke.de/html...
Writes to memory which bypass the cache hierarchy totally and are very much processor implementation specific in their speeds.
It's an inevitable idea.
Also: this 3d printer itself needs a big logistics chain. Not only the printer itself which you can probably buy in 10 years from AliExpress COD Shenzen, but the things like the resins, stable power source, etc.
And they haven't made anything that goes boom yet either, cause a 3d printer is not a good chemical laboratory. Even the propellant is lacking. What good is a grenade that doesn't go boom?
Shooting training grenades isn't very scary.
Just like producing a normal rifle or other firearm once upon a time was high-tech precision manufacturing, making black powder needed lots of bird shit and caused regular explosions in the factory (more high tech), is now something hobbyists can do. So improving technology will making other stuff reachable by amateurs, in this case, grenades.
>Do we prefer a standardized, cross-platform approach developed with input from users or do we prefer the Sony rootkit approach? Those are the realistic options we can actually choose from. The standards bodies can't prevent DRM, they can only offer a reasonable way of doing it or leave publishers to implement it in all kinds of unreasonable ways.
EME is neither a viable standard nor is it in any way cross-platform and there was zero input from users. The input came from Adobe, Microsoft, Google, etc.
EME is basically something like NPAPI. it has a few API/html statements and is otherwise a proprietary blackbox for only very specific OSes, browsers, etc.
In this it works exactly 100% the same as Flash did: both have the same propeties.
EME is one of the unreasonable ways.
This has happened again with EME: you get non-standard BLOBs which are totally and utter proprietary, exactly the same thing like Flash.
And those BLOBs only work on approximately 3 OSes: Windows, some Linux, some Apple OS. And each of them on different ones and only very select few Browsers on that platform.Basically the Big Four and nowhere else. If it works on another browser, then only cause said browser actually is one of the Big Four browsers but with a different theme on top.
"The web has to be universal, to function at all. "
As soon as you introduce selective DRM for selected platforms and devices, it's not universal anymore.
"but also the well polished ideas of the century."
Something with DRM is always never an idea of the century cause it will never last a century before it's not possible to consume that idea anymore: it is locked away with DRM, illegal to decrypt.
While this is all correct: it doesn't matter at all.
Netflix already has to do all this on top of the geoblocking they do in order to make Hollywood happy.
So stopping one of the two reasons why they block different things in different countries is still a win. Only one blocking reason instead of two.
And those 3-4 people lied to us, everytime. Always. They still do on CNN, Fox, NYT; WaPo etc.
But by now we also have more people telling us about the news. Yes there is more chaos now, but there is also more truth.
E.g. all the mainstream news about Syria. About how the poor people of Aleppo were bombed by the evil Russians, massacred by the monstrous syrian army. Was shown on every one of the mentioned 3-4 news channels.
All lies.
So good riddance to those 3-4 people from Fox, CNN, NYT, WaPo and fuck them sideways.
One can debate if it's WoW that should depict computer games. Personally I would have chosen Pong oder PacMan, probably Pong.
But computer gaming has redefined the world, for better or worse.
MP3 did change the world cause it was first. Just like the cars 100 years ago changed the world, even when a horse and buggy was waayyy more practical and faster and cheaper then. Mrs. Benz' car was simply shit when she made her historical drive to relatives, but the concept of cars changed the world. Same with MP3s. AAC is irrelevant: one in a long string of different forgettable formats. MP3 was the first psychoacoustic format unlike mp2, where you leave out stuff that doesn't matter subjectively, same as with all our video codecs. The only competitor there is JPEG, which IIRC was before MP3, another lossy format. Only that crucial innovation allows us to have digital media across a network, medialibraries in our pockets, etc.
Tho there should have been a few other inventions, more important than all the consumer facing things. Like COBOL, like spreadsheets. Stuff that changed society behind the curtain but changed it nevertheless. But it's easier to bring in people and especially kids going to the museum (schoolchildren who have to go to a educational day trip) with consumer and especially kid facing technologies. They can relate to WoW, better than to Pong, and COBOL ist totally alien to every one of them and therefore booooring.
Cause with Javascript, the user computes all the stuff and pays the electricity. Serverside drives up costs. Amazon wants payment for every single cycle they compute on your behalf.
I don't give a fuck about anything server based like google photos. /usr/bin/raisr or it's just another something to enslave users, chain and binding them to an overlord.
I want
Do no evil my ass!
You seriously think patent trolls are as bad as genocide? Slavery? Premeditated murder?
You are claiming I've wrote things I didn't write. That is another evil, not pure evil tho.
Genocide: the people at Wannsee Conference https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... very clearly and methodically planned genocide, planning similarly to patent trolls: pure evil
Slavery: slavers also reason it all out how to do it so they can keep other humans in perpetual slavery. More pure evil
Premeditated murder: another thing where someone carefully and rationally plans out an evil deed. Yet another pure evil
Raping and murdering a girl: even when the person actually plans carefully and all, e.g. a serial killer, he is still totally batshit insane and does it for insane reasons. Or the person does it at a whim of sorts, not planning not caring for the consequences. Evil and of course stupid, but not pure evil.
Pure evil requires forethought and actualy knowledge, before the deed, to know it's evil. "I do a bad, evil thing, but I do it anyways and to the best of my abilities I do this evil thing". That's pure evil instead of normal evil.
I kinda disagree.
A murdering rapist is a totally batshit crazy insane individual. So far off the reservation there is not even a planet in sight. No standard of behaviour can be expected from such a person. Probably cannot really comprehend what he's doing.
A patent troll however is a totally sane and calculating individual according to any textbook. However he does his actions anyways. That is pure evil.
Batshit crazy vs. pure evil.
The US makes up reasons all the time: "parallel construction" should be a known term.
No. Intel fabbing advantage has been shrinking lately. Back when Intel was doing 22nm, everyone else was still at 28/32nm for 2 years or so, if not longer due to skipping 22nm by others, before they caught up with Intel tech.
Right now, Intel is at 14nm while the competitors (mainly smartphone CPUs) are too. AMD took ages to get away from 28nm, only doing it now with Ryzen due to their abysmal CPU design probably.
So ~2012 Intel was way ahead. Nowadays the competitors took longer to get to 14/16nm than Intel, but they are still there at the same time as Intel. Intel of course touts "we have smaller gate lengths than the others!". It might even be true, but they still have lost advantage. Back then when they had the advantage, they didn't make 4 CPUs from the same process either: the did a brutal, fast tick-tock model shocking everyone. As the article itself touts: smaller structures still give you monetary advantage: you can produce more chips per same wafer. So the correct way to maximizse profits would still be to use the smaller process if you can. And Intel can't.
It's normal Android ransomware. "Good" ransomware doesn't care on what Android it runs, be it your phone, tablet, TV, smartwatch or car: it's all the same system, same API. Since that old software in this old TV never got any security updates by the manufacturer, it was probably much easier to root for the malware to install itself very deepy into the system too.
Moore's Law isn't dead, that's why Intel already has the 3rd 14nm CPU family and is planning another one, Coffee Lake, in 14 nm before moving on to 10nm.
Intel isn't making 4 different CPU families on 14nm cause the process works so well and is so cheap.
First 14nm, Broadwell, was released 2014, released abysmally late and very underperforming, and the first 10nm is expected to be released 1h 2018. They may sample a few trial wafers in 2017, but there won't be a chip sold. 4 years is not what Moore's Law promised back then, and the Tick-Tock model is totally dead and buried as well.
This IEEE Spectrum rag sounds worse like Popular Mechanic with that much paid cheerleading bullshit.
CM people did the hard stuff before Cyanogen Inc. came along, there is reasonable hope they will do it after Cyanogen Inc. is gone as well.
CM isn't even the only group doing custom Android Firmwares, just the biggest.
Cyanogen Inc. the company is dead and bankrupt. Good riddance. This has of course repercussions for the community project cyanogenmod as well. Especially for the name "cyanogen" itself, which belongs to the company but also infrastructure like servers which were used by the community project.
But the people behind cyanogenmod, the ones doing the actual work for many phones, not the guys who wanted to simply sell that work, will continue:
A quote from a blog entry at https://www.cyanogenmod.org/bl...
"Embracing that spirit, we the community of developers, designers, device maintainers and translators have taken the steps necessary to produce a fork of the CM source code and pending patches. This is more than just a ‘rebrand’. This fork will return to the grassroots community effort that used to define CM while maintaining the professional quality and reliability you have come to expect more recently."
So the name cyanogen/cyanogenmod is dead, the project itself is hopefully not.
Bittorrent will not supplant current methods. The transmission costs are marginal. What costs the real money are the right to transmit, ie. licensing fees. Only for "free" content, the transmission costs matter, things like youtube or as here, public channels, shopping channels, etc. ie where the content is free or pretty much worthless.
Besides: streaming via bittorrent exists for quite some time now, but as all things bittorrent which is at the actual technical edge, it's streaming illegal content: Popcorn Time streams movies, tv shows, etc. for at least 2 years now.
Any soviet defector will be in contact with US intelligence aka FBI until the rest of his life, even if he never ever sees them or speaks to them
That's their fscking JOB to monitor former agents of another country. So Snowden has no influence whatsoever that he is under permanent surveillance of a counterintelligence agency. Snowden telling them "I was subcontracted to the NSA" is "intelligence", nothing surprising about that.
Cause this time you can easily follow the money. With Hillary there was no money trail.
They have, but they have to have their own geek advising them about it. You will need to sacrifice convenience and possibly even invest some money: buy a used notebook as a computer which deals with the protest using Veracrypt, leaving your normal desktop for other things. Buy a 2nd used phone (less than hundred bucks) with prepaid for the protest only and run CM on it with encryption. Don't use any western companies for messaging. If you can't use decentralized messaging, then use ones in countries like Russia, China or 3rd world. Use normal services like facebook only as PR and as a gateway to the inner network. These are all easy things to do, even if less convenient than normal.
These things are not rocket science but they increase the difficulty for attackes by magnitudes.
By now it should be public knowledge for any protester against any government that their personal communication devices and the communication itself will be always under attack. Whoever goes to such protests and especially anyone who is networking with others about it, needs to encrypt all devices and all communications. Not just at the protest itself but in their private life too. One is always under threat to get arrested. If one is arrested the cellphone is the first thing confiscated and of course tried to access. Any US protester who uses US communication services like google, whatsapp, facebook for anything is simply a dumb fool. How many NSLs have been granted wrt Standing Rock already?
Governments infiltrated protest movements 50 years ago with COINTELPRO including assaults on people, did the same in the 90s cross border in Europe, fathered children with activists even and now of course will attack all communications, in meatspace and online. Attacking communications is the first step since it's easy: they own the means of communication. Google hast to comply, since it's the law. They didn't change the amount of effort they will go to, they just changed their tactics. The amount of effort is comparable to spies going deep undercover, to live whole lives over decades to infiltrate, so eavesdropping on communication is a very small and minor step.
There are not even the barest shreds of any proofs about russian influence or wrongdoing. However the allegations all come from proven professional liars and torturers who then steal and kill to hide their wrongdoings. All of the infamous 17 agencies lie pretty much everytime they go public with anything political.
How many russian speakers work at the CIA who can write russian comments? "Rasputin" is now considererd a proof? How many attack servers of the NSA and CIA are located in former soviet republics? Weren't stuxnet servers there too? The CIA/NSA has a lot more reason to do some hacking their own election than Russia: there simply is no reason for Russia to hack cause the conflicts they are in, they are actually winning, unlike the US no matter who wins the election. Also no mather who wins it, the war in the middle east will go on, maybe a little less bloody since the US won't send weapons to Al-Qaeda aka al-Nusra via Saudi Arabia. Russia has realistic goals, and goes rationally to achieve them. The US does not but finances and supports with weapons instead the people they are claiming to fight for the last 15 years.
So if any country wishes to meddle in any election by telling the truth about any sides corruption, I say: more power to them. Even if it is some CIA guy who publicized the campaign emails. I'd be happy if they did the same for the republicans and their campaings, but I guess that hacker there already did a lot for the american public so we can't demand more from him.
The US has meddled in other countries' elections especially their allies, since at least WW2 (Greece, Italy for example), toppled by now probably dozens of governments in clandestine operations and in bloody coups on in middle and southern america alone. So how are they to accuse anyone of doing it? And doing it with the truth instead of bullets like the US customarily does?
Half a watt when "off". Whenever you turn a PC off, it's not off, the ATX standard specifies a 5Vsb (sb=standby) powerline for your PC.
Old Baby AT hat a real 120 or 230V powerswitch at the front of the case, meaning you routed a cable with 230V through your case. ATX did away with it since it's sorta dangerous for inexperienced people, making all the nasty voltages contained in the small, shielded power supply case. But now you need a standby circuit to actually turn on your PC, then there are things like Wake on LAN, etc, which also need it. For this: 0,5W are allowed, not more.