My parents computers don't have missile launch codes on them, they don't need to be secure. They need to be recoverable.
Wow, that's naive! Their online-credentials, details that one could use to do identity theft, their credit card numbers and banking details -- you're completely dismissing all that as irrelevant? And how are you going to "recover" the damage if someone does get their credit card details, for example, and empties the account? Your backups won't do shit in such a situation, and neither does reinstalling the system!
That's the fallacy people fall for, including you: being in decline in no way or form means that it's dying. It just means it'll settle in at a different place than it was before, likely a smaller place, and then stabilize there. Dying would mean exactly that; the whole desktop-PC market disappearing altogether. Alas, there's plenty of people who still need desktop-PCs for all sorts of things and then there's the people who don't specifically need one, but who find mobile devices simply too clumsy and cumbersome to use.
This knowledge is not new; this stuff has been known for almost a hundred years now, yet we're still spending money dancing around the fact that eating animals and their byproducts leads to heart disease.
It's not a fact, it's just you folks wishing things were like that.
I'm gonna stop you right there -- you're assuming this is for you. Well, it's not. It's for people who do have a use for this stuff, like e.g. people who want a good PC to play PC-games on and want it to be useable from the couch with a controller, but who don't want to have to go through the hassle of building one themselves.
Apple's Fusion drive works quite well that way. They don't care about files - everything is based on 128 KByte blocks;
I just googled around and it seems you're incorrect on that -- since it's the operating system that handles the caching it is also aware of the filesizes and the likes and doesn't even try to start caching large files, videos and such. The SSHD, as mentioned in the article, isn't aware of such things and will waste time and effort on caching stuff it shouldn't be caching in the first place.
I'm going to voice the opinion that software-independent caching system is definitely NOT the way to go: the firmware has no way of knowing how often the files are going to be accessed in the future and if they should be kept in cache for a longer time, the firmware doesn't know what type of a file it is, the firmware doesn't know the size of it and so on and so forth -- basically, it knows none of the important details and will end up caching stuff it doesn't need to cache, will end up not caching things that should be kept in cache and since it doesn't know actual filesystem details it can't even optimize its own structures to match those of the filesystem in use. It's just a really basic block cache.
Forcing people to use official cables doesn't fix the issue of a knock-off charger, though. It's just smoke and mirrors, luddites won't understand the fact that even official cables can electrocute you just as well as non-official ones if the charger is faulty.
Many Apple users now have to use the official legal lightning cables included with their IPhone, they are not without a way to charge their phones.
Well, this news is about the people who do NOT have official cables. I guess you missed that part.
But that is their problem, cheap doesn't always equal better!!!
Neither does expensive. In fact, why do you assume there is any difference in quality in the first place? Apple's cables only have the extra chip which does not increase quality at all.
You have Google plus. What's the point of all that security?
What do you mean? Are you aware that I can, you know, choose myself what I place there? I only write stuff there and I've got a profile there, I don't upload my files there, I don't chat via it and so on. The stuff there is stuff that I have deliberately chosen to make public. As such I don't understand your point.
Has anyone started using HTTPS more because of the NSA?
Not me. I have always used HTTPS/TLS/encrypted whatnot anywhere it has been possible -- incoming e-mail, outgoing e-mail, Web, chat, P2P and so on -- and I've had HTTPS Everywhere - addon installed on Firefox for a long time now. What the whole NSA-debacle made me do, however, is be even more careful with that stuff and it finally pushed me to running my own cloud storage-,XMPP-, CardDav-, CalDav- and so on server and to stop syncing my contacts or calendar and to stop sending the backup of my Android-settings to Google. Should've stopped doing that earlier already, but I never got around it before. Oh, and it also made me totally avoid Skype, most Microsoft-products and any US-based shells, cloud storage systems and such.
I haven't, in most of my own personal use cases it wouldn't help anyway, because the other side is likely compromised.
can't wait for this to malfunction and cook my food in the backyard
This satellite wouldn't be capable of that. It does not use laser to transmit the beam down exactly because of the risks a high-power laser would pose if it ever were to become misaligned. No, this satellite transmits the power down via radio-waves and the biggest downside of that, if it ever were to become misaligned, would be haywire radio-equipment.
The 10ms is for the software. The flip side of this is that the hardware has a maximum of 10ms to get its shit together so that it can be connected to. And 10ms is forever in hardware.
Atleast with the case of xHCI the 10ms is actually a minimum for both -- the specs do not indicate a maximum for the hardware to resume at all.
You KNOW some companies are doing this other than prenda.
I've seen more than a few torrents that have a crapton of seeds and peers. Yet everyone says it's terrible and do not download with a very small number of comments.
When other companies do it those are usually fakes -- the files contain only noise or black or something like that. They're not distributing copyrighted content, they're just trying to fill the torrent sites with so many fakes that the pirates would hopefully give up and go buy something instead.
How many effective READ/WRITE cycle can the chip in SSD perform, before they start degrading ?
They don't start degrading, per se. Performance-degradation is all due to wear-levelling and the amount of free blocks on the drive, and that varies between manufacturers. Generally the advice is to have atleast 20% of the drive free at all times for wear-levelling and TRIM to work efficiently and in such a situation there should be no performance-degradation.
As for reading and writing cells? Well, you can read a cell indefinitely. You cannot write to cells forever, however, and once the limit comes there is 100% degradation -- so to speak -- as in that that cell cannot be written to ever again. It just goes from 100% to 0%, so using the term "degradation" for that still seems useless. I'll repeat, though, that it can still be read from even if it can't be written to.
Has there been any comparison made in between the reliability (eg read/write cycles) of old fashion spinning-plate HD versus that of SSD ?
Plenty, but how much those comparisons actually cover and how reliable they are is subject to debate. Generally the consensus is that SSDs are more reliable nowadays as full-on controller-failures are very rare and since the SSDs can still be read from even if they hit the maximum amount of writes that means your data is quite a lot safer in the long run -- if a regular, mechanical drive can't write to some sector it most likely can't read it either, and that means your data is as good as gone.
Note: Anyone here about any programs like spinrite or other for drive recovery for SSD's?
There is no such a thing except for the few that are just trying to dupe you into giving them money. Why? Well, as long as the drive's controller itself is working and the drive's internal state isn't corrupted you can read the cells indefinitely. You cannot write to cells indefinitely, but all major manufacturers these days promise that even if all the cells failed in the whole drive you should be able to read them. On the other hand, if the drive's controller goes bonkers or the internal state gets messed up there is *no software whatsoever* that can fix it. You'd have to open the drive and work with the actual flash-chips themselves in the hopes of recovering your data, and due to the nature of SSDs where the cells can be re-located at any given time for wear-levelling purposes that'd be one helluva task.
Now, if your filesystems or such get messed up any tool that works on mechanical HDDs works just fine on SSDs. There is no difference.
Shooting yourself in front of a police station just sounds cliche, and way too urban.
I just find it somewhat distasteful. I haven't yet decided how I'd wanna go, but I'd try to do it in such a way that it doesn't involve bystanders or possibly cause anyone to actually see me dying. So, I'd probably opt for going somewhere far out-of-sight and just overdosing on something that's certain to kill me -- no messy blood, no bystanders being sprayed with brains, no collateral damage, just a clean death.
It is also quite likely that advocating or promoting suicide is a violation of the terms of service.
To be honest, I don't see anything advocating or promoting suicide. I see him explaining his reasonings in rather clear terms and as such I'd classify it as a discussion about suicide. There is a difference between discussion and active advocation and/or promotion.
The thought of being in a nursing home, physically or mentally disabled, was the single scariest thing I had ever thought about
This is exactly what I've been thinking for years now; I've always thought that I will commit a suicide and end my life one day when I feel I'm getting too old, when I feel I'm losing control over my own thoughts and body. Honestly, the most horrible thing that I could imagine is being locked up in a bed 24/7 at the mercy of others without being able to do anything by myself -- I do not want to end there. I will commit a suicide if it looks like it's coming to that, I want to be in charge of my own life. As such I fully understand the guy's reasoning and I agree: good for him.
It would appear that it never occurred to you that these people FAR outweigh the "smart" people and therefore it actually is in YOUR own, best interests to protect and guide them.
This is going to be a really big secret I'm telling you, don't tell anyone:
These people that you need to know how to treat? Treat them like a normal person.
Reading through your whole rant you just seem terribly bitter and assume immediately that everyone is like the teacher you mentioned. Well, I'm gonna tell you a secret here in return: not everyone is like that. I don't see dyslexia, for example, as a deficiency as that would imply a negative attitude towards it; it's just one aspect of the person, it carries no positive or negative connotation in my mind at all. If I hear someone having Asperger's or something I don't immediately jump to the conclusion that they're mentally retarded and I don't go out of my way to treat them as such, so don't go harping on me for the failures of other people.
No doubt you haven't experienced the joy of being labeled.
You know, through your whole post you, yourself, are trying to label me as "normal," yet you continue to whine about labels. That right there is hypocrisy. Also, you immediately jump to conclusions based on this label you assigned to me; I've had PLENTY of labels attached to me over the years, both good and bad labels, and by no means am I considered "normal."
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My parents computers don't have missile launch codes on them, they don't need to be secure. They need to be recoverable.
Wow, that's naive! Their online-credentials, details that one could use to do identity theft, their credit card numbers and banking details -- you're completely dismissing all that as irrelevant? And how are you going to "recover" the damage if someone does get their credit card details, for example, and empties the account? Your backups won't do shit in such a situation, and neither does reinstalling the system!
They are in decline. They are dying.
That's the fallacy people fall for, including you: being in decline in no way or form means that it's dying. It just means it'll settle in at a different place than it was before, likely a smaller place, and then stabilize there. Dying would mean exactly that; the whole desktop-PC market disappearing altogether. Alas, there's plenty of people who still need desktop-PCs for all sorts of things and then there's the people who don't specifically need one, but who find mobile devices simply too clumsy and cumbersome to use.
This knowledge is not new; this stuff has been known for almost a hundred years now, yet we're still spending money dancing around the fact that eating animals and their byproducts leads to heart disease.
It's not a fact, it's just you folks wishing things were like that.
Other than promoting Linux, why do I want
I'm gonna stop you right there -- you're assuming this is for you. Well, it's not. It's for people who do have a use for this stuff, like e.g. people who want a good PC to play PC-games on and want it to be useable from the couch with a controller, but who don't want to have to go through the hassle of building one themselves.
Apple's Fusion drive works quite well that way. They don't care about files - everything is based on 128 KByte blocks;
I just googled around and it seems you're incorrect on that -- since it's the operating system that handles the caching it is also aware of the filesizes and the likes and doesn't even try to start caching large files, videos and such. The SSHD, as mentioned in the article, isn't aware of such things and will waste time and effort on caching stuff it shouldn't be caching in the first place.
I'm going to voice the opinion that software-independent caching system is definitely NOT the way to go: the firmware has no way of knowing how often the files are going to be accessed in the future and if they should be kept in cache for a longer time, the firmware doesn't know what type of a file it is, the firmware doesn't know the size of it and so on and so forth -- basically, it knows none of the important details and will end up caching stuff it doesn't need to cache, will end up not caching things that should be kept in cache and since it doesn't know actual filesystem details it can't even optimize its own structures to match those of the filesystem in use. It's just a really basic block cache.
Forcing people to use official cables doesn't fix the issue of a knock-off charger, though. It's just smoke and mirrors, luddites won't understand the fact that even official cables can electrocute you just as well as non-official ones if the charger is faulty.
They'll complain and post a few unpleasant Twitter/Facebook posts, but eventually they'll settle and continue buying Apple-products.
Many Apple users now have to use the official legal lightning cables included with their IPhone, they are not without a way to charge their phones.
Well, this news is about the people who do NOT have official cables. I guess you missed that part.
But that is their problem, cheap doesn't always equal better!!!
Neither does expensive. In fact, why do you assume there is any difference in quality in the first place? Apple's cables only have the extra chip which does not increase quality at all.
You have Google plus. What's the point of all that security?
What do you mean? Are you aware that I can, you know, choose myself what I place there? I only write stuff there and I've got a profile there, I don't upload my files there, I don't chat via it and so on. The stuff there is stuff that I have deliberately chosen to make public. As such I don't understand your point.
Has anyone started using HTTPS more because of the NSA?
Not me. I have always used HTTPS/TLS/encrypted whatnot anywhere it has been possible -- incoming e-mail, outgoing e-mail, Web, chat, P2P and so on -- and I've had HTTPS Everywhere - addon installed on Firefox for a long time now. What the whole NSA-debacle made me do, however, is be even more careful with that stuff and it finally pushed me to running my own cloud storage-,XMPP-, CardDav-, CalDav- and so on server and to stop syncing my contacts or calendar and to stop sending the backup of my Android-settings to Google. Should've stopped doing that earlier already, but I never got around it before. Oh, and it also made me totally avoid Skype, most Microsoft-products and any US-based shells, cloud storage systems and such.
I haven't, in most of my own personal use cases it wouldn't help anyway, because the other side is likely compromised.
That's why I run my own servers :)
I would like to introduce you to my dear friend, sarcasm (skæzm):
— n
1. mocking, contemptuous, or ironic language intended to convey scorn or insult
2. the use or tone of such language
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sarcasm (skæzm)
— n
1. mocking, contemptuous, or ironic language intended to convey scorn or insult
2. the use or tone of such language
can't wait for this to malfunction and cook my food in the backyard
This satellite wouldn't be capable of that. It does not use laser to transmit the beam down exactly because of the risks a high-power laser would pose if it ever were to become misaligned. No, this satellite transmits the power down via radio-waves and the biggest downside of that, if it ever were to become misaligned, would be haywire radio-equipment.
The 10ms is for the software. The flip side of this is that the hardware has a maximum of 10ms to get its shit together so that it can be connected to. And 10ms is forever in hardware.
Atleast with the case of xHCI the 10ms is actually a minimum for both -- the specs do not indicate a maximum for the hardware to resume at all.
You KNOW some companies are doing this other than prenda.
I've seen more than a few torrents that have a crapton of seeds and peers. Yet everyone says it's terrible and do not download with a very small number of comments.
When other companies do it those are usually fakes -- the files contain only noise or black or something like that. They're not distributing copyrighted content, they're just trying to fill the torrent sites with so many fakes that the pirates would hopefully give up and go buy something instead.
They kind of did.
No, they didn't. That's just running Netflix under Wine, nothing to do with reverse-engineering it.
Close your eyes. Pretend you're surrounded by pretentious rich assholes. Bingo, you're in LA. Total cost: $0. Total time: 15 seconds.
HALEP! I ended up in a conference room at Oracle with Larry Ellison! :'(
How many effective READ/WRITE cycle can the chip in SSD perform, before they start degrading ?
They don't start degrading, per se. Performance-degradation is all due to wear-levelling and the amount of free blocks on the drive, and that varies between manufacturers. Generally the advice is to have atleast 20% of the drive free at all times for wear-levelling and TRIM to work efficiently and in such a situation there should be no performance-degradation.
As for reading and writing cells? Well, you can read a cell indefinitely. You cannot write to cells forever, however, and once the limit comes there is 100% degradation -- so to speak -- as in that that cell cannot be written to ever again. It just goes from 100% to 0%, so using the term "degradation" for that still seems useless. I'll repeat, though, that it can still be read from even if it can't be written to.
Has there been any comparison made in between the reliability (eg read/write cycles) of old fashion spinning-plate HD versus that of SSD ?
Plenty, but how much those comparisons actually cover and how reliable they are is subject to debate. Generally the consensus is that SSDs are more reliable nowadays as full-on controller-failures are very rare and since the SSDs can still be read from even if they hit the maximum amount of writes that means your data is quite a lot safer in the long run -- if a regular, mechanical drive can't write to some sector it most likely can't read it either, and that means your data is as good as gone.
Note: Anyone here about any programs like spinrite or other for drive recovery for SSD's?
There is no such a thing except for the few that are just trying to dupe you into giving them money. Why? Well, as long as the drive's controller itself is working and the drive's internal state isn't corrupted you can read the cells indefinitely. You cannot write to cells indefinitely, but all major manufacturers these days promise that even if all the cells failed in the whole drive you should be able to read them. On the other hand, if the drive's controller goes bonkers or the internal state gets messed up there is *no software whatsoever* that can fix it. You'd have to open the drive and work with the actual flash-chips themselves in the hopes of recovering your data, and due to the nature of SSDs where the cells can be re-located at any given time for wear-levelling purposes that'd be one helluva task.
Now, if your filesystems or such get messed up any tool that works on mechanical HDDs works just fine on SSDs. There is no difference.
Shooting yourself in front of a police station just sounds cliche, and way too urban.
I just find it somewhat distasteful. I haven't yet decided how I'd wanna go, but I'd try to do it in such a way that it doesn't involve bystanders or possibly cause anyone to actually see me dying. So, I'd probably opt for going somewhere far out-of-sight and just overdosing on something that's certain to kill me -- no messy blood, no bystanders being sprayed with brains, no collateral damage, just a clean death.
It is also quite likely that advocating or promoting suicide is a violation of the terms of service.
To be honest, I don't see anything advocating or promoting suicide. I see him explaining his reasonings in rather clear terms and as such I'd classify it as a discussion about suicide. There is a difference between discussion and active advocation and/or promotion.
This little quote from the guy's site:
The thought of being in a nursing home, physically or mentally disabled, was the single scariest thing I had ever thought about
This is exactly what I've been thinking for years now; I've always thought that I will commit a suicide and end my life one day when I feel I'm getting too old, when I feel I'm losing control over my own thoughts and body. Honestly, the most horrible thing that I could imagine is being locked up in a bed 24/7 at the mercy of others without being able to do anything by myself -- I do not want to end there. I will commit a suicide if it looks like it's coming to that, I want to be in charge of my own life. As such I fully understand the guy's reasoning and I agree: good for him.
They don't need protection from the world.
It would appear that it never occurred to you that these people FAR outweigh the "smart" people and therefore it actually is in YOUR own, best interests to protect and guide them.
This is going to be a really big secret I'm telling you, don't tell anyone:
These people that you need to know how to treat? Treat them like a normal person.
Reading through your whole rant you just seem terribly bitter and assume immediately that everyone is like the teacher you mentioned. Well, I'm gonna tell you a secret here in return: not everyone is like that. I don't see dyslexia, for example, as a deficiency as that would imply a negative attitude towards it; it's just one aspect of the person, it carries no positive or negative connotation in my mind at all. If I hear someone having Asperger's or something I don't immediately jump to the conclusion that they're mentally retarded and I don't go out of my way to treat them as such, so don't go harping on me for the failures of other people.
No doubt you haven't experienced the joy of being labeled.
You know, through your whole post you, yourself, are trying to label me as "normal," yet you continue to whine about labels. That right there is hypocrisy. Also, you immediately jump to conclusions based on this label you assigned to me; I've had PLENTY of labels attached to me over the years, both good and bad labels, and by no means am I considered "normal."