Straight wiping of a 360 hard drive will destroy it for future 360 use. The hard drive security sector (hddss.bin) is stored on the disk and, if erased, will render the hard drive useless on a stock 360 console. The security sector cannot be "spoofed" or otherwise as each hddss.bin is unique to the specific hard drive on which it resides. Only by backing up the specific sectors where hddss.bin is stored before wiping, then restoring them afterward, will keep the hard drive usable in a 360 console.
There are hacking tools to convert non-360 hard drives into usable drives, but not Microsoft OEM drives. I can't believe the researchers recommended a straight wipe without this caveat.
I have Amazon Prime, but I still buy my PC parts from Newegg. Part of it is that Amazon charges me tax, but most of it is because Newegg's service is spectacular. I accidentally ordered the wrong SSD and couldn't cancel my order (because they started boxing and shipping it right away), so I ordered the correct SSD on a separate order, intending to return the first. Once I realized their SSD return policy (no returns, only refunds/replacements), I was bummed. But I got in touch with a rep who made an exception and got me back my $250. As long as Newegg has this kind of support, I will shop there for electronics.
You misunderstand. He was stating that Apple has glossy monitors, thus they are the sole exception to the commonality of high-end monitors having a matte finish.
Hit the nail on the head. I live just south of KCK and the only viable ISPs in the area are Comcast, Time Warner and AT&T. (SureWest is here, but is very limited in their availability.) All of them have caps and very limited speeds. If Google comes in and starts offering unmetered gigabit access to an expanding array of locations, it's only going to benefit the entire area. I've been considering leaving the area once I graduate, mainly due to lack of good Internet speeds and availability, but this will have me thinking twice about staying in Kansas City.
So anyone who disagrees with your worldview or method of understanding the pathway to the circumstances in which we now live is equivalent to an undesirable fungus?
The article says Grapevine, Texas is where the new Legoland Discovery Center will be. Grapevine is in the Dallas-Fort Worth area. CNN has some details on the city's cost of living, median income, etc.
More than 500,000 donations averaging $22 apiece were made to the Wikimedia Foundation, while local Wikipedia chapters generated another 130,000 gifts worldwide.
Based on my own experience, I don't think laptops in classrooms should be banned. I've had several profs state that laptops are only for class-related use and will be allowed only as long as that is all they're used for. That tends to work pretty well as students who use laptops for quick note-taking and don't want to lose that luxury, like myself, are eager to let the professor know which students are problematic and the issues with those particular students can then be addressed.
Granted, I do attend a small private school where the largest GenEd classes are usually no more than 50 students, so I don't know what problems are faced by profs with large class sizes. Still, I think banning laptops hurts a lot of good students more than it helps the lazy ones.
A free market is not totally free from regulation. Rather, it is totally free from external regulation. Internal regulation still exists within a free market.
While companies are certainly free to add fees to their services in a free market system, customers are as free to leave those service providers and move to another provider. The system we have in the United States, especially with utilities, is not something that's easily converted from corporatism to laissez-faire. That's why certain "deregulation" efforts result in horrible failures. Big government and big business share the same bed. Do you not think they'll scratch each other's back?
I play a ton of Xbox LIVE and can tell you that pings were upwards of 250-300ms for most every MW2 game I ever got matched in. (The latency is a big reason why I quit playing MW2 on Xbox LIVE.) My home latency is around 50ms, so that's an additional 100ms latency to and from the game's host after reaching the Internet's backbone. I get 80ms latency to West Coast TF2 servers (I'm in Kansas) if that tells you anything about the quality of P2P gaming.
There definitely needs to be a set standard. I suspect IEEE or another such organization will eventually step up and figure out an agreeable standard.
However, the technology hasn't advanced to the point where it's exactly realistic for most people, or even truly usable. Unless there is a significant breakthrough in the near future, such standardization will probably not happen anytime soon.
That's much more acceptable than an ambiguous term such as "legitimate". I was operating based on the assumption that the translation was accurate, so thanks for your correction.
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Incorrect. A kibibyte is 1024 bytes, while a kilobyte is 1000 bytes.
I don't usually care enough to point out the distinction, but since you did, I figured a correction was appropriate.
Constant data and intelligence gathering.
Hey: it could happen.
Straight wiping of a 360 hard drive will destroy it for future 360 use. The hard drive security sector (hddss.bin) is stored on the disk and, if erased, will render the hard drive useless on a stock 360 console. The security sector cannot be "spoofed" or otherwise as each hddss.bin is unique to the specific hard drive on which it resides. Only by backing up the specific sectors where hddss.bin is stored before wiping, then restoring them afterward, will keep the hard drive usable in a 360 console.
There are hacking tools to convert non-360 hard drives into usable drives, but not Microsoft OEM drives. I can't believe the researchers recommended a straight wipe without this caveat.
Or utilize a social network like Diaspora and control your own data.
I have Amazon Prime, but I still buy my PC parts from Newegg. Part of it is that Amazon charges me tax, but most of it is because Newegg's service is spectacular. I accidentally ordered the wrong SSD and couldn't cancel my order (because they started boxing and shipping it right away), so I ordered the correct SSD on a separate order, intending to return the first. Once I realized their SSD return policy (no returns, only refunds/replacements), I was bummed. But I got in touch with a rep who made an exception and got me back my $250. As long as Newegg has this kind of support, I will shop there for electronics.
Definitely not. I had flashbacks to Pokémon battles with bug catchers.
The Federal Reserve is the central banking system of the US, not a federal reserve of money.
You misunderstand. He was stating that Apple has glossy monitors, thus they are the sole exception to the commonality of high-end monitors having a matte finish.
Sprint is located in Overland Park, KS. Even if they were located in Lenexa, Lenexa is in Kansas as well.
Hit the nail on the head. I live just south of KCK and the only viable ISPs in the area are Comcast, Time Warner and AT&T. (SureWest is here, but is very limited in their availability.) All of them have caps and very limited speeds. If Google comes in and starts offering unmetered gigabit access to an expanding array of locations, it's only going to benefit the entire area. I've been considering leaving the area once I graduate, mainly due to lack of good Internet speeds and availability, but this will have me thinking twice about staying in Kansas City.
Bravo, good sir. I wish I had mod points for you.
Do you have references for such claims?
So anyone who disagrees with your worldview or method of understanding the pathway to the circumstances in which we now live is equivalent to an undesirable fungus?
Why have a legitimate discussion when you can just use ad hominems and ignore rebuttals?
The article says Grapevine, Texas is where the new Legoland Discovery Center will be. Grapevine is in the Dallas-Fort Worth area. CNN has some details on the city's cost of living, median income, etc.
Yeah, because this is such a great example of free-market capitalism and not crony capitalism.
Hopefully it won't result in Intel pointing out that there is no cake...
Or saying there is cake when there really isn't.
TFA says:
More than 500,000 donations averaging $22 apiece were made to the Wikimedia Foundation, while local Wikipedia chapters generated another 130,000 gifts worldwide.
The summary is incorrect.
Based on my own experience, I don't think laptops in classrooms should be banned. I've had several profs state that laptops are only for class-related use and will be allowed only as long as that is all they're used for. That tends to work pretty well as students who use laptops for quick note-taking and don't want to lose that luxury, like myself, are eager to let the professor know which students are problematic and the issues with those particular students can then be addressed.
Granted, I do attend a small private school where the largest GenEd classes are usually no more than 50 students, so I don't know what problems are faced by profs with large class sizes. Still, I think banning laptops hurts a lot of good students more than it helps the lazy ones.
A free market is not totally free from regulation. Rather, it is totally free from external regulation. Internal regulation still exists within a free market.
While companies are certainly free to add fees to their services in a free market system, customers are as free to leave those service providers and move to another provider. The system we have in the United States, especially with utilities, is not something that's easily converted from corporatism to laissez-faire. That's why certain "deregulation" efforts result in horrible failures. Big government and big business share the same bed. Do you not think they'll scratch each other's back?
Even 1 innocent person on death row is too many and a travesty.
People like Michael Chertoff.
I play a ton of Xbox LIVE and can tell you that pings were upwards of 250-300ms for most every MW2 game I ever got matched in. (The latency is a big reason why I quit playing MW2 on Xbox LIVE.) My home latency is around 50ms, so that's an additional 100ms latency to and from the game's host after reaching the Internet's backbone. I get 80ms latency to West Coast TF2 servers (I'm in Kansas) if that tells you anything about the quality of P2P gaming.
There definitely needs to be a set standard. I suspect IEEE or another such organization will eventually step up and figure out an agreeable standard.
However, the technology hasn't advanced to the point where it's exactly realistic for most people, or even truly usable. Unless there is a significant breakthrough in the near future, such standardization will probably not happen anytime soon.
That's much more acceptable than an ambiguous term such as "legitimate". I was operating based on the assumption that the translation was accurate, so thanks for your correction.