Well, you may be right, but IMHO Biden is just biding his time riding the wave of polls that put him in contention w/o having to go to all the trouble of actually starting a campaign. If he announced right now, he'd be at least #2 in the running and within a few points of Clinton for the nomination WITHOUT spending a dime. If the polling trends continue, where Clinton is falling, Sanders is static and Biden is trending up, it's in his best interest to just wait. But, we are rapidly approaching the point of no return for him. You have to get in the race soon enough to get your name on the ballots so folks don't have to write you in. That date is coming up in the next few weeks..
Given the flock of "Biden considers a run" news stories today, He's obviously keeping the dream alive for some reason...
Doesn't matter to me.. My Media Center PC isn't connected to the TV at all, it just sits on the network up in the closet. Everything runs though 'Media Center Extenders" running on older Xbox 360's. I just load the Netflix app onto the 360 when I want to use that.
Don't you want to KNOW what's going to be loaded onto your computer BEFORE it breaks something?
Do you? Unless you have a test system to load the updates one at a time and determine if they break anything, You are just spitting into the wind here.
So, who has time to test all these patches at home anyway? Unless you do it at work and already know, who's going to take the time to test EVERY patch that MS puts out on Tuesday? So what do you prefer? Unpatched machines or waiting until I can find time to validate all the patches? Sometimes you just have to hold your nose and patch, hoping for the best. This is JUST my DVR we are talking about... If the worst happens, I have a backup image and it only takes an hour to dump it onto the box again and I loose all my recordings.... It's not like a mission critical part of the space station or something, it's TV shows for crying out loud.
just hide the update... GOogle disable Win10 update or whatever there is a list of KB patches you need to uninstall, and then hide. Then you won't be prompted again.
Not so, I already hid the first update that did this and disabled it. Then a few months later.... THEY DID IT AGAIN! With ANOTHER update and I've yet to figure out which one it is...
Don't you want to KNOW what's going to be loaded onto your computer BEFORE it breaks something?
What kind of moron would use Windows of all Oses with all it's flaws and with Windows 7 now freaking 5 years of exploits all ready for Hackers to steal your credit info?!
Somebody who wanted to have his Cable Card tuner feed a DVR and be able to play protected content and not pay the Cable company boat loads of cash each month for their crappy set top boxes. Windows Media Center is the ONLY game in town and it runs best on Windows 7. I run it because there are no other options. As soon as there is another option that works, I'm jumping off the Windows ship.
I understand that Silicon Dust is working on a product that will do the same thing as Media Center (including DVRing protected Cable Card content). Anybody know how they are doing on this effort?
Once we have a solution, I'm going to ditch windows for media center about as fast as I can boot from the Linux install media. I am SO tired of this windows mess, it's been a total pain..
As much as I hate to do it, If they don't stop this Windows 10 push garbage I'm going to turn off the automatic updates feature. I'm running Windows Media Center on a windows 7 box and I DON'T want the upgrade, at least not until there is some option for a replacement DVR solution that can playback protected content. Please Microsoft, STOP pushing this, I don't want 10 (or 8 for that matter) so stop asking.
I've noticed that Microsoft is getting really pushy about this upgrade thing and has pushed yet another update that has that annoying "Get Windows 10" icon even after I uninstalled and blocked the first update with it. I disabled the Icon notices, but I really would love to unload the new update. Anybody know which update this new one is?
All this really does is convince me that as soon as somebody can come up with a Linux alternative that his fully DRM blessed to play back protected content from my Cable Card tuner, I'm switching and ditching Microsoft and their "we rule the world, do as we say" attitude.
I'm saying you should be happy and secure in what YOU choose to do, not that you are subject to the moral views of others. I'm advocating that you accept yourself for who you are and not bother putting on an act designed to fool others. Be who you are, warts and all. It's easier and less stressful because you don't have to worry about somebody finding out some juicy fact and suddenly rejecting you because you where lying. You don't have to keep all the lies straight either.
However, this doesn't preclude you from suffering the consequences for your behavior. If you choose (for example) to do recreational drugs on your free time, but are working a job that has random drug testing and get pulled out to get tested, you will have consequences. If you still want to do it, just be honest and accept what the consequences could be and go on with your life.
Consider this advice the other side of the self reliance coin. On one side you have "I depend on myself" and the other you have "I accept who I am" because really they go hand in hand. Be happy with yourself, be honest with others and you will go far in life.
Now you are making a different argument. Nice spin there..
If your employer acts on stuff you really did in a way you don't like, consider it a consequence of your choices.
Personally, I don't worry about stuff like this. I am who I portray myself to be, even in private and my off hours so I'm not running around in fear that some piece of information might leak out. I suggest that you might be happier if you adopt the same policy and not having to be careful all the time.
So what if you go to AA meetings? Be honest about it, OWN it. (BTW, Isn't that one of the rules of AA anyway?) Personally I'd have a LOT of respect for somebody who was honest about this and wasn't trying to hide their faults. If you work for somebody who doesn't share that perspective and worries that having a recovering alcoholic on their staff is a bad thing. you might be better off with another position anyway.... But hey, it's up to you. You can continue to live in worry and lie about yourself or choose to do the things necessary to help yourself do better so you don't have to lie and worry about getting caught.
How's this an issue of freedom? You still have your freedom.
Don't confuse freedom to act with freedom from consequences. They are NOT the same. For instance, you are free to go out and run up your credit card balance as high as they will let you buying anything you want, but you are going to have to pay the credit card bills as they come. Or, you are free to go out and have an affair and not use protection, but if a pregnancy happens or you get an STD because of it, consequences will come. (Or if your wife finds out and divorces you, it's a consequence of your choices, not a curb on your freedom.) Your thinking that an employer might not talk kindly to recreational use of drugs on your free time is just a consequence of you exercising your freedoms. It's not a curb on your freedoms, but a consequence of your choices.
So if you need to hide who you really are because you want to avoid consequences of your behavior, it's on you and nobody else. Perhaps it might be a good idea to either fess up to who you really are so you can stop worrying that somebody might find out? Or, if you want to avoid the consequences, perhaps it's a better idea to choose to modify your behavior so you don't have to worry anymore?
Again, if you are trying to hide your behavior from someone because they wouldn't like it or it would embarrass you or others, it's YOU who has the problem. If you worry that a current or future employer might take exception to your activities, you might consider not doing them so you don't have to worry about it. But if you still want to pretend to be something you are not, you are responsible for having to worry about the duplicity being exposed.
Keeping a surprise gift secret from your wife, while a *possible* reason to be concerned, doesn't represent a huge risk, assuming she would actually like the gift. Not to mention that if you are acting trustworthy and open in the rest of your interactions with her, she's not likely to be checking up on you and running though your browser history on a regular basis anyway. Besides, if MY wife happened to catch on to something I was setting up to surprise her, she would either express her excitement right away, or wait for the "surprise" and do it then. I'm golden either way for going to the effort for her, so I'm not that worried about her finding out.
A couple of MOV's and a fuse or two will do the trick... If you insist, a "crowbar" circuit that shorts the pins to ground if the voltage exceeds about 10 volts. Easy fix with a handful of components if the board makers wanted to.
I just seriously doubt this idea will catch on. It's too expensive to duplicate the devices, the device is physical evidence which could aid in tracing it to it's source and the result is basically vandalism so it's of little use to the criminals looking for a profit.
Look if you are this paranoid, perhaps it might be a good idea to seriously think about your life and why you feel the need to be so worried about stuff, why you feel the need to play the role of a hypocrite with your wife and why you think anybody cares as much as you do about who you are.
Personally, I'm not so full of myself that I think anybody cares to out me, or that I can hide a porn habit from my wife, or that somebody can blackmail me by the stuff I do in private. In general, my private life doesn't matter enough or differ enough from my public life that I would care if somebody exposed it or that anybody would find it shocking who knew me. I am who I am, and I'm not trying to fool others into thinking I'm something that I'm not so I don't really have anything to hide.
I feel sorry that you do have apparently a lot to hide, that you are either not able to accept yourself as you are, or that you are trying to fool those around you into thinking better of you than you deserve, that you are a fake, to yourself and others. People know you are a phony, that you are putting on an act no matter how good you are at hiding the truth and they will find it hard to trust you. I hope that someday you learn to accept yourself, warts and all, stop the act and learn what relationships are really supposed to be.
Look, my previous point was partially in jest, but has some truth to it. Most of us are pitifully small targets. We don't own much and never will. We don't do much that we would like to hide, and never will. Where ID theft is an issue we need to be aware of, and being a victim of ID theft is painful and expensive, the actual chances of it being a serious problem are pretty slim.
Now if you are a public figure, like to do illegal things, or you have managed to collect a lot of assets you need to protect, that's a different story. But for most of us, the effort needed to make yourself pretty safe is minimal, cheap to do and easy. Here's my suggestions for you folks that fall into the "not much" category...
1. Check your credit report three times a year, free of cost, by asking the three credit reporting agencies for the legally required credit report.
2. Develop an alternative ID that you use when you don't legally have to give up your real ID. Make sure your alternate ID includes a fake birthday and do something with your name. Only use your real ID where it is required, otherwise supply the alternate ID.
3. Look at your bank and credit card statements EVERY month and report any suspicious transactions immediately.
4. Don't use debit/credit cards which are tied to your checking account for anything but getting cash from your bank's ATMs, use a separate credit card that you pay off each month. Do this for automatic bill payments, shopping etc. If you insist on directly linking a checking account to something else, NEVER EVER keep more money in it than necessary and don't authorize the bank to automatically take money from another account to prevent overdrafts.
If you do the above, chances are good you will never have a problem and you won't need to spend a dime on credit monitoring. Chances are also good that you will become aware of any ID theft and be able to stop it before it gets out of hand.
No, I'm suggesting that construction workers would not like having to replace the majority of their measuring tools due to the costs involved, or, if they do remodeling, have to maintain two sets of measuring tools. Tools cost money and last time I worked in the trades the pay was not that great and I had to supply my own tools.
I'm saying that the industries that supply construction materials based in SAE measurements would be loathed to retool their factories..
I'm saying that the building codes which are enshrined in law based on SAE measurements would be hard to get changed because it would literally require hundreds of thousands of local governments at the city, county and state levels to coordinate their regulations and do it at the same time.
I'm saying that it doesn't matter if we switch the industry over or not, houses will still get built generally the same sizes in the same amount of hours.
I'm saying that it doesn't matter if they use SAE, so why go to all the pain and expense of making them do metric?
I'm saying let the economic forces decide what standard of measurement gets used where and just make sure conversion standards exist...
So.. You want to totally retool the entire construction industry so you can use the metric system? I'd be laughing but I think you are serious and might take offense.
As an electrical engineer too, the SI system is great....
However, I've done some construction work in my day and I much prefer SAE measurements when doing that. 4' = 121.92 cm and putting studs on 24" = 60.96 cm centers to match up to that plywood that covers the wall? Yea, I'll do that in feet and inches.
It depends on what you are doing.... If you are framing a house, working in meters might be a bit cumbersome and using centimeters is going to involve a lot of digits. A 2"x4" (actually 1 1/2 x 3 1/2) stud (38x39 mm) framed wall on 24" centers where you mount a 4'x8' sheet of plywood is going to be a bit of difficult math involving 4-6 digit numbers to set up, measure and construct. It's not that you cannot do it in SI units, only that because the lumber is using SAE units, it's much easer to go the feet/inches route.
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Well, you may be right, but IMHO Biden is just biding his time riding the wave of polls that put him in contention w/o having to go to all the trouble of actually starting a campaign. If he announced right now, he'd be at least #2 in the running and within a few points of Clinton for the nomination WITHOUT spending a dime. If the polling trends continue, where Clinton is falling, Sanders is static and Biden is trending up, it's in his best interest to just wait. But, we are rapidly approaching the point of no return for him. You have to get in the race soon enough to get your name on the ballots so folks don't have to write you in. That date is coming up in the next few weeks..
Given the flock of "Biden considers a run" news stories today, He's obviously keeping the dream alive for some reason...
Doesn't matter to me.. My Media Center PC isn't connected to the TV at all, it just sits on the network up in the closet. Everything runs though 'Media Center Extenders" running on older Xbox 360's. I just load the Netflix app onto the 360 when I want to use that.
You actually have automatic updates ON?
WTF?
Don't you want to KNOW what's going to be loaded onto your computer BEFORE it breaks something?
Do you? Unless you have a test system to load the updates one at a time and determine if they break anything, You are just spitting into the wind here.
So, who has time to test all these patches at home anyway? Unless you do it at work and already know, who's going to take the time to test EVERY patch that MS puts out on Tuesday? So what do you prefer? Unpatched machines or waiting until I can find time to validate all the patches? Sometimes you just have to hold your nose and patch, hoping for the best. This is JUST my DVR we are talking about... If the worst happens, I have a backup image and it only takes an hour to dump it onto the box again and I loose all my recordings.... It's not like a mission critical part of the space station or something, it's TV shows for crying out loud.
just hide the update ... GOogle disable Win10 update or whatever there is a list of KB patches you need to uninstall, and then hide. Then you won't be prompted again.
Not so, I already hid the first update that did this and disabled it. Then a few months later.... THEY DID IT AGAIN! With ANOTHER update and I've yet to figure out which one it is...
You actually have automatic updates ON?
WTF?
Don't you want to KNOW what's going to be loaded onto your computer BEFORE it breaks something?
What kind of moron would use Windows of all Oses with all it's flaws and with Windows 7 now freaking 5 years of exploits all ready for Hackers to steal your credit info?!
Somebody who wanted to have his Cable Card tuner feed a DVR and be able to play protected content and not pay the Cable company boat loads of cash each month for their crappy set top boxes. Windows Media Center is the ONLY game in town and it runs best on Windows 7. I run it because there are no other options. As soon as there is another option that works, I'm jumping off the Windows ship.
Sorry, I'll work on my word usage... (Dang English and all the Homophones.... )
Here here....
I understand that Silicon Dust is working on a product that will do the same thing as Media Center (including DVRing protected Cable Card content). Anybody know how they are doing on this effort?
Once we have a solution, I'm going to ditch windows for media center about as fast as I can boot from the Linux install media. I am SO tired of this windows mess, it's been a total pain..
As much as I hate to do it, If they don't stop this Windows 10 push garbage I'm going to turn off the automatic updates feature. I'm running Windows Media Center on a windows 7 box and I DON'T want the upgrade, at least not until there is some option for a replacement DVR solution that can playback protected content. Please Microsoft, STOP pushing this, I don't want 10 (or 8 for that matter) so stop asking.
I've noticed that Microsoft is getting really pushy about this upgrade thing and has pushed yet another update that has that annoying "Get Windows 10" icon even after I uninstalled and blocked the first update with it. I disabled the Icon notices, but I really would love to unload the new update. Anybody know which update this new one is?
All this really does is convince me that as soon as somebody can come up with a Linux alternative that his fully DRM blessed to play back protected content from my Cable Card tuner, I'm switching and ditching Microsoft and their "we rule the world, do as we say" attitude.
I'm saying you should be happy and secure in what YOU choose to do, not that you are subject to the moral views of others. I'm advocating that you accept yourself for who you are and not bother putting on an act designed to fool others. Be who you are, warts and all. It's easier and less stressful because you don't have to worry about somebody finding out some juicy fact and suddenly rejecting you because you where lying. You don't have to keep all the lies straight either.
However, this doesn't preclude you from suffering the consequences for your behavior. If you choose (for example) to do recreational drugs on your free time, but are working a job that has random drug testing and get pulled out to get tested, you will have consequences. If you still want to do it, just be honest and accept what the consequences could be and go on with your life.
Consider this advice the other side of the self reliance coin. On one side you have "I depend on myself" and the other you have "I accept who I am" because really they go hand in hand. Be happy with yourself, be honest with others and you will go far in life.
Now you are making a different argument. Nice spin there..
If your employer acts on stuff you really did in a way you don't like, consider it a consequence of your choices.
Personally, I don't worry about stuff like this. I am who I portray myself to be, even in private and my off hours so I'm not running around in fear that some piece of information might leak out. I suggest that you might be happier if you adopt the same policy and not having to be careful all the time.
So what if you go to AA meetings? Be honest about it, OWN it. (BTW, Isn't that one of the rules of AA anyway?) Personally I'd have a LOT of respect for somebody who was honest about this and wasn't trying to hide their faults. If you work for somebody who doesn't share that perspective and worries that having a recovering alcoholic on their staff is a bad thing. you might be better off with another position anyway.... But hey, it's up to you. You can continue to live in worry and lie about yourself or choose to do the things necessary to help yourself do better so you don't have to lie and worry about getting caught.
How's this an issue of freedom? You still have your freedom.
Don't confuse freedom to act with freedom from consequences. They are NOT the same. For instance, you are free to go out and run up your credit card balance as high as they will let you buying anything you want, but you are going to have to pay the credit card bills as they come. Or, you are free to go out and have an affair and not use protection, but if a pregnancy happens or you get an STD because of it, consequences will come. (Or if your wife finds out and divorces you, it's a consequence of your choices, not a curb on your freedom.) Your thinking that an employer might not talk kindly to recreational use of drugs on your free time is just a consequence of you exercising your freedoms. It's not a curb on your freedoms, but a consequence of your choices.
So if you need to hide who you really are because you want to avoid consequences of your behavior, it's on you and nobody else. Perhaps it might be a good idea to either fess up to who you really are so you can stop worrying that somebody might find out? Or, if you want to avoid the consequences, perhaps it's a better idea to choose to modify your behavior so you don't have to worry anymore?
Again, if you are trying to hide your behavior from someone because they wouldn't like it or it would embarrass you or others, it's YOU who has the problem. If you worry that a current or future employer might take exception to your activities, you might consider not doing them so you don't have to worry about it. But if you still want to pretend to be something you are not, you are responsible for having to worry about the duplicity being exposed.
Keeping a surprise gift secret from your wife, while a *possible* reason to be concerned, doesn't represent a huge risk, assuming she would actually like the gift. Not to mention that if you are acting trustworthy and open in the rest of your interactions with her, she's not likely to be checking up on you and running though your browser history on a regular basis anyway. Besides, if MY wife happened to catch on to something I was setting up to surprise her, she would either express her excitement right away, or wait for the "surprise" and do it then. I'm golden either way for going to the effort for her, so I'm not that worried about her finding out.
This gives us a whole new thing we can call a "Flash Drive"... Imagine the confusion this will cause..
A couple of MOV's and a fuse or two will do the trick... If you insist, a "crowbar" circuit that shorts the pins to ground if the voltage exceeds about 10 volts. Easy fix with a handful of components if the board makers wanted to.
I just seriously doubt this idea will catch on. It's too expensive to duplicate the devices, the device is physical evidence which could aid in tracing it to it's source and the result is basically vandalism so it's of little use to the criminals looking for a profit.
You poor soul.
Look if you are this paranoid, perhaps it might be a good idea to seriously think about your life and why you feel the need to be so worried about stuff, why you feel the need to play the role of a hypocrite with your wife and why you think anybody cares as much as you do about who you are.
Personally, I'm not so full of myself that I think anybody cares to out me, or that I can hide a porn habit from my wife, or that somebody can blackmail me by the stuff I do in private. In general, my private life doesn't matter enough or differ enough from my public life that I would care if somebody exposed it or that anybody would find it shocking who knew me. I am who I am, and I'm not trying to fool others into thinking I'm something that I'm not so I don't really have anything to hide.
I feel sorry that you do have apparently a lot to hide, that you are either not able to accept yourself as you are, or that you are trying to fool those around you into thinking better of you than you deserve, that you are a fake, to yourself and others. People know you are a phony, that you are putting on an act no matter how good you are at hiding the truth and they will find it hard to trust you. I hope that someday you learn to accept yourself, warts and all, stop the act and learn what relationships are really supposed to be.
What you don't know about, cannot hurt you...
Look, my previous point was partially in jest, but has some truth to it. Most of us are pitifully small targets. We don't own much and never will. We don't do much that we would like to hide, and never will. Where ID theft is an issue we need to be aware of, and being a victim of ID theft is painful and expensive, the actual chances of it being a serious problem are pretty slim.
Now if you are a public figure, like to do illegal things, or you have managed to collect a lot of assets you need to protect, that's a different story. But for most of us, the effort needed to make yourself pretty safe is minimal, cheap to do and easy. Here's my suggestions for you folks that fall into the "not much" category...
1. Check your credit report three times a year, free of cost, by asking the three credit reporting agencies for the legally required credit report.
2. Develop an alternative ID that you use when you don't legally have to give up your real ID. Make sure your alternate ID includes a fake birthday and do something with your name. Only use your real ID where it is required, otherwise supply the alternate ID.
3. Look at your bank and credit card statements EVERY month and report any suspicious transactions immediately.
4. Don't use debit/credit cards which are tied to your checking account for anything but getting cash from your bank's ATMs, use a separate credit card that you pay off each month. Do this for automatic bill payments, shopping etc. If you insist on directly linking a checking account to something else, NEVER EVER keep more money in it than necessary and don't authorize the bank to automatically take money from another account to prevent overdrafts.
If you do the above, chances are good you will never have a problem and you won't need to spend a dime on credit monitoring. Chances are also good that you will become aware of any ID theft and be able to stop it before it gets out of hand.
No, I'm suggesting that construction workers would not like having to replace the majority of their measuring tools due to the costs involved, or, if they do remodeling, have to maintain two sets of measuring tools. Tools cost money and last time I worked in the trades the pay was not that great and I had to supply my own tools.
I'm saying that the industries that supply construction materials based in SAE measurements would be loathed to retool their factories..
I'm saying that the building codes which are enshrined in law based on SAE measurements would be hard to get changed because it would literally require hundreds of thousands of local governments at the city, county and state levels to coordinate their regulations and do it at the same time.
I'm saying that it doesn't matter if we switch the industry over or not, houses will still get built generally the same sizes in the same amount of hours.
I'm saying that it doesn't matter if they use SAE, so why go to all the pain and expense of making them do metric?
I'm saying let the economic forces decide what standard of measurement gets used where and just make sure conversion standards exist...
Ted Kaczynski is that you? I didn't think they let inmates on Slashdot..
What exactly is there to be worried about?
Depends on what you own or are trying to hide... For most of us it's "Not much" and "Not Much" which gives you the answer you seek.
I'll make the point simpler for you..
What's easier to write down: 8' or 2400mm? --> 8'
Get it?
So.. You want to totally retool the entire construction industry so you can use the metric system? I'd be laughing but I think you are serious and might take offense.
Worst summer internship ever.
Ah no way! It was a gas!
As an electrical engineer too, the SI system is great....
However, I've done some construction work in my day and I much prefer SAE measurements when doing that. 4' = 121.92 cm and putting studs on 24" = 60.96 cm centers to match up to that plywood that covers the wall? Yea, I'll do that in feet and inches.
It depends on what you are doing...
Makes 1023 the largest unsigned integer in the world because that's as high as you can count on your fingers...
It depends on what you are doing.... If you are framing a house, working in meters might be a bit cumbersome and using centimeters is going to involve a lot of digits. A 2"x4" (actually 1 1/2 x 3 1/2) stud (38x39 mm) framed wall on 24" centers where you mount a 4'x8' sheet of plywood is going to be a bit of difficult math involving 4-6 digit numbers to set up, measure and construct. It's not that you cannot do it in SI units, only that because the lumber is using SAE units, it's much easer to go the feet/inches route.