I'm all for making things easier and simpler to maintain and configure but at the end of the day stability is most important.
I just feel that by storing information of this nature on a hard disk is asking for trouble. Easier for a virus to make a hash of your partition table than your bios.
Besides this is supposed to be making things easier but it looks like another step to worry about when setting up a new machine or upgrading an old one. Not exactly the labour saving improvements that i would have in mind.
Along with that why would you want a firmware that was tied to the hard disk that you had in the machine? Storing that sort of info on your hdd just sounds mad. If that went down not only would you loose your os but now you will loose your 'bios' sounds worse that XP's activiation code.
Suppose you are the victim of abuse and you are like many struggling to get on with your life. Only to find out that there are picture available on the internet depicting the acts that were inflicted on you. Does that have any effect on you? Does it further the sense of abuse and humiliation?
I say to you that the fallacy is in thinking that there is no harm in viewing these files.
But this is getting off the origional topic i suppose so that shall have to end it here.
If kiddie-porn exchange does not result in violence
That is a big IF. Most would argue that the act if kiddie porn is in itslef an act of violence on the child in question and each transfer of that file furthers this.
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I'm all for making things easier and simpler to maintain and configure but at the end of the day stability is most important.
I just feel that by storing information of this nature on a hard disk is asking for trouble. Easier for a virus to make a hash of your partition table than your bios.
Besides this is supposed to be making things easier but it looks like another step to worry about when setting up a new machine or upgrading an old one. Not exactly the labour saving improvements that i would have in mind.
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Along with that why would you want a firmware that was tied to the hard disk that you had in the machine? Storing that sort of info on your hdd just sounds mad. If that went down not only would you loose your os but now you will loose your 'bios' sounds worse that XP's activiation code.
Seems wrong on so many different levels.
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OK look at this scenerio
Suppose you are the victim of abuse and you are like many struggling to get on with your life. Only to find out that there are picture available on the internet depicting the acts that were inflicted on you. Does that have any effect on you? Does it further the sense of abuse and humiliation?
I say to you that the fallacy is in thinking that there is no harm in viewing these files.
But this is getting off the origional topic i suppose so that shall have to end it here.
g
If kiddie-porn exchange does not result in violence
That is a big IF. Most would argue that the act if kiddie porn is in itslef an act of violence on the child in question and each transfer of that file furthers this.
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