I'm sure you can run Linux on it. I can recommend Ubuntu, and Mint wasn't bad either, and of course just about every distro has a 'live' version you can try out without changing anything.
Buddy, do you not realize that this goes far beyond Microsoft or computing devices in general? The Rich want everyone to rent or lease everything and own nothing of value. Look for this, you'll see that it's true. Basically another form of feudalism. Discourage and/or prevent average people from owning anything with any real value by placing barriers in their way. When everything is leased or rented, those things can be taken away with little or no notice, and when you're poor, substantial legal representation is out of your reach financially, so you can't fight it. When you can't, for instance, own your own home, you can't build equity in it as you pay off the loan, therefore you can't borrow against that equity, so you're stuck with just your income. The credit rating system is rigged also, so your ability to borrow money is limited. This and other things are what are destorying the middle class in the U.S., leaving a vacuum in it's place, so there's only 'The Poor' and 'The Rich', with no way to cross that gulf because no middle class. Also note how hideously expensive it is to get a college degree, and it's getting harder and harder to get student loans, and even if you can you're struggling to pay them off for years and years -- assuming that is your degree is even worth anything in todays' workplace, which all too often it isn't.
Is it in cash, deposited into offshore accounts? Or are his corporate masters going to reward their good little doggy when he's out of the FCC one day, giving him some high-level job for outrageous pay for doing little more than shuffling papers around and getting sucked off by his secretary every day?
Zero chance any of this money ISPs will get from this is going to go to improving anything for consumers, in fact I expect they'll just claim they're 'improving' things, just so they have an excuse to jack up prices even more. Then when Trumps' total mismanagement of international trade causes another massive recession here in the U.S., no one will be able to afford Internet anyway, so I guess The Rich will have all the goddamned bandwidth they want.
That's a suckers' bet. Almost guaranteed she buggers off back to China immediately. If not then the Chinese government will be hanging her out to dry. Even if she does jump bail and go back to China, even odds she's never heard from again, dropped in a deep hole somewhere, for embarassing the communist Chinese government by fucking up and getting caught.
..and the more complex a machine is, the more that can go wrong with it.
The controller PCB on a brand-new modern HDD can fail, rendering the entire device useless; any piece of silicon on a modern SSD can fail also, rendering the entire device useless. The only difference here is that with a HDD, if you happen to have another working drive of the exact same model and revision level, you could theoretically swap the controller PCB and be able to access the data on the platters again (I've done this). With an SSD it's all one PCB and short of actually diagnosing the failure and replacing failed component(s), the chances of accessing the contents of the flash memory is a snowballs' chance in hell.
There's no point in worry about it, though. Back up your important data and forget about it. If the system in question is mission-critical and up-time is essential, then use two SSDs in a mirror set, and don't worry about it. If someone is going to get their head lopped off if there's any chance of the system in question failing due to SSD failure, then mirror your mirror-set to another mirror-set (i.e. use 4 SSDs) and back the whole mess up to an off-site location regularly. Sitting around biting your nails down to the quick isn't going to help anything.
Just like GMO crops, the data lost in the Equifax breach is already long-since in the wind, and no amount of barn-door-closing-after-the-horse-is-gone will reverse that. The data likely has been copied and sold dozens of times already, and nothing short of crashing the Moon into the Earth, destroying everything and everyone, could possibly ever erradicate all the copies, or find all the people responsible and all the people who had access to it. It may as well been uploaded to USENET, for fuck's sake. Therefore, just like the meme: I ain't even mad. Not anymore at least.
What the fuck are they going to do, now, anyway? Round up all the Equifax execs responsible for this shitshow, introduce them to Monsieur Guillotine, then mount their severed heads on poles all up and down Wall Street? Sure, I'd like to see that, but it still won't change anything. Maybe institute some strong reforms of financial regulations and practices, enforced by federal law? LOL, they'll weasel out of it somehow, lobby the ever-loving fuck out Congress, and make sure none of it happens -- and with the Trump Administration around, they'll make damned sure none of it happens, hell they'll probably de-regulate them even more, for maximum consumer ass-raping potential the next time around.
Want my advice what to do about this? Put your money in an old coffee can and bury it in your backyard. At this point that's safer than any bank, and until and unless all of Wall Street is marched out and publicly executed as a warning, I don't see where anything is going to change.
If anything will help spur the evolution of battery technology to produce higher energy density, electric aircraft will.
Of course one thing that might be a problem: how long does it take to recharge, versus refueling a jet?
Then there's battery safety. If it's a car, then sure there's a fire risk if a cell fails and causes a cascade failure of the entire pack, but you can emergency stop and jump out. Not so much with an airplane.
We'll work it out or we won't. It has to happen one way or another though, we can't keep burning fossil fuel forever.
Can't allow any games that (shocking!!!) encourage anyone to be a free thinker, now can we? Has to promote communist Party 'values' and philosophy, keep that nasty 'ol Western thinking out of people's heads!
There are email services in existence as I write this that don't allow copying, forwarding, and self-destruct upon opening/reading messages received. Based on the knowledge of this it seems trivial to me for there to be email services specifically for the healthcare industry that operates the same way, plus fully encrypted with strong encryption. Could be designed to be as simple to use as normal email. For once this is a problem that technology can actually solve properly.
The communist Chinese government probably either can't twist Apple into making iPhones into just another addition to the mobile surveillance and tracking of Chinese citizens, or they just plain can't break into the thing in any way themselves to twist the iPhone itself into being part of their surveillance program -- therefore they don't want iPhones in the country at all.
Last thing I'm saying to you: Want to know why I'm not bothering responding to your trolling? Because you're speaking in support of a shit government that treats it's people shitty and there's no excuse for that. You can say "Oh well the U.S. is shitty and corrupt so you have no room to say anything about other countries" but that's complete and utter BULLSHIT, BAD is BAD, the Communist Chinese government is BAD, and I have no use for anyone who supports them for any reason -- and you're supporting them with your words (and your deeds perhaps) therefore all you get is a big fat "FUCK YOU". What's next for you? You going to speak in support of Iran, North Korea, and Bashir al-Assad, too? Vladimir Putin? Donald Trump? Eat shit and die.
Wow, you've really swallowed the China-supplied Kool-Aid in one gulp haven't you? Or are you ignoring everything else in the news about China? ..or are you a China shill? Paid? Foreign national operative perhaps, astroturfing China to the West? Not as crazy as it sounds. Bugger off, I know better.
..also, may I point out to you that no country does control the Internet, globally-speaking? They control it within their own borders, and there's nothing anyone else can do about that.
That's a nice idea, except for one thing: any 'agreement' like that would only work so long as every country on Earth willingly agreed to go along with it, because just like International Law, it's only enforceable so long as everyone agrees to enforce it -- and accept the enforcement. Similarly, the United Nations can make all the judgements and proclamations it wants, but no country, UN-member or not, is bound to accept it. The only way you could enforce such a global 'net neutrality' agreement is to literally cut off any non-compliant country from the Internet by refusing to route traffic to them, and that would require all other countries to agree 100%. As an example: let's say we decide that Iran should be cut off from the Internet entirely. Russia is an ally of theirs, they would not agree, so they'd still route traffic to Iran. We could possibly get countries to cut off Russia in retaliation, but all it would take is one country sympathetic to Russia and/or Iran, and the 'blockade' fails. Even if it works, what's to stop Russia, in this case, from using operatives stationed in other countries not subject to the blockade, from wreaking havoc on the rest of the Internet from their locations? They could launch attacks against vital infrastructure (i.e. electric, gas, water, air traffic control, etc) in retaliation, essentially all-out cyber-warfare. How do you stop that? By counter-attacking. Things get messy quickly.
The only way such a thing would work is if we had one Global government, and zero dissent. If we, as a species, have reached the point where we can have such a thing and actually live, as a species, globally in peace and harmony, then we wouldn't need such agreements about the Internet (or much of anything else, either). Sadly, we are not socio-politically (or mentally/emotionally, for that matter) evolved enough to accomplish such things. I wish we were.
We can but hope. I, too, am wondering how long over a billion people will put up with this 'god-emperor' bullshit their current 'leader' is pulling. Also, while I can't say things are all Hearts and Flowers and good-times-for-all here in the West, and despite Chinas' best efforts, the Chinese people know damned well what life is like outside of China, and without a doubt many of them would rather have our lifestyle and our problems than continue living the way they are under the thumb of the Communist Party. Never know, the Horse May Learn to Sing yet.
What makes you think they 'switched to capitalism'? Just because they want a bigger economy doesn't mean they abandon their 'political philosophy'. They hate the West and all it stands for just like they always have, and want to destroy us and everything we're about, make the Earth one big Communist state full of good little obedient Communist automatons that don't question the Party, don't complain about anything, and don't seek to better themselves or make a better life for their one State-allowed child. They play our games only for their own ends.
What happens to the Internet can wait for now. They have more important things to deal with, like stopping the damage being done to just about everything in our government, and to start reversing/repairing the damage already done. Things got horribly out-of-balance and restoring that balance, so that all voices are heard, not just so-called 'conservative' voices, is much more important right now than anything about the Internet.
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I'm sure you can run Linux on it. I can recommend Ubuntu, and Mint wasn't bad either, and of course just about every distro has a 'live' version you can try out without changing anything.
Buddy, do you not realize that this goes far beyond Microsoft or computing devices in general? The Rich want everyone to rent or lease everything and own nothing of value. Look for this, you'll see that it's true. Basically another form of feudalism. Discourage and/or prevent average people from owning anything with any real value by placing barriers in their way. When everything is leased or rented, those things can be taken away with little or no notice, and when you're poor, substantial legal representation is out of your reach financially, so you can't fight it. When you can't, for instance, own your own home, you can't build equity in it as you pay off the loan, therefore you can't borrow against that equity, so you're stuck with just your income. The credit rating system is rigged also, so your ability to borrow money is limited. This and other things are what are destorying the middle class in the U.S., leaving a vacuum in it's place, so there's only 'The Poor' and 'The Rich', with no way to cross that gulf because no middle class. Also note how hideously expensive it is to get a college degree, and it's getting harder and harder to get student loans, and even if you can you're struggling to pay them off for years and years -- assuming that is your degree is even worth anything in todays' workplace, which all too often it isn't.
NEVER going back to Windows now, NEVER. Libre Office/Open Office serve my needs just fine, and no Microsoft bullshit.
Article is behind a paywalled and I can't find a non-paywalled source, thanks so much for that.
Is it in cash, deposited into offshore accounts? Or are his corporate masters going to reward their good little doggy when he's out of the FCC one day, giving him some high-level job for outrageous pay for doing little more than shuffling papers around and getting sucked off by his secretary every day?
Zero chance any of this money ISPs will get from this is going to go to improving anything for consumers, in fact I expect they'll just claim they're 'improving' things, just so they have an excuse to jack up prices even more. Then when Trumps' total mismanagement of international trade causes another massive recession here in the U.S., no one will be able to afford Internet anyway, so I guess The Rich will have all the goddamned bandwidth they want.
That's a suckers' bet. Almost guaranteed she buggers off back to China immediately. If not then the Chinese government will be hanging her out to dry. Even if she does jump bail and go back to China, even odds she's never heard from again, dropped in a deep hole somewhere, for embarassing the communist Chinese government by fucking up and getting caught.
Wow what a surprise, didn't see that coming! :-(
..and the more complex a machine is, the more that can go wrong with it.
The controller PCB on a brand-new modern HDD can fail, rendering the entire device useless; any piece of silicon on a modern SSD can fail also, rendering the entire device useless. The only difference here is that with a HDD, if you happen to have another working drive of the exact same model and revision level, you could theoretically swap the controller PCB and be able to access the data on the platters again (I've done this). With an SSD it's all one PCB and short of actually diagnosing the failure and replacing failed component(s), the chances of accessing the contents of the flash memory is a snowballs' chance in hell.
There's no point in worry about it, though. Back up your important data and forget about it. If the system in question is mission-critical and up-time is essential, then use two SSDs in a mirror set, and don't worry about it. If someone is going to get their head lopped off if there's any chance of the system in question failing due to SSD failure, then mirror your mirror-set to another mirror-set (i.e. use 4 SSDs) and back the whole mess up to an off-site location regularly. Sitting around biting your nails down to the quick isn't going to help anything.
Post your DXA scan results with timestamp, you Euro.
This just in: Your robot wants steak.
Dude.. it's Walmart, what do you expect?
I just did a spit-take all over my monitor and keyboard when I read that.
Don't be silly. Corporations in America are never held to account for screwing people over.
Unless it's The Rich who got ass-raped, in which case Heads Will Roll over it. But you, me, and all the other plebs? We're irrelevant, you're right.
Just like GMO crops, the data lost in the Equifax breach is already long-since in the wind, and no amount of barn-door-closing-after-the-horse-is-gone will reverse that. The data likely has been copied and sold dozens of times already, and nothing short of crashing the Moon into the Earth, destroying everything and everyone, could possibly ever erradicate all the copies, or find all the people responsible and all the people who had access to it. It may as well been uploaded to USENET, for fuck's sake. Therefore, just like the meme: I ain't even mad. Not anymore at least.
What the fuck are they going to do, now, anyway? Round up all the Equifax execs responsible for this shitshow, introduce them to Monsieur Guillotine, then mount their severed heads on poles all up and down Wall Street? Sure, I'd like to see that, but it still won't change anything. Maybe institute some strong reforms of financial regulations and practices, enforced by federal law? LOL, they'll weasel out of it somehow, lobby the ever-loving fuck out Congress, and make sure none of it happens -- and with the Trump Administration around, they'll make damned sure none of it happens, hell they'll probably de-regulate them even more, for maximum consumer ass-raping potential the next time around.
Want my advice what to do about this? Put your money in an old coffee can and bury it in your backyard. At this point that's safer than any bank, and until and unless all of Wall Street is marched out and publicly executed as a warning, I don't see where anything is going to change.
If anything will help spur the evolution of battery technology to produce higher energy density, electric aircraft will.
Of course one thing that might be a problem: how long does it take to recharge, versus refueling a jet?
Then there's battery safety. If it's a car, then sure there's a fire risk if a cell fails and causes a cascade failure of the entire pack, but you can emergency stop and jump out. Not so much with an airplane.
We'll work it out or we won't. It has to happen one way or another though, we can't keep burning fossil fuel forever.
Can't allow any games that (shocking!!!) encourage anyone to be a free thinker, now can we? Has to promote communist Party 'values' and philosophy, keep that nasty 'ol Western thinking out of people's heads!
There are email services in existence as I write this that don't allow copying, forwarding, and self-destruct upon opening/reading messages received. Based on the knowledge of this it seems trivial to me for there to be email services specifically for the healthcare industry that operates the same way, plus fully encrypted with strong encryption. Could be designed to be as simple to use as normal email. For once this is a problem that technology can actually solve properly.
The communist Chinese government probably either can't twist Apple into making iPhones into just another addition to the mobile surveillance and tracking of Chinese citizens, or they just plain can't break into the thing in any way themselves to twist the iPhone itself into being part of their surveillance program -- therefore they don't want iPhones in the country at all.
Last thing I'm saying to you: Want to know why I'm not bothering responding to your trolling? Because you're speaking in support of a shit government that treats it's people shitty and there's no excuse for that. You can say "Oh well the U.S. is shitty and corrupt so you have no room to say anything about other countries" but that's complete and utter BULLSHIT, BAD is BAD, the Communist Chinese government is BAD, and I have no use for anyone who supports them for any reason -- and you're supporting them with your words (and your deeds perhaps) therefore all you get is a big fat "FUCK YOU". What's next for you? You going to speak in support of Iran, North Korea, and Bashir al-Assad, too? Vladimir Putin? Donald Trump? Eat shit and die.
Wow, you've really swallowed the China-supplied Kool-Aid in one gulp haven't you? Or are you ignoring everything else in the news about China?
..or are you a China shill? Paid? Foreign national operative perhaps, astroturfing China to the West? Not as crazy as it sounds. Bugger off, I know better.
..also, may I point out to you that no country does control the Internet, globally-speaking? They control it within their own borders, and there's nothing anyone else can do about that.
That's a nice idea, except for one thing: any 'agreement' like that would only work so long as every country on Earth willingly agreed to go along with it, because just like International Law, it's only enforceable so long as everyone agrees to enforce it -- and accept the enforcement. Similarly, the United Nations can make all the judgements and proclamations it wants, but no country, UN-member or not, is bound to accept it. The only way you could enforce such a global 'net neutrality' agreement is to literally cut off any non-compliant country from the Internet by refusing to route traffic to them, and that would require all other countries to agree 100%. As an example: let's say we decide that Iran should be cut off from the Internet entirely. Russia is an ally of theirs, they would not agree, so they'd still route traffic to Iran. We could possibly get countries to cut off Russia in retaliation, but all it would take is one country sympathetic to Russia and/or Iran, and the 'blockade' fails. Even if it works, what's to stop Russia, in this case, from using operatives stationed in other countries not subject to the blockade, from wreaking havoc on the rest of the Internet from their locations? They could launch attacks against vital infrastructure (i.e. electric, gas, water, air traffic control, etc) in retaliation, essentially all-out cyber-warfare. How do you stop that? By counter-attacking. Things get messy quickly.
The only way such a thing would work is if we had one Global government, and zero dissent. If we, as a species, have reached the point where we can have such a thing and actually live, as a species, globally in peace and harmony, then we wouldn't need such agreements about the Internet (or much of anything else, either). Sadly, we are not socio-politically (or mentally/emotionally, for that matter) evolved enough to accomplish such things. I wish we were.
We can but hope. I, too, am wondering how long over a billion people will put up with this 'god-emperor' bullshit their current 'leader' is pulling. Also, while I can't say things are all Hearts and Flowers and good-times-for-all here in the West, and despite Chinas' best efforts, the Chinese people know damned well what life is like outside of China, and without a doubt many of them would rather have our lifestyle and our problems than continue living the way they are under the thumb of the Communist Party. Never know, the Horse May Learn to Sing yet.
What makes you think they 'switched to capitalism'? Just because they want a bigger economy doesn't mean they abandon their 'political philosophy'. They hate the West and all it stands for just like they always have, and want to destroy us and everything we're about, make the Earth one big Communist state full of good little obedient Communist automatons that don't question the Party, don't complain about anything, and don't seek to better themselves or make a better life for their one State-allowed child. They play our games only for their own ends.
What happens to the Internet can wait for now. They have more important things to deal with, like stopping the damage being done to just about everything in our government, and to start reversing/repairing the damage already done. Things got horribly out-of-balance and restoring that balance, so that all voices are heard, not just so-called 'conservative' voices, is much more important right now than anything about the Internet.