I don't know what this article is about, but I'm sure the Russians are involved somehow.
You are wrong. Also you didn't read the article about reading the article. So maybe ironically wrong, though I am betting you are just alt-right wrong.
Most TVs come with a USB port, so you can power some of those HDMI devices right from the TV, albeit with an extra cable on the back.
I did this for a while with a Fire Stick, but it would complain that it wasn't getting enough power sometimes so I ended up using an external USB charger with it. Newer devices should have lower power requirements though, and better TVs might have more powerful USB ports.
If you just want power over HDMI, why not just use the MHL standard? To have both power and HDMI over a USB-C cable you would need the non-standardd MHL mode anyway, and MHL also has a non-standard MHL mode for HDMI, that provides 5W .
It looks like Intel has hired some PR mitigation experts. They've come up with this bogus attack vector*, and we see stories of how this claimed vector could be used to attack stock markets etc.
It all smells of a stinky 800lb Gorilla.
Yeh, this looks like it's all about Intel's Meltdown problem. I don't need to upgrade right now, but I suddenly feel like I want to go upgrade to a thread ripper box.
* It needs local admin priviledges FFS, the big prize for all hacks, root admin, is a pre-requisite for even starting this attack.
Yeah, this company was formed just shortly after Intel was informed of their own security holes 6 months ago, before they even started dumbing their own stocks.
Do you want someone with 5 minutes of physical access to the machine (e.g. the minimum wage cleaners provided by an agency) to be able to install malware that the OS can't see, which survives complete reinstalls or even physically replacing the disk, and which can intercept everything that the OS does? If so, I really hope you don't work for a company with any confidential data.
Since my complete controls is as complete as theirs, it is not persistent as I can fix it.
More so, they believe galazies actually HAVE a rotation speed, but they are not rigid, so they don't. The arms are just standard waves of density not something that moves matter around, all the matter have different rotational speeds depending on how far away from the center they are, otherwise the outer parts would be moving faster than the speed of light.
Well, I am sure you can find a spot or a metric where the numbers fit, like the researchers here did, but galaxies are not rigid and thus does not have a constant rotations per billion year for every part of it.
They destroy so much that could be banked away for the future in a good clay-lined landfill.
Same with nuclear waste. In the future, all those isotopes are going to be very valuable. We just haven't figured out how or why yet.
The power companies should sell options/futures on the waste, and use the money to pay for the (temporary) storage.
Actually we know exactly how to reuse them. It just is more expensive and politically iffy as refining spend spend fuel back into (a smaller amount of) usuable fuel require the same kind of facility (a breeder) as making weapon grade nuclear material.
At this point we have no idea how bad this is. Could be that AMD release a patch next week and it's all fixed, no fuss. Could be as bad as Meltdown, with a major performance hit. Or it could be complete bullshit. We just don't know.
It is apparently a just a scam, the company behind had shorted AMD stocks, and have been caught and warned over similar scams in the past
Care to inform me how I would be the winner if flaws in hardware become published with ZERO chance for their makers to deliver any kind of patch before malware creators get a chance to exploit them?
The place this hole is, is the AMD version of IME, a useless piece of malware designed to remote-controlled your computer, which Intel and AMD puts there for enterprise purposes. Get rid of it from or make it default off and these issues goes away...
I have no fucking clue why they installed those crappy Internet-of-shit operating systems in there by default in the first place.
No, it isn't. The PC sales are dropping slowly and steadily, but the PC market penetration has not changed dramatically, people just upgrade more rarely.
I am thinking this might be planted news by Intel to justify their acquisition as otherwise it would be rejected as a major monopoly already fined for abusing their monopoly expanding its monopoly further.
The default for Debian with Gnome GUI. GUI isn't even a required default for Debian. But the underpants people have succesfully removed Gnome from their label in the installer so you get the false choice between "GUI" and "KDE GUI"... We used to be able to report bugs on that and have it fixed, but at some point a few years ago the midgets have started to get away with it.
"I have never nor have I witnessed anyone who has had a driver issue with linux."
You're either fucking young, fucking inexperienced, or don't have any fucking friends.
Making statements like that just exposes your inexperience, not expertise.
I have not observed or witnessed anyone with a driver issue on Linux... In the last 10 years. It happened frequently in the olden days though.
When I bought a new sound card (to get better isolation from CPU noise), it worked out of the box on Linux, but needed a manually installed driver on Windows.. And it was using a standard AC/97 sound-chip protocol. Windows is terrible with drivers compared to Linux these days.
So then, what is their purpose and why should anyone miss them?
Learn the answer to this, and you will begin to understand why a large percentage of Americans disagree with you on this issue. I'm not going to try to answer the question, though, because you'll ignore anything I say. Unless you make the effort to learn for yourself, you'll never get it.
Maybe you should think about it yourself. You are obviously worried that it would sound stupid if you wrote it down.. That is beause it IS stupid.
Not sure. I think there is a lot of low quality stuff at low prices. And for good quality, you need to pay more than the minimum (depending on the type of product of course).
True, but the minimum is probably a lot lower than you think. Anyway I am just talking about my experience with stuff like cables, surge protectors and similar. Find the right store and the price for decent quality is a lot lower than even the cheapest crap in the your amateur stores.
Are you on crack? There's a huge number of top tech companies based in SF. Uber, Twitter, Square, Dolby. Google, Yahoo, and Cisco have big offices there. It's not as big as Palo Alto (and doesn't have have the space for the huge office complexes Google and so forth have) but it's definitely one of the top tech cities in the Bay.
Those are all in the bay area not actually in SF or even near SF.
A big contributor to that is re-branding. Once the "name" brands became just the shoddy generic with a nice name plate and some veneer on it, it became impossible to tell if the $25 item was really better than the $5 item. The only criterion left to the consumer was the price.
Exactly! It is very hard to buy quality goods in some areas (tools for example, or power strips). I'm not cheap at all, and would rather buy quality and pay significantly more than for cheaper product in most cases. But how do I tell?
Funny thing is that the cheap stuff is likely to be the highest quality. See in stuff like that there are two types of consumers: Amateurs and professionals. The professionals don't care about brand names and buy stuff that works in bulk, it is therefore of a decent quality and very cheap. Amateurs are tricked and preyed upon by their lack of expertise, so crap is sold to them at a premium using marketing that wouldn't work on the professionals anyway.
So the cookie is dying. The article says nothing about how we will be tracked in the future. Or how we are being tracked now when I reject cookies.
They now have new and much more invasive HTML5 mechanisms of tracking you that people aren't as aware of, and thus less likely to turn off or protect against.
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Yeah it least it's password manager doesn't involve uploading it as clear text to Google's servers like Chrome's does
I don't know what this article is about, but I'm sure the Russians are involved somehow.
You are wrong. Also you didn't read the article about reading the article. So maybe ironically wrong, though I am betting you are just alt-right wrong.
Most TVs come with a USB port, so you can power some of those HDMI devices right from the TV, albeit with an extra cable on the back.
I did this for a while with a Fire Stick, but it would complain that it wasn't getting enough power sometimes so I ended up using an external USB charger with it. Newer devices should have lower power requirements though, and better TVs might have more powerful USB ports.
If you just want power over HDMI, why not just use the MHL standard? To have both power and HDMI over a USB-C cable you would need the non-standardd MHL mode anyway, and MHL also has a non-standard MHL mode for HDMI, that provides 5W .
Yeah, he wanted wireless power via a wireless USB-C.
You allow Russia to hack you and don't retaliate, you can't really expect other people from not doing some consequence free hacking of their own.
No... Just no.
It looks like Intel has hired some PR mitigation experts. They've come up with this bogus attack vector*, and we see stories of how this claimed vector could be used to attack stock markets etc.
It all smells of a stinky 800lb Gorilla.
Yeh, this looks like it's all about Intel's Meltdown problem. I don't need to upgrade right now, but I suddenly feel like I want to go upgrade to a thread ripper box.
* It needs local admin priviledges FFS, the big prize for all hacks, root admin, is a pre-requisite for even starting this attack.
Yeah, this company was formed just shortly after Intel was informed of their own security holes 6 months ago, before they even started dumbing their own stocks.
Do you want someone with 5 minutes of physical access to the machine (e.g. the minimum wage cleaners provided by an agency) to be able to install malware that the OS can't see, which survives complete reinstalls or even physically replacing the disk, and which can intercept everything that the OS does? If so, I really hope you don't work for a company with any confidential data.
Since my complete controls is as complete as theirs, it is not persistent as I can fix it.
More so, they believe galazies actually HAVE a rotation speed, but they are not rigid, so they don't. The arms are just standard waves of density not something that moves matter around, all the matter have different rotational speeds depending on how far away from the center they are, otherwise the outer parts would be moving faster than the speed of light.
Well, I am sure you can find a spot or a metric where the numbers fit, like the researchers here did, but galaxies are not rigid and thus does not have a constant rotations per billion year for every part of it.
They destroy so much that could be banked away for the future in a good clay-lined landfill.
Same with nuclear waste. In the future, all those isotopes are going to be very valuable. We just haven't figured out how or why yet.
The power companies should sell options/futures on the waste, and use the money to pay for the (temporary) storage.
Actually we know exactly how to reuse them. It just is more expensive and politically iffy as refining spend spend fuel back into (a smaller amount of) usuable fuel require the same kind of facility (a breeder) as making weapon grade nuclear material.
At this point we have no idea how bad this is. Could be that AMD release a patch next week and it's all fixed, no fuss. Could be as bad as Meltdown, with a major performance hit. Or it could be complete bullshit. We just don't know.
It is apparently a just a scam, the company behind had shorted AMD stocks, and have been caught and warned over similar scams in the past
Care to inform me how I would be the winner if flaws in hardware become published with ZERO chance for their makers to deliver any kind of patch before malware creators get a chance to exploit them?
The place this hole is, is the AMD version of IME, a useless piece of malware designed to remote-controlled your computer, which Intel and AMD puts there for enterprise purposes. Get rid of it from or make it default off and these issues goes away...
I have no fucking clue why they installed those crappy Internet-of-shit operating systems in there by default in the first place.
PC market is shrinking fast
No, it isn't. The PC sales are dropping slowly and steadily, but the PC market penetration has not changed dramatically, people just upgrade more rarely.
I am thinking this might be planted news by Intel to justify their acquisition as otherwise it would be rejected as a major monopoly already fined for abusing their monopoly expanding its monopoly further.
Gnome Shell - the default (AFAIK) for Debian.
The default for Debian with Gnome GUI. GUI isn't even a required default for Debian. But the underpants people have succesfully removed Gnome from their label in the installer so you get the false choice between "GUI" and "KDE GUI"... We used to be able to report bugs on that and have it fixed, but at some point a few years ago the midgets have started
to get away with it.
Welcome to 2005 or thereabouts, we hope you enjoy your stay.
Oh? A mainstream OS nested its apps in tabs in 2005? Sounds interesting.
KDE
"I have never nor have I witnessed anyone who has had a driver issue with linux."
You're either fucking young, fucking inexperienced, or don't have any fucking friends.
Making statements like that just exposes your inexperience, not expertise.
I have not observed or witnessed anyone with a driver issue on Linux... In the last 10 years. It happened frequently in the olden days though.
When I bought a new sound card (to get better isolation from CPU noise), it worked out of the box on Linux, but needed a manually installed driver on Windows.. And it was using a standard AC/97 sound-chip protocol. Windows is terrible with drivers compared to Linux these days.
So then, what is their purpose and why should anyone miss them?
Learn the answer to this, and you will begin to understand why a large percentage of Americans disagree with you on this issue. I'm not going to try to answer the question, though, because you'll ignore anything I say. Unless you make the effort to learn for yourself, you'll never get it.
Maybe you should think about it yourself. You are obviously worried that it would sound stupid if you wrote it down.. That is beause it IS stupid.
Now replace the guns with trucks and do Europe.
There will likely always be crazy people who do bad things. We should go after the people, not the tactics.
And what? It would look even worse for the US?
Not sure. I think there is a lot of low quality stuff at low prices. And for good quality, you need to pay more than the minimum (depending on the type of product of course).
True, but the minimum is probably a lot lower than you think. Anyway I am just talking about my experience with stuff like cables, surge protectors and similar. Find the right store and the price for decent quality is a lot lower than even the cheapest crap in the your amateur stores.
Are you on crack? There's a huge number of top tech companies based in SF. Uber, Twitter, Square, Dolby. Google, Yahoo, and Cisco have big offices there. It's not as big as Palo Alto (and doesn't have have the space for the huge office complexes Google and so forth have) but it's definitely one of the top tech cities in the Bay.
Those are all in the bay area not actually in SF or even near SF.
A big contributor to that is re-branding. Once the "name" brands became just the shoddy generic with a nice name plate and some veneer on it, it became impossible to tell if the $25 item was really better than the $5 item. The only criterion left to the consumer was the price.
Exactly! It is very hard to buy quality goods in some areas (tools for example, or power strips). I'm not cheap at all, and would rather buy quality and pay significantly more than for cheaper product in most cases. But how do I tell?
Funny thing is that the cheap stuff is likely to be the highest quality. See in stuff like that there are two types of consumers: Amateurs and professionals. The professionals don't care about brand names and buy stuff that works in bulk, it is therefore of a decent quality and very cheap. Amateurs are tricked and preyed upon by their lack of expertise, so crap is sold to them at a premium using marketing that wouldn't work on the professionals anyway.
"I'm a little over San Francisco," said Patrick McKenna, the founder of High Ridge Venture Partners
Said the nobody.
Complaints about Silicon Valley insularity are as old as the Valley itself.
Slow news day huh?
Basically the sky-high prices for property is true for any major city in the world, from London, to Paris, and especially Hong Kong.
San Fransisco is not a major city by any measure, and it is ridiculously overpriced even compared to real major cities.
So the cookie is dying. The article says nothing about how we will be tracked in the future. Or how we are being tracked now when I reject cookies.
They now have new and much more invasive HTML5 mechanisms of tracking you that people aren't as aware of, and thus less likely to turn off or protect against.