Malware often masquerades as versions of Java since Java requires all the things malware does. Hence, when you're cleaning up peoples' computers you will find lots of odd versions of java. This is evidence the machine is completely hosed.
When there is malware on a Windows PC, back it up and do a DBAN. Then build new starting from an official Microsoft.ISO and add verified OEM drivers. It is the only way to be sure. Then run a solid AV scan on the backed-up user content from a trusted PC before you pull it back in. Most of the time this gives good result. If the customer is a high-value target though, all bets are off. High-value targets need to not use Windows.
Yes, and for that we'll need raw materials and fuel to lift up from LEO the masses involved. Fortunately Planetary Resources is all over this one. I suspect the first uses of nuclear energy in space will be the secret projects of commercial entities. Which isn't so far fetched. Kodak used to have their own nuclear reactor, and GE does still.
Enhanced Geothermal energy has the potential to replace almost all US baseload electricity generation except hydro and serves as an excellent counterpoint to wind and PV. Total system levelized costs are overall are quite low - as low as coal, nuclear; some types of natural gas are cheaper now but not the more eco-friendly sort. It requires no fuel so fuel supply cost issues are of no concern, nor a national security or global policy risk. There is no gas pipeline that might rupture and burn down an entire neighborhood. There are no nuclear proliferation issues. It's a closed loop and does not generate CO2, nor toxic coal ash, nor spent nuclear fuel to be rid of. There is no risk that it will blow up. The energy driver is residual fission occurring in the Earth's core (80%) that is in no danger of being depleted ever. The plants themselves can be unobtrusive and small.
It has utility almost everywhere in the world, as the only question is really how deep you must drill to get to the hot rock. There is hot rock under everywhere. Some of it is impractical to reach right now though. It is of most economical use notably on the "ring of fire" - the western edge of North and South America, the Eastern edge of Asia. And Iceland of course, where they are eagerly exploiting the resource already - 87% of building heating and 26% of electrical energy from this source. Shoot in Iceland it's so cheap and plentiful they defrost streets and sidewalks with it - even a beach.
The problem is that the costs are all up front. It takes years to dig the hole, so a long lag time between starting the investment and yielding a return. You have to drill the hole, buy the generators, build the plants and so on before you get the first watt-hour. After that it's free power, essentially forever. Every 30 years you have to refurbish or replace the turbines. Once a year the gear has to be inspected. Somebody's got to man the gate to keep kids from spraypainting the condenser. That's about it.
It is the lack of a need for ongoing fuel supply that is perhaps the problem. Over the lifespan of an electrical plant the ongoing revenues from providing its fuel is a bigger motivator for the fuel supplier than the plant operator. The fuel costs more than the plant. Naturally fuel providers are going to be opposed to this radical notion of continuously generating baseload power for the whole life of the plant without paying them money. It's bad for jobs.
As for natural gas being cheaper, this is true but it may not always be true. LNG is also useful for powering internal combustion engines and may become a valuable export to improve our balance of trade or make us less dependent on other forms of portable energy import. It's a resource with global demand and that global demand introduces the risk that market rates for the fuel may go up. This portability factor makes the use of natural gas in generating electricity when you don't have to a waste of a valuable resource better used another way.
If you dump mass licenses of W8 to OEMs with W7 downgrade rights this is going to happen. They save up millions of licenses and bring down their costs - they have to to remain competitive. But this has nothing to do with which version of the software gets delivered to the customer, nor how popular it is.
Go to dell.com or HP.com and look at their premium desktops. Windows 7 gets top billing still and Windows 8 is an option. In HP's case there are more preconfigured options with SUSE Linux than Windows 8. In Dell's case not one system comes with Windows 8 by default.
Everybody who wanders in those circles know about this one years ago. This is not the dawn of some new discovery - it's just when it became common knowledge to the rest of you. Java is crap nobody in their right mind would run in a browser. The "do not use" public warnings overlap each other. IE likewise is crap Pwned six ways from Sunday in every way possible - it's rapetacular. Office and Windows itself are just as bad, or worse. Calling it 0-day is kind of funny considering this is the normal condition all day every day.
There are dozens more as bad or worse in Java, and scores in all versions of IE that are freely passed around by those who know and let to the press only after they become common enough to be worth discarding. A few are so precious that only dozens know about them, and will be present until long after the current versions of this software bundles have been deprecated. These are the few nation-states use to meddle with each other. The disclosures overlap, so your Windows PC will not ever be and cannot ever be what a reasonable IT pro would consider "secure".
Proof. Some retard is going to ask me for proof again, probably yet another Microsoft Intern with absolute faith that This Is The Last Exploit. I don't have to give proof. Giving proof would defeat the purpose. Just wait and the proofs will be revealed unto you in time. Microsoft themselves have acknowledged that these come so often they can't be bothered to fix them as they are revealed and schedule fixes monthly, on "patch Tuesday". Pathological exams reveal these same exploits have been present and used for 15 years or more quite frequently. One year from now at least a dozen more that many know that you do not will be in this way revealed, and in the process that they had been used for a long time since before now also. That is my proof.
Some few though... they will not be found out. Those few are precious, secret and reserved. They give us access to your darkest secrets. We save those for the most important people.
Quite correct. This is likely the most valuable asteroid in Near Earth Orbit. It's likely to be swarmed by asteroid miner '29'ers in 2029, and in 2036 for nothing of consequence to be left of it.
The technology available for $100 has changed considerably in the last five years. The $100 laptop goal was ambitious back then. A $100 7" tablet now is just a retail device, the difference of this one being free content stored on the media. Big difference.
Microsoft Signature includes changing from third and fourth party crudware to Microsoft-specific crudware and settings that then have to be replaced. Yes, they get rid of the stupid multiple-antivirus-and-firewall trials, and such. But what they put in return is not much better. The fact that you have to pay extra for this "service" is ridiculous.
Since Windows Phone has first-party integration that cannot be removed for things we do not want and against our better interest like Bing and IE, the distinction is irrelevant. Windows Phone is not trusted in its natural state.
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Instead of selling "rare" earths for 1M times the extraction cost, they will tell 10x as much at only 500K extraction costs. Net win.
Not. Gonna. Happen.
"We'll offer to trade their supply for some *xx-iron-xx* lead."
/Sorry, /. doesn't do <strike>
Well then let's make it easy for them by removing their purpose for being and opening it all up for free.
For proofs of startups yeah, this is OK. Bidirectional Gigabit access to Google's backbone with 2ms latency? Don't throw me into that briar patch.
Malware often masquerades as versions of Java since Java requires all the things malware does. Hence, when you're cleaning up peoples' computers you will find lots of odd versions of java. This is evidence the machine is completely hosed.
When there is malware on a Windows PC, back it up and do a DBAN. Then build new starting from an official Microsoft .ISO and add verified OEM drivers. It is the only way to be sure. Then run a solid AV scan on the backed-up user content from a trusted PC before you pull it back in. Most of the time this gives good result. If the customer is a high-value target though, all bets are off. High-value targets need to not use Windows.
It was banned by treaty. Anecdotally giving us the Toynbee tiles enigma. "Footballs in space" and all that.
Yes, and for that we'll need raw materials and fuel to lift up from LEO the masses involved. Fortunately Planetary Resources is all over this one. I suspect the first uses of nuclear energy in space will be the secret projects of commercial entities. Which isn't so far fetched. Kodak used to have their own nuclear reactor, and GE does still.
Enhanced Geothermal energy has the potential to replace almost all US baseload electricity generation except hydro and serves as an excellent counterpoint to wind and PV. Total system levelized costs are overall are quite low - as low as coal, nuclear; some types of natural gas are cheaper now but not the more eco-friendly sort. It requires no fuel so fuel supply cost issues are of no concern, nor a national security or global policy risk. There is no gas pipeline that might rupture and burn down an entire neighborhood. There are no nuclear proliferation issues. It's a closed loop and does not generate CO2, nor toxic coal ash, nor spent nuclear fuel to be rid of. There is no risk that it will blow up. The energy driver is residual fission occurring in the Earth's core (80%) that is in no danger of being depleted ever. The plants themselves can be unobtrusive and small.
It has utility almost everywhere in the world, as the only question is really how deep you must drill to get to the hot rock. There is hot rock under everywhere. Some of it is impractical to reach right now though. It is of most economical use notably on the "ring of fire" - the western edge of North and South America, the Eastern edge of Asia. And Iceland of course, where they are eagerly exploiting the resource already - 87% of building heating and 26% of electrical energy from this source. Shoot in Iceland it's so cheap and plentiful they defrost streets and sidewalks with it - even a beach.
The problem is that the costs are all up front. It takes years to dig the hole, so a long lag time between starting the investment and yielding a return. You have to drill the hole, buy the generators, build the plants and so on before you get the first watt-hour. After that it's free power, essentially forever. Every 30 years you have to refurbish or replace the turbines. Once a year the gear has to be inspected. Somebody's got to man the gate to keep kids from spraypainting the condenser. That's about it.
It is the lack of a need for ongoing fuel supply that is perhaps the problem. Over the lifespan of an electrical plant the ongoing revenues from providing its fuel is a bigger motivator for the fuel supplier than the plant operator. The fuel costs more than the plant. Naturally fuel providers are going to be opposed to this radical notion of continuously generating baseload power for the whole life of the plant without paying them money. It's bad for jobs.
As for natural gas being cheaper, this is true but it may not always be true. LNG is also useful for powering internal combustion engines and may become a valuable export to improve our balance of trade or make us less dependent on other forms of portable energy import. It's a resource with global demand and that global demand introduces the risk that market rates for the fuel may go up. This portability factor makes the use of natural gas in generating electricity when you don't have to a waste of a valuable resource better used another way.
If you dump mass licenses of W8 to OEMs with W7 downgrade rights this is going to happen. They save up millions of licenses and bring down their costs - they have to to remain competitive. But this has nothing to do with which version of the software gets delivered to the customer, nor how popular it is.
Go to dell.com or HP.com and look at their premium desktops. Windows 7 gets top billing still and Windows 8 is an option. In HP's case there are more preconfigured options with SUSE Linux than Windows 8. In Dell's case not one system comes with Windows 8 by default.
What can happen is we put JSTOR out of business.
Everybody who wanders in those circles know about this one years ago. This is not the dawn of some new discovery - it's just when it became common knowledge to the rest of you. Java is crap nobody in their right mind would run in a browser. The "do not use" public warnings overlap each other. IE likewise is crap Pwned six ways from Sunday in every way possible - it's rapetacular. Office and Windows itself are just as bad, or worse. Calling it 0-day is kind of funny considering this is the normal condition all day every day.
There are dozens more as bad or worse in Java, and scores in all versions of IE that are freely passed around by those who know and let to the press only after they become common enough to be worth discarding. A few are so precious that only dozens know about them, and will be present until long after the current versions of this software bundles have been deprecated. These are the few nation-states use to meddle with each other. The disclosures overlap, so your Windows PC will not ever be and cannot ever be what a reasonable IT pro would consider "secure".
Proof. Some retard is going to ask me for proof again, probably yet another Microsoft Intern with absolute faith that This Is The Last Exploit. I don't have to give proof. Giving proof would defeat the purpose. Just wait and the proofs will be revealed unto you in time. Microsoft themselves have acknowledged that these come so often they can't be bothered to fix them as they are revealed and schedule fixes monthly, on "patch Tuesday". Pathological exams reveal these same exploits have been present and used for 15 years or more quite frequently. One year from now at least a dozen more that many know that you do not will be in this way revealed, and in the process that they had been used for a long time since before now also. That is my proof.
Some few though... they will not be found out. Those few are precious, secret and reserved. They give us access to your darkest secrets. We save those for the most important people.
Quite correct. This is likely the most valuable asteroid in Near Earth Orbit. It's likely to be swarmed by asteroid miner '29'ers in 2029, and in 2036 for nothing of consequence to be left of it.
The technology available for $100 has changed considerably in the last five years. The $100 laptop goal was ambitious back then. A $100 7" tablet now is just a retail device, the difference of this one being free content stored on the media. Big difference.
Delete away! It's not like legacy versions aren't available. Most code should be deleted. Almost all production code is bad.
This.
The GPU on these chips, due to be released year-after-next, max out at the resolution of the 10" Nexus 10 from last year. That is a strategic error.
Give what you can spare. Now. Or bear the guilt for letting it be fed to the patent troll sharks.
So don't buy it.
If you need antivirus software, you're doing it wrong.
Freaking percentages! How do they work?
Well Microsoft owns Skype so that is definitely never going to get fixed.
Android is a Linux distribution just like RHEL and Ubuntu and ChromeOS are.
Microsoft Signature includes changing from third and fourth party crudware to Microsoft-specific crudware and settings that then have to be replaced. Yes, they get rid of the stupid multiple-antivirus-and-firewall trials, and such. But what they put in return is not much better. The fact that you have to pay extra for this "service" is ridiculous.
Since Windows Phone has first-party integration that cannot be removed for things we do not want and against our better interest like Bing and IE, the distinction is irrelevant. Windows Phone is not trusted in its natural state.