Nature made the penis sensitive for a reason, so you can shoot your wad off as quickly as possible during sex. The point of sex is to make babies. Pleasure is just a method of completing that goal.
I'm cut, as well as many other men. Not being labeled as a "minute man" is a good thing IMHO. You know the ol saying. He came, she went.
I'm not saying this topic isn't cause for some eyebrow raising, but it doesn't do anyone any good to be spreading FUD! If you actually spent some time researching this topic, you will find that what you said isn't entirely true. Take the Dell Latitude 6430u that comes with Windows 8. You can disable secure boot in BIOS. I refer you to page 44 of its owners manual (PDF format). Not only that, but TPM can be disabled along with the options of booting via legacy ROM (BIOS).
Basically here's the skinny. For x86 computers brandishing a Windows 8 sticker, Secure Boot will be enabled by default (or it's supposed too). But, the machine still must allow the user the option of disabling it in BIOS. However, if the machine is ARM based certified for Windows-RT it will be locked down. Essentially, a Windows 8 *only* machine.
Ars Technica wrote a much better article on the subject here dated Jan-2012.
The version I removed couldn't be cleaned in Safe-Mode. It was well coded to prevent professional cleanup while in the OS. Looking through my IT support ticket history, I documented removing 31 instances of mxroh_v_mf.exe scattered throughout the drive all cross referenced. So if you missed just one, the registry would pull from another directory and re-enable with replication. This fucker had self preservation hard coded as its #1 priority!
What's wrong with supporting UEFI secureboot by default, but still providing users a BIOS option of disabling it for legacy/alternate OSes? Secureboot should be an added feature, not a forced requirement for motherboards. If Microsoft Windows X is require secureboot, the user can toggle secureboot on. Why does this have to be such a big deal?
Is there really some conspiracy going on in which Microsoft will own the PC market with Intel as the -unofficial- official Microsoft hardware developer locking out all other OSes?
A few years back, the only people that made the news whom got infected with bird flu were Asians handling chickens and ducks. Either farming or handling them for sport (cock fighting).
When dealing with outbreaks and mutations, it all comes down to statistics and probabilities. While anything is possible to happen in theory, it all comes down to known sets of circumstances. And while DrYak may be correct in everything is said, I personally don't feel like rolling the dice on eating cooked chicken that's been known to have been infected. That's my opinion, and I'm sticking to it.
My vote goes for the fake FBI warning screen that hijacks explorer.exe. It basically informs users that they have done something very illegal and must pay a "fine" to unlock the computer in the form of MoneyPak cards. Screenshot here (not my link, just found online as an example)
BTW, you can remove this SOB using a bootable Kaspersky Rescue Disk. It runs a form of Linux that will boot into an anti-virus desktop console. Assuming you have internet access, it will most likely contain NIC drivers to download the latest defs for you prior to the scan/removal process.
I think you missed the part of MS providing a consumer platform to move hardware off the shelves. It's not about what MS did or didn't provide specifically, it's the fact you can now purchase a PC for under $300 and runs in the Ghz range with multiple core. That's the point. IBM, Apple, SGI, never intended to reach the mass market to the degree that Microsoft wanted. And it was only until hardware started moving that R&D got spent. You may call it landfill waste, but I call it progress.
I thought about that too before writing my previous post. But then I remember that was required to be spent in order to get to the level of progress we are at now. So burning the finite fossil fuels was a requirement to bootstrap our current civilization. Now we just need sustainability for generations to come. Hopefully AI will help aid in R&D of said advanced power generation.
It takes a -company- like Microsoft to bring the PC to the unwashed masses and all the ancillary technology that goes along with it. And it had to be an open platform. IBM almost succeeded in keeping the PC platform closed in a way that Apple succeeded in. Below are some facts.
Without a world of Microsoft.
1. GPUs wouldn't be as advanced today. 2. CPUs wouldn't be as advanced today. 3. Fuck it- **HARDWARE** wouldn't be as advanced as today. 4. You wouldn't have the Internet you're using today. 5. Smartphones wouldn't have advanced in technology because of all the aforementioned progress in fabrication R&D. 6. On and on and so forth....
Bitch, moan, and whine about Microsoft all you want. But most people are not technology purists and ideologues that worship at the alter of CLI. People -need- technology that's easy to use; most importantly works for them. Microsoft provided such solutions however self-serving they were in the market place. But without Microsoft, PC technology could still be held back by another 10 to 15 years.
Which is a good law. Of all proposals, I really like the framework of this one. Caps are not out of the question if they're substantial infrastructure reasons to justify them. But the idea of using caps to shake more money out of people's pocket is absurd. In a free market, we would never have to worry about this kinda of racket going on. But I think we've all established that the ISP industry is anything but a 'free market' for all sorts of reasons.
My only concern is that the FCC might go too far in making an ISP lose too much profit in that the infrastructure doesn't get upgraded anyways. Or, industry players start dropping out much like doctors leaving healthcare. Once you start making deals with the Devil (Government), there are always repercussions. Always!
The ISP industry is an oligopoly. In some cases, monopoly depending on where you live. Good or bad, you can thank the government for limiting new players entry into this market. So the idea of 'free market' can be thrown out the window in this discussion.
Caps are bad in that they foster regression of infrastructure. Simply put, there's massive profits in scarcity. That's econ 101.
I only recently became aware of the whole OCZ SSD saga after having a Vertex 2 go tits up on me. However, the price/performance of the Vertex 4 was too tempting for me not to buy it. Because it used a newer controller with firmware, I decided to gamble thinking the bugs effecting V2 are not in V4.
So far after six months of use 24/7 on a shared desktop (Win7 Fast User Switching feature), we haven't had any problems so far. **knock on wood**
Aside from the whole "death star" (Deskstar) fiasco awhile back, I only ever trusted IBM/Hitachi. As far as I'm concerned, they've always been the gold standard by which to judge a spindle by. Rock solid and reliable. For the most part anyways.
WD is a hit or miss. Either the drive last forever, or fails within the first year. Maxtor = Crapster. Total shit! Seagate = Depends on the year. It's as though it's just a brand name tossed back and forth under the management of either IBM or Maxtor like a game of hot potato. I'm guessing employment is a revolving door or something with both good and bad engineers coming and going.
I think it's a crying shame that the PC industry hasn't forced ECC as a mandatory standard. Servers and workstations have it, and with memory as cheap as it is to fab, there's absolutely -zero- excuse not to use ECC!!! With the transistor count as densely packed and small, errors will occur. I'll go a step further and even recommend ECC throughout the entire motherboard bridge buses. End-to-end error correction should be a requirement!
If someone murders another human being, he/she admits to it, the evidence is beyond doubt...ect; execute the fucker! Do not waste my tax dollars on this human waste. Second, allow the victim/s to have closure by knowing without a shadow of a doubt the will never -ever- have the possibility of crossing their lives again.
And while I'm ranting. Let me say this about all those islamofacist fucks in gitmo. Line each one up and ask them a simple few questions. "Did you kill an American and would you do it again?" If they said yes, execute them on the spot!. Move on to the next one. Yes? Bam!. And you?..Yes? Bam!. On and on and so forth till the last mother fucker shakes with the fear of God!
The rich also depends on a society to prop up their heavy weighted needs and desires. It's like an ecosystem and food chain. When the base of civilization collapses, the rich either die off or cannibalize each other until the entire system breakdown into survival of the fittest. And I will guarantee you that most Hollywood, and Wallstreet types are low on the "fitness" scale.
So my question is why would I buy a green 800 Watt power supply when my system only needs 300 W?
Components degrade with time. Specifically with regards to electrolytic capacitors. As the PSU ages, the ability for them to run a peak ratings diminish. At best, you get excessive DC ripple that puts a strain on your motherboard components. *Always* purchase a PSU that at least rated for 30% more power than what you need!
How much power doesn't 800 Watt power supply consume when the system is using only hundred to 200-300 W?
If it's rated for 80% efficiency for AC/DC -conversion-. It will only convert whatever the load is to 20% heat. So if you're only using 8 watts DC, that's 10 watts being pulled from AC. If it's 80 watts DC, that's 100 watts AC.
Laws of physics. Even if you have hundreds of thousands of of zombie infected machines blowing UPD packets towards your public gateway IPs, nothing you can do to stop it from taking up bandwidth. That's why it's a DDOS. It's a digital siege attack!
It's why you setup a dead man switch. If you don't interface with you servers/network for X amount of time, a low-level format process starts automatically.
Not that I've ever done such a thing. Just saying...
Trickle-down works. It's proven with recorded history. Trickle-up may work in theory, but when you have government throwing money around corruption and incompetence take hold.
It's really a moot point. While both approaches aim for the same goal (moving money around), our biggest problem is the Tickle-out! As a nation, we are hemorrhaging wealth and sending it overseas to the BRIC nations. Pumping money will do jack shit if it doesn't stay invested in the nation from which produced it.
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Nature made the penis sensitive for a reason, so you can shoot your wad off as quickly as possible during sex. The point of sex is to make babies. Pleasure is just a method of completing that goal.
I'm cut, as well as many other men. Not being labeled as a "minute man" is a good thing IMHO. You know the ol saying. He came, she went.
It prevents rootkits from hijacking the OS at bootup. For example malware acting as a hypervisor with your real OS running under it.
I'm not saying this topic isn't cause for some eyebrow raising, but it doesn't do anyone any good to be spreading FUD! If you actually spent some time researching this topic, you will find that what you said isn't entirely true. Take the Dell Latitude 6430u that comes with Windows 8. You can disable secure boot in BIOS. I refer you to page 44 of its owners manual (PDF format). Not only that, but TPM can be disabled along with the options of booting via legacy ROM (BIOS).
Basically here's the skinny. For x86 computers brandishing a Windows 8 sticker, Secure Boot will be enabled by default (or it's supposed too). But, the machine still must allow the user the option of disabling it in BIOS. However, if the machine is ARM based certified for Windows-RT it will be locked down. Essentially, a Windows 8 *only* machine.
Ars Technica wrote a much better article on the subject here dated Jan-2012.
Forgot to mention. It went by the name of Trojan-Ransom.Win32.Blocker.aaah (Internet Crime Complaint Center scam) according to Kaspersky
The version I removed couldn't be cleaned in Safe-Mode. It was well coded to prevent professional cleanup while in the OS. Looking through my IT support ticket history, I documented removing 31 instances of mxroh_v_mf.exe scattered throughout the drive all cross referenced. So if you missed just one, the registry would pull from another directory and re-enable with replication. This fucker had self preservation hard coded as its #1 priority!
What's wrong with supporting UEFI secureboot by default, but still providing users a BIOS option of disabling it for legacy/alternate OSes? Secureboot should be an added feature, not a forced requirement for motherboards. If Microsoft Windows X is require secureboot, the user can toggle secureboot on. Why does this have to be such a big deal?
Is there really some conspiracy going on in which Microsoft will own the PC market with Intel as the -unofficial- official Microsoft hardware developer locking out all other OSes?
A few years back, the only people that made the news whom got infected with bird flu were Asians handling chickens and ducks. Either farming or handling them for sport (cock fighting).
When dealing with outbreaks and mutations, it all comes down to statistics and probabilities. While anything is possible to happen in theory, it all comes down to known sets of circumstances. And while DrYak may be correct in everything is said, I personally don't feel like rolling the dice on eating cooked chicken that's been known to have been infected. That's my opinion, and I'm sticking to it.
My vote goes for the fake FBI warning screen that hijacks explorer.exe. It basically informs users that they have done something very illegal and must pay a "fine" to unlock the computer in the form of MoneyPak cards. Screenshot here (not my link, just found online as an example)
BTW, you can remove this SOB using a bootable Kaspersky Rescue Disk. It runs a form of Linux that will boot into an anti-virus desktop console. Assuming you have internet access, it will most likely contain NIC drivers to download the latest defs for you prior to the scan/removal process.
Good luck!
So, when can we cluster a bunch of these nodes together to form a tiny cloud platform? Possible yet?
I think you missed the part of MS providing a consumer platform to move hardware off the shelves. It's not about what MS did or didn't provide specifically, it's the fact you can now purchase a PC for under $300 and runs in the Ghz range with multiple core. That's the point. IBM, Apple, SGI, never intended to reach the mass market to the degree that Microsoft wanted. And it was only until hardware started moving that R&D got spent. You may call it landfill waste, but I call it progress.
I thought about that too before writing my previous post. But then I remember that was required to be spent in order to get to the level of progress we are at now. So burning the finite fossil fuels was a requirement to bootstrap our current civilization. Now we just need sustainability for generations to come. Hopefully AI will help aid in R&D of said advanced power generation.
It takes a -company- like Microsoft to bring the PC to the unwashed masses and all the ancillary technology that goes along with it. And it had to be an open platform. IBM almost succeeded in keeping the PC platform closed in a way that Apple succeeded in. Below are some facts.
Without a world of Microsoft.
1. GPUs wouldn't be as advanced today.
2. CPUs wouldn't be as advanced today.
3. Fuck it- **HARDWARE** wouldn't be as advanced as today.
4. You wouldn't have the Internet you're using today.
5. Smartphones wouldn't have advanced in technology because of all the aforementioned progress in fabrication R&D.
6. On and on and so forth....
Bitch, moan, and whine about Microsoft all you want. But most people are not technology purists and ideologues that worship at the alter of CLI. People -need- technology that's easy to use; most importantly works for them. Microsoft provided such solutions however self-serving they were in the market place. But without Microsoft, PC technology could still be held back by another 10 to 15 years.
IR 4 is cheap and abundant energy (solar, wind, nuclear, fusion perhaps...etc). Emphasis on 'cheap and abundant'.
IR 5 would be robotics that require an IR 4.
Narrative journalism is based around political correctness. That's why the word 'killed' was used as opposed to something with true motive. Murder!
Which is a good law. Of all proposals, I really like the framework of this one. Caps are not out of the question if they're substantial infrastructure reasons to justify them. But the idea of using caps to shake more money out of people's pocket is absurd. In a free market, we would never have to worry about this kinda of racket going on. But I think we've all established that the ISP industry is anything but a 'free market' for all sorts of reasons.
My only concern is that the FCC might go too far in making an ISP lose too much profit in that the infrastructure doesn't get upgraded anyways. Or, industry players start dropping out much like doctors leaving healthcare. Once you start making deals with the Devil (Government), there are always repercussions. Always!
The ISP industry is an oligopoly. In some cases, monopoly depending on where you live. Good or bad, you can thank the government for limiting new players entry into this market. So the idea of 'free market' can be thrown out the window in this discussion.
Caps are bad in that they foster regression of infrastructure. Simply put, there's massive profits in scarcity. That's econ 101.
I only recently became aware of the whole OCZ SSD saga after having a Vertex 2 go tits up on me. However, the price/performance of the Vertex 4 was too tempting for me not to buy it. Because it used a newer controller with firmware, I decided to gamble thinking the bugs effecting V2 are not in V4.
So far after six months of use 24/7 on a shared desktop (Win7 Fast User Switching feature), we haven't had any problems so far. **knock on wood**
Aside from the whole "death star" (Deskstar) fiasco awhile back, I only ever trusted IBM/Hitachi. As far as I'm concerned, they've always been the gold standard by which to judge a spindle by. Rock solid and reliable. For the most part anyways.
WD is a hit or miss. Either the drive last forever, or fails within the first year.
Maxtor = Crapster. Total shit!
Seagate = Depends on the year. It's as though it's just a brand name tossed back and forth under the management of either IBM or Maxtor like a game of hot potato. I'm guessing employment is a revolving door or something with both good and bad engineers coming and going.
just my 2 cents.
I think it's a crying shame that the PC industry hasn't forced ECC as a mandatory standard. Servers and workstations have it, and with memory as cheap as it is to fab, there's absolutely -zero- excuse not to use ECC!!! With the transistor count as densely packed and small, errors will occur. I'll go a step further and even recommend ECC throughout the entire motherboard bridge buses. End-to-end error correction should be a requirement!
If someone murders another human being, he/she admits to it, the evidence is beyond doubt...ect; execute the fucker! Do not waste my tax dollars on this human waste. Second, allow the victim/s to have closure by knowing without a shadow of a doubt the will never -ever- have the possibility of crossing their lives again.
And while I'm ranting. Let me say this about all those islamofacist fucks in gitmo. Line each one up and ask them a simple few questions. "Did you kill an American and would you do it again?" If they said yes, execute them on the spot!. Move on to the next one. Yes? Bam!. And you?..Yes? Bam!. On and on and so forth till the last mother fucker shakes with the fear of God!
The rich also depends on a society to prop up their heavy weighted needs and desires. It's like an ecosystem and food chain. When the base of civilization collapses, the rich either die off or cannibalize each other until the entire system breakdown into survival of the fittest. And I will guarantee you that most Hollywood, and Wallstreet types are low on the "fitness" scale.
The higher you climb, the harder you fall.
So my question is why would I buy a green 800 Watt power supply when my system only needs 300 W?
Components degrade with time. Specifically with regards to electrolytic capacitors. As the PSU ages, the ability for them to run a peak ratings diminish. At best, you get excessive DC ripple that puts a strain on your motherboard components. *Always* purchase a PSU that at least rated for 30% more power than what you need!
How much power doesn't 800 Watt power supply consume when the system is using only hundred to 200-300 W?
If it's rated for 80% efficiency for AC/DC -conversion-. It will only convert whatever the load is to 20% heat. So if you're only using 8 watts DC, that's 10 watts being pulled from AC. If it's 80 watts DC, that's 100 watts AC.
DDOS = Distributed Denial Of Service.
Laws of physics. Even if you have hundreds of thousands of of zombie infected machines blowing UPD packets towards your public gateway IPs, nothing you can do to stop it from taking up bandwidth. That's why it's a DDOS. It's a digital siege attack!
It's why you setup a dead man switch. If you don't interface with you servers/network for X amount of time, a low-level format process starts automatically.
Not that I've ever done such a thing. Just saying...
Trickle-down works. It's proven with recorded history. Trickle-up may work in theory, but when you have government throwing money around corruption and incompetence take hold.
It's really a moot point. While both approaches aim for the same goal (moving money around), our biggest problem is the Tickle-out! As a nation, we are hemorrhaging wealth and sending it overseas to the BRIC nations. Pumping money will do jack shit if it doesn't stay invested in the nation from which produced it.