2 months and yet despite having Windows Update enabled (yet I restrict what gets installed since I stopped the GWX BS) and yet still Microsoft is trying to add additional shit I don't want.
How on God's green earth can you even make your argument when it's nullified by what the other company decides?
"Unless, of course, you're insinuating that the poor and economically disadvantaged (companies included) deserve to suffer the ill effects of operating outdated systems."
In some cases, yes, those companies DO deserve such ill effects. Especially those that simply refuse to embrace technology at all.
Recently, in the rock club I'm a member of (and in running for VP position) I learned that these older people are so set in their ways that they actually voted to remove all computers from their shop back in 2000. Now they have field trips where about 7 times out of 10 they're violating someone's current valid mining claim. I donated a computer loaded with every tool they'd need to check out land before going on a field trip, and the usage/search instructions were so clear and simple that I had the entire training video cut down to 40 seconds.
Only one of those older people took to the computer. Everyone else shunned it because someone back in 2000 used it to access porn sites and jeopardized the shop's non-profit geology educational charter, which is why the board voted to have no computers. Well, when you're given the access to such information, and the person supplying that access knows how to restrict access to non-organizational material, you have no reason to ignore it, and to restrict it when it's part of your club's interest goes against the educational non-profit charter rules.
This particular club is now facing dissolution. It is California's oldest non-profit, almost 100 years old. They have refused to get with the times, and I can guarantee within a decade this club will no longer exist as long as it continues to operate in this fashion.
And in this case, they deserve every fucking bit of it. They have no excuse to ignore the experience or expertise of someone more qualified than they are in this field. This is where jurisprudence comes into play.
"I think there is clearly one party at fault, and it is IT."
Why so? XP was far easier to lock down and fully secure than 8 or 10 with that bullshit telemetry, and it had far fewer hardware restrictions. It is smaller and faster and more capable at most of my tasks than most modern systems (example: I use ManyCam 3.0.80 - 2000/XP-Era multi-cam software. Runs like a champ on XP with 4 webcams, I go 7 [Ultimate] or higher, I can no longer use more than 2 webcams despite the software having the ability to access them and me having more than enough USB bandwidth for the uncompressed video streams.)
Most real IT pros know that XP was far superior to the locked-down and (quite often) over-optimized (as in the optimizations go so far as to make the code more complex and actually runs slower due to shit like cache misses and what not) bullshit that is anything after Windows 7.
" A database is vastly different from a CMS. There's nothing fast about "the native filesystem." It might work fine for running your blog, but for any serious database application, it's a non-starter. You honestly can't even compare the two."
No, really, it's not, if you've bothered using every single one out there. And there's plenty fast about the native filesystem. You must not know much about moving tiny bits of data around in a rapid manner. I've been running multiple websites (including my businesses) directly from the filesystem. Your typical databases SUCK.
That's a fat lie. Go talk to the roughly 100 million Chinese living in abject poverty. Go stay in one of their villages which is not inside a metropolitan area.
There are places in China where it's 100% infeasible to run power to. In those places live many people.
"Well I did mention links with some kind of proof"
Everyone and their fucking mother knows big-brand hardware manufacturers have distributed vendor-specific driver patches through Windows Update since Windows 98 - almost 20 fucking years ago.
And then you went ahead and looked it up yourself after demanding proof - which you should have done in the first place instead of looking like a child wanting a handout. We're in the age where the summation of mankind's knowledge is almost constantly at our fingertips. You have ZERO reason to demand proof when the information is right the fuck in front of you.
I just use KirbyCMS, which is faster than any database because it runs off the native filesystem, and provides me tools that most databases simply cannot or do not provide.
That the DDoS was a result of everyone on the planet showing their utter displeasure might be another matter, but this was still a DDoS, as the originating amount of bandwidth was distributed across the globe, and it resulted in a denial of service.
Anyone else trying to pull any other fucking definition out of their ass is a goddamned moron.
"And here is a perfect example of why you have no clue. No part of the CPU uses 12V, yet there's a 12V delivery to it. Think about that for a moment."
I'm well the fuck aware. Guess what amperage is running inside your typical processor? Over 50.
However, they chose 12V not because of the distance of the fucking cable. They chose it because they could safely push about 10 amps to the VRMs at that voltage.
How about you come to one of my several facilities (Claremont, Riverside, San Bernardino) and I show you what real electronics engineers do? I've designed far more complex things than computer electronics.
"There's a reason why you would step up voltages for delivery and it has nothing to do with the final voltage of a device."
Oh, but the final voltage of the device IS the end-all be all. However, with DC, you incur SERIOUS FUCKING LOSSES until you hit past 48V, so 20V was indeed a very fucking stupid choice.
Perhaps you should design electronics, like I do, before talking any further.
"It also means you can now connect to scanner/printers/LCDs with a single wire, and change tablet with your computer directly. Think about how much that would simplify cable management!"
Oh, so the exact same thing we've had since USB-A. Gotcha.
"Having higher voltage means you can deliver more power with the same cable"
Yep and from what I've seen, most manufacturers can't make a proper HVLC cable. Most of them don't even know to use litz wire for HFAC in the first place.
" Plenty of 5v device are failing today due to improper design, so what?"
Generally not because of some improper power input design caused by a non-multiple of our power mains voltage vs device being charged. Step-down transformers and rectifiers are pretty well understood - it's the voltage here that makes no real sense.
"The reason that the voltage on the cable is 20v is to reduce the I^2R losses in the cable and connectors."
For DC, you don't start defeating those losses until you go higher than 48V.
Perhaps you should spend few years actually designing DC devices. I spent a decade doing LED lighting design and figuring out what everyone else couldn't when it came down to why 8 foot of LED strips would blow out the power driver - 24V at input, at the end of the LED strips, you read 10V. Bear in mind, these LED strips were configured for parallel operation - the voltage shouldn't have mattered at all going across a mere 8 feet, yes? But that simple 8 foot run of LED caused so much voltage drop that your pathetic 20V would've failed by the second strip of LEDs.
You'd only beat those I^2R losses at 20V if you're pushing AC.
Someone tell me one modern electronic device we use that runs on greater than 12V internally.
Webcams - 3.3V and 5V (internal laptop USB/external USB) Most USB Devices: 5V Even old shit hard drives ran off 12V and the controller ran off 5V. CPU power input: 12V PCI-E GPU power input: 12V Pretty much every fucking device you see, you check the spec sheet on the ICs used and you're going to see 5V and 12V.
20V will get used for charging and I can guarantee plenty of devices are going to fry when the cable or controller fucks up and allows 20V to hit a 12V or 5V-rated IC. Someone in the USB standards body was smoking crack when they thought up a 20V fucking input/output.
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Ever notice that most of these women filing these kinds of lawsuits are women you wouldn't want to fuck in the first place?
"I'm gonna call me a couple of hard, pipe-hittin' Johns..." You're right, it really does change that context quite a bit!
Dude, EVERY PIECE OF MUSIC IS LOSSY.
Why? One word - equalization.
Things were already removed or added in order to achieve that sound.
None of us bother to learn real security. You're all so stuck on layer 4-7 you fail to understand layers 0-3.
Your fault for not realizing the current security model is flawed as fuck.
2 months and yet despite having Windows Update enabled (yet I restrict what gets installed since I stopped the GWX BS) and yet still Microsoft is trying to add additional shit I don't want.
How on God's green earth can you even make your argument when it's nullified by what the other company decides?
" Honestly a simple backup will prevent most ransomware attacks"
Uhhh, what? In fact, more attacks have encrypted user files recently, so you're not going to stop this any time soon.
"Unless, of course, you're insinuating that the poor and economically disadvantaged (companies included) deserve to suffer the ill effects of operating outdated systems."
In some cases, yes, those companies DO deserve such ill effects. Especially those that simply refuse to embrace technology at all.
Recently, in the rock club I'm a member of (and in running for VP position) I learned that these older people are so set in their ways that they actually voted to remove all computers from their shop back in 2000. Now they have field trips where about 7 times out of 10 they're violating someone's current valid mining claim. I donated a computer loaded with every tool they'd need to check out land before going on a field trip, and the usage/search instructions were so clear and simple that I had the entire training video cut down to 40 seconds.
Only one of those older people took to the computer. Everyone else shunned it because someone back in 2000 used it to access porn sites and jeopardized the shop's non-profit geology educational charter, which is why the board voted to have no computers. Well, when you're given the access to such information, and the person supplying that access knows how to restrict access to non-organizational material, you have no reason to ignore it, and to restrict it when it's part of your club's interest goes against the educational non-profit charter rules.
This particular club is now facing dissolution. It is California's oldest non-profit, almost 100 years old. They have refused to get with the times, and I can guarantee within a decade this club will no longer exist as long as it continues to operate in this fashion.
And in this case, they deserve every fucking bit of it. They have no excuse to ignore the experience or expertise of someone more qualified than they are in this field. This is where jurisprudence comes into play.
"I think there is clearly one party at fault, and it is IT."
Why so? XP was far easier to lock down and fully secure than 8 or 10 with that bullshit telemetry, and it had far fewer hardware restrictions. It is smaller and faster and more capable at most of my tasks than most modern systems (example: I use ManyCam 3.0.80 - 2000/XP-Era multi-cam software. Runs like a champ on XP with 4 webcams, I go 7 [Ultimate] or higher, I can no longer use more than 2 webcams despite the software having the ability to access them and me having more than enough USB bandwidth for the uncompressed video streams.)
Most real IT pros know that XP was far superior to the locked-down and (quite often) over-optimized (as in the optimizations go so far as to make the code more complex and actually runs slower due to shit like cache misses and what not) bullshit that is anything after Windows 7.
And have you seen the accidents that happen in 'most other countries'?
They all have dashcams because shit has gotten that bad.
Real Mechanical Fitters press and roll-fit everything now days. You rarely see a lynch pin or collar fitting.
Yea, I used to do that for tractors back in the 90s. Try again, child.
" A database is vastly different from a CMS. There's nothing fast about "the native filesystem." It might work fine for running your blog, but for any serious database application, it's a non-starter. You honestly can't even compare the two."
No, really, it's not, if you've bothered using every single one out there. And there's plenty fast about the native filesystem. You must not know much about moving tiny bits of data around in a rapid manner. I've been running multiple websites (including my businesses) directly from the filesystem. Your typical databases SUCK.
https://getkirby.com/
Works great.
Faster than anything your ass has seen.
Also works great for managing my 2D SECOND LIFE CLONE (which is actually far more extensible than anything Linden Labs ever dreamed of.)
Perhaps you should get out of your basement and join the world of current technology, child.
" No villiages are still using generators."
That's a fat lie. Go talk to the roughly 100 million Chinese living in abject poverty. Go stay in one of their villages which is not inside a metropolitan area.
There are places in China where it's 100% infeasible to run power to. In those places live many people.
"In which century? China's economy has risen eight-fold in the last few decades. You might want to visit again."
This fucking century. I do tons of business with China and once you get outside the major city areas it's fucking dirt poor rural areas.
Perhaps you should try looking for real Chinese culture instead of sticking your ass in the metro areas.
Google needs to be slapped. No distraction is acceptable. Hands-Free laws mean hands-fucking-free. Almost every state has them.
"Well I did mention links with some kind of proof"
Everyone and their fucking mother knows big-brand hardware manufacturers have distributed vendor-specific driver patches through Windows Update since Windows 98 - almost 20 fucking years ago.
And then you went ahead and looked it up yourself after demanding proof - which you should have done in the first place instead of looking like a child wanting a handout. We're in the age where the summation of mankind's knowledge is almost constantly at our fingertips. You have ZERO reason to demand proof when the information is right the fuck in front of you.
I just use KirbyCMS, which is faster than any database because it runs off the native filesystem, and provides me tools that most databases simply cannot or do not provide.
Check my kit? Son, my fucking kit takes up two entire goddamned warehouses, including semiconductor fabrication.
Come back when you're even half as advanced.
That the DDoS was a result of everyone on the planet showing their utter displeasure might be another matter, but this was still a DDoS, as the originating amount of bandwidth was distributed across the globe, and it resulted in a denial of service.
Anyone else trying to pull any other fucking definition out of their ass is a goddamned moron.
"And here is a perfect example of why you have no clue. No part of the CPU uses 12V, yet there's a 12V delivery to it. Think about that for a moment."
I'm well the fuck aware. Guess what amperage is running inside your typical processor? Over 50.
However, they chose 12V not because of the distance of the fucking cable. They chose it because they could safely push about 10 amps to the VRMs at that voltage.
How about you come to one of my several facilities (Claremont, Riverside, San Bernardino) and I show you what real electronics engineers do? I've designed far more complex things than computer electronics.
"There's a reason why you would step up voltages for delivery and it has nothing to do with the final voltage of a device."
Oh, but the final voltage of the device IS the end-all be all. However, with DC, you incur SERIOUS FUCKING LOSSES until you hit past 48V, so 20V was indeed a very fucking stupid choice.
Perhaps you should design electronics, like I do, before talking any further.
"It also means you can now connect to scanner/printers/LCDs with a single wire, and change tablet with your computer directly. Think about how much that would simplify cable management!"
Oh, so the exact same thing we've had since USB-A. Gotcha.
"Having higher voltage means you can deliver more power with the same cable"
Yep and from what I've seen, most manufacturers can't make a proper HVLC cable. Most of them don't even know to use litz wire for HFAC in the first place.
" Plenty of 5v device are failing today due to improper design, so what?"
Generally not because of some improper power input design caused by a non-multiple of our power mains voltage vs device being charged. Step-down transformers and rectifiers are pretty well understood - it's the voltage here that makes no real sense.
You're a double fool.
"The reason that the voltage on the cable is 20v is to reduce the I^2R losses in the cable and connectors."
For DC, you don't start defeating those losses until you go higher than 48V.
Perhaps you should spend few years actually designing DC devices. I spent a decade doing LED lighting design and figuring out what everyone else couldn't when it came down to why 8 foot of LED strips would blow out the power driver - 24V at input, at the end of the LED strips, you read 10V. Bear in mind, these LED strips were configured for parallel operation - the voltage shouldn't have mattered at all going across a mere 8 feet, yes? But that simple 8 foot run of LED caused so much voltage drop that your pathetic 20V would've failed by the second strip of LEDs.
You'd only beat those I^2R losses at 20V if you're pushing AC.
Someone tell me one modern electronic device we use that runs on greater than 12V internally.
Webcams - 3.3V and 5V (internal laptop USB/external USB)
Most USB Devices: 5V
Even old shit hard drives ran off 12V and the controller ran off 5V.
CPU power input: 12V
PCI-E GPU power input: 12V
Pretty much every fucking device you see, you check the spec sheet on the ICs used and you're going to see 5V and 12V.
20V will get used for charging and I can guarantee plenty of devices are going to fry when the cable or controller fucks up and allows 20V to hit a 12V or 5V-rated IC. Someone in the USB standards body was smoking crack when they thought up a 20V fucking input/output.
Guess some people never bothered to learn from it.
>Where can I purchase a bunch of these bracelets so I can use them on the darknet markets
Same place all the Bitscam is: China.
Darknet markets? Son, real people use live black markets. Much harder to trace.