Of course. Microsoft knows that Windows 8 is so good that no user will ever even think about shutting it down.
At least the user won't have to use any completely illogical Start buttons to shut the computer down.
Oh, and there is another way: Move mouse cursor to lower left corner, right click (in the magical lower left corner), select shutdown from the menu that pops up.
It's fine if you disagree, but be so kind as to point me to an OS supporting roughly the same amount of hardware.
Strangely enough, I found out that my scanner wasn't supported anymore after I got a new machine with W8 on it. It worked just perfectly under XP, but under W8 the only choice is to throw it away (again: throw away a fully functional piece of hardware) and buy a newer one.
I think I'll try booting into a USB linux installation whenever I want to scan something.
... over Christmas break. And no, I don't like it. Even after the "upgrade" to 8.1, I don't like it.
The UI is a mess. It's completely alien to anyone coming from XP/W7, and the features that supposedly make it touchscreen-friendly are completely counter-productive to anyone who doesn't intend to use a touchscreen (for example people with a 27-inch screen that sits two arm-lengths away). Hotspots in particular - just moving the mouse cursor somewhere causing an action is an absolute no-no and very counter-intuitive. How is anyone supposed to know that moving the mouse cursor to the top right corner does something special and right-clicking in the lower-right corner has a completely different meaning than right-clicking anywhere else on the screen? Actions should be initiated by mouse clicks on visible UI elements, not by mouse movements to magic areas on the screen.
And the app store is a mess. I only knew the app store for Symbian and thought it was a mess since Symbian is officially dead and buried (app store full of nonsense crapware, X varitions of the same app with each author hoping you'll miss the best one and install his instead, etc), but the windows app store suffers from the exact same problems.
Oh, and it doesn't come with solitaire. And the solitaire from the app store (for which you nee an "MS account") is an overloaded piece of bloatware. Luckily, XP solitaire still runs on W8. This saved the day.
The whole point of calling something firmware is that the user shouldn't even know it's there and it's actually a piece of software and not hardwired electronics.
So how should the user have knowledge that something he shouldn't have knowledge of is being modified?
there's an opportunity to plead in advance of the trial
Even if there is - cops do not have any authority to influence the sentence in any way. If you want to make deals, you'll have to talk to the prosecutor and the judge. Not to cops. Cops will merely be witnesses during the trial and happily testify that you confessed to them.
This sounds like a plea bargain so it'll never see a jury.
He just gave away any bargaining leverage by confessing to a law enforcement officer. Being able to skip a few days or weeks of trial and the associated costs will be the only advantage of a guilty plea.
"if you cooperate with us, you'll get a lesser sentence"
That is a lie, by the way. Law enforcement officers may lie when "interviewing" suspects.
If faced with 50% risk of jail time and felonies compared NO jail time and felonies, the option with the lowest risk will always win.
Confessing a to cop will get you all the jail time, every time. It's among the worst possible choices in such a case.
I'm not sure that it's really that surprising that he confessed - most people who are convicted of crimes plead guilty.
You plead guilty right before the trial would start, if anything.
pleading guilty can get you a pretty hefty discount on your sentence
And you waive that discount by confessing to a law enforcement officer during an "interview". Because in that case, the court has sufficient evidence to convict you regardless of your plea.
... to use TOR, but then gave a full confession during an "interview", throwing his right to remain silent (and to have a lawyer present during questioning) out the window?
Can anyone explain to me why it is supposedly so hard to keep (literal) shit from getting into processed meat?
The shit is already inside the meat at the beginning of the process. One little error while separating the two, and you'll end up with some of the one in the other.
b) A "loan" would have left them with nothing if the company had tanked. A stock purchase would entitle them to some company assets to sell off, this is what most people call "security".
Err... I think you're confusing things here. When a company tanks, its assets get sold off (or otherwise turned into money) to satisfy the creditors (the people who gave loans) demands. In this process, the stockholders shares go *poof*, mostly.
When a company tanks, the creditors are in a slightly better position than the stockholders. In fact, the creditors might end up being the new owner of the company.
It it is contaminated, then it has (traces of) radioactive material on it.
It it is irradiated, then it has ben exposed to ionizing radiation.
Something can get irradiated without getting contaminated (easy to see if the source of the radiation isn't radioactive material, e.g. an x-ray tube), but if it's contaminated, then it is usually also irradiated.
Yes they are. If a patient is cured of easily curable disease W, he has a chance of catching the more expensively cured diseases X, Y or Z later.
Which is why we have vaccinations. People that don't die from tetanus, polio and what not have a chance to live to a ripe old age and catch cancer, heart disease and various neurodegenerative disorders.
Even for the most evil, greedy industry, the time to start selling a cure is when the patents on your treatment run out - you don't want to leave a market for the competition selling cheap copies of your product. Selling the actual cure at that point ruins the treatment market for everyone else.
Anyway far from "They will, without a doubt, die.", unless it is of that insta-gib variety.
Cobalt-60 sources are like that, kinda. Look for some "radiological accident" reports on the IAEA webpage. It's stuff like people entering industrial sterilizers with the radiation source in the active position... deadly exposure in 30 seconds or so.
There are a couple of stories like that. The descriptions (complete with fairly disturbing pictures) can be downloaded from the IAEA; look for "radiological accident" or "radiological incident". For example, there's a certain model of industrial sterilizer that killed several people... the boxes containing the items to be sterilized tended to get stuck and the operators (who were never instructed on radiation safety) entered the irradiation chamber with the radiation source being in irradation position.. and got promptly irradiated (takes about 30 seconds to catch a fatal dose in there).
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Scanjet 2200C. It's too cheap for HP to bother with; they officially say that there's no driver for Vista or any more recent version of Windows.
Of course. Microsoft knows that Windows 8 is so good that no user will ever even think about shutting it down.
At least the user won't have to use any completely illogical Start buttons to shut the computer down.
Oh, and there is another way: Move mouse cursor to lower left corner, right click (in the magical lower left corner), select shutdown from the menu that pops up.
Can VirtualBox do USB passthrough for devices that the host OS doesn't have a driver for? Then it might be another solution I could look into.
Strangely enough, I found out that my scanner wasn't supported anymore after I got a new machine with W8 on it. It worked just perfectly under XP, but under W8 the only choice is to throw it away (again: throw away a fully functional piece of hardware) and buy a newer one.
I think I'll try booting into a USB linux installation whenever I want to scan something.
The UI is a mess. It's completely alien to anyone coming from XP/W7, and the features that supposedly make it touchscreen-friendly are completely counter-productive to anyone who doesn't intend to use a touchscreen (for example people with a 27-inch screen that sits two arm-lengths away). Hotspots in particular - just moving the mouse cursor somewhere causing an action is an absolute no-no and very counter-intuitive. How is anyone supposed to know that moving the mouse cursor to the top right corner does something special and right-clicking in the lower-right corner has a completely different meaning than right-clicking anywhere else on the screen? Actions should be initiated by mouse clicks on visible UI elements, not by mouse movements to magic areas on the screen.
And the app store is a mess. I only knew the app store for Symbian and thought it was a mess since Symbian is officially dead and buried (app store full of nonsense crapware, X varitions of the same app with each author hoping you'll miss the best one and install his instead, etc), but the windows app store suffers from the exact same problems.
Oh, and it doesn't come with solitaire. And the solitaire from the app store (for which you nee an "MS account") is an overloaded piece of bloatware. Luckily, XP solitaire still runs on W8. This saved the day.
... anything else would be "inadvisable"?
That'll help against cybercriminals. Maybe. If you're lucky.
If you really have TLAs going after you, expect attacks that are hardware-based or at least have a hardware component.
... it was the part where they got caught.
The whole point of calling something firmware is that the user shouldn't even know it's there and it's actually a piece of software and not hardwired electronics.
So how should the user have knowledge that something he shouldn't have knowledge of is being modified?
Even if there is - cops do not have any authority to influence the sentence in any way. If you want to make deals, you'll have to talk to the prosecutor and the judge. Not to cops. Cops will merely be witnesses during the trial and happily testify that you confessed to them.
He just gave away any bargaining leverage by confessing to a law enforcement officer. Being able to skip a few days or weeks of trial and the associated costs will be the only advantage of a guilty plea.
"if you cooperate with us, you'll get a lesser sentence"
That is a lie, by the way. Law enforcement officers may lie when "interviewing" suspects.
If faced with 50% risk of jail time and felonies compared NO jail time and felonies, the option with the lowest risk will always win.
Confessing a to cop will get you all the jail time, every time. It's among the worst possible choices in such a case.
You plead guilty right before the trial would start, if anything.
pleading guilty can get you a pretty hefty discount on your sentence
And you waive that discount by confessing to a law enforcement officer during an "interview". Because in that case, the court has sufficient evidence to convict you regardless of your plea.
... to use TOR, but then gave a full confession during an "interview", throwing his right to remain silent (and to have a lawyer present during questioning) out the window?
The shit is already inside the meat at the beginning of the process. One little error while separating the two, and you'll end up with some of the one in the other.
Err ... I think you're confusing things here. When a company tanks, its assets get sold off (or otherwise turned into money) to satisfy the creditors (the people who gave loans) demands. In this process, the stockholders shares go *poof*, mostly.
When a company tanks, the creditors are in a slightly better position than the stockholders. In fact, the creditors might end up being the new owner of the company.
It it is irradiated, then it has ben exposed to ionizing radiation.
Something can get irradiated without getting contaminated (easy to see if the source of the radiation isn't radioactive material, e.g. an x-ray tube), but if it's contaminated, then it is usually also irradiated.
You'll be dead in thirty seconds, but it'll take your body a few (fairly excrucitating) days or even weeks to notice that it should be dead.
Because in pretty much every other industry patents essentially prevents that from happening.
I think in the automobile industry, the high up front investment ist a much greater hurdle than any patents.
Jesus was opposed to the kind of divorce that happened back then, which usually left the woman poor, homeless and an outcast from society.
We don't do this kind of divorce anymore.
... does betting almost your entire pension on the fate of one single company seem like a really unwise idea?
Yes they are. If a patient is cured of easily curable disease W, he has a chance of catching the more expensively cured diseases X, Y or Z later.
Which is why we have vaccinations. People that don't die from tetanus, polio and what not have a chance to live to a ripe old age and catch cancer, heart disease and various neurodegenerative disorders.
Even for the most evil, greedy industry, the time to start selling a cure is when the patents on your treatment run out - you don't want to leave a market for the competition selling cheap copies of your product. Selling the actual cure at that point ruins the treatment market for everyone else.
Cobalt-60 sources are like that, kinda. Look for some "radiological accident" reports on the IAEA webpage. It's stuff like people entering industrial sterilizers with the radiation source in the active position ... deadly exposure in 30 seconds or so.
Radiation poisoning gives the victim plenty of time to speed up the inevitable.
There are a couple of stories like that. The descriptions (complete with fairly disturbing pictures) can be downloaded from the IAEA; look for "radiological accident" or "radiological incident". For example, there's a certain model of industrial sterilizer that killed several people ... the boxes containing the items to be sterilized tended to get stuck and the operators (who were never instructed on radiation safety) entered the irradiation chamber with the radiation source being in irradation position .. and got promptly irradiated (takes about 30 seconds to catch a fatal dose in there).