Boot sector protection has been in BIOS code for years. All of my systems except the Eee PC scream loudly on reboot after I update the boot sector. It would not be hard to design a cryptographically secure interface between BIOS/EFI code and OS that would let the OS check reliably if the boot area on disk has changed - without locking anything down. Just display a big warning and ask the user if the boot area should be restored or not.
Yeah, I've heard about this. In particular, about them being given out like M&Ms
I heard about that too, but it was in the good ole US of A - because patients expected them from their doctor for every sniffle. And I have a colleague who still swears by them and says the proof is that every time he gets antibiotics from his doctor he gets better within a few days. Ah well, but he smokes and is fat too so he won't be a burden on the health system for very long.
How long until they'll come with machine cannons or AGMs so ground troops can call in air support? Of course, weapons release will require suitable human authorization... until we have AIs that can do a better/faster/cheaper job.
The last system that *really* failed on me was a Dell desktop whose PSU went up in smoke when the cheapo fan stalled. It was about 6 years old. HDDs are easy to replace but those PSUs are generally proprietary in some way. Only in real nonames do you find generic ATX PSUs.
He's the only acceptable one in the GOP bunch. Romney is second but he's clearly a 1-percenter and beholden to big money so you can't expect any solutions from him. Perry and Santorum are GWB squared and Libertarianism is a stupid outdated ideology so Paul doesn't make the cut either although he has a few good ideas. Gingrich has proven that he's an unethical asshole (just like Perry and Santorum.)
4WD does not mean SUV. There are plenty normal cars with 4WD. Most handle much better on snow than a heavy vehicle too. Oh and you don't need 4WD. I made it through serious snow in mountainous areas with front wheel drive cars without problems.
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Nonsense. Those with lactose tolerance don't turn off lactase production after they are weaned.
See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lactose_intolerance#Lactase_persistence.
OMG, you can't reduce politics to one dimension? Who knew?
Because most people use it on Linux which usually has a system wide automatic update?
Boot sector protection has been in BIOS code for years. All of my systems except the Eee PC scream loudly on reboot after I update the boot sector. It would not be hard to design a cryptographically secure interface between BIOS/EFI code and OS that would let the OS check reliably if the boot area on disk has changed - without locking anything down. Just display a big warning and ask the user if the boot area should be restored or not.
But think about all the poor cows that'll be sick without antibiotics in their feed! Do you have no heart for animals?
Yeah, I've heard about this. In particular, about them being given out like M&Ms
I heard about that too, but it was in the good ole US of A - because patients expected them from their doctor for every sniffle. And I have a colleague who still swears by them and says the proof is that every time he gets antibiotics from his doctor he gets better within a few days.
Ah well, but he smokes and is fat too so he won't be a burden on the health system for very long.
What, no free strip club visit? Lame.
Quite an understatement. I was at Comdex years ago and they were all over the place. But maybe that's normal for Vegas.
How long until they'll come with machine cannons or AGMs so ground troops can call in air support?
Of course, weapons release will require suitable human authorization... until we have AIs that can do a better/faster/cheaper job.
Try Robert Forward's Camelot 30K: A species with a nuclear-powered metabolism at near absolute zero on a Kuiper belt object.
The last system that *really* failed on me was a Dell desktop whose PSU went up in smoke when the cheapo fan stalled. It was about 6 years old. HDDs are easy to replace but those PSUs are generally proprietary in some way. Only in real nonames do you find generic ATX PSUs.
Yeah, tell that to a farmer in central Africa.
Temperatures are predicted to go beyond 40C in some tropical areas for part of the year once we have 4-6C average increase.
And you take somebody serious who says that 2,000 ppm CO2 will increase agricultural productivity significantly???
You will be able to apply the same logic to humans in some areas of the Earth by the end of the century. And no, they won't have anywhere else to go.
"One party with two right wings." I forgot who said that.
He's the only acceptable one in the GOP bunch. Romney is second but he's clearly a 1-percenter and beholden to big money so you can't expect any solutions from him.
Perry and Santorum are GWB squared and Libertarianism is a stupid outdated ideology so Paul doesn't make the cut either although he has a few good ideas. Gingrich has proven that he's an unethical asshole (just like Perry and Santorum.)
You only get thrown into federal prison for doing illegal things.
For the rest, there's indefinite detention.
s/answer: publicly funded elections/answer: privately funded politicians/
Should've bribed more politicians so patents can get extended like copyright.
http://cleantechnica.com/2011/05/10/why-wind-intermittency-is-not-a-big-deal/
They are way more expensive than wind generators.
And forget about the "base load" vs "intermittency" argument.
"Safety" is not a boolean value.
4WD does not mean SUV. There are plenty normal cars with 4WD. Most handle much better on snow than a heavy vehicle too.
Oh and you don't need 4WD. I made it through serious snow in mountainous areas with front wheel drive cars without problems.
You have a license sticker. What keeps you from downloading a DVD image?