Posts by muhfugen 52 publicly visible posts • joined 28 May 2018
Fraud. If the data didnt have value, Facebook wouldn't want it. And there was deception involved as people thought they were authenticating themselves, not providing Facebook with their intellectual property. Hell, a ex-Intel engineer is being sued by Intel for among other things taking employee contact information with him when he left for Micron:
https://www.theregister.co.uk/2018/11/29/intel_3d_xpoint_complaint/
Ah yes, tying executive compensation to the racial, sexual and gender makeup of top management. Such an excellent way to prove that you should judge people by the content of their character rather than the color of their skin, and what they stick in where. We are all just the same, and just as capable aren't we? No possible differences in job performance due to those traits right?
What again is this problem with the video of the Christchurch killings be streamed? When an air strike is shown on the nightly news, people dont complain. When their tax dollars pay for it, they don't do any more than complain, and certainly they do not stop paying taxes less the government ultimately come after them with lethal force. It just seems as if they're uncomfortable with being reminded that the state (and corporations) are ultimately helpless at preventing harm from coming to them in their own neighborhoods by their neighbors.
Tape has the difference that the media is dirt cheap compared to HDDs which offer similar capacities, and more importantly have significantly higher URE rates. The LTO5 drive I have at home is only 1.5TB and about $20 per tape on Amazon, a 1TB WD Blue HDD is $45. More importantly the LTO5 tape has 10^17 URE rates whereas the WD blue has 10^14. Since tape is relegated almost exclusively to backup storage, URE rates are a big deal. Sure you can find HDDs and Flash with similar URE rates but they are silly expensive.
There are massive architectural differences. The number of cores which share L3 cache for one. And the ability for large VMs (or threadpools) to do work without having to span NUMA boundaries and the incurred latency penalties for another. To the number of sockets which they can scale to.
Is the author of this story retarded or just pretending to be, how about the "security" company which published this information too? Office hasnt allowed VBScript to run by default for well over a decade. Hell I cant even edit Excel docs which have been downloaded from the internet without clicking extra buttons.
Amazon really doesnt care about customer feedback. I've posted negative reviews because products I purchased came with cards saying the seller would give you free stuff if you left a positive review, and included a picture of the card in my review. The review was flagged and required approval from Amazon staff once I clicked the submit button and they denied me the ability to post it. So they're basically allowing vendors to bribe people for positive reviews, and denying the ability for customers to alert other people of these practices.
What good does reflashing the BMC's firmware do? The only (supported) way of doing that is from the BMC itself, and if it had been compromised, then it could just ignore the new firmware and report a successful reflash. I really doubt they're removing the EEPROM/flash from the motherboard and flashing it and resoldering it.
"light years ahead"
Funny because my mid-2014 rMBP has a severely pitted case because my sweat has dissolved it. I've only ever had this problem with macs because no one else bothers to use an anodized aluminum case. The aluminum safety on my pistol isnt pitted at all. Sure i've held it a lot less, but it also isnt anodized and is just bare metal.
Sounds like a bunch of bullshit. Their cursors moving around the screen? Because things like ssh, rdp or x window servers all of which allow multiple sessions dont exist? I really doubt state sponsored attackers would put so little effort in to their malware that it is nothing more than goto assist.
"Many of the "SSD" sold in popular entry level kit are nothing like "enterprise" SSD either and can be slower sequential write"
What SSDs are you referring to? SD cards? Just about any consumer grade SSD of the past 5 years beats a comparable HDD at sequential write throughput
Funny because my Windows VM templates are well under 10GB each. I really have no idea how the people in these threads have no idea how to install Windows from a Microsoft ISO instead of the bloatware riddled vendor supplied disk, and to remove unnecessary feature installers, or the uninstallation files for updates.
Because those systems do have business being on the same bus. So people cant watch video or browse the internet on their head unit while the vehicle is being driven. So you can display diagnostic information such as the TPMS sensor values on the head unit. Thats like asking why would you ever want a monitor to be connected to your computer, because someone could hack your computer because DisplayPort can carry USB data.
"at least they tell me up-front what I need to pay them and what I'll get for it"
They tell you that your keyboard will break if it gets dust on it? That the CPU will heavily throttle due to overheating if you use it for anything more than casual web browsing, or if it is a phone more than a couple years old? That any cable from them will biodegrade after a year or two of use because they dont want to use PVC? That their cases will dissolve and corrode from contact with skin?
I think I found the fanboi.
"And that's not even considering that every citizen has a voice in choosing its government in a democracy."
They actually don't. Since you're bringing up US politics, in virtually every election, the largest constituent has been those who have abstained as they thought none of the politicians were fit for office. Their voices are however routinely ignored by NPCs.
It would be nice after all these years they would fix fundamental problems with their desktop hypervisors like Fusion being utterly incapable for automatically reconnecting to a vCenter server after the computer goes to sleep, instead of adding features like a REST API which few will use. Bugs like this show that their developers never actually use their own products in their daily workflows.
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