I can't really be expected to customize my Java settings when no one has said that is needed.
So I naturally left everything default.
If someone is producing a modpack with 100+ mods and not giving you instructions on how to make MC use more memory, then they are an asshat. Now go forth and google for how to make MC use more memory with your 64 bit Java.
No worries here. I always disable the WiFi on my routers. I prefer hardwired connections that don't give the router fits trying to perform encryption with their underpowered chips.
If you're worried about that, you can firewall off all non-IPSEC traffic... and still enjoy WiFi
You do realize that no one that was in on that decision is even still alive right?
You do realize that this is completely besides the point, right? The question was whether the US had anything to do with the problem in Iran, and the answer is yes, yes it did. Even if everyone involved in that decision is dead, we still have to live with the consequences today. I should not have to explain this to you.
pretty easy to get in the states from computer shops
Well, I didn't mean to imply that it was difficult, just that it's slightly less available. What's being pushed in people's faces is not Windows 7.
No employer is impressed by a degree from these degree factories because they know the "schools" are third rate at best.
To be fair, most employers are also third rate at best and will end up staffed with third-rate employees because first-grade ones require first-grade pay and job. It's the pathological refusal to admit mediocrity is okay that causes the whole student debt crisis, since companies dream of being the next Google without any intent to invest anything towards that. It also leads to a cynical workforce that ignores even sensible corporate policies due to having witnessed megalomania and utter disconnect from reality too often.
Work all too often resembles an absurd farce where everyone lies, everyone knows everyone lies, everyone knows that everyone knows that everyone lies, and so on (my personal pet peeve is "zero incidence culture", where no incident is acceptable, thus people wait until work is finished before going to see a doctor if they get hurt to avoid getting punished for costing management their safety bonuses, leading to more sick days and sometimes mortal danger). They go through the motions anyway, since it's a kind of ritual meant to give something that theoretically exists only as legal fiction a palpable presence. The problem is, that presence is all too often heavy and oppressive, a kind of vampire sucking life out of its victims to sustain its own.
The evidence does not even hint at the hypothesis.
What? Why not? Why else would you be seeing a surge in Windows 7 licenses now, when they are harder to get than ever before?
The hard-line Islamic movement was already well underway.
It was petering out in both Iran and Iraq before we fueled Saddam to deal with the Shah, and then went into Iraq and deliberately separated peacefully coexisting Sunnis and Shiites into segregated neighborhoods. The USA is behind the success of the hard-line Islamic movement, which probably would be limping and gasping now if not for our deliberate actions to support it.
Then somebody hacks into a thermostat, uses it to burn somebody's house down for luls.
How do you propose it will even do this? The thermostat just asks the heater for heat, the heater typically has an overheat switch and will shut itself off if somehow it approaches starting a fire.
I've seen a fair bit of amateur wiring, and I can assure you that most people are not capable of safely wiring up a house.
Isn't this slashdot? Don't we assume that regulars here arw capable of learning this?
In any case, without certification the electricity company won't let you connect to the grid, so you are reliant on what you can produce.
Not only is that not a big problem any more, but all a contractor has to do is sign his name to a piece of paper and you're allowed to connect to the grid. And all he has to do before he does that is look over some of what you've done and see that you know what you're doing.
Not long after I moved into this rental I live in now, I corrected a neutral fault to ground, probably created by a prior resident. So yeah, people can screw up badly. But they can also fix things, and get it right. I put in a branch 220 circuit in my last house, and I did it correctly down to wire gauges.
Actually the problem with Iran has nothing to do with the US.
Iran was getting its shit together and we took a gigantic shit on it on purpose, to prevent that from happening.
I bought mine on eBay from someone who is part of the Registered Refurbisher program. Since my PC was cobbled together from parts of other older PCs, it seems to apply. I'm about to upgrade the motherboard under it, I'll probably have to get on the phone to Microsoft for that one. I already have to call them for my lady's machine, I upgraded it to 64-bit and it validated, but later it popped a validation failure.
Wow, this article really pulls a conclusion out of its butt. They look at some vague web statistics, notice that Windows 7 has gone up a tad - likely due to seasonal usage differences or many other things - and then draw a wild conclusion that people are using it to get Windows 10?!
I can only speak for myself, but I bought a Windows 7 license at least partly because I would be able to upgrade it to a Windows 10 license... and partly because I feared that Microsoft would raise the prices or make them unavailable when Windows 10 came out. So a little from column A, a little from column B. Why are you surprised?
I prefer my ISP's DNS service to Google's, because my ISP is likely not competent enough to actually understand the data and truly track me.
You only think this because you don't know how the system works. Ignorance is a bitch, prepare to be educated: The FBI serves your ISP with a letter telling them they have to collect your DNS requests. It doesn't matter where your requests go, because your ISP logs all of your DNS traffic, maybe the contents of any unencrypted HTTP requests you make (the URL, that is) and anything else the FBI wants. Then, on a regular schedule, they provide that information to the FBI.
Probably every ISP of any note in America is collecting logging data on at least one of their customers. I would be shocked, amazed, and almost appalled if I weren't one of them
Well, I live in serious critter country, Lake county is one of the primary hunting zones for California. And, knock on wood, I don't have problems seeing deer. Usually I spot them well before they try to cross in front of me. Maybe you just need to slow down, and not outdrive your eyes. When my vision is impaired, including by darkness, I slow down.
And there is no way I'll see a blue-white glint if I have a blue HUD sparkling on the screen.
The HUD doesn't dominate the windshield, you know. And it's not as bright as you seem to imagine.
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