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Comment Re:Not Dangerous (Score 1) 31

I'm pretty sure they don't eat every species of shark, and even if they did, there aren't enough people eating shark fin soup to eat them all. It's become unfashionable. It's also illegal in places like the US to "fin" sharks; they have to take the entire shark, which makes it a lot more sustainable and less wasteful.

Comment Yeah, check back in a few days (Score 5, Interesting) 405

I have it on a Compaq C306US with 1 GB of RAM and a 1.73 GHz Celeron. It seemed impressive at first, but the daily Defender signature update brings the machine to its knees. Seriously, the mouse pointer will not even move, and when I was actually able to bring up Perfmon, CPU and disk were both at 100%. That's unusable. I guess the answer is to install another security package, but that's a serious WTF. In 2015, it would be nice if Microsoft had heard of I/O throttling.

The audio also doesn't work unless you disable it, then re-enable it in device manager. I reported this bug with every previous build to no avail.

I wouldn't complain, but Microsoft claimed that every Vista-capable PC could run Windows 10, and that appears to be false.

Comment Re:Uhmmmm (Score 1) 620

Seriously. Could have used Xmodem. Might have even had Zmodem in there. It's super slow-- who cares. It will get the job done. A Win 98 box with no USB tells me it could have even been upgraded from DOS, so it might have had the INTERLNK program on there. Heck, I'd figure out a way of dumping files via COPY to the LPT1 if someone could write the program on the destination box with an IEEE1284 cable between the two. Would have cost less than $30K.

Comment Re:Many will say that this is bad advice but (Score 1) 54

I got the home loan before I did all of this

Yeah, that. Can't get a mortgage with no credit. Kind of the flaw in your plan. Cars, boats, and unimproved rural land can certainly all be paid for in cash by someone in the middle class, if they have the time and willpower. Houses? Only if you have a very particular set of skills.

Comment Re:Not a factor in actually secure environments (Score 1) 227

Plug something unexpected in and security shows up, not the admin.

You really want the guys who don't know what they're looking at to show up instead of the admin? How about the admin shows up, WITH security if it's something highly suspicious like a WAP suddenly appearing... and of course, immediately being blocked due to an unregistered MAC.

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