Comment Re:UPS (Score 1) 236
Who said anything about a 700W power supply? The PSU is 1050W. 700W (well, 684W peak to be exact) is what I measured at the wall.
Who said anything about a 700W power supply? The PSU is 1050W. 700W (well, 684W peak to be exact) is what I measured at the wall.
Just two 980's in SLI, but your figures only take into account the power consumed at their rated TDP - overclock them and add in an overclocked CPU too and 700W isn't out of reach by any means, when you add in all the drives, fans etc.. and the monitor of course.
That is pretty cheap though - got anything like as cheap in the UK?
Have you checked the maximum output of that $150 UPS in W?
I don't know what the power consumption of your PC is like, but a quick bit of research found that the cheapest UPS I could buy that can cope with my PC (700W or so under load) is around £400, that's about $627.
Obviously that PC cost more than $500, but given that power disruptions in my area occur maybe once in a decade or so, I'll stick with a simple surge protector.
Exactly - another key sentence in there is:
"In the Commonwealth's view, the defendant's act of decryption would not communicate facts of a testimonial nature to the government beyond what the defendant already has admitted to investigators. As such, the Commonwealth continues, the defendant's act of decryption does not trigger Fifth Amendment protection."
So if he had not admitted anything already and had refused to decrypt, the ruling may have been different.
Way back in 2011, Amazon already started censoring what they choose to sell - it was reported right here on SlashDot.
http://yro.slashdot.org/story/11/05/15/0254250/amazon-removes-yaoi-manga-titles-from-kindle-store
Since then, I boycotted them. Looks like another bunch of companies just made the list.
As usual for an invasion of privacy or violation of fundamental rights, the UK got there first. In England, you get your DNA taken and stored simply if you get arrested - you don't even need to be charged, let alone convicted.
Too easy?
Apply the patch update and change the options to disable vita chambers. Now death means death.
I scanned through the comments and didn't see this mentioned yet, so...
Check if the processor speed is being throttled. I once saw a laptop that seems to have the symptoms you described - everything going slow, processes taking lots of CPU time.
It turned out something was wrong with the power management and it was keeping the CPU at the minimum speed permanently. Setting the power profile to "Always On" fixed it for a while, but then it started again, so I disabled the processor power management features in the BIOS.
The post didn't mention if this is a laptop or desktop, but even modern desktop CPUs have lots of power states. Worth a look.
Yup, "bad hardware" gets my vote too.
I used to own a generic no-name router, the thing locked up all the time.
I've got a Netgear DG834 now and it has currently been up for 124 days, which is the time since we last had a power cut. I never reset it, and never have any problems.
It's a naive, domestic operating system without any breeding, but I think you'll be amused by its presumption.