Comment Weather Station? (Score 3, Interesting) 211
Well wishes to your dad-- If I make it to that age I hope to exhibit the same energy and curiosity he still engages. This is great to hear about!
"Hello, I'm Johnny Cab. Where can I take you tonight?"
"Drive, drive!"
"Please repeat the destination"
"Oh, anywhere! Just go. Go!"
"Please state the street and number"
"Shit. SHIT!"
"I'm not familiar with that address. Would you please repeat--"
"AhhhHHHHhhh!!!"
The move, which now awaits shareholder approval, has been rumored for months since Samsung's LCD business announced operating losses of $666 million in 2011, citing sluggish TV sales.
Those operating losses are E-vil. Like it's the frew-its of the Dev-il. E-vil.
"For the road to salvation and repentance must be paved up the avenue of my soul, and not up yours... up yours... up yours... up yours..."
Given that this appears to be loaded via internal optical drive, I'm not completely understanding why this is such a threat. Discounting the fact mentioned by many others that if you're physically compromised you're already hosed (they can pull the hard drive, etc.), all BIOS renditions I've ever seen allow you to select which device the machine first uses to boot. So, set it to your hard drive. Machine boots from hard drive, doesn't boot from bad CD/DVD. Password protecting your BIOS access (which many, if not most, offer) prevents malicious user from setting the machine back to CD/DVD boot. Some BIOS flavors allow you to turn off CD/DVD boot all together, even.
End of "problem".
I mean really-- This is so simple I fear I must be missing something about this story... ?
"Gravitation cannot be held responsible for people falling in love." -- Albert Einstein