That is why I run memtest86+ for several days on new RAM. I once had an Infineon module crap out after about 2 days.

ECC on memory is 1-error correction 2-error detecting. On 3 errors it will just correct to the wrong value. I agree that the warning is nice (if your OS gives you one and you pay attention to it), but relying on the correction is pure foolishness.

State funeral for a felon? That would be a first.

But I am looking forward to reading the obituary. Always a good thing and cause for celebration when a fundamentally rotten and evil asshole leaves this world.

In civilized countries, suicide is quite legal. I am not surprised you apparently do not know that. Seriously, dude, think about maybe being less cringe and stupid?

And in Germany, this may be a "covert surveillance device", which is even illegal to own.

as suggested by me from 2007: "Why Educational Technology Has Failed Schools"
        https://patapata.sourceforge.n...
        "... Ultimately, educational technology's greatest value is in supporting "learning on demand" based on interest or need which is at the opposite end of the spectrum compared to "learning just in case"
based on someone else's demand. Compulsory schools don't usually traffic in "learning on demand", for the most part leaving that kind of activity to libraries or museums or the home or business or the "real world". In order for compulsory schools to make use of the best of educational technology and what is has to offer, schools themselves must change.
          But, history has shown schools extremely resistant to change. ...
          That is not all technology has been asked to do in schools. It has been invited into the classroom in other ways, including educational simulations, Lego/Logo, web browsing, robotics, and computer-linked data collection from sensors. But assessment is mostly what technology does in schools that *matters*, where the other uses of it have been marginalized for various reasons. These "learning on demand" or "hands on learning" activities have been kept in their boxes so to speak (sometimes figuratively, sometimes literally). Or to recall from my own pre-computer elementary school experiences in the 1960s, there was a big fancy expensive "science kit" in the classroom closet -- but there was little time to use it or explore it -- we were too busy sitting at our desks. ...
        Essentially, the conventional notion is that the compulsory schooling approach is working, it just needs more money and effort. Thus a push for higher standards and pay and promotion related to performance to those standards. Most of the technology then should be used to ensure those standards. That "work harder" and "test harder" approach has been tried now for more than twenty years in various ways, and not much has changed. Why is that? Could it be that schools were designed to produce exactly the results they do? [as John Taylor Gatto has suggested] And that more of the same by more hard work will only produce more of the same results? Perhaps schools are not failing to do what they were designed; perhaps in producing people fit only to work in highly structured environments doing repetitive work, they are actually succeeding at doing what they were designed for? Perhaps digging harder and faster and longer just makes a deeper pit? ...
        However, over the past 150 years or so the world has changed, and we have entered a post-industrial information age, with cheaply copied songs and perhaps soon cheaply copied material goods in nanotech replicators. ...
        Industry still matters of course, but only now in the sense that agricultural still matters, where an ever smaller part of the population is concerned directly with it, as innovation after innovation makes people in those fields ever more productive. If only a small percent of the people in the economy produce food, and now only an ever shrinking part of the population produces material goods, what is left for the rest to do? ...
        So, [as Dr. David Goodstein, Vice Provost of Caltech pointed out] employment in conventional research is closed for most people [even with PhDs, due to funding issues]. Still, if you look at, say, the field of biology, there are endless opportunities for people to research millions of species of organisms and their biochemistry, ecology, and history. If you look at astrophysics, there are endless stars and solar systems to study. If you look at medicine, there is a vast amount we do not know, especially for chronic diseases of poor people. If you look at music, there are endless opportunities for people to make songs about their specific lives and families. If you look at writing, endless novels yet to be written. And if you look at programming, there is even a vast enjoyment to be had reinventing the wheel -- another programming language, another operating system, another application -- just for the fun of doing it for its own sake. The world wide web -- from blogs to you tube to garage bands -- is full of content people made and published just because they wanted to. It is an infinite universe we live in, and would take an infinite time to fill it up. However, there is practically no one willing to pay for those activities, so they are for the most part hobbies, or at best, "loss leaders" or "training" in business. And, as always, there is the endless demands of essentially volunteer parenting to invest in a future generation. And there are huge demands for community service to help less fortunate neighbors. So there are plenty of things that need doing -- even if they do not mesh well with our current economic system based around "work" performed within a bureaucracy, carefully reduced to measurable numbers (parts produced, lines of code generated, number of words written) producing rewards based on ration units (dollars).
        But then, with so much produced for so little effort, perhaps the very notion of work itself needs to change? Maybe most people don't need to "work" in any conventional way (outside of home or community activities)? ...
        But then is compulsory schooling really needed when people live in such a way? In a gift economy, driven by the power of imagination, backed by automation like matter replicators and flexible robotics to do the drudgery, isn't there plenty of time and opportunity to learn everything you need to know? Do people still need to be forced to learn how to sit in one place for hours at a time? When people actually want to learn something like reading or basic arithmetic, it only takes around 50 contact hours or less to give them the basics, and then they can bootstrap themselves as far as they want to go. Why are the other 10000 hours or so of a child's time needed in "school"? Especially when even poorest kids in India are self-motivated to learn a lot just from a computer kiosk -- or a "hole in the wall"...
        Granted if people want to send kids to a prison-like facility each day for security or babysitting, then the "free school" model makes a lot of sense for that ... and is much more compatible with democratic traditions than compulsory schools (and is even cheaper to run). And the kids and teachers are generally happier in "free schools" where they have to show up but can otherwise then spend their time as they like; and such schools also do well with "discipline problem" type kids. Just ask any teacher how much happier they would be if only the kids in their classes were the ones who wanted to be there. However, there are alternatives to "free schools" as well, but requiring more parental involvement [like unschooling]...
        So, there is more to the story of technology than it failing in schools. Modern information and manufacturing technology itself is giving compulsory schools a failing grade. Compulsory schools do not pass in the information age. They are no longer needed. What remains is just to watch this all play out, and hopefully guide the collapse of compulsory schooling so that the fewest people get hurt in the process. ...

Some people need them. That guy named Steve Mann needed one just to be able to see, and got assaulted by patrons and staff at a restaurant in France over it. Though apparently the police didn't care either, so probably just a case of French people being French people.

/facepalm

TPM can't rootkit anything. It doesn't have interrupts, and it can't write to system memory. It's not much different from any device you'd connect over a serial port, meaning all your computer can do is send and receive data from it. Components attached to your PCI-e bus will have a much greater ability to rootkit you, like your GPU, your ethernet adapter, or even your USB devices. Yet, despite your yammering, you don't think twice about any of those.

Its only purpose is to serve as a witness, nothing more, nothing less. Where I work, we use these a lot for systems that have nothing at all to do with Microsoft. No windows, no azure. Only linux. Why? Because it provides additional security assurances, which any end user can benefit from, or even add their own assurances. Another analogy is that it's more like a yubikey that your computer also sends boot information to. It's also an open standard. Anybody can make a TPM. The documentation for the entire spec is publicly available, free of charge.

You should really learn more about things before running your mouth about them. You may as well argue that all encryption is designed so that Microsoft can rootkit you, and it would make just as much (non)sense.

And this is exactly the reason why he doesn't bother with computers without ECC memory.

You're talking about a kernel panic, which can be useless without a kernel memory dump. And you've already got the windows syslogs in the form of the event viewer, which is already going to capture anything relevant. Few normal people have idea what they'd even do with system logs. Virtually none of them have any idea what to do with a kernel memory dump beyond going to bleepingcomputer or reddit and posting "Every time I do this I get a bsod, help!" with advice often being to typically start pulling out hardware until they find the faulty one.

The unions would probably get pissed if you did that, as it would deprive them of residuals. Sure, only a handful of people, namely the big name actors, writers, and union management ever see anything beyond pennies from it, but that's really all it takes.

Take it out of Putin's ass.

That is fucking awesome!

IMO probably the best thing to happen with this industry is for copyright laws to be clipped back to 28 years. The artists will lose their shit, but honestly, the Berne convention just feels like it's designed for the sole purpose of allowing them (and the studios) to just keep rent seeking indefinitely. The US never should have signed to it. Even 28 years is a long fucking time, so why on earth does it need to be their entire lifetime plus 75 years? So their grandkids can rent-seek? It's ridiculous.

You know what else would happen if it was shorter? Nobody would even give a fuck if Netflix bought out Warner.

It would be nice if phone manufacturers started doing more original shit instead of just adding more CPU and RAM in each new generation. Maybe this will encourage that? Then again, maybe it will just encourage more software gimmicks.