A medical doctor who participates in a state-sanctioned execution will still find himself in professional jeopardy at home and typically wouldn't be allowed to practice abroad. The same is not true of engineers involved in the design of devices used in state-sanctioned executions.
(Warrantless) Metadata: That info with which the King of England would have rounded up the Founding Fathers, and thus they would have considered it part of search and sezure protections.
This "it's just metadata" is a fraud.
And according to Tom's, that exactly what the last BIOS update was all about. Taking better into account the tacho feedback.
But this isn't exactly ATI's first time around the bases... how did they forget how PWM control works?
You're right: I think the category of "budget computers" will pretty much disappear. But is it going to be such a loss?
It is if high school students can't do their programming homework on a phone because of cryptographic lockdown. Phones running Ubuntu or Ubuntu + Android could solve that, but let me know when they get anywhere near the major carriers in Slashdot's home country. (VZW and Sprint use CDMA2000 without CSIM and won't activate any handset not sold by them, and AT&T bills the subscriber for a subsidized phone even if he doesn't take one.)
Then who's going to bring your point to market? Unlike x86 as of today, which has both BIOS and EFI and a PCIe bus that can be scanned for peripherals, ARM as of today has no standard way to boot the machine. One can't take a single system image and boot it on multiple devices the way one can with, say, Xubuntu on a USB flash drive. This lets ARM device manufacturers get away with locking down the bootloader because they see end users as having no legitimate use for changing it. The lockdown isn't just "in some previous ARM processors"; it's also in currently shipping devices.
At some point phones will be good enough to run a full blown OS
They already are. My Nexus 7 tablet has about as much RAM as my netbook, and I happily run Xubuntu on my netbook.
Need a keyboard? Oh carry one of those too. Etc. Before you know it you are walking around with a suitcase of components and cables to connect them all together.
The idea is that there'd be a monitor and possibly a keyboard at each work station, and you plug your own phone into the monitor and pair the keyboard. Or if you're worried about a keylogger, all you need to bring is the keyboard. At that point, you could use anyone's HDTV as the monitor.
Desktops are just too powerful and cheap to not have one.
My fear is that once the PC becomes perceived something that people buy only to use at work, PC makers will get away with charging inflated "enterprise" prices for them. Case in point: the price of a 10" laptop rose sharply at the end of December 2012 when netbooks were discontinued in favor of far more expensive x86 tablets.
I'll pay 500-1000 for a faster device and saving a few minutes a day for a few years and suspect most businesses will too.
That's just it: if it's something that only businesses buy, too bad for home users who have a need for one or more PC use cases.
These things get built while lawyers in the US are still filing delays over environmental impact statements in the US.
True story: Lawyers have been fighting longer, delaying the dredging of some bays in the US, to make them 5 feet deeper, so they can accommodate the new "Superpanamax" ships (the Panama canal is being expanded on the max size it can handle) than the original Panama Canal took to build.
Meanwhile, China is building an even bigger canal next door, for even bigger ships.
The US has lost, because it has tied its own hands with regulations, as certainly as if we were a dictatorship with kickbacks at every level, from buildings to drivers licenses.
Not all PWM Fan behave the same
That doesn't matter if you are competent, because they have a tachometer lead. you don't just send a PWM signal and then trust that the fan is going at the speed you want.
The data says that the 10th password in the list was used by 1000 users out of two million. The top ten, combined, accounts for 36,000 (eyeballed) of the two million passwords. That doesn't seem like an epidemic to me. A bit less than 2% - that is actually, IMO, quite good. Two percent of internet users are bad at understanding security? Wow.
You're bad at understanding reality. This only shows that at least two percent of internet users are bad at understanding security. There's lots of ways your password can be bad which don't involve it being the same as someone else's.
Brakes don't suddenly go from good to bad.
Tell Paul Walker.
In fact, brake lines fail without notable warning all the time, as do other components like masters and boosters. So you're wrong there.
Likewise, if you're lacking oil, it's trivial to detect that. There's a sensor that notices when there isn't enough oil and it works trivially easy. Covered in oil = fine, not covered in oil = warning light on.
Actually, this isn't that easy. For example, one of the UPS drivers let me know that his Mercedes Turbo-Diesel powered delivery van was detecting low oil and shutting off when he needed power the most, going up bumpy hills. Almost killed him one time. The fleet mechanic defeated it for him so that he wouldn't die. So you're wrong again. Even Mercedes who has been making cars since time was time can get this one wrong.
And if a light goes dark, it's either easy to notice yourself (when you don't see jack anymore) or some friendly cop will point it out to you (usually while cashing in some money for that service...).
Look, it's not when a light goes dark, which is not easy for most people to notice. It's when a light comes on. When there's something wrong, a light is lit. If your brake fluid is low, your BRAKE light is on. If your vehicle is producing excessive emissions, your MIL is lit. If your manufacturer bothered to also create a CEL, then if there is also likely engine damage occurring, the CEL will be illuminated. When you disable traction control in cars which permit it, something lights up to tell you it's off, nothing goes off to tell you it's no longer on. So you're wrong again.
It's a bit different with the kind of sensors that you need to let a car drive itself. I think the moment you notice that some important sensor is covered in mud is the same moment that airbag goes poof in your face.
I think the moment you notice that some important sensor is covered in mud will be the same moment that the car tells you that there's a sensor problem, and that you're going to have to do your own driving.
You are wrong about literally everything and your conclusion is laughable.
And I've stopped eating Sushi.
Me too, but who cares what we're doing?
I have always found their hardware to be of much better quality than their software.
Yes, it is assembled only by the most-talented slaves.
Joe reads Facebook, but he also posts. He might have some pretty long posts to go with his cat videos. And that is much clunkier on a tablet than on a laptop.
Someone who's browsing Facebook on a tablet could just whip out his Bluetooth keyboard and start typing. For someone who starts out by "consuming" on a tablet, adding a Bluetooth keyboard to the existing tablet is a lot cheaper than adding a whole new laptop.
Tablets and phones have made consumption easier, which takes that task away from the 'PC' and moves them more to the producer side.
What PCs offer is upward mobility. Someone who wants to stop being only a "consumer" and become also a producer will have a much less expensive time of it if he already has access to a PC.
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