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Comment Re:There's got to be a better way... (Score 4, Informative) 151

There's no ban on *having* an unsecured WiFi access point in Finland. The bad wording in TFS muddles it a bit, but the point is that *unauthorized* use of an open WiFi access point is illegal currently. The new law is supposed to allow any use of open WiFi networks, as it can easily happen accidentally, the user often doesn't know whether there's a permission to use the network, and encrypting the network is pretty damn easy.

Comment Re:Unsecured wireless isn't illegal and shouldn't (Score 3, Informative) 151

It isn't illegal in Finland, *unauthorized* use of unsecured WiFi connections is currently. The lawmakers are trying to clear the situation, as the user can't know whether he has a permission or not to use the open connection. The current law defaults to no permission, the new should default to open -> permission.

Comment Re:TFsubmission is misleading... (Score 1) 151

Did you not know that you do have explicit permission to use those public municipal networks? They publish ToU online on their site, and that's fine by the law. Using your neighbour's network accidentally or not is a criminal offence, unless the neighbour really is providing a public service. As the Finnish article says, there was a guy (IIRC, in Salo), who did some hacking and "accidentally" used his neighbour's connections for it; he got caught and got sentenced for the unauthorized use. All in all, the translation is quite accurate.

- Another Finnish citizen

Comment Why would you ever see google.com front page? (Score 1) 466

Seriously, I can't remember the last time I've actually visited bare google.com before today, when on a forum people complained about this new feature. I do all my searches from the address bar in Opera, and I really can't think of a reason for actually visiting google.com without any query already in progress.

Comment Re:The guy has kind of a point (Score 1) 207

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LGA_1156

Looks like it's 16+4. The +4 is channeled out of the PCH (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intel_P55). Therefore when you're using anything on the PCH (like USB and SATA), you're stealing bandwidth from the non-video PCIe slots, because it shares the same connection to the CPU. So he was a little off on his point about other interfaces stealing bandwidth from the video card. Turns out it only steals bandwidth from whatever you have in the third x16 slot or the x1 slot.

The Asus M4N98TD EVO can do 16+16+2 with an AMD chip. I think the point was that for the segment that this chip is targeting, it is severely hobbled in terms of PCIe bandwidth. These chips can only do x8/x8 SLI and AMD chips can do x16/x16 SLI.

I'd like to see a board that disputes that the 1156 socket can only handle 16+4 lanes.

Yes, looks like 16+4 or whatever, it's still more than the 16 claimed by original poster. As you did not bother reading the whole discussion, here's X16/X16 SLI: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813130258

And there's the board that disputes what you are asking for. Not to mention that if you know what you are talking about, true X16/X16 does not really make a difference in most common situations.

Comment Re:The guy has kind of a point (Score 1) 207

And how is this relevant to the GP claim of only 16 PCI(-E) lanes available to Intel CPUs? I don't mean to be disrespectful*, but your post is completely irrelevant: I can show LGA 1156 boards with a total of at least 34 PCI-E lanes in use, which just decimates the original argument. The "step-down" of PCI-E lanes in dual/triple card usage bears no meaning, as there are boards with more than 16 lanes in use, contrary to the original bogus argument.

*16+4 is still more than the original argument claims, even if you aren't paying attention to the other PCI-E slots.

Comment Re:uses a switch the shears the 16 pci-e lanes (Score 1) 207

To do what? If you use a card for USB 3.0 or SATA-600 on the board, it definitely does nothing. You still have no clue of what you are talking about. If you are talking about asymmetric CrossFire / SLI (X16/X4) or scaling down the bus in those setups symmetrically (X8/X8), I'd suggest doing more research on real-world performance figures, and as the link I've given shows, it's true X16/X16 for a two-card setup. You might show a counter-example of your $200 890FX board doing X16/X16/X16 tri-card bandwidth then, or just admit (including all of the above text) that you still have no clue of what you are talking about.

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