Comment Re:Including air pressure (or lack thereof)? (Score 1) 9
Not forgetting inconsequential things like temperature and radiation as well....
Comment Including air pressure (or lack thereof)? (Score 1) 9
Surviving Martian soil is the easy part. Being able to survive at near zero air pressure is the hard part.
Comment Re:Shouldda ran Windows! (Score 1) 21
FVWM2
Comment Re:All bets are off if you have physical access (Score 2) 21
In newer Dell BIOS you'd have to enable Advanced BIOS settings (to the upper left in the BIOS setting screen) in order to get full BIOS control.
Then you can disable Secure Boot and set the hard drive to be AHCI instead of RAID just to make sure that you have best compatibility.
Comment Win11 "pretty good"? I don't think so... (Score 2) 50
In the two hours I have used it, it crashed on me twice, each time requiring a reboot. One was the file-explorer crashing. Same software, same hardware was rock-solid with win10 before. Win11 is a lemon.
Comment Re:Is this April 1? (Score 1) 20
No. It is real security experts at work and these people are pretty immune to hype.
Comment Yes, obviously (Score 1) 20
Why does this even need to be stated? These things are grossly insecure and that cannot be fixed. It does not get more "broken by design" that that.
Comment No, it does not (Score 4, Insightful) 21
"Secure" boot is not about security for the user. It is DRM, plain and simple. And it serves so that Linux and other non-Windows OSes are harder to install, because Microsoft holds the keys.
Comment Re:Not a lot (Score 1) 14
Has nothing on the "savings" of 2T that a certain space cadet promised in January, which somehow turned to an extra $220B spent.
https://www.techdirt.com/2025/...
Go figure.
Comment Re:Something to improve consumer laws? (Score 1) 44
You really do not understand what you are talking about. You want to place requirements that makes sense for enterprises with lawyers on regular customers. That is insane.
Comment Re: We used to mine these materials in the US (Score 1) 128
Yes. But the US is in 2nd place. Do you think being in 2nd place means "it cannot be done"? That would be insane.
Comment Shouldda ran Windows! (Score 1) 21
Just kidding, please don't kill me!
Comment Misread the headline (Score 1) 29
Did anyone else see this as "DirecTV Will Soon Bring Aids to Your Screensaver"?
Comment Is this April 1? (Score 1) 20
Somebody predicting an AI product category is FUBAR instead of wonderful magic productivity?
Comment Re:Something to improve consumer laws? (Score 1) 44
Because that $2,000 is consideration for the other party providing something. If the penalty clause is the entire remainder of the contract fee, then the other party should also be compelled to provide service for the remainder of the contract term, or some equivalent consideration. Otherwise, it isn't really much of a contract.
I agree. And they will! You're free to use the service until the expiration of the contract. Whether you actually use it or not is up to you.
That's not what a cancellation fee does, though. By definition, when you pay a cancellation fee, they are no longer providing service.
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