HP has a long history of supporting their hardware/software for decades after last sale. 20 years is certainly impressive. But, as the saying goes, all good things come to an end.
If 20 years is considered 'forever' in tech years, IPv6 is pulling a whole-ass Benjamin Button.
>"Go fuck yourself, Ivan. Fuck yourself today, tomorrow, and every other day, and when you have fucked off, fuck off some more."
How is this productive? Although the poster made a personal attack, which is not good (and I do not condone), this type of response is even worse. You go nuclear and don't even address the issues.
Sinij actually made a valid point- in a free market, consumers *do* decide what products they want and are willing to pay for and companies *do* respond to consumer demand. It isn't perfect, for sure. Especially when consumers and companies do not have full information. What is the alternative? To have the government decide what is sold and at what prices?
Knowledge is power. So I'll just reiterate what I posted elsewhere on this, as a valid response to Sinij.
Today we can put a nasty picture of a disease-riddled black lung on a pack of cigarettes to deter consumers from buying that product. In fact, those manufacturers are forced to do that.
If the supply chain reveals we should be putting a 10-year old sweatshop workers face on an brand-overpriced $40 T-shirt sales tag so consumers know exactly what they're overpaying for and how it was made, then ask yourself why governments aren't mandating that.
Having the full picture, is the only way consumers can make a fully informed decision to buy or not to buy. The $45 fully-compliant manufactured T-shirt seems like a bargain when you account for morals and ethics.
We buy what we're offered
Nonsense. This shows surprising level of economic illiteracy that should disqualify you from commenting on any economic and economic-adjacent stories. What is being offered and at what price point is determined by the demand outside of very rare cases of inelastic demand (e.g., healthcare, heating, etc.). If consumers on the whole cared about how electronics were produced over the price, then there would be manufacturers producing such 'clean' electronics. That is, market demand exposes BS, where people publicly complain about polluting electronic production but given privacy to shop would buy cheapest electronics from known slave-labor producers without any hesitation.
Start running sweatshop commercials like the drug pimps run TV ads in America, and then see how consumer sentiment changes.
If we can put a disease-riddled black lung on a pack of cigarettes to deter consumers from buying that product, I sure a shit should be able to find the 10-year old sweatshop workers face on a fucking $40 Nike T-shirt sales tag so I KNOW how much I'm overpaying when I don't choose the American made shirt.
I don't know how they measure "popularity" these days.
Really? Because the absolutely batshit insane signs have been around for years now. Remember Snapchat? In their pre-IPO filing, they practically bragged about how they’re losing millions, have lost millions, and have never made a profit. Ever. Hundreds of millions. Gone.
What was the response from the Street now corruptly infamous for being Too Big To Fail? A thirty fucking billion dollar valuation.
Don't wonder how Girl Math ever became a thing powerful enough to create bankruptcies. It’s practically easy when success is defined by how hard you can bullshit everyone.
The reason that China is dominating the industry (other than a concerted effort by the government to buy up as many sources of raw materials as they can outside of China) is due to the absolute "dirtyness" of the refining process.
That, of course, is nonsense. The reason is greed. American oligarchs who ran companies which use rare earths figured out that it was more profitable to let China produce them with a lot of pollution in China, and ship them here producing more pollution, than to produce them with lower levels of pollution here.
100% this.
And none of that Vote With Your Wallet shit applies either. At no point in the last 30 years was a Democratic voting booth offering even the illusion of choice when it came to this particular aspect of manufacturing. These actions are decided on by Greed behind closed doors, with citizens ironically paying more in save-the-planet taxes created by MBAs who fly private, all for “choosing” to let China pollute and fill our rare earth orders.
It is easy to put the blame on oligarchs, very soothing. But... we enthusiastically help by buying from the cheapest supplier. We are all in it together. It is human nature. Luckily we are the only creatures who can go against our nature. Not an easy process though. Very similar to the effort it takes to lose weight.
I can easily choose whether or not I wish to support a Chinese sweat shop making sweatshirts for seven cents an hour, because I’ve been armed with that choice as a consumer.
Now tell me exactly how I get to choose my rare earth metal supplier. Because last I checked you need a HELL of a lot more than consumer power to even power a delusion of choice here.
Yes. This IS one of those moments when we can blame oligarchs. We the People didn’t choose the cheapest supplier. Greed N. Corruption, CEO did. When you vehemently don’t agree with Greed and Greed doesn’t care, that’s not choice. It’s simply not quite viewed as enslavement because we do still wield some elective power to effect some change.
I'm guessing you don't know all the ways to activate Windows then.
Standard Windows keys require Microsoft for activation. MAK (multi-activation keys) also require MS. However, KMS (Key Management Service) however does not. KMS uses a locally controlled server for activation. This is quite common in large organizations that deal with a high quantity of machines (think fortune 500 orgs w/ 100k+ employees w/ laptops). This would of course also cover the military. Do you think the DoD was using phone activation this entire time for their air-gapped machines? No, they have the private DoD network w/ this type of infrastructure (at least, this is my assumption)
I ran several smaller SCIFs for years at my last job.
Yes. We had to do offline activations. Office too. Via phones that also needed temporary approval in SCIFs. Yes. Other larger shops might have been approved for a local KMS server inside a SCIF. Assuming you can actually maintain a KMS server permanently offline. Since part of SCIF mandates also require OS patching with read-only media, it can become a lot more complex to maintain.
Sure seems that way, if the only way you can activate Windows is to have an active internet connection.
Now I suspect DoD and other large scale accounts can cut a deal to get a "gold master" that doesn't contain a requirement for on-line activation.
Hate to burst your bubble on that, but at my previous (defense contractor) shop, the best Microsoft could offer is LTSC variants to be used in our air-gapped (classified) rooms, which we had to activate offline via phone many times when hardware or license issues came up (Office offline activation is no picnic either). I don’t see how this latest action is going to fly in those environments. Wiping the drive and rebuilding from scratch online isn’t always an option, which now seems to be the only option when issues arise.
But it seems to me that there are good reasons to have air-gapped systems in manufacturing or similar process control situations, as one example domain. Previously, you could obtain and transfer updates through a physical device (which, of course, you'd have to verify and trust the device and its contents.)
Classified might not always be the best reason to air-gap, but it’s a reason. Biggest pain in the ass was being forced to patch air-gapped systems with read-only media. The ironic reason for regular patching, is “because viruses”. As in mitigating a risk that was physically mitigated already. Belt and suspenders defense I suppose.
name another President who gave every Military member a Christmas bonus that was more than a fucking coffee cup
You are so fucking gullible: "Trump's 'Warrior Dividend' for troops is housing money approved by Congress" https://federalnewsnetwork.com...
From your link:
This payment will be made outside of the regular pay cycle by Dec. 20.
Given the fact that BAH and COLA subsidies are part of the standard pay allowances for all qualified Military members , you know what THAT above statement means? How dead wrong you are to try and deflect from my fucking point. THAT, is called a bonus. Period. Full stop. Now, name another President who’s done that. In time for the holidays.
Seems America had PLENTY of Congressional funds available when President Autopen and the Open Border Czar were sending over $100 BILLION to a country that hired a dishonorably discharged cokehead to serve as a wholly unqualified executive on an energy board. Biden sure as shit could have afforded to do what Trump did. Ten times over. Ask yourself why he didn’t.
You spent the entire campaign saying you were voting for Trump because he kept us out of foreign wars. How's that one holding up?
You tell me. How many friends and family members do you know fighting in foreign wars right now? How many do you think you could actually find outside of lying liberal news clickbait headlines? Right now I’d say Trump has done one hell of a job not only keeping US troops out of harms way, but also championing peace talks.
Utilizing Special Forces when necessary, has been a tool in EVERY Presidents tool bag. So don’t assume you can point to actions taken in Venezuela and label that as American troops engaged in warfare. Besides, it’s rather hard to find an enemy when an entire country is cheering for the regime change now happening.
Not being able to read the clock only means no one took the 5 minutes it takes to teach one how to do it. How can that be "lowest denominator"?
Because Leave No Moron Behind was too offensive to be used accurately, and it’s not an educators job to teach basic life skills? Are educators responsible for potty training and stopping thumb sucking too?
If reading a clock only takes five minutes, who the hell do you think should have taken those five minutes? How about a parent for once? Does anyone still raise their kids, or do they just grow them like a fucking cactus?
DEI earned the Didn’t Earn It moniker by doubling down on delusion and ignorance. If you don’t think we eradicated racism in America, understand we now statistically see NO difference in measuring how ignorant our graduates are. Race and color become irrelevant when the Ivy League educati, er I mean political indoctrination, becomes corruptly compromised. Leave NO Child Behind, meant exactly that. Reducing the American classroom down to the lowest common denominator, which is colorblind in the math.
Oh my gods, Reddit has become self-aware? Please, tell us more about what Reddit believes, so that we might worship it accordingly. Does it believe in animal sacrifice, like the god of the Christians? I'm going to need to invest in turtledoves right away.
Reddit became self-aware that “popularity” is now more important than even profitability.
Reddit also became self-aware of the book Bots for Dummies; How To Win A Popularity Contest.
According to the article, Reddit "believes it is also benefiting from shifting internet habits, as younger users seek out human-generated reviews and opinions."
According to human history, PT Barnum didn’t need a lick of help from non-human sources in order to prove there’s a sucker born every minute. 4chan is (mostly) human-generated too. Should we consider that a viable source of non-machine powered intelligence too?
Gotta love the circle-jerk logic of fallible greedy humans needing to create AI in business because of fallible greedy humans, who now seek out the advice of fallible greedy humans because of what fallible greedy humans have ironically done with AI.
Considering that in some cases you effectively have to be on LinkedIn to get a job, I believe this. Of course the ghost job posts and other nonsense have kind of ruined the idea.
LinkedIn has become nothing more than a marketing front to deny an obvious Recession.
Dont believe me? Force every lying cocksucker to remove every ghost job listing that exists for the sole reason of maintaining a bullshit stock price. THEN tell me what the actual economy looks like.
I honestly hope good employees start boycotting LinkedIn. Employers want actual talent? Get off your ass and go find it. It’s not gonna wait around for you on some site that enshittified itself because stock price.
Ummm....no.
Per-student corruption for elementary and secondary education in New York is 91 percent above the national average and between 9 percent and 170 percent higher than neighboring and competitor states
FTFY. Because New York City insisted I do.
It was the kinda offer you don’t refuse. Right from the NYC historian.
Funny how not other republican president wanted to do that, just the one that very nearly did not get a college degree because he was (and still is) too dumb for that.
Todays definition of too dumb, is turning away even a single college applicant.
Those aren’t students. They’re gullible high-valued customers still falling for it. Damn right they’ll take their money. All of it.
A physicist is an atom's way of knowing about atoms. -- George Wald
