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Bill Gates backs $1bn plan to cover earth in video surveillance satellites
 
Bill Gates backs a $1 billion plan to cover Earth in 'Big Brother' satellites capable of streaming 'live and unfiltered' HD footage of the planet
 
https://earthnow.com/
 
EarthNow's details of what could be seen with their planned satellites suggest the satellite feed would have very good resolution when looking at Earth's terrain very close-up.
 
Depending on what resolution these satellites would be able to picture the ground with, I think there are clearly serious implications for people being stalked or targeted for harm, or for when thieves plotting to rob a house when someone isn't home, or for people who want to sunbathe nude in privacy in their backyard, as well as a great many other scenarios.
 
Paragraph added May 16: Court witnesses, activists, government critics, and minorities could, hypothetically, be put in grave danger by technology that makes monitoring or tracking people in public spaces available for everyone. For example, imagine the threat and harm that would be created by a publicly-accessible satellite surveillance system in conjunction with intentions and websites like this: White Supremacists Built a Website to Doxx Interracial Couples — and It's Going to Be Hard to Take Down
 
I wonder if the company EarthNow plans different levels of zoom and fidelity for governments and the public. Though, it would be concerning if governments and law enforcement suddenly had the easy and unregulated ability to monitor everyone without their consent, their knowing, and a warrant. And I also wonder whether EarthNow would censor sensitive locations, like military and testing sites, not just according to the US government's interests, but to all countries' governments' demands.
 
It's possible real-time footage wouldn't be available to the general public, or that feed from residential areas wouldn't be available. But there are still many ways this could be exploited.
 
 
Here's a great comment made by Koeshi.

So now you can FAP with ARM, interesting.

No you cant. HDMI cannot carry data nor power and cant be adapted to Thunderbolt

much better for £20 more
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Not really - Intel also suffer a hefty penalty from slow high-latency RAM.
 
I guess - but instead of investing that much in a cooler, you might as well get a 12-core 3900X 🤷‍♂️

You wouldnt need to upgrade the ram to go to Ryzen, they both use DDR4. The R7 3700x will beat a 9700k at 99% of tasks as well

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I have no experience with the ASUS one but a family member has the Netgear Nighthawk and its very fast there across the whole house.

Honestly, I use an elite, and I don't regret it. In my personal opinion almost all corsair peripherals are like cheap plastic toys lol, but both should be fine, although the new razer greens are rated at 70 millions keystrokes instead of the mx blue's 50, 

Both switches are reliable but neither of those boards are great. Also, if you're looking for a nice, sharp click, I'd suggest looking for boards with Kailh Box Whites.
 
 
They're pretty common in Hexgears boards!

Both switches are reliable. However neither board is all that great, or reliable. 

custom aviator magnetic cable

I would personally go with Ryzen
PCPartPicker Part List Type Item Price CPU AMD Ryzen 7 3700X 3.6 GHz 8-Core Processor $296.47 @ Amazon Motherboard Asus TUF GAMING X570-PLUS (WI-FI) ATX AM4 Motherboard $189.99 @ Best Buy   Prices include shipping, taxes, rebates, and discounts     Total $486.46   Generated by PCPartPicker 2020-04-09 09:42 EDT-0400   But if you want Intel, then not everything is there but not a bad deal. But you would be fine with a 750w PSU
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Whoo! #100 still puts me in the top 100, I'll take it! Not too shabby for 1 rig.

@Kilrah I am bout 4m behind but sadly gonna have to slow way the hell down ;(   I received a letter from my local power company saying they noticed power usage at my home more than double in the last week.

My media centre PCs were getting a bit hot and shouty running 24/7 so I thought I'd give them a some room to breathe. Looks janky as all hell but they are a lot happier now and it's the most use that ironing board has had in quite a while!!
 

There any way to put up a big (almost) flashing sign in front of people who are about to ask those questions?  I know they probably wouldn't read it...but it would probably help with some.

I still some how find it amazing that people miss that... Read the damn blue box, OP and FAQ people. Literally every question asked in the last 50 pages have been answered.

My Folding@Home client wont let me fold because it is trying to download "WS Assignment". It cant download though and is stuck in an infinite retry loop. Any way to fix this?
 
EDIT: I have uninstalled and reinstalled the software and have the same issue
 
UPDATE: Now my CPU is folding but GPU is still trying, weird considering GPU was folding earlier and CPU wasnt

My wife has been wondering what we can do from home. LTT video rolls around and he eyes light up 'can we do that?'. Yup. So now I have 2 systems running on the LTT team. Thanks for making the Mrs feel a little better during this time.

Fortnite uses the Epic Games Launcher, so download that and then you can install Fortnite. When I have used my PS4 controller on my PC it has an audio output (I never used it though so may not be that good) and I dont know if the mic will work. You would be better off buying a PC headset.

We just got a shout-out from UFD Tech. Even tho they promoted their own team, they talked about our event and our AMAZING thread!
 
Our part is somewhere around 7th min.
 

So we have now passed 2900 sign ups to the event!!!!
 
Yesterday we broke past 1 billion points for the day!
 
and we are closing the gap with PCMR!
 

 
KEEP PUSHINGGGGGG!!!!!!!
 
 

I'm givin it all she's got, but they aren't givin in return captian!