MarvinKMooney

welcome, to the intel FX9590.

Seeing as Epyc is 64 cores now AMD could just double the cores in it's current lineup. 8 core being the new quad core LOL.

Hackers: We found a un-patchable exploit
Nintendo: *hardware mitegation
Hackers: cant stop us from hacking devices in the wild
Nintendo: Hold my beer.

any class action from consumers on the horizon? i have an intel cpu and if it takes a 30% performance hit i request a full compensation of it and of the motherboard.

Wait, do people use the Windows 10 mail app? I tried to use it but its pretty archaic imo

Next step- BSOD ads. 

Really? I haven't seen any of that. I would be mad if I had.

That's some fine irony right there.

Nintendo only respects copyright law wen it suits them. They abuse the shit out of it to benefit themselves in ways not in keeping with the spirit of the law. They deserve no respect.

It always looks " Promising " but never is, I hope its good tho.

It always looks " Promising " but never is, I hope its good tho.

would be nice if there wasn't any worry about data throttling from service providers

Well the switch has sold extremely well and the reviews for those games are very high so you are an outlier tbh. 

There has been quite a lot of confusion surrounding wireless standards. What happened to all the letters between wireless G and wireless N? Is n faster than ac or is it the other way around?
 
The reason why WiFi have historically had such confusing naming standard is because they have been named after the IEEE standard associations working number.
IEEE (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers) is an association which creates standards for a wide variety of things. For example the IEEE 1394 is the standard for FireWire, but they also develop standards such as IEEE 1547 which are a set of criteria used when checking interconnections of distributed generation resources into power grids.
When a new standard starts getting worked on, it gets assigned the next unused number. For example the project that was started after 802.11g got assigned the number 802.11h.
 
802.3 (Ethernet)  and 802.11 (local wireless LAN standards) are probably two of the most well known work groups.
For some reason, the Wi-Fi Alliance who promote and certifies Wi-Fi devices decided to use the IEEE standard names for consume products. As a result, we ended up with confusing names like wireless N and AC.
 
Yesterday, the Wi-Fi Alliance decided to make things simpler by renaming everything. Wi-Fi Alliance certified products will no longer use the IEEE names, but rather a straight forward and simple number.
 
802.11n will be marketed as Wi-Fi 4.
802.11ac will be marketed as Wi-Fi 5.
802.11ax will be marketed as Wi-Fi 6.
 
It's simple. Higher number = newer and better.
 
 
Source: Wi-Fi Alliance introduces Wi-Fi 6
 
 
Personally, I think this will make things a lot easier for consumers.
But on the other hand, it was fairly convenient for looking up information when the marketing name and standard name were the same. Now if you want to look up specific details about how a particular Wi-Fi standard works or what it supports, you might first need to look up what standard "Wi-Fi 7" actually is, before searching for it. But then again, that is a small problem for an even smaller group of people.
 

I feel like countries actually don't want war (which obviously is a good thing) because otherwise, you have to imagine virtually every developed country would be at war with ever other over the various spy and cyber-attack activities like this that go one behind the scenes.

Honestly, that's a pretty major concern for me as well. Putin is a fruit cake and if they push him to far I don't see him pushing his big red launch button as being that far fetched.
 
But let's try and stay away from the politics side as much as possible.

I think that this passing will help show the differences - if any - between systems set up with and without net neutrality and it may help the community to understand what it could help with.
 
Regardless, although this thread is destined for controversiality, I think it's a good thing to have here.

No system can ever be 100% fail-proof. 
 
And the recent Facebook scandal was just a 'Come and get it' to all the hooligans out there on the Interwebs 
 
(not defending them, fuck Facebook)

I left social media a year ago after my second kid was born, needed to put the correct time into the correct things in my life.  My life experiences are so much better for it.

Source:
Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
 
TL;DR:
We're WAY behind on Moore's law, by a factor of 15 if it was still viable. It's time to focus on optimizing software instead of hardware.
 
Media:

Quotes/Excerpts:
 
My Thoughts:
We going to start seeing more and more ASIC's as time progresses. As mentioned by Linus in the video below, application specific processors and languages will increasing in popularity as clock-speeds and performance stagnates. Machine learning cores will be just one of the ASICs to come out of this stagnation.
 

Something a little bit different and positive. Who says news always has to be bad?
 
Chris Taylor has recently been given up to 6 months to live and is a huge smash brothers fan but isn't sure he'll be around in December to play the new version so his friends started a campaign to see if they could fix that.
His campaign was picked up by some fairly big YouTubers including Review Tech USA and Son Of A Glitch as well as over on Reddit.
The 21 year old has been fighting an aggressive form of bone cancer for 3 years and has been through multiple treatments including contributing to experimental treatments too.
And then this....
https://www.theverge.com/2018/9/21/17888326/nintendo-super-smash-bros-ultimate-terminal-cancer-patient
 
I'm really happy for the dude, let's let him enjoy the little time he has left.
 
Well done Nintendo

Why are people still using CCleaner. How many times do they have to bend you over before you listen. 

Edit: This has grown a bit, so I am going to modify the post to add more info from the article to make it easier to parse:
 
This is an important thing for anyone who interacts with e-commerce retailers. As the web evolves sites open and close, some big, some small. When the big ones fall, what happens to your data?
 
In one very big and public case the worst thing that could happen, happened.
If you've ever bought anything on NCIX before it went defunct, worth a read.
Especially important considering Linus's history with NCIX - perhaps some of his own data is breached as part of this brokering.
 
 
https://www.privacyfly.com/articles/ncix_breach/
 
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Sort of a TL;DR:

On August 1, 2018, A Craigslist ad was discovered purporting to be selling two servers, one a Database Server from the now-defunct NCIX and another, a Database Reporting Server. The seller claimed to have acquired both from Vancouver based Able Auction’s. After some back and forth, a meeting was arranged where the data could be viewed. 

The server contained some XML documents with usernames and passwords and database references but no data. When inquired the person selling stated the had the network storage as well as NCIX’s entire server farm from the east coast which was shipped back to their Richmond warehouse several months previous. Which was only the beginning... 

As the story developed, the source of quite a bit of the information came to light: 
 
A further ~300 desktop computers from NCIX’s corporate offices and retails stores, 8 DELL PowerEdge servers, as well as at least two Supermicro server’s running StarWind iSCSI Software as backup servers. There were also 109 Hard Disks pulled from auctioned servers. 
 
Also, and this is something VERY important for those who have ever had computer repairs done at NCIX: A large pallet of 400-500 used hard drives from various manufacturers.
Let that bit sink in. CUSTOMER's PERSONAL data. 
 
In another face-to-face meeting, more data was reviewed on some of the SuperMicro servers, as well as the Desktop machines used by NCIX staff. 
 
On the desktop and discovered that it was used by a former NCIX employee named Chadwick Ma. The computer contained a treasure trove of confidential data including credentials, invoices, photographs of customers ID’s, Bills, and Mr. Ma’s T4 among other files. It was safe to assume the other desktops probably contained even more information about other employees. 
 
On the SuperMicro backup server:
A rundown of the types of information contained in the UNENCRYPTED storage and databases: 
nciwww database contained a thousand records from affiliates listing plain text passwords, addresses, names, and some financial data Customer service inquiries including messages and contact information three hundred eighty-five thousand names, serial numbers with dates of purchase, addresses, company names, email addresses, phone numbers, IP addresses and unsalted MD5 hashed passwords. full credit card payment details in plain text for two hundred and fifty-eight thousand users between various tables. OrdersSql_Data, it contained many versions going back 15 years with the most recent dated in 2017. The version I opened contained three million, eight hundred forty-eight thousand records covering January 2007 through July 2010. Contents included names, company names, items purchased with serial numbers, addresses, phone numbers, and payment data. Financing programs Employee records Vendor pricing Confidential company emails  Source Code intellectual property from NCIX’s ventures into manufacturing Other confidential data The final important bit about what was really happening to the data and that it was really and truely up for sale to the highest bidder:
Please, let's not underestimate the impact here. Not only does this effect if you've purchased hardware from NCIX at any point in the last 15 years. This impacts
if you have ever worked for NCIX as an employee or contractor. If you've ever had a vendor agreement with them, if you've ever communicated with them in any way, if you've received service from them in the form of repairs, especially up to the point where they declared bankruptcy. Your confidential and personal information is blown to the wind. Depending on your relationship to them the damage goes from inconvenient to outright life changing.
 

They will activate windows just fine, but it's grey market, so illegal because it doesn't fit the CGU of Microsoft

I doubt this thread will be open for much longer....
 
But I don't hate Apple. I hate a few things they do, but right now I think they are doing a much better job on the software front than Microsoft or Google.