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And possibly install Collusion so you can see who's sharing what with who even though you haven't visited the "other" site.Tried that - even with noscript, adblock and ghostery, it gets reaaaaally big and messy (and unusably slow) really fast-4wd (March 09, 2013, 07:36 PM)
retweeted by 'simcity'? Is that the official channel?Spot on the sugar, baby.-wraith808 (March 09, 2013, 04:15 PM)
Facebook and Amazon may be sharing data. If this is the source, Ghostery can block this kind of behavior by blocking social plugins..Yeah, and you do want this! Even if you've disabled the facebook app platform and aren't logged in to facebook, any site that has a like button or comment field will track you back to facebook. It's not unreasonable to think that other big sites are doing the same.-app103 (March 09, 2013, 02:39 PM)
I will check Ghostery out and the article you linked. Thanks.Note that the people behind Ghostery are kinda-involved with advertising, and there's a lot of tinfoil hat flak because of this.-Carol Haynes (March 09, 2013, 12:49 PM)
(seems to be better in ffox than chrome, btw - no cookie blocking in chrome).I have Genie Timeline as part of my tool stack, I want that story!Well, start by reading here.-iphigenie (March 09, 2013, 08:21 AM)
I did see the part where "anyone with a credit card can bypass UEFI."Eh... what?-zridling (March 07, 2013, 04:01 PM)
If you already have VMWare...why?For testing purposes, I reckon. Dunno if it's smart to test a hypervisor on anything but bare metal, though-40hz (March 08, 2013, 12:33 PM)
(could be enough to test the install & setup procedure, but definitely not for testing actually running stuff on it).Humm, I've had a fair share of different GPUs in the past - probably skewed in favor of nvidia now, but I've had a decent number of ATI as well. Have had BSODs on both (though not any driver-related since Vista arrived, for good reasons), but the only time I've had royally screwed up system afterwards has been with ATI drivers.I've had really nasty BSODs that resulted in pretty nasty data corruptionDitto for nVidia in the past - why I tend to go for all AMD systems - plus whilst I know core i5/7 gives best performance I still think AMD gives best bang for the money!-f0dder (March 07, 2013, 12:07 PM)-Carol Haynes (March 07, 2013, 12:17 PM)
Ihave been stung in the past mixing AMD and nVidia chipsets. Not sure about Intel and AMD/nVidia compatibility but since Intel seem to be getting out of the chipset game it is probably not worth wondering about any more!Hm, out of the chipset market? I heard they're getting out of the motherboard market, but I didn't think they were going to leave the chipset market?-Carol Haynes (March 07, 2013, 12:17 PM)
There were a few dodgy Catalyst releases early in version 12 but verion 13 seems rock steady to me.I've had really nasty BSODs that resulted in pretty nasty data corruption - granted, that's quiiiite a few years ago, but that kind of thing leaves an impact. It's also not too long ago that you couldn't do system-wide DEP because the AMD/ATi drivers were crap (that'd give you wonderful BSODs too). While the situation might be OK now, it just doesn't give me a lot of confidence in their software engineers.-Carol Haynes (March 07, 2013, 12:04 PM)
Can't say I have found a game that seems to suffer from not having it and strangely I have it installed (seems to be a requirement for some games weven though they don't use it!!!).I prefer having it and not using it (goes for CUDA too), compared to not having it and not being able to run something that wants it :-)-Carol Haynes (March 07, 2013, 12:04 PM)
Also, has anyone ever heard of a way to move an OS from a physical disk into a VM?Sure, it's called V2P - there's also P2V, V2V, and P2P, for various scenarios. It's not entirely trivial, since you're possibly dealing with both conversion between virtual disk formats, as well as OS adjustments (drivers, boot devices).-Renegade (March 06, 2013, 05:59 PM)
).).Because of this incident I do not have the same confidence in the latest version(s) of NTFS as in the older NTFS version(s) from 2003/XP.I would blame Oracle before I blame NTFS - seeing the amount of data-loss bugs and just plain weird behavior I see discussed on our companys internal mailing list, I'm surprised anybody feels safe using that in production.-Shades (March 06, 2013, 05:22 PM)
(there's a channel9 video somewhere where Mark Russinovich, iirc, logs onto that beast). And John Carmack has played with content-addressable data storage on NTFS (if you look a bit into the amounts of data required for content in their latest engines, well...)Consider yourself lucky.Not that I would need!IE 10 still supports the meta tags that force ie 7-9 compatibility mode.Keep in mind that those aren't perfect bug-for-bug emulations... which you'd need on some corporate sites-allen (March 04, 2013, 10:13 PM)-f0dder (March 05, 2013, 04:18 AM)-allen (March 05, 2013, 11:22 AM)
It think that would depend on who's tax code you're basing that argument on. Laws vary greatly. There's no universal agreement since each nation so fiercely defends its own sovereignty and niggling 'cultural identity' that any attempt at establishing a uniform set of laws gets torpedoed less than a day after it's proposed.The Danish government is obviously basing the argument on Danish law, since it was Microsoft Denmark who bought the Danish company Navision :-)-40hz (March 05, 2013, 07:22 AM)
Be interesting to see what happens anyway.Probably nothing - just like when the biggest tax scandal was McDonalds, or when it was Coca Cola, or when it was Mærsk, or when it was <insert greedy psychopathic megacorp name here>.-tomos (March 05, 2013, 07:33 AM)
So I can't sell code from one unit of my company in x country to Y country? I thought internal sales are part of the governments policies.Microsoft bought Navision for 10.8 billion DKK, then sold it to Microsoft Ireland for a lot less than that - and substantially less than it's worth. That's tax evasion - and it's illegal.-mahesh2k (March 05, 2013, 06:00 AM)
IE 10 still supports the meta tags that force ie 7-9 compatibility mode.Keep in mind that those aren't perfect bug-for-bug emulations... which you'd need on some corporate sites-allen (March 04, 2013, 10:13 PM)
The last time I was in Denmark, back in the mid-80's, the taxes were sky-high, so I can see why MS would try to do this, even though it's unethical even if legal.1) the megacorps do this no matter how low the taxes are - if they could save even a penny by nasty psychopathic behaviour, they'd do it.-Tinman57 (March 04, 2013, 07:38 PM)
Big computer companies need to "Think Different." And well before their customers start answering the question "Where do you want to go today" by saying "Far away from you!"...and then there's the companies that make you want to "Do Much Evil". Like, after the umpteenth Just Another Vulnerability Alert.-40hz (March 04, 2013, 09:21 AM)
If he had prefaced the article with that, and/or put that in the title, I'd not have a problem with it. But it's a tech site, complaining about CS, and not being overly up front about that fact in the title or at the beginning of the article.
That's my problem with it.-wraith808 (March 04, 2013, 10:09 AM)
Good reminder that first of the month is a good day for everyone to do your full system drive imaging backups....and at the speed of USB3, it's a little less painful than it used to be-mouser (March 01, 2013, 01:49 PM)