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But if the price of cars went up 100% across the board in 3 months, you can guarantee that we'd be talking about the underlying drivers continually.

Whether the security is "fake" or not (i.e. whether it has real value) isn't relevant, it exists and making new coins amounts to rewards for solving maths problems first. Whilst the exact maths varies between currencies, for simplicity imagine each "coin" (of whatever currency) as a prime number, the first person to prove a number is prime "owns" that coin. The first few are easy, but as you get higher up the scale it gets progressively harder, not necessarily conceptually but in terms of number of steps per prime. Also it's a competition, the person able to prove prime numbers fastest "wins" most coins, leading to an arms race. It starts with CPUs (stage 1), then someone adapts it to GPUs (stage 2) because they are much faster at repeated but straightforward maths than more flexible but slower CPUs. This is the stage that Etherium and other similar currencies are at, low end Bitcoin miners also sit here. The next stage is ASIC (stage 3), which is a chip designed purely for mining a specific currency. This is where the Bitcoin big boys are and the other currencies will head to when/if market volumes allow. Currency miners in stage 2 buy up GPUs and directly hit the supply of cards that gamers would have. Currency miners in stage 3 don't buy GPUs, but ASIC manufacture on a large scale impacts raw material prices which drives manufacture costs up. Slightly simplified, but hope that helps :)

Well this 2014 laptop user is very happy.... Clearly I'm not running maxed, but for me it appears noticeably smoother at equivalent settings compared to 2.2/1.5, particularly in Normandy. Specs in sig.

Their listings are expanding like wildfire, pedals, sticks, Playstations. It's a veritable buffet of "too good to be true". Clearly maximising the number of quick bites before Paypal or buyers get wise. Judging by the sales numbers, it's working. I don't see a "report listing" button :huh: Edit Found it!

Last sold anything a year ago, seemingly all low value clothes and toys, but now they've suddenly come into 10+ Thrustmaster Warthogs at jaw droppingly bargain basement prices? Significantly number of recent transactions (dozens and dozens) from the same seller selling badges for pennies. If those Warthogs exist as something more than the figment of someone's imagination, I'll eat my hat, and it's a smelly old hat! My money is on a hacked or traded account.

I own all of them already, but I do so enjoy answering rhetorical questions :music_whistling: Because the amount of mental gymnastics being performed to avoid calling a spade a spade and using the word "rise" is worthy of a civil service authored briefing paper. ED lowered the price of the modules in question years ago, they are sitting in the shop right now at the lower price. Not as part of a sale, not as a stated discount, the (until recently) going rate. Any previous price it may have been sold at is merely of historical interest. If ED want to raise the price, for whatever reason, to the original release price (as is there prerogative) then that's fine. I'm an avowed free-marketeer, there is no criticism there, they make the pricing decisions, we each make our own value and purchase/skip decisions. Just call a spade a spade... "Prices are rising because this stuff is expensive to maintain and is significantly better now than when the prices were cut. But on the bright side, you are paying what those that bought it new paid, which when you account for inflation...."

Yeah it's the family model Super Hornet, but it has to be this: T1sBx2DWdeU

I was in a similar situation about 3 years ago myself, personal circumstances dictated that it was either a gaming laptop or no gaming. In the end I plumped for an MSI GT70, it's been great and still runs DCS perfectly well. I'm no longer as constrained as I wass, so when it dies I will be replacing it with a desktop, but I would absolutely buy an MSI gaming laptop again if I was in the market for one. Having had a run in with Alienware's customer (lack of) support on an earlier (desktop) gaming rig, personally I'd steer well clear.

You're right, the EternalBlue element limits the current iteration of WC to W8 and earlier only , I was thinking of DoublePulsar (the backdoor also installed by the current incarnation of WC), which does impact W10 without the March security update. Either way, exposed SMB is going to get you hurt so firewall it off and patch, patch, patch! :thumbup:

Agree, but then again I'd hazard a guess that 2/3 of home users wouldn't know how to manually patch Win 10 and are only barely aware of the auto update running because it is the default setting in 10. On the positive side, anyone that has patched since March, and I suspect that's most households given the default option is to have auto update on, is already covered, and there is now a patch for XP (never thought I'd ever use those words again! :huh: ) http://www.computerworld.com/article/3196292/windows-pcs/microsoft-issues-first-windows-xp-patch-in-3-years-to-stymie-wannacrypt.html Aside from a handful of XP die-hards, the biggest issue is the number of corporate systems that are either stuck on XP, or are on something newer but are earlier than March in their security patch level (not good practice, but certainly common to be a bit behind on the patch schedule).

Given this sort of thing is not confined to entering networks via email based malware, it's worth viewing the Shodan.io page for your IP address. They are constantly scanning the web for exposed services. If it's showing results for you that you don't expect (i.e. unless you are hosting a server, it should be a null result), then fixing them through your router's firewall should be your top priority. Example: https://www.shodan.io/host/194.169.234.5 <---replace the IP address with your own.

Long time coming, but still a shame, their R.A.T. mice are the most comfortable mice I've ever used... That they look like the bastard love child of a Lamborghini and Barricade was merely a happy coincidence.

Ok, we've firmly established some people might not like the joke. Does anyone have anything more to say about POL mode?

Then you either haven't been reading them, or have wilfully failed to comprehend the opinions expressed. Your desire for a specific, more advanced, variant of the F5 is not "wrong" in itself, but it's equivalent to asking for a 2017 Mustang, when the product on offer is a '69 Mustang. The 2017 Mustang may be faster, more fuel efficient and safer, but it's not a substitute for the '69 in any sense other than they have 4 wheels, a roughly similar body shape and you can use them both to go to the shops quite quickly. You are asking for a different product, not a better product.