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Not being a gamer, all at sea on the GPU thing. So, would take note of the progression of GPU for use, if any, later.

NVIDIA and AMD Play the GPU Game: Who Will Win? https://marketrealist.com/2019/07/nvidia-and-amd-play-the-gpu-game-who-will-win/ AMD and NVIDIA get into mid-range GPU Price War https://hardforum.com/threads/amd-and-nvidia-get-into-mid-range-gpu-price-war.1991888/

AMD Claims It Bluffed Nvidia Into Cutting GPU Prices https://www.extremetech.com/gaming/295510-amd-claims-it-bluffed-nvidia-into-cutting-gpu-prices It’s no secret that upper-end GPU prices have come down recently, thanks to AMD’s recent launch of its RX 5700 and RX 5700 XT. AMD has now stirred the pot a bit, claiming that it successfully bluffed Nvidia into cutting costs, only to yank the rug out from under them and cut prices even more. This bit of data is embedded in Hot Hardware’s 2.5 Geeks podcast/interview with Scott Herkelman, AMD’s VP of Radeon. Scott goes on to detail how AMD laid its plans carefully, with evaluations of what the RTX cards were capable of in terms of clock speeds, die sizes, Nvidia’s expected revenue and margin targets, and much more. AMD’s initial prices for the RX 5700 and 5700 XT were $500 and $379, but after Nvidia unveiled its Super family, the company cut them back to $350 and $400. According to AMD, this was always the plan.

Drinking alcohol every day can speed up brain aging by one week per session, according to a study of more than 17,000 people https://www.insider.com/alcohol-every-day-ages-your-brain-quicker-17000-brain-scans-2020-1 Researchers at the University of Southern California looked at more than 17,000 brain scans to see if daily smoking and drinking advanced brain age. The study found that every gram of alcohol consumed a day aged the brain by 11 days. Smoking a pack of cigarettes a day for a year aged the brain by 11 days. It is one of the largest studies ever done on brain aging and alcohol, making the findings quite robust.

AMD reckons it can win the high-end GPU battle – and dethrone Nvidia just like it did with Intel https://www.techradar.com/news/amd-reckons-it-can-win-the-high-end-gpu-battle-and-dethrone-nvidia-just-like-it-did-with-intel Exec claims that Big Navi will disrupt 4K gaming, similarly to how Ryzen now dominates desktop CPUs AMD is aiming to disrupt 4K gaming, and build a Radeon GPU line-up to take on Nvidia in a similar way to how the firm has ramped up Ryzen processors to beat out Intel (at least in desktop CPUs). That’s the scoop according to AMD’s Mithun Chandrasekhar, who is head of product management at Radeon Graphics, as reported by PC GamesN. At a briefing for the freshly launched RX 5600 XT, Chandrasekhar observed that AMD was currently tackling the mainstream market, but would move to assault the high-end GPU arena with the much-rumored Big Navi graphics card soon enough.

Linux gaming https://www.phoronix.com/forums/forum/software/linux-gaming Canonical Gets Into Cloud Gaming & More With Anbox Cloud For Cloud-Based Android Apps/Gaming https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Canonical-Anbox-Cloud

Forced to act, better late than never..

The Wuhan coronavirus has spread person-to-person in the US for the 1st time - to the husband of a woman who went to China https://www.businessinsider.in/science/news/the-wuhan-coronavirus-has-spread-person-to-person-in-the-us-for-the-1st-time-to-the-husband-of-a-woman-who-went-to-china/articleshow/73781242.cms

FF when are you coming on board?

maybe helpful for Phd scholars for their project. people into RCE just to get an idea /test their skills.

One can get an idea of what is trending and how to improve upon and come out with a better tool or even come out with tools to better support it (with REC and legal hacking to know the vulnerabilities, shortfalls etc.)

But he said about having 3+ WIn 7 systems, so taking one offline doesn't make sense. and the question is what one can do with only offline working? Just gaming perhaps, watch some old media, a sheer waste of resources.

Herein comes legal hacking.. reverse engineer and knwo the functionality, then use it to create your own robust tools. Where there is a will , there is a way.

Then networked devices are not safe and as I said, securing the network is a must and going offline is not a solution, as he needs to secure his network for safety of the connected devices.and there r tools such as for IoT to secure your network in toto which should take care of it.

Strange. If your network is not secure, than you will land in problems, so having proper protection is a must and if it's taken care off, going offline for a part device doesn't gel.

There is a very interesting case of reverse engineering which the court found legal. read on in https://www.upcounsel.com/reverse-engineering-patent-infringement Prior to the Digital Millennium Copyright Act, many companies and individuals wondered whether reverse engineering was a legal process. A controversy between video game makers Nintendo and Atari laid out some of the early framework for the legality of reverse engineering. In the late 20th century, the Nintendo Entertainment Systems (NES) 8-bit device was one of the top options in the video gaming market. This device included a security mechanism called the 10-NES and restricted the use of games that didn't contain specific software and a chip. NES used this security mechanism to encourage developers of popular video games to enter into licensing contracts. The 8-bit was introduced to the U.S. market in 1986, which was the same year that Atari, a competing video gaming company, started reverse engineering the device. Atari used a method that monitored the communication between the game console and cartridge, but this didn't provide sufficient information. Next, Atari used a chemical peeling process to remove layers from the NES chips to examine the object code under a microscope. Even with these efforts, Atari could not reconstruct the code from the layers removed from the chips. When NES filed for copyright protection, the process included filing a listing of all object code. This document included the details that Atari was trying to find through the reverse engineering process. In order to gain access to the document, Atari filed a false lawsuit with claims that NES had sued Atari for infringement of copyright. Atari submitted falsified affidavits to the office, which granted them access to a copy of the listing document. Following this action, Atari began reproducing the software for its own video games. NES filed a lawsuit against Atari for copyright infringement. One issue brought up in the suit was whether Atari had the right to reverse engineer the security mechanism used in the NES 8-bit console. During the legal proceedings, the court determined that although Atari's method of obtaining the information was tainted, since the company filed false documents, it was legal to use reverse engineering. Going through the process of reverse engineering is considered fair use as long as it is necessary to understand the device or product. US trade secret law views RE as a proper means of learning a trade secret, https://www.softwarelitigationconsulting.com/articles/hiding-in-plain-sight-using-reverse-engineering-to-uncover-software-patent-infringement/

@exile360 @Pierre75 Why not experts look at RCE (Reverse Code Engineering)? 9 Best Reverse Engineering Tools for 2020 [Updated] https://www.apriorit.com/dev-blog/366-software-reverse-engineering-tools In this article, I will tell about the main tools that a modern software reverser uses in his work. This article is for readers, who are familiar with the Assembler language, network interaction principles, and have experience of programming for Windows using API functions. There are so many different software applications in the modern world, and the source code of the most of them is hidden from our sight. But there are a number of situations, when we do need to understand the logic of functioning of platforms and applications, their algorithms and specifics. That is when the legal software reversing is called up – a service provided by Apriorit software research department. There are a lot of products to make this task easier. We are going to discuss some of the best reverse engineering software; mainly it will be tools reverse engineering tools for Windows. Notice that you can learn more details about the process and nuances of Windows software reversing in this post (great example included). If you are more interested in iOS/OS X code reverse engineering software and approaches - take a look at this post prepared by our researches. How to Reverse Engineer Software (Windows) the Right Way https://www.apriorit.com/dev-blog/364-how-to-reverse-engineer-software-windows-in-a-right-way

Working offline for what purpose? than why look for 0patch at all? Mac address are unique, once set it's set forever. and 0patch updation is automatic. So, can't understand why to go offline in the first case?

Configuring the router to limit network devices with MAC address is the normal way to go, which would leave Lan access intact. But why need to go offline in the first case? as 0patch works to pacth in background with system online, going offline will defeat the purpose.

@Pierre75 Hardwired, is it a Lan?