This has been a significant issue on the windows 8 machines I've handled. It's mitigated somewhat by creating your own scheduled task to more frequently do ntp updates.

I like this guide:

http://www.pretentiousname.com/timesync/

You modify the BCLK regularly whilst booted into Windows on the different Win 8 machines you handle? Even when overclocking you'd normally not mess with the BCLK unless you are really wanting to push your overclock.

Windows 8 keeps terrible time on laptops or anything else which is trying to power save by varying the clock. I'm not overclocking shit. The OS just doesn't time sync frequently enough. This is why I posted a link about increasing the frequency of time syncs.

This has not been a problem with Windows 7, or XP on the same equipment.

That is not how the power saving works. It does not vary the BCLK rather it alters the multiplier. If it varied the BCLK by such large amounts to achieve typical low power frequency levels then you'd likely run into some catastrophic stability problems as the BCLK is also used by the integrated memory controller and QPI.

Debian is the center of my linux universe. Happy Birthday and THANKS! to all who contribute to what is the best representation of what computing freedom should be.

So we use ArcVM (aka VBox--controlled by Oracle) instead of JavaVM(also controlled by Oracle)?

Qemu would seem to be the better choice.

Virtualbox is open source - GPLv2

https://www.virtualbox.org/browser/vbox/trunk

So is the entire JDK.

Just use NoScript. [you should have been using it for a long time now anyway...]

Execs -> Obama "You said no one would find out about this shit if we played ball! WTF! We pay you assholes a lot of money!"

Obama -> Execs "Relax, we have the NSA working on Lavabit to get Snowden's emails right now. As soon as we have some truth to mix in with our lies we'll have him discredited with false allegations of CP or some other horse shit. The pleebs' short memories and NFL football will take care of the rest."

Execs -> Obama "It had better or the Secret Service will fall asleep on the job one day."

Obama -> Execs "Cocaine and hookers on me!"

Just make up any wild story you want, that's great.

You read my mind.

If you want end-to-end, true E2E, you're gonna need client-side software of some kind. It's just the way it works. It's not a bad thing. It's a great thing. It means to get the private keys, the gubment has to gain access to each target's machine individually. Right now they just force the server-side stuff to roll with a single NSL and a phone call.

If you make them have to work for each constitutional violation then they might at least consider not breaking the law.

All this cloud shit has made it far too easy for NSA, etc.

This is big news to a persistent minority. The larger population will never care. They simply don't have the context required to understand the extent and severity of the problem.

It's true.. I think Americans might sleep through the whole thing. It seems TV news doesn't even try to ask questions and whenever they do it's about where Edward Snowden might be and what Obama's favourite vegetable is.

This meta-phone is still too expensive.

They marketed and priced it for high-end consumers...and then ask these same customers do something that none of them ever want to do...wait. Wait a long time for delivery.

You can't have your cake and eat it too. Drop the price or up the delivery date. Better if they did both.

I'd also have more faith if I could have seen a functional prototype not just a couple of Nexus4's running alpha software. I'm not paying 800 bucks for the free software...I'm paying for hardware which is still on the drawing board.