"Although to be fair thats like saying your pc is harder to hack because it hasn't got a network card. Superiority through inferiority"
No, it's like saying your network shouldn't have direct memory access, which you, it shouldn't. Networking does not require DMA, there is no valid reason that one production machine should be able to directly access another production machine's memory (the operable word being production; if you are doing software development there are plenty of reasons that might be useful). Surprise surprise, that is a huge security risk and it always has been.
You will be able to accomplish the same thing on a notebook with Cardbus or Expresscard (the PCI version), since the card can request a DMA and access all memory.
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Another reason why USB is superior. All hail USB 3.0's coming.
Although to be fair thats like saying your pc is harder to hack because it hasn't got a network card. Superiority through inferiority
"Although to be fair thats like saying your pc is harder to hack because it hasn't got a network card. Superiority through inferiority"
No, it's like saying your network shouldn't have direct memory access, which you, it shouldn't. Networking does not require DMA, there is no valid reason that one production machine should be able to directly access another production machine's memory (the operable word being production; if you are doing software development there are plenty of reasons that might be useful). Surprise surprise, that is a huge security risk and it always has been.
But hey, DMA is done for perfomance. Cut DMA and yoor computer will die processing network trafficing!
You will be able to accomplish the same thing on a notebook with Cardbus or Expresscard (the PCI version), since the card can request a DMA and access all memory.
"Another reason why USB is superior"
Another?
Ignatius was probably trying to choose "Ignoramus" as his name, but didn't know how to spell it properly.
Wow. Flaming me by making a pun on my name? Yeah, that's the way to be cool.
Yah meanwhile USB 2 is slow as shit for hard drive access. Sorry but I'll keep my FW800 drive and its stupidly fast transfer rates.