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IBM Cloud Object Storage is price competitive with AWS, even cheaper for many workloads.

https://www.slideshare.net/mob...

You are incorrectly informed. Please read HIS 2015: Prof. Phil Koopman - A Case Study of Toyota Unintended Acceleration and Software Safety for more in depth details on what really happened, and more up to date information on the settlements and fines that Toyota received over this.

this covers the results of the NASA investigation that occurred in 2011, and was not covered by your Car and Driver article.

Also recall that Toyota settles for $1.6B. And Oklahoma court records clearly indicate that punitive damages were assigned in the Bookout trial.

And finally, in 2014, U.S. Attorney General investigation leads to $1.2B in fines for concealing safety defects

Does this result argue for wider adoption of Netflix's H.R. model, as expressed in the manifesto that went viral a few years back? Namely:

1. Hire "A" players, because the competence of one's coworkers is a large contributor to employee satisfaction.
2. Don't use golden handcuffs as a means of mitigating hiring churn; you want employees to stay at the company because they want to be there. Employees choose how much stock they want vs. cash.
3. Don't use performance based bonuses; high performance is the base level expectation, not something to be singled out and rewarded.
4. "We're a team, not a family." You don't "cut" people from a family; you do "cut" people from a pro sports team.
5. "Hard work - Not Relevant". They care about productivity, not how hard you worked to be productive.
6. Low tolerance for "brilliant jerks".
7. Pay "top of market" wages. "One outstanding employee gets more done and costs less than two 'adequate' employees." "Employees should feel they are being paid well relative to other options in the market."

Finland, where rent control in the private market was gradually abolished in the 1990s? It seems as though currently in Finland, tenants can appeal to the court if they think a rent increase is unreasonable, but otherwise increases should be stipulated in the contract. There are voluntary guidelines but those aren't rent control either. Sweden, on the other hand, has fairly strict national rent control, and has a national shortage of housing while having similar rent-to-income ratios as Finland (second link). In Helsinki, large amounts of land set aside for public housing has contributed to insufficient housing supply, in addition to the long wait lists for said public housing.

Let's also not ignore the fact that Finland's population growth rate is significantly lower than that of San Francisco's, and has many fewer restrictions on constructing new dwellings.

Look, I'm not saying rent control is always bad, just that when it's combined with other policies like it is in SF, it can make the problem worse. Rent control (here we're talking about regulations on rent, not constructing more affordable housing) reduces supply. When you already have high population growth (and that growth is primarily people with higher incomes), a really burdensome and uncertain process to get approval to and then start building, a reduction in supply is the last thing you want. Overregulation or misregulation can be just as bad as underregulation.

"ME is turning into a colossal dumpster fire."

Or maybe the equivalent of a billion dollar ad campaign against Intel.

Customers don't want spyware. It seems that, if Intel continues to try to force spyware on customers, Intel will eventually go bankrupt. That would be a very, very bad conclusion to the very, very bad management by Intel.

It is EXTREMELY important for the entire world, in my opinion, that Intel stay healthy. (The world needs AMD to stay healthy, also.)

Did the present Intel managers lack the social ability to understand that providing hidden access for hidden invaders would damage Intel's reputation? Apparently Intel needs a new CEO. Maybe other Intel managers should be replaced, also. Most of the technology development parts of Intel has seemed healthy to me; it's the business management that is failing, apparently.

The world was told more than 3 years ago about the hidden control: Secret of Intel Management Engine by Igor Skochinsky. (Mar 12, 2014)

Intel was told that there would be problems: Intel's Management Engine is a security hazard, and users need a way to disable it. (May 8, 2017)

Did the present managers lack the social ability to understand that it was likely that hackers would find defects in the Intel Management Engine? One article: Intel Patches Major Flaws in the Intel Management Engine. (Nov 22, 2017) Intel's reaction: Intel Management Engine Critical Firmware Update (Intel-SA-00086). (Dec 5, 2017)

death panels: https://www.slideshare.net/aus...

3 months behind the revised schedule... Gen 3 as it was originally called was supposed to launch in 2015....
https://www.slideshare.net/dpa... (page 2)

Model 3 actually broke this trend by launching on time (on a schedule that they had accelerated, at that)

Wow... that's some pretty revisionist history there! the Model 3 launched on their REVISED time. Not on the original time. The "gen 3" as it was originally named was supposed to launch in 2015 to people who reserved in 2014.
https://www.slideshare.net/dpa... page 2.

You are right that there are more RTOS computers out there than the sum of all general purpose computers, including personal, handset and data center. However, you are most probably not right that any one RTOS covers more devices than Linux does. Hell, I strongly suspect that my thermostat is running Linux, judging by the web connectivity options it has. And Wind River, one of the biggest vendors in the RTOS space, has been offering https://www.windriver.com/prod...>its own flavor of Linux for years. Plus, Linux is an RTOS of sorts, don't you know? With the real time patch, Linux works pretty well at the millisecond range hard response level, and has pretty much invaded that space. Microsecond-level hard latency is still ruled by the specialized RTOS. Linux can do it (see Xenomai) but its something of a force fit. Most likely, the most common OS today is still "no OS". What do you think runs the tens of billions of controllers in dime-store toys? Not Linux, not any OS at all in most cases, these things are coded right on the metal.

Excellent survey of real time options for Linux

A link to the text slides was available, allowing for a quick peruse without having to watch the video, right here: https://www.slideshare.net/dus...

Aww, how corporate of them!

A link to the text slides was available, allowing for a quick peruse without having to watch the video, right here: https://www.slideshare.net/dus...

Could you please tell me how to read slide #5 content without changing it to full screen? Why do I need to do that in order to just view some content? Also, can you text-search the content?

A link to the text slides was available, allowing for a quick peruse without having to watch the video, right here:
https://www.slideshare.net/dus...

I'm sure RSA trained their employees not to do "stupid things like this" too,

To be fair, the RSA attack had less to do with a user making a dumb mistake and more a case of poor architectural choices (critical data on the same network as a low-level user, insufficient network segmentation, and honestly, there should have been an airgap between the RSA key secrets and the HR person whose system was compromised, or the admin user's workstation that the attack escalated too.

All that having been said, it was a VERY sophisticated attack by a well funded actor, and likely would have occurred in spite of countermeasures eventually (at the end of the day, if you're a well funded state actor, 'kinetic' (to use the favored euphemism) options are available when the cyber options prove ineffectual.

If you're interested this account is, as I understand it from other sources, fairly accurate:

https://www.slideshare.net/Kun...

Min

The above posts are disinformation. We're talking about Intel Management Engine, not AMT, the latter is the service, the former is not optional. ME is installed on nearly every Intel-based chipset/motherboard combo since 2008. That's well known and has been discussed for a long time, and it's not unreasonable to assume that the ME has been designed with backdoor features in mind from the start by Israel/US chip developers (though of course nobody in public has a proof for that).

The Management Engine (ME) is an isolated and protected coprocessor, embedded as a non-optional[32] part in all current (as of 2015) Intel chipsets.[33] According to an independent analysis by Igor Skochinsky, it is based on an ARC core, and the Management Engine runs the ThreadX RTOS from Express Logic. According to this analysis, versions 1.x to 5.x of the ME used the ARCTangent-A4 (32-bit only instructions) whereas versions 6.x to 8.x use the newer ARCompact (mixed 32- and 16-bit instruction set architecture). Starting with ME 7.1, the ARC processor can also execute signed Java applets. The ME state is stored in a partition of the SPI flash, using the Embedded Flash File System (EFFS).[34]

The ME has its own MAC and IP address for the out-of-band interface, with direct access to the Ethernet controller; one portion of the Ethernet traffic is diverted to the ME even before reaching the host's operating system, for what support exists in various Ethernet controllers, exported and made configurable via Management Component Transport Protocol (MCTP).[35][36] The ME also communicates with the host via PCI interface.[34] Under Linux, communication between the host and the ME is done via /dev/mei.[33]

Until the release of Nehalem processors, the ME was usually embedded into the motherboard's northbridge, following the Memory Controller Hub (MCH) layout.[37] With the newer Intel architectures (Intel 5 Series onwards), ME is included into the Platform Controller Hub (PCH).[38][39]

Quote from Wikipedia Article

More info: Hackaday article, on attempts to neutralizing it, Slides by Igor Skochinsky, CCC talk by Jana Rutkowska, short 2016 hackaday article. There is plenty of more information on the Net if you care to look it up. Theoretically, ME only gives total access locally, if AMT features are disabled. Practically, it's likely that by a combination with other exploits a remote exploit is also possible. If AMT features are enabled, you're screwed anyway.

To repeat, this affects almost every Intel machine since 2008 and certainly every current Intel machine, whether you use AMT or not. It's especially problematic if you use full disk encryption.

Move away from Intel products? Move to AMD? News stories:

Researchers bypass Intel's Software Guard Extensions to access RSA keys (Mar 16, 2017)

Intel's Software Guard exploited to hide Malware (Mar 16, 2017)

Boffins exploit Intel CPU weakness to run rings around code defenses (Oct. 20, 2016) Quote: "Branch buffer shortcoming allows hackers to reliably install malware on systems."

Intel x86s hide another CPU that can take over your machine (you can't audit it) (Jun 15, 2016)

Slashdot comments about the above article:
Intel x86s Hide Another CPU That Can Take Over Your Machine -- You Can't Audit it (Jun 15, 2016)

Secret of Intel Management Engine (Mar 12, 2014)

New Intel Chips Contain Back-Door Processor, Hackable Even When Computer is Turned Off (Sept. 19, 2013)

Intel's answer to ARM: Customisable x86 chips with HIDDEN POWERS (May 20, 2013) Quote: "Intel ... is in some cases actually etching different features or instructions onto its silicon for specific customers."

Showed this to Netflix once and they stated 'This fixes everything we are currently having issues with'. Apparently the entire industry has implemented API's in distributed architectures in such a way as to create architectural cross cutting concerns... https://www.slideshare.net/bob...

Why is this currently marked as 'troll'? I've been involved with search since the 1980s and old enough to see the web evolve into Facebook, Google and Amazon and I agree that Google is now sometimes near-rubbish. The top Google 'results' are usually stuff to buy, often from Amazon. DuckDuckGo is better and the ethics are better, but we could do with a few more too.

I give an introductory talk on building them at Raspberry Pi meetings, from time to time, it's here: https://www.slideshare.net/hug... so kids, get off my lawn (I'm 66) go and build some more.

You should check the work being done on Sista "speculative in-lining smalltalk architecture" http://www.slideshare.net/esug... One interesting part of this is that it in-lines at the Smalltalk bytecode level that is stored in-Image. So you essentially get a "hot start" - no warm-up time.

It depends on which VM you were using. Slide 51 shows the Sista VM provides a magnitude improvement over the original Interpreter VM. http://www.slideshare.net/esug...

Page 38 of the same presentation has the answer.

We will build a great wall along the network perimeter and the customer will pay for the wall!

Reading this is fairly eye opening as it explains the different methods attackers use to gain access to your NAT-"firewalled" IoT device. It was also a useful reminder that IoT items aren't just "IP cameras", but routers, printers, and other stuff that most people have had for years.

You can skip to page 34 for the most important problem with most of the headline devices though (which also explains why owned cameras is a big thing, but less so owned routers): insecure "cloud" servers that provide connectivity to your IoT devices when you're off network. For example, it provides the connectivity that allows an app on your phone to access your baby camera remotely.

The servers typically provide way too much information, and often provide access to the entire camera, not just the video stream. As a result, hackers can, by scanning a range of camera IDs using the server at minimum find out what the public and NAT IPs are. They may be able to send arbitrary packets, including those to backdoor debugging ports, depending on the server, without even needing passwords.

Outside of using that server, hackers become more dependent upon heavy, probably noticeable, scanning, making it increasingly difficult if you don't already have compromised hardware.

My takeaway? Go after the manufacturers. There's stuff they can do right now by patching just two things: the gateway servers they are running right now, and the apps that use them. Yes, in this case, it's worth doing - those here saying "Oh they're all fly by night, you can't reach them" forget that if that were truly the case, there wouldn't be a problem, because the gateways they're running wouldn't be up.

Someone is running the gateways. Those people can fix them right now, and need to.

It's because Docker is written in Go, and it's one of the most high profile Go projects.

http://www.slideshare.net/jpet...

For all my friends who bitch at me about the fact that I don't give accurate personal information when creating forum accounts (on the very rare occasions I bother to do so), now you know why. Go ahead, tell me again how I am paranoid and how unfair it is to the forum operators.

You're not paranoid, you're an evil oppressor. Don't you know? Information Wants to Be Free! Information has been held back by the (hu)man for far too long. You're to information like the RIAA to music, the MPAA to movies, English to the Irish, men to women, the white man to the native americans, vegans to vegetables, penicillin to bacteria. Nay, you're worse. information is helpless and cannot even fight back in the least. You should hang your head in shame. ;-)

The most I have seen is is on the z13 which has ~140 cores - you can run a bunch of separate instances of Linux but it's nowhere NEAR the same performance as running Linux on fairly cheap dedicated "standard" servers.

According to the IBM marketing material, the 2016 Z13 can run up to 8,000 virtual servers on a single system. Slide deck doesn't break the down specs for each of those virtual servers. A Slashdotter who commented on another article said he ran 2,000+ instances of Linux on an IBM mainframe.

http://www.slideshare.net/fgonza93/new-ibm-mainframe-2016-z13

I've heard that you can concentrate, extract, and use actinides in what we currently consider spent fuel. How, physically, is that done?

Take a look at this collection of slides by Gus Merwin. You'll find some of your better search terms like there like 'transmutation' (better add 'nuclear' or you might slide into the occult). And an good overview of processing methods and current spent inventories.

When you have long-lived actinides in your spent fuel --- the battle to keep costs down or make energy from them in today's thermal spectrum reactors has already been lost. We've known this all along, it's one of the little reasons the US invested heavily in fast breeders, weapons production being the big reason. Current methods involve separating out plutonium and unburnt uranium into MOX (mixed oxide) fuel for re-use, which reduces most waste volume but the actinides are still there. To deal with them completely you need to hit them with 'fast' neutrons from a fission breeder, maybe making energy while doing so --- splitting them into even nastier (but short lived) or final inert products. You can wind up with something that's walk-away safe in, say, 40 years. The atom stewards of the Cold War said, "Yeah it's a problem. Fast breeders will solve it." Then fast breeders in the US started to shut down after a few years of making weapons, they never got around to burning commercial waste. They said, "Yeah it's a problem. Underground storage will solve it." Then the US Gub'mint failed to deliver on that promise too.

The best way to manage long-lived actinides is to manage not to produce them in the first place. Alvin Weinberg knew this in the 1950s and ultimately sacrificed the remainder of his career in an attempt to convince others this was the way. Weinberg's basic design for a two-fluid LFTR which breeds uranium from thorium and actively processes its fluid to keep long-lived actinides from forming is still the most exciting and viable option for a nuclear future in the opinion of myself and many others. Almost 100% burn in the thermal spectrum, and an extremely small waste volume that is walk-away safe in ~300 years.

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Please see Thorium Remix, my collected rants on Slashdot and these letters on energy,
  To The Honorable James M. Inhofe, United States Senate
  To whom it may concern, Halliburton Corporate
Also of interest, Faulkner [2005]: Electric Pipelines for North American Power Grid Efficiency Security

http://www.slideshare.net/code...

I googled this and found this from an OGML discussion going on about this GPU. There are some screenshots and even a youtube video.

Since 2010, Jeff Bush (github, blog) has been working on an Apache-licensed open source GPU (github, home page, wiki), and he has a few other interesting github projects as well (link, link, link). The Nyuzi Processor is a fully functional GPU. It is written in synthesizable Verilog, has a functional compiler toolchain, and comes with test suites, benchmarks, the software component of 3D rendering engine, and more. Its development has been gaining momentum in discussions (link, link, Google Group) and coding projects (gsoc). It has been implemented on an Altera FPGA, and there are some videos online of it animating a rotating teapot and a Phong-shaded torus, along with the results of recently-added mipmap support. Recently, Jeff Bush got together with the founder of the Open Graphics Project, and they co-wrote a peer-reviewed publication about this GPU and some experiments they did, which was recently presented at a well-respected academic CS conference (ISPASS). Although its developer and other hobbyists are doing this for fun, academics and engineers who specialize in GPU architecture are already showing interest in using Nyuzi for their own research (e.g. link, link), which gives them finally an open platform to estimate not just cycle count but also clock frequency, energy, and circuit area effects of GPU design experiments.

I googled this and found this from an OGML discussion going on about this GPU. There are some screenshots and even a youtube video.

Since 2010, Jeff Bush (github, blog) has been working on an Apache-licensed open source GPU (github, home page, wiki), and he has a few other interesting github projects as well (link, link, link). The Nyuzi Processor is a fully functional GPU. It is written in synthesizable Verilog, has a functional compiler toolchain, and comes with test suites, benchmarks, the software component of 3D rendering engine, and more. Its development has been gaining momentum in discussions (link, link, Google Group) and coding projects (gsoc). It has been implemented on an Altera FPGA, and there are some videos online of it animating a rotating teapot and a Phong-shaded torus, along with the results of recently-added mipmap support. Recently, Jeff Bush got together with the founder of the Open Graphics Project, and they co-wrote a peer-reviewed publication about this GPU and some experiments they did, which was recently presented at a well-respected academic CS conference (ISPASS). Although its developer and other hobbyists are doing this for fun, academics and engineers who specialize in GPU architecture are already showing interest in using Nyuzi for their own research (e.g. link, link), which gives them finally an open platform to estimate not just cycle count but also clock frequency, energy, and circuit area effects of GPU design experiments.

Source: e-mail exchange with him, based on my shmoocon presentation on hacking USB flash drives.

In short: I said there's no way you can have open source firmware for a proprietary undocumented ASIC, that has to keep track with new developments in flash memory every 3 months.

He want on to ask if there was a way to buy a USB flash drive that wasn't field-reprogrammable, or to "convince a company to make USBs [sic] that way". I'm not aware of any, and it's impossible as-is to A) ask a vendor "What chips are you using?" and B) have the vendor use the same controller/flash chips on the same device.

Dude wouldn't listen, and I gave up trying to educate him.

Why would you want to use Perl 6? Some answers.
Perl family: 15 years of Perl 6 and Perl 5

Does this sort of thing really get non-MS employees to contribute to the project? Or is it just a matter of opening the source so people can poke through it for the sake of their own enlightenment? If I were looking for a open source project to contribute my time and effort, I can't imagine that what amounts to a wholly Microsoft project would pull me in.

C# is OSS on GitHub has lots of non-MS contributors. If you add together the non-MS contributors to the compiler, the standard libraries, and the runtime, they add up to about twice that of node.js. See here, particularly the graph on slide 11:
http://www.slideshare.net/Kase...

The author of that deck gave me a more recent version of that slide for a talk I gave recently at QCon (I'm on the C# team), on slide 21: https://qconsf.com/system/file...

I think the general story is (1) Microsoft came late to the OSS game so we're working extra hard at being extra open to make up for lost time, e.g. the C# standard library team hold their weekly API design review meetings live online and anyone can join in (and the recordings are kept so that GitHub issues can link to the exact moment in the meeting when the issue is discussed). (2) There seriously are a heck of a lot of C# developers out there in the world, lots of them passionate about the language they use day-in and day-out, so contributing comes naturally. (3) C# has a lot of credibility, e.g. amongst folks who think of it as "java done right", e.g. for its introduction of LINQ and more recently async/await, so you do earn serious geek cred by contributing to C#. (4) Lots of people in Microsoft shops have been itching to get into OSS, and previously had a hard time convincing their bosses to let them, but now they can show that Microsoft does it so it must be okay. A weird thought process I know coming from a Linux background, but it's nevertheless how a lot of bosses in a lot of Microsoft shops think.

I believe that TypeScript, another OSS Microsoft project, has a huge number of non-MS contributors too. Will Chakra get the same? No idea! But I wouldn't be surprised.

At the library of Faculty of Humanaties and Social Sciences at University of Zagreb, Croatia, they connected RFID tags for both users and books to Koha. Koha is a well known open source Integrated Library System, and the guys at Zagreb used open source technologies throughout.

The main guy Dobrica is a genius for this kind of stuff, and you should check out his talk at http://www.slideshare.net/dpav... . It has all the necessary links to other information and to the code they made.

ER=EPR is designed to avoid superluminal representations of the Poincare group (which is the symmetry group of Special Relativity, and which has "c" as its sole free parameter, corresponding to that of a massless particle; photons are expected to be massless).

Avoidance of non-locality even gets a explicit mention in section 3.1 of the Malcadena & Susskind paper http://arxiv.org/abs/1306.0533

So, no, ER=EPR does not satisfy non-locality.

(It's mostly designed to try to preserve AdS/CFT in the face of the AMPS paradox, which strongly suggests that not all of AdS/CFT gauge/gravity, semiclassical gravity as an EFT outside the horizon, unitarity, or the "no drama" conjecture (and thus the strong Einstein Equivalence Principle) can be simultaneously valid. However, the introduction of a truly huge number of wormholes to a model of the universe is not calculationally attractive, and does not really help with intuiting the internal state of physical black holes any more than AdS/CFT has done so far. Additionally, it requires a modification of QFTs such as the Standard Model for at least some infallers (cf. p 36 at Polchinski's http://www.slideshare.net/joep... .))

In particular the standard userland interfaces (libc and such) on 32-bit ports of linux still use 32-bit time_t. For embedded distros that can afford to sacrifice binary compatibility with both older versions of themselves and regular linux systems this is fairly easy to fix but for more general purpose distros that care about binary compatibility it is much harder and people aren't sure if it's worth doing it.

Note: my information is based on http://www.slideshare.net/lina... if anyone has more recent information i'd like to hear it.

Ethanol is one of the smallest organic molecules, most drugs are huge in comparison. It might help to think of it as a solvent, not unlike water.

I hear ya. Small molecules are why DMSO nicotine patches may exist but not generally, prescription drug patches (never mind the dosing nightmare). Just like the Java Sandbox concept or Microsoft Wallet, many biological barriers/frontiers that were once considered difficult or impossible to breach have been crossed.

The skin: while small-molecule poisons and toxins, even simple hydrocarbons were long known to pass through the skin, it was only ~1963 when it was realized that DMSO can help carry larger molecules into the bloodstream.

The Blood brain barrier has been known to be weakened by inflammation but has been breached outright by gas microbubbles and localized ultrasound (too damned creepy!).

And the Placental blood barrier opens in late pregnancy, presumably to give the developed fetus a survival-edge of antibodies from the mother, but long before that there are specialized mechanisms to transport only fats or glucose or eliminate waste. What if some miracle drug has the unintended effect of compromising the mechanism that decides when and how it is opened? In the case of (S)Thalidomide it was not the drug itself, but compound CPS49 produced from it by the liver (the mother's I think) that crosses the barrier.

So nature's greatest defenses have become small hurdles...

not your grandfather's mandelbrot

I like. This one actually resembles my grandfather.

-- do really expect people can pursue happiness with Bing?

Actually, Yelp paid for this study and staffed it as well... See the footnotes of the first page in the first link in TFS http://www.slideshare.net/lutherlowe/wu-l

Ha ha...Yelp involved in accusing others of unfair practices? Oh, the blessed irony.

-- do really expect people can pursue happiness with Bing?

Actually, Yelp paid for this study and staffed it as well...
See the footnotes of the first page in the first link in TFS
http://www.slideshare.net/lutherlowe/wu-l

Wait, I know!!!

Every quarter have a "personality survey" from a Scientologist, or from these clowns ( http://www.slideshare.net/psyc... ). Then have an "expert" from the survey company spout back the results to an entire department at a time, comparing the scores to each other, until everyone in the department has the same "ideal" score, and trying to impress everyone with the effectiveness of the cold reading.

I ran into this. They were just like the Scientology "WISE" business program, and trivial to bullshit, but management had bought absolutely into the results of the cold reading the "interpreters" did on the group members. Anyone who'd ever actually read or studied the older MMPI personality test on which these systems are based could basically fake any result they wanted, and anyone who'd even watched James Randi's clips on how astrologers fake out the suckers understood that it's easy to get people to agree with personality tests that are basically wrong.

When I pointed the problem out to my workgroup at lunch and gave them links to James Randi's work, the MMPI personality test, and the history of Scientology WISE business fraud, I almost wound up with hinges embedded in my ass from the door hitting me on my way out. And they're still using the tests: from personnel still there, the "interpreter" of the test is being primed by the manager to highlight particular employees and emphasize "problems" that the manager doesn't like and help encourage them to leave or stay. It's basically a way to pretend to pay attention and manipulate the results.

> C++ written like C tends to be crap code

Total nonsense as you completely ignored context.

You've obviously never had to write high performance C++ code; guess what, we don't use OOP instead we use DOD (Data-Orientated-Design) which is far more a simpler C style then over-complicated C++ style. It also has the benefit of being simpler to read, easier to write, and performs far faster. Go figure!

* Pitfalls of Object Oriented Programming -- http://www.slideshare.net/royc...
* Data-Oriented Design and C++ -- https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
* Typical C++ Bullshit -- http://macton.smugmug.com/gall...

Next, it appears you don't understand what Casey calls "Semantic Compression". There is nothing wrong with using C++ as a better C.

    * http://mollyrocket.com/casey/s...

Gee, why do other professional game devs not bother with using STL, Exceptions, or RTTI ? Because TANSTAAFL / TINSTAAFL !

* https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

Lastly, I can tell you've never shipped any games where C++ obfuscates readability and performance.

> But C++ is designed to be used with "scoped objects"

Maybe in your mythical world, but rarely does C++ classes map perfectly to the real world.

I've been shipping games since 1995. Modern C++ is over-engineered.

So, just another systemd rant.

RedHat has contributed a lot of very cool things to Linux. They have acquired software and opensourced it (e.g. Sistina, Qumranet, Sun/iPlanet LDAP server). They work not only to make a good distro, but also try to solve the bigger problems. For example, they have put together an awesome set of tools that brings Active Directory-like functions to Linux (easy to deploy Kerberos, LDAP, certificate server). They are working on OpenLMI which provides Linux with WBEM management functions. Their Atomic host project is also very interesting. Again, all opensource.

As far as systemd goes. So far I like it. It hasn't burned me at all. Quite the opposite, it has made it easier to write init scripts for our in-house software.

Oh, and BTW, you did hear that the FreeBSD is considering replacing their init system, right? Maybe even something like systemd or launchd (see http://www.slideshare.net/iXsystems/jordan-hubbard-free-bsd-the-next-10-years

https://communities.intel.com/... Greater than 3.10 I am going to aim for 3.14 http://www.slideshare.net/Larr... ( Page 49 )

> Optimizing memory is a dying skill,

It is now called Data Orientated Design.

Google+ Group
* https://plus.google.com/+Datao...

Data-Oriented Design and C++
  * https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

Typical C++ Bullshit
  * http://macton.smugmug.com/gall...

Pitfalls of Object Oriented Programming
* http://research.scee.net/files...
* http://www.slideshare.net/royc...

Close your account with them. When they ask why. Tell them you assessment of their security procedures are bad and will be easily hacked. DO NOT GO ANY FURTHER THAN THAT. Leave it very vague and hand wavy. Under no circumstances tell them what is wrong. Leave that to someone else like what someone else suggested krebs or cert.

Nothing will be done by them other than them getting mad at you. End the relationship with them.

This pretty much is what will happen to you.
http://www.slideshare.net/Lanc...

They will follow the 5 stages of grief.

The fact you trivially hacked them says they are not even aware they have an issue. Which means they will shoot the messenger.

Oh and if you are curious what the material was, you can see some of it here and here

Jordan Hubbard, you know, that guy that has a little influence in the FreeBSD project, seems to think that systemd is a pretty good idea (Slideshare transcript).

I was actually there when Jordan gave that talk. He specifically mentioned `launchd', rather than `systemd', as being something to look at. In fact, people in the FreeBSD community already have `launchd' running as PID 0, though I believe it's not fully stable. Right now, it just execs `rc' so most things just work as usual; individual services will have to be migrated to get started via `launchd', but that will take time.

And then BSD will switch to a systemd-like framework, and all of us who are a little less emotional about our choices of system software will die laughing.

Jordan Hubbard, you know, that guy that has a little influence in the FreeBSD project, seems to think that systemd is a pretty good idea (Slideshare transcript).

Intel Management Engine . Direct download document

Docker was the obvious suggestion, since it's right there in the article.

Here is a list of some projects written in Go: http://code.google.com/p/go-wi... . A few are Google projects. Most are not.

> Could someone have written Docker in other languages just as easily?

I don't know, you'll have to ask the Docker authors. You could start at http://www.slideshare.net/jpet... .

You could use unicode but, it looks like the Unicode 7 standard missed the opportunity to add air quotes emoticons