Natural gas plants leak methane like a motherfucker. And methane is a much more potent greenhouse gas than CO2. After a few decades it decomposes into water and... CO2, but in the meantime it helps wrecking havoc of climate.
I much prefer nuclear power to natural gas. It's safer for the planet.
it's only a matter of time when drones will be used in Western cities for terrorist attacks. And I doubt it'll be a long wait, because we have no real deterrent or countermesure. It's about as efective as a suicide bomber, without having to use up a suicider.
The whole point of a book like "1984" is to explore what happens to society when Government has this level of surveillance and control. When you can't curse the "great leader" in your home without someone or something hearing you and reporting you; when you can't discuss government with your neighbors without your words being reported; when you can't gather with like-minded people to discuss ways to change the government (either within the rules, or outside them) without being arrested as a danger; when the government can identify every person in a demonstration, the age-old remedy of revolution becomes unimaginable, and society freezes into rigid authoritarianism with no viable hope to break free.
North Korea shows decisively that you don't even need high-tech to freeze society into this state - just good-old snitching, torture and massive amounts of fear will do the trick.
Exactly what I was going to say - Krzanich obviously got the memo from Intel's brass - make sure you mention Meltdown and Spectre in the same breath, and mention that it's an industry-wide problem.
The X280? No self-respecting X230 user would even look at the X280, let alone buy it. The X280 has soldered RAM, sealed battery, no ethernet port, and can't be expanded with a 2.5" SDD or HDD. Even beyond all these, it's much harder to service than all the previous X2** laptops. It's a fucking dumpster fire shit-on-a-stick excuse for a ThinkPad.
Do not want under any circumstances. *I* decide when *MY* devices connect.
Welcome to the group of us that represent the 0.1% of society. Our motto is Good Luck With That.
We fight against the other 99.9% of society driving manufacturers that have adopted the Take-It-And-Like-It-Bitch manufacturing standard.
Sadly, this 99% of society has infiltrated the ThinkPad community, so now ThinkPads are getting gimped: soldered RAM, non-replaceable battery, no Ethernet port (I shit you not!), "thin as a leaf, light as a feather"-flimsy crap is replacing what used to be an indestructible, infinitely-repairable and expandable workhorse with excellent keyboard. Oh yeah, the keyboard is gimped, too, so it looks more like a Mac. I hate this idiocracy.
Trehalose, also known as mycose or tremalose, is a natural alpha-linked disaccharide formed by an,-1,1-glucoside bond between two -glucose units. In 1832, H.A.L. Wiggers discovered trehalose in an ergot of rye,[3] and in 1859 Marcellin Berthelot isolated it from trehala manna, a substance made by weevils, and named it trehalose.[4] It can be synthesised by bacteria,[5] fungi, plants, and invertebrate animals. It is implicated in anhydrobiosis—the ability of plants and animals to withstand prolonged periods of desiccation. It has high water retention capabilities, and is used in food and cosmetics.
There are two bugs. Some articles have reported that one of the bugs is Intel-specific, and one of them is not (Intel, AMD, and ARM). Whether the necessary patches will carry the same performance hit for each is not yet clear from what I've been reading, but it looks like the latter one might be less serious.
Spectre cannot be patched, but it cannot be exploited, either (as far as we know).
Meltdown, meanwhile, is seriously dangerous because it is very easy to use, even with just a malicious webpage!
There seem to be Intel sockpuppets flooding technical forums, making the false equivalence between Meltdown (affects only Intel) and Spectre (affects all CPUs), whereas Meltdown is a clearly exploitable and in fact the exploit was demonstrated in a fucking browser running a Javascript. There is no known way to exploit Spectre. Spectre does not cross userspace-kernelspace.
Spectre breaks the isolation between different applications. It allows an attacker to trick error-free programs, which follow best practices, into leaking their secrets. In fact, the safety checks of said best practices actually increase the attack surface and may make applications more susceptible to Spectre. Spectre is harder to exploit than Meltdown, but it is also harder to mitigate. However, it is possible to prevent specific known exploits based on Spectre through software patches.
This paragraph, which you copy-pasted from meltdownattack.com, is not explaining much. I would go as far as to say that it's jackshit. Just read the linked research paper.
No. Spectre affects AMD and ARM as well (and likely other architectures too).
Best I can tell, the only CPUs guaranteed not affected by both are in-order architectures, which many older ARM (and extremely old x86) chips are.
These attacks are a sort of new category of security analysis--realizing that out of order execution can have side effects, and that programs can check for those side effects to leak program state and system memory.
Spectre is a red herring - there is no known way it can be exploited. Meltdown is far more dangerous and it can be exploited RIGHT NOW with a simple Javascript executed in a browser. Researchers demonstrated a Javascript exploit that uses Meltdown - and there is no telling who has already been compromised. But one thing is sure: non-Intel users have not been compromised.
Frankly, this whole hoopla about Spectre seems like a well orchestrated deflection stunt by Intel PR operations. And your posts smells a bit of sockpuppetry.
I just want people to realize that for-pay dating sites like eharmony and match.com do NOT work for the users because there is no incentive for these sites to actually find a working match. Their business incentive is all about dragging out the process as long as possible.
Also, they have an interest in an unsuccessful outcome, even if the user leaves the site. Because successfully married/coupled people are automatically removed from their pool of customers.
OK Cupid is among the only dating websites that works. Why? Because it's free (or it used to, anyway). For-pay websites don't work, because their goal is not to find a match - that would be bad for business.
I was trying to meet a woman on Match.com, but after about a year I gave up on it. Then I joined OK Cupid and found the woman that became my current wife, in three months. This was 10 years ago.
If a marketing shill like Musk can denigrate the name of one of the greatest engineers of all time like Tesla
Musk has done nothing to "denigrate" Tesla - if anything, Musk has raised awareness of Tesla and generously donated to the Tesla Science Center - one of the greatest memorials to the man. In fact, Musk's donations were so substantial that the work on the Center would have not been possible without them. Musk truly put his money, to the tune of millions of USD, where his mouth is.
You really think the defining characteristics of Nazi's was, that they posted a picture somewhere and were trolling?
As many posters have said: the term is being hollowed out. Even you do it. You're interchanging the general term of racism (or racist) for Nazism (or Nazi).
While Nazism was an ideology which had a high degree of racism in it, the reverse is not true. Aka: all nazi's are racists (well, the majority were, in any case), but not all racists are nazi's.
So, in actuality: yes, it is ridiculous to call someone a Nazi just because they took a photo of someone and spouted some racial comments with it.
Exactly - even as a straw man, his attack actually proved my point.
Yeah, just about anybody gets called a Nazi these days. I mean, it's ridiculous to call someone a Nazi just because they took a photo of the Chief Rabbi of the UK, pasted it into a photo, set up an impersonation Twitter account with the photo, and used it to send out antisemitic Tweets. That's not Nazi behaviour. That's perfectly normal. Right?
"I'd rather live on the fucking roof of a nuclear reactor, than within 3 km radius of an equal power output coal fired plant". As I learned about the heavy metal produced by coal fired plants, I find myself in ever more agreement with him.
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Natural Gas is still a lot safer
Natural gas plants leak methane like a motherfucker. And methane is a much more potent greenhouse gas than CO2. After a few decades it decomposes into water and... CO2, but in the meantime it helps wrecking havoc of climate.
I much prefer nuclear power to natural gas. It's safer for the planet.
it's only a matter of time when drones will be used in Western cities for terrorist attacks. And I doubt it'll be a long wait, because we have no real deterrent or countermesure. It's about as efective as a suicide bomber, without having to use up a suicider.
The whole point of a book like "1984" is to explore what happens to society when Government has this level of surveillance and control. When you can't curse the "great leader" in your home without someone or something hearing you and reporting you; when you can't discuss government with your neighbors without your words being reported; when you can't gather with like-minded people to discuss ways to change the government (either within the rules, or outside them) without being arrested as a danger; when the government can identify every person in a demonstration, the age-old remedy of revolution becomes unimaginable, and society freezes into rigid authoritarianism with no viable hope to break free.
North Korea shows decisively that you don't even need high-tech to freeze society into this state - just good-old snitching, torture and massive amounts of fear will do the trick.
Exactly what I was going to say - Krzanich obviously got the memo from Intel's brass - make sure you mention Meltdown and Spectre in the same breath, and mention that it's an industry-wide problem.
I'm going to stay on Win7 and if Microsoft persists on collecting data on users with their OS, I will migrate to Linux.
Same here.
I'll probably be upgrading to the x280
The X280? No self-respecting X230 user would even look at the X280, let alone buy it. The X280 has soldered RAM, sealed battery, no ethernet port, and can't be expanded with a 2.5" SDD or HDD. Even beyond all these, it's much harder to service than all the previous X2** laptops. It's a fucking dumpster fire shit-on-a-stick excuse for a ThinkPad.
That's THE ThinkPad I have my eyes on... but not the dough, right now.
I am not sure Lenovo is listening; I'm afraid this really is a one-off deal.
Do not want under any circumstances. *I* decide when *MY* devices connect.
Welcome to the group of us that represent the 0.1% of society. Our motto is Good Luck With That.
We fight against the other 99.9% of society driving manufacturers that have adopted the Take-It-And-Like-It-Bitch manufacturing standard.
Sadly, this 99% of society has infiltrated the ThinkPad community, so now ThinkPads are getting gimped: soldered RAM, non-replaceable battery, no Ethernet port (I shit you not!), "thin as a leaf, light as a feather"-flimsy crap is replacing what used to be an indestructible, infinitely-repairable and expandable workhorse with excellent keyboard. Oh yeah, the keyboard is gimped, too, so it looks more like a Mac. I hate this idiocracy.
I was pissed that I had to click on the stupid article link just to find out the name of the sugar, so there it is.
From Wikipedia:
Trehalose, also known as mycose or tremalose, is a natural alpha-linked disaccharide formed by an ,-1,1-glucoside bond between two -glucose units. In 1832, H.A.L. Wiggers discovered trehalose in an ergot of rye,[3] and in 1859 Marcellin Berthelot isolated it from trehala manna, a substance made by weevils, and named it trehalose.[4] It can be synthesised by bacteria,[5] fungi, plants, and invertebrate animals. It is implicated in anhydrobiosis—the ability of plants and animals to withstand prolonged periods of desiccation. It has high water retention capabilities, and is used in food and cosmetics.
Read more than the headlines.
There are two bugs. Some articles have reported that one of the bugs is Intel-specific, and one of them is not (Intel, AMD, and ARM). Whether the necessary patches will carry the same performance hit for each is not yet clear from what I've been reading, but it looks like the latter one might be less serious.
Spectre cannot be patched, but it cannot be exploited, either (as far as we know).
Meltdown, meanwhile, is seriously dangerous because it is very easy to use, even with just a malicious webpage!
There seem to be Intel sockpuppets flooding technical forums, making the false equivalence between Meltdown (affects only Intel) and Spectre (affects all CPUs), whereas Meltdown is a clearly exploitable and in fact the exploit was demonstrated in a fucking browser running a Javascript. There is no known way to exploit Spectre. Spectre does not cross userspace-kernelspace.
>> Just read the linked research paper.
Which is why I provided that URL. None of the clickbait articles had links to the research paperS (plural, MF'er).
So...you're welcome newbie. Now GTFO my lawn.
I used singular, because the topic was Spectre, so I only referenced the Spectre paper.
And "newbie"? Who uses that, anymore? I remember it being quite the term, circa 1998.
Spectre breaks the isolation between different applications. It allows an attacker to trick error-free programs, which follow best practices, into leaking their secrets. In fact, the safety checks of said best practices actually increase the attack surface and may make applications more susceptible to Spectre. Spectre is harder to exploit than Meltdown, but it is also harder to mitigate. However, it is possible to prevent specific known exploits based on Spectre through software patches.
This paragraph, which you copy-pasted from meltdownattack.com, is not explaining much. I would go as far as to say that it's jackshit. Just read the linked research paper.
No. Spectre affects AMD and ARM as well (and likely other architectures too).
Best I can tell, the only CPUs guaranteed not affected by both are in-order architectures, which many older ARM (and extremely old x86) chips are.
These attacks are a sort of new category of security analysis--realizing that out of order execution can have side effects, and that programs can check for those side effects to leak program state and system memory.
Spectre is a red herring - there is no known way it can be exploited. Meltdown is far more dangerous and it can be exploited RIGHT NOW with a simple Javascript executed in a browser. Researchers demonstrated a Javascript exploit that uses Meltdown - and there is no telling who has already been compromised. But one thing is sure: non-Intel users have not been compromised.
Frankly, this whole hoopla about Spectre seems like a well orchestrated deflection stunt by Intel PR operations. And your posts smells a bit of sockpuppetry.
Well OK then.
I just want people to realize that for-pay dating sites like eharmony and match.com do NOT work for the users because there is no incentive for these sites to actually find a working match. Their business incentive is all about dragging out the process as long as possible.
Also, they have an interest in an unsuccessful outcome, even if the user leaves the site. Because successfully married/coupled people are automatically removed from their pool of customers.
OK Cupid is among the only dating websites that works. Why? Because it's free (or it used to, anyway). For-pay websites don't work, because their goal is not to find a match - that would be bad for business.
I was trying to meet a woman on Match.com, but after about a year I gave up on it. Then I joined OK Cupid and found the woman that became my current wife, in three months. This was 10 years ago.
If a marketing shill like Musk can denigrate the name of one of the greatest engineers of all time like Tesla
Musk has done nothing to "denigrate" Tesla - if anything, Musk has raised awareness of Tesla and generously donated to the Tesla Science Center - one of the greatest memorials to the man. In fact, Musk's donations were so substantial that the work on the Center would have not been possible without them. Musk truly put his money, to the tune of millions of USD, where his mouth is.
Well, not that shocked.
Really?
You really think the defining characteristics of Nazi's was, that they posted a picture somewhere and were trolling?
As many posters have said: the term is being hollowed out. Even you do it. You're interchanging the general term of racism (or racist) for Nazism (or Nazi).
While Nazism was an ideology which had a high degree of racism in it, the reverse is not true. Aka: all nazi's are racists (well, the majority were, in any case), but not all racists are nazi's.
So, in actuality: yes, it is ridiculous to call someone a Nazi just because they took a photo of someone and spouted some racial comments with it.
Exactly - even as a straw man, his attack actually proved my point.
Yeah, just about anybody gets called a Nazi these days. I mean, it's ridiculous to call someone a Nazi just because they took a photo of the Chief Rabbi of the UK, pasted it into a photo, set up an impersonation Twitter account with the photo, and used it to send out antisemitic Tweets. That's not Nazi behaviour. That's perfectly normal. Right?
Your logical fallacy is STRAW MAN.
"You looked at me in a way that I didn't like - you're a nazi fascist sexist misogynist and you need to die."
Any and all reasons for calling someone a "nazi" are fair game. So much so that the word has now lost almost all meaning.
"I'd rather live on the fucking roof of a nuclear reactor, than within 3 km radius of an equal power output coal fired plant".
As I learned about the heavy metal produced by coal fired plants, I find myself in ever more agreement with him.
1. Feeding, clothing and sheltering around 1.7 billion people
Luckily, China has 1.7 billion people that can take care of that issue pretty well.
I have moved to FreeBSD thanks to Pottering.
Just to put this discussion in some perspective:
ChomeOS has a 3.3 % usage share compared to Linux's 1.47.