I doubt the electricity cost is all that much. Many people use an external charger and so no USB cable.
You can also roll your own coil with a spool of 24 guage stainless steel wire (optionally a simple jig to make neat coils easily). That makes coils $0.20 each at most. If you want it just right, use a multimeter to get the resistance right.
Vaping at moderate power, my last coil is going on month 9. About twice a month, I clean the coil which means removing the rolled cotton wick, heating the coil till it glows and plunging it in water a few times. If there's any crud in the chamber, a cotton swab takes care of it. Then roll up a small bit of cotton and thread it through the coil to provide a wick. I'd be amazed if the whole operation costs a nickel.
Juice is also very cheap if you mix it yourself from 10% nicotine solution, glycerin, and food flavorings.
That was a problem, especially with the old "cigalike" e-cigs. They just couldn;t provide enough nicotine.
I managed to switch ans stay switched anyway.
A big part of the issue is that cigarette smoke also contains MAOIs that potentiate nicotine's addictive properties. You have to INCREASE nicotine consumption when first switching just to maintain something like status quo. Then after getting thoroughly used to the e-cig, you can slowly back off on the nicotine.
The first link is a POC that a process can read it's own memory space and privilege level without explicitly accessing it. I wouldn't call it nothing since it could allow javascript to access scripts running in other tabs, but the utility is very limited compared to meltdown and browsers are already in the works that prevent it.
The generalized situation leads directly to this specific one. If you hire goons, they will act like goons. In every situation they're allowed to touch. If that's not what you want, hire people capable of and inclined to a measured response appropriate to the situation
Often, the latter will result in friendly and helpful activity.
Easily said by someone who doesn't believe his will be one of the jobs lost and who feels sure he won't be left with no prospect of ever having a job again.
Thought exercize, Trump signs a law that Kjella shall never be employed again. Do you now choose to starve in the streets or take what you need and the law be damned?
Unlikely. More likely, someone else in that position notices that you have what they need...
I wouldn't be surprised at all if the patches for Intel to actually be almost as secure as the specs claim it should be tim the scales in AMDs favor. Certainly for the last generation (where AMD has a bit of advantage even without the patches as long as you don't use the Intel compiler).
Best market outcome is that people see the new Intel CPUs as the Ford Pinto of the computer world. Then Intel can either fix the problem the right way or resign themselves to being the #2 CPU manufacturer after AMD.
I replied to ShanghaiBill, then you replied to me. The nice thing about web fora is that they keep a transcript. Perhaps you should scroll up and read it.
I am well aware that the internet is a lot like a bad neighborhood, I see logs of mostly lazy attempts at root passwords and such daily. I too urge better security. Unlike SB, I see no benefit to ransomware to anyone but the scumbags that collect the ransom.
Yes. They said that a bunch of unorganized hobbiests could never get it together and manage the complexity that is a modern OS. Very similar to the arguments that an open processor can't happen.
No, not at all. Why would you suggest something so stupid?
Because you posted a rebuttal to the idea that policing needs to be something other than just a heavily armed force responding forcefully.
TFA is all about such an armed force reacting forcefully to a situation that should have been handled by a friendly and helpful conversation. Did you not even read the summary?
This is like saying "I suggest hiring programmers who don't write any bugs"
More like suggesting that you shouldn't hire a demolition company to solve your ants in the kitchen problem.
It won't. The technique has been available for 50-60 years and it hasn't yet. To use the new implementation, code will have to be changed and you'd have to be using a processor that supports it.
So some guy buys an over-priced iPhone and you find that to be a situation that makes your friends and helpers shit themselves?
First, I suggest less wimpy friends and helpers. Next, I suggest police that understand a measured response to a situation. Also who don't kill people when they get bad information.
Remember, next time they get it wrong, you could be the person who ends up dead or gets his door smashed in in the middle of the night.
I don't recall ever voting for someone because of a tough on crime stance. In fact, I tend to see that as a negative when sizing up candidates exactly because I want an effective system of justice and corrections, not goons with guns tossing people in cages using the nearest convenient excuse.
I imagine they will if/when Intel gives them a blob that doesn't make systems crash. I can understand their frustration, Intel hands them a blob of microcode but provides no way to debug or even understand the contents. It fails miserably and RH is left holding the bag with it's customers. They get to deal with the angry calls and the hit to reputation while Intel skates.
If they punt to the OEMs, then the OEMs get to deal with the angry calls and perhaps re-thinks Intel as a CPU source. More likely,
they add an "Intel upcharge" to their Intel based boards to compensate for the headache and AMD looks just a little better to system buyers.
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Again, cigarettes or nicotine?
The cigs have a number of substances known to greatly increase the addictive quality.
Nicotine is one of a very few substances that has any benefit at all for the negative effects of schizophrenia, and by far it's the cheapest one.
I doubt the electricity cost is all that much. Many people use an external charger and so no USB cable.
You can also roll your own coil with a spool of 24 guage stainless steel wire (optionally a simple jig to make neat coils easily). That makes coils $0.20 each at most. If you want it just right, use a multimeter to get the resistance right.
Vaping at moderate power, my last coil is going on month 9. About twice a month, I clean the coil which means removing the rolled cotton wick, heating the coil till it glows and plunging it in water a few times. If there's any crud in the chamber, a cotton swab takes care of it. Then roll up a small bit of cotton and thread it through the coil to provide a wick. I'd be amazed if the whole operation costs a nickel.
Juice is also very cheap if you mix it yourself from 10% nicotine solution, glycerin, and food flavorings.
That was a problem, especially with the old "cigalike" e-cigs. They just couldn;t provide enough nicotine.
I managed to switch ans stay switched anyway.
A big part of the issue is that cigarette smoke also contains MAOIs that potentiate nicotine's addictive properties. You have to INCREASE nicotine consumption when first switching just to maintain something like status quo. Then after getting thoroughly used to the e-cig, you can slowly back off on the nicotine.
Approaching a fire truck parked on the highway gives you a LOT more than a split second to apply the brakes.
Even if you cut the cable, you should be able to receive local channels OTA.
According to Google, you should enable full site isolation in the latest version of chrome and they have further mitigation in the works.
So do it and claim your 15 minutes of fame.
The first link is a POC that a process can read it's own memory space and privilege level without explicitly accessing it. I wouldn't call it nothing since it could allow javascript to access scripts running in other tabs, but the utility is very limited compared to meltdown and browsers are already in the works that prevent it.
Meltdown really is orders of magnitude worse.
The generalized situation leads directly to this specific one. If you hire goons, they will act like goons. In every situation they're allowed to touch. If that's not what you want, hire people capable of and inclined to a measured response appropriate to the situation
Often, the latter will result in friendly and helpful activity.
Easily said by someone who doesn't believe his will be one of the jobs lost and who feels sure he won't be left with no prospect of ever having a job again.
Thought exercize, Trump signs a law that Kjella shall never be employed again. Do you now choose to starve in the streets or take what you need and the law be damned?
Unlikely. More likely, someone else in that position notices that you have what they need...
I wouldn't be surprised at all if the patches for Intel to actually be almost as secure as the specs claim it should be tim the scales in AMDs favor. Certainly for the last generation (where AMD has a bit of advantage even without the patches as long as you don't use the Intel compiler).
Best market outcome is that people see the new Intel CPUs as the Ford Pinto of the computer world. Then Intel can either fix the problem the right way or resign themselves to being the #2 CPU manufacturer after AMD.
Why not? Somebody has to call bullshit on this.
What would you have him do, get some PR flunky to "corporatize" the message until nobody is really sure what it's all about?
I replied to ShanghaiBill, then you replied to me. The nice thing about web fora is that they keep a transcript. Perhaps you should scroll up and read it.
I am well aware that the internet is a lot like a bad neighborhood, I see logs of mostly lazy attempts at root passwords and such daily. I too urge better security. Unlike SB, I see no benefit to ransomware to anyone but the scumbags that collect the ransom.
Yes. They said that a bunch of unorganized hobbiests could never get it together and manage the complexity that is a modern OS. Very similar to the arguments that an open processor can't happen.
But it did. Further, WD has plans to use RISC-V cores in future products.
No, not at all. Why would you suggest something so stupid?
Because you posted a rebuttal to the idea that policing needs to be something other than just a heavily armed force responding forcefully.
TFA is all about such an armed force reacting forcefully to a situation that should have been handled by a friendly and helpful conversation. Did you not even read the summary?
This is like saying "I suggest hiring programmers who don't write any bugs"
More like suggesting that you shouldn't hire a demolition company to solve your ants in the kitchen problem.
Let's put it this way, would you consider the burglars who cleaned you out to have done a public service like the person I replied to claimed?
It won't. The technique has been available for 50-60 years and it hasn't yet. To use the new implementation, code will have to be changed and you'd have to be using a processor that supports it.
Also sue Apple for selling a phone and then reporting it stolen.
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So some guy buys an over-priced iPhone and you find that to be a situation that makes your friends and helpers shit themselves?
First, I suggest less wimpy friends and helpers. Next, I suggest police that understand a measured response to a situation. Also who don't kill people when they get bad information.
Remember, next time they get it wrong, you could be the person who ends up dead or gets his door smashed in in the middle of the night.
I don't recall ever voting for someone because of a tough on crime stance. In fact, I tend to see that as a negative when sizing up candidates exactly because I want an effective system of justice and corrections, not goons with guns tossing people in cages using the nearest convenient excuse.
I imagine they will if/when Intel gives them a blob that doesn't make systems crash. I can understand their frustration, Intel hands them a blob of microcode but provides no way to debug or even understand the contents. It fails miserably and RH is left holding the bag with it's customers. They get to deal with the angry calls and the hit to reputation while Intel skates.
If they punt to the OEMs, then the OEMs get to deal with the angry calls and perhaps re-thinks Intel as a CPU source. More likely, they add an "Intel upcharge" to their Intel based boards to compensate for the headache and AMD looks just a little better to system buyers.
So the newly patented implementation of a 50-60 year old technique that I learned in high school chemistry is a "game changer"?