Let's not forget that those unnecessary treatments were expensive and far from benign. A lot of pain, disfigurement, incontinence, impotence, and likely a few deaths.
The rational thing to do then is socialize medicine in the U.S. Then you can get closer to the $500 yourself and stop subsidizing the rest of the world.
Well, considerng their longstanding practice of cancelling policies AFTER a serious and expensive condition is discovered (stopped by ACA), which would pretty much leave the person to die, this would be in character.
You'll also need to have a deadbolt on the door, the door needs to be steel, and you'll need bars on the windows. Now you're up to the level that it would take a middle school kid to break in and it'll take time and make some noise, or a high school kid might manage to pick the locks.
You're pretty bad at home security, it seems. Do you deserve to get cleaned out? I'm guessing you'll say no, and you'll be right. Same way nobody deserves one of those crypto extortion attacks.
If you think about it for a moment, most homes are trivial to break in to even if the door is locked. Any elementary school kid could do it. They don't because they're taught it's wrong and they would likely get in trouble. A computer that actually has a password on it is harder. The problem is the bad guys can reach it from across the world and know they WON'T get in trouble the vast majority of the time.
So, when you get home one day and find your place picked clean, will you post an open thank you note to the burglars for teaching you an important lesson about what happens when you don't put bars on the windows?
It's a lot of FUD and some older reactors. The older, less safe reactors running beyond their design lifetime get shut down and FUD keeps the new much safer reactors from being built.
So you're good with it all if it warms 3.5 degrees?
If someone told you to jump and pointed out that you wouldn't likely die and your hospital stay wouldn't be more than 6 months, would you figure that's OK then?
Do you LIVE in the South? If so, you should know that the summer is easily capable of making up for a few cold days here and there.
Global warming results in a higher AVERAGE temperature over the entire planet. It also adds energy to our weather systems that sometimes results in extremes of weather including cold snaps.
Most of the comments here are studiously examining the tree bark with a microscope while not noticing they're in a forest.
The courts are supposed to be filled with wisdom and thoughtfulness. The popularity of this software and the court's failure to notice that it's nearly useless is more indicative of a bunch of people thoughtlessly going through the motions.
Keeping in mind that anyone can be suspected if they're in the wrong place at the wrong time, is this the system you want deciding your fate?
It's a classic flim flam technique. Take a normally simple transaction and weave a complicated story around it with many steps and complicated procedures. Make sure the story involves many (fictional) people with their own idiosyncrasies. Keep them focused on the seeming logic of each individual step so they won't look at the overall situation and see the scam coming.
But what will really happen is they'll see that the new limit is more than a quarter out and investors will trash the biodiesel operation, then comes the crunch, then the investors will all run clucking and squawking back to biodiesel that will then need time to get the plants operational again. In the mean while, prices will climb to much higher than the cost of the biodiesel.
There's a whole high volume world of microcontrollers out there that are more powerful than the chips of the '70s and available dirt cheap. There'd be even more in use but programmers who can write software for them are slightly more expensive.
It's not just the CPU. The microcontrollers tend to have very simple requirements for support on the board. Some can even be trivially plugged into a breadboard and brought up with 5 or so wires.
The patches and thus the slowdown are necessary because the CPU does not perform as the datasheet claims. The speculative execution is supposed to have no side effects and certainly isn't supposed to leak data across privilege levels. According to the documentation, ring 3 has no way to access ring 0.
Actually, the plenty of alt-coins is part of the problem. Just how many currencies do you expect to carry, or alternatively expect the corner store to be willing to deal in?
If you're willing to trust a central authority anyway, are you sure you'd rather trust one with a five or less year track record over one that's 200 years old?
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So much for the claims that HMOs would push back on outrageous costs and bring them back to reasonable levels.
Let's not forget that those unnecessary treatments were expensive and far from benign. A lot of pain, disfigurement, incontinence, impotence, and likely a few deaths.
The rational thing to do then is socialize medicine in the U.S. Then you can get closer to the $500 yourself and stop subsidizing the rest of the world.
Well, considerng their longstanding practice of cancelling policies AFTER a serious and expensive condition is discovered (stopped by ACA), which would pretty much leave the person to die, this would be in character.
In that case, they should probably can the person who publicly posted the memo which was originally posted to an internal only message board.
You'll also need to have a deadbolt on the door, the door needs to be steel, and you'll need bars on the windows. Now you're up to the level that it would take a middle school kid to break in and it'll take time and make some noise, or a high school kid might manage to pick the locks.
You're pretty bad at home security, it seems. Do you deserve to get cleaned out? I'm guessing you'll say no, and you'll be right. Same way nobody deserves one of those crypto extortion attacks.
If you think about it for a moment, most homes are trivial to break in to even if the door is locked. Any elementary school kid could do it. They don't because they're taught it's wrong and they would likely get in trouble. A computer that actually has a password on it is harder. The problem is the bad guys can reach it from across the world and know they WON'T get in trouble the vast majority of the time.
So, when you get home one day and find your place picked clean, will you post an open thank you note to the burglars for teaching you an important lesson about what happens when you don't put bars on the windows?
Now imagine how much polar ice had to melt/not form in order to put the South in a deep freeze.
It's a lot of FUD and some older reactors. The older, less safe reactors running beyond their design lifetime get shut down and FUD keeps the new much safer reactors from being built.
So you're good with it all if it warms 3.5 degrees?
If someone told you to jump and pointed out that you wouldn't likely die and your hospital stay wouldn't be more than 6 months, would you figure that's OK then?
Do you LIVE in the South? If so, you should know that the summer is easily capable of making up for a few cold days here and there.
Global warming results in a higher AVERAGE temperature over the entire planet. It also adds energy to our weather systems that sometimes results in extremes of weather including cold snaps.
Most of the comments here are studiously examining the tree bark with a microscope while not noticing they're in a forest.
The courts are supposed to be filled with wisdom and thoughtfulness. The popularity of this software and the court's failure to notice that it's nearly useless is more indicative of a bunch of people thoughtlessly going through the motions.
Keeping in mind that anyone can be suspected if they're in the wrong place at the wrong time, is this the system you want deciding your fate?
It's a classic flim flam technique. Take a normally simple transaction and weave a complicated story around it with many steps and complicated procedures. Make sure the story involves many (fictional) people with their own idiosyncrasies. Keep them focused on the seeming logic of each individual step so they won't look at the overall situation and see the scam coming.
But what will really happen is they'll see that the new limit is more than a quarter out and investors will trash the biodiesel operation, then comes the crunch, then the investors will all run clucking and squawking back to biodiesel that will then need time to get the plants operational again. In the mean while, prices will climb to much higher than the cost of the biodiesel.
So go with a 32 bit microcontroller with an ethernet port.
There's a whole high volume world of microcontrollers out there that are more powerful than the chips of the '70s and available dirt cheap. There'd be even more in use but programmers who can write software for them are slightly more expensive.
It's not just the CPU. The microcontrollers tend to have very simple requirements for support on the board. Some can even be trivially plugged into a breadboard and brought up with 5 or so wires.
However, those who will notice tend to have a LOT of CPUs made by Intel.
The patches and thus the slowdown are necessary because the CPU does not perform as the datasheet claims. The speculative execution is supposed to have no side effects and certainly isn't supposed to leak data across privilege levels. According to the documentation, ring 3 has no way to access ring 0.
The actual hardware fails to meet spec.
Compilers are evolving to produce hard to exploit binaries.
Good example. Consider stereotactic surgery and robots that filter the surgeons movements to eliminate errors.
Meanwhile, police stick with the shoot if it twitches approach even while it has proven disastrous over and over.
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Actually, the plenty of alt-coins is part of the problem. Just how many currencies do you expect to carry, or alternatively expect the corner store to be willing to deal in?
If you're willing to trust a central authority anyway, are you sure you'd rather trust one with a five or less year track record over one that's 200 years old?
Pretty standard behavior for Intel.
Cover it, sure, don't try to lock it in. Sneeze into your bent elbow, for example.