COINTELPRO is a conspiracy, but it's not just theoretical; TFS shows it's on its way to becoming Law.
Counter Intelligence Program does what? Discredit and silence "radical subversives" to control the socio-political space. It's not like that's something foreign to the NSA: Hey, let's use porn habits against the "radical" folks we don't like. The civil rights movement was considered "radical". The privacy rights movement -- Eradication of government secrecy --is considered "radical" too. With secrets the people can never trust their governments to be performing in their best interest. A secret oversight committee just moves the problem around. With covert secret programs we can't even be sure they're telling the truth about 9/11 or the Iraq War -- We shouldn't have to wonder if it was only a threat narrative created to leverage the disaster and manufacture consent.
Now, here's something interesting: Heart disease and accidents kill four hundred times more people than a 9/11 scale attack every year. The flu claims 6 times more lives than a 9/11 scale attack every year. Why isn't there a War on Cars and Cheeseburgers? Why are the DHS, NSA and other anti-terrorist programs consuming such huge amounts of resources when you're 4 times more likely to be struck by lightning? We could save more lives by mandating foam pads on rails and giving away free traction mats for bathtubs since falling down is a far more dangerous threat to American lives than terrorism. So, the government knows the terrorist threat is laughably inconsequential, yet the scaremongers' message of fear echoed all your mainstream news sources, policy maker statements, and judges opinions. Sounds like a fucking conspiracy to me.
It's silly to excuse malice as ignorance when the "professionals" who's job it is to quantify the terrorist threat are blatantly misrepresenting the threat. You're aware conspiracy is a real thing, right? I'm a rationalist, I attribute degrees of certainty and am never 100% sure of anything; Like any good scientist. It's far more likely the NSA and other agencies are carrying on the COINTELPRO tradition to keep the military industrial complex funded -- As Eisenhower warned us. Than to believe that agencies tasked with counter intelligence are not doing so, and that everyone in the media, politics, congress, the executive and judicial branches, etc. just never took a look at the numbers.
The NSA and DHS should be eliminated. Lives do have a cost that is weighed against freedom and expense. Life is dangerous, and certain risks are acceptable: Thus we don't have a ban on Cars, Cheeseburgers, or Freedom Fries even though since 9/11 these claimed 4000 times more lives than 9/11. If anyone is scared of terrorists then they shouldn't be driving, dining out, or go anywhere without a lightning rod. If you really must fund the NSA, DHS, etc. then give them 1/6th what we spend to prevent the flu, that's the rational thing to do. Anything else in the name of protection reeks of deception for ulterior motives, i.e., Conspiracy.
Well, you're a troll. It's nothing like that. Having a manpussy in prison is largely voluntary. Rape does exist, but it's not like it's more likely to happen to you than not. Here's an article about what it's like to be a techie in prison. It's not this way everywhere. Lots of places have no tech access besides a Plexiglas covered TV. Worse, however, is the lack of any good material to read.
The library shelves or book cart is chock full with lot's of brand new religious bullshit and various other statist crap, or bubble gum escapist shite. There's hardly any good books on ethics from a secular viewpoint instead it's all "you're locked up because you're not right with God, imagine you're sucking Jesus' metaphorical dick and you'll be so right with God we'll see you next revolution of the revolving door," in not so many more obfuscated words. Origin of Species? God & Golem Inc.? Hitchhikers's Guide to the Galaxy? Ring World? SICP? Knuth's Art of Computer Programming? Nope. Most books besides religious crap are ratty and worn, pages and covers missing. Hell, there was even romance novels and interview with a vampire, but not a single Dragon Lance or O'Reilly?
I can run a program on a piece of paper with a pencil, I don't need a computer to follow along with Knuth, but damn, the prison and jail libraries have only mind numbing dreck that seems made to rot your mind and give you false sense of security that you'll be able to function and interact properly if you just gargle Jesus jiz. The criminal legal library is kept up, and there are some jobs programs that are OK -- They get their reading material at the behest of the corporate masters who want cheap slave drivable labor for dangerous or dirty jobs; A buddy learned underwater welding and works his ass off for good "honest" money now, helping oil companies rape the planet.
Anyway, yeah, the incarcerated could use some books. I'd have given up my food tray for a week for a good sci-fi book. Sad thing is, out in the free world there's libraries getting rid of books -- can hardly give 'em away because they're too abused, but they rarely find their way to where they could do the most good. Nope, those Christ fuckers who think Jesus is off preparing a place for them in the sky somewhere so the body of the church can get half-gay married into God's magical zombie family have a damn near monopoly on fresh reading material. I've read that damn insane bible in 6 different translations just to laugh at the inconsistencies -- Hell, did you know the whole virgin birth is based on a mistranslation error? Careful pointing out the bullshit though: Private Prisons are essentially Christian-Camp Cages.
Sounds like AC has got one hell of a prison rape fantasy up there -- It's not copy-pasta... They'll surely be disappointed if they ever grow balls and lose brains enough to make their dream come true.
Why do I think they ordered those parts from the most expensive sources possible?
Or it could just be the riced up hipster case.
... $9,599 which includes 64GBs of ECC DDR3 memory, a 1TB PCIe SSD, two AMD D700 (W9000) GPUs, and a twelve core Intel Xeon 2.7GHz processor.
While there is nothing really remarkable about this list of parts, it’s the way that they are integrated that provides both pros and cons. On the pro side, you have all this workstation grade hardware in a cylinder that is less than 10 inches tall and under 7 inches wide, with the power supply inside. This makes it very easy to take it on site or pack with you.
Pack with you? Because that's a concern with desktop workstations? I guess you can discount the dual monitor setup if portability is the key? Oh, right, OSX, so you basically have to bring it with you because everyone else is running a different OS and your programs aren't compatible. I don't give half a crap about the story, or I'd go to build the thing online in a tower configuration. Maybe throw in some LEDs, black-light ground effects, a custom body job with clear side panel and glitter+glue monogram too -- You know, really rice it to the next level.
solar is finally gaining momentum and it scares these power companies to death because they are invested almost entirely in hydrocarbons.
Which is why ISPs shouldn't be content producers. It's why proprietary OS vendors shouldn't make applications too. It's why automobile manufacturers shouldn't be in the oil business.
The energy distribution companies shouldn't be energy producers. Those are two separate businesses. They who can not keep businesses divided will surely be conquered.
Hey, this is a police state. I don't like that political stance about defunding my program. Let's dig through the archives and see if we can tie them to any unsolved crimes, or see when they're out and about to "discover" if this dope we've got was actually at their place all along...
I'm a scientist, if you say spying is beneficial, then I say prove it. If you say, "well we can't because, secrecy", then I call bullshit - You have to provide evidence and refute the null hypothesis: Programs holding secrets can not be proven to be beneficial for society. Any benefit to security the secret programs could present can just as easily be seen as a detriment. You can't trust spies, trust must be earned. If we're rolling out more spying hardware now it's to quickly cash out supplies before the public outlaws secrets.
Govs want to spy on everything? Fine, then let us know EVERYTHING they're doing. It's the only way to prove they're not breaking the damn law, again. They want to study how to improve ciphers and hashes, etc? Fine, do it in the public. We can't even accept recommendations from the NSA because any "improvements" they suggest could be introducing weakness. Bonus: If you don't have any government secrets, spies can't harm you.
As a scientist it pains me to exist in this world divorced from skepticism. "It's good!" "It's harmless!" That's what they all say. Talk is cheap, show me the evidence.
Why not celebrate comprehensible laws of physics that got your astronaut asses to the damn Moon by honoring Isaac Newton? You know, someone who was actually born on December 25th?
The shell company that holds the patents itself produces no products, but Apple and Microsoft certainly doâ"it's just that they hold the patents jointly through this 'Rockstar' entity.
If this weird patent system is still what we have in place, this sort of joint ownership should be allowed. Leaving aside the relevance and desirability of the patent system today, I can't really see a problem with this. It's not really the same as a company that's never been associated with any endeavour related to the patents they own and who exist only to bilk money out of other people.
Nice business you got there. Be terrible if something happened to it. Join our consortium, and pay your protection money and we won't beat you up in an expensive court battle. This is a group of companies going against another company. It violates the principals of Corpratism by essentially allowing alliances to form expressly to leverage force other than through better products or prices. This is akin to how individuals formed tribes, and eventually governments -- The corporations will do the same at their higher conceptual level, and then they will begin fighting over the right to tax lesser organizations and individuals... as they have done, and are doing now.
This has all happened before, and it will all happen again. Welcome to Cybernetics:101 - Emergent Behavioral Architectures
The question is Why don't Open Source Databases use the GPU. There are many answers: Supply and Demand is the best one. The other is that collating database rows in a GPU is fine, but you still have the damn bottleneck getting the data out to main system RAM. So, if your use case is a server then you're fucked because GPUs don't have a NIC interface.
The true answer is: We don't run databases in the GPU because GPUs are stupidly dedicated designs. General Purpose Computing is the trend across all hardware markets -- From Arcades to Consoles to PCs, from Mainframes to Minicomputers to Microcomputers, From PDAs to Smartphones. The trend is to be more general purpose. There are stints where a dedicated design yields performance while we sacrifice freedom and conform to some bullshit API. Witness all the unique looking software rasterization we gave up once 3D GPUs hit the scene. After these stints, the generalization trend takes over yet again. You're seeing that now. Soon the CPU will be a GPU (hell, look at APUs) the lines will blur, the two will merge, and we'll deprecate the term "heterogeneous computing" and just call it compute.
So, it costs more than any appreciable benefit overall warrants; And if we wait a few more years then the question of whether code runs on GPU or CPU will be moot anyway.
I do some alternative OS development. When I setup a program to run there are 3 different 64bit modes (programming models) for me to select to run the program under: ILP64, LLP64, and LP64. In ILP64 you get 64 bit ints, longs, long longs, and pointers. In LLP64 you get 32bit longs and ints, and 64bit long longs and pointers. In LP64 you get 32bit ints, 64 bit longs, long longs and pointers. Note: All these pointers are 64 bit (but the hardware may have less bits than this, the OS will query it, code must have 64 bit pointers). There are also 16bit and 32bit programming models. In 16bit mode you can still access 32bit instructions (if the hardware has it), but are (typically) limited to 640KiB RAM (unless in unrealmode) since you have 20 effective bits of segmented addressing, In 32bit mode you can still access 64bit instructions, but are limited to 4GiB RAM (32bit pointers).
So, yeah, the OS can still use 64bit pointers, while running code as 32 bit mode (w/ 32bit pointers). Accessing 64 bit operations in 32bit mode code can't run on 32 bit systems if it uses any 64 bit registers / opcode. However "x32" is x86-64 64bit mode, but only uses 32 bit pointers and data fields thus limiting programs to 4GiB memory.
IIRC Windows is LLP64 and Linux distros are typically LP64. I use LLP64 in my hobby OS kernel. All my executable code is compiled to VM opcode and must be enrolled with the OS before it can be ran. Enrolling generates a separate signed private copy (and registers media types / public interfaces for IPC), and on install (if the code is trusted) it will be translated into native machine code (otherwise interpreted, esp. if in development or self modifiable). Electing to run the program under a different programming model and can run applications in x86, or x86-64 modes. This does cause a problem sometimes with programs that expect memory mapped saved data to be the same bit width between executions, but screw those idiotic programs: Storage is cross platform or bust -- OS offers a state serializer API, but foreign code doesn't know about / use it. The benefit is that the OS has far more control over the machine code, and all program "binaries" run on x86/x86-64 or ARM, since they're all cross platform bytecode -- There's no per-execution compilation overhead since it compiles on install (or model switch). This way is better because a traditional compiler is not prescient and will not produce a binary that will magically perform best in every environment forever, amen.
I have something different than "x32". I can run in 32bit mode with 64bit extensions, thereby the code can be smaller if it doesn't use many 64bit registers or 64 bit pointers. I can also run in 64bit mode code with 32bit pointers (like x32), while still allowing 64 bit pointers. This way a single program can have "fast" pointers in "near" (under 4GiB) space while also having "slow" pointers using the full 64bit "far" space. 32bit ints simply update the lower bits of 64 bit pointers, and these have the high 32bits "segment extended" automatically by filling the pointer register with the program's base 64bit address. Pointers can be upcast to 64 bit pointers, (esp. for IPC), but downcast can throw a segfault. 64bit mode pointers are "far" by default, so a program must elect to have "near" pointers by declaring them such. Programs can use more than 4GiB, but can have at most 4GiB "near" RAM allocated at once -- It's up to the programmer to how they should handle "out of near memory" error -- They could allocate from far memory instead, but this complicates the program; The use case should typically be to use all near or all far pointers. The prime need for my take on "x32" being able to upcast from 32bit pointers to 64bit pointers in my OS is to call functions on other enrolled process interfaces via 64bit IPC.
However, we're talking about a brain-dead Linux kernel so you can just keep quibbling about which platform dependent binary encoding is best to statically compile your "platform independent" source code into since that kernel isn't an OS (has no interpretor, compiler, debugger, file system, or editor built in).
and faster (because the code is smaller, in theory cache should be used more efficiently
Your skill is Not enough. when you blow registers onto the stack the code crawls. x86-64 has more registers. Code compiled for is far faster than x86 because of the extra registers. The L1 cache is how big on your CPU? Is your binary MEGABYTES in size? If your code is jumping all over the digital universe generating cache misses then you're purposefully doing something more idiotic than this universe should care about.
Some people don't see the ABI as being worthwhile when it still requires 64-bit processors
There's your answer. If I'm writing a program that won't need over 2GB, the decision is obvious: target x86. How many developers even know about x32? Of those, how many need what it offers? That little fraction will be the number of users.
Wait, what are you talking about? "target x86" Wat? Are you writing code in Assembly? How do you target C or higher level code code for x86 vs x86-64, or ARM for that matter?
Ooooh, wait, you're one of those proprietary Linux software developers? Protip: 1's and 0's are in infinite supply, so Economics 101 says they have zero price regardless of cost to create. What's scarce is your ability to create new configurations of bits -- new source code -- not the bits. Just like a mechanic, home builder, burger joint, or any other labor market you do the work once, you get paid once for your work and then you do more work to get more money. If you base a business on artificial scarcity you're going to have a bad time, mkay?
The Internet is not a Sentient Being. It doesn't live nor breathe, nor is it a set of tubes.
Well the wires are not sentient yet, but the Internet is cybernetic entity. The Internet has servers that connect to other servers autonomously. Data flows through the web's organic structure via web crawlers, email servers, and other web services. Compromised systems still spew packets of past exploits across the web. I can tell what time of day it is by looking at the traffic graphs alone. As the sun spins around the digital world and wakes the entities living thereupon, a brain wave of stimulus pulses across the web while others exhaust their activity and drop into a more dormant state. Much the way porpoises and other animals rest one half a mind at a time.
You have amoebas in your blood that can be removed and placed in a Petri dish, and these individual immune system cells will carry out their behaviours outside of you. You have a colony of bacteria that lives on your skin and gives you your identifying odor, killing some other harmful bacteria. In your guts thrives an essential colony of microbes. You are a cybernetic being formed from many smaller individual living cells... Much like the Internet is a single cybernetic being formed of all the clients and servers in the world -- and its users. You are one of billions of organic input aggregation, stimulation, and accumulator cells; Just like the blood cells you depend on for survival, the Internet survives on you.
In aggregate we are the Internet -- A cultural mind formed of self aware beings, far greater than the whole. This cybernetic symbiotic system is billions of times more aware of all its many selves than you. We do breathe information, we live online, we can be injured and even die. Is it not a set of tubes, it is a world wide neural network. The internet does remember. The more sensational, interesting, or entertaining the more impact the memory has and the stronger and longer the information is remembered; Just like in humans or other cybernetic creatures with memories.
I disagree because your statement is blatantly false. The NSA can not serve a useful purpose. Simple application of the mathematics of information disparity proves you can't prove your statement to the contrary. As a scientist, I don't believe things without evidence, especially not statements lacking disprovability.
You're aware Omnivore, Carnivore, ECHELON, and PRISM's room 641A existed before 9/11. They failed to prevent 9/11, and every terrorist attack since the 70's. The NIST helps secure our encryption systems. By what amazing feat of mental gymnastics do you arrive at the conclusion that a secret research group can be proven to be helping secure our communications? No, that's asinine. I require evidence. The government secrecy is directly opposed to both freedom and security.
Especially since we've got an army of hubble-esque telescopes zipping around the earth providing total global situation awareness. You don't need warrantless wiretaps with that kind of spy power.
Bonus, the NRO helps with natural disasters, weather, and space sciences. Defund, NSA, DHS, etc., spit the funding between NASA and the NRO. The folks benefiting from domestic spying could instead make their money selling space wares... Ah, but then they wouldn't be able to do insider trading quite so well at all.
You can't be serious, right? By what logical misstep do you propose we trust again a spy who has proven to be a double agent? The same goes for an OS compromised by malware, there is no "removal" of malware, you nuke it from orbit, because it's the only way to be sure.
They want to have their cake and eat it too. We should either have no privacy indoors & in our communication between indoor areas while having expectation to not be spied on outdoors, or have zero protection of privacy outdoors & assurances that our communications are not compromised. Look, if you want to spy on my conversations you can just stand next to me, or aim a laser microphone at my windows or glasses. You don't need to tap the coms lines because folks can buy a burner phone and install their own encrypted voice and text applications. It'll be to late to do anything by the time it's deciphered. The domestic spying and wiretaps only prevent legitimate use of the technology.
Unfortunately, information theory tells us we can not have assurances that our communications are not spied on unless we eliminate the secret spying operation. We have a chance to eliminate secrets and stand brave among the most powerful nations who have mutually assured nuclear peace, and against which no terrorist can pose a threat. Scaremongers would have you believe the terrorists are nothing to sneeze at, yet every year the flu claims SIX TIMES the lives as a 9/11 scale attack. Cars and Cheeseburgers are 400 times more deadly every year than 9/11. Even the most devastating of terrorist threats is not even a flesh wound. We need proportional protection: If you're so scared of 1/400th the threat a Happy Meal poses, then allocate 1/400th of the taxes we spend on heart disease and accident prevention to the NSA and DHS. We need no secrets. Without secrets no spy can harm us.
The very word 'secrecy' is repugnant in a free and open society; and we are as a people inherently and historically opposed to secret societies, to secret oaths, and to secret proceedings.
- John F. Kennedy
As a rational human being: If you, Snowden or anyone would say that the NSA can serve a useful purpose then the burden of proof is on you to provide evidence to support your unproven claim. Don't forget to prove your hypothesis you will need to more significantly disprove the null hypo
There's many parental control packages out there, both built into Internet Security suites and stand-alone packages. There are even home-use hardware solutions. Why does the government need to mandate something the market has already taken care of?
Acclimation to the censorship and spying capabilities. At the ISP level they're supposed to just see IP addresses. However, now they've gone and associated IPs to content. So, that's one step closer to peering inside each packet. You roll out new systems slowly and get users acclimated to the boiling water slowly, otherwise they jump out before you can cook them.
OK, so if we have a bowl of water under a heat lamp, and we turn the lamp on and off at a steady rate, say, toggle it twice a minute. Now we measure the temperature of the bowl of water, and it's average over the the week is pretty consistent. Now let's say we came in to measure it one day and there's some plastic wrap across the surface of the bowl. We measure the water and the temperature is increased. We say, Hey, the greenhouse effect caused by the plastic wrap is causing a change in temperature.
Then some morons say, "But the Steady Heat Lamp! The Heat comes from the Heat Lamp!" We're talking about an increase or change in temperature, and you're saying it doesn't make logical sense that variation in the heat lamp activity isn't a major driver of change to the climate because the heat lamp cycle is steady?
Please explain your troll logic, because I need a good laugh.
Heh, Look at all those moronic posters replying to the headline.
The study says that greenhouse gases were the most significant factor and that the sun was negligible in comparison, not that the sun has no effect on warmth. The sun would certainly tend to contribute heat but we're talking about CHANGE, not stable sources of warmth, over more time than the 11 year solar cycles.
Please tell me the oil companies are paying shills to post here, the posters are seriously challenging my faith in humanity otherwise.
Well, there's this thing called the null hypothesis. Once it's significantly disproved, then we pretty much accept the science as is unless someone else comes along and proves the study wrong. I mean, you're free to hem and haw and be skeptical, but you forget the scientists have already gone through that -- The null hypothesis is the ultimate skeptic. So, yeah, folks will ridicule anyone who's irrationally skeptical for the same reason we laugh at folks who have no evidence for their beliefs. Having no evidence for your disbelief is the same thing. Don't forget, we're all looking for new answers and better information. Science isn't a fucking debate you twit, evidence is evidence. You want to have a dialog in the language of science? Bring me some fucking evidence and we'll talk.
You mean the stock market that the NSA controls? If they receive beams of light, they can send them, scramble them, cause packet delays, etc. In a world of super low latency high frequency trades, PRISM rules.
Not only that, but if we're to believe security researchers were daft enough to screw up their security systems without being force to... See, morons or compromised they can't be trusted either way now.
Free floating planets give me hope. There are use cases for free floating planets. Stars explode. It's nice to know there are some places out there we can have low-maintenance long-term storage options deep inside, safe from cosmic rays or exploding stars -- We might not have to build them from scratch, or worry about how to power EM shields indefinitely. We ever make it off this wet rock before the sun explodes the Andromeda Galaxy will be merging with ours. That's a whole new galaxy full of resources, and it's heading our way. We'll probably need new stars and planets to harvest eventually, so that's a good thing.
Unfortunately it doesn't look like life on Earth will be able to survive the sun's explosion, and we can't tow the planet in enough time to sling it away for posterity's sake -- Sure would be nice if we could though, maybe it's not impossible, but who can say what a few billion years of new technology will bring. It would be cool to visit the free floating frozen origin of our species rather than let it be fried to a crisp, and/or re-liquefied. The crust just isn't thick enough to burrow down in thanks to our large moon-making collision. C'est la vie.
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What a nice conspiracy theory you have there.
COINTELPRO is a conspiracy, but it's not just theoretical; TFS shows it's on its way to becoming Law.
Counter Intelligence Program does what? Discredit and silence "radical subversives" to control the socio-political space. It's not like that's something foreign to the NSA: Hey, let's use porn habits against the "radical" folks we don't like. The civil rights movement was considered "radical". The privacy rights movement -- Eradication of government secrecy --is considered "radical" too. With secrets the people can never trust their governments to be performing in their best interest. A secret oversight committee just moves the problem around. With covert secret programs we can't even be sure they're telling the truth about 9/11 or the Iraq War -- We shouldn't have to wonder if it was only a threat narrative created to leverage the disaster and manufacture consent.
Now, here's something interesting: Heart disease and accidents kill four hundred times more people than a 9/11 scale attack every year. The flu claims 6 times more lives than a 9/11 scale attack every year. Why isn't there a War on Cars and Cheeseburgers? Why are the DHS, NSA and other anti-terrorist programs consuming such huge amounts of resources when you're 4 times more likely to be struck by lightning? We could save more lives by mandating foam pads on rails and giving away free traction mats for bathtubs since falling down is a far more dangerous threat to American lives than terrorism. So, the government knows the terrorist threat is laughably inconsequential, yet the scaremongers' message of fear echoed all your mainstream news sources, policy maker statements, and judges opinions. Sounds like a fucking conspiracy to me.
It's silly to excuse malice as ignorance when the "professionals" who's job it is to quantify the terrorist threat are blatantly misrepresenting the threat. You're aware conspiracy is a real thing, right? I'm a rationalist, I attribute degrees of certainty and am never 100% sure of anything; Like any good scientist. It's far more likely the NSA and other agencies are carrying on the COINTELPRO tradition to keep the military industrial complex funded -- As Eisenhower warned us. Than to believe that agencies tasked with counter intelligence are not doing so, and that everyone in the media, politics, congress, the executive and judicial branches, etc. just never took a look at the numbers.
The NSA and DHS should be eliminated. Lives do have a cost that is weighed against freedom and expense. Life is dangerous, and certain risks are acceptable: Thus we don't have a ban on Cars, Cheeseburgers, or Freedom Fries even though since 9/11 these claimed 4000 times more lives than 9/11. If anyone is scared of terrorists then they shouldn't be driving, dining out, or go anywhere without a lightning rod. If you really must fund the NSA, DHS, etc. then give them 1/6th what we spend to prevent the flu, that's the rational thing to do. Anything else in the name of protection reeks of deception for ulterior motives, i.e., Conspiracy.
"Can you walk through walls?" Yep. Doors exist. "Become invisible?" Turn off the light. "Bend tsunamis?" Build a sandbar.
"Hang on for a shocking discovery that will rock your world!" Nope. A rolling stone gathers no moss.
"One little trick that can hack physics!" Physicists Hate This One Weird Trick!
Well, you're a troll. It's nothing like that. Having a manpussy in prison is largely voluntary. Rape does exist, but it's not like it's more likely to happen to you than not. Here's an article about what it's like to be a techie in prison. It's not this way everywhere. Lots of places have no tech access besides a Plexiglas covered TV. Worse, however, is the lack of any good material to read.
The library shelves or book cart is chock full with lot's of brand new religious bullshit and various other statist crap, or bubble gum escapist shite. There's hardly any good books on ethics from a secular viewpoint instead it's all "you're locked up because you're not right with God, imagine you're sucking Jesus' metaphorical dick and you'll be so right with God we'll see you next revolution of the revolving door," in not so many more obfuscated words. Origin of Species? God & Golem Inc.? Hitchhikers's Guide to the Galaxy? Ring World? SICP? Knuth's Art of Computer Programming? Nope. Most books besides religious crap are ratty and worn, pages and covers missing. Hell, there was even romance novels and interview with a vampire, but not a single Dragon Lance or O'Reilly?
I can run a program on a piece of paper with a pencil, I don't need a computer to follow along with Knuth, but damn, the prison and jail libraries have only mind numbing dreck that seems made to rot your mind and give you false sense of security that you'll be able to function and interact properly if you just gargle Jesus jiz. The criminal legal library is kept up, and there are some jobs programs that are OK -- They get their reading material at the behest of the corporate masters who want cheap slave drivable labor for dangerous or dirty jobs; A buddy learned underwater welding and works his ass off for good "honest" money now, helping oil companies rape the planet.
Anyway, yeah, the incarcerated could use some books. I'd have given up my food tray for a week for a good sci-fi book. Sad thing is, out in the free world there's libraries getting rid of books -- can hardly give 'em away because they're too abused, but they rarely find their way to where they could do the most good. Nope, those Christ fuckers who think Jesus is off preparing a place for them in the sky somewhere so the body of the church can get half-gay married into God's magical zombie family have a damn near monopoly on fresh reading material. I've read that damn insane bible in 6 different translations just to laugh at the inconsistencies -- Hell, did you know the whole virgin birth is based on a mistranslation error? Careful pointing out the bullshit though: Private Prisons are essentially Christian-Camp Cages.
Sounds like AC has got one hell of a prison rape fantasy up there -- It's not copy-pasta... They'll surely be disappointed if they ever grow balls and lose brains enough to make their dream come true.
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Do yourself in?
Why do I think they ordered those parts from the most expensive sources possible?
Or it could just be the riced up hipster case.
... $9,599 which includes 64GBs of ECC DDR3 memory, a 1TB PCIe SSD, two AMD D700 (W9000) GPUs, and a twelve core Intel Xeon 2.7GHz processor.
While there is nothing really remarkable about this list of parts, it’s the way that they are integrated that provides both pros and cons. On the pro side, you have all this workstation grade hardware in a cylinder that is less than 10 inches tall and under 7 inches wide, with the power supply inside. This makes it very easy to take it on site or pack with you.
Pack with you? Because that's a concern with desktop workstations? I guess you can discount the dual monitor setup if portability is the key? Oh, right, OSX, so you basically have to bring it with you because everyone else is running a different OS and your programs aren't compatible. I don't give half a crap about the story, or I'd go to build the thing online in a tower configuration. Maybe throw in some LEDs, black-light ground effects, a custom body job with clear side panel and glitter+glue monogram too -- You know, really rice it to the next level.
solar is finally gaining momentum and it scares these power companies to death because they are invested almost entirely in hydrocarbons.
Which is why ISPs shouldn't be content producers. It's why proprietary OS vendors shouldn't make applications too. It's why automobile manufacturers shouldn't be in the oil business.
The energy distribution companies shouldn't be energy producers. Those are two separate businesses. They who can not keep businesses divided will surely be conquered.
Hey, this is a police state. I don't like that political stance about defunding my program. Let's dig through the archives and see if we can tie them to any unsolved crimes, or see when they're out and about to "discover" if this dope we've got was actually at their place all along...
You're aware COINTELPRO is a thing right?
I'm a scientist, if you say spying is beneficial, then I say prove it. If you say, "well we can't because, secrecy", then I call bullshit - You have to provide evidence and refute the null hypothesis: Programs holding secrets can not be proven to be beneficial for society. Any benefit to security the secret programs could present can just as easily be seen as a detriment. You can't trust spies, trust must be earned. If we're rolling out more spying hardware now it's to quickly cash out supplies before the public outlaws secrets.
Govs want to spy on everything? Fine, then let us know EVERYTHING they're doing. It's the only way to prove they're not breaking the damn law, again. They want to study how to improve ciphers and hashes, etc? Fine, do it in the public. We can't even accept recommendations from the NSA because any "improvements" they suggest could be introducing weakness. Bonus: If you don't have any government secrets, spies can't harm you.
As a scientist it pains me to exist in this world divorced from skepticism. "It's good!" "It's harmless!" That's what they all say. Talk is cheap, show me the evidence.
Happy Grav-Mass!
Why not celebrate comprehensible laws of physics that got your astronaut asses to the damn Moon by honoring Isaac Newton? You know, someone who was actually born on December 25th?
The shell company that holds the patents itself produces no products, but Apple and Microsoft certainly doâ"it's just that they hold the patents jointly through this 'Rockstar' entity.
If this weird patent system is still what we have in place, this sort of joint ownership should be allowed. Leaving aside the relevance and desirability of the patent system today, I can't really see a problem with this. It's not really the same as a company that's never been associated with any endeavour related to the patents they own and who exist only to bilk money out of other people.
Nice business you got there. Be terrible if something happened to it. Join our consortium, and pay your protection money and we won't beat you up in an expensive court battle. This is a group of companies going against another company. It violates the principals of Corpratism by essentially allowing alliances to form expressly to leverage force other than through better products or prices. This is akin to how individuals formed tribes, and eventually governments -- The corporations will do the same at their higher conceptual level, and then they will begin fighting over the right to tax lesser organizations and individuals... as they have done, and are doing now.
This has all happened before, and it will all happen again. Welcome to Cybernetics:101 - Emergent Behavioral Architectures
You're answering the wrong question.
The question is Why don't Open Source Databases use the GPU. There are many answers: Supply and Demand is the best one. The other is that collating database rows in a GPU is fine, but you still have the damn bottleneck getting the data out to main system RAM. So, if your use case is a server then you're fucked because GPUs don't have a NIC interface.
The true answer is: We don't run databases in the GPU because GPUs are stupidly dedicated designs. General Purpose Computing is the trend across all hardware markets -- From Arcades to Consoles to PCs, from Mainframes to Minicomputers to Microcomputers, From PDAs to Smartphones. The trend is to be more general purpose. There are stints where a dedicated design yields performance while we sacrifice freedom and conform to some bullshit API. Witness all the unique looking software rasterization we gave up once 3D GPUs hit the scene. After these stints, the generalization trend takes over yet again. You're seeing that now. Soon the CPU will be a GPU (hell, look at APUs) the lines will blur, the two will merge, and we'll deprecate the term "heterogeneous computing" and just call it compute.
So, it costs more than any appreciable benefit overall warrants; And if we wait a few more years then the question of whether code runs on GPU or CPU will be moot anyway.
I do some alternative OS development. When I setup a program to run there are 3 different 64bit modes (programming models) for me to select to run the program under: ILP64, LLP64, and LP64. In ILP64 you get 64 bit ints, longs, long longs, and pointers. In LLP64 you get 32bit longs and ints, and 64bit long longs and pointers. In LP64 you get 32bit ints, 64 bit longs, long longs and pointers. Note: All these pointers are 64 bit (but the hardware may have less bits than this, the OS will query it, code must have 64 bit pointers). There are also 16bit and 32bit programming models. In 16bit mode you can still access 32bit instructions (if the hardware has it), but are (typically) limited to 640KiB RAM (unless in unrealmode) since you have 20 effective bits of segmented addressing, In 32bit mode you can still access 64bit instructions, but are limited to 4GiB RAM (32bit pointers).
So, yeah, the OS can still use 64bit pointers, while running code as 32 bit mode (w/ 32bit pointers). Accessing 64 bit operations in 32bit mode code can't run on 32 bit systems if it uses any 64 bit registers / opcode. However "x32" is x86-64 64bit mode, but only uses 32 bit pointers and data fields thus limiting programs to 4GiB memory.
IIRC Windows is LLP64 and Linux distros are typically LP64. I use LLP64 in my hobby OS kernel. All my executable code is compiled to VM opcode and must be enrolled with the OS before it can be ran. Enrolling generates a separate signed private copy (and registers media types / public interfaces for IPC), and on install (if the code is trusted) it will be translated into native machine code (otherwise interpreted, esp. if in development or self modifiable). Electing to run the program under a different programming model and can run applications in x86, or x86-64 modes. This does cause a problem sometimes with programs that expect memory mapped saved data to be the same bit width between executions, but screw those idiotic programs: Storage is cross platform or bust -- OS offers a state serializer API, but foreign code doesn't know about / use it. The benefit is that the OS has far more control over the machine code, and all program "binaries" run on x86/x86-64 or ARM, since they're all cross platform bytecode -- There's no per-execution compilation overhead since it compiles on install (or model switch). This way is better because a traditional compiler is not prescient and will not produce a binary that will magically perform best in every environment forever, amen.
I have something different than "x32". I can run in 32bit mode with 64bit extensions, thereby the code can be smaller if it doesn't use many 64bit registers or 64 bit pointers. I can also run in 64bit mode code with 32bit pointers (like x32), while still allowing 64 bit pointers. This way a single program can have "fast" pointers in "near" (under 4GiB) space while also having "slow" pointers using the full 64bit "far" space. 32bit ints simply update the lower bits of 64 bit pointers, and these have the high 32bits "segment extended" automatically by filling the pointer register with the program's base 64bit address. Pointers can be upcast to 64 bit pointers, (esp. for IPC), but downcast can throw a segfault. 64bit mode pointers are "far" by default, so a program must elect to have "near" pointers by declaring them such. Programs can use more than 4GiB, but can have at most 4GiB "near" RAM allocated at once -- It's up to the programmer to how they should handle "out of near memory" error -- They could allocate from far memory instead, but this complicates the program; The use case should typically be to use all near or all far pointers. The prime need for my take on "x32" being able to upcast from 32bit pointers to 64bit pointers in my OS is to call functions on other enrolled process interfaces via 64bit IPC.
However, we're talking about a brain-dead Linux kernel so you can just keep quibbling about which platform dependent binary encoding is best to statically compile your "platform independent" source code into since that kernel isn't an OS (has no interpretor, compiler, debugger, file system, or editor built in).
and faster (because the code is smaller, in theory cache should be used more efficiently
Your skill is Not enough. when you blow registers onto the stack the code crawls. x86-64 has more registers. Code compiled for is far faster than x86 because of the extra registers. The L1 cache is how big on your CPU? Is your binary MEGABYTES in size? If your code is jumping all over the digital universe generating cache misses then you're purposefully doing something more idiotic than this universe should care about.
There's your answer. If I'm writing a program that won't need over 2GB, the decision is obvious: target x86. How many developers even know about x32? Of those, how many need what it offers? That little fraction will be the number of users.
Wait, what are you talking about? "target x86" Wat? Are you writing code in Assembly? How do you target C or higher level code code for x86 vs x86-64, or ARM for that matter?
Ooooh, wait, you're one of those proprietary Linux software developers? Protip: 1's and 0's are in infinite supply, so Economics 101 says they have zero price regardless of cost to create. What's scarce is your ability to create new configurations of bits -- new source code -- not the bits. Just like a mechanic, home builder, burger joint, or any other labor market you do the work once, you get paid once for your work and then you do more work to get more money. If you base a business on artificial scarcity you're going to have a bad time, mkay?
The Internet is not a Sentient Being. It doesn't live nor breathe, nor is it a set of tubes.
Well the wires are not sentient yet, but the Internet is cybernetic entity. The Internet has servers that connect to other servers autonomously. Data flows through the web's organic structure via web crawlers, email servers, and other web services. Compromised systems still spew packets of past exploits across the web. I can tell what time of day it is by looking at the traffic graphs alone. As the sun spins around the digital world and wakes the entities living thereupon, a brain wave of stimulus pulses across the web while others exhaust their activity and drop into a more dormant state. Much the way porpoises and other animals rest one half a mind at a time.
You have amoebas in your blood that can be removed and placed in a Petri dish, and these individual immune system cells will carry out their behaviours outside of you. You have a colony of bacteria that lives on your skin and gives you your identifying odor, killing some other harmful bacteria. In your guts thrives an essential colony of microbes. You are a cybernetic being formed from many smaller individual living cells... Much like the Internet is a single cybernetic being formed of all the clients and servers in the world -- and its users. You are one of billions of organic input aggregation, stimulation, and accumulator cells; Just like the blood cells you depend on for survival, the Internet survives on you.
In aggregate we are the Internet -- A cultural mind formed of self aware beings, far greater than the whole. This cybernetic symbiotic system is billions of times more aware of all its many selves than you. We do breathe information, we live online, we can be injured and even die. Is it not a set of tubes, it is a world wide neural network. The internet does remember. The more sensational, interesting, or entertaining the more impact the memory has and the stronger and longer the information is remembered; Just like in humans or other cybernetic creatures with memories.
I disagree because your statement is blatantly false. The NSA can not serve a useful purpose. Simple application of the mathematics of information disparity proves you can't prove your statement to the contrary. As a scientist, I don't believe things without evidence, especially not statements lacking disprovability.
You're aware Omnivore, Carnivore, ECHELON, and PRISM's room 641A existed before 9/11. They failed to prevent 9/11, and every terrorist attack since the 70's. The NIST helps secure our encryption systems. By what amazing feat of mental gymnastics do you arrive at the conclusion that a secret research group can be proven to be helping secure our communications? No, that's asinine. I require evidence. The government secrecy is directly opposed to both freedom and security.
Especially since we've got an army of hubble-esque telescopes zipping around the earth providing total global situation awareness. You don't need warrantless wiretaps with that kind of spy power.
Bonus, the NRO helps with natural disasters, weather, and space sciences. Defund, NSA, DHS, etc., spit the funding between NASA and the NRO. The folks benefiting from domestic spying could instead make their money selling space wares... Ah, but then they wouldn't be able to do insider trading quite so well at all.
You can't be serious, right? By what logical misstep do you propose we trust again a spy who has proven to be a double agent? The same goes for an OS compromised by malware, there is no "removal" of malware, you nuke it from orbit, because it's the only way to be sure.
They want to have their cake and eat it too. We should either have no privacy indoors & in our communication between indoor areas while having expectation to not be spied on outdoors, or have zero protection of privacy outdoors & assurances that our communications are not compromised. Look, if you want to spy on my conversations you can just stand next to me, or aim a laser microphone at my windows or glasses. You don't need to tap the coms lines because folks can buy a burner phone and install their own encrypted voice and text applications. It'll be to late to do anything by the time it's deciphered. The domestic spying and wiretaps only prevent legitimate use of the technology.
Unfortunately, information theory tells us we can not have assurances that our communications are not spied on unless we eliminate the secret spying operation. We have a chance to eliminate secrets and stand brave among the most powerful nations who have mutually assured nuclear peace, and against which no terrorist can pose a threat. Scaremongers would have you believe the terrorists are nothing to sneeze at, yet every year the flu claims SIX TIMES the lives as a 9/11 scale attack. Cars and Cheeseburgers are 400 times more deadly every year than 9/11. Even the most devastating of terrorist threats is not even a flesh wound. We need proportional protection: If you're so scared of 1/400th the threat a Happy Meal poses, then allocate 1/400th of the taxes we spend on heart disease and accident prevention to the NSA and DHS. We need no secrets. Without secrets no spy can harm us.
As a rational human being: If you, Snowden or anyone would say that the NSA can serve a useful purpose then the burden of proof is on you to provide evidence to support your unproven claim. Don't forget to prove your hypothesis you will need to more significantly disprove the null hypo
There's many parental control packages out there, both built into Internet Security suites and stand-alone packages. There are even home-use hardware solutions. Why does the government need to mandate something the market has already taken care of?
Acclimation to the censorship and spying capabilities. At the ISP level they're supposed to just see IP addresses. However, now they've gone and associated IPs to content. So, that's one step closer to peering inside each packet. You roll out new systems slowly and get users acclimated to the boiling water slowly, otherwise they jump out before you can cook them.
OK, so if we have a bowl of water under a heat lamp, and we turn the lamp on and off at a steady rate, say, toggle it twice a minute. Now we measure the temperature of the bowl of water, and it's average over the the week is pretty consistent. Now let's say we came in to measure it one day and there's some plastic wrap across the surface of the bowl. We measure the water and the temperature is increased. We say, Hey, the greenhouse effect caused by the plastic wrap is causing a change in temperature.
Then some morons say, "But the Steady Heat Lamp! The Heat comes from the Heat Lamp!" We're talking about an increase or change in temperature, and you're saying it doesn't make logical sense that variation in the heat lamp activity isn't a major driver of change to the climate because the heat lamp cycle is steady?
Please explain your troll logic, because I need a good laugh.
Heh, Look at all those moronic posters replying to the headline.
The study says that greenhouse gases were the most significant factor and that the sun was negligible in comparison, not that the sun has no effect on warmth. The sun would certainly tend to contribute heat but we're talking about CHANGE, not stable sources of warmth, over more time than the 11 year solar cycles.
Please tell me the oil companies are paying shills to post here, the posters are seriously challenging my faith in humanity otherwise.
Well, there's this thing called the null hypothesis. Once it's significantly disproved, then we pretty much accept the science as is unless someone else comes along and proves the study wrong. I mean, you're free to hem and haw and be skeptical, but you forget the scientists have already gone through that -- The null hypothesis is the ultimate skeptic. So, yeah, folks will ridicule anyone who's irrationally skeptical for the same reason we laugh at folks who have no evidence for their beliefs. Having no evidence for your disbelief is the same thing. Don't forget, we're all looking for new answers and better information. Science isn't a fucking debate you twit, evidence is evidence. You want to have a dialog in the language of science? Bring me some fucking evidence and we'll talk.
sole energy source for the planet has any effect.
The operative word there is any, and that's where you're wrong. There's a significant difference between any, and significant.
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You mean the stock market that the NSA controls? If they receive beams of light, they can send them, scramble them, cause packet delays, etc. In a world of super low latency high frequency trades, PRISM rules.
Not only that, but if we're to believe security researchers were daft enough to screw up their security systems without being force to... See, morons or compromised they can't be trusted either way now.
Free floating planets give me hope. There are use cases for free floating planets. Stars explode. It's nice to know there are some places out there we can have low-maintenance long-term storage options deep inside, safe from cosmic rays or exploding stars -- We might not have to build them from scratch, or worry about how to power EM shields indefinitely. We ever make it off this wet rock before the sun explodes the Andromeda Galaxy will be merging with ours. That's a whole new galaxy full of resources, and it's heading our way. We'll probably need new stars and planets to harvest eventually, so that's a good thing.
Unfortunately it doesn't look like life on Earth will be able to survive the sun's explosion, and we can't tow the planet in enough time to sling it away for posterity's sake -- Sure would be nice if we could though, maybe it's not impossible, but who can say what a few billion years of new technology will bring. It would be cool to visit the free floating frozen origin of our species rather than let it be fried to a crisp, and/or re-liquefied. The crust just isn't thick enough to burrow down in thanks to our large moon-making collision. C'est la vie.