They are very useful for technical or specialized material that has a small audience. It's a way of keeping a book in-print without spending large amounts of money. I'm grateful when I can buy a POD copy of a book at a reasonable price, when a used copy would otherwise be priced at ridiculous levels. Equating POD with vanity publishing is extraordinarily short-sighted.
Tied in with parallelism is the issue of doing something useful with the billions of transistors in a modern computer. During any microsecond, how many of them are doing useful work as opposed to just generating heat?
See Bill Agee. He managed to screw over three companies, Boise Cascade, Bendix and Morrison-Knudsen. Plus his current wife became the poster-child for how to fuck your way to the top.
That sounds like the documentary film A Private Universe. It's worth watching, to see how even bright students can have difficulty with basic science concepts.
I haven't paid any attention to the business side of satellite radio. Was either one of the companies in financial trouble? If they were both profitable, why allow a merger?
I received a similar response from Microsoft when I reported some really gross bugs in FORTRAN-80. They just didn't give a shit. They told me that their programmers had more important things to do, fixing bugs wasn't profitable for them.
I think the long-term solution is plain old IP, probably in the form of IPSEC. The network's job is to switch and deliver packets, not to extract information from the headers of higher-level protocols and use it to "manage" the network.
The whole article is disingenuous. What he is describing are not "loopholes" being cynically exploited by those evil, and soon to be illegal, P2P applications. They are the intended behavior of the protocol stack. Are P2P applications gaming the system by opening multiple streams between each pair of endpoints? No. While we could have a legitimate debate on what is fair behavior, he poisons the whole issue by using it as a vehicle for his anti-P2P agenda.
Being irradiated from an external source does not make you radioactive, except in unusual situations like being exposed to a neutron flux, which can cause neutron activation.
There's a huge difference between being irradiated from an external source and ingesting or being injected with radioisotopes as a diagnostic or treatment procedure.
I remember reading something about them discovering a truck loaded with contaminated steel at the gate of some federal facility. Sometimes radiation sources, like cobalt-60, get mixed in with scrap metal that is going to be recycled. The steel plants are scared to death that they will accidentally melt down a load of scrap that contains a radiation source, resulting in a lot of spoiled steel and a huge decontamination bill. They have their own radiation detectors to check incoming material.
It isn't that simple. I can say "Vi users are heathen scum who must all die a slow and painful death". I can't say "Let's all go to 666 Main Street at 8:00 PM and kill all the vi users". To be illegal, it has to be an incitement to a specific illegal action, not just an expression of belief or opinion.
Data stored in DRAM produces physical changes in the cells that can be detected long after power is removed. For systems used to handle extremely sensitive data, physical destruction of the RAM isn't unreasonable.
I thought it was the left-wing noise machine that was whining about the small amounts of mercury in CFLs. You know, the same people who can find "toxics" everywhere they look.
Pesky election observers can be made to go away. Doesn't anyone ever read the news or a history book? People have been tampering with paper ballots since their invention.
But it would be better if we could stop wasting resources on treating old sick people and start using them to treat young people with a future ahead of them.
That should be a permanent entry in your medical records.
Similar problems have appeared in other file formats and packet formats. Even without deliberate attacks, data corruption can crash applications and systems that are insufficiently paranoid about the data that they receive and process. Do you want it fast or do you want it correct?
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They are very useful for technical or specialized material that has a small audience. It's a way of keeping a book in-print without spending large amounts of money. I'm grateful when I can buy a POD copy of a book at a reasonable price, when a used copy would otherwise be priced at ridiculous levels. Equating POD with vanity publishing is extraordinarily short-sighted.
Leakage current is increasing as feature size decreases. Even without that problem, what percentage of the die space is doing useful work?
Tied in with parallelism is the issue of doing something useful with the billions of transistors in a modern computer. During any microsecond, how many of them are doing useful work as opposed to just generating heat?
Have you considered seeking professional help?
See Bill Agee. He managed to screw over three companies, Boise Cascade, Bendix and Morrison-Knudsen. Plus his current wife became the poster-child for how to fuck your way to the top.
That sounds like the documentary film A Private Universe. It's worth watching, to see how even bright students can have difficulty with basic science concepts.
I haven't paid any attention to the business side of satellite radio. Was either one of the companies in financial trouble? If they were both profitable, why allow a merger?
I received a similar response from Microsoft when I reported some really gross bugs in FORTRAN-80. They just didn't give a shit. They told me that their programmers had more important things to do, fixing bugs wasn't profitable for them.
Woz wrote Apple BASIC, also known as Integer BASIC. Applesoft BASIC was a later product.
I think the long-term solution is plain old IP, probably in the form of IPSEC. The network's job is to switch and deliver packets, not to extract information from the headers of higher-level protocols and use it to "manage" the network.
The whole article is disingenuous. What he is describing are not "loopholes" being cynically exploited by those evil, and soon to be illegal, P2P applications. They are the intended behavior of the protocol stack. Are P2P applications gaming the system by opening multiple streams between each pair of endpoints? No. While we could have a legitimate debate on what is fair behavior, he poisons the whole issue by using it as a vehicle for his anti-P2P agenda.
Being irradiated from an external source does not make you radioactive, except in unusual situations like being exposed to a neutron flux, which can cause neutron activation.
There's a huge difference between being irradiated from an external source and ingesting or being injected with radioisotopes as a diagnostic or treatment procedure.
I remember reading something about them discovering a truck loaded with contaminated steel at the gate of some federal facility. Sometimes radiation sources, like cobalt-60, get mixed in with scrap metal that is going to be recycled. The steel plants are scared to death that they will accidentally melt down a load of scrap that contains a radiation source, resulting in a lot of spoiled steel and a huge decontamination bill. They have their own radiation detectors to check incoming material.
It isn't that simple. I can say "Vi users are heathen scum who must all die a slow and painful death". I can't say "Let's all go to 666 Main Street at 8:00 PM and kill all the vi users". To be illegal, it has to be an incitement to a specific illegal action, not just an expression of belief or opinion.
See Data Remanence in Semiconductor Devices (PDF) by Peter Guttmann.
Data stored in DRAM produces physical changes in the cells that can be detected long after power is removed. For systems used to handle extremely sensitive data, physical destruction of the RAM isn't unreasonable.
I thought it was the left-wing noise machine that was whining about the small amounts of mercury in CFLs. You know, the same people who can find "toxics" everywhere they look.
Dire consequences? Don't make me laugh. For whatever reasons, voter/election fraud is rarely investigated and prosecuted in this country.
Pesky election observers can be made to go away. Doesn't anyone ever read the news or a history book? People have been tampering with paper ballots since their invention.
The TOS won't always get them off the hook. Claims made in ads can be considered part of the contract, even if they are disavowed in the TOS.
Silane is pyrophoric and boils at 161 K. It may be a while before this leads to practical results.
That should be a permanent entry in your medical records.
Similar problems have appeared in other file formats and packet formats. Even without deliberate attacks, data corruption can crash applications and systems that are insufficiently paranoid about the data that they receive and process. Do you want it fast or do you want it correct?