Icebike is proving what I have previously pointed out about him. It is not important to him that he knows what he is talking about. Knowing what you are talking about is hard.
All of you people seem to forget that Google is doing this for profit. Godwin'ing this, its like saying you just dont want to sell to the Jews because fuck them. Thats simply not how business operates.. thats how someone too emotionally involved operates.
Google agreed to this because the numbers still show a profit.
During World War II, a reporter caught up with the renowned Chinese General Chiang Kai-Shek and asked him "For every Japanese soldier than you kill, you lose 40 men. Why do your countrymen think that you are a success?"
General Chiang Kai-Shek replied, "Soon no more Japanese."
Can you give a source for that $6.2 trillion? The figures I can find say $3.8 trillion, which is considerably lower.
Thats just the Federal government. Notice how I said 'government' spending, not 'Federal government spending.'
It shouldn't have mattered what I said anyways, because you are a thinking and rational person, right? You surely know that Federal spending isnt the entire spending picture and thus any argument or conclusion you might make about how much the government is spending would be nonsense if you only included the Federal numbers. We arent talking about Federal taxes here, so we don't get to only consider the Federal budget.
Third, you don't address his point - that most of those crying out for less government spending are in favor of more government spending on the military.
Quite frankly, bullshit. Thats what some partisan shitheads are saying about the other side, thats all. Saying it doesnt make it true, just like when I say that tea-party members are all racists and democrats are all boozing womanizer tax cheats.. guess what.. doesnt make the statement true. There is no point to 'address' as you so ignorantly demand because its just a loaded partisan bullshit statement.
Colonizing other planets is exactly a sensible and intelligent thing to do if you want to enhance your survival rate as a species..
Colonizing space itself is far more sensible and intelligent than this planet colonization hollywood dream. It would take hundreds, if not thousands of years to make Mars a second chance for humanity. Colonization isnt enough if we cannot thrive there, because Mars gets hit by big things from space too.
I use Linux, but a spend more time in Windows and its not just because of games. If Linux natively ran something as good as Visual Studio + C# + MSDN, I'd be running Linux far more often. I don't have the time or the patience to exhaustively sift through API references any longer.
it fatally lacked support for non-IBM devices in the early days...
Indeed. IBM viewed OS/2 as a way to promote PS/2 hardware, and in fact the/2 in each was not a coincidence. It was a common belief not just with IBM but many companies at that time that software was just a necessary feature for moving hardware out the door.
Apple never really gave up that theory and almost died because of it, and if it were not for the emerging portable market they'd still be just a bit player, and now we see again that Android is doing the same thing to them in the portable space that DOS/Windows did to them in the desktop space.
For one thing I don't think DirectX will become that much more stable as GPUs are still changing dramatically
Are they still changing dramatically? Aside from tessellation (which is debatable as far as 'dramatic'), what other 'dramatic' changes has their really been once the fixed function pipeline was dropped? Once the fully programmable pipeline took over, the bulk of what the Direct3D API still does for the developer is now simply asset management.
Hell, even the last update to the shader standard only dealt with general purpose computing on the gpu.
..but the hype should be more about the fact that its a manned moon base.
..and the criticism too. Unless we plan to do something on the moon that cannot be done in earths orbit or even on the earths surface, then whats the point?
Sure, we can climb a mountain 'because its there' but whats the price tag? Its one thing when its someones personal wealth injected into their personal endeavor, but its another when its public money spent with little benefit to the public.
I've heard it suggested that rocket fuel could be made on the moon, making it possible to fuel up ships exploring the solar system more efficiently, but I havent actually seen any credible plans to do something like that.
Don't mod this guy up.. it has nothing to do with mergers. The fact that you only have one choice of cable provider and one choice of telephone provider is entirely because your local governments have signed exclusive deals. Mergers in no way alter this.
Sure, things get more energy efficient from time to time, but we humans keep piling on the things we use energy for at a far faster rate. Evidence of this is the amount of energy Americans (who have the latest technologies) consume, vs the amount of energy someone in a 3rd world country (who does not have the latest technologies) consumes.
The enormous differences in energy use does not reflect advances in technology.. they reflect economic conditions.
Generally the "don't spend my money"ers are actually "don't spend my money except on things that cause violent death"ers.
Generally the people that try to downplay how much money we are spending, by attacking other people, don't actually know the enormity of the spending and thusly don't give a shit that their partisan antics are a dangerous public menace.
Total government spending in the United States has grown to $6.2 trillion (2012), and with ~115 million households thats ~$54000 per household.
The median income for those 115 million households was $53000.
I used the word 'enormity', but really it does not encompass the problem here. The government spends more per household than the median income of households.
While you sit there being a partisan dickhead, the most important problem that we face today goes completely unnoticed by you. If there were an official definition of 'ignorant douche' you would be it.
The practical answer to that concern would be why is the kernel so damn special.
You can argue that a particular OS is sloppy in its userland security, but its a bit odd to argue that the kernel isnt worthy of being protected because of that sloppy userland security.
A compromised system could simply always hibernate even when the user requests a proper shutdown, and then fake the appearance of a real bootup upon power up.
While you would not expect such an elaborate design as a form of mass public malware, consider how effective this would be with a more targeted attack.. the trusted boot process nullified to trivially.
Anyone with physical access can probably reset the BIOS password and turn off secure boot.
The point of secure boot is to make possible a chain of proof attesting that everything that gets loaded into ring0 has not been modified. Clearly if you can disable the chain of proof then you can disabled the chain of proof, but you cannot do so invisibly, which is the entire point of secure boot.
You really dont seem to understand the technologies involved.
Hibernation does a complete dump of the memory and thread state of the system to disk, and when the computer is later booted a well behaved loader sees the dump and restores the memory and thread states from disk.
The problem is that anyone with physical access can fuck with the memory dump in between the hibernation and the restore, thereby injecting untrusted code into the supposedly trusted environment.
Slashdot Mirror
Icebike is proving what I have previously pointed out about him. It is not important to him that he knows what he is talking about. Knowing what you are talking about is hard.
Then how would Google profit?
All of you people seem to forget that Google is doing this for profit. Godwin'ing this, its like saying you just dont want to sell to the Jews because fuck them. Thats simply not how business operates.. thats how someone too emotionally involved operates.
Google agreed to this because the numbers still show a profit.
Only if user can set the keys, not MS / NSA.
So secure boot IS a feature which Linux would benefit from, too. Thanks AC.
During World War II, a reporter caught up with the renowned Chinese General Chiang Kai-Shek and asked him "For every Japanese soldier than you kill, you lose 40 men. Why do your countrymen think that you are a success?"
General Chiang Kai-Shek replied, "Soon no more Japanese."
-
Can you give a source for that $6.2 trillion? The figures I can find say $3.8 trillion, which is considerably lower.
Thats just the Federal government. Notice how I said 'government' spending, not 'Federal government spending.'
It shouldn't have mattered what I said anyways, because you are a thinking and rational person, right? You surely know that Federal spending isnt the entire spending picture and thus any argument or conclusion you might make about how much the government is spending would be nonsense if you only included the Federal numbers. We arent talking about Federal taxes here, so we don't get to only consider the Federal budget.
Third, you don't address his point - that most of those crying out for less government spending are in favor of more government spending on the military.
Quite frankly, bullshit. Thats what some partisan shitheads are saying about the other side, thats all. Saying it doesnt make it true, just like when I say that tea-party members are all racists and democrats are all boozing womanizer tax cheats.. guess what.. doesnt make the statement true. There is no point to 'address' as you so ignorantly demand because its just a loaded partisan bullshit statement.
Colonizing other planets is exactly a sensible and intelligent thing to do if you want to enhance your survival rate as a species ..
Colonizing space itself is far more sensible and intelligent than this planet colonization hollywood dream. It would take hundreds, if not thousands of years to make Mars a second chance for humanity. Colonization isnt enough if we cannot thrive there, because Mars gets hit by big things from space too.
The moon is the perfect place for us to work out the problems with starting to colonize other planets/asteroids
You are presuming that its desirable to colonize significant gravity wells as a public works project..
Convince me that your presumption has something compelling behind it, because the way I see it space stations are the future.
What? Haven't your heard of Eclipse and Java?
Yeah, and if it wasn't java...
I like the ability to use pointers when they are advantageous.
I use Linux, but a spend more time in Windows and its not just because of games. If Linux natively ran something as good as Visual Studio + C# + MSDN, I'd be running Linux far more often. I don't have the time or the patience to exhaustively sift through API references any longer.
it fatally lacked support for non-IBM devices in the early days...
Indeed. IBM viewed OS/2 as a way to promote PS/2 hardware, and in fact the /2 in each was not a coincidence. It was a common belief not just with IBM but many companies at that time that software was just a necessary feature for moving hardware out the door.
Apple never really gave up that theory and almost died because of it, and if it were not for the emerging portable market they'd still be just a bit player, and now we see again that Android is doing the same thing to them in the portable space that DOS/Windows did to them in the desktop space.
For one thing I don't think DirectX will become that much more stable as GPUs are still changing dramatically
Are they still changing dramatically? Aside from tessellation (which is debatable as far as 'dramatic'), what other 'dramatic' changes has their really been once the fixed function pipeline was dropped? Once the fully programmable pipeline took over, the bulk of what the Direct3D API still does for the developer is now simply asset management.
Hell, even the last update to the shader standard only dealt with general purpose computing on the gpu.
..but the hype should be more about the fact that its a manned moon base.
Sure, we can climb a mountain 'because its there' but whats the price tag? Its one thing when its someones personal wealth injected into their personal endeavor, but its another when its public money spent with little benefit to the public.
I've heard it suggested that rocket fuel could be made on the moon, making it possible to fuel up ships exploring the solar system more efficiently, but I havent actually seen any credible plans to do something like that.
Don't mod this guy up.. it has nothing to do with mergers. The fact that you only have one choice of cable provider and one choice of telephone provider is entirely because your local governments have signed exclusive deals. Mergers in no way alter this.
Sure, things get more energy efficient from time to time, but we humans keep piling on the things we use energy for at a far faster rate. Evidence of this is the amount of energy Americans (who have the latest technologies) consume, vs the amount of energy someone in a 3rd world country (who does not have the latest technologies) consumes.
The enormous differences in energy use does not reflect advances in technology.. they reflect economic conditions.
The middle class energy standard from a few hundred years ago was a candle and some fire wood.
Tom Murphy is an idiot. He ignores the fact that the human population will peak in 65 years and then decline.
Its wrong if we take the first derivative and make a projection... but its fine if we take the second derivative and make a projection?
Its not a default in Opera unless it was a recent change and old installations grandfathered in the previous default...
For those opera users that want this enabled, click or manually enter opera:config#UserPrefs|EnableOnDemandPlugin.
...and for Opera users, opera:config#UserPrefs|EnableOnDemandPlugin
Generally the "don't spend my money"ers are actually "don't spend my money except on things that cause violent death"ers.
Generally the people that try to downplay how much money we are spending, by attacking other people, don't actually know the enormity of the spending and thusly don't give a shit that their partisan antics are a dangerous public menace.
Total government spending in the United States has grown to $6.2 trillion (2012), and with ~115 million households thats ~$54000 per household.
The median income for those 115 million households was $53000.
I used the word 'enormity', but really it does not encompass the problem here. The government spends more per household than the median income of households.
While you sit there being a partisan dickhead, the most important problem that we face today goes completely unnoticed by you. If there were an official definition of 'ignorant douche' you would be it.
Not liking the outcome doesn't make the steps leading to it wrong.
The practical answer to that concern would be why is the kernel so damn special.
You can argue that a particular OS is sloppy in its userland security, but its a bit odd to argue that the kernel isnt worthy of being protected because of that sloppy userland security.
A compromised system could simply always hibernate even when the user requests a proper shutdown, and then fake the appearance of a real bootup upon power up.
While you would not expect such an elaborate design as a form of mass public malware, consider how effective this would be with a more targeted attack.. the trusted boot process nullified to trivially.
Anyone with physical access can probably reset the BIOS password and turn off secure boot.
The point of secure boot is to make possible a chain of proof attesting that everything that gets loaded into ring0 has not been modified. Clearly if you can disable the chain of proof then you can disabled the chain of proof, but you cannot do so invisibly, which is the entire point of secure boot.
You really dont seem to understand the technologies involved.
Hibernation does a complete dump of the memory and thread state of the system to disk, and when the computer is later booted a well behaved loader sees the dump and restores the memory and thread states from disk.
The problem is that anyone with physical access can fuck with the memory dump in between the hibernation and the restore, thereby injecting untrusted code into the supposedly trusted environment.
But thanks for giving us your ignorant opinion.
No, I don't.
I told you which scientist it was, and you jumped to the conclusion that it was a different scientist on another continent. Simply. Fucking. Amazing.