Why are you assuming you have control over your current computer? Your CPU/GPU/whatever isn't any more open than that "CPU in a CPU". Your motherboard isn't open either. There's absolutely no reason why you'd trust one but not the other, considering they come from the same designer and the same fabs.
Hardware switches (jumpers on the motherboard) are a way of controlling the system available only to the physical owner of the machine. Having a hardware switch would satisfy both the enterprise and security-concious customers.
Would it though? What's to stop whatever nefarious agent who's managed to obtain a sensitive laptop from disabling the switch? I know that they can just avoid connecting to any network and that'd also prevent remote access, but if they disable the entire EC, they can legitimately use the full computer without any further hurdles.
Moreover, Slashdot's moderation system has another important element: justification. On reddit and such, upvoting is basically "that guy speaks the truth!" or "I agree!" while downvoting is "man that's stupid" or similar, and thus becomes biased and more about whether the post/comment agrees with the majority or not. On Slashdot, you have to give a justification for why you're up/downvoting. It doesn't feel right to piggyback on "Insightful" or "Interesting" just because you agree, so it would seem like far fewer people do it. The same can be said for negative moderation — you might disagree with someone, but are they actually specifically trolling or offtopic? The words bear more weight than merely downvoting.
Slashdot also makes a distinction between serious and funny posts, which helps separate things. The only flaw is Overrated/Underrated, but that doesn't appear to have corrupted the system so far, perhaps because they feel a bit like a cop-out.
You missed the part where the publication of the sex tape made Hogan lose his WWE contract. We don't know the actual valuation of that contract, but $100M wouldn't necessarily be unheard of in very long duration contracts.
The Xbox app is just for basic functionality (achievements, friends, recording, etc.) and for streaming games from an XB1, it can't actually play XB1 games.
There exists technology to read blood vessel patterns under the skin instead of the fingerprint itself. I hope we see that showing up in phones, because while it's also uniquely identifying, it's much more difficult to copy and obtain.
I'm sorry, but as much as Microsoft's shilling can be annoying, Russia is on a completely different level. Microsoft's shills and FUD are there to push the competition out of the way, which is unethical but that's about it. Russia's shills and trolls are attempting to cover up war crimes, to rationalize invasions, to justify Putin's homophobic policies, and they will go as far as harrassing and threatening people to do so. I frankly doubt Microsoft's astroturfers would call Stallman in the dead of the night and shoot a gun over the phone, but that's what Russia's zombies are doing.
Not just Ontario. Manitoba is 97% hydro and has been since the '90s. Quebec is 96% hydro, much of which comes from the '80s or even older, and is growing wind power capacity. BC is 90% hydro. Newfoundland is about 80% hydro. Alberta and Saskatchewan are very much the odd ducks out of the country, not the opposite.
BC gives tax credits to TV and film production companies and they had a banner year in 2015. I believe Quebec gives tax breaks to game companies and Ubisoft, for example, has a huge number of employees in Montreal.
I've been repeating this ad nauseam: this is where we should be going. It's less expensive in infrastructure (tar sands require roads, electricity, entire towns to be built in far off regions) and it's much more forward-looking. We have excellent universities throughout the country, cheap (cheaper in some places, but still cheap compared to the US) tuition and a solid foundation for an innovation/research-focused economy.
The tax breaks to Ubisoft were a brilliant shot, since they've not only built up a studio of 2700 well-paid employees, they've also attracted/fostered dozens of other studios. Ubisoft branched out in Quebec City, Toronto and Halifax. Other companies like EA, Square Enix, Warner Brothers and more have opened their own studios to take advantage of the tax breaks and the skilled local workforce. At this point, the games industry in Montreal is growing on its own due to a feedback loop of opportunities attracting talent attracting more studios and creating more opportunities.
We don't have to wean ourselves off fossil fuels for Canada to lose their "energy superpower" status. Canada's oil comes from Alberta and Saskatchewan for the most part (there's some in Newfoundland too but that's a different matter), and more specifically from tar sands. Tar sands, beyond being the dirtiest source of oil you can find, are also quite hard to extract oil from, requiring the oil prices to stay above a fairly high value. The recent oil price crash has had a serious impact on our oil production: Alberta's economy tanked hard, they started seeing companies close down, the whole lot.
If we only replaced average commuter cars across the globe, chances are oil prices would dip below what's economically viable for tar sands extraction.
On the other hand, Myhrvold made verifiable claims and corrections, whereas the NASA guys basically just went full ad hominem. I can't say who's right either, but I think NASA is showing a serious lack of professionalism. Shit happens, and yes, it's possible that someone outside the inner circle calls you up on it.
I could see people paying if someone came up with a Netflix for porn: cheap, access to lots of content and some high quality in-house stuff. As it is now, I don't understand, paid porn sites have prices that'd make even cable providers blush.
There's so much wrong here it's not even funny. First of all, I'd recommend using fewer quotes, your post is almost completely unintelligible. Second of all, saying we should all do like a sci-fi TV show which largely relies on magic and pixie dust (but calls it warp and deuterium) is rather naive at best. Tracing infections is an extremely laborious process which would cost the state billions of dollars and require people to stay in quarantine for weeks, which is utterly infeasible regardless of inconvenience. Your so-called "UV baths" and "pills" wouldn't do jack shit: all you'd do is increase skin cancer risks and breed resistant bacteria through constant preventive use of antibiotics.
But really, I wouldn't expect you to understand any of this, since you use the Zika virus as an example, which is a virus only transmitted by mosquitoes. Infected people carry no risk for anyone but themselves.
I know it's really hard to read the full comment before replying, but you'd certainly look less idiotic if you had. I specifically said that if you exclude your child from school because you don't want them vaccinated, it is your duty to see to their full education to the standard of the province. If you cannot do this, the child should be vaccinated and reintegrated into school regardless of your opinion on the topic. Yes, it's harsh, but you sometimes have to be brutal to be effective.
The rest of your comment is a giant slippery slope from not reading my full comment, followed by a completely ridiculous send off that makes you look like yet another batshit insane angry internet man.
My focus is on anti-vaxxers endangering other people, especially those who can't get vaccines for medical reasons - they're usually already at risk and would probably get severely ill from an outbreak. In contrast, vegans don't endanger other people around them, apart from the mental trauma of hearing about veganism constantly of course.
Now, I would much prefer if the parents didn't needlessly endanger or otherwise weaken their children, be it through vaccines or a poor vegan diet or something else, but at least the consequences are a direct result of a choice made by the parent, rather than by someone else who just happens to live in the vicinity.
Vaccination exemptions for non-medical reasons should outright be school exclusions. You should not be able to willingly endanger other students because of vacuous beliefs. Take care of your child's schooling to the standard of the province and you can exclude them all you'll like, don't and they'll be vaccinated and reintegrated into school.
This anti-vaxxer movement needs to be culled ruthlessly.
Two things, mainly: it's yet another future CoD game and those haven't been received all that well (it's super generic boring gruff sci-fi so not particularly charismatic or memorable), and more importantly they're bundling the Modern Warfare remaster with Infinite Warfare. You cannot get the remaster without buying IW, which is sitting pretty at $80.
The CoD trailer is actually up to 1.4M dislikes, so Bieber's video is now just 4x as much, but the CoD video's been out for a week. At the current rate, it might actually become the most disliked video on YouTube.
How did "You can't refuse updates" turn into "All your base are belong to us"? Microsoft's reasoning for this isn't the conspiracy theory that so often shows up on/., it's a much tamer one: Windows has had a long, long history of being the primary (and sometimes only) malware target, and one of the biggest vectors for this was that people would keep refusing/defering updates because they were doing something at the time or didn't want to restart or whatever. They'd have their "friend who's good with computers" come over and disable all those "annoying popups", then a few weeks later they'd be yet another zombie in a botnet or would be infested with adware.
By forcing people to update, no ifs no buts, Microsoft is trying to ensure that as few exploits as possible are available at any given time. It's basically like teaching children to brush their teeth, except the children are petulant adults who never ever want to learn anything about their computers.
On the other hand, we have no idea how these people are as it is. They are declared "brain dead", but are they actually brain dead, or just unable to react to any stimulus? Could we actually free them from their bodily prison with this sort of work? There has been research showing that people previously thought to be brain dead could actually be communicated with using fMRI's combined with very specific setups (basically telling the person to think of something specific for yes and of something completely different for no, then analyzing the scans to determine the answer).
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Why are you assuming you have control over your current computer? Your CPU/GPU/whatever isn't any more open than that "CPU in a CPU". Your motherboard isn't open either. There's absolutely no reason why you'd trust one but not the other, considering they come from the same designer and the same fabs.
Hardware switches (jumpers on the motherboard) are a way of controlling the system available only to the physical owner of the machine. Having a hardware switch would satisfy both the enterprise and security-concious customers.
Would it though? What's to stop whatever nefarious agent who's managed to obtain a sensitive laptop from disabling the switch? I know that they can just avoid connecting to any network and that'd also prevent remote access, but if they disable the entire EC, they can legitimately use the full computer without any further hurdles.
Moreover, Slashdot's moderation system has another important element: justification. On reddit and such, upvoting is basically "that guy speaks the truth!" or "I agree!" while downvoting is "man that's stupid" or similar, and thus becomes biased and more about whether the post/comment agrees with the majority or not. On Slashdot, you have to give a justification for why you're up/downvoting. It doesn't feel right to piggyback on "Insightful" or "Interesting" just because you agree, so it would seem like far fewer people do it. The same can be said for negative moderation — you might disagree with someone, but are they actually specifically trolling or offtopic? The words bear more weight than merely downvoting.
Slashdot also makes a distinction between serious and funny posts, which helps separate things. The only flaw is Overrated/Underrated, but that doesn't appear to have corrupted the system so far, perhaps because they feel a bit like a cop-out.
But maybe we're on to something here . . . maybe we can consolidate schools and prisons . . . ?
Isn't that detention?
You missed the part where the publication of the sex tape made Hogan lose his WWE contract. We don't know the actual valuation of that contract, but $100M wouldn't necessarily be unheard of in very long duration contracts.
The Xbox app is just for basic functionality (achievements, friends, recording, etc.) and for streaming games from an XB1, it can't actually play XB1 games.
... Dual-boot?
There exists technology to read blood vessel patterns under the skin instead of the fingerprint itself. I hope we see that showing up in phones, because while it's also uniquely identifying, it's much more difficult to copy and obtain.
Apparently the Russia apologists also have a lot of mod points today...
I'm sorry, but as much as Microsoft's shilling can be annoying, Russia is on a completely different level. Microsoft's shills and FUD are there to push the competition out of the way, which is unethical but that's about it. Russia's shills and trolls are attempting to cover up war crimes, to rationalize invasions, to justify Putin's homophobic policies, and they will go as far as harrassing and threatening people to do so. I frankly doubt Microsoft's astroturfers would call Stallman in the dead of the night and shoot a gun over the phone, but that's what Russia's zombies are doing.
Not just Ontario. Manitoba is 97% hydro and has been since the '90s. Quebec is 96% hydro, much of which comes from the '80s or even older, and is growing wind power capacity. BC is 90% hydro. Newfoundland is about 80% hydro. Alberta and Saskatchewan are very much the odd ducks out of the country, not the opposite.
BC gives tax credits to TV and film production companies and they had a banner year in 2015. I believe Quebec gives tax breaks to game companies and Ubisoft, for example, has a huge number of employees in Montreal.
I've been repeating this ad nauseam: this is where we should be going. It's less expensive in infrastructure (tar sands require roads, electricity, entire towns to be built in far off regions) and it's much more forward-looking. We have excellent universities throughout the country, cheap (cheaper in some places, but still cheap compared to the US) tuition and a solid foundation for an innovation/research-focused economy.
The tax breaks to Ubisoft were a brilliant shot, since they've not only built up a studio of 2700 well-paid employees, they've also attracted/fostered dozens of other studios. Ubisoft branched out in Quebec City, Toronto and Halifax. Other companies like EA, Square Enix, Warner Brothers and more have opened their own studios to take advantage of the tax breaks and the skilled local workforce. At this point, the games industry in Montreal is growing on its own due to a feedback loop of opportunities attracting talent attracting more studios and creating more opportunities.
We don't have to wean ourselves off fossil fuels for Canada to lose their "energy superpower" status. Canada's oil comes from Alberta and Saskatchewan for the most part (there's some in Newfoundland too but that's a different matter), and more specifically from tar sands. Tar sands, beyond being the dirtiest source of oil you can find, are also quite hard to extract oil from, requiring the oil prices to stay above a fairly high value. The recent oil price crash has had a serious impact on our oil production: Alberta's economy tanked hard, they started seeing companies close down, the whole lot.
If we only replaced average commuter cars across the globe, chances are oil prices would dip below what's economically viable for tar sands extraction.
On the other hand, Myhrvold made verifiable claims and corrections, whereas the NASA guys basically just went full ad hominem. I can't say who's right either, but I think NASA is showing a serious lack of professionalism. Shit happens, and yes, it's possible that someone outside the inner circle calls you up on it.
Wait, really? éâèïç?
I could see people paying if someone came up with a Netflix for porn: cheap, access to lots of content and some high quality in-house stuff. As it is now, I don't understand, paid porn sites have prices that'd make even cable providers blush.
There's so much wrong here it's not even funny. First of all, I'd recommend using fewer quotes, your post is almost completely unintelligible. Second of all, saying we should all do like a sci-fi TV show which largely relies on magic and pixie dust (but calls it warp and deuterium) is rather naive at best. Tracing infections is an extremely laborious process which would cost the state billions of dollars and require people to stay in quarantine for weeks, which is utterly infeasible regardless of inconvenience. Your so-called "UV baths" and "pills" wouldn't do jack shit: all you'd do is increase skin cancer risks and breed resistant bacteria through constant preventive use of antibiotics.
But really, I wouldn't expect you to understand any of this, since you use the Zika virus as an example, which is a virus only transmitted by mosquitoes. Infected people carry no risk for anyone but themselves.
I know it's really hard to read the full comment before replying, but you'd certainly look less idiotic if you had. I specifically said that if you exclude your child from school because you don't want them vaccinated, it is your duty to see to their full education to the standard of the province. If you cannot do this, the child should be vaccinated and reintegrated into school regardless of your opinion on the topic. Yes, it's harsh, but you sometimes have to be brutal to be effective.
The rest of your comment is a giant slippery slope from not reading my full comment, followed by a completely ridiculous send off that makes you look like yet another batshit insane angry internet man.
My focus is on anti-vaxxers endangering other people, especially those who can't get vaccines for medical reasons - they're usually already at risk and would probably get severely ill from an outbreak. In contrast, vegans don't endanger other people around them, apart from the mental trauma of hearing about veganism constantly of course.
Now, I would much prefer if the parents didn't needlessly endanger or otherwise weaken their children, be it through vaccines or a poor vegan diet or something else, but at least the consequences are a direct result of a choice made by the parent, rather than by someone else who just happens to live in the vicinity.
Vaccination exemptions for non-medical reasons should outright be school exclusions. You should not be able to willingly endanger other students because of vacuous beliefs. Take care of your child's schooling to the standard of the province and you can exclude them all you'll like, don't and they'll be vaccinated and reintegrated into school.
This anti-vaxxer movement needs to be culled ruthlessly.
Just lacking an engine block is inherently giving Tesla's cars a safety boost.
Two things, mainly: it's yet another future CoD game and those haven't been received all that well (it's super generic boring gruff sci-fi so not particularly charismatic or memorable), and more importantly they're bundling the Modern Warfare remaster with Infinite Warfare. You cannot get the remaster without buying IW, which is sitting pretty at $80.
The CoD trailer is actually up to 1.4M dislikes, so Bieber's video is now just 4x as much, but the CoD video's been out for a week. At the current rate, it might actually become the most disliked video on YouTube.
How did "You can't refuse updates" turn into "All your base are belong to us"? Microsoft's reasoning for this isn't the conspiracy theory that so often shows up on /., it's a much tamer one: Windows has had a long, long history of being the primary (and sometimes only) malware target, and one of the biggest vectors for this was that people would keep refusing/defering updates because they were doing something at the time or didn't want to restart or whatever. They'd have their "friend who's good with computers" come over and disable all those "annoying popups", then a few weeks later they'd be yet another zombie in a botnet or would be infested with adware.
By forcing people to update, no ifs no buts, Microsoft is trying to ensure that as few exploits as possible are available at any given time. It's basically like teaching children to brush their teeth, except the children are petulant adults who never ever want to learn anything about their computers.
On the other hand, we have no idea how these people are as it is. They are declared "brain dead", but are they actually brain dead, or just unable to react to any stimulus? Could we actually free them from their bodily prison with this sort of work? There has been research showing that people previously thought to be brain dead could actually be communicated with using fMRI's combined with very specific setups (basically telling the person to think of something specific for yes and of something completely different for no, then analyzing the scans to determine the answer).