And they've refused to co-operate with an FCC inquiry into what went wrong, even though the Hawaii EMA said it was hoping they would cooperate and was encouraging them to do so.
That right there tells me they should be fired and persecuted. No employee with the kind of forethought to exercise their 5th amendment rights should be permitted to work in government; they are too good for that and it is a waste of talent.
So the same agencies which were over-alerting are complaining that over-alerting is rendering the emergency alert system ineffective? Fuck them.
The obvious solution is to not allow users to disable the alerts so they have to deal with all of them. Also make it unlawful to disable or not carry their phones also, for the children.
The DEA leaving patients with a legitimate need for narcotic painkillers without them and persecuting doctors who were proscribing them to these patients did not help.
Ultimately this is the fault of Congress and the people who voted for them.
This is like spending 50 years in the court system over someone jaywalking when he never jaywalked in the first place.
But that would never happen. Jaywalking is a "civil crime" so there is no right to a trial or jury or any of that nonsense. You get convicted before you show up and that is that.
But what's the solution? Encourage the government to do a better job, or elect better leaders, or start protesting the megacorps that are pushing tough IP enforcement, or just start breaking the law when convenient?
Since the people who would have to pass the solution have an interest in not listening to it and not passing it, the only solution is a violent revolution. Voting is irrelevant because voters are not represented. There are no better leaders because they are chosen ahead of time. How many politicians have to be bribed to get what you want? Both of them.
I want to say "I hope the DNC has learned a valuable lesson about email and network security," but that would imply I think the DNC is capable of learning from their mistakes.
The DNC did not learn anything about not having sham primary elections where the winner is picked ahead of time so why would they care about anything else?
Also, impeachment has a definition, with procedures defined behind it. "We don't like him" is not included in "treason, bribery, or other high crimes or misdemeanors"...
Congress defines what "high crimes and misdemeanors" are and there is no reason to think that the court would overrule them instead of saying that it is a "political question".
and you should be glad for that, or every single President would constantly be having fringe cranks from the opposition party drumming up real impeachment resolutions in Congress rather than the joke speeches and stunts we get today.
Fringe cranks in the opposition party routinely file for impeachment proceedings.
I'm fairly sure StarTech make decent PCIe RS232 cards. I've not tried the serial one, but the parallel one was excellent. Proper full hardware, complete with the old fashioned inb/outb access if you want it. Basically indistinguishable from one built into the motherboard.
PCI and PCIe interface cards are plentiful so it is not much of a problem unless you want to interface to a laptop or something. Even there, you can find RS-232 Expresscard and similar cards for laptops. I keep a couple of legacy desktops for this stuff plus my main workstation has a PCI RS-232 and parallel adapter card. Originally I bought the motherboard for it *because* the documentation for it listed an RS-232 port but they left the external level shifter off. So it has one as far as the OS is concerned but it is unusable.
"explicit consent" of the car owners -- who signed a lengthy contract at purchase time that contained a vague and misleading clause deep in its fine-print.
What about second-hand buyers? They don't typically sign a contract with original dealer or manufacturer.
Both parties suck at many things, but the democrats have always treated state's rights more seriously than republicans, who only pay attention to it when it hampers their business interests.
They sure are and not just on federalism. State's rights are normally associated with the right but the left pushes them just as much when they serve their purpose. They have the same policies on executive power; it is great when their own party has it. Also known as the "it's not evil when we do it" rationalization.
Too funny. Republicans are staunch defenders of "state's rights" right up until they interfere with any corporate interests they're beholden to that might have their profits threatened.
Both parties are the same way. States rights are a great idea when they interfere with the other party.
At the very least, forcing its opponents to fight the Net Neutrality battle at the State level multiplies the resources needed and aggravates those who benefit from its repeal.
In this case it also drags the 9th and 10th Amendments into a court fight where the federal government risks a decision expanding state's rights.
Oh, they were prepared for this. The new FCC rules explicitly forbid states from defining their own net neutrality laws.
As long as an ISP crosses state lines to provide Internet access (and, internet, so they do), the states can't regulate them because it's explicitly in the domain of the federal government.
They were ready and already cut these off a the knees.
What the FCC (and Congress) cannot do is order the states who they must do business with just like the federal government cannot order state law enforcement to enforce federal laws.
Montana is free to regulate ISPs that only provide connections to services within the state of Montana, but if they provide access to anything outside the state - that's the FCC's domain.
The states cannot even do that because the courts have ruled that anything *affecting* interstate commerce can be regulated under the interstate commerce clause as well. Even if the activity is purely intrastate, it counts. If the activity uses anything which passed in or affects interstate commerce, then it counts.
By the time the 17th Amendment was ratified, a majority of the states already elected their US senators by popular vote so the effect of the Amendment was minor.
But, at least on Intel's microarchitecture, they still affect the cache, which is the reason Meltdown works.
It's different on AMD's microarchitecture.
It is not that Intel's microarchitecture allows speculative loads to affect the cache but that it allows speculative instructions to operate on data which would otherwise generate a protection fault when accessed.
Did AMD block speculative loads or block speculative instructions which operate on protected data? Either should prevent Meltdown.
All it says is how many transistors can be crammed on a die. There is a lower lower limit to how big a transistor can be since you can't make it smaller than the electrons that flow through it.
No.
Moore's Law is about the *cost* per transistor and it does not matter how the cost per transistor decreases. The semiconductor dies may be larger, multiple semiconductor dies may be packaged together, or the transistors may be made smaller. The decrease in cost per transistor may even come at the expense of transistor performance which has happened several times.
About 10 years ago, I visited a company that had just moved their old DOS-based control software into a VM for precisely this reason: they could install a USB RS-232 adaptor on their host and expose an emulated RS-232 device to the VM.
Some really clunky old kit requires obscure features of RS-232 that aren't all that well supported on USB-RS232 adapters. Fortunately you can buy PCIe RS232 cards which present a full UART and pass that through instead in those odd cases.
It isn't just the lack of emulation of obscure features. I gave up on USB-RS232 adapters long ago when they could not even handle a three wire connection to my GPS. If the RS-232 is not on an expansion card with a full UART interface, then I am not interested because it is a waste of time.
How about you get over Benghazi and her emails? You know the difference between those stories and Russia? The investigations were completed and found nothing.
Go read the results of the FBI investigation into Vince Foster's death and tell me they found nothing.
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If government agencies want my respect, then they can earn it. They do not get the benefit of my doubt.
And they've refused to co-operate with an FCC inquiry into what went wrong, even though the Hawaii EMA said it was hoping they would cooperate and was encouraging them to do so.
That right there tells me they should be fired and persecuted. No employee with the kind of forethought to exercise their 5th amendment rights should be permitted to work in government; they are too good for that and it is a waste of talent.
So the same agencies which were over-alerting are complaining that over-alerting is rendering the emergency alert system ineffective? Fuck them.
The obvious solution is to not allow users to disable the alerts so they have to deal with all of them. Also make it unlawful to disable or not carry their phones also, for the children.
The DEA leaving patients with a legitimate need for narcotic painkillers without them and persecuting doctors who were proscribing them to these patients did not help.
Ultimately this is the fault of Congress and the people who voted for them.
This is like spending 50 years in the court system over someone jaywalking when he never jaywalked in the first place.
But that would never happen. Jaywalking is a "civil crime" so there is no right to a trial or jury or any of that nonsense. You get convicted before you show up and that is that.
But what's the solution? Encourage the government to do a better job, or elect better leaders, or start protesting the megacorps that are pushing tough IP enforcement, or just start breaking the law when convenient?
Since the people who would have to pass the solution have an interest in not listening to it and not passing it, the only solution is a violent revolution. Voting is irrelevant because voters are not represented. There are no better leaders because they are chosen ahead of time. How many politicians have to be bribed to get what you want? Both of them.
Right, so all laws should be ignored.
If governments wanted laws to be obeyed, then they should set a better example.
Disneyland is not staffed with gestapo.
Compare the Disneyland of today to the Disneyland of 20 years ago and you might think so.
What was the justification again for searching customers to make sure they do not bring food, drink, or snacks into the park?
I want to say "I hope the DNC has learned a valuable lesson about email and network security," but that would imply I think the DNC is capable of learning from their mistakes.
The DNC did not learn anything about not having sham primary elections where the winner is picked ahead of time so why would they care about anything else?
Also, impeachment has a definition, with procedures defined behind it. "We don't like him" is not included in "treason, bribery, or other high crimes or misdemeanors" ...
Congress defines what "high crimes and misdemeanors" are and there is no reason to think that the court would overrule them instead of saying that it is a "political question".
and you should be glad for that, or every single President would constantly be having fringe cranks from the opposition party drumming up real impeachment resolutions in Congress rather than the joke speeches and stunts we get today.
Fringe cranks in the opposition party routinely file for impeachment proceedings.
I'm fairly sure StarTech make decent PCIe RS232 cards. I've not tried the serial one, but the parallel one was excellent. Proper full hardware, complete with the old fashioned inb/outb access if you want it. Basically indistinguishable from one built into the motherboard.
PCI and PCIe interface cards are plentiful so it is not much of a problem unless you want to interface to a laptop or something. Even there, you can find RS-232 Expresscard and similar cards for laptops. I keep a couple of legacy desktops for this stuff plus my main workstation has a PCI RS-232 and parallel adapter card. Originally I bought the motherboard for it *because* the documentation for it listed an RS-232 port but they left the external level shifter off. So it has one as far as the OS is concerned but it is unusable.
Do DNS queries work? Then free internet.
What about second-hand buyers? They don't typically sign a contract with original dealer or manufacturer.
The contract forbids second-hand buyers.
Both parties are the same way.
That statement is simply not true.
Both parties suck at many things, but the democrats have always treated state's rights more seriously than republicans, who only pay attention to it when it hampers their business interests.
They sure are and not just on federalism. State's rights are normally associated with the right but the left pushes them just as much when they serve their purpose. They have the same policies on executive power; it is great when their own party has it. Also known as the "it's not evil when we do it" rationalization.
https://www.washingtonpost.com...
http://reason.com/archives/201...
"he never actually read Robert Heinlein's original book"
well not that shocked.
So the movie was based on a book title?
Would shooting someone who may have been a hostage without taking the time to find out who he was constitute gross misconduct?
You're joking, right? The FBI does it all the time.
https://www.click2houston.com/...
Too funny. Republicans are staunch defenders of "state's rights" right up until they interfere with any corporate interests they're beholden to that might have their profits threatened.
Both parties are the same way. States rights are a great idea when they interfere with the other party.
At the very least, forcing its opponents to fight the Net Neutrality battle at the State level multiplies the resources needed and aggravates those who benefit from its repeal.
In this case it also drags the 9th and 10th Amendments into a court fight where the federal government risks a decision expanding state's rights.
Oh, they were prepared for this. The new FCC rules explicitly forbid states from defining their own net neutrality laws.
As long as an ISP crosses state lines to provide Internet access (and, internet, so they do), the states can't regulate them because it's explicitly in the domain of the federal government.
They were ready and already cut these off a the knees.
What the FCC (and Congress) cannot do is order the states who they must do business with just like the federal government cannot order state law enforcement to enforce federal laws.
Montana is free to regulate ISPs that only provide connections to services within the state of Montana, but if they provide access to anything outside the state - that's the FCC's domain.
The states cannot even do that because the courts have ruled that anything *affecting* interstate commerce can be regulated under the interstate commerce clause as well. Even if the activity is purely intrastate, it counts. If the activity uses anything which passed in or affects interstate commerce, then it counts.
By the time the 17th Amendment was ratified, a majority of the states already elected their US senators by popular vote so the effect of the Amendment was minor.
But, at least on Intel's microarchitecture, they still affect the cache, which is the reason Meltdown works.
It's different on AMD's microarchitecture.
It is not that Intel's microarchitecture allows speculative loads to affect the cache but that it allows speculative instructions to operate on data which would otherwise generate a protection fault when accessed.
Did AMD block speculative loads or block speculative instructions which operate on protected data? Either should prevent Meltdown.
The process doing the probing gets the GP faults. It's relying on the fact that even though the accesses fault they still affect the cache.
Speculated accesses do not fault because they are rolled back by being ignored at instruction retirement.
All it says is how many transistors can be crammed on a die. There is a lower lower limit to how big a transistor can be since you can't make it smaller than the electrons that flow through it.
No.
Moore's Law is about the *cost* per transistor and it does not matter how the cost per transistor decreases. The semiconductor dies may be larger, multiple semiconductor dies may be packaged together, or the transistors may be made smaller. The decrease in cost per transistor may even come at the expense of transistor performance which has happened several times.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
About 10 years ago, I visited a company that had just moved their old DOS-based control software into a VM for precisely this reason: they could install a USB RS-232 adaptor on their host and expose an emulated RS-232 device to the VM.
Some really clunky old kit requires obscure features of RS-232 that aren't all that well supported on USB-RS232 adapters. Fortunately you can buy PCIe RS232 cards which present a full UART and pass that through instead in those odd cases.
It isn't just the lack of emulation of obscure features. I gave up on USB-RS232 adapters long ago when they could not even handle a three wire connection to my GPS. If the RS-232 is not on an expansion card with a full UART interface, then I am not interested because it is a waste of time.
How about you get over Benghazi and her emails? You know the difference between those stories and Russia? The investigations were completed and found nothing.
Go read the results of the FBI investigation into Vince Foster's death and tell me they found nothing.