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  1. Re:wave goodbye to AMD on A New AMD Licensing Deal Could Create More x86 Rivals For Intel (pcworld.com) · · Score: 1

    AMD is dying anyway at least as far as x86 whether they help the Chinese or not. I thought their bid for heterogeneous processing would save them but apparently there is not enough market demand for such a thing.

  2. Re: Yeah but... on A New AMD Licensing Deal Could Create More x86 Rivals For Intel (pcworld.com) · · Score: 1

    Something broken like ECC support?

    No, their market segmentation is very deliberate and shrewd and has been so since the 875P chipset which was the last or close to the last non-Xeon design to support ECC.

  3. As I was saying, she stumbled upon a solution whereby nearly ninety-nine percent of the test subjects accepted the program provided they were given a choice - even if they were only aware of it at a near-unconscious level. While this solution worked, it was fundamentally flawed, creating the otherwise contradictory systemic anomaly, that, if left unchecked, might threaten the system itself. Ergo, those who refused the program, while a minority, would constitute an escalating probability of disaster. - The Architect

  4. Re:Rule of law on Anders Behring Breivik, Norway Murderer, Wins Human Rights Case · · Score: 1

    Western European prisons, and Scandinavian prisons in particular, are very different from the US hellholes. They don't dehumanise inmates to nearly the same degree, and as a result, most prisoners don't behave like crazy monkeys fighting a turf war. The rate of incarceration in Norway nearly ten times lower than in the US, and the level of recidivism is only 20% [businessinsider.com], as opposed to nearly 80% in the US.

    Without a high incarceration and recidivism rate, how do they keep unemployment for lawyers and law enforcement officers low?

  5. Re:Domestic Spying is a Crime With No Punishment on Court Troubled By Surveillance Excesses At FBI, NSA (politico.com) · · Score: 1

    What are the ramifications if they get caught?

    The court will send them a strongly worded letter stating that they will be troubled next time they get caught also.

  6. Re:After running Edward Snowden out of town on FBI Tells Congress It Needs Hackers To Keep Up With Tech Company Encryption (buzzfeed.com) · · Score: 1

    Indeed. One of the last steps in this process is prevent citizens from leaving the country by use of mine-fields, electric fences, etc. to limit the brain-drain. That has never worked well either.

    It does not work in Sim City either. Of course I lacked mines and fencing and could only bulldoze the roads leading away.

  7. Re:We hackers are happy to help the good guys. Not on FBI Tells Congress It Needs Hackers To Keep Up With Tech Company Encryption (buzzfeed.com) · · Score: 1

    How many politicians are in jail, how many CEOs, how many multi-millionaires?

    They went after the Quest CEO and put him in jail for 6 years after he refused to cooperate with the NSA.

  8. Re:Layoffs in the Valley... on Intel Confirms Major Layoff: 12,000 Worldwide, 11 Percent of Workforce (ieee.org) · · Score: 1

    Intel managed to establish their brand for the consumer market just in time for the Pentium FDIV bug.

  9. Maybe the aliens are in contact with NASA/Government

    Maybe aliens are NASA and the government.

    This is why it is important to vote so the wrong lizard alien does not get into office.

  10. Re:On the books, not in force on Sanders Campaign Accused of Trademark Bullying By Web Site (buzzfeed.com) · · Score: 1

    Because they can use it for intimidation until they really need it. Then they arrest troublemakers or otherwise tie them up in court, and drop it making the case moot before a review would create unfavorable precedence. It is just another law which can be selectively enforced.

  11. Re:Bad lawyers on Sanders Campaign Accused of Trademark Bullying By Web Site (buzzfeed.com) · · Score: 1

    Oh, and I would consider this an excellent qualification for president. The President should have the best plausible deniability available to him.

  12. Re:Bad lawyers on Sanders Campaign Accused of Trademark Bullying By Web Site (buzzfeed.com) · · Score: 1

    I am sure they have a form letter for when a unwarranted and malicious legal action is taken and the subject resists creating bad publicity. The buck does *not* stop with Bernie Sanders.

  13. Re:Yes, It is a Law on Sanders Campaign Accused of Trademark Bullying By Web Site (buzzfeed.com) · · Score: 1

    Overthrow with by electing candidates into office? Why do we even have elections if they allow that? Oh, they do not. We just have two faces of the same party.

  14. Re:On the books, not in force on Sanders Campaign Accused of Trademark Bullying By Web Site (buzzfeed.com) · · Score: 1

    From the article: "In 1973 a federal district court in Arizona decided that the act was unconstitutional".

    Which only applies in that district. From the same article:

    However, the Supreme Court of the United States has not ruled on the act's constitutionality.

    So it remains a law except in that district which the federal government can use at any time.

  15. Re: US election on Sanders Campaign Accused of Trademark Bullying By Web Site (buzzfeed.com) · · Score: 1

    I will tell you one thing that is in the constitution, which is that armed rebellion is treason.

    So like law enforcement routinely violating the 4th amendment through civil assets forfeiture at the point of a gun?

  16. Re:good miniaturation on New Full Duplex Radio Chip Transmits and Receives Wireless Signals At Once (ieee.org) · · Score: 1

    Bah. I entered the link and Slashdot removed it.

    http://techlib.com/files/RFDes...

  17. Re:good miniaturation on New Full Duplex Radio Chip Transmits and Receives Wireless Signals At Once (ieee.org) · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Active circulators with an arbitrary number of ports have been known of for decades but they have to operate within the noise, power, and linearity of their active devices. When used to separate a transmitter and receiver on the same frequency, their limited isolation will cause major problems on the receive side. Their big advantage is that they can operate over wide bandwidths which makes them very useful for test instrumentation.

    This design was published in 1991 and would be useless in this application. I ran across it when it was included in one of my microwave engineering books.

    I suspect the refinement they came up with involves a second adaptable stage to cancel feedthrough and near end echo but in order to do this, the output of the final amplifier has to be sampled to include its high levels of noise and even if it all works perfectly, all of the noise contributed in those circuits will get added to the receiver. I looked at doing something similar by sampling an earlier stage but just the noise contributed by the final amplifier was enough to overload the receiver. You can see this effect when powering up a SSB transmitter with no modulation which promptly raises the noise level for the entire band.

  18. Re:Basis for the "third party doctrine"? on Top FBI Attorney Worried About WhatsApp Encryption (usnews.com) · · Score: 1

    That is a very low bar and who knows what is going on with secret warrants.

    The DOJ position is that data which is captured is not "seized" unless a human actually looks at it so automated snooping on everything is completely legal. If they find something, then parallel construction prevents court review. I suspect they are also playing games with the third party doctrine and considering the IP headers meta-data to be seized and the contents to be third party data which does not require a warrant.

    As far as I am concerned, the only remedy is to opportunistically encrypt everything; technological methods are the only way to enforce the 4th amendment now.

  19. Re:Uh huh... on Burr-Feinstein Anti-Encryption Bill Is Officially Released (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 1

    Go find a constitutional challenge where the court said that the power congress was using was the general welfare power; there is not one.

    General welfare describes what Congress may use its powers for just like common defense. It is not an enumerated power in itself.

  20. Re:Coal Powered Cars Are Awesome. /s on Tesla Updates Model S With New Front-End, Air Filtration System, Faster Charging (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    Establish battery recycling programs on an industrial scale, comparable to the high-90 percentile rate at which current lead-acid car batteries are recycled.

    Why? Is there some content inside the lithium batteries which is valuable enough to make this worthwhile? Lead batteries are recycled because lead is expensive and easy to recycle.

  21. Re:It should be shaped more like a cooling tower. on Architects Design a 65-Story Data Center (computerworld.com) · · Score: 1

    A hyperboloid is used for large cooling towers because the inherent strength of the shape requires a minimum of material for a given size. This data center building is puny in comparison so there is no reason to use a hyperboloid shape.

  22. Re:7.62x63mm on New Metal Foam Armor Obliterates Bullets To Dust On Impact (discovery.com) · · Score: 1

    30-06 is one of the few calibers where real armor piercing bullets are available to civilians. You can still find Lake City 30-06 AP and it is non-magnetic because the core is tungsten carbide and not steel.

  23. Re:Define "unbreakable" on Senate Bill Draft Would Prohibit Unbreakable Encryption (ap.org) · · Score: 1

    Just like the current copyright term is "limited" even though it will never end.

  24. Re:What planet are they smoking? on Senate Bill Draft Would Prohibit Unbreakable Encryption (ap.org) · · Score: 1

    I agree that it is infeasible from a practical standpoint and a really bad idea but how it is technically infeasible? The Clipper design was flawed but key escrow via a law enforcement access field would work. They would have to outlaw the use of other than approved encryption of course.

  25. Re: Second Amendment Issue? on Senate Bill Draft Would Prohibit Unbreakable Encryption (ap.org) · · Score: 0

    The ACLU's position is a practical one even though it undermines at least every other right which uses the term "people". When the ACLU was formed, one of the requirements from a major donor was that they *not* defend the 2nd amendment as an individual right.

    That's right. The ACLU's position on the 2nd amendment was bought with money. How virtuous they are.