I like your scare quotes while referring to what is at the moment the fastest single storage device on the planet. (really just a raid in an unusual package, but still)
It looks like just scaremongering from this "pc perspective" outlet. They never say they tried it, and I'd be willing to bet that nothing would happen if I plugged it into the wrong port.
Yes, I have done aviation safety studies. Can you tell?
No, actually I can't. As far as I know there are two estimators of aircraft type and airline safety... fatalities per passenger-mile and fatalities per passenger flight, and you mention neither of these.
I can't believe your attitude regarding this story. This is archaeology at its worst. The lunar module, the plaque, the flag, whatever else should be preserved. To prevent people from visiting the site because it is somehow sacred as an archaeological artifact is bullshit. This person would have us never set foot on any site of historical significance and preserve every smallest thing associated with it.
For fuck's sake dude, it's not that people think you're lying, it's that $650/month + $450/month insurance with a clean driving record means you were driving a disgustingly, outrageously overpriced luxury car. In most places you can finance at least three cars for this money.
I don't think AMD has ever been a good investment. They are the little energizer bunny from hell to keep Intel execs awake at night, they're one of the best things to ever happen to technological progress, but the flipside is that their financials are always somewhere between "underperforming" and "imminent bankruptcy". It's pretty amazing actually. If every company was driven the way AMD was driven, humanity would be a lot farther along by now and, well, let's just say wealth distribution would be a bit different on this planet.
There are at this time about a bazillion comments here pointing out that a privilege escalation that requires root access is not a privilege escalation.
I don't know what the authors of those comments were doing for the past 5 years, because they should really consider whether they are qualified to talk on the subject. AMD and Intel have been incorporating virtualization and paravirtualization support into their CPUs for a long time, and there is a massive market for these solutions. For an equal amount of time security researchers have been messing around finding exploits like this one in the hardware. Privilege escalation from domain to hypervisor/cross-domain level is a breach of the virtualization security model, and you can bet your ass it's a serious security issue. And if your favorite virtualization solution doesn't consider this a root exploit, then that solution is broken. Because there's no way anyone in their right mind running something like 50 domains on some 24-core beast - made specifically to virtualize the crap out of everything - will consider those domains being able to get root in all other domains to be anything short of a huge problem.
tl;dr: root is not root if you are in a guest domain. (cue inane Matrix reference to taste)
In this case, it sounds like someone knew exactly what they were doing, and they knew there was nothing they could steal, and brought along serious equipment. This was certainly sabotage, the question is by whom.
Wrong. CFLs will never overcome their disadvantages, because they contain a poisonous chemical (mercury) and will be replaced by LED lighting at first opportunity. The people denouncing CFLs have a very valid point - CFLs produce mercury contamination in a less controlled manner than power plants do. LED lights however have no such disadvantages and are in every relevant sense superior to all other forms of lighting we have.
What you say is true within the confines of your house's thermal insulation. However, electric heat is a very inefficient way to heat a house compared to gas or oil heating due to transmission losses that happen outside your house.
Where exactly do you think the tank goes after MECO?
The shuttle doesn't have a lot of maneuvering authority after MECO. To stay in space, it fires the OMS to circularize its orbit. The main tank has almost exactly the same orbit until that point, but doesn't circularize it, so it falls back down into the atmosphere. At the apogee, it's very much in space, though.
The funny thing about UT3 is that everyone agrees that it failed to live up to UT2004's awesomeness, but nobody can agree on the reasons for it.
Beyond the excellent onslaught mode and all the good stuff it succeeded in carrying over from UT, there was something ephemeral to UT2004's success. A lot of people say that UT3's fault is that it was developed for the PS3. I'm not sure how true that is. But UT2004 was a reboot of UT2003; maybe the Titan Pack can serve as the same kind of reboot for UT3, maybe not. I hope it will, or that Epic will make something unreal again to return it to popularity, because the Unreal series rocks.
To fail at basic info like that, shows a disregard for scientific knowledge.
No. Failing to name the exact or +/- 10% fraction of Earth that is covered in water most emphatically does NOT demonstrate a disregard for scientific knowledge.
NTFS-3G sucks really, really hard. I tried to use it to copy a bunch of files between partitions and it left the second partition in an unusable state (basically the files were insanely fragmented and both Linux and Windows would choke just trying to read the filesystem).
So maybe it's usable for editing small amounts of files, or files that already exist, but it is in no way a replacement for native or networked filesystems.
Fuck you, kdawson. You and other editors like you are the reason Slashdot's editorial quality is worse than it has ever been, and insightful discussion is vanishing.
You should read "The structure of scientific revolutions". There is a large body of work associated with the phenomena you describe, and most scientific communities take a lot of care to prevent the negative effects.
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I like your scare quotes while referring to what is at the moment the fastest single storage device on the planet. (really just a raid in an unusual package, but still)
It looks like just scaremongering from this "pc perspective" outlet. They never say they tried it, and I'd be willing to bet that nothing would happen if I plugged it into the wrong port.
Where's the Chilling Effects Clearinghouse when you need it? Google claims to submit all DMCA requests to the CEC, why doesn't Yahoo?
Yes, I have done aviation safety studies. Can you tell?
No, actually I can't. As far as I know there are two estimators of aircraft type and airline safety... fatalities per passenger-mile and fatalities per passenger flight, and you mention neither of these.
Please explain how Science has a liberal bias.
Cut out sugar, flour, bread, pasta, rice, potatoes from your diet. They spike your insulin and give you that gnawing hunger.
What?
I don't even know where to start. This is horrible advice. Sugar, yes. Every other item you listed? I'm speechless.
I can't believe your attitude regarding this story. This is archaeology at its worst. The lunar module, the plaque, the flag, whatever else should be preserved. To prevent people from visiting the site because it is somehow sacred as an archaeological artifact is bullshit. This person would have us never set foot on any site of historical significance and preserve every smallest thing associated with it.
For fuck's sake dude, it's not that people think you're lying, it's that $650/month + $450/month insurance with a clean driving record means you were driving a disgustingly, outrageously overpriced luxury car. In most places you can finance at least three cars for this money.
That's pretty awesome, congrats. Cycling FTW. I started commuting by bike 3 years ago and don't intend to ever quit.
I don't think AMD has ever been a good investment. They are the little energizer bunny from hell to keep Intel execs awake at night, they're one of the best things to ever happen to technological progress, but the flipside is that their financials are always somewhere between "underperforming" and "imminent bankruptcy". It's pretty amazing actually. If every company was driven the way AMD was driven, humanity would be a lot farther along by now and, well, let's just say wealth distribution would be a bit different on this planet.
its power consumption per unit of computation goes UP when it gets hotter
Could you elaborate on that?
There are at this time about a bazillion comments here pointing out that a privilege escalation that requires root access is not a privilege escalation.
I don't know what the authors of those comments were doing for the past 5 years, because they should really consider whether they are qualified to talk on the subject. AMD and Intel have been incorporating virtualization and paravirtualization support into their CPUs for a long time, and there is a massive market for these solutions. For an equal amount of time security researchers have been messing around finding exploits like this one in the hardware. Privilege escalation from domain to hypervisor/cross-domain level is a breach of the virtualization security model, and you can bet your ass it's a serious security issue. And if your favorite virtualization solution doesn't consider this a root exploit, then that solution is broken. Because there's no way anyone in their right mind running something like 50 domains on some 24-core beast - made specifically to virtualize the crap out of everything - will consider those domains being able to get root in all other domains to be anything short of a huge problem.
tl;dr: root is not root if you are in a guest domain. (cue inane Matrix reference to taste)
In this case, it sounds like someone knew exactly what they were doing, and they knew there was nothing they could steal, and brought along serious equipment. This was certainly sabotage, the question is by whom.
Those who fail to learn the history of Tesla vs. Edison are doomed to repeat it.
Power conditioning in your house may suck. I have a similar problem in one of the places I live and I attribute it to bad power.
Wrong. CFLs will never overcome their disadvantages, because they contain a poisonous chemical (mercury) and will be replaced by LED lighting at first opportunity. The people denouncing CFLs have a very valid point - CFLs produce mercury contamination in a less controlled manner than power plants do. LED lights however have no such disadvantages and are in every relevant sense superior to all other forms of lighting we have.
What you say is true within the confines of your house's thermal insulation. However, electric heat is a very inefficient way to heat a house compared to gas or oil heating due to transmission losses that happen outside your house.
Google can be an arrogant bunch at times, and they are a bit green in the ears when it comes to politics.
Long may it continue that way.
Where exactly do you think the tank goes after MECO?
The shuttle doesn't have a lot of maneuvering authority after MECO. To stay in space, it fires the OMS to circularize its orbit. The main tank has almost exactly the same orbit until that point, but doesn't circularize it, so it falls back down into the atmosphere. At the apogee, it's very much in space, though.
The funny thing about UT3 is that everyone agrees that it failed to live up to UT2004's awesomeness, but nobody can agree on the reasons for it.
Beyond the excellent onslaught mode and all the good stuff it succeeded in carrying over from UT, there was something ephemeral to UT2004's success. A lot of people say that UT3's fault is that it was developed for the PS3. I'm not sure how true that is. But UT2004 was a reboot of UT2003; maybe the Titan Pack can serve as the same kind of reboot for UT3, maybe not. I hope it will, or that Epic will make something unreal again to return it to popularity, because the Unreal series rocks.
To fail at basic info like that, shows a disregard for scientific knowledge.
No. Failing to name the exact or +/- 10% fraction of Earth that is covered in water most emphatically does NOT demonstrate a disregard for scientific knowledge.
Not to mention being the second architecture by count in the Top500 and being in the 4th and 5th fastest supercomputers in the world...
NTFS-3G sucks really, really hard. I tried to use it to copy a bunch of files between partitions and it left the second partition in an unusable state (basically the files were insanely fragmented and both Linux and Windows would choke just trying to read the filesystem).
So maybe it's usable for editing small amounts of files, or files that already exist, but it is in no way a replacement for native or networked filesystems.
Fuck you, kdawson. You and other editors like you are the reason Slashdot's editorial quality is worse than it has ever been, and insightful discussion is vanishing.
You should read "The structure of scientific revolutions". There is a large body of work associated with the phenomena you describe, and most scientific communities take a lot of care to prevent the negative effects.