It might only have to access it and that can be done through the OS now. It might be possible to piggyback on that, no?
No, actually, not really. There are registers that, after a certain point of the bring-up process for the silicon, are locked out from access in production parts. In testing the boot process is halted at a certain point in order to 'unlock' parts and allow access to various registers. Once an OS is booted, it's no longer possible to access some of those registers.
It's true. It's incredibly expensive to scrap silicon once it's been cut from the wafer, attached to the package, and tested. They'll fuse them differently and mark them differently and sell them. The consequence of just shit-canning everything but the cream-of-the-crop parts would be you'd pay $1000 for a CPU (or some such relatively astronomical figure). Also, there is such a thing as 'margining', where silicon is tested beyond the design parameters, but not 'officially' rated for operation outside those parameters, to ensure reliable operation if the silicon is in some circumstances pushed to extremes.
I wonder if a rootkit could make the motherboard burn up the CPU? Poof! La computer muerte.
Depends on how the power delivery on the motherboard is designed, really. You'd have to be able to turn up the supply rails well beyond the margin the silicon is designed and tested for, and I don't think any competent manufacturer would design SMBus-accessible on-board switching regulators to do that; plus tune relevant PLLs for a higher output frequency, plus turn off the CPU cooling fan, plus disable all thermal management that would otherwise shut everything down. Much of this would have to be done at system power-on before everything gets locked down. You'd probably have to infect the BIOS itself, and aren't they all signed now to prevent such a thing from happening?
Well.. yes and no, I think they're twisted to keep them next to each other.. and yes, I'm well aware of PCB trace routing for differential pairs, but I'm not posting this question to debate cabling techniques or PCB signal routing techniques..
I should have been more descriptive. What I meant was how a twisted-pair cable cancels out common-mode noise, and how a differential pair also doesn't radiate much, because the magnetic fields are 180 degrees out of phase, so they cancel. Is that a fair approximation of what's going on here, the magnetic field that the plasma is generating is cancelling itself out because it's twisted?
I dunno about 'secessionism' being a basic right of all sentient beings, but 'civil disobedience' sure as hell is, or should be; life (the continuance of, and quality of, that is) more important than government, or even laws; those two things are supposed to facilitate life, not the other way around. When they get transposed, then Bad Things are happening; the system is broken and must be 'fixed' -- thus 'civil disobedience'. As someone else once said, 'Soap box, ballot box, and ammo box -- use them in that order'. 'Secession' should the be last resort. If your system of government doesn't allow the first two, and you have to immediately go to the third and last option, then you've got a poorly designed system of government.
No, YOU are the troll here, because everyone knows that quantum computing uses cats with buttered toast strapped to their backs! That, plus ferrets with perpetual IV drips of Rockstar as bus transceivers.
So you want more and bigger government? Also, you want it to take months or even years for your claim to be processed, while it goes through government bureaucracy? You think private sector insurance companies are bad, just wait until the government is handling it.
You, apparently, have never considered what it's like for someone who has been in an accident caused by someone with no auto insurance. They walk away from the whole thing more or less scot-free, and you're left with no working vehicle (that you may still be making payments on) and maybe no way to afford repairing it anytime soon (or replacing it if it's totalled). Meanwhile the jerk with no insurance, who more likely than not has no money and no regular income (or at least so little income that there's not much to take from them in court) shrugs and tells you 'tough luck'. That's a valid use for insurance, as much as we hate paying it. Note that I am not saying insurance companies are all or always fair when you make a claim, I personally know better than that. But at least if the jerk that hits you has insurance you have a chance of getting your vehicle repaired.
..and why overall it's a Bad Idea anyway. Please, call or write the good Senator and also explain why having a 'backdoor' in any encryption system will render it essentially useless.
Oh no I mean literally prison. Let's have everyone under armed guard, 24/7/365, from cradle to grave. Everything supervised, everything monitored. All your mail opened and scanned. Anything censors deem offensive or inappropriate gets destroyed. You eat and drink what you're told to eat and drink, and if that's not OK with you, that's too bad. Maybe you complain too much and get sent to the SHU for a while until you learn to stay in line. You get out of bed when told to, you go to sleep when told to, you work where you're told to, for as long as you're told to, and if you complain, you get sent to the SHU. You watch and read what you're told to. Maybe if you behave and don't complain, you get a little something extra to eat, or something extra to read. Then everybody will be 'safe'. Isn't that what everybody wants? To be 'safe'? No matter the cost? 'Freedom' is just a word on a page, after all, isn't it? It's not a real Thing, it's just some word. Isn't being safe all the time better? Then nobody has to worry, right?
Isn't this the way too many people think? Politicians and police would love it if everyone thought this way. Then everyone would be under control all the time.
If anything we should be critiquing ISIS videos on YouTube, tearing into them for the poor production value, bad acting, crappy cinematography, shitty writing, and last but not least how tiny their penises must be if they feel they need to post videos on YouTube that just scream "Look at us! Look at us! We're so awesome, we attack defenseless people, kidnap them, and cut off their heads! Ain't we the greatest!?". Be sure to put "Yakity Sax" music in the background. I'd sooner watch endless reruns of Jackass and Beavis and Butthead.
The same reason what this fool is proposing won't work is the same reason that y0u'd h4v3 50m3 pr0bl3m5 wr171n6 c0d3 70 und3r574nd 51mpl3 l3375p34k-3nc0d3d 73x7, 7h47 54y5 3r1c 5chm1d7 5uck5 b16 6r33n d0nk3y d0n65: 7h3 3nc0d1n6 c4n ch4n63 0n 4n h0ur-by-h0ur b4515, 4nd y0u'd n3v3r k33p up. k1d5 1nv3n73d l3375p34k 70 637 4r0und pr0f4n17y f1l73r5 0n 0nl1n3 f0rum5. d0n'7 y0u 7h1nk 7h47 73rr0r1575 4r3 601n6 70 b3 47 l3457 45 1nv3n71v3?
Additionally anyone can establish a code where one phrase means something else entirely; "I'm walking the dog in Central Park at 10:00am" translates to "I'm placing the IED in Central Park and detonating it at 10:00am". Good luck writing code that contextually gleans the true meaning of the former.
I don't really see the draw for something like this
One look at this will explain it all for you: https://www.google.com/search?q=hot+chicks+with+guns&biw=1600&bih=731&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjiiPmm58zJAhUBRWMKHdOZAYsQ_AUIBigB
Tried insalling Ubuntu on it last night. After figuring out the FORCEPAE problem (it's actually a Pentium M, Dell Latitude D600) it looked like it would install -- but a minute or two after starting the install, the whole thing just locks up.:-/
Someone with mod points please mod this person back up to at least zero? He's not a troll.
Making guns more difficult to obtain isn't going to solve a single violence problem in the U.S. People who want to commit acts of violence will find a way to get the weapons they want to use to commit that violence, and if they can't get guns, they'll find some other way. Are you going to make posessing a pointed stick a federal crime? The Boston Marathon bombers used off-the-shelf items to make their IEDs, and look how many people they killed and maimed. Gasoline and a few other things can be used to make very messy bombs. Knives, swords, machetes from Harbor Freight Tools.. the list goes on. Making guns harder and harder to get or banning gun ownership won't do a damn thing, and I have nothing but contempt for people who are using recent tragedies as a springboard for their anti-gun agendas.
So far as Trump being a clown: That's unfair to clowns everywhere in the world. Trump is a cancer, and needs to be excised from politics as quickly as possible. I've heard more than one person publicly denounce him as 'Hitler-like', and I think that's accurate. This is not someone who should ever be allowed to hold any public office of any kind, let alone POTUS. Oh and here's the trump card on Trump: Even Dick Cheney doesn't like or agree with Trump. What does that tell you?
What are you claiming Fry's doesn't sell any more?
At least here in Sacramento, they seem to have more stuff for guys who pull cables for a living. The actual electronic parts are very generic and not much better (worse in some ways) to what Radio Shack used to carry. Last time I went there I just needed some replacement electrolytic caps to rebuild a power supply, and they didn't even have anything close to what I needed, had to order everything online.
Can you 'fake it' at home with makeshift equipment? Yes, sort of. The problem is when you assemble your board, and you find it doesn't work. You can't check the solder connections on a BGA device unless you've got an Xray machine to do that. What you're faced with then, is trying to get the BGA packaged device back off the PCB without destroying the PCB, throwing the device away, and trying again with a new device -- and you're back where you started from, hoping all the balls made contact and reflowed properly so your board works. If the device(s) in question are expensive then, well, it can get expensive quick. If there are multiple BGA's in your design, you may very well not have any way to troubleshoot it and determine which device didn't reflow properly. Your other option would be to see if an assembly house would do the job for you -- and I've never tried arranging that, but I think, knowing what I know of this, it would be expensive. So can you do it? Yes. Can you do it successfully? It's a coin-flip.
Pretty much, yeah. The prevalence of large devices in BGA packages has also more or less destroyed any ability to repair anything; most of it may as well be sealed in a block of opaque epoxy for all the good it'll do you. Even you have the thousands of dollars of equipment necessary to deal with BGA packaged devices, you can't easily salvage and re-use anything; even if you can re-ball them, they might not survive the entire process. Thankfully there is still quite a bit of SM devices that you can hand-solder, or at least deal with without having to have $10000 worth of equipment to work with, and if your design can be 100% SMD, creating a PCB with home equipment is actually easier since you don't need to worry so much about drilling holes and plating them through (except for vias, if you need them). If you're brave and resourceful small BGA devices could be IR reflowed, with of course a chance of failure.
the age of fat transistors is long gone
You can still get more or less any through-hole parts you want, you just may have to jump through some hoops to get them.
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It might only have to access it and that can be done through the OS now. It might be possible to piggyback on that, no?
No, actually, not really. There are registers that, after a certain point of the bring-up process for the silicon, are locked out from access in production parts. In testing the boot process is halted at a certain point in order to 'unlock' parts and allow access to various registers. Once an OS is booted, it's no longer possible to access some of those registers.
It's true. It's incredibly expensive to scrap silicon once it's been cut from the wafer, attached to the package, and tested. They'll fuse them differently and mark them differently and sell them. The consequence of just shit-canning everything but the cream-of-the-crop parts would be you'd pay $1000 for a CPU (or some such relatively astronomical figure). Also, there is such a thing as 'margining', where silicon is tested beyond the design parameters, but not 'officially' rated for operation outside those parameters, to ensure reliable operation if the silicon is in some circumstances pushed to extremes.
People should concentrate on living a quality life, not squeezing every last second of life they can out of their bodies.
Which way does a cat+buttered toast land when the toast is strapped with the buttered side facing away from the cats back?
It depends on whether you're watching or not; it's called the 'observer effect'. XD
I wonder if a rootkit could make the motherboard burn up the CPU? Poof! La computer muerte.
Depends on how the power delivery on the motherboard is designed, really. You'd have to be able to turn up the supply rails well beyond the margin the silicon is designed and tested for, and I don't think any competent manufacturer would design SMBus-accessible on-board switching regulators to do that; plus tune relevant PLLs for a higher output frequency, plus turn off the CPU cooling fan, plus disable all thermal management that would otherwise shut everything down. Much of this would have to be done at system power-on before everything gets locked down. You'd probably have to infect the BIOS itself, and aren't they all signed now to prevent such a thing from happening?
The twisting isn't relevant to the coupling
Well.. yes and no, I think they're twisted to keep them next to each other.. and yes, I'm well aware of PCB trace routing for differential pairs, but I'm not posting this question to debate cabling techniques or PCB signal routing techniques..
I should have been more descriptive. What I meant was how a twisted-pair cable cancels out common-mode noise, and how a differential pair also doesn't radiate much, because the magnetic fields are 180 degrees out of phase, so they cancel. Is that a fair approximation of what's going on here, the magnetic field that the plasma is generating is cancelling itself out because it's twisted?
I dunno about 'secessionism' being a basic right of all sentient beings, but 'civil disobedience' sure as hell is, or should be; life (the continuance of, and quality of, that is) more important than government, or even laws; those two things are supposed to facilitate life, not the other way around. When they get transposed, then Bad Things are happening; the system is broken and must be 'fixed' -- thus 'civil disobedience'. As someone else once said, 'Soap box, ballot box, and ammo box -- use them in that order'. 'Secession' should the be last resort. If your system of government doesn't allow the first two, and you have to immediately go to the third and last option, then you've got a poorly designed system of government.
Am I understanding correctly in likening the twisted plasma flow in this reactor design to how a twisted-pair cable works?
No, YOU are the troll here, because everyone knows that quantum computing uses cats with buttered toast strapped to their backs! That, plus ferrets with perpetual IV drips of Rockstar as bus transceivers.
So you want more and bigger government? Also, you want it to take months or even years for your claim to be processed, while it goes through government bureaucracy? You think private sector insurance companies are bad, just wait until the government is handling it.
You, apparently, have never considered what it's like for someone who has been in an accident caused by someone with no auto insurance. They walk away from the whole thing more or less scot-free, and you're left with no working vehicle (that you may still be making payments on) and maybe no way to afford repairing it anytime soon (or replacing it if it's totalled). Meanwhile the jerk with no insurance, who more likely than not has no money and no regular income (or at least so little income that there's not much to take from them in court) shrugs and tells you 'tough luck'. That's a valid use for insurance, as much as we hate paying it. Note that I am not saying insurance companies are all or always fair when you make a claim, I personally know better than that. But at least if the jerk that hits you has insurance you have a chance of getting your vehicle repaired.
I want a troll insurance policy where the company sends out Moose and Rocko to "show the troll the error of his ways".
Try the darknet, I hear there are plenty of guys for hire on there that do 'wetwork'.
..and why overall it's a Bad Idea anyway. Please, call or write the good Senator and also explain why having a 'backdoor' in any encryption system will render it essentially useless.
Oh no I mean literally prison. Let's have everyone under armed guard, 24/7/365, from cradle to grave. Everything supervised, everything monitored. All your mail opened and scanned. Anything censors deem offensive or inappropriate gets destroyed. You eat and drink what you're told to eat and drink, and if that's not OK with you, that's too bad. Maybe you complain too much and get sent to the SHU for a while until you learn to stay in line. You get out of bed when told to, you go to sleep when told to, you work where you're told to, for as long as you're told to, and if you complain, you get sent to the SHU. You watch and read what you're told to. Maybe if you behave and don't complain, you get a little something extra to eat, or something extra to read. Then everybody will be 'safe'. Isn't that what everybody wants? To be 'safe'? No matter the cost? 'Freedom' is just a word on a page, after all, isn't it? It's not a real Thing, it's just some word. Isn't being safe all the time better? Then nobody has to worry, right?
Isn't this the way too many people think? Politicians and police would love it if everyone thought this way. Then everyone would be under control all the time.
If they 'behave' then they can go on parole, under strict supervision, of course. It's the only way to be sure everyone is safe!
If anything we should be critiquing ISIS videos on YouTube, tearing into them for the poor production value, bad acting, crappy cinematography, shitty writing, and last but not least how tiny their penises must be if they feel they need to post videos on YouTube that just scream "Look at us! Look at us! We're so awesome, we attack defenseless people, kidnap them, and cut off their heads! Ain't we the greatest!?". Be sure to put "Yakity Sax" music in the background. I'd sooner watch endless reruns of Jackass and Beavis and Butthead.
The same reason what this fool is proposing won't work is the same reason that y0u'd h4v3 50m3 pr0bl3m5 wr171n6 c0d3 70 und3r574nd 51mpl3 l3375p34k-3nc0d3d 73x7, 7h47 54y5 3r1c 5chm1d7 5uck5 b16 6r33n d0nk3y d0n65: 7h3 3nc0d1n6 c4n ch4n63 0n 4n h0ur-by-h0ur b4515, 4nd y0u'd n3v3r k33p up. k1d5 1nv3n73d l3375p34k 70 637 4r0und pr0f4n17y f1l73r5 0n 0nl1n3 f0rum5. d0n'7 y0u 7h1nk 7h47 73rr0r1575 4r3 601n6 70 b3 47 l3457 45 1nv3n71v3?
Additionally anyone can establish a code where one phrase means something else entirely; "I'm walking the dog in Central Park at 10:00am" translates to "I'm placing the IED in Central Park and detonating it at 10:00am". Good luck writing code that contextually gleans the true meaning of the former.
I don't really see the draw for something like this
One look at this will explain it all for you:
https://www.google.com/search?q=hot+chicks+with+guns&biw=1600&bih=731&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjiiPmm58zJAhUBRWMKHdOZAYsQ_AUIBigB
An armed society is a polite society. Manners are good when one may have to back up his acts with his life.
-- Thomas Jefferson, Robert A. Heinlein
Tried insalling Ubuntu on it last night. After figuring out the FORCEPAE problem (it's actually a Pentium M, Dell Latitude D600) it looked like it would install -- but a minute or two after starting the install, the whole thing just locks up. :-/
Someone with mod points please mod this person back up to at least zero? He's not a troll.
Making guns more difficult to obtain isn't going to solve a single violence problem in the U.S. People who want to commit acts of violence will find a way to get the weapons they want to use to commit that violence, and if they can't get guns, they'll find some other way. Are you going to make posessing a pointed stick a federal crime? The Boston Marathon bombers used off-the-shelf items to make their IEDs, and look how many people they killed and maimed. Gasoline and a few other things can be used to make very messy bombs. Knives, swords, machetes from Harbor Freight Tools.. the list goes on. Making guns harder and harder to get or banning gun ownership won't do a damn thing, and I have nothing but contempt for people who are using recent tragedies as a springboard for their anti-gun agendas.
So far as Trump being a clown: That's unfair to clowns everywhere in the world. Trump is a cancer, and needs to be excised from politics as quickly as possible. I've heard more than one person publicly denounce him as 'Hitler-like', and I think that's accurate. This is not someone who should ever be allowed to hold any public office of any kind, let alone POTUS. Oh and here's the trump card on Trump: Even Dick Cheney doesn't like or agree with Trump. What does that tell you?
What are you claiming Fry's doesn't sell any more?
At least here in Sacramento, they seem to have more stuff for guys who pull cables for a living. The actual electronic parts are very generic and not much better (worse in some ways) to what Radio Shack used to carry. Last time I went there I just needed some replacement electrolytic caps to rebuild a power supply, and they didn't even have anything close to what I needed, had to order everything online.
Can you 'fake it' at home with makeshift equipment? Yes, sort of. The problem is when you assemble your board, and you find it doesn't work. You can't check the solder connections on a BGA device unless you've got an Xray machine to do that. What you're faced with then, is trying to get the BGA packaged device back off the PCB without destroying the PCB, throwing the device away, and trying again with a new device -- and you're back where you started from, hoping all the balls made contact and reflowed properly so your board works. If the device(s) in question are expensive then, well, it can get expensive quick. If there are multiple BGA's in your design, you may very well not have any way to troubleshoot it and determine which device didn't reflow properly. Your other option would be to see if an assembly house would do the job for you -- and I've never tried arranging that, but I think, knowing what I know of this, it would be expensive. So can you do it? Yes. Can you do it successfully? It's a coin-flip.
the age of fat transistors is long gone
You can still get more or less any through-hole parts you want, you just may have to jump through some hoops to get them.