That only means we are 80% away from the real solution.
Remember the 80/20 rule which applies to tech? You are 80% there to the solution but you still have 80% of the work before you when you are at level 4 of 5.
Since this is a US website talking about US company and the US military:
Back then, 70 years ago, the US was defending against attacks, even defending other countries.
Nowadays it is always the US which starts the attacks, committing war crimes and massacres. No more "defense".
So as the ones you defended against back then, you are the same murderous criminal thugs now.
Even that one time 70 years ago was a fluke, a one time thing basically. The US is built on genocides of indians, continued with war and exploitation abroad. Just one generation before the grandparents, the US was a normal a murderous plundering and occupating country just like it is today.
Quote from Smedley D. Butler USMC General:
“I spent 33 years and four months in active military service and during that period I spent most of my time as a high class muscle man for Big Business, for Wall Street and the bankers. In short, was a racketeer, a gangster for capitalism. I helped make Mexico and especially Tampico safe for American oil interests in 1914. I helped make Haiti and Cuba a decent place for the National City Bank boys to collect revenues in. I helped in the raping of half a dozen Central American republics for the benefit of Wall Street. I helped purify Nicaragua for the International Banking House of Brown Brothers in 1902-1912. I brought light to the Dominican Republic for the American sugar interests in 1916. I helped make Honduras right for the American fruit companies in 1903. In China in 1927 I helped see to it that Standard Oil went on its way unmolested. Looking back on it, I might have given Al Capone a few hints. The best he could do was to operate his racket in three districts. I operated on three continents.”
They sell RDP access to servers? Servers? I presume Windows has a way better marketshare in the server space than previously thought, or just simply even worse security and patching than previously thought? Is there any reason that ssh is a bad thing or are the customers there all script kiddies who are lost without a mouse and some button to click?
Is the real owner here. Any company that does business with China is subsidizing one of the most evil governments of all time. The ChiCom government is responsible for the mass murder of millions.
Same goes for the US government. They stole the land they put their evil country on, and killed all peoples who lived there before. They even used chemical weapons of mass destruction to do it! The mass genocides (plural!) perpetrated by US presidents and the US Army is quite singular in history. The country was created with the blood of innocent men, women and children. Anyone who does business with the US is obviously also subsidizing the US government. They are also giving all their data they hand over to the US company to the US government.
A 30% margin which is standard in all kinds of app stores, Steam, Google, Apple, Microsoft is highway robbery pure and simple. That is the root of the problem here.
Even when Steam back in the day set this number, and all others followed it, it was high for what they provided. Steam was and still mostly is a monopoly so they can get away with it. Same for Apple and the others of course. However in this day and age these surcharges have no basis in reality anymore. A brick+mortar needs that 30% margin due to overhead of an actual store in expensive city areas, personnel costs or maybe even transport costs for small stores. Online retailers for bits have none of these and therefore shouldn't have to charge for them. At least if one has a working market, which appstores are not. They instead are money printing machines.
After Epic/Fortnite started their own appstore with "only" 12%, Bethesda made their own launcher and store selling their game there exclusively, Act/Blizzard doing the same for BO4, etc. Steam is slowly backing down from their usury, at least for the big sellers above 10 million $ they go to 25%. Slow step, not enough, but at least step in the proper direction.
Apple is not making anything at all, especially not any chips. They don't have fabs. The main chips for i-devices are made by TSMC and Samsung, no one else. They are designed by PA Semi an Apple subsidiary or maybe it is incorporated fully into Apple now. PA Semi designs custom ARM chips, they don't use the normal cortex A8 A53 or A73 designs from ARM at all. They start with the ARM v8 ISA and from there on, they do everything in their own way. And generally much much better than ARM itself, of course the chips are also quite huge and therefore expensive to manufacture compared to any ARM design. They are however always faster/better than the ARM ones. A current A12 Bionic chip from Apple is about the same size as a current Intel Quadcore CPU, 122mm^2.
PS: Samsung or TSMC would need to be "in on it" too since they need to make the additional SoCs. Even more fallout, this time Korea or Taiwan. And they need to use those SoCs or the buyers of the IPhones couldn't use it as an IPhone: no iCloud/Appstore/ITunes access.
Apple would easily know when the phone needs the next update or any other interaction with the Apple servers. Phones are no Prada handbags: they need constant service after manufacture. I'm certain almost every chip in every apple device has a unique serial which apple can and does query everytime they phone home for updates, icloud sync, appstore access, etc. There is no way anyone can sell more phones than apple knows. Serials which apple hasn't given out would stand out like a sore thumb, and double serials, 1 serial used for 2 or more devices, would be a little easier to hide but you need to sell thousands to millions of devices to make the fraud profitable, and that many you can't hide with double serial numbers. Kinda hard to hide if the same IPhone is logged in to the appstore once from Hongkong and once from Kuala Lumpur at the same time.
Phones even have the unique capability of exactly telling the manufacturer where the phone is right now on earth, down to the meter. So Apple "enforcers" can go there and send someone to buy it from the unsuspecting consumer who doesn't know he bought a "fake" IPhone.
At that point, Foxconn would be bankrupt since apple would sue them into the ground for this. And all the other OEMs who let Foxconn manufacture their hardware would check for the same behaviour and cancel all the contracts as soon as possible. China as a country for outsourcing itself would have massive problems after such a stunt, the chinese government would have to dismantle Foxconn and jail or even sentence the managers to death for this, just to prevent damage from the chinese economy as a whole.
So IPhones from the actual factory which are not produced under the Apple contract are a total non starter.
The US might have less universities doing AI research, but the US has vastly more and vastly bigger corporations putting a shitton more money into their AI programs. Probably Microsoft, Google and Facebook alone invest several times more than all the european companies in the field.That means they basically, the US simply buys the finished students when they are done with their university papers all over the world. China would probably do the same, but it's harder for them to actually attract the scientists and programmers. And the really interesting and especially the paying things with deep learning are not done in universities. Deep learning is known for decades now, and now companies have seen this is a field where one can create products and monetize.
Those US companies also have the actually huge amount of data needed to train all this pseudo AI which is in reality deep learning. In the EU, the data protection laws are actually good for the citizens, but it of course hampers companies to monetize all that big data stuff with AI.
Typical slashdot editor mistake writing an article with lots of errors to get hits I guess.
20 million tons are 20.000.000 tons. Divided through 4000 flights means every flight has to lift 5000 tons of whatever into the atmosphere to get a similar effect as the Pinatubo eruption e.g. 1 degree Fahrenheit. Now please tell me where we get planes capable of lifting 5000 tons. I'm sure NASA would be very interested too considering it would make launches easier and probably cheaper.
Geoengineering is a pipedream of technocratic imbeciles. However, we might get desperate enough to actually do it sooner than we want to.
The US not only spends about ten times more on weapons than anyone else, leads a magnitude more of wars than anyone else, the US also has the biggest public relations aka propaganda budget with a similar leading number. No one spends as much money as the US on ads, both the private sector and the public.
The US government has the biggest spin machine by far world wide, that goes both for public and private, no distinction The US produces more lies, more propaganda, more spin than any other country in the world.
So why would one the US' biggest ad companies like facebook filter these lies^Wads they make their livelihood with?
Oh, you mean filter the doubleplusungood information that the mainstream narrative doesn't like? Yes those they can will filter with the best AI money can buy. However, since AI is actually no AI but pretty much shit, there will still be many unwelcome single postings going through through the cracks, similar like spammers get through mailfilters. This ensures a constant low intensity craze that every politician can point to when they don't like a particular result. "We didn't lose cause our program was bad and the candidate behaved worse than Darth Vader, no, those evilmongers over there are to blame and no one else. Kill them!"
Which is why a half a million dollar media campaign from a troll company who wanted to produce account followers, supposedly has derailed an election where the candidates alone spend directly more than two billion dollars, and the wider public spent more like 20 billions. Including untold millions from foreign, mostly allied, countries. Those are probably the half million dollars with the most impact in all of human history.
Why can't we get those kind of speeds for DDR4-4266 PC DIMMs? Those are almost impossible to get and then at insane prices.If RAM companies produce this kind of RAM normally, which isn't even specified by JEDEC, so they have to make it cheaper than the competition, then why are there no such DIMMs available?
https://pcpartpicker.com/produ... shows there is basically none from Crucial/Micron. Gamers and generally Ryzen owners would pay lots of money for it. Heck, even good and expensive Crucial DDR4-3200 has Samsung chips on it cause Micron apparently can't deliver.
Airplanes have been in danger of bird collisions since forever. Birds can weigh 2,1lb or more as well. There is no real difference to a drone. If they have to survive bird collisions, they can survive drones.
I might sound callous to you but this has always been the case. Explorers who sought India, how many expeditions died? How many of them found what they actually sought? How many flight pioneers died so now we can travel to a beach resort two times a year? How many people died so far in rockets? How many people died before we thought "Hey, seatbelts would be a swell idea!". Airbags too but seatbelts would have been a possible tech from 1900 onwards while an airbag is much harder to build.
New and possibly dangerous technology will always kill a number of people before it is made safe enough for the average user and commoditized. Driverless cars are even at the very beginning, so there will be many more deaths and injuries in the future I'd think before driverless cars will be common day usage.
I guess it really shows were/. is headed nowadays when the forum users are worse than some AOL group user in their ability to use the internet. OTT is a well established concept ever since netflix came along. And for all the others who hear this the first time, they can use google. The first entry I get in my localized google version is a special wikipedia link since basically google itself tells me the definition. However it's in pretty much any wikipedia version, including the international one: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
It's a video service without their own distribution service (antenna, dish, copper lines, etc.) instead only using the internet.
That is at most the usual nvidia branded boost in different clothes.
nvidia is the worst company by far regarding any kind of video card overclocking: it hurts their bottomline. Nvidia were the first to introduce signed VGA-BIOSes so no more Mod BIOS. Nvidia were the first to introduce to introduce hard powerlimits, so one has to solder resistors on the PCB to increase this limit.
If you give cash directly to the people on the african street, I can guarantee you that there will be a bunch of technicals with some guys inside the next street over who will relieve said people of their newly gotten money. Even if there aren't any technicals, same will happen with the local government taking something they call "taxes" immediately.
Giving someone money helps this month with the bills. A well, some chicken and a book for learning to read helps longer. Even when it doesn't help the malnutritioned kid today, it will help the kid's kids definitely more than this cash which is spent today.
And it's probably cheaper: cause if right now the aid program costs 500$ per person so that 100$ of goods get to the recipients, due to corruption and/or bureacracy, what makes you think the corruption is suddenly gone when the aid is all in cash? With aid in building infrastructure, sending food, etc. at least not all the aid can be immediately stolen and sent to Switzerland/UK/netherland antilles. With cash it's a no brainer to steal all of it.
Anyone who makes that argument with quadrupling the aid and doing it in cash only, is such a stupid moron, he needs to be taken out and shot: it improves the gene pool for the rest of us.
Only AMD Servers, EPYC CPUs. And those are what? 1% of systems? Those servers are usually in datacenters or at least locked server rooms. They aren't at risk in any way here from cold boot attacks in a meaningful way.
The article writes about notebooks. No AMD notebook CPU anywhere encrypts its RAM. All AMD notebooks are vulnerable, just like all notebooks with CPUs from other vendors.
Wrong. Medical genetic engineering and GMOs are very different.Genetic engineering as up to now means "more poison" pretty much. All the Roundup ready poison, the Bt-corn poison,etc. The only exception there is golden rice from Asia. All our western corporations only want to put more poison into the environment and our bodies. So being against GMO is very much a no brainer. The mainly asian governments want to prevent blindness in poor people instead. While there hsa been some resistance against golden rice, it's mainly "but the people only need to eat a little more vegetables". Which comes from dumb rich western organizations who cannot comprehend that the poor asians simply don't have the money to buy this. There are no walmarts or rather Whole Foods supremarkets in rural Asia.
Medical genetic engineering is different. There you have insulin for diabetics and erythropoetin for anemic people. Granted, most of the erythropoetin is used for doping in sports, but it's still a godsend for anemic people on dialysis: no more 16h a day sleep. And for diabetics insulin a literal live saver. Both of these drugs are wholly accepted in any society, even with the doping problem. So another genetic tech which saves lives will be accepted too
The guy (Deroir I think is his name) replied to this with a suggestion so insultingly simple it deserved scorn. He was polite, but it was a REALLY condescending response. Imagine you drive a truck on a really tricky route and write about all the things you contend with. You've been doing this successfully for years. Then someone says, politely, but meaning to educate you, "if you turned the wheel and used the gas at the same time, how about that?" That's a thing deserving only scorn.
She unloaded on him pretty hard, but it was the right way to nip that idiocy in the bud.
No it was not right, it was hateful by her. In your professional workspace you have to deal with morons. Everyday. Customers, or like here business partners. You can tell them off, but you cannot insult them like she did, publicly. Also there are the different areas of engagement to consider. If you deal with such a person personally at the office, like the two Unix greyboards in the other response, then yes you can, maybe, call him an asshole while personally talking directly to him. You cannot do this on Twitter which is a public forum. It's very different if you call someone in person an asshole or publish it in a trade magazine for the whole industry. Same words, totally different outcome, for good reason. What's more: the greybeard had to work with this guy everyday, could not avoid him so a clearing of the air is necessary one day, the sooner the better. She could have easily avoided and simply ignored the replies without any consequences to her work, her posting or anything else in her life.
Bottom line: it's not what she did, telling him off, but HOW she did it that got her fired. If you and your other writers can afford to screen for companies where you can insult business partners, then more power to you. I doubt it will be many companies to choose from unless game text writers are a suddenly very sought after profession.
I understand that internet-of-shit things like Google Home cannot work when the server end which does the actual speech rec is down. That's why no one sane buys such crap after Nest. And whoever still buys it deserves anything he gets.
However, Chromecast ist a doodad for my TV so my Android Smartphone or Chrome browser can push whatever is on their screen to my big TV, right? This is a cheapo 5cent ARM CPU with 500MB of RAM and a wireless adapter. Basically a small step up from a ESP8266. Why would this need an Internet connection to a mothership? No speech rec or similar. What for? It's by definition in my LAN/WLAN only. Can someone explain this to someone else who owns neither a chromecast nor a spying microphone?
With every peace talk any american politician starts, immediately the detractors come out and demonize the other party. This time it was Trump who did the talking, so obviously CNN makes the Brutus, trying to kill the talks and provide a way for more war. Last time with Iran and Cuba by Obama, it was of course Fox.
Fuck off, both of you CNN and Fox combined, may you rot in hell where all you war criminals belong.
With the US military and the companies that provide the weapons for it, this kind of stupidity can be taken for granted.
Sooner or later the US, and probably Israel, will produce autonomous aerial drones (Reaper etc.) and autonomous land based robots (Boston Dynamics). Both have the same problem: they are constantly involved in or start wars abroad, but every soldier coming back home dead, crippled or wounded erodes the support for these wars. So to sustain these wars they want weapons that work more and more autonomously are needed so that no precious soldier citizen can ever be harmed. The fact that this computer scientist doesn't know or understand that, isn't a good sign for the ones who hired him at his university.
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That only means we are 80% away from the real solution.
Remember the 80/20 rule which applies to tech? You are 80% there to the solution but you still have 80% of the work before you when you are at level 4 of 5.
Since this is a US website talking about US company and the US military:
Back then, 70 years ago, the US was defending against attacks, even defending other countries.
Nowadays it is always the US which starts the attacks, committing war crimes and massacres. No more "defense".
So as the ones you defended against back then, you are the same murderous criminal thugs now.
Even that one time 70 years ago was a fluke, a one time thing basically. The US is built on genocides of indians, continued with war and exploitation abroad. Just one generation before the grandparents, the US was a normal a murderous plundering and occupating country just like it is today.
Quote from Smedley D. Butler USMC General:
“I spent 33 years and four months in active military service and during that period I spent most of my time as a high class muscle man for Big Business, for Wall Street and the bankers. In short, was a racketeer, a gangster for capitalism. I helped make Mexico and especially Tampico safe for American oil interests in 1914. I helped make Haiti and Cuba a decent place for the National City Bank boys to collect revenues in. I helped in the raping of half a dozen Central American republics for the benefit of Wall Street. I helped purify Nicaragua for the International Banking House of Brown Brothers in 1902-1912. I brought light to the Dominican Republic for the American sugar interests in 1916. I helped make Honduras right for the American fruit companies in 1903. In China in 1927 I helped see to it that Standard Oil went on its way unmolested. Looking back on it, I might have given Al Capone a few hints. The best he could do was to operate his racket in three districts. I operated on three continents.”
They sell RDP access to servers? Servers?
I presume Windows has a way better marketshare in the server space than previously thought, or just simply even worse security and patching than previously thought?
Is there any reason that ssh is a bad thing or are the customers there all script kiddies who are lost without a mouse and some button to click?
Is the real owner here. Any company that does business with China is subsidizing one of the most evil governments of all time. The ChiCom government is responsible for the mass murder of millions.
Same goes for the US government. They stole the land they put their evil country on, and killed all peoples who lived there before. They even used chemical weapons of mass destruction to do it!
The mass genocides (plural!) perpetrated by US presidents and the US Army is quite singular in history. The country was created with the blood of innocent men, women and children.
Anyone who does business with the US is obviously also subsidizing the US government. They are also giving all their data they hand over to the US company to the US government.
A 30% margin which is standard in all kinds of app stores, Steam, Google, Apple, Microsoft is highway robbery pure and simple. That is the root of the problem here.
Even when Steam back in the day set this number, and all others followed it, it was high for what they provided. Steam was and still mostly is a monopoly so they can get away with it. Same for Apple and the others of course. However in this day and age these surcharges have no basis in reality anymore. A brick+mortar needs that 30% margin due to overhead of an actual store in expensive city areas, personnel costs or maybe even transport costs for small stores. Online retailers for bits have none of these and therefore shouldn't have to charge for them. At least if one has a working market, which appstores are not. They instead are money printing machines.
After Epic/Fortnite started their own appstore with "only" 12%, Bethesda made their own launcher and store selling their game there exclusively, Act/Blizzard doing the same for BO4, etc. Steam is slowly backing down from their usury, at least for the big sellers above 10 million $ they go to 25%. Slow step, not enough, but at least step in the proper direction.
Apple is not making anything at all, especially not any chips. They don't have fabs.
The main chips for i-devices are made by TSMC and Samsung, no one else.
They are designed by PA Semi an Apple subsidiary or maybe it is incorporated fully into Apple now.
PA Semi designs custom ARM chips, they don't use the normal cortex A8 A53 or A73 designs from ARM at all. They start with the ARM v8 ISA and from there on, they do everything in their own way. And generally much much better than ARM itself, of course the chips are also quite huge and therefore expensive to manufacture compared to any ARM design. They are however always faster/better than the ARM ones. A current A12 Bionic chip from Apple is about the same size as a current Intel Quadcore CPU, 122mm^2.
PS: Samsung or TSMC would need to be "in on it" too since they need to make the additional SoCs. Even more fallout, this time Korea or Taiwan. And they need to use those SoCs or the buyers of the IPhones couldn't use it as an IPhone: no iCloud/Appstore/ITunes access.
Apple would easily know when the phone needs the next update or any other interaction with the Apple servers.
Phones are no Prada handbags: they need constant service after manufacture. I'm certain almost every chip in every apple device has a unique serial which apple can and does query everytime they phone home for updates, icloud sync, appstore access, etc. There is no way anyone can sell more phones than apple knows. Serials which apple hasn't given out would stand out like a sore thumb, and double serials, 1 serial used for 2 or more devices, would be a little easier to hide but you need to sell thousands to millions of devices to make the fraud profitable, and that many you can't hide with double serial numbers. Kinda hard to hide if the same IPhone is logged in to the appstore once from Hongkong and once from Kuala Lumpur at the same time.
Phones even have the unique capability of exactly telling the manufacturer where the phone is right now on earth, down to the meter. So Apple "enforcers" can go there and send someone to buy it from the unsuspecting consumer who doesn't know he bought a "fake" IPhone.
At that point, Foxconn would be bankrupt since apple would sue them into the ground for this. And all the other OEMs who let Foxconn manufacture their hardware would check for the same behaviour and cancel all the contracts as soon as possible. China as a country for outsourcing itself would have massive problems after such a stunt, the chinese government would have to dismantle Foxconn and jail or even sentence the managers to death for this, just to prevent damage from the chinese economy as a whole.
So IPhones from the actual factory which are not produced under the Apple contract are a total non starter.
The US might have less universities doing AI research, but the US has vastly more and vastly bigger corporations putting a shitton more money into their AI programs.
Probably Microsoft, Google and Facebook alone invest several times more than all the european companies in the field.That means they basically, the US simply buys the finished students when they are done with their university papers all over the world. China would probably do the same, but it's harder for them to actually attract the scientists and programmers. And the really interesting and especially the paying things with deep learning are not done in universities. Deep learning is known for decades now, and now companies have seen this is a field where one can create products and monetize.
Those US companies also have the actually huge amount of data needed to train all this pseudo AI which is in reality deep learning. In the EU, the data protection laws are actually good for the citizens, but it of course hampers companies to monetize all that big data stuff with AI.
Typical slashdot editor mistake writing an article with lots of errors to get hits I guess.
The world doesn't end at the US border. Other countries use different things than decimal points
And please spare me the "/. is a US site" BS.
20 million tons are 20.000.000 tons. Divided through 4000 flights means every flight has to lift 5000 tons of whatever into the atmosphere to get a similar effect as the Pinatubo eruption e.g. 1 degree Fahrenheit.
Now please tell me where we get planes capable of lifting 5000 tons. I'm sure NASA would be very interested too considering it would make launches easier and probably cheaper.
Geoengineering is a pipedream of technocratic imbeciles. However, we might get desperate enough to actually do it sooner than we want to.
As always, the answer is "HELL FSCKING NO!"
The US not only spends about ten times more on weapons than anyone else, leads a magnitude more of wars than anyone else, the US also has the biggest public relations aka propaganda budget with a similar leading number. No one spends as much money as the US on ads, both the private sector and the public.
The US government has the biggest spin machine by far world wide, that goes both for public and private, no distinction The US produces more lies, more propaganda, more spin than any other country in the world.
So why would one the US' biggest ad companies like facebook filter these lies^Wads they make their livelihood with?
Oh, you mean filter the doubleplusungood information that the mainstream narrative doesn't like? Yes those they can will filter with the best AI money can buy.
However, since AI is actually no AI but pretty much shit, there will still be many unwelcome single postings going through through the cracks, similar like spammers get through mailfilters. This ensures a constant low intensity craze that every politician can point to when they don't like a particular result. "We didn't lose cause our program was bad and the candidate behaved worse than Darth Vader, no, those evilmongers over there are to blame and no one else. Kill them!"
Which is why a half a million dollar media campaign from a troll company who wanted to produce account followers, supposedly has derailed an election where the candidates alone spend directly more than two billion dollars, and the wider public spent more like 20 billions. Including untold millions from foreign, mostly allied, countries.
Those are probably the half million dollars with the most impact in all of human history.
Why can't we get those kind of speeds for DDR4-4266 PC DIMMs? Those are almost impossible to get and then at insane prices.If RAM companies produce this kind of RAM normally, which isn't even specified by JEDEC, so they have to make it cheaper than the competition, then why are there no such DIMMs available?
https://pcpartpicker.com/produ... shows there is basically none from Crucial/Micron. Gamers and generally Ryzen owners would pay lots of money for it. Heck, even good and expensive Crucial DDR4-3200 has Samsung chips on it cause Micron apparently can't deliver.
Airplanes have been in danger of bird collisions since forever. Birds can weigh 2,1lb or more as well. There is no real difference to a drone.
If they have to survive bird collisions, they can survive drones.
I might sound callous to you but this has always been the case.
Explorers who sought India, how many expeditions died? How many of them found what they actually sought? How many flight pioneers died so now we can travel to a beach resort two times a year? How many people died so far in rockets? How many people died before we thought "Hey, seatbelts would be a swell idea!". Airbags too but seatbelts would have been a possible tech from 1900 onwards while an airbag is much harder to build.
New and possibly dangerous technology will always kill a number of people before it is made safe enough for the average user and commoditized. Driverless cars are even at the very beginning, so there will be many more deaths and injuries in the future I'd think before driverless cars will be common day usage.
I guess it really shows were /. is headed nowadays when the forum users are worse than some AOL group user in their ability to use the internet.
OTT is a well established concept ever since netflix came along. And for all the others who hear this the first time, they can use google.
The first entry I get in my localized google version is a special wikipedia link since basically google itself tells me the definition. However it's in pretty much any wikipedia version, including the international one: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
It's a video service without their own distribution service (antenna, dish, copper lines, etc.) instead only using the internet.
That is at most the usual nvidia branded boost in different clothes.
nvidia is the worst company by far regarding any kind of video card overclocking: it hurts their bottomline.
Nvidia were the first to introduce signed VGA-BIOSes so no more Mod BIOS.
Nvidia were the first to introduce to introduce hard powerlimits, so one has to solder resistors on the PCB to increase this limit.
If you give cash directly to the people on the african street, I can guarantee you that there will be a bunch of technicals with some guys inside the next street over who will relieve said people of their newly gotten money.
Even if there aren't any technicals, same will happen with the local government taking something they call "taxes" immediately.
Giving someone money helps this month with the bills. A well, some chicken and a book for learning to read helps longer. Even when it doesn't help the malnutritioned kid today, it will help the kid's kids definitely more than this cash which is spent today.
And it's probably cheaper: cause if right now the aid program costs 500$ per person so that 100$ of goods get to the recipients, due to corruption and/or bureacracy, what makes you think the corruption is suddenly gone when the aid is all in cash? With aid in building infrastructure, sending food, etc. at least not all the aid can be immediately stolen and sent to Switzerland/UK/netherland antilles. With cash it's a no brainer to steal all of it.
Anyone who makes that argument with quadrupling the aid and doing it in cash only, is such a stupid moron, he needs to be taken out and shot: it improves the gene pool for the rest of us.
Only AMD Servers, EPYC CPUs. And those are what? 1% of systems?
Those servers are usually in datacenters or at least locked server rooms. They aren't at risk in any way here from cold boot attacks in a meaningful way.
The article writes about notebooks. No AMD notebook CPU anywhere encrypts its RAM. All AMD notebooks are vulnerable, just like all notebooks with CPUs from other vendors.
That's right, it's a new era when the terms on the bullshitbingo cards need to be changed.
Wrong. Medical genetic engineering and GMOs are very different.Genetic engineering as up to now means "more poison" pretty much. All the Roundup ready poison, the Bt-corn poison,etc. The only exception there is golden rice from Asia. All our western corporations only want to put more poison into the environment and our bodies. So being against GMO is very much a no brainer. The mainly asian governments want to prevent blindness in poor people instead. While there hsa been some resistance against golden rice, it's mainly "but the people only need to eat a little more vegetables". Which comes from dumb rich western organizations who cannot comprehend that the poor asians simply don't have the money to buy this. There are no walmarts or rather Whole Foods supremarkets in rural Asia.
Medical genetic engineering is different. There you have insulin for diabetics and erythropoetin for anemic people. Granted, most of the erythropoetin is used for doping in sports, but it's still a godsend for anemic people on dialysis: no more 16h a day sleep. And for diabetics insulin a literal live saver.
Both of these drugs are wholly accepted in any society, even with the doping problem. So another genetic tech which saves lives will be accepted too
The guy (Deroir I think is his name) replied to this with a suggestion so insultingly simple it deserved scorn. He was polite, but it was a REALLY condescending response. Imagine you drive a truck on a really tricky route and write about all the things you contend with. You've been doing this successfully for years. Then someone says, politely, but meaning to educate you, "if you turned the wheel and used the gas at the same time, how about that?" That's a thing deserving only scorn.
She unloaded on him pretty hard, but it was the right way to nip that idiocy in the bud.
No it was not right, it was hateful by her.
In your professional workspace you have to deal with morons. Everyday. Customers, or like here business partners. You can tell them off, but you cannot insult them like she did, publicly.
Also there are the different areas of engagement to consider. If you deal with such a person personally at the office, like the two Unix greyboards in the other response, then yes you can, maybe, call him an asshole while personally talking directly to him. You cannot do this on Twitter which is a public forum. It's very different if you call someone in person an asshole or publish it in a trade magazine for the whole industry. Same words, totally different outcome, for good reason.
What's more: the greybeard had to work with this guy everyday, could not avoid him so a clearing of the air is necessary one day, the sooner the better. She could have easily avoided and simply ignored the replies without any consequences to her work, her posting or anything else in her life.
Bottom line: it's not what she did, telling him off, but HOW she did it that got her fired.
If you and your other writers can afford to screen for companies where you can insult business partners, then more power to you. I doubt it will be many companies to choose from unless game text writers are a suddenly very sought after profession.
I understand that internet-of-shit things like Google Home cannot work when the server end which does the actual speech rec is down. That's why no one sane buys such crap after Nest. And whoever still buys it deserves anything he gets.
However, Chromecast ist a doodad for my TV so my Android Smartphone or Chrome browser can push whatever is on their screen to my big TV, right? This is a cheapo 5cent ARM CPU with 500MB of RAM and a wireless adapter. Basically a small step up from a ESP8266. Why would this need an Internet connection to a mothership? No speech rec or similar. What for? It's by definition in my LAN/WLAN only. Can someone explain this to someone else who owns neither a chromecast nor a spying microphone?
With every peace talk any american politician starts, immediately the detractors come out and demonize the other party. This time it was Trump who did the talking, so obviously CNN makes the Brutus, trying to kill the talks and provide a way for more war. Last time with Iran and Cuba by Obama, it was of course Fox.
Fuck off, both of you CNN and Fox combined, may you rot in hell where all you war criminals belong.
With the US military and the companies that provide the weapons for it, this kind of stupidity can be taken for granted.
Sooner or later the US, and probably Israel, will produce autonomous aerial drones (Reaper etc.) and autonomous land based robots (Boston Dynamics). Both have the same problem: they are constantly involved in or start wars abroad, but every soldier coming back home dead, crippled or wounded erodes the support for these wars.
So to sustain these wars they want weapons that work more and more autonomously are needed so that no precious soldier citizen can ever be harmed.
The fact that this computer scientist doesn't know or understand that, isn't a good sign for the ones who hired him at his university.