We can either look at it from a moral perspective or from a selfish survival perspective. I prefer the latter - reduction of biodiversity in the ecosphere reduces humanity's long term continuation chances.
That may be a factor, but as I understand from a documentary I saw a few months ago (is Slashdot temporally displaced or something?) the overfishing of areas where they spawn means their aren't enough fish hoovering up the billions of jellyfish eggs generated per spawning individual and their populations are out of control.
It's not much of an edge up against the sheer overwhelming weight of numbers the jellyfish have achieved. There's little any individual can do when billions of jellyfish clean out it's entire ecosystem.
The main ecosystem failure causing this has been in the jellyfish spawning grounds themselves. The fish that would normally pork their way through the billions upon billions of jellyfish eggs have been over-fished to the tipping point where the jellyfish population has exploded out of control and overwhelmed all the other species in the region. The clouds of fertilized eggs then wash out into the ocean and the immense blooms form thousands of miles from the spawning grounds where the adults do some porking of their own.
Japan is having a real problem with the jellyfish invasions wiping out the schools of fish they use for food, filling nets with nothing but worthless jellies. Their idea? Top chefs are promoting jellyfish sushi at trade shows. It's been on menus for decades but few customers would order it because of the consistency, so turning around that perception is likely to be important in maintaining their national food supply levels in the future.
(Disclaimer: this post formed under the influence of powerful cold and flu medication)
Did you not notice how convenient a catch-all Hanlon's Razor is for malicious people who are good at acting dumb? America had George W Bush for 8 years, surely someone smart enough to post a link to the Wikipedia page for his favourite dim-witicism would have noticed something funny going on around that guy...
That's not quite what he meant. The double standard is that the Guardian happily exposed other newspapers hacking phones and invading privacy, but then when a hacker came to them with private information they didn't hesitate to publish it. Concluding that this is a double standard requires one to ignore the differing context of the two incidents, but of course Cameron is in full spin mode so it comes naturally to him.
When you use the right blinkered view point it's quite easy.
On one hand you have the Guardian exposing the invasion of personal privacy and government secrecy through the phone hacking performed by other newspapers. On the other hand you have the Guardian invading the privacy of persons and revealing government secrets by publishing documents stolen by Snowden.
The fact Cameron can make a public statement like that shows he's either stupid or very skeptical about Labour's chances and doesn't care he's given them a few easy points there.
There's been a huge increase in the jellyfish populations around the world, they've been thriving as the seas warm up - more plankton equals more jellyfish. Fishing boats are catching huge nets of the things when they're supposed to be picking up fish. It's such a problem, there's a Japanese effort to get people to eat jellyfish sushi.
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Indeed. The problem is deeper than daring to assume one knew better than the customer what the customer wanted.
Indeed, I wouldn't say that was a problem at all - all customers will want things in the future and really want something to fulfill those needs before they knew they had them. Blackberry thought they had a line on that, boldly went after it and turned out to be wrong. Happened to a lot of ex-companies.
As much as we all like to think we're driven strictly by utilitarian requirements, the fact is that people like shiny bobbles over dull functional ones.
Very true, I got a great deal on a Lumia 720 for it's uber battery life, great driving GPS and touch screen that works through my thick leather motorbike gloves. During a comparison of smartphone battery life around the office, I mentioned I got three and a half days out of my battery. No-one believed me so I broke out the battery meter and many an eyebrow was raised, except for one hopeless iPhone fanboi who said "well, that's because it's not a real smartphone, is it?" His contempt for my brand choice continues to astonish me, the phone itself perfectly meets every one of my requirements but it doesn't meet his expectations and that somehow reflects badly on me personally. Shiny baubles aren't just a personal desire, some people will think less of you if you don't value them as much as they do.
"We'll be able to stop before the looming disaster actually happens, we're smart enough to see the key indicators and get out in time!"
Where have I heard this before? It was quite recently from another bunch of people who really should have known better and led us off a cliff into disaster because they just couldn't stop...
This isn't about science and hasn't been for a long time. It's about human nature. We don't like change, so when we've got an established way of doing things and no reason obvious enough in our daily lives to switch to a different way of doing things, we won't do it. In many cases, when we finally get it through our stupid thick heads that we need to change, it's far too late.
No time to research this now, I'm supposed to be working, but my colleagues and I had a quick 5-minute brainstorm on this and came up with a few points.
1) If the malware is initialised by the OS and loaded into the GPU that way, you've got a tiny window of opportunity to detect it then or you can use deep-scan techniques to pluck it off the hard drive. However, this is unlikely to work in practise because...
2) If a virus developer is smart enough to load malware into your GPU, they're smart enough to embed it into your firmware and add some rootkit protection against reflashing - time to buy a new GPU because you ain't ever getting that sucker out of there now.
3) That means, as always, the only practical time to deal with this is before the infection take enough of a hold to defend itself against anti-malware software. It needs a standard infection vector, so the usual anti-virus packages could be updated to spot this type of infection just like anything else that comes in off the wire.
4) IOMMU and VT-D could be used (extended?) to implement a per-device GPU DMA memory zone whitelisting scheme, something along the lines of the no-execute bit used with CPUs today. This would blunt the snooping capabilities of GPU malware. Further extensions to allow review of GPU communication may be able to detect or prevent initial infection of the GPU or the initialization of unwanted processes (depending on the malware type as above), but that would imply a huge increase in latency that would not be suitable for all applications.
1 - Religion is the belief that humans have souls, coupled with faith in a system souls exist as part of.
2 - Science is the belief in natural order, coupled with faith in our current understanding of it's rules.
These two concepts are not mutually exclusive. The issue is not and never has been about any incompatibility between science and religion.
The conflicts I've witnessed have been based on groups or individuals attempting to mislead for material or influential gain, an unwillingness to accept a personal misunderstanding, or an inability to comprehend the above fundamentals. Anyone promoting hate because of this issue has an agenda, something to learn or a need for compassion.
Atari had it's own crooked business practices to blame it's implosion on. Doesn't stop me wearing an Atari logo t-shirt though... shame it's repro, not vintage:(
I never said it would block the HTTP post action, that would just be censorship. Think of it as positive punishment to discourage future repetition but only in those serious enough to actually want to win the race.
I thought dealing with single-bit RAM failures was a little more complicated than that?
As I understand it, a failure is caused by a change of voltage in a stored bit. If the voltage change places the stored value between the 0 and 1 thresholds, the state becomes fuzzy. The failed bit can then easily be detected and it's original state calculated using the ECC data. However, if the change in voltage is enough to produce a valid-looking bit flip, the ECC data can detect there has been an error in the block but not which bit has been changed.
Why would a RAM failure be in any particular direction?
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We can either look at it from a moral perspective or from a selfish survival perspective. I prefer the latter - reduction of biodiversity in the ecosphere reduces humanity's long term continuation chances.
In Soviet Russia, jellyfish piss on you!
There's two ways of looking at it.
1) Humanity does not have the moral right to wipe out other species.
2) Humanity damages it's long-term survival chances by reducing biosphere diversity.
Take your pick.
That may be a factor, but as I understand from a documentary I saw a few months ago (is Slashdot temporally displaced or something?) the overfishing of areas where they spawn means their aren't enough fish hoovering up the billions of jellyfish eggs generated per spawning individual and their populations are out of control.
It's not much of an edge up against the sheer overwhelming weight of numbers the jellyfish have achieved. There's little any individual can do when billions of jellyfish clean out it's entire ecosystem.
The main ecosystem failure causing this has been in the jellyfish spawning grounds themselves. The fish that would normally pork their way through the billions upon billions of jellyfish eggs have been over-fished to the tipping point where the jellyfish population has exploded out of control and overwhelmed all the other species in the region. The clouds of fertilized eggs then wash out into the ocean and the immense blooms form thousands of miles from the spawning grounds where the adults do some porking of their own.
Japan is having a real problem with the jellyfish invasions wiping out the schools of fish they use for food, filling nets with nothing but worthless jellies. Their idea? Top chefs are promoting jellyfish sushi at trade shows. It's been on menus for decades but few customers would order it because of the consistency, so turning around that perception is likely to be important in maintaining their national food supply levels in the future.
(Disclaimer: this post formed under the influence of powerful cold and flu medication)
Did you not notice how convenient a catch-all Hanlon's Razor is for malicious people who are good at acting dumb? America had George W Bush for 8 years, surely someone smart enough to post a link to the Wikipedia page for his favourite dim-witicism would have noticed something funny going on around that guy...
That's not quite what he meant. The double standard is that the Guardian happily exposed other newspapers hacking phones and invading privacy, but then when a hacker came to them with private information they didn't hesitate to publish it. Concluding that this is a double standard requires one to ignore the differing context of the two incidents, but of course Cameron is in full spin mode so it comes naturally to him.
When you use the right blinkered view point it's quite easy.
On one hand you have the Guardian exposing the invasion of personal privacy and government secrecy through the phone hacking performed by other newspapers. On the other hand you have the Guardian invading the privacy of persons and revealing government secrets by publishing documents stolen by Snowden.
The fact Cameron can make a public statement like that shows he's either stupid or very skeptical about Labour's chances and doesn't care he's given them a few easy points there.
There's been a huge increase in the jellyfish populations around the world, they've been thriving as the seas warm up - more plankton equals more jellyfish. Fishing boats are catching huge nets of the things when they're supposed to be picking up fish. It's such a problem, there's a Japanese effort to get people to eat jellyfish sushi.
For anyone interested in being 'the kind of cyborg'* this guy was, it's way too easy.
1 - Put your RFID-based travel pass in your glove
2 - Open ticket barriers by waving your hand at the sensor
(*Other options: Jedi knight, wizard, the media's idea of Kevin Mitnick)
Hey, us Europeans may have a bunch of culture clashes when it comes to lawmaking, but we never had half the parliament take their ball and go home.
Talk is cheap - bad for the weapon manufacturers.
Indeed. The problem is deeper than daring to assume one knew better than the customer what the customer wanted.
Indeed, I wouldn't say that was a problem at all - all customers will want things in the future and really want something to fulfill those needs before they knew they had them. Blackberry thought they had a line on that, boldly went after it and turned out to be wrong. Happened to a lot of ex-companies.
As much as we all like to think we're driven strictly by utilitarian requirements, the fact is that people like shiny bobbles over dull functional ones.
Very true, I got a great deal on a Lumia 720 for it's uber battery life, great driving GPS and touch screen that works through my thick leather motorbike gloves. During a comparison of smartphone battery life around the office, I mentioned I got three and a half days out of my battery. No-one believed me so I broke out the battery meter and many an eyebrow was raised, except for one hopeless iPhone fanboi who said "well, that's because it's not a real smartphone, is it?" His contempt for my brand choice continues to astonish me, the phone itself perfectly meets every one of my requirements but it doesn't meet his expectations and that somehow reflects badly on me personally. Shiny baubles aren't just a personal desire, some people will think less of you if you don't value them as much as they do.
"We'll be able to stop before the looming disaster actually happens, we're smart enough to see the key indicators and get out in time!"
Where have I heard this before? It was quite recently from another bunch of people who really should have known better and led us off a cliff into disaster because they just couldn't stop...
This isn't about science and hasn't been for a long time. It's about human nature. We don't like change, so when we've got an established way of doing things and no reason obvious enough in our daily lives to switch to a different way of doing things, we won't do it. In many cases, when we finally get it through our stupid thick heads that we need to change, it's far too late.
No time to research this now, I'm supposed to be working, but my colleagues and I had a quick 5-minute brainstorm on this and came up with a few points.
1) If the malware is initialised by the OS and loaded into the GPU that way, you've got a tiny window of opportunity to detect it then or you can use deep-scan techniques to pluck it off the hard drive. However, this is unlikely to work in practise because...
2) If a virus developer is smart enough to load malware into your GPU, they're smart enough to embed it into your firmware and add some rootkit protection against reflashing - time to buy a new GPU because you ain't ever getting that sucker out of there now.
3) That means, as always, the only practical time to deal with this is before the infection take enough of a hold to defend itself against anti-malware software. It needs a standard infection vector, so the usual anti-virus packages could be updated to spot this type of infection just like anything else that comes in off the wire.
4) IOMMU and VT-D could be used (extended?) to implement a per-device GPU DMA memory zone whitelisting scheme, something along the lines of the no-execute bit used with CPUs today. This would blunt the snooping capabilities of GPU malware. Further extensions to allow review of GPU communication may be able to detect or prevent initial infection of the GPU or the initialization of unwanted processes (depending on the malware type as above), but that would imply a huge increase in latency that would not be suitable for all applications.
I have none of those issues when using it. Maybe it's your use case?
Fixed that for both of you.
Show me a commercial media player with better support for video formats than VLC.
That bit I said about not comprehending the fundamentals? That includes you.
1 - Religion is the belief that humans have souls, coupled with faith in a system souls exist as part of.
2 - Science is the belief in natural order, coupled with faith in our current understanding of it's rules.
These two concepts are not mutually exclusive. The issue is not and never has been about any incompatibility between science and religion.
The conflicts I've witnessed have been based on groups or individuals attempting to mislead for material or influential gain, an unwillingness to accept a personal misunderstanding, or an inability to comprehend the above fundamentals. Anyone promoting hate because of this issue has an agenda, something to learn or a need for compassion.
Atari had it's own crooked business practices to blame it's implosion on. Doesn't stop me wearing an Atari logo t-shirt though... shame it's repro, not vintage :(
I never said it would block the HTTP post action, that would just be censorship. Think of it as positive punishment to discourage future repetition but only in those serious enough to actually want to win the race.
You missed:
5) Safari performance is up
6) Battery life is down
7) Non-Retina displays have legibility issues
I thought dealing with single-bit RAM failures was a little more complicated than that?
As I understand it, a failure is caused by a change of voltage in a stored bit. If the voltage change places the stored value between the 0 and 1 thresholds, the state becomes fuzzy. The failed bit can then easily be detected and it's original state calculated using the ECC data. However, if the change in voltage is enough to produce a valid-looking bit flip, the ECC data can detect there has been an error in the block but not which bit has been changed.
Why would a RAM failure be in any particular direction?