A whole Chest of those 1 Trillion dollar coins they are going to start minting.
I signed into Facebook once, a long time ago to see what it was. Then I checked out why, Facebook out of hundreds of startups with similar ideas got picked, and they didn't for investment money.
Had nothing to do with Facebook being superior in any way, but, it was selected mainly on intelligence gathering grounds based on its end goals.
So if you use Facebook, your are like Mr. Zuckerberg has said, a Dumb F*uck.
From what I see a organization which is a store house for Mathematics and scientific works.
All of which is either funded through NSF or other grants of public monies.
In case anyone here would like to do their own research, check out the sheer _lengths_ M.I.T. as an institution went to in the destruction of two key figures in the COLD FUSION or low energy atomic reaction physics, Pons and Fleischmann.
It became clear after looking at the problem for the past 2 decades that something was going on here way more than just bad science since Pons and Fleischmann had highly regarded careers that were many decades in length.
These two individuals work into the phenomena of cold fusion or LERs would simply be discredited through the standard peer review process like all theories. No, that wasn't enough for M.I.T., which stood to lose about 3 Billion in revenue/research for its proposed Hot Fusion program, which they saw as a threat at the time.
No, like this young gentleman, Pons and Fleischmann had to be utterly destroyed. Their past work of 30 some years in numerous journals _must_ be removed and banished forever.
_EXTENSIVE_ amounts of money in the MILLIONS of dollars was spent by M.I.T. and other DoD/DoE departments in the Feds was spent to insure Pons and Fleischmann were not just destroyed academically, but financially and every other way possible including extensive budgetary allocations for media in the press to insure the public never ever hears about COLD FUSION or anything like it forever.
M.I.T always has been a disgusting institution along with most of our academic institutions, but they are extensively involved in all sorts of mischief with the Federal Government, and this is just yet another example.
I am not sure why a bill would be needed to prevent the president from coining money. Maybe our congressional leaders belong to a different country than I do, which has laws already in place which state Congress can only coin money. That money is Silver and Gold.
I do not see the mentioning of handing that responsibility off to a private foreign bank called the Federal Reserve, which is not a government entity.
From what I can see, the Republic and the Democratic ideals embodied in that republic are dead.
It is girating out of control at the hands of very evil people, who I would like to point out make up laws as they go along for their friends, and themselves for just about any purpose.
Any purpose that allows them to do whatever they please, and call it lawful.
But the idea that there is any "law of the land" anymore where justice reigns supreme and equal for all, has been replaced with chaos and ever growing amounts of destruction by the "laws of men".
Destruction to our cities which are rapidly disappearing. Destruction of our currency, which is on a cataclysmic decline and will more than likely break the USA into pieces. Destruction to foreign lands, where these criminal bankers are funding mischief by printing Federal Reserve notes because I can assure everyone here, no way could we have what, 12 last count foreign wars or interdictions going on from just tax revenue.
Finally which makes me very sad, is the destruction of our youth, who have no future as long as this continues. The destruction of the ideals of youth will bring civil war and decline to a country if no opportunity is afforded to them to make meaningful contributions to a society they believe they can participate in.
The currency is destroyed, and there is confusion in a land where the constitution of its founders has been tossed aside to plunder and destroy the lives of our young people under the disguise of "safety".
GMO's are dangerous. The introduction of man made proteins into a biosphere that has the goals of:
1) Destroying all natural varieties through cross pollination. 2) Destroy plants, animals or insects. 3) Destroy the third world who cannot pay for GMO food. 4) Destroy the freedom and economic independence of all nations so that only a few can produce food to exercise poorly veiled eugenics projects.
GMO's destroy, they do not enable, they do not feed people, they kill people, environment, animals, insects and the environment for worse than the oil industry does.
GMO is about destruction AND _control_, and it has nothing to do with producing food.
Very dubious, because I think I can prove historically security is not a hardware issue, it is a human issue. I am not pulling this out of my arse either, I can site a huge list of failed hardware security solutions, which DO NOT WORK.
So what has it accomplished so far?
That is easy, unless you get essentially permission from Microsoft, you can't use GNU software.
I won't buy a UEFI motherboard. Period.
If motherboard manufacturers are STUPID ENOUGH to install UEFI industry wide, well then looks like all of those machines in my basement will run my databases and websites.
Lets see how long they can go without profits before putting the BIOS back in the motherboard and restore the customers ability to run whatever I damn well please on the hardware I buy.
Microsoft can suck it. So can any manufacturer that makes Microsoft UEFI motherboards.
If you can pay for the degree without going into debt, and can seriously work at it, fine.
Otherwise, Degrees in general in the age of the internet are proving to be somewhat of a scam. Incredibly expensive and have poor returns.
If you view this in light of how things are today, the 120 grand you would spend in on degree could be invested into a business of your own, or even a house and save you a lifetime of rent expenses.
120K in investments, or even traveling the world by backpack.
You would get much more out of it than spending money on a degree, and let me be frank:
1) You sit in a class room and are taught to think like everyone else, and if you do not you fail. 2) Solve problems exactly as everyone else or you fail. 3) Memorize useless facts which make no sense until they are applied, ironically in the real world because no problem in the real world can ever be as simple as the ones you find condescendingly in a text book.
Finally, above all College teaches you to OBEY. You WILL study and hand in a assignment at exactly the prescribed time for example otherwise, you can never be a good computer scientist or mathematician etc.
With all of this _CRAP_ I am surprised anyone bothers to become "educated" because that is not what you are when you go to college.
UEFI doesn't solve any sort of security problem, and like a lot of solutions it is so obvious it was done to secure Microsoft's monopoly you have to be a moron to not see it.
BIOS based systems are fine, and they have been fine for a long time. What we need, is an OpenBIOS, adopted industry wide, not UEFI.
Everyone makes mistakes, and he said so. So I doubt he will do something this retarded again.
I think not paying him is probably a premature step.
Something that harsh should be applied to the bankers and technocrats that are destroying western civilization in Europe and setting the stage with their mischief in the middle east for WW III.
This is part of a process for testing new server gear.
Since I use Fedora, currently at 17, burn in testing is important.
Quick tip: Most of the distro's currently do not detect SSD drives during the install and do not include the "discard" keyword in the fstab entries for the device.
If you do use a Modern Distro, make sure that if you install or use a SSD with it, to mount the device with kernel flag for TRIM support set.
Where xxx..is your UUID label you made for the device and discard indicates enable TRIM support.
Burn in process for equipment for hard disks usually involved write a file the entire size of the disk, reading it, random seeking it, then deleting it.
I also use a customer script to drive sysbench with some common fileio tasks.
This is important for disks as it can reveal differences in firmware or firmware between SSD's used in arrays. For example a customer of mine had a really bad performing raid array and it was due to the mixing and matching of firmware between drives. (It worked well for a while, but then went bad when one of the drives in the RAID 5 array died, and he replaced it with a new one with different firmware.)
The essence of the constitution is to determine your own destiny, for the individual.
If you do not want to do this, and you trust government to protect you, then you will find yourself dead on the floor as the government arrives to clean up the mess.
I read the stories of people cowering in the corner, and praying. Has our country come to that where a bunch of adults cower in the corner and beg for their lives because they lack the courage to defend other people?
Our society is dying. Everywhere you look you have people wanting others to take care of them, to make the future safe and that means removing all freedom to the individual.
You can live safely as a slave and be treated like an animal, or you can live free and determine your own destiny by taking care of yourself and stop cowering in the corner waiting for the government to arrive to solve everyones problems.
Look, either you wait for the government to come and shoot the guy, or you do it yourself.
At least if you do it yourself, fewer people will die.
Until people basically change, guns will be a requirement for all free people. To be free to make your own decisions, to be free of government tyranny.
But most importantly, people must defend and protect each other in their communities.
You depend on the government to do it and you will watch helplessly as your community members are executed in cold blood.
First of all, I would like to point out that many of these ideas present in the paper have been proven to not work practically, as one will take immediate note of the use of C# and similar architectural similarities and assumptions with regards to Microsoft's Universal Compiler. Microsoft (et. al.) I would like to point out, many other organizations with far stronger talent and resources have also been working on the problem of Thread mutex issues.
With regards to Microsoft, they thought they had the problem solved with the.Net architecture of separating language constructs to code generation and with it reducing it to proof at runtime. Problem is it would seem they could never get it quite right with either bad code being produced, or the human coder coming up with situations and algorithms that just plain could not be proofed at runtime and ran single threaded anyway. Usually in a really bad way. (i.e. Employing the use of locking structures in the runtime code that really whacked CPU affinity and cache coherency.)
This resulted in some fairly spectacular failures with systems designed with these sorts of assumptions as described in the papers "Lemma's" section.
Secondly, I think given the length of time this problem has been around one hope remains for a more straightforward approach to language concurrent syntax. Like I said, this problem has been around and has been looked at extensively in my opinion by much more competent people long long LONG ago...(IBM Labs in 1990's PowerPC compiler papers there.). What hasn't been around is the hardware options for solving this issue. Now that we are at 22nm as well as using all three dimensions of that tiny space hardware will be advancing at a very pace for the next several years. With all of the extra room, there is hardware assist that may become practical to make at least the locking facilities more straightforward with registers and dedicated memory to handle mutex atoms as a sort of map for the compiler to fill out for execution. No code analysis required.
So now I am SUPER skeptical.:-) Primarily because no knew computing hardware was mentioned by the authors and how the concurrrent algorithm generation would be assisted in the use of atomic operations on today's typical NUMA systems.
But after reading the paper, I am not hopeful that this is practical or that it even works correctly.
Microsoft has tried to foster this architecture on the exchanges by attempting to apply this sort of reasoning from similar papers in the past and apply it to massive computational concurrent computing and it failed in a spectacular way. (I am talking about the worlds exchanges on Wall St. London and Tokyo.)
After several extremely costly failures that occurred wherever this system was deployed, all of world wide banking exchanges went back to LINUX, which is currently the all time master of concurrent computing world wide on scales that leave this paper and its researches I am afraid far far behind.
All hand coded and with very little optimization work to boot via gcc.
This two party system is only going to bring more welfare, poverty and despair and finally a dictatorship to control it all just like North Korea.
I use to wonder how the German people could stand by and watch the transformation of their country when Hitler came to power and enacted citizen execution laws like the USA just recently enacted along with the bull crap for travel....(i.e. Papers please.).
We have all that now, and it just keeps getting worse.
Nobody is doing nothing about the banks robbing everything, billions go missing and nobody goes to jail.
It is out of control, and it is all going to end very badly.
If any of you have half a brain and actually read history, you should be making plans to leave the country, seriously because this isn't going to get better it is going to get far far worse.
Especially when all of the criminal banking activity comes home to roost.
The problem as I originally stated was the currency system is rigged. The central exchanges for currencies float their relative value against each other based on the Petro dollar, which like I said is rigged.
So you are measuring a so called "flat inflation" against other currencies using a rigged system.
If there are differences, you should pay attention to their relative weight with respect to oil consumption per fiat, not directly to each other.
People have this mistaken idea that currency exchanges measure inflation, it doesn't. You can't measure inflation or real value against another fiat currency because by definition, the currencies have no value at all.
The only thing that matters is gold, silver and oil.
This is why if you do a little reading, central banks realize the currencies are in trouble, and are buying gigantic amounts of gold so when the currency market collapses, and it will collapse, they will be in a bargaining position to buy up whole countries and institutions for a song.
Only this time, they aim to buy the political power along with those institutions and the force that goes with them (i.e. primarily the united states military industrial complex.)
If you are pricing the hard drives in Federal Reserve notes, you are going to find that although the floods did have a market response to prices, something has also happened in the past several months.
The Federal Reserve Note is dying. Purchasing power of the dollar is being cut drastically in just about all areas not just hard drives.
I doubt it will improve any time soon. One use to be able to track gold and silver to get a pretty good guess on the health of a fiat currency. Now, that is pretty much impossible to do due to the enormous amount of corruption in the exchanges going on during the past several years since the crash.
In fact I would expect the prices to not return to last years levels, and actually increase like many items that are currently doing the same thing.
I do not want to worry everyone, but the trends in the USA political system seem to indicate:
1) Passage of laws Stalin, Mao even HITLER would have a wet dream if he could pass the Patriot and NDAA acts.
They just recently passed, and will take time to "execute" fully. Anyone paying attention to the news knows, there are not 1 billion terrorists in the world.
There are people like me though and others that track what this political system is doing and it is buying Ammo for domestic use on a scale totally unprecedented in USA history. What exactly the government is going to be doing with that much sniper and hollow point bullets I can't be sure since it is for domestic government institutions.
So I will let history be the judge and suggest you all have something to worry about that is more important and it has nothing to do with the president.
You better pay attention to the banks who are funding these purchases, particularly the Federal Reserve.
2) We all know that for a civilization to function, you can't have corruption on a scale that we have seen in the past 10 years in military conflicts being authorized Constitutionally illegal, by an arguable dictator. (i.e. Bush and Obama have authorized actions clearly illegally with regards to military deployment.). Destruction of the confidence of trade and monetary stability by Paulson, Corzine and others that have stolen my money and others, stand up in front of Congress on Public Television and with a straight face declare they have no idea what happened to hundreds of billions of dollars.
You know there is a reason why the entire Stock Market is 85% machine trades now. You either have to be a crook or a fool to participate unless you have inside knowledge or can get permission to break the law and steal money without penalty.
3) A populace in the USA now mainly based on dependence who have thrown away the freedoms and liberties many people died for and are laying in graves, in exchange for slavery of a welfare check and food stamps for "safety".
I can't believe people would not attempt to destroy those who put them there rather than being held on a leash for a food stamp debit card and welfare check. It would seem this political two party system has chains of gold for everyone to wear. The destruction this is having on the future of the country is heart breaking. Millions of people who will never ever consider any possibility other than what their government handlers will tell them what is possible.
The government has stolen billions and given it to corporations to move and build factories anywhere, just as long as they are not here, paid for by you the tax payer. The American response?
Who Cares, just give us our Welfare Check and Food Stamp Card. Not a single attempt to move against this government even while whole cities lie in ruins.
Like a frog in a pot slowly being cooked, people sit idle and watch as the dead lie in graves for nothing and a future of slavery.
Safety will be a key concern, of course for the ruling class, but not for any of the hundreds of millions who will sit in abjec poverty as this trend continues to fulfill a future of complete and utter repression of the human spirit.
You know I have a great interest in history. One of my interests is the MAYAN's, when at the height of the MAYAN civilization 800 A.D. or so Europe was gripped in the Dark Ages the MAYAN city states were at their apex and began experimenting with an industrial age inventing materials science which yielded concrete, advances tools harder than steel.
They too succumbed to tyranny and butchery and finally destruction of all of their culture. They stopped, they stopped exploring science, they stopped exploring mathematics, they stopped exploring engineering. The result? The ruling class used fear and declared we cannot keep you safe from hunger unless we sacrifice hundreds of people to the Gods. We can keep you safe from hunger, if you give us all your sons, daughters for sacrifice
I hammer on the thing constantly, and it keeps taking it. All of my previous pencils have failed due to the fact the tips are not retractable and get bent.
This one retracts and protects itself from me.
It is now ready to debark on a two year tour of Calculus which I will start the first week of November.
In case you are curious, this isn't a pen. It is a pencil, which I can't imagine why you would want a pen for any engineering activity or doing mathematics. Dump the pens and do the 5mm pencil.
My full take on CISCO came to a realization I think back in 2000-2004 as I watched the company grow sales with the Chinese.
This treasonous company used every trick in the book to sell China the gear required to hunt down and kill anyone on the growing Chinese domestic internet who had anything to say against the Chinese PRC state institutions. I wondered how could a company reason bypassing all of the controls the state department had put on selling high tech items outside the country, in the sorts of shady deals and the sheer effort required to sell to China without getting caught.
In actuality they were getting caught because people like me who knew what CISCO was doing and tracking their little shady deals through the foreign press. Thanks to the many well known political contacts the board of CISCO had with the Clinton administration and then with the Bush administration I doubt they could have got away with most of the multi hundred million dollar deals over the years unless they were cleared by executive order to do so.
I think this might have been a CIA interdiction in China as just recently lots of "anomalous" behaviour in various sorts of gear over the years caused China to switch to a domestic supplier now, Unicom.
Too make a long story short, don't buy CISCO products because if they are not good enough for a bunch of communists who are obsessed with total information awareness, they sure and the hell are not good enough if you have any value of liberty or freedom.
Besides, any network sys admin worth his salt builds his high capacity network with source code. That means firewalls, routers, which means bgp, quagga, openvpn, ssh.
Besides, you can always tell a guy who knows networking when he starts talking about source tree patches to his IPv6 tree vs "Oh, I don't know how IPv6 actually works, I just wait for a firmware BLOB from CISCO."
If you got people like that on your staff, fire them. They are a security risk.
This has nothing to do with copyright. That is a strawman.
This is really about destroying open computing systems, which is an obstacle to building a police state.
The idea is to lock down, data, and technology and only allow it to be in the hands of anyone who has an approved license.
This means ebooks, technology instruction, mathematics or anything with critical independent thinking which is critical to a free society.
Right now they are testing the waters.
They will never stop until they get either everyone dead, what they want or they themselves are destroyed.
Many of these people are at the point of media control and propaganda, including Ted Turner which is one of the most diabolical globalists I can think of in the areas of information control and dissemination/disinformation and programming.
These people are incredibly arrogant and brag that they think you should be dead, and that watching anything else except Globalist News Channels on T.V. makes you a radical and a terrorist.
They continually enforce the ideas of nullification of anying except communism and fascism with constant messages driving home the fact that you cannot own _anything_ you buy, you are not permitted to use _any_ information unless it is authorized by they themselves.
These people have access to military hardware and advanced weaponry to enforce their brutal tyranny with anything from SWAT teams entering homes to execute any who resist if they are found simply copying or downloading DVD's.
They are incredibly dangerous people and they become more dangerous by the hour.
1) Only select a Android device which runs Cyanogenmod with the latest Android. That means the device has to be rootable. If the manufacturer will not allow that, do not buy it. 2) Root the device and install the latest version of android, right now at 4.1. Latest versions are available from Cyanogenmod website. (Alternative you can build your own source tree for the Arm processor and do your own patches if you do not like what Cyanogenmod does.) If you do not know how to do this, or find the U-Tube Videos too complex, find a geek to help you and hold your hand while you do it so you do not brick the device.
First of all let me say that the first two points are critical because patches and security enhancements to Android are rapid. Change is your protection in a sense not just from patches, but from the installed dead end software the manufacturer shoves down your throat with the purchase of the phone hardware.
Secondly, most Android phones have Quad core processors in them now, or pretty good dual core processors and high performance discrete GPU's. Android manufacturers have a bad habit of thinking that their dead end provisioning of a phones operating system insures you will buy the next phone hardware out with the newest version of Android.
That is why most phone manufacturers are starting to join the LINUX Alliance, such as SAMSUNG and actually open their phones up or allow the purchase of such phones that are unlockable. Having a rootable device that has open drivers makes you the darling of the open source world, and that meens every geek out there insures everyone else buys what he has.
It also means you get a much more stable phone in the long run, as nightlies are constantly being worked on at the Cyanogenmod camp, and a fix is usually only a day or two away if something is wrong with your phones software.
Only complete idiots buy Apple iPhones. Take your slave labor (Child Labor?) iCrap back to the store and buying something like Samsung SIII which is a better phone anyway, both technically with Android 4.1 and better hardware, especially the camera which takes much better pictures than the iPhone 5.
Besides the fact you do not have a fascist control freak like Apple waiting in the wings to rob you of your revenues off their store if they like your idea, you can't get the source code for the iPhone 5. So you do not know who the hell is doing what on your phone when you download stuff, except for Tim Cook's nice smile telling you one lie after another "We don't bargain contracts based on protein consumption in labor contracts", "We would NEVER use child labor.", "Oh Apple's maps Application is much better than Google's, really its for your own good.", BLAH BLAH BLAH.
3) Make sure you read reviews of software before you buy it. Don't just go hitting the install button on any store you buy your phone software from either. Do some research first. Likewise as I stated before, any shannanigans that happens on a Android rooted device running malware is going to be _much_ easier to detect than a iPhone where you are not allowed to see what Apple, or who knows god what is running on the phone in the background.
But most of the time after your root your phone and you put the provisioning of updates on, you should be all set and prepared for a vast majority of the issues that are out there.
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Yaaaaaaaaaaaaawwwwwwwwwwwwnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnn.
Someone wake me up when we get to the 21st century tech.
-Hack
A whole Chest of those 1 Trillion dollar coins they are going to start minting.
I signed into Facebook once, a long time ago to see what it was. Then I checked out why, Facebook out of hundreds of startups with similar ideas got picked, and they didn't for investment money.
Had nothing to do with Facebook being superior in any way, but, it was selected mainly on intelligence gathering grounds based on its end goals.
So if you use Facebook, your are like Mr. Zuckerberg has said, a Dumb F*uck.
-Hack
http://www.jstor.org/
From what I see a organization which is a store house for Mathematics and scientific works.
All of which is either funded through NSF or other grants of public monies.
In case anyone here would like to do their own research, check out the sheer _lengths_ M.I.T. as an institution went to in the destruction of two key figures in the COLD FUSION or low energy atomic reaction physics, Pons and Fleischmann.
It became clear after looking at the problem for the past 2 decades that something was going on here way more than just bad science since Pons and Fleischmann had highly regarded careers that were many decades in length.
These two individuals work into the phenomena of cold fusion or LERs would simply be discredited through the standard peer review process like all theories. No, that wasn't enough for M.I.T., which stood to lose about 3 Billion in revenue/research for its proposed Hot Fusion program, which they saw as a threat at the time.
No, like this young gentleman, Pons and Fleischmann had to be utterly destroyed. Their past work of 30 some years in numerous journals _must_ be removed and banished forever.
_EXTENSIVE_ amounts of money in the MILLIONS of dollars was spent by M.I.T. and other DoD/DoE departments in the Feds was spent to insure Pons and Fleischmann were not just destroyed academically, but financially and every other way possible including extensive budgetary allocations for media in the press to insure the public never ever hears about COLD FUSION or anything like it forever.
M.I.T always has been a disgusting institution along with most of our academic institutions, but they are extensively involved in all sorts of mischief with the Federal Government, and this is just yet another example.
Disgusting.
-Hack
I am not sure why a bill would be needed to prevent the president from coining money. Maybe our congressional leaders belong to a different country than I do, which has laws already in place which state Congress can only coin money. That money is Silver and Gold.
I do not see the mentioning of handing that responsibility off to a private foreign bank called the Federal Reserve, which is not a government entity.
From what I can see, the Republic and the Democratic ideals embodied in that republic are dead.
It is girating out of control at the hands of very evil people, who I would like to point out make up laws as they go along for their friends, and themselves for just about any purpose.
Any purpose that allows them to do whatever they please, and call it lawful.
But the idea that there is any "law of the land" anymore where justice reigns supreme and equal for all, has been replaced with chaos and ever growing amounts of destruction by the "laws of men".
Destruction to our cities which are rapidly disappearing. Destruction of our currency, which is on a cataclysmic decline and will more than likely break the USA into pieces. Destruction to foreign lands, where these criminal bankers are funding mischief by printing Federal Reserve notes because I can assure everyone here, no way could we have what, 12 last count foreign wars or interdictions going on from just tax revenue.
Finally which makes me very sad, is the destruction of our youth, who have no future as long as this continues. The destruction of the ideals of youth will bring civil war and decline to a country if no opportunity is afforded to them to make meaningful contributions to a society they believe they can participate in.
The currency is destroyed, and there is confusion in a land where the constitution of its founders has been tossed aside to plunder and destroy the lives of our young people under the disguise of "safety".
So sad.
-Hack
GMO's are dangerous. The introduction of man made proteins into a biosphere that has the goals of:
1) Destroying all natural varieties through cross pollination.
2) Destroy plants, animals or insects.
3) Destroy the third world who cannot pay for GMO food.
4) Destroy the freedom and economic independence of all nations so that only a few can produce food to exercise poorly veiled eugenics projects.
GMO's destroy, they do not enable, they do not feed people, they kill people, environment, animals, insects and the environment for worse than the oil industry does.
GMO is about destruction AND _control_, and it has nothing to do with producing food.
-Hack
Does it make your machine any more secure?
Very dubious, because I think I can prove historically security is not a hardware issue, it is a human issue. I am not pulling this out of my arse either, I can site a huge list of failed hardware security solutions, which DO NOT WORK.
So what has it accomplished so far?
That is easy, unless you get essentially permission from Microsoft, you can't use GNU software.
I won't buy a UEFI motherboard. Period.
If motherboard manufacturers are STUPID ENOUGH to install UEFI industry wide, well then looks like all of those machines in my basement will run my databases and websites.
Lets see how long they can go without profits before putting the BIOS back in the motherboard and restore the customers ability to run whatever I damn well please on the hardware I buy.
Microsoft can suck it. So can any manufacturer that makes Microsoft UEFI motherboards.
Because as I see it, UEFI=Microsoft hardware.
-Hack
If you can pay for the degree without going into debt, and can seriously work at it, fine.
Otherwise, Degrees in general in the age of the internet are proving to be somewhat of a scam. Incredibly expensive and have poor returns.
If you view this in light of how things are today, the 120 grand you would spend in on degree could be invested into a business of your own, or even a house and save you a lifetime of rent expenses.
120K in investments, or even traveling the world by backpack.
You would get much more out of it than spending money on a degree, and let me be frank:
1) You sit in a class room and are taught to think like everyone else, and if you do not you fail.
2) Solve problems exactly as everyone else or you fail.
3) Memorize useless facts which make no sense until they are applied, ironically in the real world because no problem in the real world can ever be as simple as the ones you find condescendingly in a text book.
Finally, above all College teaches you to OBEY. You WILL study and hand in a assignment at exactly the prescribed time for example otherwise, you can never be a good computer scientist or mathematician etc.
With all of this _CRAP_ I am surprised anyone bothers to become "educated" because that is not what you are when you go to college.
-Hack
UEFI doesn't solve any sort of security problem, and like a lot of solutions it is so obvious it was done to secure Microsoft's monopoly you have to be a moron to not see it.
BIOS based systems are fine, and they have been fine for a long time. What we need, is an OpenBIOS, adopted industry wide, not UEFI.
UEFI is crap.
-Hack
Everyone makes mistakes, and he said so. So I doubt he will do something this retarded again.
I think not paying him is probably a premature step.
Something that harsh should be applied to the bankers and technocrats that are destroying western civilization in Europe and setting the stage with their mischief in the middle east for WW III.
-Hack
I consider myself a newbie, doing kernel programming with wireless stuff for two years now and even I would never do such a thing.
I mean to return non valid values is bad enough, but then pass them to userspace in kernel service lists such as ioctl is incredible.
Actually it is retarded.
-Hack
Built systems with their E5 series motherboards (i.e.X9DA) that made my HP vendor cry in the corner asking for his mama.
Must have saved like close to 20 grand by whiteboxing a system spec I slotted from HP for 60 Grand.
-Hack
Which I would like to take a moment to say what a wonderful idea in celebration of this year.
To all my Slashdot's which I have written for over the years, mostly in a negative tone, but thanks for the Excellent Karma anyway.
Merry Christmas everyone, may peace be with you, and keep you.
-Hackus
This is part of a process for testing new server gear.
Since I use Fedora, currently at 17, burn in testing is important.
Quick tip: Most of the distro's currently do not detect SSD drives during the install and do not include the "discard" keyword in the fstab entries for the device.
If you do use a Modern Distro, make sure that if you install or use a SSD with it, to mount the device with kernel flag for TRIM support set.
For example:
UUID=xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx /mnt/ssd2 ext4 discard,defaults 1 2
Where xxx..is your UUID label you made for the device and discard indicates enable TRIM support.
Burn in process for equipment for hard disks usually involved write a file the entire size of the disk, reading it, random seeking it, then deleting it.
I also use a customer script to drive sysbench with some common fileio tasks.
This is important for disks as it can reveal differences in firmware or firmware between SSD's used in arrays. For example a customer of mine had a really bad performing raid array and it was due to the mixing and matching of firmware between drives. (It worked well for a while, but then went bad when one of the drives in the RAID 5 array died, and he replaced it with a new one with different firmware.)
-Hack
You are too small to pay.
-Hack
with a firearm could have stopped this.
The essence of the constitution is to determine your own destiny, for the individual.
If you do not want to do this, and you trust government to protect you, then you will find yourself dead on the floor as the government arrives to clean up the mess.
I read the stories of people cowering in the corner, and praying. Has our country come to that where a bunch of adults cower in the corner and beg for their lives because they lack the courage to defend other people?
Our society is dying. Everywhere you look you have people wanting others to take care of them, to make the future safe and that means removing all freedom to the individual.
You can live safely as a slave and be treated like an animal, or you can live free and determine your own destiny by taking care of yourself and stop cowering in the corner waiting for the government to arrive to solve everyones problems.
Look, either you wait for the government to come and shoot the guy, or you do it yourself.
At least if you do it yourself, fewer people will die.
Until people basically change, guns will be a requirement for all free people. To be free to make your own decisions, to be free of government tyranny.
But most importantly, people must defend and protect each other in their communities.
You depend on the government to do it and you will watch helplessly as your community members are executed in cold blood.
-Hack
First of all, I would like to point out that many of these ideas present in the paper have been proven to not work practically, as one will take immediate note of the use of C# and similar architectural similarities and assumptions with regards to Microsoft's Universal Compiler. Microsoft (et. al.) I would like to point out, many other organizations with far stronger talent and resources have also been working on the problem of Thread mutex issues.
With regards to Microsoft, they thought they had the problem solved with the .Net architecture of separating language constructs to code generation and with it reducing it to proof at runtime. Problem is it would seem they could never get it quite right with either bad code being produced, or the human coder coming up with situations and algorithms that just plain could not be proofed at runtime and ran single threaded anyway. Usually in a really bad way. (i.e. Employing the use of locking structures in the runtime code that really whacked CPU affinity and cache coherency.)
This resulted in some fairly spectacular failures with systems designed with these sorts of assumptions as described in the papers "Lemma's" section.
Secondly, I think given the length of time this problem has been around one hope remains for a more straightforward approach to language concurrent syntax. Like I said, this problem has been around and has been looked at extensively in my opinion by much more competent people long long LONG ago...(IBM Labs in 1990's PowerPC compiler papers there.). What hasn't been around is the hardware options for solving this issue. Now that we are at 22nm as well as using all three dimensions of that tiny space hardware will be advancing at a very pace for the next several years. With all of the extra room, there is hardware assist that may become practical to make at least the locking facilities more straightforward with registers and dedicated memory to handle mutex atoms as a sort of map for the compiler to fill out for execution. No code analysis required.
So now I am SUPER skeptical. :-) Primarily because no knew computing hardware was mentioned by the authors and how the concurrrent algorithm generation would be assisted in the use of atomic operations on today's typical NUMA systems.
But after reading the paper, I am not hopeful that this is practical or that it even works correctly.
Microsoft has tried to foster this architecture on the exchanges by attempting to apply this sort of reasoning from similar papers in the past and apply it to massive computational concurrent computing and it failed in a spectacular way. (I am talking about the worlds exchanges on Wall St. London and Tokyo.)
After several extremely costly failures that occurred wherever this system was deployed, all of world wide banking exchanges went back to LINUX, which is currently the all time master of concurrent computing world wide on scales that leave this paper and its researches I am afraid far far behind.
All hand coded and with very little optimization work to boot via gcc.
-Hack
Anyone with half a brain I know of didn't vote.
I didn't vote, and none of my friends voted.
This two party system is only going to bring more welfare, poverty and despair and finally a dictatorship to control it all just like North Korea.
I use to wonder how the German people could stand by and watch the transformation of their country when Hitler came to power and enacted citizen execution laws like the USA just recently enacted along with the bull crap for travel....(i.e. Papers please.).
We have all that now, and it just keeps getting worse.
Nobody is doing nothing about the banks robbing everything, billions go missing and nobody goes to jail.
It is out of control, and it is all going to end very badly.
If any of you have half a brain and actually read history, you should be making plans to leave the country, seriously because this isn't going to get better it is going to get far far worse.
Especially when all of the criminal banking activity comes home to roost.
-Hack
The problem as I originally stated was the currency system is rigged. The central exchanges for currencies float their relative value against each other based on the Petro dollar, which like I said is rigged.
So you are measuring a so called "flat inflation" against other currencies using a rigged system.
If there are differences, you should pay attention to their relative weight with respect to oil consumption per fiat, not directly to each other.
People have this mistaken idea that currency exchanges measure inflation, it doesn't. You can't measure inflation or real value against another fiat currency because by definition, the currencies have no value at all.
The only thing that matters is gold, silver and oil.
This is why if you do a little reading, central banks realize the currencies are in trouble, and are buying gigantic amounts of gold so when the currency market collapses, and it will collapse, they will be in a bargaining position to buy up whole countries and institutions for a song.
Only this time, they aim to buy the political power along with those institutions and the force that goes with them (i.e. primarily the united states military industrial complex.)
-Hack
If you are pricing the hard drives in Federal Reserve notes, you are going to find that although the floods did have a market response to prices, something has also happened in the past several months.
The Federal Reserve Note is dying. Purchasing power of the dollar is being cut drastically in just about all areas not just hard drives.
I doubt it will improve any time soon. One use to be able to track gold and silver to get a pretty good guess on the health of a fiat currency. Now, that is pretty much impossible to do due to the enormous amount of corruption in the exchanges going on during the past several years since the crash.
In fact I would expect the prices to not return to last years levels, and actually increase like many items that are currently doing the same thing.
-Hack
I do not want to worry everyone, but the trends in the USA political system seem to indicate:
1) Passage of laws Stalin, Mao even HITLER would have a wet dream if he could pass the Patriot and NDAA acts.
They just recently passed, and will take time to "execute" fully. Anyone paying attention to the news knows, there are not 1 billion terrorists in the world.
There are people like me though and others that track what this political system is doing and it is buying Ammo for domestic use on a scale totally unprecedented in USA history. What exactly the government is going to be doing with that much sniper and hollow point bullets I can't be sure since it is for domestic government institutions.
So I will let history be the judge and suggest you all have something to worry about that is more important and it has nothing to do with the president.
You better pay attention to the banks who are funding these purchases, particularly the Federal Reserve.
2) We all know that for a civilization to function, you can't have corruption on a scale that we have seen in the past 10 years in military conflicts being authorized Constitutionally illegal, by an arguable dictator. (i.e. Bush and Obama have authorized actions clearly illegally with regards to military deployment.). Destruction of the confidence of trade and monetary stability by Paulson, Corzine and others that have stolen my money and others, stand up in front of Congress on Public Television and with a straight face declare they have no idea what happened to hundreds of billions of dollars.
You know there is a reason why the entire Stock Market is 85% machine trades now. You either have to be a crook or a fool to participate unless you have inside knowledge or can get permission to break the law and steal money without penalty.
3) A populace in the USA now mainly based on dependence who have thrown away the freedoms and liberties many people died for and are laying in graves, in exchange for slavery of a welfare check and food stamps for "safety".
I can't believe people would not attempt to destroy those who put them there rather than being held on a leash for a food stamp debit card and welfare check. It would seem this political two party system has chains of gold for everyone to wear. The destruction this is having on the future of the country is heart breaking. Millions of people who will never ever consider any possibility other than what their government handlers will tell them what is possible.
The government has stolen billions and given it to corporations to move and build factories anywhere, just as long as they are not here, paid for by you the tax payer. The American response?
Who Cares, just give us our Welfare Check and Food Stamp Card. Not a single attempt to move against this government even while whole cities lie in ruins.
Like a frog in a pot slowly being cooked, people sit idle and watch as the dead lie in graves for nothing and a future of slavery.
Safety will be a key concern, of course for the ruling class, but not for any of the hundreds of millions who will sit in abjec poverty as this trend continues to fulfill a future of complete and utter repression of the human spirit.
You know I have a great interest in history. One of my interests is the MAYAN's, when at the height of the MAYAN civilization 800 A.D. or so Europe was gripped in the Dark Ages the MAYAN city states were at their apex and began experimenting with an industrial age inventing materials science which yielded concrete, advances tools harder than steel.
They too succumbed to tyranny and butchery and finally destruction of all of their culture. They stopped, they stopped exploring science, they stopped exploring mathematics, they stopped exploring engineering. The result? The ruling class used fear and declared we cannot keep you safe from hunger unless we sacrifice hundreds of people to the Gods. We can keep you safe from hunger, if you give us all your sons, daughters for sacrifice
I hammer on the thing constantly, and it keeps taking it. All of my previous pencils have failed due to the fact the tips are not retractable and get bent.
This one retracts and protects itself from me.
It is now ready to debark on a two year tour of Calculus which I will start the first week of November.
In case you are curious, this isn't a pen. It is a pencil, which I can't imagine why you would want a pen for any engineering activity or doing mathematics. Dump the pens and do the 5mm pencil.
-Hack
My full take on CISCO came to a realization I think back in 2000-2004 as I watched the company grow sales with the Chinese.
This treasonous company used every trick in the book to sell China the gear required to hunt down and kill anyone on the growing Chinese domestic internet who had anything to say against the Chinese PRC state institutions. I wondered how could a company reason bypassing all of the controls the state department had put on selling high tech items outside the country, in the sorts of shady deals and the sheer effort required to sell to China without getting caught.
In actuality they were getting caught because people like me who knew what CISCO was doing and tracking their little shady deals through the foreign press. Thanks to the many well known political contacts the board of CISCO had with the Clinton administration and then with the Bush administration I doubt they could have got away with most of the multi hundred million dollar deals over the years unless they were cleared by executive order to do so.
I think this might have been a CIA interdiction in China as just recently lots of "anomalous" behaviour in various sorts of gear over the years caused China to switch to a domestic supplier now, Unicom.
Too make a long story short, don't buy CISCO products because if they are not good enough for a bunch of communists who are obsessed with total information awareness, they sure and the hell are not good enough if you have any value of liberty or freedom.
Besides, any network sys admin worth his salt builds his high capacity network with source code. That means firewalls, routers, which means bgp, quagga, openvpn, ssh.
Besides, you can always tell a guy who knows networking when he starts talking about source tree patches to his IPv6 tree vs "Oh, I don't know how IPv6 actually works, I just wait for a firmware BLOB from CISCO."
If you got people like that on your staff, fire them. They are a security risk.
-Hackus
This has nothing to do with copyright. That is a strawman.
This is really about destroying open computing systems, which is an obstacle to building a police state.
The idea is to lock down, data, and technology and only allow it to be in the hands of anyone who has an approved license.
This means ebooks, technology instruction, mathematics or anything with critical independent thinking which is critical to a free society.
Right now they are testing the waters.
They will never stop until they get either everyone dead, what they want or they themselves are destroyed.
Many of these people are at the point of media control and propaganda, including Ted Turner which is one of the most diabolical globalists I can think of in the areas of information control and dissemination/disinformation and programming.
These people are incredibly arrogant and brag that they think you should be dead, and that watching anything else except Globalist News Channels on T.V. makes you a radical and a terrorist.
They continually enforce the ideas of nullification of anying except communism and fascism with constant messages driving home the fact that you cannot own _anything_ you buy, you are not permitted to use _any_ information unless it is authorized by they themselves.
These people have access to military hardware and advanced weaponry to enforce their brutal tyranny with anything from SWAT teams entering homes to execute any who resist if they are found simply copying or downloading DVD's.
They are incredibly dangerous people and they become more dangerous by the hour.
-Hack
Steps to defeat hacked Malware:
1) Only select a Android device which runs Cyanogenmod with the latest Android. That means the device has to be rootable. If the manufacturer will not allow that, do not buy it.
2) Root the device and install the latest version of android, right now at 4.1. Latest versions are available from Cyanogenmod website.
(Alternative you can build your own source tree for the Arm processor and do your own patches if you do not like what Cyanogenmod does.) If you do not know how to do this, or find the U-Tube Videos too complex, find a geek to help you and hold your hand while you do it so you do not brick the device.
First of all let me say that the first two points are critical because patches and security enhancements to Android are rapid. Change is your protection in a sense not just from patches, but from the installed dead end software the manufacturer shoves down your throat with the purchase of the phone hardware.
Secondly, most Android phones have Quad core processors in them now, or pretty good dual core processors and high performance discrete GPU's. Android manufacturers have a bad habit of thinking that their dead end provisioning of a phones operating system insures you will buy the next phone hardware out with the newest version of Android.
That is why most phone manufacturers are starting to join the LINUX Alliance, such as SAMSUNG and actually open their phones up or allow the purchase of such phones that are unlockable. Having a rootable device that has open drivers makes you the darling of the open source world, and that meens every geek out there insures everyone else buys what he has.
It also means you get a much more stable phone in the long run, as nightlies are constantly being worked on at the Cyanogenmod camp, and a fix is usually only a day or two away if something is wrong with your phones software.
Only complete idiots buy Apple iPhones. Take your slave labor (Child Labor?) iCrap back to the store and buying something like Samsung SIII which is a better phone anyway, both technically with Android 4.1 and better hardware, especially the camera which takes much better pictures than the iPhone 5.
Besides the fact you do not have a fascist control freak like Apple waiting in the wings to rob you of your revenues off their store if they like your idea, you can't get the source code for the iPhone 5. So you do not know who the hell is doing what on your phone when you download stuff, except for Tim Cook's nice smile telling you one lie after another "We don't bargain contracts based on protein consumption in labor contracts", "We would NEVER use child labor.", "Oh Apple's maps Application is much better than Google's, really its for your own good.", BLAH BLAH BLAH.
3) Make sure you read reviews of software before you buy it. Don't just go hitting the install button on any store you buy your phone software from either. Do some research first. Likewise as I stated before, any shannanigans that happens on a Android rooted device running malware is going to be _much_ easier to detect than a iPhone where you are not allowed to see what Apple, or who knows god what is running on the phone in the background.
But most of the time after your root your phone and you put the provisioning of updates on, you should be all set and prepared for a vast majority of the issues that are out there.
-Hack
You know, only the Canadians would move syrup with a armed convoy.
I blame this whole stick mess on Canada.
-Hackus