I read that already, but "By pure chance the jump still works, because amd64 is a little endian architecture" which makes me think this is an exploit of the CPU, and not an exploit of the OS. From what that says it overwrites the start of the function that it's targeting with a relative jump of 32 bits of 1 byte. It then calculates a 64 bit address of 8 bytes I assume this is the address of some Root Level command. It then copies the 8 bytes after the 1 byte rel32 byte and an additional 11 bytes of junk. Then some magic happens with the little endian arch and it only reads 4 bytes of the 8 when it does the relative jump. So was the exploit that the OS let the malware overwrite the functions start. Was it that the OS let the malware calculate the 64bit address to no ware. Or was the exploit that the CPU ignored the 4 bytes of the 8 bytes resulting in it going to a completely different part of memory? If it's the CPU's fault then this exact trick would work on Windows. If it's the OS fault then this wouldn't work this way in Windows.
Just curious why the root kit is only targeting 64-bit. Is it specifically targeting the intel 64bit spec that allows for privileged escalation, or something like that? Reading the article makes it sound like it's an exploit of the AMD little endian pointers which, since I don't know hardware on that level, I don't know if that means it's actually a CPU exploit or an OS exploit. And if it's a CPU exploit I don't know if it's all AMD64 based including or excluding Intel.
The whole premise of what I'm reading in your post
Learn to read. My whole premise is directed at the wingnut and screwloose presenting an argument that states DNA should never be used. If his argument was anywhere near sound then it would be wrong to do DNA testing on anyone, even a clearly identified suspect in any case. In my post I choose the words I did for very simple reasons. When I stated "If you believe that Rapists are a result of bad genetics" I'm leaving that entire Genetics part up to the individual. I'm also not ignoring "peer pressure" because the OP was more hung up on this being forced by the police with the "Threat of Arrest", or did you fail to read the OP that I was responding too. Peer Pressure might be a valid argument as to why the Idiot submitted his DNA, but it doesn't make him any more or less of an idiot. He could have easily sided with the 4 to 10 percent that choose not to submit their DNA. As long as none of his family submitted they may have concluded that the perp was dead or a drifter. However, I don't care about his reason for submitting his DNA, and if someone is trying to argue about the accuracy that is for a Lawyer to fight out in a court room. I'll be happy when the DNA testing is a full sequence test, but until that is cheaper and quicker I'll settle for what we can do rather than advocate for doing away with it like the OP is suggesting. As for myself If I had the money I'd have my DNA sequenced and analyzed even if I wasn't asked to, but the test I want is a full sequence test so I can have it for myself. If someone asked for a Rape or Murder I'd gladly volunteer because as much as people might complain about false positives DNA has got more Innocent people out of Jail to justify it. DNA alone isn't enough to convict, but it is a good starting point.
Flying UAV's over someone's property that you know will shoot at it is foolish. Spending 4000+ on a UAV and not opting for the high res camera that would allow you to fly it well out of range of the shot guns, pure stupidity. Keep wasting that money. I'm sure the hunters like the UAV practice more than the pigeon hunt. Your UAV only has to be within visible range. Being within range of their Ammo is not required. However, once they know this they'll get their own UAV's to take yours down.
There really ins't a better way. DNA really is our only answer to the issue of Justice in relation to sever crimes like Rape and Murder. People are falsely accused of Rape and Murder all the time, and occasionally we find out about it. Hopefully before we put them to death or destroy their lives. The end goal it to make it so that you cant do those things without getting caught. It's got to the point were Rapists have been doing things to reduce the chance of their DNA being present. Which also reduced the odds that a Rape would result in a child since I don't know of any way of a child being conceived without leaving some DNA behind. If you believe that Rapists are a result of bad genetics taking advantage of sexual reproduction to gain a marginal reproductive advantage then they are weeding themselves out. Ether they use protection to avoid detection, or they don't and they get caught. That along with free morning after pills for rape victims and you'll see a drastic decline in the people willing to Rape others. Murder is a bit different but if we get to the point where premeditated murder is unheard of, and are left only with crimes of passion then I'll be satisfied with the results. As bad as Rape and Murder is punishing Innocent people is much worse. DNA alone shouldn't convict, but it is a very good start. You're argument of "There's got to be a better way to solve these rapes than asking all of us to give up private information at the threat of arrest." is also a Red Herring. No one in the article was threatened with prison time for not volunteering their DNA. If you're stupid enough to commit a crime, and then submit your DNA voluntarily to be checked against said crime You're a Moron and deserve the Darwin Award. What they were hoping for was a Parent, Child or Grandchild to donate their DNA to help narrow down the list of possible suspects. Their was always the possibility that the suspect was already dead, or not stupid enough to submit his own DNA.
Nintendo is keeping the same game development track they always have. When the option came to going with CDs they opted for another Generation of Carts. MS and Sony decided to do a Chinese Great Leap Forward with the PS3 and 360 and Nintendo stated very clearly that it would increase development cost too quickly. All Sony and MS did with the added cost was make it so they have a System that they have to leave out in the market for 8 to 10 years instead of replacing in 5 years. From the Business stand point Nintendo is, and has been, making the better choices on that side of things. It's better to be in the black in the short term then in the Red and hope that you get into the black in the long term.
I don't really see it playing in the same ball park as the Wii U. I hope Nintendo is successful in playing in the larger ball park and thus compete, but they haven't broken out of their very lucrative nitch so I wouldn't even compare it with that. However, if you can get Steam working seamlessly on Linux, and package a box the works like a console it could contend with the PS3 and 360 games. For example, if the Next Dragon Age or Bioware game comes out on Steam and works on the Linux version then I'd put this Linux Steam Box on my Buy list. I've longed for a Console that would allow me the ability to apply mods like the PC counterparts do. It could put a lid on Windows PC Gaming though. But those are all dreams. I know what I'm asking Santa for this year.
The Earth was a perfectly habitable planet for almost 698 Million Years. Then Sometime in the last two million this "intelligent" life form crops up and now would have to be forcibly exterminated in order to colonize. Why wait till then just to stake out a planet? Unless your concerned that your warp drive would wipe out that intelligent life, and then it could be permabaned. I could also see some crazy logic involved where some of them might even become afraid that others might start using warp drive without thinking and decide that they have to "purify" the universe in order to protect themselves from stupid people. These aren't small solar system sized explosions they are describing ether. These are large enough that a fair portion of our galaxy could be sterilized by one.
Ribbons are only marginally useful, and mostly just clutter-up my interface. And since I'm unsure of the status of the Ribbon patent that would be a fight best left out of an Office Competitor. Open office works much like Office 2000, and gets the job done without much clutter. It defiantly needs work but that's mostly due to the Collapse of Sun, the Acquisition by Oracle, and then the Open Source Limbo Oracle put it in for nearly a year which resulted in a Fork, and then they handed it over to Apache. If they were just going to do that then they should have done that sooner to when they got the go ahead on the Acquisition. Personally the competition between two Open Source projects should help spur things on.
Ether all Intelligent Life is aware of this problem and thus conclude they should't, or they use it wiping out so much potential life that no one can spot each other. Since the Earth hasn't been wiped out and Colonized in what... almost 700 million years... I'd say it's more likely they don't use it. Then again we might just be lucky.
You should look up how the Senate works. Those 47 Republicans can block each and every single piece of legislation. The Senate Requires a Two Thirds Majority is the Minority group wants to throw a fit.
That's still not an acceptable solution. The only methods I advocate for weeding out Genetic Diseases is IVF so that a child isn't even born with the genetic disease, or by coming up with a viable method for removing it from the affected individual. The later is much more difficult so the IVF route is preferred.
You're clearly deluded by Ayn Rand Anti-Altruism. The trait you're ultimately arguing against is the human desire to help others. You feel that it some how inhibits the species. But like the Idiotic Dawkins you can't acknowledge that Social Evolution selected for it because it is advantageous for the species. I understand Dawkins stupidity lies in that he can't admit it because if he did he'd have to admit that Religion was also selected for due to Social Evolution and it exists only because there is an Evolutionary advantage to it. What's your excuse?
I also don't buy your deleterious mutations argument. Sexual Reproduction Guarantees that half of your genes won't be passed on to a single child. Unless you have an extremely high mutation rate a gene pool of even 25 individuals will have it removed in couple of generations. Since most humans are 99% the same, or higher, there is very little chance of mutations the provide no advantage of ever building up. Some like sickle cell do because the actually have an advantage vs malaria. Other Sex linked diseases have an advantage because they keep the male population down below the female population which puts more resources towards actual child bearing which is the only way a species survives.
There is no disturbing the dead issue with doing the study you propose, and is currently being done. Part of the problem is that DNA has a half life. The other Part is the many cultures have practiced Cremation like the Roman. Fortunately their is enough Egyptians, and others, who've practiced mummification that their might be enough to see any long term changes as long as the Half Life doesn't have much play.
No, I'm deriding the Idiots going around and sterilizing people, and backing us up into an evolutionary dead end because of unforeseen stupidity in eliminating people from the gene pool. If you want to increase the IQ of your family line by the method suggested then go and only mate with people of that IQ quality you want. Work hard at it and convince your decedents to do the same stupid thing and you might even get a new species. Sterilizing people to accomplish that goal is beyond stupid.
We are SO GREAT at Artificial Selection. Just Look at the French Poodle. Artificial Selection on a Species that isn't needed for long term viability is just fine. If I had to choose between the track record of Natural Selection 700 Million Years and Life is still on the earth, vs our 10K years of omnishambling around with dogs I'm going to side with Nature. If we die off due to our own stupidity then we were a deadend anyways, but if we die off because we let wing nut and screw loose sterilize everyone they thought were undesirable then I'm going to fight them till the bitter end.
It's not that it's not Politically correct. It's Eugenics, and not only is it immoral, and unethical, but if your assumption is wrong has a higher chance of killing the species. Lets look at an over simplified version of Ants. You have Workers, Queens, and Warriors. If your test results end up eliminating any one group you'll end up killing that entire colony. The Only test for procreation that needs to be applied is survival of your offspring. If you were too stupid and got your kids killed then Evolution is working as Intended. If you were too anti-social for other to help you out when times were tough then Evolution is working as Intended. The only place where modifying the species on a genetic level is even arguably moral is in the elimination of clearly identifiable diseases like CF. Any attempt at going further than that is wrong on every level.
16 Bit is for Windows 3.1x and earlier in this case. We didn't have a 32 bit Windows OS until Windows 95/NT. The 386 may have been a 32bit chip in 85 but we didn't have 32 bit windows until 10 years later. I'm sure there is some technical reason for not keeping the number in sync with the chip, or maybe fools where in charge then and were upgrading their feet on upgrading. However, a 16bit windows application is for 3.1x which were the target market for many 386 and 486 processors.
Compatibility mode doesn't work if the program uses 16bit Legacy Code. Yea, I know, it should have been eliminated back about 15 years ago, but my employer has to run data though a clients "checker" and it will not install on Any 64bit windows for that very issue. If that is what the problem is then the program in question must be updated, or you are married to a 32bit Windows OS.
When Clinton was Elected there was crying about Secession from Conservatives, like all of Texas. When Bush was elected there was crying about Secession from Liberals , like all of California. Just Get Over It, you Lost. Try again next time. Your Princess is In Another Castle.
Efficiency only really matters when supply is limited. On a cell phone or any portable system power is limited, and improvement in power efficiency will extend battery life. ARM is a good option when it comes to things like a tablet, but when you start to do everything an Intel styles chip can do they start to get more tricky. Sure ARM probably has a lower floor so it's minimum power usage is a lot lower, but when you start having it do everything in the same time span as an x86_64 does then it starts to look too similar to actually matter. Unless using an ARM processor can save me well over 500 bucks a year on my power bill I don't see their efficiency as actually that much of an advantage.
One of their callers let it slip what my "ranking" was. For some reason they think I'm a strong democrat. I'm not sure what they think that means because if the Republicans would ever get their act together and field a Strong Moderate Republican like Powell then I'd vote Republican. Instead they've taken the last decade purging out moderates and acting crazy. Someone failed to consolidate those database though. If they had done it right then they would know they called my home phone, and cell phone. You only have to confirm that I'm voting once, maybe twice. After that I ether am voting or I've been Joshing you. But no, I got about 13 calls from them. Each campaign needs to share data so I don't get inundated by the local legislature, house and presidential campaign. I can't imagine what actual battle ground states actually got since I'm in an area where the winner could have been called a year before the election.
You do know that most states don't do partisan elections for judges so their is no Republican, Libertarian, or Democrat Judge to vote for. Just an Independent or two. Most are merit selection or non-partisan selection. Your "method" doesn't work for most state judicial elections.
Where I am our Judicial voting is based on whether to retain the Judge or not. It makes it simpler. If I see a political ad about a judge or know any information about the judge then I vote to fire them. If I know next to nothing about them then they must be doing their job right. We've only had one time in 30 years where we actually had two candidates on the ballet at the same time and that was because the predecessor purposefully timed his retirement to coincide with the election.
I only see a Developers Union as working as a Guild Style Union where you could maintain your skills and receive a status, like Journeyman, so the union would have a right to argue for or against hiring. However, this function is being served with "certifications". I don't particular like the certification process but it is serving the function that the a union used to fill prior to it just being just about wages and benefits. If a union could maintain it's members skills better and had a better reputation than the current certification process then a "kind" of Union could be established. This kind of union would be where Employers would go to find skilled workers, and would be better for it not to call itself a Union since that tends to scare employers.
Sounds like a way to get some Black Hats working directly for the DOD and Homeland Security. Hiring Black Hats is good only when you know they are a Black Hat, and that usually requires they get arrested first. If they are a sketchy unscroupoulous looking person then stay away. They already have to be on the lookout for the Normal Looking Black Hat Anon that's slipped into the organization they shouldn't be putting people that are clearly a risk in.
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I read that already, but "By pure chance the jump still works, because amd64 is a little endian architecture" which makes me think this is an exploit of the CPU, and not an exploit of the OS. From what that says it overwrites the start of the function that it's targeting with a relative jump of 32 bits of 1 byte. It then calculates a 64 bit address of 8 bytes I assume this is the address of some Root Level command. It then copies the 8 bytes after the 1 byte rel32 byte and an additional 11 bytes of junk. Then some magic happens with the little endian arch and it only reads 4 bytes of the 8 when it does the relative jump. So was the exploit that the OS let the malware overwrite the functions start. Was it that the OS let the malware calculate the 64bit address to no ware. Or was the exploit that the CPU ignored the 4 bytes of the 8 bytes resulting in it going to a completely different part of memory? If it's the CPU's fault then this exact trick would work on Windows. If it's the OS fault then this wouldn't work this way in Windows.
Just curious why the root kit is only targeting 64-bit. Is it specifically targeting the intel 64bit spec that allows for privileged escalation, or something like that? Reading the article makes it sound like it's an exploit of the AMD little endian pointers which, since I don't know hardware on that level, I don't know if that means it's actually a CPU exploit or an OS exploit. And if it's a CPU exploit I don't know if it's all AMD64 based including or excluding Intel.
The whole premise of what I'm reading in your post
Learn to read. My whole premise is directed at the wingnut and screwloose presenting an argument that states DNA should never be used. If his argument was anywhere near sound then it would be wrong to do DNA testing on anyone, even a clearly identified suspect in any case. In my post I choose the words I did for very simple reasons. When I stated "If you believe that Rapists are a result of bad genetics" I'm leaving that entire Genetics part up to the individual. I'm also not ignoring "peer pressure" because the OP was more hung up on this being forced by the police with the "Threat of Arrest", or did you fail to read the OP that I was responding too. Peer Pressure might be a valid argument as to why the Idiot submitted his DNA, but it doesn't make him any more or less of an idiot. He could have easily sided with the 4 to 10 percent that choose not to submit their DNA. As long as none of his family submitted they may have concluded that the perp was dead or a drifter. However, I don't care about his reason for submitting his DNA, and if someone is trying to argue about the accuracy that is for a Lawyer to fight out in a court room. I'll be happy when the DNA testing is a full sequence test, but until that is cheaper and quicker I'll settle for what we can do rather than advocate for doing away with it like the OP is suggesting. As for myself If I had the money I'd have my DNA sequenced and analyzed even if I wasn't asked to, but the test I want is a full sequence test so I can have it for myself. If someone asked for a Rape or Murder I'd gladly volunteer because as much as people might complain about false positives DNA has got more Innocent people out of Jail to justify it. DNA alone isn't enough to convict, but it is a good starting point.
Flying UAV's over someone's property that you know will shoot at it is foolish. Spending 4000+ on a UAV and not opting for the high res camera that would allow you to fly it well out of range of the shot guns, pure stupidity. Keep wasting that money. I'm sure the hunters like the UAV practice more than the pigeon hunt. Your UAV only has to be within visible range. Being within range of their Ammo is not required. However, once they know this they'll get their own UAV's to take yours down.
There really ins't a better way. DNA really is our only answer to the issue of Justice in relation to sever crimes like Rape and Murder. People are falsely accused of Rape and Murder all the time, and occasionally we find out about it. Hopefully before we put them to death or destroy their lives. The end goal it to make it so that you cant do those things without getting caught. It's got to the point were Rapists have been doing things to reduce the chance of their DNA being present. Which also reduced the odds that a Rape would result in a child since I don't know of any way of a child being conceived without leaving some DNA behind. If you believe that Rapists are a result of bad genetics taking advantage of sexual reproduction to gain a marginal reproductive advantage then they are weeding themselves out. Ether they use protection to avoid detection, or they don't and they get caught. That along with free morning after pills for rape victims and you'll see a drastic decline in the people willing to Rape others. Murder is a bit different but if we get to the point where premeditated murder is unheard of, and are left only with crimes of passion then I'll be satisfied with the results. As bad as Rape and Murder is punishing Innocent people is much worse. DNA alone shouldn't convict, but it is a very good start. You're argument of "There's got to be a better way to solve these rapes than asking all of us to give up private information at the threat of arrest." is also a Red Herring. No one in the article was threatened with prison time for not volunteering their DNA. If you're stupid enough to commit a crime, and then submit your DNA voluntarily to be checked against said crime You're a Moron and deserve the Darwin Award. What they were hoping for was a Parent, Child or Grandchild to donate their DNA to help narrow down the list of possible suspects. Their was always the possibility that the suspect was already dead, or not stupid enough to submit his own DNA.
Nintendo is keeping the same game development track they always have. When the option came to going with CDs they opted for another Generation of Carts. MS and Sony decided to do a Chinese Great Leap Forward with the PS3 and 360 and Nintendo stated very clearly that it would increase development cost too quickly. All Sony and MS did with the added cost was make it so they have a System that they have to leave out in the market for 8 to 10 years instead of replacing in 5 years. From the Business stand point Nintendo is, and has been, making the better choices on that side of things. It's better to be in the black in the short term then in the Red and hope that you get into the black in the long term.
I don't really see it playing in the same ball park as the Wii U. I hope Nintendo is successful in playing in the larger ball park and thus compete, but they haven't broken out of their very lucrative nitch so I wouldn't even compare it with that. However, if you can get Steam working seamlessly on Linux, and package a box the works like a console it could contend with the PS3 and 360 games. For example, if the Next Dragon Age or Bioware game comes out on Steam and works on the Linux version then I'd put this Linux Steam Box on my Buy list. I've longed for a Console that would allow me the ability to apply mods like the PC counterparts do. It could put a lid on Windows PC Gaming though. But those are all dreams. I know what I'm asking Santa for this year.
The Earth was a perfectly habitable planet for almost 698 Million Years. Then Sometime in the last two million this "intelligent" life form crops up and now would have to be forcibly exterminated in order to colonize. Why wait till then just to stake out a planet? Unless your concerned that your warp drive would wipe out that intelligent life, and then it could be permabaned. I could also see some crazy logic involved where some of them might even become afraid that others might start using warp drive without thinking and decide that they have to "purify" the universe in order to protect themselves from stupid people. These aren't small solar system sized explosions they are describing ether. These are large enough that a fair portion of our galaxy could be sterilized by one.
Ribbons are only marginally useful, and mostly just clutter-up my interface. And since I'm unsure of the status of the Ribbon patent that would be a fight best left out of an Office Competitor. Open office works much like Office 2000, and gets the job done without much clutter. It defiantly needs work but that's mostly due to the Collapse of Sun, the Acquisition by Oracle, and then the Open Source Limbo Oracle put it in for nearly a year which resulted in a Fork, and then they handed it over to Apache. If they were just going to do that then they should have done that sooner to when they got the go ahead on the Acquisition. Personally the competition between two Open Source projects should help spur things on.
Ether all Intelligent Life is aware of this problem and thus conclude they should't, or they use it wiping out so much potential life that no one can spot each other. Since the Earth hasn't been wiped out and Colonized in what... almost 700 million years... I'd say it's more likely they don't use it. Then again we might just be lucky.
You should look up how the Senate works. Those 47 Republicans can block each and every single piece of legislation. The Senate Requires a Two Thirds Majority is the Minority group wants to throw a fit.
You're clearly deluded by Ayn Rand Anti-Altruism. The trait you're ultimately arguing against is the human desire to help others. You feel that it some how inhibits the species. But like the Idiotic Dawkins you can't acknowledge that Social Evolution selected for it because it is advantageous for the species. I understand Dawkins stupidity lies in that he can't admit it because if he did he'd have to admit that Religion was also selected for due to Social Evolution and it exists only because there is an Evolutionary advantage to it. What's your excuse?
I also don't buy your deleterious mutations argument. Sexual Reproduction Guarantees that half of your genes won't be passed on to a single child. Unless you have an extremely high mutation rate a gene pool of even 25 individuals will have it removed in couple of generations. Since most humans are 99% the same, or higher, there is very little chance of mutations the provide no advantage of ever building up. Some like sickle cell do because the actually have an advantage vs malaria. Other Sex linked diseases have an advantage because they keep the male population down below the female population which puts more resources towards actual child bearing which is the only way a species survives.
There is no disturbing the dead issue with doing the study you propose, and is currently being done. Part of the problem is that DNA has a half life. The other Part is the many cultures have practiced Cremation like the Roman. Fortunately their is enough Egyptians, and others, who've practiced mummification that their might be enough to see any long term changes as long as the Half Life doesn't have much play.
No, I'm deriding the Idiots going around and sterilizing people, and backing us up into an evolutionary dead end because of unforeseen stupidity in eliminating people from the gene pool. If you want to increase the IQ of your family line by the method suggested then go and only mate with people of that IQ quality you want. Work hard at it and convince your decedents to do the same stupid thing and you might even get a new species. Sterilizing people to accomplish that goal is beyond stupid.
We are SO GREAT at Artificial Selection. Just Look at the French Poodle. Artificial Selection on a Species that isn't needed for long term viability is just fine. If I had to choose between the track record of Natural Selection 700 Million Years and Life is still on the earth, vs our 10K years of omnishambling around with dogs I'm going to side with Nature. If we die off due to our own stupidity then we were a deadend anyways, but if we die off because we let wing nut and screw loose sterilize everyone they thought were undesirable then I'm going to fight them till the bitter end.
It's not that it's not Politically correct. It's Eugenics, and not only is it immoral, and unethical, but if your assumption is wrong has a higher chance of killing the species. Lets look at an over simplified version of Ants. You have Workers, Queens, and Warriors. If your test results end up eliminating any one group you'll end up killing that entire colony. The Only test for procreation that needs to be applied is survival of your offspring. If you were too stupid and got your kids killed then Evolution is working as Intended. If you were too anti-social for other to help you out when times were tough then Evolution is working as Intended. The only place where modifying the species on a genetic level is even arguably moral is in the elimination of clearly identifiable diseases like CF. Any attempt at going further than that is wrong on every level.
16 Bit is for Windows 3.1x and earlier in this case. We didn't have a 32 bit Windows OS until Windows 95/NT. The 386 may have been a 32bit chip in 85 but we didn't have 32 bit windows until 10 years later. I'm sure there is some technical reason for not keeping the number in sync with the chip, or maybe fools where in charge then and were upgrading their feet on upgrading. However, a 16bit windows application is for 3.1x which were the target market for many 386 and 486 processors.
Compatibility mode doesn't work if the program uses 16bit Legacy Code. Yea, I know, it should have been eliminated back about 15 years ago, but my employer has to run data though a clients "checker" and it will not install on Any 64bit windows for that very issue. If that is what the problem is then the program in question must be updated, or you are married to a 32bit Windows OS.
When Clinton was Elected there was crying about Secession from Conservatives, like all of Texas. When Bush was elected there was crying about Secession from Liberals , like all of California. Just Get Over It, you Lost. Try again next time. Your Princess is In Another Castle.
Efficiency only really matters when supply is limited. On a cell phone or any portable system power is limited, and improvement in power efficiency will extend battery life. ARM is a good option when it comes to things like a tablet, but when you start to do everything an Intel styles chip can do they start to get more tricky. Sure ARM probably has a lower floor so it's minimum power usage is a lot lower, but when you start having it do everything in the same time span as an x86_64 does then it starts to look too similar to actually matter. Unless using an ARM processor can save me well over 500 bucks a year on my power bill I don't see their efficiency as actually that much of an advantage.
One of their callers let it slip what my "ranking" was. For some reason they think I'm a strong democrat. I'm not sure what they think that means because if the Republicans would ever get their act together and field a Strong Moderate Republican like Powell then I'd vote Republican. Instead they've taken the last decade purging out moderates and acting crazy. Someone failed to consolidate those database though. If they had done it right then they would know they called my home phone, and cell phone. You only have to confirm that I'm voting once, maybe twice. After that I ether am voting or I've been Joshing you. But no, I got about 13 calls from them. Each campaign needs to share data so I don't get inundated by the local legislature, house and presidential campaign. I can't imagine what actual battle ground states actually got since I'm in an area where the winner could have been called a year before the election.
You do know that most states don't do partisan elections for judges so their is no Republican, Libertarian, or Democrat Judge to vote for. Just an Independent or two. Most are merit selection or non-partisan selection. Your "method" doesn't work for most state judicial elections.
Where I am our Judicial voting is based on whether to retain the Judge or not. It makes it simpler. If I see a political ad about a judge or know any information about the judge then I vote to fire them. If I know next to nothing about them then they must be doing their job right. We've only had one time in 30 years where we actually had two candidates on the ballet at the same time and that was because the predecessor purposefully timed his retirement to coincide with the election.
I only see a Developers Union as working as a Guild Style Union where you could maintain your skills and receive a status, like Journeyman, so the union would have a right to argue for or against hiring. However, this function is being served with "certifications". I don't particular like the certification process but it is serving the function that the a union used to fill prior to it just being just about wages and benefits. If a union could maintain it's members skills better and had a better reputation than the current certification process then a "kind" of Union could be established. This kind of union would be where Employers would go to find skilled workers, and would be better for it not to call itself a Union since that tends to scare employers.
Sounds like a way to get some Black Hats working directly for the DOD and Homeland Security. Hiring Black Hats is good only when you know they are a Black Hat, and that usually requires they get arrested first. If they are a sketchy unscroupoulous looking person then stay away. They already have to be on the lookout for the Normal Looking Black Hat Anon that's slipped into the organization they shouldn't be putting people that are clearly a risk in.
So I'm right and you're over generalizing your issue.