Although I don't think, say, GCC has been "Ken Thompson hack infected," the attack a) has been used before, and b) illustrates broader principles of trust. https://news.ycombinator.com/i...
I've been using it for awhile now, switching over from Chrome. One of the major annoyances I have is its inability to properly move tabs to new windows -- instead, it seems to reload the entire page. This is problematic for some pages, e.g., opening a GMail email in a new window.
Not enough to stop me from using it, but pretty annoying.
I think it would be kinda fun if candidates were allowed full use of their team during debates, and maybe even allowed to show multimedia if necessary (news reports, court rulings, etc.). It'd be complete chaos the first few times, but maybe after a while it'd get so that people wouldn't spew BS for fear of getting called out by their opponent right then and there, with irrefutable proof.
Plus, debating is a skill that, in my opinion, is less indicative leadership than the ability to assemble a smart team.
One of the "problems" with fusion is that you get neutrons. You can just slow down these neutrons to generate heat, which gives you some energy of course. Or, you can use U238 (very abundant!) to breed plutonium, which you can then burn in a conventional (fission) reactor. So unfortunately, while the fusion aspect may be clean, you're just leaving money on the table if you're not running a fission reactor from the byproduct...
Do you also cry foul when a car manufacturer states the mileage their cars get? When an LED or CFL lightbulb says how much juice it draws?
There's a time and a place to be pedantically literal. But it's perfectly legitimate to ask (implicitly) what the incremental -- excluding manufacture of plant -- CO2 output is per unit of energy, just as it's perfectly legitimate to ask what sort of mileage a car gets, excluding manufacturing costs.
About 5 years ago I built a little relay box to control household outlets (inspired by http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/Coff... ). So I can control my lights/stereo amplifier/etc. with a dinky web interface or via SMS (through Google Voice emails). Security is dubious (to say the least!), and yet somehow, I haven't been the victim of an attack, "friends" aside;)
Also, the HDMI CEC on the Raspberry Pi allows me to control basic features of my A/V system remotely (my TV and receiver are not internet-enabled). Really handy given that I don't have line-of-sight access to my receiver. Much better than v1.0, which was to use a mirror...
Sure, but that's not always how it plays out. In the USA, Lincoln suspended the writ of habeas corpus -- but it was restored at the end of the civil war. Granted, that's not exactly the way the Patriot Act has played out, but still...governments aren't always nefarious entities, and sometimes they even do The Right Thing at the end of the day.
Since starting grad school, I've had to work with decibels a bit. I've really found that thinking in dB/log10 can be extremely useful, especially for back-of-the-envelope sort of calculations. And I'm absolutely terrible at mental arithmetic.
Though I guess mostly I just memorize that 3dB (10^0.3) is ~2, 5 is ~pi and 10 is 10. One rarely needs to know the mantissa better than that;)
That was one of the first things I was taught in the machine shop class (took it a few years back). Indeed, pretty cute trick. Of course I generally use digital calipers...but I listen to music on a tube amp (ST-70), so it all evens out;)
Sure, but some of us have had Just Plain Bad experiences with systemd, regardless of startup scripts.
A server (running Debian Stable) I was rebooting for a kernel upgrade wouldn't reboot -- it just hung at "Reached target Shutdown" (similar, I believe, to this bug). Of course, it had already stopped sshd, so I had no idea what was going on until I dug out a monitor and plugged it in.
Another server had an entry in/etc/fstab for an external USB disk that was occasionally used. One time after upgrading, systemd decided that, because the disk wasn't plugged in, it would just hang there because it couldn't mount an fstab entry.
Another time I go to turn off my computer and...it just hangs there, telling me the system is powered off (I had to physically turn off the power, though of course everything was cleanly unmounted so not a problem).
Yes, some -- or maybe even all -- of these problems can in part be blamed on me. The first one could be fixed with "systemctl reboot," the second one with "noauto" in fstab, and the third with "poweroff" instead of "halt." But that's not the point. The point is, when my *completely working system* decides to stop working on numerous occasions, and it can all be traced to one source, it just Isn't A Good Thing in my opinion. To each his own, though.
The Welchia worm, also known as the "Nachia worm", is a computer worm that exploits a vulnerability in the Microsoft Remote procedure call (RPC) service similar to the Blaster worm. However, unlike Blaster, it first searches for and deletes Blaster if it exists, then tries to download and install security patches from Microsoft that would prevent further infection by Blaster, so it is classified as a helpful worm.
I have a (now very old) W510 and it runs Debian without a hitch (sleep, wifi, webcam, etc. all great). It has an nVidia quadro card, which works without issue as well. Extremely happy with it, despite its age.
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This suggests otherwise: http://www.nrel.gov/analysis/s...
Do you have a source?
But do you trust the compiler used to compile the compiler?
Although I don't think, say, GCC has been "Ken Thompson hack infected," the attack a) has been used before, and b) illustrates broader principles of trust. https://news.ycombinator.com/i...
I've been using it for awhile now, switching over from Chrome. One of the major annoyances I have is its inability to properly move tabs to new windows -- instead, it seems to reload the entire page. This is problematic for some pages, e.g., opening a GMail email in a new window.
Not enough to stop me from using it, but pretty annoying.
Life, uh, finds a way...
Mine's a W510. ... and has 16G RAM
Awesome -- I have the same laptop. Haven't put a SSD in there yet -- when I need to breathe new life into it I guess I should do that...
Watt is a unit of power. The energy is just the integrated power, so one GW*hour is a gigawatt-hr (a unit of energy).
Apparently they beat MIDT, Hardvard, and the like...
The chance of inadvertently breeding a new race of electric-shock-resistant politicians notwithstanding, I like it!
I think it would be kinda fun if candidates were allowed full use of their team during debates, and maybe even allowed to show multimedia if necessary (news reports, court rulings, etc.). It'd be complete chaos the first few times, but maybe after a while it'd get so that people wouldn't spew BS for fear of getting called out by their opponent right then and there, with irrefutable proof.
Plus, debating is a skill that, in my opinion, is less indicative leadership than the ability to assemble a smart team.
Anything to force vendors to, you know, provide up-to-date software. Unfortunately, this probably won't have much of an effect...
One of the "problems" with fusion is that you get neutrons. You can just slow down these neutrons to generate heat, which gives you some energy of course. Or, you can use U238 (very abundant!) to breed plutonium, which you can then burn in a conventional (fission) reactor. So unfortunately, while the fusion aspect may be clean, you're just leaving money on the table if you're not running a fission reactor from the byproduct...
Do you also cry foul when a car manufacturer states the mileage their cars get? When an LED or CFL lightbulb says how much juice it draws?
There's a time and a place to be pedantically literal. But it's perfectly legitimate to ask (implicitly) what the incremental -- excluding manufacture of plant -- CO2 output is per unit of energy, just as it's perfectly legitimate to ask what sort of mileage a car gets, excluding manufacturing costs.
You can buy or make your own power-only cables. Doesn't address the aforementioned power spec issue, of course.
About 5 years ago I built a little relay box to control household outlets (inspired by http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/Coff... ). So I can control my lights/stereo amplifier/etc. with a dinky web interface or via SMS (through Google Voice emails). Security is dubious (to say the least!), and yet somehow, I haven't been the victim of an attack, "friends" aside ;)
Also, the HDMI CEC on the Raspberry Pi allows me to control basic features of my A/V system remotely (my TV and receiver are not internet-enabled). Really handy given that I don't have line-of-sight access to my receiver. Much better than v1.0, which was to use a mirror...
Sure, but that's not always how it plays out. In the USA, Lincoln suspended the writ of habeas corpus -- but it was restored at the end of the civil war. Granted, that's not exactly the way the Patriot Act has played out, but still...governments aren't always nefarious entities, and sometimes they even do The Right Thing at the end of the day.
Wow, second time today I've seen Minitel mentioned (first post in this story).
Yeah, I use it a lot. I find it has a better signal-to-noise ratio than things like facebook. +1 Insightful this post if you agree!
FTFY ;)
Almost as bad as using the Spaceballs luggage password...
Since starting grad school, I've had to work with decibels a bit. I've really found that thinking in dB/log10 can be extremely useful, especially for back-of-the-envelope sort of calculations. And I'm absolutely terrible at mental arithmetic.
;)
Though I guess mostly I just memorize that 3dB (10^0.3) is ~2, 5 is ~pi and 10 is 10. One rarely needs to know the mantissa better than that
That was one of the first things I was taught in the machine shop class (took it a few years back). Indeed, pretty cute trick. Of course I generally use digital calipers...but I listen to music on a tube amp (ST-70), so it all evens out ;)
It's about half a food calorie.
Sure, but some of us have had Just Plain Bad experiences with systemd, regardless of startup scripts.
/etc/fstab for an external USB disk that was occasionally used. One time after upgrading, systemd decided that, because the disk wasn't plugged in, it would just hang there because it couldn't mount an fstab entry.
A server (running Debian Stable) I was rebooting for a kernel upgrade wouldn't reboot -- it just hung at "Reached target Shutdown" (similar, I believe, to this bug). Of course, it had already stopped sshd, so I had no idea what was going on until I dug out a monitor and plugged it in.
Another server had an entry in
Another time I go to turn off my computer and...it just hangs there, telling me the system is powered off (I had to physically turn off the power, though of course everything was cleanly unmounted so not a problem).
Yes, some -- or maybe even all -- of these problems can in part be blamed on me. The first one could be fixed with "systemctl reboot," the second one with "noauto" in fstab, and the third with "poweroff" instead of "halt." But that's not the point. The point is, when my *completely working system* decides to stop working on numerous occasions, and it can all be traced to one source, it just Isn't A Good Thing in my opinion. To each his own, though.
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A: Gul Ducati
The Welchia worm, also known as the "Nachia worm", is a computer worm that exploits a vulnerability in the Microsoft Remote procedure call (RPC) service similar to the Blaster worm. However, unlike Blaster, it first searches for and deletes Blaster if it exists, then tries to download and install security patches from Microsoft that would prevent further infection by Blaster, so it is classified as a helpful worm.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
I have a (now very old) W510 and it runs Debian without a hitch (sleep, wifi, webcam, etc. all great). It has an nVidia quadro card, which works without issue as well. Extremely happy with it, despite its age.