The fact that servers normally utilize ECC RAM is probably the main reason this didn't blow up into a Spectre-style fiasco. I expect plenty of scrambling, in addition to slowdowns in VMs attempting to detect Rowhammer exploits. Rowhammer resistance for DRAM might be developed now, just like how Spectre resistance was a bullet point for the latest Intel CPUs, which is good since consumer devices were left vulnerable to Rowhammer.
Couldn't the payload land with a fairing that's only deployed once the dust settles? Et voila, no dust on the payload. You could probably even use a soft fairing (e.g. vinyl bag) that unzips or whatever, if you need to save on weight..
What do you do when the lawmakers and regulators are themselves corrupt because they benefit from being negligent in their duties? Vote them out? I'm thinking we need to take the nuclear option of Plato's idea of a ruling class forbidden from owning money/property.
I foresee two main problems: 1) "hey in order to see the dancing pig, I first need you to upload this.DLL file from a certain directory. I lost mine. pls?" File access granted, file overwritten with trojan, loaded and executed by Windows/whatever on boot.
2) File out of sync between two devices, old version autosaves over new version, which propagates to every connected device, and the new updates are gone forever everywhere.
An easy-ish solution to both is to never actually overwrite anything -- just make a new file every time changes are saved, and the browser maintains a database for what the most recent version of a file is (or just check timestamp in metadata/filename). DLLs won't get overwritten and loaded, and updated data won't be accidentally lost forever. Of course this does nothing to stop people from uploading sensitive data, but people can already do this.
How is 'local persistent tracking data' different from cookie files? That functionality already exists. There will be addons that delete these, if all that were to happen. Most people currently get 0 prompts for cookies, so it's unlikely Google would go to all that trouble.
That should be a reply to the tweet/retweet, rather than making a new retweet. If you send a message "check out how dumb this obviously-fake conspiracy theory is" you'll get some people who didn't know about it that will then believe it despite your derision. Therefore, it's better to reply than to retweet misinformation.
If someone retweets fake news originally from a low-quality information source, it should affect someone's 'credibility score', which would be prominently shown as a percentage next to their name.
This'd make it easy to tell at a glance if someone retweeting something is likely to be retweeting fake news, and could prevent people from retweeting things from less-credible accounts. It'd also encourage people not to retweet crap since they'd be (potentially) shamed by having a low credibility score.
100 tons to Mars, wow. Worth noting that's after orbital refueling. If a cargo drop mission is planned for 2022, people had better get on actually making the stuff they'll be dropping; SpaceX isn't making all the stuff required for a Mars habitat, they're depending on others to do that.
I was actually thinking yesterday about them sending a (small) tunnel boring machine to Mars, digging a tunnel underground, putting in some blast doors for an airlock and at the tunnel entrance, and using that as a habitat. It'd provide protection from Martian weather and cosmic rays, and be far more durable than a dome or other above-surface structure.
He actually renamed the transport payload to 'Starship'. The rocket itself was renamed to 'Super Heavy'.
Falcon 9, Falcon Heavy, and Dragon rockets.
The Dragon is a capsule payload, not a rocket.
I'm wondering if there might be some confusion between 'Falcon Heavy' and 'Super Heavy', particularly given the latter was formerly known as 'Big Falcon Rocket'. Therefore, its name contains 'heavy' and once contained 'falcon'. I wouldn't expect the editors of TFA to not make that error.
Instead of spending 5 years trying to decide which of 60 locations to send a rover to, how about building 60 rovers and sending one to each site? Just getting cameras on the ground would help tremendously, as opposed to staring at vague pixels of satellite imagery, trying to decide if something is interesting like H2O, or an ordinary optical phenomenon. We really ought to be sending a dozen cheap rovers to Mars annually, the ongoing mission costs are minuscule. The amount of budget they (are mostly forced to) waste on rocketry annually would more than pay for it. Blue-sky rocket research, fine; paying $billions to develop a rocket that will be made obsolete by the competition by the time it flies, not so much.
So you're telling me that the fingerprint reader can... read a fingerprint? Le gasp! Also, using aluminum foil to make electronics LESS secure? That's more heretical than using the Pythagorean formula to prove the existence of irrational numbers.
it's somewhat interesting that I hear the exact same voice even though they seem to be from entirely different companies trying to get something out of me.
If they could make the voices sound like William Shatner, Christopher Walken, Samuel L. Jackson, or Joe Pesci, then I might actually stay on the line to listen.
Noone's yet brought up how this echoes what MS tried to do with the Xbox One at launch? They wanted to mandate that all games be tied to an account before they'll run, and can't be resold/traded without also transferring the license. There was a huge backlash against this, with the cheaper PS4 not requiring any such thing, so MS backpedaled and had a day-one patch that killed the last remnants of the registration system. Seems they're bringing it back as an option. I guess the lower price is for casual gamers who might jump on a $200 Xbox but not a $300 one? That also have fast broadband to download their games? Who are these people?
The Xbox Live service is the ONLY reason the Xbox division is profitable. The hardware is a massive loss leader for the Xbox Live Gold service (sure they're not sold at a loss anymore, but factor in marketing and exclusivity deals). Those servers aren't getting decommissioned until the Xbox division is completely dead, in which case you'll be playing version 1.0 single-player software on unsupported hardware. PC (even emulation) is a safer bet.
I agree, Amazon couldn't possibly understand what you might want to buy, despite how often you purchase from them and use their website. Say, if you purchase an accessory for your motorcycle, it suggests a similar part for a bicycle. I also disbelieve that Amazon could create a novel that would be any better than the works they already offer for sale.
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it's still a rational decision to make Americans use Android. Android is the dominant operating system in many regions outside of the U.S., including South America, Europe, Russia, South Asia, and parts of the Middle East.
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On the downside the taxman pulls out a saw and takes 20% of their laptop as a tax.
Reality TV stars existed in the 1890s?!
Every line ends with a GOTO statement.
Make Pirates Ruthless Killers Again!
The fact that servers normally utilize ECC RAM is probably the main reason this didn't blow up into a Spectre-style fiasco. I expect plenty of scrambling, in addition to slowdowns in VMs attempting to detect Rowhammer exploits. Rowhammer resistance for DRAM might be developed now, just like how Spectre resistance was a bullet point for the latest Intel CPUs, which is good since consumer devices were left vulnerable to Rowhammer.
Now my financial investments can go up in smoke, in addition to my other purchases from that shop.
Couldn't the payload land with a fairing that's only deployed once the dust settles? Et voila, no dust on the payload. You could probably even use a soft fairing (e.g. vinyl bag) that unzips or whatever, if you need to save on weight..
What do you do when the lawmakers and regulators are themselves corrupt because they benefit from being negligent in their duties? Vote them out? I'm thinking we need to take the nuclear option of Plato's idea of a ruling class forbidden from owning money/property.
I foresee two main problems: 1) "hey in order to see the dancing pig, I first need you to upload this .DLL file from a certain directory. I lost mine. pls?"
File access granted, file overwritten with trojan, loaded and executed by Windows/whatever on boot.
2) File out of sync between two devices, old version autosaves over new version, which propagates to every connected device, and the new updates are gone forever everywhere.
An easy-ish solution to both is to never actually overwrite anything -- just make a new file every time changes are saved, and the browser maintains a database for what the most recent version of a file is (or just check timestamp in metadata/filename). DLLs won't get overwritten and loaded, and updated data won't be accidentally lost forever. Of course this does nothing to stop people from uploading sensitive data, but people can already do this.
How is 'local persistent tracking data' different from cookie files? That functionality already exists. There will be addons that delete these, if all that were to happen. Most people currently get 0 prompts for cookies, so it's unlikely Google would go to all that trouble.
That should be a reply to the tweet/retweet, rather than making a new retweet. If you send a message "check out how dumb this obviously-fake conspiracy theory is" you'll get some people who didn't know about it that will then believe it despite your derision. Therefore, it's better to reply than to retweet misinformation.
If someone retweets fake news originally from a low-quality information source, it should affect someone's 'credibility score', which would be prominently shown as a percentage next to their name.
This'd make it easy to tell at a glance if someone retweeting something is likely to be retweeting fake news, and could prevent people from retweeting things from less-credible accounts. It'd also encourage people not to retweet crap since they'd be (potentially) shamed by having a low credibility score.
If I wanted to sit in a hot car for a few hours and get baked until the smell goes away, I'd buy a Volkswagen.
100 tons to Mars, wow. Worth noting that's after orbital refueling. If a cargo drop mission is planned for 2022, people had better get on actually making the stuff they'll be dropping; SpaceX isn't making all the stuff required for a Mars habitat, they're depending on others to do that.
I was actually thinking yesterday about them sending a (small) tunnel boring machine to Mars, digging a tunnel underground, putting in some blast doors for an airlock and at the tunnel entrance, and using that as a habitat. It'd provide protection from Martian weather and cosmic rays, and be far more durable than a dome or other above-surface structure.
He actually renamed the transport payload to 'Starship'. The rocket itself was renamed to 'Super Heavy'.
Falcon 9, Falcon Heavy, and Dragon rockets.
The Dragon is a capsule payload, not a rocket.
I'm wondering if there might be some confusion between 'Falcon Heavy' and 'Super Heavy', particularly given the latter was formerly known as 'Big Falcon Rocket'. Therefore, its name contains 'heavy' and once contained 'falcon'. I wouldn't expect the editors of TFA to not make that error.
Anyone notice how SpaceX rockets look like giant joints, smoking their way off into the cosmos? Coincidence?!
Instead of spending 5 years trying to decide which of 60 locations to send a rover to, how about building 60 rovers and sending one to each site? Just getting cameras on the ground would help tremendously, as opposed to staring at vague pixels of satellite imagery, trying to decide if something is interesting like H2O, or an ordinary optical phenomenon. We really ought to be sending a dozen cheap rovers to Mars annually, the ongoing mission costs are minuscule. The amount of budget they (are mostly forced to) waste on rocketry annually would more than pay for it. Blue-sky rocket research, fine; paying $billions to develop a rocket that will be made obsolete by the competition by the time it flies, not so much.
So you're telling me that the fingerprint reader can... read a fingerprint? Le gasp!
Also, using aluminum foil to make electronics LESS secure? That's more heretical than using the Pythagorean formula to prove the existence of irrational numbers.
Guess you missed the memo that the Deep State refactored the Constitution. The replacement is called 'mercantilism'.
it's somewhat interesting that I hear the exact same voice even though they seem to be from entirely different companies trying to get something out of me.
If they could make the voices sound like William Shatner, Christopher Walken, Samuel L. Jackson, or Joe Pesci, then I might actually stay on the line to listen.
Noone's yet brought up how this echoes what MS tried to do with the Xbox One at launch? They wanted to mandate that all games be tied to an account before they'll run, and can't be resold/traded without also transferring the license. There was a huge backlash against this, with the cheaper PS4 not requiring any such thing, so MS backpedaled and had a day-one patch that killed the last remnants of the registration system. Seems they're bringing it back as an option. I guess the lower price is for casual gamers who might jump on a $200 Xbox but not a $300 one? That also have fast broadband to download their games? Who are these people?
The Xbox Live service is the ONLY reason the Xbox division is profitable. The hardware is a massive loss leader for the Xbox Live Gold service (sure they're not sold at a loss anymore, but factor in marketing and exclusivity deals). Those servers aren't getting decommissioned until the Xbox division is completely dead, in which case you'll be playing version 1.0 single-player software on unsupported hardware. PC (even emulation) is a safer bet.
I agree, Amazon couldn't possibly understand what you might want to buy, despite how often you purchase from them and use their website. Say, if you purchase an accessory for your motorcycle, it suggests a similar part for a bicycle. I also disbelieve that Amazon could create a novel that would be any better than the works they already offer for sale.
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Y chromosome is best chromosome! /s
it's still a rational decision to make Americans use Android. Android is the dominant operating system in many regions outside of the U.S., including South America, Europe, Russia, South Asia, and parts of the Middle East.
Bandwagon Fallacy = 'rational decision' now?