I mean, we should be planting more trees as a matter of course in conjunction with other measures to reduce CO emissions (at best) - or regardless of how much we fuck up on that front (at worst.)
Pfft. Who cares about CO2. Deforrestation Errosion Water / topsoil runoff Ground damage Removal of wind barriers Destruction of natural habitats Resources for building Removal of air pollution other than CO2. General prettyness.
If we solve the CO2 problem tomorrow we should still be planting trees like crazy.
Yeah of course. Since humans exhale CO2 clearly my car has no impact. Since you stubbed your toe and thus feel pain, don't criticise me when I kick you in your balls for your stupid comment.
This is precisely why I get stopped at the airport for an additional check. I often carry large lenses through in hand baggage and at Schiphol they happily show you a picture of your bag, including the fact that you can't see anything in most of the bag when the bag is filled with large chunks of glass.
"Who wants a stylus? You have to get 'em, put 'em away, you lose 'em. Yuck! Nobody wants a stylus. So let's not use a stylus." - 2007 Macworld "If you see a stylus, they blew it.” - 2010 iOS 4 launch event
Oh and he has opinions on large phones too: "You can't get your hand around it, No one's going to buy that." - October earnings call 2010
Regardless of how it works he is currently not in a position to make any trades to prevent that loss. What if he wanted to sell it right now? I see no legal arguement for why value should be at the time of the case rather than at the time of the loss. Not for crypto currencies, not for other tradables, and not for physical items of value either.
The numbers have been misread. There wasn't 300 drowning deaths of children this year. It was 300 total deaths. Worth noting is that Germany and Canada don't differ much in the statistics here.
Also worth noting is that deaths have been trending *down* for many years not up. This year is somewhat of an outlier as the year is only half through and it has almost matched the deathtoll from last year. That could probably also have to do with Central Europe recording almost double the number of "summer days" (a definition which varies by country) compared to previous years thanks to two major heatwaves.
Personally I've never see so many people at the beaches of the Netherlands as I have seen this year. It stands to reason that the deathtoll is somewhat skewed this year as a result.
Hardly. The German statistics are not really much different from neighbouring countries where swimming lessons are still mandatory. Actually last year the Netherlands drowning deathtoll was higher.
Also worth noting is that drownings have been trending down for many years but his year was an outlier. Possibly something to do with also record setting warm days.
U.S. health care is pretty good all things considered
U.S. healthcare is amazing when you can afford it and when you don't need it.
I hear endless stories from friends and colleagues over there. Most of them are alive because of how great U.S. healthcare is Most of them are in financial or legal trouble because of how great U.S. healthcare is.
That's only because the response to it was relatively well coordinated and patches became available fairly quickly after the slightly premature announcement.
HOLY FUCKING SHIT. No man. No. Not remotely. Not even slightly. Mass machines still not patched. Holes still everywhere. Daily security issues still being discovered.
There was NOTHING AT ALL good to say about the response to this from any party at all, not from Intel, not from MS, not from the open source community. It was a textbook example of a horrid clusterfuck of a response.
The damage done is quite real and measurable though. 60% performance loss for some server tasks, meaning a massive cost increase or degradation of service.
Again hyperbole. The actual performance loss for many server tasks is about equal to the performance gains that have occurred thanks to the wonderful kernel teams. What Linus giveth (10%) Intel taketh away (5-20%). Outside of lab based examples to bring out the worst in the patches the real world workload tests have shown anywhere from 5-25% in the absolute worst case. The wonderful thing about those worst case scenarios is they are quite often systems where speculative execution attacks aren't actually relevant (i.e. I/O heavy backend). Real world most people will see less than a 10% change if they have a processor with PCID capability and that includes server workloads.
Compared to damage from software bugs ultimately the impact of Spectre and Meltdown including security and performance issues will be forgotten in history as a rounding error in the cost impact to people and companies due to actual proper security issues that arise from the incredible mass of poorly written and even more poorly configured software.
I'd love to see some stats on how many people sued Intel over this.
Not relevant. I'd love to see stats on how many people *won*.
When your justification is that all you need to do is something extra that isn't currently done then you often can achieve the results you want. That requires a few things though, such as knowledge of your location and the location of the source.
I also don't understand why you're holding up wifi as some weird randomness. WiFi is incredibly short range and the delay unless your cheap chinese router is feeding packets through a random number generator is quite consistent in two directions. It will be far less significant than external network effects.
making them less accurate than the old AC powered clocks.
Define your accuracy requirements. Quartz clocks have orders of magnitude better short term accuracy than anything grid synchronized. The grid has far greater accuracy over the long term.
The GP said millisecond accuracy, the fact is that wall synchronized clocks never achieved this. On a given day they could be all over the place. In fact their accuracy can often be out by many seconds before producers take action to get the frequency back in sync with the clock, and that is hardly surprising when you think about it. a 1mHz clock error on the mains frequency will throw you out by more than a second by the end of the day.
Even cheap quartz clocks can out perform grid synchronization over the course of a year. However the longer you wait eventually the grid clock will be better... as long as you're happy with anything up to a 20 second error.
If you sell out, you're being paid for your company, and are no longer going to be in charge.
Congratulations. You have distilled hundreds of pages of contracts with thousands of man hours of lawyer negotiations into own woefully inadequate sentence.
Yeah but I think you have a causality issue there. AMD was on life support before the Pentium bug, and they were on life support long after the Pentium bug. The only thing that gave them a boost was Intel's seemingly cyclic phase of resting on the laurels long enough to let competitors actually do some innovation. Even after the FDIV bug in the previous generation the P6 dominated the industry. It wasn't until Netburst that Intel gave AMD a chance to do anything to claim back some market share.
I don't understand. Are you saying the only thing that prevented a monopoly was the math bug? Or better still are you suggesting that Intel hasn't been in an absurdly dominant position over the past decade?
Yeah, Intel. Everyone. Including the folks who have done the worst job of adhering to security best practices... Intel.
Wow, hyperbole much? I've yet to see an Intel flaw expose millions of online accounts, spread credit cards and social security numbers, bring down industry through crippling bugs that were exploited.
I suspect that 30+ second load mentioned takes considerably less on your system also though?:-)
Indeed. Which was my point. Are you talking about script blocking with white list, or just adding some kind of basic protection like the ublock plugin that leaves most of the internet otherwise functional yet many tracking systems in place.
So each to his own sure, but you also asked "does anyone on slashdot seriously...." If you're talking about basic protections then the answer is no. If you're talking about white list and script management the answer is not only certainly, it would be "predominantly".
You could be right. After all someone is telling me that something that happens constantly doesn't actually happen. Either I'm in a really poorly written movie, or you're gunning for a republican presidential nomination.
I declare all of history fake news from this point on wards.
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I mean, we should be planting more trees as a matter of course in conjunction with other measures to reduce CO emissions (at best) - or regardless of how much we fuck up on that front (at worst.)
Pfft. Who cares about CO2.
Deforrestation
Errosion
Water / topsoil runoff
Ground damage
Removal of wind barriers
Destruction of natural habitats
Resources for building
Removal of air pollution other than CO2.
General prettyness.
If we solve the CO2 problem tomorrow we should still be planting trees like crazy.
Yeah of course. Since humans exhale CO2 clearly my car has no impact.
Since you stubbed your toe and thus feel pain, don't criticise me when I kick you in your balls for your stupid comment.
The above is why 5-nines (99.999% accuracy) is the baseline for workable systems.
There are no systems in the world meeting your imaginary requirements.
Don't let perfect become the enemy of good.
This is precisely why I get stopped at the airport for an additional check. I often carry large lenses through in hand baggage and at Schiphol they happily show you a picture of your bag, including the fact that you can't see anything in most of the bag when the bag is filled with large chunks of glass.
"Who wants a stylus? You have to get 'em, put 'em away, you lose 'em. Yuck! Nobody wants a stylus. So let's not use a stylus." - 2007 Macworld
"If you see a stylus, they blew it.” - 2010 iOS 4 launch event
Oh and he has opinions on large phones too:
"You can't get your hand around it, No one's going to buy that." - October earnings call 2010
Regardless of how it works he is currently not in a position to make any trades to prevent that loss. What if he wanted to sell it right now? I see no legal arguement for why value should be at the time of the case rather than at the time of the loss. Not for crypto currencies, not for other tradables, and not for physical items of value either.
and to get one you have to convince a judge that there is probable cause. You can consider it a search warrant
So you need to say pretty please?
The numbers have been misread. There wasn't 300 drowning deaths of children this year. It was 300 total deaths. Worth noting is that Germany and Canada don't differ much in the statistics here.
Also worth noting is that deaths have been trending *down* for many years not up. This year is somewhat of an outlier as the year is only half through and it has almost matched the deathtoll from last year. That could probably also have to do with Central Europe recording almost double the number of "summer days" (a definition which varies by country) compared to previous years thanks to two major heatwaves.
Personally I've never see so many people at the beaches of the Netherlands as I have seen this year. It stands to reason that the deathtoll is somewhat skewed this year as a result.
Hardly. The German statistics are not really much different from neighbouring countries where swimming lessons are still mandatory. Actually last year the Netherlands drowning deathtoll was higher.
Also worth noting is that drownings have been trending down for many years but his year was an outlier. Possibly something to do with also record setting warm days.
Yeah but I see far less shit posts coming from Cuba, so they have that going over democracy.
U.S. health care is pretty good all things considered
U.S. healthcare is amazing when you can afford it and when you don't need it.
I hear endless stories from friends and colleagues over there.
Most of them are alive because of how great U.S. healthcare is
Most of them are in financial or legal trouble because of how great U.S. healthcare is.
That's only because the response to it was relatively well coordinated and patches became available fairly quickly after the slightly premature announcement.
HOLY FUCKING SHIT. No man. No. Not remotely. Not even slightly. Mass machines still not patched. Holes still everywhere. Daily security issues still being discovered.
There was NOTHING AT ALL good to say about the response to this from any party at all, not from Intel, not from MS, not from the open source community. It was a textbook example of a horrid clusterfuck of a response.
The damage done is quite real and measurable though. 60% performance loss for some server tasks, meaning a massive cost increase or degradation of service.
Again hyperbole. The actual performance loss for many server tasks is about equal to the performance gains that have occurred thanks to the wonderful kernel teams. What Linus giveth (10%) Intel taketh away (5-20%). Outside of lab based examples to bring out the worst in the patches the real world workload tests have shown anywhere from 5-25% in the absolute worst case. The wonderful thing about those worst case scenarios is they are quite often systems where speculative execution attacks aren't actually relevant (i.e. I/O heavy backend). Real world most people will see less than a 10% change if they have a processor with PCID capability and that includes server workloads.
Compared to damage from software bugs ultimately the impact of Spectre and Meltdown including security and performance issues will be forgotten in history as a rounding error in the cost impact to people and companies due to actual proper security issues that arise from the incredible mass of poorly written and even more poorly configured software.
I'd love to see some stats on how many people sued Intel over this.
Not relevant. I'd love to see stats on how many people *won*.
Yeah I know, land on the free[1]
[1] To get mass murdered due to National Rifle Addiction.
, because the it's not true
How not true is it? I'm willing to bet your GPS signal isn't actually entering through the building but rather those potrusions in its side.
When your justification is that all you need to do is something extra that isn't currently done then you often can achieve the results you want. That requires a few things though, such as knowledge of your location and the location of the source.
I also don't understand why you're holding up wifi as some weird randomness. WiFi is incredibly short range and the delay unless your cheap chinese router is feeding packets through a random number generator is quite consistent in two directions. It will be far less significant than external network effects.
and had it not register the touch. Now imagine doing it in space suit gloves
I have never not had a touch register while wearing gloves that were designed to interact with a touch screen.
Or how many times i've touched a button off-center and had the neighboring button fire.
That is a problem on a mobile phone. Hardly an issue on a large panel.
making them less accurate than the old AC powered clocks.
Define your accuracy requirements. Quartz clocks have orders of magnitude better short term accuracy than anything grid synchronized. The grid has far greater accuracy over the long term.
The GP said millisecond accuracy, the fact is that wall synchronized clocks never achieved this. On a given day they could be all over the place. In fact their accuracy can often be out by many seconds before producers take action to get the frequency back in sync with the clock, and that is hardly surprising when you think about it. a 1mHz clock error on the mains frequency will throw you out by more than a second by the end of the day.
Even cheap quartz clocks can out perform grid synchronization over the course of a year. However the longer you wait eventually the grid clock will be better ... as long as you're happy with anything up to a 20 second error.
If you sell out, you're being paid for your company, and are no longer going to be in charge.
Congratulations. You have distilled hundreds of pages of contracts with thousands of man hours of lawyer negotiations into own woefully inadequate sentence.
So do I. I just don't need to own any to enjoy using them. Unless I feel like going on a murder spree.
Yeah but I think you have a causality issue there. AMD was on life support before the Pentium bug, and they were on life support long after the Pentium bug. The only thing that gave them a boost was Intel's seemingly cyclic phase of resting on the laurels long enough to let competitors actually do some innovation. Even after the FDIV bug in the previous generation the P6 dominated the industry. It wasn't until Netburst that Intel gave AMD a chance to do anything to claim back some market share.
Who's the pick-pocket going to target, the guy with the $20,000 Rolex, or the guy with the $20 Timex?
Neither. It's too hard to tell real Rolexes from the fakes these days at a glance, and pretty much every idiot is wearing something that looks nice.
They'll go for someone with a Smartwatch.
Intel could have had a monopoly
I don't understand. Are you saying the only thing that prevented a monopoly was the math bug? Or better still are you suggesting that Intel hasn't been in an absurdly dominant position over the past decade?
Yeah, Intel. Everyone. Including the folks who have done the worst job of adhering to security best practices... Intel.
Wow, hyperbole much? I've yet to see an Intel flaw expose millions of online accounts, spread credit cards and social security numbers, bring down industry through crippling bugs that were exploited.
Perspective man, you desperately need some.
I suspect that 30+ second load mentioned takes considerably less on your system also though? :-)
Indeed. Which was my point. Are you talking about script blocking with white list, or just adding some kind of basic protection like the ublock plugin that leaves most of the internet otherwise functional yet many tracking systems in place.
So each to his own sure, but you also asked "does anyone on slashdot seriously...." If you're talking about basic protections then the answer is no. If you're talking about white list and script management the answer is not only certainly, it would be "predominantly".
You could be right. After all someone is telling me that something that happens constantly doesn't actually happen. Either I'm in a really poorly written movie, or you're gunning for a republican presidential nomination.
I declare all of history fake news from this point on wards.