This is a lot like the "we found Fukushima radiation in the ocean off the US coast" story - where the amount of cesium was unimaginably small - three ATOMS of the stuff per cubic meter...
Radiation is a naturally occurring emission that is all around us, which is why the Fukushima thing is absurd. On the other hand plastics are not, and they are something we have been using on this earth for a very short time period and yet are not part of the food cycle. Comparing the two is silly.
False equivalency. We have the option of not fucking around with electronics, but we don't have the option of not taking passengers somewhere.
Also the effects are additive. You don't get a distracted or not distracted tick and making you an equal risk. Just because you have kids in the car doesn't mean it's okay to fuck around with electronics.
it's not "distracted driving" to check your email when there's no velocity and no where to go.
And yet an incredibly large portion of rear-endings happen in exactly those situations. You're still distracted. You're still likely to cause an accident. The only difference is that you will more likely just screw up the traffic network in the city, get to late work, and spend hours working through insurance paperwork than kill someone (or then kill someone depending on how good the insurance company's customer service is).
It's an email, it's a text. If people needed something now they would have called. There is zero reason for you to be checking it, especially if you're then going to sit there fumbling while the light is green just causing more traffic to back up behind you.
Or my personal anecdotal favourite, the person so busy reading their emails while stopped that she didn't even realise her car wasn't parked on the sensor. After 2 sets of changes with a green turn signal I actually got out, knocked on her window* and abused the hell out of her.
*Would not recommend in America without wearing a kevlar.
The problem with a study that classifies things like "viewing GPS navigation data" is that it ignores the wide range of distraction that could cause.
I view GPS navigation data. My GPS is mounted immediately above left of my steering wheel. It's closer to my view of the road than the instrument cluster. The last hire car I had showed the GPS instructions on the instrument cluster itself.
That is a big contrast to some idiot fumbling around with the phone lying on his passenger car seat, or playing with the central console's touchscreen while screaming down the highway.
Yes which is why IBM, Broadcom, ARM and Oracle have issued statements about how they are affected by meltdown, or in Oracle's case they published a list of processors not affected... a very short list and said nothing more.
AMD is not vulerable to meltdown. That doesn't mean it's Intel only. The bug is related to a specific optimisation that is used in a variety of architectures.
The key problem here is that employees are banned from photographing the inside of the building and Apple has kept the inside design a secret. It's hard to blame TFA for this.
Yes they have, and they have produced many mixed and confusing results. The key part about whether an open plan is a productivity killer or a business booster depends entirely on the nature of the work and the requirements for employee interactions.
The designs which make this work the best try to mimic the shared offices of past in an open way by segregating groups of people who by the nature of their work need to work together and yet provide quiet areas for those who need to get something done. You use collaborative and cross-discipline-y in a dismissive way without acknowledging that some parts of organisations actually rely on exactly this to work effectively.
As usual, there's no one bad thing or one good thing.
It is nothing of the sort. Spectre affects most CPUs including AMD, Meltdown affects most CPUs *except* for AMD. Just because AMD did something right doesn't mean that there aren't examples of SPARC, ARM, and multiple lines of Power chips affected too.
Painting this as Intel only is just as absurd as lumping AMD together with Intel when discussing 2 separate flaws.
Yes because optimising code paths exist only to cheat benchmarks.
Some people have really lost their grip on reality. Are you by any chance that crazy person who's trying to launch himself into the sky on a steampunk rocket?
And, of course, we're expected to know every single misleadingly named Windows setting, no matter where it's buried, or we're clueless.
This is Slashdot!
Seriously? This has been covered many times before. It has been plastered all over the internet. It is basically setting number 1 to change on any Windows 10 machine. Crawl out from the cave.
You're obviously wrong. If they had, they would never have made such a mess of their environment in the first place.
That's a non-sequitur argument. Just because they follow the same path doesn't mean they haven't learnt from the mistakes of the USA.
It's not just that they killed a "trivial" number of people, but in doing so became one of the world's greatest superpowers. What they seem to have learnt is that resting on laurels of the environment after becoming a superpower doesn't help your cause. Expect China to become even more dominant as a major power / developer of environmental technologies in the future.
I didn't say the naming of the setting makes sense. Whatever it is called, disabling this setting prevents the game from being installed in the first place.
We can take direct action against it by not buying products made from animals and their secretions.
Yes but we won't because farming in the west is a disaster and animals are a healthy source of nutrients to keep our bodies going. On the other side using hydrocarbon propellants and stuff that covers up the smells of farts doesn't really help me through my day very much at all.
they just don't realize the best way is to clean up your act
A statement born from ignorance of just what China is doing. I mean you don't need to look far. We've covered on Slashdot plenty of times the crackdown on corruption, shuttering of polluting factories, adoption of green energy, decommissioning of coal, restrictions on vehicles in cities.
The only real difference is that what took the USA 100 years will likely take China 50.
That's fine, but it also lacks integration features with Windows 10 which is kind of the point here. The whole purpose of shipping a PDF reader with Windows 10 is that it interacted with ink spaces and the whole other shebang that most software doesn't. These features have been far surpassed by Edge which is why Reader is being depreciated.
If you just want to show a PDF, the sky's the limit for software, including free software. If you want something more than each damn package has its ups and downs and none, even the expensive commercial options tick every box.
I'm not sure that's true. Botulism toxin is the harmful stuff
And in order to create the toxin the strain needs to live long enough to create it, something that you can prevent by... cooking the food. Canned food, jarred food, etc all cooked for this reason according to FDA regulations for minimum temperature and duration in order to kill off precisely this bacteria. The only way to get botulism through cooked food is to effectively eat food so rotten that you have to really question your life choices in the first place.
Bottom line, if it's fresh and it's cooked you don't get botulism. If it was fresh and cooked, and then preserved before it cooled (canned / jarred) then you don't get it either.
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This is a lot like the "we found Fukushima radiation in the ocean off the US coast" story - where the amount of cesium was unimaginably small - three ATOMS of the stuff per cubic meter...
Radiation is a naturally occurring emission that is all around us, which is why the Fukushima thing is absurd.
On the other hand plastics are not, and they are something we have been using on this earth for a very short time period and yet are not part of the food cycle. Comparing the two is silly.
False equivalency. We have the option of not fucking around with electronics, but we don't have the option of not taking passengers somewhere.
Also the effects are additive. You don't get a distracted or not distracted tick and making you an equal risk. Just because you have kids in the car doesn't mean it's okay to fuck around with electronics.
Mod parent up! I was being facetous but the parent is right on point. There's legal reasons why the 4th (or any other number) doesn't apply too.
Why is it your job to rat people out to insurance companies?
Why is it your job to argue with people on Slashdot? It's not. Some people just do things as a hobby.
it's not "distracted driving" to check your email when there's no velocity and no where to go.
And yet an incredibly large portion of rear-endings happen in exactly those situations. You're still distracted. You're still likely to cause an accident. The only difference is that you will more likely just screw up the traffic network in the city, get to late work, and spend hours working through insurance paperwork than kill someone (or then kill someone depending on how good the insurance company's customer service is).
It's an email, it's a text. If people needed something now they would have called. There is zero reason for you to be checking it, especially if you're then going to sit there fumbling while the light is green just causing more traffic to back up behind you.
Or my personal anecdotal favourite, the person so busy reading their emails while stopped that she didn't even realise her car wasn't parked on the sensor. After 2 sets of changes with a green turn signal I actually got out, knocked on her window* and abused the hell out of her.
*Would not recommend in America without wearing a kevlar.
The problem with a study that classifies things like "viewing GPS navigation data" is that it ignores the wide range of distraction that could cause.
I view GPS navigation data. My GPS is mounted immediately above left of my steering wheel. It's closer to my view of the road than the instrument cluster. The last hire car I had showed the GPS instructions on the instrument cluster itself.
That is a big contrast to some idiot fumbling around with the phone lying on his passenger car seat, or playing with the central console's touchscreen while screaming down the highway.
Meltdown is intel only
Yes which is why IBM, Broadcom, ARM and Oracle have issued statements about how they are affected by meltdown, or in Oracle's case they published a list of processors not affected ... a very short list and said nothing more.
AMD is not vulerable to meltdown. That doesn't mean it's Intel only. The bug is related to a specific optimisation that is used in a variety of architectures.
The key problem here is that employees are banned from photographing the inside of the building and Apple has kept the inside design a secret. It's hard to blame TFA for this.
Many studies have been done on this.
Yes they have, and they have produced many mixed and confusing results. The key part about whether an open plan is a productivity killer or a business booster depends entirely on the nature of the work and the requirements for employee interactions.
The designs which make this work the best try to mimic the shared offices of past in an open way by segregating groups of people who by the nature of their work need to work together and yet provide quiet areas for those who need to get something done. You use collaborative and cross-discipline-y in a dismissive way without acknowledging that some parts of organisations actually rely on exactly this to work effectively.
As usual, there's no one bad thing or one good thing.
The summary is fucking wrong
It is nothing of the sort. Spectre affects most CPUs including AMD, Meltdown affects most CPUs *except* for AMD. Just because AMD did something right doesn't mean that there aren't examples of SPARC, ARM, and multiple lines of Power chips affected too.
Painting this as Intel only is just as absurd as lumping AMD together with Intel when discussing 2 separate flaws.
and was probably done on purpose
Yes because optimising code paths exist only to cheat benchmarks.
Some people have really lost their grip on reality. Are you by any chance that crazy person who's trying to launch himself into the sky on a steampunk rocket?
And, of course, we're expected to know every single misleadingly named Windows setting, no matter where it's buried, or we're clueless.
This is Slashdot!
Seriously? This has been covered many times before. It has been plastered all over the internet. It is basically setting number 1 to change on any Windows 10 machine. Crawl out from the cave.
4th doesn't apply. These are aren't "unreasonable" because of terrorists and children. WHY DO YOU HATE CHILDREN? Are you a terrorist?
Per-capita pollution is the wrong way to measure environmental impact because it makes poverty a virtue
The environment doesn't care how rich you are.
the settings "Occasionally show suggestions in Start" under the taskbar settings
It's under "start" not under "taskbar"
Maybe I'm special.
You're obviously wrong. If they had, they would never have made such a mess of their environment in the first place.
That's a non-sequitur argument. Just because they follow the same path doesn't mean they haven't learnt from the mistakes of the USA.
It's not just that they killed a "trivial" number of people, but in doing so became one of the world's greatest superpowers. What they seem to have learnt is that resting on laurels of the environment after becoming a superpower doesn't help your cause. Expect China to become even more dominant as a major power / developer of environmental technologies in the future.
I didn't say the naming of the setting makes sense. Whatever it is called, disabling this setting prevents the game from being installed in the first place.
Windows 10 also has spam in the start menu ('Suggested Apps')
Only for stupid people who don't turn off the most obvious of settings "Occasionally show suggestions in start".
Seriously anyone running windows 10 with this setting on should be given an etchasketch because they are too stupid to own a computer.
pcmcia cards
I thought these things were a myth.
If he didn't have a piece of paper showing he got a license for every single piece of hardware
Just what do you think those stickers on the side of PCs are? Decals to make you look cool?
We can take direct action against it by not buying products made from animals and their secretions.
Yes but we won't because farming in the west is a disaster and animals are a healthy source of nutrients to keep our bodies going. On the other side using hydrocarbon propellants and stuff that covers up the smells of farts doesn't really help me through my day very much at all.
they just don't realize the best way is to clean up your act
A statement born from ignorance of just what China is doing. I mean you don't need to look far. We've covered on Slashdot plenty of times the crackdown on corruption, shuttering of polluting factories, adoption of green energy, decommissioning of coal, restrictions on vehicles in cities.
The only real difference is that what took the USA 100 years will likely take China 50.
That's fine, but it also lacks integration features with Windows 10 which is kind of the point here. The whole purpose of shipping a PDF reader with Windows 10 is that it interacted with ink spaces and the whole other shebang that most software doesn't. These features have been far surpassed by Edge which is why Reader is being depreciated.
If you just want to show a PDF, the sky's the limit for software, including free software. If you want something more than each damn package has its ups and downs and none, even the expensive commercial options tick every box.
I'm not sure that's true. Botulism toxin is the harmful stuff
And in order to create the toxin the strain needs to live long enough to create it, something that you can prevent by ... cooking the food. Canned food, jarred food, etc all cooked for this reason according to FDA regulations for minimum temperature and duration in order to kill off precisely this bacteria. The only way to get botulism through cooked food is to effectively eat food so rotten that you have to really question your life choices in the first place.
Bottom line, if it's fresh and it's cooked you don't get botulism. If it was fresh and cooked, and then preserved before it cooled (canned / jarred) then you don't get it either.