Look up Piratebox. There are a bunch of people working on exactly that. With limited success - the tech is just about there, but the numbers aren't. You can't build a mesh without more people coming together locally.
There are a few games that use the GPU for physics. Collision detection can be parallelized nicely. Not many though, simply because few games would see any benefit from it: You rarely have more than a handful of moving objects at a time, easily enough for the CPU to handle alone.
I wrote a mod for ut2k4 that uses CPU to calculate volumetric explosion simulations - due to the limited CPU time available it has to use a very crude model, but it's still better than the standard line-of-sight approach games move where you can hide from a nuclear bomb behind a well-placed lamppost. If games are to use more processing power for physics, that might be where it ends up: Simulating shrapnel from explosions and calculating pressure waves to more precisely calculate damage.
The mod really changes how grenades work in the game. They are of very limited effect in open space, but in a confined room or corridoor the effective blast range is much longer. It'll even travel out windows and around corners. I chose to simulate the 'hollywood fireball' rather than a physically accurate explosion, so it looks quite impressive. It basically runs a near-isotopic flood fill in three dimensions until a specified volume is reached, then spawns lots of conventional explosions within that volume.
Fab issues. There are no economical-at-scale ways to manufacture graphene processors, even if certain engineering issues (poor band gap) are solved. But GaS is a well-established technology, been around for decades - all it needs is a few incrimental improvemenents, no need for revolutionary new science to support it.
Intel *does* make CPUs for enthusiasts - the i7 range, which give the best performance current technology can give at the top end and £1000+ prices. They don't sell in enough volume to make a ton of money - the cash-cow is the midrange stuff, the i3 and i5. They are important for company reputation, keeping Intel firmly established as the King of Semiconductors: They can make the fastest chips around.
The writer, having done the research, would be unlikely to make a mistake like that. It's more likely a 'correction' performed by the editor, who mistakenly interpreted the sentence as a gramatical error. Easy for someone to see 'gallium arsenide' and misinterpret it as the list 'gallium, arsenide' with a missing comma.
My understanding is very limited, not being a biologist, but I gather that the photoreceptor cells are silly-delicate things with absolutely crap adhesive properties - they don't attach to other cells at all well. Nerve tissue is much 'stickier,' so a layer of that would act as a glue that would hold the retina in place.
Except this is a bank - they probably have a little more security than that. Like 802.1x, which makes that process a little bit trickier, and the appearance of an unauthorised MAC is likely to trigger an IDS alert so you may need to hack the AP to make sure it stays quiet and lets you spoof a workstation.
Looks like a KVM-over-IP box, possibly. But those don't have video passthrough, so it'd be detected in no time at all. I can see how such a scam could work (KVM-over-IP + access point + VGA splitter), but not with the hardware described. You'd have to depend on employees leaving their station unlocked, but that is going to happen sooner or later.
I'm not sure if this is a deliberate Met policy of withholding the details of crimes to prevent imitation, or just non-technical reporting trying to express complicated networkystuff in a manner the layperson can understand.
You certainly couldn't get it at PC World, though. They only sell consumer gear. You might be able to get a plain local KVM if you're very lucky, but a KVM over IP? No chance. A quick check of their website shows no KVMs of any variety.
Nerves on the front, photoreceptor cells on the back. It works, but that design (common to all vertebrates) has two design flaws that could be very easily fixed by flipping the layers with no negative effects. - Structural weakness. The retina can detatch under mechanical stress. - There's a blind spot where the neurons poke through, requiring an interpolation mechanism in the brain to fill it in.
Like the Daily Mail approach: They may condemn some celebrity for their skimpy bikini, but they'll make sure to devote half a page to a photo taken at optimal breast-displaying moment just so everyone can judge for themselves.
Then substitute the law against cotton-polyester shirts, or all those animal sacrifice rituals. Christians came up with a handy theological excuse to dismiss the bits they don't like as just obsolete Jewish law - yet somehow they still think the OT prohibition of homosexuality is an immutable divine mandate.
Politics. Why is panhandling banned? Because a lot of people don't want to see it. Why is camping banned? Because then the homeless will have to move and become Someone Else's Problem. If supplying free power eventually leads to a small 'homeless camp' appearing for a few hours a day as they all charge their phones, you can be sure the city would find some way to put an end do it.
Also, what type of idiot wires up the larynx via the heart? I could maybe understand if there was a ganglion down there, but no - it's just a nerve that doubles back on itsself for no good reason.
That's the creationist side as seen by someone on the side of science, but it is not at all how the creationists view themselves. They aren't afraid of their faith being tested, because they believe their arguments are unbeatable and their faith secure - though they may worry about their children being lead astray.
The key to understanding creationists is to realise that it isn't about creationism itsself. They have, as they would proudly call it, a 'God-centered worldview.' Everything comes down in some manner to their religious beliefs. Not just creationism, but their moral and political views, their attachment to national identity, their community, and their general vision of how things 'should be' in the world. They view Christianity not just as another religion among many, but as a defining aspect of western civilisation and that element which makes it great and has brought such prosperity through the ages.
They also believe that Christianity and morality are one and the same. God is the standard of morality, the definition, and the source. Only Christians, as followers of the true God, know how to be moral people. Others might perform a reasonable immitation by following some social norms, but they are just denying that Christianity is their source. This is why they insist upon placing the ten commandments on public buildings: For them, 'Thou Shalt Not Kill' is the very reason murder is illegal: Had God not proclaimed that, and the faithful not kept it, then there would be no way for people to realise murder is an immoral act. Likewise for the theft thing.
So that which threatens the doctrine of creation is far more concerning than a scientific debate: It is nothing less than an existential threat to civilisation itsself. Their concern is that if the population in general lose belief in the bible as inerrant - not belief in Christianity in general, but belief in the rock-solid beyond-debate 'truth' of the bible - then they will lose all spiritual direction. The bible will become fuzzy, a document where people can dismiss bits they don't like (The irony of this is quite lost on them as they happily tuck into their pork sausages). Before you know it, homosexuality will be accepted, prayer will be illegal, everyone will be having casual sex and marriage will be a thing of the past. Then people will start worshiping pagan idols, gangs of violent atheists will start roaming the streets killing people for fun, and eventually God will abandon the country and send the communists to take over and punish everyone.
That's why they are so insistant. They believe the bible is the foundation for America and western civilisation in general. Take away the foundation, and the whole structure collapses. Creationism and patriotism are intertwined, almost inseperable.
It also doesn't work very well. Maybe if it was an actual government health cover system of some form rather than just chucking giant heaps of money at private insurance it would work better.
zfs runs on linux but, due to license issues, isn't available out-of-the-box on most distros. You'll need to go to some lengths to install it, likely involving a kernel recompile.
The silly thing is that 'obamacare' doesn't actually change anything. Same doctors, same hospitals, same procedures. No grandiose new projects. For most people, same insurance company. All it does is subsidize health insurance to make it affordable to those on low income - that's it.
My home server is currently corrupting about one sector in every 100GB on a data drive. Much higher than is normal. Yet still, I wouldn't have easily noticed it - the errors are subtle. A flickering frame in a video file, a program mysteriously crashing.
The only reason I am aware of this is luck: I was writing a compression program for my own use, and the in-and-out hashes kept differing for no obvious reason. I spent days going through the code and comparing output before I realized it was a hardware issue.
I work with children in a different capacity, and in a country where the public perception is that every rock hides a pedophile. As someone who works with children, I need to be constantly on my guard and display all the sexuality of a banana. I also need to maintain the most perfect PC image, and never say anything that could insult any ethnic or religious minority. If it became public that the school hired someone who considers religion in general a dangerous delusion, it could expose them to legal action - and they'd fire me in a heartbeat to save themselves.
Real names have some effect, because there is always the possibility that The Boss will google you and discover your politically-incorrect political statements.
History says nothing: These events are unprecedented. The closest occurrence we have is the industrial revolution, but this could take it a lot further.
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Look up Piratebox. There are a bunch of people working on exactly that. With limited success - the tech is just about there, but the numbers aren't. You can't build a mesh without more people coming together locally.
There are a few games that use the GPU for physics. Collision detection can be parallelized nicely. Not many though, simply because few games would see any benefit from it: You rarely have more than a handful of moving objects at a time, easily enough for the CPU to handle alone.
I wrote a mod for ut2k4 that uses CPU to calculate volumetric explosion simulations - due to the limited CPU time available it has to use a very crude model, but it's still better than the standard line-of-sight approach games move where you can hide from a nuclear bomb behind a well-placed lamppost. If games are to use more processing power for physics, that might be where it ends up: Simulating shrapnel from explosions and calculating pressure waves to more precisely calculate damage.
The mod really changes how grenades work in the game. They are of very limited effect in open space, but in a confined room or corridoor the effective blast range is much longer. It'll even travel out windows and around corners. I chose to simulate the 'hollywood fireball' rather than a physically accurate explosion, so it looks quite impressive. It basically runs a near-isotopic flood fill in three dimensions until a specified volume is reached, then spawns lots of conventional explosions within that volume.
Fab issues. There are no economical-at-scale ways to manufacture graphene processors, even if certain engineering issues (poor band gap) are solved. But GaS is a well-established technology, been around for decades - all it needs is a few incrimental improvemenents, no need for revolutionary new science to support it.
Intel *does* make CPUs for enthusiasts - the i7 range, which give the best performance current technology can give at the top end and £1000+ prices. They don't sell in enough volume to make a ton of money - the cash-cow is the midrange stuff, the i3 and i5. They are important for company reputation, keeping Intel firmly established as the King of Semiconductors: They can make the fastest chips around.
The writer, having done the research, would be unlikely to make a mistake like that. It's more likely a 'correction' performed by the editor, who mistakenly interpreted the sentence as a gramatical error. Easy for someone to see 'gallium arsenide' and misinterpret it as the list 'gallium, arsenide' with a missing comma.
I'd take either of those over this.
My understanding is very limited, not being a biologist, but I gather that the photoreceptor cells are silly-delicate things with absolutely crap adhesive properties - they don't attach to other cells at all well. Nerve tissue is much 'stickier,' so a layer of that would act as a glue that would hold the retina in place.
Except this is a bank - they probably have a little more security than that. Like 802.1x, which makes that process a little bit trickier, and the appearance of an unauthorised MAC is likely to trigger an IDS alert so you may need to hack the AP to make sure it stays quiet and lets you spoof a workstation.
Looks like a KVM-over-IP box, possibly. But those don't have video passthrough, so it'd be detected in no time at all. I can see how such a scam could work (KVM-over-IP + access point + VGA splitter), but not with the hardware described. You'd have to depend on employees leaving their station unlocked, but that is going to happen sooner or later.
I'm not sure if this is a deliberate Met policy of withholding the details of crimes to prevent imitation, or just non-technical reporting trying to express complicated networkystuff in a manner the layperson can understand.
You certainly couldn't get it at PC World, though. They only sell consumer gear. You might be able to get a plain local KVM if you're very lucky, but a KVM over IP? No chance. A quick check of their website shows no KVMs of any variety.
Nerves on the front, photoreceptor cells on the back. It works, but that design (common to all vertebrates) has two design flaws that could be very easily fixed by flipping the layers with no negative effects.
- Structural weakness. The retina can detatch under mechanical stress.
- There's a blind spot where the neurons poke through, requiring an interpolation mechanism in the brain to fill it in.
Describing in detail.
Like the Daily Mail approach: They may condemn some celebrity for their skimpy bikini, but they'll make sure to devote half a page to a photo taken at optimal breast-displaying moment just so everyone can judge for themselves.
Then substitute the law against cotton-polyester shirts, or all those animal sacrifice rituals. Christians came up with a handy theological excuse to dismiss the bits they don't like as just obsolete Jewish law - yet somehow they still think the OT prohibition of homosexuality is an immutable divine mandate.
Politics. Why is panhandling banned? Because a lot of people don't want to see it. Why is camping banned? Because then the homeless will have to move and become Someone Else's Problem. If supplying free power eventually leads to a small 'homeless camp' appearing for a few hours a day as they all charge their phones, you can be sure the city would find some way to put an end do it.
The recurrent laryngeal nerve. Branches off the vagus.
And he put the retinas in backwards too.
Also, what type of idiot wires up the larynx via the heart? I could maybe understand if there was a ganglion down there, but no - it's just a nerve that doubles back on itsself for no good reason.
That's the creationist side as seen by someone on the side of science, but it is not at all how the creationists view themselves. They aren't afraid of their faith being tested, because they believe their arguments are unbeatable and their faith secure - though they may worry about their children being lead astray.
The key to understanding creationists is to realise that it isn't about creationism itsself. They have, as they would proudly call it, a 'God-centered worldview.' Everything comes down in some manner to their religious beliefs. Not just creationism, but their moral and political views, their attachment to national identity, their community, and their general vision of how things 'should be' in the world. They view Christianity not just as another religion among many, but as a defining aspect of western civilisation and that element which makes it great and has brought such prosperity through the ages.
They also believe that Christianity and morality are one and the same. God is the standard of morality, the definition, and the source. Only Christians, as followers of the true God, know how to be moral people. Others might perform a reasonable immitation by following some social norms, but they are just denying that Christianity is their source. This is why they insist upon placing the ten commandments on public buildings: For them, 'Thou Shalt Not Kill' is the very reason murder is illegal: Had God not proclaimed that, and the faithful not kept it, then there would be no way for people to realise murder is an immoral act. Likewise for the theft thing.
So that which threatens the doctrine of creation is far more concerning than a scientific debate: It is nothing less than an existential threat to civilisation itsself. Their concern is that if the population in general lose belief in the bible as inerrant - not belief in Christianity in general, but belief in the rock-solid beyond-debate 'truth' of the bible - then they will lose all spiritual direction. The bible will become fuzzy, a document where people can dismiss bits they don't like (The irony of this is quite lost on them as they happily tuck into their pork sausages). Before you know it, homosexuality will be accepted, prayer will be illegal, everyone will be having casual sex and marriage will be a thing of the past. Then people will start worshiping pagan idols, gangs of violent atheists will start roaming the streets killing people for fun, and eventually God will abandon the country and send the communists to take over and punish everyone.
That's why they are so insistant. They believe the bible is the foundation for America and western civilisation in general. Take away the foundation, and the whole structure collapses. Creationism and patriotism are intertwined, almost inseperable.
It also doesn't work very well. Maybe if it was an actual government health cover system of some form rather than just chucking giant heaps of money at private insurance it would work better.
zfs runs on linux but, due to license issues, isn't available out-of-the-box on most distros. You'll need to go to some lengths to install it, likely involving a kernel recompile.
The silly thing is that 'obamacare' doesn't actually change anything. Same doctors, same hospitals, same procedures. No grandiose new projects. For most people, same insurance company. All it does is subsidize health insurance to make it affordable to those on low income - that's it.
My home server is currently corrupting about one sector in every 100GB on a data drive. Much higher than is normal. Yet still, I wouldn't have easily noticed it - the errors are subtle. A flickering frame in a video file, a program mysteriously crashing.
The only reason I am aware of this is luck: I was writing a compression program for my own use, and the in-and-out hashes kept differing for no obvious reason. I spent days going through the code and comparing output before I realized it was a hardware issue.
Use metric!
I work with children in a different capacity, and in a country where the public perception is that every rock hides a pedophile. As someone who works with children, I need to be constantly on my guard and display all the sexuality of a banana. I also need to maintain the most perfect PC image, and never say anything that could insult any ethnic or religious minority. If it became public that the school hired someone who considers religion in general a dangerous delusion, it could expose them to legal action - and they'd fire me in a heartbeat to save themselves.
Real names have some effect, because there is always the possibility that The Boss will google you and discover your politically-incorrect political statements.
History says nothing: These events are unprecedented. The closest occurrence we have is the industrial revolution, but this could take it a lot further.
Wrong topic.