According to TFA the pumping station will be 20 miles down river. If the water is traveling at say 5 MPH they have 4 hours from passing through the dam to reaching the pumping station and being recycled.
Effectively the river is used as a kind of delay line storage. Pretty cool.
I dislike bots because they can't understand or help me. If these new bots are so good I can't tell it's not a human, that's a good thing.
My worry about bots having to identify themselves is that it's helpful to people trying to force humans to identify things like their religion, political views or the nature of their genitalia. It's a wedge that legitimises prioritizing one person's comfort over the privacy of others.
Any first-past-the-post system like the US and UK have is likely to produce two party politics. That in turn limits the choice of president to one or two candidates backed by the two big parties. Plus, the whole thing is dominated by money, meaning politicians are effectively all corrupt.
Maybe being a politician should be like being a monk, where you have to take a vow of poverty.
That's usually what happens, there is a "crackdown", lots of arrests, then the few criminals who were there move somewhere else and it seems to have worked. At best all it did was displace some crime out of an already low crime area.
A related effect is "return to mean" which is common with speed cameras. There are a few accidents in one place one year, so they put a camera in. The next year the number of accidents falls back to the previous average, so they declare the camera a great success, even though it would likely have happened without he camera being there anyway.
With android, it's left up to each hardware manufacturer to provide security updates and new versions for their devices.
This is a very persistent myth.
Since V4 back in 2013 they have been patching security issues via Google Play Services, which is mandatory for Android devices. The current version (Oreo, released last year) includes Project Treble, which allows phone manufacturers to ship updates much more quickly by separating out the hardware layer, which is what was causing most of the delays.
This is why you don't see vast Android botnets rampaging all over the internet. The OS itself is very secure already, being heavily sandboxed and compartmentalized, and with Google pushing out security fixes and having their own malware scanner running constantly as part of Google Play Services it's proven impossible to mass exploit devices in that way.
The issues we do see are malware authors using increasingly sophisticated methods to sneak malware into the Play Store (just like they sneak it into the Apple App Store), and trying to profit before Google shuts them down, and apps that are simply deceptive and user-hostile. Part of the trade off for having more freedom on Android is that sort of risk, which is easier to mitigate if you live in the iOS walled garden.
I think we might be on a tipping point where Linux can really replace Windows, even for legacy stuff. WINE has got so good now that there really isn't much you can run on it.
Level 1 Techs on YouTube are running a series of videos about gaming on Linux right now. The focus is on getting Steam for Windows and associated games working with WINE or with a VM that has a pass-through to the GPU to give near native performance.
Swallowing anything that your body can't break down is generally not very good for you. Plastic, metal and anything it can't really process might eventually come out, or it might not. And while it's in there you would have to have a PhD to speculate about what kind of interactions it might have with your body and the other food, your gut bacteria, and of course the dye and other crap they put in there to make it more appealing to you.
I guess these rumours are more powerful in places like India where there is less enforcement of food safety standards. In the west we are used to just assuming anything on a supermarket shelf or restaurant menu is safe and has been tested and monitored. Having said that we did have the horse meat scandal, which is a shame because I actually liked the horse meat.
Cheaper, better, no performance crippling security flaws, and AMD CPU sockets last much longer than Intel ones so you will probably be able to upgrade in a few years without replacing mobo/RAM as well.
Threadripper in particular gives you loads of PCIe lanes which means better future proofing too (lots of bandwidth available for that USB 4 and 9000Gb LAN card you will want in 2023). With TR or Ryzen Pro you also get stuff like hardware RAM encryption so the dream of a physically secure PC is finally possible.
Which brings us to the real question, why is Intel removing hyperthreading capability?
There are some security issues. Maybe it can't overcome them, but AMD has their own version (simultaneous multithreading) that so far hasn't been affected by these problems.
The other issue is complexity. Maybe they want to simplify the CPU and simply have more of them.
The problem is that predicting crime is a self fulfilling prophecy.
The chief of police has limited resources, so they look at their map and see that there is 10% more crime in district A. So they send some extra cops there, and because there are more cops in the are they make more arrests. Now it looks like there is 30% more crime in district A, but the chief spins it as a crackdown with more arrests and bad guys taken off the street.
In reality district A has less crime that district B, but people in district B don't trust the police and don't call them because they know they are all over in A and if they turn up at all it will be too late.
Note that I didn't actually say the other parties were better, just that ukip are pretty authoritarian and the stuff I mentioned isn't even the worst of it. Their policies on women's health are pretty disturbing.
I built an embedded system that uses 2000 as the epoch and a 16 bit number of days since then for the date. It's going to wrap around some time in 2064 IIRC. I'll be old, maybe dead... But I still feel a little bit guilty.
Luckily there is very little chance that the system will be in use by then, I keep telling myself.
Interestingly in this case it probably won't be the numerical side of things that causes problems. Most IT systems use the same Gregorian calendar we do, and have a conversion function to handle translation to/from imperial eras.
The problem is that, like leap seconds, there is no way to predict when eras will change so you have to update all your software every time there is a new one. Particularly for systems that handle personal data it's still common for people to enter their birthday using the imperial era system, so when the new era starts all those systems need to be able to handle it.
It was bad enough the last time it happened, but this time IT is much more pervasive and user facing. All sorts of industries are affected, e.g. airlines need to be able to handle children born in the new era from day one.
I have not read those books and don't own them. Can you give me an example of a speech or something I can actually verify and see in context? Apologies for not taking your word for it.
Which makes it look like a bigger victory than it was because those states give all their votes to one candidate, instead of proportionally based on the number of citizen votes each received.
The fact is that most people didn't want Trump. The system handed him the win, a win by technicality. That's why he is so touchy about it.
Ah, okay, so basically anyone not voting for UKIP is voting for the boot to the neck in your opinion. You could have just said that to start with instead of making us guess.
So, in bizzaro-Mashiki-land, can you explain how UKIP's policy of, for example, banning Muslim headscarfs is not putting the boot to the neck? At the last election they also wanted to hire a lot more prison officers, as if they suspected many more people would be going to prison or something...
Not to mention their immigration policies. Reducing net migration to zero would mean a lot of families ripped apart, a lot of British citizens separated from their kin by force. How about refusing prisoners access to religious services provided by people whose views they deem to be "contrary to British values" (i.e. contrary to UKIP values). Issue compulsory purchase orders for poor quality houses in multiple occupation.
They sound like a fairly oppressive bunch, not at all shy about using forcing people to accept their definition of morality. They want to use that power to re-shape society. Actually they sound like SJWs.
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According to TFA the pumping station will be 20 miles down river. If the water is traveling at say 5 MPH they have 4 hours from passing through the dam to reaching the pumping station and being recycled.
Effectively the river is used as a kind of delay line storage. Pretty cool.
I dislike bots because they can't understand or help me. If these new bots are so good I can't tell it's not a human, that's a good thing.
My worry about bots having to identify themselves is that it's helpful to people trying to force humans to identify things like their religion, political views or the nature of their genitalia. It's a wedge that legitimises prioritizing one person's comfort over the privacy of others.
Just use IR cameras, or properly light areas where you are using the tech.
Or just don't use facial recognition, that's better for everyone.
Any first-past-the-post system like the US and UK have is likely to produce two party politics. That in turn limits the choice of president to one or two candidates backed by the two big parties. Plus, the whole thing is dominated by money, meaning politicians are effectively all corrupt.
Maybe being a politician should be like being a monk, where you have to take a vow of poverty.
That's usually what happens, there is a "crackdown", lots of arrests, then the few criminals who were there move somewhere else and it seems to have worked. At best all it did was displace some crime out of an already low crime area.
A related effect is "return to mean" which is common with speed cameras. There are a few accidents in one place one year, so they put a camera in. The next year the number of accidents falls back to the previous average, so they declare the camera a great success, even though it would likely have happened without he camera being there anyway.
With android, it's left up to each hardware manufacturer to provide security updates and new versions for their devices.
This is a very persistent myth.
Since V4 back in 2013 they have been patching security issues via Google Play Services, which is mandatory for Android devices. The current version (Oreo, released last year) includes Project Treble, which allows phone manufacturers to ship updates much more quickly by separating out the hardware layer, which is what was causing most of the delays.
This is why you don't see vast Android botnets rampaging all over the internet. The OS itself is very secure already, being heavily sandboxed and compartmentalized, and with Google pushing out security fixes and having their own malware scanner running constantly as part of Google Play Services it's proven impossible to mass exploit devices in that way.
The issues we do see are malware authors using increasingly sophisticated methods to sneak malware into the Play Store (just like they sneak it into the Apple App Store), and trying to profit before Google shuts them down, and apps that are simply deceptive and user-hostile. Part of the trade off for having more freedom on Android is that sort of risk, which is easier to mitigate if you live in the iOS walled garden.
I think we might be on a tipping point where Linux can really replace Windows, even for legacy stuff. WINE has got so good now that there really isn't much you can run on it.
Level 1 Techs on YouTube are running a series of videos about gaming on Linux right now. The focus is on getting Steam for Windows and associated games working with WINE or with a VM that has a pass-through to the GPU to give near native performance.
My friend's Netgear router is about 6 years old and got an update a few months back for some vulnerability.
Netgear's stuff is low end crap but at least they do seem to support it for the long term, which actually really surprised me.
Swallowing anything that your body can't break down is generally not very good for you. Plastic, metal and anything it can't really process might eventually come out, or it might not. And while it's in there you would have to have a PhD to speculate about what kind of interactions it might have with your body and the other food, your gut bacteria, and of course the dye and other crap they put in there to make it more appealing to you.
I guess these rumours are more powerful in places like India where there is less enforcement of food safety standards. In the west we are used to just assuming anything on a supermarket shelf or restaurant menu is safe and has been tested and monitored. Having said that we did have the horse meat scandal, which is a shame because I actually liked the horse meat.
Thanks, it's been too long since Slashdot had a good grammar nazi post. Some days it feels like no-one cares about apostrophes any more.
Just buy Ryzen or Threadripper.
Cheaper, better, no performance crippling security flaws, and AMD CPU sockets last much longer than Intel ones so you will probably be able to upgrade in a few years without replacing mobo/RAM as well.
Threadripper in particular gives you loads of PCIe lanes which means better future proofing too (lots of bandwidth available for that USB 4 and 9000Gb LAN card you will want in 2023). With TR or Ryzen Pro you also get stuff like hardware RAM encryption so the dream of a physically secure PC is finally possible.
Which brings us to the real question, why is Intel removing hyperthreading capability?
There are some security issues. Maybe it can't overcome them, but AMD has their own version (simultaneous multithreading) that so far hasn't been affected by these problems.
The other issue is complexity. Maybe they want to simplify the CPU and simply have more of them.
The problem is that predicting crime is a self fulfilling prophecy.
The chief of police has limited resources, so they look at their map and see that there is 10% more crime in district A. So they send some extra cops there, and because there are more cops in the are they make more arrests. Now it looks like there is 30% more crime in district A, but the chief spins it as a crackdown with more arrests and bad guys taken off the street.
In reality district A has less crime that district B, but people in district B don't trust the police and don't call them because they know they are all over in A and if they turn up at all it will be too late.
I'm not defending their behaviour, but the reason they do this is that people were delaying installing updates indefinitely and then getting infected.
So now they just force updates to happen fairly quickly.
Note that I didn't actually say the other parties were better, just that ukip are pretty authoritarian and the stuff I mentioned isn't even the worst of it. Their policies on women's health are pretty disturbing.
I built an embedded system that uses 2000 as the epoch and a 16 bit number of days since then for the date. It's going to wrap around some time in 2064 IIRC. I'll be old, maybe dead... But I still feel a little bit guilty.
Luckily there is very little chance that the system will be in use by then, I keep telling myself.
I wonder what the Outsiders charged them for those planetary drives?
Whatever it was it would be worth it to make years 256 days long.
Hmm, it's as if you don't understand how the population isn't evenly distributed.
Wait, I remember you arguing that the uneven vote weighting was right and proper, to protect rural communities from the urban majority...
Interestingly in this case it probably won't be the numerical side of things that causes problems. Most IT systems use the same Gregorian calendar we do, and have a conversion function to handle translation to/from imperial eras.
The problem is that, like leap seconds, there is no way to predict when eras will change so you have to update all your software every time there is a new one. Particularly for systems that handle personal data it's still common for people to enter their birthday using the imperial era system, so when the new era starts all those systems need to be able to handle it.
It was bad enough the last time it happened, but this time IT is much more pervasive and user facing. All sorts of industries are affected, e.g. airlines need to be able to handle children born in the new era from day one.
Libraries make you realize how silly these companies' views on copyright are.
I can borrow a DVD from the library for free, watch it as many times as I like. Perfectly legal.
I can download a DVD from the Pirate Bay for free, watch it as many times as I like. Hard core criminal.
She could probably make a few million selling all the dirt she has on him.
I have not read those books and don't own them. Can you give me an example of a speech or something I can actually verify and see in context? Apologies for not taking your word for it.
Which makes it look like a bigger victory than it was because those states give all their votes to one candidate, instead of proportionally based on the number of citizen votes each received.
The fact is that most people didn't want Trump. The system handed him the win, a win by technicality. That's why he is so touchy about it.
Give us a specific example of Obama being racially divisive. An actual quote and a citation of where it comes from.
Ah, okay, so basically anyone not voting for UKIP is voting for the boot to the neck in your opinion. You could have just said that to start with instead of making us guess.
So, in bizzaro-Mashiki-land, can you explain how UKIP's policy of, for example, banning Muslim headscarfs is not putting the boot to the neck? At the last election they also wanted to hire a lot more prison officers, as if they suspected many more people would be going to prison or something...
Not to mention their immigration policies. Reducing net migration to zero would mean a lot of families ripped apart, a lot of British citizens separated from their kin by force. How about refusing prisoners access to religious services provided by people whose views they deem to be "contrary to British values" (i.e. contrary to UKIP values). Issue compulsory purchase orders for poor quality houses in multiple occupation.
Their 2017 manifesto page is 404 now, but the BBC still has a summary: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/ele...
They sound like a fairly oppressive bunch, not at all shy about using forcing people to accept their definition of morality. They want to use that power to re-shape society. Actually they sound like SJWs.