the RISC-V architecture is well positioned to take the crown as the 'go to' design for anybody needing a 32-bit in their silicon
In whose reality is that going to happen? You've got entire industry branches that exist around building and supporting long-established 32-bit architectures, anything you want from any vendor, and we're supposed to believe that a proof-of-concept run of a handful of CPUs with little to no widespread acceptance and support is now the way to go? I mean, good on them for doing it, it's a cool project, but lets be realistic about how its going to play out.
So far we've been told the Aus census is every three years, every four years, and every five years. If anyone's running a book on this, put me down for two and six years, just to cover the remaining bases.
I'm interested why IBM got the contract at all? They have been blacklisted from 2 Australian states from getting government contracts before, why were they even a contender.
That was my feeling as well, given their previous monumental screwups with government, why were they awarded this one? Looks like IBM have the IT equivalent of jury-shopping down to a fine art.
The OP mentions that heads rolled at IBM, what about the clowns who hired them for a government IT contract? Or did they end up with performance bonuses?
Not just that, but anyone wanting to post fake news will just joe-job a web site, or hijack someone elses. "A verifiable real-names domain registration policy would discourage information fraud" needs to be phrased as a question to make it obvious that Betteridge's Law is in effect.
He went through a pile of Google-specific solutions to Google-specific problems. Another one of his points was that we should all switch to U2F tokens, because next year will finally be the Year of the Smart Card that we've been waiting for for the last 30 years or so.
Skype does this too, sometimes it goes into a mode where, during a call, the hard drive light stays on solid throughout the entire call. Same problem with SSD wear. I deal with it by switching to Skype on my Android tablet. Not sure if the same problem exists there, since it doesn't have a HDD activity light.
Another factor is who's behind it, a guy called Dieter Reiter. That as the mayor of Munich? If he was called Sepp Biersaufer I could understand it, but with a name like that he's gotta be a plant from Nordniederbayern.
the biggest guns the Navy has deployed since the twilight of the battleships
Biggest guns? 155mm is about what, 6 inches? That's a sort of afterthought gun added to a BB for AA work and other odd jobs. It shouldn't even go in the same sentence as a discussion of battleships.
More or less the same "de Beers worried about synthetics" has been popping up in the media every few years since maybe the early 1980s. Given the regularity with which it reappears, I've always assumed it was planted by de Beers' marketing department, as are about 95% of the rest of the diamond "facts" we hear about. However with this one I've never been able to figure out what they gain from it. Anyone have any ideas?
When a group (nation or otherwise) makes a habit of killing people in your country, showing support for them is a bad life strategy.
One small problem with your fine theory: The name "daesh" is regarded as an insult by ISIS. So the WiFi network name didn't support them, it insulted them. Sort of like someone naming their WiFi "Hillary2016" and being branded a Trump supporter.
It does surprise me. With vendors like Adobe, Oracle, and Microsoft, I'd have thought 100% of their errors are in production (or, as other vendors might call it, "consumer-based alpha-test").
Exactly. They've gone from replacing the full binary that causes a problem with a fixed one (which in itself is something they seem to have great difficulty doing), to hacking in some kludges to an existing binary. I can just see the Windows update message now, "Patching up binaries with just-released experimental-stage patching system. Insert fingers in ears and press Enter to continue".
Oh, you're exaggerating the difficulty. All you need to do is spend a few hours finding a USB C -> A cable that won't fry your computer when you plug it in, wait for it to arrive in the mail, get a USB card reader, connect everything up, wait for a replacement reader to arrive because the cheap piece of crap one you have won't read your SD cards, and then you're golden. It's so simple. Apple:The computer for the rest of them.
Yeah, they've finally turned off an API that had no place being in a browser in the first place. Now all they need to do is disable the 800 APIs that have the same problem.
Had some Rust flake the other day rhapsodise to me how Servo was going to revolutionise browsing, and how the ability for web sites to directly control your rendering hardware was going to make Firefox the bestest and fastest browser ever. My response of "fixes browser memory leaks, does it?" didn't go down too well...
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the RISC-V architecture is well positioned to take the crown as the 'go to' design for anybody needing a 32-bit in their silicon
In whose reality is that going to happen? You've got entire industry branches that exist around building and supporting long-established 32-bit architectures, anything you want from any vendor, and we're supposed to believe that a proof-of-concept run of a handful of CPUs with little to no widespread acceptance and support is now the way to go? I mean, good on them for doing it, it's a cool project, but lets be realistic about how its going to play out.
Because English is a static language. It never changes a bit and has always been so and so it shall be. Right?
Ãæt is sÃÃlic, wit Ãearf welhwilc prohÃrof mæÃelword
So far we've been told the Aus census is every three years, every four years, and every five years. If anyone's running a book on this, put me down for two and six years, just to cover the remaining bases.
I'm interested why IBM got the contract at all? They have been blacklisted from 2 Australian states from getting government contracts before, why were they even a contender.
That was my feeling as well, given their previous monumental screwups with government, why were they awarded this one? Looks like IBM have the IT equivalent of jury-shopping down to a fine art.
The OP mentions that heads rolled at IBM, what about the clowns who hired them for a government IT contract? Or did they end up with performance bonuses?
By an amazing coincidence, there's already a Dutch (well, strictly speaking, Afrikaans) word for keeping groups of people apart like this.
Not just that, but anyone wanting to post fake news will just joe-job a web site, or hijack someone elses. "A verifiable real-names domain registration policy would discourage information fraud" needs to be phrased as a question to make it obvious that Betteridge's Law is in effect.
Not like shit, but like salty, slightly fishy beef. Somewhat limited market for that I'd guess.
He went through a pile of Google-specific solutions to Google-specific problems. Another one of his points was that we should all switch to U2F tokens, because next year will finally be the Year of the Smart Card that we've been waiting for for the last 30 years or so.
It's not truncated, he used strcpy() and it's overflowed into the next memory block, along with the nop sled and 0day exploit.
Bringing a new meaning to the phrase "duemmer als die Polizei erlaubt".
Skype does this too, sometimes it goes into a mode where, during a call, the hard drive light stays on solid throughout the entire call. Same problem with SSD wear. I deal with it by switching to Skype on my Android tablet. Not sure if the same problem exists there, since it doesn't have a HDD activity light.
Another factor is who's behind it, a guy called Dieter Reiter. That as the mayor of Munich? If he was called Sepp Biersaufer I could understand it, but with a name like that he's gotta be a plant from Nordniederbayern.
the biggest guns the Navy has deployed since the twilight of the battleships
Biggest guns? 155mm is about what, 6 inches? That's a sort of afterthought gun added to a BB for AA work and other odd jobs. It shouldn't even go in the same sentence as a discussion of battleships.
More or less the same "de Beers worried about synthetics" has been popping up in the media every few years since maybe the early 1980s. Given the regularity with which it reappears, I've always assumed it was planted by de Beers' marketing department, as are about 95% of the rest of the diamond "facts" we hear about. However with this one I've never been able to figure out what they gain from it. Anyone have any ideas?
This includes web pages, emails, Slack chats, Netflix films, Spotify songs,
shemale pr0n, 4chan posts, goatse pix, bomb recipes, lemonparty, cakefarts, 2G1C, ISIS propaganda, meatspin, 420 sites, tubgirl,
or anything else that's appeared in front of your eyes on your screen.
Yeah, just what I need.
we found this black hole fleeing from the larger galaxy and leaving a trail of debris behind it.
Sounds like a standard relationship breakup to me...
The French are coming to your house right now; fortunately they're only armed with Brie and pÃftÃf©.
Unless they're visiting a German house, in which case it's traditional for them to be armed with a white flag.
When a group (nation or otherwise) makes a habit of killing people in your country, showing support for them is a bad life strategy.
One small problem with your fine theory: The name "daesh" is regarded as an insult by ISIS. So the WiFi network name didn't support them, it insulted them. Sort of like someone naming their WiFi "Hillary2016" and being branded a Trump supporter.
"hocking" is something you do at a pawn shop. "Hawking" is something you do to con people into buying something.
Not to be confused with horking, which is what your cat does all over the carpet about five minutes after he's wolfed down his dinner.
still to find out who and or what was put in the tank
This is the think tank, which also illustrates what was put it in to come up with the conclusion.
It does surprise me. With vendors like Adobe, Oracle, and Microsoft, I'd have thought 100% of their errors are in production (or, as other vendors might call it, "consumer-based alpha-test").
Exactly. They've gone from replacing the full binary that causes a problem with a fixed one (which in itself is something they seem to have great difficulty doing), to hacking in some kludges to an existing binary. I can just see the Windows update message now, "Patching up binaries with just-released experimental-stage patching system. Insert fingers in ears and press Enter to continue".
Oh, you're exaggerating the difficulty. All you need to do is spend a few hours finding a USB C -> A cable that won't fry your computer when you plug it in, wait for it to arrive in the mail, get a USB card reader, connect everything up, wait for a replacement reader to arrive because the cheap piece of crap one you have won't read your SD cards, and then you're golden. It's so simple. Apple:The computer for the rest of them.
should have his professional certifications revoked
What professional certification? What sort of people do you think are designing and deploying this stuff, professionals?
Yeah, they've finally turned off an API that had no place being in a browser in the first place. Now all they need to do is disable the 800 APIs that have the same problem.
Had some Rust flake the other day rhapsodise to me how Servo was going to revolutionise browsing, and how the ability for web sites to directly control your rendering hardware was going to make Firefox the bestest and fastest browser ever. My response of "fixes browser memory leaks, does it?" didn't go down too well...