Perhaps the world should wake up and realize that the problem isn't muslims.
Wake up! The problem is islam. The ideology is toxic, dangerous and totally incompatible with Western civilization.
So rather than close the borders, close up islam. Close the hate-temples, forbid their religious practices, ban koran, just do not facilitate islam in any way. Stop allowing islam in our sociëty. World-wide. Those who can't live without it, will have to go find a country where it's allowed.
"It is just a way...." Really? REALLY??!? What the h*ll is Microsoft thinking.
Their compiler should do one thing and one thing only. Take the source and translate its instructions into machine code, so the computer performs the instructions as described in the source.. Nothing less. Nothing more. They have NO excuse whatsoever to include extra stuff to their benefit. Just that fact that you defend this behaviour is scary.
In their effort to make things ever easier for consumers, and to improve time-to-market, manufacturers skip the most basic security best practices. This will kill the IOT market in general. Ever more gadgets with ever weaker security.
This is a feeble attempt to downplay the incident. They simply don't know yet. So the guy says "It might as well have been a plastic bag" and the next headlines are "Plastic bag mistaken for drone", "Drone incident is plastic bag".
Media including/. are so bloody eager to have the first scoop, facts and details are just annoying.
Interesting to see that so many Anonymous Cowards try to tell me I'm wrong. If you have a point to make, why not log in?
But that aside, please read again my assertion. My assertion is that religion is worse for your health than porn. Nowhere do I claim that there's nothing worse than religion. Now read again your 'proof'. Total bogus
I think religion, all of them, is a sick fantasy, some way for dumb people to deal with things they either have no control over, or do not understand. I also think that is there happens to be some supreme being and it happens to be one that matches a current religion, that he/she/it is a sadistic creep for letting the mass murder and torture in his/her/its name to persist.
All indications I have show that religion in various forms is a lot worse for your health than porn will ever be. It kills every day, and if it doesn't kill you today, at least causes serious lack of judgement and deformed perception of reality.
Perhaps the Senator should reset his priorities and fix the religion issue first? The world will be a better place without religion, thank you.
Any ARM processor can encrypt and decrypt data at plenty speed and next to no latency. A Raspberry Pi Zero at $5 is more than enough. The processor in your smartphone is plenty. Even if it isn't and they had to 'splurge' for a multi-core Intel CPU it would be like $100 or so. There is no excuse, none whatsoever, to leave encryption out to save a few bucks.
I'm sorry but this is exactly the uninformed hyperbole that hampers progress in nucleair energy. Modern nucleair technology uses what we call 'waste' today as very usable fuel and thurn it into much less hazerdous waste. It is people like you who stand in the way of fixing nucleair energy and actually *dealing* with the current waste problem.
I would love to see lots more focus on nucleair energy for multiple reasons. First, it can be a safe and clean energy source for many years to come (think Thorium, MSR). The 'oh it will blow up' folks are hampering progress with outdated arguments. Most current power plants are the Ford Model T of designs. If their arguments would have been lodged against cars then we'd still be driving those. Modern nucleair reactors are inherently safe and can fix many of the waste issues we have from outdated installations today.
Second is removing the dependency on fossil fuels. Not only will this have positive environmental effects, it will cause a paradigm shift in geo politics. Can you imagine what happens to the Middle East if their stronghold on oil supply becomes irrelevant? When organisations such as Al Quaida and IS see their money supply dry up? It will be a much, much better world for it.
That's not forward thinking, that is naïve. Replacing all cars by electric ones just means the energy is produced elsewhere. Like in coal powerplants. It just moves the exhaust elsewhere. The energy then needs to be transported (huge in comparison with regular household connections), then stored in batteries. Those batteries are not exactly clean to produce or recycle.
Don't get me wrong, there's a place for electric cars, but tossing fossil fuel lock stock and barrel is incredibly expensive and frankly just naïve.
For the really big passenger planes up there it would cause substantial damage but probably no immediate danger. For the smaller General Aviation aircraft, a 2kg brick-in-the-sky is lethal. It will kill the single engine, it will pierce the wing, it will kill the pilot if it hits the windshield.
This guy has shown totally irresponsible behavior. There's rules for a reason and aviation isn't a playground. However unlikely, he willingly took the risk of killing people and should be dealt with accordingly.
You get modded down but you are absolutely right. I beta tested from before Windows-95 up until Windows-7. Up until XP the beta testers were active, were treated with respect and generally helped out. Microsoft people were active in the discussions and suggestions were actually turned into features and fixes. Beta testers made a difference.
All this changed when Vista roared its ugly head. No more Microsoft people present. Many of the disasters we warned for never got addressed and never resulted in any changes. The feature set was cast in stone by marketing way before beta testers were allowed to touch the product.
Windows 7 was my last beta, after that I didn't get invited back in.
If "shrinking to a minimum" is really the goal, then they should take a good look at the kernel itself. It has collected lots of cruft over the past 20+ years. The first Linux "distribution" I booted (Linux kernel 0.12) came on two 1.2MB floppy disks that still had room to hold additional files. A lot has changed since then, but if you claim 'bare essentials' then there's plenty room for improvement.
My Volvo V40 D4 used 4.7l/100km for 30.000km strait. At the very first service interval, the ECU software was updated. Immediately the car started to use 5.3l/100km and no longers seems to deliver the same power. My driving habbits and usual routes have not changed. My shoes didn't get any heavier. How do you explain 15% more fuel usage other than trying to cover up software 'flaws'?
Intel has just acknowledged a bug in their Skylake CPU's that surfaces when calculating prime numbers. Prime numbers happen to be heavily used in crypto. Is this a genuine bug, or a microcode backdoor-gone-rogue that can be exploited by some agencies? https://communities.intel.com/...
So are you never going to buy an Intel product again?
Well, perhaps wars are the only way to work this out. Throwing a large blanket over the continent, calling it European Union and then redistributing wealth still has the same effect, that those who have, want to keep it, and those who don't, always want more from the wealthy neighbours. Removing borders to make the nation state disappear does not change the way people behave.
...Money from one area can be used to support another (foundation of the nation-state itself) which improves overall welfare (quality of life).... Everyone benefits.
As a Dutch citizen, I am seeing this idea being tried in real life. On multiple scales. Like, Northern Europe subsidizing Southern Europe. And soon Ukraïne. And like, Northern Europe engulfed in immigrants, forced to pick up the tab, and East Europe taking none. Let me assure you, "Everone benefits" is a lie.
I live in The Netherlands, and work in Utrecht. Large areas are quickly turning into islamic no-go areas. Young people from those areas dress like they grew up in a kaliphate and are openly sympathising with IS. Meanwhile they blame Dutch society for not offering them employment, and call every employer that turns them down a racist. Everything is someone else's fault. They are happy to take from the society they despise, they are unwilling to participate in any way.
Utrecht is a notorious left-wing city. They dream up pie-in-the-sky ideas all the time, without thinking who will pay for it all. The Dutch are at the limit of what they will tolerate for taxes, and also for islamic influences shoved down out throats. 2016 looks like it will become a pivotal year in The Netherlands.
I'm pretty sure I know Linda. She is a friend of mine. She introduced herself a few months ago, she is the widow of the late Prince Allalah al BulShiet, who left her a pretty big sum of money, Something along the lines of $25 Million. I am now helping her to get that money out of Nigeria into her safe bank account, by transferring it to me as a beneficiary. I have had to set up the account and send her $15000 to do the paperwork, but next month I will receive 5% of the money as a fee. Linda is a true friend and I can highly recommend doing business with her.
Is taking someone's head off hateful? If so, is the gesture of taking someone's head off hateful? 14-year old asylum seekers are doing this today. Is fighting for IS hateful? If so, is supporting the atrocities committed by IS hateful? If so, is it hateful to *not* condemn those atrocities?
I have a very strong opinion on islam. I hate islam and everything it stands for. Now what?
As a side note, I find it interesting to see how many are responding as Anonymous Cowards. Afraid of the thought police??
It is obvious. No criticism on islam allowed by mere citizens who see their country raped by foreigners. No 'nein' to mrs Merkel allowed. Bend over and take it.
The day will come when the ordinary people stand up and defend their lives.
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Perhaps the world should wake up and realize that the problem isn't muslims.
Wake up! The problem is islam. The ideology is toxic, dangerous and totally incompatible with Western civilization.
So rather than close the borders, close up islam. Close the hate-temples, forbid their religious practices, ban koran, just do not facilitate islam in any way. Stop allowing islam in our sociëty. World-wide. Those who can't live without it, will have to go find a country where it's allowed.
"It is just a way...." Really? REALLY??!? What the h*ll is Microsoft thinking.
Their compiler should do one thing and one thing only. Take the source and translate its instructions into machine code, so the computer performs the instructions as described in the source.. Nothing less. Nothing more. They have NO excuse whatsoever to include extra stuff to their benefit. Just that fact that you defend this behaviour is scary.
In their effort to make things ever easier for consumers, and to improve time-to-market, manufacturers skip the most basic security best practices.
This will kill the IOT market in general. Ever more gadgets with ever weaker security.
I guess you haven't looked. Plenty of 8" drives and floppy's on offer there.
This is a feeble attempt to downplay the incident. They simply don't know yet. So the guy says "It might as well have been a plastic bag" and the next headlines are "Plastic bag mistaken for drone", "Drone incident is plastic bag".
Media including /. are so bloody eager to have the first scoop, facts and details are just annoying.
Interesting to see that so many Anonymous Cowards try to tell me I'm wrong. If you have a point to make, why not log in?
But that aside, please read again my assertion. My assertion is that religion is worse for your health than porn. Nowhere do I claim that there's nothing worse than religion. Now read again your 'proof'. Total bogus
I think religion, all of them, is a sick fantasy, some way for dumb people to deal with things they either have no control over, or do not understand. I also think that is there happens to be some supreme being and it happens to be one that matches a current religion, that he/she/it is a sadistic creep for letting the mass murder and torture in his/her/its name to persist.
All indications I have show that religion in various forms is a lot worse for your health than porn will ever be. It kills every day, and if it doesn't kill you today, at least causes serious lack of judgement and deformed perception of reality.
Perhaps the Senator should reset his priorities and fix the religion issue first? The world will be a better place without religion, thank you.
Any ARM processor can encrypt and decrypt data at plenty speed and next to no latency. A Raspberry Pi Zero at $5 is more than enough. The processor in your smartphone is plenty. Even if it isn't and they had to 'splurge' for a multi-core Intel CPU it would be like $100 or so. There is no excuse, none whatsoever, to leave encryption out to save a few bucks.
I'm sorry but this is exactly the uninformed hyperbole that hampers progress in nucleair energy. Modern nucleair technology uses what we call 'waste' today as very usable fuel and thurn it into much less hazerdous waste. It is people like you who stand in the way of fixing nucleair energy and actually *dealing* with the current waste problem.
I would love to see lots more focus on nucleair energy for multiple reasons. First, it can be a safe and clean energy source for many years to come (think Thorium, MSR). The 'oh it will blow up' folks are hampering progress with outdated arguments. Most current power plants are the Ford Model T of designs. If their arguments would have been lodged against cars then we'd still be driving those. Modern nucleair reactors are inherently safe and can fix many of the waste issues we have from outdated installations today.
Second is removing the dependency on fossil fuels. Not only will this have positive environmental effects, it will cause a paradigm shift in geo politics. Can you imagine what happens to the Middle East if their stronghold on oil supply becomes irrelevant? When organisations such as Al Quaida and IS see their money supply dry up? It will be a much, much better world for it.
That's not forward thinking, that is naïve. Replacing all cars by electric ones just means the energy is produced elsewhere. Like in coal powerplants. It just moves the exhaust elsewhere. The energy then needs to be transported (huge in comparison with regular household connections), then stored in batteries. Those batteries are not exactly clean to produce or recycle.
Don't get me wrong, there's a place for electric cars, but tossing fossil fuel lock stock and barrel is incredibly expensive and frankly just naïve.
For the really big passenger planes up there it would cause substantial damage but probably no immediate danger. For the smaller General Aviation aircraft, a 2kg brick-in-the-sky is lethal. It will kill the single engine, it will pierce the wing, it will kill the pilot if it hits the windshield.
This guy has shown totally irresponsible behavior. There's rules for a reason and aviation isn't a playground. However unlikely, he willingly took the risk of killing people and should be dealt with accordingly.
You get modded down but you are absolutely right. I beta tested from before Windows-95 up until Windows-7. Up until XP the beta testers were active, were treated with respect and generally helped out. Microsoft people were active in the discussions and suggestions were actually turned into features and fixes. Beta testers made a difference.
All this changed when Vista roared its ugly head. No more Microsoft people present. Many of the disasters we warned for never got addressed and never resulted in any changes. The feature set was cast in stone by marketing way before beta testers were allowed to touch the product.
Windows 7 was my last beta, after that I didn't get invited back in.
If "shrinking to a minimum" is really the goal, then they should take a good look at the kernel itself. It has collected lots of cruft over the past 20+ years. The first Linux "distribution" I booted (Linux kernel 0.12) came on two 1.2MB floppy disks that still had room to hold additional files. A lot has changed since then, but if you claim 'bare essentials' then there's plenty room for improvement.
November of last year. Didn't get a tyre change at that time, so that can't be the cause.
My Volvo V40 D4 used 4.7l/100km for 30.000km strait. At the very first service interval, the ECU software was updated. Immediately the car started to use 5.3l/100km and no longers seems to deliver the same power. My driving habbits and usual routes have not changed. My shoes didn't get any heavier. How do you explain 15% more fuel usage other than trying to cover up software 'flaws'?
If someone posts a way to call Java library routines, is it copyright?
Ask Oracle.
Intel has just acknowledged a bug in their Skylake CPU's that surfaces when calculating prime numbers. Prime numbers happen to be heavily used in crypto. Is this a genuine bug, or a microcode backdoor-gone-rogue that can be exploited by some agencies?
https://communities.intel.com/...
So are you never going to buy an Intel product again?
At least I'm not posting anonymous, coward.
Well, perhaps wars are the only way to work this out. Throwing a large blanket over the continent, calling it European Union and then redistributing wealth still has the same effect, that those who have, want to keep it, and those who don't, always want more from the wealthy neighbours. Removing borders to make the nation state disappear does not change the way people behave.
...Money from one area can be used to support another (foundation of the nation-state itself) which improves overall welfare (quality of life).... Everyone benefits.
As a Dutch citizen, I am seeing this idea being tried in real life. On multiple scales. Like, Northern Europe subsidizing Southern Europe. And soon Ukraïne. And like, Northern Europe engulfed in immigrants, forced to pick up the tab, and East Europe taking none. Let me assure you, "Everone benefits" is a lie.
I live in The Netherlands, and work in Utrecht. Large areas are quickly turning into islamic no-go areas. Young people from those areas dress like they grew up in a kaliphate and are openly sympathising with IS. Meanwhile they blame Dutch society for not offering them employment, and call every employer that turns them down a racist. Everything is someone else's fault. They are happy to take from the society they despise, they are unwilling to participate in any way.
Utrecht is a notorious left-wing city. They dream up pie-in-the-sky ideas all the time, without thinking who will pay for it all. The Dutch are at the limit of what they will tolerate for taxes, and also for islamic influences shoved down out throats. 2016 looks like it will become a pivotal year in The Netherlands.
I'm pretty sure I know Linda. She is a friend of mine. She introduced herself a few months ago, she is the widow of the late Prince Allalah al BulShiet, who left her a pretty big sum of money, Something along the lines of $25 Million. I am now helping her to get that money out of Nigeria into her safe bank account, by transferring it to me as a beneficiary. I have had to set up the account and send her $15000 to do the paperwork, but next month I will receive 5% of the money as a fee. Linda is a true friend and I can highly recommend doing business with her.
Is taking someone's head off hateful? If so, is the gesture of taking someone's head off hateful? 14-year old asylum seekers are doing this today.
Is fighting for IS hateful? If so, is supporting the atrocities committed by IS hateful? If so, is it hateful to *not* condemn those atrocities?
I have a very strong opinion on islam. I hate islam and everything it stands for. Now what?
As a side note, I find it interesting to see how many are responding as Anonymous Cowards. Afraid of the thought police??
It is obvious. No criticism on islam allowed by mere citizens who see their country raped by foreigners. No 'nein' to mrs Merkel allowed. Bend over and take it.
The day will come when the ordinary people stand up and defend their lives.