Lately, AMD made news for their well received Zen CPUs and lackluster Vega GPUs. So... let's pair an Intel CPU with an AMD GPU...
The AMD Raven Ridge GPU performance is said to be on the same level as Intel's current offering, which is pretty bad, but the CPU is quite good.
TBH, it kind of makes sense : Intel CPUs have good single thread performance, and dedicated AMD GPUs are better than Intel's offering, combining them can be good for mid-range gaming, but still, weirdest partnership ever...
The US are not the only country to put things in space. Japan, Europe and China also have appropriate satellites, as mentioned in the article. It is not like measurements will stop just because the US lost some satellites. It may make exploitation a bit more difficult because of the differences in design but aggregating data is something that has to be done eventually. Climate science is an international matter. The US plans to launch new satellites in a few years anyways. So they didn't drop the ball entirely.
The idea is that we should wake up with the sun. There are biological and economic reason for this. The problem is that in modern society, we live by the clock, not by the sun. DST is a way to approximate this behavior.
Does connecting your TV to the internet brings you something? - Yes : connect it - No : don't It's that simple.
And the fact that you connect a device to the internet (because it is useful for you to do so) doesn't mean you have to connect everything. It is not all or nothing. From a security/privacy perspective you want to keep your attack surface as small as possible, but it doesn't mean you need to completely wall yourself in unless you have more to hide than normal people.
You need to keep it charged. And the less batteries you need to take care of, the better. In fact it is common for bluetooth headphones to have an analog backup using a headphone jack. Almost all the best headphones use a jack connector (mini or full size). Just try to find a professional or an audiophile headset that use anything else. If you have a budget over $100 and you want good sound quality, BT will severely limit your options. And note that you can definitely notice the difference in sound quality between good $150 headphones and the cheap (but sometimes overpriced) stuff. And unless your headphones are high impedance, you don't need an amp or anything fancy for that. Also, you may have some device with a headphone jack and no bluetooth you want to use your headset with. The Nintendo 3DS for instance, or a desktop PC. Some BT headsets also have a headphone jack but then again, it limits your choices.
Though I prefer the major fuck up hypothesis, who said the data is real and not deliberate misinformation.
Also I think that all the James Bond style security is overkill. This is definitely confidential information but not top secret. Well implemented AES is more than sufficient. In fact a fancy USB stick will raise a lot more attention. Not a good thing.
Snowden used encryption in a way that would be considered paranoid for normal people. What kind of whistleblower/traitor/hero/terrorist would know enough to get access to secret documents but be dumb enough to lose an unencrypted USB key in the street. I can imagine using an unencrypted key for stealing data when there is no other choice but definitely not keeping it that way.
An employee screwing up makes a lot more sense to me.
An entry-level tablet is less than $50. If live in a western country and can't afford to pay $50 for your kid, be it for a tablet or something else non essential, it means you are either at the level where your health is compromised or you have trouble keeping a budget. A tablet is the cheapest screen device you can get. Can't afford a TV, get a tablet. The hard part is the internet connection. If you can find a free WiFi, that's great, otherwise, maybe you can find a deal with your neighbors/roommates or something. Unlike with the tablet, internet is a monthly payment, and even with the cheapest plans, it adds up quickly.
Except that a tablet is not a sign of wealth. Entry level tablets are actually cheaper than many toys aimed at 8 yo kids. In fact, it is probably the cheapest way to keep them occupied.
But they will happily turn on their camera in situations where they look good and you look bad The study is about use of force and citizen complaints. Not just excessive use of force and justified citizen complaints. Sometimes, use of force is justified, and cops will definitely use their cameras in these situations in order to cover themselves. And frivolous complains are a thing too.
Turned out that cameras didn't change a thing, even in situations that don't put cops in a bad light.
For instance the first time I ever got pulled over, my back window was frosted up and I was on a street with a lot of streetlights. The cops decided to pull me over for nothing (they literally never gave me any reason for pulling me over whatsoever, I just looked suspicious to them for some reason) and I didn't see the lights, I pulled over immediately after they hit the siren but they both came up and pointed their guns at my face.
The most likely explantation is that they were looking for a potentially dangerous criminal and your vehicle matched their info. They couldn't give you the reason because they didn't want to reveal details about their investigation. I did get pulled over once for apparently no reason. Later, I learned that there was a kidnapping in the area. No guns though, but no frost on the rear window either.
This or they were acting like cowboys for no good reason. But don't jump to conclusions.
And I've worked with defense contractors with abysmal security... They had safes, paper shredders, badges, special networks, all that stuff but it was just a facade. People shared passwords and used personal USB keys to transfer data, it took so long getting physical access that tailgating was the norm, airgaps weren't, outdated software, the IT department was so incompetent that bypassing it was almost a requirement for getting things done. While working there, I stumbled upon several gross vulnerabilities without even trying. At school, students had much more freedom but at least the network was sane, and the IT department was not the friendliest place on earth but they did the job.
Well, I wouldn't be surprised if some college campuses have better security than some defense contractors. Especially if said campuses teach computer security, and there are hundreds of wannabe hacker students inside it and renowned security researchers in their ranks.
The issue is more about the form factor : small screen, no keyboard, no mouse. Even if my phone had all the capabilities of a full Linux PC, I don't think about any app that I would use that doesn't have a better adapted alternative on Android.
Attempts to address this issue with docks have all failed. If you want to stay mobile and do real work, the proper tool is a laptop. All solutions that involve a phone, or, to a lesser extent, a tablet, feel like a kludge.
Then came IAP. Games which were challenging but fun became a lot harder, in order to force people to buy powerups to beat the game.
And before before IAP were arcades, where games were very hard, in order to force people to put in more quarters.
Your comment is interesting because it is like history repeating itself. Arcades games were hard, because that's how they made you spend money. Then home consoles came in and used arcades as a model, which meant hard games. Then later, developers realized that there was nothing to gain by making game hard and frustrating as they were one time purchase, so games became easier. And now, with the pay-to-win model, difficulty as a money maker is coming back.
Interestingly many old gamers say they miss the times where games were hard (I doubt they really do), well, it looks like those times are coming back.
You need to be in the top 2% for IQ scores to join Mensa. It means that about 6 million Americans are eligible to join Mensa, compare this to abound 60000 actual members. It means that only 1% of Americans with high IQ are Mensa members, so I think it is safe to assume that there are other important criteria that make people join Mensa. So is it the IQ or is it something else that cause this correlation.
I don't know how they addressed this in the (paywalled) paper. Did they run tests to weed out external factors or did they leave that task to other researchers? For example, did they do their own IQ tests in addition to relying on Mensa members to get a good sample of people with high IQ?
When you drive a car, the law requires you to have insurance, because you can do a lot of damage to others you won't be able to pay for if it happens. The idea here is to impose heavy damages in case of a breach and require companies to be insured to some amount. The insurance requirement is a way to prevent companies from just taking chances and get away with bankruptcy if bad things happen. Another advantage is that insurance companies don't want their customers to get hacked so that they can offer attractive prices and make profit. As a result, they will make sure that security best practices are implemented in the same way that theft insurance require certain locks.
To sum up, with mandatory insurance : - Hacked users will be compensated - Insurance companies will have real financial incentives to find ways of making things more secure - Insured companies will do their best to implement best practice as it will most likely lower their premiums. The worst may not be able to get insured at all and risk legal sanctions even before the inevitable hack happens
Ads grab my attention, JS miners just use CPU time. I consider my time to be more valuable than CPU time so that's a win for miners. And if a few cents of electricity is enough to support a website without ads, that's great.
This model is probably unsustainable but for the meantime, I think it is brilliant.
If you have privacy concerns (eg credit cards), then machines dealing with credit cards should be co-located in a high-security data center that you know who has physical access to it. If you are simply serving cat videos, then cloud-away
I would argue the opposite, especially if you are a small company. You probably can't afford a team of security experts, or have any control on who accesses the data center where your machines are. Large, reputable cloud companies can.
Voice assistants will make every effort to make sure that it is easy to switch in. They will offer you all available options for extracting data out of their competitors and other sources so they have a good base for learning (mail, calendar, etc...). The return on investment for your data also tends to decrease exponentially. One week of data can be very useful, more than one year is practically useless. So after a few days, if at all, you will probably barely notice the difference from a fully trained model.
It will be the same as with any business : for example if you want to switch bank, the new bank will often take care of all the paperwork for you to make it as easy as possible.
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Lately, AMD made news for their well received Zen CPUs and lackluster Vega GPUs.
So... let's pair an Intel CPU with an AMD GPU...
The AMD Raven Ridge GPU performance is said to be on the same level as Intel's current offering, which is pretty bad, but the CPU is quite good.
TBH, it kind of makes sense : Intel CPUs have good single thread performance, and dedicated AMD GPUs are better than Intel's offering, combining them can be good for mid-range gaming, but still, weirdest partnership ever...
The US are not the only country to put things in space.
Japan, Europe and China also have appropriate satellites, as mentioned in the article. It is not like measurements will stop just because the US lost some satellites. It may make exploitation a bit more difficult because of the differences in design but aggregating data is something that has to be done eventually. Climate science is an international matter.
The US plans to launch new satellites in a few years anyways. So they didn't drop the ball entirely.
The idea is that we should wake up with the sun. There are biological and economic reason for this.
The problem is that in modern society, we live by the clock, not by the sun. DST is a way to approximate this behavior.
Does connecting your TV to the internet brings you something?
- Yes : connect it
- No : don't
It's that simple.
And the fact that you connect a device to the internet (because it is useful for you to do so) doesn't mean you have to connect everything. It is not all or nothing. From a security/privacy perspective you want to keep your attack surface as small as possible, but it doesn't mean you need to completely wall yourself in unless you have more to hide than normal people.
You need to keep it charged. And the less batteries you need to take care of, the better. In fact it is common for bluetooth headphones to have an analog backup using a headphone jack.
Almost all the best headphones use a jack connector (mini or full size). Just try to find a professional or an audiophile headset that use anything else. If you have a budget over $100 and you want good sound quality, BT will severely limit your options. And note that you can definitely notice the difference in sound quality between good $150 headphones and the cheap (but sometimes overpriced) stuff. And unless your headphones are high impedance, you don't need an amp or anything fancy for that.
Also, you may have some device with a headphone jack and no bluetooth you want to use your headset with. The Nintendo 3DS for instance, or a desktop PC. Some BT headsets also have a headphone jack but then again, it limits your choices.
Ironic considering that Razer sells headsets with headphone jacks.
It is a specific kind of amplifier.
A money amplifier, for Google.
Though I prefer the major fuck up hypothesis, who said the data is real and not deliberate misinformation.
Also I think that all the James Bond style security is overkill. This is definitely confidential information but not top secret. Well implemented AES is more than sufficient. In fact a fancy USB stick will raise a lot more attention. Not a good thing.
Snowden used encryption in a way that would be considered paranoid for normal people.
What kind of whistleblower/traitor/hero/terrorist would know enough to get access to secret documents but be dumb enough to lose an unencrypted USB key in the street. I can imagine using an unencrypted key for stealing data when there is no other choice but definitely not keeping it that way.
An employee screwing up makes a lot more sense to me.
It the news is real, that would probably be looser tolerances with optics as a way to increase throughput.
An entry-level tablet is less than $50. If live in a western country and can't afford to pay $50 for your kid, be it for a tablet or something else non essential, it means you are either at the level where your health is compromised or you have trouble keeping a budget.
A tablet is the cheapest screen device you can get. Can't afford a TV, get a tablet. The hard part is the internet connection. If you can find a free WiFi, that's great, otherwise, maybe you can find a deal with your neighbors/roommates or something. Unlike with the tablet, internet is a monthly payment, and even with the cheapest plans, it adds up quickly.
Except that a tablet is not a sign of wealth. Entry level tablets are actually cheaper than many toys aimed at 8 yo kids. In fact, it is probably the cheapest way to keep them occupied.
I don't know about Megabots but Kuratas actually sells their robots on Amazon for about 1 million dollars.
https://www.amazon.co.jp/%E6%B...
I can see them renting their robots for various shows, I think Megabots and Kuratas both do this. The duel is just advertisement.
But they will happily turn on their camera in situations where they look good and you look bad
The study is about use of force and citizen complaints. Not just excessive use of force and justified citizen complaints.
Sometimes, use of force is justified, and cops will definitely use their cameras in these situations in order to cover themselves. And frivolous complains are a thing too.
Turned out that cameras didn't change a thing, even in situations that don't put cops in a bad light.
For instance the first time I ever got pulled over, my back window was frosted up and I was on a street with a lot of streetlights. The cops decided to pull me over for nothing (they literally never gave me any reason for pulling me over whatsoever, I just looked suspicious to them for some reason) and I didn't see the lights, I pulled over immediately after they hit the siren but they both came up and pointed their guns at my face.
The most likely explantation is that they were looking for a potentially dangerous criminal and your vehicle matched their info. They couldn't give you the reason because they didn't want to reveal details about their investigation.
I did get pulled over once for apparently no reason. Later, I learned that there was a kidnapping in the area. No guns though, but no frost on the rear window either.
This or they were acting like cowboys for no good reason. But don't jump to conclusions.
And I've worked with defense contractors with abysmal security... They had safes, paper shredders, badges, special networks, all that stuff but it was just a facade. People shared passwords and used personal USB keys to transfer data, it took so long getting physical access that tailgating was the norm, airgaps weren't, outdated software, the IT department was so incompetent that bypassing it was almost a requirement for getting things done. While working there, I stumbled upon several gross vulnerabilities without even trying.
At school, students had much more freedom but at least the network was sane, and the IT department was not the friendliest place on earth but they did the job.
Well, I wouldn't be surprised if some college campuses have better security than some defense contractors.
Especially if said campuses teach computer security, and there are hundreds of wannabe hacker students inside it and renowned security researchers in their ranks.
The issue is more about the form factor : small screen, no keyboard, no mouse.
Even if my phone had all the capabilities of a full Linux PC, I don't think about any app that I would use that doesn't have a better adapted alternative on Android.
Attempts to address this issue with docks have all failed. If you want to stay mobile and do real work, the proper tool is a laptop. All solutions that involve a phone, or, to a lesser extent, a tablet, feel like a kludge.
Then came IAP. Games which were challenging but fun became a lot harder, in order to force people to buy powerups to beat the game.
And before before IAP were arcades, where games were very hard, in order to force people to put in more quarters.
Your comment is interesting because it is like history repeating itself.
Arcades games were hard, because that's how they made you spend money.
Then home consoles came in and used arcades as a model, which meant hard games.
Then later, developers realized that there was nothing to gain by making game hard and frustrating as they were one time purchase, so games became easier.
And now, with the pay-to-win model, difficulty as a money maker is coming back.
Interestingly many old gamers say they miss the times where games were hard (I doubt they really do), well, it looks like those times are coming back.
You need to be in the top 2% for IQ scores to join Mensa. It means that about 6 million Americans are eligible to join Mensa, compare this to abound 60000 actual members.
It means that only 1% of Americans with high IQ are Mensa members, so I think it is safe to assume that there are other important criteria that make people join Mensa. So is it the IQ or is it something else that cause this correlation.
I don't know how they addressed this in the (paywalled) paper. Did they run tests to weed out external factors or did they leave that task to other researchers? For example, did they do their own IQ tests in addition to relying on Mensa members to get a good sample of people with high IQ?
When you drive a car, the law requires you to have insurance, because you can do a lot of damage to others you won't be able to pay for if it happens.
The idea here is to impose heavy damages in case of a breach and require companies to be insured to some amount. The insurance requirement is a way to prevent companies from just taking chances and get away with bankruptcy if bad things happen.
Another advantage is that insurance companies don't want their customers to get hacked so that they can offer attractive prices and make profit. As a result, they will make sure that security best practices are implemented in the same way that theft insurance require certain locks.
To sum up, with mandatory insurance :
- Hacked users will be compensated
- Insurance companies will have real financial incentives to find ways of making things more secure
- Insured companies will do their best to implement best practice as it will most likely lower their premiums. The worst may not be able to get insured at all and risk legal sanctions even before the inevitable hack happens
Ads grab my attention, JS miners just use CPU time. I consider my time to be more valuable than CPU time so that's a win for miners. And if a few cents of electricity is enough to support a website without ads, that's great.
This model is probably unsustainable but for the meantime, I think it is brilliant.
If you have privacy concerns (eg credit cards), then machines dealing with credit cards should be co-located in a high-security data center that you know who has physical access to it. If you are simply serving cat videos, then cloud-away
I would argue the opposite, especially if you are a small company.
You probably can't afford a team of security experts, or have any control on who accesses the data center where your machines are. Large, reputable cloud companies can.
Voice assistants will make every effort to make sure that it is easy to switch in.
They will offer you all available options for extracting data out of their competitors and other sources so they have a good base for learning (mail, calendar, etc...). The return on investment for your data also tends to decrease exponentially. One week of data can be very useful, more than one year is practically useless. So after a few days, if at all, you will probably barely notice the difference from a fully trained model.
It will be the same as with any business : for example if you want to switch bank, the new bank will often take care of all the paperwork for you to make it as easy as possible.
Literally made 20 grand on 500 dollars. Stay salty.
Did you sell your ETH? If not, you made nothing.
This is a fallacy even banks fall for, and that's one of the cause of the subprime crisis.
If you did sell enough ETH and really made money, well played, and don't it lose back.