Of course the politicians love the finger pointing because both sides can continue to get away with bad behavior as the citizens anger will be focused on the other side rather than the newest example of bad behavior.
Or it leads to a general feeling of "the political establishment consists of criminals and traitors". That is where we are drifting in Germany, and we already have a new party called AfD ("Alternative fuer Deutschland" or "alternative for Germany". They are getting a percentage of votes in the range of 10-15 percent.
The AfD is a mix of hyper-conservatives and nationalists, a bit like the Tea Party in the USA if those had their own party in Congress.
You are assuming that "we" would be able to isolate China.
I think that "we" does not include Russia or India, who have far more modern military equipment than WW2 standard. If they were selling their equipment to China, Taiwan's hypothetical superiority would be much diminished.
But the owners of the legacy media had a lot more control of what got published or at least which direction the spin should have.
For instance, work contracts between the German newspaper publisher Axel Springer SE used to contain clauses that required solidarity with the USA and a commitment to Israel's right to live. Which is clearly a bias. Now I cannot really complain about the Israel part. Germany still has no moral right to bash Israel. Not after the Holocaust. But the "solidarity with USA" part shows that traditional media were not as impartial as they like to make us believe.
I think Tesla has been intentionally stretching their financial means to the limit to ramp product palette and production up as fast as they can. Go big or go home. Other companies have done that, and for Amazon it worked out.
But there are risks with that approach. If you fail to ramp up as planned, you might go bankrupt. Tesla had their delays, and I think they are near the breaking point. Not saying they are necessarily doomed, but the risk is serious at that point.
BTW, I don't hold any Tesla stock or options, so that's just an unbiased opinion. I don't hold any stakes here.
You (The USA that is) have already made a big experiment with "soft drugs": Alcohol prohibition. Did not work out so well.
Here in Germany, there is a very slow tendency towards decriminalization. We have a few supervised injection sites these days. In the last 10 years there is also the occasional call in politics for making Cannabis legal. Which I cannot remember from the years before, as the topic was pretty much taboo.
If (when) the FBI private key is compromised, you change it to protect all future messages. If you find someone without a second embedded message or the length doesn't match, you round them up and educate them on the error of their ways. If you later on investigate and discover a complete message mismatch, they're obviously evil and so you educate them again. Permanently.
A possible way this could go wrong: The Russians (who else;) get their hands on the FBI private key but manage to keep that a secret. Now they can decrypt just like the FBI does.
(Almost) everyone else thinks they are safe thanks to encryption which only the good guys can break. Russians read everything they can get their hands on, no matter if encrypted or not.
But it gets better: The Russians do now have both the public and the private key of the sender. If the same keys are used for digital signatures, they can now create fake messages with "proof" that it came from the sender. Come to think of it, the FBI could do the same => planting evidence made easy. Oh no, they would neeever do that...
If you mean the Snowden affair, that was (mostly) one guy with moral reservations. He may have had some outside help, but I think his motives were genuine.
The big mistake by the three letter agencies was to hire LOTS of consultants and assume none of them would have a motivation to go public. Having hundreds or even thousands of analysts makes it quite likely one of them talks.
A prime example of why I can do that is garbage collection. If you implement a linked list in Java or C++, as each node is created, it will have memory allocated for it from the heap. When you are done with the list, each node must then be freed. With a million nodes, that is a million memory allocations and a million frees.
Not necessarily. C#, for instance, does it smarter. Whenever your list is full, the next add will internally allocate memory in larger increments. Which has its own drawbacks, but it gets around the performance problem you described.
If you look at the cnet.com article the Slashdot article refers to, you will see a very good example. A square plug that sits on the wall socket at a 45 degree angle, relative to the vertical. And it does indeed block the neighbor socket.
Considering the "too many devices", there are many that have only a small wattage 50W and you could plug in lots of those without problems. Stupid designer, do not presume to know better than me.
German here. Our lawmakers tend to make laws, rules and procedures that promote abuse (or are abuse by themselves). For a really egregious example from the Nazi regime, check this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuremberg_Laws
Today things are not THAT bad, but recently there are tendencies toward a police state.
First, I doubt there would be the need for real-time processing. I've been examined by MRI before, and there is no adjusting the patient during the scan. You are told to hold as still as possible, then you are shoved into the MRI tube and the scan runs.
Translating and rendering the data can happen at a separate workstation with software from the maker of the MRI machine. All you need is a fixed data format and a compatible medium to transfer the files, with that you can get the data from the MRI to the workstation.
For instance, until 2014 I worked at a maker of medical devices whose customers still had some hardware designed in the 1990s. Which was running under DOS and manufactured until the late 2000s. Creating the treatment files (it was a laser device for eye treatments) was done in a Windows application on a separate PC, with a proprietary binary file format. Data were transferred by floppy disk to the laser.
Which became a problem by itself in the 2010s, because floppy makers went out of business. But enough of that, it gets too much off topic.
In this particular case (MRI machine) you only have to check once if there is useful driver support in Linux. The environment won't change. Multimedia is probably not an issue at all.
I guess after support for Windows 7 stops, you can block all known Microsoft addresses in your (preferably external) firewall. There will be nothing of value (the updates) lost at this point.
Or perhaps release a "dummy" Steam client that works offline for old games that are a few years old. That might still hit some people who bought a game on Steam recently, where the publisher still insists on keeping the DRM.
But for most single player games it should solve the problem. MMOs that are so old that they don't require Win7 or newer might have been shut down anyway.
I'm a bit curious about the whole sanctions punishment in the first place, it sounds like the charge of "selling US goods to Iran" is based on the fact that ZTE sold products containing US components, but does that mean the moment the US announces sanctions on a country they now extend downstream to everyone using US components?
The US seem to think so. At least, EU countries (at least Germany) are now worried about the US business of EU companies who are trading with Iran.
My reasoning certainly could be flawed. I actually expected China to make a move before this. I figured the Chinese would offer Trump a deal of North Korea for Taiwan. I still think China is confident that they can integrate Taiwan with little problem and enormous profit, while South Korea would be kept busy for decades trying to heal and integrate North Korea. The lack of official peace in Korea has been mostly harmless, but the establishment of an independent Taiwan would really piss them off.
Interesting. If the Chinese could pull off such a deal, it would be quite brilliant. Getting rid of the embarrassment of Kim, while getting Taiwan which they always wanted.
There are a few caveats though:
-It would require Trump to betray Taiwan big time. Possible, but even Trump might think twice about that. Breaking agreements with an opponent (Iran) is one thing. Throwing a long term ally under the bus is another.
-It presumes that Kim does not panic and attack everything in range. That is, with nukes and the artillery North Korea has still aimed at south Korea. Some of that can reach downtown Seoul.
-Integrating Taiwan might take decades. But I think China is capable of taking the long view on that, they strike me as thinking longer-term than western politicians.
One possible way that Trump could help ZTE is if they made their phones with American chipsets.
Ahem. The whole source of LTE's problems is that they made their phones with US components they cannot get anymore, due to an embargo that was specifically issued against LTE. The reason is violations by LTE against the Iran embargo, the embargo against LTE is meant to be a punishment for that.
Now Trump could certainly revoke that embargo, but it would make him look weak. Something politicians really don't like.
Correct, VAR management is yet another thing, dealing with the phase of the electrical current in an AC system shifted relative to the voltage. This has to be compensated somehow, inverters are one of the possible approaches: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Volt-ampere_reactive#Practical_significance_of_reactive_power. We are talking about a periodic compensation that happens 50 times per second in a 50Hz net.
This article is about power reserve, which is about compensating fluctuations in the power demand on the net. We are talking about time frames anywhere from milliseconds to hours here. As others have posted, conventional power plants tend to be a little slow there and reacting to changes in power demand may take minutes or even longer. This is where Tesla's battery shines, it is much faster in changing its power in- and output.
Solar/wind output changing over the time of day can be viewed as a slow fluctuation, and while conventional power reserve is fast enough to handle it, the changing Solar/wind output increasingly threatens to overwhelm it in terms of magnitude. Hence the 2012 requirement, with simple curtailment to a fixed output for small solar plants and larger plants being drawn on for actual FCAS purposes.
In Germany, in 2012 the law was changed to require certain mechanisms for load smoothing in solar generation. Medium to large solar plants have to provide a "remote control" for the grid operator to reduce their output in case of excess generation.
Small solar plants may use a fixed maximum output of 70% of installed capacity instead. That cuts the generation peaks at noon when solar output is highest, and also helps to avoid excess generation.
I'm not sure how you think our policy should be different? Just let them do whatever they want and hope they never set their sites on us or our allies again? Because what you are writing pretty states that they have every reason to hate us so we would be fools not to be watching and trying to mitigate how much damage they can do.
For starters, stop making enemies when there is no reason to do so. The best example is the Iraq war of 2003, whose justification was based mostly on lies and propaganda. And the collateral damage among the population was probably worse than living under Saddam. The people of Iraq have a good reason now to hate the US.
Also, be a bit more careful in picking your allies. Just an example: Supporting the mujahideen in Afghanistan in the 1980s might have looked like a good idea back then, because it hurt the Soviets. But it was partly responsible for creating the Taliban. Who have been nothing but trouble since.
Well, there is AMD which appears quite competitive again.
If you are buying stuff like an i7-3930K CPU @ 3.20GHz Ã-- 12, I'd guess you are probably among those enthusiasts who are following the news and read stuff like the AMD Ryzen reviews. So you should know they have a pretty competitive processor again. Considering the Meltdown/Spectre debacle, AMD are not completely untouched but still looking better than Intel right now.
Performance wise and to my surprise, the Intel Core i7 7820X (Skylake X 8-core + Hyperthreading) is indeed not that much faster than the i7-3930K, according to what comparisons I can find on the net. If your workloads are massively multithreaded, the AMD Threadripper might be worth a look...
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Of course the politicians love the finger pointing because both sides can continue to get away with bad behavior as the citizens anger will be focused on the other side rather than the newest example of bad behavior.
Or it leads to a general feeling of "the political establishment consists of criminals and traitors". That is where we are drifting in Germany, and we already have a new party called AfD ("Alternative fuer Deutschland" or "alternative for Germany". They are getting a percentage of votes in the range of 10-15 percent.
The AfD is a mix of hyper-conservatives and nationalists, a bit like the Tea Party in the USA if those had their own party in Congress.
You are assuming that "we" would be able to isolate China.
I think that "we" does not include Russia or India, who have far more modern military equipment than WW2 standard. If they were selling their equipment to China, Taiwan's hypothetical superiority would be much diminished.
But the owners of the legacy media had a lot more control of what got published or at least which direction the spin should have.
For instance, work contracts between the German newspaper publisher Axel Springer SE used to contain clauses that required solidarity with the USA and a commitment to Israel's right to live. Which is clearly a bias.
Now I cannot really complain about the Israel part. Germany still has no moral right to bash Israel. Not after the Holocaust. But the "solidarity with USA" part shows that traditional media were not as impartial as they like to make us believe.
I think Tesla has been intentionally stretching their financial means to the limit to ramp product palette and production up as fast as they can. Go big or go home.
Other companies have done that, and for Amazon it worked out.
But there are risks with that approach. If you fail to ramp up as planned, you might go bankrupt. Tesla had their delays, and I think they are near the breaking point. Not saying they are necessarily doomed, but the risk is serious at that point.
BTW, I don't hold any Tesla stock or options, so that's just an unbiased opinion. I don't hold any stakes here.
You (The USA that is) have already made a big experiment with "soft drugs":
Alcohol prohibition. Did not work out so well.
Here in Germany, there is a very slow tendency towards decriminalization. We have a few supervised injection sites these days.
In the last 10 years there is also the occasional call in politics for making Cannabis legal. Which I cannot remember from the years before, as the topic was pretty much taboo.
If (when) the FBI private key is compromised, you change it to protect all future messages. If you find someone without a second embedded message or the length doesn't match, you round them up and educate them on the error of their ways. If you later on investigate and discover a complete message mismatch, they're obviously evil and so you educate them again. Permanently.
A possible way this could go wrong: ;) get their hands on the FBI private key but manage to keep that a secret. Now they can decrypt just like the FBI does.
The Russians (who else
(Almost) everyone else thinks they are safe thanks to encryption which only the good guys can break. Russians read everything they can get their hands on, no matter if encrypted or not.
But it gets better:
The Russians do now have both the public and the private key of the sender. If the same keys are used for digital signatures, they can now create fake messages with "proof" that it came from the sender.
Come to think of it, the FBI could do the same => planting evidence made easy. Oh no, they would neeever do that...
If you mean the Snowden affair, that was (mostly) one guy with moral reservations. He may have had some outside help, but I think his motives were genuine.
The big mistake by the three letter agencies was to hire LOTS of consultants and assume none of them would have a motivation to go public. Having hundreds or even thousands of analysts makes it quite likely one of them talks.
About your prime example:
A prime example of why I can do that is garbage collection. If you implement a linked list in Java or C++, as each node is created, it will have memory allocated for it from the heap. When you are done with the list, each node must then be freed. With a million nodes, that is a million memory allocations and a million frees.
Not necessarily.
C#, for instance, does it smarter. Whenever your list is full, the next add will internally allocate memory in larger increments. Which has its own drawbacks, but it gets around the performance problem you described.
Stupid Slashdot removed the "less than" sign from my post. It should read "less than 50W"
If you look at the cnet.com article the Slashdot article refers to, you will see a very good example. A square plug that sits on the wall socket at a 45 degree angle, relative to the vertical. And it does indeed block the neighbor socket.
Considering the "too many devices", there are many that have only a small wattage 50W and you could plug in lots of those without problems. Stupid designer, do not presume to know better than me.
German here. Our lawmakers tend to make laws, rules and procedures that promote abuse (or are abuse by themselves). For a really egregious example from the Nazi regime, check this:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuremberg_Laws
Today things are not THAT bad, but recently there are tendencies toward a police state.
First, I doubt there would be the need for real-time processing. I've been examined by MRI before, and there is no adjusting the patient during the scan. You are told to hold as still as possible, then you are shoved into the MRI tube and the scan runs.
Translating and rendering the data can happen at a separate workstation with software from the maker of the MRI machine. All you need is a fixed data format and a compatible medium to transfer the files, with that you can get the data from the MRI to the workstation.
For instance, until 2014 I worked at a maker of medical devices whose customers still had some hardware designed in the 1990s. Which was running under DOS and manufactured until the late 2000s.
Creating the treatment files (it was a laser device for eye treatments) was done in a Windows application on a separate PC, with a proprietary binary file format. Data were transferred by floppy disk to the laser.
Which became a problem by itself in the 2010s, because floppy makers went out of business. But enough of that, it gets too much off topic.
In this particular case (MRI machine) you only have to check once if there is useful driver support in Linux. The environment won't change. Multimedia is probably not an issue at all.
I guess after support for Windows 7 stops, you can block all known Microsoft addresses in your (preferably external) firewall. There will be nothing of value (the updates) lost at this point.
They also failed to update their minimum requirements. On https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/10737/windows-7-system-requirements, there is no reference to SSE2 or SIMD at all.
Or perhaps release a "dummy" Steam client that works offline for old games that are a few years old. That might still hit some people who bought a game on Steam recently, where the publisher still insists on keeping the DRM.
But for most single player games it should solve the problem. MMOs that are so old that they don't require Win7 or newer might have been shut down anyway.
I'm a bit curious about the whole sanctions punishment in the first place, it sounds like the charge of "selling US goods to Iran" is based on the fact that ZTE sold products containing US components, but does that mean the moment the US announces sanctions on a country they now extend downstream to everyone using US components?
The US seem to think so. At least, EU countries (at least Germany) are now worried about the US business of EU companies who are trading with Iran.
My reasoning certainly could be flawed. I actually expected China to make a move before this. I figured the Chinese would offer Trump a deal of North Korea for Taiwan. I still think China is confident that they can integrate Taiwan with little problem and enormous profit, while South Korea would be kept busy for decades trying to heal and integrate North Korea. The lack of official peace in Korea has been mostly harmless, but the establishment of an independent Taiwan would really piss them off.
Interesting. If the Chinese could pull off such a deal, it would be quite brilliant. Getting rid of the embarrassment of Kim, while getting Taiwan which they always wanted.
There are a few caveats though:
-It would require Trump to betray Taiwan big time. Possible, but even Trump might think twice about that. Breaking agreements with an opponent (Iran) is one thing. Throwing a long term ally under the bus is another.
-It presumes that Kim does not panic and attack everything in range. That is, with nukes and the artillery North Korea has still aimed at south Korea. Some of that can reach downtown Seoul.
-Integrating Taiwan might take decades. But I think China is capable of taking the long view on that, they strike me as thinking longer-term than western politicians.
One possible way that Trump could help ZTE is if they made their phones with American chipsets.
Ahem. The whole source of LTE's problems is that they made their phones with US components they cannot get anymore, due to an embargo that was specifically issued against LTE. The reason is violations by LTE against the Iran embargo, the embargo against LTE is meant to be a punishment for that.
Now Trump could certainly revoke that embargo, but it would make him look weak. Something politicians really don't like.
Correct, VAR management is yet another thing, dealing with the phase of the electrical current in an AC system shifted relative to the voltage. This has to be compensated somehow, inverters are one of the possible approaches: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Volt-ampere_reactive#Practical_significance_of_reactive_power. We are talking about a periodic compensation that happens 50 times per second in a 50Hz net.
This article is about power reserve, which is about compensating fluctuations in the power demand on the net. We are talking about time frames anywhere from milliseconds to hours here. As others have posted, conventional power plants tend to be a little slow there and reacting to changes in power demand may take minutes or even longer. This is where Tesla's battery shines, it is much faster in changing its power in- and output.
Solar/wind output changing over the time of day can be viewed as a slow fluctuation, and while conventional power reserve is fast enough to handle it, the changing Solar/wind output increasingly threatens to overwhelm it in terms of magnitude. Hence the 2012 requirement, with simple curtailment to a fixed output for small solar plants and larger plants being drawn on for actual FCAS purposes.
In Germany, in 2012 the law was changed to require certain mechanisms for load smoothing in solar generation. Medium to large solar plants have to provide a "remote control" for the grid operator to reduce their output in case of excess generation.
Small solar plants may use a fixed maximum output of 70% of installed capacity instead. That cuts the generation peaks at noon when solar output is highest, and also helps to avoid excess generation.
Try the Culture series by Iain Banks. Much more intelligent, and AI plays a greater role :)
Warning: political rant ahead
I'm not sure how you think our policy should be different? Just let them do whatever they want and hope they never set their sites on us or our allies again? Because what you are writing pretty states that they have every reason to hate us so we would be fools not to be watching and trying to mitigate how much damage they can do.
For starters, stop making enemies when there is no reason to do so. The best example is the Iraq war of 2003, whose justification was based mostly on lies and propaganda. And the collateral damage among the population was probably worse than living under Saddam. The people of Iraq have a good reason now to hate the US.
Also, be a bit more careful in picking your allies. Just an example:
Supporting the mujahideen in Afghanistan in the 1980s might have looked like a good idea back then, because it hurt the Soviets. But it was partly responsible for creating the Taliban. Who have been nothing but trouble since.
Well, there is AMD which appears quite competitive again.
If you are buying stuff like an i7-3930K CPU @ 3.20GHz Ã-- 12, I'd guess you are probably among those enthusiasts who are following the news and read stuff like the AMD Ryzen reviews. So you should know they have a pretty competitive processor again.
Considering the Meltdown/Spectre debacle, AMD are not completely untouched but still looking better than Intel right now.
Performance wise and to my surprise, the Intel Core i7 7820X (Skylake X 8-core + Hyperthreading) is indeed not that much faster than the i7-3930K, according to what comparisons I can find on the net.
If your workloads are massively multithreaded, the AMD Threadripper might be worth a look...
Russians hiring shady US promotion agency in 3..2...1...