Anyone with an actual degree in engineering is calling bullshit.
There's nothing magical about AC-DC conversion, and NEWS FLASH, it's much more efficient to transmit AC over long distances than DC. That's HALF THE REASON we use AC. The other half is that it's extremely easy to convert to other forms of AC and DC.
This guy is a moron. You want more efficient power? Go Nuke and enjoy ZERO CO2 EMISSIONS you tree hugging hippy. At that point, you know what happens when you "lose energy from steam turbines"? Nothing. Not a damn thing. The world is exactly the same, except for some resistance heating. Now, efficiency becomes a purely cost measure and isn't connected to pollution at all.
A bunch of people here are all saying "vendors don't give a crap.", but I got a nag screen for a security update a few days ago on my Samsung S5, and if that addresses this issue, then they fixed it before I even knew there was a problem.
That's why I think there should be legal and social consequences for data breaches. The public treats IT like it is magic... a black art (as opposed to science), dangerous/volatile, and expected to blow up in your face once-in-awhile. Nobody treats bridges that way--everyone understands you can't cut safety out of a budget for a bridge and that you have to take precautions.
Businesses don't treat IT failures like they do an oil spill, but they should. It's a spill of information, and information is extremely valuable.
Kerberos predates Windows using it (invented at MIT and published publicly in the late 80's), and is supported on Linux systems. This was also a Windows admin, not a Linux one, so your straw man argument is moot.
If you're an admin and you don't understand basic windows domain structure, and internet packet routing, I am fully confident in judging you. If you can't do those two things, what are you employed for? Installing Outlook by pressing the "Next" button?
We have absolutely every idea of how to secure IT systems. Nobody wants to freaking listen.
I know of a college's root password stored in plain text file on a PUBLICLY accessible url so "new computers can install ghost copies quicker." I know of companies actually using "password" for their password. I know companies that deny access to copy-and-paste on remote desktop, refuse to use e-mail because it's insecure, but are fine with me using a domain administrator account to do my work.
The reason businesses don't care about security is two reasons. 1) They're not afraid and people and the laws should make them afraid so it becomes cost-effective to care. 2) The IT field is full of bullshitters so even when people do hire IT, they assume the guy they hire understands security. When most companies only need one IT guy, they have no experienced guy on hand to tell them if the guy if full of crap. I'm a software developer and I had to teach one admin how Kerberos authentication works and how to resolve issues with it, and another thought that intranet ip addresses were somehow accessible from the web.
However, with the IoT, the situation is mark darker. The IoT is a movement. If it cannot get good market penetration fast, it dies out. So people know that IoT is inherently dangerous but they don't have the time and resources to make them secure and solve those problems so they bank on, and hope for, that nobody ever notices so they can sell enough of their products to keep the market going. People buy features, but security only matters if someone finds out.
The IoT is the NSA's wet dream. Why spy on Americans when you can willingly get them to sign a EULA that lets their Smart TV keep the microphone on 24/7? (This has already happened.) And worse still, if the NSA can do it, so can any government. And people are so stupid they're willingly giving up their privacy just so they can "keep up with the tech Joneses" for a gadget that doesn't even improve their lives in any significant way.
This is common in most business because most businesses are run by morons.
I like to call it "Leading By Conjecture."
Businesses measure a few things (namely money) and then make the insane mistake of thinking that just because they measure something they have all of the variables required for their desired output. They change the variables they have measured (almost always relating to reducing spending and hours) and they assume their total costs will go down. They assume things like employee moral, employee comfort, and amount of bureaucracy are unimportant... well, assume is the wrong word because most of them never consider those things to begin with, and the others dismiss it as pessimism.
Many companies are the equivalent of MRAPs. Big, powerful tanks that are prone to overloading bridges, or tipping over like a toy, because nobody bothered to think about all the variables... they were trying to solve one problem in isolation, "stop IEDs."
I tried DDoSing 127.0.0.1 but those hackers are so smart they immediately hit me back and my computer came to a crawl. To have power like they, they must be a nation state, probably China, Russia, or Iran.
It took all of 5 seconds to load the page and read that:
The game is set in a futuristic world where decades of poaching has knocked Earth’s ecosystem off-kilter and left the planet a barren dessert. The last hope for restoration involves sending a cyborg back in time to hunt the poachers.
Your stopping poachers to save humanity.
And if you can use backstory to allow people kill thousands of demons, zombies, sentient robots, nazis and communists; why the hell are poachers any different? What makes the games you played so magically okay? Did you blow up Megaton in Fallout 3? Because then by your own logic you're now just encouraged nuclear terrorism.
Get off your damn high horses and realize it's not 1995, you're not Jack Thompson, and video games don't encourage people to kill people.
> I personally are fine with them, but I would like to clearly know when specific optimizations are in use, and can turn them off when needed.
That's the entire point. AMD is changing things without your knowledge and not publicly letting you use them for other programs. Imagine writing software and you discover that the filename of the game you're working on changes the performance AND introduces graphics glitches. Somehow the debug copy goes twice as fast. That's sketchy as hell for someone trying to write software.
You mean like how in nVidia's control panel (and surely AMD has one) I already have per-application graphics settings for things like anti-aliasing, and negative LOD bias? Surely, if this was "laziness" they could have just used that existing infrastructure?
I forgot to mention this quote from the UN resolution:
Article 19 states that "Everyone has the right to freedom of opinion and expression; this right includes freedom to hold opinions without interference and to seek, receive and impart information and ideas through any media and regardless of frontiers."
You're actually correct... contrary to the hivemind. The US constitution protects the Freedom of Speech from government interference. It didn't create the idea, it protects it.
Likewise, in most societies, Freedom of Speech is a cultural law. It's assumed. "I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it" was from Evelyn Beatrice Hall in 1906. Going all the way back, Athens, had the Freedom of Speech in the 5th century B.C.. The Romans also had Freedom of Speech. It's also apart of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (1948) and binding on all UN member states.
Just because the USA government's constitution only protects the Freedom of Speech from itself, doesn't mean it's not fucking important, worth fighting for, or a real thing outside of the government interactions.
Moreover, Freedom of Speech does move into the private sector in certain situations. Such as the landmark Pruneyard Shopping Center v. Robins case of 1980. In California, per their additional state constitutional wording, you can exercise your right to free speech in private shopping centers as long as you are peaceful. Many states have similar wording but have not followed as they are worried about the implications. But the point remains, the idea that "Freedom of Speech" means nothing except with regard to the USA federal government is a stupid lie.
There's a really funny flaw in your argument. Who is preventing people from creating their own websites? Why don't you ask the SJW's who keep DDoSing Voat. (That's a felony for those of you playing the home game!) I think we're at, or passed 5 separate DDoS attacks so far.
And what if I'm one of those users who needs that "lesser used" button every day, and multiple times an hour?
I'm supposed to reduce my productivity because non-power users are afraid of buttons? You say they increased the screen area, but how much of that area actually exists when it's fullscreened on a 1080p screen? 3% improvement? In exchange for even more context-switching and modal dialogs?
I've been TV free for years. (I still watch commercial free content like Netflix or optical media.) Any time I so much as step near a running television, with their commercials, over ads, under ads, side ads, pop up ads, voice over ads, and go fuck yourself ads, I wince. I cannot physically stand it. It literally causes stress in my body to build up... knowing that there's a barrage of a new commercials around the corner and at every cliff-hanger moment in the plot. A slew of brand new conversations with brand new people trying to tell me I'm not good enough and they have the only cure EVERY 15 OR 30 SECONDS. The human brain doesn't work like that. Just because society has chosen what "seconds" are, and how long a commercial slot should run, has no bearing on what my brain's evolved genetics is expecting or capable of bearing for long periods of time.
What about this system detecting I have a bug and then replacing my secure, working software module with a new unknown exploit? Or even a known exploit ala Nation-State?
That's entirely possible. Windows 8/8.1 absolutely spends more priority on hiding hardware latency than my Windows 7 station, or my Ubuntu station.
If you run it on a slow laptop, the OS is ten times more responsive than a program on the same OS, like Chrome. You can be spending 100% CPU and Disk usage on a task, ALT-TAB, and it'll show you some sort of JPEG compressed cache of what the program used to look like before the program finished responding to the PAINT event. (To often hilarious results when the delay is in the order of seconds.) They implemented lots of priority across all aspects of the kernel, be it disk, network, or memory I/O.
I absolutely hate the broken UI (half the "metro" B.S. equivalents wouldn't be so bad if they didn't remove dozens of useful buttons.), but Windows 8/8.1/10 is definitely becoming more efficient, and stressing user experience in regards to perceived latency.
While on a practical sense you may be right, the idea that they'll have the same velocity is completely false.
That's like saying detonating TNT in front of a semi-truck on the highway means it'll fly the same speed in another direction. Or that it'll move in the same direction it once was. Or if you detonated TNT in the water near a ship, it'd still go the exact same direction.
Where a near-earth object goes after being hit by, or being nearby, a large explosion is entirely dependent on the position and composition of the objects. But one thing that will absolutely not happen is them magically going the same direction they were.
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Anyone with an actual degree in engineering is calling bullshit.
There's nothing magical about AC-DC conversion, and NEWS FLASH, it's much more efficient to transmit AC over long distances than DC. That's HALF THE REASON we use AC. The other half is that it's extremely easy to convert to other forms of AC and DC.
This guy is a moron. You want more efficient power? Go Nuke and enjoy ZERO CO2 EMISSIONS you tree hugging hippy. At that point, you know what happens when you "lose energy from steam turbines"? Nothing. Not a damn thing. The world is exactly the same, except for some resistance heating. Now, efficiency becomes a purely cost measure and isn't connected to pollution at all.
But that's too much of a leap for this moron.
A bunch of people here are all saying "vendors don't give a crap.", but I got a nag screen for a security update a few days ago on my Samsung S5, and if that addresses this issue, then they fixed it before I even knew there was a problem.
Who will I complain is evil and destroying the world, if they start doing things that aren't evil?
Thanks for the supporting experience.
That's why I think there should be legal and social consequences for data breaches. The public treats IT like it is magic... a black art (as opposed to science), dangerous/volatile, and expected to blow up in your face once-in-awhile. Nobody treats bridges that way--everyone understands you can't cut safety out of a budget for a bridge and that you have to take precautions.
Businesses don't treat IT failures like they do an oil spill, but they should. It's a spill of information, and information is extremely valuable.
Kerberos predates Windows using it (invented at MIT and published publicly in the late 80's), and is supported on Linux systems. This was also a Windows admin, not a Linux one, so your straw man argument is moot. If you're an admin and you don't understand basic windows domain structure, and internet packet routing, I am fully confident in judging you. If you can't do those two things, what are you employed for? Installing Outlook by pressing the "Next" button?
I've been using it for so long I didn't realize it was a special feature in Chrome.
We have absolutely every idea of how to secure IT systems. Nobody wants to freaking listen.
I know of a college's root password stored in plain text file on a PUBLICLY accessible url so "new computers can install ghost copies quicker." I know of companies actually using "password" for their password. I know companies that deny access to copy-and-paste on remote desktop, refuse to use e-mail because it's insecure, but are fine with me using a domain administrator account to do my work.
The reason businesses don't care about security is two reasons. 1) They're not afraid and people and the laws should make them afraid so it becomes cost-effective to care. 2) The IT field is full of bullshitters so even when people do hire IT, they assume the guy they hire understands security. When most companies only need one IT guy, they have no experienced guy on hand to tell them if the guy if full of crap. I'm a software developer and I had to teach one admin how Kerberos authentication works and how to resolve issues with it, and another thought that intranet ip addresses were somehow accessible from the web.
However, with the IoT, the situation is mark darker. The IoT is a movement. If it cannot get good market penetration fast, it dies out. So people know that IoT is inherently dangerous but they don't have the time and resources to make them secure and solve those problems so they bank on, and hope for, that nobody ever notices so they can sell enough of their products to keep the market going. People buy features, but security only matters if someone finds out.
The IoT is the NSA's wet dream. Why spy on Americans when you can willingly get them to sign a EULA that lets their Smart TV keep the microphone on 24/7? (This has already happened.) And worse still, if the NSA can do it, so can any government. And people are so stupid they're willingly giving up their privacy just so they can "keep up with the tech Joneses" for a gadget that doesn't even improve their lives in any significant way.
This is common in most business because most businesses are run by morons.
I like to call it "Leading By Conjecture."
Businesses measure a few things (namely money) and then make the insane mistake of thinking that just because they measure something they have all of the variables required for their desired output. They change the variables they have measured (almost always relating to reducing spending and hours) and they assume their total costs will go down. They assume things like employee moral, employee comfort, and amount of bureaucracy are unimportant... well, assume is the wrong word because most of them never consider those things to begin with, and the others dismiss it as pessimism.
Many companies are the equivalent of MRAPs. Big, powerful tanks that are prone to overloading bridges, or tipping over like a toy, because nobody bothered to think about all the variables... they were trying to solve one problem in isolation, "stop IEDs."
I tried DDoSing 127.0.0.1 but those hackers are so smart they immediately hit me back and my computer came to a crawl. To have power like they, they must be a nation state, probably China, Russia, or Iran.
Also, Slashdot editor? You're a sensationalizing prick.
It took all of 5 seconds to load the page and read that:
The game is set in a futuristic world where decades of poaching has knocked Earth’s ecosystem off-kilter and left the planet a barren dessert. The last hope for restoration involves sending a cyborg back in time to hunt the poachers.
Your stopping poachers to save humanity.
And if you can use backstory to allow people kill thousands of demons, zombies, sentient robots, nazis and communists; why the hell are poachers any different? What makes the games you played so magically okay? Did you blow up Megaton in Fallout 3? Because then by your own logic you're now just encouraged nuclear terrorism.
Get off your damn high horses and realize it's not 1995, you're not Jack Thompson, and video games don't encourage people to kill people.
> I personally are fine with them, but I would like to clearly know when specific optimizations are in use, and can turn them off when needed.
That's the entire point. AMD is changing things without your knowledge and not publicly letting you use them for other programs. Imagine writing software and you discover that the filename of the game you're working on changes the performance AND introduces graphics glitches. Somehow the debug copy goes twice as fast. That's sketchy as hell for someone trying to write software.
You mean like how in nVidia's control panel (and surely AMD has one) I already have per-application graphics settings for things like anti-aliasing, and negative LOD bias? Surely, if this was "laziness" they could have just used that existing infrastructure?
Article 19 states that "Everyone has the right to freedom of opinion and expression; this right includes freedom to hold opinions without interference and to seek, receive and impart information and ideas through any media and regardless of frontiers."
You're actually correct... contrary to the hivemind. The US constitution protects the Freedom of Speech from government interference. It didn't create the idea, it protects it.
Likewise, in most societies, Freedom of Speech is a cultural law. It's assumed. "I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it" was from Evelyn Beatrice Hall in 1906. Going all the way back, Athens, had the Freedom of Speech in the 5th century B.C.. The Romans also had Freedom of Speech. It's also apart of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (1948) and binding on all UN member states.
Just because the USA government's constitution only protects the Freedom of Speech from itself, doesn't mean it's not fucking important, worth fighting for, or a real thing outside of the government interactions.
Moreover, Freedom of Speech does move into the private sector in certain situations. Such as the landmark Pruneyard Shopping Center v. Robins case of 1980. In California, per their additional state constitutional wording, you can exercise your right to free speech in private shopping centers as long as you are peaceful. Many states have similar wording but have not followed as they are worried about the implications. But the point remains, the idea that "Freedom of Speech" means nothing except with regard to the USA federal government is a stupid lie.
There's a really funny flaw in your argument. Who is preventing people from creating their own websites? Why don't you ask the SJW's who keep DDoSing Voat. (That's a felony for those of you playing the home game!) I think we're at, or passed 5 separate DDoS attacks so far.
And what if I'm one of those users who needs that "lesser used" button every day, and multiple times an hour?
I'm supposed to reduce my productivity because non-power users are afraid of buttons? You say they increased the screen area, but how much of that area actually exists when it's fullscreened on a 1080p screen? 3% improvement? In exchange for even more context-switching and modal dialogs?
I've been TV free for years. (I still watch commercial free content like Netflix or optical media.) Any time I so much as step near a running television, with their commercials, over ads, under ads, side ads, pop up ads, voice over ads, and go fuck yourself ads, I wince. I cannot physically stand it. It literally causes stress in my body to build up... knowing that there's a barrage of a new commercials around the corner and at every cliff-hanger moment in the plot. A slew of brand new conversations with brand new people trying to tell me I'm not good enough and they have the only cure EVERY 15 OR 30 SECONDS. The human brain doesn't work like that. Just because society has chosen what "seconds" are, and how long a commercial slot should run, has no bearing on what my brain's evolved genetics is expecting or capable of bearing for long periods of time.
What about this system detecting I have a bug and then replacing my secure, working software module with a new unknown exploit? Or even a known exploit ala Nation-State?
See Moral Panic.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
That's entirely possible. Windows 8/8.1 absolutely spends more priority on hiding hardware latency than my Windows 7 station, or my Ubuntu station.
If you run it on a slow laptop, the OS is ten times more responsive than a program on the same OS, like Chrome. You can be spending 100% CPU and Disk usage on a task, ALT-TAB, and it'll show you some sort of JPEG compressed cache of what the program used to look like before the program finished responding to the PAINT event. (To often hilarious results when the delay is in the order of seconds.) They implemented lots of priority across all aspects of the kernel, be it disk, network, or memory I/O.
I absolutely hate the broken UI (half the "metro" B.S. equivalents wouldn't be so bad if they didn't remove dozens of useful buttons.), but Windows 8/8.1/10 is definitely becoming more efficient, and stressing user experience in regards to perceived latency.
DMCA the fuck out of them.
I love that the only person here who actually has kids and isn't talking out of their butt is only up modded to +3.
On the other hand, you're sole contribution to a company being "random changes to the UI" apparently gets you a job at DICE!
While on a practical sense you may be right, the idea that they'll have the same velocity is completely false.
That's like saying detonating TNT in front of a semi-truck on the highway means it'll fly the same speed in another direction. Or that it'll move in the same direction it once was. Or if you detonated TNT in the water near a ship, it'd still go the exact same direction.
Where a near-earth object goes after being hit by, or being nearby, a large explosion is entirely dependent on the position and composition of the objects. But one thing that will absolutely not happen is them magically going the same direction they were.