If he's smart enough to win two of these things, his time is almost certainly better spent doing something other than dealing with competitions that only pay $100K for winning. Like playing chess with the WOPR.
The theory of it works, kinda-sorta, but only for objects for which you know all of the characteristics, and environments where everyone and everything that's vulnerable to backscatter is protected. Space-junk and satellites are basically randomized, especially when they're in a state where you have to use a ground-based laser to try to nudge them into more-quickly-deteriorating orbits.
They might as well flash this thing at a disco ball and tell everyone to get a good look.
In fact, what I'm really saying is, there's really no safe way to use this thing on a random piece of space junk. Far too great a chance of half of its energy being reflected back into the face of one of the millions of people oooing and ahhhhing on the ground when it's fired into the sky.
Now that's an interesting wrinkle. How does this scheme really interact with multiple processors and hyperthreading? If I have a 4-core, 2-hyperthread system (8 total effective schedulable CPU resources), and I have 3 processes running in 3 sessions then start 16 processes in another single session, all at the same priority, how are those processes scattered across my 16 hyperthreads when all of them get semaphored to wake up?
I'm starting to think more that this fix, while not deleterious to any previous system dynamics (other than taking a few extra instructions in each scheduler call), isn't going to change how most people see their machines running. It's more like a solution to a small set of problems. Kind of like how MS Word apps will scroll faster when you're selecting text if you drag the cursor off the bottom of the window and waggle it back and forth. Not sure how that works, but it's got to be something about the mouse interrupts kicking something loose in MS's botched UI. I bet it polls for input to see if you want something other than more scrolling, but if you move the mouse it doesn't have to poll. Some stupid shit like that.
That's an application-design problem, not an OS problem. Tell your browser to increase the number of sockets it is allowed to open. The inet stack will take care of queueing them for you. The browser may or may not put them in separate threads to be dealt with on separate cores.
the phrase "If you have nothing to hide, you have nothing to fear" comes naturally from "Most people who use it do so to commit crimes, from trolling to murder".
If only Bubba could have been president Anonymously...
As for revolutions, bring more martyrs. It generally takes thousands acting in concert. If the black-hats aren't afraid to die for their drugs, the people need to step up with the risk-taking to get them put down.
You're about as free as a wage-slave in a plutocracy can be. But you're so busy worrying about civil rights that don't exist, and trying to stop government calamities that won't ever exist, you don't even notice that you're shovelling the value of your life's work into the Koch Bros' pockets leaving yourself to be homeless when you outlive your retirement savings.
You appear to believe that not telling the government how to do its job properly is a good idea.
If you make bad things illegal, even if the federales do them, and you enforce that, even if the federales are the defendant, then you end up with rule of law.
Make it explicit that there are illegal uses of the identification system, then the identification system will be safer than not having one.
We do a similar thing here all the time with Free Speech. You have a right to it, and you can use it rather blithely, even though it's possible for the government to abuse you for it. But if it tries, you'll scream for an ACLU lawyer and kick their ass.
No reason that Free Speech can't be substituted with ID Abuse in that paragraph.
Pretty sure the Mayans weren't referring to a child-identification system when they said "...and then the world will end".
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You have to multiply the vulnerability by the number of bad-actors attempting to exploit it to determine how vulnerable it makes you.
So, more Windows computers browsing the web (by a factor of like a billion, man) means more black-hats will target Windows computers. Makes Linux computers comparatively safer from that sort of annoyance.
Not that I care. I use both and deal with what comes out of either. They both find ways to annoy several times a month, they just have different excuses ("oh i have to support billions of users!", "oh i have to be developed by random unpaid wannabes"). Makes one want to use smartphones for everything, but that has its foibles ("oh i have a tiny little screen and nobody designs webpages that tall and narrow").
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It's a signed 5-bit int, but they're only taking the positive values.
Let's slashdot it!
If he's smart enough to win two of these things, his time is almost certainly better spent doing something other than dealing with competitions that only pay $100K for winning. Like playing chess with the WOPR.
Are we looking at a serial competition-enterer?
Reminds me of the holder of the Guinness World Record for attention-whoring, Ashrita Furman.
No, he just said video games aren't art, and he's right, and the video game industry agrees with him.
They may include things that are artistic, but they aren't art.
Although, having played a little with the Katamari Damacy plugin, the field may be changing.
Super-slow. Must not be any nuclear reactors threatening to explode anywhere on the planet.
The theory of it works, kinda-sorta, but only for objects for which you know all of the characteristics, and environments where everyone and everything that's vulnerable to backscatter is protected. Space-junk and satellites are basically randomized, especially when they're in a state where you have to use a ground-based laser to try to nudge them into more-quickly-deteriorating orbits.
They might as well flash this thing at a disco ball and tell everyone to get a good look.
I'm using the word "ability" ironically.
In fact, what I'm really saying is, there's really no safe way to use this thing on a random piece of space junk. Far too great a chance of half of its energy being reflected back into the face of one of the millions of people oooing and ahhhhing on the ground when it's fired into the sky.
Now that's an interesting wrinkle. How does this scheme really interact with multiple processors and hyperthreading? If I have a 4-core, 2-hyperthread system (8 total effective schedulable CPU resources), and I have 3 processes running in 3 sessions then start 16 processes in another single session, all at the same priority, how are those processes scattered across my 16 hyperthreads when all of them get semaphored to wake up?
I'm starting to think more that this fix, while not deleterious to any previous system dynamics (other than taking a few extra instructions in each scheduler call), isn't going to change how most people see their machines running. It's more like a solution to a small set of problems. Kind of like how MS Word apps will scroll faster when you're selecting text if you drag the cursor off the bottom of the window and waggle it back and forth. Not sure how that works, but it's got to be something about the mouse interrupts kicking something loose in MS's botched UI. I bet it polls for input to see if you want something other than more scrolling, but if you move the mouse it doesn't have to poll. Some stupid shit like that.
That's why it's so fast.
That's an application-design problem, not an OS problem. Tell your browser to increase the number of sockets it is allowed to open. The inet stack will take care of queueing them for you. The browser may or may not put them in separate threads to be dealt with on separate cores.
Flash? Feh. Barely keeps one core at 50% with hyperthreading turned on.
Don't kid yourself. Every old person will be replaced by someone who does more work for less gruel.
Ability to blind populations on the ground in peacetime.
This laser would have to be powerful.
Satellites are irregularly-shaped and have flat reflective surfaces.
See where I'm going with this?
Not for long.
See the dept tag on the summary.
Which means you're not anonymous there, either, and Poole - sorry, "moot" (...) - knows it.
the phrase "If you have nothing to hide, you have nothing to fear" comes naturally from "Most people who use it do so to commit crimes, from trolling to murder".
Only if your "naturally" includes "illogically".
read the TOS.
harassing other people will get you booted.
in this shire, that makes it a crime.
If only Bubba could have been president Anonymously...
As for revolutions, bring more martyrs. It generally takes thousands acting in concert. If the black-hats aren't afraid to die for their drugs, the people need to step up with the risk-taking to get them put down.
Whining about tagging your kids like cattle is a waste of resources when you should be fighting the corruption.
We'll remember that "outsider meddling" crack when you come begging for our troops to end the corruption for you.
You're about as free as a wage-slave in a plutocracy can be. But you're so busy worrying about civil rights that don't exist, and trying to stop government calamities that won't ever exist, you don't even notice that you're shovelling the value of your life's work into the Koch Bros' pockets leaving yourself to be homeless when you outlive your retirement savings.
You appear to believe that not telling the government how to do its job properly is a good idea.
If you make bad things illegal, even if the federales do them, and you enforce that, even if the federales are the defendant, then you end up with rule of law.
Make it explicit that there are illegal uses of the identification system, then the identification system will be safer than not having one.
We do a similar thing here all the time with Free Speech. You have a right to it, and you can use it rather blithely, even though it's possible for the government to abuse you for it. But if it tries, you'll scream for an ACLU lawyer and kick their ass.
No reason that Free Speech can't be substituted with ID Abuse in that paragraph.
Pretty sure the Mayans weren't referring to a child-identification system when they said "...and then the world will end".
You have to multiply the vulnerability by the number of bad-actors attempting to exploit it to determine how vulnerable it makes you.
So, more Windows computers browsing the web (by a factor of like a billion, man) means more black-hats will target Windows computers. Makes Linux computers comparatively safer from that sort of annoyance.
Not that I care. I use both and deal with what comes out of either. They both find ways to annoy several times a month, they just have different excuses ("oh i have to support billions of users!", "oh i have to be developed by random unpaid wannabes"). Makes one want to use smartphones for everything, but that has its foibles ("oh i have a tiny little screen and nobody designs webpages that tall and narrow").
Yup. Keeps your employer from knowing what you're doing on his nickel.