Figured it might be like that. Personally I look for ways to peg the CPU. 8 cores at 2.8 GHz running web browsers ain't doing it most days. I wonder if there's a patch for that.
Of course not. Which is why if I ever did find a need to be anonymous, I wouldn't be so stupid as to leave a trail of neon paint leading back to my bucket and expect everyone else to be colorblind to that hue.
I don't support the statement that "If you have nothing to hide, you have nothing to fear". As I said. I never said that. You did. You can stop it now that I've explained it to you, again. If you have nothing to hide you have plenty to fear. Most of it from people who have plenty to hide, and are allowed to do it because your fear causes you to preserve the structures by which they can hide it.
i don't see me going AC to post an unpopular opinion my karma's fine. excellent, even. and if someone decides to karma-bomb me, i can point it out to the staff and they'll look behind the magic AC curtain and fix it. but, i don't share your observation that there's a 50:1 ratio of good:really bad; nor did i limit the bad to "overtly racist or whatever". i still like my n_good n_bad estimate.
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i imagine someone's found a way to fake priority by treating a group of processes as one process when allocating cpu, because it solves one problem someone was having while causing someone else a problem
the example was forking 20 compile processes. normally that's a big speedup because when one has to pend on some i/o, another can pick up and do some work on your overall compile. with this new scheduling instead of 20 new processes crowding the few existing processes into much less cpu, now the 20 processes only act like one new process
which makes me wonder why you'd fork 20 processes any more, since they'll have only one process' share of the resource. might as well run them sequentially; it'll take almost exactly as long
unless that example wasn't the benchmark we're looking for...
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he could argue that making the kernel faster makes the OS faster
1. most = more than half. you can count them individually yourself, but I'm pretty sure it'll come out how i said it. probably by a couple of orders of magnitude.
If this doesn't happen to actual people, then nobody can fight the system and fix it. Government secrecy and chilling defensiveness just get worse and worse as those in power fight the release of anonymous information instead of being reformed to protect your right to release it.
From reading TFA, I would guess they're doing a test that sweeps a mongo peak up and down the wi-fi frequency band as a worst-case scenario, with the transmitting antenna strapped to the cabling of the box being tested. It's be interesting to see if there's any way they could replicate it using any commercial wi-fi device, locked to the channel they think has the problem, sitting in the navigator's flight bag (because his own iPhone would be the most pessimal culprit).
Define reject. In decibels. At a specific frequency.
Use of the word "bandwidth" implies 3 dB attenuation at either end of the width of the band. Rolloff beyond that will depend on your choice of filter.
Parasitics are an issue, but Wi-fi and cell-phones aren't operating at exotic frequencies above 10 GHz, so "infinite" is an unnecessary invocation in the requirements at this point. At the low-end, nothing smaller than a power grid or solar flare can put out enough signal to make a dent in overwhelmng the filtering and shielding.
As for my feeling for this, I'm going to be knuckles-deep in prickly little circuit boards in about 8 minutes.
Not sure where you're getting that. Subduction isn't the result of steam explosions. If there's water involved at all, it's supercritical, not gaseous, and doesn't explode so much as filter upward, increasing the gradient that causes the upper plate to be lighter and ride up on the other. The enormous mass of circulating semi-solid mantle below the plates, undergoing asymmetric brownian motion, is by far the bigger player in moving the plates around; from there all it takes is an imbalance in density and flux to start the subduction, and then it just continues until it stops a few billion years later.
While water is involved in subduction on Earth, because water is everywhere on Earth, I don't agree that it's necessary or even a major player in the dynamics.
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I'm pretty sure I bring an ID to the polling place every time I vote.
Figured it might be like that.
Personally I look for ways to peg the CPU. 8 cores at 2.8 GHz running web browsers ain't doing it most days.
I wonder if there's a patch for that.
Of course not. Which is why if I ever did find a need to be anonymous, I wouldn't be so stupid as to leave a trail of neon paint leading back to my bucket and expect everyone else to be colorblind to that hue.
I don't support the statement that "If you have nothing to hide, you have nothing to fear".
As I said. I never said that. You did. You can stop it now that I've explained it to you, again.
If you have nothing to hide you have plenty to fear. Most of it from people who have plenty to hide, and are allowed to do it because your fear causes you to preserve the structures by which they can hide it.
i don't see me going AC to post an unpopular opinion
my karma's fine. excellent, even.
and if someone decides to karma-bomb me, i can point it out to the staff and they'll look behind the magic AC curtain and fix it.
but, i don't share your observation that there's a 50:1 ratio of good:really bad; nor did i limit the bad to "overtly racist or whatever". i still like my n_good n_bad estimate.
see what i mean about the value of anonymity?
i think that's the wonder of it
because i wonder what it will do, too
albeit, i haven't followed kernel fixes for years
i imagine someone's found a way to fake priority by treating a group of processes as one process when allocating cpu, because it solves one problem someone was having while causing someone else a problem
the example was forking 20 compile processes. normally that's a big speedup because when one has to pend on some i/o, another can pick up and do some work on your overall compile. with this new scheduling instead of 20 new processes crowding the few existing processes into much less cpu, now the 20 processes only act like one new process
which makes me wonder why you'd fork 20 processes any more, since they'll have only one process' share of the resource. might as well run them sequentially; it'll take almost exactly as long
unless that example wasn't the benchmark we're looking for...
he could argue that making the kernel faster makes the OS faster
which is what the quote said
You're presuming your opaqueness.
>you have made claims in the past that are basically along the lines of "If you have nothing to hide, you have nothing to fear."
I have not made that claim. You simply claim that's my position.
And if you want to keep secrets, keep them secret. That's not anonymity, it's secrecy.
No, you are. Mine can be traced to me by the simple expedient of getting a court order and serving /. with it.
Actually, I take that back. I'm pretty sure your IP and login (if you're logged in) were logged even though you posted using the AC flag.
1. most = more than half. you can count them individually yourself, but I'm pretty sure it'll come out how i said it. probably by a couple of orders of magnitude.
2. since when isn't it?
Thanks Mark. Now go fix your website. It's almost as lame as 4chan.
The value of Anonymity of course depends on the value of what you're doing with it.
Most people who use it do so to commit crimes, from trolling to murder.
The few who use it to tell the truth about abuses within government are to be weighed against that?
Seriously. How did these people "study" a crime and find out that punishment doesn't reduce crime?
news is stuff that happens anywhere
news for nerds is stuff that happens anywhere nerds have mindspace
really, almost nothing you read on /. matters, so that part's optional
No. This is why Wikileaks is a bad thing.
If this doesn't happen to actual people, then nobody can fight the system and fix it. Government secrecy and chilling defensiveness just get worse and worse as those in power fight the release of anonymous information instead of being reformed to protect your right to release it.
He has a lot of trouble using them, what with multipath interference from his TIN-FOIL HAT and all.
Why would I allocate steel to other uses?
Nylon is made of oil, which is running out. Steel is made of iron, which will never run out.
Find me a way to start making plastic things out of steel. Then you'll have the future in your hands.
As a bicycle rider let me assure you, both penile spines and extra-sensitive follicles would have a deleterious effect on the sport.
He's missing the point, at least.
I didn't think you could get a Russian that drunk.
From reading TFA, I would guess they're doing a test that sweeps a mongo peak up and down the wi-fi frequency band as a worst-case scenario, with the transmitting antenna strapped to the cabling of the box being tested. It's be interesting to see if there's any way they could replicate it using any commercial wi-fi device, locked to the channel they think has the problem, sitting in the navigator's flight bag (because his own iPhone would be the most pessimal culprit).
Define reject. In decibels. At a specific frequency.
Use of the word "bandwidth" implies 3 dB attenuation at either end of the width of the band. Rolloff beyond that will depend on your choice of filter.
Parasitics are an issue, but Wi-fi and cell-phones aren't operating at exotic frequencies above 10 GHz, so "infinite" is an unnecessary invocation in the requirements at this point. At the low-end, nothing smaller than a power grid or solar flare can put out enough signal to make a dent in overwhelmng the filtering and shielding.
As for my feeling for this, I'm going to be knuckles-deep in prickly little circuit boards in about 8 minutes.
Not sure where you're getting that. Subduction isn't the result of steam explosions. If there's water involved at all, it's supercritical, not gaseous, and doesn't explode so much as filter upward, increasing the gradient that causes the upper plate to be lighter and ride up on the other. The enormous mass of circulating semi-solid mantle below the plates, undergoing asymmetric brownian motion, is by far the bigger player in moving the plates around; from there all it takes is an imbalance in density and flux to start the subduction, and then it just continues until it stops a few billion years later.
While water is involved in subduction on Earth, because water is everywhere on Earth, I don't agree that it's necessary or even a major player in the dynamics.