If the market for Pokeman (whatever that is) involved illegal market manipulation then yes, it would be investigated. Don't mistake something being so obscure or small scale that it isn't worth going after with that not being illegal. If I scam someone on $1 then I have committed a crime but it isn't likely the scammed person/group would bother to report it , and it isn't likely to be prioritized over other investigations if it is reported.
Or one could read things based on science using real studies stretching back hundreds of years. While the "Addiction is a choice" book may* have a point in weakening some myths it seem* to reinforce others. It also seem* to be describing things in a dishonest way - while addiction in itself may not be a disease it is associated with such. A massive panic attack combined with the physical symptoms of withdrawal _is_ a mental problem, one that can be very damaging.
But of course almost everything is a choice. One can choose to not eat anything, I'd suggest the author try that for a while until his smile fade and he understands why the core idea of the book is pretty damn stupid.
Many of the experiments have been done by people with no vested interest. The main problem is that the error sources are very, very, hard to eliminate in a setup.
So these people had the resources to eliminate error sources better than the other groups. Which is great and expected. And kind of sad given that we have no new physics.
Now to see if they can eliminate mach thrusters as a propulsion system. Unlike the EM drive it is theoretically compatible with known physics which is a huge plus.
I'll give you a 1/100th of a point as some groups have indeed used the BLM phrasing to exclude other groups of people. But otherwise this is simply bullshit.
What is the problem with a WLM movement? That the BLM started as a protest that blacks were treated differently than whites, this in a lethal manner. So the BLM (non-extremists ignored) want to be treated the same as your whites. Your WLM movement would have to add some preferential treatment for whites to make sense - and there's the problem. Because wanting to be treated different than others because of your "race" is racism.
However perhaps your use of WLM is inclusive? If so please explain your line of thinking.
We are increasingly going to a complaint culture not because there are more problem today than in the past but because we allow ordinary people to complain on a new scale, world-wide. We encourage them even by commenting on their complaints, even if only saying we think they are acting like children. This leads to this complaint culture: everything that can be complained about is, as people like complaining. And this leads media to hang on to this "trend" and start complaining too. Not that they in turn haven't tried to manufacture controversies since the start of their existence.
So to answer myself: the actual problem are the complainers. Those that cover up the real problems of the world in their mind-numbing noise of petty crap.
Exactly. A political revolution would be great for the American* people though not for the establishment. (* US citizens that is - other Americans like those in Canada and South America may even be on the losing side)
You mean the electron flow being in the reverse direction of the current? Because the current is defined as positive and electrons are negative. In most cases it doesn't make any difference at all and there are no need to change it as the definition is still valid.
The Pluto thing is different. Calling something X when it obviously isn't similar to other objects called X isn't good science. It's one thing to say that we have a number of planets all orbiting the sun and having some other similarities with one exceptional object, it could be acceptable with perhaps two exceptions that people agree are borderline planets. But then we add a lot of other objects and it all breaks down - the definition suddenly stops being relevant and new definitions called something other have to be used to separate the planets into relevant categories.
But the most important thing here is that people remember that Pluto didn't change after being demoted. It's still there and will still be long after the last human have died. It doesn't care if we call it a planet or a fruit.
The ones I've discussed this with will not see anyone suffer. They want someone that have done at least one horrible crime dead, quick, clean and easy.
Not wanting a person to live isn't the same as wanting them to suffer.
Yes and is that wrong? People generally do not like to kill other people - even when their own survival depends on it. There have been a lot of research done how to get people to kill others in the context of war. That have lead to modern training methods that in most cases are targeted at making the killing an automatic reflex so that the conscious process isn't involved (simplified).
So the state - that is the people - have decided that some criminals have no right to live. So the servants of the people have to make this a reality. So they want to make the actual act of killing another being less of a problem. As you say, fake it to feel more like a medical procedure, disconnect the activation of the killing mechanism from the actual application of the lethal drug etc.
Most people don't like to see others suffer even if the individual have committed horrible acts. The law also forbids cruel punishments so the death have to be as cruelty free as possible.
So what you are complaining about is that the people involved in the punishment the people want to be used are ordinary human beings. I for one am glad that they aren't assumed to be psychopaths without any empathy and that the procedure tries to lessen the psychological impact on the executioners and the executed.
If you want to complain about something complain about the absurdity of killing other people because they have killed others.
No AMD isn't affected. Intel isn't either. The problem is in software, it's the software that is affected.
AMD implements the x86 ISA which was designed by Intel and second sourced by AMD for a while. AMD then started designing their own CPUs based on the same ISA as they had a license that let them do that (as decided by a court of law). They have reverse engineered and used documented sources to make their processors compatible with those of Intel.
So if the hardware works in some specific way (with a few exceptions) then Intel and AMD will work the same. This is ignoring some processor extensions not always implemented by both companies.
I have not confused anything and don't see how you would think I did.
Cache coherency is the synchronization between caches. That is the mechanism that (for instance) detects if a cache line that is owned by one cache is read by another cache therefore making the cache line a shared one.
The Spectre exploits do not use the coherency mechanism to leak data - they use cache timing analysis. For instance one could flush a cache line for instance by using a special instruction (CLFLUSH in some x86 processors) or by reading data in a pattern that makes all cache line ways (places where data can be placed in an set associative cache) that can contain that specific cache line filled with something else. One would then do the actual exploit by triggering another process running on the same processor (as the branch predictor state have to be shared) which then potentially reads the previously flushed data in the speculative state. If it reads the line it will be in cache again, if not it will not. Then the attacker times a read of the data. If it was loaded by the speculatively executed victim code it will be fast, if it wasn't it will have to be read from higher level caches and will be slow - and that's how data is leaked.
In no way is the cache coherency protocol involved. And the attack is per processor/core as the branch predictor have to be shared.
Using the coherency protocol and other methods of triggering speculative reads of data for a cross-core Spectre-type exploit is theoretically possible but not demonstrated and not what we were talking about.
Perhaps you should read those articles (I've only verified the relevant parts so normal Wikipedia cautions apply), understand where the control characters came from, what they were used for and why there are different line endings out there? No "properly" about this.
That it have taken this long for MS to change something this trivial is strange though. Guess they always assumed nobody use notepad?
No let's because it isn't facts and most likely based on racist propaganda (alternatively the AC being a troll/idiot).
I need only one point to prove this: Most violent criminals in Sweden are not blacks. Making that claim means the AC have fallen for falsehoods propagated by racist and cryptoracist groups. Those that also like to claim "no go" zones in Sweden - another obvious lie.
Virtual machine != hardware supported virtual machine. One could claim that C++ provides a VM and people do, what I referred to is instead a software based VM like that of Java or Javascript. This is standard terminology.
Yes the problem with that specific Spectre exploit is that it doesn't IMO violate the ISA contract: a software process isn't specifically stated to be in any way protected against itself. Branch predictor state and caches have to be used in the process otherwise why have them at all? But this can be patched as the VM code generator (if JIT) or interpreter knows where the checks have to be inserted and can use the appropriate code that can't be abused by speculative execution.
Retpoline is a hack to bypass indirect branch prediction. So yes it "fixes" one of the attack paths. By removing a type of branch prediction on the specific paths where it is inserted. It's ugly and using it everywhere isn't realistic. It can't fix existing software either. Emergency patch - nothing more. One can of course use similar techniques described for software VM but it is equally unrealistic. These kinds of patches have to be used _everywhere_ in recompiled code to work, normal programming languages have no way to tag a specific switch/if/loop/... to be security critical and even if they added such functionality all software would have to be rewritten!
The only realistic way to avoid Spectre exploits on existing hardware is to split code execution between physical cores so that different privileged code run on different cores. That removes the shared branch predictor and the lowest shared cache level.
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If the market for Pokeman (whatever that is) involved illegal market manipulation then yes, it would be investigated. Don't mistake something being so obscure or small scale that it isn't worth going after with that not being illegal. If I scam someone on $1 then I have committed a crime but it isn't likely the scammed person/group would bother to report it , and it isn't likely to be prioritized over other investigations if it is reported.
Yeah, exactly as in the stock market that have rules and enforcement of those rules to reduce illegal practices that can influence prices. Exactly.
Or one could read things based on science using real studies stretching back hundreds of years. While the "Addiction is a choice" book may* have a point in weakening some myths it seem* to reinforce others. It also seem* to be describing things in a dishonest way - while addiction in itself may not be a disease it is associated with such. A massive panic attack combined with the physical symptoms of withdrawal _is_ a mental problem, one that can be very damaging.
But of course almost everything is a choice. One can choose to not eat anything, I'd suggest the author try that for a while until his smile fade and he understands why the core idea of the book is pretty damn stupid.
(* read reviews and excerpts)
Do you often make up illogical reasons to complain? Because ...
Copper? Audiophiles do it with silver.
Yes. Not exactly hi-fi though.
Investor? You keep using that word...
And that his post isn't even worthy to insult.
Many of the experiments have been done by people with no vested interest. The main problem is that the error sources are very, very, hard to eliminate in a setup.
So these people had the resources to eliminate error sources better than the other groups. Which is great and expected. And kind of sad given that we have no new physics.
Now to see if they can eliminate mach thrusters as a propulsion system. Unlike the EM drive it is theoretically compatible with known physics which is a huge plus.
So just use 1 billion EM drives? (/s)
Yes it is - if you think it is. No, if not.
In further news what you (likely) call the (opt:dwarf) planet Pluto I call the basketball Screwdriver IV.
I'll give you a 1/100th of a point as some groups have indeed used the BLM phrasing to exclude other groups of people. But otherwise this is simply bullshit.
What is the problem with a WLM movement? That the BLM started as a protest that blacks were treated differently than whites, this in a lethal manner. So the BLM (non-extremists ignored) want to be treated the same as your whites. Your WLM movement would have to add some preferential treatment for whites to make sense - and there's the problem. Because wanting to be treated different than others because of your "race" is racism.
However perhaps your use of WLM is inclusive? If so please explain your line of thinking.
What is the actual problem here?
We are increasingly going to a complaint culture not because there are more problem today than in the past but because we allow ordinary people to complain on a new scale, world-wide. We encourage them even by commenting on their complaints, even if only saying we think they are acting like children.
This leads to this complaint culture: everything that can be complained about is, as people like complaining. And this leads media to hang on to this "trend" and start complaining too. Not that they in turn haven't tried to manufacture controversies since the start of their existence.
So to answer myself: the actual problem are the complainers. Those that cover up the real problems of the world in their mind-numbing noise of petty crap.
Exactly. A political revolution would be great for the American* people though not for the establishment.
(* US citizens that is - other Americans like those in Canada and South America may even be on the losing side)
You mean the electron flow being in the reverse direction of the current? Because the current is defined as positive and electrons are negative. In most cases it doesn't make any difference at all and there are no need to change it as the definition is still valid.
The Pluto thing is different. Calling something X when it obviously isn't similar to other objects called X isn't good science.
It's one thing to say that we have a number of planets all orbiting the sun and having some other similarities with one exceptional object, it could be acceptable with perhaps two exceptions that people agree are borderline planets. But then we add a lot of other objects and it all breaks down - the definition suddenly stops being relevant and new definitions called something other have to be used to separate the planets into relevant categories.
But the most important thing here is that people remember that Pluto didn't change after being demoted. It's still there and will still be long after the last human have died. It doesn't care if we call it a planet or a fruit.
The ones I've discussed this with will not see anyone suffer. They want someone that have done at least one horrible crime dead, quick, clean and easy.
Not wanting a person to live isn't the same as wanting them to suffer.
Nitrogen is cheaper and have the same effect.
Yes and is that wrong? People generally do not like to kill other people - even when their own survival depends on it. There have been a lot of research done how to get people to kill others in the context of war. That have lead to modern training methods that in most cases are targeted at making the killing an automatic reflex so that the conscious process isn't involved (simplified).
So the state - that is the people - have decided that some criminals have no right to live. So the servants of the people have to make this a reality. So they want to make the actual act of killing another being less of a problem. As you say, fake it to feel more like a medical procedure, disconnect the activation of the killing mechanism from the actual application of the lethal drug etc.
Most people don't like to see others suffer even if the individual have committed horrible acts. The law also forbids cruel punishments so the death have to be as cruelty free as possible.
So what you are complaining about is that the people involved in the punishment the people want to be used are ordinary human beings. I for one am glad that they aren't assumed to be psychopaths without any empathy and that the procedure tries to lessen the psychological impact on the executioners and the executed.
If you want to complain about something complain about the absurdity of killing other people because they have killed others.
No AMD isn't affected. Intel isn't either. The problem is in software, it's the software that is affected.
AMD implements the x86 ISA which was designed by Intel and second sourced by AMD for a while. AMD then started designing their own CPUs based on the same ISA as they had a license that let them do that (as decided by a court of law). They have reverse engineered and used documented sources to make their processors compatible with those of Intel.
So if the hardware works in some specific way (with a few exceptions) then Intel and AMD will work the same. This is ignoring some processor extensions not always implemented by both companies.
I have not confused anything and don't see how you would think I did.
Cache coherency is the synchronization between caches. That is the mechanism that (for instance) detects if a cache line that is owned by one cache is read by another cache therefore making the cache line a shared one.
The Spectre exploits do not use the coherency mechanism to leak data - they use cache timing analysis.
For instance one could flush a cache line for instance by using a special instruction (CLFLUSH in some x86 processors) or by reading data in a pattern that makes all cache line ways (places where data can be placed in an set associative cache) that can contain that specific cache line filled with something else.
One would then do the actual exploit by triggering another process running on the same processor (as the branch predictor state have to be shared) which then potentially reads the previously flushed data in the speculative state. If it reads the line it will be in cache again, if not it will not.
Then the attacker times a read of the data. If it was loaded by the speculatively executed victim code it will be fast, if it wasn't it will have to be read from higher level caches and will be slow - and that's how data is leaked.
In no way is the cache coherency protocol involved. And the attack is per processor/core as the branch predictor have to be shared.
Using the coherency protocol and other methods of triggering speculative reads of data for a cross-core Spectre-type exploit is theoretically possible but not demonstrated and not what we were talking about.
You are a modern human right? So you use Unicode, right?
U+2029
Yes this is probably yet another advantage due to the Linux subsystem and therefore (indirectly) Linux.
CR: return to first character of the line.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
LF: jump to the next line.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Perhaps you should read those articles (I've only verified the relevant parts so normal Wikipedia cautions apply), understand where the control characters came from, what they were used for and why there are different line endings out there? No "properly" about this.
That it have taken this long for MS to change something this trivial is strange though. Guess they always assumed nobody use notepad?
No let's because it isn't facts and most likely based on racist propaganda (alternatively the AC being a troll/idiot).
I need only one point to prove this: Most violent criminals in Sweden are not blacks.
Making that claim means the AC have fallen for falsehoods propagated by racist and cryptoracist groups. Those that also like to claim "no go" zones in Sweden - another obvious lie.
Virtual machine != hardware supported virtual machine. One could claim that C++ provides a VM and people do, what I referred to is instead a software based VM like that of Java or Javascript. This is standard terminology.
Yes the problem with that specific Spectre exploit is that it doesn't IMO violate the ISA contract: a software process isn't specifically stated to be in any way protected against itself. Branch predictor state and caches have to be used in the process otherwise why have them at all?
But this can be patched as the VM code generator (if JIT) or interpreter knows where the checks have to be inserted and can use the appropriate code that can't be abused by speculative execution.
Retpoline is a hack to bypass indirect branch prediction. So yes it "fixes" one of the attack paths. By removing a type of branch prediction on the specific paths where it is inserted. It's ugly and using it everywhere isn't realistic. It can't fix existing software either. Emergency patch - nothing more.
One can of course use similar techniques described for software VM but it is equally unrealistic.
These kinds of patches have to be used _everywhere_ in recompiled code to work, normal programming languages have no way to tag a specific switch/if/loop/... to be security critical and even if they added such functionality all software would have to be rewritten!
The only realistic way to avoid Spectre exploits on existing hardware is to split code execution between physical cores so that different privileged code run on different cores. That removes the shared branch predictor and the lowest shared cache level.