Human waste have been used as fertilizer for a long time. People gladly ate the vegetables/fruits so produced. => People have eaten converted human shit.
Astronauts/cosmonauts are selected by people that are rational and scientific - exactly the kind of persons that would understand that their food is not shit. And they are less likely to become cannibals as they understand the problems that brings.
What happened to you? Even when you posted stuff I absolutely did not agree with you had some intelligence baked into the posts. This? It's just shit.
Suddenly people have to learn that anything they see filmed can be fake. Why would they trust footage showing a person killing another? Why would they trust the taped confession of someone raping a little child?
Education doesn't help. Technical solutions doesn't help either unless we have absolute trust in some entity verifying that the film isn't altered.
Also people don't think. One person may think but add some more persons and suddenly we get group dynamics where all type of education goes out the window.
Most NATO countries are civilized, civilized countries doesn't put people in jail because of accusations. Turkey isn't civilized. Many reasons for that, sadly. The US isn't civilized - Guantanamo anyone?
Errr-merrr-gerd, my phone is 5-6mm thick, but I can replace the battery in 15 seconds, add storage using an SD card, and use any set of headphones made in the last few decades.
Not without a converter, you can't. It won't take a quarter inch plug, which is still the standard for better than average cans. Nor a dual 3.5mm airplane/theatre plug, I'm sure.
You you are ruining the party with your geegaws, velocipedes and unvarnished truth.
Not the truth. Some people still assume that high impedance headphones are better, they are wrong. Some assume a larger connector is better, they are wrong (well assuming reasonable design specifications - 2.5mm plugs are harder to work with).
But as people assume that manufacturers sell the things to those who want it, often at a premium.
Hooking up low impedance headphones to an amplifier designed for high impedance or vice versa can be a problem. It's still a problem with some designs however even those designs are normally of the cargo-cult thinking of "audiophiles" that wouldn't recognize good audio if it bit them in the ass.
Modern designs allows the amplifier to work great from 30 ohm to 600 ohm. So then then the problem becomes one of adapting 3.5 to 6.3 - which is done in the cable.
I'm beginning to think that a lot of slashdotters don't know abou the real toys out there.
And I'm beginning to think you are one of those "audiophiles" that like to quote specifications without understanding them.
Then again, if it was an android product that started this, they'd be extolling the virtues and forward thinking.
Most of us define a modern chip as one with a modern processor (processors) and modern is generally one with out of order execution.
The main advantage of OoO execution is enabling speculation where instructions that can't be guaranteed to be executed in the future _but_ are likely to be are allowed to begin execution.
This means things that would stall (=halt execution) a processor with no speculation can be bypassed which greatly increases the performance of the design, if the instruction is later detected to be wrongly executed the processor erases anything dependent on it and restarts on the right path.
Spectre and Meltdown both take advantage of the fact that while architectural state (what the programmer should see) isn't the same as the micro-architectural state including what is stored in caches (not architectural in the majority of designs). Thus the result of speculative execution can sometimes be read in the micro-architectural state via e.g. timing of cache misses/hits.
But note that modern processor cores that doesn't support OoO execution still generally have limited speculative execution and can in theory be susceptible to Spectre - I don't know of any example.
TL;DR Spectre does indeed attack pretty much anything modern as in having used modern designs.
I think it should be "I think their stock price may halve every 18 months"? Not that likely even if they are exposed as reptilians eating small (but tasty) children.
Solar: yes, in some locations for generating electricity. In some others for heating (people even build their own non-subsided hardware FFS). Wind: yes, in most places.
This again? Bull. Resources aren't a problem if used wisely - which they aren't now. Space isn't a problem, food isn't a problem, quality of life isn't a problem. But the resources have to be used _wisely_. Growing crops that require lots of water in a desert isn't wise use, redirecting precious water from fragile ecosystems to water lawns in hot areas aren't a wise use etc.
Khrushchev said "We will bury you", that the USSR would survive longer. The rope thing was Stalin.
This seems (together with other tendencies) to be another phase with USA only ideas A.K.A. isolationism. But one can't have the cookie while loudly chewing on it - reducing reliance of foreign powers will mean they reduce reliance on you. Taken to the extreme that could mean actual war but even in a much milder form the world may seem strange to us in a few decades, wonderfully strange for some and scaringly so for others.
Any system that isn't actively working all the time have to be regularly tested to ensure that it is working. How else would one know if the system can do what it's designed to do when the time comes?
E.g. nuclear launch is trained and tested not only to ensure the people involved are ready to do their job if required, but also so that the system up until the last operation (arming of the warheads/actual launch) is known to work. And yes that is being tested "in production".
Yes this is clearly a system design problem and something that can be solved in several obvious ways. The easiest would be to have a confirmation stage that makes it very clear if it's a test or if it is a "sharp" alarm that will be triggered.
Note that how to make it very clear is still a problem but one that have been studied.
That the same system that can send an alert can't also send a false alarm alert is also an obvious systems design flaw.
What a well reasoned posting, I especially like the respectful way you describe the people involved in a system you have no f-ing clue how it operates.
And no, that thinking isn't the problem which should be obvious if you spent some seconds thinking about it - assuming you have an IQ higher than an amoeba.
SWAT teams consists of humans - humans make mistakes. Yes even fatal ones.
The shooting itself _should_ be criticized, the training should get better etc. but in the end they were sent in expecting a situation where a moments hesitation to shoot to kill could have killed a lot of people!
Ridiculous! Did you know that the amount of people regularly carrying loaded guns in the US is larger than that in the EU?
In order to be able to carry a gun on your person ready to use in the EU you have to show that you have a reason for that (under severe threat of deadly violence), you have to be in a position where you have no reason to have constant police protection and you have to be sane, very experienced with handling weapons etc. Very few people will ever get that permission - and rightly so IMO.
That leaves the people that carry weapons because of their jobs - police, military and some private groups protecting some objects (very limited). The later is generally only licensed to carry less lethal weapons like batons, stun-guns etc.
"But I've heard that people can own guns even in Europe" you say? Yes but the weapons are to be transported in such a way that they can't be immediately used, they should only be transported when it is required (to/from shops, repairmen, competitions, shooting range, hunting ground) and every gun owner is expected to know and follow the laws. Which includes not transporting loaded weapons, not transporting them ready to use (often trigger locks etc. are expected) and often in a transport case that not only protects the weapon itself but also can be locked and in any delays getting the weapon out and ready.
Why this wall of text? Because if you don't understand that a police force that have good reason to expect the person they are talking to are carrying a legal or illegal weapon loaded and ready to use also have a lower level before using their own weapons - well...
Memory blocking? Haven't heard it described as having that effect, are you sure that isn't due to some other drug used in conjunction with the propofol? It is often used together with other drugs including hypnotics that can cause retrograde amnesia.
My experience is completely different (and I've had a lot of minor operations using it) as the injection of it is followed by a spreading mildly painful cold sensation with an increasing mental "noise" until losing consciousness. The experience lasts for a short time too, 10-20 seconds after the injection perhaps?
IOW I had no problem remembering the pre-op including actual injection of the sedative.
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Fixing silicon is "creap" - a lot of cash and a lot of time (making masks and manufacturing the chips).
Verifying that the fix is correct will probably be very expensive.
Ah - that's trivial since the 486: just insert a WBINVD instruction in the context switch code - done!
Hope you like slow computers though - that instruction flushes all caches and is slow as a glued snail.
Human waste have been used as fertilizer for a long time. People gladly ate the vegetables/fruits so produced.
=> People have eaten converted human shit.
Astronauts/cosmonauts are selected by people that are rational and scientific - exactly the kind of persons that would understand that their food is not shit.
And they are less likely to become cannibals as they understand the problems that brings.
What happened to you? Even when you posted stuff I absolutely did not agree with you had some intelligence baked into the posts.
This? It's just shit.
How would that be a solution?
Suddenly people have to learn that anything they see filmed can be fake. Why would they trust footage showing a person killing another? Why would they trust the taped confession of someone raping a little child?
Education doesn't help. Technical solutions doesn't help either unless we have absolute trust in some entity verifying that the film isn't altered.
Also people don't think. One person may think but add some more persons and suddenly we get group dynamics where all type of education goes out the window.
In the same sense a person being robbed isn't hurt unless they get physically attacked.
You obviously aren't living in the modern world.
Most NATO countries are civilized, civilized countries doesn't put people in jail because of accusations.
Turkey isn't civilized. Many reasons for that, sadly.
The US isn't civilized - Guantanamo anyone?
Errr-merrr-gerd, my phone is 5-6mm thick, but I can replace the battery in 15 seconds, add storage using an SD card, and use any set of headphones made in the last few decades.
Not without a converter, you can't. It won't take a quarter inch plug, which is still the standard for better than average cans. Nor a dual 3.5mm airplane/theatre plug, I'm sure.
You you are ruining the party with your geegaws, velocipedes and unvarnished truth.
Not the truth. Some people still assume that high impedance headphones are better, they are wrong. Some assume a larger connector is better, they are wrong (well assuming reasonable design specifications - 2.5mm plugs are harder to work with).
But as people assume that manufacturers sell the things to those who want it, often at a premium.
Hooking up low impedance headphones to an amplifier designed for high impedance or vice versa can be a problem. It's still a problem with some designs however even those designs are normally of the cargo-cult thinking of "audiophiles" that wouldn't recognize good audio if it bit them in the ass.
Modern designs allows the amplifier to work great from 30 ohm to 600 ohm. So then then the problem becomes one of adapting 3.5 to 6.3 - which is done in the cable.
I'm beginning to think that a lot of slashdotters don't know abou the real toys out there.
And I'm beginning to think you are one of those "audiophiles" that like to quote specifications without understanding them.
Then again, if it was an android product that started this, they'd be extolling the virtues and forward thinking.
Bullshit.
Most of us define a modern chip as one with a modern processor (processors) and modern is generally one with out of order execution.
The main advantage of OoO execution is enabling speculation where instructions that can't be guaranteed to be executed in the future _but_ are likely to be are allowed to begin execution.
This means things that would stall (=halt execution) a processor with no speculation can be bypassed which greatly increases the performance of the design, if the instruction is later detected to be wrongly executed the processor erases anything dependent on it and restarts on the right path.
Spectre and Meltdown both take advantage of the fact that while architectural state (what the programmer should see) isn't the same as the micro-architectural state including what is stored in caches (not architectural in the majority of designs). Thus the result of speculative execution can sometimes be read in the micro-architectural state via e.g. timing of cache misses/hits.
But note that modern processor cores that doesn't support OoO execution still generally have limited speculative execution and can in theory be susceptible to Spectre - I don't know of any example.
TL;DR Spectre does indeed attack pretty much anything modern as in having used modern designs.
I think it should be "I think their stock price may halve every 18 months"?
Not that likely even if they are exposed as reptilians eating small (but tasty) children.
You responding to the wrong AC. Easy mistake to make.
Solar: yes, in some locations for generating electricity. In some others for heating (people even build their own non-subsided hardware FFS).
Wind: yes, in most places.
And some apples fall on their head. If you don't get it you are the apple. Okay, I'll try to explain this so even you understand:
You are a stupid asshole spewing crap. You still don't get it? I give up!
This again? Bull. Resources aren't a problem if used wisely - which they aren't now.
Space isn't a problem, food isn't a problem, quality of life isn't a problem. But the resources have to be used _wisely_. Growing crops that require lots of water in a desert isn't wise use, redirecting precious water from fragile ecosystems to water lawns in hot areas aren't a wise use etc.
Citation needed.
Khrushchev said "We will bury you", that the USSR would survive longer. The rope thing was Stalin.
This seems (together with other tendencies) to be another phase with USA only ideas A.K.A. isolationism. But one can't have the cookie while loudly chewing on it - reducing reliance of foreign powers will mean they reduce reliance on you. Taken to the extreme that could mean actual war but even in a much milder form the world may seem strange to us in a few decades, wonderfully strange for some and scaringly so for others.
I don't know if you are serious...
Any system that isn't actively working all the time have to be regularly tested to ensure that it is working. How else would one know if the system can do what it's designed to do when the time comes?
E.g. nuclear launch is trained and tested not only to ensure the people involved are ready to do their job if required, but also so that the system up until the last operation (arming of the warheads/actual launch) is known to work. And yes that is being tested "in production".
Yes this is clearly a system design problem and something that can be solved in several obvious ways. The easiest would be to have a confirmation stage that makes it very clear if it's a test or if it is a "sharp" alarm that will be triggered.
Note that how to make it very clear is still a problem but one that have been studied.
That the same system that can send an alert can't also send a false alarm alert is also an obvious systems design flaw.
What a well reasoned posting, I especially like the respectful way you describe the people involved in a system you have no f-ing clue how it operates.
And no, that thinking isn't the problem which should be obvious if you spent some seconds thinking about it - assuming you have an IQ higher than an amoeba.
Good for you. I ignore anyone that complains over things like this.
SWAT teams consists of humans - humans make mistakes. Yes even fatal ones.
The shooting itself _should_ be criticized, the training should get better etc. but in the end they were sent in expecting a situation where a moments hesitation to shoot to kill could have killed a lot of people!
Reflect upon that for a second.
Ridiculous! Did you know that the amount of people regularly carrying loaded guns in the US is larger than that in the EU?
In order to be able to carry a gun on your person ready to use in the EU you have to show that you have a reason for that (under severe threat of deadly violence), you have to be in a position where you have no reason to have constant police protection and you have to be sane, very experienced with handling weapons etc. Very few people will ever get that permission - and rightly so IMO.
That leaves the people that carry weapons because of their jobs - police, military and some private groups protecting some objects (very limited). The later is generally only licensed to carry less lethal weapons like batons, stun-guns etc.
"But I've heard that people can own guns even in Europe" you say? Yes but the weapons are to be transported in such a way that they can't be immediately used, they should only be transported when it is required (to /from shops, repairmen, competitions, shooting range, hunting ground) and every gun owner is expected to know and follow the laws. Which includes not transporting loaded weapons, not transporting them ready to use (often trigger locks etc. are expected) and often in a transport case that not only protects the weapon itself but also can be locked and in any delays getting the weapon out and ready.
Why this wall of text? Because if you don't understand that a police force that have good reason to expect the person they are talking to are carrying a legal or illegal weapon loaded and ready to use also have a lower level before using their own weapons - well...
Are you making things up or just being _extremely_ badly informed?
Citation needed. While the timing is suspect selling stock is a normal thing and needn't be related.
Now _that's_ a weak troll!
Memory blocking? Haven't heard it described as having that effect, are you sure that isn't due to some other drug used in conjunction with the propofol? It is often used together with other drugs including hypnotics that can cause retrograde amnesia.
My experience is completely different (and I've had a lot of minor operations using it) as the injection of it is followed by a spreading mildly painful cold sensation with an increasing mental "noise" until losing consciousness. The experience lasts for a short time too, 10-20 seconds after the injection perhaps?
IOW I had no problem remembering the pre-op including actual injection of the sedative.