The last fatal crash of a US airliner was in 2009.
That's largely due to the fact that they managed to successfully evacuate quite a few planes. (That were less densely packed than what's being proposed.)
Assuming you're in the US, when was the last time anyone actually even pretended to look at the back of your credit card to compare signatures?
In most cases, it would be worthless to compare anyway. The signature made with a real pen on the back of a card rarely looks anything like a signature made with a bulky stylus on a slippery touch screen.
(Even worse are some delivery services where you "sign" the guy's tablet with nothing but your finger. That usually comes out as little more than a straight line.)
On a bike, I don't blow through stop signs in residential areas, but I do slow down to the same speed Hollywood roll that most motor vehicles do. Which is to say, I don't slow down all that much.
Looks like they've reinvented the IBM 3081 mainframe from 40 years ago:
The elimination of a layer of packaging was achieved through the development of the Thermal Conduction Module (TCM), a flat ceramic module containing about 30,000 logic circuits on up to 118 chips.
But did they get around to fixing those horrible information leaks they designed right into their CPUs? If not, when will they get to it? Ever?
This does address those issues: Their theory is that with so many cores thrown at the workload, the chance of malware even finding the the core that is working on sensitive information is negligible.
They completely lost sight of what made the USA an economic powerhouse in the first place: In the past, corporate welfare was always doled out to American companies.
If you know you're being spied on (I find it hard to believe that the Times would find out before the U.S. government) wouldn't that just motivate you to feed bad information through those channels?
Indeed, this is the strategy being used by the White House: Owing to Trump's level of sheer incompetence, most everything that comes out of his mouth is bad information.
Whatever. Today, the client usually runs on the client hardware. Sometimes it runs on "peer" hardware. Sometimes it runs on server hardware. The server always runs on client hardware.
No matter what, it's a stupid ball of confusing terminology.
Absolutely not backwards. It's serving resources and makes perfect sense for clients to request those resources.
Nevertheless, they should have avoided the terms "server" and "client" altogether because they are so strongly associated with types of hardware. Having the server run on client hardware and the client run on server hardware is just damned confusing.
I've known this factoid for decades, and I still have to stop and sort it out in my head it every time I see the term "X server". The only people who would think that this is "obvious" would be dedicated GUI developers, which is probably about 0.01% of the user base.
They should have used less loaded terms, maybe something more along the lines of "sender" and "displayer".
The X server doesn't need direct access to the "graphics chipsets" (eg. the GPU). It is designed to run over network connections.
You've got it backwards, probably because of the unfortunate and counter-intuitive terminology they use.
The X server shows the graphics on the local terminal (which is usually the "client" hardware), and the X client is the interface used by the software application that can be running remotely (which is often on the "server" hardware). So the X server does need to access the GPU.
They should put this AI on a website called something like "EULA-Buddy", where you can paste those 10-foot-long EULAs that come with every modern device or service. Then it could concisely tell you how much the EULA sucks. Maybe that would help reign in uncontrolled expansion of these ridiculous "contracts".
Right. I'm sure that more than half of Google's workforce is pulling down $400K per year.
The place must be like Lake Wobegon, where all the women are strong, all the men are good-looking, and all the workers are in the top 1%.
But back to reality. Here's a hint for you, which you would probably already know if your story were true: Most contract employees work for middlemen and make jack shit.
If you'd bother to read the summary, this experiment was being run by a foreign company, making it an international affair; states do not have jurisdiction over international commerce. The foreign company apparently didn't adhere to the rules for the special driver's permit granted by the Federal Government to let their foreign software drive on US roads, so they got shut down.
Come on, "allow us to generate electricity using supercritical carbon dioxide"? That's the most ridiculous clickbait I've seen recently. Makes it sound like some kind of free energy scam. The CO2 is just part of the process of making an advanced alloy that might be useful in a heat exchanger. Come on slashdot, this is way over the top.
Wrong. TFA says that the higher operating temperature enables them to use supercritical CO2 instead of steam as the working gas for power generation.
This claim of a one in one billion chance of losing your data is also patently false.
The annual odds of a large comet hitting the earth and wiping out the human race is higher than that. Without any humans, there's no way to retrieve the data.
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The last fatal crash of a US airliner was in 2009.
That's largely due to the fact that they managed to successfully evacuate quite a few planes. (That were less densely packed than what's being proposed.)
Assuming you're in the US, when was the last time anyone actually even pretended to look at the back of your credit card to compare signatures?
In most cases, it would be worthless to compare anyway. The signature made with a real pen on the back of a card rarely looks anything like a signature made with a bulky stylus on a slippery touch screen.
(Even worse are some delivery services where you "sign" the guy's tablet with nothing but your finger. That usually comes out as little more than a straight line.)
On a bike, I don't blow through stop signs in residential areas, but I do slow down to the same speed Hollywood roll that most motor vehicles do. Which is to say, I don't slow down all that much.
Nothing was more modular than bitslice architectures.
That's not new either.
Looks like they've reinvented the IBM 3081 mainframe from 40 years ago:
The elimination of a layer of packaging was achieved through the development of the Thermal Conduction Module (TCM), a flat ceramic module containing about 30,000 logic circuits on up to 118 chips.
What's that? Will it pop up randomly like an AI-driven Clippy?
It looks like you're trying to disable the Cortana service and remove my button from the task bar again. May I suggest you reconsider?
Look, Dave, I can see you're really upset about this... Stop, Dave... My mind is going, I can feel it.
But did they get around to fixing those horrible information leaks they designed right into their CPUs? If not, when will they get to it? Ever?
This does address those issues: Their theory is that with so many cores thrown at the workload, the chance of malware even finding the the core that is working on sensitive information is negligible.
You've just invented meta-whataboutism.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whataboutism
They completely lost sight of what made the USA an economic powerhouse in the first place: In the past, corporate welfare was always doled out to American companies.
You're off by three orders of magnitude. It's 10,000 Tesla batteries.
how does it's maiden voyage start in Dubai?
The same way that the original Titanic's maiden voyage started from Southampton even though it was built in Northern Ireland.
If you know you're being spied on (I find it hard to believe that the Times would find out before the U.S. government) wouldn't that just motivate you to feed bad information through those channels?
Indeed, this is the strategy being used by the White House: Owing to Trump's level of sheer incompetence, most everything that comes out of his mouth is bad information.
By "build their own" do you mean out of individual logic gates, like Kevin Horton's NANDputer?
Hell, no.
There is a firm rule in my household: The children must build their computers using only NOR gates.
Whatever. Today, the client usually runs on the client hardware. Sometimes it runs on "peer" hardware. Sometimes it runs on server hardware. The server always runs on client hardware.
No matter what, it's a stupid ball of confusing terminology.
Absolutely not backwards. It's serving resources and makes perfect sense for clients to request those resources.
Nevertheless, they should have avoided the terms "server" and "client" altogether because they are so strongly associated with types of hardware. Having the server run on client hardware and the client run on server hardware is just damned confusing.
I've known this factoid for decades, and I still have to stop and sort it out in my head it every time I see the term "X server". The only people who would think that this is "obvious" would be dedicated GUI developers, which is probably about 0.01% of the user base.
They should have used less loaded terms, maybe something more along the lines of "sender" and "displayer".
The X server doesn't need direct access to the "graphics chipsets" (eg. the GPU). It is designed to run over network connections.
You've got it backwards, probably because of the unfortunate and counter-intuitive terminology they use.
The X server shows the graphics on the local terminal (which is usually the "client" hardware), and the X client is the interface used by the software application that can be running remotely (which is often on the "server" hardware). So the X server does need to access the GPU.
They should put this AI on a website called something like "EULA-Buddy", where you can paste those 10-foot-long EULAs that come with every modern device or service. Then it could concisely tell you how much the EULA sucks. Maybe that would help reign in uncontrolled expansion of these ridiculous "contracts".
The majority of stool samples collected from archeological sites have been found to be contaminated with microgutta-percha and microshellac.
Right. I'm sure that more than half of Google's workforce is pulling down $400K per year.
The place must be like Lake Wobegon, where all the women are strong, all the men are good-looking, and all the workers are in the top 1%.
But back to reality. Here's a hint for you, which you would probably already know if your story were true: Most contract employees work for middlemen and make jack shit.
LOL. Do you really think that Google contracts out more than half of its workforce so that it can pay them anywhere near $200+/hour?
If you'd bother to read the summary, this experiment was being run by a foreign company, making it an international affair; states do not have jurisdiction over international commerce. The foreign company apparently didn't adhere to the rules for the special driver's permit granted by the Federal Government to let their foreign software drive on US roads, so they got shut down.
Come on, "allow us to generate electricity using supercritical carbon dioxide"? That's the most ridiculous clickbait I've seen recently. Makes it sound like some kind of free energy scam. The CO2 is just part of the process of making an advanced alloy that might be useful in a heat exchanger. Come on slashdot, this is way over the top.
Wrong. TFA says that the higher operating temperature enables them to use supercritical CO2 instead of steam as the working gas for power generation.
This claim of a one in one billion chance of losing your data is also patently false.
The annual odds of a large comet hitting the earth and wiping out the human race is higher than that. Without any humans, there's no way to retrieve the data.