Paul Allen literally killed 70% of the Earth's coral reefs by parking his yacht over them for weeks at a time while letting the anchor drag around over the course of many trips spread over years. I'm not even fucking joking, Paul Allen is practically the sole reason coral reefs are dying, look it up.
You must be trolling. There are entire fields of fake science (e.g. sociology, psychology, etc.) Nobody who teaches does so because they're good at science, they do so because they can't do anything in science. Sometimes that's merely being too autistic to get funding, but that's relatively rare, especially in tenured positions which are 99% politics. Paper exists so wealthy people can vet poor people to fill roles without having to be bothered to learn anything about them, that's the only purpose of it in the modern world. Of course one of the motivations is for people to pretend they know more than others, which is the category most PhD holders fall into. The competent scientists are overwhelmingly dropouts who discovered something along the way and realized it was a waste of time to keep going with it.
I would doubt that the sub 100 IQ'ed control half the world's wealth, by definition. Trump notwithstanding, LOL!
If you think Trump and/or his supporters are idiots you're delusional. He won with an Army of nerds shilling for him for free because he represented their interests for a change and in addition he himself has an IQ no less than 4 s.d. above average. But hey, whatever helps you stop crying and go to sleep at night; personally I look forward to another 7 years of you idiots buttraging all over the place.
You know what's the definition of "mentally impaired"?
Calling the most successful company of ANY type on the planet a "Toymaker for the mentally impaired".
Actually, I'll have you know the average IQ is 100. You could cater to nothing but the mentally impaired and control half the world's wealth by definition.
That is a giant steaming pile of bullshit. I have been using Apple toys for decades and I have used them with a long string of non-Apple toys and so far they have worked fine together with the exception certain Microsoft VPNs, the occasional WiFi hotspot and most HP and Samsung printers but that's mainly because HP and Samsung printers seem to be total crap since they don't work very well with my Linux box or the Windows grey-boxes at work either.
Maybe if by "work at the same time" you mean you can fit them in your vagina at the same time. You know VPNs and WiFi hotspots aren't tangible things though, right? As for the printer, all I can suggest is keep trying, everyone has a dream to strive for.
Of course a defense department looking to use a piece of software is going to inspect it for security. Frankly it's more a sign of Russia's lack of security that they would use US software on their systems than anything else. Security through obscurity isn't security so opening the source is irrelevant to anything from a security perspective.
Hippies practicing scare tactics aren't scientists. From the weather through volcanology history has shown that people predicting the future are not scientists of any merit.
Whatever TF the insurer wants to use. It is a private company entitled to do as it pleases. Don't like it — switch to a competitor.
Aside from the obvious point that they're all likely doing this and you only know this one is because of a leak - how damaged does your brain have to be to apply libertarian concepts to government-mandated subscription providers?
People change insurance companies whenever they get in an accident and get charged for it, so they have to apply filters to charge those people more before it happens. It's shit but that's how it works.
This is actually a pretty good metric. Hotmail users are inherently going to be idiots who don't understand technology and therefore have feeble minds incapable of avoiding avoidable accidents.
Going under was in the context of also having done a recall. Keep in mind a recall+replacement would effectively be returning the last ~decade of sales revenue in full AND tripling-down on the R&D+production budgets to get everything replaced within a few years, AND not charging for it. They would definitely go under if they fixed the issue as they should simply following a fair deal "e.g. customer paid x for y, they should get y for x" - they have no practical mechanism by which to compensate people with chips at the same level they purchased because such chips don't exist, they have to be built up more or less from design on up from scratch - then they have to be manufactured and distributed.
They could conceivably give every customer of the last decade and a half an extra 2 Intel CPUs equal to what they purchased to make up for the ~70% performance hit and not go bankrupt in the process, but even then they're stuck in an R&D cycle for 2-3 years (minimum, likely closer to a decade in all seriousness because they pretty much have to throw away their R&D of the last decade) while making a replacement chip.
Now factor in that we're in the modern world: if either AMD or Intel admit wrongdoing they have consequences forced upon them, if they release shit patches and keep going business-as-usual there's no real consequence because they're both doing it. Either one could come up with a secure version and put the other out of business before they could possibly catch up. The smartest move is to release shitty patches and work on a fix behind the scenes in conjunction with some freely distributed exploits for the competitor's chips to be released as a part of a marketing blitz a few months before releasing the fixed version. So in a decade we might have secure chips again.
Alternatively, people could start taking DIY chip design and open hardware specs seriously, then it might progress a bit faster, but that still requires a backer because every rev of an IC tends to run about 1m in things like masks and setup, causing R&D to be quite expensive.
The issue are the bugs are architectural in nature and they can't patch them, it's not physically possible without redesigning the chip architecture from the ground up and doing a full recall of all existing chips. They would basically go bankrupt if they took the proper route to fixing it. Even on a best case scenario where it gets fixed and they don't require a recall it's going to take years of dedicated effort just to have a prototype of a chip without the bug and if they pursue that they will then be behind in the Intel-AMD arms race and go under. The only logical solution is to pretend the issue isn't as bad as it is and keep pumping out bullshit while leaving the solution to the next CEO.
More likely nobody cares to with the ability. "Hackers" have been governments and megacorps alone for the last ~decade and a half. They already have a plethora of backdoors at their disposal while Meltdown and Spectre are trickier to exploit. The script kiddies only get what leaks out and usually end up implementing them wrong anyway. The governments and megacorps tend to try to remain covert (e.g. when they're in your system they have reason to make you not believe they are) while the script kiddies are the only ones who want you to know they were there as some kind of erectile-dysfunction-compensating-mechanism.
It's not so much that Meltdown and Spectre aren't very serious security issues, they are. It's that we've been running on 100% insecure systems and known about it for the last decade and nothing is happening because the governments and corporations who exploit them want to keep things running so they can keep collecting data.
A "hack" is no longer "haha I fragged your shit and posted pictures of some guy's prolapsed asshole on your website to symbolize your inevitable buttrage" it's "does this person have anything I can profit by stealing?"
The Bitcoin mining network consumes something like 1.8 GW of electricity on average, so enough computers to fully load a ~901MW power plant. At scale you're likely looking at about $1.25 per W so about 1.1 billion dollars worth of hardware dedicated to the task. The big issue is that there aren't actually that many people in the 51%, one guy in Russia actually has a coal fired power plant dedicated to nothing but his mining operations.
Relax, it's just some drivel from Wired. The writer was probably told to write about technology, looked around and thought "everyone writes about computers," then saw his radio and looked up how radios work. After realizing that was over his head he spotted a speaker, and discovered the wonderful effect known as "piezoelectricity" - which struck him as particularly sci-fi sounding and since he himself had never heard of it must surely have been new, afterall, he's a writer and if he can steer public opinion he must know more than everyone else except maybe vetted scientists and cutting edge researchers working on this new-fangled "piezoelectricity" research.
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So you admit outright to having no point? Excellent concession.
Someone posted a source, you didn't even have to Google it.
You've literally posted this after someone posted the source. You didn't even have to Google it, you disingenuous hippy.
It's only failing is lack of Widevine support (no streaming videos.) Otherwise works great for everything.
Paul Allen literally killed 70% of the Earth's coral reefs by parking his yacht over them for weeks at a time while letting the anchor drag around over the course of many trips spread over years. I'm not even fucking joking, Paul Allen is practically the sole reason coral reefs are dying, look it up.
You must be trolling. There are entire fields of fake science (e.g. sociology, psychology, etc.) Nobody who teaches does so because they're good at science, they do so because they can't do anything in science. Sometimes that's merely being too autistic to get funding, but that's relatively rare, especially in tenured positions which are 99% politics. Paper exists so wealthy people can vet poor people to fill roles without having to be bothered to learn anything about them, that's the only purpose of it in the modern world. Of course one of the motivations is for people to pretend they know more than others, which is the category most PhD holders fall into. The competent scientists are overwhelmingly dropouts who discovered something along the way and realized it was a waste of time to keep going with it.
Paper doesn't make you smart, it just shows you did the work in relation to it.
Looks like they want less angles being recorded at the next concert to make the news.
You can't debate facts.
I would doubt that the sub 100 IQ'ed control half the world's wealth, by definition. Trump notwithstanding, LOL!
If you think Trump and/or his supporters are idiots you're delusional. He won with an Army of nerds shilling for him for free because he represented their interests for a change and in addition he himself has an IQ no less than 4 s.d. above average. But hey, whatever helps you stop crying and go to sleep at night; personally I look forward to another 7 years of you idiots buttraging all over the place.
That cognitive dissonance is palpable.
You know what's the definition of "mentally impaired"?
Calling the most successful company of ANY type on the planet a "Toymaker for the mentally impaired".
Actually, I'll have you know the average IQ is 100. You could cater to nothing but the mentally impaired and control half the world's wealth by definition.
That is a giant steaming pile of bullshit. I have been using Apple toys for decades and I have used them with a long string of non-Apple toys and so far they have worked fine together with the exception certain Microsoft VPNs, the occasional WiFi hotspot and most HP and Samsung printers but that's mainly because HP and Samsung printers seem to be total crap since they don't work very well with my Linux box or the Windows grey-boxes at work either.
Maybe if by "work at the same time" you mean you can fit them in your vagina at the same time. You know VPNs and WiFi hotspots aren't tangible things though, right? As for the printer, all I can suggest is keep trying, everyone has a dream to strive for.
Of course a defense department looking to use a piece of software is going to inspect it for security. Frankly it's more a sign of Russia's lack of security that they would use US software on their systems than anything else. Security through obscurity isn't security so opening the source is irrelevant to anything from a security perspective.
Hippies practicing scare tactics aren't scientists. From the weather through volcanology history has shown that people predicting the future are not scientists of any merit.
Whatever TF the insurer wants to use. It is a private company entitled to do as it pleases. Don't like it — switch to a competitor.
Aside from the obvious point that they're all likely doing this and you only know this one is because of a leak - how damaged does your brain have to be to apply libertarian concepts to government-mandated subscription providers?
I fail to see how this makes news on slashdot oh wait it's anti apple that might be how
It's not even anti-Apple, we already know Apple only makes toys for the mentally impaired.
People change insurance companies whenever they get in an accident and get charged for it, so they have to apply filters to charge those people more before it happens. It's shit but that's how it works.
This is actually a pretty good metric. Hotmail users are inherently going to be idiots who don't understand technology and therefore have feeble minds incapable of avoiding avoidable accidents.
Going under was in the context of also having done a recall. Keep in mind a recall+replacement would effectively be returning the last ~decade of sales revenue in full AND tripling-down on the R&D+production budgets to get everything replaced within a few years, AND not charging for it. They would definitely go under if they fixed the issue as they should simply following a fair deal "e.g. customer paid x for y, they should get y for x" - they have no practical mechanism by which to compensate people with chips at the same level they purchased because such chips don't exist, they have to be built up more or less from design on up from scratch - then they have to be manufactured and distributed.
They could conceivably give every customer of the last decade and a half an extra 2 Intel CPUs equal to what they purchased to make up for the ~70% performance hit and not go bankrupt in the process, but even then they're stuck in an R&D cycle for 2-3 years (minimum, likely closer to a decade in all seriousness because they pretty much have to throw away their R&D of the last decade) while making a replacement chip.
Now factor in that we're in the modern world: if either AMD or Intel admit wrongdoing they have consequences forced upon them, if they release shit patches and keep going business-as-usual there's no real consequence because they're both doing it. Either one could come up with a secure version and put the other out of business before they could possibly catch up. The smartest move is to release shitty patches and work on a fix behind the scenes in conjunction with some freely distributed exploits for the competitor's chips to be released as a part of a marketing blitz a few months before releasing the fixed version. So in a decade we might have secure chips again.
Alternatively, people could start taking DIY chip design and open hardware specs seriously, then it might progress a bit faster, but that still requires a backer because every rev of an IC tends to run about 1m in things like masks and setup, causing R&D to be quite expensive.
The issue are the bugs are architectural in nature and they can't patch them, it's not physically possible without redesigning the chip architecture from the ground up and doing a full recall of all existing chips. They would basically go bankrupt if they took the proper route to fixing it. Even on a best case scenario where it gets fixed and they don't require a recall it's going to take years of dedicated effort just to have a prototype of a chip without the bug and if they pursue that they will then be behind in the Intel-AMD arms race and go under. The only logical solution is to pretend the issue isn't as bad as it is and keep pumping out bullshit while leaving the solution to the next CEO.
More likely nobody cares to with the ability. "Hackers" have been governments and megacorps alone for the last ~decade and a half. They already have a plethora of backdoors at their disposal while Meltdown and Spectre are trickier to exploit. The script kiddies only get what leaks out and usually end up implementing them wrong anyway. The governments and megacorps tend to try to remain covert (e.g. when they're in your system they have reason to make you not believe they are) while the script kiddies are the only ones who want you to know they were there as some kind of erectile-dysfunction-compensating-mechanism.
It's not so much that Meltdown and Spectre aren't very serious security issues, they are. It's that we've been running on 100% insecure systems and known about it for the last decade and nothing is happening because the governments and corporations who exploit them want to keep things running so they can keep collecting data.
A "hack" is no longer "haha I fragged your shit and posted pictures of some guy's prolapsed asshole on your website to symbolize your inevitable buttrage" it's "does this person have anything I can profit by stealing?"
The Bitcoin mining network consumes something like 1.8 GW of electricity on average, so enough computers to fully load a ~901MW power plant. At scale you're likely looking at about $1.25 per W so about 1.1 billion dollars worth of hardware dedicated to the task. The big issue is that there aren't actually that many people in the 51%, one guy in Russia actually has a coal fired power plant dedicated to nothing but his mining operations.
The most obvious application would appear to be giving submarines enemas, but we are working hard to find other uses, possibly even legitimate ones.
Have you considered replacing the submarines with Japanese prostitutes and the ultrasound with electric eels?
Relax, it's just some drivel from Wired. The writer was probably told to write about technology, looked around and thought "everyone writes about computers," then saw his radio and looked up how radios work. After realizing that was over his head he spotted a speaker, and discovered the wonderful effect known as "piezoelectricity" - which struck him as particularly sci-fi sounding and since he himself had never heard of it must surely have been new, afterall, he's a writer and if he can steer public opinion he must know more than everyone else except maybe vetted scientists and cutting edge researchers working on this new-fangled "piezoelectricity" research.