"Wide adoption of this kind of gene-tampering would probably more likely help reduce the number of stupid than increase the number of high-IQ individuals."
Perhaps over multiple generations it would lead to more high-IQ as certain gene combinations become more and less common.
I think his point is that while the NSA has been able to sniff around the internet with impunity, to actually take your phone and examine it, they would need a warrant.
Hmm... the key is NOT on the phone. I don't understand Snowden's comments or yours. The IOS file system is encrypted, and if you use a decent length pass phrase it should be unhackable. No?
Yep, thus the genius of this new scheme. The downloading question will allow them to induct ice-men who can beat the polygraph and lie without conscience. Perfect FBI material.
I can see the point of writing an OS kernel in C++ if you wanted to experiment and do research into OS ideas. But to rewrite Linux in C++... all you'd end up with is yet another UNIX kernel. Why do we need another UNIX kernel written in another language? UNIX is not that interesting anymore. It's been done already. Write something new and interesting in C++.
Anybody interested in this issue should look at http://www.metric.org.uk/ It gives a lot of information about how stupid the imperial system is in general, and in particular in its implementation in Britain.
Just because you switch to metric doesn't mean you have to re-round all your products. If it's a 3.4 litre container, or dual-labelled, its not a problem. In metric countries, lots of things are in odd units. 375ml cans of coke for example. It doesn't matter.
The whole idea that any and every environment variable can contain runnable code which would automatically be loaded was pure insanity on somebody's part.
Well, the basic idea of bash, sh, or a unix shell is rather crufty./bin/sh was already crufty what with its weird quoting rules and so forth before bash added all its extensions.
Nobody's really invented something yet as just damned convenient as/bin/sh, but I wish they would.
All that needs to line up is that there be cgi based bash scripts, which admittedly not everyone has, but plenty of people (for some strange reason) do have. You are underplaying this.
Even if they fix the basic bug, which is that functions are exported as environment variables, but the function can be trailed with extra commands, the whole idea seems extremely dangerous to me. What if you define a function called ls or cp or some other common command? It's pretty likely something will call it, and the whole problem is back in play.
The bigger problem to me seems to be that cgi scripts export user parameters to environment variables before calling bash. I mean, bash itself as a cgi web handler seems incredibly dangerous already. Too powerful for this application. But to then have unvetted user defined environment variables? This is insane. There's plenty of blame to go around here.
The smartphone market has rapidly gone from 128MB RAM devices to (at least) 1GB devices. It's no wonder that earlier devices suffered a bit under later OSes. But I think this phenomenon has passed. Now new OSes don't really slow down. I don't see anything bad with my iPhone 5 and IOS8.
Yeah, it got a few years of updates. Apple made the mistake of only giving it 256M of RAM so it couldn't get any more updates. That was a mistake, but having made the mistake I can't blame Apple for not doing the impossible. They've been generous with the iPad 2 though.
Well... in most circumstances the GPU will only help graphics related performance. That's only impressive when you wanted better graphics performance, and not general performance. You can't offload anything onto the GPU. Only certain specific types of things, and certain math.
Anyway, this whole article is premature. The benchmarks may not even be iPhone 6, they may be spoofed. They are only one benchmark. Let's wait see what real analysis reveals. Whatever the answer I doubt it will hurt sales.
I was wondering about that. Do the Supremes hold secret court too under these circumstances?
I thought part of the whole point of the Supreme court was to establish important legal precedents. Can you do that when it is all secret? Because to use the precedent, the whole legal community needs to know all the juicy details.
Secret courts are the biggest threat to a functioning democracy that one could possibly conceive of.
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Looks are a lot less to do with fashion than some suspect. Even different races have a similar idea (generally) about what is good looks.
"Wide adoption of this kind of gene-tampering would probably more likely help reduce the number of stupid than increase the number of high-IQ individuals."
Perhaps over multiple generations it would lead to more high-IQ as certain gene combinations become more and less common.
You realise the web site you are typing into now uses Javascript, and therefore you have just classified it as malware, right?
I think his point is that while the NSA has been able to sniff around the internet with impunity, to actually take your phone and examine it, they would need a warrant.
Hmm... the key is NOT on the phone. I don't understand Snowden's comments or yours. The IOS file system is encrypted, and if you use a decent length pass phrase it should be unhackable. No?
Is copyright infringement actually "illegal", or is it just a civil matter between copyright holder and infringer?
Yep, thus the genius of this new scheme. The downloading question will allow them to induct ice-men who can beat the polygraph and lie without conscience. Perfect FBI material.
I can see the point of writing an OS kernel in C++ if you wanted to experiment and do research into OS ideas. But to rewrite Linux in C++... all you'd end up with is yet another UNIX kernel. Why do we need another UNIX kernel written in another language? UNIX is not that interesting anymore. It's been done already. Write something new and interesting in C++.
Anybody interested in this issue should look at http://www.metric.org.uk/
It gives a lot of information about how stupid the imperial system is in general, and in particular in its implementation in Britain.
It's very hard to feel a fraction of a degree celcius. It's rare enough that you care, that the occasion you do, using a fraction isn't a big deal.
"Why not 10 or 1000? "
10 or 1000 would work. But humans are used to doing a lot with the 100 scale.
"Why water?"
Because water is important. Its the the cause of a lot of weather: rain, snow etc. It's the basis of the kilogram (a decilitre of water).
Just because you switch to metric doesn't mean you have to re-round all your products. If it's a 3.4 litre container, or dual-labelled, its not a problem. In metric countries, lots of things are in odd units. 375ml cans of coke for example. It doesn't matter.
I don't think many eyes cared to look at the grotesque internals of bash. I've glanced at it before, and it aint pretty.
You're right, but on the other hand, putting executable code in environment variables always was asking for trouble, web or no web.
Just go to a prompt and type the following command: /bin/rm -rf /
The whole idea that any and every environment variable can contain runnable code which would automatically be loaded was pure insanity on somebody's part.
Well, the basic idea of bash, sh, or a unix shell is rather crufty. /bin/sh was already crufty what with its weird quoting rules and so forth before bash added all its extensions.
Nobody's really invented something yet as just damned convenient as /bin/sh, but I wish they would.
All that needs to line up is that there be cgi based bash scripts, which admittedly not everyone has, but plenty of people (for some strange reason) do have. You are underplaying this.
Even if they fix the basic bug, which is that functions are exported as environment variables, but the function can be trailed with extra commands, the whole idea seems extremely dangerous to me. What if you define a function called ls or cp or some other common command? It's pretty likely something will call it, and the whole problem is back in play.
The bigger problem to me seems to be that cgi scripts export user parameters to environment variables before calling bash. I mean, bash itself as a cgi web handler seems incredibly dangerous already. Too powerful for this application. But to then have unvetted user defined environment variables? This is insane. There's plenty of blame to go around here.
The smartphone market has rapidly gone from 128MB RAM devices to (at least) 1GB devices. It's no wonder that earlier devices suffered a bit under later OSes. But I think this phenomenon has passed. Now new OSes don't really slow down. I don't see anything bad with my iPhone 5 and IOS8.
Yeah, it got a few years of updates. Apple made the mistake of only giving it 256M of RAM so it couldn't get any more updates. That was a mistake, but having made the mistake I can't blame Apple for not doing the impossible. They've been generous with the iPad 2 though.
I served papers on someone by email when I couldn't do it in person. This isn't particularly surprising.
Well... in most circumstances the GPU will only help graphics related performance. That's only impressive when you wanted better graphics performance, and not general performance. You can't offload anything onto the GPU. Only certain specific types of things, and certain math.
Anyway, this whole article is premature. The benchmarks may not even be iPhone 6, they may be spoofed. They are only one benchmark. Let's wait see what real analysis reveals. Whatever the answer I doubt it will hurt sales.
Ha ha. You should say there is a Start button on your punch card reader, and you pressed it, but the card got jammed.
I was wondering about that. Do the Supremes hold secret court too under these circumstances?
I thought part of the whole point of the Supreme court was to establish important legal precedents. Can you do that when it is all secret? Because to use the precedent, the whole legal community needs to know all the juicy details.
Secret courts are the biggest threat to a functioning democracy that one could possibly conceive of.