The original article was about surfacing for air -- not being a slave to the machine, eyes glued on social media (/.?) and ears pricked for an alert chime. The same could be said for email or SMS.
Possibly a good idea, I dunno. I use the _ORIGINAL_ social media, USENET . And some with this newcomer,/. . Never had much of a problem with addiction.
Cars/vehicles are a very expensive and infrequent purchase from somewhat limited suppliers. "Lumpy" if you will. There is significant risk of "lock-in" and extending a legal monopoly [pricing power] into other areas. "Right to repair" makes sense.
Electronics are a whole different kettle of fish. Much less expensive, more competition and dismal reliability after repair. This "Right to Repair" sounds like RMS [Stallman] in the hardware arena. IMHO, not worth the trouble -- let the market decide. When you buy an Apple device or laptop, you know it has limited lifetime (battery, software) and decide accordingly. Mostly I buy Linux open hardware because I know how to fix it, and I like replacing batteries on Android phones.
Fixed entropy [passwd] is clearly an oxymoron -- it is at most an obscurant. At the very least other sources of pseudo-entropy should be sought and mixed in. Something like low-order time bits or low order MAC bits from the network.
But that is exactly the point -- there must be biological downsides (side-effects) to intelligence, otherwise the whole species would have been naturally-selected towards a higher IQ millenia ago. Instead, we just have a ~recent (100yr) Flynn effect around +1 IQpt/decade. Of course the IQ scale is rebased, but that is the shift.
"legacy" is a smear, especially if you're referring to all coding. I often handwrite when typing would be awkward, intrusive or incompatible with my creative processes. I've got lots of handwritten code fragments especially ASM.
A larger point is that newer technologies ADD to means of communication. Mousing & touchscreen are preferred for some input tasks. But this gets into the GUI v CLI debate/flamefest.
Perhaps some new tech will be developed, but it will have to be compelling to compete against a kbd collecting up to 60 bit/s with ~1% error from a human mind. Mouse/touch have their place, but mostly for simplicity & graphics not bandwidth. It is possible to code with a menu/mouse, but I very much doubt anyone would prefer it outside of a learning environment.
Speech was the first communication device, ~200k years ago. Then came stylii and reed-pens ~4000 years ago and typewriters ~150 years ago. All have been improved (language precision, steel nibs 1815, electronics) but all are still around and used as appropriate.
Yes, when you focus on a small detail on the screen (games, sports, photos, etc) resolution matters, and you want as much as you can get. FWIW, full frame 35mm Kodachrome64 (100 lp/mm) is about 7200x4800. On Tech-Pan (b&w 600 lp/mm) that's 43000x29000. 1250K anyone?
But lets not kid ourselves -- portable DVD players and airline seat-backs hold attention with 400x263. Everything depends on viewing needs.
I resemble that remark! I also use mutt as my primary email client. In addition to security and quick access to full headers, it is just plain faster, especially with 200+ daily. Best with nice big portrait terminals (140x140).
A few items need rendering (I prefer elinks2 over lynx 'cuz tables) and a very few get copied into a safe file for seamonkey image rendering.
This is an unexpected and far-reaching ruling, potentially out-lawing automated licence-plate readers: there is a California law (like in many complex states) that forbids accessing the registration database without valid specific reason (investigation, lawsuit). Basically because cops were picking up women. To justify scanners, LAPD said they were investigating the whole city, but that has now been overturned.
Now that "investigating everything" has been tossed, a number of cases that started from this dragnet can be challenged and evidence excluded as "fruit of the poisoned vine". Expect more parallel construction from LEOs.
Not only is space incomprehensibly vast, but so is time. 16 billion years sounds easy to say, but if an intelligent species only broadcasts "clear", identifiable uncompressed unencrypted radio for ~100 years, then we have only 1 in 160 million chances of finding them with something like SETI.
Do they think they have the technical side covered and just need lipstick? Not IMHO -- big efforts are necessary to improve recognition of displays larger than FHD (1920x1080) such as 2K (2560x1440) and 4K (3840x2160). They're now much more common and if the [built-in] graphics are limiting, then this too should at least be user-visible.
In many places, commercial firecode requires old [plenum] wiring to be removed as a fire hazard. Houses are more combustible and wiring adds little load, so it is usually your choice.
You could leave a good star network with head-end in place -- a future owner might want satellite system. Steal a run if the line makes a good pull-string to an otherwise difficult drop. But you might want to cut'n'seal some of that horrible outside surface-run. At least ground it well because that stuff is a lightning magnet. Check and maintain all service entrance grounds.
Well, HS as an ABM it might be able to do an earlier intercept (not likely useful except possibly against EMP targetted) or extend the coverage range of the ABM system. Not likely more detectable than SLBM, and certainly more detectable than cruises.
While options might in principle be a good thing, how is this particular weapon system anything other than destabilizing? Short hang time, hair-trigger.
We already have hypersonic missiles, they're called ICBMs (US Trident 3) and MRBMs. Launch one, any everybody watching assumes multiple incoming thermonukes. With the new toys, it might just be conventional explosives. That's going to make anyone abandon "launch-on-warning"? Least of all the US!
Consider the current crop of countries the US considers [potential] hot-war enemies: Would hypersonics keep the Russians out of Ukraine, let alone Crimea? The Chinese off the Pacific sandbanks? The NorKs from developing missiles? ISIS out of Raqqa? Iran from developing nukes? Short-fuse helps _none_ of these situations, and it is tough to think of one which it would.
The appropriate and usual US sanction for violations of ITAR/USML/EAR regulations and conditions is listing of the offenders in the US Federal Register as "Denied Parties". This forbids any US entity/subsidiary from any dealings or "facilitation" of their transactions. Nastier than it sounds -- what it doesn't freeze outright, it costs at least 10% more to skirt.
Wall whining or not, what do you want to bet the US DoC/DoJ does no such thing? For one thing, hypocrisy is already pegged.
Non-routine deleted data is often the most interesting data of all.
Furthermore, most databases do not actually delete records, just flag them as "DELETED". Such records might be actually deleted/overwritten when a "Compaction" run is performed to recover space into larger blocks--if ever, might just recover LRU. How do we know what Google implements even if it not DELETED==INTERESTING?
Look: some people (celebs) potentially have sophisticated opponents and truly need high security. They know who they are, and should willingly deal with complex passwds. Why impose them on the rest of humanity? People should decide for themselves.
Forcing strong passwds is just laziness and avoiding implemention of other security measures like rate-limiting, IPgeo, lock-out, oh yes, and hashing passwds! Yes, lockout can cause DoS but I'd like the notice and after unlock would have complexity to be able to do without.
I notice browser slowness much more on my ARM devices than even on Celerons. I think the biggest differentiator is who can multi-thread the best to take advantage of available processors.
Disturbingly harsh, especially as we are all just trying to discuss and understand. Hyperbolic criticism and "ad hominem" get in the way, and appear intentional.
The point of removing blockages leading to breakthroughs is very likely valid where it applies. I do not believe it applies to CPU/GPU performance because there has been plenty of competition (Intel, ARM, AMD, Alpha, PowerPC, Transmeta...) who have gone back to various levels of "scratch". I have not seen or heard of anything that might qualify as a major blockage such as a patents. Sure someone out there might have a great new idea, but that is what competition is intended to bring out.
The poster asks a question that assumes breakthroughs can be planned just like any other development project. But breakthroughs are not, or rather, those that can be planned and worked already have been. The computer science field has been operating awash with funding for at least 55 years.
I'm not saying there are no breathoughts out there, what I'm saying is that our current project methodology has already discovered all it can, and most future breathoughs will come from some other methodology.
The target, CPU/GPU power is also not especially compelling -- compared to the past, there is much less pressure to increase performance, and considerable uncertainty how the increase will be helpful.
The US entrance controls are obvious -- immigration and customs officers you must satisfy. Unlike some countries (AU), there are no obvious exit controls. But the US has always exerted jurisdiction over _exports_ so CBP officers can and do stop people leaving the US to inspect for prohibited exports. Just about any comp/phone might be seized because it contains crypto (5A002, 5A992 unless you have the resources to press the Mass Market exemption).
Even if CBP are being less @$$hole-ish (seriously, a job requirement), they can certainly claim electronics could be carrying data (mostly instructions) that are prohibited export.
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The original article was about surfacing for air -- not being a slave to the machine, eyes glued on social media (/.?) and ears pricked for an alert chime. The same could be said for email or SMS.
Possibly a good idea, I dunno. I use the _ORIGINAL_ social media, USENET . And some with this newcomer, /. . Never had much of a problem with addiction.
Electronics are a whole different kettle of fish. Much less expensive, more competition and dismal reliability after repair. This "Right to Repair" sounds like RMS [Stallman] in the hardware arena. IMHO, not worth the trouble -- let the market decide. When you buy an Apple device or laptop, you know it has limited lifetime (battery, software) and decide accordingly. Mostly I buy Linux open hardware because I know how to fix it, and I like replacing batteries on Android phones.
Fixed entropy [passwd] is clearly an oxymoron -- it is at most an obscurant. At the very least other sources of pseudo-entropy should be sought and mixed in. Something like low-order time bits or low order MAC bits from the network.
But that is exactly the point -- there must be biological downsides (side-effects) to intelligence, otherwise the whole species would have been naturally-selected towards a higher IQ millenia ago. Instead, we just have a ~recent (100yr) Flynn effect around +1 IQpt/decade. Of course the IQ scale is rebased, but that is the shift.
A larger point is that newer technologies ADD to means of communication. Mousing & touchscreen are preferred for some input tasks. But this gets into the GUI v CLI debate/flamefest.
Perhaps some new tech will be developed, but it will have to be compelling to compete against a kbd collecting up to 60 bit/s with ~1% error from a human mind. Mouse/touch have their place, but mostly for simplicity & graphics not bandwidth. It is possible to code with a menu/mouse, but I very much doubt anyone would prefer it outside of a learning environment.
Speech was the first communication device, ~200k years ago. Then came stylii and reed-pens ~4000 years ago and typewriters ~150 years ago. All have been improved (language precision, steel nibs 1815, electronics) but all are still around and used as appropriate.
Yes, when you focus on a small detail on the screen (games, sports, photos, etc) resolution matters, and you want as much as you can get. FWIW, full frame 35mm Kodachrome64 (100 lp/mm) is about 7200x4800. On Tech-Pan (b&w 600 lp/mm) that's 43000x29000. 1250K anyone?
But lets not kid ourselves -- portable DVD players and airline seat-backs hold attention with 400x263. Everything depends on viewing needs.
I resemble that remark! I also use mutt as my primary email client. In addition to security and quick access to full headers, it is just plain faster, especially with 200+ daily. Best with nice big portrait terminals (140x140).
A few items need rendering (I prefer elinks2 over lynx 'cuz tables) and a very few get copied into a safe file for seamonkey image rendering.
This is an unexpected and far-reaching ruling, potentially out-lawing automated licence-plate readers: there is a California law (like in many complex states) that forbids accessing the registration database without valid specific reason (investigation, lawsuit). Basically because cops were picking up women. To justify scanners, LAPD said they were investigating the whole city, but that has now been overturned.
Now that "investigating everything" has been tossed, a number of cases that started from this dragnet can be challenged and evidence excluded as "fruit of the poisoned vine". Expect more parallel construction from LEOs.
Not only is space incomprehensibly vast, but so is time. 16 billion years sounds easy to say, but if an intelligent species only broadcasts "clear", identifiable uncompressed unencrypted radio for ~100 years, then we have only 1 in 160 million chances of finding them with something like SETI.
Do they think they have the technical side covered and just need lipstick? Not IMHO -- big efforts are necessary to improve recognition of displays larger than FHD (1920x1080) such as 2K (2560x1440) and 4K (3840x2160). They're now much more common and if the [built-in] graphics are limiting, then this too should at least be user-visible.
In many places, commercial firecode requires old [plenum] wiring to be removed as a fire hazard. Houses are more combustible and wiring adds little load, so it is usually your choice.
You could leave a good star network with head-end in place -- a future owner might want satellite system. Steal a run if the line makes a good pull-string to an otherwise difficult drop. But you might want to cut'n'seal some of that horrible outside surface-run. At least ground it well because that stuff is a lightning magnet. Check and maintain all service entrance grounds.
Well, HS as an ABM it might be able to do an earlier intercept (not likely useful except possibly against EMP targetted) or extend the coverage range of the ABM system. Not likely more detectable than SLBM, and certainly more detectable than cruises.
While options might in principle be a good thing, how is this particular weapon system anything other than destabilizing? Short hang time, hair-trigger.
We already have hypersonic missiles, they're called ICBMs (US Trident 3) and MRBMs. Launch one, any everybody watching assumes multiple incoming thermonukes. With the new toys, it might just be conventional explosives. That's going to make anyone abandon "launch-on-warning"? Least of all the US!
Consider the current crop of countries the US considers [potential] hot-war enemies: Would hypersonics keep the Russians out of Ukraine, let alone Crimea? The Chinese off the Pacific sandbanks? The NorKs from developing missiles? ISIS out of Raqqa? Iran from developing nukes? Short-fuse helps _none_ of these situations, and it is tough to think of one which it would.
The appropriate and usual US sanction for violations of ITAR/USML/EAR regulations and conditions is listing of the offenders in the US Federal Register as "Denied Parties". This forbids any US entity/subsidiary from any dealings or "facilitation" of their transactions. Nastier than it sounds -- what it doesn't freeze outright, it costs at least 10% more to skirt.
Wall whining or not, what do you want to bet the US DoC/DoJ does no such thing? For one thing, hypocrisy is already pegged.
No really (not obLinux)
$ diff -h dumpold dumpnew | grep "^>"
where dump[old|new] are webpage flatfiles (links -dump ) catted together. Privacy.
Non-routine deleted data is often the most interesting data of all.
Furthermore, most databases do not actually delete records, just flag them as "DELETED". Such records might be actually deleted/overwritten when a "Compaction" run is performed to recover space into larger blocks--if ever, might just recover LRU. How do we know what Google implements even if it not DELETED==INTERESTING?
FORTRAN as well, '66 for an IBM1401 (only arithmetic IF) at HighSchool. Later WATFIV (uWaterloo Fortran IV) on a '370.
I still miss the IMPLIED DOLOOPS for READ/WRITE() -- load or dump pages of an array with one statement&fmt. And FORTRAN is said to have poor I/O :)
Look: some people (celebs) potentially have sophisticated opponents and truly need high security. They know who they are, and should willingly deal with complex passwds. Why impose them on the rest of humanity? People should decide for themselves.
Forcing strong passwds is just laziness and avoiding implemention of other security measures like rate-limiting, IPgeo, lock-out, oh yes, and hashing passwds! Yes, lockout can cause DoS but I'd like the notice and after unlock would have complexity to be able to do without.
I notice browser slowness much more on my ARM devices than even on Celerons. I think the biggest differentiator is who can multi-thread the best to take advantage of available processors.
Disturbingly harsh, especially as we are all just trying to discuss and understand. Hyperbolic criticism and "ad hominem" get in the way, and appear intentional.
The point of removing blockages leading to breakthroughs is very likely valid where it applies. I do not believe it applies to CPU/GPU performance because there has been plenty of competition (Intel, ARM, AMD, Alpha, PowerPC, Transmeta ...) who have gone back to various levels of "scratch". I have not seen or heard of anything that might qualify as a major blockage such as a patents. Sure someone out there might have a great new idea, but that is what competition is intended to bring out.
The poster asks a question that assumes breakthroughs can be planned just like any other development project. But breakthroughs are not, or rather, those that can be planned and worked already have been. The computer science field has been operating awash with funding for at least 55 years.
I'm not saying there are no breathoughts out there, what I'm saying is that our current project methodology has already discovered all it can, and most future breathoughs will come from some other methodology.
The target, CPU/GPU power is also not especially compelling -- compared to the past, there is much less pressure to increase performance, and considerable uncertainty how the increase will be helpful.
After the first month or so, MicroCenter has had good stock of ZEROs (w & w/0 camera).
Does this include those pesky video ads included on web-pages to slow them down? Or are they served from elsewhere (not embedded)?
The US entrance controls are obvious -- immigration and customs officers you must satisfy. Unlike some countries (AU), there are no obvious exit controls. But the US has always exerted jurisdiction over _exports_ so CBP officers can and do stop people leaving the US to inspect for prohibited exports. Just about any comp/phone might be seized because it contains crypto (5A002, 5A992 unless you have the resources to press the Mass Market exemption).
Even if CBP are being less @$$hole-ish (seriously, a job requirement), they can certainly claim electronics could be carrying data (mostly instructions) that are prohibited export.