He's a Democrat. You can tell that because they didn't post his party affiliation in the article. Had it been a Republican it would have read "Republican xyz who is a Republican from the Republican party did.......". To be honest, I'm surpised they didn't do the usual "Rep Joe Manchin" like they usually do in order to confuse people when a Democrat acts dishonestly
Or... maybe they're doing their job very well, but what they're attempting to do is different than what you think they're trying to do. After all, this administration has arrested and charged more whistleblowers than all other administrations - combined!
Not even then. The way it works:
Advertisement:"This lottery will add $50million a year to the schools."
Politician to staff: Cut the general budget to schools by $40million and give it to my friends at xyz corp. Then put out a press release about how school funding went up $10million dollars under my governance.
Voter: Wow, he gave $10million more toward schools? He must really care about students. He has my vote
8% annual interest? Where are you making that!??!?!!? Sign me up! At this point, if interest rates get any lower I'll have to pay the bank to hold my money!
From my perspective, it's an issue of
LED bulb today = ~$15.00
LED bulb in 6 months = ~$5.00 ??
LED bulb in 1 year = ~$.75 ??
Might as well keep my incandescent for a little while longer. Besides, my wife doesn't like the color or the new stuff. Didn't help that we were early adopters of CFL and we have a lot of "it takes forever for these bulbs to turn on" issues which have lead to us leaving some lights on permanently.
Have you ever tried to recycle a CFL bulb? I have - it isn't that easy. Recycling centers don't want mercury- it's a hazardous substance. I had to travel 20 miles to a hazardous waste facility to ethically rid myself of it.
For me, and many other like me, it boils down to this: How accurate is the science on climate change?
If it was accurate then there would have been a consensus predicting these events. Instead what we see is many groups throwing out different predictions, and when everyone is guessing something different there is inevitably some who are right and some who are wrong. However, the fact that there is no consensus means that there isn't accuracy in the field of Climate Change and the fact that the most public predictions have been so diametrically opposite to the results demonstrates a lack of precision. No field of science can or should tolerate inaccuracy and imprecision. Until scientists can agree on models that correctly and reliably predict the effects of carbon on climate, the field of climate change study acts more like a religion in that it asks us for faith instead of facts.
I am willing to accept carbon based climate change and accept the changes required for preventing future damage, but only if it is scientifically proven. This would require models that make precise predictions that are reliably accurate. Instead we have what is like a bunch of people at the roulette table. If one guy gets 2 data points correctly everything thinks he's "on a roll", "can't miss", but if you have enough people all making different guesses, then inevitably one of those people will get 2 data points right. That guy will be just as likely to guess the next number as anyone else. There are so many climate change models out there, some guess well and some do not. Even the ones that do predict well are not consistent, and quite often contain constants that are not understood and certainly weren't predicted. This isn't science - there are no controlled studies, there is only crystal-ball gazing. Until climate science evolves to become more legitimate I am not willing to upend my life to accommodate the perceived changes required to prevent climate change.
The problem is that these products don't exist to large extent. The reason is that people are unwilling to accept any performance degradation in exchange for security. So, instead they use insecure systems, then they install 'anti-virus' which seeks to un-infect a system during/after an infection. This is like telling doctors "You don't need a hazard suit for that Ebola patient. If you get Ebola we'll give you some drugs". So, in order to protect ourselves we run virtual machines so that threats such as viruses are contained.
It's disgraceful that in 2014 we don't have secure operating systems. SE Linux is better than most, but not by much. If I went to you with a USB key and said 'run this on your SE Linux box, would you feel comfortable doing that knowing that your system is safe? Probably not.
If you want real security here is what you need:
1. A true microkernel that has been mathematically proven. This code would never change because it has been proven to be perfect. There is a field of CS/Math that allows for this. The only updates that would ever be needed for this code would be if the field of CS/Math allowed for more advanced features to be proven, and probably not even then.
2. Drivers and hardware must be assumed to be subverted and untrusted. Drivers would all run in user-space processes. No hardware or drivers may be allowed to access any resources that has not be assigned to them. Hardware DMA should go through a virt-phys translation that is set up to prevent access to any unauthorized areas of memory. This can be done using new virtualization extensions such as intel VT-X and ARM MR-IOV. This is because buggy drivers/hardware are the biggest security threat vector for exploits. However, I've seen issues in VT-X that allows a PCI device to lock out the entire bus which I consider to be a DOS failure.
3. Trusted Hardware. This is the soft spot in Intel's armor. There have been some publicly embarrassments for Intel in this field- such as a cache exploit that was a significant threat in certain circumstances, or the backdoor into TPM which invalidates it's only purpose. If a company were to release a version of the ARM processor that has undergone provability in same way that software can be proven they may be able to create a secure processor that is guaranteed to not have issues to exploit.
4. A layered security approach. None of this "I to become root now, so I'll use su root". You should start in a root container that has access to the entire system within which a subcontainer would be created for what you as a user can access. Within that you can create subcontainers, each of which would have even more limit access than their parent.
I should be able to create a container that has no access to the network, or to the disk, etc
My document editor should only have access to my Documents directory
I should be able to create a container within which none of my secure files are accessible (my passwords file, my tax docs, etc). In Linux any program I run can read any file that I have permission to access- this is totally unacceptable!
5. Visibility - the difference between malware and useful software is whether the user wants that program to be doing what its doing. When I look at my Linux system I see hundreds of processes and I don't know what many of them are doing. Any of those programs could be malware and I wouldn't know the difference. We need to have a better way for users to really see what's going on in your system and what resources are accessible to which programs. For instance:
You should be able to see which programs have access to the keyboard events. This would immediately tell you if you have a keylogger
You should be able to see which programs have access to which parts of your harddrive, and what they are doing. Can't tell you how many times I've heard my HDD spin up without any idea why. It sends a chill up my spine every time
You should be able to limit which ip addresses a program can access
After reading Penny Arcade's review I was considering getting a pro- then I saw the price tag. Too much cost for a system who's screen resolution is less than 1/2 of what the iPad released 2 years ago had, and is barely able to handle games released years ago.
Having said that, Haswell is out and the next generation of Pros should be able to handle higher resolutions and more modern gaming while reducing power requirements. If they bump their screen resolution I may just get one- especially if they allow you to remove Office (I have no use for it) and reduce the price to sub $1k.
As a trans-specied dolphin I agree with this.
On the serious side, this is the same problem as asking people their race. For instance, I know a white guy who moved here from Africa.... so is he African American? Then there are people who are mixed races, and some who don't know their parentage - some are adopted and have mixed genetic lines for instance. People shouldn't to be treated according to such metrics - especially by our government.
It wasn't involved this time, but PRISM is there to protect you from THESE kinds of people. These are really scary people! They're going to kill you if you don't give up your rights and let us spy on you. Next we need a camera in every room of your house- you know, just in case.... we're getting off the point- which is that these people are scary! And you should fear them. Now.
You're missing one little detail-
If you are on trial and you decide to testify, you cannot go though the line of questions from your lawyer, then decide to plead the 5th when the prosecutor appears. Either you need to plead the 5th and not testify in your trial, or you need to not plead the 5th and answer questions from both.
Lois Lerner, the IRS director went before Congress, read her prepared statement and made her side of the case, but before a single question was asked by Congress she pleaded the 5th. Like Cruise said, this violates the rules of pleading the 5th.
Can anyone tell me what are the new features of Windows 8? If Windows Blue or Win9/whatever went back to the start button, then how would it be different than Windows 7? If you're going to sell me a product you need to tell me how my life will be better with the new product, but Windows 8 doesn't offer any new features over Win7. The interface is different, but comparing the 2 is a 'apples-to-oranges' comparison- some people like 7, some like 8, but that isn't an upgrade, it's an alternative. If they want to sell me a new version then they need to give me something that is better, not just different. For instance:
1. Use some of that research to create an OS that is impenetrable to virus, worms and over malware. Not more of this cat and mouse game of virus/antivirus but a real solution that solves the problem once and for all. Hint: microkernels, VT-X extensions
2. Upgrade some of the included programs- why doesn't MSPaint have the ability to open TGA files? Why doesn't it have red-eye removal tools? What about some basic photoshop-like features, such as bluring?
3. I hate to say it, but they need an app store that can install things easily. Want visual studio? One click. Want cygwin? One click.
4. Include virtualization software (HyperV light?). When you create a new client you have the option for it to have the same kernel that you have on the host, without having to run an installer. Automatically include tools to share files, networks between host and client OS
I'm not saying that these are brilliant ideas- what I'm saying is that Microsoft needs to step it up and give us more, not just different
I tried getting a "burner" and it's harder than you think. I actually asked if I could go back to my Razor, but they said that the standards changed and it wouldn't work. I then tried their simplest/cheapest phone with the fewest features and it still had a ton of crapware that was constantly in the way - Facebook! Twitter! After having explained to him that I didn't want any of that he tried to sell me on the data plan! I gave up and ended up getting an iPhone - not that I want one, but at least it isn't a steaming pile of crap in my pocket.
Has anyone else out there had better luck? I've considered trying one of those "Phones with big buttons for older people" since it would just be a phone, but that was only on the pre-paid co's network.
Actually yes, we do tax wealth:
1. Property tax
2. Inflation is a tax of wealth
3. If you invest and receive a profit equal to inflation then your wealth hasn't increased, yet you will be taxed on that increase
4. Obamacare is a tax- and everyone has to pay it.... assuming your alive.... so it's a tax on the living... "The power to tax is the power to _________" (Google if you don't know)
When I worked for Nvidia I remember when Jensen came and visited our site. While he was there, he spoke to everyone at our site and he said something that I will never forget. It went something like this:
"People don't buy processors. They don't even buy computers. They buy solutions to their problems. You can't sell to people based on stats- you have to show them what they will get if they buy your product."
Although many of the websites that discuss video cards live and die by statistics, when you look at Nvidia marketing it is usually all about "Look at this. This is what our product can do". Relating this to the new processor, they need to bring out the demos that show a system using this doing something awesome, and really show us what we've been missing. Until then, who cares how fast it is when people are using these to read their email.
The thieves know that you buy expensive electronics, and that you will have a house full of brand new stuff soon. They quite often will rob a house a second time about 3-4 months after they robed it the first time because of this. Make sure your ready this time.
If the president likes the idea, he will do it. If he doesn't, he will dismiss it out of hand. It doesn't matter what the petition says of how many signatures it gets. It only serves to act as propaganda to bolster any idea that he likes. The colonists had an equal chance to petition their king over 200 years ago - and the result would have been the same.
The recipients of that stolen wealth were Southern plantation owners who saw their cities and homes burnt to the ground during the civil war. When you combine that with the fact that only about 10% of wealthy people acquired their wealth through inheritance and the many generations that have passed since those days, you will find that there are very few people today who can trace their wealth back to slave-owning days. Yet, everyone who shares their skincolor are assumed to be guilty of a horrible crime, despite that many of us can trace our ancestry to those who fought for the North against those slaveowners and who had brothers who died fighting. And yet, despite the sacrifices of my ancestors, I'm being told that I should be punished for the sins of those that they fought against!
It's not about upgrading the CPU. It's about going to the store picking motherboard A and CPU X. Every time I've put together a PC I chose the CPU that was the best price/performance then picked out the motherboard that had the best reputation. Now I expect that the best MB is going to come with the hottest, most expensive processor and the cheaper processors are going to come with the crappy MBs.
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Are you kidding? They probably have 5 or 6 timeshare sentors
He's a Democrat. You can tell that because they didn't post his party affiliation in the article. Had it been a Republican it would have read "Republican xyz who is a Republican from the Republican party did .......". To be honest, I'm surpised they didn't do the usual "Rep Joe Manchin" like they usually do in order to confuse people when a Democrat acts dishonestly
Or... maybe they're doing their job very well, but what they're attempting to do is different than what you think they're trying to do. After all, this administration has arrested and charged more whistleblowers than all other administrations - combined!
Not even then. The way it works:
Advertisement:"This lottery will add $50million a year to the schools."
Politician to staff: Cut the general budget to schools by $40million and give it to my friends at xyz corp. Then put out a press release about how school funding went up $10million dollars under my governance.
Voter: Wow, he gave $10million more toward schools? He must really care about students. He has my vote
That's according to the constitution. Obama doesn't let that stand in his way. He's got a pen and executive orders.
8% annual interest? Where are you making that!??!?!!? Sign me up! At this point, if interest rates get any lower I'll have to pay the bank to hold my money!
From my perspective, it's an issue of
LED bulb today = ~$15.00
LED bulb in 6 months = ~$5.00 ??
LED bulb in 1 year = ~$.75 ??
Might as well keep my incandescent for a little while longer. Besides, my wife doesn't like the color or the new stuff. Didn't help that we were early adopters of CFL and we have a lot of "it takes forever for these bulbs to turn on" issues which have lead to us leaving some lights on permanently.
Have you ever tried to recycle a CFL bulb? I have - it isn't that easy. Recycling centers don't want mercury- it's a hazardous substance. I had to travel 20 miles to a hazardous waste facility to ethically rid myself of it.
For me, and many other like me, it boils down to this: How accurate is the science on climate change?
If it was accurate then there would have been a consensus predicting these events. Instead what we see is many groups throwing out different predictions, and when everyone is guessing something different there is inevitably some who are right and some who are wrong. However, the fact that there is no consensus means that there isn't accuracy in the field of Climate Change and the fact that the most public predictions have been so diametrically opposite to the results demonstrates a lack of precision. No field of science can or should tolerate inaccuracy and imprecision. Until scientists can agree on models that correctly and reliably predict the effects of carbon on climate, the field of climate change study acts more like a religion in that it asks us for faith instead of facts.
I am willing to accept carbon based climate change and accept the changes required for preventing future damage, but only if it is scientifically proven. This would require models that make precise predictions that are reliably accurate. Instead we have what is like a bunch of people at the roulette table. If one guy gets 2 data points correctly everything thinks he's "on a roll", "can't miss", but if you have enough people all making different guesses, then inevitably one of those people will get 2 data points right. That guy will be just as likely to guess the next number as anyone else. There are so many climate change models out there, some guess well and some do not. Even the ones that do predict well are not consistent, and quite often contain constants that are not understood and certainly weren't predicted. This isn't science - there are no controlled studies, there is only crystal-ball gazing. Until climate science evolves to become more legitimate I am not willing to upend my life to accommodate the perceived changes required to prevent climate change.
Honestly, I think Qubes is a better match. Although, last time I looked at HURD there were no virtualization extensions
The problem is that these products don't exist to large extent. The reason is that people are unwilling to accept any performance degradation in exchange for security. So, instead they use insecure systems, then they install 'anti-virus' which seeks to un-infect a system during/after an infection. This is like telling doctors "You don't need a hazard suit for that Ebola patient. If you get Ebola we'll give you some drugs". So, in order to protect ourselves we run virtual machines so that threats such as viruses are contained.
It's disgraceful that in 2014 we don't have secure operating systems. SE Linux is better than most, but not by much. If I went to you with a USB key and said 'run this on your SE Linux box, would you feel comfortable doing that knowing that your system is safe? Probably not.
If you want real security here is what you need:
1. A true microkernel that has been mathematically proven. This code would never change because it has been proven to be perfect. There is a field of CS/Math that allows for this. The only updates that would ever be needed for this code would be if the field of CS/Math allowed for more advanced features to be proven, and probably not even then.
2. Drivers and hardware must be assumed to be subverted and untrusted. Drivers would all run in user-space processes. No hardware or drivers may be allowed to access any resources that has not be assigned to them. Hardware DMA should go through a virt-phys translation that is set up to prevent access to any unauthorized areas of memory. This can be done using new virtualization extensions such as intel VT-X and ARM MR-IOV. This is because buggy drivers/hardware are the biggest security threat vector for exploits. However, I've seen issues in VT-X that allows a PCI device to lock out the entire bus which I consider to be a DOS failure.
3. Trusted Hardware. This is the soft spot in Intel's armor. There have been some publicly embarrassments for Intel in this field- such as a cache exploit that was a significant threat in certain circumstances, or the backdoor into TPM which invalidates it's only purpose. If a company were to release a version of the ARM processor that has undergone provability in same way that software can be proven they may be able to create a secure processor that is guaranteed to not have issues to exploit.
4. A layered security approach. None of this "I to become root now, so I'll use su root". You should start in a root container that has access to the entire system within which a subcontainer would be created for what you as a user can access. Within that you can create subcontainers, each of which would have even more limit access than their parent.
I should be able to create a container that has no access to the network, or to the disk, etc
My document editor should only have access to my Documents directory
I should be able to create a container within which none of my secure files are accessible (my passwords file, my tax docs, etc). In Linux any program I run can read any file that I have permission to access- this is totally unacceptable!
5. Visibility - the difference between malware and useful software is whether the user wants that program to be doing what its doing. When I look at my Linux system I see hundreds of processes and I don't know what many of them are doing. Any of those programs could be malware and I wouldn't know the difference. We need to have a better way for users to really see what's going on in your system and what resources are accessible to which programs. For instance:
You should be able to see which programs have access to the keyboard events. This would immediately tell you if you have a keylogger
You should be able to see which programs have access to which parts of your harddrive, and what they are doing. Can't tell you how many times I've heard my HDD spin up without any idea why. It sends a chill up my spine every time
You should be able to limit which ip addresses a program can access
The solar cells cost is largely measured in the energy made to create it. Efficiency = output/cost. We just reached parity in 2010- that's pretty pathetic. And that doesn't include the costs of transportation, loss due to damage from hail, etc, and other such issues. Until this ratio becomes really large (10x), solar cells aren't much better than a battery- you put energy in and get it back out later.
There have been many promising technologies 'on the horizon' that are supposed to make solar cells cheap (made with little energy).
This is the most recent article of printable solar cells. I read one just like this 10+ years ago:
http://www.wired.co.uk/news/archive/2013-05/17/a3-printed-solar-cells
Then you have the "new material" of the hour:
http://www.technologyreview.com/news/517811/a-material-that-could-make-solar-power-dirt-cheap/
And all the other stuff, such as:
http://www.extremetech.com/extreme/163561-the-key-to-cheap-solar-power-may-have-been-discovered-over-150-years-ago
Until something radically changes, these 'investments' in solar companies are really just there to line to pockets of political cronies, like the 33 companies that made large donations to our president and received even larger 'investments' which were paid out before the company declared bankruptcy
http://blog.heritage.org/2012/10/18/president-obamas-taxpayer-backed-green-energy-failures/
After reading Penny Arcade's review I was considering getting a pro- then I saw the price tag. Too much cost for a system who's screen resolution is less than 1/2 of what the iPad released 2 years ago had, and is barely able to handle games released years ago.
Having said that, Haswell is out and the next generation of Pros should be able to handle higher resolutions and more modern gaming while reducing power requirements. If they bump their screen resolution I may just get one- especially if they allow you to remove Office (I have no use for it) and reduce the price to sub $1k.
As a trans-specied dolphin I agree with this.
On the serious side, this is the same problem as asking people their race. For instance, I know a white guy who moved here from Africa.... so is he African American? Then there are people who are mixed races, and some who don't know their parentage - some are adopted and have mixed genetic lines for instance. People shouldn't to be treated according to such metrics - especially by our government.
It wasn't involved this time, but PRISM is there to protect you from THESE kinds of people. These are really scary people! They're going to kill you if you don't give up your rights and let us spy on you. Next we need a camera in every room of your house- you know, just in case.... we're getting off the point- which is that these people are scary! And you should fear them. Now.
There were multiple drives. They decrypted one on their own. They're trying to compel him to decrypt the others.
You're missing one little detail-
If you are on trial and you decide to testify, you cannot go though the line of questions from your lawyer, then decide to plead the 5th when the prosecutor appears. Either you need to plead the 5th and not testify in your trial, or you need to not plead the 5th and answer questions from both.
Lois Lerner, the IRS director went before Congress, read her prepared statement and made her side of the case, but before a single question was asked by Congress she pleaded the 5th. Like Cruise said, this violates the rules of pleading the 5th.
Can anyone tell me what are the new features of Windows 8? If Windows Blue or Win9/whatever went back to the start button, then how would it be different than Windows 7? If you're going to sell me a product you need to tell me how my life will be better with the new product, but Windows 8 doesn't offer any new features over Win7. The interface is different, but comparing the 2 is a 'apples-to-oranges' comparison- some people like 7, some like 8, but that isn't an upgrade, it's an alternative. If they want to sell me a new version then they need to give me something that is better, not just different. For instance:
1. Use some of that research to create an OS that is impenetrable to virus, worms and over malware. Not more of this cat and mouse game of virus/antivirus but a real solution that solves the problem once and for all. Hint: microkernels, VT-X extensions
2. Upgrade some of the included programs- why doesn't MSPaint have the ability to open TGA files? Why doesn't it have red-eye removal tools? What about some basic photoshop-like features, such as bluring?
3. I hate to say it, but they need an app store that can install things easily. Want visual studio? One click. Want cygwin? One click.
4. Include virtualization software (HyperV light?). When you create a new client you have the option for it to have the same kernel that you have on the host, without having to run an installer. Automatically include tools to share files, networks between host and client OS
I'm not saying that these are brilliant ideas- what I'm saying is that Microsoft needs to step it up and give us more, not just different
Some people think I am a caveman: awk grep sed cron dd fork
I tried getting a "burner" and it's harder than you think. I actually asked if I could go back to my Razor, but they said that the standards changed and it wouldn't work. I then tried their simplest/cheapest phone with the fewest features and it still had a ton of crapware that was constantly in the way - Facebook! Twitter! After having explained to him that I didn't want any of that he tried to sell me on the data plan! I gave up and ended up getting an iPhone - not that I want one, but at least it isn't a steaming pile of crap in my pocket.
Has anyone else out there had better luck? I've considered trying one of those "Phones with big buttons for older people" since it would just be a phone, but that was only on the pre-paid co's network.
Actually yes, we do tax wealth:
1. Property tax
2. Inflation is a tax of wealth
3. If you invest and receive a profit equal to inflation then your wealth hasn't increased, yet you will be taxed on that increase
4. Obamacare is a tax- and everyone has to pay it.... assuming your alive.... so it's a tax on the living... "The power to tax is the power to _________" (Google if you don't know)
When I worked for Nvidia I remember when Jensen came and visited our site. While he was there, he spoke to everyone at our site and he said something that I will never forget. It went something like this: "People don't buy processors. They don't even buy computers. They buy solutions to their problems. You can't sell to people based on stats- you have to show them what they will get if they buy your product." Although many of the websites that discuss video cards live and die by statistics, when you look at Nvidia marketing it is usually all about "Look at this. This is what our product can do". Relating this to the new processor, they need to bring out the demos that show a system using this doing something awesome, and really show us what we've been missing. Until then, who cares how fast it is when people are using these to read their email.
The thieves know that you buy expensive electronics, and that you will have a house full of brand new stuff soon. They quite often will rob a house a second time about 3-4 months after they robed it the first time because of this. Make sure your ready this time.
If the president likes the idea, he will do it. If he doesn't, he will dismiss it out of hand. It doesn't matter what the petition says of how many signatures it gets. It only serves to act as propaganda to bolster any idea that he likes. The colonists had an equal chance to petition their king over 200 years ago - and the result would have been the same.
The recipients of that stolen wealth were Southern plantation owners who saw their cities and homes burnt to the ground during the civil war. When you combine that with the fact that only about 10% of wealthy people acquired their wealth through inheritance and the many generations that have passed since those days, you will find that there are very few people today who can trace their wealth back to slave-owning days. Yet, everyone who shares their skincolor are assumed to be guilty of a horrible crime, despite that many of us can trace our ancestry to those who fought for the North against those slaveowners and who had brothers who died fighting. And yet, despite the sacrifices of my ancestors, I'm being told that I should be punished for the sins of those that they fought against!
It's not about upgrading the CPU. It's about going to the store picking motherboard A and CPU X. Every time I've put together a PC I chose the CPU that was the best price/performance then picked out the motherboard that had the best reputation. Now I expect that the best MB is going to come with the hottest, most expensive processor and the cheaper processors are going to come with the crappy MBs.