"Severe corporal punishment" is a feature of many current military justice systems, albeit not that of the USA - or, at least not formally (see: blanket party). However, it is worth noting that the execution that's carried out during Pvt. Rico's basic training is of a deserter during wartime. And not some phony-baloney Iraq/Vietnam-esque war of empire-building based on false premises and PR manipulation, but an actual existential war in which a genocidal alien species is the aggressor against humanity.
I think you might have watched the wrong movie. The humans were the aggressors, the aliens were defending themselves against a human invasion.
Batman: The Dark Knight - a movie that tells us how spying after people is good when it is done to FIGHT TERRORISM, and how we can always trust private enterprises with power to do the right thing and not abuse this survelliance technology. The whole movie tries to tell us that there are absolute good and evil, and in face absolute evil, absolute good should be allowed to violate some rights. This sounds like many right wingers I got to talk with lately.
The Iron Man movies are even more clear cut right-wing, though more libetarian than conservative.
That is just stupid. If you think that insurance is 'gambling' and that 'you are betting you will have an accident', HAVE AN ACCIDENT. There, you 'won'.
No you lose if you do it on purpose, but insurance IS gambling from the perspective of the insurance company, for the insured it is the opposite since it lowers financial uncertainty instead of increasing it.
This is just normal business that we all engage in
No it isn't. It is NOT illegal to dominate a market. Exclusive agreements are also not illegal. It is the combination of the two that can be illegal.
Qualcomm was allegedly leveraging their dominant position to completely shut out competitors. This is not something that "we all engage in" because very very few of us dominate an industry.
Some of the other poster here seem to deliberate try engage in dominating the "dumbass industy"
They quite happily fine EU companies too. Though one suspects that EU companies are more aware what practices are illegal in the EU and are thus less likely to break them and consequently less likely to be fined. However Qualcomm are a multi billion dollar company operating globally, it is not unreasonable to expect them to be aware that what they where doing was illegal in what is the largest single market in the world, and I am not going to cry when they get fined for breaking the law.
You would be wrong. All the biggest fines have been awarded to EU companies. It just dont seem to hit US media when EU companies gets huge fines from the EU.
People still haven't gotten the point - this is testament to Intel's PR efforts to obfuscate the facts. It seems the majority of people believe that Spectre (affects Intel, AMD and ARM) is just as dangerous as Meltdown (affects only Intel CPUs). Un-fucking-believable. We truly live in the epoch of idiocracy.
Well parts of it can be exploited. But mostly it was mainly fixed by fixing browsers. The parts that attack hypervisors and kernels is the speculative stuff.
I'm working on Linux in my daytime job, it is light years behind OS X. Not as bad as Winwos bottom line, but pretty close to run me nuts.
I work on both Linux and OS X professionally. We always try to get the new recruits to volunteer for the OS X maintenance, but within a few weeks, they like rest of us, refuse to touch it unless they absolutely have to. An there is so much more that needs to be fixed on OS X because Apple routinely breaks APIs with their upgrades, so we need to constantly test beta releases to see what they have broken this time. Of course being professionals we also support older OS X versions than Apple does.
I'm not sure why you think it's "capped" to 10.6 - that's just the version that was current at the release of your Macbook model. It will happily install and run El Capitan (10.11), and that's bound to be a more compatible and pleasant desktop experience than putting anything Linux on it.
Well. Any upgrade to Linux would still be an upgrade;)
I have a similar issue with an '06-'08 iMac (I can't look now). AppStore won't let me install the latest High Sierra. It says my hardware is incompatible.
I'm stuck on Lion.
You can update the firmware manually, and then the newst versions will install and run just fine. It is entirely artificial.
Cruise AV, a self-driving car company owned by General Motors, reports that earlier this month an unidentified man in the Mission flung himself onto one of the company's autonomous vehicles
But wait, there's more!
The car's human driver says...
OK, so there was a driver in this self-driving car.
It sounds to me like they ran over a guy, and somebody's trying to dodge a lawsuit by saying someone "threw themselves at the car". And if there was, as the self-driving car's driver says, "damage to a tail light", let me ask you this: If you went outside and threw your body at a car, do you think you could break a tail light?
Yeah pedestrians running out in front of your car is something that happens. Especially children.. It is one of the harder things to compensate for, especially for a computer.
The problem they couldn't solve is how to load/unload all the passengers efficently. How fast you can get in/out of the gate is just as important as how many passengers you can carry
It is easy enough to solve. Just board economy first, business class and families with children last. Or board on the runway with ramps in both ends. Just no one wants to do that for a luxary flight. They are in fact more likely to do the opposite and achieve the mathematically proven LEAST efficient boarding.
"Routing is not an issue"... says the guy who has clearly never had to write software to perform the task.
Coming from someone who has: trust me, routing is an unforgiving bitch who will not hesitate to fuck you over fully and completely in ways you never thought possible.
Then again, some of the trouble I've encountered came from having to deal with a multi-dimensional, cyclic, directed path-graph with cycles filtered out, per dimension, at run-time. If you don't know what that is, enjoy your fortune. You're a luckier man than I.
I really hope my travel route doesn't go multidimensional, is cyclic or my plane gets filtered out at runtime..
your teacher must have learned German before the Second World War. The young probably wouldn't even know what a `Fernsprecher` is. They'd assume that's a person doing something. And older Germans would be slightly amused by someone using this ancient term. It's a `Telefon` in proper German.
But the term for mobile phone is peculiar, here you're exactly right, the official word is `Mobiltelefon` (so a mobile phone), but basically everyone calls it a `Handy`, which is an artificial word derived from bullshitized English. Actually, you'll encounter a lot of Germans who'll ask you for your handy number, referring to your cell.
Funnier is table football, which in American English is known as Fussball from bullshitized German, and in German is known as Kicker from bullshitized English.
> While I'll agree that aluminium is the standardized spelling, that doesn't make it the correct spelling. That makes it the standardized spelling.
Let me expand on that:
While I'll agree that metric is the standardized way, that doesn't make it the correct way. That makes it the standardized way.
Apparently Americans have a hard time with "standards". Instead of adapting to standards, they adapt standards to fit their ways. Which negates the meaning of the term "standard", for starters. That also gives birth to absurdities like "de facto" standards.
The American way is no even a "de facto" standard if no one else is using it. The real standard is also the de facto standard, so why bring up the term?
Spectre is a red herring - there is no known way it can be exploited.
Google has exploited it. Look at Google Project Zero's write-up of these bugs. Spectre corresponds to "Variant 1 and Variant 2" in that blog post. You'll see that they successfuly exploit both, the second from a KVM guest.
It is true that Google cheat a little here, by using Linux's eBPF JIT engine (which, I hear, is normally disabled by default). From the blog post:
To be able to actually use this behavior for an attack, an attacker needs to be able to cause the execution of such a vulnerable code pattern in the targeted context with an out-of-bounds index. For this, the vulnerable code pattern must either be present in existing code, or there must be an interpreter or JIT engine that can be used to generate the vulnerable code pattern. So far, we have not actually identified any existing, exploitable instances of the vulnerable code pattern; the PoC for leaking kernel memory using variant 1 uses the eBPF interpreter or the eBPF JIT engine, which are built into the kernel and accessible to normal users.
No they haven't been exploited, they have been proven. There is still nothing really useful gathered from using it that makes it a security risk.
When it comes to the C compiler, Intel puts some things behind microarchitecture tests because in the past they didn't and people complained. They enabled fast paths after doing feature checks and it turned out that a bunch of x86 chips implemented certain instructions, but in microcoded slow paths and the optimised icc version that used them ran a lot slower than the version that didn't. As a result, they only enable certain instructions on chips that they have tested and which run faster when those instructions are used. And then people complained that they weren't doing optimisations on their competitors chips...
No.... This was no how it happened. They had a switch that was compile time and worked fine for AMD, they improved it to be runtime and made it specifically only detect Intel chips for no good reason, when tools were released that fixed their auto-crippling and arms-race started where Intel increasing obfuscated the auto-crippling to make it harder to remove. This back and forth arm-race laster for over a year with a new release every two 2 months, where Intel reinstated a new way of crippling performance on AMD chips when the old one was circumvented. In the end those making the hacks just gave up on the Intel compiler and to this day it still does it.
I find it hard to believe that a virtual memory change will result in a 5-30% slowdown for Intel processors. Maybe for a few extremely specific (likely edge-case) tasks, but if there was a legitimate 5-30% performance decrease, you can bet there would be a far different solution in the works that would suitably fix the problem.
Virtual memory access is used in every single memory access cached or not. 5% would be lucky for trying to work around a broken system. I am guessing the flaw is probably in the TLB which is meant to accelerate these things.
C++ is generally faster than C these days, though ofcourse you can fuck it up like anything in C++ if you don't know what you are doing, or do and are just trying to "prove" your incorrect point.
Or could it be that the software written in C++ usually tends to be large complex software where performance is important along with various other complicating factors. While the software written in ruby for example tends to be simpler?
Sounds like this 'study' started with a conclusion already in mind.
Yeah. Another possible conclusion from this data is that C++ is more commonly or easily debugged, and thus more bugs are found and fixed, where they are left unfixed in the other languages.
This lottery isn't run by the wealthy. It is run by the state, you would literally be taking money from innocent people and giving them to sociopaths who KNEW the lottery system was broken (winning 36 times in a row).
The problem in Germany here is regulation to make things very simply for consumers that also produce power with a wind-mill. They are paid standard prices, so they can't be punished for producing power when the net is overloaded, so the wind-mills owned by consumers are never put into free-wheeling mode.
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"Severe corporal punishment" is a feature of many current military justice systems, albeit not that of the USA - or, at least not formally (see: blanket party). However, it is worth noting that the execution that's carried out during Pvt. Rico's basic training is of a deserter during wartime. And not some phony-baloney Iraq/Vietnam-esque war of empire-building based on false premises and PR manipulation, but an actual existential war in which a genocidal alien species is the aggressor against humanity.
I think you might have watched the wrong movie. The humans were the aggressors, the aliens were defending themselves against a human invasion.
Batman: The Dark Knight - a movie that tells us how spying after people is good when it is done to FIGHT TERRORISM, and how we can always trust private enterprises with power to do the right thing and not abuse this survelliance technology. The whole movie tries to tell us that there are absolute good and evil, and in face absolute evil, absolute good should be allowed to violate some rights. This sounds like many right wingers I got to talk with lately.
The Iron Man movies are even more clear cut right-wing, though more libetarian than conservative.
That is just stupid. If you think that insurance is 'gambling' and that 'you are betting you will have an accident', HAVE AN ACCIDENT. There, you 'won'.
No you lose if you do it on purpose, but insurance IS gambling from the perspective of the insurance company, for the insured it is the opposite since it lowers financial uncertainty instead of increasing it.
This is just normal business that we all engage in
No it isn't. It is NOT illegal to dominate a market. Exclusive agreements are also not illegal. It is the combination of the two that can be illegal.
Qualcomm was allegedly leveraging their dominant position to completely shut out competitors. This is not something that "we all engage in" because very very few of us dominate an industry.
Some of the other poster here seem to deliberate try engage in dominating the "dumbass industy"
They quite happily fine EU companies too. Though one suspects that EU companies are more aware what practices are illegal in the EU and are thus less likely to break them and consequently less likely to be fined. However Qualcomm are a multi billion dollar company operating globally, it is not unreasonable to expect them to be aware that what they where doing was illegal in what is the largest single market in the world, and I am not going to cry when they get fined for breaking the law.
You would be wrong. All the biggest fines have been awarded to EU companies. It just dont seem to hit US media when EU companies gets huge fines from the EU.
People still haven't gotten the point - this is testament to Intel's PR efforts to obfuscate the facts. It seems the majority of people believe that Spectre (affects Intel, AMD and ARM) is just as dangerous as Meltdown (affects only Intel CPUs). Un-fucking-believable. We truly live in the epoch of idiocracy.
Well parts of it can be exploited. But mostly it was mainly fixed by fixing browsers. The parts that attack hypervisors and kernels is the speculative stuff.
From OS X 10.6.8 to Linux, no.
I'm working on Linux in my daytime job, it is light years behind OS X. Not as bad as Winwos bottom line, but pretty close to run me nuts.
I work on both Linux and OS X professionally. We always try to get the new recruits to volunteer for the OS X maintenance, but within a few weeks, they like rest of us, refuse to touch it unless they absolutely have to. An there is so much more that needs to be fixed on OS X because Apple routinely breaks APIs with their upgrades, so we need to constantly test beta releases to see what they have broken this time. Of course being professionals we also support older OS X versions than Apple does.
I'm not sure why you think it's "capped" to 10.6 - that's just the version that was current at the release of your Macbook model. It will happily install and run El Capitan (10.11), and that's bound to be a more compatible and pleasant desktop experience than putting anything Linux on it.
Well. Any upgrade to Linux would still be an upgrade ;)
I have a similar issue with an '06-'08 iMac (I can't look now). AppStore won't let me install the latest High Sierra. It says my hardware is incompatible.
I'm stuck on Lion.
You can update the firmware manually, and then the newst versions will install and run just fine. It is entirely artificial.
But wait, there's more!
OK, so there was a driver in this self-driving car.
It sounds to me like they ran over a guy, and somebody's trying to dodge a lawsuit by saying someone "threw themselves at the car". And if there was, as the self-driving car's driver says, "damage to a tail light", let me ask you this: If you went outside and threw your body at a car, do you think you could break a tail light?
Yeah pedestrians running out in front of your car is something that happens. Especially children.. It is one of the harder things to compensate for, especially for a computer.
The problem they couldn't solve is how to load/unload all the passengers efficently. How fast you can get in/out of the gate is just as important as how many passengers you can carry
It is easy enough to solve. Just board economy first, business class and families with children last. Or board on the runway with ramps in both ends. Just no one wants to do that for a luxary flight. They are in fact more likely to do the opposite and achieve the mathematically proven LEAST efficient boarding.
"Routing is not an issue"... says the guy who has clearly never had to write software to perform the task.
Coming from someone who has: trust me, routing is an unforgiving bitch who will not hesitate to fuck you over fully and completely in ways you never thought possible.
Then again, some of the trouble I've encountered came from having to deal with a multi-dimensional, cyclic, directed path-graph with cycles filtered out, per dimension, at run-time. If you don't know what that is, enjoy your fortune. You're a luckier man than I.
I really hope my travel route doesn't go multidimensional, is cyclic or my plane gets filtered out at runtime..
your teacher must have learned German before the Second World War. The young probably wouldn't even know what a `Fernsprecher` is. They'd assume that's a person doing something. And older Germans would be slightly amused by someone using this ancient term. It's a `Telefon` in proper German.
But the term for mobile phone is peculiar, here you're exactly right, the official word is `Mobiltelefon` (so a mobile phone), but basically everyone calls it a `Handy`, which is an artificial word derived from bullshitized English. Actually, you'll encounter a lot of Germans who'll ask you for your handy number, referring to your cell.
Funnier is table football, which in American English is known as Fussball from bullshitized German, and in German is known as Kicker from bullshitized English.
> While I'll agree that aluminium is the standardized spelling, that doesn't make it the correct spelling. That makes it the standardized spelling.
Let me expand on that:
While I'll agree that metric is the standardized way, that doesn't make it the correct way. That makes it the standardized way.
Apparently Americans have a hard time with "standards". Instead of adapting to standards, they adapt standards to fit their ways. Which negates the meaning of the term "standard", for starters. That also gives birth to absurdities like "de facto" standards.
The American way is no even a "de facto" standard if no one else is using it. The real standard is also the de facto standard, so why bring up the term?
You are confusing Meltdown and Spectre. Meltdown: only Intel. Spectre: almost everything.
And spectre has two variants, and the second variant doesn't affect AMD Zen processors, but does affect older AMD processors.
... do not carry phone when performing criminal acts.
Maybe it would be better for everybody if you would just abstain from committing murder?
Google has exploited it. Look at Google Project Zero's write-up of these bugs. Spectre corresponds to "Variant 1 and Variant 2" in that blog post. You'll see that they successfuly exploit both, the second from a KVM guest.
It is true that Google cheat a little here, by using Linux's eBPF JIT engine (which, I hear, is normally disabled by default). From the blog post:
No they haven't been exploited, they have been proven. There is still nothing really useful gathered from using it that makes it a security risk.
When it comes to the C compiler, Intel puts some things behind microarchitecture tests because in the past they didn't and people complained. They enabled fast paths after doing feature checks and it turned out that a bunch of x86 chips implemented certain instructions, but in microcoded slow paths and the optimised icc version that used them ran a lot slower than the version that didn't. As a result, they only enable certain instructions on chips that they have tested and which run faster when those instructions are used. And then people complained that they weren't doing optimisations on their competitors chips...
No.... This was no how it happened. They had a switch that was compile time and worked fine for AMD, they improved it to be runtime and made it specifically only detect Intel chips for no good reason, when tools were released that fixed their auto-crippling and arms-race started where Intel increasing obfuscated the auto-crippling to make it harder to remove. This back and forth arm-race laster for over a year with a new release every two 2 months, where Intel reinstated a new way of crippling performance on AMD chips when the old one was circumvented. In the end those making the hacks just gave up on the Intel compiler and to this day it still does it.
I find it hard to believe that a virtual memory change will result in a 5-30% slowdown for Intel processors. Maybe for a few extremely specific (likely edge-case) tasks, but if there was a legitimate 5-30% performance decrease, you can bet there would be a far different solution in the works that would suitably fix the problem.
Virtual memory access is used in every single memory access cached or not. 5% would be lucky for trying to work around a broken system. I am guessing the flaw is probably in the TLB which is meant to accelerate these things.
C++ is generally faster than C these days, though ofcourse you can fuck it up like anything in C++ if you don't know what you are doing, or do and are just trying to "prove" your incorrect point.
Or could it be that the software written in C++ usually tends to be large complex software where performance is important along with various other complicating factors. While the software written in ruby for example tends to be simpler?
Sounds like this 'study' started with a conclusion already in mind.
Yeah. Another possible conclusion from this data is that C++ is more commonly or easily debugged, and thus more bugs are found and fixed, where they are left unfixed in the other languages.
This lottery isn't run by the wealthy. It is run by the state, you would literally be taking money from innocent people and giving them to sociopaths who KNEW the lottery system was broken (winning 36 times in a row).
It's not the heat. Putin wants to maintain the *illusion* that he won in fair elections.
He probably would win if he ever agreed to have a fair election, but he is SUCH a coward and pre-teen pussy he just doesn't dare.
Cutting the cost would be admit defeat, or to have made a mistake. Apple does not admit defeat!! NEVER!
The problem in Germany here is regulation to make things very simply for consumers that also produce power with a wind-mill. They are paid standard prices, so they can't be punished for producing power when the net is overloaded, so the wind-mills owned by consumers are never put into free-wheeling mode.