I love that people are exposing exploits in Linux (new or old versions) because it means we all get fixes and a little more safety from the bad guys.:)
Well, these are white hats, so not really bad guys. I do hope however they have some way of reporting these bugs upstream before revealing them.
no that is the support contract for security fixes, windows 7 support for new features, changes etc finished in 2013.
So why did they add a new feature to reject compatible CPUs?
They haven't rejected the CPU's. They are rejecting security patches for those specific processors. Your OS will run fine.
No they took a perfectly working system. ADDED code to it, to make part of it not work. That part happens to be security updates. If the hadn't done EXTRA work, it would still work.
As far as evolutionary theory goes, this is about as "Captain Obvious" you can get, imho.
True, but only the headline here, the research is interesting in that they tested many difference in noses, and isolate only two traits related to climate and proved the rest random.
When can we get one that's an actual phone? It would be great for use as a burner when leaving and returning to the US. Though I doubt the TSA is going to find the humor to their liking. But I don't really find the legal gray zone at the border very funny either.
Just remember to tell them not to plug it in. It is not like they are going to respond to your warning anyway.
The problem was that the closed-captioning on YouTube was really, really poor. Less than 40% accuracy (due to some of the technical nature of the captioning). That isn't good enough for somebody who depends on the captioning to use the content.
It is hillariously poor. Well as long as don't have to rely on it, if I did it would be tragically poor.
I thought it would lead to layered realities, and that it would expose that many people are perfectly content in the baseline Matrix, some people's minds rebel. These people are identified and hooked to a 2nd Matrix in which they are made aware of the baseline Matrix, can interact with it, pursue their hero fantasies each to their own level necessary (Neo needed to be the One, Trinity need to be in love with the One, Morpheus had to be the one to find the One...) and steered into the whole Zion mythos.
A few might, like Neo, once exposed to he baseline Matrix, realize that they could be in a 2nd-level Matrix and find themselves able to manipulate it as well. At that point a 3rd..N+1 level matrix would be unnecessary. Those unlucky few would just be lobotomized by the machines and put back in the soup. The effort to entertain the chosen ones with Matrix 2 is justified only by the notion that the undamaged brains allow more wetware computing power to be utilized (i.e., humans not just batteries).
Neo getting a big needle in his brain may have been an unpleasant ending. Perhaps once the battle of Zion happened, the 3rd movie would end with a "reset" back to Neo first waking up in Scene 1 of the first matrix. They can just keep Groundhog Daying the hell out of Zion.
If the matrix was layered, obviously the second layer was for the machines, and was there because the humans won in the host "reality", and even those thinking themselves humans in the second matrix would actually be AI slaves for humanity in the 3rd layer:P
As I read it, no danes are affected yet. This was against ISPs in Sweden by a Swedish court. The Danish lawfirm is just representing a US troll to a Swedish regulatory captured court, to all collectively screw Swedish customers.
The leak was about these tools being given to third parties who leak and sell them.. Are you sure it is legal for mercenaries to do this? And two why do you think CIA needs mercenaries? Could it be to get around their limitation of not being allowed to spy on Americans themselves?
This.. I'd mod you up if I didn't feel compelled to reply myself. I EXPECT and WANT our government to have these tools.
You want your government to hand them out to mercenary contractors who inevitably sells them on the black market before they finally leak to wikileaks? Because that was the issue here. CIA is contracting out their attacks and handing this stuff over to contractors. It was already on the black market and used by criminals when leaked to wikileaks, and still CIA kept it "secret".
Those news articles existed, exist and represent an online record of events. Preventing people from finding or accessing them distorts and changes perception of those events.
The original ruling was wrong, stupid and is something I'll be inviting my MP to overturn in the UK following the exit from the EU.
I would disagree with the ruling being wrong. Though I agree with you on the rest, but is the laws that are wrong. The European courts do not have the power to change or make new laws, so they have to apply existing laws and can only make judgement call when multiple laws conflict eachother.
As I said "the right to forgotten" is a completely separate thing, and is the potential right to force something like facebook to delete data that you gave to them. It has nothing to do with google and other indexers. As I said journalists have just been confusing the two things for a long time.
Where the information is plain wrong it is reasonable to expect it to be removed. However in many cases the complainants demanding to be forgotten are simply crooks and criminals trying to cover up past transgressions.
A list of BBC stories currently blacklisted by Google.
Yeah, but the original ruling just ruled that Google is not except from the law of land just because they are on the internet. Since it is not a new law, it doesn't try to balance anything, and it specifically does not address wrong info. It just means that existing laws that prohibit indexing certain things after a certain amount of time (old crimes or bankcruptcies), also applies to Google. Since it is all about indexing and mostly about giving people who have done something bad a second chance, it is almost exclusively used by people who have done something bad long ago.
If something is false, libelous, or otherwise defamatory; it should be sued (if necessary) and removed at the source (after which it will fall out of the index the next time the originating site is spidered), not by attacking Google, or any othersearch providers.
The original ruling is not "the right to be forgotten", it is just confused with that by journalists. The ruling basically amounted to that laws apply to the internet. It is a diverse set of laws in different countries, some of which prohibits indexing certain things after a certain time. So for instance you can't index people as criminals 25 years after they finished their sentence. Since it applies to indexing, not original articles, those laws apply to Google. Note none of the preexisting laws used in this context are EU-wide laws, they are all individial laws in individual countries.
The article doesn't mention support for error correction for the RAM. If a bit gets flipped somewhere in a massive research project running on such a system with 4 to 8 TB RAM, the entire project could be ruined.
ECC, anyone?
All the AMD processors support ECC. You need to explicitly criple it like Intel does not to. It need to be certified with the motherboard though, and most consumer motherboards don't do that, and many also don't provide the tools to access if any error-corrections are done.
It says 2017, but that might be misleading -- it does not fully support C++x14 (release notes say "better" x14 support. I'd like to see "full x14 compliance & support"). And they're a ways from full x17 support.
You get spoiled using Clang/LLVM
Apparently it has all the stuff added in C++14, what is missing is C++11 and C++98 support:D
the compiler is complete for features added in the C++14 Standard. Note that the compiler still lacks a few features from the C++11 and C++98 Standards.
The medium is rather analog and has a powerful error-detection and -correction built in by necessity. This means a classic disk will either give you correct data, or tell you outright that the data cannot be read.
CRC is now considered "powerful error-detection" ?!?!?! Seriously? Are people that ignorant nowadays?
It is not just CRC. As the density has grown the bits allocated to error detection has grown even faster, and this point spinning disk are so dense it is closer to being stocastic analysis of analog signals than digital processing with CRC.
Seriously though, I am sorry you feel that way but I disagree. There is still a lot of interesting music being produced if you know where to look. I agree that most everything listed on the Billboard top 200 will fit your description, but that list only covers music which a small group of record labels have defined to be appealing to the largest groups of people. It sounds like your tastes do not fit with that assumption (mine do not either) but all that means is that you have to work a little harder to find stuff you like.
I could agree with GP poster if he meant 2016 and 2017. The pop music and top charts have been incredibly bleak the last year and half, but it is a local trend, and probably won't last. If the GP meant modern music in general, he should get off his own lawn and hide behind the curtains.
It's pretty sad that in this day and age, only one person has highlighted the relevance of ZFS here, and they're an AC. Someone mod parent up. RAID is borderline necessary if you don't have multiple backups, (to recover from in the event of random corruption caused by gamma rays from outer space or a butterfly flapping their wings on another continent or whatever) but so far as I know, only ZFS has built-in checksumming to detect/prevent the data corruption in the first place.
No, RAID Is not sufficient to prevent bit-rot. In fact, RAID can accelerate it. You see, using a redundant mode like 1, 5, 6, most controllers (software and hardware) will only read enough disks to get the data, 1 drive in the case of RAID1, N-1 for RAID5 and N-2 for RAID6 (the non-parity ones, to save a parity calculation). But the drives can return bit errors - it's rare, but it does happen (there's a undetectable fault error rate, something along the lines of 1 in 10^20 bytes read or so will have an undetected error). And this the RAID controller will happily return to you since it didn't check the redundant drives to verify correctness. And it's possible it gets written back corrupted, thus causing corruption.
You really need something like ZFS which puts a checksum on every file and verifies it, so if it does get an error it can resolve it.
At least for spinning disk, they will not return bit-errors. The medium is rather analog and has a powerful error-detection and -correction built in by necessity. This means a classic disk will either give you correct data, or tell you outright that the data cannot be read. This is what RAID is meant to work on top of, being told the data is corrupted by the layer below.
Their business is organizing crimes. They make it easy for illegal taxis to find customers.
No their business is aggregating, booking, and billing as a service to private taxis. There isn't anything inherently illegal about that business model.
Except if you do that as taxi company who charges illegal taxi fees, requires their drivers to break the law, and generally refuse to obey the laws for black cabs or taxis everywhere they operate. Uber breaks the law, their drivers breaks the law, and it is all deliberate and persisting even after being warned and fined for it multiple times.
I think Ubers' 'Terms of Service' including 'circumventing laws' and 'evading law enforcement' tells you all anyone needs to know about Uber, even without all the legitimate news stories about Uber drivers committing acts of violence against passengers. Uber acts like something run by the Mob and should probably be shut down, permanently.
What do you mean "run by the mob". Uber IS organized crime. Their business is organizing crimes. They make it easy for illegal taxis to find customers.
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I love that people are exposing exploits in Linux (new or old versions) because it means we all get fixes and a little more safety from the bad guys. :)
Well, these are white hats, so not really bad guys. I do hope however they have some way of reporting these bugs upstream before revealing them.
no that is the support contract for security fixes, windows 7 support for new features, changes etc finished in 2013.
So why did they add a new feature to reject compatible CPUs?
They haven't rejected the CPU's. They are rejecting security patches for those specific processors. Your OS will run fine.
No they took a perfectly working system. ADDED code to it, to make part of it not work. That part happens to be security updates. If the hadn't done EXTRA work, it would still work.
As far as evolutionary theory goes, this is about as "Captain Obvious" you can get, imho.
True, but only the headline here, the research is interesting in that they tested many difference in noses, and isolate only two traits related to climate and proved the rest random.
When can we get one that's an actual phone? It would be great for use as a burner when leaving and returning to the US. Though I doubt the TSA is going to find the humor to their liking. But I don't really find the legal gray zone at the border very funny either.
Just remember to tell them not to plug it in. It is not like they are going to respond to your warning anyway.
no that is the support contract for security fixes, windows 7 support for new features, changes etc finished in 2013.
So why did they add a new feature to reject compatible CPUs?
The problem was that the closed-captioning on YouTube was really, really poor. Less than 40% accuracy (due to some of the technical nature of the captioning). That isn't good enough for somebody who depends on the captioning to use the content.
It is hillariously poor. Well as long as don't have to rely on it, if I did it would be tragically poor.
I thought it would lead to layered realities, and that it would expose that many people are perfectly content in the baseline Matrix, some people's minds rebel. These people are identified and hooked to a 2nd Matrix in which they are made aware of the baseline Matrix, can interact with it, pursue their hero fantasies each to their own level necessary (Neo needed to be the One, Trinity need to be in love with the One, Morpheus had to be the one to find the One...) and steered into the whole Zion mythos.
A few might, like Neo, once exposed to he baseline Matrix, realize that they could be in a 2nd-level Matrix and find themselves able to manipulate it as well. At that point a 3rd..N+1 level matrix would be unnecessary. Those unlucky few would just be lobotomized by the machines and put back in the soup. The effort to entertain the chosen ones with Matrix 2 is justified only by the notion that the undamaged brains allow more wetware computing power to be utilized (i.e., humans not just batteries).
Neo getting a big needle in his brain may have been an unpleasant ending. Perhaps once the battle of Zion happened, the 3rd movie would end with a "reset" back to Neo first waking up in Scene 1 of the first matrix. They can just keep Groundhog Daying the hell out of Zion.
If the matrix was layered, obviously the second layer was for the machines, and was there because the humans won in the host "reality", and even those thinking themselves humans in the second matrix would actually be AI slaves for humanity in the 3rd layer :P
just rotten, i tell ya.
As I read it, no danes are affected yet. This was against ISPs in Sweden by a Swedish court. The Danish lawfirm is just representing a US troll to a Swedish regulatory captured court, to all collectively screw Swedish customers.
The leak was about these tools being given to third parties who leak and sell them.. Are you sure it is legal for mercenaries to do this? And two why do you think CIA needs mercenaries? Could it be to get around their limitation of not being allowed to spy on Americans themselves?
This.. I'd mod you up if I didn't feel compelled to reply myself. I EXPECT and WANT our government to have these tools.
You want your government to hand them out to mercenary contractors who inevitably sells them on the black market before they finally leak to wikileaks? Because that was the issue here. CIA is contracting out their attacks and handing this stuff over to contractors. It was already on the black market and used by criminals when leaked to wikileaks, and still CIA kept it "secret".
Interesting arguments.. But to degrade Infowars?
Infowars is a conspiracy site, it is not even conservative, it is just badshit insane.
No, it's trying to rewrite history.
Those news articles existed, exist and represent an online record of events. Preventing people from finding or accessing them distorts and changes perception of those events.
The original ruling was wrong, stupid and is something I'll be inviting my MP to overturn in the UK following the exit from the EU.
I would disagree with the ruling being wrong. Though I agree with you on the rest, but is the laws that are wrong. The European courts do not have the power to change or make new laws, so they have to apply existing laws and can only make judgement call when multiple laws conflict eachother.
As I said "the right to forgotten" is a completely separate thing, and is the potential right to force something like facebook to delete data that you gave to them. It has nothing to do with google and other indexers. As I said journalists have just been confusing the two things for a long time.
A little baby Saturn copying its mother (or is it big sister?)
Where the information is plain wrong it is reasonable to expect it to be removed. However in many cases the complainants demanding to be forgotten are simply crooks and criminals trying to cover up past transgressions.
A list of BBC stories currently blacklisted by Google.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/int...
Yeah, but the original ruling just ruled that Google is not except from the law of land just because they are on the internet. Since it is not a new law, it doesn't try to balance anything, and it specifically does not address wrong info. It just means that existing laws that prohibit indexing certain things after a certain amount of time (old crimes or bankcruptcies), also applies to Google. Since it is all about indexing and mostly about giving people who have done something bad a second chance, it is almost exclusively used by people who have done something bad long ago.
If something is false, libelous, or otherwise defamatory; it should be sued (if necessary) and removed at the source (after which it will fall out of the index the next time the originating site is spidered), not by attacking Google, or any othersearch providers.
The original ruling is not "the right to be forgotten", it is just confused with that by journalists. The ruling basically amounted to that laws apply to the internet. It is a diverse set of laws in different countries, some of which prohibits indexing certain things after a certain time. So for instance you can't index people as criminals 25 years after they finished their sentence. Since it applies to indexing, not original articles, those laws apply to Google. Note none of the preexisting laws used in this context are EU-wide laws, they are all individial laws in individual countries.
The article doesn't mention support for error correction for the RAM. If a bit gets flipped somewhere in a massive research project running on such a system with 4 to 8 TB RAM, the entire project could be ruined.
ECC, anyone?
All the AMD processors support ECC. You need to explicitly criple it like Intel does not to. It need to be certified with the motherboard though, and most consumer motherboards don't do that, and many also don't provide the tools to access if any error-corrections are done.
It says 2017, but that might be misleading -- it does not fully support C++x14 (release notes say "better" x14 support. I'd like to see "full x14 compliance & support"). And they're a ways from full x17 support.
You get spoiled using Clang/LLVM
Apparently it has all the stuff added in C++14, what is missing is C++11 and C++98 support :D
See VS2017 Release Notes - C++
the compiler is complete for features added in the C++14 Standard. Note that the compiler still lacks a few features from the C++11 and C++98 Standards.
The medium is rather analog and has a powerful error-detection and -correction built in by necessity. This means a classic disk will either give you correct data, or tell you outright that the data cannot be read.
CRC is now considered "powerful error-detection" ?!?!?! Seriously? Are people that ignorant nowadays?
It is not just CRC. As the density has grown the bits allocated to error detection has grown even faster, and this point spinning disk are so dense it is closer to being stocastic analysis of analog signals than digital processing with CRC.
Get off my lawn!
Seriously though, I am sorry you feel that way but I disagree. There is still a lot of interesting music being produced if you know where to look. I agree that most everything listed on the Billboard top 200 will fit your description, but that list only covers music which a small group of record labels have defined to be appealing to the largest groups of people. It sounds like your tastes do not fit with that assumption (mine do not either) but all that means is that you have to work a little harder to find stuff you like.
I could agree with GP poster if he meant 2016 and 2017. The pop music and top charts have been incredibly bleak the last year and half, but it is a local trend, and probably won't last. If the GP meant modern music in general, he should get off his own lawn and hide behind the curtains.
That's bollocks because every sector has a checksum at the hardware level, bit rot would be detected at read time.
Is that also true for SSDs?
No, RAID Is not sufficient to prevent bit-rot. In fact, RAID can accelerate it. You see, using a redundant mode like 1, 5, 6, most controllers (software and hardware) will only read enough disks to get the data, 1 drive in the case of RAID1, N-1 for RAID5 and N-2 for RAID6 (the non-parity ones, to save a parity calculation). But the drives can return bit errors - it's rare, but it does happen (there's a undetectable fault error rate, something along the lines of 1 in 10^20 bytes read or so will have an undetected error). And this the RAID controller will happily return to you since it didn't check the redundant drives to verify correctness. And it's possible it gets written back corrupted, thus causing corruption.
You really need something like ZFS which puts a checksum on every file and verifies it, so if it does get an error it can resolve it.
At least for spinning disk, they will not return bit-errors. The medium is rather analog and has a powerful error-detection and -correction built in by necessity. This means a classic disk will either give you correct data, or tell you outright that the data cannot be read. This is what RAID is meant to work on top of, being told the data is corrupted by the layer below.
Aha, and the stores don't sell your email to spammers. Ever!
In the civilized world, no it is unlikely, considering it is illegal and is easy to track. It probably happens in the US and the third world though.
Their business is organizing crimes. They make it easy for illegal taxis to find customers.
No their business is aggregating, booking, and billing as a service to private taxis. There isn't anything inherently illegal about that business model.
Except if you do that as taxi company who charges illegal taxi fees, requires their drivers to break the law, and generally refuse to obey the laws for black cabs or taxis everywhere they operate. Uber breaks the law, their drivers breaks the law, and it is all deliberate and persisting even after being warned and fined for it multiple times.
I think Ubers' 'Terms of Service' including 'circumventing laws' and 'evading law enforcement' tells you all anyone needs to know about Uber, even without all the legitimate news stories about Uber drivers committing acts of violence against passengers. Uber acts like something run by the Mob and should probably be shut down, permanently.
What do you mean "run by the mob". Uber IS organized crime. Their business is organizing crimes. They make it easy for illegal taxis to find customers.