Without multi-core, Moore's law would have ended recently.
Since Moore's law is about the number of transistors on a die and nothing to do with performance (except to the extent that more transistors allows higher performance), multiple cores are irrelevant: we could be running Pentium-4s with 16MB of cache instead of hexa-cores with 12MB of cache and Moore's Law would be just as valid.
Why don't people do this instead. Put a lab monkey next to an active mobile phone and keep them there for several years. After that, dissect the monkey for any signs of cancer.
But that wouldn't let you rake in tens of millions of dollars of funding to keep yourself off the dole queue for the next decade (doesn't take a gaggle of scientists to feed a monkey every day).
Plus the 'animal rights' nutters would burn down your house.
The study says what nearly all other studies have said: we don't know.
No, it says that if there is an effect then it's so insignificant that we can't find any valid evidence for it. And I'm sure any effect that insignificant could be completely eliminated at minimal cost by wearing a tin-foil hat.
Besides, everyone already knows that scientists keep doing these studies just because they're greedy for all the grant money they get rich from.
I'm amazed that the population in general have taken so long to realise that science has become a huge scam; I'd figured that out when I was studying for my Physics degree back in the 80s.
If I remember correctly, our Civic has one response for urgent faults and another for things that should be fixed when you get a chance: I think in one mode the light stays on and the other it flashes... but since it's never come on yet I'd have to check the manual to find out for sure:).
Ultimately people will either take the car in so the light goes off, or they'll stick a piece of duct tape over the light, just as they do with fault indicators which don't show any difference between fault types.
Imagine this, you're at work on a Friday, it's 2pm and you want to know if you've got enough juice in your car to get home or if you should wait till three to start that early weekend.
The Volt can 'charge' at any gas pump, so it's pretty much irrelevant.
Am I the only one who doesn't want people having remote access to my car?
Are you certain that it's due to FS corruption? I've had ext4 fail to boot due to silly errors like the last write being one hour into the future (some kind of time zone confusion), but no corruption at all.
I'm not 100% sure: it booted up and dumped me into a single-user console, so I assumed it was a corrupt filesystem rather than something really stupid like that... fsck and then reboot made the machine boot.
Btfrs already seems to be more stable than ext4: every PC I own with an ext4 partition has failed to boot at some point due to disk corruption, whereas the one with an Btfrs partition has worked fine for the few months since I configured it. I eventually turned on data journaling to try to stop ext4 corrupting disks and so far that's been safe but largely because it's eliminated all the supposed performance benefits of ext4.
NASA invented almost all of the stuff that these guys are now using, but these guys don't have to pay NASA a nickel in royalties.
Not only did most of the basic research come from people like Goddard and Von Braun, and both Mercury and Gemini use rockets designed by the US military, but most of the NASA hardware was developed by private companies for NASA (does the name 'Rocketdyne' mean anything to you?).
If NASA had never existed then we'd have skipped over the unaffordable boondoggle era of space travel and right now companies would be competing to be the first to put people in orbit and land them on the moon.
They may have originally been founded on such principles but they are now fairly right-leaning (by British standards)
Labour have expanded government borrowing to 10+% of GDP and spending to 50+% of GDP. If that's 'right-wing', I'd hate to see what a 'socialist' government would do.
I think we'd be in even worse trouble if 23% of the country were 'crazy hippies'.
It's not that bad: only about 50% of people can be bothered to vote for any party that's on offer, and that's assuming that the stories of mass postal vote fraud by the Labour party aren't true.
So on that basis only about 10% of the population are crazy hippies.
The way the British do it -is- a reasonable commonsense system and it lets -everyone- more or less have their voices heard.
Oh, bollocks.
If I remember correctly, the UKIP got about twice as many votes as the SNP and the BNP got about the same number of votes as the SNP, yet the SNP got six seats and the UKIP and BNP didn't get any. The British government is determined primarily by the votes of a million or so voters in central England, because most of the rest of the country is a safe seat for one of the three main parties... consequently the main parties crap on the core supporters while they all fight over those few voters who can determine the outcome.
It's an abysmal system and it's hard to see how you could create something worse if you really want to to 'let everyone have their voices heard'. Where I used to live my vote was utterly irrelevant because the Tory MP had such a large majority that they would get elected regardless of who I voted for.
You may be right that the US system is even worse, but the idea that the British system 'lets everyone have their voices heard' is simply absurd. That's precisely what it's designed to _NOT_ do.
If a hostile piece of code is able to create such a script in the first place, it is almost certainly also able to execute 'chmod' without asking you.
Not when it's using a driveby download exploit like the ones that hit Safari in recent years; there's a huge difference between being able to download a non-executable pwned.sh to your Downloads directory and being able to execute it there... even if the user clicks on it, it won't run if it doesn't have execute permission.
The only ways to get a file executed on your PC which don't also require the user to manually add execute permission are through browser exploits, in which case you're already inside a process the user is running and they're owned anyway.
You're executing sh, not the script. While I agree that pedantically speaking that does show the original poster was incorrect, it's at least violating the spirit of the challenge.
If malware is spreading due to idiots receiving emails saying 'Hey Bob, download pwned.sh and then run 'sudo sh pwned.sh'' then the malware authors might as well just ask those people to mail them their bank passwords because they're dumb enough to do so.
I didn't say it was easy.. BUT it is every possible
If the bank is going to the trouble of issuing live CDs, then they can restrict the web browser to only accept keys from the CA the bank uses, or even create their own in-house CA for that purpose.
What the hell does some random site changing browser tech have to do with the rest of the 97 percent of the computing world that doesn't give a damn about Apple and their products?
Just because we don't care about Apple, that doesn't mean that we want Flash; I'll celebrate the day I can finally uninstall that bloated swamp of security holes from all my PCs.
They look around, find scads of data that fits their model, and with enough data, declare the "debate is over".
Don't forget that if the data _doesn't_ fit your model, you get to 'adjust' it until it does.
'Global warming', sorry, 'climate change' is now potentially a multi-trillion dollar global industry if the banks get their 'crap and trade' laws passed. Does anyone really think that a little thing like the truth is going to be allowed to get in the way of those fat profits and bonuses? Ten years from now we'll be shivering in the dark because the price of power and heating has been massively increased to make fat-cats like Al Gore even richer, sorry, to prevent 'global warming'.
Next time the guys in CSI can scan a DNA sequence in a matter of minutes (or perhaps hours, as the camera briefly observes an analog clockface), don't nitpick the usual technical constraints of a process that usually takes days or weeks or months.
Except this lack of 'nit-picking' has real-world consequences. At the weekend I was reading a story in a newspaper where some real-world forensics investigators were complaining that shows like CSI have given the public the impression that they are magicians to the extent that juries are acquitting people because the police don't have a CSI-style case... after all, since they know from CSI that DNA sequencing only takes a few seconds, why don't the police have DNA evidence to prove that this guy is guilty? And why can't they get perfect fingerprints from objects where fingerprints can't possibly exist? CSI can get fingerprints from anything.
'Global warming' -- sorry, I forgot, it became 'climate change' when the planet stopped warming -- has been pure politics ever since Margaret Thatcher came up with it as a great wheeze to justify closing down the coal mines to get the Marxist union-leaders out of her way. So suggesting that this is somehow 'politicizing' it is laughable.
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Without multi-core, Moore's law would have ended recently.
Since Moore's law is about the number of transistors on a die and nothing to do with performance (except to the extent that more transistors allows higher performance), multiple cores are irrelevant: we could be running Pentium-4s with 16MB of cache instead of hexa-cores with 12MB of cache and Moore's Law would be just as valid.
Why don't people do this instead. Put a lab monkey next to an active mobile phone and keep them there for several years. After that, dissect the monkey for any signs of cancer.
But that wouldn't let you rake in tens of millions of dollars of funding to keep yourself off the dole queue for the next decade (doesn't take a gaggle of scientists to feed a monkey every day).
Plus the 'animal rights' nutters would burn down your house.
The study says what nearly all other studies have said: we don't know.
No, it says that if there is an effect then it's so insignificant that we can't find any valid evidence for it. And I'm sure any effect that insignificant could be completely eliminated at minimal cost by wearing a tin-foil hat.
Besides, everyone already knows that scientists keep doing these studies just because they're greedy for all the grant money they get rich from.
I'm amazed that the population in general have taken so long to realise that science has become a huge scam; I'd figured that out when I was studying for my Physics degree back in the 80s.
Most say 'service immediately'
'service soon' - would you ever take it in??!
If I remember correctly, our Civic has one response for urgent faults and another for things that should be fixed when you get a chance: I think in one mode the light stays on and the other it flashes... but since it's never come on yet I'd have to check the manual to find out for sure :).
Ultimately people will either take the car in so the light goes off, or they'll stick a piece of duct tape over the light, just as they do with fault indicators which don't show any difference between fault types.
Imagine this, you're at work on a Friday, it's 2pm and you want to know if you've got enough juice in your car to get home or if you should wait till three to start that early weekend.
The Volt can 'charge' at any gas pump, so it's pretty much irrelevant.
Am I the only one who doesn't want people having remote access to my car?
Are you certain that it's due to FS corruption? I've had ext4 fail to boot due to silly errors like the last write being one hour into the future (some kind of time zone confusion), but no corruption at all.
I'm not 100% sure: it booted up and dumped me into a single-user console, so I assumed it was a corrupt filesystem rather than something really stupid like that... fsck and then reboot made the machine boot.
Btfrs already seems to be more stable than ext4: every PC I own with an ext4 partition has failed to boot at some point due to disk corruption, whereas the one with an Btfrs partition has worked fine for the few months since I configured it. I eventually turned on data journaling to try to stop ext4 corrupting disks and so far that's been safe but largely because it's eliminated all the supposed performance benefits of ext4.
New Egg is selling an AMD 2.1 Ghz, 3 GB ram, 160 GB HD for $380. And, what do you know, it runs Linux.
Can it run for 8+ hours and fit in my pocket?
College is supposed to teach you how to learn on your own, how to get information and how to digest it.
To me, that seems like the kind of thing you could learn on your own.
NASA invented almost all of the stuff that these guys are now using, but these guys don't have to pay NASA a nickel in royalties.
Not only did most of the basic research come from people like Goddard and Von Braun, and both Mercury and Gemini use rockets designed by the US military, but most of the NASA hardware was developed by private companies for NASA (does the name 'Rocketdyne' mean anything to you?).
If NASA had never existed then we'd have skipped over the unaffordable boondoggle era of space travel and right now companies would be competing to be the first to put people in orbit and land them on the moon.
They may have originally been founded on such principles but they are now fairly right-leaning (by British standards)
Labour have expanded government borrowing to 10+% of GDP and spending to 50+% of GDP. If that's 'right-wing', I'd hate to see what a 'socialist' government would do.
I think we'd be in even worse trouble if 23% of the country were 'crazy hippies'.
It's not that bad: only about 50% of people can be bothered to vote for any party that's on offer, and that's assuming that the stories of mass postal vote fraud by the Labour party aren't true.
So on that basis only about 10% of the population are crazy hippies.
The way the British do it -is- a reasonable commonsense system and it lets -everyone- more or less have their voices heard.
Oh, bollocks.
If I remember correctly, the UKIP got about twice as many votes as the SNP and the BNP got about the same number of votes as the SNP, yet the SNP got six seats and the UKIP and BNP didn't get any. The British government is determined primarily by the votes of a million or so voters in central England, because most of the rest of the country is a safe seat for one of the three main parties... consequently the main parties crap on the core supporters while they all fight over those few voters who can determine the outcome.
It's an abysmal system and it's hard to see how you could create something worse if you really want to to 'let everyone have their voices heard'. Where I used to live my vote was utterly irrelevant because the Tory MP had such a large majority that they would get elected regardless of who I voted for.
You may be right that the US system is even worse, but the idea that the British system 'lets everyone have their voices heard' is simply absurd. That's precisely what it's designed to _NOT_ do.
If a hostile piece of code is able to create such a script in the first place, it is almost certainly also able to execute 'chmod' without asking you.
Not when it's using a driveby download exploit like the ones that hit Safari in recent years; there's a huge difference between being able to download a non-executable pwned.sh to your Downloads directory and being able to execute it there... even if the user clicks on it, it won't run if it doesn't have execute permission.
The only ways to get a file executed on your PC which don't also require the user to manually add execute permission are through browser exploits, in which case you're already inside a process the user is running and they're owned anyway.
Just sayin....
You're executing sh, not the script. While I agree that pedantically speaking that does show the original poster was incorrect, it's at least violating the spirit of the challenge.
If malware is spreading due to idiots receiving emails saying 'Hey Bob, download pwned.sh and then run 'sudo sh pwned.sh'' then the malware authors might as well just ask those people to mail them their bank passwords because they're dumb enough to do so.
I didn't say it was easy.. BUT it is every possible
If the bank is going to the trouble of issuing live CDs, then they can restrict the web browser to only accept keys from the CA the bank uses, or even create their own in-house CA for that purpose.
Flash is like a zombie. Even though may be walking, it's already dead. It just doesn't know it. Yet.
And if you don't keep installing security patches it will eat your brain...
What the hell does some random site changing browser tech have to do with the rest of the 97 percent of the computing world that doesn't give a damn about Apple and their products?
Just because we don't care about Apple, that doesn't mean that we want Flash; I'll celebrate the day I can finally uninstall that bloated swamp of security holes from all my PCs.
This is the PR equivalent to the Jedi Mind Trick (tm)
Seems more like the Chewbacca Defence to me.
They look around, find scads of data that fits their model, and with enough data, declare the "debate is over".
Don't forget that if the data _doesn't_ fit your model, you get to 'adjust' it until it does.
'Global warming', sorry, 'climate change' is now potentially a multi-trillion dollar global industry if the banks get their 'crap and trade' laws passed. Does anyone really think that a little thing like the truth is going to be allowed to get in the way of those fat profits and bonuses? Ten years from now we'll be shivering in the dark because the price of power and heating has been massively increased to make fat-cats like Al Gore even richer, sorry, to prevent 'global warming'.
For $300 you can get a brand new Dell - who builds a PC anymore?
Someone who wants something better than a $300 Dell?
Next time the guys in CSI can scan a DNA sequence in a matter of minutes (or perhaps hours, as the camera briefly observes an analog clockface), don't nitpick the usual technical constraints of a process that usually takes days or weeks or months.
Except this lack of 'nit-picking' has real-world consequences. At the weekend I was reading a story in a newspaper where some real-world forensics investigators were complaining that shows like CSI have given the public the impression that they are magicians to the extent that juries are acquitting people because the police don't have a CSI-style case... after all, since they know from CSI that DNA sequencing only takes a few seconds, why don't the police have DNA evidence to prove that this guy is guilty? And why can't they get perfect fingerprints from objects where fingerprints can't possibly exist? CSI can get fingerprints from anything.
They have a storage medium with nothing to read or write it...
The perfect DRM! They'll make billions!
'Global warming' -- sorry, I forgot, it became 'climate change' when the planet stopped warming -- has been pure politics ever since Margaret Thatcher came up with it as a great wheeze to justify closing down the coal mines to get the Marxist union-leaders out of her way. So suggesting that this is somehow 'politicizing' it is laughable.