Are we paying our educational institutions to re-invent the wheel every five years? Some variant of the "cosmic-ray-attack" comes around at a frequency of 5-yrs-2months. About the time the new PhD students have to 'make something up that has not been done before.'
We all know that if you subject hardware to environments outside their operational limits then something weird is going to happen.
For example: Bit errors can also be induced in a memory chip with a machete and glue gun used in a 3 to 2 ratio.
Solution:
There is a simple solution to the problem! Use three 'machines' all running the same code with a fourth checking the state of the other three is always the same. Of course the fourth machine is vulnerable so you must set up three of these with each checking another three machines and so on and so on. This of course will take the entire computing power of the universe.
A second solution is the ban the sale of machetes and glue-guns.
Alternatively, use the machete to cut off the hands of students or use the glue-gun to glue their hands together and prevent them from writing such drivel.
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Are we paying our educational institutions to re-invent the wheel every five years? Some variant of the "cosmic-ray-attack" comes around at a frequency of 5-yrs-2months. About the time the new PhD students have to 'make something up that has not been done before.' We all know that if you subject hardware to environments outside their operational limits then something weird is going to happen. For example: Bit errors can also be induced in a memory chip with a machete and glue gun used in a 3 to 2 ratio. Solution: There is a simple solution to the problem! Use three 'machines' all running the same code with a fourth checking the state of the other three is always the same. Of course the fourth machine is vulnerable so you must set up three of these with each checking another three machines and so on and so on. This of course will take the entire computing power of the universe. A second solution is the ban the sale of machetes and glue-guns. Alternatively, use the machete to cut off the hands of students or use the glue-gun to glue their hands together and prevent them from writing such drivel.