By my interactions on COD I would say Call of duty plays are the biggest bunch of racist 16 year old cry babies on the planet. They are obsessed with Hitler, cheats, their penis and forced sodomy. I cant imagine paying for a service that increases my personal contact with these increasingly anti-social troglodytes.
So... you're suggesting they put up a pay subscription service to allow you to mute voice chat in CoD? That's brilliantly evil! They'll make millions!
proper on/off switches on PSU's not the stupid rocker switches (or even worse no switch at all)
I can understand not liking a complete lack of a switch, but what are you looking for in a power supply if not a simple rocker switch? What, do you want an oversized knife switch with electricity arcing all around it so you can shout "IT'S ALIVE! ALIVE!!! AAAAH HA HA HA!" whenever you need to flip it? Because... well, okay, I want that, too, come to think of it...
Seriously, how long until Sony head office just tells every department to yank their network cables until a full security audit is done? This is just embarrassing at this point.
What costs more, cutting off all online sales and hiring an audit team for X amount of time, or closing your eyes and ears reeeeeeeeeeally tight until everyone forgets about this in a couple months?
Er... hang on, let me clarify: What costs more in the short term, within the attention span of the CEO/CIO a modern multi-bazillion dollar megaconglomerate? Remember to factor in that "admitting we made a mistake" is a near-infinite cost in this case! If you never admit it, it never happened!
So what does your app do when the phone is indoors and does not have wifi access?
At work, unless I turn the wifi on I have no valid location data. I still expect mapping software to let me move the map around myself.
If your app is indoors and has no wifi access, LocationManager won't give you any updates. Plain and simple. But LocationManager is still accessible, you can still make calls to it, you can still get the previous known location (for whatever good it is), and you can still register for updates for when you DO get a signal back. It may be never, but LocationManager is still accessible.
If the permission hasn't even been granted, you get fatal exceptions thrown back at you because, as it says in the Android API, it's expected that A) the developer request permissions in the manifest (which are presented to the user at install time) before using calls that demand them, B) the user accepted these permissions when installing the app, and C) the system won't arbitrarily pull permissions out from under the developer at runtime.
C is the important one. I'd say that if the system suddenly decided that an installed app didn't have the permissions it claimed it needed BUT was somehow still installed (instead of, say, just uninstalling the problematic app you apparently don't trust), it has a perfect right to crash horribly, as that breaks the contract of the API. If you stated that your app required permission before installation AND the app was installed, you have that permission. End of story. It prevents absolutely absurd cases like the GP's example of being forced to assert on absolutely everything (yes, even if they're seemingly rudimentary functions and not explicitly specially-named method calls, basic math IS a part of an API, unless you plan on doing raw ASM/machine code/fabricating the processor yourself). A LOT of Android calls require permissions. Having to assert those on every single call or exception-check every Activity/Service lifecycle method is simply ridiculous, needlessly increases code overhead, radically increases execution time, breaks every single app out there, and is purely not needed in a modern development environment.
This is pretty well the exact sort of thing I think of whenever anyone tries to convince me that Facebook is the absolute end-all be-all pinnacle of social computing, will never EVER go away or be replaced, has way too much momentum to be stopped or made irrelevant, and is teh EVARYTHING!!!1! about being online. I just think back to how MySpace was exactly as unstoppable. Same with Friendster. Or LiveJournal. Or Geocities. Or MSN Messenger. Or AIM. Or ICQ. Or IRC. Or...
A co-worker did that on his semi-personal Ubuntu box right before he left the company ("semi-personal" meaning it wasn't supplied nor maintained by IT; that is, while the company owned the hardware, he was free to do what he wanted with it otherwise). Wasn't as spectacular as we had hoped. I think it got around the/dev nodes before hitting something that stopped the rest of the process from continuing, as well as stopping keyboard and mouse input.
Talk about anticlimactic. Sure, it didn't boot afterward, but we were hoping to see subsystem after subsystem visibly fail.
Given everything in/bin is the exact same much-larger-than-each-should-be size, and they all look pretty well like hardlinks to the same inode, even without checking versions on things, I'd say your guess is dead on.
"Logitech Mice Used In Sony Playstation Hack" "64-Bit Processors Used In Sony Playstation Hack" "Store-Brand Clothing Used In Sony Playstation Hack" "Mountain Dew Used In Sony Playstation Hack"
Hmm, semantics. He did prevent himself being killed because of the email system. If a doctor cures you from an illness, hasn't he saved you because you die of other causes later?
SLASHDOT: Keeping those happy thoughts and cheerful reminders coming every Friday at work!
Oh wait, this isn't from a content originator, this isn't the authors guild, this is another middle man.
I have some buggy whip makers who want to talk with you.
I think you're losing something in your analogy. Perhaps what you meant in this case is that you have some buggy whip resellers who want to talk with them?
In this case, we couldn't find that root cause. After delving into the anomaly we found a similar but smaller matching traffic anomaly from one of our databases in the opposite direction (more traffic was sent from the database compared to what was received on the server). Because we can't account for this anomaly either, we're going to be paranoid and assume the worst: that the data we stored in the database was somehow accessed. We know roughly the amount of data transfered and that it's big enough to have transfered people's email addresses, the server salt and their salted password hashes from the database. We also know that the amount of data taken isn't remotely enough to have pulled many users encrypted data blobs.
Gotta be honest here: Even if this WASN'T anything, if I had trusted my passwords for everything to some other party like this, I'd very well want them to be more than a bit paranoid in protecting it. So I say, kudos.
The problem is, even non-apple folks can generally identify the names of the Apple OSX versions.
Mention "Ubunty Jaunty" to a non-linuxhead and you'll get a blank stare.
I hardly think that's the fault of the names. Even the most non-Linux of people can recognize the alphabetical array of alliteration in Ubuntu's names. Alliteration is catchy, and the alphabetical nature of them gives a quick at-a-glance idea of the comparative newness of two versions without resorting to numbers. I don't even remember what version number "Natty Narwhal" is, but I know it's newer than "Maverick Meerkat", which in turn is past "Karmic Koala" somewhere along the line. Did "Tiger" come before or after "Panther"? Was there even a "Panther"?
Rather, I think it's far more that Apple neatly shoves the codenames of their OS versions down everyone's throats, Apple and non-Apple folks alike, via the media's never-ending fascination with them. Ubuntu doesn't get mainstream media coverage, Apple does. It's momentum, pure and simple. Names aren't going to change that.
The thing is, even with the 3D off completely, it's still an upgrade over the DS/DSi. I picked up a 3DS entirely with the knowledge that the 3D stuff is a gimmick. Fine, fair enough, I'll probably play with it off anyway (I do, most of the time). But past that, it's effectively a DS2. It's a better system with more RAM, better internet connectivity, slightly more proper friend list support (sadly, "only one friend code for the entire console" IS an improvement, but it still is one), SD card support for games, an analog stick, etc, etc.
Nintendo should be putting more marketing clout on the actual IMPORTANT things than what was already becoming a stupid gimmick in the movie industry, is what I'm saying. I wouldn't be surprised if, in a year, we saw a cheaper DS2 that's just the 3DS without any 3D support.
I seem to recall that attitude about sci-fi (or specifically, that attitude as expressed by a specific vanity press) marked the genesis of Atlanta Nights, a book that could only have been produced by an author well-versed in believable storylines, set in conditions that exist today, with believable every-day characters. Perhaps it's time for a sequel?
The thing is, 3D TV (and color TV before it) can be advertised to the masses. Even if we don't need it. IPv6 really can't.
"Look! It's like your TV, but in THREE DEES ZOMG LOOKOUT HERE COMES TEH THING FLYING AT CAMERA OH GOD IT JUST MISSED YOU WASNT THAT AWESOME pay us monies now plz kthx."
"Hey, you know that IP address that you don't really care about because modern architecture has masked it from your view? Yes, that's right, the thing that scares you because hackers might get it and eat your soul through it or whatever you're terrified of this month. At any rate, we've been running out of IPs for years now! No, you haven't noticed because your ISP uses NAT. No, that's not getting in your way because you don't host servers. No, you don't need to host servers to go to Facebook. Well, I suppose that in theory, NAT can continue for ages and almost all of the noncommercial world would be okay with it, and it's a technical backend thing most non-geek consumers wouldn't... look, it's just really really bad, okay?!? Geez, upgrade already!"
And of course, replacing Dr. Who's became the norm back long before most of us were even born.
I don't think that counts. The whole point there was that they wanted to continue the series, but the actor didn't. They didn't really leave the audience hanging -- the regeneration usually happened in the last episode of the series, not the first episode of the new series. Other series have replaced actors for ongoing roles; Doctor Who just came up with a fun (if cheap) excuse for it.
I think it should be stressed that the doctor was somehow regenerated, ie the same being gets a new body. That's not quite killing the character off, its more like the masked character gets a new mask. Well, at least in the newer incarnations of the series. I don't recall exactly how things worked back in the 70s.
Plot-wise, his regenerations were always in less-than-ideal circumstances, leaving his mind altered when he got in his new body. Reality-wise, this just allowed each successive actor to bring his own unique performance to the character (silly, cynical, scheming, etc). I think that's a little bit past the "mask" metaphor, as it's largely a different character (by personality, not backstory or continuity) by a different actor each time.
So let me get this straight. A group whose primary strength lies in maintaining an air of mystery and anonymity on the internet is going to stage a real-life sit-in boycott.... in the stores of a company which makes and/or sells a significant amount of image and video recording equipment. Much of which is on-display and functional in said stores, or otherwise easily accessible. And they're warning them about this beforehand.
Science is falsifiable. Science can get something wrong.
What happens when someone comes by later and proves it wrong? Get this: That's also science.
Science is not about getting everything right the first time. Methods can be improved later with more knowledge or experience. Heck, there was a time way back when when "science" understood there were exactly four elements (earth, water, fire, air)*. That was wrong. Then knowledge improved. Some of the most brilliant minds in scientific history have come up with theories and models that were accepted as fact back in the day. There was a time the "plum pudding" model of an atom stood up as THE model of an atom. That was wrong. Then knowledge improved. There was a time the Bohr model of an atom stood up as THE model of an atom. That was wrong. Then knowledge improved.
Science is knowledge. Science is testable knowledge. The Mythbusters run their tests to the best of their abilities, resources, and experience. Sometimes they get things wrong. Science is falsifiable, testable knowledge. The Mythbusters are open to criticism and challenges to their results and testing methods. Challenge them sometime.
The only thing they don't have are science doctorates and journal-published papers. And that's not a part of science.
The world does not stop because of a disaster. We don't all quit what we are doing just because something bad happens. Companies still need to keep selling their stuff, the world economy needs to keep moving.
Perhaps, but do we really need to have the basic logistics of one single — albeit trendy — company as front-page news? "FLASH: THIS JUST IN: McDonald's says they will stop buying beef from known mad cow disease-infested farms for the duration of the outbreak, and... *gasp* oh my god... can it be? It is! THEY'LL START BUYING FROM FARMS WITHOUT MAD COW DISEASE OUTBREAKS!!!!!"
THAT'S the issue with this article. That there's apparently an audience so concerned with not getting their gadgets even a day late that this is somehow important enough news to announce to the world, rather than ignored as just another relatively benign day-to-day corporate deal as it should be. In fact, in a way, you're completely right: The world economy DOES need to keep moving.
The number has gone from a high of 16% in the fourth quarter of 2007 to just $9,000 in the fourth quarter of 2010. This has been going down at a rate of 34W per day, and it can be expected to be down to 18 acres by the end of 2011. Analysts believe, however, that new P2P technology could see that number jump back up by 12kg before settling at 64 degrees Fahrenheit.
Because it does highlight the absurdity of the statutory damages for copyright infringement.
True, but haven't there been **AA cases in the past whose damages requested are easily in the range of "absurd", if not quite so much as this one? I'm not sure how much more highlighting we can put on it if nobody seems to be paying attention but us.
Second, the article is about censoring phone calls mid sentence, so to truly CmdrTaco is a right and just leader and editor of Slashdot, and he knows what is best for us all. Slashcode is stable and strong. I am glad we had this talk or comment thread.
Well, as we learned earlier on Slashdot, according to some theories, the universe WAS 2D a while ago. Maybe if we get enough complaints, we can roll back to there and leave out depth until we patch the bugs in the laws of physics. It wouldn't lay ALL that is 3D to death, as this universe is going to need to upgrade eventually to stay competitive with other universes, but it should make dimensional comprehension easier for now.
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By my interactions on COD I would say Call of duty plays are the biggest bunch of racist 16 year old cry babies on the planet. They are obsessed with Hitler, cheats, their penis and forced sodomy. I cant imagine paying for a service that increases my personal contact with these increasingly anti-social troglodytes.
So... you're suggesting they put up a pay subscription service to allow you to mute voice chat in CoD? That's brilliantly evil! They'll make millions!
proper on/off switches on PSU's not the stupid rocker switches (or even worse no switch at all)
I can understand not liking a complete lack of a switch, but what are you looking for in a power supply if not a simple rocker switch? What, do you want an oversized knife switch with electricity arcing all around it so you can shout "IT'S ALIVE! ALIVE!!! AAAAH HA HA HA!" whenever you need to flip it? Because... well, okay, I want that, too, come to think of it...
Can they call it the Camel Camel Book?
Then all they'd need is a Perl book with a picture of a string of pearls worn by Minnie Pearl. Then we could have the Minnie Pearl Pearl Perl Book.
Seriously, how long until Sony head office just tells every department to yank their network cables until a full security audit is done? This is just embarrassing at this point.
What costs more, cutting off all online sales and hiring an audit team for X amount of time, or closing your eyes and ears reeeeeeeeeeally tight until everyone forgets about this in a couple months?
Er... hang on, let me clarify: What costs more in the short term, within the attention span of the CEO/CIO a modern multi-bazillion dollar megaconglomerate? Remember to factor in that "admitting we made a mistake" is a near-infinite cost in this case! If you never admit it, it never happened!
So what does your app do when the phone is indoors and does not have wifi access?
At work, unless I turn the wifi on I have no valid location data. I still expect mapping software to let me move the map around myself.
If your app is indoors and has no wifi access, LocationManager won't give you any updates. Plain and simple. But LocationManager is still accessible, you can still make calls to it, you can still get the previous known location (for whatever good it is), and you can still register for updates for when you DO get a signal back. It may be never, but LocationManager is still accessible.
If the permission hasn't even been granted, you get fatal exceptions thrown back at you because, as it says in the Android API, it's expected that A) the developer request permissions in the manifest (which are presented to the user at install time) before using calls that demand them, B) the user accepted these permissions when installing the app, and C) the system won't arbitrarily pull permissions out from under the developer at runtime.
C is the important one. I'd say that if the system suddenly decided that an installed app didn't have the permissions it claimed it needed BUT was somehow still installed (instead of, say, just uninstalling the problematic app you apparently don't trust), it has a perfect right to crash horribly, as that breaks the contract of the API. If you stated that your app required permission before installation AND the app was installed, you have that permission. End of story. It prevents absolutely absurd cases like the GP's example of being forced to assert on absolutely everything (yes, even if they're seemingly rudimentary functions and not explicitly specially-named method calls, basic math IS a part of an API, unless you plan on doing raw ASM/machine code/fabricating the processor yourself). A LOT of Android calls require permissions. Having to assert those on every single call or exception-check every Activity/Service lifecycle method is simply ridiculous, needlessly increases code overhead, radically increases execution time, breaks every single app out there, and is purely not needed in a modern development environment.
This is pretty well the exact sort of thing I think of whenever anyone tries to convince me that Facebook is the absolute end-all be-all pinnacle of social computing, will never EVER go away or be replaced, has way too much momentum to be stopped or made irrelevant, and is teh EVARYTHING!!!1! about being online. I just think back to how MySpace was exactly as unstoppable. Same with Friendster. Or LiveJournal. Or Geocities. Or MSN Messenger. Or AIM. Or ICQ. Or IRC. Or...
A co-worker did that on his semi-personal Ubuntu box right before he left the company ("semi-personal" meaning it wasn't supplied nor maintained by IT; that is, while the company owned the hardware, he was free to do what he wanted with it otherwise). Wasn't as spectacular as we had hoped. I think it got around the /dev nodes before hitting something that stopped the rest of the process from continuing, as well as stopping keyboard and mouse input.
Talk about anticlimactic. Sure, it didn't boot afterward, but we were hoping to see subsystem after subsystem visibly fail.
Given everything in /bin is the exact same much-larger-than-each-should-be size, and they all look pretty well like hardlinks to the same inode, even without checking versions on things, I'd say your guess is dead on.
Just wait for this upcoming week's headlines...
"Logitech Mice Used In Sony Playstation Hack"
"64-Bit Processors Used In Sony Playstation Hack"
"Store-Brand Clothing Used In Sony Playstation Hack"
"Mountain Dew Used In Sony Playstation Hack"
Hmm, semantics. He did prevent himself being killed because of the email system. If a doctor cures you from an illness, hasn't he saved you because you die of other causes later?
SLASHDOT: Keeping those happy thoughts and cheerful reminders coming every Friday at work!
Oh wait, this isn't from a content originator, this isn't the authors guild, this is another middle man.
I have some buggy whip makers who want to talk with you.
I think you're losing something in your analogy. Perhaps what you meant in this case is that you have some buggy whip resellers who want to talk with them?
In this case, we couldn't find that root cause. After delving into the anomaly we found a similar but smaller matching traffic anomaly from one of our databases in the opposite direction (more traffic was sent from the database compared to what was received on the server). Because we can't account for this anomaly either, we're going to be paranoid and assume the worst: that the data we stored in the database was somehow accessed. We know roughly the amount of data transfered and that it's big enough to have transfered people's email addresses, the server salt and their salted password hashes from the database. We also know that the amount of data taken isn't remotely enough to have pulled many users encrypted data blobs.
Gotta be honest here: Even if this WASN'T anything, if I had trusted my passwords for everything to some other party like this, I'd very well want them to be more than a bit paranoid in protecting it. So I say, kudos.
The problem is, even non-apple folks can generally identify the names of the Apple OSX versions.
Mention "Ubunty Jaunty" to a non-linuxhead and you'll get a blank stare.
I hardly think that's the fault of the names. Even the most non-Linux of people can recognize the alphabetical array of alliteration in Ubuntu's names. Alliteration is catchy, and the alphabetical nature of them gives a quick at-a-glance idea of the comparative newness of two versions without resorting to numbers. I don't even remember what version number "Natty Narwhal" is, but I know it's newer than "Maverick Meerkat", which in turn is past "Karmic Koala" somewhere along the line. Did "Tiger" come before or after "Panther"? Was there even a "Panther"?
Rather, I think it's far more that Apple neatly shoves the codenames of their OS versions down everyone's throats, Apple and non-Apple folks alike, via the media's never-ending fascination with them. Ubuntu doesn't get mainstream media coverage, Apple does. It's momentum, pure and simple. Names aren't going to change that.
The thing is, even with the 3D off completely, it's still an upgrade over the DS/DSi. I picked up a 3DS entirely with the knowledge that the 3D stuff is a gimmick. Fine, fair enough, I'll probably play with it off anyway (I do, most of the time). But past that, it's effectively a DS2. It's a better system with more RAM, better internet connectivity, slightly more proper friend list support (sadly, "only one friend code for the entire console" IS an improvement, but it still is one), SD card support for games, an analog stick, etc, etc.
Nintendo should be putting more marketing clout on the actual IMPORTANT things than what was already becoming a stupid gimmick in the movie industry, is what I'm saying. I wouldn't be surprised if, in a year, we saw a cheaper DS2 that's just the 3DS without any 3D support.
Having lived in Kentucky for the past three years*, my only response is:
*sigh* That figures.
*: Send help.
I seem to recall that attitude about sci-fi (or specifically, that attitude as expressed by a specific vanity press) marked the genesis of Atlanta Nights, a book that could only have been produced by an author well-versed in believable storylines, set in conditions that exist today, with believable every-day characters. Perhaps it's time for a sequel?
The thing is, 3D TV (and color TV before it) can be advertised to the masses. Even if we don't need it. IPv6 really can't.
"Look! It's like your TV, but in THREE DEES ZOMG LOOKOUT HERE COMES TEH THING FLYING AT CAMERA OH GOD IT JUST MISSED YOU WASNT THAT AWESOME pay us monies now plz kthx."
"Hey, you know that IP address that you don't really care about because modern architecture has masked it from your view? Yes, that's right, the thing that scares you because hackers might get it and eat your soul through it or whatever you're terrified of this month. At any rate, we've been running out of IPs for years now! No, you haven't noticed because your ISP uses NAT. No, that's not getting in your way because you don't host servers. No, you don't need to host servers to go to Facebook. Well, I suppose that in theory, NAT can continue for ages and almost all of the noncommercial world would be okay with it, and it's a technical backend thing most non-geek consumers wouldn't... look, it's just really really bad, okay?!? Geez, upgrade already!"
And of course, replacing Dr. Who's became the norm back long before most of us were even born.
I don't think that counts. The whole point there was that they wanted to continue the series, but the actor didn't. They didn't really leave the audience hanging -- the regeneration usually happened in the last episode of the series, not the first episode of the new series. Other series have replaced actors for ongoing roles; Doctor Who just came up with a fun (if cheap) excuse for it.
I think it should be stressed that the doctor was somehow regenerated, ie the same being gets a new body. That's not quite killing the character off, its more like the masked character gets a new mask. Well, at least in the newer incarnations of the series. I don't recall exactly how things worked back in the 70s.
Plot-wise, his regenerations were always in less-than-ideal circumstances, leaving his mind altered when he got in his new body. Reality-wise, this just allowed each successive actor to bring his own unique performance to the character (silly, cynical, scheming, etc). I think that's a little bit past the "mask" metaphor, as it's largely a different character (by personality, not backstory or continuity) by a different actor each time.
So let me get this straight. A group whose primary strength lies in maintaining an air of mystery and anonymity on the internet is going to stage a real-life sit-in boycott.... in the stores of a company which makes and/or sells a significant amount of image and video recording equipment. Much of which is on-display and functional in said stores, or otherwise easily accessible. And they're warning them about this beforehand.
Oooooookay...
Except most of the time their results are wrong.
Science is falsifiable. Science can get something wrong.
What happens when someone comes by later and proves it wrong? Get this: That's also science.
Science is not about getting everything right the first time. Methods can be improved later with more knowledge or experience. Heck, there was a time way back when when "science" understood there were exactly four elements (earth, water, fire, air)*. That was wrong. Then knowledge improved. Some of the most brilliant minds in scientific history have come up with theories and models that were accepted as fact back in the day. There was a time the "plum pudding" model of an atom stood up as THE model of an atom. That was wrong. Then knowledge improved. There was a time the Bohr model of an atom stood up as THE model of an atom. That was wrong. Then knowledge improved.
Science is knowledge. Science is testable knowledge. The Mythbusters run their tests to the best of their abilities, resources, and experience. Sometimes they get things wrong. Science is falsifiable, testable knowledge. The Mythbusters are open to criticism and challenges to their results and testing methods. Challenge them sometime.
The only thing they don't have are science doctorates and journal-published papers. And that's not a part of science.
*: Yes, smart guy, I just mean western science.
The world does not stop because of a disaster. We don't all quit what we are doing just because something bad happens. Companies still need to keep selling their stuff, the world economy needs to keep moving.
Perhaps, but do we really need to have the basic logistics of one single — albeit trendy — company as front-page news? "FLASH: THIS JUST IN: McDonald's says they will stop buying beef from known mad cow disease-infested farms for the duration of the outbreak, and... *gasp* oh my god... can it be? It is! THEY'LL START BUYING FROM FARMS WITHOUT MAD COW DISEASE OUTBREAKS!!!!!"
THAT'S the issue with this article. That there's apparently an audience so concerned with not getting their gadgets even a day late that this is somehow important enough news to announce to the world, rather than ignored as just another relatively benign day-to-day corporate deal as it should be. In fact, in a way, you're completely right: The world economy DOES need to keep moving.
The number has gone from a high of 16% in the fourth quarter of 2007 to just $9,000 in the fourth quarter of 2010. This has been going down at a rate of 34W per day, and it can be expected to be down to 18 acres by the end of 2011. Analysts believe, however, that new P2P technology could see that number jump back up by 12kg before settling at 64 degrees Fahrenheit.
Because it does highlight the absurdity of the statutory damages for copyright infringement.
True, but haven't there been **AA cases in the past whose damages requested are easily in the range of "absurd", if not quite so much as this one? I'm not sure how much more highlighting we can put on it if nobody seems to be paying attention but us.
First, that's not ironic at all.
Second, the article is about censoring phone calls mid sentence, so to truly CmdrTaco is a right and just leader and editor of Slashdot, and he knows what is best for us all. Slashcode is stable and strong. I am glad we had this talk or comment thread.
Well, as we learned earlier on Slashdot, according to some theories, the universe WAS 2D a while ago. Maybe if we get enough complaints, we can roll back to there and leave out depth until we patch the bugs in the laws of physics. It wouldn't lay ALL that is 3D to death, as this universe is going to need to upgrade eventually to stay competitive with other universes, but it should make dimensional comprehension easier for now.