Australia's welfare system sent automated letters to everyone they detected as being over paid. Cutting them off, or at least setting up a way to claw back the overpayment.
Problem was of course that the data wasn't perfect, and the system double counted some people's salary information going back 5 years.
That was a freak event though. Strong winds push over a long power line, the other one had trouble coping, then power generators started tripping off.
And now have a grid connected battery that can react faster than we can measure. So if something similar happened again, the generators might be able to stay on.
As already mentioned somewhere else, steam on linux now ships with wine for playing windows games. Plus if you have the skills to hack on wine, steam makes it easy to use your own version so you can submit patches upstream to help everyone else move to linux.
Reusing data you already have can be much quicker than waiting for the speed of light (or at least the speed of internet) to reload content from remote servers.
At a defcon talk in 2014 (talkslides) they scanned the whole IPv4 space live, looking for VNC instances. At least, anything that responded to a SYN packet.
Then they took a couple months to connect to each VNC instance, if no password was required, grab a screen shot.
Because some people could live in bunkers on earth, with fairly easy access to water, air & food. No matter how much we screw up in the near future, short of all out nuclear war. Compared to living in bunkers on Mars where lots of water, air & food supplies would need to be shipped in from earth.
The problems we are currently facing here are *much* simpler to deal with than what we would face on any other planet.
The push to split firefox into multiple processes forced a redesign of extension interfaces. If you are going to break it once anyway, trying to build or adopt a cross browser standard isn't a terrible idea.
I made a mistake a bit like this once. So to reduce latency I started recording audio before answering, and only start sending data when the user answers. I figured the best way to make sure all the code you need is loaded into ram, is to try and use it. But of course on this cheap device there's a 2KB hardware buffer you can't seem to avoid. So the person on the other end hears about 120ms of audio from before you hit the button.
The people of reddit have been posting all kinds of 23&me related stories from doing tests over Christmas. While some stories were from parents coming clean about the skeletons in their closets, others may have been spurious results like this. I've always been skeptical of their methods and the validity of the results they have obtained.
This periodic table appeared on Objectivity, while it was being restored by paper conservator Richard Hawkes. Also discussed by Professor Sir Martyn Poliakoff on Periodic Video's.
The only traffic jams we get are city drivers commuting or going camping on long weekends. On most roads, you'd measure the minutes or perhaps hours between cars, rather than the number of cars per minute.
#MeToo, my wife's boobs are great stress relief. And she'd never call my attention sexual assault, even if she is annoyed sometimes.
What, I'm not allowed to use that hashtag, because you made it a popular reference to sexual assault? Is that what this escalation is ultimately about? Sheesh, they're just words, quit grandstanding and get over it.
If governments spend less than they receive, the "real" economy is reduced as money is taken out of circulation. But a government can run a stable deficit, so long as their total debt only grows at the same rate as the real economy.
I don't mind that services have a simple config declaration, with mostly standard start / stop handling. But it would be better to start with some form of "#!/..." so the config file can be used as a script that launches a generic service handler from a traditional init system.
But that's not the only part of the OS that systemd is trying to replace...
Mixing security domains in a single process, like a JIT in the kernel or browser, is a big problem with most spectre variants. Program wide CPU and compiler mitigations for these problems suck.
But there are other spectre variants that can be triggered between processes on the same core.
Heck there are variants that can be triggered remotely, just by sending well crafted data to some vulnerable parsing routine.
In response to spectre, the truly paranoid would be well served by keeping their secrets as far away from other programs and users as possible.
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I'd much rather something like Trevisor, where the key never leaves CPU registers.
LLVM is a big project, and not all developers with commit access contribute text to the release notes.
If you need to know exactly what changed you could search the raw history, or diff the release tags from the github mirror.
Australia's welfare system sent automated letters to everyone they detected as being over paid. Cutting them off, or at least setting up a way to claw back the overpayment.
Problem was of course that the data wasn't perfect, and the system double counted some people's salary information going back 5 years.
That was a freak event though. Strong winds push over a long power line, the other one had trouble coping, then power generators started tripping off.
And now have a grid connected battery that can react faster than we can measure. So if something similar happened again, the generators might be able to stay on.
As already mentioned somewhere else, steam on linux now ships with wine for playing windows games. Plus if you have the skills to hack on wine, steam makes it easy to use your own version so you can submit patches upstream to help everyone else move to linux.
Reusing data you already have can be much quicker than waiting for the speed of light (or at least the speed of internet) to reload content from remote servers.
Summer2017 was a good time for password cracking.
At a defcon talk in 2014 (talk slides) they scanned the whole IPv4 space live, looking for VNC instances. At least, anything that responded to a SYN packet.
Then they took a couple months to connect to each VNC instance, if no password was required, grab a screen shot.
Leading to a series of talks of things that shouldn't be on the internet.
I thought freaks were people who marked you as a foe.
Can we make a craft that can keep us safe in Venus' atmosphere indefinitely, no matter which parts fail? No.
Because some people could live in bunkers on earth, with fairly easy access to water, air & food. No matter how much we screw up in the near future, short of all out nuclear war. Compared to living in bunkers on Mars where lots of water, air & food supplies would need to be shipped in from earth.
The problems we are currently facing here are *much* simpler to deal with than what we would face on any other planet.
The push to split firefox into multiple processes forced a redesign of extension interfaces. If you are going to break it once anyway, trying to build or adopt a cross browser standard isn't a terrible idea.
I made a mistake a bit like this once. So to reduce latency I started recording audio before answering, and only start sending data when the user answers. I figured the best way to make sure all the code you need is loaded into ram, is to try and use it. But of course on this cheap device there's a 2KB hardware buffer you can't seem to avoid. So the person on the other end hears about 120ms of audio from before you hit the button.
The people of reddit have been posting all kinds of 23&me related stories from doing tests over Christmas. While some stories were from parents coming clean about the skeletons in their closets, others may have been spurious results like this. I've always been skeptical of their methods and the validity of the results they have obtained.
The inert gasses were chalked in later (see objectivity video I posted above for some close ups).
Minor note, he tore the canvas backing that will probably be discarded, not the printed paper itself.
This periodic table appeared on Objectivity, while it was being restored by paper conservator Richard Hawkes. Also discussed by Professor Sir Martyn Poliakoff on Periodic Video's.
The only traffic jams we get are city drivers commuting or going camping on long weekends. On most roads, you'd measure the minutes or perhaps hours between cars, rather than the number of cars per minute.
What helps you deal with stress? Boobies
#MeToo, my wife's boobs are great stress relief. And she'd never call my attention sexual assault, even if she is annoyed sometimes.
What, I'm not allowed to use that hashtag, because you made it a popular reference to sexual assault? Is that what this escalation is ultimately about? Sheesh, they're just words, quit grandstanding and get over it.
Their rage isn't directed at the guy who wrote it, but the people who get "social media" offended about it.
If governments spend less than they receive, the "real" economy is reduced as money is taken out of circulation. But a government can run a stable deficit, so long as their total debt only grows at the same rate as the real economy.
In this case they have obviously decided that it's worth going public with what they know, even though they risk alerting the suspect.
I don't mind that services have a simple config declaration, with mostly standard start / stop handling. But it would be better to start with some form of "#!/..." so the config file can be used as a script that launches a generic service handler from a traditional init system.
But that's not the only part of the OS that systemd is trying to replace...
Mixing security domains in a single process, like a JIT in the kernel or browser, is a big problem with most spectre variants. Program wide CPU and compiler mitigations for these problems suck.
But there are other spectre variants that can be triggered between processes on the same core.
Heck there are variants that can be triggered remotely, just by sending well crafted data to some vulnerable parsing routine.
In response to spectre, the truly paranoid would be well served by keeping their secrets as far away from other programs and users as possible.
Print it out and you could use it as a paper weight. Or just talk about it for a while I guess.