Number three, when you install a system it will be covered by your homeowners insurance. So your max out-of-pocket cost would be the deductible insurance.
Don't necessarily assume that just because yours was covered that somebody else will get the same treatment. And btw, insurance carries deductibles and most people carry pretty high homeowners. Will an "act of god" cover it? Maybe, maybe not - are you in a tornado or hurricane zone?
He doesn't like things centered. That's fine. Google thinks otherwise. Perhaps so too others. I would add that most people probably only use their tablets in landscape mode while viewing media, or at least far less than portrait mode. I'll agree that in some cases maybe more effort could have been made to limit the expansion of the app in landscape vs. portrait mode but that involves a lot more hackery in the design. Bottom line, this guy is just too lazy to turn the tablet to portrait mode when the app is clearly designed for viewing that way.
Just like sports teams who have payrolls much larger than their opponents often do not win championships, politicians who "benefit" from large PACs do not always win elections. For all the talk of being ready to listen to both (or more) candidates, most voters come in to it with a predefined checklist of positions a candidate must meet (or in some cases, not support). To clear that hurdle the opposing candidate(s) must appear to be significantly more charismatic, confident and competent than the others. Money does not buy that.
The company aims to deliver about May 18 a second report on transistor characteristics of the CPU. It will include an analysis of the DC electrical properties of the chip’s NMOS and PMOS transistors, data on its gate and channel leakage current and performance benchmarks measured at three temperature levels.
The analysis will include use of Scanning and Transmission Electron Microscopy, Spreading Resistance Profiling and X-ray techniques. UBM TechInsights is a sister division of UBM LLC, the publisher of EE Times.
And that is just to see the circuitry. Good luck reverse engineering it to figure out what does what and verify there is nothing there that should not be there.
You might also look at this for an even older take on 486 and pentium tear downs... again with no attempt at reverse engineering the logic.
Yet on the other I don't see why, if you were trying to stop a serious threat, spies shouldn't be able to monitor these communications in principle, with some clear restrictions:
Because the government derives it powers from the people and there are well defined limits on its power? People are not the chattel of government to do with as they please when they please though I fear that the UK and Australia have already reached that point.
First, this work is not really new, its just a derivative of laser wakefield techniques. Further, it is not apparent that this will scale properly. Just because you can get a nice gradient in the low GeV range doesn't mean you can continue the same at TeV energies.
I would also point out that it is not simply enough to accelerate one small bunch of electrons/positrons (or even protons). Luminosity is also a very significant factor in particle physics.
But it is good to see that research is continuing on high gradient alterntiaves to cyclotrons and synchrotrons.
You are naive and the parent poster was spot on - there is no way for anyone outside of a chip fab company has any ability to check the physical layout of cpu microcode, cache and other subsystems.
Your only potentially secure alternative is to use an FPGA to implement a cpu design of your own design. Good luck getting anything near the performance of a current day cpu. Note, I said your own design. Sure, there are prepackaged CPUs for Altera, etc on FPGAs but you again are in a position of having to verifty the design and also verify that it does not implement, however unlikely, some backdoor hack from the FPGA's own circuitry.
And yet there would be no LHC datacenter without tape.
The CERN Tier-0 in Meyrin currently provides around 45 PetaBytes of data storage on disk and 90 PetaBytes on tape for physics, and includes the majority of the 100,000 processing cores in the CERN Data Centre.
How much is stuff set up to fail by three letter agencies in US/UK? And contrary to popular scare mongering, making a nuke is not easy, even a simple gun type assembly. Delivering it to the target is a another very large hurdle. For those interested, I do recommend this book
I dont know the answer right now but it sounds like the future could be quite strong as more people drop their current tablets for something a bit more productive like surface 3 or similar from other oems, especially in the corporate world. Laptop sales are still heavily weighted to Microsoft, regardless of what the iFanboys tell you and Chromebooks are soon to be dead now that windows based alternatives are available at the same price point running a real OS on comparatively decent hardware.
That pilot died not for space but for a luxury service provider. His death doesn't get us closer to Mars; it just keeps rich people further away from weightlessness and a beautiful view.
The author is saying that anything done in space which is only accessible (for now) by rich people is not worthy (and probably evil).
Hating on the rich and what they chose to do with their money is a decidedly leftist school of thought.
very much a hindsight leftist rant. I wonder if author feels the same way about the many other products throughout history that were initially cost prohibitive for any but the very rich or governments.
thats not always the case and here I think the effort is to combat voter apathy. Obama has lost his luster and taken the steam out of their campaigns. This is also and off cycle election when turnout is always down. This seems targeted at traditionally "good democrats" who party leaders fear may not make the effort to vote. This type of mail is not going to sway the vote once every 10 years types.
As to "informed or uninformed" voters - I find quite the opposite. It is mostly the informed voters who are assholes because they are informed by materials from sources already predisposed to their world view. Sure there are some who will either listen to both echo chambers are make the monumental effort to find unbiased information on issues, candidate views and prior history but those are going to be a small minority.
voting records are available everywhere. in the county where I live not that many years ago you could go to the BOE and get a cd with about 8 or 12 years of voting and registration records.
These are mostly used by the parties and independent groups to target likely voters for literature, door to door and other GOTV efforts.
PP is intended to deal with uncertainty and risk in cases where the absence of evidence and the incompleteness of scientific knowledge carries profound implications and in the presence of risks of "black swans", unforeseen and unforeseable events of extreme consequence.
That description is very subjective and undoubtedly leads the model to say whatever one wants it to say, in this case, GMO bad!
Here is the fail in your assumption. Knowing where they are at any given moment only helps you if you are about to mug someone on the sidewalk. Pretty likely if you are a mugger you've already mastered the art of making sure a copper isn't around. The same can be said about most crimes that are expected to take seconds to a couple of minutes.
You do correctly point out that it is rare that a cop stops a crime as it is in progress, let alone as it is about to take place. In reality, the cops probably drive by many a burglary without even realizing one is in he act. Drug sales and the like already happen in heavily policed areas so I also fail to buy into this hurting their chances of making an arrest.
However, consider how long it took to get dash cams to be accepted (at least in some areas) and now wearable cams/audio. While their use goes a long way to helping protect citizens from police abuse, harrassment and false arrest, the police are also protected from false accusations of abuse. Adding in the ability to know where the police are, how long it took them to respond, etc is just another layer of protection for all involved.
You have heard of a radar detector, right? At least in the states they have been (mostly) legal for decades. Personally, I do not drive that much over the limit anymore but rather go the 10 or so over that the vast majority are going (in part because my current car is not a performance vehicle and in part I'm just less in a hurry) But in certain states, even that is a risk so I always use a radar detector on the highway.
our police overlords will have this banned very quickly. Imagine a network of these in a city that can update a location map in realtime. Remember, just because the cops are public officials operating in public doesn't mean they think the public has a right to know about anything they are doing.
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Don't necessarily assume that just because yours was covered that somebody else will get the same treatment. And btw, insurance carries deductibles and most people carry pretty high homeowners. Will an "act of god" cover it? Maybe, maybe not - are you in a tornado or hurricane zone?
Said by a person who does not live near a windmill or curbside solar panel farms.
He doesn't like things centered. That's fine. Google thinks otherwise. Perhaps so too others. I would add that most people probably only use their tablets in landscape mode while viewing media, or at least far less than portrait mode. I'll agree that in some cases maybe more effort could have been made to limit the expansion of the app in landscape vs. portrait mode but that involves a lot more hackery in the design. Bottom line, this guy is just too lazy to turn the tablet to portrait mode when the app is clearly designed for viewing that way.
Last I looked neither Eclipse or Intellij Idea were owned by Google. "Android Studio" is for all intents a repacked IDEA
as the latter part of the submission makes clear this is all about "gas guzzlers" and poster's hatred of freedom of consumer choice.
Just like sports teams who have payrolls much larger than their opponents often do not win championships, politicians who "benefit" from large PACs do not always win elections. For all the talk of being ready to listen to both (or more) candidates, most voters come in to it with a predefined checklist of positions a candidate must meet (or in some cases, not support). To clear that hurdle the opposing candidate(s) must appear to be significantly more charismatic, confident and competent than the others. Money does not buy that.
Feeding the troll but what the heck....
From early 2012
And that is just to see the circuitry. Good luck reverse engineering it to figure out what does what and verify there is nothing there that should not be there.
You might also look at this for an even older take on 486 and pentium tear downs... again with no attempt at reverse engineering the logic.
Because the government derives it powers from the people and there are well defined limits on its power? People are not the chattel of government to do with as they please when they please though I fear that the UK and Australia have already reached that point.
First, this work is not really new, its just a derivative of laser wakefield techniques. Further, it is not apparent that this will scale properly. Just because you can get a nice gradient in the low GeV range doesn't mean you can continue the same at TeV energies.
I would also point out that it is not simply enough to accelerate one small bunch of electrons/positrons (or even protons). Luminosity is also a very significant factor in particle physics.
But it is good to see that research is continuing on high gradient alterntiaves to cyclotrons and synchrotrons.
You are naive and the parent poster was spot on - there is no way for anyone outside of a chip fab company has any ability to check the physical layout of cpu microcode, cache and other subsystems.
Your only potentially secure alternative is to use an FPGA to implement a cpu design of your own design. Good luck getting anything near the performance of a current day cpu. Note, I said your own design. Sure, there are prepackaged CPUs for Altera, etc on FPGAs but you again are in a position of having to verifty the design and also verify that it does not implement, however unlikely, some backdoor hack from the FPGA's own circuitry.
hmm... lets see
COBOL.. dead .. dead
BSD.. dead
TAPE
And yet there would be no LHC datacenter without tape.
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http://scribol.com/science/hal...
How much is stuff set up to fail by three letter agencies in US/UK? And contrary to popular scare mongering, making a nuke is not easy, even a simple gun type assembly. Delivering it to the target is a another very large hurdle. For those interested, I do recommend this book
I dont know the answer right now but it sounds like the future could be quite strong as more people drop their current tablets for something a bit more productive like surface 3 or similar from other oems, especially in the corporate world. Laptop sales are still heavily weighted to Microsoft, regardless of what the iFanboys tell you and Chromebooks are soon to be dead now that windows based alternatives are available at the same price point running a real OS on comparatively decent hardware.
8 is at least as good as 7. I got over the "missing" start button long ago.
Hmm.. lets see:
The author is saying that anything done in space which is only accessible (for now) by rich people is not worthy (and probably evil).
Hating on the rich and what they chose to do with their money is a decidedly leftist school of thought.
very much a hindsight leftist rant. I wonder if author feels the same way about the many other products throughout history that were initially cost prohibitive for any but the very rich or governments.
Remember, the governments know whats best for you.
thats not always the case and here I think the effort is to combat voter apathy. Obama has lost his luster and taken the steam out of their campaigns. This is also and off cycle election when turnout is always down. This seems targeted at traditionally "good democrats" who party leaders fear may not make the effort to vote. This type of mail is not going to sway the vote once every 10 years types.
As to "informed or uninformed" voters - I find quite the opposite. It is mostly the informed voters who are assholes because they are informed by materials from sources already predisposed to their world view. Sure there are some who will either listen to both echo chambers are make the monumental effort to find unbiased information on issues, candidate views and prior history but those are going to be a small minority.
voting records are available everywhere. in the county where I live not that many years ago you could go to the BOE and get a cd with about 8 or 12 years of voting and registration records.
These are mostly used by the parties and independent groups to target likely voters for literature, door to door and other GOTV efforts.
yes like having the cell phone storage at a security desk where they make sure the phones go in with no headsets.
That description is very subjective and undoubtedly leads the model to say whatever one wants it to say, in this case, GMO bad!
Here is the fail in your assumption. Knowing where they are at any given moment only helps you if you are about to mug someone on the sidewalk. Pretty likely if you are a mugger you've already mastered the art of making sure a copper isn't around. The same can be said about most crimes that are expected to take seconds to a couple of minutes.
You do correctly point out that it is rare that a cop stops a crime as it is in progress, let alone as it is about to take place. In reality, the cops probably drive by many a burglary without even realizing one is in he act. Drug sales and the like already happen in heavily policed areas so I also fail to buy into this hurting their chances of making an arrest.
However, consider how long it took to get dash cams to be accepted (at least in some areas) and now wearable cams/audio. While their use goes a long way to helping protect citizens from police abuse, harrassment and false arrest, the police are also protected from false accusations of abuse. Adding in the ability to know where the police are, how long it took them to respond, etc is just another layer of protection for all involved.
You have heard of a radar detector, right? At least in the states they have been (mostly) legal for decades. Personally, I do not drive that much over the limit anymore but rather go the 10 or so over that the vast majority are going (in part because my current car is not a performance vehicle and in part I'm just less in a hurry) But in certain states, even that is a risk so I always use a radar detector on the highway.
Sorry, AC, that's a big fail. The public has a right to know what public servants are doing.
our police overlords will have this banned very quickly. Imagine a network of these in a city that can update a location map in realtime. Remember, just because the cops are public officials operating in public doesn't mean they think the public has a right to know about anything they are doing.