Thank you. The hypocrisy around here is large, but not surprising.
Does Google offer guest Wi-Fi access at any of their locations? Does anyone in Google run a Tor exit node? Are there any live jacks in Google meeting rooms? Do they NAT multiple internal addresses?
It's one thing to confirm suspicions by setting up a honeypot phone number like Mocality did, and then receive calls from people identifying themselves as being from Google. It's quite another to only point to an IP addresses and place blame with no further evidence.
The TSA is drawing from the knowledge gained by the Navy with their trained dolphin program, and starting up their own trained tapeworm program for the traveler's enjoyment.
"Apple pitched PowerPC as their logical successor to 68K rather than x86."
Apple did transition from the 68K to PPC, obviously. But the reason was that they (along with Moto/IBM) expected to be able to advance RISC faster than Intel could advance x86 CISC. 68K just wasn't keeping up, and PPC was expected to provide a "leapfrog."
At one time, Apple pitched RISC (ala PowerPC) as the logical successor to CISC (x86). They were also an early investor in ARM (along with Acorn and VLSI). Intel, though, had the development resouces ($$$) to stave that off.
Sounds like it might finally be happening.
(Opinion: Too bad Apple has turned evil in the interim.)
"First lets establish the obvious in that safety isn't a binary condition, it's a continuum."
Sure, some plants are safer than others, so it's a continuum in that sense. But, there must be a regulatory threshold which creates a binary condition - a plant is either safe enough to operate, or it isn't. Speed isn't a binary condition, either, but there's a speed limit above which it's illegal to operate, and below which it isn't.
"I'm sorry to sound snippy but comments of the type "I'm going to misinterpret a statement so I can make a clever remark" really bug me and detract from the discussion."
Are you seriously so naive to believe they only inspect nuke plants after 40 years?
In the US, it's a continuous process:
Under a program initiated in 1977, resident inspectors are stationed at each nuclear power plant. There are at least two resident inspectors assigned to each site. Resident inspectors provide first-hand, independent assessment of plant conditions and performance...During the course of a year, NRC specialists may conduct 10 to 25 routine inspections at each nuclear power plant
will soon require atomic reactors to be shut down after 40 years of use to improve safety.' If, however, a nuclear plant is deemed still safe it may continue operation."
That also implies that if a plant is unsafe, it still gets 40 years. Otherwise, what does the time limit mean? At the end of 40 years, a plant is either safe or unsafe. If safe, they can keep going. If unsafe, why was it still running?
Each State shall appoint, in such Manner as the Legislature thereof may direct, a Number of Electors,...
The Article IV, Section 4 guarantee is for state government.
Of course, since the state legislatures are representative/republican, the Electors are, too, even if they are not chosen by direct vote. i.e. a state legislature could chose to select Electors on their own, but the people are still represented in that choice through their elected legislature.
Yea, until someone discovers that automatically caching everything within 100 miles eats a lot of their monthly data limit, when they really only need the data to be cached on rare occasions.
They're working on the hardware which would allow the phone to know where you're going, and cache the maps ahead of time. Unfortunately, they require a bottle of Higgs bosuns before they can actually implement the mind-reading/future prediction feature, and the LHC hasn't delivered them yet.
Apple is hardly going over their own heads (they are their own hardware vendor in the context of the quote, you know). Quite the opposite, just about everything Apple does has Apple's interests as the primary consideration.
If it doesn't know it's a simple addition, and can't, then it won't, and it doesn't matter.
Did you mean to say it doesn't know until runtime? I don't know Python, but from your statement, my guess is that it supports untyped variables, so when a=5 is done, it's not known whether it a holds a string, or integer, or real until it's used in some other operation. Is that correct? Is there no facility to explicitly type variables?
let's compare:
1) C, C++, hell even Java : c = a+b (1 assembly instruction)
2) CPython: c = a + b ( > 2500 assembly instructions)
Is there something in the language spec which requires that? Otherwise, it seems to me that it's an implementation (compiler/interpreter) issue, and not problem with the language. Why can't Python reduce a simple addition to a few machine (BTW, it's not assembly) instructions?
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"IP addresses are not identity."
Thank you. The hypocrisy around here is large, but not surprising.
Does Google offer guest Wi-Fi access at any of their locations? Does anyone in Google run a Tor exit node? Are there any live jacks in Google meeting rooms? Do they NAT multiple internal addresses?
It's one thing to confirm suspicions by setting up a honeypot phone number like Mocality did, and then receive calls from people identifying themselves as being from Google. It's quite another to only point to an IP addresses and place blame with no further evidence.
Paypal doesn't use RSA tokens. They use ones from Symantec (which they bought from Verisign).
I, too, have used CopperWeld for years, saw this article and thought "that's nothing new."
A quick Google, and one finds that Copperweld has been around for almost 100 years. I guess it's just slashvertising.
The TSA is drawing from the knowledge gained by the Navy with their trained dolphin program, and starting up their own trained tapeworm program for the traveler's enjoyment.
Huh? You're confusing energy (kWh) with power (MW).
Better than you do, obviously.
"This is a rumor posted on a blog."
And this is just an unmoderated discussion posted on a website. What's the problem?
"Apple pitched PowerPC as their logical successor to 68K rather than x86."
Apple did transition from the 68K to PPC, obviously. But the reason was that they (along with Moto/IBM) expected to be able to advance RISC faster than Intel could advance x86 CISC. 68K just wasn't keeping up, and PPC was expected to provide a "leapfrog."
What goes around, comes around.
At one time, Apple pitched RISC (ala PowerPC) as the logical successor to CISC (x86). They were also an early investor in ARM (along with Acorn and VLSI). Intel, though, had the development resouces ($$$) to stave that off.
Sounds like it might finally be happening.
(Opinion: Too bad Apple has turned evil in the interim.)
"First lets establish the obvious in that safety isn't a binary condition, it's a continuum."
Sure, some plants are safer than others, so it's a continuum in that sense. But, there must be a regulatory threshold which creates a binary condition - a plant is either safe enough to operate, or it isn't. Speed isn't a binary condition, either, but there's a speed limit above which it's illegal to operate, and below which it isn't.
"I'm sorry to sound snippy but comments of the type "I'm going to misinterpret a statement so I can make a clever remark" really bug me and detract from the discussion."
Oh, and fuck you, too.
In the US, it's a continuous process:
- US Nuclear Regulatory Commission
That also implies that if a plant is unsafe, it still gets 40 years. Otherwise, what does the time limit mean? At the end of 40 years, a plant is either safe or unsafe. If safe, they can keep going. If unsafe, why was it still running?
The form of Moore's law stated was exponential. I went fast, and wrote the formula wrong, it should be:
P = 2^T
i.e. a doubling every 18 months: 1 2 4 8 16
It certainly is exponential. Although that's not actually Moore's law, what you stated is exponential.
P = T^2
Where P=Processor power, and T=Time expressed in 18 month units. 2 is the exponent, which makes it "exponential."
Ohm's Law != Moore's Law, just proving Murphy's Law.
Huh? Whatever you're referring to, wasn't written by me. I said no such thing.
The Article IV, Section 4 guarantee is for state government.
Of course, since the state legislatures are representative/republican, the Electors are, too, even if they are not chosen by direct vote. i.e. a state legislature could chose to select Electors on their own, but the people are still represented in that choice through their elected legislature.
"Nginx is a great product."
Strange that 99% of the server errors I see report themselves as being from nginx. I guess there's a conspiracy against it.
(although anything with a config less obtuse than Apache can't be all bad)
"The PA guys do seem to have a tad inflated egos - fortunately they're not quite at Harlan Ellison's level though."
Larry Ellison, maybe?
Yea, until someone discovers that automatically caching everything within 100 miles eats a lot of their monthly data limit, when they really only need the data to be cached on rare occasions.
They're working on the hardware which would allow the phone to know where you're going, and cache the maps ahead of time. Unfortunately, they require a bottle of Higgs bosuns before they can actually implement the mind-reading/future prediction feature, and the LHC hasn't delivered them yet.
Apple is hardly going over their own heads (they are their own hardware vendor in the context of the quote, you know). Quite the opposite, just about everything Apple does has Apple's interests as the primary consideration.
You're thinking of sharks.
If it doesn't know it's a simple addition, and can't, then it won't, and it doesn't matter.
Did you mean to say it doesn't know until runtime? I don't know Python, but from your statement, my guess is that it supports untyped variables, so when a=5 is done, it's not known whether it a holds a string, or integer, or real until it's used in some other operation. Is that correct? Is there no facility to explicitly type variables?
Is there something in the language spec which requires that? Otherwise, it seems to me that it's an implementation (compiler/interpreter) issue, and not problem with the language. Why can't Python reduce a simple addition to a few machine (BTW, it's not assembly) instructions?