All the number crunchers I know use Python as a glue languages to tie libraries together. There are Python bindings for nearly everything. If they are doing something really weird they'll do their data massaging in Python, then analyze it in R.
Noise isn't necessarily the problem with nuclear reactors, it's the heat. They dump a bunch of heat into the water, which can be picked up by satellites. They have to go *deep* to evade detection this way, which limits where they can go. You won't be able to tell *exactly* where the sub is, but you get the idea that one is in the area, and it's general direction.
As you know, then, the FDA changed it's rules on adverse effect reporting a few years ago, putting the burden on device manufacturers to figure out if their devices are causing issues or not. These changes came with little to no guidance on how to properly report on these incidents. The FDA will let you know you are doing something wrong when they fine or sue you.
There are good regulatory regimes and there are bad ones. With the government structured the way it is, it's a bit of a crap-shoot as to what you get.
Not likely. Likely it's access to the real CPU core, not some hidden management processor.
Yep you're right. The C3 is a RISC core with a microcoded x86 frontend. The "backdoor" was an undocumented routine left in to debug the x86 front-end.
So there could theoretically be an undocumented opcode on Intel/AMD that gets you into the underlying execution units. I'm on the fence as to whether or not AMD/Intel would leave something like that in. The C3 situation seemed to be out of laziness, they just left the instructions open on the underlying silicon. AMD and Intel seem to hold their CPU firmware fairly close to the vest, and I'm not sure they'd allow for a debug instruction to get around their x86 front-end so you could analyze it.
Objective-C was NeXTStep's primary supported language, and NeXT is the one who implemented the compiler in gcc to begin with (in the late 80's) which is why it was in Slackware in 1995.
...and you can basically use the same "god mode" hack as with any other "Pc".
Any other VIA C3 based PC, you mean. This hack was possible because the C3 has an embedded low power RISC core, probably for some kind of sleep state managed mode or something. With a "hidden," or possibly malformed instruction, you can wake it up and access protected memory by sending it instructions.
The ostensible analog on the Mac side is the Intel MME. Only issue with that is the MME isn't really used on the Mac platform. It's included, but the Mac platform doesn't enable any of it's features (vPro management, mainly.)
Say what you want about Lucas, he was usually pretty cool with people doing Star Wars parodies and homages. He even voiced himself on the Robot Chicken Star Wars episode.
Some argue it would flood the courts, but the courts can be streamlined to have an arbitration-like stage for smaller claims where the arbiter tries to work out a mutual agreement without anybody having to visit a courtroom.
You'll have every trial lawyer association going against that reform. There's a reason going to court for anything is *very* expensive. There is a very powerful lobbying group with close ties to the government who keep it that way, and it won't change.
These problems have been well known in AI circles for decades. The crappy tech media are finally catching on that marketing departments selling AI solutions maybe exaggerate the capabilities of their tech a twinge.
I've been using a fitness tracker for a few years, and just upgraded my old Vivofit to the new Vivosport that has some basic smartwatch functionality. I was skeptical at first, but it's actually somewhat handy. We took the kids to Disney World last May, and when we would split up to do rides separately it was handy to see location texts on my watch without digging my phone out of my camera bag. It also popped up reminders from the Disney app when we had reservations for something, or a show was starting that we wanted to see.
If I spent more of my time walking around like this a full blown Apple Watch might more sense. As it is I'm usually in my car, and I can see texts pop up on my phone as it sits in it's cradle. I did find reading texts on my watch much less distracting than pulling my phone out.
It could very well be the whole thing is just over the kiddie porn. People do mind-bogglingly dumb things all the time. But the response does seem a bit overblown.
Possibilities: 1. The FBI was investigating something that ended up being a big nothing, and they need a story to cover an embarrassing over-response 2. The FBI is investigating something national-security related (spies/moles/etc...) and need a cover story
What *exactly* are they proposing? They listed some issues with bitcoin that come with pretty much any other kind of investment, but investors aren't protected from, such as loosing all of your principal, forgetting passwords, and getting hacked.
These all happen to current traditional investors with current regulation. What exactly are they proposing to prevent this from happening with Bitcoin?
Do you think that, maybe, people with anti-social psychological makeups are drawn to a field where they don't really need to talk to anyone to accomplish something?
Most people would consider me to be a nice guy. Maybe a little off in one way or another, but I'm affable. That doesn't mean that I *like* to talk to people. I'm working from home today. I'm going to write code for nine hours straight without talking to another human being (besides occasionally looking at/. ) I'm perfectly fine with this.
I work with marketing, services and support people who can't stand not talking. They constantly come around and talk to other people about stuff, not necessarily work related. I don't mind it, but I'd rather not.
I work with people who come off as jerks if you would meet them in passing, but I understand their mindset. They don't like talking to people. It's not that they hate you, they would rather not interact with you.
This is the central disconnect, I think. People who are - I guess you can call them introverts - would simply rather not talk to other people. It's not that they don't like women, or minorities, or any other specific category of people. They don't like talking to *people* All inclusive. That doesn't make it OK. That doesn't make them not jerks. But understanding their mindset is important in dealing with them.
Ireland offered lower tax rates to Apple than it does to other companies, which is illegal in the EU.
It most certainly is not. There are hundreds of companies across the EU that get special tax incentives, subsidies, etc... And they are absolutely targeted, in the same way Apple gets breaks in Ireland.
Because Apple is reporting profits in Ireland that were not actually earned in Ireland. This gives Apple an unfair competitive advantage and compels other companies to seek similar tax shelters, and compels other countries to lower their corporate tax rates in a "race to the bottom".
That very well may be, but seems to be outside the scope of the EU's charter of things to regulate - primarily rules on trade and travel. Taxation is an internal state matter.
This kind of hand-waving "we can just recycle it (with currently non-existent techniques that we hope to develop later, maybe)" is why investors aren't interested.
You can recycle spent fuel now. Here are the places where they do it.
So what you are looking for is a Small Modular Reactor. These are relatively small reactors that can be produced on an assembly line and shipped to the installation site, so they are cheaper than conventional nuclear designs. Most don't require active cooling, which means you don't get meltdowns. Also, you can bury them in a vault for protection from attack or sabotage. They require no maintenance. You run them until their fuel is spent, then you pull one out of service and recycle it. You end up with a few pounds of waste material per unit over the course of it's lifespan, which is a couple of decades.
Russia has been actively developing these things for decades, and are piloting several models.
NuScale has an interesting design ready for licensing, and TerraPower has a design that uses liquid sodium cooling and depleted uranium fuel, which makes it essentially impossible to melt down.
Think of it this way. The expensive part of old water-cooled nuclear reactors is maintaining the elaborate water cooling system. It's also the primary point of failure. Getting rid of active cooling makes reactors cheaper to build and maintain, AND makes them safer.
But in that first step, you can't go all the way to "you will only use our equipment and nothing else", or else no one will adopt the new system.
Apple usually does it in the first step. The iMac got rid of every legacy port in one go. They switched from the 30-pin to the lightning connector in one model rev. The Mac Pro ditched all internal expansion in one go.
New phones don't come with an adapter any more. And it is completely Apple's discretion as to when and if adapters will even work. As far as bluetooth goes, that is also completely at their discretion. An update can cause your phone to cease to work with any bluetooth adapter at any time. They can selectively shut down support for a particular adapter, or even shut down all support for any adapter that isn't theirs.
Sure, maybe they would. Not sure why they would care to do so.
This was something that was originally intended for HDMI and SPDIF, the ability to have it so they would only output signals to "blessed" hardware that was guaranteed not to record.
Well, HDCP was always part of the HDMI spec, but not all sources implement it (TV tuners, for instance.) The only "copy protection" used in S/PDIF was SCMS, which was only used in some early DAT and MiniDisc decks. Maybe you're thinking of the copy protection some SACD transports can do over IEEE.1394?
This is just one step in that revival. Control the hardware you can hook it up to, control what you can do with your signal.
Maybe, but I don't see Apple particularly caring about this.
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All the number crunchers I know use Python as a glue languages to tie libraries together. There are Python bindings for nearly everything. If they are doing something really weird they'll do their data massaging in Python, then analyze it in R.
That won't happen. At least it won't get reported on. Never let the facts get in the way of a good story.
Noise isn't necessarily the problem with nuclear reactors, it's the heat. They dump a bunch of heat into the water, which can be picked up by satellites. They have to go *deep* to evade detection this way, which limits where they can go. You won't be able to tell *exactly* where the sub is, but you get the idea that one is in the area, and it's general direction.
As you know, then, the FDA changed it's rules on adverse effect reporting a few years ago, putting the burden on device manufacturers to figure out if their devices are causing issues or not. These changes came with little to no guidance on how to properly report on these incidents. The FDA will let you know you are doing something wrong when they fine or sue you.
There are good regulatory regimes and there are bad ones. With the government structured the way it is, it's a bit of a crap-shoot as to what you get.
Not likely. Likely it's access to the real CPU core, not some hidden management processor.
Yep you're right. The C3 is a RISC core with a microcoded x86 frontend. The "backdoor" was an undocumented routine left in to debug the x86 front-end.
So there could theoretically be an undocumented opcode on Intel/AMD that gets you into the underlying execution units. I'm on the fence as to whether or not AMD/Intel would leave something like that in. The C3 situation seemed to be out of laziness, they just left the instructions open on the underlying silicon. AMD and Intel seem to hold their CPU firmware fairly close to the vest, and I'm not sure they'd allow for a debug instruction to get around their x86 front-end so you could analyze it.
Apple bought NeXT, not the other way around.
Objective-C was NeXTStep's primary supported language, and NeXT is the one who implemented the compiler in gcc to begin with (in the late 80's) which is why it was in Slackware in 1995.
...and you can basically use the same "god mode" hack as with any other "Pc".
Any other VIA C3 based PC, you mean. This hack was possible because the C3 has an embedded low power RISC core, probably for some kind of sleep state managed mode or something. With a "hidden," or possibly malformed instruction, you can wake it up and access protected memory by sending it instructions.
The ostensible analog on the Mac side is the Intel MME. Only issue with that is the MME isn't really used on the Mac platform. It's included, but the Mac platform doesn't enable any of it's features (vPro management, mainly.)
Say what you want about Lucas, he was usually pretty cool with people doing Star Wars parodies and homages. He even voiced himself on the Robot Chicken Star Wars episode.
Some argue it would flood the courts, but the courts can be streamlined to have an arbitration-like stage for smaller claims where the arbiter tries to work out a mutual agreement without anybody having to visit a courtroom.
You'll have every trial lawyer association going against that reform. There's a reason going to court for anything is *very* expensive. There is a very powerful lobbying group with close ties to the government who keep it that way, and it won't change.
These problems have been well known in AI circles for decades. The crappy tech media are finally catching on that marketing departments selling AI solutions maybe exaggerate the capabilities of their tech a twinge.
I've been using a fitness tracker for a few years, and just upgraded my old Vivofit to the new Vivosport that has some basic smartwatch functionality. I was skeptical at first, but it's actually somewhat handy. We took the kids to Disney World last May, and when we would split up to do rides separately it was handy to see location texts on my watch without digging my phone out of my camera bag. It also popped up reminders from the Disney app when we had reservations for something, or a show was starting that we wanted to see.
If I spent more of my time walking around like this a full blown Apple Watch might more sense. As it is I'm usually in my car, and I can see texts pop up on my phone as it sits in it's cradle. I did find reading texts on my watch much less distracting than pulling my phone out.
It could very well be the whole thing is just over the kiddie porn. People do mind-bogglingly dumb things all the time. But the response does seem a bit overblown.
Possibilities:
1. The FBI was investigating something that ended up being a big nothing, and they need a story to cover an embarrassing over-response
2. The FBI is investigating something national-security related (spies/moles/etc...) and need a cover story
More?
Vauge - I think I just invented a new pretentious color name.
What *exactly* are they proposing? They listed some issues with bitcoin that come with pretty much any other kind of investment, but investors aren't protected from, such as loosing all of your principal, forgetting passwords, and getting hacked.
These all happen to current traditional investors with current regulation. What exactly are they proposing to prevent this from happening with Bitcoin?
There is no need to be a dick in order not to talk to other people.
Absolutely! Which is why at the end of my post I said:
That doesn't make them not jerks. But understanding their mindset is important in dealing with them.
Do you think that, maybe, people with anti-social psychological makeups are drawn to a field where they don't really need to talk to anyone to accomplish something?
Most people would consider me to be a nice guy. Maybe a little off in one way or another, but I'm affable. That doesn't mean that I *like* to talk to people. I'm working from home today. I'm going to write code for nine hours straight without talking to another human being (besides occasionally looking at /. ) I'm perfectly fine with this.
I work with marketing, services and support people who can't stand not talking. They constantly come around and talk to other people about stuff, not necessarily work related. I don't mind it, but I'd rather not.
I work with people who come off as jerks if you would meet them in passing, but I understand their mindset. They don't like talking to people. It's not that they hate you, they would rather not interact with you.
This is the central disconnect, I think. People who are - I guess you can call them introverts - would simply rather not talk to other people. It's not that they don't like women, or minorities, or any other specific category of people. They don't like talking to *people* All inclusive. That doesn't make it OK. That doesn't make them not jerks. But understanding their mindset is important in dealing with them.
Ireland offered lower tax rates to Apple than it does to other companies, which is illegal in the EU.
It most certainly is not. There are hundreds of companies across the EU that get special tax incentives, subsidies, etc... And they are absolutely targeted, in the same way Apple gets breaks in Ireland.
Because Apple is reporting profits in Ireland that were not actually earned in Ireland. This gives Apple an unfair competitive advantage and compels other companies to seek similar tax shelters, and compels other countries to lower their corporate tax rates in a "race to the bottom".
That very well may be, but seems to be outside the scope of the EU's charter of things to regulate - primarily rules on trade and travel. Taxation is an internal state matter.
How does making apple pay “back” taxes to Ireland punish Ireland for making an illegal tax agreement with Apple?
More to the point, why does the EU care if Ireland collects taxes from Apple? If it has to do with EU contributions, it's practically rounding error.
This kind of hand-waving "we can just recycle it (with currently non-existent techniques that we hope to develop later, maybe)" is why investors aren't interested.
You can recycle spent fuel now. Here are the places where they do it.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
So what you are looking for is a Small Modular Reactor. These are relatively small reactors that can be produced on an assembly line and shipped to the installation site, so they are cheaper than conventional nuclear designs. Most don't require active cooling, which means you don't get meltdowns. Also, you can bury them in a vault for protection from attack or sabotage. They require no maintenance. You run them until their fuel is spent, then you pull one out of service and recycle it. You end up with a few pounds of waste material per unit over the course of it's lifespan, which is a couple of decades.
Russia has been actively developing these things for decades, and are piloting several models.
NuScale has an interesting design ready for licensing, and TerraPower has a design that uses liquid sodium cooling and depleted uranium fuel, which makes it essentially impossible to melt down.
Think of it this way. The expensive part of old water-cooled nuclear reactors is maintaining the elaborate water cooling system. It's also the primary point of failure. Getting rid of active cooling makes reactors cheaper to build and maintain, AND makes them safer.
No one is going to tell ME where I can deposit my urine, MAN!
Remember when we helped liberate Libya from the tyrannical clutches of Qaddafi? Go Team America!
Here's an article about the bustling slave trade going on there right now.
https://www.newsweek.com/human...
They sold enough of them for Apple to go from loosing $800 million in 1997 to making $400 million in 1998.
But in that first step, you can't go all the way to "you will only use our equipment and nothing else", or else no one will adopt the new system.
Apple usually does it in the first step. The iMac got rid of every legacy port in one go. They switched from the 30-pin to the lightning connector in one model rev. The Mac Pro ditched all internal expansion in one go.
New phones don't come with an adapter any more. And it is completely Apple's discretion as to when and if adapters will even work. As far as bluetooth goes, that is also completely at their discretion. An update can cause your phone to cease to work with any bluetooth adapter at any time. They can selectively shut down support for a particular adapter, or even shut down all support for any adapter that isn't theirs.
Sure, maybe they would. Not sure why they would care to do so.
This was something that was originally intended for HDMI and SPDIF, the ability to have it so they would only output signals to "blessed" hardware that was guaranteed not to record.
Well, HDCP was always part of the HDMI spec, but not all sources implement it (TV tuners, for instance.) The only "copy protection" used in S/PDIF was SCMS, which was only used in some early DAT and MiniDisc decks. Maybe you're thinking of the copy protection some SACD transports can do over IEEE.1394?
This is just one step in that revival. Control the hardware you can hook it up to, control what you can do with your signal.
Maybe, but I don't see Apple particularly caring about this.