In a sane society, we can close cases with appropriate remedies rather than just locking everyone up for everything. It's far better for a criminal to be caught at a crime and have some kind of negative feedback than to rely on poor enforcement to make sure the people getting away with it combined with the people sent to crime college for a few years averages to a just level....
The last time I did the comparison, it came down to deciding which specs were really important to match and which weren't. There are many different versions of various 3ghz processors out there with vastly differing prices.
Some have more cores, some run cooler, some have more on-die memory, or more more threads, or some instruction that may or may not be useful to you. More banks of FPUs. Smaller process size. Bigger process size.
Other components are similarly difficult to compare. RAM has it's speed, bus size, timing - should you get a balanced set? Is that a thing still? Was it ever? ECC?
Anyway, I found when I gathered all the "hidden" specs and priced things out (several years ago) that the macs were actually competitive for the hardware. However, the hidden specs are hidden because the market doesn't really respond to them when they're revealed. Are they irrelevant? If you ignore the hidden specs, you can select hardware that is vastly cheaper, which although isn't the same, maybe is close enough.
Objective comparison is hard to find, and I think part of it is that there are plenty of sites doing hardware comparisons and presenting them in ways that really obscure the difference between the hardware, and there is really no consumer friendly software profiler available on the market.
Doubling your RAM isn't going to help if the programs you run are bottlenecked on loading data off the disk. Adding more L3 cache isn't going to help if your program already fits in what you have or if it spends most of its time waiting on user input. Better sleep/downclock modes would help there. The won't help for high-performance gaming.
How do you really know what you need? Which specs are really relevant?
They are stockpiling information on you to use when they do become interested in you. That could mean that they are investigating a terror plot that you are a part of, but that is not the only way to become interesting to the well-funded shadowy government organization.
For instance, suppose you decided that you don't want to just stay in your place and instead pursue social activism or politics? Suppose further that you are not the kind of person that is easily controlled. Perhaps they have some conversations or contacts from 20 years ago that they can take out of context to discredit you, or worse - perhaps something you did was or appeared to be in violation of one of our apparently already uncountable laws. Did you do anything stupid in your high-school or college years?
They have already been caught using the data for more than just anti-terrorism. Instead of using the data directly, they use a process which is common enough to have a name to launder the information - Parallel Construction.
If you are not already powerful, your only protection will be to be vigilently squeaky-clean starting from birth. Or, I guess, to be somewhat less careful and learn to stay in your place.
How recently? I can't imagine you were effected fewer than about 6 or 7 years ago at the minimum. Based on the complexity and subject matter of your phrases (excluding the affect/effect issue) and slashdot id number, I'd estimate quite a bit longer than that.
You are assuming that it dumps the video part right out to the graphics chip and says, "here's an mpeg stream, do what you can" rather than taking a stream of bits and trying to both decrypt and decode it entirely in software, essentially treating the graphics chip as a frame buffer.
Maybe they're writing from the perspective of C fans rather than javascript fans.
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Another question is why we need to duplicate an entire operating system to encapsulate applications. If you have 100 things that need to run on a machine why should you need to also run 100 entire operating systems? Something is wrong with the way we're designing servers.
You're going to pick a bill signed by the republican governor of a highly democratic state as an example of a republican bill?
Hint: in the NE, republicans are occasionally voted into governors offices. This is done for two reasons. Firstly, there may be some vague memory of the formation of the republican party by abolitionists. The people of the NE are opposed to slavery. They aren't opposed to mercilessly denigrating anyone who doesn't work themselves to death, though.
Primarily, however, it seems to be to provide a scapegoat for whatever messes the democratic legislatures manage to get themselves into.
They don't have to support linux. All they need to do is provide an API and the community will take care of it for them. Not sure how the DRM part would work, though. Is DRM possible with open source software? Could they provide binary blob of just that part?
The FBI is a law enforcement organization (and.. counterintelligence, I think?) that operates domestically. The prisoners in Guantanamo are prisoners of war, captured on battlefields during.. um.. some kind of action, I guess.
Their disposition isn't really for the FBI to determine, as they weren't on US soil until we brought them here, so they couldn't have broken any US laws. Their military disposition however is interesting and apparently also politically quite treacherous. And not relevant to the FBI unless we're going to claim that they're accused of committing a US crime and are being prosecuted or otherwise going through the normal process that someone suspected of committing a crime goes through.
In which case, the principle of "presumption of innocence" comes into play. It's not that you simply assume someone is innocent, but that you treat them as if they are. You wouldn't use torture or other extreme interrogation techniques on an innocent person, so you shouldn't do it to someone who only "could be" innocent.
I'd like to see how these interrogation techniques stack up to the old, "sit in silence and wait for them to fill the void" technique.
The US dollar doesn't record transaction information. Bitcoin records every transaction ever made. How is the dollar better for preventing tax evasion than bitcoin would be if adopted as a currency?
Integral to Bitcoin is a public transaction log, the blockchain, that records bitcoin ownership currently as well as in the past. By keeping a record of all transactions, the blockchain prevents double-spending. Cryptography is used to protect the integrity of the block chain
They are going to love tracking everyone even more. They might even mandate bitcoin (or come up with their own, I guess..)
You can move from Texas to Arizona if you don't like the book thing, and you can move from North Carolina to Massachusetts if you don't like the cousin thing. Or to those states if you filter the other way on those issues.
If there's only one government, though, you're putting a lot of pressure on that government to satisfy everyone. Without the relief valve of relocating, you're only increasing the chance that the people who don't like various policies will feel their only option remaining is violence.
If the emissions rules are good for all of us, then the proper level for that to occur is in the national legislature, where we are all (ostensibly) represented. Not in a single state's legislature which represents less than 15% of the population.
I wonder if anyone from other states has tried to sue for representation over regulations that end up affecting everyone...
Circumstantial is not a synonym for weak. Often, the opposite, when you think about it, as the other kind of evidence is witness testimony, which although held in higher regard, can actually be far less reliable. Circumstantial evidence encompasses all of forensic evidence, up to and even including high definition video of the perpetrator committing the crime, walking up to the camera, cutting himself on the lens and leaving behind a full set of bloody fingerprints.
A witness on the other hand could be remembering wrong, or could not even be a witness - they could have imagined their witnessing based on information leaked to them (on accident or on purpose) during their interview.
If I'm on a jury, I want to see all the evidence, and I'm not ignoring something just because it's "circumstantial." Insufficiently specific on the other hand..., well, without the confession I'm sure that defense lawyers would have brought in experts to testify about the number of other Harvard students also using Tor.
Or, and I'm just spitballing here, don't do any of that. Instead, use persuasive arguments to convince people to follow your will instead of trying to impose it via violence or threat of violence. Or even, if what you want people do do is legal to pay people to do, try that.
Yes, but you realize that "means of production owned by the state" is pretty much the thing that conservatives and right-wingers fear the most. Incidentally, your description of socialism also sounds a lot like fascism...
Anyway, conservatives will question the logic of solving the problem of too much power concentrating in the hands of a few corporations by further concentrating that power into the hands of a single, enormous entity.
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In a sane society, we can close cases with appropriate remedies rather than just locking everyone up for everything. It's far better for a criminal to be caught at a crime and have some kind of negative feedback than to rely on poor enforcement to make sure the people getting away with it combined with the people sent to crime college for a few years averages to a just level....
The last time I did the comparison, it came down to deciding which specs were really important to match and which weren't. There are many different versions of various 3ghz processors out there with vastly differing prices.
Some have more cores, some run cooler, some have more on-die memory, or more more threads, or some instruction that may or may not be useful to you. More banks of FPUs. Smaller process size. Bigger process size.
Other components are similarly difficult to compare. RAM has it's speed, bus size, timing - should you get a balanced set? Is that a thing still? Was it ever? ECC?
Anyway, I found when I gathered all the "hidden" specs and priced things out (several years ago) that the macs were actually competitive for the hardware. However, the hidden specs are hidden because the market doesn't really respond to them when they're revealed. Are they irrelevant? If you ignore the hidden specs, you can select hardware that is vastly cheaper, which although isn't the same, maybe is close enough.
Objective comparison is hard to find, and I think part of it is that there are plenty of sites doing hardware comparisons and presenting them in ways that really obscure the difference between the hardware, and there is really no consumer friendly software profiler available on the market.
Doubling your RAM isn't going to help if the programs you run are bottlenecked on loading data off the disk. Adding more L3 cache isn't going to help if your program already fits in what you have or if it spends most of its time waiting on user input. Better sleep/downclock modes would help there. The won't help for high-performance gaming.
How do you really know what you need? Which specs are really relevant?
They are stockpiling information on you to use when they do become interested in you. That could mean that they are investigating a terror plot that you are a part of, but that is not the only way to become interesting to the well-funded shadowy government organization.
For instance, suppose you decided that you don't want to just stay in your place and instead pursue social activism or politics? Suppose further that you are not the kind of person that is easily controlled. Perhaps they have some conversations or contacts from 20 years ago that they can take out of context to discredit you, or worse - perhaps something you did was or appeared to be in violation of one of our apparently already uncountable laws. Did you do anything stupid in your high-school or college years?
They have already been caught using the data for more than just anti-terrorism. Instead of using the data directly, they use a process which is common enough to have a name to launder the information - Parallel Construction.
If you are not already powerful, your only protection will be to be vigilently squeaky-clean starting from birth. Or, I guess, to be somewhat less careful and learn to stay in your place.
Why would insulation be combustable? Isn't it made of glass?
How recently? I can't imagine you were effected fewer than about 6 or 7 years ago at the minimum. Based on the complexity and subject matter of your phrases (excluding the affect/effect issue) and slashdot id number, I'd estimate quite a bit longer than that.
You are assuming that it dumps the video part right out to the graphics chip and says, "here's an mpeg stream, do what you can" rather than taking a stream of bits and trying to both decrypt and decode it entirely in software, essentially treating the graphics chip as a frame buffer.
Maybe they're writing from the perspective of C fans rather than javascript fans.
Another question is why we need to duplicate an entire operating system to encapsulate applications. If you have 100 things that need to run on a machine why should you need to also run 100 entire operating systems? Something is wrong with the way we're designing servers.
You're going to pick a bill signed by the republican governor of a highly democratic state as an example of a republican bill?
Hint: in the NE, republicans are occasionally voted into governors offices. This is done for two reasons. Firstly, there may be some vague memory of the formation of the republican party by abolitionists. The people of the NE are opposed to slavery. They aren't opposed to mercilessly denigrating anyone who doesn't work themselves to death, though.
Primarily, however, it seems to be to provide a scapegoat for whatever messes the democratic legislatures manage to get themselves into.
They don't have to support linux. All they need to do is provide an API and the community will take care of it for them. Not sure how the DRM part would work, though. Is DRM possible with open source software? Could they provide binary blob of just that part?
The FBI is a law enforcement organization (and.. counterintelligence, I think?) that operates domestically. The prisoners in Guantanamo are prisoners of war, captured on battlefields during.. um.. some kind of action, I guess.
Their disposition isn't really for the FBI to determine, as they weren't on US soil until we brought them here, so they couldn't have broken any US laws. Their military disposition however is interesting and apparently also politically quite treacherous. And not relevant to the FBI unless we're going to claim that they're accused of committing a US crime and are being prosecuted or otherwise going through the normal process that someone suspected of committing a crime goes through.
In which case, the principle of "presumption of innocence" comes into play. It's not that you simply assume someone is innocent, but that you treat them as if they are. You wouldn't use torture or other extreme interrogation techniques on an innocent person, so you shouldn't do it to someone who only "could be" innocent.
I'd like to see how these interrogation techniques stack up to the old, "sit in silence and wait for them to fill the void" technique.
What is everyone else in your company doing?
The US dollar doesn't record transaction information. Bitcoin records every transaction ever made. How is the dollar better for preventing tax evasion than bitcoin would be if adopted as a currency?
From wikipedia:
Integral to Bitcoin is a public transaction log, the blockchain, that records bitcoin ownership currently as well as in the past. By keeping a record of all transactions, the blockchain prevents double-spending. Cryptography is used to protect the integrity of the block chain
They are going to love tracking everyone even more. They might even mandate bitcoin (or come up with their own, I guess..)
bitcoin is none of those...
You can move from Texas to Arizona if you don't like the book thing, and you can move from North Carolina to Massachusetts if you don't like the cousin thing. Or to those states if you filter the other way on those issues.
If there's only one government, though, you're putting a lot of pressure on that government to satisfy everyone. Without the relief valve of relocating, you're only increasing the chance that the people who don't like various policies will feel their only option remaining is violence.
Joke's on you. Pause the film and find out.
If the emissions rules are good for all of us, then the proper level for that to occur is in the national legislature, where we are all (ostensibly) represented. Not in a single state's legislature which represents less than 15% of the population.
I wonder if anyone from other states has tried to sue for representation over regulations that end up affecting everyone...
Circumstantial is not a synonym for weak. Often, the opposite, when you think about it, as the other kind of evidence is witness testimony, which although held in higher regard, can actually be far less reliable. Circumstantial evidence encompasses all of forensic evidence, up to and even including high definition video of the perpetrator committing the crime, walking up to the camera, cutting himself on the lens and leaving behind a full set of bloody fingerprints.
A witness on the other hand could be remembering wrong, or could not even be a witness - they could have imagined their witnessing based on information leaked to them (on accident or on purpose) during their interview.
If I'm on a jury, I want to see all the evidence, and I'm not ignoring something just because it's "circumstantial." Insufficiently specific on the other hand..., well, without the confession I'm sure that defense lawyers would have brought in experts to testify about the number of other Harvard students also using Tor.
Your public library doesn't have public logins. You will need to log in using your library card or some other account that links to you.
Or, and I'm just spitballing here, don't do any of that. Instead, use persuasive arguments to convince people to follow your will instead of trying to impose it via violence or threat of violence. Or even, if what you want people do do is legal to pay people to do, try that.
Yes, but you realize that "means of production owned by the state" is pretty much the thing that conservatives and right-wingers fear the most. Incidentally, your description of socialism also sounds a lot like fascism...
Anyway, conservatives will question the logic of solving the problem of too much power concentrating in the hands of a few corporations by further concentrating that power into the hands of a single, enormous entity.
Please tell us the movie happened to be Ultraviolet, for irony reasons.
Was there ever a desktop database market, though?
Your company is upgrading to win 8, though, right?