You cannot imagine how many professionals working in R&D have left Russia for the past 20 years. Literally millions. In 2014 alone 200 thousand average Moscow citizens left Russia for good (and most of them are professionals) - keep in mind that Moscow is the most developed city in the country where avarage salaries are up to three times higher than in other cities. Only the most frantic and loyal to the government keep on working.
Mr. Putin and his PR team does a great job of portraying Russia as a superpower however the sad truth is that Russia is slowly becoming a country of the poor where even most basic human needs are not met. According to the recent polls over 50% of the Russians living in Russia cannot afford buying normal food, like fruits, meat, fish or vegetables. No one is talking about caviar or exotic things.
Other areas where Russia is behind almost all developed countries of the world: medicine, economics, science, and even education. Cancer patients mortality rate is ten times higher than in most other countries of the world, because equipment is totally outdated and doctors' salary is so low, they don't bother to work professionally. Corruption runs so rampant no one even bothers any more - watch the movie "Chaika". Seen by 4 million people, it contains the facts which are impossible to refute, yet how many people from the state apparatus have been fired? Zero. In the past rabid Russian patriots, called "vatniky", claimed that Putin is clean and it's only his people who steal, bribe, and do all sorts of nefarious things. After this movie many of them changed their minds.
Don't believe the hype - even if Russia flies to the Moon, it will be done at the expense of the budget sphere or new insane taxes will be introduced (like the recent tax for long-haul truckers). Russians have already paid dearly for the annexation of Crimea and for the war in Ukraine (most countries in the world understand that this war is indirectly financed by Putin).
I wonder what kind of measures the Sweden have against losing it. And if I'm not mistaken most payments go through the Internet and of course the Internet is supposed to be 100% reliable... oh, wait.
P.S. George Orwell wasn't a science fiction writer 'cause he actually (fore)saw the future. The future where everything you do is logged and categorized.
Firstly, such videos should not be removed, "Know thy enemy" you know. I guess the best way to deal with them is to put them behind the usual 18+ rating as youtube has already been doing for years to even slightly provocative clips.
Secondly, most people, this journalist included, don't understand terrorism. Its goal is not to kill, but to be heard and to suggest fear. Your risk of dying of terrorism is many magnitudes lower than dying from other natural courses, including a vehicle crash or cancer.
The best way to deal with terrorism is to neglect them totally. Don't let them on TV or radio, or Internet. Fight them behind the curtains.
"MIT News reports, the two most important indicators turned out to be how far ahead of a deadline the student began working on their problem set, and how much time the student spent on the course website. "
IOW, the computer program used a more applicable approach/pertinent data and had humans had used the same algorithm/data, they would have reached the same or better results.
Unlike iOS Android allows you to side load apps *officially* but in this case all bets are off and you MUST understand what you're doing. With Apple there's no such freedom (unless you root your phone which is unsafe and voids your warranty) at all.
So, Google's walled garden is at your full discretion. If you like the feeling of safety you stay in it. If you want freedom, you can leave it any time you want. Most Android phones even allow you to have root if you're hellbent on having total freedom [to destroy your device].
One more thing: never disregard system updates. Install them right away.
Perhaps you were p0wned via the stagefright vulnerability. Try to recall if you received MMS'es from unknown people lately.
In case you got a sophisticated piece of malware which installed a rootkit into your bootloader or system partition, a simple factory reset will *not* help, so your *only safe* remedy is to reflash your phone *completely*. Google for "Reflash Nexus 6" or follow this link: http://forum.xda-developers.co...
After that make sure you install apps *only* from Google Play and you have "Allow Unknown Sources" under Security disabled. Make sure that the apps you install have a considerable number of positive reviews and the apps make use of sane permissions.
Make sure you're the only person who uses your smartphone, because other people may do things you'll regret later. If you absolutely need to let someone use your phone, activate a guest account for them and let them run only the apps they need.
Create a decent password for your lock screen (at least six digits) and make sure your phone locks after a period of inactivity.
If you're extremely paranoid, before installing an app, find its offline version, i.e. apk (they are usually easily googeable) and run it through virustotal.com (I usually do that when I install unpopular dubious apps).
./ has neglected an even bigger elephant in the room: most modern AV products insert their own HTTPS certificate into the OS you're running for your "safety" and "protection".
In short they scan the traffic which wasn't meant to be scanned by third parties, thus AV vendors circumvent the vary basis of encryption.
Welcome to a brave new world. Then your PC hasn't really belonged to you since 2008 or something but no one cares anyway: http://libreboot.org/faq/#inte...
I wonder if there's anything left to buy nowadays which is yours truly and which doesn't spy on you or have a dozen of backdoors for NSA/CIA/M5/etc.
Most sane people who value privacy and freedom in Russia use TOR or VPN, because far too many websites are blocked while they contain a single "infringing" document. Unfortunately when we're talking about HTTPS the only way to block the infringing document is to take down the whole website.
Well, I'm not so sympathetic with the conclusions.
Firstly, English is perhaps the most vocal language among all existing languages on Earth, it has far too many words which sound like the object being described.
Secondly, there's German.
Thirdly, and let me quote the article, "Their guesses were not nearly as good as the face-to-face participantsâ"35.6% right versus 82.2%â"but they had only one round in which to make their guess." Now, I'm not a mathematician but everything below 50% sounds like a wild guess to me.
First of all there are immortal cookies (infinite cache entries created specifically for your unique PC). Secondly, there's a unique combination of your web browser + OS + fonts + plug ins: https://panopticlick.eff.org/ Thirdly, there are unique patterns in your behaviour (websites that you visit and how frequently you do that) and other wonderful metrics to trace you.
If you want to avoid being traced and tracked there's just one way:
You buy a single time anonymous SIM card.
You go to some public place where there no web cameras installed or you're not under their monitoring.
You browse the web using at least TOR, or even better a combination of VPN + TOR.
You use the most common computer OS (Windows 7 64), the most common web browser (IE11/Google Chrome or Mozilla Firefox) and the least number of browser plugins and extensions.
You do NOT login using Facebook/Google/Microsoft/Yahoo/etc. services, because these companies trace your presence on unrelated websites using various "Share Me" options.
You do NOT use Skype/WhatsApp/Vibe other apps.
You completely destroy your browser profile and this SIM card after you're finished.
This is actually a recipe for browsing the web anonymously however this is the reality of the modern web - not to be traced means to be anonymous as much as possible.
"To exploit the vulnerability and install the rootkit, attackers would need to already have kernel or system privileges on a computer."
You know, even without this particular SMM attack vendor, a hacker who already has system level privileges on your PC renders your PC totally insecure, besides he also can... rewrite BIOS or various firmware components of your PC to allow his code to survive an HDD wipe.
A much better comparison would have been if they'd compared the same CPUs at the same frequency so that IPC gains could be immediately spotted.
Also I've never understood the point of all-in-one benchmarks like PCMark which measure everything and nothing because various PCs with wildly different CPUs/GPUs/RAM configurations have very similar results.
"Only when the last tree has been cut down, the last fish been caught, and the last stream poisoned, will we realize we cannot eat money." (source).
If AGW is real and the global temperature is to rise unmitigated, the rich (who actually own the planet) will actually start doing something about that only when war comes knocking on their front doors.
Up until then there will be no tangible changes to prevent further warming of the Earth.
We can now totally forget about Nokia phones running Android or any other alternative OS - and no matter what people say or how much they dislike Windows Phone, Nokia's hardware is still excellent - it could have been a perfect match for Android, Firefox OS, Ubuntu OS, etc.
Game developers surely won't be convinced as most people still run (and will keep on running) the greatest common divisor which is Windows 7.
So I believe very few games will have features unique to DirectX >= 11.1. It just doesn't make sense to invest your money into something most people will be unable to use.
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Russia had all of those - FTFY.
You cannot imagine how many professionals working in R&D have left Russia for the past 20 years. Literally millions. In 2014 alone 200 thousand average Moscow citizens left Russia for good (and most of them are professionals) - keep in mind that Moscow is the most developed city in the country where avarage salaries are up to three times higher than in other cities. Only the most frantic and loyal to the government keep on working.
Mr. Putin and his PR team does a great job of portraying Russia as a superpower however the sad truth is that Russia is slowly becoming a country of the poor where even most basic human needs are not met. According to the recent polls over 50% of the Russians living in Russia cannot afford buying normal food, like fruits, meat, fish or vegetables. No one is talking about caviar or exotic things.
Other areas where Russia is behind almost all developed countries of the world: medicine, economics, science, and even education. Cancer patients mortality rate is ten times higher than in most other countries of the world, because equipment is totally outdated and doctors' salary is so low, they don't bother to work professionally. Corruption runs so rampant no one even bothers any more - watch the movie "Chaika". Seen by 4 million people, it contains the facts which are impossible to refute, yet how many people from the state apparatus have been fired? Zero. In the past rabid Russian patriots, called "vatniky", claimed that Putin is clean and it's only his people who steal, bribe, and do all sorts of nefarious things. After this movie many of them changed their minds.
Don't believe the hype - even if Russia flies to the Moon, it will be done at the expense of the budget sphere or new insane taxes will be introduced (like the recent tax for long-haul truckers). Russians have already paid dearly for the annexation of Crimea and for the war in Ukraine (most countries in the world understand that this war is indirectly financed by Putin).
This country is doomed.
... is a bitch.
I wonder what kind of measures the Sweden have against losing it. And if I'm not mistaken most payments go through the Internet and of course the Internet is supposed to be 100% reliable ... oh, wait.
P.S. George Orwell wasn't a science fiction writer 'cause he actually (fore)saw the future. The future where everything you do is logged and categorized.
Exactly. English is not my native language, so sometimes I use the wrong words.
I meant media on the Internet, like online news outlets or their respective youtube channels. I'm sorry I didn't make myself clear enough.
Firstly, such videos should not be removed, "Know thy enemy" you know. I guess the best way to deal with them is to put them behind the usual 18+ rating as youtube has already been doing for years to even slightly provocative clips.
Secondly, most people, this journalist included, don't understand terrorism. Its goal is not to kill, but to be heard and to suggest fear. Your risk of dying of terrorism is many magnitudes lower than dying from other natural courses, including a vehicle crash or cancer.
The best way to deal with terrorism is to neglect them totally. Don't let them on TV or radio, or Internet. Fight them behind the curtains.
"MIT News reports, the two most important indicators turned out to be how far ahead of a deadline the student began working on their problem set, and how much time the student spent on the course website. "
IOW, the computer program used a more applicable approach/pertinent data and had humans had used the same algorithm/data, they would have reached the same or better results.
Unlike iOS Android allows you to side load apps *officially* but in this case all bets are off and you MUST understand what you're doing. With Apple there's no such freedom (unless you root your phone which is unsafe and voids your warranty) at all.
So, Google's walled garden is at your full discretion. If you like the feeling of safety you stay in it. If you want freedom, you can leave it any time you want. Most Android phones even allow you to have root if you're hellbent on having total freedom [to destroy your device].
One more thing: never disregard system updates. Install them right away. Perhaps you were p0wned via the stagefright vulnerability. Try to recall if you received MMS'es from unknown people lately.
In case you got a sophisticated piece of malware which installed a rootkit into your bootloader or system partition, a simple factory reset will *not* help, so your *only safe* remedy is to reflash your phone *completely*. Google for "Reflash Nexus 6" or follow this link: http://forum.xda-developers.co...
After that make sure you install apps *only* from Google Play and you have "Allow Unknown Sources" under Security disabled. Make sure that the apps you install have a considerable number of positive reviews and the apps make use of sane permissions.
Make sure you're the only person who uses your smartphone, because other people may do things you'll regret later. If you absolutely need to let someone use your phone, activate a guest account for them and let them run only the apps they need.
Create a decent password for your lock screen (at least six digits) and make sure your phone locks after a period of inactivity.
If you're extremely paranoid, before installing an app, find its offline version, i.e. apk (they are usually easily googeable) and run it through virustotal.com (I usually do that when I install unpopular dubious apps).
Yeah, had Ridley hired decent scientific advisers for Prometheus, it could have been a decent film.
Luckily the Martian was written by a person who's got a scientific background and the scriptwriters didn't butcher the book.
Other problems you haven't mentioned are:
* Crazy fuel consumption per person*miles flown
* Concordes significantly reduced the amount of ozone in the atmosphere
* Noise issues
Quite possibly they just won't get a permit to fly even if they restore the aircraft.
./ has neglected an even bigger elephant in the room: most modern AV products insert their own HTTPS certificate into the OS you're running for your "safety" and "protection".
In short they scan the traffic which wasn't meant to be scanned by third parties, thus AV vendors circumvent the vary basis of encryption.
Welcome to a brave new world. Then your PC hasn't really belonged to you since 2008 or something but no one cares anyway: http://libreboot.org/faq/#inte...
I wonder if there's anything left to buy nowadays which is yours truly and which doesn't spy on you or have a dozen of backdoors for NSA/CIA/M5/etc.
I remember just ten years ago RAM, yeah RAM, was slower than these drives. Time flies!
It has already been blocked: http://reestr.rublacklist.net/... - welcome to Russia.
Most sane people who value privacy and freedom in Russia use TOR or VPN, because far too many websites are blocked while they contain a single "infringing" document. Unfortunately when we're talking about HTTPS the only way to block the infringing document is to take down the whole website.
Well, I'm not so sympathetic with the conclusions.
Firstly, English is perhaps the most vocal language among all existing languages on Earth, it has far too many words which sound like the object being described.
Secondly, there's German.
Thirdly, and let me quote the article, "Their guesses were not nearly as good as the face-to-face participantsâ"35.6% right versus 82.2%â"but they had only one round in which to make their guess." Now, I'm not a mathematician but everything below 50% sounds like a wild guess to me.
First of all there are immortal cookies (infinite cache entries created specifically for your unique PC). Secondly, there's a unique combination of your web browser + OS + fonts + plug ins: https://panopticlick.eff.org/ Thirdly, there are unique patterns in your behaviour (websites that you visit and how frequently you do that) and other wonderful metrics to trace you.
If you want to avoid being traced and tracked there's just one way:
This is actually a recipe for browsing the web anonymously however this is the reality of the modern web - not to be traced means to be anonymous as much as possible.
"To exploit the vulnerability and install the rootkit, attackers would need to already have kernel or system privileges on a computer."
You know, even without this particular SMM attack vendor, a hacker who already has system level privileges on your PC renders your PC totally insecure, besides he also can ... rewrite BIOS or various firmware components of your PC to allow his code to survive an HDD wipe.
A much better comparison would have been if they'd compared the same CPUs at the same frequency so that IPC gains could be immediately spotted. Also I've never understood the point of all-in-one benchmarks like PCMark which measure everything and nothing because various PCs with wildly different CPUs/GPUs/RAM configurations have very similar results.
1) Use Solitare from e.g. Windows 7 (google for Microsoft Games Patcher).
2) Update your hosts: http://pgl.yoyo.org/ and http://winhelp2002.mvps.org/ .
"Only when the last tree has been cut down, the last fish been caught, and the last stream poisoned, will we realize we cannot eat money." (source).
If AGW is real and the global temperature is to rise unmitigated, the rich (who actually own the planet) will actually start doing something about that only when war comes knocking on their front doors.
Up until then there will be no tangible changes to prevent further warming of the Earth.
We can now totally forget about Nokia phones running Android or any other alternative OS - and no matter what people say or how much they dislike Windows Phone, Nokia's hardware is still excellent - it could have been a perfect match for Android, Firefox OS, Ubuntu OS, etc.
Game developers surely won't be convinced as most people still run (and will keep on running) the greatest common divisor which is Windows 7.
So I believe very few games will have features unique to DirectX >= 11.1. It just doesn't make sense to invest your money into something most people will be unable to use.
Why has this been modded funny?
That is where I want room-temperature superconductors first of all.
100% computational efficiency, 0% heat release, no fans/ventilators/etc, almost completely quite computer (except for rotational HDDs and PSUs).