Yes, but I would call that minimal. Also not stocking something on base is not a violation of the constitution.
I applaud EA for the statement (even if it is PR):
However, we have also received feedback from friends and families of fallen soldiers who have expressed concern over the inclusion of the Taliban in the multiplayer portion of our game. This is a very important voice to the Medal of Honor team. This is a voice that has earned the right to be listened to.
Whether or not you agree with the decision, those of you calling out people as whiners causing the Taliban name to be removed are missing something a touch ironic.
Fact of the matter is, this won't change anything in-game worth caring about. EA is not removing the guns/changing the types/etc. the game play its self will be fundamentally the same thing no matter what the team is named.
If you are expecting collapse, then gold is not that good of an investment, as not much will be worth a whole ounce of gold and buying smaller pieces exposes you to way over spot prices. 1, 5, and 10 ounce silver rounds/bars, ammo (for trade and protection), salt, durable foodstuffs, and toilet paper are the most valuable commodities. With those you will likely be able to trade for anything else you need. Depending on your morals, level of need, and the social situation at the time of need if you can not trade with any of the above, you have a realistic chance of *taking* what you need by way of the stored ammunition. -nB
Based on geometry alone, no. However I think a Cortex series core would be vastly easier to re-implement with double bit error ECC Parity. If I were a Rocket Chip Designer: Cortex A6 redesign: 2 ALUs with parity checks on output, run combinationally. Any parity errors, re-run calculations. All register memory is ECC capable of detecting 2 bit errors and correcting single bit errors. similar over designing on all other functions in the die. Dual instruction caches, again parity checked. Built as Si on sapphire. increase geometyr of gates to > 90nM (likely 130nM). Adjustable clock gating so the thing can be clocked as slow as possible for a given job.
Realistically though, that will cost a lot of money. You can get a RAD750 running at about 600MHz for $200,000 already.
It's not that it would knock out a track. A single cosmic ray hit will not ablate the metal layers. It's that the newer parts use much lower voltage to get lower leakage to get higher speed. Lower voltage == lower gate charge, in some cases the difference in charge states is < 100 electrons*. A single cosmic ray is capable of changing the charge state on these gates enough to make a bit undefined. That is a BadThing(tm).
-nB * My info is specifically on flash and a couple years old. (n-m)==100. 0-m electrons on the gate == logic 0 n+ electrons on the gate == logic 1 between m and n electrons on the gate == undefined value.
Largely this is a function of geometry. The smaller gates required for higher speed operation are also vastly more sensitive to imparted charge from ionizing radiation. Large slow chips are inherently more robust, so when you do things like Si on sapphire you get a lot of bang for your buck.
I don't doubt that a fast core could be RAD hardened, but the current generation of Core2 arch and ix arch from Intel/AMD/IBM are virtually impossible to make into a rad hardened build. You really would need to do a redesign with things like ECC registers and the demand for such chips is so low as to not be a profitable endeavor for any of the main players. Demand is satisfied by the RAD600/750 families (PowerPC 750 / Apple G3), so why invest gobs of money into R&D for a product that has little to no demand? -nB
In the united states a jury trial can be demanded by the defendant for any matter criminal or civil for amounts in excess of $20.00. IIRC if the judge disagrees with the request for a jury a loss by the defendant can then cause the defendant to be required to pay for the added cost of the jury trial.
I have to imagine that it would be more efficient to have one loss prevention/old lady helper dude watching over 4 or 5 checkouts
fix: Two people working together. One is pretending to be a moron, which draws the employee from their perch watching the 4 checkouts. The other person is on a checkout behind the distracted watcher, now stuffing bags with items of the correct weight, but vastly more expensive. I.e. bought 20 pounds of potatoes, loaded 20 pounds of grey goose vodka (hey, at least it's "still" potatoes). -nB
Also, Many people have the following: mindset cookies == evil mindset tracking cookies == virus (thanks McAfee) geek friend recommends adaware/spybot/etc.
Thus you need something that can bypass the basic automated tools that people may use. There are three or four populations on-line: * Joe Sixpack (zombie host, could care less as long as pr0n and ESPN.com work) * Jack Newbie (possible zombie host, cares, asks geek friend for help, has AV and anti-spyware stuff installed) * Private Private (likely most of us here on/.: runs AV passive, active when in high risk parts of the web. Scrubs system periodically. Doesn't run IE, likely Firefox, possibly chrome/opera/safari, likely uses no-script and adblockplus or hosts file.) * Paranoid Frank (uses lynx only. Ever. Views jpgs as binary data before rendering. etc.)
It's what I use on my other-other site's tools. I have some pages devoted to small animal breeding and I use hidden CGI fields to maintain state data between pages. I also sign the data and check the signature before accepting it. Works fine for me. -nB
And the counter to that is that the website author grants an implied license to copy the work for display on your machine so you can read it, but not a blanket license to copy for anything you want to do with it. In this particular case, however, the author(s) of the website placed "share this" links to/. and others, thus implying that they wanted to make the pages available to all for copying. -nB
I saw someone mention clubbing an animal... I doubt they've tried it. I clubbed a rabbit (was sick, not getting better) and it moved right as I was fully committed to the swing. Effin hell I felt bad for the thing. What should have been a clean strike to the back of the skull turned into a painful head-blow.
Now when I have to dispatch an animal I use a 33 gallon drum and compressed N2. Painless for the animal and no boom that would upset the newer neighbors (right on the boundary of greenbelt/open land and suburbia). There is a new Rd5 development literally half a block away on one side and several acres of horse property and farmland leading to a river on the other side.
The horse people and farming people know what a.22 /.223 sounds like and also know if it's at dusk then it's likely a varmit being dispatched. The urbanites? They call the cops "OMFG I heard a *GUN* send help quick." -nB
absolutely all valid points. We have a locksmith on staff, so repinning a lock is trivial, as is cutting keys.
As to the badge readers I have no idea how they work. I know the badges do challenge response with the reader, but if the reader is merely a pass-through to a controller, of if it contains the smarts is opaque to me (I never asked, I think I will now...)
Frankly my opinion is that we don't need a lock on that door at all, simply a sign that the area is restricted, but that's my opinion. -nB
so, in the case of my lab: There are three people who will be keyholders. security knows who has keys, and security has the realistic and common sense approach that keys get lost. Reporting a lost key gets the tumblers changed and new keys issued within 4 hours, and no repercussions on the key loser.
In addition, the keylock door is inside the lab, which is already behind badge readers. Overall risk is exceptionally low.
Risk from an unsecured (and thus sniffable) badge reader line is much higher.
RS422 to a PC dedicated to that purpose. It would be hard to infect the machine when it only sends data out on that interface and does not receive data, or only receives 2 byte commands to which it responds with a slew of numbers. Most machines like this have (at least as an option) an interface like this, precisely because they are supposed to be gap'd from the main network.
yes. Our CNC uses an on-line DRM. We have it on its own network behind a proxy server that only allows it to connect to the manufacturer's URL, and at that only to the authentication server address.
Fortunately the manufacturer uses SOAP on port 80, so that makes the filtering easier. -nB
This is manifested in the door security where I work. We have RFID badge readers. My boss recently wanted to add one to a lab he controls. When he found out the bill was $10K he balked. We told him it was for the security conduit (intrusion detection conduit, I assume gas charged & detect pressure drop in a leg?). His response? We don't need the conduit, just run the wire.
Luckily security said F off and use a key lock, we're not installing it without the conduit. But that same attitude is why these machines still have the default passwords.
California recently had something like this, where people were forced out of their houses under eminent domain, and the land was used for a mall. In addition, since property values instantly depressed when the project was announced the people were lowballed on the value of the land and the courts upheld that the low value was proper...
More than once I've had domains where the holding company has gone tits-up and I was unable to get through to anyone. It went so far as I had to start doing chargebacks because the automated systems kept billing me, in spite of my attempted cancellations. My concern is that the domain could be in such a registrar that doesn't give 2c about support, in which case it has to go through ICANN does it not? Now I learned my lesson from the previous incidents, so now my registrations are with a slightly more reputable company, but I doubt a typo squatter is going to use a better registrar.
That said, your idea is sound, and in any event his inability to retrieve info even when in front of his company lawyers may still help his case that it's not him.
Slashdot Mirror
call 1407 information request about Twitter day
someone needs to call in for an information request about call 1407 and why is an info request a "call".
post the call number, repeat, recurse.
Yes, but I would call that minimal. Also not stocking something on base is not a violation of the constitution.
I applaud EA for the statement (even if it is PR):
However, we have also received feedback from friends and families of fallen soldiers who have expressed concern over the inclusion of the Taliban in the multiplayer portion of our game. This is a very important voice to the Medal of Honor team. This is a voice that has earned the right to be listened to.
Whether or not you agree with the decision, those of you calling out people as whiners causing the Taliban name to be removed are missing something a touch ironic.
Fact of the matter is, this won't change anything in-game worth caring about. EA is not removing the guns/changing the types/etc. the game play its self will be fundamentally the same thing no matter what the team is named.
I'd like to play that in real life... Can the engineers be merc snipers?
Best teambuilder ever in my group was a paintball match. 20 Vs 20 on a rather large field.
-nB
... and the ZOMBIE Beatles may reunite, or not.
Happy now?
http://xkcd.com/792/
If you are expecting collapse, then gold is not that good of an investment, as not much will be worth a whole ounce of gold and buying smaller pieces exposes you to way over spot prices.
1, 5, and 10 ounce silver rounds/bars, ammo (for trade and protection), salt, durable foodstuffs, and toilet paper are the most valuable commodities. With those you will likely be able to trade for anything else you need.
Depending on your morals, level of need, and the social situation at the time of need if you can not trade with any of the above, you have a realistic chance of *taking* what you need by way of the stored ammunition.
-nB
Based on geometry alone, no.
However I think a Cortex series core would be vastly easier to re-implement with double bit error ECC Parity.
If I were a Rocket Chip Designer:
Cortex A6 redesign:
2 ALUs with parity checks on output, run combinationally. Any parity errors, re-run calculations.
All register memory is ECC capable of detecting 2 bit errors and correcting single bit errors.
similar over designing on all other functions in the die.
Dual instruction caches, again parity checked.
Built as Si on sapphire.
increase geometyr of gates to > 90nM (likely 130nM).
Adjustable clock gating so the thing can be clocked as slow as possible for a given job.
Realistically though, that will cost a lot of money. You can get a RAD750 running at about 600MHz for $200,000 already.
It's not that it would knock out a track. A single cosmic ray hit will not ablate the metal layers. It's that the newer parts use much lower voltage to get lower leakage to get higher speed. Lower voltage == lower gate charge, in some cases the difference in charge states is < 100 electrons*. A single cosmic ray is capable of changing the charge state on these gates enough to make a bit undefined. That is a BadThing(tm).
-nB
* My info is specifically on flash and a couple years old.
(n-m)==100.
0-m electrons on the gate == logic 0
n+ electrons on the gate == logic 1
between m and n electrons on the gate == undefined value.
Largely this is a function of geometry. The smaller gates required for higher speed operation are also vastly more sensitive to imparted charge from ionizing radiation. Large slow chips are inherently more robust, so when you do things like Si on sapphire you get a lot of bang for your buck.
I don't doubt that a fast core could be RAD hardened, but the current generation of Core2 arch and ix arch from Intel/AMD/IBM are virtually impossible to make into a rad hardened build. You really would need to do a redesign with things like ECC registers and the demand for such chips is so low as to not be a profitable endeavor for any of the main players. Demand is satisfied by the RAD600/750 families (PowerPC 750 / Apple G3), so why invest gobs of money into R&D for a product that has little to no demand?
-nB
In the united states a jury trial can be demanded by the defendant for any matter criminal or civil for amounts in excess of $20.00. IIRC if the judge disagrees with the request for a jury a loss by the defendant can then cause the defendant to be required to pay for the added cost of the jury trial.
You Sir are an idiot. Underestimating the power & insanity of Cowboy Neal as you so obviously do!
(:heh: sorry, couldn't resist)
I just picked something expensive that I thought was related to potatoes...
I drink scotch myself.
I have to imagine that it would be more efficient to have one loss prevention/old lady helper dude watching over 4 or 5 checkouts
fix:
Two people working together.
One is pretending to be a moron, which draws the employee from their perch watching the 4 checkouts.
The other person is on a checkout behind the distracted watcher, now stuffing bags with items of the correct weight, but vastly more expensive. I.e. bought 20 pounds of potatoes, loaded 20 pounds of grey goose vodka (hey, at least it's "still" potatoes).
-nB
Also,
Many people have the following:
mindset cookies == evil
mindset tracking cookies == virus (thanks McAfee)
geek friend recommends adaware/spybot/etc.
Thus you need something that can bypass the basic automated tools that people may use. /.: runs AV passive, active when in high risk parts of the web. Scrubs system periodically. Doesn't run IE, likely Firefox, possibly chrome/opera/safari, likely uses no-script and adblockplus or hosts file.)
There are three or four populations on-line:
* Joe Sixpack (zombie host, could care less as long as pr0n and ESPN.com work)
* Jack Newbie (possible zombie host, cares, asks geek friend for help, has AV and anti-spyware stuff installed)
* Private Private (likely most of us here on
* Paranoid Frank (uses lynx only. Ever. Views jpgs as binary data before rendering. etc.)
It's what I use on my other-other site's tools.
I have some pages devoted to small animal breeding and I use hidden CGI fields to maintain state data between pages. I also sign the data and check the signature before accepting it. Works fine for me.
-nB
And the counter to that is that the website author grants an implied license to copy the work for display on your machine so you can read it, but not a blanket license to copy for anything you want to do with it. In this particular case, however, the author(s) of the website placed "share this" links to /. and others, thus implying that they wanted to make the pages available to all for copying.
-nB
I saw someone mention clubbing an animal...
I doubt they've tried it. I clubbed a rabbit (was sick, not getting better) and it moved right as I was fully committed to the swing.
Effin hell I felt bad for the thing. What should have been a clean strike to the back of the skull turned into a painful head-blow.
Now when I have to dispatch an animal I use a 33 gallon drum and compressed N2.
Painless for the animal and no boom that would upset the newer neighbors (right on the boundary of greenbelt/open land and suburbia). There is a new Rd5 development literally half a block away on one side and several acres of horse property and farmland leading to a river on the other side.
The horse people and farming people know what a .22 / .223 sounds like and also know if it's at dusk then it's likely a varmit being dispatched. The urbanites? They call the cops "OMFG I heard a *GUN* send help quick."
-nB
absolutely all valid points.
We have a locksmith on staff, so repinning a lock is trivial, as is cutting keys.
As to the badge readers I have no idea how they work. I know the badges do challenge response with the reader, but if the reader is merely a pass-through to a controller, of if it contains the smarts is opaque to me (I never asked, I think I will now...)
Frankly my opinion is that we don't need a lock on that door at all, simply a sign that the area is restricted, but that's my opinion.
-nB
so, in the case of my lab:
There are three people who will be keyholders.
security knows who has keys, and security has the realistic and common sense approach that keys get lost. Reporting a lost key gets the tumblers changed and new keys issued within 4 hours, and no repercussions on the key loser.
In addition, the keylock door is inside the lab, which is already behind badge readers. Overall risk is exceptionally low.
Risk from an unsecured (and thus sniffable) badge reader line is much higher.
RS422 to a PC dedicated to that purpose.
It would be hard to infect the machine when it only sends data out on that interface and does not receive data, or only receives 2 byte commands to which it responds with a slew of numbers. Most machines like this have (at least as an option) an interface like this, precisely because they are supposed to be gap'd from the main network.
yes.
Our CNC uses an on-line DRM.
We have it on its own network behind a proxy server that only allows it to connect to the manufacturer's URL, and at that only to the authentication server address.
Fortunately the manufacturer uses SOAP on port 80, so that makes the filtering easier.
-nB
This is manifested in the door security where I work.
We have RFID badge readers.
My boss recently wanted to add one to a lab he controls. When he found out the bill was $10K he balked. We told him it was for the security conduit (intrusion detection conduit, I assume gas charged & detect pressure drop in a leg?).
His response? We don't need the conduit, just run the wire.
Luckily security said F off and use a key lock, we're not installing it without the conduit. But that same attitude is why these machines still have the default passwords.
-nB
Yeah this one's in San Jose, not San Diego...
California recently had something like this, where people were forced out of their houses under eminent domain, and the land was used for a mall. In addition, since property values instantly depressed when the project was announced the people were lowballed on the value of the land and the courts upheld that the low value was proper...
It really makes me sick to think about.
More than once I've had domains where the holding company has gone tits-up and I was unable to get through to anyone. It went so far as I had to start doing chargebacks because the automated systems kept billing me, in spite of my attempted cancellations. My concern is that the domain could be in such a registrar that doesn't give 2c about support, in which case it has to go through ICANN does it not?
Now I learned my lesson from the previous incidents, so now my registrations are with a slightly more reputable company, but I doubt a typo squatter is going to use a better registrar.
That said, your idea is sound, and in any event his inability to retrieve info even when in front of his company lawyers may still help his case that it's not him.