Well it depends. Most people don't know the system has an inbuilt bias. Of the people who do Labour supporters think it's fine and Conservative supporters do don't.
Yeah, it's probably 'free' with 24 month subscription to a $50 a month data plan. I.e. by the time you realise the thing is a dog it's too late because you're on the hook for $1200.
The abortive 6th boundary view was largely justified on the need to address some bias in the electoral system. You will notice this fairly quickly if you have a quick play about with the swingometer - if you leave the Liberal Democrat share of the vote unchanged then the Conservatives need a lead of 11 percentage points over Labour to win an overall majority, while the Labour party can achieve an overall majority with a lead of about 3 percentage points. Equally illustrative are the last two general election results - in 2005 Labour had a lead of 3 points over the Conservatives, and got a majority of over 60 seats; in 2010 the Conservatives had a lead of 7 points over Labour, but did not have an overall majority at all. Prima facie this appears unfair.
This is a different issue from proportionality. The currently electoral system, "First Past the Post", is not supposed to be a proportional system. The proportion of total votes received does not necessarily resemble the shares of votes case, and smaller parties in particular tend to struggle to get representation unless their vote is geographically concentrated. The fact that FPTP favours larger parties and punishes small ones is very much a feature, rather than a bug - its defenders would argue that the system is supposed to lead to a strong two-party system, with the winning party having a majority of seats, while its detractors would say that we would be better having a proportional system, such as STV. First Past the Post is intrinsically "unfair" towards smaller parties, and intrinsically favours the winning party - that's a different issue. This page looks only at the reasons why, even if both parties have the same level of support, the system apparently favours Labour more than the Conservatives.
Lenovo's $799 Miix 630, unveiled at the show, is a Snapdragon 835 machine with a 12.3-inch display. Like other Qualcomm-based Windows 10 PCs, it will ship by default with the Windows 10 S operating system, but will be upgradable to Windows 10 Pro for free within 180 days of product activation, Neowin says. (Originally the updated cut-off date for upgrading for free from 10 S to Pro was March 2018.)
To be fair it must be a nightmare to fix something like this so the fix works on a wide variety of configurations and doesn't kill performance on any of them. Especially if news of the exploit gets leaked or discovered independently.
On March 27, 2017 researchers at Austria's Graz University of Technology developed a proof-of-concept that could grab RSA keys from Intel SGX enclaves running on the same system within five minutes by using certain CPU instructions in lieu of a fine-grained timer to exploit cache DRAM side-channels.
In June 2017, KASLR was found to have a large class of new vulnerabilities. Research at Graz University showed how to solve these vulnerabilities by preventing all access to unauthorized pages. A presentation on the resulting KAISER technique was submitted for the Black Hat congress in July 2017, but was rejected by the organizers. Nevertheless, this work led to kernel page-table isolation (KPTI, originally known as KAISER) in 2017, which was confirmed to eliminate a large class of security bugs, including the not-yet-discovered Meltdown - a fact confirmed by the Meltdown authors.
In July 2017, research made public on the CyberWTF website by security researcher Anders Fogh outlined the use of a cache timing attack to read kernel space data by observing the results of speculative operations conditioned on data fetched with invalid privileges.
Meltdown was discovered independently by Jann Horn from Google's Project Zero, Werner Haas and Thomas Prescher from Cyberus Technology, as well as Daniel Gruss, Moritz Lipp, Stefan Mangard and Michael Schwarz from Graz University of Technology. The same research teams that discovered Meltdown also discovered a related CPU security vulnerability now called Spectre.
On October 2017, Kernel ASLR support on amd64 was added in NetBSD-current, making NetBSD the first BSD system to support kernel address space layout randomization (KASLR).
On November 14, 2017, security researcher Alex Ionescu publicly mentioned changes in the new version of Windows 10 that would cause some speed degradation without explaining the necessity for the changes, just referring to similar changes in Linux.
After affected hardware and software vendors had been made aware of the issue on July 28, 2017, the two vulnerabilities were made public jointly, on January 3, 2018, several days ahead of the coordinated release date of January 9, 2018 as news sites started reporting about commits to the Linux kernel and mails to its mailing list. As a result, patches were not available for some platforms, such as Ubuntu, when the vulnerabilities were disclosed.
These attacks seem to affect anything with speculative execution. If they affect Intel, ARM and AMD CPUs and NVidia GPUs it's not all that unlikely that they affect AMD GPUs too.
You said you only wanted "just the text and a couple light text ads, if you must."
My point is that you don't need Google to do adblock for you - you can do it yourself with uBlock Origin. That will convert any web page to "just the text and a couple light text ads".
You shouldn't rely on an ad company, and Google basically is an ad company, to do your adblocking. And AMP is cancerous because it means Google end up serving all the web pages and deciding what ads run. Basically they end up owning the Internet and the content providers are reduced to mere tenant farmers on a Google server.
The US needs infiltration units, like the CSM-101 T-800. Probably controlled by some sort of centralised AI. Those would be ideal for wiping out human survivors who hid in burrows after a nuclear war.
The only worrying possibility is that China is using North Korea to probe US missile defences in order to be able to build missiles that can evade them.
E.g the US sold Tai some Patriot PAC3 launchers but they are so concerned about Chinese radar snooping that Taiwanese personnel had to fly to the US to test fire them
So if North Korea forced the US to intercept a missile with Aegis or GMD it would reveal a lot of information. And if it used Rods from God it would obviously reveal it had such a system.
And if a NK missile got past Aegis and GMD and needed to be intercepted with THAAD or Patriot then all hell would break loose.
There was an interesting report on Seattle's minimum wage which found that while employment for Seattle grew, employment for people affected by the minimum wage grew less fast.
But now we have a report on exactly what has been happening in Seattle's labor market.
Seattle's labor market has thrived since the city became the first major metropolis in the country to pass a law setting its minimum wage on a path to $15 per hour.
The city's job-growth rate has been triple the national average, for example.
Much of that success, though, can be attributed to trends separate from the minimum-wage law itself, such as the growth of Seattle's tech sector and its construction boom, according to a new report that University of Washington researchers presented to the City Council on Monday.
I have no problem with any of that. Employment is up, unemployment is down. But those other factors entirely swamp the effects of a minimum wage change. The report also notes:
Pay for low-wage workers climbed more in real Seattle than in synthetic Seattle, while their employment rate and hours climbed slightly less.
That's the important finding here. Employment rates and hours climbed because the economy is booming. But they climbed less in areas where the minimum wage was raised than they did in areas where it was not. The difference between those two is the employment lost to the higher minimum wage.
In 2014, Seattle voted to gradually hike its minimum wage to $15 an hour, with the rate jumping from $11 to 13 last year. Yet on average, low-wage workers have made $125 per month less.
That's a key result of a new University of Washington study that found that the hourly wage hike could in fact be costing jobs. The study, released last week, examined low-wage employment within the city of Seattle from 2014 to 2016.
"What we found," study co-author Mark Long explained to CNBC's "On the Money" recently, "is that employees increased wages, which you'd expect given the mandate of the law, but they also cut hours and they cut jobs."
Long, a professor of public policy at the University of Washington, added that as a product of fewer hours and available jobs, "the net amount paid to low-wage workers declined instead of increased."
Which is exactly what you'd expect to happen. If the government pushes up the minimum wage businesses that are short of cash will cut hours to try to stay running. So it's quite possible that people on minimum wage will see their take how pay drop. Add in the fact that a lot of minimum wage work is in principle replaceable with automation.
E.g. McDonald's have demoed machines to replace cashiers - and the signs are the public prefer them.
So you could cut staff for a restaurant down to just the kitchen staff and a manager. Next step is a burger producing machines and having the management done remotely.
I.e. if you increased the minimum wage enough you could cut the number of people a McDonald's employees from half a dozen to less than one.
Not to mention that most people working in a non famous chain restaurant are illegals and aren't getting paid the minimum wage - those restaurants just employ illegals and pay the fine if caught. McDonald's has to at least have the pretence that it doesn't break the law. Then again it could push the 'employing illegals' stuff onto franchisees and then cancel the franchise if they are caught.
I think using nano structures in solar cells was one of the things Jesus was alluding to when he told us to 'Consider the lilies how they grow: they toil not, they spin not; and yet I say unto you, that Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these'. The lilies do not toil spin or so because they use nano structures to harvest solar energy efficiently.
... think that intelligence led counter insurgency consists of beating information out of suspects.
Actually it consists of very clever SIGINT intelligence gathering cooperating with the every helpful folks at Fort Meade to identify the suspects followed by a tip off off to the intelligence services of whatever third world shithole they travel to to blow shit up. Then the local secret police beat the information out of them and we pass it back to Fort Meade.
Well but you can optimize that in a variety of ways by increasing efficiency and hence Wp/m^2. Or you could optimize the cell so it works better in low light conditions. Or you could have a cell with low efficiency but really cheap cells.
E.g. people have suggested thin film cells that you could spray onto large areas of glass and build really large array that was almost as cheap as normal passive glass.
And of course there some applications - solar powered watches or calculators or satellites where you're size or weight limited but don't care about cost.
And come to think if it, most AV software was installed by a third party - the PC manufacturer or someone who 'repaired' the machine. It starts off relatively unobtrusive and after a few months it demands a credit card to stay updated. With dire warnings about the consequences of not staying updated.
Silicon surfaces rendered black by pits and bumps only nanometers or billionths of a meter large could in the future help make solar power cells more efficient.
Flat silicon surfaces are normally highly reflective. Scientists want to minimize reflection as much as possible when it comes to solar power cells made of silicon, because the more light they reflect, the less they convert to electricity. Often, anti-reflective coatings are used, which reduce the amount of average reflection in the wavelengths of light solar power cells use by 85 percent to 92 percent.
The novel treatment developed by researchers at the Technical University of Munich can cut the surface reflection silicon experiences by 95 percent to 98 percent across the wavelengths of light solar power cells use, making them black.
"The results are really good when it comes to preventing reflection. It is still speculative as to how much this can boost the efficiency of solar cells. I am optimistic that for traditional designs of solar cells, it could give a 15 to 20 percent improvement with respect to their present efficiency. The performance of some solar cells with novel design could be improved even more dramatically. However, I think we will need a bit of time to show this," said researcher Svetoslav Koynov, a physicist.
You can actually make a case that a lot of security/antivirus products rather than protecting from malware, are actually malware.
They
1) Cause other programs to stop working or even the OS not to start 2) Run with very high privilege levels 3) Are unnecessarily hard to remove 4) Disable Windows Defender 5) Often mess with Windows Update.
It's like this sad tale of becoming what you most fear and are trying to stop.
Slashdot Mirror
Well it depends. Most people don't know the system has an inbuilt bias. Of the people who do Labour supporters think it's fine and Conservative supporters do don't.
Yeah, it's probably 'free' with 24 month subscription to a $50 a month data plan. I.e. by the time you realise the thing is a dog it's too late because you're on the hook for $1200.
The UK has bipartisan line drawing too.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Does it work? Well not so well
http://ukpollingreport.co.uk/2...
The abortive 6th boundary view was largely justified on the need to address some bias in the electoral system. You will notice this fairly quickly if you have a quick play about with the swingometer - if you leave the Liberal Democrat share of the vote unchanged then the Conservatives need a lead of 11 percentage points over Labour to win an overall majority, while the Labour party can achieve an overall majority with a lead of about 3 percentage points. Equally illustrative are the last two general election results - in 2005 Labour had a lead of 3 points over the Conservatives, and got a majority of over 60 seats; in 2010 the Conservatives had a lead of 7 points over Labour, but did not have an overall majority at all. Prima facie this appears unfair.
This is a different issue from proportionality. The currently electoral system, "First Past the Post", is not supposed to be a proportional system. The proportion of total votes received does not necessarily resemble the shares of votes case, and smaller parties in particular tend to struggle to get representation unless their vote is geographically concentrated. The fact that FPTP favours larger parties and punishes small ones is very much a feature, rather than a bug - its defenders would argue that the system is supposed to lead to a strong two-party system, with the winning party having a majority of seats, while its detractors would say that we would be better having a proportional system, such as STV. First Past the Post is intrinsically "unfair" towards smaller parties, and intrinsically favours the winning party - that's a different issue. This page looks only at the reasons why, even if both parties have the same level of support, the system apparently favours Labour more than the Conservatives.
Lenovo's $799 Miix 630, unveiled at the show, is a Snapdragon 835 machine with a 12.3-inch display. Like other Qualcomm-based Windows 10 PCs, it will ship by default with the Windows 10 S operating system, but will be upgradable to Windows 10 Pro for free within 180 days of product activation, Neowin says. (Originally the updated cut-off date for upgrading for free from 10 S to Pro was March 2018.)
A Qualcomm Snapdragon 835 is not a quick chip
Native performance 2048/6565 Geekbench 4 single/multicode
http://weborus.com/snapdragon-...
Performance running x86 code under emulation 1202/4068 single/multicore
https://mspoweruser.com/first-...
Meanwhile you can get a decent machine with an i5 or i7 for $799.
https://www.newegg.com/Product...
My prediction - the official benchmarks will come out and they'll be terrible. These machines won't sell well, at least not at $799.
Come to think of it many UFO reports say the ship disappeared accompanied by a mysterious "Ding" sound.
To be fair it must be a nightmare to fix something like this so the fix works on a wide variety of configurations and doesn't kill performance on any of them. Especially if news of the exploit gets leaked or discovered independently.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
On March 27, 2017 researchers at Austria's Graz University of Technology developed a proof-of-concept that could grab RSA keys from Intel SGX enclaves running on the same system within five minutes by using certain CPU instructions in lieu of a fine-grained timer to exploit cache DRAM side-channels.
In June 2017, KASLR was found to have a large class of new vulnerabilities. Research at Graz University showed how to solve these vulnerabilities by preventing all access to unauthorized pages. A presentation on the resulting KAISER technique was submitted for the Black Hat congress in July 2017, but was rejected by the organizers. Nevertheless, this work led to kernel page-table isolation (KPTI, originally known as KAISER) in 2017, which was confirmed to eliminate a large class of security bugs, including the not-yet-discovered Meltdown - a fact confirmed by the Meltdown authors.
In July 2017, research made public on the CyberWTF website by security researcher Anders Fogh outlined the use of a cache timing attack to read kernel space data by observing the results of speculative operations conditioned on data fetched with invalid privileges.
Meltdown was discovered independently by Jann Horn from Google's Project Zero, Werner Haas and Thomas Prescher from Cyberus Technology, as well as Daniel Gruss, Moritz Lipp, Stefan Mangard and Michael Schwarz from Graz University of Technology. The same research teams that discovered Meltdown also discovered a related CPU security vulnerability now called Spectre.
On October 2017, Kernel ASLR support on amd64 was added in NetBSD-current, making NetBSD the first BSD system to support kernel address space layout randomization (KASLR).
On November 14, 2017, security researcher Alex Ionescu publicly mentioned changes in the new version of Windows 10 that would cause some speed degradation without explaining the necessity for the changes, just referring to similar changes in Linux.
After affected hardware and software vendors had been made aware of the issue on July 28, 2017, the two vulnerabilities were made public jointly, on January 3, 2018, several days ahead of the coordinated release date of January 9, 2018 as news sites started reporting about commits to the Linux kernel and mails to its mailing list. As a result, patches were not available for some platforms, such as Ubuntu, when the vulnerabilities were disclosed.
These attacks seem to affect anything with speculative execution. If they affect Intel, ARM and AMD CPUs and NVidia GPUs it's not all that unlikely that they affect AMD GPUs too.
You said you only wanted "just the text and a couple light text ads, if you must."
My point is that you don't need Google to do adblock for you - you can do it yourself with uBlock Origin. That will convert any web page to "just the text and a couple light text ads".
You shouldn't rely on an ad company, and Google basically is an ad company, to do your adblocking. And AMP is cancerous because it means Google end up serving all the web pages and deciding what ads run. Basically they end up owning the Internet and the content providers are reduced to mere tenant farmers on a Google server.
BTW, Gerrymandering has been happening since the beginning of the Republic.
Before actually
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
The US needs infiltration units, like the CSM-101 T-800. Probably controlled by some sort of centralised AI. Those would be ideal for wiping out human survivors who hid in burrows after a nuclear war.
The only worrying possibility is that China is using North Korea to probe US missile defences in order to be able to build missiles that can evade them.
E.g the US sold Tai some Patriot PAC3 launchers but they are so concerned about Chinese radar snooping that Taiwanese personnel had to fly to the US to test fire them
http://www.straitstimes.com/as...
So if North Korea forced the US to intercept a missile with Aegis or GMD it would reveal a lot of information. And if it used Rods from God it would obviously reveal it had such a system.
And if a NK missile got past Aegis and GMD and needed to be intercepted with THAAD or Patriot then all hell would break loose.
There was an interesting report on Seattle's minimum wage which found that while employment for Seattle grew, employment for people affected by the minimum wage grew less fast.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/t...
But now we have a report on exactly what has been happening in Seattle's labor market.
Seattle's labor market has thrived since the city became the first major metropolis in the country to pass a law setting its minimum wage on a path to $15 per hour.
The city's job-growth rate has been triple the national average, for example.
Much of that success, though, can be attributed to trends separate from the minimum-wage law itself, such as the growth of Seattle's tech sector and its construction boom, according to a new report that University of Washington researchers presented to the City Council on Monday.
I have no problem with any of that. Employment is up, unemployment is down. But those other factors entirely swamp the effects of a minimum wage change. The report also notes:
Pay for low-wage workers climbed more in real Seattle than in synthetic Seattle, while their employment rate and hours climbed slightly less.
That's the important finding here. Employment rates and hours climbed because the economy is booming. But they climbed less in areas where the minimum wage was raised than they did in areas where it was not. The difference between those two is the employment lost to the higher minimum wage.
https://www.cnbc.com/2017/07/0...
In 2014, Seattle voted to gradually hike its minimum wage to $15 an hour, with the rate jumping from $11 to 13 last year. Yet on average, low-wage workers have made $125 per month less.
That's a key result of a new University of Washington study that found that the hourly wage hike could in fact be costing jobs. The study, released last week, examined low-wage employment within the city of Seattle from 2014 to 2016.
"What we found," study co-author Mark Long explained to CNBC's "On the Money" recently, "is that employees increased wages, which you'd expect given the mandate of the law, but they also cut hours and they cut jobs."
Long, a professor of public policy at the University of Washington, added that as a product of fewer hours and available jobs, "the net amount paid to low-wage workers declined instead of increased."
Which is exactly what you'd expect to happen. If the government pushes up the minimum wage businesses that are short of cash will cut hours to try to stay running. So it's quite possible that people on minimum wage will see their take how pay drop. Add in the fact that a lot of minimum wage work is in principle replaceable with automation.
E.g. McDonald's have demoed machines to replace cashiers - and the signs are the public prefer them.
So you could cut staff for a restaurant down to just the kitchen staff and a manager. Next step is a burger producing machines and having the management done remotely.
I.e. if you increased the minimum wage enough you could cut the number of people a McDonald's employees from half a dozen to less than one.
Not to mention that most people working in a non famous chain restaurant are illegals and aren't getting paid the minimum wage - those restaurants just employ illegals and pay the fine if caught. McDonald's has to at least have the pretence that it doesn't break the law. Then again it could push the 'employing illegals' stuff onto franchisees and then cancel the franchise if they are caught.
I think using nano structures in solar cells was one of the things Jesus was alluding to when he told us to 'Consider the lilies how they grow: they toil not, they spin not; and yet I say unto you, that Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these'. The lilies do not toil spin or so because they use nano structures to harvest solar energy efficiently.
Hopefully the US is building a Rods from God kinetic bombardment system with all those secret launches.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
The God Emperor will smite North Korean rockets with his mind! With our mind! My cup runneth over!
... think that intelligence led counter insurgency consists of beating information out of suspects.
Actually it consists of very clever SIGINT intelligence gathering cooperating with the every helpful folks at Fort Meade to identify the suspects followed by a tip off off to the intelligence services of whatever third world shithole they travel to to blow shit up. Then the local secret police beat the information out of them and we pass it back to Fort Meade.
Or you could do stacked junction cells which absorb the whole lot.
https://www.sciencedaily.com/r...
I think it's pretty gross to be joking about the death the actor who played Montgomery "Scotty" Scott on Star Trek. RIP Scotty ;-(
Well but you can optimize that in a variety of ways by increasing efficiency and hence Wp/m^2. Or you could optimize the cell so it works better in low light conditions. Or you could have a cell with low efficiency but really cheap cells.
E.g. people have suggested thin film cells that you could spray onto large areas of glass and build really large array that was almost as cheap as normal passive glass.
And of course there some applications - solar powered watches or calculators or satellites where you're size or weight limited but don't care about cost.
It's all worth investigating.
That reptilian bastard Zuckerberg is probably going to try this.
Firefox + uBlock origin works pretty well for me on Android. It's faster than Chrome.
True.
And come to think if it, most AV software was installed by a third party - the PC manufacturer or someone who 'repaired' the machine. It starts off relatively unobtrusive and after a few months it demands a credit card to stay updated. With dire warnings about the consequences of not staying updated.
just the text and a couple light text ads, if you must.
If you run uBlock Origin in medium mode you can get rid of almost anything but that by default
https://github.com/gorhill/uBl...
Google's solution of them hosting the content with means they can run their ads on it, not the ones that the original website wanted.
https://slashdot.org/comments....
People have tried.
https://phys.org/news/2006-06-...
Silicon surfaces rendered black by pits and bumps only nanometers or billionths of a meter large could in the future help make solar power cells more efficient.
Flat silicon surfaces are normally highly reflective. Scientists want to minimize reflection as much as possible when it comes to solar power cells made of silicon, because the more light they reflect, the less they convert to electricity. Often, anti-reflective coatings are used, which reduce the amount of average reflection in the wavelengths of light solar power cells use by 85 percent to 92 percent.
The novel treatment developed by researchers at the Technical University of Munich can cut the surface reflection silicon experiences by 95 percent to 98 percent across the wavelengths of light solar power cells use, making them black.
"The results are really good when it comes to preventing reflection. It is still speculative as to how much this can boost the efficiency of solar cells. I am optimistic that for traditional designs of solar cells, it could give a 15 to 20 percent improvement with respect to their present efficiency. The performance of some solar cells with novel design could be improved even more dramatically. However, I think we will need a bit of time to show this," said researcher Svetoslav Koynov, a physicist.
You can actually make a case that a lot of security/antivirus products rather than protecting from malware, are actually malware.
They
1) Cause other programs to stop working or even the OS not to start
2) Run with very high privilege levels
3) Are unnecessarily hard to remove
4) Disable Windows Defender
5) Often mess with Windows Update.
It's like this sad tale of becoming what you most fear and are trying to stop.
.