If the hit is really 30% for FUCKWIT I wonder if there's a case to be made for a 'I know all the software on my box, don't protect me against kernel to user mode data leakage'.
You could have "--bareback" switch the user could pass into the kernel from the bootloader.
There's a scientific consensus that the world has got warmer in the last hundred years and that human CO2 emissions are a significant part of the cause of that. There isn't a scientific consensus that the planet will turn into Venus unless we stop emitting CO2, or that there will be any catastrophic consequences at all.
In fact CO2 emissions have continued to rise since the first IPCC report and warming has undershot the least bad case of the models.
The climate models have failed to get global warming right. As the IPCC has confirmed, for the period since 1998,
"111 of the 114 available climate-model simulations show a surface warming trend larger than the observations". [IPCC Synthesis report 2014, p 43]
That is to say there is a consensus that the models are exaggerating the rate of global warming.
The warming has so far resulted in no significant or consistent change in the frequency or intensity of storms, tornadoes, floods, droughts or winter snow cover.
As two climate scientists, Richard McNider and John Christy, have put it,
"We might forgive these modelers if their forecasts had not been so consistently and spectacularly wrong. From the beginning of climate modeling in the 1980s, these forecasts have, on average, always overstated the degree to which the Earth is warming compared with what we see in the real climate."
In 1990, the first IPCC assessment included this statement, forecasting a temperature increase of 0.3 C per decade (with an uncertainty range of 0.2 C to 0.5 C).
In fact in the two and half decades since, even though emissions have risen faster than in the business-as-usual scenario, the temperature has risen at an average rate of about 0.15 C per decade based on surface measurements, or 0.12C per decade based on satellite data; that is, less than half as fast as expected and below the bottom of the uncertainty range!
What about 2015 and 2016 both being record hot years? Well, because of the massive El Nino, the HADCRUT4 surface temperature line just about inched up briefly in early 2016 into respectable territory in among the lower half of the model runs for a few months before dropping back out again. That's all.
I use the SIP to do research for the package I'm writing to automate my SIP which I'm writing using SIP. Thanks to the SIP my phone service is good and I don't need to use SIP to phone people.
Actually it is. "Falsifiable" is a term invented by an american scientist, and it basically means proof. In other words, it is used in "reverse meaning" in argumentations.
Pretty sure it was invented by Popper. And it means disproof
The classical view of the philosophy of science is that it is the goal of science to prove hypotheses like "All swans are white" or to induce them from observational data. Popper argued that this would require the inference of a general rule from a number of individual cases, which is inadmissible in deductive logic.[2]:4 However, if one finds one single swan that is not white, deductive logic admits the conclusion that the statement that all swans are white is false. Falsificationism thus strives for questioning, for falsification, of hypotheses instead of proving them.
For a statement to be questioned using observation, it needs to be at least theoretically possible that it can come into conflict with observation. A key observation of falsificationism is thus that a criterion of demarcation is needed to distinguish those statements that can come into conflict with observation and those that cannot (Chorlton, 2012). Popper chose falsifiability as the name of this criterion.
My proposal is based upon an asymmetry between verifiability and falsifiability; an asymmetry which results from the logical form of universal statements. For these are never derivable from singular statements, but can be contradicted by singular statements.
--- Karl Popper, The Logic of Scientific Discovery, p. 19.
I.e. you can't prove 'All swans are white' by looking at a lot of swans because 'the inference of a general rule from a number of individual cases, which is inadmissible in deductive logic'. But you can disprove it by finding a single black swan. I.e it's based on disproof not proof.
That is nonsense. If that was the case we had no gravity wave detectors in space nor particle accelerators on earth.
I remember one of the justifications for particle accelerators was the possibility of finding physics 'beyond the Standard Model'. Similarly gravitational wave detectors are looking for something predicted by General Relativity but so far not observed
I.e. they're looking something beyond the Standard Model, like Higgs + Supersymmetry. The problem being that there are lot of possible models and absent experimental evidence they can't tell which, if any is right.
However, Higgs+SUSY is not the only possible mechanism to generate masses...
Alternatives include: technicolor, extended technicolor, walking technicolor, composite Higgs, large extra dimensions, warped extra dimensions, universal extra dimensions, gauge-Higgs unification, Little Higgs models, Higgsless models, twin Higgs,...
Good news: all these theories will be tested (and most of them ruled out) by the LHC experiments!
Note the last line - they want to rule out theories to cull the set of possible ones a bit.
Of course you have to be careful here. If you found results that the Standard Model couldn't explain but (say) Higgs+SUSY could, that doesn't mean that the Standard Model is 'disproved' and Higgs+SUSY was 'proved'. It's like when people found noticed the Perihelion precession of Mercury.
Under Newtonian physics, a two-body system consisting of a lone object orbiting a spherical mass would trace out an ellipse with the spherical mass at a focus. The point of closest approach, called the periapsis (or, b
It'd be OK if Ubuntu named their release 'Wanking Walrus' or 'Masturbating Monkey'. In fact you could have a whole alphabet of similar alliterations - 'Onanistic Orangutan', 'Selfloving Simian' etc.
At the end of the message detailing merge requests, Torvalds wrote: "PS. And to get wider distribution for this message: Digg users - you're all a bunch of Wanking Walruses. And you can quote me on that."
Digg users responded by Digging the article repeatedly - it had 2210 diggs at the time of writing, 388 comments, and a top ten slot in the technology section.
There is a definite theme developing here - Torvalds yesterday described OpenBSD developers as "masturbating monkeys".
What's even worse is companies who name their new device 'The new X'.
Here is my first comment of substance on the subject of Linux, which is certainly applicable to the so-called "newbie distro" produced by Mandrake, but which, I think, has more general application.
They broke my fucking computer.
Perhaps it is because they are French, and perhaps the words have a different connotation in that magical language, but I venture to say that when Mandrake use the word "resize", as in
"Would you like to resize your Windows partition? (best said with a subtly sardonic Parisian accent)
... they do not perhaps realise that most people are going to assume that they mean "resize" in the sense of "make bigger or smaller by stretching or squashing, perhaps affecting the internal bits somewhat in the process, but basically retaining the structural integrity of the thing". When you use the word "resize" to a normal English speaker, he does not assume that the word means "delete a chunk of, irrevocably, without first checking whether something vital is on it, then render yourself unable to find that deleted block ever again".
This is the basic problem with the much-vaunted "newbie-friendly" Mandrake Installer; five times out of the six I tried it, its two main functions appeared to be to
* Seek out and render inoperable any copies of Windows hanging around and * Itself fail to install properly.
This is not that in reverse, because the scientists are not trying to prove that the climate is warming by pointing at singular weather events, they don't need to do that because the fact that the global climate is warming has been proven a long time ago by the data and the scientific consensus on the topic is very clear.
Science doesn't prove good hypothesis like maths. It works on by falsifying bad ones. If your hypothesis is not falsifiable, it's not science.
Keeping looking for reasons your hypothesis being true is not science either - it's confirmation bias. Which of course is fine, you're free to believe whatever you want. But you're not going to convince many people to accept your preferred policies if the underlying basis of them is not scientific especially if those policies cost countless billions.
Meanwhile particle physicists have incredibly rigorous standards of falsification and only want a few million a year for new accelerators.
True. You could fit a mini ITX motherboard and a half length GPU into a pretty small space, but not C64 sized. Also this beastie uses 100W, so you'd need to have a laptop style cooling solution with heat pipes and fans to stop it throttling.
I think I'd go for the Mini ITX case and probably a full length GPU to be honest - you can upgrade it later and you can use desktop style CPU coolers so long as you watch the clearance.
I know you're an AC troll and thus not, strictly speaking, a person but that reminds me of the notion that Intel Macs are a replacement for Itanium. E.g. back in the Itanium days Intel had two non mobile platforms
1) PCs. Very cost sensitive. They compete with AMD which keeps down x86 their prices lower than they'd like though there is evidence that when AMD is uncompetitive Intel spend less on R&D. Also there is always the threat of people using alternate architectures - e.g. ACE Risc servers in the 90's or ARM now - both Windows, ChromeOS and Android all work on ARM. I.e. even when AMD are doing badly, Intel are still somewhat constrained by the extremely cost sensitive nature of the PC market.
2) Itanium. Single source CPU, though they had multiple vendors.
Itanium is now Mostly Dead. Still they've replaced it with Apple. Apple Macs use Intel x86/x64 chips, but they're not really PCs - they're a single vendor systems tuned to run a custom OS, though admittedly Macs can run Windows in Bootcamp or in a VM. Arguably Intel spend way more trying to keep Apple happy and using their chips than they do for a typical PC vendor who mostly takes whatever Intel provides. And Apple have managed to use the single vendor-ness of their ecosystem to sell Macs at higher prices than PCs - essentially the Mac mobile market is 'ultrabook and up' whereas you can buy PCs from about $200 up. And most of the volume is concentrated at the cheap end of the market.
So Apple give them a way to sell chips to customers who are less cost sensitive. I bet Apple are a pain to deal with though.
The Iranian regime is going to blame Jews and Americans no matter what. Might as well take the opportunity to kick 'em while they look a bit unstable given they'll accuse you of it anyway.
Here's Netanyahu explaining that Israel isn't to blame but wishing the demonstrators well
Mohammad: Yes. Let me tell you something. For about three decades our nation has been humiliated and insulted by this regime. Now Iranians are united again one more time after 1979 Revolution. We are a peaceful nation. We don't hate anybody. We want to be an active member of the international community. We don't want to be isolated. Is this much of a demand for a country with more than 2,500 years of civilization? We don't deny the Holocaust. We do accept Israel's rights. And actually, we want - we want severe reform on this structure. This structure is not going to be tolerated by the majority of Iranians. We need severe reform, as much as possible.
Roberts: Interesting perspective this morning from Mohammad, a student demonstrator there in Tehran.
Mohammad: Excuse me, sir. I have a message for the international community. Would you please let me tell it?
Roberts: Yes, go ahead.
Mohammad: Americans, European Union, international community, this government is not definitely - is definitely not elected by the majority of Iranians. So it's illegal. Do not recognize it. Stop trading with them. Impose much more sanctions against them. My message...to the international community, especially I'm addressing President Obama directly - how can a government that doesn't recognize its people's rights and represses them brutally and mercilessly have nuclear activities? This government is a huge threat to global peace. Will a wise man give a sharp dagger to an insane person? We need your help international community. Don't leave us alone.
The the LA Times and other news outlets are reporting that the government sponsored "Anti American" demonstrations to celebrate the taking of the American hostages 30 years ago now have open demonstrations at the fringes of the government arranged crowds: and they are not shouting death to America but death to the dictators.
The UK Guardian has photos HERE if you scroll down...apparently twitter is back up...and they have a bunch of photos from one of their photo-journalists... What is more, both of these newspapers report that some of the demonstrators are asking where is the American president, who has been so eager to make peace with the present dictatorship that he has failed to support those who are asking for democracy. Again, quote is from the LATimes:
"Obama, Obama!" protesters chanted on a day marking the 30th anniversary of the United States Embassy takeover. "Either you're with them, or with us."
And where is President Obama? Equivocating, as usual, and talking sweetly to the dictators;
President Obama issued a statement Tuesday night urging Iran's leaders to join with him in overcoming the acrimony forged by the hostage crisis three decades ago.
"This event helped set the United States and Iran on a path of sustained suspicion, mistrust and confrontation," Obama said. "I have made it clear that the United States of America wants to move beyond this past, and seeks a relationship with the Islamic Republic of Iran based upon mutual interests and mutual respect."
This type of statement, of course, could be interpreted as President Obama backing the present regime: all in the name of peace, of course.
I'm not suggesting the US invade or anything. But if a murderous and hostile theocracy is mowing down peaceful demonstrators the US should say that's a bad thing and nail it with sanctions.
I've met a lot of expat Iranians and they all loath the Islamic Republic regime and consider it far worse than the Shah's. And from a foreign policy perspective a democratic Iran would be mighty handy - Iran dominates Syria
As new details emerge to shine a brighter light on the Stuxnet attack, Microsoft said the attackers initially targeted the old MS08-067 vulnerability (used in the Conficker attack), a new LNK (Windows Shortcut) flaw to launch exploit code on vulnerable Windows systems and a zero-day bug in the Print Spooler Service that makes it possible for malicious code to be passed to, and then executed on, a remote machine.
The malware also exploited two different elevation of privilege holes to gain complete control over the affected system. These two flaws are still unpatched.
I.e. the problem is not your buddy lends you their machine, it's that code arrives by more dubious means and uses a privilege escalation to be able to do more damage.
I could see Macs being hit with something which encrypts files and demands a password to decrypt them and privilege escalation would be necessary for such an attack.
Best make sure you've got a Time Machine backup on a removable disk.
I would add that the Core i7-8809G is listed in a table with other desktop processors. There are no mobile processors in this table, which one might extrapolate that this processor is aiming for a desktop/socketed motherboard. It would be very easy for Intel to enable this in current Coffee Lake-capable motherboard solutions, as long as the size of the combined package was suitable (and the power management of the Coffee Lake motherboards could cope with the Vega graphics as well as the CPU). Judging by the renders provided by Intel, it doesn't look the case, so it could possibly be that we're looking at a new motherboard/socket combination, or perhaps this will only be sold as an onboard CPU, similar to Intel's Atom processors. Assuming it is made available for home builds at all, that is.
I.e. it's an interesting technical achievement but like many interesting technical achievements by Intel you have to wonder who - if anyone - will actually buy it.
And the power consumption advantage of EMIB seems to be somewhat moot given the TDP is 100W. This is not a low power part. Then again a Core-i7 and an Vega was never likely to be.
Slashdot Mirror
--bareback is funnier.
Yeah, he streams them with Intel(tm) Quicksync(tm).
If the hit is really 30% for FUCKWIT I wonder if there's a case to be made for a 'I know all the software on my box, don't protect me against kernel to user mode data leakage'.
You could have "--bareback" switch the user could pass into the kernel from the bootloader.
SPWOWIBTAIIICTOE - So perhaps write out what is behind the acronym if it isn't immediately clear to everyone.
There's a scientific consensus that the world has got warmer in the last hundred years and that human CO2 emissions are a significant part of the cause of that. There isn't a scientific consensus that the planet will turn into Venus unless we stop emitting CO2, or that there will be any catastrophic consequences at all.
In fact CO2 emissions have continued to rise since the first IPCC report and warming has undershot the least bad case of the models.
https://www.thegwpf.org/matt-r...
The models
The climate models have failed to get global warming right. As the IPCC has confirmed, for the period since 1998,
"111 of the 114 available climate-model simulations show a surface warming trend larger than the observations". [IPCC Synthesis report 2014, p 43]
That is to say there is a consensus that the models are exaggerating the rate of global warming.
The warming has so far resulted in no significant or consistent change in the frequency or intensity of storms, tornadoes, floods, droughts or winter snow cover.
As two climate scientists, Richard McNider and John Christy, have put it,
"We might forgive these modelers if their forecasts had not been so consistently and spectacularly wrong. From the beginning of climate modeling in the 1980s, these forecasts have, on average, always overstated the degree to which the Earth is warming compared with what we see in the real climate."
In 1990, the first IPCC assessment included this statement, forecasting a temperature increase of 0.3 C per decade (with an uncertainty range of 0.2 C to 0.5 C).
In fact in the two and half decades since, even though emissions have risen faster than in the business-as-usual scenario, the temperature has risen at an average rate of about 0.15 C per decade based on surface measurements, or 0.12C per decade based on satellite data; that is, less than half as fast as expected and below the bottom of the uncertainty range!
What about 2015 and 2016 both being record hot years? Well, because of the massive El Nino, the HADCRUT4 surface temperature line just about inched up briefly in early 2016 into respectable territory in among the lower half of the model runs for a few months before dropping back out again. That's all.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SIPP_memory
Apparently some early STEs used SIP modules
http://info-coach.fr/atari/har...
They were used on a few 80286 and 80386 machines too.
I was but the SIP memory in my PC - powerful and modern 80386 worth $15 - became loose and I had to put my tea down to reseat it.
Yup.
I use the SIP to do research for the package I'm writing to automate my SIP which I'm writing using SIP. Thanks to the SIP my phone service is good and I don't need to use SIP to phone people.
Please STOP using an existing acronym. SIP is already in use by something else
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Standard_Interchange_Protocol
It's a warning about using Linux distros lead by sardonic Frenchmen.
Those quiche eaters cannot be trusted. Remember Agincourt!
Actually it is. "Falsifiable" is a term invented by an american scientist, and it basically means proof. In other words, it is used in "reverse meaning" in argumentations.
Pretty sure it was invented by Popper. And it means disproof
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
The classical view of the philosophy of science is that it is the goal of science to prove hypotheses like "All swans are white" or to induce them from observational data. Popper argued that this would require the inference of a general rule from a number of individual cases, which is inadmissible in deductive logic.[2]:4 However, if one finds one single swan that is not white, deductive logic admits the conclusion that the statement that all swans are white is false. Falsificationism thus strives for questioning, for falsification, of hypotheses instead of proving them.
For a statement to be questioned using observation, it needs to be at least theoretically possible that it can come into conflict with observation. A key observation of falsificationism is thus that a criterion of demarcation is needed to distinguish those statements that can come into conflict with observation and those that cannot (Chorlton, 2012). Popper chose falsifiability as the name of this criterion.
My proposal is based upon an asymmetry between verifiability and falsifiability; an asymmetry which results from the logical form of universal statements. For these are never derivable from singular statements, but can be contradicted by singular statements.
--- Karl Popper, The Logic of Scientific Discovery, p. 19.
I.e. you can't prove 'All swans are white' by looking at a lot of swans because 'the inference of a general rule from a number of individual cases, which is inadmissible in deductive logic'. But you can disprove it by finding a single black swan. I.e it's based on disproof not proof.
That is nonsense. If that was the case we had no gravity wave detectors in space nor particle accelerators on earth.
I remember one of the justifications for particle accelerators was the possibility of finding physics 'beyond the Standard Model'. Similarly gravitational wave detectors are looking for something predicted by General Relativity but so far not observed
I.e. they're looking something beyond the Standard Model, like Higgs + Supersymmetry. The problem being that there are lot of possible models and absent experimental evidence they can't tell which, if any is right.
https://www.classe.cornell.edu...
However, Higgs+SUSY is not the only possible
mechanism to generate masses...
Alternatives include: technicolor, extended technicolor, ...
walking technicolor, composite Higgs, large extra
dimensions, warped extra dimensions, universal extra
dimensions, gauge-Higgs unification, Little Higgs models,
Higgsless models, twin Higgs,
Good news: all these theories will be tested (and most of
them ruled out) by the LHC experiments!
Note the last line - they want to rule out theories to cull the set of possible ones a bit.
Of course you have to be careful here. If you found results that the Standard Model couldn't explain but (say) Higgs+SUSY could, that doesn't mean that the Standard Model is 'disproved' and Higgs+SUSY was 'proved'. It's like when people found noticed the Perihelion precession of Mercury.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Under Newtonian physics, a two-body system consisting of a lone object orbiting a spherical mass would trace out an ellipse with the spherical mass at a focus. The point of closest approach, called the periapsis (or, b
It'd be OK if Ubuntu named their release 'Wanking Walrus' or 'Masturbating Monkey'. In fact you could have a whole alphabet of similar alliterations - 'Onanistic Orangutan', 'Selfloving Simian' etc.
https://www.theregister.co.uk/...
At the end of the message detailing merge requests, Torvalds wrote: "PS. And to get wider distribution for this message: Digg users - you're all a bunch of Wanking Walruses. And you can quote me on that."
Digg users responded by Digging the article repeatedly - it had 2210 diggs at the time of writing, 388 comments, and a top ten slot in the technology section.
There is a definite theme developing here - Torvalds yesterday described OpenBSD developers as "masturbating monkeys".
What's even worse is companies who name their new device 'The new X'.
For some reason that reminds me of this
http://www.adequacy.org/public...
Here is my first comment of substance on the subject of Linux, which is certainly applicable to the so-called "newbie distro" produced by Mandrake, but which, I think, has more general application.
They broke my fucking computer.
Perhaps it is because they are French, and perhaps the words have a different connotation in that magical language, but I venture to say that when Mandrake use the word "resize", as in
"Would you like to resize your Windows partition?
(best said with a subtly sardonic Parisian accent)
... they do not perhaps realise that most people are going to assume that they mean "resize" in the sense of "make bigger or smaller by stretching or squashing, perhaps affecting the internal bits somewhat in the process, but basically retaining the structural integrity of the thing". When you use the word "resize" to a normal English speaker, he does not assume that the word means "delete a chunk of, irrevocably, without first checking whether something vital is on it, then render yourself unable to find that deleted block ever again".
This is the basic problem with the much-vaunted "newbie-friendly" Mandrake Installer; five times out of the six I tried it, its two main functions appeared to be to
* Seek out and render inoperable any copies of Windows hanging around and
* Itself fail to install properly.
This is not that in reverse, because the scientists are not trying to prove that the climate is warming by pointing at singular weather events, they don't need to do that because the fact that the global climate is warming has been proven a long time ago by the data and the scientific consensus on the topic is very clear.
Science doesn't prove good hypothesis like maths. It works on by falsifying bad ones. If your hypothesis is not falsifiable, it's not science.
Keeping looking for reasons your hypothesis being true is not science either - it's confirmation bias. Which of course is fine, you're free to believe whatever you want. But you're not going to convince many people to accept your preferred policies if the underlying basis of them is not scientific especially if those policies cost countless billions.
Meanwhile particle physicists have incredibly rigorous standards of falsification and only want a few million a year for new accelerators.
True. You could fit a mini ITX motherboard and a half length GPU into a pretty small space, but not C64 sized. Also this beastie uses 100W, so you'd need to have a laptop style cooling solution with heat pipes and fans to stop it throttling.
I think I'd go for the Mini ITX case and probably a full length GPU to be honest - you can upgrade it later and you can use desktop style CPU coolers so long as you watch the clearance.
I know you're an AC troll and thus not, strictly speaking, a person but that reminds me of the notion that Intel Macs are a replacement for Itanium. E.g. back in the Itanium days Intel had two non mobile platforms
1) PCs. Very cost sensitive. They compete with AMD which keeps down x86 their prices lower than they'd like though there is evidence that when AMD is uncompetitive Intel spend less on R&D. Also there is always the threat of people using alternate architectures - e.g. ACE Risc servers in the 90's or ARM now - both Windows, ChromeOS and Android all work on ARM. I.e. even when AMD are doing badly, Intel are still somewhat constrained by the extremely cost sensitive nature of the PC market.
2) Itanium. Single source CPU, though they had multiple vendors.
Itanium is now Mostly Dead. Still they've replaced it with Apple. Apple Macs use Intel x86/x64 chips, but they're not really PCs - they're a single vendor systems tuned to run a custom OS, though admittedly Macs can run Windows in Bootcamp or in a VM. Arguably Intel spend way more trying to keep Apple happy and using their chips than they do for a typical PC vendor who mostly takes whatever Intel provides. And Apple have managed to use the single vendor-ness of their ecosystem to sell Macs at higher prices than PCs - essentially the Mac mobile market is 'ultrabook and up' whereas you can buy PCs from about $200 up. And most of the volume is concentrated at the cheap end of the market.
So Apple give them a way to sell chips to customers who are less cost sensitive. I bet Apple are a pain to deal with though.
'Caused climate change' has just become a synonym for 'caused by small government'
https://www.mail-archive.com/l...
2) Namespace
Several people including Linus requested to change the KAISER name.
We came up with a list of technically correct acronyms:
User Address Space Separation, prefix uass_
Forcefully Unmap Complete Kernel With Interrupt Trampolines, prefix fuckwit_
but we are politically correct people so we settled for
Kernel Page Table Isolation, prefix kpti_
Linus, your call :)
LOL!
The Iranian regime is going to blame Jews and Americans no matter what. Might as well take the opportunity to kick 'em while they look a bit unstable given they'll accuse you of it anyway.
Here's Netanyahu explaining that Israel isn't to blame but wishing the demonstrators well
https://www.haaretz.com/israel...
During the last demonstrations after the bogus election in Iran protestors appealed to the outside world for help
http://am.blogs.cnn.com/2009/0...
Mohammad: Yes. Let me tell you something. For about three decades our nation has been humiliated and insulted by this regime. Now Iranians are united again one more time after 1979 Revolution. We are a peaceful nation. We don't hate anybody. We want to be an active member of the international community. We don't want to be isolated. Is this much of a demand for a country with more than 2,500 years of civilization? We don't deny the Holocaust. We do accept Israel's rights. And actually, we want - we want severe reform on this structure. This structure is not going to be tolerated by the majority of Iranians. We need severe reform, as much as possible.
Roberts: Interesting perspective this morning from Mohammad, a student demonstrator there in Tehran.
Mohammad: Excuse me, sir. I have a message for the international community. Would you please let me tell it?
Roberts: Yes, go ahead.
Mohammad: Americans, European Union, international community, this government is not definitely - is definitely not elected by the majority of Iranians. So it's illegal. Do not recognize it. Stop trading with them. Impose much more sanctions against them. My message...to the international community, especially I'm addressing President Obama directly - how can a government that doesn't recognize its people's rights and represses them brutally and mercilessly have nuclear activities? This government is a huge threat to global peace. Will a wise man give a sharp dagger to an insane person? We need your help international community. Don't leave us alone.
And no one did anything.
http://www.bloggernews.net/122...
The the LA Times and other news outlets are reporting that the government sponsored "Anti American" demonstrations to celebrate the taking of the American hostages 30 years ago now have open demonstrations at the fringes of the government arranged crowds: and they are not shouting death to America but death to the dictators.
The UK Guardian has photos HERE if you scroll down...apparently twitter is back up...and they have a bunch of photos from one of their photo-journalists...
What is more, both of these newspapers report that some of the demonstrators are asking where is the American president, who has been so eager to make peace with the present dictatorship that he has failed to support those who are asking for democracy. Again, quote is from the LATimes:
"Obama, Obama!" protesters chanted on a day marking the 30th anniversary of the United States Embassy takeover. "Either you're with them, or with us."
And where is President Obama? Equivocating, as usual, and talking sweetly to the dictators;
President Obama issued a statement Tuesday night urging Iran's leaders to join with him in overcoming the acrimony forged by the hostage crisis three decades ago.
"This event helped set the United States and Iran on a path of sustained suspicion, mistrust and confrontation," Obama said. "I have made it clear that the United States of America wants to move beyond this past, and seeks a relationship with the Islamic Republic of Iran based upon mutual interests and mutual respect."
This type of statement, of course, could be interpreted as President Obama backing the present regime: all in the name of peace, of course.
I'm not suggesting the US invade or anything. But if a murderous and hostile theocracy is mowing down peaceful demonstrators the US should say that's a bad thing and nail it with sanctions.
I've met a lot of expat Iranians and they all loath the Islamic Republic regime and consider it far worse than the Shah's. And from a foreign policy perspective a democratic Iran would be mighty handy - Iran dominates Syria
Hillary identifies as POTUS. Don't be sexist.
Stuxnet needed a local privilege escalation to work
http://www.zdnet.com/article/s...
As new details emerge to shine a brighter light on the Stuxnet attack, Microsoft said the attackers initially targeted the old MS08-067 vulnerability (used in the Conficker attack), a new LNK (Windows Shortcut) flaw to launch exploit code on vulnerable Windows systems and a zero-day bug in the Print Spooler Service that makes it possible for malicious code to be passed to, and then executed on, a remote machine.
The malware also exploited two different elevation of privilege holes to gain complete control over the affected system. These two flaws are still unpatched.
I.e. the problem is not your buddy lends you their machine, it's that code arrives by more dubious means and uses a privilege escalation to be able to do more damage.
I could see Macs being hit with something which encrypts files and demands a password to decrypt them and privilege escalation would be necessary for such an attack.
Best make sure you've got a Time Machine backup on a removable disk.
new mac mini (pro) starting at $999 with 256G ssd and 4GB ram!
* 4GB Ram and 64G eMMC, both soldered.
It's pretty noticeable Apple have been using Intel CPUs and either Intel or AMD Radeon GPUs.
So an Intel CPU with an AMD Radeon GPU on the same package seems to be aimed squarely at Apple.
Of course a lot of people thought that was the case with Atom - it was aimed at the upcoming Macbook Air. Of course Apple decided to pass on it.
So it'll be interesting to see if Apple go for this part. It's not clear if it will fit in a standard socket
https://www.anandtech.com/show...
I would add that the Core i7-8809G is listed in a table with other desktop processors. There are no mobile processors in this table, which one might extrapolate that this processor is aiming for a desktop/socketed motherboard. It would be very easy for Intel to enable this in current Coffee Lake-capable motherboard solutions, as long as the size of the combined package was suitable (and the power management of the Coffee Lake motherboards could cope with the Vega graphics as well as the CPU). Judging by the renders provided by Intel, it doesn't look the case, so it could possibly be that we're looking at a new motherboard/socket combination, or perhaps this will only be sold as an onboard CPU, similar to Intel's Atom processors. Assuming it is made available for home builds at all, that is.
I.e. it's an interesting technical achievement but like many interesting technical achievements by Intel you have to wonder who - if anyone - will actually buy it.
And the power consumption advantage of EMIB seems to be somewhat moot given the TDP is 100W. This is not a low power part. Then again a Core-i7 and an Vega was never likely to be.