Your right (and everyone else's) to free speech does NOT include the inside of MY skull. If I'm ever assaulted with this device (and assault is all it can be considered as microwaves are dangerous) I will sue/litigate/attack in self defense. Call me Luddite if you wish, but if you own one of these devices and use it on myself or my family I will destroy it in self defense. The inside of my skull is STRICTLY private property. Trespassers will be shot, survivors shot again. I really don't care if you were aiming at someone nearby to me and I picked up a little extra, I am claiming self defense and shooting back. period. you. have. been. warned.
Well, that might work. My real name is not considered ordinary or common by any means, yet every social site on the Internet already has someone with my name on it. So, how exactly, am I to protect myself with a web presence? God forbid that John Smith want to do the same. How does the author know it was about him and not some other schmuck with his name?
Just because your parents gave you a couple of monikers, it does not mean you have exclusive rights to them... generally speaking. The artist was was formerly known as The artist formerly known as prince probably has that trademarked, but the rest of us have a common problem. We are not unique in the world.
A website called www.johnsmith1478.com is not likely to protect you from anything, and will probably just get you more junk mail. Johnsmith.com seems to be taken, so now what? Oh, my realname.com site is also taken. What's a JohnSmith to do?
I saw this yesterday, and using nature to generate energy is absolutely right. Think outside the paradigm, generate energy everywhere, use less of it everywhere... this is the solution, no single answer will work, it takes all efforts and answers. Anywhere the universe creates energy, we should be able to harness and use it. This is the grail, holy or not, energy for nothing.... or close to that.
I don't mean to throw stones, but books cost money, many people afford to be on the Internet, yet buying books has become old hat. When you can go on the Internet and get the latest information, books are... well, a waste of money for the most part. The delay between discovery and publishing and reading is no longer tolerable, not in this throw away society. Look at some science fiction ideals... such delays are always intolerable. I will cite an event that is not even related to show that delay is not right: junteenth. It took several years for emancipation news to reach Texas. Is that right? The point is that information and knowledge should be universal, and instant. The great promise of the Internet was just that. If you wish to spend your nights reading information from 2+ years ago, that is your problem. The rest of us want today's information, and now. Good luck with the personal library.
The difference between now and 100 years ago becomes more apparent each day. Then, owning books was a sign of affluence, of intelligence. Now? Everything is up to question, and should be. Analyzing books and other public material is just another step in putting intelligence out there for everyone, not just those that can afford it. I applaud it, and all the dangers it brings. Such hurdles are necessary, but we must assault them to overcome barriers that should no longer exist.
LiveDVD is not available for x86. I stumbled on that sentence also. Seems there will be a LiveCD though; In which case I'll be burning a copy of that for a few hours fun.
From the linked site:
# Xfce instead of GNOME on the LiveCD: To save space, the LiveCDs switched to the smaller Xfce environment. This means that a binary installation using the LiveCD will install Xfce, but you're still free to build GNOME or KDE from source. # No LiveDVDs on x86 or amd64: In the interest of getting the release out, the release engineering team decided to postpone LiveDVDs because of problems in their generation. They may show up laterâ"if so, we'll let you know.
Apparently I'm not supposed to submit yet? (What are the limits on posting? WTF?)
If it continues, it may not stop until there is a war something like the one we called 'the war between the states' among other things. Where congress has failed I see some states taking issue with the Federal government and making bold steps like several stated declaring gun bans unconstitutional, 33? states refusing Real ID, and several other very bold statements. Several localities have issued warrants for the arrest of the president and vice president. These things are not just funny party stories. It really might take only one argument like the one surrounding this story to set of a chain of events that cannot be undone.
There is an interesting tie in here to something I've promoted all along: If the last mile was owned by cooperative groups (meaning NOT ISPs) then they could pool the IP addresses assigned in a random, and meaningless way. That is to say that if 237 people in a housing association were sharing DHCP IP addresses through a server system with enough bandwidth that many ISPs could hook up and serve out email and other services by user, it would be possible to hide the end user IP. Then any stats by Google or others would apply to the group, not an individual. Share that cooperative environment out amongst all the people of your neighborhood or town where the number is now thousands or tens of thousands and the problem of privacy becomes less of a concern.
Only when there is centralized control of Internet usage is there a privacy issue. Imagine being part of a cooperative with 34 connections to various ISPs, and all of the 12000 users in the cooperative using something like TOR. Standard Internet browser usage would be anonymized completely. The idea that you should be identifiable comes from the fact that there is a way currently to identify you. If your packets arrived to the greater Internet backbone from more than one source and more than one IP, it would be anonymous, and the 'grid' would be truly that. If you and 14999 of your friends decide to make a mesh network using wireless and landline connections at each node, it would be impossible for anyone to identify your network habits. It would also be nearly impossible to cause a network-only outage. Power loss could still be catastrophic. My point is this, if you truly want anonymity, you have to work hard for it. Most people don't want to. Consequences of that are inevitable, unavoidable, costly.
I believe that this *IS* the answer to the problems of network neutrality. Force the powers that be to accept that they cannot regulate private networks by building our own outside of their useless understanding of how things work. When they finally discover that they cannot regulate, things will change a bit. I'm all for calling it a patriot network... might be over the top a bit, but we all need to start creating them.
Since IE7 and Vista, I am no longer qualified to comment on the user experience of Windows products. These two products killed off *any* thoughts I might have of using MS products at my personal expense. Still on XP with FF/OOo et al at work. It might^H^H^H^H^H^H will take more to get me to try another MS product than it did to get me to try Ubunutu.
New security tools sounds like a good idea. Hope they do well with that. Everyone has to work to keep the bar high on secure computing development, but I won't be trying it. Yeah, don't bother telling me about how F/OSS has problems too... everything does. I just prefer my problems not be served to me without the lubricant.
I do hope they achieve something good, it will be good for the Internet as a whole.
Goliath falls dead. After a stunned silence, the crowd turns back to tending breakfast around the campfire, content to go on with what they were doing. All of David's friends celebrate, but the politicians and leaders simply begin plotting a new strategy.
And some people think CoS is evil?
Seriously: I'm glad to see that the courts are finally paying attention... to the law instead of politicians.
I had to go look it up after you asked... apparently to mathematicians, there are plenty of practical applications. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Riemann_hypothesis for a few examples. Neither of them made sense to me yet, and I've already had coffee. If they are looking for one example where this theory is not true, and offering a million bucks, someone is sure to put a couple yellow dog games console clusters together and find out soon enough. (either that or prove Doom is written by zombies who don't know calculus)
Sounds like a real challenge for someone with the mad math skills to understand the problem.
Apparently, I have more time to type a response? No, they were not forced, and the processor probably is an ARM processor or similar. This particular manufacturer makes some cool toys, I have one of their systems installed. Zigbee is definitely better than X10, and you should see it in more appliances soon.
Imagine your next new house, where the light switches are electronic remotes for the actual switch in the light fixture. Now imagine you can move it anywhere, stick it to the wall where ever you want. Perhaps you want that single switch by the front door to ensure that ALL lights are turned off when you leave for the day? Zigbee or others will help make that a reality.
I can see a day not long from now when you can get online and see your home in 3D (not unlike secondlife et al) and see all the things that work remotely. Lights that are on etc.
A billion little data points a month is peanuts, but can give us so much data. Think of water flow sensors on each shower/toilet/sink etc. Once the sensor devices drop below 19.99/ea you can put them anywhere/everywhere. The electric company and water/gas companies are not the only people that want to know how much I use. I also want to know where/why.
I'm sure that has the effect that you describe, but there is something else that most people suffer from: Mind over matter syndrome. If you don't have a mind, it doesn't matter. Seriously, when something is too complex for people to think about, they tend to not do so. Computer and ID security are complex things in this world, and most people don't want to live in a life where they can NOT trust anyone.
The simple truth is you can NOT trust anyone when it comes to safeguarding your personal information. The need to be constantly on guard drains us normally so it is easier to not worry about it than to fight the good fight. I believe that this is the effect that terrorists are after.
People just are not wired to be security conscious all the time. Ever notice how a lot of people only worry about backups for a short while after suffering catastrophic loss? if at all?
Security is expensive in many ways. Too expensive for most people's day to day resources. The effect is not driven only by negative input, but by the drain caused by constant watchfulness over things they don't understand fully, if at all.
Tell the police that since they were stolen, people keep sending you notices that you have signed up for child porn websites.... bet they can find the IP then, and subsequently the location and thief.
Not just for those areas. For anywhere. It's a shame that water shortages were needed to force people to design systems that are smart. Here they still have to put up signs to warn people not to water during winter storms! All that ice on the road is apparently dangerous.
There are lots of things that would benefit from some kind of additional smart control. Personally, I'd like a few more items in my house to be remotely operable, and thus also be able to alert me remotely of changing circumstances. I use Alarm.com and get an x-10 interface there, but I think there is much more that we can do. I'd like to know if the socket in the bathroom is still drawing electricity after I've left for work. That means my wife has left her hair appliance machinery plugged in etc.
Smart electrical outlets could tell us things like increased current use over time for appliances like your fridge or pc etc. It's amazing what a billion points of tiny data per month can tell you about life. I'd like to see that.
This topic needs as much thought and discussion as data center power conservation does.
To say that it is transparent, and the reasoning behind it is that shallow is akin to saying we were duped into war by nearly complete idiots.
Now THAT really would look bad. I prefer to see lizard skin sticking out of a hole in Bush's skin sometime shortly after this next election or something else to give away the secret. Anything but 'The world is full of sheeple and idiots that allowed the monkey to start a war' ?
In America, the technically correct and longer name for French Fries is potassium delivery system. Of course, to be effective they must be first heated and saturated with animal fats. Despite the glorious skill used to hone the techniques for loading potassium into the potato strips, 'fries' is all the effort we put in when order... with a 'supersizem' at the end.
I do find that there seems to be a lot of job searching advice that mentions the delicacy, far to often I might add.
From what I'm told by the few French citizens I know, there are many that call Sarkozy Bush's lapdog. or poodle or something similarly flattering. As far as I know as a US citizen, being politically associated with Bush in any way is an insult. Here it's been something like the kiss of death in the current political circus atmosphere. One thing in Sarkozy's favor is his lack of airtime on Faux News.
I've been trying to figure out lately why it is that the neocons seem hell bent on protecting IP? Or at least that of the entertainment industries. I don't know if it's just a bid to regulate the Internet or something nuttier. Has anyone seen any tinfoil hat links for this?
You should have been modded insightful rather than funny because to most people that is what and how the Internet works. Not just porn, but as long as they can go get whatever it is that they like, the Internet is working and they are happy with it. Few users of the Internet think about whether they are on the WWW or the Internet. To them they are the same thing. Some of us remember their first viewing of Mosaic. We remember the Internet before the widespread use of HTML.
As long as we can go online and get the information that we want for free, the Internet will be alive, at least as it is understood to be so by most of it's users. It doesn't matter if that is porn or the latest crap from faux news, or blueprints for the moon lander or thesis papers for last years PhD candidates in robotics theory.
Indeed, and any tasks that are flagged as repeating can be repeated on a separate core from cores executing serial instructions such that IPC allows things that happen serially to happen coincident with each other. A simple high level example is reading the configuration for your process that may change at any time during your process due to outside influences. Let the reading of that happen out of band on the processing as it is not part of the sequential string of instructions for executing your code. That way config data is always correct without your serially oriented code needing to stop to check anything other than say $window.size=? such that it's value is always updated by a different core. Sorry if that is not a clear explanation. I just mean to say that since most of what we do is serially oriented, it's difficult to see how at the microscopic level of the code, it can be broken up to parallel tasks. A 16% decrease in processing time is significant. Building OS and compilers to optimize this would improve execution times greatly, just as threading does today. If threads are written correctly to work with multiple cores, it's possible to see significant time improvements there also.
IANACS, but if your program structure changes a bit, you can process the two different styles of instructions in different ways, such that when the data needed from or to some sequential group of tasks is needed it is already there, sort of like doing things 6 steps ahead of yourself when possible. I know that makes no sense on the face of it, but at the machine code basics of it, by parsing instructions this way, 5 or 6 operations from now you will need register X loaded with byte 121 from location xyz, so while this core plods through the next few instructions, core this.plus.one prefetches the data at memory location xyz to register X.... or something like that. That will break the serialization of the code. There are other techniques as well, and if written for multicore machines, the program machine code can be executed this way without interpretation by the machine/OS.
There are more than one type of CPU architectures, and principles of execution vary between them. Same for RISC CISC. I think it is likely that the smaller the instruction set for the CPU, the more likely that serialized tasks can be shared out among cores.
That one skill is quite important for sales and marketing people. Their next most important skill (breathing doesn't count) is knowing when and how to keep their mouth shut when the technical people get involved in a sale or project.
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Your right (and everyone else's) to free speech does NOT include the inside of MY skull. If I'm ever assaulted with this device (and assault is all it can be considered as microwaves are dangerous) I will sue/litigate/attack in self defense. Call me Luddite if you wish, but if you own one of these devices and use it on myself or my family I will destroy it in self defense. The inside of my skull is STRICTLY private property. Trespassers will be shot, survivors shot again. I really don't care if you were aiming at someone nearby to me and I picked up a little extra, I am claiming self defense and shooting back. period. you. have. been. warned.
Who here find this surprising? Didn't think so.
And we are supposed to believe that MS can create competitive products? It doesn't look much like that. sad.
Well, that might work. My real name is not considered ordinary or common by any means, yet every social site on the Internet already has someone with my name on it. So, how exactly, am I to protect myself with a web presence? God forbid that John Smith want to do the same. How does the author know it was about him and not some other schmuck with his name?
Just because your parents gave you a couple of monikers, it does not mean you have exclusive rights to them... generally speaking. The artist was was formerly known as The artist formerly known as prince probably has that trademarked, but the rest of us have a common problem. We are not unique in the world.
A website called www.johnsmith1478.com is not likely to protect you from anything, and will probably just get you more junk mail. Johnsmith.com seems to be taken, so now what? Oh, my realname.com site is also taken. What's a JohnSmith to do?
I saw this yesterday, and using nature to generate energy is absolutely right. Think outside the paradigm, generate energy everywhere, use less of it everywhere... this is the solution, no single answer will work, it takes all efforts and answers. Anywhere the universe creates energy, we should be able to harness and use it. This is the grail, holy or not, energy for nothing.... or close to that.
I don't mean to throw stones, but books cost money, many people afford to be on the Internet, yet buying books has become old hat. When you can go on the Internet and get the latest information, books are ... well, a waste of money for the most part. The delay between discovery and publishing and reading is no longer tolerable, not in this throw away society. Look at some science fiction ideals... such delays are always intolerable. I will cite an event that is not even related to show that delay is not right: junteenth. It took several years for emancipation news to reach Texas. Is that right? The point is that information and knowledge should be universal, and instant. The great promise of the Internet was just that. If you wish to spend your nights reading information from 2+ years ago, that is your problem. The rest of us want today's information, and now. Good luck with the personal library.
The difference between now and 100 years ago becomes more apparent each day. Then, owning books was a sign of affluence, of intelligence. Now? Everything is up to question, and should be. Analyzing books and other public material is just another step in putting intelligence out there for everyone, not just those that can afford it. I applaud it, and all the dangers it brings. Such hurdles are necessary, but we must assault them to overcome barriers that should no longer exist.
LiveDVD is not available for x86. I stumbled on that sentence also. Seems there will be a LiveCD though; In which case I'll be burning a copy of that for a few hours fun.
From the linked site:
# Xfce instead of GNOME on the LiveCD: To save space, the LiveCDs switched to the smaller Xfce environment. This means that a binary installation using the LiveCD will install Xfce, but you're still free to build GNOME or KDE from source.
# No LiveDVDs on x86 or amd64: In the interest of getting the release out, the release engineering team decided to postpone LiveDVDs because of problems in their generation. They may show up laterâ"if so, we'll let you know.
Apparently I'm not supposed to submit yet? (What are the limits on posting? WTF?)
I am looking forward to trying this out btw.
If it continues, it may not stop until there is a war something like the one we called 'the war between the states' among other things. Where congress has failed I see some states taking issue with the Federal government and making bold steps like several stated declaring gun bans unconstitutional, 33? states refusing Real ID, and several other very bold statements. Several localities have issued warrants for the arrest of the president and vice president. These things are not just funny party stories. It really might take only one argument like the one surrounding this story to set of a chain of events that cannot be undone.
There is an interesting tie in here to something I've promoted all along: If the last mile was owned by cooperative groups (meaning NOT ISPs) then they could pool the IP addresses assigned in a random, and meaningless way. That is to say that if 237 people in a housing association were sharing DHCP IP addresses through a server system with enough bandwidth that many ISPs could hook up and serve out email and other services by user, it would be possible to hide the end user IP. Then any stats by Google or others would apply to the group, not an individual. Share that cooperative environment out amongst all the people of your neighborhood or town where the number is now thousands or tens of thousands and the problem of privacy becomes less of a concern.
Only when there is centralized control of Internet usage is there a privacy issue. Imagine being part of a cooperative with 34 connections to various ISPs, and all of the 12000 users in the cooperative using something like TOR. Standard Internet browser usage would be anonymized completely. The idea that you should be identifiable comes from the fact that there is a way currently to identify you. If your packets arrived to the greater Internet backbone from more than one source and more than one IP, it would be anonymous, and the 'grid' would be truly that. If you and 14999 of your friends decide to make a mesh network using wireless and landline connections at each node, it would be impossible for anyone to identify your network habits. It would also be nearly impossible to cause a network-only outage. Power loss could still be catastrophic. My point is this, if you truly want anonymity, you have to work hard for it. Most people don't want to. Consequences of that are inevitable, unavoidable, costly.
I believe that this *IS* the answer to the problems of network neutrality. Force the powers that be to accept that they cannot regulate private networks by building our own outside of their useless understanding of how things work. When they finally discover that they cannot regulate, things will change a bit. I'm all for calling it a patriot network... might be over the top a bit, but we all need to start creating them.
Since IE7 and Vista, I am no longer qualified to comment on the user experience of Windows products. These two products killed off *any* thoughts I might have of using MS products at my personal expense. Still on XP with FF/OOo et al at work. It might^H^H^H^H^H^H will take more to get me to try another MS product than it did to get me to try Ubunutu.
New security tools sounds like a good idea. Hope they do well with that. Everyone has to work to keep the bar high on secure computing development, but I won't be trying it. Yeah, don't bother telling me about how F/OSS has problems too... everything does. I just prefer my problems not be served to me without the lubricant.
I do hope they achieve something good, it will be good for the Internet as a whole.
Goliath falls dead. After a stunned silence, the crowd turns back to tending breakfast around the campfire, content to go on with what they were doing. All of David's friends celebrate, but the politicians and leaders simply begin plotting a new strategy.
And some people think CoS is evil?
Seriously: I'm glad to see that the courts are finally paying attention... to the law instead of politicians.
Rodney Dangerfield made a career of them?
I had to go look it up after you asked... apparently to mathematicians, there are plenty of practical applications. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Riemann_hypothesis for a few examples. Neither of them made sense to me yet, and I've already had coffee. If they are looking for one example where this theory is not true, and offering a million bucks, someone is sure to put a couple yellow dog games console clusters together and find out soon enough. (either that or prove Doom is written by zombies who don't know calculus)
Sounds like a real challenge for someone with the mad math skills to understand the problem.
Actually there is a very good competition. X10 was just first out of the gate. Try http://www.zigbee.org/en/index.asp
Apparently, I have more time to type a response? No, they were not forced, and the processor probably is an ARM processor or similar. This particular manufacturer makes some cool toys, I have one of their systems installed. Zigbee is definitely better than X10, and you should see it in more appliances soon.
Imagine your next new house, where the light switches are electronic remotes for the actual switch in the light fixture. Now imagine you can move it anywhere, stick it to the wall where ever you want. Perhaps you want that single switch by the front door to ensure that ALL lights are turned off when you leave for the day? Zigbee or others will help make that a reality.
I can see a day not long from now when you can get online and see your home in 3D (not unlike secondlife et al) and see all the things that work remotely. Lights that are on etc.
A billion little data points a month is peanuts, but can give us so much data. Think of water flow sensors on each shower/toilet/sink etc. Once the sensor devices drop below 19.99/ea you can put them anywhere/everywhere. The electric company and water/gas companies are not the only people that want to know how much I use. I also want to know where/why.
I'm sure that has the effect that you describe, but there is something else that most people suffer from: Mind over matter syndrome. If you don't have a mind, it doesn't matter. Seriously, when something is too complex for people to think about, they tend to not do so. Computer and ID security are complex things in this world, and most people don't want to live in a life where they can NOT trust anyone.
The simple truth is you can NOT trust anyone when it comes to safeguarding your personal information. The need to be constantly on guard drains us normally so it is easier to not worry about it than to fight the good fight. I believe that this is the effect that terrorists are after.
People just are not wired to be security conscious all the time. Ever notice how a lot of people only worry about backups for a short while after suffering catastrophic loss? if at all?
Security is expensive in many ways. Too expensive for most people's day to day resources. The effect is not driven only by negative input, but by the drain caused by constant watchfulness over things they don't understand fully, if at all.
Tell the police that since they were stolen, people keep sending you notices that you have signed up for child porn websites.... bet they can find the IP then, and subsequently the location and thief.
Not just for those areas. For anywhere. It's a shame that water shortages were needed to force people to design systems that are smart. Here they still have to put up signs to warn people not to water during winter storms! All that ice on the road is apparently dangerous.
There are lots of things that would benefit from some kind of additional smart control. Personally, I'd like a few more items in my house to be remotely operable, and thus also be able to alert me remotely of changing circumstances. I use Alarm.com and get an x-10 interface there, but I think there is much more that we can do. I'd like to know if the socket in the bathroom is still drawing electricity after I've left for work. That means my wife has left her hair appliance machinery plugged in etc.
Smart electrical outlets could tell us things like increased current use over time for appliances like your fridge or pc etc. It's amazing what a billion points of tiny data per month can tell you about life. I'd like to see that.
This topic needs as much thought and discussion as data center power conservation does.
To say that it is transparent, and the reasoning behind it is that shallow is akin to saying we were duped into war by nearly complete idiots.
Now THAT really would look bad. I prefer to see lizard skin sticking out of a hole in Bush's skin sometime shortly after this next election or something else to give away the secret. Anything but 'The world is full of sheeple and idiots that allowed the monkey to start a war' ?
In America, the technically correct and longer name for French Fries is potassium delivery system. Of course, to be effective they must be first heated and saturated with animal fats. Despite the glorious skill used to hone the techniques for loading potassium into the potato strips, 'fries' is all the effort we put in when order... with a 'supersizem' at the end.
I do find that there seems to be a lot of job searching advice that mentions the delicacy, far to often I might add.
From what I'm told by the few French citizens I know, there are many that call Sarkozy Bush's lapdog. or poodle or something similarly flattering. As far as I know as a US citizen, being politically associated with Bush in any way is an insult. Here it's been something like the kiss of death in the current political circus atmosphere. One thing in Sarkozy's favor is his lack of airtime on Faux News.
I've been trying to figure out lately why it is that the neocons seem hell bent on protecting IP? Or at least that of the entertainment industries. I don't know if it's just a bid to regulate the Internet or something nuttier. Has anyone seen any tinfoil hat links for this?
You should have been modded insightful rather than funny because to most people that is what and how the Internet works. Not just porn, but as long as they can go get whatever it is that they like, the Internet is working and they are happy with it. Few users of the Internet think about whether they are on the WWW or the Internet. To them they are the same thing. Some of us remember their first viewing of Mosaic. We remember the Internet before the widespread use of HTML.
As long as we can go online and get the information that we want for free, the Internet will be alive, at least as it is understood to be so by most of it's users. It doesn't matter if that is porn or the latest crap from faux news, or blueprints for the moon lander or thesis papers for last years PhD candidates in robotics theory.
Indeed, and any tasks that are flagged as repeating can be repeated on a separate core from cores executing serial instructions such that IPC allows things that happen serially to happen coincident with each other. A simple high level example is reading the configuration for your process that may change at any time during your process due to outside influences. Let the reading of that happen out of band on the processing as it is not part of the sequential string of instructions for executing your code. That way config data is always correct without your serially oriented code needing to stop to check anything other than say $window.size=? such that it's value is always updated by a different core.
Sorry if that is not a clear explanation. I just mean to say that since most of what we do is serially oriented, it's difficult to see how at the microscopic level of the code, it can be broken up to parallel tasks. A 16% decrease in processing time is significant. Building OS and compilers to optimize this would improve execution times greatly, just as threading does today. If threads are written correctly to work with multiple cores, it's possible to see significant time improvements there also.
IANACS, but if your program structure changes a bit, you can process the two different styles of instructions in different ways, such that when the data needed from or to some sequential group of tasks is needed it is already there, sort of like doing things 6 steps ahead of yourself when possible. I know that makes no sense on the face of it, but at the machine code basics of it, by parsing instructions this way, 5 or 6 operations from now you will need register X loaded with byte 121 from location xyz, so while this core plods through the next few instructions, core this.plus.one prefetches the data at memory location xyz to register X.... or something like that. That will break the serialization of the code. There are other techniques as well, and if written for multicore machines, the program machine code can be executed this way without interpretation by the machine/OS.
There are more than one type of CPU architectures, and principles of execution vary between them. Same for RISC CISC. I think it is likely that the smaller the instruction set for the CPU, the more likely that serialized tasks can be shared out among cores.
That one skill is quite important for sales and marketing people. Their next most important skill (breathing doesn't count) is knowing when and how to keep their mouth shut when the technical people get involved in a sale or project.
This is one of those areas that the government does NOT need to meddle. Price and market will fix it. period. go. ahead. argue. now.