Mathematically impossible on correct hardware. Not necessarily on the piece he had. 2600 hardware wasn't anywhere close to reliable, and timing errors were prevalent.
And, analyzing just the source code is not always enough. For example, given the following:
size_t v = n + offset + page_address(page) - page_address(head);
if (likely(n <= v && v <= (PAGE_SIZE << compound_order(head))))
return true;
WARN_ON(1); If n=4096, offset=0, page_address(page)=0, page_address(head)=0, compount_order(head)=0; even measured both at the start at at the end (to eliminate something trampling our data in meantime), it's impossible to hit the warning, right? Hah.
This said, I don't claim the guy is honest, merely that the way used to "disprove" his record is bunk.
Tool-assisted means in an emulator. The vast majority of emulators are at most cycle-accurate, which in some cases changes observable behaviour. Also, it's possible it was a different version of the game -- a lot of game rips are not bit-to-bit identical; versions for different markets notoriously have slight or not-so-slight alterations beyond just translated messages. Likewise, PAL vs SECAM vs NTSC have different timings that often alter the game.
Until recently, I used CNN for world news -- they were biased but reliable. Then, somewhen during the US election campaign, they went completely bonkers. I don't know how to call them without being unfair to ordinary lying sacks of shit.
This started with them not giving a single mention to Hillary's wrongdoings that were all over other news sites. Since then, they can't post a single article without propaganda stuffed with obvious lies -- especially if there's a word like "gun" or "nuclear" anywhere within six clicks of the piece. Fake News at its finest, indeed.
While it's usually good to hear both sides, CNN has gone to Daily Stormer's level; going there is a waste of time.
No one without a reason to watch the newest tax shell game even knows what Alphabet is -- or at most had overheard this somewhere. For the rest of us, Google is Google, period. Even Google employees probably have no clue which shell owns them this week.
For some things, such as healthcare, where transparency is absent, government run systems tend to work better and cost less.
You haven't seen a government-run health system, have you?
Example: in June, I had some nasty issue in the foot (some acute tendon swelling -- can't read the doctor's handwriting), it made walking so painful I had trouble going 100 meters to a shop. After a long time of waiting, I finally got admitted by a first-contact doctor, only whom could give me a referral to the actual doctor with an ability to heal me. For fucking February! So instead of using the system I fully paid for with my taxes, I went to a commercial doctor instead. The problem was fixed after just a few days of physical therapy. In the public system, waiting times for physical therapy are 18-24 months. Same for most specializations, including those life-saving like cardio (24 months).
But that was the "good old times". Since then, the health system pretty much collapsed. Currently, a doctor after studies, intership and a couple years of experience (so called "resident") earns $10800 yearly ($7800 after taxes). In the middle of Europe, in an EU country. No, I'm not confusing monthly vs annual wages -- these figures are per year.
For politicians, the health system is only a cost; the money can be better spent for something with a bigger chance of getting them votes or power. Thus, those of us who can afford a doctor have to pay twice, while the poor get fucked just the same.
I'm talking about rational actions of a government, not of an individual. If you're infected with a disease that affects only ten people in the world, it's rational for you to put all your savings into attempting to get cured (as otherwise you won't get to enjoy those savings anyway), but, as an unrelated voter, I'd rather prefer my taxes to be put into research into a disease that affects a million -- as the chances that I or one of my nieces get infected with the latter are so much higher.
And the Chinese don't care about being nice. I wouldn't bash them for an action that actually helps people, rather than merely the government.
Then what about pushing US patent law on the rest of the world (it really hampers down research, especially in medicine)? Or about helping Saudis wage a Hitler-style war in Yemen that involves carpet-bombing civilians in towns with no military presence, concentration camps, and similar niceties?
I picked smallpox blankets and Tuskegee because of their direct connection with medicine, but if you want atrocities in general, here you go.
Yeah, but if you move a furlong to the east then a furlong to the west, you're in the same place. Even if you repeat that exercise many times, with the wind stopping at random moments, you still won't move on the average. Same if different people emit sound at you.
To have an item move (rather than just flutter around) via sound, you need to carefully control the phase of every source.
This stands in contrast with blowing, which allows pushing the item away from you with no fine control required.
The Olympics is all about cheating and not getting caught. Even if you ban China, people from other countries will pay the Chinese to boost their embryos for them.
They're not hampered by western "morality" (which is really religion). Risking the lives of a few tens for a cure that saves millions sounds perfectly rational to me.
Yes, this is the same country that harvests organs from a spiritual movement disliked by the government, but a country that gave smallpox blankets to Indians or infected people with syphilis doesn't deserve to throw the first stone.
And anyway, technically, this isn't simple "blowing." It's vector addition of pressure wavefronts.
This is not blowing at all. Regular blowing produces just a mass of air moving outwards, without multiple pressure fronts: there's obviously a big pressure front in the, well, front, but there's no sound involved (at least unless added artificially by obstructing airways or such).
With sound, a particle of air oscillates but doesn't move on the average (unless accompanied by blowing, that is).
These guys manipulate sound in a way that keeps an overpressure under the item and underpressure over it.
Not if these divergences increase exponentially. Think of a billiard ball: a minute change of its position or angle won't have a noticeable effect if it doesn't interact with other balls. Every time it hits another ball, though, the divergence is amplified.
The only current desktop environment I would disrecommend is GNOME and stuff that uses Gnome's display parts (ie, Cinnamon). Unless you have a fast efficient GPU, it's really sluggish even on 2017 hardware.
XFCE works indistinguishably from a high-end machine on a slow SoC with 2GB ram, unless loaded with bloated programs. Without a browser, you'd need to really try to make a dent, a single browser with 10 tabs can bog the machine down single-handedly:/
First gen RasPi (256MB) shipped with LXDE; at this point talking about reducing bloat further is a waste of time. You can use a simpler environment if you find it suits you better, but machine's resources are not a concern.
Oh also, replace any spining disks with flash.
Yeah, that does more to modernize the machine than replacing all other components together would.
Especially that in this context it's unobvious whether they mean nautical miles or land miles, which, unlike the third ("survey") mile differ by a lot. Having three different units by the same name is pure brain damage.
Wow. Just wow. There's a plague of downright-insane SJWs like AmiMoJo or serviscope_minor, but you just managed to beat them all the other way. That's kind of rare for something that's not a throw-away troll spam account.
Most cars outside Russia don't have a dashcam. Even there they don't have a side cam. A typical perpetrator of this kind of fraud doesn't have enough intelligence to know a test self-driving car will be packed with cameras from every angle.
If Kaspersky are indeed behind this, they are doing what their company is supposed to do: find malware and make it public. Without their help, NSA's malware would be still in the wild.
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Mathematically impossible on correct hardware. Not necessarily on the piece he had. 2600 hardware wasn't anywhere close to reliable, and timing errors were prevalent.
And, analyzing just the source code is not always enough. For example, given the following:
size_t v = n + offset + page_address(page) - page_address(head);
if (likely(n <= v && v <= (PAGE_SIZE << compound_order(head))))
return true;
WARN_ON(1);
If n=4096, offset=0, page_address(page)=0, page_address(head)=0, compount_order(head)=0; even measured both at the start at at the end (to eliminate something trampling our data in meantime), it's impossible to hit the warning, right? Hah.
This said, I don't claim the guy is honest, merely that the way used to "disprove" his record is bunk.
Tool-assisted means in an emulator. The vast majority of emulators are at most cycle-accurate, which in some cases changes observable behaviour. Also, it's possible it was a different version of the game -- a lot of game rips are not bit-to-bit identical; versions for different markets notoriously have slight or not-so-slight alterations beyond just translated messages. Likewise, PAL vs SECAM vs NTSC have different timings that often alter the game.
I guess that's just a hard to discover easter egg, like mouse paste.
Until recently, I used CNN for world news -- they were biased but reliable. Then, somewhen during the US election campaign, they went completely bonkers. I don't know how to call them without being unfair to ordinary lying sacks of shit.
This started with them not giving a single mention to Hillary's wrongdoings that were all over other news sites. Since then, they can't post a single article without propaganda stuffed with obvious lies -- especially if there's a word like "gun" or "nuclear" anywhere within six clicks of the piece. Fake News at its finest, indeed.
While it's usually good to hear both sides, CNN has gone to Daily Stormer's level; going there is a waste of time.
No one without a reason to watch the newest tax shell game even knows what Alphabet is -- or at most had overheard this somewhere. For the rest of us, Google is Google, period. Even Google employees probably have no clue which shell owns them this week.
So you don't have government run healthcare, but some hybrid public-private system.
I do have government run healthcare. The private system is only because some people would rather pay than die.
And you can't complain that the doctors are paid nothing but you have to pay twice.
I do pay the full price for that "nothing", it's just the money going to pork rather than to the hospitals.
For some things, such as healthcare, where transparency is absent, government run systems tend to work better and cost less.
You haven't seen a government-run health system, have you?
Example: in June, I had some nasty issue in the foot (some acute tendon swelling -- can't read the doctor's handwriting), it made walking so painful I had trouble going 100 meters to a shop. After a long time of waiting, I finally got admitted by a first-contact doctor, only whom could give me a referral to the actual doctor with an ability to heal me. For fucking February! So instead of using the system I fully paid for with my taxes, I went to a commercial doctor instead. The problem was fixed after just a few days of physical therapy. In the public system, waiting times for physical therapy are 18-24 months. Same for most specializations, including those life-saving like cardio (24 months).
But that was the "good old times". Since then, the health system pretty much collapsed. Currently, a doctor after studies, intership and a couple years of experience (so called "resident") earns $10800 yearly ($7800 after taxes). In the middle of Europe, in an EU country. No, I'm not confusing monthly vs annual wages -- these figures are per year.
For politicians, the health system is only a cost; the money can be better spent for something with a bigger chance of getting them votes or power. Thus, those of us who can afford a doctor have to pay twice, while the poor get fucked just the same.
In Christianity the individual is higher than the many.
If and only if that individual is ordained.
I'm talking about rational actions of a government, not of an individual. If you're infected with a disease that affects only ten people in the world, it's rational for you to put all your savings into attempting to get cured (as otherwise you won't get to enjoy those savings anyway), but, as an unrelated voter, I'd rather prefer my taxes to be put into research into a disease that affects a million -- as the chances that I or one of my nieces get infected with the latter are so much higher.
And the Chinese don't care about being nice. I wouldn't bash them for an action that actually helps people, rather than merely the government.
Then what about pushing US patent law on the rest of the world (it really hampers down research, especially in medicine)? Or about helping Saudis wage a Hitler-style war in Yemen that involves carpet-bombing civilians in towns with no military presence, concentration camps, and similar niceties?
I picked smallpox blankets and Tuskegee because of their direct connection with medicine, but if you want atrocities in general, here you go.
Yeah, but if you move a furlong to the east then a furlong to the west, you're in the same place. Even if you repeat that exercise many times, with the wind stopping at random moments, you still won't move on the average. Same if different people emit sound at you.
To have an item move (rather than just flutter around) via sound, you need to carefully control the phase of every source.
This stands in contrast with blowing, which allows pushing the item away from you with no fine control required.
The Olympics is all about cheating and not getting caught. Even if you ban China, people from other countries will pay the Chinese to boost their embryos for them.
They're not hampered by western "morality" (which is really religion). Risking the lives of a few tens for a cure that saves millions sounds perfectly rational to me.
Yes, this is the same country that harvests organs from a spiritual movement disliked by the government, but a country that gave smallpox blankets to Indians or infected people with syphilis doesn't deserve to throw the first stone.
And anyway, technically, this isn't simple "blowing." It's vector addition of pressure wavefronts.
This is not blowing at all. Regular blowing produces just a mass of air moving outwards, without multiple pressure fronts: there's obviously a big pressure front in the, well, front, but there's no sound involved (at least unless added artificially by obstructing airways or such).
With sound, a particle of air oscillates but doesn't move on the average (unless accompanied by blowing, that is).
These guys manipulate sound in a way that keeps an overpressure under the item and underpressure over it.
Not if these divergences increase exponentially. Think of a billiard ball: a minute change of its position or angle won't have a noticeable effect if it doesn't interact with other balls. Every time it hits another ball, though, the divergence is amplified.
Or, in other words, a stable system vs a chaotic system.
It appears that our world is fundamentally chaotic, and that single tray photon causes a sphere of changes that expands with the speed of light.
if you blow on anything hard enough, you can levitate it
Blowing to push something away is trivial, yeah. Blowing at something to pull it towards you, though, is a wee bit harder.
The only current desktop environment I would disrecommend is GNOME and stuff that uses Gnome's display parts (ie, Cinnamon). Unless you have a fast efficient GPU, it's really sluggish even on 2017 hardware.
XFCE works indistinguishably from a high-end machine on a slow SoC with 2GB ram, unless loaded with bloated programs. Without a browser, you'd need to really try to make a dent, a single browser with 10 tabs can bog the machine down single-handedly :/
First gen RasPi (256MB) shipped with LXDE; at this point talking about reducing bloat further is a waste of time. You can use a simpler environment if you find it suits you better, but machine's resources are not a concern.
Oh also, replace any spining disks with flash.
Yeah, that does more to modernize the machine than replacing all other components together would.
Especially that in this context it's unobvious whether they mean nautical miles or land miles, which, unlike the third ("survey") mile differ by a lot. Having three different units by the same name is pure brain damage.
Doesn't seem like denatonium prevents bums around here (Poland) from drinking bone blueberry.
Wow. Just wow. There's a plague of downright-insane SJWs like AmiMoJo or serviscope_minor, but you just managed to beat them all the other way. That's kind of rare for something that's not a throw-away troll spam account.
Most cars outside Russia don't have a dashcam. Even there they don't have a side cam. A typical perpetrator of this kind of fraud doesn't have enough intelligence to know a test self-driving car will be packed with cameras from every angle.
Unity was the worst thing that happened to Linux adoption. I hope that those who created it fall off a cliff.
Unity was abysmal, but just look what Ubuntu replaced it with. Now THAT's bad!
If Kaspersky are indeed behind this, they are doing what their company is supposed to do: find malware and make it public. Without their help, NSA's malware would be still in the wild.
But for back end services written in JavaScript. WHY ???
For JavaScript developers, if all they have is a pillow, every problem looks like a nail.