I installed Windows 10 Pro the other day for testing - the Start menu is filled with ads - Candy Crush, Facebook, Minecraft, Bing, Office265 just to name a few and those apps aren't even installed, they take you to the ad-riddled package manager where you can pay for more ad-enabled things. When you start Internet Explorer you're taken to an ad about IE vs Chrome and Firefox. OneDrive pops up at every file operation "this would be easy with OneDrive" "share with your friends through OneDrive"
The problem here is that the country DID go solar/wind etc. (green) and forcibly shut down all coal/oil and now these 'green' plants can't supply the demand plus they have to amortize all the costs of building and maintaining an underperforming, green setup, hence the pricing.
If that is the case, that WebAssembly calls the JavaScript engine to execute calls, it can't be much if any faster than well-written "native" JavaScript, it's more akin to some sort of JS library baked in and optimized for the browser and compile from language x (including C) to JS (perhaps asm.js which also was a Mozilla-thing).
In that case it's "meh, another JS library" not a replacement for JavaScript like many want C or Python natively in the browser like JavaScript and we've seen previously what 'languages' with native execution permissions (ActiveX) can bring you.
all the browser has to do is translate the virtual machine code into native code and run it - because that's going to turn out well, the small benefit of JavaScript is that we can disable it and/or prevent certain function calls if you want to (e.g. my browser asks me if alert() is allowed to trigger or intercepts audio() and video() tags etc etc.
If you're going to obfuscate calls even further into machine code and allow for code to run directly on a CPU and manipulate memory without the capacity for inspection, you've given up all control.
Even trudging through the code, it's hard to decipher what it actually does besides implement a basic USB host and USB target and then proxy the commands (with some minor filtering for things that aren't "spec"). I'm supposing that you plug it in, and you have to program it yourself to accept a certain device or range of devices which you 'trust' but even then, it's not going to prevent someone from making a USB thing that emulates your USB thing and does malicious things.
I'm sure you can eventually turn it into an anti-virus by putting in a number of patterns that 'known bad' USB devices do but then the same issue arises with AV - you either spend a massive amount of money and time on analyzing every bit pattern passing by and statistically analyze whether it fits within a 'good' thing or you whitelist/blacklist certain things.
If I were Tesla, I'd make the entire system fit in shipping containers. Given he has the things already produced, ship them right away, spread them out across 5 boats and ship an extra boat or two for redundancy (the government is going to be paying for it ANYWAY), plug the shipping containers in the grid and where necessary to each other. Within Australia, you can dispatch hundreds of trucks right away with some geographical redundancy (so a new container isn't too far away regardless of losses)
The entire system can be transported to Australia from the US in ~50-60 days by ship, during those 60 days local crews can pound in the pillars or whatever they need to do for foundation and do the line preparations where necessary so you can install each site in ~2-3 days after arrival of the container.
If you're going for speed, you're not going for cost reduction. It's possible, hell, you can send a number of airplanes over with sufficient redundancy, you'll get the containers there in a few days.
The Dutch already pay a significant tax (it used to be 30c) per gigabyte of storage on everything from CDs to SSDs to pay for the losses of piracy for at least the last 15 years. The best thing is that the billions collected is held by a private entity that only sends a small percentage to the artists that are registered with the major labels. Independent labels haven't gotten a cent.
I personally only use password managers for decent passwords on relatively unimportant sites. And if the password manager gets lost, then I'll just have to reset some passwords.
For anything important (bank sites, root etc) I have memorized about 14 random 12-16 character passwords.
It's an oscillator that flips particles spin value regardless of the external force. You can control particle spin one way or the other by exerting a certain power using a laser. In this instance they noticed that under specific circumstances they could make the particles flip its spin all on its own regardless of what direction the laser would typically force it to do at least if they didn't shine the laser hard enough to break the symmetry. In that way they behave like crystals, unless you smash the crystal hard enough that it breaks, the molecules line up in a particular order regardless of external forces, in this case the crystal is not formed in space but in time hence the word time crystal.
And yet we avoid building tunnels and bridges as much as we can, there are massive redundancies and engineering going into oversizing it and we don't attach anything with the potential energy of an atom bomb to it which goes off as soon as any part of it fails. You can take a shotgun to a bridge, even a stick of TNT will do minimal damage in most cases.
Tracks and holes are easy to make, they are really hard to break and if they do break, losses are minimal to 1 train at best. This system when it breaks destroys all the trains on the track and the entire track.
We had electric cars and rockets around the beginning of the last century. The only small scale (compared to hyperloop) vacuum chamber is LHC.
Propelling a train-like Maglev thing in a tube at any speed isn't hard. The vacuum chamber associated is. And if you're going to ignore the vacuum chamber, why put it in tubes to begin with?
Not even earthquakes, how will it behave in summer, the temperature differential between the top and bottom of the tubes and also along the entire length of the thing and all those seals need to not just conform ANY failure causes catastrophic failure of the entire system.
They need a vacuum a significant multiplier larger than the LHC. And they will need to pressurize and depressurize the entire thing any time someone wants to get in or out.
Not just hard, nearly impossible, the LHC turbo vacuums took 12 weeks. Even if you don't need that large of a vacuum, how many hours/days will you need to wait AFTER you get in the vehicle and BEFORE you get out?
It sounds like cloud based Azure and AWS don't have more than one storage and/or access point, i.e., multiple, accessible backups.
Both Microsoft and Amazon's idea of "backup" is just replicating the thing to multiple data-centers and using short DNS timeouts to be able to move services from datacenter to datacenter. It's a very cheap/badly implemented method of HA, not backup.
Case in point: O365 does not have point-in-time backups and yes, they occasionally have a corrupted mailbox or folder that has replicated in it's corrupt state across the globe. Why: they're running Windows and Exchange on a variation of a 1993 file system - they have simply not accounted for the fact that disks occasionally return corruption that passes the hardware ECC tests.
Same goes for Amazon, it's a well known issue among it's customers that you can occasionally have a volume go bad even across multiple 'replication zones', the same reason though, hardware only has limited error recovery, the "right" 2 bits go wrong and your data is toast.
WTF do you think a commissioner does? Just because Obama called it net neutrality, doesn't mean it had anything to do with actual neutrality of the ISP's. The current "net neutrality" rules only legalized common carriers to zero-rate and throttle services.
The study clearly delineates it's about 'developing countries'. The wage gap hasn't existed for a while in capitalistic countries simply because they're capitalist. In "developing countries" there are a bit more things at play including the lack of division of church and state, obviously few people want to challenge these foreign *cough*Islamic*cough* religious ideals but when you condone those women not going to school or being covered top-down, you can't expect them to get paid the same.
The Americans make plenty of people disappear both foreign and domestic. You could've claimed the same during the Cold War, where are the Russian missiles and subs - turns out they never had quite as much as they claimed. North Korea can't even put a rocket together, something American engineers do for fun and games in their back yard.
Wikileaks is one of the few remaining upstanding journalistic organizations. They wouldn't waste their credibility on false flags. We already know the US uses Celebrite hacks and when asked to reveal the constitutionality of the process they simply refuse and drop the case. We have unconstitutional courts without defense, jury or oversight for domestic cases, how do you think they behave when they don't have to conform to the constitution.
The interesting thing would be to see the targets. Given it's the CIA, they are only authorized to surveil targets foreign to the US. The problem with malware and high tech devices is that they cannot always be accurately contained. So how many US citizens and US allies were "inadvertently" tapped? How about political targets?
Just because you haven't noticed bit rot doesn't mean it doesn't exist. With 20TB, you're experiencing AT LEAST 1 missing data sector per year (based on my experience with 200TB of data).
You mean, which is more important: being allowed to manufacture allegations or being exposed for manufacturing evidence.
I hope the judge and the defendant doesn't just let this go, you can't just go around accusing people of doing CP and then totally drop it when you have to come up with the evidence.
In other news: Obama and the FBI also say they never wiretapped US citizens using FISA courts.
There are other types of visas for academia, actors etc - true talent which Microsoft and Google is always yammering on about does not come in on H1B. Bringing in a 'prized professor' on H1B is not something you do, H1B in academia is for assistant professors, research assistants etc for $20k/y.
The US has some of the strongest imaginary property, contract, copyright and patent laws. Workers also tend to be a lot less volatile when you bring them from abroad and give them minimum legal protections. The corporations want the legalized human trading and the local protections while paying minimal taxes. You can't bring your workers from the US into places like India or China and neither can you bring in the ideas without risking losing them.
You're just looking in the wrong markets. If you're "just" looking at x86, obviously you have a blueprint you need to follow. Any breakthrough will take quite a few years in order to integrate and fab it. But even then, comparing 5 or 10 year old CPU's to now you can see quite a bit of new circuitry.
Look at AES acceleration and virtualization, we can now fully virtualize a machine including it's hardware as if they were separate machines including networking. There is quite a bit of logistics to make that happen in the CPU and attached chipsets and devices.
ARM has a bit more room to develop more quickly, plenty of breakthroughs in both CPU and GPU developments as are the developments in Power and other architectures.
Sure, incrementally, it doesn't look like much because 10yo CPU's are "decent enough" for most work, but if you're working on the high-end of the spectrum (calculations and large data storage) there are plenty of "breakthroughs", using the latest capabilities of chipsets, you do indeed get 4 times the jump but only for specific workloads.
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I installed Windows 10 Pro the other day for testing - the Start menu is filled with ads - Candy Crush, Facebook, Minecraft, Bing, Office265 just to name a few and those apps aren't even installed, they take you to the ad-riddled package manager where you can pay for more ad-enabled things. When you start Internet Explorer you're taken to an ad about IE vs Chrome and Firefox. OneDrive pops up at every file operation "this would be easy with OneDrive" "share with your friends through OneDrive"
The problem here is that the country DID go solar/wind etc. (green) and forcibly shut down all coal/oil and now these 'green' plants can't supply the demand plus they have to amortize all the costs of building and maintaining an underperforming, green setup, hence the pricing.
If that is the case, that WebAssembly calls the JavaScript engine to execute calls, it can't be much if any faster than well-written "native" JavaScript, it's more akin to some sort of JS library baked in and optimized for the browser and compile from language x (including C) to JS (perhaps asm.js which also was a Mozilla-thing).
In that case it's "meh, another JS library" not a replacement for JavaScript like many want C or Python natively in the browser like JavaScript and we've seen previously what 'languages' with native execution permissions (ActiveX) can bring you.
all the browser has to do is translate the virtual machine code into native code and run it - because that's going to turn out well, the small benefit of JavaScript is that we can disable it and/or prevent certain function calls if you want to (e.g. my browser asks me if alert() is allowed to trigger or intercepts audio() and video() tags etc etc.
If you're going to obfuscate calls even further into machine code and allow for code to run directly on a CPU and manipulate memory without the capacity for inspection, you've given up all control.
Even trudging through the code, it's hard to decipher what it actually does besides implement a basic USB host and USB target and then proxy the commands (with some minor filtering for things that aren't "spec"). I'm supposing that you plug it in, and you have to program it yourself to accept a certain device or range of devices which you 'trust' but even then, it's not going to prevent someone from making a USB thing that emulates your USB thing and does malicious things.
I'm sure you can eventually turn it into an anti-virus by putting in a number of patterns that 'known bad' USB devices do but then the same issue arises with AV - you either spend a massive amount of money and time on analyzing every bit pattern passing by and statistically analyze whether it fits within a 'good' thing or you whitelist/blacklist certain things.
Mod drop bears funny.
If I were Tesla, I'd make the entire system fit in shipping containers. Given he has the things already produced, ship them right away, spread them out across 5 boats and ship an extra boat or two for redundancy (the government is going to be paying for it ANYWAY), plug the shipping containers in the grid and where necessary to each other. Within Australia, you can dispatch hundreds of trucks right away with some geographical redundancy (so a new container isn't too far away regardless of losses)
The entire system can be transported to Australia from the US in ~50-60 days by ship, during those 60 days local crews can pound in the pillars or whatever they need to do for foundation and do the line preparations where necessary so you can install each site in ~2-3 days after arrival of the container.
If you're going for speed, you're not going for cost reduction. It's possible, hell, you can send a number of airplanes over with sufficient redundancy, you'll get the containers there in a few days.
The Dutch already pay a significant tax (it used to be 30c) per gigabyte of storage on everything from CDs to SSDs to pay for the losses of piracy for at least the last 15 years. The best thing is that the billions collected is held by a private entity that only sends a small percentage to the artists that are registered with the major labels. Independent labels haven't gotten a cent.
I personally only use password managers for decent passwords on relatively unimportant sites. And if the password manager gets lost, then I'll just have to reset some passwords.
For anything important (bank sites, root etc) I have memorized about 14 random 12-16 character passwords.
It's an oscillator that flips particles spin value regardless of the external force. You can control particle spin one way or the other by exerting a certain power using a laser. In this instance they noticed that under specific circumstances they could make the particles flip its spin all on its own regardless of what direction the laser would typically force it to do at least if they didn't shine the laser hard enough to break the symmetry. In that way they behave like crystals, unless you smash the crystal hard enough that it breaks, the molecules line up in a particular order regardless of external forces, in this case the crystal is not formed in space but in time hence the word time crystal.
And yet we avoid building tunnels and bridges as much as we can, there are massive redundancies and engineering going into oversizing it and we don't attach anything with the potential energy of an atom bomb to it which goes off as soon as any part of it fails. You can take a shotgun to a bridge, even a stick of TNT will do minimal damage in most cases.
Tracks and holes are easy to make, they are really hard to break and if they do break, losses are minimal to 1 train at best. This system when it breaks destroys all the trains on the track and the entire track.
We had electric cars and rockets around the beginning of the last century. The only small scale (compared to hyperloop) vacuum chamber is LHC.
Propelling a train-like Maglev thing in a tube at any speed isn't hard. The vacuum chamber associated is. And if you're going to ignore the vacuum chamber, why put it in tubes to begin with?
Not even earthquakes, how will it behave in summer, the temperature differential between the top and bottom of the tubes and also along the entire length of the thing and all those seals need to not just conform ANY failure causes catastrophic failure of the entire system.
They need a vacuum a significant multiplier larger than the LHC. And they will need to pressurize and depressurize the entire thing any time someone wants to get in or out.
Not just hard, nearly impossible, the LHC turbo vacuums took 12 weeks. Even if you don't need that large of a vacuum, how many hours/days will you need to wait AFTER you get in the vehicle and BEFORE you get out?
It sounds like cloud based Azure and AWS don't have more than one storage and/or access point, i.e., multiple, accessible backups.
Both Microsoft and Amazon's idea of "backup" is just replicating the thing to multiple data-centers and using short DNS timeouts to be able to move services from datacenter to datacenter. It's a very cheap/badly implemented method of HA, not backup.
Case in point: O365 does not have point-in-time backups and yes, they occasionally have a corrupted mailbox or folder that has replicated in it's corrupt state across the globe. Why: they're running Windows and Exchange on a variation of a 1993 file system - they have simply not accounted for the fact that disks occasionally return corruption that passes the hardware ECC tests.
Same goes for Amazon, it's a well known issue among it's customers that you can occasionally have a volume go bad even across multiple 'replication zones', the same reason though, hardware only has limited error recovery, the "right" 2 bits go wrong and your data is toast.
WTF do you think a commissioner does? Just because Obama called it net neutrality, doesn't mean it had anything to do with actual neutrality of the ISP's. The current "net neutrality" rules only legalized common carriers to zero-rate and throttle services.
The study clearly delineates it's about 'developing countries'. The wage gap hasn't existed for a while in capitalistic countries simply because they're capitalist. In "developing countries" there are a bit more things at play including the lack of division of church and state, obviously few people want to challenge these foreign *cough*Islamic*cough* religious ideals but when you condone those women not going to school or being covered top-down, you can't expect them to get paid the same.
The Americans make plenty of people disappear both foreign and domestic. You could've claimed the same during the Cold War, where are the Russian missiles and subs - turns out they never had quite as much as they claimed. North Korea can't even put a rocket together, something American engineers do for fun and games in their back yard.
Wikileaks is one of the few remaining upstanding journalistic organizations. They wouldn't waste their credibility on false flags. We already know the US uses Celebrite hacks and when asked to reveal the constitutionality of the process they simply refuse and drop the case. We have unconstitutional courts without defense, jury or oversight for domestic cases, how do you think they behave when they don't have to conform to the constitution.
The interesting thing would be to see the targets. Given it's the CIA, they are only authorized to surveil targets foreign to the US. The problem with malware and high tech devices is that they cannot always be accurately contained. So how many US citizens and US allies were "inadvertently" tapped? How about political targets?
Just because you haven't noticed bit rot doesn't mean it doesn't exist. With 20TB, you're experiencing AT LEAST 1 missing data sector per year (based on my experience with 200TB of data).
You mean, which is more important: being allowed to manufacture allegations or being exposed for manufacturing evidence.
I hope the judge and the defendant doesn't just let this go, you can't just go around accusing people of doing CP and then totally drop it when you have to come up with the evidence.
In other news: Obama and the FBI also say they never wiretapped US citizens using FISA courts.
There are other types of visas for academia, actors etc - true talent which Microsoft and Google is always yammering on about does not come in on H1B. Bringing in a 'prized professor' on H1B is not something you do, H1B in academia is for assistant professors, research assistants etc for $20k/y.
The US has some of the strongest imaginary property, contract, copyright and patent laws. Workers also tend to be a lot less volatile when you bring them from abroad and give them minimum legal protections. The corporations want the legalized human trading and the local protections while paying minimal taxes. You can't bring your workers from the US into places like India or China and neither can you bring in the ideas without risking losing them.
You're just looking in the wrong markets. If you're "just" looking at x86, obviously you have a blueprint you need to follow. Any breakthrough will take quite a few years in order to integrate and fab it. But even then, comparing 5 or 10 year old CPU's to now you can see quite a bit of new circuitry.
Look at AES acceleration and virtualization, we can now fully virtualize a machine including it's hardware as if they were separate machines including networking. There is quite a bit of logistics to make that happen in the CPU and attached chipsets and devices.
ARM has a bit more room to develop more quickly, plenty of breakthroughs in both CPU and GPU developments as are the developments in Power and other architectures.
Sure, incrementally, it doesn't look like much because 10yo CPU's are "decent enough" for most work, but if you're working on the high-end of the spectrum (calculations and large data storage) there are plenty of "breakthroughs", using the latest capabilities of chipsets, you do indeed get 4 times the jump but only for specific workloads.