Exactly and all of those can be trivially automated with scripts so they can be just as accurate as any benchmark WITHOUT allowing the companies to rig the test!
At the end of the day if everybody has rigged the test then the test is worthless, that's it, no more argument on the subject, the test is worthless and meaningless if everybody cheats and as we have seen both on X86 and on ARM cheating is rampant, so what to do? There is only one thing you CAN do and that is to throw out the test and use real applications to measure real performance. this way they can't rig as there are dozens of tools that do the same job, from WinRAR to PKZip, from Handbrake to WinDVD, so by using real world applications not only do they give you actual results without cheats but they also give you more of an overview of what the device is really like on day to day usage. Seems like a win/win to everyone but the companies selling benchmark software to me.
Maybe if you found out WHY some hate intel you might understand, yes? How about the fact that they weren't busted for antitrust after a half dozen CEOs admitted taking bribes from Intel to take the power pig P4 and lock AMD out of the market, or how about the Intel Compiler which is rigged to this very day so that ANY CODE made on ICC will be crippled if run on anything but an Intel CPU?
Everybody here screams about MSFT and Apple but Intel makes both look like the care bears when it comes to dirty dealing, bribery, market rigging, falsifying benchmarks,you name it Intel has done it and have bought their way out of it. If anyone wants I'll be happy to wallpaper this page with citations from multiple sources backing every bit of this up.
So you can see why some of us would look at a "gift" like this from Intel with suspicion, Intel can play the EEE game with the best of them and wouldn't be the first time Intel product dumped to try to destroy what they thought was a threat, see Intel giving away their chipsets to slit Nvidia's throat in the chipset biz, which they did eventually run them out of. Again no investigation, no antitrust, nothing.
Yes but until these companies stop cheating, just as Intel to this very day cheats with ICC then what choice do you have? If every scale is being rigged by the manufacturer then the only choice is to not use their scale, correct?
And in both cases since you have access to a CLI writing a script that calls real world applications shouldn't be very hard. as long as all the corps are rigging there really isn't a choice.
If you are trying to say AMD's compiler rigs? Sorry you are full of shit, the reviewer that first found the cripple code in ICC did rigorous testing of AMD's compiler and found it was merely GCC with some extra X64 flags added to better support 64 bit, that is it. Oh and you can download the source for the ACC and see for yourself, its based on GCC and is fully GPL V2 compliant.
Yet another advantage we Americans had, there was an abundance of film cameras from the studios (remember that poverty row died out in the early 50s, flooding the market with cheap film cameras of movie quality) and of course with Hollywood being here and using so much film I have no doubt the price of film was cheaper here as well. Since film can't be reused and we had no rules limiting rebroadcast a lot more survived because it could be used to fill air time in the off hours, weekend mornings, late night, etc.
Even easier...don't use benchmarks which are easily rigged, choose real world applications and cook up some tests using them!
The problem is ALL the benchmarks have been rigged by somebody for ages...X86? Any benchmark compiled using ICC is rigged against AMD and boosts Intel by 30% (look up "Intel Cripple Compiler" if you want to learn more, end result is benchmarks are completely useless on X86 unless compiled with GCC) and as we see here ARM? Rigged by everybody. This kind of crap has been going on since "Quack.exe" and is why you shouldn't trust ANY benchmarks. I'll always remember one of the reviews before the guy was told about ICC when he was testing netbooks "These new netbooks with AMD seem to be MUCH snappier...yet it loses to the low end Atom by nearly 30%, and I just don't know why"...the reason why is the benchmarks are all rigged!
So if you want to bench an ARM chip? Root the phone, install Bash, and run a script that runs real applications in real world scenarios. there are more than enough apps out there that cooking up their own informal benches should NOT be hard and until they do? Just remember to replace the word benchmark with bullshit every time you see one of these articles.
Logical disconnect....because one instance, where the servers are admined by guys making high five figures on up and have had many many years of education and experience don't get pwned its the OS that deserves credit?
Bullshit. I don't care if the OS is Linux,Windows, or OS/2 Warp if you put well educated admins on them they will be safe, bad admins and they will be pwned. For what happens to Linux when it is faced with clueless users one merely has to look at Android, which passed its million infection mark over the summer, beating the time it took windows to reach that number by a good half a decade.
Moral of the story? FOSS isn't fairy dust and thinking because an OS is open magically makes it more secure is just that,magical thinking. The vast majority of infections on ANY platform are caused by PEBKAC and Linux has enjoyed many years of security by obscurity on the desktop and highly educated admins on the server. Takes those away? It gets pwned just like Windows and OSX.
Not only that but that old tape was VERY temperamental about how much climate and humidity it would tolerate so had to be kept in...well practically a vault with strict climate control which is why so many shows from the 40s-60s were lost both in the USA and the UK, the cost to keep early tape in playable condition was just insane.
Also you have the fact that as TVs switched to color most folks really didn't seem interested in watching some old B&W show, they all wanted color to enjoy on their new sets which made corps like the BBC figure that B&W shows would never be worth a nickel and when you figure in the insane costs of storing the film and the cost of the films themselves? not really surprising that they didn't keep them.
Finally as for copyrights? I believe until We,The People have a seat at the table they should be looked at as what they are, unjust laws bought by bribes and like all unjust laws should be ignored as much as possible. What we have in america does NOT fit either into the framework the founders wrote nor any idea of a "reasonable time", no what we have is Valenti's "forever minus a single day" because every time it looks like that fucking mouse will end up in PD Disney will bribe the politicians for another stay. this is why if you want to pirate something? Please by all means pirate Disney, don't give those bribing bastards a single cent of your money. I mean how fucked up is it that Walt has been dead longer than many here have been alive and many of his first works, made when planes were made of cloth and antibiotics were but a dream, is STILL under copyright?
Until copyrights actually have limits again we,the People should simply ignore them, they no longer serve their intended purpose and now merely enrich a few old white guys that lock more and more of a culture behind a paywall.
Sounds just like Chromebooks to me, the only difference is IF you put in a page and a half of CLI gobbledygook that most can't pull off then and ONLY then can you take what was once a standard X86 laptop and install one of a handful of hacked bootloader Linux versions. Oh and no dual booting for you citizen, can't have that!
It just amazes the hell out of me that one company can cook up something nasty, like turning an X86 laptop into a locked down corp controlled thin client and get cheers and when another company does the exact same thing get treated as a monster. Would the ones that cheered the Chromebook have had the same reaction to a Winbook? Kinda doubt it.
As for TFA this is precisely why we must fight tooth and nail not to take HTML V5 in its current form, as its practically a love letter to the big corps who would like nothing more for the future to be similar to Chromebooks, locked down devices that access apps and content "stored in the cloud" that can only be viewed or used with approval.
Because the big three (Apple,Google,MSFT) want to be the gatekeepers of the content and get a slice of every bit of media that goes through the web?
BTW allow me to say...I TOLD YA SO...Which I most certainly did, I said to all those cheering when Apple fucked Flash "Don't cheer as what they will come up with will be MUCH WORSE. At least Flash is cross platform and Adobe lets you bundle it with anything, including any FOSS OS, what they replace it with will suck MORE cycles, MORE RAM, eat MORE battery life and the only "advantage" will be lock in"
Now what are we seeing? HTML V5 that sucks MORE cycles than Flash at the same resolution, in fact while even an early 2Ks P4 or Athlon can do Flash at SD levels and mid 2Ks single cores can do 720p without stuttering HTML V5 runs like shit without dedicated hardware on anything less than a C2D at 2GHz. Run a side by side and compare RAM usage, again without having dedicated hardware HTML V5 is a pig, sucking up as much as 50% more RAM than the same quality flash video. Finally not only did Apple and MSFT push for and get H.26X as the "standard" which is controlled by notorious patent trolling MPEG-LA but now we see this, which I have no doubt will require kernel hooks or some other nasty to make the DRM work which will of course kill any chance of a FOSS browser or OS displaying it. Google spent nearly 2 billion building a GPL V2 only fork for Android and ChromeOS so they can just use the "TiVo Trick" of using code signing and/or eFuses to make sure you can't do shit with the source code and they will have no problem with displaying the DRM.
So next time folks when a corp pushes that something is obsolete, that it sucks, that its time is passed, etc I want you to THINK and ask yourselves "What is in it for them?" because as we are seeing HTML V5 and getting rid of flash was NOT about standards, or making a more open web, it was about lock in and giving the big three, especially Apple and MSFT, more control.
I only hope that web devs don't get iMoney dollar signs in their eyes and start using HTML V5 in the hopes of getting iUsers and instead refuse to use this garbage until the DRM is removed and a truly open video format is chosen as the baseline, something like WebM,Dirac, or Theora. I'm sure some will be shocked that I said this when I sell Win 7 systems (still think win 8 is garbage) but after seeing how the big three are trying to force everything into appstores now more than ever we need to keep the web open. if we don't only corp approved content brought to you through the appstore will be allowed and this once great open web we now use will become just another Home Shopping Network.
Meh if you are rich enough to have an expensive toy like the Tesla then you are rich enough to pay higher insurance premiums for burning batteries.
I've said it before and I'll say it again, and I don't care which side you are on in the AGW debate as this would be a beneficial change to BOTH sides, lowering dependence on foreign oil for the right and cutting down on greenhouse gasses for the left but if you REALLY want to make a difference? $60K-$200K electric toys for the rich is NOT gonna do it.
What would really change the game is a "people's car/truck" that gets a minimum of 40MPG, runs on diesel so that you can easily switch them to biodiesel down the line, and which costs less than 25K and follow it up with a government subsidy program that would allow even the poorest American to own one. You look at the national MPG right now and its a lousy 14MPG and that is because the poor can't afford to get rid of their old gas guzzlers, you get all those late 90s/early 2Ks gas hogs off the road? Watch the output of greenhouse gasses and oil imports drop like a stone. Then we can work on algae based biodiesel to take the output of factories and turn it into fuel, lowering our emissions even further.
All these electric cars are frankly toys, the high cost of battery replacement means they won't be worth shit on the used car market so they will never end up in the hands of the working poor, which as i pointed out above use the most gas, most poor folks don't have garages and so the major shifts in temp for summer and winter will kill the batteries that much quicker, and if the government wasn't subsidizing the hell out of them they would make zero economic sense. The whole thing is just a bad idea and I have yet to see a study taking the ENTIRE cost, from mining to disposal, into account and I have a feeling that the reason i haven't is because if one were to take in the costs of the entire lifecycle of the vehicle then your average small car like a Focus or Civic would probably end up being more green than the electrics. Lets face it guys, the tech? Its just not there yet to make a pure electric car or even a hybrid a long term viable replacement for the traditional vehicle.
Well being a long haired biker type and playing music in bars I have met a LOT of junkies in my time and if you sit down and talk to them? yeah...he is kinda right. Nobody wakes up and says "I want to be a crack whore" its something in their past they want gone, something they can't deal with that the drugs help numb.
To give just 2 examples that I can relate easily, i know a guy from HS that is now a homeless addict, i still see him from time to time and throw a few bucks his way when I can. His "one thing" was the fact his mom was getting him high from age 8 onward and she would fuck anything and everything, he learned about the birds and the bees by seeing his mom get banged up the ass as she was doing a three way on the couch. the second is a hooker that used to live down the hall from me at this place in TN. All the women naturally treated her like shit and made sure their men would have nothing to do with her, but since I didn't give a fuck what her profession was nor desired her services we got to talking. her "one thing" was the fact that her mom's BF was banging her for several years, we are talking starting age 9. When she went to her mom for help? her mom told her to STFU as she wanted his money and "she should put out more" so mommy wouldn't have to give him any. Turned out mommy was the one that told him to start banging her!
so while this naturally doesn't come into play with so called "party drugs" like your pot or vitamin K because we humans do like to have our senses altered occasionally when it comes to hardcore users? From what I've seen over the years...yep, there is one or more nasty things in their past they want gone. BTW nobody says it is easy, in the two examples the monk gave they both still needed major therapy, but you can't even begin to help them until you find out what is eating them in the first place.
Learning about the birds and bees by seeing your mom take it up the ass? Sorry but it very much WAS the three way, along with seeing his mom used as a cum dumpster (sorry but I don't know a nicer way of putting what she was,hell the woman offered to bang me when I was 15 for God's sake) pretty much on a nightly basis? Sorry but that does tend to fuck one's head up.
And I'm sorry but there IS such a thing as a slut, or "man whore" if you want the male version, and you have every right to call them out on it. A human being simply isn't designed to be used as a dildo or blow up doll,hence why there is so many diseases that one tends to get when they use their body in that way. A child should NOT, I repeat NOT be raised in a house with a revolving door to the bedroom and if that is how you want to live your life? Fine then don't have kids or give them to somebody that will raise them right.
Hell I swore not to have kids but when my sis was diagnosed with a terminal illness and her 2 under 3 year old kids were dropped in my lap? I QUIT with the all night parties, the banging groupies (yes even bass players get plenty of groupies) and acting irresponsible. in the 16 or so years it took to raise them I had a grand total of THREE relationships and all were long term enough the boys could feel safe and comfortable with them in the house. Even with my fiance I waited until i was sure we were gonna have a long term relationship before introducing them to the boys, and they are both grown! Its the difference between being a parent and a sperm or egg donor and maybe if more people called a whore a whore, be they male or female, instead of condoning putting their own lust above the interests of the kids? maybe this world would be a better place. And for the record i don't care what you do in the bedroom, bang 100 a night if that makes you happy, just don't bring kids into that shit, okay?
Its not about the money dude, you completely missed the point...its about showing respect. Do you REALLY think that 1337 check is more than those at Metasploit would pay? of course not but it shows that Google DOES appreciate the effort, its their way of saying "great job guys, thanks" and THAT COUNTS for a fricking LOT in this world.
When yahoo gives them a fucking COUPON for a shirt they STILL have to pay part of, along with shipping and handling? Its clear the message is "We don't give a fuck about you, wouldn't have said a thing to you but marketing says that is bad form so here is a coupon for a $20 shirt we paid $3 for in China, suck on it" and THAT is the problem friend, its not the money, its the attitude. Hell they could have sent them a Galaxy tab with the Yahoo app loaded, that is...what? $399? And it still wouldn't have been insulting, a fucking coupon is a backhanded slap in the face and if I was sitting on a Yahoo bug, or tripped over one? hell I'd post it to some forum and let it run amok before i gave it to yahoo, that is just bullshit.
Its really simple, REAL security costs good money, takes real time and effort and doesn't show immediate results on the bottom line so most companies? Just don't give a fuck. Call it "the rise of MBA (Major Buffons and Assholes) culture" or the "fuck everything but the quarterly earnings!" attitude or anything you like, if it doesn't show profits quickly? they don't care. See how frankly piss poor IT is treated by many corps, "cogs that suck money and don't generate profits" seem to be the way most PHBs treat IT, which is always underfunded, understaffed, and overworked.
Even with the downturn i don't think I could go back to dealing with that bullshit, I'd play C&W in a shitty redneck bar before i go back to the bad treatment and constant headaches that is IT in most of the big firms I've seen. There is ZERO loyalty, you could put in 80 hour weeks and they'd fuck you over or outsource your job the second they get a chance, and no matter what you do its not good enough....fuck that. If its like the way it was when i was working corporate, and I've seen nothing to make me think it isn't, its no wonder the security is poor, most are so overworked they are too busy fighting fires or worrying about whether their job will be sent to India or given to an H1-B to spend any real time worrying about security. and of course if you actually DO make changes that increase security? You'll have a dozen PHBs screaming at you because the ipad they picked up over the weekend doesn't magically work when they walk into the building. i wouldn't take another job in corp IT for all the tea in China, no way.
Bingo, we have a winner! I love the hell out of the game but the story? Deep fried ass, sorry folks but it is. That thing has more loose threads than a sweater woven by a granny with Parkinson's and you can tell they have NO clue WTF the G-Man is supposed to be, who he works for, what he is supposed to do, it was probably thrown in there originally because of the whole X-Files/MIB thing back in the late 90s and then the fans latched on and they didn't know WTF to do with it other than just throw his ass in with zero idea how to wrap the thing up.
Hell I bet if they hired Joss Whedon to write HL3 even he couldn't figure out how to make an ending that actually even made half ass sense, its just too all over the place. Its still a fun as hell game series though, even if the story makes no sense whatsoever.
It doesn't matter how it was passed, Obama ran his entire campaign on Obamacare which the American people chose over the competition.
Of course the fact that the right is so fucking out of touch that they would run Thurston Howell the Third (the 47% bit, talking about how he drove "an ugly car" in HS while neglecting to mention it was a brand new luxury car, and his wife's "We were so poor in college we had to live on our stock dividends!" bit) didn't help matters any, but the one two punch that I think historians will look back on and say "THAT is what sank the republican party, that right there" will be the outright hatred for Latinos displayed by too many of the tea party and the "let 'em die!" cheers at the RNC. I have some serious right wing customers and even they were shocked and appalled by that little outburst.
In any case the people CHOSE and what they chose was Obamacare, every poll shows they are in favor of Obamacare, they voted for the POTUS when his main platform was Obamacare, so by voting 42 fricking times to block Obamacare and now risking having our credit rating shot to shit AGAIN just to make the tea party and their corporate masters happy? frankly shows the current right wing to be downright suicidal. I mean did they learn nothing from 96?
I'm sorry but 15 yard penalty, bullshit on the field. Even the republican leadership said they DO NOT WANT THIS, its the tea party whackos they have ZERO control over that are pulling this. If they had any balls left they would throw out the tea party so that wouldn't get lumped in with them but ever since they became "the rich old white people party" with stands against...well pretty much anything that affects any minority other than the 1%ers? the tea party is the only growth they've seen in years.
But you can't negotiate with someone that says "my way or nothing" and every. single. one. of the tea party has signed on with Grover Norquist and his "no new taxes on the rich EVAR!" pledge and since they know actually giving medical care to the poor would mean the top 1% actually starting to pay taxes again, because part of the plan calls for getting rid of loopholes like "Double Dutch" and "Irish Whip"? They would rather shut the whole thing down, even have the USA default for the first time in history.
Ironically the ONLY thing the tea party whackjobs are willing to spend money on? MORE WAR, as they want to raise the defense budget higher than they even asked for! But of course they are the leeches that make money off the military industrial complex so no surprise they would vote themselves more money while they fuck everybody else, see the "let 'em die!" cheers at the RNC Ron Paul speech to see what kind of douchebaggery you are dealing with.
Read this passage, written in the 1930s by a Marine Corps General, and see if it doesn't sound EXACTLY like the shit we have been doing lately, just change the target and it could have been written last month...
"I helped make Mexico, especially Tampico, safe for American oil interests in 1914. I helped make Haiti and Cuba a decent place for the National City Bank boys to collect revenues in. I helped in the raping of half a dozen Central American republics for the benefits of Wall Street. The record of racketeering is long. I helped purify Nicaragua for the international banking house of Brown Brothers in 1909-1912. I brought light to the Dominican Republic for American sugar interests in 1916. In China I helped to see to it that Standard Oil went its way unmolested. During those years, I had, as the boys in the back room would say, a swell racket. Looking back on it, I feel that I could have given Al Capone a few hints. The best he could do was to operate his racket in three districts. I operated on three continents.â
Folks think this kind of backroom bullshit has been only the last decade or two? try close to a century, probably longer. The blood of the poor paving the road to profit for a handful at the top, this has been going on for a loooong time. I'd say the ONLY difference between then and now? The uber rich have stopped giving a fuck about the kayfabe and even pretending they give a damn about any but the elite, for a perfect example watch that video of the RNC with the "let 'em die!" incident. All those rich cheering the thought of a poor person dying rather than costing them a dime? Perfectly summed up the kind of sociopath scumbags we see at the top.
The problem is that Yahoo just sent out a message to every grey hat, letting them know "if you want anything other than a T-Shirt talk to the metasploit guys" and ya know what? they will. Its not just about the money, its about respect. A t-shirt is the kind of prize you get from some DJ standing on a street corner NOT what you get for saving a company endless bad press and possible millions in pissed off users.
Of course the real bitch isn't just the XSS, its when you mix that with an insecure browser you get a real perfect shitstorm. See my journal for what I labeled the "Yahoo porn bug" a couple years back, if you take Yahoo and ONLY Yahoo, didn't see this with either Gmail nor Live mail, and Firefox which again ONLY FF, not any of the Chromium or Webkit browsers nor Opera nor IE, put them together and what do you get? you get the ability for spammers to be able to spam entire address books without having any real access at all. They do this by using the fact that FF runs at the same permission levels as the user (which is retarded but Moz refuses to fix, Chromium had the ability to run below user permission more than 6 years ago) and with a hidden iFrame and using the FF auto login (or even just a still valid cookie) they could have access to the entire address book without having to break into the account or even send a drop of data back to themselves.
So as I've been saying for a few years now yahoo really needs to get their shit together, its entirely too easy to use Yahoo email addresses for spamming. The same can be said of Moz, I no longer include any gecko based browsers specifically because they refuse to add low rights mode. Bad security practices are bad practices and insulting those that find bugs by giving them a lousy $12.50 t-shirt? They have made sure the next bug found by a grey hat will only be found out by Yahoo when they are getting pwned.
Because you can go to plenty of forums right now, hell look at some of the "AC" posts below you and please DO make note the only post as AC, that say "I would have signed this or that bill or petition but was afraid I'd get a file started" and THAT is what the chilling effect is all about!
If you would like to learn more try reading up a bit about the East German STASI, in reality they had less than 6% of the population being watched yet when you talked to the populace? They ALL thought they were being watched! And THIS is the reason why you want the populace to know, if you want to lower dissent? if you want to quell public dissension in the ranks? Just make Joe and Jane Public feel that by going to a rally or signing a petition they will suddenly be under the state eye.
BTW Ms Wolf ought to know as they told her flat footed she was on a watchlist and give her shit every time she boards a plane, her crime? Giving a lecture on your constitutional rights. Think about that and then do a little reading, or better yet watch her video lecture on how a free society becomes non free and you will see there IS historical basis for such a suspicion.
Sex can NOT be done "in a responsible way" if its a revolving door to the bedroom, sorry but it just can't. The kid don't know who these people are, has constant strangers in the one place above all they should feel safe and comfortable,often end up hearing and seeing what they shouldn't, that is just fucked up.
And I have gotten to see first hand what that does to somebody, had a friend who watched his mom do a three way at 8 years old and who didn't go through a single night of his childhood without hearing his mom getting banged...he's homeless now,he started doing drugs and booze the second he was old enough to know what getting high was and last I heard he was living on the streets between OKC and LR, just panhandling for his next high.
It goes back to a study Hillary had done in 09, they were gonna argue that guns should be curtailed in the USA because "narco-terrorists" were using them in crimes. The result...surprise, most of the guns came from the former USSR, where they could get fully auto AK47s and RPGs as cheap as a handgun here. So how to fix a problem where the data doesn't support your position? Tilt the data until it favors your position!
If you look into the facts then you will see WHY and the why is frankly disgusting. This is coming from somebody who is so left it hurts but I can't condone criminal acts because somebody on the left does it, no more than I can tolerate those that said Bush and pals should get away with the lies they told about Iraq. because a handful at the top wanted to push nationwide gun bans they handed the cartels as many American guns as they could on a silver platter, causing countless deaths including an American border agent and if it wouldn't have been exposed I have NO doubt that false flag would have been used to try to ban guns, just as they pushed for more guns bans after the criminal robbed his mother's guns and used them in Sandy Hook.. Holder should be looking at the death penalty for treason and Obama should be investigated, the fact that neither is coming to pass just shows BOTH SIDES are corrupt.
Insightful? Really? Typical left wing bullshit, hate speech is hate speech pal, or is there even a word one can call a white person that would be considered hate speech to you?
I would also remind you that after the martin shooting there were more than 30 attacks, including one where a 14 year old was SET ON FIRE, where the attackers screamed "kill a whitey for trayvon!"...know how many were charged with a hate crime? Can you guess? If you said ZERO then you are correct, and if you thought that was justice then you should be an admin at HuffPo!
Racism is racism and the kind of political correct bullshit you are spewing is why we have an AG that says, and I quote "Black people can't be racist so they can't commit hate crimes". And THAT is what your refusing to call a spade a spade gets you, protected classes and double standards. Think about that next time you are gonna stand there and say racism is okay.
Because having a stream of men she don't know from Adam who have access to the kid can be fucking dangerous? You know how many pedos go after the mom to get access to the kid? And the kid don't know WTF is going on, just that there is a constant stream of strangers in their house at all hours of the night...that is scary for a little kid man.
And I would have said THE SAME THING if it was a guy fucking anything with a vagina, those kinds of constant disruptions are bad for a young child.
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Exactly and all of those can be trivially automated with scripts so they can be just as accurate as any benchmark WITHOUT allowing the companies to rig the test!
At the end of the day if everybody has rigged the test then the test is worthless, that's it, no more argument on the subject, the test is worthless and meaningless if everybody cheats and as we have seen both on X86 and on ARM cheating is rampant, so what to do? There is only one thing you CAN do and that is to throw out the test and use real applications to measure real performance. this way they can't rig as there are dozens of tools that do the same job, from WinRAR to PKZip, from Handbrake to WinDVD, so by using real world applications not only do they give you actual results without cheats but they also give you more of an overview of what the device is really like on day to day usage. Seems like a win/win to everyone but the companies selling benchmark software to me.
Maybe if you found out WHY some hate intel you might understand, yes? How about the fact that they weren't busted for antitrust after a half dozen CEOs admitted taking bribes from Intel to take the power pig P4 and lock AMD out of the market, or how about the Intel Compiler which is rigged to this very day so that ANY CODE made on ICC will be crippled if run on anything but an Intel CPU?
Everybody here screams about MSFT and Apple but Intel makes both look like the care bears when it comes to dirty dealing, bribery, market rigging, falsifying benchmarks,you name it Intel has done it and have bought their way out of it. If anyone wants I'll be happy to wallpaper this page with citations from multiple sources backing every bit of this up.
So you can see why some of us would look at a "gift" like this from Intel with suspicion, Intel can play the EEE game with the best of them and wouldn't be the first time Intel product dumped to try to destroy what they thought was a threat, see Intel giving away their chipsets to slit Nvidia's throat in the chipset biz, which they did eventually run them out of. Again no investigation, no antitrust, nothing.
Yes but until these companies stop cheating, just as Intel to this very day cheats with ICC then what choice do you have? If every scale is being rigged by the manufacturer then the only choice is to not use their scale, correct?
And in both cases since you have access to a CLI writing a script that calls real world applications shouldn't be very hard. as long as all the corps are rigging there really isn't a choice.
If you are trying to say AMD's compiler rigs? Sorry you are full of shit, the reviewer that first found the cripple code in ICC did rigorous testing of AMD's compiler and found it was merely GCC with some extra X64 flags added to better support 64 bit, that is it. Oh and you can download the source for the ACC and see for yourself, its based on GCC and is fully GPL V2 compliant.
Yet another advantage we Americans had, there was an abundance of film cameras from the studios (remember that poverty row died out in the early 50s, flooding the market with cheap film cameras of movie quality) and of course with Hollywood being here and using so much film I have no doubt the price of film was cheaper here as well. Since film can't be reused and we had no rules limiting rebroadcast a lot more survived because it could be used to fill air time in the off hours, weekend mornings, late night, etc.
Even easier...don't use benchmarks which are easily rigged, choose real world applications and cook up some tests using them!
The problem is ALL the benchmarks have been rigged by somebody for ages...X86? Any benchmark compiled using ICC is rigged against AMD and boosts Intel by 30% (look up "Intel Cripple Compiler" if you want to learn more, end result is benchmarks are completely useless on X86 unless compiled with GCC) and as we see here ARM? Rigged by everybody. This kind of crap has been going on since "Quack.exe" and is why you shouldn't trust ANY benchmarks. I'll always remember one of the reviews before the guy was told about ICC when he was testing netbooks "These new netbooks with AMD seem to be MUCH snappier...yet it loses to the low end Atom by nearly 30%, and I just don't know why"...the reason why is the benchmarks are all rigged!
So if you want to bench an ARM chip? Root the phone, install Bash, and run a script that runs real applications in real world scenarios. there are more than enough apps out there that cooking up their own informal benches should NOT be hard and until they do? Just remember to replace the word benchmark with bullshit every time you see one of these articles.
Logical disconnect....because one instance, where the servers are admined by guys making high five figures on up and have had many many years of education and experience don't get pwned its the OS that deserves credit?
Bullshit. I don't care if the OS is Linux,Windows, or OS/2 Warp if you put well educated admins on them they will be safe, bad admins and they will be pwned. For what happens to Linux when it is faced with clueless users one merely has to look at Android, which passed its million infection mark over the summer, beating the time it took windows to reach that number by a good half a decade.
Moral of the story? FOSS isn't fairy dust and thinking because an OS is open magically makes it more secure is just that,magical thinking. The vast majority of infections on ANY platform are caused by PEBKAC and Linux has enjoyed many years of security by obscurity on the desktop and highly educated admins on the server. Takes those away? It gets pwned just like Windows and OSX.
Not only that but that old tape was VERY temperamental about how much climate and humidity it would tolerate so had to be kept in...well practically a vault with strict climate control which is why so many shows from the 40s-60s were lost both in the USA and the UK, the cost to keep early tape in playable condition was just insane.
Also you have the fact that as TVs switched to color most folks really didn't seem interested in watching some old B&W show, they all wanted color to enjoy on their new sets which made corps like the BBC figure that B&W shows would never be worth a nickel and when you figure in the insane costs of storing the film and the cost of the films themselves? not really surprising that they didn't keep them.
Finally as for copyrights? I believe until We,The People have a seat at the table they should be looked at as what they are, unjust laws bought by bribes and like all unjust laws should be ignored as much as possible. What we have in america does NOT fit either into the framework the founders wrote nor any idea of a "reasonable time", no what we have is Valenti's "forever minus a single day" because every time it looks like that fucking mouse will end up in PD Disney will bribe the politicians for another stay. this is why if you want to pirate something? Please by all means pirate Disney, don't give those bribing bastards a single cent of your money. I mean how fucked up is it that Walt has been dead longer than many here have been alive and many of his first works, made when planes were made of cloth and antibiotics were but a dream, is STILL under copyright?
Until copyrights actually have limits again we,the People should simply ignore them, they no longer serve their intended purpose and now merely enrich a few old white guys that lock more and more of a culture behind a paywall.
Sounds just like Chromebooks to me, the only difference is IF you put in a page and a half of CLI gobbledygook that most can't pull off then and ONLY then can you take what was once a standard X86 laptop and install one of a handful of hacked bootloader Linux versions. Oh and no dual booting for you citizen, can't have that!
It just amazes the hell out of me that one company can cook up something nasty, like turning an X86 laptop into a locked down corp controlled thin client and get cheers and when another company does the exact same thing get treated as a monster. Would the ones that cheered the Chromebook have had the same reaction to a Winbook? Kinda doubt it.
As for TFA this is precisely why we must fight tooth and nail not to take HTML V5 in its current form, as its practically a love letter to the big corps who would like nothing more for the future to be similar to Chromebooks, locked down devices that access apps and content "stored in the cloud" that can only be viewed or used with approval.
Because the big three (Apple,Google,MSFT) want to be the gatekeepers of the content and get a slice of every bit of media that goes through the web?
BTW allow me to say...I TOLD YA SO...Which I most certainly did, I said to all those cheering when Apple fucked Flash "Don't cheer as what they will come up with will be MUCH WORSE. At least Flash is cross platform and Adobe lets you bundle it with anything, including any FOSS OS, what they replace it with will suck MORE cycles, MORE RAM, eat MORE battery life and the only "advantage" will be lock in"
Now what are we seeing? HTML V5 that sucks MORE cycles than Flash at the same resolution, in fact while even an early 2Ks P4 or Athlon can do Flash at SD levels and mid 2Ks single cores can do 720p without stuttering HTML V5 runs like shit without dedicated hardware on anything less than a C2D at 2GHz. Run a side by side and compare RAM usage, again without having dedicated hardware HTML V5 is a pig, sucking up as much as 50% more RAM than the same quality flash video. Finally not only did Apple and MSFT push for and get H.26X as the "standard" which is controlled by notorious patent trolling MPEG-LA but now we see this, which I have no doubt will require kernel hooks or some other nasty to make the DRM work which will of course kill any chance of a FOSS browser or OS displaying it. Google spent nearly 2 billion building a GPL V2 only fork for Android and ChromeOS so they can just use the "TiVo Trick" of using code signing and/or eFuses to make sure you can't do shit with the source code and they will have no problem with displaying the DRM.
So next time folks when a corp pushes that something is obsolete, that it sucks, that its time is passed, etc I want you to THINK and ask yourselves "What is in it for them?" because as we are seeing HTML V5 and getting rid of flash was NOT about standards, or making a more open web, it was about lock in and giving the big three, especially Apple and MSFT, more control.
I only hope that web devs don't get iMoney dollar signs in their eyes and start using HTML V5 in the hopes of getting iUsers and instead refuse to use this garbage until the DRM is removed and a truly open video format is chosen as the baseline, something like WebM,Dirac, or Theora. I'm sure some will be shocked that I said this when I sell Win 7 systems (still think win 8 is garbage) but after seeing how the big three are trying to force everything into appstores now more than ever we need to keep the web open. if we don't only corp approved content brought to you through the appstore will be allowed and this once great open web we now use will become just another Home Shopping Network.
Meh if you are rich enough to have an expensive toy like the Tesla then you are rich enough to pay higher insurance premiums for burning batteries.
I've said it before and I'll say it again, and I don't care which side you are on in the AGW debate as this would be a beneficial change to BOTH sides, lowering dependence on foreign oil for the right and cutting down on greenhouse gasses for the left but if you REALLY want to make a difference? $60K-$200K electric toys for the rich is NOT gonna do it.
What would really change the game is a "people's car/truck" that gets a minimum of 40MPG, runs on diesel so that you can easily switch them to biodiesel down the line, and which costs less than 25K and follow it up with a government subsidy program that would allow even the poorest American to own one. You look at the national MPG right now and its a lousy 14MPG and that is because the poor can't afford to get rid of their old gas guzzlers, you get all those late 90s/early 2Ks gas hogs off the road? Watch the output of greenhouse gasses and oil imports drop like a stone. Then we can work on algae based biodiesel to take the output of factories and turn it into fuel, lowering our emissions even further.
All these electric cars are frankly toys, the high cost of battery replacement means they won't be worth shit on the used car market so they will never end up in the hands of the working poor, which as i pointed out above use the most gas, most poor folks don't have garages and so the major shifts in temp for summer and winter will kill the batteries that much quicker, and if the government wasn't subsidizing the hell out of them they would make zero economic sense. The whole thing is just a bad idea and I have yet to see a study taking the ENTIRE cost, from mining to disposal, into account and I have a feeling that the reason i haven't is because if one were to take in the costs of the entire lifecycle of the vehicle then your average small car like a Focus or Civic would probably end up being more green than the electrics. Lets face it guys, the tech? Its just not there yet to make a pure electric car or even a hybrid a long term viable replacement for the traditional vehicle.
Well being a long haired biker type and playing music in bars I have met a LOT of junkies in my time and if you sit down and talk to them? yeah...he is kinda right. Nobody wakes up and says "I want to be a crack whore" its something in their past they want gone, something they can't deal with that the drugs help numb.
To give just 2 examples that I can relate easily, i know a guy from HS that is now a homeless addict, i still see him from time to time and throw a few bucks his way when I can. His "one thing" was the fact his mom was getting him high from age 8 onward and she would fuck anything and everything, he learned about the birds and the bees by seeing his mom get banged up the ass as she was doing a three way on the couch. the second is a hooker that used to live down the hall from me at this place in TN. All the women naturally treated her like shit and made sure their men would have nothing to do with her, but since I didn't give a fuck what her profession was nor desired her services we got to talking. her "one thing" was the fact that her mom's BF was banging her for several years, we are talking starting age 9. When she went to her mom for help? her mom told her to STFU as she wanted his money and "she should put out more" so mommy wouldn't have to give him any. Turned out mommy was the one that told him to start banging her!
so while this naturally doesn't come into play with so called "party drugs" like your pot or vitamin K because we humans do like to have our senses altered occasionally when it comes to hardcore users? From what I've seen over the years...yep, there is one or more nasty things in their past they want gone. BTW nobody says it is easy, in the two examples the monk gave they both still needed major therapy, but you can't even begin to help them until you find out what is eating them in the first place.
Learning about the birds and bees by seeing your mom take it up the ass? Sorry but it very much WAS the three way, along with seeing his mom used as a cum dumpster (sorry but I don't know a nicer way of putting what she was,hell the woman offered to bang me when I was 15 for God's sake) pretty much on a nightly basis? Sorry but that does tend to fuck one's head up.
And I'm sorry but there IS such a thing as a slut, or "man whore" if you want the male version, and you have every right to call them out on it. A human being simply isn't designed to be used as a dildo or blow up doll,hence why there is so many diseases that one tends to get when they use their body in that way. A child should NOT, I repeat NOT be raised in a house with a revolving door to the bedroom and if that is how you want to live your life? Fine then don't have kids or give them to somebody that will raise them right.
Hell I swore not to have kids but when my sis was diagnosed with a terminal illness and her 2 under 3 year old kids were dropped in my lap? I QUIT with the all night parties, the banging groupies (yes even bass players get plenty of groupies) and acting irresponsible. in the 16 or so years it took to raise them I had a grand total of THREE relationships and all were long term enough the boys could feel safe and comfortable with them in the house. Even with my fiance I waited until i was sure we were gonna have a long term relationship before introducing them to the boys, and they are both grown! Its the difference between being a parent and a sperm or egg donor and maybe if more people called a whore a whore, be they male or female, instead of condoning putting their own lust above the interests of the kids? maybe this world would be a better place. And for the record i don't care what you do in the bedroom, bang 100 a night if that makes you happy, just don't bring kids into that shit, okay?
Its not about the money dude, you completely missed the point...its about showing respect. Do you REALLY think that 1337 check is more than those at Metasploit would pay? of course not but it shows that Google DOES appreciate the effort, its their way of saying "great job guys, thanks" and THAT COUNTS for a fricking LOT in this world.
When yahoo gives them a fucking COUPON for a shirt they STILL have to pay part of, along with shipping and handling? Its clear the message is "We don't give a fuck about you, wouldn't have said a thing to you but marketing says that is bad form so here is a coupon for a $20 shirt we paid $3 for in China, suck on it" and THAT is the problem friend, its not the money, its the attitude. Hell they could have sent them a Galaxy tab with the Yahoo app loaded, that is...what? $399? And it still wouldn't have been insulting, a fucking coupon is a backhanded slap in the face and if I was sitting on a Yahoo bug, or tripped over one? hell I'd post it to some forum and let it run amok before i gave it to yahoo, that is just bullshit.
Its really simple, REAL security costs good money, takes real time and effort and doesn't show immediate results on the bottom line so most companies? Just don't give a fuck. Call it "the rise of MBA (Major Buffons and Assholes) culture" or the "fuck everything but the quarterly earnings!" attitude or anything you like, if it doesn't show profits quickly? they don't care. See how frankly piss poor IT is treated by many corps, "cogs that suck money and don't generate profits" seem to be the way most PHBs treat IT, which is always underfunded, understaffed, and overworked.
Even with the downturn i don't think I could go back to dealing with that bullshit, I'd play C&W in a shitty redneck bar before i go back to the bad treatment and constant headaches that is IT in most of the big firms I've seen. There is ZERO loyalty, you could put in 80 hour weeks and they'd fuck you over or outsource your job the second they get a chance, and no matter what you do its not good enough....fuck that. If its like the way it was when i was working corporate, and I've seen nothing to make me think it isn't, its no wonder the security is poor, most are so overworked they are too busy fighting fires or worrying about whether their job will be sent to India or given to an H1-B to spend any real time worrying about security. and of course if you actually DO make changes that increase security? You'll have a dozen PHBs screaming at you because the ipad they picked up over the weekend doesn't magically work when they walk into the building. i wouldn't take another job in corp IT for all the tea in China, no way.
Bingo, we have a winner! I love the hell out of the game but the story? Deep fried ass, sorry folks but it is. That thing has more loose threads than a sweater woven by a granny with Parkinson's and you can tell they have NO clue WTF the G-Man is supposed to be, who he works for, what he is supposed to do, it was probably thrown in there originally because of the whole X-Files/MIB thing back in the late 90s and then the fans latched on and they didn't know WTF to do with it other than just throw his ass in with zero idea how to wrap the thing up.
Hell I bet if they hired Joss Whedon to write HL3 even he couldn't figure out how to make an ending that actually even made half ass sense, its just too all over the place. Its still a fun as hell game series though, even if the story makes no sense whatsoever.
It doesn't matter how it was passed, Obama ran his entire campaign on Obamacare which the American people chose over the competition.
Of course the fact that the right is so fucking out of touch that they would run Thurston Howell the Third (the 47% bit, talking about how he drove "an ugly car" in HS while neglecting to mention it was a brand new luxury car, and his wife's "We were so poor in college we had to live on our stock dividends!" bit) didn't help matters any, but the one two punch that I think historians will look back on and say "THAT is what sank the republican party, that right there" will be the outright hatred for Latinos displayed by too many of the tea party and the "let 'em die!" cheers at the RNC. I have some serious right wing customers and even they were shocked and appalled by that little outburst.
In any case the people CHOSE and what they chose was Obamacare, every poll shows they are in favor of Obamacare, they voted for the POTUS when his main platform was Obamacare, so by voting 42 fricking times to block Obamacare and now risking having our credit rating shot to shit AGAIN just to make the tea party and their corporate masters happy? frankly shows the current right wing to be downright suicidal. I mean did they learn nothing from 96?
I'm sorry but 15 yard penalty, bullshit on the field. Even the republican leadership said they DO NOT WANT THIS, its the tea party whackos they have ZERO control over that are pulling this. If they had any balls left they would throw out the tea party so that wouldn't get lumped in with them but ever since they became "the rich old white people party" with stands against...well pretty much anything that affects any minority other than the 1%ers? the tea party is the only growth they've seen in years.
But you can't negotiate with someone that says "my way or nothing" and every. single. one. of the tea party has signed on with Grover Norquist and his "no new taxes on the rich EVAR!" pledge and since they know actually giving medical care to the poor would mean the top 1% actually starting to pay taxes again, because part of the plan calls for getting rid of loopholes like "Double Dutch" and "Irish Whip"? They would rather shut the whole thing down, even have the USA default for the first time in history.
Ironically the ONLY thing the tea party whackjobs are willing to spend money on? MORE WAR, as they want to raise the defense budget higher than they even asked for! But of course they are the leeches that make money off the military industrial complex so no surprise they would vote themselves more money while they fuck everybody else, see the "let 'em die!" cheers at the RNC Ron Paul speech to see what kind of douchebaggery you are dealing with.
Read this passage, written in the 1930s by a Marine Corps General, and see if it doesn't sound EXACTLY like the shit we have been doing lately, just change the target and it could have been written last month...
"I helped make Mexico, especially Tampico, safe for American oil interests in 1914. I helped make Haiti and Cuba a decent place for the National City Bank boys to collect revenues in. I helped in the raping of half a dozen Central American republics for the benefits of Wall Street. The record of racketeering is long. I helped purify Nicaragua for the international banking house of Brown Brothers in 1909-1912. I brought light to the Dominican Republic for American sugar interests in 1916. In China I helped to see to it that Standard Oil went its way unmolested. During those years, I had, as the boys in the back room would say, a swell racket. Looking back on it, I feel that I could have given Al Capone a few hints. The best he could do was to operate his racket in three districts. I operated on three continents.â
Folks think this kind of backroom bullshit has been only the last decade or two? try close to a century, probably longer. The blood of the poor paving the road to profit for a handful at the top, this has been going on for a loooong time. I'd say the ONLY difference between then and now? The uber rich have stopped giving a fuck about the kayfabe and even pretending they give a damn about any but the elite, for a perfect example watch that video of the RNC with the "let 'em die!" incident. All those rich cheering the thought of a poor person dying rather than costing them a dime? Perfectly summed up the kind of sociopath scumbags we see at the top.
The problem is that Yahoo just sent out a message to every grey hat, letting them know "if you want anything other than a T-Shirt talk to the metasploit guys" and ya know what? they will. Its not just about the money, its about respect. A t-shirt is the kind of prize you get from some DJ standing on a street corner NOT what you get for saving a company endless bad press and possible millions in pissed off users.
Of course the real bitch isn't just the XSS, its when you mix that with an insecure browser you get a real perfect shitstorm. See my journal for what I labeled the "Yahoo porn bug" a couple years back, if you take Yahoo and ONLY Yahoo, didn't see this with either Gmail nor Live mail, and Firefox which again ONLY FF, not any of the Chromium or Webkit browsers nor Opera nor IE, put them together and what do you get? you get the ability for spammers to be able to spam entire address books without having any real access at all. They do this by using the fact that FF runs at the same permission levels as the user (which is retarded but Moz refuses to fix, Chromium had the ability to run below user permission more than 6 years ago) and with a hidden iFrame and using the FF auto login (or even just a still valid cookie) they could have access to the entire address book without having to break into the account or even send a drop of data back to themselves.
So as I've been saying for a few years now yahoo really needs to get their shit together, its entirely too easy to use Yahoo email addresses for spamming. The same can be said of Moz, I no longer include any gecko based browsers specifically because they refuse to add low rights mode. Bad security practices are bad practices and insulting those that find bugs by giving them a lousy $12.50 t-shirt? They have made sure the next bug found by a grey hat will only be found out by Yahoo when they are getting pwned.
Because you can go to plenty of forums right now, hell look at some of the "AC" posts below you and please DO make note the only post as AC, that say "I would have signed this or that bill or petition but was afraid I'd get a file started" and THAT is what the chilling effect is all about!
If you would like to learn more try reading up a bit about the East German STASI, in reality they had less than 6% of the population being watched yet when you talked to the populace? They ALL thought they were being watched! And THIS is the reason why you want the populace to know, if you want to lower dissent? if you want to quell public dissension in the ranks? Just make Joe and Jane Public feel that by going to a rally or signing a petition they will suddenly be under the state eye.
BTW Ms Wolf ought to know as they told her flat footed she was on a watchlist and give her shit every time she boards a plane, her crime? Giving a lecture on your constitutional rights. Think about that and then do a little reading, or better yet watch her video lecture on how a free society becomes non free and you will see there IS historical basis for such a suspicion.
Sex can NOT be done "in a responsible way" if its a revolving door to the bedroom, sorry but it just can't. The kid don't know who these people are, has constant strangers in the one place above all they should feel safe and comfortable,often end up hearing and seeing what they shouldn't, that is just fucked up.
And I have gotten to see first hand what that does to somebody, had a friend who watched his mom do a three way at 8 years old and who didn't go through a single night of his childhood without hearing his mom getting banged...he's homeless now,he started doing drugs and booze the second he was old enough to know what getting high was and last I heard he was living on the streets between OKC and LR, just panhandling for his next high.
It goes back to a study Hillary had done in 09, they were gonna argue that guns should be curtailed in the USA because "narco-terrorists" were using them in crimes. The result...surprise, most of the guns came from the former USSR, where they could get fully auto AK47s and RPGs as cheap as a handgun here. So how to fix a problem where the data doesn't support your position? Tilt the data until it favors your position!
If you look into the facts then you will see WHY and the why is frankly disgusting. This is coming from somebody who is so left it hurts but I can't condone criminal acts because somebody on the left does it, no more than I can tolerate those that said Bush and pals should get away with the lies they told about Iraq. because a handful at the top wanted to push nationwide gun bans they handed the cartels as many American guns as they could on a silver platter, causing countless deaths including an American border agent and if it wouldn't have been exposed I have NO doubt that false flag would have been used to try to ban guns, just as they pushed for more guns bans after the criminal robbed his mother's guns and used them in Sandy Hook.. Holder should be looking at the death penalty for treason and Obama should be investigated, the fact that neither is coming to pass just shows BOTH SIDES are corrupt.
Insightful? Really? Typical left wing bullshit, hate speech is hate speech pal, or is there even a word one can call a white person that would be considered hate speech to you?
I would also remind you that after the martin shooting there were more than 30 attacks, including one where a 14 year old was SET ON FIRE, where the attackers screamed "kill a whitey for trayvon!"...know how many were charged with a hate crime? Can you guess? If you said ZERO then you are correct, and if you thought that was justice then you should be an admin at HuffPo!
Racism is racism and the kind of political correct bullshit you are spewing is why we have an AG that says, and I quote "Black people can't be racist so they can't commit hate crimes". And THAT is what your refusing to call a spade a spade gets you, protected classes and double standards. Think about that next time you are gonna stand there and say racism is okay.
Because having a stream of men she don't know from Adam who have access to the kid can be fucking dangerous? You know how many pedos go after the mom to get access to the kid? And the kid don't know WTF is going on, just that there is a constant stream of strangers in their house at all hours of the night...that is scary for a little kid man.
And I would have said THE SAME THING if it was a guy fucking anything with a vagina, those kinds of constant disruptions are bad for a young child.