I sincerely hope these unions die a quick death. There is hope: the Supreme Court is going to have another look at this: http://www.insidesources.com/s...
I think Unions play a more valuable role of keeping a bunch of people with low IQs busy driving trucks. That's not an easy thing to do and whilst it maybe smart to replace them all with automation, I have doubts that it is a very wise thing to do. You should never back people into a corner, they get violent.
And the others were guilty? This really looks like 'oh, while trying to send the Jews into concentration camps, we made some mistakes and sent there some non-Jews'...
No need for comparisons, Turkey provided Hitler the template for the Jewish massacres under the guise of The Armenian Genocide. They've never apologized to the Armenian people and to this day deny that it happened.
At least the Germans faced up to what they did under Hitler, Turkey has *never* faced the consequences of their fascism and remains as one of the primary examples of a culture falsifying reality so they don't have to bare the shame they so rightly deserve. Turkey has yet again provided a template for the next round of human rights violations a century after they did it the first time.
Fascism is alive and well in Turkey so if anyone needs an example of what a 21st century Stazi would look like, now you know.
Corporations have human rights. They have the right to donate as much money as they want to politicians to shape policy. There is very little doubt this is tax deductible, you tax dollars paying to undermine democracy.
It's amazing that exactly the same type of event happened in Russia about a week ago with almost exactly the same description. There must have been an earthquake in Russia at the same time as their meteor.
Coincidentally, this happened at the same time as a false missile warning because 'some guy' pressed the wrong button. Which is amazing because coincidentally the Japanese issued a false missile warning because 'some guy' pressed the wrong button the next day.
Well you just go on believing that. Nuclear idealists, such as yourself are usually too busy trying not to look stupid or embarrassed because you argue on the basis of a belief system, not fact or truth. You're trying to justify imposing birth defects on a population so you can have your nuclear fuel, a new low for immorality. Your belief system is the sign of an afflicted mind, and because your subconscious knows Nuclear ideology is immoral it will continue to unbalance your psyche. Which is bad because if you actually took the time to examine the facts you may have something worthwhile to offer instead of being just another robot fanboi.
As I said, I can make your side of the argument better than you can and this is how. In reality the technological development of the Nuclear Industry was stifled by the Oil and Coal Industry over many decades. Excellent reactor technology called IFR, built in fuel re-processing, high burnup rate, thermally controlled criticality. It still needed work with materials technology and to replace the sodium coolant with lead. From weapons grade, DU and spent fuel it's full design produced enough electricity, hydrogen and medical isotopes directly replacing coal on the grid and providing fuel for existing vehicle fleets to replace oil for the next 5000 years. The oil and coal industry crushed this technology with lobbying for its defunding, decommissioning and its demolition. You can see the latest evidence enacted into law in the 2005 US Energy Policy Act, SEC 600 onwards.
You could argue that it was immoral for the Oil and Coal industry to undermine this technology because it used DU and weapons grade material for fuel. More-over that it used spent fuel from the previous BWR/PWR reactor technology as fuel to solve the waste problem. Designed to answer the concerns of using Nuclear Power. Prototyped, tested - so there was reactor experience as well. So you see, the replacement technology you are looking for to make your argument exists, however it is the Oil and Coal industry that is destroying it grasshoper.
You could argue that the Oil and Coal industry are immoral for blocking and, their ongoing effort destroying this technology however most of you Nuclear ideologists are so binary because of how well the politics of oil and coal played you that can't even organize enough effort to save the one nuclear technology that it really would be immoral to oppose. The Oil and Coal industry manipulated nuclear supporters to go up against their opponents, the greenies that opposed Coal and Oil, while they undermined nuclear power. That's how useless your nuclear ideology is, how much it has betrayed you.
To further drive my point home you can't make that argument about current reactor technology because it DOES create DU used as weapons and it hasn't solved its spent fuel issues. You can't even make that argument with thorium because it creates a new waste stream and does nothing about the extant one. So the argument is far more complex than how you represent it with your useless blind binary nuclear ideology. It is completely moral to oppose *this* nuclear industry on the DU issue alone, even before you start to consider other factors like, spent fuel, mine tailings, reactor disposal and so many issues *this* nuclear industry does have. It's immoral arguing against resolving these problems, yet Nuclear ideologist have no answer for it so you just ignore them. At least I've researched the Nuclear industry enough to articulate an argument, all you have is trite mindless rhetoric.
So you can either explore the facts for yourself or you can cling to the nuclear ideology like a fool. You can take responsibility for the flaws the nuclear industry has and then try to figure out how to improve it, solve them and make it work properly but to do that you have to completely shatter the belief system of your nuclear ideology that it is perfect. You can attempt to understand the forces that shape it, the risks we take using it. It's the only moral way to support nuclear power amongst a sea of moral reasons to oppose it.
Remember you are the one who thinks wifi is dangerous.
Damage to mitochondrial DNA in the eggs of girls, who are born with their entire inventory of eggs, occurs as low as 10 Gy according to some of the papers. You can be a moron or you can be pragmatic about what that means, that wifi affects children more because they have a lower body mass than adults, that they need to keep their distance from wifi because they have less water, muscle and bone to shield their reproductive system, that schools should be cabled with fibre optic and ethernet instead of trying to scrimp installation costs with wi-fi.
As if we don't have enough (4000+) genetic defects already somehow, this paltry expense is a really big stretch for you to mentally incur to avoid introducing genetic damage into the germline of the entire human race's DNA for the rest of time.
Try to marginalise me the facts because you're too dogmatic to even examine them just makes your empty rhetoric look stupid and uninformed.
Nuclear energy did not kill any of those children.
Yes it did. Depleted Uranium is a by product of the Uranium enrichment process. There is more of that than fuel. If it was unused and stored you maybe able to claim morality however a scenario mimicking Agent Orange is not Atoms For Peace, it's sub-critical nuclear warfare using Nuclear Industry fuel by-products.
The very fact that these weapons are fired with a Nuclear Industry fuel by-product, Depleated Uranium, as ordinance for a strategic advantage, cannot be denied.
The Nuclear Industry doesn't condemn the use of DU, it's an expense they don't have to sustain to store it. It's a revenue source.
The fact that you have to blame me for those deaths in order to retake the moral high ground demonstrates your cognitive dissonance.
I don't have to re-take anything, the facts stand despite your ignorance of them. It is FACT that DU is used as a munition as a primary weapon. It is known to cause mutagenic effects when it is ingested, it's toxic. Not only is it an emitter, it's spontaneous criticality creates bursts of alpha (and gamma IIRC) radiation 10-20 times higher than its normal decay. Once it's in the environment it can't be removed. DU ash from the 3000C pyrophoric flames it produces when fired is a durable microscopic ceramic oxide and can be ingested by humans and animals as an inhalant and in water to create those mutated babies whose image glue so easily into your mind.
It is immoral to use this as a munition because of the undeniable effect it has on pregnancies and children. The secondary effects destroys entire generations more completely than landmines ever could as a consequence. How would you like an aerosol of ceramic DU dust spread around your house, your town, your city, your crops, your water and your air?
I've excoriated you however I've also given you the benefit of the doubt whilst you were ignorant of the facts. They illustrate you have no claim to any morality whilst a Nuclear industry by-product, Depleted Uranium, is used as a munition and causes horrendous birth defects when ingested.. It's completely indefensible to use this material and it is undeniably connected to the the fuel used in nuclear reactors.One tenth of the ore is fuel for the reactor. The main use of what's left over is as a munition, for which it *is* used. You say it's immoral to oppose this. If you really think that, you have a serious problem.
Let me get this straight. I am an evil mentally-ill baby-killer communist? Because I think nuclear power is the only viable path forward on climate change(a stance a super majority of scientists share)?
What does climate change matter if we mutilate our own DNA permanently? I'm not saying we should'nt effect rapid action on resolving the carbon legacy we been given (clean up all the externalities), but not at the expense of genetically damaging the entire human race by spreading radioactive isotopes that destroy our DNA. You're basically saying we're too stupid to fix the problems we were handed from the industrial age and that we should hand a radio isotope legacy down to the next generation that can wipe humanity out within a few generations. You're so blinded by your ideology that you can not or will not examine the facts.
It would make you worse than a mentally-ill baby killing communist to possess that knowledge now and still say it's ok. The choice to do so would make you a psychopath as well because your idealism has been confronted and you won't even acknowledge the effect on the human race regardless of race or politics and you're trying to justify distributing doses of birth defects with rhetoric. Most sane people wouldn't try to justify something so he
I guess they won't be affected unless your application reads and writes data from/to the disk one byte at a time.
That's only one part. Reads wait on writes and I/O *to* disk forces a context switch from the CPU scheduler but that doesn't mean that the CPU isn't going to context switch when it's de/compressing a block in memory or for some other memory bound process.
Reads and writes to disk provide an opportunity to mask the CS latency in the I/O latency however there is no such opportunity in a CPU cache to system ram operation and this is where a lot of the impact will be felt. It's every task switch and that will affect threaded processes like video streaming substantially.
I know this because I wrote a lot of math to figure out application latency to tune out this very type of performance issue several years ago and what I expect to see is system time increasing as the CPU spends a lot more time shifting memory around than on my applications. You can't stop the system from context switching, it has to for the OS to work, you can only exercise some control over *when* it does. You still have to get things from RAM to CPU cache and it's not as if you can add more CPU cache to reduce CS, it's on the CPU for a reason.
That frustrating feeling of what the fuck is this system doing is usually memory thrashing when you analyse it later.
People have already run network tests and the KPTI patch has a minimum performance loss.
That's probably because of buffering on the network card and IP stack however, like disk writes, it's only one part of the CPU scheduler's parameters.
More than likely we are going to spend some of the next few months trying to figure out every way possible to claim back the performance hit while we re-learn how to tune the system properly again. Maybe even a new CPU or I/O scheduler. I used to really support Intel products and I'm amazed that they could screw up something this fundamental. Hopefully I've just got some of the detail wrong and its not as bad as I think. Not cool Intel.
Ellison is probably kicking himself with Oracle about to get out of Sparc CPUs right now, it could of meant a lot of market for Oracle, so at least something good has come out of it;)
By "virtual memory" are we talking Page Files and swap space?
Almost. The difference is a minor or major page fault. From swap space to ram to CPU cache is a major page fault whereas a memory transfer is between the CPU cache (L1,L2 or L3) and system RAM is a minor page fault.
Disk space as memory?
No. Between CPU cache and system RAM. In this case the issue relates to minor page faults which occur when the CPU scheduler is switching tasks, called "context switching", between processes, threads and lwt running on the system.
The kernel maintains a summary page of the process when it switches tasks so that it doesn't have to recreate details of the process and is more efficient when it switches tasks. It is this summary page that can be attacked and IIUC addresses can be changed to access memory the process does not have permission to access.
This means that a process running in the userspace of Ring 3 of the CPU it can modify it's summary table to access data in Ring 0, where the kernel is. Which is obviously bad because now that process can access all the memory.
So an almost unusuable computer becomes completely unusable. Unless you're on solid state, then you get the performance of a mechanical hdd.
Maybe, but not how you would expect. The CPU scheduler *may* make it possible to hide some of the latency created by the now crippled context switching in mechanical disk latency that you can't do with ssd because of the way IO determines *when* the scheduler will context switch. Still early days and it depends on what techniques can be devised. It depends on where the summary tables are maintained and I would expect that to be in CPU cache, which is much faster than system RAM, which is why it is a tough bug to get around.
With that in mind it's plain to see why the Linux kernel devs want to call the patch fuckwit_ because Intel screwed up badly on this.
“Some men look at constitutions with sanctimonious reverence, and deem them like the ark of the covenant, too sacred to be touched. They ascribe to the men of the preceding age a wisdom more than human, and suppose what they did to be beyond amendment...But I know also, that laws and institutions must go hand in hand with the progress of the human mind. As that becomes more developed, more enlightened, as new discoveries are made, new truths disclosed, and manners and opinions change with the change of circumstances, institutions must advance also, and keep pace with the times.”
The only innocent party is the guy who got shot and we should look at things from his perspective. The reality is some confused guy, who was probably hanging out with his family in some down time before new year, opened the front door and was confronted with a swat team with spotlights in his eyes and weapons pointed at him. He got killed at the front door of his house thinking put my hands up? ok. WTF is going on, oops my pants are falling down. It could have been anyone here.
Is anyone considering the guy who got shot in all this vitriol? What about his family who witnessed their son/brother shot at the front door? Do you think they care that some arrogant moron, with a tiny bit of social engineering was able to convince a police department to go out to someones house and shoot at them. Would you care *why* the police turned up to shoot you or that they shot you?
The thing we have to take away from all this is: Two wrongs don't make a right instead of wrestling with who is more culpable, the police who shot the man or the swatter who sent them there, consider that an an innocent person, completely uninvolved with the situation got killed. What is that but a complete failure of the system?
That's why swatting someone is like throwing a hand grenade, it might go off, the shrapnel may kill someone because police have guns pointed at you. Even if they don't it would be terrifying. He put the innocent guy in that situation, he is personally responsible for the cause and effect because he didn't say what could possibly go wrong. No doubt it is a crime, just not one defined by law. He should be punished however I'm not qualified to say how.
The police officer is also responsible in this chain of culpability. His Sargent is responsible for not keeping his officer calm and is captain is responsible for not ensuring the community they have a duty to protect and serve, was protected and served. It doesn't matter if you have a badge, it's still a crime to shot someone and at the very least it should be the end of the officer's career because he is not emotionally stable enough to handle a weapon and point it at people whilst his sargent and captain should at least be demoted. All these systems should exist.
Everyone lost, no one is more right or wrong, they're all culpable. If you want to know what it looks like when the system fails, there you have it. Everyone acted like assholes and assumed the guy they were pointing the weapon at was to.
Yeah, predictable, all you have left is the ad-hom attack.
And after showing me pictures of dead babies, which have nothing to do with nuclear energy, I know better then to ever click one of your links again.
Those images are burned into your brain, your support of nuclear power means you are responsible. If you want Nuclear power to not be connected to that then you should start a campaign to stop the military using DU.
You are being wilfully ignorant to maintain your ideology, just like a communist. You also maintain your cognitive dissonance with the hipocrisy you accuse me of. You're a nuclear idealist and your idealism will lead you to a future full of mental health issues if you don't stop now because you are arguing against truth and fact.
You've failed shill school and it's unlikely that you can present anything other than rhetoric. I doubt you have anything useful to add to this conversation that is of value.
It is immoral to oppose nuclear power.
I know you want the best for people and you really believe it, however you have been deceived by the Nuclear Industry's PR machine. You're no longer ignorant even if you are too dogmatic to understand the mechanism of how radio-isotopes are absorbed into the body. Let go of your belief system and your ideology otherwise every time you repeat this line you're going to see the image of those babies mutilated by exposure to depleted uranium oxide. It's in your head now.
You are personally responsible for this evil whenever you support nuclear power because your nuclear ideology is so immoral it is evil.
When NASA climate scientists say you are wrong on the issue of climate change, you are wrong.
They are experts on climate change, not nuclear power systems. I accept the climate science, coal and oil have got to go. I don't accept that it has to be replaced with nuclear power because it doesn't have solutions for its core problems, and it's immoral.
After reading your posts I am even more convinced you are cognitive dissonance.
I see you are struggling with what that is
Stop being a lunatic. Be brave enough to admit you are wrong,
You haven't presented an argument and you're unable to counter any of the arguments I presented because you have nothing but frantic rhetoric. I said: Typically, you will continue to falsify your reality to maintain your ideology when confronted with facts. I confronted you with findings from the very organization you hold as an authority to utterly destroy your argument and that's exactly what you did. Are you saying the science the IAEA commissioned isn't good enough for you?
That's how ignorant your immoral nuclear ideology is. It's only going to get worse for you the more you shill. Be brave enough to admit you are ignorant.
And fuck you for making me see dead babies. And what type of asshole uses duckduckgo anyways.
Take personal responsibility for what you see. If you aren't against it you are for it. That's your morality right there you ignorant, apathetic ideologist. I hope those images burn into your mind so you really know what you are supporting, why your nuclear ideology is immoral.
And for the record Iraq did not have wmds so your birthdefects were not caused from nuclear energy or weapons.
Wow. You're so hopelessly out of your depth you don't even know how ignorant you are.
When uranium is enriched with CRC-144 into uranium hexaflouride, the U-238 left behind is called depleted uranium. The US has about 700,000 tons of the stuff and it is almost twice as heavy as lead. It's main use is to increase the range of the weapons on tanks and helicopters when used as ordinance. When fired from one of these weapons DU becomes pyrophoric and burns into a ceramic mist which US soldiers and the people they are firing at breathe in. It's all over Iraq and Afghanistan and will go on causing those types of birth defects for generations. It's what makes US veterans sick long after they get home and your immoral nuclear ideology supports this.
Be brave enough to own this shame because this is the product of your immoral nuclear ideology.
It is immoral to oppose nuclear power.
You're going to find it very difficult to get the images out of your head because it is the face of the immoral nuclear ideology you believe in. You're engaging in willful ignorance to maintain that immoral nuclear ideology in your mind. Now that you know, you will have to consciously maintain your immoral nuclear ideology with that knowledge. That makes you personally responsible for your guilt and your mental health will be undermined by your subconscious every time you propagate your immoral nuclear ideology. That's the price you'll pay for falsifying your reality with *your* cognitive dissonance.
Stop now, educate yourself out of the belief system, Nuclear Ideology is immoral.
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I sincerely hope these unions die a quick death. There is hope: the Supreme Court is going to have another look at this: http://www.insidesources.com/s...
I think Unions play a more valuable role of keeping a bunch of people with low IQs busy driving trucks. That's not an easy thing to do and whilst it maybe smart to replace them all with automation, I have doubts that it is a very wise thing to do. You should never back people into a corner, they get violent.
Ever met a pissed of truck driver with a tire iron? Now consider one with a lot of time on their hands.
In this world of ever increasing automation has anyone here guessed who all of the frustration will eventually be taken out on?
And the others were guilty? This really looks like 'oh, while trying to send the Jews into concentration camps, we made some mistakes and sent there some non-Jews'...
No need for comparisons, Turkey provided Hitler the template for the Jewish massacres under the guise of The Armenian Genocide. They've never apologized to the Armenian people and to this day deny that it happened.
At least the Germans faced up to what they did under Hitler, Turkey has *never* faced the consequences of their fascism and remains as one of the primary examples of a culture falsifying reality so they don't have to bare the shame they so rightly deserve. Turkey has yet again provided a template for the next round of human rights violations a century after they did it the first time.
Fascism is alive and well in Turkey so if anyone needs an example of what a 21st century Stazi would look like, now you know.
Corporations have human rights. They have the right to donate as much money as they want to politicians to shape policy. There is very little doubt this is tax deductible, you tax dollars paying to undermine democracy.
That's why the cat is so damn grumpy.
Piss off, why you blaming us for some stupid Canadian rock? Thing probably already apologized to you.
Because it's part of Queensland and you gave them extra room to propagate.
WHAT HAVE YOU DONE!!!!
It's amazing that exactly the same type of event happened in Russia about a week ago with almost exactly the same description. There must have been an earthquake in Russia at the same time as their meteor.
Coincidentally, this happened at the same time as a false missile warning because 'some guy' pressed the wrong button. Which is amazing because coincidentally the Japanese issued a false missile warning because 'some guy' pressed the wrong button the next day.
What an amazing set of coincidences!!
If I was a secret agency with an agenda and everybody watched my satellite being sent up into space I'd claim it was lost, too.
Maybe it's fake news.
It is immoral to oppose nuclear power.
Well you just go on believing that. Nuclear idealists, such as yourself are usually too busy trying not to look stupid or embarrassed because you argue on the basis of a belief system, not fact or truth. You're trying to justify imposing birth defects on a population so you can have your nuclear fuel, a new low for immorality. Your belief system is the sign of an afflicted mind, and because your subconscious knows Nuclear ideology is immoral it will continue to unbalance your psyche. Which is bad because if you actually took the time to examine the facts you may have something worthwhile to offer instead of being just another robot fanboi.
As I said, I can make your side of the argument better than you can and this is how. In reality the technological development of the Nuclear Industry was stifled by the Oil and Coal Industry over many decades. Excellent reactor technology called IFR, built in fuel re-processing, high burnup rate, thermally controlled criticality. It still needed work with materials technology and to replace the sodium coolant with lead. From weapons grade, DU and spent fuel it's full design produced enough electricity, hydrogen and medical isotopes directly replacing coal on the grid and providing fuel for existing vehicle fleets to replace oil for the next 5000 years. The oil and coal industry crushed this technology with lobbying for its defunding, decommissioning and its demolition. You can see the latest evidence enacted into law in the 2005 US Energy Policy Act, SEC 600 onwards.
You could argue that it was immoral for the Oil and Coal industry to undermine this technology because it used DU and weapons grade material for fuel. More-over that it used spent fuel from the previous BWR/PWR reactor technology as fuel to solve the waste problem. Designed to answer the concerns of using Nuclear Power. Prototyped, tested - so there was reactor experience as well. So you see, the replacement technology you are looking for to make your argument exists, however it is the Oil and Coal industry that is destroying it grasshoper.
You could argue that the Oil and Coal industry are immoral for blocking and, their ongoing effort destroying this technology however most of you Nuclear ideologists are so binary because of how well the politics of oil and coal played you that can't even organize enough effort to save the one nuclear technology that it really would be immoral to oppose. The Oil and Coal industry manipulated nuclear supporters to go up against their opponents, the greenies that opposed Coal and Oil, while they undermined nuclear power. That's how useless your nuclear ideology is, how much it has betrayed you.
To further drive my point home you can't make that argument about current reactor technology because it DOES create DU used as weapons and it hasn't solved its spent fuel issues. You can't even make that argument with thorium because it creates a new waste stream and does nothing about the extant one. So the argument is far more complex than how you represent it with your useless blind binary nuclear ideology. It is completely moral to oppose *this* nuclear industry on the DU issue alone, even before you start to consider other factors like, spent fuel, mine tailings, reactor disposal and so many issues *this* nuclear industry does have. It's immoral arguing against resolving these problems, yet Nuclear ideologist have no answer for it so you just ignore them. At least I've researched the Nuclear industry enough to articulate an argument, all you have is trite mindless rhetoric.
So you can either explore the facts for yourself or you can cling to the nuclear ideology like a fool. You can take responsibility for the flaws the nuclear industry has and then try to figure out how to improve it, solve them and make it work properly but to do that you have to completely shatter the belief system of your nuclear ideology that it is perfect. You can attempt to understand the forces that shape it, the risks we take using it. It's the only moral way to support nuclear power amongst a sea of moral reasons to oppose it.
That's why your Nuclear Idealism is evil.
Remember you are the one who thinks wifi is dangerous.
Damage to mitochondrial DNA in the eggs of girls, who are born with their entire inventory of eggs, occurs as low as 10 Gy according to some of the papers. You can be a moron or you can be pragmatic about what that means, that wifi affects children more because they have a lower body mass than adults, that they need to keep their distance from wifi because they have less water, muscle and bone to shield their reproductive system, that schools should be cabled with fibre optic and ethernet instead of trying to scrimp installation costs with wi-fi.
As if we don't have enough (4000+) genetic defects already somehow, this paltry expense is a really big stretch for you to mentally incur to avoid introducing genetic damage into the germline of the entire human race's DNA for the rest of time.
Try to marginalise me the facts because you're too dogmatic to even examine them just makes your empty rhetoric look stupid and uninformed.
Nuclear energy did not kill any of those children.
Yes it did. Depleted Uranium is a by product of the Uranium enrichment process. There is more of that than fuel. If it was unused and stored you maybe able to claim morality however a scenario mimicking Agent Orange is not Atoms For Peace, it's sub-critical nuclear warfare using Nuclear Industry fuel by-products.
The very fact that these weapons are fired with a Nuclear Industry fuel by-product, Depleated Uranium, as ordinance for a strategic advantage, cannot be denied.
The Nuclear Industry doesn't condemn the use of DU, it's an expense they don't have to sustain to store it. It's a revenue source.
The fact that you have to blame me for those deaths in order to retake the moral high ground demonstrates your cognitive dissonance.
I don't have to re-take anything, the facts stand despite your ignorance of them. It is FACT that DU is used as a munition as a primary weapon. It is known to cause mutagenic effects when it is ingested, it's toxic. Not only is it an emitter, it's spontaneous criticality creates bursts of alpha (and gamma IIRC) radiation 10-20 times higher than its normal decay. Once it's in the environment it can't be removed. DU ash from the 3000C pyrophoric flames it produces when fired is a durable microscopic ceramic oxide and can be ingested by humans and animals as an inhalant and in water to create those mutated babies whose image glue so easily into your mind.
It is immoral to use this as a munition because of the undeniable effect it has on pregnancies and children. The secondary effects destroys entire generations more completely than landmines ever could as a consequence. How would you like an aerosol of ceramic DU dust spread around your house, your town, your city, your crops, your water and your air?
I've excoriated you however I've also given you the benefit of the doubt whilst you were ignorant of the facts. They illustrate you have no claim to any morality whilst a Nuclear industry by-product, Depleted Uranium, is used as a munition and causes horrendous birth defects when ingested.. It's completely indefensible to use this material and it is undeniably connected to the the fuel used in nuclear reactors.One tenth of the ore is fuel for the reactor. The main use of what's left over is as a munition, for which it *is* used. You say it's immoral to oppose this. If you really think that, you have a serious problem.
Let me get this straight. I am an evil mentally-ill baby-killer communist? Because I think nuclear power is the only viable path forward on climate change(a stance a super majority of scientists share)?
What does climate change matter if we mutilate our own DNA permanently? I'm not saying we should'nt effect rapid action on resolving the carbon legacy we been given (clean up all the externalities), but not at the expense of genetically damaging the entire human race by spreading radioactive isotopes that destroy our DNA. You're basically saying we're too stupid to fix the problems we were handed from the industrial age and that we should hand a radio isotope legacy down to the next generation that can wipe humanity out within a few generations. You're so blinded by your ideology that you can not or will not examine the facts.
It would make you worse than a mentally-ill baby killing communist to possess that knowledge now and still say it's ok. The choice to do so would make you a psychopath as well because your idealism has been confronted and you won't even acknowledge the effect on the human race regardless of race or politics and you're trying to justify distributing doses of birth defects with rhetoric. Most sane people wouldn't try to justify something so he
I guess they won't be affected unless your application reads and writes data from/to the disk one byte at a time.
That's only one part. Reads wait on writes and I/O *to* disk forces a context switch from the CPU scheduler but that doesn't mean that the CPU isn't going to context switch when it's de/compressing a block in memory or for some other memory bound process.
Reads and writes to disk provide an opportunity to mask the CS latency in the I/O latency however there is no such opportunity in a CPU cache to system ram operation and this is where a lot of the impact will be felt. It's every task switch and that will affect threaded processes like video streaming substantially.
I know this because I wrote a lot of math to figure out application latency to tune out this very type of performance issue several years ago and what I expect to see is system time increasing as the CPU spends a lot more time shifting memory around than on my applications. You can't stop the system from context switching, it has to for the OS to work, you can only exercise some control over *when* it does. You still have to get things from RAM to CPU cache and it's not as if you can add more CPU cache to reduce CS, it's on the CPU for a reason.
That frustrating feeling of what the fuck is this system doing is usually memory thrashing when you analyse it later.
People have already run network tests and the KPTI patch has a minimum performance loss.
That's probably because of buffering on the network card and IP stack however, like disk writes, it's only one part of the CPU scheduler's parameters.
More than likely we are going to spend some of the next few months trying to figure out every way possible to claim back the performance hit while we re-learn how to tune the system properly again. Maybe even a new CPU or I/O scheduler. I used to really support Intel products and I'm amazed that they could screw up something this fundamental. Hopefully I've just got some of the detail wrong and its not as bad as I think. Not cool Intel.
Ellison is probably kicking himself with Oracle about to get out of Sparc CPUs right now, it could of meant a lot of market for Oracle, so at least something good has come out of it ;)
but wot if the interwebs goes down, won't my brain stop working?
Isn't it a derivative work and fair use of my brain?
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By "virtual memory" are we talking Page Files and swap space?
Almost. The difference is a minor or major page fault. From swap space to ram to CPU cache is a major page fault whereas a memory transfer is between the CPU cache (L1,L2 or L3) and system RAM is a minor page fault.
Disk space as memory?
No. Between CPU cache and system RAM. In this case the issue relates to minor page faults which occur when the CPU scheduler is switching tasks, called "context switching", between processes, threads and lwt running on the system.
The kernel maintains a summary page of the process when it switches tasks so that it doesn't have to recreate details of the process and is more efficient when it switches tasks. It is this summary page that can be attacked and IIUC addresses can be changed to access memory the process does not have permission to access.
This means that a process running in the userspace of Ring 3 of the CPU it can modify it's summary table to access data in Ring 0, where the kernel is. Which is obviously bad because now that process can access all the memory.
So an almost unusuable computer becomes completely unusable. Unless you're on solid state, then you get the performance of a mechanical hdd.
Maybe, but not how you would expect. The CPU scheduler *may* make it possible to hide some of the latency created by the now crippled context switching in mechanical disk latency that you can't do with ssd because of the way IO determines *when* the scheduler will context switch. Still early days and it depends on what techniques can be devised. It depends on where the summary tables are maintained and I would expect that to be in CPU cache, which is much faster than system RAM, which is why it is a tough bug to get around.
With that in mind it's plain to see why the Linux kernel devs want to call the patch fuckwit_ because Intel screwed up badly on this.
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“Some men look at constitutions with sanctimonious reverence, and deem them like the ark of the covenant, too sacred to be touched. They ascribe to the men of the preceding age a wisdom more than human, and suppose what they did to be beyond amendment...But I know also, that laws and institutions must go hand in hand with the progress of the human mind. As that becomes more developed, more enlightened, as new discoveries are made, new truths disclosed, and manners and opinions change with the change of circumstances, institutions must advance also, and keep pace with the times.”
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The only innocent party is the guy who got shot and we should look at things from his perspective. The reality is some confused guy, who was probably hanging out with his family in some down time before new year, opened the front door and was confronted with a swat team with spotlights in his eyes and weapons pointed at him. He got killed at the front door of his house thinking put my hands up? ok. WTF is going on, oops my pants are falling down. It could have been anyone here.
Is anyone considering the guy who got shot in all this vitriol? What about his family who witnessed their son/brother shot at the front door? Do you think they care that some arrogant moron, with a tiny bit of social engineering was able to convince a police department to go out to someones house and shoot at them. Would you care *why* the police turned up to shoot you or that they shot you?
The thing we have to take away from all this is: Two wrongs don't make a right instead of wrestling with who is more culpable, the police who shot the man or the swatter who sent them there, consider that an an innocent person, completely uninvolved with the situation got killed. What is that but a complete failure of the system?
That's why swatting someone is like throwing a hand grenade, it might go off, the shrapnel may kill someone because police have guns pointed at you. Even if they don't it would be terrifying. He put the innocent guy in that situation, he is personally responsible for the cause and effect because he didn't say what could possibly go wrong. No doubt it is a crime, just not one defined by law. He should be punished however I'm not qualified to say how.
The police officer is also responsible in this chain of culpability. His Sargent is responsible for not keeping his officer calm and is captain is responsible for not ensuring the community they have a duty to protect and serve, was protected and served. It doesn't matter if you have a badge, it's still a crime to shot someone and at the very least it should be the end of the officer's career because he is not emotionally stable enough to handle a weapon and point it at people whilst his sargent and captain should at least be demoted. All these systems should exist.
Everyone lost, no one is more right or wrong, they're all culpable. If you want to know what it looks like when the system fails, there you have it. Everyone acted like assholes and assumed the guy they were pointing the weapon at was to.
Far more die of heart attacks on duty. Maybe lay off the donuts AND the assault rifles.
There's no need to be so pragmatic and sensible. Stop being so reasonable, just be vitriolic like a normal person.
You are nuts and a hypocrite.
Yeah, predictable, all you have left is the ad-hom attack.
And after showing me pictures of dead babies, which have nothing to do with nuclear energy, I know better then to ever click one of your links again.
Those images are burned into your brain, your support of nuclear power means you are responsible. If you want Nuclear power to not be connected to that then you should start a campaign to stop the military using DU. You are being wilfully ignorant to maintain your ideology, just like a communist. You also maintain your cognitive dissonance with the hipocrisy you accuse me of. You're a nuclear idealist and your idealism will lead you to a future full of mental health issues if you don't stop now because you are arguing against truth and fact.
You've failed shill school and it's unlikely that you can present anything other than rhetoric. I doubt you have anything useful to add to this conversation that is of value.
It is immoral to oppose nuclear power.
I know you want the best for people and you really believe it, however you have been deceived by the Nuclear Industry's PR machine. You're no longer ignorant even if you are too dogmatic to understand the mechanism of how radio-isotopes are absorbed into the body. Let go of your belief system and your ideology otherwise every time you repeat this line you're going to see the image of those babies mutilated by exposure to depleted uranium oxide. It's in your head now.
You are personally responsible for this evil whenever you support nuclear power because your nuclear ideology is so immoral it is evil.
You are responsible.
When NASA climate scientists say you are wrong on the issue of climate change, you are wrong.
They are experts on climate change, not nuclear power systems. I accept the climate science, coal and oil have got to go. I don't accept that it has to be replaced with nuclear power because it doesn't have solutions for its core problems, and it's immoral.
After reading your posts I am even more convinced you are cognitive dissonance.
I see you are struggling with what that is
Stop being a lunatic. Be brave enough to admit you are wrong,
You haven't presented an argument and you're unable to counter any of the arguments I presented because you have nothing but frantic rhetoric. I said: Typically, you will continue to falsify your reality to maintain your ideology when confronted with facts. I confronted you with findings from the very organization you hold as an authority to utterly destroy your argument and that's exactly what you did. Are you saying the science the IAEA commissioned isn't good enough for you?
That's how ignorant your immoral nuclear ideology is. It's only going to get worse for you the more you shill. Be brave enough to admit you are ignorant.
And fuck you for making me see dead babies. And what type of asshole uses duckduckgo anyways.
Take personal responsibility for what you see. If you aren't against it you are for it. That's your morality right there you ignorant, apathetic ideologist. I hope those images burn into your mind so you really know what you are supporting, why your nuclear ideology is immoral.
And for the record Iraq did not have wmds so your birthdefects were not caused from nuclear energy or weapons.
Wow. You're so hopelessly out of your depth you don't even know how ignorant you are.
When uranium is enriched with CRC-144 into uranium hexaflouride, the U-238 left behind is called depleted uranium. The US has about 700,000 tons of the stuff and it is almost twice as heavy as lead. It's main use is to increase the range of the weapons on tanks and helicopters when used as ordinance. When fired from one of these weapons DU becomes pyrophoric and burns into a ceramic mist which US soldiers and the people they are firing at breathe in. It's all over Iraq and Afghanistan and will go on causing those types of birth defects for generations. It's what makes US veterans sick long after they get home and your immoral nuclear ideology supports this.
Be brave enough to own this shame because this is the product of your immoral nuclear ideology.
It is immoral to oppose nuclear power.
You're going to find it very difficult to get the images out of your head because it is the face of the immoral nuclear ideology you believe in. You're engaging in willful ignorance to maintain that immoral nuclear ideology in your mind. Now that you know, you will have to consciously maintain your immoral nuclear ideology with that knowledge. That makes you personally responsible for your guilt and your mental health will be undermined by your subconscious every time you propagate your immoral nuclear ideology. That's the price you'll pay for falsifying your reality with *your* cognitive dissonance.
Stop now, educate yourself out of the belief system, Nuclear Ideology is immoral.
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Your Nuclear ideology is immoral.