Exactly. It seems a lot more plausible that this possibility is in place so that the large traders can defraud the small ones, and this person is punished for overstepping his position, not on any valid legal grounds.
Well, at least this time it is pretty clear who the idiots responsible for the coming catastrophe are. It is you and people like you. Of course you will try to weasel your way out being responsible afterwards, as people like you usually do. "How could we have known" and "He promised things will get better", and the like.
Really, metrics are not a beginner's game and are tricky even for vastly experiences experts. This one here is worthless or worse. It just shows which research was easiest to do meaningless incremental "research" on, nothing else. So in fact, whoever came out on top here has a good chance of having done flashy, but actually sub-standard research.
"A good decision is based on knowledge and not on numbers." (Plato) applies in spades.
It will not happen. Neither of the ones that could do it has the personal honor or the statesmanship that would require. The US has moved for 3rd-rated "leaders" to 4th rated ones now, no qualities of an actual leader in evidence anymore. Obama was probably the last one that at least tried to give the impression of being qualified for the job.
It is over. The US population has disgraced itself in the eyes of the world. (And that they voted Trump into office is just the icing on the cake, the main problem is having two completely unacceptable candidates in the first place...)
That also means the "American Century" is finally over as well. Good.
Fascinating how people think these days that publicly disgracing themselves is somehow acceptable or reflects well on them. It does explain a lot about the dismal state the human race is in though: Too many cave-men, like this one here.
That argument is too difficult for republicans and their followers. The numbers are just to hard to grasp. (Not that Hillary isn't the second-worst candidate in a long, long time...)
And anyways, Counting is Mathematics is Science and hasn't Trump promised to outlaw Science because it is inconvenient for Business?
This begs the question whether corruption or plain old incompetence is better. After all, the corrupt ones may possibly still be frightened into doing a reasonable job when things get really bad, while no such possibility exists for the incompetent.
So this would mostly be small-writes for something which is essentially metadata? Talk about these people not even having a faint clue what they are doing. With the write-amplification you get in an SSD for small writes, this can probably kill a modern SSD in a week or less.
Very much so. And when you tell them that they are doing it wrong, they first do not believe you and then they start to cry. We have far too many coders and most of them really bad.
I have one (Linux box, and I have several devices that are not allowed Internet connectivity in either direction), but there is the thing: Consumer firewalls are set to default-allow, because otherwise consumers complain why their shiny new toys do not work. In other words, consumer-firewalls are useless without a competent administrator and they basically never have one. Enterprise firewalls are default-deny and, guess what, they universally have administrators, because without them you cannot be used in a meaningful way.
Hence while your question is entirely fine, the answer is "because things are massively screwed up". Now, if we required people to have proven skills in securing a network before buying server devices and connecting them to said networks, (like, say, we require people to have some formal qualification before operating a car and insurance in addition), things would look differently.
Nice quote. The problem here is that you do not understand what it means. What it means is that it is exceptionally rare for new things to be discovered in Physics in practice and that exceptional proof is required if they are. As these people fail to actually publish and have no explanation for what they are seeing, they do not even have ordinary proof and can be safely discounted as crackpots or scammers.
No, an actual scientist. Because a) this thing does extremely likely not work and b) 99.9999% or so of Physics would stay valid even if it does work. Ever heard of classical mechanics? It is still a major part of the Physics books, _despite_ being wrong. The thing is that the error is negligible unless you are at relativistic speeds or the equivalent in gravity. So no Physics books will get rewritten in either case. There is a vanishing small chance (i.e. no chance at all in actual reality) that some chapters will get some level of revision.
No, seriously, this really cannot "be real" for exceptionally large values of confidence. But as you can see from the responses here, there are many stupid people that do not even have any real base-understanding of how science works (probably using "science" as a surrogate for "religion", and completely misunderstanding that these two are on entirely different levels) and that fall for the scam.
There're no physics or attempts to explain the devices' inner workings.
That is a central characteristic of a pseudo-scientific scam and of junk-science. Tried and true, works on a certain type of person every time. Current other examples: Rossie's "E-CAT" and and the D-WAVE "quantum computer". Although the latter has tried to move into legitimacy a bit. Pretty hard, because the D- WAVE does nothing useful and is dog-slow compared to an orders-of-magnitude cheaper conventional computer. But both these scams have their followers.
It is really a case of "Of course you are the Messiah. I should know, I followed a few...". There is a class of people that have no problem with that argument, brain-dead as it is.
It is a typical way to keep the con going: "leak" information, put out conspiracy theories, start rumors, etc. The marks (i.e. morons with no understanding of science and the scientific process) will jump on these and see their mistaken beliefs validated. Works every time. And works in the face of overwhelming evidence to the contrary. Some people are incapable of recognizing a scam, and the same people will confuse science with "magic" or "religion", where you can just wish/pray hard enough and reality changes. No such effect has ever been observed in physical reality, yet these people still believe "it could happen".
A prime example are all these ads for "doctors want to suppress xyz" or "Millionaires want this video banned" and all those emails about a large inheritance or "Internet lottery" win" or somebody that needs help to move millions out of a country and all the other scams. They are years, sometimes decades old, and still find marks and from the prominent ad-placements they can afford, apparently quite a few of them. Or take all the ludicrous things religions claim and that still find millions to billions of people that believe them. This thing here is no different.
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A stellar example of greed combined with stupidity.
Exactly. It seems a lot more plausible that this possibility is in place so that the large traders can defraud the small ones, and this person is punished for overstepping his position, not on any valid legal grounds.
Also if you can't measure 6W then don't buy your measurement equipment from Alibaba.
And there the discussion stops, as you just failed EE101.
You are still wrong on who "my" people are. Pathetic, even for an AC, and that is saying something.
Well, at least this time it is pretty clear who the idiots responsible for the coming catastrophe are. It is you and people like you. Of course you will try to weasel your way out being responsible afterwards, as people like you usually do. "How could we have known" and "He promised things will get better", and the like.
Really, metrics are not a beginner's game and are tricky even for vastly experiences experts. This one here is worthless or worse. It just shows which research was easiest to do meaningless incremental "research" on, nothing else. So in fact, whoever came out on top here has a good chance of having done flashy, but actually sub-standard research.
"A good decision is based on knowledge and not on numbers." (Plato) applies in spades.
It will not happen. Neither of the ones that could do it has the personal honor or the statesmanship that would require. The US has moved for 3rd-rated "leaders" to 4th rated ones now, no qualities of an actual leader in evidence anymore. Obama was probably the last one that at least tried to give the impression of being qualified for the job.
It is over. The US population has disgraced itself in the eyes of the world. (And that they voted Trump into office is just the icing on the cake, the main problem is having two completely unacceptable candidates in the first place...)
That also means the "American Century" is finally over as well. Good.
Fascinating how people think these days that publicly disgracing themselves is somehow acceptable or reflects well on them. It does explain a lot about the dismal state the human race is in though: Too many cave-men, like this one here.
You know, that would be good for the planet, because that would assure no more USA.
That argument is too difficult for republicans and their followers. The numbers are just to hard to grasp. (Not that Hillary isn't the second-worst candidate in a long, long time...)
And anyways, Counting is Mathematics is Science and hasn't Trump promised to outlaw Science because it is inconvenient for Business?
You seem to have no idea how much power even an idle PC consumes. A 6W change is typically below what you can measure on mains-inlet.
This begs the question whether corruption or plain old incompetence is better. After all, the corrupt ones may possibly still be frightened into doing a reasonable job when things get really bad, while no such possibility exists for the incompetent.
That would only be a problem on laptops. Desktop drives spin-down far less often, if at all. (Mine do not. No reason for them to.)
So this would mostly be small-writes for something which is essentially metadata? Talk about these people not even having a faint clue what they are doing. With the write-amplification you get in an SSD for small writes, this can probably kill a modern SSD in a week or less.
Very much so. And when you tell them that they are doing it wrong, they first do not believe you and then they start to cry. We have far too many coders and most of them really bad.
I have one (Linux box, and I have several devices that are not allowed Internet connectivity in either direction), but there is the thing: Consumer firewalls are set to default-allow, because otherwise consumers complain why their shiny new toys do not work. In other words, consumer-firewalls are useless without a competent administrator and they basically never have one. Enterprise firewalls are default-deny and, guess what, they universally have administrators, because without them you cannot be used in a meaningful way.
Hence while your question is entirely fine, the answer is "because things are massively screwed up". Now, if we required people to have proven skills in securing a network before buying server devices and connecting them to said networks, (like, say, we require people to have some formal qualification before operating a car and insurance in addition), things would look differently.
First off, he didn't say 'New discoveries will be rare.' He said 'There is nothing new to discover.' There's nothing to 'interpret' or 'clarify' here.
Oh, yes, there is and very much so. You fail.
People that do not understand context and take statements literally are the worst kind of ignorant.
What, verification of their own findings and non-peer-reviewed and non-published? On that level, I can verify anything.
Nice quote. The problem here is that you do not understand what it means. What it means is that it is exceptionally rare for new things to be discovered in Physics in practice and that exceptional proof is required if they are. As these people fail to actually publish and have no explanation for what they are seeing, they do not even have ordinary proof and can be safely discounted as crackpots or scammers.
No, an actual scientist. Because a) this thing does extremely likely not work and b) 99.9999% or so of Physics would stay valid even if it does work. Ever heard of classical mechanics? It is still a major part of the Physics books, _despite_ being wrong. The thing is that the error is negligible unless you are at relativistic speeds or the equivalent in gravity. So no Physics books will get rewritten in either case. There is a vanishing small chance (i.e. no chance at all in actual reality) that some chapters will get some level of revision.
No, seriously, this really cannot "be real" for exceptionally large values of confidence. But as you can see from the responses here, there are many stupid people that do not even have any real base-understanding of how science works (probably using "science" as a surrogate for "religion", and completely misunderstanding that these two are on entirely different levels) and that fall for the scam.
There're no physics or attempts to explain the devices' inner workings.
That is a central characteristic of a pseudo-scientific scam and of junk-science. Tried and true, works on a certain type of person every time. Current other examples: Rossie's "E-CAT" and and the D-WAVE "quantum computer". Although the latter has tried to move into legitimacy a bit. Pretty hard, because the D-
WAVE does nothing useful and is dog-slow compared to an orders-of-magnitude cheaper conventional computer. But both these scams have their followers.
It is really a case of "Of course you are the Messiah. I should know, I followed a few...". There is a class of people that have no problem with that argument, brain-dead as it is.
It is a typical way to keep the con going: "leak" information, put out conspiracy theories, start rumors, etc. The marks (i.e. morons with no understanding of science and the scientific process) will jump on these and see their mistaken beliefs validated. Works every time. And works in the face of overwhelming evidence to the contrary. Some people are incapable of recognizing a scam, and the same people will confuse science with "magic" or "religion", where you can just wish/pray hard enough and reality changes. No such effect has ever been observed in physical reality, yet these people still believe "it could happen".
A prime example are all these ads for "doctors want to suppress xyz" or "Millionaires want this video banned" and all those emails about a large inheritance or "Internet lottery" win" or somebody that needs help to move millions out of a country and all the other scams. They are years, sometimes decades old, and still find marks and from the prominent ad-placements they can afford, apparently quite a few of them. Or take all the ludicrous things religions claim and that still find millions to billions of people that believe them. This thing here is no different.
Also on the insight-level of a child. Nothing like that is going to happen.