How is this news? This is information about something that happened in the '90s. It could be considered news in 2000 but we're multiple console generations detached from any relevance.
Is there something about this story that I'm missing?
Past 25 years, very few predictions are relevant, including yours. As for me, I think we're going to see a few of tiny changes that will ultimately lead to a far more representative government and begin cleaning up the political mess we're in.
In a few years, all the thermal issue with lithium batteries are going to be a thing of the past. If not for improved safety then you should at wait because the new batteries are going to cause the price of the preset battery forms to plummet. Before installing this shit, do check with your insurance company to see if they will cover you if a battery fire does burn down your house because when one battery goes, they ALL go.
I agree that the US has been going in the wrong direction for some time but I do not envy the Chinese. There is a lot of people suffering there and it's not just because of their totalitarian government, they have giant looming issues that are one disruption from crumbling their empire.
Right now China is economically dependant on the rest of the world using them as a manufacturing hub while keeping money from leaving their country by devaluing their currency and levying huge import taxes. This has multiple issue:
* It's paradoxical because as it lifts the Chinese people up, they want better conditions which is actually causing jobs to go elsewhere and making manufacturers more reliant on automation. Either way, the result is that it's bad for the Chinese economy. * China has strict environmental standards but only use it to prevent foreign companies from doing business there. If the EU or US actually insist on compliance, it will cause production to be less cost effective and again cause economic issues. * There has been a housing bubble in China but the problem is that nobody can afford to live their. The result is entire cities that are sparsely populated. When this comes crashing down, it will be absolutely devastating for China. * Their stock market is currently being propped up by their government. * The pollution in cities is absurdly high and is causing lung cancer in a lot of people. An increased percentage of the population dying isn't good in the long run because people may leave the cities out of fear or cause civil unrest but this is an outlying issue.
China isn't even a great place to be right now (Beijing has what they call "the poverty belt" that surrounds it) and while they do their best to present a good image, they are one bad issue away from economic collapse. A "trade war" with China would destabilize their country in a big way.
AMD doesn't have anything available that competes at the high end performance wise, and hasn't for a very long time.
Umm... did you wake up from a coma recently?
As for low power, except at the extremely low end, intel chips require a lot less power than their AMD equivalent at the same performance level.
This isn't an AMD vs Intel argument, I'm talking about ARM. Intel has tried and failed to enter the cell phone market several times. ARM chips own the low power market and Intel doesn't have a single ARM chip.
Intel has lost the crown for performance, never had the crown for being low power and has even discarded all attempt to enter the IoT market. It seems like all these releases are Intel's attempt at throwing everything at the wall and hoping something sticks. Meanwhile, I wonder how much cash they are doling out to prevent people from selling systems with AMD chips.
U.S. law enforcement officials call Baratov a "hacker-for-hire" paid by members of the Federal Security Service, or FSB, considered the successor to the KGB of the former Soviet Union.
To be perfectly honest, it sounds like the FBI is mad that Baratov is not working for them. I'm no fan of state-sponsored hackers but honestly, our own government has no moral standing to denounce hackers anywhere.
What they are failing to recognize is that repressive governments can dictate what people can and cannot run on a server within their own borders. You can argue they can use servers outside their borders but that's just likely to cause them to completely segment their chunk of the internet.
The real-world result of this tool is going to be enabling individuals that were banned from various sites for ToS violations to continue spreading hate/spam on those sites.
The "honorable mention" found 158 critical zero-day in Linux kernel drivers (out of thousands of drivers). While it's horrible that they existed, it's fantastic that there is a tool that can find them really quickly! I hope it can be adapted to work on drivers for other kernels.:)
GIMP 1.x was social experiment intended to test how far people would go to use an application. They ended quietly ended the experiment after avid GIMP fan was found in another GIMP user's apartment by police after a neighbor reported gruesome screams. The developer had been cutting off the fingers of there users who did not utilize every keyboard shortcut for GIMP. Shortly thereafter the GIMP 2.x series was released with an improved GUI that was just good enough to not drive people insane. The results of the experiment were recorded and they pushed forward on their new larger social experiment: GNOME 3. The intervention of outside parties improving Gnome 3 was unforeseen and ruined the experiment. However, the project was revived by a the Nazi scientist, Lennart Poettering. Project "EWONTFIX" continues to this day a scale greater than ever before.;)
The low cost of natural gas didn't help coal, but that was hardly the root cause for it's demise.
No, the root causes are that it's inefficient, becoming increasingly automated and displaced by other energy sources. Obama didn't do this but he did help this.
You are worried that we are turning into Venus huh? You do know that Venus receives more intense solar radiation than earth, plus Venus atmosphere is 97% plus CO2 (970,000 PPM), whereas on earth we are at 400PPM (or 0.04%).
I guess you don't know about feedback loops, eh? The Venus state is just the end result of the totality of many feedback loops.
No, plants and animals both respriate and produce CO2
Riiight. Let's put you in a room full of CO2 to test that theory.
Regarding the ACA, if the Democrats wanted to make health care better, they should have gotten involved instead of sitting on their hands and trying to obstruct.
LOL! Right... so how does that work when all the work is being done in secret at Republican luncheons that Democrats were prohibited from attending? Also, you really want to talk about obstruction? The 113th congress narrowly avoided the prize of being the least productive congress in US history. I agree and hope the Democrats are in fact working on bills to reform the ACA but I don't see the current congress doing anything but shooting it down if only to play politics.
Regarding education spending: Privatizing schools would solve virtually all the problems via competition. (Competition provides virtually everything else in your life of quality, you might think on that for a minute.)
Competition in capitalism is an excellent motivator but it's optimizes for a metric that will provide the most money, not the best outcome.
Regarding criminals: GTFO. Crime rates are at historic lows in large part to 3 strikes laws taking habitual criminals out of circulation.
I've seen plenty of studies that have found that to not be the case. Always look at who is funding a study.
That you believe anyone wants people to be incarcerated for financial gain is pitiful (you need to pull your head out of whatever liberal echo chamber you have been living in).
Corporations are systems, not people. The people inside them are continually seeking optimizations to maximize profits because if they don't then they literally are risking losing their job. It's all about money, not people. I very much encourage you to investigate the matter of incarceration for profit because it has been studied extensively and has found some very depressing realities. Why would you think that people would be above this kind of thing when there are so many examples of corporations doing the most depraved things? GM saved $0.57 on an ignition switch that they knew would kill people because it was cheaper to settle the lawsuits. How is this any less vile?
Regarding welfare: So please tell me what should be taxed to discourage all the people taking welfare and other entitlements?
Tax food based on how helpful/harmful it is to your body (encourages health and pays for health care). Tax corporation based on how much it costs to clean up their pollution (all things emitted [even products being sold] are pollution) (encourages "green" manufacturing/products and pays for cleaning up pollution). Tax pharmaceutical companies based on how many people become addicted to their product (helps pay for recovery programs). These taxes are called feedback loops which are the very things that define behavior.
You need some citations that contain actual statistics for your "facts". The green jobs lie was just that, a lie. Coal jobs were lost because Obama essentially banned coal fired power plants via regulations making them cost negative to operate. Not even gassfied coal plants could operate at a profit.
CO2 is produced by every living organism, and plants need it to live.
Interesting fact, plants absorb and expel it. Until recently, animal life has been living in the margins of what could be absorbed.
It has historically been at higher levels pre industrial revolution, http://drtimball.com/2012/pre-... [drtimball.com] it already blocks all the IR bands at 100%, and adding more will not change that (don't try to feed me that speculative BS about upper vs lower atmospheric diffraction, that is pure speculative BS with zero science to back it up), but somehow we are teetering on the apocalypse, never mind the science and historical evidence.
Adding more will make it more difficult to extract CO2 from the atmosphere which is something that must be done lest we become the next Venus. So if in if fact the we are blocking 100% of the IR, it will make it that much more difficult to undo the damage done. Secondly, the increased level of CO2 in the atmosphere is causing the oceans to become increasingly acidic. This in itself is causing rapid ecological changes.
As far as the ACA goes, the Repubicans only got 90% consensus in their own party, while not a single democrat voted for the repeal/replace,
so Republicans have decided to let the ACA explode (which it is)
According to who? The mago-in-chief? Please link a CBO document.
and let the Dims ride that sinking ship into oblivion in the next election.
Reforming it is a much better idea than repealing it. If you want to replace it, it has to be a better for the people involved, which i recall Trump promising (“insurance for everybody.” comes to mind). Needless to say, the ACA isn't perfect. Frankly, it seems like a single unified national health care system would be a better and cheaper solution.
You might want to learn some actual facts before you spout off.
Take your own advice.
For example, the state of California spends ~42% of all funds on education, yet private schools produce better results with less than half the funding that public schools get. Clearly room for improvement and reform. We could get far better results cutting the budget in half, privatizing all schools and giving parents a portable voucher every year
LOL! Well, you obviously haven't taken a close look because it's hit-or-miss on both sides of public/private schools. I do not deny that education needs to be reformed but full privatization is exceptionally problematic.
7% of the entire state budget is spent on corrections and rehabilitation of criminals. In the past it was much lower because they used to execute those on death ro
Actually, battery tech is evolving slowly... but in a lot of different directions. Seriously, only one thing changed in this latest iteration of lithium batteries. Also, considering that Tesla is actually designing their own manufacturing equipment, I don't think there is any problem with lock-ins.
It's on par with, Dentists Can Use Fillings to 'Control' Your Diet. I mean, one could make a strainged argument to this idea but by and large dentists cannot use fillings to control your diet in the same way that hackers cannot use a song cannot watch you.
BTW, if your dentist tries to give you a "cyanide filling" then he's trying to kill you. #DentalAssassinsEverywhere;)
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How is this news? This is information about something that happened in the '90s. It could be considered news in 2000 but we're multiple console generations detached from any relevance.
Is there something about this story that I'm missing?
Past 25 years, very few predictions are relevant, including yours. As for me, I think we're going to see a few of tiny changes that will ultimately lead to a far more representative government and begin cleaning up the political mess we're in.
Stay pedantic, bro. ;)
In a few years, all the thermal issue with lithium batteries are going to be a thing of the past. If not for improved safety then you should at wait because the new batteries are going to cause the price of the preset battery forms to plummet. Before installing this shit, do check with your insurance company to see if they will cover you if a battery fire does burn down your house because when one battery goes, they ALL go.
I agree that the US has been going in the wrong direction for some time but I do not envy the Chinese. There is a lot of people suffering there and it's not just because of their totalitarian government, they have giant looming issues that are one disruption from crumbling their empire.
Right now China is economically dependant on the rest of the world using them as a manufacturing hub while keeping money from leaving their country by devaluing their currency and levying huge import taxes. This has multiple issue:
* It's paradoxical because as it lifts the Chinese people up, they want better conditions which is actually causing jobs to go elsewhere and making manufacturers more reliant on automation. Either way, the result is that it's bad for the Chinese economy.
* China has strict environmental standards but only use it to prevent foreign companies from doing business there. If the EU or US actually insist on compliance, it will cause production to be less cost effective and again cause economic issues.
* There has been a housing bubble in China but the problem is that nobody can afford to live their. The result is entire cities that are sparsely populated. When this comes crashing down, it will be absolutely devastating for China.
* Their stock market is currently being propped up by their government.
* The pollution in cities is absurdly high and is causing lung cancer in a lot of people. An increased percentage of the population dying isn't good in the long run because people may leave the cities out of fear or cause civil unrest but this is an outlying issue.
China isn't even a great place to be right now (Beijing has what they call "the poverty belt" that surrounds it) and while they do their best to present a good image, they are one bad issue away from economic collapse. A "trade war" with China would destabilize their country in a big way.
LOL! The AC above nailed it.
AMD doesn't have anything available that competes at the high end performance wise, and hasn't for a very long time.
Umm... did you wake up from a coma recently?
As for low power, except at the extremely low end, intel chips require a lot less power than their AMD equivalent at the same performance level.
This isn't an AMD vs Intel argument, I'm talking about ARM. Intel has tried and failed to enter the cell phone market several times. ARM chips own the low power market and Intel doesn't have a single ARM chip.
Intel has lost the crown for performance, never had the crown for being low power and has even discarded all attempt to enter the IoT market. It seems like all these releases are Intel's attempt at throwing everything at the wall and hoping something sticks. Meanwhile, I wonder how much cash they are doling out to prevent people from selling systems with AMD chips.
U.S. law enforcement officials call Baratov a "hacker-for-hire" paid by members of the Federal Security Service, or FSB, considered the successor to the KGB of the former Soviet Union.
To be perfectly honest, it sounds like the FBI is mad that Baratov is not working for them. I'm no fan of state-sponsored hackers but honestly, our own government has no moral standing to denounce hackers anywhere.
What they are failing to recognize is that repressive governments can dictate what people can and cannot run on a server within their own borders. You can argue they can use servers outside their borders but that's just likely to cause them to completely segment their chunk of the internet.
The real-world result of this tool is going to be enabling individuals that were banned from various sites for ToS violations to continue spreading hate/spam on those sites.
It's good in concept but the reality is the $5 wrench will win.
The "honorable mention" found 158 critical zero-day in Linux kernel drivers (out of thousands of drivers). While it's horrible that they existed, it's fantastic that there is a tool that can find them really quickly! I hope it can be adapted to work on drivers for other kernels. :)
Just flash your smartphone with Sailfish or Ubuntu or Tizen or Replicant or...
Seriously, they are just computers.
... no, Gimp is not an adequate replacement.
GIMP 1.x was social experiment intended to test how far people would go to use an application. They ended quietly ended the experiment after avid GIMP fan was found in another GIMP user's apartment by police after a neighbor reported gruesome screams. The developer had been cutting off the fingers of there users who did not utilize every keyboard shortcut for GIMP. Shortly thereafter the GIMP 2.x series was released with an improved GUI that was just good enough to not drive people insane. The results of the experiment were recorded and they pushed forward on their new larger social experiment: GNOME 3. The intervention of outside parties improving Gnome 3 was unforeseen and ruined the experiment. However, the project was revived by a the Nazi scientist, Lennart Poettering. Project "EWONTFIX" continues to this day a scale greater than ever before. ;)
You will be shocked to learn, that there are OSes that aren't affiliated with any of those companies!
Chrome is really turning in to a slow, bloated, spyware-ridden Firefox clone.
Yeah, just like that time Chrome copied the Firefox layout and then dropped support for it's own extensions in favor Firefox extensions. Oh wait. ;)
Cut all ties with Microsoft and you won't even need ties to Kaspersky Lab. We should all cut ties with Microsoft.
The low cost of natural gas didn't help coal, but that was hardly the root cause for it's demise.
No, the root causes are that it's inefficient, becoming increasingly automated and displaced by other energy sources. Obama didn't do this but he did help this.
You are worried that we are turning into Venus huh? You do know that Venus receives more intense solar radiation than earth, plus Venus atmosphere is 97% plus CO2 (970,000 PPM), whereas on earth we are at 400PPM (or 0.04%).
I guess you don't know about feedback loops, eh? The Venus state is just the end result of the totality of many feedback loops.
No, plants and animals both respriate and produce CO2
Riiight. Let's put you in a room full of CO2 to test that theory.
Regarding the ACA, if the Democrats wanted to make health care better, they should have gotten involved instead of sitting on their hands and trying to obstruct.
LOL! Right... so how does that work when all the work is being done in secret at Republican luncheons that Democrats were prohibited from attending? Also, you really want to talk about obstruction? The 113th congress narrowly avoided the prize of being the least productive congress in US history. I agree and hope the Democrats are in fact working on bills to reform the ACA but I don't see the current congress doing anything but shooting it down if only to play politics.
Regarding education spending: Privatizing schools would solve virtually all the problems via competition. (Competition provides virtually everything else in your life of quality, you might think on that for a minute.)
Competition in capitalism is an excellent motivator but it's optimizes for a metric that will provide the most money, not the best outcome.
Regarding criminals: GTFO. Crime rates are at historic lows in large part to 3 strikes laws taking habitual criminals out of circulation.
I've seen plenty of studies that have found that to not be the case. Always look at who is funding a study.
That you believe anyone wants people to be incarcerated for financial gain is pitiful (you need to pull your head out of whatever liberal echo chamber you have been living in).
Corporations are systems, not people. The people inside them are continually seeking optimizations to maximize profits because if they don't then they literally are risking losing their job. It's all about money, not people. I very much encourage you to investigate the matter of incarceration for profit because it has been studied extensively and has found some very depressing realities. Why would you think that people would be above this kind of thing when there are so many examples of corporations doing the most depraved things? GM saved $0.57 on an ignition switch that they knew would kill people because it was cheaper to settle the lawsuits. How is this any less vile?
Regarding welfare: So please tell me what should be taxed to discourage all the people taking welfare and other entitlements?
Tax food based on how helpful/harmful it is to your body (encourages health and pays for health care). Tax corporation based on how much it costs to clean up their pollution (all things emitted [even products being sold] are pollution) (encourages "green" manufacturing/products and pays for cleaning up pollution). Tax pharmaceutical companies based on how many people become addicted to their product (helps pay for recovery programs). These taxes are called feedback loops which are the very things that define behavior.
Regarding farmers: So according
Then again, I wouldn't be surprised if he married himself.
That's some crazy dennis rodman shit right there. Maybe he's also friends with Fat Un. ;)
It's about time we get some GPL'd malware! ;)
Guess where it was... behind the sofa. ;)
Fuck you, in your stupid fucking face, you greedy bastards. I hope you choke on the bile that you are trying vomit upon us. ;)
You need some citations that contain actual statistics for your "facts". The green jobs lie was just that, a lie. Coal jobs were lost because Obama essentially banned coal fired power plants via regulations making them cost negative to operate. Not even gassfied coal plants could operate at a profit.
Well let's see, the price of natural gas plummetted in 2008 which is a direct result of Bush's 2005 energy policy which exempted natural gas from just about all regulation. However, feel free to point out which executive order he made to make this happen before he came into office.
CO2 is produced by every living organism, and plants need it to live.
Interesting fact, plants absorb and expel it. Until recently, animal life has been living in the margins of what could be absorbed.
It has historically been at higher levels pre industrial revolution, http://drtimball.com/2012/pre-... [drtimball.com] it already blocks all the IR bands at 100%, and adding more will not change that (don't try to feed me that speculative BS about upper vs lower atmospheric diffraction, that is pure speculative BS with zero science to back it up), but somehow we are teetering on the apocalypse, never mind the science and historical evidence.
Adding more will make it more difficult to extract CO2 from the atmosphere which is something that must be done lest we become the next Venus. So if in if fact the we are blocking 100% of the IR, it will make it that much more difficult to undo the damage done. Secondly, the increased level of CO2 in the atmosphere is causing the oceans to become increasingly acidic. This in itself is causing rapid ecological changes.
As far as the ACA goes, the Repubicans only got 90% consensus in their own party, while not a single democrat voted for the repeal/replace,
Well, i suppose you'd be surprised to learn how the ACA actually got passed in the first place. https://www.govtrack.us/congre...
so Republicans have decided to let the ACA explode (which it is)
According to who? The mago-in-chief? Please link a CBO document.
and let the Dims ride that sinking ship into oblivion in the next election.
Reforming it is a much better idea than repealing it. If you want to replace it, it has to be a better for the people involved, which i recall Trump promising (“insurance for everybody.” comes to mind). Needless to say, the ACA isn't perfect. Frankly, it seems like a single unified national health care system would be a better and cheaper solution.
You might want to learn some actual facts before you spout off.
Take your own advice.
For example, the state of California spends ~42% of all funds on education, yet private schools produce better results with less than half the funding that public schools get. Clearly room for improvement and reform. We could get far better results cutting the budget in half, privatizing all schools and giving parents a portable voucher every year
LOL! Well, you obviously haven't taken a close look because it's hit-or-miss on both sides of public/private schools. I do not deny that education needs to be reformed but full privatization is exceptionally problematic.
7% of the entire state budget is spent on corrections and rehabilitation of criminals. In the past it was much lower because they used to execute those on death ro
By why not go full retard?
never go full retard.
Actually, battery tech is evolving slowly... but in a lot of different directions. Seriously, only one thing changed in this latest iteration of lithium batteries. Also, considering that Tesla is actually designing their own manufacturing equipment, I don't think there is any problem with lock-ins.
It's on par with, Dentists Can Use Fillings to 'Control' Your Diet. I mean, one could make a strainged argument to this idea but by and large dentists cannot use fillings to control your diet in the same way that hackers cannot use a song cannot watch you.
BTW, if your dentist tries to give you a "cyanide filling" then he's trying to kill you. #DentalAssassinsEverywhere ;)