I'd be in favor of finding somewhere else to live, just in case the rest of the world doesn't acquiesce to the steps necessary to insure my current locale doesn't flood... but y'know, whatever works for you...
Although, the black holes that can currently evaporate due to this mechanism are (as I understand it) well below stellar mass. The amount of hawking radiation that larger black holes emit is below the amount of energy they receive from the cosmic microwave background, thus they cannot evaporate.
I'm sorry, but 1994 called, and it wants its World Wide Web back. Interactive webpages are the future, they are actually really nice when they're done properly, and denying that is just holding you back. I expect that sooner or later secure programming mentalities will become deeply ingrained in Web programming, and things like this will stop happening. There will always be bugs, but that's no different from any other software.
NoScript is a much better solution than out-and-out disabling javascript anyways.
You'd think people would've learned by now that you can't allow random strings of script in user-submitted data. Why is filtering this stuff out not part of standard input sanitization practices by now?
Plus you're more likely to scare people off by doing so than gain new passengers; who wants to fly on an airline which is so scared of their planes crashing that they fit parachutes to them?
Right, because knowing that my airline provider DENIES their engineering problems, rather than providing backup systems, is what I really want.
Am I the only person who says "hell no" to running that "diagnosis" program? After looking through the code real quick, I have no interest whatsoever in running a program that performs the very exploit I'm supposed to be scared of, cuz I don't have time to make sure ksplite neutralized it properly. Also, since it's only a local exploit, I'm not concerned enough about it to run a diagnosis tool that implements it.
And good lord god almighty, what 12 year old wrote this code, that they think having function names like put_your_hands_up_hooker() makes them cool?
You've heard of encryption, right? You make a lot of bold claims but I don't see any facts to back them up. Doesn't matter how many globs of data your provider is hosting, if they don't have the encryption keys to read them. Of course the challenge then becomes making sure that your friends have your decryption keys, and only your friends. Getting the keys to your friends is relatively easy. Making sure they don't share them with dataharvesters/other people is a little more complicated, and I don't know of a general solution to that problem, but that doesn't mean it's an impossible problem.
Heck, they LOST (JUST LOST!) Billions of the stimulis money that they have no accounting for
It sounds awful, but frankly I think this fact is blown out of proportion. I occasionally lose the odd dollars in my own budget, which is MUCH less complex than the national budget. It's the same thing, just a bigger scale. Nothing so ridiculous about losing a few billion here or there when you're dealing with a budget of nearly 4 trillion dollars... Is it a good thing? No, not at all. But it's not something you should keep parroting anytime the subject of government comes up.
Yeah, but then everyone bitches if they try to raise taxes... I mean, obviously, the solution is for governments to be more efficient with the money they do have, and to pay their people properly, but for some reason it's easier to cut people than programs...
Good thing I got all my romanticized daydreaming out of the way yesterday, about what an enigma UVB-76 was, and how awesome it is that even as recently as 40 years ago we were creating "artifacts" that would remain mysteries into the modern day (and possibly forever). Thanks for ruining that for me.
Those are, in fact, not contradictory, if you believe this guy. I really encourage you to check this link out and listen to it in its entirety, it's very interesting.
I don't know anything about minis in particular, so maybe this question is stupid/redundant, but why didn't you rotate your tires to even the wear out?
Even if all of humanity was unified, we'd still die eventually if we stayed here. This planet has an expiration date. It's nice to pretend that if we were all hippies and lived like cavemen, that it'd last forever, but that isn't the case. Sooner or later we're gonna have to get out of here, or go extinct.
Earth's "best if lived on by" date is far enough away that I'm not terribly worried about it, but even aside from that, there are always asteroids out there that could blindside us. And I'm sure that's the sort of thing Hawking is referring to anyways.
No, the last time something of this magnitude happened, the Kenyans got the brunt of it. That's why they can run so fast. I'm interested to see what the future olympics hold for Uganda. Gold medals in long jump? Discus? Pingpong?
Yes, they do. It is quite standard practice for games to render uncapped. This story is just FUD and troll. I would've expected it to come from kdawson, but apparently I gave Taco too much credit.
To clarify my stance: This story is retarded, and all the time you look at it/think about it is time you won't get back.
Sorry, no. The blur in CSI Miami is not caused by motion, thus motion compensation won't help. That blur is just a sheer lack of pixels, and this algorithm does nothing to help that situation. CSI-mocking is safe.
I wish I could find a source on this, but I believe your understanding is flawed. Infact, if memory serves me, I've seen that Nokia was the company that went to great engineering lengths to make internal antennas that were as good as external ones, and also to convince everyone of it.
My memory may be flawed, so don't crucify me if I'm wrong, but I believe that is what I have seen in the past.
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I'd be in favor of finding somewhere else to live, just in case the rest of the world doesn't acquiesce to the steps necessary to insure my current locale doesn't flood... but y'know, whatever works for you...
Oh look, CmdrTaco published yet another story with a poorly-written, hypersensationalist summary! Par for the course.
Most of that energy gets wasted in atmospheric compression though. It's not like it all gets transmitted to the water.
Although, the black holes that can currently evaporate due to this mechanism are (as I understand it) well below stellar mass. The amount of hawking radiation that larger black holes emit is below the amount of energy they receive from the cosmic microwave background, thus they cannot evaporate.
I'm sorry, but 1994 called, and it wants its World Wide Web back. Interactive webpages are the future, they are actually really nice when they're done properly, and denying that is just holding you back. I expect that sooner or later secure programming mentalities will become deeply ingrained in Web programming, and things like this will stop happening. There will always be bugs, but that's no different from any other software.
NoScript is a much better solution than out-and-out disabling javascript anyways.
Then you escape it so it displays, instead of executing... seriously... same way you handle < and > and all the other naughty characters
You'd think people would've learned by now that you can't allow random strings of script in user-submitted data. Why is filtering this stuff out not part of standard input sanitization practices by now?
Plus you're more likely to scare people off by doing so than gain new passengers; who wants to fly on an airline which is so scared of their planes crashing that they fit parachutes to them?
Right, because knowing that my airline provider DENIES their engineering problems, rather than providing backup systems, is what I really want.
Just use an FPGA... problem solved.
Am I the only person who says "hell no" to running that "diagnosis" program? After looking through the code real quick, I have no interest whatsoever in running a program that performs the very exploit I'm supposed to be scared of, cuz I don't have time to make sure ksplite neutralized it properly. Also, since it's only a local exploit, I'm not concerned enough about it to run a diagnosis tool that implements it.
And good lord god almighty, what 12 year old wrote this code, that they think having function names like put_your_hands_up_hooker() makes them cool?
You've heard of encryption, right? You make a lot of bold claims but I don't see any facts to back them up. Doesn't matter how many globs of data your provider is hosting, if they don't have the encryption keys to read them. Of course the challenge then becomes making sure that your friends have your decryption keys, and only your friends. Getting the keys to your friends is relatively easy. Making sure they don't share them with dataharvesters/other people is a little more complicated, and I don't know of a general solution to that problem, but that doesn't mean it's an impossible problem.
Heck, they LOST (JUST LOST!) Billions of the stimulis money that they have no accounting for
It sounds awful, but frankly I think this fact is blown out of proportion. I occasionally lose the odd dollars in my own budget, which is MUCH less complex than the national budget. It's the same thing, just a bigger scale. Nothing so ridiculous about losing a few billion here or there when you're dealing with a budget of nearly 4 trillion dollars...
Is it a good thing? No, not at all. But it's not something you should keep parroting anytime the subject of government comes up.
Yeah, but then everyone bitches if they try to raise taxes... I mean, obviously, the solution is for governments to be more efficient with the money they do have, and to pay their people properly, but for some reason it's easier to cut people than programs...
If I remember correctly, the reason is because on a nano-scale, water doesn't "flow", so you can't pump it through effectively.
Sadly, your parody of reality and actual reality are nigh indistinguishable :(
Good thing I got all my romanticized daydreaming out of the way yesterday, about what an enigma UVB-76 was, and how awesome it is that even as recently as 40 years ago we were creating "artifacts" that would remain mysteries into the modern day (and possibly forever). Thanks for ruining that for me.
Those are, in fact, not contradictory, if you believe this guy. I really encourage you to check this link out and listen to it in its entirety, it's very interesting.
Tell that to South America...
I don't know anything about minis in particular, so maybe this question is stupid/redundant, but why didn't you rotate your tires to even the wear out?
Even if all of humanity was unified, we'd still die eventually if we stayed here. This planet has an expiration date. It's nice to pretend that if we were all hippies and lived like cavemen, that it'd last forever, but that isn't the case. Sooner or later we're gonna have to get out of here, or go extinct.
Earth's "best if lived on by" date is far enough away that I'm not terribly worried about it, but even aside from that, there are always asteroids out there that could blindside us. And I'm sure that's the sort of thing Hawking is referring to anyways.
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No, the last time something of this magnitude happened, the Kenyans got the brunt of it. That's why they can run so fast. I'm interested to see what the future olympics hold for Uganda. Gold medals in long jump? Discus? Pingpong?
Yes, they do. It is quite standard practice for games to render uncapped. This story is just FUD and troll. I would've expected it to come from kdawson, but apparently I gave Taco too much credit.
To clarify my stance: This story is retarded, and all the time you look at it/think about it is time you won't get back.
Sorry, no. The blur in CSI Miami is not caused by motion, thus motion compensation won't help. That blur is just a sheer lack of pixels, and this algorithm does nothing to help that situation. CSI-mocking is safe.
I wish I could find a source on this, but I believe your understanding is flawed. Infact, if memory serves me, I've seen that Nokia was the company that went to great engineering lengths to make internal antennas that were as good as external ones, and also to convince everyone of it.
My memory may be flawed, so don't crucify me if I'm wrong, but I believe that is what I have seen in the past.