Because they succeeded (intentionally or not) in killing Android with steep patent royalties and managed to get the EU to fine Google >4bn Euro for the privilege of writing Android and receiving mainly ad revenue for it. So Google is going to abandon Android now and is soured on the mobile OS market - MS has to shift its patent royalty strategy. MS probably sees opening their old/expiring patents (former Android cash cow) as a PR win.
Almost all Trump and other Republican office holders have been doing is saber-rattling *and* persecuting people at home and elevating white supremacists.
Using illegal immigration to whip up racist resentment and then directing that towards African Americans (boy, is that term apt now!) is an especially nasty tactic. Listening to Trump's propaganda, you'd almost think that migrant workers from Central America were teaching classes to African Americans on how to commit voter fraud.
Swelling the ranks of ICE and sending them onto people's property without warrants. Breaking up families and stripping citizenship over the smallest of irregularities (e.g. immaterial) in forms and interviews.
Relentless attacks against the press, including threats, and regularly excluding them en-mass except for a tightly-held group of mouthpieces.
And most of this is *illegal* which is why Republicans are also waging war against legal professionals and the judiciary. That is the final straw.
Hitler had a lot more time to acquire this kind of momentum, and it should go without saying that one doesn't even have to be a Hitler to be a fascist. R's in Congress are goose-stepping much more closely than Nazis were at 18 months in. Enough.... Trump and his accomplices can continue to scream maniacally at the FBI, but from jail cells.
You're forgetting *China* imposed sanctions on NK. *That* is what lit a fire under them.
And what lit a fire under the Chinese was having a madman on their border gain control of some H-bombs.
Sanctions and breast beating from the US was more of the same. Trump deserves little if any credit though its given he'll try to claim it and his followers will mindlessly bleat it.
Does human activity affect climate? Yes - obviously.
Should we we reduce CO2 emissions? That isn't a "science" question, it is a political question that takes (or should take) as inputs climate models and economic models.
For that to be true, you have to isolate climate science from the rest of ecology, and then dispose of the latter.... which is obviously what you would prefer.
Scientists know that we should reduce our emissions, and the reasons are scientific. The problem is too many people like you don't know that ecology is a scientific field of study and that it makes assessments about the health of the biosphere. This pattern of denial and repression is America's modern day Lysenko-ism.
Have to agree that the intent behind this super-fast disclosure looks malicious. It follows that the research was probably undertaken with malicious intent as well.
A very large chunk of Intel's operations are based in Israel, so that is one possible motivation for Israelis to go after AMD, which is based in the EU. Its widely known that the EU fined Intel over a $billion for threatening PC makers to avoid using too many AMD chips in PC products. There is revanchism and monopolist warfare going on here.
Authors of Qubes OS have long stated that monolithic kernel crappiness means that Linux, Windows kernels cannot be used effectively for security. The solution is to isolate the risk (large attack surface) they pose using relatively secure type-1 hypervisors. USB and NIC/wifi/bluetooth controllers are compartmentalized in their own virtual machines.
You can buy AC/heat pump units with ice-based cold storage, designed for night time cooling using solar.
In winter, thermal mass can store excess heat very easily. This can also be done seasonally, if you're heating system is based on a ground-source heat pump.
And a commuter who works or shops near the grid (almost everyone) can use their EV to sell seasonal excess energy onto the grid.
Granted, there are fewer options when going off-grid, but only a few storage options at moderate economies of scale are needed to create the conditions for an Average Joe grid exodus. Grids *must* adapt to renewables or else.
Of course, US government is in the grip of fossil fuel interests trying to prevent an energy transition so some grids may not adapt, resulting in a possible exodus scenario. The fact that they are firing most of the science advisors at the EPA, and will accessory to Russians interfering in our politics indicate they are panicking big-time. And that's really too bad... we've been having these energy debates for generations now, so the obstructionism has become part and parcel of their identity as profligate consumers. Meanwhile other countries are transitioning their grids apace.
I use Liferea to collect feeds. IMO, its a simple but enabling technology... a lot better than cramming everything into centralized locations like Facebook.
What a coincidence... me too! Only I don't go around lumping FDR in with Hitler (Godwin) and casual crapping on indigenous cultures. That just makes you a Randroid shit who shills for privilege -- noticed your habit for calling people names, BTW.
Lots of women are against a woman's right to choose; Their gender doesn't make them any less deluded... like those Hispanic Americans who supported Trump and are now shocked they live in "Papers Please!" hell. Similarly, your blinkered view of history and misplaced reverence may lead you to a very rude awakening.
Just remember: When you turn to the West, be specific enough so that 'capitalism' is not mentioned together with slavery and Manifest Destiny (for starters). That would be just too.... general. And anyway, you wouldn't want people to wrinkle their noses or roll their eyes at the term.
Aside from coal exports, there is something to be said for actually setting an example. And Australia, at the behest of Rupert Murdoch's go-to-war-over-CO2 media empire, has set a bad one.
The thing you're missing is that the rate of change is a primary factor in how damaging global warming has become. Deniers say "we'll adapt", and aside from ignoring all the other life on this planet, downplay the fact that ecosystems we rely on are getting slammed.
Most complex life forms can only adapt so far and so fast.
The main reason who Unity (and Gnome 3) are hated so much by experienced users is they both mis-interpreted the Mac OS X launch bar interface. With the later, the user always had a definite list of apps (in the Applications folder) to fall back on. But Unity and Gnome sought to force you to use search and force you to pin regularly-used apps to their launchers. In a typical Gnome setup, this means you have to type some very odd words to find what you want.
Search-and-pin makes a nice supplement to a heirarchical menu/list. However, it sucks badly as a wholesale replacement. I used to think that Canonical was good at understanding and imitating Mac features (like launchd), but I no longer think so.
Tha's an interesting paper... I'm sure their 'nexen' approach will lead to some good things.
Xen's vuln reporting is an umbrella for the core Xen hypervisor, plus a large codebase including QEMU functionality. Most of what gets reported as Xen vulnerabilities is QEMU or fall under minor or DOS...Some Xen project members realize this creates an inaccurate perception. However, secure Xen configurations do not utilize QEMU without isolating it in a stub domain.
So far, there have been only 3 vulns that could cause a privilege escalation in Qubes OS. And its worth remembering that for years Xen was considered unblemished by serious vulns until ITL (Qubes' "parent" company) reviewed their code. The next major release of Qubes will undertake a shift toward HVMs as the standard domain type, since PVMs are now understood to have uncertainties that may eventually lead to security issues---so, yes, Rutkowska et al are vigilant about Xen's potential weaknesses and do dry to avoid them.
Sad to see that the Intel marketing department is such a shadow of its former self.
Its an improvement, even so. They used to tell vendors Intel chips had to be 90-100% of their business, cheat on benchmarks, and rig their compiler to turn off optimizations when AMD was detected.
Like ESX, Xen is also a bare-metal hypervisor that is very secure (not counting QEMU, which is isolated in secure installations). Qubes OS is a desktop system based on Xen... https://www.qubes-os.org/
Running code isolated by a bare-metal VMM like Xen is much better than running it in bare-metal Linux from a security standpoint. Comparing Linux and Xen vulns, there is a stark contrast. And that is even before one subtracts DOS and vulns in superfluous Qemu components.
So, yes, VM breakout "is a thing", but mainly on hypervisors that were designed to run on top of a complex OS and dedicated foremost to administrative convenience.
Tails has the drawback that its vulnerable to DMA attacks, i.e. if your NIC or USB controller is compromised, then it can do anything and even has a chance to install malware in the BIOS, drive firmware, etc. Qubes uses the IOMMU to isolate risky hardware, so this type of attack is prevented.
And they were found guilty of bribing vendors not to use AMD chips.
Intel partners with software companies, and gets them to use their compiler that switches off optimizations on non-Intel CPUs 'just because...' regardless of capabilities.
And now they're pushing Trump's deregulation pro-pollution agenda. That's the last straw from these crooked people.
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Because they succeeded (intentionally or not) in killing Android with steep patent royalties and managed to get the EU to fine Google >4bn Euro for the privilege of writing Android and receiving mainly ad revenue for it. So Google is going to abandon Android now and is soured on the mobile OS market - MS has to shift its patent royalty strategy. MS probably sees opening their old/expiring patents (former Android cash cow) as a PR win.
Almost all Trump and other Republican office holders have been doing is saber-rattling *and* persecuting people at home and elevating white supremacists.
Using illegal immigration to whip up racist resentment and then directing that towards African Americans (boy, is that term apt now!) is an especially nasty tactic. Listening to Trump's propaganda, you'd almost think that migrant workers from Central America were teaching classes to African Americans on how to commit voter fraud.
Swelling the ranks of ICE and sending them onto people's property without warrants. Breaking up families and stripping citizenship over the smallest of irregularities (e.g. immaterial) in forms and interviews.
Relentless attacks against the press, including threats, and regularly excluding them en-mass except for a tightly-held group of mouthpieces.
And most of this is *illegal* which is why Republicans are also waging war against legal professionals and the judiciary. That is the final straw.
Hitler had a lot more time to acquire this kind of momentum, and it should go without saying that one doesn't even have to be a Hitler to be a fascist. R's in Congress are goose-stepping much more closely than Nazis were at 18 months in. Enough.... Trump and his accomplices can continue to scream maniacally at the FBI, but from jail cells.
You're forgetting *China* imposed sanctions on NK. *That* is what lit a fire under them.
And what lit a fire under the Chinese was having a madman on their border gain control of some H-bombs.
Sanctions and breast beating from the US was more of the same. Trump deserves little if any credit though its given he'll try to claim it and his followers will mindlessly bleat it.
Does human activity affect climate? Yes - obviously.
Should we we reduce CO2 emissions? That isn't a "science" question, it is a political question that takes (or should take) as inputs climate models and economic models.
For that to be true, you have to isolate climate science from the rest of ecology, and then dispose of the latter.... which is obviously what you would prefer.
Scientists know that we should reduce our emissions, and the reasons are scientific. The problem is too many people like you don't know that ecology is a scientific field of study and that it makes assessments about the health of the biosphere. This pattern of denial and repression is America's modern day Lysenko-ism.
...to sell devices that are just waiting to be abused as 'telescreens'.
https://www.usatoday.com/story...
Really just a new label for "sit down and enjoy the fossil fuels, the miracles are just over the horizon" bullshit.
Have to agree that the intent behind this super-fast disclosure looks malicious. It follows that the research was probably undertaken with malicious intent as well.
A very large chunk of Intel's operations are based in Israel, so that is one possible motivation for Israelis to go after AMD, which is based in the EU. Its widely known that the EU fined Intel over a $billion for threatening PC makers to avoid using too many AMD chips in PC products. There is revanchism and monopolist warfare going on here.
Use a real VPN client like openvpn with appropriate firewall rules instead.
Authors of Qubes OS have long stated that monolithic kernel crappiness means that Linux, Windows kernels cannot be used effectively for security. The solution is to isolate the risk (large attack surface) they pose using relatively secure type-1 hypervisors. USB and NIC/wifi/bluetooth controllers are compartmentalized in their own virtual machines.
You can buy AC/heat pump units with ice-based cold storage, designed for night time cooling using solar.
In winter, thermal mass can store excess heat very easily. This can also be done seasonally, if you're heating system is based on a ground-source heat pump.
And a commuter who works or shops near the grid (almost everyone) can use their EV to sell seasonal excess energy onto the grid.
Granted, there are fewer options when going off-grid, but only a few storage options at moderate economies of scale are needed to create the conditions for an Average Joe grid exodus. Grids *must* adapt to renewables or else.
Of course, US government is in the grip of fossil fuel interests trying to prevent an energy transition so some grids may not adapt, resulting in a possible exodus scenario. The fact that they are firing most of the science advisors at the EPA, and will accessory to Russians interfering in our politics indicate they are panicking big-time. And that's really too bad... we've been having these energy debates for generations now, so the obstructionism has become part and parcel of their identity as profligate consumers. Meanwhile other countries are transitioning their grids apace.
I use Liferea to collect feeds. IMO, its a simple but enabling technology... a lot better than cramming everything into centralized locations like Facebook.
What a coincidence... me too! Only I don't go around lumping FDR in with Hitler (Godwin) and casual crapping on indigenous cultures. That just makes you a Randroid shit who shills for privilege -- noticed your habit for calling people names, BTW.
Lots of women are against a woman's right to choose; Their gender doesn't make them any less deluded... like those Hispanic Americans who supported Trump and are now shocked they live in "Papers Please!" hell. Similarly, your blinkered view of history and misplaced reverence may lead you to a very rude awakening.
You are one very deluded puppy if you think that level of chauvanism can be supported in a coherent way.
Just remember: When you turn to the West, be specific enough so that 'capitalism' is not mentioned together with slavery and Manifest Destiny (for starters). That would be just too.... general. And anyway, you wouldn't want people to wrinkle their noses or roll their eyes at the term.
If you think piracy is winning the war, so-to-speak, then you need to learn about SGX...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Aside from coal exports, there is something to be said for actually setting an example. And Australia, at the behest of Rupert Murdoch's go-to-war-over-CO2 media empire, has set a bad one.
The thing you're missing is that the rate of change is a primary factor in how damaging global warming has become. Deniers say "we'll adapt", and aside from ignoring all the other life on this planet, downplay the fact that ecosystems we rely on are getting slammed.
Most complex life forms can only adapt so far and so fast.
Scientific American article about acidification (from CO2) contributing to Permian Extinction...
Overview:
https://www.scientificamerican...
Full Article:
http://burro.case.edu/Academic...
The main reason who Unity (and Gnome 3) are hated so much by experienced users is they both mis-interpreted the Mac OS X launch bar interface. With the later, the user always had a definite list of apps (in the Applications folder) to fall back on. But Unity and Gnome sought to force you to use search and force you to pin regularly-used apps to their launchers. In a typical Gnome setup, this means you have to type some very odd words to find what you want.
Search-and-pin makes a nice supplement to a heirarchical menu/list. However, it sucks badly as a wholesale replacement. I used to think that Canonical was good at understanding and imitating Mac features (like launchd), but I no longer think so.
siphoned off? That's the question we should be asking, along with why someone like him would be allowed anywhere near a national security post.
Tha's an interesting paper... I'm sure their 'nexen' approach will lead to some good things.
Xen's vuln reporting is an umbrella for the core Xen hypervisor, plus a large codebase including QEMU functionality. Most of what gets reported as Xen vulnerabilities is QEMU or fall under minor or DOS...Some Xen project members realize this creates an inaccurate perception. However, secure Xen configurations do not utilize QEMU without isolating it in a stub domain.
So far, there have been only 3 vulns that could cause a privilege escalation in Qubes OS. And its worth remembering that for years Xen was considered unblemished by serious vulns until ITL (Qubes' "parent" company) reviewed their code. The next major release of Qubes will undertake a shift toward HVMs as the standard domain type, since PVMs are now understood to have uncertainties that may eventually lead to security issues---so, yes, Rutkowska et al are vigilant about Xen's potential weaknesses and do dry to avoid them.
Sad to see that the Intel marketing department is such a shadow of its former self.
Its an improvement, even so. They used to tell vendors Intel chips had to be 90-100% of their business, cheat on benchmarks, and rig their compiler to turn off optimizations when AMD was detected.
Like ESX, Xen is also a bare-metal hypervisor that is very secure (not counting QEMU, which is isolated in secure installations). Qubes OS is a desktop system based on Xen... https://www.qubes-os.org/
Running code isolated by a bare-metal VMM like Xen is much better than running it in bare-metal Linux from a security standpoint. Comparing Linux and Xen vulns, there is a stark contrast. And that is even before one subtracts DOS and vulns in superfluous Qemu components.
So, yes, VM breakout "is a thing", but mainly on hypervisors that were designed to run on top of a complex OS and dedicated foremost to administrative convenience.
Tails has the drawback that its vulnerable to DMA attacks, i.e. if your NIC or USB controller is compromised, then it can do anything and even has a chance to install malware in the BIOS, drive firmware, etc. Qubes uses the IOMMU to isolate risky hardware, so this type of attack is prevented.
And they were found guilty of bribing vendors not to use AMD chips.
Intel partners with software companies, and gets them to use their compiler that switches off optimizations on non-Intel CPUs 'just because...' regardless of capabilities.
And now they're pushing Trump's deregulation pro-pollution agenda. That's the last straw from these crooked people.