"Governance"
When you hear that, you know that someone wants to be high up the ladder, walk around like Louis XIV (maybe without the body odour) take decisions without accountability - while the salary and the perks are all top notch.
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Or maybe not.
It all sounds like there is some kernel of permanent openness to Internet AIDS in there somewhere.
It could have to do with downloading and executing Turing-complete languages and/or unconstrained input to be parsed by Turing-complete languages from the Interwoops,
I dunno.
Yes. This study wants to weaken the people living under Free Liberty by putting in doubt the immense influence of Russian Trolls. Where is Louise Mensch when you need a sane voice of stability?
This is apposite: William Buckley on the movie "The Day After"
"The same we are doing every month, Twinkie. Send out a 'test' alarm!"
ARF!
Those memos remind me of the times I had to find plausible-sounding waffle sprinkled with technowords to cover "other motives" and various pants-around-ankles in order to explain that what happened was ENTIRELY OUT OF OUR HANDS.
It worked, too.
I haven't watched this one yet, have a comment on Ponzi schemes from you-know-who:
(Won't link as El Reg will again deep-six me, the inner party dislikes crimethink)
An almost-forgotten incident in American economic history was the pyramid scheme that swept Southern California during the stagflation of May 1980. Yet, now that we know that about 2/3rds of the Housing Bubble of 2000-2007 took place just in California, it’s worth reviewing incidents from California’s long history of financial manias.
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Back in Gov. Jerry Brown’s California, “pyramid power” was a popular New Age concept. (Although there’s never anything new about New Age in California — the lovely coastal mountain village of Ojai has been a New Age center since the 1800s.) In 1977 I went to a fashionable Westwood hair styling salon where for a few bucks extra you could get your hair cut in a special chair under a pyramid dangling from the ceiling. The pyramidal aura was supposed to help you avoid Bad Hair Days or something. (I declined. But, now that I think about it, I did have a lot of BHDs …)
In May 1980, a vast multi-level cash exchange craze developed in California that explicitly invoked the mystique of pyramids. Every night there were hundreds of house parties hosted by people who had gotten in earlier on this multi-level scam (perhaps the night before). My vague recollection from newspaper reports is that you’d go over to a higher-up’s house and sit with him under his pyramid while you gave him cash in return for your very own kit for building a pyramid out of wire and fabric. The Ancient Egyptian emanations from his pyramid would ensure that you’d get even more cash back from the suckers you’d recruit to buy your pyramid kits from you while sitting under your pyramid.
Perhaps I don’t have the details right, but pyramid imagery was central to the experience, which made this Pyramid Power pyramid scheme hard to debunk. It was already pre-debunked. Anti-fraud authorities would go on the local TV news to denounce the pyramid schemes as “pyramid schemes,” which just served as good advertising. “Well, duh, of course it’s a pyramid scheme,” participants would laugh. “How do you think those Egyptian pharaohs got so rich that they could afford those giant pyramids? Through tapping the secret energy of Pyramid Power!”
Despite calling out Google's leaders by name and highlighting the Chocolate Factory's "short-term thinking," he did not get fired, as happened with a more recent memo penned by former Google engineer James Damore.
Damore also being targeted for a quite public "burning" due to egregious crimethink.
That's the difference between a disagreement on (tech) policy and a disagreement on (diversity) politics.
In the current year, the latter is utterly intolerable.
reduced design validation efforts
Why? Are these people utterly retarded? Does their risk analysis say that it is cheaper to give the customer a good one up the prostate from time to time rather than make sure the chip passes tests?
There is more computing power than ever to formally check the design, either statistically or else using formal methods. I suppose whatever stuff drops off the university conveyor belt is no longer as performant as it used to be.
We simply have had a bonus performance boost by coding operating systems badly for a long time.
It's like reading a steampunk technology newsletter. None of this makes much sense and there also seems to be confusion between Meltdown and Spectre. What the hell??
And so we have the ludicrous situation of encryption Groundhog Day where the same things are said and done over and over again, each day the same.
It's coming from the same "people" who have been offering us the stale puke menu of "Russian Interference" since DNC got its mail server copied to an USB stick. If the public doesn't like it or doesn't care, regular recalls via "newspapers" and, if necessary, "popular culture" will be applied. A little "Steele Dossier", unspecified future "terror attacks" that could be thwarted by decryption. Unconfirmed rumors, retconning and lies as facts known by everyone in secondary sentences.
These people are straight-on satanic, make no mistake.
Robust launch systems you say?
Everything is still governed by the notorious first-use doctrine upheld by every president since World War II. The Pentagon now has elaborate (first-use) plans to “decapitate” Russian command-and-control networks en route to presumably more annihilationist objectives. The same is clearly true for China, North Korea, and Iran.
At the same time, general U.S. nuclear strategy is explicitly designed to undercut any genuine nonproliferation agenda. Washington has positioned missile-defense (NMD) operations near Russian borders, globalized its military deployments in a manner guaranteed to provoke heightened reaction (not only from Russia, but from China, North Korea, and Iran), retained a dangerous Launch on Warning (LOW) system, and embarked (under President Obama) on a trillion-dollar modernization program in violation of the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT). The U.S. also scandalously provides cover for three outlaw nuclear nations – Israel, Pakistan, and India.
And now we have "nuke stuffing":
Trump wants more nukes than US can handle – outgoing nuclear warhead chief
“We’re pretty much at capacity in terms of people, although we’re hiring more. We’re pretty much at capacity in terms of the materials that we need to do this work. And pretty much at capacity in terms of hours in the day at our facilities to do this work,” Klotz told Defense News in an exclusive interview published Tuesday.
Maybe there will be an intervention from God and the US will see a big crater with megadeath appear in the middle of Kansas to bludgeon some sense into it.
So far, most of the villains have used it to map the faces of women celebrities onto their favorite smut stars. That's incredibly horrible already
After the safe space has been safely reached, can we have an explanation about WHY this is "incredibly horrible" beyond the implied "this triggers me".
"women celebrities" are merged "favorite smut stars" like butter is merged into bread. That's how people roll.
This is possibly why I've heard of some banks paying mad money for consultants to do GDPR work.
Why would they want to do that (except that they always pay mad money and these consultants are actually lawyers). Banks would be ready for GDPR from day one, one would hope. Maybe not the Dogecoin bank..
It says that the number of transistors that can be fitted on a silicon chip of a given size will double every 18 months.
Yes, and it is a heuristic about *economics* not about physics.
I also hear EUV litography is coming online now, so it's going to continue a bit.
"Because Java is slow"
"Ring Ring!"
"Hello, Anonymous Retard here."
"This is 2001. I want my marketing memes from Microsoft back!"
Or you can use OCaml. It generates C directly.
(Btw, probably one of the worst attempts at prediction in IT ever: "The Java Virtual Machine: a passing fad?" IEEE Software ( Volume: 15, Issue: 6, Nov/Dec 1998 ). Sadly paywalled.
Similar to "chain migration", "master-slave wiring" and "Tom Cotton", I find "brown dwarf" and "fat planet" offensive to our diverse co-inhabitants. I won't literally even go into "black hole". I expect a name insulting to alternate sexuelative persons will occur soon.
Can't something be done?
Intel's approach is backwards, making the fix opt-in. Processors can, when asked, reveal to the kernel that Spectre countermeasures are present but disabled by default, and these therefore need to be enabled by the operating system. Presumably, this is because the performance hit is potentially too annoying, or because Intel doesn't want to appear to admit there is a catastrophic security blunder in its blueprints.
Or maybe someone wants the countermeasures to STAY disabled by default? Nah, can't be. Now, if Microsoft announces that this will be supported by a special patch that must be manually downloaded from a hidden URL, then....
Anyway, this may apply: Saturday Night Live: FIX IT!
Meltdown should be sorted -- with less processing per watt. Spectre is a bit of a problem but OTOH, who runs random programs from the Internets in the cloud servers?
We'll see if more problems at lower layers emerge. Also, watch those VM bugs.
16 years of pure cancer.
One a hapless clown. One narcissistic with a side-order of playing the race card.
Both beholden to Drone Kills, the $ethnics and the Deep State (the very concept of which has been declared as un-american crimethink by such esteemed propaganda outlets as the NYT)
What should one expect? That liberty rings?
The only amazing thing is that some people believe that the "russian investigation" clownshow has any grounding in any objective reality whatsoever.
But dumb fucks can be found anywhere.
Just be thankful for the slight Trumpian respite. Having The Hillary of Babylon at the helm would have meant immediate borking of everything, and smooth takeover by literally Satan himself, likely followed by a neocon-cheered war with Russia. 4 years of delayed end is nothing to be sneered at.
...whether this is wild enthusiasts meeting the treacle of the real world for the first time and complaining about it or a brush-off by NHS which considers said enthusiasts as just another annoyance?
(Sternly worded letters by the legal profession are not unusual; room-temperature IQ oozing out of them is testament to the sad quality of many people in that "profession". Just don't let this disturb you.)