Does money not exist in Europe?
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All 14 days of 2018? :)
I'm inclined to believe the theory that the damage is inadvertent.
It passes the "gratuitous negativity" test to me. The same point could have been made without the condescension.
You and I can disagree of course. I'm not finding issue with your opinion -- just offering mine.
I should also mention I'm Canadian and pretty much nobody talks the way AvE does. His accent and vocabulary are purposely exaggerated.
I've gotten used to AvE's unboxing by now and in fact look forward to it, but I remember it being jarring the first few times.
Speaking up is a no-brainer.
As for the moral premise you're presuming I hold, please spare me your intellectual gymnastics.
Explain to me how Afghan society would be changed by allowing a small group of girls into the United States for a few days -- so they can participate in a robotics competition.
This veneer of non-interventionism and pragmatism is no more than a facade you hide behind.
First, why must we help the oppressed when their local oppressors aren't concerned? Is this what you're asking? You can't possibly be serious.
Second, just because a majority of Afghani men believe something doesn't mean they all do. Those girls presumably had some support in pursuing robotics. It's more than likely the men in their family are supportive.
If there's one thing I would expect everyone to agree on, it's that helping those girls is a noble goal. They are competing on an international level despite living in an environment that stifles their creativity and freedom.
The fact that Intel does not do that with a bug of this magnitude shows how much respect they have for their users.
The issue was being investigated by the OCaml community since
2017-01-06, with reports of malfunctions going at least as far back as
Q2 2016. It was narrowed down to Skylake with hyper-threading, which is
a strong indicative of a processor defect. Intel was contacted about
it, but did not provide further feedback as far as we know.
Fast-forward a few months, and Mark Shinwell noticed the mention of a
possible fix for a microcode defect with unknown hit-ratio in the
intel-microcode package changelog. He matched it to the issues the
OCaml community were observing, verified that the microcode fix indeed
solved the OCaml issue, and contacted the Debian maintainer about it.
Apparently, Intel had indeed found the issue, *documented it* (see
below) and *fixed it*. There was no direct feedback to the OCaml
people, so they only found about it later.
2. Yes, they will probably be unique but it is not likely that someone's natural prints look like your sanded prints. Also, since prints regenerate, it would be more difficult to track you through your fingerprints if the authorities have the sanded ones on file.
That said, good luck hiding from Uncle Sam :)
What makes sense for your team and the things you work on can be very different from mine.
The tools and process my team settles on can achieve better results despite looking more primitive on your measuring stick. Complexity is not the end goal.
The ingenuity that goes into RCE exploits never ceases to amaze (and terrify) me. Can't wait for more details to be released.
Planes have big engines and can generate a great deal of lift. That means their fuel can be housed inside safe tanks of metal.
An airship needs to have thin lining around its lifting gas in order to fly. One can make the argument that recent progress in materials engineering makes it possible to have material that is thin but strong -- and I know next to nothing about the state of materials engineering -- but that does not change the fact that for the past few decades, a hydrogen airship would have introduced a great deal of risk for no good reason.
If you want to avoid these sorts of compromises, use a package manager or check the hash of the downloaded file against one that you trust.
I don't own a Chromebook though. Maybe that would change things.
Anyway, license notwithstanding, they do not publish the latest source. The download page has version 1.8, whose source is not available for download. There is also no repository and so no public history of changes on a per-commit basis. It might technically be open source, but certainly not in spirit.
More importantly though, the trend is that most companies relying on someone else's platform for survival are cannibalized. A few examples to the contrary don't make it a good idea.