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Comment Re: they want more money... (Score 1) 251

I'm not the poster who replied to you anonymously. But personally, I find that that discussions tend to be more engaging, intellectual and genuine when I don't open with a line like "So let me drop some cluebombs on your idiocy here broheim". YMMV.

Anyway, I can tell my attempt at engaging are falling flat, so I'll get out of your hair now.

Comment Re: they want more money... (Score 1) 251

When people correct you, take a moment to contemplate that they may be right instead of going full Dunning-Kruger.

8 kWh/day is not 333 W/h, it's 333 W.

And while I can't speak for your electricity bill, mine is in Wh – not W/h.

The rest of your math seems to hold up, though I'd be more interested in math showing that the amortized cost of permanently parking a Tesla car in your garage is actually cheaper than grid electricity... color me skeptical.

Comment Re:The irony is palpable. (Score 1) 471

The latest thing I've encountered is with Agile process. One engineer had to become the "architect" who was allowed to describe how things were to be implemented but not actually see or review the source code.

And like most things labeled "Agile", it has nothing to do with Agile development... Still, that's not bad at all!

I (briefly) held a job in which the architect not only described at a high level how things were to be implemented, but before you could start coding you had to provide the architect with a detailed implementation plan for him to approve, and at the end he had to review and approve the final code. There was one architect and some 40 developers. By the time I left, my entire team had been idling for an entire two-week sprint because the architect was still working through last month's paperwork, and we'd yet to be given the go-ahead to actually write any code. (This, management told us, was supposed to be Scrum.)

Comment Re:Actually... (Score 2) 135

The original was in Cinerama.

They're not mutually exclusive: Wikipedia says:

The less wide but still spectacular Super Panavision 70 was used to film the Cinerama presentations [...] 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968), which also featured scenes shot in Todd-AO and MCS-70 [...]

IMDb also lists the negative format as "65 mm (Eastman 50T 5251)".

Since the film was shot and mastered in 70 mm, it seems reasonable enough to restore it to 70 mm. Unlike 3-screen Cinerama, there are actually still theaters that can project 70 mm analog.

I might give it a pass in my local 70 mm theater though... some years ago they replaced their screen, adding a silver coating to reflect more light for digital stereoscopic 3D projection, but ever since, analog projection has suffered from noticeable "hot spotting" (not a problem with digital projection for some reason). Fortunately, unlike Nolan, I have no problems with digital projection. :-)

Comment Re:Socialist Utopia (Score 3, Informative) 120

Should we mind that entirely made up tax rate?

The Danish income tax is just around the EU average. E.g. in 2013, the average single Dane paid an effective income tax of 38%, compared to 31% in the US, 49% in Germany or 56% in Belgium. (Source: OECD)

(Many people in the above mentioned countries will react with disbelief when they see these numbers, but then, it really shouldn't surprise anyone that OECD understands the tax systems of the respective countries better than most citizens.)

Incidentally, that Belgian average tax rate of 56% is the same as the Danish marginal (and thus also maximum) rate.

Maybe you're thinking of the OECD "tax burden" (total tax revenue, including VAT and fees, as a percentage of GDP), which is sometimes brought up by politicians campaigning on tax cuts? But even that is only 46%, and while it is indeed (barely) the highest in OECD, it's also a largely meaningless number, as revenue-neutral changes to the tax system can have significant impact on it. (E.g. in Denmark, people pay taxes on welfare checks. If instead we did like most countries and just paid out equivalent tax-free – but smaller – checks, the OECD tax burden would drop an estimated 4% points, and six OECD countries would suddenly be ahead of us.)

Comment Re:Can we pause the Panic Parade, please? (Score 1) 375

From their paper:

Experiments were performed on multiple x86 processor architectures, including Intel Ivy Bridge (i7-3630QM), Intel Haswell (i7-4650U), Intel Skylake (unspecified Xeon on Google Cloud), and AMD Ryzen. The Spectre vulnerability was observed on all of these CPUs.

Comment Re: Can we pause the Panic Parade, please? (Score 1) 375

I read their paper instead.

Experiments were performed on multiple x86 processor architectures, including Intel Ivy Bridge (i7-3630QM), Intel Haswell (i7-4650U), Intel Skylake (unspecified Xeon on Google Cloud), and AMD Ryzen. The Spectre vulnerability was observed on all of these CPUs.

Submission + - Details of "Meltdown" and "Spectre" Attacks Against Intel & AMD Chips Disclo (securityweek.com)

wiredmikey writes: Researchers have disclosed technical details of two new attack methods that exploit critical flaws in CPUs from Intel, AMD and other vendors. They claim billions of devices are vulnerable, allowing malicious actors to gain access to passwords and other sensitive data without leaving a trace.

There have been reports over the past few days about a critical flaw in Intel CPUs that allows an attacker to gain access to kernel space memory. It turns out that there are actually two different attacks and researchers say one of them impacts AMD and ARM processors as well.

The attack methods, dubbed Meltdown and Spectre by researchers, rely on hardware design flaws and they allow malicious applications installed on a device to access data as it’s being processed. This can include passwords stored in a password manager or web browser, photos, documents, emails, and data from instant messaging apps.

Comment Re:Old news (Score 1) 72

That article describes a completely different and well-documented issue of high-pressure fire suppression systems destroying hard disks due to a massive pressure spike when the gas is released. Modern data center fire suppression systems are designed to ramp up the gas pressure more slowly, to prevent this issue, and given the size of these systems, it's not really an attack you can take on the road with you, unlike the research described in TFA, which looks like it can be performed with little more than a phone and perhaps a Bluetooth speaker... but which also does not cause permanent damage to the harddrive.

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