What are you talking about? The British had the Hurricanes and they didn't attack us.

Yep. Why make up all this crap about family and vacations and shit??

Everyone knows it's for a porn collection. Hell, I face the same dilemma. How do you automatically detect and delete duplicate images?

No.

They are arguing that Uber needs to play by the same rules as the taxi drivers.

And what size is the process they used to make those chips, versus the chips that are used in the ARM core of the Raspberry Pi and its attached memory?

The smaller you go the more of a problem it is. Older chips work because everything in them is larger, knocking one electron out of place on a pentium is WAY different than doing it on processors where you have very few atoms to work with.

Theres a difference between radiation poisoning and flipping a few bits.

Perhaps there's something to the pervasive media narrative about Silicon Valley after all. Not only do they have no ability to relate to the non-asian and non-white crowd but they also have no ability to relate to whites that aren't rich enough for east coast boarding schools either.

Wait, boarding schools? I don't think that's Silicon Valley you're talking about, my friend. I could see Wall Street being accused of that, maybe...

The taxi drivers feel like they own the customers. Not the whole customer, mind you (that'd be slavery). Just a little piece.

Radiation hardened hardware has shielding and larger components. You simply can't harden chips like the RPi uses, the objects on the silicon are simply too small.

Checksumming doesn't fix errors, it detects them.

The RPi barely has enough CPU power too boot, let alone run regular ECC calculations.

This is a stupid idea across the board. I really wish people would get the fuck over the idea that buying a RPi isn't a stupid idea.

Then you're lucky.

The RPi will corrupt SD cards even mounted read-only. It has no hardware write protection and does mysteriously stupid things on power loss. The behavior is well known, which is why you keep hearing it.

It'll be awesome ... it'll run for exactly 8 seconds before radiation corrupts every register beyond function and it has to be reset. Cosmic Rays for the win!

Fuck your patents. We're making it anyway, you just lost your privileges to do business under normal business rules. The drug and any derivatives of it become public domain, and any knowledge you have relating to that particular drug becomes public domain. ALL OF IT, regardless as to how it relates to other work you have.

Then, as stage two, take all the execs and every employee who didn't openly, publicly, actively work against this move out back and shoot them, preferably in a way that makes their death slow and painful.

The second time a drug company does something like this, the government takes their ENTIRE patent portfolio, makes it public domain and closes the company down, selling any physical assets they have to the highest bidder and any other intellectual property also becomes public domain. Yes this will have collateral damage for the first few that do it, and then this shit would stop. Share holders lose everything, maybe next time they'll think a little more about being greedy fucks and demand the company do the right thing rather than the profitable thing.

When people get their panties in a twist about how much "wealth" the Walton family has it just shows they don't understand what wealth is.

Their "wealth" is paper. They could be worth X millions one day and X - a butt load of money the next. It has no impact on how much they can spend at lunch or whether they get the premium cable package or the standard. It's not cash. They'd have to sell or take out loans against their shares if they wanted to go buy a Private Jet or something like that.

So the fact they are worth a few billion in paper doesn't diminish your pay check at all.

It doesn't matter if GLONASS is better, its that modern chips use BOTH.

"Canadian jobs"? Do Canadians own those jobs? Perhaps this should be better-codified, then! I mean, there are places in the world where people own jobs and are legally entitled to sell the job or pass it on to their children. Mexico teachers' unions come to mind. Of course, they're also a textbook case of dysfunction and an entitlement mentality trying to dignify itself with the trappings of leftism.

Anyway. Essentially what I'd like to get at is that this is a hideously ugly form of nationalism which doesn't really deserve any of the dignity of the idealized socialist struggle (CS workers as the proletariat, ha!) and miserable economic policy to boot. (no nation in history has ever become prosperous by isolating itself from trade.)

Of course, the real question is why the US needs to launder these workers through Canada and doesn't just let them in directly (we're clearly letting in plenty of unskilled workers, after all...)

It looks to me like these drives write a large amount of data as a spiral of multiple tracks so that the platter must rotate many times to complete the write.

That's fine for streaming data sequentially to the disk for long term storage.

Random writes must be dog-slow, though.