Paper and land-line calls subject to fraud also. It's how Steve Jobs got started.

I suspect the optimal strategy is to dwell on the success just long enough to convince yourself the goal is achievable and then switch to the mindset of "ok, now I need to make it happen".

Too much thinking about the positive and you feel like you've already won and lose the motivation to put in the work.

But if you only dwell on the negatives your task seems impossible and you again have no reason to work.

True. Smiling Bob is also harder.

I guess this aint the kind of joke that works on Slashdot

Others have posted most of what I'd suggest. If you want to consider running heat pipes to the case and have the case act as a giant heat sink, have a look at the 2008-2014 Mac Pro cases, which are solid aluminum. They'd probably be among the best options for a case that is also a heatsink. Finned heatsinks could be added to the outside of the case.

With turbo boost, it runs until it hits a thermal limit, then scales the clock speed back a bit at a time until the load stops or it hits a speed at which it can run continuously without overheating. So it almost certainly will eventually throttle back to a lower clock speed, but that may or may not be 1.4 GHz. For example, if you are running only one core at full throttle, it will probably not scale back that far.

But no, it almost certainly cannot run at 2.7 GHz 24x7.

OK, you have put actual sourced words on the matter on the screen. Granted you haven't been willing to suspend your usual level of spin, but you are at least showing interest in more than just "skimming" this time through.

(side note, if anyone knows a way to reply to a JE while seeing the JE text in the same window, please let me know. Any time I want to do this I have to open the JE in a separate window to get the text, which is a bit of a PITA)

I'm glad that you quoted the first chapter directly as it really sets up the general argument that Marx wants to make. Marx is saying that the ideal communist society is classless, which is why every large "communist" nation has, in the eyes of communism, been a failure.

I'm interested in knowing how you support your claim of

In regards to his statement of history being all about class struggles. What would you like to see in support of the argument? Conversely, if you consider it to be immediately garbage, what do you see that specifically disproves it so thoroughly?

This all comes back down to class struggles. You can claim that there was more upward mobility around for people to seize than what he believed there to be, if you want, but it really is quite hard to level a claim of there not being any struggle at all between those with power and those without.

Add IPX8 to the high specs.

The fact that probability is involved doesn't mean there's not an optimal strategy, of course, where optimal is defined as "highest expected score" (score X probability). So figuring out an optimal strategy is a hard problem - how hard is it?

If the probability of a certain series of shapes coming next were 100%, we'd have an NP-hard problem, agreed? Does another probability make it easier or harder? Harder, if anything. That's provable because the probability version can be solved by solving each of the potential series as if each were known. What's harder than NP-hard? It may well still be NP-hard. It can't be of any more solvable complexity class.

The program is 430 bytes.

Ok, that one was funny ;-)

Thanks, that is what I meant. I find that as I get older, my tolerance for clueless people gets lower.

A side-note on this: That the CA never sees your private key is a myth. In practically all real-world situations, the CA generates your private key (stupid, yes, I know, but greed, a.k.a. "business", trumps reason in this world) with the one exception of a PGP web-of-trust. That is why PGP signatures are a lot more trustworthy when verifying binaries these days.

Not form a CA, that is for sure. But listen kid, this is a really complicated area. Read up on it, and the solution how to do it right may make itself known to you. (Yes, you just asked a beginner's question.)

It is a pity, because there is no way to give these services a PCI compliance and stay honest. It is just not possible to actually reach the required security-level.

I fully agree on that.