How much of this feedbag is from apple.com or another
competitor?

My CP/M system is still giving me fine service air-gapped
from the universe.

More importantly how is this pile broken down.
Some hate any change... bucket A.
Some find broken stuff... bucket B (B as in badly broken bozo)
Some want their personal change ... bucket C.
Some found dumb stuff ... bucket D.

The report appears innocuous but is also justification for more air power.

Hidden from us is the effect of flattening hot crime spots and dispersing crime more evenly across the area. Short term reduction of crime in hot spots seems very real but would identify the hot spot and move crime to cooler spots.

It does little to solve the social and economic wreckage in many neighborhoods that makes crime the most profitable activity.

With deep database background searches no past criminal can get an "interesting" or well paying job. With 20-40% of the mail population in some areas there are rare honest jobs.

The multi million budget for one helicopter would better be spent on solving social problems. This is harder to do than I like but it needs to be done.

We are making some improvements with the decriminalization of marijuana but have failed to discuss a need to expunge non violent non repeat crimes from public employment screening. Simply financing tattoo removal would help some individuals.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L...

Nothing against the unit but the budget area and population make me wonder if more is justified.

So when someone dies how does that person make an entry in the SSN database?

Auto deposit matched with an auto withdrawal by Medicare.
Life insurance automatic payment is the insurance company going to care.

Election boards.. love to have a fat census. They love to have a fat get out the vote budget.
Clearly they need more money because 99.8% of all the individuals over 100 fail to
show up at the polls.

Repetitive stress will be the problem in many....
The deletion window has opened and the bits are flying
away.

Now if only Hillary had her server in Dutch jurisdiction....

The Gentoo crowd had a hoop or two to jump through to get from one version of gcc to another way back when.
Compilers and ABI designs are important -- the fuzzy rules for ARM ABIs is holding ARM back for some.

Linus may be correct from where he sits. A lot of where he sits is atop a massive
pile of C and history written in C going back to Minix and other versions of Unix -- all of which
were built with and on C.

Some of the microkernel designs could have a leg up and the close to hardware
bits could be isolated from upper layers that could be crafted in another language.

So if you want to start over and build from the ground up... who knows.
But today "C" is the anchor for the pile of stuff that Linus sits on.

Hmmm this sandbox strategy is used by Firefox and many more tools.
As more and more tools move to threads this ability
to sync them will gain traction.

My guess is there is a window of risk that needs to be closed before it surfaces
as a bug or exploit. All in all this sandbox stuff is new but interesting as heck.
There are stronger models but this is an improvement especially when RAM is
limited -- (tablets and phones).

Some might recall a bug in an older IBM system
where a single transistor could be abused by
a hand crafted bit of assembler which resulted
in a thermal damaged transistor.

IIRC a clip on heatsink fixed the problem but at
the time some CS students had trouble with their
final projects...

Interesting... bust out the heat spreaders and capacitors.

If we take the chrome browser out of this
most would agree that improving the ability
to sandbox a program is good.

      https://wiki.mozilla.org/Secur...
      https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... (out dated by a bit)

This secure computing mode might be too simple for
some but it seems like a necessary tool to write code
that needs some trust and or is the target of all the
hackers in the world.

Since malware and other browser vectored problems abound
this could be a good thing. I see a long list of multithreaded
tools that use this sandbox.... It seems necessary
to have TSYNC if Intel and others are serious about growing
the number of cores in future processors.

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When they get to 6.5 Watts count me in.

This is a nice little box... I may go shopping later this year
for one.

Then again I may buy another of the new Raspberry Pi boards.
There are some local services I like to have live 7x24 at home
and I target sub five watts as my power budget.

I am more than a little disappointed in the power budget of
WiFi hardware and the limitations of the hardware to operate
as a worthy router and firewall. The foolishness that Xfinity is pulling
with a default public guest account on my AC power makes me want to find
solutions that eliminate them....

Of interest i just saw Xfinity state: "the fastest in-home WiFi,"
This is foolish and silly as WiFi is standards based and I cannot
convince myself that an Xfinity WiFi box is faster than Apple
WiFi hardware. Oh wait... is the net neutral?

This is not a woosh... this is evidence that the show has
writers and a marketing group that understands the full
needs for cyber security.

I applaud their clever ruse and will watch at my leasure.

Well clearly it is about time to address this.

It is not an easy task... However a Raspberry Pi and
a GPS receiver can be assembled for about $100.
It can be turned into a level 1 NTP server...
Other Raspberry Pi boards can then be deployed
as level 2 NTP servers to service a monster machine
room with racks of machines.

One honest limitation to this all is the time slice of the
context switch of the servers. Those that wish time to
be more precise than a context switch are kidding themselves.

A system call to get time of day cannot be expected to
return immediatly. The returned TOD would be loaded
in registers or a stack then the process returned to the
run-queue. It will eventually come off the queue and
stamp some transaction.

A potential but more expensive solution is a memory mapped
free running time of day counter on a device. That free running
TOD counter can be managed by a microprocessor that watches
a GPS reference clock or NTP linked synchronized device.

Temp controlled quartz clocks can minimize local drift but
interrupt latency and context switching are hard to eliminate.

Climate change does not apply to objects in space. Surely you cannot hear me scream.

Take some time and be honest with her.
Stuff happens, no notice, lots of notice .... never enough notice.

Make sure she knows that you have spoken with
and trust her mother in all things.

Keep it simple and while you are living live.

Take care...

Yet withdrawal is not life threatening the way heroin and alcohol are.

Nicotine might be a much safer anti anxiety drug than the long list of
too easy to abuse drugs available to doctors.

Separated from Tobacco there is no Po210 in a nicotine product.
Some suspect Po210 combined with tar and dust is the most likely
trigger for lung cancers.

A vapor (E-cig) or patch that contains nicotine might replace many
mood altering prescriptions. There are those that daemonize nicotine
because cigarettes and tobaccos are so clearly associated with
the big C. The over reaction reminds me of C++ and some programmers.
But I should not overload this here.

Cancer is one ugly motherF*&^$r