What on earth makes you think that NK has to have the native talent? The didn't figure out how to make nukes on their own either. They didn't home-grow their substantial currency counterfeiting operation, either. They likewise don't design and build their own military equipment. But that doesn't stop them from having nukes, from doing big business in phony currency, and sinking other people's ships.

Sure they did. They stole time from millions of people. They deliberately screwed with the expectations and plans of millions of people, all for a little bit of cash and bragging rights among their fellow assholes.

You're right, all those people should have chosen to buy fun, well-developed, richly supported gaming platforms from one of the many providers who offer open source, freedom-minded, anti-IP, systems that have a large selection of really cool massive multiplayer games with giant networks supporting all of that activity. There are so many to choose from that I'm sure it's why you just didn't have time to list them.

It's idiots like you, who think that businesses, networks, people's entertainment time, and the like "aren't real" that give comfort and encouragement to idiots like the guys who pulled this. They did it to be dicks, just like other dicks might throw a rock through your window and nail your TV right before you were going to watch the World Cup match you've been waiting weeks to watch with your friends. Or, in a closer analogy, waiting until moments before the game starts, and then cutting the cable that services your house or apartment building.

Let me guess: that soccer game's not real! They're not at the stadium in person, so denying them the chance to watch it as they planned isn't actually harmful! Destruction of the time someone plans to use in a certain way is a theft more real, in many ways, than stealing physical objects. You'll never be able to replace the time. Which is one of the reasons these guys are dicks. Deliberate, purposeful, not noble in any way, dicks.

I'm 3D printing my flying car right now. It's just the printer is going to take thirty years to finish printing.

Cool. Since we have unlimited production capacity, I want my own Death Star in five minutes. Thanks.

Only if they destroyed the original wrench after they 'transported' it.

And there are Commodore 64s on ebay for $50. This thing is clearly crazy overpriced.

That seems more likely, but, when I was writing DMA code years ago, we put the buffers in non-cached RAM (and there were only written to from a driver in the kernel). Maybe explicit cache flushes are faster these days.

It apparently only happens if you read the same bytes from RAM 139,000 times in 64 milliseconds. If your program is doing that, you probably have a lot more to worry about than disk corruption.

If this was actually happening in the real world, computers would probably be crashing every few minutes.

Can you explain when you'd need to flush the cache when using multiple threads? You'd have to flush the cache back to RAM (isn't that a privileged instruction?), invalidate it, then read the data back from RAM. That's surely insanely slow compared to just using the CPU's internal cache coherency mechanisms?

Only if the sandbox lets you repeatedly access memory and flush the cache between accesses, and you happen to know where your data is in physical RAM.

If I remember correctly, the historical norm is that 20% of people have about 80% of the wealth. It's worse than that today because the government steal so much money from the middle class (or just print it) to give to the rich.

But, hey, elect more Liberals, they'll sort it out. Ha-ha.

You're funny. If Liberal policies really stopped those folks being disenfranchised, dispossessed, poor, hungry and downtrodden... they'd stop voting Liberal. That's why the real-world policies are designed to entrap those foilks into dependency on the Glorious Liberal State, so they'll keep voting for the politicians who are supposedly 'helping' them.