That is not even close to true. Many of them were instituted as exceptions to aid the war on terror. The problem is deeper than the war on drugs; as terrible as that is, it is actually a symptom.

Intel will "solve" this problem by simply abandoning the old processors. They did it to the first atoms already; preview releases of new Linux distributions that Intel has contributed code to (e.g. Tizen) don't support them already.

ARM cores are dual-issue now, so that's just not that exciting any more.

Straw man, or at best, you failed to understand the argument. The argument is not that register renaming has a negative impact on cpu performance, the argument is that having more GPRs provides superior performance to register renaming. This is a proven fact; just recompiling some code for x86_64 provides a 15% performance increase for this reason alone (on the same processor.)

Kinda, true, no you don't, HAHAHAHA.

It's a good idea because magstrips are easy to erase and contacts are easy to destroy. It's unfortunate that this implementation is so crap, but that doesn't invalidate the concept.

Thanks for the heads-up! I will, in fact, wait. (I am getting an Ouya for the living room, but that's something else...)

And we should also all have better password management. If all we're providing now is a very small token (password) then we could be providing a larger token (uniquely generated certificate per machine login) as well and really getting something in the bargain. But if the user has to do anything to enable this, they won't. It ought to be in the browser. I'm not talking about SSL, which is good and all, but about the reverse basically.

The San Francisco plumbers' union was (is?) famously a Mafia operation. What's it like out there? Is he getting any kickbacks? Etc.

You're not reasonably going to make casings, because where will the stock come from? But you could instead make a black powder rifle, from towards the end of the era when they used bullets rather than balls, and had decent rifling. There were also revolvers. Then you only need to worry about primer caps, which are cheap and small and easy to stockpile and relatively easy to manufacture.

(er, delivered, it costs four times as much as the Pi, but it has four cores, and a lot more of everything else too. so what I meant to say but didn't (in b4 correction) is that you get more for your money. The abysmally short warranty is why I don't own one already.)

Scale to ODROID-U2. It only has a four week warranty, but if you use enough of them the presumably high failure rate might not impinge on operations. Delivered, it costs about the same as Pi, but it's a lot more machine. It has the same problems with proprietary chips, but they're the same problems after all, it's not like R-Pi doesn't have them.

The second experiment added some Linux laptops that ping-flooded to generate lots of network activity. The second experiment showed a clear increase in plant "damage" /lack of development.

Were the laptops located so that their fans wouldn't be blowing hot air past the seeds, heating them and sucking the moisture out of them?

But that's not what the article says.

If you're going to threadshit, at least threadshit with a username so I can filter you.

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Of late I've been using LastPass. I don't know any of my passwords by memory, simply because they're just random garbage.

Q908j0U9$!!uOVgJ2R!0XC*mN
4$J0X3B7d63r6Sr29&z9r0hdx

They all look like that. They are all unique per site too, so if Yahoo loses control of its passwords again, for example, the rest of my stuff isn't hosed.

Go ahead. Generate a rainbow table that takes into account 25 (or more) characters of pure junk.

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True. False, true, true, true.

It really was about ideas, about building a better future, learning to put aside childish things, all that jazz. But you're also correct that it was never put together very well. This persisted into TNG, and didn't really change until DS9. That show had problems other than production value, though.