Has Thiel himself come out for these views against equality? If so, I missed that.
Thiel has stated that the 19th amendment to the United States constitution (granting female suffrage) has "rendered the notion of ‘capitalist democracy’ into an oxymoron.”
Apple hasn't even released a mac book with a skylake processor yet
Review of 12-inch Skylake macbook from April
Why bother posting easily falsifiable lies?
Apple, OTOH, made the whole thing COMPLETELY SEAMLESS to all but the smallest-subset of users, by clever OS witchery (which I freely admit I do not know for sure how it works, but I assume has something to do with having a 32 bit and 64 bit version or entry point to each API call).
The way the "compatibility mode" kernel that shipped on Mac OS X several years ago works: the kernel is double-mapped into both the low 4G of the address space as well as the upper 128 TB ("negative") region. On a system call, exception or interrupt, the processor branches to the "high" double mapped region, switches to 64-bit mode and executes a small slice of the kernel in 64-bit mode. That slice does some book-keeping and then switches address spaces and modes to execute 32-bit "compatibility" mode IA32 code back in the low 4GiB. With this mechanism, 64-bit programs work without requiring all the 32-bit drivers and the kernel proper to operate entirely in 64-bit mode, which was a significant time-to-market and compatibility advantage. There's a drawback in that performance isn't as good as with a pure 64-bit kernel, but Apple shipped that a few years later.
If you have a linked bank account, it defaults to that, and you have to manually change it for every payment. This is clearly based on the hope that many users will neglect to do so, and so they can debit money with no cost to them from your bank account (while charging the recipient 3.5% or more), rather than paying the credit card transaction fees (some of which go back to the buyers, if they're smart and have cash back or rewards cards).
Followed by their invariable attempts to sell your their horrible credit cards, dire and false warnings about credit card charges unless you use a bank account, false warnings about foreign exchange conversion fees.
Not the most egregious issues I'm sure (I've never sold anything via ebay or paypal), but makes the whole experience unpleasant.
QCFLAG: quality control flag, seven possibilities within quality controlled unadjusted (qcu) dataset, and 2 possibilities within the quality controlled adjusted (qca) dataset. Quality Controlled Unadjusted (QCU) QC Flags: BLANK = no failure of quality control check or could not be evaluated. D = monthly value is part of an annual series of values that are exactly the same (e.g. duplicated) within another year in the station's record. etc.
"don't understand the difference between what David Petraeus was indicted for and what Hillary Clinton, even by the most maximal interpretation, is accused of. What David Petraeus did was not mishandling classified information. No one ever suggested those were the facts of the case; it was lesser charge that grew out of a plea deal. David Petraeus was in a position of the highest military authority and knowingly shared the highest levels of classified information: secret code words, the identities of informants, war strategy among other things with his mistress, who unquestionably had no right to have access to the information. Even marital infidelity in itself is a serious matter in the military. The breach of trust, vulnerability to blackmail and dereliction of duty are all huge and knowing transgressions. Petraeus could have been indicted for a number of individual crimes. He was pled down to a mishandling charge. Comparing this to insufficiently protecting information that appears not to have even been explicitly classified at the time is silly. "
One who breaks security on a system. Coined ca. 1985 by hackers in defense against journalistic misuse of hacker (q.v., sense 8). An earlier attempt to establish worm in this sense around 1981--82 on Usenet was largely a failure.
which would seem earlier than the parent's recollection, but it had probably been floating around in the collective engineering unconsciousness for some time. Of course, the etymology can probably be traced back to non-electronic crime, such as burglary (safe cracking/safe crackers).
One man's constant is another man's variable. -- A.J. Perlis
