I wish all of this would go away. It's an embarrassing that my government is taking these and former actions against a person that is essentially a reporter.

The only thing this does is prevent hackintoshes which is not significant at all.

I don't see them gaining anything except expenses. I understand half of it was already paid for to develop processors for their phone processor but what is the advantage? Commodity hardware is cheaper.

What it does do is prevent Windows on them both when they reach their end of life and using virtual machines such that it is a slower implementation.

Is it because of recent security vulnerabilities? Their processors will undoubtedly have their own vulnerabilities which will prove an extra expensive.

At least now and before I could recommend Macs to the computer illiterate because although they are expensive you could put windows on them later when they reached their EOL.

Of course sheltering was going to slow it down. NO ONE DOUBTED IT. But that is all it did which is slow it down. And fewer people are doing to die because they had a resperator available. But 50 percent that are going on resperators are dying anyway. The same number of people are still going to get it. There is still no firewall of immunity because 80 percent people haven't had it yet. Sheltering in place is not an active strategy. It like throwing the covers over your head and wetting yourself when you think there is a burgler in the house.

Action would have been isolating only the people most at risk. Then asking for volunteers and intentionally exposing them to the virus. The first of those being the nurses and paramedics. Then doctors, police and national guard. Then nursing home staff and volunteers to take care of people. They would then have priority of the resperators being early days. Then after a month they would have been though it and the next batch could have come in. Then when at scale expose children and young adults.

Provide facilities and camps. Take over wherehouses, aircraft hangers and hotels. Get the homeless off the street and into camps with policing. Get those living with elderly to move to a temp shelter like a hotel or commit to staying at home and receive unemployment; they would not be allowed out of the house... not even for groceries. All people sheltering would have their food and shopping delivered for free; door service. Everyone else that did not volunteer would eventually get it and it would have been over with in four months. And fewer people at risk would not have died because they would have been protected until the community could firewall them from infection though having already had it.

Why is the article skipping over such important information specifically as how the water is used? When I do a search there is some mention about water being used for energy generation but again no details.

If the water is being used for evaporative cooling in drought stricken areas then there needs to be a hanging. I can't imagine how it is used in power generation. Solar pv and wind don't need water last I checked. Further I don't see how they need fresh water. If it is used for some process then I don't understand why it isn't filtered and reused.

Google should build it own pipelines from the nearby oceans and desalinate it themselves.

The utility should be city wide networks. City wide fat lans. The internet or any other network including ones with paid prioritization can be connected. It's up to carriers to install lines and equipment to connect to the city hubs. The actual networks are virtual and piped over pppoe and such. It's logical. City wide lans I argue would be cheaper for cities themselves to implement and or sub out. The actual content would be irrelevant and can be encrypted. No need for multiple carriers to install multiple sets of lines. By not being providers they are impartial.

That is the crux of the issue. First of all stores and been tracking their customers since there have been stores. They did it using their brains.

Next we have the principle that what is in public view is not private. It's like trade secrets... you can't go to court complaining someone stole your secret recipe when your the one that told them.... everyone is simply going to call you an idiot.

There should be laws to protect peoples private data but such laws need to be practical. It should protect things like what you bought such as a teenage girl buying a pregnancy test. If something is in plain view then it's not secret.

P.S. Fingerprints are not private either since we give them away with everything we touch.

The first one is in the outright design of the plane. Rather than redesign the plane they went ahead with what they had rather than face the delays of government review again. The plane was going to sell big time and the bean counters rushed it to market. Rather that redesigning and moving the landing gear placement they relied on a field "software fix". Next instead of installing three or four sensors for proper redundancy as they said they were going to do they sold the idea of software fix to the FAA (they are already saving money) and then the bean counters decided the only needed one sensor and would sell redundancy only as an added on upgrade.... An upgrade to improve the safety of their flawed design.... Not only are you going to pay for a flawed airplane were going to make you pay for the fix to make it safe to fly.... Then when they designed the user interface for the plane and did everything they could to hide the design flaw because they knew sooner or later someone would sue over it.

This is why bean counters should not be allowed to pretend to be engineers. It's just like the 86 shuttle disaster. We need these people to sign on the dotted line that they will do jail time when their bullshit doesn't pan out and people die. Nothing extreme. Just sitting in a cell for two month staring at a picture of a person with big words below it... "This person is dead because of YOU." And do this for each and every person that died.

If something is cheaper (lets say a drill) somewhere else then people will buy it there. So it seems reasonable to me they should deemphesize (the listing for that make and model of drill) and emphasize what they have the advantage on (possibly other drills of different makes and models they have a price advantage on.)

Languages let you do things but it's up to programmers to do things right.

Modern languages are super-sets of features. We need easier ways of choosing sets of features and streamlining runtime code.

We need new object code models and they have to be defined into the languages rather than being left up to the implementation. There is no reason for compilers not to be object compatible.

And give it up... all languages have to have mutable types. But just like "goto" you need to get everyone on board with a subset of the language and using the same patterns in the right way. We get into all this trouble because of heavy handed language developers trying dictate how you should code. On the other end we get programmers that don't understand what the compilers are doing and how the language is implemented.

The solution is always a language that lets you do anything. You let the programmers under you do their own things and migrate them to how they should do things your way since you sign their paychecks. Anything done right has been through at least 10 revisions. The first and most important is the first draft which is always under a gun pointed at your head. But it's up to the organizations not to settle for "working" and allow programmers time to redesign it properly. Redesigning is where programmers learn to code better from the start.

Same old story. Bottom line is they want to import cheap foreign workers. They pay lip service to education and talk about how everyone should be able to code. Coding can be learned but not everyone will be good at it. It's one area of engineering that only some people will be good at just like not everyone can be a good doctor. The people that are good and US citizens demand a higher salary... these big companies would naturally prefer to bring in a foreign workers at lower pay. So they blow smoke about coding education. And people are believing it....

Supply and demand works. If a person has an aptitude for coding they can be proficient in a couple years and it's easily self taught. Offer enough money and the smart people capable of the work will retrain. But the people here are not offered corresponding salaries so they choose to do other things. If you want something you have to pay the market price or do without.

I would criticize US education in a different manor. I think subjects should be fast tracked and standardized testing should be done for every subject like the Khan Academy. I see no reason 60% of kids couldn't graduate high schools subjects by 15 or already have the equivalent of an AA by the time their 17. And I personally think everyone should work a couple years at that point before being allowed to continue to higher education. Out living on their own in a shitty job so they can realize quickly what they want. We need to dare I say it deemphasize college and focus on two year vocational education. Not your traditional trades but highly technical ones that address industry needs. We also need to something about urban planning because people have not been doing their jobs for the last 40 years in areas such as affordable housing.

The best model for city internet is if they don't provide the internet but rather just last mile connectivity and rackmount space that any company can move into. They truly become the utility that they are. And they are not tempted to filter the internet.

The US has been ignoring computer security for over 20 years. We have appointed multiple experts to leaders of cyber for all those years. Each and every time they have resigned because of federal and state bureaucracy, politics and money got in the way. While I think any sitting president does indeed have the power to shut down any state facility; states will fight it tooth and nail for lack of money and simply point fingers at the federal government rather than fixing their problems. I wouldn't be surprised if there wasn't some collusion at this point to have a friendly player attack the US in a limited manor just to get the political ball rolling.

Internet access to industrial control systems is limited. I suspect all of them have already been fixed and or honeypotted. It's the internet access being installed for the purposes of telemetry which is scary. (Companies save money by not needing to send someone out to read meters.) There are literally millions of sub stations and black boxes all over the united states in unsecured locations. Just think about all the telecom boxes alone. Very little of it has any security and what exists is protected by a low paid security guard that will more than likely open the door to a person wearing the right uniform and a fake work order. More than likely it's a box on the side of a building or a pole with a padlock. Installing cell modules for internet access is usually a little too invasive and detectable and in rural areas just not ubiquitous but now companies are installing telemetry which means they have their own internet connection already. Now all one needs to do is just install a small microcontroller of their own about the size of a 50 cent coin. Easily concealed unless someone knows exactly what should be in each and every box. These boxes have serial ports with no security 99.9% of the time. A player with real resources could replace the entire box with an identical looking box. These boxes are often ten or more years old. One could theoretically only need to replace a couple chips.

Understand now that this is not hacking from someone at a keyboard. This is almost the equivalent of placing bombs and most of the time it doesn't blow up anything up, it simply turns off or shorts out equipment that then needs to be replaced. You won't even be able to visually tell that something was damaged other than it isn't working. Now once placed the systems can be controlled from the internet. But the effect is the same... a crowd of people banging on a door and ready to hang a politician because their neighborhood sewage line is backed up. Or tech companies getting blackmailed into payoffs, public statements, or criticisms they don't agree with or their power goes out and their stock price drops.

The last one I can imagine someone would do just to leverage the stock market. This is one of the many reasons why many of the big tech companies already provide their own power.

The Solution is simple but hard. We have to actually start thinking before doing. Stop using duct tape to repair a leaking roofs. Don't expect to solve it all at once but do at least start fixing it one section at a time.

I think we should have a VM microkernel. Then a few drivers OSVM's under that. Then software OSVM's.

One VM is a dedicated desktop VM with realtime prioritization. It combines framebuffers from all other apps. Simplicity. That desktop VM does not need to be updated unless you actually want to. You can indeed run several desktop VM's. The video driver itself is in another VM.

It's easier to use new RNA but I wonder why they just couldn't fix the mRNA of the mother.

If this becomes a commonplace fertility treatment in the future this will screw up mRNA ancestry tracing.

The key letter in the name A stands for Administration. They should never have developed anything in house. Nor should they do any direct science in house. They should stick to paper and sign checks. It should have always been subcontractors with more autonomy rather than than golf buddies, corporate welfare for defense contractors, and backroom payoffs. You had people designing contracts with irrelevant requirements such that only one company would qualify.

The government needs to change it's business model. It needs to set a price and not pay anything until it's delivered. The money should sit in escrow until completion just like the x-prize that started all this.