Comment Re:Someone start a defense fund (Score 4, Insightful) 955
He publicized information that was tagged as Top Secret.
Remind me again what classifying information as Top Secret has to do with democracy.
He publicized information that was tagged as Top Secret.
Remind me again what classifying information as Top Secret has to do with democracy.
You do realize that what GPUs are doing in games like Crysis 3 is covering a polygon with smaller polygons?
All of those things are things that malware and crapware would immediately use to make your phone much, much worse. I'd like them too, but I can see why Apple would want to keep those things off their system to keep their users happier.
Your claims here are beyond ridiculous. You'd have to be incredibly ignorant about to honestly believe any of that.
In a homogenous society like Japan
What the hell is that even supposed to mean, except for "I don't want to believe this"?
WHO has a "vested interest in downplaying serious problems" now?
What is quite hilarious though is that DRM something Apple support as they currently benefit from it.
And that is why the pushed the music industry to let them remove it. Yes, that makes perfect sense.
In-app purchases are the exact same thing as bitcoin.
No, not even close? Why would you even say that?
Nobody said that other people didn't have a use for it.
What was said was that they were laundering money.
It's ending right now. Clock speeds have stalled years ago. Memories are running at crawl speeds compared to CPUs. We're just buying time by increasing parallelism now, but Amdhal's law is waiting around the corner to put a stop to that, too.
Low level optimization is far, far from gone. It's just what you need to optimize that has changed. CPU number crunching is no longer the bottleneck. Memory is, and drawing things on a screen is essentially mostly memory operations. And we have special hardware to handle this for us to try and relieve the bottlenecks, so now the optimizations is in how you use that hardware.
If you tried running a non-optimized CPU-only system on modern hardware, you'd go out of your mind because it was so sluggish.
Did you see where he put "(performance)" in there?
Well, guess what? All the numbers being discussed here are like that. Meaninglessly small. That was the entire point.
Chips can't be radioactive if produced from material free of radioactive material.
No such materials exist. At least no such biological materials. Both potassium and carbon are naturally radioactive, and biological matter contains plenty of them.
It's been proven a few times that dirty bombs are no real threat since they're just radioactive-packed conventional explosives
Why are you stating the definition of a dirty bomb as the proof that it is not a threat?
Old programmers never die, they just hit account block limit.