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jjawssd

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jjawssd··on Net Neutrality to Get U.S. Senate Vote as Democrats Force Issue
Bernie did it right. There is no reason for the government to force net neutrality if instead the government focused on maintaining a competitive ISP landscape.
jjawssd··on Losing Faith in the State, Some Mexican Towns Quietly Break Away
In order to make the most of your travels, you need to first understand that, throughout much of the Third World, there is a smoothly functioning “system” in place that has evolved over centuries. From the First World perspective it is a “corrupt” system, and indeed, at the higher levels there is no other word for it, and this blog’s purpose is to remove the brutality and horror of such high level corruption. At the lower levels, however, the system contains an element of grace and humanity, and this lower lever is all that most people will ever encounter. You might still call this lower level “corruption”, but that’s not a helpful word if you want to acquire the most effective attitude for dancing with it. I prefer “negotiable”. It focuses the mind on the true task at hand when dealing with officialdom and removes any unpleasant subconscious connotations. So if you can view the following tools and tips as negotiation guidelines it will help bring the necessary smile to your face when the situation requires one.

Source: http://www.whoismcafee.com/the-travel-guide/

jjawssd··on Can Washington Be Automated?
> Automation can reduce transparency, by moving open discussions and reasoning into obscure, sometimes proprietary computer code.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0n_Ty_72Qds

jjawssd··on Intel 8th Gen Core with Radeon RX Vega GPU Presentation
Yes, and mega-tasking. Slide 3
jjawssd··on Zhaoxin's x86 CPUs
Fixed URL: ARM Trustzone

https://www.arm.com/products/security-on-arm/trustzone

jjawssd··on Zhaoxin's x86 CPUs
ARM Trustzone

http://www.arm.com/products/processors/technologies/trustzon...

AMD PSP

http://www.amd.com/en-us/innovations/software-technologies/s...

jjawssd··on Teens Aren’t Partying Anymore
Don't take it personally. You won't get many warm replies from American city dwellers for pointing out the failures of their communities.
jjawssd··on How to hack a turned-off computer, or running unsigned code in Intel ME [pdf]
What is harmed most directly by publicizing Intel ME vulnerabilities?

Is it in the interest of this entity to restrict the publication of Intel ME vulnerabilities to the general public?

How does the general public obtain information on a day to day basis?

Who runs the mass media?

Is the mass media affected by this entity?

Is the mass media narrative influenced by this particular entity?

jjawssd··on Firefox is on a slippery slope
It is impossible to fork Firefox and survive. If you destroy Mozilla all the users will migrate to Chrome. There is no successful financial model for browser development. Browser development is a financial black hole and requires alternative revenue streams for developers to put food on the table.
jjawssd··on Storify End-of-Life
Please delete my comment
jjawssd··on Litecoin and Ethereum buys and sells are temporarily disabled
Simply to limit scope because Coinbase does not support Monero.
jjawssd··on Litecoin and Ethereum buys and sells are temporarily disabled
I think the big question here is what the crash will settle at for the big 3: BTC/ETH/LTC. Thoughts?
jjawssd··on Storify End-of-Life
Mandatory: https://ourincrediblejourney.tumblr.com/
jjawssd··on If your iPhone is slow, try replacing the battery
ZeroLemon batteries have worked well for me for the last 3 years. I now use a gigantic 10,000 mAh battery with included custom back plate for my phone.
jjawssd··on JIT compiling a subset of Python to x86-64
My favorite Python JIT is Numba
jjawssd··on Modern Media Is a DoS Attack on Free Will
If they only use phones and really want to get through to you they will leave a voicemail. Never pick up calls from unknown numbers.
jjawssd··on Kaspersky: Yes, we obtained NSA secrets. No, we didn’t help steal them
https://archive.is/BGDb2
jjawssd··on Qubes OS: A reasonably secure operating system
Is it possible to run secure code on any Intel microprocessor which supports the x86 instruction set?

I do not think so.

jjawssd··on Kaspersky: Yes, we obtained NSA secrets. No, we didn’t help steal them
Does selling influence in the state department count as "garden variety corruption you find in western countries"?

Does delivering Uranium to The Enemy in exchange for cash donations to a slush fund count as "garden variety corruption you find in western countries"?

Does employing El Salvadorian gangs in your nation's capital to intimidate and assassinate your political enemies count as "garden variety corruption you find in western countries"?

jjawssd··on Simple blood tests may soon be able to deliver news about your cognitive health
Can Alzheimer's disease also be known as Type 3 diabetes?

"Brain insulin resistance (diabetes) is very much like regular diabetes," de la Monte said. "Since the underlying problems continue to be just about the same, we believe that the development of new therapies would be applicable for all types of diabetes, including Alzheimer's disease, which we refer to as Type III diabetes."

Suzanne M. de la Monte, Edward Re, Lisa Longato, Ming Tong. Dysfunctional Pro-Ceramide, ER Stress, and Insulin/IGF Signaling Networks with Progression of Alzheimer’s Disease. Journal of Alzheimer's Disease, June 22, 2012, supplement; DOI: 10.3233/JAD-2012-111728

Same author four years prior:

"brain insulin resistance is sufficient to cause AD and that additional significant abnormalities, such as ongoing DNA damage and mitochondrial dysfunction, are required."

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2769828/

jjawssd··on Germany bans children's smartwatches
The basic assumption that Barrin92 is making is that the German government is benevolent and always puts the interests of its citizens first.
jjawssd··on RISC-V port merged into Linux 4.15
Linux has evolved considerably in design since the 1970s!
jjawssd··on JavaScript. The Core: 2nd Edition
It is so tempting to poke holes in this analogy but in general I like it!
jjawssd··on RISC-V port merged into Linux 4.15
It is impressive to see a new architecture already have so much support for existing software with a relatively simple hardware support layer. It is already standing on the shoulders of giants with millions of man-hours invested in software development to bring it to its current state.

Related Question:

Why is Google developing a new operating system for their devices from scratch? Will this operating system be incompatible with all existing software? Or will it be compatible with software and hardware platforms like this one through some sort of compatibility layer?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13649523

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15041567

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15059349

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14002386

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15058351

jjawssd··on The Shock of Sweden's Housing Market Is Hitting the Country's Currency
What are the major tech hubs with the "weakest" housing markets? This would be an interesting list of options for techies that do not want to pay so much for land and housing.
jjawssd··on Multiprocessing in Python with Fortran and OpenMP
Try the Fortran Wiki

http://fortranwiki.org/fortran/show/Libraries

jjawssd··on LibHTTP: Open Source HTTP Library in C
During the past twelve months, this project has had only one active contributor.
jjawssd··on .IO domain name reliability issues and how we’re working around them
What is this giant web you are referring to?
jjawssd··on Rivals Intel and AMD Team Up on PC Chips to Battle Nvidia
AMD is BARELY free cash flow positive. They have been on the brink of running out of cash as long as memory serves me.

https://ycharts.com/companies/AMD/free_cash_flow

jjawssd··on China Spreads Propaganda to U.S. On Facebook, a Platform It Bans at Home
A former president of the United States led successful efforts to overturn the Smith-Mundt Act, a long-standing piece of legislation that has been amended numerous times over the years, perhaps most consequentially by Arkansas Senator J. William Fulbright. In the 1970s, Fulbright was no friend of VOA and Radio Free Europe, and moved to restrict them from domestic distribution, saying they "should be given the opportunity to take their rightful place in the graveyard of Cold War relics." Fulbright’s amendment to Smith-Mundt was bolstered in 1985 by Nebraska Senator Edward Zorinsky, who argued that such "propaganda" should be kept out of America as to distinguish the U.S. "from the Soviet Union where domestic propaganda is a principal government activity."
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