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Good. I still read online comments from people who claim to be still using their Note 7. People are nuts but if it only affected them, then I wouldn't care. Innocent bystanders can easily be injured or killed by an exploding phone.

Please can 2016 end now. I can't take much more.

Copyright and patents are written into the US Constitution. The wording allows congress to pass laws granting for a limited time exclusive access to their creators. The Supreme Court of the US has held that congress can declare any duration as limited as long as it is not literally forever. There is nothing unconstitutional about copyright law.

Doesn't even minimally support macOS guests. This makes Veertu mostly useless to me. Fusion support of macOS guests is pretty minimal but it does work.

How does that help Apple or Microsoft to ship a product when the samples aren't available in quantity yet? Should they have waited for the new chips sometime next year. Surely no one would have complained about that delay.

Then the Razer Stealth has a chip that doesn't do Iris Graphics making it inappropriate for the 13" MacBook Pro. And it is a 4.5W or 15W dual core part so it isn't appropriate for the 15" MacBook Pro. Just because one or two 7th gen parts are shipping doesn't mean they all are.

upgradeable to 16 GB

Running the numbers. I live in Massachusetts and sure enough, that is one of the bottom 10 states. My Honda CRZ hybrid gets about 40 mpg average over the year. The price of gas, price per kWh and the number of miles are about right.

Gas: 12282 miles @ $2.14/g and 40 mpg is $657. Electric: 12282 miles @ $0.191/kWh and Tesla P85 85kWh 285 mile range is 3.35 miles/kWh for $700.

Basically a wash in a state ranked as 47th with a decently high mpg car. Price difference on the car is substantial though. $66,000 vs $23,000.

I use a .name address for all of my personal email. There are occasional problems but mostly it works just fine.

I've been on a low carb diet since June. I've lost 30 pounds and my high blood pressure is now gone (I read 97/63 last week).

My glucose went from 134 mg/do to 96 in 2 months. A1C from 6.5% to 5.5%. Now normal again.

If you've been diagnosed with type 2 diabetes you should try a very low carb diet before anything else. It really seems to work.

That's 16 birds a day. Unless the birds are endangered, that seems like a relatively small number for 390 MW of mostly green power.

That 20% sounds about right to me. I'm much more efficient when I work from home. My commute is walking across my kitchen to my office. Lunch break is getting up to get a salad or sandwich from said kitchen. I can work an 8 hour day in 8-9 hours total including breaks for lunch etc.

There is no way to do that in the Boston area where I live if I have to drive to a office. Commutes here are usually about an hour per 20 miles driven during rush hour. That makes an 8 hour work day more like 10-11 hours. So somewhere between 20% and 25% makes up the difference.

I think the sign for Monster is still up in Maynard MA at the mill even though they haven't been there for several years. I used to work on a floor below them during the dot-com boom and I remember their company meetings would drown out ours (which were unfortunately always subdued since we were going out of business.)

The other side of too much stuff is that if micropayments start being widely used, you won't be able to keep up with the costs.

We can see this with the App store where people complain bitterly about $0.99 or $1.99 prices.

I think you need to dig deeper into Swift Playgrounds. The iPad user can definitely start their own playground outside of the preprogrammed ones provided by Apple.

In addition, you as a developer can create additional playgrounds in Xcode and transfer them to Swift Playgrounds on the iPad. That means you can give the kids a basic template and allow them to fill in the code. For example, create a template with a couple of pages with the imports already complete and a basic template of empty procedures to get them started.

How long is that though? Decades? More? How do you train a neural net to take a vague description of a desired outcome and produce results that fit the requirements? We are no where close to the general AI that would be required.

I certainly believe that classes of automation problems will be done by machine learning but I have a very hard time believing all programming tasks are going to be replaced any time soon.

I must be clueless.

Please cite an example where a software design task has been done by machine learning. Something where you start with a specification or description and the automation produces a usable design.

Coding could possibly be replaced by something in a decade or so but I wouldn't hold my breath. We are just getting to compilers and JIT systems that do better than smart developers working at a lower level.

Maybe. Most of the presentation is beyond my knowledge level. But the 10nm & 7nm design is showing using a III-V FinFET. As far as I know, no one has that working yet. And as far as I can tell, this doesn't talk much about lithography. Multi patterning is reportedly going to be problem at 10nm and lower and EUV isn't ready yet either.

Mostly lower power from what I understand. Do phones, tablets, and small laptops really need more than 4 cores? Probably not. So the only thing you get is lower power and maybe smaller chips (which can help with the economics).

The end of exponential growth is inevitable. We've reached the end of Moore's law as it applies to silicon wafers. We may be able to get to 5nm but no one really has an idea on how to do it and make a profit. Alternate technologies are just theoretical ideas that have no timeline for commercialization.

The main point of the decline of Moore's law is that it is about economics as much as it is about the size of the features on a chip. Even if someone does figure out how to get to 5nm it may not be cost effective to mass produce chips at that size. Already we see that Intel can't afford to keep up with shrinking scale as they've moved away from their tick-tock cadence to tick-tock-tock. Intel has the most advanced materials research in the world and they can't make it work cost effectively. That indicates pretty clearly that the exponential scaling of transistors is over. Smaller transistors may still be possible or new materials may emerge but the future scaling isn't going to happen on Dr. Moore's timetable which is the basis for Moore's law.

Some advice. Don't air your dirty laundry about former employers in public. It may help you feel better but nothing good will come of it. Simply move on.

It works out well for me. Forbes blocking me is kind of a negative reinforcement technique that reminds me that their content is mostly click-bait shit anyway. I used to go to their site, try to read their content and leave in disgust. Now I seem to remember not to click on their links. Saves time.

According to the WSJ, less than 10% of Android phones are encrypted.

This is akin to the politicians that don't want to believe the science around global warming. They believe that if they just deny it, they will turn out to be correct. Obama is doing the same with "golden key" encryption. It is not that the experts are correct and know what they are talking about, it is just that they are disengaged and being stubborn.

"I'm the President of the United States of America and if I say that there must be math that gives me what I want. If you don't invent it, you are disengaged."

Modbus is an application layer protocol. Different things. It's more akin to HTTP than IP.

Thanks. Exactly as bad as I expected.

Could be. I just spent some time on the modbus.org site. I haven't looked in a while. There is pretty much no mention of security though they claim that Modbus over TCP is an internet protocol.

Just read over their FAQ. They claim that Modbus over TCP is an internet protocol. No where do they even mention security. I wonder how many devices are sitting on IPv4 addresses that are completely controllable over the net without a shred of security. Lovely.

I'm amused by the use of Modbus. I worked on Modbus networking back in the 1980's at Modicon (a company that disappeared long ago that created the "standard"). Using a protocol invented before the internet to control devices on a semi-public network is insane.

The original Modbus was designed to communicate with factory devices controlled by logic controllers over serial and eventually over a custom token ring network. Modbus got moved to TCP at some point when I stopped paying attention. Modicon rejected TCP when I was there because the OSI model 7 layer network stack was going to be the next big thing.

Yes that is called marketing. I'm not sure it is appropriately marked here on HN.