/sci/ - Science & Math

>>11880669
oh damn I forgot my pic
And ya know, if the laptop is from the early 2010s it would still have a DVD-ROM drive.
>have to master a data-format CD to get data onto the laptop, by sending a data cartridge tape to a factory in California and waiting four weeks
>no CD-R blanks even though you can't help but trip over stacks of them at thrift stores now
>not that any of that matters, the CD-ROM yellow book standard didn't even exist until 1983 anyhow
>but at least you can play the latest '80s synth pop CDs!
>TAINTED LOOOOOVE, OOOOOH
>TAINTED LOOOOOOOOOVE

>>8775962
>>8775981
>hate people based on something stupid

Seems stupid.

>>8083341
>It's not doable to create an unhackable system?
>>8083377
>it is impossible, physical access to any system instantly compromises all security.
The North Korean hackers didn't have physical access to the compromised systems.

>>8085697
>If it's possible for people/things to interact with system,
>then it's possible for people/things that aren't supposed to to interact with system.

Sure, "unhackable" as an absolute is impossible, but we're a long way from any theoretical maximum security.

The excessive complexity of most modern systems is a huge obstacle.

Cringey language aside, NDT is right, we should blame the software industry (including the open source/freeware people) as much as North Korea (intent aside).

>>8000264
Sounds like solar roadways all over again.
Neat Idea, but way too many technical hurdles to be practically implemented.
Probably a scam for funding (just like solar roadways).
And even if it worked, why Alpha Centauri?
Assuming no planets, what are we taking pictures of?
Would this give us significant advantage over remote observation?

>>7903813
>Bools aren't 1 bit
They might as well be.
Entry-level computers have billions of bytes of storage, and the OS and applications just use it like a $2 whore.
Jesus, look at how ridiculous Java is.
You can't write "Hello World" without millions of bytes of library code.
It's like the industry gets paid to waste RAM, hard disk storage and CPU cycles.
And what in the hell would you gain from eliminating "all this structure padding bullshit"?
You wouldn't really save much memory (if any), since every int pointer (say) would have to have the number of bits as well as the address, AND the address would have to have more bits.
So what would you gain???
I suppose it might satisfy your personal autistic sense of ordnung, but it would offend mine.

>>6952844
>Really? You've never heard a solution to global warming?
>>6952846
>You got one?

>implying it's all or nothing.

Conservation is a conventional answer to reducing global warming, but population growth overshadows it.

But what about atmospheric co-generation?
We're already harvesting atmospheric energy (heat) with heat pumps.
Heat pumps produce more energy/heat (in the house) than they consume in electricity, because they harvest some atmospheric heat.

What if we use similar technology to generate a LOT of electricity by harvesting atmospheric heat energy?

>>6655763
>or it's running windows

Windows is no different from any other modern OS in this regard - if an application fucks up you get an APPCRASH, reported by WER with the infamous "X has encountered a problem and needs to close" dialog. To get an OS-crashing "BSOD" more properly known as a BugCheck requires kernel mode code to fuck up or certain kinds of hardware error to occur. This is equivalent to a kernel panic in Linux.

A big part of the reason for frequent BugChecks in the past was really shitty vendor drivers, the WHQL program was introduced to try and fix that and it's been quite successful.