Just when we thought that ancient papyrus was immune to the dangers of bit rot and silent data corruption. They should have used parity bits. Would have solved everything.
Load balancing is typically used primarily for performance and scaling (active+active+active...), not redundancy (active+passive). Better availability is more of a side-effect.
HA clustering typically involves redundant, highly resilient nodes with a high level of internal redundancy, tightly coupled, often in active/passive roles. The idea is to minimize the likelihood of failure, even given a higher cost.
Load balancing configurations typically rely on many active nodes of inexpensive hardware with minimal if any internal redundancy (power supplies, etc), so that although the likelyhood of failed nodes is significant, the cost of replacing a failed node is minimal.
I agree with your point about competition being good, but technically, Intel tried to keep x86 closed and proprietary. Competition from AMD and others grew despite the spec not being open.
Regulations only serve to raise prices. Increasing taxes or costs of running just either Overly simplistic. Regulations are also about restricting predatory practices. This debate is not over whether prices are raised or profit made. The debate is over the power of ISPs to discriminate against certain providers of information and services. From here
"It does so by outlawing discriminatory fees for providing content, applications, or services over the 'Net. Internet providers also have to interact fully with the networks of their competitors and provide equal access to all users and any devices they wish to put on the network. Network providers would be allowed to provide favored service to specific types of data but, if they do, they have to provide that same favoritism to anybody transmitting the data, and couldn't charge for it."
I promise, by the end of this rambling post I will be on-topic.
That depends on what you base your morality on.
- If rape and murder are immoral primarily because a deity says so, ask the deity.
- If they are immoral primarily because of their effects on society as a whole, you would need to conduct a study to measure the effects of each over time in society.
- If they are immoral primarily because of their effects on the victim, your answer will vary with the victim.
If you put a gun to my head and said "PICK: RAPE OR DEATH!", I would (reluctantly) pick rape. On the other hand, I've heard of rape victims who suicide because they are haunted by their past. Surviving rape appears to be subjectively worse for some than others. Of course, being a victim of neither (thus far, anyway...) I don't have unimpeachable perspective into which might be better or worse.
I don't think you're going to get a definitive answer here; I dont even think it is possible. The best you could hope for is some form of pseudo-quantum probability that one would be less immoral than the other, depending on the victim.
My subjective, relatively uninformed answer is that murder is more immoral than rape. I can't speak as a deity, I can't speak for society at large, and I can't speak as a victim. The only thing I can base my judgement on is that I am an optimist. Since murder is final, it offers no possibility of the victim overcoming adversity, recovering, moving on. As unspeakably wrong as rape is, it at least offers that (difficult) chance for its victims.
As an optimist, I see Freenet or any anonymizing technology as one more tool for toppling repression. Given the chance, I think more people will choose to do good with it than evil. Killing anonymous internet access because of CP would be immoral in the same way I feel murder is. The chance and that choice to rise above adversity is taken away.
So they can't raise prices and speeds in line with demand and inflation? Cable costs have increased WAY beyond the rate of inflation. That's abuse, especially given the virtual monopolies cable companies operate.
Gas prices go up. Internet access didn't go from $40 to $114 a barrel, smart guy.
Oh, but we can't have the price of internet access going up....especially not if they give us faster speeds or a higher cap in return! Sure it can go up. Just not in the greedy, abusive fashion the cable companies customarily use in raising their rates.
This isn't new, different or remarkable. It's the same as it's always been. I don't like how it's always been.
I was wondering if anyone else caught that fusion stuff.
From here: "For his doctoral work, Dietrich is researching inertial electrostatic confinement fusion..."
Okay, he built a fusor. Smart, but other kids have done that too.
"... for spacecraft power and propulsion..."
Okay, fusion powered spacecraft. You've got my attention now. Go on.
"... under Dr. Raymond J. Sedwick, a principal research scientist at MIT's Space Systems Lab. This opportunity stemmed from an efficiency improvement design Dietrich patented for a desktop-sized Penning Fusion Reactor..."
Efficient enough to finally make break even power or better?
"... following a research internship at Los Alamos National Laboratory in 2002. Dietrich credits this internship with sparking his initial curiosity about a distributed network of reactors that could potentially supplant the United States' strained power grid system."
Forget the flying cars, man! Get back on the fusion stuff. We needed that like, yesterday.
You sound like a lawyer, BTW. Hmm. I'm not sure whether I should feel insulted. I think I'll take it as a compliment, although I generally have a dim view of most lawyers.;)
FWIW, IANAL. I work with computers.
What does asthma caused by pets have to do with air pollution? Are there fewer pets on high pollution days? Asthma has different triggers. The report compares urban and rural environments, but does not explore the differences between them. The report assumes that all asthma cases reported relate directly and only to ozone. Attributing all these cases to ozone is erroneous.
For example, since urban locations have more restrictions on pets, and since fewer plants grow in cities, it is reasonable to propose that in rural environments there will be a higher percentage of asthma cases related to pet dander and/or pollen than is found in more urban areas.
My main point was that the air is cleaner. It's so clean that it's no longer a problem in most places in the US. As a country, we have made a lot of progress vs. 50 years ago. I may not be in 100% agreement with your statement, but I can agree to disagree. Neither of us has the time to quibble endlessly.
There are anti-freedom agencies and activist groups and trial lawyers who will try to sell a false message of horrible pollution for their own personal financial or political benefit. There are a lot of very powerful interests acting against freedom and the greater good in a number of areas. I try to be suspicious of all of them. Question everything. Get to the underlying data. Any position worth your time and reputation is worth scrutinizing thoroughly.
Folks ought to understand that they aren't getting the true story (and certainly not the whole story) from these groups and the media who publish or broadcast on their behalf. That was my point about the source you cited.
I could research it some more and post some more links, but I'm not a paid activist or government worker. I don't work for a trial lawyer. Same here.
I have productive work to do and can't spend all day posting propaganda on forums to maintain popular illusions. Sigh...
It's a high cap today maybe, but what about in the future?
As more people get their music and movies from the internet, as more people work from home remotely, use Skype or Vonage for telephone, and integrate video into their telephone usage, overall bandwidth demands per household will skyrocket. Multiply that by the increasing number of internet-connected devices in each broadband household, and the likelihood that other developments as disruptive and bandwidth-intensive as Skype, YouTube, and iTunes are likely on the way.
Then consider that future technology will bring to cable ISPs: faster routing equipment, still bigger internet pipes, lower cost.
My prediction is that if they box us into capped accounts, we will end up playing a game that only suits them. With innovation, demand for bandwidth will continue to go up, and cost will continue to come down. Who knows? Average monthly usage in 3 years could conceivably be about 250GB.
As users start to push beyond their allotment, I predict that they will first be a) overcharged for overages, and then (based on past experience with cable internet) b) upsold to a higher-cost tier of service. Next, households not at the cap will be offered promotional upgrades (you know, free for a month or two, then you pay...) to the new tier. Finally, everyone gets moved to the new tier, and there is an "unrelated" price increase. It's the same crap they've been doing to customers from 768kbps -> 1mbps -> 3mbps ->5mbps. It follows their model for bundled TV programming as well.
I normally enjoy differences of opinion between people; it gives the opportunity for intersting conversation. However, when you start fudging data and call it fact, I have a problem with that.
The actual number of days in "many days" is in the 20-30 range now. That's down from 200+ days in the past. I don't live in LA, but I travel there frequently, and speak daily people who live there. Better is still not good enough. You don't give a source here, but if it's as reliable as your next one, it's not worth much.
Asthma is negatively correlated with air pollution. See this report, page 10. No. Wrong. The graph in Joel Schwartz's report you cite attempts to correlate ozone (not overall "air pollution") to asthma, and upon examination, fails.* Air pollution includes other noxious gasses and particulate matter which are also linked to asthma. Furthermore, ozone's effects on people with asthma is well-documented in the medical world.**
The report is a hack research paper designed to support a political view, not an serious attempt to understand pollution and how it affects people. It is not science. It is propaganda masquerading as science. Your misunderstanding of pollution is large. Your misunderstanding of health matters is dangerous.
* Weakness in this "report" include:
- It fails to include all data; there are about 100 counties in North Carolina; the report summarizes hospitalization in only 29.
- It aggregates ozone and hospitalization rates for 2 years, rather than correlate daily/weekly patterns of ozone and hospitalization.
- It fails to account for other contributors to asthma (pets, pollen, mold, infection, cigarette smoke, etc)
- It fails to address adult asthma.
- It fails to account for:
a) asthma in children over 14
b) asthma in children which was not severe enough to cause hospitalization
- The graph shows only one county seriously out of line with the average hospitalization rate; Swain county. Swain county is:
a) small enough to yield statistically questionable data
b) lower than the rest of the state in income and education, and
c) higher than the rest of the state in poverty.
If anything, it seems to indicate a correlation between poverty and illness. Hardly a surprise.
- Schwartz's underlying asthma data comes from a report done on children on Medicaid and asthma-related hospitalizations. The original report made no mention of ozone or pollution. The original report also gives the following caveats, which Schwartz made no mention of:
"Neither source will produce a reliable indication of the total prevalence of asthma among children."
"Other children on Medicaid with asthma may not have been diagnosed, or may not have had services paid for by Medicaid during the year."
"The hospital discharge data counts only those cases where the complications of asthma were serious enough to warrant one of more overnight hospital stays."
Air pollution has been largely eliminated in the US. Our air has been getting cleaner for 40-50 years now and is now extremely clean, despite what you might hear from activist groups and the news media. Better than it was 50 years ago is nice, but fly into an LA area airport on many days, and your will actually descend through a yellowish-brown layer. Good enough? Not in my book.
Perfectly clean air is not needed, is not possible, and is certainly not cost-effective for the public. Perfect isn't the goal. Paying for illnesses that are caused or aggravated by smog isn't cost effective either, both in terms of economic and human impact.
I think you are missing the point of the research, which is geared to understanding how pollution moves around the globe, and how far-flung its effects can be.
These UAVs are too small to be piloted by anyone taller than a GI Joe doll^h^h action figure. Therefore, they are vastly cheaper to own and operate than conventional aircraft. UAVs in general can stay aloft much longer than conventionaly piloted aircraft, although I didn't see airtime figures for these particular ones as I skimmed TFA.
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Thank got they got their dog poop crime spree under control.
I am capable of wasting waaaayyy more than just 40 minutes of my time. What else do ya think I'm doing on /. to begin with?
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Just when we thought that ancient papyrus was immune to the dangers of bit rot and silent data corruption. They should have used parity bits. Would have solved everything.
Load balancing is typically used primarily for performance and scaling (active+active+active ...), not redundancy (active+passive). Better availability is more of a side-effect.
HA clustering typically involves redundant, highly resilient nodes with a high level of internal redundancy, tightly coupled, often in active/passive roles. The idea is to minimize the likelihood of failure, even given a higher cost.
Load balancing configurations typically rely on many active nodes of inexpensive hardware with minimal if any internal redundancy (power supplies, etc), so that although the likelyhood of failed nodes is significant, the cost of replacing a failed node is minimal.
Huh? Who modded the AC GP +5 and the parent flamebait? Harry's right.
Weapon? Hell, no. I plan to drill it for oil.
Isn't a nuke overkill against most stuff?
Don't forget the duct tape.
I agree with your point about competition being good, but technically, Intel tried to keep x86 closed and proprietary. Competition from AMD and others grew despite the spec not being open.
"It does so by outlawing discriminatory fees for providing content, applications, or services over the 'Net. Internet providers also have to interact fully with the networks of their competitors and provide equal access to all users and any devices they wish to put on the network. Network providers would be allowed to provide favored service to specific types of data but, if they do, they have to provide that same favoritism to anybody transmitting the data, and couldn't charge for it."
I promise, by the end of this rambling post I will be on-topic.
...) I don't have unimpeachable perspective into which might be better or worse.
That depends on what you base your morality on.
- If rape and murder are immoral primarily because a deity says so, ask the deity.
- If they are immoral primarily because of their effects on society as a whole, you would need to conduct a study to measure the effects of each over time in society.
- If they are immoral primarily because of their effects on the victim, your answer will vary with the victim.
If you put a gun to my head and said "PICK: RAPE OR DEATH!", I would (reluctantly) pick rape. On the other hand, I've heard of rape victims who suicide because they are haunted by their past. Surviving rape appears to be subjectively worse for some than others. Of course, being a victim of neither (thus far, anyway
I don't think you're going to get a definitive answer here; I dont even think it is possible. The best you could hope for is some form of pseudo-quantum probability that one would be less immoral than the other, depending on the victim.
My subjective, relatively uninformed answer is that murder is more immoral than rape. I can't speak as a deity, I can't speak for society at large, and I can't speak as a victim. The only thing I can base my judgement on is that I am an optimist. Since murder is final, it offers no possibility of the victim overcoming adversity, recovering, moving on. As unspeakably wrong as rape is, it at least offers that (difficult) chance for its victims.
As an optimist, I see Freenet or any anonymizing technology as one more tool for toppling repression. Given the chance, I think more people will choose to do good with it than evil. Killing anonymous internet access because of CP would be immoral in the same way I feel murder is. The chance and that choice to rise above adversity is taken away.
You are wicked funny. And scary.
I didn't say they won't raise it. I said they'll charge us more when they do.
*shakes head*
I was wondering if anyone else caught that fusion stuff.
..."
..."
... under Dr. Raymond J. Sedwick, a principal research scientist at MIT's Space Systems Lab. This opportunity stemmed from an efficiency improvement design Dietrich patented for a desktop-sized Penning Fusion Reactor ..."
From here:
"For his doctoral work, Dietrich is researching inertial electrostatic confinement fusion
Okay, he built a fusor. Smart, but other kids have done that too.
"... for spacecraft power and propulsion
Okay, fusion powered spacecraft. You've got my attention now. Go on.
"
Efficient enough to finally make break even power or better?
"... following a research internship at Los Alamos National Laboratory in 2002. Dietrich credits this internship with sparking his initial curiosity about a distributed network of reactors that could potentially supplant the United States' strained power grid system."
Forget the flying cars, man! Get back on the fusion stuff. We needed that like, yesterday.
FWIW, IANAL. I work with computers. What does asthma caused by pets have to do with air pollution? Are there fewer pets on high pollution days? Asthma has different triggers. The report compares urban and rural environments, but does not explore the differences between them. The report assumes that all asthma cases reported relate directly and only to ozone. Attributing all these cases to ozone is erroneous.
For example, since urban locations have more restrictions on pets, and since fewer plants grow in cities, it is reasonable to propose that in rural environments there will be a higher percentage of asthma cases related to pet dander and/or pollen than is found in more urban areas. My main point was that the air is cleaner. It's so clean that it's no longer a problem in most places in the US. As a country, we have made a lot of progress vs. 50 years ago. I may not be in 100% agreement with your statement, but I can agree to disagree. Neither of us has the time to quibble endlessly. There are anti-freedom agencies and activist groups and trial lawyers who will try to sell a false message of horrible pollution for their own personal financial or political benefit. There are a lot of very powerful interests acting against freedom and the greater good in a number of areas. I try to be suspicious of all of them. Question everything. Get to the underlying data. Any position worth your time and reputation is worth scrutinizing thoroughly. Folks ought to understand that they aren't getting the true story (and certainly not the whole story) from these groups and the media who publish or broadcast on their behalf. That was my point about the source you cited. I could research it some more and post some more links, but I'm not a paid activist or government worker. I don't work for a trial lawyer. Same here. I have productive work to do and can't spend all day posting propaganda on forums to maintain popular illusions. Sigh
It's a high cap today maybe, but what about in the future?
...) to the new tier. Finally, everyone gets moved to the new tier, and there is an "unrelated" price increase. It's the same crap they've been doing to customers from 768kbps -> 1mbps -> 3mbps ->5mbps. It follows their model for bundled TV programming as well.
As more people get their music and movies from the internet, as more people work from home remotely, use Skype or Vonage for telephone, and integrate video into their telephone usage, overall bandwidth demands per household will skyrocket. Multiply that by the increasing number of internet-connected devices in each broadband household, and the likelihood that other developments as disruptive and bandwidth-intensive as Skype, YouTube, and iTunes are likely on the way.
Then consider that future technology will bring to cable ISPs: faster routing equipment, still bigger internet pipes, lower cost.
My prediction is that if they box us into capped accounts, we will end up playing a game that only suits them. With innovation, demand for bandwidth will continue to go up, and cost will continue to come down. Who knows? Average monthly usage in 3 years could conceivably be about 250GB.
As users start to push beyond their allotment, I predict that they will first be a) overcharged for overages, and then (based on past experience with cable internet) b) upsold to a higher-cost tier of service. Next, households not at the cap will be offered promotional upgrades (you know, free for a month or two, then you pay
The report is a hack research paper designed to support a political view, not an serious attempt to understand pollution and how it affects people. It is not science. It is propaganda masquerading as science. Your misunderstanding of pollution is large. Your misunderstanding of health matters is dangerous.
* Weakness in this "report" include:
- It fails to include all data; there are about 100 counties in North Carolina; the report summarizes hospitalization in only 29.
- It aggregates ozone and hospitalization rates for 2 years, rather than correlate daily/weekly patterns of ozone and hospitalization.
- It fails to account for other contributors to asthma (pets, pollen, mold, infection, cigarette smoke, etc)
- It fails to address adult asthma.
- It fails to account for:
a) asthma in children over 14
b) asthma in children which was not severe enough to cause hospitalization
- The graph shows only one county seriously out of line with the average hospitalization rate; Swain county. Swain county is:
a) small enough to yield statistically questionable data
b) lower than the rest of the state in income and education, and
c) higher than the rest of the state in poverty.
If anything, it seems to indicate a correlation between poverty and illness. Hardly a surprise.
- Schwartz's underlying asthma data comes from a report done on children on Medicaid and asthma-related hospitalizations. The original report made no mention of ozone or pollution. The original report also gives the following caveats, which Schwartz made no mention of
"Neither source will produce a reliable indication of the total prevalence of asthma among children."
"Other children on Medicaid with asthma may not have been diagnosed, or may not have had services paid for by Medicaid during the year."
"The hospital discharge data counts only those cases where the complications of asthma were serious enough to warrant one of more overnight hospital stays."
** The tip of this information iceberg can be found:
here
here
here
here
here
or here
Don't worry. the flight paths will be limited to military airspace
I think you are missing the point of the research, which is geared to understanding how pollution moves around the globe, and how far-flung its effects can be.
These UAVs are too small to be piloted by anyone taller than a GI Joe doll^h^h action figure. Therefore, they are vastly cheaper to own and operate than conventional aircraft. UAVs in general can stay aloft much longer than conventionaly piloted aircraft, although I didn't see airtime figures for these particular ones as I skimmed TFA.
Sorry for being pedantic, it seems to me that the cameras work, they just don't help solve much crime.
Couldn't resist.