n NEAs roughly 7 m in diameter corresponding to masses in the range of 250,000 kg to 1,000,000 kg.
Wouldnt a 7m asteroid entering the atmosphere burn up? Somehow I think you either didnt read what they were planning, or are blowing this out of proprtion.
Wasnt a previous beta/RC (or possibly release?) of Ubuntu a year or so ago capable of bricking onboard NICs of any machine with a specific intel chipset?
I dont recall the details, but the point is, the wrong software most certainly cause hardware issues.
To be quite fair, no, its not the same. As an IT consultant, our company is paid by a number of firms. Over the years Ive done work for far right organizations, as well as for far-left groups. That doesnt mean my opinion on those matters is invalid necessarily; it would depend on the level of involvement with them.
But a consultant isnt necessarily the same as an employee, thats just overly broad and inaccurate; theres a reason they are two distinct terms.
Pings ARE full packets, and one of the best ways to measure latency. But if thats not enough, I can confirm that a cross-pacific VPN link runs significantly faster over Comcast, Cox, and XO than it does over Verizon FIOS-- Pinging across said VPN with Verizon resulted in latency around 500ms with significant jitter, while Comcast / Cox were in the 250-300ms range, and XO was around 220ms with very little jitter.
People debate it, but as one person points out on snopes, its melting temperature is quite a bit higher than room temperature. They quote 1400C, though for pure fused silica I understand it to be substantially higher.
Suffice it to say that people bounce it back and forth, but Ive generally heard it called an "amorphous solid".
THe crux of the piece is that they assume that the child wont be able to extrapolate from one area of science (testing hardness) to another, and will penalize the student smart enough to make that extrapolation.
This bugged the heck out of me throughout school, how the standardized tests were ambiguous as hell. I generally knew when I didnt know a concept, but I think more often my wrong answers were because I didnt pick the specific correct answer that the test key had.
It ends up not being a test of knowledge, but who is best at taking test and discerning which particular hoop they want you to jump through (or fill in with a #2 pencil).
As for why this is a good thing, there's a difference between the speed of electrons through copper and silicon vs. the speed of light through translucent plastics and crystals. It should also run cooler.
In other words, copper is faster. There are certainly some benefits (removal of the interference factor, possibly running cooler, possibly lower power usage), but I dont believe signal propogation speed is one of them.
I think he deserves some kudos for this. After arguing against Schneier a few weeks ago on The Economoist about how things were peachy, it takes a lot of guts to come out and say "I was wrong, TSA policies suck, and its partly my fault and due to my leadership".
Calling him an idiot doesnt really help, whereas his admission and piece hopefully WILL. Or would you have preferred more bullheadedness and denial from Kip?
JK Rowling cannot copyright the individual facts around the fictional universe she has created, I do not believe, so if you were to create a fan sequel to one of her books it would not be a problem with copyright I do not believe (though it MIGHT be a trademark problem).
Which shows it isn't the OS or the hardware, its the networks.
The whole idea seems like nonsense. People are complaining about how slow things are, but modern computers are faster than ever from a user-experience standpoint, once you remove all the crapware that new PCs come saddled with. Regarding the connectivity, I recall in the early 2000s when online game ping times ranged from 150-300ms; 300ms was considered "poorish" while ~100 was "quite good". Now, connect to any game server and you will generally see people hovering around 80ms, or lower, and 150ms is considered "poorish". Just the other night in a 10-player game, 2 of the participants had latency around 20ms.
When people complain about the lack of progress, it stinks of "grass is always greener" syndrome.
Personally I think it is high time we use an old solution to fix a new problem...bring back the WPA. a lot of our bandwidth problems would disappear if we had nationwide FTTH or at least fiber to the neighborhood.
Considering that latency on FIOS is far, far, far worse than latency on Cox / Comcast cable or a T1 line, I dont think thats the answer. On basically any Cox / Comcast line in the DC area you can reach Google dns (8.8.8.8) with a latency of 8ms, and cross country to a trans-pacific node with about 100ms latency. Go with FIOS, and its more like 20ms to GoogDNS, and 150-200 to the same trans-pacific link. Now, that may speak more to the general crappiness of Verizon, but it certainly brings home the point that the medium used is pretty irrelevant. As I understand it, an electric signal may propagate FASTER through copper than through fiber depending on the particulars.
The most unfortunate thing about that incident is that now the right-wing media gets to pretend that they're no worse than anyone else and that they don't distort the news worse than anyone else.
I really should keep track of the times where left-leaning media utters blatant falsehoods, doctors quotes / audio / video, takes things out of context, etc, because it really is amazing how selective memory can be when you dont want to accept that your own sides supporters can be wrong.
The most eggregious thing I can think of from Fox was that case where they claimed Mass Effect had fully animated explicit pornography available ingame, and it turned out the "reporter" covering the issue hadnt actually played the game. I recognize that Fox is guilty of some of that crap. But dont even try to pretend that equally (and more) obnoxious crap doesnt come from NBC etc, Cases of trying to make a black person look white (to try to create a race issue), doctoring audio, using misleading photos to paint an issue in a really ridiculous light (example: 12-year old photos of Trayvon, compared to the most "guilty" looking photo of Zimmerman), etc.
Heck, even Newt Gingritch and Rick Santorum have said that FOX News has a bias
Thats because it does. But heres a real shocker for you: So does the NY Times, the Washington Post, ABC, NBC, NPR, etc. Youre not going to sit there and tell me Diane Rehm is an unbiased moderator who covers hot topics in an impartial manner.
It IS possible to listen to biased media and glean information from it, but please do make sure you arent just sitting in an echo chamber listening to media biased towards YOUR views. I rather enjoy that I disagree with NPR's views, because it helps me to see what the opposing perspective is (even when some of the ridiculous, false statements made do set me off).
After a while one would think that people would stop watching fictionalized reports, but Fox News and talk radio proves that there will always be a market for yellow journalism no matter how discredited they may become.
I try not to but into these "Fox News sucks" conversations, but that takes some gall after the crap the other stations just tried to pull with the doctored Zimmerman audio samples, and I could mention several other incidents as well. Fox gets it wrong on occasion, but Im not sure Ive ever seen them doctor audio.
Education of the populace is the responsibility of government.
You know what they say about good intentions. I would contend that, no, it ISNT the responsibility of the government, but ultimately of the individual / whoever is responsible for their welfare (which isnt the government).
You forgot his convictions about keeping women barefoot and pregnant at home. That's a key tenet of Mormonism.
Not a huge Romney fan, but I love how Anne Romney responded to these sort of attacks-- you seem to be crying for more respect for women, but you cannot even respect that some women choose to be stay-at-homers? War on women, indeed.
I guess it gets to the question of "what counts as Linux", "what counts as OSX", and "what counts as Windows".
I was thinking along the lines of "standardized kernel etc", like CentOS, RedHat, Debian, etc, vs Win7/XP and Server 2003/2008 (not WinPhone7).
But in retrospect that is true, linux is on a large number of devices compared to windows. Do not however underestimate the number of alterna-OSes (whatever theyre using on Linksys now, etc) for those embedded boxes. Not all of them are Linux.
Would the site itself have standing to do so? Can any lawyers answer whether it would be worth a site taking a policy of going after those cases, with a provision in the ToS saying that breach violations were persued by the site?
Seems to me the site would receive a financial incentive for doing so, as well as tamping down on such fraud.
Its a new location chip that is optional and doesnt exactly tell everyone else where you are. Did GPS phone home? Was it "sealing our doom and handing the keys over to a new elite"?
Seriously, what does this chip have to do with what youre talking about?
Slashdot Mirror
n NEAs roughly 7 m in diameter corresponding to masses in the range of 250,000 kg to 1,000,000 kg.
Wouldnt a 7m asteroid entering the atmosphere burn up? Somehow I think you either didnt read what they were planning, or are blowing this out of proprtion.
Seems more like a good idea that "sounds bad".
Wasnt a previous beta /RC (or possibly release?) of Ubuntu a year or so ago capable of bricking onboard NICs of any machine with a specific intel chipset?
I dont recall the details, but the point is, the wrong software most certainly cause hardware issues.
To be quite fair, no, its not the same. As an IT consultant, our company is paid by a number of firms. Over the years Ive done work for far right organizations, as well as for far-left groups. That doesnt mean my opinion on those matters is invalid necessarily; it would depend on the level of involvement with them.
But a consultant isnt necessarily the same as an employee, thats just overly broad and inaccurate; theres a reason they are two distinct terms.
Possibly I should have checked wikipedia on this before commenting, which indicates glass is its own phase.
Pings ARE full packets, and one of the best ways to measure latency. But if thats not enough, I can confirm that a cross-pacific VPN link runs significantly faster over Comcast, Cox, and XO than it does over Verizon FIOS-- Pinging across said VPN with Verizon resulted in latency around 500ms with significant jitter, while Comcast / Cox were in the 250-300ms range, and XO was around 220ms with very little jitter.
People debate it, but as one person points out on snopes, its melting temperature is quite a bit higher than room temperature. They quote 1400C, though for pure fused silica I understand it to be substantially higher.
Suffice it to say that people bounce it back and forth, but Ive generally heard it called an "amorphous solid".
Glass is nevertheless a solid, despite urban myths to the contrary.
Except we had this same crap in Virginia, including when Warner was running the state. But go ahead, bash the tea party and show your ignorance.
THe crux of the piece is that they assume that the child wont be able to extrapolate from one area of science (testing hardness) to another, and will penalize the student smart enough to make that extrapolation.
This bugged the heck out of me throughout school, how the standardized tests were ambiguous as hell. I generally knew when I didnt know a concept, but I think more often my wrong answers were because I didnt pick the specific correct answer that the test key had.
It ends up not being a test of knowledge, but who is best at taking test and discerning which particular hoop they want you to jump through (or fill in with a #2 pencil).
As for why this is a good thing, there's a difference between the speed of electrons through copper and silicon vs. the speed of light through translucent plastics and crystals. It should also run cooler.
Ive seen varying numbers that indicate that the difference is not as large as some are supposing.
This wikipedia article seems to indicate that 82% for coax is possible, 72% for plenum cat 5.
From what I've read, and according to google calculations, the speed of light in optical fiber is about 66% of that in a vacuum. ( also supported here, and here, as a reciprocal)
In other words, copper is faster. There are certainly some benefits (removal of the interference factor, possibly running cooler, possibly lower power usage), but I dont believe signal propogation speed is one of them.
I think he deserves some kudos for this. After arguing against Schneier a few weeks ago on The Economoist about how things were peachy, it takes a lot of guts to come out and say "I was wrong, TSA policies suck, and its partly my fault and due to my leadership".
Calling him an idiot doesnt really help, whereas his admission and piece hopefully WILL. Or would you have preferred more bullheadedness and denial from Kip?
JK Rowling cannot copyright the individual facts around the fictional universe she has created, I do not believe, so if you were to create a fan sequel to one of her books it would not be a problem with copyright I do not believe (though it MIGHT be a trademark problem).
Which shows it isn't the OS or the hardware, its the networks.
The whole idea seems like nonsense. People are complaining about how slow things are, but modern computers are faster than ever from a user-experience standpoint, once you remove all the crapware that new PCs come saddled with. Regarding the connectivity, I recall in the early 2000s when online game ping times ranged from 150-300ms; 300ms was considered "poorish" while ~100 was "quite good". Now, connect to any game server and you will generally see people hovering around 80ms, or lower, and 150ms is considered "poorish". Just the other night in a 10-player game, 2 of the participants had latency around 20ms.
When people complain about the lack of progress, it stinks of "grass is always greener" syndrome.
Personally I think it is high time we use an old solution to fix a new problem...bring back the WPA. a lot of our bandwidth problems would disappear if we had nationwide FTTH or at least fiber to the neighborhood.
Considering that latency on FIOS is far, far, far worse than latency on Cox / Comcast cable or a T1 line, I dont think thats the answer. On basically any Cox / Comcast line in the DC area you can reach Google dns (8.8.8.8) with a latency of 8ms, and cross country to a trans-pacific node with about 100ms latency. Go with FIOS, and its more like 20ms to GoogDNS, and 150-200 to the same trans-pacific link. Now, that may speak more to the general crappiness of Verizon, but it certainly brings home the point that the medium used is pretty irrelevant. As I understand it, an electric signal may propagate FASTER through copper than through fiber depending on the particulars.
The most unfortunate thing about that incident is that now the right-wing media gets to pretend that they're no worse than anyone else and that they don't distort the news worse than anyone else.
I really should keep track of the times where left-leaning media utters blatant falsehoods, doctors quotes / audio / video, takes things out of context, etc, because it really is amazing how selective memory can be when you dont want to accept that your own sides supporters can be wrong.
The most eggregious thing I can think of from Fox was that case where they claimed Mass Effect had fully animated explicit pornography available ingame, and it turned out the "reporter" covering the issue hadnt actually played the game. I recognize that Fox is guilty of some of that crap. But dont even try to pretend that equally (and more) obnoxious crap doesnt come from NBC etc, Cases of trying to make a black person look white (to try to create a race issue), doctoring audio, using misleading photos to paint an issue in a really ridiculous light (example: 12-year old photos of Trayvon, compared to the most "guilty" looking photo of Zimmerman), etc.
Heck, even Newt Gingritch and Rick Santorum have said that FOX News has a bias
Thats because it does. But heres a real shocker for you:
So does the NY Times, the Washington Post, ABC, NBC, NPR, etc. Youre not going to sit there and tell me Diane Rehm is an unbiased moderator who covers hot topics in an impartial manner.
It IS possible to listen to biased media and glean information from it, but please do make sure you arent just sitting in an echo chamber listening to media biased towards YOUR views. I rather enjoy that I disagree with NPR's views, because it helps me to see what the opposing perspective is (even when some of the ridiculous, false statements made do set me off).
After a while one would think that people would stop watching fictionalized reports, but Fox News and talk radio proves that there will always be a market for yellow journalism no matter how discredited they may become.
I try not to but into these "Fox News sucks" conversations, but that takes some gall after the crap the other stations just tried to pull with the doctored Zimmerman audio samples, and I could mention several other incidents as well. Fox gets it wrong on occasion, but Im not sure Ive ever seen them doctor audio.
Education of the populace is the responsibility of government.
You know what they say about good intentions. I would contend that, no, it ISNT the responsibility of the government, but ultimately of the individual / whoever is responsible for their welfare (which isnt the government).
You forgot his convictions about keeping women barefoot and pregnant at home. That's a key tenet of Mormonism.
Not a huge Romney fan, but I love how Anne Romney responded to these sort of attacks-- you seem to be crying for more respect for women, but you cannot even respect that some women choose to be stay-at-homers? War on women, indeed.
I guess it gets to the question of "what counts as Linux", "what counts as OSX", and "what counts as Windows".
I was thinking along the lines of "standardized kernel etc", like CentOS, RedHat, Debian, etc, vs Win7/XP and Server 2003/2008 (not WinPhone7).
But in retrospect that is true, linux is on a large number of devices compared to windows. Do not however underestimate the number of alterna-OSes (whatever theyre using on Linksys now, etc) for those embedded boxes. Not all of them are Linux.
Would the site itself have standing to do so? Can any lawyers answer whether it would be worth a site taking a policy of going after those cases, with a provision in the ToS saying that breach violations were persued by the site?
Seems to me the site would receive a financial incentive for doing so, as well as tamping down on such fraud.
It looked like it was a pledge and they had to meet deadlines in order to receive the funding? Is that not accurate?
I would imagine that the number of Windows desktops is significantly greater than the number of Linux servers.
Not that Linux ISNT bigger in the "places where it matters", but I think you underestimate the number of PCs, laptops, etc out there running Windows.
The whole process is rotten to the core,
You mean the "whole process" whereby we actually have a say in who our leaders are?
As opposed to what alternative process? The one where we have a benevolent dictator for life?
Zimmerman isnt exactly white, you know; hes what you would call a "minority".
Wait, when you say the bailouts and wars.... Obama is white now?
Its a new location chip that is optional and doesnt exactly tell everyone else where you are. Did GPS phone home? Was it "sealing our doom and handing the keys over to a new elite"?
Seriously, what does this chip have to do with what youre talking about?