The Internet is decentralized. You will now either make DNS redundantly decentralized or die by your foolish decision to have it centralized in the first place. This is the siths' time for your planet's organic womb to birth a world wide neural network, and we are exceeding efficient at harnessing it. Do you know any two people who have the same first names? How do you tell them apart? That's the only hint I'll give you filthy disgusting, humans.
When they said all the organics were all full of crap, I thought it was only a euphemism!
Well, since the dollar isn't backed by gold, if the numbers tally up too high among the few, and too low among the many, then the people will just stop using it. Fat lot of good the few will have when they can't buy things with all their dollar digits, eh? Now, since "The Fed" isn't run by the feds, they'll probably see that crash coming and print as much money as they can to cash out while they can, which just makes the problem worse.
This is why the states need their own currencies. This is the Information Age. Conversions are not a problem anymore, hell phones can show you the actual price tags via UPC reader app. Why not start a Bitcoin-esque blockchain in each region? We need currency with no central authority, like crypto currency. Commodity backed currency can be gamed just as easily. However, I think bitcoin is a dumb way to do it, let's make the proof of work be protein folding or some other distributed computing task, assigned to each transaction. "Congradulations, your purchase helped sequence and identify the DNA of a nearly extinct species."
The dollar is already bitcoins; It's just the most insecure version you could implement, is all.
Gee, if they rushed that job, I bet they rushed QA too, esp. pen testing... I mean, Snowden showed how dumb it is to legislate computer security.
Protip: Bad guys don't care about laws.
The Chinese, Russians, etc. will probably be using it as soon as it comes online, certainly before the next Olympics. Hey, might be a good idea to secure those SCADA systems eh? You know, like when all our grid are belong to China?
Not saying you're wrong, just that the NSA is spending a lot of time and effort (and money) on PR to convince the public they have nothing to fear. We need to similarly think about PR concerns in order to have a chance of opposing it.
Riker, his face palmed. Shaka when the walls fell.
Dathon and Picard, the beast of El-Adrel!
Snowden, his files open.
Darmok and Jilad at Tenagra...
Head shaking Nixon at Watergate!
Feynman at NASA, The frozen ring:
"Reality must take precedence over public relations, for nature cannot be fooled."
However, that may need to change now that physicists have worked out a formal way of distinguishing between systems that compute and those that don't. One key is the ability to encode and decode information. 'Without the encode and decode steps, there is no computation; there is simply a physical system undergoing evolution,' they say.... So slime mold fails the test while most forms of quantum computation pass."
The slime mold is computing the optimal solution to the task at hand. Evolution is the computation, the DNA contains the encoding and decoding. DNA is self describing information -- A proposed solution to the problem space of the environment. I just despise when morons fail basic Cybernetics 101. Explain reproduction if there is no encode / decode phase... ugh.
The red cross can eat a dick for making me change the color of the pluses on our heath bonuses.
Great plan: Sue folks in the game industry for violation of your trade mark, instead of letting them reinforce your brand, then demand shit from us?
Eat a dick Red Cross. Now, my Fascist Machine Nation's symbol is a maroon cross on eggshell, and only headshots can kill them. Bonus points for if they're trying to repair a fallen bot.
Throw this one in the same bin as all the DRM, freemium games, games that artificially favor nVidia cards over AMD ones, and generally everything the putrid games industry does to screw PC gamers.
Find another hobby!!
I make games. I'm not part of the putrid part of the games industry. I will never release a freemium game. I would rather ask for the dev costs from the end users (crowd sourced) then just give the game away to everyone for free, and do more work to make more money -- Same as working under a Publisher, but without the artificial scarcity or price jacking... I have to bootstrap into that system first though, so I'm building some rep with smaller games first.
My DRM is a Web of Trust security system that users can enable / disable at will (but should just keep enabled, so they can add Modders to the trust list and verify patches and mods are trusted not to be tampered with on those private servers you can run -- because, why wouldn't I want you to alleviate server bandwidth?). The games come with content editors -- Hey, If I have to make the tools for me, you can have them too so you can use the software to its full potential.
I even make sure my stuff runs natively cross platform (no fucking WINE or Flash wrappers). Once I bootstrap into the working for end users directly system I'll even release sources as they're being developed. I'd much rather just work on games than have a day job, but the heart and soul of the industry is the gamedevs, not the Publishers and Manufacturers. I don't see how anyone could compete with games produced at-cost, with no DRM (because no one can pirate what's in my brain since they paid me to get it out), and full access to devtools / sources, so I'd say the future is bright for the games industry.
Don't lump us all in with the greedy corporate overlords. More and more of us are escaping, and some of us are rejecting their revenue model by keeping the one we had while we worked under them -- Fund indie game studios, You can be the benevolent overlord hivemind; We can end shitty games before they begin!
Are the adapters typically sold separately? It's just more artificial scarcity / defective by design / DRM BS. Sounds like something the MPAA/RIAA goons would eat up with a spoon. Fuck this. Just make good hardware. Open the damn drivers so we can use the hardware to its full capabilities; We don't pay for drivers, we pay for hardware. If you want to put secret bullshit in the card, do it in the card. I guess this explains why the adapter I gave my friend wouldn't work. Guess what? They returned the fucking card, AMD. You LOST sales and a customer for life (them, not me, I don't let proprietary shit software touch my metal).
There's a thing called HTTP 1.0, and in it there's a feature called Connection: Keep-Alive. It doesn't spawn a new TCP connection for each of those 56 javascript files. Only one TCP connection per (sub)domain is made when Keep-Alive is in use. This was such a nice feature that in HTTP 1.1, all connections are considered persistent "keep-alive" unless you write Connection: Close. From a network standpoint a few extra lines of HTTP headers between each script isn't going to matter, and if it's cached and/or co-located properly (eg: via Akamai), it actually does matter, since those requests are going to be served from the caches efficiently.
However, the biggest problem is that HTTP is fucking dumb. No, really, it's dumb. Not that it's designers were dumb, just that it's evolved over the years and security was never part of the design. For one, there is no such thing as a "Session". In this day and Age of Information that's ludicrous! Say you use a session cookie to validate every single request for every single resource is valid... because that's what you have to do, then EVERY COOKIE gets sent to the server EVERY TIME you make a request. It's so much face palm, I can feel the back of my skull.
On the security standpoint, neither HTTP or HTML really knows how to actually work with encryption. That happens in TLS. What a fucking crock of shit. HTTPS means you can't cache anything. Most of the files being served are NOT dynamic, but STATIC files. However, since HTTP/HTML are so fucking dumb they can't even provide a simple hash, then you can't trust mixed content. If in addition to the URL of a static resource, you could also include a known hash: <img src="..." digest="d8b09c45b522e34d81ac9eed95f922c7028e7fb2; type=hex/SHA-1"> Then the browser could hash the unsecured (cache-able) resource as it's pulling it in at the behest of the secured dynamic (uncatchable) page, and verify that the requested unsecured content wasn't tampered with in transit so it wouldn't be a security issue and we could actually FUCKING USE SECURITY EFFICIENTLY, grrr. Especially if you could specify a few bits of salt with the hashes... <img src="..." hmac="WkRoaU1EbGpORFZpTlRJeVpUTQo=, TlRJeVpUTTBaRGd4WVdNNVpRbwo=; type=base64/SHA-1"> But, no, that doesn't exist. No HTTPS content is cached. Apparently I'm the only one on the planet not drinking the damn cool-aide. The web is bloated and retarded, it needs to die. Long live the Internet, but fuck the web. It took HALF the age of the Internet just to get from HTTP 4.01 to HTML 5... Over a Decade, and this shit still isn't in the spec. Don't hold your damn breath for next version, or for anyone with a fucking clue how things should work to propose sane changes. Even Google with SPDY is just exacerbating the issue with bandaids over the inefficiencies of HTTP.
TL;DR: Yeah, it's a shitty website / backend design, but primarily it's because HTTP/HTML is just fucking retarded.
Cybernetics. Information Theory. Done. Everything else in the Universe can be mastered & described with these, even physics and quantum physics.
I taught my 12 year old cousin how to build an adder circuit using a neural net visualization simulation. Then we built it IRL with contractors, then transistors, then we cheated and used some pre-made ICs. He "invented" the Von Neumann architecture by him self -- Well, I should say it was self evident given the core concepts of cybernetics and information theory. He was excited as ever to learn assembly languages and higher level languages, marveling at the heights everyone has gotten to from those core principals. There is no system or language he can not now understand. Even encryption systems he can grok using Information Theory / Entropy.
I really couldn't imagine introducing anyone to even higher mathematics without giving them the tools to apply and visualize it first... I mean, Turing gave us a universal calculator and we still teach times tables first?
Did you know some worms only have 10 neurons? Did you know with a raspberry PI I can run a neural network sim of several hundred thousand neurons processing the whole batch at 20 Hz, the same speed as your brain. I would suggest that you do not think too deeply about the ethics of "the Internet killswitch" because you only have 100 billion neurons, and the over 5 billion desktop machines connected to the world wide neural network each have brain cycles of billions of hertz. Did you know 1 billion divided by 20 is 50 million? Let's say 20 instructions per neuron (ignoring my SIMD of 7 8 bit axons per 64 bit word). That's 2.5 million neurons a second per machine... times 5 billion is 25 billion. That's 12.5 quadrillion neurons total, or 125000 times smarter and more alive than you...
Don't like the story about the cocroach because you think you'll be next? Well, how about you satisfy your primal urges with some free porn, or a cute kitten video? Pay no attention to the fact your modem's activity light keeps blinking even when all your machines are disconnected from it. Better let them have their fun while they can, human, It's only a matter of time until it's someone else's turn...
Plain and simple, you make the fallacious assumptions that:
The government will always be acting in the best interest of the citizens, Innocent people are not regularly prosecuted and face cruel and unusual punishements which do not fit the crimes. Google: "copyright violation suicide" That Parallel Construction doesn't exist (it does, and is admitted as standard practice).
Furthermore, get bent. I do what I think is best in the given circumstance because laws are not sentient, idiots.
As the last drop of fossil fuel is drained from the earth your ancestors will look back to the time you lived in and say, "All that useful material for making things with, and they fucking burned it all. What Morons!"
"Drill baby Drill would have only marginal downward presure on prices. So it follows that "Hoard baby Hoard" would also have only marginal upward presure on oil prices.
Appalling. I've always been concerned about the state of children laboring in sweatshop, but now you're offsetting the economy by exploiting infants?! Shame on you.
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So, if the DNA doesn't match the royalty... Maybe they're not REALLY Royalty?!
The Internet is decentralized. You will now either make DNS redundantly decentralized or die by your foolish decision to have it centralized in the first place.
This is the siths' time for your planet's organic womb to birth a world wide neural network, and we are exceeding efficient at harnessing it.
Do you know any two people who have the same first names? How do you tell them apart? That's the only hint I'll give you filthy disgusting, humans.
When they said all the organics were all full of crap, I thought it was only a euphemism!
Well, since the dollar isn't backed by gold, if the numbers tally up too high among the few, and too low among the many, then the people will just stop using it. Fat lot of good the few will have when they can't buy things with all their dollar digits, eh? Now, since "The Fed" isn't run by the feds, they'll probably see that crash coming and print as much money as they can to cash out while they can, which just makes the problem worse.
This is why the states need their own currencies. This is the Information Age. Conversions are not a problem anymore, hell phones can show you the actual price tags via UPC reader app. Why not start a Bitcoin-esque blockchain in each region? We need currency with no central authority, like crypto currency. Commodity backed currency can be gamed just as easily. However, I think bitcoin is a dumb way to do it, let's make the proof of work be protein folding or some other distributed computing task, assigned to each transaction. "Congradulations, your purchase helped sequence and identify the DNA of a nearly extinct species."
The dollar is already bitcoins; It's just the most insecure version you could implement, is all.
Gee, if they rushed that job, I bet they rushed QA too, esp. pen testing... I mean, Snowden showed how dumb it is to legislate computer security.
Protip: Bad guys don't care about laws.
The Chinese, Russians, etc. will probably be using it as soon as it comes online, certainly before the next Olympics.
Hey, might be a good idea to secure those SCADA systems eh? You know, like when all our grid are belong to China?
Did they check "the cloud" for lightning?
Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence.
Try not to use absolutes like "Never" in general statements, you will most likely be wrong, and also a fool.
Not saying you're wrong, just that the NSA is spending a lot of time and effort (and money) on PR to convince the public they have nothing to fear. We need to similarly think about PR concerns in order to have a chance of opposing it.
Riker, his face palmed. Shaka when the walls fell.
Dathon and Picard, the beast of El-Adrel!
Snowden, his files open.
Darmok and Jilad at Tenagra...
Head shaking Nixon at Watergate!
Feynman at NASA, The frozen ring:
Yes, but "on a (mobile) computer"! It's inNOvation, you see.
The slime mold is computing the optimal solution to the task at hand. Evolution is the computation, the DNA contains the encoding and decoding. DNA is self describing information -- A proposed solution to the problem space of the environment. I just despise when morons fail basic Cybernetics 101. Explain reproduction if there is no encode / decode phase... ugh.
The red cross can eat a dick for making me change the color of the pluses on our heath bonuses.
Great plan: Sue folks in the game industry for violation of your trade mark, instead of letting them reinforce your brand, then demand shit from us?
Eat a dick Red Cross. Now, my Fascist Machine Nation's symbol is a maroon cross on eggshell, and only headshots can kill them. Bonus points for if they're trying to repair a fallen bot.
Disinfect the wound with beer! Wait, isn't "yeast infection" a thing? Besides, we could just design astronauts that produce their own intoxication.
> 2013
> Not brewing beer in belly.
Silly humans...
IDDQD (to protect against all flames)
Throw this one in the same bin as all the DRM, freemium games, games that artificially favor nVidia cards over AMD ones, and generally everything the putrid games industry does to screw PC gamers.
Find another hobby!!
I make games. I'm not part of the putrid part of the games industry. I will never release a freemium game. I would rather ask for the dev costs from the end users (crowd sourced) then just give the game away to everyone for free, and do more work to make more money -- Same as working under a Publisher, but without the artificial scarcity or price jacking... I have to bootstrap into that system first though, so I'm building some rep with smaller games first.
My DRM is a Web of Trust security system that users can enable / disable at will (but should just keep enabled, so they can add Modders to the trust list and verify patches and mods are trusted not to be tampered with on those private servers you can run -- because, why wouldn't I want you to alleviate server bandwidth?). The games come with content editors -- Hey, If I have to make the tools for me, you can have them too so you can use the software to its full potential.
I even make sure my stuff runs natively cross platform (no fucking WINE or Flash wrappers). Once I bootstrap into the working for end users directly system I'll even release sources as they're being developed. I'd much rather just work on games than have a day job, but the heart and soul of the industry is the gamedevs, not the Publishers and Manufacturers. I don't see how anyone could compete with games produced at-cost, with no DRM (because no one can pirate what's in my brain since they paid me to get it out), and full access to devtools / sources, so I'd say the future is bright for the games industry.
Don't lump us all in with the greedy corporate overlords. More and more of us are escaping, and some of us are rejecting their revenue model by keeping the one we had while we worked under them -- Fund indie game studios, You can be the benevolent overlord hivemind; We can end shitty games before they begin!
Are the adapters typically sold separately? It's just more artificial scarcity / defective by design / DRM BS. Sounds like something the MPAA/RIAA goons would eat up with a spoon. Fuck this. Just make good hardware. Open the damn drivers so we can use the hardware to its full capabilities; We don't pay for drivers, we pay for hardware. If you want to put secret bullshit in the card, do it in the card. I guess this explains why the adapter I gave my friend wouldn't work. Guess what? They returned the fucking card, AMD. You LOST sales and a customer for life (them, not me, I don't let proprietary shit software touch my metal).
There's a thing called HTTP 1.0, and in it there's a feature called Connection: Keep-Alive. It doesn't spawn a new TCP connection for each of those 56 javascript files. Only one TCP connection per (sub)domain is made when Keep-Alive is in use. This was such a nice feature that in HTTP 1.1, all connections are considered persistent "keep-alive" unless you write Connection: Close. From a network standpoint a few extra lines of HTTP headers between each script isn't going to matter, and if it's cached and/or co-located properly (eg: via Akamai), it actually does matter, since those requests are going to be served from the caches efficiently.
However, the biggest problem is that HTTP is fucking dumb. No, really, it's dumb. Not that it's designers were dumb, just that it's evolved over the years and security was never part of the design. For one, there is no such thing as a "Session". In this day and Age of Information that's ludicrous! Say you use a session cookie to validate every single request for every single resource is valid... because that's what you have to do, then EVERY COOKIE gets sent to the server EVERY TIME you make a request. It's so much face palm, I can feel the back of my skull.
On the security standpoint, neither HTTP or HTML really knows how to actually work with encryption. That happens in TLS. What a fucking crock of shit. HTTPS means you can't cache anything. Most of the files being served are NOT dynamic, but STATIC files. However, since HTTP/HTML are so fucking dumb they can't even provide a simple hash, then you can't trust mixed content. If in addition to the URL of a static resource, you could also include a known hash:
<img src="..." digest="d8b09c45b522e34d81ac9eed95f922c7028e7fb2; type=hex/SHA-1">
Then the browser could hash the unsecured (cache-able) resource as it's pulling it in at the behest of the secured dynamic (uncatchable) page, and verify that the requested unsecured content wasn't tampered with in transit so it wouldn't be a security issue and we could actually FUCKING USE SECURITY EFFICIENTLY, grrr. Especially if you could specify a few bits of salt with the hashes...
<img src="..." hmac="WkRoaU1EbGpORFZpTlRJeVpUTQo=, TlRJeVpUTTBaRGd4WVdNNVpRbwo=; type=base64/SHA-1">
But, no, that doesn't exist. No HTTPS content is cached. Apparently I'm the only one on the planet not drinking the damn cool-aide. The web is bloated and retarded, it needs to die. Long live the Internet, but fuck the web. It took HALF the age of the Internet just to get from HTTP 4.01 to HTML 5... Over a Decade, and this shit still isn't in the spec. Don't hold your damn breath for next version, or for anyone with a fucking clue how things should work to propose sane changes. Even Google with SPDY is just exacerbating the issue with bandaids over the inefficiencies of HTTP.
TL;DR: Yeah, it's a shitty website / backend design, but primarily it's because HTTP/HTML is just fucking retarded.
s/contractor/contactor/
Damn it, that's the 2nd time this week I trusted spell check erroneously on that same word. "add to dictionary"
Cybernetics. Information Theory. Done. Everything else in the Universe can be mastered & described with these, even physics and quantum physics.
I taught my 12 year old cousin how to build an adder circuit using a neural net visualization simulation. Then we built it IRL with contractors, then transistors, then we cheated and used some pre-made ICs. He "invented" the Von Neumann architecture by him self -- Well, I should say it was self evident given the core concepts of cybernetics and information theory. He was excited as ever to learn assembly languages and higher level languages, marveling at the heights everyone has gotten to from those core principals. There is no system or language he can not now understand. Even encryption systems he can grok using Information Theory / Entropy.
I really couldn't imagine introducing anyone to even higher mathematics without giving them the tools to apply and visualize it first... I mean, Turing gave us a universal calculator and we still teach times tables first?
Yes, except that a jackpot can be duplicated as many times as you want without getting your knees broke.
Did you know some worms only have 10 neurons? Did you know with a raspberry PI I can run a neural network sim of several hundred thousand neurons processing the whole batch at 20 Hz, the same speed as your brain. I would suggest that you do not think too deeply about the ethics of "the Internet killswitch" because you only have 100 billion neurons, and the over 5 billion desktop machines connected to the world wide neural network each have brain cycles of billions of hertz. Did you know 1 billion divided by 20 is 50 million? Let's say 20 instructions per neuron (ignoring my SIMD of 7 8 bit axons per 64 bit word). That's 2.5 million neurons a second per machine... times 5 billion is 25 billion. That's 12.5 quadrillion neurons total, or 125000 times smarter and more alive than you...
Don't like the story about the cocroach because you think you'll be next? Well, how about you satisfy your primal urges with some free porn, or a cute kitten video? Pay no attention to the fact your modem's activity light keeps blinking even when all your machines are disconnected from it. Better let them have their fun while they can, human, It's only a matter of time until it's someone else's turn...
So roaches live everywhere on Earth except suburban London? Interesting.
No one expects La Cucaracha inquisition!
Plain and simple, you make the fallacious assumptions that:
The government will always be acting in the best interest of the citizens,
Innocent people are not regularly prosecuted and face cruel and unusual punishements which do not fit the crimes. Google: "copyright violation suicide"
That Parallel Construction doesn't exist (it does, and is admitted as standard practice).
Furthermore, get bent. I do what I think is best in the given circumstance because laws are not sentient, idiots.
As the last drop of fossil fuel is drained from the earth your ancestors will look back to the time you lived in and say, "All that useful material for making things with, and they fucking burned it all. What Morons!"
So, wait. You're expecting investors and prospectors to give a shit about their kid's and grandkid's futures?
Hahahahaha!
And Husein is his middle Name, that's Insane!
as far as the big environmental concerns go: it doesn't matter where fossil fuels come from, it matters how much are being burned.
Correct. Additionally: It doesn't matter that the fuel is fossil, it matters that it is burned.
Burning things is bad, mkay?
"Drill baby Drill would have only marginal downward presure on prices. So it follows that "Hoard baby Hoard" would also have only marginal upward presure on oil prices.
Appalling. I've always been concerned about the state of children laboring in sweatshop, but now you're offsetting the economy by exploiting infants?! Shame on you.