Are you now, or have you ever been a member of the socialist "Internet Society" party?
You think McCarthy era internment camps were bad? Imagine the horrific witch hunt + the victims also having data-overload withdrawals, being cut off from texting & social media updates.
The web will fracture. The cracks have already formed. National Networks are coming with every approved packet signed via digital user IDs.
I can hear it now: You want the Internet back?! Why? So you can connect to your Chinese and Russian Spys? Or even Terrorist websites?!
Reject national digital ID systems w/ PKI authentication. That is the key they need to enforce the fracture.
Long live the Sneakernet, the last bastion of information freedom. It's what took down the other oppressive regimes in years past, and I fear we'll soon need it again when the Internet society has failed.
Never under estimate the bandwidth of a condom full of micro SDs.
On macs back in 1995-1999, I used a program that would provide 10 copy buffers.
I use GNU Screen on all my terminals. Multiple copy buffers, multiple views per terminal/screen & split views too. Sure beats that massive KVM switch with several windows boxes I had in the 90s... Now I use two or three screens GNU/(Windows, Linux|BSD, sometimes MacOS), and Synergy, all on separate hardware (VMs are nice, but nothing beats testing on the metal); Synergy lets me move my mouse & keyinput from one screen to the next, and I can copy on Linux and Paste into Windows without some VNC BS. I do most of my work in the terminal, so I could give a fuck less if Gnome remove every god damned feature, I stopped giving a fuck about WMs in the 90s too. I would take the time to switch to Awesome WM, I guess, but it doesn't matter. All I do is open a terminal maximized and run GNU/Screen in it. I'd go raw terminal mode, but Synergy doesn't support that, and I like to tab over to a browser or image editor every now and again.
(yes GNU/Linux, GNU/BSD, and GNU/Windows: One userland to rule them all -- cross platform porting is "git pull && make")
And so the Anonymous Cowards protested. They rose up with their masks to protect their identity, and with picket signs of void pointers: Not even in white, for that could be misunderstood as flags of surrender, but unvoiced as transparencies instead. In silence they marched, unseen, all around us, always and forever. Not the heroes we need, but quantum superpositions of both the heroes we deserve and the ones that don't exist... The potential for great change -- A waveform never destined to collapse.
More and more Chrome is reminding me of IE from the humble IE 4 which was the best browser to the jaguarnut of IE 6 which still has not completely died off yet
I see we are not letting a mere lack of knowledge be any impediment to voicing opinions tonight.
Well, I've been developing "web services" since before the web existed (BBS networks), all the way up to HTML5 and beyond, with bleeding edge browser features pre-standardization, so let me weigh in on the issue: /me shudders.
I recently opted out of Google targeted ads because of the interests it thought I liked. Among them: Women's Issues, Defense and Aerospace, Arts and Crafts, etc. I'm interested in Men's Issues (90%+ workplace deaths are males, 80%+ homeless are men, 40%+ of domestic abuse victims are male, and women are as violent or more so than men yet there are only "battered womens' shelters" no men's shelters), I don't really care about Defense just Space (why these are linked in their interests might be to fuzz defense nuts as possible space nuts? Maybe cryptography = defense?), I make inde games as a hobby but could give a fuck less about arts and cratfs... The list goes on and on -- over 20 interests, 5 were half right, the rest were just WAY off base.
The shit they know is WRONG. And if this is any indication of the power of "big data" (a new buzword for Analytics) then I'm even more wary of what the NSA thinks they can glean from their aggregate bullshit. With the things I research for my fictional writing & game plots, and my outspoken stance on government accountability, anti-war posts, and patent/copyright reform, etc. they probably think I'm a terrorist, when in reality, I would sooner die than kill another sentient being.
The road to despotism is paved with absolutist notions. Do not try to create absolute security, that is impossible. This complete intolerance for risk is ridiculous and destructive. You have more risk of heart attack or automobile accident than terrorist attack.... The funding should be in tastier health food, not killing brown people and spying on every citizen. Of course the message to the people is one of protection from drummed up threat. The reality is that those doing the spying know their ends can't fit the means; They have completely other set of agendas, and practically have to manufacture offenders to prove they're protecting you. Only thing you could really do with the data on that scale is controlling the world's financial markets. Protip: the CIA and other black-ops are funded not by tax money primarily, but by investments via shell corps...
You don't have anything to fear, citizen, unless you use uncontrollable currencies, like bitcoins, or develop new cryptographic ciphers, or use untrackable data transfers.
Truth is, I live not in fear of terrorists, but in fear of being hit by a bus or disappeared by a black van... I refuse to NOT post things online that could be taken the wrong way. Fuck 'em. Live free or Die, I say, like an American of braver times.
Additionally, my websites know when you're using Ghostery, NoScript, and AdBlock, or user agent spoofers, fingerprint normalizers, etc. Your use of these damn near perfectly profiles the kind of user you are... I just use the data to serve you the page for a downloadable game instead of the WebGL or flash version, but others could do much more...
This is because the current IP protocols are Dumb when it comes to data. I mean that with a capital D. Not that the designers are dumb, but the protocol itself is just dumb, in that it knows nothing about the data.
We suffer from the fact that IPv4 and IPv6 do not have store and forward. Instead of / in addition to endpoint IDs, all the routers need to have a large cache for versioned content. You can still have your frackin' unversioned uncacheable content, however we need a more permanent store and forward service. This will reduce bandwidth consumption, and is essential for bringing the Internet to space it's part of the Interstellar DTN (delay tolerant network).
Imagine the entire Internet as a hybrid between a decentralized distributed file store, and the current IP stack. Instead of requesting an endpoint we could request the data hash. A distributed hash table could serve the content from within the Internet. ISPs can vastly decrease bandwidth by increasing their cache duplication size (as we have currently), but when a cache miss happens it could be served by another cache in the distributed hash table on up the chain to the origin. "What about updates to documents? My cached pages!" Fools, the doc will have a different hash. We could actually SOLVE issues whereby resource names must be changed by simply requesting them based on their internal content hashes. Additionally, we can fix the issue of mixed secure / insecure content while we're at it. A resource referenced inside a secure document can include THE HASH ID of the resource. Thus, you know the insecure and cacheable content you're pulling in is unmodified...
Nope, we can't have nice things because you fuckers regard the old farts who designed the current antiquated systems as if they were gods, even though store and forward works beautifully for packet radio. (Hint: The FCC disallows any use of store and forward by unlicensed civilians.) Otherwise we could have a decentralized unsnoopable high-speed (largely) wireless Internet that grows organically with demand with little or no fees (everyone's a node hosting data, buy a box once and you're done).
The main barriers to solving the problem are ISP greed, draconian copyright laws, and desire for a surveillance state.
Note, this WILL all happen eventually anyway, you idiots are just too foolish to realize it, so it'll turn out to be a cluster fuck like "The Web" is now because the end result will be evolved by bolting on shite to the current systems over the years instead of being designed with the desired end result problem space in mind. Eg: Colocation fees? WTF? This is a hack to move data closer to endpoints... like store and forward achieves by design.
kthx.
Alaska had a real summer comparable to the lower 48 of the United States. Nice cabin there if the summers warm up to near 20 Celsius for months on end!
Yes, but the warmer temps up there mean more mosquitos... which are already the size of vultures.
A bit further south, in Canada, the mosquitoes take down cows. My gods, they've spread further south than I imagined.
For all our sakes, let's pray they don't descend on truly South America.
"Big Memory Machine"... So, they finally built Deepthought?
In-memory IO is grand, when that's your're bottleneck. Mine tends to be in the network level, so I use a local daemon for query result caching at the application level as "in-memory" speedup. The speedups are nice, but pricey. Color me unimpressed -- that's pink, BTW; I'm a Caucasoid your colors may vary, but only up to VARCHAR(20);
Uhg. Is "in memory" now just another buz-word? I guess we've come full circle back to Mainframe? Big memory banks are faster and better for a while, but then the bandwidth goes up and the price, reliability and scalability will favor distributed systems (as currently). I wonder which phase of the cycle quantum computing will favor: distributed / localized? You have to take into consideration your user distribution too...
So, eventually you'll want a hybrid system where the memory is distributed and cloned at each query-able interface, but still maintaining the entire dataset "in memory"...
SELECT * FROM earth WHERE answer LIKE "everything"; ...
42 rows returned
I prefer the term "Big Sister" -- Think about it: Who's more likely to keep a bunch of detailed records of all goings on, then get pissed off and throw a fit when someone leaks her diary?
Think about it... if you were the Russians back then, and you were going to drop a nuke on the US, would North Carolina be at the top of your list?
I'll give you Fort Bragg, but outside of that, what there would be worth risking a counter strike?
Well, this was the Cold War, there was the air of mutually assured destruction. If the US bombed North Carolina, the Soviets would have bombed Chelyabinsk.
Since NC was ALMOST bombed, the aliens sought to maintain peace by way of ALMOST destroying Cheylyabinsk with an asteroid, if a bit late...
Your puny intellects can't fathom the enormity of the red tape required to file a bombardment requisition form 37b. Frackin' Vogons, I swear.
Let me just clear up all your lack of access concerns: Omivore / Carnivore ran on Unix, it was ported to MS Windows when they made ECHELON, thus Windows is the platform PRISM runs on too.
The only thing suspicious about the reports is that the Chinese hackers who bust up all the SCADA and Windows-Ran Energy grid aren't corroborating the reports... You credit the NSA too highly. Where do you think they higher hackers from? That same group that makes a game out of getting root on Windows and other OSs? So, you're suspicious of the REPORTS, that the least secure operating system in the world, which is regularly exploited so much that a black-market full of exploits exists for, could possibly grant an unprivileged user access to information they shouldn't have had access to?
Personally, with that kind of thinking, I'm more suspicious of YOU.
Oh, if only "store and forward" weren't specifically outlawed by the FCC... Then you could buy an ISP device once, and never pay anything more than maintenance and electricity to join the encrypted mesh network. Instead we only allow corporations to do this, and charge by the bit. Wireless Plans, indeed.
Colocation? Bandwidth Problems? Hack because IPv4/6 lacks automatic caching of store and forward... And TCP is dumb.
Yeah, let's only hear about the things YOU want to hear about.
Well, from Khyber's comment history, I would say that's hardware. He's pontificated over Monitors, both AMD and Intel CPUs & GPUs, some stuff about hydroponics, LEDs, etc.
Seems like Khyber just woke up on the hypocritical side of the bed today.
I like this "Satan" guy. Anagram: Santa, who also stashes stuff to test kids faith in their parents... I bet Satan's fun as hell at parties. Now that you mention it, he probably came up with the lampshade trick too.
Easy now, MightyYar, yon spell check be old as thar elusive whale ye hunt.
Ifn ye 40 million years tardy, grants not a right one to accost hapless landlubbers.
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Are you now, or have you ever been a member of the socialist "Internet Society" party?
You think McCarthy era internment camps were bad? Imagine the horrific witch hunt + the victims also having data-overload withdrawals, being cut off from texting & social media updates.
The web will fracture. The cracks have already formed. National Networks are coming with every approved packet signed via digital user IDs.
I can hear it now: You want the Internet back?! Why? So you can connect to your Chinese and Russian Spys? Or even Terrorist websites?!
Reject national digital ID systems w/ PKI authentication. That is the key they need to enforce the fracture.
Long live the Sneakernet, the last bastion of information freedom. It's what took down the other oppressive regimes in years past, and I fear we'll soon need it again when the Internet society has failed.
Never under estimate the bandwidth of a condom full of micro SDs.
On macs back in 1995-1999, I used a program that would provide 10 copy buffers.
I use GNU Screen on all my terminals. Multiple copy buffers, multiple views per terminal/screen & split views too. Sure beats that massive KVM switch with several windows boxes I had in the 90s... Now I use two or three screens GNU/(Windows, Linux|BSD, sometimes MacOS), and Synergy, all on separate hardware (VMs are nice, but nothing beats testing on the metal); Synergy lets me move my mouse & keyinput from one screen to the next, and I can copy on Linux and Paste into Windows without some VNC BS. I do most of my work in the terminal, so I could give a fuck less if Gnome remove every god damned feature, I stopped giving a fuck about WMs in the 90s too. I would take the time to switch to Awesome WM, I guess, but it doesn't matter. All I do is open a terminal maximized and run GNU/Screen in it. I'd go raw terminal mode, but Synergy doesn't support that, and I like to tab over to a browser or image editor every now and again.
(yes GNU/Linux, GNU/BSD, and GNU/Windows: One userland to rule them all -- cross platform porting is "git pull && make")
And so the Anonymous Cowards protested. They rose up with their masks to protect their identity, and with picket signs of void pointers: Not even in white, for that could be misunderstood as flags of surrender, but unvoiced as transparencies instead. In silence they marched, unseen, all around us, always and forever. Not the heroes we need, but quantum superpositions of both the heroes we deserve and the ones that don't exist... The potential for great change -- A waveform never destined to collapse.
outsourcing development or support always ends in a gigantic cluster fuck.
+9001 Internets to you... and it's reusable too. Eg: Sums up the Roman Empire too!
I'm outsourcing my commenting to you.
I see we are not letting a mere lack of knowledge be any impediment to voicing opinions tonight.
Well, I've been developing "web services" since before the web existed (BBS networks), all the way up to HTML5 and beyond, with bleeding edge browser features pre-standardization, so let me weigh in on the issue:
/me shudders.
I recently opted out of Google targeted ads because of the interests it thought I liked. Among them: Women's Issues, Defense and Aerospace, Arts and Crafts, etc. I'm interested in Men's Issues (90%+ workplace deaths are males, 80%+ homeless are men, 40%+ of domestic abuse victims are male, and women are as violent or more so than men yet there are only "battered womens' shelters" no men's shelters), I don't really care about Defense just Space (why these are linked in their interests might be to fuzz defense nuts as possible space nuts? Maybe cryptography = defense?), I make inde games as a hobby but could give a fuck less about arts and cratfs... The list goes on and on -- over 20 interests, 5 were half right, the rest were just WAY off base.
The shit they know is WRONG. And if this is any indication of the power of "big data" (a new buzword for Analytics) then I'm even more wary of what the NSA thinks they can glean from their aggregate bullshit. With the things I research for my fictional writing & game plots, and my outspoken stance on government accountability, anti-war posts, and patent/copyright reform, etc. they probably think I'm a terrorist, when in reality, I would sooner die than kill another sentient being.
The road to despotism is paved with absolutist notions. Do not try to create absolute security, that is impossible. This complete intolerance for risk is ridiculous and destructive. You have more risk of heart attack or automobile accident than terrorist attack.... The funding should be in tastier health food, not killing brown people and spying on every citizen. Of course the message to the people is one of protection from drummed up threat. The reality is that those doing the spying know their ends can't fit the means; They have completely other set of agendas, and practically have to manufacture offenders to prove they're protecting you. Only thing you could really do with the data on that scale is controlling the world's financial markets. Protip: the CIA and other black-ops are funded not by tax money primarily, but by investments via shell corps...
You don't have anything to fear, citizen, unless you use uncontrollable currencies, like bitcoins, or develop new cryptographic ciphers, or use untrackable data transfers.
Truth is, I live not in fear of terrorists, but in fear of being hit by a bus or disappeared by a black van... I refuse to NOT post things online that could be taken the wrong way. Fuck 'em. Live free or Die, I say, like an American of braver times.
Additionally, my websites know when you're using Ghostery, NoScript, and AdBlock, or user agent spoofers, fingerprint normalizers, etc. Your use of these damn near perfectly profiles the kind of user you are... I just use the data to serve you the page for a downloadable game instead of the WebGL or flash version, but others could do much more...
This is because the current IP protocols are Dumb when it comes to data. I mean that with a capital D. Not that the designers are dumb, but the protocol itself is just dumb, in that it knows nothing about the data.
We suffer from the fact that IPv4 and IPv6 do not have store and forward. Instead of / in addition to endpoint IDs, all the routers need to have a large cache for versioned content. You can still have your frackin' unversioned uncacheable content, however we need a more permanent store and forward service. This will reduce bandwidth consumption, and is essential for bringing the Internet to space it's part of the Interstellar DTN (delay tolerant network).
Imagine the entire Internet as a hybrid between a decentralized distributed file store, and the current IP stack. Instead of requesting an endpoint we could request the data hash. A distributed hash table could serve the content from within the Internet. ISPs can vastly decrease bandwidth by increasing their cache duplication size (as we have currently), but when a cache miss happens it could be served by another cache in the distributed hash table on up the chain to the origin. "What about updates to documents? My cached pages!" Fools, the doc will have a different hash. We could actually SOLVE issues whereby resource names must be changed by simply requesting them based on their internal content hashes. Additionally, we can fix the issue of mixed secure / insecure content while we're at it. A resource referenced inside a secure document can include THE HASH ID of the resource. Thus, you know the insecure and cacheable content you're pulling in is unmodified...
Nope, we can't have nice things because you fuckers regard the old farts who designed the current antiquated systems as if they were gods, even though store and forward works beautifully for packet radio. (Hint: The FCC disallows any use of store and forward by unlicensed civilians.) Otherwise we could have a decentralized unsnoopable high-speed (largely) wireless Internet that grows organically with demand with little or no fees (everyone's a node hosting data, buy a box once and you're done).
The main barriers to solving the problem are ISP greed, draconian copyright laws, and desire for a surveillance state.
Note, this WILL all happen eventually anyway, you idiots are just too foolish to realize it, so it'll turn out to be a cluster fuck like "The Web" is now because the end result will be evolved by bolting on shite to the current systems over the years instead of being designed with the desired end result problem space in mind. Eg: Colocation fees? WTF? This is a hack to move data closer to endpoints... like store and forward achieves by design.
kthx.
Oh, I don't know. All pure white and bright... To a bunch of desert dwellers wouldn't "the arctic" be pretty much the definition of heaven?
Alaska had a real summer comparable to the lower 48 of the United States. Nice cabin there if the summers warm up to near 20 Celsius for months on end!
Yes, but the warmer temps up there mean more mosquitos... which are already the size of vultures.
A bit further south, in Canada, the mosquitoes take down cows. My gods, they've spread further south than I imagined.
For all our sakes, let's pray they don't descend on truly South America.
"Big Memory Machine"... So, they finally built Deepthought?
In-memory IO is grand, when that's your're bottleneck. Mine tends to be in the network level, so I use a local daemon for query result caching at the application level as "in-memory" speedup. The speedups are nice, but pricey. Color me unimpressed -- that's pink, BTW; I'm a Caucasoid your colors may vary, but only up to VARCHAR(20);
Uhg. Is "in memory" now just another buz-word? I guess we've come full circle back to Mainframe? Big memory banks are faster and better for a while, but then the bandwidth goes up and the price, reliability and scalability will favor distributed systems (as currently). I wonder which phase of the cycle quantum computing will favor: distributed / localized? You have to take into consideration your user distribution too...
So, eventually you'll want a hybrid system where the memory is distributed and cloned at each query-able interface, but still maintaining the entire dataset "in memory"...
...
SELECT * FROM earth WHERE answer LIKE "everything";
42 rows returned
sounds really trivial to break. I can see all kinds of kids doing this.
Known vector. Gummy-bear attack.
The core issue is that you leave copies of your authenticator EVERYWHERE.
You act like it's so easy to just lift the fingerprints. Come on, they'd have to break into my parent's basement first.
Ah, but fool me Three Times? Yes, then you see it's all part of my master plan...
Creating DBA Job Security one migration at a time.
I guess that makes them Big Brother in law.
I prefer the term "Big Sister" -- Think about it: Who's more likely to keep a bunch of detailed records of all goings on, then get pissed off and throw a fit when someone leaks her diary?
Except in forests... when occurring to trees.
Think about it... if you were the Russians back then, and you were going to drop a nuke on the US, would North Carolina be at the top of your list?
I'll give you Fort Bragg, but outside of that, what there would be worth risking a counter strike?
Well, this was the Cold War, there was the air of mutually assured destruction. If the US bombed North Carolina, the Soviets would have bombed Chelyabinsk.
Since NC was ALMOST bombed, the aliens sought to maintain peace by way of ALMOST destroying Cheylyabinsk with an asteroid, if a bit late...
Your puny intellects can't fathom the enormity of the red tape required to file a bombardment requisition form 37b. Frackin' Vogons, I swear.
Let me just clear up all your lack of access concerns: Omivore / Carnivore ran on Unix, it was ported to MS Windows when they made ECHELON, thus Windows is the platform PRISM runs on too.
The only thing suspicious about the reports is that the Chinese hackers who bust up all the SCADA and Windows-Ran Energy grid aren't corroborating the reports... You credit the NSA too highly. Where do you think they higher hackers from? That same group that makes a game out of getting root on Windows and other OSs? So, you're suspicious of the REPORTS, that the least secure operating system in the world, which is regularly exploited so much that a black-market full of exploits exists for, could possibly grant an unprivileged user access to information they shouldn't have had access to?
Personally, with that kind of thinking, I'm more suspicious of YOU.
Oh, if only "store and forward" weren't specifically outlawed by the FCC... Then you could buy an ISP device once, and never pay anything more than maintenance and electricity to join the encrypted mesh network. Instead we only allow corporations to do this, and charge by the bit. Wireless Plans, indeed.
Colocation? Bandwidth Problems? Hack because IPv4/6 lacks automatic caching of store and forward... And TCP is dumb.
Tell that to the 'illegals'...
Strange because the open driver for Intel GPU stuff on Linux stuff is pretty good... at least it works well, I mean.
Ooh! I know how this one turns out... Hint: IBM -1 char each = HAL
Yeah, let's only hear about the things YOU want to hear about.
Well, from Khyber's comment history, I would say that's hardware. He's pontificated over Monitors, both AMD and Intel CPUs & GPUs, some stuff about hydroponics, LEDs, etc.
Seems like Khyber just woke up on the hypocritical side of the bed today.
Tis better to link viewership, or lack thereof, to their choice in advertising than make the problem worse with adblock, fool.
I like this "Satan" guy. Anagram: Santa, who also stashes stuff to test kids faith in their parents... I bet Satan's fun as hell at parties. Now that you mention it, he probably came up with the lampshade trick too.
Want to know which is which? Just file right of way for an interstellar express way, and see which ones skedaddle.
classicla
You conjugated wrong.
Easy now, MightyYar, yon spell check be old as thar elusive whale ye hunt.
Ifn ye 40 million years tardy, grants not a right one to accost hapless landlubbers.
Bad Form.