No it doesn't. Give me a couple hundred dollars and I'll run down to radioshack and get enough parts to make you an always-on, fire proof, self charging GPS transponder that phones in its location every few minutes. Self-contained, inside an insulated box with 10 year batteries and you could glue it anywhere on the plane not accessible to passengers or crew while in flight. Make it charge via induction and viola, it's not even part of the planes induction system. Hell, you could do the entire thing with Arduino parts. I had to check to make sure they had a 2-way satellite link but sure enough they do. My creation would weigh under a pound and be extremely cheap... if I actually etched my own boards and what-not I could get it smaller than a cellphone. This is a very simple problem to solve.
(ok, radioshack doesn't have shit anymore... in reality I'd go to mouser)
Can you blame people for seeking alternative answers?
Yes. But then, unlike you, I'm dealing in facts rather than pulling nonsense out my my nether regions.
I see no facts in your post.:-p
Also, if you had a missing relative lost at sea, you might start dealing in lots of nonsense. Tragedy has that affect on people when they are left with little to no information about what's happening to them. Which was the point of my post.
I noticed my idiot bother-in-laws computer was sitting on a wide open wifi connection, no password, no encryption. Then I looked and the computer had no antivirus, UAC, the Firewall, everything was disabled. I pointed all this out to him and he said "I don't get viruses anymore." So I ran a standard on-line anti-virus product and he had hundreds of infections. I doubt he's done anything with it at all.
The authors of viruses make a profit off your infection by either displaying ads to you, or using your computer to host data or attacks. If they make what they are doing too obvious, you're going to do something about it. So it's in their best interest to make sure you don't notice it. Why fix something that's not bothering you? My brother-in-law has no idea the risks he's taking and likely thinks I'm dumb for bothering him with it. I suspect the majority of the people feel the same way.
Is just to cut the connection to those ISPs and see how long they will be around.
Level3 is not your friend. They are in contract negotiations with those 6 providers. This was a shot across the ISPs bow to try and get them to agree to Level3's terms. Level3 has been in bed with Netflix for years. There is no massive conspiracy to keep you from watching netflix. There is, however, a massive conspiracy to change whos pocket your money ends up in. This is a propaganda war between the ISPs, Level3 and Netflix and the ISPs are loosing.
So, just to make it clear up front... Level3 is a Tier1 provider. Basically they are an ISP to the consumer ISPs. This is how your ISP connects to the internet (that's an over simplification but it will serve our purposes here) There are other Tier1 networks that the ISPs can connect to.
The point to these peering agreements is that Netflix and other companies like them make agreements with the ISPs to elevate congestion. So Google (random example) goes to AT&T (another random example) and says "We want to sign a peering agreement with you. We'd like to use Level3 for 2 years." and if AT&T agrees they do the same. So now both companies know there will be 10gig of traffic coming at them for 2 years and they can sign a reciprocal contract with Level3. This is standard
What Netflix does that angers pretty much every ISP on the planet is that they refuse to negotiate on these agreements at all. Instead they show up and say "We're going to use Level3, and we're not going to tell you for how long. Here's a long list of conditions that may cause us to switch without notice" so the ISP is stuck not knowing how long of a contract to sign and end up losing a lot of money when Netflix switches without notice.
The Tier1 providers love this. There's nothing better if you're a network provider than a customer locked into a contract they can't get out of stuck paying for bandwidth they aren't using.
The ISPs in question are likely in negotiation with Level3 on contracts. Level3 has been using the Netflix situation to their advantage. I suspect that this blog post by their VP is just an attempt to push the issue and get them to sign deals more lucrative for level3.
Not saying the ISPs aren't sucking. But this guys words need to be taken with a grain of salt. He's not out trying to help the consumer.
Can you blame people for seeking alternative answers? Keep in mind, the agencies discrediting this company were the same agencies that didn't think it necessary to put a simple satellite GPS transponder on jets to keep track of where their quarter of a billion dollar plane is or put about $100 worth of batteries in their blackbox so it would ping for more than a few weeks. This entire mystery wouldn't exist if they'd spent an extra $1000 on a $261 million dollar piece of equipment. It's hard to discredit an idiot when you yourself are an idiot.
The way drones are currently employed in extrajudicial killing (a.k.a. murder), typically inside sovereign nations not at war with the US, is just as illegal when it targets US citizen as it is when it targets anybody else.
Not to mention the vast majority of drone victims who are not even suspected of anything but being in the wrong place at the wrong time.
This is a pretty reliable method of creating new terrorists.
Well, I don't want to defend the drone war. I don't think we should be involved in this at all. But to call this anything but war is a disservice to everyone involved. This is what war looks like. It IS murder. You can't be on an offensive military footing and not commit murder. Remember the children killed by hellfire missiles while attending a funeral the next time your congressman starts talking about defending this country. We voted to allow this. We've voted for Republicans and Democrats time and time again. They will keep doing this until we either throw them out of office or we make it clear they can't win elections anymore if they keep using war as a pretext to scare us into voting for them.
This is our fault. We need to take responsibility and stop blaming our inability to vote outside party lines on some mythical 1% or military industrial complex. If you don't like war, stop voting for the party of war. It's the one with D or R after the names on the ballot.
It's so nice to see a Republican actually care about someone who does not reside in a uterus, provided they have a valid US passport.
While I object to your attempt to make some sort of distinction between republicans and democrats (because that was your goal) I still need to point out that Rand Paul is about the most un-republican out there. Granted, he could be lying, he is a politician after all.
If you had a laptop sitting there, why the hell would you be typing in notes instead of recording the entire lecture to your drive?
Personally I dont get a damned thing from lectures. Some dude speaking at me while I have no real ability to stop and ask substantiative questions is pointless. Watching a video later, or on-line so I can pause to get me questions answered via google is the the next best thing to having a tutor or being an apprentice. I guess some peoples minds just work different.
No one really knows what went into the "concrete cube;" even the amount of concrete claimed to have been used is suspect, as it would form a volume larger than the sarcophagus
The core melted a hole through the ground deep enough to hit the water table where it exploded on contact with water, then caused a steam explosion that was so powerful some of the material hit the jet stream. The heat continued causing hydrogen build up and further hydrogen explosions.
They tried to pour molten lead into the cavity but that just boiled and caused the radioactive steam to also carry lead vapor as well, making it even more toxic. So they gave up and filled it in with concrete. No one has any idea how large the whole was, if there was a chamber at the bottom from the water reservoir or multiple explosions. I don't find it the least bit suspicious that the amount of concrete poured into a random unexplored hole in the midst of the greatest man made disaster in history might be a bit off.
"Truth was an early casualty."' Let's hope this new sarcophagus lasts longer."
Apparently sensationalism is still alive and well.
Electrical trumps mechanical? Electrical systems ARE mechanical systems. The problem wasn't the failure of the key, the problem was that if the ignition system turned off, all of the cars safety system would fail. That's an inherent design flaw that would be dangerous irrelevant of how you started the car. What happens if the alternator failed and the battery died on the interstate? The same damned thing. The car should still be operable without electricity. That's your problem.
Post Snowden? Can we stop blaming the one guy that did the right thing for uncovering the mountain of shit our government had piled up for itself? He didn't even release it all, a lot of the revelations have come from FOIA requests!
It'd would be like calling "Post Woodward, Nixon was impeached" That Woodward jerk! How could he do such a thing!
I'm fairly certain this "Post Snowden" line was written wholesale by the NSA. Way to perpetuate propaganda Slashdot.
Well, this isn't something Obama invented... It's just new to those that were young or uninvolved in the political process. Obama brought in a lot of new voters that could learn what the rest of us did years ago. It's fun to be disappointed by your political heroes for the first time.
How did that song go?
We wont be fooled again! *pause* New boss, same as the old boss.
So "The Who" figured it out 40 years ago, but we're still re-learning it every 8yrs.
I don't think it was lost on anyone. It's funny because it was an incredibly accurate description of the beginning of time from a document thats nearly 4000 years old, before they even know what stars, time or space were. The concept of "Formless and Void" are incredibly advanced topics for the time period it was written in. We had no concept of "Void" at the time.
And which major company is pushing OpenGL in schools? Providing training materials? Certifications?
It's easier for the same reasons Cisco stuff is. Yea, you can find people that know Juniper or something else, but how many are there? Limited resources are expensive. This is how Microsoft does business. It's a very smart plan.
Now you have companies like Google and Valve pushing open source so it's slowly changing.
The problem with OpenGL isn't speed or load times. Microsoft made directx so 3D programming in windows would be easier. It's just like C# or VBA. They made it much easier to use, and therefore much cheaper to hire for. If you're hiring people to write a new 3D engine using OpenGL you need people at the top of their field... If you're hiring for DirectX there are dozens of local tech colleges filled with mediocre talent that will fit the bill. Now, you could argue that you should be getting top talent anyways, but that's why you don't run a major game producers.
Ghostery does a great job of this already... However, the problem with these types of tools is they frequently break some type of (needed) functionality on the site.
7 caught on Slashdot right now.
The sites are designed that way intentionally. "What if they disable cookies? I know, make cookies required to stay logged in!" etc...
The whitehouse, and every other partisan group (congress, etc...) needs to shut up about it so we can separate this vary serious issue from politics. Let the scientists name it, and let the whitehouse stay the hell out of the debate unless absolutely necessary. The republicans can call it "Why fishing sucked this year" or "Why your corn futures lost money" and get their people behind addressing it as well. Obama comes forward and even mentions it... viola, 45% of the country opposes any action what-so-ever.
Yes, police have all that stuff. On the other hand, they don't give a shit about your iphone being stolen, and will likely never investigate.
Exactly. This problem is caused by the complete lack of action by police if the problem isn't drug related. The department knows how they get funds and that's by busting drug offenders. They get to keep a percentage of the spoils as well as bonuses per arrest. Drug arrests are very very easy. Busting a guy that stole a phone could take hours. Can't have that.
You need to understand that this application is trying to anticipate what you're trying to type before you type it. If you're at a stop&go and you start to type "I'm getting..." your next word might be Gas, Beer or robbed but it's probably not going to be "ready for work" that would be more likely if you were at home.
So by saying "regional dialects" they might mean far more specific regions than you're thinking and they just communicated it very poorly.
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Tact is like political correctness. Avoiding calling someone a dumb idiot doesn't make him any smarter.
But they sure as hell wont listen to reason when you reasoned argument begins with "Listen, you're an idiot for the following reasons..."
Linus needs to take this to heart as well.
No it doesn't. Give me a couple hundred dollars and I'll run down to radioshack and get enough parts to make you an always-on, fire proof, self charging GPS transponder that phones in its location every few minutes. Self-contained, inside an insulated box with 10 year batteries and you could glue it anywhere on the plane not accessible to passengers or crew while in flight. Make it charge via induction and viola, it's not even part of the planes induction system. Hell, you could do the entire thing with Arduino parts. I had to check to make sure they had a 2-way satellite link but sure enough they do. My creation would weigh under a pound and be extremely cheap... if I actually etched my own boards and what-not I could get it smaller than a cellphone. This is a very simple problem to solve.
(ok, radioshack doesn't have shit anymore... in reality I'd go to mouser)
Yes. But then, unlike you, I'm dealing in facts rather than pulling nonsense out my my nether regions.
I see no facts in your post. :-p
Also, if you had a missing relative lost at sea, you might start dealing in lots of nonsense. Tragedy has that affect on people when they are left with little to no information about what's happening to them. Which was the point of my post.
I noticed my idiot bother-in-laws computer was sitting on a wide open wifi connection, no password, no encryption. Then I looked and the computer had no antivirus, UAC, the Firewall, everything was disabled. I pointed all this out to him and he said "I don't get viruses anymore." So I ran a standard on-line anti-virus product and he had hundreds of infections. I doubt he's done anything with it at all.
The authors of viruses make a profit off your infection by either displaying ads to you, or using your computer to host data or attacks. If they make what they are doing too obvious, you're going to do something about it. So it's in their best interest to make sure you don't notice it. Why fix something that's not bothering you? My brother-in-law has no idea the risks he's taking and likely thinks I'm dumb for bothering him with it. I suspect the majority of the people feel the same way.
Is just to cut the connection to those ISPs and see how long they will be around.
Level3 is not your friend. They are in contract negotiations with those 6 providers. This was a shot across the ISPs bow to try and get them to agree to Level3's terms. Level3 has been in bed with Netflix for years. There is no massive conspiracy to keep you from watching netflix. There is, however, a massive conspiracy to change whos pocket your money ends up in. This is a propaganda war between the ISPs, Level3 and Netflix and the ISPs are loosing.
So, just to make it clear up front... Level3 is a Tier1 provider. Basically they are an ISP to the consumer ISPs. This is how your ISP connects to the internet (that's an over simplification but it will serve our purposes here) There are other Tier1 networks that the ISPs can connect to.
The point to these peering agreements is that Netflix and other companies like them make agreements with the ISPs to elevate congestion. So Google (random example) goes to AT&T (another random example) and says "We want to sign a peering agreement with you. We'd like to use Level3 for 2 years." and if AT&T agrees they do the same. So now both companies know there will be 10gig of traffic coming at them for 2 years and they can sign a reciprocal contract with Level3. This is standard
What Netflix does that angers pretty much every ISP on the planet is that they refuse to negotiate on these agreements at all. Instead they show up and say "We're going to use Level3, and we're not going to tell you for how long. Here's a long list of conditions that may cause us to switch without notice" so the ISP is stuck not knowing how long of a contract to sign and end up losing a lot of money when Netflix switches without notice.
The Tier1 providers love this. There's nothing better if you're a network provider than a customer locked into a contract they can't get out of stuck paying for bandwidth they aren't using.
The ISPs in question are likely in negotiation with Level3 on contracts. Level3 has been using the Netflix situation to their advantage. I suspect that this blog post by their VP is just an attempt to push the issue and get them to sign deals more lucrative for level3.
Not saying the ISPs aren't sucking. But this guys words need to be taken with a grain of salt. He's not out trying to help the consumer.
Can you blame people for seeking alternative answers? Keep in mind, the agencies discrediting this company were the same agencies that didn't think it necessary to put a simple satellite GPS transponder on jets to keep track of where their quarter of a billion dollar plane is or put about $100 worth of batteries in their blackbox so it would ping for more than a few weeks. This entire mystery wouldn't exist if they'd spent an extra $1000 on a $261 million dollar piece of equipment. It's hard to discredit an idiot when you yourself are an idiot.
The way drones are currently employed in extrajudicial killing (a.k.a. murder), typically inside sovereign nations not at war with the US, is just as illegal when it targets US citizen as it is when it targets anybody else.
Not to mention the vast majority of drone victims who are not even suspected of anything but being in the wrong place at the wrong time.
This is a pretty reliable method of creating new terrorists.
Well, I don't want to defend the drone war. I don't think we should be involved in this at all. But to call this anything but war is a disservice to everyone involved. This is what war looks like. It IS murder. You can't be on an offensive military footing and not commit murder. Remember the children killed by hellfire missiles while attending a funeral the next time your congressman starts talking about defending this country. We voted to allow this. We've voted for Republicans and Democrats time and time again. They will keep doing this until we either throw them out of office or we make it clear they can't win elections anymore if they keep using war as a pretext to scare us into voting for them.
This is our fault. We need to take responsibility and stop blaming our inability to vote outside party lines on some mythical 1% or military industrial complex. If you don't like war, stop voting for the party of war. It's the one with D or R after the names on the ballot.
It's so nice to see a Republican actually care about someone who does not reside in a uterus, provided they have a valid US passport.
While I object to your attempt to make some sort of distinction between republicans and democrats (because that was your goal) I still need to point out that Rand Paul is about the most un-republican out there. Granted, he could be lying, he is a politician after all.
Wait a minute... did a senator just object to a judicial nomination for an actually valid reason?
If you had a laptop sitting there, why the hell would you be typing in notes instead of recording the entire lecture to your drive?
Personally I dont get a damned thing from lectures. Some dude speaking at me while I have no real ability to stop and ask substantiative questions is pointless. Watching a video later, or on-line so I can pause to get me questions answered via google is the the next best thing to having a tutor or being an apprentice. I guess some peoples minds just work different.
I'll have to try that in my Chevy Volt. Thanks!
I hope the feds paid for insurance. Otherwise all they're getting is $100. No exceptions, no matter what, I was told.
No one really knows what went into the "concrete cube;" even the amount of concrete claimed to have been used is suspect, as it would form a volume larger than the sarcophagus
The core melted a hole through the ground deep enough to hit the water table where it exploded on contact with water, then caused a steam explosion that was so powerful some of the material hit the jet stream. The heat continued causing hydrogen build up and further hydrogen explosions.
They tried to pour molten lead into the cavity but that just boiled and caused the radioactive steam to also carry lead vapor as well, making it even more toxic. So they gave up and filled it in with concrete. No one has any idea how large the whole was, if there was a chamber at the bottom from the water reservoir or multiple explosions. I don't find it the least bit suspicious that the amount of concrete poured into a random unexplored hole in the midst of the greatest man made disaster in history might be a bit off.
"Truth was an early casualty."' Let's hope this new sarcophagus lasts longer."
Apparently sensationalism is still alive and well.
More importantly, is there anyone who couldn't be classified as a terrorist?
Electrical trumps mechanical? Electrical systems ARE mechanical systems. The problem wasn't the failure of the key, the problem was that if the ignition system turned off, all of the cars safety system would fail. That's an inherent design flaw that would be dangerous irrelevant of how you started the car. What happens if the alternator failed and the battery died on the interstate? The same damned thing. The car should still be operable without electricity. That's your problem.
Post Snowden? Can we stop blaming the one guy that did the right thing for uncovering the mountain of shit our government had piled up for itself? He didn't even release it all, a lot of the revelations have come from FOIA requests!
It'd would be like calling "Post Woodward, Nixon was impeached" That Woodward jerk! How could he do such a thing!
I'm fairly certain this "Post Snowden" line was written wholesale by the NSA. Way to perpetuate propaganda Slashdot.
Well, this isn't something Obama invented... It's just new to those that were young or uninvolved in the political process. Obama brought in a lot of new voters that could learn what the rest of us did years ago. It's fun to be disappointed by your political heroes for the first time.
How did that song go?
We wont be fooled again!
*pause*
New boss, same as the old boss.
So "The Who" figured it out 40 years ago, but we're still re-learning it every 8yrs.
I don't think it was lost on anyone. It's funny because it was an incredibly accurate description of the beginning of time from a document thats nearly 4000 years old, before they even know what stars, time or space were. The concept of "Formless and Void" are incredibly advanced topics for the time period it was written in. We had no concept of "Void" at the time.
And which major company is pushing OpenGL in schools? Providing training materials? Certifications?
It's easier for the same reasons Cisco stuff is. Yea, you can find people that know Juniper or something else, but how many are there? Limited resources are expensive. This is how Microsoft does business. It's a very smart plan.
Now you have companies like Google and Valve pushing open source so it's slowly changing.
The problem with OpenGL isn't speed or load times. Microsoft made directx so 3D programming in windows would be easier. It's just like C# or VBA. They made it much easier to use, and therefore much cheaper to hire for. If you're hiring people to write a new 3D engine using OpenGL you need people at the top of their field... If you're hiring for DirectX there are dozens of local tech colleges filled with mediocre talent that will fit the bill. Now, you could argue that you should be getting top talent anyways, but that's why you don't run a major game producers.
Ghostery does a great job of this already... However, the problem with these types of tools is they frequently break some type of (needed) functionality on the site.
7 caught on Slashdot right now.
The sites are designed that way intentionally. "What if they disable cookies? I know, make cookies required to stay logged in!" etc...
The whitehouse, and every other partisan group (congress, etc...) needs to shut up about it so we can separate this vary serious issue from politics. Let the scientists name it, and let the whitehouse stay the hell out of the debate unless absolutely necessary. The republicans can call it "Why fishing sucked this year" or "Why your corn futures lost money" and get their people behind addressing it as well. Obama comes forward and even mentions it... viola, 45% of the country opposes any action what-so-ever.
Yes, police have all that stuff. On the other hand, they don't give a shit about your iphone being stolen, and will likely never investigate.
Exactly. This problem is caused by the complete lack of action by police if the problem isn't drug related. The department knows how they get funds and that's by busting drug offenders. They get to keep a percentage of the spoils as well as bonuses per arrest. Drug arrests are very very easy. Busting a guy that stole a phone could take hours. Can't have that.
You need to understand that this application is trying to anticipate what you're trying to type before you type it. If you're at a stop&go and you start to type "I'm getting..." your next word might be Gas, Beer or robbed but it's probably not going to be "ready for work" that would be more likely if you were at home.
So by saying "regional dialects" they might mean far more specific regions than you're thinking and they just communicated it very poorly.