I didn't know something like that existed. According to 'whois', it's NAT64 related (which I also didn't know existed), but I can't find any documentation for the 2001:778::/24 prefix with Google.
So many of our laws, regulatory frameworks and economic system are based around the idea that manufacturing is capital intensive and requires centralization. Once this stops being true, even a little, it throws everything into complete disarray. Seriously. As a random example, how can the FDA regulate drugs if you can easily manufacture arbitrary molecules at home?
The idea that manufacturing isn't capital intensive requires a radical rethinking of the structure of our society.
That's my take on things. Secure boot, at this moment is 'do a deal with the devil or give up on being on those systems'.
I have no idea how Microsoft ended up being in the position to dictate this state of affairs, and hardware manufacturers should be ashamed of themselves. The law should be that you have the keys to your own hardware.
Maybe someone will sue over it and reverse it that way.
But I don't think of RedHat or Canonical as doing something evil over this, just trying to survive.
This is really badly written. It's missing several obvious and important pieces of data.
For example, what was the experiment they did in which they damaged diamond? The way it's described “Our study shows that M-carbon is extremely incompressible and hard, rivaling the extreme properties of diamond so much that it damages diamond,”, it sounds like the very existence of the material damages all diamond everywhere.
And what the heck is the crystal structure anyway? I know what the atomic arrangement of graphite is, and I know what the atomic arrangement of diamond is, but what the heck is 'M-Carbon'? How are the atoms arranged there? The article gives no clue.
And lastly, the article hints that after M-Carbon (whatever that is) has been created with extreme pressure, it stays that way even after the pressure is released. But it doesn't outright actually say it anywhere. Does it?
Three important and obvious questions that the article totally fails to address. All the while tossing around fluff data that's vaguely interesting, but ultimately not important, or tantalizing hints at important things, but no followup. It's annoying. The writer responsible for this piece ought to be given some obnoxious and menial task and then let out to re-write the piece periodically, repeating until it's actually halfway decent.
I think Microsoft was the greater beneficiary in that transaction than Nokia. So I think you're mistaken about who gave who a chance.
Otherwise, I mostly agree with your assessment. I would add that Nokia had a program to create a decent smart phone that seemed to have suffered from really poor management. It's one of the many failed software projects in the world, and I expect that if you look into it you will find that it's a classic software project failure.
This is a great question, and I wish it had been modded higher. It's related to my question, but I didn't work the 'ether' angle in. Though quantum mechanics already has a kind of ether in the concept of space being foamy (particles popping into existence only to immediately disappear all the time in the midst of otherwise empty space). This just extends that ether so that mass exists as a consequence of it instead of just charge.
The Higgs boson is famously associated with how particles acquire a 'mass'. But mass is, in itself, an interesting property. As I understand it, the Higgs boson is only associated with inertial mass. If this is so, do you expect gravitational mass and inertial mass to be always the same? If so, would you speculate on the mechanism that ensures this is true?
I originally had the person as a 'foe' because (s)he really irritated me at least once in the past. This cogent and well-thought out post made me re-think that decision, and in so doing I reviewed h(is/er) posting history.
This is my personal opinion. I am the valid arbiter of my own opinion. And I'm also a valid arbiter of whether or not someone is a friend or foe. I, personally, like knowing why someone friends or foes me, though I can often figure it out from context. So I figured I'd return the favor.
Perhaps softening words like 'seems' would've helped to make it clear that I did not really intend the post as a judgment from on high.
BTW, as a total off-topic aside, I've reviewed your posting history and you are never in the mood to be charitable. Fortunately, you frequently make decent points, even if you don't acknowledge that you're wrong when you are.
You're discounting the risk associated with traveling by car. Though, of course, that risk isn't nearly as huge on the wilds of the Interstate as when you're close to a city. But it's definitely greater than traveling by train.
Also, I've gotten tons of useful work done on train trips. There is no way that's happening in a car if you're paying enough attention to drive safely.
Thanks for this.:-/ It's an unhappy set of facts, but I think it's an accurate reading.
I had hoped that Hans would give up on the self-justifications. It seemed like his over-inflated ego collapsed when he admitted to the murder, but it seems back in full-force now.:-(
He's the judge that really adroitly handled the Microsoft antitrust trial, then flubbed it by speaking to the press about the trial before it was over. That gave Microsoft the grounds for an appeal (and subsequent 'slap on the wrist' punishment) based on him 'not being impartial'. Which was bunk, but his mistake gave the appearance, and that was enough.
But, overall, I've seen his name come up a few times, and I've been generally pretty pleased with how he's handled cases.
The fact that none of this bothers anyone is fairly indicative that it doesn't matter if the system is broken. Nobody cares enough to do anything about it, so the system has failed, allowing for the fraud to occur.
I agree with this. I think it's more a matter of people not really believing that voting actually does much. A sentiment I can understand. Mostly I just keep hoping to try to make the decline happen at a reasonable pace.:-(
We've had issues with robocalls and funding irregularities in Canada, but not, as far as I am aware, any significant credible allegations of ballot or vote fraud.
Yeah, I felt a little bad about mentioning Canada because I know this is true.
But robocalling people from the other party in an attempt to get them to stay home is really bad. I'm really surprised there aren't riots demanding that the elections be redone over that.
It's because whenever I see an article about these problems cropping up, about 9 times out of 10 it's the Republicans who are favored. Now, it could be article bias, but I don't think so. There are many interesting links as well. Diebold's CEO promising to deliver votes to the Republicans is one. But there are others.
Democrats make certain kinds of back room deals with certain businesses. The entertainment industry (for example) is a big one. But Republicans make certain kinds of back room deals with certain other kinds of businesses. The voting machine industry deals feels more Republican to me. Mostly local deals not directly involving the creation of new laws. Democrats tend towards larger scale things that are directly related to political issues.
Neither are the Democrats. I really dislike both parties. And I find Obama to be a very disappointing president, though not for the reasons most Republicans complain about. He has an absolutely abysmal track record on civil liberties. Secret drone extra-judicial assassinations are only the half of it.
There have been a whole lot of election shenanigans in this country and in Canada. And while I don't doubt both parties have done this sort of thing, and do this sort of thing, it seems to be the Republicans who've been the biggest culprits these past 10 years or so.
No, I'm happy to openly bash them repeatedly for making a choice that sucks. Yes, it's their choice to make. If I didn't think that, I would be advocating they be sued to force them to make a different choice. Otherwise, I'm expressing my opinion of their awful and stupid choice. And I should be perfectly free to do that. It's not like freedom is a one-way street here.
Multiple monitors works much better for me with nouveau than with the Nvidia binary blob drivers. As in, it just plain old worked perfectly right out of the box, and completely fails to work with the binary blob drivers. So, I gave up on the blob driver's for my work machine. I don't care about playing games on it anyway, and it's plenty fast for the desktop things I do.
Do you really want to carry around a bunch of gold in your pocket all the time? Do you think it'll be fun to split it up so you can hand someone a penny's worth of gold?
And what do you suppose the finances of insurance look like? It's not like the money appears out of thin air or anything. Sure, the insurance company will pay out when someplace is robbed, but that just means that all your transactions with them are more expensive. You pay for that reduced risk.
If you think bitcoin brokers should be insured, go ahead and start one that is and see if people think the risk reduction is worth the price you pay.
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I didn't know something like that existed. According to 'whois', it's NAT64 related (which I also didn't know existed), but I can't find any documentation for the 2001:778::/24 prefix with Google.
I agree. I've been disappointed in Slashdot over this for years. I've had a publicly routable IPv6 address since 2002 or so. :-)
So many of our laws, regulatory frameworks and economic system are based around the idea that manufacturing is capital intensive and requires centralization. Once this stops being true, even a little, it throws everything into complete disarray. Seriously. As a random example, how can the FDA regulate drugs if you can easily manufacture arbitrary molecules at home?
The idea that manufacturing isn't capital intensive requires a radical rethinking of the structure of our society.
That's my take on things. Secure boot, at this moment is 'do a deal with the devil or give up on being on those systems'.
I have no idea how Microsoft ended up being in the position to dictate this state of affairs, and hardware manufacturers should be ashamed of themselves. The law should be that you have the keys to your own hardware.
Maybe someone will sue over it and reverse it that way.
But I don't think of RedHat or Canonical as doing something evil over this, just trying to survive.
Oh, that is pretty interesting to know. I wonder if they could make m-carbon-anvil presses. :-)
This is really badly written. It's missing several obvious and important pieces of data.
For example, what was the experiment they did in which they damaged diamond? The way it's described “Our study shows that M-carbon is extremely incompressible and hard, rivaling the extreme properties of diamond so much that it damages diamond,”, it sounds like the very existence of the material damages all diamond everywhere.
And what the heck is the crystal structure anyway? I know what the atomic arrangement of graphite is, and I know what the atomic arrangement of diamond is, but what the heck is 'M-Carbon'? How are the atoms arranged there? The article gives no clue.
And lastly, the article hints that after M-Carbon (whatever that is) has been created with extreme pressure, it stays that way even after the pressure is released. But it doesn't outright actually say it anywhere. Does it?
Three important and obvious questions that the article totally fails to address. All the while tossing around fluff data that's vaguely interesting, but ultimately not important, or tantalizing hints at important things, but no followup. It's annoying. The writer responsible for this piece ought to be given some obnoxious and menial task and then let out to re-write the piece periodically, repeating until it's actually halfway decent.
I think Microsoft was the greater beneficiary in that transaction than Nokia. So I think you're mistaken about who gave who a chance.
Otherwise, I mostly agree with your assessment. I would add that Nokia had a program to create a decent smart phone that seemed to have suffered from really poor management. It's one of the many failed software projects in the world, and I expect that if you look into it you will find that it's a classic software project failure.
This is a great question, and I wish it had been modded higher. It's related to my question, but I didn't work the 'ether' angle in. Though quantum mechanics already has a kind of ether in the concept of space being foamy (particles popping into existence only to immediately disappear all the time in the midst of otherwise empty space). This just extends that ether so that mass exists as a consequence of it instead of just charge.
The Higgs boson is famously associated with how particles acquire a 'mass'. But mass is, in itself, an interesting property. As I understand it, the Higgs boson is only associated with inertial mass. If this is so, do you expect gravitational mass and inertial mass to be always the same? If so, would you speculate on the mechanism that ensures this is true?
I originally had the person as a 'foe' because (s)he really irritated me at least once in the past. This cogent and well-thought out post made me re-think that decision, and in so doing I reviewed h(is/er) posting history.
This is my personal opinion. I am the valid arbiter of my own opinion. And I'm also a valid arbiter of whether or not someone is a friend or foe. I, personally, like knowing why someone friends or foes me, though I can often figure it out from context. So I figured I'd return the favor.
Perhaps softening words like 'seems' would've helped to make it clear that I did not really intend the post as a judgment from on high.
BTW, as a total off-topic aside, I've reviewed your posting history and you are never in the mood to be charitable. Fortunately, you frequently make decent points, even if you don't acknowledge that you're wrong when you are.
You're discounting the risk associated with traveling by car. Though, of course, that risk isn't nearly as huge on the wilds of the Interstate as when you're close to a city. But it's definitely greater than traveling by train.
Also, I've gotten tons of useful work done on train trips. There is no way that's happening in a car if you're paying enough attention to drive safely.
Thanks for this. :-/ It's an unhappy set of facts, but I think it's an accurate reading.
I had hoped that Hans would give up on the self-justifications. It seemed like his over-inflated ego collapsed when he admitted to the murder, but it seems back in full-force now. :-(
Bother! *sigh* I should've looked it up to make sure first. :-(
See this comment along the same lines.
Bother! *sigh* I should've looked it up to make sure first. :-(
He's the judge that really adroitly handled the Microsoft antitrust trial, then flubbed it by speaking to the press about the trial before it was over. That gave Microsoft the grounds for an appeal (and subsequent 'slap on the wrist' punishment) based on him 'not being impartial'. Which was bunk, but his mistake gave the appearance, and that was enough.
But, overall, I've seen his name come up a few times, and I've been generally pretty pleased with how he's handled cases.
The fact that none of this bothers anyone is fairly indicative that it doesn't matter if the system is broken. Nobody cares enough to do anything about it, so the system has failed, allowing for the fraud to occur.
I agree with this. I think it's more a matter of people not really believing that voting actually does much. A sentiment I can understand. Mostly I just keep hoping to try to make the decline happen at a reasonable pace. :-(
We've had issues with robocalls and funding irregularities in Canada, but not, as far as I am aware, any significant credible allegations of ballot or vote fraud.
Yeah, I felt a little bad about mentioning Canada because I know this is true.
But robocalling people from the other party in an attempt to get them to stay home is really bad. I'm really surprised there aren't riots demanding that the elections be redone over that.
It's because whenever I see an article about these problems cropping up, about 9 times out of 10 it's the Republicans who are favored. Now, it could be article bias, but I don't think so. There are many interesting links as well. Diebold's CEO promising to deliver votes to the Republicans is one. But there are others.
Democrats make certain kinds of back room deals with certain businesses. The entertainment industry (for example) is a big one. But Republicans make certain kinds of back room deals with certain other kinds of businesses. The voting machine industry deals feels more Republican to me. Mostly local deals not directly involving the creation of new laws. Democrats tend towards larger scale things that are directly related to political issues.
Neither are the Democrats. I really dislike both parties. And I find Obama to be a very disappointing president, though not for the reasons most Republicans complain about. He has an absolutely abysmal track record on civil liberties. Secret drone extra-judicial assassinations are only the half of it.
There have been a whole lot of election shenanigans in this country and in Canada. And while I don't doubt both parties have done this sort of thing, and do this sort of thing, it seems to be the Republicans who've been the biggest culprits these past 10 years or so.
Personally, I really like the anonymous electronic voting systems based on David Chaum's digital cash work. They look like they might be independently verifiable by third parties and anonymous at the same time.
No, I'm happy to openly bash them repeatedly for making a choice that sucks. Yes, it's their choice to make. If I didn't think that, I would be advocating they be sued to force them to make a different choice. Otherwise, I'm expressing my opinion of their awful and stupid choice. And I should be perfectly free to do that. It's not like freedom is a one-way street here.
Multiple monitors works much better for me with nouveau than with the Nvidia binary blob drivers. As in, it just plain old worked perfectly right out of the box, and completely fails to work with the binary blob drivers. So, I gave up on the blob driver's for my work machine. I don't care about playing games on it anyway, and it's plenty fast for the desktop things I do.
Do you really want to carry around a bunch of gold in your pocket all the time? Do you think it'll be fun to split it up so you can hand someone a penny's worth of gold?
And what do you suppose the finances of insurance look like? It's not like the money appears out of thin air or anything. Sure, the insurance company will pay out when someplace is robbed, but that just means that all your transactions with them are more expensive. You pay for that reduced risk.
If you think bitcoin brokers should be insured, go ahead and start one that is and see if people think the risk reduction is worth the price you pay.