The desire, *and* the resources. I may want an indoor pool, but if I can't afford it, and neither can anyone else, there's no indoor pool market.
That's why an economy that's constantly drained of its money, withers. Once we fix the forces draining ours, employment won't be the issue it is today. That's why I love Ratigan's classic rant: https://www.youtube.com/watch?... He outlines the problem well. Not perfectly, but well.
This idea is basically a super-simple hashing algorithm, which are commonly used to turn big hard problems into smaller easier ones.
I see no arguments against this guy's ideas, just ad-hominem attacks and people being insulted that someone try and come up with new solutions to old problems. Don't be that guy. If it won't work, explain why.
"I'm not accepting any patches until you fix your bugs" is hardly suspending someone, it's re-focusing them. This is an important part in any software project, and Linus is doing it well here. There's no ambiguity or hyperbole, just straightforward communication identifying issues and prompting action to correct them.
"Start fixing your shit" isn't even remotely the same thing as "stop doing things".
I have a full Windows 7 PC hooked up to my TV and the embarrassing thing is that the PC is quite bad at playing video. Almost no media players adjust the output's timing to match the video being played which leads to tearing and stuttering when playing video where the frame rate doesn't match the default refresh rate on your monitor. You find yourself either constantly manually tuning refresh rates, or living with broken inferior video output. The only player I've found that handles this issue properly is the one in Plex Home Theater.
Another thing which is rather silly is that it can't act as a Chromecast server, even though it has chrome, a network connection, and a massive cpu and ram. This seems like something that it would be relatively trivial for Google to create, and would make chromecasting much more convenient because I would reduce the number of times I have to switch inputs to get chromecasting to work.
I've gotten x-box 360 controllers and setup emulators. I've done quite a bit of messing around, and in the end I've found the PC to be quite bad at being a TV media device.
I like the idea of Android rebuilt to be controlled from a remote and running my TV, but I don't like the idea of another Amazon based walled garden. Also, I see this as unfortunate competition for SteamOS, which seems like a much more robust and open platform for solving this problem, and I'd like to see it win instead, but the low price of this offering and Amazon's muscle will make that a lot harder now.
I've long thought the government should buy out/launch their own free-to-use satellite tv service and treat broadcasting on it like OTA broadcasts. Disallow any two channels to be owned by the same company and poof: the era of crappy tv funded by annoying commercials returns.
This is, and has long been, a huge ripoff. I'm rather sure that Walmart doesn't pay the full 3% that Visa/MasterCard like to charge for transactions, but when you look at the overhead of transactions in the cryptocurrency markets, you can see how ridiculously overpriced the credit card transactions are. The costs here are near 0, and so should the charges be, but the system is carefully crafted to avoid competition, and that's illegal.
XBox has long been known as the most potent example of the Greater Internet Fuckwad Theory. Adding a bit of accountability for being a horrible person is overdue.
My backup strategy is to keep the old drives from my previous array and put them into a second server, then back up to it weekly. I use a linux software raid 5 setup for backup, with the drives powered off unless the backup is running. I have a script that spins them up, starts up the raid, mounts the filesystem, performs the backup using rsync, then unmounts and powers down the drives. I only can back up about 1/3rd of my main array, so I have to be choosy, but a large amount of what I have stored is replaceable non-original content that I'm content to simply have one raided copy of, so I just exclude the right folders and I'm good.
The servers are currently in the same room, which makes me uncomfortable, so I've long considered creating a mini-server for a relative and setting it up in their home as an offline backup. Using a commercial service would probably make more sense, but I'm not sure I'm comfortable with that yet.
Another thing I'm considering for my next setup is using ZFS for the backup filesystem and keeping snapshots as long as I can for a combination backup/version control. I'm interested in how efficient that would be with vm disk images where the file changes every time, but only small parts of it. Would it detect the unchanging portions, even if rsync re-writes parts that didn't change, or would that cause duplicated space usage? Does anyone have experience with this?
This was probably just a negative cache entry. Someone on Comcast (possibly you) probably tried to look up helpmatt.org before it was propogated to all the root servers, and 75.75.75.75 got a lookup failure and cached it. Negative caching is part of proper DNS operation and it can last a while. DNS is full of delays like this.
helpmatt.org has address 192.155.89.14 helpmatt.org mail is handled by 20 alt1.aspmx.l.google.com. helpmatt.org mail is handled by 30 aspmx3.googlemail.com. helpmatt.org mail is handled by 30 aspmx2.googlemail.com. helpmatt.org mail is handled by 20 alt2.aspmx.l.google.com. helpmatt.org mail is handled by 10 aspmx.l.google.com.
People who claim modern currency is baseless don't understand economics. Modern currency is backed by *everything*. Gold, Real Estate, Cars, Businesses. Everything that is used for collateral against a loan becomes backing for our currency. Crypto-currency is based on scarcity like gold was, and thus makes a terrible general purpose currency because it's vulnerable to manipulations, and rigidity that make it easy for bankers and insiders rob everyone. The modern form of debt backed currency is the most flexible and least vulnerable to manipulation there has ever been. Our advanced modern currency has weathered the pressures of the current economic stresses extremely well, and dramatically lessened the impact of the current problems with our economy. If you want to look at what things where like with a scarcity backed currency, look at the economics of the US pre 1913. It's full of horror stories like the panic of 1893 and 1873, and even some events where bankers conspired to not give out loans to anyone to buy up houses cheap and re-sell them for a profit once they all agreed to give out mortgages again.
My previous company did this and I was never comfortable with it. I did not have their certificates loaded, so it prevented me from talking through their proxy when they tried to intercept my traffic. The only connections I saw it attack this way were to google. I did try both of my bank's web sites and the certificates used there were original so the traffic there was not intercepted. That made me feel a bit better, but I'm not all that comfortable with my employer having access to the passwords I use outside the company.
This company was extremely security paranoid after a widely publicised hack hurt their reputation badly, so I understand the actions, and they're probably on legally solid ground, but a piece of me still considers this hacking and unlawful, and another part of me considers the fact that you can silently hack SSL this way a HUGE hole in security.
The fact that I have to trust that my employer isn't sniffing my banking passwords tells me SSL isn't doing it's job.
The weather doesn't pay to inform people as to what it will be like in the next few days. Why should we expect political candidates to pay to inform us? I can't imagine a system less likely to get the right person into the job.
Money in politics isn't the problem, it's that money is what determines who wins. If someone spends a fortune running for office, but a broke, mild mannered person who does no fundraising, but happens to be a great choice for the job happens to win instead, then we've fixed the system.
I expect the fix would require a lot of trust-based information gathering and distribution, where people put a lot of thought and effort into objectively determining candidates suitability for the job, and then those results are disseminated to people who seek it out and can then make better informed decisions. Political journalism used to fill this need, but it has devolved into parroting press releases full of spin, and is worse than useless now. I think we need a new system of evaluating candidates, and there's a ton of ways it can be done, but at it's core there should be the goal of counteracting the corrupting force of money and allowing the best person for the job to get it.
Microsoft's keyboards last 1-2 years for me before I start having to press a bit harder on the keys to make them trigger, and that's not good for you. I did them for years, but I've decided I'm switching to mechanical switch keyboards (Cherry MX Brown based) since the prices are coming down and they have become popular as "gaming" keyboards which makes them a lot easier to find in different configurations. I have a few CM Storm ones I like, but I'm eyeing a Logitech backlit one too. It should end up cheaper in the long-run, since I was replacing the old ones so often, and these are much nicer to type on.
Messing with keyboard layouts is not something to be taken lightly. Just like you wouldn't reverse the break and gas pedals on a car, moving keys around on the keyboard should not be done trivially. That said, the caps lock key is in one of the most easily accessible locations on the keyboard, and its one of the keys we use the least. It should be moved, and replaced with one we use more often. Personally, I'd like to see a new modifier key here. One thing I have done in the past, is to re-map my caps lock key to alt, which can be done with a Windows registry setting. This makes using key combinations much easier, which is nice when you're playing WoW and need as many keyboard shortcuts as you can get.
This is a problem, but this isn't unemployment, it's not shrinking real wages, it's not long term recession, and it's a problem that has existed since technology began. Job elimination has a temporary downside and a permanent upside. This is well known. The entire unemployment benefits system is designed to mitigate the downsides of this because that downside is well understood. So should we all become luddites? Of course not. The problem here isn't that the job was eliminated, but that high paying replacement jobs aren't available. This economy is what needs to be fixed, not progress that leads to job elimination.
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This definitely *is* the goal, and people who imagine automation destroying lives and healthy job prospects don't understand economics. This is a symptom, not a cause. You don't blame the firemen for the fire, and you don't blame automation for unemployment, despite the obvious correlation between the two.
This should be obvious, since if you take away technology's elimination of jobs from human development, we're all living like cavemen, all working hard, but all working on food, shelter and clothing, and still starving to death and dying from exposure and all the jobs and lives we have now wouldn't be possible. Technology eliminating jobs is as old as technology itself, and it's part of the most important good an economy can bring to our lives. The mistake that's being made here is equating unemployment with job elimination. They're not the same thing, and they have vastly different causes and effects. Job elimination is progress, is good for economies and people, and is caused by technological advancement. Unemployment, is bad for economies and people, and it's causes are economic and political. Technological advancement aids by providing the constant elimination of jobs, but under a properly functioning economy jobs that are eliminated inevitably result in others being created. Technology can no more cause unemployment than bringing water home from the beach and flushing it down the toilet can lower sea level. To think it can is to not understand the whole picture of how things are connected.
Our current problem is that our economy is being operated extractively, allowing people to make money from owning things instead of working. This is breaks economies and destroys jobs, and is bad for people who have to work for a living. Our problem is an economic one, not a technological one, and it's relatively easily fixable, but the fix requires the political will to take wealth and power from the wealthy and powerful, and that's not something that comes about easily.
Anything can be an archival medium, it's just a question of if it's good at it. Fash has been in large-scale use for 20 years now. It became the primary way computers stored their BIOS back in 95 so I think we have a fairly good understanding of it's long-term storage characteristics. Optical won't die today, and I expect the market to stay strong for 5 or 10 years, but in 20, it will be all but gone.
Optical has had a good run, but I'm betting that in 2037, optical will be dying or dead.
There's a lot of theoretical improvements left in optical disk technology, but they're unlikely to become common or cheap. I see possibly one generation after Blu-ray before the consumer standards stop and the access to cheap technology to drive advancements in optical storage disappears. Spinning disk is largely thought of as the primary competitor, but what's going to give optical the biggest headache is flash.
Flash storage's non-existent power requirements, extremely high density, naturally long read-only lifespan, re-usability, and flexible expansion options make it poised to take over the world of archival storage if it can come anywhere near cost-parity. My bet is that it will make it.
Nuclear is the most dangerous way to generate power.. except all the other ways.
People get all freaked out about how dangerous nuclear power generation can be, and ignore how dangerous all the other forms of power generation *actually are*. They get upset at the potential for long-term damage to the environment but ignore the massive ecological devastation that coal and oil and natural gas are constantly doing to the world. Look at Deepwater Horizon for example. Oil will be fouling and poisoning the gulf for an extremely long time, and the chemicals used in the cleanup will likely reduce the lifespan of the people who helped in the cleanup dramatically. When you look at the damage caused to people and to the environment of power generation objectively, nuclear is by far the safest and least damaging option, even factoring Fukishima and Chernobyl which represent risks that are unlikely to cause problems in the future.
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Natural resources provide squishy, easy to overcome limits. In reality, most of what limits our economy are flaws in how we implement capitalism.
> Jobs are determined by us wanting to do things.
The desire, *and* the resources. I may want an indoor pool, but if I can't afford it, and neither can anyone else, there's no indoor pool market.
That's why an economy that's constantly drained of its money, withers. Once we fix the forces draining ours, employment won't be the issue it is today. That's why I love Ratigan's classic rant: https://www.youtube.com/watch?... He outlines the problem well. Not perfectly, but well.
There isn't that much coding work in the world. High demand is not infinite demand.
* Ad supported
* Pay to win
* Microtransactions
* Completely free
They should change the "Free" button where the cost usually would be to one of these.
This information is important to to know up front and I should be able to filter out "pay to win" because screw that.
This idea is basically a super-simple hashing algorithm, which are commonly used to turn big hard problems into smaller easier ones.
I see no arguments against this guy's ideas, just ad-hominem attacks and people being insulted that someone try and come up with new solutions to old problems. Don't be that guy. If it won't work, explain why.
"I'm not accepting any patches until you fix your bugs" is hardly suspending someone, it's re-focusing them. This is an important part in any software project, and Linus is doing it well here. There's no ambiguity or hyperbole, just straightforward communication identifying issues and prompting action to correct them.
"Start fixing your shit" isn't even remotely the same thing as "stop doing things".
I have a full Windows 7 PC hooked up to my TV and the embarrassing thing is that the PC is quite bad at playing video. Almost no media players adjust the output's timing to match the video being played which leads to tearing and stuttering when playing video where the frame rate doesn't match the default refresh rate on your monitor. You find yourself either constantly manually tuning refresh rates, or living with broken inferior video output. The only player I've found that handles this issue properly is the one in Plex Home Theater.
Another thing which is rather silly is that it can't act as a Chromecast server, even though it has chrome, a network connection, and a massive cpu and ram. This seems like something that it would be relatively trivial for Google to create, and would make chromecasting much more convenient because I would reduce the number of times I have to switch inputs to get chromecasting to work.
I've gotten x-box 360 controllers and setup emulators. I've done quite a bit of messing around, and in the end I've found the PC to be quite bad at being a TV media device.
I like the idea of Android rebuilt to be controlled from a remote and running my TV, but I don't like the idea of another Amazon based walled garden. Also, I see this as unfortunate competition for SteamOS, which seems like a much more robust and open platform for solving this problem, and I'd like to see it win instead, but the low price of this offering and Amazon's muscle will make that a lot harder now.
I've long thought the government should buy out/launch their own free-to-use satellite tv service and treat broadcasting on it like OTA broadcasts. Disallow any two channels to be owned by the same company and poof: the era of crappy tv funded by annoying commercials returns.
This is, and has long been, a huge ripoff. I'm rather sure that Walmart doesn't pay the full 3% that Visa/MasterCard like to charge for transactions, but when you look at the overhead of transactions in the cryptocurrency markets, you can see how ridiculously overpriced the credit card transactions are. The costs here are near 0, and so should the charges be, but the system is carefully crafted to avoid competition, and that's illegal.
XBox has long been known as the most potent example of the Greater Internet Fuckwad Theory. Adding a bit of accountability for being a horrible person is overdue.
Nothing qualifies for your definition.
> some central bankers could agree to create ex nihilo enough money to give a billion USD to every bank account in the world.
This shows that you don't understand how our banking or money system works. This is possible with fiat currency, but not ours.
My backup strategy is to keep the old drives from my previous array and put them into a second server, then back up to it weekly. I use a linux software raid 5 setup for backup, with the drives powered off unless the backup is running. I have a script that spins them up, starts up the raid, mounts the filesystem, performs the backup using rsync, then unmounts and powers down the drives. I only can back up about 1/3rd of my main array, so I have to be choosy, but a large amount of what I have stored is replaceable non-original content that I'm content to simply have one raided copy of, so I just exclude the right folders and I'm good.
The servers are currently in the same room, which makes me uncomfortable, so I've long considered creating a mini-server for a relative and setting it up in their home as an offline backup. Using a commercial service would probably make more sense, but I'm not sure I'm comfortable with that yet.
Another thing I'm considering for my next setup is using ZFS for the backup filesystem and keeping snapshots as long as I can for a combination backup/version control. I'm interested in how efficient that would be with vm disk images where the file changes every time, but only small parts of it. Would it detect the unchanging portions, even if rsync re-writes parts that didn't change, or would that cause duplicated space usage? Does anyone have experience with this?
This was probably just a negative cache entry. Someone on Comcast (possibly you) probably tried to look up helpmatt.org before it was propogated to all the root servers, and 75.75.75.75 got a lookup failure and cached it. Negative caching is part of proper DNS operation and it can last a while. DNS is full of delays like this.
FYI... It's working just fine now.
root@atomrouter:~# host helpmatt.org 75.75.75.75
Using domain server:
Name: 75.75.75.75
Address: 75.75.75.75#53
Aliases:
helpmatt.org has address 192.155.89.14
helpmatt.org mail is handled by 20 alt1.aspmx.l.google.com.
helpmatt.org mail is handled by 30 aspmx3.googlemail.com.
helpmatt.org mail is handled by 30 aspmx2.googlemail.com.
helpmatt.org mail is handled by 20 alt2.aspmx.l.google.com.
helpmatt.org mail is handled by 10 aspmx.l.google.com.
That technology doesn't sound very promising.
People who claim modern currency is baseless don't understand economics. Modern currency is backed by *everything*. Gold, Real Estate, Cars, Businesses. Everything that is used for collateral against a loan becomes backing for our currency. Crypto-currency is based on scarcity like gold was, and thus makes a terrible general purpose currency because it's vulnerable to manipulations, and rigidity that make it easy for bankers and insiders rob everyone. The modern form of debt backed currency is the most flexible and least vulnerable to manipulation there has ever been. Our advanced modern currency has weathered the pressures of the current economic stresses extremely well, and dramatically lessened the impact of the current problems with our economy. If you want to look at what things where like with a scarcity backed currency, look at the economics of the US pre 1913. It's full of horror stories like the panic of 1893 and 1873, and even some events where bankers conspired to not give out loans to anyone to buy up houses cheap and re-sell them for a profit once they all agreed to give out mortgages again.
> transparent intercept on port 80. And no, the proxy doesn't accept CONNECT. We even block ICMP, so no ping-tunnels
Bypassing a school firewall for dummies:
1. Pull out your smartphone
My previous company did this and I was never comfortable with it. I did not have their certificates loaded, so it prevented me from talking through their proxy when they tried to intercept my traffic. The only connections I saw it attack this way were to google. I did try both of my bank's web sites and the certificates used there were original so the traffic there was not intercepted. That made me feel a bit better, but I'm not all that comfortable with my employer having access to the passwords I use outside the company.
This company was extremely security paranoid after a widely publicised hack hurt their reputation badly, so I understand the actions, and they're probably on legally solid ground, but a piece of me still considers this hacking and unlawful, and another part of me considers the fact that you can silently hack SSL this way a HUGE hole in security.
The fact that I have to trust that my employer isn't sniffing my banking passwords tells me SSL isn't doing it's job.
The weather doesn't pay to inform people as to what it will be like in the next few days. Why should we expect political candidates to pay to inform us? I can't imagine a system less likely to get the right person into the job.
Money in politics isn't the problem, it's that money is what determines who wins. If someone spends a fortune running for office, but a broke, mild mannered person who does no fundraising, but happens to be a great choice for the job happens to win instead, then we've fixed the system.
I expect the fix would require a lot of trust-based information gathering and distribution, where people put a lot of thought and effort into objectively determining candidates suitability for the job, and then those results are disseminated to people who seek it out and can then make better informed decisions. Political journalism used to fill this need, but it has devolved into parroting press releases full of spin, and is worse than useless now. I think we need a new system of evaluating candidates, and there's a ton of ways it can be done, but at it's core there should be the goal of counteracting the corrupting force of money and allowing the best person for the job to get it.
Microsoft's keyboards last 1-2 years for me before I start having to press a bit harder on the keys to make them trigger, and that's not good for you. I did them for years, but I've decided I'm switching to mechanical switch keyboards (Cherry MX Brown based) since the prices are coming down and they have become popular as "gaming" keyboards which makes them a lot easier to find in different configurations. I have a few CM Storm ones I like, but I'm eyeing a Logitech backlit one too. It should end up cheaper in the long-run, since I was replacing the old ones so often, and these are much nicer to type on.
Messing with keyboard layouts is not something to be taken lightly. Just like you wouldn't reverse the break and gas pedals on a car, moving keys around on the keyboard should not be done trivially. That said, the caps lock key is in one of the most easily accessible locations on the keyboard, and its one of the keys we use the least. It should be moved, and replaced with one we use more often. Personally, I'd like to see a new modifier key here. One thing I have done in the past, is to re-map my caps lock key to alt, which can be done with a Windows registry setting. This makes using key combinations much easier, which is nice when you're playing WoW and need as many keyboard shortcuts as you can get.
This is a problem, but this isn't unemployment, it's not shrinking real wages, it's not long term recession, and it's a problem that has existed since technology began. Job elimination has a temporary downside and a permanent upside. This is well known. The entire unemployment benefits system is designed to mitigate the downsides of this because that downside is well understood. So should we all become luddites? Of course not. The problem here isn't that the job was eliminated, but that high paying replacement jobs aren't available. This economy is what needs to be fixed, not progress that leads to job elimination.
This definitely *is* the goal, and people who imagine automation destroying lives and healthy job prospects don't understand economics. This is a symptom, not a cause. You don't blame the firemen for the fire, and you don't blame automation for unemployment, despite the obvious correlation between the two.
This should be obvious, since if you take away technology's elimination of jobs from human development, we're all living like cavemen, all working hard, but all working on food, shelter and clothing, and still starving to death and dying from exposure and all the jobs and lives we have now wouldn't be possible. Technology eliminating jobs is as old as technology itself, and it's part of the most important good an economy can bring to our lives. The mistake that's being made here is equating unemployment with job elimination. They're not the same thing, and they have vastly different causes and effects. Job elimination is progress, is good for economies and people, and is caused by technological advancement. Unemployment, is bad for economies and people, and it's causes are economic and political. Technological advancement aids by providing the constant elimination of jobs, but under a properly functioning economy jobs that are eliminated inevitably result in others being created. Technology can no more cause unemployment than bringing water home from the beach and flushing it down the toilet can lower sea level. To think it can is to not understand the whole picture of how things are connected.
Our current problem is that our economy is being operated extractively, allowing people to make money from owning things instead of working. This is breaks economies and destroys jobs, and is bad for people who have to work for a living. Our problem is an economic one, not a technological one, and it's relatively easily fixable, but the fix requires the political will to take wealth and power from the wealthy and powerful, and that's not something that comes about easily.
> Flash isn't an archival medium.
Anything can be an archival medium, it's just a question of if it's good at it. Fash has been in large-scale use for 20 years now. It became the primary way computers stored their BIOS back in 95 so I think we have a fairly good understanding of it's long-term storage characteristics. Optical won't die today, and I expect the market to stay strong for 5 or 10 years, but in 20, it will be all but gone.
Optical has had a good run, but I'm betting that in 2037, optical will be dying or dead.
There's a lot of theoretical improvements left in optical disk technology, but they're unlikely to become common or cheap. I see possibly one generation after Blu-ray before the consumer standards stop and the access to cheap technology to drive advancements in optical storage disappears. Spinning disk is largely thought of as the primary competitor, but what's going to give optical the biggest headache is flash.
Flash storage's non-existent power requirements, extremely high density, naturally long read-only lifespan, re-usability, and flexible expansion options make it poised to take over the world of archival storage if it can come anywhere near cost-parity. My bet is that it will make it.
Nuclear is the most dangerous way to generate power.. except all the other ways.
People get all freaked out about how dangerous nuclear power generation can be, and ignore how dangerous all the other forms of power generation *actually are*. They get upset at the potential for long-term damage to the environment but ignore the massive ecological devastation that coal and oil and natural gas are constantly doing to the world. Look at Deepwater Horizon for example. Oil will be fouling and poisoning the gulf for an extremely long time, and the chemicals used in the cleanup will likely reduce the lifespan of the people who helped in the cleanup dramatically. When you look at the damage caused to people and to the environment of power generation objectively, nuclear is by far the safest and least damaging option, even factoring Fukishima and Chernobyl which represent risks that are unlikely to cause problems in the future.