There may be no incentive to join Diaspora, but I think that today could still mark a turning point. It provides a set of APIs that can be used to federate social networks. Facebook may not be interested in joining, but smaller networks will have a strong incentive to join. It could be like email thirty years ago. Back then there were lots of proprietary email systems that didn't interconnect. SMTP provided a common interconnection and eventually even the largest providers had to join. If one of the other major social networks, such as LinkedIn, MySpace or Orkut, were to federate with Diaspora, it would start a chain reaction. The only question would be if Facebook is already big enough to ignore a combination of all of its competitors. I'm betting that it's not.
I am an observer. Everything I observe has a definite state. The equipment I use is mechanical, and I can set up experiments where I can observer the effects of it not having a definite state, so it doesn't seem to fit the definition of an observer. You claim that everything you observe has a definite state, so I'm willing to classify you as an observer. OTOH, Schrödinger's cat seems like it could make the same claim, but it appears that it doesn't have a definite state itself. Maybe the same is true of you, and I'm the only observer in the universe. That leads to a rather solipsist view of things, which most people claim to reject but maybe I should expect that if they aren't observers. But maybe my second statement is incorrect. Perhaps the truth is that everything I observer only seems to have a definite state; this leads to the Many-worlds interpretation of quantum theory, which is the only one that I know of that treats all observers equally.
It seems that they only follow best practices for the web to optimize JPEG and PNG files, and remove whitespace and comments from JavaScript and CSS. They also enable gzip compression of all text files.
Optimizing caching — keeping your application's data and logic off the network altogether Minimizing round-trip times — reducing the number of serial request-response cycles Minimizing request overhead — reducing upload size Minimizing payload size — reducing the size of responses, downloads, and cached pages Optimizing browser rendering — improving the browser's layout of a page
Vowell said people always think they will never be in a situation where they will need rural fire protection, but he said City of South Fulton personnel actually go above and beyond in trying to offer the service. He said the city mails out notices to customers in the specified rural coverage area, with coverage running from July 1 of one year to July 1 the next year. At the end of the enrollment month of July, the city goes a step further and makes phone calls to rural residents who have not responded to the mail-out.
“These folks were called and notified,” Vowell said. “I want to make sure everybody has the opportunity to get it and be aware it’s available. It’s been there for 20 years, but it’s very important to follow up.”
Mayor Crocker added, “It’s my understanding with talking with the firefighters that these folks had received their bill and they had also contacted them by phone.”
Instead of symlinking to directories, create directories of hard links to the files.
Then you can move files around whenever you like, and you never have any dangling links.
I second this. I have a big collection of photos that I've downloaded over the years, and I "tag" them via hard-links into directories. The same photo may be found under "party/jane/nyc", "party/nyc/jane", "nyc/party/jane", "nyc/jane/party", "jane/party/nyc" and "jane/nyc/party". If two people are in the photo, that's twenty-four links, but I have Perl scripts that take care of the grunt work; a picture with N tags will have "just" N! links. I don't link photos to intermediate directories, but all pictures from parties in New York can be found via either "find party/nyc -type f" or "find nyc/party -type f"; removing the dups is left as an exercise for the student.
BTW, this works with Windows as well as Unix. NTFS supports hard-links and while there isn't a native command to create them, Perl will do so.
Networking By default memcached listens on TCP and UDP ports, both 11211. -l allows you to bind to specific interfaces or IP addresses. Memcached does not spend much, if any, effort in ensuring its defensibility from random internet connections. So you must not expose memcached directly to the internet, or otherwise any untrusted users. Using SASL authentication here helps, but should not be totally trusted.
From their wiki page detailing how to configure a new server. Surely the part they highlight in bold should have raised a flag to even the dumbest administrator.
Here's an idea that won't impact performance: At startup, issue a big multi-line warning if the IP addresses that are getting bound aren't on a Private Internet:
The Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA) has reserved the
following three blocks of the IP address space for private internets:
I just slice everything up into segments of 60 seconds and let Google Voice transcribe it for me. Sure, some nay-sayers might point out that it's slower that transcribing it all manually, but they don't get that I'm getting Google to do the work for me!
I also hope you are making sure that the humidity and temperature are strictly controlled at all times in the tape storage room.
That's why the OP said to use Iron Mountain. They maintain the humidity and temperature at all times in their storage rooms.
It costs a little extra, but if you want long term storage, rent some underground space. According to http://mic.imtc.gatech.edu/preservationists_portal/presv_costcompare.htm, underground storage costs can get as low as $2/year per cubic foot (not including relocation, initial filing charges, retrieval & re-file charges) if you're buying four delivery trucks worth of space.
I've seen this on Flash years ago as well as a Shockwave (Director)... the only thing they bring to the table is "on a touch display".
I've seen this in the openings of several Disney animation classics, which would start with books opening and turning pages. Admittedly, not much user interaction there, but the animation "curls a lifted portion of the page to progressively reveal a back side of the page while progressively revealing a front side of a subsequent page." OTOH, I don't recall ever seeing "A lifted portion of the page is given an increased transparency that allows the back side of the page to be viewed through the front side of the page," so you may not be in violation if you don't manipulate the alpha channel as part of the animation.
True this. If you're income is meager but you are still spending precious time on watching tv, then you've got a major priority problem. I've got the same one unfortunately. TV is awesome.
If you're income is meager how precious is your time? Going the the upstream estimate of $170 a week in take home pay, your time is only worth $4.25 per hour to you. (It's worth more to your employer, since they are paying the gross pay, not the net.)
Everyone's missing the real reason for the ban: too many "photographers" are using their "cameras" to steal the souls of the clean-up workers. The lich-kings (aka "Ted Turner" and "Ruport Murdoch") have long been stocking souls in preparation for the 2012 apocalypse. Louisianans, thanks to their voodoo culture, understand this and want to keep their souls for the use of the local shamans.
People deserve to choose for themselves. Don't tell someone who's terminal (not curable) they can't do something because it may shorten their life
Yeah, I'm sure that this woman was glad she spent a bunch on money on something that not only shortened her life, but caused her to spend her last 21 months on dialysis. http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/80beats/2010/06/18/danger-stem-cell-tourists-patient-in-thailand-dies-from-treatment/
So, you'r saying you'd rather give a lot of money to a snake-oil salesman and then not mind becoming too poor to get a real cure for that or another of your kids later.
A good thing, I say. Poverty will be eradicated, Wall Street will disappear into uselessness and everyone will have 16 hours a day of time to do whatever they want. People will want to create new stuff, even lacking any normal incentive, simply out of boredom.
Unfortunately, history disagrees. The Samoan islands were a utopia; food was freely available by wading out into the bay and shelter was almost unnecessary due to the clement weather. So, everyone's favorite pastime was fucking and drowning the excess babies. Compare this to the Mediterranean, where earlier ecological collapse had ruined the farmlands and you needed walls to keep out hostile neighbors. The upper class'es favorite pastime? Natural philosophy.
I would think anyone who understands how to design experiments would see the need for a proper control group.
We've already seen that no one who understands how to design experiments has anything to do with the study of weather or climate.
Actually, just the study of weather, I haven't seen any climatologists chiming in yet.
BTW, I suspect that you're making a veiled criticism of climate change predictions. If so, then you're taking aim at your allies: researchers at George Mason University and the University of Texas at Austin found that only about half of the 571 television weathercasters surveyed believed that global warming was occurring and fewer than a third believed that climate change was “caused mostly by human activities.”http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/30/science/earth/30warming.html
Personally, I'm interested in the narrative direction that Valve takes in Portal 2. The original's protagonist started as a relatively weak, essentially passive, woman, who only comes out of her introverted shell after much prodding by GLADOS. The sequel needs to go in a different direction, with an extroverted male protagonist. He should be a body builder, with a blond crew-cut, wearing aviator glasses, and smoking a cigar. You know, like this.
The problem is a lot of doctors, like a lot of slashdotters, think they're too smart to have to follow the rules. When they do, they get caught by the nurse, or the pharmacist, or the technician, or whoever else is working with them, and they often get fired for it. A degree is great and it means you have a certain amount of training and expertise, but it doesn't exempt you from the need to follow protocols and rely on the people around you for help and advice.
I assume that "they often get fired for it" is referring to the nurses, or the pharmacists, and the technicians, because doctors never get fired. As the old adage says, they bury their mistakes.
... collecting *payload* data, which is (a) accidental, and (b) pretty useless (please give me any example of how to use this nefariously).
You replied:
Just think of it as Doubleclick dba Google and the picture is clear.
Every would be accidental acquisition of some sort of user data simply isn't accidental at all. Don't be fooled by any explanations since such explanations will always have an element of omission or deception. Don't ever think data requested to be deleted was ever truly deleted, it's just suppressed from immediate use but likely still stored somewhere on a server or backup tapes for future use at some point.
Everyone has to decide for themselves if they want to keep supporting Doubleclick via the Google branded products.
Sorry, not clear at all. I accept that Doubleclick potentially has access to the data, and I'll even accept that some copies of the data will stick around indefinitely. Now please explain how a random couple of minutes of data from my home WiFi is useful to anyone? The only thing that I can see it being used for is statistical analysis, maybe for web ranking the popularity of sites. Even then your analysis is flawed because you're only seeing non-encrypted access points; people at a coffeehouse or public library tend to visit different sites than people at home or work.
Maybe I'm stupid, but it looks like apples and oranges to me. Google was/is collecting packets to capture the *header* information; this data allows them to deduce other people's locations. Google was also, in some cases, also collecting *payload* data, which is (a) accidental, and (b) pretty useless (please give me any example of how to use this nefariously). Germany is pretty upset about it, probably because they want to establish a precedent that people shouldn't do this rather than any belief that actual harm was done.
Having owned more than 5 Dells, and worked on many ex-lease Dell boxes that were given to my school, I can say that Dell just give you the drive that is cheapest on the day, not a specific brand.
That sort-of depends on the model. The cheap models tend to use whatever was cheapest on the day they were made, but the high end models don't just use better parts, they use the same parts. Customer's are willing to pay extra for this because they only have to test in-house written software on one sample of each model, instead of testing on every combination of components that might show up in the cheap models. It also helps keep repair costs lower, since repair technicians can carry a smaller inventory of spare parts.
While I was in seventh grade, I missed a week of school due to an illness. My first day back in English class, we were told spend the hour writing an essay about the evils of plagiarism. In retrospect, it's obvious what happened in my absence, but at the time I didn't know what the word meant, just that it was bad. So, I wrote an essay on the evils of communism, substituting the word plagiarism throughout. Yes, I discussed the possibility of godless plagiarists taking over the country and forcing a plagiarist regime upon the American people. I don't think we got a grade for it, but the teacher thought it was pretty hilarious.
Go read the GPL. A company is a single legal entity; giving a copy of a program to an employee is the same as you giving a copy to your safe-deposit box.
Slashdot Mirror
There may be no incentive to join Diaspora, but I think that today could still mark a turning point. It provides a set of APIs that can be used to federate social networks. Facebook may not be interested in joining, but smaller networks will have a strong incentive to join. It could be like email thirty years ago. Back then there were lots of proprietary email systems that didn't interconnect. SMTP provided a common interconnection and eventually even the largest providers had to join. If one of the other major social networks, such as LinkedIn, MySpace or Orkut, were to federate with Diaspora, it would start a chain reaction. The only question would be if Facebook is already big enough to ignore a combination of all of its competitors. I'm betting that it's not.
I am an observer. Everything I observe has a definite state. The equipment I use is mechanical, and I can set up experiments where I can observer the effects of it not having a definite state, so it doesn't seem to fit the definition of an observer. You claim that everything you observe has a definite state, so I'm willing to classify you as an observer. OTOH, Schrödinger's cat seems like it could make the same claim, but it appears that it doesn't have a definite state itself. Maybe the same is true of you, and I'm the only observer in the universe. That leads to a rather solipsist view of things, which most people claim to reject but maybe I should expect that if they aren't observers. But maybe my second statement is incorrect. Perhaps the truth is that everything I observer only seems to have a definite state; this leads to the Many-worlds interpretation of quantum theory, which is the only one that I know of that treats all observers equally.
I'm stuck using SCCS, you insensitive clod!
It seems that they only follow best practices for the web to optimize JPEG and PNG files, and remove whitespace and comments from JavaScript and CSS. They also enable gzip compression of all text files.
Optimizing caching — keeping your application's data and logic off the network altogether
Minimizing round-trip times — reducing the number of serial request-response cycles
Minimizing request overhead — reducing upload size
Minimizing payload size — reducing the size of responses, downloads, and cached pages
Optimizing browser rendering — improving the browser's layout of a page
Refused? Any evidence of that? For what it's worth, Cranick says he forgot.
Here's some evidence, from http://www.nwtntoday.com/news.php?viewStory=46801:
Vowell said people always think they will never be in a situation where they will need rural fire protection, but he said City of South Fulton personnel actually go above and beyond in trying to offer the service. He said the city mails out notices to customers in the specified rural coverage area, with coverage running from July 1 of one year to July 1 the next year.
At the end of the enrollment month of July, the city goes a step further and makes phone calls to rural residents who have not responded to the mail-out.
“These folks were called and notified,” Vowell said. “I want to make sure everybody has the opportunity to get it and be aware it’s available. It’s been there for 20 years, but it’s very important to follow up.”
Mayor Crocker added, “It’s my understanding with talking with the firefighters that these folks had received their bill and they had also contacted them by phone.”
Instead of symlinking to directories,
create directories of hard links to the files.
Then you can move files around whenever you like,
and you never have any dangling links.
I second this. I have a big collection of photos that I've downloaded over the years, and I "tag" them via hard-links into directories. The same photo may be found under "party/jane/nyc", "party/nyc/jane", "nyc/party/jane", "nyc/jane/party", "jane/party/nyc" and "jane/nyc/party". If two people are in the photo, that's twenty-four links, but I have Perl scripts that take care of the grunt work; a picture with N tags will have "just" N! links. I don't link photos to intermediate directories, but all pictures from parties in New York can be found via either "find party/nyc -type f" or "find nyc/party -type f"; removing the dups is left as an exercise for the student.
BTW, this works with Windows as well as Unix. NTFS supports hard-links and while there isn't a native command to create them, Perl will do so.
http://code.google.com/p/memcached/wiki/NewConfiguringServer
Networking
By default memcached listens on TCP and UDP ports, both 11211. -l allows you to bind to specific interfaces or IP addresses. Memcached does not spend much, if any, effort in ensuring its defensibility from random internet connections. So you must not expose memcached directly to the internet, or otherwise any untrusted users. Using SASL authentication here helps, but should not be totally trusted.
From their wiki page detailing how to configure a new server. Surely the part they highlight in bold should have raised a flag to even the dumbest administrator.
Here's an idea that won't impact performance: At startup, issue a big multi-line warning if the IP addresses that are getting bound aren't on a Private Internet:
The Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA) has reserved the
following three blocks of the IP address space for private internets:
10.0.0.0 - 10.255.255.255 (10/8 prefix)
172.16.0.0 - 172.31.255.255 (172.16/12 prefix)
192.168.0.0 - 192.168.255.255 (192.168/16 prefix)
I just slice everything up into segments of 60 seconds and let Google Voice transcribe it for me. Sure, some nay-sayers might point out that it's slower that transcribing it all manually, but they don't get that I'm getting Google to do the work for me!
I also hope you are making sure that the humidity and temperature are strictly controlled at all times in the tape storage room.
That's why the OP said to use Iron Mountain. They maintain the humidity and temperature at all times in their storage rooms.
It costs a little extra, but if you want long term storage, rent some underground space. According to http://mic.imtc.gatech.edu/preservationists_portal/presv_costcompare.htm, underground storage costs can get as low as $2/year per cubic foot (not including relocation, initial filing charges, retrieval & re-file charges) if you're buying four delivery trucks worth of space.
I've seen this on Flash years ago as well as a Shockwave (Director)... the only thing they bring to the table is "on a touch display".
I've seen this in the openings of several Disney animation classics, which would start with books opening and turning pages. Admittedly, not much user interaction there, but the animation "curls a lifted portion of the page to progressively reveal a back side of the page while progressively revealing a front side of a subsequent page." OTOH, I don't recall ever seeing "A lifted portion of the page is given an increased transparency that allows the back side of the page to be viewed through the front side of the page," so you may not be in violation if you don't manipulate the alpha channel as part of the animation.
True this. If you're income is meager but you are still spending precious time on watching tv, then you've got a major priority problem. I've got the same one unfortunately. TV is awesome.
If you're income is meager how precious is your time? Going the the upstream estimate of $170 a week in take home pay, your time is only worth $4.25 per hour to you. (It's worth more to your employer, since they are paying the gross pay, not the net.)
Everyone's missing the real reason for the ban: too many "photographers" are using their "cameras" to steal the souls of the clean-up workers. The lich-kings (aka "Ted Turner" and "Ruport Murdoch") have long been stocking souls in preparation for the 2012 apocalypse. Louisianans, thanks to their voodoo culture, understand this and want to keep their souls for the use of the local shamans.
People deserve to choose for themselves. Don't tell someone who's terminal (not curable) they can't do something because it may shorten their life
Yeah, I'm sure that this woman was glad she spent a bunch on money on something that not only shortened her life, but caused her to spend her last 21 months on dialysis.
http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/80beats/2010/06/18/danger-stem-cell-tourists-patient-in-thailand-dies-from-treatment/
So, you'r saying you'd rather give a lot of money to a snake-oil salesman and then not mind becoming too poor to get a real cure for that or another of your kids later.
Why, oh why, isn't there a "+/-1 Libertarian" modifier? (The +/- would be viewer selectable, of course.)
A good thing, I say. Poverty will be eradicated, Wall Street will disappear into uselessness and everyone will have 16 hours a day of time to do whatever they want. People will want to create new stuff, even lacking any normal incentive, simply out of boredom.
Unfortunately, history disagrees. The Samoan islands were a utopia; food was freely available by wading out into the bay and shelter was almost unnecessary due to the clement weather. So, everyone's favorite pastime was fucking and drowning the excess babies. Compare this to the Mediterranean, where earlier ecological collapse had ruined the farmlands and you needed walls to keep out hostile neighbors. The upper class'es favorite pastime? Natural philosophy.
I would think anyone who understands how to design experiments would see the need for a proper control group.
We've already seen that no one who understands how to design experiments has anything to do with the study of weather or climate.
Actually, just the study of weather, I haven't seen any climatologists chiming in yet.
BTW, I suspect that you're making a veiled criticism of climate change predictions. If so, then you're taking aim at your allies: researchers at George Mason University and the University of Texas at Austin found that only about half of the 571 television weathercasters surveyed believed that global warming was occurring and fewer than a third believed that climate change was “caused mostly by human activities.” http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/30/science/earth/30warming.html
Personally, I'm interested in the narrative direction that Valve takes in Portal 2. The original's protagonist started as a relatively weak, essentially passive, woman, who only comes out of her introverted shell after much prodding by GLADOS. The sequel needs to go in a different direction, with an extroverted male protagonist. He should be a body builder, with a blond crew-cut, wearing aviator glasses, and smoking a cigar. You know, like this.
The problem is a lot of doctors, like a lot of slashdotters, think they're too smart to have to follow the rules. When they do, they get caught by the nurse, or the pharmacist, or the technician, or whoever else is working with them, and they often get fired for it. A degree is great and it means you have a certain amount of training and expertise, but it doesn't exempt you from the need to follow protocols and rely on the people around you for help and advice.
I assume that "they often get fired for it" is referring to the nurses, or the pharmacists, and the technicians, because doctors never get fired. As the old adage says, they bury their mistakes.
And here's some more evidence supporting the idea that "MDs think they're too smart to have to follow the rules": ... be sure to ask about a checklist, and don’t be surprised if the doctor is reluctant.
I said:
... collecting *payload* data, which is (a) accidental, and (b) pretty useless (please give me any example of how to use this nefariously).
You replied:
Just think of it as Doubleclick dba Google and the picture is clear.
Every would be accidental acquisition of some sort of user data simply isn't accidental at all. Don't be fooled by any explanations since such explanations will always have an element of omission or deception. Don't ever think data requested to be deleted was ever truly deleted, it's just suppressed from immediate use but likely still stored somewhere on a server or backup tapes for future use at some point.
Everyone has to decide for themselves if they want to keep supporting Doubleclick via the Google branded products.
Sorry, not clear at all. I accept that Doubleclick potentially has access to the data, and I'll even accept that some copies of the data will stick around indefinitely. Now please explain how a random couple of minutes of data from my home WiFi is useful to anyone? The only thing that I can see it being used for is statistical analysis, maybe for web ranking the popularity of sites. Even then your analysis is flawed because you're only seeing non-encrypted access points; people at a coffeehouse or public library tend to visit different sites than people at home or work.
Maybe I'm stupid, but it looks like apples and oranges to me. Google was/is collecting packets to capture the *header* information; this data allows them to deduce other people's locations. Google was also, in some cases, also collecting *payload* data, which is (a) accidental, and (b) pretty useless (please give me any example of how to use this nefariously). Germany is pretty upset about it, probably because they want to establish a precedent that people shouldn't do this rather than any belief that actual harm was done.
Having owned more than 5 Dells, and worked on many ex-lease Dell boxes that were given to my school, I can say that Dell just give you the drive that is cheapest on the day, not a specific brand.
That sort-of depends on the model. The cheap models tend to use whatever was cheapest on the day they were made, but the high end models don't just use better parts, they use the same parts. Customer's are willing to pay extra for this because they only have to test in-house written software on one sample of each model, instead of testing on every combination of components that might show up in the cheap models. It also helps keep repair costs lower, since repair technicians can carry a smaller inventory of spare parts.
While I was in seventh grade, I missed a week of school due to an illness. My first day back in English class, we were told spend the hour writing an essay about the evils of plagiarism. In retrospect, it's obvious what happened in my absence, but at the time I didn't know what the word meant, just that it was bad. So, I wrote an essay on the evils of communism, substituting the word plagiarism throughout. Yes, I discussed the possibility of godless plagiarists taking over the country and forcing a plagiarist regime upon the American people. I don't think we got a grade for it, but the teacher thought it was pretty hilarious.
Somewhere there's a supermassive bouncer...
Go read the GPL. A company is a single legal entity; giving a copy of a program to an employee is the same as you giving a copy to your safe-deposit box.