I can assure you - they have no way to deal with something like that in a speedy manner. The protesters needn't be violent. I'm not even sure if it'd be breaking any major laws. It's going to *really* suck for the locals but hopefully they understand. If they put barriers up around the city and refuse entrance, park as close to the barriers as possible and stop. The infrastructure is designed for throughput, not standing. It *will* collapse in a spectacular fashion.
A bulldozer/snowplow blade attached to a dump truck or heavy wrecker solves the problem quickly enough. Chicago does something similar when a truck gets stuck under a bridge - they just push it out of the way, in however many pieces it ends up in. Moving heavy things out of the way is a well-solved problem.
Slashcode is a mess though. There is already UTF-8 support of a very limited sort, it's all just legacy code diving to figure out how to turn full support back on. If that sounds easy, you haven't seen a legacy horror.
And the data is BS as well. These numbers are way too low in terms of the "top out". In a large corporation the CIO will be earning a multi-million package and there will often be 10's or 100''s of people in the USD1M+ group. The comment about Equity is also irrelevant as only total compensation is the only number that matters - who cares how much is base and how much is variable (bonus)?
You might be surprised. Yes, I'm sure that far more than $200k is the norm, but publicly traded companies disclose pay - including exercised equity - for senior officers. I did a broad survey of larger companies (but not top 50) a few year back, and what I found was that CEO and CFO typically made about $1M, as did COO (most companies don't have that separate from CEO). Other officers typically made a lot less, in the $300-$500k range. Of course they could be accumulating equity that they're not selling (or option not exercised).
Top executive pay is very mush like the pay of top Hollywood actors, professional athletes, university presidents, and college football coaches. They all have the same "competitive bidding for talent" (real or imagined talent) pushing up comp. It seems odd to me to obsess only on CEO pay when it's about the same as all these other guys.
Not at first, to my memory. Can't remember how long it was, but at least the first year, maybe two, before Taco et al gave up on moderating everything themselves and added the mod point system, tied to karma. (It's possible I'm confused and it was the karma part they added, it was a damn long time ago.) That was about the same time as page widening trolls breaking the site, and rampant goatse clickbait. I don't remember much moderation when the new memes were OOG THE CAVEMAN (a sad casualty of the caps filter), Natalie Portman naked and petrified, the "hot grits" story, and so on.
IIRC, the rising frequency of goatse clickbait was a big part of why the change happened - it and the early crapflooding were just too much for a handful of mods to stay on top of. I do remember Karma was uncapped at first, and the system (including the link target annotation) was so good at suppressing goatse trolls that they moved to posting ASCII-art goatse, prompting the ASCII-art filter.
There were a bunch of assholes right here on Slashdot broadcasting spoilers for The Force Awakens.
There were a bunch of asshole/. editors who posted spoilers to the ending of the X-Files spinoff The Lone Gunmen on the front page minutes after the show ended. Ah, the early days of/..
The NSA doesn't need this, any more than they need a National Security Letter to access US data, as long as it's not encrypted well. When I worked at MS, we would half-joking blame (assumed) NSA taps on the low quality we'd see in WAN connections between DCs. It was a bit of a shock to discover from Snowden it was all true (MONKEY PUZZLE was the codename for those NSA taps, IIRC).
It's different if the data is encrypted in such a way that MS only has access to the metadata (which should be enough for customer service). Of course, with the right National Security Letter, MS could be compelled to design their system in a flawed way.
I'd bet on watermarking, since that survives the analog hole. There's a proven technology used for "awards screeners" - proven in that people have been arrested for leaking.
That was exactly the US attitude as we sat back and watched Germany and Japan conquer their neighbors. The government managed to ship a vast quantity of military equipment to our allies, but we just refused to engage until Pearl Harbor. Then we had much larger problems to solve. The cost in lives was far higher than it would have been had we gotten involved ASAP. And no, not just the cost in lives of those dirty foreigners you clearly have no care for, but for actual Americans.
Oh, you get something of value either way. Political stability and drinkable water and so on has its price. $30k in most places will merely get you a relatively modern house (with the whole extended family packed in) with a couple of servants (not bare-breasted unless your mother, who lives with you, approves).
Just got LoD going on a iMac 5K. Pixels are really big:-) because the 800x600 display gets stretched (thankfully with correct with aspect-ratio) to full-screen. Leaves a big black border on left and rights sides, but that doesn't really bother me.
16x10 is the One True Ratio (mostly if you like older games). Too bod there's only the one 5K monitor - anyone know of any others with better than 1920x1200?
Yes, but it has led to an increase in standard of living elsewhere, and really, the disparity was not going to be sustainable in the long haul. It had to start to even out, and we're starting to see that happen now. When you have a tiny fraction few % of the world's population living high on the hog compared to the rest, that isn't going to last. Enjoy it while you had it, but don't think that's how you get to live forever.
Last time I could find numbers (about 5 years ago), $30k/year put you in the top 1% worldwide. That's probably what US politicians mean when they talk about raising taxes on the 1%. (At least Bernie is honest about his plan to tax basically everyone with a job.)
Seriously, though, it's not an "even-ing out" because it's not a zero-sum game! Concentration of wealth and income produces less demand over all, and thus a weaker economy overall, than more even distribution (all other things being equal, which they rarely are of course). I don't want to see US standard of living fall either, of course, but if the rate of job flow offshore is low, then new demand from new places helps everyone and we sustain.
It's the same thing for immigration, H1-B or otherwise: if the rate is controlled, immigration is great. A growing economy and everyone benefits. OTOH, if we just have "open borders", the system gets swamped by immigrants arriving faster then job creation due to new demand from successful immigrants, and everyone suffers.
There's a rate as which immigration is good. There's a rate at which easily-replaceable jobs moving to lower-cost areas is good. That rate is not 0, and it's not "unbounded" either, but those seem to be the only option politicians discuss.
Seattle is determined "not to be San Francisco", as the mayor said. Amazon is building 3 new skyscrapers downtown - rumor is approval for these was blocked until 3 new skyscrapers for housing could also be approved. Rents are high here, but not crazy-SF-high. Fully using the land is the difference, just as you point out. Forcing new housing to be built alongside new office space is also a good idea (not really fighting the free market, just making the timing work out well for everyone). Preventing new housing from being built is a particular level of crazy.
Can I ride my bicycle. YES Can I own lots of guns. Let me check the bible... YES Can I drink in public. NO, be glad they let you drink in private. Even private stuff bothers them.
The Bible describes Jesus drinking wine, but not toting a gun. I think your Bible-based analysis is off.
You're one of the strongest supporters of more centralized government power on Slashdot. Every thread I've seen you in vaguely related to politics or the economy, your answer is "more government power" regardless of the question.
Do you think it's even possible that the UK could get all the benefits it's going to from trade agreements, without having to concede power to the EU government on everything else? Or is that a bad question for you - do you see the UK benefiting in all ways from letting the EC become its federal government? Do you think the EU overall should become a single nation with a strong federal government and token state governments,like the US?
Secondly, appeal to authority fallacy much? Who cares what Stephen Hawkins thinks about the real world? He is totally divorced from reality (not his fault, but it's a fact nevertheless). How many times does he have to go down a street at night, in an 'enriched' area, and worry about being mugged or raped?
The Brexit discussion is far older then the migrant crisis, and is only barely related. It's about Britain wanting to remain a sovereign state. 150 successful scientists who have effectively worked for the government their whole lives support a stronger, larger central government? Hey, they're all smart guys, they know how the money flows in their field. But they're perhaps not in touch with the average guy upset that the government he votes for doesn't seem to represent him much. The migrant crisis is just the latest example of that. The more local the government, the more responsive it tends to be.
Copper is faster - 4ns/m vs 5ns/m for fiber optic. Copper has other difficulties with long runs, since it's very dependent on the impedance of the transmission line remaining consistent, susceptible to interference and so on, so fiber is just more practical for long runs. People seem to prefer fiber for short interconnects in the DC because it seems high tech, but copper is faster.
Maybe they're just sick of the old versions making them look bad, and they just want them to go away by replacing them with a better version?
It's not Windows 7 making them look bad. Windows users like Windows 7. Win10 is maybe better for touch screens, but very few Windows tablets shipped with Win7 in the first place.
Old versions of IE certainly make them look bad, but they could aggressively upgrade IE without forcing a change to OS version.
They were totalitarian in the same way. Their economic system differed, but that wasn't an important difference on balance. The danger is in giving power to a central authority, not specifically in an economic system. However, some economic systems can only work with a strong central authority, and are inherently dangerous because of that.
The days when we were protected by the Constitution passed decades ago. The SCOTUS members vote their political preference, and then justify that preference afterwards. The current SCOTUS is very close to accepting much of the above, and with one more leftwing member I wouldn't expect any resistance.
So ISIS doesn't exist? Boko Haram doesn't exist? If your solution to bad people is to pretend there are no bad people, that doesn't sound like a good strategy to me.
Well you'll be delighted to note that there is no constitutionally protected right to possess vehicles in the good US of A. So even if the federal government implements such a system (and it makes sense since the wear and tear of roads is not the same wether you drive a small car, a suv, a double decker or a heavy camion) you can't go crying to the autoequivalent of the NRA lol.
I used to be joking when I accused the left of wanting a totalitarian state. I wish I were still joking.
Are those who touted China centrally-planned economy as a great model still doing so this year? I've lost track, but I doubt their point was ever about the economy, but instead just looking for more centralized control. Those redneck racists in flyover country just keep making the wrong choices, don't you know.
Ah, that's a different problem than I thought we were discussing. I blame the growth obsession on the different tax treatment of growth (capital gains) vs dividends.
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I can assure you - they have no way to deal with something like that in a speedy manner. The protesters needn't be violent. I'm not even sure if it'd be breaking any major laws. It's going to *really* suck for the locals but hopefully they understand. If they put barriers up around the city and refuse entrance, park as close to the barriers as possible and stop. The infrastructure is designed for throughput, not standing. It *will* collapse in a spectacular fashion.
A bulldozer/snowplow blade attached to a dump truck or heavy wrecker solves the problem quickly enough. Chicago does something similar when a truck gets stuck under a bridge - they just push it out of the way, in however many pieces it ends up in. Moving heavy things out of the way is a well-solved problem.
Slashcode is a mess though. There is already UTF-8 support of a very limited sort, it's all just legacy code diving to figure out how to turn full support back on. If that sounds easy, you haven't seen a legacy horror.
And the data is BS as well. These numbers are way too low in terms of the "top out". In a large corporation the CIO will be earning a multi-million package and there will often be 10's or 100''s of people in the USD1M+ group. The comment about Equity is also irrelevant as only total compensation is the only number that matters - who cares how much is base and how much is variable (bonus)?
You might be surprised. Yes, I'm sure that far more than $200k is the norm, but publicly traded companies disclose pay - including exercised equity - for senior officers. I did a broad survey of larger companies (but not top 50) a few year back, and what I found was that CEO and CFO typically made about $1M, as did COO (most companies don't have that separate from CEO). Other officers typically made a lot less, in the $300-$500k range. Of course they could be accumulating equity that they're not selling (or option not exercised).
Top executive pay is very mush like the pay of top Hollywood actors, professional athletes, university presidents, and college football coaches. They all have the same "competitive bidding for talent" (real or imagined talent) pushing up comp. It seems odd to me to obsess only on CEO pay when it's about the same as all these other guys.
Not at first, to my memory. Can't remember how long it was, but at least the first year, maybe two, before Taco et al gave up on moderating everything themselves and added the mod point system, tied to karma. (It's possible I'm confused and it was the karma part they added, it was a damn long time ago.) That was about the same time as page widening trolls breaking the site, and rampant goatse clickbait. I don't remember much moderation when the new memes were OOG THE CAVEMAN (a sad casualty of the caps filter), Natalie Portman naked and petrified, the "hot grits" story, and so on.
IIRC, the rising frequency of goatse clickbait was a big part of why the change happened - it and the early crapflooding were just too much for a handful of mods to stay on top of. I do remember Karma was uncapped at first, and the system (including the link target annotation) was so good at suppressing goatse trolls that they moved to posting ASCII-art goatse, prompting the ASCII-art filter.
There were a bunch of assholes right here on Slashdot broadcasting spoilers for The Force Awakens.
There were a bunch of asshole /. editors who posted spoilers to the ending of the X-Files spinoff The Lone Gunmen on the front page minutes after the show ended. Ah, the early days of /..
The NSA doesn't need this, any more than they need a National Security Letter to access US data, as long as it's not encrypted well. When I worked at MS, we would half-joking blame (assumed) NSA taps on the low quality we'd see in WAN connections between DCs. It was a bit of a shock to discover from Snowden it was all true (MONKEY PUZZLE was the codename for those NSA taps, IIRC).
It's different if the data is encrypted in such a way that MS only has access to the metadata (which should be enough for customer service). Of course, with the right National Security Letter, MS could be compelled to design their system in a flawed way.
I'd bet on watermarking, since that survives the analog hole. There's a proven technology used for "awards screeners" - proven in that people have been arrested for leaking.
Yup, didn't get an account until they added moderation. The early, mostly anon years were fun, trolls and all.
Great start though. I too would like to see UTF8, but low-hanging fruit first. I guess it's time to change my sig.
That was exactly the US attitude as we sat back and watched Germany and Japan conquer their neighbors. The government managed to ship a vast quantity of military equipment to our allies, but we just refused to engage until Pearl Harbor. Then we had much larger problems to solve. The cost in lives was far higher than it would have been had we gotten involved ASAP. And no, not just the cost in lives of those dirty foreigners you clearly have no care for, but for actual Americans.
Oh, you get something of value either way. Political stability and drinkable water and so on has its price. $30k in most places will merely get you a relatively modern house (with the whole extended family packed in) with a couple of servants (not bare-breasted unless your mother, who lives with you, approves).
$1K/year won't get you anything nice anywhere.
Just got LoD going on a iMac 5K. Pixels are really big :-) because the 800x600 display gets stretched (thankfully with correct with aspect-ratio) to full-screen. Leaves a big black border on left and rights sides, but that doesn't really bother me.
16x10 is the One True Ratio (mostly if you like older games). Too bod there's only the one 5K monitor - anyone know of any others with better than 1920x1200?
Yes, but it has led to an increase in standard of living elsewhere, and really, the disparity was not going to be sustainable in the long haul. It had to start to even out, and we're starting to see that happen now. When you have a tiny fraction few % of the world's population living high on the hog compared to the rest, that isn't going to last. Enjoy it while you had it, but don't think that's how you get to live forever.
Last time I could find numbers (about 5 years ago), $30k/year put you in the top 1% worldwide. That's probably what US politicians mean when they talk about raising taxes on the 1%. (At least Bernie is honest about his plan to tax basically everyone with a job.)
Seriously, though, it's not an "even-ing out" because it's not a zero-sum game! Concentration of wealth and income produces less demand over all, and thus a weaker economy overall, than more even distribution (all other things being equal, which they rarely are of course). I don't want to see US standard of living fall either, of course, but if the rate of job flow offshore is low, then new demand from new places helps everyone and we sustain.
It's the same thing for immigration, H1-B or otherwise: if the rate is controlled, immigration is great. A growing economy and everyone benefits. OTOH, if we just have "open borders", the system gets swamped by immigrants arriving faster then job creation due to new demand from successful immigrants, and everyone suffers.
There's a rate as which immigration is good. There's a rate at which easily-replaceable jobs moving to lower-cost areas is good. That rate is not 0, and it's not "unbounded" either, but those seem to be the only option politicians discuss.
Seattle is determined "not to be San Francisco", as the mayor said. Amazon is building 3 new skyscrapers downtown - rumor is approval for these was blocked until 3 new skyscrapers for housing could also be approved. Rents are high here, but not crazy-SF-high. Fully using the land is the difference, just as you point out. Forcing new housing to be built alongside new office space is also a good idea (not really fighting the free market, just making the timing work out well for everyone). Preventing new housing from being built is a particular level of crazy.
Just ask yourself if a prude would approve.
Can I ride my bicycle. YES
Can I own lots of guns. Let me check the bible... YES
Can I drink in public. NO, be glad they let you drink in private. Even private stuff bothers them.
The Bible describes Jesus drinking wine, but not toting a gun. I think your Bible-based analysis is off.
You're one of the strongest supporters of more centralized government power on Slashdot. Every thread I've seen you in vaguely related to politics or the economy, your answer is "more government power" regardless of the question.
Do you think it's even possible that the UK could get all the benefits it's going to from trade agreements, without having to concede power to the EU government on everything else? Or is that a bad question for you - do you see the UK benefiting in all ways from letting the EC become its federal government? Do you think the EU overall should become a single nation with a strong federal government and token state governments,like the US?
Secondly, appeal to authority fallacy much? Who cares what Stephen Hawkins thinks about the real world? He is totally divorced from reality (not his fault, but it's a fact nevertheless). How many times does he have to go down a street at night, in an 'enriched' area, and worry about being mugged or raped?
The Brexit discussion is far older then the migrant crisis, and is only barely related. It's about Britain wanting to remain a sovereign state. 150 successful scientists who have effectively worked for the government their whole lives support a stronger, larger central government? Hey, they're all smart guys, they know how the money flows in their field. But they're perhaps not in touch with the average guy upset that the government he votes for doesn't seem to represent him much. The migrant crisis is just the latest example of that. The more local the government, the more responsive it tends to be.
Copper is faster - 4ns/m vs 5ns/m for fiber optic. Copper has other difficulties with long runs, since it's very dependent on the impedance of the transmission line remaining consistent, susceptible to interference and so on, so fiber is just more practical for long runs. People seem to prefer fiber for short interconnects in the DC because it seems high tech, but copper is faster.
Maybe they're just sick of the old versions making them look bad, and they just want them to go away by replacing them with a better version?
It's not Windows 7 making them look bad. Windows users like Windows 7. Win10 is maybe better for touch screens, but very few Windows tablets shipped with Win7 in the first place.
Old versions of IE certainly make them look bad, but they could aggressively upgrade IE without forcing a change to OS version.
They were totalitarian in the same way. Their economic system differed, but that wasn't an important difference on balance. The danger is in giving power to a central authority, not specifically in an economic system. However, some economic systems can only work with a strong central authority, and are inherently dangerous because of that.
The days when we were protected by the Constitution passed decades ago. The SCOTUS members vote their political preference, and then justify that preference afterwards. The current SCOTUS is very close to accepting much of the above, and with one more leftwing member I wouldn't expect any resistance.
Take the same insane amounts of money we spend on warfare and put it into repairing our bodies, fighting diseases, ..
We spend more on Medicare than we do on the military. We spend more on social security than we spend on the military. What was your point again?
So ISIS doesn't exist? Boko Haram doesn't exist? If your solution to bad people is to pretend there are no bad people, that doesn't sound like a good strategy to me.
Well you'll be delighted to note that there is no constitutionally protected right to possess vehicles in the good US of A. So even if the federal government implements such a system (and it makes sense since the wear and tear of roads is not the same wether you drive a small car, a suv, a double decker or a heavy camion) you can't go crying to the autoequivalent of the NRA lol.
I used to be joking when I accused the left of wanting a totalitarian state. I wish I were still joking.
Are those who touted China centrally-planned economy as a great model still doing so this year? I've lost track, but I doubt their point was ever about the economy, but instead just looking for more centralized control. Those redneck racists in flyover country just keep making the wrong choices, don't you know.
Ah, that's a different problem than I thought we were discussing. I blame the growth obsession on the different tax treatment of growth (capital gains) vs dividends.