That measures hidden services traffic, not TOR traffic. I'm not surprised, with Silk Road gone, that 80% of the remaining hidden server traffic is CP - hidden services are mostly for protecting the host (which they've historically done a suspiciously terrible job of), so you expect hidden services to mostly be serving stuff that's illegal for the host. I'd guess the main use of TOR is anonymous access to normal web sites - sites which may be illegal (or just embarrassing) where the client is, but not where the server is. (Or to do something illegal or unwanted to said legal sites - in the early days, TOR was quite popular for forum trolling).
You could probably look at total exit node traffic vs an estimate of hidden services traffic to get real numbers.
One historical note: the Patriot Act merely extended "you have no rights if we just say that you're a drug dealer" to "you have no rights if we just say that you're a drug dealer or terrorist". Be very wary what power you give the government - they never give any back.
I think my Android phone is running 2.2? Whatever the first version that you could get on non-Google hardware was. What is this "patching" of which you speak?
hope that one day we'll come up with a way to recover images and sounds from the past.
There's a book about this - Clarke and someone? Starts with people realizing that the past includes times recent enough to be considered the present, and ends with everyone getting used to the panopticon and abandoning the idea of privacy for anything. Not what I'd wish for.
Adding Unicode for names would be nice but it also would probably introduce a ton of bugs in the process making the game less stable again. Plus, using the same character for different monsters is *part of the game*. If you get lazy and don't look if the G is a gnome vs gargoyle or something, the mistake is supposed to cost you.
Thanks for reminding me why I don't play Nethack - briefly I was tempted.
Why are people commenting on nuclear power production - TFA was about nuclear weapon production, right? Or am I just confused?
Not to disagree with your points in general, but nuclear power isn't suffering from a negative learning curve so much as we're still using the same plants we built so long ago before we learned all this! Design a modern plant for "keep inevitable accidents cheap and easy to deal with" and you can get just that. Pebble bed, for all that it's a back-of-the-napkin "hey, what if" design, fixes a lot of the common problems (because the common problems are more about fuel/waste management), and is one of many approaches where the operators can't make it melt down no matter how incompetent. Pebble bed still has issues and new failure modes, but it shows the difference in kind we could have if we actually cared.
IMO, the real problem is we've culturally lost the patience for large infrastructure projects. People like rooftop solar because it doesn't require trust in some large organization (government or corporate) to do a job right.
I care about good blacks for watching TV, which is why I love plasma TVs. But the "pretty good" blacks you get from an IPS screen seem fine for anything but lights-out movie watching.
Nope, you don't need PL/SQL. It depends on what you want to consider "part of SQL" but there are many clever hacks. If it's cool to store code in the DB itself, then all you need is some sort of WHILE or LOOP and a few lines of code that implement a universal Turing machine (preceded by creating the table and adding all the rows that represent the Turing machine, but that's all still SQL) . If you can construct a Cyclic Tag System, that's Turing complete (you can do that with subset of T-SQL: CTEs and Windowing functions - it's really surprising that's Turing complete but it is).
Remember, it doesn't take much. Combinator logic is a very simple pair of rewrite rules that is Turing complete.
Makes sense. I think the no-limit will come just as the technology matures (think how far chess-playing algorithms have come over the decades), but multi-player is just a different thing. I do believe bots will eventually win, but you're a long way towards AI when you have a bot modeling the psychology of a human. Heck, it's might be a better Turing test than a chat bot.
A bot might eventually master 2-player no-limit (and this one is only optimal for 2-player limit, right?). The bot and the human will have equal luck in reading one another. A more sophisticated bot could detect common betting strategies, and play common bettering strategies, and switch strategies at a critical moment, again making it on par with the human trying the same trick to fool the bot. But 2-player poker is odd to begin with.
Can you not see the difference between the ISP customer paying the ISP for more bandwidth, and the customer of some other ISP being extorted by your ISP to deliver content to you at the speed you paid for?
I've not been a fan of previous "Net Neutrality" efforts, because they didn't seem likely to fix the problem. This, however, is great. It totally undercuts the ISP extortion racket, without trying to fix a technical problem.
The big ISPs can always find a loophole in any law that tries to prevent throttling by some technical rules - that's what engineers do: we game a system to maximize some value. Bad approach. By instead saying "do whatever, but you can't charge money for priority access simply removes the incentive to do it in the first place. Good approach.
statistically, every molecule of H2O has at some time been inside a creature. So we are all drinking sewage/waste/carrion water.
Statistically, every glass of water has at thousands of water molecules from the Shit of Jesus (or the prophet of your choice), which makes it all holy water, right?
Let's check the math. There are about 1.4 * 10^21 L of water in the oceans (1.4 billion km^3). There are about 5.5 moles, or 3.3 * 10^25 molecules of water in a liter. So one liter of water mixed evenly in the oceans gives about 2 * 10^4 original molecules per liter of oceans. Heck, by holistic standards, it's all hyper-turbo-super-holy water!
Not Star Ttrek - Superman. Suneaters were a thing in the Superman books, IIRC - heck, didn't he have a pet suneater at some point, or was that only in the animation?
SQL is actually Turing complete, oddly enough (or is with the common extensions that all the major DBs support). The C++ template definition language is also, frighteningly enough, Turing complete. But a "programming language" doesn't have to be Turing complete to be such, instead it has to be a way of specifying algorithms.
What you're describing are formal languages. They are not programming languages because they don't define algorithms. Much like Boolean algebra is a formal language, but not a programming language.
Because when you are in a public place you have no right to the expectation of privacy.
Yes you do. Stop repeating that without even thinking about it.
I think we need a Constitutional amendment. Something to the effect of "the people have an expectation of privacy in a public space". Put an end to this nonsense.
Why? Snobbery is not taste, you know. YA genre fiction is often quite entertaining, and the prose quality of the Hunger Games books was fine. While the premise was a bit goofy, the writing was at least consistent.
My "actual data" would of course entail my relatives and friends, who indeed can "fix shit", while the current generation is mostly useless in that regard. Can't solder, can't crimp, can't change an oil filter or even headlight bulb, can't measure nor cut nor fasten lumber, etc. etc.
"Kids these days couldn't adjust the valves on an engine to save their lives. By the way, kid, could you come by and fix my PC sometime, it's slow again."
What counts as a useful life skill changes slowly over time. What used to be skills to let you make cool stuff on the cheap from discards is now a mostly-useless expensive hobby.
Still, to some extent I agree with you. There's so little these days providing incentive to be "handy" for kids in day-to-day life that many just don't learn the basics, and couldn't, say figure out how to fix a stuck disposal by looking it over and then trying a few tools. Good thing there's Google - it's a different world now, where you can look up anything simple if and when you ever actually need to.
Nah, it's nothing new. Friend of mine when we were teens had a 70s compact car - a VW Scirocco, or maybe that replaced this one - where you had to pull the engine to change the oil filter. No joke. The guy on the assembly line could install the filter easily because the engine wasn't in the car yet. Ahh, 70s cars.
Cars keep getting better - whens the last time you fiddled with points (or, heck, even had a mechanical distributer). What's changed is now there's no room in the engine compartment - everything's in there as tight as can be, to put maximum space in the cabin. There's a procedure and a tool for everything, and often service is easy if you've had the specialty training, but it's no longer designed for the average driver to just eyeball it and figure it out, beyond the most routine stuff.
But not only does the TSA do nothing to make air travel safer
Overstate much?
I agree with your sentiments and some of your points, but the above is preposterous. You really think if there were no security at airports we wouldn't have more shit go down on planes?
Read the thread you're replying to?
The TSA has not made air travel safer compared to what we had before 9/11! C'mon man! I'm really tired of heard "totalitarian state control is better than anarchy, so it's our only option." Do you realize there are non-extreme options? Do you realize moderation is better?
Do you realize the American Revolution was itself a rejection of Hobbes's ideas (he's not just a cartoon tiger, you know) that since tyranny beats anarchy, tyranny is our only rational choice? The Declaration of Independence was half-stolen from Locke's rebuttals of Hobbes's bullshit. This nation was explicitly founded on rejection of that proposition!
Just have a fucking metal detector that we walk through and x-ray luggage so that people don't bring loaded firearms and explosives onboard - these are more of a threat due to accidents and stupidity than terrorism, and well worth screening. No lines, no strip search, no one-quart plastic bag, no more fucking bullshit forced on us by a totalitarian state just so we accustom ourselves to exactly that BS!
That's just it: terrorists don't hate airplanes. But not only does the TSA do nothing to make air travel safer, even if it did it would be doing nothing to reduce the threat of terrorism. But even in some fantasy land where the TSA was actually helping it's not worth it. Dignity matters. Training people to put up with government strip searches even when there's no apparent threat is appalling. It's a fucking totalitarian nightmare, and every year it kills a large number of people because they drive instead of fly, and driving is the most dangerous thing most of us do (there's a CMU study behind that that came up on/. a while back).
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That measures hidden services traffic, not TOR traffic. I'm not surprised, with Silk Road gone, that 80% of the remaining hidden server traffic is CP - hidden services are mostly for protecting the host (which they've historically done a suspiciously terrible job of), so you expect hidden services to mostly be serving stuff that's illegal for the host. I'd guess the main use of TOR is anonymous access to normal web sites - sites which may be illegal (or just embarrassing) where the client is, but not where the server is. (Or to do something illegal or unwanted to said legal sites - in the early days, TOR was quite popular for forum trolling).
You could probably look at total exit node traffic vs an estimate of hidden services traffic to get real numbers.
One historical note: the Patriot Act merely extended "you have no rights if we just say that you're a drug dealer" to "you have no rights if we just say that you're a drug dealer or terrorist". Be very wary what power you give the government - they never give any back.
I think my Android phone is running 2.2? Whatever the first version that you could get on non-Google hardware was. What is this "patching" of which you speak?
hope that one day we'll come up with a way to recover images and sounds from the past.
There's a book about this - Clarke and someone? Starts with people realizing that the past includes times recent enough to be considered the present, and ends with everyone getting used to the panopticon and abandoning the idea of privacy for anything. Not what I'd wish for.
Adding Unicode for names would be nice but it also would probably introduce a ton of bugs in the process making the game less stable again. Plus, using the same character for different monsters is *part of the game*. If you get lazy and don't look if the G is a gnome vs gargoyle or something, the mistake is supposed to cost you.
Thanks for reminding me why I don't play Nethack - briefly I was tempted.
Why are people commenting on nuclear power production - TFA was about nuclear weapon production, right? Or am I just confused?
Not to disagree with your points in general, but nuclear power isn't suffering from a negative learning curve so much as we're still using the same plants we built so long ago before we learned all this! Design a modern plant for "keep inevitable accidents cheap and easy to deal with" and you can get just that. Pebble bed, for all that it's a back-of-the-napkin "hey, what if" design, fixes a lot of the common problems (because the common problems are more about fuel/waste management), and is one of many approaches where the operators can't make it melt down no matter how incompetent. Pebble bed still has issues and new failure modes, but it shows the difference in kind we could have if we actually cared.
IMO, the real problem is we've culturally lost the patience for large infrastructure projects. People like rooftop solar because it doesn't require trust in some large organization (government or corporate) to do a job right.
People still carry pagers, as they're much more reliable than cell phones. Pretty rare though.
Men typically lose 10db or so of top-octave hearing by the 40s - I can't hear jack above 17 kHz .
I care about good blacks for watching TV, which is why I love plasma TVs. But the "pretty good" blacks you get from an IPS screen seem fine for anything but lights-out movie watching.
Hence the subject "Related - the clack of wheels on the tracks".
Slashdot posts have subject lines? I've occasionally fallen and read TFA, but I've never stooped so low as to read a subject line.
Nope, you don't need PL/SQL. It depends on what you want to consider "part of SQL" but there are many clever hacks. If it's cool to store code in the DB itself, then all you need is some sort of WHILE or LOOP and a few lines of code that implement a universal Turing machine (preceded by creating the table and adding all the rows that represent the Turing machine, but that's all still SQL) . If you can construct a Cyclic Tag System, that's Turing complete (you can do that with subset of T-SQL: CTEs and Windowing functions - it's really surprising that's Turing complete but it is).
Remember, it doesn't take much. Combinator logic is a very simple pair of rewrite rules that is Turing complete.
Makes sense. I think the no-limit will come just as the technology matures (think how far chess-playing algorithms have come over the decades), but multi-player is just a different thing. I do believe bots will eventually win, but you're a long way towards AI when you have a bot modeling the psychology of a human. Heck, it's might be a better Turing test than a chat bot.
A bot might eventually master 2-player no-limit (and this one is only optimal for 2-player limit, right?). The bot and the human will have equal luck in reading one another. A more sophisticated bot could detect common betting strategies, and play common bettering strategies, and switch strategies at a critical moment, again making it on par with the human trying the same trick to fool the bot. But 2-player poker is odd to begin with.
Yeah, but it's a good dream.
Can you not see the difference between the ISP customer paying the ISP for more bandwidth, and the customer of some other ISP being extorted by your ISP to deliver content to you at the speed you paid for?
I've not been a fan of previous "Net Neutrality" efforts, because they didn't seem likely to fix the problem. This, however, is great. It totally undercuts the ISP extortion racket, without trying to fix a technical problem.
The big ISPs can always find a loophole in any law that tries to prevent throttling by some technical rules - that's what engineers do: we game a system to maximize some value. Bad approach. By instead saying "do whatever, but you can't charge money for priority access simply removes the incentive to do it in the first place. Good approach.
statistically, every molecule of H2O has at some time been inside a creature. So we are all drinking sewage/waste/carrion water.
Statistically, every glass of water has at thousands of water molecules from the Shit of Jesus (or the prophet of your choice), which makes it all holy water, right?
Let's check the math. There are about 1.4 * 10^21 L of water in the oceans (1.4 billion km^3). There are about 5.5 moles, or 3.3 * 10^25 molecules of water in a liter. So one liter of water mixed evenly in the oceans gives about 2 * 10^4 original molecules per liter of oceans. Heck, by holistic standards, it's all hyper-turbo-super-holy water!
Not Star Ttrek - Superman. Suneaters were a thing in the Superman books, IIRC - heck, didn't he have a pet suneater at some point, or was that only in the animation?
SQL is actually Turing complete, oddly enough (or is with the common extensions that all the major DBs support). The C++ template definition language is also, frighteningly enough, Turing complete. But a "programming language" doesn't have to be Turing complete to be such, instead it has to be a way of specifying algorithms.
What you're describing are formal languages. They are not programming languages because they don't define algorithms. Much like Boolean algebra is a formal language, but not a programming language.
Because when you are in a public place you have no right to the expectation of privacy.
Yes you do. Stop repeating that without even thinking about it.
I think we need a Constitutional amendment. Something to the effect of "the people have an expectation of privacy in a public space". Put an end to this nonsense.
Why? Snobbery is not taste, you know. YA genre fiction is often quite entertaining, and the prose quality of the Hunger Games books was fine. While the premise was a bit goofy, the writing was at least consistent.
My "actual data" would of course entail my relatives and friends, who indeed can "fix shit", while the current generation is mostly useless in that regard. Can't solder, can't crimp, can't change an oil filter or even headlight bulb, can't measure nor cut nor fasten lumber, etc. etc.
"Kids these days couldn't adjust the valves on an engine to save their lives. By the way, kid, could you come by and fix my PC sometime, it's slow again."
What counts as a useful life skill changes slowly over time. What used to be skills to let you make cool stuff on the cheap from discards is now a mostly-useless expensive hobby.
Still, to some extent I agree with you. There's so little these days providing incentive to be "handy" for kids in day-to-day life that many just don't learn the basics, and couldn't, say figure out how to fix a stuck disposal by looking it over and then trying a few tools. Good thing there's Google - it's a different world now, where you can look up anything simple if and when you ever actually need to.
Nah, it's nothing new. Friend of mine when we were teens had a 70s compact car - a VW Scirocco, or maybe that replaced this one - where you had to pull the engine to change the oil filter. No joke. The guy on the assembly line could install the filter easily because the engine wasn't in the car yet. Ahh, 70s cars.
Cars keep getting better - whens the last time you fiddled with points (or, heck, even had a mechanical distributer). What's changed is now there's no room in the engine compartment - everything's in there as tight as can be, to put maximum space in the cabin. There's a procedure and a tool for everything, and often service is easy if you've had the specialty training, but it's no longer designed for the average driver to just eyeball it and figure it out, beyond the most routine stuff.
But not only does the TSA do nothing to make air travel safer
Overstate much?
I agree with your sentiments and some of your points, but the above is preposterous. You really think if there were no security at airports we wouldn't have more shit go down on planes?
Read the thread you're replying to?
The TSA has not made air travel safer compared to what we had before 9/11! C'mon man! I'm really tired of heard "totalitarian state control is better than anarchy, so it's our only option." Do you realize there are non-extreme options? Do you realize moderation is better?
Do you realize the American Revolution was itself a rejection of Hobbes's ideas (he's not just a cartoon tiger, you know) that since tyranny beats anarchy, tyranny is our only rational choice? The Declaration of Independence was half-stolen from Locke's rebuttals of Hobbes's bullshit. This nation was explicitly founded on rejection of that proposition!
Just have a fucking metal detector that we walk through and x-ray luggage so that people don't bring loaded firearms and explosives onboard - these are more of a threat due to accidents and stupidity than terrorism, and well worth screening. No lines, no strip search, no one-quart plastic bag, no more fucking bullshit forced on us by a totalitarian state just so we accustom ourselves to exactly that BS!
That's just it: terrorists don't hate airplanes. But not only does the TSA do nothing to make air travel safer, even if it did it would be doing nothing to reduce the threat of terrorism. But even in some fantasy land where the TSA was actually helping it's not worth it. Dignity matters. Training people to put up with government strip searches even when there's no apparent threat is appalling. It's a fucking totalitarian nightmare, and every year it kills a large number of people because they drive instead of fly, and driving is the most dangerous thing most of us do (there's a CMU study behind that that came up on /. a while back).