It seems like every machine I've ever used in a co-lo has had it's drac/ilo card available remotely. That's the point of those cards, after all: so you can get into a machine that has crashed hard and do something to recover it.
Cloud service providers, at least IME, lock down this stuff pretty thoroughly since they only give VMs to customers and so don't need to allow direct access to the management cards from outside the datacenter, and are strict with ports and ACLs even inside the DC. But small companies with a few machines in a co-lo? This could get ugly.
If you've ever actually used those libraries, there's nothing magically safer about them. You can more easily port old code to those libraries in such a way that all vulnerabilities are maintained than you can port and do it right. So it comes down to code review during the port. You get the same safety with the same code review without actually porting anything.
Those libraries (with good code review) are like a "W2K safe" sticker of yesteryear: a sign that someone looked at the problem, which is great, but doesn't necessarily mean anything.
IME the important thing to look for in older code is not the bounds checking, but whether there's an error path at all. It's all too common for some leaf function to avoid a buffer overrun and set come error code, but the calling code was never changed to care about the error code, so something very odd happens 47 calls down the road. This is why IMO using a language with exceptions is the key to security - you don't need the language to provide bounds-checked arrays, you can always write that library, but you really want an unhandled error to be a crash, not an unpredictable state no one thought about during design!
The last thing you'd ever want is a defined-benefit retirement fund that puts you at someone else mercy. Fuck that noise. Invest - own the means of production yourownself. Avoid the scam artists and have patience, and that story has a happy ending.
The Black Plague was the worst of an amazing catalog of plagues that were common early in the last millennium. Chart the problem over time. Before the vaccine deniers started their BS, it was constant and steady progress towards elimination of death by infectious disease.
I would need years to be able to buy something with the interests of the invested money.
And you could have ice cream today! All the ice cream you want! Adulthood means thinking about the future, not just today. It's taking me 15 years of living off half my take-home to get to where I could retire if I wanted to, and it will take 5-10 more to retire in comfort (depending on how much comfort I want to seek). But it works, and it's not rocket science, it's just making wealth a priority in your life.
Not willing to make it a priority? Then you have no just complain about not getting the reward.
But don't look for "interest rates", look for ownership of the means of production - common stock index funds, or commercial real estate, or, heck, get real financial advice from a professional and not some internet stranger. But don't claim there's no path to get to wealth - it's not a clear, well-trodden path, to be sure, nor it it always easy going, but there is a path.
Nice, But first you need to lift it there. I haven't done the math but to get all the industry up there it will take a lot of time and a lot if resources that we don't have.
You don't lift all the industry up there - you build it there.
Of course, industry doesn't need to be "lifted" to space, it could be just build there and _substitute_ the one on earth... but the main problem would continue being the people on earth and the scale of time involved in developing space to provide the energy and goods to be consumed on earth.
Yeah, like that - all the power and raw materials you could every need are up there already, and not all that hard to reach even by modern technology. I expect to see early attempts at asteroid mining (but for fuel, not metal) and orbiting solar power stations in my lifetime.
It will take a couple centuries, I'm sure, but what's the rush?
But more importantly, it would take that people stop thinking in immediate benefits and this means just bluntly to device a new system different from capitalism.
Well, a new kind of capitalism. There's nothing incompatible between capitalism and long-term vision for immense profits, it's the patience we lack today. But cultural advancement to enable large projects is part of technological advancement.
And unless there is a way to take massive amounts of people or industry out to space whith a low impact on he environment and energy need we may be facing the fact that we would need more time and more resources that what we have.
That is just silly scaremongering. There's a lot of available solar power just in accessible land areas - enough for 11-12 billion to consume the power the average American does today, without shading so much land as to become an environmental catastrophe of its own.
but the only thing stopping us from realising it is capitalism itself.
There's nothing about short-term thinking that's special to capitalism. Governments and cultures seem to go through cycles from lots of optimism and long-term visions down slowly to "someone else work and give me all the things today!" and then collapse. Western culture is near the nadir of that cycle, and I'm sure it will get worse before it gets better (junkies always need to hit bottom), but don't panic over extending some portion of a cycle indefinitely.
Yep - the way most (political) blogs work today, where every quote is linked and every link generally produces a backlink thanks to the blogging software.
I agree, it's better than the raw web for "web 2.0" stuff. Funny how the wheel turns back around.
You missed something. This was the fundamental, original idea that TBL made happen as the Web. Hypertext documents linking to one another across servers and authors, across the world. 10 years ago, I would have said that this was naive academic work, and TBL got it right with the very flexible WWW we have today.
While the "all links are backlinks too" idea was neat, and most blogs want to work that way and have to do extra work to make it so, it's the core principle of "not censorable" really shines through.
I guess "Wikipedia in the wild early days before deletionism" is the closest to this idea, if Wikipedia had no central servers for offended governments to target. But missing from this still-academic project is the strong anonymity needed for free speech in the modern world, plus real hardening against malicious governments.
In e.g. India, being a software developer for a multinational is the best paying most prestigious job you can have (like anywhere, the fact that you have a job means you can never really be upper class). Boy or girl, if you show any talent you'll be not just encouraged but pushed into the career by parents and schools. Much like parents here in some subcultures lean heavily on their kids to become doctors or lawyers, regardless of gender.
That's not the culture here, sadly. There's still a theme throughout our culture that girls who prefer engineering are doing "girl" wrong, which you don't see with doctors or lawyers.
Damn, yes! My bag of glow-in-the-dark zombies sits sadly alone.
I'm the first to scoff at "diversity" nonsense, but for once I think this is a great change. America needs more girls playing with legos, if that's any hint at all they may become engineers. We're sadly behind nations like India and China when it comes to needless cultural obstacles.
What they were was the "jackbooted thugs" that created the term. They were police in the sense the FBI is, or more appropriately the way most dictators need a smaller elite military police force to keep the rest of the police and military in line.
I don't know of any "rogue traders" that were working for retirement funds (admittedly, I could have missed one). You do understand the difference between investment banking and honest finance, right?
As for plague and starvation, history is on my side. 1000 years of solid progress in both respects.
If you're holding a significant amount of dollars, you're doing it wrong. Dollars aren't supposed to retain value, they're supposed to be an intermediary for trade. Invest, my Slashdot freak, whether index fund or rental property or whatever real financial advice you can get, but invest.
Oh, sure, that's would be a real problem without further technological progress, there's no doubt about that. Up to the point power generation is small compared to Solar influx, it doesn't matter. Beyond that, why generate the power on Earth? Why use it on Earth? Why have any groundside heavy industry at all? Given enough progress, there's no point in allowing any sort of industrial blight anywhere on-planet.
Wait, are they dumping it in the stock market, or is it sitting there collecting dust?
The stock market is behaving normally for the flip from pessimism to optimism. That flip is a prerequisite for companies shifting from fearful (not willing to hire more people they think they'd just have to lay off again in a few months) to greedy (we better hire now or will miss out on all that growth).
It's the same pattern you see every 15 years or so, just the business cycle as usual. The employment picture sucked far worse than is has in nearly 100 years this time around (thanks, bailouts!), so there's a long climb ahead, but we're climbing.
What does sense have to do with it. But since it's not how elite soldiers dress today, I doubt the cops will be either (well, except motorcycle cops, but they actually have an excuse).
And do you have a plan to reduce the surplus population? A final solution, perhaps? That opinion piece seems wrong on every point. At some point we'd obviously need more room than this one planet, sure, but that's far beyond the expected peak population as the remaining corners of the world industrialize and the incentive to have lots of kids goes away. At some point the total solar energy falling on the Earth will be inadequate, but that's also just a matter of technology.
Most of the money in the market is in the hands of retirement funds and other long-term investors. The gambling-addicted nutjobs provide liquidity while not harming anything but each other. More power to them, says I. Don't confuse the investment banks for the broader investing world, nor the people who actually run the exchanges.
Plus, what's all that other nonsense you're going on about? Overpopulation? Do people still believe Reverend Malthus? Technology is what lets us have growth in productivity/efficiency with the same resources. There's no reason to think technological progress must someday stop, and as long that progress continues, the broad economy can grow alongside it.
Because I understand how markets work. Thin markets suck. Large bid-ask gaps suck. Losing 20% of your investment because you made a typo, and you take a 20% hit just between the best price you can buy for and the best price you can sell for sucks.
Let the casino gamblers provide liquidity, and rob each other. It doesn't actually cost us anything - in fact, competition between market makers (which is one thing HFT is used for) saves me a non-trivial amount in my once-per-quarter trading. It's much nicer now than even 10 years ago.
I'm waiting for the police to begin wearing actual jackboots again!
In a sense they are though. In the 40s, the boots cavalry officers wore were seen as how elite troops dressed, so police who would never ride a horse wore jackboots and black uniforms and the rest of it to look as intimidating as possible. Now we have militarized police in the US with armored cars, assault rifles, body armor, and sure enough black uniforms on raids. Sigh.
The solution you pulled out of you ass after thinking about it for 5 minutes is clearly better than what the professional experts believe. Do you have an opinion on Dark Matter too? Or the gold standard perhaps?
I wish you the joy of making a typo when buying or selling shares in your system. In today's system, people who hold shares for multiple years are the ones who do well long term, gradually harvesting money from the casino gamblers. I like today's system.
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No, he would have started his reply with the word "No" as well.
It seems like every machine I've ever used in a co-lo has had it's drac/ilo card available remotely. That's the point of those cards, after all: so you can get into a machine that has crashed hard and do something to recover it.
Cloud service providers, at least IME, lock down this stuff pretty thoroughly since they only give VMs to customers and so don't need to allow direct access to the management cards from outside the datacenter, and are strict with ports and ACLs even inside the DC. But small companies with a few machines in a co-lo? This could get ugly.
If you've ever actually used those libraries, there's nothing magically safer about them. You can more easily port old code to those libraries in such a way that all vulnerabilities are maintained than you can port and do it right. So it comes down to code review during the port. You get the same safety with the same code review without actually porting anything.
Those libraries (with good code review) are like a "W2K safe" sticker of yesteryear: a sign that someone looked at the problem, which is great, but doesn't necessarily mean anything.
IME the important thing to look for in older code is not the bounds checking, but whether there's an error path at all. It's all too common for some leaf function to avoid a buffer overrun and set come error code, but the calling code was never changed to care about the error code, so something very odd happens 47 calls down the road. This is why IMO using a language with exceptions is the key to security - you don't need the language to provide bounds-checked arrays, you can always write that library, but you really want an unhandled error to be a crash, not an unpredictable state no one thought about during design!
Well, there's definitely a planet 4000 miles from me. It's not another planet, but that's really OK by me.
The last thing you'd ever want is a defined-benefit retirement fund that puts you at someone else mercy. Fuck that noise. Invest - own the means of production yourownself. Avoid the scam artists and have patience, and that story has a happy ending.
The Black Plague was the worst of an amazing catalog of plagues that were common early in the last millennium. Chart the problem over time. Before the vaccine deniers started their BS, it was constant and steady progress towards elimination of death by infectious disease.
I would need years to be able to buy something with the interests of the invested money.
And you could have ice cream today! All the ice cream you want! Adulthood means thinking about the future, not just today. It's taking me 15 years of living off half my take-home to get to where I could retire if I wanted to, and it will take 5-10 more to retire in comfort (depending on how much comfort I want to seek). But it works, and it's not rocket science, it's just making wealth a priority in your life.
Not willing to make it a priority? Then you have no just complain about not getting the reward.
But don't look for "interest rates", look for ownership of the means of production - common stock index funds, or commercial real estate, or, heck, get real financial advice from a professional and not some internet stranger. But don't claim there's no path to get to wealth - it's not a clear, well-trodden path, to be sure, nor it it always easy going, but there is a path.
Nice, But first you need to lift it there. I haven't done the math but to get all the industry up there it will take a lot of time and a lot if resources that we don't have.
You don't lift all the industry up there - you build it there.
Of course, industry doesn't need to be "lifted" to space, it could be just build there and _substitute_ the one on earth... but the main problem would continue being the people on earth and the scale of time involved in developing space to provide the energy and goods to be consumed on earth.
Yeah, like that - all the power and raw materials you could every need are up there already, and not all that hard to reach even by modern technology. I expect to see early attempts at asteroid mining (but for fuel, not metal) and orbiting solar power stations in my lifetime.
It will take a couple centuries, I'm sure, but what's the rush?
But more importantly, it would take that people stop thinking in immediate benefits and this means just bluntly to device a new system different from capitalism.
Well, a new kind of capitalism. There's nothing incompatible between capitalism and long-term vision for immense profits, it's the patience we lack today. But cultural advancement to enable large projects is part of technological advancement.
And unless there is a way to take massive amounts of people or industry out to space whith a low impact on he environment and energy need we may be facing the fact that we would need more time and more resources that what we have.
That is just silly scaremongering. There's a lot of available solar power just in accessible land areas - enough for 11-12 billion to consume the power the average American does today, without shading so much land as to become an environmental catastrophe of its own.
but the only thing stopping us from realising it is capitalism itself.
There's nothing about short-term thinking that's special to capitalism. Governments and cultures seem to go through cycles from lots of optimism and long-term visions down slowly to "someone else work and give me all the things today!" and then collapse. Western culture is near the nadir of that cycle, and I'm sure it will get worse before it gets better (junkies always need to hit bottom), but don't panic over extending some portion of a cycle indefinitely.
Yep - the way most (political) blogs work today, where every quote is linked and every link generally produces a backlink thanks to the blogging software.
I agree, it's better than the raw web for "web 2.0" stuff. Funny how the wheel turns back around.
You missed something. This was the fundamental, original idea that TBL made happen as the Web. Hypertext documents linking to one another across servers and authors, across the world. 10 years ago, I would have said that this was naive academic work, and TBL got it right with the very flexible WWW we have today.
While the "all links are backlinks too" idea was neat, and most blogs want to work that way and have to do extra work to make it so, it's the core principle of "not censorable" really shines through.
I guess "Wikipedia in the wild early days before deletionism" is the closest to this idea, if Wikipedia had no central servers for offended governments to target. But missing from this still-academic project is the strong anonymity needed for free speech in the modern world, plus real hardening against malicious governments.
In e.g. India, being a software developer for a multinational is the best paying most prestigious job you can have (like anywhere, the fact that you have a job means you can never really be upper class). Boy or girl, if you show any talent you'll be not just encouraged but pushed into the career by parents and schools. Much like parents here in some subcultures lean heavily on their kids to become doctors or lawyers, regardless of gender.
That's not the culture here, sadly. There's still a theme throughout our culture that girls who prefer engineering are doing "girl" wrong, which you don't see with doctors or lawyers.
Damn, yes! My bag of glow-in-the-dark zombies sits sadly alone.
I'm the first to scoff at "diversity" nonsense, but for once I think this is a great change. America needs more girls playing with legos, if that's any hint at all they may become engineers. We're sadly behind nations like India and China when it comes to needless cultural obstacles.
What they were was the "jackbooted thugs" that created the term. They were police in the sense the FBI is, or more appropriately the way most dictators need a smaller elite military police force to keep the rest of the police and military in line.
I don't know of any "rogue traders" that were working for retirement funds (admittedly, I could have missed one). You do understand the difference between investment banking and honest finance, right?
As for plague and starvation, history is on my side. 1000 years of solid progress in both respects.
If you're holding a significant amount of dollars, you're doing it wrong. Dollars aren't supposed to retain value, they're supposed to be an intermediary for trade. Invest, my Slashdot freak, whether index fund or rental property or whatever real financial advice you can get, but invest.
Oh, sure, that's would be a real problem without further technological progress, there's no doubt about that. Up to the point power generation is small compared to Solar influx, it doesn't matter. Beyond that, why generate the power on Earth? Why use it on Earth? Why have any groundside heavy industry at all? Given enough progress, there's no point in allowing any sort of industrial blight anywhere on-planet.
Sure, that's centuries away, but so is the need.
Wait, are they dumping it in the stock market, or is it sitting there collecting dust?
The stock market is behaving normally for the flip from pessimism to optimism. That flip is a prerequisite for companies shifting from fearful (not willing to hire more people they think they'd just have to lay off again in a few months) to greedy (we better hire now or will miss out on all that growth).
It's the same pattern you see every 15 years or so, just the business cycle as usual. The employment picture sucked far worse than is has in nearly 100 years this time around (thanks, bailouts!), so there's a long climb ahead, but we're climbing.
The SS cared not for logic, rationality, nor utility. It was all about the murder, and the nifty uniforms.
What does sense have to do with it. But since it's not how elite soldiers dress today, I doubt the cops will be either (well, except motorcycle cops, but they actually have an excuse).
And do you have a plan to reduce the surplus population? A final solution, perhaps? That opinion piece seems wrong on every point. At some point we'd obviously need more room than this one planet, sure, but that's far beyond the expected peak population as the remaining corners of the world industrialize and the incentive to have lots of kids goes away. At some point the total solar energy falling on the Earth will be inadequate, but that's also just a matter of technology.
Most of the money in the market is in the hands of retirement funds and other long-term investors. The gambling-addicted nutjobs provide liquidity while not harming anything but each other. More power to them, says I. Don't confuse the investment banks for the broader investing world, nor the people who actually run the exchanges.
Plus, what's all that other nonsense you're going on about? Overpopulation? Do people still believe Reverend Malthus? Technology is what lets us have growth in productivity/efficiency with the same resources. There's no reason to think technological progress must someday stop, and as long that progress continues, the broad economy can grow alongside it.
Because I understand how markets work. Thin markets suck. Large bid-ask gaps suck. Losing 20% of your investment because you made a typo, and you take a 20% hit just between the best price you can buy for and the best price you can sell for sucks.
Let the casino gamblers provide liquidity, and rob each other. It doesn't actually cost us anything - in fact, competition between market makers (which is one thing HFT is used for) saves me a non-trivial amount in my once-per-quarter trading. It's much nicer now than even 10 years ago.
I'm waiting for the police to begin wearing actual jackboots again!
In a sense they are though. In the 40s, the boots cavalry officers wore were seen as how elite troops dressed, so police who would never ride a horse wore jackboots and black uniforms and the rest of it to look as intimidating as possible. Now we have militarized police in the US with armored cars, assault rifles, body armor, and sure enough black uniforms on raids. Sigh.
The solution you pulled out of you ass after thinking about it for 5 minutes is clearly better than what the professional experts believe. Do you have an opinion on Dark Matter too? Or the gold standard perhaps?
I wish you the joy of making a typo when buying or selling shares in your system. In today's system, people who hold shares for multiple years are the ones who do well long term, gradually harvesting money from the casino gamblers. I like today's system.
Well, I panicked when it was AT&T buying them, but that ended well. Fingers crossed on this one.