w what in the hell makes you think that state and more local accounts are less broke than the fed?
They're all of them either deeply in debt, or they rely on Federal money to keep the roads and schools and police running, or both.
A great point. The difference is: the local are failing now, and many of the have already adjusted to reality and learned they need to cut the politically popular stuff too (and discovered it wasn't the end of the world).. Even the city in California I used to live in has already seen the truth and changed their direction on spending.
By the time the federal government falls down, many local and sate governments will have already dusted themselves off and started over.
But that wasn't my point - my point was that even when there is a clear long term downside to the company for doing X, but X makes a bit more profit this quarter, we don't even get that right. That should be a far more addressable problem than the tragedy of the commons (though, again, a corporation that wasn't led by lying sociopaths would do far less externalizing of costs)..
It would make things better if companies went back to caring about their own long-term self interest. That used to be far more common, at least among companies that had survived long term already.
I've never seen any sort of reasonable proposal for dealing with the tragedy of the commons long term, because regulatory capture is inevitable. The best, most rational cases of regulation are as short lived as the mythical unregulated free market. But if you have a magic answer to not having the government oversight done by lying sociopaths (often the exact same lying sociopaths who run the companies they regulate, at some other point in their lives), then that would be nifty.
Maybe they should start by requiring the military to demonstrate how everything it spends is in the 'National Interest'.
I think you'd lose a lot of pork.
The military has been doing that for years. These days, the primary skill needed by general officers is planning equipment and staff reductions while keeping some ability to fight. It's quite eye-opening to watch the talks by senior military staff that make their way to YouTube, and see e.g. an admiral talking about how the Navy plans to lose a carrier battle group - not in war, but to congress.
For everyone who delights in America having a weaker military, don't worry, it's definitely coming. This NSF story is just one of hundreds of similar stories (but this one is News for Nerds).
We're broke. The congresscritters are cutting everything except checks mailed to supporters as fast as they can. I expect a 5-10 year reprieve soon here, as the economy is recovering and the tax base along with it, but at the next economic downturn it will all collapse.
Oh, well, the important stuff (other then the military) is done at the state and local level anyhow. Roads and schools and police and firefighting and so on can get by without a functional federal government (some would argue that's already the case).
Oh, I just assume Netflix is unwilling to spend another cent on older titles, so when enough break, that's that. They have no love for their "legacy" DVD business.
Sure, but that sort of example is rare. There's no need for a system to be perfect, just better. It's widely recognized that the biggest problem with corporate governance today is too much short-term focus, but there aren't any good ideas for fixing that. I think that fixing the taxing of dividends would help immensely - corporations focus on quarterly growth and dividends are often avoided mostly for tax reasons. Back when what made a top-tier company was the ability to sustain dividends through a downturn, long-term planning was required.
I've had a 480p TV for 10 years. I just now switched to a big HDTV. I usually can't tell the difference between DVD quality and HD, even playing from bluray with good equipment. I can't stream HD for shit, though I'm content streaming Netflix at DVD quality on the rare occasion they have something worth watching.
I've been doing that for about 10 years now. I keep a mix of stuff in my Netflix queue, so I'll always have something at home for the mood I'm in, and that's all the planning needed really.
What exactly is more convenient than picking up the TV remote and selecting the next video to play?
Skip forward 10 seconds, and watch the stream have to start buffering all over again, despite the fact that it already had that data buffered (stupid DRM implementations). Rewind or fast forward in any way.
Nothing beats having the title on hard disk, and DVD is the next best thing. Sure, the latency of a DVD-by-mail program sucks, but I've always been OK with that personally.
As far as price: DVD rental by mail with a vast catalog to rent is a better deal to me than streaming and nothing I want to watch.
Obviously, torrents win on both convenience and price, but I'm more than happy to pay Netflix to rent DVDs - though sadly they seem to be letting that business fail.
What really pisses me off right now is that Netflix is slowly killing their DVD business. Half the titles in my queue have become "short wait" this year, as Netflix stops buying replacements for broken discs. Very disappointing - I really like their DVD service.
Wow - that's the best thing I've read all day. Yes, that does seem to be where we're heading until the last, great bubble bursts (the sovereign debt bubble) and most of the banks vanish along with it.
Well, democracy, just like market-based economics, is terrible, except it's better than anything else that's been tried. If you have a system for choosing leaders that doesn't give an advantage to lying sociopaths, and isn't based on sophomoric naivity, that would be great - we could use it for corporate governance too!
Really, just fixing the corporate side would be enough. There's nothing wrong IMO with profit-seeking, if mixed with long-term self interest (which pretty much requires taking the interest of the community into account) instead of immediate greed.
The best wins I've personally seen are in hardware support for remote employees. Moving a hardware issue from "a tech will come visit you" to "we've fedexd you a new one" was an amazing difference, but that was thin clients not BYOD. Cost of device wasn't directly a good measure (it costs a lot for a good remote desktop management solution), but "cheap enough to stop trying to repair" was what mattered.
Sure, but given enough altruism, there's no tragedy of the common in the first place. That's the fundamental flaw with communism: it requires more altruism than the greed-based market systems, and so cannot possibly be a solution to the problem of "too much greed".
Also, those sociopaths running things? That's never going to change under any system, so choose the system that works best with individuals being greedy and leaders being sociopaths! Market-based economies are the least-bad solution discovered so far.
Don't both VMware and Citrix already offer commercial browser-based RDP solutions? Really, the only interesting part of this is that it's a FOSS solution. The engineering work needed to do RDP well is immense - change your streaming encoding on the fly as available bandwidth changes, detect that this rectangle is playing a movie, that rectangle is scrolling text, and the rest is static, and so on.
Doing RDP at all is easy; doing it well is impressive.
If it matters whether endpoint devices are "secure" you're doing BYOD completely wrong. You never let the endpoints have a file, or anything else of value that could be harvested if the device were stolen. You want them as stateless at the thin clients.
As for maintain, that's just like the car you use to get to work: your problem. That's why businesses love BYOD - it pushes the most equipment concerns off of support and on to the employee.
Boeing is a research company first, doing "real engineering". Fords success came from introducing new models and features - perhaps not very geeky R&D, but still new engineering.
Microsoft owns the "business desktop" for as long as it will continue to exist - eventually the concept will fade, replaced by BYOD and thin clients talking to cloud apps. Sure, that will take a decade at least, but no one big enough to matter is going to enter an obviously fading market.
Google's arrogance with this stuff is pushing me to finally leave gmail for outlook.com. As much as the same sort or arrogance annoys me with Windows 8, somehow outlook.com has escaped the terrors of "designers" and is the simple, clean UI that gmail was 10 years ago.
I have little at risk if anyone but financial institutions gets this stuff wrong. Taking the time to contest a fraudulent CC charge is really the risk. Financial institutions worry me less as they get proper auditing, and I use a separate password for those, but that's about it.
Or at least to not expect any more smarts than you're willing to invest yourself.
That's a terrible life strategy. You can't be an expert in much, and depending on experts in everything else (but holding them accountable if they screw up) is appropriate.
Right, because the hackers would never ever think to create an account with a weak password ahead of time. The blame here falls on the attackers, and on Adobe. None at all on the users.
anyhow, almost any 2l or bigger motored car goes over 210 so what's the point here?
That was my first thought here. Every other car in Tesla's class (the V8 luxury sedans, all with similar HP) is either limited to 250 KPH (156 MPH), or goes a lot faster for the few with expensive tires. Going over 100 safely is all about tires and getting enough downforce to not lift off the road. I wouldn't think the Tesla would have either problem getting to 250! Beyond 250 you really do need tires that would noticeably inflate the price of the car, so few models come that way.
Florida uses airborne traffic enforcement heavily. When I used to drive down the length the peninsula, I had a nice mileage log with the location of every enforcement zone on the route noted. Handy, that.
Slashdot Mirror
w what in the hell makes you think that state and more local accounts are less broke than the fed?
They're all of them either deeply in debt, or they rely on Federal money to keep the roads and schools and police running, or both.
A great point. The difference is: the local are failing now, and many of the have already adjusted to reality and learned they need to cut the politically popular stuff too (and discovered it wasn't the end of the world).. Even the city in California I used to live in has already seen the truth and changed their direction on spending.
By the time the federal government falls down, many local and sate governments will have already dusted themselves off and started over.
But that wasn't my point - my point was that even when there is a clear long term downside to the company for doing X, but X makes a bit more profit this quarter, we don't even get that right. That should be a far more addressable problem than the tragedy of the commons (though, again, a corporation that wasn't led by lying sociopaths would do far less externalizing of costs)..
It would make things better if companies went back to caring about their own long-term self interest. That used to be far more common, at least among companies that had survived long term already.
I've never seen any sort of reasonable proposal for dealing with the tragedy of the commons long term, because regulatory capture is inevitable. The best, most rational cases of regulation are as short lived as the mythical unregulated free market. But if you have a magic answer to not having the government oversight done by lying sociopaths (often the exact same lying sociopaths who run the companies they regulate, at some other point in their lives), then that would be nifty.
Maybe they should start by requiring the military to demonstrate how everything it spends is in the 'National Interest'.
I think you'd lose a lot of pork.
The military has been doing that for years. These days, the primary skill needed by general officers is planning equipment and staff reductions while keeping some ability to fight. It's quite eye-opening to watch the talks by senior military staff that make their way to YouTube, and see e.g. an admiral talking about how the Navy plans to lose a carrier battle group - not in war, but to congress.
For everyone who delights in America having a weaker military, don't worry, it's definitely coming. This NSF story is just one of hundreds of similar stories (but this one is News for Nerds).
We're broke. The congresscritters are cutting everything except checks mailed to supporters as fast as they can. I expect a 5-10 year reprieve soon here, as the economy is recovering and the tax base along with it, but at the next economic downturn it will all collapse.
Oh, well, the important stuff (other then the military) is done at the state and local level anyhow. Roads and schools and police and firefighting and so on can get by without a functional federal government (some would argue that's already the case).
Oh, I just assume Netflix is unwilling to spend another cent on older titles, so when enough break, that's that. They have no love for their "legacy" DVD business.
Sure, but that sort of example is rare. There's no need for a system to be perfect, just better. It's widely recognized that the biggest problem with corporate governance today is too much short-term focus, but there aren't any good ideas for fixing that. I think that fixing the taxing of dividends would help immensely - corporations focus on quarterly growth and dividends are often avoided mostly for tax reasons. Back when what made a top-tier company was the ability to sustain dividends through a downturn, long-term planning was required.
I've had a 480p TV for 10 years. I just now switched to a big HDTV. I usually can't tell the difference between DVD quality and HD, even playing from bluray with good equipment. I can't stream HD for shit, though I'm content streaming Netflix at DVD quality on the rare occasion they have something worth watching.
I've been doing that for about 10 years now. I keep a mix of stuff in my Netflix queue, so I'll always have something at home for the mood I'm in, and that's all the planning needed really.
What exactly is more convenient than picking up the TV remote and selecting the next video to play?
Skip forward 10 seconds, and watch the stream have to start buffering all over again, despite the fact that it already had that data buffered (stupid DRM implementations). Rewind or fast forward in any way.
Nothing beats having the title on hard disk, and DVD is the next best thing. Sure, the latency of a DVD-by-mail program sucks, but I've always been OK with that personally.
As far as price: DVD rental by mail with a vast catalog to rent is a better deal to me than streaming and nothing I want to watch.
Obviously, torrents win on both convenience and price, but I'm more than happy to pay Netflix to rent DVDs - though sadly they seem to be letting that business fail.
What really pisses me off right now is that Netflix is slowly killing their DVD business. Half the titles in my queue have become "short wait" this year, as Netflix stops buying replacements for broken discs. Very disappointing - I really like their DVD service.
Sort of like shoe shops in Hitchhikers.
Wow - that's the best thing I've read all day. Yes, that does seem to be where we're heading until the last, great bubble bursts (the sovereign debt bubble) and most of the banks vanish along with it.
Well, democracy, just like market-based economics, is terrible, except it's better than anything else that's been tried. If you have a system for choosing leaders that doesn't give an advantage to lying sociopaths, and isn't based on sophomoric naivity, that would be great - we could use it for corporate governance too!
Really, just fixing the corporate side would be enough. There's nothing wrong IMO with profit-seeking, if mixed with long-term self interest (which pretty much requires taking the interest of the community into account) instead of immediate greed.
The best wins I've personally seen are in hardware support for remote employees. Moving a hardware issue from "a tech will come visit you" to "we've fedexd you a new one" was an amazing difference, but that was thin clients not BYOD. Cost of device wasn't directly a good measure (it costs a lot for a good remote desktop management solution), but "cheap enough to stop trying to repair" was what mattered.
In central Florida there's a company called "Florida Business Interiors" with vans all over the place. Those always cracked me up.
Sure, but given enough altruism, there's no tragedy of the common in the first place. That's the fundamental flaw with communism: it requires more altruism than the greed-based market systems, and so cannot possibly be a solution to the problem of "too much greed".
Also, those sociopaths running things? That's never going to change under any system, so choose the system that works best with individuals being greedy and leaders being sociopaths! Market-based economies are the least-bad solution discovered so far.
Don't both VMware and Citrix already offer commercial browser-based RDP solutions? Really, the only interesting part of this is that it's a FOSS solution. The engineering work needed to do RDP well is immense - change your streaming encoding on the fly as available bandwidth changes, detect that this rectangle is playing a movie, that rectangle is scrolling text, and the rest is static, and so on.
Doing RDP at all is easy; doing it well is impressive.
If it matters whether endpoint devices are "secure" you're doing BYOD completely wrong. You never let the endpoints have a file, or anything else of value that could be harvested if the device were stolen. You want them as stateless at the thin clients.
As for maintain, that's just like the car you use to get to work: your problem. That's why businesses love BYOD - it pushes the most equipment concerns off of support and on to the employee.
Boeing is a research company first, doing "real engineering". Fords success came from introducing new models and features - perhaps not very geeky R&D, but still new engineering.
Microsoft owns the "business desktop" for as long as it will continue to exist - eventually the concept will fade, replaced by BYOD and thin clients talking to cloud apps. Sure, that will take a decade at least, but no one big enough to matter is going to enter an obviously fading market.
Google's arrogance with this stuff is pushing me to finally leave gmail for outlook.com. As much as the same sort or arrogance annoys me with Windows 8, somehow outlook.com has escaped the terrors of "designers" and is the simple, clean UI that gmail was 10 years ago.
Still, if Adobe actually encrypted all these with AES and a strong key, no one should be able to find the key. However, I suspect the worst of Adobe.
I have little at risk if anyone but financial institutions gets this stuff wrong. Taking the time to contest a fraudulent CC charge is really the risk. Financial institutions worry me less as they get proper auditing, and I use a separate password for those, but that's about it.
Or at least to not expect any more smarts than you're willing to invest yourself.
That's a terrible life strategy. You can't be an expert in much, and depending on experts in everything else (but holding them accountable if they screw up) is appropriate.
Right, because the hackers would never ever think to create an account with a weak password ahead of time. The blame here falls on the attackers, and on Adobe. None at all on the users.
I have a far better "best practice": I choose a memorable password, and I hold the business responsible if the business gets hacked.
anyhow, almost any 2l or bigger motored car goes over 210 so what's the point here?
That was my first thought here. Every other car in Tesla's class (the V8 luxury sedans, all with similar HP) is either limited to 250 KPH (156 MPH), or goes a lot faster for the few with expensive tires. Going over 100 safely is all about tires and getting enough downforce to not lift off the road. I wouldn't think the Tesla would have either problem getting to 250! Beyond 250 you really do need tires that would noticeably inflate the price of the car, so few models come that way.
Florida uses airborne traffic enforcement heavily. When I used to drive down the length the peninsula, I had a nice mileage log with the location of every enforcement zone on the route noted. Handy, that.