BIND suffers from the fact that it's a database program without a real database inside. It dates from the days before UNIX/Linux had database programs.
Almost the only other major UNIX/Linux program with that problem is Sendmail, which should have died decades ago. (QMail should have replaced Sendmail, but the author does not promote it well. He does, however, offer a $500 reward for anyone finding a security bug. That's been offered since 1997, with no takers.)
Enron (remember Enron?) tried to do this for network bandwidth. Didn't work.
A futures market requires a standardized, fungible product, like oil or electric power. This is hard when the manufacturer or service provider controls the product definition.
Rarely has there been a successful futures market in a manufactured good or service.
It's been tried. There's a futures market in cold-rolled steel sheet. But there's no futures market in cars or office space or air travel. Some airlines have sold options on future air travel to big customers; pay something up front and lock in the price. But those aren't tradeable.
Java has had closures, with all the stuff that does to local variable lifespan, since Java 7. Lambda expressions are just syntactic sugar for writing small closures.
"Twitter Becomes TV Remote" Via connections between smartphone, Twitter, and cable box, you can now involve "the cloud" in TV channel changing. Really.
The "police page" at 83.138.166.114 may be fake. That address resolves via reverse DNS to "S82574.clubonside.dk". But "clubonside.dk" isn't in DNS or the.dk registry. It was live in 2006, and was a site for soccer fans, then moved to "clubonside.com", and is now defunct.
The IP address is hosted by Rackspace in London.
Also note that on the page, there are no links to any law enforcement organization. All the links are ads for "safe and reliable online content".
A domain actually taken over by the Serious Organized Crimes Agency in the UK looks like this. No ads, links only to a UK government site.
This looks like some private "IP protection" company impersonating a police agency.
This is "theoretical breakeven" - the reaction put out more energy than went in. It's not "engineering breakeven", where you get out enough energy to power the system. Or "commercial breakeven", where the thing starts to make money.
It's a single event, not a continuous process. Laser fusion has always been an experimental way to study H-bomb type reactions, not a potential power source.
I really would like to see them make one like a cat that can run, crouch and leap like a cat can. then we will have something that is fearsome.
That requires a different approach to control than the one they're using. All the Boston Dynamics quadruped robots start up by trotting in place, then extending the stride.
I know one of the engineers who worked on that. He was a quiet, competent guy, and didn't like being screamed at by Jobs. He quit right after the iPhone shipped.
but at least the cops try to take them alive first.
They tried. See the video. They had her car stopped, boxed in with four police cars, and surrounded the car with six cops with pistols. She backed into the police car in back, turned, and drove off on the sidewalk, with cops jumping out of the way. Only then did the cops start shooting.
Super-hydrophobic coatings are now easily available. They work very well when new, but customers complain about the coating wearing off rapidly. Something with a more durable bond will be needed.
This is yet another of those materials science articles which jumps from "minor discovery in materials science" to "huge commercial breakthrough Real Soon Now." It's bad for MIT's reputation that they put out so much hype.
So, given the choice between disabling the car, boxing her in and arresting her or just shooting her, they shot her. How the fuck is that ok? That's called murder where I come from.
The Capitol Police tried boxing the car in. Here's the video from AlHurrah (widely copied on other outlets, but here without all the overlays, captions, clipping, and re-compression). AlHurrah was recording some protest at the Capitol when this happened. Cops got her car stopped facing into the curb, with a police car behind it, a police SUV on the car's left, a third police car on the car's right, and a fourth car behind. Six cops are pointing guns at the car. At that point, it's being handled as a felony traffic stop. It could have ended non-lethally.
At 0:24 you can see the escape attempt. The car backs up a little, denting the police car behind it, turns right, then goes forward onto the wide sidewalk (Google Maps view of location) and around the police cars on the car's right. Four cops try to jump out of the way of the car, which goes plowing down the sidewalk where there are even more cops (and possibly some non-cops; it's a busy area). Only then do the cops start shooting. Not very effectively, though; the car speeds off.
No video coverage yet of the end, which happened on the west (back) side of the Capitol. But there's probably surveillance recording.
It's starting to look like this: Some woman in an ordinary sedan tried to ram the White House gates. (Which wasn't going to do much; those gates were upgraded decades ago to stop much heavier vehicles.) Then the car went down Pennsylvania Avenue to the Capitol area. Some Capitol Police officer may have been run down. Shots were fired, probably by cops. Others heard the shots and hit the panic button.
Time for everyone on Capitol Hill to get back to work.
It looks like most other crap aggregation sites. What next, "Elsewhere on the web" paid spam?
It takes three times as much scrolling to see the content.
When that becomes mandatory, I stop using Slashdot.
Countries prepare war games involving invasions to or from nearby countries all the time.
True, but Switzerland takes it up a level. Permanent tank traps in farmers fields, hidden military installations all over the country, bomb shelters, and a huge military reserve with regular training.
Are you claiming that between 1981 and 1985(*), IBM was selling DOS machines with hard drives to businesses? They weren't just using machines with floppies, like everyone else?
The IBM PC/XT, with a hard drive, was introduced on March 8, 1983. It wasn't until 1986 that Apple offered the Mac Plus with full hard drive support. There was the Hard Disk 20 in late 1985, which could be connected up to a Mac 512K in a somewhat kludgy way (the computer couldn't boot from the hard drive) , but that was only a stopgap measure offered for a few months.
Not until 1987, four years after IBM, did Apple ship a Mac with a hard drive inside the case.
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Blackberry blew it the same way many companies do. Their original OS was antiquated, and so they abandoned it...
That required them to write all of their core apps from the ground up, and they dramatically underestimated the effort required.
Apple blew it that way, too. More than once. The original Mac was a cool toy, but too slow, and lacked a hard drive. IBM built their PC market share selling DOS machines with a hard drive to businesses. The user interface was ugly, but there was no need to change floppies.
After Apple finally built up the Mac into a usable machine, with a hard drive and enough RAM to get something done, they had a few good years, then blew it again.
The transition from the Motorola 68000 to the PowerPC broke all old applications that used floating point. Few of the engineering software vendors even bothered to port to PowerPC. Apple market share dropped to single digits. Then Apple tried to dump their antiquated MacOS for a new "OS 8", called Copeland. That required rewriting applications again. It wasn't realized within Apple that Apple no longer had the clout to tell developers what to do. Apple had to go with a different "OS 8" borrowed from NeXT, which cost them a year.
Apple's market share in desktops didn't break out of single digits again until after the mobile devices became popular.
It's a nice tribute to the power of modern permanent magnets. It's really just an R/C car with a camera and magnetic wheels. The magnets are strong enough that it can drive vertically, or even upside down, on a steel surface. It's wide, with a very short wheelbase, so it can go around sharp vertical corners.
Space-X has four more Falcon 9 launches on their launch manifest for 2013, and ten scheduled for 2014. This is the first launch of the volume production version. Now they start cranking them out. With 9 engines per rocket, Space-X has to build over a hundred engines a year, which means they can set up an assembly line and get economies of scale.
Next year is the first flight of the Falcon Heavy, with 27 engines. Biggest rocket since the Saturn V.
A better way to be prepared would be to own and be able to ride a horse.
Only if you have lots of grazing land that doesn't require irrigation, a water source that doesn't require power, and several horses. Most horses are high-maintenance. But there are horses used to living on their own. One of my friends has a wild mustang from the Bureau of Land Management, trained to be a good trail horse. She's ridden into town when the power went out and the road was flooded.
I'm on horseback several times a week, but my present horse wouldn't be that useful in an emergency. He's kept in a coastal area with poor grazing. Hay has to be trucked in.
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BIND suffers from the fact that it's a database program without a real database inside. It dates from the days before UNIX/Linux had database programs. Almost the only other major UNIX/Linux program with that problem is Sendmail, which should have died decades ago. (QMail should have replaced Sendmail, but the author does not promote it well. He does, however, offer a $500 reward for anyone finding a security bug. That's been offered since 1997, with no takers.)
Enron (remember Enron?) tried to do this for network bandwidth. Didn't work.
A futures market requires a standardized, fungible product, like oil or electric power. This is hard when the manufacturer or service provider controls the product definition. Rarely has there been a successful futures market in a manufactured good or service.
It's been tried. There's a futures market in cold-rolled steel sheet. But there's no futures market in cars or office space or air travel. Some airlines have sold options on future air travel to big customers; pay something up front and lock in the price. But those aren't tradeable.
Java has had closures, with all the stuff that does to local variable lifespan, since Java 7. Lambda expressions are just syntactic sugar for writing small closures.
"Twitter Becomes TV Remote" Via connections between smartphone, Twitter, and cable box, you can now involve "the cloud" in TV channel changing. Really.
The "police page" at 83.138.166.114 may be fake. That address resolves via reverse DNS to "S82574.clubonside.dk". But "clubonside.dk" isn't in DNS or the .dk registry. It was live in 2006, and was a site for soccer fans, then moved to "clubonside.com", and is now defunct.
The IP address is hosted by Rackspace in London.
Also note that on the page, there are no links to any law enforcement organization. All the links are ads for "safe and reliable online content". A domain actually taken over by the Serious Organized Crimes Agency in the UK looks like this. No ads, links only to a UK government site.
This looks like some private "IP protection" company impersonating a police agency.
There's a great future in encryption. Think about it. Will you think about it?
You're probably not qualified to think about. It's hard. Really hard. And very specialized.
No new cypher is worth looking at unless it comes from someone who has broken a very hard one. - Friedman
This is "theoretical breakeven" - the reaction put out more energy than went in. It's not "engineering breakeven", where you get out enough energy to power the system. Or "commercial breakeven", where the thing starts to make money.
It's a single event, not a continuous process. Laser fusion has always been an experimental way to study H-bomb type reactions, not a potential power source.
I really would like to see them make one like a cat that can run, crouch and leap like a cat can. then we will have something that is fearsome.
That requires a different approach to control than the one they're using. All the Boston Dynamics quadruped robots start up by trotting in place, then extending the stride.
It sees you when you're sleeping.
It knows when you're awake.
It knows if you've been bad or good.
I know one of the engineers who worked on that. He was a quiet, competent guy, and didn't like being screamed at by Jobs. He quit right after the iPhone shipped.
but at least the cops try to take them alive first.
They tried. See the video. They had her car stopped, boxed in with four police cars, and surrounded the car with six cops with pistols. She backed into the police car in back, turned, and drove off on the sidewalk, with cops jumping out of the way. Only then did the cops start shooting.
Super-hydrophobic coatings are now easily available. They work very well when new, but customers complain about the coating wearing off rapidly. Something with a more durable bond will be needed.
This is yet another of those materials science articles which jumps from "minor discovery in materials science" to "huge commercial breakthrough Real Soon Now." It's bad for MIT's reputation that they put out so much hype.
There are lots of little boards available. With reasonable CPUs and amounts of memory. Ardunos, with 2K or 8K of RAM, were just too limited.
On the other hand, having to run bloatware like Windows or Linux on an embedded board has its own headaches.
So, given the choice between disabling the car, boxing her in and arresting her or just shooting her, they shot her. How the fuck is that ok? That's called murder where I come from.
The Capitol Police tried boxing the car in. Here's the video from AlHurrah (widely copied on other outlets, but here without all the overlays, captions, clipping, and re-compression). AlHurrah was recording some protest at the Capitol when this happened. Cops got her car stopped facing into the curb, with a police car behind it, a police SUV on the car's left, a third police car on the car's right, and a fourth car behind. Six cops are pointing guns at the car. At that point, it's being handled as a felony traffic stop. It could have ended non-lethally.
At 0:24 you can see the escape attempt. The car backs up a little, denting the police car behind it, turns right, then goes forward onto the wide sidewalk (Google Maps view of location) and around the police cars on the car's right. Four cops try to jump out of the way of the car, which goes plowing down the sidewalk where there are even more cops (and possibly some non-cops; it's a busy area). Only then do the cops start shooting. Not very effectively, though; the car speeds off.
No video coverage yet of the end, which happened on the west (back) side of the Capitol. But there's probably surveillance recording.
It's starting to look like this: Some woman in an ordinary sedan tried to ram the White House gates. (Which wasn't going to do much; those gates were upgraded decades ago to stop much heavier vehicles.) Then the car went down Pennsylvania Avenue to the Capitol area. Some Capitol Police officer may have been run down. Shots were fired, probably by cops. Others heard the shots and hit the panic button.
Time for everyone on Capitol Hill to get back to work.
I thought the NASA PR machine was turned off due to the Government shutdown.
It looks like most other crap aggregation sites. What next, "Elsewhere on the web" paid spam? It takes three times as much scrolling to see the content.
When that becomes mandatory, I stop using Slashdot.
Countries prepare war games involving invasions to or from nearby countries all the time.
True, but Switzerland takes it up a level. Permanent tank traps in farmers fields, hidden military installations all over the country, bomb shelters, and a huge military reserve with regular training.
Are you claiming that between 1981 and 1985(*), IBM was selling DOS machines with hard drives to businesses? They weren't just using machines with floppies, like everyone else?
The IBM PC/XT, with a hard drive, was introduced on March 8, 1983. It wasn't until 1986 that Apple offered the Mac Plus with full hard drive support. There was the Hard Disk 20 in late 1985, which could be connected up to a Mac 512K in a somewhat kludgy way (the computer couldn't boot from the hard drive) , but that was only a stopgap measure offered for a few months.
Not until 1987, four years after IBM, did Apple ship a Mac with a hard drive inside the case.
Blackberry blew it the same way many companies do. Their original OS was antiquated, and so they abandoned it ...
That required them to write all of their core apps from the ground up, and they dramatically underestimated the effort required.
Apple blew it that way, too. More than once. The original Mac was a cool toy, but too slow, and lacked a hard drive. IBM built their PC market share selling DOS machines with a hard drive to businesses. The user interface was ugly, but there was no need to change floppies.
After Apple finally built up the Mac into a usable machine, with a hard drive and enough RAM to get something done, they had a few good years, then blew it again. The transition from the Motorola 68000 to the PowerPC broke all old applications that used floating point. Few of the engineering software vendors even bothered to port to PowerPC. Apple market share dropped to single digits. Then Apple tried to dump their antiquated MacOS for a new "OS 8", called Copeland. That required rewriting applications again. It wasn't realized within Apple that Apple no longer had the clout to tell developers what to do. Apple had to go with a different "OS 8" borrowed from NeXT, which cost them a year.
Apple's market share in desktops didn't break out of single digits again until after the mobile devices became popular.
It's a nice tribute to the power of modern permanent magnets. It's really just an R/C car with a camera and magnetic wheels. The magnets are strong enough that it can drive vertically, or even upside down, on a steel surface. It's wide, with a very short wheelbase, so it can go around sharp vertical corners.
There's the Jitterbug Touch 2. This is intended for seniors, but useful for kids. Big buttons and icons, limited functionality.
It doesn't do video calls, though.
Space-X has four more Falcon 9 launches on their launch manifest for 2013, and ten scheduled for 2014. This is the first launch of the volume production version. Now they start cranking them out. With 9 engines per rocket, Space-X has to build over a hundred engines a year, which means they can set up an assembly line and get economies of scale.
Next year is the first flight of the Falcon Heavy, with 27 engines. Biggest rocket since the Saturn V.
Here's the Space-X price list. Pricing is about half of other launchers.
A better way to be prepared would be to own and be able to ride a horse.
Only if you have lots of grazing land that doesn't require irrigation, a water source that doesn't require power, and several horses. Most horses are high-maintenance. But there are horses used to living on their own. One of my friends has a wild mustang from the Bureau of Land Management, trained to be a good trail horse. She's ridden into town when the power went out and the road was flooded.
I'm on horseback several times a week, but my present horse wouldn't be that useful in an emergency. He's kept in a coastal area with poor grazing. Hay has to be trucked in.
Enough of Star [Trek|Wars|Gate]! Been there, done that. We need to move on.
"Harry Potter" did it right. They did the series of novels, in sequence, and then stopped. There's no "Hogwarts, the Next Generation".