As for opinion, the corp that represents the telcos is opposing the bill quoting all orts of things. Feel free to qualify their statements by showing how this headline is an opinion.
In North Korea, rockets shoot themselves down - well at least that seems to be the case so far. Oh, apart from that lovely satelite that is still broadcasting songs praising the Glorious Leader - that one is obviously still there.
I was about to pipe up that Altavista was decent if you got to know how to use it... but yeah, I don't think that many people got to the point where they could find what they wanted in the first few results...
I actually find www.cyberciti.biz to be quite handy if I need to look something up that is Ubuntu related. I do admit though, that this is I think the first.biz site that have ever found that is useful - I guess that makes it the exception that proves the rule right?
It we are talking theory, lets throw in some game theory. A clever capitalist would spend a fraction of the cost of all the training on lobbying and then have the government foot the bill while making use of the facility to train his new outsourced workers.
I am not saying that he did a bad thing in trying to put a stop to it, I am just doubting the motives behind it. US politics seems to be on a massive downhill slope over the last few decades - or perhaps I just didn't see it before. As for my vote, I vote for the greens although I am a member of the Australian Pirate Party. If Assange is able to contest a place in the Senate, I will be voting for him. When the democrats (Not to be confused with the US Democrats) were calling bullshit as needed in the senate, they had my vote.
Totally agree with the sentiment as I posted below but you do realize that you are either politician (ergo, supposed to be looking after the country to stop all your work being sent offshore) or you are a businessman (and therefore primarily focused with making the most profit you can without breaking the law). A byproduct of capitalism is that these two roles are in competition and in reality require politicians to take a stand and be able to say "Hey, this is going to suck, but we HAVE to do this..." and I am pretty sure that those politicians are all resting in their graves. This generation of politicians doesn't seem to be able to do anything that makes ANYONEs life harder in any shape, way or form - except when it was someone else's fault.
Tell me exactly why it is our responsibility to find ways to assist developing regions. There are americans that would love call center work. It beats a lot of other bad jobs.
The problem you are missing is that lovely thing called capitalism. You see, if I own a call centre with 100 customers, and I employ 100 staff to operate the phones, I pay the going rate. Lets say it is $10 for nice round numbers. So, I pay $1000 a year in wages. Now, I work out that I can invest $200 and train some chaps in some cheap labour country - like the Phillipines - and then pay them $500 to do the same work. So, I invest that $200, get the training done and the following year, my wages have gone down and I can say that in the first year, I made an extra $300 profit, and every year after that, I make $500 extra profit.
Of course, that paints a pretty worrying picture from a wider view as that means that instead of $1000 being paid to local workers, $500 is being shipped out of the economy and into another country, but not many people want to look from that angle when it impacts their own profit margins.
This sort of thing only works long term if you can get that $500 back from the other country by getting them to buy your goods with the money you give them so that the cash stays local. How is the US Balance of Trade these days you ask? Take a look for yourself.
You forgot to line the pockets of the right people in an effort to make a quick buck. I would dearly love to see if any of the call centres getting this aid and training have investments from US politicians or friends of them. Never underestimate a woman scorned, but never ever underestimate a polly who you "forgot" to pay.
550 billion particles to simulate the observable universe means just over three particles per galaxy. I don't know exactly what they're doing but it doesn't sound like much of a simulation..?
That really depends on what you are trying to achieve. If you are not interested in the interactions going on inside each galaxy, but rather the interactions between galaxies themselves as well as things like filaments and clusters and or superclusters, this is more than enough particles to use. In fact, if each particle is assumed to be a galaxy, then the surplus may well have been introduced to see failed galaxies or to find where initial seeds may not have turned into fully fledged galaxies. They may also account for a small portion of the vast numbers of dwarf galaxies to see how these interact with larger objects.
deliberately went after iinet (a relatively small ISP)
They might have been smaller at the time, but there really aren't a "small" ISP. You also know that they recently knocked Optus off its perch to get the number 2 position right? The difference is that both Telstra and Optus are much much bigger companies (they both deal with landlines seriously and are mobile phone providers) while iiNet only deals with internet.
All that isn't to say that I disagree with the sentiment in your post - the fact that they calculated a player major enough to be seen as important, but considerably smaller than the other two - only shows how insidious they are and I am absolutely elated that they came through on the final appeal chance that the studios had.
Yet outside of the abc we never hear anything about it.
Yeah, which is the funny part considering that the ABC is government funded.
I knot that we are the "upside down" place and all stand on our heads, but this aspect always makes me laugh. The only fully government funded station (SBS is only partially funded by the government) and it is the only one that really calls bullshit when needed.
So, in my view, the hacker did good, because the people in charge weren't listening, so it made them listen.
I think you missed the point. He didn't "make them listen". The banks haven't fixed the security problem. All they have done is asked their customers to change their PIN as well as blocking some ATMs.
So, no, this isn't a good move, because all it has done is caused three million card users to be further annoyed as their cards are still no safer than before - in fact less so, because there is a proof of concept out there now with guaranteed ROI - they can't get to their own cash as easily as they have to go around changing PINs and if there is a deluge of crookery going on, the banks are now going to say "Ha! We TOLD you to change your numbers!"
What he should have done is gone to the credit agencies like Visa and Mastercard who would likely cut off the banks accounts in very quick order, thereby forcing the banks to fix the security hole. Even though a debit visa isn't touching the bank's money, the big credit companies take these things rather seriously if it has their name on it.
They didn't, the lost their original case, their appeal was denied and they took it to the High Court of Australia - pretty much the equivalent of SCOTUS in the US. There really isn't anywhere further for them to take this case.
Sure, they might try down a parallel path with a similar objective, but a wonderful side effect of taking it to the High Court is that now pretty much any similar path they try will still be in the shadow of this ruling - making it greatly more difficult for them to introduce anything remotely similar.
I am a long time Internode customer (last three houses and I use Internode for my parents ISP as well) and I can say that at my current residence of two and a bit years, I have always been on a Telstra DSLAM at the exchange, but just this month, Internode upgraded to their own DSLAMs at the exchange, and I got a similar email informing me that my parents account will also be moved to their own infrastructure in the near future - so it seems it anything, the service is being improved with some extra cash that the purchase has injected.
There doesn't seem to be any other negative changes that I have noticed - the sales and support phone lines are still local, they are still amazingly communicative in regards to changes and progress on jobs - so it is all smooth sailing in my books.
Between the cold war and the religious mania of the early 80s, "If Jesus doesn't get you, Oppenheimer will" was the phrase of the day.
I find that a grim outlook actually makes me dig my heels in much more so. Five years ago, I wasn't too engrossed with privacy, politics or anything like that. These days, I seem to be going out of my way to make noise and generate resolve amoung the population. I think there is an element of Ying/Yang to it, the harder certain people will push to empower themselves or the folks that pay them, the more people will stand their ground.
"Let me say at the risk of seeming ridiculous that the true revolutionary is guided by great feelings of love." - Che.
Faster, slower - just depends on where the heat is being emitted - either towards where the craft is going (mainly the case here) or back towards where it came from.
Short and Long scales aside, a billion years is at minimum 1,000 million (or a million million if you use the long scale) - both of which are orders of magnitue different to what you claim.
That would make perfect sense that as the sun loses mass the planets drift further away, but the problem is that the size of the sun is driven not only by the mass, but the available fuel driving the fusion reaction inside it. The radius of the sun is maintained by the amount of energy being released in its core through fusion which pushes against the force of gravity pulling the sun together. Certain elements fuse releasing a lot of energy, others fuse releasing only a little energy - yet others fuse and take in energy from their surroundings. The tipping point is Fe (Iron), anything lighter releases energy when it is fused, anything heavier absorbs energy. While sun has converted about 100 earth masses into energy over the 4.5 billion years it has been here, it is still fusing mainly Hydrogen (lots of energy output), meaning that by the time it reaches red giant phase in about another 5.5 billion years, it will have used up a bit over another 100. The problem is that it has around 330,000 times as much as the Earth. It is losing mass through fusion, but not nearly enough to increase the orbital radius of the planets by the time it reaches the red giant phase.
How many billions of years are you planning to live?
Ideally as many as I can.
I of course plan to get fashionably mad into my second billion, but the recover after a bit of time in some choice facility. By that time though, I should have enough money to pay for absolutely anything, I deposited six dollars into a compound interest savings plan a week ago Tuesday.
If this is the case, and the "chaos" that awaits is us migrating into a higher orbit, then whoopee, there goes us having to worry about the greenhouse effect... Oh wait... this isn't just another excuse not to curb our burning of fossil fuels is it?
No, not really. Of course, compared to your number I am new, but I did read the site for a good few years before I became interested in posting to the threads, let alone submitting stories.
Also: Your sig, I agree with it, but: "You know what the difference is between you and me? I make this look GOOD." - J
That was a solid ten to twelve hours before it was posted, I had hoped that it might be fixed on posting. Now, please, lets move on from the poor hyphenation, and get back to the article at hand shall we? I am sure it has much more interest to the community at large compared to my poor grammar. The last reason I submitted this was to start a (at this time) thirty post thread on the ambiguity of how the headline can be read or misread.
Slashdot Mirror
Please feel free to see the comment I posted on the submission just after I submitted it.
As for opinion, the corp that represents the telcos is opposing the bill quoting all orts of things. Feel free to qualify their statements by showing how this headline is an opinion.
In North Korea, rockets shoot themselves down - well at least that seems to be the case so far. Oh, apart from that lovely satelite that is still broadcasting songs praising the Glorious Leader - that one is obviously still there.
I was about to pipe up that Altavista was decent if you got to know how to use it... but yeah, I don't think that many people got to the point where they could find what they wanted in the first few results...
I actually find www.cyberciti.biz to be quite handy if I need to look something up that is Ubuntu related. I do admit though, that this is I think the first .biz site that have ever found that is useful - I guess that makes it the exception that proves the rule right?
It we are talking theory, lets throw in some game theory. A clever capitalist would spend a fraction of the cost of all the training on lobbying and then have the government foot the bill while making use of the facility to train his new outsourced workers.
It turns out this congressman, Tim Bishop, is a pretty good egg.
Hey, if I misjudged, I am big enough to admit it. If he is squeaky clean, great, US politics needs more like that.
I am not saying that he did a bad thing in trying to put a stop to it, I am just doubting the motives behind it. US politics seems to be on a massive downhill slope over the last few decades - or perhaps I just didn't see it before. As for my vote, I vote for the greens although I am a member of the Australian Pirate Party. If Assange is able to contest a place in the Senate, I will be voting for him. When the democrats (Not to be confused with the US Democrats) were calling bullshit as needed in the senate, they had my vote.
Totally agree with the sentiment as I posted below but you do realize that you are either politician (ergo, supposed to be looking after the country to stop all your work being sent offshore) or you are a businessman (and therefore primarily focused with making the most profit you can without breaking the law). A byproduct of capitalism is that these two roles are in competition and in reality require politicians to take a stand and be able to say "Hey, this is going to suck, but we HAVE to do this..." and I am pretty sure that those politicians are all resting in their graves. This generation of politicians doesn't seem to be able to do anything that makes ANYONEs life harder in any shape, way or form - except when it was someone else's fault.
Tell me exactly why it is our responsibility to find ways to assist developing regions. There are americans that would love call center work. It beats a lot of other bad jobs.
The problem you are missing is that lovely thing called capitalism. You see, if I own a call centre with 100 customers, and I employ 100 staff to operate the phones, I pay the going rate. Lets say it is $10 for nice round numbers. So, I pay $1000 a year in wages. Now, I work out that I can invest $200 and train some chaps in some cheap labour country - like the Phillipines - and then pay them $500 to do the same work. So, I invest that $200, get the training done and the following year, my wages have gone down and I can say that in the first year, I made an extra $300 profit, and every year after that, I make $500 extra profit.
Of course, that paints a pretty worrying picture from a wider view as that means that instead of $1000 being paid to local workers, $500 is being shipped out of the economy and into another country, but not many people want to look from that angle when it impacts their own profit margins.
This sort of thing only works long term if you can get that $500 back from the other country by getting them to buy your goods with the money you give them so that the cash stays local. How is the US Balance of Trade these days you ask? Take a look for yourself.
You forgot to line the pockets of the right people in an effort to make a quick buck. I would dearly love to see if any of the call centres getting this aid and training have investments from US politicians or friends of them. Never underestimate a woman scorned, but never ever underestimate a polly who you "forgot" to pay.
550 billion particles to simulate the observable universe means just over three particles per galaxy. I don't know exactly what they're doing but it doesn't sound like much of a simulation..?
That really depends on what you are trying to achieve. If you are not interested in the interactions going on inside each galaxy, but rather the interactions between galaxies themselves as well as things like filaments and clusters and or superclusters, this is more than enough particles to use. In fact, if each particle is assumed to be a galaxy, then the surplus may well have been introduced to see failed galaxies or to find where initial seeds may not have turned into fully fledged galaxies. They may also account for a small portion of the vast numbers of dwarf galaxies to see how these interact with larger objects.
deliberately went after iinet (a relatively small ISP)
They might have been smaller at the time, but there really aren't a "small" ISP. You also know that they recently knocked Optus off its perch to get the number 2 position right? The difference is that both Telstra and Optus are much much bigger companies (they both deal with landlines seriously and are mobile phone providers) while iiNet only deals with internet.
All that isn't to say that I disagree with the sentiment in your post - the fact that they calculated a player major enough to be seen as important, but considerably smaller than the other two - only shows how insidious they are and I am absolutely elated that they came through on the final appeal chance that the studios had.
Yet outside of the abc we never hear anything about it.
Yeah, which is the funny part considering that the ABC is government funded.
I knot that we are the "upside down" place and all stand on our heads, but this aspect always makes me laugh. The only fully government funded station (SBS is only partially funded by the government) and it is the only one that really calls bullshit when needed.
So, in my view, the hacker did good, because the people in charge weren't listening, so it made them listen.
I think you missed the point. He didn't "make them listen". The banks haven't fixed the security problem. All they have done is asked their customers to change their PIN as well as blocking some ATMs.
So, no, this isn't a good move, because all it has done is caused three million card users to be further annoyed as their cards are still no safer than before - in fact less so, because there is a proof of concept out there now with guaranteed ROI - they can't get to their own cash as easily as they have to go around changing PINs and if there is a deluge of crookery going on, the banks are now going to say "Ha! We TOLD you to change your numbers!"
What he should have done is gone to the credit agencies like Visa and Mastercard who would likely cut off the banks accounts in very quick order, thereby forcing the banks to fix the security hole. Even though a debit visa isn't touching the bank's money, the big credit companies take these things rather seriously if it has their name on it.
"Oh well, we lost fair and square, let's move on"
They didn't, the lost their original case, their appeal was denied and they took it to the High Court of Australia - pretty much the equivalent of SCOTUS in the US. There really isn't anywhere further for them to take this case.
Sure, they might try down a parallel path with a similar objective, but a wonderful side effect of taking it to the High Court is that now pretty much any similar path they try will still be in the shadow of this ruling - making it greatly more difficult for them to introduce anything remotely similar.
I am a long time Internode customer (last three houses and I use Internode for my parents ISP as well) and I can say that at my current residence of two and a bit years, I have always been on a Telstra DSLAM at the exchange, but just this month, Internode upgraded to their own DSLAMs at the exchange, and I got a similar email informing me that my parents account will also be moved to their own infrastructure in the near future - so it seems it anything, the service is being improved with some extra cash that the purchase has injected.
There doesn't seem to be any other negative changes that I have noticed - the sales and support phone lines are still local, they are still amazingly communicative in regards to changes and progress on jobs - so it is all smooth sailing in my books.
Between the cold war and the religious mania of the early 80s, "If Jesus doesn't get you, Oppenheimer will" was the phrase of the day.
I find that a grim outlook actually makes me dig my heels in much more so. Five years ago, I wasn't too engrossed with privacy, politics or anything like that. These days, I seem to be going out of my way to make noise and generate resolve amoung the population. I think there is an element of Ying/Yang to it, the harder certain people will push to empower themselves or the folks that pay them, the more people will stand their ground.
"Let me say at the risk of seeming ridiculous that the true revolutionary is guided by great feelings of love." - Che.
Faster, slower - just depends on where the heat is being emitted - either towards where the craft is going (mainly the case here) or back towards where it came from.
Also
the sun gets about 1% brighter every million
is wrong. The sun is getting brighter at the rate of 10% every billion years.
Short and Long scales aside, a billion years is at minimum 1,000 million (or a million million if you use the long scale) - both of which are orders of magnitue different to what you claim.
That would make perfect sense that as the sun loses mass the planets drift further away, but the problem is that the size of the sun is driven not only by the mass, but the available fuel driving the fusion reaction inside it. The radius of the sun is maintained by the amount of energy being released in its core through fusion which pushes against the force of gravity pulling the sun together. Certain elements fuse releasing a lot of energy, others fuse releasing only a little energy - yet others fuse and take in energy from their surroundings. The tipping point is Fe (Iron), anything lighter releases energy when it is fused, anything heavier absorbs energy. While sun has converted about 100 earth masses into energy over the 4.5 billion years it has been here, it is still fusing mainly Hydrogen (lots of energy output), meaning that by the time it reaches red giant phase in about another 5.5 billion years, it will have used up a bit over another 100. The problem is that it has around 330,000 times as much as the Earth. It is losing mass through fusion, but not nearly enough to increase the orbital radius of the planets by the time it reaches the red giant phase.
How many billions of years are you planning to live?
Ideally as many as I can.
I of course plan to get fashionably mad into my second billion, but the recover after a bit of time in some choice facility. By that time though, I should have enough money to pay for absolutely anything, I deposited six dollars into a compound interest savings plan a week ago Tuesday.
If this is the case, and the "chaos" that awaits is us migrating into a higher orbit, then whoopee, there goes us having to worry about the greenhouse effect... Oh wait... this isn't just another excuse not to curb our burning of fossil fuels is it?
You should apply with Zero G, there is a good chance they will find your mindset encouragable!
You must be new here...
No, not really. Of course, compared to your number I am new, but I did read the site for a good few years before I became interested in posting to the threads, let alone submitting stories.
Also: Your sig, I agree with it, but: "You know what the difference is between you and me? I make this look GOOD." - J
If it helps, it was brought up during the submission phase of the post:
http://slashdot.org/submission/2025187/feds-shut-down-tor-using-narcotics-store.
That was a solid ten to twelve hours before it was posted, I had hoped that it might be fixed on posting. Now, please, lets move on from the poor hyphenation, and get back to the article at hand shall we? I am sure it has much more interest to the community at large compared to my poor grammar. The last reason I submitted this was to start a (at this time) thirty post thread on the ambiguity of how the headline can be read or misread.