The deputies who investigated our big theft at a 50,000 watt AM a couple of years ago said the best way to catch them was to set a trap (but even then, they got discouraged because the thieves would spend a few months in jail, then be right back out to steal again).
As mentioned, the problem is that they steal a few tens, or even a few hundreds of dollars worth of scrap, the problem is that the cost to repair that damage is often hundreds or thousands of times more than that. Wanton destruction of that scale is considered a felony in most states, punishable by several years in prison. If you've caught them once, chances are they are a repeat offender. Why are they getting out after just a few months?
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You've got the original BSD4.3, which spawned FreeBSD, OpenBSD, NetBSD, Darwin, and more recently DragonFly BSD. Then you've got various offshoots like NanoBSD, FreeNAS, pfSense, DesktopBSD, GhostBSD, and a number of other stalled projects. I like BSD. I've got it running on my firewall and home server. I just don't see where this singular community you speak of is.
Actually, full HD video from a bluray player is on the order of 600Mbps, or as high as 3Gbps if it upconverts from the raw 24fps YUV to 60fps RGB. The source this article came from actually stated 500Mbps for the whole uplink from a Global Hawk, not 500MBps. Even nerds can't seem to regularly get that one right.
No, real time control of the aircraft is only available within a few miles of the base station. When it's actually on point, all communications is relayed via satellite link, which means latency on the order of seconds. You can give it commands of where to go and what to do, but the drone otherwise flies itself on autopilot. Additionally, the Global Hawk has no weapons systems to speak of.
You don't know how it's going to harm you, and finding out... is half the fun!
He's not saying don't put your photos online for you and your friends to see. He's saying put them on your own website, or on your own server. Only tell people you want the name. Put up a 'robots.txt' so at least most spiders that do happen across your site won't trawl it for index-able text and media. Don't put it on a giant social media collecting pot that collects and catalogs all that information for anyone who cares, in exchange for a small bit of free web space that you have little to no control over.
Why do you want to make it public? Why do you want to report to the world that you just shopped at X boutique, or just got ice cream at Y confectionery? Why do you think other people care, such that you tell the whole world about it? Did YOU independently decide that you wanted to do so, or are you just doing it because "it's just what you do"? If it serves no worthwhile purpose, why make that information known?
The issue Moglen is describing is let's say you're with a friend who actually does care to maintain that modicum of privacy one might expect while carrying out their normal lives. Now, you report that you're shopping at X with Z, or you just got Y ice cream with Z. I'm reminded of a scene from Jurassic Park where Dennis Nedry starts shouting "Dodgson, Dodgson, we have Dodgson here! See? Nobody cares." Sure, no one in the restaurant cared one way or another about Dodgson, but Nedry was still being a complete asshole, and if nobody cares, why say anything?
If they're killing millions of Palestinians every day, where are all these new Palestinians coming from? They must be rolling through the entire global population every decade or two. Surely such an untapped renewable resource could somehow be put towards power generation. Just think of all the energy stored in that biomass!
Why is it time they collect? I'd actually like to see some analysis that compared gained traffic from click-throughs, to lost traffic that only read the summary on the aggregator. Let the aggregators disconnect those participating news sites, and see who gets hurt more by the separation.
More disgusting than Spiderman? In case you haven't noticed, spiders spin silk out of their ass, not their forearms. I for one don't welcome our new crotchless superhero overlords.
There's a big difference between a telecommunications satellite and a television satellite. A television satellite is nothing but a repeater. It gets a feed from a ground station, and bounces it back out over its primary antenna. A telecommunications satellite needs to simultaneously relay traffic from many endpoints to many other endpoints. Think of it like a network hub versus a network switch.
If you fly any particular nation's flag, then you are bounded by their rules while in international water. If you do not fly any particular nation's flag, then you are not a protected entity, and fair game for anyone who wants to acquire you. If you have a bunch of flags to raise up whenever anyone comes by, then you are likely to be identified as a smuggler, intercepted, and boarded.
They're not trying to persuade the senators directly, they're trying to make the issues known to the general public. The average internet user likely hasn't even heard of SOPA, much less realize the implications it entails. On the other hand, hundreds of millions use sites such as google, yahoo, and twitter daily. If instead of their normal behavior, all of those people using those pages get a notice about SOPA, a quarter will likely read it at least once, and a quarter of those might actually understand why that's a bad thing, and a tenth of those might actually take the time to try to contact their representatives about it. You're looking at potentially millions of constituents, all trying to contact their senators within a couple hour time frame, the day before the issue goes to a vote.
The vast majority of politicians are in it to make money, not make the country a better place. That means accepting donations and favors, and staying in office as long as possible to accept more donations and favors. Argue that all you want, but the fact is that politicians don't get paid all that much, yet Senators all live very well, well beyond what a $175k/yr salary would suggest. If a particular bill becomes unpopular, they aren't going to support it and risk losing their position in the next election, regardless of how much lobbyists are otherwise pushing it.
Yes, I mentioned that, except in reference to data centers. Data centers, telephone switching stations, and the occasional consumer running DC off a battery or solar are about the only place you might currently find a single high efficiency, high power DC supply, being run to a bunch of other appliances. If you have to service normal grid-connected hardware, and thus have to convert back to AC at some point, DC transmission only makes sense if your distances are sufficiently long that you make up the conversion losses in reduced resistance losses.
It's not lossless, but it's significantly better than AC. The point I'm trying to make is that the rest of the power grid is in AC, so you need to convert between AC and DC at either end of that link to connect it to the grid, and you're going to lose a lot on both sides of the conversion. That means you need very long links, such as ones 2000-7000km long, to make the transmission sufficiently more efficient to justify those endpoint conversion losses.
Of course an incandescent is nearly 100% efficient when used in an oven. All that power that normally gets wasted in the infrared spectrum just serves to help heat up the oven.
That's completely false. AC transmission has to deal with power factor, which can result in higher amperage for the same power at values less than one. It also has to deal with "skin effect", which requires larger conductors and increases resistance. Both of these make DC power transmission cheaper and more efficient than AC, but it's not like it's magic. In order to connect to the power grid, you still need to convert between the two, which results in massive losses and makes it not worth the effort. DC only makes sense over very long transmission lines (several hundred miles), or somewhere such as a data center where you control the grid and never have to convert back to AC.
While that is completely true, today, it's not relevant to the situation around the last turn of the century. The primary consumer of electricity back then was industry, which used it to run large, steady state electric motors. The motors were designed to run at one single speed, directly off the mains frequency, and the utilities offered a number of different frequencies (besides 60Hz) to cater to different customers. There was no conversion needed, and brushless AC motors were much more reliable than brushed DC motors. Brushless DC motors have only been available since the mid 60s due to the availability of microprocessor-based controller circuitry.
Apples to oranges. The ARM architecture provides a lot of integer performance, with little to no floating point performance. GPUs provide a lot of floating point performance, with little to no integer performance. The question then becomes which is more important for your specific application.
In these benchmarks the accelerators of the OMAP4 were totally ignored. These would have improved things like x264 encoding to being a lot faster even than a Core i7 chip.
And with just one misplaced letter, you show that you have no idea what you're talking about. The embedded platforms have ASICs dedicated to H264 encoding, which can run much faster than comparable quality settings in x264 running on a high end i7. If you actually tried running the software x264 encoder on an ARM, you would be looking at days for a single TV show, and that's assuming x86-optimized x264 will even compile and run on the ARM architecture. If you want to compare apples to apples, you would have to test it against QuickSync on modern Intel chips.
The OMAP 4460 has a full programmable DSP, as well as independent ASICs for video encoding and encoding. You can have both. They are not mutually exclusive.
No, they're stacking this up against Pentium Ms and Cores. The Core architecture was a short-lived 32-bit mobile architecture in 2006, derived from the older P6 family. They are the final generation of actual Pentium (discounting the rebranding of new low end chips). The Core2 architecture was a completely new design, based off the same paradigms as the P6 family. Both mainstream systems detailed in this review were over five years old.
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The deputies who investigated our big theft at a 50,000 watt AM a couple of years ago said the best way to catch them was to set a trap (but even then, they got discouraged because the thieves would spend a few months in jail, then be right back out to steal again).
As mentioned, the problem is that they steal a few tens, or even a few hundreds of dollars worth of scrap, the problem is that the cost to repair that damage is often hundreds or thousands of times more than that. Wanton destruction of that scale is considered a felony in most states, punishable by several years in prison. If you've caught them once, chances are they are a repeat offender. Why are they getting out after just a few months?
They didn't break into that facility to read, they broke in to thieve.
No one said these people were smart.
You've got the original BSD4.3, which spawned FreeBSD, OpenBSD, NetBSD, Darwin, and more recently DragonFly BSD. Then you've got various offshoots like NanoBSD, FreeNAS, pfSense, DesktopBSD, GhostBSD, and a number of other stalled projects. I like BSD. I've got it running on my firewall and home server. I just don't see where this singular community you speak of is.
Actually, full HD video from a bluray player is on the order of 600Mbps, or as high as 3Gbps if it upconverts from the raw 24fps YUV to 60fps RGB. The source this article came from actually stated 500Mbps for the whole uplink from a Global Hawk, not 500MBps. Even nerds can't seem to regularly get that one right.
No, real time control of the aircraft is only available within a few miles of the base station. When it's actually on point, all communications is relayed via satellite link, which means latency on the order of seconds. You can give it commands of where to go and what to do, but the drone otherwise flies itself on autopilot. Additionally, the Global Hawk has no weapons systems to speak of.
You don't know how it's going to harm you, and finding out... is half the fun!
He's not saying don't put your photos online for you and your friends to see. He's saying put them on your own website, or on your own server. Only tell people you want the name. Put up a 'robots.txt' so at least most spiders that do happen across your site won't trawl it for index-able text and media. Don't put it on a giant social media collecting pot that collects and catalogs all that information for anyone who cares, in exchange for a small bit of free web space that you have little to no control over.
Why do you want to make it public? Why do you want to report to the world that you just shopped at X boutique, or just got ice cream at Y confectionery? Why do you think other people care, such that you tell the whole world about it? Did YOU independently decide that you wanted to do so, or are you just doing it because "it's just what you do"? If it serves no worthwhile purpose, why make that information known?
The issue Moglen is describing is let's say you're with a friend who actually does care to maintain that modicum of privacy one might expect while carrying out their normal lives. Now, you report that you're shopping at X with Z, or you just got Y ice cream with Z. I'm reminded of a scene from Jurassic Park where Dennis Nedry starts shouting "Dodgson, Dodgson, we have Dodgson here! See? Nobody cares." Sure, no one in the restaurant cared one way or another about Dodgson, but Nedry was still being a complete asshole, and if nobody cares, why say anything?
If they're killing millions of Palestinians every day, where are all these new Palestinians coming from? They must be rolling through the entire global population every decade or two. Surely such an untapped renewable resource could somehow be put towards power generation. Just think of all the energy stored in that biomass!
Why is it time they collect? I'd actually like to see some analysis that compared gained traffic from click-throughs, to lost traffic that only read the summary on the aggregator. Let the aggregators disconnect those participating news sites, and see who gets hurt more by the separation.
More disgusting than Spiderman? In case you haven't noticed, spiders spin silk out of their ass, not their forearms. I for one don't welcome our new crotchless superhero overlords.
There's a big difference between a telecommunications satellite and a television satellite. A television satellite is nothing but a repeater. It gets a feed from a ground station, and bounces it back out over its primary antenna. A telecommunications satellite needs to simultaneously relay traffic from many endpoints to many other endpoints. Think of it like a network hub versus a network switch.
If you fly any particular nation's flag, then you are bounded by their rules while in international water. If you do not fly any particular nation's flag, then you are not a protected entity, and fair game for anyone who wants to acquire you. If you have a bunch of flags to raise up whenever anyone comes by, then you are likely to be identified as a smuggler, intercepted, and boarded.
They're not trying to persuade the senators directly, they're trying to make the issues known to the general public. The average internet user likely hasn't even heard of SOPA, much less realize the implications it entails. On the other hand, hundreds of millions use sites such as google, yahoo, and twitter daily. If instead of their normal behavior, all of those people using those pages get a notice about SOPA, a quarter will likely read it at least once, and a quarter of those might actually understand why that's a bad thing, and a tenth of those might actually take the time to try to contact their representatives about it. You're looking at potentially millions of constituents, all trying to contact their senators within a couple hour time frame, the day before the issue goes to a vote.
The vast majority of politicians are in it to make money, not make the country a better place. That means accepting donations and favors, and staying in office as long as possible to accept more donations and favors. Argue that all you want, but the fact is that politicians don't get paid all that much, yet Senators all live very well, well beyond what a $175k/yr salary would suggest. If a particular bill becomes unpopular, they aren't going to support it and risk losing their position in the next election, regardless of how much lobbyists are otherwise pushing it.
Yes, I mentioned that, except in reference to data centers. Data centers, telephone switching stations, and the occasional consumer running DC off a battery or solar are about the only place you might currently find a single high efficiency, high power DC supply, being run to a bunch of other appliances. If you have to service normal grid-connected hardware, and thus have to convert back to AC at some point, DC transmission only makes sense if your distances are sufficiently long that you make up the conversion losses in reduced resistance losses.
It's not lossless, but it's significantly better than AC. The point I'm trying to make is that the rest of the power grid is in AC, so you need to convert between AC and DC at either end of that link to connect it to the grid, and you're going to lose a lot on both sides of the conversion. That means you need very long links, such as ones 2000-7000km long, to make the transmission sufficiently more efficient to justify those endpoint conversion losses.
Of course an incandescent is nearly 100% efficient when used in an oven. All that power that normally gets wasted in the infrared spectrum just serves to help heat up the oven.
That's completely false. AC transmission has to deal with power factor, which can result in higher amperage for the same power at values less than one. It also has to deal with "skin effect", which requires larger conductors and increases resistance. Both of these make DC power transmission cheaper and more efficient than AC, but it's not like it's magic. In order to connect to the power grid, you still need to convert between the two, which results in massive losses and makes it not worth the effort. DC only makes sense over very long transmission lines (several hundred miles), or somewhere such as a data center where you control the grid and never have to convert back to AC.
While that is completely true, today, it's not relevant to the situation around the last turn of the century. The primary consumer of electricity back then was industry, which used it to run large, steady state electric motors. The motors were designed to run at one single speed, directly off the mains frequency, and the utilities offered a number of different frequencies (besides 60Hz) to cater to different customers. There was no conversion needed, and brushless AC motors were much more reliable than brushed DC motors. Brushless DC motors have only been available since the mid 60s due to the availability of microprocessor-based controller circuitry.
They have much better floating point performance than they used to. They still don't come close to x86 systems in terms of performance per clock.
Apples to oranges. The ARM architecture provides a lot of integer performance, with little to no floating point performance. GPUs provide a lot of floating point performance, with little to no integer performance. The question then becomes which is more important for your specific application.
In these benchmarks the accelerators of the OMAP4 were totally ignored. These would have improved things like x264 encoding to being a lot faster even than a Core i7 chip.
And with just one misplaced letter, you show that you have no idea what you're talking about. The embedded platforms have ASICs dedicated to H 264 encoding, which can run much faster than comparable quality settings in x 264 running on a high end i7. If you actually tried running the software x 264 encoder on an ARM, you would be looking at days for a single TV show, and that's assuming x86-optimized x264 will even compile and run on the ARM architecture. If you want to compare apples to apples, you would have to test it against QuickSync on modern Intel chips.
The OMAP 4460 has a full programmable DSP, as well as independent ASICs for video encoding and encoding. You can have both. They are not mutually exclusive.
No, they're stacking this up against Pentium Ms and Cores. The Core architecture was a short-lived 32-bit mobile architecture in 2006, derived from the older P6 family. They are the final generation of actual Pentium (discounting the rebranding of new low end chips). The Core2 architecture was a completely new design, based off the same paradigms as the P6 family. Both mainstream systems detailed in this review were over five years old.
This... means something!