It could create a popular alternative way to support artists, coders, etc.
For example artists/coders/creators can sign up formally with Facebook (so that they can get paid more easily) and Facebook takes a 30% cut (like Apple does for their stuff). Then the hordes of fans can easily send them money.
One problem with that could be money laundering (depending on the implementation).
The other problem is Facebook's system might not be suitable for financial transactions. Duplicated/failed comments/messages/status updates aren't a big problem. But duplicated money transfers could be:). This is probably solvable though.
Yeah, that's why I find it strange the OP was saying that "cash registers never contain the amount of money their record claims they should at the end of the day."
I know people who worked as cashiers and when they start their shift they have to count the cash in a cash register to make sure it agrees with the records. If it's short the person you're taking over from loses that amount of money. If you don't bother counting and the amount of cash is short at the end of your shift then the difference comes out of your pay. So there is a fair bit of motivation to not make mistakes.
This procedure doesn't happen in all places of course. But if you're always losing money your cashiers are stealing from you. Mistakes happen, but they don't really happen that often.
For ATMs I'm not convinced that short falls are more common than having more money. Because it takes time to correct a shortfall. Whereas having more money just requires someone to forget to take the money within the time limit - the money then goes back into the machine (not sure if it goes back to the dispenser or a different compartment). Yes this is very rare but does actually happen. People don't take their money for all sorts of reasons.
If your ATMs are having regular shortfalls, someone is probably stealing the money. Or maybe you need to change your ATMs and ATM vendor.
Yes I am a jerk[1]. Therefore your suggestion/recommendation is wrong or only suitable for specific cases. People in general should care about what other people think, instead of just going by their instincts as you recommend.
They can still decide to go by their instincts after consideration. But going purely by instinct is stupid.
[1] I was actually going to use that as part of my argument in my first post, but I left it out since I thought there was enough to make my point.
Well my sig is very appropriate for what you said earlier e.g.: "Just follow your instincts and stop worrying what other people think" My sig: "Too many replies beneath your current threshold".
Not much difference is there? Hence that's why I shouldn't always follow my instincts.
FWIW many Slashdot replies are often beneath a threshold in more ways than one.
My instincts tell me to worry about what other people think.
1) I'm not self sufficient and powerful enough to ignore them. 2) Not worrying about what other people think is like surrounding yourself with sycophants.
If enough trustworthy competent people say you're doing the wrong thing then perhaps you're really doing the wrong thing.
Actually I've been waiting for such stuff since the 1990s before those books were written. There were wearable computers back then already. And even Apple came up with the Newton in 1998. In 2000 and 2001 I even tried to do a few things to shift the direction a bit to make things more open (allow for a more open ecosystem to build on) e.g. http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-yeoh-tldhere-01 http://tech.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=8162&cid=716672 But I failed...
NASA has been doing reruns of 1960s stuff with new tech and trying to spin it as impressive. They haven't bothered trying to build a real space station where humans can actually live on rather than rot away on. New passenger jets are actually slower than those in the 1970s (but a lot more fuel efficient;) ).
Ideas are easy. Implementation, getting mindshare and "buy-in" is the hard part. That's why patents are bad overall and slow down progress. You cannot build something decent using a typical vague and broad patent alone but you can stop someone trying to build something.
Progress in aerospace, computing, nuclear tech has been rather disappointing to me... There's been some progress in the medical tech front, so it's not all bad.
Progress in AI has been crap too, but I'm not keen on AI, prefer augmented humans (as mentioned already). We don't treat humans and other animals well, I don't see why we should create real AIs just to enslave and abuse, won't be good for us in many ways.
Create a browser instance/profile solely for your banking. Then configure the browser to have everything off except for your bank's URLs.
My normal browser runs as a different user from my logged in user account. My bank browser runs as yet another user. So pwning my normal browser still requires a privilege escalation to affect my main user account or my banking stuff.
My main account has access to the files and folders of the normal browser account. But not the other way around.
Depends what sort of programmer are you hiring, what's the actual test and how you would mark the test (or decide pass/fail).
FWIW I'm a crap programmer and would probably fail most of the more difficult algorithmic tests (which tend to be popular in some companies). But at least I know I'm crap:).
I'd probably be able to do the simple stuff. What I've found so far writing stuff for business/commercial environments is you usually don't need fancy algorithms (and if you do there's often a library or doc for it;)). You do need to get the data structures/schema right though- can't store and manipulate data if you have no place for the data or don't have a good place to put it. Often another hard part is the UI... End user: "I want to see all the data", End user's boss: "It's too cluttered and messy, and how about more charts and graphs? I like charts"... Coder thinks to self "Chart? But it's just a list of items!"
I prefer a different concept - one where humans are augmented and become superhuman rather than merely the environment becoming magical.
For example, cameras+ wearable displays + brain-computer interfaces. Control by special gloves, eye-blink gestures, and/or thought-macros. Then the "screen" can be pretty big even though it is physically small and doesn't consume as much power as a huge display.
Once you have that, you have virtual eidetic memory, virtual telepathy and telekinesis. Most of the tech is there or nearly there. One of the major problems might actually be Copyright Law - it conflicts with having eidetic memory especially if you want to share it with others. The **AA won't be happy with a penny for your thoughts, or their thoughts;).
Permanent video+audio recording at low/mid res, with high def/res in a ring buffer (past X minutes), so you can have the past X minutes in high def if you need it for whatever reason. Configurable image and audio recognition. Context awareness (time + location+ surroundings+ history) + super PDA features.
Military edition might have gun muzzle detection, camouflage countermeasures, automatic "crack-thump" sniper location, UWB radar+comms, range gated vision (the latter two can give away your position to enemies that are suitably equipped[1]).
[1] That said, electronic devices emit signals that can be detected if you have enough fancy stuff.
Maybe you're infectious a day before the symptoms show. But after the symptoms show, you're sneezing and blasting billions of viruses everywhere. That definitely makes a big difference in how infectious you are.
If EVERYONE quarantined themselves strictly (no contact) when they started massive sneezing, puking, crapping etc, until they got better; more of these diseases would have to evolve to be less obvious and possibly less nasty. Won't significantly affect those that have many nonhuman hosts, but the rest might be. Not ever going to happen of course, but just a thought:).
The US employer style seems to be burn out your employees, then discard them. Might work fine for low end jobs that require little training and investment. It may well be that most of these low training low end jobs will be taken over by robots and other automation in the future.
Whatever it is, not having paid sick leave is a big health issue. If more people quarantined themselves when diseases made them feel miserable and reduced the spreading of those diseases, that would make those diseases less likely to make people so miserable, whether because they spread less, or because they evolve to be less nasty.
Oh, I do. My mouse allows me to set the click latency down to 3ms (or lower - not sure if it really accepts the lower typed values, 3ms is from the drop down) and there's actually a difference (I think the default/higher settings are when the mouse button switches get older and more flaky). And I notice the keyboard keys have higher latency compared to my mouse button (when set to 3ms),
But for me the biggest latency contributors appears to be the pacific ocean and nagling by the game servers and client.
The problem I see is the speed of light is too slow, so the latency can be too high for many customers unless such services locate their servers around the world.
Note that the listed Windows "fix" doesn't actually disable Nagling - it just turns off selective acknowledgement (the MSMQ registry setting does nothing to the game stuff, since it's only for the MSMQ and not global as far as I can tell).
Furthermore it has no effect on the servers - if they have nagling enabled you're still stuck with it.
It's a shame really. Yes TCP has higher overheads but it really doesn't have to be that crap, and much of the crappiness seems to be due to selective acknowledgement + nagling.
I said: "EACH router hop on the internet might only take 1ms" And: "my ping to www.google.com is coming back within 5 milliseconds."
So go figure what fantasy world I live in. Seems pretty real to me. Not everyone uses AOL or whatever you are using.
See also: Tracing route to www.google.com 74.125.135.106 over a maximum of 30 hops:
1 <1 ms <1 ms <1 ms redacted
2 <1 ms 1 ms 1 ms redacted
3 2 ms 2 ms 2 ms redacted
4 2 ms 2 ms 2 ms redacted
5 2 ms 2 ms 2 ms 211.25.27.81
6 2 ms 1 ms 1 ms 203.121.17.2
7 3 ms 5 ms 4 ms 211.25.27.122
8 8 ms 7 ms 8 ms 223.28.2.53
9 4 ms 4 ms 3 ms 223.28.2.70
10 4 ms 4 ms 4 ms 211.25.221.2
11 4 ms 5 ms 5 ms 209.85.242.246
12 5 ms x 5 ms 209.85.250.237
13 x x x Request timed out.
14 5 ms 5 ms 4 ms 74.125.135.106
Trace complete.
You can try that yourself and see the ping differences between hops, there will be some anomalies as in mine due to asymmetric routing (packets taking a different path back). Your first hop might be high latency if you are using a 56k or ADSL modem, but the other hops might only have a diff of a few milliseconds.
The sad thing about latency is the networking bunch may do their jobs fairly well but the input/output hardware and software people often don't or can't.
So each router hop on the internet might only take 1ms or less whereas a mouse button click or keyboard key press might take 16 milliseconds (debouncing etc) and a crap TV might take another 16-50 milliseconds or even more.
Of course if you're unlucky to be an ocean or two away from the servers your ping goes up by 200 milliseconds or more. But if you're not, don't be surprised how little latency might be added by the network and server.
For instance my ping to www.google.com is coming back within 5 milliseconds.
But if the game server and client bunch leave Nagling on that often adds another semi-random 200+ milliseconds. I personally think Nagling belongs in the past and no longer should be enabled by default - causes more problems than it solves. It is a kludge that does something at the network layer that should more properly be done at the application layer.
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Yeah. It can be a big success and Facebook could get even more information and money from it. As I mentioned in a post last year on a similar topic: http://news.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=3332885&cid=42362747
It could create a popular alternative way to support artists, coders, etc.
For example artists/coders/creators can sign up formally with Facebook (so that they can get paid more easily) and Facebook takes a 30% cut (like Apple does for their stuff). Then the hordes of fans can easily send them money.
One problem with that could be money laundering (depending on the implementation).
The other problem is Facebook's system might not be suitable for financial transactions. Duplicated/failed comments/messages/status updates aren't a big problem. But duplicated money transfers could be :). This is probably solvable though.
Yeah, that's why I find it strange the OP was saying that "cash registers never contain the amount of money their record claims they should at the end of the day."
To me that shows something is wrong somewhere.
I know people who worked as cashiers and when they start their shift they have to count the cash in a cash register to make sure it agrees with the records. If it's short the person you're taking over from loses that amount of money. If you don't bother counting and the amount of cash is short at the end of your shift then the difference comes out of your pay. So there is a fair bit of motivation to not make mistakes.
This procedure doesn't happen in all places of course. But if you're always losing money your cashiers are stealing from you. Mistakes happen, but they don't really happen that often.
For ATMs I'm not convinced that short falls are more common than having more money. Because it takes time to correct a shortfall. Whereas having more money just requires someone to forget to take the money within the time limit - the money then goes back into the machine (not sure if it goes back to the dispenser or a different compartment). Yes this is very rare but does actually happen. People don't take their money for all sorts of reasons.
If your ATMs are having regular shortfalls, someone is probably stealing the money. Or maybe you need to change your ATMs and ATM vendor.
I wonder if anyone has designed chocolate through analytics and statistics.
That said there is no perfect game/chocolate or spaghetti sauce: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iIiAAhUeR6Y#t=0m24s
Yes I am a jerk[1]. Therefore your suggestion/recommendation is wrong or only suitable for specific cases. People in general should care about what other people think, instead of just going by their instincts as you recommend.
They can still decide to go by their instincts after consideration. But going purely by instinct is stupid.
[1] I was actually going to use that as part of my argument in my first post, but I left it out since I thought there was enough to make my point.
Well my sig is very appropriate for what you said earlier e.g.:
"Just follow your instincts and stop worrying what other people think"
My sig: "Too many replies beneath your current threshold".
Not much difference is there? Hence that's why I shouldn't always follow my instincts.
FWIW many Slashdot replies are often beneath a threshold in more ways than one.
My instincts tell me to worry about what other people think.
1) I'm not self sufficient and powerful enough to ignore them.
2) Not worrying about what other people think is like surrounding yourself with sycophants.
If enough trustworthy competent people say you're doing the wrong thing then perhaps you're really doing the wrong thing.
But it would be rather pointless to commit suicide in order to escape the death penalty.
True, but some people prefer to commit suicide instead of having someone else execute them.
And it's not always to avoid physical pain: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seppuku
Actually I've been waiting for such stuff since the 1990s before those books were written. There were wearable computers back then already. And even Apple came up with the Newton in 1998. In 2000 and 2001 I even tried to do a few things to shift the direction a bit to make things more open (allow for a more open ecosystem to build on) e.g. http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-yeoh-tldhere-01
http://tech.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=8162&cid=716672
But I failed...
Sometimes progress seems so slow. Look at this stuff from 50 years ago: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mOZqRJzE8xg
(and also Douglas Engelbart's Mother of all Demos: http://sloan.stanford.edu/mousesite/1968Demo.html ).
We haven't really made that much progress in 50 years.
NASA has been doing reruns of 1960s stuff with new tech and trying to spin it as impressive. They haven't bothered trying to build a real space station where humans can actually live on rather than rot away on. New passenger jets are actually slower than those in the 1970s (but a lot more fuel efficient ;) ).
Ideas are easy. Implementation, getting mindshare and "buy-in" is the hard part. That's why patents are bad overall and slow down progress. You cannot build something decent using a typical vague and broad patent alone but you can stop someone trying to build something.
Progress in aerospace, computing, nuclear tech has been rather disappointing to me... There's been some progress in the medical tech front, so it's not all bad.
Progress in AI has been crap too, but I'm not keen on AI, prefer augmented humans (as mentioned already). We don't treat humans and other animals well, I don't see why we should create real AIs just to enslave and abuse, won't be good for us in many ways.
Create a browser instance/profile solely for your banking. Then configure the browser to have everything off except for your bank's URLs.
My normal browser runs as a different user from my logged in user account. My bank browser runs as yet another user. So pwning my normal browser still requires a privilege escalation to affect my main user account or my banking stuff.
My main account has access to the files and folders of the normal browser account. But not the other way around.
There's also twitter, facebook and foursquare.
"She's probably gone to bed" - because she said so and is actually offline.
"He must be out" -because he checked in at the mall on foursquare.
Or even "she's walking around this location" - because she's crazy enough to make her location public on some app: http://www.endomondo.com/login
I tried to tip my server, but the server's rack got in the way...
Depends what sort of programmer are you hiring, what's the actual test and how you would mark the test (or decide pass/fail).
:).
;)). You do need to get the data structures/schema right though- can't store and manipulate data if you have no place for the data or don't have a good place to put it. Often another hard part is the UI... End user: "I want to see all the data", End user's boss: "It's too cluttered and messy, and how about more charts and graphs? I like charts"... Coder thinks to self "Chart? But it's just a list of items!"
FWIW I'm a crap programmer and would probably fail most of the more difficult algorithmic tests (which tend to be popular in some companies). But at least I know I'm crap
I'd probably be able to do the simple stuff. What I've found so far writing stuff for business/commercial environments is you usually don't need fancy algorithms (and if you do there's often a library or doc for it
I prefer a different concept - one where humans are augmented and become superhuman rather than merely the environment becoming magical.
;).
For example, cameras+ wearable displays + brain-computer interfaces. Control by special gloves, eye-blink gestures, and/or thought-macros. Then the "screen" can be pretty big even though it is physically small and doesn't consume as much power as a huge display.
Once you have that, you have virtual eidetic memory, virtual telepathy and telekinesis. Most of the tech is there or nearly there. One of the major problems might actually be Copyright Law - it conflicts with having eidetic memory especially if you want to share it with others. The **AA won't be happy with a penny for your thoughts, or their thoughts
Permanent video+audio recording at low/mid res, with high def/res in a ring buffer (past X minutes), so you can have the past X minutes in high def if you need it for whatever reason. Configurable image and audio recognition. Context awareness (time + location+ surroundings+ history) + super PDA features.
Military edition might have gun muzzle detection, camouflage countermeasures, automatic "crack-thump" sniper location, UWB radar+comms, range gated vision (the latter two can give away your position to enemies that are suitably equipped[1]).
[1] That said, electronic devices emit signals that can be detected if you have enough fancy stuff.
I guess that's another factor to consider when relocating the Ministry of Silly Walks.
Maybe you're infectious a day before the symptoms show. But after the symptoms show, you're sneezing and blasting billions of viruses everywhere. That definitely makes a big difference in how infectious you are.
:).
If EVERYONE quarantined themselves strictly (no contact) when they started massive sneezing, puking, crapping etc, until they got better; more of these diseases would have to evolve to be less obvious and possibly less nasty. Won't significantly affect those that have many nonhuman hosts, but the rest might be. Not ever going to happen of course, but just a thought
Big deal, the Germans get 4-5 weeks of paid vacation (4 weeks minimum by law). Their economy seems to be doing OK despite that. In Denmark it's 25 days. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_statutory_minimum_employment_leave_by_country
The US employer style seems to be burn out your employees, then discard them. Might work fine for low end jobs that require little training and investment. It may well be that most of these low training low end jobs will be taken over by robots and other automation in the future.
Whatever it is, not having paid sick leave is a big health issue. If more people quarantined themselves when diseases made them feel miserable and reduced the spreading of those diseases, that would make those diseases less likely to make people so miserable, whether because they spread less, or because they evolve to be less nasty.
Oh, I do. My mouse allows me to set the click latency down to 3ms (or lower - not sure if it really accepts the lower typed values, 3ms is from the drop down) and there's actually a difference (I think the default/higher settings are when the mouse button switches get older and more flaky). And I notice the keyboard keys have higher latency compared to my mouse button (when set to 3ms),
But for me the biggest latency contributors appears to be the pacific ocean and nagling by the game servers and client.
yeah like how to get beer...
I believe OP is talking about:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OnLive
https://www.onlive.com/launch/trial/borderlands
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5qD8KOcre7w
In which case it's rendered on the server.
The problem I see is the speed of light is too slow, so the latency can be too high for many customers unless such services locate their servers around the world.
I think many MMO developers enable Nagling: WoW ( http://www.guildportal.com/Guild.aspx?GuildID=236446&TabID=1990410&ForumID=1110924&TopicID=6371439 ) and Guild Wars ( http://www.codeofhonor.com/blog/whose-bug-is-this-anyway )
Note that the listed Windows "fix" doesn't actually disable Nagling - it just turns off selective acknowledgement (the MSMQ registry setting does nothing to the game stuff, since it's only for the MSMQ and not global as far as I can tell).
Furthermore it has no effect on the servers - if they have nagling enabled you're still stuck with it.
It's a shame really. Yes TCP has higher overheads but it really doesn't have to be that crap, and much of the crappiness seems to be due to selective acknowledgement + nagling.
He should probably stop living in an Islamic country.
If you really believe that, you should invite him to stay at your place (I'm assuming you're not living in an Islamic country).
I said: "EACH router hop on the internet might only take 1ms"
And: "my ping to www.google.com is coming back within 5 milliseconds."
So go figure what fantasy world I live in. Seems pretty real to me. Not everyone uses AOL or whatever you are using.
See also:
Tracing route to www.google.com 74.125.135.106
over a maximum of 30 hops:
1 <1 ms <1 ms <1 ms redacted
2 <1 ms 1 ms 1 ms redacted
3 2 ms 2 ms 2 ms redacted
4 2 ms 2 ms 2 ms redacted
5 2 ms 2 ms 2 ms 211.25.27.81
6 2 ms 1 ms 1 ms 203.121.17.2
7 3 ms 5 ms 4 ms 211.25.27.122
8 8 ms 7 ms 8 ms 223.28.2.53
9 4 ms 4 ms 3 ms 223.28.2.70
10 4 ms 4 ms 4 ms 211.25.221.2
11 4 ms 5 ms 5 ms 209.85.242.246
12 5 ms x 5 ms 209.85.250.237
13 x x x Request timed out.
14 5 ms 5 ms 4 ms 74.125.135.106
Trace complete.
You can try that yourself and see the ping differences between hops, there will be some anomalies as in mine due to asymmetric routing (packets taking a different path back). Your first hop might be high latency if you are using a 56k or ADSL modem, but the other hops might only have a diff of a few milliseconds.
The sad thing about latency is the networking bunch may do their jobs fairly well but the input/output hardware and software people often don't or can't.
So each router hop on the internet might only take 1ms or less whereas a mouse button click or keyboard key press might take 16 milliseconds (debouncing etc) and a crap TV might take another 16-50 milliseconds or even more.
Of course if you're unlucky to be an ocean or two away from the servers your ping goes up by 200 milliseconds or more. But if you're not, don't be surprised how little latency might be added by the network and server.
For instance my ping to www.google.com is coming back within 5 milliseconds.
But if the game server and client bunch leave Nagling on that often adds another semi-random 200+ milliseconds. I personally think Nagling belongs in the past and no longer should be enabled by default - causes more problems than it solves. It is a kludge that does something at the network layer that should more properly be done at the application layer.
I wouldn't be surprised if that's true.
Especially when this bug existed: http://chingshiong.blogspot.co.uk/2013/01/facebook-bug-4-password-reset.html
Which I think is more notable than a bug in Accellion (which I have never heard of, nor from what I've seen will ever want to use).