Ex-wives? How about certain politicians or other widely unpopular people?
Years ago I thought of a pseudo-reality TV programme called "Vote Them Off The Planet". With 1 way and return options.
Of course for various reasons the 1 way would be more of a joke (try to interview them etc) - except if the winners choose to pay for their return trip, you'd send the winners for that category too.
I believe it's only tens of millions to send someone to orbit. Might actually be able to fund it via expensive text message voting:).
My conclusion is to use different passwords for different things. They don't have to be that strong.
As long as the passwords are strong enough to prevent brute forcing over the _NETWORK_ they are strong enough. If you don't pick an overly stupid password then either you or the site is going to be pwned before the hackers brute-force/guess your password over the network.
If someone has hacked into the site to obtain the hashes, it's likely they can do other stuff anyway (make transactions, get your info, maybe even get the plaintext of your password), so don't waste your time making and using super long passwords.
Are those universe simulations that physicists run billions of years old? From the perspective of the physicist or the the stuff in the simulation? The external historical age of a universe simulation does not have to be the same as the internal historical age. A simulation of the universe 13 billion years ago could have been started up 6 days ago or yesterday for all you know. Or a restored from a snapshot copy a minute ago.
From what I know of our universe, it seems a great assumption to expect everything to be so simple as fanatical atheists or creationists believe. Go ask the top physicists how simple the universe is. Even if they come up with a good TOE they would still have plenty of interesting unanswered questions to work on.
If you were an all powerful, all knowing, etc God would you really make a universe as boring as the creationists believe? If you are that boring an eternity in the Heaven you create might not be that much better from an eternity in Hell. Eternity is a very very very long time. Even with 72 houris or golden harps or whatever. Maybe the first 1000 years might still be fun, but after a billion or trillion years? And even if you were "changed" to still be able to enjoy that same old thing for eternity, do you think that's an improvement?
There are so many ways to get the info if you have physical access to the laptop and/or room. So if you're that paranoid (or they really are out to get the data) make sure the laptop is never left unguarded and it can self destruct.
1) In many cases it doesn't take long to take a laptop apart and reassemble it. The Dell technician who did that to my laptop claims he could do it in the dark/blindfolded (go figure the implications - Dell quality etc;) ).
There are also alternative ways of keylogging. Most keyboard keys make a distinct sound when you type them. Typing q would sound different from typing w. For those that are too similar you could guess by heuristics. You can make calibration/ easier by pre-typing qwerty on it, but it is not necessary given enough text and correct guessing: https://freedom-to-tinker.com/blog/felten/acoustic-snooping-typed-information/
Basically a usb device can install stuff and even "click through" the UAC/confirmation stuff, etc - because it can look like a usb keyboard and mouse. What it could do is nudge/jiggle the "mouse" by 1 pixel once a minute or so to make sure the screensaver never triggers. Then at a suitable time, launch the payload- which could be launching notepad/cmd, creating and saving a script and then running it.
If one of the usb ports was actually replaced with a malicious usb device that looks like a failed usb port you might not make a big issue about it. It might even be a working usb port - most large companies have standard issue laptops, so making a custom hardware USB shim for those laptops might be possible.
So maybe Intel, AMD should interact more with the OS and compiler bunch and figure out how to use those billions of transistors in more useful ways.
There are things you can do in software to address the c10k problem (and similar problems): http://www.kegel.com/c10k.html But I'm sure there are things you can do in hardware to make stuff even easier. It's not like the stuff that's being done is the best way of doing things. Furthermore the OS and apps people might be writing things in certain ways because certain things aren't done by the hardware or done fast.
I know that at least on the x86 platform checking the current time and also getting monotonic time is not as simple AND efficient as it could be. It was even worse before HPET, and now even HPET isn't that great. Monotonic system time (ticks) could be different from current human time, many programs need one or both.
Same goes for scheduling stuff, serializing stuff and getting stuff to trigger on arbitrary things all with minimal overhead. I suspect many things would be easier if you can create a way of having cluster wide consistent monotonic high-res time, and also fast low latency clusterwide locking.
On a related note many programming languages seem to like to push parameters onto a stack. That's fine but in many implementations they seem to push the data onto the code/call stack (which holds return addresses). This mixing of data and code stuff is unsafe. They should have separate data and code stacks. That way even if a hacker messes with the data, it's harder to execute arbitrary code- you'd just execute the same code but with mangled data, which is more likely to produce errors instead of arbitrary code execution.
If the reason for doing such insecure stuff is performance or convenience, then perhaps Intel etc can use those transistors to make it faster and easier to do things safer.
Yes, but in many cases the elevator stops on every floor even if the elevator is already near the maximum weight- as you can tell by the warning buzzer going off intermittently.
AND for cases where the elevator is not near the maximum weight but effectively full for other reasons[1] the elevator can guess if: 1) the load is high enough 2) the load does not change after the doors open (nobody gets in or out). 3) the external button is pressed again after the doors closed (someone actually is there who wants an elevator) And thus decide it is "effectively full" and not stop on future floors till the load decreases below a threshold.
It might be better for a 90% full elevator to prioritize serving its current load till say 50% full and leave the other floors to the less full elevators than for the 90% full elevator to stop on many floors taking one person and letting out one person. Stopping, opening and closing doors and restarting takes a lot of time. Not worth it for one person during peak times, might as well take the whole load where they want to go, then go back and get a full load again.
[1] The elevator may hold people who do not make room for others. Or holds an item that takes up extra floor space.
You have to take into account for car locations, direction, speed, where car and hall calls are locatedand have to figure in such things as door times to calculate which car can service a hall call soonest.
I wished more elevators took into account how full they were. There's no point having a full or near full elevator serving external requests. A full elevator should only do internal requests. An elevator might guess how full it is by the load it is carrying, or even whether anyone got in for a previous request (door opened but nobody got in- load stayed the same and is high, but the request button was pressed again soon after the door closed - which normally means there was someone there but he/she did not go in despite wanting an elevator).
Nice to have but not so important would be a standardized way to cancel requests.
Nowadays I think some elevators are on "least energy used" and not "fastest service" at least based on the way they seem to behave...
I said: "by the time the malware has enough power to change the boot up stuff, your OS is so pwned that secureboot will make no difference if the malware author knows what he's doing."
Yes if the malware changes the boot up stuff it will get detected and the firmware won't run it. But the point is by the time the malware has the power to change the boot stuff it doesn't have to! The malware can change whatever it wants in the rest of the system already. And there will be plenty in the rest of the system that's not protected by secureboot- browser, browser plugins, etc. It's already in the bank vault and holding all the money.
And most of the malware currently out in the wild would be thwarted by secureboot? I doubt it since they exploit stuff (browser, flash, pdf, dumb users) that's nothing to do with secureboot at all.
And by the time the malware has enough power to change the boot up stuff, your OS is so pwned that secureboot will make no difference if the malware author knows what he's doing.
So as far as I can see, it's not about protecting the user.
There was some healthcare. Wine, honey, oil, herbs, poultices, etc. But I'd say War and Agriculture was also around 200 generations ago. Agriculture allowed larger numbers of people, storage and supply of food and thus larger scale War. And War applied a fair bit of selection pressure to those numbers of people.
Maybe one more reason why humans can run for so long is because of War. Your genes are more likely to stick around if you can run till the sun sets then hide or run so more so the victors have even more difficulty finding and killing you.
Your genes are also more likely to stick around if you conquered cities, killed all the males, children and bred with the desirable females[1].
[1] Which was a common practice in those days - people may blame that on the Bible but the Bible just imposed some additional regulations on War. Prohibiting War would just mean getting wiped out. Prohibiting the common War-time practice of killing people and enslaving them would mean keeping the defeated around despite not having the resources to support them AND not being able to take advantage of their resources. That was often not viable in those days - no agricultural or industrial revolution, the defeated would also wait for the opportunity to wipe you out. There was no revolution in firepower that would allow a few armed soldiers to keep very many farmers subdued.
Not true. They bought Kiva. It probably takes a while before they work out the changes needed and roll that out.
As for humans getting rest, in many countries if you end up without a job and are not in the "ruling caste" the rest of the people don't seem to think you deserve to get any $$$$ for "resting" aka "doing nothing productive".
Postgresql assuming the default is NULL when you don't explicitly set a default value seems reasonable. I don't want to have to type extra crap.
If you don't want nulls AND want a value to be explicitly specified then the proper way (which is supported in Postgresql ) is to create the column with "NOT NULL DEFAULT NULL".
Apparently MSSQL does it by using the tempdb which seems a bit kludgy... But I guess if you can put the tempdb on fast storage it might perform better.
MSSQL works better than MySQL but is often more painful to use than postgresql. For example with MS SQL you can't use column aliases in a "GROUP BY",
I have to say SQL Management Studio is nice (esp the full versions). But psql isn't that bad since Postgresql is not that annoying:).
I sometimes process data in Postgresql then insert the resulting output to MSSQL when it happens to be faster and easier to do the processing in Postgresql - regex matches, etc.
There's too much crap on youtube when I use those keywords. I also looked for alex jones rnc and I don't know which video you're talking about. Same goes for: Ohio rigged 2004
I'm not saying the videos don't exist since I know youtube's search really sucks. I've personal experience of knowing that a particular video exists but not being able to find it easily via youtube searches. Just get lots of unrelated crap instead.
1) Is 38% g enough for sustainable human life? We could build space stations with 1g by using tethers. 2) It doesn't have enough of a magnetosphere: http://science.nasa.gov/science-news/science-at-nasa/2001/ast31jan_1/ 3) The moon and the asteroids would be more convenient sources of materials than Mars.
We should build space stations with artificial gravity first. Then we can do 38% g and 1g for as long as we want and see how well humans do on those in the long term (you have two groups one at 0.38g and one at 1g for comparison - same environment, same air, same radiation, but different g).
Talking about Mars without even planning to build such space stations is talking about jumping before even learning to stand. Once you can build such space stations and then colonies, Mars actually becomes an expensive curiosity. We won't really need to go there for our needs.
It's got to be very fucked up to be as inhospitable as Mars. And it has to be more inhospitable than Mars since the Earth is still a lot closer.
We're not even sure that enough of the plants we need will grow well enough on Mars. If they don't then there's no great benefit to all that land on Mars. Might as well be growing plants in space colonies.
Yeah. Speaking of invisible hand: Q) How many free market economists does it take to change a light bulb? A) Free market economists don't change lightbulbs, they write their papers in the darkness while waiting for the Invisible Hand to do it.
As far as I see collapse is inevitable every now and then, it's a matter of how bad it is. Good regulations reduce the impact and how often the collapse happens. After all banks that didn't do crazy stuff didn't collapse, and it was quite obvious that some stuff was crazy- the greedy people didn't care - there was little risk to them. There's so much regulation can do though - if you run out of resources you can't regulate your way out of it.
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I wish some other industries would fix prices and exploit us poor consumers the way the computer hardware industry exploits us.
Then shoes, office chairs, etc would be much cheaper, be of better quality, last at least 3-5 years on average and come with a 1-3 year warranty.
Ex-wives? How about certain politicians or other widely unpopular people?
:).
Years ago I thought of a pseudo-reality TV programme called "Vote Them Off The Planet". With 1 way and return options.
Of course for various reasons the 1 way would be more of a joke (try to interview them etc) - except if the winners choose to pay for their return trip, you'd send the winners for that category too.
I believe it's only tens of millions to send someone to orbit. Might actually be able to fund it via expensive text message voting
My conclusion is to use different passwords for different things. They don't have to be that strong.
As long as the passwords are strong enough to prevent brute forcing over the _NETWORK_ they are strong enough. If you don't pick an overly stupid password then either you or the site is going to be pwned before the hackers brute-force/guess your password over the network.
If someone has hacked into the site to obtain the hashes, it's likely they can do other stuff anyway (make transactions, get your info, maybe even get the plaintext of your password), so don't waste your time making and using super long passwords.
Are those universe simulations that physicists run billions of years old? From the perspective of the physicist or the the stuff in the simulation? The external historical age of a universe simulation does not have to be the same as the internal historical age. A simulation of the universe 13 billion years ago could have been started up 6 days ago or yesterday for all you know. Or a restored from a snapshot copy a minute ago.
From what I know of our universe, it seems a great assumption to expect everything to be so simple as fanatical atheists or creationists believe. Go ask the top physicists how simple the universe is. Even if they come up with a good TOE they would still have plenty of interesting unanswered questions to work on.
If you were an all powerful, all knowing, etc God would you really make a universe as boring as the creationists believe? If you are that boring an eternity in the Heaven you create might not be that much better from an eternity in Hell. Eternity is a very very very long time. Even with 72 houris or golden harps or whatever. Maybe the first 1000 years might still be fun, but after a billion or trillion years? And even if you were "changed" to still be able to enjoy that same old thing for eternity, do you think that's an improvement?
That's true, but you're still likely going to have to sign up with an ISP.
You also have to ask how much of Nokia's talent is still working for Nokia.
You really think they don't make tamper resistant stickers in China?
There are other ways of doing keylogging too: https://freedom-to-tinker.com/blog/felten/acoustic-snooping-typed-information/
There are so many ways to get the info if you have physical access to the laptop and/or room. So if you're that paranoid (or they really are out to get the data) make sure the laptop is never left unguarded and it can self destruct.
1) In many cases it doesn't take long to take a laptop apart and reassemble it. The Dell technician who did that to my laptop claims he could do it in the dark/blindfolded (go figure the implications - Dell quality etc ;) ).
There are also alternative ways of keylogging. Most keyboard keys make a distinct sound when you type them. Typing q would sound different from typing w. For those that are too similar you could guess by heuristics. You can make calibration/ easier by pre-typing qwerty on it, but it is not necessary given enough text and correct guessing: https://freedom-to-tinker.com/blog/felten/acoustic-snooping-typed-information/
2) Alternatively plug a sneakier version of this in: http://hakshop.myshopify.com/products/usb-rubber-ducky
Or trick the person to do it.
See also: http://www.irongeek.com/i.php?page=security/plug-and-prey-malicious-usb-devices
Basically a usb device can install stuff and even "click through" the UAC/confirmation stuff, etc - because it can look like a usb keyboard and mouse. What it could do is nudge/jiggle the "mouse" by 1 pixel once a minute or so to make sure the screensaver never triggers. Then at a suitable time, launch the payload- which could be launching notepad/cmd, creating and saving a script and then running it.
If one of the usb ports was actually replaced with a malicious usb device that looks like a failed usb port you might not make a big issue about it. It might even be a working usb port - most large companies have standard issue laptops, so making a custom hardware USB shim for those laptops might be possible.
Now? Hence the updated benchmark.
Game? It's a benchmarking program. How many times has Crysis been played vs the times its been run as a benchmark?
As hardware becomes more powerful you need to release updated benchmarks because the older ones become less useful.
Is that like using ReiserFS? ;)
The problem is that we are nearing the peak of what is possible with current technology in a single core
But aren't there still plenty of things that the hardware can do to make the software stuff easier?
Intel has actually started adding some stuff to help: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transactional_Synchronization_Extensions
So maybe Intel, AMD should interact more with the OS and compiler bunch and figure out how to use those billions of transistors in more useful ways.
There are things you can do in software to address the c10k problem (and similar problems): http://www.kegel.com/c10k.html
But I'm sure there are things you can do in hardware to make stuff even easier. It's not like the stuff that's being done is the best way of doing things. Furthermore the OS and apps people might be writing things in certain ways because certain things aren't done by the hardware or done fast.
I know that at least on the x86 platform checking the current time and also getting monotonic time is not as simple AND efficient as it could be. It was even worse before HPET, and now even HPET isn't that great. Monotonic system time (ticks) could be different from current human time, many programs need one or both.
Same goes for scheduling stuff, serializing stuff and getting stuff to trigger on arbitrary things all with minimal overhead. I suspect many things would be easier if you can create a way of having cluster wide consistent monotonic high-res time, and also fast low latency clusterwide locking.
On a related note many programming languages seem to like to push parameters onto a stack. That's fine but in many implementations they seem to push the data onto the code/call stack (which holds return addresses). This mixing of data and code stuff is unsafe. They should have separate data and code stacks. That way even if a hacker messes with the data, it's harder to execute arbitrary code- you'd just execute the same code but with mangled data, which is more likely to produce errors instead of arbitrary code execution.
If the reason for doing such insecure stuff is performance or convenience, then perhaps Intel etc can use those transistors to make it faster and easier to do things safer.
Yes, but in many cases the elevator stops on every floor even if the elevator is already near the maximum weight- as you can tell by the warning buzzer going off intermittently.
AND for cases where the elevator is not near the maximum weight but effectively full for other reasons[1] the elevator can guess if:
1) the load is high enough
2) the load does not change after the doors open (nobody gets in or out).
3) the external button is pressed again after the doors closed (someone actually is there who wants an elevator)
And thus decide it is "effectively full" and not stop on future floors till the load decreases below a threshold.
It might be better for a 90% full elevator to prioritize serving its current load till say 50% full and leave the other floors to the less full elevators than for the 90% full elevator to stop on many floors taking one person and letting out one person. Stopping, opening and closing doors and restarting takes a lot of time. Not worth it for one person during peak times, might as well take the whole load where they want to go, then go back and get a full load again.
[1] The elevator may hold people who do not make room for others. Or holds an item that takes up extra floor space.
You have to take into account for car locations, direction, speed, where car and hall calls are locatedand have to figure in such things as door times to calculate which car can service a hall call soonest.
I wished more elevators took into account how full they were. There's no point having a full or near full elevator serving external requests. A full elevator should only do internal requests. An elevator might guess how full it is by the load it is carrying, or even whether anyone got in for a previous request (door opened but nobody got in- load stayed the same and is high, but the request button was pressed again soon after the door closed - which normally means there was someone there but he/she did not go in despite wanting an elevator).
Nice to have but not so important would be a standardized way to cancel requests.
Nowadays I think some elevators are on "least energy used" and not "fastest service" at least based on the way they seem to behave...
I said: "by the time the malware has enough power to change the boot up stuff, your OS is so pwned that secureboot will make no difference if the malware author knows what he's doing."
Yes if the malware changes the boot up stuff it will get detected and the firmware won't run it. But the point is by the time the malware has the power to change the boot stuff it doesn't have to! The malware can change whatever it wants in the rest of the system already. And there will be plenty in the rest of the system that's not protected by secureboot- browser, browser plugins, etc. It's already in the bank vault and holding all the money.
And most of the malware currently out in the wild would be thwarted by secureboot? I doubt it since they exploit stuff (browser, flash, pdf, dumb users) that's nothing to do with secureboot at all.
And by the time the malware has enough power to change the boot up stuff, your OS is so pwned that secureboot will make no difference if the malware author knows what he's doing.
So as far as I can see, it's not about protecting the user.
There was some healthcare. Wine, honey, oil, herbs, poultices, etc. But I'd say War and Agriculture was also around 200 generations ago. Agriculture allowed larger numbers of people, storage and supply of food and thus larger scale War. And War applied a fair bit of selection pressure to those numbers of people.
Maybe one more reason why humans can run for so long is because of War. Your genes are more likely to stick around if you can run till the sun sets then hide or run so more so the victors have even more difficulty finding and killing you.
Your genes are also more likely to stick around if you conquered cities, killed all the males, children and bred with the desirable females[1].
[1] Which was a common practice in those days - people may blame that on the Bible but the Bible just imposed some additional regulations on War. Prohibiting War would just mean getting wiped out. Prohibiting the common War-time practice of killing people and enslaving them would mean keeping the defeated around despite not having the resources to support them AND not being able to take advantage of their resources. That was often not viable in those days - no agricultural or industrial revolution, the defeated would also wait for the opportunity to wipe you out. There was no revolution in firepower that would allow a few armed soldiers to keep very many farmers subdued.
Not true. They bought Kiva. It probably takes a while before they work out the changes needed and roll that out.
As for humans getting rest, in many countries if you end up without a job and are not in the "ruling caste" the rest of the people don't seem to think you deserve to get any $$$$ for "resting" aka "doing nothing productive".
Careful for what you ask for, you may get it.
Also, unlike Wordpress, Drupal does a pretty good job keeping up security.
Evidence/proof please? I don't really see them as being significantly better:
http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvekey.cgi?keyword=joomla
http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvekey.cgi?keyword=drupal
http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvekey.cgi?keyword=wordpress
http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvekey.cgi?keyword=plone
http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvekey.cgi?keyword=django
OK they only had 5 sql injection CVEs in 2012 while Wordpress had 6. But "pretty good job" doesn't seem to spring to mind when I look at the Drupal CVEs.
Postgresql assuming the default is NULL when you don't explicitly set a default value seems reasonable. I don't want to have to type extra crap.
If you don't want nulls AND want a value to be explicitly specified then the proper way (which is supported in Postgresql ) is to create the column with "NOT NULL DEFAULT NULL".
You can configure MSSQL to use MVCC ( http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms177404(v=sql.105).aspx ) , it performs worse in some scenarios[1], but you don't get lots of deadlock problems which can also reduce performance.
Apparently MSSQL does it by using the tempdb which seems a bit kludgy... But I guess if you can put the tempdb on fast storage it might perform better.
MSSQL works better than MySQL but is often more painful to use than postgresql. For example with MS SQL you can't use column aliases in a "GROUP BY",
I have to say SQL Management Studio is nice (esp the full versions). But psql isn't that bad since Postgresql is not that annoying :).
I sometimes process data in Postgresql then insert the resulting output to MSSQL when it happens to be faster and easier to do the processing in Postgresql - regex matches, etc.
[1] http://sqlblog.com/blogs/linchi_shea/archive/2007/10/05/performance-impact-the-potential-cost-of-read-committed-snapshot.aspx
There's too much crap on youtube when I use those keywords. I also looked for alex jones rnc and I don't know which video you're talking about. Same goes for: Ohio rigged 2004
I'm not saying the videos don't exist since I know youtube's search really sucks. I've personal experience of knowing that a particular video exists but not being able to find it easily via youtube searches. Just get lots of unrelated crap instead.
1) Is 38% g enough for sustainable human life? We could build space stations with 1g by using tethers.
2) It doesn't have enough of a magnetosphere: http://science.nasa.gov/science-news/science-at-nasa/2001/ast31jan_1/
3) The moon and the asteroids would be more convenient sources of materials than Mars.
We should build space stations with artificial gravity first. Then we can do 38% g and 1g for as long as we want and see how well humans do on those in the long term (you have two groups one at 0.38g and one at 1g for comparison - same environment, same air, same radiation, but different g).
Talking about Mars without even planning to build such space stations is talking about jumping before even learning to stand. Once you can build such space stations and then colonies, Mars actually becomes an expensive curiosity. We won't really need to go there for our needs.
It's got to be very fucked up to be as inhospitable as Mars. And it has to be more inhospitable than Mars since the Earth is still a lot closer.
We're not even sure that enough of the plants we need will grow well enough on Mars. If they don't then there's no great benefit to all that land on Mars. Might as well be growing plants in space colonies.
Yeah. Speaking of invisible hand:
Q) How many free market economists does it take to change a light bulb?
A) Free market economists don't change lightbulbs, they write their papers in the darkness while waiting for the Invisible Hand to do it.
As far as I see collapse is inevitable every now and then, it's a matter of how bad it is. Good regulations reduce the impact and how often the collapse happens. After all banks that didn't do crazy stuff didn't collapse, and it was quite obvious that some stuff was crazy- the greedy people didn't care - there was little risk to them. There's so much regulation can do though - if you run out of resources you can't regulate your way out of it.
BTW Iceland had a rather different bailout approach - instead of bailing out the banks they let the banks suffer and bailed out the citizens. Maybe Iceland is different, but they seem to be doing better now.
http://www.businessweek.com/news/2012-08-12/imf-says-bailouts-iceland-style-hold-lessons-for-crisis-nations
Look what Forbes said back then: http://www.forbes.com/sites/halahtouryalai/2011/04/11/icelands-stand-against-bailout-repayment-will-hurt/
Forbes thinks Iceland won't be able to raise money any more? Sure Iceland is clearly riskier now, but there's plenty of evidence that higher risk never stopped greed. Whereas losing your life savings can put a halt to lots of things.