I don't have solid data to back it up;
but I think they're giving out more tickets
in California now.
The other day I actually saw somebody get nailed
for "failure to yield to a pedestrian". This is
indeed a big problem--to the point where I have to
wait for several cars to pass through a crosswalk
sometimes. Still, it doesn't seem like they cared
that much about it a couple years ago.
I've been thinking that if there is a really big
one, we'll see a "donut" pattern when you map the data.
This mornings 4.1 (which I felt) was exciting, and
tweet-worthy. The BIG ONE will not be tweeted near
the epicenter. The power will go out. Even if it doesn't
go out, you'll have better things to do.
Eventually the power would come back on and the hole
would fill in; but I would think that the existance of
the hole in the data would be one indicator of how strong
the quake really is.
Has this ever been observed before in "crowdsourced"
quake data?
Maybe it was just the heat. Now try keeping
the mice in warmer cages. If their autonomic systems
tend to cool the brain, try drugs that tend to increase
the temperature of the mouse. Maybe it's just the warm
brain that does this. Tell gramps to wear a hat when he
goes out. Tinfoil optional.
I read it too fast, saw a number that wasn't a power of 2, and got
snarky. Not sure about my geek card; but at least I'm in line with
Slashdot community values.
Now that you mention it, recognizing the referrer would most
likely be of marginal benefit at best. You
have to SYN all those connections to
do it in the first place, and in a true DoS attack
you probably do have your entire network saturated
with SYNs alone, nevermind data.
In other words, you're right. The IPS
is a doorman; but it can't prevent a crowd from
forming outside the door and preventing the band
from getting on stage.
Maybe it's just about the right time
for the hefty, shoulder-carried piece of
tech to come back in fashion. Anybody remember
the boom-box?
Actually, the first thing that popped
into my head was to imagine Sting singing
"I want my big screen phone".
Start workin' out guys. Annoying, shoulder-carried
big screen portable TV with a phone in it. Videophone
your GF on the subway. Oh, this is Slashdot... nevermind.
Oh man, it sounds like there was no clear
separation of departments there. I thought
I had problems!
Some people have "admin sensibility" and
some don't. I know I don't, so when somebody
asked me if I wanted root on some box, I always
said "NO!".
I knew there was no upside to me having root
on a server. The one or two guys who had assumed the role
of admin, and were comfortable doing it, it was easier
to ask them for things. If it was a stupid
idea for the server, they'd reject it. They wouldn't
fat-finger some command, because they did it all the time.
It was their specialty.
OTOH, you'd have to pry admin on my workstation from
my cold dead hands. I could and did occasionaly crash
that box; but the damage was limited to the work that
wasn't checked in and my time spent rebuilding the box.
It turned out to be quite difficult
to get hard data about snowfall in Moscow.
I guess because snow can come in various
densities, they prefer to quote liquid equivalents.
According to one source: " mainly from November through March. During those months Moscow gets a liquid-equivalent of 7.30-8.98 inches of rain. If that all fell as snow, they would get more than 73-90 inches!"
It sounds like it might the kind of situation
you're talking about--epic snowfalls of the type
Washington DC saw recently being common as opposed
to rare. I don't know if they did it this time because
I'm not there anymore; but
when that happened in DC a number of years ago, they did indeed resort to dumping
it in the Potomac.
This may be surprising to you, but in many US cities there
is a planting strip between the sidewalk and the road. In urban areas
the sidewalks may be quite wide and also have a planting strip. While
the snowpiles may decrease the pedestrian capacity some, they won't decrease
it to the point where the sidewalks are unusable, unless you have truly
epic snowfalls (Buffalo, NY leaps to mind). That's why I prefaced
my remark with, "is there so much snow that...". I'm not that familiar with
Moscow. I know it's cold. I know it snows; but is there heavy snow all
the time with no intervening melt? Are the sidewalks wide enough and/or
bordered by planting zones?
Wow. That sounds like the Soviet Union
never really ended. Is there so much snow
that they can't use a plow and shove it up
on the sidewalk?
That would eliminate all the jobs except
"snowplow driver", of course.
As long as you are employing men with shovels,
a 2nd truck doesn't really help. They need
to rest anyway. The last thing they need is heavy
smokers shoveling snow continuously without a break.
At best, you can control the negative effects of corporatism by state regulation
And, there was a time when we did exactly that. That was the era
of "trust busting" and TR. So, there's hope; but the Obama administration
doesn't seem to have the vision and I can't identify any leading candidate
from any party who does.
The kitten of capitalism is fine. It's just
that it grows into a cat.
It's not capitalism you want to get rid of. It's corporatism.
If you've ever dealt with a private bureaucracy, you know
that they can be just as bad as government. The problem is more
that the organazations don't scale. Also, the tendancy for all
these corps to behave in a similar way dulls the effect of competition.
As individuals we don't have much power; but we can start by patronizing
small businesses even if it costs more. Think of the added cost
as a tax paid to a shaddow government, the true government of the people--the
one that fights the big corporations instead of working for them.
No, this is not communism. Communism is dead. It's a 19th century
idea born out of the first wave of industrialization. We need 21st century
ideas, so forget the tradtional worker vs. capitalist tension, please, Please
forget it. Let's not relive that.
To clarify, I was groping for examples
where the sequel was "better". As the years
went by, I actually started liking the Dylan versions
better. Less production, more passion... if you can
get by the timbre of his voice. I didn't offer any
examples where the sequel was worse, since I figured
they were plentiful enough.
I haven't really been following this; so I read TFA.
Two things leap to mind:
1. The sequel always sucks. He should have
realized from the outset that you do a sequel to cash
in. Shovel that sequel! There really is no other way.
Even if the sequel was actually just as good or slightly
better, it will always suck because it can't duplicate
the effect of seing a blockbuster for the first time.
Note, this is not true if the original was not a blockbuster
or particularly popular. A movie/game example doesn't leap
to mind; but think of any cover of a Bob Dylan song. At
any rate, the psychology of sequel reception seems readily
apparent to me, and I suspect to just about anybody. How
could they not see that?
2. At what point should they have realized that there
was another model available besides "ship finished product"?
I'm referring to the "perpetual beta" model of Google, or
a subscripion model, or perhaps giving free upgrades for a
couple years after the game came out.
Finally, wow! 12 years at a failed project??? That's
just staggering but I bet it's not a record. The record
probably comes from the defense industry and may or may
not be classified.
I would actually like to change it; but there's a very big
problem with that. It's Slashdot. It used to just render
the sig as ordinary HTML. Now it renders it as Javascript
or something that pulls whatever sig you have at the time.
The result? Google's cached results display the current
sig, not the sig you used at the time you posted.
I believe this is a serious flaw in the design of Slashdot,
not Google.
If I change my sig now, it would result in many bizarre
arguments in the Google cache. That's not necessarily a bad
thing... but it doesn't suit my fancy right now.
The only real fix for this is for Slashdot to go back
and substitute literal sigs in all the archives. Then we
can all flip the switch back and change our sigs whenever
we like. That's how it USED TO BE, and I used to rotate my
sig once in a while.
Afer a thorough review, being very careful
to make sure that there is absolutely no sexual
connotation whatsoever, we have determined that
all but the following are prohibited:
Binary 1. No. Dammit. OK. Zero. Dammit!!!
Nevermind.
Slashdot Mirror
No more PHP sending XML for AJAX.
Assembly sending BER encoded ASN.1 for browsers written in Forth.
Get crackin'.
I don't have solid data to back it up; but I think they're giving out more tickets in California now.
The other day I actually saw somebody get nailed for "failure to yield to a pedestrian". This is indeed a big problem--to the point where I have to wait for several cars to pass through a crosswalk sometimes. Still, it doesn't seem like they cared that much about it a couple years ago.
Coincidence?
Doctor: Would you like to be awake for this procedure?
Patient: WTF???
Fear of pedos vs. fear of terrorists.
The cage match we've all been waiting for.
Anyone taking bets?
I've been thinking that if there is a really big one, we'll see a "donut" pattern when you map the data.
This mornings 4.1 (which I felt) was exciting, and tweet-worthy. The BIG ONE will not be tweeted near the epicenter. The power will go out. Even if it doesn't go out, you'll have better things to do.
Eventually the power would come back on and the hole would fill in; but I would think that the existance of the hole in the data would be one indicator of how strong the quake really is.
Has this ever been observed before in "crowdsourced" quake data?
An appeal to elitism. Refreshing!
Most people take a different tack and fail.
Alas, I haven't the faintest desire to be an elitist. Now pardon, I have a tee-time at Pebble Beach.
Will scientists ever break out of the paywall system? Do they want to?
Maybe it was just the heat. Now try keeping the mice in warmer cages. If their autonomic systems tend to cool the brain, try drugs that tend to increase the temperature of the mouse. Maybe it's just the warm brain that does this. Tell gramps to wear a hat when he goes out. Tinfoil optional.
That horse bolted the barn a long, loooong time ago.
I read it too fast, saw a number that wasn't a power of 2, and got snarky. Not sure about my geek card; but at least I'm in line with Slashdot community values.
10,000??? Turn in your geek card now. Don't understand why it should be turned in? Well, there are 10 types of people...
I did lash out a bit there.
Now that you mention it, recognizing the referrer would most likely be of marginal benefit at best. You have to SYN all those connections to do it in the first place, and in a true DoS attack you probably do have your entire network saturated with SYNs alone, nevermind data.
In other words, you're right. The IPS is a doorman; but it can't prevent a crowd from forming outside the door and preventing the band from getting on stage.
If it were really that good, it would sniff the referrer on all the HTTP requests and throttle Slashdot.
Maybe it's just about the right time for the hefty, shoulder-carried piece of tech to come back in fashion. Anybody remember the boom-box?
Actually, the first thing that popped into my head was to imagine Sting singing "I want my big screen phone".
Start workin' out guys. Annoying, shoulder-carried big screen portable TV with a phone in it. Videophone your GF on the subway. Oh, this is Slashdot... nevermind.
Oh man, it sounds like there was no clear separation of departments there. I thought I had problems!
Some people have "admin sensibility" and some don't. I know I don't, so when somebody asked me if I wanted root on some box, I always said "NO!".
I knew there was no upside to me having root on a server. The one or two guys who had assumed the role of admin, and were comfortable doing it, it was easier to ask them for things. If it was a stupid idea for the server, they'd reject it. They wouldn't fat-finger some command, because they did it all the time. It was their specialty.
OTOH, you'd have to pry admin on my workstation from my cold dead hands. I could and did occasionaly crash that box; but the damage was limited to the work that wasn't checked in and my time spent rebuilding the box.
It turned out to be quite difficult to get hard data about snowfall in Moscow. I guess because snow can come in various densities, they prefer to quote liquid equivalents.
According to one source: " mainly from November through March. During those months Moscow gets a liquid-equivalent of 7.30-8.98 inches of rain. If that all fell as snow, they would get more than 73-90 inches!"
It sounds like it might the kind of situation you're talking about--epic snowfalls of the type Washington DC saw recently being common as opposed to rare. I don't know if they did it this time because I'm not there anymore; but when that happened in DC a number of years ago, they did indeed resort to dumping it in the Potomac.
This may be surprising to you, but in many US cities there is a planting strip between the sidewalk and the road. In urban areas the sidewalks may be quite wide and also have a planting strip. While the snowpiles may decrease the pedestrian capacity some, they won't decrease it to the point where the sidewalks are unusable, unless you have truly epic snowfalls (Buffalo, NY leaps to mind). That's why I prefaced my remark with, "is there so much snow that...". I'm not that familiar with Moscow. I know it's cold. I know it snows; but is there heavy snow all the time with no intervening melt? Are the sidewalks wide enough and/or bordered by planting zones?
Wow. That sounds like the Soviet Union never really ended. Is there so much snow that they can't use a plow and shove it up on the sidewalk?
That would eliminate all the jobs except "snowplow driver", of course.
As long as you are employing men with shovels, a 2nd truck doesn't really help. They need to rest anyway. The last thing they need is heavy smokers shoveling snow continuously without a break.
At best, you can control the negative effects of corporatism by state regulation
And, there was a time when we did exactly that. That was the era of "trust busting" and TR. So, there's hope; but the Obama administration doesn't seem to have the vision and I can't identify any leading candidate from any party who does.
The kitten of capitalism is fine. It's just that it grows into a cat.
It's not capitalism you want to get rid of. It's corporatism.
If you've ever dealt with a private bureaucracy, you know that they can be just as bad as government. The problem is more that the organazations don't scale. Also, the tendancy for all these corps to behave in a similar way dulls the effect of competition.
As individuals we don't have much power; but we can start by patronizing small businesses even if it costs more. Think of the added cost as a tax paid to a shaddow government, the true government of the people--the one that fights the big corporations instead of working for them.
No, this is not communism. Communism is dead. It's a 19th century idea born out of the first wave of industrialization. We need 21st century ideas, so forget the tradtional worker vs. capitalist tension, please, Please forget it. Let's not relive that.
To clarify, I was groping for examples where the sequel was "better". As the years went by, I actually started liking the Dylan versions better. Less production, more passion... if you can get by the timbre of his voice. I didn't offer any examples where the sequel was worse, since I figured they were plentiful enough.
I haven't really been following this; so I read TFA.
Two things leap to mind:
1. The sequel always sucks. He should have realized from the outset that you do a sequel to cash in. Shovel that sequel! There really is no other way. Even if the sequel was actually just as good or slightly better, it will always suck because it can't duplicate the effect of seing a blockbuster for the first time. Note, this is not true if the original was not a blockbuster or particularly popular. A movie/game example doesn't leap to mind; but think of any cover of a Bob Dylan song. At any rate, the psychology of sequel reception seems readily apparent to me, and I suspect to just about anybody. How could they not see that?
2. At what point should they have realized that there was another model available besides "ship finished product"? I'm referring to the "perpetual beta" model of Google, or a subscripion model, or perhaps giving free upgrades for a couple years after the game came out.
Finally, wow! 12 years at a failed project??? That's just staggering but I bet it's not a record. The record probably comes from the defense industry and may or may not be classified.
I would actually like to change it; but there's a very big problem with that. It's Slashdot. It used to just render the sig as ordinary HTML. Now it renders it as Javascript or something that pulls whatever sig you have at the time.
The result? Google's cached results display the current sig, not the sig you used at the time you posted.
I believe this is a serious flaw in the design of Slashdot, not Google.
If I change my sig now, it would result in many bizarre arguments in the Google cache. That's not necessarily a bad thing... but it doesn't suit my fancy right now.
The only real fix for this is for Slashdot to go back and substitute literal sigs in all the archives. Then we can all flip the switch back and change our sigs whenever we like. That's how it USED TO BE, and I used to rotate my sig once in a while.
Afer a thorough review, being very careful to make sure that there is absolutely no sexual connotation whatsoever, we have determined that all but the following are prohibited:
Binary 1. No. Dammit. OK. Zero. Dammit!!! Nevermind.
...with a single tear running down his face.