The biggest argument against this is that it would let national campaigns marginalize low-population areas. Which, somehow, is better than marginalizing citizens who live in high-population areas.
This is a direct result of our two Senators no matter what the population congress. The lower population states, usually but not always Republican states, get most of the pork, earning far more Federal dollars than they pay in taxes, while the high population states almost always pay far more in taxes than they take in.
This is just another example of that principle at work. We should disband the senate and redistrict the congressional districts to prevent gerrymandering. Or better yet, elect congress by national random lottery. Why not give it a try? We really couldn't do much worse than we have now...
For those who don't know, a Single Lens Reflex camera has a mirror at a 45 degree angle in front of the shutter. It bounces light up into another mirror and out the viewfinder until you take the picture. Then the first mirror snaps out of the way and the shutter opens. This way, the viewfinder shows the same scene as the film will record, as the light is coming through the same lens system and not just through a seperate hole.
So why use this system on a digital camera? You don't need it. Don't try me with the "You aren't seeing the real scene that will be photographed" bit, you can make a viewscreen just as accurate and the light is still coming through the same lens system. Anyone who takes pictures knows that what the film or CCD sees and what your eye sees are two different things anyway. Is holding a camera up to your face an inherently better way to take pictures? If so, you could still build a viewfinder with a screen you look into like an SLR viewfinder.
Anyway, just to keep things on topic: this article sucks.
Jealous much? TMM write interesting things that people like to read. People mod him up because of that. Karma whoring is writing things you think are going to get you modded up, no matter what you actually believe. I honestly think that TMM writes what he believes and people happen to like reading that.
Xen uses paravirtualization, where the kernel in the guest OS is modified. Xen takes about a 5%-10% performance hit over running an unmodifed OS on bare metal. VMWare traps privileged instructions. For many applications, it only takes a 10-20% performance hit, in others it is closer to 70%. Xen can only run unmodified OSs like Windows on very new CPUs that have virtualization support built in. Xen is hard to set up, no setting up a VM and sticking in your OS install CD, remember, even the installer kernel needs to be modified. Xen has no management interface, I've tried using the one that comes with YaST, and to put it bluntly, it isn't working at all yet. VMWare ESX comes with an integrated management system that shows logs and graphs for all virtual machines and lets you set up and migrate VMs easily. VMWare won't run 64 bit operating systems on anything less than the newest CPUs.
I work for New Mexico's Child, Youth, and Family Development IT department, and we are migrating our servers to an IBM BladeCenter running VMWare ESX, currently 2.5.1. I was asked to look into Xen, and my conclusion is, hey, you already bought the licenses for VMWare, and it's easier to use, go ahead and take the performance hit. It's a big one, probably averaging at least a quarter of your computing power down the tubes, but Xen, while great, is not (quite) ready for prime time, unless you need absolute maximum performance, don't need fancy schmancy management tools, and don't need to run Windows on a VM.
Where Xen could shine is on a brand new system with 64 bit processors with virtualization support (most dual cores have it) where you run primarily Linux and don't mind setting up your own management system. I'm thinking hosting companies or ISPs.
Where VMWare shines is for anyone who values ease of use over speed. I'm thinking most companies that have dozens of poorly managed workgroup, DNS, Intranet, print servers and what-not that they would like to consolidate into a single blade environment.
We will. We're the Global Police, right? We use our powers of extraordinary rendition to swoop into other countries and kidnap their citizens for interrogation in countries with a, shall we say, less restrictive attitude towards, um, let's just call it "forceful questioning." How about we turn some of that loving goodness the spammers way?
No, I'm not actually serious, but when your country is kidnapping foreigners to torture them in some third-world hell-hole, you either have to make jokes about it or shoot yourself in the head.
Yes, this is flame-bait, and off topic, but if you mod me down, THE TERRORISTS HAVE ALREADY WON!
Eh, of course you are right. I was specifically refering to one brief golden moment when a middle class family actually stood a chance with a single income. Should have been more specific, i guess
Pretty much every issue has some kind of "gee-whiz, look at how cool it is to be a soldier and play with these high tech gadgets," article. BTW, it's no Weekly World News, because Popular Science actually takes itself seriously, whereas WWN, I believe, is in on the joke.
I'm reminded of an old political cartoon. In the first panel it shows an ugly rat in an excercise wheel in front of the US Capitol. He is running to catch a bundle of money dangled in front of him by a fat cat in a tuxedo. Behind him a mob bearing pitchforks and torches advances on him yelling "Throw the rats out!"
In the second panel, the mob has installed a cute mouse in the excercise wheel. The mouse is running after that same bundle of money while the mob walks off congratulating itself on a job well done.
You, sir, are out of touch with the plight of the common person here in America. I will just say that one of the major perks of being in the ruling class is that you never have to question your assumptions. You can just go on feeling smug without reality kicking you in the balls like it does with everyone else.
As for being bitter, it and my attitude come from the same place: experience. My attitude didn't come first and cause me to fail. I have worked hard and still been screwed over by people richer and more powerful than myself. If you think that never happens, well I envy you the nice pretty bubble you live in. The rest of us aren't so lucky.
But you just go on believing that you got where you are through skill, not luck. You go on believing that hard work will always be rewarded. Go on believing the American Dream works for anyone who persues it. Go ahead and discount everything I have to say, I'm just bitter. Stay asleep. The real world is a not-so-nice place, and your dream world sounds lovely. The sad thing is, if I were in your shoes, I'd probably do the same.
This is NOT a road we want to start down. This is just an excuse to start getting people okay with this (plus an election year anti-immigant pander-fest.) Next it will be, "Chip your kids to keep 'em safe," then "chip yourself and never have to carry credit cards!" then "chip yourself or we lock you up."
All right, I'm taking off my tinfoil hat now, but this is still a bad idea.
God forbid we ever live in a peaceful and lawabiding world where we don't need this kind of security.
If I had mod points, you'd get 'em all. The main reason we have a war on drugs now is that after prohibition ended, the people in charge of the Federal apparatus set up to enforce it decided they didn't want to give up all that power and control, so they found a new set of enemies.
This is what always happens when a society values the leader function over the follower function, and when it does not garauntee a place for everyone. Leaders do not want to give up leadership positions even if they are no longer needed, and no one wants to give up the security of a position when another may not exist.
And thank you for doing so, cpt. I've always looked to you as slashdot's resident legal expert. If there's a story with a legal twist and you don't post in it, I pretty much have to ignore everything I read. Maybe you and Vengie can take turns so it doesn't get so tiring?;-)
FTFA: "Kelly Martin has been working with networks and security since 1986, and he's editor for SecurityFocus, Symantec's online magazine."
This is someone who is a supposed security expert, and all they can do is throw out acronym soup, in the hopes that when someone with an actual working brain comes up with something, they can say, "See?! I thought of that way back in 2006! I'm teh genius, gimme a raise."
Several others have refuted this argument above, but this still gets an "insightful," so I'll take a turn at this. You get and 85MPH car, but you can't go above 45. Since you can't go above 45, you trade the car in for one that does 45. Now, magically, the traffic all goes 25. RTFA, or at least the summary.
This is what lack of net neutrality and a tiered Internet will do for us. In socialist countries like Sweden everyone has blazing fast Internet connections. Here in the land of the Free Market, we get crap.
You feel that? That's Adam Smith's invisible hand up your ass.
And really, the humor section? I know being killed by a flood of molasses is novel, how is having a walkway full of people falling on your head funny?
People deal with tragedy in different ways. Making light of it is one of the more common. It does not necessarily show disrespect for the dead. Call it laughing in the face of death. In some ways it is empowering: "Haha, fuck you Death, You can take my family, my friends, my whole village, but you can't take my sense of humor!"
Little kids are (mostly) innocent creatures, right? I remember the kids in my school coming up with a whole slew of jokes after Challenger blew up. Remember "Need Another Seven Astronauts?" Or "You feed the dog, I'll feed the fish?" The dead don't care, and the survivors can always use a good laugh.
If everyone worked twice as hard back then for half the money, how come families survived on only one income? As for profitability, if that were all it was, how come CEOs are getting a bigger and bigger share of the pie, no matter how crappy a job they do?
The poor are worse off, the middle class is barely scraping by, and the rich are making more money than ever. Even mentioning that sad fact gets you branded a communist these days, but it's true. You know there are about only two hundred guys total making up the boards of all the Fortune 500 companies, right? It's a rich boys club, and they are NOT in it for the average shareholder, they are in it for themselves and their buddies.
Make excuses for these bandits all you like but you aren't one of them and you'll never be one of them. What is good for them is not what is good for you. They are laughing at you all the way to the bank as you sell out yourself, your family, and the rest of us in a vain attempt to become something you'll never be.
From the article, the husband's nick is Freezing Blade (I bet his 'blade' isn't getting any warmer, hehe), the cheating student goes by Bronze Mustache (Anyone else picturing a Chinese version of most 70's porn stars?) and the wife is Quiet Moon (Too... Many... Jokes...) . Sounds like the cast of an adult anime.;-)
Looks like I should have thought that through a little more. Mods will buy anything, though. "Looky! Numbers and linkies and like, facts and stuff! He must be right!"
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The biggest argument against this is that it would let national campaigns marginalize low-population areas. Which, somehow, is better than marginalizing citizens who live in high-population areas.
This is a direct result of our two Senators no matter what the population congress. The lower population states, usually but not always Republican states, get most of the pork, earning far more Federal dollars than they pay in taxes, while the high population states almost always pay far more in taxes than they take in.
This is just another example of that principle at work. We should disband the senate and redistrict the congressional districts to prevent gerrymandering. Or better yet, elect congress by national random lottery. Why not give it a try? We really couldn't do much worse than we have now...
For those who don't know, a Single Lens Reflex camera has a mirror at a 45 degree angle in front of the shutter. It bounces light up into another mirror and out the viewfinder until you take the picture. Then the first mirror snaps out of the way and the shutter opens. This way, the viewfinder shows the same scene as the film will record, as the light is coming through the same lens system and not just through a seperate hole.
So why use this system on a digital camera? You don't need it. Don't try me with the "You aren't seeing the real scene that will be photographed" bit, you can make a viewscreen just as accurate and the light is still coming through the same lens system. Anyone who takes pictures knows that what the film or CCD sees and what your eye sees are two different things anyway. Is holding a camera up to your face an inherently better way to take pictures? If so, you could still build a viewfinder with a screen you look into like an SLR viewfinder.
Anyway, just to keep things on topic: this article sucks.
Jealous much? TMM write interesting things that people like to read. People mod him up because of that. Karma whoring is writing things you think are going to get you modded up, no matter what you actually believe. I honestly think that TMM writes what he believes and people happen to like reading that.
Xen uses paravirtualization, where the kernel in the guest OS is modified. Xen takes about a 5%-10% performance hit over running an unmodifed OS on bare metal. VMWare traps privileged instructions. For many applications, it only takes a 10-20% performance hit, in others it is closer to 70%. Xen can only run unmodified OSs like Windows on very new CPUs that have virtualization support built in. Xen is hard to set up, no setting up a VM and sticking in your OS install CD, remember, even the installer kernel needs to be modified. Xen has no management interface, I've tried using the one that comes with YaST, and to put it bluntly, it isn't working at all yet. VMWare ESX comes with an integrated management system that shows logs and graphs for all virtual machines and lets you set up and migrate VMs easily. VMWare won't run 64 bit operating systems on anything less than the newest CPUs.
I work for New Mexico's Child, Youth, and Family Development IT department, and we are migrating our servers to an IBM BladeCenter running VMWare ESX, currently 2.5.1. I was asked to look into Xen, and my conclusion is, hey, you already bought the licenses for VMWare, and it's easier to use, go ahead and take the performance hit. It's a big one, probably averaging at least a quarter of your computing power down the tubes, but Xen, while great, is not (quite) ready for prime time, unless you need absolute maximum performance, don't need fancy schmancy management tools, and don't need to run Windows on a VM.
Where Xen could shine is on a brand new system with 64 bit processors with virtualization support (most dual cores have it) where you run primarily Linux and don't mind setting up your own management system. I'm thinking hosting companies or ISPs.
Where VMWare shines is for anyone who values ease of use over speed. I'm thinking most companies that have dozens of poorly managed workgroup, DNS, Intranet, print servers and what-not that they would like to consolidate into a single blade environment.
Schrödinger's frog is both boiled and not boiled at the same time. :)
So they are rogue planets and they don't have nuclear capabilities. Hope they don't have oil as well, or they're in for a world of hurt.
We will. We're the Global Police, right? We use our powers of extraordinary rendition to swoop into other countries and kidnap their citizens for interrogation in countries with a, shall we say, less restrictive attitude towards, um, let's just call it "forceful questioning." How about we turn some of that loving goodness the spammers way?
No, I'm not actually serious, but when your country is kidnapping foreigners to torture them in some third-world hell-hole, you either have to make jokes about it or shoot yourself in the head.
Yes, this is flame-bait, and off topic, but if you mod me down, THE TERRORISTS HAVE ALREADY WON!
Eh, of course you are right. I was specifically refering to one brief golden moment when a middle class family actually stood a chance with a single income. Should have been more specific, i guess
Sorry, I'd never sign up for and online social network that would have a dork like me for a member. (With apologies to Groucho Marx.)
Pretty much every issue has some kind of "gee-whiz, look at how cool it is to be a soldier and play with these high tech gadgets," article. BTW, it's no Weekly World News, because Popular Science actually takes itself seriously, whereas WWN, I believe, is in on the joke.
While I agree with you, can we stop using the boiled frog analogy? It isn't true, even frogs aren't that dumb. What does that say about us?
I'm reminded of an old political cartoon. In the first panel it shows an ugly rat in an excercise wheel in front of the US Capitol. He is running to catch a bundle of money dangled in front of him by a fat cat in a tuxedo. Behind him a mob bearing pitchforks and torches advances on him yelling "Throw the rats out!"
In the second panel, the mob has installed a cute mouse in the excercise wheel. The mouse is running after that same bundle of money while the mob walks off congratulating itself on a job well done.
You, sir, are out of touch with the plight of the common person here in America. I will just say that one of the major perks of being in the ruling class is that you never have to question your assumptions. You can just go on feeling smug without reality kicking you in the balls like it does with everyone else.
As for being bitter, it and my attitude come from the same place: experience. My attitude didn't come first and cause me to fail. I have worked hard and still been screwed over by people richer and more powerful than myself. If you think that never happens, well I envy you the nice pretty bubble you live in. The rest of us aren't so lucky.
But you just go on believing that you got where you are through skill, not luck. You go on believing that hard work will always be rewarded. Go on believing the American Dream works for anyone who persues it. Go ahead and discount everything I have to say, I'm just bitter. Stay asleep. The real world is a not-so-nice place, and your dream world sounds lovely. The sad thing is, if I were in your shoes, I'd probably do the same.
This is NOT a road we want to start down. This is just an excuse to start getting people okay with this (plus an election year anti-immigant pander-fest.) Next it will be, "Chip your kids to keep 'em safe," then "chip yourself and never have to carry credit cards!" then "chip yourself or we lock you up."
All right, I'm taking off my tinfoil hat now, but this is still a bad idea.
God forbid we ever live in a peaceful and lawabiding world where we don't need this kind of security.
If I had mod points, you'd get 'em all. The main reason we have a war on drugs now is that after prohibition ended, the people in charge of the Federal apparatus set up to enforce it decided they didn't want to give up all that power and control, so they found a new set of enemies.
This is what always happens when a society values the leader function over the follower function, and when it does not garauntee a place for everyone. Leaders do not want to give up leadership positions even if they are no longer needed, and no one wants to give up the security of a position when another may not exist.
And thank you for doing so, cpt. I've always looked to you as slashdot's resident legal expert. If there's a story with a legal twist and you don't post in it, I pretty much have to ignore everything I read. Maybe you and Vengie can take turns so it doesn't get so tiring? ;-)
FTFA: "Kelly Martin has been working with networks and security since 1986, and he's editor for SecurityFocus, Symantec's online magazine."
This is someone who is a supposed security expert, and all they can do is throw out acronym soup, in the hopes that when someone with an actual working brain comes up with something, they can say, "See?! I thought of that way back in 2006! I'm teh genius, gimme a raise."
Several others have refuted this argument above, but this still gets an "insightful," so I'll take a turn at this. You get and 85MPH car, but you can't go above 45. Since you can't go above 45, you trade the car in for one that does 45. Now, magically, the traffic all goes 25. RTFA, or at least the summary.
This is what lack of net neutrality and a tiered Internet will do for us. In socialist countries like Sweden everyone has blazing fast Internet connections. Here in the land of the Free Market, we get crap.
You feel that? That's Adam Smith's invisible hand up your ass.
And really, the humor section? I know being killed by a flood of molasses is novel, how is having a walkway full of people falling on your head funny?
People deal with tragedy in different ways. Making light of it is one of the more common. It does not necessarily show disrespect for the dead. Call it laughing in the face of death. In some ways it is empowering: "Haha, fuck you Death, You can take my family, my friends, my whole village, but you can't take my sense of humor!"
Little kids are (mostly) innocent creatures, right? I remember the kids in my school coming up with a whole slew of jokes after Challenger blew up. Remember "Need Another Seven Astronauts?" Or "You feed the dog, I'll feed the fish?" The dead don't care, and the survivors can always use a good laugh.
Fuck you, Death.
They made industrial alchohol out of it, which was used in making gunpowder. See the straigth dope article.
If everyone worked twice as hard back then for half the money, how come families survived on only one income? As for profitability, if that were all it was, how come CEOs are getting a bigger and bigger share of the pie, no matter how crappy a job they do?
The poor are worse off, the middle class is barely scraping by, and the rich are making more money than ever. Even mentioning that sad fact gets you branded a communist these days, but it's true. You know there are about only two hundred guys total making up the boards of all the Fortune 500 companies, right? It's a rich boys club, and they are NOT in it for the average shareholder, they are in it for themselves and their buddies.
Make excuses for these bandits all you like but you aren't one of them and you'll never be one of them. What is good for them is not what is good for you. They are laughing at you all the way to the bank as you sell out yourself, your family, and the rest of us in a vain attempt to become something you'll never be.
I agree. I hereby nominate myself to dictate morality.
From the article, the husband's nick is Freezing Blade (I bet his 'blade' isn't getting any warmer, hehe), the cheating student goes by Bronze Mustache (Anyone else picturing a Chinese version of most 70's porn stars?) and the wife is Quiet Moon (Too... Many... Jokes...) . Sounds like the cast of an adult anime. ;-)
Looks like I should have thought that through a little more. Mods will buy anything, though. "Looky! Numbers and linkies and like, facts and stuff! He must be right!"
We obviously need a recommendation service recommendation service. Patent pending!