CubeSats are the "cheap access to space" needed for research and technology risk reduction that's been needed since the dawn of the space age.. and it didn't require some magical new propulsion method or even new economies of scale in launchers, just good standards and a very big customer, the Airforce academy.
Yeah... Just what we need -- more tiny objects in orbit around Earth. We have enough problems avoiding crashing into the big satellites we can actually see with radar, let alone worrying about a few hundred rubic's cubes up there. -_- Big satellites can be retired from choice orbits and sent to a maintenance orbit, or back plunging into the atmosphere to burn up. Is this tech going to provide enough thrust to de-orbit when they die?
Haven't disk manufacturers been doing this forever, using faster memories to cache disk? I guess the difference now is that the memory is slower than DRAM and non-volatile so it isn't lost in the event of power failure? Or maybe you can get more flash storage at a low price point?
"DRAM is yesterday's news. SSDs are the future. And they cost a lot more than a pile of memory chips, therefore they must be better. Order fifty." -- Some PHB
It's been a long time since I walked into an office environment without internet access. Seems like a good portion of even the run-down, niche-market small businesses even have a hotspot. I think it's a stretch to make your assertion "a lot of businesses don't allow internet access".
I didn't say it wasn't almost always available... just that they don't want you using it for other than business purposes. Which could skew the results of the survey. That's my only assertion... I'm not trying to claim to know what the policies of a few thousand businesses are, and what the average internet use of each of those looks like... just saying, those policies could bias the result and the researchers have taken no steps to address that.
What surprised me the most is that they found hardly any difference in the numbers for home and business users."
That's probably because of a flaw in the methodology. Also, this study isn't a representative sample -- a lot of businesses don't allow internet access. Perhaps they are more likely to use one office package over another. This study is interesting, but hardly robust.
It brings up some interesting ideas for Sci-Fi - an AI could easily have a perception of time hundreds to thousands of times faster than our own. Oh how the days would go on. Plenty of time to dream up things!
Data: She brought me closer to humanity than I ever thought possible, and for a time...I was tempted by her offer. Jean-Luc Picard: How long a time? Data: Zero point six eight seconds, sir. For an android, that is nearly an eternity.
"The number one need of any human is to be liked by other humans"
Yes, but it matters remarkably little which other humans.
The problem with the public education environment is for all their talk of embracing diversity, it's a veritable meat-grinder for individuality. A person that is unable to mask his/her differences from their peers is subject to incredible negative pressure. This is why we need to stop reducing public education to "lowest common denominator" thinking -- "No Child Left Behind" and its derivatives have resulted in a generation of kids that believe either they are all beautiful and unique snowflakes, or they're interchangable carbon-copies of each other. Neither is beneficial to the larger society. We need to identify people's differing learning styles and personalities and pair them with others that share them and teachers that can leverage it effectively. What I'm proposing is, in fact, the anti-thesis of public education: Individualized education.
Do they realise that SSL traffic causes a higher load on the server than a regular request? This would be an indication it is trying to bring the site down.
Yes, they do. They also don't care. Most botnet authors are self-taught, or only college educated, and are not experienced developers. They don't know how to obscure their creation's activity, because they lack a full understanding of network security. Which is understandable: That isn't in the SDK documentation and example code. Because they lack the skillset necessary to create a protocol resistant to traffic analysis, they go the other way: Flood all the connections and hope those analyzing the logs decide it's not worth the effort to find the needle in the haystack. They know it can be tracked -- they just don't feel its worth the effort to learn how to do it right, when doing it wrong gets them to payday faster and with only a minute amount of additional risk.
NASA research lead to cheaper, more viable foodstuffs for the poor in the past, I don't see why it's breakthroughs couldn't assist us in our search for solutions to problems here on Earth.
Poverty is a social problem, not a technological one.
Half the people on this site probably weren't even alive when Windows 3.1 came out... could you guys give the pointless Microsoft bashing a rest? Just once, ever?
Windows 3.1 was released in, what, 1993? 17 years ago. So the majority of slashdot posters are less than 17 years of age, by your reasoning. I find that unlikely as the median age in the US is 36.7 years of age. That is where most slashdot posters are located...
This was a very rare thing to see prior to management's decision to hamstring meta-moderation. I'd still like to know who thought that was a good idea, who agreed with that person instead of laughing, and who has decided to keep meta-moderation useless even after the detrimental effects of this decision have been demonstrated.
O_o The moderation system on slashdot has always been controversial. Kuro5hin tried a new system where everybody was a moderator. It was a more accurate rating system, but it's failure was in giving the users the ability to approve or reject content. Part of why slashdot is successful (and Kuro5hin failed) is because the authorship of stories is controlled by only a few people who have a lot of experience. The moderation system could be a simple thumbs up/down, and metamoderation could be flushed down the toilet, and the quality wouldn't change. At its core, the moderation system is a popularity contest -- you only get mod points by being let into the clubhouse by the other popular kids, and only comments that represent the popular opinion are highly rated. In general, pro-microsoft stuff is moderated down, whereas pro-linux would be moderated up. But a particularily well-written pro-microsoft post could still be modded up provided the author acknowledges the prevailing opinion when submitting it. For example, "I'd be the first to say Microsoft is a blight upon the land, but in this case..." Or, more directly -- people can state unpopular opinions if they couch it in rhetoric, where-as popular opinions are scrutinized less. It's human nature, and the moderation system can't fix that. But -- it could be redesigned to be simpler and more true to its roots.
Amazing how the mods will go with the GP's (incorrect) take on things rather than take the 800 milliseconds necessary to see for themselves that it was not a "Troll" post, as it is currently modded. Carelessness 1, High-quality Moderation 0. Shocking, I tell you, shocking.
I agree with everything you said, except 800ms is a bit short. I would say about 20 seconds, if you include the time to backtrack to the main page, click the link, wait for the website to load, and skim it for the relevant quote (which is the first question in the list). It could take up to a minute if they are slower readers -- we can't assume everyone reads as fast as we do.
Still, moderators should read the article before using their points if they're going to mod articles that reference the article's content. Now if it's just "First post!" or "ch34p v!4gr4" posts, then by all means...:\
They have to decide it's a critical bug, and it must be a single bug. A string of minor bugs that leads to a catastrophic bypass of security would be ineligible if I read these guidelines correctly. They also won't accept it if it's an operating system bug, though I could envision this being "the system call doesn't function as documented". Well, if the operating system won't fix it, it's still the application developer's responsibility to use a workaround -- but you wouldn't get credit for this even if it was a potentially serious problem.
No sh*t. Don't let people install trojans on your phone.
You do realize that the cell phone is a slave to the network it connects to, right? Most phones will auto-update their firmware or settings if the network tells it to, and there is usually no way to disable this behavior.
Choosing to circumcise is thus the easy choice despite its irreversibility; and parents will make many more arbitrary yet momentous decisions for their children.
It's a lie to perpetuate stereotypes -- just like how we flip coins to determine the sex of intersexed babies. Sometimes the doctor doesn't even tell the parents. And every now and then, we make a mistake -- but we don't want to admit it because it's socially acceptable and to question circumcision is tandamount to questioning the church.
can tell you that the child displayed little evidence of pain, as I was right there with the doc as it was done, and it heals quite quickly.
Liar. It hurts -- a lot. [Warning: Link is to a surgical demonstration video of the circumcision of a male baby.]
And no, not "everybody else" does it. The number of uncircumsized males in the US is increasing, actually. You might find the numbers surprising if you have time to look it up.
Which, by your admission, is a tremendously small number of the male population. And if you become suicidally depressed because you're having disappointing intercourse, I'm guessing it's not just about the intercourse.
You wouldn't know... you've never had sex with your foreskin intact.
I like stem cells, but feel that abortion is the most sensitive of issues and ought to remain free of any profit motive.
It's cost us years, possibly as much as a decade, of research time because of religious considerations. In many cases, aborted fetuses wouldn't survive to term anyway, or are a threat to the mother's health -- but many consider that it has to be a baby or nothing at all. It's that kind of black-and-white thinking that has no place in serious discussions of biology -- Nature does not tolerate black and white. It is a very grey and organic process, where few hard lines can be drawn.
Actually, yes. The foreskin contains about 90% of the nerve endings on the penis. It's rather barbaric that this country is one of the few in the western world that routinely mutilates male anatomy -- many parents often not even knowing why it's done, only that everybody else does it. more info. For the very few men that have been circumsized as an adult and had an opportunity to experience sex both ways -- they say that sex is very disappointing after. Some become suicidally depressed.
I do agree with you that military service doesn't blend well with free-thinking folks. I can't see why a non-conformist would join such a rules/regulations based organization. But i'd like to put forth that Clear goals and purpose are attractive to many people including free-thinkers. So many people have treasure troves of knowledge and skills that they don't have a reason to apply.. sometimes a person will accept discomfort for the opportunity to become useful to a large group of people.. at the expense of themselves. To have purpose is everything.
A common argument made by recruiters. Patriotism makes a good breakfast, but it makes a terrible dinner. Pay is the big reason why they lose talent. But I agree with your assertion -- free-thinkers know that the individual is nothing more than a structure of potential energies, created for another purpose. It is made to be sacrificed in the service of an idea or institution, and in so doing, become an instrument of culture and legend. Such is the true purpose of a democracy: To make great people.
Well, your stereotype of basic training, like all your stereotypes is flat out wrong. The point of basic is to instill discipline and modify behavior.
Attitude, n. "the way a person views something or tends to behave towards it, often in an evaluative way."
The military doesn't give a rat fuck about your attitude...
I would gather that you have not been in the military. In my experience, they're confident enough of their service and their statements about it to not resort to terms like "rat fuck". As well, if they honestly do have a problem with someone, it's solved quickly and quietly so they can go back to their drinks.
(And you also seem to be ignorant of the fact that the military does hire civilians in special cases, and even assigns them to operational and deployed units.)
I didn't mention any of that in my original post, nor do I see it's relevance. You are attempting to muddy the waters with irrelevant commentary to detract from the fact that you don't like me personally and are throwing irrational argument after irrational argument.
And even so, you're still wrong. The military has long waived the age requirements for narrow and specialized fields where civilian experience is desirable and not available among younger people.
Citation aaaand... citation. Care to revise your statement, sir?
Having done both those things, *and* having a high security clearance while doing them, *and* working with nuclear weapons - I can comfortably say, like everything else you've posted in this thread, you haven't a fucking clue what you are talking about.
In my experience, people who handle nuclear weapons are told not to publicize that fact. They also don't swear on a public forum just to prove a point, they tend to be very cool and reserved. So, I'm thinking you should sue your face for slander.
More total bullshit. Star Trek and LARP are a mark against you for "some security clearances"? Not any that the American government issues. Where did you even come up with that? Pulled it out of some cheesy novel or crappy TV show? And how did you become an expert on the kind of thinking that goes on in the American Intelligence services? TV News broadcasts? NY Times Best Seller Novel? Have you ever even worked in the Intelligence industry? I bet you applied and were rejected, then rationalized it with your paranoid fictional reasons.
Star trek: Couldn't find a reference quickly. LARP:Army frowns on Dungeons and Dragons Cheesy novels and TV shows: Looked on FOX, only found CSI. NYT Best seller list gives 'Dear John' as your answer for this weeks' crappy novel. Although I prefer The Sword and the Shield if you want a non-crappy novel about the intelligence community to read (and that you have a reaonable chance of acquiring). How I became an "expert on the kind of thinking that goes on in the American Intelligence services": If I told you, I'd have to kill you. But TV News broadcasts are valid sources in open source intelligence. Have I ever worked in the intelligence industry: Yes, but I can only confirm dates of employment. Reason for security clearance rejection: Large outstanding debt and voluntary admission to a hospital for acute treatment of PTSD, suicide.
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CubeSats are the "cheap access to space" needed for research and technology risk reduction that's been needed since the dawn of the space age.. and it didn't require some magical new propulsion method or even new economies of scale in launchers, just good standards and a very big customer, the Airforce academy.
Yeah... Just what we need -- more tiny objects in orbit around Earth. We have enough problems avoiding crashing into the big satellites we can actually see with radar, let alone worrying about a few hundred rubic's cubes up there. -_- Big satellites can be retired from choice orbits and sent to a maintenance orbit, or back plunging into the atmosphere to burn up. Is this tech going to provide enough thrust to de-orbit when they die?
Haven't disk manufacturers been doing this forever, using faster memories to cache disk? I guess the difference now is that the memory is slower than DRAM and non-volatile so it isn't lost in the event of power failure? Or maybe you can get more flash storage at a low price point?
"DRAM is yesterday's news. SSDs are the future. And they cost a lot more than a pile of memory chips, therefore they must be better. Order fifty." -- Some PHB
Darn, I was about to argue against your point, but I couldn't find a flaw in your argument.
I know. I'm scared too.
It's been a long time since I walked into an office environment without internet access. Seems like a good portion of even the run-down, niche-market small businesses even have a hotspot. I think it's a stretch to make your assertion "a lot of businesses don't allow internet access".
I didn't say it wasn't almost always available... just that they don't want you using it for other than business purposes. Which could skew the results of the survey. That's my only assertion... I'm not trying to claim to know what the policies of a few thousand businesses are, and what the average internet use of each of those looks like... just saying, those policies could bias the result and the researchers have taken no steps to address that.
Wow...you are one easy-t-please individual - would you also be surprised if you found out they are one and the same...?
Well, that's rather prejudiced! Germans know how to separate home and work life, and as soon as I find one, I'll give you an example.
What surprised me the most is that they found hardly any difference in the numbers for home and business users."
That's probably because of a flaw in the methodology. Also, this study isn't a representative sample -- a lot of businesses don't allow internet access. Perhaps they are more likely to use one office package over another. This study is interesting, but hardly robust.
It brings up some interesting ideas for Sci-Fi - an AI could easily have a perception of time hundreds to thousands of times faster than our own. Oh how the days would go on. Plenty of time to dream up things!
Data: She brought me closer to humanity than I ever thought possible, and for a time...I was tempted by her offer.
Jean-Luc Picard: How long a time?
Data: Zero point six eight seconds, sir. For an android, that is nearly an eternity.
"The number one need of any human is to be liked by other humans"
Yes, but it matters remarkably little which other humans.
The problem with the public education environment is for all their talk of embracing diversity, it's a veritable meat-grinder for individuality. A person that is unable to mask his/her differences from their peers is subject to incredible negative pressure. This is why we need to stop reducing public education to "lowest common denominator" thinking -- "No Child Left Behind" and its derivatives have resulted in a generation of kids that believe either they are all beautiful and unique snowflakes, or they're interchangable carbon-copies of each other. Neither is beneficial to the larger society. We need to identify people's differing learning styles and personalities and pair them with others that share them and teachers that can leverage it effectively. What I'm proposing is, in fact, the anti-thesis of public education: Individualized education.
Do they realise that SSL traffic causes a higher load on the server than a regular request? This would be an indication it is trying to bring the site down.
Yes, they do. They also don't care. Most botnet authors are self-taught, or only college educated, and are not experienced developers. They don't know how to obscure their creation's activity, because they lack a full understanding of network security. Which is understandable: That isn't in the SDK documentation and example code. Because they lack the skillset necessary to create a protocol resistant to traffic analysis, they go the other way: Flood all the connections and hope those analyzing the logs decide it's not worth the effort to find the needle in the haystack. They know it can be tracked -- they just don't feel its worth the effort to learn how to do it right, when doing it wrong gets them to payday faster and with only a minute amount of additional risk.
NASA research lead to cheaper, more viable foodstuffs for the poor in the past, I don't see why it's breakthroughs couldn't assist us in our search for solutions to problems here on Earth.
Poverty is a social problem, not a technological one.
Half the people on this site probably weren't even alive when Windows 3.1 came out... could you guys give the pointless Microsoft bashing a rest? Just once, ever?
Windows 3.1 was released in, what, 1993? 17 years ago. So the majority of slashdot posters are less than 17 years of age, by your reasoning. I find that unlikely as the median age in the US is 36.7 years of age. That is where most slashdot posters are located...
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This was a very rare thing to see prior to management's decision to hamstring meta-moderation. I'd still like to know who thought that was a good idea, who agreed with that person instead of laughing, and who has decided to keep meta-moderation useless even after the detrimental effects of this decision have been demonstrated.
O_o The moderation system on slashdot has always been controversial. Kuro5hin tried a new system where everybody was a moderator. It was a more accurate rating system, but it's failure was in giving the users the ability to approve or reject content. Part of why slashdot is successful (and Kuro5hin failed) is because the authorship of stories is controlled by only a few people who have a lot of experience. The moderation system could be a simple thumbs up/down, and metamoderation could be flushed down the toilet, and the quality wouldn't change. At its core, the moderation system is a popularity contest -- you only get mod points by being let into the clubhouse by the other popular kids, and only comments that represent the popular opinion are highly rated. In general, pro-microsoft stuff is moderated down, whereas pro-linux would be moderated up. But a particularily well-written pro-microsoft post could still be modded up provided the author acknowledges the prevailing opinion when submitting it. For example, "I'd be the first to say Microsoft is a blight upon the land, but in this case..." Or, more directly -- people can state unpopular opinions if they couch it in rhetoric, where-as popular opinions are scrutinized less. It's human nature, and the moderation system can't fix that. But -- it could be redesigned to be simpler and more true to its roots.
Amazing how the mods will go with the GP's (incorrect) take on things rather than take the 800 milliseconds necessary to see for themselves that it was not a "Troll" post, as it is currently modded. Carelessness 1, High-quality Moderation 0. Shocking, I tell you, shocking.
I agree with everything you said, except 800ms is a bit short. I would say about 20 seconds, if you include the time to backtrack to the main page, click the link, wait for the website to load, and skim it for the relevant quote (which is the first question in the list). It could take up to a minute if they are slower readers -- we can't assume everyone reads as fast as we do.
Still, moderators should read the article before using their points if they're going to mod articles that reference the article's content. Now if it's just "First post!" or "ch34p v!4gr4" posts, then by all means... :\
From the article: "any clever vulnerability at any severity might get a reward."
"We will typically focus on High and Critical impact bugs, but" ...
They have to decide it's a critical bug, and it must be a single bug. A string of minor bugs that leads to a catastrophic bypass of security would be ineligible if I read these guidelines correctly. They also won't accept it if it's an operating system bug, though I could envision this being "the system call doesn't function as documented". Well, if the operating system won't fix it, it's still the application developer's responsibility to use a workaround -- but you wouldn't get credit for this even if it was a potentially serious problem.
No sh*t. Don't let people install trojans on your phone.
You do realize that the cell phone is a slave to the network it connects to, right? Most phones will auto-update their firmware or settings if the network tells it to, and there is usually no way to disable this behavior.
Choosing to circumcise is thus the easy choice despite its irreversibility; and parents will make many more arbitrary yet momentous decisions for their children.
It's a lie to perpetuate stereotypes -- just like how we flip coins to determine the sex of intersexed babies. Sometimes the doctor doesn't even tell the parents. And every now and then, we make a mistake -- but we don't want to admit it because it's socially acceptable and to question circumcision is tandamount to questioning the church.
can tell you that the child displayed little evidence of pain, as I was right there with the doc as it was done, and it heals quite quickly.
Liar. It hurts -- a lot. [Warning: Link is to a surgical demonstration video of the circumcision of a male baby.]
And no, not "everybody else" does it. The number of uncircumsized males in the US is increasing, actually. You might find the numbers surprising if you have time to look it up.
I did.
Which, by your admission, is a tremendously small number of the male population. And if you become suicidally depressed because you're having disappointing intercourse, I'm guessing it's not just about the intercourse.
You wouldn't know... you've never had sex with your foreskin intact.
I like stem cells, but feel that abortion is the most sensitive of issues and ought to remain free of any profit motive.
It's cost us years, possibly as much as a decade, of research time because of religious considerations. In many cases, aborted fetuses wouldn't survive to term anyway, or are a threat to the mother's health -- but many consider that it has to be a baby or nothing at all. It's that kind of black-and-white thinking that has no place in serious discussions of biology -- Nature does not tolerate black and white. It is a very grey and organic process, where few hard lines can be drawn.
So that's why they cut of the foreskin.
Actually, yes. The foreskin contains about 90% of the nerve endings on the penis. It's rather barbaric that this country is one of the few in the western world that routinely mutilates male anatomy -- many parents often not even knowing why it's done, only that everybody else does it. more info. For the very few men that have been circumsized as an adult and had an opportunity to experience sex both ways -- they say that sex is very disappointing after. Some become suicidally depressed.
I do agree with you that military service doesn't blend well with free-thinking folks. I can't see why a non-conformist would join such a rules/regulations based organization. But i'd like to put forth that Clear goals and purpose are attractive to many people including free-thinkers. So many people have treasure troves of knowledge and skills that they don't have a reason to apply.. sometimes a person will accept discomfort for the opportunity to become useful to a large group of people.. at the expense of themselves. To have purpose is everything.
A common argument made by recruiters. Patriotism makes a good breakfast, but it makes a terrible dinner. Pay is the big reason why they lose talent. But I agree with your assertion -- free-thinkers know that the individual is nothing more than a structure of potential energies, created for another purpose. It is made to be sacrificed in the service of an idea or institution, and in so doing, become an instrument of culture and legend. Such is the true purpose of a democracy: To make great people.
Well, your stereotype of basic training, like all your stereotypes is flat out wrong. The point of basic is to instill discipline and modify behavior.
Attitude, n. "the way a person views something or tends to behave towards it, often in an evaluative way."
The military doesn't give a rat fuck about your attitude...
I would gather that you have not been in the military. In my experience, they're confident enough of their service and their statements about it to not resort to terms like "rat fuck". As well, if they honestly do have a problem with someone, it's solved quickly and quietly so they can go back to their drinks.
(And you also seem to be ignorant of the fact that the military does hire civilians in special cases, and even assigns them to operational and deployed units.)
I didn't mention any of that in my original post, nor do I see it's relevance. You are attempting to muddy the waters with irrelevant commentary to detract from the fact that you don't like me personally and are throwing irrational argument after irrational argument.
And even so, you're still wrong. The military has long waived the age requirements for narrow and specialized fields where civilian experience is desirable and not available among younger people.
Citation aaaand... citation. Care to revise your statement, sir?
Having done both those things, *and* having a high security clearance while doing them, *and* working with nuclear weapons - I can comfortably say, like everything else you've posted in this thread, you haven't a fucking clue what you are talking about.
In my experience, people who handle nuclear weapons are told not to publicize that fact. They also don't swear on a public forum just to prove a point, they tend to be very cool and reserved. So, I'm thinking you should sue your face for slander.
More total bullshit. Star Trek and LARP are a mark against you for "some security clearances"? Not any that the American government issues. Where did you even come up with that? Pulled it out of some cheesy novel or crappy TV show? And how did you become an expert on the kind of thinking that goes on in the American Intelligence services? TV News broadcasts? NY Times Best Seller Novel? Have you ever even worked in the Intelligence industry? I bet you applied and were rejected, then rationalized it with your paranoid fictional reasons.
Star trek: Couldn't find a reference quickly.
LARP: Army frowns on Dungeons and Dragons
Cheesy novels and TV shows: Looked on FOX, only found CSI. NYT Best seller list gives 'Dear John' as your answer for this weeks' crappy novel. Although I prefer The Sword and the Shield if you want a non-crappy novel about the intelligence community to read (and that you have a reaonable chance of acquiring).
How I became an "expert on the kind of thinking that goes on in the American Intelligence services": If I told you, I'd have to kill you. But TV News broadcasts are valid sources in open source intelligence.
Have I ever worked in the intelligence industry: Yes, but I can only confirm dates of employment.
Reason for security clearance rejection: Large outstanding debt and voluntary admission to a hospital for acute treatment of PTSD, suicide.