I'm surprised there's not more voluntary cooperation among ISPs to blackhole unresponsive datacenters hosting botnet command infrasturcture.
Is the money for hosting that kind of stuff that good, or is it one of those semi-political things where those data centers are in a country like Russia where the difference between organized crime and the government depends on what time of day it is?
How about research into that? The reputable sources and limited studies show that obese people with type II diabetes almost all seem to revert to a non-diabetic status once they go on a ketogenic (very low carbohydrate diet).
While there are certainly some portion of type II diabetes sufferers who will not respond to, people like RobertLustig seem to believe that low carb diets have an extremely high success rate in basically eliminating type II diabetes.
But not eating carbs doesn't sell drugs or allow people to go on eating food toxified with high levels of HFCS.
From what I've read and seen (guys like Gary Taubes and Robert Lustig), the amount of sugar (which includes sugar, HFCS and other similar sweeteners comprised of fructose/glucose combinations) consumption per capita has increased tremendously over the last century.
Equally important is the increase in carbohydrate consumption since most food guidelines switched to a "low fat" paradigm about 1980. Carbs are 4 kcals per gram, fat is 9, so switching to a "low fat" diet is essentially a "high carb" diet since it requires > 2x increase in carb consumption to make up for the lost calories. For most people this results in a large increase in starch consumption which is metabolically similar to sugar consumption.
Unfortunately there hasn't been enough science associated with carbohydrate consumption done because there is such a broad acceptance of the "low fat/high carb" dietary paradigm because so many researchers are tied to it in terms of their careers, intellectual standing and mindset.
Personally, I think sugar is a major culprit, with fructose being the worst member, followed fairly closely by simple starches. I also think there is some kind of metabolic programming that occurs early in life that makes obesity hard to shake in later life, even on strictly reduced carbohydrate diets.
What's needed is a HTML5 Facebook access app that would layer on top of a Facebook session and encrypt everything typed into any chat or update fields. Enrcypted content would be recognized and decrypted automatically. Otherwise, it would be a transparent layer over Facebook.
You'd want some kind of key management and an easy option for posting without encryption.
Encryption would make conversations much more private, especially the ones you (rightly, IMHO) assume should be private, like messages and chat. A nice side bonus would be ensuring that the communication you were having is the person you think it is.
The fun bonus is that it would make Facebook batshit nuts to lose access to content, since they would not be able to encrypt it.
It strikes me that "improved standards of living" is fairly vague and definition-free, and even if you managed to define what that meant, how do you engineer it in a place like Zimbabwe?
Even a country like South Africa, which generally has an economy and government more like that of a European country, has huge problems dealing with poverty. And let's not pretend that the US has managed to do anything constructive about poverty, although first world poverty isn't quite like African poverty.
There's some logic to that, I guess. I could do the math on the interior of the tube and measure how far the rod on the caulk gun goes in.
I was considering at least for the first batch using small dixie cups on a sheet of parchment paper, as I've read it doesn't stick well to that. The silicone would be squeezed out next to a dixie cup on the paper, with corn starch measured in the cups added to it and then mixed.
I'm going to try 1:1 and 2:1 starch:silicone ratios first.
What ratios did you find worked best? I'm more interested in short working times (5 minutes or less) and putty-like malleability (which I think you might call very high viscosity).
I think I've heard that 1:2 silicone:corn starch will accomplish this. I've also heard the mixing is a bitch, and I'm not entirely sure how you measure silicone from a caulk tube without a complete mess.
I plan to try this this weekend, actually. I might even be able to grab some pigment to color it.
Has anyone made the Sugru clone by mixing silicone I caulk and cornstarch (I think ratios are flexible, up to 1:3 with reasonable cure times)?
As I understand it, the cornstarch absorbs the water and accelerates the silicone cure time, enabling a cure phase where it is hand-moldable like Sugru?
I have a box of corn starch and two tubes of silicone waiting at home for me to try this. There's an instructable for this that focuses on a different project but a lot of the project is spent on making this hand-moldable silicone.
I use Harvey plumber's epoxy (moldable, like clay, but gets rock hard) all the time and I've always wanted a hand-moldable product that would have the finished consistency of silicone. Silicone itself is too goopy and cures poorly if very thick.
Sugru solves this, but its expensive. There are other two-part silicones that can be bought, but they are expensive, too, and this method seems pretty simple and inexpensive (I think I bought two full-size tubes of GE brand Silicone I and a box of cornstarch for about $6, certainly less than $10 total).
I've read that overpopulation actually drives some of the political instability.
Agricultural land was something handed down via family and tribe, with excess population the land became too small to subdivide and landless children went to the cities, where they occupy shantytowns, get involved in crime and become recruits for militias and various revolutionary movements, contributing to to more political instability.
Whenever I advance this idea I'm always told that population will auto-suppress with an increase in standards of living, but I'm not sure how that will happen without the political stability. It strikes me that addressing population growth first or at least strongly and concurrently with economic development is necessary, otherwise you won't make a dent in the economics due to political instability fueled by population pressure.
I'm not always sure I see the iPad in the category of "Tablet computer" the way its traditionally understood.
To me the iPad is just a natural extension of the iPhone to a larger form factor, where a tablet computer seems to imply more of a computing experience as we understand it but in a way that is touch oriented in a tablet user interface.
I think Apple just realized that the iPhone would be really cool on a larger screen, which is pretty much what it is. In fact, I keep waiting for a cellular-data iPad to actually have telephony components on it. I think there's a market for a device like that, especially for one-man businesses that would have it on their desk. I imagine an iPad sized phone app could be really interesting, especially a VOIP one.
Apple figured out how to make it usable. I joined a SMB consultancy in 2004 and was given an iPaq for mobile email. It is a testimony to my patience and respect for my employer's money that that device wasn't launched out the sunroof at 85 mph or shot with a.44 magnum.
It NEVER worked right. Constant reboots. The physical keyboard attachment would work if attached at startup, but not otherwise, despite what the manual said. Touch required a stylus to accomplish anything and using the on-screen keyboard with a stylus was probably slower than entering a program with front panel switches on an Altair. Had a web browser which was almost completely worthless, even with plain-text web pages.
Horribe, horrible device. I finally got a Treo650 which actually worked, but required GoodLink for usable email. That got replaced with a Motorola Q and the Q seemed as a amazing compared to the Treo and especially the iPaq as the iPhone 3G was to the Q.
Personally I am an atheist, but it seems that low-levels of religious belief seem to do most people little harm and some good and at least in smaller communities seem to provide a certain amount of greater good & charity which might otherwise go missing.
It would be nice if the people involved could just enjoy getting together for the sake of getting together and do charitable works because helping people is usually the right thing to do without shame-based moralizing and all the hocus pocus, but human experience seems to suggest a more Hobbesian outcome without some kind of organizational direction.
Graydon Carter was a founder/editor of Spy and VF makes use of the Spy graphics stylings (floating heads without bodies at an angle for illustrations, etc).
As a former Spy subscriber in the 1980s, I think Spy was a lot more critical and irreverent towards celebrities and the kinds of faddish obsessions of the Upper East Side-and-weekends-in-the-Hamptons set. More Soho than 72nd & Park.
Vanity Fair seems to be kind of the official style magazine of the Upper East Side types -- less critical and humorous than Spy.
But I think Graydon Carter kind of epitomizes the East Coast literary style -- satirical and rebellious when young, clubby and well off when older.
I think the OP was referring to hard assets like cash and securities, not soft assets like licensing revenue or worse, growth projections.
Even if something truly weird happened -- think some major catastrophe that affected MS ability to put out new products -- between cash and licensing revenue for Windows, MS would probably continue on easily for 10 years before competitive products eroded PC licensing enough to risk their cash hoard.
Even then, a shift in assets to longer-term securities and downsizing could potentially enable Microsoft to continue as a corporate entity for the foreseeable future. There's still a lot of people living well off money John Jacob Astor made in the early 19th century.
IMHO the real security issue isn't network traffic -- a bad virtual network design isn't worse than a bad physical design, the real security issue is in the hypervisor and hypervisor management. In large clusters, what vulnerabilities are there at the hypervisor level? Is it possible to inject a VM? Mask a VM from management software (ie, vCenter)? Change VM attributes (execution, memory, I/O priorities, virtual disk configurations, network access)? Initiate management controls (ie, self-vMotion)?
Right now -- how do you know you don't have a rogue VM capable of all of this that isn't showing up in vCenter? How could you stop it? How could you prevent it?
Hypervisors and their management systems are increasingly complex and distributed
Overall, virtual network security itself isn't that complicated most places because the hypervisor is just a way to cut boxes and increase server density, usually internally. People doing public facing VMs and VM hosting theoretically have thought through their overall network security enough to not make the obvious mistakes.
That's a huge reason. The model simplicity (which is probably closer to 2 models when you factor in that the 3 models and 4 models share the basic case/form factor) is a huge win for consumers because it makes it easier for Apple to continue to support them with iOS updates AND for consumers to own them because they need to buy fewer accessories (my ProClip car holder still works with my 4s as it did with my 3gs).
It's also simpler for consumers to wrap their mind around -- I wouldn't know what fucking Android phone to buy if you put a gun to my head. There's too many and too many from even one maker, and they seem (at least from the marketing background noise) to come out with new ones continuously.
MSFT's big problem isn't a lack of trying, it's that every innovative idea they have gets run past a bunch of guys whose bonus depends on Windows and Office sales numbers. If these guys or their soothsayers see something in these products that may risk these profits then these products get stripped of whatever that feature or component is or it gets dumbed down to worthlessness.
MSFT should have given a couple of billion dollars to the phone people five years ago and set them up in an office in Orange County, CA or NYC with standalone everything (phones, email, management, etc) so there was no tie back to MSFT and no way for greedy execs at home to squelch new thinking.
They could have come up with something remarkable, instead we just get the same bullshit, overseen by the same guys guarding their asses.
First of all, the dumb shape. I want my AV devices flat and preferably stackable. At least AppleTV is flat, although its small size dictates it be on top if stacked (or just wall mounted..). A round device? No thanks.
Connectivity -- no optical output, only HDMI? That may work for people who use their TV as an HDMI switcher and leave the stereo on a fixed input, but it's nice having both for parallel output. The direct-connect speaker connection is silly.
And streaming only? WTF? I realize Google is all about networked storage, but even though I use iTunes, I'm not ready to commit to anyone's cloud based media storage.
Apple really should push the AirPlay device mirroring angle. I see it really being the ultimate iPad accessory -- it's awesome to be able to mirror stuff directly to the TV or play videos.
....and he departed FB or said he was done with iPhone development or some other small-scale hubris?
Part of me thinks that FB doesn't really *care* if the iOS app works, they just want to know what platforms you use FB on and if they see regular use from an iDevice, they know that you fit in a specific demographic bucket of "iPhone owner".
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The real hard part is doing any of that with a broom handle sticking out of your ass.
I'm surprised there's not more voluntary cooperation among ISPs to blackhole unresponsive datacenters hosting botnet command infrasturcture.
Is the money for hosting that kind of stuff that good, or is it one of those semi-political things where those data centers are in a country like Russia where the difference between organized crime and the government depends on what time of day it is?
How about research into that? The reputable sources and limited studies show that obese people with type II diabetes almost all seem to revert to a non-diabetic status once they go on a ketogenic (very low carbohydrate diet).
While there are certainly some portion of type II diabetes sufferers who will not respond to, people like Robert Lustig seem to believe that low carb diets have an extremely high success rate in basically eliminating type II diabetes.
But not eating carbs doesn't sell drugs or allow people to go on eating food toxified with high levels of HFCS.
From what I've read and seen (guys like Gary Taubes and Robert Lustig), the amount of sugar (which includes sugar, HFCS and other similar sweeteners comprised of fructose/glucose combinations) consumption per capita has increased tremendously over the last century.
Equally important is the increase in carbohydrate consumption since most food guidelines switched to a "low fat" paradigm about 1980. Carbs are 4 kcals per gram, fat is 9, so switching to a "low fat" diet is essentially a "high carb" diet since it requires > 2x increase in carb consumption to make up for the lost calories. For most people this results in a large increase in starch consumption which is metabolically similar to sugar consumption.
Unfortunately there hasn't been enough science associated with carbohydrate consumption done because there is such a broad acceptance of the "low fat/high carb" dietary paradigm because so many researchers are tied to it in terms of their careers, intellectual standing and mindset.
Personally, I think sugar is a major culprit, with fructose being the worst member, followed fairly closely by simple starches. I also think there is some kind of metabolic programming that occurs early in life that makes obesity hard to shake in later life, even on strictly reduced carbohydrate diets.
...welcome our newly evolved E. Coli masters.
What's needed is a HTML5 Facebook access app that would layer on top of a Facebook session and encrypt everything typed into any chat or update fields. Enrcypted content would be recognized and decrypted automatically. Otherwise, it would be a transparent layer over Facebook.
You'd want some kind of key management and an easy option for posting without encryption.
Encryption would make conversations much more private, especially the ones you (rightly, IMHO) assume should be private, like messages and chat. A nice side bonus would be ensuring that the communication you were having is the person you think it is.
The fun bonus is that it would make Facebook batshit nuts to lose access to content, since they would not be able to encrypt it.
It strikes me that "improved standards of living" is fairly vague and definition-free, and even if you managed to define what that meant, how do you engineer it in a place like Zimbabwe?
Even a country like South Africa, which generally has an economy and government more like that of a European country, has huge problems dealing with poverty. And let's not pretend that the US has managed to do anything constructive about poverty, although first world poverty isn't quite like African poverty.
There's some logic to that, I guess. I could do the math on the interior of the tube and measure how far the rod on the caulk gun goes in.
I was considering at least for the first batch using small dixie cups on a sheet of parchment paper, as I've read it doesn't stick well to that. The silicone would be squeezed out next to a dixie cup on the paper, with corn starch measured in the cups added to it and then mixed.
I'm going to try 1:1 and 2:1 starch:silicone ratios first.
What ratios did you find worked best? I'm more interested in short working times (5 minutes or less) and putty-like malleability (which I think you might call very high viscosity).
I think I've heard that 1:2 silicone:corn starch will accomplish this. I've also heard the mixing is a bitch, and I'm not entirely sure how you measure silicone from a caulk tube without a complete mess.
I plan to try this this weekend, actually. I might even be able to grab some pigment to color it.
Has anyone made the Sugru clone by mixing silicone I caulk and cornstarch (I think ratios are flexible, up to 1:3 with reasonable cure times)?
As I understand it, the cornstarch absorbs the water and accelerates the silicone cure time, enabling a cure phase where it is hand-moldable like Sugru?
I have a box of corn starch and two tubes of silicone waiting at home for me to try this. There's an instructable for this that focuses on a different project but a lot of the project is spent on making this hand-moldable silicone.
I use Harvey plumber's epoxy (moldable, like clay, but gets rock hard) all the time and I've always wanted a hand-moldable product that would have the finished consistency of silicone. Silicone itself is too goopy and cures poorly if very thick.
Sugru solves this, but its expensive. There are other two-part silicones that can be bought, but they are expensive, too, and this method seems pretty simple and inexpensive (I think I bought two full-size tubes of GE brand Silicone I and a box of cornstarch for about $6, certainly less than $10 total).
I've read that overpopulation actually drives some of the political instability.
Agricultural land was something handed down via family and tribe, with excess population the land became too small to subdivide and landless children went to the cities, where they occupy shantytowns, get involved in crime and become recruits for militias and various revolutionary movements, contributing to to more political instability.
Whenever I advance this idea I'm always told that population will auto-suppress with an increase in standards of living, but I'm not sure how that will happen without the political stability. It strikes me that addressing population growth first or at least strongly and concurrently with economic development is necessary, otherwise you won't make a dent in the economics due to political instability fueled by population pressure.
Huzzah! This should definitely improve the availability of pottery, leathergoods and bronze items in the Mediterranean basin.
I'm not always sure I see the iPad in the category of "Tablet computer" the way its traditionally understood.
To me the iPad is just a natural extension of the iPhone to a larger form factor, where a tablet computer seems to imply more of a computing experience as we understand it but in a way that is touch oriented in a tablet user interface.
I think Apple just realized that the iPhone would be really cool on a larger screen, which is pretty much what it is. In fact, I keep waiting for a cellular-data iPad to actually have telephony components on it. I think there's a market for a device like that, especially for one-man businesses that would have it on their desk. I imagine an iPad sized phone app could be really interesting, especially a VOIP one.
Apple figured out how to make it usable. I joined a SMB consultancy in 2004 and was given an iPaq for mobile email. It is a testimony to my patience and respect for my employer's money that that device wasn't launched out the sunroof at 85 mph or shot with a .44 magnum.
It NEVER worked right. Constant reboots. The physical keyboard attachment would work if attached at startup, but not otherwise, despite what the manual said. Touch required a stylus to accomplish anything and using the on-screen keyboard with a stylus was probably slower than entering a program with front panel switches on an Altair. Had a web browser which was almost completely worthless, even with plain-text web pages.
Horribe, horrible device. I finally got a Treo650 which actually worked, but required GoodLink for usable email. That got replaced with a Motorola Q and the Q seemed as a amazing compared to the Treo and especially the iPaq as the iPhone 3G was to the Q.
Personally I am an atheist, but it seems that low-levels of religious belief seem to do most people little harm and some good and at least in smaller communities seem to provide a certain amount of greater good & charity which might otherwise go missing.
It would be nice if the people involved could just enjoy getting together for the sake of getting together and do charitable works because helping people is usually the right thing to do without shame-based moralizing and all the hocus pocus, but human experience seems to suggest a more Hobbesian outcome without some kind of organizational direction.
Graydon Carter was a founder/editor of Spy and VF makes use of the Spy graphics stylings (floating heads without bodies at an angle for illustrations, etc).
As a former Spy subscriber in the 1980s, I think Spy was a lot more critical and irreverent towards celebrities and the kinds of faddish obsessions of the Upper East Side-and-weekends-in-the-Hamptons set. More Soho than 72nd & Park.
Vanity Fair seems to be kind of the official style magazine of the Upper East Side types -- less critical and humorous than Spy.
But I think Graydon Carter kind of epitomizes the East Coast literary style -- satirical and rebellious when young, clubby and well off when older.
People is probably written to a level that a third grader could understand.
Vanity Fair at least can use more than three words in a row with at least two syllables each.
I think the OP was referring to hard assets like cash and securities, not soft assets like licensing revenue or worse, growth projections.
Even if something truly weird happened -- think some major catastrophe that affected MS ability to put out new products -- between cash and licensing revenue for Windows, MS would probably continue on easily for 10 years before competitive products eroded PC licensing enough to risk their cash hoard.
Even then, a shift in assets to longer-term securities and downsizing could potentially enable Microsoft to continue as a corporate entity for the foreseeable future. There's still a lot of people living well off money John Jacob Astor made in the early 19th century.
....is "People Magazine" for well-off literate people.
IMHO the real security issue isn't network traffic -- a bad virtual network design isn't worse than a bad physical design, the real security issue is in the hypervisor and hypervisor management. In large clusters, what vulnerabilities are there at the hypervisor level? Is it possible to inject a VM? Mask a VM from management software (ie, vCenter)? Change VM attributes (execution, memory, I/O priorities, virtual disk configurations, network access)? Initiate management controls (ie, self-vMotion)?
Right now -- how do you know you don't have a rogue VM capable of all of this that isn't showing up in vCenter? How could you stop it? How could you prevent it?
Hypervisors and their management systems are increasingly complex and distributed
Overall, virtual network security itself isn't that complicated most places because the hypervisor is just a way to cut boxes and increase server density, usually internally. People doing public facing VMs and VM hosting theoretically have thought through their overall network security enough to not make the obvious mistakes.
That's a huge reason. The model simplicity (which is probably closer to 2 models when you factor in that the 3 models and 4 models share the basic case/form factor) is a huge win for consumers because it makes it easier for Apple to continue to support them with iOS updates AND for consumers to own them because they need to buy fewer accessories (my ProClip car holder still works with my 4s as it did with my 3gs).
It's also simpler for consumers to wrap their mind around -- I wouldn't know what fucking Android phone to buy if you put a gun to my head. There's too many and too many from even one maker, and they seem (at least from the marketing background noise) to come out with new ones continuously.
MSFT's big problem isn't a lack of trying, it's that every innovative idea they have gets run past a bunch of guys whose bonus depends on Windows and Office sales numbers. If these guys or their soothsayers see something in these products that may risk these profits then these products get stripped of whatever that feature or component is or it gets dumbed down to worthlessness.
MSFT should have given a couple of billion dollars to the phone people five years ago and set them up in an office in Orange County, CA or NYC with standalone everything (phones, email, management, etc) so there was no tie back to MSFT and no way for greedy execs at home to squelch new thinking.
They could have come up with something remarkable, instead we just get the same bullshit, overseen by the same guys guarding their asses.
This device seems kind of poorly thought out.
First of all, the dumb shape. I want my AV devices flat and preferably stackable. At least AppleTV is flat, although its small size dictates it be on top if stacked (or just wall mounted..). A round device? No thanks.
Connectivity -- no optical output, only HDMI? That may work for people who use their TV as an HDMI switcher and leave the stereo on a fixed input, but it's nice having both for parallel output. The direct-connect speaker connection is silly.
And streaming only? WTF? I realize Google is all about networked storage, but even though I use iTunes, I'm not ready to commit to anyone's cloud based media storage.
Apple really should push the AirPlay device mirroring angle. I see it really being the ultimate iPad accessory -- it's awesome to be able to mirror stuff directly to the TV or play videos.
....and he departed FB or said he was done with iPhone development or some other small-scale hubris?
Part of me thinks that FB doesn't really *care* if the iOS app works, they just want to know what platforms you use FB on and if they see regular use from an iDevice, they know that you fit in a specific demographic bucket of "iPhone owner".