I suspect the parent poster mean that the frequency at which you can make trades via your eTrade account is limited; if nothing else by the speed at which you can click the "Buy/Sell" button in your web browser (and probably by other controls as well, to prevent people from abusing the web site with bots).
So if the fastest you can make trades on eTrade is 1 trade per second, that's hardly HFT in the modern sense of the term.
... or the experiment could totally backfire, as the Representatives find that 10Mb/sec service is indeed "plenty fast" for their Internet needs (which include emailing their relatives, browsing the web, and using Facebook/Twitter, but not streaming HD movies).
(As for their family, their children have grown up and left home, and their husband's/wife's Internet habits are likely similar to their own)
Why on Earth would I want the power company to know my email address?!?
You wouldn't -- but you can always create a throwaway email address just for your power company to use, maybe even enable auto-forwarding to your real/top-secret personal email address, if you like.
"Sherlock Holmes observed that once you have eliminated the impossible then whatever remains, however improbable, must be the answer. I, however, do not like to eliminate the impossible." - Douglas Adams, Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency
Maddeningly, this information may forever be inaccessible to us, as the nature of inflation wipes all this information clean from our visible Universe.
This is why it's so important that we go back to the gold standard. Ron Paul 2016!
Why would anyone want an apperating system on a desktop?
It's not ideal, but the only other alternative is Floo powder, and with that you're limited to endpoints with a fireplace -- hardly an acceptable mobile solution in 2016.
I wasn't concerned so much with the radioactivity as with the massive amount of black carbon that would be thrown up into the atmosphere, causing significantly diminished sunlight (potentially worldwide) for several years thereafter, with the resulting diminished crop production causing food shortages.
I wonder if the upgrade passes the Baby Test: Lay down a 24 month old baby in the center of the parking spot, and summon the Tesla into to park itself. Expected outcome: There should be no leaking blood.
I tried it out -- results are mixed. The car passes the test when the air suspension is set to the "high" and "standard" settings, but not when it is set to the "low" or "very low" settings.
On a related note, can anyone recommend a good pressure washer?
"Hello Mr. Passenger -- we've taken the liberty of re-routing your car... you're now on your way to Tierra del Fuego, ETA next Tuesday. If you'd like to be re-routed back towards your original destination, please send bitcoins to the address via your cell phone. We'll wait..."
I does seem a bit ballsy for Oracle to name their product 'unbreakable', considering the fact that they broke Java so badly that it was pretty much banned from all web browsers...
Trouble is, Pyongyang is estimated to contain around 10% of the NK population
Yes, of course, which was why I was quick to point out in the very next sentence that I wasn't advocating that, and neither would anyone else except possibly if North Korea launched a nuclear first strike.
So somebody's going to have to go in and clean up the mess.. and then the question becomes whether they'll be any better than what you just took out.
That is a good question, but presumably no matter how bad the aftermath was, it would not include a North Korea with nuclear strike capability (unless they hid nuclear weapons somewhere else, and still had people willing and able to deploy them, I suppose -- which isn't inconceivable)
The fundamental problem, though, is that the only way to actually stop a country from doing what you don't want them to do is to successfully invade it.
Well, there is one other method -- nuke (or otherwise destroy) Pyongyang until there is no more North Korean government left to annoy you with its pesky nuclear tests.
Not that I'm advocating such an approach, but I suspect that is what would happen if North Korea allowed any of its nuclear bombs to be used for anything other than an underground test / posturing exercise.
Furthermore, I suspect that North Korea's leaders know this, which is why they are unlikely to use a nuclear weapon on an enemy, or give a nuclear weapon away to outside groups -- to do so would likely mean then end of them.
If all of the above is correct, then North Korea isn't much more than an ongoing annoyance to anyone outside of North Korea (of course it is a nightmare to its own citizens, but it's not clear what can be done about that). All the rest of the world can do, short of invading or nuking North Korea, is wait for them to change from within.
Yet factually literally, it is still not as bad as the Bible, The Koran or the Torah, yet government does not do anything serious to reign in those works and force the editing to align with law, especially prior to their distribution to minors
And even those aren't as harmful as Ayn Rand's works that strive to convert impressionable youth into soulless dead-eyed corporate sociopaths.
.... says me, anyway. And who is to say I'm wrong and someone else is right? Which is of course the whole point of the 1st Amendment -- that allowing the government to ban 'harmful' materials is unacceptably risky because eventually that power will be mis-used (deliberately or not) for essentially political purposes.
if I only had a dollar for every person on Earth that does not know copyrights have an expiration date...
At least here in the USA, Disney pays Congress to move that date farther into the future whenever the Mouse starts nearing his expiration date... with the side effect that no other copyrighted works ever expire either, regardless of what their copyrights' theoretical expiration dates are at any given time.
<geezer> I remember when the above reality was the #1 cause of nerd rage on Slashdot... </geezer>
... is, if you're still receiving bug reports and feature requests, that means people are still interested in using your software.
You know a particular program is really dead when you stop receiving feedback from users about it -- that means either it is finally perfect and bug-free (ha ha, not bloody likely), or everybody has given up on it and moved on to something else.
Jeff Bezos is not the sole person working on the project. There are dozens (possibly hundreds) of very smart people also working on the project, and you can bet that have spent thousands of hours considering all kinds of possible failure modes and how they might be dealt with in practice.
The chances of Joe Random Slashdot Poster immediately coming up with an unsolvable problem scenario that they haven't already considered is very slim. I know everyone on Slashdot thinks they are a genius, but Amazon can and does hire geniuses also.
This is why you should not rely on a VPN or any single layer solely as your entire security solution. Multiple layers of encryption and AAA and best practices are required. Its all about making it harder for the bad guys. No solution is fool proof.
I don't disagree, but the usual problem in practice is that each additional layer of security adds an additional layer of inconvenience for the user, and at some point people who want to just get their work done start finding ways to "get around" the inconvenience (e.g. by using their personal laptop instead of the difficult-to-use company-issued laptop), and then we're back to square one.
I wonder if there is any practical way to automate the layering of multiple levels of security, so that it would be as transparent as possible to the user? (Of course it would need to be done carefully, so that it doesn't also automate the subversion of multiple layers for an attacker;))
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I suspect the parent poster mean that the frequency at which you can make trades via your eTrade account is limited; if nothing else by the speed at which you can click the "Buy/Sell" button in your web browser (and probably by other controls as well, to prevent people from abusing the web site with bots).
So if the fastest you can make trades on eTrade is 1 trade per second, that's hardly HFT in the modern sense of the term.
... or the experiment could totally backfire, as the Representatives find that 10Mb/sec service is indeed "plenty fast" for their Internet needs (which include emailing their relatives, browsing the web, and using Facebook/Twitter, but not streaming HD movies).
(As for their family, their children have grown up and left home, and their husband's/wife's Internet habits are likely similar to their own)
Why on Earth would I want the power company to know my email address?!?
You wouldn't -- but you can always create a throwaway email address just for your power company to use, maybe even enable auto-forwarding to your real/top-secret personal email address, if you like.
Well, printing it in binary would be 74,207,280 numeral "1"s, so if you go that way it would be pretty big!
binary is for pikers. Real mathematicians print it out in unary.
"Sherlock Holmes observed that once you have eliminated the impossible then whatever remains, however improbable, must be the answer. I, however, do not like to eliminate the impossible."
- Douglas Adams, Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency
Maddeningly, this information may forever be inaccessible to us, as the nature of inflation wipes all this information clean from our visible Universe.
This is why it's so important that we go back to the gold standard. Ron Paul 2016!
Why would anyone want an apperating system on a desktop?
It's not ideal, but the only other alternative is Floo powder, and with that you're limited to endpoints with a fireplace -- hardly an acceptable mobile solution in 2016.
Curiously, you can still be an alcoholic even if you no longer drink.
I hope you had the foresight to install a portable toilet in your passenger cabin, because the car won't be making any stops... ;)
I wasn't concerned so much with the radioactivity as with the massive amount of black carbon that would be thrown up into the atmosphere, causing significantly diminished sunlight (potentially worldwide) for several years thereafter, with the resulting diminished crop production causing food shortages.
I wonder if the upgrade passes the Baby Test: Lay down a 24 month old baby in the center of the parking spot, and summon the Tesla into to park itself. Expected outcome: There should be no leaking blood.
I tried it out -- results are mixed. The car passes the test when the air suspension is set to the "high" and "standard" settings, but not when it is set to the "low" or "very low" settings.
On a related note, can anyone recommend a good pressure washer?
I think the actual exploit will be more like:
"Hello Mr. Passenger -- we've taken the liberty of re-routing your car... you're now on your way to Tierra del Fuego, ETA next Tuesday. If you'd like to be re-routed back towards your original destination, please send bitcoins to the address via your cell phone. We'll wait..."
Oh dear, missing newline in line 6:
jaf$ g++ temp.cpp ./a.out
jaf$
Hello World!jaf$
Let me know where to file the bug report :)
You know what they say: fail fast and move on. Facebook knew it, Toyota knew it, Tesla knows it, and now you know it.
I does seem a bit ballsy for Oracle to name their product 'unbreakable', considering the fact that they broke Java so badly that it was pretty much banned from all web browsers...
Trouble is, Pyongyang is estimated to contain around 10% of the NK population
Yes, of course, which was why I was quick to point out in the very next sentence that I wasn't advocating that, and neither would anyone else except possibly if North Korea launched a nuclear first strike.
So somebody's going to have to go in and clean up the mess.. and then the question becomes whether they'll be any better than what you just took out.
That is a good question, but presumably no matter how bad the aftermath was, it would not include a North Korea with nuclear strike capability (unless they hid nuclear weapons somewhere else, and still had people willing and able to deploy them, I suppose -- which isn't inconceivable)
If you launched an entire submarine load, 24 missiles, from one of our Ohio class boats, I think you could pretty much kill any continent you choose.
Do we get to count longer-term effects (e.g. mass starvations caused by nuclear winter) into our score?
The fundamental problem, though, is that the only way to actually stop a country from doing what you don't want them to do is to successfully invade it.
Well, there is one other method -- nuke (or otherwise destroy) Pyongyang until there is no more North Korean government left to annoy you with its pesky nuclear tests.
Not that I'm advocating such an approach, but I suspect that is what would happen if North Korea allowed any of its nuclear bombs to be used for anything other than an underground test / posturing exercise.
Furthermore, I suspect that North Korea's leaders know this, which is why they are unlikely to use a nuclear weapon on an enemy, or give a nuclear weapon away to outside groups -- to do so would likely mean then end of them.
If all of the above is correct, then North Korea isn't much more than an ongoing annoyance to anyone outside of North Korea (of course it is a nightmare to its own citizens, but it's not clear what can be done about that). All the rest of the world can do, short of invading or nuking North Korea, is wait for them to change from within.
Yet factually literally, it is still not as bad as the Bible, The Koran or the Torah, yet government does not do anything serious to reign in those works and force the editing to align with law, especially prior to their distribution to minors
And even those aren't as harmful as Ayn Rand's works that strive to convert impressionable youth into soulless dead-eyed corporate sociopaths.
if I only had a dollar for every person on Earth that does not know copyrights have an expiration date...
At least here in the USA, Disney pays Congress to move that date farther into the future whenever the Mouse starts nearing his expiration date... with the side effect that no other copyrighted works ever expire either, regardless of what their copyrights' theoretical expiration dates are at any given time.
<geezer> I remember when the above reality was the #1 cause of nerd rage on Slashdot... </geezer>
... is, if you're still receiving bug reports and feature requests, that means people are still interested in using your software.
You know a particular program is really dead when you stop receiving feedback from users about it -- that means either it is finally perfect and bug-free (ha ha, not bloody likely), or everybody has given up on it and moved on to something else.
Jeff Bezos is not the sole person working on the project. There are dozens (possibly hundreds) of very smart people also working on the project, and you can bet that have spent thousands of hours considering all kinds of possible failure modes and how they might be dealt with in practice.
The chances of Joe Random Slashdot Poster immediately coming up with an unsolvable problem scenario that they haven't already considered is very slim. I know everyone on Slashdot thinks they are a genius, but Amazon can and does hire geniuses also.
Or perhaps he has thought of them, and doesn't think they are unavoidable or unresolvable problems.
Given that he runs as successful multibillion dollar company, I'm going to give him the benefit of the doubt.
What has this accomplished?
It will make it easier for us to fire David, have him arrested, and call the problem fixed? ;)
This is why you should not rely on a VPN or any single layer solely as your entire security solution. Multiple layers of encryption and AAA and best practices are required. Its all about making it harder for the bad guys. No solution is fool proof.
I don't disagree, but the usual problem in practice is that each additional layer of security adds an additional layer of inconvenience for the user, and at some point people who want to just get their work done start finding ways to "get around" the inconvenience (e.g. by using their personal laptop instead of the difficult-to-use company-issued laptop), and then we're back to square one.
I wonder if there is any practical way to automate the layering of multiple levels of security, so that it would be as transparent as possible to the user? (Of course it would need to be done carefully, so that it doesn't also automate the subversion of multiple layers for an attacker ;))