If it were this easy, CIA and.mil wouldn't air gap so many networks. Even so they are vulnerable to hacking.
Also, it seems like the drone that crash landed is Iran had self-destruct mechanisms which didn't work. I'm not saying Iran's claim to have hacked the drone is very credible, but even so, they should have collected a bunch of burned wreckage, not a largely intact, high value, stealth drone.
Third, remember that for a long time (and maybe even to this day) drone camera footage is beamed down from satellites to the drone operators in the US on *unencrypted channels.* The military is frequently lagging industry on digital security issues.
Not to go totally academic here but that's a structuralist viewpoint, in my opinion. And structuralists are pretty cool - not a bad viewpoint at all. Personally, I really love the work of folks like Ian Hodder who has been looking at things from a (his term) post-processualist viewpoint (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ian_Hodder). This implies that normal is often an artifact of analysis, not a feature of culture. There are whole books on this, so hard to summarize, but perceived cultural boundaries are most commonly actually gradations of different attributes of humanity, and historians and anthropologists often draw these arbitrary lines around clusters of these attributes and call it "normal" (aka "normal American"). That often isn't how the emic (internal to culture) folks view it at all..
Example, I feel generally more culturally connected to people from Vancouver than people from Maine, even though being a Californian, my country is often viewed as my cultural anchor from the etic (outsider) perspective.
I'm not saying you're wrong, I'm saying there are other ways to look at this, than "normal" being the definer or creator of culture.
OP was complaining that Java has too many training wheels, and it doesn't teach key programming practices. I was using irony to point out, by time honored car analogy, that sometimes training wheels are in fact real innovations that are just plain better than the old way. Sounds like you agree.
From an anthropological perspective, cannibalism is no worse than carpet bombing Cambodia, or dropping drone missiles into wedding parties right?
Nevertheless, the concept of "normal" is cultural, which was my point, and it sounds like you agree? And specifically, marriage as a concept is culturally defined, and not universally the same.
I lived on several Polynesian islands and homosexuals there were totally unremarked upon. The gay men (I didn't meet any lesbians, as society there is pretty heavily stratified with men spending time with men, and I'm a man) had basically equal status with the other men, and no one seemed to care if you were screwing men or women at night. They also didn't have a formal marriage system like the Catholic priests who were on one island wanted, and in fact the priests finally got a whole bunch of couples to get married in the church, while I was there (some of the couples had been together for 40+ years). Of course only the hetero couples got married in this Western way, which maybe was the start of a segregating of gay couples in the culture. I haven't been back in a long time so maybe the priests are winning that one now, but I can say that I've personally witnessed cultures that don't give a crap about "marriage is just between one man and one woman."
And this doesn't even start on your notion of family: families in polynesia where I lived are very much more fluid than here. People pass kids around between *households* somewhat frequently based on whether someone has too many or too few kids to take care of, and there is no concept of "adopted" as a stigma -- children define their parents, whether blood or otherwise, as the ones who are feeding them. There is a word for "blood parent" but it's almost never used and is insignificant culturally/emotionally to the children I talked with.
Yeah totally!! I hate that my car shifts automatically, has power locks, power steering, digital tuning on the radio and anti-lock brakes. And that freaking airbag is totally annoying, waiting to go off at ANY time. Get me back to my old 61 ford falcon with a metal steering wheel and no synchros on the gear box. Those were the days when real men drove real cars.
In fact, GPL v2 does make mention of making a living unrelated to "free as in speech": "You may charge a fee for the physical act of transferring a copy" (http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-2.0.html paragraph 1).
Also it appears that GPL (at least) does not prevent someone from wrapping an installer around an installer and distributing that: "In addition, mere aggregation of another work not based on the Program with the Program (or with a work based on the Program) on a volume of a storage or distribution medium does not bring the other work under the scope of this License." Notably this indicates that the wrapping installer (nor the toolbars or whatever inside it) do not become GPL'ed itself either (which would be a significant disincentive to the behavior).
Yeah - that's a good point. Damien specifically modeled Couch off of the good parts of Lotus Notes distribution (remember when IBM kept saying Lotus notes isn't really an email product - it just does email as a side effect? I now know why they were saying that). That said, it would be hard for my project to choose closed-licensed COTS when an OSS alternative like couch exists. Recognizing Lotus is almost certainly many times more robust and better engineered than couch for all these purposes. Thanks for pointing this option out.
Thanks - good tip on Cassandra. Riak has some capabilities that are close too. I can say that trying to do couch replication with large binary objects across unreliable networks (that is not in the same data center/peer network) is probably not a good idea anyway, even though the spec does support it..
It doesn't - you could accomplish this with NNTP if you put enough work into it (we looked at that possibility for our implementation). Certainly you could do this with a SQL system or an rsync file distribution with custom file indices. I'm just saying that in my experience couchdb gives you more out of the box to accomplish this type of set up than anything else I've found. You can get further faster with this approach if you have the kinds of requirements I was describing, IMO.
Of course I'm open to something else if it's better for this, but up to now I haven't seen anything that comes close for this, including other NoSQL databases.
Do those other systems provide for arbitrary peer-to-peer data exchange/sync networks? Last I checked Couch was the only product in the NoSQL line up that provided robust support for distributed data networks.. Maybe I'm wrong or out of date.. Most of the others when I looked were able to sync data but it was for controlled sync among known peers, much the way MySQL and Postgres handle things -- not true/messy master-master replication among disorganized nodes spread around the internet.
I think if you got a pay-as-you-go phone plan with SMS, you could SMS the device when it's gone missing and it could reply with gps coordinates in response. Then you don't have to pay the monthly nut for data plan service? Not sure how pay-as-you-go works, but I think the minutes/service expires every few months but still cheaper than a monthly data plan..
That said, for a $5k bike, I wonder if theft insurance (not accident insurance/injury, which is much more expensive) would be cheaper than either of these on a monthly basis.
Thanks. Here is just a request from one of the teaming masses - I'd have preferred if you had said "this story is probably BS." Saying it's BS makes it sound like you have some fact or evidence that falsifies the claim, like a snopes report or personal knowledge. I wouldn't compare his story to monsters under the bed, but I do agree it has some traits in common with an urban legend.
Ah - yes. I didn't mean to imply that the Netflix app was a good experience, but that the ability to stream movies from netflix servers onto my ps3 is a good experience. If Amazon let me stream their stuff through the ps3 I might switch but unlikely until they do (for example).
Interesting point and it makes me wonder if someone is going to figure out how to unlock the mysterious last two cores which are disabled? There must have been some reason why they didn't turn them on - maybe no MB support in the time they had to release?
I thought this was true when I bought a PS3 but for last 6 months if you tracked my hours on the device I think you would see Netflix at about 75% of usage and games at 25%. Maybe I'm unusual, but I am surprised at how nice an experience the PS3 + netflix is for watching TV.
Your last point is about as good as it gets, IMO. If we have great stuff in prisons for prisoners to do, then we have a political economy which we can tinker with to try to get meaningful outcomes. If we have a part of the prison where prisoners can play music, video games, watch movies AND take classes, get good grades and contribute; and we have part of the prison where they break rocks into smaller rocks, sit in their cells, walk around outside for 30 min a day, we can then let each and every prisoner decide which part of the prison they want to live in. If we can make prison choices more like the choices that exist in the real world, the better chance prisoners will have of being able to make good choices on the outside.
Not to be all pollyanna - recognizing there are some seriously f-ed up people inside, drug addicted, abused as children, retarded, mentally ill and just plain old angry. But still modeling effective choices is the only way forward..
The notion that punishment and incentives/improvement are incompatible is ridiculous, in my opinion. Thanks for your comment.
Dark energy is a little more than the cosmological constant, I think. From what I read from a number of experts' public writings, the dark energy measurements that indicate that the universe is accelerating in its expansion is, by far, the most astonishing and inexplicable scientific result of the last 20 years at least. No one has any real clue as to the source/cause or even a fit with our theoretical models.
The cosmological constant by comparison was put into the equations, I believe, to make the model conform with expectations of a static universe. Then Hubble came along with data. Dark energy is more like Hubble's measurements: a mind blowing difference between expected and observed measurements.
I thought raid was about coping with continuity and data loss? Say I do full/diff backups every night. With a raid set up, if a disk fails during the day, I won't have go back to last night's backup and lose all the data from today. I can pop in a new disk to replace the old one and I get continuity of service and no data loss? Now if the notion is that raid is a replacement for backups, that's crazy on its face, and I fear that is what the OP was implying (not sure - he didn't mention his backup strategy anyway). Are we saying the same thing?
My folks were in this same position except they could get sat. But sat is not broadband - it sucks so band b/c it almost works but doesn't. You can't even watch youtube. It's barely better than 30k modem (the latency is low on the modem which just about makes up for the low speed for an end user).
Recently a 22 year old kid knocked on their door and said, "Hey would you let me install a microwave repeater on your hill up there?" He had a rooftop down in town with another transmitter and he could see it from their valley's ridge right above my parents' place. He installed a fully solar powered microwave rig on their hill. My folks gave him free access to use their land. My dad's a retired lawyer and helped him with a service contract and now his making $40/month from about 50 houses in the valley and he's chaining a few more valleys up the road using the same MW backbone. 22 years old.
Teleco or cable could have done this - it's not rocket science but they have no incentive to. They aren't required to provide the service by anyone so they stick with only providing it where it is most profitable. We wouldn't have universal pots/copper if we didn't mandate it.
Anyway, this kid is doing it, and I'd recommend you investigate microwave backhaul -- maybe will work for you if you can get line of sight, or a chain of LoS positions that will get you to a real peering point, you could be in business. Maybe your parents' neighbors will want this service too..
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If it were this easy, CIA and .mil wouldn't air gap so many networks. Even so they are vulnerable to hacking.
Also, it seems like the drone that crash landed is Iran had self-destruct mechanisms which didn't work. I'm not saying Iran's claim to have hacked the drone is very credible, but even so, they should have collected a bunch of burned wreckage, not a largely intact, high value, stealth drone.
Third, remember that for a long time (and maybe even to this day) drone camera footage is beamed down from satellites to the drone operators in the US on *unencrypted channels.* The military is frequently lagging industry on digital security issues.
Not to go totally academic here but that's a structuralist viewpoint, in my opinion. And structuralists are pretty cool - not a bad viewpoint at all. Personally, I really love the work of folks like Ian Hodder who has been looking at things from a (his term) post-processualist viewpoint (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ian_Hodder). This implies that normal is often an artifact of analysis, not a feature of culture. There are whole books on this, so hard to summarize, but perceived cultural boundaries are most commonly actually gradations of different attributes of humanity, and historians and anthropologists often draw these arbitrary lines around clusters of these attributes and call it "normal" (aka "normal American"). That often isn't how the emic (internal to culture) folks view it at all..
Example, I feel generally more culturally connected to people from Vancouver than people from Maine, even though being a Californian, my country is often viewed as my cultural anchor from the etic (outsider) perspective.
I'm not saying you're wrong, I'm saying there are other ways to look at this, than "normal" being the definer or creator of culture.
I think maybe you think I was not using irony.
OP was complaining that Java has too many training wheels, and it doesn't teach key programming practices. I was using irony to point out, by time honored car analogy, that sometimes training wheels are in fact real innovations that are just plain better than the old way. Sounds like you agree.
From an anthropological perspective, cannibalism is no worse than carpet bombing Cambodia, or dropping drone missiles into wedding parties right?
Nevertheless, the concept of "normal" is cultural, which was my point, and it sounds like you agree? And specifically, marriage as a concept is culturally defined, and not universally the same.
I lived on several Polynesian islands and homosexuals there were totally unremarked upon. The gay men (I didn't meet any lesbians, as society there is pretty heavily stratified with men spending time with men, and I'm a man) had basically equal status with the other men, and no one seemed to care if you were screwing men or women at night. They also didn't have a formal marriage system like the Catholic priests who were on one island wanted, and in fact the priests finally got a whole bunch of couples to get married in the church, while I was there (some of the couples had been together for 40+ years). Of course only the hetero couples got married in this Western way, which maybe was the start of a segregating of gay couples in the culture. I haven't been back in a long time so maybe the priests are winning that one now, but I can say that I've personally witnessed cultures that don't give a crap about "marriage is just between one man and one woman."
And this doesn't even start on your notion of family: families in polynesia where I lived are very much more fluid than here. People pass kids around between *households* somewhat frequently based on whether someone has too many or too few kids to take care of, and there is no concept of "adopted" as a stigma -- children define their parents, whether blood or otherwise, as the ones who are feeding them. There is a word for "blood parent" but it's almost never used and is insignificant culturally/emotionally to the children I talked with.
Yeah totally!! I hate that my car shifts automatically, has power locks, power steering, digital tuning on the radio and anti-lock brakes. And that freaking airbag is totally annoying, waiting to go off at ANY time. Get me back to my old 61 ford falcon with a metal steering wheel and no synchros on the gear box. Those were the days when real men drove real cars.
Yeah or a 100 line Rails app..
Forget that the Rails framework still carries a very high bug load - but your 100 lines can be virtually bug free!
In fact, GPL v2 does make mention of making a living unrelated to "free as in speech": "You may charge a fee for the physical act of transferring a copy" (http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-2.0.html paragraph 1).
Also it appears that GPL (at least) does not prevent someone from wrapping an installer around an installer and distributing that: "In addition, mere aggregation of another work not based on the Program with the Program (or with a work based on the Program) on a volume of a storage or distribution medium does not bring the other work under the scope of this License." Notably this indicates that the wrapping installer (nor the toolbars or whatever inside it) do not become GPL'ed itself either (which would be a significant disincentive to the behavior).
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Yeah - that's a good point. Damien specifically modeled Couch off of the good parts of Lotus Notes distribution (remember when IBM kept saying Lotus notes isn't really an email product - it just does email as a side effect? I now know why they were saying that). That said, it would be hard for my project to choose closed-licensed COTS when an OSS alternative like couch exists. Recognizing Lotus is almost certainly many times more robust and better engineered than couch for all these purposes. Thanks for pointing this option out.
Thanks - good tip on Cassandra. Riak has some capabilities that are close too. I can say that trying to do couch replication with large binary objects across unreliable networks (that is not in the same data center/peer network) is probably not a good idea anyway, even though the spec does support it..
It doesn't - you could accomplish this with NNTP if you put enough work into it (we looked at that possibility for our implementation). Certainly you could do this with a SQL system or an rsync file distribution with custom file indices. I'm just saying that in my experience couchdb gives you more out of the box to accomplish this type of set up than anything else I've found. You can get further faster with this approach if you have the kinds of requirements I was describing, IMO.
Of course I'm open to something else if it's better for this, but up to now I haven't seen anything that comes close for this, including other NoSQL databases.
Do those other systems provide for arbitrary peer-to-peer data exchange/sync networks? Last I checked Couch was the only product in the NoSQL line up that provided robust support for distributed data networks.. Maybe I'm wrong or out of date.. Most of the others when I looked were able to sync data but it was for controlled sync among known peers, much the way MySQL and Postgres handle things -- not true/messy master-master replication among disorganized nodes spread around the internet.
Yeah - talk about a serious game. What a disappointment.
I think if you got a pay-as-you-go phone plan with SMS, you could SMS the device when it's gone missing and it could reply with gps coordinates in response. Then you don't have to pay the monthly nut for data plan service? Not sure how pay-as-you-go works, but I think the minutes/service expires every few months but still cheaper than a monthly data plan..
That said, for a $5k bike, I wonder if theft insurance (not accident insurance/injury, which is much more expensive) would be cheaper than either of these on a monthly basis.
Thanks. Here is just a request from one of the teaming masses - I'd have preferred if you had said "this story is probably BS." Saying it's BS makes it sound like you have some fact or evidence that falsifies the claim, like a snopes report or personal knowledge. I wouldn't compare his story to monsters under the bed, but I do agree it has some traits in common with an urban legend.
Ah - yes. I didn't mean to imply that the Netflix app was a good experience, but that the ability to stream movies from netflix servers onto my ps3 is a good experience. If Amazon let me stream their stuff through the ps3 I might switch but unlikely until they do (for example).
How do you know that? Serious question -- b/c the story is a good one and if it's BS I'd like to know.
Sounds like a great premise for a future Bond movie! Not saying it's not real, just that there's room for a script in your concept too..
Interesting point and it makes me wonder if someone is going to figure out how to unlock the mysterious last two cores which are disabled? There must have been some reason why they didn't turn them on - maybe no MB support in the time they had to release?
I thought this was true when I bought a PS3 but for last 6 months if you tracked my hours on the device I think you would see Netflix at about 75% of usage and games at 25%. Maybe I'm unusual, but I am surprised at how nice an experience the PS3 + netflix is for watching TV.
Your last point is about as good as it gets, IMO. If we have great stuff in prisons for prisoners to do, then we have a political economy which we can tinker with to try to get meaningful outcomes. If we have a part of the prison where prisoners can play music, video games, watch movies AND take classes, get good grades and contribute; and we have part of the prison where they break rocks into smaller rocks, sit in their cells, walk around outside for 30 min a day, we can then let each and every prisoner decide which part of the prison they want to live in. If we can make prison choices more like the choices that exist in the real world, the better chance prisoners will have of being able to make good choices on the outside.
Not to be all pollyanna - recognizing there are some seriously f-ed up people inside, drug addicted, abused as children, retarded, mentally ill and just plain old angry. But still modeling effective choices is the only way forward..
The notion that punishment and incentives/improvement are incompatible is ridiculous, in my opinion. Thanks for your comment.
Yay! Real content on slashdot. For all programmers here we don't see algorithms often enough. Thanks.
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Dark energy is a little more than the cosmological constant, I think. From what I read from a number of experts' public writings, the dark energy measurements that indicate that the universe is accelerating in its expansion is, by far, the most astonishing and inexplicable scientific result of the last 20 years at least. No one has any real clue as to the source/cause or even a fit with our theoretical models.
The cosmological constant by comparison was put into the equations, I believe, to make the model conform with expectations of a static universe. Then Hubble came along with data. Dark energy is more like Hubble's measurements: a mind blowing difference between expected and observed measurements.
I thought raid was about coping with continuity and data loss? Say I do full/diff backups every night. With a raid set up, if a disk fails during the day, I won't have go back to last night's backup and lose all the data from today. I can pop in a new disk to replace the old one and I get continuity of service and no data loss? Now if the notion is that raid is a replacement for backups, that's crazy on its face, and I fear that is what the OP was implying (not sure - he didn't mention his backup strategy anyway). Are we saying the same thing?
My folks were in this same position except they could get sat. But sat is not broadband - it sucks so band b/c it almost works but doesn't. You can't even watch youtube. It's barely better than 30k modem (the latency is low on the modem which just about makes up for the low speed for an end user).
Recently a 22 year old kid knocked on their door and said, "Hey would you let me install a microwave repeater on your hill up there?" He had a rooftop down in town with another transmitter and he could see it from their valley's ridge right above my parents' place. He installed a fully solar powered microwave rig on their hill. My folks gave him free access to use their land. My dad's a retired lawyer and helped him with a service contract and now his making $40/month from about 50 houses in the valley and he's chaining a few more valleys up the road using the same MW backbone. 22 years old.
Teleco or cable could have done this - it's not rocket science but they have no incentive to. They aren't required to provide the service by anyone so they stick with only providing it where it is most profitable. We wouldn't have universal pots/copper if we didn't mandate it.
Anyway, this kid is doing it, and I'd recommend you investigate microwave backhaul -- maybe will work for you if you can get line of sight, or a chain of LoS positions that will get you to a real peering point, you could be in business. Maybe your parents' neighbors will want this service too..