The stupidity of the article may not suggest much about humanity in general, but it certainly suggests why the mainstream media is losing out to Google.
Another 30 seconds of research on the part of this author could have made it a much more interesting article. But instead of using a braincell, he went for shock value and FAIL.
The crucial part of this is that its a zombie apocalypse. A significant part of this fantasy is that, well, everyone else is dead. In these films you rarely see a lot of remorse from the survivors; instead, you see them fighting for their own lives. And usually oversome in thw end by the teeming mindless hordes.
It is clearly more about our fear of being overcome by mindlessness, and a relief of finally being free of the howling of the pressures of present day society that drives this zeigeist. I just want some space, man, I just want to breathe a little. I want to do all of those things that I can't do now because there are too many fucking people in my way, and I want to give in to unbridled consumerism. Almost every movie has "a loot the grocery store" scene cause we're tired of having to make choices and we want to have it all. And at the end of the day we know that we're going to have our brains sucked out of head too, cause the enemy is relentless, and relentless, even if slow and stupid, will overcome our will to survive.
That's what it's about. It has very little to do with fear of tech, that's lazy analysis.
So lock the boot device to the FDE drive, and lock the hardware to the boot device. You can (could on PPC, still true on Intel?) with Macs.
Sure, you can defeat it. But you necessarily can't re-enable it with the same pasword.
So if you're this paranoid, lock booting to a particular device, and lock the boot device to full encryption. Check your that your first lock is still in place from time to time, as regularly as you need.
So the originator should be the only one to produce that item and should have the market to themselves?
Yes, exactly. Otherwise why would one spend (at considerable risk of the idea failing) several million dollars to develop a new idea, if the first person that can copy that work have all of the development for free? Do you think that people that think up new ideas, and better ways of doing things, should just give them away?
Possible? Are you a moron? whatever they were sentenced to death for might be exactly no more than "we needed some organs, and you were in the wrong place at the wrong time." You assume that the prisoners, in China, would be guilty of whatever they were charged with. I wouldn't make that assumption in the US, let alone China.
I think you're wrong, and that the GP is right. Jobs is actually an arrogant elitist first and foremost, and a businessman second. Look at his history for proof of that. He had many opportunities to make a smart business decision, but instead opted for elitism and control. Basically, he has enough money to live out the rest of his life; if one has $5B, do you really need to sweat to make it $10B? I think Jobs would rather have left what he considers to be a valuable impact on the world of computing that to simply make a(nother) buck.
There are lots of disadvantages to trying to serve a broad market that Apple wants to avoid. While they don't want to be back in the sub-single digits of marketshare, I don't think they want a majority of desktops either.
...that Washington State could think that they'd call Microsoft's bluff and hit them with an extra 8% on a multi-several-hundred million dollar facility, and not have Microsoft simply move their cloud services elsewhere.
At the end of the day, what does WA State think they they offer for that 8% that can't be found elsewhere? I can guarantee you that Microsoft did that cost calculation and WA state came up short. WA should have done it too before pushing their argument.
nb: "Waving forests of green" and other like worker lifestyle benefits played almost no part in Microsoft's calculation. If WA State believed that Microsoft wouldn't move their facility because their state offers a nice lifestyle for workers, they are fools.
PS: Now that Microsoft is gearing up to run Yahoo's DCs too, what's going to happen to the Yahoo facility in Quincy? I'm sure glad I'm not a spec homebuilder who has unsold real estate in that part of WA state.
In any other trade profession, any other, you are liable for your mistakes. If you take your car to the body shop, and they paint it the right color, are you just going to deal with it? No, I suppose not.
Actually, I stand corrected. Teachers don't provide any guarantee of product. Tell you what: you take the pay of a teacher, and we'll stop suing you. Until then, you owe me money back when you make mistakes.
which they obviously do According to TFA, that's not so obvious. Maybe no one does. Which is one of many possible explanations for the decline of music sales. If people liked the music as much as the music industry thinks that they should, the profits wouldn't have declined as much. It could just be that the music industry is packed with lazy, stupid wanna be business men who don't like to work too hard to make a buck. And have therefore put themselves in this position.
...get to chose where it comes down? I really don't know, but I wonder if one could design a.5 pound satellite with the express intention of surviving re-entry, like a 1/2 pound slug of lead in the shape of a dart or a sphere.
I don't need much mass to survive the heat of re-entry. A few grams at orbital velocity, in the right place, would be enough to give my enemies pause...
I wish them luck with that, if that's how they want to engage us. We'd simply cancel the debt. Then China would be left with $800B of worthless paper. For sure, it would lead to an economic meltdown, as no one would take our credit etc. But China has a lot to lose too, they can't just throw their weight around.
btw, I'm quite sure that joining the Chinese and US economies at the hip was a very deliberate method to ensure our continued mutual respect and a peaceful world. You don't become this entangled by accident. And it has led to peace between us, and probably will for another generation at least. We don't want to lose their production of goods, and they don't want us to cancel their debt. Taiwan is safe from aggression, for now.
And the "peers" that were ostensibly on his side did the right thing to. It's how they chose to play the game. You could contend that they were RP'ing diplomats and peacekeepers just as much as you can contend that he was battling evildoing.
But he laments their playstyle in his book. Why does he get to cast the moral stone? Because he's a PhD and other players are kids?
Btw: if he believed that his opponents presented credible verbal threats, he wouldn't have publicly announced who he was. Apparently he doesn't give them much credibility. Therefore, his opponents were playing another game, within the rule of law (and the internet): you can harass and intimidate online, but you can't actually go and do anything physical. ref: Laura Drew case. If he thought that folks had stepped over the line, he wouldn't have come out publicly, and he would have pressed charges.
I guess he doesn't like it when other people play within the rules when the rules allow for unpolite behavior.
Maybe there should be a book written about PhDs who pretend that they are better than other people, and unable to apply their own conclusions to themselves.
Now that is an interesting study. The lowest common denominator of interaction is violence; but when given other options, players will chose them and actually revile the purveyors of violence.
The moderation system here, in fact, is pretty good at weeding out the babble. While I never read at -1, I don't see a lot of spam at 4 or 5, either. And people moderate altruistically; they receive no benefit from doing so. In fact, they face more risk by doing so--I think karma can only be lowered, not raised, in meta-mod.
and writes book describing why it's ok to be a Griefer.
More surprising to me was that in CoH/V PvP is not played as described. I play WoW, on both PvP and carebear servers, and boy do I get ganked whenever I'm in the wrong place at the wrong time. There is no such "polite agreement" between Ally and Horde in WoW. How did one get established in CoH/V?
And while it does indeed suck to get griefed and ganked by the opposing forces, esp when I am no threat to them, if it starts bothering me much I just go do something else for awhile. The Alliance can't be roaming Tarren Mill all of the time? Can they? But it seems like I did have to log in in the Early AM Server Time in order to complete some of those quests.
Probably tape drives, or hard drives if you prefer. Encrypt with a shared key. I think microwave is LOS already, so your distances can't be that large. It would certainly solve your "flaky" bandwidth and security considerations. You would "packetize" the data, eg: tapes are brought over in serial succession; if a tape went missing, you delete the key that encrypted it's contents and request a resend of the contents of that tape. That verifies it's receipt.
Not sexy, but it's probably the best solution. Since you're a government contractor, I'll now insult you to suggest that you need a project for which you can charge a lot more money, like a carrier pigeon training program, including pigeon consultants, a pigeon breeding program, and a pigeon habitat designer. But that's what you get for asking Slashdot to do your job for you, especially one with an obvious, non-sexy, non-technical solution.
They should have sold donor nameplates for the "lander". Or likenesses.
I would have paid a nice dinner's worth of money to be able to send select pictures of my associates crashing into the moon, at sufficient velocity to create a 6 mile high plume.
Will this plume be visible from Earth with the naked eye?
I agree with this sentiment. Some of the dumbest commentary I have ever read are from those that style themselves professional investigators. No wonder they are going out of business; they are the stupidest people in the room, so no one finds what they have to say illuminating. And therefore it has no value.
I soothe myself thinking that the journalists are actually smarter than they write; they are just writing down to their audience. I'm not sure I believe that, though. I think many are just creatures of their limited perspective of the newsroom, and are constantly surprised that there is a world outside of that with complexity that they are not able to imagine. It's no wonder that our political establishment can avoid hard scrutiny, when it is so easy to impress and distract these guys with the most trivial bs. Just cause it's new to them doesn't mean that the rest of the world doesn't know it already.
For data center commentary, I go to Data Center Knowledge. While they don't know a lot about the mega-datacenters, they at least have been in a colo once in awhile.
I dismissed the Volt initially, too. However, part of why they only get 40 miles on those batteries is because they don't let it discharge below 35%, or charge above 85%. That lengthens the lifetime of the battery pack to 10 years.
So far, I haven't heard any other EV manufacturer claim that they can get 10 years out of their batteries. I'm in love with the Aptera, but they are only saying 6 years now.
I would rather buy one $40K hybrid that uses EV for my commute once every 10 years than a $30K pure EV once every 6 years. I'm looking forward to the final mtbf of the battery packs of the next generation of EV, but the Volt has a real selling point if it can get 10 years out of theirs and everybody else gets half of that.
I'm sure you reciprocated, too. I'm sure you tipped when you needed a question answered by HR, when you needed an expense report completed I imagine you gave them 5% for 'priority service'. You probably left money on your desk for the janitorial service.
If you demanded personal money from me just so I could get you to your the job for which you are paid, you sure as hell had better not need anything from me, ever. Including a funding request for your project.
The cost of textbooks is high largely because they take a lot of time to write
Yes. But approximately 30% of the cost of hard bound books is just the physical printing and distribution. There would be some similar costs with purchasing the digital readers and electronic distribution network, but besides maintenance those would largely be buy-once costs that don't have to be re-spent each time a new edition comes out. I think that even if the publishers charge the same price for the books after printing costs are factored out, there will be a mid-term realization of savings after the initial bump of purchasing the readers.
I'm most interested in the readers that CA is proposing: are these to be OLPCs, and the books distributed as PDFs? Kindles? Are parents going to be expected to purchase their own computers, as part of the burden they have to bear for not passing the tax increases? It matters because the delivery of the content is going to dictate how it works inside of the classroom--every kid with their own computer would be a free-for-all, whereas a school issued Kindle would integrate pretty seamlessly.
I'm glad I'm not in the ink/printing/typesetting/paper milling business. Or the book-trucking business, for that matter.
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The stupidity of the article may not suggest much about humanity in general, but it certainly suggests why the mainstream media is losing out to Google.
Another 30 seconds of research on the part of this author could have made it a much more interesting article. But instead of using a braincell, he went for shock value and FAIL.
The crucial part of this is that its a zombie apocalypse. A significant part of this fantasy is that, well, everyone else is dead. In these films you rarely see a lot of remorse from the survivors; instead, you see them fighting for their own lives. And usually oversome in thw end by the teeming mindless hordes.
It is clearly more about our fear of being overcome by mindlessness, and a relief of finally being free of the howling of the pressures of present day society that drives this zeigeist. I just want some space, man, I just want to breathe a little. I want to do all of those things that I can't do now because there are too many fucking people in my way, and I want to give in to unbridled consumerism. Almost every movie has "a loot the grocery store" scene cause we're tired of having to make choices and we want to have it all. And at the end of the day we know that we're going to have our brains sucked out of head too, cause the enemy is relentless, and relentless, even if slow and stupid, will overcome our will to survive.
That's what it's about. It has very little to do with fear of tech, that's lazy analysis.
So lock the boot device to the FDE drive, and lock the hardware to the boot device. You can (could on PPC, still true on Intel?) with Macs. Sure, you can defeat it. But you necessarily can't re-enable it with the same pasword. So if you're this paranoid, lock booting to a particular device, and lock the boot device to full encryption. Check your that your first lock is still in place from time to time, as regularly as you need.
That is the funniest thing I've heard all day. Did the vendors hire the fired developers to maintain it, too? ;)
8% sounds pretty high. I would expect something more like 5%. No?
So the originator should be the only one to produce that item and should have the market to themselves?
Yes, exactly. Otherwise why would one spend (at considerable risk of the idea failing) several million dollars to develop a new idea, if the first person that can copy that work have all of the development for free? Do you think that people that think up new ideas, and better ways of doing things, should just give them away?
possible conflict of interest
Possible? Are you a moron? whatever they were sentenced to death for might be exactly no more than "we needed some organs, and you were in the wrong place at the wrong time." You assume that the prisoners, in China, would be guilty of whatever they were charged with. I wouldn't make that assumption in the US, let alone China.
I think you're wrong, and that the GP is right. Jobs is actually an arrogant elitist first and foremost, and a businessman second. Look at his history for proof of that. He had many opportunities to make a smart business decision, but instead opted for elitism and control. Basically, he has enough money to live out the rest of his life; if one has $5B, do you really need to sweat to make it $10B? I think Jobs would rather have left what he considers to be a valuable impact on the world of computing that to simply make a(nother) buck.
There are lots of disadvantages to trying to serve a broad market that Apple wants to avoid. While they don't want to be back in the sub-single digits of marketshare, I don't think they want a majority of desktops either.
and no Dune reference, at least not at +5?
THE SPICE MUST FLOW
...that Washington State could think that they'd call Microsoft's bluff and hit them with an extra 8% on a multi-several-hundred million dollar facility, and not have Microsoft simply move their cloud services elsewhere.
At the end of the day, what does WA State think they they offer for that 8% that can't be found elsewhere? I can guarantee you that Microsoft did that cost calculation and WA state came up short. WA should have done it too before pushing their argument.
nb: "Waving forests of green" and other like worker lifestyle benefits played almost no part in Microsoft's calculation. If WA State believed that Microsoft wouldn't move their facility because their state offers a nice lifestyle for workers, they are fools.
PS: Now that Microsoft is gearing up to run Yahoo's DCs too, what's going to happen to the Yahoo facility in Quincy? I'm sure glad I'm not a spec homebuilder who has unsold real estate in that part of WA state.
You know what? Mistakes happen. Deal with it.
In any other trade profession, any other, you are liable for your mistakes. If you take your car to the body shop, and they paint it the right color, are you just going to deal with it? No, I suppose not.
Actually, I stand corrected. Teachers don't provide any guarantee of product. Tell you what: you take the pay of a teacher, and we'll stop suing you. Until then, you owe me money back when you make mistakes.
which they obviously do
According to TFA, that's not so obvious. Maybe no one does. Which is one of many possible explanations for the decline of music sales. If people liked the music as much as the music industry thinks that they should, the profits wouldn't have declined as much. It could just be that the music industry is packed with lazy, stupid wanna be business men who don't like to work too hard to make a buck. And have therefore put themselves in this position.
...get to chose where it comes down? I really don't know, but I wonder if one could design a .5 pound satellite with the express intention of surviving re-entry, like a 1/2 pound slug of lead in the shape of a dart or a sphere.
I don't need much mass to survive the heat of re-entry. A few grams at orbital velocity, in the right place, would be enough to give my enemies pause...
And no, Halo is not Marathon.
call in all our notes.
I wish them luck with that, if that's how they want to engage us. We'd simply cancel the debt. Then China would be left with $800B of worthless paper. For sure, it would lead to an economic meltdown, as no one would take our credit etc. But China has a lot to lose too, they can't just throw their weight around.
btw, I'm quite sure that joining the Chinese and US economies at the hip was a very deliberate method to ensure our continued mutual respect and a peaceful world. You don't become this entangled by accident. And it has led to peace between us, and probably will for another generation at least. We don't want to lose their production of goods, and they don't want us to cancel their debt. Taiwan is safe from aggression, for now.
And the "peers" that were ostensibly on his side did the right thing to. It's how they chose to play the game. You could contend that they were RP'ing diplomats and peacekeepers just as much as you can contend that he was battling evildoing.
But he laments their playstyle in his book. Why does he get to cast the moral stone? Because he's a PhD and other players are kids?
Btw: if he believed that his opponents presented credible verbal threats, he wouldn't have publicly announced who he was. Apparently he doesn't give them much credibility. Therefore, his opponents were playing another game, within the rule of law (and the internet): you can harass and intimidate online, but you can't actually go and do anything physical. ref: Laura Drew case. If he thought that folks had stepped over the line, he wouldn't have come out publicly, and he would have pressed charges.
I guess he doesn't like it when other people play within the rules when the rules allow for unpolite behavior.
Maybe there should be a book written about PhDs who pretend that they are better than other people, and unable to apply their own conclusions to themselves.
Now that is an interesting study. The lowest common denominator of interaction is violence; but when given other options, players will chose them and actually revile the purveyors of violence.
The moderation system here, in fact, is pretty good at weeding out the babble. While I never read at -1, I don't see a lot of spam at 4 or 5, either. And people moderate altruistically; they receive no benefit from doing so. In fact, they face more risk by doing so--I think karma can only be lowered, not raised, in meta-mod.
and writes book describing why it's ok to be a Griefer.
More surprising to me was that in CoH/V PvP is not played as described. I play WoW, on both PvP and carebear servers, and boy do I get ganked whenever I'm in the wrong place at the wrong time. There is no such "polite agreement" between Ally and Horde in WoW. How did one get established in CoH/V?
And while it does indeed suck to get griefed and ganked by the opposing forces, esp when I am no threat to them, if it starts bothering me much I just go do something else for awhile. The Alliance can't be roaming Tarren Mill all of the time? Can they? But it seems like I did have to log in in the Early AM Server Time in order to complete some of those quests.
We did. And then Bush took office and fucked everything up, again. Finally, we have a Democrat that is our only chance at a balanced budget.
Probably tape drives, or hard drives if you prefer. Encrypt with a shared key. I think microwave is LOS already, so your distances can't be that large. It would certainly solve your "flaky" bandwidth and security considerations. You would "packetize" the data, eg: tapes are brought over in serial succession; if a tape went missing, you delete the key that encrypted it's contents and request a resend of the contents of that tape. That verifies it's receipt.
Not sexy, but it's probably the best solution. Since you're a government contractor, I'll now insult you to suggest that you need a project for which you can charge a lot more money, like a carrier pigeon training program, including pigeon consultants, a pigeon breeding program, and a pigeon habitat designer. But that's what you get for asking Slashdot to do your job for you, especially one with an obvious, non-sexy, non-technical solution.
They should have sold donor nameplates for the "lander". Or likenesses.
I would have paid a nice dinner's worth of money to be able to send select pictures of my associates crashing into the moon, at sufficient velocity to create a 6 mile high plume.
Will this plume be visible from Earth with the naked eye?
I agree with this sentiment. Some of the dumbest commentary I have ever read are from those that style themselves professional investigators. No wonder they are going out of business; they are the stupidest people in the room, so no one finds what they have to say illuminating. And therefore it has no value.
I soothe myself thinking that the journalists are actually smarter than they write; they are just writing down to their audience. I'm not sure I believe that, though. I think many are just creatures of their limited perspective of the newsroom, and are constantly surprised that there is a world outside of that with complexity that they are not able to imagine. It's no wonder that our political establishment can avoid hard scrutiny, when it is so easy to impress and distract these guys with the most trivial bs. Just cause it's new to them doesn't mean that the rest of the world doesn't know it already.
For data center commentary, I go to Data Center Knowledge. While they don't know a lot about the mega-datacenters, they at least have been in a colo once in awhile.
I dismissed the Volt initially, too. However, part of why they only get 40 miles on those batteries is because they don't let it discharge below 35%, or charge above 85%. That lengthens the lifetime of the battery pack to 10 years.
So far, I haven't heard any other EV manufacturer claim that they can get 10 years out of their batteries. I'm in love with the Aptera, but they are only saying 6 years now.
I would rather buy one $40K hybrid that uses EV for my commute once every 10 years than a $30K pure EV once every 6 years. I'm looking forward to the final mtbf of the battery packs of the next generation of EV, but the Volt has a real selling point if it can get 10 years out of theirs and everybody else gets half of that.
I'm sure you reciprocated, too. I'm sure you tipped when you needed a question answered by HR, when you needed an expense report completed I imagine you gave them 5% for 'priority service'. You probably left money on your desk for the janitorial service.
If you demanded personal money from me just so I could get you to your the job for which you are paid, you sure as hell had better not need anything from me, ever. Including a funding request for your project.
The cost of textbooks is high largely because they take a lot of time to write
Yes. But approximately 30% of the cost of hard bound books is just the physical printing and distribution. There would be some similar costs with purchasing the digital readers and electronic distribution network, but besides maintenance those would largely be buy-once costs that don't have to be re-spent each time a new edition comes out. I think that even if the publishers charge the same price for the books after printing costs are factored out, there will be a mid-term realization of savings after the initial bump of purchasing the readers.
I'm most interested in the readers that CA is proposing: are these to be OLPCs, and the books distributed as PDFs? Kindles? Are parents going to be expected to purchase their own computers, as part of the burden they have to bear for not passing the tax increases? It matters because the delivery of the content is going to dictate how it works inside of the classroom--every kid with their own computer would be a free-for-all, whereas a school issued Kindle would integrate pretty seamlessly.
I'm glad I'm not in the ink/printing/typesetting/paper milling business. Or the book-trucking business, for that matter.