Well, maybe you shouldn't be buying from people who can't sell. My listings always have separately hosted pics with 1280 pixel minimum dimension. I usually don't have any problems selling my stuff, and the buyers know exactly what they are getting.
Except that people don't fly those drones, they fly themselves. That's what would allow there to be massive numbers of them, flying all at once, avoiding each other, etc. The same as if everyone has self-driving cars, we wouldn't need any roads with 3 or more lanes of traffic.
Are you nuts? I like neither eBay nor PayPal, but you're delusional if you think PayPal doesn't provide a valuable and reasonably easy-to-use service. You're similarly delusional if you think that there were any alternatives that provide similar feature set - or did at the time they were still separate entities. I've been buying and selling every once in a while on eBay for more than a decade, and at no point there was any serious alternative to PayPal.
CL is a total joke when it comes to search. That is, probably, why they can run so cheaply - it takes a whole lot more of infrastructure and CS know-how to have well-performing search on such a scale. They are also totally ignorant when it comes to non-local buying. They think it's somehow better to keep it local. That's lunacy in a country the size of U.S. When I was looking for a good deal on a car, sure enough it was three states away, and searching for it was a royal pain because the dumbfuck Craig thinks everyone should be doing business in their own backyard where I'd see three listings in a city of a million people. Oh, and all third-party CL search providers have no right to exist per Craig. Gimme a fucking break. The truth is that some of those 3rd party "search" providers were one short step away from starting their own service, seeded with data from CL. I'd have welcomed it with open arms.
Given that they annihilated, er, acquired PayPal, a payment provider that technically has about as much to do with their core business as shipping does, I really see only two possible explanations:
1. eBay once again is clueless,
2. eBay knows full well what's coming and doesn't want to spill the beans early.
Cancer gets cured about once a decade, sometimes by real doctors, sometimes by "quacks." I could show stats from real doctors with similar results to this one, which never saw the light of day once it was discovered (or rediscovered).
So, um, what's stopping you? Sharing a Nobel prize in medicine is not enough of an enticement? Huh?
1. A reasonably quick death in few cases, 2. A semi-permanent cure in most cases.
If that's not a perfect cancer cure, I don't know what is. Either way you don't suffer much. That's like the win of all wins, given that many cancer patients typically go from Pre-Kindergarten all the way to a postdoc in suffering, last time I checked.
I would say this: as long as this therapy, even if it were to have serious side effects, simply lowers the mortality rate by, say, a factor of 2, it's a win. There is nothing else out there that, at the moment of introduction, would lower cancer mortality by such a factor, AFAIK. So far, presumably, most of the patients who received the therapy in this limited trial would have been dead by now. That's way, way over a 2x decrease in mortality. As far as I'm concerned, this is an unqualified success. Even if those patients turned into zombies 1 year from now, it'd still be a success, for crying out loud. There is nothing at this point in cancer therapy history that's this good, nor has there been anything that was that good on human subjects so quickly after the initial trials, IIRC. Feel free to correct me, of course.
Of course, I might be entirely off base here, but below is the first impression I got.
Wouldn't a "fix" be as simple as routing all that junk encapsulated over a point-to-point ssh connection between two routers? Doesn't almost any router let you pack up all of the disparate kinds of traffic and push it over a "safe" pipe that doesn't give a flying fuck about datagram corruption? Wouldn't a solution here be, quite literally, two router boxes from any major vendor? Yeah, it may not perform all that great when there's bad corruption, but it will work as much as anything would over that link. What I just don't get is how you can get application-level messages corrupted when all that happens is a bad data link, if that's in fact what was going on. That stuff has been solved long time ago with things as low-key as HDLC and X.25, and if you really need hardcore resiliency to corruption, then I think a PTP link over SSL will not pass anything corrupt to the higher layers even if you do a deliberate MITM, much less from random data corruption.
Given that inordinate amount of bandwidth is already taken up by streaming video, and there's not even a single extra inordinateness left since video is more than 50% of traffic nowadays, I'd tend to say that internet radio at 128kbit/s is but a drop in a bucket. Certainly not inordinate by any stretch of imagination.
Interestingly enough, it *is* fairly easy to duplicate vinyl using fairly basic equipment. Yes, it involves wax and metal casting, but in principle everything you need to make a few dozen copies of a vinyl LP could be sold as a $200 kit, with much cheaper refills for subsequent duplications.
Yeah, because if we don't listen to internet radio, we're growing up without music. Ha ha. Frankly said, I find music radio to be almost unbearable, whether delivered over teh interubez or via airwaves. I like buying my music, and exactly the music I want.
My comment was general, not targeted at this particular situation. Hate implies irrationality, and you precisely do not want on emotion when dealing with crime of any sort. You end up with the mess we currently have. Because people don't fucking think but simply act like animals without higher cognitive functions would.
What is violent crime, according to you? Because "robbery at gunpoint" can pretty much go with zero physical contact. If we redefine violence to mean anything that forces someone to do something against their will, then, well, most corporations are violent criminals (umm, btw, we've decided that we'll just raise your credit card interest rates by a 100% for no good reason, just because we can fuck you, you see). If the robbers have any brains left on them, they will in fact avoid physical contact, for the same reasons pirates from a couple hundred years ago weren't always on the lookout for sea battles either (contrary to fictional popular depictions).
The problem is that your approach is basically "my way or I'm gonna kill you". The "my way" is where the slippery slope is. People endlessly argue that more and more falls under the "shoot at will" umbrella. People being what they are, I sincerely wish you won't ever find yourself at the other end of the gun just because others take the rules you perpetuate to their "logical" conclusion.
Well, there are imaging gamma ray space telescopes out there, so the imaging part is handled. If you had sufficiently strong terrestrial gamma source, you could image it. Such a source, if omnidirectional, would probably sterilize everything around it for many miles, though. You pretty much need an astronomical gamma ray source in order for a gamma ray telescope to pick it up:)
Another important snag, as it turns out, is the atmospheric absorption: the half-length for Co60 gamma rays is 10 metres. So, for all intents and purposes, the atmosphere would completely shield anything extraterrestrial from the radiation of this Co60 source.
Very informative. The half-value layer for air being 9m just about does it. Alas, what is the background noise of the detectors in typical gamma ray telescopes?
Alas, I had a good hunch: "you'd be lucky if it would be a glowing pixel":)
This is completely bogus. The only way you'd kill 5-10 million people with such a ship/barge would be if you'd drop it on a large city from high up, and depend in the liquid gas having a conformal radial surface flow once the thing hits the ground. Even then it'd be a rather long stretch, since once the gas ignites, it goes up real fast. It wouldn't go as far as the same amount of less volatile petroleum products. If you had such a ship full of gasoline and then dropped it from up high on NYC, then certainly you could kill a million or two. Maybe.
Even if it'd explode at a port in a densely populated city, the casualties would be much lower. Probably in the thousands, maybe very low 10,000 at most.
I don't know what effect would you possibly want to achieve. If someone was serious about it, you'd be in deep trouble. I'm sure there'd be disciplinary consequences for putting hazardous items in a food fridge. If you're, on the other hand, putting food into a hazardous items fridge, then there'll be Darwinian consequences.
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Well, maybe you shouldn't be buying from people who can't sell. My listings always have separately hosted pics with 1280 pixel minimum dimension. I usually don't have any problems selling my stuff, and the buyers know exactly what they are getting.
Except that people don't fly those drones, they fly themselves. That's what would allow there to be massive numbers of them, flying all at once, avoiding each other, etc. The same as if everyone has self-driving cars, we wouldn't need any roads with 3 or more lanes of traffic.
Are you nuts? I like neither eBay nor PayPal, but you're delusional if you think PayPal doesn't provide a valuable and reasonably easy-to-use service. You're similarly delusional if you think that there were any alternatives that provide similar feature set - or did at the time they were still separate entities. I've been buying and selling every once in a while on eBay for more than a decade, and at no point there was any serious alternative to PayPal.
eBay does it anyway, so if Google did it too but otherwise provided better experience, I'd be all for it.
CL is a total joke when it comes to search. That is, probably, why they can run so cheaply - it takes a whole lot more of infrastructure and CS know-how to have well-performing search on such a scale. They are also totally ignorant when it comes to non-local buying. They think it's somehow better to keep it local. That's lunacy in a country the size of U.S. When I was looking for a good deal on a car, sure enough it was three states away, and searching for it was a royal pain because the dumbfuck Craig thinks everyone should be doing business in their own backyard where I'd see three listings in a city of a million people. Oh, and all third-party CL search providers have no right to exist per Craig. Gimme a fucking break. The truth is that some of those 3rd party "search" providers were one short step away from starting their own service, seeded with data from CL. I'd have welcomed it with open arms.
Given that they annihilated, er, acquired PayPal, a payment provider that technically has about as much to do with their core business as shipping does, I really see only two possible explanations:
1. eBay once again is clueless,
2. eBay knows full well what's coming and doesn't want to spill the beans early.
Cancer gets cured about once a decade, sometimes by real doctors, sometimes by "quacks." I could show stats from real doctors with similar results to this one, which never saw the light of day once it was discovered (or rediscovered).
So, um, what's stopping you? Sharing a Nobel prize in medicine is not enough of an enticement? Huh?
Wait a minute, so there are two outcomes:
1. A reasonably quick death in few cases,
2. A semi-permanent cure in most cases.
If that's not a perfect cancer cure, I don't know what is. Either way you don't suffer much. That's like the win of all wins, given that many cancer patients typically go from Pre-Kindergarten all the way to a postdoc in suffering, last time I checked.
I would say this: as long as this therapy, even if it were to have serious side effects, simply lowers the mortality rate by, say, a factor of 2, it's a win. There is nothing else out there that, at the moment of introduction, would lower cancer mortality by such a factor, AFAIK. So far, presumably, most of the patients who received the therapy in this limited trial would have been dead by now. That's way, way over a 2x decrease in mortality. As far as I'm concerned, this is an unqualified success. Even if those patients turned into zombies 1 year from now, it'd still be a success, for crying out loud. There is nothing at this point in cancer therapy history that's this good, nor has there been anything that was that good on human subjects so quickly after the initial trials, IIRC. Feel free to correct me, of course.
And this is how government organizations perform in the 21st century. Facepalm...
Of course, I might be entirely off base here, but below is the first impression I got.
Wouldn't a "fix" be as simple as routing all that junk encapsulated over a point-to-point ssh connection between two routers? Doesn't almost any router let you pack up all of the disparate kinds of traffic and push it over a "safe" pipe that doesn't give a flying fuck about datagram corruption? Wouldn't a solution here be, quite literally, two router boxes from any major vendor? Yeah, it may not perform all that great when there's bad corruption, but it will work as much as anything would over that link. What I just don't get is how you can get application-level messages corrupted when all that happens is a bad data link, if that's in fact what was going on. That stuff has been solved long time ago with things as low-key as HDLC and X.25, and if you really need hardcore resiliency to corruption, then I think a PTP link over SSL will not pass anything corrupt to the higher layers even if you do a deliberate MITM, much less from random data corruption.
Great :) Humans - the not-so-boring species!
Given that inordinate amount of bandwidth is already taken up by streaming video, and there's not even a single extra inordinateness left since video is more than 50% of traffic nowadays, I'd tend to say that internet radio at 128kbit/s is but a drop in a bucket. Certainly not inordinate by any stretch of imagination.
Interestingly enough, it *is* fairly easy to duplicate vinyl using fairly basic equipment. Yes, it involves wax and metal casting, but in principle everything you need to make a few dozen copies of a vinyl LP could be sold as a $200 kit, with much cheaper refills for subsequent duplications.
Yeah, because if we don't listen to internet radio, we're growing up without music. Ha ha. Frankly said, I find music radio to be almost unbearable, whether delivered over teh interubez or via airwaves. I like buying my music, and exactly the music I want.
You mean, the way I'd like it? Why, thank you!
Sorry but reality disagrees with you. People who lose their cool end up dead, over and over again, and everyone is lucky if they only kill themselves.
My comment was general, not targeted at this particular situation. Hate implies irrationality, and you precisely do not want on emotion when dealing with crime of any sort. You end up with the mess we currently have. Because people don't fucking think but simply act like animals without higher cognitive functions would.
What is violent crime, according to you? Because "robbery at gunpoint" can pretty much go with zero physical contact. If we redefine violence to mean anything that forces someone to do something against their will, then, well, most corporations are violent criminals (umm, btw, we've decided that we'll just raise your credit card interest rates by a 100% for no good reason, just because we can fuck you, you see). If the robbers have any brains left on them, they will in fact avoid physical contact, for the same reasons pirates from a couple hundred years ago weren't always on the lookout for sea battles either (contrary to fictional popular depictions).
The problem is that your approach is basically "my way or I'm gonna kill you". The "my way" is where the slippery slope is. People endlessly argue that more and more falls under the "shoot at will" umbrella. People being what they are, I sincerely wish you won't ever find yourself at the other end of the gun just because others take the rules you perpetuate to their "logical" conclusion.
Well, there are imaging gamma ray space telescopes out there, so the imaging part is handled. If you had sufficiently strong terrestrial gamma source, you could image it. Such a source, if omnidirectional, would probably sterilize everything around it for many miles, though. You pretty much need an astronomical gamma ray source in order for a gamma ray telescope to pick it up :)
Another important snag, as it turns out, is the atmospheric absorption: the half-length for Co60 gamma rays is 10 metres. So, for all intents and purposes, the atmosphere would completely shield anything extraterrestrial from the radiation of this Co60 source.
Very informative. The half-value layer for air being 9m just about does it. Alas, what is the background noise of the detectors in typical gamma ray telescopes?
Alas, I had a good hunch: "you'd be lucky if it would be a glowing pixel" :)
This is completely bogus. The only way you'd kill 5-10 million people with such a ship/barge would be if you'd drop it on a large city from high up, and depend in the liquid gas having a conformal radial surface flow once the thing hits the ground. Even then it'd be a rather long stretch, since once the gas ignites, it goes up real fast. It wouldn't go as far as the same amount of less volatile petroleum products. If you had such a ship full of gasoline and then dropped it from up high on NYC, then certainly you could kill a million or two. Maybe.
Even if it'd explode at a port in a densely populated city, the casualties would be much lower. Probably in the thousands, maybe very low 10,000 at most.
Because you'd contaminate everything and their mother trying to open the damn container?
I don't know what effect would you possibly want to achieve. If someone was serious about it, you'd be in deep trouble. I'm sure there'd be disciplinary consequences for putting hazardous items in a food fridge. If you're, on the other hand, putting food into a hazardous items fridge, then there'll be Darwinian consequences.