What I find most interesting are the attitudes being displayed. Take the "You broke democracy" person(s?), for instance. We can assume that this goes back to the alleged election tampering... so my question is simply, had their candidate won, would they be screaming as loudly? Or are they merely upset at the outcome? Its all in the interest of swaying public opinion. Even the display of anger at facebook.
Personally I would have enjoyed Clinton in the White House again. Not that Clinton, the other one. I mean, while Bill was IN office he was diddling interns in the oval office. Can you imagine how off the chain he would have been in that building with no responsibility?
Worked for a stock market research firm 15 years ago... back then Bill Gates was cashing out of MS stock to the tune of $1b every quarter. Registered stock sales with the SEC are really a non-story. Can't say I blame them. The man would be stupid not to capitalize.
Exactly. People who advocate for UBI don't math. At the end of the day, it is nothing more than another welfare funded by the middle class. The average american pays ~$10k/yr in income taxes to fund the current big government programs. To fund a UBI of $12k/yr/citizen (a drop in the bucket for cost of living), that same average american would have to pay $22k/yr in income taxes... but then get $12 of it back. Those citizens who pay less in income tax benefit more. Welfare.
When this discussion comes up among friends, I usually deflect to discuss how corporate america keeps its war chests of money overseas in tax havens... and suggest that maybe if they were paying their taxes like responsible citizens then maybe things wouldn't be so crappy. Then ask them when they are going to upgrade to the next IPhone...
Yes! Its a slippery slope, indeed. If the case makes it to an actual court then a judge will have to draw an arbitrary line in the sand as to what constitutes an attack. Did Oliver suggestion that his viewers use the site for their protest constitute an attempt to deny access to the resource? How many of those viewers had access to small (or large) bot-nets of their own creation that they pointed at the site? How is this similar or dissimilar to inciting a riot if the guy inciting didn't actually DO the things the riot did, and/or did he or any of his staff participate in the activity?
Personally, I like Oliver's activism. I've enjoy seeing how his viewers can become engaged in the national conversation. I suspect that he will be doing less of this in the future tho... not less activism, but less "Hey everyone, lets take down a website" attempts at free speech.
Once the lawyers have had their day, HBO will likely put the clamp on it.
Distributed - Was all the traffic originating from one location?
Denial - Was the resource denied to its user base?
of - (i got nothing)
Service - The thing.
Unfortunately, the line between activism and vandalism is going to be drawn by a court somewhere. Oliver did an awesome thing in an awful way... by inciting the activity he gives a very public central focal point to those seeking retribution for the perceived offense.
One question to ask yourself is, "is this any different from a hacker running a denial script?" Playing devil's advocate here, but where does your right to free speech end and my right to use a government service provided by my tax dollars begin? If this army of activists continued in perpetuity, would it still be free speech?
On the plus side, maybe the government will use this as impetus to design better website infrastructure. Can't handle 100s of thousands of posts per minute? In this day of Facebook, Twitter, and Google? Weaksauce.
Statistics at that level are approximations, plain and simple. Ask any statistician and they'll explain in detail how it works.
If you choose, educate yourself. Take the time to understand what it is they are saying and make your own interpretation. The reward is worth it.
Even boards like Slashdot and Reddit are more echo chambers for like sentiment than actual education on the facts. Do the legwork.
It isn't terribly complex now that geniuses like Knuth have spent literally decades simplifying it for you, sure. Step deeper into the world and you'll be truly amazed at how deep it is... and likely staggered that it works as well as it does.
Interestingly, when you dig down deep enough you find that the hardware really isn't quite up to snuff.
A year or so back I was tasked with performing a ludicrous number of calculations on an on-going basis... back of the napkin math told us that our existing system would take ~1.5 years to perform 1 set of calcs and we needed them every 3 months or so. TPL in C# was up to the task and I was able to squeeze the calcs down into 22 hours running on my development desktop. Deploying the solution to a medium sized server brought to light the limitations of NUMA architectures in multi-processor systems. If your app breaks that NUMA barrier, performance drops so much that its really not worth scaling out.
The unfinished story of Shepard Book is what I most regret about firefly. Did anybody ever find out whose cheerios Joss peed in to get the show first schedule-raped, then canned?
I enjoyed SGU as well. Watched pretty much all of the previous series as well, and SGU was by far the least "campy". The episode that started out with the Flogging Molly track hit the nail on the head... a bunch of unprepared people in a REALLY bad situation, each struggling with their own personal demons just to make it to the next "worst day since yesterday."
I will be sad to see it go, feeling that it was (by far) the best thing SciFi had going for it. I guess now they can concentrate on more wrestling shows... *sigh*
If the root of the problem is notification of the event, then the solution can be had much more cheaply than launching a dedicated satellite, can't it? What about simply renting the transponder space on an existing satellite and installing simple receiving stations in coastal areas that are hooked to early warning alarms/sirens? Build the ground stations as passive listeners and you might even be able to run the thing from solar power alone.
I don't think the problem is technical, however... there are 12 different ways of skinning that cat. I think the real question is "who is going to pay for it?" Sat/transponder space/ground stations/engineering aren't free. I could see an international organization footing the bill for the NOC which transmits warnings and the specs for protocol... that would make most sense I guess. Then leave it up to the central government or individual communities to buy receivers from 3rd party vendors? Is this an untapped business opportunity?
What is this "b-ack-ups" you speak of? and a "fi-le ser-ver"? isn't it easier for everybody to just keep the most recent copy of their own work? if you need a file, you just have to wait for everyone to reply to your email saying when was the last time they edited the file and then you can look on their computer, copy the file, make your changes, and drop it right on the production server... amIright?
If the coax was installed when the house was built, then the coax is probably stapled to the wall studs. If the coax was installed "after-market", then this trick might work.
exactly. the only one cheated is the student for paying crazy tuition and NOT "getting it". if you feel the need to cheat, do yourself a favor and go flip burgers at Wendy's for a year. it'll cost less and you'll get to party all you want.
...as opposed to, say, the wonderful encryption we get on land lines and wireless headsets nowdays? This is certainly no LESS secure than the technology the public has used since 1877, and has the capability to be much more secure if, indeed, MJ has any encryption on their internet protocols.
I am currently a UMA user thru T-Mobile, and I find this new MJ technology very intriguing... not particularly useful, but still interesting. They seem to imply that you get the full MJ service... sooo I get a new phone number to give out for my home number which, when my cell phone is within range, might possibly connect to it if I don't have a good signal to my primary provider? *boggle*
I don't have a land line now because I got tired of the extra expense and the phone number juggling... but now I can get phone number juggling back for much less! yay! I wonder what their next product will be? A CRT monitor that only weighs 1/20 as much as the old ones, but requires you to plug it into PCI graphics adapter?
Exactly. I've got the same problem at home... having already given my local Bell land-line provider the finger, my cell is my only phone.
Many providers are leaning toward 3G micro-cells... which provide a similar service with less complexity on the phone, but rest on the somewhat shaky stance that the FCC is OK with consumers running what are equivalently low power 3G towers all over the place.
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...nobody ever loses their phone. Or sets it down at a restaurant. Or has it fall out of their pocket at a movie.
What I find most interesting are the attitudes being displayed. Take the "You broke democracy" person(s?), for instance. We can assume that this goes back to the alleged election tampering ... so my question is simply, had their candidate won, would they be screaming as loudly? Or are they merely upset at the outcome? Its all in the interest of swaying public opinion. Even the display of anger at facebook.
Personally I would have enjoyed Clinton in the White House again. Not that Clinton, the other one. I mean, while Bill was IN office he was diddling interns in the oval office. Can you imagine how off the chain he would have been in that building with no responsibility?
Worked for a stock market research firm 15 years ago ... back then Bill Gates was cashing out of MS stock to the tune of $1b every quarter. Registered stock sales with the SEC are really a non-story. Can't say I blame them. The man would be stupid not to capitalize.
Exactly. People who advocate for UBI don't math. At the end of the day, it is nothing more than another welfare funded by the middle class. The average american pays ~$10k/yr in income taxes to fund the current big government programs. To fund a UBI of $12k/yr/citizen (a drop in the bucket for cost of living), that same average american would have to pay $22k/yr in income taxes ... but then get $12 of it back. Those citizens who pay less in income tax benefit more. Welfare.
... and suggest that maybe if they were paying their taxes like responsible citizens then maybe things wouldn't be so crappy. Then ask them when they are going to upgrade to the next IPhone...
When this discussion comes up among friends, I usually deflect to discuss how corporate america keeps its war chests of money overseas in tax havens
Yes! Its a slippery slope, indeed. If the case makes it to an actual court then a judge will have to draw an arbitrary line in the sand as to what constitutes an attack. Did Oliver suggestion that his viewers use the site for their protest constitute an attempt to deny access to the resource? How many of those viewers had access to small (or large) bot-nets of their own creation that they pointed at the site? How is this similar or dissimilar to inciting a riot if the guy inciting didn't actually DO the things the riot did, and/or did he or any of his staff participate in the activity?
... not less activism, but less "Hey everyone, lets take down a website" attempts at free speech.
Personally, I like Oliver's activism. I've enjoy seeing how his viewers can become engaged in the national conversation. I suspect that he will be doing less of this in the future tho
Once the lawyers have had their day, HBO will likely put the clamp on it.
Distributed - Was all the traffic originating from one location?
... by inciting the activity he gives a very public central focal point to those seeking retribution for the perceived offense.
Denial - Was the resource denied to its user base?
of - (i got nothing)
Service - The thing.
Unfortunately, the line between activism and vandalism is going to be drawn by a court somewhere. Oliver did an awesome thing in an awful way
One question to ask yourself is, "is this any different from a hacker running a denial script?" Playing devil's advocate here, but where does your right to free speech end and my right to use a government service provided by my tax dollars begin? If this army of activists continued in perpetuity, would it still be free speech?
On the plus side, maybe the government will use this as impetus to design better website infrastructure. Can't handle 100s of thousands of posts per minute? In this day of Facebook, Twitter, and Google? Weaksauce.
Statistics at that level are approximations, plain and simple. Ask any statistician and they'll explain in detail how it works. If you choose, educate yourself. Take the time to understand what it is they are saying and make your own interpretation. The reward is worth it. Even boards like Slashdot and Reddit are more echo chambers for like sentiment than actual education on the facts. Do the legwork.
It isn't terribly complex now that geniuses like Knuth have spent literally decades simplifying it for you, sure. Step deeper into the world and you'll be truly amazed at how deep it is ... and likely staggered that it works as well as it does.
Interestingly, when you dig down deep enough you find that the hardware really isn't quite up to snuff. A year or so back I was tasked with performing a ludicrous number of calculations on an on-going basis ... back of the napkin math told us that our existing system would take ~1.5 years to perform 1 set of calcs and we needed them every 3 months or so. TPL in C# was up to the task and I was able to squeeze the calcs down into 22 hours running on my development desktop. Deploying the solution to a medium sized server brought to light the limitations of NUMA architectures in multi-processor systems. If your app breaks that NUMA barrier, performance drops so much that its really not worth scaling out.
I think you misspelled "cow-orkers".
The loony tunes episode was ... epic.
The unfinished story of Shepard Book is what I most regret about firefly. Did anybody ever find out whose cheerios Joss peed in to get the show first schedule-raped, then canned?
I enjoyed SGU as well. Watched pretty much all of the previous series as well, and SGU was by far the least "campy". The episode that started out with the Flogging Molly track hit the nail on the head ... a bunch of unprepared people in a REALLY bad situation, each struggling with their own personal demons just to make it to the next "worst day since yesterday."
I will be sad to see it go, feeling that it was (by far) the best thing SciFi had going for it. I guess now they can concentrate on more wrestling shows... *sigh*
I signed up for the nat'l do not call list when i canceled my land line service from at&t. :P
Meh. CommanderTaco made first contact with Uranus years ago. BAZINGA!
Never attribute to malice that which can be adequately explained through incompetence.
- Hanlon, Heinlein, whoever...
no no ... 2012 is an election year, so its another 60 days of douchebaggery.
How much longer before we get the "infinite improbability machine"?
If the root of the problem is notification of the event, then the solution can be had much more cheaply than launching a dedicated satellite, can't it? What about simply renting the transponder space on an existing satellite and installing simple receiving stations in coastal areas that are hooked to early warning alarms/sirens? Build the ground stations as passive listeners and you might even be able to run the thing from solar power alone.
... there are 12 different ways of skinning that cat. I think the real question is "who is going to pay for it?" Sat/transponder space/ground stations/engineering aren't free. I could see an international organization footing the bill for the NOC which transmits warnings and the specs for protocol ... that would make most sense I guess. Then leave it up to the central government or individual communities to buy receivers from 3rd party vendors? Is this an untapped business opportunity?
I don't think the problem is technical, however
What is this "b-ack-ups" you speak of? and a "fi-le ser-ver"? isn't it easier for everybody to just keep the most recent copy of their own work? if you need a file, you just have to wait for everyone to reply to your email saying when was the last time they edited the file and then you can look on their computer, copy the file, make your changes, and drop it right on the production server... amIright?
If the coax was installed when the house was built, then the coax is probably stapled to the wall studs. If the coax was installed "after-market", then this trick might work.
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exactly. the only one cheated is the student for paying crazy tuition and NOT "getting it". if you feel the need to cheat, do yourself a favor and go flip burgers at Wendy's for a year. it'll cost less and you'll get to party all you want.
...as opposed to, say, the wonderful encryption we get on land lines and wireless headsets nowdays? This is certainly no LESS secure than the technology the public has used since 1877, and has the capability to be much more secure if, indeed, MJ has any encryption on their internet protocols.
... not particularly useful, but still interesting. They seem to imply that you get the full MJ service ... sooo I get a new phone number to give out for my home number which, when my cell phone is within range, might possibly connect to it if I don't have a good signal to my primary provider? *boggle*
... but now I can get phone number juggling back for much less! yay! I wonder what their next product will be? A CRT monitor that only weighs 1/20 as much as the old ones, but requires you to plug it into PCI graphics adapter?
I am currently a UMA user thru T-Mobile, and I find this new MJ technology very intriguing
I don't have a land line now because I got tired of the extra expense and the phone number juggling
I can kill you with my mind.
Exactly. I've got the same problem at home ... having already given my local Bell land-line provider the finger, my cell is my only phone.
... which provide a similar service with less complexity on the phone, but rest on the somewhat shaky stance that the FCC is OK with consumers running what are equivalently low power 3G towers all over the place.
Many providers are leaning toward 3G micro-cells