Momentarily there will be people posting to assure you that it's a major disaster and that the huge death toll has been covered up by the International Nuclear Advocacy Mafia (tm).
God sends little children to hell for lying, Ratzo.;)
Everywhere has problems. And, you've been around long enough to see how the laws in the US have swung back and forth over time. We're in a pretty strong shift toward letting the police have free reign. But, like many shifts, the really far out stuff usually happens when the pendulum is about to swing back.
I'm hardly giving up and heading out. If everyone with "clue" leaves, then don't be surprised when clueless things happen.
YMMV, and if you figure that moving to another place is a good move for you, great. You've got the financial situation you can do it.
Besides, I'm sure you can find something to be grouchy and outraged about anywhere you go.;)
Now here's a problem to think about. I'm being held with the general jailed population for doing over a hundred on the highway. I'm not a violent offender. Maybe I should not be strip searched.
However, the guy in the bunk next to mine has been arrested for armed robbery with assault and battery. Should he be strip searched?
Neither of us are convicted. We are presumed innocent. On what legal basis do you want him strip searched and not me?
And, even if you mandate seperate facilities/areas for possibly violent and nonviolent offenders, then on what basis do you make that distinction? We're all just as innocent.
Hi, I'm now playing the role of a cop: I say you shot and killed Justin Bieber (justifiable as it may have been.), and arrest you. You point out Bieber is alive, but until you see a judge, you're part of the jail population largely ON MY WORD. So, can you be strip searched? How about if I just arrested you for that hundred mile an hour speeding charge? That's on my word as well. The argument that this is false arrest doesn't mean it doesn't happen. Look at the case this ruling was based on.
The case this was based on was an example of law enforcement gone wacko (jailed for days and strip searched for a minor fine he'd already paid). But, the issues that it raised were anything but straightforward. That's why it got to the supreme court.
It's not just the women who sometimes have evolutionary blinders.
How many times I've heard some guy complain bitterly how no women will pay attention to him, and then completely dismiss someone who practically throws herself at him because she's "kinda chunky".
Tape never died. It was still used for a lot of large applications. It's just that for some things, disks got cheap enough and reliable enough to displace tape. Part of that was the tremendous resources put into disks with the explosion of consumer use. High capacity tapes were a much smaller market and one that could support high cost. It looks like tape is just catching up.
I for one welcome our huge cheap tape library overlords!;)
After all the warnings from about not using the same password on multiple sites the New Hot Thing(tm) is to use a single logon like facebook or google.
If that's guessed or compromised, it can be used at many sites.
How is that any less of a security problem?
The fuuture: "We at Crudnblood Bank value your security. Please log in to your account with your Facebook or Google login."
The sociology department tried interviewing the squirrels on the college quad next to where I work. They didn't get much of a left/right divide, but "more vanilla wafer cookies" was a clear winner.
Of course, we usually consider the quad squirrels to be an experiment by the psychology department gone horribly wrong.
Funny. I've yet to have a rock or tree or squirrel or semiconductor sample I've been studying specify a particular political viewpoint.
If you hear them whispering something like "Don't vote for Romney." or "Single payer health care." please let us know. We'll try to get you the help you need.
Of course, if they whisper "Vote for Santorum." you may already be beyond help.
"claiming that this tech will solve X problem around the world"
Indeed. Since tech won't ever do anything, we should invest in interpretive dance that will explore the realities of our limblessness and lead to true healing at a cost all can afford.(/sarcasm)
I really fail to get this idea that since something technical won't help everyone instantly it's not worth doing.
You might want to take a look at the history of smallpox for an example of tech that did help greatly worldwide. Granted, the vaccine is not currently "high tech", but it took a lot of tech to get it produced and distributed worldwide in large amounts. 50 years before the eradication effort began, it would have been difficult to do.
It took a massive effort, largely funded by the wealthier countries and organzations, but it had an effect even in very poor regions.
Just as you don't get the rosey-eyed predictions of some, I don't get the unmitigated skepticism and pessimism that is often fashionable.
I don't think field strength is the limiting factor in the diameter. Anytime you accelerate a charge you get radiation of energy. It's one of the main sources of energy loss in large circular accelerators.
At higher power, that sets the minimum diameter for being able to boost the particle without losing a huge amount of energy to synchrotron radiation.
Another application in telecom is allowing much better filters for the RF sections of cell phones and other radio gear.
They're already used in some cell phone base stations, as it allows very sharp tuning due to the lack of resistance in the inductors. But, it requires a cryo-cooler system to chill it down far enough to work.
Room temperature superconductors would likely let them be used in the handsets as well. This would allow packing even more data and channels onto the existing cell infrastructure.
Indeed. We should give up agriculture because it allows the feeding of larger armies in a given area thus making warfare more devastating. (/sarcasm)
Any technology from wheels to teakettles to field effect transistors can be put to military or nonmilitary use. I'm not going to give up my coffee pot because the metallurgy that went into it also allows you to make effective firearms.
But the articles linked are very long on speculation and very short on info.
Parent makes complaint about something bizarre happening in the classroom. Teacher is suspended pending investigation.
Let me assure you, this happens outside of the south. Let me also assure you it happens in politically diverse communities.
Being the son of a high school teacher, I've heard this story a lot of times.
There are a lot of possibilities here. The complaint apparently was that the teacher read something about semen coating the faces of prostitutes. That certainly isn't in Ender's Game.
So, maybe it's in the other two books mentioned. But, that's doubtful given the books (Agatha Christie and a book aimed at young teens.)
So, we could have a kid (for whatever reason, but being nutty, or disliking the teacher are a couple possibilities or on a dare from friends) telling parents something that didn't happen.
Or, we could have a parent that's kinda mental, or having a bad week, or a drunken rage etc, etc . That happens with alarming regularity when you have to deal with large numbers of parents. Most are fine, some are messed up.
Much, much farther down the list is that it's due to a conservative and or southern conspiracy or any other societal factor.
As to the suspension. School administrations are historically the most pusillanimous bunch of cover your butt bureaucrats there are. Especially if the parent is a known problem, or someone of influence in the community.
But, if you want to elevate the less likely to the fore, then Occam's Razor isn't going to stop you.
"I don't understand the intent of the article other than to provide a knee-jerk chicken-little response to cloud processing and storage."
Let me paraphrase this a little to a known example:
I don't understand the intent of the article other than to provide a knee-jerk chicken-little response to financial derivatives. The individual financial instruments making them up have risks, but when they are bundled together, the random risks will cancel out. And given that there are a number of types of mortgages included in the derivative, a systemic risk effecting all of them is unlikely.
Sound familiar?
All it's saying is that there can be sources of instability that result from the distributed nature of the cloud and having large numbers of load balancers interacting. Big deal. There are risks in any system.
Bottom line: Just evaluate the risks and failure modes for your business/project just like you would any other computing resource. The cloud isn't a magic bullet that lets you get away with poor practices.
It's just a slight riff on things we've been doing for a long time. Placing atoms or molecules in layers or patterns so that their associated electrons have certain characteristics.
We've been doing patterning of atoms/molucules with STMs for decades now.
It's interesting work, but the description seems awfully breathless.
"So the real problem is that most people, when presented with objective facts and figures, are not able to put that information in context and connect it to the underlying human story."
I've heard that same line of reasoning used as a justification for some of the exaggerations, parables, and emotional appeals used at a Baptist tent meeting.
Mr. Daisey's fabricating has no impact on the truth or falsehood of the situation at FoxConn. That's an objective fact to be shown or disproved by factual investigative reporting and journalism.
What it sadly does is set the bar higher for the next time someone reports on abusive working conditions true or false. Now, they have to not only prove the point but overcome the memory of Daisey's actions.
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But it was still such a step up from the older IP over smoke signals.
And it had the advantage of being immune to the early malware of some net.troll stoking the signal fires with poison ivy.
You're giving it that much credit?
Momentarily there will be people posting to assure you that it's a major disaster and that the huge death toll has been covered up by the International Nuclear Advocacy Mafia (tm).
"I'm sorry I ran my mouth like this."
God sends little children to hell for lying, Ratzo. ;)
Everywhere has problems. And, you've been around long enough to see how the laws in the US have swung back and forth over time. We're in a pretty strong shift toward letting the police have free reign. But, like many shifts, the really far out stuff usually happens when the pendulum is about to swing back.
I'm hardly giving up and heading out. If everyone with "clue" leaves, then don't be surprised when clueless things happen.
YMMV, and if you figure that moving to another place is a good move for you, great. You've got the financial situation you can do it.
Besides, I'm sure you can find something to be grouchy and outraged about anywhere you go. ;)
"(Non-Convicted)"
Now here's a problem to think about. I'm being held with the general jailed population for doing over a hundred on the highway. I'm not a violent offender. Maybe I should not be strip searched.
However, the guy in the bunk next to mine has been arrested for armed robbery with assault and battery. Should he be strip searched?
Neither of us are convicted. We are presumed innocent. On what legal basis do you want him strip searched and not me?
And, even if you mandate seperate facilities/areas for possibly violent and nonviolent offenders, then on what basis do you make that distinction? We're all just as innocent.
Hi, I'm now playing the role of a cop: I say you shot and killed Justin Bieber (justifiable as it may have been.), and arrest you. You point out Bieber is alive, but until you see a judge, you're part of the jail population largely ON MY WORD. So, can you be strip searched? How about if I just arrested you for that hundred mile an hour speeding charge? That's on my word as well. The argument that this is false arrest doesn't mean it doesn't happen. Look at the case this ruling was based on.
The case this was based on was an example of law enforcement gone wacko (jailed for days and strip searched for a minor fine he'd already paid). But, the issues that it raised were anything but straightforward. That's why it got to the supreme court.
It's not just the women who sometimes have evolutionary blinders.
How many times I've heard some guy complain bitterly how no women will pay attention to him, and then completely dismiss someone who practically throws herself at him because she's "kinda chunky".
Tape never died. It was still used for a lot of large applications.
It's just that for some things, disks got cheap enough and reliable enough to displace tape.
Part of that was the tremendous resources put into disks with the explosion of consumer use.
High capacity tapes were a much smaller market and one that could support high cost. It looks like tape is just catching up.
I for one welcome our huge cheap tape library overlords! ;)
After all the warnings from about not using the same password on multiple sites the New Hot Thing(tm) is to use a single logon like facebook or google.
If that's guessed or compromised, it can be used at many sites.
How is that any less of a security problem?
The fuuture: "We at Crudnblood Bank value your security. Please log in to your account with your Facebook or Google login."
The sociology department tried interviewing the squirrels on the college quad next to where I work. They didn't get much of a left/right divide, but "more vanilla wafer cookies" was a clear winner.
Of course, we usually consider the quad squirrels to be an experiment by the psychology department gone horribly wrong.
"Reality has a well known liberal bias."
Funny. I've yet to have a rock or tree or squirrel or semiconductor sample I've been studying specify a particular political viewpoint.
If you hear them whispering something like "Don't vote for Romney." or "Single payer health care." please let us know. We'll try to get you the help you need.
Of course, if they whisper "Vote for Santorum." you may already be beyond help.
"There's a similarity, too. Can you guess what it is?"
That Anonymous Cowards talk trash about them?
(Of course, ACs talk trash about everyone. Even other ACs.)
Shouldn't they just ban the tests, since tests make many students feel uncomfortable?
No, Star's End was at the opposite end of the Galaxy from Terminus.
It's all a matter of how you define that.
Anonymous cowards are an illusion we use to make nonsense out of slashdot.
"claiming that this tech will solve X problem around the world"
Indeed. Since tech won't ever do anything, we should invest in interpretive dance that will explore the realities of our limblessness and lead to true healing at a cost all can afford.(/sarcasm)
I really fail to get this idea that since something technical won't help everyone instantly it's not worth doing.
You might want to take a look at the history of smallpox for an example of tech that did help greatly worldwide. Granted, the vaccine is not currently "high tech", but it took a lot of tech to get it produced and distributed worldwide in large amounts. 50 years before the eradication effort began, it would have been difficult to do.
It took a massive effort, largely funded by the wealthier countries and organzations, but it had an effect even in very poor regions.
Just as you don't get the rosey-eyed predictions of some, I don't get the unmitigated skepticism and pessimism that is often fashionable.
I don't think field strength is the limiting factor in the diameter. Anytime you accelerate a charge you get radiation of energy. It's one of the main sources of energy loss in large circular accelerators.
At higher power, that sets the minimum diameter for being able to boost the particle without losing a huge amount of energy to synchrotron radiation.
See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Synchrotron_radiation
It's one of the reasons people talk about building linear colliders as a next step in particle accelerators.
Another application in telecom is allowing much better filters for the RF sections of cell phones and other radio gear.
They're already used in some cell phone base stations, as it allows very sharp tuning due to the lack of resistance in the inductors. But, it requires a cryo-cooler system to chill it down far enough to work.
Room temperature superconductors would likely let them be used in the handsets as well. This would allow packing even more data and channels onto the existing cell infrastructure.
Indeed. We should give up agriculture because it allows the feeding of larger armies in a given area thus making warfare more devastating. (/sarcasm)
Any technology from wheels to teakettles to field effect transistors can be put to military or nonmilitary use. I'm not going to give up my coffee pot because the metallurgy that went into it also allows you to make effective firearms.
With so many China stories in the past couple of days, I'm starting to wonder if slashdot is becoming the US outlet for Xinhua news.
The cynical side of me says that we might see a rise in capital punishment rates to meet quotas before the ban comes into effect.
It has been found that nearly all agressive violent offenders have been exposed to food.
In fact, those who had never been exposed to food were almost uniformly very passive.
But the articles linked are very long on speculation and very short on info.
Parent makes complaint about something bizarre happening in the classroom. Teacher is suspended pending investigation.
Let me assure you, this happens outside of the south. Let me also assure you it happens in politically diverse communities.
Being the son of a high school teacher, I've heard this story a lot of times.
There are a lot of possibilities here. The complaint apparently was that the teacher read something about semen coating the faces of prostitutes. That certainly isn't in Ender's Game.
So, maybe it's in the other two books mentioned. But, that's doubtful given the books (Agatha Christie and a book aimed at young teens.)
So, we could have a kid (for whatever reason, but being nutty, or disliking the teacher are a couple possibilities or on a dare from friends) telling parents something that didn't happen.
Or, we could have a parent that's kinda mental, or having a bad week, or a drunken rage etc, etc . That happens with alarming regularity when you have to deal with large numbers of parents. Most are fine, some are messed up.
Much, much farther down the list is that it's due to a conservative and or southern conspiracy or any other societal factor.
As to the suspension. School administrations are historically the most pusillanimous bunch of cover your butt bureaucrats there are. Especially if the parent is a known problem, or someone of influence in the community.
But, if you want to elevate the less likely to the fore, then Occam's Razor isn't going to stop you.
"I don't understand the intent of the article other than to provide a knee-jerk chicken-little response to cloud processing and storage."
Let me paraphrase this a little to a known example:
I don't understand the intent of the article other than to provide a knee-jerk chicken-little response to financial derivatives. The individual financial instruments making them up have risks, but when they are bundled together, the random risks will cancel out. And given that there are a number of types of mortgages included in the derivative, a systemic risk effecting all of them is unlikely.
Sound familiar?
All it's saying is that there can be sources of instability that result from the distributed nature of the cloud and having large numbers of load balancers interacting. Big deal. There are risks in any system.
Bottom line: Just evaluate the risks and failure modes for your business/project just like you would any other computing resource. The cloud isn't a magic bullet that lets you get away with poor practices.
No, it's not alchemy.
It's just a slight riff on things we've been doing for a long time. Placing atoms or molecules in layers or patterns so that their associated electrons have certain characteristics.
We've been doing patterning of atoms/molucules with STMs for decades now.
It's interesting work, but the description seems awfully breathless.
"Meddling with the very fabric of reality"?
Gimme a break. *eye-roll*
"So the real problem is that most people, when presented with objective facts and figures, are not able to put that information in context and connect it to the underlying human story."
I've heard that same line of reasoning used as a justification for some of the exaggerations, parables, and emotional appeals used at a Baptist tent meeting.
Mr. Daisey's fabricating has no impact on the truth or falsehood of the situation at FoxConn. That's an objective fact to be shown or disproved by factual investigative reporting and journalism.
What it sadly does is set the bar higher for the next time someone reports on abusive working conditions true or false. Now, they have to not only prove the point but overcome the memory of Daisey's actions.
That's where the real damage is.