Yeah, Ukraine agreed to disarmament and look what happened. I'm willing to bet that if that country exists in two years we'll see them performing at least one nuclear test.
Perhaps... but the weapons they had access to that they gave up were strategic weapons developed in Russia.
The Ukraine gov't themselves wouldn't have been able to build these.
They would be starting from scratch, essentially, with no fissile materials.
It wouldn't be hard for other countries to slow down any progress towards Ukraine getting
the basic enriched uranium/plutonium materials to develop anything.
They would need a deal with Iran, or something like that.
But I'm sure scumbag companies will ruin this otherwise good idea by somehow requiring the printers to have DRM
It's going to be the government passing regulations that 3D printers available to consumers
have tamper-proof measures to prevent consumers from easily having direct control over them, AND...
requiring that only digitally signed 3D part designs can be printed --- which will have been through a regulated approval process, to ensure that the parts can't be used to construct a weapon such as "Liberator" 3d printed gun,
or other dangerous or concealable weapons
sign me up. i can get more than that many neighbors to agree to those terms. alas, we don't even have that option. we'd pay many times more for the chance.
Sure thing... they'll be happy to install a 4G tower in your area.
By the way, the fee for going over the 250 Megabyte data cap has been increased to $25 per Kilobyte of data transferred.
If I rent a specific server with a specific antenna that's mine all the time, does that change what's happening here?
It might. Currently the antennas are dynamically assigned at the time you connect the stream.
They haven't permanently set aside an individual physical antenna for you when you subscribed.
they'll be refusing to issue anything other than a NATted 100.64/16 address.
"Super-Enhanced Xbox/PS3 Plan: For an extra $75 a month, you can get a unique dynamic public IP address. Play games online with your network connection!"
What's the difference, functionally, if I rent a house with an antenna on the roof then use a Slingbox / SiliconDust Homerun or rent a server that has an antenna on it?
There's a difference in scale and investment commitment in renting a house, VS renting a small virtual patch to a dynamically assigned antennae.
For one thing.... if you were renting the right to use of a dynamically assigned house that would be shuffled around every time you came home -- you wouldn't be able to efficiently install your slingbox, as you'd need to take it down before leaving for work and being dynamically assigned the next house when you got home.
25-35 minutes to climb to cruising altitude in a 747. Doesn't seem to radical to me.
Also... To achieve maximum fuel efficiency, usually the DESCENT will be near the maximum safe rate.
Around 4000 to 4500 feet per minute. A pressure increase of approximately 0.3 atmospheres per minute during
descent, so there may be a possibility of barotrauma, as the ears do not equalize pressure this quickly.
The 1500ft/second ascent is still pretty darn dangerous in terms of possible decompression sickness.
Of course, within the pressurized cabin there is little change.
But outside the cabin... this is definitely an extreme stress.
There are pretty much no natural circumstances, for sure,
where the human body would be subject to sudden 1000s of feet of pressure being added or removed per minute.
A quick search led me to an airline pilots forum, where they say it generally takes 25-35 minutes to climb to cruising altitude in a 747.
That would be the pilots choosing not to immediately ascend to the highest cruising altitude.
But that can be more related to efficiency, and it's still 45000 feet in 35 minutes.
Which is still approximately1500ft/minute; or a decrease in atmospheric pressure by ~1 PSI per minute.
This decrease in pressure is still at sufficient rate to cause outgassing of N2 CO2 in the blood, resulting in possible
decompression sickness and alkalosis.
These can result in loss of consciousness, which in such a risky environment could result in death by falling or getting
trapped crushed in the wheel.
I don't know how or where this "grow or die" idea began, but it's just plain wrong. You can't have infinite growth within a finite market.
The market is not finite. It is subject to continuous inflation of the currency at levels currently exceeding 10%,
due to the fed's shenanigans including "Quantitative Easing".
If there is not at least enough growth in earnings justifying the current stock price to offset inflation PLUS
taxes on additional dividends and deferred taxes ("taxes on the growth"), then investors are actually losing money,
and should therefore refrain from investing their money in the losing proposition.
For example.. if you buy $10,000 in stock of company X. In 1 year due to inflation, you have lost $1,000 just from
inflation. Then for your investment to retain just the initial value, the company needs to have grown in underlying
capital value and earnings sufficiently at least so that your investment is now worth $1000 more PLUS the deferred
taxes attributable to $1000, so... essentially minimum $1350 in growth.
If your initial $10k investment is not worth $11,350 at the end of Year 1, then you as an investor have actually lost money
due to the decline in purchasing power of your investment.
To actually earn money, which is the point of investing.... the underlier needs to grow sufficiently
to increase the value of the company by MORE than that.
Also; populations are not fixed in size, populations are growing --- so more utility demand is occuring year-by-year.
All told, what you seem to need are high altitude mountaineering gear. So, some cold weather gear, an oxygen bottle, and some ropes. Doubtless it would be a nasty ride but you'd probably survive.
The only thing left is about... the crushing risk. And radical sudden air pressure changes you may be exposed to.
Also... the difficulty of getting in and escaping while carrying all this gear.
In this heavy winter gear... you will likely stand out for sure.
On the government's use of surveillance technology in public places.
I'll yield to them public places.. maybe... the problem is their recordings don't even exclude private property. How about... no surveillance of any private places or of public spaces that includes incidental coverage of any private space, without prior express written revokable permission from all property owners and any lawful residents (or rental tenants) freely and voluntarily granted with no order, reward, or coercion, or in excess of the permission granted in writing by all property owners and tenants.
Excluding incidental surveillance from cameras mounted in the windows of a manned non-aerial ground-based police vehicle, no more than 5 feet above the ground, or carried by officers on the ground, during routine law officer duties.
Seems like if they want a feature like this to support manufacturing that it should be something that is only accessible on one *internal* (non-ISP facing) Ethernet port and only within a certain amount of time since bootup.
Then they should deactivate the functional test feature, as soon as the admin password is changed from the default.
Really? How many people knew about heartbleed 3 weeks ago?
I didn't know about it 3 weeks ago. But none of my Linux SSL-enabled servers were affected, either.
It did help that most daemons were linked against libNSS. Many of the Apache installs were using mod_nss for SSL instead of mod_ssl, and.... most of the other servers were CentOS5 with openssl, but not a buggy version.
Wrong. Don't pass go don't collect $200. Sure solar activity follows an 11 year cycle. But that simply means that the probability changes over that 11 years.. a bit. But not much.
Sounds like you're just bullshitting your way through this.
The de Vries solar cycle is approximately 205 years.
Your argument that relies on statistical independence and a reasonably uniform probability distribution does not hold any water.
Also, trying to rely on security through obscurity would be extremely dumb. The moment an LEA got the address the whole game would be up.
Yes.... once their operation gets big or important enough... they are basically guaranteed that the feds will find out.
Hell... the NSA are probably already surveilling any/all high traffic Tor nodes to locate IP addresses associated with "important" or "popular" nodes in the network, then surveil those, until they have mapped the topology of the Tor network; then sharing pertinent info with the FBI when detected that some nodes might be running a service such as Silk Road or Illegal Goods search.
A Tor hidden service does not work against well-funded adversaries who can make efforts to "trace the traffic"
Ultimately point A has to receive some bits and Point B has to receive and send a lot of bits, or the pairs of endpoints don't communicate.
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Which effectively kills the FAA's regulations that said commercial drone use in the US was illegal.
No it doesn't. The ruling affects the case at hand only -- not precedent-setting, and the matter is still under dispute
with the FAA appealing.
It is quite possible the FAA could kill this company and apply some severe penalties.
I imagine they at least run it through a filter before it hits the pipes.
I believe so. The water needs to be enclosed before they can test that the water is in compliant with
state and federal standards: I am pretty sure, they must be doing something else... or the people in the
area are already at risk (Not from Urine, from lax water safety standards).
The reservoir is "open" and accessible to animals such as birds who can deposit feces containing pathogens
such as cryptosporidium:
which form oocysts (spores) that can pass through a number of types of filters and survive in high-chlorine (and otherwise chemically treated) waters.
Therefore... they need to either be doing UV or ozone treatment after pulling water from the reservoir, or using
a membrane/diatomaceous earth/slow sand filter to successfully filter out most crypto s..
I wonder if this incident shouldn't raise alarm bells, that the post-reservoir treatment is ineffective,
and members of the public might be endangered if an infected bird shits in the lake!
Otherwise it would be kinda useless, since to use it you would have to have contact with other users which is risky.
Because it's incredibly easy to distribute physical contraband without making contact with your users, or risking revealing your identity or your user's identity: in case either buyer or seller is actually a LEO or hired informant?
If the chance of it happening is.5% per year, then it not happening for 200 years means the probability of the event next year is *still.5%*.
No. That's not true. That requires making an unwarranted assumption of independence.
You are assuming that the passage of time is independent w.r.t. the solar activity.
You are essentially assuming is true that is something already known to be totally false.
Just because you haven't won lotto for the last 100 years does not make you more likely to win lotto this week because your "overdue".
A carrington event is not a lottery win.
Astrological events are cyclical.
There is not a probability that this event will happen selected by random chance.
It's essentially certainty that this event will happen.
The real hidden service URL probably just changed.
The site advert'd in the Slashdot article is probably itself a "Sting" operation to tag members of the public for the purpose
of building a blacklist for the/real/ search site at some URL we don't know about.
Slashdot Mirror
Yeah, Ukraine agreed to disarmament and look what happened. I'm willing to bet that if that country exists in two years we'll see them performing at least one nuclear test.
Perhaps... but the weapons they had access to that they gave up were strategic weapons developed in Russia.
The Ukraine gov't themselves wouldn't have been able to build these. They would be starting from scratch, essentially, with no fissile materials.
It wouldn't be hard for other countries to slow down any progress towards Ukraine getting the basic enriched uranium/plutonium materials to develop anything.
They would need a deal with Iran, or something like that.
But I'm sure scumbag companies will ruin this otherwise good idea by somehow requiring the printers to have DRM
It's going to be the government passing regulations that 3D printers available to consumers have tamper-proof measures to prevent consumers from easily having direct control over them, AND...
requiring that only digitally signed 3D part designs can be printed --- which will have been through a regulated approval process, to ensure that the parts can't be used to construct a weapon such as "Liberator" 3d printed gun, or other dangerous or concealable weapons
But there is no advantage to that, compared to just buying a product made in a factory/factory chain that DOES have all the machines.
The factory won't take a custom order for your one unit. The makernet lets you order TO SUIT YOUR NEED.
Which means the item you are building could be totally unique, or a prototype, for a new product, for example.
sign me up. i can get more than that many neighbors to agree to those terms. alas, we don't even have that option. we'd pay many times more for the chance.
Sure thing... they'll be happy to install a 4G tower in your area.
By the way, the fee for going over the 250 Megabyte data cap has been increased to $25 per Kilobyte of data transferred.
If I rent a specific server with a specific antenna that's mine all the time, does that change what's happening here?
It might. Currently the antennas are dynamically assigned at the time you connect the stream. They haven't permanently set aside an individual physical antenna for you when you subscribed.
IPs are just numbers. There's nothing physical about them. What the hell is a "virtualized IP"?
An IP address assigned to a service instead of a computer system.
You would use a stateless translation at your border to translate the virtual IP to the IPv6 address of a load balancer, for example.
they'll be refusing to issue anything other than a NATted 100.64/16 address.
"Super-Enhanced Xbox/PS3 Plan: For an extra $75 a month, you can get a unique dynamic public IP address. Play games online with your network connection!"
What's the difference, functionally, if I rent a house with an antenna on the roof then use a Slingbox / SiliconDust Homerun or rent a server that has an antenna on it?
There's a difference in scale and investment commitment in renting a house, VS renting a small virtual patch to a dynamically assigned antennae.
For one thing.... if you were renting the right to use of a dynamically assigned house that would be shuffled around every time you came home -- you wouldn't be able to efficiently install your slingbox, as you'd need to take it down before leaving for work and being dynamically assigned the next house when you got home.
25-35 minutes to climb to cruising altitude in a 747. Doesn't seem to radical to me.
Also... To achieve maximum fuel efficiency, usually the DESCENT will be near the maximum safe rate. Around 4000 to 4500 feet per minute. A pressure increase of approximately 0.3 atmospheres per minute during descent, so there may be a possibility of barotrauma, as the ears do not equalize pressure this quickly. The 1500ft/second ascent is still pretty darn dangerous in terms of possible decompression sickness.
Of course, within the pressurized cabin there is little change.
But outside the cabin... this is definitely an extreme stress.
There are pretty much no natural circumstances, for sure, where the human body would be subject to sudden 1000s of feet of pressure being added or removed per minute.
A quick search led me to an airline pilots forum, where they say it generally takes 25-35 minutes to climb to cruising altitude in a 747.
That would be the pilots choosing not to immediately ascend to the highest cruising altitude. But that can be more related to efficiency, and it's still 45000 feet in 35 minutes. Which is still approximately1500ft/minute; or a decrease in atmospheric pressure by ~1 PSI per minute.
This decrease in pressure is still at sufficient rate to cause outgassing of N2 CO2 in the blood, resulting in possible decompression sickness and alkalosis.
These can result in loss of consciousness, which in such a risky environment could result in death by falling or getting trapped crushed in the wheel.
I don't know how or where this "grow or die" idea began, but it's just plain wrong. You can't have infinite growth within a finite market.
The market is not finite. It is subject to continuous inflation of the currency at levels currently exceeding 10%, due to the fed's shenanigans including "Quantitative Easing".
If there is not at least enough growth in earnings justifying the current stock price to offset inflation PLUS taxes on additional dividends and deferred taxes ("taxes on the growth"), then investors are actually losing money, and should therefore refrain from investing their money in the losing proposition.
For example.. if you buy $10,000 in stock of company X. In 1 year due to inflation, you have lost $1,000 just from inflation. Then for your investment to retain just the initial value, the company needs to have grown in underlying capital value and earnings sufficiently at least so that your investment is now worth $1000 more PLUS the deferred taxes attributable to $1000, so... essentially minimum $1350 in growth.
If your initial $10k investment is not worth $11,350 at the end of Year 1, then you as an investor have actually lost money due to the decline in purchasing power of your investment.
To actually earn money, which is the point of investing.... the underlier needs to grow sufficiently to increase the value of the company by MORE than that.
Also; populations are not fixed in size, populations are growing --- so more utility demand is occuring year-by-year.
Why do investors think they are entitled to growth?
Why do random people think that companies are entitled to an investment?
There has to be earnings growth to justify investment in equities.
Otherwise, the investor may as well buy an annuity or treasury bond.
All told, what you seem to need are high altitude mountaineering gear. So, some cold weather gear, an oxygen bottle, and some ropes. Doubtless it would be a nasty ride but you'd probably survive.
The only thing left is about... the crushing risk. And radical sudden air pressure changes you may be exposed to.
Also... the difficulty of getting in and escaping while carrying all this gear.
In this heavy winter gear... you will likely stand out for sure.
I'm glad the "experts" cleared that up for me. I guess I'll have to change my vacation plans!
Yeah... I'll have to remember to bring my coat, and extra bungee cords and parachute..
On the government's use of surveillance technology in public places.
I'll yield to them public places.. maybe... the problem is their recordings don't even exclude private property. How about... no surveillance of any private places or of public spaces that includes incidental coverage of any private space, without prior express written revokable permission from all property owners and any lawful residents (or rental tenants) freely and voluntarily granted with no order, reward, or coercion, or in excess of the permission granted in writing by all property owners and tenants.
Excluding incidental surveillance from cameras mounted in the windows of a manned non-aerial ground-based police vehicle, no more than 5 feet above the ground, or carried by officers on the ground, during routine law officer duties.
Seems like if they want a feature like this to support manufacturing that it should be something that is only accessible on one *internal* (non-ISP facing) Ethernet port and only within a certain amount of time since bootup.
Then they should deactivate the functional test feature, as soon as the admin password is changed from the default.
Really? How many people knew about heartbleed 3 weeks ago?
I didn't know about it 3 weeks ago. But none of my Linux SSL-enabled servers were affected, either.
It did help that most daemons were linked against libNSS. Many of the Apache installs were using mod_nss for SSL instead of mod_ssl, and.... most of the other servers were CentOS5 with openssl, but not a buggy version.
Wrong. Don't pass go don't collect $200. Sure solar activity follows an 11 year cycle. But that simply means that the probability changes over that 11 years.. a bit. But not much.
Sounds like you're just bullshitting your way through this.
The de Vries solar cycle is approximately 205 years. Your argument that relies on statistical independence and a reasonably uniform probability distribution does not hold any water.
Also, trying to rely on security through obscurity would be extremely dumb. The moment an LEA got the address the whole game would be up.
Yes.... once their operation gets big or important enough... they are basically guaranteed that the feds will find out.
Hell... the NSA are probably already surveilling any/all high traffic Tor nodes to locate IP addresses associated with "important" or "popular" nodes in the network, then surveil those, until they have mapped the topology of the Tor network; then sharing pertinent info with the FBI when detected that some nodes might be running a service such as Silk Road or Illegal Goods search.
A Tor hidden service does not work against well-funded adversaries who can make efforts to "trace the traffic"
Ultimately point A has to receive some bits and Point B has to receive and send a lot of bits, or the pairs of endpoints don't communicate.
Which effectively kills the FAA's regulations that said commercial drone use in the US was illegal.
No it doesn't. The ruling affects the case at hand only -- not precedent-setting, and the matter is still under dispute with the FAA appealing.
It is quite possible the FAA could kill this company and apply some severe penalties.
I imagine they at least run it through a filter before it hits the pipes.
I believe so. The water needs to be enclosed before they can test that the water is in compliant with state and federal standards: I am pretty sure, they must be doing something else... or the people in the area are already at risk (Not from Urine, from lax water safety standards).
The reservoir is "open" and accessible to animals such as birds who can deposit feces containing pathogens such as cryptosporidium: which form oocysts (spores) that can pass through a number of types of filters and survive in high-chlorine (and otherwise chemically treated) waters.
Therefore... they need to either be doing UV or ozone treatment after pulling water from the reservoir, or using a membrane/diatomaceous earth/slow sand filter to successfully filter out most crypto s..
I wonder if this incident shouldn't raise alarm bells, that the post-reservoir treatment is ineffective, and members of the public might be endangered if an infected bird shits in the lake!
Otherwise it would be kinda useless, since to use it you would have to have contact with other users which is risky.
Because it's incredibly easy to distribute physical contraband without making contact with your users, or risking revealing your identity or your user's identity: in case either buyer or seller is actually a LEO or hired informant?
Actually, Portland doesnt treat its water after this resivour. This doesnt imply that I agree with their decision.
In other words... the water already has enough chemicals in it that nothing will grow.
They still gotta do something to keep the turbidity down, from dirty in the reservoir... however....
If the chance of it happening is .5% per year, then it not happening for 200 years means the probability of the event next year is *still .5%*.
No. That's not true. That requires making an unwarranted assumption of independence. You are assuming that the passage of time is independent w.r.t. the solar activity.
You are essentially assuming is true that is something already known to be totally false.
Just because you haven't won lotto for the last 100 years does not make you more likely to win lotto this week because your "overdue".
A carrington event is not a lottery win.
Astrological events are cyclical.
There is not a probability that this event will happen selected by random chance. It's essentially certainty that this event will happen.
The real hidden service URL probably just changed.
The site advert'd in the Slashdot article is probably itself a "Sting" operation to tag members of the public for the purpose of building a blacklist for the /real/ search site at some URL we don't know about.