You mean, covering shortages by printing money can possibly have a positive effect? That's news to me.
John Maynard Keynes? Heard of him?
The EU works hard to help Greece here, and to stop the politicos' attempts to give handouts right during a collapse (like your average CEO, all they think about is short-term gains).
In the long run we're all dead.
If you're facing an incoming bankruptcy, the solution is not to go on another spending spree.
This is why the reductions spending have produced such a massive improvement in the Greek economy.
Even the fucking IMF have admitted they were wrong!
We find that, in advanced economies, stronger planned fiscal consolidation has been associated with lower growth than expected, with the relation being particularly strong, both statistically and economically, early in the crisis. A natural interpretation is that fiscal multipliers were substantially higher than implicitly assumed by forecasters.
It turns out that cutting 1 euro of government spending shrinks the economy by 1.7 euros, not the 0,5 euros they thought.
The heirarchical nature of DNS could only be used to allow manufacturers to run the IMEI blacklists.
Yup, I said useless, not detrimental.
Now, after accusing me of being short sighted (which I am, And long sighted at the same time...) you continue:
That said: We need hierarchical structures for blacklists, because a flat-field database is unmanageable with this quantity of data and multiple points of data-entry.
This is nonsense.
The reason for the heirarchical nature of DNS is to allow delegation. Without delegation making databases with huge numbers of records is trivial, and doesn't need a user-visible "heirarchy".
Since the IMEI is [manufacturer prefix][random number] there is no point of delegation that makes sense.
Yes DNS could be used for the IMEI database but the heirarchy gets you nothing.
What is the gain? Currently they just do a lookup for:
$manufacturer.whatever.the.fuck.random.number.
in the EIR. (Equipement Identity Register). This is probably some kind of hashed structure and the lookup would be a shit-load faster than your obscure and inefficient recreation of a B-tree.
I mean, what do we need in an IMEI blacklist? Something simple, hierarchical, efficiently cached, distributed, low-bandwidth?
I claim the heirarchical nature of DNS is not useful for this task. You claim it is, but are unable to say how, resorting to insults and lies when asked for details.
Furthermore, while these coal fired plants undoubtedly raise C02 levels the science of climatic feedback is so poorly understood it is not known whether those will be significant compared to the most significant 'greenhouse gas' - water vapour.
It may have escaped your notice but there are large areas of open water on this planet.
Water vapour in the atmosphere is in equilibrium with the oceans.
The only way of increasing the water vapour in the atmosphere is to increase the temperature.... whoops!
If I have a domain, say "globotech.com" it's my nameserver that serves up "fred.globotech.com".
If I have a net, say 193.188.244.0/24 then i get the domain 244.188.193.in-addr.arpa delegated to me and my nameserver serves up 100.244.188.193.in-addr.arpa if someone asks for it.
IMEI's start with a phone manufacturer prefix. not a vendor or activist group. The heirarchical nature of DNS could only be used to allow manufacturers to run the IMEI blacklists.
Reasonable (France has a weird senate that's indirecty elected, by the so-called "grandes electeurs" so they dont vote for Senator)
Governor
In France the equivalent (president of the Regional council) is elected by the regional councillors, more like a parlimentary system than a presidential one.
State Auditor State Attorney General State Secretary of State State Treasurer
Bizzare, those are (or should be) non-political positions, why vote for them?
State Senator State Representative
In France the "Region" is unicameral, so there's no Senate/House split at this level
County Executive County representative 3x County at large representatives
Once again, in France the "county executive" - "President of the Departmental council" is elected by the equivalent of the county representatives.
Mayor Local councilman 3x at large city councilman
Same here, the mayor is elected by the local councilmen.
14 state and county judges (this was how many were on the last ballot, there are more than this but I can't find a complete list right now)
Outside the US the idea of voting for judges is pretty rare. Judge is not seen as a politcal role.
As an outsider it seems to me:
You are voting for a lot of non-polilitcal positions. (18 of the 27 posts)
You have a bicameral system at two levels where France only has one (accounting for 1 more post)
You have the executive/legislator split at many levels where france has a more parlimentary system. (so you vote for Governor, County executive and Mayor, where in France these are all indirectly elected) (3 more posts).
What's the deal with the "at large" guys? We vote for one councilor at each of the Regional, Departmental (county) and Municipal levels)
In many countries there has been great progress once the Party of Power is excised from government; and in 4-8 years they can come back, chastised, leaner, and closer to their original centre-right christian democrat ideals, with the powermongers retired or in jail.
What a ridiculous theory.
Jacques Chirac. "Vote for the Crook, not the Facist".
27 is a lot! What were they all? (Arranging to vote for 27 different posts on the same day sounds like a recipe for chaos.)
In France one could vote for:
President Deputé (member of parliment) Deputé European (MEP) Conseille municipale Conseille departmentale Conseille regionale and possibly various referenda.
(Frankly I think there are too many, but trying to sort out the region/departement/commune mess is a huge politcal hot potato).
These are run as two round elections - the first round will have all the candidates, if no candidate wins a majority then the second round will have the two or three highest scoring candidates from the first round.
Things are usualy arranged to avoid having two votes on the same day as that could lead to confusion.
The bad bit of the UK system is that it's technicaly possible to match votes to voters.
(There is a serial number on the ballot paper which can be matched up with the stub you sign. It's claimed that this is to deal with cases of impersonation - if, when you turn up, someone has voted claiming to be you they can throw the bad vote out).
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You mean, covering shortages by printing money can possibly have a positive effect? That's news to me.
John Maynard Keynes? Heard of him?
The EU works hard to help Greece here, and to stop the politicos' attempts to give handouts right during a collapse (like your average CEO, all they think about is short-term gains).
In the long run we're all dead.
If you're facing an incoming bankruptcy, the solution is not to go on another spending spree.
This is why the reductions spending have produced such a massive improvement in the Greek economy.
Even the fucking IMF have admitted they were wrong!
http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/2013/jun/05/imf-underestimated-damage-austerity-would-do-to-greece
We find that, in advanced economies, stronger planned fiscal consolidation has been associated with lower growth than expected, with the relation being particularly strong, both statistically and economically, early in the crisis. A natural interpretation is that fiscal multipliers were substantially higher than implicitly assumed by forecasters.
It turns out that cutting 1 euro of government spending shrinks the economy by 1.7 euros, not the 0,5 euros they thought.
Good luck with that. No warrant needed unless you gas cap has a lock on it.
What? There exist vehicles without a lock on the gas tank?
Does nobody own any hospipe where you live?
So, still no reply to my question.
Bye.
When did I say it was detrimental?
When?
on Friday June 07, 2013 @04:14AM [slashdot.org]
The heirarchical nature of DNS could only be used to allow manufacturers to run the IMEI blacklists.
Yup, I said useless, not detrimental.
Now, after accusing me of being short sighted (which I am, And long sighted at the same time...) you continue:
That said: We need hierarchical structures for blacklists, because a flat-field database is unmanageable with this quantity of data and multiple points of data-entry.
This is nonsense.
The reason for the heirarchical nature of DNS is to allow delegation. Without delegation making databases with huge numbers of records is trivial, and doesn't need a user-visible "heirarchy".
Since the IMEI is [manufacturer prefix][random number] there is no point of delegation that makes sense.
Yes DNS could be used for the IMEI database but the heirarchy gets you nothing.
Your example:
number.random.fuck.the.whatever.$manufacturer.emei-blacklist.eff.org
Requires the telephone company to do lookups for:
.
org.
eff.org.
emei-blacklist.eff.org.
$manufacturer.emei-blacklist.eff.org.
whatever.$manufacturer.emei-blacklist.eff.org.
the.whatever.$manufacturer.emei-blacklist.eff.org.
fuck.the.whatever.$manufacturer.emei-blacklist.eff.org.
random.fuck.the.whatever.$manufacturer.emei-blacklist.eff.org.
number.random.fuck.the.whatever.$manufacturer.emei-blacklist.eff.org.
What is the gain? Currently they just do a lookup for:
$manufacturer.whatever.the.fuck.random.number.
in the EIR. (Equipement Identity Register). This is probably some kind of hashed structure and the lookup would be a shit-load faster than your obscure and inefficient recreation of a B-tree.
When did I say it was detrimental?
You said:
I mean, what do we need in an IMEI blacklist? Something simple, hierarchical, efficiently cached, distributed, low-bandwidth?
I claim the heirarchical nature of DNS is not useful for this task. You claim it is, but are unable to say how, resorting to insults and lies when asked for details.
Furthermore, while these coal fired plants undoubtedly raise C02 levels the science of climatic feedback is so poorly understood it is not known whether those will be significant compared to the most significant 'greenhouse gas' - water vapour.
It may have escaped your notice but there are large areas of open water on this planet.
Water vapour in the atmosphere is in equilibrium with the oceans.
The only way of increasing the water vapour in the atmosphere is to increase the temperature.... whoops!
Syria is an example if the mess that is coming
Because Syria is somehow worse than Iraq?
You still haven't come up with an explanation of how the hierarchical nature of DNS is useful.
I guess because you can't.
The DNS is heirarchical.
If I have a domain, say "globotech.com" it's my nameserver that serves up "fred.globotech.com".
If I have a net, say 193.188.244.0/24 then i get the domain 244.188.193.in-addr.arpa delegated to me and my nameserver serves up 100.244.188.193.in-addr.arpa if someone asks for it.
IMEI's start with a phone manufacturer prefix. not a vendor or activist group. The heirarchical nature of DNS could only be used to allow manufacturers to run the IMEI blacklists.
heirarchical
How is this useful for a imei blacklist?
Unless you want it to be run by the phone manufacturers
I suspect making your drones more easilty detectable might conflict with their whole raison d'etre.
That is not the drone you are looking for.
The near crash was a LUNA, not a Euro Hawk.
President
Congressman
Representative
Reasonable (France has a weird senate that's indirecty elected, by the so-called "grandes electeurs" so they dont vote for Senator)
Governor
In France the equivalent (president of the Regional council) is elected by the regional councillors, more like a parlimentary system than a presidential one.
State Auditor
State Attorney General
State Secretary of State
State Treasurer
Bizzare, those are (or should be) non-political positions, why vote for them?
State Senator
State Representative
In France the "Region" is unicameral, so there's no Senate/House split at this level
County Executive
County representative
3x County at large representatives
Once again, in France the "county executive" - "President of the Departmental council" is elected by the equivalent of the county representatives.
Mayor
Local councilman
3x at large city councilman
Same here, the mayor is elected by the local councilmen.
14 state and county judges (this was how many were on the last ballot, there are more than this but I can't find a complete list right now)
Outside the US the idea of voting for judges is pretty rare. Judge is not seen as a politcal role.
As an outsider it seems to me:
But to each his own.
In many countries there has been great progress once the Party of Power is excised from government; and in 4-8 years they can come back, chastised, leaner, and closer to their original centre-right christian democrat ideals, with the powermongers retired or in jail.
What a ridiculous theory.
Jacques Chirac. "Vote for the Crook, not the Facist".
In France if you order a PRI (E1) line they bring you a SDSL modem with a PRI (E1) port.
Symetrical DSL rather that Asymetrical DSL, but still DSL.
If you remember 2mbit ADSL was pretty common in the early days,
Provide a written answer. I have fucking videos of pompous gits.
Need two things:
- Verification that you are who you say you are.
- Verification that you haven't voted before.
As many have pointed out:
- It must be impossible for anyone else to know how you voted.
That is what makes all "tele-voting" (including postal voting) unsafe.
"...at the UMP we're learning about democracy, it's a pretty new idea for us" - Jean-François Copé, president of the UMP.
Nice. The people who ran France for the last 5 years or more "are learning about democracy".
27 is a lot! What were they all? (Arranging to vote for 27 different posts on the same day sounds like a recipe for chaos.)
In France one could vote for:
President
Deputé (member of parliment)
Deputé European (MEP)
Conseille municipale
Conseille departmentale
Conseille regionale
and possibly various referenda.
(Frankly I think there are too many, but trying to sort out the region/departement/commune mess is a huge politcal hot potato).
These are run as two round elections - the first round will have all the candidates, if no candidate wins a majority then the second round will have the two or three highest scoring candidates from the first round.
Things are usualy arranged to avoid having two votes on the same day as that could lead to confusion.
You know there are these neat things called "google" and "wikipedia".
Switzerlands population is 8million.
There is only one city in the US with a larger population - New York. There are only 9 cities with a population of over 1 million.
So what is a "regular" city?
And what is the IPv6 penetration in this city? (I.E. your argument is not just wrong but also ridiculous).
Yes, I know you are a troll, but, seriously:
man nsswitch.conf
If your nsswitch.conf contains something like
hosts: dns [!UNAVAIL=return] files
you could spend the next 20 years messing with /etc/hosts and wondering why it does nothing.
Amusing. You get your election news from the Iranian government.
Where can I buy one of these fancy nuclear furnaces and stove tops?
In France.
(But I prefer fire for the stove top. Nuke works ok for the oven).
The bad bit of the UK system is that it's technicaly possible to match votes to voters.
(There is a serial number on the ballot paper which can be matched up with the stub you sign. It's claimed that this is to deal with cases of impersonation - if, when you turn up, someone has voted claiming to be you they can throw the bad vote out).
There should only ever be one peice of information about how many votes were cast for each candidate.
If there are more what do you do if they are inconsistent? Which is the real vote?