Well, when they say small, I'm the sole IT worker and thus the IT Manager at a 4 server, 40 workstation business so my only metrics are: I didn't make them spend a bunch of money, nothing lit on fire, I didn't quit. That's seriously about it and this quarter, I got all but the middle one but I wasn't the one who ordered that HP workstation, nor would I have, so it's sort of a gray area lol.
You mean 2 years minus 1.52 days since it's 1.52 light-days away lol. I thought for SURE I'd get to post once again that it actually already happened millions of years ago and they're stating that it's "about to happen" just like the last dozen stories like this. But not, the light from it gets here that quickly so I guess it didn't happen yet. I mostly posted it so people who wondered the same thing don't have to get out their calculator.
By the way, I don't know if anyone has seen Sesame Street lately but the cookie monster has gone from OCD psycho with an unhealthy cookie addiction to eating carrots and claiming that "cookies are a good sometimes snack." BULLSHIT! lol.
I'm fairly certain that Intel made the sandforce controllers that almost all SSDs use and they "make" their own line of SSDs as well, though I'm not sure if they're actually a flash chip manufacturer or not. So maybe they should start selling them some SSDs or at least make more money off other people's SSDs with their controllers. I mean seriously, I just built 2 customer computers with 60GB Patriot Pyro drives because after like 5 years, they filled up 3 whole GB of documents. Those things felt faster than my $1000 system with a 1TB Seagate drive. People didn't mind low capacity netbook drives so they could market SSD-based PCs all the way to the bank.
That's why they should donate to a political campaign or some hate-magnet charity like PETA. That'd be moderately funny but still pretty stupid actually. Hacking automated business skyscraper room lights to spell something idiotic at night is more their tone. That's why I think this is fake.
I'm fairly certain that eventually the entire transaction is reversed then, which just is an expensive headache for whatever charity got the false donation. If this was for real, they'd contribute to a political campaign for someone they don't like. Then again, they don't seem very wise.
In America, you couldn't get that kind of internet connection even if you had your LAN party inside a major Time Warner Cable network hub. That's slightly exaggerated but only slightly. Sweden has a small physical area and lots of money so just like England, they run fiber everywhere. A population density like that results in REALLY fast network backbones available in close proximity to anything populated or important because it does pay off financially for the ISP.
I think you're looking at used book prices. People will let those go for absurdly cheap for some reason. Have you seen some popular top seller/NYT top books? They're $30-50! Printing material can't cost that much! In fact, I've done covers for books and I know what they cost to print and they're exaggerating it. The ebooks tend to be a lot cheaper for big titles.
I think maybe they should do this on a different planet...you know, for safety and all that. Didn't they learn anything from Star Trek? You don't just go build an Omega particle right next to a bunch of important stuff. You don't rip time and space apart on your home planet either! Seriously, "let's see what happens when we rip a hole in space and time" is NOT a valid safety policy.
Yeah, that's so comforting because I know when I think Linux experts, I think of HP and Dell machines sitting on their desks. Ask ASUS how their retail boards' BIOS will be configured.
As a bitcoin miner and somewhat expert, I'll let you in on the REAL reason the price crashed. The price goes up when more people are buying bitcoins than selling them in the exchange. If everyone's jumping on the system and starting up stores and casinos and whatnot, tons of people are buying thousands at a time. So if you mine bitcoins and then sell them off for USD in the exchange, you're causing the price to lower. What you're "supposed" to do is buy stuff for bitcoins from bitcoin-accepting vendors to keep the economy rolling and the price high.
But let's say you do go to Cablesaurus and want to buy one of their cables for bitcoins. The price in BTC is based on its value in USD. You know why that is? Because the owner of the store is going to sell all your BTC for USD in the exchange. So it's the same as if you threw the BTC up on the exchange for USD. Right now, the whole system is so established that nobody has any reason to buy into it so effectively, there's no reason for the price to go up. What caused it to drop so quickly though were massive security breaches resulting in tens of thousands of coins to be sold at once. Since nobody is buying into the system with USD at the exchanges, it never went back up.
That is incorrect. The best and most popular mining cards were 5000 series and by the time GPU mining was developed, they had been discontinued. Newegg.com made more money than ATI did by stocking old 5830's. When there were basically 0 brand new ones left in all of north America, people resorted to newer 6970's but not a whole lot of them. Also, someone ran some calculations on the number of mining GPUs compared to gaming GPUs and it was something like 1:100.
What other products will they eventually mandate that we buy from corporations, purely by virtue of existing?
If you ignore any end result and take out the politics of it, you can't have the government tell people it's mandatory that they buy something from a private company.
BUT
In response to your post, I think I have an idea. They should sell government insurance. They could make it mandatory and it'd be insurance to protect you against damages from stupid government actions, laws, and policies. Now that, I'd buy. Anything else, not so much. Although I am on the fence about requiring everyone to carry some sort of car insurance and my state very recently made it mandatory.
Oh, I didn't know it was that low. I dunno whose ass they pulled 10 nanoseconds out of but I think any one of the many, and I mean MANY, electronic components involved in the chain from sensor to clock or clock-like device to recorded result could add 50 nm. It just must be something they didn't consider.
By the way, the Standard Model and most advanced physics in general are based on guesses. If you come up with a guess about something that seems really logical and makes really good sense to you so you pretend it's fact and use it for the basis of everything else without ever reconsidering it, then you end up thinking the sun travels around the earth, which of course is flat.
You know how many slashdot stories are basically astrophysicists saying "Oh, well planets and stars could never....oops, there's one doing that." If only physicists proved themselves wrong that often, maybe we'd get somewhere.
Funny you should mention that because it seems the ones releasing the press statements don't understand science either. You're right that obviously retesting it is what they need to do however, they could get the same exact result and still present it in an equally incorrect way. No amount of retesting will fix the fact that they're jumping to a wrong conclusion that nobody is calling them on.
If I were them, I would rephrase the statement as "they appear to be arriving at the target faster than travel at light speed suggests they would" instead of automatically assuming "they're traveling faster than light speed." They're a REALLY big difference between the two. It's like they're automatically ruling out anything related to the quantum world like teleportation or spontaneous clone generation at a distance, any bending or compression of space caused by the particles themselves or even any any neutrino self-generated wormhole effect, as well as anything else that's ever been shown on Star Trek.
There are a lot more explanations out there for the effect they're seeing and they need to focus on those just as much as retesting. Then I'd give them the "understand science" label. Retesting alone, not so much.
I'm not that informed on how certs work but if someone goes to a dutch CA and says they want a cert related to Google, wouldn't that be the one they'd double or triple check just in case it's not really Google? I mean, it's Google. Nobody doesn't know them and they wouldn't just randomly pick up a cert from a random foreign country, right? Or do they need muliple certs around the world or something so it wasn't that unusual? Either way, it's not that hard to make sure a google certificate isn't being requested from Iran...I mean, they're kinda different and easy to follow up on over the phone.
Okay, that has privacy problems. Why don't they just let us shoot at asshole drivers who burn through red lights? If they think they're so special that they're above the laws and need to get to their "super important" hair appointment or whatever after they failed to plan properly enough to allow enough travel time, maybe a few bullets in their tires and windows would convince them to leave early. In fact, just put a bounty on assholes and pay people who disable their vehicles. That's basically the same thing, just more fun.
I love how people on slashdot will comment on something they know nothing about. First of all, a correction. It's called mining, not minting. Secondly, a fairly high end GTS450 will get 40 million hashes per second which is nothing. You need a very specific set of radeon 5000 or 6000 series card(s) like my 5830 which gets 320 million per second and costs a mere $130. CPU mining on my i5-2400 gets 12 million per second so that's absolute crap. So the virus is costing more in electricity than it receives in profits but it doesn't pay for electricity which I guess makes it worth it.
By the way, what's the US dollar backed by? What are most of the currencies in the world backed by? They're all backed by the fact that people know other people will accept them for goods and services and the fact that you can exchange them for another currency. That's true for bitcoins as well. They're at around $10.80 US per bitcoin right now and that's set 100% by unrestricted free trade at the exchanges. You can turn BTC into USD in under 24 hours for free with a wire transfer for this entire month and at a $5 fee after this month (since they had technical problems with Bank of America) and if you wanted a printed check mailed, that's free permanently. That alone is creating value because epople know they can always get "real" money for their coins. I've personally bought some nice cabling and computer parts with BTC and sold even more for BTC. No bullshit ebay and paypal fees or locked paypal accounts or massive delays or anything. You just send a payment and it's instant and free. You don't have to prove your address or be over 18 or any of that whole song and dance. So yeah, people are using it, they're continuing to use it, and the overall usage volume since last year has increased by about 100x and at least 10x since May. Oh anf FYI, a lot of mining rigs are running partially or completed on solar and wind so don't forget that.
You better get used to it or at least read up on how it works before you hate on it because it's not going anywhere and you'll probably eventually be using it.
It may seem like there's no good solution. You can: 1. leave that kind of content unblocked. 2. block stuff and don't give anyone the list which causes severe suspicion and probably abuse of the filter. 3. block stuff and give out the precise filtered list, which obviously gives pervs an extensive list of illegal sites that they can visit when they get around the filter. So it's a no win situation, right? It doesn't seem that way to me. How the hell do they just have a list sitting around? Shut the sites down. Find out who's allowing the domain registration to continue (if there is one, I guess it could be purely IP based) and find the hosting company or physical servers. "Pass the list to Australia" doesn't really seem like it would come up high on interpol's strategy list about what to do once a list of illegal sites was assembled. If it's a list of IPs or domains and they got everyone in the world to implement the filter, obviously the criminals behind it would just move IPs or domains. You don't fix the problem any other way than taking out the source.
This seems so obvious that I think it's evidence that Australia is using this as a poster boy excuse to implement a net filter whose primary purpose is not to block illegal porn.
Really? That sounds logical and all but it sounds to me more like they just want people to have to get a new phone, laptop, and Xbox when they buy a new router. I don't need IPv6 inside my house. That's pointless and some of my devices don't support it. I'm concerned that my ISP needs to get me a modem that can take an IPv6 address and start issuing them to it but that gets forwarded to the department of not my problem. They're the ones running out of addresses, not me. My home network is doing fine lol.
I'm no networking expert, which is probably why I don't know this, but why do I need to support IPv6 in my home? As long as my modem gets an IPv6 address, if it can assign IPv4 addresses on the internal side of the network after that point, who cares if my router still assigns IPv4 addresses to my laptops, phones, and PCs? I'm not going to go over however many billion addresses in my own home. Since nobody else can directly access my internal network devices via the internet without going through that one final IPv6 address at the modem, why would anyone bother to convert all their home equipment?
I think that Lenovo should, as a sign of friendship and cooperation towards them, replace a Thinkpad's CPU fan and heatsink and replace it with a dead squirrel then mail it to them. You know, to try and prove that they're going to get away from that whole CPU cooling thing.
Here's what they're currently building in my city. They're replacing a perfectly functional overpass with a 4 in a row roundabout chain of death. That wasn't dangerous or confusing enough though so they added like 8 crosswalks so as you're coming out of a semi-blind angled roundabout exit at the last second when you realize that's your exit, you have approximately 5-10 feet to slam on the brakes for pedestrians and the pedestrians in that area are exceptionally stupid and slow in my experience.
Up the street about a mile, they just built a double back to back one in a place that was actually a bit more appropriate and useful. It would work flawlessly if it was double the size because as it is, it's not useable as far as proper legal signalling goes but that wouldn't have fit. It does help traffic flow noticeably compared to the lights but there have been something like 80+ accidents in it in a few months. My friend was hit in it at full speed by some old guy who didn't know what it was all about and heavily damaged his brand new (used) Saab so that's what I think of roundabouts...well more like what I think of the intelligence of other drivers in relation to roundabouts. If you look at the whole website, they claim:
90 percent fewer fatal crashes
76 percent less crashes with injury
Fewer conflict points, meaning fewer opportunities for crashes
So it's better at reducing 45 MPH deadly accidents obviously and theoretically reduces potential opportunities for lower speed ones or whatever BS they're pushing. They neglected to fill in the hole in that stats which is low speed accidents in practice, not theory, which is 1000% higher bare minimum. Like I said, 80+ accidents in a few months and I remember 1 accident in the last 10 years at the intersection when it had lights. It's probably a 100000% increase in low speed, non-fatal accidents.
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Well, when they say small, I'm the sole IT worker and thus the IT Manager at a 4 server, 40 workstation business so my only metrics are: I didn't make them spend a bunch of money, nothing lit on fire, I didn't quit. That's seriously about it and this quarter, I got all but the middle one but I wasn't the one who ordered that HP workstation, nor would I have, so it's sort of a gray area lol.
You mean 2 years minus 1.52 days since it's 1.52 light-days away lol. I thought for SURE I'd get to post once again that it actually already happened millions of years ago and they're stating that it's "about to happen" just like the last dozen stories like this. But not, the light from it gets here that quickly so I guess it didn't happen yet. I mostly posted it so people who wondered the same thing don't have to get out their calculator.
By the way, I don't know if anyone has seen Sesame Street lately but the cookie monster has gone from OCD psycho with an unhealthy cookie addiction to eating carrots and claiming that "cookies are a good sometimes snack." BULLSHIT! lol.
I'm fairly certain that Intel made the sandforce controllers that almost all SSDs use and they "make" their own line of SSDs as well, though I'm not sure if they're actually a flash chip manufacturer or not. So maybe they should start selling them some SSDs or at least make more money off other people's SSDs with their controllers. I mean seriously, I just built 2 customer computers with 60GB Patriot Pyro drives because after like 5 years, they filled up 3 whole GB of documents. Those things felt faster than my $1000 system with a 1TB Seagate drive. People didn't mind low capacity netbook drives so they could market SSD-based PCs all the way to the bank.
That's why they should donate to a political campaign or some hate-magnet charity like PETA. That'd be moderately funny but still pretty stupid actually. Hacking automated business skyscraper room lights to spell something idiotic at night is more their tone. That's why I think this is fake.
I'm fairly certain that eventually the entire transaction is reversed then, which just is an expensive headache for whatever charity got the false donation. If this was for real, they'd contribute to a political campaign for someone they don't like. Then again, they don't seem very wise.
In America, you couldn't get that kind of internet connection even if you had your LAN party inside a major Time Warner Cable network hub. That's slightly exaggerated but only slightly. Sweden has a small physical area and lots of money so just like England, they run fiber everywhere. A population density like that results in REALLY fast network backbones available in close proximity to anything populated or important because it does pay off financially for the ISP.
I think you're looking at used book prices. People will let those go for absurdly cheap for some reason. Have you seen some popular top seller/NYT top books? They're $30-50! Printing material can't cost that much! In fact, I've done covers for books and I know what they cost to print and they're exaggerating it. The ebooks tend to be a lot cheaper for big titles.
I think maybe they should do this on a different planet...you know, for safety and all that. Didn't they learn anything from Star Trek? You don't just go build an Omega particle right next to a bunch of important stuff. You don't rip time and space apart on your home planet either! Seriously, "let's see what happens when we rip a hole in space and time" is NOT a valid safety policy.
Yeah, that's so comforting because I know when I think Linux experts, I think of HP and Dell machines sitting on their desks. Ask ASUS how their retail boards' BIOS will be configured.
You bet they better! I just saw one today during NFL football. I think boasting about it then going back is worse than capping it to begin with.
As a bitcoin miner and somewhat expert, I'll let you in on the REAL reason the price crashed. The price goes up when more people are buying bitcoins than selling them in the exchange. If everyone's jumping on the system and starting up stores and casinos and whatnot, tons of people are buying thousands at a time. So if you mine bitcoins and then sell them off for USD in the exchange, you're causing the price to lower. What you're "supposed" to do is buy stuff for bitcoins from bitcoin-accepting vendors to keep the economy rolling and the price high.
But let's say you do go to Cablesaurus and want to buy one of their cables for bitcoins. The price in BTC is based on its value in USD. You know why that is? Because the owner of the store is going to sell all your BTC for USD in the exchange. So it's the same as if you threw the BTC up on the exchange for USD. Right now, the whole system is so established that nobody has any reason to buy into it so effectively, there's no reason for the price to go up. What caused it to drop so quickly though were massive security breaches resulting in tens of thousands of coins to be sold at once. Since nobody is buying into the system with USD at the exchanges, it never went back up.
That is incorrect. The best and most popular mining cards were 5000 series and by the time GPU mining was developed, they had been discontinued. Newegg.com made more money than ATI did by stocking old 5830's. When there were basically 0 brand new ones left in all of north America, people resorted to newer 6970's but not a whole lot of them. Also, someone ran some calculations on the number of mining GPUs compared to gaming GPUs and it was something like 1:100.
What other products will they eventually mandate that we buy from corporations, purely by virtue of existing?
If you ignore any end result and take out the politics of it, you can't have the government tell people it's mandatory that they buy something from a private company.
BUT
In response to your post, I think I have an idea. They should sell government insurance. They could make it mandatory and it'd be insurance to protect you against damages from stupid government actions, laws, and policies. Now that, I'd buy. Anything else, not so much. Although I am on the fence about requiring everyone to carry some sort of car insurance and my state very recently made it mandatory.
Oh, I didn't know it was that low. I dunno whose ass they pulled 10 nanoseconds out of but I think any one of the many, and I mean MANY, electronic components involved in the chain from sensor to clock or clock-like device to recorded result could add 50 nm. It just must be something they didn't consider.
By the way, the Standard Model and most advanced physics in general are based on guesses. If you come up with a guess about something that seems really logical and makes really good sense to you so you pretend it's fact and use it for the basis of everything else without ever reconsidering it, then you end up thinking the sun travels around the earth, which of course is flat.
You know how many slashdot stories are basically astrophysicists saying "Oh, well planets and stars could never....oops, there's one doing that." If only physicists proved themselves wrong that often, maybe we'd get somewhere.
Funny you should mention that because it seems the ones releasing the press statements don't understand science either. You're right that obviously retesting it is what they need to do however, they could get the same exact result and still present it in an equally incorrect way. No amount of retesting will fix the fact that they're jumping to a wrong conclusion that nobody is calling them on.
If I were them, I would rephrase the statement as "they appear to be arriving at the target faster than travel at light speed suggests they would" instead of automatically assuming "they're traveling faster than light speed." They're a REALLY big difference between the two. It's like they're automatically ruling out anything related to the quantum world like teleportation or spontaneous clone generation at a distance, any bending or compression of space caused by the particles themselves or even any any neutrino self-generated wormhole effect, as well as anything else that's ever been shown on Star Trek.
There are a lot more explanations out there for the effect they're seeing and they need to focus on those just as much as retesting. Then I'd give them the "understand science" label. Retesting alone, not so much.
If they finish all their experiments and need something to do with it, I'm thinking paintball field!!!!!
I'm not that informed on how certs work but if someone goes to a dutch CA and says they want a cert related to Google, wouldn't that be the one they'd double or triple check just in case it's not really Google? I mean, it's Google. Nobody doesn't know them and they wouldn't just randomly pick up a cert from a random foreign country, right? Or do they need muliple certs around the world or something so it wasn't that unusual? Either way, it's not that hard to make sure a google certificate isn't being requested from Iran...I mean, they're kinda different and easy to follow up on over the phone.
Actually it happened about 21 million years ago and the light is just getting here now.
Okay, that has privacy problems. Why don't they just let us shoot at asshole drivers who burn through red lights? If they think they're so special that they're above the laws and need to get to their "super important" hair appointment or whatever after they failed to plan properly enough to allow enough travel time, maybe a few bullets in their tires and windows would convince them to leave early. In fact, just put a bounty on assholes and pay people who disable their vehicles. That's basically the same thing, just more fun.
I love how people on slashdot will comment on something they know nothing about. First of all, a correction. It's called mining, not minting. Secondly, a fairly high end GTS450 will get 40 million hashes per second which is nothing. You need a very specific set of radeon 5000 or 6000 series card(s) like my 5830 which gets 320 million per second and costs a mere $130. CPU mining on my i5-2400 gets 12 million per second so that's absolute crap. So the virus is costing more in electricity than it receives in profits but it doesn't pay for electricity which I guess makes it worth it.
By the way, what's the US dollar backed by? What are most of the currencies in the world backed by? They're all backed by the fact that people know other people will accept them for goods and services and the fact that you can exchange them for another currency. That's true for bitcoins as well. They're at around $10.80 US per bitcoin right now and that's set 100% by unrestricted free trade at the exchanges. You can turn BTC into USD in under 24 hours for free with a wire transfer for this entire month and at a $5 fee after this month (since they had technical problems with Bank of America) and if you wanted a printed check mailed, that's free permanently. That alone is creating value because epople know they can always get "real" money for their coins. I've personally bought some nice cabling and computer parts with BTC and sold even more for BTC. No bullshit ebay and paypal fees or locked paypal accounts or massive delays or anything. You just send a payment and it's instant and free. You don't have to prove your address or be over 18 or any of that whole song and dance. So yeah, people are using it, they're continuing to use it, and the overall usage volume since last year has increased by about 100x and at least 10x since May. Oh anf FYI, a lot of mining rigs are running partially or completed on solar and wind so don't forget that.
You better get used to it or at least read up on how it works before you hate on it because it's not going anywhere and you'll probably eventually be using it.
It may seem like there's no good solution. You can:
1. leave that kind of content unblocked.
2. block stuff and don't give anyone the list which causes severe suspicion and probably abuse of the filter.
3. block stuff and give out the precise filtered list, which obviously gives pervs an extensive list of illegal sites that they can visit when they get around the filter.
So it's a no win situation, right? It doesn't seem that way to me. How the hell do they just have a list sitting around? Shut the sites down. Find out who's allowing the domain registration to continue (if there is one, I guess it could be purely IP based) and find the hosting company or physical servers. "Pass the list to Australia" doesn't really seem like it would come up high on interpol's strategy list about what to do once a list of illegal sites was assembled. If it's a list of IPs or domains and they got everyone in the world to implement the filter, obviously the criminals behind it would just move IPs or domains. You don't fix the problem any other way than taking out the source.
This seems so obvious that I think it's evidence that Australia is using this as a poster boy excuse to implement a net filter whose primary purpose is not to block illegal porn.
Really? That sounds logical and all but it sounds to me more like they just want people to have to get a new phone, laptop, and Xbox when they buy a new router. I don't need IPv6 inside my house. That's pointless and some of my devices don't support it. I'm concerned that my ISP needs to get me a modem that can take an IPv6 address and start issuing them to it but that gets forwarded to the department of not my problem. They're the ones running out of addresses, not me. My home network is doing fine lol.
I'm no networking expert, which is probably why I don't know this, but why do I need to support IPv6 in my home? As long as my modem gets an IPv6 address, if it can assign IPv4 addresses on the internal side of the network after that point, who cares if my router still assigns IPv4 addresses to my laptops, phones, and PCs? I'm not going to go over however many billion addresses in my own home. Since nobody else can directly access my internal network devices via the internet without going through that one final IPv6 address at the modem, why would anyone bother to convert all their home equipment?
I think that Lenovo should, as a sign of friendship and cooperation towards them, replace a Thinkpad's CPU fan and heatsink and replace it with a dead squirrel then mail it to them. You know, to try and prove that they're going to get away from that whole CPU cooling thing.
Here's what they're currently building in my city. They're replacing a perfectly functional overpass with a 4 in a row roundabout chain of death. That wasn't dangerous or confusing enough though so they added like 8 crosswalks so as you're coming out of a semi-blind angled roundabout exit at the last second when you realize that's your exit, you have approximately 5-10 feet to slam on the brakes for pedestrians and the pedestrians in that area are exceptionally stupid and slow in my experience.
Check it out: http://us41wisconsin.gov/remos_downloads/41_PIM_Exhibit_Breezewood_2x3Board.283.pdf
Correction: 18 crosswalks.
Up the street about a mile, they just built a double back to back one in a place that was actually a bit more appropriate and useful. It would work flawlessly if it was double the size because as it is, it's not useable as far as proper legal signalling goes but that wouldn't have fit. It does help traffic flow noticeably compared to the lights but there have been something like 80+ accidents in it in a few months. My friend was hit in it at full speed by some old guy who didn't know what it was all about and heavily damaged his brand new (used) Saab so that's what I think of roundabouts...well more like what I think of the intelligence of other drivers in relation to roundabouts. If you look at the whole website, they claim:
90 percent fewer fatal crashes
76 percent less crashes with injury
Fewer conflict points, meaning fewer opportunities for crashes
So it's better at reducing 45 MPH deadly accidents obviously and theoretically reduces potential opportunities for lower speed ones or whatever BS they're pushing. They neglected to fill in the hole in that stats which is low speed accidents in practice, not theory, which is 1000% higher bare minimum. Like I said, 80+ accidents in a few months and I remember 1 accident in the last 10 years at the intersection when it had lights. It's probably a 100000% increase in low speed, non-fatal accidents.