Not likely. A company the size of Google when looking for a place to build a facility gets courted by many municipalities. One of the first things offered for free are utilities. If you look around at the largest businesses in your city, they more than likely pay no utility bills what-so-ever.
Maybe in Socialist countries. US cities have no authority to offer free power, it isn't a government-owned monopoly here.
- Driver is texting - Driver is lost and about to stop in the middle of the road, then turn left without signalling or checking their mirror - Driver just spilled hot coffee - Spider just descended in front of driver - Driver is sexting
excellent, i'm very excited. when can I buy a roll of this new wire at home depot?
They have it, but it takes 45 minutes to find someone who knows where it is, and then you have to move 5 boxes of broken ones to find the one unopened box that has it. Then you find out it is a cheap Chinese knockoff made of "Saffire" instead of the sapphire superconductor that you wanted.
That because we've never actually seen real communist rule, we've seen fascist rule calling itself communist. I mean, the Nazi party was the National Socialist German Workers' Party but they sure as shit were not socialist.
Seems like we should actually see real communism in action before we dismiss it as being a failure. The question is, will a society ever mature enough and be enlightened enough to actually try it?
It's been tried by small groups - communes. They tend to work for a while, maintain equality as long as the original founders with the vision are intensely involved. I don't know how many have kept it going for more than one generation. I went to a talk by the Twin Oaks Community. They have a very organized and sensible economy which has lasted.
There is no way to implement what Marx theorized about. That's the whole point. Once the theory hits the real world, human nature screws it up.
Exactly. Communism is based on the idea that people are willing to give up their own self-interest to advance the collective. This is pretty much like the Prisoner's Dilemma. Even though people may be "educated" to agree with the general principle, when it comes down to individual choices, people tend to do what's best for themselves.
"the Opteron 6200 has eight Bulldozer modules, and each module contains two independent integer processors, but only a single FPU and shared fetch/decode/execute units; in other words, it has more than one core, but not quite two."
This is an interesting architecture. Most general processing is just moving data so an FPU per core is overkill. Also, the main part of an algorithm (or a benchmark, anyway) is likely to fit in cache so use of the bus fetch hardware is likely to be in bursts. It should give better performance than 8 HT cores, anyway.
Let's see. 3-4 MW x 30 seconds = 100 MJ. A high power car battery can hold about 4MJ so it might seem plausible, but the batteries would have to be able to support very high charge-discharge rates and hundreds of cycles per day, which would quickly wear out existing lead-acid batteries. Flywheel storage seems like a cheaper alternative. Not sure about the conversion of kinetic to electrical energy then back to kinetic in the flywheel. Maybe there is a better way.
This is how the process ought to work, however in the US the presumption is that any data belongs to the site, not to the posters and they can do what they want with it. Slashdot for example says that the comments belong to the posters, meaning you retain copyright in what you post, but nothing is said about who owns log data such as the IP address where your post came from, or the mapping between your handle and your "real" name (I don't remember showing anyone a birth certificate). That's why US citizens really have no case against the Telcos if they turn over your call records to the Feds. They regard it as their data. It would take a privacy law which we don't have now to force it to be decided by the US Judicial branch.
I've read the report and yeah, we got pretty much what they suggested. DHS has control of the various intelligence agencies and the director is cabinet-level, replacing a bunch of squabbling fiefdoms like FEMA, CIA and Drug Czar. In another couple decades, they may have a more streamlined setup, but it is still a long way from that.
Smartphone, dumbphone, anyphone - if it's connected, SOMEONE (OS vendor, Carrier, Sowtware) is logging activity & location. At a minimum the cell signal is triangulated to get your location. "to provide better service" meh.
If you don't like it, don't use 'em.
Umm. Yes, the phone company has to know where you are. Now please explain why the folks who made the phone need to know?
Congress created the DHS to placate the panicky public who were demanding that the "government do something!" and the politicians were eager to win the votes and not appear to be "weak on terrorism" - yes, I know that's obvious.
DHS was created on the recommendation of th 911 Commission, not the public. The public just didn't want to be killed by terrorists. I think if you you asked the average person how to make them safer "Let's create yet another giant Federal Bureau with overlapping responsibilities" would not be their first answer.
Actually, in versions after Windows 2003 this does not use Windows Update but a separate service for updating the list of trusted roots. (XP and 2003 use an optional update sent via Windows Update)
Microsoft can revoke root certificates without making their customers update to a new version of the browser. Other browsers are lacking in this respect.
So instead of having to trust CAs we just have to trust MS? This is a lack?
Yeah, that is how it works in Windows, when using Microsoft software (like Internet Explorer). The list of trusted roots is completely separate from the browser code.
But I guess that is not popular to say here...
Which also means you can't control which CAs are trusted from IE. You wait for Windows Update to do it for you. That's probably the right thing to do for most people.
However, if it is or will be true in the near future, then that would be incredible. What would happen if you married this with the raspberry pi computer?
Video is the most likely consumer target for that much flash. As you point out, a whole wedding in hi-def will fit on 16 or 32GB so not much reason to spend an exorbitant amount to get more than that.
Back when DRAM was driving technology there were companies doing exotic stuff like putting multiple dies in a package or stacking packages to get double density. Could do something like that with flash -- put 32 64GB flash chips on a substrate and get 2 TB. It would be fantastically expensive, tho. For the consumer flash market it doesn't make sense to sell above the commodity price level.
I never said I was opposed to catching terrorists using the means necessary, I just said that if individuals have to lose privacy, then why are government employees getting increased privacy? If the government is gaining easily abused powers, why aren't we balancing this by increased monitoring instead of making monitoring a government official a crime?
I tried googling but all I get are hits about a college. No one ever defines what UNCO is. I even found INCO, but no definition for that either.
UNCO is short for UNCONFIRMED, the state a bug is in between being filed and being rejected because its asking for something a general user would want.
Are you kidding? FF 6 starts in half the time of previous releases on my 5-year old laptop.
As for outstanding bugs, many of those UNCO bugs are: "My internet is broken" Clearly, a lot of people file bugs who just don't know how to get support.
If the government thinks it's necessary to record my overseas phone calls me and touch my junk at airports in order to stop terrorism, then the natural conclusion is that the government needs to be equally open. It consists of the same kind of people as me, just as (un)likely to be terrorists. Therefore, I need to see what they are doing. No more secret meetings. No more closed negotiations. No more situations that I can't record what's happening to me. In a democracy we don't have a separate ruling class with different privileges.
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They could always bury their datacenters instead of sitting them on the surface. It's generally cooler in the basement, and all.
It won't be for long. That ground stays constant temperature because it is a good insulator.
Not likely. A company the size of Google when looking for a place to build a facility gets courted by many municipalities. One of the first things offered for free are utilities. If you look around at the largest businesses in your city, they more than likely pay no utility bills what-so-ever.
Maybe in Socialist countries. US cities have no authority to offer free power, it isn't a government-owned monopoly here.
I want:
- Driver is texting
- Driver is lost and about to stop in the middle of the road, then turn left without signalling or checking their mirror
- Driver just spilled hot coffee
- Spider just descended in front of driver
- Driver is sexting
I guess it's time to just throw away the gold speaker cables.
excellent, i'm very excited. when can I buy a roll of this new wire at home depot?
They have it, but it takes 45 minutes to find someone who knows where it is, and then you have to move 5 boxes of broken ones to find the one unopened box that has it. Then you find out it is a cheap Chinese knockoff made of "Saffire" instead of the sapphire superconductor that you wanted.
That because we've never actually seen real communist rule, we've seen fascist rule calling itself communist. I mean, the Nazi party was the National Socialist German Workers' Party but they sure as shit were not socialist.
Seems like we should actually see real communism in action before we dismiss it as being a failure. The question is, will a society ever mature enough and be enlightened enough to actually try it?
It's been tried by small groups - communes. They tend to work for a while, maintain equality as long as the original founders with the vision are intensely involved. I don't know how many have kept it going for more than one generation. I went to a talk by the Twin Oaks Community. They have a very organized and sensible economy which has lasted.
There is no way to implement what Marx theorized about. That's the whole point. Once the theory hits the real world, human nature screws it up.
Exactly. Communism is based on the idea that people are willing to give up their own self-interest to advance the collective. This is pretty much like the Prisoner's Dilemma. Even though people may be "educated" to agree with the general principle, when it comes down to individual choices, people tend to do what's best for themselves.
"the Opteron 6200 has eight Bulldozer modules, and each module contains two independent integer processors, but only a single FPU and shared fetch/decode/execute units; in other words, it has more than one core, but not quite two."
This is an interesting architecture. Most general processing is just moving data so an FPU per core is overkill. Also, the main part of an algorithm (or a benchmark, anyway) is likely to fit in cache so use of the bus fetch hardware is likely to be in bursts. It should give better performance than 8 HT cores, anyway.
Let's see. 3-4 MW x 30 seconds = 100 MJ. A high power car battery can hold about 4MJ so it might seem plausible, but the batteries would have to be able to support very high charge-discharge rates and hundreds of cycles per day, which would quickly wear out existing lead-acid batteries. Flywheel storage seems like a cheaper alternative. Not sure about the conversion of kinetic to electrical energy then back to kinetic in the flywheel. Maybe there is a better way.
Jessica Cutler also comes to mind. She lost her job when she was found out and is defending an ongoing privacy lawsuit.
This is how the process ought to work, however in the US the presumption is that any data belongs to the site, not to the posters and they can do what they want with it. Slashdot for example says that the comments belong to the posters, meaning you retain copyright in what you post, but nothing is said about who owns log data such as the IP address where your post came from, or the mapping between your handle and your "real" name (I don't remember showing anyone a birth certificate). That's why US citizens really have no case against the Telcos if they turn over your call records to the Feds. They regard it as their data. It would take a privacy law which we don't have now to force it to be decided by the US Judicial branch.
I've read the report and yeah, we got pretty much what they suggested. DHS has control of the various intelligence agencies and the director is cabinet-level, replacing a bunch of squabbling fiefdoms like FEMA, CIA and Drug Czar. In another couple decades, they may have a more streamlined setup, but it is still a long way from that.
Smartphone, dumbphone, anyphone - if it's connected, SOMEONE (OS vendor, Carrier, Sowtware) is logging activity & location. At a minimum the cell signal is triangulated to get your location. "to provide better service" meh.
If you don't like it, don't use 'em.
Umm. Yes, the phone company has to know where you are. Now please explain why the folks who made the phone need to know?
Congress created the DHS to placate the panicky public who were demanding that the "government do something!" and the politicians were eager to win the votes and not appear to be "weak on terrorism" - yes, I know that's obvious.
DHS was created on the recommendation of th 911 Commission, not the public. The public just didn't want to be killed by terrorists. I think if you you asked the average person how to make them safer "Let's create yet another giant Federal Bureau with overlapping responsibilities" would not be their first answer.
Actually, in versions after Windows 2003 this does not use Windows Update but a separate service for updating the list of trusted roots.
(XP and 2003 use an optional update sent via Windows Update)
Microsoft can revoke root certificates without making their customers update to a new version of the browser.
Other browsers are lacking in this respect.
So instead of having to trust CAs we just have to trust MS? This is a lack?
Yeah, that is how it works in Windows, when using Microsoft software (like Internet Explorer).
The list of trusted roots is completely separate from the browser code.
But I guess that is not popular to say here...
Which also means you can't control which CAs are trusted from IE. You wait for Windows Update to do it for you. That's probably the right thing to do for most people.
An air gap won't help. This was almost certainly an inside job with the intrusion blah-blah as a cover story. Somebody was paid.
The web has a problem. How do we tell if a URL is trustworthy?
I know, lets create certificates backed by certificate authorities!
Now the web has two problems.
Should also check the bank accounts of DigiNotar employees to see if any got an unexplained bonus.
However, if it is or will be true in the near future, then that would be incredible. What would happen if you married this with the raspberry pi computer?
I think that's now legal in Iowa.
Video is the most likely consumer target for that much flash. As you point out, a whole wedding in hi-def will fit on 16 or 32GB so not much reason to spend an exorbitant amount to get more than that.
Back when DRAM was driving technology there were companies doing exotic stuff like putting multiple dies in a package or stacking packages to get double density. Could do something like that with flash -- put 32 64GB flash chips on a substrate and get 2 TB. It would be fantastically expensive, tho. For the consumer flash market it doesn't make sense to sell above the commodity price level.
I never said I was opposed to catching terrorists using the means necessary, I just said that if individuals have to lose privacy, then why are government employees getting increased privacy? If the government is gaining easily abused powers, why aren't we balancing this by increased monitoring instead of making monitoring a government official a crime?
I tried googling but all I get are hits about a college. No one ever defines what UNCO is. I even found INCO, but no definition for that either.
UNCO is short for UNCONFIRMED, the state a bug is in between being filed and being rejected because its asking for something a general user would want.
Are you kidding? FF 6 starts in half the time of previous releases on my 5-year old laptop.
As for outstanding bugs, many of those UNCO bugs are: "My internet is broken"
Clearly, a lot of people file bugs who just don't know how to get support.
If the government thinks it's necessary to record my overseas phone calls me and touch my junk at airports in order to stop terrorism, then the natural conclusion is that the government needs to be equally open. It consists of the same kind of people as me, just as (un)likely to be terrorists. Therefore, I need to see what they are doing. No more secret meetings. No more closed negotiations. No more situations that I can't record what's happening to me. In a democracy we don't have a separate ruling class with different privileges.