As much as this doom and gloom stuff is a little far fetched, it is certainly worth sitting up and taking notice. Each individual algorithm or automated process may seem innocuous, but only when it is tied into every other system can we realize the potential concern. Essentially, we can create our own digital butterfly effect. A butterfly lands on a sensor that determines which direction to point a grid of solar panels, shading it. The panels turn another direction and lose an hours worth of sunlight for the day, which causes a generator to kick into gear. That generator runs out of gas because no one was expecting to need it in the middle of the summer. Since the generator is now out, and Jesus Christ wouldn't you know it, Reddit is down again.
Good thing nothing like that ever happens without computer control.
Give me the things that are completely free of statistics, math and algorithms - like baseball!
A better question to ask might be, why their current, much vaunted CCTV surveillance isn't doing a better job of nabbing those hooilgans earlier in the process?
They have also requested police powers to remove head coverings (ski masks) and have requested tapes from news crews. The local CCTV cameras are likely the first targets in the riots.
Hey everyone worrying about the debt is being played - the US can borrow money at 1.25% that means the interest paid on a trillion of debt is 12.5Billion dollars, which is rounding error in the US budget - the US now pays less interest on debt than it did during Bush I. Also people fail to recall that if you borrow money to create assets, such as roads and infrastructure it is not the same as borrowing money to spend on hookers and blow - since that assets you create have some long term value. We, as a people, are getting played by the rich and the powerful - it is very sad to see this country getting played by a bunch of ultra-rich right wing plutocrats who create one phony crisis after another to scare us into enriching them further.
The problem is the gap between spending and revenue has not been this high since WW II. So the concern is not about the debt - right now its pretty manageable. Its about the deficit which is out of control.
It was an Oracle product when they turned on the optimize flags that revealed the bug, were notified of the bug, and decided to ship with the flags on anyway.
If it had been Sun they would have delayed the release, because Java was Sun's poster product. Oracle has either canned or driven away so much talent that they probably have no clue what Java is at this point.
Did the poster even look at the chart he linked to? Those big lines that shoot up to the top after 1-3 years? They're the failure rates for hard disks. The ones near the bottom? They're the failure rates for SSDs. Now, some of the SSD figures are projected and look quite optimistic, but the number of hard disks failing after 3 years looks high than the number of SSDs failing after three years by all of the studies. For most workloads, the SSDs fail less often, and the SSD failures only exceed HD failures very early on in their lifetimes.
Not only does the data point to better reliability for SSD, look at the application!
All of the HDD data is from datacenters - rack mounted, cooled, well cared for drives. Now imagine what happens to a drive in a laptop. I think it would be interesting to see that comparison.
Another reason that you can't have multiple DNS trees is that DNS contains a mechanism for fixing that - if you've got your DNS tree with aaa.example.com and Eugene has his aaa.example.com, you can both be replaced by a very small shell script that turns yours into aaa.example.com.smallpond.altroots.net and his into aaa.example.com.kashpureff.altroots.net, and suddenly you've been assimilated and there's just one namespace again.
This isn't a mechanism for "fixing" anything. It is a mechanism for demonstrating exactly what I said, that multiple DNS trees can coexist on the internet.
Users want namespaces that point them to the correct place, so that somebody can say "I'm at thisdomain.com" and anybody in the world can use it, and "users" includes both the owners of the name and people using that name to retrieve content.
The correct place? You've drunk the kool-aid. Maybe you also buy star names from the International Star Registry. Of course if I want anyone in the world to connect to my domain using the "One, True, Correct, Canonical Name" then that name has to be in every nameserver. Now please tell me how I get to the domains that have been pulled out of the ICANN database by the US government, even though they are registered and reside in other countries?
Otherwise we need to use namespace assimilation (if we want to keep DNS syntax) or start bang-pathing everything (if we'd rather use mixed syntaxes.)
None of that means that the DNS Root should be owned by ICANN, who are a conspiracy of lizard-like aliens here to steal our water and almost totally under the control of the Trademark Gods, but breaking that requires you to defeat them all in single combat. Good luck with that (and I say that in all sincerity, but you aren't going to succeed, because they've got way more money and clout than you're going to have.)
It does not require defeating them in single combat. I could walk around them through the alternate root door. However they are closing that off by pushing DNSSEC so that they can have absolute control of DNS.
No it didn't. Everything in the internet is designed to be distributed. There is no reason why you can't have multiple DNS trees. If one maps aaa.example.com to 192.168.0.1 and the other maps it to 192.222.0.1 nothing breaks. They are just different namespaces. Go ahead and yell and scream that every domain must map to one and only one IP but the truth is that it doesn't. The internet would still function, just differently then some people expect it to. Obviously if I want to follow a link on your web page then I need to follow it in your namespace, but that's an implementation detail.
ISPs already know that multiple namespaces don't break anything. Why do you think they're all cashing in on NXDOMAIN pages?
Many companies do split horizon DNS. Internal address lookups give different views than external ones, and sometimes the same domain has different addresses.
So if an alternate DNS shows up that returns the same results as the ICANN DNS except it doesn't block access to sites that the US Gov doesn't like, then what's the problem? And if it creates a new TLD and sells addresses for half the cost of the.com addresses, what's the problem with that? People using the legacy DNS won't see the blocked addresses or the new addresses, but nothing bad happens to them.
The difference is if something goes wrong do you get attacked by lawyers from the company or do you get attacked by the lawyers of the military.
I was out at STRATCOM around '95 doing a computer upgrade. Given the role of the computers at this site I had a guard with a gun standing behind me the whole time. You better believe I hoped nothing would "go wrong". Lawyers were the least of my worries.
Sure. And it also depends on whether "detected" is the ones left after throwing out all of the obviously wrong results. The numbers could be off either way.
No. Their profits decrease as costs increase, and they do care about minimizing costs.
Not all of them are particularly good at it, though. Never attribute to malice that which can be adequately explained by incompetence.
If insurance companies made money by selling medical coverage and competing with each other to provide the best care at the lowest price, this would be true.
However, insurance company economics is actually that they borrow money from patients and their employers (up front premium payments) invest it, delay payments as long as possible, and profit based on the investments. This means it is to their advantage for costs to be as high as possible (increasing the investment size), and for the paperwork to be as complex as possible (leading to longer delays in payment).
It's also important to note that Republicans never want to significantly cut military spending. They'd prefer to cut all social programs and redirect that money to their war profiteering friends/owners.
Partly true. Republicans do not want to cut weapons program spending. They've never been too generous on pay and benefits to soldiers, though.
So once the technology is available to directly read someone's thoughts, I assume they will allow the same argument. You can't be forced to say what you're thinking, but you can't stop them from looking inside your head because the evidence is there.
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Now you'll finally have time to take that beginner's Javascript class.
As much as this doom and gloom stuff is a little far fetched, it is certainly worth sitting up and taking notice. Each individual algorithm or automated process may seem innocuous, but only when it is tied into every other system can we realize the potential concern. Essentially, we can create our own digital butterfly effect. A butterfly lands on a sensor that determines which direction to point a grid of solar panels, shading it. The panels turn another direction and lose an hours worth of sunlight for the day, which causes a generator to kick into gear. That generator runs out of gas because no one was expecting to need it in the middle of the summer. Since the generator is now out, and Jesus Christ wouldn't you know it, Reddit is down again.
Good thing nothing like that ever happens without computer control.
Give me the things that are completely free of statistics, math and algorithms - like baseball!
They paid in V14gra
A better question to ask might be, why their current, much vaunted CCTV surveillance isn't doing a better job of nabbing those hooilgans earlier in the process?
They have also requested police powers to remove head coverings (ski masks) and have requested tapes from news crews. The local CCTV cameras are likely the first targets in the riots.
Hey everyone worrying about the debt is being played - the US can borrow money at 1.25% that means the interest paid on a trillion of debt is 12.5Billion dollars, which is rounding error in the US budget - the US now pays less interest on debt than it did during Bush I. Also people fail to recall that if you borrow money to create assets, such as roads and infrastructure it is not the same as borrowing money to spend on hookers and blow - since that assets you create have some long term value. We, as a people, are getting played by the rich and the powerful - it is very sad to see this country getting played by a bunch of ultra-rich right wing plutocrats who create one phony crisis after another to scare us into enriching them further.
The problem is the gap between spending and revenue has not been this high since WW II. So the concern is not about the debt - right now its pretty manageable. Its about the deficit which is out of control.
Crime is going through the roof all over the U.S. and it's because there is no opportunity.
Crime rates per capita are at the lowest levels since the 1960's. 1991 was the peak, its been going down ever since.
http://www.disastercenter.com/crime/uscrime.htm
Would you go as far as to say "culpably" irresponsible? Would some kind of lawsuit help, or are Oracle too big for the law?
I believe they are willing to refund the entire purchase price for the compiler.
It was an Oracle product when they turned on the optimize flags that revealed the bug, were notified of the bug, and decided to ship with the flags on anyway.
If it had been Sun they would have delayed the release, because Java was Sun's poster product. Oracle has either canned or driven away so much talent that they probably have no clue what Java is at this point.
Did the poster even look at the chart he linked to? Those big lines that shoot up to the top after 1-3 years? They're the failure rates for hard disks. The ones near the bottom? They're the failure rates for SSDs. Now, some of the SSD figures are projected and look quite optimistic, but the number of hard disks failing after 3 years looks high than the number of SSDs failing after three years by all of the studies. For most workloads, the SSDs fail less often, and the SSD failures only exceed HD failures very early on in their lifetimes.
Not only does the data point to better reliability for SSD, look at the application!
All of the HDD data is from datacenters - rack mounted, cooled, well cared for drives. Now imagine what happens to a drive in a laptop. I think it would be interesting to see that comparison.
I'm getting tired of all the reboots. Please find some new material.
Coming soon: Archie, The Movie
Nothing in QED states that light must travel at the speed of light.
But basic English does.
Peak power use is in daytime hours in hot climates to run air conditioning, so it sounds just right to me.
Why not? The FBI infiltrates US peace groups:
http://www.progressive.org/mc011411.html
http://www.progressive.org/mc052609.html
Another reason that you can't have multiple DNS trees is that DNS contains a mechanism for fixing that - if you've got your DNS tree with aaa.example.com and Eugene has his aaa.example.com, you can both be replaced by a very small shell script that turns yours into aaa.example.com.smallpond.altroots.net and his into aaa.example.com.kashpureff.altroots.net, and suddenly you've been assimilated and there's just one namespace again.
This isn't a mechanism for "fixing" anything. It is a mechanism for demonstrating exactly what I said, that multiple DNS trees can coexist on the internet.
Users want namespaces that point them to the correct place, so that somebody can say "I'm at thisdomain.com" and anybody in the world can use it, and "users" includes both the owners of the name and people using that name to retrieve content.
The correct place? You've drunk the kool-aid. Maybe you also buy star names from the International Star Registry. Of course if I want anyone in the world to connect to my domain using the "One, True, Correct, Canonical Name" then that name has to be in every nameserver. Now please tell me how I get to the domains that have been pulled out of the ICANN database by the US government, even though they are registered and reside in other countries?
Otherwise we need to use namespace assimilation (if we want to keep DNS syntax) or start bang-pathing everything (if we'd rather use mixed syntaxes.)
None of that means that the DNS Root should be owned by ICANN, who are a conspiracy of lizard-like aliens here to steal our water and almost totally under the control of the Trademark Gods, but breaking that requires you to defeat them all in single combat. Good luck with that (and I say that in all sincerity, but you aren't going to succeed, because they've got way more money and clout than you're going to have.)
It does not require defeating them in single combat. I could walk around them through the alternate root door. However they are closing that off by pushing DNSSEC so that they can have absolute control of DNS.
The Richard Cheng in the article is a US Atorney who has pursued other cases on behalf of Cisco:
http://www.justice.gov/usao/can/press/2011/2011_01_10_daly.sentenced.press.html
Perhaps someone should inquire about that relationship.
It had to be said
No it didn't. Everything in the internet is designed to be distributed. There is no reason why you can't have multiple DNS trees. If one maps aaa.example.com to 192.168.0.1 and the other maps it to 192.222.0.1 nothing breaks. They are just different namespaces. Go ahead and yell and scream that every domain must map to one and only one IP but the truth is that it doesn't. The internet would still function, just differently then some people expect it to. Obviously if I want to follow a link on your web page then I need to follow it in your namespace, but that's an implementation detail.
ISPs already know that multiple namespaces don't break anything. Why do you think they're all cashing in on NXDOMAIN pages?
Many companies do split horizon DNS. Internal address lookups give different views than external ones, and sometimes the same domain has different addresses.
So if an alternate DNS shows up that returns the same results as the ICANN DNS except it doesn't block access to sites that the US Gov doesn't like, then what's the problem? And if it creates a new TLD and sells addresses for half the cost of the .com addresses, what's the problem with that? People using the legacy DNS won't see the blocked addresses or the new addresses, but nothing bad happens to them.
The difference is if something goes wrong do you get attacked by lawyers from the company or do you get attacked by the lawyers of the military.
I was out at STRATCOM around '95 doing a computer upgrade. Given the role of the computers at this site I had a guard with a gun standing behind me the whole time. You better believe I hoped nothing would "go wrong". Lawyers were the least of my worries.
Its only been under development for a short time. Oh. 20 years? n/m
Sure. And it also depends on whether "detected" is the ones left after throwing out all of the obviously wrong results. The numbers could be off either way.
They don't give numbers for Mass but they do for NY.
New York detected roughly 3,500 instances of possible fraud, resulting in 600 arrests since a system was adopted in 2010.
Looks like about 80% fail rate to me.
Does their profit increase as costs increase?
No. Their profits decrease as costs increase, and they do care about minimizing costs.
Not all of them are particularly good at it, though. Never attribute to malice that which can be adequately explained by incompetence.
If insurance companies made money by selling medical coverage and competing with each other to provide the best care at the lowest price, this would be true.
However, insurance company economics is actually that they borrow money from patients and their employers (up front premium payments) invest it, delay payments as long as possible, and profit based on the investments. This means it is to their advantage for costs to be as high as possible (increasing the investment size), and for the paperwork to be as complex as possible (leading to longer delays in payment).
It's also important to note that Republicans never want to significantly cut military spending. They'd prefer to cut all social programs and redirect that money to their war profiteering friends/owners.
Partly true. Republicans do not want to cut weapons program spending. They've never been too generous on pay and benefits to soldiers, though.
I recently bought an Acorn Electron
on eBay. It works. Now to think up something super-1337 to do with it.
I also still own the Pentium 233 MMX system I did my Master's thesis on.
...laura
Its the ideal system for controlling a model train layout using BASIC.
This is a good idea. A hardware implementation of a risk analysis algorithm is always faster than software.
So once the technology is available to directly read someone's thoughts, I assume they will allow the same argument. You can't be forced to say what you're thinking, but you can't stop them from looking inside your head because the evidence is there.