The FCC is an American regulator. Someone did a study and found, after removing big business interests, almost no correlation between how the US federal government passes regulations and the desires of voters. It's not just gerrymandering, a huge patchwork of laws and nearly unlimited political spending that guarantee no one outside the two parties will have power, statistically the USA is not a democracy in anyway*. Just be lucky that today, there are big companies whose interests align with yours.
If we define democracy as the ability for people to change their government peacefully then Germany is the only democracy the US has supported in 70 years. (Japan has elections but the same party always wins)
(YOU ARE NOT google or facebooks customer, you are the product) Google isn't a monopolist in search but between Google and Facebook they do completely dominate online advertising.
The newspapers want to negotiate with Google and Facebook but they can't. There is an imbalance in power because there are many newspapers and only two companies they can get advertising money from. If they don't band together it becomes a race to the bottom for them.
read this
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Things were warmer only 1 billion years after the big bang so the clouds to form a star forming rejoin should have been larger.
For a cloud of gas to collapse into a star it has to have a certain mass in a given volume and be below a specific temperature. If the temperature is to high the heat will keep the cloud from collapsing. Clouds that can collapse into a single star are still rare. So you need a much much large cloud and hence you end up with star forming regions where the cloud collapses and as the density increases multiple stars are formed. (as a cloud collapses it heats up but the density increases so that the temperature to support the cloud increases faster than the clouds temperature - basically once it starts to collapse the process speeds up). Anyway, in the early universe the clouds are expected to be warmer, so the amount of gas needed to start the collapse and star forming process is expected to be much larger. So we should see truly huge start forming regions.
Cost isn't a problem for a rich dying person. If it really was your only hope $500,000 is within reach of probably 25% of families in North America. And don't get me started on the stupidity of OHIP (Ontario's Health system), I've watched them spend close to $300,000 twice on friends or relatives who had zero chance of recovery.
The batteries are needed to top up the grid and to create power stability - keep the voltage and current in sync, keep the frequency stable and maintain voltage. They aren't meant to power any individual homes. They are for peaks when everyone turns on AC at the same time and the demand temporarily exceeds the generation or for cases where the wind suddenly dies and the sun stops shinning for a short period.
Take a utility in the southern USA, about 15% of their infrastructure is there for the extreme peaks in demand. The last 8% for Oklahoma Gas and Electric is used less than (I think) 12 hours a year. That's tens of billions of dollars. If a few well placed half billion dollar batteries could do the same thing it would be a good deal.
If I'm good and work for bug bounties on other projects I can get a sort of steady pay. If I work on iOS bugs I might not find a valuable one with 6 months of effort. You could raise the payout to a million dollars a bug but I can't work on it full time because I will never no if and when I will get the pay.
If you want to have a replacement rate of 2.3 children per woman some women will need to have at least 3 kids. I'm lucky, my ex and I had excellent educations and very good jobs. However in Canada having more than 2 kids is in many ways an exception and there are lots of little things that are surprisingly biased against families larger than 4. I've seen in some cities that are more dog friendly than kid friendly and when they do have facilities or policies for small children it is for one child. So if most western countries require a woman to start a career before having children then the number of women having them will go down, if women are discourage from having their first child until after 30 it gets worse and if you make it difficult or almost weird for women to have more than 1 or 2 children then it's pretty much mathematically impossible to maintain a population without large amounts of immigration.
Also at some point our health care system started spending the majority of its money on people in their last 18 months of life. There are a lot of other wealth transfers from the young to older generations, house prices, government debt... There is likely some tipping point were the share of the economy that is given to 18 - 30 year olds becomes so small that they don't feel secure enough to start a family. My suspicion is that most western countries crossed that point a while ago.
Look at the page edits. There haven't been any edits in the last 6 months that look as if they could be hiding any information. There are some pretty stealthy forms of Steganography but I can't see any evidence of it on this page.
Pump water storage isn't even viable where the systems are already built and are a sunk cost. The maintenance costs are just too high. The existing ones are maintained as insurance policies. Utilities buy the right to use their capacity at very high cost. The hydro power from these is then occasionally used while a turbo fan gas generator comes on line or while a large industrial user is convinced to shed load. We currently have no electricity storage technology that is profitable at even the extreme swings in electricity prices today. (chemical batteries degenerate before providing enough charge/discharge cycles to pay for themselves). Worse still for an investor is if a viable storage system was invented today it would decrease the swing in price and might not then be profitable or a future improvement would decrease the price swing before the capital cost of the first generation storage was paid off. Until something is invented that would be profitable at 5-10 cents I don't see anything being deployed at scale.
If I access RAM in a different way than the way or from a process other than the one that is supposed to have that memory location I will use the wrong key or counter mode counter and as a result get garbage. I also can't write anything meaningful there for the other process to read.
If I want to be off grid I need to:
Have storage for multiple days if the sun doesn't shine.
Have excess generation capacity
Have enough power in my batteries to power all my appliances at once.
Now if I get together with a few neighbours I don't need as much excess, since the likely hood of us all turning on every appliance is low we wouldn't need as much absolute power, and we could share some costs of the circuitry. If my neighbourhood got together with another neighbourhood we could save even more and if we got together with neighbourhoods geographically separated from us it would be even better. Ideally we would create a grid stretching across the contentment so that we could share power with people in other time zones or to take advantage of things like potential energy in river water, or maybe a instead of putting our solar panels on the roof we could put them all somewhere more convenient that gets more sun. Maybe we could even pay someone else to manage all this stuff. Get them to do the research, borrow money to build the infrastructure, manage the lines between me and my neighbours,.. I wonder what we would call a company that would do all this for us?
The wireless alliance I belong to had a meeting 6 years ago in Canada. A Mexican worker who lived in the USA, who repeatedly asked before hand if there would be any issue, was denied entry. We haven't had a meeting in Canada since.
When you consider the major cost to events like these is the time of the engineers, hassles like missing key people or having to scramble to get a 3rd implementer of feature X suddenly cost more than flying to a nice country where the immigration isn't a bunch of assholes. Cuba would be nice if they had better internet.
The malware creator will obviously be honorable because he has to prove that he will unlock the files of the other people who pay. The malware creator actual has more concern about his business image than most companies you deal with.
Just because YOUR generation has no respect for integrity doesn't mean it isn't valuable.
On a 50 floor building an elevator 4'x6' will have a shaft a little larger plus a 10' waiting area in front of it, so say 15x8 or 120 feet square x 50 floors gives 6000 square feet. Times $1000 per square foot for grade A office space and your elevator is now taking up $6 million dollars worth of floor space.
Fuck them all, the people who lost everything on the margin call and the creditors that loaned the money. This is bullshit. Margin calls were done incorrectly based on the same flawed reasoning that happens in all the major stock exchanges. GDAX nothing wrong. The traders were stupid and for the good of everyone else we need to stop bailing them out.
Some quick (very simplified) background for people who don't know how an OS works
Most of the time user space programs will be running on a processor. Each user space program has its own memory space to work from. The processor switches back to the kernel when an interrupt occurs. An interrupt is a signal to the processor that causes it to save some information about the current running program and then jump to an instruction or function based on the interrupt. An interrupt could be an serial device demanding attention or a keyboard press. It could be a timer indicating that the current user programs time slice is up and it is time for the kernel to give another program a chance to run. Programs also trigger interrupts to get the kernel to do something. A printf() creates a string in memory, puts the address of the string in a register and then calls an interrupt so the kernel can display the string.
Interrupts are specific to processors.
On an x86 based processor one of the interrupts used by the kernel is the page-fault interrupt. This interrupt is triggered when a program accesses memory that it wasn't given permission to access. Often this occurs when the user program stack has grown to large for the amount of memory the kernel gave the program. The kernel will respond to the page-fault interrupt by giving the program more memory if it can.
However the page-fault interrupt doesn't reliably go off in the way the kernel programmers would like. It is possible to access memory that you were not supposed to be able to access with out the interrupt occurring. This unfortunate difference in expectation is what leads to this vulnerability and why it affects multiple OS on i86..
We could probably use some training on this. Judgement of your own actions isn't easy especially in an area that you aren't good at. A lot of guys that cross the line in dating don't intend to and don't know they are doing it until they are called out. If this is the case here I actually respect the guy for admitting what he did was wrong instead of denying it or arguing it wasn't wrong. Asking a coworker out even your boss isn't wrong as long as it is done with out putting pressure on the other person.* Men need to know when they are pressing a woman to hard or using any form of power over a woman. (yes, I'm generalizing). And women, definitely need to know when they are acting like a herd, and pushing each other to do ever more and more harassing things to some guy they have collectively decided to victimize.
*I have a friend who is marrying her old boss and she's thrilled. She tall, beautiful and crazy strong, so most men are terrified of her.
If I work less than 30 hours a week I loose my working train of thought. I become completely useless. 3 day weekend and I can work the day I come in. 4 day weekend and it takes me 3 days to get back into my projects. I suspect I might be on the extreme end but most non-repetitive jobs have a tipping point where if you take to long away from them you have a significant amount of time required to get back into the routine.
Three questions
1. If we knew we were going to go extinct could we send a message to other potential civilizations warning them*?
2. Would we?
3. Has anyone left us such a message?
*I'm thinking probes with messages written on them and a radio active material with a billion year half life. The probes don't have to go fast, they can take a million years to reach their destinations. They just have to last a billion or so years and be discoverable.
This means what ever filter has prevented someone else from already colonizing our galaxy, being something we have already avoided, is a little less likely. That means that the thing preventing us from being the first to colonize the galaxy is probably still in our future.
You just sited someone saying 100 million years ago the earth was warmer than today so over the coarse of millions of years we aren't statistically out of the norm. The climate today is rather nice for humans. There were no humans a million years ago and there won't be any a million years from now. On geological scales the earth will be fine. I'm a bit more concerned about the lives of my children and grand children though. You know the next 100 years.
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The FCC is an American regulator. Someone did a study and found, after removing big business interests, almost no correlation between how the US federal government passes regulations and the desires of voters. It's not just gerrymandering, a huge patchwork of laws and nearly unlimited political spending that guarantee no one outside the two parties will have power, statistically the USA is not a democracy in anyway*. Just be lucky that today, there are big companies whose interests align with yours.
If we define democracy as the ability for people to change their government peacefully then Germany is the only democracy the US has supported in 70 years. (Japan has elections but the same party always wins)
(YOU ARE NOT google or facebooks customer, you are the product) Google isn't a monopolist in search but between Google and Facebook they do completely dominate online advertising.
The newspapers want to negotiate with Google and Facebook but they can't. There is an imbalance in power because there are many newspapers and only two companies they can get advertising money from. If they don't band together it becomes a race to the bottom for them.
read this https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... Things were warmer only 1 billion years after the big bang so the clouds to form a star forming rejoin should have been larger.
For a cloud of gas to collapse into a star it has to have a certain mass in a given volume and be below a specific temperature. If the temperature is to high the heat will keep the cloud from collapsing. Clouds that can collapse into a single star are still rare. So you need a much much large cloud and hence you end up with star forming regions where the cloud collapses and as the density increases multiple stars are formed. (as a cloud collapses it heats up but the density increases so that the temperature to support the cloud increases faster than the clouds temperature - basically once it starts to collapse the process speeds up). Anyway, in the early universe the clouds are expected to be warmer, so the amount of gas needed to start the collapse and star forming process is expected to be much larger. So we should see truly huge start forming regions.
Cost isn't a problem for a rich dying person. If it really was your only hope $500,000 is within reach of probably 25% of families in North America. And don't get me started on the stupidity of OHIP (Ontario's Health system), I've watched them spend close to $300,000 twice on friends or relatives who had zero chance of recovery.
The batteries are needed to top up the grid and to create power stability - keep the voltage and current in sync, keep the frequency stable and maintain voltage. They aren't meant to power any individual homes. They are for peaks when everyone turns on AC at the same time and the demand temporarily exceeds the generation or for cases where the wind suddenly dies and the sun stops shinning for a short period.
Take a utility in the southern USA, about 15% of their infrastructure is there for the extreme peaks in demand. The last 8% for Oklahoma Gas and Electric is used less than (I think) 12 hours a year. That's tens of billions of dollars. If a few well placed half billion dollar batteries could do the same thing it would be a good deal.
None story. The key patents are from 2000. They will expire before the technology is ready for wide deployment.
If I'm good and work for bug bounties on other projects I can get a sort of steady pay. If I work on iOS bugs I might not find a valuable one with 6 months of effort. You could raise the payout to a million dollars a bug but I can't work on it full time because I will never no if and when I will get the pay.
If you want to have a replacement rate of 2.3 children per woman some women will need to have at least 3 kids. I'm lucky, my ex and I had excellent educations and very good jobs. However in Canada having more than 2 kids is in many ways an exception and there are lots of little things that are surprisingly biased against families larger than 4. I've seen in some cities that are more dog friendly than kid friendly and when they do have facilities or policies for small children it is for one child. So if most western countries require a woman to start a career before having children then the number of women having them will go down, if women are discourage from having their first child until after 30 it gets worse and if you make it difficult or almost weird for women to have more than 1 or 2 children then it's pretty much mathematically impossible to maintain a population without large amounts of immigration.
Also at some point our health care system started spending the majority of its money on people in their last 18 months of life. There are a lot of other wealth transfers from the young to older generations, house prices, government debt... There is likely some tipping point were the share of the economy that is given to 18 - 30 year olds becomes so small that they don't feel secure enough to start a family. My suspicion is that most western countries crossed that point a while ago.
Look at the page edits. There haven't been any edits in the last 6 months that look as if they could be hiding any information. There are some pretty stealthy forms of Steganography but I can't see any evidence of it on this page.
It is electric with regenerative braking. It had better be able to break from 60 to 0 in 6 seconds. The acceleration is merely a by product.
Pump water storage isn't even viable where the systems are already built and are a sunk cost. The maintenance costs are just too high. The existing ones are maintained as insurance policies. Utilities buy the right to use their capacity at very high cost. The hydro power from these is then occasionally used while a turbo fan gas generator comes on line or while a large industrial user is convinced to shed load. We currently have no electricity storage technology that is profitable at even the extreme swings in electricity prices today. (chemical batteries degenerate before providing enough charge/discharge cycles to pay for themselves). Worse still for an investor is if a viable storage system was invented today it would decrease the swing in price and might not then be profitable or a future improvement would decrease the price swing before the capital cost of the first generation storage was paid off. Until something is invented that would be profitable at 5-10 cents I don't see anything being deployed at scale.
If I access RAM in a different way than the way or from a process other than the one that is supposed to have that memory location I will use the wrong key or counter mode counter and as a result get garbage. I also can't write anything meaningful there for the other process to read.
If I want to be off grid I need to:
Have storage for multiple days if the sun doesn't shine.
Have excess generation capacity
Have enough power in my batteries to power all my appliances at once.
Now if I get together with a few neighbours I don't need as much excess, since the likely hood of us all turning on every appliance is low we wouldn't need as much absolute power, and we could share some costs of the circuitry. If my neighbourhood got together with another neighbourhood we could save even more and if we got together with neighbourhoods geographically separated from us it would be even better. Ideally we would create a grid stretching across the contentment so that we could share power with people in other time zones or to take advantage of things like potential energy in river water, or maybe a instead of putting our solar panels on the roof we could put them all somewhere more convenient that gets more sun. Maybe we could even pay someone else to manage all this stuff. Get them to do the research, borrow money to build the infrastructure, manage the lines between me and my neighbours,.. I wonder what we would call a company that would do all this for us?
The wireless alliance I belong to had a meeting 6 years ago in Canada. A Mexican worker who lived in the USA, who repeatedly asked before hand if there would be any issue, was denied entry. We haven't had a meeting in Canada since.
When you consider the major cost to events like these is the time of the engineers, hassles like missing key people or having to scramble to get a 3rd implementer of feature X suddenly cost more than flying to a nice country where the immigration isn't a bunch of assholes. Cuba would be nice if they had better internet.
The malware creator will obviously be honorable because he has to prove that he will unlock the files of the other people who pay. The malware creator actual has more concern about his business image than most companies you deal with.
Just because YOUR generation has no respect for integrity doesn't mean it isn't valuable.
On a 50 floor building an elevator 4'x6' will have a shaft a little larger plus a 10' waiting area in front of it, so say 15x8 or 120 feet square x 50 floors gives 6000 square feet. Times $1000 per square foot for grade A office space and your elevator is now taking up $6 million dollars worth of floor space.
Fuck them all, the people who lost everything on the margin call and the creditors that loaned the money. This is bullshit. Margin calls were done incorrectly based on the same flawed reasoning that happens in all the major stock exchanges. GDAX nothing wrong. The traders were stupid and for the good of everyone else we need to stop bailing them out.
Some quick (very simplified) background for people who don't know how an OS works
Most of the time user space programs will be running on a processor. Each user space program has its own memory space to work from. The processor switches back to the kernel when an interrupt occurs. An interrupt is a signal to the processor that causes it to save some information about the current running program and then jump to an instruction or function based on the interrupt. An interrupt could be an serial device demanding attention or a keyboard press. It could be a timer indicating that the current user programs time slice is up and it is time for the kernel to give another program a chance to run. Programs also trigger interrupts to get the kernel to do something. A printf() creates a string in memory, puts the address of the string in a register and then calls an interrupt so the kernel can display the string.
Interrupts are specific to processors.
On an x86 based processor one of the interrupts used by the kernel is the page-fault interrupt. This interrupt is triggered when a program accesses memory that it wasn't given permission to access. Often this occurs when the user program stack has grown to large for the amount of memory the kernel gave the program. The kernel will respond to the page-fault interrupt by giving the program more memory if it can.
However the page-fault interrupt doesn't reliably go off in the way the kernel programmers would like. It is possible to access memory that you were not supposed to be able to access with out the interrupt occurring. This unfortunate difference in expectation is what leads to this vulnerability and why it affects multiple OS on i86..
https://www.qualys.com/2017/06...
We could probably use some training on this. Judgement of your own actions isn't easy especially in an area that you aren't good at. A lot of guys that cross the line in dating don't intend to and don't know they are doing it until they are called out. If this is the case here I actually respect the guy for admitting what he did was wrong instead of denying it or arguing it wasn't wrong. Asking a coworker out even your boss isn't wrong as long as it is done with out putting pressure on the other person.* Men need to know when they are pressing a woman to hard or using any form of power over a woman. (yes, I'm generalizing). And women, definitely need to know when they are acting like a herd, and pushing each other to do ever more and more harassing things to some guy they have collectively decided to victimize.
*I have a friend who is marrying her old boss and she's thrilled. She tall, beautiful and crazy strong, so most men are terrified of her.
If I work less than 30 hours a week I loose my working train of thought. I become completely useless. 3 day weekend and I can work the day I come in. 4 day weekend and it takes me 3 days to get back into my projects. I suspect I might be on the extreme end but most non-repetitive jobs have a tipping point where if you take to long away from them you have a significant amount of time required to get back into the routine.
Three questions
1. If we knew we were going to go extinct could we send a message to other potential civilizations warning them*?
2. Would we?
3. Has anyone left us such a message?
*I'm thinking probes with messages written on them and a radio active material with a billion year half life. The probes don't have to go fast, they can take a million years to reach their destinations. They just have to last a billion or so years and be discoverable.
This means what ever filter has prevented someone else from already colonizing our galaxy, being something we have already avoided, is a little less likely. That means that the thing preventing us from being the first to colonize the galaxy is probably still in our future.
You just sited someone saying 100 million years ago the earth was warmer than today so over the coarse of millions of years we aren't statistically out of the norm. The climate today is rather nice for humans. There were no humans a million years ago and there won't be any a million years from now. On geological scales the earth will be fine. I'm a bit more concerned about the lives of my children and grand children though. You know the next 100 years.