Sunspot 1158 is currently facing towards earth. This is not terribly uncommon - but X series flares are relatively rare. This is the strongest flare in the last four years. What is notable about this event is that it's an X series flare AND its pointed straight at us. It's not in the top ten (X9.0 is the bottom of the top ten, and its a logarithmic scale) of what we've observed, BUT it is the strongest flare in modern history that has been pointed straight at us.
The CME will arrive in 24-48 hours. What the effects of the geomagnetic storm we're about to get will actually be, nobody's completely sure. The most likely case is a K7 or K8 geomagnetic storm. See this scale - and expect G3 or G4.
Realistically, this will mean some power utilities are paying very close attention to their systems and having to tweak things. HAMs will definitely notice it, and cell phones may have some issues (not that you'd notice much).
In summary, if you're anywhere north of 45 or 50 degrees lat and have some clear skies, get outside tonight and tomorrow night. Should be a good show.
The argument is valid for certain cases. That said, the large majority of work I do has the same operational cost regardless of where we get the software. We still have to learn how it works, and integrate it into the system we're deploying.
A proprietary solution has merit if you don't have technical people and you depend on an external company. Take whatever solution they provide.
But out in the technology world proper, these things cost more upfront and probably take just as much work to integrate.
Duh? Of course if you are using a CPU that doesn't implement the technology that the service is based on you wouldn't be able to use it. This is like saying that "Intel Faces Monopoly Investigation" because x86 code only runs on... x86 processors.
Congratulations, you just proved the point. Intel DID face monopoly investigations for x86 instruction sets. That's why AMD exists, because Intel was forced to license the i386 instruction set.
If Intel doesn't license out this technology, and it becomes the dominant media distribution platform, they'll likely face the same problems again. However, Intel has learned, and these days AMD and Intel cross-license quite a bit. x86_64, for example, is AMD tech that Intel has licensed.
This. Additionally, with a BES you have an always-available vpn-like tunnel through to your internal network. BBSSH saves me so much time its not even funny.
They're certainly not made up numbers. That said, transit costs vary greatly by location and business negotiations. Getting a 10 gig link out of 60 Hudson when you have presence there is totally different than getting fiber run out to some middle-of-nowhere location.
I'm assuming we're talking about the opex cost of 10 gigs worth of transit from a fairly central hub. Capex to provide infrastructure to back that cost is not included. If we take the premise that Comcast's internal network isn't congested and only its transit links (which the graphs suggest is the major bottleneck), then there probably isn't significant capex cost in bringing online another link.
Of course I'm making huge assumptions. I'm on slashdot. Duh.
This is _ONE_ ten gig link. Lets assume they have another 10 gig to level3.
His point is pretty clear: ten gig links are NOT THAT EXPENSIVE. We're not talking about a 100 million dollar expense here, we're talking probably an extra 200k per month per link.
They're intentionally bandwidth starving themselves. I can't see any other explanation, and Backdoor Santa is right.
For the purposes of elections and raising funds for a political party, monetary donation is considered an exercise of free speech. That is the premise that allowed billions of extra funds from private individuals to go towards the election without any tracking.
Yet, financially supporting an organization deemed "terrorist" by the government is not a function of free speech. Now the lines are becoming even more blurred, given Wikileaks isn't even termed a terrorist organization. They are, however, denying the public the ability to support them financially.
By the same logic of the courts, this should be an issue of free speech. Mastercard et al are impeding free speech.
Yeah, except that you get sick and you spend your entire time "off" in bed. I had that once and I hated it.
If I'm sick, I'm told to stay home, and I'll happily try to do some work from there. If you tell me that I'll lose vacation time by staying home, I'm gonna come into the office short being unable to walk. Take your pick, which do you prefer?
I saw Penrose speak on this topic at the Perimeter Institute about two years ago. He has been working on this for quite a while.
You captured the essence of his hypothesis. The idea is that in the latter stages of a universe, you eventually get two supermassive black holes orbiting each other - each containing half of the matter in the universe. As they rotate around each other, they're effectively ripping each other apart from the massive gravity wells. His theory is that the point at which they finally coalesce after billions of years of orbit, space and time "reset", and in that same instant the big bang takes place.
His premise is that not all of the energy has been completely contained within the singularity. When the big bang happens, the outlying energy causes rings in the background radiation.
Funny thing was, two days before his talk he got the first results back from the radiation survey. They didn't find rings, they found ovals. And in his words "we have no idea what that means".
I've always wondered how this type of system works. Campaign spending is $20 million, what if the owner of the hockey teams decided to spend their own $20 million outside of that?
They're in violation of the elections act and liable for criminal charges.
The Canadian election system limits campaign spending to roughly $20 million per major party. The full amount of money allowed in our election is somewhere around $60 million. It costs more to actually run the polling booths. We have a population roughly one tenth of the US. Taking a rough stab at it, you're spending $2.5 Billion for your midterm elections. Or about four times the amount per capita as us.
Additionally, in our system, a large percentage of that is publicly funded. And the maximum corporate donation is $1000. We have problems with corporate interests and lobbyists in Canada. You guys don't have a problem with it: you're OWNED by corporate interests.
Ok, wow, its an actual term explaining the number collisions. From wikipedia:
The "inverse femtobarn" (fb1) is a measurement of particle collision events per femtobarn. Over a period of time, two streams of particles with a cross-sectional area, measured in femtobarns, are directed to collide.
However, an "inverse femtobarn of data" still makes no sense.
Given the hyperbole being spewed from several media outlets and demagogues, I think your government is probably right to be scared of it's citizenry at this time.
It's unfortunate that most of that anger is being wielded expertly by extremely wealthy power-brokers.
Please explain how the government mandating energy efficiency is equivalent to the government screwing us.
The government keeps your energy prices artificially low. I think that gives them the right to make sure you're not pissing away energy. Or would you rather electricity was five times the current price?
I actually might prefer that. But I also make significantly more than the average person.
Show me one Christian that has given up his beliefs because of the actions of a fundamentalist.
Religious belief is not logical. If I followed Leviticus strictly, and cut off the hand of a woman for interfering a fight between two men, no moderate christian would suddenly be like "wow, really? This whole Christianity thing is kinda nuts!" They would simply write it off as someone taking their beliefs too far and be smugly confident in the fact that their view of God's wishes was correct.
The only way to moderate fundamentalists and reduce religion is through education.
Their response is needed to awaken the secular West to the threat of religion, all of which are toxic. We are used to tame, social-club religions. Islam is not that.
You do not train a child to be rational and logical by mocking them. You do it by listening to them and educating them slowly over time.
Why does everyone seem to think that inflammatory actions will somehow improve this situation? Keep in mind that what is currently a fairly fundamental Islamic world was effectively created in the last 100 years through financial oligarchy. The theocracy it has implemented is primarily a means of control, and only utilized out of convenience.
It will take a generation or two to moderate the middle east - however nothing we're doing now has set us on that path.
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Very nice work. Can you tell us about your gear and what you did to get it all coming out so nicely?
Here's a bit more context.
Sunspot 1158 is currently facing towards earth. This is not terribly uncommon - but X series flares are relatively rare. This is the strongest flare in the last four years. What is notable about this event is that it's an X series flare AND its pointed straight at us. It's not in the top ten (X9.0 is the bottom of the top ten, and its a logarithmic scale) of what we've observed, BUT it is the strongest flare in modern history that has been pointed straight at us.
The CME will arrive in 24-48 hours. What the effects of the geomagnetic storm we're about to get will actually be, nobody's completely sure. The most likely case is a K7 or K8 geomagnetic storm. See this scale - and expect G3 or G4.
Realistically, this will mean some power utilities are paying very close attention to their systems and having to tweak things. HAMs will definitely notice it, and cell phones may have some issues (not that you'd notice much).
In summary, if you're anywhere north of 45 or 50 degrees lat and have some clear skies, get outside tonight and tomorrow night. Should be a good show.
The argument is valid for certain cases. That said, the large majority of work I do has the same operational cost regardless of where we get the software. We still have to learn how it works, and integrate it into the system we're deploying.
A proprietary solution has merit if you don't have technical people and you depend on an external company. Take whatever solution they provide.
But out in the technology world proper, these things cost more upfront and probably take just as much work to integrate.
Duh? Of course if you are using a CPU that doesn't implement the technology that the service is based on you wouldn't be able to use it. This is like saying that "Intel Faces Monopoly Investigation" because x86 code only runs on... x86 processors.
Congratulations, you just proved the point. Intel DID face monopoly investigations for x86 instruction sets. That's why AMD exists, because Intel was forced to license the i386 instruction set.
If Intel doesn't license out this technology, and it becomes the dominant media distribution platform, they'll likely face the same problems again. However, Intel has learned, and these days AMD and Intel cross-license quite a bit. x86_64, for example, is AMD tech that Intel has licensed.
This. Additionally, with a BES you have an always-available vpn-like tunnel through to your internal network. BBSSH saves me so much time its not even funny.
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They're certainly not made up numbers. That said, transit costs vary greatly by location and business negotiations. Getting a 10 gig link out of 60 Hudson when you have presence there is totally different than getting fiber run out to some middle-of-nowhere location.
I'm assuming we're talking about the opex cost of 10 gigs worth of transit from a fairly central hub. Capex to provide infrastructure to back that cost is not included. If we take the premise that Comcast's internal network isn't congested and only its transit links (which the graphs suggest is the major bottleneck), then there probably isn't significant capex cost in bringing online another link.
Of course I'm making huge assumptions. I'm on slashdot. Duh.
we're talking probably an extra 200k per month per link.
ps. I'm rounding _way_ up.
This is _ONE_ ten gig link. Lets assume they have another 10 gig to level3.
His point is pretty clear: ten gig links are NOT THAT EXPENSIVE. We're not talking about a 100 million dollar expense here, we're talking probably an extra 200k per month per link.
They're intentionally bandwidth starving themselves. I can't see any other explanation, and Backdoor Santa is right.
You actually make a very interesting point.
For the purposes of elections and raising funds for a political party, monetary donation is considered an exercise of free speech. That is the premise that allowed billions of extra funds from private individuals to go towards the election without any tracking.
Yet, financially supporting an organization deemed "terrorist" by the government is not a function of free speech. Now the lines are becoming even more blurred, given Wikileaks isn't even termed a terrorist organization. They are, however, denying the public the ability to support them financially.
By the same logic of the courts, this should be an issue of free speech. Mastercard et al are impeding free speech.
Yeah, except that you get sick and you spend your entire time "off" in bed. I had that once and I hated it.
If I'm sick, I'm told to stay home, and I'll happily try to do some work from there. If you tell me that I'll lose vacation time by staying home, I'm gonna come into the office short being unable to walk. Take your pick, which do you prefer?
I agree. Let's never do anything that's a good idea if it somehow impacts existing infrastructure.
I saw Penrose speak on this topic at the Perimeter Institute about two years ago. He has been working on this for quite a while.
You captured the essence of his hypothesis. The idea is that in the latter stages of a universe, you eventually get two supermassive black holes orbiting each other - each containing half of the matter in the universe. As they rotate around each other, they're effectively ripping each other apart from the massive gravity wells. His theory is that the point at which they finally coalesce after billions of years of orbit, space and time "reset", and in that same instant the big bang takes place.
His premise is that not all of the energy has been completely contained within the singularity. When the big bang happens, the outlying energy causes rings in the background radiation.
Funny thing was, two days before his talk he got the first results back from the radiation survey. They didn't find rings, they found ovals. And in his words "we have no idea what that means".
It's great to see that he's making progress.
I've always wondered how this type of system works. Campaign spending is $20 million, what if the owner of the hockey teams decided to spend their own $20 million outside of that?
They're in violation of the elections act and liable for criminal charges.
Just for reference:
The Canadian election system limits campaign spending to roughly $20 million per major party. The full amount of money allowed in our election is somewhere around $60 million. It costs more to actually run the polling booths. We have a population roughly one tenth of the US. Taking a rough stab at it, you're spending $2.5 Billion for your midterm elections. Or about four times the amount per capita as us.
Additionally, in our system, a large percentage of that is publicly funded. And the maximum corporate donation is $1000. We have problems with corporate interests and lobbyists in Canada. You guys don't have a problem with it: you're OWNED by corporate interests.
Offshoring, cloud computing, automation, 'do more with less' — all of these have been chipping away at US IT workers' ability to have a job.
The only thing here that is a problem is offshoring. Cloud computing, automation, and doing more with less is our job.
This is my favorite bit:
10^-40 meters square = picobarn
10^-43 meters square = femtobarn
10^-46 meters square = attobarn
10^-52 meters square = shed
Ok, wow, its an actual term explaining the number collisions. From wikipedia:
The "inverse femtobarn" (fb1) is a measurement of particle collision events per femtobarn. Over a period of time, two streams of particles with a cross-sectional area, measured in femtobarns, are directed to collide.
However, an "inverse femtobarn of data" still makes no sense.
The next year is expected to bring at least one inverse femtobarn of data, which is achievable with such beam power.
Provided the inverse femtobarn doesn't react at a quantum level with the inverse tacheons (they're BOTH inverse!) then we should be fine.
I hope someone has thought of the possible interactions here.
wtf is a inverse femtobarn? Great term though
I doubt it. At this point it would appear the governments of the world don't need to do anything to deal with wikileaks - they simply need to wait.
Something like this is _very_ delicate. If Assange is getting a bit full of himself, this thing will come apart quickly.
Given the hyperbole being spewed from several media outlets and demagogues, I think your government is probably right to be scared of it's citizenry at this time.
It's unfortunate that most of that anger is being wielded expertly by extremely wealthy power-brokers.
Please explain how the government mandating energy efficiency is equivalent to the government screwing us.
The government keeps your energy prices artificially low. I think that gives them the right to make sure you're not pissing away energy. Or would you rather electricity was five times the current price?
I actually might prefer that. But I also make significantly more than the average person.
I qualify anyone who believes in imaginary friends a child, and I will treat them as such. Muslims are not the only target of that part of my comment.
I am also aware of how angry a child becomes when they realize they are being treated as one.
Show me one Christian that has given up his beliefs because of the actions of a fundamentalist.
Religious belief is not logical. If I followed Leviticus strictly, and cut off the hand of a woman for interfering a fight between two men, no moderate christian would suddenly be like "wow, really? This whole Christianity thing is kinda nuts!" They would simply write it off as someone taking their beliefs too far and be smugly confident in the fact that their view of God's wishes was correct.
The only way to moderate fundamentalists and reduce religion is through education.
Their response is needed to awaken the secular West to the threat of religion, all of which are toxic. We are used to tame, social-club religions. Islam is not that.
You do not train a child to be rational and logical by mocking them. You do it by listening to them and educating them slowly over time.
Why does everyone seem to think that inflammatory actions will somehow improve this situation? Keep in mind that what is currently a fairly fundamental Islamic world was effectively created in the last 100 years through financial oligarchy. The theocracy it has implemented is primarily a means of control, and only utilized out of convenience.
It will take a generation or two to moderate the middle east - however nothing we're doing now has set us on that path.