I was unawake the North Korea had enough computers to be dependant on them enough that a cyber attack would even be effective. Even if they had a few computers, do they a complex network accessable from the outside.
Computer experts, in the modern sense? Any systems to attack?
It makes sense from Iran's standpoint. They were attacked by Duqu and Stuxnet.
Is anyone else not connecting the talk of Iranian nuclear weapons and trying to not get hacked?
if you cannot offer the 20/mbs of second bandwith, then do not advertise that you can.
Most lines are throttled. Your cable line can actually provide around 100/mbs a second. did you know that? No its throttled, because they can't/won't provide it upstream. They don't sell you a 100/mbs pipe. They sell you 5, 10, or 20, depending on what you pay for. Generally they use this "throttling" to define the width of the pipe in software. No one complains really.
Its really nothing off their shoulders which type of content is being used, so they shouldn't be allowed to censor it.
What happened was a gross breach of contract with wireless companies.
It violates the spirit of the internet when a carrier can decide what data goes through a public network. Yes, by linking to the internet, which is a public network, you become part of a public network, and have to play by long standing rules.
Also, in theory, you are reducing regulation, by eliminating government regulation, but your only opening the door for regulation by private companies. This regulation will in actuality have a bigger effect on the internet and end users as a whole.
So I'll take the lesser of two evils and trust the government to enforce net neutrality.
"Government or conquerors taking over the roads? You mean like they are now? Going anywhere is more expensive and slow now than it should be. Gas tax that everyone pays subsidizes commercial road shipping. Traffic builds up at certain times, which would be alleviated if there were an incentive to use the roads during less busy times (like by making it cheaper). Road owners have a financial incentive to get as many cars across their roads as possible so they would implement solutions like many other cities like E-ZPass to charge tolls." Not entirely true. Car drivers have reasons to go places they do, and generally will travel regardless.
Private road owners have no incentive to do anything, because people need to get places. They'll use the excuse "you don't like it, use another road", which sometimes you won't be able to, because they'll have either the most convienant route, or the only route.
At least with government you have someone to complain to if the roads suck. But if you think it falls on deaf ears now, when roads become private property, you'll loose even that right.
"Agreed that natural monopolies are hard for free markets. But then the question is will the regulation be effective" in industries with naturual monopolies, they'd be more effective than a naturual monopoly. Even if their not perfect, still better than the alternative. Lets face it, if a monopoly results, the controllor will be more or less at will able to regulate said industry just as a government does. They will regulate it to serve their intrests only.
I never saw more than a slight diffrence between government enforced monopolies, and ones occuring naturually. When you have a monopoly, you create restrictions to PROTECT your intrests, when you don't you actually do productive work to expand your intrests.
"You mention that often the market wouldn't even be viable without regulation, do you have some examples to discuss? Things such as wireless frequencies could simply be considered property and handled similarly. Ownership of such property could be handled in the same way, ie homesteading." There are only so many frequences, and they will be all gobbeled up really quickly by the first few to get on the air, forcing late commers(potentially with better thought ideas) out. Since there are limited supply, they will get insanely expensive, and the sales will be governed by the orginal sellers.
Diffrent than homesteading in theory, when there really is enough land to go around. Or a better example is, that corporate squatters claimed all the land, that was free to claim for the sole purpose of selling it at inflated prices to homesteaders, defeating the spirit if of the act.
If you want total compute power firefower supremecy, you want a "super computer" not a mainframe.
Whats more powerful a race car or a semi truck?
a race car would be a super computer, the semi would be mainframe.
"However, the number of people who impulse buy a mainframe based on what they read in a Slashdot post is likely low." you can't exactly walk into microcenter and buy one.
Then being censored for doing nothing more than mocking suposed censorship. Thus proving its gone way to far.
I also don't understand what a slogan on a t-shirt has to do with security. Its not a knife, a gun, a bomb. Words on a t-shirt don't jump up and kill anyone.
I don't have to fly. So I don't, a pitty for anyone who does.
Never letting the truth or relivant informaiton get in the way of a good show trial. The only reason we know this much is because google. samsung, motorola, etc.. all intrested android parties have the money and influence in society to matter. Imagine being a random joe.
If I didn't have faith in the judicial system before, I don't now.
IP law rewards the company and stockholders for the design, the creator(s) usually get nothing, save mabey a small bonus.
then they can be sold off to company Y, which will do nothing to actually promote, or make devices or technology, but just sue the piss out of unrelated creator Z which never heard of creator X because the product never really went anywhere, simply because he made the same discoveries as someone else did 5 years later.
"I know that Tesla worship is all the rage, but does he need mentioned every time someone brings up Edison?"
yes he does. He really does.
"The truth is that most of Tesla's inventions were squarely in crack-pot territory. From his earthquake machine to his camera for photographing thoughts, Tesla was the 19th century equivalent of the peswiki.com community all wrapped up in one crazy package."
earthquake machine is very real. Its also very simple. it was demonstrated on mythbusters actually. Its nothing more than demonstrating that theories of sinewaves on electromagnetic medium, also apply to vibrations on phsyical medium. the earthquake machine is nothing more than sine wave amplification on resonating frequency to building material. in the 19th century this could crack buildings. It won't work on modern buildings designed to add mechanical resistance, and absorp the energy.
your also forgetting crackpot inventions like:
Alternating Current, to include the AC motor florescent lighting microwave heating Tesla's turbine his work on radio frequency communications https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Nikola_Tesla_patents
yes, he had a few crazy ideas, but the solid ideas he has have laid the groundwork for modern soceity. He also didn't hold back advancement.
Or mabey you might want to discredit the vast tomes of work Sir Issaic Newton did on optics and balistics simply because he devoted 30 years of his life to alchemy?
other than using his foundation to strong arm other charities into paying for monsanto crops of which he owns stock, and strong arming them to accept higher prices.
Of which the farmers who are the recepiants of the seeds may or may not have to pay royalities in comming years.
He's grouping programmers into two camps via emotion and social identity, like politics. He's thinning grasping at straws here. Full of bad analogies.
"The wise man speaks when he has something to say, the fool speaks when he has to say something" - Mark Twain.
This man felt like he was trying to make a point for the sake of making one than really reaching conclusions, I
Whats worse is there ARE politics in software, and he completely misses the point. Free Software vs Commerical software comes to mind.
We see idealists like Stallman and his Free Software Foundation in one corner, and Apple in another. Both ideaological believer their method is better for the populace. One beleives in total freedom, one believes in total control.
Then we have the oppertunists, like the OSI and most mainstream software companies which are just looking for something practical, and see a development model as means to an end, such as making better software or selling software.
now people don't have to think about issues of consequences of the politics, only know its all a front for social identity. Once you sell most of the people on this, you can kind mute any real idealology,
Slashdot Mirror
yes, but intel at current does a great job supporting their hardware with OEM free/open source drivers.
a hint they won't is really sour, for mainly political reasons.
Why intel? why?
You can try getting various zilog z80 based software to run on it
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zilog_Z80
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TI-83_series
Oh, and keeping them as "loaners" for students who loose theirs or otherwise can't afford one would be awesome too. Times are tough.
I was unawake the North Korea had enough computers to be dependant on them enough that a cyber attack would even be effective. Even if they had a few computers, do they a complex network accessable from the outside.
Computer experts, in the modern sense? Any systems to attack?
It makes sense from Iran's standpoint. They were attacked by Duqu and Stuxnet.
Is anyone else not connecting the talk of Iranian nuclear weapons and trying to not get hacked?
the turbine engine was invented in england actually.
magnetic tape, correct.
rockets??? try ancient china.
if you cannot offer the 20/mbs of second bandwith, then do not advertise that you can.
Most lines are throttled. Your cable line can actually provide around 100/mbs a second. did you know that? No its throttled, because they can't/won't provide it upstream. They don't sell you a 100/mbs pipe. They sell you 5, 10, or 20, depending on what you pay for. Generally they use this "throttling" to define the width of the pipe in software. No one complains really.
Its really nothing off their shoulders which type of content is being used, so they shouldn't be allowed to censor it.
What happened was a gross breach of contract with wireless companies.
It violates the spirit of the internet when a carrier can decide what data goes through a public network. Yes, by linking to the internet, which is a public network, you become part of a public network, and have to play by long standing rules.
Also, in theory, you are reducing regulation, by eliminating government regulation, but your only opening the door for regulation by private companies. This regulation will in actuality have a bigger effect on the internet and end users as a whole.
So I'll take the lesser of two evils and trust the government to enforce net neutrality.
"Government or conquerors taking over the roads? You mean like they are now? Going anywhere is more expensive and slow now than it should be. Gas tax that everyone pays subsidizes commercial road shipping. Traffic builds up at certain times, which would be alleviated if there were an incentive to use the roads during less busy times (like by making it cheaper). Road owners have a financial incentive to get as many cars across their roads as possible so they would implement solutions like many other cities like E-ZPass to charge tolls."
Not entirely true. Car drivers have reasons to go places they do, and generally will travel regardless.
Private road owners have no incentive to do anything, because people need to get places. They'll use the excuse "you don't like it, use another road", which sometimes you won't be able to, because they'll have either the most convienant route, or the only route.
At least with government you have someone to complain to if the roads suck. But if you think it falls on deaf ears now, when roads become private property, you'll loose even that right.
"Agreed that natural monopolies are hard for free markets. But then the question is will the regulation be effective"
in industries with naturual monopolies, they'd be more effective than a naturual monopoly. Even if their not perfect, still better than the alternative. Lets face it, if a monopoly results, the controllor will be more or less at will able to regulate said industry just as a government does. They will regulate it to serve their intrests only.
I never saw more than a slight diffrence between government enforced monopolies, and ones occuring naturually. When you have a monopoly, you create restrictions to PROTECT your intrests, when you don't you actually do productive work to expand your intrests.
"You mention that often the market wouldn't even be viable without regulation, do you have some examples to discuss? Things such as wireless frequencies could simply be considered property and handled similarly. Ownership of such property could be handled in the same way, ie homesteading."
There are only so many frequences, and they will be all gobbeled up really quickly by the first few to get on the air, forcing late commers(potentially with better thought ideas) out. Since there are limited supply, they will get insanely expensive, and the sales will be governed by the orginal sellers.
Diffrent than homesteading in theory, when there really is enough land to go around. Or a better example is, that corporate squatters claimed all the land, that was free to claim for the sole purpose of selling it at inflated prices to homesteaders, defeating the spirit if of the act.
not entirely true.
the FCC mandates who gets the wireless spectrum, and they only give them out to wireless companies.
In addition, its damn hard for a small, minor, or start up to get linked to the national cell network.
Its really not an option to start your own wireless network.
correct.
If you want total compute power firefower supremecy, you want a "super computer" not a mainframe.
Whats more powerful a race car or a semi truck?
a race car would be a super computer, the semi would be mainframe.
"However, the number of people who impulse buy a mainframe based on what they read in a Slashdot post is likely low."
you can't exactly walk into microcenter and buy one.
Great anime from South Korea (coincidence?)
central to the plot was recycling poop into fuel when the world's fuel ran out.
America has some beautiful lands, but I don't wanna hear shit about "billiard table smooth" roads.
Our roads are on par with Iraq, which still have craters from bombs.
I got hit with the verizon billing crap and will never buy from that company again.
verizon is that much of a POS, and they have bundled bloatware in the past.
"Intel could very well have their 8-10GHz Pentium 4(5?) now if they had continued on that path. I for one like their current processor line better."
with minimal performance gain, and increase in power.
reliability too.
mainframes generally run in high availability and high uptime enviroments.
you want five nines, you want a mainframe.
a cluster of x86s might reach the same performance specs for a fraction of the price, but it won't give you the same reliability.
Then being censored for doing nothing more than mocking suposed censorship. Thus proving its gone way to far.
I also don't understand what a slogan on a t-shirt has to do with security. Its not a knife, a gun, a bomb. Words on a t-shirt don't jump up and kill anyone.
I don't have to fly. So I don't, a pitty for anyone who does.
Aparantly we've sunk this low in the US of A.
Never letting the truth or relivant informaiton get in the way of a good show trial. The only reason we know this much is because google. samsung, motorola, etc.. all intrested android parties have the money and influence in society to matter. Imagine being a random joe.
If I didn't have faith in the judicial system before, I don't now.
from outerspace as well??
IP law rewards the company and stockholders for the design, the creator(s) usually get nothing, save mabey a small bonus.
then they can be sold off to company Y, which will do nothing to actually promote, or make devices or technology, but just sue the piss out of unrelated creator Z which never heard of creator X because the product never really went anywhere, simply because he made the same discoveries as someone else did 5 years later.
forgot to added shared libraries.
windows had them from the start, so did UNIX, apple didn't get them until OS 8 and they sucked
I am hapilly looking up phone numbers, texts, and calling people with voice activation
on my motorola razr v3.
As I have been doing for years before the iphone.
"I know that Tesla worship is all the rage, but does he need mentioned every time someone brings up Edison?"
yes he does. He really does.
"The truth is that most of Tesla's inventions were squarely in crack-pot territory. From his earthquake machine to his camera for photographing thoughts, Tesla was the 19th century equivalent of the peswiki.com community all wrapped up in one crazy package."
earthquake machine is very real. Its also very simple. it was demonstrated on mythbusters actually. Its nothing more than demonstrating that theories of sinewaves on electromagnetic medium, also apply to vibrations on phsyical medium.
the earthquake machine is nothing more than sine wave amplification on resonating frequency to building material. in the 19th century this could crack buildings. It won't work on modern buildings designed to add mechanical resistance, and absorp the energy.
your also forgetting crackpot inventions like:
Alternating Current, to include the AC motor
florescent lighting
microwave heating
Tesla's turbine
his work on radio frequency communications
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Nikola_Tesla_patents
yes, he had a few crazy ideas, but the solid ideas he has have laid the groundwork for modern soceity. He also didn't hold back advancement.
Or mabey you might want to discredit the vast tomes of work Sir Issaic Newton did on optics and balistics simply because he devoted 30 years of his life to alchemy?
It shouldn't suprise anyone, because it started in the US to begin with. But it looks like it has a new advocate in the 21st century.
How someone could call themselves an ethiscist and recommend this is beyond me.
if only to make money for his stake in glaxo-kline-smith, of which he purchases the meds from.
Or donating computers to india so now they all run windows, and places can start exporting tech support there.
other than using his foundation to strong arm other charities into paying for monsanto crops of which he owns stock, and strong arming them to accept higher prices.
Of which the farmers who are the recepiants of the seeds may or may not have to pay royalities in comming years.
He's grouping programmers into two camps via emotion and social identity, like politics. He's thinning grasping at straws here. Full of bad analogies.
"The wise man speaks when he has something to say, the fool speaks when he has to say something" - Mark Twain.
This man felt like he was trying to make a point for the sake of making one than really reaching conclusions, I
Whats worse is there ARE politics in software, and he completely misses the point. Free Software vs Commerical software comes to mind.
We see idealists like Stallman and his Free Software Foundation in one corner, and Apple in another. Both ideaological believer their method is better for the populace. One beleives in total freedom, one believes in total control.
Then we have the oppertunists, like the OSI and most mainstream software companies which are just looking for something practical, and see a development model as means to an end, such as making better software or selling software.
now people don't have to think about issues of consequences of the politics, only know its all a front for social identity. Once you sell most of the people on this, you can kind mute any real idealology,