"My one true goal is create a system to transact in both cryptocurrency and regular fiat currency like the American dollar without passing through a central exchange."
The problem here becomes precedent. If it's allowed once, it set a precedent for others. Say, for example, China wanted to seize emails... or Iran wanted to seize emails. That's not a great outcome, and yet they would have the legal precedent to make a case all the way up the chain of courts.
The graph shows the global annual counts for all hurricanes and major hurricanes. From '92 through '98, there was around 35 major hurricanes per year, falling this year to 29 major hurricanes. The peaks of the graph roughly correspond to el Nino years, with the stronger the el Nino the more hurricanes. If you consider a hurricane to be a heat transport mechanism to move heat from the oceans to space, this comes as no surprise.
Of course, the "more hurricanes" argument morphed into "less hurricanes but stronger" (http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/02/22/global-warming-to-bring-s_n_471227.html), but once again the planet isn't co-operating with theory.
Maybe not news for nerds, true. But it's Stuff That Matters.
And please explain how a breaking story where the facts are scarce gets classified as "Incendiary comment-bait garbage". A post like "Did the Orion craft just discover dark matter?" is nothing more than comment bait. But, from what we can see on TV, 'Apparent Islamic Terrorism Strikes Sydney' appears to be a very accurate title. In fact, the title allowed for doubt, in case the story changed.
So if you don't care for stories like this, don't fall for the bait click the link into the story. Life is so much more pleasant when you don't do crap like that.
with 4k monitors you're going to have alot of vertical pixels.
Oh dear god, I have enough trouble reading my 1920 x 1080 laptop screen at 24" without extra magnification on my glasses. Please, no more pixels. I'll have to start increasing the screen magnification - which negates any gain from higher resolutions!
In Enterprise space, applications like Dynamics AX have a yearly fee. That fee buys you hotfixes, CU's and new versions.
If you stop paying your yearly fee, the application keeps working, can be reinstalled but no access to updates or product upgrades.
If you choose to stop paying, and then in 5 years a great new version come along, you restart your fees at the time you stopped, so in this case you need to pay 5 years to bring you current.
I've no problems with this concept extended into the OS. Just make sure I can reinstall the OS and bring it back up to the SP level I had before and all is fine.
I've not heard of a single case of an Uber or Lyft ride going terribly wrong.
I guess it depends on your definition of "terribly wrong".
Uber Suspends Driver Accused of Sexual Assault (http://www.nbcwashington.com/news/local/Police-Make-Arrest-After-Woman-Accuses-Uber-Driver-of-Assault-268755481.html)
Uber driver accused of hammer attack on S.F. rider (http://www.sfgate.com/crime/article/Uber-driver-accused-of-hammer-attack-on-San-5783495.php)
Uber Driver Arrested For Allegedly Kidnapping California Woman (http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/06/04/uber-driver-kidnapping-los-angeles_n_5442676.html)
Florida Uber driver says he grabbed customer’s breast because she wasn’t wearing a bra (http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/florida-uber-driver-grabs-female-passenger-breast-cops-article-1.1953167)
And then there's The Ten Worst Uber Horror Stories (http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2014/11/19/the-ten-worst-uber-horror-stories.html)
Let's not forget the early iPod was a FireWire device, back when PC's had USB. Looks like we better nail Intel / Microsoft / Dell / Toshiba / HP as well, as they actively supported this antitrust violation by not including FireWire as part of the PC spec back then.
Wow. Well, I better get started on my own lawsuits, as I can't install Microsoft Windows on my 68k Mac. Nor can I put diesel in my petrol car. And, heavens forbid, I can't play WMA encoded files on my iPod. And as for not being able to play a compact cassette on an 8-track player; well, Phillips better get a checkbook out and write some big checks, because of the damages I've suffered because of that.
If you put two bar magnets next to each other, they tend to flip each other around so that they point in the same direction.
Wow. Where I come from, if I put two bar magnets together they flip around until they point in the opposite direction, with N joining S. But then again, I'm Australian: things are different in the Northern Hemisphere.
Some cities have quite nice and convenient public transit, and it can be even better if you live and work in the right places.
Yes, and they're all outside the United States.:-)
Really? I live in NJ, and work in Manhattan. My monthly PATH card costs $89; that $4.45/day, and my monthly MTA MetroCard costs $112; that's $5.60/day. I've a 5 minute walk to the PATH each day ad a 5 minute walk from the subway to my office. So for $5.02 a trip, I get from home to work on the (mostly) reliable PATH and the (somewhat more reliable) NY subway in an average time of 20 min (best is 15 min; worst was an hour).
The PATH is almost always clean (if a little packed in the mornings); the subway is the E line, which originates at WTC so the cars are cleaned and not so packed.
All in all, for my daily trip cost it's a pretty good service.
The alternatives are a taxi (good luck with getting one to cross from NJ to NY or the other way) or a car service. The times I've had to use a car service it was a $50 "mate's rates" fare one way, and took 30-40 min, thanks to the traffic in the Holland tunnel.
However, if there's an Uber or Lyft service that offers a one-way service from NJ to NY, can get me there in 15 minutes or less and costs less than five bucks, I'm game to try.
This was covered in Manna (http://marshallbrain.com/manna1.htm).
The story is about how a burger chain installed software to "manage" employees by telling them to wear a headset and follow the commands given to them. Although not named as such, Manna was a realtime ERP system that managed employees in the most efficient way at any given point in time. The counter a bit slow? Reassign those employees to cleaning the restaurant, rest rooms, kitchen, whatever. Getting busy? More people on the cash registers & cooking.
Interesting story that goes off the rails towards the very end, but essentially a machine HR system.
Windows 8 is pretty good once you install something like Start8. They really have improved a lot of things. Aside from the Metro UI, use of which can be reduced over 95%, by using Start8 and setting your file associations right, what is so bad about Windows 8? It is a little bit less shiny, more boxy, but it runs fantastic.
Have you actually given it an honest try? Use it every day for two months, with a start menu replacement, and you will have enough time to realize all the good stuff.
I used Windows 8 for maybe 2 years; Windows 8.1 since I could install it. Then a few weeks ago wiped my machine and put Windows 7 back on. Much nicer. Windows 8 is a fine OS crippled by the UI.
But Windows 8 / 8.1 has at least one glaring fault: the remote desktop client.
If you have your screen set to anything other that 100%, the RD client screws up badly when connecting to another machine: it seems to miscalculate the font size for some Windows controls. The classic example is connecting to a terminal server running the Dynamics AX 2012 client: the left-hand side menubar blows up spectacularly, stealing far more screenspace than is needed - and, more importantly, it looks awful.
The solution is to use the Remote Desktop Connection Manager, which uses an older RD protocol that doesn't suffer from that bug.
Well, RDC Manager or Windows 7.
So the solution to making Windows 8 palatable is older technology.
"And as I was typing and working on questions for a Benghazi-related story, the data started wiping kind of at hyperspeed"
Sounds like a scene from the first episode of Torchwood. In fact, the whole story sounds like a failed pilot TV show.
My favorite quote from the story:
But the most shocking finding, she says, was the discovery of three classified documents that Number One told her were “buried deep in your operating system. In a place that, unless you’re a some kind of computer whiz specialist, you wouldn’t even know exists.
"They probably planted them to be able to accuse you of having classified documents if they ever needed to do that at some point,” Number One added.
Documents magically being deleted at hyperspeed, other documents planted "deep in the operating system"... yeah, right.
It will have even less functionality than before. Because they keep trying to "simplify" things for the dumb users out there, by removing any type of "advanced" feature. Which means you will be stuck having to manually edit the Registry or gpedit or through some third party software that allow access to those now "hidden" features.
First of all, I agree with the general thread that the Windows 8 GUI had no business being on a server. Heck; even Server 2008 R2 had all the chrome turned off and ran as close to NT4 as it possibly could.
But removing all the "advanced" stuff? Like what, precisely? If it's a DC, all the normal DC stuff is there (buried under the "Manage this server" nonsense). Because I can remember setting up NT4 and needing to specify IRQ and base settings for things like network cards. Back in the day, it was easier to install Windows 95 and let it autodiscover all the hardware settings, note them down and then install NT. I'm really happy to see those "advanced" settings gone and things "simplified".
As far as editing group policy, I don't know there is a way to simplify that. There are just so many policies that can be set Microsoft have (wisely) left "simplifying" that area alone (although I wish I could search through group policies for the setting I want).
I looked in my Build 9680. There, in all it's annoying pop-out glory and quite tasteful shadow (but minus any discernible windows border) is the Environmental Variables window in all it's NT 3.1 glory!
Visio charts, Project Gantt charts, Excel charts... it's actually a very useful technology, especially if you're pulling data from a live source (eg. query data into Excel, which generates charts). Much easier than querying the data in Excel, updating the graph, exporting (or copying) the graph as PNG then updating the PowerPoint.
... and if the one rendering engine was used, the moment an exploit becomes available, all systems are vulnerable. Haven't we learned about the dangers of monocultures yet?
ModernUI is all about flat, there's no more 3D, so colors help you to identify different controls and areas on the screen.
So take the PC Settings screen, then. Just by looking at it, how are you supposed to know if something is a group label, text or button? You don't; you have to go discover that by mouse-over etc. Now granted, it's not the definitive screen in Metro, but to my eye it highlight's the problem with the OS: too much flatness.
Windows 3 had a flat look, but with enough screen hints as to what to do. The toolbars (circa Word 6 / Windows 95) were brilliant in that respect; it was really obvious what to do. But the progressive flattening from Office 2007 onwards into Windows 8 has, again to my eye, gone too far.
Win8 also has far better multi-monitor support than Win7.
In what way?
I currently have my Windows 7 laptop in a multimonitor configuration running quite happily, and an identical Windows 8 laptop in an identical configuration, and both work equally well. Sure, there's some software that doesn't play nice with multimonitor, but that's the software, not the OS.
Heartbleed and Shellshock show that nothing is really free. Those bugs would have been found long ago if big companies had put resources into FOSS.
But that's special pleading.
FOSS is supposed to be an alternative to stuff put out by big companies; why is it suddenly incumbent upon them to be fixing security holes 20+ years old?
Slashdot Mirror
"My one true goal is create a system to transact in both cryptocurrency and regular fiat currency like the American dollar without passing through a central exchange."
-A. Hitler, September 27th, 1941
Nice quote. And the source? Google can't find it.
Reading through the article, it wasn't clear to me how it is determined whether it worked correctly or not.
But still, an interesting statistical breakthrough, and one that allows researches to ask interesting questions about their data.
The problem here becomes precedent. If it's allowed once, it set a precedent for others. Say, for example, China wanted to seize emails... or Iran wanted to seize emails. That's not a great outcome, and yet they would have the legal precedent to make a case all the way up the chain of courts.
If anything, it's the opposite:
http://models.weatherbell.com/...
The graph shows the global annual counts for all hurricanes and major hurricanes. From '92 through '98, there was around 35 major hurricanes per year, falling this year to 29 major hurricanes. The peaks of the graph roughly correspond to el Nino years, with the stronger the el Nino the more hurricanes. If you consider a hurricane to be a heat transport mechanism to move heat from the oceans to space, this comes as no surprise.
Of course, the "more hurricanes" argument morphed into "less hurricanes but stronger" (http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/02/22/global-warming-to-bring-s_n_471227.html), but once again the planet isn't co-operating with theory.
Maybe not news for nerds, true. But it's Stuff That Matters.
And please explain how a breaking story where the facts are scarce gets classified as "Incendiary comment-bait garbage". A post like "Did the Orion craft just discover dark matter?" is nothing more than comment bait. But, from what we can see on TV, 'Apparent Islamic Terrorism Strikes Sydney' appears to be a very accurate title. In fact, the title allowed for doubt, in case the story changed.
So if you don't care for stories like this, don't fall for the bait click the link into the story. Life is so much more pleasant when you don't do crap like that.
Yeah I trust IBM to only use the software to remotely collect *malicious* files from my system
Hey everyone! I've found somebody that trusts IBM!
Congratulations, Sir. You have joined a very elite club whose number (for some unfathomable reason) continue to shrink every day.
Because K-Cups have a great range of coffee, and are available almost anywhere?
with 4k monitors you're going to have alot of vertical pixels.
Oh dear god, I have enough trouble reading my 1920 x 1080 laptop screen at 24" without extra magnification on my glasses. Please, no more pixels. I'll have to start increasing the screen magnification - which negates any gain from higher resolutions!
In Enterprise space, applications like Dynamics AX have a yearly fee. That fee buys you hotfixes, CU's and new versions.
If you stop paying your yearly fee, the application keeps working, can be reinstalled but no access to updates or product upgrades.
If you choose to stop paying, and then in 5 years a great new version come along, you restart your fees at the time you stopped, so in this case you need to pay 5 years to bring you current.
I've no problems with this concept extended into the OS. Just make sure I can reinstall the OS and bring it back up to the SP level I had before and all is fine.
I've not heard of a single case of an Uber or Lyft ride going terribly wrong.
I guess it depends on your definition of "terribly wrong".
Uber Suspends Driver Accused of Sexual Assault (http://www.nbcwashington.com/news/local/Police-Make-Arrest-After-Woman-Accuses-Uber-Driver-of-Assault-268755481.html)
Uber driver accused of hammer attack on S.F. rider (http://www.sfgate.com/crime/article/Uber-driver-accused-of-hammer-attack-on-San-5783495.php)
Uber Driver Arrested For Allegedly Kidnapping California Woman (http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/06/04/uber-driver-kidnapping-los-angeles_n_5442676.html)
Florida Uber driver says he grabbed customer’s breast because she wasn’t wearing a bra (http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/florida-uber-driver-grabs-female-passenger-breast-cops-article-1.1953167)
And then there's The Ten Worst Uber Horror Stories (http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2014/11/19/the-ten-worst-uber-horror-stories.html)
Let's not forget the early iPod was a FireWire device, back when PC's had USB. Looks like we better nail Intel / Microsoft / Dell / Toshiba / HP as well, as they actively supported this antitrust violation by not including FireWire as part of the PC spec back then.
Wow. Well, I better get started on my own lawsuits, as I can't install Microsoft Windows on my 68k Mac. Nor can I put diesel in my petrol car. And, heavens forbid, I can't play WMA encoded files on my iPod. And as for not being able to play a compact cassette on an 8-track player; well, Phillips better get a checkbook out and write some big checks, because of the damages I've suffered because of that.
Seriously, this is a case?
Have a look at this visualization of 24 hours of flights over Europe: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v...
Now, as you watch that, think about what would happen if just one of those dots went dark.
It's a very, very hard problem if the planes stop telling us where they are.
If you put two bar magnets next to each other, they tend to flip each other around so that they point in the same direction.
Wow. Where I come from, if I put two bar magnets together they flip around until they point in the opposite direction, with N joining S. But then again, I'm Australian: things are different in the Northern Hemisphere.
Some cities have quite nice and convenient public transit, and it can be even better if you live and work in the right places.
Yes, and they're all outside the United States. :-)
Really? I live in NJ, and work in Manhattan. My monthly PATH card costs $89; that $4.45/day, and my monthly MTA MetroCard costs $112; that's $5.60/day. I've a 5 minute walk to the PATH each day ad a 5 minute walk from the subway to my office. So for $5.02 a trip, I get from home to work on the (mostly) reliable PATH and the (somewhat more reliable) NY subway in an average time of 20 min (best is 15 min; worst was an hour).
The PATH is almost always clean (if a little packed in the mornings); the subway is the E line, which originates at WTC so the cars are cleaned and not so packed.
All in all, for my daily trip cost it's a pretty good service.
The alternatives are a taxi (good luck with getting one to cross from NJ to NY or the other way) or a car service. The times I've had to use a car service it was a $50 "mate's rates" fare one way, and took 30-40 min, thanks to the traffic in the Holland tunnel.
However, if there's an Uber or Lyft service that offers a one-way service from NJ to NY, can get me there in 15 minutes or less and costs less than five bucks, I'm game to try.
This was covered in Manna (http://marshallbrain.com/manna1.htm).
The story is about how a burger chain installed software to "manage" employees by telling them to wear a headset and follow the commands given to them. Although not named as such, Manna was a realtime ERP system that managed employees in the most efficient way at any given point in time. The counter a bit slow? Reassign those employees to cleaning the restaurant, rest rooms, kitchen, whatever. Getting busy? More people on the cash registers & cooking.
Interesting story that goes off the rails towards the very end, but essentially a machine HR system.
Windows 8 is pretty good once you install something like Start8. They really have improved a lot of things. Aside from the Metro UI, use of which can be reduced over 95%, by using Start8 and setting your file associations right, what is so bad about Windows 8? It is a little bit less shiny, more boxy, but it runs fantastic.
Have you actually given it an honest try? Use it every day for two months, with a start menu replacement, and you will have enough time to realize all the good stuff.
I used Windows 8 for maybe 2 years; Windows 8.1 since I could install it. Then a few weeks ago wiped my machine and put Windows 7 back on. Much nicer. Windows 8 is a fine OS crippled by the UI.
But Windows 8 / 8.1 has at least one glaring fault: the remote desktop client.
If you have your screen set to anything other that 100%, the RD client screws up badly when connecting to another machine: it seems to miscalculate the font size for some Windows controls. The classic example is connecting to a terminal server running the Dynamics AX 2012 client: the left-hand side menubar blows up spectacularly, stealing far more screenspace than is needed - and, more importantly, it looks awful.
The solution is to use the Remote Desktop Connection Manager, which uses an older RD protocol that doesn't suffer from that bug.
Well, RDC Manager or Windows 7.
So the solution to making Windows 8 palatable is older technology.
"And as I was typing and working on questions for a Benghazi-related story, the data started wiping kind of at hyperspeed"
Sounds like a scene from the first episode of Torchwood. In fact, the whole story sounds like a failed pilot TV show.
My favorite quote from the story:
But the most shocking finding, she says, was the discovery of three classified documents that Number One told her were “buried deep in your operating system. In a place that, unless you’re a some kind of computer whiz specialist, you wouldn’t even know exists.
"They probably planted them to be able to accuse you of having classified documents if they ever needed to do that at some point,” Number One added.
Documents magically being deleted at hyperspeed, other documents planted "deep in the operating system"... yeah, right.
It will have even less functionality than before. Because they keep trying to "simplify" things for the dumb users out there, by removing any type of "advanced" feature. Which means you will be stuck having to manually edit the Registry or gpedit or through some third party software that allow access to those now "hidden" features.
First of all, I agree with the general thread that the Windows 8 GUI had no business being on a server. Heck; even Server 2008 R2 had all the chrome turned off and ran as close to NT4 as it possibly could.
But removing all the "advanced" stuff? Like what, precisely? If it's a DC, all the normal DC stuff is there (buried under the "Manage this server" nonsense). Because I can remember setting up NT4 and needing to specify IRQ and base settings for things like network cards. Back in the day, it was easier to install Windows 95 and let it autodiscover all the hardware settings, note them down and then install NT. I'm really happy to see those "advanced" settings gone and things "simplified".
As far as editing group policy, I don't know there is a way to simplify that. There are just so many policies that can be set Microsoft have (wisely) left "simplifying" that area alone (although I wish I could search through group policies for the setting I want).
You just reminded me about that.
I looked in my Build 9680. There, in all it's annoying pop-out glory and quite tasteful shadow (but minus any discernible windows border) is the Environmental Variables window in all it's NT 3.1 glory!
Visio charts, Project Gantt charts, Excel charts... it's actually a very useful technology, especially if you're pulling data from a live source (eg. query data into Excel, which generates charts). Much easier than querying the data in Excel, updating the graph, exporting (or copying) the graph as PNG then updating the PowerPoint.
... and if the one rendering engine was used, the moment an exploit becomes available, all systems are vulnerable. Haven't we learned about the dangers of monocultures yet?
ModernUI is all about flat, there's no more 3D, so colors help you to identify different controls and areas on the screen.
So take the PC Settings screen, then. Just by looking at it, how are you supposed to know if something is a group label, text or button? You don't; you have to go discover that by mouse-over etc. Now granted, it's not the definitive screen in Metro, but to my eye it highlight's the problem with the OS: too much flatness.
Windows 3 had a flat look, but with enough screen hints as to what to do. The toolbars (circa Word 6 / Windows 95) were brilliant in that respect; it was really obvious what to do. But the progressive flattening from Office 2007 onwards into Windows 8 has, again to my eye, gone too far.
Win8 also has far better multi-monitor support than Win7.
In what way?
I currently have my Windows 7 laptop in a multimonitor configuration running quite happily, and an identical Windows 8 laptop in an identical configuration, and both work equally well. Sure, there's some software that doesn't play nice with multimonitor, but that's the software, not the OS.
Heartbleed and Shellshock show that nothing is really free.
Those bugs would have been found long ago if big companies had put resources into FOSS.
But that's special pleading.
FOSS is supposed to be an alternative to stuff put out by big companies; why is it suddenly incumbent upon them to be fixing security holes 20+ years old?