Consider 30-year-old men, each having used up 10 percent ($50000) of their $500000.
One has started a company and is an irreplacable part of that business. He employs a dozen people, mostly engineers. It's a bit beyond a start-up, operating on profit and growing, but he's not yet rich. He has six kids with ages 0, 3, 3, 7, 8, and 11. His wife died last year.
One is in prison for the second time. He raped a woman, then burned her clitoris with a cigarette. The previous time in prison involved keeping a woman in an RV for a week while repeatedly raping her. He's a highschool dropout. When not in prison he lives by begging, digging in restaurant dumpsters, and visiting soup kitchens.
1. Everybody reaches the expensive stage at some point. All you can hope to do is delay the inevitable.
2. Every year of life is costing money for the rest of us. Remember you're talking about people who offer little of value to the economy. Many offer negative value! (crime, welfare, etc.)
It definitely isn't a sure thing that providing free non-emergency care is good for the economy.
Might she now produce children who have a tendency to get this problem? Unless she has something extreme to make up for this problem (like Einstein), she really isn't good for the gene pool.
I'm OK with providing morphine so she doesn't suffer.
Again, if she's busy unlocking the secrets of the universe or finding cures for cancer, I have no problem paying for the fancy drugs. I doubt that's the case.
Sure, there are terrible kids from terrible families. This isn't an excuse for bad teaching.
No reasonable policy change will fix the problem of bad kids. It's not considered acceptable to kick them out, euthanize them, or whatever.
It is possible to do something about the law regarding how we manage schools. We can make it easy to get rid of bad teachers. We can offer better pay to better teachers.
You'd rather focus on something that can't reasonably be changed, distracting us from the problems that can be fixed. That's unhelpful, to say the least.
1. Using an Ethernet jack provided by the car, you use HTTP to grab an encrypted blob. This contains the data, including a timestamp and the VIN.
2. Upload the blob to Toyota's web site. They decrypt it and store it forever.
3. Download the decrypted blob.
Download can be limited to the uploader by default, with other people only able to see that it exists. If you want a copy and you didn't perform the upload, simply get a court order.
Simplifying the problem to 2-car crashes, how about this:
In court, the defense may use all data from all black boxes in the vicinity of the crash as long as their own car provides it. The prosecution or plaintif only gets to use data which can be supplied by all vehicles.
Suppose one car stores GPS data with 100-meter resolution and the other car stores GPS data with 1-meter resolution. The high-resolution data only gets used if found in the defendant's car and he chooses to allow it. If that isn't the case, then the court orders the high-resolution data rounded off to the nearest 100 meters.
The same goes for anything else: tire inflation sensors, video of the driver's footwell, video of the driver's head, magnetic compass, exterior microphone, accelerometers, gyroscopes...
End result: everyone wants as many sensors as possible, with the best quality they can get.
Yes Mozart, we recognize that it's possible to play some sections much louder than other sections. Tricking me into cranking up the volume with quiet parts just so that you can hurt my ears with other parts is childish.
Actually, I doubt it was really that awful centuries ago. The orchestra would have been burned at the stake or worse. Abusive dynamic range is probably a modern misinterpretation.
This is about possible/ideal/future web browser security.
If you've never used VMWare, give it a try. The "player" and "server" versions are free. Notice you you get a PC in a window on your desktop. In that window you can watch it boot up, BIOS and all. It runs its own copy of the OS. The "hard disk" lives in a file on your real computer.
Imagine if you used a web browser inside VMWare to go to your bank. Suppose you ONLY use it to visit the bank. Suppose you use a different VMWare instance for visiting a malware site. That's like having two extra computers, one for each site.
That would be totally effective if you did it for all web sites, but it would be too much effort. If the browser itself were to internally do this for you though, it could be easy to use. The browser could be designed so that you don't even need to be aware of the VMWare-style sandboxing.
But as a homeowner, it's what keeps the property value going.
Sure about that?
Lots of fancy places have forest. You can't even see the house from the street. You could hide almost anything: a large boat, a helicopter, a moat, a guard house, a private lake, a tour bus...
Lawn is for shitty places where developers crap out houses onto postage stamp sized lots. You get psychotic homeowner associations and chipboard walls. Lawn says "mass production" like nothing else.
Nope, somebody did the estimate purely based on statistics.
I doubt I can find the study, so I'm not going to waste time trying. You'd probably deny it anyway. At least a year has passed, and I don't know any magic keywords to sort through the pile of unrelated junk.
Intellectual ability tops out around age 14. By your calculation, somebody 28 years old normally gets an IQ near 50. Worse, somebody smarter than a 14 year old has an undefined IQ because such intelligence is not achevied by a normal person even at infinite age.
The modern calculation is based in standard deviations from the mean. Unfortunately there is disagreement over the formula. Nearly all tests use 15 or 16 points per standard deviation, but Mensa's test uses 20 points per standard deviation.
First, forget the "thousands of years". Effective birth control started with the pill, about 50 years ago.
Second, you're ignoring the general improvement in human health. (diet, lead removal, disease, etc.) In the short term, this will easily hide the genetic change.
Once we can't make any more significant progress in general human health, you'll start to see the decline. It takes generations of course, so you'll just barely see it if you're young enough.
yet our species has continued to improve technologically and the average IQ has continued to rise
A rising tide lifts all boats.
We're doing better because of health improvement. If not for that, IQ would be dropping by 1 to 2 points per year on an unchanging (not renormalized) scale.
We can't keep up the health improvement forever. We took lead out of our paint and fuel, we got rid of starvation, we got rid of many childhood diseases, and... now what? There isn't much room to improve.
Think how much better off we'd be without the idiocracy effect. Smart people mostly stopped having kids 50 years ago. Imagine a country of people with IQ 150, not counting renormalization.
The bank already has my bank account credentials. The bank can pwn the virtual PC all it wants, but that gets discarded when I leave their site. Any other site can pwn A DIFFERENT INSTANCE of the virtual PC, and that too gets discarded when I leave.
Let's try less crap on our machines that might be vulnerable.
I can agree for performance and cross-platform issues, but proper sandboxing solves the attack surface problem.
Imagine a web browser that starts up a fresh new virtual PC for each web site, then deletes the machine when you leave the web site. The virtual machine could even run IE 6 on Windows XP without any service packs, and the entire world allowed to run Active X shit without prompting. The virtual PC can get pwned in a fraction of a second every time, and you just don't need to care. Firewalling on the host OS can restrict the guest OS to the intended web site, so you don't need to worry about being a botnet node.
If you preview it using as suggested the google reader aren't you still loading that into memory?
You're loading it into Google's memory. Google is using a non-Adobe program to generate HTML.
In theory the attacker could have a Google-specific 0-day exploit that pwns Google's server (probably custom unreleased software on Linux, so VERY hard) and then ships you some evil HTML. This is damn unlikely.
I'd also be curious to know the effectiveness of these pdf attacks on linux hosts.
Linux is a bit harder to attack, especially if 64-bit. It's possible to make Linux **MUCH** harder to attack, but we haven't bothered yet.
Although not feasible for the work environment (or is it?) there are probably many users out there who now surf through virtual machines.
I think you have that backwards, but this is rare in either case. In the business environment it's possible to get site licenses, firewalls to block non-VM browsing, and even competant IT support. Note: "possible". It's very uncommon, but possible.
Instead of taking their pills, people in South Africa smoke them to get high. No kidding. Those who don't want to get high can sell their subsidized/free pills to those who do want to get high.
The PNG format does not provide for the possibility of more than 16 bits per channel.
The PNG format does not provide for the possibility of logrithmic data.
32 bits nearly always means an IEEE floating-point value such that 1.0 is white and 0.0 is black, and 1.0 gamma is used. It's seldom used in files; this is primarily an in-memory format.
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Consider 30-year-old men, each having used up 10 percent ($50000) of their $500000.
One has started a company and is an irreplacable part of that business. He employs a dozen people, mostly engineers. It's a bit beyond a start-up, operating on profit and growing, but he's not yet rich. He has six kids with ages 0, 3, 3, 7, 8, and 11. His wife died last year.
One is in prison for the second time. He raped a woman, then burned her clitoris with a cigarette. The previous time in prison involved keeping a woman in an RV for a week while repeatedly raping her. He's a highschool dropout. When not in prison he lives by begging, digging in restaurant dumpsters, and visiting soup kitchens.
You forget to account for two things:
1. Everybody reaches the expensive stage at some point. All you can hope to do is delay the inevitable.
2. Every year of life is costing money for the rest of us. Remember you're talking about people who offer little of value to the economy. Many offer negative value! (crime, welfare, etc.)
It definitely isn't a sure thing that providing free non-emergency care is good for the economy.
Might she now produce children who have a tendency to get this problem? Unless she has something extreme to make up for this problem (like Einstein), she really isn't good for the gene pool.
I'm OK with providing morphine so she doesn't suffer.
Again, if she's busy unlocking the secrets of the universe or finding cures for cancer, I have no problem paying for the fancy drugs. I doubt that's the case.
Sure, there are terrible kids from terrible families. This isn't an excuse for bad teaching.
No reasonable policy change will fix the problem of bad kids. It's not considered acceptable to kick them out, euthanize them, or whatever.
It is possible to do something about the law regarding how we manage schools. We can make it easy to get rid of bad teachers. We can offer better pay to better teachers.
You'd rather focus on something that can't reasonably be changed, distracting us from the problems that can be fixed. That's unhelpful, to say the least.
I would want to be nearly certain that pay will continue to be good for decades. I'm not going to make a career choice based on short-term pay.
There's other stuff too. Where I work now, nobody assaults me or even threatens to do so. If anyone were to do so, they would surely be fired.
The OBD-II is a horrible thing. There is no reason that cars can't use common computing interfaces.
If not Ethernet, it had better be USB mass storage.
Here's how it could work:
1. Using an Ethernet jack provided by the car, you use HTTP to grab an encrypted blob. This contains the data, including a timestamp and the VIN.
2. Upload the blob to Toyota's web site. They decrypt it and store it forever.
3. Download the decrypted blob.
Download can be limited to the uploader by default, with other people only able to see that it exists. If you want a copy and you didn't perform the upload, simply get a court order.
Simplifying the problem to 2-car crashes, how about this:
In court, the defense may use all data from all black boxes in the vicinity of the crash as long as their own car provides it. The prosecution or plaintif only gets to use data which can be supplied by all vehicles.
Suppose one car stores GPS data with 100-meter resolution and the other car stores GPS data with 1-meter resolution. The high-resolution data only gets used if found in the defendant's car and he chooses to allow it. If that isn't the case, then the court orders the high-resolution data rounded off to the nearest 100 meters.
The same goes for anything else: tire inflation sensors, video of the driver's footwell, video of the driver's head, magnetic compass, exterior microphone, accelerometers, gyroscopes...
End result: everyone wants as many sensors as possible, with the best quality they can get.
Kids tend to love forest even more, especially if you get a pond.
Yes Mozart, we recognize that it's possible to play some sections much louder than other sections. Tricking me into cranking up the volume with quiet parts just so that you can hurt my ears with other parts is childish.
Actually, I doubt it was really that awful centuries ago. The orchestra would have been burned at the stake or worse. Abusive dynamic range is probably a modern misinterpretation.
I think you misunderstand.
This is about possible/ideal/future web browser security.
If you've never used VMWare, give it a try. The "player" and "server" versions are free. Notice you you get a PC in a window on your desktop. In that window you can watch it boot up, BIOS and all. It runs its own copy of the OS. The "hard disk" lives in a file on your real computer.
Imagine if you used a web browser inside VMWare to go to your bank. Suppose you ONLY use it to visit the bank. Suppose you use a different VMWare instance for visiting a malware site. That's like having two extra computers, one for each site.
That would be totally effective if you did it for all web sites, but it would be too much effort. If the browser itself were to internally do this for you though, it could be easy to use. The browser could be designed so that you don't even need to be aware of the VMWare-style sandboxing.
But as a homeowner, it's what keeps the property value going.
Sure about that?
Lots of fancy places have forest. You can't even see the house from the street. You could hide almost anything: a large boat, a helicopter, a moat, a guard house, a private lake, a tour bus...
Lawn is for shitty places where developers crap out houses onto postage stamp sized lots. You get psychotic homeowner associations and chipboard walls. Lawn says "mass production" like nothing else.
Forest looks damn lovely.
I do think. My generation still has that ability.
Chances are slim I'd be able to find back the study that shows IQ will decline by that amount when in the absence of opposing forces.
Never minding the specific numbers, anybody with a rudimentary understanding of evolution will expect IQ (w/o renormalization) to decline.
Nope, somebody did the estimate purely based on statistics.
I doubt I can find the study, so I'm not going to waste time trying. You'd probably deny it anyway. At least a year has passed, and I don't know any magic keywords to sort through the pile of unrelated junk.
Intellectual ability tops out around age 14. By your calculation, somebody 28 years old normally gets an IQ near 50. Worse, somebody smarter than a 14 year old has an undefined IQ because such intelligence is not achevied by a normal person even at infinite age.
The modern calculation is based in standard deviations from the mean. Unfortunately there is disagreement over the formula. Nearly all tests use 15 or 16 points per standard deviation, but Mensa's test uses 20 points per standard deviation.
First, forget the "thousands of years". Effective birth control started with the pill, about 50 years ago.
Second, you're ignoring the general improvement in human health. (diet, lead removal, disease, etc.) In the short term, this will easily hide the genetic change.
Once we can't make any more significant progress in general human health, you'll start to see the decline. It takes generations of course, so you'll just barely see it if you're young enough.
yet our species has continued to improve technologically and the average IQ has continued to rise
A rising tide lifts all boats.
We're doing better because of health improvement. If not for that, IQ would be dropping by 1 to 2 points per year on an unchanging (not renormalized) scale.
We can't keep up the health improvement forever. We took lead out of our paint and fuel, we got rid of starvation, we got rid of many childhood diseases, and... now what? There isn't much room to improve.
Think how much better off we'd be without the idiocracy effect. Smart people mostly stopped having kids 50 years ago. Imagine a country of people with IQ 150, not counting renormalization.
DNS black lists will never catch up. It's already too late.
The bank already has my bank account credentials. The bank can pwn the virtual PC all it wants, but that gets discarded when I leave their site. Any other site can pwn A DIFFERENT INSTANCE of the virtual PC, and that too gets discarded when I leave.
It's like a separate computer for each web site.
Let's try less crap on our machines that might be vulnerable.
I can agree for performance and cross-platform issues, but proper sandboxing solves the attack surface problem.
Imagine a web browser that starts up a fresh new virtual PC for each web site, then deletes the machine when you leave the web site. The virtual machine could even run IE 6 on Windows XP without any service packs, and the entire world allowed to run Active X shit without prompting. The virtual PC can get pwned in a fraction of a second every time, and you just don't need to care. Firewalling on the host OS can restrict the guest OS to the intended web site, so you don't need to worry about being a botnet node.
If you preview it using as suggested the google reader aren't you still loading that into memory?
You're loading it into Google's memory. Google is using a non-Adobe program to generate HTML.
In theory the attacker could have a Google-specific 0-day exploit that pwns Google's server (probably custom unreleased software on Linux, so VERY hard) and then ships you some evil HTML. This is damn unlikely.
I'd also be curious to know the effectiveness of these pdf attacks on linux hosts.
Linux is a bit harder to attack, especially if 64-bit. It's possible to make Linux **MUCH** harder to attack, but we haven't bothered yet.
Although not feasible for the work environment (or is it?) there are probably many users out there who now surf through virtual machines.
I think you have that backwards, but this is rare in either case. In the business environment it's possible to get site licenses, firewalls to block non-VM browsing, and even competant IT support. Note: "possible". It's very uncommon, but possible.
Instead of taking their pills, people in South Africa smoke them to get high. No kidding. Those who don't want to get high can sell their subsidized/free pills to those who do want to get high.
Spray non-resistant bacteria all over the hospital, allowing them to occupy all surfaces and consume all the nutrients.
The PNG format does not provide for the possibility of more than 16 bits per channel.
The PNG format does not provide for the possibility of logrithmic data.
32 bits nearly always means an IEEE floating-point value such that 1.0 is white and 0.0 is black, and 1.0 gamma is used. It's seldom used in files; this is primarily an in-memory format.
If you've never been Muslim, then you don't need to be killed unless you worship animals/idols or multiple gods.
In theory, Muslims are even supposed to somewhat protect the Jews. (but the Jews must pay a special tax)
Of course, your Arab friends could be plotting your death right now. They're friendly to lure you...