Its not just death that is the problem. My ex-wife is in a coma, not dead. Helping the kids access her data involved an EC2 cloud of GPUs. Please people, leave your password around so your loved-ones can obtain it even without a death certificate or will, because there are some situations that are even more complicated than simple old death.
Your safety deposit box schemes all mostly fail on this point alone.
The rest of the civilized world makes this shit work. You don't think America can do it better? Why do you hate America?
America has brainwashed itself. I lived in Texas for a few years and have seen it first-hand. Its called cognitive dissonance I think. A 'patriot' seems to be someone who can simultaneously believe that the consitution is perfect, America is the greatest nation, and that they need to be armed in case they need to shoot it out with their own government.
Simple... Trust and experiance. We do not trust our government to get it right. This comes from a lot of experiance of them getting it wrong.
Whoa, let's get this right. You don't trust your government (which wa established under your sacred consitution) yet you accept that universal health care can work under other governments (in Australia's case, a monarchy) because we've worked out that actually, yeah, the failures in trust we see from health care are much less worse than what we'd see if we adopted the American system.
Did the tea-party just admit they they fought the wrong battle back in the day?
I'll give it a shot - my theology degree doesn't get used here much. Calling the unknowable first-cause 'God' is all fine and good from a philosophical standpoint, but the God of most religions is usually much more personally involved in their creation than that so you're not really talking about the same sort of 'God' that modern religions are talking about. Religion as we know it today (apart from Evangelical America) descends from transcendent ideas of God, and replaced the previous dominant model a couple of thousand years ago in most places.
Calling the things we don't understand "God" hasn't been widely popular since the stone age, and almost no-one does it anymore. (At least, no-one who is being taken seriously by theology journals. If you live in North America YMMV.)
Because I had so many domains with them I needed to call the support phone number to get them to produce a csv with all the auth codes, and surprisingly they answered quickly and did what I asked. They were very polite.
When I said that SOPA was my reason for transferring, the call center guy asked whether it was GoDaddy's initial position or their later decisions that made me want to transfer. I told him that their initial stance was enough for me to leave, and that I've been a customer since their first year of operation.
If the crowd is to have any power at all, we need to punish the corporations that we can effect.
I hope they don't roll up picasa and blogger until *after* they've fixed Google+ integration with GoogleApps hosted domains.
Google have acknowledged that Google+ can't be used with email addresses hosted in GoogleApp domains but there is no word on when or if this will be fixed. Moving other products into Google+ will just reduce the number of google services that I can access, and I'm a paying google customer!
Those kids will grow up to be out of touch with reality, thinking they're the center of their tiny universe while being hopeless at everything other than their field of speciality.
You have no idea what you are talking about. I homeschooled my kids and they have a larger and more diverse circle of friends than you can possibly imagine. Unlike school kids, their friends are also from a wider variety of ages because my children didn't experience the age-range apartheid that you would consider 'normal' where the majority of the children you would interact with each day were within 12 months of your own age. My daughter's 16th birthday party had more than 70 kids and 30 adults on the guest list - and these really are close friends who she has spent more quality time with growing up than anything you get out in the school yard between classes.
I'm a software engineer, but for university the kids have gone into fields as widely different as biotech, justice/law, arts/language and design. One of them went and lived in Beijing for a year to immerse herself in the culture/language when she turned 18. Another has travelled to Japan, China and the USA regularly since they were 17 years old. At 13 years old, one of the kids went and stayed with a friend's family in the USA for three months - even saved up the airfare on her own by doing babysitting around the neighborhood.
I guess that I wouldn't agree with the same homeschooling that you don't agree with - but unfortunately for you the reality of what the vast majority of homeschoolers are doing has nothing to do with your narrow prejudiced ideas. For every homeschooling parent who is keeping their kids in the basement, I'll show you 10 school kids who are wasting their lives and potential without any help from their parents at all.
Piloting 101 states that if your plane is stalled, the proper maneuvar is to point the nose downwards and dive sharply to pick up enough airspeed so that you can swoop and obtain lift so that you are no longer stalled.
That's why I think that there *must* be more to the story. It is simply not possible that anyone with a pilot's license, especially for a heavy jet, could respond to a simple stall by raising the nose.
Doesn't anyone RTFA anymore? Richard C Hoagland is one of the cited authors in the article about terraforming Mars. http://journalofcosmology.com/Mars102.html (he says that NASA nuked Jupiter with Galileo!)
Most of the chapters were amazing and very scientific, but when I saw that name mentioned the whole document took a nose dive in credibility.
On the positive side, it means that we don't have to expect nasty surprises from this new physics for our existing technologies (e.g. we don't have to expect that an extraordinary large solar flare suddenly makes a nuclear reactor fail, or something like that).
Umm, we didn't know that already? Oh dear. "New physics" had better not turn out to be an excuse for why we all suddenly glow in the dark, while it still isn't the nuclear power industry's fault.
--M
(PS - I love nuclear power, but I'm always a sceptic about our confidence when predicting unforeseen consequences.)
My daughter is living in Beijing for a year so before she left I got her a notebook and set it up with everything she'd need. For a brief moment I considered installing an SSH tunnel or VPN access back here to home, but then I thought about what my ex-wife's voice would sound like when she said, "they are detaining our daughter because they found military grade encryption software on her computer. How did that get there?" and decided against it.
Seriously, if you disagree with their policy don't go. In your own country you have the right to civil disobedience against unjust laws. In another country you are a guest and should act appropriately.
I'm an Aussie, our countries fought together in many wars (some still ongoing) and about as peaceful a partner as the US can get. Despite having travelled to the US about a dozen times and even lived over there for a couple of years, I have refused to return because you want to fingerprint me on entry now.
If you disagree with a requirement of entry. Don't go. It is astonishing that you would premeditate to break China's laws because of your political views when your own country has a bunch that you have not fought against.
My daughter just moved to china to work for a year. Our family has a google app domain that we all use for email. Before she left I configured her laptop so she could send and receive mail but I'm worried that google's china dispute might escalate.
Does anyone know the mechanism used by the "great firewall"? For example, if our MX records are aspmx.l.google.com (and from memory google run their SMTP/IMAP on non-standard ports too) is this likely to be caught up in a series of tit-for-tat blocking or will it just be things like good old port 80 to gmail.com?
The webpage report linked in the article still shows gmail as not blocked, but if it does get blocked will my daughter be cut off from her email address at our family's google-hosted domain?
Just as the USA have lost their moral right to castigate countries who use torture as a tool of statecraft, so too has Australia now given up her right to criticise those authoritarian regimes who would limit the freedom of communication of their citizens.
Given that all the experts (yes, ALL the experts) agree that it won't stop anyone who actually traffics in this despicable content from peddling their filth even for a moment, can anyone here tell me what else we're buying for the price of our moral high ground on this issue?
China will be laughing their socks off at us next time we try to mention the censorship of news and internet in their country - no matter what language our leaders speak the message in.
A summary of various comments above: it was outside the turk's search area, and google earth still doesn't have recent photos of the crash site even now.
As if we didn't have enough problems in this world without the idle rich finding new and innovative ways to waste time and money.
Dude, I just used my 20mbps home internet over my Wifi on my XPS laptop to reply to you while I was surfing the web for the first time with the new Chrome browser, and I didn't even read TFA in the post. Umm wait, what was my point?
This reminds me of something that happens in the newspapers every few years in my country. In a slow news cycle, the newspapers will begin to report every incident where a child catches meningococcal disease. By simple statistics, during the winter months you can almost guarentee a spike of such incidents. The disease is unfortunately sometimes fatal in children which makes it particularly newsworthy. Within a matter of weeks, you'll see headlines screaming about an epidemic outbreak as the sixth child gets infected - selling more newspapers than ever as concerned parents rush to read the latest news.
I've seen the map of the world's undersea cables and there are a whole bunch of them. It seems to me that for all we know, the average failure rate is only 50% of the incidence we're currently seeing - this is just a random spike of events which is only twice the background rate of regular mishaps, for example.
The previous "worst week" for cable cuttings might have easily been, say, 2 cables. So, now we have 4 (and not all were cut) so we're only running at double the previous peak, and that probably happened a few years ago when there was, say, 20-30% less thousands of kilometers of cable laid.
Does anyone have any info that might help for this? I cut code for a livin', not crunch numbers.
I am very surprised that no-one has mentioned bio-tech. Computers are *so* 1990's, the future is in bio-tech everyone.
If you don't believe me, watch this video of a lecture titled "Programming DNA" taken from last year's Chaos Congress... We're not talking about doing math with DNA in a test-tube anymore, we have teenage undergraduates producing much more interesting genetic designs already!
Seems to me like the same hacker community who brought us open source and the internet have all moved on to more interesting pastures. Makes sense though, hackers are always going to be found at the cutting edge, and the cutting edge has already moved on from silicon to nucleic acid.
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Millions in crowdfunding and years later yet still no release :)
I played it today. Last week I played it with a big group of friends. That's not exactly no release.
Hundreds of hours of fun just larking around so far. Can't wait for the actual release though so I guess you're right about that.
The GNU Name System, nameCoin..
Yes. Namecoin is a great replacement for DNS. It is implemented using bitcoin technology, and you can exchange them for bitcoins too.
--M
Mod parent up. A worm is way more complicated than an amoeba and it was even on the /. front page a few days ago.
--M
With the demo, I made a rocket that orbited the Mun and returned to Kerbin for a safe landing.
I had to put the damn game down and walk away...
Yep. Same story here, except I managed an entire manned (Kerbaled?) Duna sample return mission before walking away.
My marriage only just survived.
--M
Its not just death that is the problem. My ex-wife is in a coma, not dead. Helping the kids access her data involved an EC2 cloud of GPUs. Please people, leave your password around so your loved-ones can obtain it even without a death certificate or will, because there are some situations that are even more complicated than simple old death.
Your safety deposit box schemes all mostly fail on this point alone.
--M
Thanks for mentioning boogie board, I didn't know about it. I'm a big fan of eReaders, and I can't wait to try eWriters now!
--D
The rest of the civilized world makes this shit work. You don't think America can do it better? Why do you hate America?
America has brainwashed itself. I lived in Texas for a few years and have seen it first-hand. Its called cognitive dissonance I think. A 'patriot' seems to be someone who can simultaneously believe that the consitution is perfect, America is the greatest nation, and that they need to be armed in case they need to shoot it out with their own government.
Wow.
--D
Simple... Trust and experiance. We do not trust our government to get it right. This comes from a lot of experiance of them getting it wrong.
Whoa, let's get this right. You don't trust your government (which wa established under your sacred consitution) yet you accept that universal health care can work under other governments (in Australia's case, a monarchy) because we've worked out that actually, yeah, the failures in trust we see from health care are much less worse than what we'd see if we adopted the American system.
Did the tea-party just admit they they fought the wrong battle back in the day?
lol.
--D
I'll give it a shot - my theology degree doesn't get used here much. Calling the unknowable first-cause 'God' is all fine and good from a philosophical standpoint, but the God of most religions is usually much more personally involved in their creation than that so you're not really talking about the same sort of 'God' that modern religions are talking about. Religion as we know it today (apart from Evangelical America) descends from transcendent ideas of God, and replaced the previous dominant model a couple of thousand years ago in most places.
Calling the things we don't understand "God" hasn't been widely popular since the stone age, and almost no-one does it anymore. (At least, no-one who is being taken seriously by theology journals. If you live in North America YMMV.)
--M
Because I had so many domains with them I needed to call the support phone number to get them to produce a csv with all the auth codes, and surprisingly they answered quickly and did what I asked. They were very polite.
When I said that SOPA was my reason for transferring, the call center guy asked whether it was GoDaddy's initial position or their later decisions that made me want to transfer. I told him that their initial stance was enough for me to leave, and that I've been a customer since their first year of operation.
If the crowd is to have any power at all, we need to punish the corporations that we can effect.
--M
I hope they don't roll up picasa and blogger until *after* they've fixed Google+ integration with GoogleApps hosted domains.
Google have acknowledged that Google+ can't be used with email addresses hosted in GoogleApp domains but there is no word on when or if this will be fixed. Moving other products into Google+ will just reduce the number of google services that I can access, and I'm a paying google customer!
--M
Those kids will grow up to be out of touch with reality, thinking they're the center of their tiny universe while being hopeless at everything other than their field of speciality.
You have no idea what you are talking about. I homeschooled my kids and they have a larger and more diverse circle of friends than you can possibly imagine. Unlike school kids, their friends are also from a wider variety of ages because my children didn't experience the age-range apartheid that you would consider 'normal' where the majority of the children you would interact with each day were within 12 months of your own age. My daughter's 16th birthday party had more than 70 kids and 30 adults on the guest list - and these really are close friends who she has spent more quality time with growing up than anything you get out in the school yard between classes.
I'm a software engineer, but for university the kids have gone into fields as widely different as biotech, justice/law, arts/language and design. One of them went and lived in Beijing for a year to immerse herself in the culture/language when she turned 18. Another has travelled to Japan, China and the USA regularly since they were 17 years old. At 13 years old, one of the kids went and stayed with a friend's family in the USA for three months - even saved up the airfare on her own by doing babysitting around the neighborhood.
I guess that I wouldn't agree with the same homeschooling that you don't agree with - but unfortunately for you the reality of what the vast majority of homeschoolers are doing has nothing to do with your narrow prejudiced ideas. For every homeschooling parent who is keeping their kids in the basement, I'll show you 10 school kids who are wasting their lives and potential without any help from their parents at all.
It's your call.
--D
Piloting 101 states that if your plane is stalled, the proper maneuvar is to point the nose downwards and dive sharply to pick up enough airspeed so that you can swoop and obtain lift so that you are no longer stalled.
That's why I think that there *must* be more to the story. It is simply not possible that anyone with a pilot's license, especially for a heavy jet, could respond to a simple stall by raising the nose.
--M
Doesn't anyone RTFA anymore? Richard C Hoagland is one of the cited authors in the article about terraforming Mars.
http://journalofcosmology.com/Mars102.html (he says that NASA nuked Jupiter with Galileo!)
Most of the chapters were amazing and very scientific, but when I saw that name mentioned the whole document took a nose dive in credibility.
--M
On the positive side, it means that we don't have to expect nasty surprises from this new physics for our existing technologies (e.g. we don't have to expect that an extraordinary large solar flare suddenly makes a nuclear reactor fail, or something like that).
Umm, we didn't know that already? Oh dear. "New physics" had better not turn out to be an excuse for why we all suddenly glow in the dark, while it still isn't the nuclear power industry's fault.
--M
(PS - I love nuclear power, but I'm always a sceptic about our confidence when predicting unforeseen consequences.)
My daughter is living in Beijing for a year so before she left I got her a notebook and set it up with everything she'd need. For a brief moment I considered installing an SSH tunnel or VPN access back here to home, but then I thought about what my ex-wife's voice would sound like when she said, "they are detaining our daughter because they found military grade encryption software on her computer. How did that get there?" and decided against it.
Seriously, if you disagree with their policy don't go. In your own country you have the right to civil disobedience against unjust laws. In another country you are a guest and should act appropriately.
I'm an Aussie, our countries fought together in many wars (some still ongoing) and about as peaceful a partner as the US can get. Despite having travelled to the US about a dozen times and even lived over there for a couple of years, I have refused to return because you want to fingerprint me on entry now.
If you disagree with a requirement of entry. Don't go. It is astonishing that you would premeditate to break China's laws because of your political views when your own country has a bunch that you have not fought against.
Sheesh.
--M
Well, personally, I'm thrilled they're trying to keep NASA alive
Yeah! That Obama is killing NASA what with his increase of its budget. Wait...
--M
My daughter just moved to china to work for a year. Our family has a google app domain that we all use for email. Before she left I configured her laptop so she could send and receive mail but I'm worried that google's china dispute might escalate.
Does anyone know the mechanism used by the "great firewall"? For example, if our MX records are aspmx.l.google.com (and from memory google run their SMTP/IMAP on non-standard ports too) is this likely to be caught up in a series of tit-for-tat blocking or will it just be things like good old port 80 to gmail.com?
The webpage report linked in the article still shows gmail as not blocked, but if it does get blocked will my daughter be cut off from her email address at our family's google-hosted domain?
--M
Just as the USA have lost their moral right to castigate countries who use torture as a tool of statecraft, so too has Australia now given up her right to criticise those authoritarian regimes who would limit the freedom of communication of their citizens.
Given that all the experts (yes, ALL the experts) agree that it won't stop anyone who actually traffics in this despicable content from peddling their filth even for a moment, can anyone here tell me what else we're buying for the price of our moral high ground on this issue?
China will be laughing their socks off at us next time we try to mention the censorship of news and internet in their country - no matter what language our leaders speak the message in.
--M
A summary of various comments above: it was outside the turk's search area, and google earth still doesn't have recent photos of the crash site even now.
The google earth blog however has a kml file of the crash location based on the no-fly zone coordinates and some additional guesswork,
I looked at it and couldn't see any wreckage, certainly nothing we could have seen during the search.
-M
As if we didn't have enough problems in this world without the idle rich finding new and innovative ways to waste time and money.
Dude, I just used my 20mbps home internet over my Wifi on my XPS laptop to reply to you while I was surfing the web for the first time with the new Chrome browser, and I didn't even read TFA in the post. Umm wait, what was my point?
--M
Actually, yes. According to theologian/philosopher/anthropologist Rene Girard, that is precisely what would happen.
Indeed, he cites mob killing as being instrumental in the development of human civilization in the first place.
-M
Citation please?
-M
This reminds me of something that happens in the newspapers every few years in my country. In a slow news cycle, the newspapers will begin to report every incident where a child catches meningococcal disease. By simple statistics, during the winter months you can almost guarentee a spike of such incidents. The disease is unfortunately sometimes fatal in children which makes it particularly newsworthy. Within a matter of weeks, you'll see headlines screaming about an epidemic outbreak as the sixth child gets infected - selling more newspapers than ever as concerned parents rush to read the latest news.
I've seen the map of the world's undersea cables and there are a whole bunch of them. It seems to me that for all we know, the average failure rate is only 50% of the incidence we're currently seeing - this is just a random spike of events which is only twice the background rate of regular mishaps, for example.
The previous "worst week" for cable cuttings might have easily been, say, 2 cables. So, now we have 4 (and not all were cut) so we're only running at double the previous peak, and that probably happened a few years ago when there was, say, 20-30% less thousands of kilometers of cable laid.
Does anyone have any info that might help for this? I cut code for a livin', not crunch numbers.
-M
I am very surprised that no-one has mentioned bio-tech. Computers are *so* 1990's, the future is in bio-tech everyone.
If you don't believe me, watch this video of a lecture titled "Programming DNA" taken from last year's Chaos Congress... We're not talking about doing math with DNA in a test-tube anymore, we have teenage undergraduates producing much more interesting genetic designs already!
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-6950604815683841321&hl=en
Seems to me like the same hacker community who brought us open source and the internet have all moved on to more interesting pastures. Makes sense though, hackers are always going to be found at the cutting edge, and the cutting edge has already moved on from silicon to nucleic acid.
No, I didn't RTFA.
-M