Did you notice that dependency tree only applies to voidlinux? Looking quickly, a few distros that were building wget against GNUTLS (wget is a GNU product), e.g. arch, are now building it against openssl, which is a step in the right direction (probably, maybe, ifs/ands/buts/save-us-libressl).
Sorta important - there's not much popular software that uses GNUTLS, but wget is one of them. Since it's almost always used as a client, it's probably wise to use curl -O against unknown servers, until they get this straightened out.
Am I missing an obvious need for full 360 panorama cameras?
I don't know if it's obvious, but this will be great for VR. If you have a binocular headset with head tracking, it's pretty clear that the next thing is for you to do is to look around. Take Endless Barrels for example. I'd love to give that a go in 360.
Speaking of which, GoPro should hire this team. If they don't, Facebook will, and that would be worse.
Still no consumer-level octo-core? I'll continue to stick with my Q9450 then. I'm not willing to spend thousands on a Xeon.
You don't need to spend thousands - my last build was a little SOHO Xen server using a Xeon 2620 which is a six-core with hyperthreading. Much to my surprise, HP's benchmarks showed a 30% performance improvement under Xen with hyperthreading in use, so that's 7.8 cores worth, which is pretty good for $400. I used a single-processor mobo, but dual-sockets are available. It's not a linear number cruncher (I have a hot 12-core AMD for that) but if you have a workload that needs parallelism it's a decent value. Sadly, it replaced my AMD Xen server because AMD just isn't stable under recent Xen and there's no PVH support at all.
Since there is no excess heat from the combustion engine it is way more efficient to just heat the seats.
Good point - there was that guy who experimented with heated mouse, foot warmer, etc. to keep his personal space relatively unheated and claimed success.
"Cold Weather Package: Stay warmer as the weather gets colder with new heated second-row seats, heater windshield wiper nozzles & cowl, improved defrost grill, and an upgraded battery coolant heater to improve vehicle performance and range in cold climates."
Sounds fancy. Even the cars I've had with heated seats (not a fan - I wear pants anyway) haven't had rear seat heaters. This may be a competitive item in the luxury car class. If you're bringing your kids to school and it's actually cold out they're wearing snow pants, but for those kids in Florida when it his 45*F, I guess.
I'd presume the improved defrost grill and battery coolant heaters will become stock at some point. Personally I'm waiting for the Model X (wishing for quad-motor - dammit Goodyear) because we get real winter here, but this sounds nice for folks who live where a bit of wintry mix can ruin your day in a hurry.
Not sure I'd want to ride the parachute to a hard-surface landing. Is SpaceX planning to deploy Grasshopper-type technology to Mars landings? Send up some robots to build a landing pad first, if needed. Robots are happy to do a hard landing (or their replacements will be if that doesn't work out).
If you ever tried listening to one of his podcasts you could make some informed comments. I dare you to go listen to the two recent ones on certificate revocation protocols and not come away better informed. But an informed commenter on Slashdot? My goodness that would be like the bad old days.
Well it makes a bit of sense for the average ISP - their fees are based on presumed overcommit rates and it's possible to break those assumptions if everybody pumps enough traffic. Everybody is stuck on fixed-rate billing so the grandma doing webmail pays as much as the 10-meg-up-24x7 torrenter when the costs are way different. I even heard an ISP owner say that customers couldn't understand usage-based billing (these are people who pay electric bills). Insistence on fixed-rate billing will inevitably lead to bureaucrats central planning the Internet. If you put emotion before economics, you'll get exactly what you deserve. A libre Internet will eventually require per-packet billed routing (fractional shatoshi?) but if everybody insists on a gratis Internet they won't get the libre one.
Comcast's anti-competitive bullshit is a red herring in the neutrality debate if you understand that what's really happening is that the overcommit gamble is starting to no longer pay off and they're mostly looking to soften that blow to their failing business model.
Not voluntarily unless required by law? Why do companies release statements like this? It just makes them seem more guilty. Better not to say anything.
No, we should be applauding this. Look at the recent 'IBM' denial. They are very specific about what they're not doing, making it plainly obvious what they are doing without violating their NSL.
Just a note to others, this one and the Slashvertized one are TN panels. TFA talks about how it's not too bad of a TN panel, but it's not IPS (which some of us buyers are waiting for).
These are the people we have heading up space exploration? Sounds like he's more suited for making low budget sci-fi movies. Seriously, this kind of tech is so far beyond our capabilities it doesn't even pay to bring it up in a serious conversation.
Sure it does. Let's say that cryo-stasis ships (which might become feasible soon due to shashimi technology) or Generation Ships are fundamentally flawed (for whatever reason) but that 3d printing people or using wormholes could be feasible some day.
Then there's no point in doing research on the dead ends so we should stop all spending on them. I don't think this guy has proven that point, but if it could be proven then it would be worth listening. It's better to not do anything than to waste scarce resources.
Just QFT since many folks severely downscore AC. The moral issue there is the one that Trek skirts with its analog process - whether digital copy-and-delete is equivalent to move, when considering lifeforms.
The only known possible model (automated deduction) is known to not scale at all to anything resembling "intelligence"
What do you mean "only possible model"? The "singularity people" say that if you build a machine as complex as a brain and connected like a brain with connections that act like neurons, then that machine will act like a brain.
That's not a model, we don't really know how the brain works. But if they build an artificial brain, they don't need a theory for how it works, except as further work towards improvements.
What I seem to be getting from this is that there are people who think that if we build an artificial brain that it won't work like a real brain because... real brains are magic?
And then they attribute religious sentiment to the idea of building an artificial brain? They protest too much.
Do you not remember CDNow, and the virtual CD service? You probably don't since it was annihilated in a legal storm of massive furor.
I don't recall CDNow, but Cringely had a posited legal maneuver to account for the phonorecording problem. But, yeah, his idea is over a decade old, so way to use the Google, submitter.
Yeah, but then you would have to pay for them, and residents get resentful at the idea of schools having nice things. How can they afford the latest gadgets and vacations if schools are teaching children with their money?
I'm thinking of a school that spent a tremendous amount of money outfitting every classroom with smartboards that are almost always used as $500 projectors, when that money could have been used to build a new building to replace the trailers they have.
HTTP/1.1 is roughly seventeen years old now - technically HTTP/1.0 came out seven years before that, but in terms of mass adoption, NSFNet fizzled in '94 and then people really started to pay attention to the web - I had my first webpage about six months before that (at College) and there were maybe a dozen in the whole school who had heard of it previously. Argue for seven years if you'd like, but I'll say that HTTP/1.0 got seriously revised after three years of significant broad usage. SSLv3, still considered almost usable today, was released the year before. TLSv1.2, considered good, has been a standard for over five years and still it's poorly supported though now critically necessary for some security surfaces.
After this burst of innovation, somebody dreamt up the W3C and we got various levels of baroque standards, all while everybody else solved the same problems over and over again. IETF used to be pretty efficient, but it seems like they're at the same point now.
I won't argue for SPDY becoming HTTP/2.0 but I will admire it as an effort to freaking do something. Some guys at Google said, "look, screw you guys, we're going to try to fix this mess," and they did something. While imperfect, they still did enough that the HTTP/2.0 committee looked at it and said (paraphrasing), "hrm, since we haven't done anything useful for 15 years, let's take SPDY and tweak it and call it a day's work well done."
The part Google got most right was the "screw you guys" part - central-planning the web is not working.. I'm not positive what the right organization structure looks like, but it's not W3C and IETF. We need to figure out what went right back in the mid 90's and do that again, but now with more experience under our belts. This talk of "one protocol to rule them all for 20 years" is undeniably a toxic approach. HTTP/1. 1 should have been deprecated by 2005 and we should be on to the third iteration beyond it by now. Yeah, more core stuff for the devs to do - used to be we had people who could start a company and write a whole new web browser in a year - half the time it takes to change the color of tabs these days.
And don't start with this "but this old browser on... " crap either - we rapidly iterated before and can do it again. Are there people who fear change? Sure - and nobody is going to stop HTTP/1.1 from working 50 years from now, but by golly nobody should want to use it by then either.
What in the world possessed them to release a device that doesn't have bleutooth?
Market segmentation. Same as you'll buy a six-core CPU with two of them disabled. HP can't be expected to have only one entry in this market. Heck, the Touchpad I had was quite a nice device, so they have potential.
I tried for a while to get the 'hidden' bluetooth on my Nook Color working a few years back and, while it could turn on and pair with something 6" away from it, the fact of the matter was that there wasn't a good antenna connection because even though the chip had it, it wasn't in the system spec so the rest of the system wasn't designed around it. Ah, another device that was almost working great when the Cyanogenmod devs abandoned it.
Henry Ford specified hemp fiber-based panels for his cars a hundred years ago, but a psychopathic government leveraged its corruption to benefit the tree pulp and synthetic fibers bosses, while claiming it was about social values.
IIRC you'd need a blunt 4' long and 18" across to get a buzz from hemp, and you'd die from smoke inhalation first. It's a great cash crop for farmers, can grow in less fertile soil (while improving it), produces Omega-3 "on the vine" and is far more productive per-acre than trees. So, a clear economic threat to those friends of the powerful.
The gas-powered Fiat 500 has a base price of $17,300
Let's give them a meager 5% profit on that and call it $16,435 cost. It could easily be less.
The electric Fiat 500e runs $32,650
every time I sell one it costs me $14,000
OK, so his cost basis for the electric model is $46,650. The cost difference between the gas and electric is thus $30,215.
So if something goes wrong with the electrical system when you're out of warranty, your bill could be up to $30,215. And that's if the dealer sells you parts at the company's cost (hahahaha!).
You know what else increases fuel economy? Not driving everywhere.
As driving gets better and cheaper, people drive more. It's not surprising - driving has benefits and gives people pleasure, either directly or indirectly. If it costs $2 to drive to the beach, I go in a heartbeat. If it costs $200 I stay home.
Improving the human condition is great, but just don't expect improved MPG to do much for overall fuel consumption outside of commuting (where group options may be better anyway).
No, none of that is legal - it's specifically barred by the US Constitution which authorized the current government (as Amended by the 4th Amendment).
You may imagine that the US Constitution says, "... of US Citizens... " but it doesn't because that would never have occurred to those trying to establish a Natural Rights Republic.
Sadly, the U.S. political system itself has become a similar dog-and-pony show.
C'mon, the US Government isn't controlled by the intelligence apparatus - if that were so you'd see them assigning a CIA operative to be a vice-President and then he'd become President and spawn a legacy of foreign intervention with other CIA associates and progeny as subsequent Presidents. They'd even sign off on giving the intelligence apparatus dominion of the whole country - preposterous!
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Have you even read the analysis ?
Did you notice that dependency tree only applies to voidlinux? Looking quickly, a few distros that were building wget against GNUTLS (wget is a GNU product), e.g. arch, are now building it against openssl, which is a step in the right direction (probably, maybe, ifs/ands/buts/save-us-libressl).
malicious server
Sorta important - there's not much popular software that uses GNUTLS, but wget is one of them. Since it's almost always used as a client, it's probably wise to use curl -O against unknown servers, until they get this straightened out.
Am I missing an obvious need for full 360 panorama cameras?
I don't know if it's obvious, but this will be great for VR. If you have a binocular headset with head tracking, it's pretty clear that the next thing is for you to do is to look around. Take Endless Barrels for example. I'd love to give that a go in 360.
Speaking of which, GoPro should hire this team. If they don't, Facebook will, and that would be worse.
Still no consumer-level octo-core? I'll continue to stick with my Q9450 then. I'm not willing to spend thousands on a Xeon.
You don't need to spend thousands - my last build was a little SOHO Xen server using a Xeon 2620 which is a six-core with hyperthreading. Much to my surprise, HP's benchmarks showed a 30% performance improvement under Xen with hyperthreading in use, so that's 7.8 cores worth, which is pretty good for $400. I used a single-processor mobo, but dual-sockets are available. It's not a linear number cruncher (I have a hot 12-core AMD for that) but if you have a workload that needs parallelism it's a decent value. Sadly, it replaced my AMD Xen server because AMD just isn't stable under recent Xen and there's no PVH support at all.
Since there is no excess heat from the combustion engine it is way more efficient to just heat the seats.
Good point - there was that guy who experimented with heated mouse, foot warmer, etc. to keep his personal space relatively unheated and claimed success.
Interesting - I didn't know this was out.
Sounds fancy. Even the cars I've had with heated seats (not a fan - I wear pants anyway) haven't had rear seat heaters. This may be a competitive item in the luxury car class. If you're bringing your kids to school and it's actually cold out they're wearing snow pants, but for those kids in Florida when it his 45*F, I guess.
I'd presume the improved defrost grill and battery coolant heaters will become stock at some point. Personally I'm waiting for the Model X (wishing for quad-motor - dammit Goodyear) because we get real winter here, but this sounds nice for folks who live where a bit of wintry mix can ruin your day in a hurry.
The old standard was 1.6 lpf - does that help derive 87?
Not sure I'd want to ride the parachute to a hard-surface landing. Is SpaceX planning to deploy Grasshopper-type technology to Mars landings? Send up some robots to build a landing pad first, if needed. Robots are happy to do a hard landing (or their replacements will be if that doesn't work out).
If you ever tried listening to one of his podcasts you could make some informed comments. I dare you to go listen to the two recent ones on certificate revocation protocols and not come away better informed. But an informed commenter on Slashdot? My goodness that would be like the bad old days.
Well it makes a bit of sense for the average ISP - their fees are based on presumed overcommit rates and it's possible to break those assumptions if everybody pumps enough traffic. Everybody is stuck on fixed-rate billing so the grandma doing webmail pays as much as the 10-meg-up-24x7 torrenter when the costs are way different. I even heard an ISP owner say that customers couldn't understand usage-based billing (these are people who pay electric bills). Insistence on fixed-rate billing will inevitably lead to bureaucrats central planning the Internet. If you put emotion before economics, you'll get exactly what you deserve. A libre Internet will eventually require per-packet billed routing (fractional shatoshi?) but if everybody insists on a gratis Internet they won't get the libre one.
Comcast's anti-competitive bullshit is a red herring in the neutrality debate if you understand that what's really happening is that the overcommit gamble is starting to no longer pay off and they're mostly looking to soften that blow to their failing business model.
Not voluntarily unless required by law? Why do companies release statements like this? It just makes them seem more guilty. Better not to say anything.
No, we should be applauding this. Look at the recent 'IBM' denial. They are very specific about what they're not doing, making it plainly obvious what they are doing without violating their NSL.
Just a note to others, this one and the Slashvertized one are TN panels. TFA talks about how it's not too bad of a TN panel, but it's not IPS (which some of us buyers are waiting for).
These are the people we have heading up space exploration? Sounds like he's more suited for making low budget sci-fi movies. Seriously, this kind of tech is so far beyond our capabilities it doesn't even pay to bring it up in a serious conversation.
Sure it does. Let's say that cryo-stasis ships (which might become feasible soon due to shashimi technology) or Generation Ships are fundamentally flawed (for whatever reason) but that 3d printing people or using wormholes could be feasible some day.
Then there's no point in doing research on the dead ends so we should stop all spending on them. I don't think this guy has proven that point, but if it could be proven then it would be worth listening. It's better to not do anything than to waste scarce resources.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Think_Like_a_Dinosaur_(The_Outer_Limits)
Just QFT since many folks severely downscore AC. The moral issue there is the one that Trek skirts with its analog process - whether digital copy-and-delete is equivalent to move, when considering lifeforms.
oh, no, they've invented IP-over-time-bridge!
The only known possible model (automated deduction) is known to not scale at all to anything resembling "intelligence"
What do you mean "only possible model"? The "singularity people" say that if you build a machine as complex as a brain and connected like a brain with connections that act like neurons, then that machine will act like a brain.
That's not a model, we don't really know how the brain works. But if they build an artificial brain, they don't need a theory for how it works, except as further work towards improvements.
What I seem to be getting from this is that there are people who think that if we build an artificial brain that it won't work like a real brain because ... real brains are magic?
And then they attribute religious sentiment to the idea of building an artificial brain? They protest too much.
Do you not remember CDNow, and the virtual CD service? You probably don't since it was annihilated in a legal storm of massive furor.
I don't recall CDNow, but Cringely had a posited legal maneuver to account for the phonorecording problem. But, yeah, his idea is over a decade old, so way to use the Google, submitter.
ob: this never occurred to anybody at Netflix...
Yeah, but then you would have to pay for them, and residents get resentful at the idea of schools having nice things. How can they afford the latest gadgets and vacations if schools are teaching children with their money?
I'm thinking of a school that spent a tremendous amount of money outfitting every classroom with smartboards that are almost always used as $500 projectors, when that money could have been used to build a new building to replace the trailers they have.
They need a smart Board, not smartboards.
HTTP/1.1 is roughly seventeen years old now - technically HTTP/1.0 came out seven years before that, but in terms of mass adoption, NSFNet fizzled in '94 and then people really started to pay attention to the web - I had my first webpage about six months before that (at College) and there were maybe a dozen in the whole school who had heard of it previously. Argue for seven years if you'd like, but I'll say that HTTP/1.0 got seriously revised after three years of significant broad usage. SSLv3, still considered almost usable today, was released the year before. TLSv1.2, considered good, has been a standard for over five years and still it's poorly supported though now critically necessary for some security surfaces.
After this burst of innovation, somebody dreamt up the W3C and we got various levels of baroque standards, all while everybody else solved the same problems over and over again. IETF used to be pretty efficient, but it seems like they're at the same point now.
I won't argue for SPDY becoming HTTP/2.0 but I will admire it as an effort to freaking do something. Some guys at Google said, "look, screw you guys, we're going to try to fix this mess," and they did something. While imperfect, they still did enough that the HTTP/2.0 committee looked at it and said (paraphrasing), "hrm, since we haven't done anything useful for 15 years, let's take SPDY and tweak it and call it a day's work well done."
The part Google got most right was the "screw you guys" part - central-planning the web is not working.. I'm not positive what the right organization structure looks like, but it's not W3C and IETF. We need to figure out what went right back in the mid 90's and do that again, but now with more experience under our belts. This talk of "one protocol to rule them all for 20 years" is undeniably a toxic approach. HTTP/1. 1 should have been deprecated by 2005 and we should be on to the third iteration beyond it by now. Yeah, more core stuff for the devs to do - used to be we had people who could start a company and write a whole new web browser in a year - half the time it takes to change the color of tabs these days.
And don't start with this "but this old browser on ... " crap either - we rapidly iterated before and can do it again. Are there people who fear change? Sure - and nobody is going to stop HTTP/1.1 from working 50 years from now, but by golly nobody should want to use it by then either.
What in the world possessed them to release a device that doesn't have bleutooth?
Market segmentation. Same as you'll buy a six-core CPU with two of them disabled. HP can't be expected to have only one entry in this market. Heck, the Touchpad I had was quite a nice device, so they have potential.
I tried for a while to get the 'hidden' bluetooth on my Nook Color working a few years back and, while it could turn on and pair with something 6" away from it, the fact of the matter was that there wasn't a good antenna connection because even though the chip had it, it wasn't in the system spec so the rest of the system wasn't designed around it. Ah, another device that was almost working great when the Cyanogenmod devs abandoned it.
Henry Ford specified hemp fiber-based panels for his cars a hundred years ago, but a psychopathic government leveraged its corruption to benefit the tree pulp and synthetic fibers bosses, while claiming it was about social values.
IIRC you'd need a blunt 4' long and 18" across to get a buzz from hemp, and you'd die from smoke inhalation first. It's a great cash crop for farmers, can grow in less fertile soil (while improving it), produces Omega-3 "on the vine" and is far more productive per-acre than trees. So, a clear economic threat to those friends of the powerful.
It also makes fantastic long, strong fibers, once considered essential to national security.
No you don't - look at his numbers:
The gas-powered Fiat 500 has a base price of $17,300
Let's give them a meager 5% profit on that and call it $16,435 cost. It could easily be less.
The electric Fiat 500e runs $32,650
every time I sell one it costs me $14,000
OK, so his cost basis for the electric model is $46,650. The cost difference between the gas and electric is thus $30,215.
So if something goes wrong with the electrical system when you're out of warranty, your bill could be up to $30,215. And that's if the dealer sells you parts at the company's cost (hahahaha!).
Take his advice - don't buy it!
You know what else increases fuel economy? Not driving everywhere.
As driving gets better and cheaper, people drive more. It's not surprising - driving has benefits and gives people pleasure, either directly or indirectly. If it costs $2 to drive to the beach, I go in a heartbeat. If it costs $200 I stay home.
Improving the human condition is great, but just don't expect improved MPG to do much for overall fuel consumption outside of commuting (where group options may be better anyway).
It's perfectly legal ...
No, none of that is legal - it's specifically barred by the US Constitution which authorized the current government (as Amended by the 4th Amendment).
You may imagine that the US Constitution says, " ... of US Citizens ... " but it doesn't because that would never have occurred to those trying to establish a Natural Rights Republic.
Sadly, the U.S. political system itself has become a similar dog-and-pony show.
C'mon, the US Government isn't controlled by the intelligence apparatus - if that were so you'd see them assigning a CIA operative to be a vice-President and then he'd become President and spawn a legacy of foreign intervention with other CIA associates and progeny as subsequent Presidents. They'd even sign off on giving the intelligence apparatus dominion of the whole country - preposterous!