Most tier 2 providers already engage in this activity. I feel like Level 3 thinks they are a tier 1 provider and are finding out they are actually tier 2.
Ah, thanks. Reading a few of Level 3's blog posts, it sounds like they want to have free peering with everybody because that's maybe how it was back when BBN and MCI were working things out. The trouble with that is that it only works when everybody plays nice. When you can't count on all players to be nice, you need markets and competition. It sounds like Level 3 is opting to go to the FCC, asking it to regulate them instead. There's no future where Level 3 will be better off being regulated by the FCC than if they regulated their peering agreements with a pricing mechanism.
Did you even read TFS? Apparently, for a lot of people, Update 1 simply won't install for some reason. How are these people supposed to apply OS updates when the OS won't allow it?
I got a brand new Windows 7 Lenovo machine for my folks' small business (to avert the imminent XPocalypse that I told them about two years ago, and eighteen months ago, and twelve months ago....) and I was shocked how a new-out-of-box Windows 7 machine not only needed about eight reboots to update itself, but that out of 147 updates there were like 24 that failed to apply. Reboot-re-run was needed about five times to just get through all those failed applies.
I'm more used to lazily installing a CentOS 6.0 DVD and running yum update and getting 959 updates which all apply in one smooth transaction. And that stuff was just written by a few part-time guys at Duke (of course credit to RHAT hackers for making it faster).
I wasn't surprised by XP's crummy updater, but by time Windows 7 came out they should have had this nailed with a team of pros working on it, and that this stuff is still broken in 8.1 is ridiculous. And to add insult to injury, they charge money for this junk!
Is just to cut the connection to those ISPs and see how long they will be around.
But why are they peering with them if there are better routes available?
The incentive structure on all these things is wrong. One neat thing the bitcoin network does is to attach a fee to each transaction that occurs (which is due to be reduced to reasonable levels soon - pay attention...).
There's too much turmoil going on in Internet routing with regard to pricing now. Some sort of BGP extension that includes transit cost has to come along to make it all automatic and lowest-cost. It's really not much different than how power producers will bring capacity online when the market demands or when they have excess capacity they need to get rid of. The dam near me has a realtime market price terminal they watch to see when to open the gates, but Internet providers would just automate the whole thing, and then the transit pricing wars would shake out. I wouldn't mind seeing it extended to the last mile either, though with monopoly protection in place there would need to be some very reasonable connection fee floor and controls on fees, since competition can't impose those controls. But one of the ways we encourage lowest-cost is with efficient protocols and there's very little incentive to demand that from the end user right now.
if you want to just put something on the shelf and then spin it up in 5 years, HDDs can be a bit touchy about that.
Any mechanism, really. I wouldn't count on a tape drive to be working in 5 years, but some tape drive will be available to read your tapes. The trick with hard drives is that the data and the mechanism are married (hey, where are the 4TB jazz drives?)
The thing with hard drives is that these days you don't put them on a shelf - you have them in a monitored RAID array and replace the drives as they fail. Your data will be online for all five of those years.
There are certainly people who have too much data to keep online - it's just that the percentage is ever-shrinking. It used to be that 90% of computer users needed a tape drive (hey, I even had a QIC-80 when I was in high school) but today it's probably less than 2% and that number keeps shrinking.
I don't think he's right on the best way to back a digital currency. However, here we have a US Senator talking about a digital currency, if he was setting up a digital currency, etc.
Currently any competition in currency is illegal. We have a 99.5% win here and people are yelling about how it's shit.
Go ask Harry Reid about setting up a competitive market of currencies and see how well you do. I would buy some of Paul's silly currency just to back him on the effort.
I think that there's probably a way to regain control of our country with destroying the world economy.
It's only a matter of *who* will crash the Dollar - OPEC, non-aligned petro-states, The Federal Reserve ("neither Federal nor with any reserves"), Germany (gold), bitcoin, Americans, etc. Bretton Woods is no longer meaningful.
Better for it to be done in an orderly fashion, but if it's not, it'll be done is a disorderly fashion. Oh - don't keep your retirement account in USD, m'kay?
They've been talking about doing end-to-end encryption in the browser. That's incompatible with ad scanning, so this is one foot forward in that direction.
Googlers are still really ripped about PRISM. They were naive, but no longer.
I would far rather have them fix the security flaws that already exist BEFORE adopting a new system with just more security flaws. It's an unnecessary expense and rather self-defeating.
Chip-n-pin isn't secure, but it's more secure than visible numbers. The Europeans reduced their fraud by something like 95%.
Our real danger is getting stuck on chip-n-pin for the next 20 years. I suspect somebody (Amazon/PayPal/NewCorp) will replace payments entirely with phones by then, though. The old people who use credit cards might still be using chip-n-pin, but they will be a tiny minority.
My new debit card that came in the mail doesn't even have raised numbers on it. So much for imprint machines. Ah, well, the only place I've used one in the past five years was at a farmer's market and at a small toy store during a power outage.
I dunno, the BluRay market is big enough for Redbox and Netflix to be in. I *never* get a BluRay from Redbox. It's not the 80 cents or whatever, but that for the kind of movies I'm renting, the resolution has no value to me, so why pay any more? Maybe mplayer has a good line douobler or the encoders have gotten smarter or something, but even CGI-heavy DVD movies look fine to me on the HD screen.
But... I'm obviously not the target market, and such a market must exist or Redbox and Netflix wouldn't have these options. Some people are willing to pay more for the resolution. Since delivery costs are higher and there are willing payers it only makes sense to sell to those people.
Now, what we really need is a cage match between DJB and Theo de Raanter. I'd buy that on PPV!
Might be kinda boring, actually - they're both usually harsh on people who are wrong. So, in this case...
You'd have to get DJB talking about large systems integrations (awesome, qmail is a secure system that doesn't meet real world needs without patches of unknown quality) and Theo talking about people's motivations (especially 'linux people').
Right - 25519 in particular is well-regarded. It may be that everybody in the field[sic] is wrong, but at this point it's considered stronger than RSA, and possibly resistant to quantum attacks which RSA is not.
Looking at risks today, it's more likely that OpenSSL's RSA code has vulnerabilities than curve 25519 has breaks. We are not just looking at algorithms here, but implementations.
If I were on OpenBSD I might feel comfortable using LibreSSL with guard pages, but for my linux-to-linux machines in a glibc world, I'd be willing to replace my RSA keys at this point for security-sensitive work.
If he can do the job, they're probably giving him right of first refusal, as a matter of respect. Artoo came off as lovable 3-6, so if he can do it, he'll probably do it well, so why go with an unknown? I don't know what Baker made off of his work in 3-6, but it probably wasn't enough.
But I think there's better news that this is missing - he's hiring Baker and Mayhew. That means that Artoo and Chewie aren't going to be CGI absurdities. This is by far the best news to date and means that JJ doesn't need to be kidnapped and reeducated by saber-wielding weenies.
But there is good news - that Guide is for the Eps 4-6 universe. Those are some of many reasons that Eps 1-3 are in a different universe.
I mean, how old was ObiWan at the end of Ep. 3? 40 at the most? Now Luke is 16 years older, and Ben looks 75, and Tarkin says, "surely he must be dead by now?" and Vader has to remind him that Jedi live longer than normal people (who probably hit 120 with ease in that universe) so he's probably 150, easily, maybe 180.
There is no way that they can be in the same Universe. So, if JJ doesn't get flayed for ruining 7-9, he can circle back and make Eps 1-3 in a consistent universe and we can bury Lucas with the last three prints of his 1-3 that haven't been burned by angry mobs.
Or... JJ can use Max to retcon the Mongo Empire as beginning in Lucas's galaxy and expanding over time into an inter-galactic empire run by a Dark Jedi who feeds on life force to make himself younger, and learns to force-abosrb and manifest himself as desired with his ring vessel.
You should go peruse the Australian glycemic index database compiled from real blood draws of people eating different foods. It's more complex than we were lead to believe. I used to believe the "potatoes flash to sugar" myth as well.
Also look at metabolic rate limiting of sucrase production in the small intestine. Definitely reduce sucrose, but exceeding the fructose processing rate capacity of the liver is the real enemy.
Solving the cube is in fact so easy that a kid can do it.
That killed it for me. Our school bookmobile was selling a book on how to solve it for $4 or so. I picked one up, read about the solving algorithm, and then pretty much lost all interest. It went from intriguing to "oh, so I can learn to do this rote thing fast". I scrambled and solved mine a few times and then put it in a drawer where it stayed until my kids found it decades later.
After weeks of CNN jumping at every bit of trash in the ocean, I simply do not care
Yes, the degree to which one TV show has either increased or decreased your concern on the matter, that is an issue you need to work on. It should be entirely irrelevant.
I plug '370' into Google News every few days and read a brief article on what's new. I'm interested to hear what happened, but systems failures are something of an esoteric interest of mine. I haven't had cable or satellite for years and the CNN live stream doesn't have any value to me. Last time I was at a relative's and they had it on it was all about Nancy Grace spouting self-righteous nonsense about some woman who killed her kids and non-stop ads for some sort of deodorant stick that you're supposed to put on your forehead if you got a headache. This told me to actively avoid CNN, not just casually avoid it.
Today's news search also had Stephen King spouting off about CNN and abandoning all the searches because of CNN's coverage. I just figured that guys who write horror for a living have to be a bit unhinged in the first place.
Anyway, nobody should allow themselves to be told what to care about by a television.
stop pretending like they don't have their own interests and axes to grind.
Of course they do - the entire point of politics is to buy influence and take money from other people to serve your interests.
But, in this case I wonder if they do have a point (or not). I *know* that the Koch brothers are dicks - they sued that one guy who did a parody Koch press conference for violating their imaginary property, or some nonsense like that, but does net metering really raise the electric rates for seniors? If it's true, that's something we should know about.
I understand that reverse metering is the same, cost wise, as buying wholesale power at retail, so it's more expensive power. If all the power were bought that way, at current rates, the purchase price of grid power would be higher - I think that's a given.
But, it's not that simple. The only reason the retail rates are what they are is to include to costs of the current generation model, which includes coal, light water reactor, and natural gas plant costs. At the same time, power companies offer efficiency rebates because they would rather not spend money on building new plants to meet demand, so solar benefits their desire to reduce demand by some amount, and that reduction has value to them. Do the Koch numbers include this?
There are more complications: solar doesn't run at night. Peak demand is during the day. Baseload is not covered by existing solar. We need new storage technology (that's what's holding me back). The grid could be re-imagined as a peer-to-peer co-op. The existing delivery charges count on directionality to maintain the power lines. Group net metering sets pricing like the costs are consolidated when they're not (except when they are). A smarter grid could use solar to reduce power outage costs. There are many types and scales of solar, both today and on the horizon. Maybe it makes more sense to dump excess solar power into bitcoin miners and trade it back with one layer of abstraction. Money today is not the same as money next year (time value - who wants to predict 20 year interest rates?). etc.
The analysis is complex, and would probably take an academic economist's team a year to develop a model. The answer may depend on which factors one considers as likely, timescales as relevant, and technologies as feasible. And that's before we even ask the regulators which kinds of technology they deem to be permissible in their ultimate wisdom (I can haz 3000' solar tower plz?).
I bet the Kochs and I would put different weights on those variables, but it's still a question that's worth knowing the answer to. I wouldn't mind seeing some Koch money go to fund a thorough study so they could "prove their point" as long as they release their data and methods.
Besides all the fallacy-ridden trash Slate publishes, it's started spamming my Facebook-unique email address recently (I once clicked 'like' on an article there, apparently, before I knew to block all those trackers) so I try to avoid it now. Wasn't paying attention to the hover, so Slashdot got me.:/
It is not enough for the inputs to the hiring/promotion process to be "race neutral", the output/result must be as well.
Can we get the political system thrown out on this basis? There's only one black man in the US Senate - should be about twelve. Even the House is 'missing' about fifteen members.
Racist (and misogynistic) system has to go. The result is *far* from equal.
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All that matters is who has the bigger stick.
But we need to know if 51% of the people want to clobber other other 49% with that stick so it will be fair!
Most tier 2 providers already engage in this activity. I feel like Level 3 thinks they are a tier 1 provider and are finding out they are actually tier 2.
Ah, thanks. Reading a few of Level 3's blog posts, it sounds like they want to have free peering with everybody because that's maybe how it was back when BBN and MCI were working things out. The trouble with that is that it only works when everybody plays nice. When you can't count on all players to be nice, you need markets and competition. It sounds like Level 3 is opting to go to the FCC, asking it to regulate them instead. There's no future where Level 3 will be better off being regulated by the FCC than if they regulated their peering agreements with a pricing mechanism.
Did you even read TFS? Apparently, for a lot of people, Update 1 simply won't install for some reason. How are these people supposed to apply OS updates when the OS won't allow it?
I got a brand new Windows 7 Lenovo machine for my folks' small business (to avert the imminent XPocalypse that I told them about two years ago, and eighteen months ago, and twelve months ago ... .) and I was shocked how a new-out-of-box Windows 7 machine not only needed about eight reboots to update itself, but that out of 147 updates there were like 24 that failed to apply. Reboot-re-run was needed about five times to just get through all those failed applies.
I'm more used to lazily installing a CentOS 6.0 DVD and running yum update and getting 959 updates which all apply in one smooth transaction. And that stuff was just written by a few part-time guys at Duke (of course credit to RHAT hackers for making it faster).
I wasn't surprised by XP's crummy updater, but by time Windows 7 came out they should have had this nailed with a team of pros working on it, and that this stuff is still broken in 8.1 is ridiculous. And to add insult to injury, they charge money for this junk!
Is just to cut the connection to those ISPs and see how long they will be around.
But why are they peering with them if there are better routes available?
The incentive structure on all these things is wrong. One neat thing the bitcoin network does is to attach a fee to each transaction that occurs (which is due to be reduced to reasonable levels soon - pay attention...).
There's too much turmoil going on in Internet routing with regard to pricing now. Some sort of BGP extension that includes transit cost has to come along to make it all automatic and lowest-cost. It's really not much different than how power producers will bring capacity online when the market demands or when they have excess capacity they need to get rid of. The dam near me has a realtime market price terminal they watch to see when to open the gates, but Internet providers would just automate the whole thing, and then the transit pricing wars would shake out. I wouldn't mind seeing it extended to the last mile either, though with monopoly protection in place there would need to be some very reasonable connection fee floor and controls on fees, since competition can't impose those controls. But one of the ways we encourage lowest-cost is with efficient protocols and there's very little incentive to demand that from the end user right now.
I heard he worked on the A4 not the A4.
Classic Apple disinfo machine. :)
Either they meant that it was a dual-core CPU
Somebody has been spending too much time staring at /proc/cpuinfo !
if you want to just put something on the shelf and then spin it up in 5 years, HDDs can be a bit touchy about that.
Any mechanism, really. I wouldn't count on a tape drive to be working in 5 years, but some tape drive will be available to read your tapes. The trick with hard drives is that the data and the mechanism are married (hey, where are the 4TB jazz drives?)
The thing with hard drives is that these days you don't put them on a shelf - you have them in a monitored RAID array and replace the drives as they fail. Your data will be online for all five of those years.
There are certainly people who have too much data to keep online - it's just that the percentage is ever-shrinking. It used to be that 90% of computer users needed a tape drive (hey, I even had a QIC-80 when I was in high school) but today it's probably less than 2% and that number keeps shrinking.
Forest/trees.
I don't think he's right on the best way to back a digital currency. However, here we have a US Senator talking about a digital currency, if he was setting up a digital currency, etc.
Currently any competition in currency is illegal. We have a 99.5% win here and people are yelling about how it's shit.
Go ask Harry Reid about setting up a competitive market of currencies and see how well you do. I would buy some of Paul's silly currency just to back him on the effort.
I think that there's probably a way to regain control of our country with destroying the world economy.
It's only a matter of *who* will crash the Dollar - OPEC, non-aligned petro-states, The Federal Reserve ("neither Federal nor with any reserves"), Germany (gold), bitcoin, Americans, etc. Bretton Woods is no longer meaningful.
Better for it to be done in an orderly fashion, but if it's not, it'll be done is a disorderly fashion. Oh - don't keep your retirement account in USD, m'kay?
They've been talking about doing end-to-end encryption in the browser. That's incompatible with ad scanning, so this is one foot forward in that direction.
Googlers are still really ripped about PRISM. They were naive, but no longer.
I would far rather have them fix the security flaws that already exist BEFORE adopting a new system with just more security flaws. It's an unnecessary expense and rather self-defeating.
Chip-n-pin isn't secure, but it's more secure than visible numbers. The Europeans reduced their fraud by something like 95%.
Our real danger is getting stuck on chip-n-pin for the next 20 years. I suspect somebody (Amazon/PayPal/NewCorp) will replace payments entirely with phones by then, though. The old people who use credit cards might still be using chip-n-pin, but they will be a tiny minority.
My new debit card that came in the mail doesn't even have raised numbers on it. So much for imprint machines. Ah, well, the only place I've used one in the past five years was at a farmer's market and at a small toy store during a power outage.
I also think this is a stupid idea.
I dunno, the BluRay market is big enough for Redbox and Netflix to be in. I *never* get a BluRay from Redbox. It's not the 80 cents or whatever, but that for the kind of movies I'm renting, the resolution has no value to me, so why pay any more? Maybe mplayer has a good line douobler or the encoders have gotten smarter or something, but even CGI-heavy DVD movies look fine to me on the HD screen.
But ... I'm obviously not the target market, and such a market must exist or Redbox and Netflix wouldn't have these options. Some people are willing to pay more for the resolution. Since delivery costs are higher and there are willing payers it only makes sense to sell to those people.
Now, what we really need is a cage match between DJB and Theo de Raanter. I'd buy that on PPV!
Might be kinda boring, actually - they're both usually harsh on people who are wrong. So, in this case...
You'd have to get DJB talking about large systems integrations (awesome, qmail is a secure system that doesn't meet real world needs without patches of unknown quality) and Theo talking about people's motivations (especially 'linux people').
Right - 25519 in particular is well-regarded. It may be that everybody in the field[sic] is wrong, but at this point it's considered stronger than RSA, and possibly resistant to quantum attacks which RSA is not.
Looking at risks today, it's more likely that OpenSSL's RSA code has vulnerabilities than curve 25519 has breaks. We are not just looking at algorithms here, but implementations.
If I were on OpenBSD I might feel comfortable using LibreSSL with guard pages, but for my linux-to-linux machines in a glibc world, I'd be willing to replace my RSA keys at this point for security-sensitive work.
Thank you, Team OpenSSH.
Perhaps he was out of fuel...
Perhaps Lucas was out of ideas. "Oh, Craft Services is here!"
If he can do the job, they're probably giving him right of first refusal, as a matter of respect. Artoo came off as lovable 3-6, so if he can do it, he'll probably do it well, so why go with an unknown? I don't know what Baker made off of his work in 3-6, but it probably wasn't enough.
But I think there's better news that this is missing - he's hiring Baker and Mayhew. That means that Artoo and Chewie aren't going to be CGI absurdities. This is by far the best news to date and means that JJ doesn't need to be kidnapped and reeducated by saber-wielding weenies.
But there is good news - that Guide is for the Eps 4-6 universe. Those are some of many reasons that Eps 1-3 are in a different universe.
I mean, how old was ObiWan at the end of Ep. 3? 40 at the most? Now Luke is 16 years older, and Ben looks 75, and Tarkin says, "surely he must be dead by now?" and Vader has to remind him that Jedi live longer than normal people (who probably hit 120 with ease in that universe) so he's probably 150, easily, maybe 180.
There is no way that they can be in the same Universe. So, if JJ doesn't get flayed for ruining 7-9, he can circle back and make Eps 1-3 in a consistent universe and we can bury Lucas with the last three prints of his 1-3 that haven't been burned by angry mobs.
Or ... JJ can use Max to retcon the Mongo Empire as beginning in Lucas's galaxy and expanding over time into an inter-galactic empire run by a Dark Jedi who feeds on life force to make himself younger, and learns to force-abosrb and manifest himself as desired with his ring vessel.
Did I mention the flaying?
You should go peruse the Australian glycemic index database compiled from real blood draws of people eating different foods. It's more complex than we were lead to believe. I used to believe the "potatoes flash to sugar" myth as well.
Also look at metabolic rate limiting of sucrase production in the small intestine. Definitely reduce sucrose, but exceeding the fructose processing rate capacity of the liver is the real enemy.
editors:
s/University/College/
(hoping that wasn't an editorial 'correction' since TIME got it right)
Also, there's a party all day on campus tomorrow.
Solving the cube is in fact so easy that a kid can do it.
That killed it for me. Our school bookmobile was selling a book on how to solve it for $4 or so. I picked one up, read about the solving algorithm, and then pretty much lost all interest. It went from intriguing to "oh, so I can learn to do this rote thing fast". I scrambled and solved mine a few times and then put it in a drawer where it stayed until my kids found it decades later.
After weeks of CNN jumping at every bit of trash in the ocean, I simply do not care
Yes, the degree to which one TV show has either increased or decreased your concern on the matter, that is an issue you need to work on. It should be entirely irrelevant.
I plug '370' into Google News every few days and read a brief article on what's new. I'm interested to hear what happened, but systems failures are something of an esoteric interest of mine. I haven't had cable or satellite for years and the CNN live stream doesn't have any value to me. Last time I was at a relative's and they had it on it was all about Nancy Grace spouting self-righteous nonsense about some woman who killed her kids and non-stop ads for some sort of deodorant stick that you're supposed to put on your forehead if you got a headache. This told me to actively avoid CNN, not just casually avoid it.
Today's news search also had Stephen King spouting off about CNN and abandoning all the searches because of CNN's coverage. I just figured that guys who write horror for a living have to be a bit unhinged in the first place.
Anyway, nobody should allow themselves to be told what to care about by a television.
stop pretending like they don't have their own interests and axes to grind.
Of course they do - the entire point of politics is to buy influence and take money from other people to serve your interests.
But, in this case I wonder if they do have a point (or not). I *know* that the Koch brothers are dicks - they sued that one guy who did a parody Koch press conference for violating their imaginary property, or some nonsense like that, but does net metering really raise the electric rates for seniors? If it's true, that's something we should know about.
I understand that reverse metering is the same, cost wise, as buying wholesale power at retail, so it's more expensive power. If all the power were bought that way, at current rates, the purchase price of grid power would be higher - I think that's a given.
But, it's not that simple. The only reason the retail rates are what they are is to include to costs of the current generation model, which includes coal, light water reactor, and natural gas plant costs. At the same time, power companies offer efficiency rebates because they would rather not spend money on building new plants to meet demand, so solar benefits their desire to reduce demand by some amount, and that reduction has value to them. Do the Koch numbers include this?
There are more complications: solar doesn't run at night. Peak demand is during the day. Baseload is not covered by existing solar. We need new storage technology (that's what's holding me back). The grid could be re-imagined as a peer-to-peer co-op. The existing delivery charges count on directionality to maintain the power lines. Group net metering sets pricing like the costs are consolidated when they're not (except when they are). A smarter grid could use solar to reduce power outage costs. There are many types and scales of solar, both today and on the horizon. Maybe it makes more sense to dump excess solar power into bitcoin miners and trade it back with one layer of abstraction. Money today is not the same as money next year (time value - who wants to predict 20 year interest rates?). etc.
The analysis is complex, and would probably take an academic economist's team a year to develop a model. The answer may depend on which factors one considers as likely, timescales as relevant, and technologies as feasible. And that's before we even ask the regulators which kinds of technology they deem to be permissible in their ultimate wisdom (I can haz 3000' solar tower plz?).
I bet the Kochs and I would put different weights on those variables, but it's still a question that's worth knowing the answer to. I wouldn't mind seeing some Koch money go to fund a thorough study so they could "prove their point" as long as they release their data and methods.
Here's the original.
Besides all the fallacy-ridden trash Slate publishes, it's started spamming my Facebook-unique email address recently (I once clicked 'like' on an article there, apparently, before I knew to block all those trackers) so I try to avoid it now. Wasn't paying attention to the hover, so Slashdot got me. :/
It is not enough for the inputs to the hiring/promotion process to be "race neutral", the output/result must be as well.
Can we get the political system thrown out on this basis? There's only one black man in the US Senate - should be about twelve. Even the House is 'missing' about fifteen members.
Racist (and misogynistic) system has to go. The result is *far* from equal.