No, it has never been tried. We haven't sufficient automation until recently. Go take a history class.
Let's assume sufficient automation. Intel invests $8B in a new fab plant that can crank out 100,000 CPU's per day with only a set of loading trucks dumping raw materials on one end and picking up finished boxes on the other.
The value of human labor required to produce each CPU on an ongoing basis is $1. What should Intel sell each CPU for?
Minimum wage USED to be a living wage and teens did just fine
Perhaps "get by", but also realize that the work patterns of teens was much different at that time. Heck, on my first paper route (11) I was lucky to clear $13/week. The twelve-year-old kid who swept up at the grocer's made 25 cents an hour ($4 today) until he was able to do more tasks.
Today they almost always have to be 16 and have to be paid the minimum wage. This only results in many fewer employed teens (with the rest paying XBox or getting into trouble).
If it has already worked, it can work again. Had it kept up with inflation, it would be $15/hr now.
If it followed a stable currency it would be well over $20. The median would be well over $30 if wages kept up with the productivity curve. These are much more important numbers than arguing between $7 and $8.
It doesn't matter who you are or how old, full time work should provide a living.
If you're working full time doing something that nobody values then it won't. If commodity prices are at least doubling every decade than it certainly cannot.
I won't pretend to understand the mind of European bureaucrats - do you think they would hold that having a criminal take over a computer system is not sufficient grounds for the owner of that system to take corrective action?
If that truly is the case, then Amazon should just nuke the vm in those jursidictions and tell the machine owners to take it up with their government or choose a hosting zone with different regulations.
You either load the STL onto a micro SD card and stick that in the printer (all standard) or you connect over RS232 over USB. cat will do for sending the file but you could use pronterface ot octoprint if you prefer a nicer interface.
My first 9-pin dot matrix was very much like this. Everything has progressed now to bi-directional data with status. A consumer 3D printer won't exist until there's a standard to read back the status. There will be a window on the screen that shows you a rendering of the current status of the 3D model with information about consumables, hours on the unit, stepping motor accuracy, etc. when this is ready.
No, not at all. It's like home computers in the early 80s. You need to know what you're doing to use them so they're the domain of people who either love the technology or really, really need to get some computing (or now printing) done.
To me it feels like we're just at the end of the Altair stage. Anybody who's willing to fiddle with it can get some work done. What we need is a VIC-20 or an Apple ][ to come to market - a sealed box with everything working right from the factory, just load software. I think we're almost there. The IBM PC equivalent already exists at parallel inflation-adjusted dollars. As before, only a business is going to invest in one at this point.
I don't understand it but clearly there is a market for wasting time and money to print at home.
I agree with the principle - I just got a family-pack of an 8x10, two 5x7's and a fist full of 4x6's at Walgreens for $3.24 the other day, printed on a mini-lab. It would cost more to print inkjet at home for lesser quality results.
However, if I had a picture where one of my kids wasn't dressed from head to toe, then there's no point in sending it to Walgreens. I've got an inkjet photo printer that I rarely use, and my need for prints is de minimis, but if I did need a print of such an thing (a human body) then I know better than to send it to Walgreens.
Why? Because Walgreens is terrified of prosecution from the government on its Puritanical quest.
Odds are home-based 3D printing will achieve a significant foothold when it addresses a similar market need - one where the government is prosecuting traditional market players.
I hope that this won't be the case here, but with this new CEO such a possibility is raised.
Well, presumably he has great decision making abilities and is a fantastic manager, since he's going from T to E.
That's gold shirt to red shirt (or the converse if you're old school) so... while I don't know it for a fact, I think we can trust (hope?) that Mozilla isn't putting a dorkus nerd in charge of the company.
If he's a great manager and a great engineer, then he'll make a really great CEO.
Coincidentally, the pro-government media just happened to have its cameras pointed at the spot where a Syrian jet would invade Turkish airspace yesterday and get shot down with a 'satisfying' plume of black smoke.
If somebody has that list of 'steps to totalitarianism' handy, please link it. "Convince the people of an outside threat" is pretty close to the top.
If that's the case, why should Amazon care that someone who had the correct authentication keys installed bitcoin miners?
Two reasons:
1) they will probably wind up issuing refunds for some amount of it. Even if they don't refund then it will take up CSR time to deal with the upset user. Upset users may go elsewhere. It might also be cheaper to refund than to pay humans to deal with not refunding. Automated systems to prevent this may well be worth the investment.
2) bitcoin miners are probably the least of their worries. Spammers will get a whole netblock blacklisted, and that definitely has a cost to deal with. Paying customers won't do these kinds of things nearly as often because they have some consequence for doing so (being shut down). The thieves _expect_ to be shut down eventually and have already built that into their economic model.
The only other option I would see is forced closing of the affected accounts, but that would likely result in a PR nightmare.
They could just delete the authorized_keys file entries on their systems when the matching private key is found on in the wild - on github or elsewhere.
It's a heck of a slippery slope for Amazon, but we should recognize that ultimately they are Amazon's systems. Maybe create an environment where they will do this by default unless you explicitly op-out but if you op-out then there is a no-refunds policy at Amazon for unauthorized use.
we should instead think in terms of how can we verify what they're worth?
Agreed. I wrote this five years ago and mostly still agree with it:
Whenever I've been interviewed for a newspaper, words and facts have been twisted and/or just gotten wrong. Whenever I read a popular press article in an area where I have in-depth knowledge, it's wrong, at least in the details.
So, I just assume that's true all the time and go to specialists for real news reporting. I haven't checked, but I'd assume a place like Jane's would have a good article on this GPS thing.
How about this business model: be a journalist who's a bona-fide expert on GPS. Write completely accurate, insightful, and helpful news articles on GPS happenings. Charge alot for them.
The last part is the trick of course. But how many GPS journalists does the world need? No more than a handful. With the Internet it should be possible to greatly reduce the number of generalist journalists and start making 'newspapers' much better with experts. There's probably too much inertia at established papers but a disruptive model seems possible.
I still believe that the old Twitter way of showing your replies to other people in your feed by default was much, much more organic and useful and at the time most people seemed to agree. The.@ thing is a hack to get around that stupid change.
But... I was complaining about this when Twitter ran on Fail Whale, errr, I mean Ruby and now it's tremendously successful so at least some of their success is not dependent on what they users say they want.
Were we wrong? Would they have been even more successful if they'd had listened to the users? Who knows.
which the TFS failed to include, as contacted by the publisher:
AMD AOL Adecco Adobe Apple Best Buy CDI Business Solutions Cingular/AT&T Clear Channel Comcast Dell Dreamworks eBay/PayPal Foxconn Genentech Google IBM Illumita Inc. Intel Intuit Jcrew Kelly Kforce Lucasfilm Mac Zone Microsoft Nike Novell Nvidia Oglivy OpenTV Oracle PC Connection PC Mall Pixar Sun Microsystems Virgin Media WPP
It would be interesting to see the connectedness of the Boards of Directors graph for the set.
What is the summary on about? These seem pretty easy:
"So which country is crazier: Iran, for building a fake boat, or the US for funding a never-ending jet program?""
Crazy? The never-ending transfer of wealth from the American people to the military-industrial complex is exactly what the F35 is designed to do. I mean, hello, duplicate engine contracts? Stop trying to pretend this is primarily a weapons platform - it makes you look naive.
Cmdr. Jason Salata. "We're not sure what Iran hopes to gain by building this. If it is a big propaganda piece, to what end?"
Seriously? This is military intelligence?
Let's play this out. You go and attack Iran with a bunch of battleships and you expect them to come out and counter-attack with their battleships and aircraft? Of course not - they don't have the resources and so they need to have an asymmetrical counter-attack plan. Here's one: get some small boats out to the aircraft carrier under dark of night and board it. Have your men know the layout of the ship like the back of their hands, and kill all the sailors aboard, except for the ones you need to keep alive to extract any command codes that may be required to operate the free battleship. Start with your 'special forces' to disable the counter-attack resources and then overwhelm it with manpower. Make your enemy either destroy their own asset or lose it.
If you don't know how to help him out, then admit that. In any subject where the results are objective you can look at the practice section if you have any doubts about your ability to be helpful. If you're both stuck help him formulate the question(s) to ask the teacher, if he's having trouble doing that on his own.
I'd suggest some software issue with a flight navigation system, except that intentional foul play appears to be significantly more likely.
Very interesting observation about 90/90/90. If the LiIon cargo caught fire and burned out the communications wiring and the pilots turned the plane around for a landing before they succumbed to the fumes and then something related to the fire happened to cause the autopilot to reset, would 90/90/90 be a set of defaults?
Boeing can answer that question.
If yes, then a head wind could explain the apparent divergence from the meridian vis-a-vis the assumption of constant speed on the satellite latency.
The search area does include the meridian to some degree. I think we're assuming here that it ran out of fuel before it reached Antarctica.
The story doesn't bother to summarize what Docker is. Or even give a link to an explanation.
Hey, it's new within the last year and it's got lots of hype, so obviously it's got a.io domain. Everybody knows that open source projects that aren't.io by now are complete shit. (hey, I'm just trying to get on the hype wagon)
I won't claim that NASA isn't serving as a conduit between the dollar printing engine and SpaceX and providing some land facilities, but aside from that, NASA hasn't been able to get back to the moon in 40 years. Assuming there's a good reason to do so (H3 is good enough for me, even if it's a bit soon) SpaceX can conceivably raise the funds on their own and find a jurisdiction friendly to their launch requirements. Even if NASA weren't interested, SpaceX would still get to the moon in relatively short order - even if only as a testbed for Mars landings.
I would have thought that computers would make it impossible to "lose" such funds - even with the most simplistic of accounting programs.
OK, look - for their infrastructure, they re-implemented ssh in php.
If somebody wants to argue "plausible deniability", then fine, but it would require an assertion of supergenius levels of foresight, planning, and cunning.
I lean more towards "you've got to be kidding me".
Really? All the "made for TV movies" that were released after the end of the final season? The entire Crusade series? The Legend of the Rangers? The Lost Tales?
The climax of B5 was at Coriana VI in "Into the Fire". The rest of Season 4 was more of an epilogue. Season 5 was sort of a Similarion. Crusade was basically a new book - the Thrawn story to Return of the Jedi (it's fine, but take it or leave it without consequence).
The made-for-TV movies were mostly embarassing. In the Beginning stands on its own, though.
So, yeah, I'd say the story did end, and fairly nicely. It's just that other stories were also told. I think the narriative structure demands this approach.
I tell folks who haven't done B5 to watch Seasons 1-4, "Sleeping in Light", and In The Beginning and consider the show watched. The rest can be treated as DVD bonus material.
Walk in with a couple of FISA warrants and a few guys in dark suits.. and guess what? There's still not a fucking thing Google can do to stop them.
If I were Google and seriously concerned about this, I'd encrypt the data in a chaining mode and keep half(+-) of the bits in different data centers in different jurisdictions.
Yeah, the bandwidth issue is real. But the best a gang could do is seize some drives with nothing useful on them. They'd be better off attacking the suspect's machine, and then at that point it's no longer Google's secret problem.
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You just tuned the fruits of your labor, the value, over to someone else for currency, or a different type of value.
You just made a marginal value argument of the Menger type using labor as an example. That's close to the opposite of Ricardo's labor theory.
No, it has never been tried. We haven't sufficient automation until recently. Go take a history class.
Let's assume sufficient automation. Intel invests $8B in a new fab plant that can crank out 100,000 CPU's per day with only a set of loading trucks dumping raw materials on one end and picking up finished boxes on the other.
The value of human labor required to produce each CPU on an ongoing basis is $1. What should Intel sell each CPU for?
What do you mean by breeders?
He means fast breeder reactors. Start here.
Minimum wage USED to be a living wage and teens did just fine
Perhaps "get by", but also realize that the work patterns of teens was much different at that time. Heck, on my first paper route (11) I was lucky to clear $13/week. The twelve-year-old kid who swept up at the grocer's made 25 cents an hour ($4 today) until he was able to do more tasks.
Today they almost always have to be 16 and have to be paid the minimum wage. This only results in many fewer employed teens (with the rest paying XBox or getting into trouble).
If it has already worked, it can work again. Had it kept up with inflation, it would be $15/hr now.
If it followed a stable currency it would be well over $20. The median would be well over $30 if wages kept up with the productivity curve. These are much more important numbers than arguing between $7 and $8.
It doesn't matter who you are or how old, full time work should provide a living.
If you're working full time doing something that nobody values then it won't. If commodity prices are at least doubling every decade than it certainly cannot.
unless they can show a clear and present danger.
I won't pretend to understand the mind of European bureaucrats - do you think they would hold that having a criminal take over a computer system is not sufficient grounds for the owner of that system to take corrective action?
If that truly is the case, then Amazon should just nuke the vm in those jursidictions and tell the machine owners to take it up with their government or choose a hosting zone with different regulations.
Great post. Just a couple notes:
You either load the STL onto a micro SD card and stick that in the printer (all standard) or you connect over RS232 over USB. cat will do for sending the file but you could use pronterface ot octoprint if you prefer a nicer interface.
My first 9-pin dot matrix was very much like this. Everything has progressed now to bi-directional data with status. A consumer 3D printer won't exist until there's a standard to read back the status. There will be a window on the screen that shows you a rendering of the current status of the 3D model with information about consumables, hours on the unit, stepping motor accuracy, etc. when this is ready.
No, not at all. It's like home computers in the early 80s. You need to know what you're doing to use them so they're the domain of people who either love the technology or really, really need to get some computing (or now printing) done.
To me it feels like we're just at the end of the Altair stage. Anybody who's willing to fiddle with it can get some work done. What we need is a VIC-20 or an Apple ][ to come to market - a sealed box with everything working right from the factory, just load software. I think we're almost there. The IBM PC equivalent already exists at parallel inflation-adjusted dollars. As before, only a business is going to invest in one at this point.
I don't understand it but clearly there is a market for wasting time and money to print at home.
I agree with the principle - I just got a family-pack of an 8x10, two 5x7's and a fist full of 4x6's at Walgreens for $3.24 the other day, printed on a mini-lab. It would cost more to print inkjet at home for lesser quality results.
However, if I had a picture where one of my kids wasn't dressed from head to toe, then there's no point in sending it to Walgreens. I've got an inkjet photo printer that I rarely use, and my need for prints is de minimis, but if I did need a print of such an thing (a human body) then I know better than to send it to Walgreens.
Why? Because Walgreens is terrified of prosecution from the government on its Puritanical quest.
Odds are home-based 3D printing will achieve a significant foothold when it addresses a similar market need - one where the government is prosecuting traditional market players.
Thank you - this was almost exactly the comment I had in my head.
I hope that this won't be the case here, but with this new CEO such a possibility is raised.
Well, presumably he has great decision making abilities and is a fantastic manager, since he's going from T to E.
That's gold shirt to red shirt (or the converse if you're old school) so ... while I don't know it for a fact, I think we can trust (hope?) that Mozilla isn't putting a dorkus nerd in charge of the company.
If he's a great manager and a great engineer, then he'll make a really great CEO.
Coincidentally, the pro-government media just happened to have its cameras pointed at the spot where a Syrian jet would invade Turkish airspace yesterday and get shot down with a 'satisfying' plume of black smoke.
If somebody has that list of 'steps to totalitarianism' handy, please link it. "Convince the people of an outside threat" is pretty close to the top.
If that's the case, why should Amazon care that someone who had the correct authentication keys installed bitcoin miners?
Two reasons:
1) they will probably wind up issuing refunds for some amount of it. Even if they don't refund then it will take up CSR time to deal with the upset user. Upset users may go elsewhere. It might also be cheaper to refund than to pay humans to deal with not refunding. Automated systems to prevent this may well be worth the investment.
2) bitcoin miners are probably the least of their worries. Spammers will get a whole netblock blacklisted, and that definitely has a cost to deal with. Paying customers won't do these kinds of things nearly as often because they have some consequence for doing so (being shut down). The thieves _expect_ to be shut down eventually and have already built that into their economic model.
The only other option I would see is forced closing of the affected accounts, but that would likely result in a PR nightmare.
They could just delete the authorized_keys file entries on their systems when the matching private key is found on in the wild - on github or elsewhere.
It's a heck of a slippery slope for Amazon, but we should recognize that ultimately they are Amazon's systems. Maybe create an environment where they will do this by default unless you explicitly op-out but if you op-out then there is a no-refunds policy at Amazon for unauthorized use.
Why do people continue to live in a damn desert?
Their desert living is subsidized by others. The root cause is left as an exercise for the reader.
we should instead think in terms of how can we verify what they're worth?
Agreed. I wrote this five years ago and mostly still agree with it:
2. Remove said features infuriating the masses.
I still believe that the old Twitter way of showing your replies to other people in your feed by default was much, much more organic and useful and at the time most people seemed to agree. The .@ thing is a hack to get around that stupid change.
But ... I was complaining about this when Twitter ran on Fail Whale, errr, I mean Ruby and now it's tremendously successful so at least some of their success is not dependent on what they users say they want.
Were we wrong? Would they have been even more successful if they'd had listened to the users? Who knows.
which the TFS failed to include, as contacted by the publisher:
AMD
AOL
Adecco
Adobe
Apple
Best Buy
CDI Business Solutions
Cingular/AT&T
Clear Channel
Comcast
Dell
Dreamworks
eBay/PayPal
Foxconn
Genentech
Google
IBM
Illumita Inc.
Intel
Intuit
Jcrew
Kelly
Kforce
Lucasfilm
Mac Zone
Microsoft
Nike
Novell
Nvidia
Oglivy
OpenTV
Oracle
PC Connection
PC Mall
Pixar
Sun Microsystems
Virgin Media
WPP
It would be interesting to see the connectedness of the Boards of Directors graph for the set.
What is the summary on about? These seem pretty easy:
"So which country is crazier: Iran, for building a fake boat, or the US for funding a never-ending jet program?""
Crazy? The never-ending transfer of wealth from the American people to the military-industrial complex is exactly what the F35 is designed to do. I mean, hello, duplicate engine contracts? Stop trying to pretend this is primarily a weapons platform - it makes you look naive.
Cmdr. Jason Salata. "We're not sure what Iran hopes to gain by building this. If it is a big propaganda piece, to what end?"
Seriously? This is military intelligence?
Let's play this out. You go and attack Iran with a bunch of battleships and you expect them to come out and counter-attack with their battleships and aircraft? Of course not - they don't have the resources and so they need to have an asymmetrical counter-attack plan. Here's one: get some small boats out to the aircraft carrier under dark of night and board it. Have your men know the layout of the ship like the back of their hands, and kill all the sailors aboard, except for the ones you need to keep alive to extract any command codes that may be required to operate the free battleship. Start with your 'special forces' to disable the counter-attack resources and then overwhelm it with manpower. Make your enemy either destroy their own asset or lose it.
Propaganda piece? Come on.
If your kid is stuck on something, help him out.
If you don't know how to help him out, then admit that. In any subject where the results are objective you can look at the practice section if you have any doubts about your ability to be helpful. If you're both stuck help him formulate the question(s) to ask the teacher, if he's having trouble doing that on his own.
Don't do your kids' homework for them.
Next article.
I'd suggest some software issue with a flight navigation system, except that intentional foul play appears to be significantly more likely.
Very interesting observation about 90/90/90. If the LiIon cargo caught fire and burned out the communications wiring and the pilots turned the plane around for a landing before they succumbed to the fumes and then something related to the fire happened to cause the autopilot to reset, would 90/90/90 be a set of defaults?
Boeing can answer that question.
If yes, then a head wind could explain the apparent divergence from the meridian vis-a-vis the assumption of constant speed on the satellite latency.
The search area does include the meridian to some degree. I think we're assuming here that it ran out of fuel before it reached Antarctica.
The story doesn't bother to summarize what Docker is. Or even give a link to an explanation.
Hey, it's new within the last year and it's got lots of hype, so obviously it's got a .io domain. Everybody knows that open source projects that aren't .io by now are complete shit. (hey, I'm just trying to get on the hype wagon)
I won't claim that NASA isn't serving as a conduit between the dollar printing engine and SpaceX and providing some land facilities, but aside from that, NASA hasn't been able to get back to the moon in 40 years. Assuming there's a good reason to do so (H3 is good enough for me, even if it's a bit soon) SpaceX can conceivably raise the funds on their own and find a jurisdiction friendly to their launch requirements. Even if NASA weren't interested, SpaceX would still get to the moon in relatively short order - even if only as a testbed for Mars landings.
Just how many watts per square meter are capturable this way?
It seems that if you're after the earth's heat energy, you drill a deep enough hole and get it.
No space lift required.
I would have thought that computers would make it impossible to "lose" such funds - even with the most simplistic of accounting programs.
OK, look - for their infrastructure, they re-implemented ssh in php.
If somebody wants to argue "plausible deniability", then fine, but it would require an assertion of supergenius levels of foresight, planning, and cunning.
I lean more towards "you've got to be kidding me".
Really? All the "made for TV movies" that were released after the end of the final season? The entire Crusade series? The Legend of the Rangers? The Lost Tales?
The climax of B5 was at Coriana VI in "Into the Fire". The rest of Season 4 was more of an epilogue. Season 5 was sort of a Similarion. Crusade was basically a new book - the Thrawn story to Return of the Jedi (it's fine, but take it or leave it without consequence).
The made-for-TV movies were mostly embarassing. In the Beginning stands on its own, though.
So, yeah, I'd say the story did end, and fairly nicely. It's just that other stories were also told. I think the narriative structure demands this approach.
I tell folks who haven't done B5 to watch Seasons 1-4, "Sleeping in Light", and In The Beginning and consider the show watched. The rest can be treated as DVD bonus material.
Walk in with a couple of FISA warrants and a few guys in dark suits .. and guess what? There's still not a fucking thing Google can do to stop them.
If I were Google and seriously concerned about this, I'd encrypt the data in a chaining mode and keep half(+-) of the bits in different data centers in different jurisdictions.
Yeah, the bandwidth issue is real. But the best a gang could do is seize some drives with nothing useful on them. They'd be better off attacking the suspect's machine, and then at that point it's no longer Google's secret problem.