Yeah, a couple/few years ago the energy to produce a panel fell blow the energy that it would produce over its lifetime. From that inflection point, the whole business can start to become profitable.
What does suck, and I've heard it, is the rich people who get subsidies and install solar panels and don't buy any batteries and tell me, "I put power into the grid during the day and take it back out at night." I'm like, bro, do you even thermodynamics? I understand why the power companies don't want to subsidize those saps.
Aren't taxpayers the ones who pay for the processing and long-term storage of nuclear waste? Why should the taxpayer be forced to clean up after nuclear power generation, the industry should pay for its own cleanup and storage.
Yes, it's absurd - that's good fuel. Even Richard Branson wants to start a company to clean up the world's nuclear waste by 'burning' it with integral fast reactors, but Obama's administration won't even take his phone call.
Translation: they're protecting the entrenched interests.
The point is, the best tool for the best job. Sometimes that's the command line, sometimes it's a text editor with regular expressions, and sometimes it's spotify.
Yep. Depends what you want, too. I screwed around with a few different mp3 players, besides xbmc on my DVR trying to get a repeating elimination shuffle for the house holiday music, and wound up with this instead:
while:; do find/storage/music/holiday_mp3 -type f -print0 | shuf | xargs -0 -n 1 mplayer ; done
running on a screen(1) on the dvr. The only downside is that the folder is hand-curated because I couldn't get id3fs to do what I wanted because only the very latest Clementine can store ratings in id3 tags. Next year that'll be different (not that I need to buy any more holiday music...).
Anyway, the command line does exactly what I want and I don't have to go submit an RFE to the various mp3 players or write such a patch myself. Obligate-GUI users might just have to accept "I can't do that". Unix lets you combine tools in new ways - GUI's let you easily do things that the GUI developers have already thought of (and to be fair, worked out all the steps involved for you).
The reason you have companies like Netflix, Facebook and Microsoft (and to a lesser degree Google) determining immigration policy is that they enjoy a network effect subsidy and there are cultures out there that have been so long without any kind of a frontier that they have evolved very sophisticated parasites.
The network effect adds efficiencies, but in this case the primary subsidy is copyright. Without copyright there would be better, more efficient competitors in the content delivery business. If the network effect were the primary benefit, we should expect to see competitors at higher prices, but show me where I can get a Netflix-like streaming catalog with better software for double the money ('cause I'm rather frustrated by their playback software on most platforms).
Those "second tier" players are sometime better in certain situations than the guys who excel in every situation. In addition, many "A" players only excel when they are the "star", they are not very good at doing the routine, boring, work that is needed to keep things going.
Exactly right. We put men on the Moon with what Netflix would likely deem "mostly B players". Meanwhile they can't even figure out how to get off Silverlight on desktops, add parental controls to their Android client, or parse a valid e-mail address on their website. I bet it's because all "that shit is boring" to the self-described "A-listers".
Why not the others? Perhaps because PostgreSQL makes developing extensions easier - it's got the largest extension ecosystem, so I'm just presuming there. If it turns out well in Pg-land, the others will naturally adopt it.
So the answer to the story title is "they do." The next question would be, "why isn't it widely deployed", and the answer would be, "it's not done yet." Yadda, yadda, yadda, patches welcome. If the whole summary is just a way to try to turn "hey this is neat" (it is) into an ill-founded complaint story, then write a better story next time. It's neat stuff, no need to whine.
Sure, they fought the breakup as an unconstitutional adventure, but JDR had both sides of the play covered. I seem to have lent out my copy of Constitutional Chaos out, but I'm pretty sure that's where the background info is (the book is mostly "things they didn't teach you in school about Supreme Court cases").
There are exceptions, but 90% of vehicles on the road are less than ten years old. XP is 12 years old. Additionally, the median new car is $30K, the median price paid for XP is $30.
And new car warranties never last longer than 10 years. Economics matters.
How did the world warm up and cool down before then? Perhaps that is relevant?
The trick is that you can have the Sun as the major driver of climate before 1900 and have something else as the major driver of climate since 1900, with the Sun still as a driver of climate since 1900, just not the major driver of climate.
With that said, the current climate trend started c. 1840. This is evident from seabed deposits (see Scrips Institute reserach) - we can be really confident in how we measure those - we're good at that and physical, measured evidence is the best kind.
Either the research at hand does not discuss the period 1840-1900 or their metaanalysis is contradictory with physical evidence. Somebody here will have read the paper and can comment.
Charges should have been dropped. A pardon implies that he was actually guilty of something worthy of criminalization.
The government can charge you with being a turnip, but unless it can convict you of tuberousness, then you are not a turnip.
Even if it does, your are still not a turnip, but legally you must be, because a jury agreed. That's because legality and morality/righteousness are not closely related.
I think you've got your years wrong. I too remember talk of OS X going completely resolution independent but OS X hadn't even been released in 1998.
Ah, you're right - just looking at my notes we were running Rhapsody DR2 at the time. So it must've been the OSX final release when the display independent rendering was going to be done...
You're right, though it's worth noting that while DES was strengthened against against differential cryptanalysis, it also convinced IBM to weaken the key length. They made it harder for adversaries to crack but easier for NSA to crack.
the other hand the realistic alternative to supporting it free forever is an internet full of machines with no security patches
Not if people are liable for the damage their unsecured computers cost. This is the basic liability/insurance solution for the same general problem that exists for every risk in meatspace.
Of course it's not. The question comes down to this: what's the alternative?
Well, the churches that feel strongly about this use gold-backed assets. Any kind of asset-backed (non-fiat) currency would qualify.
How is letting a group of bitcoin power users alter the currency's value any different?
Bitcoin users are concerned with protecting the value of the currency. Politicians are happy to destroy a currency to gain a victory in the next election cycle. So, they're pretty much opposites.
There is no guideline, but if you figure about 40% of your bill rate, that seems to be reasonable for myself and others I've known that do this.
That's totally reasonable. I'd be really lucky to get 40% of my hours into client work. The rest is prospecting, billing, advertising, taking out the trash, keeping the in-house IT up to snuff, learning new everything every year, etc. That's all overhead as far as the business is concerned.
Imagine you hired a detective to eavesdrop on someone. He might plant a bug in their office. He might tap their phone. He might open their mail. The result would be the details of that person's communications. That's the "data."
Now imagine you hired that same detective to surveil that person. The result would be details of what he did: where he went, who he talked to, what he looked at, what he purchased -- how he spent his day. That's all metadata.
When the government collects metadata on people, the government puts them under surveillance. When the government collects metadata on the entire country, they put everyone under surveillance. When Google does it, they do the same thing. Metadata equals surveillance; it's that simple.
Also it's interesting to note that an anonymous organization paid for the same DUAL_EC algorithm to be added to Open SSL
Interesting:
When using the module's implementation of Dual EC_DRBG, the application crashes and can't be recovered. That's an amazing discovery for an application that had to undergo countless hours of testing to be certified by the government of the world's most powerful country. The silver lining seems to be that there's evidence no one has ever actually used Dual EC_DRBG in release versions of the OpenSSL module
The purpose of the Dual EC DRGB operation wasn't stack smashing, it was weak keys. Sounds like we had a friend on the inside.
In the UK you would call someone a paedo, not a "pedo", which is a made-up word that doesn't mean anything.
Yes, your superior spelling is responsible for superior results:
It happened to Dr. Yvette Cloete, a specialist in Pediatric Medicine at Royal Gwent Hospital in London and the OP is correct in that the police's working theory is that the attack did come about due to the confusion of the term pediatrician and the term pedophile.
In August 2000, Dr. Cloete was forced to flee her home and seek police protection after her windows and doors were spray painted with "Paedo," a common English contraction of Paedophile.
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Yeah, a couple/few years ago the energy to produce a panel fell blow the energy that it would produce over its lifetime. From that inflection point, the whole business can start to become profitable.
What does suck, and I've heard it, is the rich people who get subsidies and install solar panels and don't buy any batteries and tell me, "I put power into the grid during the day and take it back out at night." I'm like, bro, do you even thermodynamics? I understand why the power companies don't want to subsidize those saps.
Aren't taxpayers the ones who pay for the processing and long-term storage of nuclear waste? Why should the taxpayer be forced to clean up after nuclear power generation, the industry should pay for its own cleanup and storage.
Yes, it's absurd - that's good fuel. Even Richard Branson wants to start a company to clean up the world's nuclear waste by 'burning' it with integral fast reactors, but Obama's administration won't even take his phone call.
Translation: they're protecting the entrenched interests.
The point is, the best tool for the best job. Sometimes that's the command line, sometimes it's a text editor with regular expressions, and sometimes it's spotify.
Yep. Depends what you want, too. I screwed around with a few different mp3 players, besides xbmc on my DVR trying to get a repeating elimination shuffle for the house holiday music, and wound up with this instead:
while :; do find /storage/music/holiday_mp3 -type f -print0 | shuf | xargs -0 -n 1 mplayer ; done
running on a screen(1) on the dvr. The only downside is that the folder is hand-curated because I couldn't get id3fs to do what I wanted because only the very latest Clementine can store ratings in id3 tags. Next year that'll be different (not that I need to buy any more holiday music...).
Anyway, the command line does exactly what I want and I don't have to go submit an RFE to the various mp3 players or write such a patch myself. Obligate-GUI users might just have to accept "I can't do that". Unix lets you combine tools in new ways - GUI's let you easily do things that the GUI developers have already thought of (and to be fair, worked out all the steps involved for you).
The reason you have companies like Netflix, Facebook and Microsoft (and to a lesser degree Google) determining immigration policy is that they enjoy a network effect subsidy and there are cultures out there that have been so long without any kind of a frontier that they have evolved very sophisticated parasites.
The network effect adds efficiencies, but in this case the primary subsidy is copyright. Without copyright there would be better, more efficient competitors in the content delivery business. If the network effect were the primary benefit, we should expect to see competitors at higher prices, but show me where I can get a Netflix-like streaming catalog with better software for double the money ('cause I'm rather frustrated by their playback software on most platforms).
Those "second tier" players are sometime better in certain situations than the guys who excel in every situation. In addition, many "A" players only excel when they are the "star", they are not very good at doing the routine, boring, work that is needed to keep things going.
Exactly right. We put men on the Moon with what Netflix would likely deem "mostly B players". Meanwhile they can't even figure out how to get off Silverlight on desktops, add parental controls to their Android client, or parse a valid e-mail address on their website. I bet it's because all "that shit is boring" to the self-described "A-listers".
it doesn't seem like any code has made it into Open Source databases like MonetDB, MySQL, CouchDB, etc.
Lemme guess, MySQL fanatic?
You can already go download:
https://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/PGStrom
if it fits your problem domain and PostGIS has some hackers adding GPU support:
http://data-informed.com/fast-database-emerges-from-mit-class-gpus-and-students-invention/
Why not the others? Perhaps because PostgreSQL makes developing extensions easier - it's got the largest extension ecosystem, so I'm just presuming there. If it turns out well in Pg-land, the others will naturally adopt it.
So the answer to the story title is "they do." The next question would be, "why isn't it widely deployed", and the answer would be, "it's not done yet." Yadda, yadda, yadda, patches welcome. If the whole summary is just a way to try to turn "hey this is neat" (it is) into an ill-founded complaint story, then write a better story next time. It's neat stuff, no need to whine.
Sure, they fought the breakup as an unconstitutional adventure, but JDR had both sides of the play covered. I seem to have lent out my copy of Constitutional Chaos out, but I'm pretty sure that's where the background info is (the book is mostly "things they didn't teach you in school about Supreme Court cases").
(It's amazing how 100 years and millions and millions of bribe...err, campaign donations have changed perspectives.)
Um - perhaps you're unaware that John D. Rockefeller wrote the regulations that broke up Standard Oil. He laughed all the way to the bank.
Thanks for this. Anybody know if the paper talked about Type I and Type II errors with their method?
Yeah, sure. Imagine the outcry. That would be seen as just another tax.
Why is it not a tax in every other facet of life?
My car is older than XP but it runs fine
There are exceptions, but 90% of vehicles on the road are less than ten years old. XP is 12 years old. Additionally, the median new car is $30K, the median price paid for XP is $30.
And new car warranties never last longer than 10 years. Economics matters.
How did the world warm up and cool down before then? Perhaps that is relevant?
The trick is that you can have the Sun as the major driver of climate before 1900 and have something else as the major driver of climate since 1900, with the Sun still as a driver of climate since 1900, just not the major driver of climate.
With that said, the current climate trend started c. 1840. This is evident from seabed deposits (see Scrips Institute reserach) - we can be really confident in how we measure those - we're good at that and physical, measured evidence is the best kind.
Either the research at hand does not discuss the period 1840-1900 or their metaanalysis is contradictory with physical evidence. Somebody here will have read the paper and can comment.
I think they let programmers out every other Sunday.
Yes, the only day on which they write no significant drivers.
Charges should have been dropped. A pardon implies that he was actually guilty of something worthy of criminalization .
The government can charge you with being a turnip, but unless it can convict you of tuberousness, then you are not a turnip.
Even if it does, your are still not a turnip, but legally you must be, because a jury agreed. That's because legality and morality/righteousness are not closely related.
I think you've got your years wrong. I too remember talk of OS X going completely resolution independent but OS X hadn't even been released in 1998.
Ah, you're right - just looking at my notes we were running Rhapsody DR2 at the time. So it must've been the OSX final release when the display independent rendering was going to be done...
You're right, though it's worth noting that while DES was strengthened against against differential cryptanalysis, it also convinced IBM to weaken the key length. They made it harder for adversaries to crack but easier for NSA to crack.
So I should pay to fix Microsoft's poor programming?
Yes, all programming that you can afford is poor.
OK, I'll go there: just like you pay to fix Toyota's poor engineering. For only $240K you could buy a car that lasted much longer.
the other hand the realistic alternative to supporting it free forever is an internet full of machines with no security patches
Not if people are liable for the damage their unsecured computers cost. This is the basic liability/insurance solution for the same general problem that exists for every risk in meatspace.
Of course it's not. The question comes down to this: what's the alternative?
Well, the churches that feel strongly about this use gold-backed assets. Any kind of asset-backed (non-fiat) currency would qualify.
How is letting a group of bitcoin power users alter the currency's value any different?
Bitcoin users are concerned with protecting the value of the currency. Politicians are happy to destroy a currency to gain a victory in the next election cycle. So, they're pretty much opposites.
No amount of educational actions are going to fix that, as people just tend to ignore threats or assume they won't hit them.
Liability sure would. :resists urge to make car analogy:
There is no guideline, but if you figure about 40% of your bill rate, that seems to be reasonable for myself and others I've known that do this.
That's totally reasonable. I'd be really lucky to get 40% of my hours into client work. The rest is prospecting, billing, advertising, taking out the trash, keeping the in-house IT up to snuff, learning new everything every year, etc. That's all overhead as far as the business is concerned.
What I've mainly heard them say is "you shouldn't care, since we're not listening to the actual call". That's still garbage.
It is still garbage. Like Bruce says, metadata is surveillance:
So then the question would be, where are the technical guys that at least raised an eyebrow at the time but were overruled by management...
If I were the NSA, I'd want a few of my employees working in development at the major crypto developers.
Also it's interesting to note that an anonymous organization paid for the same DUAL_EC algorithm to be added to Open SSL
Interesting:
The purpose of the Dual EC DRGB operation wasn't stack smashing, it was weak keys. Sounds like we had a friend on the inside.
In the UK you would call someone a paedo, not a "pedo", which is a made-up word that doesn't mean anything.
Yes, your superior spelling is responsible for superior results: