Inside those seemingly banal Nigerian wire transfer scams are steganographically hidden instructions to sleeper cells. It just takes a particularly clever analyst to see the data for the noise.
The Fed often gets "first dibs" at auctions because of their role in managing the money supply
The Federal Reserve Act says that they have to buy them on the open market. Are you saying they have a "more open" market? That would contravene the purposes of the Act, but not surprise me.
They say that there's a line to buy them, but if the market actions are open, then the Fed would not be able to grab 90% of there really was such a line. I tend to trust the numbers more than the claims, but if the market is cooked, then that's different.
he buys offsets to bring that number down to zero so that he can claim that he's not actually polluting.
TFTFY. The accounting on carbon offsets is totally bogus.
A windmill should not be able to credit any offsets until its manufacturing and operation costs are netted out, which can be 15 years of operation or more. Solar panels have only gone over unity in the past few years. etc.
People are getting credits for growing forests *that they were going to grow anyway*. No new behaviors are being created in these cases.
The primary value of carbon credits at this point are as an essential ingredient in greenwashing solutions. An honest market in carbon credits could exist (and there are probably a few small extant examples of this), but their primary purpose, currently, is not fulfilled by honest accounting.
Maybe in your state. In NH, motor vehicle insurance isn't required. Because of this we have among the lowest rates in the country (competition doesn't work in captive markets). We also are in the top half of States as far as number of insured drivers (mandates don't actually guarantee that people to buy insurance).
$400 million actually sounds like a steal (that is if it worked perfectly day one)... I would bet in about 6-8 weeks from now the systems will working just fine.
There was a recent quote from one of the contractors who said that they system is about 70% implemented.
Most of us know about the 80/20 rule. If it holds true here (why shouldn't it?) then the system should be full operational after $1.8B of spending, so in about four years.
Although they had to spend money on training developers on how to program in Ruby for the project. So you have devs on the project for whom the site is their first production level Ruby project.
Oh, no, they didn't? That should scale about as well as Twitter...
Is it technically superior? The low quality of video output over it compared with Micro USB suggests that it isn't universally "better".
Que? Lightning is basically PCIe on a wire. That's fine for video and potentially much better than USB2. There may certainly be problems in some implementations.
and you have secure access and WPA2-Enterprise (freeradius w/ samba works). Just remember that the switch ports are labeled backwards by Netgear...
Speaking of backdoors and untrusted code, I wound up using these to VLAN the home network, so I could put all of the non-open-source systems on their own 'Guest' VLAN, and let them have Internet but not access to the LAN where personal documents are stored. Who the heck knows what's running on the Roku firmware, but now with VLAN's, who the heck cares? (and the kids can still watch their cartoons).
You have the right to parent your kid as long as you do so responsibly.
Yeah, so who decides 'responsible' and what limits are there?
Let's say there was a cure for heart disease that would eliminate the possibility of it in later life, but the treatment had to be done before puberty. The cost savings were enormous for a socialized healthcare system and it would extend life an average of 20 years. It would also make the person much stronger and healthier for the rest of their lives. It would save lives of others by eliminating on-the-road and on-the-job heart failure (think truckers, crane operators, etc.).
Would a parent be reasonable to refuse such treatment? Would a government have the right to demand it?
What if this treatment was a mechanical heart (assuming they've been perfected)? What if the treatment consisted of removing the heart of every eight year old (100% success rate procedure) and replacing it with that mechanical heart?
By what criteria can medical treatments be imposed?
C'mon, guys, if you'd have done your attack trees, you'd know that the guy who empties the waste basket can install a keylogger for a day for much less cost than it would take to break your 4096 bit PGP key.
I suppose this story does highlight some changing costs on the nodes, though - if physical penetration is becoming more prevalent, then either the cost of hiring somebody to do it is falling (due to massive unemployment, perhaps?) or the costs of other attacks are rising.
With a gas giant, where do you draw the line between "in" and "on"??
I don't think people even agree at this point about the interior of a gas giant. Best I can make out, it's likely a plasma that's squeezed so tight it behaves like a solid, but with its electrons floating all over the place, so not at all like any solid we've encountered.
Jesus, if Apple is following Ubuntu, then Canonical is following me, because I posted here in 2008 that Apple would eventually have a "Mac Mode" on their iPhones so it could work with a wireless KVM as a desktop computing environment, just as soon as the CPU and bandwidth were available on some sort of Moore's Law curve, and that would end the Mac.
But to me, that's obvious to somebody 'skilled in the art' and I wouldn't egotistically assume anybody who implemented this was following me. Nor do I expect a paycheck from Shuttleworth anytime soon.
And precisely how did we decide that these paintings weren't painted by outcast males with girlish mittens?
First visit a single male's apartment and then visit the single woman's apartment. Repeat until you have a statistically valid sample size, if you need to.
I would have assumed that 'women decorated the caves' was the default hypothesis.
But efficiency.. measured in what, lines of code, THAT kind of "efficiency"? =)
Sort of - time to prototype is pretty high up there for startups. LOC can be a weak approximation to that, but available library size is also really high.
Ruby is slow, Python is memory hungry. Perl doesn't suffer from those two problems but has fairly poor concurrency without an external dispatcher and a funky object syntax. It's all in the trade-offs for what you need.
Rails and Python are great when you don't have significant technical skills and just need to slap some shit together and throw in on a web server.
I've seen this from the other side. Java is a *great* language for the middle of the normal distribution. I'm not going to name the languages on the left side of the curve, because the point of this isn't to start a flame war, but if you have a large number of averagely competent programmers, then Java lets you (as architect/manager/etc.) have those programmers be productive for you, produce code that can be read in the future by the same segment of the population, and be reasonably sure the language will prevent them from making hidden catastrophic mistakes. Also there are a large number of existing tools that let you scale their work out both in depth and in breadth.
The alpha geeks employing Ruby, Python, modern Perl, erlang, etc. are usually at the right side of the curve, doing very efficient, agile, but abstract and terse stuff that takes exceptional (not heroic, just unusual) sysadmin skills to get to work on a grand scale.
Due to the nature of the available talent pool, it's natural to see projects start with the advanced scripting languages among the startup crowd and then migrate to the Java environment over time. Twitter would be a good example of this.
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Inside those seemingly banal Nigerian wire transfer scams are steganographically hidden instructions to sleeper cells. It just takes a particularly clever analyst to see the data for the noise.
The Fed often gets "first dibs" at auctions because of their role in managing the money supply
The Federal Reserve Act says that they have to buy them on the open market. Are you saying they have a "more open" market? That would contravene the purposes of the Act, but not surprise me.
http://www.federalreserve.gov/faqs/money_12851.htm
They say that there's a line to buy them, but if the market actions are open, then the Fed would not be able to grab 90% of there really was such a line. I tend to trust the numbers more than the claims, but if the market is cooked, then that's different.
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-12-03/treasury-scarcity-to-grow-as-fed-buys-90-of-new-bonds.html
Who decides? Experts. Lawmakers. Will they get it right all of the time? Hell no. But they are better qualified than parents in some fields.
Your response assumes people do not have the freedom to be wrong, or to fail.
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Thanks. Awesome how the thunderbolt ports have a lightning bolt icon to identify them... goddammit, Apple.
Is it the second hand central heating radiator that's the problem, or the black paint?
wouldn't it be great if Al Gore's mansion had those out back.
he buys offsets to bring that number down to zero so that he can claim that he's not actually polluting.
TFTFY. The accounting on carbon offsets is totally bogus.
A windmill should not be able to credit any offsets until its manufacturing and operation costs are netted out, which can be 15 years of operation or more. Solar panels have only gone over unity in the past few years. etc.
People are getting credits for growing forests *that they were going to grow anyway*. No new behaviors are being created in these cases.
The primary value of carbon credits at this point are as an essential ingredient in greenwashing solutions. An honest market in carbon credits could exist (and there are probably a few small extant examples of this), but their primary purpose, currently, is not fulfilled by honest accounting.
Don't forget hot showers. The carbon footprint of manufacturing solar hot water panels is even too high.
Cold water showers can get a person clean, at least if he cares about Mother Earth.
in return everyone is required to buy insurance
Maybe in your state. In NH, motor vehicle insurance isn't required. Because of this we have among the lowest rates in the country (competition doesn't work in captive markets). We also are in the top half of States as far as number of insured drivers (mandates don't actually guarantee that people to buy insurance).
$400 million actually sounds like a steal (that is if it worked perfectly day one) ... I would bet in about 6-8 weeks from now the systems will working just fine.
There was a recent quote from one of the contractors who said that they system is about 70% implemented.
Most of us know about the 80/20 rule. If it holds true here (why shouldn't it?) then the system should be full operational after $1.8B of spending, so in about four years.
Although they had to spend money on training developers on how to program in Ruby for the project. So you have devs on the project for whom the site is their first production level Ruby project.
Oh, no, they didn't? That should scale about as well as Twitter...
authorization for the government to print more T-bills, which is what they sell to people to get money to spend
The dirty secret is that in recent auctions, the Federal Reserve bought 90+% of those - nobody else wants them.
What do they buy them with? They just inflate the monetary base, and then, poof, new money.
Is it technically superior? The low quality of video output over it compared with Micro USB suggests that it isn't universally "better".
Que? Lightning is basically PCIe on a wire. That's fine for video and potentially much better than USB2. There may certainly be problems in some implementations.
Remember to throw away all 4 dlinks at the office.
Hey, your life gets easier no matter the rationale.
I've been real happy picking up refurbs of the WNDR3800 and running OpenWRT (latest release) on them.
Gigabit switch and they handle VLAN's really well so for $50 delivered by Prime, it's hard to ask for more.
and you have secure access and WPA2-Enterprise (freeradius w/ samba works). Just remember that the switch ports are labeled backwards by Netgear...
Speaking of backdoors and untrusted code, I wound up using these to VLAN the home network, so I could put all of the non-open-source systems on their own 'Guest' VLAN, and let them have Internet but not access to the LAN where personal documents are stored. Who the heck knows what's running on the Roku firmware, but now with VLAN's, who the heck cares? (and the kids can still watch their cartoons).
I never thought of this, that's pretty sneaky.
Ditto on that!
You have the right to parent your kid as long as you do so responsibly.
Yeah, so who decides 'responsible' and what limits are there?
Let's say there was a cure for heart disease that would eliminate the possibility of it in later life, but the treatment had to be done before puberty. The cost savings were enormous for a socialized healthcare system and it would extend life an average of 20 years. It would also make the person much stronger and healthier for the rest of their lives. It would save lives of others by eliminating on-the-road and on-the-job heart failure (think truckers, crane operators, etc.).
Would a parent be reasonable to refuse such treatment? Would a government have the right to demand it?
What if this treatment was a mechanical heart (assuming they've been perfected)? What if the treatment consisted of removing the heart of every eight year old (100% success rate procedure) and replacing it with that mechanical heart?
By what criteria can medical treatments be imposed?
But muh liberties! How can I be free if I'm not free to spread disease!
Don't forget, the best vaccines are only 90% effective, meaning that the anti-vaxxers are in the same group as the 10%.
Their numbers are fairly small - it's probably better to fix their misconceptions with education than it is to mount an assault on medical liberties.
Why is it that we make sure students cover the Peloponesian Wars in school, but not basic immunology?
and yet the employers still expect some sort of company loyalty...
C'mon, guys, if you'd have done your attack trees, you'd know that the guy who empties the waste basket can install a keylogger for a day for much less cost than it would take to break your 4096 bit PGP key.
I suppose this story does highlight some changing costs on the nodes, though - if physical penetration is becoming more prevalent, then either the cost of hiring somebody to do it is falling (due to massive unemployment, perhaps?) or the costs of other attacks are rising.
With a gas giant, where do you draw the line between "in" and "on"??
I don't think people even agree at this point about the interior of a gas giant. Best I can make out, it's likely a plasma that's squeezed so tight it behaves like a solid, but with its electrons floating all over the place, so not at all like any solid we've encountered.
No, wait, that's on Europa.
Jesus, if Apple is following Ubuntu, then Canonical is following me, because I posted here in 2008 that Apple would eventually have a "Mac Mode" on their iPhones so it could work with a wireless KVM as a desktop computing environment, just as soon as the CPU and bandwidth were available on some sort of Moore's Law curve, and that would end the Mac.
But to me, that's obvious to somebody 'skilled in the art' and I wouldn't egotistically assume anybody who implemented this was following me. Nor do I expect a paycheck from Shuttleworth anytime soon.
SJ spent the decade he was gone designing an OS that would become OS X and iOS
And learned how to manage a company. I understand his biopic allocates 15 seconds to this part of his life.
And precisely how did we decide that these paintings weren't painted by outcast males with girlish mittens?
First visit a single male's apartment and then visit the single woman's apartment. Repeat until you have a statistically valid sample size, if you need to.
I would have assumed that 'women decorated the caves' was the default hypothesis.
But efficiency.. measured in what, lines of code, THAT kind of "efficiency"? =)
Sort of - time to prototype is pretty high up there for startups. LOC can be a weak approximation to that, but available library size is also really high.
Ruby is slow, Python is memory hungry. Perl doesn't suffer from those two problems but has fairly poor concurrency without an external dispatcher and a funky object syntax. It's all in the trade-offs for what you need.
Rails and Python are great when you don't have significant technical skills and just need to slap some shit together and throw in on a web server.
I've seen this from the other side. Java is a *great* language for the middle of the normal distribution. I'm not going to name the languages on the left side of the curve, because the point of this isn't to start a flame war, but if you have a large number of averagely competent programmers, then Java lets you (as architect/manager/etc.) have those programmers be productive for you, produce code that can be read in the future by the same segment of the population, and be reasonably sure the language will prevent them from making hidden catastrophic mistakes. Also there are a large number of existing tools that let you scale their work out both in depth and in breadth.
The alpha geeks employing Ruby, Python, modern Perl, erlang, etc. are usually at the right side of the curve, doing very efficient, agile, but abstract and terse stuff that takes exceptional (not heroic, just unusual) sysadmin skills to get to work on a grand scale.
Due to the nature of the available talent pool, it's natural to see projects start with the advanced scripting languages among the startup crowd and then migrate to the Java environment over time. Twitter would be a good example of this.