Yeah, it wasn't clear from TFS or TFA what they were talking about, but further down in the discussion:
TL;DR: the Sun orbits the galaxy faster than the spiral arms, and when the solar system passes through gas clouds in the spiral arms, that can send more Ort-cloud comets at the Earth.
The motion of the spiral arms around the cen- tre of the Galaxy is somewhat slower than that of the stars that make up the galaxy, which means that, as the Sun orbits the centre of the Galaxy, it follows a path that takes it through the spiral arms every few tens of millions of years. In the spiral arm envi- ronment, the Solar System is exposed to a far more hazardous and busy regime than in the inter-arm re- gions (our current location). The Earth could be relatively close to a star when its life comes to an end in a supernova explosion { which could certainly pose problems for life, although such supernovae are relatively rare, and the odds of the Earth being suf- ciently close to one for life to be exterminated en- tirely are low, even within a spiral arm (Beech 2011). At the same time, close encounters between the Sun and neighbouring stars become more frequent, as do encounters between the Sun and giant gas clouds (see Fig. 2). Such encounters would not pose a di- rect hazard to life on Earth by changing the orbit of the Earth around the Sun, but could pose a haz- ard by disturbing the Oort Cloud (Porto de Mello et al. 2009), a vast cloud of comets (Oort 1950) which stretches to a distance of at least 100 000 AU from the Sun. The Oort Cloud is thought to contain tril- lions of cometary nuclei, left over from the formation of the Solar system, which are only tenuously grav- itationally bound to the Sun (the outer members of the cloud are around halfway to the nearest star). An encounter with a passing star or distant molec- ular cloud can be enough to deflect an Oort cloud comet, throwing it onto a new orbit that will bring it into the inner Solar system { where it can pose a threat to the Earth. The closer the star approaches to the Sun, or the more massive it is (or both), the more comets it will scatter inwards, and therefore the more likely it will be that one of those in-falling comets will hit the Earth.
If anything the US and Chinese people have grown closer over the past decades; scratch that - for certain the US and Chinese people have grown closer over the past decades.
Only a bunch of crazy old men claiming to represent the people could continually fuck this up. To them I say: "get out of the way."
Err, what? Not only did you violate the Gmail terms of service by providing the password to another entity,
My thoughts exactly - and if Slashdotters are doing this, it's a good bet everybody else is too, for large values of 'everybody'.
Here's what my friend says to fifth graders to get them to understand: "passwords are like underwear - don't share them with anybody else and change them frequently."
(though the 'change them' part may be obsolete at this point, but if they're going to share them anyway, probably still a good idea.)
In the book it was enough to store the contents of a human brain!... Of course, it would cost nearly a million bucks
Let's see, if we run Moore's Law out until this costs $500, that's.... the end of 2029. Curiously enough, exactly the year that Kurzweil has been predicting the singularity for over a decade.
You're obviously presenting only the cynic's side of the argument, but even so, it's even more obvious now than ever that combining the address and search text boxes in a web browser really is a security/privacy risk.
yeah, wow - great point (assuming typeahead is active)
Using their counterclaim form didn't get this changed either.
Does YouTube tell you who make the illegal claim or are they protecting/hiding them? I'd assume transparency, so they would not be an accessory, so if you have the info of the people making the false claim take steps to protect yourself and the community from these kinds of bandits.
It would be pretty darned hypocritical of us to indiscriminately bomb people and then say that you shouldn't use A.I.
Now that it's becoming well-known that drone operators get severe PTSD (an injury to the moral reasoning part of the brain), the USG is going to need some H-K drones to carry on their murderous adventures.
A.I.'s don't balk at attacking civilians either - they'll never be told that their maintenance budgets are funded by their targets' paycheck withholdings.
Especially because 9/11 takes our freedom as well as our lives.
Don't think this wouldn't have either. In the Northwoods era they probably would have used the occasion to blame it on Cuba (or another political foe) and taken the nation to war.
Every time a second amendment argument devolves into "so you think everybody should own nuclear weapons?" feel some solace that eventually people will look back on our period and realize that nuclear weapons were a signal that States were too dangerous to keep around.
It's not worth the heartache and permanent hair loss to stick around.
To the submitter: the experienced people here are telling you how it really works. You may not have even considered leaving, but it's just a job, not your life's calling, and your management is inept, so it's not going to get better, it's going to get worse. The job you're in now isn't the best possible job you can have.
Start exploring your professional network now - the worst case is that you'll have more options, and you can always choose to stay.
but $200 is a steal by the standards of x86 boards designed for embedded purposes
What? I've been buying mini-ITX boards for embedded work, with first C7's then Atoms for $100-$129 for five years now, some even with a built-in DC regulator. And the only thing I hate about the Atom boards is the PowerVR GPU's.
Yeah, it's not PC/104, but if cost is the primary factor, PC/104 isn't that relevant.
At $50 it might be a RPi competitor, but at $199 I don't know who the target market could be.
For some use cases, yes. For all use cases, of course not.
What I'm waiting for is a full BTRFS or ZFS-savvy distro layout. And by that, I mean a filesystem for every package with rollback support built into the package managers. Nexenta and Fedora have taken some baby steps in this direction but they only snapshot the whole system at this point.
"But we can't have six thousand filesystems on a machine!" Of course you can, it's 2013. The FHS was developed for filesystems that existed two decades ago.
You probably ran out of memory. No, seriously, don't try it on a machine with less than 3GB of RAM. It's not optimized for that use case yet (version 0.6.2 is current - 1.0 will be 'ready').
Exactly. Back in the bad-old-days when I used to compile gcc a lot, it came with a stage 1 compiler, which was simple enough to be compatible with a wide range of system cc's but strong enough to compile stage 2, which was then strong enough to compile all of gcc.
I don't know if clang has the same approach (or, heck, if gcc even does still) but the approach is straightforward. I was a bit disappointed to see that FreeBSD went from a two-compiler standard to a single-compiler standard for this very reason.
The other added advantage of the 3-layer approach, is that if you can audit the stage 1 compiler, that should be sufficient for checking for Trusting-Trust attacks. If you ever suspect that "all" of the compilers have been compromised, you need "only" write a new basic c compiler that can compile gcc stage 1. If you don't ever have to worry about doing optimizations, it's something that can be done as a university-level project.
It does officially support HTTP1.1, but most servers detect Safari and use HTTP1.0 instead.
I haven't hit this problem myself on any of our large websites, but googling yields this, which seems to indicate that the problem may be on caching proxies. I haven't seen it with Linux Virtual Server (using Direct Routing), Apache, Squid, or Apache Traffic Server (with pipelining support enabled).
I remember reading one bio-mathematics person determining that bees do their little waggle dances in nine dimensions projected onto two, and I thought she was insane.
That's only because you don't realize that the part of the bee you see is only the little part that projects into our universe.
for the life of me I don't know why Cisco, Microsoft and other big players just don't pay up to get at least some insight into how these guys are finding exposures in their systems
it's almost as if they've been persuaded not to, eh?
Govt can index everything to inflation and print money. Have computers take care of the indexing so it's seamless.
There's a gentleman's agreement that they won't do this, so the circus of a floor fight over minimum wage laws can happen every few years - 'both' bases support their own parties' antics over those. They usually heat up when an election cycle is coming.
I think saying fiat based currency is faith-based economy in literally true. It relies on everyone agreeing that its worth something.
Not really, when a government issues it and makes it the legal tender.
The value of the USD is based on the USG's willingness to bash peoples' heads in to collect taxes. FRN's have been threat-promises since 1971.
That and its legacy function as the petrodollar under the long-obsolete Bretton Woods terms. Syria and Iran are the last remaining threats to its dominance there, though Russia and China are doing what they can to level the playing field.
Thank you. It's the defaulting that's the real pain for me; I guess if I cannot fix that it's better to have a chance of the item being in there than not.
I don't know who Gnome thinks they're helping - it's a pain for me and royally confusing for my wife, who is a basic computer user.
I care about this article as long as xorg.conf goes away sometimes soon.
Mandatory xorg.conf went away a few years ago. You can still tweak parameters with one if you want to. Are you suggesting removing the ability to tweak it?
This affects non Gnome 3 users sometimes (e.g. File/Open puts you into "Recently Used", wasting a bit of your time and clicks, in a app that uses GTK3.)
If you have a big online presence, people will be able to figure out who you are.
I used to follow a pediatrician who would often rail against the conventional wisdom - he happened to be very science-based and would not put up with patients who demanded scrips for viruses, etc. He would blow off steam on his blog.
Over time he started to leak info about himself - where he went to school, some nearby towns, etc. I left a comment or two advising him to stop doing that.
A bit later he started talking about a court case he was involved in. This was about the time the "hunt was on" for @FakeSteveJobs and I was curious to see what was possible - I did a few google searches and it wasn't too hard to figure out who he was, since court filings are public.
A month or so later, he disclosed that opposing council's staff had done the same, and used his blog posts to force a settlement.
My take away: if you're going to do something like this, never include any personal details and/or never cross paths with the legal system. But if I lived near his town, I'd definitely take my kids there.
Slashdot Mirror
what should it be replaced with?
To be trustable it has to be open source, but to be trustworthy will require both code scrutiny and careful analysis.
New maxim: you can't keep secrets with secrets.
Yeah, it wasn't clear from TFS or TFA what they were talking about, but further down in the discussion:
TL;DR: the Sun orbits the galaxy faster than the spiral arms, and when the solar system passes through gas clouds in the spiral arms, that can send more Ort-cloud comets at the Earth.
the growing rivalry between the U.S. and China
If anything the US and Chinese people have grown closer over the past decades; scratch that - for certain the US and Chinese people have grown closer over the past decades.
Only a bunch of crazy old men claiming to represent the people could continually fuck this up. To them I say: "get out of the way."
Err, what? Not only did you violate the Gmail terms of service by providing the password to another entity,
My thoughts exactly - and if Slashdotters are doing this, it's a good bet everybody else is too, for large values of 'everybody'.
Here's what my friend says to fifth graders to get them to understand: "passwords are like underwear - don't share them with anybody else and change them frequently."
(though the 'change them' part may be obsolete at this point, but if they're going to share them anyway, probably still a good idea.)
In the book it was enough to store the contents of a human brain! ...
Of course, it would cost nearly a million bucks
Let's see, if we run Moore's Law out until this costs $500, that's .... the end of 2029. Curiously enough, exactly the year that Kurzweil has been predicting the singularity for over a decade.
If you want to claim otherwise deliver a reliable reference giving the total number of incidents per year
You can argue frequency all you want, but so long as the unconstitutional searches are > 1 *and* well-publicized, the panopticon effect becomes real.
You're obviously presenting only the cynic's side of the argument, but even so, it's even more obvious now than ever that combining the address and search text boxes in a web browser really is a security/privacy risk.
yeah, wow - great point (assuming typeahead is active)
Also once we are through with this planet all the concentrated stuff will be spread out
There might be more rare minerals per volume in a first-world landfill than in a natural deposit, especially for things like gold.
Using their counterclaim form didn't get this changed either.
Does YouTube tell you who make the illegal claim or are they protecting/hiding them? I'd assume transparency, so they would not be an accessory, so if you have the info of the people making the false claim take steps to protect yourself and the community from these kinds of bandits.
It would be pretty darned hypocritical of us to indiscriminately bomb people and then say that you shouldn't use A.I.
Now that it's becoming well-known that drone operators get severe PTSD (an injury to the moral reasoning part of the brain), the USG is going to need some H-K drones to carry on their murderous adventures.
A.I.'s don't balk at attacking civilians either - they'll never be told that their maintenance budgets are funded by their targets' paycheck withholdings.
Especially because 9/11 takes our freedom as well as our lives.
Don't think this wouldn't have either. In the Northwoods era they probably would have used the occasion to blame it on Cuba (or another political foe) and taken the nation to war.
Every time a second amendment argument devolves into "so you think everybody should own nuclear weapons?" feel some solace that eventually people will look back on our period and realize that nuclear weapons were a signal that States were too dangerous to keep around.
It's not worth the heartache and permanent hair loss to stick around.
To the submitter: the experienced people here are telling you how it really works. You may not have even considered leaving, but it's just a job, not your life's calling, and your management is inept, so it's not going to get better, it's going to get worse. The job you're in now isn't the best possible job you can have.
Start exploring your professional network now - the worst case is that you'll have more options, and you can always choose to stay.
but $200 is a steal by the standards of x86 boards designed for embedded purposes
What? I've been buying mini-ITX boards for embedded work, with first C7's then Atoms for $100-$129 for five years now, some even with a built-in DC regulator. And the only thing I hate about the Atom boards is the PowerVR GPU's.
Yeah, it's not PC/104, but if cost is the primary factor, PC/104 isn't that relevant.
At $50 it might be a RPi competitor, but at $199 I don't know who the target market could be.
Zfs is better.
For some use cases, yes. For all use cases, of course not.
What I'm waiting for is a full BTRFS or ZFS-savvy distro layout. And by that, I mean a filesystem for every package with rollback support built into the package managers. Nexenta and Fedora have taken some baby steps in this direction but they only snapshot the whole system at this point.
"But we can't have six thousand filesystems on a machine!" Of course you can, it's 2013. The FHS was developed for filesystems that existed two decades ago.
Like a bag full of with crashed machines
You probably ran out of memory. No, seriously, don't try it on a machine with less than 3GB of RAM. It's not optimized for that use case yet (version 0.6.2 is current - 1.0 will be 'ready').
Exactly. Back in the bad-old-days when I used to compile gcc a lot, it came with a stage 1 compiler, which was simple enough to be compatible with a wide range of system cc's but strong enough to compile stage 2, which was then strong enough to compile all of gcc.
I don't know if clang has the same approach (or, heck, if gcc even does still) but the approach is straightforward. I was a bit disappointed to see that FreeBSD went from a two-compiler standard to a single-compiler standard for this very reason.
The other added advantage of the 3-layer approach, is that if you can audit the stage 1 compiler, that should be sufficient for checking for Trusting-Trust attacks. If you ever suspect that "all" of the compilers have been compromised, you need "only" write a new basic c compiler that can compile gcc stage 1. If you don't ever have to worry about doing optimizations, it's something that can be done as a university-level project.
It does officially support HTTP1.1, but most servers detect Safari and use HTTP1.0 instead.
I haven't hit this problem myself on any of our large websites, but googling yields this, which seems to indicate that the problem may be on caching proxies. I haven't seen it with Linux Virtual Server (using Direct Routing), Apache, Squid, or Apache Traffic Server (with pipelining support enabled).
I remember reading one bio-mathematics person determining that bees do their little waggle dances in nine dimensions projected onto two, and I thought she was insane.
That's only because you don't realize that the part of the bee you see is only the little part that projects into our universe.
for the life of me I don't know why Cisco, Microsoft and other big players just don't pay up to get at least some insight into how these guys are finding exposures in their systems
it's almost as if they've been persuaded not to, eh?
Govt can index everything to inflation and print money. Have computers take care of the indexing so it's seamless.
There's a gentleman's agreement that they won't do this, so the circus of a floor fight over minimum wage laws can happen every few years - 'both' bases support their own parties' antics over those. They usually heat up when an election cycle is coming.
I think saying fiat based currency is faith-based economy in literally true. It relies on everyone agreeing that its worth something.
Not really, when a government issues it and makes it the legal tender.
The value of the USD is based on the USG's willingness to bash peoples' heads in to collect taxes. FRN's have been threat-promises since 1971.
That and its legacy function as the petrodollar under the long-obsolete Bretton Woods terms. Syria and Iran are the last remaining threats to its dominance there, though Russia and China are doing what they can to level the playing field.
Thank you. It's the defaulting that's the real pain for me; I guess if I cannot fix that it's better to have a chance of the item being in there than not.
I don't know who Gnome thinks they're helping - it's a pain for me and royally confusing for my wife, who is a basic computer user.
I care about this article as long as xorg.conf goes away sometimes soon.
Mandatory xorg.conf went away a few years ago. You can still tweak parameters with one if you want to. Are you suggesting removing the ability to tweak it?
This affects non Gnome 3 users sometimes (e.g. File/Open puts you into "Recently Used", wasting a bit of your time and clicks, in a app that uses GTK3.)
Ooohh, is that what it is. Is there a workaround?
If you have a big online presence, people will be able to figure out who you are.
I used to follow a pediatrician who would often rail against the conventional wisdom - he happened to be very science-based and would not put up with patients who demanded scrips for viruses, etc. He would blow off steam on his blog.
Over time he started to leak info about himself - where he went to school, some nearby towns, etc. I left a comment or two advising him to stop doing that.
A bit later he started talking about a court case he was involved in. This was about the time the "hunt was on" for @FakeSteveJobs and I was curious to see what was possible - I did a few google searches and it wasn't too hard to figure out who he was, since court filings are public.
A month or so later, he disclosed that opposing council's staff had done the same, and used his blog posts to force a settlement.
My take away: if you're going to do something like this, never include any personal details and/or never cross paths with the legal system. But if I lived near his town, I'd definitely take my kids there.