I'm somewhat heartened that you've been posting the same kinds of comments for years and have recently started to attract serious mod points. Keep up the good work.
As for not paying him, aren't these bug bounty systems meant to foster responsible disclosure? I'm pretty sure leveraging an attack you found does not count as such.
It's not 'leveraging an attack' when it's demonstrating the veracity of the claim, to a higher-up employee's wall because the lower level employee ignored you. If there's a problem with his behavior it's that he first posted on the wall of a friend of Zuck, who is not an employee and outside the bug reporting transaction. That was stupid, but a post to Facebook Security's page seems like fair game to demonstrate a problem.
That said, his bug report was complete shit and barely distinguishable from spam. How can he have an IS degree if he can't even write a decent bug report?
A solar cell takes far more energy (likely coal or oil) to produce than the panel will ever, EVER, get back in its usable life.
That has been true for decades, but they went over-unity a few years ago. That was only able to be determined in retrospect. There was a news article about the analysis 6-9 months ago (probably a story here too).
One of our local drive-ins went through this, so I looked at the numbers last year.
A digital setup is about $60K, for Drive-in scale gear.
When the studios noticed how expensive shipping film was, they realized that they could ship hard drives and achieve the same goals, just with a shift of media (they are not yet thinking telecom distribution yet).
The films cost about $300 to ship, the hard drives about $60. The studios at first just wanted to save $240 per shipment, but the theatre owners cried foul, so they came up with a revenue sharing plan where the studios would buy the projectors, or a good chunk of the cost of a projector system, and the theatres would not keep any of the cost savings until the cost of the projector was paid back. It was creative financing, and a pretty good idea, I think.
This plan was instituted many years ago and was phased out at the end of 2011. The trick for Drive-ins is that they don't usually operate year-round, they have fewer showings, and get fewer films in, so their cost-recoup horizon was much longer. Yet, they knew this was coming and many of them did nothing to deal with it.
What I saw, in Spring of 2012, was a pack of lies from a local Drive-in about how the studios sprung this on them, how they were trying to put the Drive-ins out of business, and how they would go under unless people donated to their business. I know a guy who produces festivals, and he was willing to reduce his fee for the Drive-in and organize a fundraiser for them, as it's a valued community asset, and they metaphorically flipped him off for wanting anything for his time. The Drive-in more than doubled their food prices, driving away additional business (many families used to come for dinner and a movie). People suggested pre-selling discounted ticket packs, to raise capital, and other things, and they just dismissed it all and told people to donate.
Last I heard, they had gotten a bank loan, but it really seemed to me that the fundamental problem was with the way the business was run, not the switch to digital.
I am waiting for a phone where software is not integrated into the hardware. Bit like I can buy a PC and put Windows on it or BSD or Linux.
If your phone has an unlocked bootloader, you can already do that - it's how CyanogenMod works for instance (still android, but different OS image). There are Debian images for some phones - it's really a matter of arch and driver support. NetBSD could be in the running too.
Going the other way, my boy is at the moment watching Wild Kratts via Netflix on a tablet that came with WebOS but is currently running CyanogenMod 7.
Raise your hand if you think that equalizing the surface and deep ocean temperatures is a good thing to do for this planet?
What's so amazing is that they're equalizing the temperature of the entire 1.3 billion cubic kilometers of ocean water, and only generating 10MW from it! I guess it takes most of the power output of this heat pump to destroy the planet.
The area I live in is defined by mountain ranges, and the communities are along the river. The State boundary is on one side of that river, but it doesn't stop school districts from being comprised of communities from both sides, because that's how the communities are defined. There's also a College on one side and many of the students rent apartments on the other.
But, hey, maybe this says more about States than it does about Amazon.
Arguable to whom? We have Sens. Wyden, Udall, Paul, Lee, Sanders, Merkley - and that's pretty much it. That's six out of 100, leaving 94 Senators in support of the NSA's unconstitutional behavior. Only 1/3 of them are up for re-election next year and you can expect at least 2/3 of those will be returning. So, even after the next election, you might have, at best, 16 : 84 in the Senate.
For the same reason it's not even worth the effort to bring impeachment charges for any of it.
If there's to be change, that's not the way it's going to happen.
I prefer the approach brought by Doctorow: we'll all be able to clone ourselves when the time comes, and download our memories and consciousnesses into them.
Making a copy of yourself is a different thing than immortality.
Go back and read the centos-devel list from the CentOS 6 build period if you don't believe me, but EL6 was not self-building. The CentOS 6 guys (much kudos) spent vast amounts of time fiddling with building this library with this compiler on this host with this version of this build library, to find the exact build combinations that would make CentOS6 a binary-compatible EL6. Hence, it was over a year behind. It was thought that this was done to frustrate Oracle, like the giant-kernel-patch-blob issue, but really, Oracle can hire a dozen guys to get it done in a month while CentOS is harmed for over a year.
Maybe the CEO has changed his thinking, or perhaps the same ethos does not pervade the company. I guess we'll see when EL7 rolls around.
P.S. - he's right, many customers upgrade from CentOS to RHEL for deployment-time support. Others stay with 3rd-party support which can be more comprehensive.
Does that pass for a clever dig in your social circles?
It looks more like an automated insult-o-matic running on a poor implementation of a Turing Test contest entry. Fortunately they don't have social circles yet.
However, there has been no definitive statement that there was no harm as you've implied.
Harm is in the eye of the [political] beholder, which makes Manning's sorrow, feigned or not, somewhat meaningless. We do know that no deaths have been caused by the leaks. Did some psychotic CIA plot get messed up? Would that be harm? Nobody knows.
One thing I noticed is jobs rarely give you notice before they let you go. I guess if you are worried about references and that crap, but otherwise, screw them because they would have screwed you if the situation was reversed.
That's probably not a bad measure - every large company is going to have some bad fits, so if you're there long enough to give notice then you can see how they treat others they let go. If they never give notice to employees, then I can't see how they deserve any notice from employees. But if they do, then the respect is earned.
An old rule of thumb I often hear is "one week per year of employment". If you're there for 25 years, giving two weeks notice is going to cause major problems. If they don't deserve that, then work something out. Part of the time can be availability as a consultant.
Agreed. It's even possible to re-ink the ribbons in the field if the labor is less valuable than the cost of a replacement ribbon.
The one other thing that might be considered would be an inkjet with a continuous feed ink system. The ink is only expensive if it's purchased singly - by the gallon it's fairly inexpensive. Inkjets might be lower power than dot-matrix.
Don't trust thermal output for more than a year, and the paper is expensive.
For specimen labelling, you pretty much need a Zebra stripe printer for top-quality solution. They're not cheap, especially since you'll want an on-site spare. A Dymo label printer might get by if no substantial longevity is required of the labels and you use some of the third party freezer labels. Those are very low power devices.
Technically, the growth needs to be measured in concert with actual monetary inflation. I don't know what the status is in the EU, but in the US, they *never* do that on state-controlled media.
More important is what the unemployment levels are like vs. historical norms. For instance, in the US, we'd need 3.5% growth for ten consecutive years to reach pre-2000 levels of employment. That level of growth was never achieved in the 20th century.
As I understand it, Spain, for example, is in much worse shape than the US in terms of employment.
Official numbers rarely reflect the condition of the common man.
that a large enough population of people who vote will actually say who they vote for given the chance and that result reflects reality.
Last year I kept track of the Facebook Likes over time for our State gubernatorial primary candidates, and used both the final Like-count and the momentum to make a prediction:
Since you can't hide something of that size, you might as well go with a small messenger bag, which will have the same capacity as a very large holster; but won't look utterly ridiculous.
Agreed. I suppose beauty is in the eye of the beholder, but I got a "tactical messenger bag" last year and I've been using it for all sorts of things - day hikes, trips to the water park with the kids, etc. It's no more ridiculous looking than a holster would be, and I've had a few guys working security at the parks ask me where they could pick one up. I've heard they even work as a 'manly' diaper bag.
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I'm somewhat heartened that you've been posting the same kinds of comments for years and have recently started to attract serious mod points. Keep up the good work.
it became nothing more than a organ to bash Israel and the US.
How does this get a +4? The US uses UN resolutions to justify and defend its attacks on other countries.
As for not paying him, aren't these bug bounty systems meant to foster responsible disclosure? I'm pretty sure leveraging an attack you found does not count as such.
It's not 'leveraging an attack' when it's demonstrating the veracity of the claim, to a higher-up employee's wall because the lower level employee ignored you. If there's a problem with his behavior it's that he first posted on the wall of a friend of Zuck, who is not an employee and outside the bug reporting transaction. That was stupid, but a post to Facebook Security's page seems like fair game to demonstrate a problem.
That said, his bug report was complete shit and barely distinguishable from spam. How can he have an IS degree if he can't even write a decent bug report?
A solar cell takes far more energy (likely coal or oil) to produce than the panel will ever, EVER, get back in its usable life.
That has been true for decades, but they went over-unity a few years ago. That was only able to be determined in retrospect. There was a news article about the analysis 6-9 months ago (probably a story here too).
One of our local drive-ins went through this, so I looked at the numbers last year.
A digital setup is about $60K, for Drive-in scale gear.
When the studios noticed how expensive shipping film was, they realized that they could ship hard drives and achieve the same goals, just with a shift of media (they are not yet thinking telecom distribution yet).
The films cost about $300 to ship, the hard drives about $60. The studios at first just wanted to save $240 per shipment, but the theatre owners cried foul, so they came up with a revenue sharing plan where the studios would buy the projectors, or a good chunk of the cost of a projector system, and the theatres would not keep any of the cost savings until the cost of the projector was paid back. It was creative financing, and a pretty good idea, I think.
This plan was instituted many years ago and was phased out at the end of 2011. The trick for Drive-ins is that they don't usually operate year-round, they have fewer showings, and get fewer films in, so their cost-recoup horizon was much longer. Yet, they knew this was coming and many of them did nothing to deal with it.
What I saw, in Spring of 2012, was a pack of lies from a local Drive-in about how the studios sprung this on them, how they were trying to put the Drive-ins out of business, and how they would go under unless people donated to their business. I know a guy who produces festivals, and he was willing to reduce his fee for the Drive-in and organize a fundraiser for them, as it's a valued community asset, and they metaphorically flipped him off for wanting anything for his time. The Drive-in more than doubled their food prices, driving away additional business (many families used to come for dinner and a movie). People suggested pre-selling discounted ticket packs, to raise capital, and other things, and they just dismissed it all and told people to donate.
Last I heard, they had gotten a bank loan, but it really seemed to me that the fundamental problem was with the way the business was run, not the switch to digital.
The House is better (including Sensenbrenner) but with an imperial Senate, we don't have much hope.
PS Repeal the 17th Amendment.
Yeah, what is the point of "commercial" drones?
TacoCopters.
But so far only the oil industry gets to use them. Oh, and spy agencies, of course.
I am waiting for a phone where software is not integrated into the hardware. Bit like I can buy a PC and put Windows on it or BSD or Linux.
If your phone has an unlocked bootloader, you can already do that - it's how CyanogenMod works for instance (still android, but different OS image). There are Debian images for some phones - it's really a matter of arch and driver support. NetBSD could be in the running too.
Going the other way, my boy is at the moment watching Wild Kratts via Netflix on a tablet that came with WebOS but is currently running CyanogenMod 7.
(often misquoted: "Politics is the entertainment branch of the military-industrial complex" to good effect).
Raise your hand if you think that equalizing the surface and deep ocean temperatures is a good thing to do for this planet?
What's so amazing is that they're equalizing the temperature of the entire 1.3 billion cubic kilometers of ocean water, and only generating 10MW from it! I guess it takes most of the power output of this heat pump to destroy the planet.
I don't see how adding a bunch of new features is a "Return to the Origin"...
It triggers a reset of The Matrix, which is just the next version of the same trap, none of it reflecting reality.
The area I live in is defined by mountain ranges, and the communities are along the river. The State boundary is on one side of that river, but it doesn't stop school districts from being comprised of communities from both sides, because that's how the communities are defined. There's also a College on one side and many of the students rent apartments on the other.
But, hey, maybe this says more about States than it does about Amazon.
can be said to have violated "good behaviour".
Arguable to whom? We have Sens. Wyden, Udall, Paul, Lee, Sanders, Merkley - and that's pretty much it. That's six out of 100, leaving 94 Senators in support of the NSA's unconstitutional behavior. Only 1/3 of them are up for re-election next year and you can expect at least 2/3 of those will be returning. So, even after the next election, you might have, at best, 16 : 84 in the Senate.
For the same reason it's not even worth the effort to bring impeachment charges for any of it.
If there's to be change, that's not the way it's going to happen.
I prefer the approach brought by Doctorow: we'll all be able to clone ourselves when the time comes, and download our memories and consciousnesses into them.
Making a copy of yourself is a different thing than immortality.
Go back and read the centos-devel list from the CentOS 6 build period if you don't believe me, but EL6 was not self-building. The CentOS 6 guys (much kudos) spent vast amounts of time fiddling with building this library with this compiler on this host with this version of this build library, to find the exact build combinations that would make CentOS6 a binary-compatible EL6. Hence, it was over a year behind. It was thought that this was done to frustrate Oracle, like the giant-kernel-patch-blob issue, but really, Oracle can hire a dozen guys to get it done in a month while CentOS is harmed for over a year.
Maybe the CEO has changed his thinking, or perhaps the same ethos does not pervade the company. I guess we'll see when EL7 rolls around.
P.S. - he's right, many customers upgrade from CentOS to RHEL for deployment-time support. Others stay with 3rd-party support which can be more comprehensive.
Does that pass for a clever dig in your social circles?
It looks more like an automated insult-o-matic running on a poor implementation of a Turing Test contest entry. Fortunately they don't have social circles yet.
/dev/(u)random draw on a finite entropy pool. The pool is easily depleted.
Except that on a device with so many real-world sensors, the pool should be easier to keep full. Does Android run esd or equivalent?
However, there has been no definitive statement that there was no harm as you've implied.
Harm is in the eye of the [political] beholder, which makes Manning's sorrow, feigned or not, somewhat meaningless. We do know that no deaths have been caused by the leaks. Did some psychotic CIA plot get messed up? Would that be harm? Nobody knows.
Even Picard admitted to Riker that, in the end, he did see five lights.
One thing I noticed is jobs rarely give you notice before they let you go. I guess if you are worried about references and that crap, but otherwise, screw them because they would have screwed you if the situation was reversed.
That's probably not a bad measure - every large company is going to have some bad fits, so if you're there long enough to give notice then you can see how they treat others they let go. If they never give notice to employees, then I can't see how they deserve any notice from employees. But if they do, then the respect is earned.
An old rule of thumb I often hear is "one week per year of employment". If you're there for 25 years, giving two weeks notice is going to cause major problems. If they don't deserve that, then work something out. Part of the time can be availability as a consultant.
I, for one, trust James Clapper to not lie to the Bundestag.
Agreed. It's even possible to re-ink the ribbons in the field if the labor is less valuable than the cost of a replacement ribbon.
The one other thing that might be considered would be an inkjet with a continuous feed ink system. The ink is only expensive if it's purchased singly - by the gallon it's fairly inexpensive. Inkjets might be lower power than dot-matrix.
Don't trust thermal output for more than a year, and the paper is expensive.
For specimen labelling, you pretty much need a Zebra stripe printer for top-quality solution. They're not cheap, especially since you'll want an on-site spare. A Dymo label printer might get by if no substantial longevity is required of the labels and you use some of the third party freezer labels. Those are very low power devices.
Thus, the recession is technically over.
Technically, the growth needs to be measured in concert with actual monetary inflation. I don't know what the status is in the EU, but in the US, they *never* do that on state-controlled media.
More important is what the unemployment levels are like vs. historical norms. For instance, in the US, we'd need 3.5% growth for ten consecutive years to reach pre-2000 levels of employment. That level of growth was never achieved in the 20th century.
As I understand it, Spain, for example, is in much worse shape than the US in terms of employment.
Official numbers rarely reflect the condition of the common man.
that a large enough population of people who vote will actually say who they vote for given the chance and that result reflects reality.
Last year I kept track of the Facebook Likes over time for our State gubernatorial primary candidates, and used both the final Like-count and the momentum to make a prediction:
http://www.billmcgonigle.com/can-facebook-predict-the-nh-primary/
The actual vote was very close to prediction, especially considering the 'intelligencia' was predicting a very close race with opposite winners.
Since you can't hide something of that size, you might as well go with a small messenger bag, which will have the same capacity as a very large holster; but won't look utterly ridiculous.
Agreed. I suppose beauty is in the eye of the beholder, but I got a "tactical messenger bag" last year and I've been using it for all sorts of things - day hikes, trips to the water park with the kids, etc. It's no more ridiculous looking than a holster would be, and I've had a few guys working security at the parks ask me where they could pick one up. I've heard they even work as a 'manly' diaper bag.