when you are talking about a connection that crosses a large city, like the one here locally, it's a dry pair with conditioning and two smartjacks
They actually ran a piece of copper across a city for you, instead of dropping your into fiber as soon as possible and pulling it out for you on the other end? Is this above-ground, on poles with no redundancy? That must have cost a fortune - I'm curious what the install charges were, if you don't mind my asking.
So, umm.. 0.0006% increase in volume to satisfy that order. Yeah. I'm sure the market just buckled under that enormous demand.
Your point is a good one, but add 10% for early failures and 10% for 1st-year replacements. Also, the small army of men running around replacing failed drives, controllers, and power supplies all day (yeah, really).
Also, not all drives manufactured are of the top capacity. But prices never recovered after Thailand, either, when they should have.
They switched from sugar to corn syrup five years before the introduction of New Coke.
So, that's not what the link says. It says:
In 1980, five years before the introduction of New Coke, Coca-Cola had begun to allow bottlers to replace half the cane sugar in Coca-Cola with HFCS. By six months prior to New Coke's knocking the original Coca-Cola off the shelves, American Coca-Cola bottlers were allowed to use 100% HFCS. Whether they knew it or not, many consumers were already drinking Coke that was 100% sweetened by HFCS.
The relevant question, which Snopes dodges, is "was all Coca Cola Classic manufactured using 100% HFCS when it was reintroduced"?
An alternate way to disprove the assertion would be to show that all bottlers were using 100% HFCS six months prior to the introduction of New Coke. But Snopes's carefully chosen words suggest that wasn't the case.
Yes, be specific. Does the algorithm already work? If so, why aren't you selling it as a plugin for all the popular video processing programs? Do you need to hire more developers to make that happen? Does the algorithm need refactoring engineering to make it usable? Have you already done that and you need marketing money? Are you trying to build a web service and you need money to build out infrastructure that you can't do with cloud servers?
Without knowing why you need VC money, how can we help you set up your presentation?
the taste was no different. Neither are the health consequences
You really need to read up on the rate-limiting effects of sucrase in the small intestine and how that affects the liver's fructose-processing capabilities and what happens when the liver gets fructose faster than it can handle.
people who want to believe that sugar itself isn't deadly
More than storage capacity, they need software and/or manpower to analyze everything.
You're discounting the Three Felonies a Day strategy. If you want to target somebody in the future (because he's become inconvenient, or you want him to roll on his associates, etc.) then it's very useful to have several years of his history to sift through, when it becomes necessary.
There's no need to analyze his data until that time.
To the degree that CO2 levels and climate are causative or correlated, we're still colder now, or at least still cold enough, that significant ice has accumulated on Antarctica since human civilization has bloomed. It's up to 3 miles of ice there in some places, and at the same time as that fresh water is being locked up there, it's going missing from areas like the Sahara and Middle East which are desertifying. Some of the coastlines that humans charted in the mid-millennium (probably the Chinese) are now covered with ice shelves. It's possibly that a warmer climate would reduce the size of that ice pack and return the humidity to the environment.
There's nothing that says that the climate of 1989 is at all ideal for human prosperity - the main bone of contention is that the ocean currents that keep Europe warm could possibly be disturbed by a melting Arctic, which would likely destroy trillions of dollars of property wealth held by influential Northern Europeans. It's really unlikely (Europe wasn't cold the last time the Northwest Passage was open) but why risk it when the costs of avoiding the small probability can be passed on to others?
Well, Apple could troll, but wouldn't that ruin whatever deal they have in place with Adobe re Quartz?
Quartz/Display PDF was an end-run around Adobe in the first place. NeXT (err, Apple) wanted to keep using DisplayPostScript, but Adobe wanted NeXT-level licensing fees, not Apple-level licensing fees. At the same time, Adobe had already released PDF under a royalty-free license, and for Apple's purposes PDF was just compressed PostScript, so Apple changed their display server to DisplayPDF to avoid paying licensing fees. source: WWDC '98 presentation on the display server.
Note that both cars were specifically designed primarily for aerodynamics...
Yeah, different cars are going to have different turbulence and vortexes at different speeds, plus then you have functions of gearing, engine size, etc. which are all going to play into maximum mileage speeds. It might be possible to find an average curve across a range of cars, but individual models will vary widely.
In a world where people aren't encouraged from a young age to compete, but instead to cooperate, you'll have neither the warmongers who encourage relaliatory action, nor the sort of petty dictators who staff the TSA.
Wow, that just substitutes the past 9000 years of history for pop psychology that wouldn't survive a 101-level course. Since I can't say it better:
Prior to capitalism, the way people amassed great wealth was by looting, plundering and enslaving their fellow man. Capitalism made it possible to become wealthy by serving your fellow man. - Walter E. Williams
Did you miss that TSA costs $8B? That $8B goes to politically-connected friends of politicians who funnel some of it back into campaigns to buy votes and perpetuate their power.
. Privatizing it would just remove all accountability
No. Assuming the privatization meant that the airlines would once again be responsible for their own security, the airlines would either compete on maximum invasiveness (anal cavity searches for all), maximum privacy (likely pre-2001 screening to meet their insurance carriers' requirements), maximum security (say, pressure-testing luggage and allowing small arms aboard), or some hybrid that people liked. The airlines would be directly accountable to their passengers and those passengers would provide their feedback by way of ticket purchases and relative pricing. The exception might be remote areas where one carrier has a monopoly at a local airport and there is no actual choice in commercial aviation.
Ok, maybe that quote doesn't really work, since security isn't really about absolutes. But it kinda works.
I'll tell you what it works for - short passwords. I have some systems with 36-character keys (oh, right, passwords) and if they're masked and I'm all alone in a data center (or on remote, more likely these days) it's terribly frustrating since I'm not a perfect typist. Yeah, I can slow down and do it right (I don't have a neurological disorder, though some do) but being able to do it fast and have access to backspace is more productive.
Fedora is doing the right thing by allowing unmasked passwords so people will be able to use longer passwords. It's utterly stupid of them to not include a checkbox for 'mask password' if people are going to have a need for that. I'm OK with that being the default too (safer defaults are almost always the right choice), just let me have the choice to unmask the password when I need to. My current Fedora system passwords are only in the 16-character range because of this.
As you say, security isn't about absolutes, and if the Fedora devs think they can understand every situation in the field on millions of systems, then they're delusional and fail at security. Fedora should not be about mistrusting its users.
they wouldn't balk at *some* investment to recover from a disaster with some of their reputation intact
I've spoken with folks who have made these sorts of decisions in the past at Verizon. The question is entirely dependent on whether the ROI in Mantaloking is higher than investing that same money in a different location. The reputation hit can be factored into the equation.
They have a monopoly, so there's not a competitive pressure, and rarely do they get mandates on their regulated monopoly.
Those were great. My first Linux system ran off of one (a 150MB) cart, booting off the SCSI interface on the Sound Blaster 16. At the time I'd spent $700 of paper route/lawn mowing money on the 330MB EIDE hard drive, and the 150MB carts were in the $75 range, so it was a great deal. I think the drive was $199. I had a cart for Slackware, a cart for booting the Mac at work with a decent System, and one for media storage. Eventually affordable hard drives started coming in GB numbers, but none of that gear ever failed before it became obsolete. Wish I could say the same about their later products...
That the open source AMD drivers would trounce the open source NVIDIA drivers is about as surprising as the Daily Mail finding something causes cancer.
Let's try to be precise here. Closed source is the cancer, but it's closed specs that causes it.
I've always been skeptical of ZFS on Linux because it's not in the kernel tree
If only Oracle would relicense... but you might want to know that one of the national labs runs its entire compute facility on it.
but now that btrfs has RAID 5 and 6 emulation I'm considering moving my big file shares volume from from XFS on dmraid to btrfs raid6.
yeah, just make sure you know about all the current btrfs gotchas before you do. I was surprised by all the corner cases and went back to ext4 on my non-ZFS workstation. Now that ZFS natively supports dkms (last few weeks), I might go that route on workstations.
Either way, there are some good reasons for breaking the filesystem/block layer barrier...
You're very incorrect to imply that educating people about this travesty is meaningless.
History is always valuable. But if anybody thinks the current government(s) is/are going back to the way it was, then they haven't been paying attention to history.
they're not claiming a patent on SIP, they're claiming patents on what SIP does
And since SIP was developed from c. 1994-1999, they're just about to bump up against the 20 year window.
A few petty lawyers here have the power to disrupt a global industry. I'm continually astonished that there's anybody who can't see that the system is fundamentally flawed.
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Are the Thailand hard drive plants back up and running? Honest question, 'cause prices haven't recovered yet.
when you are talking about a connection that crosses a large city, like the one here locally, it's a dry pair with conditioning and two smartjacks
They actually ran a piece of copper across a city for you, instead of dropping your into fiber as soon as possible and pulling it out for you on the other end? Is this above-ground, on poles with no redundancy? That must have cost a fortune - I'm curious what the install charges were, if you don't mind my asking.
So, umm.. 0.0006% increase in volume to satisfy that order. Yeah. I'm sure the market just buckled under that enormous demand.
Your point is a good one, but add 10% for early failures and 10% for 1st-year replacements. Also, the small army of men running around replacing failed drives, controllers, and power supplies all day (yeah, really).
Also, not all drives manufactured are of the top capacity. But prices never recovered after Thailand, either, when they should have.
I always thought it odd, the advice to use a completely insecure channel to exchange the keys for your secure channel.
I guess the advice evolved pre-USAPATRIOT Act, when there was some expectation of needing a search warrant to tap a phone line.
They switched from sugar to corn syrup five years before the introduction of New Coke.
So, that's not what the link says. It says:
The relevant question, which Snopes dodges, is "was all Coca Cola Classic manufactured using 100% HFCS when it was reintroduced"?
An alternate way to disprove the assertion would be to show that all bottlers were using 100% HFCS six months prior to the introduction of New Coke. But Snopes's carefully chosen words suggest that wasn't the case.
Why do you think you need VC money?
Yes, be specific. Does the algorithm already work? If so, why aren't you selling it as a plugin for all the popular video processing programs? Do you need to hire more developers to make that happen? Does the algorithm need refactoring engineering to make it usable? Have you already done that and you need marketing money? Are you trying to build a web service and you need money to build out infrastructure that you can't do with cloud servers?
Without knowing why you need VC money, how can we help you set up your presentation?
the taste was no different. Neither are the health consequences
You really need to read up on the rate-limiting effects of sucrase in the small intestine and how that affects the liver's fructose-processing capabilities and what happens when the liver gets fructose faster than it can handle.
people who want to believe that sugar itself isn't deadly
Sugar is very bad, HFCS is worse.
There are conspiracy theories about which say making that switch without public outcry was the whole point of the operation.
Conspiracy? Is all marketing strategy a conspiracy? Just because it's Evil-Genius-level marketing doesn't mean it's untrue.
More than storage capacity, they need software and/or manpower to analyze everything.
You're discounting the Three Felonies a Day strategy. If you want to target somebody in the future (because he's become inconvenient, or you want him to roll on his associates, etc.) then it's very useful to have several years of his history to sift through, when it becomes necessary.
There's no need to analyze his data until that time.
People should remember just how terrible Americans are at keeping a secret.
Please point to the contents of the redacted portions of the 9/11 Commission Report.
To the degree that CO2 levels and climate are causative or correlated, we're still colder now, or at least still cold enough, that significant ice has accumulated on Antarctica since human civilization has bloomed. It's up to 3 miles of ice there in some places, and at the same time as that fresh water is being locked up there, it's going missing from areas like the Sahara and Middle East which are desertifying. Some of the coastlines that humans charted in the mid-millennium (probably the Chinese) are now covered with ice shelves. It's possibly that a warmer climate would reduce the size of that ice pack and return the humidity to the environment.
There's nothing that says that the climate of 1989 is at all ideal for human prosperity - the main bone of contention is that the ocean currents that keep Europe warm could possibly be disturbed by a melting Arctic, which would likely destroy trillions of dollars of property wealth held by influential Northern Europeans. It's really unlikely (Europe wasn't cold the last time the Northwest Passage was open) but why risk it when the costs of avoiding the small probability can be passed on to others?
Well, Apple could troll, but wouldn't that ruin whatever deal they have in place with Adobe re Quartz?
Quartz/Display PDF was an end-run around Adobe in the first place. NeXT (err, Apple) wanted to keep using DisplayPostScript, but Adobe wanted NeXT-level licensing fees, not Apple-level licensing fees. At the same time, Adobe had already released PDF under a royalty-free license, and for Apple's purposes PDF was just compressed PostScript, so Apple changed their display server to DisplayPDF to avoid paying licensing fees. source: WWDC '98 presentation on the display server.
Note that both cars were specifically designed primarily for aerodynamics...
Yeah, different cars are going to have different turbulence and vortexes at different speeds, plus then you have functions of gearing, engine size, etc. which are all going to play into maximum mileage speeds. It might be possible to find an average curve across a range of cars, but individual models will vary widely.
In a world where people aren't encouraged from a young age to compete, but instead to cooperate, you'll have neither the warmongers who encourage relaliatory action, nor the sort of petty dictators who staff the TSA.
Wow, that just substitutes the past 9000 years of history for pop psychology that wouldn't survive a 101-level course. Since I can't say it better:
Why do we even need screening anymore?
Did you miss that TSA costs $8B? That $8B goes to politically-connected friends of politicians who funnel some of it back into campaigns to buy votes and perpetuate their power.
I know, that's not a propagandist answer.
. Privatizing it would just remove all accountability
No. Assuming the privatization meant that the airlines would once again be responsible for their own security, the airlines would either compete on maximum invasiveness (anal cavity searches for all), maximum privacy (likely pre-2001 screening to meet their insurance carriers' requirements), maximum security (say, pressure-testing luggage and allowing small arms aboard), or some hybrid that people liked. The airlines would be directly accountable to their passengers and those passengers would provide their feedback by way of ticket purchases and relative pricing. The exception might be remote areas where one carrier has a monopoly at a local airport and there is no actual choice in commercial aviation.
Ok, maybe that quote doesn't really work, since security isn't really about absolutes. But it kinda works.
I'll tell you what it works for - short passwords. I have some systems with 36-character keys (oh, right, passwords) and if they're masked and I'm all alone in a data center (or on remote, more likely these days) it's terribly frustrating since I'm not a perfect typist. Yeah, I can slow down and do it right (I don't have a neurological disorder, though some do) but being able to do it fast and have access to backspace is more productive.
Fedora is doing the right thing by allowing unmasked passwords so people will be able to use longer passwords. It's utterly stupid of them to not include a checkbox for 'mask password' if people are going to have a need for that. I'm OK with that being the default too (safer defaults are almost always the right choice), just let me have the choice to unmask the password when I need to. My current Fedora system passwords are only in the 16-character range because of this.
As you say, security isn't about absolutes, and if the Fedora devs think they can understand every situation in the field on millions of systems, then they're delusional and fail at security. Fedora should not be about mistrusting its users.
they wouldn't balk at *some* investment to recover from a disaster with some of their reputation intact
I've spoken with folks who have made these sorts of decisions in the past at Verizon. The question is entirely dependent on whether the ROI in Mantaloking is higher than investing that same money in a different location. The reputation hit can be factored into the equation.
They have a monopoly, so there's not a competitive pressure, and rarely do they get mandates on their regulated monopoly.
Is this the same Warner Brothers that threatened children over their Harry Potter fansites?
What is it the kids say these days? Oh, yes, Avada Kedavra.
OK, this article is by a person who does not understand the value of hearing things as they exist in the real world.
Next story.
Those were great. My first Linux system ran off of one (a 150MB) cart, booting off the SCSI interface on the Sound Blaster 16. At the time I'd spent $700 of paper route/lawn mowing money on the 330MB EIDE hard drive, and the 150MB carts were in the $75 range, so it was a great deal. I think the drive was $199. I had a cart for Slackware, a cart for booting the Mac at work with a decent System, and one for media storage. Eventually affordable hard drives started coming in GB numbers, but none of that gear ever failed before it became obsolete. Wish I could say the same about their later products...
That the open source AMD drivers would trounce the open source NVIDIA drivers is about as surprising as the Daily Mail finding something causes cancer.
Let's try to be precise here. Closed source is the cancer, but it's closed specs that causes it.
I've always been skeptical of ZFS on Linux because it's not in the kernel tree
If only Oracle would relicense... but you might want to know that one of the national labs runs its entire compute facility on it.
but now that btrfs has RAID 5 and 6 emulation I'm considering moving my big file shares volume from from XFS on dmraid to btrfs raid6.
yeah, just make sure you know about all the current btrfs gotchas before you do. I was surprised by all the corner cases and went back to ext4 on my non-ZFS workstation. Now that ZFS natively supports dkms (last few weeks), I might go that route on workstations.
Either way, there are some good reasons for breaking the filesystem/block layer barrier...
yep!
You're very incorrect to imply that educating people about this travesty is meaningless.
History is always valuable. But if anybody thinks the current government(s) is/are going back to the way it was, then they haven't been paying attention to history.
they're not claiming a patent on SIP, they're claiming patents on what SIP does
And since SIP was developed from c. 1994-1999, they're just about to bump up against the 20 year window.
A few petty lawyers here have the power to disrupt a global industry. I'm continually astonished that there's anybody who can't see that the system is fundamentally flawed.