That yacht is incapable of weathering a real storm.
The yacht is meant to be seen and to torture the aesthetic sense of mundane passers-by - a giant floating ego. Any time the ship is at sea, it's purpose is being diminished.
The only thing it could be used for at this point is a giant floating Steve Jobs museum - dock it at Monterey and charge $100 to walk through it. Make sure there's nothing inside but one photo of Steve. If people complain, just shake your head and say they're not ready to understand it.
I guess I'm still kind of ok with it. I'm just worried about the people who are drawn to this site.
Why does the porn nature change your opinion of it? Isn't gruesome murder pretty high on the intolerable scale already?
In the US our FCC makes sure that producers can show babies being killed on TV, but babies being made is strictly forbidden. One school of thought says that this is entirely consistent with training a population to be 'at peace' with continual war.
"[But] an important point made by [Caldeira] is that corals have had many millions of years of opportunity to extend their range into low omega waters. With rare exception they have failed. What are the chances that they will adapt to lowering omega in the next 100 years?"
Wait... I've been to a few islands where they say that the basic limestone structure of the island is built from ancient coral reefs that formed the limestone over millions of years.
We also know that atmospheric CO2 has been up at least as high as 3500 ppm during the same period.
One of these has to be wrong if 450ppm is going to kill all the coral (or the theory is crap).
and then check smartctl. If I'm making a really big zpool, I fill them up and let ZFS fail out the turkeys:
dd if=/dev/zero of=/tank/zeros.dd bs=8M zpool scrub tank
If I'm building a 30-drive storage server for a client I'll often see 1-2 fail out. Better to catch them now then when they're deployed (especially with the crap warranties on spinning rust these days). I need to order in staggered lots anyway, so having 10% overhead helps keep things moving along.
Well, I guess somebody has to go against the flood of neurological research showing that humans tend greatly towards the altruistic. "Fists, yeah, that's the ticket. People are inherently violent, and so we're justified being bad to them, because they need to be controlled." Augustine of Hippo called - he wants his Original Sin back.
Who have finally taken full advantage of all the abuse the system provides for. We need to recognize that the system is inherently broken and needs to be abolished and/or replaced. And only replaced if there's some way to show that the replacement won't have detrimental unintended consequences.
Just because the law says it's okay to be a jerk doesn't mean it's okay when you actually do it.
And there are many ways to be a jerk, even on societal levels. Interesting chart here that completely invalidates the idea that copyright promotes the arts. Same with patents for the useful sciences.
If the Internet has taught us one thing, it's that very few ideas are actually unique. The patent system has just become a race to see who has the most and fastest lawyers who can file a patent for as many ideas as can be floated, ability or intent to implement be damned. Execution is what really matters now when it comes to advancing technology and nobody needs to make up imaginary property rights for a good management team to succeed.
But IP does maximize profits for certain corporations, created by the government, feeding money (and by extension power) back to the same government players. That's what we call a positive feedback loop. If there's a silver lining, positive feedback loops cause instability and usually lead to collapse, ending the cycle. Unfortunately, those collapses often damage everything around them when they let go.
Basically the same argument can be made for cars. Unless a meteor hits a moving vehicle, Captain Hindsight can always find somebody who should have been better prepared, paying more attention, or what have you.
Sometimes it's a matter of how much an owner can reasonably do, though, as to where the blame is assigned. An owner trusting that a tire he bought will not blow out on the highway at 3000 miles is not unreasonable. Yet, this happens, though rarely. Probably there is blame to be found at the factory, but responsibility follows control.
A gun owner can have a barrel blow out too, due to manufacturing problems (voids in the metal, etc.) Now, sure, he could have ordered an ultrasonic analysis of the metal in the new gun he bought, but is that reasonable? He could have had a gunsmith take apart his new gun to make sure all the pieces were properly machined; but then he has to trust the gunsmith to put it back together properly. Of course, he could hire another gunsmith to verify the work of the first, but... GOTO 10.
You're not seriously suggesting that somebody would publish an article without thinking through the unintended consequences, are you? Like how many defensive gun uses would become impossible due to failed batteries, bad caps, tin whiskers, water, dropped weapon, other-effects-of-age, etc?
The conservative estimate on the number of prevented homicides per year by DGU's is about 60,000 (not attempted murder, per se, but that 10% of attempted violent crimes end in homicide and the conservative estimate is 600,000 DGU's per year; range is up to 2.4 million; the DoJ study was at 1.25 million). The number of accidental deaths is around 600 per year. The cost-benefit analysis is similar to seat belts - sometimes wearing a seatbelt will actually cause you to die when you otherwise would not have, but 99% of the time it saves your life.
23andme is down to $99 for a gene sequence and their usual panel of interesting things that can be identified by it. If your Dad is ninety, he's seen the discovery of DNA, and most of modern biology, so to have his genome sequenced should be pretty neat. He may be interested in his ancestry and there are some practical tips they can give you for health maintenance, drug effectiveness, etc.
It's what I got my ageing father for Christmas. The more family members that participate, the greater the eventual usefulness.
Net result is the same. If there's a whole in the security, it's a flaw regardless of whether you think it's k3wl or not.
Yes, there's a hole in the security, but not in the WDE products. Identifying the correct attack surfaces allows the security-minded to mount proper defenses.
From this perspective, the article title is misleading and counter-productive.
Better: "ElcomSoft Demonstrates Bypass Tool for BitLocker, PGP, and TrueCrypt".
Also many new devices have Intel Rapid Start which uses a memory-sized partition on SSD to do a hardware-level hibernate (very fast).
I'm the kind of guy who uses swap on LUKS to do secure hibernation and even I started to setup up a Rapid Start partition, thinking it would be very useful, before the little security lobe of my brain started shouting "no, your keys!". There's precious little about this risk on a Google search save a Dell tech document that says that it might be incompatible with software-based encryption like TrueCrypt.
And with block remapping, even using Rapid Start once is enough to potentially contaminate the SSD forever.
It would be nice if the kernel had a mode where it could encrypt all the memory pages that weren't needed for resume and do the inverse on the way back up to take advantage of the BIOS-skipping benefit of this feature.
complex systems with high power densities are intrinsically hazardous
Can we just generalize that to say that producing and distributing energy has inherent risks? IIRC about 30 people have been killed installing and maintaining wind turbines in the US so far. When those big hydro plants were being built by the WPA, lots of people fell, sometimes into an active concrete pour. When solar goes massive, there will be big factories and some people will die in manufacturing, and probably people have fallen from roofs installing solar panels, and we can probably figure in many deaths in China from the areas where the rare earths are mined. There are numbers on the exhaust from coal plants, and of course coal mining is incredibly dangerous (not like fisherman-dangerous, but still high). Even US nuclear, which hasn't had any fatalities at the civillian plants, depends on people driving to and from work. I have to imagine some of them have been killed en route.
Is every business a public accommodation? Every blog? Where is the line drawn?
And I find this corporate boot-licking disgusting.
You'll only find me defending corporations when others are threatening the use of violence against them when they've caused others no direct harm (e.g. voluntarily accepted policies).
I find violence far more disgusting than any ToS. But, by all means, ban the corporate form and such discussions will be much less convoluted. Or boycott Facebook - that's an effective means of regulation compatible with satyagraha.
Comments that describe what a single line of code does (or even a small number of lines of code in many cases) are useless.
If you're writing a line of code that works around language or system quirks, produces unexpected side effects, or just plain looks intuitively wrong, the next guy is really going to appreciate it if you comment that thing.
Of course, if you write "/* sets A equal to B */" then he's going to duck tape a dead fish to the bottom of your office chair.
For a 60fps game there's about 16ms per frame and with current gen consoles about 8ms is lost to API call overhead on the render thread.
The perceptual limit is around 15ms, so with your numbers that speaks to a 120Hz frame rate, effectively, being the human-factors base value for seamless playability.
I suppose one day we'll look back at sub-120Hz games as having that 'old-fashioned' look.
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That yacht is incapable of weathering a real storm.
The yacht is meant to be seen and to torture the aesthetic sense of mundane passers-by - a giant floating ego. Any time the ship is at sea, it's purpose is being diminished.
The only thing it could be used for at this point is a giant floating Steve Jobs museum - dock it at Monterey and charge $100 to walk through it. Make sure there's nothing inside but one photo of Steve. If people complain, just shake your head and say they're not ready to understand it.
She should counter-sue, $6 million even sounds too much for a design.
"Your honor, look at this ugly piece of shit. I want damages."
I wonder where the national support is. They're basically doing the job of the Library of Congress, the British Library etc.,
Good, sounds like they're becoming obsolete, on a very tiny budget. Yay, technology.
could each chip in a few thousand dollars a year, wouldn't you?
Eh, they have thousands of pensions to fund instead of archiving stuff.
every time I try to write "serve", my hands automatically type "server"
try typing "Linus" sometime!
I am simply not going to pay Microsoft a license fee each time I hug someone.
It's all part of their grand scheme to take over the world by charging CAL's for sex.
I guess I'm still kind of ok with it. I'm just worried about the people who are drawn to this site.
Why does the porn nature change your opinion of it? Isn't gruesome murder pretty high on the intolerable scale already?
In the US our FCC makes sure that producers can show babies being killed on TV, but babies being made is strictly forbidden. One school of thought says that this is entirely consistent with training a population to be 'at peace' with continual war.
and not a single mod point in months and months, whereas before that I was getting 15 at a time
Random distribution is random.
"[But] an important point made by [Caldeira] is that corals have had many millions of years of opportunity to extend their range into low omega waters. With rare exception they have failed. What are the chances that they will adapt to lowering omega in the next 100 years?"
Wait ... I've been to a few islands where they say that the basic limestone structure of the island is built from ancient coral reefs that formed the limestone over millions of years.
We also know that atmospheric CO2 has been up at least as high as 3500 ppm during the same period.
One of these has to be wrong if 450ppm is going to kill all the coral (or the theory is crap).
Yes, this. I do it online:
and then check smartctl. If I'm making a really big zpool, I fill them up and let ZFS fail out the turkeys:
If I'm building a 30-drive storage server for a client I'll often see 1-2 fail out. Better to catch them now then when they're deployed (especially with the crap warranties on spinning rust these days). I need to order in staggered lots anyway, so having 10% overhead helps keep things moving along.
Nothing I own that has batteries in it takes more than ten seconds to change and none need any tools whatever to do it.
Ah, the kids are all grown up and out of the house, eh?
Any word on the purpose of the lime green accents?
well, that's the color at about peak sensitivity of human vision. Maybe it helps people see the astronaut that's starting to float away.
Or because Buzz Lightyear's costume had it, if you want to go with TFH.
Well, I guess somebody has to go against the flood of neurological research showing that humans tend greatly towards the altruistic. "Fists, yeah, that's the ticket. People are inherently violent, and so we're justified being bad to them, because they need to be controlled." Augustine of Hippo called - he wants his Original Sin back.
Troll "research" is troll.
How do they work?
The magnets attract, the magnets repel - never a miscommunication. You can't explain that.
The system has always been equally broken before
Agreed.
but it's a select few companies ...
Who have finally taken full advantage of all the abuse the system provides for. We need to recognize that the system is inherently broken and needs to be abolished and/or replaced. And only replaced if there's some way to show that the replacement won't have detrimental unintended consequences.
Just because the law says it's okay to be a jerk doesn't mean it's okay when you actually do it.
And there are many ways to be a jerk, even on societal levels. Interesting chart here that completely invalidates the idea that copyright promotes the arts. Same with patents for the useful sciences.
If the Internet has taught us one thing, it's that very few ideas are actually unique. The patent system has just become a race to see who has the most and fastest lawyers who can file a patent for as many ideas as can be floated, ability or intent to implement be damned. Execution is what really matters now when it comes to advancing technology and nobody needs to make up imaginary property rights for a good management team to succeed.
But IP does maximize profits for certain corporations, created by the government, feeding money (and by extension power) back to the same government players. That's what we call a positive feedback loop. If there's a silver lining, positive feedback loops cause instability and usually lead to collapse, ending the cycle. Unfortunately, those collapses often damage everything around them when they let go.
Basically the same argument can be made for cars. Unless a meteor hits a moving vehicle, Captain Hindsight can always find somebody who should have been better prepared, paying more attention, or what have you.
Sometimes it's a matter of how much an owner can reasonably do, though, as to where the blame is assigned. An owner trusting that a tire he bought will not blow out on the highway at 3000 miles is not unreasonable. Yet, this happens, though rarely. Probably there is blame to be found at the factory, but responsibility follows control.
A gun owner can have a barrel blow out too, due to manufacturing problems (voids in the metal, etc.) Now, sure, he could have ordered an ultrasonic analysis of the metal in the new gun he bought, but is that reasonable? He could have had a gunsmith take apart his new gun to make sure all the pieces were properly machined; but then he has to trust the gunsmith to put it back together properly. Of course, he could hire another gunsmith to verify the work of the first, but ... GOTO 10.
You're not seriously suggesting that somebody would publish an article without thinking through the unintended consequences, are you? Like how many defensive gun uses would become impossible due to failed batteries, bad caps, tin whiskers, water, dropped weapon, other-effects-of-age, etc?
The conservative estimate on the number of prevented homicides per year by DGU's is about 60,000 (not attempted murder, per se, but that 10% of attempted violent crimes end in homicide and the conservative estimate is 600,000 DGU's per year; range is up to 2.4 million; the DoJ study was at 1.25 million). The number of accidental deaths is around 600 per year. The cost-benefit analysis is similar to seat belts - sometimes wearing a seatbelt will actually cause you to die when you otherwise would not have, but 99% of the time it saves your life.
23andme is down to $99 for a gene sequence and their usual panel of interesting things that can be identified by it. If your Dad is ninety, he's seen the discovery of DNA, and most of modern biology, so to have his genome sequenced should be pretty neat. He may be interested in his ancestry and there are some practical tips they can give you for health maintenance, drug effectiveness, etc.
It's what I got my ageing father for Christmas. The more family members that participate, the greater the eventual usefulness.
Net result is the same. If there's a whole in the security, it's a flaw regardless of whether you think it's k3wl or not.
Yes, there's a hole in the security, but not in the WDE products. Identifying the correct attack surfaces allows the security-minded to mount proper defenses.
From this perspective, the article title is misleading and counter-productive.
Better: "ElcomSoft Demonstrates Bypass Tool for BitLocker, PGP, and TrueCrypt".
Disable Firewire in your BIOS if you can.
If you can't, snip the leads on your motherboard.
If you can't, fill the port with hot glue.
Also many new devices have Intel Rapid Start which uses a memory-sized partition on SSD to do a hardware-level hibernate (very fast).
I'm the kind of guy who uses swap on LUKS to do secure hibernation and even I started to setup up a Rapid Start partition, thinking it would be very useful, before the little security lobe of my brain started shouting "no, your keys!". There's precious little about this risk on a Google search save a Dell tech document that says that it might be incompatible with software-based encryption like TrueCrypt.
And with block remapping, even using Rapid Start once is enough to potentially contaminate the SSD forever.
It would be nice if the kernel had a mode where it could encrypt all the memory pages that weren't needed for resume and do the inverse on the way back up to take advantage of the BIOS-skipping benefit of this feature.
complex systems with high power densities are intrinsically hazardous
Can we just generalize that to say that producing and distributing energy has inherent risks? IIRC about 30 people have been killed installing and maintaining wind turbines in the US so far. When those big hydro plants were being built by the WPA, lots of people fell, sometimes into an active concrete pour. When solar goes massive, there will be big factories and some people will die in manufacturing, and probably people have fallen from roofs installing solar panels, and we can probably figure in many deaths in China from the areas where the rare earths are mined. There are numbers on the exhaust from coal plants, and of course coal mining is incredibly dangerous (not like fisherman-dangerous, but still high). Even US nuclear, which hasn't had any fatalities at the civillian plants, depends on people driving to and from work. I have to imagine some of them have been killed en route.
Facebook could be called a public accomodation.
Is every business a public accommodation? Every blog? Where is the line drawn?
And I find this corporate boot-licking disgusting.
You'll only find me defending corporations when others are threatening the use of violence against them when they've caused others no direct harm (e.g. voluntarily accepted policies).
I find violence far more disgusting than any ToS. But, by all means, ban the corporate form and such discussions will be much less convoluted. Or boycott Facebook - that's an effective means of regulation compatible with satyagraha.
Comments that describe what a single line of code does (or even a small number of lines of code in many cases) are useless.
If you're writing a line of code that works around language or system quirks, produces unexpected side effects, or just plain looks intuitively wrong, the next guy is really going to appreciate it if you comment that thing.
Of course, if you write " /* sets A equal to B */" then he's going to duck tape a dead fish to the bottom of your office chair.
For a 60fps game there's about 16ms per frame and with current gen consoles about 8ms is lost to API call overhead on the render thread.
The perceptual limit is around 15ms, so with your numbers that speaks to a 120Hz frame rate, effectively, being the human-factors base value for seamless playability.
I suppose one day we'll look back at sub-120Hz games as having that 'old-fashioned' look.