LOL, you think you're going to be able to choose among competing pat-down companies? You'll have as much choice as you have in your (privatized) electric company, your (privatized) trash service, and, I bet, your (privatized) cable company.
You'll have as much choice as your (privatized) airline. This is obvious to the point of going without saying.
Queue the non-PC jokes about Bacon 'N Guns Airways.
Any why wouldn't a private company hand over your information willingly anyway?
They would, except customers demand Privacy Policies when businesses have the opportunity to abuse such information. That policy is incorporated into agreements made. Even most interactive websites make such deals, and there are much lower stakes there.
Anyway, a chain of contracts and the ability to sue for breach usually keeps them in line. Sometimes they're just stupid and then they need a good sue-in', but when TSA is on the other side of the balance, a 'chance of stupid' is a marked improvement.
Back in the day, when I had the first pre-802.11b device at the hospital I worked at, I helped a bit with testing medical devices for interference from wireless networking equipment.
Almost everything was fine except for some respirators, which went kerplooie when a device was within about 2 feet.
Talking to the manufacturer, they kept saying how they had a medical device exemption from the FCC for radio frequency interference. That's meant to shield outbound RF, but transmitters are good antennas and all. Long-and-short, they cut corners because the FCC said they could. And their devices are tasked with keeping critically ill people alive. Awesome.
Steve Gibson's Security Now podcast is worth listening to, and somewhat entertaining.
Besides the 15 minutes of SpinRite advertising in every episode, I actually hear him talking about stuff that's not covered here or most of the other news sites. I'm sure it can be found elsewhere, but he provides a good aggregator service.
Why- can't you just put the 2.5" models in an adaptor to fit a 3.5" or 5.25" port? Is form factor an issue with SSDs?
I built a machine a couple years ago with 4 SSD's in a gizmo that gave me 4 2.5" hot-swap bays in a 5.25" bay. 1 slow MLC for OS, 1 fast MLC for ZFS cache, and 2 SLC for a mirror for ZFS log.
That sat in front of 24 7200RPM Seagate 1.5GB SATA drives. Worked great except for the spinning rust failures. Wound up replacing most of the Seagates with 2TB Hitachis over time - they fail about 20% as often as the Seagates did.
At some point with enough disks in operation, the only question is how many drives are going to fail today. With Seagate's recent warranty eviceration, they've effectively doubled the price of drives. Un-did at least 18 months of Moore's Law, when costs are fully considered.
But meanwhile Intel started offering a 160GB SSD with a *five* year warranty. For some reason my customers don't seem to mind paying three times as much for (roughly) half the capacity when they get five times the warranty and a cold-to-desktop time under thirty seconds.:)
And since most Seagate drives fail within about 3 years, if you plan to keep that computer for 5 years, the hard drive price is double the list price. So, you're really at 1.5x rather than 2x cost for the SSD, plus the cost of the inconvenience of a hard drive crash.
I switched to Seagate when they went to a 5-year warranty, equivocated at a 3-year warranty, and now won't buy their product with a 1-year warranty. Speaking of which, I have a few failed drives I've been meaning to send in...
I dunno, man, Yeltsin shelling Parliament sure looked like civil war to me.
Doesn't it actually look more like a coup? 187 killed, and, what, two buildings assaulted?
Or you could look at the Velvet Revolution, with no casualties, or the Orange Revolution, where one man died (of a heart attack, hard to show causation).
Most civil wars don't look like that. But all three of these events fundamentally reformed governments. You make a good point that the outcome is indeterminate enough; so at some point we have to figure out if something like biological weapons is worth the downside potential.
At that point the US has become a rogue state.
Well, there are some who would argue that this has been true since 2003. Or 1950, depending how you measure. There's a news article today that Iraq has passed 1 million killed.
the Media as a whole who have gone from actual reporting to repeating government press releases
Journalism is printing what someone else does not want printed: everything else is public relations. - George Orwell
At least we still have Glen Greenwald, Amy Goodwin, Ben Swann, and some alternate news channels like RT, Al Jazeera, BBC International, et. al. Not that any one of them is to be trusted implicitly but where they tend to agree there might be some truth.
I think the USSR experience has shown us otherwise, but let's assume it's true and you have to decide between a domestic civil war and the USG deploying biological agents around the world. What's the math on that?
So just give up? Don't hold up the mirror to the emperor to show he has no clothes?
Don't give up , just focus energy on where it can do good. I don't think the current system is capable of giving up biological or nuclear weapons. It's a structural problem, an inherent consequence of the system. Not so much with biological, but there are people who have spent the past 65 years protesting nuclear weapons, and look where that's gotten them.
Replace the system with one that can behave in a non-psychopathic manner. Seems like a tall order, but reforming it has proven impossible, at least on the scale of a human lifetime.
They're not just evil, they're insane. Once released, you can't control where they go, a lesson that should have been learned from the Bubonic Plague, but apparently neither Soviets nor Americans learned our lessons from history.:(
If you kill your enemies, it doesn't matter who else dies. Try to think more like a psychopath, Benfea, they're in charge. Ok, you can call it "political sophistication" if you prefer:
Lesley Stahl on U.S. sanctions against Iraq: We have heard that a half million children have died. I mean, that's more children than died in Hiroshima. And, you know, is the price worth it?
Secretary of State Madeleine Albright: I think this is a very hard choice, but the price--we think the price is worth it.
Here's a plan: make your relatively poor country as inhospitable to outside investors as possible, let it spiral into despair until the people either revolt/civil war or relocate to Marklar, but, hey, *you're* still in charge.
Somebody try transmitting a treatise on game theory through their firewalls - maybe it'll end up in a report on somebody's desk. Oh, and knock the evil assholes out who implemented this firewall.
- All applications had to be prepared inside of a remote virtual machine. ICANN hosted a buggy Citrix environment that was down for maintenance all the time. If it was up, it was slow and overloaded
It's good to see that their IT is still from 1998 when they first set up shop. This web thing will never catch on...
Really, though, if they couldn't figure out how to set up a secure website, why would anybody trust them to run the TLD's? They could have outsourced the applications to Namecheap, MarkMonitor, et. al. for a small cut and it sounds like everybody would have been happier.
Because they were also required to provide home address details of the people actually applying (i.e. the CEO's, etc.) and nothing related to the company at all.
Which non-corporate people are also required to do to register domains in many TLD's... I can understand both sides to this.
So, you would be "fine" with paying taxes, as long as no one enforced it on you? I.e. making it basically voluntary?
Absolutely. Except you can't call them taxes, because taxes, by definition, are backed by violence or threats thereof. Voluntary payments are not a problem.
Except, say in the case of welfare, I'd donate money to the organization that has the best services and the lowest expense ratios. The government's expense ratios for welfare are sky-high, but if the same people were competing peacefully for my money and doing a great job, I'd donate to them too.
I'd also happily pay to travel on well-maintained roads and support the local schools that do a good job teaching their students.
Since I'd have nearly double my current income, I'd have plenty to donate too. I already volunteer at least 600 hours a year for nonprofits, but without wasteful taxes I'd have some money to give them as well.
The usage of the word that predominated from the Enlightenment until FDR attempted to re-define it and conflate it with governmental positivism.. The liberal concept itself goes back at least to Sumer (that's as far back as we have written evidence).
Basically everyone threatens others with violence to get their way, especially if their way means not being murdered, enslaved, etc, etc, etc.
Political and moral philosophers make a distinction between the initiation of violence and a violent response required to defend against violence. The former is generally understood when talking about violence in political terms. Another term that's used is "(non)aggression". Don't tread on me, porcupines, etc. - there are many metaphors used.
Well I was trying to be an equal opportunity offender there, but it's good to see those competetive instincts are driving you to take the lead in the brittle, self-important market niche.
I was just being matter of fact about it. Nice of you to bring ego into it.
I learned real woodworking when I was 9, as a Webelos requiremnet.
I taught my daughter how to use a hand saw when she was 5. She started with a hammer at the Home Depot workshops when she was 3 (the boy when he was 4 - not quite as coordinated).
Now, lathes, routers, and radial arm saws - those can wait.
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LOL, you think you're going to be able to choose among competing pat-down companies? You'll have as much choice as you have in your (privatized) electric company, your (privatized) trash service, and, I bet, your (privatized) cable company.
You'll have as much choice as your (privatized) airline. This is obvious to the point of going without saying.
Queue the non-PC jokes about Bacon 'N Guns Airways.
Any why wouldn't a private company hand over your information willingly anyway?
They would, except customers demand Privacy Policies when businesses have the opportunity to abuse such information. That policy is incorporated into agreements made. Even most interactive websites make such deals, and there are much lower stakes there.
Anyway, a chain of contracts and the ability to sue for breach usually keeps them in line. Sometimes they're just stupid and then they need a good sue-in', but when TSA is on the other side of the balance, a 'chance of stupid' is a marked improvement.
I repeat: if you can refute the actual paper, or show me where someone else has, then do so. But trying to shoot the messenger isn't going to wash.
The paper you cite is inconvenient to my world view. I will henceforth behave as if it doesn't exist.
Back in the day, when I had the first pre-802.11b device at the hospital I worked at, I helped a bit with testing medical devices for interference from wireless networking equipment.
Almost everything was fine except for some respirators, which went kerplooie when a device was within about 2 feet.
Talking to the manufacturer, they kept saying how they had a medical device exemption from the FCC for radio frequency interference. That's meant to shield outbound RF, but transmitters are good antennas and all. Long-and-short, they cut corners because the FCC said they could. And their devices are tasked with keeping critically ill people alive. Awesome.
Steve Gibson's Security Now podcast is worth listening to, and somewhat entertaining.
Besides the 15 minutes of SpinRite advertising in every episode, I actually hear him talking about stuff that's not covered here or most of the other news sites. I'm sure it can be found elsewhere, but he provides a good aggregator service.
Why- can't you just put the 2.5" models in an adaptor to fit a 3.5" or 5.25" port? Is form factor an issue with SSDs?
I built a machine a couple years ago with 4 SSD's in a gizmo that gave me 4 2.5" hot-swap bays in a 5.25" bay. 1 slow MLC for OS, 1 fast MLC for ZFS cache, and 2 SLC for a mirror for ZFS log.
That sat in front of 24 7200RPM Seagate 1.5GB SATA drives. Worked great except for the spinning rust failures. Wound up replacing most of the Seagates with 2TB Hitachis over time - they fail about 20% as often as the Seagates did.
At some point with enough disks in operation, the only question is how many drives are going to fail today. With Seagate's recent warranty eviceration, they've effectively doubled the price of drives. Un-did at least 18 months of Moore's Law, when costs are fully considered.
But meanwhile Intel started offering a 160GB SSD with a *five* year warranty. For some reason my customers don't seem to mind paying three times as much for (roughly) half the capacity when they get five times the warranty and a cold-to-desktop time under thirty seconds. :)
And since most Seagate drives fail within about 3 years, if you plan to keep that computer for 5 years, the hard drive price is double the list price. So, you're really at 1.5x rather than 2x cost for the SSD, plus the cost of the inconvenience of a hard drive crash.
I switched to Seagate when they went to a 5-year warranty, equivocated at a 3-year warranty, and now won't buy their product with a 1-year warranty. Speaking of which, I have a few failed drives I've been meaning to send in...
I dunno, man, Yeltsin shelling Parliament sure looked like civil war to me.
Doesn't it actually look more like a coup? 187 killed, and, what, two buildings assaulted?
Or you could look at the Velvet Revolution, with no casualties, or the Orange Revolution, where one man died (of a heart attack, hard to show causation).
Most civil wars don't look like that. But all three of these events fundamentally reformed governments. You make a good point that the outcome is indeterminate enough; so at some point we have to figure out if something like biological weapons is worth the downside potential.
At that point the US has become a rogue state.
Well, there are some who would argue that this has been true since 2003. Or 1950, depending how you measure. There's a news article today that Iraq has passed 1 million killed.
the Media as a whole who have gone from actual reporting to repeating government press releases
At least we still have Glen Greenwald, Amy Goodwin, Ben Swann, and some alternate news channels like RT, Al Jazeera, BBC International, et. al. Not that any one of them is to be trusted implicitly but where they tend to agree there might be some truth.
The bad news - only 5% of users pay their shareware fees.
Right, but open source has proven itself to be a far more successful model than shareware. Non-zero-sum games.
That's not going to happen without civil war.
I think the USSR experience has shown us otherwise, but let's assume it's true and you have to decide between a domestic civil war and the USG deploying biological agents around the world. What's the math on that?
So just give up? Don't hold up the mirror to the emperor to show he has no clothes?
Don't give up , just focus energy on where it can do good. I don't think the current system is capable of giving up biological or nuclear weapons. It's a structural problem, an inherent consequence of the system. Not so much with biological, but there are people who have spent the past 65 years protesting nuclear weapons, and look where that's gotten them.
Replace the system with one that can behave in a non-psychopathic manner. Seems like a tall order, but reforming it has proven impossible, at least on the scale of a human lifetime.
Is there a context switch performance hit when the kernel is doing its multilib thing? Do registers need to get swapped out, for instance?
They're not just evil, they're insane. Once released, you can't control where they go, a lesson that should have been learned from the Bubonic Plague, but apparently neither Soviets nor Americans learned our lessons from history. :(
If you kill your enemies, it doesn't matter who else dies. Try to think more like a psychopath, Benfea, they're in charge. Ok, you can call it "political sophistication" if you prefer:
the psychopaths love to use euphemisms like that.
Did I stutter?
Of course I think so.
Not disagreeing, but do you think we have any recourse at all, given the current system?
Here's a plan: make your relatively poor country as inhospitable to outside investors as possible, let it spiral into despair until the people either revolt/civil war or relocate to Marklar, but, hey, *you're* still in charge.
Somebody try transmitting a treatise on game theory through their firewalls - maybe it'll end up in a report on somebody's desk. Oh, and knock the evil assholes out who implemented this firewall.
- All applications had to be prepared inside of a remote virtual machine. ICANN hosted a buggy Citrix environment that was down for maintenance all the time. If it was up, it was slow and overloaded
It's good to see that their IT is still from 1998 when they first set up shop. This web thing will never catch on...
Really, though, if they couldn't figure out how to set up a secure website, why would anybody trust them to run the TLD's? They could have outsourced the applications to Namecheap, MarkMonitor, et. al. for a small cut and it sounds like everybody would have been happier.
You're right - if ICANN were headquartered on Grand Cayman, all of its problems would magically vanish.
Because they were also required to provide home address details of the people actually applying (i.e. the CEO's, etc.) and nothing related to the company at all.
Which non-corporate people are also required to do to register domains in many TLD's... I can understand both sides to this.
So, you would be "fine" with paying taxes, as long as no one enforced it on you? I.e. making it basically voluntary?
Absolutely. Except you can't call them taxes, because taxes, by definition, are backed by violence or threats thereof. Voluntary payments are not a problem.
Except, say in the case of welfare, I'd donate money to the organization that has the best services and the lowest expense ratios. The government's expense ratios for welfare are sky-high, but if the same people were competing peacefully for my money and doing a great job, I'd donate to them too.
I'd also happily pay to travel on well-maintained roads and support the local schools that do a good job teaching their students.
Since I'd have nearly double my current income, I'd have plenty to donate too. I already volunteer at least 600 hours a year for nonprofits, but without wasteful taxes I'd have some money to give them as well.
Real liberals or true scotsmen?
The usage of the word that predominated from the Enlightenment until FDR attempted to re-define it and conflate it with governmental positivism.. The liberal concept itself goes back at least to Sumer (that's as far back as we have written evidence).
Basically everyone threatens others with violence to get their way, especially if their way means not being murdered, enslaved, etc, etc, etc.
Political and moral philosophers make a distinction between the initiation of violence and a violent response required to defend against violence. The former is generally understood when talking about violence in political terms. Another term that's used is "(non)aggression". Don't tread on me, porcupines, etc. - there are many metaphors used.
Let me guess, the "violence" you are talking of is actually the fact that you have to pay taxes to finance part of the society that is supporting you?
Here, let me genericize that for you:
I favor non-violent regulation.
Well I was trying to be an equal opportunity offender there, but it's good to see those competetive instincts are driving you to take the lead in the brittle, self-important market niche.
I was just being matter of fact about it. Nice of you to bring ego into it.
It is only in Rock music where it seems like every male voice has to run in the tenor range
Originally this was an artifact of early microphones which responded most effectively in that range. Nowadays it's mostly momentum.
They say that the 'new' 'singer' for AC/DC can't even be heard 10 feet away, he's 100% microphone falsetto.
Can it still be set back to the 'Windows Classic' theme? If so, nothing to see here.
(I do need to touch a Microsoft PC once every few months).
Woodworking in elementary school?
Sure, by hand.
I learned real woodworking when I was 9, as a Webelos requiremnet.
I taught my daughter how to use a hand saw when she was 5. She started with a hammer at the Home Depot workshops when she was 3 (the boy when he was 4 - not quite as coordinated).
Now, lathes, routers, and radial arm saws - those can wait.