If you think that "robbing or committing violence" didn't come into it, try not paying your taxes and see what happens.
It's one thing to evade taxation which is used to pay for services that the people have voted for. It is quite another to evade taxation which is used to pay money to private corporations - whether that's Boeing or SpaceX.
So, do you think SpaceX isn't better than Boeing or even NASA developing things themselves? SpaceX does things about 10x cheaper than the others, so isn't 10% violence better than 100% violence? How about if SpaceX becomes like Greyhound and NASA goes away completely?
it doesn't mean it won't turn into another Boeing.
They have completely different goals. SpaceX intends to replace NASA. Boeing indend(ed) to suck at the NASA teet in perpetuity.
I'm not suggesting what the situation is with SpaceX
What does your subject line mean then?
If NASA buys toilet paper from a commercial vendor, that doesn't turn the toilet paper manufacturer into a government boondoggle.
SpaceX is commercial in the sense that they offer a product for a price. When you have government contractors who charge "some base amount plus whatever else cost overruns demand the price to increase to" then, yeah, it's a quasi-government entity. SpaceX will eat cost overruns, if they happen, but that's bad for profitability so they try to ensure it doesn't (with good engineering and business acumen). That isn't to say that fleecing government agencies doesn't show good business acumen, but it's also not a private sector endeavour.
Tastefully recreated in the hanger of some Russian oligarch, to help fund the furtherance of the program. I wonder if there's enough money in it - massive cargo return from the Moon ain't cheap.
So, it's working as intended. Perhaps not as James Madison had intended, but how every corporatist and high-ranking bureaucrat since then have understood it to work.
Oh, wait, we're supposed to believe that 90% of everybody is stupid, and this is all incompetence for the past two hundred years and we should go about our merry way. I stand corrected.
Unlike the GrÃtzel cell, the new solar cell uses both n-type and p-type semiconductors and a monolayer dye molecule serving as the junction between the two. Each nearly spherical nanoparticle, made of titanium dioxide, is an n-type semiconductor. Kanatzidisâ(TM) CsSnI3 thin-film material is a new kind of soluble p-type semiconductor.
The Ti02 part has been known for at least a decade - the new bits are the CsSNI3 parts. IIRC many used platinum here instead.
Oracle started with 7 or 9 patents that they thought were worth $6 billion in damages/licensing/royalties/whatever.
But... but... Sun was only worth that valuation because Java was worth the price of beating Google into a cross-licensing deal on their big-database patents. Oh, dear.
I'm wondering if all the Sun projects get cancelled now, or if the lawyers convince the board to go for an appeal. After this performance, one might expect a beheading or two.
There may be no instantaneous cost increase but having it be 'unlimited' means an overall cost increase, with essentially most people subsidizing the activity of a few people.
To extend the analogy, I live near a massive hydro dam with plenty of water, but I still get an hourly rate for electricity usage, and big consumers can still get a cheaper rate at night, because daytime demand is higher. It's not that the cost-per-hour is high to provide but that if it were unlimited, people would consume more than they would because it's metered.
Dial-up folks can tell you all about that web page with the 3MB header image that's scaled on the fly in the image tag. There's very little incentive for anybody to do anything about that, even though it's clearly a waste of resources.
The problem with this model is that it's very hard to control your usage. There's no practical way to know in advance how much a particular click will cost. Of course, the providers love it for exactly that reason.
How many people do you know who understand what watching an hour of TV costs in terms of electricity usage? Sure, if it cost $3/hr they'd figure out sooner or later what was costing them so much, but it's no reason not to meter electricity.
It's also worth noting that electric companies offer incentives for more efficient appliances even though they profit from selling more KWh - capacity has costs as well.
Besides, without even looking, I'd make the bet that there's a Firefox extension that will tell you page sizes.
The trick with metering will be to have a very low connection fee (like phone or electric) and a reasonable per-bit cost, even in monopoly areas.
how many hours does anyone think it will take to get a more normal Linux distro on it?
I tried to use Via parts a couple years back for some embedded work, and it was impossible to get useful video driver/3D info out of them. They had a whole backstory about how this company bought that company, yadda, yadda, but in the end I went with an Atom solution because they weren't interested in actually helping make stuff work.
Also, add in that SpaceX is willing to eat any cost overruns. The other "private companies" (government contractors are no such thing) continue to demand additional funds if there are cost overruns.
When SpaceX is allowed to have their own spaceport, and they're launching a new rocket every day of the week for five years straight to meet demand for a $500,000 trip to Mars, NASA won't even be in the picture.
Pay your legislators enough cash and you don't only control governmental actions, you almost become PART of the government apparently.
Well, corporations are government creations, so it's not entirely surprising. The cycle goes roughly: 1) create permanent private-benefit corporations 2) protect individuals in corporations from nearly all consequences 3) allow corporations to grow much larger than non-corporate business could achieve to gain unnatural economies of scale 4) allow corporations to squelch their competition through favorable laws, incumbent-protecting regulations, court actions, etc. Be sure to speak boldly about new regulations to control corporations, then let corporations write those regulations. 5) take small percentage of corporate profits as taxes 6) take much larger percentage of corporate profits as campaign contributions to ensure cycle perpetuation 7) GOTO 2
You'll notice the loop is positive feedback and doesn't halt so long as resources are available to keep it running.
What are you trying to do, nmap devices on a subnet without a DHCP server? Passive OS fingerprinting? Passive service discovery? Are you willing to do a little bit of switch ARP poisoning? All of the above to gather as much intel as possible without tripping too many IDS logs?
But Marxist Socialism is caused by the very same doctrine that today is advanced by Richard Dawkins.
Let's assume that's correct. Dawkins is an atheist and he promotes violence to achieve his social ends (socialism). I don't know if that's true, but it doesn't matter.
There are many non-theists who advocate and live by the non-aggression principle, Satyagraha, or Jesus's non-violent teachings. So you can make a 2x2 matrix of theists/atheists (x,y) and people who do/don't (m,n) support violence as their means.
You clearly have a problem with States in the (y,m) quadrant. That's great. Personally, I have a problem with States in the (m) half, but then again, all States are in the m half by definition. My rather non-simple conceptions about our Universe's purpose and creation aren't relevant to that judgment, but any follower of Jesus, for example, should be aligned in the (n) half and work to convince the (y) half, but far too many buy into later corruption of his teachings (designed to bolster State power) and support the (x,m) quadrants wholeheartedly.
If you have theists who actively work against their Gods' teachings, what matter is it that they are theists if it's not relevant as cause of their actions?
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If you think that "robbing or committing violence" didn't come into it, try not paying your taxes and see what happens.
It's one thing to evade taxation which is used to pay for services that the people have voted for. It is quite another to evade taxation which is used to pay money to private corporations - whether that's Boeing or SpaceX.
So, do you think SpaceX isn't better than Boeing or even NASA developing things themselves? SpaceX does things about 10x cheaper than the others, so isn't 10% violence better than 100% violence? How about if SpaceX becomes like Greyhound and NASA goes away completely?
it doesn't mean it won't turn into another Boeing.
They have completely different goals. SpaceX intends to replace NASA. Boeing indend(ed) to suck at the NASA teet in perpetuity.
I'm not suggesting what the situation is with SpaceX
What does your subject line mean then?
If NASA buys toilet paper from a commercial vendor, that doesn't turn the toilet paper manufacturer into a government boondoggle.
SpaceX is commercial in the sense that they offer a product for a price. When you have government contractors who charge "some base amount plus whatever else cost overruns demand the price to increase to" then, yeah, it's a quasi-government entity. SpaceX will eat cost overruns, if they happen, but that's bad for profitability so they try to ensure it doesn't (with good engineering and business acumen). That isn't to say that fleecing government agencies doesn't show good business acumen, but it's also not a private sector endeavour.
They're going to the Supreme Court claiming that assemblage of a program with interspersed commercials is a creative work?
Lemme grab my popcorn.
"historic sites"
Tastefully recreated in the hanger of some Russian oligarch, to help fund the furtherance of the program. I wonder if there's enough money in it - massive cargo return from the Moon ain't cheap.
Can't you just program your router with a bitfield to XOR againt the MAC in both directions?
This nonsense is crushing innovation.
So, it's working as intended. Perhaps not as James Madison had intended, but how every corporatist and high-ranking bureaucrat since then have understood it to work.
Oh, wait, we're supposed to believe that 90% of everybody is stupid, and this is all incompetence for the past two hundred years and we should go about our merry way. I stand corrected.
SIP will break too. I suspect IPv6 will be here before that's an actual problem.
So by "recent" I assume you mean 2008, when it lost 14.6 billion [businessweek.com].
Only $14.6B if you don't count the $16B in commercial paper The Fed bought from them. They're lucky they got a bailout.
The Ti02 part has been known for at least a decade - the new bits are the CsSNI3 parts. IIRC many used platinum here instead.
which most of the time means they save money and every now and then means they have to pay-up.
But, more importantly, it keeps the small players out of the big boys' game.
And that's the real value of the patent system in 2012.
Could it be that Chrome is on every Android platform and Android is on a lot of things?
Chrome is just a shakey beta. IIRC it requires ICS and OpenGL to even work.
Why would Russia need a permanent moon base?
Gives the space program something to do. SpaceX is on-course to take over all the ISS ferry missions.
Oracle started with 7 or 9 patents that they thought were worth $6 billion in damages/licensing/royalties/whatever.
But ... but ... Sun was only worth that valuation because Java was worth the price of beating Google into a cross-licensing deal on their big-database patents. Oh, dear.
I'm wondering if all the Sun projects get cancelled now, or if the lawyers convince the board to go for an appeal. After this performance, one might expect a beheading or two.
There may be no instantaneous cost increase but having it be 'unlimited' means an overall cost increase, with essentially most people subsidizing the activity of a few people.
To extend the analogy, I live near a massive hydro dam with plenty of water, but I still get an hourly rate for electricity usage, and big consumers can still get a cheaper rate at night, because daytime demand is higher. It's not that the cost-per-hour is high to provide but that if it were unlimited, people would consume more than they would because it's metered.
Dial-up folks can tell you all about that web page with the 3MB header image that's scaled on the fly in the image tag. There's very little incentive for anybody to do anything about that, even though it's clearly a waste of resources.
The problem with this model is that it's very hard to control your usage. There's no practical way to know in advance how much a particular click will cost. Of course, the providers love it for exactly that reason.
How many people do you know who understand what watching an hour of TV costs in terms of electricity usage? Sure, if it cost $3/hr they'd figure out sooner or later what was costing them so much, but it's no reason not to meter electricity.
It's also worth noting that electric companies offer incentives for more efficient appliances even though they profit from selling more KWh - capacity has costs as well.
Besides, without even looking, I'd make the bet that there's a Firefox extension that will tell you page sizes.
The trick with metering will be to have a very low connection fee (like phone or electric) and a reasonable per-bit cost, even in monopoly areas.
oh, clever. Thanks.
512GB SSD for $500 [newegg.com]
Yay, 18 months away from me going SSD on my laptop.
only one NIC though, you'd need a USB ethernet dongle or something
Router-on-a-stick isn't so bad with VLAN's and gigabit, at least for small networks.
how many hours does anyone think it will take to get a more normal Linux distro on it?
I tried to use Via parts a couple years back for some embedded work, and it was impossible to get useful video driver/3D info out of them. They had a whole backstory about how this company bought that company, yadda, yadda, but in the end I went with an Atom solution because they weren't interested in actually helping make stuff work.
IMHO RAID1 came back from the grave, and is the true successor to RAID5. :-) The question is: how many mirrors?
RAID-Z. :) copies=n where n is a function of your paranoia level.
(I do use RAID-1 for workstations though)
AC gets it right.
Also, add in that SpaceX is willing to eat any cost overruns. The other "private companies" (government contractors are no such thing) continue to demand additional funds if there are cost overruns.
When SpaceX is allowed to have their own spaceport, and they're launching a new rocket every day of the week for five years straight to meet demand for a $500,000 trip to Mars, NASA won't even be in the picture.
What's the part that occasionally rotates to the left, then quickly returns?
Pay your legislators enough cash and you don't only control governmental actions, you almost become PART of the government apparently.
Well, corporations are government creations, so it's not entirely surprising. The cycle goes roughly:
1) create permanent private-benefit corporations
2) protect individuals in corporations from nearly all consequences
3) allow corporations to grow much larger than non-corporate business could achieve to gain unnatural economies of scale
4) allow corporations to squelch their competition through favorable laws, incumbent-protecting regulations, court actions, etc. Be sure to speak boldly about new regulations to control corporations, then let corporations write those regulations.
5) take small percentage of corporate profits as taxes
6) take much larger percentage of corporate profits as campaign contributions to ensure cycle perpetuation
7) GOTO 2
You'll notice the loop is positive feedback and doesn't halt so long as resources are available to keep it running.
What are you trying to do, nmap devices on a subnet without a DHCP server? Passive OS fingerprinting? Passive service discovery? Are you willing to do a little bit of switch ARP poisoning? All of the above to gather as much intel as possible without tripping too many IDS logs?
But Marxist Socialism is caused by the very same doctrine that today is advanced by Richard Dawkins.
Let's assume that's correct. Dawkins is an atheist and he promotes violence to achieve his social ends (socialism). I don't know if that's true, but it doesn't matter.
There are many non-theists who advocate and live by the non-aggression principle, Satyagraha, or Jesus's non-violent teachings. So you can make a 2x2 matrix of theists/atheists (x,y) and people who do/don't (m,n) support violence as their means.
You clearly have a problem with States in the (y,m) quadrant. That's great. Personally, I have a problem with States in the (m) half, but then again, all States are in the m half by definition. My rather non-simple conceptions about our Universe's purpose and creation aren't relevant to that judgment, but any follower of Jesus, for example, should be aligned in the (n) half and work to convince the (y) half, but far too many buy into later corruption of his teachings (designed to bolster State power) and support the (x,m) quadrants wholeheartedly.
If you have theists who actively work against their Gods' teachings, what matter is it that they are theists if it's not relevant as cause of their actions?