There's no way to consistently use secure passphrases with all the shoddy web development out there.
Could somebody please come up with a BNF microformat to describe password requirements? These could be added to the 'password' field type in the HTML form or stored in a 3rd party repository (used by the extension that will generate the strongest password for me given the requirements).
Just like the History Channel, sacrifice your integrity for aliens and conspiracies to maximize profit.
This isn't aimed at you specifically, but just generally: stop watching TV.
To put it another way: to learn about good music you wouldn't turn on MTV. I get that some people need to tune out for a while, but at least watch some fiction for that, and then put some actual history books on your reading list.
Part of the government wrote the code for the space shuttle, the most bug-free program ever written. Seriously, look it up, that code is amazing.
And probably the most expensive software per line of code ever written (that delivered, of course).
Most software shouldn't be that good (at least until we know how to prove software automatically). Better to cure malaria than make perfect timeclock software for the park police.
Close - the government contractors certainly derive plenty of profit from the system. The problem is that they're 'government contractrors' - it's not a free market. With the market distortions in place that the governments set up, the profit motive in insufficient to produce quality. You need a competitive market for that.
Quite right. But if you roast the decafs yourself, you can get the green beans for about $7/lb. It's hard to buy regular extra-cheap coffee for that in the grocery store these days.
Should SETI switch to monitoring neutrino transmissions now?
SETI is currently running one project looking for radio beacons that run on a specific wavelength. I seem to remember somebody working out that for it to be a good experiment it should run for 350 years or so before giving up on it (I forget why that number of light years made sense - perhaps in our spiral arm?).
Running a separate neutrino project probably makes sense too.
Right - for some uses neutrino signalling will likely replace satellite signalling. The latency is much better but you won't get the cone like you do with satellites, so it's probably best for replacing point-to-point links that currently use satellite.
The concerns about size and cost will eventually be solved.
Exactly right. Not by coincidence, I have 17lbs of various single-source green decafs coming on Friday. The beans run about $7/lb, and that's for the more expensive beans that aren't decaffeinated with methylene chloride.
I wind up figuring out a blend that's as good as the $32/lb fancy decaf from Italy.
My 'fancy' coffee roasting gear consists of a dutch oven on a gas grill.
And this is the most responsible action Google can take - it will have a positive influence on bad policy.
With BGP intelligence, you can figure out what servers are in Germany, but the trick will be how the German government defines what a 'German' website it. I doubt they'll go with the most technically astute definition.
OK, thanks - I think I understand a bit better now what's being claimed here. I'm seeing there is some ambiguous wording that can be open to multiple interpretations (e.g. "The unsupported girder and other local fire-induced damage caused Floor 13 to collapse" could mean the whole floor or just the area around the column) and there are some points that are really glossed over (e.g. "All the floor connections... to the exterior columns, failed") without a proposed mechanism.
The time scale is also a bit surprising:
The downward movement of Column 79 led to the observed kink in the east penthouse, and its subsequent descent.... Within seconds, the entire building core was buckling.... The entire building above the buckled-column region then moved downward as a single unit, completing the global collapse sequence.
There's a heck of a lot going on there that the videos show as all happening within a few seconds. There's no time for any steel to bend - thousands of steel members and brackets have to all shatter along with the columns buckling, each event within milliseconds of each other. I can scarcely imagine the required energies.
I've made homework for myself to figure out:
1) what NIST's proposed time scale is 2) if there is video of the lower part of WTC7 collapsing 3) what the time scales on the seismograph look like
These would help close some holes in my mental model.
Thanks for the explanation. I'm trying to follow. I'm good up 'till here:
The mechanical penthouse shot down through the roof, and took out floors from the top-down, while the collapsing column pulled the remaining, weakened floor sections down with it. The rest of the structure was irrevocably compromised.
then I get confused... to restate my understanding:
I'm looking to understand how 'column 79' took down the structure with all horizontal points being affected simultaneously.
I understand how superheated beams would be considerably weakened and prone to failure. No confusion there.
So, then the weight of the penthouse became too much for the column to withstand and the column snapped. This seems reasonable - the videos show the penthouse going down first.
So then the part I'm stuck on is how that force got translated to the rest of the building simultaneously (even the farthest corners).
The beams were all weakened by fire, right? If column 79 is going down, why wouldn't its weakened beam attachments fail? I'm struggling with how these heat-weakened beams throughout the building are both strong enough to translate that much force across the entirety of the building (apparently breaking every single other column in the building) but at the same time too weak to resist the collapse of the single column at all, causing the total simultaneous collapse.
In the model you're describing, does the weight of the penthouse first impact the top floor, send that energy out across the floor, destroy all the other columns in the building at least down to the next floor, then causes that level of floor to collapse into the next one, upon which the process repeats?
Or, does all that energy get reflected around the columns and pulverize them with shockwaves?
To me it wouldn't seem strange at all, if the penthouse fell through, took out a vertical column of building structure, pulling in nearby building as it went (to the extent that the beams resisted the collapse until they snapped), and WTC7 was left as a mangled mess of walls and columns all twisted, gnarled, and collapsed inward like a bad souffle, with debris everywhere. Which, of course, didn't happen.
Perhaps you could elaborate on how all the columns get destroyed at roughly the same time - I think that's the part I'm missing.
And if you're trying to do computer support, be prepared to have your clients spend hours dickering over every hour you charge. You billed 10 hours, they'll ding it down to 9 and waste 4 hours of your time doing so.
Hrm, doesn't happen here. Maybe I need to charge more.
That's like volunteering your time at a homeless shelter and then going back later and asking to be paid for the time you spent there.
To make your simile correct, it would be "it's like volunteering for a homeless shelter and then announcing that from now on you will only work as a paid employee." You may or may not get that job.
But the bigger problem here is community - open source projects are more than just code. I volunteer my time for projects that I expect to be around for a while. What you're describing is more like the facility owners of the homeless shelter telling the volunteers that they're now going to be a motel, and thank them for all their help making it a great facility, but buh-bye. "Oh, but if y'all want to open a homeless shelter next door, have at it."
I wouldn't expect it to stray much from its footprint (it did spill over a little bit) - but given the NIST conclusion, I would expect it to collapse the way buildings do in earthquakes (of which countless examples are available) where a structural members fails, causing the rest of the building structure to take too much stress and ultimately fail. These are usually poorly-built buildings though.
Let's say you drew a 10x10 grid on top of Building 7. All 100 points start going down at the same time in the Building 7 collapse. If the failure happens at (4,6), one would expect the initial collapse to start there, and then the other points to slump into it (like happens in earthquakes).
In an actual controlled demo, the worst thing that can happen is that all but a few of the main supports get severed. A few main supports can still support most buildings, and it's extremely dangerous to go inside because a subsequent collapse will happen minutes to months later and if that's .
Yet, here we have a modern building, built to high standards, that completely collapses all at once while NIST says that it's because of the failure of a single member. I never say anything is impossible, but the report didn't give an engineering reason for why this building should behave in this manner when other buildings haven't (except to say it did). Remember, there's no airplane full of Jet-A here, just an uncontrolled office fire (Enron might have been a hot news story, but the Enron case files burn like normal paper). NIST also ruled out seismic damage from the collapse of the North and South towers.
Their model has a support column about 2/5 of the way in from the edge of the building failing due to fire.
I can buy that.
Which then caused the building to collapse into itself around that point of failure.
I can buy that.
Which caused the entire building to collapse into its footprint in a manner seemingly indistinguishable from a controlled demolition (as seen on BBC TV).
just adjust the locale business hours to something more appropriate to the region.
Not just that, Home Depot even has summer hours and winter hours. Oh, wait, that's impossible to do without government mandating it - I must be confused.
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There's no way to consistently use secure passphrases with all the shoddy web development out there.
Could somebody please come up with a BNF microformat to describe password requirements? These could be added to the 'password' field type in the HTML form or stored in a 3rd party repository (used by the extension that will generate the strongest password for me given the requirements).
Just like the History Channel, sacrifice your integrity for aliens and conspiracies to maximize profit.
This isn't aimed at you specifically, but just generally: stop watching TV.
To put it another way: to learn about good music you wouldn't turn on MTV. I get that some people need to tune out for a while, but at least watch some fiction for that, and then put some actual history books on your reading list.
Part of the government wrote the code for the space shuttle, the most bug-free program ever written. Seriously, look it up, that code is amazing.
And probably the most expensive software per line of code ever written (that delivered, of course).
Most software shouldn't be that good (at least until we know how to prove software automatically). Better to cure malaria than make perfect timeclock software for the park police.
Close - the government contractors certainly derive plenty of profit from the system. The problem is that they're 'government contractrors' - it's not a free market. With the market distortions in place that the governments set up, the profit motive in insufficient to produce quality. You need a competitive market for that.
Quite right. But if you roast the decafs yourself, you can get the green beans for about $7/lb. It's hard to buy regular extra-cheap coffee for that in the grocery store these days.
The hardest part about photoshopping a fax is making it look bad enough.
Print it and FAX it?
Should SETI switch to monitoring neutrino transmissions now?
SETI is currently running one project looking for radio beacons that run on a specific wavelength. I seem to remember somebody working out that for it to be a good experiment it should run for 350 years or so before giving up on it (I forget why that number of light years made sense - perhaps in our spiral arm?).
Running a separate neutrino project probably makes sense too.
Right - for some uses neutrino signalling will likely replace satellite signalling. The latency is much better but you won't get the cone like you do with satellites, so it's probably best for replacing point-to-point links that currently use satellite.
The concerns about size and cost will eventually be solved.
Who drinks coffee for the taste?
People who buy/roast quality coffee and know how to brew it.
If your frame of reference is the coffee grounds in the mylar pouches at the office coffee machine, then I agree - it's undrinkable.
Exactly right. Not by coincidence, I have 17lbs of various single-source green decafs coming on Friday. The beans run about $7/lb, and that's for the more expensive beans that aren't decaffeinated with methylene chloride.
I wind up figuring out a blend that's as good as the $32/lb fancy decaf from Italy.
My 'fancy' coffee roasting gear consists of a dutch oven on a gas grill.
:) That says it all.
Most corporations will skip Windows 8 just like they skipped Vista.
At this point it's SOP. 3.1, 98, XP, 7, 9.
I half expect someone to chime in that it still doesn't work!
usermod -a -G audio me :sigh:
usermod -a -G audio daughter
Or just not index anything in Germany.
And this is the most responsible action Google can take - it will have a positive influence on bad policy.
With BGP intelligence, you can figure out what servers are in Germany, but the trick will be how the German government defines what a 'German' website it. I doubt they'll go with the most technically astute definition.
OK, thanks - I think I understand a bit better now what's being claimed here. I'm seeing there is some ambiguous wording that can be open to multiple interpretations (e.g. "The unsupported girder and other local fire-induced damage caused Floor 13 to collapse" could mean the whole floor or just the area around the column) and there are some points that are really glossed over (e.g. "All the floor connections ... to the exterior columns, failed") without a proposed mechanism.
The time scale is also a bit surprising:
There's a heck of a lot going on there that the videos show as all happening within a few seconds. There's no time for any steel to bend - thousands of steel members and brackets have to all shatter along with the columns buckling, each event within milliseconds of each other. I can scarcely imagine the required energies.
I've made homework for myself to figure out:
1) what NIST's proposed time scale is
2) if there is video of the lower part of WTC7 collapsing
3) what the time scales on the seismograph look like
These would help close some holes in my mental model.
Thanks for the explanation. I'm trying to follow. I'm good up 'till here:
The mechanical penthouse shot down through the roof, and took out floors from the top-down, while the collapsing column pulled the remaining, weakened floor sections down with it. The rest of the structure was irrevocably compromised.
then I get confused ... to restate my understanding:
I'm looking to understand how 'column 79' took down the structure with all horizontal points being affected simultaneously.
I understand how superheated beams would be considerably weakened and prone to failure. No confusion there.
So, then the weight of the penthouse became too much for the column to withstand and the column snapped. This seems reasonable - the videos show the penthouse going down first.
So then the part I'm stuck on is how that force got translated to the rest of the building simultaneously (even the farthest corners).
The beams were all weakened by fire, right? If column 79 is going down, why wouldn't its weakened beam attachments fail? I'm struggling with how these heat-weakened beams throughout the building are both strong enough to translate that much force across the entirety of the building (apparently breaking every single other column in the building) but at the same time too weak to resist the collapse of the single column at all, causing the total simultaneous collapse.
In the model you're describing, does the weight of the penthouse first impact the top floor, send that energy out across the floor, destroy all the other columns in the building at least down to the next floor, then causes that level of floor to collapse into the next one, upon which the process repeats?
Or, does all that energy get reflected around the columns and pulverize them with shockwaves?
To me it wouldn't seem strange at all, if the penthouse fell through, took out a vertical column of building structure, pulling in nearby building as it went (to the extent that the beams resisted the collapse until they snapped), and WTC7 was left as a mangled mess of walls and columns all twisted, gnarled, and collapsed inward like a bad souffle, with debris everywhere. Which, of course, didn't happen.
Perhaps you could elaborate on how all the columns get destroyed at roughly the same time - I think that's the part I'm missing.
And if you're trying to do computer support, be prepared to have your clients spend hours dickering over every hour you charge. You billed 10 hours, they'll ding it down to 9 and waste 4 hours of your time doing so.
Hrm, doesn't happen here. Maybe I need to charge more.
That's like volunteering your time at a homeless shelter and then going back later and asking to be paid for the time you spent there.
To make your simile correct, it would be "it's like volunteering for a homeless shelter and then announcing that from now on you will only work as a paid employee." You may or may not get that job.
But the bigger problem here is community - open source projects are more than just code. I volunteer my time for projects that I expect to be around for a while. What you're describing is more like the facility owners of the homeless shelter telling the volunteers that they're now going to be a motel, and thank them for all their help making it a great facility, but buh-bye. "Oh, but if y'all want to open a homeless shelter next door, have at it."
With a lock it was impossible to contact the owner as I couldn't access the phone to try calling a contact.
Just curious - did you pop the battery to look for contact info on the inside of the battery bay?
I wouldn't expect it to stray much from its footprint (it did spill over a little bit) - but given the NIST conclusion, I would expect it to collapse the way buildings do in earthquakes (of which countless examples are available) where a structural members fails, causing the rest of the building structure to take too much stress and ultimately fail. These are usually poorly-built buildings though.
Let's say you drew a 10x10 grid on top of Building 7. All 100 points start going down at the same time in the Building 7 collapse. If the failure happens at (4,6), one would expect the initial collapse to start there, and then the other points to slump into it (like happens in earthquakes).
In an actual controlled demo, the worst thing that can happen is that all but a few of the main supports get severed. A few main supports can still support most buildings, and it's extremely dangerous to go inside because a subsequent collapse will happen minutes to months later and if that's .
Yet, here we have a modern building, built to high standards, that completely collapses all at once while NIST says that it's because of the failure of a single member. I never say anything is impossible, but the report didn't give an engineering reason for why this building should behave in this manner when other buildings haven't (except to say it did). Remember, there's no airplane full of Jet-A here, just an uncontrolled office fire (Enron might have been a hot news story, but the Enron case files burn like normal paper). NIST also ruled out seismic damage from the collapse of the North and South towers.
What electrical components take 16 hours to boot up?
Perhaps somebody working on the project has a soul.
Have you read the whole NIST report? I have.
Their model has a support column about 2/5 of the way in from the edge of the building failing due to fire.
I can buy that.
Which then caused the building to collapse into itself around that point of failure.
I can buy that.
Which caused the entire building to collapse into its footprint in a manner seemingly indistinguishable from a controlled demolition (as seen on BBC TV).
Wait, what?
and their 180px content column.
Which is what, 3 microns on an iPad 3?
just adjust the locale business hours to something more appropriate to the region.
Not just that, Home Depot even has summer hours and winter hours. Oh, wait, that's impossible to do without government mandating it - I must be confused.
Yeah, because fat-ass related diseases like diabetes and heart disease are rampant in california. Where do you live? Maybe a southern state?
Nah, in a state of comprehension.
I have mixed feelings on your proposal. I think the fundamental issue with DNS is that it doesn't scale well.
And it's vulnerable to interference. Distributed DNS and scaling of that are separate problems that need solving.
At some point as population grows and the number of sites grow, the DNS names will be as hard to remember as IPs
Humans seem to be pretty good at remembering name pairs...
People will just use bookmarks and google as they already do, and virtual hosts will just have to stick sites in their URLs.
Pretty much what the original DNS RFC's predicted would happen.