News has gotten progressively more useless, to the point where it actually annoys me to watch it
Al Jazeera English is what we used to call 'news', before CNN/Fox/HLN/MSNBC went to the all-scandal-and-entertainment format.
I get it for part of the day on LinkTV, which is 9410 on Dish Network.
I buy their $20/mo DishFamily package, which has lots of "basic-cable" channels, and several kids' channels. It's not advertised but you can order it.
The bandwidth of satellite can't be beat - no transfer caps to worry about or drop-outs unless there's a monsoon going on. I got a Dish 301 receiver for $40 on eBay and the dish itself from FreeCycle. I bought my own high-quality RG6 cable for a long-distance run.
I still stream stuff from Netflix (Hulu), YouTube (Hulu), and CWTV (Flash on Firefox on the MythTV box) but for TV news, NASATV, kids shows, etc. it's from the satellite.
you happy about a several million dollar lander making a crater simply because of the USA catering to the "their takin' my inches Yaaaaaa!" crowd?
You know that it was a US to US error here, right? Lockheed-Martin in Denver wrote the software that output foot-seconds, JPL in Pasadena was expecting Newton-seconds.
JPL wrote the spec, Lockheed didn't follow it, and nobody bothered to test their interfaces. This is the real problem. Doing a multiply at the end wasn't the hard part.
.You are missing the point of SI - the next unit down is a factor of 10 smaller. So while 10 doesn't divide by anything more if you go down to 100 or 1000 you have more options.
Right, it's just that base-10 was the wrong choice for SI. base-12 metric (e.g. a kilometer is 1728 meters base 10, but 1000 meters base-12 ) has all the benefits of base-10 metric plus you have lots of factors to work with for division.
The Egyptians and Babylonians knew this, it just got lost about 2000 years ago. Somebody (a Roman, perhaps) forgot that you didn't have to count on your 10 fingers, you could also count on the knuckles of the four fingers of each. Romans also had long-division as an advanced course of study in their equivalent of college. Roman numerals are bad, having them in base 10 made them even worse.
If only the Arabs had numerals for 11 and 12 we'd have been better off. Listen to the words, 'eleven' and 'twelve'. they're not One-Teen, Two-Teen, there's still a remnant of their former use in our language.
Humans will eventually adopt a dozenal metric system.
Hrm, maybe like Relativity has its inertial reference frames, at the quantum level every quantum event is the 'center of the universe' and everything else relates to it. So, an entangled pair could remain in place but the relative quantum interpretation from other points would be defined from their perspective.
Ouch, if I think about that too much it hurts my brain.
Well 1.5U is the idea I found most applicable to the kind of work I do. I really hate the compromises at 1U. 1.3U seems to be on the market too. Anybody here have experience ordering stuff via Alibaba? There are some cases available Stateside but it's mighty pricey.
Physicists will say, how could the other electron possibly know this, instantly
Why would they assume that the electrons are separated? Because we perceive them that way?
Isn't it easier to assume that they're not separate entities and that we just don't know how the universe is put together than to assume that we understand the universe and there's a 'magical' force communicating across infinite distance?
This thing seems to read quite a few different filesystems and has lots of connectivity options. I supposed that could all be hacked up from scratch, and I didn't see any GPL'ed software on their website.
Who has access to one of these things to do a dump?
Amen to that, brother. Just before coming to work today I boiled down a chicken carcass and some pig bones in the pressure cooker, so I could use the stock to flavor some brown rice and quinoa in the rice cooker. Previously we used 'vegetarian chicken flavor' which it turned out was mostly MSG and corn syrup solids. I needed some more rice to eat with the carnitas and grilled corn on the cob I have in the fridge.
At this point, I eat out only due to desperation - I get more flavor eating at home. By ramping up the flavor, I'm pretty happy with whole grains, meat, dairy, and vegetables. I gave up refined carbs, caffeine, and artificial sweeteners in August and haven't ever felt better.
Along with meat, poultry, fruit, and vegetables, the outside of my supermarket contains, in no particular order: soda, energy drinks, beer, chips, popcorn, pretzels, donuts, cakes, cookies, white bread, fried chicken, cheese, butter, eggs, and Slim Jim-style "meat products."
That's pretty odd - most supermarkets put all that non-refrigerated stuff in the middle. I guess there are always exceptions - is it a chain store?
Not that I buy the argument that the problem with America's diet is much of anything other than quantity. We're certainly not malnourished. We're getting plenty of protein and essential vitamins and minerals, even in the most "unhealthy" of diets. The Twinkie diet is the ultimate data point in the overwhelming volume of evidence that suggests that sugar is not the problem; it's calories in and calories out (exercise, or the lack thereof), just like we've known all along.
Yeah, that was the height of nutritional thinking 30 years ago. Exercise doesn't burn very many extra calories, at least during the exercise (unless you're an elite athlete). Depending on the metabolic pathways, some calories are worth more than others. The Twinkie diet is like any other calorie-reduction diet, it'll work in the short-term. But if the average person kept that up, he'd wind up with insulin resistance, metabolic syndrome, and cancer.
My company trusts me just fine, but like a huge number of other companies its bound by laws and regulations to back that trust up with something more substantial.
Really, which law? I work with companies under many regulatory regimes, and haven't seen one yet that required ingress filtering of Internet content based on categories. Some read regulations on public libraries this way, some don't.
As to why our proxy isn't setup to deal with this particular service, well I've never heard or coral cache personally, and I've been "involved" in Internet culture for decades.
trying to keep track of every "old and useful service" on the Internet is a daunting task.
Oh, I assumed you had a proxy vendor. If you're doing this all yourself, I understand. If you're paying somebody to do this, they should understand.
Also I'm apparently not the only one with this problem.
Right, I just saw the other day that WebRoot-Something also blacklists the Coral Cache. The guy who is doing the open source farm tech stuff put up a redirect to the Coral Cache when his TED talk went live and his wiki got hammered. Many people behind the WebRoot filter were saying, "it's a scam, there's no open source farm tech, it's a malware trick!" because WebRoot had found some.other.domain.nyud.net had malware on it. And those people blindly trusted their filter.
On my netbook, when I navigate to your site I see two pictures, a couple menus and a bunch of ads on the first screen. I have to scroll down to the second page to even get an idea about what kind of content your site offers. That's very atypical for a good website.
I suspect that investing in them is actually fairly rational.
Starting them is even more rational. This guy was able to bring the company public and sell shares before Google did anything about it. Odds are he put the Google algorithm risk in the prospectus and made out well.
iPrism (my company's nanny of choice), blocks the site as an annonymiser.
You say 'anonymizer', I say, 'dns-based cache'. Your company chose an Internet filter that's incompatible with the Coral Cache.
Let's say, for the sake of argument, that you could use Coral Cache to effectively anonymize your traffic to a site. Why would your company even care if 3rd parties saw your traffic anonymously?
Oh.... I think I get it. You could use the coral cache to get around your company's web filters. It sucks your employer doesn't trust you, but for such an old and useful service, your web filter company should really understand how to handle "check.this.domain.nyud.net'.
When a sector is about to go bad (not be reliable for writing), it's remapped to somewhere else on the disk. The original data is not wiped, and can be recovered with forensic readers.
Some SATA devices support an ATA Secure Wipe command that is designed to erase the whole drive, including re-allocated sectors. But Seagate refuses to tell people which drives successfully implement ATA Secure Wipe. I've tried, they flatly refused, even as a member of their 'Business Partner' program.
So, hard drives need to be physically destroyed instead of recycled or passed on to non-profits who could use them. Ubiquitous ATA Secure Wipe (and RAID-1) would do wonders for the environment and charity. I can only conclude that Seagate hates the planet.;)
Perhaps when China's restriction of rare earth elements hits them in the pocketbook they'll see the wisdom of recycling.
it's perfectly possible to put generators and switchgear inside water-proof vaults.
yup, they totally fail at defense-in-depth. They had a sea-wall to stop the waves, doncha know? Sounds like an IT guy who just picked up a used PIX and thinks he can now stop apply security updates.
Speaking of lessons learned from IT, they never tested their emergency plans either. If they had, they would have known that their backup generator trucks were incompatible with their cooling pumps (I've head 50 vs 60 Hz as the root problem, but that's a rumor). If they had managed to maintain the cooling integrity, probably most of this disaster could have been avoided.
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So, build the Mars bases out of the graphene stuff from the prior article, and have a good base of food during construction. Cool.
News has gotten progressively more useless, to the point where it actually annoys me to watch it
Al Jazeera English is what we used to call 'news', before CNN/Fox/HLN/MSNBC went to the all-scandal-and-entertainment format.
I get it for part of the day on LinkTV, which is 9410 on Dish Network.
I buy their $20/mo DishFamily package, which has lots of "basic-cable" channels, and several kids' channels. It's not advertised but you can order it.
The bandwidth of satellite can't be beat - no transfer caps to worry about or drop-outs unless there's a monsoon going on. I got a Dish 301 receiver for $40 on eBay and the dish itself from FreeCycle. I bought my own high-quality RG6 cable for a long-distance run.
I still stream stuff from Netflix (Hulu), YouTube (Hulu), and CWTV (Flash on Firefox on the MythTV box) but for TV news, NASATV, kids shows, etc. it's from the satellite.
you happy about a several million dollar lander making a crater simply because of the USA catering to the "their takin' my inches Yaaaaaa!" crowd?
You know that it was a US to US error here, right? Lockheed-Martin in Denver wrote the software that output foot-seconds, JPL in Pasadena was expecting Newton-seconds.
JPL wrote the spec, Lockheed didn't follow it, and nobody bothered to test their interfaces. This is the real problem. Doing a multiply at the end wasn't the hard part.
Fahrenheit is a perfectly logical system.
It's simply calibrated to how humans experience the climate.
0F - really fucking cold.
100F - really fucking hot.
Your average human doesn't care what the state change transition temperatures of distilled water at sea level are. But, oh so clever for scientists.
.You are missing the point of SI - the next unit down is a factor of 10 smaller. So while 10 doesn't divide by anything more if you go down to 100 or 1000 you have more options.
Right, it's just that base-10 was the wrong choice for SI. base-12 metric (e.g. a kilometer is 1728 meters base 10, but 1000 meters base-12 ) has all the benefits of base-10 metric plus you have lots of factors to work with for division.
The Egyptians and Babylonians knew this, it just got lost about 2000 years ago. Somebody (a Roman, perhaps) forgot that you didn't have to count on your 10 fingers, you could also count on the knuckles of the four fingers of each. Romans also had long-division as an advanced course of study in their equivalent of college. Roman numerals are bad, having them in base 10 made them even worse.
If only the Arabs had numerals for 11 and 12 we'd have been better off. Listen to the words, 'eleven' and 'twelve'. they're not One-Teen, Two-Teen, there's still a remnant of their former use in our language.
Humans will eventually adopt a dozenal metric system.
Even the ones that do, we should expect bugginess.
I mean, Google and Princeton can't agree on what a non-buggy DHCP implementation looks like, and that's small potatoes next to a new network stack.
Does this make any sense to you?
I think we're asking the same question.
Hrm, maybe like Relativity has its inertial reference frames, at the quantum level every quantum event is the 'center of the universe' and everything else relates to it. So, an entangled pair could remain in place but the relative quantum interpretation from other points would be defined from their perspective.
Ouch, if I think about that too much it hurts my brain.
Well 1.5U is the idea I found most applicable to the kind of work I do. I really hate the compromises at 1U. 1.3U seems to be on the market too. Anybody here have experience ordering stuff via Alibaba? There are some cases available Stateside but it's mighty pricey.
Physicists will say, how could the other electron possibly know this, instantly
Why would they assume that the electrons are separated? Because we perceive them that way?
Isn't it easier to assume that they're not separate entities and that we just don't know how the universe is put together than to assume that we understand the universe and there's a 'magical' force communicating across infinite distance?
Don't worry, no USEFUL information was transferred
Holy cow, they're broadcasting CNN on a quantum teleportation channel now?
and "spooky action at a distance"
Did you just make that up or do you have a saved response for quantum teleportation articles?
It's OK, I'm bad with names anyhow - I'm usually oblivious. :)
This thing seems to read quite a few different filesystems and has lots of connectivity options. I supposed that could all be hacked up from scratch, and I didn't see any GPL'ed software on their website.
Who has access to one of these things to do a dump?
Agreed on all counts. If you're curious, pingtest.net might help you narrow down some of those possibilities.
Amen to that, brother. Just before coming to work today I boiled down a chicken carcass and some pig bones in the pressure cooker, so I could use the stock to flavor some brown rice and quinoa in the rice cooker. Previously we used 'vegetarian chicken flavor' which it turned out was mostly MSG and corn syrup solids. I needed some more rice to eat with the carnitas and grilled corn on the cob I have in the fridge.
At this point, I eat out only due to desperation - I get more flavor eating at home. By ramping up the flavor, I'm pretty happy with whole grains, meat, dairy, and vegetables. I gave up refined carbs, caffeine, and artificial sweeteners in August and haven't ever felt better.
Along with meat, poultry, fruit, and vegetables, the outside of my supermarket contains, in no particular order: soda, energy drinks, beer, chips, popcorn, pretzels, donuts, cakes, cookies, white bread, fried chicken, cheese, butter, eggs, and Slim Jim-style "meat products."
That's pretty odd - most supermarkets put all that non-refrigerated stuff in the middle. I guess there are always exceptions - is it a chain store?
Not that I buy the argument that the problem with America's diet is much of anything other than quantity. We're certainly not malnourished. We're getting plenty of protein and essential vitamins and minerals, even in the most "unhealthy" of diets. The Twinkie diet is the ultimate data point in the overwhelming volume of evidence that suggests that sugar is not the problem; it's calories in and calories out (exercise, or the lack thereof), just like we've known all along.
Yeah, that was the height of nutritional thinking 30 years ago. Exercise doesn't burn very many extra calories, at least during the exercise (unless you're an elite athlete). Depending on the metabolic pathways, some calories are worth more than others. The Twinkie diet is like any other calorie-reduction diet, it'll work in the short-term. But if the average person kept that up, he'd wind up with insulin resistance, metabolic syndrome, and cancer.
My company trusts me just fine, but like a huge number of other companies its bound by laws and regulations to back that trust up with something more substantial.
Really, which law? I work with companies under many regulatory regimes, and haven't seen one yet that required ingress filtering of Internet content based on categories. Some read regulations on public libraries this way, some don't.
As to why our proxy isn't setup to deal with this particular service, well I've never heard or coral cache personally, and I've been "involved" in Internet culture for decades.
Do you read Slashdot comments?
trying to keep track of every "old and useful service" on the Internet is a daunting task.
Oh, I assumed you had a proxy vendor. If you're doing this all yourself, I understand. If you're paying somebody to do this, they should understand.
Also I'm apparently not the only one with this problem.
Right, I just saw the other day that WebRoot-Something also blacklists the Coral Cache. The guy who is doing the open source farm tech stuff put up a redirect to the Coral Cache when his TED talk went live and his wiki got hammered. Many people behind the WebRoot filter were saying, "it's a scam, there's no open source farm tech, it's a malware trick!" because WebRoot had found some.other.domain.nyud.net had malware on it. And those people blindly trusted their filter.
On my netbook, when I navigate to your site I see two pictures, a couple menus and a bunch of ads on the first screen. I have to scroll down to the second page to even get an idea about what kind of content your site offers. That's very atypical for a good website.
I suspect that investing in them is actually fairly rational.
Starting them is even more rational. This guy was able to bring the company public and sell shares before Google did anything about it. Odds are he put the Google algorithm risk in the prospectus and made out well.
iPrism (my company's nanny of choice), blocks the site as an annonymiser.
You say 'anonymizer', I say, 'dns-based cache'. Your company chose an Internet filter that's incompatible with the Coral Cache.
Let's say, for the sake of argument, that you could use Coral Cache to effectively anonymize your traffic to a site. Why would your company even care if 3rd parties saw your traffic anonymously?
Oh.... I think I get it. You could use the coral cache to get around your company's web filters. It sucks your employer doesn't trust you, but for such an old and useful service, your web filter company should really understand how to handle "check.this.domain.nyud.net'.
Does it not get between the joints and/or destroy the mortar? Maybe use firebrick materials?
dd if=/dev/urandom of=/dev/hd[x]
When a sector is about to go bad (not be reliable for writing), it's remapped to somewhere else on the disk. The original data is not wiped, and can be recovered with forensic readers.
Some SATA devices support an ATA Secure Wipe command that is designed to erase the whole drive, including re-allocated sectors. But Seagate refuses to tell people which drives successfully implement ATA Secure Wipe. I've tried, they flatly refused, even as a member of their 'Business Partner' program.
So, hard drives need to be physically destroyed instead of recycled or passed on to non-profits who could use them. Ubiquitous ATA Secure Wipe (and RAID-1) would do wonders for the environment and charity. I can only conclude that Seagate hates the planet. ;)
Perhaps when China's restriction of rare earth elements hits them in the pocketbook they'll see the wisdom of recycling.
I thought that was supposed to be the voting public? ;-)
Hehe, competition is a beautiful thing!
it's perfectly possible to put generators and switchgear inside water-proof vaults.
yup, they totally fail at defense-in-depth. They had a sea-wall to stop the waves, doncha know? Sounds like an IT guy who just picked up a used PIX and thinks he can now stop apply security updates.
Speaking of lessons learned from IT, they never tested their emergency plans either. If they had, they would have known that their backup generator trucks were incompatible with their cooling pumps (I've head 50 vs 60 Hz as the root problem, but that's a rumor). If they had managed to maintain the cooling integrity, probably most of this disaster could have been avoided.