According to TFA, the footage is being analyzed by nuclear power experts. What would be the point of disclosing it to the public -- lurid fascination?
Those experts may be biased, or the experts may not be biased but their gatekeepers may be.
If the footage is released, dozens of unaffiliated nuclear experts could weigh in with their analyses. Sure, some morons will weigh in too, but we have systems for filtering those.
'Clean' is only specific to your personal beliefs. The world cannot accommodate 7 billion different views on the Web (at least yet). Besides, you're talking about so-called 'positive rights' which demand the labor of others, for free. That's slavery and morally reprehensible.
and not have to worry about my children seeing things that I don't want them to see.
Oh, I see, you want somebody else to do the parenting for you. Cripes, subscribe to some whitelist software if that's what you want.
I used to have a clipping on my cubicle wall from a Time magazine in 1995 where Bill Gates was dismissing the Internet as a fad. Despite the book's change, Microsoft never really 'got' the Internet. Sure, they had some de-facto monopoly power in it, with IE6 and such, but every strategy was how to wrap Windows in the Internet.
It was then that a couple guys were getting fed up with Altavista (OK, we all were, but they decided to do something better).
Or at least bad interpretation. Of course a router is a computer. This is what happens when you let lawyers write laws about technical things.
I guess the Dutch can have a system where privacy is the real deciding factor, but I prefer the property-rights approach. This freeloader unjustly confiscated the resources of the router's owner, resources his labor was spent to acquire. Is it OK in the same court if I just borrow an owner's car (without permission) for a couple hours, if I don't look at his info in the glove box?
They make an anti-fog coating as well. Sometimes I use it on the bathroom mirrors. It works wonders, for a few days. Then I get too lazy to re-apply it for a while.
1) The hydrogen explosions occurred outside the reinforced pressure vessels, where the nuclear fuel is
Not so - there is more nuclear fuel outside the pressure vessels than inside it. Yes, the reactor is probably fine. It's the spent fuel rod storage that boiled off all the cooling water and created the hydrogen to explode. Now all the spent fuel rods are exposed to atmosphere and that's why they keep dumping seawater into the plant, to try to keep them cool.
All this because the Japanese have been trying to build a decent re-processing plant since 1993, and they have a serious case of NIH syndrome - they wouldn't accept the French reprocessing technology, insisting on re-inventing those wheels themselves. They just recently got the line working in a test phase (2010).
The regional governments even have laws preventing the storage of the spent fuel at the reactors, but there's nowhere else to bring it.
But, hey, in the US we aren't even trying to build a reprocessing plant, we're content to keep the waste right onsite, all over the place. Cause, ya'know, terrists might sneak into the reprocessing plants.
Has anybody here done this successfully? They only appear to support a few models of phones on their webpage. I like my phone, don't want to get a different one.
True, but there's nothing stopping an end node from having an IP address sourced in a jurisdiction which tends to look on American C&D orders with little more than amusement. Even if the contents of the host on that IP were set up, arranged, and administered remotely by an American.
That's a good point - it ought to be possible to augment Tor to support exit preferences by jurisdiction, whether that be avoiding Iran, China, or USA.
Right, that's how it works. Phone companies are lying when they say their cheap phones have GPS in them. They only triangulate based on nearest cell tower signals - which is needed to do the hand-offs between cells anyway.
Some fancy phones have a real GPS chip in them. AFAIK, that data is not available to the carrier.
Or arrange things so that it's not obvious who runs the exit node, how to contact you, or even if you're in a particular country.
IP addresses are currently identifiable to location. Computers need to exist in meatspace, plugged into power. As long as there's a plug to pull, and there's a legal system, C&D's will exist and stop exit nodes from all but the powerful (there's a good intelligence reason for US TLA's running exit nodes).
I'm not aware of anybody who's working on changing that. Certainly not in IPv6.
Irrevelant anyway i guess. we won't have the tor solution because the goverments would never allow it. and we won't have the better world solution because people suck.
Most people don't suck. Even if some percentage of them do, we had half a billion people killed by governments in the last century (wars and democide combined). So, the sucky people have to do worse than that to make these powerful and corrupt governments worthwhile.
Same thing happened with my Seagate drives so I'm into WD and Hitachi drives now.
And so on...
Yeah, I have another variation. Perhaps the moral of the story is we should all buy 4 Seagates, 4 WD's, 4 Samungs, and put them in a ZFS raidz2 with hot spares.
1) being reachable anywhere 2) being able to call somebody from anywhere 3) replacing a landline
1) requires tracking, that's how cellular networks work in the first place. So, buy a Tracphone like the drug dealers do if you're worried about it. Forward to it from your secured asterisk system (assuming you don't trust Google Voice either). 2) also requires tracking, but only when you turn it on, if you leave it off most of the time. Don't turn it on in places that you don't want anybody to know about (like when RMS is strolling through the Cambridge Apple Store). If the FBI wants to know when you're at home or at the office, the cell phone isn't necessary. 3) #1's solution works here too, but if you're only turning it on at home, then why bother replacing the landline in the first place? (OK, aerial cables are fragile.) But with #1 and #2 available, #3 isn't really an issue.
Generally, worrying about "them" tracking you is a good way to puff up your ego - as if you're really that important that people are going to bother analyzing your travel patterns. If you are, there are workarounds.
If you don't want math with your computer science, learn computers / networks / shiny jargon at a trade school
This is the attitude that's so damaging to applied computer science.
At an undergrad level, anyway, it's better to get a broad overview. I've seen what happens when trade-school IT folks try to design computer architectures or do sysadmin. They wind up calling in somebody with a firm grasp of CS eventually (unless the project is written off as a failure first).
Even in the graduate level CS classes I've taken, very little is needed beyond high school math except in some very specialized algorithms areas. Algorithms people like to pretend they represent all that's important in computer science, and perhaps it's true that they need the continuous math to describe their egos.
There have been times where I've needed to learn more math to accomplish certain tasks/algorithms. For instance, I needed to learn about Catmull-Rom splines for a surgical planning application I was doing once and I needed to learn about the math to do it first. That's why I had computer graphics texts on my shelf. And Wolfram's website.
Remember, time is finite. If you spend all your undergrad time doing most of a math major, you're going to not take a lot of essential CS classes.
Well, that's the hypothesis put forward in the 1950's that hasn't yielded results.
In contrast, something like Watson has massive amounts of processing power and storage access, with relatively simple algorithms. Watson is the ENIAC of the 2029 pocket calculator.
I wonder if humans like to think of themselves as needlessly complex.
But as to the main story - "we need more power-efficient, more parallel hardware":
Watson: "What is the main focus of modern computer architecture for the past 10 years?" Trebek: "Correct" Sean Connery: "That's what your mother said last night, Trebek!"
This is where we are down to, with this copyright/intellectual property shit. i mean, now arrangements of colors are being owned/dominated.
But this is the essential meaning of IP - controlling how you can (not) arrange your own property (your ink and paper, your hard drive bits, the strings on your guitar, etc.) It's actually this very argument that convinced me that IP is anti-property, not pro-.
Sometimes, yes. I considered building one of these myself; I believe the reprap design is able to print in sugar paste and/or chocolate, which could be useful for cake decoration. Note that people pay serious money for customised wedding cakes.
Agreed, we had this discussion at our LUG demo of a rep-rap. We were all too lazy to attack the market, but kudos to he who first prints realistic his/her cake toppers.
As someone who admins many Dell PowerEdge servers for our clients, I can back that claim up. Hitachi drives are rock-solid in reliability.... and I just decided to switch to Hitachi this week after far to many WD and Seagate RMA's. Sheesh!
Pardon my lack of understanding, but if this software is free, why do I have to tell you when I'm using it? Why do you care if I tell you vs not?
It's not using it that's at issue, it's copying it. Because of copyright, you're not allowed to copy somebody else's work (software, music, books, etc.) without their permission.
A license says, "OK, you may have permission to copy it, if you abide by these terms." Without the license, there is no legal right to copy.
How 'free' is defined is a matter of intense debate. Some would say that only public domain software is really free, in which case you don't have to do anything at all to copy it. 'Free Software' has strings attached. Some find that ironic.
Right, so they can either force everybody to buy Rhapsody, or they can set up a competing service, force everybody to buy that, and crush Rhapsody Canada. Effectively, a nationalization of the music business.
Thanks for the feedback and your work to promote free software. I've pretty much settled on the same, though this whole Nokia/Microsoft thing has me a bit unsettled as to its future.
I'm pleasantly surprised to hear that non-geeks are doing well on KDE - I would have thought that, say, digikam, would have been too complex for somebody more used to an iPhoto sort of arrangement. (I need to migrate my wife at some point!).
If this pisses you off, please consider throwing a fiver to the man's legal defense fund. With enough resources, it may help establish case law to prevent further such abuses. Certainly the State does not need to raise such a fund, so the odds are asymmetrically stacked against the furtherance of liberty.
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According to TFA, the footage is being analyzed by nuclear power experts. What would be the point of disclosing it to the public -- lurid fascination?
Those experts may be biased, or the experts may not be biased but their gatekeepers may be.
If the footage is released, dozens of unaffiliated nuclear experts could weigh in with their analyses. Sure, some morons will weigh in too, but we have systems for filtering those.
what about my rights to have a clean search
'Clean' is only specific to your personal beliefs. The world cannot accommodate 7 billion different views on the Web (at least yet). Besides, you're talking about so-called 'positive rights' which demand the labor of others, for free. That's slavery and morally reprehensible.
and not have to worry about my children seeing things that I don't want them to see.
Oh, I see, you want somebody else to do the parenting for you. Cripes, subscribe to some whitelist software if that's what you want.
and suddenly CD-ROMs weren't the hot thing
I used to have a clipping on my cubicle wall from a Time magazine in 1995 where Bill Gates was dismissing the Internet as a fad. Despite the book's change, Microsoft never really 'got' the Internet. Sure, they had some de-facto monopoly power in it, with IE6 and such, but every strategy was how to wrap Windows in the Internet.
It was then that a couple guys were getting fed up with Altavista (OK, we all were, but they decided to do something better).
Or at least bad interpretation. Of course a router is a computer. This is what happens when you let lawyers write laws about technical things.
I guess the Dutch can have a system where privacy is the real deciding factor, but I prefer the property-rights approach. This freeloader unjustly confiscated the resources of the router's owner, resources his labor was spent to acquire. Is it OK in the same court if I just borrow an owner's car (without permission) for a couple hours, if I don't look at his info in the glove box?
They make an anti-fog coating as well. Sometimes I use it on the bathroom mirrors. It works wonders, for a few days. Then I get too lazy to re-apply it for a while.
1) The hydrogen explosions occurred outside the reinforced pressure vessels, where the nuclear fuel is
Not so - there is more nuclear fuel outside the pressure vessels than inside it. Yes, the reactor is probably fine. It's the spent fuel rod storage that boiled off all the cooling water and created the hydrogen to explode. Now all the spent fuel rods are exposed to atmosphere and that's why they keep dumping seawater into the plant, to try to keep them cool.
All this because the Japanese have been trying to build a decent re-processing plant since 1993, and they have a serious case of NIH syndrome - they wouldn't accept the French reprocessing technology, insisting on re-inventing those wheels themselves. They just recently got the line working in a test phase (2010).
The regional governments even have laws preventing the storage of the spent fuel at the reactors, but there's nowhere else to bring it.
But, hey, in the US we aren't even trying to build a reprocessing plant, we're content to keep the waste right onsite, all over the place. Cause, ya'know, terrists might sneak into the reprocessing plants.
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Has anybody here done this successfully? They only appear to support a few models of phones on their webpage. I like my phone, don't want to get a different one.
True, but there's nothing stopping an end node from having an IP address sourced in a jurisdiction which tends to look on American C&D orders with little more than amusement. Even if the contents of the host on that IP were set up, arranged, and administered remotely by an American.
That's a good point - it ought to be possible to augment Tor to support exit preferences by jurisdiction, whether that be avoiding Iran, China, or USA.
Right, that's how it works. Phone companies are lying when they say their cheap phones have GPS in them. They only triangulate based on nearest cell tower signals - which is needed to do the hand-offs between cells anyway.
Some fancy phones have a real GPS chip in them. AFAIK, that data is not available to the carrier.
Or arrange things so that it's not obvious who runs the exit node, how to contact you, or even if you're in a particular country.
IP addresses are currently identifiable to location. Computers need to exist in meatspace, plugged into power. As long as there's a plug to pull, and there's a legal system, C&D's will exist and stop exit nodes from all but the powerful (there's a good intelligence reason for US TLA's running exit nodes).
I'm not aware of anybody who's working on changing that. Certainly not in IPv6.
Irrevelant anyway i guess. we won't have the tor solution because the goverments would never allow it. and we won't have the better world solution because people suck.
Most people don't suck. Even if some percentage of them do, we had half a billion people killed by governments in the last century (wars and democide combined). So, the sucky people have to do worse than that to make these powerful and corrupt governments worthwhile.
Same thing happened with my Seagate drives so I'm into WD and Hitachi drives now.
And so on...
Yeah, I have another variation. Perhaps the moral of the story is we should all buy 4 Seagates, 4 WD's, 4 Samungs, and put them in a ZFS raidz2 with hot spares.
See subject.
Cell phones have at least three uses:
1) being reachable anywhere
2) being able to call somebody from anywhere
3) replacing a landline
1) requires tracking, that's how cellular networks work in the first place. So, buy a Tracphone like the drug dealers do if you're worried about it. Forward to it from your secured asterisk system (assuming you don't trust Google Voice either).
2) also requires tracking, but only when you turn it on, if you leave it off most of the time. Don't turn it on in places that you don't want anybody to know about (like when RMS is strolling through the Cambridge Apple Store). If the FBI wants to know when you're at home or at the office, the cell phone isn't necessary.
3) #1's solution works here too, but if you're only turning it on at home, then why bother replacing the landline in the first place? (OK, aerial cables are fragile.) But with #1 and #2 available, #3 isn't really an issue.
Generally, worrying about "them" tracking you is a good way to puff up your ego - as if you're really that important that people are going to bother analyzing your travel patterns. If you are, there are workarounds.
If you don't want math with your computer science, learn computers / networks / shiny jargon at a trade school
This is the attitude that's so damaging to applied computer science.
At an undergrad level, anyway, it's better to get a broad overview. I've seen what happens when trade-school IT folks try to design computer architectures or do sysadmin. They wind up calling in somebody with a firm grasp of CS eventually (unless the project is written off as a failure first).
Even in the graduate level CS classes I've taken, very little is needed beyond high school math except in some very specialized algorithms areas. Algorithms people like to pretend they represent all that's important in computer science, and perhaps it's true that they need the continuous math to describe their egos.
There have been times where I've needed to learn more math to accomplish certain tasks/algorithms. For instance, I needed to learn about Catmull-Rom splines for a surgical planning application I was doing once and I needed to learn about the math to do it first. That's why I had computer graphics texts on my shelf. And Wolfram's website.
Remember, time is finite. If you spend all your undergrad time doing most of a math major, you're going to not take a lot of essential CS classes.
It's a software problem.
Well, that's the hypothesis put forward in the 1950's that hasn't yielded results.
In contrast, something like Watson has massive amounts of processing power and storage access, with relatively simple algorithms. Watson is the ENIAC of the 2029 pocket calculator.
I wonder if humans like to think of themselves as needlessly complex.
But as to the main story - "we need more power-efficient, more parallel hardware":
Watson: "What is the main focus of modern computer architecture for the past 10 years?"
Trebek: "Correct"
Sean Connery: "That's what your mother said last night, Trebek!"
before we can print a new Milla Jovovich?
No good - "senno ecto gammat".
This is where we are down to, with this copyright/intellectual property shit. i mean, now arrangements of colors are being owned/dominated.
But this is the essential meaning of IP - controlling how you can (not) arrange your own property (your ink and paper, your hard drive bits, the strings on your guitar, etc.) It's actually this very argument that convinced me that IP is anti-property, not pro-.
Sometimes, yes. I considered building one of these myself; I believe the reprap design is able to print in sugar paste and/or chocolate, which could be useful for cake decoration. Note that people pay serious money for customised wedding cakes.
Agreed, we had this discussion at our LUG demo of a rep-rap. We were all too lazy to attack the market, but kudos to he who first prints realistic his/her cake toppers.
As someone who admins many Dell PowerEdge servers for our clients, I can back that claim up. Hitachi drives are rock-solid in reliability. ... and I just decided to switch to Hitachi this week after far to many WD and Seagate RMA's. Sheesh!
Pardon my lack of understanding, but if this software is free, why do I have to tell you when I'm using it? Why do you care if I tell you vs not?
It's not using it that's at issue, it's copying it. Because of copyright, you're not allowed to copy somebody else's work (software, music, books, etc.) without their permission.
A license says, "OK, you may have permission to copy it, if you abide by these terms." Without the license, there is no legal right to copy.
How 'free' is defined is a matter of intense debate. Some would say that only public domain software is really free, in which case you don't have to do anything at all to copy it. 'Free Software' has strings attached. Some find that ironic.
As nice as 'free SIP access' to the POTS network through Google voice might sound, it's not sane.
I'd be happy with just inbound access to Google Voice via SIP. I forwarded my cell calls from Asterisk to Google Voice via PTSN - seems right silly.
No, but it serves the same purpose.
Right, so they can either force everybody to buy Rhapsody, or they can set up a competing service, force everybody to buy that, and crush Rhapsody Canada. Effectively, a nationalization of the music business.
Thanks for the feedback and your work to promote free software. I've pretty much settled on the same, though this whole Nokia/Microsoft thing has me a bit unsettled as to its future.
I'm pleasantly surprised to hear that non-geeks are doing well on KDE - I would have thought that, say, digikam, would have been too complex for somebody more used to an iPhoto sort of arrangement. (I need to migrate my wife at some point!).
If this pisses you off, please consider throwing a fiver to the man's legal defense fund. With enough resources, it may help establish case law to prevent further such abuses. Certainly the State does not need to raise such a fund, so the odds are asymmetrically stacked against the furtherance of liberty.