My question is what will happen to the many datacenters with roof-mounted GPS antennas that feed to a local NTP server, which is trusted as a Stratum-1 source inside the company? Those antennas are very likely to be at 50ft AGL or above.
What normally happens to the NTP servers if the GPS device fails? They run on internal clocks and I'd imagine and demote themselves?
Please name one Fortune 500 company that Congress has required to fund 75 years of pension obligations NOW rather than over time?
*crickets*
That's what I thought.
Fortune 500 companies almost all use 401(k) programs, not pensions. 401(k) funds are deposited now, not at some distant point in the future.
Pensions are stupid Ponzi schemes, to benefit the current generation at the expense of the next (or even the unborn) generation. Governments and unions are the last main holdouts for pension systems. Everybody else can understand the economics.
Government regulators used to claim that there were things called "natural monopolies" to justify their stake to power, saying that competition was impossible, for things like telephone wires.
Now that 80% of the population has switched away from PSTN (many to cable providers) the regulators are looking for another hook to hang their hat on. Watch your back - the FCC is starting to dig in on regulating everything-Internet. Not because there's a need, but because they can't possibly admit that their job is obsolete.
Obviously IBM inventors would be inventors, because inventors need an army of lawyers and IBM inventors have an army of lawyers. And obviously IBM wouldn't do any research without the patent system, because the 1789 Constitution makes that assumption. SNAFU.
I'm willing to forgive an awful lot if I can start and stop the thing, see current, and get to the data. Really, anything important I'm going to calculate post-hoc on a spreadsheet.
Before I'd spend $23 or $230 I'm going to need to see some calibration testing, though. Fitbit is in a bit of a shitstorm now because they've admitted that their HR's aren't all that accurate (14% off, IIRC). They've released a statement that they're not to be used as scientific instruments.
I want a new HR tracker for interval training. 14% off is a matter of me doing fairly serious injury to myself, or not getting the benefits of interval training. I don't get why accuracy is such an afterthought in these devices. For now, I'll keep using the annoying one with the chest strap because it's less annoying than winding up in the ER because I exceeded my max HR by 25 bpm.
You land, radio back, confirm that it's a desolate wasteland with no liquid water and no signs of life, and wait a few months until the supplies run out and you starve/asphyxiate.
Somebody should let Musk know about this. It'll be terrible for marketing.
Sure, U6 is dismal, but that doesn't define a depression. The trick there is that BLS keeps redefining "the basket" of goods for the CPI calculation. The CPI doesn't go up because while the price of beef has tripled, the price of LCD TV's has fallen by 10x, so the BLS considers that to even out (I kid you not)
Holy cow, I was looking at refrigerator prices the other day. I last bought a top-of-the-line unit (no icemaker because I'm not insane, but otherwise high-end) in 2002. The prices today are more than triple for a similar level of product. Very few people's incomes have moved at all since 2006, and not too much before that.
Anyway, with the inflation numbers properly considered, GDP has been shrinking, not growing since the Crash. The growth is only in nominal terms, with diminished dollars, not in hamburger-buying dollars. The BLS's job now is to keep the economic picture bright for the politicians. The website shadowstats.com runs all the numbers the old way and the new way, for people to inspect.
And two quarters of negative growth gives you a recession, and [mumble] years of negative growth gives you a depression. Welcome to a big one.
Especially since he explicitly says he cannot fathom why Trump is popular. He has no working theory for something he knows is true. Fine, but he just said he's not qualified to have an informative opinion, so that should be that.
The long and the short of it is that Trump is that guy who's always angry. He loves to "fire" people. There are lots of Americans who are angry and who want to "fire" the bums currently in office.
There's probably no reason to think more deeply about Trump supporters.
The first key to someone being a nutball is how broadly they broadcast views which are obviously going to be rejected.
I know, McAfee is always going on about building a two-thousand mile wall and making the people it would hurt pay for it...
I see no evidence that Obama is any more moral than McAfee.
I see no evidence of the opposite, either.
Wow, you can't count the bodies?
Show me a man without a drug problem, and whose wife didn't die under mysterious circumstances. Even if he's innocent, he'd never win.
Nor will Johnson, but Johnson will show the public that Libertarians are Nazi-cake bakin' burka-shaming nuke-droppin' hypocrites, which will set back decades of hard work by many industrious volunteers. By many accounts Clinton has a coke problem but that doesn't seem to disqualify her. I think all Trump is high on is his reflection, but that's why it would have taken a mentally-hardened candidate to go mano-a-mano with Trump in a debate.
If you think that the country will be better off under the leadership of Clinton or Trump, then it's not McAfee who's crazy.
If there's such a thing as "hive mind" here, John is aligned with it very closely.
Take any of the political issues (Snowden, NDAA, DMCA, TPP, etc.) or any of the technocratic issues (copyrighting API's, backdooring NIST standards, etc.) and McAfee was the Slashdot candidate.
I see no evidence at all that Trump or Clinton are any more sane than McAfee.
I see no evidence that Obama is any more moral than McAfee.
He likes to portray the "bad boy" image, and he seems to have some wild ideas, but show me a man without an ego problem and I'll show you somebody who isn't running for POTUS.
So if that's the case, why is it the case that anytime COBOL is mentioned, people will mock it?
Fucking hipsters, Donny. They think just because some group with a.io site crapped out a new language yesterday that everything else that came before it is old and worthless.
It's nothing to worry about - these men have never written real software before.
They made their bed with Microsoft let them lie on it.
Finland made a deal with Microsoft and didn't do its due diligence by looking at every other deal Microsoft has made with other companies?
C'mon, even Slashdotters were calling this outcome when Elop got "hired". I could go find the links, but it was so damn obvious to any industry watcher that it's hardly worth the sport.
I guess the only wildcard now is whether Nadella thinks it's still a good idea to go after Google with the Nokia patents. Ballmer totally would have. Good riddance for the industry.
Aren't there some nerds in the crowd that wanted to play with an Echo but didn't want to buy one just to try it out, and are happy that they can now see what it does? Doesn't anyone appreciate the engineering challenge of this?
I'm pretty sure my boy is going to be playing with this all weekend. He hasn't lost the spark! (he's nine)
I get that Windows 10 may over-tax some hardware, but again, what is the endgame? Is running a deprecated Windows OS a viable strategy, content/security/functionality wise?
Windows 7 gets four more years of updates. Most people in this position are waiting for a better option (better Linux desktop, perhaps) or hoping that Microsoft will have backed down on the spyware they require in Windows 10 by then. Some just have software that fails on Windows 10.
Heck, it's not impossible, given current overtures, that Windows 10 won't be running a linux kernel by 2020. There's just not a huge value for most people to upgrade. Almost all of the benefits accrue to Microsoft.
Slashdot Mirror
They're working on a car. Now they want to do solar energy. Next up: Apple Rockets and Apple iTubes (transportation).
Innovation.
My question is what will happen to the many datacenters with roof-mounted GPS antennas that feed to a local NTP server, which is trusted as a Stratum-1 source inside the company? Those antennas are very likely to be at 50ft AGL or above.
What normally happens to the NTP servers if the GPS device fails? They run on internal clocks and I'd imagine and demote themselves?
Please name one Fortune 500 company that Congress has required to fund 75 years of pension obligations NOW rather than over time?
*crickets*
That's what I thought.
Fortune 500 companies almost all use 401(k) programs, not pensions. 401(k) funds are deposited now, not at some distant point in the future.
Pensions are stupid Ponzi schemes, to benefit the current generation at the expense of the next (or even the unborn) generation. Governments and unions are the last main holdouts for pension systems. Everybody else can understand the economics.
Your economics term of the day is rent seeking.
Government regulators used to claim that there were things called "natural monopolies" to justify their stake to power, saying that competition was impossible, for things like telephone wires.
Now that 80% of the population has switched away from PSTN (many to cable providers) the regulators are looking for another hook to hang their hat on. Watch your back - the FCC is starting to dig in on regulating everything-Internet. Not because there's a need, but because they can't possibly admit that their job is obsolete.
Obviously IBM inventors would be inventors, because inventors need an army of lawyers and IBM inventors have an army of lawyers. And obviously IBM wouldn't do any research without the patent system, because the 1789 Constitution makes that assumption. SNAFU.
There's never a lack of job opportunities in People's Republic of North Korea!
The FBI is the ENEMY of the American people...
The local news here the other day is that they''ve been supporting a local drug dealer, who they know is an illegal immigrant, for years.
I'm willing to forgive an awful lot if I can start and stop the thing, see current, and get to the data. Really, anything important I'm going to calculate post-hoc on a spreadsheet.
Before I'd spend $23 or $230 I'm going to need to see some calibration testing, though. Fitbit is in a bit of a shitstorm now because they've admitted that their HR's aren't all that accurate (14% off, IIRC). They've released a statement that they're not to be used as scientific instruments.
I want a new HR tracker for interval training. 14% off is a matter of me doing fairly serious injury to myself, or not getting the benefits of interval training. I don't get why accuracy is such an afterthought in these devices. For now, I'll keep using the annoying one with the chest strap because it's less annoying than winding up in the ER because I exceeded my max HR by 25 bpm.
The nerds already set the group policy with NeverTen or with AD. It's the muggles who are all getting upgraded whether they want to or not.
You land, radio back, confirm that it's a desolate wasteland with no liquid water and no signs of life, and wait a few months until the supplies run out and you starve/asphyxiate.
Somebody should let Musk know about this. It'll be terrible for marketing.
Sure, U6 is dismal, but that doesn't define a depression. The trick there is that BLS keeps redefining "the basket" of goods for the CPI calculation. The CPI doesn't go up because while the price of beef has tripled, the price of LCD TV's has fallen by 10x, so the BLS considers that to even out (I kid you not)
Holy cow, I was looking at refrigerator prices the other day. I last bought a top-of-the-line unit (no icemaker because I'm not insane, but otherwise high-end) in 2002. The prices today are more than triple for a similar level of product. Very few people's incomes have moved at all since 2006, and not too much before that.
Anyway, with the inflation numbers properly considered, GDP has been shrinking, not growing since the Crash. The growth is only in nominal terms, with diminished dollars, not in hamburger-buying dollars. The BLS's job now is to keep the economic picture bright for the politicians. The website shadowstats.com runs all the numbers the old way and the new way, for people to inspect.
And two quarters of negative growth gives you a recession, and [mumble] years of negative growth gives you a depression. Welcome to a big one.
just retire and put someone competant in your place already!
You can't really tell the former US Attorney General to retire and then complain about competence...
Especially since he explicitly says he cannot fathom why Trump is popular. He has no working theory for something he knows is true. Fine, but he just said he's not qualified to have an informative opinion, so that should be that.
The long and the short of it is that Trump is that guy who's always angry. He loves to "fire" people. There are lots of Americans who are angry and who want to "fire" the bums currently in office.
There's probably no reason to think more deeply about Trump supporters.
The first key to someone being a nutball is how broadly they broadcast views which are obviously going to be rejected.
I know, McAfee is always going on about building a two-thousand mile wall and making the people it would hurt pay for it...
I see no evidence of the opposite, either.
Wow, you can't count the bodies?
Show me a man without a drug problem, and whose wife didn't die under mysterious circumstances. Even if he's innocent, he'd never win.
Nor will Johnson, but Johnson will show the public that Libertarians are Nazi-cake bakin' burka-shaming nuke-droppin' hypocrites, which will set back decades of hard work by many industrious volunteers. By many accounts Clinton has a coke problem but that doesn't seem to disqualify her. I think all Trump is high on is his reflection, but that's why it would have taken a mentally-hardened candidate to go mano-a-mano with Trump in a debate.
If you think that the country will be better off under the leadership of Clinton or Trump, then it's not McAfee who's crazy.
#feelthejohnson
If there's such a thing as "hive mind" here, John is aligned with it very closely.
Take any of the political issues (Snowden, NDAA, DMCA, TPP, etc.) or any of the technocratic issues (copyrighting API's, backdooring NIST standards, etc.) and McAfee was the Slashdot candidate.
I see no evidence at all that Trump or Clinton are any more sane than McAfee.
I see no evidence that Obama is any more moral than McAfee.
He likes to portray the "bad boy" image, and he seems to have some wild ideas, but show me a man without an ego problem and I'll show you somebody who isn't running for POTUS.
So if that's the case, why is it the case that anytime COBOL is mentioned, people will mock it?
Fucking hipsters, Donny. They think just because some group with a .io site crapped out a new language yesterday that everything else that came before it is old and worthless.
It's nothing to worry about - these men have never written real software before.
They made their bed with Microsoft let them lie on it.
Finland made a deal with Microsoft and didn't do its due diligence by looking at every other deal Microsoft has made with other companies?
C'mon, even Slashdotters were calling this outcome when Elop got "hired". I could go find the links, but it was so damn obvious to any industry watcher that it's hardly worth the sport.
I guess the only wildcard now is whether Nadella thinks it's still a good idea to go after Google with the Nokia patents. Ballmer totally would have. Good riddance for the industry.
Aren't there some nerds in the crowd that wanted to play with an Echo but didn't want to buy one just to try it out, and are happy that they can now see what it does? Doesn't anyone appreciate the engineering challenge of this?
I'm pretty sure my boy is going to be playing with this all weekend. He hasn't lost the spark! (he's nine)
Grumpy old men are grumpy.
The moral of the story is that if you discover something like this, close your browser and tell no one.
Reporting a vulnerability or data breach has come to mean that "you're some kind of criminal" and must be punished, regardless of the circumstances.
Just to be clear here, your reaction is the intent. If you embarrass somebody who has money, thugs with guns will come kick your door down.
Better not do that.
I get that Windows 10 may over-tax some hardware, but again, what is the endgame? Is running a deprecated Windows OS a viable strategy, content/security/functionality wise?
Windows 7 gets four more years of updates. Most people in this position are waiting for a better option (better Linux desktop, perhaps) or hoping that Microsoft will have backed down on the spyware they require in Windows 10 by then. Some just have software that fails on Windows 10.
Heck, it's not impossible, given current overtures, that Windows 10 won't be running a linux kernel by 2020. There's just not a huge value for most people to upgrade. Almost all of the benefits accrue to Microsoft.
What the FUCK are they thinking? I'm a paid customer for 20 years now and they think they can fuck with me like this?
Linux time, bitches. You forced me!
You and 1.2% of the user base. The other 98.8% will be generating ad and surveillance revenue for MS by running Windows 10.
They don't care about you as a customer.
Until this is over, the simplest thing to do is to disable Windows Update.
Get Never 10. It sets the Group Policy, that so far Microsoft isn't ignoring.
I have to have a single Windows 7 machine for a few apps, and though it's rarely turned on, so far I've been safe.
Right. If anybody can unlock the bootloader on my GS4, I'll pay them real money. :)
Better not have anything on top of the SUV. Probably need guardrails too, to prevent people from driving into the sides of the bus.
Gee, thanks Constitution.
Perhaps an idea about technology from 1789 no longer has value.