because we got off our asses and created a groundswell of public support for it, which enabled the people who could do the right thing and wanted to do the right thing to do the right thing.
When it's David vs. Goliath, and then an army shows up to back David, the odds improve dramatically.
Online tools are invaluable but people who just complain online all day never change anything.
That's what we'd holler to cars driving by as we rallied to support the fine folks who had taken the initial steps at the Kilton Library (you might recognize my name from the article - OK nm it's slashdot). Do read this story to get a better sense for what this sort of street-level activism is like (and how enjoyable it can be).
Several of the Hubble repair missions at least got some preliminary work done on figuring this all out (to prototype stage IIRC). Getting the cost down was the issue.
Anyone still using a bootloader that can't go beyond EXT3 (ancient evil-tier old GRUB package) probably isn't thinking about building Linux kernel 4.3
I keep almost all my/boot's on ext3, so images are maximally portable (older pygrub on Xen machines can't do much). It's just a tiny/boot, so who cares - even a forced fsck takes about 2 seconds.
The ext4 driver in kernel mounts them all fine anyway.
At the very least we should be looking for spread spectrum modulation methods.
Why would we do that?
Look, every time we make major science advances, the engineering quickly follows, and we get better communications tech. Certainly frequency hopping is one of those advances, but it's not even a mid-point to what we'll be using when we have a completely cohesive theory of Physics.
At least SETI only claims to look for signals intentionally sent out as a beacon to the most possible types of civilizations that could possibly hope to receive it.
Nobody who would even consider intercepting active alien comms at this point has any clue what form they might take. Maybe in a couple hundred years our decendents will be having this same conversation and know what to look for, but we surely can't even imagine it today.
If I were the ET I wouldn't send out a beacon for SETI - I'd wait until races got their math figured out before bothering to interact with them. But who knows what thoughts lurk in alien minds.
I hope the library board sends back a big fuck you like librarians sometimes do
We're rallying outside the library on Tuesday to show our support for the Trustees and to let them know that the People support them. 80 Main St. West Lebanon, 6PM, for anybody north of Boston (2 hrs) who'd like to participate. RSVP if you're on Facebook.
The most obvious is that drivers don't price their own services.
Yes, and this is probably a useful outcome, even if the central planners at Uber don't understand that yet - when drivers can compete on vehicles, prices, etc. and Uber just provides a robust market, everybody will profit more, especially those who are woefully underserved by the extant taxi regimes.
You've realized that the Mac's days are numbered, right? A KVM for a future iOS device might happen, but OSX is the red-headed stepchild on Infinite Loop now.
Heh, they might just leave the Mac team at Infinite Loop when they board the spaceship. I'm afraid the Jolly Roger is in tatters.
I'm doing mostly security work these days, and really the situation is very bad.
Military and government computers are most vulnerable to various non-algorithmic vulnerabilities in the hardware/firmware, which gets little scrutiny and nary an update. Some of these are likely backdoors that the NSA itself probably paid (carrot & stick) to have installed. Meanwhile they have buildings full of people who are paid to do nothing to find breaks in our infrastructure, but tell nobody about them, courtesy of the American taxpayer. I'd be really surprised if there's a computing device today (that's not home-built) that the NSA can't break. Crypto-algorithms don't need to be broken except in the case of assets seized after the fact.
I guess the proposals to separate NSA into military and NIST-ish groups are better than the status quo, but really I'd rather see all those people working to make society better rather than spending their lives supporting the corrupt politicians.
but I do know that amazon has to exit the android biz and spend its money elsewhere. they have a lot of power in the brand name (amazon) but android is just not the place for them, imho.
I think their business units must be set up to be at War with each other. Competition has its place but so does cooperation.
For instance, I don't even use the Android shopping app anymore because I have Smile setup to support a local nonprofit, so I have to use mobile web. The only reason for Smile to not work on mobile is to dissuade people from using Smile. Maybe they fund mobile app development with the delta cut, but it's not a coherent strategy.
Amazon could have given people the phone they wanted (choice of stores, "root-ish" capabilities, security, etc.) and they have the money to do it and with deep shopping integration people would have been both happy and greatly increased their revenue, but instead they let the marketing people try to lock them into a phone that had UX-harmful software to make everything the user cared about other than shopping a secondary feature. That's just yelling at the waves instead of surfing them.
It's a real shame to see so many well-funded entities doing everything in their power to avoid creating a great device while the scrappy startups who want to do that can't get any traction. From my usual infosec perspective, the whole of society is worse off for all of these efforts and we (society) are doing worse each year, not better.
Sounds like he read some Marx, but was bad at Economics in general (the Labor Theory of Value has been roundly discredited in the 150 years of progress in that science since Lincoln's quote). One can forgive him for not being an ubergenius fifteen decades ahead of his time.
With paper, the tree is crushed. Why would you need a large straight tree for that? Economics re-enforces this. You're not going to pay extra for a large tree just to crush it
What? Have you even been to an active paper company forest?
This reminds me of the Mike Rowe's TED talk about how a lot of people talk about things they think they know.
I've actually been thinking of changing my open "Guest" SSID to "Password is guestaccess" and put WPA2 PSK on it, for better guest privacy. I wouldn't consider it hacking for somebody to use it. Just be careful with terminology and specificity before somebody carelessly outlaws more useful things (like the firmware that letd me do those useful things).
don't abuse Shannon's Law like that. There are ways of rotating and polarizing the waves to get thousands of times more information out of every frequency range. Shannon's Law only applies to each specific modulation. There was an article here on work in the lab to commercialize this in the past year or two. Most FTTH use cases could be replaced with this, although FTTH can roll tomorrow and this is still vaporware - 15 years is a lot of productivity.
Look at the new and leaving content for this month - it's almost all junk (with slightly more quality stuff leaving than coming).
Netflix is still showing me "New Episodes" for stuff I watched 6 months ago. A friend of mine said recently, "I spend more time looking for something to watch on Netflix than I do watching Netflix".
I just started requesting DVD's again from Netflix (send back the first one in two years yesterday) and my kids watch YouTube all the time anyway - I'm pretty sure there's no reason for me to keep the streaming service at this point. I wonder if I can cancel that separately. I still have 300 discs in my DVD queue and feel silly for trying to use the Internet instead of USPS for digital content.
That's retarded. I'm sending my Auto to go get the kids and/or the groceries.
Let's just go back to the pre-Industrial age when everybody was "safer". OR - we could stop supporting corrupt, murderous regimes that piss everybody off. The Future or the Past - one will win.
Hey there, bucko - if the FBI could have prevented Hurricane Katrina with the use of Stingray gear, don't be so quick to get up on your civil rights high horse there and condemn it - the loss of life and property damage was pretty terrible!
They'd make the same money per flight if 10 people paid $1 or if 1 person paid $10. They just want to keep it greedy.
Just the opposite, in fact - they want to keep it "fair" and that's the whole problem. Reality is you get what you pay for. This is true for loads of gravel to bandwidth.
But Americans are programmed to demand "fairness" and "equality" in all things and revolt when given pricing tiers that reflect reality. The most workable option, at present, would probably be to have SSID's for "First Class", "Business Class", and "Steerage", because those discrimination levels currently exist, and price accordingly, though there's no rational reason for somebody to not be able to prefer steerage seating and first-class routing, or vice-versa.
Simple law of supply and demand. When the supply is small (relative to demand), you keep the price high
Yes, that's the basics of it, but I would bet money that if we look at a traffic graph, the link isn't always 100% full, the QoS is probably sophomoric, and the $50/flight pricing does not achieve Pareto efficiency.
A simple price rationing scheme would improve both customer satisfaction and profitability - charge $50 for priority access and $5 for best-effort access, so both the corporate raider and the teen who wants to chat with friends can benefit.
*Because* bandwidth is scarce, you want to keep it at 100% utilization (with proper QoS and debloating) at all times - anything else is disappointing to customers.
"Too cheap to meter" is typical central-planning nonsense. Fusion power only needs to be cheaper than everything else by a margin to ensure its selection and expensive enough to repay the capitalists that are risking their fortunes to make it happen. Fortunately for us, bureaucrats can only forestall markets - fantasy never works in the long game.
wow, that page is so full of ignorance! I bet they've never even heard of Norman Borlaug or understand the IFR cycle. But since they don't follow the "you first" principle, I think "willful" is fair to assume.
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because we got off our asses and created a groundswell of public support for it, which enabled the people who could do the right thing and wanted to do the right thing to do the right thing.
When it's David vs. Goliath, and then an army shows up to back David, the odds improve dramatically.
Online tools are invaluable but people who just complain online all day never change anything.
Be the change you want to see in the world.
That's what we'd holler to cars driving by as we rallied to support the fine folks who had taken the initial steps at the Kilton Library (you might recognize my name from the article - OK nm it's slashdot). Do read this story to get a better sense for what this sort of street-level activism is like (and how enjoyable it can be).
More pics and a great interview with the librarians on the event page:
https://m.facebook.com/events/...
Several of the Hubble repair missions at least got some preliminary work done on figuring this all out (to prototype stage IIRC). Getting the cost down was the issue.
Anyone still using a bootloader that can't go beyond EXT3 (ancient evil-tier old GRUB package) probably isn't thinking about building Linux kernel 4.3
I keep almost all my /boot's on ext3, so images are maximally portable (older pygrub on Xen machines can't do much). It's just a tiny /boot, so who cares - even a forced fsck takes about 2 seconds.
The ext4 driver in kernel mounts them all fine anyway.
At the very least we should be looking for spread spectrum modulation methods.
Why would we do that?
Look, every time we make major science advances, the engineering quickly follows, and we get better communications tech. Certainly frequency hopping is one of those advances, but it's not even a mid-point to what we'll be using when we have a completely cohesive theory of Physics.
At least SETI only claims to look for signals intentionally sent out as a beacon to the most possible types of civilizations that could possibly hope to receive it.
Nobody who would even consider intercepting active alien comms at this point has any clue what form they might take. Maybe in a couple hundred years our decendents will be having this same conversation and know what to look for, but we surely can't even imagine it today.
If I were the ET I wouldn't send out a beacon for SETI - I'd wait until races got their math figured out before bothering to interact with them. But who knows what thoughts lurk in alien minds.
Security questions IMHO *lower* overall security for a number of reasons and I refuse to use them.
I often don't have a choice, but my bank only knows that my favorite dog's name was #tg57(747R86$vX. "Old Hashy", we'd call him.
AFAIK, no password vault solutions help the user deal with this kind of nonsense.
I hope the library board sends back a big fuck you like librarians sometimes do
We're rallying outside the library on Tuesday to show our support for the Trustees and to let them know that the People support them. 80 Main St. West Lebanon, 6PM, for anybody north of Boston (2 hrs) who'd like to participate. RSVP if you're on Facebook.
The most obvious is that drivers don't price their own services.
Yes, and this is probably a useful outcome, even if the central planners at Uber don't understand that yet - when drivers can compete on vehicles, prices, etc. and Uber just provides a robust market, everybody will profit more, especially those who are woefully underserved by the extant taxi regimes.
You've realized that the Mac's days are numbered, right? A KVM for a future iOS device might happen, but OSX is the red-headed stepchild on Infinite Loop now.
Heh, they might just leave the Mac team at Infinite Loop when they board the spaceship. I'm afraid the Jolly Roger is in tatters.
I'm doing mostly security work these days, and really the situation is very bad.
Military and government computers are most vulnerable to various non-algorithmic vulnerabilities in the hardware/firmware, which gets little scrutiny and nary an update. Some of these are likely backdoors that the NSA itself probably paid (carrot & stick) to have installed. Meanwhile they have buildings full of people who are paid to do nothing to find breaks in our infrastructure, but tell nobody about them, courtesy of the American taxpayer. I'd be really surprised if there's a computing device today (that's not home-built) that the NSA can't break. Crypto-algorithms don't need to be broken except in the case of assets seized after the fact.
I guess the proposals to separate NSA into military and NIST-ish groups are better than the status quo, but really I'd rather see all those people working to make society better rather than spending their lives supporting the corrupt politicians.
but I do know that amazon has to exit the android biz and spend its money elsewhere. they have a lot of power in the brand name (amazon) but android is just not the place for them, imho.
I think their business units must be set up to be at War with each other. Competition has its place but so does cooperation.
For instance, I don't even use the Android shopping app anymore because I have Smile setup to support a local nonprofit, so I have to use mobile web. The only reason for Smile to not work on mobile is to dissuade people from using Smile. Maybe they fund mobile app development with the delta cut, but it's not a coherent strategy.
Amazon could have given people the phone they wanted (choice of stores, "root-ish" capabilities, security, etc.) and they have the money to do it and with deep shopping integration people would have been both happy and greatly increased their revenue, but instead they let the marketing people try to lock them into a phone that had UX-harmful software to make everything the user cared about other than shopping a secondary feature. That's just yelling at the waves instead of surfing them.
It's a real shame to see so many well-funded entities doing everything in their power to avoid creating a great device while the scrappy startups who want to do that can't get any traction. From my usual infosec perspective, the whole of society is worse off for all of these efforts and we (society) are doing worse each year, not better.
1861
Sounds like he read some Marx, but was bad at Economics in general (the Labor Theory of Value has been roundly discredited in the 150 years of progress in that science since Lincoln's quote). One can forgive him for not being an ubergenius fifteen decades ahead of his time.
I hate the idea of an R/C license... but if it keeps the selfish idiots grounded then it's probably the way to go. Unfortunately.
Is this like how we keep drugs off the streets, guns out of the hands of criminals, and unlicensed drivers off the road?
How many times...
well, you've got four motors - that's a start. Assuming the belts aren't rotted.
With paper, the tree is crushed. Why would you need a large straight tree for that? Economics re-enforces this. You're not going to pay extra for a large tree just to crush it
What? Have you even been to an active paper company forest?
This reminds me of the Mike Rowe's TED talk about how a lot of people talk about things they think they know.
Yeah.
I've actually been thinking of changing my open "Guest" SSID to "Password is guestaccess" and put WPA2 PSK on it, for better guest privacy. I wouldn't consider it hacking for somebody to use it. Just be careful with terminology and specificity before somebody carelessly outlaws more useful things (like the firmware that letd me do those useful things).
don't abuse Shannon's Law like that. There are ways of rotating and polarizing the waves to get thousands of times more information out of every frequency range. Shannon's Law only applies to each specific modulation. There was an article here on work in the lab to commercialize this in the past year or two. Most FTTH use cases could be replaced with this, although FTTH can roll tomorrow and this is still vaporware - 15 years is a lot of productivity.
Look at the new and leaving content for this month - it's almost all junk (with slightly more quality stuff leaving than coming).
Netflix is still showing me "New Episodes" for stuff I watched 6 months ago. A friend of mine said recently, "I spend more time looking for something to watch on Netflix than I do watching Netflix".
I just started requesting DVD's again from Netflix (send back the first one in two years yesterday) and my kids watch YouTube all the time anyway - I'm pretty sure there's no reason for me to keep the streaming service at this point. I wonder if I can cancel that separately. I still have 300 discs in my DVD queue and feel silly for trying to use the Internet instead of USPS for digital content.
That's retarded. I'm sending my Auto to go get the kids and/or the groceries.
Let's just go back to the pre-Industrial age when everybody was "safer". OR - we could stop supporting corrupt, murderous regimes that piss everybody off. The Future or the Past - one will win.
I'm assuming HTML5 graphics and videos will still play, so if it's limited to just Flash, so what?
So what? It'll stop all drive-by Flash malware. cf. the AOL (advertising.com) attack vectors that are such a problem right now.
Amazon is refusing Flash ads on its CDN on the same day.
Hey there, bucko - if the FBI could have prevented Hurricane Katrina with the use of Stingray gear, don't be so quick to get up on your civil rights high horse there and condemn it - the loss of life and property damage was pretty terrible!
They'd make the same money per flight if 10 people paid $1 or if 1 person paid $10. They just want to keep it greedy.
Just the opposite, in fact - they want to keep it "fair" and that's the whole problem. Reality is you get what you pay for. This is true for loads of gravel to bandwidth.
But Americans are programmed to demand "fairness" and "equality" in all things and revolt when given pricing tiers that reflect reality. The most workable option, at present, would probably be to have SSID's for "First Class", "Business Class", and "Steerage", because those discrimination levels currently exist, and price accordingly, though there's no rational reason for somebody to not be able to prefer steerage seating and first-class routing, or vice-versa.
"Fairness" is a dangerous fantasy.
Simple law of supply and demand. When the supply is small (relative to demand), you keep the price high
Yes, that's the basics of it, but I would bet money that if we look at a traffic graph, the link isn't always 100% full, the QoS is probably sophomoric, and the $50/flight pricing does not achieve Pareto efficiency.
A simple price rationing scheme would improve both customer satisfaction and profitability - charge $50 for priority access and $5 for best-effort access, so both the corporate raider and the teen who wants to chat with friends can benefit.
*Because* bandwidth is scarce, you want to keep it at 100% utilization (with proper QoS and debloating) at all times - anything else is disappointing to customers.
"Too cheap to meter" is typical central-planning nonsense. Fusion power only needs to be cheaper than everything else by a margin to ensure its selection and expensive enough to repay the capitalists that are risking their fortunes to make it happen. Fortunately for us, bureaucrats can only forestall markets - fantasy never works in the long game.
wow, that page is so full of ignorance! I bet they've never even heard of Norman Borlaug or understand the IFR cycle. But since they don't follow the "you first" principle, I think "willful" is fair to assume.