You mean NEOs like Russia? You can't get any nearer to Earth than that.
+1 - humor is a great way to get at the tough issues. To put it more bluntly, though: "no, nuclear devices should be kept on hand to protect against politicians". The nuclear-armed nations have not gone to war with each other, and they won't because nuclear weapons (along with ICBM's) ensure that politicians can't simply send poor boys off to die for their lustful ambition on wealth and power without also impulsively risking their own safety.
This is unprecedented in the history of the nation state mechanism and has had major positive effects (if one considers empirical evidence rather than irrational fear). Sorry, it's not the pretty table at the UN that keeps bad leaders from misbehaving; until we can ban politicians, taking away their risk exposure would be the stupidest course of action conceivable. In the US only 5% of the population even trusts them to make sound decisions.
Maybe I should just change my.sig to "incentives matter" - the fear-mongers love to pretend otherwise, so this never stops coming up.
The Fire Phone especially - why, it can access the whole World Pirate Web (not to mention the Play Store, that den of software iniquity)!
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It's not. it's what, 55% fructose, 45% sucrose -- whereas table sugar is a 50/50 split?
Where did you get the idea that you can take a food, completely ignore the body's metabolism, list its component molecules, and declare parity? It's a complete stretch, and so it's completely wrong. This is 1982-era reasoning.
The major problem is the rate-limiting factors of liver enzymes. The liver can handle a little bit of fructose at a time. If it gets overrun, it quickly manufactures triglycerides with the excess fructose, and those run right out and stick to the arterial walls (I know, triglycerides don't like to be anthropomorphized).
Sucrose metabolism is almost entirely rate-limited by the amount of available sucrase enzyme in the small intestine (the stomach acid affects 10% of the amount consumed). This provides a slow-sip of fructose to the liver, so it's much more manageable. This built-in protection is defeated by using HFCS or any unbound glucose/fructose syrup - the liver gets it nearly all at once. Keep that up and you'll be fat and get heart disease.
It's still possible to overload the liver with excess amounts of sucrose - you have more sucrase than liver enzymes, so anything more than a taste of sugar is still going to be a problem. This works out OK if you're going to be starving all winter, but in modern Western societies that starvation never happens, so the weight keeps piling on.
Even if you don't understand the biochemistry, the two basic rules still work well - don't buy stuff in the middle of the grocery store and don't eat anything your Grandmother wouldn't recognize as food from her childhood. Hrm, we might need to up that to "Great Grandmother" these days; if the ingredients label lists a chemical shitstorm straight out of Post-WWII "better living through chemistry - try the transfats!" insanity, don't eat it.
As soon as I change my master password as prompted by the LastPass email, they have nothing.
As far as I can tell - "not so fast". You also have to tell LastPass to not allow you to automagically revert to your previous master password. That's hidden under 'Advanced Settings'.
incompetent people should have nothing to say about it
Dude, wake up and smell the democracide. A nuclear engineer has just as much vote on this matter as a guy who can't figure out the coffee maker at 7-11.
If you have an alternate explanation, I'd like to hear it. Otherwise, stop shouting debunked views and commonly-held myths.
I lost 50lbs in the past year by switching to the low-carb lifestyle, after listening to several engineers come to the same conclusion. Mostly meat, eggs, nuts/seeds, and veggies now. I'm not eating the average 100lbs of sugar and gods-know how many pounds of pasta the average American is, but I have added back in small amounts of rice and potato after getting to my target weight.
I'm probably eating more like an 1899 person than a 1999 person. Maybe a 999 person too (who had a food supply to speak of). The middle of the grocery store is a wasteland, and forget about eating from a convenience store. The nature of the food supply has changed dramatically and that appears to be a sufficient explanation.
I've also stopped watching commercial TV shows, which might help, but I do waste time on social media so my couch time is only reduced slightly.
So much for post-911 interagency cooperation. While one agency is inserting weaknesses...
Did you think the Congress was going to tell the NSA to stop doing unconstitutional things and then the US Government, as a whole, would just stop violating the Constitution? As long as there's free money being printed (or kept off books through arms and drug sales), the activities will always just hop to a different group, and the Congress can keep playing Whack-A-Mole until a supermajority is compromised.
Then we get to see the Prisoner's Dilemma play out with big guns.
before a statute of limitations in the sexual-assault case runs out this year.
Ah, so if that's their motivation here, then he should be afraid of what will come next. It sounds like they're "gonna get him" one way or the other, and their options are dwindling.
Regardless of the facts of the case, this almost guarantees that he will be made to stand for trial on the flimsiest of charges, just to push the case along. If not they would have gone with the Prosecutor's recommendation and dropped the charges.
He may win this round, but whether it's a Pyrrhic victory remains to be seen. The trick is, with all of Sweden's statutes, I'm sure if the clock on this one runs out they can find another charge for him to start over again - evading the interview or whatever.
Your reaction probably isn't unique. Fortunately, the FCC is there to protect corporations like this from doing truly stupid things that would damage their market position.
Maybe the FCC could allow one of the many tried-to-challenge-Paypal companies to actually exist? Ha! I kid - they're there to ensure that the regulatory costs that Paypal never encountered as a startup make it too expensive to challenge them.
These NASA plans are practically useless and far more likely to hinder the industry than do it any good. Every one of these devices will have a GPS receiver on it, and a terrain map is $10 to integrate. NASA doesn't need to unicast this information - that's just a waste of bandwidth. Any hardware that NASA might want to mandate is already going to be too expensive in terms of components and power consumption to do better than a cellular Internet connection (since they're planning to use Verizon towers anyway) which is already commoditized and ridiculously power-optimized. The aerobots can easily do ad-hoc networking to find their neighbors and avoid collisions - an industry working group is going to have way more information about what those requirements are than NASA might. Aerobot operators have tremendous incentives to not lose their craft, and their insurance carriers will double-down on that; the inclusion of a $5 802.11 radio to handle an ipv6 mesh network in the sky isn't going to ruffle anybody's feathers there.
*Maybe* NASA could be given the job of putting up a web service to keep no-fly zones updated. We'd have to trust their ability to maintain that securely.
The bureaucrats' urge to control everything whether it will help or not ought to be recognized as a treatable mental illness.
ignore the AC - he's obviously a dullard who wouldn't understand the difference between negative rights and positive privileges if they hit him upside the head.
yeah, I've been wanting a "view-screen" sized 8K display since the 1980's. I did the math back then and it's never changed.
When an 8K comes out in the 40-50" range I'm dropping an ass-ton of money on one. I've been behind the buying curve since the early 90's because I always knew it was just a step. Finally at 8K I'll be done upgrading, so the time will be "right away". Apparently I lived long enough to see it and my eyes are still good. Now as long as I keep eating leafy greens until a low-powered 2D GPU can handle it, I might just be happy as a clam.
yes, I told the judge just that for the same reason (quoted Justice Jay on the matter) and he said to go home - they don't want jurors who know anything about the law.
The fab cost goes up, but as the density increases, so does the capacity of the fab. So they make it up on volume.
Are NAND fabs much easier than IC fabs at the same mask size? There are companies offering interesting IC's that are hampered by their 60/90/130nm parts, and it seems interesting that the profit is falling out of NAND while those are still on the larger fabs.
The algorithm work is a good insight. The use of the toy is probably just for press coverage purposes, which may be a good strategy to get the word out and nudge social pressure to improve the industry.
All the hackers already know he probably could have build a transmitter with Sparkfun parts faster and for less money, so we should try to understand his methods rather than just dismissing them.
Not every security researcher is a PR genius, but the odds are much better than a Slashdot AC.
You're getting into semantics there. You could probably build a supercomputer cluster to dedicate to simulating the motion and predict the positions. That you have to makes it worth putting a handle on to talk about that kind of system - 'chaotic' is commonly used; that doesn't mean the motions are impossible to ever know due to quantum uncertainty.
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additional mandates like this without direction from Congress
Oh, was *today* the day that we were going to go back to Rule-of-Law in this country?
".. our PREFERRED plan is to LICENSE ... versus LITIGATE."
Hey, don't you remember when the Ruby guys filed a lawsuit in Federal Court against the Perl guys for stealing their innovations?
No, wait ... that's not how adults behave. Y'all can go piss in your kiddie pool if you want.
?OTRv2?
You mean NEOs like Russia? You can't get any nearer to Earth than that.
+1 - humor is a great way to get at the tough issues. To put it more bluntly, though: "no, nuclear devices should be kept on hand to protect against politicians". The nuclear-armed nations have not gone to war with each other, and they won't because nuclear weapons (along with ICBM's) ensure that politicians can't simply send poor boys off to die for their lustful ambition on wealth and power without also impulsively risking their own safety.
This is unprecedented in the history of the nation state mechanism and has had major positive effects (if one considers empirical evidence rather than irrational fear). Sorry, it's not the pretty table at the UN that keeps bad leaders from misbehaving; until we can ban politicians, taking away their risk exposure would be the stupidest course of action conceivable. In the US only 5% of the population even trusts them to make sound decisions.
Maybe I should just change my .sig to "incentives matter" - the fear-mongers love to pretend otherwise, so this never stops coming up.
So, the only relevant question to me is, how do we defeat or circumvent this?
Shutdown Facebook in those countries. Wait for something to happen a few hours later when Parliament is on fire.
The Fire Phone especially - why, it can access the whole World Pirate Web (not to mention the Play Store, that den of software iniquity)!
It's not. it's what, 55% fructose, 45% sucrose -- whereas table sugar is a 50/50 split?
Where did you get the idea that you can take a food, completely ignore the body's metabolism, list its component molecules, and declare parity? It's a complete stretch, and so it's completely wrong. This is 1982-era reasoning.
The major problem is the rate-limiting factors of liver enzymes. The liver can handle a little bit of fructose at a time. If it gets overrun, it quickly manufactures triglycerides with the excess fructose, and those run right out and stick to the arterial walls (I know, triglycerides don't like to be anthropomorphized).
Sucrose metabolism is almost entirely rate-limited by the amount of available sucrase enzyme in the small intestine (the stomach acid affects 10% of the amount consumed). This provides a slow-sip of fructose to the liver, so it's much more manageable. This built-in protection is defeated by using HFCS or any unbound glucose/fructose syrup - the liver gets it nearly all at once. Keep that up and you'll be fat and get heart disease.
It's still possible to overload the liver with excess amounts of sucrose - you have more sucrase than liver enzymes, so anything more than a taste of sugar is still going to be a problem. This works out OK if you're going to be starving all winter, but in modern Western societies that starvation never happens, so the weight keeps piling on.
Even if you don't understand the biochemistry, the two basic rules still work well - don't buy stuff in the middle of the grocery store and don't eat anything your Grandmother wouldn't recognize as food from her childhood. Hrm, we might need to up that to "Great Grandmother" these days; if the ingredients label lists a chemical shitstorm straight out of Post-WWII "better living through chemistry - try the transfats!" insanity, don't eat it.
As soon as I change my master password as prompted by the LastPass email, they have nothing.
As far as I can tell - "not so fast". You also have to tell LastPass to not allow you to automagically revert to your previous master password. That's hidden under 'Advanced Settings'.
incompetent people should have nothing to say about it
Dude, wake up and smell the democracide. A nuclear engineer has just as much vote on this matter as a guy who can't figure out the coffee maker at 7-11.
NSA trading as LastPass says your decrypted keys never leave your local machine.
Too bad it's closed source and so have to trust them! No, wait...
(never use closed-source security; the AC has a point, even if he's ignorant on this matter).
I'm not looking to move out of the Skype ecosystem ...
I just want to get rid of the Skype desktop application because it *sucks*.
Just on the economics of it, the first line there is why the second line exists. #incentives
If you have an alternate explanation, I'd like to hear it. Otherwise, stop shouting debunked views and commonly-held myths.
I lost 50lbs in the past year by switching to the low-carb lifestyle, after listening to several engineers come to the same conclusion. Mostly meat, eggs, nuts/seeds, and veggies now. I'm not eating the average 100lbs of sugar and gods-know how many pounds of pasta the average American is, but I have added back in small amounts of rice and potato after getting to my target weight.
I'm probably eating more like an 1899 person than a 1999 person. Maybe a 999 person too (who had a food supply to speak of). The middle of the grocery store is a wasteland, and forget about eating from a convenience store. The nature of the food supply has changed dramatically and that appears to be a sufficient explanation.
I've also stopped watching commercial TV shows, which might help, but I do waste time on social media so my couch time is only reduced slightly.
So much for post-911 interagency cooperation. While one agency is inserting weaknesses...
Did you think the Congress was going to tell the NSA to stop doing unconstitutional things and then the US Government, as a whole, would just stop violating the Constitution? As long as there's free money being printed (or kept off books through arms and drug sales), the activities will always just hop to a different group, and the Congress can keep playing Whack-A-Mole until a supermajority is compromised.
Then we get to see the Prisoner's Dilemma play out with big guns.
before a statute of limitations in the sexual-assault case runs out this year.
Ah, so if that's their motivation here, then he should be afraid of what will come next. It sounds like they're "gonna get him" one way or the other, and their options are dwindling.
Regardless of the facts of the case, this almost guarantees that he will be made to stand for trial on the flimsiest of charges, just to push the case along. If not they would have gone with the Prosecutor's recommendation and dropped the charges.
He may win this round, but whether it's a Pyrrhic victory remains to be seen. The trick is, with all of Sweden's statutes, I'm sure if the clock on this one runs out they can find another charge for him to start over again - evading the interview or whatever.
but it was ISIS.
This is Rand Paul's fault.
A Large government (with virtually unlimited funding) will crack any commodity encryption scheme.
That claim goes against all public analysis of the ciphers in play - what extraordinary evidence do you have to support it? Hollywood doesn't count.
Your reaction probably isn't unique. Fortunately, the FCC is there to protect corporations like this from doing truly stupid things that would damage their market position.
Maybe the FCC could allow one of the many tried-to-challenge-Paypal companies to actually exist? Ha! I kid - they're there to ensure that the regulatory costs that Paypal never encountered as a startup make it too expensive to challenge them.
These NASA plans are practically useless and far more likely to hinder the industry than do it any good. Every one of these devices will have a GPS receiver on it, and a terrain map is $10 to integrate. NASA doesn't need to unicast this information - that's just a waste of bandwidth. Any hardware that NASA might want to mandate is already going to be too expensive in terms of components and power consumption to do better than a cellular Internet connection (since they're planning to use Verizon towers anyway) which is already commoditized and ridiculously power-optimized. The aerobots can easily do ad-hoc networking to find their neighbors and avoid collisions - an industry working group is going to have way more information about what those requirements are than NASA might. Aerobot operators have tremendous incentives to not lose their craft, and their insurance carriers will double-down on that; the inclusion of a $5 802.11 radio to handle an ipv6 mesh network in the sky isn't going to ruffle anybody's feathers there.
*Maybe* NASA could be given the job of putting up a web service to keep no-fly zones updated. We'd have to trust their ability to maintain that securely.
The bureaucrats' urge to control everything whether it will help or not ought to be recognized as a treatable mental illness.
ignore the AC - he's obviously a dullard who wouldn't understand the difference between negative rights and positive privileges if they hit him upside the head.
yeah, I've been wanting a "view-screen" sized 8K display since the 1980's. I did the math back then and it's never changed.
When an 8K comes out in the 40-50" range I'm dropping an ass-ton of money on one. I've been behind the buying curve since the early 90's because I always knew it was just a step. Finally at 8K I'll be done upgrading, so the time will be "right away". Apparently I lived long enough to see it and my eyes are still good. Now as long as I keep eating leafy greens until a low-powered 2D GPU can handle it, I might just be happy as a clam.
yes, I told the judge just that for the same reason (quoted Justice Jay on the matter) and he said to go home - they don't want jurors who know anything about the law.
why fix the hard architectural problems when you can spend Foundation money on bolt-on cruft instead?
The fab cost goes up, but as the density increases, so does the capacity of the fab. So they make it up on volume.
Are NAND fabs much easier than IC fabs at the same mask size? There are companies offering interesting IC's that are hampered by their 60/90/130nm parts, and it seems interesting that the profit is falling out of NAND while those are still on the larger fabs.
The algorithm work is a good insight. The use of the toy is probably just for press coverage purposes, which may be a good strategy to get the word out and nudge social pressure to improve the industry.
All the hackers already know he probably could have build a transmitter with Sparkfun parts faster and for less money, so we should try to understand his methods rather than just dismissing them.
Not every security researcher is a PR genius, but the odds are much better than a Slashdot AC.
You're getting into semantics there. You could probably build a supercomputer cluster to dedicate to simulating the motion and predict the positions. That you have to makes it worth putting a handle on to talk about that kind of system - 'chaotic' is commonly used; that doesn't mean the motions are impossible to ever know due to quantum uncertainty.