40% plus 55% of that 40% for next years is 62K. If it is calculated as 22% on the first $25k, then he owed 35,300 in just income tax (or 54,715 if including the 55% prepay assuming no credit). If it is his own company does he pay both the employee and employer part of social security for another 44%. If that isn't progressive, he is up to 79% with those two taxes but that doesn't include any deductions. Or maybe with deductions, that could be 28k income tax with ss deduction, 15k for next year, 16k+28k for ss for 87k or 59k if part of the ss came from the company. I would guess that property taxes are also related to income either because of pensioner discounts or because people with more money tend to own more expensive houses which tend to be taxed higher. Also how much of the left over money was spent on things that was taxed at 6% or 23% for the VAT? That would add somewhere between 2.5k and 10k. So 60k before any special taxes doesn't make the other 16% unlikely.
The sort order was changed in 10.6.0. It was refixed in 10.8.something but sometimes the order of the or windows apps changes and the then being able to hit two keys and know what is going to happen goes out the window. I've found it frustrtating enough to downgrade versions of OS X.
The idea of using port bits was around in 1992. It migth have been where the / notion orignated as a way to say 192.168.1.1/34 would take two bits off the port bits.
The interesting thing about this is that core routers and swtiches won't care at all and anything that is doing NAT can already do the translations needed. The problem is 1) the notation and 2) which bits get used. If more programs supported DNS SRV records, then this would be completely transparent.
They asked the people to report a box showing up? That isn't normal when driving, therefor the test its self might be distracting.
HUD displays should only be used to display info that is normally checked anyway like the speedometer as well as things like the new IR cameras that can detect deer near the side of the road which will be invisible. Having displays pop up some virtual brake lights on a stopped or slowing down car is fine but it has to be done right. It took aviation decades to get the basics for instruments right. The stuff that looks cool on a HUD demo in an office isn't what will work best in cars on a dark foggy road.
The reason TV adverting was expensive was that slots were rare and there was far more demand for the good slots than there were slots. The ad guys did a great job showing the world they were good honest people who were helping their clients sell stuff. This is why the honest guy who would never do any wrong in Bewitched in the 60s was an ad man. The show was there to sell more advertising. The clean ad man image has changed in recent times to a image of a person who can manipulate anyone into buying a worthless product but that too helps sell more TV advertising.
The rarity of slots did matter in the early days of TV and as a result, several industries were changed. In the early days of live broadcast, only car dealers near the TV stations could go live but people were so impressed in the first months of those ads that they did work and and other dealers would buy larger lots near the stations and created a new type of car dealership. Those dealers grew rapidly, not so much because of the ads but because of the influx of new buyers as the two car family became the norm. The TV ads didn't tip the buyers, it tipped the dealers into buying more ads. Even today car advertising is a significant part of tv station income.
Remember that the customer of the advertising is not the final consumer who buys the product, it is the marketing department of a large corporation who pays for commercial tv and the advertising business has many ways to prove their ads work even when the sales figures show they might be running off customers.
Now the internet ads are over saturated, they aren't worth anything yet idiots keep paying lots of money for useless ads because they think they work. Even google is playing the old tv ad game with their analytics package which helps show businesses how well the ads are working. Too bad that details slip through like you pay for a specific key word and you find out that most people are trying to avoid results with that word but using google improperly so you pay $5 per click for people who will never buy your product.
Why do so many systems still use the hashed root or admin password to seed tcp sequence numbers? Cisco, Sun, IBM and DEC all started doing it about the same time. So who suggested it to them and just how many groups know how what it takes to pull bits out of that hash?
There is a 20+ year old John Doe warrant for him by the US gov't that could result in his execution. He is safe in the UK and won't be safe in France or Sweden.
I was in a car about 5 years later that could keep in its lane along the US highway along the Appalachian Mountain Highway for nearly 100 miles to Washington DC. That car just happened to have a $300,000+ laser ring gyro and more electronics than the car cost but it did manage to keep the car in the lane all the way.
That calculator doesn't take into account the wonderful effects of the mylar layers along with the other insulation to prevent instant cooking when exposed to the sun. Both the compressor and Peltier systems transfer heat to a place where it can be properly radiated. I figure about a 2 deg rise per hour at norrmal rest energy consumption based on specific heat and rest (k)calories burned.
The moon rocks go missing because they aren't well protected and are rarer than gold.
Many of the odd statements issued by NASA were just run of the mill anti-spying stories. For example the space suits from that time are "to keep astronauts warm in the cold of space". If you in a perfect vacuum and generating 170 Watts, you don't need heating. The real story is that the US used Peltier effect cooling and the Soviets used compressor based systems. Since the people who controlled what technology could be talked about thought the Russians were behind the US, they made up a story and stuck to it. The real reason for the difference is that the Russians could build reliable compressors that worked in space and the US had a lead in the Peltier technology even as both sides experimented with the other technology.
The real tick is to manage things in a sane way when the system isn't working properly.
Take the case of a system living in a rack far away. When it boots it needs to 1) bring up part of the network, 2) bring up sshd as soon as possible and 3) bring up user/vm/container disks. Once the disks are verified to be sane enough to continue, it might want to bring up the rest of the networking and it might want to bring up an sshd with a different config. Of course if the disks are screwed up, the best thing might be to bring up part of the system or leave parts of it shutdown even if their normal dependancies are all met. Too bad most systems sit at a console prompt waiting for a human to tell them what to do with the broken disk.
If you need security and your local LAN network topology doesn't make one of your firewalls look like a ethernet switch, you are not doing it right. The days of a 3 zone Trust, DMZ, Untrust firewall model are long gone.
For $5k I can buy a 34 port firewall. I've been using netscreen ^w Juniper SSG-140 with a bunch of 8 port ethernet cards with most things on their own zone. Too bad it looks like that line will soon be EOL and I haven't found anything to replace it at the right price point.
If they can't remove it, it is because they can't find it. They can't find it because it is living in the boot processor code or the firmware of io devices or both.
The best place to hide unremovable firmware is in the protected boot code of the boot processor that is only there to provide for security control for the DRM subsystem.
There have been talks each of the last few years at Breakpoint about how broken the boot firmware is. Maybe now people will start to take notice.
Have a large diamater garden hose attchment near a main water shutoff valve for everything else. That way if your washer is on fire and burns its supply hose, you can have enough water pressure in a garden hose.
If you live in an area where fires are common, metal sprinklers on the outside of the house.
Have the smoke alarms trip the power (except to the lights). There are modules that fit in the electrical box that will trip the circuit breakers next to them that can be wired to most A/C powered linkable smoke detectors. The trick is to get fire detectors that work in the laundry and kitchen that won't activate due to humidity.
Consider a storm shelter that is appropriate for the region. i.e. something that can't flood and isn't a trap if the house falls on it.
Most popular music was a result in changes in technology that allowed for new sounds. Elvis and The Beetles couldn't have made their sound a decade before due to differences in the technology of microphones, recording and playback equipment. The same is true for many of the groups that produced top hits and most major groups in the last 9 decades had a tehcnological edge over the music they replaced.
Its like trying to buy a gift and you only have one shop open and you need something for a party in 10 minutes, so what ever you buy will suck.
There are a group of stock traders that have the problem that they have to spend $1,000,000,000 this week because another billion will come in next week and they told a bunch of suckers that they only invest in high gain, high risk stocks. There simply isn't anything left for them to buy that is a good buy so they pick some ramdon tech stocks and pour the money in.
There are things that can be done and things that shouldn't. For example there is a byte table of sines in MD5 that help scramble bits. If you scramble that table at all then you have a hash that is as strong as MD5 but unique as if someone tacks on a 2^2048 extra seed. It also keeps off the shelf hardware from trying your hash.
If you do the same thing with the DES S-boxes you can end up with a cryto that is so weak you might be able to decrypt it by inspection.
This works so well on cruise ships as hardly anyone ever gets sick on those. A tiny hole in a filter membrane is huge to bactera and viruses.
Lots of people are worried about bacteria but 99% of the bacteria on the planet doesn't like humans and is safe to consume. The bacteria that lives with humans or comes out of humans is what will kill people.
Then there are prions which will pass through these filters which is why the systems that don't concentrate diseases always have a large natural buffer that is full of creatures that mess with whatever manages to get pass the sewage treatment systems. The places that are talking about bypassing a large natural reserve is asking for trouble. A large lake or a river have plenty of life that will kill off most of the nasty things but if that cycle is short circuted, there are plenty of things that survie in fairly pure water for days or weeks.
With the cost of deslinating water, it makes more sense to use ocean water than water with too high of human waste and the health risks are far lower as well.
I've been thinking about getting a bunch of cheap usb sticks and building a zfs pool out of them with some redundancy and then using that for a zfs pool for a usenet spool just to see what can go wrong. If anything can abuse a disk its usenet.
I've wondered if a software VM that runs (slowly) with a unusual architecture wouldn't be helpful for finding lots of C bugs. Old C wouldn't care if it was 60 bit with 9 bit char and middle-endian.
Procomm was written by Programers in Leather before it was renamed DataStorm. Notes was more common that Usenet in the later days of net news being shipped by UUCP and Trumpet Winsock was a more user friendly version of stacks done by Sun and DEC.
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40% plus 55% of that 40% for next years is 62K. If it is calculated as 22% on the first $25k, then he owed 35,300 in just income tax (or 54,715 if including the 55% prepay assuming no credit). If it is his own company does he pay both the employee and employer part of social security for another 44%. If that isn't progressive, he is up to 79% with those two taxes but that doesn't include any deductions. Or maybe with deductions, that could be 28k income tax with ss deduction, 15k for next year, 16k+28k for ss for 87k or 59k if part of the ss came from the company.
I would guess that property taxes are also related to income either because of pensioner discounts or because people with more money tend to own more expensive houses which tend to be taxed higher.
Also how much of the left over money was spent on things that was taxed at 6% or 23% for the VAT? That would add somewhere between 2.5k and 10k. So 60k before any special taxes doesn't make the other 16% unlikely.
The sort order was changed in 10.6.0. It was refixed in 10.8.something but sometimes the order of the or windows apps changes and the then being able to hit two keys and know what is going to happen goes out the window. I've found it frustrtating enough to downgrade versions of OS X.
Was also setting up 2001:4860:4860::4860 or 2001:4860:4860::2001 too hard?
The idea of using port bits was around in 1992. It migth have been where the / notion orignated as a way to say 192.168.1.1/34 would take two bits off the port bits.
The interesting thing about this is that core routers and swtiches won't care at all and anything that is doing NAT can already do the translations needed. The problem is 1) the notation and 2) which bits get used. If more programs supported DNS SRV records, then this would be completely transparent.
They asked the people to report a box showing up? That isn't normal when driving, therefor the test its self might be distracting.
HUD displays should only be used to display info that is normally checked anyway like the speedometer as well as things like the new IR cameras that can detect deer near the side of the road which will be invisible. Having displays pop up some virtual brake lights on a stopped or slowing down car is fine but it has to be done right. It took aviation decades to get the basics for instruments right. The stuff that looks cool on a HUD demo in an office isn't what will work best in cars on a dark foggy road.
The reason TV adverting was expensive was that slots were rare and there was far more demand for the good slots than there were slots. The ad guys did a great job showing the world they were good honest people who were helping their clients sell stuff. This is why the honest guy who would never do any wrong in Bewitched in the 60s was an ad man. The show was there to sell more advertising. The clean ad man image has changed in recent times to a image of a person who can manipulate anyone into buying a worthless product but that too helps sell more TV advertising.
The rarity of slots did matter in the early days of TV and as a result, several industries were changed. In the early days of live broadcast, only car dealers near the TV stations could go live but people were so impressed in the first months of those ads that they did work and and other dealers would buy larger lots near the stations and created a new type of car dealership. Those dealers grew rapidly, not so much because of the ads but because of the influx of new buyers as the two car family became the norm. The TV ads didn't tip the buyers, it tipped the dealers into buying more ads. Even today car advertising is a significant part of tv station income.
Remember that the customer of the advertising is not the final consumer who buys the product, it is the marketing department of a large corporation who pays for commercial tv and the advertising business has many ways to prove their ads work even when the sales figures show they might be running off customers.
Now the internet ads are over saturated, they aren't worth anything yet idiots keep paying lots of money for useless ads because they think they work. Even google is playing the old tv ad game with their analytics package which helps show businesses how well the ads are working. Too bad that details slip through like you pay for a specific key word and you find out that most people are trying to avoid results with that word but using google improperly so you pay $5 per click for people who will never buy your product.
Why do so many systems still use the hashed root or admin password to seed tcp sequence numbers? Cisco, Sun, IBM and DEC all started doing it about the same time. So who suggested it to them and just how many groups know how what it takes to pull bits out of that hash?
There is a 20+ year old John Doe warrant for him by the US gov't that could result in his execution. He is safe in the UK and won't be safe in France or Sweden.
I was in a car about 5 years later that could keep in its lane along the US highway along the Appalachian Mountain Highway for nearly 100 miles to Washington DC. That car just happened to have a $300,000+ laser ring gyro and more electronics than the car cost but it did manage to keep the car in the lane all the way.
You mean 1970s?
The more the web evolves, the more it looks like TeX and DVI and Metafont but with video.
That calculator doesn't take into account the wonderful effects of the mylar layers along with the other insulation to prevent instant cooking when exposed to the sun. Both the compressor and Peltier systems transfer heat to a place where it can be properly radiated. I figure about a 2 deg rise per hour at norrmal rest energy consumption based on specific heat and rest (k)calories burned.
The moon rocks go missing because they aren't well protected and are rarer than gold.
Many of the odd statements issued by NASA were just run of the mill anti-spying stories. For example the space suits from that time are "to keep astronauts warm in the cold of space". If you in a perfect vacuum and generating 170 Watts, you don't need heating. The real story is that the US used Peltier effect cooling and the Soviets used compressor based systems. Since the people who controlled what technology could be talked about thought the Russians were behind the US, they made up a story and stuck to it. The real reason for the difference is that the Russians could build reliable compressors that worked in space and the US had a lead in the Peltier technology even as both sides experimented with the other technology.
The real tick is to manage things in a sane way when the system isn't working properly.
Take the case of a system living in a rack far away. When it boots it needs to 1) bring up part of the network, 2) bring up sshd as soon as possible and 3) bring up user/vm/container disks. Once the disks are verified to be sane enough to continue, it might want to bring up the rest of the networking and it might want to bring up an sshd with a different config. Of course if the disks are screwed up, the best thing might be to bring up part of the system or leave parts of it shutdown even if their normal dependancies are all met. Too bad most systems sit at a console prompt waiting for a human to tell them what to do with the broken disk.
If you need security and your local LAN network topology doesn't make one of your firewalls look like a ethernet switch, you are not doing it right. The days of a 3 zone Trust, DMZ, Untrust firewall model are long gone.
For $5k I can buy a 34 port firewall. I've been using netscreen ^w Juniper SSG-140 with a bunch of 8 port ethernet cards with most things on their own zone. Too bad it looks like that line will soon be EOL and I haven't found anything to replace it at the right price point.
If they can't remove it, it is because they can't find it. They can't find it because it is living in the boot processor code or the firmware of io devices or both.
The best place to hide unremovable firmware is in the protected boot code of the boot processor that is only there to provide for security control for the DRM subsystem.
There have been talks each of the last few years at Breakpoint about how broken the boot firmware is. Maybe now people will start to take notice.
Have a large diamater garden hose attchment near a main water shutoff valve for everything else. That way if your washer is on fire and burns its supply hose, you can have enough water pressure in a garden hose.
If you live in an area where fires are common, metal sprinklers on the outside of the house.
Have the smoke alarms trip the power (except to the lights). There are modules that fit in the electrical box that will trip the circuit breakers next to them that can be wired to most A/C powered linkable smoke detectors. The trick is to get fire detectors that work in the laundry and kitchen that won't activate due to humidity.
Consider a storm shelter that is appropriate for the region. i.e. something that can't flood and isn't a trap if the house falls on it.
Most popular music was a result in changes in technology that allowed for new sounds. Elvis and The Beetles couldn't have made their sound a decade before due to differences in the technology of microphones, recording and playback equipment. The same is true for many of the groups that produced top hits and most major groups in the last 9 decades had a tehcnological edge over the music they replaced.
Its like trying to buy a gift and you only have one shop open and you need something for a party in 10 minutes, so what ever you buy will suck.
There are a group of stock traders that have the problem that they have to spend $1,000,000,000 this week because another billion will come in next week and they told a bunch of suckers that they only invest in high gain, high risk stocks. There simply isn't anything left for them to buy that is a good buy so they pick some ramdon tech stocks and pour the money in.
There are things that can be done and things that shouldn't. For example there is a byte table of sines in MD5 that help scramble bits. If you scramble that table at all then you have a hash that is as strong as MD5 but unique as if someone tacks on a 2^2048 extra seed. It also keeps off the shelf hardware from trying your hash.
If you do the same thing with the DES S-boxes you can end up with a cryto that is so weak you might be able to decrypt it by inspection.
This works so well on cruise ships as hardly anyone ever gets sick on those. A tiny hole in a filter membrane is huge to bactera and viruses.
Lots of people are worried about bacteria but 99% of the bacteria on the planet doesn't like humans and is safe to consume. The bacteria that lives with humans or comes out of humans is what will kill people.
Then there are prions which will pass through these filters which is why the systems that don't concentrate diseases always have a large natural buffer that is full of creatures that mess with whatever manages to get pass the sewage treatment systems. The places that are talking about bypassing a large natural reserve is asking for trouble. A large lake or a river have plenty of life that will kill off most of the nasty things but if that cycle is short circuted, there are plenty of things that survie in fairly pure water for days or weeks.
With the cost of deslinating water, it makes more sense to use ocean water than water with too high of human waste and the health risks are far lower as well.
And I remember when Al Shugart took that claim from Shugart Corporation with his newer company.
I've been thinking about getting a bunch of cheap usb sticks and building a zfs pool out of them with some redundancy and then using that for a zfs pool for a usenet spool just to see what can go wrong. If anything can abuse a disk its usenet.
Tom Duff was working on very high speed rendering code for Lucasfilm when he found that.
I've wondered if a software VM that runs (slowly) with a unusual architecture wouldn't be helpful for finding lots of C bugs. Old C wouldn't care if it was 60 bit with 9 bit char and middle-endian.
Procomm was written by Programers in Leather before it was renamed DataStorm. Notes was more common that Usenet in the later days of net news being shipped by UUCP and Trumpet Winsock was a more user friendly version of stacks done by Sun and DEC.