you should have a $500,000 savings account in case sometimes bad happens. because contributing to a group fund that other people draw out of is communist, right?
that you think financial common sense on the question of the best way to pay for healthcare is morally corrupt shows how propagandized you are
it makes sense that corporations take these risks, profit, then they are absorbed. the point is, corporations are never going away, because they do make sense for many reasons in terms of the most efficient way to do things. however, they are like beasts of burden: you must harness them and put them to use, or they run roughshod over your society. like GE, which paid no taxes to the USA, where the corporation is corrupting our system of government to stand above the people:
additionally, we are making progress. the labor movement a hundred years ago made a huge step forward (that yes, we are backsliding on now)... after the civil war, corporations had a larger military than the federal govt, to suppress labor. blackwater is a hiccup in comparison:
2 steps forward, 1 step back. this struggle is going on for centuries. but please do not forget we ARE making progress against the corruption of the people's will by monied interests. it is very difficult, and takes time and much effort. today, they have an entire corporate propaganda machine, fox news, that incenses the poor and middle class to actually fight against their own interests, like affordable healthcare. it is absurd, but real
People of the same trade seldom meet together, even for merriment and diversion, but the conversation ends in a conspiracy against the public, or in some contrivance to raise prices. It is impossible indeed to prevent such meetings, by any law which either could be executed, or would be consistent with liberty and justice. But though the law cannot hinder people of the same trade from sometimes assembling together, it ought to do nothing to facilitate such assemblies; much less to render them necessary.
are those who have no question that this is irreversible proof that aliens landed in new mexico in the 1950s
and those (in fact, probably a large overlap of the same people between the two populations) who don't trust that barack obama was born in hawaii, despite all of the genuine irreversible proof
most people posting on this site understands what it means to hack/ program/ factor/ compile/ etc. out of sheer fun. to a lot of us, its pleasurable play. if you find computer development to be a dreary chore and nothing else, you need a new career, assuming you aren't already a surfer or dog walker who enjoys posting on slashdot for some reason
i completely understand what motivated adrian, and were a debilitating disease to claim my life, i'd be honored to stand in this great man's company and leave this world playing (not working) the same way
there's that famous dylan thomas poem with that line "rage, rage against the dying of the light." it is a completely valid rage in the face of death to do what in a year of your healthy life you would consider routine: "take that ALS, i'm going carry on, as if you never touched me." a nice assertive middle finger at ALS, good for him! that's the way a strong man leaves this world
the clash is not between keyboard layouts, but between desktop culture and mobile keyboardless culture
however, autocomplete uses past word usage as an indicator of intent. since enemy is more frequent than enema in normal use, we can conclude the author of the original post uses the word "enema" a lot, to trick autocomplete into thinking that is his intended word
i'm looking at 'A' and 'Y' on my keyboard. nope. maybe a mistake like enemu or enemt. but you had to write enema on purpose. which is odd, as your post seems serious
but of course, a free market fundamentalist like yourself will be happy to segregate the poor into an online-only education ghetto, while the rich can afford real world education. class structure, not meritocracy: the end result of your thinking, whether you realize that or not. try to look beyond the precepts of your cult's beliefs and see logic and reason for what it is someday, thaaanks
citation? this is an intellectual exercise. can you think it through yourself? can you understand my point? you really require handholding?
you ask for the marketplace to decide what's best. ok, the marketplace has decided: regimented school curriculum. as per the countries that crank out the best educated students. case closed
i don't trust mr. bureaucrat. the point is, there is a RANGE of acceptable curriculum choices. then there are curriculum choices which are clearly well outside of appropriate. how about a school that teaches kids sharia law? how about one that teaches them eugenics? how about one that teaches them phrenology, or flat earth science?
the simple truth is, creationism is idiotic, and not anywhere remotely near anything appropriate to teach our children about science. it hobbles their minds, it is basically saying "i want the usa to be a third world country, because i want to teach our children low iq nonsense"
let's put it this way: every country in the world has their own education policy. there's your social darwinism playing out, picking the best approach to education curriculum. and guess what? the countries with strong control on education policy are churning out intelligent minds, while the usa, which seems ridiculously close to your loosy goosy "no standards are awesome" attitude, churns out substandard minds. therefore, your free market fundamentalism has already played out on the world stage, and has already rendered a verdict: strong standards in education curriculum wins
now if you will excuse me, i'd like to stop your idiotic experiment before the usa becomes like haiti, which will apparently be the only point at which you understand this lesson. must be your substandard american education
i assumed that it's just a ring past a CMTS, so you have 2 options, rather than 1. however, you are telling me the topology past a CMTS is more variable. additionally, the most useful piece of info you tell me is that if a neighbor starts downloading a movie, or the other neighbor starts playing WoW, variances in ping time become completely meaningless from one day to another, one hour to another, or even one second to another
why doesn't the ping supply info about location past the CMTS? assuming you could lock someone down to a particular CMTS, you could infer what portion of that ping time is due to travel beyond the CMTS to the CM, no? i understand one ping isn't reliable. but if you were talking about a scheme where you were bouncing off a number of servers and averaging out over say, 60-120 pings, with extraneous traffic, time of day, and internet provider recon mixed in, you could have reliable data, no?
but you are correct about location databases: that seems just as useful if not more useful than this google server piggyback scheme this research mentions
thank you mr. free market fundamentalist. the free market is wonderful stuff, but only in an environment where everyone is given the same starting position. if you load a kid up with a bunch of bad ideas, he's not going to be able to compete with the kid who was given effective ideas. which is fine, of course, if you don't care about damning some kid just by the chance of where he was born. but if you enforce a standard of educational requirements, then you can begin to say everyone has the equal OPPORTUNITY (not equal outcome, this isn't communism) to succeed. so the problem with your approach is that you are happy to damn people with less resources. like most free market fundamentalists, you fail to see how your ideology just reinforces the rich and further damns the poor, and widens class divides. your way is not the way to freedom and equality, your way is the way to lack of freedom and lack of equality due to economic ability of your parent or grandparent. now, go read up on the french revolution, and see why and how your ideology fails in the real world
say i control a number of servers under the same domain, and i use a simple script to run many pings quickly. can't i correct for errors and refine the technique researched here and resolve you apart from your neighbor?
it's a given google pretty much knows more about the average bloke than the average bloke knows about himself
but this research demonstrates a way anyone can piggy back on google's servers and get that info for themselves as well, which ups the creep factor considerably
furthermore, with triangulation of servers, and a bunch of pings over time, i bet you could refine the results considerably, down to one location
it's one thing for google, some advertiser, or the feds to be able to locate you by ip. its another thing entirely for any asshole with a creepy attraction or creepy grudge to find you this way, just by getting you to visit some web page
i think you could do better than that by triangulating with different servers and averaging out over time
i think law enforcement/ counterterrorism/ etc. could make good use of this methodology. yeah, those guys could just subpoena the ip address, but in time sensitive issues, this is a pretty neat trick
heck, your average stalker weirdo with access to a number of servers in different farms/ colos either because of his job or just because he's a very committed stalker weirdo could do this
Same-Origin-Policy enforcement in the AJAX means means the javascript can't hook out to other servers... unless you control 3 or 7 or 37 different servers in different farms/ colos under the same domain name. the distant servers couldn't receive the info, but you could have each server fire in cycle, and have one receiving server take the timestamps in. so with a heavy rotation of pings over a brief period of time, and a bunch of different servers to triangulate ping times over time, and some extraneous info like traffic estimates/ internet provider/ etc., i bet you could get an exact location that would resolve itself in a couple of seconds with good accuracy
you have a speck of javascript on a webpage that opens an XMLHTTPRequest (AJAX) and sends a series of overlapping timestamps. you could have a couple dozen samples in the time it takes you to read this comment, average them out on the server side, include some more sophisticated methods taking into other extraneous measurements like traffic estimates for time of day and general location, type of modem/ internet provider, etc, and get a genuinely reliable lock for any average web user sitting on any average cable modem
this is a real game changer, for advertising, and for expectation of privacy
so i'm going to be marketing my ping time obfuscator shortly for you in the 300 BLOCK OF SYCAMORE ROAD IN TACOMA WASHINGTON (blink, blink, blink)
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you should have a $500,000 savings account in case sometimes bad happens. because contributing to a group fund that other people draw out of is communist, right?
that you think financial common sense on the question of the best way to pay for healthcare is morally corrupt shows how propagandized you are
it's not new, it goes way back before the '80s, corps used to get away with a lot worse, in some cases, they ran everything:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hudson's_Bay_Company
in fact, if we go to the stars, it will probably under the same form as this:
http://avp.wikia.com/wiki/Weyland-Yutani
it makes sense that corporations take these risks, profit, then they are absorbed. the point is, corporations are never going away, because they do make sense for many reasons in terms of the most efficient way to do things. however, they are like beasts of burden: you must harness them and put them to use, or they run roughshod over your society. like GE, which paid no taxes to the USA, where the corporation is corrupting our system of government to stand above the people:
http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/general-electric-paid-federal-taxes-2010/story?id=13224558
additionally, we are making progress. the labor movement a hundred years ago made a huge step forward (that yes, we are backsliding on now)... after the civil war, corporations had a larger military than the federal govt, to suppress labor. blackwater is a hiccup in comparison:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pinkerton_National_Detective_Agency
2 steps forward, 1 step back. this struggle is going on for centuries. but please do not forget we ARE making progress against the corruption of the people's will by monied interests. it is very difficult, and takes time and much effort. today, they have an entire corporate propaganda machine, fox news, that incenses the poor and middle class to actually fight against their own interests, like affordable healthcare. it is absurd, but real
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Wealth_of_Nations
are those who have no question that this is irreversible proof that aliens landed in new mexico in the 1950s
and those (in fact, probably a large overlap of the same people between the two populations) who don't trust that barack obama was born in hawaii, despite all of the genuine irreversible proof
play is nothing but work you enjoy doing
most people posting on this site understands what it means to hack/ program/ factor/ compile/ etc. out of sheer fun. to a lot of us, its pleasurable play. if you find computer development to be a dreary chore and nothing else, you need a new career, assuming you aren't already a surfer or dog walker who enjoys posting on slashdot for some reason
i completely understand what motivated adrian, and were a debilitating disease to claim my life, i'd be honored to stand in this great man's company and leave this world playing (not working) the same way
there's that famous dylan thomas poem with that line "rage, rage against the dying of the light." it is a completely valid rage in the face of death to do what in a year of your healthy life you would consider routine: "take that ALS, i'm going carry on, as if you never touched me." a nice assertive middle finger at ALS, good for him! that's the way a strong man leaves this world
that's the culprit, autocomplete
the clash is not between keyboard layouts, but between desktop culture and mobile keyboardless culture
however, autocomplete uses past word usage as an indicator of intent. since enemy is more frequent than enema in normal use, we can conclude the author of the original post uses the word "enema" a lot, to trick autocomplete into thinking that is his intended word
(snicker)
i'm looking at 'A' and 'Y' on my keyboard. nope. maybe a mistake like enemu or enemt. but you had to write enema on purpose. which is odd, as your post seems serious
quality of education is the issue, asshole
but of course, a free market fundamentalist like yourself will be happy to segregate the poor into an online-only education ghetto, while the rich can afford real world education. class structure, not meritocracy: the end result of your thinking, whether you realize that or not. try to look beyond the precepts of your cult's beliefs and see logic and reason for what it is someday, thaaanks
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/04/06/education/06online.html
sorry, free market fundamentalism is not my religion. you have to be sensitive to the locals and their primitive ways i guess
all hail the holy market!
is that how it works?
citation? this is an intellectual exercise. can you think it through yourself? can you understand my point? you really require handholding?
you ask for the marketplace to decide what's best. ok, the marketplace has decided: regimented school curriculum. as per the countries that crank out the best educated students. case closed
well said
start with things we can find tissue for:
the great auk
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Auk
the dodo
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dodo
the baiji
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baiji
the woolly mammoth
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Woolly_mammoth
the irish elk
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irish_Elk
etc.
it's doubtful, but i'd love to see a stellar's sea cow too someday:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stellar's_Sea_Cow
basically, a 30 foot arctic manatee. killed by europeans in a quarter century. sad
i don't trust mr. bureaucrat. the point is, there is a RANGE of acceptable curriculum choices. then there are curriculum choices which are clearly well outside of appropriate. how about a school that teaches kids sharia law? how about one that teaches them eugenics? how about one that teaches them phrenology, or flat earth science?
the simple truth is, creationism is idiotic, and not anywhere remotely near anything appropriate to teach our children about science. it hobbles their minds, it is basically saying "i want the usa to be a third world country, because i want to teach our children low iq nonsense"
let's put it this way: every country in the world has their own education policy. there's your social darwinism playing out, picking the best approach to education curriculum. and guess what? the countries with strong control on education policy are churning out intelligent minds, while the usa, which seems ridiculously close to your loosy goosy "no standards are awesome" attitude, churns out substandard minds. therefore, your free market fundamentalism has already played out on the world stage, and has already rendered a verdict: strong standards in education curriculum wins
now if you will excuse me, i'd like to stop your idiotic experiment before the usa becomes like haiti, which will apparently be the only point at which you understand this lesson. must be your substandard american education
alright, you schooled me, thanks
i assumed that it's just a ring past a CMTS, so you have 2 options, rather than 1. however, you are telling me the topology past a CMTS is more variable. additionally, the most useful piece of info you tell me is that if a neighbor starts downloading a movie, or the other neighbor starts playing WoW, variances in ping time become completely meaningless from one day to another, one hour to another, or even one second to another
got it, case closed, this method is useless
it is, in a way. it certainly is exactly how you treat it
why doesn't the ping supply info about location past the CMTS? assuming you could lock someone down to a particular CMTS, you could infer what portion of that ping time is due to travel beyond the CMTS to the CM, no? i understand one ping isn't reliable. but if you were talking about a scheme where you were bouncing off a number of servers and averaging out over say, 60-120 pings, with extraneous traffic, time of day, and internet provider recon mixed in, you could have reliable data, no?
but you are correct about location databases: that seems just as useful if not more useful than this google server piggyback scheme this research mentions
ok, thanks, that's useful. i understand what a ring is. so you can narrow it down to 2 possibilities then? i mean a ping time is a ping time, right?
thank you mr. free market fundamentalist. the free market is wonderful stuff, but only in an environment where everyone is given the same starting position. if you load a kid up with a bunch of bad ideas, he's not going to be able to compete with the kid who was given effective ideas. which is fine, of course, if you don't care about damning some kid just by the chance of where he was born. but if you enforce a standard of educational requirements, then you can begin to say everyone has the equal OPPORTUNITY (not equal outcome, this isn't communism) to succeed. so the problem with your approach is that you are happy to damn people with less resources. like most free market fundamentalists, you fail to see how your ideology just reinforces the rich and further damns the poor, and widens class divides. your way is not the way to freedom and equality, your way is the way to lack of freedom and lack of equality due to economic ability of your parent or grandparent. now, go read up on the french revolution, and see why and how your ideology fails in the real world
say i control a number of servers under the same domain, and i use a simple script to run many pings quickly. can't i correct for errors and refine the technique researched here and resolve you apart from your neighbor?
it's a given google pretty much knows more about the average bloke than the average bloke knows about himself
but this research demonstrates a way anyone can piggy back on google's servers and get that info for themselves as well, which ups the creep factor considerably
furthermore, with triangulation of servers, and a bunch of pings over time, i bet you could refine the results considerably, down to one location
it's one thing for google, some advertiser, or the feds to be able to locate you by ip. its another thing entirely for any asshole with a creepy attraction or creepy grudge to find you this way, just by getting you to visit some web page
my sex partner is just a series of tubes. coincidentally, a hamster is also involved
congratulations. paranoid schizophrenia has an upside
i think you could do better than that by triangulating with different servers and averaging out over time
i think law enforcement/ counterterrorism/ etc. could make good use of this methodology. yeah, those guys could just subpoena the ip address, but in time sensitive issues, this is a pretty neat trick
heck, your average stalker weirdo with access to a number of servers in different farms/ colos either because of his job or just because he's a very committed stalker weirdo could do this
Same-Origin-Policy enforcement in the AJAX means means the javascript can't hook out to other servers... unless you control 3 or 7 or 37 different servers in different farms/ colos under the same domain name. the distant servers couldn't receive the info, but you could have each server fire in cycle, and have one receiving server take the timestamps in. so with a heavy rotation of pings over a brief period of time, and a bunch of different servers to triangulate ping times over time, and some extraneous info like traffic estimates/ internet provider/ etc., i bet you could get an exact location that would resolve itself in a couple of seconds with good accuracy
you have a speck of javascript on a webpage that opens an XMLHTTPRequest (AJAX) and sends a series of overlapping timestamps. you could have a couple dozen samples in the time it takes you to read this comment, average them out on the server side, include some more sophisticated methods taking into other extraneous measurements like traffic estimates for time of day and general location, type of modem/ internet provider, etc, and get a genuinely reliable lock for any average web user sitting on any average cable modem
this is a real game changer, for advertising, and for expectation of privacy
so i'm going to be marketing my ping time obfuscator shortly for you in the 300 BLOCK OF SYCAMORE ROAD IN TACOMA WASHINGTON (blink, blink, blink)