You know what's sad? Some Facebook games are broken on IPv6. My wife was complaining to me yesterday about how I broke the network, even though I've had a v6 tunnel set up for a couple of years now.
Unless you are a Bible literalist, in which case God does not use Metaphors and if you don't believe that the Earth was created in 7 days and is only 2000 years old and that all animals that exist today are descended from a single pair that went on a boat ride, then you are going to hell. I suspect that this crowd makes up a not-insubstantial portion of the Creationist crowd.
By the way, did you know that the Bible has no contradictions in it and every word is literally true? I had a roommate in college who was a literalist and this is what he fervently believed. There is a whole corpus of little explanations as to why everything that looks like a contradiction or a metaphor is in fact ground truth.
It's pretty hard to find an evolution skeptic outside of the hardboiled creationist crowd these days. I have not seen one in years. Unless you are totally impervious to reasoning, evidence, and logic or are hermetically sealed in a fact proof bubble it's hard to hold an anti-evolution stance these days. There are just too many exciting discoveries in genetics happening every day.
Yes, we've seen this iceberg coming for well over a decade now and we're only just now starting to really turn the wheel. There is a lot of inertia across the board. The good news is that there has been a lot of behind the scenes work done, including getting IPv6 in most consumer and commercial devices. Old hardware is still a problem. Worse, on the Cisco and other large router vendor side, many of the earlier devices supported IPv6 in software only, meaning that it would work fine for a lab or network without much IPv6 traffic, but if you tried to switch over everything to IPv6 you would crush the router. This problem should go away over time as older hardware is retired and replaced.
It didn't move because the underwriters were propping up the price because they don't want to look like they're overvaluing IPO stock. That's why it's collapsing today, because the underwriters are no longer propping up the price.
Using the "delete my account" option in Facebook actually doesn't delete anything. It just removes the data from public view. Facebook is still free to datamine and sell the info to whomever they want.
No, airport beacons operate on different frequencies, as do maritime ones. I've not been able to find any actual radiolocation devices using that band. There is a patent application for one, but I can't find any examples of one that has been built. The 2.45Ghz band is not a good one for radiolocation anyway, since it is absorbed strongly by water, meaning it will be less effective in storm conditions--which is when you need radiolocation services the most.
Seems to me your big problem was that you weren't able to defriend bad Facebook users, and took the switch to Google+ as a way to drop them all without having to actually tell them that you dropped them.
I had basically zero traction in getting people switched over to G+ for regular posting, so I'm still stuck on Facebook. Maybe if the new investors start pressuring the company to monetize more and more of it (ruining the experience) then maybe I'll get some switchers, but it's hard to get people to move away from what they're familiar with if it's still working fine. Plus, G+ was much worse for games when it first came out, so basically their stupid farms and scrabble games kept them from switching.
Well, it's not exactly legal, but you could tell all of your wireless gear that you are Japanese and switch over to channel 14. You'll be stepping on radiolocation beacons, but those shouldn't be around in the middle of a city anyway.
It's a downside for any author. It basically kills the movie option income dead, since studios almost always wait 5 years already before making the movie. I don't know how big of a deal this is, studios don't pay much to option most books, but for an author any paycheck helps.
That's just us exporting our pollution to other countries though. Eventually they'll have their own environmental catastrophes and be forced to clean up by the angry mobs. Once your rivers are on fire and everybody has cancer it is hard to ignore the environmental impacts. Eventually the world has to accept a higher price for the commodity so it can be produced in a more ecologically friendly manner.
The "ability is lost" when the last plant capable of doing it shuts down. The knowledge isn't lost (we hope), but for various reasons (typically it was being done cheaper overseas) the actual facilities will close. If we had to, we could rebuild/reopen the plants here, but it would take a few years and the investors would want some sort of guarantee that the same economic forces that caused the previous plants to close won't apply to the new plant.
We are seeing this today with the rare earth mining industry, where all of the US mines shut down because China was exporting government subsidized minerals for peanuts. Then, when they got a monopoly on the rare earth market, they suddenly shot the prices up and started raking in the cash. Now the US company is reopening their plant because the economic conditions are favorable and because worldwide demand is growing enough that it will be difficult for China to flood the market again. People were biting their nails over the US "losing the ability to make a strategic resource", but the ability wasn't lost, just on hold while they waited for the economics to turn around.
It's not even well designed. There is going to be constant drag between the rotating living quarters and the non-rotating engine parts, causing the engine to always be pulled slightly to one side. You could fix this with two sets of counter-rotating living spaces though.
The bigger problem is what to do with the waste heat from the 4.5 Gigawatts(!!!) of nuclear energy powering the thing. Blackbody radiation isn't the most efficient way to dispose of waste heat, but it's the only one that works in space. One Earth nuclear powerplants are built near water sources for this reason, and the plan doesn't appear to have a provision to tether a thing to an icy comet to dump all of the waste heat into it. I don't think this plan is nearly as well considered as the author seems to think.
Isn't that why you have a "tech guy" in the government who gets the admittedly crappy job of maintaining all of that equipment, driving out to each library when they have a problem and fixing/replacing their router.
The configuration shouldn't require a BA in network administration. It's a T1 endpoint with a switch on the end. Maybe there is a VPN set up to some central location, but it's pretty basic stuff.
This was clearly a case a gross incompetence/corruption, but it's hardly a disaster. The fix seems easy enough, pull the hilariously overspecced routers out of the libraries/schools, sell them off for a decent fraction of their original price, and buy appropriate routers to replace them, cheap ones. Use the leftover money to buy books for the libraries or school supplies or something.
The funny thing is, Steve Jackson has name recognition, but his business has never been much more than a garage operation. Gaming is a niche business, and Steve was a gamer before he was a businessmen. He almost didn't make it early on (especially when the FBI came and took all of his stuff), and this Kickstarter is a way for him to do something that was otherwise too risky for traditional sources of funding.
I'm still not sure how many people outside of Kickstarter are going to buy that HUUUGE box he is making. Retailers are going to balk about having to devote such a crazy amount of shelf space per unit. Because he is doing it through Kickstarter though, a lot of the risk is mitigated by the huge up front donation and what are essentially guaranteed preorders. The other nice thing is that thanks to colossally exceeding his original kickstarter goal, he can make a much better product than he was originally planning, which is good for everybody involved.
Without student loans, the price of education would drop dramatically.
I'm not so sure about this. Student loans have likely driven up the cost of an education, but it's hard to say that simply cutting them off will put the genie back in the bottle. Who is going to take the massive pay cuts? Are the schools going to start just selling off excess buildings and pandering to a smaller core of rich students? If the university is still making the payments on that new billion dollar stadium, they really can't tell the bank "oh, sorry, we're cutting expenses, would you mind not getting paid for it?"
Yeah, it drives me crazy that the teirs are 3GB, 2GB, and 200MB. If that last tier was 1GB, I would be all over it, because I tend to burn about 250-300MB/month, but instead I have to go way up to the 2GB tier that is mostly a waste. Phone companies know this too, that's why they set it up that way. The most ridiculous part is that the overage fees depend on what tier you buy, so you go over 10MB on the 200MB plan and it's $25, but you go over by 10MB on the 2GB plan and it's only $10.
Because ultimately it's going to be Comcast that writes the rules on it. That's how regulation works these days, the companies that are to be regulated get to write the regulations because obviously you don't want government guys coming in and screwing it up, that would be communism.
Just yesterday there was a story about how wall street firms were borrowing from people's investments to fund their own internal high-risk betting process. The regulators started looking at it and Jon Corzine just walked over to their building and said "no", and they said "ok". A few months later millions of regular investors lose their (supposedly safe) retirement savings while the investment bankers raided the taxpayer funded bailout to cover their golden parachutes.
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You know what's sad? Some Facebook games are broken on IPv6. My wife was complaining to me yesterday about how I broke the network, even though I've had a v6 tunnel set up for a couple of years now.
Symantec's IPv6 support was recently upgraded from broken to incomplete.
Several parts of the Bible are in fact even older than that, as they are transcriptions of oral record that had been passed down for generations.
Unless you are a Bible literalist, in which case God does not use Metaphors and if you don't believe that the Earth was created in 7 days and is only 2000 years old and that all animals that exist today are descended from a single pair that went on a boat ride, then you are going to hell. I suspect that this crowd makes up a not-insubstantial portion of the Creationist crowd.
By the way, did you know that the Bible has no contradictions in it and every word is literally true? I had a roommate in college who was a literalist and this is what he fervently believed. There is a whole corpus of little explanations as to why everything that looks like a contradiction or a metaphor is in fact ground truth.
It's pretty hard to find an evolution skeptic outside of the hardboiled creationist crowd these days. I have not seen one in years. Unless you are totally impervious to reasoning, evidence, and logic or are hermetically sealed in a fact proof bubble it's hard to hold an anti-evolution stance these days. There are just too many exciting discoveries in genetics happening every day.
Yes, we've seen this iceberg coming for well over a decade now and we're only just now starting to really turn the wheel. There is a lot of inertia across the board. The good news is that there has been a lot of behind the scenes work done, including getting IPv6 in most consumer and commercial devices. Old hardware is still a problem. Worse, on the Cisco and other large router vendor side, many of the earlier devices supported IPv6 in software only, meaning that it would work fine for a lab or network without much IPv6 traffic, but if you tried to switch over everything to IPv6 you would crush the router. This problem should go away over time as older hardware is retired and replaced.
It didn't move because the underwriters were propping up the price because they don't want to look like they're overvaluing IPO stock. That's why it's collapsing today, because the underwriters are no longer propping up the price.
Using the "delete my account" option in Facebook actually doesn't delete anything. It just removes the data from public view. Facebook is still free to datamine and sell the info to whomever they want.
No, airport beacons operate on different frequencies, as do maritime ones. I've not been able to find any actual radiolocation devices using that band. There is a patent application for one, but I can't find any examples of one that has been built. The 2.45Ghz band is not a good one for radiolocation anyway, since it is absorbed strongly by water, meaning it will be less effective in storm conditions--which is when you need radiolocation services the most.
HTTPs won't do anything about them sniffing your DNS traffic.
Seems to me your big problem was that you weren't able to defriend bad Facebook users, and took the switch to Google+ as a way to drop them all without having to actually tell them that you dropped them.
I had basically zero traction in getting people switched over to G+ for regular posting, so I'm still stuck on Facebook. Maybe if the new investors start pressuring the company to monetize more and more of it (ruining the experience) then maybe I'll get some switchers, but it's hard to get people to move away from what they're familiar with if it's still working fine. Plus, G+ was much worse for games when it first came out, so basically their stupid farms and scrabble games kept them from switching.
Well, it's not exactly legal, but you could tell all of your wireless gear that you are Japanese and switch over to channel 14. You'll be stepping on radiolocation beacons, but those shouldn't be around in the middle of a city anyway.
It's a downside for any author. It basically kills the movie option income dead, since studios almost always wait 5 years already before making the movie. I don't know how big of a deal this is, studios don't pay much to option most books, but for an author any paycheck helps.
The fundamentals are still there though. Worst case is people on the assembly lines have to rediscover the tricks that their grandfathers used.
That's just us exporting our pollution to other countries though. Eventually they'll have their own environmental catastrophes and be forced to clean up by the angry mobs. Once your rivers are on fire and everybody has cancer it is hard to ignore the environmental impacts. Eventually the world has to accept a higher price for the commodity so it can be produced in a more ecologically friendly manner.
The "ability is lost" when the last plant capable of doing it shuts down. The knowledge isn't lost (we hope), but for various reasons (typically it was being done cheaper overseas) the actual facilities will close. If we had to, we could rebuild/reopen the plants here, but it would take a few years and the investors would want some sort of guarantee that the same economic forces that caused the previous plants to close won't apply to the new plant.
We are seeing this today with the rare earth mining industry, where all of the US mines shut down because China was exporting government subsidized minerals for peanuts. Then, when they got a monopoly on the rare earth market, they suddenly shot the prices up and started raking in the cash. Now the US company is reopening their plant because the economic conditions are favorable and because worldwide demand is growing enough that it will be difficult for China to flood the market again. People were biting their nails over the US "losing the ability to make a strategic resource", but the ability wasn't lost, just on hold while they waited for the economics to turn around.
Are you moving 300GB on a Macbook Air that often?
It's not even well designed. There is going to be constant drag between the rotating living quarters and the non-rotating engine parts, causing the engine to always be pulled slightly to one side. You could fix this with two sets of counter-rotating living spaces though.
The bigger problem is what to do with the waste heat from the 4.5 Gigawatts(!!!) of nuclear energy powering the thing. Blackbody radiation isn't the most efficient way to dispose of waste heat, but it's the only one that works in space. One Earth nuclear powerplants are built near water sources for this reason, and the plan doesn't appear to have a provision to tether a thing to an icy comet to dump all of the waste heat into it. I don't think this plan is nearly as well considered as the author seems to think.
Isn't that why you have a "tech guy" in the government who gets the admittedly crappy job of maintaining all of that equipment, driving out to each library when they have a problem and fixing/replacing their router.
The configuration shouldn't require a BA in network administration. It's a T1 endpoint with a switch on the end. Maybe there is a VPN set up to some central location, but it's pretty basic stuff.
This was clearly a case a gross incompetence/corruption, but it's hardly a disaster. The fix seems easy enough, pull the hilariously overspecced routers out of the libraries/schools, sell them off for a decent fraction of their original price, and buy appropriate routers to replace them, cheap ones. Use the leftover money to buy books for the libraries or school supplies or something.
This is West Virginia, DSL isn't available to most people because the COs are spread so far apart, especially in the rural areas.
The funny thing is, Steve Jackson has name recognition, but his business has never been much more than a garage operation. Gaming is a niche business, and Steve was a gamer before he was a businessmen. He almost didn't make it early on (especially when the FBI came and took all of his stuff), and this Kickstarter is a way for him to do something that was otherwise too risky for traditional sources of funding.
I'm still not sure how many people outside of Kickstarter are going to buy that HUUUGE box he is making. Retailers are going to balk about having to devote such a crazy amount of shelf space per unit. Because he is doing it through Kickstarter though, a lot of the risk is mitigated by the huge up front donation and what are essentially guaranteed preorders. The other nice thing is that thanks to colossally exceeding his original kickstarter goal, he can make a much better product than he was originally planning, which is good for everybody involved.
I'm not so sure about this. Student loans have likely driven up the cost of an education, but it's hard to say that simply cutting them off will put the genie back in the bottle. Who is going to take the massive pay cuts? Are the schools going to start just selling off excess buildings and pandering to a smaller core of rich students? If the university is still making the payments on that new billion dollar stadium, they really can't tell the bank "oh, sorry, we're cutting expenses, would you mind not getting paid for it?"
Yeah, it drives me crazy that the teirs are 3GB, 2GB, and 200MB. If that last tier was 1GB, I would be all over it, because I tend to burn about 250-300MB/month, but instead I have to go way up to the 2GB tier that is mostly a waste. Phone companies know this too, that's why they set it up that way. The most ridiculous part is that the overage fees depend on what tier you buy, so you go over 10MB on the 200MB plan and it's $25, but you go over by 10MB on the 2GB plan and it's only $10.
Because ultimately it's going to be Comcast that writes the rules on it. That's how regulation works these days, the companies that are to be regulated get to write the regulations because obviously you don't want government guys coming in and screwing it up, that would be communism.
Just yesterday there was a story about how wall street firms were borrowing from people's investments to fund their own internal high-risk betting process. The regulators started looking at it and Jon Corzine just walked over to their building and said "no", and they said "ok". A few months later millions of regular investors lose their (supposedly safe) retirement savings while the investment bankers raided the taxpayer funded bailout to cover their golden parachutes.