4G does work like a charm; considerably better than an ad-hoc internet over consumer wifi WAP's. But the notion of an internet that doesn't depend on any corporate or sovereign gatekeepers is intriguing.
...for a truly 'open-source' internet would be packet travel over wi-fi without ever hitting telco infrastructure. For instance, how far could one relay a packet from their own wi-fi router just bouncing from wifi network to wifi network? Starting in NYC as an example, how far could one daisy-chain WAN jumping? To New Jersey? Florida? California (lol)? Infrastructure is just about deployed enough that a slow, strange, ad-hoc hack-job internet could be built without any telcos or government whatsoever.
Just to be clear, you're saying that if the FBI, CIA, and NSA finds compelling evidence that a hostile foreign power is interfering in an election, they shouldn't investigate it further if there's any risk at all that a Republican (Democrats apparently don't matter, I don't see you complaining about Comey's October Surprise) candidate might be benefiting from said interference?
What compelling evidence? That 'dossier?' The DNC server the DNC has never given to an outside entity (government or otherwise)? Maybe Stormy Daniels?
Concocting narratives - even with the help of every 'official' institution in the land - to avoid the reckoning Democrats need to have just prolongs the pain. What reckoning is that? That the Democrats let themselves get hijacked internally and officially by Yankee version of Eva Peron and they lost - lost to a buffoon - because of that. Want to beat Donald Trump? Don't nominate Hillary Clinton. Want to beat the dog catcher in your local municipal elections? Don't nominate Hillary Clinton. Want to not need pliant FBI directors to avoid criminal indictments of your presidential candidate? Don't nominate Hillary Clinton. Want to avoid losing to an orange bombastic reality TV personality? Don't nominate Hillary Clinton. This is easy, Democrats just need to figure it out, have that reckoning, and move on. Blaming the Russians at this point is like a drunk blaming...anything other than stupidity of continuing to consume poison.
Only Democrat that people could find positive argument to vote for was Bernie - who isn't actually a Democrat, but did get thrown under the bus by...the DNC.
And can't forget about the slush-fund scheme where local pols and fundraisers sent money up the chain to DNC which then could kick checks to Hillary and get around campaign limits. Getting around campaign limits by essentially hoodwinking their own supporters out of their money. So classy, so Hillary. So DNC.
Now the DNC is broke in an allegedly 'wave' election year for Democrats. Throw in Debbie-from-Florida running DNC into the ground, them getting hacked, compromised server, and then not letting anyone (including FBI) ever see this compromised server. Just hapless. If one is a Democrat, or wants to run as a Democrat, stay away from DNC. It is kiss-of-death and has that Clintonian ethical-skunkiness all over it; like a washed towel left in https://apple.slashdot.org/sto... drier too long before drying, and DNC will have that patina for years until that place gets its own 'reset.'
Such monetary figures equate to a basement project for likes of Michael Bloomberg, Tom Steyer, Al Gore, etc. Each of those charlatans has aircraft and maintenance costs that approach $65 million dollars - just to spew carbon for their collective convenience they're paying it already.
...that Obama's deal was with Obama alone. Iranians can read US Constitution and watch US news. They knew no Senate ratification = no treaty = it isn't worth squat. They watched political developments in this country and knew in November 2016 Obama's deal was over sooner than later. If they act surprised or taken aback, well that is indeed an act or the Iranians haven't been paying attention for past couple years.
Why then did the Iranians sign up at all? Probably the literal pallets of unmarked bills (among many other assets) that now fund Iranian (mis)adventures in Syria and Yemen. They got a lot of checks cashed before this thing ended.
Incidentally the legal mechanics that let Trump scuttle this also are why Paris carbon deal is DOA. USA just getting ahead of the curve there anyways; Europeans got the third world onboard with Paris with collective bribe of ~$100 billion a year for developing world to 'mitigate' climate change. I'm not making that up. Its getting to be put up or shutup time on that front; the African contingent is already complaining about when-how the checks start showing up - and we all know they never will. Obama was a clown in his deals both in mechanics of the deals and leaving them to hang in administrative limbo for next President. Good riddance Lightworker.
is like academic equivalent of being hottest search term on pr0nhub; its kind of a mark of shame, but all your peers secretly wish it was them anyways.
I actually want this to happen. Forks are good at times and allow for improvements. Maybe the european internet can create something better than the american one.
Therein lies the problem for Europe though. What/who is going to make 'their' internet? They piggyback off Americans for pretty much all their IT. Search engines, streaming services, mobile platforms, OS'es, online retailers, and so forth.
With GPDR, Europe is turning itself slowly into short-bus version of the internet if they're not careful. One version of something for the world, another liability-locked-down and limited version for the Euros. And Europe won't be 'first' on the priority list in those various contexts, because nothing that really matters internet-wise comes from Europe. A bureaucracy can dictate to an industry remote from its own borders only so much before it becomes too much of a pain.
Mindless crap isn't genre-specific, it is something that affects and maligns every genre. Look at supposedly low-brow plebeian popcorn culture. Like Star Wars. There is good (Episode V) and there is mindless crap (Episode I). Same with Trek (Episode 1 vis Episode IV). Old School isn't anything classy, but man is it funny. Deadpool is a modern example of good superhero movie. Richard Donner Supermans are classics. So is very first Burton Batman, or the Nolan reboots. They're out there. Not judging by genre here. And none of that changes fact 2001 is best sci-fi movie ever made.
So, feel free to sit around with your pipe and smoking jacket doing the kinds of things one does when wearing a smoking jacket... and discuss in detail how HAL is a metaphor for human suffering an inequity and that the docking scene is representational of intercourse... me, I'll take a good Avengers film any day.
I don't try reading between the lines (seeing between the frames?) on the movie. Meh. What I like about the movie is its a visual spectacle that makes one think. It is a movie that makes limitations work. A good example is the monolith. Supposed to be alien probe. Bowman supposed to be at alien planet/place at the end. And there was lots of talk about what the aliens should be like, look like, and so forth. It was none other than Carl Sagan's idea to avoid presenting the aliens or their tech in anything but the most generalized abstraction. Throw the superhero crew on that problem today, and you'd end up with zillion-polygon slime critter rendered through super-dark blue alpha filter in post production that would look laughably fake in two years.
Another thing is the destination planet. They picked Jupiter instead of Saturn (like in the book) because Saturn was a fuzzy blob with rings back then, and nothing else. There had never been a close-up photo of Jupiter even when 2001 was made. Nobody had ever seen the Jovian moons or even had good idea on what color they were. And yet there's never been a better depiction and sense of being in deep space around Jupiter than that film. No way around it, that is impressive.
Well, with the current Avengers nipping on the heels of generating a billion dollars in just over a week... you pretty much have to recognise that it's clearly what people want.
Absolutely that tripe is what people want. Along with Big Macs and another report on Kendall Jenner's choice of latte on Tuesdays. Mass-market crap is just that. I will say this though, in 50 years nobody is going to talk about Infinity Blade or Kendall Jenner (jury's out on Big Macs) as they discuss the 100th anniversary of this film.
2001 still most compelling sci-fi movie ever made. Haters can't stand the long cut scenes etc., but then go watch a (so fake its painful to watch) CGI Midtown fall down in 'new' way for Avengers 57 or whatever.
Notion here is nuclear reactor in a SUV. So the SUV is the destination. In so much as 'hardening' it takes a couple feet of lead to keep the gammas and ~4 MeV neutrons away - and that is the incident energy of the thing, no matter the size. I don't know about you, about a couple cubic feet of lead (not counting reactor) combined with 30Kw of motive power makes for a good day to walk (you might win that race, too).
While one might worry about crashes, remember these thermo-nuclear-electric power packs on sattelites are hardened to survive a rocket explosion and hard re-entry
This reactor much more dangerous than thermo-electric pack. It has moving parts, an actual critical reactor assembly (not passive beta decay like thermoelectric), uses enriched U vs. non-fissiles found in thermo-packs. SUV-crash with one of these on board = mini-Chernobyl/future Superfund site.
Completely misunderstood what I was saying. Trump generates lots of traffic for Twitter because world basically watches his tweets. Whether you like him or hate him is irrelevant - he's just a big bump in their traffic. If they lost Trump for whatever reason (pick a reason) that traffic would go away. That makes Trump's continued engagement with the platform of particular material interest to Twitter.
Twitter is urging its more than 330 million users to change their passwords after a glitch exposed some in plain text on its internal computer network.
Remember couple years ago when the oft-quoted number of Twits was ~500 million? Ouch on the downgrade. They can hate on Trump internally all they want, he closes his account their total traffic goes down by 10% probably. Twitter needs Trump...think about that one for a sec.
All the guestimates for cost I quoted are absurdly generous. And for the same $15 billion (again assuming incredibly cheap) one could get a lot more internet with a different approach.
Yeah right. 2500 satellites, even at ten-per-launch, is 250 launches. Even at "only" $20 million a launch, that's $5 billion...not even counting cost of the satellites.
Plus 25 launches a year forever after just to replace the ten percent of satellites in the constellation that one can bank will go on fritz annually. And upgrades. Oh boy. Everyone 8G or whatever on the ground? Time for another...2500 satellites.
How that's cheaper than fiber endpoint -> cellular I don't know.
I know in Europe banking laws are written so you can't set up a banking structure that lets you launder money and pretend you didn't know that was happening.
Ah, those wonderful Europeans and their financial cleanliness. Except for Switzerland. Oh, and don't forget Cyprus. Isle of Mann? That too I guess. Lichtenstein banks unsually well capitalized. Luxembourg doing alright I hear as well. I think Russia's entire 1% has their money stashed in London (not 'London' London...but the City of London). All above the board with no money laundering whatsoever pinky-swear.
Slashdot Mirror
...that signing several thousand pages of contracts over fifteen different TOU's without reading them could lead to this.
4G does work like a charm; considerably better than an ad-hoc internet over consumer wifi WAP's. But the notion of an internet that doesn't depend on any corporate or sovereign gatekeepers is intriguing.
...for a truly 'open-source' internet would be packet travel over wi-fi without ever hitting telco infrastructure. For instance, how far could one relay a packet from their own wi-fi router just bouncing from wifi network to wifi network? Starting in NYC as an example, how far could one daisy-chain WAN jumping? To New Jersey? Florida? California (lol)? Infrastructure is just about deployed enough that a slow, strange, ad-hoc hack-job internet could be built without any telcos or government whatsoever.
Just to be clear, you're saying that if the FBI, CIA, and NSA finds compelling evidence that a hostile foreign power is interfering in an election, they shouldn't investigate it further if there's any risk at all that a Republican (Democrats apparently don't matter, I don't see you complaining about Comey's October Surprise) candidate might be benefiting from said interference?
What compelling evidence? That 'dossier?' The DNC server the DNC has never given to an outside entity (government or otherwise)? Maybe Stormy Daniels?
Concocting narratives - even with the help of every 'official' institution in the land - to avoid the reckoning Democrats need to have just prolongs the pain. What reckoning is that? That the Democrats let themselves get hijacked internally and officially by Yankee version of Eva Peron and they lost - lost to a buffoon - because of that. Want to beat Donald Trump? Don't nominate Hillary Clinton. Want to beat the dog catcher in your local municipal elections? Don't nominate Hillary Clinton. Want to not need pliant FBI directors to avoid criminal indictments of your presidential candidate? Don't nominate Hillary Clinton. Want to avoid losing to an orange bombastic reality TV personality? Don't nominate Hillary Clinton. This is easy, Democrats just need to figure it out, have that reckoning, and move on. Blaming the Russians at this point is like a drunk blaming...anything other than stupidity of continuing to consume poison.
Wake up Democrats
Not all politicians are part of the DNC.
Only Democrat that people could find positive argument to vote for was Bernie - who isn't actually a Democrat, but did get thrown under the bus by...the DNC.
And can't forget about the slush-fund scheme where local pols and fundraisers sent money up the chain to DNC which then could kick checks to Hillary and get around campaign limits. Getting around campaign limits by essentially hoodwinking their own supporters out of their money. So classy, so Hillary. So DNC.
Now the DNC is broke in an allegedly 'wave' election year for Democrats. Throw in Debbie-from-Florida running DNC into the ground, them getting hacked, compromised server, and then not letting anyone (including FBI) ever see this compromised server. Just hapless. If one is a Democrat, or wants to run as a Democrat, stay away from DNC. It is kiss-of-death and has that Clintonian ethical-skunkiness all over it; like a washed towel left in https://apple.slashdot.org/sto... drier too long before drying, and DNC will have that patina for years until that place gets its own 'reset.'
1. Lazy IT guy surfing the internet at desk
2. Boss walks up to desk; Lazy IT guy sees him approach in rear-view mirror taped to monitor
3. Lazy IT guy minimizes Chrome session.
4. Boss stares hard at un-minimized pr0n video auto-playing behind the now-minimized Chrome session.
5. Lazy IT guy does Walk of Shame with box out to parking lot...
Such monetary figures equate to a basement project for likes of Michael Bloomberg, Tom Steyer, Al Gore, etc. Each of those charlatans has aircraft and maintenance costs that approach $65 million dollars - just to spew carbon for their collective convenience they're paying it already.
They can pay for this easy
...that Obama's deal was with Obama alone. Iranians can read US Constitution and watch US news. They knew no Senate ratification = no treaty = it isn't worth squat. They watched political developments in this country and knew in November 2016 Obama's deal was over sooner than later. If they act surprised or taken aback, well that is indeed an act or the Iranians haven't been paying attention for past couple years.
Why then did the Iranians sign up at all? Probably the literal pallets of unmarked bills (among many other assets) that now fund Iranian (mis)adventures in Syria and Yemen. They got a lot of checks cashed before this thing ended.
Incidentally the legal mechanics that let Trump scuttle this also are why Paris carbon deal is DOA. USA just getting ahead of the curve there anyways; Europeans got the third world onboard with Paris with collective bribe of ~$100 billion a year for developing world to 'mitigate' climate change. I'm not making that up. Its getting to be put up or shutup time on that front; the African contingent is already complaining about when-how the checks start showing up - and we all know they never will. Obama was a clown in his deals both in mechanics of the deals and leaving them to hang in administrative limbo for next President. Good riddance Lightworker.
They get what they deserve.
is like academic equivalent of being hottest search term on pr0nhub; its kind of a mark of shame, but all your peers secretly wish it was them anyways.
I actually want this to happen. Forks are good at times and allow for improvements. Maybe the european internet can create something better than the american one.
Therein lies the problem for Europe though. What/who is going to make 'their' internet? They piggyback off Americans for pretty much all their IT. Search engines, streaming services, mobile platforms, OS'es, online retailers, and so forth.
With GPDR, Europe is turning itself slowly into short-bus version of the internet if they're not careful. One version of something for the world, another liability-locked-down and limited version for the Euros. And Europe won't be 'first' on the priority list in those various contexts, because nothing that really matters internet-wise comes from Europe. A bureaucracy can dictate to an industry remote from its own borders only so much before it becomes too much of a pain.
Mindless crap isn't genre-specific, it is something that affects and maligns every genre. Look at supposedly low-brow plebeian popcorn culture. Like Star Wars. There is good (Episode V) and there is mindless crap (Episode I). Same with Trek (Episode 1 vis Episode IV). Old School isn't anything classy, but man is it funny. Deadpool is a modern example of good superhero movie. Richard Donner Supermans are classics. So is very first Burton Batman, or the Nolan reboots. They're out there. Not judging by genre here. And none of that changes fact 2001 is best sci-fi movie ever made.
So, feel free to sit around with your pipe and smoking jacket doing the kinds of things one does when wearing a smoking jacket ... and discuss in detail how HAL is a metaphor for human suffering an inequity and that the docking scene is representational of intercourse ... me, I'll take a good Avengers film any day.
I don't try reading between the lines (seeing between the frames?) on the movie. Meh. What I like about the movie is its a visual spectacle that makes one think. It is a movie that makes limitations work. A good example is the monolith. Supposed to be alien probe. Bowman supposed to be at alien planet/place at the end. And there was lots of talk about what the aliens should be like, look like, and so forth. It was none other than Carl Sagan's idea to avoid presenting the aliens or their tech in anything but the most generalized abstraction. Throw the superhero crew on that problem today, and you'd end up with zillion-polygon slime critter rendered through super-dark blue alpha filter in post production that would look laughably fake in two years.
Another thing is the destination planet. They picked Jupiter instead of Saturn (like in the book) because Saturn was a fuzzy blob with rings back then, and nothing else. There had never been a close-up photo of Jupiter even when 2001 was made. Nobody had ever seen the Jovian moons or even had good idea on what color they were. And yet there's never been a better depiction and sense of being in deep space around Jupiter than that film. No way around it, that is impressive.
Well, with the current Avengers nipping on the heels of generating a billion dollars in just over a week ... you pretty much have to recognise that it's clearly what people want.
Absolutely that tripe is what people want. Along with Big Macs and another report on Kendall Jenner's choice of latte on Tuesdays. Mass-market crap is just that. I will say this though, in 50 years nobody is going to talk about Infinity Blade or Kendall Jenner (jury's out on Big Macs) as they discuss the 100th anniversary of this film.
2001 still most compelling sci-fi movie ever made. Haters can't stand the long cut scenes etc., but then go watch a (so fake its painful to watch) CGI Midtown fall down in 'new' way for Avengers 57 or whatever.
Notion here is nuclear reactor in a SUV. So the SUV is the destination. In so much as 'hardening' it takes a couple feet of lead to keep the gammas and ~4 MeV neutrons away - and that is the incident energy of the thing, no matter the size. I don't know about you, about a couple cubic feet of lead (not counting reactor) combined with 30Kw of motive power makes for a good day to walk (you might win that race, too).
While one might worry about crashes, remember these thermo-nuclear-electric power packs on sattelites are hardened to survive a rocket explosion and hard re-entry
This reactor much more dangerous than thermo-electric pack. It has moving parts, an actual critical reactor assembly (not passive beta decay like thermoelectric), uses enriched U vs. non-fissiles found in thermo-packs. SUV-crash with one of these on board = mini-Chernobyl/future Superfund site.
Completely misunderstood what I was saying. Trump generates lots of traffic for Twitter because world basically watches his tweets. Whether you like him or hate him is irrelevant - he's just a big bump in their traffic. If they lost Trump for whatever reason (pick a reason) that traffic would go away. That makes Trump's continued engagement with the platform of particular material interest to Twitter.
Twitter is urging its more than 330 million users to change their passwords after a glitch exposed some in plain text on its internal computer network.
Remember couple years ago when the oft-quoted number of Twits was ~500 million? Ouch on the downgrade. They can hate on Trump internally all they want, he closes his account their total traffic goes down by 10% probably. Twitter needs Trump...think about that one for a sec.
All the guestimates for cost I quoted are absurdly generous. And for the same $15 billion (again assuming incredibly cheap) one could get a lot more internet with a different approach.
$5 billion just launch costs. If satellites $50 million a pop (generously cheap quote there)...one can almost triple that price.
And Facebook can't get around the Chinese government whether under the sea, across the ground, over the air, or in space.
Yeah right. 2500 satellites, even at ten-per-launch, is 250 launches. Even at "only" $20 million a launch, that's $5 billion...not even counting cost of the satellites.
Plus 25 launches a year forever after just to replace the ten percent of satellites in the constellation that one can bank will go on fritz annually. And upgrades. Oh boy. Everyone 8G or whatever on the ground? Time for another...2500 satellites.
How that's cheaper than fiber endpoint -> cellular I don't know.
I know in Europe banking laws are written so you can't set up a banking structure that lets you launder money and pretend you didn't know that was happening.
Ah, those wonderful Europeans and their financial cleanliness. Except for Switzerland. Oh, and don't forget Cyprus. Isle of Mann? That too I guess. Lichtenstein banks unsually well capitalized. Luxembourg doing alright I hear as well. I think Russia's entire 1% has their money stashed in London (not 'London' London...but the City of London). All above the board with no money laundering whatsoever pinky-swear.
Facebook Fires Employee Who Allegedly Used Data Access To Stalk Women
Cue Sheryl Sandberg doing walk of shame out to parking lot with box of her stuff.