Huh? Parent poster was simply pointing out that if people FEEL the effects of their consumption, they will do something positive about it. Quotas aren't a terrible idea, but Americans are such a bunch of entitled brats that it would never get anywhere.
I personally think that energy is too cheap. When I moved into my current place, I had to option of opting for "wind power only". This means that, in Massachusetts, every dollar I spend for generation charges must go toward generating power from wind. The power company said that it would cost me roughly 50-60% more than the standard generation charge. My friends gave me dire warnings that this would be prohibitively expensive. Well, it turns out that 1) not only can I do math, but 2) with a few simple changes (swapping out incandescents), it was even cheaper than I expected.
All of the bulbs in my apartment are CFL, except the ones in the dimmer in the kitchen. I don't own a TV, but I do have a fairly large computer monitor (28"). My average cost for power, paying the premium for wind, is about $30 a month. The month of August was the highest (about $40) because I was running my AC. But last month was around $25. As far as costs go, this is a relatively minor one.
What kills me is that we are, on a daily basis, being bombarded with solar energy. I was in Las Vegas in September and October, and the amount of electricity used on the AC is just tremendous. If LV had a building code that required solar panels on all new buildings, can you imagine how far that would go toward reducing that use? Particularly since the most heavy AC use is during the day, precisely when we're being bombarded with all that energy.
True, but it's not like Hollywood movies are known to be purveyors of fine facts. If this is the first movie you've ever seen, well, OK, I suppose it might be ignorance, but if you've seen a couple of them and you still believe it, I think that falls squarely in the stupid category.
It's not the beeps that get us... we can live with that... it's...
ENHANCE
For the love of God, if I see that again... the Earth *will* end. BTW, anyone have an earliest reference for this atrocious meme? So far, my brother and I have identified Patriot Games as the earliest reference we could find...
I've been to Germany a number of times, and had a long-term relationship with a woman living there. I met a lot of Germans.
I wouldn't say that modern Germans are 'in denial'-- really, people's reactions run the gamut. But what is true, is that everyone there has a strong opinion on the matter. Many people have a deep sense of shame about it-- after all, in many cases the people who perpetrated the atrocities of WWII were parents or grandparents. Some people had nothing to do with that part of the past, or are descendents of victims, and they feel that the German people are wrongly villified. A minority-- and unfortunately, these people are growing in number-- think that the whole Holocaust thing is revisionist history. It's not that people don't talk about it, but it is a very sensitive issue, even among Germans, and so you'd understand if they don't want to talk to you about it.
Interestingly, when I was in Germany, many people I hung out with constantly complained about "repressive American political correctness" while also failing to notice that American 1st Amendment freedoms are much stronger than the German equivalent. There's definitely a bit of a different philosophy at work there (e.g., most Germans I met are not as optimistic as Americans when it comes to populist regimes), but with regard to how, exactly that differs, I have not been able to put my finger on it. Maybe a German reader would care to comment.
I'd have to read the author's original paper here to know for sure, but that 6% performance hit may be because those kernel hook pages are being swapped out of memory. Relocating kernel hooks to read-only pages is proper design, and if this proof-of-concept really works, kernel developers across all operating systems would be foolish not to look into implementing it themselves.
But if the aforementioned 6% is because of swapping, then some changes to the page replacement algorithm may mitigate the performance hit somewhat. My feeling is that this kind of protection is worth it. By analogy, bounds-checking arrays prevents many kinds of overflow errors, and there's a penalty to pay for that protection, but in most cases it is well worth doing.
How about a conspiracy to build a devastating new weapon that will wipe Japanese cities off the map? I'm not a conspiracy theorist, but I can't see how you can say that the Manhattan Project was not a conspiracy. Not to mention other recent and well-documented conspiracies. What about political coups? Political assassinations? For something as visible as oil, probably not, but conspiracies can and do happen.
But the most interesting thing is when the "common sense", "obvious" explanation turns out to be wrong. Science is full of examples like this, e.g., theories about light during the turn of the century. The new, better theories turned out to be so much weirder than anyone had imagined.
The highway model is a limited analogy because highway bandwidth is finite. There are all kinds of practical impediments to building more capacity, not to mention side-effects of more traffic: increased air pollution, increased risk of accidents, increased road maintenance costs, increased need for parking, etc. The same problems don't apply to fibre. It is exceedingly cheap, reliable, and requires very little effort to install, especially if you already have a right-of-way. In fact, take down the copper network as you put up fibre, and you can bankroll the entire replacement without dipping into your revenues. We can't even utilize all the bandwidth in the fibre we already have! You can upgrade the fibre cable you already laid just by periodically upgrading the endpoints.
Yeah, but revenue does. So if he's complaining that they can't meet capacity because they don't have enough money or manpower, well, that's just bullshit. They have the ability to change both of those factors at any time.
Right-of-way and building permits are a different story, though, especially for towers. Those really do take time.
You can also, through manipulation of the electoral process, ensure that your business model is supported by law. That this kind of business is both laissez-faire and government-interventionist is kind of ironic.
Really? Pressure to lend to low-income people caused financial institutions to repackage this debt as dubious collateralized debt obligations? It caused the SEC to relax the net capital rule in 2004 (Bush administration), thus allowing banks and other financial institutions to increase their debt-to-capital ratios to 40:1? That pressure also caused the repeal of the Glass-Steagall Act, which prevented commercial banks from entering the risky investment banking business? (92% of Republicans supporting, 67% of Democrats supporting) It caused predatory lending, reverse mortgages, credit card debt, record low savings, housing and oil as speculative markets, falsified credit ratings, the run on the shadow banking system, etc, etc, etc?
Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac are definitely a cause, but as to the cause? You're dreaming. This is the result of a whole clusterfuck of problems, all coming to fruition at once, with pretty much everyone to blame, across the board, with poor people being the least poised to make any difference. Blaming a worldwide financial crisis on poor people? What a crock of shit.
The binary on disk may not change, particularly if it's a running program that's exploited. In fact, the binary image loaded into memory may not change, either. An exploit might be as simple as getting a program into an 'impossible state' through the use of a buffer overflow. Checking the binary in disk, or even the binary image in memory, will not detect this.
You can't write an algorithm that takes as input another algorithm and outputs whether that second algorithm is correct or not. Since ClearView must make this decision somehow (this behavior is bad; make it good), the process cannot be algorithmic. However-- this is exactly how the vast majority of software is written now-- a programmer has a good idea about how to solve the problem, but does not "provably" solve it. If you believe language designers, that's part of the problem. ClearView just adds another layer of heuristics on top of the ones that are already there. Someone has to come up with those rules. This makes the actual work of understanding a program much more complicated. But, you know, the MIT people have been chasing AI for a long time, so maybe they don't think that understanding something is important as long as there's a good simulacrum of the thing they're trying to create. Black box computer science.
Slashdot Mirror
Huh? Parent poster was simply pointing out that if people FEEL the effects of their consumption, they will do something positive about it. Quotas aren't a terrible idea, but Americans are such a bunch of entitled brats that it would never get anywhere.
I personally think that energy is too cheap. When I moved into my current place, I had to option of opting for "wind power only". This means that, in Massachusetts, every dollar I spend for generation charges must go toward generating power from wind. The power company said that it would cost me roughly 50-60% more than the standard generation charge. My friends gave me dire warnings that this would be prohibitively expensive. Well, it turns out that 1) not only can I do math, but 2) with a few simple changes (swapping out incandescents), it was even cheaper than I expected.
All of the bulbs in my apartment are CFL, except the ones in the dimmer in the kitchen. I don't own a TV, but I do have a fairly large computer monitor (28"). My average cost for power, paying the premium for wind, is about $30 a month. The month of August was the highest (about $40) because I was running my AC. But last month was around $25. As far as costs go, this is a relatively minor one.
What kills me is that we are, on a daily basis, being bombarded with solar energy. I was in Las Vegas in September and October, and the amount of electricity used on the AC is just tremendous. If LV had a building code that required solar panels on all new buildings, can you imagine how far that would go toward reducing that use? Particularly since the most heavy AC use is during the day, precisely when we're being bombarded with all that energy.
Well, at least I got the actor right. I guess this one just follows Harrison Ford around.
Hmm. Guess I missed that. No TV, see.
True, but it's not like Hollywood movies are known to be purveyors of fine facts. If this is the first movie you've ever seen, well, OK, I suppose it might be ignorance, but if you've seen a couple of them and you still believe it, I think that falls squarely in the stupid category.
But, yeah, good for NASA. They should put 'combating ignorance' on their "What have we done for you lately?" page.
It's not the beeps that get us... we can live with that... it's...
ENHANCE
For the love of God, if I see that again... the Earth *will* end. BTW, anyone have an earliest reference for this atrocious meme? So far, my brother and I have identified Patriot Games as the earliest reference we could find...
I've been to Germany a number of times, and had a long-term relationship with a woman living there. I met a lot of Germans.
I wouldn't say that modern Germans are 'in denial'-- really, people's reactions run the gamut. But what is true, is that everyone there has a strong opinion on the matter. Many people have a deep sense of shame about it-- after all, in many cases the people who perpetrated the atrocities of WWII were parents or grandparents. Some people had nothing to do with that part of the past, or are descendents of victims, and they feel that the German people are wrongly villified. A minority-- and unfortunately, these people are growing in number-- think that the whole Holocaust thing is revisionist history. It's not that people don't talk about it, but it is a very sensitive issue, even among Germans, and so you'd understand if they don't want to talk to you about it.
Interestingly, when I was in Germany, many people I hung out with constantly complained about "repressive American political correctness" while also failing to notice that American 1st Amendment freedoms are much stronger than the German equivalent. There's definitely a bit of a different philosophy at work there (e.g., most Germans I met are not as optimistic as Americans when it comes to populist regimes), but with regard to how, exactly that differs, I have not been able to put my finger on it. Maybe a German reader would care to comment.
It has nothing to do with evolution.
Except the part where that mechanism emerged via natural selection.
Good post. Maybe I can talk the wife into getting a wii someday. She seems morally opposed to video games for some odd reason.
You and the dictionary should fight.
I'd have to read the author's original paper here to know for sure, but that 6% performance hit may be because those kernel hook pages are being swapped out of memory. Relocating kernel hooks to read-only pages is proper design, and if this proof-of-concept really works, kernel developers across all operating systems would be foolish not to look into implementing it themselves.
But if the aforementioned 6% is because of swapping, then some changes to the page replacement algorithm may mitigate the performance hit somewhat. My feeling is that this kind of protection is worth it. By analogy, bounds-checking arrays prevents many kinds of overflow errors, and there's a penalty to pay for that protection, but in most cases it is well worth doing.
Overlooking the funny spelling errors, there is no reason why the kernel can't do this natively. It just doesn't at the moment.
I guess I'm living in the dark ages because I don't have a console (well, actually, I have an SNES), but how did the wiimote turn out?
How about a conspiracy to build a devastating new weapon that will wipe Japanese cities off the map? I'm not a conspiracy theorist, but I can't see how you can say that the Manhattan Project was not a conspiracy. Not to mention other recent and well-documented conspiracies. What about political coups? Political assassinations? For something as visible as oil, probably not, but conspiracies can and do happen.
But the most interesting thing is when the "common sense", "obvious" explanation turns out to be wrong. Science is full of examples like this, e.g., theories about light during the turn of the century. The new, better theories turned out to be so much weirder than anyone had imagined.
The highway model is a limited analogy because highway bandwidth is finite. There are all kinds of practical impediments to building more capacity, not to mention side-effects of more traffic: increased air pollution, increased risk of accidents, increased road maintenance costs, increased need for parking, etc. The same problems don't apply to fibre. It is exceedingly cheap, reliable, and requires very little effort to install, especially if you already have a right-of-way. In fact, take down the copper network as you put up fibre, and you can bankroll the entire replacement without dipping into your revenues. We can't even utilize all the bandwidth in the fibre we already have! You can upgrade the fibre cable you already laid just by periodically upgrading the endpoints.
Yeah, but revenue does. So if he's complaining that they can't meet capacity because they don't have enough money or manpower, well, that's just bullshit. They have the ability to change both of those factors at any time.
Right-of-way and building permits are a different story, though, especially for towers. Those really do take time.
You can also, through manipulation of the electoral process, ensure that your business model is supported by law. That this kind of business is both laissez-faire and government-interventionist is kind of ironic.
Yeah, but then you have to respond to every low UID joke. What a PITA. I'm safely in the medium-old section where I belong.
You have how many kids now?
Damn... beat me to it.
The bug is fixed in the release candidate. The point being that "most deployed versions" of Linux do not have the fix.
Really? Pressure to lend to low-income people caused financial institutions to repackage this debt as dubious collateralized debt obligations? It caused the SEC to relax the net capital rule in 2004 (Bush administration), thus allowing banks and other financial institutions to increase their debt-to-capital ratios to 40:1? That pressure also caused the repeal of the Glass-Steagall Act, which prevented commercial banks from entering the risky investment banking business? (92% of Republicans supporting, 67% of Democrats supporting) It caused predatory lending, reverse mortgages, credit card debt, record low savings, housing and oil as speculative markets, falsified credit ratings, the run on the shadow banking system, etc, etc, etc?
Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac are definitely a cause, but as to the cause? You're dreaming. This is the result of a whole clusterfuck of problems, all coming to fruition at once, with pretty much everyone to blame, across the board, with poor people being the least poised to make any difference. Blaming a worldwide financial crisis on poor people? What a crock of shit.
You want relayd, also previously known as hoststated.
The binary on disk may not change, particularly if it's a running program that's exploited. In fact, the binary image loaded into memory may not change, either. An exploit might be as simple as getting a program into an 'impossible state' through the use of a buffer overflow. Checking the binary in disk, or even the binary image in memory, will not detect this.
You can't write an algorithm that takes as input another algorithm and outputs whether that second algorithm is correct or not. Since ClearView must make this decision somehow (this behavior is bad; make it good), the process cannot be algorithmic. However-- this is exactly how the vast majority of software is written now-- a programmer has a good idea about how to solve the problem, but does not "provably" solve it. If you believe language designers, that's part of the problem. ClearView just adds another layer of heuristics on top of the ones that are already there. Someone has to come up with those rules. This makes the actual work of understanding a program much more complicated. But, you know, the MIT people have been chasing AI for a long time, so maybe they don't think that understanding something is important as long as there's a good simulacrum of the thing they're trying to create. Black box computer science.