At Amazon you can rent cloud machines with free software. There is no reason that an virtual machine image pre-prepared by some company consists of free software only and nevertheless is turnkey-ready configured for a user (that may even be hidden behind a nice interface).
Isn't that cute? The idea that 'the average Joe' doesn't now how to handle things, so his vote is so worthless that its legitimate also to use force or violence and damage somebody else.... I have heard that idea before... Usually it ends with the formation of an even smaller group which by definition knows how to handle things an takes - of course for the good of all - the name to speak and decide in the name of all on what is right. For sure nothing can go wrong with this idea.
Please. Making a DDoS with a simple program relates to Hacking like Kicking garbage cans out of frustration relates to making really good and creative political demonstrations.
Even if i do not consider myself a hacker, i think think that the following rules apply for most hackers:
a) Hacking is creative, finding interesting ways to do and know interesting things, and communicating them.
b) If its used for a purpose, make sure the purpose harms nobody. Always try to be useful.
c) don't make hacks available in a form that stupid idiots can use them without understanding - that is to protect them from harming themself and others.
d) Dont mistake your knowledge for power or superiority to judge over others. That would be the same as the superiority of the robber waiting in the dark alley.
e) asymmetric warfare is often used by terrorists. Make sure you are careful when you can create an ethics based on the assumption that fighting an asymmetric war is justified.
f) DDoS are something which should be prevented. They have been used by Russian hackers to take smaller countries web offline. They have been used by spammers to kick ant-spam and malware websites out of the net. They have been used to kick out political activists. DDoS are a weapon working best against small institutions. A small NGO maybe cant afford 1000Euro of Traffic costs. Amazon redistributes their cloud and thats it.
Because people are arrogant. They always believe that every generation before them was in the dark ages. Soon they will believe that having no internet was equivalent to living uninformed in a dictatorship.
It is funny how we look for social benefits in the works of others, and not in our own. I know few programmers who consider before taking a job if it will propel mankind or not.
I am fully convinced that this model should not only be allowed, but be enforced, at least for high priority traffic. Right now flatrates are a bet on how much the user uses - and for sure the companies know better how much the average user uses than the average user. Its even better (for the company). If the user happens to be outside the main probability distribution peak (to higher usage), then his contract will be canceled with some strange argument (We never heard about that if he is outside the peak towards lower use). Having different prices for different classes of service, you could e.g. range from 1cent/GB for bulk traffic to $1/GB for real-time traffic (numbers are for illustration).
Right now, and that is the same for mobile and for the normal net, there is no incentive to use a good solution, instead of a solution where the average transfer is increased. I would even say changing this could drive providers to provide things free proxies (e.g. windows/linux and virus scanner updates would run much faster) and a web control panel where they can control what happens on their account (I always find it wonderful how people change from "this is to complicated to understand something" to "want to control every piece of it" if you attach a money tag to a decision.), because then this could be sold to the customer. Probably it would be faster then for the user, cost less traffic on the backbone, and there would be a monetary incentive to do it (Marketing: ultrafast free updates).
The users would learn to distinct between bulk traffic and other traffic - Maybe they would even consider to start a download for a movie a few hours ealier if its then only 1Cent instead of 1Euro. And Programmers would finally learn how to use the IP header flag indicating the service class - because then again, an download manager is not only "fast", but may be also "cheap". Believe me, the very same people who right now have the energy to find the fastest downloader (even if the difference is marginal) would invest their energy to make it cheaper.
I rather think if they optimize the Sparc HW for databases it may a chance for the Architecture to survive in the long term. And no, nobody is going to switch because of ideology. They switch because of cost for running their applications. And no, such decicions are not made on the scale of 1-2 years, but a longer timescale.
Programming without carefully selecting the solution. I maintain a small measurement control system and before even making the smallest extension i will read and think about the different possibilities in question before typing the first line of code. Then i will try to isolate the new code so that a possibly wrong decision at that stage can be cured quickly.
So lets condense it to: Think hard and try to make the right decision and still assume it will be wrong.
A special corollary of this is to give a malus to all solutions which needlessly bind you a specific implementation.
I feel that i can thrust you. You seem a decent man, running a nice anti-virus software. As it turns out, the late owner of the company of the software you are using left me a fortune in licenses. However, i need a business partner.......
No. I know how GPS works (physicist with rf&signal processing experience), i see no mechanism for this but false rumors. Furthermore my personal experience tells me that the worst thing for GPS are cities. It takes (i have a quite old unit) 2-5 Minutes to get a fix in Tokyo, but only 20 Seconds if i am in Hakone, even in a mountain area (which are the second worst thing). In the city its actually so bad, i always use "my location" from google map, which does not use GPS. I imagine its pretty bad if you are on the valley of the Grand Canyon or not good if you are at the bottom of any deep valley, but being in a rural environment should make it better. And yes, rain/clouds will influence the signal strength, but normally this does not make GPS impossible at all.
And that agrees with my idea on how GPS works, and with the manual of the device.
x@x:~$ wc FTC Is In Talks With Adobe About the 'Flash Problem'; "Flash isn't actually necessary to watch YouTube videos, but the rest of this article is interesting."
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You really want to tell me that up to now anybody could put in his 64GB USB drive and copy all the data he/she wants to copy? Seems relaxed to me taken into account that probably the entrance is guarded by an armed guard.
I didn't use the ATMs in university entrance halls, small shopping malls etc, but the ones in banks or very public places; i obviously did not use a credit card in small shops. The likeliness something bad will happen to you (e.g. Policemen doubting your registration and getting you stuck for several hours unless you pay up their "fee") by making yourself recognizable as a foreigner who uses some strange paths outweighs the possible loss (BTW: i always limit my cards to a reasonable amount - even in countries which believe they are more civilized.)
Yes Slashdot readers owe the favor of not doing slashretweets as articles. If you like to keeps the buzzosphere buzzing, you are welcome. Facebook seems to have a "like it" button and twitters only purpose seems to be right that.
I think it does. If you have special hardware for special observations its better to have a flexible platform. 40 years ago you knew where the spy sattelite should be in the next 20 years (soviet union), what it should do (listen to soviet communications and take photos of bases/harbors), and how that would roughly work (no, the soviet union would not swap their whole communication systems withing a few years).
Nowadays, who knows which country makes the biggest problem in five years, who knows what needs to be done there (listen to GSM networks, listen to military communications, take high-res photos, etc.). And you can always pack the newest hardware. Having a flexible platform makes sense.
In articles about science always follow at least to the original article or the preprint and state that explicitly. I am sick and tired of "i am only citing the blog where i found it and not bothering to tell (or check?) if its published, preprint, or just buzz".
I am by no means expert on mass spectrometry by some thing they are doing seem strange. I will look at it when a referee examined it for PRL (to which its obviously submitted)
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At Amazon you can rent cloud machines with free software. There is no reason that an virtual machine image pre-prepared by some company consists of free software only and nevertheless is turnkey-ready configured for a user (that may even be hidden behind a nice interface).
Physicists should do statistics. What they should not do is do statistics which they dont know about.
Isn't that cute? The idea that 'the average Joe' doesn't now how to handle things, so his vote is so worthless that its legitimate also to use force or violence and damage somebody else.... I have heard that idea before... Usually it ends with the formation of an even smaller group which by definition knows how to handle things an takes - of course for the good of all - the name to speak and decide in the name of all on what is right. For sure nothing can go wrong with this idea.
Right. Then how does DDoSing Amazon/Paypal/Visa exactly help the situation?
Please. Making a DDoS with a simple program relates to Hacking like Kicking garbage cans out of frustration relates to making really good and creative political demonstrations.
Even if i do not consider myself a hacker, i think think that the following rules apply for most hackers:
a) Hacking is creative, finding interesting ways to do and know interesting things, and communicating them.
b) If its used for a purpose, make sure the purpose harms nobody. Always try to be useful.
c) don't make hacks available in a form that stupid idiots can use them without understanding - that is to protect them from harming themself and others.
d) Dont mistake your knowledge for power or superiority to judge over others. That would be the same as the superiority of the robber waiting in the dark alley.
e) asymmetric warfare is often used by terrorists. Make sure you are careful when you can create an ethics based on the assumption that fighting an asymmetric war is justified.
f) DDoS are something which should be prevented. They have been used by Russian hackers to take smaller countries web offline. They have been used by spammers to kick ant-spam and malware websites out of the net. They have been used to kick out political activists. DDoS are a weapon working best against small institutions. A small NGO maybe cant afford 1000Euro of Traffic costs. Amazon redistributes their cloud and thats it.
Because people are arrogant. They always believe that every generation before them was in the dark ages. Soon they will believe that having no internet was equivalent to living uninformed in a dictatorship.
It is funny how we look for social benefits in the works of others, and not in our own. I know few programmers who consider before taking a job if it will propel mankind or not.
I am fully convinced that this model should not only be allowed, but be enforced, at least for high priority traffic. Right now flatrates are a bet on how much the user uses - and for sure the companies know better how much the average user uses than the average user. Its even better (for the company). If the user happens to be outside the main probability distribution peak (to higher usage), then his contract will be canceled with some strange argument (We never heard about that if he is outside the peak towards lower use). Having different prices for different classes of service, you could e.g. range from 1cent/GB for bulk traffic to $1/GB for real-time traffic (numbers are for illustration).
Right now, and that is the same for mobile and for the normal net, there is no incentive to use a good solution, instead of a solution where the average transfer is increased. I would even say changing this could drive providers to provide things free proxies (e.g. windows/linux and virus scanner updates would run much faster) and a web control panel where they can control what happens on their account (I always find it wonderful how people change from "this is to complicated to understand something" to "want to control every piece of it" if you attach a money tag to a decision.), because then this could be sold to the customer. Probably it would be faster then for the user, cost less traffic on the backbone, and there would be a monetary incentive to do it (Marketing: ultrafast free updates).
The users would learn to distinct between bulk traffic and other traffic - Maybe they would even consider to start a download for a movie a few hours ealier if its then only 1Cent instead of 1Euro. And Programmers would finally learn how to use the IP header flag indicating the service class - because then again, an download manager is not only "fast", but may be also "cheap". Believe me, the very same people who right now have the energy to find the fastest downloader (even if the difference is marginal) would invest their energy to make it cheaper.
I rather think if they optimize the Sparc HW for databases it may a chance for the Architecture to survive in the long term. And no, nobody is going to switch because of ideology. They switch because of cost for running their applications. And no, such decicions are not made on the scale of 1-2 years, but a longer timescale.
Predicted to last longer than 18 Month
no, its going to be intgrated into CDE
Programming without carefully selecting the solution. I maintain a small measurement control system and before even making the smallest extension i will read and think about the different possibilities in question before typing the first line of code. Then i will try to isolate the new code so that a possibly wrong decision at that stage can be cured quickly.
So lets condense it to: Think hard and try to make the right decision and still assume it will be wrong.
A special corollary of this is to give a malus to all solutions which needlessly bind you a specific implementation.
Dear Friend!
I feel that i can thrust you. You seem a decent man, running a nice anti-virus software. As it turns out, the late owner of the company of the software you are using left me a fortune in licenses. However, i need a business partner.......
Rural areas have bad GPS reception?
No. I know how GPS works (physicist with rf&signal processing experience), i see no mechanism for this but false rumors. Furthermore my personal experience tells me that the worst thing for GPS are cities. It takes (i have a quite old unit) 2-5 Minutes to get a fix in Tokyo, but only 20 Seconds if i am in Hakone, even in a mountain area (which are the second worst thing). In the city its actually so bad, i always use "my location" from google map, which does not use GPS. I imagine its pretty bad if you are on the valley of the Grand Canyon or not good if you are at the bottom of any deep valley, but being in a rural environment should make it better. And yes, rain/clouds will influence the signal strength, but normally this does not make GPS impossible at all.
And that agrees with my idea on how GPS works, and with the manual of the device.
It was meant to be a tweet.
x@x:~$ wc
FTC Is In Talks With Adobe About the 'Flash Problem'; "Flash isn't actually necessary to watch YouTube videos, but the rest of this article is interesting."
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You really want to tell me that up to now anybody could put in his 64GB USB drive and copy all the data he/she wants to copy? Seems relaxed to me taken into account that probably the entrance is guarded by an armed guard.
Yes, when Linux was started, ANSI C++ was still a few years away.
99%. Interesting.
You must select the people you talk to very well.
Saying that as somebody who spent a lot of time in the academic world:
Ignorance is not at all a privilege of people without a degree.
Could it be that being frightened correlates with mental problems, which in turn correlates with having a university degree?
I had no problems with that.
I didn't use the ATMs in university entrance halls, small shopping malls etc, but the ones in banks or very public places; i obviously did not use a credit card in small shops. The likeliness something bad will happen to you (e.g. Policemen doubting your registration and getting you stuck for several hours unless you pay up their "fee") by making yourself recognizable as a foreigner who uses some strange paths outweighs the possible loss (BTW: i always limit my cards to a reasonable amount - even in countries which believe they are more civilized.)
Yes Slashdot readers owe the favor of not doing slashretweets as articles. If you like to keeps the buzzosphere buzzing, you are welcome. Facebook seems to have a "like it" button and twitters only purpose seems to be right that.
I think it does. If you have special hardware for special observations its better to have a flexible platform. 40 years ago you knew where the spy sattelite should be in the next 20 years (soviet union), what it should do (listen to soviet communications and take photos of bases/harbors), and how that would roughly work (no, the soviet union would not swap their whole communication systems withing a few years).
Nowadays, who knows which country makes the biggest problem in five years, who knows what needs to be done there (listen to GSM networks, listen to military communications, take high-res photos, etc.). And you can always pack the newest hardware. Having a flexible platform makes sense.
In articles about science always follow at least to the original article or the preprint and state that explicitly. I am sick and tired of "i am only citing the blog where i found it and not bothering to tell (or check?) if its published, preprint, or just buzz".
This one seems to relate to a preprint: http://arxiv.org/abs/1011.6510
I am by no means expert on mass spectrometry by some thing they are doing seem strange. I will look at it when a referee examined it for PRL (to which its obviously submitted)
But while surfing via DSL i tend to use something like 100Meg-500Meg/Hour.