It depends on what "headaches" you're talking about.
From a purely mechanical point of view a model S is a much simpler machine. It's a battery, a control computer and an electric motor. Add the steering wheel and linkages, brakes, lights and amenities.
Granted it's 2013 and we've managed to make a reliable combustion engine, but honestly it's not a matter of if, but when you'll have an issue with it.
I would imagine in this day and age with software defined radios that you could have a "Positioning" system that would work with. Considering the number of regional systems that are available as well I would think that you could have a system that would use GPS + regional system + regional ground station systems to provide lots of accuracy and redundancy.
Go check out the number of GPS like systems that are now up and running, it's crazy!
I'll presume that you're a troll but you drag out the age old "If you've got nothing to hide... argument" Here are a couple of issues with this argument.
1. Retroactive violation of new laws: Let's imagine that you're a smoker and that you smoke in your house. The government could pass a law saying "Smoking is not allowed inside any building. Anyone caught must pay a $500 fine." They can now either go back and look at their surveillance data and retroactively charge you for smoking in your house in the past or they can put you on a list of people to watch and then catch you smoking in your house.
2. If this is your stance that you have nothing to hide.... I presume that you don't have shades. Why don't you post your credit card statement on your front door for your neighbors to inspect "Hey, you've got nothing to hide". In fact let's make your browsing history completely public. How about your health records?
You may nothing to hide but I suspect you're also not eager to share your personal details with the world.
So when these 40 members showed up did you take a poll to figure out what people were interested in? Do people want to build video games? If so, show them pygame. Show them scratch. Do people want to do robotics? There are only a bazillion cheap robotics kits that use Arduino's, raspberry pi, etc.
You need to figure out what direction you want to take the club and go in that direction.
Just my two cents. I've been actively involved in running a LUG (http://www.wlug.org) for more than a decade. This formula has worked to keep our group active.
You forget the jingoistic nature of Joe Sixpack... I think spun the right way you could convince a large chunk of the populace that we need to punish China. Throw out all the arguments about how they're stealing our {jobs,secrets,money,babies,clowns}
Don't even go the tariff route, just convince enough Americans to boycott all Chinese goods. Have the government kick start some domestic production. Using automation and better production techniques we have great examples of domestic production that destroys the Chinese labor model.
Then just as a kicker let the interest rate go up a quarter point. That would basically obliterate billions of dollars of T-notes that the Chinese are holding in reserve.
1. This stuff should be on air gaped networks, nuff said. 2. The US should punish china with ugly tariffs over this. Make it not in their national interest to do this. Cut china off from our scrap market for 6 months, etc.
China needs us way more than we need them. I think it's time we make this obvious to them.
I'd be much more okay with it if they were forced to wear a jumpsuit ala Nascar style with all their sponsors on it. The big patch across the back... that's 100k sponsor... the small 5" x 5" patch... that's 5k... etc.
Then by just looking at their jumpsuit we'd know immediately where their allegiances lie.
Nobody is ever going to trust this guy near anything production ever again... Yeah it sucks when you get terminated. There's nothing that would ever warrant this type of behavior no matter how egregious the conditions or the people were. I won't be surprised if his former employer goes to the feds and tries to argue that he be arrested on computer crimes.
I'm shocked a social networking company that makes its money by selling as much data as it can possibly mine out of its userbase has created an uber app that runs on your mobile device and gives them unfettered access to all your information.
Really? People are shocked by this? I would have been much more shocked if a report came out showing how Facebook Home actually protected your privacy.
Honestly I never had any interest in running this on any mobile device I own. Firstly I care about my privacy and secondly I could give two shits what the highest score my aunt has achieved in Candy Crush today. I always wondered what would happen if Farmville and Bejeweled had a baby... it's truly a Lovecraftian horror or tentacles, eyes and mouths..
To this bad idea, I say no thank you. Why don't we actually treat college students like adults.
Fast forward 25 years...
"Mr. President, we have here a log of your reading of your 'systems of government' textbook and you underlined all these passages about communism, would care to respond to the claim that your actually a communist?!?"
Nothing about this idea is evenly remotely good. It's so bad that who ever thought it up should be fired along with the manager who approved it.
So I actually read the article and this is what I got out of it..
"I had this very particular grand vision in the 1970's about how I wanted this ubiquitous computing environment that people would use to do everything...and the iPad doesn't live up to that vision"
I couldn't help but think that the guy was grousing about with a serious case of sour grapes. With the clear evidence of the tablet market being in complete freefall...oh wait that's netbooks... I would argue that the android tablets come closest to his vision if anything does. Basically an Android tablet that had a slide down keyboard would in fact be a dynabook. While Apple has slick products, just they're just too locked at this point.
This article is so wrong, let me count the ways...
Firstly, the cost savings only apply at the small end. If you're to the point where you've got a medium sized data center, having the whole thing hosted elsewhere isn't going to save you a dime. It's merely going to burn you terribly when you start to scale up. Worse once your data and apps are hosted elsewhere they've got you by the [insert genitalia here].
Secondly, as an IT guy who happens to do data center management, virtualization, etc. If there's one thing that I refuse to do and that's to be siloed. I pride myself on knowing every square inch of my lab and what everything in it does. My co-workers are the same type of people. When shit breaks knowing the how and why of our network, storage, servers, etc. ensures that I can fix the problem and better off I can actively design to prevent it from happening in the future.
Lastly, there's no such thing as a free lunch. You've got fast, cheap and reliable, but you can only pick two.
~10 years ago I wrote on slashdot that I couldn't wait until my PSP/GPS/Phone/Point & Shoot/MP3/FM radio were a single device... that has now been achieved in spades.
Basically I've culled my setup down to a smart phone, a tablet and a DSLR.
I'm routinely mounting things in a 42U cabinets that ought not be mounted in them, so I've got *some* insight.
The standard for airflow is front to back and upwards. Doing some sticky note measurements, I think you could mount 5 of these vertically as a unit. I'd say get a piece of 1" think plywood and dado cut channels 1/4" top and bottom to mount the motherboards. This would also give you a mounting spot that you could line up the power supplys in the back. This would also put the Ethernet ports at the back. Another thing this would allow would be for easy removable of a dead board.
Going on this idea, you could also make these as "units" and install two of them two deep in the cabinet (if you used L rails).
Without doing any measuring, I'm suspecting this would get you 5 machines for 7U or 10 machines if you did 2 deep in 7U.
1. Reconfigure your AP with broadcast turned off, different SSID, white list your MAC address, roll the password. Disable DHCP or configure DHCP to assign specific addresses to specific MAC's. 2. Setup another AP with your old SSID. Plug this into pfSense firewall and start collecting data and messing with the person. Transparently proxy all their traffic and setup some interesting rules. Rate limiting, jpg replacement, word replacement. If they're encrypting all their data, tamper with the stream, replay packets, etc.
Nothing. Companies who give a rats ass about their employees are going to not do this. Companies who do are going to be sending people with tons of experience and training out the door so they can hire people who need tons of experience and training... Putting themselves at a competitive disadvantage.
Sounds like the douche bag companies are shooting themselves in the foot... Let the free market punish them!
Let me be crystal clear. I will NEVER buy a console that is incapable of playing used games, PERIOD.
If I am capable of buying physical media for my console, I should have the right to lend / sell / trade that media with others including companies who may resell it.
If I am capable of downloading games for my console, I should have the right to save those games to external media and play them on other consoles. Not copy them to the other console, but merely play them.
I am fundamentally opposed to the DLC model because it encourages companies to sell games that are incomplete or to sell advantage to those willing to pay for it.
I'm not so much for the automation when it comes to the cooking part, that I like. The issue I have is pretty straightforward. My wife and I both like to cook, however since we have small children dinner tends to be a bit haphazard because of school/dance/etc.
Since I buy a majority of my food at a grocery store and since I already use one of discount cards... they're tracking all my purchases anyway... why not also send me an email in a format that I can parse as well?
Once I've got a database of the food I've got in my house it's not a hard problem to ask the question, "With these ingredients what different recipes can I make for this week?" Throw in some preferences for things like pizza, spegetti and meatballs, etc.
I envision a system where you'd intuitively come up with a weekly menu that would suggest some different stuff along with the usual suspects. Then on that day it could even send you a reminder to defrost certain stuff and when you should start cooking so the meal could be on the table at a certain time.
Celebrity chefs could even get in on the act and you could do a "Cook with [insert favority chef]" meal plan. For those people who don't know how to cook it could be a way for them to do a "Cooking with Julia" type instruction system where it would start with the basics and help the user build up skills. Roll in some instruction videos and tips and tricks type stuff. Obviously there'd have to be some advertisements, etc. to pay for the whole thing.
That would be interesting to me. A stove that can cook all by itself sounds like a tv dinner to me, that I don't want. What I do want is something that helps get me out of the rut of cooking the same meals over and over.
So for approximately 10 years I did an IT job that involved 50% writing new perl to do ETL operations and 50% sorting out other peoples perl programs and fixing the bugs / extending the functionality.
What I learned was that it's possible to write perl that's ultra compact, very efficient and utterly utterly unreadable. On more than one occasion I was presented with perl programs that were so utterly incomprehensible that my only solution was to discard the whole damn thing and write it all over again.
Doing crap like constructing SQL statements by pushing and popping pieces of text onto $_, while possibly efficient, make modification nearly impossible and the code incomprehensible. You know you've written bad code when a year later when presented with the same piece of code you can't comprehend what it does.
I'm not even going to start my diatribe regarding perl's horrifying bolt on object model!
Five years ago I changed jobs and was nominally forced to use python. I was specifically told "You can write your tools in any language you like, as long as the output is python..." Initially I was skeptical but decided to dive in. Many of the ETL tools I'd written in the past I decided to rewrite in python so I'd have some perspective and it's night and day. The object model is cleaner, the syntax makes more sense (getting used to the indent syntax took getting used to, but you deal)
While I'm not entirely convinced that python is the answer to every answer, I'm pretty convinced at this point that perl is NOT the answer. At least to any question I've had to ask lately.
With that all said, to each their own. I've met and for a while was a person who could write really clean modular perl code. However for all the perl I ever saw in the wild, I was an anomaly.
Conversely, As I've dug deeper into my job I'm yet to discover a piece of python that wasn't immediately readable and without some study wasn't understandable.
I've even seen some of the code that the EVE online people have made publicly available and it's just readable.
That's even more hilarious... We've got this unreliable history but we're sticking with it! Pull away a 1000 years of barbarism and butchery that's what you're left with is a bunch of groups who want control of a resource (Islam). There's really NOT alot more to it. There's just a lot of back and forth and baloney.
These groups might as well be fighting over an oasis in the middle of a desert.
I just went and read up on the differences between Sunni's and Shiites. Needless to say, I found the arguments utterly boggling. Countless wars, bitter feuds and rivers of blood have been spilled over essentially what is an argument about inheritance.
Names and places have been changed, but the argument is the same...
Imagine a big extended family with this guy named "Steve" in the middle of it. Steve is quite a musician, wrote a bunch of albums and has amassed quite a large following of people who think Steve is the coolest musician they know. Unfortunately Steve falls off his motorcycle and gets run over by a steamroller... ya know these things happen...
One group of people (We'll call these the Sunny's) believe that Joey, Steve's father in law should be the guy who decides how Steve's music should be listened to, in what arenas, etc.
Another Group (We'll call these guys the Moonies (or Shitties as the Sunny's call them)) believe instead that Allen (Steve's cousin and son in law) and Steve's direct descendants should instead decide how Steve's music should be interpreted.
That's it. Yeah there are some groups that think Steve's 12 decedent is being held in a bunker until the day that the Gods of Rock revival tour starts and he'll be rolled out. Good luck with that...
What I got out of the article is that scientists found these structures and were able to image them but don't clearly understand what they do. It sounds like we'll have to mint a raft of Ph.Ds studying this until we understand what it does.
I'd not saying its cool, it really is. But it'll probably be 5 years of study before we understand what/why/how these structures work and relate to cell (mis)function.
Describe "small?" There's something like 20 million homes in the U.S. with a fibre internet connection. Not anything near the penetration of copper cable modems, but also nothing to ignore.
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It depends on what "headaches" you're talking about.
From a purely mechanical point of view a model S is a much simpler machine. It's a battery, a control computer and an electric motor. Add the steering wheel and linkages, brakes, lights and amenities.
Granted it's 2013 and we've managed to make a reliable combustion engine, but honestly it's not a matter of if, but when you'll have an issue with it.
My job would be a lot harder if it wasn't for yum. Thanks Seth. My condolences to your family.
I would imagine in this day and age with software defined radios that you could have a "Positioning" system that would work with. Considering the number of regional systems that are available as well I would think that you could have a system that would use GPS + regional system + regional ground station systems to provide lots of accuracy and redundancy.
Go check out the number of GPS like systems that are now up and running, it's crazy!
I'll presume that you're a troll but you drag out the age old "If you've got nothing to hide... argument"
Here are a couple of issues with this argument.
1. Retroactive violation of new laws:
Let's imagine that you're a smoker and that you smoke in your house. The government could pass a law saying "Smoking is not allowed inside any building. Anyone caught must pay a $500 fine." They can now either go back and look at their surveillance data and retroactively charge you for smoking in your house in the past or they can put you on a list of people to watch and then catch you smoking in your house.
2. If this is your stance that you have nothing to hide.... I presume that you don't have shades. Why don't you post your credit card statement on your front door for your neighbors to inspect "Hey, you've got nothing to hide". In fact let's make your browsing history completely public. How about your health records?
You may nothing to hide but I suspect you're also not eager to share your personal details with the world.
So when these 40 members showed up did you take a poll to figure out what people were interested in?
Do people want to build video games? If so, show them pygame. Show them scratch.
Do people want to do robotics? There are only a bazillion cheap robotics kits that use Arduino's, raspberry pi, etc.
You need to figure out what direction you want to take the club and go in that direction.
Just my two cents. I've been actively involved in running a LUG (http://www.wlug.org) for more than a decade. This formula has worked to keep our group active.
You forget the jingoistic nature of Joe Sixpack... I think spun the right way you could convince a large chunk of the populace that we need to punish China. Throw out all the arguments about how they're stealing our {jobs,secrets,money,babies,clowns}
Don't even go the tariff route, just convince enough Americans to boycott all Chinese goods. Have the government kick start some domestic production. Using automation and better production techniques we have great examples of domestic production that destroys the Chinese labor model.
Then just as a kicker let the interest rate go up a quarter point. That would basically obliterate billions of dollars of T-notes that the Chinese are holding in reserve.
1. This stuff should be on air gaped networks, nuff said.
2. The US should punish china with ugly tariffs over this. Make it not in their national interest to do this. Cut china off from our scrap market for 6 months, etc.
China needs us way more than we need them. I think it's time we make this obvious to them.
I'd be much more okay with it if they were forced to wear a jumpsuit ala Nascar style with all their sponsors on it. The big patch across the back... that's 100k sponsor... the small 5" x 5" patch... that's 5k... etc.
Then by just looking at their jumpsuit we'd know immediately where their allegiances lie.
Nobody is ever going to trust this guy near anything production ever again... Yeah it sucks when you get terminated. There's nothing that would ever warrant this type of behavior no matter how egregious the conditions or the people were. I won't be surprised if his former employer goes to the feds and tries to argue that he be arrested on computer crimes.
I'm shocked a social networking company that makes its money by selling as much data as it can possibly mine out of its userbase has created an uber app that runs on your mobile device and gives them unfettered access to all your information.
Really? People are shocked by this? I would have been much more shocked if a report came out showing how Facebook Home actually protected your privacy.
Honestly I never had any interest in running this on any mobile device I own. Firstly I care about my privacy and secondly I could give two shits what the highest score my aunt has achieved in Candy Crush today. I always wondered what would happen if Farmville and Bejeweled had a baby... it's truly a Lovecraftian horror or tentacles, eyes and mouths..
To this bad idea, I say no thank you. Why don't we actually treat college students like adults.
Fast forward 25 years...
"Mr. President, we have here a log of your reading of your 'systems of government' textbook and you underlined all these passages about communism, would care to respond to the claim that your actually a communist?!?"
Nothing about this idea is evenly remotely good. It's so bad that who ever thought it up should be fired along with the manager who approved it.
So I actually read the article and this is what I got out of it..
"I had this very particular grand vision in the 1970's about how I wanted this ubiquitous computing environment that people would use to do everything...and the iPad doesn't live up to that vision"
I couldn't help but think that the guy was grousing about with a serious case of sour grapes.
With the clear evidence of the tablet market being in complete freefall...oh wait that's netbooks... I would argue that the android tablets come closest to his vision if anything does. Basically an Android tablet that had a slide down keyboard would in fact be a dynabook.
While Apple has slick products, just they're just too locked at this point.
This article is so wrong, let me count the ways...
Firstly, the cost savings only apply at the small end. If you're to the point where you've got a medium sized data center, having the whole thing hosted elsewhere isn't going to save you a dime. It's merely going to burn you terribly when you start to scale up. Worse once your data and apps are hosted elsewhere they've got you by the [insert genitalia here].
Secondly, as an IT guy who happens to do data center management, virtualization, etc. If there's one thing that I refuse to do and that's to be siloed. I pride myself on knowing every square inch of my lab and what everything in it does. My co-workers are the same type of people. When shit breaks knowing the how and why of our network, storage, servers, etc. ensures that I can fix the problem and better off I can actively design to prevent it from happening in the future.
Lastly, there's no such thing as a free lunch. You've got fast, cheap and reliable, but you can only pick two.
~10 years ago I wrote on slashdot that I couldn't wait until my PSP/GPS/Phone/Point & Shoot/MP3/FM radio were a single device... that has now been achieved in spades.
Basically I've culled my setup down to a smart phone, a tablet and a DSLR.
I'm routinely mounting things in a 42U cabinets that ought not be mounted in them, so I've got *some* insight.
The standard for airflow is front to back and upwards. Doing some sticky note measurements, I think you could mount 5 of these vertically as a unit. I'd say get a piece of 1" think plywood and dado cut channels 1/4" top and bottom to mount the motherboards. This would also give you a mounting spot that you could line up the power supplys in the back. This would also put the Ethernet ports at the back. Another thing this would allow would be for easy removable of a dead board.
Going on this idea, you could also make these as "units" and install two of them two deep in the cabinet (if you used L rails).
Without doing any measuring, I'm suspecting this would get you 5 machines for 7U or 10 machines if you did 2 deep in 7U.
1. Reconfigure your AP with broadcast turned off, different SSID, white list your MAC address, roll the password. Disable DHCP or configure DHCP to assign specific addresses to specific MAC's.
2. Setup another AP with your old SSID. Plug this into pfSense firewall and start collecting data and messing with the person. Transparently proxy all their traffic and setup some interesting rules. Rate limiting, jpg replacement, word replacement. If they're encrypting all their data, tamper with the stream, replay packets, etc.
Nothing. Companies who give a rats ass about their employees are going to not do this. Companies who do are going to be sending people with tons of experience and training out the door so they can hire people who need tons of experience and training... Putting themselves at a competitive disadvantage.
Sounds like the douche bag companies are shooting themselves in the foot... Let the free market punish them!
Dear Console Makers,
Let me be crystal clear. I will NEVER buy a console that is incapable of playing used games, PERIOD.
If I am capable of buying physical media for my console, I should have the right to lend / sell / trade that media with others including companies who may resell it.
If I am capable of downloading games for my console, I should have the right to save those games to external media and play them on other consoles. Not copy them to the other console, but merely play them.
I am fundamentally opposed to the DLC model because it encourages companies to sell games that are incomplete or to sell advantage to those willing to pay for it.
That's my $.03. when it comes to Consoles.
Just my perspective, but Massachusetts is an excellent place to live.
I'm not so much for the automation when it comes to the cooking part, that I like. The issue I have is pretty straightforward. My wife and I both like to cook, however since we have small children dinner tends to be a bit haphazard because of school/dance/etc.
Since I buy a majority of my food at a grocery store and since I already use one of discount cards... they're tracking all my purchases anyway... why not also send me an email in a format that I can parse as well?
Once I've got a database of the food I've got in my house it's not a hard problem to ask the question, "With these ingredients what different recipes can I make for this week?" Throw in some preferences for things like pizza, spegetti and meatballs, etc.
I envision a system where you'd intuitively come up with a weekly menu that would suggest some different stuff along with the usual suspects. Then on that day it could even send you a reminder to defrost certain stuff and when you should start cooking so the meal could be on the table at a certain time.
Celebrity chefs could even get in on the act and you could do a "Cook with [insert favority chef]" meal plan. For those people who don't know how to cook it could be a way for them to do a "Cooking with Julia" type instruction system where it would start with the basics and help the user build up skills. Roll in some instruction videos and tips and tricks type stuff. Obviously there'd have to be some advertisements, etc. to pay for the whole thing.
That would be interesting to me. A stove that can cook all by itself sounds like a tv dinner to me, that I don't want. What I do want is something that helps get me out of the rut of cooking the same meals over and over.
So for approximately 10 years I did an IT job that involved 50% writing new perl to do ETL operations and 50% sorting out other peoples perl programs and fixing the bugs / extending the functionality.
What I learned was that it's possible to write perl that's ultra compact, very efficient and utterly utterly unreadable. On more than one occasion I was presented with perl programs that were so utterly incomprehensible that my only solution was to discard the whole damn thing and write it all over again.
Doing crap like constructing SQL statements by pushing and popping pieces of text onto $_, while possibly efficient, make modification nearly impossible and the code incomprehensible. You know you've written bad code when a year later when presented with the same piece of code you can't comprehend what it does.
I'm not even going to start my diatribe regarding perl's horrifying bolt on object model!
Five years ago I changed jobs and was nominally forced to use python. I was specifically told "You can write your tools in any language you like, as long as the output is python..." Initially I was skeptical but decided to dive in. Many of the ETL tools I'd written in the past I decided to rewrite in python so I'd have some perspective and it's night and day. The object model is cleaner, the syntax makes more sense (getting used to the indent syntax took getting used to, but you deal)
While I'm not entirely convinced that python is the answer to every answer, I'm pretty convinced at this point that perl is NOT the answer. At least to any question I've had to ask lately.
With that all said, to each their own. I've met and for a while was a person who could write really clean modular perl code. However for all the perl I ever saw in the wild, I was an anomaly.
Conversely, As I've dug deeper into my job I'm yet to discover a piece of python that wasn't immediately readable and without some study wasn't understandable.
I've even seen some of the code that the EVE online people have made publicly available and it's just readable.
That's even more hilarious... We've got this unreliable history but we're sticking with it! Pull away a 1000 years of barbarism and butchery that's what you're left with is a bunch of groups who want control of a resource (Islam). There's really NOT alot more to it. There's just a lot of back and forth and baloney.
These groups might as well be fighting over an oasis in the middle of a desert.
I just went and read up on the differences between Sunni's and Shiites. Needless to say, I found the arguments utterly boggling. Countless wars, bitter feuds and rivers of blood have been spilled over essentially what is an argument about inheritance.
Names and places have been changed, but the argument is the same...
Imagine a big extended family with this guy named "Steve" in the middle of it. Steve is quite a musician, wrote a bunch of albums and has amassed quite a large following of people who think Steve is the coolest musician they know. Unfortunately Steve falls off his motorcycle and gets run over by a steamroller... ya know these things happen...
One group of people (We'll call these the Sunny's) believe that Joey, Steve's father in law should be the guy who decides how Steve's music should be listened to, in what arenas, etc.
Another Group (We'll call these guys the Moonies (or Shitties as the Sunny's call them)) believe instead that Allen (Steve's cousin and son in law) and Steve's direct descendants should instead decide how Steve's music should be interpreted.
That's it. Yeah there are some groups that think Steve's 12 decedent is being held in a bunker until the day that the Gods of Rock revival tour starts and he'll be rolled out. Good luck with that...
What I got out of the article is that scientists found these structures and were able to image them but don't clearly understand what they do. It sounds like we'll have to mint a raft of Ph.Ds studying this until we understand what it does.
I'd not saying its cool, it really is. But it'll probably be 5 years of study before we understand what/why/how these structures work and relate to cell (mis)function.
Science onward!!!
Describe "small?" There's something like 20 million homes in the U.S. with a fibre internet connection. Not anything near the penetration of copper cable modems, but also nothing to ignore.