They have to invent imaginary persons (corporations), and imaginary objects (intellectual property), both which defy the laws of physics in their favor but never in the favor of consumers.
You can't seriously be advocating abolishing corporations and IP. You probably take it for granted that the computer you're using was created by a bunch of investors who pooled millions of dollars through a corporation and funded the very expensive CPU development knowing that their investment would be protected by patents. They used very complicated software to design the CPU which is protected by copyright. They marketed the CPU under a brand name protected by a trademark so consumers wouldn't get ripped off buying a fake hunk of plastic.
Corporations, patents and copyright have a lot of problems (particularly in the US as laws have slowly changed over the last few decades) but getting rid of them is like getting rid of our legal system because our drug laws don't make sense.
coal is actually WORSE than nuclear in both radiation output and toxic byproducts that need disposal
For a properly functioning power plant Coal puts out about 100 times the radiation of Nuclear. However even if you live near a coal plant it will only up your anual background radiation does by about 0.5%.
The coal industry will put out about 101 PBq of radiation for the years 1937-2040. By comparision Fukushima has spit out about 130-150 PBq of iodine-131 and Chernobyl was about 1760 PBq.
Having said all that I think neither are great solutions and we should really be investing more money in alternatives.
Don't worry. Just as soon as the next "pro business" administration gets into office Google won't have to worry about these left wing communist job killing audits anymore.
Google seems to be going through the same pattern as a lot of other high tech juggernauts. They invent one or two hit products that turn them into a household name. Unfortunately for them (lucky for a competitive market) despite having mountains of cash corporate bureaucracy sets in and they never really get much else going.
<rant>
Slightly off topic but it seems like these giant high tech companies tend to be bad stock investments. Initially they seem good because they have explosive revenue growth and a huge pile of cash saved for a rainy day. However, like all companies they invariably jump the shark and then burn through their cash reserves. Having, payed out little if anything in dividends. It seems like you buy tech stocks in the hopes of passing it on to a greater fool.
</rant>
If this is true then wouldn't it mean that IPv6 won't get adopted until 2018? 20 years after the original RFC was published.
I personally think the problem is that compatibility with IPv4 seems like it was an afterthought. The designers of IPv6 should have designed the system so that individual computers/routers/networks could be upgraded independently of each other in much the same way you can easily upgrade your network from 100mb to GigE.
The actual article seems like a troll as it only reports a couple of snipits. Here's a better one with the full quote I found via google. The Pope was actually talking about the way modern media reports the news.
Today, for example, the world of appearances has an increasing weight with the development of new technologies; but if on the one hand this has doubtless positive aspects, on the other, the image can also become detached from reality , it can give life to a virtual world, with diverse consequences, the first of which is the risk of indifference to the truth. In fact, new technologies, together with the progress that they bring, can result in what is true and what is false becoming interchangeable, it can lead to confusing the real with the virtual. In addition, reporting of an event, happy or sad, can be consumed as entertainment and not as an occasion for reflection. The search for ways to authentically promote man then disappears into the background, because the event is presented primarily to arouse emotions. These issues are alarm bells: an invitation to consider the danger that the virtual distances us from reality and does not stimulate the pursuit of what is true, the truth.
My point is that over that last couple hundred years we have built up a series of labour laws covering things like minimum wage, working hours, unions, child labour etc. It's not perfect and you can make arguments for and against certain aspects of the system. However, these online employers like Turk or Rent a Coder have the potential to wipe the slate clean. Employers can simply set up shop in whatever country has the most favourable (read none) labour laws
So what will happen in the long term? Will this be the revolution that brings prosperity for all or will it be like the industrial revolution where people were forced to send all of their children to work in the coal mines just to survive?
Should it even be legal to pay these rates? Where I live an employer can pay you based on the work acomplished but they must still pay you at least minimum wage. Welcome to the new industrial revolution where you're not entilted to minimum wage because you're working online as an "independent contractor" for a foreign company.
In a perfect world the programmers could just quit and start their own trading firm. The reality is that there is an unreasonbly high barrier to entry which is more about keeping new players out then about the true cost of entry.
At the universisty where I work. IT charges $3.00 per GB/year to store data on a NetApp SAN. It then costs you another $3.00 GB/year for backups.
NOTE: In case you're wondering the two prices are charged separtely in case you have data that doesn't need to be backed up or have data that needs to be backed up but isn't stored on the SAN.
In the corporate word, the important thing is to save money no matter how mutch extra it costs.
It's funny but true. As a CEO it makes sense to role the dice, cut costs and rake in a huge bonus. The odds are in your favour that it will work out. But on the off chance you loose then just take your golden parachute and move on to another company to try it at.
I think that'll be small potatoes compared to the fact that every black hat, spammer, script kiddie, phisherman, fraudster, terrorist, and mobster can safely do whatevery they want and not have to worry about it. If this ISP manages to grow to any decent size I'd expect it would turn into the pariah of the Internet with admins everywhere blocking the IPs becuase they don't want to put up with all the crap that hit's their servers.
So you knew about the shady calling practices but how do you know it wasn't a total scam. They could have lied to you and said that the DirectTV equipment was being shipped from another city when in fact nothing was being sent. Then given you a bogus 1-800 phone number to give out to customers to call in case they have any problems.
some sports, like boxing, football etc. already have the possibility to impose horrendous injuries and death on participants. As an audience we are prepared to put up with that, so why not any injuries (or death) caused by drugs.
So if a sport is already dangerous it's fine to make it even more dangerous by allowing doping?
You can graph the trend of platforms/frameworks using job postings. For example heres rails, jsf, wicket, struts. Make sure you look at both the relative and absolute numbers though. The relative gives you an idea of the trend for an individual platform. The absolute tells you how big it is compared to others.
A super secret sat is not responding for unknown reasons. This requires a shootdown which just happens to occur during a lunar eclipse.
How about this
<tinfoil-hat>
The satellite is actually working just fine. It was put up a decade ago as a test target for an anti-satellite system under development and scheduled to be completed around now. The satellite is actually loaded with explosives that can be detonated remotely. This gives them the option of either:
Should the anti-satellite system not be completed and there is a need to prove to the world the US has one. i.e. China has one and the US doesn't. They can just fire a missile into the sky and then hit the self destruct button on the satellite.
Should the anti-satellite system be completed they can fire at the target. If it misses then just hit the self destruct button on the satellite and tell the everyone the test went perfectly.
The lunar eclipse has nothing to do with this. Only a real nutter would believe it does.
This begs the question, why hasn't someone setup a webcam to record these rock movements and solve this thing once and for all?
Why not just take some water and a fan up to there to test the leading theory. Wet down a patch of ground to get it nice an slippery and then turn on the fan to see if you can blow a rock around. If that fails then go with the webcam.
Draw the domain to the squatters attention by hitting the root servers once Verisign starts selling data. NOTE: Some people say that squatters seem to be able to detect whois lookups and/or URLs typed into IE so it may not be necessary to wait for Verisign.
Squatter decides to give the domain a 5 day free "tasting"
Through the wonders of p2p dispersal the squatter sees the domain gets some traffic.
Squatter decides to purchase the domain.
Traffic suddenly stops
No Profit!
Alternatively if the squatters don't seem to be falling for step 5 you can replace step 4 with - A million distributed computers wait for the domain to become active and slashdot the server. Don't forget to cache the IP for a while in case the DNS record is taken down right away.
... it takes a lot of solar panels to match the power generation of even a small coal power plant let alone a nuclear power plant, etc. Most people don't want to live in a place that's covered in solar panels and windmills far as the eye can see...
True, but you can stick them on roof tops. The average suburban roof top can easily hold a few kilowatts of solar panels. You need about 7 square meters per kilowatt (75 square feet) based on current 15% efficient solar panels. So a million homes (not including businesses) could produce several GW of power. About the same as a couple nuke plants. Although granted the nuke plants run 24/7.
Microsoft will likely not use this anywhere except their home edition, and they will probably reduce the price of the OS to make it a little more palatable to consumers
I used to work for an ISP that offered free Internet but you had to run their app that displayed ads while you were connected. After the dot com crash advertising rates were too low and they offered two different services. A $7/month with ads and a $10/month with no ads. All of the customers took the $10/month option. It seems that people are wiling to tolerate ads to get something for free but if it's a pay product then they'd rather pay more to get it without the ads.
So if Microsoft uses this they should give Windows/Office/whatever away for free.
From the article: The Magallanes area "has seen interesting changes in the last few decades," he said, noting that the lake itself had not been there 30 years ago.
Makes you wonder if global warming had anything to do with the lake forming in the first place.
Slashdot Mirror
They have to invent imaginary persons (corporations), and imaginary objects (intellectual property), both which defy the laws of physics in their favor but never in the favor of consumers.
You can't seriously be advocating abolishing corporations and IP. You probably take it for granted that the computer you're using was created by a bunch of investors who pooled millions of dollars through a corporation and funded the very expensive CPU development knowing that their investment would be protected by patents. They used very complicated software to design the CPU which is protected by copyright. They marketed the CPU under a brand name protected by a trademark so consumers wouldn't get ripped off buying a fake hunk of plastic.
Corporations, patents and copyright have a lot of problems (particularly in the US as laws have slowly changed over the last few decades) but getting rid of them is like getting rid of our legal system because our drug laws don't make sense.
coal is actually WORSE than nuclear in both radiation output and toxic byproducts that need disposal
For a properly functioning power plant Coal puts out about 100 times the radiation of Nuclear. However even if you live near a coal plant it will only up your anual background radiation does by about 0.5%.
The coal industry will put out about 101 PBq of radiation for the years 1937-2040. By comparision Fukushima has spit out about 130-150 PBq of iodine-131 and Chernobyl was about 1760 PBq.
Having said all that I think neither are great solutions and we should really be investing more money in alternatives.
There are no modern nuclear reactors running commercially in the United States. And that's the problem
Plant operators are more interested about their bottom line then safety. And that's the problem
Don't worry. Just as soon as the next "pro business" administration gets into office Google won't have to worry about these left wing communist job killing audits anymore.
97% of the revenue still comes from search ads.
Google seems to be going through the same pattern as a lot of other high tech juggernauts. They invent one or two hit products that turn them into a household name. Unfortunately for them (lucky for a competitive market) despite having mountains of cash corporate bureaucracy sets in and they never really get much else going.
<rant>
Slightly off topic but it seems like these giant high tech companies tend to be bad stock investments. Initially they seem good because they have explosive revenue growth and a huge pile of cash saved for a rainy day. However, like all companies they invariably jump the shark and then burn through their cash reserves. Having, payed out little if anything in dividends. It seems like you buy tech stocks in the hopes of passing it on to a greater fool.
</rant>
If this is true then wouldn't it mean that IPv6 won't get adopted until 2018? 20 years after the original RFC was published.
I personally think the problem is that compatibility with IPv4 seems like it was an afterthought. The designers of IPv6 should have designed the system so that individual computers/routers/networks could be upgraded independently of each other in much the same way you can easily upgrade your network from 100mb to GigE.
The actual article seems like a troll as it only reports a couple of snipits. Here's a better one with the full quote I found via google. The Pope was actually talking about the way modern media reports the news.
Today, for example, the world of appearances has an increasing weight with the development of new technologies; but if on the one hand this has doubtless positive aspects, on the other, the image can also become detached from reality , it can give life to a virtual world, with diverse consequences, the first of which is the risk of indifference to the truth. In fact, new technologies, together with the progress that they bring, can result in what is true and what is false becoming interchangeable, it can lead to confusing the real with the virtual. In addition, reporting of an event, happy or sad, can be consumed as entertainment and not as an occasion for reflection. The search for ways to authentically promote man then disappears into the background, because the event is presented primarily to arouse emotions. These issues are alarm bells: an invitation to consider the danger that the virtual distances us from reality and does not stimulate the pursuit of what is true, the truth.
What about ambulances?
Use a Speed Cushion. You can also buy prefab rubber ones that just need to be bolted down to a street.
What did people do before the industrial revolution?
Lived as serfs
My point is that over that last couple hundred years we have built up a series of labour laws covering things like minimum wage, working hours, unions, child labour etc. It's not perfect and you can make arguments for and against certain aspects of the system. However, these online employers like Turk or Rent a Coder have the potential to wipe the slate clean. Employers can simply set up shop in whatever country has the most favourable (read none) labour laws
So what will happen in the long term? Will this be the revolution that brings prosperity for all or will it be like the industrial revolution where people were forced to send all of their children to work in the coal mines just to survive?
Should it even be legal to pay these rates? Where I live an employer can pay you based on the work acomplished but they must still pay you at least minimum wage. Welcome to the new industrial revolution where you're not entilted to minimum wage because you're working online as an "independent contractor" for a foreign company.
In a perfect world the programmers could just quit and start their own trading firm. The reality is that there is an unreasonbly high barrier to entry which is more about keeping new players out then about the true cost of entry.
At the universisty where I work. IT charges $3.00 per GB/year to store data on a NetApp SAN. It then costs you another $3.00 GB/year for backups.
NOTE: In case you're wondering the two prices are charged separtely in case you have data that doesn't need to be backed up or have data that needs to be backed up but isn't stored on the SAN.
In the corporate word, the important thing is to save money no matter how mutch extra it costs.
It's funny but true. As a CEO it makes sense to role the dice, cut costs and rake in a huge bonus. The odds are in your favour that it will work out. But on the off chance you loose then just take your golden parachute and move on to another company to try it at.
I think that'll be small potatoes compared to the fact that every black hat, spammer, script kiddie, phisherman, fraudster, terrorist, and mobster can safely do whatevery they want and not have to worry about it. If this ISP manages to grow to any decent size I'd expect it would turn into the pariah of the Internet with admins everywhere blocking the IPs becuase they don't want to put up with all the crap that hit's their servers.
i've obviously not had enough to drink - what's the answer?
The riddle starts out as "Johnny's Mom has 3 kids" therefore one of the kids must be named Johnny.
So you knew about the shady calling practices but how do you know it wasn't a total scam. They could have lied to you and said that the DirectTV equipment was being shipped from another city when in fact nothing was being sent. Then given you a bogus 1-800 phone number to give out to customers to call in case they have any problems.
some sports, like boxing, football etc. already have the possibility to impose horrendous injuries and death on participants. As an audience we are prepared to put up with that, so why not any injuries (or death) caused by drugs.
So if a sport is already dangerous it's fine to make it even more dangerous by allowing doping?
You can graph the trend of platforms/frameworks using job postings. For example heres rails, jsf, wicket, struts. Make sure you look at both the relative and absolute numbers though. The relative gives you an idea of the trend for an individual platform. The absolute tells you how big it is compared to others.
A super secret sat is not responding for unknown reasons. This requires a shootdown which just happens to occur during a lunar eclipse.
How about this
<tinfoil-hat>
The satellite is actually working just fine. It was put up a decade ago as a test target for an anti-satellite system under development and scheduled to be completed around now. The satellite is actually loaded with explosives that can be detonated remotely. This gives them the option of either:
The lunar eclipse has nothing to do with this. Only a real nutter would believe it does.
</tinfoil-hat>
This begs the question, why hasn't someone setup a webcam to record these rock movements and solve this thing once and for all?
Why not just take some water and a fan up to there to test the leading theory. Wet down a patch of ground to get it nice an slippery and then turn on the fan to see if you can blow a rock around. If that fails then go with the webcam.- Randomly generate domain names
- Draw the domain to the squatters attention by hitting the root servers once Verisign starts selling data. NOTE: Some people say that squatters seem to be able to detect whois lookups and/or URLs typed into IE so it may not be necessary to wait for Verisign.
- Squatter decides to give the domain a 5 day free "tasting"
- Through the wonders of p2p dispersal the squatter sees the domain gets some traffic.
- Squatter decides to purchase the domain.
- Traffic suddenly stops
- No Profit!
Alternatively if the squatters don't seem to be falling for step 5 you can replace step 4 with - A million distributed computers wait for the domain to become active and slashdot the server. Don't forget to cache the IP for a while in case the DNS record is taken down right away.True, but you can stick them on roof tops. The average suburban roof top can easily hold a few kilowatts of solar panels. You need about 7 square meters per kilowatt (75 square feet) based on current 15% efficient solar panels. So a million homes (not including businesses) could produce several GW of power. About the same as a couple nuke plants. Although granted the nuke plants run 24/7.
Microsoft will likely not use this anywhere except their home edition, and they will probably reduce the price of the OS to make it a little more palatable to consumers
I used to work for an ISP that offered free Internet but you had to run their app that displayed ads while you were connected. After the dot com crash advertising rates were too low and they offered two different services. A $7/month with ads and a $10/month with no ads. All of the customers took the $10/month option. It seems that people are wiling to tolerate ads to get something for free but if it's a pay product then they'd rather pay more to get it without the ads.
So if Microsoft uses this they should give Windows/Office/whatever away for free.
From the article: The Magallanes area "has seen interesting changes in the last few decades," he said, noting that the lake itself had not been there 30 years ago.
Makes you wonder if global warming had anything to do with the lake forming in the first place.