Once we have a fully functioning nanotechnology, we'll change their minds about it by literally changing their minds.
Don't worry, that's just a scary-ass joke.
Yeah, the possibilities are a bit scary to people who think the technology will be used that way, rather than having defensive nanotechnology open-sourced. BTW, the term "Open Source" http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_source was originated by Christine Peterson of the Foresight institute http://foresight.org/ which is a big proponent of nanotechnology.
You know, opt you in, when you opt out, recategorize it, and since it's a new category, opt you in to the new category by default; wash, rinse, repeat.
"By default, you are opted in to share your GPS information; you are permitted to opt out after you realize we are collecting it."
"We now have a new category of information which we have opted you in to share by default called 'location'; you are permitted to opt out after you realize we are collecting it."
"We now have a new category of information which we have opted you in to share by default called 'position'; you are permitted to opt out after you realize we are collecting it."
"We now have a category of information which we have opted you in to share by default called 'venue'; you are permitted to opt out after you realize we are collecting it."
"We now have a category of information which we have opted you in to share by default called 'place'; you are permitted to opt out after you realize we are collecting it."
"We now have a category of information which we have opted you in to share by default called 'travelogue'; you are permitted to opt out after you realize we are collecting it."
"We now have a category of information which we have opted you in to share by default called 'iternarary'; you are permitted to opt out after you realize we are collecting it."
"We now have a category of information which we have opted you in to share by default called 'orienteering'; you are permitted to opt out after you realize we are collecting it."
"We now have a category of information which we have opted you in to share by default called '10-20'; you are permitted to opt out after you realize we are collecting it."
"We now have a category of information which we have opted you in to share by default called 'safety monitoring'; you are permitted to opt out after you realize we are collecting it."...
How is the ability to get to space cheaper and more efficiently a bad thing?
Access to space has been relatively controlled by economic expense. I'm pretty sure the real reason access space has been kept expensive and most recent designs have not been of the DC-X variety is to require use of runways and other infrastructure has to do with politics and fear of kinetic bombardment weapons.
I expect that Blue Origin, Masten, and others are likely aiming to change this, although I expect there to be prohibitions on sales of used vehicles to certain individuals and organizations (John Travolta was allowed to buy his 707 on a technicality).
"The spokesperson would not name any other specific areas that are not labeled."
In related news, the members of the band "America" have issued a press release declining to give the name of the horse in the song "A Horse With No Name".
The government is effectively paying him $67M to take $4B and invest it in Singapore instead of the US.
More power to him, so long as the government is insisting on getting paid AMT or capital gains now on unrealized income from an appreciated investment which hasn't been sold.
The problem is that they want their poind of flesh now, rather than waiting for it to turn from an investment into "mall money" (money you can take down to the mall and spend).
I knew, though not well, a Netscape guy who was a paper multimillionaire when the Netscape IPO happened. In order to make it a long instead of a short term capital gain, and thus pay less tax, he did an exercise and hold, rather than a same day sale. Then the.bomb happened and the stock price tanked. So there he was with a couple hundred thousand in share value, and the government wanted their 35% of the $27M they valued it at at the time the options were exercised.
Eventually he killed himself, rather than going to Federal (debtor's) prison for tax evasion, since you can't dismiss taxes owed through bankruptcy.
Capital gains taxes as a matter of public policy are potentially defensible, even though they make you pay taxes on an investment of after-tax income and therefore amount to a surtax, but AMT is just asinine: the government can wait to get its money until I get my money.
I base it mostly on the fact that the people in charge did it more than once, and as far as I can tell, the same the same people are still in charge, despite exchanging their "Hi I'm Bob!" stickers for "Hi I'm Frank!" ones.
I do get why Obama failed to deliver on his Guantanamo Bay closure campaign promise: extraterritoriality buys you the ability to not enforce constitutional provisions for the prisoners. Not really sure how I feel about that one.
Pharmaceuticals would still be in clinical trials when their patents would expire. How about we just focus on getting rid of bad patents that don't bring knowledge or insight to society?
Just start Pharma patent terms after FDA approval. Apply the same to anything that's patented that requires regulatory approval, with the caveat that regulatory approval must be actively sought, and have a watchdog timeout to stop amendment based submarine patents (e.g. if you can't get it approved in 5 years, the patent expiration clock starts anyway). Problem solved.
A nice reductio ad absurdum argument against the validity of these studies is the lack of widespread comedy in the streets, since generally there are equal amounts of sitcoms and violent shows in prime time television programming in the U.S.. This observation tends to invalidate the whole "children are parrots" argument.
I spent a large chunk of time glued to a black and white television watching the Apollo missions, Skylab missions, and any launch for any of the Pioneer, Voyager, Viking, etc. missions (later on we had color TV) including staying home from school to watch them when there was a conflict between school and televised NASA missions.
I would argue that the state of science education in the U.S. would be a heck of a lot better than it is today if we had that kind of television programs for kids to watch to the exclusion of all else, as I did, and that it would be unlikely to rot their brains out of their heads.
By the way, my Honors Faculty advisor for humanities at the University of Utah created a little thing called "Sesame Street": I'm going to guess that doesn't rot kids brains out either, unless their favorite character is Mr. Snuffleupagus.
The boundary they are transiting is one between a fast network and a slower network, similar to what you see at a head-end at a LATA or broadband distribution point and leaf nodes like peoples houses, or one the other end, on the pipe into a NOC with multi gigabit interconnects much bigger than the pipes into or out of the NOC.
The obvious answer is the same as it was in 1997 when it was first implemented on the Whistle InterJet: lie about the available window size on the slow end of the link so as to keep the fast end of the link from becoming congested by having all its buffers filled up with competing traffic.
In this way, even if you have tasks which would otherwise eat all of your bandwidth (at the time, it was mostly FTP and SMTP traffic), you can still set aside enough buffer space on the fast side of the router on the other end of the slow link to let ssh or HTTP traffic streams make it through. Beats the heck out of things like AltQ, which do absolutely nothing to prevent a system with a fast link that has data to send you crap-flooding the upstream router so that it has no free buffers to receive any other traffic, and which it can't possibly hope to shove down the smaller pipe at the rate it's coming in the large one.
Ideally this would be cooperatively managed, as was suggested at one point by Jeff Mogul (which is likely barred due to the lack of a trust relationship between the upstream and downstream routers, if nothing else). Think of it like half your router lives at each end of the link wire, instead of both sides living on one end.
It's the job of the device on the border who happens to know there's a pipe size differential to control what it asks for from the upstream side int terms of the outstanding buffer space it's possible for inbound packets to consume (and to likewise lie about the upstream windows to the downstream higher speed LAN on the other end of the slow link).
I'm pretty sure Julian Elischer tried to push the patches for lying about window size out to FreeBSD as oart of Whistle contributing Netgraph to FreeBSD.
While people are looking at that, they might also want to reconsider the TCP Rate Halving work at CMU, and the LRP implementation from Peter Druschel's group out of Rice University.
Swift public punishment of convicted offenders is intended to act as a deterrent for the rest of society. It's not to reform the offender, and it's not to provide justice for the victim or the victims family.
I don't necessarily agree with taking Rousseau's Social Contract to that extreme, but that's the theory in practice in these situations.
When I was working on a CS degree, one of the work study jobs a number of people in CS could get was computer operator on the campus computer system, which in fact gave them the keys to the kingdom. Unsurprisingly, the world didn't end as a result, nor were the operators grades ever 4.0 across the board.
You have your facts wrong; IBM has a cash balance plan ("hybrid plan"). They didn't lose the lawsuit, and the Supreme Court refused to hear the appeal after IBM won.
Specifically, July 1, 1999; I was an IBM employee at the time they converted.
In a cash balance pension plan, like a defined benefit plan, there is no favoritism in contribution for tenure, so getting rid of the older workers doesn't benefit IBM, so long as the older workers are productive.
You should also realize that ranknfile-ue.org and endicottalliance.org (alliance@ibm) are propaganda arms of the CWA (Communications Workers of America) union, and that the CWA has been trying to get their camel's nose into the IBM tent for forever, ever since they saw the handwriting on the wall about the Internet becoming a big deal. They have their origins in the telephone industry: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Communications_Workers_of_America#History
When I was at IBM, we never gave them the time of day.
* First of all, very few IBM employees are technically communications workers; all of the CWAs historical strikes to date have been against telephone companies.
* Second, we were very well paid with very good benefits, and there was no reason to hold IBM's butt to the fire in exchange for the CWA getting a percentage of our paychecks to line their pockets.
You really need to RTFA and look at who sourced it.
Life support systems require more rigorous testing than simple Monte Carlo. They generally require component testing, bounds case testing, and branch path analysis of the code so that every line of code gets hit during testing.
I've worked on two projects that qualified as life support systems; one was an MRI console for a GE Medical Systems MRI machine (back when it was still being called NMR before it was politically corrected to remove the word "Nuclear"), and the second was a blood gas analyzer. Incorrect operation of the code in either of those cases could have resulted in someone dying as a result of a doctor getting misinformation.
The amount of testing and the rigor of the testing involved in both of those projects was unbelievable. Even then, we were required to carry liability insurance out the wazoo on both projects in case we screwed up the code. There's a reason medical equipment is so expensive.
Space systems that can ram into an occupied space station, and which are intended to some day carry humans to orbit qualify as life support, even if they are being sent up with a load of supplies instead of a human crew. Monte Carlo won't cut it any more than it will for a system call fuzzer trying to find a sequence of three system calls in a row that , if they are called with precisely the right parameters, will trigger a kernel panic.
I have worked for a number of companies that thought their employees were so much smarter than everyone else that no one could possibly understand their code by disassembling it. That's wrong.
In this particular game, yeah, they'd be right if they were talking U.S. programmers whose experience was Java, but people who had to deal with old hardware where memory locations mattered, no. I sometimes wonder at Apple folks who believe no one but them understands ARM assembly. I know at least three Russian programmers personally who can quote hex codes for ARM instructions for pretty much everything you'd want to do. I am guessing I am not connected enough to know them all.
People in the third world are at a significant advantage. They deal with the hardware and know what the hell they are doing. I personally blame the change in accreditation standards that caused U.S. people to concentrate on being rather than doing. Theory is great until you have to engage in total war.
I personally expect a wave of smart people to wash over the U.S. any time soon. The only question is whether they will have U.S. visas or if they will be employed by a foreign power.
And when the mission makes a mistake and an asteroid goes plummiting into a major city it will cause trillions of dollars in damage and massive loss of life and potentially create a cloud of dust that will reverse global warming.
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They charge the U.S. companies they outsource to $12-$20/hour.
Seriously, learn some Mandarin before going, and expect to be values for your understanding of English and Western corporate culture.
-- Terry
"A ______ is to a public microphone as a 1W laser from http://www.wickedlasers.com/ is to a traffic camera."
-- Terry
Once we have a fully functioning nanotechnology, we'll change their minds about it by literally changing their minds.
Don't worry, that's just a scary-ass joke.
Yeah, the possibilities are a bit scary to people who think the technology will be used that way, rather than having defensive nanotechnology open-sourced. BTW, the term "Open Source" http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_source was originated by Christine Peterson of the Foresight institute http://foresight.org/ which is a big proponent of nanotechnology.
-- Terry
You know, opt you in, when you opt out, recategorize it, and since it's a new category, opt you in to the new category by default; wash, rinse, repeat.
"By default, you are opted in to share your GPS information; you are permitted to opt out after you realize we are collecting it."
"We now have a new category of information which we have opted you in to share by default called 'location'; you are permitted to opt out after you realize we are collecting it."
"We now have a new category of information which we have opted you in to share by default called 'position'; you are permitted to opt out after you realize we are collecting it."
"We now have a category of information which we have opted you in to share by default called 'venue'; you are permitted to opt out after you realize we are collecting it."
"We now have a category of information which we have opted you in to share by default called 'place'; you are permitted to opt out after you realize we are collecting it."
"We now have a category of information which we have opted you in to share by default called 'travelogue'; you are permitted to opt out after you realize we are collecting it."
"We now have a category of information which we have opted you in to share by default called 'iternarary'; you are permitted to opt out after you realize we are collecting it."
"We now have a category of information which we have opted you in to share by default called 'orienteering'; you are permitted to opt out after you realize we are collecting it."
"We now have a category of information which we have opted you in to share by default called '10-20'; you are permitted to opt out after you realize we are collecting it."
"We now have a category of information which we have opted you in to share by default called 'safety monitoring'; you are permitted to opt out after you realize we are collecting it." ...
-- Terry
Corn is still corn if you spray BT toxin on it. Why isn't it corn if the corn makes BT toxin?
If it's sprayed on, you can wash it off before you eat it.
-- Terry
Apparently no so impoverished as to be unable to afford a call center.
...your parents basement.
-- Terry
How is the ability to get to space cheaper and more efficiently a bad thing?
Access to space has been relatively controlled by economic expense. I'm pretty sure the real reason access space has been kept expensive and most recent designs have not been of the DC-X variety is to require use of runways and other infrastructure has to do with politics and fear of kinetic bombardment weapons.
I expect that Blue Origin, Masten, and others are likely aiming to change this, although I expect there to be prohibitions on sales of used vehicles to certain individuals and organizations (John Travolta was allowed to buy his 707 on a technicality).
-- Terry
lol
-- Terry
"The spokesperson would not name any other specific areas that are not labeled."
In related news, the members of the band "America" have issued a press release declining to give the name of the horse in the song "A Horse With No Name".
-- Terry
The government is effectively paying him $67M to take $4B and invest it in Singapore instead of the US.
More power to him, so long as the government is insisting on getting paid AMT or capital gains now on unrealized income from an appreciated investment which hasn't been sold.
The problem is that they want their poind of flesh now, rather than waiting for it to turn from an investment into "mall money" (money you can take down to the mall and spend).
I knew, though not well, a Netscape guy who was a paper multimillionaire when the Netscape IPO happened. In order to make it a long instead of a short term capital gain, and thus pay less tax, he did an exercise and hold, rather than a same day sale. Then the .bomb happened and the stock price tanked. So there he was with a couple hundred thousand in share value, and the government wanted their 35% of the $27M they valued it at at the time the options were exercised.
Eventually he killed himself, rather than going to Federal (debtor's) prison for tax evasion, since you can't dismiss taxes owed through bankruptcy.
Capital gains taxes as a matter of public policy are potentially defensible, even though they make you pay taxes on an investment of after-tax income and therefore amount to a surtax, but AMT is just asinine: the government can wait to get its money until I get my money.
-- Terry
I base it mostly on the fact that the people in charge did it more than once, and as far as I can tell, the same the same people are still in charge, despite exchanging their "Hi I'm Bob!" stickers for "Hi I'm Frank!" ones.
I'm still waiting for my Habeas corpus back from after 9/11: http://www.aclu.org/pdfs/safefree/patriot_report_20090310.pdf
While we are at it, I'd like the ability to make private phone calls again: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Room_641A
I'd also prefer U.S. citizens get tried and convicted before they are killed: http://www.mediaite.com/online/us-citizen-and-top-terrorist-suspect-anwar-al-awlaki-killed-in-drone-attack/
I do get why Obama failed to deliver on his Guantanamo Bay closure campaign promise: extraterritoriality buys you the ability to not enforce constitutional provisions for the prisoners. Not really sure how I feel about that one.
-- Terry
Pharmaceuticals would still be in clinical trials when their patents would expire. How about we just focus on getting rid of bad patents that don't bring knowledge or insight to society?
Just start Pharma patent terms after FDA approval. Apply the same to anything that's patented that requires regulatory approval, with the caveat that regulatory approval must be actively sought, and have a watchdog timeout to stop amendment based submarine patents (e.g. if you can't get it approved in 5 years, the patent expiration clock starts anyway). Problem solved.
-- Terry
It's not like the U.S. hasn't done it before:
History of American False Flag Operations:
http://www.911review.com/articles/anon/false_flag_perations.html
-- Terry
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Media_violence_research#Criticisms_of_media_violence_research
A nice reductio ad absurdum argument against the validity of these studies is the lack of widespread comedy in the streets, since generally there are equal amounts of sitcoms and violent shows in prime time television programming in the U.S.. This observation tends to invalidate the whole "children are parrots" argument.
I spent a large chunk of time glued to a black and white television watching the Apollo missions, Skylab missions, and any launch for any of the Pioneer, Voyager, Viking, etc. missions (later on we had color TV) including staying home from school to watch them when there was a conflict between school and televised NASA missions.
I would argue that the state of science education in the U.S. would be a heck of a lot better than it is today if we had that kind of television programs for kids to watch to the exclusion of all else, as I did, and that it would be unlikely to rot their brains out of their heads.
By the way, my Honors Faculty advisor for humanities at the University of Utah created a little thing called "Sesame Street": I'm going to guess that doesn't rot kids brains out either, unless their favorite character is Mr. Snuffleupagus.
-- Terry
He got a year probation and 75 hours of community service.
http://m.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/toronto/appeals-court-upholds-ruling-that-spares-g20-protester-from-jail-time/article2418653/
-- Terry
Mmmmmm... Bacon....
http://www.hormelfoods.com/newsroom/brandinfo/HormelBaconFS.aspx
The boundary they are transiting is one between a fast network and a slower network, similar to what you see at a head-end at a LATA or broadband distribution point and leaf nodes like peoples houses, or one the other end, on the pipe into a NOC with multi gigabit interconnects much bigger than the pipes into or out of the NOC.
The obvious answer is the same as it was in 1997 when it was first implemented on the Whistle InterJet: lie about the available window size on the slow end of the link so as to keep the fast end of the link from becoming congested by having all its buffers filled up with competing traffic.
In this way, even if you have tasks which would otherwise eat all of your bandwidth (at the time, it was mostly FTP and SMTP traffic), you can still set aside enough buffer space on the fast side of the router on the other end of the slow link to let ssh or HTTP traffic streams make it through. Beats the heck out of things like AltQ, which do absolutely nothing to prevent a system with a fast link that has data to send you crap-flooding the upstream router so that it has no free buffers to receive any other traffic, and which it can't possibly hope to shove down the smaller pipe at the rate it's coming in the large one.
Ideally this would be cooperatively managed, as was suggested at one point by Jeff Mogul (which is likely barred due to the lack of a trust relationship between the upstream and downstream routers, if nothing else). Think of it like half your router lives at each end of the link wire, instead of both sides living on one end.
It's the job of the device on the border who happens to know there's a pipe size differential to control what it asks for from the upstream side int terms of the outstanding buffer space it's possible for inbound packets to consume (and to likewise lie about the upstream windows to the downstream higher speed LAN on the other end of the slow link).
I'm pretty sure Julian Elischer tried to push the patches for lying about window size out to FreeBSD as oart of Whistle contributing Netgraph to FreeBSD.
While people are looking at that, they might also want to reconsider the TCP Rate Halving work at CMU, and the LRP implementation from Peter Druschel's group out of Rice University.
-- Terry
Swift public punishment of convicted offenders is intended to act as a deterrent for the rest of society. It's not to reform the offender, and it's not to provide justice for the victim or the victims family.
I don't necessarily agree with taking Rousseau's Social Contract to that extreme, but that's the theory in practice in these situations.
-- Terry
If students at the University of Utah where I studied Physics can run one of 33 teaching nuclear reactors in the U.S., I'm pretty sure letting them near an email server would probably be OK. http://www.deseretnews.com/article/705368841/University-of-Utah-has-own-nuclear-reactor-tucked-away.html
When I was working on a CS degree, one of the work study jobs a number of people in CS could get was computer operator on the campus computer system, which in fact gave them the keys to the kingdom. Unsurprisingly, the world didn't end as a result, nor were the operators grades ever 4.0 across the board.
-- Terry
You have your facts wrong; IBM has a cash balance plan ("hybrid plan"). They didn't lose the lawsuit, and the Supreme Court refused to hear the appeal after IBM won.
Specifically, July 1, 1999; I was an IBM employee at the time they converted.
In a cash balance pension plan, like a defined benefit plan, there is no favoritism in contribution for tenure, so getting rid of the older workers doesn't benefit IBM, so long as the older workers are productive.
You should read up on cash balance plans: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cash_balance_plan
You should also realize that ranknfile-ue.org and endicottalliance.org (alliance@ibm) are propaganda arms of the CWA (Communications Workers of America) union, and that the CWA has been trying to get their camel's nose into the IBM tent for forever, ever since they saw the handwriting on the wall about the Internet becoming a big deal. They have their origins in the telephone industry: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Communications_Workers_of_America#History
When I was at IBM, we never gave them the time of day.
* First of all, very few IBM employees are technically communications workers; all of the CWAs historical strikes to date have been against telephone companies.
* Second, we were very well paid with very good benefits, and there was no reason to hold IBM's butt to the fire in exchange for the CWA getting a percentage of our paychecks to line their pockets.
You really need to RTFA and look at who sourced it.
-- Terry
Does Khan Academy http://www.khanacademy.org/ count as a "social network" according to the New York City Department of Education?
-- Terry
Life support systems require more rigorous testing than simple Monte Carlo. They generally require component testing, bounds case testing, and branch path analysis of the code so that every line of code gets hit during testing.
I've worked on two projects that qualified as life support systems; one was an MRI console for a GE Medical Systems MRI machine (back when it was still being called NMR before it was politically corrected to remove the word "Nuclear"), and the second was a blood gas analyzer. Incorrect operation of the code in either of those cases could have resulted in someone dying as a result of a doctor getting misinformation.
The amount of testing and the rigor of the testing involved in both of those projects was unbelievable. Even then, we were required to carry liability insurance out the wazoo on both projects in case we screwed up the code. There's a reason medical equipment is so expensive.
Space systems that can ram into an occupied space station, and which are intended to some day carry humans to orbit qualify as life support, even if they are being sent up with a load of supplies instead of a human crew. Monte Carlo won't cut it any more than it will for a system call fuzzer trying to find a sequence of three system calls in a row that , if they are called with precisely the right parameters, will trigger a kernel panic.
-- Terry
I have worked for a number of companies that thought their employees were so much smarter than everyone else that no one could possibly understand their code by disassembling it. That's wrong.
In this particular game, yeah, they'd be right if they were talking U.S. programmers whose experience was Java, but people who had to deal with old hardware where memory locations mattered, no. I sometimes wonder at Apple folks who believe no one but them understands ARM assembly. I know at least three Russian programmers personally who can quote hex codes for ARM instructions for pretty much everything you'd want to do. I am guessing I am not connected enough to know them all.
People in the third world are at a significant advantage. They deal with the hardware and know what the hell they are doing. I personally blame the change in accreditation standards that caused U.S. people to concentrate on being rather than doing. Theory is great until you have to engage in total war.
I personally expect a wave of smart people to wash over the U.S. any time soon. The only question is whether they will have U.S. visas or if they will be employed by a foreign power.
-- Terry
-- Terry
And when the mission makes a mistake and an asteroid goes plummiting into a major city it will cause trillions of dollars in damage and massive loss of life and potentially create a cloud of dust that will reverse global warming.
There. Fixed that for you.
-- Terry