That any OLPC deployment like this also deploy with a redundant server, accessible by the devices, and containing at a minimum these three things:
(1) A copy of the Khan academy course materials (2) A copy of the current Wikipedia (3) A copy of the current Project Gutenberg
For a large enough installation of OLPC machines, it's possible that at least the second and maybe the third could be installed in distributed form on the devices themselves, rather than requiring a server, although that almost also requires redundancy and mesh networking to deal with lost/damaged/stolen devices..
Particularly in California, where you could get a tax rebate and carpool lane access stickers for your Prius. Now that that is phased out, people no longer buy Prius, and they go for the Volt or the Leaf, where you can get stickers still (the white ones instead of the yellow ones)..
Generally going South on US101 before 9AM, when the car pool lane is closed to non-carpools, it's pretty much empty, while the other lanes are bumper-to-bumper gridlock. Those stickers added considerably to a Prius' resale value (in fact, the same car with the stickers and without had a $2000 difference in resale value.
And so what? That trafic signal is there only because a car is a danger for everything around it. There is no need to control the bike (and the ciclist will even control hinself if he wishes to live - what's not granted).
That's incorrect; bicyclists tend to believe it, but there are a lot of pedestrians getting run down by bicyclists. Here's an article on a fatality in San Francisco last year, resulting in vehicular manslaughter charges:
And here's a study About pedestrian-cyclist accidents from 2007-2010 in New York state. Basically bicycles send ~1000 pedestrians a year to the hospital in New York alone. Also, it's mostly kids and teens being run over.
The amount of economic damage from one talcum powder bomb in a chip fab says you are looking at the wrong metrics for what terrorism hopes to accomplish.
Of course, just because they are up for renewal doesn't mean they are at the end of their useful life, just that a bunch of luddites are fearful of them continuing to supply electricity.
Guess it's time to renew those licenses instead of retiring the reactors, on the condition that all profits go to the retirement fund for the reactor in question?
You know, if you don't run it on crappy California reformulated gas. If you run crappy California gas, it only gets 64 MPG. Which puts it in the same ballpark as the 1991 Geo Metro convertible, which gets 64 MPG on non-crappy California reformulated gas.
Gotta keep that Chevron refinery monopoly going, they did so well by us with MTBE. Never mind that all vehicles since 1981 have Oxygen sensors, so Oxygenation of fuels does squat for pollution, unless you are driving a 1969 Ford Thunderbird or some other vehicle more than 31 years old.
PS: the US auto industry specifically came up with transverse crash testing to disallow the CRX/HF being imported into the US. Basically, they had to figure out a crash test they could pass that CRX/HF couldn't in order to kill it. Never mind that being simultaneously T-boned from two directions is unlikely as hell.
You have said everything correctly. I just hope more ears will listen... What you wrote reminds me why we have freedom of speech " I might not like what you said, but I will defend your right to say it" I would hope that others see why I link your words to it...
I think the actual quote is:
"I might not agree with what you have to say, but I will defend to the death your right to die in a fire of suspicious origin."
The Tegra platforms have not gotten a lot of traction in the Linux kernel development world, generally because they put all their GPIOs in the wrong place for udev and want to put all of their board-specific GPIO renaming in #ifdef's rather than putting them in separate platform description files.
This is particularly egregious for things like the auido jacks, which due to poor code arrangement, never end up sending udev events to subsystem audio, and instead send them to platform.
I would be very happy if the only thing that came out of it was that the names they assigned to pins in the source code matched the names that they have on their technical specifications instead of having weird-ass names for everything. Right now you have to translate through three layers of indirection to figure out what you have to poke to pull a pin high.
Really, what the ARM folks need to do is get together and decide on an ISA like the Intel/AMD/IBM/yada-yada folks did so that as engineers it posible to target a single real platform. Yes, I realize that would tend to commoditize them, but they are already budge also-ran chips.
Universal healthcare is not just the mark of a civilized society, it's cheaper than commercial healthcare, because you don't have to pay for all those claims adjusters and billing administrators.
Actually they don't go away under the currently enacted-but-not-in-effect U.S. system. You are required to purchase insurance from an insurance company under the new system. The costs stay the same, or go up, since you can't opt out because of rising costs.
The U.S. system as enacted is a universal coverage system, not a universal healthcare system. We already have a universal healthcare system, it's just hideously expensive when uninsured people utilize it at a hospital emergency room.
The problems with the system that will be replacing the current system is that it's exactly the same as the current system in the most important respects:
o. You pay an insurance company for health insurance o. The insurance company pays the doctor for your visit o. The doctor pays a portion of the money back to the insurance company for malpractice insurance o. The insurance company pays for use of equipment like MRI machines o. The company that manufactures the MRI machines pays a protion to the insurance company for liability insurance o. The hospital pays an inflated cost for the machines to cover the vendors liability insurance in the cost o. The hospital pays the insurance company for liability insurance related to the machine o. The hospital pays malpractice insure related to the machine...looks like a Ponzi scheme to me. The only people who make out are the insurance companies, and they have incredible incentive to drive up costs at some multiplier of their desired margin. And that doesn't change under universal coverage.
If they gave us single payer and tort reform, that would be one thing, but this isn't it.
I'd really rather pay for food for someone than to line the pockets of an insurance company.
IEDs are often cellphone-triggered. That said, it's far more likely that "imminent threat" would be taken to mean "speech we disagree with"...
This will not change things with regard to IEDs, although it may change the IEDs to make them more dangerous. In general, it doesn't matter anyway, since IEDs rarely happen in the U.S., which is where the F.C.C. has jurisdiction, anyway, unless it's in a movie or in a television drama like N.C.I.S.. There is not a lot of unexploded ordinance lying around for the taking.
Another poster suggested a dead-man's circuit so that shutting down the cell access for the bomb is rigged to trigger it. The workaround would be for the authorities to evacuate, THEN shut down the network. The work around for the workaround would be to enable a motion detector, such that evacuation then shutdown would be ineffective.
On the bright side, if they think the way the parent poster does, it will only be a matter of time before it's a requirement to be able to shut down RFID in passports and credit cards, since that can be used to identify targets as well.
Of course that's not possible, but the workaround there, if it was, would be to couple an RFID reader with a motion sensor and use IFF (Identification Friend or Foe) such that you are at risk if you are not carrying an RFID device on the terrorist approved list when you go past the motion sensor.
Or to hack the system to shut down the RFIDs without the threat that the shutdown mechanism was intended to thwart, thereby disrupting commerce, as a terrorist act in itself. Of course... then aren't the BART authorities who shut down the cell network guilty of a terrorist act? I guess it's an administrative action if I do it and a terrorist act if you do it.
This is of course all ridiculous, and it's clear that what's really going on is a power grab to obtain the ability to shut down BART-like protests and/or flash-mob protests that are only protests when there are no police in the area to interfere with the protests.
It's always bothered me that people consider universal healthcare more important than universal food, clothing, and shelter. It's also bothered me that it's remained that way since Richard Nixon first proposed universal healthcare as an ide: http://www.everydaycitizen.com/2009/09/ted_kennedy_richard_nixon_and.html
Dammit to hell. So how do I actually make line returns anyway?
I know you were referring to your previous post, but when someone asked how to print something on the third or subsequent times at the CS lab where I worked in college, we always told them:
cat filename | tee/dev/null | lpr -o prettyprint...and then the most important part: you have to type "control M".
Other companies built on the same model, such as "Delphi" and "GEnie" and "AOL" didn't show up until the mid to early 1980's. Unlike the earlier systems which ran on PDP-11's, the newer ones ran on DEC-10 and DEC-20 systems, and later, VAX/VMS.
Heck, if you want to go back earlier, there was also "PLATO" http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PLATO_(computer_system - stated in 1960! But to use that you had to have a dedicated leased line, at least until Telenet connected up to it. The original PLATO ran on Illiac I's. In 1969, it switched over to CDC 1604's, and later CDC Cybers.
The first time I used Plato was on an ADM3a prior to 1980 when my dad took me to see it at the Utah State University (the guy who showed it to me went on to cofound Televideo to manufacture compatible terminals)..
Might be a bit difficult to find someone who even would insure their bitcoin balance, not to mention the difficulties that would probably arise if a claim was filed. Fortunately, in this case the operators of the services are absorbing the lose and their customers/clients are not directly affected.
It should be easily settled by converting real dollars into BTC.
I head about 3000 BTC has coincidentally just become available on the market, which if they put up the US$15,000 to buy them, should cover the "stolen" BTC.
1. Mine a bunch of BTC 2. Fake an online break-in and theft 3. Sell the not really stolen property to the entity who has to replace it, using an untraceable currency 4. Profit!
PS: There is no ???? step when it comes to insurance fraud, it's a rather well researched field.
Qualcomm does sell discrete LTE components separate from their CPUs, like the MDM9200 or MDM9600. Juniper also sells discrete components, and probably would not force the bundling.
They run it to be able to run the radio on the same hardware. But that means that it won't necessarily run anything in bounded time, hence the need for more than one core. Oh, it also comes in 2 and 4 core packages.
Slashdot Mirror
languages are far from information alone with a minimum of original creativity
You've clearly never had to program anything major in Java. Even Gosling got the heck out while the getting was good.
-- Terry
I am pretty sure that since there was no accident there was no crime.
I am (and the universe) a pretty strict enforcer of the laws of physics.
-- Terry
That any OLPC deployment like this also deploy with a redundant server, accessible by the devices, and containing at a minimum these three things:
(1) A copy of the Khan academy course materials
(2) A copy of the current Wikipedia
(3) A copy of the current Project Gutenberg
For a large enough installation of OLPC machines, it's possible that at least the second and maybe the third could be installed in distributed form on the devices themselves, rather than requiring a server, although that almost also requires redundancy and mesh networking to deal with lost/damaged/stolen devices..
-- Terry
Actually your recycling is for profit.
http://noevalleysf.blogspot.com/2008/10/recycling-theft-469000.html
-- Terry
There were incentives that made them worth it.
Particularly in California, where you could get a tax rebate and carpool lane access stickers for your Prius. Now that that is phased out, people no longer buy Prius, and they go for the Volt or the Leaf, where you can get stickers still (the white ones instead of the yellow ones)..
Generally going South on US101 before 9AM, when the car pool lane is closed to non-carpools, it's pretty much empty, while the other lanes are bumper-to-bumper gridlock. Those stickers added considerably to a Prius' resale value (in fact, the same car with the stickers and without had a $2000 difference in resale value.
And so what? That trafic signal is there only because a car is a danger for everything around it. There is no need to control the bike (and the ciclist will even control hinself if he wishes to live - what's not granted).
That's incorrect; bicyclists tend to believe it, but there are a lot of pedestrians getting run down by bicyclists. Here's an article on a fatality in San Francisco last year, resulting in vehicular manslaughter charges:
http://sanfrancisco.cbslocal.com/2012/03/12/bicyclist-sentenced-to-probation-in-fatal-sf-embarcadero-crash/
And here's a study About pedestrian-cyclist accidents from 2007-2010 in New York state. Basically bicycles send ~1000 pedestrians a year to the hospital in New York alone. Also, it's mostly kids and teens being run over.
http://gothamist.com/2011/09/19/pedestrians_are_hit_by_more_bicycli.php
-- Terry
normally would not use the term "dumbass"..
The amount of economic damage from one talcum powder bomb in a chip fab says you are looking at the wrong metrics for what terrorism hopes to accomplish.
-- Terry
If you have a gun, you don't want a camera. I'm just saying.
-- Terry
What do they cost? Typical LVDS panels cost ~$28 in quantity 10,000. If they can't hit near that, then they are going for a niche market.
-- Terry
"...including some whose licenses expire soon..."
Of course, just because they are up for renewal doesn't mean they are at the end of their useful life, just that a bunch of luddites are fearful of them continuing to supply electricity.
Guess it's time to renew those licenses instead of retiring the reactors, on the condition that all profits go to the retirement fund for the reactor in question?
-- Terry
Yet the 1991 Honda CRX/HF still gets 72 MPG
You know, if you don't run it on crappy California reformulated gas. If you run crappy California gas, it only gets 64 MPG. Which puts it in the same ballpark as the 1991 Geo Metro convertible, which gets 64 MPG on non-crappy California reformulated gas.
Gotta keep that Chevron refinery monopoly going, they did so well by us with MTBE. Never mind that all vehicles since 1981 have Oxygen sensors, so Oxygenation of fuels does squat for pollution, unless you are driving a 1969 Ford Thunderbird or some other vehicle more than 31 years old.
PS: the US auto industry specifically came up with transverse crash testing to disallow the CRX/HF being imported into the US. Basically, they had to figure out a crash test they could pass that CRX/HF couldn't in order to kill it. Never mind that being simultaneously T-boned from two directions is unlikely as hell.
-- Terry
You have said everything correctly. I just hope more ears will listen...
What you wrote reminds me why we have freedom of speech " I might not like what you said, but I will defend your right to say it"
I would hope that others see why I link your words to it...
I think the actual quote is:
"I might not agree with what you have to say, but I will defend to the death your right to die in a fire of suspicious origin."
-- Terry
Genius, they've invented Windows.
It looks like they need Linux (or BSD), with only one turbine technician per 100 turbines instead.
-- Terry
http://html5zombo.com/ is as good as google html5.
-- Terry
The Tegra platforms have not gotten a lot of traction in the Linux kernel development world, generally because they put all their GPIOs in the wrong place for udev and want to put all of their board-specific GPIO renaming in #ifdef's rather than putting them in separate platform description files.
This is particularly egregious for things like the auido jacks, which due to poor code arrangement, never end up sending udev events to subsystem audio, and instead send them to platform.
I would be very happy if the only thing that came out of it was that the names they assigned to pins in the source code matched the names that they have on their technical specifications instead of having weird-ass names for everything. Right now you have to translate through three layers of indirection to figure out what you have to poke to pull a pin high.
Really, what the ARM folks need to do is get together and decide on an ISA like the Intel/AMD/IBM/yada-yada folks did so that as engineers it posible to target a single real platform. Yes, I realize that would tend to commoditize them, but they are already budge also-ran chips.
-- Terry
Universal healthcare is not just the mark of a civilized society, it's cheaper than commercial healthcare, because you don't have to pay for all those claims adjusters and billing administrators.
Actually they don't go away under the currently enacted-but-not-in-effect U.S. system. You are required to purchase insurance from an insurance company under the new system. The costs stay the same, or go up, since you can't opt out because of rising costs.
The U.S. system as enacted is a universal coverage system, not a universal healthcare system. We already have a universal healthcare system, it's just hideously expensive when uninsured people utilize it at a hospital emergency room.
The problems with the system that will be replacing the current system is that it's exactly the same as the current system in the most important respects:
o. You pay an insurance company for health insurance ...looks like a Ponzi scheme to me. The only people who make out are the insurance companies, and they have incredible incentive to drive up costs at some multiplier of their desired margin. And that doesn't change under universal coverage.
o. The insurance company pays the doctor for your visit
o. The doctor pays a portion of the money back to the insurance company for malpractice insurance
o. The insurance company pays for use of equipment like MRI machines
o. The company that manufactures the MRI machines pays a protion to the insurance company for liability insurance
o. The hospital pays an inflated cost for the machines to cover the vendors liability insurance in the cost
o. The hospital pays the insurance company for liability insurance related to the machine
o. The hospital pays malpractice insure related to the machine
If they gave us single payer and tort reform, that would be one thing, but this isn't it.
I'd really rather pay for food for someone than to line the pockets of an insurance company.
-- Terry
IEDs are often cellphone-triggered. That said, it's far more likely that "imminent threat" would be taken to mean "speech we disagree with"...
This will not change things with regard to IEDs, although it may change the IEDs to make them more dangerous. In general, it doesn't matter anyway, since IEDs rarely happen in the U.S., which is where the F.C.C. has jurisdiction, anyway, unless it's in a movie or in a television drama like N.C.I.S.. There is not a lot of unexploded ordinance lying around for the taking.
Another poster suggested a dead-man's circuit so that shutting down the cell access for the bomb is rigged to trigger it. The workaround would be for the authorities to evacuate, THEN shut down the network. The work around for the workaround would be to enable a motion detector, such that evacuation then shutdown would be ineffective.
On the bright side, if they think the way the parent poster does, it will only be a matter of time before it's a requirement to be able to shut down RFID in passports and credit cards, since that can be used to identify targets as well.
Of course that's not possible, but the workaround there, if it was, would be to couple an RFID reader with a motion sensor and use IFF (Identification Friend or Foe) such that you are at risk if you are not carrying an RFID device on the terrorist approved list when you go past the motion sensor.
Or to hack the system to shut down the RFIDs without the threat that the shutdown mechanism was intended to thwart, thereby disrupting commerce, as a terrorist act in itself. Of course ... then aren't the BART authorities who shut down the cell network guilty of a terrorist act? I guess it's an administrative action if I do it and a terrorist act if you do it.
This is of course all ridiculous, and it's clear that what's really going on is a power grab to obtain the ability to shut down BART-like protests and/or flash-mob protests that are only protests when there are no police in the area to interfere with the protests.
-- Terry
For example, they may be skinny because the government is spending on healthcare rather than spending on hunger.
Maslow's hierarchy of needs starts with the physiolgical (food, clothing, shelter), which is more important than safety (which is where public healthcare resides): http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maslow's_hierarchy_of_needs
It's always bothered me that people consider universal healthcare more important than universal food, clothing, and shelter. It's also bothered me that it's remained that way since Richard Nixon first proposed universal healthcare as an ide: http://www.everydaycitizen.com/2009/09/ted_kennedy_richard_nixon_and.html
-- Terry
Since they only exist as database IDs, email the users the database IDs, and problem solved.
-- Terry
Dammit to hell. So how do I actually make line returns anyway?
I know you were referring to your previous post, but when someone asked how to print something on the third or subsequent times at the CS lab where I worked in college, we always told them:
cat filename | tee /dev/null | lpr -o prettyprint ...and then the most important part: you have to type "control M".
-- Terry
There were ISPs in the early 1970's, they were just called "Tymnet" http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tymnet and "Telenet" http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telenet and the network was based on X.25 instead of being based on TCP/IP (i.e. it was circuit switched rather than packet switched).
There were plenty of server nodes as well, such as "CompuServe" http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CompuServe - founded in 1969!, "Dialcom" http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dialcom - founded in 1970!
Other companies built on the same model, such as "Delphi" and "GEnie" and "AOL" didn't show up until the mid to early 1980's. Unlike the earlier systems which ran on PDP-11's, the newer ones ran on DEC-10 and DEC-20 systems, and later, VAX/VMS.
Heck, if you want to go back earlier, there was also "PLATO" http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PLATO_(computer_system - stated in 1960! But to use that you had to have a dedicated leased line, at least until Telenet connected up to it. The original PLATO ran on Illiac I's. In 1969, it switched over to CDC 1604's, and later CDC Cybers.
The first time I used Plato was on an ADM3a prior to 1980 when my dad took me to see it at the Utah State University (the guy who showed it to me went on to cofound Televideo to manufacture compatible terminals)..
-- Terry
Might be a bit difficult to find someone who even would insure their bitcoin balance, not to mention the difficulties that would probably arise if a claim was filed. Fortunately, in this case the operators of the services are absorbing the lose and their customers/clients are not directly affected.
It should be easily settled by converting real dollars into BTC.
I head about 3000 BTC has coincidentally just become available on the market, which if they put up the US$15,000 to buy them, should cover the "stolen" BTC.
1. Mine a bunch of BTC
2. Fake an online break-in and theft
3. Sell the not really stolen property to the entity who has to replace it, using an untraceable currency
4. Profit!
PS: There is no ???? step when it comes to insurance fraud, it's a rather well researched field.
-- Terry
In other news, water is wet.
-- Terry
Qualcomm does sell discrete LTE components separate from their CPUs, like the MDM9200 or MDM9600. Juniper also sells discrete components, and probably would not force the bundling.
-- Terry
They run it to be able to run the radio on the same hardware. But that means that it won't necessarily run anything in bounded time, hence the need for more than one core. Oh, it also comes in 2 and 4 core packages.
-- Terry