Lots of grim faces when they didn't get the commercial crew contract.
They've never flown a vehicle, except for in-atmosphere aerodynamic tests, and they've only announced a second round of tests last October. I'd be surprised if they make delivery deadline.
> In other words, quit trying to fix *them* to suit you, and instead fix *you* to suit them.
This from a Brazilian. You'll probably disagree but here is my two little coins.
[...]
That's markedly different form the USA, where people are Asian-American, Afro-American, Sino-American, Italian-American etc. That always strikes me as restricting wrt to freedom. Maybe it's just an impression...
Thanks for the response.
The truth in the U.S. is that the U.S. is perhaps the most multicultural nation there is. And for the most part, everyone gets along with each other fine.
The "hyphenated American" phenomenon is actually about emphasizing cultural origin. With the exceptions of "African American" and "Native American", which have been adopted as a politically correct reference to the persons race, these are in large part worn only as a badge of pride in cultural heritage.
And yes, there tends to eventually be a loss of a distinctive cultural identity, in terms of exclaiming ones origins, over time. When an African American marries an Irish-American, and they have a kid, and that kid marries the kid of a Italian-American and a Russian-American, and they have a kid... it's really hard to try and label the child as anything but simply "American" at that point.
Where the problems come about is in larger enclaves.
Larger enclaves are capable of, and have a tendency to, turn inward. You are lucky to not have that problem in Brazil, if everyone is living their lives peacefully, side by side.
In the 1960's, we had an enclave problem in the U.S.. There were white enclaves, and black enclaves, and they did *not* live side by side. This was primarily due to entrenched racism, dating back to the South being economically agrarian, and employing slave labor, and then exacerbated by "The Reconstruction" following the Civil War. The Reconstruction followed similar lines to that of the German Weimar Republic, after the first world war, under rules imposed by the Treaty of Versailles.
In other words, it really pissed off the losers in the war, while the victors effectively rubbed their faces in the fact that they had lost. This bred incredible resentment against African Americans in the South. And so enclaves.
And this leads us to, perhaps, the largest social experiment ever performed in history.
The U.S. embarked on a policy of forced integration to overcome the enclaves. To a large extent, this has worked, although there are growing enclaves based on economic lines, due to high unemployment and discrimination in employment based on educational level due to the elimination of blue collar work. There generally aren't a lot of economic equivalence jobs left for traditionally blue collar roles in the U.S.. This did not result in enclaves or economic discrepancies based on education, until those jobs left the U.S. for places like China.
So yeah, we have some growing problems that need to be addressed. They are mostly on economic lines -- and it doesn't matter what your race or national origin is, or actually even what your race is. Although there is a tendency through historical precedent, for the types of jobs which have gone away, to inordinately impact along racial lines, you see the same complaints on the basis of educational level in all communities, and the codeword for that is "gentrification", which translates to people with economic means displacing people without economic means from desirable to live locations.
These problems are dwarfed by what is currently happening in Europe.
What's currently happening in Europe is mass migration on an unprecedented scale.
And that automatically results in the creation of large enclaves. Which then turn inward. And do not assimilate into the larger culture; in some cases, the "larger culture" is not even that much larger, any more, and the incoming flood represents a significant fraction of the population.
I will say that EU immigration is somewhat more difficult only because I don't speak the native language [....] But I don't know how one would go about fixing it.
Try learning to speak the native language.
They were flexible enough to let you in; be flexible enough to learn to fit in.
In other words, quit trying to fix *them* to suit you, and instead fix *you* to suit them.
It's basically a SiByte or Cavium network processor, only with ARM instead of MIPS.
It'll probably be useful for terminating SSL connections in a box to offload the cryptography, and for offload of packet reassembly and other less interesting things from your main compute cluster, but not much else.
The main problem is still that most ARM implementations memory bandwidth sucks; not knowing who was on the design team for the thing, until we get real numbers out of benchmarks, it won't be clear if the Hypertransport/DEC Alpha design people that AMD ate way back when were involved or not, and whether the I/O bus is crossbar or serial. I guess we'll get to find out.
Obviously, first gen is about getting product out; it'll be more interesting if/when they cram 8K of the processors into a single 1U box, or however they plan on 2nd and 3rd gen'ing the things, and whether they have/will address the abysmal ARM memory bandwidth issues (or not).
What Hitler movie was banned in Germany? Der Untergang is a german movie.
There are several which are banned for public exhibition, although some are permitted in media studies classes, by instructors who themselves have formal training:
The Eternal Jew Jud Süss (via copyright by the F.W. Murnau Foundation)
Mostly Germany bans only for extreme violence, although I'd really call some of their choices (like the cult classic "The Evil Dead") questionable.
Ecuador did not have an agreement in place with Sweden to act as a framework within which such a request could be allowed to go forward on Ecuadoran soil, which is what the embassy is. Until that agreement was reached, it was in fact a requirement that refuse Swedish extraterritorial interrogation requests.
Ironically, it would have been perfectly legitimate for Interpol to request on behalf of Sweden, and send Interpol investigators (some of whom could have been Swedish) to perform the questioning, since Ecuador is a signatory to treaties and agreements which require cooperation with Interpol.
The issue, however, has always been that what Sweden is asking is not for what they want, but a pretext for what they actually want, which is extradition. This has, naturally, been a sticking point for Ecuador.
Really, the request should not be big news, since it was inevitable that this would be asked. The real news is the Sweden-Ecuador agreement that allowed the question to be asked; but that type of thing rarely hits the front page, unlike anything directly dealing with Assange.
Perhaps it could influence the system allowing much "liked" users to have a (slightly) greater chance of getting mod points?
I am sure it could be abused someway though.
I would hope it would function as a moderator encouragement, actually, although on an article by article basis, rather than on a user basis. Getting mod points tends to make me hesitant to post in an article commentary, unless I'm certain I don't want to moderate in it. I wouldn't want it to replace "karma" in this regard.
I guess to be effective, it would also need a "dislike", so that the influence couldn't be gamed, even though it's an influence through a human with mod points, rather than directly.
The missing bindings are expected. The browser bindings expose Windows APIs into the JS engine within the browser ("standard + extensions"), and the COM bindings on the debug API not being present are there to make it platform agnostic.
The part that I find really amazing is that they are targeting x86, x64, and ARM binary support, with two levels of JIT, with feedback optimization. That's a pretty cool thing to have out there in the wild, under an MIT license:
I think that some of the first contributions need to be buildability support on other platforms, which means CLang/LLVM and GCC support. Ideally, it would handle agnostic conversion from some common representation into both the project build mechanism in Java ("Jenkins"), and Makefiles. Not sure if I'm willing to jump on this, since it would mean a familiarity with both, and I'm not sure they'd accept something like that back (it looks like they specifically picked Jenkins for its cross-platform-ness, even though it adds a Java dependency).
This would enable someone external to Microsoft to run *at least* nightly builds and regression testing for other platforms.
I really have to wonder if it's been thought through, however, to enable people to identify the JavaScript engine, and decide *not* to use the Microsoft specific extensions to the Core platform, so as to keep the things that try to use it portable, or if that's of interest to them. A long time ago, I tried, and failed, to get a common cross-platform ABI adopted, and one of the *key* requirements for it would have been the ability to *turn off* vendor extensions in the runtime, so that you could build cross-platform software targeting it, by causing it to error out when the software used a vendor private API/ABI component.
Without something like that, I fear, it will become an "embrace -- then extend and make incompatible", similar to gcc'isms being incorporated into otherwise portable source code, or the bash extensions to the Bourne shell that resulted in shell scripts actually not being runnable on any shell, but instead only runnable on bash due to bash'isms.
A nice barrier enforcement mechanism that extended up through browser space to enable committing to portability would be nice. Otherwise, when a remote website sent JavaScript content down because of the runtime it though it was hitting, it could include them, unintentionally or no, and non-Microsoft browsers based on the Core implementation would fail to operate.
Chrome advertises its Incognito mode as leaving no traces behind. Therefore, it should be responsible for wiping its framebuffer, just as it clears caches, cookies and history. It's like writing a file shredder that doesn't actually overwrite files, then blaming the OS and hard drive manufacturer for the oversight.
This, this, this!
If it's incognito, it should not trust anyone else to ensure the privacy of the user's data, not even the OS. We already know that it's possible to use CPU cache bugs as a covert channel to snoop on other processes running on your computer; if the application claims to maintain security, it needs to zero the memory itself.
As an aside, a GPU is a better machine for zeroing pages than the main CPU, and won't pipeline stall or time stall the main CPU by doing it, and GPUs are traditionally really good at manipulating large amounts of memory. So one has to wonder: why doesn't nVidia expose a primitive that Chrome can then use to zero the pages of a frame buffer, before or after it is used?
[...]Suddenly he seemed less concerned about my knowledge of Debian.:)
Slashdot really needs a "like" system, separate from the moderation system. It wouldn't impact your ability to moderate, and it'd allow you to like something that was posted as a response or in a thread in which you posted...:^)
This is the second story in as many days arguing for limitation of disclosure for an indeterminate period. The first was the story lauding GM for doing the same, when it made it's list of the types of disclosure for which it will not go after you legally.
You have to put a clock on these things; the only thing a company executive cares about is keeping the board happy, and the only thing that the board cares about is fiduciary responsibility to the stockholders, including themselves and the company executives.
This is what we incentivize with how we have built these systems to operate. And it incentivizes behaviours which are not in a customers/consumers best interest, in most cases.
If someone had come up with the GM ignition problem as a potential disclosure, and then gave them a three month clock to public disclosure, it would have been handled through a rather immediate recall. Instead, it was handled by accepting the lawsuit payouts as a "cost of doing business", and then determined that the highest actuarial benefit was to simply eat those costs while imposing gag orders, rather than taking the more expensive option of fixing all the ignitions in all the vehicles. It was less expensive, overall, to the company, that some people die in order that the company make a marginally higher profit.
While I doubt that many software vulnerability disclosures will result in deaths, the same principle holds true. Both GM and Trend Micro would like apriori restrictions -- one through veiled threat of legal action, with a bounty carrot, and one through guilt shaming for those who disclose.
Responsible disclosure is really the only ethical -- and moral -- option.
I doubt that it is evolution. As others have noted we get far more of our light from the sun and that the use of fire for lighting is relatively recent in terms of evolution.
I have to disagree.
When the one book your family owns is a Bible (or other religious text), you're not taking it out with you on the farm while you are working in daylight with the animals or plowing the field. No, you keep it safely indoors, away from the elements, and you read it when you don't have other pressing work to do, like collecting eggs, milking cows, threshing wheat, and so on -- activities that happen during daylight hours.
Which means you are most likely reading by fireplace, lantern, or candle, and not daylight.
Same for monks with hand copied manuscripts, and prior to the dark ages, papyrus scrolls used for various purposes which were later subsumed by books.
Prior to books, when you were painting on the cave walls, you were definitely doing that by wood fire, as we know from the Lascaux caves in France, and Altamira cave in Spain.
Fire has pretty much been our low light companion for at least the last 20,000 years.
Sure, the BULB ITSELF was a quarter instead of $5-$10. But then it used $1 a month more than the replacement. Within 10 months, you were already paying more./p>
I think you are mistaking me wanting to *pay* less for electricity with me wanting to *use* less electricity. I don't *want* to use less electricity, I want it to be inexpensive and readily available in massive amounts. Preferably with a low carbon footprint, meaning not using fossil fuels, like the natural gas California mostly imports from Texas to generate their electricity.
I think the reason so many people want the yellow lights is it is what they are used to.
Personally, I think it's millions of years of evolution, combined with the fact that it's only been the last 130 years or so that we stopped getting all our light from fire. You may want to have your color vision checked, next time you are at the optometrist.
The only thing that was weird was getting used to the new spectrum. It took about a week or two, and I haven't looked back.
Mostly because it's impossible to see in the blue, blue light from those CFL bulbs, and if you can't see anyway, there's no reason to look back?
While there are a couple of nice colored LED candelabra bulbs that are livable, if slightly expensive I have never enjoyed reading or painting (or even charcoal drawing) under CFL bulbs; they're just obnoxious.
And given that I've read slightly over 17,000 books so far, it's one of the pastimes that I like to be able to enjoy without eyestrain. Impossible with CFLs.
Remind me again how many of the monumental number of televisions manufactured in the vast factories of America are exported and sold in China?
China imports aircraft, CPUs, capital goods, movies, and billions of hours of services from America.
Aircraft: yes. Tariff that, and you've just killed Chinas air industry. I guess they could go AirBus instead. They don't import much in the way of capital goods. The movies, they generally just run a "third shift" and press a bunch of extra DVDs: the DVD players don't really care if it's a binary copy of a "content scrambled" DVD, as long as it's an exact duplicate. Not a lot of import there. What services do they import from the U.S.?
It's kind of entirely moot, however, as we are not permitted to tariff China for many things, because they have WTO "Most Favord Nation" status, granted to them by the U.S., which means they can't be tariffed any more than the least teriff on all other U.S. trading partners, even if their factories are being powered by burning babies born to Falun Gong families in their power plants.
...if all the pressure to unionize and all the headaches that that entails might have at least early on, been part of the PROBLEM, causing more and more jobs to move overseas from the US?
It didn't have anything to do with it.
I was at IBM when they were just trying to get the union ball rolling, and for a while after that. Everyone inside IBM though they were a joke. The problem is, it was the CWA -- Communications Workers of America -- and their primary bailiwick was radio and telecom. They were desperately trying to diversify their membership base, as the jobs in that industry were drying up, and being replaced by communications over commodity infrastructure based on the Internet.
So they tried to tell us we were all communications workers, and that we should join their union because we happened to have IT related jobs, and people were using computers to communicate.
It didn't work, mostly because we were well paid and well treated, because we were in high demand, and demand was oustripping supply by a large margin; it still does, unless you are a useless lump.
They only got a bit of a bump when IBM converted their pension plan from fully funded to a cash balance plan, and that quickly went away when IBM agreed to grandfather the plans of those people within 5 years of retirement -- which was about all the people who expected to retire with a company pension, and successfully live the rest of their lives on it, anyway.
The only thing that's pushing IBM out of the U.S. at this point is costs, and the fact that you only tend to go to IBM (and IBM Global Services, in particular) for contract work on larger projects, and you kind of don't care who does the work, so long as it gets done.
It's actually a false economy, based on quality of work product, but IGS has always overcommitted their resources -- they were in fact proud that they had more contracts than they could possibly deliver on, and announced the fact at company meetings -- and has always been focussed on giving customers exactly what they ask for, as opposed to what they need, and thus keeping the consulting relationship ongoing. If you aren't going to deliver what the customer needs anyway, it doesn't really matter who delivers the wrong thing, or its level of quality, it's going to keep the contract chugging along.
So really, there was no reason to unionize, and a union wouldn't keep the jobs from bleeding to elsewhere, so why bother giving them money for no services rendered?
Why would you think that a leased line is immune to noise and other sources of data loss? There is absolutely no physical difference in lines. Yes, there is no congestion, but that is far easier to deal with than line noise, cosmic rays and backhoes.
What about intentional denial of service attacks or take-overs in the middle of your heart surgery because someone really, really doesn't like something you posted in your Facebook status, such as "no longer in a relationship", or they found out you were the idiot who posts the "Moo" thing on Slashdot, or they found out you're the person who calls them from Florida and blows the cruise ship horn in their ear in order to scam money from them, or they find out you're the guy who signed off on their IRS audit?
So basically, you install Windows 10... and then Windows 7 phones home when you reinstall it to get rid of Windows 10, and they store the difference in timestamp in an Excel spreadsheet somewhere?
"A Samsung representative is quoted as saying 'You idiot; that's not a fridge! That's a cell phone! We figured we leapfrog Apple a couple of generations on screen size, now that we've sucked them into the won't -fit-in-your-pocket screen size war!'; Apple was unavailable for comment."
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Lots of grim faces when they didn't get the commercial crew contract.
They've never flown a vehicle, except for in-atmosphere aerodynamic tests, and they've only announced a second round of tests last October. I'd be surprised if they make delivery deadline.
> In other words, quit trying to fix *them* to suit you, and instead fix *you* to suit them.
This from a Brazilian. You'll probably disagree but here is my two little coins.
[...]
That's markedly different form the USA, where people are Asian-American, Afro-American, Sino-American, Italian-American etc. That always strikes me as restricting wrt to freedom. Maybe it's just an impression...
Thanks for the response.
The truth in the U.S. is that the U.S. is perhaps the most multicultural nation there is. And for the most part, everyone gets along with each other fine.
The "hyphenated American" phenomenon is actually about emphasizing cultural origin. With the exceptions of "African American" and "Native American", which have been adopted as a politically correct reference to the persons race, these are in large part worn only as a badge of pride in cultural heritage.
And yes, there tends to eventually be a loss of a distinctive cultural identity, in terms of exclaiming ones origins, over time. When an African American marries an Irish-American, and they have a kid, and that kid marries the kid of a Italian-American and a Russian-American, and they have a kid... it's really hard to try and label the child as anything but simply "American" at that point.
Where the problems come about is in larger enclaves.
Larger enclaves are capable of, and have a tendency to, turn inward. You are lucky to not have that problem in Brazil, if everyone is living their lives peacefully, side by side.
In the 1960's, we had an enclave problem in the U.S.. There were white enclaves, and black enclaves, and they did *not* live side by side. This was primarily due to entrenched racism, dating back to the South being economically agrarian, and employing slave labor, and then exacerbated by "The Reconstruction" following the Civil War. The Reconstruction followed similar lines to that of the German Weimar Republic, after the first world war, under rules imposed by the Treaty of Versailles.
In other words, it really pissed off the losers in the war, while the victors effectively rubbed their faces in the fact that they had lost. This bred incredible resentment against African Americans in the South. And so enclaves.
And this leads us to, perhaps, the largest social experiment ever performed in history.
The U.S. embarked on a policy of forced integration to overcome the enclaves. To a large extent, this has worked, although there are growing enclaves based on economic lines, due to high unemployment and discrimination in employment based on educational level due to the elimination of blue collar work. There generally aren't a lot of economic equivalence jobs left for traditionally blue collar roles in the U.S.. This did not result in enclaves or economic discrepancies based on education, until those jobs left the U.S. for places like China.
So yeah, we have some growing problems that need to be addressed. They are mostly on economic lines -- and it doesn't matter what your race or national origin is, or actually even what your race is. Although there is a tendency through historical precedent, for the types of jobs which have gone away, to inordinately impact along racial lines, you see the same complaints on the basis of educational level in all communities, and the codeword for that is "gentrification", which translates to people with economic means displacing people without economic means from desirable to live locations.
These problems are dwarfed by what is currently happening in Europe.
What's currently happening in Europe is mass migration on an unprecedented scale.
And that automatically results in the creation of large enclaves. Which then turn inward. And do not assimilate into the larger culture; in some cases, the "larger culture" is not even that much larger, any more, and the incoming flood represents a significant fraction of the population.
This is going to spell large scale destab
I will say that EU immigration is somewhat more difficult only because I don't speak the native language [....] But I don't know how one would go about fixing it.
Try learning to speak the native language.
They were flexible enough to let you in; be flexible enough to learn to fit in.
In other words, quit trying to fix *them* to suit you, and instead fix *you* to suit them.
YOU WIN THE INTERNETS. That is all.
Seriously, funniest thing I have seen in days!
Everything old is new again.
It's basically a SiByte or Cavium network processor, only with ARM instead of MIPS.
It'll probably be useful for terminating SSL connections in a box to offload the cryptography, and for offload of packet reassembly and other less interesting things from your main compute cluster, but not much else.
The main problem is still that most ARM implementations memory bandwidth sucks; not knowing who was on the design team for the thing, until we get real numbers out of benchmarks, it won't be clear if the Hypertransport/DEC Alpha design people that AMD ate way back when were involved or not, and whether the I/O bus is crossbar or serial. I guess we'll get to find out.
Obviously, first gen is about getting product out; it'll be more interesting if/when they cram 8K of the processors into a single 1U box, or however they plan on 2nd and 3rd gen'ing the things, and whether they have/will address the abysmal ARM memory bandwidth issues (or not).
What Hitler movie was banned in Germany? Der Untergang is a german movie.
There are several which are banned for public exhibition, although some are permitted in media studies classes, by instructors who themselves have formal training:
The Eternal Jew
Jud Süss (via copyright by the F.W. Murnau Foundation)
Mostly Germany bans only for extreme violence, although I'd really call some of their choices (like the cult classic "The Evil Dead") questionable.
This is actually the first legitimate request.
Ecuador did not have an agreement in place with Sweden to act as a framework within which such a request could be allowed to go forward on Ecuadoran soil, which is what the embassy is. Until that agreement was reached, it was in fact a requirement that refuse Swedish extraterritorial interrogation requests.
Ironically, it would have been perfectly legitimate for Interpol to request on behalf of Sweden, and send Interpol investigators (some of whom could have been Swedish) to perform the questioning, since Ecuador is a signatory to treaties and agreements which require cooperation with Interpol.
The issue, however, has always been that what Sweden is asking is not for what they want, but a pretext for what they actually want, which is extradition. This has, naturally, been a sticking point for Ecuador.
Really, the request should not be big news, since it was inevitable that this would be asked. The real news is the Sweden-Ecuador agreement that allowed the question to be asked; but that type of thing rarely hits the front page, unlike anything directly dealing with Assange.
Slashdot really needs a "like" system, ...
Perhaps it could influence the system allowing much "liked" users to have a (slightly) greater chance of getting mod points?
I am sure it could be abused someway though.
I would hope it would function as a moderator encouragement, actually, although on an article by article basis, rather than on a user basis. Getting mod points tends to make me hesitant to post in an article commentary, unless I'm certain I don't want to moderate in it. I wouldn't want it to replace "karma" in this regard.
I guess to be effective, it would also need a "dislike", so that the influence couldn't be gamed, even though it's an influence through a human with mod points, rather than directly.
The missing bindings are expected. The browser bindings expose Windows APIs into the JS engine within the browser ("standard + extensions"), and the COM bindings on the debug API not being present are there to make it platform agnostic.
The part that I find really amazing is that they are targeting x86, x64, and ARM binary support, with two levels of JIT, with feedback optimization. That's a pretty cool thing to have out there in the wild, under an MIT license:
https://github.com/Microsoft/C...
I think that some of the first contributions need to be buildability support on other platforms, which means CLang/LLVM and GCC support. Ideally, it would handle agnostic conversion from some common representation into both the project build mechanism in Java ("Jenkins"), and Makefiles. Not sure if I'm willing to jump on this, since it would mean a familiarity with both, and I'm not sure they'd accept something like that back (it looks like they specifically picked Jenkins for its cross-platform-ness, even though it adds a Java dependency).
This would enable someone external to Microsoft to run *at least* nightly builds and regression testing for other platforms.
I really have to wonder if it's been thought through, however, to enable people to identify the JavaScript engine, and decide *not* to use the Microsoft specific extensions to the Core platform, so as to keep the things that try to use it portable, or if that's of interest to them. A long time ago, I tried, and failed, to get a common cross-platform ABI adopted, and one of the *key* requirements for it would have been the ability to *turn off* vendor extensions in the runtime, so that you could build cross-platform software targeting it, by causing it to error out when the software used a vendor private API/ABI component.
Without something like that, I fear, it will become an "embrace -- then extend and make incompatible", similar to gcc'isms being incorporated into otherwise portable source code, or the bash extensions to the Bourne shell that resulted in shell scripts actually not being runnable on any shell, but instead only runnable on bash due to bash'isms.
A nice barrier enforcement mechanism that extended up through browser space to enable committing to portability would be nice. Otherwise, when a remote website sent JavaScript content down because of the runtime it though it was hitting, it could include them, unintentionally or no, and non-Microsoft browsers based on the Core implementation would fail to operate.
Chrome advertises its Incognito mode as leaving no traces behind. Therefore, it should be responsible for wiping its framebuffer, just as it clears caches, cookies and history. It's like writing a file shredder that doesn't actually overwrite files, then blaming the OS and hard drive manufacturer for the oversight.
This, this, this!
If it's incognito, it should not trust anyone else to ensure the privacy of the user's data, not even the OS. We already know that it's possible to use CPU cache bugs as a covert channel to snoop on other processes running on your computer; if the application claims to maintain security, it needs to zero the memory itself.
As an aside, a GPU is a better machine for zeroing pages than the main CPU, and won't pipeline stall or time stall the main CPU by doing it, and GPUs are traditionally really good at manipulating large amounts of memory. So one has to wonder: why doesn't nVidia expose a primitive that Chrome can then use to zero the pages of a frame buffer, before or after it is used?
[...]Suddenly he seemed less concerned about my knowledge of Debian. :)
Slashdot really needs a "like" system, separate from the moderation system. It wouldn't impact your ability to moderate, and it'd allow you to like something that was posted as a response or in a thread in which you posted... :^)
This is the second story in as many days arguing for limitation of disclosure for an indeterminate period. The first was the story lauding GM for doing the same, when it made it's list of the types of disclosure for which it will not go after you legally.
You have to put a clock on these things; the only thing a company executive cares about is keeping the board happy, and the only thing that the board cares about is fiduciary responsibility to the stockholders, including themselves and the company executives.
This is what we incentivize with how we have built these systems to operate. And it incentivizes behaviours which are not in a customers/consumers best interest, in most cases.
If someone had come up with the GM ignition problem as a potential disclosure, and then gave them a three month clock to public disclosure, it would have been handled through a rather immediate recall. Instead, it was handled by accepting the lawsuit payouts as a "cost of doing business", and then determined that the highest actuarial benefit was to simply eat those costs while imposing gag orders, rather than taking the more expensive option of fixing all the ignitions in all the vehicles. It was less expensive, overall, to the company, that some people die in order that the company make a marginally higher profit.
While I doubt that many software vulnerability disclosures will result in deaths, the same principle holds true. Both GM and Trend Micro would like apriori restrictions -- one through veiled threat of legal action, with a bounty carrot, and one through guilt shaming for those who disclose.
Responsible disclosure is really the only ethical -- and moral -- option.
Put a clock on it. Always.
I doubt that it is evolution. As others have noted we get far more of our light from the sun and that the use of fire for lighting is relatively recent in terms of evolution.
I have to disagree.
When the one book your family owns is a Bible (or other religious text), you're not taking it out with you on the farm while you are working in daylight with the animals or plowing the field. No, you keep it safely indoors, away from the elements, and you read it when you don't have other pressing work to do, like collecting eggs, milking cows, threshing wheat, and so on -- activities that happen during daylight hours.
Which means you are most likely reading by fireplace, lantern, or candle, and not daylight.
Same for monks with hand copied manuscripts, and prior to the dark ages, papyrus scrolls used for various purposes which were later subsumed by books.
Prior to books, when you were painting on the cave walls, you were definitely doing that by wood fire, as we know from the Lascaux caves in France, and Altamira cave in Spain.
Fire has pretty much been our low light companion for at least the last 20,000 years.
Then people can't math.
Sure, the BULB ITSELF was a quarter instead of $5-$10. But then it used $1 a month more than the replacement. Within 10 months, you were already paying more./p>
I think you are mistaking me wanting to *pay* less for electricity with me wanting to *use* less electricity. I don't *want* to use less electricity, I want it to be inexpensive and readily available in massive amounts. Preferably with a low carbon footprint, meaning not using fossil fuels, like the natural gas California mostly imports from Texas to generate their electricity.
I think the reason so many people want the yellow lights is it is what they are used to.
Personally, I think it's millions of years of evolution, combined with the fact that it's only been the last 130 years or so that we stopped getting all our light from fire. You may want to have your color vision checked, next time you are at the optometrist.
Phillips. I still have a Phillips CFL from 15 years ago (with three arch tubes) that hasn't died yet.
They would probably like to buy it from you so they can figure out what went wrong with it not dying, so they can prevent it happening again...
The only thing that was weird was getting used to the new spectrum. It took about a week or two, and I haven't looked back.
Mostly because it's impossible to see in the blue, blue light from those CFL bulbs, and if you can't see anyway, there's no reason to look back?
While there are a couple of nice colored LED candelabra bulbs that are livable, if slightly expensive I have never enjoyed reading or painting (or even charcoal drawing) under CFL bulbs; they're just obnoxious.
And given that I've read slightly over 17,000 books so far, it's one of the pastimes that I like to be able to enjoy without eyestrain. Impossible with CFLs.
So.. 1.5% of the population... that's a powerful voting block?
Are we sure that this isn't just the New Hampshire Chamber of Commerce trying to get wealth individuals? At least in Wyoming, you'd be over 3%...
This is really a lot of hype.
Remind me again how many of the monumental number of televisions manufactured in the vast factories of America are exported and sold in China?
China imports aircraft, CPUs, capital goods, movies, and billions of hours of services from America.
Aircraft: yes. Tariff that, and you've just killed Chinas air industry. I guess they could go AirBus instead. They don't import much in the way of capital goods. The movies, they generally just run a "third shift" and press a bunch of extra DVDs: the DVD players don't really care if it's a binary copy of a "content scrambled" DVD, as long as it's an exact duplicate. Not a lot of import there. What services do they import from the U.S.?
It's kind of entirely moot, however, as we are not permitted to tariff China for many things, because they have WTO "Most Favord Nation" status, granted to them by the U.S., which means they can't be tariffed any more than the least teriff on all other U.S. trading partners, even if their factories are being powered by burning babies born to Falun Gong families in their power plants.
...if all the pressure to unionize and all the headaches that that entails might have at least early on, been part of the PROBLEM, causing more and more jobs to move overseas from the US?
It didn't have anything to do with it.
I was at IBM when they were just trying to get the union ball rolling, and for a while after that. Everyone inside IBM though they were a joke. The problem is, it was the CWA -- Communications Workers of America -- and their primary bailiwick was radio and telecom. They were desperately trying to diversify their membership base, as the jobs in that industry were drying up, and being replaced by communications over commodity infrastructure based on the Internet.
So they tried to tell us we were all communications workers, and that we should join their union because we happened to have IT related jobs, and people were using computers to communicate.
It didn't work, mostly because we were well paid and well treated, because we were in high demand, and demand was oustripping supply by a large margin; it still does, unless you are a useless lump.
They only got a bit of a bump when IBM converted their pension plan from fully funded to a cash balance plan, and that quickly went away when IBM agreed to grandfather the plans of those people within 5 years of retirement -- which was about all the people who expected to retire with a company pension, and successfully live the rest of their lives on it, anyway.
The only thing that's pushing IBM out of the U.S. at this point is costs, and the fact that you only tend to go to IBM (and IBM Global Services, in particular) for contract work on larger projects, and you kind of don't care who does the work, so long as it gets done.
It's actually a false economy, based on quality of work product, but IGS has always overcommitted their resources -- they were in fact proud that they had more contracts than they could possibly deliver on, and announced the fact at company meetings -- and has always been focussed on giving customers exactly what they ask for, as opposed to what they need, and thus keeping the consulting relationship ongoing. If you aren't going to deliver what the customer needs anyway, it doesn't really matter who delivers the wrong thing, or its level of quality, it's going to keep the contract chugging along.
So really, there was no reason to unionize, and a union wouldn't keep the jobs from bleeding to elsewhere, so why bother giving them money for no services rendered?
What the First World should do is tax products that are produced in factories that don't have equivalent labour and environmental protections in place
Then those countries will immediately retaliate with tariffs on American goods, and everybody loses.
Remind me again how many of the monumental number of televisions manufactured in the vast factories of America are exported and sold in China?
Does it also work against Cessna's?
Use a leased line.
Problem solved.
Your max is 100 miles anyway.
Why would you think that a leased line is immune to noise and other sources of data loss? There is absolutely no physical difference in lines. Yes, there is no congestion, but that is far easier to deal with than line noise, cosmic rays and backhoes.
What about intentional denial of service attacks or take-overs in the middle of your heart surgery because someone really, really doesn't like something you posted in your Facebook status, such as "no longer in a relationship", or they found out you were the idiot who posts the "Moo" thing on Slashdot, or they found out you're the person who calls them from Florida and blows the cruise ship horn in their ear in order to scam money from them, or they find out you're the guy who signed off on their IRS audit?
So basically, you install Windows 10... and then Windows 7 phones home when you reinstall it to get rid of Windows 10, and they store the difference in timestamp in an Excel spreadsheet somewhere?
"A Samsung representative is quoted as saying 'You idiot; that's not a fridge! That's a cell phone! We figured we leapfrog Apple a couple of generations on screen size, now that we've sucked them into the won't -fit-in-your-pocket screen size war!'; Apple was unavailable for comment."