Even the traditional 3000 mile change is MUCH more frequent than OEMs actually recommend, these days. Toyota says there's no reason to change synthetic in the Prius any more often than
10000 miles. (Now, if you're hauling a horse trailer around dusty roads with your pickup, these numbers mean nothing).
I think changing the oil too often is something people do as a ritual to make themselves feel better. I don't think cylinder wear is particularly prominent among the causes of death for cars.
It's a failure to recognize the fact that the virtual window of your analogy will be smashed EVERY time.
I'm not excusing exploits that can be fixed; they should be. But I don't think individual exploits are the main issue. There will always be some available.
The kind of mass profiling now possible to the police, and google, and facebook, is not open to just anybody. That's why google and facebook are valued at billions of dollars - because they're so pervasive they can create the Total Profile. And when they exploit a loophole or bug, it affects a huge percentage of the entire Internet. There are only a few such "information utilities," so they can be held to standards. At the very least, they can be tried in the court of public opinion against their pledge to "do no evil." They're advertising companies. Public relations matter greatly to them.
I disagree. A culture of, "if you are able to do it, it must be fine" is flawed at a very basic level. It's a failure to recognize anything above the law of the jungle. Property law gives us the freedom to have windows in our homes, even though, technically, they're easy to smash. Envelopes are easy to open an copper pairs are easy to tap, yet the laws that preclude this have been very effective - not totally, but far better than nothing. With the level of automated tracking of all kinds available these days, there simply cannot be any privacy unless there is a collective commitment to creating preserving such rights.
That's right, without an abstraction layer, the initialization code for openGL isn't even cross-platform compatible. That is wgl code (for windows). The glx equivalent code (for X11) is at least as bad. So, double the above, smoosh it all together with some #ifdef's for something resembling platform independence, and you're good to go!
Here is the code to draw 3 triangles in OpenGL without an abstraction library such as GLUT (which is very limiting). Have fun with that!
For that matter, I had to look down to about the 8th page of google hits for "opengl hello world" to find one that did NOT use an abstraction library. Which tells you how many people actually do that. So, "use openGL" isn't much help. How about, "try using openGL throgh wxWidgets" or somesuch. Nobody uses straight openGL.
OK... but this will be a task of the same magnitude of, say, writing GTK+. OpenGL by itself takes pages of code to open a graphics context or put a string of text on the screen. GLUI/GLUT is a weak joke. If he manages to write this over OpenGL, and it's any good, it will be the first time anybody has written a decent GUI library over OpenGL.
Perhaps their initial market is limited to biologists working on smaller genomes. But it did leave me wondering, if I just sneezed onto the thing, what would it sequence? There are millions of different microbes on and in each of us. Is there a way to target human DNA specifically? (Or nonhuman, e.g. "what strain of cold do I have?) Then, is there a way to sequence specific portions of a genome? (E.g. the portion(s) pertinent to Alzheimer's)?
Nobody ever said soybean was as good as steak, yet it's widely used as a meat filler/substitute. Drive the cost down and people will buy it. I'm rich by global standards but I still eat steak less often than hamburger, even though I consider it low-quality meat that has to be pre-chewed by a machine. And people buy lots of sausage that stretches the definition of "meat."
It doesn't matter too much which problem researchers focus on - they are solving the problem of human (and then superhuman) capabilities in this area. Captcha's are nice because you have a self-funding opponent creating test data for you.
It sounds like you've decided to step away from trying to help the company improve its process, for example by telling them when they are giving you directions that ruin efficiency. Is that because it's simply "not your problem," or because you tried being constructive in the past and got consistently bad outcomes from it?
Especially now as doctor's "margins" are getting thinner due to Medicare cutbacks and such, I'm sure this trend will continue. New tech costs money, and medical tech, even on the administration end, is ridiculously expensive.
I think the opposite: private practices are being driven out of business by large hospitals that work closely with insurers (including digital records), and more doctors are becoming employees instead of small business owners. In other words, price pressure is asserting itself and forcing consolidation, like with every other industry. Good or bad? I'm not entirely sure. We certainly do need to cut costs. There won't be many mom-and-pop shops that refuse to move to computer records any more.
OpenGL isn't what you want. I don't believe it's possible to achieve a solid framerate without hardware decoding in the video card hardware support (vdpau in mplayer). Without that, sure, your CPU might only be 20% loaded. But some frames take much more decoding that others, and occasionally one won't be done decoding before it's time to show it, creating a stutter. I know some people will swear otherwise, but I think they just haven't really looked for it.
Well, prosecutions and seizures are a good thing if the people really were cut-rate recyclers using damaging, illegal reclamation processes, unapproved dumps, and/or child labor. This is an actual, documented problem.
Also, the Guardian article makes clear something that was not clear from your previous post: that this is not - at least on the face of it - just a conspiracy by western cellphone makers to stop Africans from getting cheap cellphones: "Under European law, equipment which is still functioning can be legally exported to developing countries in West Africa to South-east Asia, where there is a thriving trade in second-hand computers and electronic devices such as DVD players." So, the stated intent of the law is not to discourage re-use.
Now, as somebody who likes to fix things like broken iPods, I can see where there is value in broken goods. Sometimes you can get a new rechargeable battery for $7 and suddenly a "broken" device has $100 resale value. But if somebody imports a shipping-container full of junk, and 90% of it goes into a makeshift dump unprepared for heavy metals, the fact that they got a couple dozen working cellphones from it and managed to turn a profit does not make it OK. You can't really judge the guilt or innocence of individual cases on the basis of some one-sided blog posts.
I agree there are real problems if officials are lying or bad evidence is being used to prosecute people who haven't broken the law. But what about the law itself? Do you think it should simply be repealed wholesale, or how would you like to see it modified?
I don't think your post or your links establish the crucial point: has anybody been prosecuted who was NOT improperly dumping toxic waste into the environment?
It's a pity the cnn report doesn't make the connection between this occurrence and its normal reporting on flash mobs, which is basically that the initial flash mobs were fun and benign but were later used to orchestrate looting. Of course the technology doesn't know when it's helping to preserve or violate property law.
Right, the question isn't "what went wrong at AMD," but, "how did AMD challenge Intel for a major product cycle during the 00's." The answer is, Intel made some missteps around that time. But David normally does not beat Goliath. Especially not in the long run.
I've lost track, is Glenn Beck still predicting hyperinflation any day now?
Actually I shouldn't be too glib about inflation because I am somewhat worried about it. But so far the extra dollars created by the Fed have mainly just offset the dollars that vanished when Wall Street companies pulled back on extending loans back and forth to each other. True or false?
Well, let me point out one other aspect of focusing attention on Apple: it's working. These inspections and the level of attention they're getting is unprecedented. Foxconn is under scrutiny now and has to mind themselves. This is great! The workers will be somewhat better off, and gradually there will be less unfair competition for workers elsewhere. And all because the public complained, and focused their attention on a single company with a strong brand image to maintain - namely, Apple.
He says he's "locked into a regional city", but I think that's BS. No one is really "locked into" anyplace, unless they choose to be.
I don't know if this applies to the poster, and would hope not after 20 years in a job, but many Americans right now really can't move, because they're underwater on their home. I guess they could walk out and declare bankruptcy, but that would have serious implications for getting hired in another city, for renting a home, and obviously would preclude buying another home.
Avoiding security through obscurity means drawing a clear box around the information you intend to obscure-that is, the key-and saying with confidence, "Nothing other than this needs to remain secret."
I agree, that is the nut of it right there.
I also agree that as properly interpreted it doesn't apply to this story; that is, it only applies if misinterpreted such that it is nonsensical.
All security is through obscurity. If somebody knows your key, or your hiding spot, or what time you have to put down your shotgun to take a crap, you're through. All cryptography does is let you protect a large secret with a smaller one.
This is about their local environment, not the global one.
I just checked their homepage, which confirms, as I previously quoted the GP claiming, that the stated goal of this charity is "to heal the climate crisis though reforestation."
As to what good their actions are more likely to actually achieve, I agree with you.
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I think changing the oil too often is something people do as a ritual to make themselves feel better. I don't think cylinder wear is particularly prominent among the causes of death for cars.
I'm not excusing exploits that can be fixed; they should be. But I don't think individual exploits are the main issue. There will always be some available.
The kind of mass profiling now possible to the police, and google, and facebook, is not open to just anybody. That's why google and facebook are valued at billions of dollars - because they're so pervasive they can create the Total Profile. And when they exploit a loophole or bug, it affects a huge percentage of the entire Internet. There are only a few such "information utilities," so they can be held to standards. At the very least, they can be tried in the court of public opinion against their pledge to "do no evil." They're advertising companies. Public relations matter greatly to them.
I disagree. A culture of, "if you are able to do it, it must be fine" is flawed at a very basic level. It's a failure to recognize anything above the law of the jungle. Property law gives us the freedom to have windows in our homes, even though, technically, they're easy to smash. Envelopes are easy to open an copper pairs are easy to tap, yet the laws that preclude this have been very effective - not totally, but far better than nothing. With the level of automated tracking of all kinds available these days, there simply cannot be any privacy unless there is a collective commitment to creating preserving such rights.
That's right, without an abstraction layer, the initialization code for openGL isn't even cross-platform compatible. That is wgl code (for windows). The glx equivalent code (for X11) is at least as bad. So, double the above, smoosh it all together with some #ifdef's for something resembling platform independence, and you're good to go!
For that matter, I had to look down to about the 8th page of google hits for "opengl hello world" to find one that did NOT use an abstraction library. Which tells you how many people actually do that. So, "use openGL" isn't much help. How about, "try using openGL throgh wxWidgets" or somesuch. Nobody uses straight openGL.
OK... but this will be a task of the same magnitude of, say, writing GTK+. OpenGL by itself takes pages of code to open a graphics context or put a string of text on the screen. GLUI/GLUT is a weak joke. If he manages to write this over OpenGL, and it's any good, it will be the first time anybody has written a decent GUI library over OpenGL.
Perhaps their initial market is limited to biologists working on smaller genomes. But it did leave me wondering, if I just sneezed onto the thing, what would it sequence? There are millions of different microbes on and in each of us. Is there a way to target human DNA specifically? (Or nonhuman, e.g. "what strain of cold do I have?) Then, is there a way to sequence specific portions of a genome? (E.g. the portion(s) pertinent to Alzheimer's)?
Nobody ever said soybean was as good as steak, yet it's widely used as a meat filler/substitute. Drive the cost down and people will buy it. I'm rich by global standards but I still eat steak less often than hamburger, even though I consider it low-quality meat that has to be pre-chewed by a machine. And people buy lots of sausage that stretches the definition of "meat."
It doesn't matter too much which problem researchers focus on - they are solving the problem of human (and then superhuman) capabilities in this area. Captcha's are nice because you have a self-funding opponent creating test data for you.
It sounds like you've decided to step away from trying to help the company improve its process, for example by telling them when they are giving you directions that ruin efficiency. Is that because it's simply "not your problem," or because you tried being constructive in the past and got consistently bad outcomes from it?
I think the opposite: private practices are being driven out of business by large hospitals that work closely with insurers (including digital records), and more doctors are becoming employees instead of small business owners. In other words, price pressure is asserting itself and forcing consolidation, like with every other industry. Good or bad? I'm not entirely sure. We certainly do need to cut costs. There won't be many mom-and-pop shops that refuse to move to computer records any more.
Apple paid $4 to download the trademark from allofmp3.com, so it's theirs fair and square :)
OpenGL isn't what you want. I don't believe it's possible to achieve a solid framerate without hardware decoding in the video card hardware support (vdpau in mplayer). Without that, sure, your CPU might only be 20% loaded. But some frames take much more decoding that others, and occasionally one won't be done decoding before it's time to show it, creating a stutter. I know some people will swear otherwise, but I think they just haven't really looked for it.
Also, the Guardian article makes clear something that was not clear from your previous post: that this is not - at least on the face of it - just a conspiracy by western cellphone makers to stop Africans from getting cheap cellphones: "Under European law, equipment which is still functioning can be legally exported to developing countries in West Africa to South-east Asia, where there is a thriving trade in second-hand computers and electronic devices such as DVD players." So, the stated intent of the law is not to discourage re-use.
Now, as somebody who likes to fix things like broken iPods, I can see where there is value in broken goods. Sometimes you can get a new rechargeable battery for $7 and suddenly a "broken" device has $100 resale value. But if somebody imports a shipping-container full of junk, and 90% of it goes into a makeshift dump unprepared for heavy metals, the fact that they got a couple dozen working cellphones from it and managed to turn a profit does not make it OK. You can't really judge the guilt or innocence of individual cases on the basis of some one-sided blog posts.
I agree there are real problems if officials are lying or bad evidence is being used to prosecute people who haven't broken the law. But what about the law itself? Do you think it should simply be repealed wholesale, or how would you like to see it modified?
I don't think your post or your links establish the crucial point: has anybody been prosecuted who was NOT improperly dumping toxic waste into the environment?
It's a pity the cnn report doesn't make the connection between this occurrence and its normal reporting on flash mobs, which is basically that the initial flash mobs were fun and benign but were later used to orchestrate looting. Of course the technology doesn't know when it's helping to preserve or violate property law.
Right, the question isn't "what went wrong at AMD," but, "how did AMD challenge Intel for a major product cycle during the 00's." The answer is, Intel made some missteps around that time. But David normally does not beat Goliath. Especially not in the long run.
I've lost track, is Glenn Beck still predicting hyperinflation any day now?
Actually I shouldn't be too glib about inflation because I am somewhat worried about it. But so far the extra dollars created by the Fed have mainly just offset the dollars that vanished when Wall Street companies pulled back on extending loans back and forth to each other. True or false?
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And what is the downside of this?
This will be an awesome screen for the nav system in a car. Maps love high-res.
I don't know if this applies to the poster, and would hope not after 20 years in a job, but many Americans right now really can't move, because they're underwater on their home. I guess they could walk out and declare bankruptcy, but that would have serious implications for getting hired in another city, for renting a home, and obviously would preclude buying another home.
I agree, that is the nut of it right there.
I also agree that as properly interpreted it doesn't apply to this story; that is, it only applies if misinterpreted such that it is nonsensical.
All security is through obscurity. If somebody knows your key, or your hiding spot, or what time you have to put down your shotgun to take a crap, you're through. All cryptography does is let you protect a large secret with a smaller one.
I just checked their homepage, which confirms, as I previously quoted the GP claiming, that the stated goal of this charity is "to heal the climate crisis though reforestation."
As to what good their actions are more likely to actually achieve, I agree with you.
Hamburger is pre-chewed meat.