I will not comment on your rant about Romani, everyone in Europe may have his own experience regarding those people, and I do as well.
However, mentioning this group seems a bit off-topic, since there are not homeless living in the street:
They always quickly setup their slum camp in any 'free' area they can find.
Those are not great homes, but a two years old slum camp will have upgraded the garbage tents into small homes with heating, electricity and TV Sat.
Their fluid is boiling, phase transition takes a lot of heat out without pumping anything.
If not, you need to pump fluid between boards, this require more space and energy, even more with a thicker fluid.
If somebody is truly upset, however, I would not, could not, continue to deride them. So that's where the fine line may be drawn.
Oh dear... then you missed the utter ecstatic joy of viciously trolling a moderator until he quit his job, while pissing off the whole community who praise him as one of the best ever.
Err... wait... did I misssed the anonymous toggle ?
What really annoy me with HFT, besides not being "fair", it that it as a cost and that the society doesn't benefit from it.
Building a stock exchange with top-notch computers if fine, since there is a need fulfilled here for our society.
But building new warehouses as close as possible to stock exchange computers to house top speed fiber connected computers, just to lower the delays from 600ms down to 10ms or so, to allow HFT, is a waste of resources.
No one needs that, it's just a smart way to build a sucking vampire over information systems. And this cost is always somehow reflected to society.
One big bank of my country paid a lot to move all its crucial infrastructure abroad, in such new buildings, to be able to compete in HFT.
Who's paying for those efforts? The company, the bank, instead of doing something more useful to society (investments to improve their services, etc).
The main question I had upon reading this, is whether there is space for the buffer parks.
You may have a look to aerial views of the event: there is plenty of space in the desert. However I don't know if they are limited by law or regulations.
This idea is indeed a mitigation, you perfectly understood my point.
The message to which Linus responds is also interesting:
Short story:
The systemd guy uses the debug keyword on kernel command line to spool a huge log - which can hang the boot process, and that is the problem.
Then the same guy claims that the debug keyword is generic so it can't be reserved by the kernel, even if it's been used first by it since a long time...
I can say that Linus is right there, for sure. He's maybe too kind...
I think I have a better idea, since the problem is to wait in the queue for hours:
- Just one lane, with a known 1000 vehicles/hour limit.
- Have 3 or 4 "small" buffer parks (500 vehicles each) to wait with better conditions than in the main waiting line.
- Note: each vehicle in a proxy encampment has left its own main camp, so everything is packed, done, the driver has the key, etc.
- Every 30 mn, give the go for the next batch, so they start queueing, if someone stays the park (lost key or driver somewhere else), he will be soon surrounded by the new vehicle pool and will have to wait for the next round.
This way we have:
- one short main waiting line on exit
- 3 or 4 small dedicated parks next to main exit (worth 2 hours of line feed), people ready, waiting in better conditions than in lane. They know precisely when they will be going in the main line.
- the main camp, people getting ready, waiting for a proxy park to be freed.
If some people are willing to queue for more than the total pool time, let them fill a new proxy park and wait there.
I've successfuly designed a few parts (parametric) with Pro/Desktop Express (outdated software but the best I've used so far).
I've successfuly printed those parts at Shapeways.
The nylon powder is fused by laser. Parts are thin and quite stiff. Good point. This kind of making is really not affordable for hobbyists.
The metal printing is okay, strong but I noticed a slight deformation. Good enough for jewelry.
I'm not looking in buying any 3D printer. Parts won't have the same quality as the one printed by SLS and I don't need to print that much cheap parts.
I suggest that the car's outside color changes according to the driver's mood.
Sleepy driver = night blue
Nervous driver = pulsing bright red
Relax driver = apple green with dark green waves
Raging driver = blood red with yellow dots ...
Testimony from a french driver with even plate (the restricted ones): he used the car pooling rule to be able to drive, but he droped the last passenger less than 1km from his own destination and was fined just after that... 22€ thank you.
First step in LTO-6 (native 3.2TB, 210MB/s) was made in June 2011 when the three technology providers announced the availability of licenses for this format. But later these specs were reduced to only native 2.5TB (+67% compared to LTO-5) and 160MB/s (a mere +15%). Generally, the capacity of the LTO tape follows current highest capacity of HDD. But it's now 4TB uncompressed and LTO-7 is supposed to be native 6.4TB (and 315MB/s) and will be there probably in at least two years.
So it looks like LTO-6 would backup 4TB uncompressed, pushing the original standard a little bit (no pun intended).
Hum... the LTO-6 tapes are only 2.5TB native ( 6.5TB with 2.5 compression, that won't apply to media files).
Someone said there's 4TB tapes now, it looks so but news about this are rare...
It explain how a more stressed nuclear plant on the sea shore hadn't catastrophic consequences after the tsunami:
Safety culture impulsed by a man.
Onagawa was only 123 kilometers away from the epicenter—60 kilometers closer than Fukushima Daiichi—and the difference in seismic intensity at the two plants was negligible. Furthermore, the tsunami was bigger at Onagawa, reaching a height of 14.3 meters, compared with 13.1 meters at Fukushima Daiichi. The difference in outcomes at the two plants reveals the root cause of Fukushima Daiichi’s failures: the utility’s corporate “safety culture.”
[...]
Yanosuke Hirai, vice president of Tohoku Electric from 1960 to 1975—a time period that preceded the 1980 groundbreaking at Onagawa—was adamant about safety protocols and became a member of the Coastal Institution Research Association in 1963 because of his concern about the importance of protecting against natural disasters. With a senior employee in upper management advocating forcefully for safety, a strong safety culture formed within the company.
See what they did in Onagawa in the article: plant built on higher ground, five times the estimated average tsunami height, plus tsunami response aware teams.
Tepco did the oposite: "to make it easier to transport equipment and to save construction costs, in 1967 [they] removed 25 meters from the 35-meter natural seawall of the Daiichi plant site" !!!
Shall we focus on how one can detect this situation ?
Case 1 : One have access to the network
- Bring you own trusted device: laptop / tablet /... Start your own browser, see the certificate warning. Could the device be also abused ?
Case 2 : One has a limited access to the system
- Start your own Portable Firefox on USB key, with standard certificates. See the certificate warning. Is there any other tool ?
Case 3 : One has access to a kiosk or similar looked system
- Assume everything is logged, don't trust. Poor configurations may be worked around to visit any web site, but don't type any password on it.
[...] I have no issue with making in-game purchases available if it has no effect on gameplay.
Many people are like us.
I would say that I'm rather tight when it comes to buy any software, games included.
But when the game is really free, with hours of entertainment and good support, I'm happy to buy those silly cosmetic stuff for fun and to support its development.
I paid Path Of Exile some $35 the month I started to play. I think I've never spent that much for a game !
I've read that I lot of people do so. When those purchases are rendered in game as cosmetics we see the support of the players for the game, that's nice.
I believe that I could be the future for a substantial fraction of the games, but not all of them.
[...] labeling a subsection of microtransactions unethical [...] may be annoying, and insulting[...]
Yes, that's right.
I've just used the same wording as advertised, I understand it may be unfair.
However I really don't like a situation where I'm lured into something labeled "free" and once there I realize that nothing really cool will happen without paying for a few things. Saying "I don't like" is an understatement, I won't describe the feeling.
... until some malware abuse the unmaintained system.
or until a very useful web site ask for up-to-date browser extension.
I would like to agree with you, really.
I do agree up to this point: browsing the Internet requires maintenance to be done to keep up to date the system with exploits to patch out and extensions to plug-in.
And for only off-line use I would rather use XP than 7, it's a matter of GUI taste and comfort.
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I will not comment on your rant about Romani, everyone in Europe may have his own experience regarding those people, and I do as well.
However, mentioning this group seems a bit off-topic, since there are not homeless living in the street:
They always quickly setup their slum camp in any 'free' area they can find.
Those are not great homes, but a two years old slum camp will have upgraded the garbage tents into small homes with heating, electricity and TV Sat.
Their fluid is boiling, phase transition takes a lot of heat out without pumping anything.
If not, you need to pump fluid between boards, this require more space and energy, even more with a thicker fluid.
If somebody is truly upset, however, I would not, could not, continue to deride them. So that's where the fine line may be drawn.
Oh dear... then you missed the utter ecstatic joy of viciously trolling a moderator until he quit his job, while pissing off the whole community who praise him as one of the best ever.
Err... wait... did I misssed the anonymous toggle ?
You are not the devils advocate.
Your argument boils down to :
" Any pointless activity that consume goods is good for the economy. "
If you think this kind of behaviour drives us in the right direction for the material well-being, you must be quite an economist ! :)
What really annoy me with HFT, besides not being "fair", it that it as a cost and that the society doesn't benefit from it.
Building a stock exchange with top-notch computers if fine, since there is a need fulfilled here for our society.
But building new warehouses as close as possible to stock exchange computers to house top speed fiber connected computers, just to lower the delays from 600ms down to 10ms or so, to allow HFT, is a waste of resources.
No one needs that, it's just a smart way to build a sucking vampire over information systems. And this cost is always somehow reflected to society.
One big bank of my country paid a lot to move all its crucial infrastructure abroad, in such new buildings, to be able to compete in HFT.
Who's paying for those efforts? The company, the bank, instead of doing something more useful to society (investments to improve their services, etc).
The main question I had upon reading this, is whether there is space for the buffer parks.
You may have a look to aerial views of the event: there is plenty of space in the desert. However I don't know if they are limited by law or regulations.
This idea is indeed a mitigation, you perfectly understood my point.
The message to which Linus responds is also interesting:
Short story:
The systemd guy uses the debug keyword on kernel command line to spool a huge log - which can hang the boot process, and that is the problem.
Then the same guy claims that the debug keyword is generic so it can't be reserved by the kernel, even if it's been used first by it since a long time...
I can say that Linus is right there, for sure. He's maybe too kind...
I think I have a better idea, since the problem is to wait in the queue for hours:
- Just one lane, with a known 1000 vehicles/hour limit.
- Have 3 or 4 "small" buffer parks (500 vehicles each) to wait with better conditions than in the main waiting line.
- Note: each vehicle in a proxy encampment has left its own main camp, so everything is packed, done, the driver has the key, etc.
- Every 30 mn, give the go for the next batch, so they start queueing, if someone stays the park (lost key or driver somewhere else), he will be soon surrounded by the new vehicle pool and will have to wait for the next round.
This way we have :
- one short main waiting line on exit
- 3 or 4 small dedicated parks next to main exit (worth 2 hours of line feed), people ready, waiting in better conditions than in lane. They know precisely when they will be going in the main line.
- the main camp, people getting ready, waiting for a proxy park to be freed.
If some people are willing to queue for more than the total pool time, let them fill a new proxy park and wait there.
The Antibufferbloat draw my attention...
Maybe it will be worth using at home for my custom fw/gateway.
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Is it April Fool's day right now on /. ?
Leader's haircut, suspended life, ... what's next ?
I've successfuly designed a few parts (parametric) with Pro/Desktop Express (outdated software but the best I've used so far).
I've successfuly printed those parts at Shapeways.
The nylon powder is fused by laser. Parts are thin and quite stiff. Good point. This kind of making is really not affordable for hobbyists.
The metal printing is okay, strong but I noticed a slight deformation. Good enough for jewelry.
I'm not looking in buying any 3D printer. Parts won't have the same quality as the one printed by SLS and I don't need to print that much cheap parts.
I suggest that the car's outside color changes according to the driver's mood.
Sleepy driver = night blue
...
Nervous driver = pulsing bright red
Relax driver = apple green with dark green waves
Raging driver = blood red with yellow dots
Testimony from a french driver with even plate (the restricted ones): he used the car pooling rule to be able to drive, but he droped the last passenger less than 1km from his own destination and was fined just after that... 22€ thank you.
I'm also curious : "how did you go about selling the pens" ?
Can you answer to guises (2423402) please ?
First step in LTO-6 (native 3.2TB, 210MB/s) was made in June 2011 when the three technology providers announced the availability of licenses for this format. But later these specs were reduced to only native 2.5TB (+67% compared to LTO-5) and 160MB/s (a mere +15%). Generally, the capacity of the LTO tape follows current highest capacity of HDD. But it's now 4TB uncompressed and LTO-7 is supposed to be native 6.4TB (and 315MB/s) and will be there probably in at least two years.
So it looks like LTO-6 would backup 4TB uncompressed, pushing the original standard a little bit (no pun intended).
Thanks.
Hum... the LTO-6 tapes are only 2.5TB native ( 6.5TB with 2.5 compression, that won't apply to media files).
Someone said there's 4TB tapes now, it looks so but news about this are rare...
To /.ers saying that 1TB+ tapes would be a good idea to do this backup, please:
Add some references and price of such hardware and media that would suit best home usage.
Onagawa plant article is very insteresting.
It explain how a more stressed nuclear plant on the sea shore hadn't catastrophic consequences after the tsunami:
Safety culture impulsed by a man.
Onagawa was only 123 kilometers away from the epicenter—60 kilometers closer than Fukushima Daiichi—and the difference in seismic intensity at the two plants was negligible. Furthermore, the tsunami was bigger at Onagawa, reaching a height of 14.3 meters, compared with 13.1 meters at Fukushima Daiichi. The difference in outcomes at the two plants reveals the root cause of Fukushima Daiichi’s failures: the utility’s corporate “safety culture.”
[...]
Yanosuke Hirai, vice president of Tohoku Electric from 1960 to 1975—a time period that preceded the 1980 groundbreaking at Onagawa—was adamant about safety protocols and became a member of the Coastal Institution Research Association in 1963 because of his concern about the importance of protecting against natural disasters. With a senior employee in upper management advocating forcefully for safety, a strong safety culture formed within the company.
See what they did in Onagawa in the article: plant built on higher ground, five times the estimated average tsunami height, plus tsunami response aware teams.
Tepco did the oposite: "to make it easier to transport equipment and to save construction costs, in 1967 [they] removed 25 meters from the 35-meter natural seawall of the Daiichi plant site" !!!
Shall we focus on how one can detect this situation ?
Case 1 : One have access to the network ... Start your own browser, see the certificate warning.
- Bring you own trusted device: laptop / tablet /
Could the device be also abused ?
Case 2 : One has a limited access to the system
- Start your own Portable Firefox on USB key, with standard certificates. See the certificate warning.
Is there any other tool ?
Case 3 : One has access to a kiosk or similar looked system
- Assume everything is logged, don't trust. Poor configurations may be worked around to visit any web site, but don't type any password on it.
[...] I have no issue with making in-game purchases available if it has no effect on gameplay.
Many people are like us.
I would say that I'm rather tight when it comes to buy any software, games included.
But when the game is really free, with hours of entertainment and good support, I'm happy to buy those silly cosmetic stuff for fun and to support its development.
I paid Path Of Exile some $35 the month I started to play. I think I've never spent that much for a game !
I've read that I lot of people do so. When those purchases are rendered in game as cosmetics we see the support of the players for the game, that's nice.
I believe that I could be the future for a substantial fraction of the games, but not all of them.
[...] labeling a subsection of microtransactions unethical [...] may be annoying, and insulting[...]
Yes, that's right.
I've just used the same wording as advertised, I understand it may be unfair.
However I really don't like a situation where I'm lured into something labeled "free" and once there I realize that nothing really cool will happen without paying for a few things.
Saying "I don't like" is an understatement, I won't describe the feeling.
WinXP: It's good enough.
... until some malware abuse the unmaintained system.
or until a very useful web site ask for up-to-date browser extension.
I would like to agree with you, really.
I do agree up to this point: browsing the Internet requires maintenance to be done to keep up to date the system with exploits to patch out and extensions to plug-in.
And for only off-line use I would rather use XP than 7, it's a matter of GUI taste and comfort.
Some good games can collect a lot of money with ...
- "Pay what you want" as in Humble Bundle (however there's a lot of games previously sold at a classic price)
- Ethical microtransactions, which mean not needed at all to succeed in game, like cosmetic purchases in Path Of Exile.
If the onboard electronic is rugged for arsh environments, adding some lead plates may be an idea to approach some areas in Fukushima plant.
Here is a /. collection of Sudden Outbreak Of Common Sense
Quoting previous articles:
In Pictures: Ghana's e-waste magnet
E-waste at the Agbogbloshie dumpsite near Accra has created a socio-economic and environmental disaster.
Kevin McElvaney, 12 Feb 2014
Inside Ghana's electronic wasteland
Dangerous practice of burning electronic waste to extract metals could be made safely obsolete.
Chris Stein, 02 Nov 2013