You have to look at it in aggregate the way the study is. Groups of individuals wiped out in natural disasters are just that individuals. Humans survive those disasters because our big brains have enabled large populations of us to live outside what might be considered our most natural habitat. That geographic diversity has protected us as a species from natural disasters.
Your fish example is kinda the same issue. No individual fish however smart is going to be able to cope with the lake going totally dry. However smarter fish might be able to last longer in a lake with changing ecology and shrinking size, during a severe drought, and therefore survive until the rains come. While other species in the lake might die out.
A fish might migrate to a new lake when they are joined by floods. When they separate again a smarter fish species might be better equipped to adapt to the environment of the new lake, colonizing it successfully where other species might have failed. That might enable it to survive as a species even after the first lake dries up.
Last I checked the business model was broadcasters license content to get people to watch and then get paid by advertisers to show commercials during the that content. Advertisers pay more based on the expected number of eyeballs and demographic.
If anything Aereo adds to the number of viewers, I am assuming the don't scrape the commercials out of the broadcast so I would think this would make the advertisers happy! If anything it should increase the stations revenue.
All the social programs, health care, welfare, unemployment insurance... all of it, would be amply funded without costing a single taxpayer dollar if during those aforementioned periods of economic prosperity, the unused funding for those programs was diverted into investments.
That only works provided whoever is managing those funds invests well. ANY investment offering positive returns will pose some risk to the capital. Witness all the big city pension funds that are in serious trouble because they lost money is supposedly safe sovereign and municipal bonds; to say nothing of those who took terrible beatings in commercial bonds and equities. When Bush 43, suggested handling SS this way liberals jumped all over him for wanting to game with the bread stuffs of dependents. The problem is naturally that if those funds run dry as a result someone is going to suggest tax payers are obligated to make up the short fall from general revenues.
Well the viability of that all depends on: how many alerts you generate,
how fast can the staff respond to alerts
are the staff empowered to make the decisions
is that safer than letting the computer just do it (think of abuse and fraud potential)
--- I am not pretending to know all the answers or have solutions but we are moving like it or not into a period of HFP (high frequency pricing) in E-commerce. What I can tell you is that pretending the problem is simple and not thinking about it won't solve it.
And if you were using the "old" system, in which you have to manually adjust prices, the same (or worse) wouldn't happen?
It certainly can and does happen. Which is one of the many reasons lots of small shops have trouble competing.
I was simply addressing the "Just set you price floor to cost." The fact is there are reasons you would want to sell under costs and even cases where you would want that to happen without intervention.
No redirecting users to a page they were not expecting to see and then encouraging them to run software or blindly make system modifications they don't understand is a terrible idea.
The right thing to would have been to have a simple message telling them their system is compromised (show a nice FBI logo) and direct them to contact their ISP or a local computer support firm.
It sounds simpler than it is. Lets say you use a simple cost + model. Suppose you bought 10 widgets whole sale at $5 and the current retail price is $6.99. Widget 2.0 comes out. The whole sale price the manufacture is using to clear inventory moves to $3.10. Your competitors let their algorithms run and things settle at $4.50 retail. You stuck a floor into your pricing system of $5.01 your cost. Trouble is now while your were not paying attention to that specific SKU because you sell 1000's of SKUs; you have been under priced and everyone looking for a good deal on 1.0 widgets has scooped them up from your competitors. They no longer want yours at any price.
This can all happen in day with the rate information flows on line. You will have lost the opportunity to sell the 1.0 widgets for $4.50 a $0.50 loss, and will now take a $5.00 loss on each one when you eventually dispose of the unsaleable inventory.
English is not a strongly structured language. That is why there is an entire discipline called Structured English.
Its a language used for communication between people. People are smart the brain is flexible. The stand that should operate for obedience to spelling and grammar rules is "Can the recipient understand the message content completely and correctly without the effort required to interpret the message distracting from the message." or so said my high-school English teacher.
Sorry to hear about your loss, it must be hard to talk about this stuff with it all being so recent. I just wanted say thank you for adding your experience and insight to this conversation, especially if it was hard for you.
Yea its certainly a poor sample to use for drawing conclusions about the browser market as a whole.
Still W3CSchools is mostly reference material. Developers probably do go there using their browser of choice. As a general rule mass market users follow where the developers are after some time to over come inertia. IOS probably being the big exception to that rule in recent times where the massive user base has drawn the developers in.
So this might say something about what the browser market share of the future will look like.
I have to agree with this. Sharepoint is actually a pretty darn good CMS / collaboration tool. What's great about it is that is a large complex framework that offers tons of flexibility what's terrible about it is that is a large complex system.
There is another problem with Sharepoint, its way to easy to get started with and not know anything about it. This is typical of most Microsoft Solutions actually. If you are never going to have more than 20 people using it occasional it probably run fine forever, but as we all know things rarely stay that way. If its good for your group some other group in your org will want to start using it, than another and so on and so forth. Pretty soon your basic point click one box deployment on SQL Express is in real trouble.
Don't kid yourself Sharepoint aint easy. Good Sharepoint support and development people have lots of knowledge about Sharepoint, and they will have worked pretty hard to get it, it won't have come with trial and error running a box part time. You most likely won't have time to just pick it up yourself. You are going to end up hiring people to run it. Sharepoint is only a good solution if you have people to support it or your really know and I mean really know that its going to stay a small simple environment.
Don't I know the feeling. I am saving up, hopefully a few years from now I can move to Maine and run a Christmas tree farm. I am getting tired of even thinking about this nonsense.
I think most ISP have enough common sense not to try that. All it would take is for some 3rd party DNS provider to stuff a NAT statement into their iptables such that 80 -> 53. Doing DNS on TCP is not to much overhead for modern hardware.
At that point they'd have to start doing inspection to make sure all 80 traffic looks like http. That would even get somewhat more complicated if the SSL port were used. Its game over once people implement local stub DNS resolvers that actually call a web service somewhere over https to do queries.
Unless ISP are prepared to essentially deploy Websense or something like it with SSL intercept and block any protocol including VPNs etc, that is not http, https, possibly ftp, and does not appear to some other protocol implemented on top of those its impossible. I don't think consumers would stand for it.
*What do mean I can't connect to my companies VPN? *WOW and all my old games wont work any more, I have to buy new ones that use webservices and have shit latency thru your proxy! *No more VOIP
I agree what there doing is a huge public service and that they seem to understand that if your try to embarrass the police they are likely to do the same to you. I would expect nothing else. I am actually pleasantly surprised they have not been picked up repeatedly on trumped up charges. The police could be acting much worse.
The police really did escalate things by publishing the pairs home address however. I suppose the next move is really to follow the police home from the station and publish their address. Perhaps when they and their families are placed in added danger they will realize this is getting out of hand and everyone will start to de-escalate. Police need to just learn to deal with the fact that in a free society they can and should be watched.
they buy a new computer take it to geek squad who nukes and paves it and sells them a rediculously overpriced unreliable antivirus.
That does solve the problem of getting a vulnerable machine off the network and a user off a vulnerable machine. Even Geek Squad will make sure a machine is patched before it goes out the door again. Its still a win.
What it does not do is educate the user about how to prevent this from happening again, but the cost of a new computer and our insanely priced Geek Squad services might just motivate them to learn on their own.
The right way to handle it was just to pull the plug. Better to let the users find out something is wrong and get the box looked at properly than to continue running a vulnerable machine. I agree with you about the problem of posting a "you may be infected page", what you could do is post a page that says "You may be infected. Obviously you should not trust anything your read online. Please contact your ISPs support services or find a support provider in the yellow pages."
If you are in climate you use the AC all year round or in one where you turn it around and use it to pump heat in in the winter I can see that. There are lots places where the AC unit is simply not used though during 6+ months of the year and it would be way to large to use to efficiently keep a fridge cool.
The dryer thing sounds like a fabulous idea to me. The fridge I kinda have my doubts. If you went the fans and duct work route the compromise to weather envelop of an otherwise well insulated house would likely result on the loss of more energy then you spend having the AC move the waste heat out. Keep in mind most energy loss is around doors and windows, solid wall with insulation and house wrap over it has a pretty high R value.
The better approach to the fridge might be some valves to select of a secondary radiator loop outside the house rather than the one on the back of the unit. Those lines are tiny like 3/8" so they could be extended through the wall without much energy loss and calked around easily.
Trouble is though the fridge is a heat pump. Heat pumps become less efficient the more against the gradient you try to go. So your fridge is going to use more power trying to cool the inside if forced to dump the waste heat into the 90 degree out doors rather than the 74 degree indoors. Now unless your A/C unit is 100% efficient it will still take more energy to move the now greater heat generated by the fridge's imperfect efficiency; so it should be a net win but we are talking something vanishingly small.
Right I lived in MPLS when Geek Squad was an independent entity. I never used them because I never had a need, but I know plenty of people who did.
They actually were staffing people who knew how to do things like run mem maker and configure emm386 to get your kids DOS game running properly. I know people who did have them do things like recover files of corrupt FAT floppies with hex editors. I am sure most of older slashdot'ers have been their done that and got the t-shirt but it really was a valuable service to lots people. Then Best Buy bought the company and turned it into a complete joke.
In a compromise between food and poison only death can win. Which is not say we don't all die anyway but I really hope the community acts viciously toward Ubuntu and RH for these games and demands they stand up for freedom.
For all the good they have done I'd rather see Ubuntu buried tomorrow than let them enable Microsoft and its cronies to destroy the hardware market.
There was a clear inflection point in polls though when Obama publicly stated his support for gay marriage.
Which is interesting in that its proof Obama votes have no thoughts of their own, no dreams of their own, and no will of their own, they eat and sleep and chew helplessly at the words others have put into their brains.
Seriously gay marriage is an issue that is was pretty dear to most people if their moral compass can spin so quickly because the president says it ought to I am more scared for this country than ever. Its apparent his supports give him a completely free pass with no critical thought about his positions.
Should we publish the data on when we move missiles? which truck is the decoy?
The best way to handle keeping secrets like that is to NOT WRITE THEM DOWN. A higher ranked officer should tell the guy who is in direct command of the folks driving the trunks to use some number of decoys, do it sometime this week, and work out the specifics on your own, nobody outside your unit including me needs to to know the specifics.
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You have to look at it in aggregate the way the study is. Groups of individuals wiped out in natural disasters are just that individuals. Humans survive those disasters because our big brains have enabled large populations of us to live outside what might be considered our most natural habitat. That geographic diversity has protected us as a species from natural disasters.
Your fish example is kinda the same issue. No individual fish however smart is going to be able to cope with the lake going totally dry. However smarter fish might be able to last longer in a lake with changing ecology and shrinking size, during a severe drought, and therefore survive until the rains come. While other species in the lake might die out.
A fish might migrate to a new lake when they are joined by floods. When they separate again a smarter fish species might be better equipped to adapt to the environment of the new lake, colonizing it successfully where other species might have failed. That might enable it to survive as a species even after the first lake dries up.
They don't know that anyway they have some dubious statistics purchased from another party based on questionnaire with much to small a sample size.
Last I checked the business model was broadcasters license content to get people to watch and then get paid by advertisers to show commercials during the that content. Advertisers pay more based on the expected number of eyeballs and demographic.
If anything Aereo adds to the number of viewers, I am assuming the don't scrape the commercials out of the broadcast so I would think this would make the advertisers happy! If anything it should increase the stations revenue.
So its RNIM (research not in motion)
All the social programs, health care, welfare, unemployment insurance... all of it, would be amply funded without costing a single taxpayer dollar if during those aforementioned periods of economic prosperity, the unused funding for those programs was diverted into investments.
That only works provided whoever is managing those funds invests well. ANY investment offering positive returns will pose some risk to the capital. Witness all the big city pension funds that are in serious trouble because they lost money is supposedly safe sovereign and municipal bonds; to say nothing of those who took terrible beatings in commercial bonds and equities. When Bush 43, suggested handling SS this way liberals jumped all over him for wanting to game with the bread stuffs of dependents. The problem is naturally that if those funds run dry as a result someone is going to suggest tax payers are obligated to make up the short fall from general revenues.
Well the viability of that all depends on:
how many alerts you generate,
how fast can the staff respond to alerts
are the staff empowered to make the decisions
is that safer than letting the computer just do it (think of abuse and fraud potential)
---
I am not pretending to know all the answers or have solutions but we are moving like it or not into a period of HFP (high frequency pricing) in E-commerce. What I can tell you is that pretending the problem is simple and not thinking about it won't solve it.
absolutely needed for anti-terrorism operations.
Which would be just fine if the FEDs used the same definitions for "absolutely" and "needed" the rest of us do.
And if you were using the "old" system, in which you have to manually adjust prices, the same (or worse) wouldn't happen?
It certainly can and does happen. Which is one of the many reasons lots of small shops have trouble competing.
I was simply addressing the "Just set you price floor to cost." The fact is there are reasons you would want to sell under costs and even cases where you would want that to happen without intervention.
No redirecting users to a page they were not expecting to see and then encouraging them to run software or blindly make system modifications they don't understand is a terrible idea.
The right thing to would have been to have a simple message telling them their system is compromised (show a nice FBI logo) and direct them to contact their ISP or a local computer support firm.
It sounds simpler than it is. Lets say you use a simple cost + model. Suppose you bought 10 widgets whole sale at $5 and the current retail price is $6.99. Widget 2.0 comes out. The whole sale price the manufacture is using to clear inventory moves to $3.10. Your competitors let their algorithms run and things settle at $4.50 retail. You stuck a floor into your pricing system of $5.01 your cost. Trouble is now while your were not paying attention to that specific SKU because you sell 1000's of SKUs; you have been under priced and everyone looking for a good deal on 1.0 widgets has scooped them up from your competitors. They no longer want yours at any price.
This can all happen in day with the rate information flows on line. You will have lost the opportunity to sell the 1.0 widgets for $4.50 a $0.50 loss, and will now take a $5.00 loss on each one when you eventually dispose of the unsaleable inventory.
English is not a strongly structured language. That is why there is an entire discipline called Structured English.
Its a language used for communication between people. People are smart the brain is flexible. The stand that should operate for obedience to spelling and grammar rules is "Can the recipient understand the message content completely and correctly without the effort required to interpret the message distracting from the message." or so said my high-school English teacher.
Sorry to hear about your loss, it must be hard to talk about this stuff with it all being so recent. I just wanted say thank you for adding your experience and insight to this conversation, especially if it was hard for you.
Yea its certainly a poor sample to use for drawing conclusions about the browser market as a whole.
Still W3CSchools is mostly reference material. Developers probably do go there using their browser of choice. As a general rule mass market users follow where the developers are after some time to over come inertia. IOS probably being the big exception to that rule in recent times where the massive user base has drawn the developers in.
So this might say something about what the browser market share of the future will look like.
I have to agree with this. Sharepoint is actually a pretty darn good CMS / collaboration tool. What's great about it is that is a large complex framework that offers tons of flexibility what's terrible about it is that is a large complex system.
There is another problem with Sharepoint, its way to easy to get started with and not know anything about it. This is typical of most Microsoft Solutions actually. If you are never going to have more than 20 people using it occasional it probably run fine forever, but as we all know things rarely stay that way. If its good for your group some other group in your org will want to start using it, than another and so on and so forth. Pretty soon your basic point click one box deployment on SQL Express is in real trouble.
Don't kid yourself Sharepoint aint easy. Good Sharepoint support and development people have lots of knowledge about Sharepoint, and they will have worked pretty hard to get it, it won't have come with trial and error running a box part time. You most likely won't have time to just pick it up yourself. You are going to end up hiring people to run it. Sharepoint is only a good solution if you have people to support it or your really know and I mean really know that its going to stay a small simple environment.
Don't I know the feeling. I am saving up, hopefully a few years from now I can move to Maine and run a Christmas tree farm. I am getting tired of even thinking about this nonsense.
I think most ISP have enough common sense not to try that. All it would take is for some 3rd party DNS provider to stuff a NAT statement into their iptables such that 80 -> 53. Doing DNS on TCP is not to much overhead for modern hardware.
At that point they'd have to start doing inspection to make sure all 80 traffic looks like http. That would even get somewhat more complicated if the SSL port were used. Its game over once people implement local stub DNS resolvers that actually call a web service somewhere over https to do queries.
Unless ISP are prepared to essentially deploy Websense or something like it with SSL intercept and block any protocol including VPNs etc, that is not http, https, possibly ftp, and does not appear to some other protocol implemented on top of those its impossible. I don't think consumers would stand for it.
*What do mean I can't connect to my companies VPN?
*WOW and all my old games wont work any more, I have to buy new ones that use webservices and have shit latency thru your proxy!
*No more VOIP
That dog won't hunt.
I agree what there doing is a huge public service and that they seem to understand that if your try to embarrass the police they are likely to do the same to you. I would expect nothing else. I am actually pleasantly surprised they have not been picked up repeatedly on trumped up charges. The police could be acting much worse.
The police really did escalate things by publishing the pairs home address however. I suppose the next move is really to follow the police home from the station and publish their address. Perhaps when they and their families are placed in added danger they will realize this is getting out of hand and everyone will start to de-escalate. Police need to just learn to deal with the fact that in a free society they can and should be watched.
they buy a new computer take it to geek squad who nukes and paves it and sells them a rediculously overpriced unreliable antivirus.
That does solve the problem of getting a vulnerable machine off the network and a user off a vulnerable machine. Even Geek Squad will make sure a machine is patched before it goes out the door again. Its still a win.
What it does not do is educate the user about how to prevent this from happening again, but the cost of a new computer and our insanely priced Geek Squad services might just motivate them to learn on their own.
The right way to handle it was just to pull the plug. Better to let the users find out something is wrong and get the box looked at properly than to continue running a vulnerable machine. I agree with you about the problem of posting a "you may be infected page", what you could do is post a page that says "You may be infected. Obviously you should not trust anything your read online. Please contact your ISPs support services or find a support provider in the yellow pages."
If you are in climate you use the AC all year round or in one where you turn it around and use it to pump heat in in the winter I can see that. There are lots places where the AC unit is simply not used though during 6+ months of the year and it would be way to large to use to efficiently keep a fridge cool.
The dryer thing sounds like a fabulous idea to me. The fridge I kinda have my doubts. If you went the fans and duct work route the compromise to weather envelop of an otherwise well insulated house would likely result on the loss of more energy then you spend having the AC move the waste heat out. Keep in mind most energy loss is around doors and windows, solid wall with insulation and house wrap over it has a pretty high R value.
The better approach to the fridge might be some valves to select of a secondary radiator loop outside the house rather than the one on the back of the unit. Those lines are tiny like 3/8" so they could be extended through the wall without much energy loss and calked around easily.
Trouble is though the fridge is a heat pump. Heat pumps become less efficient the more against the gradient you try to go. So your fridge is going to use more power trying to cool the inside if forced to dump the waste heat into the 90 degree out doors rather than the 74 degree indoors. Now unless your A/C unit is 100% efficient it will still take more energy to move the now greater heat generated by the fridge's imperfect efficiency; so it should be a net win but we are talking something vanishingly small.
Right I lived in MPLS when Geek Squad was an independent entity. I never used them because I never had a need, but I know plenty of people who did.
They actually were staffing people who knew how to do things like run mem maker and configure emm386 to get your kids DOS game running properly. I know people who did have them do things like recover files of corrupt FAT floppies with hex editors. I am sure most of older slashdot'ers have been their done that and got the t-shirt but it really was a valuable service to lots people. Then Best Buy bought the company and turned it into a complete joke.
In a compromise between food and poison only death can win. Which is not say we don't all die anyway but I really hope the community acts viciously toward Ubuntu and RH for these games and demands they stand up for freedom.
For all the good they have done I'd rather see Ubuntu buried tomorrow than let them enable Microsoft and its cronies to destroy the hardware market.
There was a clear inflection point in polls though when Obama publicly stated his support for gay marriage.
Which is interesting in that its proof Obama votes have no thoughts of their own, no dreams of their own, and no will of their own, they eat and sleep and chew helplessly at the words others have put into their brains.
Seriously gay marriage is an issue that is was pretty dear to most people if their moral compass can spin so quickly because the president says it ought to I am more scared for this country than ever. Its apparent his supports give him a completely free pass with no critical thought about his positions.
Should we publish the data on when we move missiles? which truck is the decoy?
The best way to handle keeping secrets like that is to NOT WRITE THEM DOWN. A higher ranked officer should tell the guy who is in direct command of the folks driving the trunks to use some number of decoys, do it sometime this week, and work out the specifics on your own, nobody outside your unit including me needs to to know the specifics.