My friend, the task you set upon me is not a difficult one at all. I sue for peace. With close to 100% probability I could gain an almost immediate cease-fire. I could then obtain a peace treaty where both the Japanese and the US get to keep their respective sovereignty, government and armed forces intact, with territorial lines in place de facto. The existent naval blockade that would have strangled them unaided before too long would be ended. OK, I might have to give them Okinawa back. By August 5 1945 the Japanese were looking for a way to stop a fight they could not possibly win. EVER.
Hey, you didn't specify that I had to be able to claim complete victory.
Er, the bases they had to TAKE OFF from were in the continental US. So maybe we'd be reading a report that a B-52 transiting from base to Atlantic ocean almost blew up NC.
If the capability to pretty much destroy civilization is deployed, you can't completely eliminate the possibility that a tiny bit of it might accidentally actuate. Even if no weapons ever left the armory, a meteor could strike the armory and one out of the thousands of weapons in the armory might detonate.
And ***I*** sure as hell don't. The day the nazis say I can't use 63/37 eutectic resin-core in my own projects is the day I break out my stored stash of same and thumb my nose at them.
Remember that this was a ~5 trillion $ effort,With a typical government estimate of the value of human life at $10M, that is the equivalent of 500,000 lives
That set off an interesting thought experiment. So you are saying if 1/2 the US population were to be wiped out by nuclear war or other devastating event, the cost would be considered to total 160 million times 10 million, $1.6 QUADRILLION, even before figuring material damage or decontamination operations.
Or to put it another way, the value of the humanity existent in the US is presently about $3.2 quadrillion. Gee. Where the hell is MY $10 million?
... the ideal thing to do would be for the bomb to "self-destruct" without detonating; by injecting chemicals causing the nuclear material to be rendered useless to any adversary, and permanently locking out the detonator assembly.
It might be ideal, but it is a ludicrous fantasy. There are no magic "chemicals" you could deploy in such a situation to "cause the nuclear material to be rendered useless". You might as well say "wave a wand and disintegrate the contained fissionables into their harmless component subnuclear particles".
There are very good politico-military reasons to have excellent safeguards against explosion in a event of a Goldsboro-type mishap even over enemy territory, because destroying unintended random locations in enemy territory is frowned upon. And that is part of the reason for the elaborate safeguards which were indeed built in. Looks like they weren't quite as reliable as they should have been, given the details of the close call at Goldsboro. However, since no accidental explosion of any US nuclear weapon has ever occurred all the way from the present back to Alamagordo, to include multiple instances of accidental jettisonings and crashes, those safeguards have in cold hard fact achieved their aim 100%.
What you really should worry about protecting, if anything, is your design from reverse engineering, not the raw materials contained. If this is news to anyone I would be shocked, but in 1961 the only conceivable target for US nuclear weapons was the USSR, and the latter ALREADY POSSESSED hundreds to thousands of extremely high yield nuclear weapons. They would have been contemptuous of being presented with raw materials for making one more, even if handed over with bow and a flourish on a silver platter by a butler in tails.
I would gladly pay $300 if they made it with Bay Trail (or atleast an Atom chip with integrated GPU that works with Inel's GPL drivers) and added a second GigE port.
You're on the right track, but WAY too undemanding. I'd pay MAYBE up to $100 for that. Tops.
$200 is a steal by the standards of x86 boards designed for embedded purposes
Maybe that is why Arm boards are cleaning up. Who the fuck cares about x86; you're going to program it in C anyway. Let's face it, the price of this piece of shit is mortally insulting in any context.
A taxi takes you where you want to go. A ride share takes you where you want to go providing it isn't too far out of the way from where the driver was going anyway. Think of it more like paid hitch hiking. That's the idea as Lyft presented to New Tech Meetup a few months ago.
So in other words:
(1) a taxi takes you where you want to go for money within limits (i.e., no taxi is likely to take you from Maine to Tierra del Fuego, and you can't always rely on them picking up and discharging in certain neighborhoods).
(2) a ride share takes you where you want to go for money within limits.
Yet you evidently somehow see a difference between the two fundamental enough to justify classifying (and regulating or not) them differently [shakes head in bafflement and wonder]. What I see is some people attempting to work around onerous over-regulation of taxis and financial burdens on same which they must pass on to customers. I can't imagine why anyone would object to the opportunity they are attempting to provide to both drivers and riders, but the method seems foredoomed because of existing taxi regulations. I do understand that it is difficult to attack those regulations because they arise locally in thousands of separate jurisdictions. It's like a lot of manifestations of runaway government. I don't see how to effectively control it without what... overthrowing the entire system... in favor of what?
Oh, and a vanishingly small percentage of drivers demand money to give a lift to a hitchhiker. That one is just a pure red herring.
turns out that people dont like to be pushed around by arrogant assholes.
Yet we still have OpenBSD and Linux developers, and frankly, both Linus and Theo are arrogant assholes.
Yet we still have OpenBSD and Linux developers, and frankly, both Linus and Theo are arrogant assholes.
Arrogant: adjective: having or revealing an exaggerated sense of one's own importance or abilities. I don't think arrogant is QUITE the appropriate term here, do you? No, I must insist. High-handed, maybe, churlish, perhaps. Linus and Theo are the real deal. Whatever their sense of their own importance and abilities is, I doubt it is exaggerated beyond the simple truth. Anyway, it's utterly beside the point. Objections are based on their lack of civility and tolerance. I have my own opinion about how constructive those objections are. Folks, Linus and Theo aren't likely to change in response to challenges to their manner, so do we really think we can find adequate and comparably excellent replacements half as effective? That would be unlikely, IMHO unjustified, and most certainly ungrateful.
Still worse. Impact is loss of production rate times time. If the loss of production rate is for an almost trivial period, actual impact is slight. For example, if you reduce 10% of production rate by half for one month, the loss of production for that year is only 0.42%.
CRAPitalism is always such an efficient, unabashed source of self-aggrandizement for the contemptible overlords on easy street at the top. The RAM price will probably shoot up 50% or more for a lengthy period, and do you think any of the factory workers will see the slightest bit of that windfall? HAH! It all goes straight to the top.
Terrorism is just a tactic in a struggle, and the struggle can be about a lot more than retribution. It can be about degrading the enemy's capability as well as his will and morale. Psychologically manipulating the enemy to get him to incur vast expenses in defense against that terrorism, and damage his own liberty and quality of life is an extremely effective tactic and a brilliant tool in asymmerical warfare. History will be studying the self-destruction of the USA due to 9/11 for a long time. People will marvel at the helplessness and stupidity of the USA, manipulated and pwned for a shockingly tiny economic investment by the opposition.
Chemical weapons are the poor man's nukes. There is no useful defense against them, for the troops of the ground or the civilian population at large. The only defense is not being there.
Oh, bullshit. Ever heard of gas masks and antidotes? Yes, chemical weapons are horrific. Yes, they are indiscriminate. Yes, they cannot always be detected in time for everyone to prepare; especially civilians. No, they are not magic agents against whioch there is no defense.
In world war I gas killed almost the whole British army in about an hour.
Hysterical and ludicrous bullshit. The British kept meticulous records. In the entire war, the entire British Empire only had 8109 killed and 188,706 injured due to gas. Only 2% of those affected by gas were killed and 2% permanently invalided; 70% were rehabilitated and fit for duty again after 6 weeks. Germany and France had roughly similar casualty figures. Actually startlingly similar. Russia did suffer 56,000 killed by gas.
8109 killed by gas out of over 8 million troops engaged for the British Empire is about 1 in 1000, far from "almost the whole army".
Approximate percentage of all military deaths in WW1 due to gas, by country: Britain 0.7% France 0.6% Germany 0.4% Russia 3%
The choking/suffocating/blistering agents used in WW1 constituted a shitty, ineffective weapon. Nerve gases have much more potential, but they are still a stupid weapon.
The other respondents were anonymous assholes, so I thought I ought to make some effort to engage on this.
At this time, considering parties with any following at all, there is effectively only one party in the US, and even more so only one in Massachusetts. The Republican Front of the Oligarchy Party is no more and no less in an echo chamber than the Democrat Front of the Oligarchy Party. They both live not just in an ivory tower, but the same ivory tower, and they both want broadly the same things while denying it publicly and perhaps to themselves.
There is next to no so-called "right wing" influence left in either Front, most especially in Massachusetts. But that does not mean that ideals falsely categorized as "right wing" do not live in the people. It is only natural that those people whose views are unrepresented are getting pretty frustrated and that there may be a limit to how much marginalization they will stand for.
If you reject everything else, please believe one thing. "Left wing" and "right wing" is a false dichotomy. It is an attempt to keep the people battling over the wrong issues. The real issue is simple: liberty vs burgeoning, ravening, out of control authoritianism. There is nothing preventing liberty and a social conscience from flourishing together. But authoritarianism is never satisfied until it achieves total ascendancy in every sphere: political, security, economic, nanny statism, etc.
We have inexorably, incrementally progressed to where the only thing any of those in the government apparatus care about is their own wealth and power. Those on the lower rungs can only imagine their power as despot of the tollbooth, and their wealth as a nice home, nice car, and plenty of consumer goods. Those nearer the top who are involved with policy are also all stupid sons of bitches, The only reason they are now suddenly hot to repeal this measure is that they have finally perceived from feedback that it is counter productive and, far from advancing their wealth and power, threatens to erode it due to blowback. They were too stupid to evaluate it prior to passing it.
To be fair, I don't think the guy you're replying to had starvation in general in mind
Take a look at the -1 rated parent of the guy you're talking about. That's who he seems to be propping up. He's the one who said the Africans are "too dumb to provide for themselves" and "not his problem".
For SSDs it's hardly "no reason". There is a limit in physics to the dramatic process shrinks we have relied on for a long time, and as we get asymptotically closer to that limit, price falls are going to slow. Or do you think we can exceed or readily even approach one transistor per molecule?
Already the raw cell write endurance has been falling precipitously as we have resorted to first two-level cells and then three-level cells. There is a limit to how much can be regained through overprovisioning. OK, maybe not a hard limit, but eventually the overprovisioning takes away all the packing gains of MLC and process shrinking.
Not only is the spot price for NAND $5 per 8GB ($640/TB), but by remarkable coincidence retailers are selling complete SSDs - damn good ones - at $635.99/TB. The quoted price of $29,000 for a 4TB SSD is for a ludicrously overpriced high end enterprise drive. The only problem with Samsung selling a $2560 4TB SSD is that it way overshoots the psychological barrier of $1000 for one drive. They could clearly make one if they wanted to in a 3.5" form factor for a negligible investment, but not enough people would buy it. But I wouldn't think that it will be long before we see 2TB-4TB SSDs at prices linearly scaled from the $635.99 current price for a 1TB SSD.
I think most people have figured out when you when you mention "Crucial M4 512 TB drives" you really mean 512 GB, and similarly for "$750/GB" (really $750/TB). I'm not going to criticize the lapse. I've done it too many times myself.
Agreed 100% on the $40/TB for hard drives.
And SSDs are already at least down to $635.99/TB, and probably less if we look harder. In fact the Samsung 840 EVO is a pretty damn high end consumer SSD.
I'll take a stab at this, since I think your point is an earnest one shared by many.
Is it playing globo-cop or meddling to fund and provide a treatment for severe acute malnutrition that can be used by laypeople? And costs only $60 for a two month regimen?
Of course if you think saving people who are starving in a world of plenty is "fixating on other people's business"... ponder this. Everyone is "other people". Your sainted mother, the wife and kids you love, the guy known to you personally who has been thrown out of a job by an evil society, the people on the other side of the tracks in your town, the people in Appalachia, people struggling in a mini third world in Detroit and many other centers in that region, many Africans, they are ALL "other people". Where would you draw the line between other people you care about and other people you don't give a shit about?
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BULLSHIT. Who's cooking that book? Is that manufacturing going on within the continental US employing US citizens?
My friend, the task you set upon me is not a difficult one at all. I sue for peace. With close to 100% probability I could gain an almost immediate cease-fire. I could then obtain a peace treaty where both the Japanese and the US get to keep their respective sovereignty, government and armed forces intact, with territorial lines in place de facto. The existent naval blockade that would have strangled them unaided before too long would be ended. OK, I might have to give them Okinawa back. By August 5 1945 the Japanese were looking for a way to stop a fight they could not possibly win. EVER.
Hey, you didn't specify that I had to be able to claim complete victory.
He is smoking the pipe of gross ignorance. Oblivious to history.
Er, the bases they had to TAKE OFF from were in the continental US. So maybe we'd be reading a report that a B-52 transiting from base to Atlantic ocean almost blew up NC.
If the capability to pretty much destroy civilization is deployed, you can't completely eliminate the possibility that a tiny bit of it might accidentally actuate. Even if no weapons ever left the armory, a meteor could strike the armory and one out of the thousands of weapons in the armory might detonate.
And ***I*** sure as hell don't. The day the nazis say I can't use 63/37 eutectic resin-core in my own projects is the day I break out my stored stash of same and thumb my nose at them.
That set off an interesting thought experiment. So you are saying if 1/2 the US population were to be wiped out by nuclear war or other devastating event, the cost would be considered to total 160 million times 10 million, $1.6 QUADRILLION, even before figuring material damage or decontamination operations.
Or to put it another way, the value of the humanity existent in the US is presently about $3.2 quadrillion. Gee. Where the hell is MY $10 million?
It might be ideal, but it is a ludicrous fantasy. There are no magic "chemicals" you could deploy in such a situation to "cause the nuclear material to be rendered useless". You might as well say "wave a wand and disintegrate the contained fissionables into their harmless component subnuclear particles".
There are very good politico-military reasons to have excellent safeguards against explosion in a event of a Goldsboro-type mishap even over enemy territory, because destroying unintended random locations in enemy territory is frowned upon. And that is part of the reason for the elaborate safeguards which were indeed built in. Looks like they weren't quite as reliable as they should have been, given the details of the close call at Goldsboro. However, since no accidental explosion of any US nuclear weapon has ever occurred all the way from the present back to Alamagordo, to include multiple instances of accidental jettisonings and crashes, those safeguards have in cold hard fact achieved their aim 100%.
What you really should worry about protecting, if anything, is your design from reverse engineering, not the raw materials contained. If this is news to anyone I would be shocked, but in 1961 the only conceivable target for US nuclear weapons was the USSR, and the latter ALREADY POSSESSED hundreds to thousands of extremely high yield nuclear weapons. They would have been contemptuous of being presented with raw materials for making one more, even if handed over with bow and a flourish on a silver platter by a butler in tails.
You're on the right track, but WAY too undemanding. I'd pay MAYBE up to $100 for that. Tops.
Maybe that is why Arm boards are cleaning up. Who the fuck cares about x86; you're going to program it in C anyway. Let's face it, the price of this piece of shit is mortally insulting in any context.
So in other words:
(1) a taxi takes you where you want to go for money within limits (i.e., no taxi is likely to take you from Maine to Tierra del Fuego, and you can't always rely on them picking up and discharging in certain neighborhoods).
(2) a ride share takes you where you want to go for money within limits.
Yet you evidently somehow see a difference between the two fundamental enough to justify classifying (and regulating or not) them differently [shakes head in bafflement and wonder]. What I see is some people attempting to work around onerous over-regulation of taxis and financial burdens on same which they must pass on to customers. I can't imagine why anyone would object to the opportunity they are attempting to provide to both drivers and riders, but the method seems foredoomed because of existing taxi regulations. I do understand that it is difficult to attack those regulations because they arise locally in thousands of separate jurisdictions. It's like a lot of manifestations of runaway government. I don't see how to effectively control it without what ... overthrowing the entire system ... in favor of what?
Oh, and a vanishingly small percentage of drivers demand money to give a lift to a hitchhiker. That one is just a pure red herring.
turns out that people dont like to be pushed around by arrogant assholes.
Yet we still have OpenBSD and Linux developers, and frankly, both Linus and Theo are arrogant assholes.
Arrogant: adjective: having or revealing an exaggerated sense of one's own importance or abilities. I don't think arrogant is QUITE the appropriate term here, do you? No, I must insist. High-handed, maybe, churlish, perhaps. Linus and Theo are the real deal. Whatever their sense of their own importance and abilities is, I doubt it is exaggerated beyond the simple truth. Anyway, it's utterly beside the point. Objections are based on their lack of civility and tolerance. I have my own opinion about how constructive those objections are. Folks, Linus and Theo aren't likely to change in response to challenges to their manner, so do we really think we can find adequate and comparably excellent replacements half as effective? That would be unlikely, IMHO unjustified, and most certainly ungrateful.
Still worse. Impact is loss of production rate times time. If the loss of production rate is for an almost trivial period, actual impact is slight. For example, if you reduce 10% of production rate by half for one month, the loss of production for that year is only 0.42%.
CRAPitalism is always such an efficient, unabashed source of self-aggrandizement for the contemptible overlords on easy street at the top. The RAM price will probably shoot up 50% or more for a lengthy period, and do you think any of the factory workers will see the slightest bit of that windfall? HAH! It all goes straight to the top.
Terrorism is just a tactic in a struggle, and the struggle can be about a lot more than retribution. It can be about degrading the enemy's capability as well as his will and morale. Psychologically manipulating the enemy to get him to incur vast expenses in defense against that terrorism, and damage his own liberty and quality of life is an extremely effective tactic and a brilliant tool in asymmerical warfare. History will be studying the self-destruction of the USA due to 9/11 for a long time. People will marvel at the helplessness and stupidity of the USA, manipulated and pwned for a shockingly tiny economic investment by the opposition.
Bullshit.
Oh, bullshit. Ever heard of gas masks and antidotes? Yes, chemical weapons are horrific. Yes, they are indiscriminate. Yes, they cannot always be detected in time for everyone to prepare; especially civilians. No, they are not magic agents against whioch there is no defense.
Hysterical and ludicrous bullshit. The British kept meticulous records. In the entire war, the entire British Empire only had 8109 killed and 188,706 injured due to gas. Only 2% of those affected by gas were killed and 2% permanently invalided; 70% were rehabilitated and fit for duty again after 6 weeks. Germany and France had roughly similar casualty figures. Actually startlingly similar. Russia did suffer 56,000 killed by gas.
8109 killed by gas out of over 8 million troops engaged for the British Empire is about 1 in 1000, far from "almost the whole army".
Approximate percentage of all military deaths in WW1 due to gas, by country:
Britain 0.7%
France 0.6%
Germany 0.4%
Russia 3%
The choking/suffocating/blistering agents used in WW1 constituted a shitty, ineffective weapon. Nerve gases have much more potential, but they are still a stupid weapon.
The other respondents were anonymous assholes, so I thought I ought to make some effort to engage on this.
At this time, considering parties with any following at all, there is effectively only one party in the US, and even more so only one in Massachusetts. The Republican Front of the Oligarchy Party is no more and no less in an echo chamber than the Democrat Front of the Oligarchy Party. They both live not just in an ivory tower, but the same ivory tower, and they both want broadly the same things while denying it publicly and perhaps to themselves.
There is next to no so-called "right wing" influence left in either Front, most especially in Massachusetts. But that does not mean that ideals falsely categorized as "right wing" do not live in the people. It is only natural that those people whose views are unrepresented are getting pretty frustrated and that there may be a limit to how much marginalization they will stand for.
If you reject everything else, please believe one thing. "Left wing" and "right wing" is a false dichotomy. It is an attempt to keep the people battling over the wrong issues. The real issue is simple: liberty vs burgeoning, ravening, out of control authoritianism. There is nothing preventing liberty and a social conscience from flourishing together. But authoritarianism is never satisfied until it achieves total ascendancy in every sphere: political, security, economic, nanny statism, etc.
We have inexorably, incrementally progressed to where the only thing any of those in the government apparatus care about is their own wealth and power. Those on the lower rungs can only imagine their power as despot of the tollbooth, and their wealth as a nice home, nice car, and plenty of consumer goods. Those nearer the top who are involved with policy are also all stupid sons of bitches, The only reason they are now suddenly hot to repeal this measure is that they have finally perceived from feedback that it is counter productive and, far from advancing their wealth and power, threatens to erode it due to blowback. They were too stupid to evaluate it prior to passing it.
Take a look at the -1 rated parent of the guy you're talking about. That's who he seems to be propping up. He's the one who said the Africans are "too dumb to provide for themselves" and "not his problem".
For SSDs it's hardly "no reason". There is a limit in physics to the dramatic process shrinks we have relied on for a long time, and as we get asymptotically closer to that limit, price falls are going to slow. Or do you think we can exceed or readily even approach one transistor per molecule?
Already the raw cell write endurance has been falling precipitously as we have resorted to first two-level cells and then three-level cells. There is a limit to how much can be regained through overprovisioning. OK, maybe not a hard limit, but eventually the overprovisioning takes away all the packing gains of MLC and process shrinking.
Not only is the spot price for NAND $5 per 8GB ($640/TB), but by remarkable coincidence retailers are selling complete SSDs - damn good ones - at $635.99/TB. The quoted price of $29,000 for a 4TB SSD is for a ludicrously overpriced high end enterprise drive. The only problem with Samsung selling a $2560 4TB SSD is that it way overshoots the psychological barrier of $1000 for one drive. They could clearly make one if they wanted to in a 3.5" form factor for a negligible investment, but not enough people would buy it. But I wouldn't think that it will be long before we see 2TB-4TB SSDs at prices linearly scaled from the $635.99 current price for a 1TB SSD.
I think most people have figured out when you when you mention "Crucial M4 512 TB drives" you really mean 512 GB, and similarly for "$750/GB" (really $750/TB). I'm not going to criticize the lapse. I've done it too many times myself.
Agreed 100% on the $40/TB for hard drives.
And SSDs are already at least down to $635.99/TB, and probably less if we look harder. In fact the Samsung 840 EVO is a pretty damn high end consumer SSD.
So in other words, stupid people. Right?
"Mess with" an array? How about hooking up 4 SATA and power cables to 4 drives, and engaging RAID software. Hint: it's a trivial amount of work.
I'll take a stab at this, since I think your point is an earnest one shared by many.
Is it playing globo-cop or meddling to fund and provide a treatment for severe acute malnutrition that can be used by laypeople? And costs only $60 for a two month regimen?
Of course if you think saving people who are starving in a world of plenty is "fixating on other people's business" ... ponder this. Everyone is "other people". Your sainted mother, the wife and kids you love, the guy known to you personally who has been thrown out of a job by an evil society, the people on the other side of the tracks in your town, the people in Appalachia, people struggling in a mini third world in Detroit and many other centers in that region, many Africans, they are ALL "other people". Where would you draw the line between other people you care about and other people you don't give a shit about?
Yet his solution is nowhere near as sophisticated as rsnapshot's. Rsnapshot is far from a trivial wrapper.
Why did you not use a symbolic link to another drive and copying the entire /User tree using xcopy or Explorer?