On the other side of the scale is an extremely weighty counter-question: Can the USA afford another ground invasion and the regime change + nation building that would follow?
Whats the contract between the two firms say? Are they causing you harm? Are you just being uppity about log entries?
Fuzzing is something you do in a lab. If someone is fuzzing a live server, they can cause it to crash. You shouldn't wait for that to happen before telling them to stop.
If they want to fuzz your webserver, they should ask for an image that they can test in a VM. They should not be attacking production hardware.
Documents filed in the lawsuit indicated executives knew they were behaving badly. Both [Co-Founder and Executive Chairman of Google] Schmidt and Intel CEO Paul Otellini indicated that they were worried about the anti-recruiting agreements being discovered, according to declarations cited in Koh's ruling. Nevertheless, Schmidt still fired a Google recruiter who riled Jobs by contacting an Apple employee, according to evidence submitted in the case.
The MPAA and RIAA were existing industry organizations that voluntarily created ratings in order to head off government regulation. The ESRB is also a industry created organization. Unlike the **AAs, it was created exclusively to deal with the issue of video game ratings.
That is an idiotic question. What is more likely is that there are in excess (well in excess, I might add) of 150 million financially ignorant people in the US.
Your response is exactly the point of that quote. 150 million people aren't financially ignorant. Almost no one takes out a payday loan because of ignorance, it's because they live paycheck to paycheck. Millions of Americans get paid shit and have minimal opportunities to advance themselves.
The American archetype of the self-made man clawing his way out of poverty has been less and less useful since the heydays of the 1950s
If you factor in State level taxes, the burden shifts a bit. States are much more reliant on (regressive) property and sales taxes than the Federal Government. Not to mention the nickle and dime fees we pay to interact with our local government
I saw a blurb somewhere that summed it up for me: "Which is more likely: that 150 million Americans are lazy or that 400 Americans are greedy?"
The context being that the top 400 have wealth equivalent to the bottom 50%. Income and wealth inequality is not some abstract concept. It is real and it is not about how whether the bottom 50% own TVs or a microwave.
Gerard Ryle, ICIJ's director, obtained the data trove as a result of his three-year investigation of Australia's Firepower scandal, a case involving offshore havens and corporate fraud.
The offshore information totaled more than 260 gigabytes of useful data. ICIJ's analysis of the hard drive showed that it held about 2.5 million files, including more than 2 million e-mails that help chart the offshore industry over a long period of explosive growth. It is one of the biggest collections of leaked data ever gathered and analyzed by a team of investigative journalists.
The drive contained four large databases plus half a million text, PDF, spreadsheet, image and web files. Analysis by ICIJ's data experts showed that the data originated in 10 offshore jurisdictions, including the British Virgin Islands, the Cook Islands and Singapore. It included details of more than 122,000 offshore companies or trusts, nearly 12,000 intermediaries (agents or âoeintroducersâ), and about 130,000 records on the people and agents who run, own, benefit from or hide behind offshore companies.
When ICIJ further analyzed the data using sophisticated matching software, it found that about 40 percent of files and emails were duplicates.
As usual, most of our questions are answered in the source. And since this was a global reporting effort, like Wikileaks, lots of national papers are reporting the dirt they've found that's relevant to their country. I only bring that up to head off the "so what, they haven't uncovered anything important," which was a common rebuttal to the various wikileaks releases. This document dump is touching all corners of the globe. Read some international news.
1) Generate base load, as in it doesn't vary with the time of day or weather.
2) Provide for power in all parts of the world, from northern latitudes to the equator.
3) Is cost effective.
Never heard of geothermal energy huh?
That said, your "must work everywhere, all the time" standard is arbitrary and counterproductive. We should be trying as much as possible, wherever possible, whenever ever possible.
And nuclear/coal are only practical where there is enough water for them to cool the plant. When the summer time rolls around, be prepared for your nuclear and coal plants to get idled because of high water temperatures or low water conditions. /The low water conditions are almost always a product of over urbanization/industrialization coupled with poor planning.
Sometimes I have the impression technophiles' "think of the privacy implications!" is their own version of technophobes' "think of the children!"
"Think of the children" is most often a rhetorical shortcut intended to negate rational discussion through appeals to emotion. "Think of the privacy implications" is exactly the opposite, in that it is an exhortation to think of problems and address them.
What happened that caused technologists to becomes so damn cynical since just a few years ago? Is that just old age kicking in? *sigh*
We all read 1984 and you'd have to be blind not to notice the endless expansion of police surveillance cameras. And go read about the theory behind the panopticon, which undoubtedly influenced Orwell. The idea that surveillance = power is hundreds of years old, but it's only in the last few decades where it has become feasible.
Instead of fighting the generic manufacturers, NOVARTIS should create their own special generic versions and beat them on a price point.
In the developing world, premium priced branded generics are turning into big money for pharmaceutical companies. The people are very aware of counterfeit drugs, so they'll pay a premium for Bayer Aspirin (festooned with holograms and safety seals on the boxes and bottle) even though aspirin has been generic for an exceedingly long time.
I can't seem to find the article right now, but studies have been done that show combustion engines are happiest with ~80% gasoline and ~20% hydrogen.
Your exhaust is cleaner and your fuel efficiency improves. There are systems right now for big rigs, trucks, and RVs. The only catch is that you have to essentially reprogram your ECU to take full advantage of the hydrogen.
Nope, I'm still ignorant. I thought all it took was a DC current and saltwater, with oxygen bubbling from one lead and hydrogen from the other?
That is all it takes and makes for a great science lab demonstration. Unfortunately, the process it not terribly efficient in its usage of electricity. Using a catalyst allows you to get the same or more [output] from your reaction.
Where the catalyst is used depends on whatever works. Sometimes it's the anode or cathode, sometimes it's in your electrolyte solution, and sometimes it's an electrolyte plate.
It might be argued that the authorities were working as an agent for Verison to gather the information.
If the police have a warrant for Verizon, it tells Verizon what to do. Otherwise, the police need a specific warrant for everything else they intend to do.
In other words, a warrant allows for [company] to act as an agent for the State. It never(?) works the other way around.
Ordinance No. 9
"To Provide against Carrying of Deadly Weapons" (effective April 19, 1881).
Section 1: "It is hereby declared to be unlawful for any person to carry deadly weapons, concealed or otherwise [except the same be carried openly in sight, and in the hand] within the limits of the City of Tombstone.
Section 2: This prohibition does not extend to persons immediately leaving or entering the city, who, with good faith, and within reasonable time are proceeding to deposit, or take from the place of deposit such deadly weapon.
Section 3: All fire-arms of every description, and bowie knives and dirks, are included within the prohibition of this ordinance."
Imagine the fuss such an ordinance would create today.
Four months after the Federal Communications Commission approved a hotly contested merger of Comcast and NBC Universal, one of the commissioners who voted for the deal said on Wednesday that she would soon join Comcast's Washington lobbying office.
The most obnoxious thing here is that simply looking at both sides doesn't translate into balance. Often times you're just getting extremist views with no substantive facts.
Cigarettes kill everyone who smokes them. Cigarettes are healthy and good for your lungs.
Two extremist views, yet one is far less balanced or substantive (or correct) than the other.
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With good practices, and and extra precautions
Well that's one hell of an assumption.
Things that would happen with good practices and and extra precautions:
I would hope you're right, but it's not a reasonable assumption to make.
It's not going to work when it gets riddled with malware because of unpatched remote exploits.
On the other side of the scale is an extremely weighty counter-question:
Can the USA afford another ground invasion and the regime change + nation building that would follow?
The answer to that is unequivocally "No"
Whats the contract between the two firms say? Are they causing you harm? Are you just being uppity about log entries?
Fuzzing is something you do in a lab.
If someone is fuzzing a live server, they can cause it to crash.
You shouldn't wait for that to happen before telling them to stop.
If they want to fuzz your webserver, they should ask for an image that they can test in a VM.
They should not be attacking production hardware.
Documents filed in the lawsuit indicated executives knew they were behaving badly. Both [Co-Founder and Executive Chairman of Google] Schmidt and Intel CEO Paul Otellini indicated that they were worried about the anti-recruiting agreements being discovered, according to declarations cited in Koh's ruling. Nevertheless, Schmidt still fired a Google recruiter who riled Jobs by contacting an Apple employee, according to evidence submitted in the case.
Well that seems a bit evil, wouldn't you say?
We already crowd source our law making process.
The problem is that it's been crowd sourced to lobbyists and not to 'the crowd'
The MPAA and RIAA were existing industry organizations that voluntarily created ratings in order to head off government regulation.
The ESRB is also a industry created organization. Unlike the **AAs, it was created exclusively to deal with the issue of video game ratings.
All the music/game/movie ratings are voluntary.
That is an idiotic question. What is more likely is that there are in excess (well in excess, I might add) of 150 million financially ignorant people in the US.
Your response is exactly the point of that quote.
150 million people aren't financially ignorant.
Almost no one takes out a payday loan because of ignorance, it's because they live paycheck to paycheck.
Millions of Americans get paid shit and have minimal opportunities to advance themselves.
The American archetype of the self-made man clawing his way out of poverty has been less and less useful since the heydays of the 1950s
If you factor in State level taxes, the burden shifts a bit.
States are much more reliant on (regressive) property and sales taxes than the Federal Government.
Not to mention the nickle and dime fees we pay to interact with our local government
I saw a blurb somewhere that summed it up for me:
"Which is more likely: that 150 million Americans are lazy or that 400 Americans are greedy?"
The context being that the top 400 have wealth equivalent to the bottom 50%.
Income and wealth inequality is not some abstract concept.
It is real and it is not about how whether the bottom 50% own TVs or a microwave.
The source of the leak is not nearly as cloak and dagger as everyone is making it out to be.
http://www.icij.org/offshore/how-icijs-project-team-analyzed-offshore-files
Gerard Ryle, ICIJ's director, obtained the data trove as a result of his three-year investigation of Australia's Firepower scandal, a case involving offshore havens and corporate fraud.
The offshore information totaled more than 260 gigabytes of useful data. ICIJ's analysis of the hard drive showed that it held about 2.5 million files, including more than 2 million e-mails that help chart the offshore industry over a long period of explosive growth. It is one of the biggest collections of leaked data ever gathered and analyzed by a team of investigative journalists.
The drive contained four large databases plus half a million text, PDF, spreadsheet, image and web files. Analysis by ICIJ's data experts showed that the data originated in 10 offshore jurisdictions, including the British Virgin Islands, the Cook Islands and Singapore. It included details of more than 122,000 offshore companies or trusts, nearly 12,000 intermediaries (agents or âoeintroducersâ), and about 130,000 records on the people and agents who run, own, benefit from or hide behind offshore companies.
When ICIJ further analyzed the data using sophisticated matching software, it found that about 40 percent of files and emails were duplicates.
As usual, most of our questions are answered in the source.
And since this was a global reporting effort, like Wikileaks, lots of national papers are reporting the dirt they've found that's relevant to their country.
I only bring that up to head off the "so what, they haven't uncovered anything important," which was a common rebuttal to the various wikileaks releases.
This document dump is touching all corners of the globe. Read some international news.
I sure would be tempted to RAID twice as many 10K SATA for half that price if I could get the same RPM.
Short-stroking 7.2k drives is cheaper and you will outperform 10K drives all day.
We used to short stroke 10k/15k drives, but SSDs have taken over those jobs.
1) Generate base load, as in it doesn't vary with the time of day or weather.
2) Provide for power in all parts of the world, from northern latitudes to the equator.
3) Is cost effective.
Never heard of geothermal energy huh?
That said, your "must work everywhere, all the time" standard is arbitrary and counterproductive.
We should be trying as much as possible, wherever possible, whenever ever possible.
And nuclear/coal are only practical where there is enough water for them to cool the plant.
When the summer time rolls around, be prepared for your nuclear and coal plants to get idled because of high water temperatures or low water conditions.
/The low water conditions are almost always a product of over urbanization/industrialization coupled with poor planning.
Sometimes I have the impression technophiles' "think of the privacy implications!" is their own version of technophobes' "think of the children!"
"Think of the children" is most often a rhetorical shortcut intended to negate rational discussion through appeals to emotion.
"Think of the privacy implications" is exactly the opposite, in that it is an exhortation to think of problems and address them.
What happened that caused technologists to becomes so damn cynical since just a few years ago? Is that just old age kicking in? *sigh*
We all read 1984 and you'd have to be blind not to notice the endless expansion of police surveillance cameras.
And go read about the theory behind the panopticon, which undoubtedly influenced Orwell.
The idea that surveillance = power is hundreds of years old, but it's only in the last few decades where it has become feasible.
Indeed, everyone knows you stir coffee with a pencil!
Instead of fighting the generic manufacturers, NOVARTIS should create their own special generic versions and beat them on a price point.
In the developing world, premium priced branded generics are turning into big money for pharmaceutical companies.
The people are very aware of counterfeit drugs, so they'll pay a premium for Bayer Aspirin
(festooned with holograms and safety seals on the boxes and bottle)
even though aspirin has been generic for an exceedingly long time.
I can't seem to find the article right now, but studies have been done that show combustion engines are happiest with ~80% gasoline and ~20% hydrogen.
Your exhaust is cleaner and your fuel efficiency improves.
There are systems right now for big rigs, trucks, and RVs.
The only catch is that you have to essentially reprogram your ECU to take full advantage of the hydrogen.
Nope, I'm still ignorant. I thought all it took was a DC current and saltwater, with oxygen bubbling from one lead and hydrogen from the other?
That is all it takes and makes for a great science lab demonstration.
Unfortunately, the process it not terribly efficient in its usage of electricity.
Using a catalyst allows you to get the same or more [output] from your reaction.
Where the catalyst is used depends on whatever works.
Sometimes it's the anode or cathode, sometimes it's in your electrolyte solution, and sometimes it's an electrolyte plate.
It might be argued that the authorities were working as an agent for Verison to gather the information.
If the police have a warrant for Verizon, it tells Verizon what to do.
Otherwise, the police need a specific warrant for everything else they intend to do.
In other words, a warrant allows for [company] to act as an agent for the State.
It never(?) works the other way around.
It's not slavery, it's indentured servitude. And that doesn't make it any less stupid or wrong.
Seeing how slavery and indentured servitude are not legal, this is more or less a voluntary commitment on his part.
No one can take him to court and get the contract enforced.
In addition: Big Pharma and Oxycontin.
The good news is that increased enforcement is choking off the street supply of painkillers.
The bad news is that prescription opiates are being replaced with real opiates: heroin.
You can find news articles talking about the shift, starting around 2008
I'm guessing Google, Wikipedia and friends aren't going to blackout their websites over this one.
Do you not see the danger of just deciding one day that we no longer need to follow a provision of the constitution?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Cowboys_(Cochise_County)#Weapon_ordinance
Ordinance No. 9
"To Provide against Carrying of Deadly Weapons" (effective April 19, 1881).
Section 1: "It is hereby declared to be unlawful for any person to carry deadly weapons, concealed or otherwise [except the same be carried openly in sight, and in the hand] within the limits of the City of Tombstone.
Section 2: This prohibition does not extend to persons immediately leaving or entering the city, who, with good faith, and within reasonable time are proceeding to deposit, or take from the place of deposit such deadly weapon.
Section 3: All fire-arms of every description, and bowie knives and dirks, are included within the prohibition of this ordinance."
Imagine the fuss such an ordinance would create today.
http://mediadecoder.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/05/11/f-c-c-commissioner-to-join-comcast/
Four months after the Federal Communications Commission approved a hotly contested merger of Comcast and NBC Universal,
one of the commissioners who voted for the deal said on Wednesday that she would soon join Comcast's Washington lobbying office.
The most obnoxious thing here is that simply looking at both sides doesn't translate into balance. Often times you're just getting extremist views with no substantive facts.
Cigarettes kill everyone who smokes them.
Cigarettes are healthy and good for your lungs.
Two extremist views, yet one is far less balanced or substantive (or correct) than the other.