Its the politically correct mandated phrase for public speech. At least for Whites. Its by no means universally accepted.
I was buying Walleye from bunch of native fishermen in Ontario when someone (eastern province people) else pulled up to the dock and asked if they were First Nation. The elder fisherman looked up from the boat and said "We're Ojibwe you idiot". "Don't throw us all into the First Nation stew pot just so you don't have to learn who we are".
On the US side of the border they spelled their tribe as Chippewa, in Canada, mostly as Ojibwa, Ojibwe or Ojibway, but they pretty much pronounce it all the same.
That seems to be the view echoed in this extensive post on CNN by a History professor in Cairo which interesting reading, but probably too long for the average slashdot-er. TL:DR: he held his nose but hoped for the best when Morsy became President, but simply couldn't stand the "'Brotherhoodization" of the government. The Muslim Brotherhood had systematically replaced every level of government right down to School Principals with unqualified followers.
I'd been watching the stream for hours when cheering an fireworks broke out, and upon looking to Twitter found that the Army had replaced the Muslim Brotherhood leadership with a representative of the Supreme Court. Every military chopper that went overhead was also loudly cheered. Contrary to how CNN is presenting this, it is clearly a popular turn of events.
Egypt may have stepped back from the brink of becoming yet another Islamic Religious Dictatorship.
Let's say there was a crack that led to the surface, and the air started escaping. It would quickly erode the walls of the crack, opening a progressively larger hole.
No. It wouldn't. And if it did, the larger hole would have LOWER velocity, not higher. You don't have constant pressure from an inexhaustible supply at work here. You have a finite supply, and any significant leak would quickly drop the pressure in the entire reservoir.
It takes thousands of years for wind to carve rock. Hundreds of thousands of years. The initial (natural) pressure of these reservoirs is something around 1196 PSI. (Source is the PDF in the second link in the story). The injected air is about 1950 PSI, yielding a differential of about 750 PSI.
They are planning to store enough air in these abandoned mines, basalt flood planes to get 40 days of usable pressure. You aren't going to be doing any significant eroding of solid rock walls in 40 days with 750 PSI of pressure.
It wouldn't appeal to Slashdot it you couldn't some how tie computers into it.
But Data Centers can be constructed where power is cheap. (In fact that is the principal site selection consideration). Cities: not so much. There really aren't enough mines left laying around for this to be a practical solution.
Old underground Mines aren't that big, (or that common), but there would clearly be some local potential for blow-out.
The first thing that would happen is the compressed air would start dewatering the mine. (Almost all abandoned or un-pumped mines fill with water in short order). That might force a lot of polluted water back into the aquifers.
Oh Wait, that's the inefficiency that is pushed upstream to the coal fired generation plant.
That is a problem we know how to fix. We cannot synthetically create gasoline and we cannot use it without polluting. Even if some areas are forced to increase coal burning to meet demand, we know how to upgrade this over time.
Wouldn't it take a buttload more power to move the air down, and then back up, than it would generate?
I think it presumes excess power during some periods. High winds, excess hydro power, what ever.
They do this at Grand Coulee Dam already by pumping water up-hill to an additional reservoir in periods of excess runoff when they would otherwise have to open the spillways just to get rid of the excess.
Pumping water uphill is probably far more efficient than compressing air.
As long as it's only the exterior of the boxes, I don't care. As long as they don't X-ray packages (could damage sensitive electronics, perhaps?), I don't care. As long as they don't open up the packages (sensitive electronics and static discharges don't mix), I don't care.
They can take photos of the boxes from my eBay wins, I don't care.
What makes you think its only boxes? What makes you think its only the envelop.
With a sufficiently powerful flash, the contents of most envelopes can be read and decoded (separating overlapping text on the front and back of pages), without even opening the letter.
Do i really need to explain how the 4th should be preventing the USPS from turning over logging records EN MASSE to law enforcement?
They're only photographing the *outside* of the mail, which, in TelCo speak, is the metadata and is also clearly in "plain sight". I'm not taking a position on whether this is "right" or "wrong", but I don't see how it's currently illegal. Personally, I've always assumed the US mail was (somehow) tracked and recorded, just like with UPS and FedEx.
They probably have to photograph the outside for Zipcode Optical Character Recognition purposes used in automated mail routing, which is then bar-coded on the envelope.
It then became really easy for some incremental change to buffer this image off to a disk drive tagged with Source and Destination zip code. Since the President has his own zip code. The original system never was designed to keep all of these encoding, much less the actual images used for OCR.
But your central point is quite valid. We handed the letter to an agent of the Government, so expectations of privacy go out the window the minute the letter goes in the mail slot.
Mail Covers? Now that is a bit more troubling. Because its largely a hand operated system, and probably includes more than just the envelope image.
Sorry, didn't realize I was dealing with someone who has English as a second language.
You see, in English the phrase "not as simple as just recompiling the Operating System", implies that recompiling the OS would indeed be simple, but that would not solve the problem of switching processors. The problems of integrating a new processor with different pin-outs, capabilities, and requirements is referenced in the second sentence: "There are all sorts of hardware differences to deal with.".
Had you been a native English speaker, this would have been clear to you. Still one wonders where you did learn English, because if your paid tuition, or bought some language course, you might want to seek a refund.
The CPU alone does not matter at all. It might be the infrastructure around it. Since 5 or more decades the "CPU problem" is tackled by the compiler. Yes, compiling C or C++ for one CPU or the other is as simple as switching the compiler. Seems you missed that innovation.
I believe I covered that when I wrote:
Its not as simple as just recompiling the Operating System. There are all sorts of hardware differences to deal with.
How in gods name did you ever read that as suggesting the problem centered around the compiler? Skip reading comprehension class while in the 5th grade?
Especially switching from something like ARM to something like Atom. That is a big switch. Its not as simple as just recompiling the Operating System. There are all sorts of hardware differences to deal with.
Stepping from one ARM CPU to the next ARM CPU is a much smaller step.
That is why Apple won't switch to an Intel design at this time. It would set them back over a year. (I wouldn't be surprised to find Apple hard at work with Intel chips in their skunk works).
While you are correct that there are some people who will buy it regardless of what it built with, those days are fading, as many people are fed up with the slow pace of change in the Apple phone arena, and Apple wouldn't want to incur the delay penalty of a switch, when they can accomplish the same goals with their current hardware.
The article pretty much said the chips would be ARM.
When you look at the glacial pace of Apple development, you will notice that they do skin and paint very well, but technical changes very slowly. They did design some packaging modifications to ARM for their A4 and A5 processors (although industry sources say the work was actually done by the contract chip designer Intrinsity).
Apple probably aren't nimble enough to switch to Atom or Silvermont or anything not ARM. It would set them back an entire year, or maybe two.
As long as their checks cleared the bank, I'm sure Intel would take the money,
If that, indeed. I would like the 9 minutes of my life that I spent watching that nonsense back, and you can keep the junk you welded together.
You see this stuff by the roadside of any country bumpkin that bought a welder. (or a Chainsaw). You always drive past, and never once think of posting it on Slashdot. Those are the rules folks. No, inventing a ridiculous back story doesn't earn you an exception.
No it defeats no point, and Microsoft is free to accept or deny just about anything. Properly implemented secure boot increases your security by letting you decide what the machine should boot and prevent it from booting unknown or potentially malware infected operating system. That is a good feature. It has nothing to do with preventing competition.
Deciding that one, and only one company can sign shims, can't be considered anything but anticompetitive.
Then, forcing that company to sign boot shims from Linux and FreeBsd to avoid illegal restraint of trade charges, pretty well eliminates any benefit the plan might have had. Is Microsoft going to sign every backroom version of Linux and every clone of FreeBsd, ot did the just pare down the competition teo a few major distros?
At least GWB had 9/11 to "justify" the excesses of that time.
What does Obama have to justify his failure to roll back those excesses as he promised to do? What does he have to justify all of the new excesses of spying put in place since he took office. Look at the last slide in the linked article. All but one of these took place under Obama.
Everyone knew Obama would never fulfill his promises. Even Democrats knew this. Third party may be the answer, but I suspect they would be co-opted immediately upon their unlikely election.
The scenario you describe has a gaping privacy hole in that Clinkle will have records of all your purchases. One national security letter or weakly anonymized marketing database sale later, and you're screwed.
Same for Visa and MasterCard. Unless you pay in cash money, you have already bought into having your dinner purchase somewhat public. Your bank, your restaurant's bank, your credit card company, and your restaurant's credit card clearing company all know this information and any Local Police Department can get all of that information on a whim, and the US government gets every single bit of it every single day of the year for every single citizen.
So your tin foil hat better be lined in 100 dollar bills, because that is the only way you can do anonymous purchases.
As a money handling agent, Clinkle or any other payment system will be regulated. Just like your bank or credit card company.
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Nope, that's "First Nations" [1] people. All my Canadian colleagues use this term.
[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_Nations
Its the politically correct mandated phrase for public speech. At least for Whites. Its by no means universally accepted.
I was buying Walleye from bunch of native fishermen in Ontario when someone (eastern province people) else pulled up to the dock and asked if they were First Nation. The elder fisherman looked up from the boat and said "We're Ojibwe you idiot". "Don't throw us all into the First Nation stew pot just so you don't have to learn who we are".
On the US side of the border they spelled their tribe as Chippewa, in Canada, mostly as Ojibwa, Ojibwe or Ojibway, but they pretty much pronounce it all the same.
The Egyptian army does seem to be reflecting the will of the Egyptian people in this case.
Wag the dog... It's the same bit of manipulation as 'Arab Spring'... The 'will of the people' put Morsi (Mursi?) into office
There was precious little choice at the time.
They have learned their lesson, and for once it seems the average person in the street has had enough of 'Brotherhoodization" of their democracy.
For an Islamic majority country to take this step is a pretty positive note if you ask me.
That seems to be the view echoed in this extensive post on CNN by a History professor in Cairo which interesting reading, but probably too long for the average slashdot-er.
TL:DR: he held his nose but hoped for the best when Morsy became President, but simply couldn't stand the "'Brotherhoodization" of the government. The Muslim Brotherhood had systematically replaced every level of government right down to School Principals with unqualified followers.
I'd been watching the stream for hours when cheering an fireworks broke out, and upon looking to Twitter found that the Army had replaced the Muslim Brotherhood leadership with a representative of the Supreme Court. Every military chopper that went overhead was also loudly cheered. Contrary to how CNN is presenting this, it is clearly a popular turn of events.
Egypt may have stepped back from the brink of becoming yet another Islamic Religious Dictatorship.
Let's say there was a crack that led to the surface, and the air started escaping. It would quickly erode the walls of the crack, opening a progressively larger hole.
No. It wouldn't.
And if it did, the larger hole would have LOWER velocity, not higher. You don't have constant pressure from an inexhaustible supply at work here.
You have a finite supply, and any significant leak would quickly drop the pressure in the entire reservoir.
It takes thousands of years for wind to carve rock. Hundreds of thousands of years. The initial (natural) pressure of these reservoirs is something around 1196 PSI. (Source is the PDF in the second link in the story). The injected air is about 1950 PSI, yielding a differential of about 750 PSI.
They are planning to store enough air in these abandoned mines, basalt flood planes to get 40 days of usable pressure. You aren't going to be doing any significant eroding of solid rock walls in 40 days with 750 PSI of pressure.
Your numbers just don't add up to an explosion.
It wouldn't appeal to Slashdot it you couldn't some how tie computers into it.
But Data Centers can be constructed where power is cheap. (In fact that is the principal site selection consideration). Cities: not so much. There really aren't enough mines left laying around for this to be a practical solution.
You can't compare static air-pressure contained in an underground mine with an atomic explosion.
Air doesn't explode. Even if a breach is formed in the mine, the air would escape (violently), but it doesn't blow up.
Besides, There was a reason the world went to underground nuclear warhead testing. The ground could contain it.
Old underground Mines aren't that big, (or that common), but there would clearly be some local potential for blow-out.
The first thing that would happen is the compressed air would start dewatering the mine. (Almost all abandoned or un-pumped mines fill with water in short order). That might force a lot of polluted water back into the aquifers.
Oh Wait, that's the inefficiency that is pushed upstream to the coal fired generation plant.
That is a problem we know how to fix. We cannot synthetically create gasoline and we cannot use it without polluting. Even if some areas are forced to increase coal burning to meet demand, we know how to upgrade this over time.
We can't synthetically create Gasoline?
Wow, some one should have told the Germans during WWII. Those silly Nazis invested heavily in making synthetic gasoline.
http://www.airpower.maxwell.af.mil/airchronicles/aureview/1981/jul-aug/becker.htm
Wouldn't it take a buttload more power to move the air down, and then back up, than it would generate?
I think it presumes excess power during some periods. High winds, excess hydro power, what ever.
They do this at Grand Coulee Dam already by pumping water up-hill to an additional reservoir in periods of excess runoff when they would otherwise have to open the spillways just to get rid of the excess.
Pumping water uphill is probably far more efficient than compressing air.
As long as it's only the exterior of the boxes, I don't care.
As long as they don't X-ray packages (could damage sensitive electronics, perhaps?), I don't care.
As long as they don't open up the packages (sensitive electronics and static discharges don't mix), I don't care.
They can take photos of the boxes from my eBay wins, I don't care.
What makes you think its only boxes?
What makes you think its only the envelop.
With a sufficiently powerful flash, the contents of most envelopes can be read and decoded (separating overlapping text on the front and back of pages), without even opening the letter.
Do i really need to explain how the 4th should be preventing the USPS from turning over logging records EN MASSE to law enforcement?
They're only photographing the *outside* of the mail, which, in TelCo speak, is the metadata and is also clearly in "plain sight". I'm not taking a position on whether this is "right" or "wrong", but I don't see how it's currently illegal. Personally, I've always assumed the US mail was (somehow) tracked and recorded, just like with UPS and FedEx.
They probably have to photograph the outside for Zipcode Optical Character Recognition purposes used in automated mail routing, which is then bar-coded on the envelope.
It then became really easy for some incremental change to buffer this image off to a disk drive tagged with Source and Destination zip code. Since the President has his own zip code. The original system never was designed to keep all of these encoding, much less the actual images used for OCR.
But your central point is quite valid. We handed the letter to an agent of the Government, so expectations of privacy go out the window the minute the letter goes in the mail slot.
Mail Covers? Now that is a bit more troubling. Because its largely a hand operated system, and probably includes more than just the envelope image.
So its ok they are logging who mails who on EVERYONE? That is HIGHLY ILLEGAL.
Dude: you handed the letter to an arm of the government. What part of that is hard to understand?
Sorry, didn't realize I was dealing with someone who has English as a second language.
You see, in English the phrase "not as simple as just recompiling the Operating System", implies that recompiling the OS would indeed be simple, but that would not solve the problem of switching processors. The problems of integrating a new processor with different pin-outs, capabilities, and requirements is referenced in the second sentence: "There are all sorts of hardware differences to deal with.".
Had you been a native English speaker, this would have been clear to you. Still one wonders where you did learn English, because if your paid tuition, or bought some language course, you might want to seek a refund.
The CPU alone does not matter at all. It might be the infrastructure around it.
Since 5 or more decades the "CPU problem" is tackled by the compiler. Yes, compiling C or C++ for one CPU or the other is as simple as switching the compiler. Seems you missed that innovation.
I believe I covered that when I wrote:
Its not as simple as just recompiling the Operating System. There are all sorts of hardware differences to deal with.
How in gods name did you ever read that as suggesting the problem centered around the compiler? Skip reading comprehension class while in the 5th grade?
Yes the CPU matters.
Especially switching from something like ARM to something like Atom. That is a big switch. Its not as simple as just recompiling the Operating System. There are all sorts of hardware differences to deal with.
Stepping from one ARM CPU to the next ARM CPU is a much smaller step.
That is why Apple won't switch to an Intel design at this time. It would set them back over a year. (I wouldn't be surprised to find Apple hard at work with Intel chips in their skunk works).
While you are correct that there are some people who will buy it regardless of what it built with, those days are fading, as many people are fed up with the slow pace of change in the Apple phone arena, and Apple wouldn't want to incur the delay penalty of a switch, when they can accomplish the same goals with their current hardware.
The article pretty much said the chips would be ARM.
When you look at the glacial pace of Apple development, you will notice that they do skin and paint very well, but technical changes very slowly. They did design some packaging modifications to ARM for their A4 and A5 processors (although industry sources say the work was actually done by the contract chip designer Intrinsity).
Apple probably aren't nimble enough to switch to Atom or Silvermont or anything not ARM. It would set them back an entire year, or maybe two.
As long as their checks cleared the bank, I'm sure Intel would take the money,
Of these three multibillion-dollar corporations, which one has a private jumbo jet for its executives:
1. ExxonMobil
2. Verizon
3. Oracle
4. Google
"Don't be evil"? My ass.
Probably the one that only hires people who know how to count.
If that, indeed.
I would like the 9 minutes of my life that I spent watching that nonsense back, and you can keep the junk you welded together.
You see this stuff by the roadside of any country bumpkin that bought a welder. (or a Chainsaw).
You always drive past, and never once think of posting it on Slashdot.
Those are the rules folks.
No, inventing a ridiculous back story doesn't earn you an exception.
Oh Wait, that's the inefficiency that is pushed upstream to the coal fired generation plant.
I doubt its 100 percent efficient, but even if it was, the efficiency is simply pushed upstream.
No it defeats no point, and Microsoft is free to accept or deny just about anything. Properly implemented secure boot increases your security by letting you decide what the machine should boot and prevent it from booting unknown or potentially malware infected operating system. That is a good feature. It has nothing to do with preventing competition.
Deciding that one, and only one company can sign shims, can't be considered anything but anticompetitive.
Then, forcing that company to sign boot shims from Linux and FreeBsd to avoid illegal restraint of trade charges, pretty well eliminates any benefit the plan might have had. Is Microsoft going to sign every backroom version of Linux and every clone of FreeBsd, ot did the just pare down the competition teo a few major distros?
It is expensive these days with all the interlocks and digital keying used in cars.
I actually have no car keys. Just a fob. So this would be a major modification.
And the fob's functionality of could just as well be programmed into my phone, if the phone battery lasted longer.
Google wapost
Then Google WA Post.
Any other questions?
Not one person reading this story assumed it was from Washington State.
At least GWB had 9/11 to "justify" the excesses of that time.
What does Obama have to justify his failure to roll back those excesses as he promised to do? What does he have to justify all of the new excesses of spying put in place since he took office. Look at the last slide in the linked article. All but one of these took place under Obama.
Everyone knew Obama would never fulfill his promises. Even Democrats knew this. Third party may be the answer, but I suspect they would be co-opted immediately upon their unlikely election.
The scenario you describe has a gaping privacy hole in that Clinkle will have records of all your purchases. One national security letter or weakly anonymized marketing database sale later, and you're screwed.
Same for Visa and MasterCard. Unless you pay in cash money, you have already bought into having your dinner purchase somewhat public. Your bank, your restaurant's bank, your credit card company, and your restaurant's credit card clearing company all know this information and any Local Police Department can get all of that information on a whim, and the US government gets every single bit of it every single day of the year for every single citizen.
So your tin foil hat better be lined in 100 dollar bills, because that is the only way you can do anonymous purchases.
As a money handling agent, Clinkle or any other payment system will be regulated. Just like your bank or credit card company.