1. you don't know if he actually wasted anything (the computers could have been idle otherwise)
An idle computer consumes less resources to operate then one processing some task. Not only electricity to run the computer, but the considerable amount of heat that is generated that has to be conditioned. The article and the report don't go into details so we're just left presuming the cost to operate the supercomputers during the mining was $150,000.
I would imagine that there isn't too much idle time on a supercomputer. It's not like this was some student computing center tech installing SETI@home to run as a screen saver.
though nowadays routers come with individualized passwords, but they didn't used to
When Verizon FiOS first came to my area, the autogenerated WEP password was based on a 5 character SSID. There were online tools that you could use to lookup what the default password would be and almost no one, relatively speaking, bothered to change it from the default. Came in handy on more than a few occasions to get free wifi as just about anywhere you go you were in range of someone that had FiOS.
Another brand used the wireless MAC as the WEP key. shm
Then, SWAT would move into their house and take everything that plugs into a wall and has Ethernet capabilities. Think I'm joking?
Of course you are. Why would they leave things that don't plug into a wall and/or have Ethernet capabilities? Take everything. Toaster, tooth brush, pet rock...it's all evidence of the crime and/or hacking tools. They'd probably search the houses of your friends, family, and the guy you looked at walking down the street a week ago too.
Until someone starts offering a flat fee for payment processing somewhere close to cost of the transaction, which is microscopic
So you'd want a company to float you the money during the transaction for up to thousands of dollars, cover all the real costs of the transactions, and handle any fraud prevention and losses all by charging a few pennies? That sounds like a sweet investment deal to be had!
I think he was meaning that a launch being seen as a potential missile attack on Cuba. Launching a rocket from the east coast of Florida wouldn't take the flight path in the same general vicinity over Havana. Remember that when Kennedy Space Center was built, it was only a few years after the Cuban Missile Crisis.
Then again, I guess Texas could also launch an attack on Florida. Hopefully Florida would retaliate in time to destroy Texas before itself was destroyed. The country would just sit back, watch, and enjoy the show. No matter the result, the nation would be better of in the end.
Here's where the plot twist falls into play: Snowden is still working for the NSA but is feeding Russia misinformation. It's all a very elaborate scheme to trick our old adversaries. While the price to pull it off was high with releasing top secret information, it wasn't exactly anything that everyone didn't know or think was happening.
You are making the mistake of thinking banks have processes that meet your needs, rather than their needs.
You've just described every business, not just banks. Well, at least the successful ones. They are all in it for their needs. Your needs only come into play only to the extent it's necessary for them to meet their needs.
Right. The OP was saying that Rockethub and Indiegogo have options that can allow a project to be partially funded instead of an all or nothing. In those cases someone who has pledged an amount and is expecting something in return may never receive it. So while the project may be happy to at least get partial funding, the pledgers may be unhappy. But of course that's always a risk with any type of kickstarter-like project where things don't pan out.
If you need to make 10,000 widgets to reach a price point in manufacturing, but you only get 2/3 funded for instance, you likely aren't going to be able to produce 2/3 of the 10,000 widgets. You may only be able to produce half as the per piece price can start to increase dramatically the few and fewer you make and buy individual components for.
Unless you're one of the backers that contributed $600k but may never see any type of return. It depends on what exactly your funding. Some projects might be able to scale back and still be successful in a more limited ways. Other projects however may require the full amount so that the economy of scale kicks.
What would you propose as an alternative system for minimum wage? Almost every developed country and many developing countries either pay a minimum wage by law, or some type of a minimum wage is stated by collective bargaining which in turn is enforceable by law. There's probably a reason for this...
I worded my post poorly I guess. What I meant was those that benefited from the allegedly illegal activities (the government, evil corporations, etc) are going to view the whistle blowing negatively, but those that don't stand to benefit (usually the public in general) wouldn't.
When I said "Do you stand to gain..." I was referring to someone other than the whistle blower, most likely the entity that the whistle is being blown on. Obviously the whistle blower has something to gain ultimately by what they are doing, otherwise why do it?
For example, the NSA and in general the US Government had a lot to gain from the activities that Edward Snowden has revealed. Therefor the government has portrayed him as a "bad guy".
Most others had nothing to gain from the revealed activities. Therefor the public views him more of a "good guy" (or at least not a "bad guy")
After all was settled and looking back 40+ years, what positive effect aside from having an public historical account of what lead up to the Vietnam War? Not discounting the importance of having such information, but in the scheme of things that sounds pretty minor.
Did it result in serious policy change? Did it result in more transparency, accuracy, or accountability in government operations? Did it result in the reduction of lost lives, damage to the environment, or cost reductions? No to all the above.
When was the last government whistle blower that resulted in something positive for the world? Then also find me one where it didn't come a great personal cost to the whistle blower with the "protections" afforded to them.
I see one of two outcomes from the flood of whistles about to be blown: 1. Nothing. TPTB essentially say "That's nice. We'll handle it" and business goes on as normal. Whistle blower becomes frustrated and stops blowing whistle. 2. Whistle blower disappears.
Was it bring your favourite programming language to work month?
No. HTML, XSD, XML, CSS, and DTD aren't even programming languages. JavaScript, while a language, I'll lump in with the HTML as it's probably not running server side and pretty much is the only option for client side scripting.
Java dominates the line count for what's left. Maven is primarily for build automation for Java so it's more of a compliment to Java than another language just because they can. Similar goes for Groovy and JavaServer Faces being more companions to Java. Ant also is for build automation. Visualforce Component is for integrating with Salesforce.
Who knows what they use bsh, dos batch, python, jsp, asp.net, and VB for, but they are such low line counts it can't be much. My guess is that it was just the easiest path to do something on a particular system with some constraint that dictated some other already used language couldn't be used. Why write a java program to write a shell script that copies a file from one directory to another. Or a variety of other mundane things where the overhead isn't worth it.
Longer days but fewer of them may work for some occupations, but my guess is that the current length of the day is designed for the child's learning capacity and ability to retain information that is given to them in faster, larger quantities.
Due to a particularly bad winter, my kids had to attend school for an extra hour for about a month and a half to make up a few of the many snow days they had off. Multiple teachers of theirs as well as a family member commented that the extra hour of classroom time wasn't the same as what that hour would have been during a normal schedule. Now maybe it would be different if it was always like that, I don't know.
The other consideration is who is going to teach longer school days and more of them? Most teachers are overworked, underpaid, and underfunded for what all they do. And you'd want them to work longer days in the classroom? And give up a weekend day?
My local school district is the largest in Indiana and hasn't built a new school since 1976. There's 62 buildings owned by the district, with 51 of them being schools and the average age is 54 years old. Almost all of the buildings were built during rapid population growth to educate the baby boomer generation. In the 60+ years since then the population has continued to grow but physical classroom sizes have remained the same. You can't easily make each classroom larger.
More kids, new technology, heating/cooling demands increased, funds dwindling while other expenses rising have led to many schools to become inadequate. Environmental conditions when they were built were also different with less understanding (or maybe just less caring) of proper air ventilation and air quality, building material, etc make older schools pale in comparison to a modern building. And if eventually a school does get a major remodeling or expansion, due to the time that many were built there are huge expenses due to asbestos and other hazardous building materials requiring proper remediation.
With older building it's sometimes (often?) easier, cheaper in the long run to build and operate, and better to raze what you have and rebuild from scratch for significant expansion or remodeling then try to fix a building past it's normal usable lifetime.
Pretty soon they'll have your desktop acting just like a smart phone
My laptop died over the weekend and while browsing online for a replacement, one laptop was advertised as having "smart-phone like responsiveness." I quickly moved on to a different laptop.
With Kim Dotcom's/Mega case, the US tried to extradite him and he was detained by New Zealand authorities. It wasn't a covert black ops where he was kidnapped in the darkness of night. New Zealand obviously was working with the US (even if the US was pulling the strings)
With the EU's law if the company has a nexus somewhere in the EU then the company needs to comply with EU laws.
The likelihood that the US or just about any other country that Zuch would visit would cooperate in detaining him in any manner is almost zero. And since Facebook doesn't have any Iranian presence, my guess is that Facebook respectfully tells Iran to go f' themselves.
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An idle computer consumes less resources to operate then one processing some task. Not only electricity to run the computer, but the considerable amount of heat that is generated that has to be conditioned. The article and the report don't go into details so we're just left presuming the cost to operate the supercomputers during the mining was $150,000.
I would imagine that there isn't too much idle time on a supercomputer. It's not like this was some student computing center tech installing SETI@home to run as a screen saver.
When Verizon FiOS first came to my area, the autogenerated WEP password was based on a 5 character SSID. There were online tools that you could use to lookup what the default password would be and almost no one, relatively speaking, bothered to change it from the default. Came in handy on more than a few occasions to get free wifi as just about anywhere you go you were in range of someone that had FiOS.
Another brand used the wireless MAC as the WEP key. shm
Of course you are. Why would they leave things that don't plug into a wall and/or have Ethernet capabilities? Take everything. Toaster, tooth brush, pet rock...it's all evidence of the crime and/or hacking tools. They'd probably search the houses of your friends, family, and the guy you looked at walking down the street a week ago too.
So you'd want a company to float you the money during the transaction for up to thousands of dollars, cover all the real costs of the transactions, and handle any fraud prevention and losses all by charging a few pennies? That sounds like a sweet investment deal to be had!
I think he was meaning that a launch being seen as a potential missile attack on Cuba. Launching a rocket from the east coast of Florida wouldn't take the flight path in the same general vicinity over Havana. Remember that when Kennedy Space Center was built, it was only a few years after the Cuban Missile Crisis.
Then again, I guess Texas could also launch an attack on Florida. Hopefully Florida would retaliate in time to destroy Texas before itself was destroyed. The country would just sit back, watch, and enjoy the show. No matter the result, the nation would be better of in the end.
monster: noun - something that is extremely or unusually large
Existing container ships are large. While yes you can always say "larger", that alone doesn't really convey the size since they already are so large.
Here's where the plot twist falls into play: Snowden is still working for the NSA but is feeding Russia misinformation. It's all a very elaborate scheme to trick our old adversaries. While the price to pull it off was high with releasing top secret information, it wasn't exactly anything that everyone didn't know or think was happening.
You've just described every business, not just banks. Well, at least the successful ones. They are all in it for their needs. Your needs only come into play only to the extent it's necessary for them to meet their needs.
And this point differs from every other game out there how?
Right. The OP was saying that Rockethub and Indiegogo have options that can allow a project to be partially funded instead of an all or nothing. In those cases someone who has pledged an amount and is expecting something in return may never receive it. So while the project may be happy to at least get partial funding, the pledgers may be unhappy. But of course that's always a risk with any type of kickstarter-like project where things don't pan out.
If you need to make 10,000 widgets to reach a price point in manufacturing, but you only get 2/3 funded for instance, you likely aren't going to be able to produce 2/3 of the 10,000 widgets. You may only be able to produce half as the per piece price can start to increase dramatically the few and fewer you make and buy individual components for.
Unless you're one of the backers that contributed $600k but may never see any type of return. It depends on what exactly your funding. Some projects might be able to scale back and still be successful in a more limited ways. Other projects however may require the full amount so that the economy of scale kicks.
What would you propose as an alternative system for minimum wage? Almost every developed country and many developing countries either pay a minimum wage by law, or some type of a minimum wage is stated by collective bargaining which in turn is enforceable by law. There's probably a reason for this...
I worded my post poorly I guess. What I meant was those that benefited from the allegedly illegal activities (the government, evil corporations, etc) are going to view the whistle blowing negatively, but those that don't stand to benefit (usually the public in general) wouldn't.
When I said "Do you stand to gain..." I was referring to someone other than the whistle blower, most likely the entity that the whistle is being blown on. Obviously the whistle blower has something to gain ultimately by what they are doing, otherwise why do it?
For example, the NSA and in general the US Government had a lot to gain from the activities that Edward Snowden has revealed. Therefor the government has portrayed him as a "bad guy".
Most others had nothing to gain from the revealed activities. Therefor the public views him more of a "good guy" (or at least not a "bad guy")
After all was settled and looking back 40+ years, what positive effect aside from having an public historical account of what lead up to the Vietnam War? Not discounting the importance of having such information, but in the scheme of things that sounds pretty minor.
Did it result in serious policy change? Did it result in more transparency, accuracy, or accountability in government operations? Did it result in the reduction of lost lives, damage to the environment, or cost reductions? No to all the above.
Do you stand to gain, directly or indirectly, any benefit either personally, professionally, or politically, by whatever is being whistle blown on?
If yes, the whistle blower is a publicity seeking criminal leaker. If no, then the whistle blower should be a celebrated patriot.
Unfortunately, far far too many people benefit directly or indirectly to effect real change.
Oh you and your naivety.
When was the last government whistle blower that resulted in something positive for the world? Then also find me one where it didn't come a great personal cost to the whistle blower with the "protections" afforded to them.
I see one of two outcomes from the flood of whistles about to be blown:
1. Nothing. TPTB essentially say "That's nice. We'll handle it" and business goes on as normal. Whistle blower becomes frustrated and stops blowing whistle.
2. Whistle blower disappears.
Either way, the problem is solved.
Click here. Don't delete the cookie. Was that really THAT hard to do?
No. HTML, XSD, XML, CSS, and DTD aren't even programming languages. JavaScript, while a language, I'll lump in with the HTML as it's probably not running server side and pretty much is the only option for client side scripting.
Java dominates the line count for what's left. Maven is primarily for build automation for Java so it's more of a compliment to Java than another language just because they can. Similar goes for Groovy and JavaServer Faces being more companions to Java. Ant also is for build automation. Visualforce Component is for integrating with Salesforce.
Who knows what they use bsh, dos batch, python, jsp, asp.net, and VB for, but they are such low line counts it can't be much. My guess is that it was just the easiest path to do something on a particular system with some constraint that dictated some other already used language couldn't be used. Why write a java program to write a shell script that copies a file from one directory to another. Or a variety of other mundane things where the overhead isn't worth it.
No, it's comments like yours that turn people off of this website. If you don't like a article, skip it.
Longer days but fewer of them may work for some occupations, but my guess is that the current length of the day is designed for the child's learning capacity and ability to retain information that is given to them in faster, larger quantities.
Due to a particularly bad winter, my kids had to attend school for an extra hour for about a month and a half to make up a few of the many snow days they had off. Multiple teachers of theirs as well as a family member commented that the extra hour of classroom time wasn't the same as what that hour would have been during a normal schedule. Now maybe it would be different if it was always like that, I don't know.
The other consideration is who is going to teach longer school days and more of them? Most teachers are overworked, underpaid, and underfunded for what all they do. And you'd want them to work longer days in the classroom? And give up a weekend day?
You'd probably bet wrong in a many of cases.
My local school district is the largest in Indiana and hasn't built a new school since 1976. There's 62 buildings owned by the district, with 51 of them being schools and the average age is 54 years old. Almost all of the buildings were built during rapid population growth to educate the baby boomer generation. In the 60+ years since then the population has continued to grow but physical classroom sizes have remained the same. You can't easily make each classroom larger.
More kids, new technology, heating/cooling demands increased, funds dwindling while other expenses rising have led to many schools to become inadequate. Environmental conditions when they were built were also different with less understanding (or maybe just less caring) of proper air ventilation and air quality, building material, etc make older schools pale in comparison to a modern building. And if eventually a school does get a major remodeling or expansion, due to the time that many were built there are huge expenses due to asbestos and other hazardous building materials requiring proper remediation.
With older building it's sometimes (often?) easier, cheaper in the long run to build and operate, and better to raze what you have and rebuild from scratch for significant expansion or remodeling then try to fix a building past it's normal usable lifetime.
My laptop died over the weekend and while browsing online for a replacement, one laptop was advertised as having "smart-phone like responsiveness." I quickly moved on to a different laptop.
With Kim Dotcom's/Mega case, the US tried to extradite him and he was detained by New Zealand authorities. It wasn't a covert black ops where he was kidnapped in the darkness of night. New Zealand obviously was working with the US (even if the US was pulling the strings)
With the EU's law if the company has a nexus somewhere in the EU then the company needs to comply with EU laws.
The likelihood that the US or just about any other country that Zuch would visit would cooperate in detaining him in any manner is almost zero. And since Facebook doesn't have any Iranian presence, my guess is that Facebook respectfully tells Iran to go f' themselves.