We wouldn't have such a vibrant black market for moon rocks, we wouldn't have our National flag on the moon's surface giving the finger to other nations, we'd have missed out on some decent Hollywood flicks on the subject, and the government would have blown the money on something else similarly unproductive.
Being paranoid, I cannot resolve the chain-of-trust for anonymous proxies. For all I know Big Brother, with his infinite budget, owns and operates all of these so called proxies anyway. Honeypots if you will. Not only are they well-positioned to see what you are trying to conceal but even collaborate among other owned nodes to see just how far you're willing to take it. So in the worst case you are drawing even more attention upon yourself. You cannot really know. Is it safer than not using a proxy at all? Possibly.
My understanding is that there is a very hot market for stolen whole cars in Asia, Mexico, and Central & South America. Driven across the border to Mexico for further distribution, sometimes by ship. Pickup trucks in particular are being taken for this purpose. You're right though. Most often cars are not stolen, only broken into for their contents or disassembled for valuable parts. Catalytic converter thefts have been very high because they contain various mixtures of platinum, palladium, rhodium and prices for those precious metals were very high. Just like there's been a huge rash in national copper thefts.
With the capability for devices to do remote start, or ONSTAR to do things like remotely unlock your doors, as well as wireless keyfobs. I figured we'd already have people with devices that can fake these signals to gain access to and start automobiles. Much like how there exist DIY RFID readers where you can just walk through a crowd and read all their passport RFIDs and so on.. CD, iPod, Bluetooth, and Cellular attacks. That's clever too.
Oh goodness no. Speaking from past dealings with AT&T hosting services they are the absolute last enterprise you would want to deal with. By far the worst of about 6 datacenters / co-location facilities I've used. Lowest quality at maximum price.
One could only hope that AT&T will at least try to do a good job and offer some real competition in this space. If OpenStack will be driving all of the technology and AT&T just provides bandwidth then perhaps there is a chance for this to work. It would take far more than competitive pricing to encourage me to ever entrust AT&T with hosting responsibilities again.
I do welcome choice however.
That article is simply a report that outlines a proposed evaluation model and poo-poos past research that didn't use that model. Surrounding that report from Science Daily are others such as:
Despite Popularity, Not Everyone Can Successfully Learn Through Online Courses
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/02/080226113511.htm and
Visual Learners Convert Words To Pictures In The Brain And Vice Versa, Says Psychology Study
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/03/090325091834.htm
I, for one, am an Aural learning type. Lectures have served me very well, even to the extent of "deep understanding of concepts." For those that share my learning type, Lecture is often all that we need to ace exams and retain important knowledge. During my studies at the University I attended every single lecture that I could attend and took excellent notes. No amount of reading assignments or labs (also appeal to different learning types) had the same educational impact on me as watching an expert describe the concepts, illustrate them in a live environment, and respond to questions that the students actually have on the subject. A little bit of homework to cement the knowledge was all that was necessary.
Even amongst techies there are those that stay fresh by reading the latest books and others that stay fresh by attending conferences and just listening to what others are doing. There are still others that learn best by grinding away their own personal experiments.
I realize that it is proposed to record lectures once and just make them available. That may help considerably. But my guess is that Humans are naturally tuned to listen to other Humans (oral traditions) and recordings may not bring the right level of engagement.
Many years ago there was a similar article about Ben & Jerry's ice cream doing the same kind of ingredient-to-finished-product tracking. It described how say, complaints in Cherry Garcia ice cream can be traced by batch # to the source of the cherries, cream, etc to help pinpoint the problem in quality. For a long time people had been wanting things like this for food safety. Past steps to get the ball rolling in the livestock industry are stalled on practical matters such as tagging things like yes.. Individual chickens. The obvious complaint is that it costs too much money for farmers/ranchers to tag all of these animals. Humorously the farmers joke that the politicians want them to tag the chickens in their ears... which chickens do not have.
The Federal Reserve is not a government institution. Is not Federal. Is not a Reserve. It is a private bank, run for profit, with shareholders. In some regions they are even correctly listed in the Business Pages rather than Government listings. A private bank does not necessarily need government approval to take actions with another bank. What is unique about the Federal Reserve is that it is a private enterprise delegated the responsibility to print the nations money.
Decide for yourselves if that is a good or bad thing.
Yes it is a visual dictionary and if it is a cache-miss, then the fallback behavior is to re-parse the word slowly and sound it out. After a few encounters with a strange word it becomes visually cached as well. Parsing a word is far slower, of course, and is not the default behavior.
Reminds me of one of the de-motivational posters from Despair, Inc entitled CONSULTING "If you aren't part of the solution there is great money to be made in prolonging the problem"
I have observed that itunes encodes a non human readable hexadecimal comment into the MP3 ID3 comment tag when ripping a CD. For what possible reason? If you were to share that file with someone and both of you uploaded to iCloud, why wouldn't that be detectable?
We shouldn't expect that they would store peoples' music files without exploiting the advantage of learning about what people have uploaded, right? Of course they are going to look for any exploitable pattern that can be gleaned. Comparing most-popular songs uploaded v.s. most-popular by sales to determine what kinds of music people acquire elsewhere, encoding qualities people typically utilize, track changes with encoding format trends, better quantify the amount of stolen music, collecting bounties on self-incriminated pirates...
There simply must be business value for them to bother with this endeavor at all.
Turbine is pleased with their results from doing this exact same thing with Dungeons and Dragons online. The concensus from players is that moving to Free to Play and microtransactions saved the game from becoming extinct and also helped fund more rapid game improvements. Paying players receive value from Free players as well.
Many have advocated contacting the BBB but few understand how the BBB actually works. The BBB does indeed attempt to serve as a complaint resolution service. The problem is that a business needs to be a member of the BBB for the BBB to bother processing complaints against them or attempting resolution.
Membership isn't free and the BBB is fragmented into multiple local and regional chapters with their own rules. In some local BBB chapters, the BBB does not even extend membership to certain categories of businesses at all - no matter how upstanding or shady they are.
I wouldn't imagine that a very large corporation such as Dell would be a member of the BBB or that the BBB would offer membership to such a large organization. Dell's brand name is so large that they don't need to bother influencing purchasing decisions with a BBB membership - knowing some small % of their customers are completely unreasonable
(not this particular person, but there are customers who have expectations and demands that are impossible to satisfy) and would only cause misery on their BBB report. On the other hand the BBB is probably unwilling to process 10,000s of complaints per year from a large corporation for only a small membership fee.
My point is that in this particular case (and in many similar cases) the BBB option could be a waste of effort. Before attempting to contact the BBB, first check and make sure that the company is a member.
My aged step-father requires Dialysis due to Liver & Kidney failure. Now with gradual Heart failure his blood pressure sometimes dips too low for dialysis - a crisis. So far we have been fortunate that his blood pressure comes back up a bit, at least high enough to perform the dialysis.
Might one suppose that this apparatus, designed for small people, might work for those with low blood pressure?
Amazon's ec2 is basically just Xen virtual servers provisioned on the fly.
Not just basically, but I had come across a posting within an AWS forum from an AWS employee that Xen is, in fact, what is used for the virtualization.
I have a simple public-facing SOA call that needs to scale to hundreds of thousands of calls per second, with automatic failover and preferably automatic scaling. GAE gives me some of that; EC2 gives me almost none of that, without something like RightScale.
AFAIK you are correct that Amazon does not provide your missing requirements. They have, however, opened the door for external providers to come up with their own solutions in all areas - just like RightScale.
The main point, I think, is that AWS will specialize in the basics and leave most of the glue and any special add-ons in the realm of vendors and the community. That way they can focus on what they do best.
That is not to say, however, that Amazon is refusing to improve or innovate. In fact due to demand from EC2 users fearing the loss of their RDBMS if an instance dies and others loathing the clunky S3 backup plan, have announced the ability to have mountable filesystem partitions that you can mount in your EC2 instance that have all the goodies of S3 in a cleaner (and higher-performance) way.
Until seeing this article I had no knowledge of the existence of either GoGrid or AppNexus.
After attending 3 different talks/sessions about Amazon Web Services among TSSJS & JavaOne confs, I had begun to play with AWS.
I really like EC2 & S3. I'm still trying to get my mind around the concept of "eventual consistency" which the speaker of 2 of these talks told me to look into. Presumably if you use the AWS, you must architect your applications to tolerate eventual consistency.
Once I well-understand the other AWS services (SimpleDB, SMQ, etc.) in the context of eventual consistency I think I'd be able to see how to make good use of Amazon in real-world production.
There was also a presentation by a company that uses AWS in production. What they use, how they do things, and the tradeoffs. The specific example had to do with news media and the need to encode a video clip into various quality, resolution, and format variations for distribution in the media website and footage archive.
Naturally lots of video encoding lends itself well to cloud computing for on-demand processing capability as well as storage of all the generated artifacts.
Pretty cool stuff!
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We wouldn't have such a vibrant black market for moon rocks, we wouldn't have our National flag on the moon's surface giving the finger to other nations, we'd have missed out on some decent Hollywood flicks on the subject, and the government would have blown the money on something else similarly unproductive.
Being paranoid, I cannot resolve the chain-of-trust for anonymous proxies. For all I know Big Brother, with his infinite budget, owns and operates all of these so called proxies anyway. Honeypots if you will. Not only are they well-positioned to see what you are trying to conceal but even collaborate among other owned nodes to see just how far you're willing to take it. So in the worst case you are drawing even more attention upon yourself. You cannot really know. Is it safer than not using a proxy at all? Possibly.
Your car has been uploaded to iCloud and the criminal can now access it from anywhere!
My understanding is that there is a very hot market for stolen whole cars in Asia, Mexico, and Central & South America. Driven across the border to Mexico for further distribution, sometimes by ship. Pickup trucks in particular are being taken for this purpose. You're right though. Most often cars are not stolen, only broken into for their contents or disassembled for valuable parts. Catalytic converter thefts have been very high because they contain various mixtures of platinum, palladium, rhodium and prices for those precious metals were very high. Just like there's been a huge rash in national copper thefts.
With the capability for devices to do remote start, or ONSTAR to do things like remotely unlock your doors, as well as wireless keyfobs. I figured we'd already have people with devices that can fake these signals to gain access to and start automobiles. Much like how there exist DIY RFID readers where you can just walk through a crowd and read all their passport RFIDs and so on.. CD, iPod, Bluetooth, and Cellular attacks. That's clever too.
Oh goodness no. Speaking from past dealings with AT&T hosting services they are the absolute last enterprise you would want to deal with. By far the worst of about 6 datacenters / co-location facilities I've used. Lowest quality at maximum price. One could only hope that AT&T will at least try to do a good job and offer some real competition in this space. If OpenStack will be driving all of the technology and AT&T just provides bandwidth then perhaps there is a chance for this to work. It would take far more than competitive pricing to encourage me to ever entrust AT&T with hosting responsibilities again. I do welcome choice however.
That article is simply a report that outlines a proposed evaluation model and poo-poos past research that didn't use that model. Surrounding that report from Science Daily are others such as: Despite Popularity, Not Everyone Can Successfully Learn Through Online Courses http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/02/080226113511.htm and
Visual Learners Convert Words To Pictures In The Brain And Vice Versa, Says Psychology Study http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/03/090325091834.htm
So what if "Aural" is passe'.
I, for one, am an Aural learning type. Lectures have served me very well, even to the extent of "deep understanding of concepts." For those that share my learning type, Lecture is often all that we need to ace exams and retain important knowledge. During my studies at the University I attended every single lecture that I could attend and took excellent notes. No amount of reading assignments or labs (also appeal to different learning types) had the same educational impact on me as watching an expert describe the concepts, illustrate them in a live environment, and respond to questions that the students actually have on the subject. A little bit of homework to cement the knowledge was all that was necessary.
Even amongst techies there are those that stay fresh by reading the latest books and others that stay fresh by attending conferences and just listening to what others are doing. There are still others that learn best by grinding away their own personal experiments.
I realize that it is proposed to record lectures once and just make them available. That may help considerably. But my guess is that Humans are naturally tuned to listen to other Humans (oral traditions) and recordings may not bring the right level of engagement.
Many years ago there was a similar article about Ben & Jerry's ice cream doing the same kind of ingredient-to-finished-product tracking. It described how say, complaints in Cherry Garcia ice cream can be traced by batch # to the source of the cherries, cream, etc to help pinpoint the problem in quality. For a long time people had been wanting things like this for food safety. Past steps to get the ball rolling in the livestock industry are stalled on practical matters such as tagging things like yes.. Individual chickens. The obvious complaint is that it costs too much money for farmers/ranchers to tag all of these animals. Humorously the farmers joke that the politicians want them to tag the chickens in their ears... which chickens do not have.
All of this effort and brainpower to produce a guide that might as well say "Don't gamble"
The Federal Reserve is not a government institution. Is not Federal. Is not a Reserve. It is a private bank, run for profit, with shareholders. In some regions they are even correctly listed in the Business Pages rather than Government listings. A private bank does not necessarily need government approval to take actions with another bank. What is unique about the Federal Reserve is that it is a private enterprise delegated the responsibility to print the nations money. Decide for yourselves if that is a good or bad thing.
whiiiiiiiiiiiiir. Thank you Matt Groening. So Hypno-Toad can predict earthquakes, or does it make you think that it did?
Yes it is a visual dictionary and if it is a cache-miss, then the fallback behavior is to re-parse the word slowly and sound it out. After a few encounters with a strange word it becomes visually cached as well. Parsing a word is far slower, of course, and is not the default behavior.
Reminds me of one of the de-motivational posters from Despair, Inc entitled CONSULTING "If you aren't part of the solution there is great money to be made in prolonging the problem"
No no it's not a virus. Its... unannounced monitoring services. Double plus good.
I have observed that itunes encodes a non human readable hexadecimal comment into the MP3 ID3 comment tag when ripping a CD. For what possible reason? If you were to share that file with someone and both of you uploaded to iCloud, why wouldn't that be detectable?
We shouldn't expect that they would store peoples' music files without exploiting the advantage of learning about what people have uploaded, right? Of course they are going to look for any exploitable pattern that can be gleaned. Comparing most-popular songs uploaded v.s. most-popular by sales to determine what kinds of music people acquire elsewhere, encoding qualities people typically utilize, track changes with encoding format trends, better quantify the amount of stolen music, collecting bounties on self-incriminated pirates... There simply must be business value for them to bother with this endeavor at all.
Or kids could use them to fool their parents or criminals to forge an alibi. Instead of impersonating someone else.
Turbine is pleased with their results from doing this exact same thing with Dungeons and Dragons online. The concensus from players is that moving to Free to Play and microtransactions saved the game from becoming extinct and also helped fund more rapid game improvements. Paying players receive value from Free players as well.
Substantial funding was made possible by 1. DARPA 2. Government Worship Foundation 3. Taxpayers
Many have advocated contacting the BBB but few understand how the BBB actually works. The BBB does indeed attempt to serve as a complaint resolution service. The problem is that a business needs to be a member of the BBB for the BBB to bother processing complaints against them or attempting resolution.
Membership isn't free and the BBB is fragmented into multiple local and regional chapters with their own rules. In some local BBB chapters, the BBB does not even extend membership to certain categories of businesses at all - no matter how upstanding or shady they are.
I wouldn't imagine that a very large corporation such as Dell would be a member of the BBB or that the BBB would offer membership to such a large organization. Dell's brand name is so large that they don't need to bother influencing purchasing decisions with a BBB membership - knowing some small % of their customers are completely unreasonable (not this particular person, but there are customers who have expectations and demands that are impossible to satisfy) and would only cause misery on their BBB report. On the other hand the BBB is probably unwilling to process 10,000s of complaints per year from a large corporation for only a small membership fee.
Searching BBB Online for Dell in Texas does not list them as a member: http://www.bbb.org/online/consumer/default.aspx
My point is that in this particular case (and in many similar cases) the BBB option could be a waste of effort. Before attempting to contact the BBB, first check and make sure that the company is a member.
My aged step-father requires Dialysis due to Liver & Kidney failure. Now with gradual Heart failure his blood pressure sometimes dips too low for dialysis - a crisis. So far we have been fortunate that his blood pressure comes back up a bit, at least high enough to perform the dialysis.
Might one suppose that this apparatus, designed for small people, might work for those with low blood pressure?
Amazon's ec2 is basically just Xen virtual servers provisioned on the fly.
Not just basically, but I had come across a posting within an AWS forum from an AWS employee that Xen is, in fact, what is used for the virtualization.
The force is strong in you.
I have a simple public-facing SOA call that needs to scale to hundreds of thousands of calls per second, with automatic failover and preferably automatic scaling. GAE gives me some of that; EC2 gives me almost none of that, without something like RightScale.
AFAIK you are correct that Amazon does not provide your missing requirements. They have, however, opened the door for external providers to come up with their own solutions in all areas - just like RightScale.
The main point, I think, is that AWS will specialize in the basics and leave most of the glue and any special add-ons in the realm of vendors and the community. That way they can focus on what they do best.
That is not to say, however, that Amazon is refusing to improve or innovate. In fact due to demand from EC2 users fearing the loss of their RDBMS if an instance dies and others loathing the clunky S3 backup plan, have announced the ability to have mountable filesystem partitions that you can mount in your EC2 instance that have all the goodies of S3 in a cleaner (and higher-performance) way.
Until seeing this article I had no knowledge of the existence of either GoGrid or AppNexus. After attending 3 different talks/sessions about Amazon Web Services among TSSJS & JavaOne confs, I had begun to play with AWS. I really like EC2 & S3. I'm still trying to get my mind around the concept of "eventual consistency" which the speaker of 2 of these talks told me to look into. Presumably if you use the AWS, you must architect your applications to tolerate eventual consistency. Once I well-understand the other AWS services (SimpleDB, SMQ, etc.) in the context of eventual consistency I think I'd be able to see how to make good use of Amazon in real-world production. There was also a presentation by a company that uses AWS in production. What they use, how they do things, and the tradeoffs. The specific example had to do with news media and the need to encode a video clip into various quality, resolution, and format variations for distribution in the media website and footage archive. Naturally lots of video encoding lends itself well to cloud computing for on-demand processing capability as well as storage of all the generated artifacts. Pretty cool stuff!