More parents need to learn from your parents' mistake.
His parents' mistake? Or his mistake? Who the hell ends up with half a million in debt and manages to blame his mom, if not a whiner? Sure, his mom is at fault for not giving him an allowance, but if you can't figure out that consistently using more money than what you get is going to cause you problems then what the hell do you want your brain for?
This is like saying because your parents never gave you a bicycle you never learned to manage speed so all these high speed crashes you've had with your car are your dad's fault. He should man up and get real! His mom could have done better, but he's the one who screwed up!
And if you had read the first article linked in the summary, you'd find out about another one of their facilities who burned even earlier than that. But I'm not going to tell you more about it, I know reading the articles goes against Slashdot's MO.
The first step to cutting web bloat is to disable JavaScript, but ironically Mozilla seems to be directly against this idea.
What world do you live in? I have to agree with the previous AC, it's a lost battle. Sure, for casual websites I can do without Javascript, and even opt to not look at blog X if it's done in such a crippled way that I'd need JS to read test. But my bank has such a web interface that I can't do without JS. Should I just start changing banks every time they do such a move? My time is more precious than that!
Hell, the nearest cinema has such a crippled webpage (recently upgraded to being a lot more JS-abuser) that I can't do anything (not even look at the schedule) without accepting a cookie for which is my preferred location (it's from a national chain of theaters). Almost feel like never going there again...
List the non-leathal health issues of storing safely a small amount of nuclear waste of a half-life of a few hundred years that you get from an integral fast reactor.
Please tell us about the IFR reactors in commercial operation, so that we can discuss the subject fully. Oh, right...
'I can't imagine a worse action, short of a company's CEO getting involved in child porn,' says Carr.
The CEO getting involved in child porn means his personal life is tainted and he goes to jail and hell and all that.
This is bad news for the company because people lose their trust on the company. No one needs to identify with the CEO of a company... but not trusting a company in the security field doesn't bode well for said company.
All he needs to do now is give the poem, but just the poem, to one person he trusts and these instructions he just posted to someone else. When he has amnesia, person 1 brings one side of the solution to his problem and person 2 brings the other side. Sure, they could look for the other, but they don't necessarily have to know each other. He can give the poem to a work colleague and the algorithm to a close friend. Both will know when he almost dies, but won't necessarily know how to find each other out.
Of course there is still the possibility of them being curious enough, but unless he has 1 billion dollars in his bank account (or something else super-interesting) it may simply be not worth the trouble (and since he knows the people around him, he can choose the ones most likely to not even bother with it). And it definitely beats my system... since I create random passwords, I cannot give anything but the actual key.
When it is sent in the clear, at least you could sniff your traffic and see what Microsoft is getting. So with encrypted crash reports, you need to trust Microsoft more than now.
Sure, but when sent on the clear you need to trust everyone between you and Microsoft. I know this is Slashdot, but Microsoft may not be your worst enemy.
The point is to be bought by somebody else, not to make profit.
Then... why reject 3 billion from Facebook? How many other companies, with more money to waste, are willing to buy these guys, from where you are looking at it?
the ISPs will do whatever they want that works out best for their bottom line.
I don't even see why they won't go forward with screwing SSH and other low latency dependent applications, once this crap becomes acceptable: "Oh, you need your packets to arrive in less than 2 seconds? We have this extra-upgrade just for you."
But even the Iron Maiden story suggested no one makes money off of selling CDs. Sure, to make millions like Iron Maiden does, it's hard, no doubt about that. But if even them don't make any serious money out of selling CDs, why do we expect anyone else to do? How much money do Iron Maiden make out of Spotify? Is an indie artist seriously going to expect more?
I wonder if a country could actually orbit a satellite with enough power and a spot beam to stop cars in an entire city... in the name of anti-terrorism, of course.
Sure... and in the process kill all other electronics. Use satellite to prevent a terrorist car from moving to its target in NY city. Leave the entire city to deal with the economic (and social) impacts of shutting it down for 10 minutes.
Two days ago we had a story about how Iron Maiden is making big bucks by touring and not by selling CDs or whatever. Everyone agreed, back then, that this is the way to make money in the music industry.
Are we now surprised that no one gets to be a millionaire just out of Spotify?
I am not sure what she'll do after but I am positive I'll commit suicide after killing her.
So, if you're wife gets in a car accident next week and you face this decision, are you sure you are willing to kill yourself? Or you're just telling us that in the remote future when you're a really old man and she is super-sick, etc., etc... Because you know, life often doesn't turn out how we planned it.
The one (slightly) novel aspect of this, presumably also made possible because the workload parallelized well, is the use of Spot Instances. As the name suggests, these aren't Amazon's standard fixed-price instances; but are rather instances whose price changes according to demand.
but slowing down like this at this point in time is normal, (and I assume expected) successful projects and failed projects alike.
I totally agree with you, this slow down is expected. But, whereas some projects that get funded will have this slowdown close to or already after their goal* if at all, the Ubuntu Edge project is stalled at about one third of their stated goal. We can safely assume that everyone wanting a Ubuntu Edge, knowing about it, and with the money for it already donated. There will be no geeks pledging for the phone at the last minute. So, either at the end someone with lots of funds (and possibly connected to Canonical) just orders around 30 thousand of these phones so that the goal is met, or this campaign will fail.
* NOTE: I'm not trying to focus on the issues discussed on the Slashdot thread I linked to. Merely to the money they made relative to their goal.
Bloomberg is the first business to opt for the bundle — but it will get its money back if the project isn't fully funded.
This is no more than free publicity for Bloomberg then. They're pledging to give 80 thousand USD to a project if it gets fully funded. Said project after getting 7 million in the first 24 or 48 hours, has only managed to go up 1 more million in two weeks. And it needs 24 million more in the next two weeks!
Chances of actually having to give the 80 kUSD... close to 0. Free publicity... a lot!
Well, what does that mean? If I have bedbugs, and I leave this out overnight, is there a 23% chance it'll be empty in the morning?
Yes, that's what that means. It is said that these are merely monitors, they are not meant to kill all the bugs. Just like having a mouse trap empty does not mean no mice in your house, having no bedbugs in your trap does not mean no bedbugs. But, keep it there for n days and the 0.23^n chance of it consistently failing at catching something becomes negligible.
I wonder if the same design works for fleas. I understand fleas are also attracted to CO2, so the yeast + sugar water thing would likely improve results with fleas as well.
My guess is it wouldn't work as well (the entire plastic bowl + CO2 source thingy). It says in the article one of the main advantages of this contraption is the high walls that make it hard for the bugs to come out. Fleas would most likely just jump out of the trap once they realized there's CO2 in there but nothing to eat.
good luck with that ask pussy riot what they got for disrespecting the Orthodox church and I suspect that Nashi boot boys might turn up at some meetings.
If you think Pussy Riot had all to do with the Orthodox Church and nothing to do with political activism against Putin, you got your story as wrong as Kremlin wanted you to.
There are 4 questions in my comment. You decided to answer the sarcastic half. Could you please focus on the second half of the comment, the part of some that actual interest?
Is it racism to be concerned that our military is using computer parts that can't (or won't) be produced at home?
If we had to go to "total war" tomorrow like we had to after Pearl Harbor I think we would be in pretty big trouble if our enemy was from the east and all of our sudden our constant shipping was gone. It we Americans are so damn expensive and corporations are at their height of greed and power we've pretty much forgotten how do that manufacturing.
Because if you just buy Apple computers the problem magically gets solved? Aren't Macs produced in China? What about other companies (HP, Dell, etc.)? Which of them still produce the entire laptop (motherboard, RAM, SSD/HDD, etc.) in the US?
I didn't know that, thank you for the information. However, my point was not to say the Gates Foundation was equal to the Nobel foundation, just pointing out that investing the money is part of what they do. If the Gates foundation ends in 2080, I hope they invest their money rationally until the end in order to maximize the return it gives to society. Just because it's set to end in 5 years shouldn't mean let's stop investing and throw parties until we run out of cash.
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More parents need to learn from your parents' mistake.
His parents' mistake? Or his mistake? Who the hell ends up with half a million in debt and manages to blame his mom, if not a whiner? Sure, his mom is at fault for not giving him an allowance, but if you can't figure out that consistently using more money than what you get is going to cause you problems then what the hell do you want your brain for?
This is like saying because your parents never gave you a bicycle you never learned to manage speed so all these high speed crashes you've had with your car are your dad's fault. He should man up and get real! His mom could have done better, but he's the one who screwed up!
And if you had read the first article linked in the summary, you'd find out about another one of their facilities who burned even earlier than that. But I'm not going to tell you more about it, I know reading the articles goes against Slashdot's MO.
The first step to cutting web bloat is to disable JavaScript, but ironically Mozilla seems to be directly against this idea.
What world do you live in? I have to agree with the previous AC, it's a lost battle. Sure, for casual websites I can do without Javascript, and even opt to not look at blog X if it's done in such a crippled way that I'd need JS to read test. But my bank has such a web interface that I can't do without JS. Should I just start changing banks every time they do such a move? My time is more precious than that!
Hell, the nearest cinema has such a crippled webpage (recently upgraded to being a lot more JS-abuser) that I can't do anything (not even look at the schedule) without accepting a cookie for which is my preferred location (it's from a national chain of theaters). Almost feel like never going there again...
Because obviously less education is the solution. [/irony]
Seems to have worked for her...
List the non-leathal health issues of storing safely a small amount of nuclear waste of a half-life of a few hundred years that you get from an integral fast reactor.
Please tell us about the IFR reactors in commercial operation, so that we can discuss the subject fully. Oh, right...
'I can't imagine a worse action, short of a company's CEO getting involved in child porn,' says Carr.
The CEO getting involved in child porn means his personal life is tainted and he goes to jail and hell and all that.
This is bad news for the company because people lose their trust on the company. No one needs to identify with the CEO of a company... but not trusting a company in the security field doesn't bode well for said company.
All he needs to do now is give the poem, but just the poem, to one person he trusts and these instructions he just posted to someone else. When he has amnesia, person 1 brings one side of the solution to his problem and person 2 brings the other side. Sure, they could look for the other, but they don't necessarily have to know each other. He can give the poem to a work colleague and the algorithm to a close friend. Both will know when he almost dies, but won't necessarily know how to find each other out.
Of course there is still the possibility of them being curious enough, but unless he has 1 billion dollars in his bank account (or something else super-interesting) it may simply be not worth the trouble (and since he knows the people around him, he can choose the ones most likely to not even bother with it). And it definitely beats my system... since I create random passwords, I cannot give anything but the actual key.
When it is sent in the clear, at least you could sniff your traffic and see what Microsoft is getting. So with encrypted crash reports, you need to trust Microsoft more than now.
Sure, but when sent on the clear you need to trust everyone between you and Microsoft. I know this is Slashdot, but Microsoft may not be your worst enemy.
The point is to be bought by somebody else, not to make profit.
Then... why reject 3 billion from Facebook? How many other companies, with more money to waste, are willing to buy these guys, from where you are looking at it?
"up vote" and high UID. go back to reddit.
Honey, I wrote that comment. Check my actual UID and shut up!
the ISPs will do whatever they want that works out best for their bottom line.
I don't even see why they won't go forward with screwing SSH and other low latency dependent applications, once this crap becomes acceptable: "Oh, you need your packets to arrive in less than 2 seconds? We have this extra-upgrade just for you."
But even the Iron Maiden story suggested no one makes money off of selling CDs. Sure, to make millions like Iron Maiden does, it's hard, no doubt about that. But if even them don't make any serious money out of selling CDs, why do we expect anyone else to do? How much money do Iron Maiden make out of Spotify? Is an indie artist seriously going to expect more?
I wonder if a country could actually orbit a satellite with enough power and a spot beam to stop cars in an entire city... in the name of anti-terrorism, of course.
Sure... and in the process kill all other electronics. Use satellite to prevent a terrorist car from moving to its target in NY city. Leave the entire city to deal with the economic (and social) impacts of shutting it down for 10 minutes.
Two days ago we had a story about how Iron Maiden is making big bucks by touring and not by selling CDs or whatever. Everyone agreed, back then, that this is the way to make money in the music industry.
Are we now surprised that no one gets to be a millionaire just out of Spotify?
I am not sure what she'll do after but I am positive I'll commit suicide after killing her.
So, if you're wife gets in a car accident next week and you face this decision, are you sure you are willing to kill yourself? Or you're just telling us that in the remote future when you're a really old man and she is super-sick, etc., etc... Because you know, life often doesn't turn out how we planned it.
The one (slightly) novel aspect of this, presumably also made possible because the workload parallelized well, is the use of Spot Instances. As the name suggests, these aren't Amazon's standard fixed-price instances; but are rather instances whose price changes according to demand.
Even that isn't novel. Quoting some work done last year "Running a 10,000-node Grid Engine Cluster in Amazon EC2": "Also, we mainly requested for spot instances because ..."
Doesn't make it less interesting for me though.
but slowing down like this at this point in time is normal, (and I assume expected) successful projects and failed projects alike.
I totally agree with you, this slow down is expected. But, whereas some projects that get funded will have this slowdown close to or already after their goal* if at all, the Ubuntu Edge project is stalled at about one third of their stated goal. We can safely assume that everyone wanting a Ubuntu Edge, knowing about it, and with the money for it already donated. There will be no geeks pledging for the phone at the last minute. So, either at the end someone with lots of funds (and possibly connected to Canonical) just orders around 30 thousand of these phones so that the goal is met, or this campaign will fail.
* NOTE: I'm not trying to focus on the issues discussed on the Slashdot thread I linked to. Merely to the money they made relative to their goal.
Bloomberg is the first business to opt for the bundle — but it will get its money back if the project isn't fully funded.
This is no more than free publicity for Bloomberg then. They're pledging to give 80 thousand USD to a project if it gets fully funded. Said project after getting 7 million in the first 24 or 48 hours, has only managed to go up 1 more million in two weeks. And it needs 24 million more in the next two weeks!
Chances of actually having to give the 80 kUSD... close to 0. Free publicity... a lot!
Well, what does that mean? If I have bedbugs, and I leave this out overnight, is there a 23% chance it'll be empty in the morning?
Yes, that's what that means. It is said that these are merely monitors, they are not meant to kill all the bugs. Just like having a mouse trap empty does not mean no mice in your house, having no bedbugs in your trap does not mean no bedbugs. But, keep it there for n days and the 0.23^n chance of it consistently failing at catching something becomes negligible.
I wonder if the same design works for fleas. I understand fleas are also attracted to CO2, so the yeast + sugar water thing would likely improve results with fleas as well.
My guess is it wouldn't work as well (the entire plastic bowl + CO2 source thingy). It says in the article one of the main advantages of this contraption is the high walls that make it hard for the bugs to come out. Fleas would most likely just jump out of the trap once they realized there's CO2 in there but nothing to eat.
good luck with that ask pussy riot what they got for disrespecting the Orthodox church and I suspect that Nashi boot boys might turn up at some meetings.
If you think Pussy Riot had all to do with the Orthodox Church and nothing to do with political activism against Putin, you got your story as wrong as Kremlin wanted you to.
Hell, there exists atleast one specific one that doesn't mate at all and produces only perfect clones of themselves, and still haven't become extinct.
In case you don't know the specific term for this (and how widespread it is): Parthenogenesis.
There are 4 questions in my comment. You decided to answer the sarcastic half. Could you please focus on the second half of the comment, the part of some that actual interest?
Is it racism to be concerned that our military is using computer parts that can't (or won't) be produced at home?
If we had to go to "total war" tomorrow like we had to after Pearl Harbor I think we would be in pretty big trouble if our enemy was from the east and all of our sudden our constant shipping was gone. It we Americans are so damn expensive and corporations are at their height of greed and power we've pretty much forgotten how do that manufacturing.
Because if you just buy Apple computers the problem magically gets solved? Aren't Macs produced in China? What about other companies (HP, Dell, etc.)? Which of them still produce the entire laptop (motherboard, RAM, SSD/HDD, etc.) in the US?
I didn't know that, thank you for the information. However, my point was not to say the Gates Foundation was equal to the Nobel foundation, just pointing out that investing the money is part of what they do. If the Gates foundation ends in 2080, I hope they invest their money rationally until the end in order to maximize the return it gives to society. Just because it's set to end in 5 years shouldn't mean let's stop investing and throw parties until we run out of cash.