Considering I'm in China right now... -- My Sig spits 40 cal lead...
Completely off topic, but the combo of your quote and sig... uh, signature... makes me ask what gun control is like in China. Is it traditional 3rd world where no one cares as long as you flash cash, or is it somewhere on the semi-civilized continuum of NYC to NH, or they just don't care, or perhaps some fourth philosophy?
Back on topic, I'd think for demographic research, GOOG would love to sell your apparent hobby interest to retailers and probably manufacturers. So mr gunsmith our GOOG report shows that 46 percent of your actual measured visitors have mentioned Sig in social media web 3.0 on the inter-tubes in comparison to only 32 percent mentioning Glock so use this info to assign space in your display cases or to justify your next social media astro turfing campaign. I think GOOG could make some cash selling that. Imagine how excited gun shows would be to promote themselves using the data.
Somewhat more negatively, based on your sig and your Sig, I could see a bar running your license thru one of those little license scanner gadgets, and getting from GOOG either a yellow LED meaning warning - frisk the heck out of this guy, or a red LED meaning tell this guy to go away.
if you want older records you'd have to pay a small fee to access them.
probably the most insightful thing I've read in the comments so far.
You will not be the first person in the history of civilization to not have a certain piece of paper, and there are (possibly expensive) solutions in place. Figure your equivalent cost as odds times estimated cost. Take the annual probability of ever requiring a piece of paper (probably about zero), times the cost of acquiring that piece of paper via whatever special fees required (somewhere from free to the cost of a nice dinner). If your house was burning down around you, would you grab the kids or grab the file containing the 1994 local phone company bill? If the house flooded, safe stolen, tornado...
Compare that with the cost of maintenance and storage of the data added to a reasonable hourly labor rate (probably pretty high, here on/. ) multiplied by time required per year (from some descriptions here on/., I'm thinking dozens of hours per year). Also add the cost of stolen documents (stolen cancelled checks are ALMOST as valuable to a thief as blank checks, etc). On your deathbed will you say to yourself, I wish I had a better rotating system of electric company bills?
Examples:
I had to get a birth cert via registered mail etc to get an expedited passport to take an overseas trip, and the whole process cost about $200. I'm keeping the BC and passport instead of shredding them because they take up practically no space and cost $200.
For no known reason, I was collecting all my cancelled checks. So, I have my rent check from May 1995. Shredded!
It seems quite possible to implement a plan to annually spend three to hour digit sums of money, to save single to double digit sums of money.
Given time and pressure, xerography toner will glue pages together. If the paper gets glued to the inside of the page protector, you can still read the page.
Lacuna Expanse (which is free, and is pretty cool) uses cloudfront. Works pretty darn well. Every time I shop at amazon and its glacially slow (always?) I wonder if its because amazon makes more profit off hosting... Its a hosting company that also sells books and stuff.
"If I look at a LCD display for more than 5 minutes, my eyeballs explode, unless its/. or LCD TV showing a nine hour football game or a LCD owned by my corporate overlord. But read a book, and poof the eyes are gone" "I only read in the bathtub; while I'm taking a bath; why yes, people who are not women and take baths instead of showers do exist, or at least, Descartes said I bathe therefore I am" "I only read at the beach and I don't want to scratch up a reader" "It'll be obsolete some day, and no one has ever transcoded data from one machine to another, and when its obsolete, I'll still be able to read my acid paper based books that have crumbled to sawdust, err uh something like that" "I am not cool enough to know about the ebook underground that is as big as mp3 sharing, so I'll claim it doesn't exist"
slashdot book review -> "Not another Paket publishing review!"
financial black hole that produces practically nothing of value
A manned station can be useful.
On the other hand, what if you do the ISS thing and take plans for a very useful manned station, and cut cut cut cut budgets until the only thing left is the hotel load? That's how you end up with a "financial black hole that produces practically nothing of value".
The US on the other hand has gotten into the habit of switching programs every 18 months or so. This is unlikely to change with a 'new space race' because the Chinese threat to US space dominance is boiling-frog slow, and the US public are decidedly lukewarm regarding such things these days - see the total non-response to Obama's "Sputnik Moment" comment.
No problem, we'll buy our lead and melamine laced Chinese made space station from Walmart.
It amazes me that a company as large and established as Sony would make such a boneheaded move as storing sensitive information in plaintext.
If you remove the assumption that they were owned the same day they were shut down, the logical result is they got owned 77 million card entries ago... Sniff and store each new CC... Months / Years later they get noticed, oops.
That would also fit with why they didn't restore from backups onto bare metal on day one and be back online within 24 hours. If the backups, going back months or years, are all perfect backups of the infection...
As we know the gaming where you run around killing and maiming and destroying promotes good character.
Have any of the anti-video game semi-religious nutcases declared this situation to be an act of an angry God against sinners? Maybe if god himself makes the buffer overflow or whatever that cracked it, it takes a long time to get it fixed...
Huh? You presented a pretty good argument that it is not only part of their culture, but pretty much part of everyone's culture. Although maybe a bit more intense in theirs. If it were not part of their culture, they would not be doing it...
Sorry, but this is plain racist.
Huh? Japan, the country, is basically 100% one race unlike some countries, leading to some confusion. But I was not discussing the behavior of my coworker of 100% Japanese descent, multi-gen American... Now if I accused her and the country of Japan of behaving that way, then you wouldn't look foolish...
So apple's going to encrypt the location cache on a phone that is otherwise locked, where other people generally don't have access to it other than the device itself, and lower the battery to deal with encryption routines all because people are idiots?
The worst part is the encrypted data will almost certainly have a universal "law enforcement" backdoor, or just the same key for all devices which happens to be shared with law enforcement and the underworld in general. Once that leaks, its wide open to everyone but the owners.
Relatively few plastics adsorb microwave radiation, and your comm signals are probably at wifi or lower levels. Ask some ham radio guys about radar domes and antenna insulators. Plexi is actually tolerably useful for antenna insulators, long term outdoor survivability is not good but it has the virtue of not creeping much and is cheap.
You obviously didn't read the article.
Right. "Instead of using acrylic for the passenger compartment, they plan to use thick common glass shaped into a sphere.". An incredibly dumb idea due to brittleness, but, its their lives... Total brain freeze while posting because I had acrylic on my mind. Anyway glass insulators are traditional on ham radio antennas. Outdoor survivability is poor because they're brittle, but they are RF transparent and non RF reactive (think of how many ultra high power transmitter glass vacuum tubes have been used over the decades)
Relatively few plastics adsorb microwave radiation, and your comm signals are probably at wifi or lower levels. Ask some ham radio guys about radar domes and antenna insulators. Plexi is actually tolerably useful for antenna insulators, long term outdoor survivability is not good but it has the virtue of not creeping much and is cheap.
When I was a kid, I wanted to make one of these to dive to the bottom of the 60 foot lake in our backyard, sorta...
So I'm astonished that (they claim) they'll be able to make a FULL SPHERE of glass as opposed to some puny porthole.
Probably Plexiglass. Plexiglass is a trademarked brand name. Everyone else calls it acrylic or PMMA. My grandfather's B-17 had a hemisphere of plexiglass for the "ball turret". Lexan (tm) aka polycarbonate would have been a heck of a lot more bullet proof, other than it was invented by the Germans, and in 1953, a bit late for the war. Anyway, two acrylic hemispheres is a traditional design technique for "diving bell" style / non-propulsion submersibles, for many decades. The gasket in between tends to be compressed tighter, which is great on the descent, maybe a bit worrisome on the ascent. In other words, other than utter failure scenarios, if its gonna leak, its gonna leak on ascent, and the leak is gonna get worse as pressure decreases, which is a bummer.
I assume there will have to be holes to allow power, cooling/heating, communications right? Another point of failure?
Wedge shaped plugs. No stress concentrations. The other trick is only passing communications signals thru the acrylic... I suppose a modern system would use bluetooth. The outside electrical gear is flooded in mineral oil at full sea pressure just like a (real not toy) radio controlled submarine. Its not hard to design a system that literally has no holes, just two clear hemispheres, a gasket, and some manner of radio or lightwave comms to control the outside gear. Traditionally, however, they always seem to install a way overengineered hatch and some mechanical gadget inside the sub to release both the tow cable and the heavy keel (worst case, if the winch on top jams or the tow cable breaks, they can rocket up to the surface like a cork.)
Where in the world will they test this thing to one and a quarter times the max. pressure? (And I thought engineering standards were to one and a half max.)
Well lets use some "engineering estimating". An atmospheric water column is about thirty-something feet. So thirty-something thousand feet divided by thirty-something feet is about one thousand atmospheres pressure. One atmosphere pressure is about fifteen PSI. Fifteen PSI per atmosphere times about a thousand atmospheres equals about fifteen thousand PSI. Personally I'd test it to double, so we'll call that thirty thousand PSI.
"Off the shelf at autozone" err maybe off the shelf at TSC, you can buy a couple thousand psi rated hydraulic hose. Just giving an idea of what you're in for, its about ten times that pressure. Its gonna take more than a ginned-up log splitter and a big tank. Supposedly Buffalo Hydraulic sells off the shelf 40 ksi systems, i donno about that being true or false. Anyway the general idea involves "supertanker size" hydraulic cylinder (or equivalent) with the sub inside it floating in oil or water, and then pump in a small amount of air until you get to 30 ksi. For obvious reasons you fill the vessel almost completely with liquid rather than just using air.
Frankly the simplest way to "prove" it is to make about three of them, massively overengineer them, and set off depth charges around an unmanned one on the bottom. Of course that is a bit hard on the exotic sea life you're trying to investigate.... You could sink an unmanned one, with a giant hydraulic "nut splitter" around it, and see what it takes to crack it, hopefully a heck of lot.
So how do you propose to transmit data from a power dam sensor across half a mile of water?
Assuming "it" is not free floating, run a wire to it. Or, even better, a fiber. Alternately there are about one zillion non-WiFi non-LAN radio communications technologies that could transmit that telemetry.
Lets look at two problems with a Japanese company. PSN down and TEPCO's reactor. Both had similar reactions.
Silence, followed by small admissions, followed by admissions its much worse that it appears, followed by more silence, followed by admissions that some members of the public may have been harmed, repeat. No timetables, no estimates.
Slashdot Mirror
Facebook has a track record of both violating privacy as default policy and refusing to share it with others.
And seemingly randomly changing policy. They're all kinda bad about this, I just think FB achieves the "worst in class".
Off the top of my head I can't remember GOOG ever changing policies... Maybe on something no one uses, so we never hear about it?
Apple pops up a new 50 page itunes agreement every week, but it never seems much different than last weeks agreement.
Considering I'm in China right now...
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My Sig spits 40 cal lead...
Completely off topic, but the combo of your quote and sig ... uh, signature ... makes me ask what gun control is like in China. Is it traditional 3rd world where no one cares as long as you flash cash, or is it somewhere on the semi-civilized continuum of NYC to NH, or they just don't care, or perhaps some fourth philosophy?
Back on topic, I'd think for demographic research, GOOG would love to sell your apparent hobby interest to retailers and probably manufacturers. So mr gunsmith our GOOG report shows that 46 percent of your actual measured visitors have mentioned Sig in social media web 3.0 on the inter-tubes in comparison to only 32 percent mentioning Glock so use this info to assign space in your display cases or to justify your next social media astro turfing campaign. I think GOOG could make some cash selling that. Imagine how excited gun shows would be to promote themselves using the data.
Somewhat more negatively, based on your sig and your Sig, I could see a bar running your license thru one of those little license scanner gadgets, and getting from GOOG either a yellow LED meaning warning - frisk the heck out of this guy, or a red LED meaning tell this guy to go away.
Sorry, but I'm not familiar with "if" in math. What's the symbol for "if"?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:Displaying_a_formula#Continuation_and_cases
if you want older records you'd have to pay a small fee to access them.
probably the most insightful thing I've read in the comments so far.
You will not be the first person in the history of civilization to not have a certain piece of paper, and there are (possibly expensive) solutions in place. Figure your equivalent cost as odds times estimated cost. Take the annual probability of ever requiring a piece of paper (probably about zero), times the cost of acquiring that piece of paper via whatever special fees required (somewhere from free to the cost of a nice dinner). If your house was burning down around you, would you grab the kids or grab the file containing the 1994 local phone company bill? If the house flooded, safe stolen, tornado...
Compare that with the cost of maintenance and storage of the data added to a reasonable hourly labor rate (probably pretty high, here on /. ) multiplied by time required per year (from some descriptions here on /., I'm thinking dozens of hours per year). Also add the cost of stolen documents (stolen cancelled checks are ALMOST as valuable to a thief as blank checks, etc). On your deathbed will you say to yourself, I wish I had a better rotating system of electric company bills?
Examples:
I had to get a birth cert via registered mail etc to get an expedited passport to take an overseas trip, and the whole process cost about $200. I'm keeping the BC and passport instead of shredding them because they take up practically no space and cost $200.
For no known reason, I was collecting all my cancelled checks. So, I have my rent check from May 1995. Shredded!
It seems quite possible to implement a plan to annually spend three to hour digit sums of money, to save single to double digit sums of money.
what purpose does the sheet protector serve?
Given time and pressure, xerography toner will glue pages together. If the paper gets glued to the inside of the page protector, you can still read the page.
I used a plan similar to yours, until I realized :
and throw away the bills you no longer need.
That would be all of them... So, my workflow goes from in box to shredder.
Whats "Attachmate"? Dating website? Some sort of trademarked fastener, you know, like tapcon (tm)?
Isn't that an Oxymoron?
Naw, "non-packt publishing slashdot book review" now that's an oxymoron.
Although there was a review of Knuth's last book about 30 books ago, and there was a non packt book just a week or two ago.
Why can't games be hosted with the cloud services?
http://www.lacunaexpanse.com/
Lacuna Expanse (which is free, and is pretty cool) uses cloudfront. Works pretty darn well. Every time I shop at amazon and its glacially slow (always?) I wonder if its because amazon makes more profit off hosting... Its a hosting company that also sells books and stuff.
Ebooks ->
"If I look at a LCD display for more than 5 minutes, my eyeballs explode, unless its /. or LCD TV showing a nine hour football game or a LCD owned by my corporate overlord. But read a book, and poof the eyes are gone"
"I only read in the bathtub; while I'm taking a bath; why yes, people who are not women and take baths instead of showers do exist, or at least, Descartes said I bathe therefore I am"
"I only read at the beach and I don't want to scratch up a reader"
"It'll be obsolete some day, and no one has ever transcoded data from one machine to another, and when its obsolete, I'll still be able to read my acid paper based books that have crumbled to sawdust, err uh something like that"
"I am not cool enough to know about the ebook underground that is as big as mp3 sharing, so I'll claim it doesn't exist"
slashdot book review ->
"Not another Paket publishing review!"
financial black hole that produces practically nothing of value
A manned station can be useful.
On the other hand, what if you do the ISS thing and take plans for a very useful manned station, and cut cut cut cut budgets until the only thing left is the hotel load? That's how you end up with a "financial black hole that produces practically nothing of value".
The US on the other hand has gotten into the habit of switching programs every 18 months or so. This is unlikely to change with a 'new space race' because the Chinese threat to US space dominance is boiling-frog slow, and the US public are decidedly lukewarm regarding such things these days - see the total non-response to Obama's "Sputnik Moment" comment.
No problem, we'll buy our lead and melamine laced Chinese made space station from Walmart.
What I'd want to see is a killer app, some use of space that makes sense from a commercial standpoint.
Com sats, weather sats, and geolocation sats?
I wonder how the complete GPS program costs compare to the sales tax income from all GPS unit sales. The govt Might be running a profit there...
We're at the point where consoles have achieved parity with personal computers in all ways except freedom.
And resolution. 1080 vertical lines would have been quite an achievement on a PC ... in 1988 ... I haven't owned lower than 1600x1200 since the mid 90s.
And user interface. give me my trackball and keyboard for FPS.
It amazes me that a company as large and established as Sony would make such a boneheaded move as storing sensitive information in plaintext.
If you remove the assumption that they were owned the same day they were shut down, the logical result is they got owned 77 million card entries ago... Sniff and store each new CC... Months / Years later they get noticed, oops.
That would also fit with why they didn't restore from backups onto bare metal on day one and be back online within 24 hours. If the backups, going back months or years, are all perfect backups of the infection...
I'm wondering if they are going to be asked to appear before the US Senate to explain their actions,
http://www.opensecrets.org/pacs/lookup2.php?strID=C00282038
$211,925 tries to say "No"
Google sent four times that just to Barack Obama alone, and that didn't save them.
So I'm guessing the answer will be "Yes"
As we know the gaming where you run around killing and maiming and destroying promotes good character.
Have any of the anti-video game semi-religious nutcases declared this situation to be an act of an angry God against sinners? Maybe if god himself makes the buffer overflow or whatever that cracked it, it takes a long time to get it fixed...
None of it is "cultural thing".
Huh? You presented a pretty good argument that it is not only part of their culture, but pretty much part of everyone's culture. Although maybe a bit more intense in theirs. If it were not part of their culture, they would not be doing it...
Sorry, but this is plain racist.
Huh? Japan, the country, is basically 100% one race unlike some countries, leading to some confusion. But I was not discussing the behavior of my coworker of 100% Japanese descent, multi-gen American... Now if I accused her and the country of Japan of behaving that way, then you wouldn't look foolish...
So apple's going to encrypt the location cache on a phone that is otherwise locked, where other people generally don't have access to it other than the device itself, and lower the battery to deal with encryption routines all because people are idiots?
The worst part is the encrypted data will almost certainly have a universal "law enforcement" backdoor, or just the same key for all devices which happens to be shared with law enforcement and the underworld in general. Once that leaks, its wide open to everyone but the owners.
micro waves which could damage the glass
Relatively few plastics adsorb microwave radiation, and your comm signals are probably at wifi or lower levels. Ask some ham radio guys about radar domes and antenna insulators. Plexi is actually tolerably useful for antenna insulators, long term outdoor survivability is not good but it has the virtue of not creeping much and is cheap.
You obviously didn't read the article.
Right. "Instead of using acrylic for the passenger compartment, they plan to use thick common glass shaped into a sphere.". An incredibly dumb idea due to brittleness, but, its their lives... Total brain freeze while posting because I had acrylic on my mind. Anyway glass insulators are traditional on ham radio antennas. Outdoor survivability is poor because they're brittle, but they are RF transparent and non RF reactive (think of how many ultra high power transmitter glass vacuum tubes have been used over the decades)
micro waves which could damage the glass
Relatively few plastics adsorb microwave radiation, and your comm signals are probably at wifi or lower levels. Ask some ham radio guys about radar domes and antenna insulators. Plexi is actually tolerably useful for antenna insulators, long term outdoor survivability is not good but it has the virtue of not creeping much and is cheap.
When I was a kid, I wanted to make one of these to dive to the bottom of the 60 foot lake in our backyard, sorta...
So I'm astonished that (they claim) they'll be able to make a FULL SPHERE of glass as opposed to some puny porthole.
Probably Plexiglass. Plexiglass is a trademarked brand name. Everyone else calls it acrylic or PMMA. My grandfather's B-17 had a hemisphere of plexiglass for the "ball turret". Lexan (tm) aka polycarbonate would have been a heck of a lot more bullet proof, other than it was invented by the Germans, and in 1953, a bit late for the war. Anyway, two acrylic hemispheres is a traditional design technique for "diving bell" style / non-propulsion submersibles, for many decades. The gasket in between tends to be compressed tighter, which is great on the descent, maybe a bit worrisome on the ascent. In other words, other than utter failure scenarios, if its gonna leak, its gonna leak on ascent, and the leak is gonna get worse as pressure decreases, which is a bummer.
I assume there will have to be holes to allow power, cooling/heating, communications right? Another point of failure?
Wedge shaped plugs. No stress concentrations. The other trick is only passing communications signals thru the acrylic... I suppose a modern system would use bluetooth. The outside electrical gear is flooded in mineral oil at full sea pressure just like a (real not toy) radio controlled submarine. Its not hard to design a system that literally has no holes, just two clear hemispheres, a gasket, and some manner of radio or lightwave comms to control the outside gear. Traditionally, however, they always seem to install a way overengineered hatch and some mechanical gadget inside the sub to release both the tow cable and the heavy keel (worst case, if the winch on top jams or the tow cable breaks, they can rocket up to the surface like a cork.)
Where in the world will they test this thing to one and a quarter times the max. pressure? (And I thought engineering standards were to one and a half max.)
Well lets use some "engineering estimating". An atmospheric water column is about thirty-something feet. So thirty-something thousand feet divided by thirty-something feet is about one thousand atmospheres pressure. One atmosphere pressure is about fifteen PSI. Fifteen PSI per atmosphere times about a thousand atmospheres equals about fifteen thousand PSI. Personally I'd test it to double, so we'll call that thirty thousand PSI.
"Off the shelf at autozone" err maybe off the shelf at TSC, you can buy a couple thousand psi rated hydraulic hose. Just giving an idea of what you're in for, its about ten times that pressure. Its gonna take more than a ginned-up log splitter and a big tank. Supposedly Buffalo Hydraulic sells off the shelf 40 ksi systems, i donno about that being true or false. Anyway the general idea involves "supertanker size" hydraulic cylinder (or equivalent) with the sub inside it floating in oil or water, and then pump in a small amount of air until you get to 30 ksi. For obvious reasons you fill the vessel almost completely with liquid rather than just using air.
Frankly the simplest way to "prove" it is to make about three of them, massively overengineer them, and set off depth charges around an unmanned one on the bottom. Of course that is a bit hard on the exotic sea life you're trying to investigate.... You could sink an unmanned one, with a giant hydraulic "nut splitter" around it, and see what it takes to crack it, hopefully a heck of lot.
So how do you propose to transmit data from a power dam sensor across half a mile of water?
Assuming "it" is not free floating, run a wire to it. Or, even better, a fiber. Alternately there are about one zillion non-WiFi non-LAN radio communications technologies that could transmit that telemetry.
Some hot glue in the USB holes works wonders on other "secure" systems.
Lets look at two problems with a Japanese company. PSN down and TEPCO's reactor. Both had similar reactions.
Silence, followed by small admissions, followed by admissions its much worse that it appears, followed by more silence, followed by admissions that some members of the public may have been harmed, repeat. No timetables, no estimates.
Is this possibly a Japanese cultural thing?