It's not that they don't care, it's that they can't percieve what's real content and not - because they don't have a model of the underlying structure beyond the surface of the content.
Disagree with the conclusion in that facebook itself is a filter that only passes non-real content. Its not a lack of underlying structural knowledge or merely being superficial, but herd behavior and poor taste. From the crowd that brought us pet rocks, bell bottom jeans, and beige McMansions.
To be fair many organizations that use security questions limit the customer to a set of canned questions. In those cases you can only choose between your pet's name, the street of your first home or your mother's maiden name.
Since there is (usually?) no human review, what exactly stops you from reporting your pets name was slfdasghblasfhdbgas or perhaps your street name was adfjklashd? Or for that matter, "Sally" even though my moms name was not Sally?
When disks come in 2TB sizes.... why should I sweat 8 GB?
You are confusing capacity problems with thruput problems. Sweat how poor performance is when 8 gigs gets thrashing.
The real problem is the ratio of memory access speed vs drive access speed has gotten dramatically worse over the past decades.
Look at two scenarios with the same memory leak:
With 8 gigs of glacially slow swap, true everything will keep running but performance will drop by a factor of perhaps 1000. The users will SCREAM. Which means your pager/cellphone will scream. Eventually you can log in, manually restart the processes, and the users will be happy, for a little while.
With no/little swap, the OOM killer will reap your processes, which will be restarted automatically by your init scripts or equivalent. The users will notice the maybe, just maybe, they had to click refresh twice on a page. Or maybe it seemed slow for a moment before it was normal speed. They'll probably just blame the network guys.
End result, with swap means long outage that needs manual fix, no swap means no outage at all and automatic fix.
In the 80s, yes you sized your swap based on disk space. In the 10s (heck, in the 00s) you size your swap based on how long you're willing to wait.
It takes a very atypical workload and very atypical hardware for users to tolerate the thrashing of gigs of swap...
The hybrids only cost more if you ignore the externalities.
I'm used to the modern digital world, where everything is available for free and you only pay for something if you want to reward the folks whom made it.
My buying choice was to either:
1) Send $3000 to the Japanese, whom will spend the profit on formulaic movies about women and tentacles
-or-
2) Send $1000 to the Saudis, whom will bankroll their citizens into flying aircraft into our tall buildings.
I'm much happier sending a little more to the Japanese than a little less to the Saudis.
So that suggests that the motivation for this isn't technical at all, but legal. As in "we need a way to get all our stuff into international waters relatively quickly". Which means these are not financial backers or "anchor tenants" I'd want to have anything to do with.
Don't forget avoidance of property tax. Once you construct a building, your local govt pretty much owns you, unless you've got enough money to own the local govt. With a boat, if the local govt goes on a tax and spend binge (like California?) simply lift the anchor and sail away to a more tax friendly locale, or country.
Floating data centers are immune to property tax increases because they'll just sail away, and mostly immune to NIMBY foolishness assuming you use a pre-existing port.
I just don't see any advantge at all, maybe some loopholes that haven't been caught yet but won't take long to close.
Build and fully equip the boats with Chinese political prisoner slave labor instead of highly paid American CCIEs. Then sail across the sea to the end user. You're already paying the Chinese to build all the electronics and ship them to the usa, just now you're paying them to mount the racks in the ships, mount the machines in the racks, run all the cables, etc.
Admittedly, god only know what backdoors and keyloggers they're going to slip in, but using walmart math, it doesn't matter if its any good as long as its cheap.
There are two types of people in this world, the self learners and those that require a structured if not forced educational environment.
HR uses type #2 as a gateway, real world management demands type #1. The bigger the company the worse the disconnect. Look at how many companies provide no training or at best, on the job training for the new technologies they roll out, yet demand the new hires have a 4 year degree and 10 years of experience with a 2 year old technology. Only folks with inside connections or BS artists can pass the filter, causing failure. Solution to the failure can't be pinned on "important" people, must come up with a nonjudgmental soution... How about tighter, higher requirements of course, leading to the spiral down the drain.
And if my current relative rank is higher than yours, doesn't that imply that if we play each other I should win? If not, what purpose does the rank serve?
Historical achievement, the glory of the grind. Much as my lower UID implies this comment should be more valuable than your high UID comment.
Companies are completely cognizant of the ways they can manipulate information to confuse the public
Some insight might be that the people complaining the most about the HFT sub-market, are not involved, affected, etc by the HFT sub-market. Small delta $ over small delta t should have no effect on "multi-decade retirement investments"
Its like discussing fractal theory with a lobster man. Lobstah-man asks, how far away from the pier am I? Fractal guy replies, Well, see, that's complicated because the coastline is self-symmetric at multiple resolutions so where exactly is this pier you speak of on a Planck length basis, and the one dimensional line bordering the water and sea is infinitely long, so on a Planck quantum time basis its hard to define exactly how long it'll take to get to the somewhat undefined pier location. Lobstah man gets pissed off and says Well, OK, that's all very confusing or interesting or both, probably to try and rip me off, but how far away am I from the damn pier, two hours or three hours?
This unfair adjudication of risk and reward, and the subsequent consolidation of power into fewer and fewer hands, is why many religions, at one time or another before the rich took them over, considered usury a fairly serious sin.
"Most importantly, usury is the derivation of profit from biological time, which is linked to life, considered sacred, God-given and divine..."
It all boils down to charging people for "god given time". The church does not want bankers moving in on their turf. Peasants should worry about worshiping on time, not paying the mortgage on time. Bankers should not be charging money for "gods Sunday" or for that matter any day because god made the sun rise in the morning, not the banker. Or in summary, God gave you 30 years to live so you can worship him, not pay your banker.
That explains why some religions tolerate a fee-based-structure for interest (I give you $10, you promise to gimme back $11) as opposed to a percentage over interval based structure (I give you $10, you owe me the original $10 PLUS 5% of that per year). Most religions tolerate trade (even if the exchange seems a bit uneven) a heck of a lot better than they tolerate fooling with who owns/controls time.
I'm not religious at all, but even I know this is the "correct" interpretation. Not that I disagree with your result or goal. Its just that you're totally on the wrong path of reasoning.
I also get a kick out of how periodically in this article they remind us that high frequency trading is good for the market and these people that don't do anything that act as middle men are actually good for the market because they up availability or "eliminate inefficiencies" (that's my favorite)
Maybe they started with an intelligent explanation that seems to fit reality, like we're watching a very confrontational version of simulated annealing among multiple competing firms using real money, but you run that thru the "english to journalist" filter and get the gibberish you describe. You have to realize journalists are the guys that flunked out of Calc I in their freshmen year and then spent the rest of their schooling drunk or stoned, as gatekeepers to the masses they are always going to be epic fails.
Its fairly perceptive to note that journalist style gibberish is often used by people trying to scam. There are plenty of (often self serving) religious / philosophical arguments that claim markets are always scams, etc. Need to very carefully consider cause vs effect and correlation vs causation or else you just send up with cliche instead of insight.
Now admittedly electricity usually only travels at about 0.5c, IIRC, but I think she was giving the speed-of-light delay, not the speed-of-electrons delay.
Don't confuse propagation velocity of electromagnetic waves, which depends on dielectric constant and is around 0.8c in normal conductors, with drift velocity of electrons which is maybe a meter per hour.
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So you're claiming its a smoothbore barrel? I could swear that a decade+ ago when I was playing Doom the "bullet" that came out was rotating.
It's not that they don't care, it's that they can't percieve what's real content and not - because they don't have a model of the underlying structure beyond the surface of the content.
Disagree with the conclusion in that facebook itself is a filter that only passes non-real content. Its not a lack of underlying structural knowledge or merely being superficial, but herd behavior and poor taste. From the crowd that brought us pet rocks, bell bottom jeans, and beige McMansions.
How about all the employees out a job to start...
Some organizations close, then reopen under a new name with the same people doing the same thing.
My guess is their target market wasn't even born when Doom came out with the BFG rifle, so its time for a new name.
I named my cat "Admin". Was that wrong?
No, "; drop table *;" that would be wrong.
To be fair many organizations that use security questions limit the customer to a set of canned questions. In those cases you can only choose between your pet's name, the street of your first home or your mother's maiden name.
Since there is (usually?) no human review, what exactly stops you from reporting your pets name was slfdasghblasfhdbgas or perhaps your street name was adfjklashd? Or for that matter, "Sally" even though my moms name was not Sally?
When disks come in 2TB sizes .... why should I sweat 8 GB?
You are confusing capacity problems with thruput problems. Sweat how poor performance is when 8 gigs gets thrashing.
The real problem is the ratio of memory access speed vs drive access speed has gotten dramatically worse over the past decades.
Look at two scenarios with the same memory leak:
With 8 gigs of glacially slow swap, true everything will keep running but performance will drop by a factor of perhaps 1000. The users will SCREAM. Which means your pager/cellphone will scream. Eventually you can log in, manually restart the processes, and the users will be happy, for a little while.
With no/little swap, the OOM killer will reap your processes, which will be restarted automatically by your init scripts or equivalent. The users will notice the maybe, just maybe, they had to click refresh twice on a page. Or maybe it seemed slow for a moment before it was normal speed. They'll probably just blame the network guys.
End result, with swap means long outage that needs manual fix, no swap means no outage at all and automatic fix.
In the 80s, yes you sized your swap based on disk space. In the 10s (heck, in the 00s) you size your swap based on how long you're willing to wait.
It takes a very atypical workload and very atypical hardware for users to tolerate the thrashing of gigs of swap...
Story about a fuzzy taxonomy of social data gets like 4 posts, whereas a taxonomy of Pr0n would probably have about 900 comments by now.
Why not use debian package "popularity-contest"?
Initially released "Sat, 24 Oct 1998 22:33:58 -0400", and it does a heck of a lot more.
http://packages.debian.org/changelogs/pool/main/p/popularity-contest/current/changelog
That would be DROA
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Domain_Registry_of_America
I got their invoices all the time. Good for a laugh at least. I'm sure they scammed thousands.
The hybrids only cost more if you ignore the externalities.
I'm used to the modern digital world, where everything is available for free and you only pay for something if you want to reward the folks whom made it.
My buying choice was to either:
1) Send $3000 to the Japanese, whom will spend the profit on formulaic movies about women and tentacles
-or-
2) Send $1000 to the Saudis, whom will bankroll their citizens into flying aircraft into our tall buildings.
I'm much happier sending a little more to the Japanese than a little less to the Saudis.
So that suggests that the motivation for this isn't technical at all, but legal. As in "we need a way to get all our stuff into international waters relatively quickly". Which means these are not financial backers or "anchor tenants" I'd want to have anything to do with.
Don't forget avoidance of property tax. Once you construct a building, your local govt pretty much owns you, unless you've got enough money to own the local govt. With a boat, if the local govt goes on a tax and spend binge (like California?) simply lift the anchor and sail away to a more tax friendly locale, or country.
Floating data centers are immune to property tax increases because they'll just sail away, and mostly immune to NIMBY foolishness assuming you use a pre-existing port.
I just don't see any advantge at all, maybe some loopholes that haven't been caught yet but won't take long to close.
Build and fully equip the boats with Chinese political prisoner slave labor instead of highly paid American CCIEs. Then sail across the sea to the end user. You're already paying the Chinese to build all the electronics and ship them to the usa, just now you're paying them to mount the racks in the ships, mount the machines in the racks, run all the cables, etc.
Admittedly, god only know what backdoors and keyloggers they're going to slip in, but using walmart math, it doesn't matter if its any good as long as its cheap.
You always do when you program in sea.
Great, now HR is going to require "20 years experience with sea, sea++, and also sea+" on all our resumes.
Now I own 10,000,000 shares of SCO.
Well, there's $10 down the drain.
There are two types of people in this world, the self learners and those that require a structured if not forced educational environment.
HR uses type #2 as a gateway, real world management demands type #1. The bigger the company the worse the disconnect. Look at how many companies provide no training or at best, on the job training for the new technologies they roll out, yet demand the new hires have a 4 year degree and 10 years of experience with a 2 year old technology. Only folks with inside connections or BS artists can pass the filter, causing failure. Solution to the failure can't be pinned on "important" people, must come up with a nonjudgmental soution... How about tighter, higher requirements of course, leading to the spiral down the drain.
Eh, they can play soccer, not too impressive. Check back when they evolve their own religion, that would be impressive.
And if my current relative rank is higher than yours, doesn't that imply that if we play each other I should win? If not, what purpose does the rank serve?
Historical achievement, the glory of the grind. Much as my lower UID implies this comment should be more valuable than your high UID comment.
Companies are completely cognizant of the ways they can manipulate information to confuse the public
Some insight might be that the people complaining the most about the HFT sub-market, are not involved, affected, etc by the HFT sub-market. Small delta $ over small delta t should have no effect on "multi-decade retirement investments"
Its like discussing fractal theory with a lobster man. Lobstah-man asks, how far away from the pier am I? Fractal guy replies, Well, see, that's complicated because the coastline is self-symmetric at multiple resolutions so where exactly is this pier you speak of on a Planck length basis, and the one dimensional line bordering the water and sea is infinitely long, so on a Planck quantum time basis its hard to define exactly how long it'll take to get to the somewhat undefined pier location. Lobstah man gets pissed off and says Well, OK, that's all very confusing or interesting or both, probably to try and rip me off, but how far away am I from the damn pier, two hours or three hours?
This unfair adjudication of risk and reward, and the subsequent consolidation of power into fewer and fewer hands, is why many religions, at one time or another before the rich took them over, considered usury a fairly serious sin.
Um, no.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Usury
"Most importantly, usury is the derivation of profit from biological time, which is linked to life, considered sacred, God-given and divine ..."
It all boils down to charging people for "god given time". The church does not want bankers moving in on their turf. Peasants should worry about worshiping on time, not paying the mortgage on time. Bankers should not be charging money for "gods Sunday" or for that matter any day because god made the sun rise in the morning, not the banker. Or in summary, God gave you 30 years to live so you can worship him, not pay your banker.
That explains why some religions tolerate a fee-based-structure for interest (I give you $10, you promise to gimme back $11) as opposed to a percentage over interval based structure (I give you $10, you owe me the original $10 PLUS 5% of that per year). Most religions tolerate trade (even if the exchange seems a bit uneven) a heck of a lot better than they tolerate fooling with who owns/controls time.
I'm not religious at all, but even I know this is the "correct" interpretation. Not that I disagree with your result or goal. Its just that you're totally on the wrong path of reasoning.
I also get a kick out of how periodically in this article they remind us that high frequency trading is good for the market and these people that don't do anything that act as middle men are actually good for the market because they up availability or "eliminate inefficiencies" (that's my favorite)
Maybe they started with an intelligent explanation that seems to fit reality, like we're watching a very confrontational version of simulated annealing among multiple competing firms using real money, but you run that thru the "english to journalist" filter and get the gibberish you describe. You have to realize journalists are the guys that flunked out of Calc I in their freshmen year and then spent the rest of their schooling drunk or stoned, as gatekeepers to the masses they are always going to be epic fails.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simulated_annealing
Its fairly perceptive to note that journalist style gibberish is often used by people trying to scam. There are plenty of (often self serving) religious / philosophical arguments that claim markets are always scams, etc. Need to very carefully consider cause vs effect and correlation vs causation or else you just send up with cliche instead of insight.
Its corewars, but with real money instead of simulated computer memory.
http://www.corewars.org/
The name of the game is to send a "signal" that confuses the other guys bots, such that you fool them into making you money.
Very much like aircraft radar guided missiles vs radar jammers vs anti-jamming missiles
Now admittedly electricity usually only travels at about 0.5c, IIRC, but I think she was giving the speed-of-light delay, not the speed-of-electrons delay.
Don't confuse propagation velocity of electromagnetic waves, which depends on dielectric constant and is around 0.8c in normal conductors, with drift velocity of electrons which is maybe a meter per hour.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Speed_of_electricity
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drift_velocity
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Velocity_of_propagation
Electrons really move slowly in metal. In a vacuum tube like a CRT, pretty quick.
moving memory and computational power to peripherals like ... monitors.
They mean ever more complicated DRM. Like sending the raw stream to the monitor to be decoded there.
Find: ".__"
Replace "._"
Find morse code W and replace with morse code A? Ahy aould I aant to do that? (bad) fake british accent?