Antarctica is closer, not quite as harsh, yet a reasonably good engineering challenge.
I don't mean colonize in either the current forward military base where its more of a logistics achievement than an actual "colonization" nor do I mean some weird lovecraftian stuff or hollow earth flakery, but literal colonization complete with algae and fish farms for dining or whatever. Even if its never done the planning process would be pretty good training.
Even KSR's mars trilogy began with a year on Antarctica.
Every generation of teenagers thinks they invented sex and music.... and the internet.
We used to laugh at "al gore invented the internet" but the next generation of people will laugh at "zuckerberg invented the internet"
The other problem is there is no "internet". No one thing you can point at. Who invented "the space shuttle" as one individual inventing one object is an equally dumb question.
Another problem is best displayed by analogy. Who invented God? There's 10000 religions all saying they did, and the other 9999 got it all wrong and the 9999 others are all going to hell. Odds are all 10000 got it wrong not just 9999. Or another great analogy, at least to educated people: Who caused the decline and fall of the roman empire?
The Mighty GOOG doesn't think you are celibate, the Mighty GOOG KNOWS you are celibate.
LOL based on search queries the mighty GOOG knows I got married a couple years back, and also knows I haven't searched for a divorce lawyer so I think you're correct.
People would need new things to strive toward. Like the saying goes, An idle mind is the devil's workshop.
Sports, "Hollywood celebrity news", pr0n, video games, social networking... wait am I supposed to be talking about now, or in the future?
Education might help. The original point of higher ed was to give the kids of the idle rich something interesting to think about for the rest of their lives... Give them "good taste" and hobbies and lifetime interests worthy of a man of wealth and leisure. Hence the intense focus on the liberal arts at ancient universities, not so much focus on cooking classes or barrel making classes. The educational-industrial complex could abandon their wanna-be training role of mass producing identical cubical proles for middle class jobs that will never exist again anyway and go back to their roots. Would it really be so bad of a society if one quarter of the population were "into" the fine arts and liberal arts in general, another quarter "into" science and math, another quarter "into" not-so-fine arts like manual labor crafts, and the final quarter too stupid and/or unmotivated to do any of the above hang out on facebook and 4chan all day and play xbox and watch TV and use drugs?
Moreover, why move your operations back to the US, in such a case? Freed from the need for workers, manufacturing can take place anywhere. Like, say, the place with the lowest local taxation and weakest safety regulations. I can't see much reason for optimism here.
Transportation. I buy electronic stuff direct from China (think like seeed studios but also PCB mfg houses, etc). Lets say they make my hobby custom microwave RF amplifier PCB $10 cheaper than local, but fedex 3-day costs $15. Right now the ratio is in their favor, but decreasing rapidly. I'm probably going to switch to US pretty soon. As for long term trends, I don't think oil is going to get cheaper. I don't think aircraft are going to get less capital intensive. I don't think postage and handling ever decreases. In the very long run I think PCB houses in China are inherently going away for US customers... there will always be Chinese customers of Chinese PCB houses...
Doesn't mean someone in my hometown will get a job feeding rolls of SMD devices into a pick-n-place machine or cleaning the filthy wave soldering tank for ancient thru-hole designs, but maybe someone just over the border in.mx might get their job back. Remember the jobs did not go from US to China. They went from US done by citizens, to US done by illegal aliens, to just over the.mx border, to Taiwan, to China. We've got a lot of steps along the way, the return path is unlikely to be China directly back to USA. Look for more "made in taiwan" and "made in mexico" stickers at Walmart to build up and peak before you start seeing "made in the USA" stickers again.
What will the non-valuable human minds do. Say the bottom 75% or so. That is the mystery. Some of the bottom 75% might be trophy wives, actors and actresses, models, whatever ultra low paid retail remains. That leaves maybe 74% of the population unemployed. Whoops.
2-cycle gas leafblower. House stank of engine oil for days. Boy did I get in trouble. Still hear about that one at family get togethers.
What happens when on the way to work, you tell a wanna be, engine revving teenage engineer he can't go out until the cat and dog fur tumbleweeds are vacuumed up? It actually worked pretty well other than blowing some pictures off the walls and pretty well terrifying the cats and dog.
...scientists at Nissan have discovered what they now call "Teflon". Updates to follow.
Teflon's a epic fail outdoors because it has zilch creep strength and dirt embeds itself into it, rapidly reducing its friction and electrical properties to that of dirt. Thats one reason (aside from cost) that no one uses teflon insulators for power line or antenna supports.
For obvious economic reasons, the "solution" to the surface filth is going to be deployed on HVDC power line insulators long before it'll be on cars, and even then what works for a mostly motionless insulator might not work on a car.
This is because the nano-sized molecular groups that provide these properties are easily and irreversibly damaged by minor contact with the surface on which they are applied.
Hmm not thinking road gravel at 75 mph is "minor contact". Even road salt and dust is pretty tough stuff. And windshield washer fluid. Heck just a frog-drowning rainstorm at 75 mph is pretty harsh.
(be careful googling that, DP means things other than “Distributed Particle” out in cyberspace!)
Yeah, Data Processing. Err.... Dual Processor.. Err Displaced Person aka politically correct for "refugee". Degtyaryov machine gun... how that abbreviates to DP must be a Cyrillic thing. Digital Photography. Wikipedia shows that worldwide there are a couple companies named D.P. Something and numerous authors etc named D.P. Something. Obviously there's FETI-DP which is a boundary solving thingy which is basically a FETI-but-cooler and is only about a decade old.
Doc sounds like my kind of guy but we have somewhat different tastes. Note that the Mighty GOOG knows what you search for and finds more of it. Even with safesearch off I got 100 results none of which were dual penetration. A youtube result titled "winter's bone" with a pic of a very attractive actress was one result, and there were some links to "look up this slang" sites, rather suggestive of what doc and I are thinking of, but nothing directly as per above. It was a safe for work lookup, assuming you don't GOOG for the fun kind of DP at work on a regular basis. Maybe the Mighty GOOG thinks I'm celibate?
So if I replaced a section of optical fiber with this stuff, it would look on the OTDR like the worlds most uninteresting little bump (oh look, sloppy winding in the splice case results in a minor bump, eh who cares) and I could detect the electrical field... Sounds like a optical tap design.
Of course a beam splitter would probably be a lot simpler, but supposedly there does not exist a beamsplitter design that doesn't inherently create what amounts to multipath that "looks like a beamsplitter" on a OTDR so simply doing something weird when you're tapping might help avoid detection.
The only undetectable optical tap I can think of is chilled-PMT based... I think that would be fairly undetectable if done right.
I haven't directly hands on done fiber since early 90s so I'm not sure. Probably fiber work is much like IT and CS, there is nothing new, just recycled old ideas along a baseline of slowly increasing speeds.
produces energy by absorbing mainly infrared light instead of traditional visible light
Unclear how much energy you get in exchange for adsorbing 30% of the visible light and probably all the IR. However, if its a lot of light, it might be worthwhile to dip old fashioned incandescent bulbs into this goo. Rather optimistically, if it can generate more than 40% of the nameplate wattage by adsorbing all the IR and 30% of the visible, then you'd get ahead by recycling that power back into the grid. Not a perpetual motion machine, because 70% of the visible is still leaking out the lampshade, but it would be like the world's weirdest phosphor basically eating IR photons and emitting visible photons.
This does bring up the interesting point for unshaded windows, if it eats 30% of visible light, that merely means you need 30% more ultra-low-R value window area, or 30% more lightbulbs inside to brighten the room back up. So its not going to work well for windows in rooms where the drapes are always open and people are always inside. Great idea for my garage or bedroom (why do those have windows, anyway?) terrible idea for my office / kitchen / living room. Solar panel covered shutters seem like a good idea for the garage and bedroom... if the panels are rockin don't come a knockin or whatever.
Classy would have been minding their own business. There is no chance of Wensink's book being mistaken for a bottle of Jack Daniels, and therefore there is no trademark infringement or dilution.
Classy, or at least very funny, would have been peeling the "real label" off a bottle of jack, and pasting a color photocopy of the dudes book cover on the bottle, shipping it to the author, and asking him what he thinks of the situation now that the tables are turned on him. That would have been intensely LOL-worthy.
Its appropriate to protect trademarks. I don't think you'd find it very amusing if I started wearing a tee shirt with a logo of "My name is Hatta (162192)". Most paid by the hour lawyers tend to go a bit overboard, maxing out the billable hours rather than responsibly serving their masters, etc.
However a 97% effective life-long treatment will be "safe" and approved.
Reduce the dosage until its only 97% effective, then rinse -n- repeat every 6 months or whatever as the virus regains a foothold.
Its a recipe for developing treatment resistance, but that just means more R+D profit, so...
Remember homeopathic stuff doesn't work. At some dilution the treatment effectiveness will drop from 100% to 97%.
Also you can mix stuff in as a "manufacturing byproduct" if necessary to encourage long term treatment WRT the byproducts. Maybe lead or mercury resulting in semi-permanent long term IV EDTA therapy.
An alternative is to engage the finance department with a fairly trivial question, "Assume a monthly symptomatic treatment income of $500/month is obtainable... what would it cost to purchase a lifetime annuity yielding $500/month? Oh, $X you say? Well we can price the one time cure at $X*1.1 and it'll be all good"
That industry might be corrupt and evil. But they're (unfortunately) not stupid. We're not dealing with real estate agents or used car salesmen here.
Data mining for the end user instead of advertisers?
"95% of your social network of fellow diesel engine mechanics boost the 11 KHz band by an average of 8 dB and you're only boosting 6 dB are you sure your settings are correct?"
Also probably psychological support of "here's a whole community at exactly your level of hearing loss, not more, not less"
That's kind of toward the end of my epic long post... to restate... what worked for me when I last set this up years ago. Both services are free.
Your ipv4 addrs is static -> Go to hurricane electric aka tunnelbroker.net no hassle just works very quick mostly painless.
Your ipv4 addrs changes every Fing time the cablemodem reboots, or so it seems -> Go to sixxs and they put you thru quite an amazing hassle to sign up but eventually you have perfect automatically re-connecting dynamic service.
You can just do the tunnelbroker service on a dynamic address, perfectly good for short term learning purposes. But its going to be a hassle once you rely on it... Then again tunnelbroker is easier to sign up, or at least it used to be, so maybe you Should start there.
I simply cannot recommend he.net highly enough as a happy yet former customer. Whenever their name comes up here, "everyone on/." agrees they rock. SIXXS on the other hand is a volunteer org and response time is... what you'd expect from a volunteer org, but they try their best and do a pretty good job given that constraint.
Among the potential uses: developers can build mail apps for Office, which add content and functionality to Outlook items based on activation rules,
Translation: virus writers can now use the cloud to send multimedia spam?
I wonder if this is "open" enough that you could spam someone's calender thru it as an alternative distribution media. Imaging a MS calendar with thousands of entries every 5 minutes "wanna last longer than this spam? Shop at http://blah/ for your manliness needs"
Another weird question is using the cloud to facilitate leaking confidential info both intentionally and via the usual security vulnerabilities.
Not everything works with IPv6 yet. Most stuff does, but most organizations still have some stuff that doesn't quite yet.
That list is ridiculously short. Even my half decade old brother laser printer supports ipv6. The only barrier at this time in "my organization" is my openafs fileserver cluster doesn't support ipv6. Other than that...
I'm mostly wondering what to do about my iptables in linux.
The good news is that ipv6 has been available on linux for I donno a decade or so, and ipv6 tunnels have been available, etc. The ipv6 land rush is very much like people in 1997 talking about that "brand new" internet thing, and just like the great ipv4 rollout its a good thing there's a decade or so of sound traffic engineering experience out there already for ipv6.
1) I guess it depends a lot on your distro. 2) Some terms to google for beyond the obvious are "ip6tables". 3) nobody needs NAT on ipv6 which inherently provided stateful firewalling on ipv4. TCP is pretty easy, SYN packets only allowed in one interface... 4) Personally I find it easiest to make two firewall scripts a ipv4 and a ipv6. If for no other reason than totally screwing up ipv6 will not mess up your ipv4 access and vice versa making it simpler to recover from mistakes. 5) Good luck wrapping your head around the concept of "every host is a multihomed host" aka "link-local addresses". Please don't attempt to route LL out on the greater internet, mkay, they're for mdns / bonjour type stuff. 6) Good luck with dynamic addresses and revdns. If you never used BIND's ORIGIN lines well you best learn how, and quickly. 7) Please block all RH0 aka rt-type 0 packets they're the ipv6 evil bit 8) Go to Hurricane Electric (they rock in general, BTW) and become a sage ipv6 dude. I found this quite easy when they initially rolled this out several years ago, maybe its harder now. You need to do this "course" to learn the ropes and glossary before you can learn to firewall or you'll turn all sorcerers apprentice.
SIXXS is kind of like a major cell phone company, in that everyone's opinion of them seems exclusively driven by their local sixxs pop or their local cellphone tower quality. So you'll get meaningless comments all over the map about how they rock or suck based on the little neighborhood the commenter lives in. That said if you live in range of the Chicago pop, it rocks, although it had some exciting momentary outages a couple years ago. I use them on a dynamic endpoint and HE's tunnelbroker on a static endpoint and I'm very happy with both... your mileage may vary...
Transcripts are also more fun for cut-n-paste his answers and provide commentary. I look forward to being able to read the transcript, or at least a summary.
Pathfinder is widely seen as 3.75 or "what 4 should have been" or however you wanna phrase it. I happen to like Pathfinder and despite my noted ability to complain about almost anything, I find nothing to complain about WRT Pathfinder. Any comments about that in the video? It would be pretty cool if the newly released 5.0 or whatever it'll be called would just be "eh F-it we'll just license Paizo's core rulebook, slap on some new cover art, and call it a day". Kind of like if MS Windows 2013 turned out to be a Ubuntu boot disk.
My family cell plan costs $65. No internet...I use it as a phone. She uses it as a phone...
That must be the worlds most expensive prepaid service... My wife and I were sending Virgin Mobile about $10 to $15 each per month so that's less than half what you're paying. Depends on use of course. One especially busy month I had to pay twenty bucks !
cheapest phone I could get under my plan
Oh, you've got a plan. Sorry dude. You can save around another 50% by going prepaid. Those endless TV commercials your plan is paying for are expensive...
IMHO, every citizen has the responsibility to become educated about the choices and vote.
Congratulations, you've just brought treatment of mentally disabled back to roughly 1800. A system that throws my ancient great uncle into prison because he has Alzheimers therefore can't become educated and frankly probably can't physically vote is morally and ethically reprehensible... the civilization level of a culture can be defined by looking at how it treats its weakest members, and this "responsibility" would seem to be an immense step backwards in our civilization.
I ask again, what will you do to enforce your new found "responsibility"? Deport? Imprison? Drone strikes? Yes that's all extreme to provoke a reaction. But if we're no longer a free society, what will be the price charged to buy freedom from voting? Supposedly the propaganda is its horrifically immoral to make someone buy a $15 certified birth cert at the courthouse and a free ID card at the DMV in order to vote... I would guess that on the opposing side failure to vote "should" result in a similar $15 fine? Why do you hate the poor? In the same line of reasoning, should failure to vote be a felony? But where I live felons can't vote... So your "storyboard" is something like "x could have voted but didn't" "X marked as felon for life and fined $15" "X never able to vote again"? Should failure to vote in a federal election be a felony and a municipal election be a municipal citation, or...
Responsibility without reward is otherwise known as slavery. What reward is being given in exchange to make it not-slavery? I argue its all a sham as a political statement and refuse to participate in slavery as a form of political speech. So which has higher priority when it inevitably goes to court, your weird enslavement or my political free speech "statement"?
Also its a traditional wedge issue. Why can't this small minority, just this one time, be forced at the barrel of a gun, to go along with the majority, who we think are doing the right thing anyway, is a philosophy that leads not just to mandatory voting but human rights abuses of all kinds. Sometimes there's a reason to do the wrong thing and go down the wrong road and tempt fate, if its worth it, if it really has to be done, maybe for national or personal survival. But for something as irrelevant with as little impact as voting?
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It's time to start colonizing Mars,
Antarctica is closer, not quite as harsh, yet a reasonably good engineering challenge.
I don't mean colonize in either the current forward military base where its more of a logistics achievement than an actual "colonization" nor do I mean some weird lovecraftian stuff or hollow earth flakery, but literal colonization complete with algae and fish farms for dining or whatever. Even if its never done the planning process would be pretty good training.
Even KSR's mars trilogy began with a year on Antarctica.
Every generation of teenagers thinks they invented sex and music.... and the internet.
We used to laugh at "al gore invented the internet" but the next generation of people will laugh at "zuckerberg invented the internet"
The other problem is there is no "internet". No one thing you can point at. Who invented "the space shuttle" as one individual inventing one object is an equally dumb question.
Another problem is best displayed by analogy. Who invented God? There's 10000 religions all saying they did, and the other 9999 got it all wrong and the 9999 others are all going to hell. Odds are all 10000 got it wrong not just 9999. Or another great analogy, at least to educated people: Who caused the decline and fall of the roman empire?
Maybe the Mighty GOOG thinks I'm celibate?
The Mighty GOOG doesn't think you are celibate, the Mighty GOOG
KNOWS you are celibate.
LOL based on search queries the mighty GOOG knows I got married a couple years back, and also knows I haven't searched for a divorce lawyer so I think you're correct.
People would need new things to strive toward. Like the saying goes, An idle mind is the devil's workshop.
Sports, "Hollywood celebrity news", pr0n, video games, social networking ... wait am I supposed to be talking about now, or in the future?
Education might help. The original point of higher ed was to give the kids of the idle rich something interesting to think about for the rest of their lives ... Give them "good taste" and hobbies and lifetime interests worthy of a man of wealth and leisure. Hence the intense focus on the liberal arts at ancient universities, not so much focus on cooking classes or barrel making classes. The educational-industrial complex could abandon their wanna-be training role of mass producing identical cubical proles for middle class jobs that will never exist again anyway and go back to their roots. Would it really be so bad of a society if one quarter of the population were "into" the fine arts and liberal arts in general, another quarter "into" science and math, another quarter "into" not-so-fine arts like manual labor crafts, and the final quarter too stupid and/or unmotivated to do any of the above hang out on facebook and 4chan all day and play xbox and watch TV and use drugs?
Moreover, why move your operations back to the US, in such a case? Freed from the need for workers, manufacturing can take place anywhere. Like, say, the place with the lowest local taxation and weakest safety regulations. I can't see much reason for optimism here.
Transportation. I buy electronic stuff direct from China (think like seeed studios but also PCB mfg houses, etc). Lets say they make my hobby custom microwave RF amplifier PCB $10 cheaper than local, but fedex 3-day costs $15. Right now the ratio is in their favor, but decreasing rapidly. I'm probably going to switch to US pretty soon. As for long term trends, I don't think oil is going to get cheaper. I don't think aircraft are going to get less capital intensive. I don't think postage and handling ever decreases. In the very long run I think PCB houses in China are inherently going away for US customers... there will always be Chinese customers of Chinese PCB houses...
Doesn't mean someone in my hometown will get a job feeding rolls of SMD devices into a pick-n-place machine or cleaning the filthy wave soldering tank for ancient thru-hole designs, but maybe someone just over the border in .mx might get their job back. Remember the jobs did not go from US to China. They went from US done by citizens, to US done by illegal aliens, to just over the .mx border, to Taiwan, to China. We've got a lot of steps along the way, the return path is unlikely to be China directly back to USA. Look for more "made in taiwan" and "made in mexico" stickers at Walmart to build up and peak before you start seeing "made in the USA" stickers again.
if we don't have to use valuable human minds
What will the non-valuable human minds do. Say the bottom 75% or so. That is the mystery. Some of the bottom 75% might be trophy wives, actors and actresses, models, whatever ultra low paid retail remains. That leaves maybe 74% of the population unemployed. Whoops.
Bedrooms have windows so you have at least two escape route in case of fire.
A door would be cheaper and better insulated than any window.
What about self-cleaning teenager rooms?
2-cycle gas leafblower. House stank of engine oil for days. Boy did I get in trouble. Still hear about that one at family get togethers.
What happens when on the way to work, you tell a wanna be, engine revving teenage engineer he can't go out until the cat and dog fur tumbleweeds are vacuumed up? It actually worked pretty well other than blowing some pictures off the walls and pretty well terrifying the cats and dog.
...scientists at Nissan have discovered what they now call "Teflon". Updates to follow.
Teflon's a epic fail outdoors because it has zilch creep strength and dirt embeds itself into it, rapidly reducing its friction and electrical properties to that of dirt. Thats one reason (aside from cost) that no one uses teflon insulators for power line or antenna supports.
For obvious economic reasons, the "solution" to the surface filth is going to be deployed on HVDC power line insulators long before it'll be on cars, and even then what works for a mostly motionless insulator might not work on a car.
This is because the nano-sized molecular groups that provide these properties are easily and irreversibly damaged by minor contact with the surface on which they are applied.
Hmm not thinking road gravel at 75 mph is "minor contact". Even road salt and dust is pretty tough stuff. And windshield washer fluid. Heck just a frog-drowning rainstorm at 75 mph is pretty harsh.
(be careful googling that, DP means things other than “Distributed Particle” out in cyberspace!)
Yeah, Data Processing. Err.... Dual Processor.. Err Displaced Person aka politically correct for "refugee". Degtyaryov machine gun... how that abbreviates to DP must be a Cyrillic thing. Digital Photography. Wikipedia shows that worldwide there are a couple companies named D.P. Something and numerous authors etc named D.P. Something. Obviously there's FETI-DP which is a boundary solving thingy which is basically a FETI-but-cooler and is only about a decade old.
Doc sounds like my kind of guy but we have somewhat different tastes. Note that the Mighty GOOG knows what you search for and finds more of it. Even with safesearch off I got 100 results none of which were dual penetration. A youtube result titled "winter's bone" with a pic of a very attractive actress was one result, and there were some links to "look up this slang" sites, rather suggestive of what doc and I are thinking of, but nothing directly as per above. It was a safe for work lookup, assuming you don't GOOG for the fun kind of DP at work on a regular basis. Maybe the Mighty GOOG thinks I'm celibate?
So if I replaced a section of optical fiber with this stuff, it would look on the OTDR like the worlds most uninteresting little bump (oh look, sloppy winding in the splice case results in a minor bump, eh who cares) and I could detect the electrical field... Sounds like a optical tap design.
Of course a beam splitter would probably be a lot simpler, but supposedly there does not exist a beamsplitter design that doesn't inherently create what amounts to multipath that "looks like a beamsplitter" on a OTDR so simply doing something weird when you're tapping might help avoid detection.
The only undetectable optical tap I can think of is chilled-PMT based... I think that would be fairly undetectable if done right.
I haven't directly hands on done fiber since early 90s so I'm not sure. Probably fiber work is much like IT and CS, there is nothing new, just recycled old ideas along a baseline of slowly increasing speeds.
produces energy by absorbing mainly infrared light instead of traditional visible light
Unclear how much energy you get in exchange for adsorbing 30% of the visible light and probably all the IR. However, if its a lot of light, it might be worthwhile to dip old fashioned incandescent bulbs into this goo. Rather optimistically, if it can generate more than 40% of the nameplate wattage by adsorbing all the IR and 30% of the visible, then you'd get ahead by recycling that power back into the grid. Not a perpetual motion machine, because 70% of the visible is still leaking out the lampshade, but it would be like the world's weirdest phosphor basically eating IR photons and emitting visible photons.
This does bring up the interesting point for unshaded windows, if it eats 30% of visible light, that merely means you need 30% more ultra-low-R value window area, or 30% more lightbulbs inside to brighten the room back up. So its not going to work well for windows in rooms where the drapes are always open and people are always inside. Great idea for my garage or bedroom (why do those have windows, anyway?) terrible idea for my office / kitchen / living room. Solar panel covered shutters seem like a good idea for the garage and bedroom... if the panels are rockin don't come a knockin or whatever.
Classy would have been minding their own business. There is no chance of Wensink's book being mistaken for a bottle of Jack Daniels, and therefore there is no trademark infringement or dilution.
Classy, or at least very funny, would have been peeling the "real label" off a bottle of jack, and pasting a color photocopy of the dudes book cover on the bottle, shipping it to the author, and asking him what he thinks of the situation now that the tables are turned on him. That would have been intensely LOL-worthy.
Its appropriate to protect trademarks. I don't think you'd find it very amusing if I started wearing a tee shirt with a logo of "My name is Hatta (162192)". Most paid by the hour lawyers tend to go a bit overboard, maxing out the billable hours rather than responsibly serving their masters, etc.
insert standard joke about no need for a IOC++CC because C++ is inherently obfuscated. And Perl.
However a 97% effective life-long treatment will be "safe" and approved.
Reduce the dosage until its only 97% effective, then rinse -n- repeat every 6 months or whatever as the virus regains a foothold.
Its a recipe for developing treatment resistance, but that just means more R+D profit, so...
Remember homeopathic stuff doesn't work. At some dilution the treatment effectiveness will drop from 100% to 97%.
Also you can mix stuff in as a "manufacturing byproduct" if necessary to encourage long term treatment WRT the byproducts. Maybe lead or mercury resulting in semi-permanent long term IV EDTA therapy.
An alternative is to engage the finance department with a fairly trivial question, "Assume a monthly symptomatic treatment income of $500/month is obtainable... what would it cost to purchase a lifetime annuity yielding $500/month? Oh, $X you say? Well we can price the one time cure at $X*1.1 and it'll be all good"
That industry might be corrupt and evil. But they're (unfortunately) not stupid. We're not dealing with real estate agents or used car salesmen here.
I just don't get the social part.
Data mining for the end user instead of advertisers?
"95% of your social network of fellow diesel engine mechanics boost the 11 KHz band by an average of 8 dB and you're only boosting 6 dB are you sure your settings are correct?"
Also probably psychological support of "here's a whole community at exactly your level of hearing loss, not more, not less"
How do I get me some ipv6 addresses?
That's kind of toward the end of my epic long post... to restate... what worked for me when I last set this up years ago. Both services are free.
Your ipv4 addrs is static -> Go to hurricane electric aka tunnelbroker.net no hassle just works very quick mostly painless.
Your ipv4 addrs changes every Fing time the cablemodem reboots, or so it seems -> Go to sixxs and they put you thru quite an amazing hassle to sign up but eventually you have perfect automatically re-connecting dynamic service.
You can just do the tunnelbroker service on a dynamic address, perfectly good for short term learning purposes. But its going to be a hassle once you rely on it... Then again tunnelbroker is easier to sign up, or at least it used to be, so maybe you Should start there.
I simply cannot recommend he.net highly enough as a happy yet former customer. Whenever their name comes up here, "everyone on /." agrees they rock.
SIXXS on the other hand is a volunteer org and response time is... what you'd expect from a volunteer org, but they try their best and do a pretty good job given that constraint.
Among the potential uses: developers can build mail apps for Office, which add content and functionality to Outlook items based on activation rules,
Translation: virus writers can now use the cloud to send multimedia spam?
I wonder if this is "open" enough that you could spam someone's calender thru it as an alternative distribution media. Imaging a MS calendar with thousands of entries every 5 minutes "wanna last longer than this spam? Shop at http://blah/ for your manliness needs"
Another weird question is using the cloud to facilitate leaking confidential info both intentionally and via the usual security vulnerabilities.
Not everything works with IPv6 yet. Most stuff does, but most organizations still have some stuff that doesn't quite yet.
That list is ridiculously short. Even my half decade old brother laser printer supports ipv6. The only barrier at this time in "my organization" is my openafs fileserver cluster doesn't support ipv6. Other than that...
I'm mostly wondering what to do about my iptables in linux.
The good news is that ipv6 has been available on linux for I donno a decade or so, and ipv6 tunnels have been available, etc. The ipv6 land rush is very much like people in 1997 talking about that "brand new" internet thing, and just like the great ipv4 rollout its a good thing there's a decade or so of sound traffic engineering experience out there already for ipv6.
1) I guess it depends a lot on your distro.
2) Some terms to google for beyond the obvious are "ip6tables".
3) nobody needs NAT on ipv6 which inherently provided stateful firewalling on ipv4. TCP is pretty easy, SYN packets only allowed in one interface...
4) Personally I find it easiest to make two firewall scripts a ipv4 and a ipv6. If for no other reason than totally screwing up ipv6 will not mess up your ipv4 access and vice versa making it simpler to recover from mistakes.
5) Good luck wrapping your head around the concept of "every host is a multihomed host" aka "link-local addresses". Please don't attempt to route LL out on the greater internet, mkay, they're for mdns / bonjour type stuff.
6) Good luck with dynamic addresses and revdns. If you never used BIND's ORIGIN lines well you best learn how, and quickly.
7) Please block all RH0 aka rt-type 0 packets they're the ipv6 evil bit
8) Go to Hurricane Electric (they rock in general, BTW) and become a sage ipv6 dude. I found this quite easy when they initially rolled this out several years ago, maybe its harder now. You need to do this "course" to learn the ropes and glossary before you can learn to firewall or you'll turn all sorcerers apprentice.
http://ipv6.he.net/certification/
9) Once you know ipv6 you could do worse than to start at
http://www.sixxs.net/wiki/IPv6_Firewalling
SIXXS is kind of like a major cell phone company, in that everyone's opinion of them seems exclusively driven by their local sixxs pop or their local cellphone tower quality. So you'll get meaningless comments all over the map about how they rock or suck based on the little neighborhood the commenter lives in. That said if you live in range of the Chicago pop, it rocks, although it had some exciting momentary outages a couple years ago. I use them on a dynamic endpoint and HE's tunnelbroker on a static endpoint and I'm very happy with both... your mileage may vary...
In other words, instead of spending a few hours configuring Debian to optimize it for my hardware I can just install a simple OS.
Its not that simple. Now you have to subscribe to the debian security mailing list and backport all security patches to your little customized OS.
Also some day your little offshoot OS will go away or the devs will stop working on it. Now what? That'll never happen with main line Debian.
I hate supporting special little OS like that, its absolute agony. Main line Debian or nothing, please.
Transcripts are also more fun for cut-n-paste his answers and provide commentary. I look forward to being able to read the transcript, or at least a summary.
Pathfinder is widely seen as 3.75 or "what 4 should have been" or however you wanna phrase it. I happen to like Pathfinder and despite my noted ability to complain about almost anything, I find nothing to complain about WRT Pathfinder. Any comments about that in the video? It would be pretty cool if the newly released 5.0 or whatever it'll be called would just be "eh F-it we'll just license Paizo's core rulebook, slap on some new cover art, and call it a day". Kind of like if MS Windows 2013 turned out to be a Ubuntu boot disk.
William Binney's keynote at HOPE 9,... Unfortunately, neither audio or video of the talk are available yet.
Officially or unofficially? Historically HOPE conference torrents are usually up by now. Whats up with that? I haven't bothered searching yet, but...
I always used to like listening to the mp3 audio version as if they're audiobooks, and I'm looking forward to my next batch.
My family cell plan costs $65. No internet...I use it as a phone. She uses it as a phone...
That must be the worlds most expensive prepaid service... My wife and I were sending Virgin Mobile about $10 to $15 each per month so that's less than half what you're paying. Depends on use of course. One especially busy month I had to pay twenty bucks !
cheapest phone I could get under my plan
Oh, you've got a plan. Sorry dude. You can save around another 50% by going prepaid. Those endless TV commercials your plan is paying for are expensive...
IMHO, every citizen has the responsibility to become educated about the choices and vote.
Congratulations, you've just brought treatment of mentally disabled back to roughly 1800. A system that throws my ancient great uncle into prison because he has Alzheimers therefore can't become educated and frankly probably can't physically vote is morally and ethically reprehensible... the civilization level of a culture can be defined by looking at how it treats its weakest members, and this "responsibility" would seem to be an immense step backwards in our civilization.
I ask again, what will you do to enforce your new found "responsibility"? Deport? Imprison? Drone strikes? Yes that's all extreme to provoke a reaction. But if we're no longer a free society, what will be the price charged to buy freedom from voting? Supposedly the propaganda is its horrifically immoral to make someone buy a $15 certified birth cert at the courthouse and a free ID card at the DMV in order to vote... I would guess that on the opposing side failure to vote "should" result in a similar $15 fine? Why do you hate the poor? In the same line of reasoning, should failure to vote be a felony? But where I live felons can't vote... So your "storyboard" is something like "x could have voted but didn't" "X marked as felon for life and fined $15" "X never able to vote again"? Should failure to vote in a federal election be a felony and a municipal election be a municipal citation, or ...
Responsibility without reward is otherwise known as slavery. What reward is being given in exchange to make it not-slavery? I argue its all a sham as a political statement and refuse to participate in slavery as a form of political speech. So which has higher priority when it inevitably goes to court, your weird enslavement or my political free speech "statement"?
Also its a traditional wedge issue. Why can't this small minority, just this one time, be forced at the barrel of a gun, to go along with the majority, who we think are doing the right thing anyway, is a philosophy that leads not just to mandatory voting but human rights abuses of all kinds. Sometimes there's a reason to do the wrong thing and go down the wrong road and tempt fate, if its worth it, if it really has to be done, maybe for national or personal survival. But for something as irrelevant with as little impact as voting?