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I really wonder if it'll help reduce genitic diversity or increase it.
I say this because "rare" traits are often considered attractive traits. a perfect example is red-headed hair. Everyone i know finds ginger ladies quite attractive. Or foreigners, if you ever lived in the Midwest monoculture. Whenever there's a foreigner around, a lot of people will acknowledge their attractiveness.
Now, for how much 'superficial' traits as skin/eye/hair color play a role in the core of genetic's. i do not know.
There is one other HUGE upside to this. Imagine if you have a certain genetic condition, causes you lots of problems. Most people wouldnt say "I'm going to do my part to eliminate this disease from the population by choosing not to have children" that's frankly absurd, and most people would still have kids and hope for the best. This is a HUGE thing for helping to eliminate certain diseases from out population, and helping to reduce the suffering of peoples as a whole.
Now, I'm not saying you're flat out wrong...weather some of these 'diseases' are genetic adaptions just half implemented by nature is anyone's guess.
When i hear about this kind of stuff, i often think it would be incredibly neat to just peek into the future and see where humanity ends up in 100,000 years--or if we're around even.
Regarding Anti-DRM, someone wanting to pirate a game WILL. *No matter if there is DRM or not* SPORE is a prime example of this.
Gamers just want to have fun. No Hassles. None of the flopping CD's, loading a machine full of Trojans you cannot get rid of (SecuROM), or other asinine options. Keep it Simple.
Personally, I find STEAM to be a quite nice trade off between usability, and anti-piracy. I can go to a friends, show them a cool new game (provided the download isn't too terribly long) and when i go home and play it back at my place, the friend cant use the game anymore. This is a good trade off between usability, and anti-piracy.
Nevermind that a company within an industrialized nation is getting huge benefits from the infrastructure, and government resources housed where it's at(military/protection/fire department/the list goes on). I'd like to see how well one of these big companies would hold out with their headquarters in Sudan.
They damn well better pay fair wages for H-1B people (and outsourced people) if their going take advantage of local society's resources.
If there is no time limit to these side odds of Enrico Fermi's--then odds could very well happen if we saw a WW3.
I suppose it'd be pretty hard for man to technically wipe out all life with current technology. However, all of man and most large critters is close enough in my book. Hell, even knocking man back to the stone age is enough in my book.
I wonder--did anyone bet on that one and side with annihilation? what were the odds he gave?:)
I'm convinced that manufacturers should, at the very least, have to print their power consumption (and thus cost per year) on the outside of boxes, and in their specifications. Personally, I would even go so far as to say that all electronics should have to conform to energy star, unless there are very good reasons not to. there's no reason these things shouldn't.
I have an alarm clock, and it draws 10 freaking watts 24/7. Only reason i use it is cause i really like its alarm options. this one, i cant turn because it'll lose programming.
My fancy new zojirushi rice cooker. 10 watts constantly when plugged in. A ridiculous sum just to keep a non-glowing digital clock on all the time. it gets unplugged.
Toaster? Now ask me, why in the HELL does a toaster need to draw ANYTHING when it's just plugged in? This one is 1 watt to be plugged in. I hear an audible, yet mechanical. Click every single time i unplug it.
I could go on, power supply from a computer, not plugged into a mainboard. Draws 20 watts. (albeit older one, i have an 85+ one that draws 3 in the same fashion).
Speakers/Sub, both turned off but plugged in. 20 Watts.
These are not cheap no-name brand electronics either, none of these have a "remote turnon" these are 'reputed' brand items. And they all skimp on the electronics so they can make an additional 89 cents. that pisses me off. Over the course of the products lifetime, their shoddy workmanship will cost me, in electricity, dozens of dollars to significant fractions of the products original cost.
Agreed, people talk like running a business requires this mystical black voodoo magic, and I'm certain it's just not like that in reality. Anyone who tries to convince another of something is likely doing so for their own reasons. Intelligence, Common sense, logic, the ability to listen to others, combined with some long term goals is pretty much all that's needed.
sure, i imagine there's some finesse and talent that would make some more adept at it--as with everything, but I'm sure 5% of the population would be quite good at it. But these monkeys would lead others to believe something silly like.0003% of the population are only capable of working the black magic--and thus their salaries are surely justifiable.
Just because someone can multiply, divide, add, and subtract in an appropriate context doesn't mean their deserving of a salary 10x-30x+ the average employee's.
It's a great marketing strategy, really. Post some blurb about some product no one has heard of--and make it's dilemma known to an audience with a broad interest around such problems, and a potential interest in said products.
sheepishly, the intrigued masses walk into the clutches of the marketers to find out more about this company, and what it does.
it's not as simple as you make it out to be. For one, you don't know how many homes in that bond will default. That's a huge landmine, and now the economy's starting to slump, many people can barely afford the homes now, and their rates are only going to go up for a large number of them... Meanwhile, housing prices are slumping 'cause the economy's taking a crap. So what you say, the people default.... the last thing you want is them to default.
You first have to kick the people out,that'll often take 6ish months to go through the courts. In the meantime you'll have to worry about the cost of homes going down further, marketing the home for sale, maintain it until it's sold, Get insurance on it, pay taxes on it, heating it so the pipes do not break, hope it's not vandalized, hope the people you kicked out of it didn't destroy it, and most importantly pay people to handle all the listed items, and god knows what else i missed.
I feel it's quite reasonable that people freaked out when they realized their risk exposure was MUCH higher than they were let to believe, so if anything, there should be more regulation requiring MORE transparency.
See, i don't want your store protected from other competing dealers. It creates higher costs for me.
If someone requires 'pro audio' gear, and cares not to listen to it fist, and just buys it online, then perhaps their not really interested in pro-audio, but just wants high-end audio. And if your little store is unable to survive in this climate, perhaps a Pro-Audio store in North Dakota is too niche for the population size of the area.
Wallyworld and CostMe are agreeing to sell a product for a minimum price, their just going though a middleman to make the arrangement (the product manufacturer).
I will not buy any programs with SecuROM, I will check in advance now if they have it. I will be checking for info on similar programs on any future game purchases as well. Meaning, i will not buy "Cool New game right when it comes out!"
I have also put the makers of Command and Conquer onto my shit list. I wont be buying any future games from them, either. PERIOD.
I have Been burned twice now, and I have had to reload machines because of SecuROM crapware.
You don't know it's installed, there is no uninstaller. It somehow has reg keys you cannot delete, it phones home. How is this not a VIRUS or SPYWARE?
And vendors wonder why people warez their games? I see exactly where the appeal is: Less hassle, no CD checks, and about the same odds of getting a virus as if you were to but a retail game from your local*MART.
I'm pretty burned how MS purposefully disabled XP's capability to mirror hard drives via software. Yet, they allow raid 0,1, and 5 for their server editions.
I don't know if they changed this for vista, but it's pretty irksome that i would have to buy a hardware controller to do some software mirroring.
I admin a compellent san, and i find their "automated tiered storage" to be great in concept, marketed superbly, yet highly expensive and highly lacking in configurability.
If you want data automatically moved down to a slower tier, but it gets touched just once a day. Good luck in getting it to move down automatically.
I anxiously await the day when the SAN market is acknowledged as the scam it is (a glorified raid controller), and the various SAN companies die off in droves or become an everyday appliance they really are. It's obscene paying a grand for a run of the mill sata disk, and additionally paying about as much or more than the disk in various licenses. All the while gouging you yearly for 'support' contracts which are a sizable fraction of the cost of both hardware/disks/and licenses.
I recall reading a paper IBM published years back, advocating why ECC memory is still necessary due to cosmic rays... I forget, but they possibly tied it into why their chipkill (essentially, a RAID array for each DIMM) technology should be used, but as i understand it ECC will be adequate for correcting 'a' cosmic ray bit flip. chipkill is only necessary if you have multiple bits flipped, which potentially is the concern as dimm sizes scale up.
I really fail to see this as more than some marketing hype for a solution to an already solved problem.
Bleeding Edge Technology is rarely purchased by Joe Public, even the vast majority is not even adopted by gamers. Big businesses generally absorb the early adoptors cost of this kind of technology.
A perfect example of a use for this is a vmware environment. Their licenses are based off the number of PHYSICAL cores you have, and each license for their Infrastructure 3 (Standard and Enterprise versions) are well above the cited $1,000 to $2,000 you mention.
the only way it would *EVER* get out is if that information were leaked, or another government said "look what we can do", even with the later, the US of A would probably remain silent in their capabilities.
why? think of how much leverage the us would have in being able to eavesdrop on any friend or foe. I cant think of anything which would have more strategic value.
I think if an academic facity were to announce a breakthrough such as this, (assuming it was before OR after the government had a working version of it), The academic facility would probably also be gag-ordered with documents confiscated. yes, i am referring to the usa.
1.)an easier way to disable INDIVIDUAL plugins or groups of plugins. (macromedia/flash/shockwave). I figured it out with opera 8/9-beta, but 9.0 i'm still having troubles with getting these disabled. Then if i DO need them i just had to use a different browser because it was too much of a pain in the ass to re-enable
"Of course, hard-to-crack passwords only matter in cases where it would be feasible for someone to try and brute-force the system without being detected and locked out. That's generally only possible against targets like encrypted files, not live system logins."
Wrong. I believe Windows (which its safe to assume is what's running on the desktop of this place) has a nasty tendancy to explicitly cache network logon hashes, unless this has been specifically turned off by GPO. How else would your password let you log into Mr. Laptop without it being connected to the network?
The idea of a virus which phones home password hashes is pretty scary, and the only defense would really be strong pasword policy. (of course, keylogger could do this, but there's more potential number of users who have logged into a laptop/PC previously)
i'm forgetting how a laptop or desktop would store these hashes, but if it involves the standard MS LANMAN hash which MS keeps enabled by default for legacy compatability--then you're boned anyway...
If this private institution is recieving federal/state money, then in my opinion there should be a provision that is MUST conform to accepting all forms of free speech that students may express.
real war, versus training are two different beasts. the training aspect SHOULD be altered to be less dangerous to marine life.
i fully believe that training is hella important beforhand. BUT you dont see the navy jets firing real rockets at each other in training because it'll kill.
Why is it so hard for them to use the sonar differently in training? I didnt RFA but the headline even said that they wanted the navy to first listen for animals, then progressively turn on their sonar systems such that animals had a chance to flee. whats so hard about that? how is having animals within your training area going to adversely effect your training?
auction spectrum = still your governments dollars.
auctioned spectrum = BAD, unless its in lease form. I loathe that big businesses pay big bucks one time and profit forever off it. Govt should get a cut of profits generated by that spectrum forever.
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I really wonder if it'll help reduce genitic diversity or increase it.
I say this because "rare" traits are often considered attractive traits. a perfect example is red-headed hair. Everyone i know finds ginger ladies quite attractive. Or foreigners, if you ever lived in the Midwest monoculture. Whenever there's a foreigner around, a lot of people will acknowledge their attractiveness.
Now, for how much 'superficial' traits as skin/eye/hair color play a role in the core of genetic's. i do not know.
There is one other HUGE upside to this. Imagine if you have a certain genetic condition, causes you lots of problems. Most people wouldnt say "I'm going to do my part to eliminate this disease from the population by choosing not to have children" that's frankly absurd, and most people would still have kids and hope for the best. This is a HUGE thing for helping to eliminate certain diseases from out population, and helping to reduce the suffering of peoples as a whole.
Now, I'm not saying you're flat out wrong...weather some of these 'diseases' are genetic adaptions just half implemented by nature is anyone's guess.
When i hear about this kind of stuff, i often think it would be incredibly neat to just peek into the future and see where humanity ends up in 100,000 years--or if we're around even.
If i were your employer, I'd fire your ars for not backing up "terabytes of data" before attempting to encrypt it.
Regarding Anti-DRM, someone wanting to pirate a game WILL. *No matter if there is DRM or not* SPORE is a prime example of this.
Gamers just want to have fun. No Hassles. None of the flopping CD's, loading a machine full of Trojans you cannot get rid of (SecuROM), or other asinine options. Keep it Simple.
Personally, I find STEAM to be a quite nice trade off between usability, and anti-piracy. I can go to a friends, show them a cool new game (provided the download isn't too terribly long) and when i go home and play it back at my place, the friend cant use the game anymore. This is a good trade off between usability, and anti-piracy.
sometimes being modded up to only +5 just isn't enough.
Nevermind that a company within an industrialized nation is getting huge benefits from the infrastructure, and government resources housed where it's at(military/protection/fire department/the list goes on). I'd like to see how well one of these big companies would hold out with their headquarters in Sudan.
They damn well better pay fair wages for H-1B people (and outsourced people) if their going take advantage of local society's resources.
If there is no time limit to these side odds of Enrico Fermi's--then odds could very well happen if we saw a WW3.
I suppose it'd be pretty hard for man to technically wipe out all life with current technology. However, all of man and most large critters is close enough in my book. Hell, even knocking man back to the stone age is enough in my book.
I wonder--did anyone bet on that one and side with annihilation? what were the odds he gave? :)
I'm convinced that manufacturers should, at the very least, have to print their power consumption (and thus cost per year) on the outside of boxes, and in their specifications. Personally, I would even go so far as to say that all electronics should have to conform to energy star, unless there are very good reasons not to. there's no reason these things shouldn't.
I have an alarm clock, and it draws 10 freaking watts 24/7. Only reason i use it is cause i really like its alarm options. this one, i cant turn because it'll lose programming.
My fancy new zojirushi rice cooker. 10 watts constantly when plugged in. A ridiculous sum just to keep a non-glowing digital clock on all the time. it gets unplugged.
Toaster? Now ask me, why in the HELL does a toaster need to draw ANYTHING when it's just plugged in? This one is 1 watt to be plugged in. I hear an audible, yet mechanical. Click every single time i unplug it.
I could go on, power supply from a computer, not plugged into a mainboard. Draws 20 watts. (albeit older one, i have an 85+ one that draws 3 in the same fashion).
Speakers/Sub, both turned off but plugged in. 20 Watts.
These are not cheap no-name brand electronics either, none of these have a "remote turnon" these are 'reputed' brand items. And they all skimp on the electronics so they can make an additional 89 cents. that pisses me off. Over the course of the products lifetime, their shoddy workmanship will cost me, in electricity, dozens of dollars to significant fractions of the products original cost.
Awesome.
Agreed, people talk like running a business requires this mystical black voodoo magic, and I'm certain it's just not like that in reality. Anyone who tries to convince another of something is likely doing so for their own reasons. Intelligence, Common sense, logic, the ability to listen to others, combined with some long term goals is pretty much all that's needed.
sure, i imagine there's some finesse and talent that would make some more adept at it--as with everything, but I'm sure 5% of the population would be quite good at it. But these monkeys would lead others to believe something silly like .0003% of the population are only capable of working the black magic--and thus their salaries are surely justifiable.
meh. con artists. The whole lot of them.
Yes, let's put it into perspective.
Just because someone can multiply, divide, add, and subtract in an appropriate context doesn't mean their deserving of a salary 10x-30x+ the average employee's.
It's a great marketing strategy, really. Post some blurb about some product no one has heard of--and make it's dilemma known to an audience with a broad interest around such problems, and a potential interest in said products.
sheepishly, the intrigued masses walk into the clutches of the marketers to find out more about this company, and what it does.
I hate marketing.
it's not as simple as you make it out to be. For one, you don't know how many homes in that bond will default. That's a huge landmine, and now the economy's starting to slump, many people can barely afford the homes now, and their rates are only going to go up for a large number of them... Meanwhile, housing prices are slumping 'cause the economy's taking a crap. So what you say, the people default.... the last thing you want is them to default.
You first have to kick the people out,that'll often take 6ish months to go through the courts. In the meantime you'll have to worry about the cost of homes going down further, marketing the home for sale, maintain it until it's sold, Get insurance on it, pay taxes on it, heating it so the pipes do not break, hope it's not vandalized, hope the people you kicked out of it didn't destroy it, and most importantly pay people to handle all the listed items, and god knows what else i missed.
I feel it's quite reasonable that people freaked out when they realized their risk exposure was MUCH higher than they were let to believe, so if anything, there should be more regulation requiring MORE transparency.
See, i don't want your store protected from other competing dealers. It creates higher costs for me.
If someone requires 'pro audio' gear, and cares not to listen to it fist, and just buys it online, then perhaps their not really interested in pro-audio, but just wants high-end audio. And if your little store is unable to survive in this climate, perhaps a Pro-Audio store in North Dakota is too niche for the population size of the area.
Make sense?
It is still collusion in my book.
Wallyworld and CostMe are agreeing to sell a product for a minimum price, their just going though a middleman to make the arrangement (the product manufacturer).
Hey Friend,
I hope your PC has a UPS, with auto-shutdown mechanisms in place in the event of power loss.
Otherwise your placing your Raid-5 data at risk due to the "write hole" issue associated with Raid5.
Raid1 / Raid10 or ZFS would be a safer alternative if your data has value.
I will not buy any programs with SecuROM, I will check in advance now if they have it. I will be checking for info on similar programs on any future game purchases as well. Meaning, i will not buy "Cool New game right when it comes out!"
I have also put the makers of Command and Conquer onto my shit list. I wont be buying any future games from them, either. PERIOD.
I have Been burned twice now, and I have had to reload machines because of SecuROM crapware.
You don't know it's installed, there is no uninstaller. It somehow has reg keys you cannot delete, it phones home. How is this not a VIRUS or SPYWARE?
And vendors wonder why people warez their games? I see exactly where the appeal is: Less hassle, no CD checks, and about the same odds of getting a virus as if you were to but a retail game from your local*MART.
Games are supposed to be FUN.
I'm pretty burned how MS purposefully disabled XP's capability to mirror hard drives via software. Yet, they allow raid 0,1, and 5 for their server editions.
I don't know if they changed this for vista, but it's pretty irksome that i would have to buy a hardware controller to do some software mirroring.
I admin a compellent san, and i find their "automated tiered storage" to be great in concept, marketed superbly, yet highly expensive and highly lacking in configurability.
If you want data automatically moved down to a slower tier, but it gets touched just once a day. Good luck in getting it to move down automatically.
I anxiously await the day when the SAN market is acknowledged as the scam it is (a glorified raid controller), and the various SAN companies die off in droves or become an everyday appliance they really are. It's obscene paying a grand for a run of the mill sata disk, and additionally paying about as much or more than the disk in various licenses. All the while gouging you yearly for 'support' contracts which are a sizable fraction of the cost of both hardware/disks/and licenses.
Hurray for hemorrhaging cash!
I recall reading a paper IBM published years back, advocating why ECC memory is still necessary due to cosmic rays... I forget, but they possibly tied it into why their chipkill (essentially, a RAID array for each DIMM) technology should be used, but as i understand it ECC will be adequate for correcting 'a' cosmic ray bit flip. chipkill is only necessary if you have multiple bits flipped, which potentially is the concern as dimm sizes scale up.
I really fail to see this as more than some marketing hype for a solution to an already solved problem.
Wake up. This isnt forced overkill.
Bleeding Edge Technology is rarely purchased by Joe Public, even the vast majority is not even adopted by gamers. Big businesses generally absorb the early adoptors cost of this kind of technology.
A perfect example of a use for this is a vmware environment. Their licenses are based off the number of PHYSICAL cores you have, and each license for their Infrastructure 3 (Standard and Enterprise versions) are well above the cited $1,000 to $2,000 you mention.
the only way it would *EVER* get out is if that information were leaked, or another government said "look what we can do", even with the later, the US of A would probably remain silent in their capabilities.
why? think of how much leverage the us would have in being able to eavesdrop on any friend or foe. I cant think of anything which would have more strategic value.
I think if an academic facity were to announce a breakthrough such as this, (assuming it was before OR after the government had a working version of it), The academic facility would probably also be gag-ordered with documents confiscated. yes, i am referring to the usa.
1.)an easier way to disable INDIVIDUAL plugins or groups of plugins. (macromedia/flash/shockwave). I figured it out with opera 8/9-beta, but 9.0 i'm still having troubles with getting these disabled. Then if i DO need them i just had to use a different browser because it was too much of a pain in the ass to re-enable
2.) ability to open javascript in a new window.
those two are the biggest things i'd like to see.
"Of course, hard-to-crack passwords only matter in cases where it would be feasible for someone to try and brute-force the system without being detected and locked out. That's generally only possible against targets like encrypted files, not live system logins."
Wrong.
I believe Windows (which its safe to assume is what's running on the desktop of this place) has a nasty tendancy to explicitly cache network logon hashes, unless this has been specifically turned off by GPO. How else would your password let you log into Mr. Laptop without it being connected to the network?
The idea of a virus which phones home password hashes is pretty scary, and the only defense would really be strong pasword policy. (of course, keylogger could do this, but there's more potential number of users who have logged into a laptop/PC previously)
i'm forgetting how a laptop or desktop would store these hashes, but if it involves the standard MS LANMAN hash which MS keeps enabled by default for legacy compatability--then you're boned anyway...
If this private institution is recieving federal/state money, then in my opinion there should be a provision that is MUST conform to accepting all forms of free speech that students may express.
real war, versus training are two different beasts. the training aspect SHOULD be altered to be less dangerous to marine life.
i fully believe that training is hella important beforhand. BUT you dont see the navy jets firing real rockets at each other in training because it'll kill.
Why is it so hard for them to use the sonar differently in training? I didnt RFA but the headline even said that they wanted the navy to first listen for animals, then progressively turn on their sonar systems such that animals had a chance to flee. whats so hard about that? how is having animals within your training area going to adversely effect your training?
dumb.
auction spectrum = still your governments dollars.
auctioned spectrum = BAD, unless its in lease form. I loathe that big businesses pay big bucks one time and profit forever off it. Govt should get a cut of profits generated by that spectrum forever.