While I can understand your bitterness, I recall years ago looking at a cute little farm house just outside of town on a few acres of land. It was partially appealing because it was priced low (this was during the go-go housing price inflation of the early 2000s) and a large corner of the property was filled with 2nd (or 3rd) generation woods (weed trees) and that corner looked like a great way to make some money by selling of part of the property to someone to build a house on.
But when you looked into it, you learned that this area was outside of the city water/sewer system, and the soil was dense clay and water logged. There was no place on the corner to put a septic field, and in fact all of the available space for a septic field on the original property was already in use - so the house couldn't be expanded to have more bathrooms, a dish washer, etc.
In some parts of the country, you might have had a chance for some financial compensation from the developer/realtor for misrepresentation of the property if they had claimed that broadband was available.
Using gizgoogle.net against the WSJ article ends with this statement:
Muthafuckas should not be stigmatized fo' tha way they speak, n' they certainly should not have stupid, made-up linguistic superstitions drilled tha fuck into they heads.
Is this where Hollywood gets it's dialogue from these days?
Information Week is confused about the difference between open standards (TLS, Domain Name System, Network Time Protocol) and open source (OpenSSL, BIND, NTPD). But they're a rag anyway. For that matter, they seem to be confused about the difference between definition and geography - Greenwich Mean Time is a known source of reliable time, as is the US Naval Observatory.
Yes, there's an issue here about a critical component of technology - but the Information Week explanation just contributes to ignorance and stupidity in general.
The article mentions "certain frauds" but doesn't try to enumerate or summarize what frauds - and I haven't gone looking at the law itself to see what the "certain frauds" is.
Could the new definition include crap-ware pre-installed on workstations or that comes with other downloads? What about phone or tablet apps that download advertising? What affect would this have on the app stores?
Compared to what? A very small set of largely anecdotal stories from my (then) wife.
My point is that I acquiesced to (limited) homeopathy because I saw it as a harmless treatment that satisfied the need to do something, anything in order to keep marital peace. An ugly reason that vanished when we divorced.
Frankly, most of the treatments for things like aches and nose-bleeds were just something to do to calm the patient (victim?) and let the body's natural processes take care of things. Kind of like the hoary advice of Take two aspirins and call me in the morning but safer. (Aspirin can prevent blood coagulation and lower a fever temperature - which interferes with a conventional medical evaluation.)
It was a way to impose a wait on people unable to accept that.
I wish the article was more than a link to a commercial news site that was itself a link to a press release. There's no direct information here, and I'd have liked to see if the review had included an analysis of any disclosures of funding or affiliations.
Personally, I'm in an annoying position in regards to Homeopathy. My ex got involved in homeopathy for things that conventional medicine didn't seem able to cure or ameliorate - before we divorced. It seemed to help her and it seemed to help our (young) kids when she used it to reduce the duration of a cold or reduce some pain or control nose-bleeds. She'd stick with conventional medicine for real injuries, etc. And because she said that my disbelief interfered with the treatments, and because this didn't interfere with conventional treatments - and because I needed peace in the family, I tried to go along.
But the whole anti-corporate, conspiracy driven, magical thinking defense was hard to accept (although it would make entertaining storytelling.)
Somehow, it seemed to work for her. That's easy to explain away as the "placebo affect", but there's also a social effect too that occurs when you have a community of people you can interact with who will take an interest in you, etc. It's really hard to self-administer a placebo - unless it's wrapped up like homeopathic treatments are. As for the cost of homeopathic treatments - well, they cost more than sugar pills and a kit of homeopathic medicines (with a handy-dandy guide for administration) will set you back a lot of money (especially if you're going through a divorce - ending with loosing your job in the Great Recession). But my (largely unused) kit has lasted me nearly 10 years now, sitting in the back of my linen closet underneath a pile of old towels.
If you can keep your wits about you about using homeopathic remedies only on things that conventional medicine doesn't treat AND which aren't chronic, etc. -- well you might be able to use it successfully. But you're on a dangerous edge. Still, it's better than self-medicating with alcohol or other intoxicating substances. And (potentially) about the same as just ignoring the aches, pains, etc. of life until they get so bad you can barely make it into urgent care.
The problem is the vast number of privately funded studies that don't support the funders goals and get buried (i.e.: "negative results".) This is an attempt to prevent the EPA from negotiating to see those results - which they'd probably have to promise to keep confidential in order to have access to them. This allows corporations to prevent the EPA from banning something simply by not publishing negative results.
It's more like "Flowers for Algernon's Baby" - especially if you want to mix in more Elder Worlds horror than the original story's rather cerebral horror had.
The $28000/ drone apprehension figure did include "overhead".
I don't mean to argue that the drone program isn't inexpensive or inefficient - just that without comparing it with other methods (such as active patrols, etc.), the $28000/apprehension figure generates outrage only because $28000 seems like a VERY BIG NUMBER. And if you're going to get outraged by a VERY BIG NUMBER solely because of the metric of VERY BIG NUMBER/apprehension, it might be helpful to have a reference number of sorts rather than the costs people are used to from their daily lives.
GPG doesn't give end-to-end encryption. It gives at-rest encryption. It's for encrypting arbitrary files or chunks of data - but doesn't provide a way of delivering that data (like The Onion Router project does, or even a VPN does.)
or FY2014 budget of $13.6 Billion and 486,651 apprehensions.
That gives an average cost of $27946/apprehension for the entire organization. My (very, very) simple minded calculation is remarkably similar to the Office of Inspector General's figures for just the drone program. If anything, it shows that just introducing drones doesn't change the cost-per-apprehension of the Border Patrol. A more important question would be whether cost-per-apprehension is even a valid metric for the Border Patrol.
3 years ago, my son went off to college with a Republic Wireless WiFi phone and subscription (early adopter.) His mother got a Republic Wireless subscription too. The lack of a multi-year contract and the low price were the appealing features to them, and there wasn't much in the way of competition back then for something that included a data plan.
My observations are as follows:
Young people don't use a phone, they use a portable communications and entertainment device. Voice calls are one of multiple communications methods, and not a very important one. Therefore, voice quality doesn't matter much.
WiFi-phones don't work well in environments where the WiFi is locked down tightly (such as hospitals) and BYO Devices aren't supported.
My ex doesn't like accepting my calls.
For now, I'm still old school enough to want a phone that'll work in an emergency, in some rural environments where the minor carriers haven't built out yet. But that might change in a few years as I find myself hardly traveling anymore. I don't use a phone as a multi-media communications and entertainment device, but that might change when I replace my old iPhone-4.
A WiFi based phone service with cell-network backup would work for me 99% of the time, but I'm old enough and conservative enough to want a few more '9's.
Another thing I believe is that if WiFi based phone service expands and becomes common for large venues (such as sports stadiums, hotels, etc.), it could result in cell-network based phone service not growing in depth. The combination would reduce the service level expectations of voice service, displacing to more communications via. instant messaging/social networking.
Let's ignore (for now) how (US) laws make the major automobile manufacturers dependent on their dealer networks to sell cars (etc.) - and the dealers are dependent on their service bays to stay in business. Consider only the operational aspects of how software updates are applied to cars - which is a VERY manual process with technicians and experts trained in ways to communicate with each other, and with (typically) a several day window in which the update(s) can be applied while the owner finds alternate transportation.
The existing process is (relatively) forgiving, since a technician has documentation, experience, and additional technical support to call for help. The customer is already inconvenienced, so adding a few hours (or even days) to the update process while problems are worked out is (barely) tolerable. Moreover, two cars of the same model (and trim) but manufactured a few weeks or months apart may have different controllers - something that the technician could verify, but the owner might not.
I suspect that software updates for most major automobile manufacturers is more like the state of firmware, driver, and OS updates was for Windows back in the 1990s.
Heck, just create your own Board to issue Certificates of Authenticity - just like Rand Paul tried to do for ophthalmology (see http://www.washingtonpost.com/... )
Also, "Herbal" remedies can be marketed and sold without FDA involvement. I'm not sure whether the alternative medicine culture regrets or revels in the lack of scientific testing of most remedies, but it sure creates a wide open market where shysters can sell snake oil. And if it's homeopathic snake-oil, they don't need to squeeze the snake.
There are also certain herbal remedies where the evidence is inconclusive - but where it has been a popular folk-remedy for a long time (i.e.: echinacea.)
The article is about scheduling access to thread prioritization lists implemented as linked lists, not scheduling individual instructions. The issue involves multiple CPUs contending for the root (start) of a linked list, which causes cache-invalidation in the CPUs, thereby causing systemic inefficiencies.
A very dumbed-down description of their solution is to have multiple "root" lists in order to reduce the frequency of cache-contention/invalidation.
A disk 1/5 mile with a sensor 10 to 100 miles away (precisely aligned on the axis of the disk) isn't going to be very steerable, especially if the distances from the EDGES of the disk to the sensor all have to match within a half-wavelength in order for the interferometry to work right.
And wouldn't the changing relative positions of earth, moon, and sun cause disturbances in the disk? Is the solar wind sufficiently uniform over distances of 1/2 mile at earth orbit to not be a concern for causing non-uniform disturbances to the disk?
"geostationary" MUST be a mistake in the article. I don't see how the sensor can maintain a 1/2 wavelength position from the disk at a range of 10 to 100 miles unless the sensor is powered (ion drive?) somehow.
Everything on the car that could be integrated into a single material piece has been printed. This includes the chassis/frame, exterior body, and some interior features. The mechanical components of the vehicle, like battery, motors, wiring, and suspension, are sourced from Renault’s Twizy, an electric powered city car.
Disney does have some control over it's employees. Just as it can fire employees for coming to work drunk - or for risking the lives of fellow employees or visitors, so it can take measures that affect their employment in regards to vaccinations and disease outbreaks, from banning un-vaccinated employees access to public spaces to limiting their leaves to making vaccination a condition of employment. (Of course, that doesn't solve the problem of employment practices that penalize people for taking sick-time, etc.) But that's not going to solve Disney's problem because it currently can't discriminate against visitors who aren't vaccinated and so the impression of large theme parks as being a Horrifying Den of Disease is going to persist.
Disney isn't going to want to alienate it's customers by running advertisements asking people who aren't vaccinated to avoid coming to it's parks. It'll just irritate the anti-vaccination crowd and scare off the conventional people who think the anti-vaccination crown is terribly, horribly wrong (and irresponsible enough to visit anyway.)
A trade association COULD run public service messages to the effect that willfully avoiding vaccination is as bad as drunk driving and killing a family in a car accident. The government COULD make vaccination records available on state issued ID cards (drivers licenses, etc.)
This is a public health and safety issue, and like most such issues, practical and efficient solutions can come into conflict with some perceived individual freedoms. Even worse for some people, it involves the dreaded word "compromise". For instance, I give up the freedom to drive a car where ever I want to so that I have some assurance that I'm safe from people driving the opposite direction on the same side of the road I'm on, or on my lawn.
Perhaps the right solution (compromise) would be standardized, opt-in credentials that indicate what kind of conventional (sensible) things I'm willing to abide by, like:
(*) I'm vaccinated;
(*) I'm NOT packing a firearm;
(*) I don't chew gum in public.
People who think that such assertions are an infringement of their privacy don't need to opt-in. Privately run facilities could make decisions based on those credentials - although Public parks would probably not be able to.
While this is purely speculation, could China be aiming to offer itself as a global (or even regional) interconnect? Or is the the ability to play NSA-like games on international traffic within home-borders just not a realistic possibility anymore?
I'm thinking of how a "Chinese" error (in Germany) caused traffic between two Russian cities to be directed out-of-country (see http://research.dyn.com/2014/1... ).
I can take the tin-foil hat off anytime I want to, but I really do like the propeller beanie.
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While I can understand your bitterness, I recall years ago looking at a cute little farm house just outside of town on a few acres of land. It was partially appealing because it was priced low (this was during the go-go housing price inflation of the early 2000s) and a large corner of the property was filled with 2nd (or 3rd) generation woods (weed trees) and that corner looked like a great way to make some money by selling of part of the property to someone to build a house on.
But when you looked into it, you learned that this area was outside of the city water/sewer system, and the soil was dense clay and water logged. There was no place on the corner to put a septic field, and in fact all of the available space for a septic field on the original property was already in use - so the house couldn't be expanded to have more bathrooms, a dish washer, etc.
In some parts of the country, you might have had a chance for some financial compensation from the developer/realtor for misrepresentation of the property if they had claimed that broadband was available.
Using gizgoogle.net against the WSJ article ends with this statement:
Is this where Hollywood gets it's dialogue from these days?
Information Week is confused about the difference between open standards (TLS, Domain Name System, Network Time Protocol) and open source (OpenSSL, BIND, NTPD). But they're a rag anyway. For that matter, they seem to be confused about the difference between definition and geography - Greenwich Mean Time is a known source of reliable time, as is the US Naval Observatory.
Yes, there's an issue here about a critical component of technology - but the Information Week explanation just contributes to ignorance and stupidity in general.
The article mentions "certain frauds" but doesn't try to enumerate or summarize what frauds - and I haven't gone looking at the law itself to see what the "certain frauds" is.
Could the new definition include crap-ware pre-installed on workstations or that comes with other downloads? What about phone or tablet apps that download advertising? What affect would this have on the app stores?
Compared to what? A very small set of largely anecdotal stories from my (then) wife.
My point is that I acquiesced to (limited) homeopathy because I saw it as a harmless treatment that satisfied the need to do something, anything in order to keep marital peace. An ugly reason that vanished when we divorced.
Frankly, most of the treatments for things like aches and nose-bleeds were just something to do to calm the patient (victim?) and let the body's natural processes take care of things. Kind of like the hoary advice of Take two aspirins and call me in the morning but safer. (Aspirin can prevent blood coagulation and lower a fever temperature - which interferes with a conventional medical evaluation.)
It was a way to impose a wait on people unable to accept that.
I wish the article was more than a link to a commercial news site that was itself a link to a press release. There's no direct information here, and I'd have liked to see if the review had included an analysis of any disclosures of funding or affiliations.
Personally, I'm in an annoying position in regards to Homeopathy. My ex got involved in homeopathy for things that conventional medicine didn't seem able to cure or ameliorate - before we divorced. It seemed to help her and it seemed to help our (young) kids when she used it to reduce the duration of a cold or reduce some pain or control nose-bleeds. She'd stick with conventional medicine for real injuries, etc. And because she said that my disbelief interfered with the treatments, and because this didn't interfere with conventional treatments - and because I needed peace in the family, I tried to go along.
But the whole anti-corporate, conspiracy driven, magical thinking defense was hard to accept (although it would make entertaining storytelling.)
Somehow, it seemed to work for her. That's easy to explain away as the "placebo affect", but there's also a social effect too that occurs when you have a community of people you can interact with who will take an interest in you, etc. It's really hard to self-administer a placebo - unless it's wrapped up like homeopathic treatments are. As for the cost of homeopathic treatments - well, they cost more than sugar pills and a kit of homeopathic medicines (with a handy-dandy guide for administration) will set you back a lot of money (especially if you're going through a divorce - ending with loosing your job in the Great Recession). But my (largely unused) kit has lasted me nearly 10 years now, sitting in the back of my linen closet underneath a pile of old towels.
If you can keep your wits about you about using homeopathic remedies only on things that conventional medicine doesn't treat AND which aren't chronic, etc. -- well you might be able to use it successfully. But you're on a dangerous edge. Still, it's better than self-medicating with alcohol or other intoxicating substances. And (potentially) about the same as just ignoring the aches, pains, etc. of life until they get so bad you can barely make it into urgent care.
The problem is the vast number of privately funded studies that don't support the funders goals and get buried (i.e.: "negative results".) This is an attempt to prevent the EPA from negotiating to see those results - which they'd probably have to promise to keep confidential in order to have access to them. This allows corporations to prevent the EPA from banning something simply by not publishing negative results.
Seeing layout problems on Chrome for Linux (Ubuntu 14.04, 32-bit) too.
It's more like "Flowers for Algernon's Baby" - especially if you want to mix in more Elder Worlds horror than the original story's rather cerebral horror had.
The $28000/ drone apprehension figure did include "overhead".
I don't mean to argue that the drone program isn't inexpensive or inefficient - just that without comparing it with other methods (such as active patrols, etc.), the $28000/apprehension figure generates outrage only because $28000 seems like a VERY BIG NUMBER. And if you're going to get outraged by a VERY BIG NUMBER solely because of the metric of VERY BIG NUMBER/apprehension, it might be helpful to have a reference number of sorts rather than the costs people are used to from their daily lives.
But I'm still comparing fruit (and you're letting me compare tree-fruit too...) My point is to put some kind of scale on the numbers involved.
GPG doesn't give end-to-end encryption. It gives at-rest encryption. It's for encrypting arbitrary files or chunks of data - but doesn't provide a way of delivering that data (like The Onion Router project does, or even a VPN does.)
The math for calculating this cost is deceptively simple-minded - and the article doesn't offer any way to compare it with other methods.
A (very) brief search for the US Border Patrol budget and apprehensions found these:
or FY2014 budget of $13.6 Billion and 486,651 apprehensions.
That gives an average cost of $27946/apprehension for the entire organization. My (very, very) simple minded calculation is remarkably similar to the Office of Inspector General's figures for just the drone program. If anything, it shows that just introducing drones doesn't change the cost-per-apprehension of the Border Patrol. A more important question would be whether cost-per-apprehension is even a valid metric for the Border Patrol.
3 years ago, my son went off to college with a Republic Wireless WiFi phone and subscription (early adopter.) His mother got a Republic Wireless subscription too. The lack of a multi-year contract and the low price were the appealing features to them, and there wasn't much in the way of competition back then for something that included a data plan.
My observations are as follows:
For now, I'm still old school enough to want a phone that'll work in an emergency, in some rural environments where the minor carriers haven't built out yet. But that might change in a few years as I find myself hardly traveling anymore. I don't use a phone as a multi-media communications and entertainment device, but that might change when I replace my old iPhone-4.
A WiFi based phone service with cell-network backup would work for me 99% of the time, but I'm old enough and conservative enough to want a few more '9's.
Another thing I believe is that if WiFi based phone service expands and becomes common for large venues (such as sports stadiums, hotels, etc.), it could result in cell-network based phone service not growing in depth. The combination would reduce the service level expectations of voice service, displacing to more communications via. instant messaging/social networking.
Burn the witch!
She turned me into a newt!
Another convert to FreeBSD?
Let's ignore (for now) how (US) laws make the major automobile manufacturers dependent on their dealer networks to sell cars (etc.) - and the dealers are dependent on their service bays to stay in business. Consider only the operational aspects of how software updates are applied to cars - which is a VERY manual process with technicians and experts trained in ways to communicate with each other, and with (typically) a several day window in which the update(s) can be applied while the owner finds alternate transportation.
The existing process is (relatively) forgiving, since a technician has documentation, experience, and additional technical support to call for help. The customer is already inconvenienced, so adding a few hours (or even days) to the update process while problems are worked out is (barely) tolerable. Moreover, two cars of the same model (and trim) but manufactured a few weeks or months apart may have different controllers - something that the technician could verify, but the owner might not.
I suspect that software updates for most major automobile manufacturers is more like the state of firmware, driver, and OS updates was for Windows back in the 1990s.
Changing this will take time.
Heck, just create your own Board to issue Certificates of Authenticity - just like Rand Paul tried to do for ophthalmology (see http://www.washingtonpost.com/... )
Also, "Herbal" remedies can be marketed and sold without FDA involvement. I'm not sure whether the alternative medicine culture regrets or revels in the lack of scientific testing of most remedies, but it sure creates a wide open market where shysters can sell snake oil. And if it's homeopathic snake-oil, they don't need to squeeze the snake.
There are also certain herbal remedies where the evidence is inconclusive - but where it has been a popular folk-remedy for a long time (i.e.: echinacea .)
The article is about scheduling access to thread prioritization lists implemented as linked lists, not scheduling individual instructions. The issue involves multiple CPUs contending for the root (start) of a linked list, which causes cache-invalidation in the CPUs, thereby causing systemic inefficiencies.
A very dumbed-down description of their solution is to have multiple "root" lists in order to reduce the frequency of cache-contention/invalidation.
Perhaps they mean "en-pheasant"
Thanks. That makes it more steerable (provided that the edges of the disk remain in a plane too.)
A disk 1/5 mile with a sensor 10 to 100 miles away (precisely aligned on the axis of the disk) isn't going to be very steerable, especially if the distances from the EDGES of the disk to the sensor all have to match within a half-wavelength in order for the interferometry to work right.
And wouldn't the changing relative positions of earth, moon, and sun cause disturbances in the disk? Is the solar wind sufficiently uniform over distances of 1/2 mile at earth orbit to not be a concern for causing non-uniform disturbances to the disk?
"geostationary" MUST be a mistake in the article. I don't see how the sensor can maintain a 1/2 wavelength position from the disk at a range of 10 to 100 miles unless the sensor is powered (ion drive?) somehow.
From the website: https://localmotors.com/3d-pri...
Is the entire car 3D printed?
Everything on the car that could be integrated into a single material piece has been printed. This includes the chassis/frame, exterior body, and some interior features. The mechanical components of the vehicle, like battery, motors, wiring, and suspension, are sourced from Renault’s Twizy, an electric powered city car.
Disney does have some control over it's employees. Just as it can fire employees for coming to work drunk - or for risking the lives of fellow employees or visitors, so it can take measures that affect their employment in regards to vaccinations and disease outbreaks, from banning un-vaccinated employees access to public spaces to limiting their leaves to making vaccination a condition of employment. (Of course, that doesn't solve the problem of employment practices that penalize people for taking sick-time, etc.) But that's not going to solve Disney's problem because it currently can't discriminate against visitors who aren't vaccinated and so the impression of large theme parks as being a Horrifying Den of Disease is going to persist.
Disney isn't going to want to alienate it's customers by running advertisements asking people who aren't vaccinated to avoid coming to it's parks. It'll just irritate the anti-vaccination crowd and scare off the conventional people who think the anti-vaccination crown is terribly, horribly wrong (and irresponsible enough to visit anyway.)
A trade association COULD run public service messages to the effect that willfully avoiding vaccination is as bad as drunk driving and killing a family in a car accident. The government COULD make vaccination records available on state issued ID cards (drivers licenses, etc.)
This is a public health and safety issue, and like most such issues, practical and efficient solutions can come into conflict with some perceived individual freedoms. Even worse for some people, it involves the dreaded word "compromise". For instance, I give up the freedom to drive a car where ever I want to so that I have some assurance that I'm safe from people driving the opposite direction on the same side of the road I'm on, or on my lawn.
Perhaps the right solution (compromise) would be standardized, opt-in credentials that indicate what kind of conventional (sensible) things I'm willing to abide by, like:
People who think that such assertions are an infringement of their privacy don't need to opt-in. Privately run facilities could make decisions based on those credentials - although Public parks would probably not be able to.
While this is purely speculation, could China be aiming to offer itself as a global (or even regional) interconnect? Or is the the ability to play NSA-like games on international traffic within home-borders just not a realistic possibility anymore?
I'm thinking of how a "Chinese" error (in Germany) caused traffic between two Russian cities to be directed out-of-country (see http://research.dyn.com/2014/1... ).
I can take the tin-foil hat off anytime I want to, but I really do like the propeller beanie.