I'm interested in any good ideas, countermeasures, rube goldberg devices that could be employed in or outside of a country like DRC that could restore, maintain, or circumvent a communications banhammer.
What do you hope to accomplish? Restored communications would empower the urban elite in Kinshasha, and further marginalize the rural people of the eastern Congo, who in some areas are already in open rebellion. The last thing the DRC needs is yet another full scale war.
For all his faults, Kabila has mostly avoided pandering to tribalism, unlike his "democratic" opponents. In the 1st World, we tend to view "Democracy" as an unqualified "Good Thing", but in tribal societies, it usually just leads to the dominant tribe getting even more power to crush the minorities.
I don't understand why monorails are so slow-- that seems to be the attribute that kills them..
No. This is wrong. The attribute that kills monorail is that the rails go where the designers wanted people to go, rather than were people actually want to go.
Where people want to go: 1. From the airport to the strip. 2. From outlying hotels to the strip.
Where the rails actually go: 1. From one casino on the strip to other nearby nearly identical casinos.
3.5 million Americans are employed as professional truck drivers and will be out of work when self-driving freight trucks hit the roads.
The American labor force is 160 million people, so the truck drivers are about 2%. The economy is currently growing at over 3% per year, so it could easily absorb that many workers even if all the trucks were replaced in one year. Most likely they will be phased in over a decade.
Meanwhile, self driving cars will create plenty of business opportunities for "on demand" services and "just in time" deliveries. Need a tile saw for a project? Have one delivered to your front door in 15 minutes, use it for a few hours, and then another vehicle picks it up and returns it.
Whatever cycles there were are not repeating themselves.
Can you provide any actual evidence that "this time is different"? The scaremongering that "robots are taking all the jobs" started in the 1990s. Yet here we are 20 years later with a full employment economy. I have been keeping careful count of all the jobs lost to "deep learning". The job loss count so far: 0.
For the last 10,000 years people have believed that all the past productivity improvements are GOOD and the foundation of their prosperity.
They have also believed that all FUTURE productivity improvements will be BAD and be the doom of humanity.
You have to be under 30 Not to realize this.
I am way over 30, and I think you are preaching the same nonsense that your parents and grandparents were preaching when they were your age.
The superlative is meaningless if what you compare it to is nothing to compare with.
There were plenty of movies in 2017 to compare to. Of the top twenty, only two (Dunkirk at #15 and Coco at #20) were not about superheros, not sequels, and not remakes. But further down the list, there are many more, and they did not do well.
This is what audiences want: 1. No originality 2. Lots of explosions 3. As little dialog and character development as possible.
Would you use a blockchain system when you needed to speed up transaction times?
It depends on the "transaction". If you are trying to clear multi-party escrowed transactions, such as securities, bonds, or real-estate transactions, those can currently take days to clear and be recorded. A blockchain based system could reduce that to minutes, and possibly even seconds.
Yeah, that's the only workable path forward since Americans are too lazy to get their shit together and take an extra 5 fucking minutes
I have a drone. I know plenty of other people that have drones. I have NEVER checked for flight restrictions. The software shows "no-fly" areas, some of which are temporary, and I have always just assumed it was doing the job. Nobody I know checks either.
So maybe a mission critical dependence on a bunch of random civilians to be diligent, when there is overwhelming evidence that they are not, isn't such a bright idea.
1. DJI should not have shut off restriction updates. 2. The Army should not have been flying below the drone ceiling. 3. Trying to solve a problem by changing basic human nature is idiotic. You can't expect millions of people to be "not lazy" when YOUR life depends on it.
This crap keeps getting through all the SPAM filters and makes email a useless joke.
Nonsense. These "Nigerian" scams are the easiest things in the world to filter out. The are actually specifically designed to look like obvious scams, and the misspellings and even the claim to be Nigerian are intentional fabrications.
You see, for these scammers, the worst thing in the world is to waste time on semi-intelligent people who may fall for the initial hook, but then turn skeptical when asked to front money. So they only want to deal with the stupidest of the stupid. So they design a scam that only a total idiot would fall for, in order to separate the idiots from the herd.
If your filter isn't triggered by "Nigerian prince", then you deserve to be spammed.
When the first real attempts to use Windows machines as Hotmail front end boxes was attempted...
The first "real" attempt? Why the weasel word? What you mean is the first successful attempt after three years of abject failure.
the Windows servers were within 10% for raw performance.
That is not my recollection at all. I have some "before and after" photos of the Hotmail's Sunnyvale datacenter. I will try to find them and post a link.
Your link is a somewhat sanitized version of what happened, and ignores the first three years of fiascos.
Prior to the acquisition, Hotmail worked closely with the FreeBSD devs to optimize their servers. This led to things like the "sendfile" system call, where a program could pass a filename and an open socket to the kernel, and the kernel would write the file to the socket with none of the bytes touching userspace. So when Microsoft took over, they got a lean, optimized, and efficient system, and tried to replace it with one of the worst server operating systems ever. Each FreeBSD system (a $200 motherboard sitting on a piece of cardboard), needed 20 Win-NT servers to replace it, each costing ten times as much as the FreeBSD boards. Since this was clearly unworkable, they waited another 3 years to do the transition, while both hardware and software improved. All of this was further complicated by many of the original Hotmail people quitting to go elsewhere (this was the height of the boom), leaving the remaining employees just treading water with little time to work on the transition.
I bet if the "printing or programming error" resulted in winning tickets to be non-winning tickets, you wouldn't be seeing any surprise payouts.
Of course not. Lotteries are not designed to be "fair". They are designed to extract the maximum revenue from the dumbest people.
SC will likely not pay out any of these "winning" tickets. Will this result in lower ticket sales in the future? Of course not. Dumb people will continue to be dumb.
They knew they were buying winning tickets and you say should know that they cannot do that?
They should have known, because that is how all lotteries work.
And how do you make a difference between those that knew and those that dit not?
You don't. Nobody wins. At most they are entitled to a refund of the ticket price.
THOSE ARE THE RULES. If you don't like the rules, then DON'T PLAY.
Also, if you are not stupid, then DON'T PLAY.
Lotteries are a rip-off, and this is just a further confirmation of that. The rules are designed to screw you. We should not change the rules retroactively to make them "fair" to stupid people at the expense of non-stupid people.
if the state has a problem they should sue the manufacturer of the tickets.
SC would almost certainly lose that lawsuit. Just as the lottery tickets have an "out" for printing and programing errors, the contract with the manufacturer/printer almost certainly has a clause covering that as well.
The state has no legal or moral obligation to pay, so why should they be able to push this non-existent obligation onto someone else?
Just to be clear: You are saying the taxpayers should pay for this, and funds should be diverted from paying for schools and road repairs.
Since these lotteries have fine print legalese that lays out what happens in the case of a printing or programming error, there is no legal obligation to honor the tickets. Since most people that bought the tickets did so after they were aware of the error, there is no moral reason to pay up either.
Comcast is in business to make money. The tax "reform" and the repeal of NN mean that Comcast's activities are likely to lead to higher profits and higher ROI, so it is rational for them to invest in expanding their business.
However, that investment is probably better spent buying up competitors rather than rolling out new infrastructure.
then it blows out the TCP connection stack and downloads whatever it likes
What does it mean to "blow out" a TCP connection?
Do you seriously doubt there are a ton of cheap Android phones you could easily root this way
I have no idea what you mean by "this way", but I also don't see what "cheap" has to do with it. They are running the same networking software on the same core hardware (ARM) as more expensive Android phones.
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I'm interested in any good ideas, countermeasures, rube goldberg devices that could be employed in or outside of a country like DRC that could restore, maintain, or circumvent a communications banhammer.
What do you hope to accomplish? Restored communications would empower the urban elite in Kinshasha, and further marginalize the rural people of the eastern Congo, who in some areas are already in open rebellion. The last thing the DRC needs is yet another full scale war.
For all his faults, Kabila has mostly avoided pandering to tribalism, unlike his "democratic" opponents. In the 1st World, we tend to view "Democracy" as an unqualified "Good Thing", but in tribal societies, it usually just leads to the dominant tribe getting even more power to crush the minorities.
I don't understand why monorails are so slow-- that seems to be the attribute that kills them..
No. This is wrong. The attribute that kills monorail is that the rails go where the designers wanted people to go, rather than were people actually want to go.
Where people want to go:
1. From the airport to the strip.
2. From outlying hotels to the strip.
Where the rails actually go:
1. From one casino on the strip to other nearby nearly identical casinos.
3.5 million Americans are employed as professional truck drivers and will be out of work when self-driving freight trucks hit the roads.
The American labor force is 160 million people, so the truck drivers are about 2%. The economy is currently growing at over 3% per year, so it could easily absorb that many workers even if all the trucks were replaced in one year. Most likely they will be phased in over a decade.
Meanwhile, self driving cars will create plenty of business opportunities for "on demand" services and "just in time" deliveries. Need a tile saw for a project? Have one delivered to your front door in 15 minutes, use it for a few hours, and then another vehicle picks it up and returns it.
Whatever cycles there were are not repeating themselves.
Can you provide any actual evidence that "this time is different"? The scaremongering that "robots are taking all the jobs" started in the 1990s. Yet here we are 20 years later with a full employment economy. I have been keeping careful count of all the jobs lost to "deep learning". The job loss count so far: 0.
For the last 10,000 years people have believed that all the past productivity improvements are GOOD and the foundation of their prosperity.
They have also believed that all FUTURE productivity improvements will be BAD and be the doom of humanity.
You have to be under 30 Not to realize this.
I am way over 30, and I think you are preaching the same nonsense that your parents and grandparents were preaching when they were your age.
The superlative is meaningless if what you compare it to is nothing to compare with.
There were plenty of movies in 2017 to compare to. Of the top twenty, only two (Dunkirk at #15 and Coco at #20) were not about superheros, not sequels, and not remakes. But further down the list, there are many more, and they did not do well.
This is what audiences want:
1. No originality
2. Lots of explosions
3. As little dialog and character development as possible.
Expect to see more of the same.
Would you use a blockchain system when you needed to speed up transaction times?
It depends on the "transaction". If you are trying to clear multi-party escrowed transactions, such as securities, bonds, or real-estate transactions, those can currently take days to clear and be recorded. A blockchain based system could reduce that to minutes, and possibly even seconds.
Yeah, that's the only workable path forward since Americans are too lazy to get their shit together and take an extra 5 fucking minutes
I have a drone. I know plenty of other people that have drones. I have NEVER checked for flight restrictions. The software shows "no-fly" areas, some of which are temporary, and I have always just assumed it was doing the job. Nobody I know checks either.
So maybe a mission critical dependence on a bunch of random civilians to be diligent, when there is overwhelming evidence that they are not, isn't such a bright idea.
1. DJI should not have shut off restriction updates.
2. The Army should not have been flying below the drone ceiling.
3. Trying to solve a problem by changing basic human nature is idiotic. You can't expect millions of people to be "not lazy" when YOUR life depends on it.
This crap keeps getting through all the SPAM filters and makes email a useless joke.
Nonsense. These "Nigerian" scams are the easiest things in the world to filter out. The are actually specifically designed to look like obvious scams, and the misspellings and even the claim to be Nigerian are intentional fabrications.
You see, for these scammers, the worst thing in the world is to waste time on semi-intelligent people who may fall for the initial hook, but then turn skeptical when asked to front money. So they only want to deal with the stupidest of the stupid. So they design a scam that only a total idiot would fall for, in order to separate the idiots from the herd.
If your filter isn't triggered by "Nigerian prince", then you deserve to be spammed.
"Blockchain" is nothing more than a digital ledger with a checksum.
No. A blockchain is a DISTRIBUTED digital ledger with a hash (not a checksum).
The "distributed" part is what is important, since it means that no one party can corrupt it.
The fact that it is hashed, rather than merely checksumed, also means it is very difficult to corrupt.
When the first real attempts to use Windows machines as Hotmail front end boxes was attempted ...
The first "real" attempt? Why the weasel word? What you mean is the first successful attempt after three years of abject failure.
the Windows servers were within 10% for raw performance.
That is not my recollection at all. I have some "before and after" photos of the Hotmail's Sunnyvale datacenter. I will try to find them and post a link.
The most powerful weapon in the hands of the spinmeister is the passive voice.
This is one reason for the dominance of English in many fields. It provides so many opportunities for nuance, ambiguity, and evasion.
Microsoft actually has a case study up describing their Hotmail migration from FreeBSD to Windows 2000
Your link is a somewhat sanitized version of what happened, and ignores the first three years of fiascos.
Prior to the acquisition, Hotmail worked closely with the FreeBSD devs to optimize their servers. This led to things like the "sendfile" system call, where a program could pass a filename and an open socket to the kernel, and the kernel would write the file to the socket with none of the bytes touching userspace. So when Microsoft took over, they got a lean, optimized, and efficient system, and tried to replace it with one of the worst server operating systems ever. Each FreeBSD system (a $200 motherboard sitting on a piece of cardboard), needed 20 Win-NT servers to replace it, each costing ten times as much as the FreeBSD boards. Since this was clearly unworkable, they waited another 3 years to do the transition, while both hardware and software improved. All of this was further complicated by many of the original Hotmail people quitting to go elsewhere (this was the height of the boom), leaving the remaining employees just treading water with little time to work on the transition.
there are a lot of people making a lot of money and fame
Who's making a lot of money? If they are so famous, how come you can't name any of them?
The big money is on the denialist side. The Koch brothers made $6B last year.
The gamblers can't back out if they lose. Why should the lottery be allowed to back out if they lose
Because those are the rules. Don't like it? Don't buy lottery tickets. Buy something more sensible instead, like Bitcoins.
I bet if the "printing or programming error" resulted in winning tickets to be non-winning tickets, you wouldn't be seeing any surprise payouts.
Of course not. Lotteries are not designed to be "fair". They are designed to extract the maximum revenue from the dumbest people.
SC will likely not pay out any of these "winning" tickets. Will this result in lower ticket sales in the future? Of course not. Dumb people will continue to be dumb.
Of course many people are too stupid to think that if they allow microphone permission that the app might actually listen to the microphone.....
According to TFA, the app can listen even when it is inactive. Plenty of non-stupid people were likely unaware of that.
They knew they were buying winning tickets and you say should know that they cannot do that?
They should have known, because that is how all lotteries work.
And how do you make a difference between those that knew and those that dit not?
You don't. Nobody wins. At most they are entitled to a refund of the ticket price.
THOSE ARE THE RULES. If you don't like the rules, then DON'T PLAY.
Also, if you are not stupid, then DON'T PLAY.
Lotteries are a rip-off, and this is just a further confirmation of that. The rules are designed to screw you. We should not change the rules retroactively to make them "fair" to stupid people at the expense of non-stupid people.
if this was a private business engaging in gambling that made a programming mistake or error, the casino would be out the money
False. Casios frequently rescind winnings because of screwups and malfunctions.
You can see a long list of specific examples by Googling "casino malfunction".
if the state has a problem they should sue the manufacturer of the tickets.
SC would almost certainly lose that lawsuit. Just as the lottery tickets have an "out" for printing and programing errors, the contract with the manufacturer/printer almost certainly has a clause covering that as well.
The state has no legal or moral obligation to pay, so why should they be able to push this non-existent obligation onto someone else?
The state should honor the tickets and not welch.
Just to be clear: You are saying the taxpayers should pay for this, and funds should be diverted from paying for schools and road repairs.
Since these lotteries have fine print legalese that lays out what happens in the case of a printing or programming error, there is no legal obligation to honor the tickets. Since most people that bought the tickets did so after they were aware of the error, there is no moral reason to pay up either.
they actually don’t need to invest more, as they can extract bigger profit from existing infrastructure.
Businesses aim to maximize profit. They do not set a profit cap and then try to extract it in the easiest way.
Comcast is in business to make money. The tax "reform" and the repeal of NN mean that Comcast's activities are likely to lead to higher profits and higher ROI, so it is rational for them to invest in expanding their business.
However, that investment is probably better spent buying up competitors rather than rolling out new infrastructure.
A pint is a pound, the world around.
One pint of water weighs 1.04375 pounds.
There are 231 cubic inches in a gallon.
Cool. That is handy when you need an 11th of a gallon, which is exactly 21 cubic inches.
But the American system sucks even for comparing similar units.
How many fluid ounces in a cubic inch? Why 0.554113, of course.
How many pounds does a gallon of water weigh? 8.3454.
Now let's try metric:
How many cubic centimeters in a milliliter? 1.0000.
How many kg in a liter of water? 1.0000.
then it blows out the TCP connection stack and downloads whatever it likes
What does it mean to "blow out" a TCP connection?
Do you seriously doubt there are a ton of cheap Android phones you could easily root this way
I have no idea what you mean by "this way", but I also don't see what "cheap" has to do with it. They are running the same networking software on the same core hardware (ARM) as more expensive Android phones.