Captain Zapp Brannigan: Captain's log. Stardate: 3000.6. Kif Kroker: Who are you talking to? Captain Zapp Brannigan: You, Kif. Aren't you writing this down?
Create a single world bank or supra-national currency, uniform rules and transparent public accounting
Wait, isn't that already intheworks? Well, probably not the transparent public accounting, but global currency is definitely on the mind of our global rulers.
Every time I bring this idea up, it's modded troll!
My daughters weren't allowed to go on the internet until I was satisfied that they understood the dangers....
You can hop into a car and maybe do damage to a few other vehicles before your own car is damaged to the point that it can't be used to cause any more damage.
An uneducated user with internet is more dangerous (albeit, less deadly). Improper/unsafe internet use can cause damage almost indefinitely.
People who really want to do damage wouldn't release the code publicly. They would keep it quiet so they can do maximum damage. The point of releasing this information is to prompt the vendor to fix it......and probably gain more street cred.
I've said it before and I'll say it again. We need an Internet License.
Regulated much like drivers licenses, with different endorsements.
The Internet Endorsement: Allows a user to access the Internet when standardized testing shows competency. Users are only allowed to receive information. The Email Endorsement: Allows a user to participate in email communication when standardized testing shows competency. Users can participate in two-way communication. The Website Endorsement: Allows a user to author web content when standardized testing shows competency. Users are allowed to participate in forums, create websites or write articles. The Server Endorsement: Allows a user to maintain a web server when standardized testing shows competency.
Each level of endorsement requires the previous endorsement. Maybe an etiquette endorsement in there somewhere.
Oh, right....because the 7% still running IE6 are going to stampede over to IE7/8/9.
I'd be willing to bet that after 3 or 4 more years, the IE6 share will be as low as 4% maybe even 3%. By then, we'll have IE10, and 5 IE versions to support.
The problem I foresee is supporting multiple versions of the same browser. IE6, a 10 year old browser (in August) still holds 7.1%, IE7 (nearly 4) holds 9.1%, IE8 holds 16% and now yet another IE version on the way. http://www.w3schools.com/browsers/browsers_stats.asp
How many conditional statements will I need to support 4 versions of IE?
I considered something like this after my car stereo was stolen the second time.
I thought it might be fun to have the real stereo disguised, and a modified (explosive) pullout stereo in plain view. The theory was that a transmitter could exist in the car, and a receiver/battery/detonator would be installed in the modified pullout stereo. When the stereo exceeded the transmitter range, detonation.
Wasn't there an explosive collar in an Governator movie? They breach the perimeter and it starts flashing and beeping to inform them that their head is about to be removed.
For the bracelet/anklet, why not a lethal injection instead of an explosion? Violate house arrest, and die walking to the liquor store. The only problem I see with that idea is if an actual emergency occurred (house on fire?) they would be dead either way.
Have a physical power switch AND let every device have a clock......that gets set by radio time sources and stores time zone in non-volatile memory.
Have your cake, and eat it too.
Or each device could utilize a normally-open relay for power switching.
Your DVR can record a show, then open the relay when finished. Press one button to turn your microwave on, then enter the cooking time. When it's finished, the relay opens.
Sure, it will add to the cost of the device. But if the 15% is accurate for your household, the additional device cost will be made up in no time at all.
I'd be willing to bet that the sticker would consume less power than this device.
On that note.... So the device monitors power usage for devices that are supposedly off (as we all know, off doesn't necessarily mean off). This device will actually add to your power bill if you don't change behavior.
Maybe I already shut off lights, and am generally power conscious. I must consume more power to determine how much power I'm consuming.
Why don't I just put an electricity meter on each circuit in my house and take notes at regular intervals?
But, then again, this device is so much cooler because it's an OLED touchscreen.
Depends on what you consider cheap.... Are you talking about dollars flying out of your wallet? It seems to me that if you go with the other solutions, fewer dollars will fly much more often.
Lets just say: Standard SSD sustains 3,000 cycles and costs $100 Anobit SSD sustains 50,000 cycles and costs $500
With the same usage, you will have gone through 16+ standard SSD drives before your Anobit SSD fails. So for 5 times the cost, you get 16 times the usage.
If we break that down to cost per write cycle, the value becomes clearer.
$100 / 3000 cycles = $0.03 per write cycle $500 / 50000 cycles = $0.01 per write cycle
If the Anobit device is the same price as the other solutions: $100 / 50000 cycles = $0.002 per write cycle
At 5 times the cost, longevity makes the Anobit a better value.
The price would have to be $1500 before the value of the Anobit device reaches the cost per write cycle of the other solutions.....but it will still outlive 16+ of the other solutions.
My only modification to your suggestion is to be even more proactive about the change of venue. I recently changed jobs and gave my previous employer exactly two weeks notice (to the minute)
Believe me, if they're willing to require 80 hours a week from you, they will be more than willing to say no to new terms.
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Thank you for pointing that out. I need to get more sleep before I comment on /.
June 2007
June 2008
June 2009
June 2010
Looks like 4 years to me. Oh wait, it's July now - 4 years and 1 month.
I hope the doctor has the courtesy to provide an after-dinner mint.
Excuse me, there's a peanut stuck in my straw - er, feeding tube.
Captain Zapp Brannigan: Captain's log. Stardate: 3000.6.
Kif Kroker: Who are you talking to?
Captain Zapp Brannigan: You, Kif. Aren't you writing this down?
You can't mention the Zapper and not quote him!......or...maybe you can.
I'll fix that for you:
Zapp Brannigan's Reporting Strategy
Captain Zapp Brannigan: Captain's journal. Stardate: uhhh...
Create a single world bank or supra-national currency, uniform rules and transparent public accounting
Wait, isn't that already in the works? Well, probably not the transparent public accounting, but global currency is definitely on the mind of our global rulers.
Every time I bring this idea up, it's modded troll!
My daughters weren't allowed to go on the internet until I was satisfied that they understood the dangers....
You can hop into a car and maybe do damage to a few other vehicles before your own car is damaged to the point that it can't be used to cause any more damage.
An uneducated user with internet is more dangerous (albeit, less deadly). Improper/unsafe internet use can cause damage almost indefinitely.
People who really want to do damage wouldn't release the code publicly. They would keep it quiet so they can do maximum damage. The point of releasing this information is to prompt the vendor to fix it......and probably gain more street cred.
Oh, but so much more can be done.
I've said it before and I'll say it again. We need an Internet License.
Regulated much like drivers licenses, with different endorsements.
The Internet Endorsement: Allows a user to access the Internet when standardized testing shows competency. Users are only allowed to receive information.
The Email Endorsement: Allows a user to participate in email communication when standardized testing shows competency. Users can participate in two-way communication.
The Website Endorsement: Allows a user to author web content when standardized testing shows competency. Users are allowed to participate in forums, create websites or write articles.
The Server Endorsement: Allows a user to maintain a web server when standardized testing shows competency.
Each level of endorsement requires the previous endorsement. Maybe an etiquette endorsement in there somewhere.
My only complaint about the MagSafe connector is that it doesn't survive being plugged into an apple.
When I say "apple", I mean the red delicious variety.
My son has ruined several component power cords by plugging them into various types of fruit.
Feature detection, wow, what a concept.
I could then bank on 38% effectiveness (lowest score held by IE)
https://developer.mozilla.org/en/Browser_Feature_Detection
Oh, right....because the 7% still running IE6 are going to stampede over to IE7/8/9.
I'd be willing to bet that after 3 or 4 more years, the IE6 share will be as low as 4% maybe even 3%. By then, we'll have IE10, and 5 IE versions to support.
Still rather warm.
The problem I foresee is supporting multiple versions of the same browser. IE6, a 10 year old browser (in August) still holds 7.1%, IE7 (nearly 4) holds 9.1%, IE8 holds 16% and now yet another IE version on the way. http://www.w3schools.com/browsers/browsers_stats.asp
How many conditional statements will I need to support 4 versions of IE?
If anything, it's getting hotter (for developers)
unpaid slavery
...as opposed to, what...paid slavery?
slavery
...because these people are being forced to do it against their will. Speaking of will...
if you will
Well I won't! Is it still slavery?
Ahh.... that soothes the fire.
The point of the exercise was to reduce power consumption to zero for devices that aren't being actively used.
I considered something like this after my car stereo was stolen the second time.
I thought it might be fun to have the real stereo disguised, and a modified (explosive) pullout stereo in plain view. The theory was that a transmitter could exist in the car, and a receiver/battery/detonator would be installed in the modified pullout stereo. When the stereo exceeded the transmitter range, detonation.
Wasn't there an explosive collar in an Governator movie? They breach the perimeter and it starts flashing and beeping to inform them that their head is about to be removed.
For the bracelet/anklet, why not a lethal injection instead of an explosion? Violate house arrest, and die walking to the liquor store. The only problem I see with that idea is if an actual emergency occurred (house on fire?) they would be dead either way.
Have a physical power switch AND let every device have a clock......that gets set by radio time sources and stores time zone in non-volatile memory.
Have your cake, and eat it too.
Or each device could utilize a normally-open relay for power switching.
Your DVR can record a show, then open the relay when finished.
Press one button to turn your microwave on, then enter the cooking time. When it's finished, the relay opens.
Sure, it will add to the cost of the device. But if the 15% is accurate for your household, the additional device cost will be made up in no time at all.
I'd be willing to bet that the sticker would consume less power than this device.
On that note.... So the device monitors power usage for devices that are supposedly off (as we all know, off doesn't necessarily mean off). This device will actually add to your power bill if you don't change behavior.
Maybe I already shut off lights, and am generally power conscious. I must consume more power to determine how much power I'm consuming.
Why don't I just put an electricity meter on each circuit in my house and take notes at regular intervals?
But, then again, this device is so much cooler because it's an OLED touchscreen.
Is there really big money in catering to sites like cryptome and wikileaks?
Depends on your business model. If you have targeted ads, you might do well.
A well placed antacid advertisement might just hook a scumbag CEO reading about himself.
An amazon associate link to The Book of Virtues probably wouldn't go over so well to the same CEO.
...The idea that the US already had this, or the idea that they might actually get it?
Fixed that for you.
Depends on what you consider cheap.... Are you talking about dollars flying out of your wallet? It seems to me that if you go with the other solutions, fewer dollars will fly much more often.
Lets just say:
Standard SSD sustains 3,000 cycles and costs $100
Anobit SSD sustains 50,000 cycles and costs $500
With the same usage, you will have gone through 16+ standard SSD drives before your Anobit SSD fails. So for 5 times the cost, you get 16 times the usage.
If we break that down to cost per write cycle, the value becomes clearer.
$100 / 3000 cycles = $0.03 per write cycle
$500 / 50000 cycles = $0.01 per write cycle
If the Anobit device is the same price as the other solutions:
$100 / 50000 cycles = $0.002 per write cycle
At 5 times the cost, longevity makes the Anobit a better value.
The price would have to be $1500 before the value of the Anobit device reaches the cost per write cycle of the other solutions.....but it will still outlive 16+ of the other solutions.
(now, go ahead and tear my math apart)
I really wonder how your evading-arrest, hooker-abuse and car-jacking skills have improved since you started playing GTA.
My only modification to your suggestion is to be even more proactive about the change of venue. I recently changed jobs and gave my previous employer exactly two weeks notice (to the minute)
Believe me, if they're willing to require 80 hours a week from you, they will be more than willing to say no to new terms.
As long as Facebook and AT&T don't get involved we're probably OK.