If you don't have the list of softwarekeys, or the licenses, to reinstall from scratch, and if you don't have the staff with the tools to re-image systems swiftly, rebuilding the systems from scratch is a herculean job and you *wiall* lose vital patient data. If you don't have the tools, the systems *will* get re-infected while you're reinstalling them. Been there, done that, it's why i never,run the basic backup systems on Windows.
If you get re-infected within moments by other infected machines, the backups don't help much. I've seen a partner infested this way, and it was horrible.
> So your fear comes down to people not finding such funneling to be onerous enough that they would pay, and that in that case, the funneling would damage your economic interests.
Please do not transform my pointing out the limitations built into the system as "my fear" about its purposes. As a concept the walled gardens for poor communities are interesting. But to claim that it wouldn't limit, or control, access to the rest of the Internet would be misleading. Even if it's not apparent in the initial design, I, at least, cannot imagine Facebook would not monetize their portal's connections to the rest of the Internet by selling metadata about their users, or through direct ad insertion. And they _must_ throttle those external gateways, or a very few abusive clients will consume all the bandwidth at the expense of the whole project.
I can think of several good reasons. Decoupling the "droops" on the local power lines from local circuits drawing or providing excess current for signal lizes comes to mind immediately. It's easy to put in a large local capacitor to decouple many devices, but harder to find the board space to put a small, high frequency capable capacitor _right next to_ the power leads that connect each chip to the power bus or to the power plane.
I've seen a number of complex board designs ruined when a new engineer, or a middle manager, insisted on replacing a set of small capacitors with one large one. I've even myself had to wire in small capacitors, manually, on top of soldered in chips to provide the necessary decoupling. I'll also admit that that was decades ago: I don't have the eyes and hands for that kind of work anymore.
> Yes, modern society requires a small amount of gold but gold is only worth anything because of its scarcity and it's perceived value.
Its scarcity is quite real: The world supply of gold is quite limited. It has very real industrial value because it's easy to refine when found, it's very soft and easy to smith when refined, and it's extremely stable and non-reactive with other. It's also extremely conductive, both thermally and electrically, and is invaluable for making good electrical contacts between physical objects and even for heat sink layers in micro-design.
> Not a single thing in business is ever altruistic, nor should it be
That approach to business thinking is surprisingly common place. But there are many non-profit businesses that clearly disagree with this ethical model, and businesses that deal with them have to take the political and social beliefs of their clients into account. Especially at the smaller business level, many employers act out of a shared desire for their employees and their businesses to succeed, and that element of camarederie has real benefits in productivity and product quality.
So yes, such "altruism" is a real factor and affects business decisions every day.
> In no documentation, literature, or description of the plan is there ever any intent to take away the option to start paying for the otherwise free OTA service in order to get access to the full Internet.
That access would be funneled, fairly forcibly, through the Facebook portal. That would help Facebook "monetize" that traffic for destinations other than the Facebook portal itself.
Perhaps you're thinking of the German "super-baby", described at http://altereddimensions.net/2... ? The kid apparently can't swim without flotation devices, due to the amount of dense muscle in his small build. I'll be fascinated to see if he makes it to adulthood, and certainly hope for his sake that he makes it without dangerous medical complications. If that mutation can be activated, or emulated, without other medical issues it could be very promising for long space flights where muscle loss is a real medical problem.
> This is largely a solved problem -- a good percentage of women in developed countries elect to deliver via cesarean section.
A caesarian section is a hack, not a solution. On every level.
They are roughly 3 times as dangerous for the mother as a normal vaginal birth where both the fetus and mother are otherwise healthy. The women who "elect to deliver" via caesarian section without specific medical reason to do so are generally being misled about the risks and potential benefits. Even with no negative outcome, having a surgeon cut a foot long slice in your abdomen and reach around to re-arrange things is not a "solved problem", anymore than organ transplants make cancer, blocked arteries, or physical trauma "solved problems".
> so why would anybody go through the trouble of modifying bubonic plague, instead of just picking one of those?
To make it "pneumonic", or airborne and spreadable by coughing for those without The CDC apparently has some fascinating war game style test scenarios of exactly that sort of change in a known, highly lethal pathogen. They;re quite frightening: once the infection rate progresses beyond certain quite low levels, there is _no way_ to contain the diseases effectively in today's modern, highly mobile economy's and travel practices.
> No, it's because there's literally no reason to wait for nearly a year to appoint a replacement. Literally none.
I can think of several. Embarrassing President Obama is one of them. Getting hung Supreme Court decisions helps preserve existing law until the case can be resolved, which helps protect existing conservative law, especially if it has more money for long court cases. Such cases are typically better funded on the conservative side, so the result is a de facto finding for the side with more lawyers, even if the lack of a finding does not set precedent. Refusing to accept a candidate who is even slightly less than radically conservative helps protect the power of the conservative members of the Supreme Court to rule conservatively.
Those are the fees for a large university or library. That is full access to _everything_, all periodicals and archives organized by JSTOR. So compared to annual electronic access to all those periodicals, with electronic printing and quoting tools and privileges, it is a very, very modest cost. For smaller institutions they use a very generous sliding scale, down to and including free access for many small or strugging schools and libraries. Quoting from JSTOR's own web page at http://about.jstor.org/10thing...:
> JSTOR provides free or low cost access to more than 1,500 institutions in 69 countries.
> More than 1,500 institutions in Africa and other developing nations receive access to JSTOR free of charge or for steeply reduced fees
I'm afraid there are subtly different reasons for different situations. Many companies have become expert at manipulating the procedures and the rules to hire the type of personnel they want. There was a horrifying but quite straightforward video about precisely how to do this posted to Youtube some time ago:
He was also attempting to replicate _all_ of JSTOR, including the indexes and reviews and crosslinks. JSTOR is a very effective non-profit that uses the very modest subscription fees to pay for the servers, and the subscriptions to obtain articles, and the editors and librarians and engineers to organize the data. They provide generous sliding scale subscriptions for libraries and schools with limited budgets, Stealing from them to set up your own "information should be free!" website is like stealing blood from the Red Cross. It's not useful without the organized access.
> Major companies will fear sensitive data will end up via NSA with competitors. They will complain, action will follow.
They know it _will_ end up in government hands. They remember well the record keeping used against those with unpopular political or religious beliefs inside the Iron Curtain, before the fall of the Soviet Union and the shift of countries to EU membership. A very few people in the EU are left who can remember the detailed record keeping used to find and discover Jews, gypsies, gays, the handicapped, foreign nationals, Communists, and other Nazi persecuted groups during WW II,
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Then perhaps you should read the second page, not just the first page. Absolute 2nd Amendment rights is a policy. So are the three front page synopses, and the suggested policies with them, that are based on old-fashioned isolationism. I agree that much of it is empty bluster, but that's been a great deal of Donald Trump's professional career. He's bankrupted companies to his personal benefit 4 times. Empty, even destructive bluster seems to be the core of his fiscal history and proposed policies.
Except that in other, prevous rulings, it was long ago found that SCO did not own the SysV UNIX copyrights. They still belonged to Novell, which had only sold licensing to SCO, not the actual UNIX copyrights. SCO should have been forwarding part of the previously collected licensing fees to Novell, which they had not been doing. As best I can tell from the analyses on Groklaw, SCO had no standing to file suit.
> Speedy trial doesn't have anything to do with length of the trial itself.
It certainly can. Lengthy delays in the court proceedings can be very prejudicial to the defendant. There are many interesting analyses of the trade-offs to ensure the defendant has the right to a speedy trial, but also has the time to examine the charges and prepare a meaningful defense. The results have often been unfortunate, as we can see in the USA with the number of young black men arrested and incarcerated on minor drug charges, awaiting their day in court for _years_.
Engineers whose VP;s or old managers insisted on buying HP during her tenure? I ran into several cases of that. It was expensive, confusing, error-prone, and destructive to network stability due to poorly supported hardware, mismatched feature sets, very poor quality outsourced manufacture, and the switch to Cmpaq "desktop" quality manufacture rather than HP's previously wonderful and durable hardware. The sales personal refused, outright, to provide a list price for any combination of equipment, and the website was carefully geared during her reign to not name _any_ prices. The sales personal all seemed to be trying out for Glengarry Glen Ross community theater productions, and seemed unable to even remember their lines. After various vendor calls with them, I become convinced that I could overhear them struggling in the background about who would get the steak knives, and who would lose their job.
It's taken HP 10 years to recover from her reign. They've become reasonably reliable hardware manufacturers again, but it was very painful.
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> But how do you know Trump is a good candidate if so far he hasn't proposed a single policy, good or bad.
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> Often, it's even worse than that. We pay beaucoup people unemployment and disability benefits who work for cash on the side.
I've done this, with my personal money, for people who were struggling for medical or family reasons. Quoting from the National Women's Law Center:
2.3 million children lived with a parent who had been seeking work for 6 months or more in an average month in 2013.
Feeding children and trying to educate and house them when employed is incredibly difficult. There are many people currently on various local and federal support programs who are indeed struggling to escape poverty and making reasonable choices, who do only need some help to get on their feet and turn into taxpayers.
> It would be completely pointless considering how inefficient it would be.
Solar fusion is reasonably efficient, in the long run, over the lifespan of a star. It consumes quite a large percentage of the hydrogen, _eventually_, into helium. The power density is relatively low compared to various hydrogen isotope based fusion reactors, and it has the advantage of a very high ambient pressure throughout the core of the star, and no need to transform that energy efficiently into electrical or mechanical forms. And at such large scales, it can use the much less easily triggered reactions.
I'm afraid the fundamental problem with hot or cold fusion is the lack of fuel. The only reliable sources for enough deuterium and tritium to power most practical or even theoretical fusion reactor designs is fission reactors, and the hydrogen isotope based energy is only a fraction of their ordinary nuclear energy output. Fusion remains a fascinating technological accomplishment which I'll applaud as a technological marvel, but it's not a viable power source except possibly as an "afterburner" to extract more energy from fusion sources. And the difficulty of getting more energy from a fusion reactor than goes into generating fusion remains extraordinary.
It is also more effective on smart phones, tablets, and on multiple operating systems than most other voice tools. It's used regularly for business planning meetings when a telephone call is notably more expensive, especially for international teleconferences, and it's used for remote conferencing when a landline or cell reception does not work well. I've found it very effective noisy rooms, with a good pair of headphones and careful use of the "mute" button.
The failure the other night was a real problem. I'm aware of a number of automated continuous integration systems that had problems with it.That brought github's reliabllity down to about "4 9's", which is still very good compared to most running systems.
I agree you _can_ use git with Sourceforge. The difficulty is the number of projects that continue to rely on the centralized, single canonical source code approach of CVS and Subversion. It makes independent development much less safe, and far more difficult to merge safely. I'm afraid that in modern development, I see little excuse to support Subversion except for locked, legacy repositories.
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If you don't have the list of softwarekeys, or the licenses, to reinstall from scratch, and if you don't have the staff with the tools to re-image systems swiftly, rebuilding the systems from scratch is a herculean job and you *wiall* lose vital patient data. If you don't have the tools, the systems *will* get re-infected while you're reinstalling them. Been there, done that, it's why i never,run the basic backup systems on Windows.
If you get re-infected within moments by other infected machines, the backups don't help much. I've seen a partner infested this way, and it was horrible.
> So your fear comes down to people not finding such funneling to be onerous enough that they would pay, and that in that case, the funneling would damage your economic interests.
Please do not transform my pointing out the limitations built into the system as "my fear" about its purposes. As a concept the walled gardens for poor communities are interesting. But to claim that it wouldn't limit, or control, access to the rest of the Internet would be misleading. Even if it's not apparent in the initial design, I, at least, cannot imagine Facebook would not monetize their portal's connections to the rest of the Internet by selling metadata about their users, or through direct ad insertion. And they _must_ throttle those external gateways, or a very few abusive clients will consume all the bandwidth at the expense of the whole project.
I can think of several good reasons. Decoupling the "droops" on the local power lines from local circuits drawing or providing excess current for signal lizes comes to mind immediately. It's easy to put in a large local capacitor to decouple many devices, but harder to find the board space to put a small, high frequency capable capacitor _right next to_ the power leads that connect each chip to the power bus or to the power plane.
I've seen a number of complex board designs ruined when a new engineer, or a middle manager, insisted on replacing a set of small capacitors with one large one. I've even myself had to wire in small capacitors, manually, on top of soldered in chips to provide the necessary decoupling. I'll also admit that that was decades ago: I don't have the eyes and hands for that kind of work anymore.
> Yes, modern society requires a small amount of gold but gold is only worth anything because of its scarcity and it's perceived value.
Its scarcity is quite real: The world supply of gold is quite limited. It has very real industrial value because it's easy to refine when found, it's very soft and easy to smith when refined, and it's extremely stable and non-reactive with other. It's also extremely conductive, both thermally and electrically, and is invaluable for making good electrical contacts between physical objects and even for heat sink layers in micro-design.
> Not a single thing in business is ever altruistic, nor should it be
That approach to business thinking is surprisingly common place. But there are many non-profit businesses that clearly disagree with this ethical model, and businesses that deal with them have to take the political and social beliefs of their clients into account. Especially at the smaller business level, many employers act out of a shared desire for their employees and their businesses to succeed, and that element of camarederie has real benefits in productivity and product quality.
So yes, such "altruism" is a real factor and affects business decisions every day.
> In no documentation, literature, or description of the plan is there ever any intent to take away the option to start paying for the otherwise free OTA service in order to get access to the full Internet.
That access would be funneled, fairly forcibly, through the Facebook portal. That would help Facebook "monetize" that traffic for destinations other than the Facebook portal itself.
Perhaps you're thinking of the German "super-baby", described at http://altereddimensions.net/2... ? The kid apparently can't swim without flotation devices, due to the amount of dense muscle in his small build. I'll be fascinated to see if he makes it to adulthood, and certainly hope for his sake that he makes it without dangerous medical complications. If that mutation can be activated, or emulated, without other medical issues it could be very promising for long space flights where muscle loss is a real medical problem.
> This is largely a solved problem -- a good percentage of women in developed countries elect to deliver via cesarean section.
A caesarian section is a hack, not a solution. On every level.
They are roughly 3 times as dangerous for the mother as a normal vaginal birth where both the fetus and mother are otherwise healthy. The women who "elect to deliver" via caesarian section without specific medical reason to do so are generally being misled about the risks and potential benefits. Even with no negative outcome, having a surgeon cut a foot long slice in your abdomen and reach around to re-arrange things is not a "solved problem", anymore than organ transplants make cancer, blocked arteries, or physical trauma "solved problems".
> so why would anybody go through the trouble of modifying bubonic plague, instead of just picking one of those?
To make it "pneumonic", or airborne and spreadable by coughing for those without The CDC apparently has some fascinating war game style test scenarios of exactly that sort of change in a known, highly lethal pathogen. They;re quite frightening: once the infection rate progresses beyond certain quite low levels, there is _no way_ to contain the diseases effectively in today's modern, highly mobile economy's and travel practices.
> No, it's because there's literally no reason to wait for nearly a year to appoint a replacement. Literally none.
I can think of several. Embarrassing President Obama is one of them. Getting hung Supreme Court decisions helps preserve existing law until the case can be resolved, which helps protect existing conservative law, especially if it has more money for long court cases. Such cases are typically better funded on the conservative side, so the result is a de facto finding for the side with more lawyers, even if the lack of a finding does not set precedent. Refusing to accept a candidate who is even slightly less than radically conservative helps protect the power of the conservative members of the Supreme Court to rule conservatively.
Those are the fees for a large university or library. That is full access to _everything_, all periodicals and archives organized by JSTOR. So compared to annual electronic access to all those periodicals, with electronic printing and quoting tools and privileges, it is a very, very modest cost. For smaller institutions they use a very generous sliding scale, down to and including free access for many small or strugging schools and libraries. Quoting from JSTOR's own web page at http://about.jstor.org/10thing...:
> JSTOR provides free or low cost access to more than 1,500 institutions in 69 countries.
> More than 1,500 institutions in Africa and other developing nations receive access to JSTOR free of charge or for steeply reduced fees
I'm afraid there are subtly different reasons for different situations. Many companies have become expert at manipulating the procedures and the rules to hire the type of personnel they want. There was a horrifying but quite straightforward video about precisely how to do this posted to Youtube some time ago:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
The video is about 8 years old. More of the presentation is available, but the employment policy manipulations are still commonplace.
He was also attempting to replicate _all_ of JSTOR, including the indexes and reviews and crosslinks. JSTOR is a very effective non-profit that uses the very modest subscription fees to pay for the servers, and the subscriptions to obtain articles, and the editors and librarians and engineers to organize the data. They provide generous sliding scale subscriptions for libraries and schools with limited budgets, Stealing from them to set up your own "information should be free!" website is like stealing blood from the Red Cross. It's not useful without the organized access.
Or caltrops, which predate land mines by roughly 2000 years.
> Major companies will fear sensitive data will end up via NSA with competitors. They will complain, action will follow.
They know it _will_ end up in government hands. They remember well the record keeping used against those with unpopular political or religious beliefs inside the Iron Curtain, before the fall of the Soviet Union and the shift of countries to EU membership. A very few people in the EU are left who can remember the detailed record keeping used to find and discover Jews, gypsies, gays, the handicapped, foreign nationals, Communists, and other Nazi persecuted groups during WW II,
Then perhaps you should read the second page, not just the first page. Absolute 2nd Amendment rights is a policy. So are the three front page synopses, and the suggested policies with them, that are based on old-fashioned isolationism. I agree that much of it is empty bluster, but that's been a great deal of Donald Trump's professional career. He's bankrupted companies to his personal benefit 4 times. Empty, even destructive bluster seems to be the core of his fiscal history and proposed policies.
Except that in other, prevous rulings, it was long ago found that SCO did not own the SysV UNIX copyrights. They still belonged to Novell, which had only sold licensing to SCO, not the actual UNIX copyrights. SCO should have been forwarding part of the previously collected licensing fees to Novell, which they had not been doing. As best I can tell from the analyses on Groklaw, SCO had no standing to file suit.
> Speedy trial doesn't have anything to do with length of the trial itself.
It certainly can. Lengthy delays in the court proceedings can be very prejudicial to the defendant. There are many interesting analyses of the trade-offs to ensure the defendant has the right to a speedy trial, but also has the time to examine the charges and prepare a meaningful defense. The results have often been unfortunate, as we can see in the USA with the number of young black men arrested and incarcerated on minor drug charges, awaiting their day in court for _years_.
Engineers whose VP;s or old managers insisted on buying HP during her tenure? I ran into several cases of that. It was expensive, confusing, error-prone, and destructive to network stability due to poorly supported hardware, mismatched feature sets, very poor quality outsourced manufacture, and the switch to Cmpaq "desktop" quality manufacture rather than HP's previously wonderful and durable hardware. The sales personal refused, outright, to provide a list price for any combination of equipment, and the website was carefully geared during her reign to not name _any_ prices. The sales personal all seemed to be trying out for Glengarry Glen Ross community theater productions, and seemed unable to even remember their lines. After various vendor calls with them, I become convinced that I could overhear them struggling in the background about who would get the steak knives, and who would lose their job.
It's taken HP 10 years to recover from her reign. They've become reasonably reliable hardware manufacturers again, but it was very painful.
> But how do you know Trump is a good candidate if so far he hasn't proposed a single policy, good or bad.
Then go look at https://www.donaldjtrump.com/p...
> Often, it's even worse than that. We pay beaucoup people unemployment and disability benefits who work for cash on the side.
I've done this, with my personal money, for people who were struggling for medical or family reasons. Quoting from the National Women's Law Center:
2.3 million children lived with a parent who had been seeking work for 6 months or more in an average month in 2013.
Feeding children and trying to educate and house them when employed is incredibly difficult. There are many people currently on various local and federal support programs who are indeed struggling to escape poverty and making reasonable choices, who do only need some help to get on their feet and turn into taxpayers.
> It would be completely pointless considering how inefficient it would be.
Solar fusion is reasonably efficient, in the long run, over the lifespan of a star. It consumes quite a large percentage of the hydrogen, _eventually_, into helium. The power density is relatively low compared to various hydrogen isotope based fusion reactors, and it has the advantage of a very high ambient pressure throughout the core of the star, and no need to transform that energy efficiently into electrical or mechanical forms. And at such large scales, it can use the much less easily triggered reactions.
I'm afraid the fundamental problem with hot or cold fusion is the lack of fuel. The only reliable sources for enough deuterium and tritium to power most practical or even theoretical fusion reactor designs is fission reactors, and the hydrogen isotope based energy is only a fraction of their ordinary nuclear energy output. Fusion remains a fascinating technological accomplishment which I'll applaud as a technological marvel, but it's not a viable power source except possibly as an "afterburner" to extract more energy from fusion sources. And the difficulty of getting more energy from a fusion reactor than goes into generating fusion remains extraordinary.
It is also more effective on smart phones, tablets, and on multiple operating systems than most other voice tools. It's used regularly for business planning meetings when a telephone call is notably more expensive, especially for international teleconferences, and it's used for remote conferencing when a landline or cell reception does not work well. I've found it very effective noisy rooms, with a good pair of headphones and careful use of the "mute" button.
The failure the other night was a real problem. I'm aware of a number of automated continuous integration systems that had problems with it.That brought github's reliabllity down to about "4 9's", which is still very good compared to most running systems.
I agree you _can_ use git with Sourceforge. The difficulty is the number of projects that continue to rely on the centralized, single canonical source code approach of CVS and Subversion. It makes independent development much less safe, and far more difficult to merge safely. I'm afraid that in modern development, I see little excuse to support Subversion except for locked, legacy repositories.