Crashing the more-or-less useless remains of existing missions into a planet is free. Sending an excavation robot is not. Also note that they had the booster hit first and the actual payload hit later so it could still measure & report while flying through the plume of debris.
Preferably with them and their three oh-so-political-correctly-mixed underlings inside the probe.
It's amazing how boring, dragged-out and pseudo-sciency these guys can make a simple yes or no answer. And no, the way they get to that answer does _not_ interest me if it's presented in such a way.
Your post is a really interesting read, but did you consider that he set passwords to protect the system in the first place? All it takes is a clueless supervisor who can't admit that he was wrong to end up _exactly_ where we are now.
Assuming that the guy is not misanthropic, having Asperger's, _very_ stupid or was forced to do what he did, he is just a victim of the terrorist hacker craze. The level of sophistication of the source which describes a computer as "the hard drive" and the fact that this is a Mirror story, this is the most likely explanation, by far.
True in most cases. If someone _knew_ he was going to jail/prison over what he does right now, chances are he would not do it.
> and you can't "rehabilitate" them. "Rehabilitation" is a bunch of pseudo psychiatric jargon to make us feel good about putting people in cages for the majority of their adult life.
Bullshit. There are several projects in Germany (albeit with not nearly enough free slots) that give prisoners education, a group-sense (not as in gang), a framework for their daily life (regular rising times, fixed work schedules, etc) and above all a purpose in life and self-esteem. It has been proven again and again and again that once you have such a positive-feedback group going (under supervision and with the possibility of authorative override, of course), the effects will be self-reinforcing within said group.
Long-term recidivism has been shown to as low as 2%.
So yes, rehabilitation is possible, but not if you approach it in the way you do.
Hundreds of billions of years is definitely too short a time for complete 0. Just think of the background radiation.
And if you define our universe as "the stretch of space (and dimensions?) which is directly or indirectly affected by the direct or indirect effects of the Big Bang", absolute zero can not exist as there will always be some particles racing towards infinity (or another universe, or, or, or) which have enough heat energy. Again, think background radiation.
Let me hijack this thread to ask in which order I should start reading Baxter. Should I just go through his Xeelee Sequence chronologically or is there, same as with e.g. Heinlein/Asimov, a progression of philosophical ideas/in-story relevations which suggest a different order?
I remember at least the circular one (and no, I don't confuse it with the Galaxy of Elements), so it is not _that_ new. But the circular one is so incredibly stupid, it boggles the mind.
* You can see the relative sizes? Well, yes. But without a spiral instead of concentric rings, where does it start and stop? When do I descend down into the next ring? And how is the established system not providing the same information?
* He solves the problem of H and He by putting them somewhere where they do not make _any_ sense? Gee, great idea.
* TFA mentions a few other things.
Thing is, his approach makes 'sense' to anyone who has been in India for some time. The absolute focus on the improvements (which can usually be argued) and complete disregard for any problems when trying to replace something, especially when it is perceived as foreign, they have is astonishing. And yes, that may sound xenophobic, but I assure you it's, to the best of me reflecting my thoughts and beliefs, simple fact.
The group-based one seems OK, but it basically just makes folding the paper easier by re-arranging the groups, thereby sacrificing the main 'advantage' of the round one: seeing at a glance how many protons any given element has. Doubtful if that's worth it..
Dunno, while re-reading and re-reading the quotes I can not decide if they want to be as neutral as possible or if they would have preferred licensing. While I am not sure, I think they meant the latter.
As to the rest, it boils down to scale. And once you have scale (you won't), you need stability. Once you have that (you won't), you need security. etc pp.
> When someone looks up "www.blah.com" and it has an IPv6 address, the DNS server immediately allocates an ephemeral IPv4 address, enters it into a temporary database, and returns it to the client.
Not happening.
I could state almost half a dozen reasons off the top of my head, but the first and foremost is: You are keeping state. The one thing you want to get rid of in any high-rate system is state.
PS: If that does not tell you anything, google around for state-less systems. They explain it better than I have time to.
Well, and because the car companies bought the public transport systems of the major cities to let them die. Guess which city stopped them from doing so.. Hint: It is in the West and famous for its many hills and.... public transport!
> You do realize that most of YouTube is available in mp4 now, right? I'd actually hate one that only linked to an flv.
I am happy with whatever works. As I view about 0-2 videos on youtube per month, I don't really care about specifics.
> But you still miss the annotations, if they exist.
If by annotations you mean those text overlays in which people either try to make you buy stuff/click links or simply show how retarded they are: sign me up!;)
PS: I would _love_ to have a youtube version which just presents a preview pic which is linked to a URL to the flv in question so I would not have to copy and paste the youtube URL into my own custom script that uses mplayer to play the video outside of the browser window.
> Still requires Javascript to add some features that, if not strictly needed, definitely improve YouTube.
Exactly my point. Enhancing functionality with JS is fine, but it _must not_ be required for a site to work at all. As I said in my first comment, there are exceptions, but they are very few.
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But you forgot Crack Attack :p
Crashing the more-or-less useless remains of existing missions into a planet is free. Sending an excavation robot is not. Also note that they had the booster hit first and the actual payload hit later so it could still measure & report while flying through the plume of debris.
Preferably with them and their three oh-so-political-correctly-mixed underlings inside the probe.
It's amazing how boring, dragged-out and pseudo-sciency these guys can make a simple yes or no answer. And no, the way they get to that answer does _not_ interest me if it's presented in such a way.
I have no mod points left, but you deserve them.
Your post is a really interesting read, but did you consider that he set passwords to protect the system in the first place? All it takes is a clueless supervisor who can't admit that he was wrong to end up _exactly_ where we are now.
Assuming that the guy is not misanthropic, having Asperger's, _very_ stupid or was forced to do what he did, he is just a victim of the terrorist hacker craze. The level of sophistication of the source which describes a computer as "the hard drive" and the fact that this is a Mirror story, this is the most likely explanation, by far.
> Sure, I'm assuming that someone will fix it, but you're assuming that someone will goof up in the first place. Seems fair.
Hey, I wanted to post that :(
> Also vi, KDE3, Gentoo and K&R.
That you _really_ meant Vim, KDE3, Debian is obvious, but what is K&R?
> People don't consider the consequences
True in most cases. If someone _knew_ he was going to jail/prison over what he does right now, chances are he would not do it.
> and you can't "rehabilitate" them. "Rehabilitation" is a bunch of pseudo psychiatric jargon to make us feel good about putting people in cages for the majority of their adult life.
Bullshit. There are several projects in Germany (albeit with not nearly enough free slots) that give prisoners education, a group-sense (not as in gang), a framework for their daily life (regular rising times, fixed work schedules, etc) and above all a purpose in life and self-esteem.
It has been proven again and again and again that once you have such a positive-feedback group going (under supervision and with the possibility of authorative override, of course), the effects will be self-reinforcing within said group.
Long-term recidivism has been shown to as low as 2%.
So yes, rehabilitation is possible, but not if you approach it in the way you do.
Let my karma burn in hell, but if you really mean what you just babbled you are an absolute grade-A arsehole. Fuck you.
Hundreds of billions of years is definitely too short a time for complete 0. Just think of the background radiation.
And if you define our universe as "the stretch of space (and dimensions?) which is directly or indirectly affected by the direct or indirect effects of the Big Bang", absolute zero can not exist as there will always be some particles racing towards infinity (or another universe, or, or, or) which have enough heat energy. Again, think background radiation.
Let me hijack this thread to ask in which order I should start reading Baxter. Should I just go through his Xeelee Sequence chronologically or is there, same as with e.g. Heinlein/Asimov, a progression of philosophical ideas/in-story relevations which suggest a different order?
Seems ./ filtered out the and tags. Kinda makes sense, but meh.
I remember at least the circular one (and no, I don't confuse it with the Galaxy of Elements), so it is not _that_ new. But the circular one is so incredibly stupid, it boggles the mind.
* You can see the relative sizes? Well, yes. But without a spiral instead of concentric rings, where does it start and stop? When do I descend down into the next ring? And how is the established system not providing the same information?
* He solves the problem of H and He by putting them somewhere where they do not make _any_ sense? Gee, great idea.
* TFA mentions a few other things.
Thing is, his approach makes 'sense' to anyone who has been in India for some time. The absolute focus on the improvements (which can usually be argued) and complete disregard for any problems when trying to replace something, especially when it is perceived as foreign, they have is astonishing.
And yes, that may sound xenophobic, but I assure you it's, to the best of me reflecting my thoughts and beliefs, simple fact.
The group-based one seems OK, but it basically just makes folding the paper easier by re-arranging the groups, thereby sacrificing the main 'advantage' of the round one: seeing at a glance how many protons any given element has. Doubtful if that's worth it..
Dunno, while re-reading and re-reading the quotes I can not decide if they want to be as neutral as possible or if they would have preferred licensing. While I am not sure, I think they meant the latter.
With carrier-grade NAT, the one who profits pays.
As to the rest, it boils down to scale. And once you have scale (you won't), you need stability. Once you have that (you won't), you need security. etc pp.
_Name_ them. If you fear retribution, do it as AC.
> When someone looks up "www.blah.com" and it has an IPv6 address, the DNS server immediately allocates an ephemeral IPv4 address, enters it into a temporary database, and returns it to the client.
Not happening.
I could state almost half a dozen reasons off the top of my head, but the first and foremost is:
You are keeping state. The one thing you want to get rid of in any high-rate system is state.
PS: If that does not tell you anything, google around for state-less systems. They explain it better than I have time to.
RIPE decided to allow PI IPv6 at RIPE58 last May, so yes.
It's not as if this has not been obvious ever since we first heard of something called "e-paper" being in the works.
Normally, I wouldn't bother to point this out, but your bragging made you deserve it ;)
All legal questions aside, does anyone think that from the moral & technical POV, Palm is doing something wrong, here?
The question has no direct relevance to the case at hand, but I would still want to hear from people who answered yes to the above.
Well, and because the car companies bought the public transport systems of the major cities to let them die. Guess which city stopped them from doing so.. Hint: It is in the West and famous for its many hills and.... public transport!
> You do realize that most of YouTube is available in mp4 now, right? I'd actually hate one that only linked to an flv.
I am happy with whatever works. As I view about 0-2 videos on youtube per month, I don't really care about specifics.
> But you still miss the annotations, if they exist.
If by annotations you mean those text overlays in which people either try to make you buy stuff/click links or simply show how retarded they are: sign me up! ;)
PS: I would _love_ to have a youtube version which just presents a preview pic which is linked to a URL to the flv in question so I would not have to copy and paste the youtube URL into my own custom script that uses mplayer to play the video outside of the browser window.
> Still requires Javascript to add some features that, if not strictly needed, definitely improve YouTube.
Exactly my point. Enhancing functionality with JS is fine, but it _must not_ be required for a site to work at all. As I said in my first comment, there are exceptions, but they are very few.
> You forgot: where it makes any sense at all to do so. Show me how YouTube could be usable without Javascript or Flash.
I know what you mean and point taken, but Flash is a workaround, not a solution in youtube's case.