..you will actually shout the swearword. That means you do something 'agressive' which, in turn, means your body goes somewhat into battle mode. Especially as you are experiencing actual pain. One of the things that happen in such a situation is.. you feel less pain.
This is not scientific or anything, just a personal experience.
> TCP's congestion control algorithm, which causes congestion and then backs off is the real culprit here
In a dumb network with intelligence on the edges, you can:
1) cause congestion and then back off (TCP) 2) hammer away at whatever rate you think you need (UDP) 3) use a pre-set limit (which might be too high as well so no one does that on public networks)
State-ful packet switching is literally impossible, fixed-path routing not desirable for the reason you stated above and I would not want anyone to inspect my traffic _by design_, anyway.
TCP may not be perfect, but I fail to see an alternative.
Is that energy companies are not able to do what they do in Germany. At the start of each year, they get the certificates for free and sell them all off. Later, they buy them back at a somewhat higher price.
They keep the profit from selling and use the 'cost' of rebuying to justify higher prices to the regulation agency.
As usual, politics is aware and does not care, the public is not, but would care a lot.
Let's just assume that those engineers are used to working a _lot_ more thouroughly and have a _lot_ more gadgets than you are/have. Your idea is probably useless (unless it involves a chemical agent, but let's give those people some time).
Personally, I would prefer Argon over CO_2 as that reduces the panic from not being able to breathe. (the breathing reflex is triggered by presence of CO_2, _not_ lack of oxygen)
Quite... I still remember a few teachers and friend's mothers who could have molested me all day and the only side effect would have been my perma-grin.
Though, to be fair, I assume that the "mature woman, pubescent boy" kind of child porn is not significant in proportion to the rest.
Knowing how both work, you definitely want the AK. Though I would prefer the AK 74 (or the after 2000 models) over the AK 47. Smaller rounds means you can carry more with you.
Be glad you are not using Konqueror 3.5.10 or 4.2.4;/. makes a point of breaking rendering on those browsers every few weeks.
Random buttons and scroll-bars? Check. Black text on black background? Check. Utterly broken navigation so you can watch the front page and nothing else? Check. CSS, Javascript and other crap in _plain text mode_? Check.
The only reason I keep coming back here for is the friendly discussion style;)
Disclaimer: I work at the ISP which is handling this from the IT pov.
TFA is wrong. While the gold is obviously more expensive than what TG buys it at, it is still cheaper than what you, as an end-user, pay for actual physical gold. Bypassing large resellers and banks, both the online shop at http://gold-super-markt.de/ and the vending machines are cheaper than your local bank or jeweler. I am not saying that everyone should rush to buy gold, but if you plan to do so anyway, there is now a discount outlet.
Other cards like the Haupauge TV cards etc are even more expensive than a low-level GFX card. If you look at the Google DC video, you will see that they have no extension cards and I doubt they put them onto the motherboard.
As there are more than enough computers at Google, I _heavily_ doubt they care about the encoding overhead. After all, you only have to do that once (per codec & rate).
1) Google servers have no need for any kind of graphics card (serial does just fine, thank you) 2) They are one of the largest computer manufacturers on Earth (and their own best & only customer) so that I highly doubt they have a GFX card and if they do it will be the cheapest, slowest, passively cooled chip they could find 3) Why does a streaming server need to decode the video stream? We encode videos to _save space_. Storing encoded video (disk is relatively cheap for google), decoding it in real time and then saturating their upstream with artifact-ridden, low-quality video _at the full bitrate of decoded video_ is, well, sorry to say so.. bat-shit crazy.
1) You will always get the blame. Learn to accept that. Sucks, but that's the way it is.
2) Be reasonable. Explain what and why etc. If that does not help, refuse to communicate other than through written media. Start CC'ing your or their boss if they try to turn up the heat.
3) If you do not have support from your or their boss, swallow it or find another job.
It boils down to educating the intelligent ones and defending against the rest. If in doubt, refer to 1)
How dangerous do the physics-nerds amongst you think this little gadget is: http://www.dealextreme.com/details.dx/sku.6830 ? From what I know, as long as it does not crack and I don't breathe the stuff, it's perfectly save to carry on on your keyring, but I like to triple-check in a case like this, mainly cause I don't fancy the thought of frying my crotch (or worse, destroying data on my thumb drive!). Sadly, I don't have a Geiger counter nor a way to test x-ray exposure (Bremsstrahlung..) so there is no way for me to actually check on this.
PS: It's awesome! Paired with a small Q5-based AAA flashlight on your keyring, you will never know how you were able to survive, before!
> For starters, we are well aware of where the geological faults are, and we have a pretty good handle on what parts of the continental bedrock are going to be around for the next million years or so. We also know where the water tables are and aren't.
> Second, the waste from fission doesn't have to be as scary as it currently is. Again, the Europeans and the Japanese are trucking this stuff all around the world without mishap, and they're boiling it down to quantities that are small enough to make storage easy.
I know we are trucking this stuff around (Europe, not the world). I also know the amount of preparation this takes. The CASTOR and the french version are both geared towards short-term storage. They are not a long-term solution.
> The longest-lived byproducts are almost always the ones that reprocessing eliminates, leaving waste that requires storage on the order of thousands of years, rather than millions, which takes a lot of the geological concerns away.
There is that, granted. But then, I am not concerned about geological time-frames. I am concerned about human time-frames.
> The final product can be vitrified (turned into glass) to make a solid, non-leachable, durable material that will last essentially indefinitely. In the event that the geology does change, and water gets in on it, it's still safe for the active life of the waste.
This water tends to leave the mine after some time. Or at least it is able to, which is a problem.
Now, I am not trying to say it's impossible to solve these problems, but I am saying that no one could convince me we did it, yet.
My main concern is a economical one, not a technological one, though. While I can believe that way may find a good mid-term solution at some point, the total cost of fission is insane and will be paid by dozens if not hundreds of generations to come. And that is without some fluke making a plant go boom.
Like water seeping through the walls? Or like tectonic movements which will destroy an old coal/salt mine within a few thousand years? These are real-world examples.
There is nothing as harmful (and good at getting through stuff) which lasts nearly as long as good old fission waste.
PS:.Sign me up for fusion any day, but claiming that the problems of fission have been solved or are likely to be solved any time soon is simply a lie.
As you are pro-fission, you will surely have thought of the two remaining financial problems:
1) As insurances and re-insurances simply can not shoulder the full amount of possible damages, there is a government-mandated cap of $ 5 billion. Everything above that is paid by you, and me, and.. Fun fact: $ 5 billion is about 0.1% of the damages if a nuclear fission plant goes off in the western world.
2) Guess who pays for the long-term storage of the burnt-up material. Hint: It's not the companies which earn they money. It's you and me, and..
And let's get into the whole "there is no viable storage solution for the long term" thing just right now. Our great-grand-children will have more than enough time to worry about this.
Richard
PS: Imagine if all the money that the governments poured into fission had gone into self-sustaining solutions, instead.
PPS: China and especially India are building nuclear reactors like crazy. Gone are the days of cheap uranium.
Having migrated a/17 recently, I can only tell you to shove it. If they actually use the/8 (i.e. not fully, but with high fragmentation), there is no way in hell they could do this now.
In an ideal world, they would have started the migration five years ago at the command of IANA and the local registries. Which is not realistic as there is IPv6 and they would never have been forced to do so.
So while I agree with your gut feeling, it's not practical from the technical and adminstrative side.
> As for privacy, I fully expect that most ISPs will eventually have a semi-anonymizing web proxy available for their > customers to use. They'll keep logs for a few days to fight spammers, botnets, and criminals, but keep things > sufficiently shuffled around to keep marketers from ever getting TOO comfy and intimate with your IP address. It'll > make ISPs happy, because they can make it cache traffic and squeeze more use out of their upstream bandwidth.
Bandwith is cheap Routing is fast Adding a new network egress point is easy
Proxying on a multi-homed network is none of that. I talked to the one in charge of doing this for the DFN, the German university & research backbone. The summary is "thank $deity we got rid of it".
It was not only about the oil. It was also very much about the fact that Saddam was the first leader of a major oil exporting country who wanted to accept Euros as well as Dollars for payment in the last few decades. Read up on the oil standard and realize what huge backing the whole world is giving the USA, more or less for free. Then think about what would happen to all that money they churn out if that money was not based on the single most important non-commodity resource (i.e. air, soil, water, etc) we have today, any more.
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..you will actually shout the swearword. That means you do something 'agressive' which, in turn, means your body goes somewhat into battle mode. Especially as you are experiencing actual pain. One of the things that happen in such a situation is.. you feel less pain.
This is not scientific or anything, just a personal experience.
> TCP's congestion control algorithm, which causes congestion and then backs off is the real culprit here
In a dumb network with intelligence on the edges, you can:
1) cause congestion and then back off (TCP)
2) hammer away at whatever rate you think you need (UDP)
3) use a pre-set limit (which might be too high as well so no one does that on public networks)
State-ful packet switching is literally impossible, fixed-path routing not desirable for the reason you stated above and I would not want anyone to inspect my traffic _by design_, anyway.
TCP may not be perfect, but I fail to see an alternative.
...say "Fuck them."
Is that energy companies are not able to do what they do in Germany. At the start of each year, they get the certificates for free and sell them all off. Later, they buy them back at a somewhat higher price.
They keep the profit from selling and use the 'cost' of rebuying to justify higher prices to the regulation agency.
As usual, politics is aware and does not care, the public is not, but would care a lot.
Let's just assume that those engineers are used to working a _lot_ more thouroughly and have a _lot_ more gadgets than you are/have. Your idea is probably useless (unless it involves a chemical agent, but let's give those people some time).
Personally, I would prefer Argon over CO_2 as that reduces the panic from not being able to breathe. (the breathing reflex is triggered by presence of CO_2, _not_ lack of oxygen)
Quite... I still remember a few teachers and friend's mothers who could have molested me all day and the only side effect would have been my perma-grin.
Though, to be fair, I assume that the "mature woman, pubescent boy" kind of child porn is not significant in proportion to the rest.
Knowing how both work, you definitely want the AK. Though I would prefer the AK 74 (or the after 2000 models) over the AK 47. Smaller rounds means you can carry more with you.
Be glad you are not using Konqueror 3.5.10 or 4.2.4; /. makes a point of breaking rendering on those browsers every few weeks.
Random buttons and scroll-bars? Check.
Black text on black background? Check.
Utterly broken navigation so you can watch the front page and nothing else? Check.
CSS, Javascript and other crap in _plain text mode_? Check.
The only reason I keep coming back here for is the friendly discussion style ;)
Disclaimer: I work at the ISP which is handling this from the IT pov.
TFA is wrong. While the gold is obviously more expensive than what TG buys it at, it is still cheaper than what you, as an end-user, pay for actual physical gold.
Bypassing large resellers and banks, both the online shop at http://gold-super-markt.de/ and the vending machines are cheaper than your local bank or jeweler. I am not saying that everyone should rush to buy gold, but if you plan to do so anyway, there is now a discount outlet.
Other cards like the Haupauge TV cards etc are even more expensive than a low-level GFX card. If you look at the Google DC video, you will see that they have no extension cards and I doubt they put them onto the motherboard.
As there are more than enough computers at Google, I _heavily_ doubt they care about the encoding overhead. After all, you only have to do that once (per codec & rate).
In any case, thanks for following this up :)
1) Google servers have no need for any kind of graphics card (serial does just fine, thank you)
2) They are one of the largest computer manufacturers on Earth (and their own best & only customer) so that I highly doubt they have a GFX card and if they do it will be the cheapest, slowest, passively cooled chip they could find
3) Why does a streaming server need to decode the video stream? We encode videos to _save space_. Storing encoded video (disk is relatively cheap for google), decoding it in real time and then saturating their upstream with artifact-ridden, low-quality video _at the full bitrate of decoded video_ is, well, sorry to say so.. bat-shit crazy.
1) You will always get the blame. Learn to accept that. Sucks, but that's the way it is.
2) Be reasonable. Explain what and why etc. If that does not help, refuse to communicate other than through written media. Start CC'ing your or their boss if they try to turn up the heat.
3) If you do not have support from your or their boss, swallow it or find another job.
It boils down to educating the intelligent ones and defending against the rest. If in doubt, refer to 1)
Thanks!
How dangerous do the physics-nerds amongst you think this little gadget is: http://www.dealextreme.com/details.dx/sku.6830 ? From what I know, as long as it does not crack and I don't breathe the stuff, it's perfectly save to carry on on your keyring, but I like to triple-check in a case like this, mainly cause I don't fancy the thought of frying my crotch (or worse, destroying data on my thumb drive!). Sadly, I don't have a Geiger counter nor a way to test x-ray exposure (Bremsstrahlung..) so there is no way for me to actually check on this.
PS: It's awesome! Paired with a small Q5-based AAA flashlight on your keyring, you will never know how you were able to survive, before!
> For starters, we are well aware of where the geological faults are, and we have a pretty good handle on what parts of the continental bedrock are going to be around for the next million years or so. We also know where the water tables are and aren't.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gorleben#Nuclear_Waste_Repository
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schacht_Asse_II#Instability_of_the_pit
> Second, the waste from fission doesn't have to be as scary as it currently is. Again, the Europeans and the Japanese are trucking this stuff all around the world without mishap, and they're boiling it down to quantities that are small enough to make storage easy.
I know we are trucking this stuff around (Europe, not the world). I also know the amount of preparation this takes. The CASTOR and the french version are both geared towards short-term storage. They are not a long-term solution.
> The longest-lived byproducts are almost always the ones that reprocessing eliminates, leaving waste that requires storage on the order of thousands of years, rather than millions, which takes a lot of the geological concerns away.
There is that, granted. But then, I am not concerned about geological time-frames. I am concerned about human time-frames.
> The final product can be vitrified (turned into glass) to make a solid, non-leachable, durable material that will last essentially indefinitely. In the event that the geology does change, and water gets in on it, it's still safe for the active life of the waste.
This water tends to leave the mine after some time. Or at least it is able to, which is a problem.
Now, I am not trying to say it's impossible to solve these problems, but I am saying that no one could convince me we did it, yet.
My main concern is a economical one, not a technological one, though. While I can believe that way may find a good mid-term solution at some point, the total cost of fission is insane and will be paid by dozens if not hundreds of generations to come. And that is without some fluke making a plant go boom.
Like water seeping through the walls? Or like tectonic movements which will destroy an old coal/salt mine within a few thousand years? These are real-world examples.
There is nothing as harmful (and good at getting through stuff) which lasts nearly as long as good old fission waste.
PS: .Sign me up for fusion any day, but claiming that the problems of fission have been solved or are likely to be solved any time soon is simply a lie.
You mean we try to do it. And time after time, we realize that storage location X can't be used because of Y..
As you are pro-fission, you will surely have thought of the two remaining financial problems:
1) As insurances and re-insurances simply can not shoulder the full amount of possible damages, there is a government-mandated cap of $ 5 billion. Everything above that is paid by you, and me, and.. Fun fact: $ 5 billion is about 0.1% of the damages if a nuclear fission plant goes off in the western world.
2) Guess who pays for the long-term storage of the burnt-up material. Hint: It's not the companies which earn they money. It's you and me, and..
And let's get into the whole "there is no viable storage solution for the long term" thing just right now. Our great-grand-children will have more than enough time to worry about this.
Richard
PS: Imagine if all the money that the governments poured into fission had gone into self-sustaining solutions, instead.
PPS: China and especially India are building nuclear reactors like crazy. Gone are the days of cheap uranium.
I hope he wins in every possible way.
Kudos & good luck.
Having migrated a /17 recently, I can only tell you to shove it. If they actually use the /8 (i.e. not fully, but with high fragmentation), there is no way in hell they could do this now.
In an ideal world, they would have started the migration five years ago at the command of IANA and the local registries. Which is not realistic as there is IPv6 and they would never have been forced to do so.
So while I agree with your gut feeling, it's not practical from the technical and adminstrative side.
> As for privacy, I fully expect that most ISPs will eventually have a semi-anonymizing web proxy available for their
> customers to use. They'll keep logs for a few days to fight spammers, botnets, and criminals, but keep things
> sufficiently shuffled around to keep marketers from ever getting TOO comfy and intimate with your IP address. It'll
> make ISPs happy, because they can make it cache traffic and squeeze more use out of their upstream bandwidth.
Bandwith is cheap
Routing is fast
Adding a new network egress point is easy
Proxying on a multi-homed network is none of that. I talked to the one in charge of doing this for the DFN, the German university & research backbone. The summary is "thank $deity we got rid of it".
It was not only about the oil.
It was also very much about the fact that Saddam was the first leader of a major oil exporting country who wanted to accept Euros as well as Dollars for payment in the last few decades. Read up on the oil standard and realize what huge backing the whole world is giving the USA, more or less for free. Then think about what would happen to all that money they churn out if that money was not based on the single most important non-commodity resource (i.e. air, soil, water, etc) we have today, any more.
> When I get used to doing 'rm' and 'cp' I can write an easy shell script which does the two together.
And then call it mv? ;)
Pussy. Real men morse in parallel on the ethernet leads.