More ignorant gumph from the US Ecotards, early 1960-70 nuclear reactors were slow-neutron to produce Plutonium-238 by neutron capture from Uranium-238, this was spun.
We now have enough Plutonium, and with a half-life of c 24000 years it will be around for a good while.
The down side of slow reactors is they produce Actinides cerntred on AW 116, fast neutron reactors are designed (a) so they can not go super-critical and (b) burn down (existing) Actinides to AW c 29 which have very short half lives.
This is what is the matter with Ecotards and Watermelons in the USA, they were dreaming of cheerleaders and holding their dick when they should have been paying attention in Science Class, if any real unpoliticised science is still taught in US schools.
Having read the Fixit article it seems mostly an advertisemnet for their screwdrivers, and replacement screwkit.
As an old tired engineer, this is cr*p, you need some mild steel rod, a lathe, a file, hot, and carbon hardner powder and 10 minutes to make a Pentacr*p screwdriver if you arnt smart enough to go to the right place to find the REAL name of this fixing.
This is all getting SO stupid, copying a bit of text is NOT infringment so long as fair use is not exceeded, and if the text or the idea was already written that way, shoot or throw all the STUPID corporate f**kers and lawers and throw the bodies in the Charles River, along with the Tea chests.
This guy is just getting out of order, (a) we know that only 1% of these patents are viable if challenged in court, (b) that this is a US only phenonema, certainly not in DE.
We do not need anymore intellectual property pimps,
Real enterprises do due dilligence, but the real cure is liability for costs, in the UK and most of Europe costs are "Costs in cause" and the whole trial cost goes with the eventual judgement... which quickly stops weak patents being litigated.
The USA stands to be a huge looser from this domestic nonsense post 2007. No one in Asia, China... Europe, Russia cares any more! Notice.
NO, NO, NO you are living in the age of dinasaurs, and your analysis is totally Windoze centric. I dont have want or care about patch Tuesday, or what ever the hell it is.
The software on my machine is my responsibility, not yours, you may mandate that it must all be legal eg Fedora, SuSe... but that is it, and if you cant set up a firewalled VPN with NO performance loss you are an idiot.
Dont worry, you need not worry, you and your corporate control freaks are over. NB if you want real security you need to provide a firebreak which does not use computers at all.
As you may have noticed Computers can be hacked eg by NSA, CIA... so you need to ensure that they cannot get beyond first base.
This is trivially easy, you need a State that permits Corporations with bearer shares, a lawer fiducery, and bank geheimnis; then you establish the Corporation, appoint the fiducery in the name of it, and bank with bankers who will guarentee an account with details written ONLY in a manual ledger accessible only to one or two named officers.
Nothing networked or databased, then you can pyramid that with a second such account, with another bank with the access details sealed from the first. It is easy, and not very expensive and completely uncrackable if you do it right.
NO, you make the ongoing mistake that technical measures can control or limit human behavior, in reality it can not.
Behind all the Wikileaks and corporate angst is the implied lie that IT drones can enforce Corporate or National security and that the rank and file employee is not to be trusted.
All vital secrets are simple, and can be written on the back of a beer mat, eg E=mc^2, China may short the Eurobond market,...
This ignores the many people with eidetic recall, or simply very good memories eg rememberencers as used in Hawala banking.
The problem with the parent is it draws all the wrong conclusions, in a facile fashion, by living in yesteryear, and confuses technical and process matters.
This is part if "when the sg1t hits the fan I must have a CUA strategy", and won't work. If the high level diplomats in the US state department had been issued with ONE-TIME-PADS or BOOK-PAGE references and had had to encrypt their vicarious rudeness by hand we would have had a lot less of it, Mr Obama, are you listening.
When the Mossad has a wikileaks experience you will know it is hard, until then the right conclusion is that the US is populated-and-governed-by lazy corrupt idiots.
NO, the answer is the industry has grow up, computers and smart phones, netbooks and tablets are now commodities.
The IT guys need to get used to that and that Windows will be a minority player in that world. The days of owning/managing the client side are over. No ownership, no control.
Idiots like you need to think quick, because they wont tolerate your continued intervention anymore than they would in their next car or fridge! If you can't stop this silly 1970s attitude you will find yourself, but only 1 in 100 administering the CLOUD contract for servers, as well.
FIRST, the quoted conclusion is false and unenforceable, if it is yours and the employer breaks in they are guilty of a felony! If they hack in they are in a world of trouble.
HOW do they break in unless you run WIN-CRAP or give them VNC assess to a 'root' shell. A little help, if I run a SMTP server on my base computer, eg sendmail, and use webmail to that, how does that let them in? If they hack in they are in a world of trouble.
My Laptop has a clear label on it "Property of OMB" and runs Linux not WIN-CRAP and is locked down better than a bulls arse in fly time. If they hack in they are in a world of trouble again.
As a consultant I NEVER connect my hardware to a client's network except at their EXPLICIT request, in writing. When I do, and it dosn't trigger their dumb intrusion detection system I have to give my chargeable "HOWTO rig a Linux system to avoid CISCO et al intrusion detection" or their answer is "Mine to know..." but you must log this incedent for your security audit.
Networking 101 tells it all, practical advice, make sure your box stays silent until it knows what it is doing, it can easily guess the localnet, it can forge arp packets using that to map the subnet and find subnet gaps to exploit as an available IP address, then it can...
Lastly, do not permit "password, keyboard" ssh logins to your boxen, set a BIOS password and replace your drive retaining screw with a VERY hard to remove security screw and 'nail varnish' the screw in with very hard to match color, on top not the theads, bit you could use soft Locktite there.
No, The problem is diagnosed quite clearly, the TCP protocol is designed to deal with full buffers, ie no more transmit space left, and cope with that BUFFERBLOAT means that the transmit side KEEPS accepting packets, which may then time out or be dropped and THIS implies unstable latency and congestion spikes. Routers should allocate a small number of buffers for each connection and return an appropriate transmit window size.
Please READ the blog carefully, it all makes much sense even though the result is counter-intuitive.
No, you are right to paint the picture, but it is only part of the story,
the oligarcs, but more than 20, influence thru Congress and the MSM, if there is any real push back,
they go away, and try another day. Then, increasingly, technology overwelms them, because they are trying to support the status quo and do not investigate disruptive technologies.
The long view is they always loose, You guys in the USA need to get a life and figure out how to control your Congress-Critters/Senate-Placemen.
Then you get the Supreames back and all will be OK
Sorry you guys, you have completely lost the plot. Most posts, but not most of the internet is USA offshore.
We dont like you, care much about your CRAP ISP subscription rip-offs, or your broken and benighted legal system which deliverers Justice, only to the very rich (costs in cause) tort-reform, the "American Centuary" or who is patent fucking or time wasting today, your debt is huge, your productivity carp and the whole economhy is in the tank while your leaders still do Keynsian eye-shut and continue to try to spend other peoples money.
"The problem with re-distribution/socialism is when you run out of other peoples money"
Efficient computation, Game Theory, and (with/without) statistics simulation SHOULD be hard too.
The lack of widespread general understanding of statistics, errors and simulation are a grave political threat to modern society.
By way of example, only, AGW would not stand a chance if the average Joe could understand the CODE in the climategate leak. It is far far more damning than the e-mails.
As society becomes more complicated One-Man-One-Vote only makes sense if the Men understand the issues.
Sadly the NSF and Research Councils in the UK are vulnerable, and have fallen to corruption and group think, exacerbated by Seniority and Pork. This is NOT to say that they are not useful, or that is easy to do that job but it is to say that a dose of accountability is urgently needed and it can not be to more OLD BOYS groups.
While the whole matter is complex, and in research, anyway, you are lucky if 1% of your bets come in, BUT the rate of progress in Maths, the Hard Sciences (eg Physics, Chemistry and Biology) as well as in Medicine is disappointing with far too much incremental technology and not expected break-throughs.
This is symptomatic of Government enterprises, lots of Beaurocracy and not a lot of Leadership.
I would suggest the way to do it is to make a short list of headline areas in Science, Engineering and Medicine to get funding priority eg Safe Nuclear Fusion, Cure Virus Diseases, Interplanetary Travel to focus attention on National and International goals and needs. A pure lottery for 10% of the funding to prevent starving of outlier and unfashionable ideas and a Death Squad to go after, mostly fashionable me-too research in The Environment and Social Sciences.
One of the main problems of government is that loosers are never reaped eg the Shuttle and AGW because of beaurocracy, colligiality and face.
This leads to rediculous Political policies, eg Carbon Taxes, Renuables, where as Fission would let us systhesise oil where needed.
Is becomming a really serious problem coupled with the media-beloved mantra "Scientists say..."
In general public policy, but particularly:
AGW, corrupt statistics, modeling
Finance, risk, pricing
Health, pandemics, junk pharma, vaxination fear
You have a single intellectual thread, mis-used mathematics and particularly modeling, unwarrented veneration of authority, fostered by the MSM, and the results of BS research focused by directed funding.
The root cause is innumeracy, but focused by too much power in too few un-accountable hands is becomming a real threat to our political process.
Lack of a simple and convenient Exchange replacement strangles many, many commercial Linux deployments particularly in mixed environments,
Google Docs would be very nice
I wish LibreOffice all the best, and hope that, freed from Corporate America's help, it will now flourish. All projects with a horrendous build system please note!
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Having uses Nokia phone for at least the last 15 years my N95 will be the LAST Nokia
I cant believe people can be so stupid!
More ignorant gumph from the US Ecotards, early 1960-70 nuclear reactors were slow-neutron to produce Plutonium-238 by neutron capture from Uranium-238, this was spun.
We now have enough Plutonium, and with a half-life of c 24000 years it will be around for a good while.
The down side of slow reactors is they produce Actinides cerntred on AW 116, fast neutron reactors are designed (a) so they can not go super-critical and (b) burn down (existing) Actinides to AW c 29 which have very short half lives.
This is what is the matter with Ecotards and Watermelons in the USA, they were dreaming of cheerleaders and holding their dick when they should have been paying attention in Science Class, if any real unpoliticised science is still taught in US schools.
But ONLY in the USA!
Having read the Fixit article it seems mostly an advertisemnet for their screwdrivers, and replacement screwkit.
As an old tired engineer, this is cr*p, you need some mild steel rod, a lathe, a file, hot, and carbon hardner powder and 10 minutes to make a Pentacr*p screwdriver if you arnt smart enough to go to the right place to find the REAL name of this fixing.
They will be on eBay next week.
This is all getting SO stupid, copying a bit of text is NOT infringment so long as fair use is not exceeded, and if the text or the idea was already written that way, shoot or throw all the STUPID corporate f**kers and lawers and throw the bodies in the Charles River, along with the Tea chests.
Very HIGH,
... which quickly stops weak patents being litigated.
... Europe, Russia cares any more! Notice.
This guy is just getting out of order, (a) we know that only 1% of these patents are viable if challenged in court, (b) that this is a US only phenonema, certainly not in DE.
We do not need anymore intellectual property pimps,
Real enterprises do due dilligence, but the real cure is liability for costs, in the UK and most of Europe costs are "Costs in cause" and the whole trial cost goes with the eventual judgement
The USA stands to be a huge looser from this domestic nonsense post 2007. No one in Asia, China
You Americans need to fix your own poorly regulated financial system first,
and stop trying to interfear in the affairs of others.
I hope Elmer gets 20 years in the Zuchthaus, and if Assange enters Switzerland,
he should join him, inter alia for fraud at PostBank
And you must still believe in the Tooth Fairy and Father Christmas as well
Mit der Dummheit kaempfen Goetter selbst vergebens
How much of the US lifestyle is paid on borrowed money,
and BTW wars and failed foreign policies eveywhere,
If you don't want to allow your citizens to have external bank accounts, make it illegal in YOUR country to have one.
leave the rest of the world, and the law abiding Swiss the FUCK alone.
YES, exactly right, avoid such loosers.
NO, NO, NO you are living in the age of dinasaurs, and your analysis is totally Windoze centric. I dont have want or care about patch Tuesday, or what ever the hell it is.
... but that is it, and if you cant set up a firewalled VPN with NO performance loss you are an idiot.
... so you need to ensure that they cannot get beyond first base.
The software on my machine is my responsibility, not yours, you may mandate that it must all be legal eg Fedora, SuSe
Dont worry, you need not worry, you and your corporate control freaks are over. NB if you want real security you need to provide a firebreak which does not use computers at all.
As you may have noticed Computers can be hacked eg by NSA, CIA
This is trivially easy, you need a State that permits Corporations with bearer shares, a lawer fiducery, and bank geheimnis; then you establish the Corporation, appoint the fiducery in the name of it, and bank with bankers who will guarentee an account with details written ONLY in a manual ledger accessible only to one or two named officers.
Nothing networked or databased, then you can pyramid that with a second such account, with another bank with the access details sealed from the first. It is easy, and not very expensive and completely uncrackable if you do it right.
NO, you make the ongoing mistake that technical measures can control or limit human behavior, in reality it can not.
...
Behind all the Wikileaks and corporate angst is the implied lie that IT drones can enforce Corporate or National security and that the rank and file employee is not to be trusted.
All vital secrets are simple, and can be written on the back of a beer mat, eg E=mc^2, China may short the Eurobond market,
This ignores the many people with eidetic recall, or simply very good memories eg rememberencers as used in Hawala banking.
The problem with the parent is it draws all the wrong conclusions, in a facile fashion, by living in yesteryear, and confuses technical and process matters.
This is part if "when the sg1t hits the fan I must have a CUA strategy", and won't work. If the high level diplomats in the US state department had been issued with ONE-TIME-PADS or BOOK-PAGE references and had had to encrypt their vicarious rudeness by hand we would have had a lot less of it, Mr Obama, are you listening.
When the Mossad has a wikileaks experience you will know it is hard, until then the right conclusion is that the US is populated-and-governed-by lazy corrupt idiots.
NO, the answer is the industry has grow up, computers and smart phones, netbooks and tablets are now commodities.
The IT guys need to get used to that and that Windows will be a minority player in that world. The days of owning/managing the client side are over. No ownership, no control.
Idiots like you need to think quick, because they wont tolerate your continued intervention anymore than they would in their next car or fridge! If you can't stop this silly 1970s attitude you will find yourself, but only 1 in 100 administering the CLOUD contract for servers, as well.
FIRST, the quoted conclusion is false and unenforceable, if it is yours and the employer breaks in they are guilty of a felony!
..." but you must log this incedent for your security audit.
...
If they hack in they are in a world of trouble.
HOW do they break in unless you run WIN-CRAP or give them VNC assess to a 'root' shell. A little help, if I run a SMTP server on my base computer, eg sendmail, and use webmail to that, how does that let them in? If they hack in they are in a world of trouble.
My Laptop has a clear label on it "Property of OMB" and runs Linux not WIN-CRAP and is locked down better than a bulls arse in fly time. If they hack in they are in a world of trouble again.
As a consultant I NEVER connect my hardware to a client's network except at their EXPLICIT request, in writing. When I do, and it dosn't trigger their dumb intrusion detection system I have to give my chargeable "HOWTO rig a Linux system to avoid CISCO et al intrusion detection" or their answer is "Mine to know
Networking 101 tells it all, practical advice, make sure your box stays silent until it knows what it is doing, it can easily guess the localnet, it can forge arp packets using that to map the subnet and find subnet gaps to exploit as an available IP address, then it can
Lastly, do not permit "password, keyboard" ssh logins to your boxen, set a BIOS password and replace your drive retaining screw with a VERY hard to remove security screw and 'nail varnish' the screw in with very hard to match color, on top not the theads, bit you could use soft Locktite there.
No, The problem is diagnosed quite clearly, the TCP protocol is designed to deal with full buffers, ie no more transmit space left, and cope with that BUFFERBLOAT means that the transmit side KEEPS accepting packets, which may then time out or be dropped and THIS implies unstable latency and congestion spikes. Routers should allocate a small number of buffers for each connection and return an appropriate transmit window size.
Please READ the blog carefully, it all makes much sense even though the result is counter-intuitive.
No, you are right to paint the picture, but it is only part of the story,
the oligarcs, but more than 20, influence thru Congress and the MSM, if there is any real push back,
they go away, and try another day. Then, increasingly, technology overwelms them, because they are
trying to support the status quo and do not investigate disruptive technologies.
The long view is they always loose, You guys in the USA need to get a life and figure out how to control your
Congress-Critters/Senate-Placemen.
Then you get the Supreames back and all will be OK
Then it wont really matter who is President.
Sorry you guys, you have completely lost the plot. Most posts, but not most of the internet is USA offshore.
We dont like you, care much about your CRAP ISP subscription rip-offs, or your broken and benighted legal system which deliverers Justice, only to the very rich (costs in cause) tort-reform, the "American Centuary" or who is patent fucking or time wasting today, your debt is huge, your productivity carp and the whole economhy is in the tank while your leaders still do Keynsian eye-shut and continue to try to spend other peoples money.
"The problem with re-distribution/socialism is when you run out of other peoples money"
You will be very lucky to last another 10 years
That is a nice idea, but not really true, one real use for calculators and computers is to check things
...
caculations
proofs
The way you find out if you have nasent mathematicians is with the well known class of problems with a quick, lazy solution eg
12^12 = (12^4)^3
which do you think is the easier to calculate by hand?
Efficient computation, Game Theory, and (with/without) statistics simulation SHOULD be hard too.
The lack of widespread general understanding of statistics, errors and simulation are a grave political threat to modern society.
By way of example, only, AGW would not stand a chance if the average Joe could understand the CODE in the climategate leak. It is far far more damning than the e-mails.
As society becomes more complicated One-Man-One-Vote only makes sense if the Men understand the issues.
Sadly the NSF and Research Councils in the UK are vulnerable, and have fallen to corruption and group think, exacerbated by Seniority and Pork. This is NOT to say that they are not useful, or that is easy to do that job but it is to say that a dose of accountability is urgently needed and it can not be to more OLD BOYS groups.
While the whole matter is complex, and in research, anyway, you are lucky if 1% of your bets come in, BUT the rate of progress in Maths, the Hard Sciences (eg Physics, Chemistry and Biology) as well as in Medicine is disappointing with far too much incremental technology and not expected break-throughs.
This is symptomatic of Government enterprises, lots of Beaurocracy and not a lot of Leadership.
I would suggest the way to do it is to make a short list of headline areas in Science, Engineering and Medicine to get funding priority eg Safe Nuclear Fusion, Cure Virus Diseases, Interplanetary Travel to focus attention on National and International goals and needs. A pure lottery for 10% of the funding to prevent starving of outlier and unfashionable ideas and a Death Squad to go after, mostly fashionable me-too research in The Environment and Social Sciences.
One of the main problems of government is that loosers are never reaped eg the Shuttle and AGW because of beaurocracy, colligiality and face.
This leads to rediculous Political policies, eg Carbon Taxes, Renuables, where as Fission would let us systhesise oil where needed.
Is becomming a really serious problem coupled with the media-beloved mantra "Scientists say ..."
In general public policy, but particularly:
AGW, corrupt statistics, modeling
Finance, risk, pricing
Health, pandemics, junk pharma, vaxination fear
You have a single intellectual thread, mis-used mathematics and particularly modeling,
unwarrented veneration of authority, fostered by the MSM, and the results of BS research
focused by directed funding.
The root cause is innumeracy, but focused by too much power in too few un-accountable
hands is becomming a real threat to our political process.
I could not agree more:
Lack of a simple and convenient Exchange replacement strangles many, many commercial Linux deployments particularly in mixed environments,
Google Docs would be very nice
I wish LibreOffice all the best, and hope that, freed from Corporate America's help, it will now flourish. All projects with a horrendous build system please note!
I agree, we dont want to save IP4, or encorage any more kludges, and there are LOTS of other good things in IP6 beside long names.
In the transition ISPs can do the band-aid routing, and the end user situation will stop getting worse.
IP6 already has transition features, eg embedded IP4 addresses, which facilitate this.
NO MORE nonsense, and ignorant MSM commentary, start the transition to be done in 2 years.
1. This is the POLITICAL part of government and is as easily bought as ISO, maybe easier.
2. Look at the record of UK Government IT projects.
3. It is not IE that makes Windoze insecure, it is the OS and the design philosophy
-- COM is a security disaster
-- executing any vaguely executable rubbish based on its extension is a disaster
4. Backward compatibility, and a zillion features that assume an essentially insecure and trusted
world are a disaster. M$ has no way out.
for Profit is not evil, M$, by action reputation and legal determination is.
So the correct question is would you entrust your data to evil for profit?