Basic definition: All userspace data transfer shall be given equal priority, regardless of source, destination, or content.
But then you need to add in real world factors such as spam, DDOS attacks, latency-sensitive traffic (VOIP, etc.), etc. then it gets complex and debated.
As for BMI being stupid, thank you for ignoring all my points about it. It is an acceptable measure for the average person. It does not apply to some individuals, of which body builders are a part of (football players and other atheletes also using body building techniques would fit under this "does not apply to" rule).
For a sufficiently restricted definition of "average person". BMI isn't worth a damn for about 1/4 of the population (16% are determined to be overweight when they aren't, 9% aren't overweight when they are)
BMI is a bad measurement because it is scaled wrong. People are not two dimensional, yet BMI only uses a square factor and it really breaks down past 6 feet, which is barely above average height (5'10") in the US
Anyway, I seriously doubt anyone would mistake a body builder/athlete for an obese person
A statistician using nonsense BMI numbers for obesity statistics certainly would.
Viagra also works ok for blood pressure (it isn't very effective for treating angina), though it is not used for that for 2 reasons.
1. Plenty of other medications that work well for that, and it doesn't perform any better than ones already available. 2. Viagra reacts synergisticly with nitroglycerin and will cause your blood pressure to fall through the floor if they get combined, turning one crisis into a different one.
It's not the message content, but rather the traffic patterns. Lots of email providers use dumb systems like "if a particular mailserver sends me more than X messages at once, increase their spam probability by Y" and similar. Epsilon has that data, either from the ISPs or from their own testing and uses that to get around those measures.
there's the thousands times normal iodine contamination leaking into the seawater, with the potential to either make a lot of fish very sick or worse, bioaccumulate in fish tissue for decades to come.
What exactly is going to bioaccumlate for decades? Iodine-131 has a half life of 8 days and decays into stable Xenon-131.
Look up something called the Laffer Curve in your vast amounts of spare time and examine the effects of tax rates.
Yes, the Laffer curve is very pretty. Now please present your evidence to support your assertion that we are in the centre or right side of that curve.
Though most of the time, you just tell your credit card company certain charges are invalid, and they grab the money from the merchant, which may then get passed to business insurance, if they're lucky
FTFY. If you think the credit card companies pay for fraud, you're crazy. If they actually were having to eat those costs, we might get actual security in this system.
Which is why you get a real ATX motherboard with 4 (or 6 for upper class Intel) slots rather than a little microATX board with no expansion capability.
I not clear on how not knowing where a company is headquartered helps GeoHotz's case.
It matters for arguing that California is an inappropriate venue. The case being in California could be disastrous, as it would be expensive for geohot to appear in court for his defense.
Also, I believe California has some whacky trade secret laws Sony could utilize.
Very bad idea. That's random writes, where SSDs are typically far slower than normal hard disks.
That's a problem with some controllers (Marvell's Da Vinci controller and whatever the hell WD uses in their ones, for example) that don't handle garbage collection well. after being in use for some time, the write speeds and IOPS goes all over the place. It's not a problem with better controllers, like Sandforce's stuff.
the SSD market still has a bunch of garbage in the mix and you need to research stuff to avoid getting burned.
Peak oil is a perfectly reasonable concept, they're just using a poor explanation of it. The amount of oil that exists is not relevant. Peak oil refers the amount of oil that can be practically (cheaply/quickly/easily) extracted, and that is what reaches a peak. Even if you had an infinite supply of oil somewhere, that doesn't matter if you can only extract a few thousand barrels a day or it costs more to extract it than you can sell it for.
Example : The Athabasca oil sands up here in Canada. almost 2 trillion barrels of oil, more than most of the rest of the world combined, and enough to sustain current oil usage worldwide (83 million barrels/day) for the next 50 years. Less than 1/10th of that is able to be practically extracted at current prices and it is slow, messy, and expensive to extract and convert into a useful form. At present, we're barely getting a million barrels a day and that will only scale up to 3 million in the next decade with a dozen companies going balls out to expand capacity.
Highest corporate tax? From the numbers I have handy, US corporations range from 35% (over 18.6 million top federal rate with no state tax, such as Nevada) to 47% (12% state tax over 250k, Iowa). And as you may have noticed from this story, that rate is perforated with loopholes.
Canada has top rates of 48-54% (38% federal with 10-16% provincial) or 11-15.5% (11% federal with 0-4.5% provincial) for small businesses.
The issue Apple has is additional enforcement of the 4 freedoms of free software. The GPL2 had a pair of loopholes which GPL3 closed.
1. anti-tivoization - You must be able to take the source provided (under freedom 1), modify it, compile it, and run it on the device (freedom 0). iOS does not allow this due to the requirement that all code must be signed by Apple before it will run. They would be in full compliance if they provided an option to allow unsigned code or allowed users to add their own certificates, but they don't.
2. Patents - If your GPL3 code is covered by a patent, you are required to license that patent to anyone who you give/sell your software too, along with anyone they give/sell the software too, and so on down the chain, otherwise they could sue someone distributing the software (freedom 2) or their modifications of such (freedom 3). They can still sue anyone infringing on that patent while not using their code, though it would make proving the infringement more difficult.
The only time you would be required to release signing keys is if you conveyed GPLed software inside a User Product, and its hardware checked the software for a valid cryptographic signature before it would function
That sounds exactly like a certain Apple product. Without jailbreaking, you cannot run non-signed code on iOS, which runs afoul of that clause. If they simply have an option to add your own certificate or run unsigned code, they would be in compliance, but they don't want to do that, probably due to them making promises to media companies or something.
They probably also don't like the patent retaliation clause either.
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Then they should start their own cellular carrier!
CAPITALISM! CAPITALISM! USA! USA!
Basic definition: All userspace data transfer shall be given equal priority, regardless of source, destination, or content.
But then you need to add in real world factors such as spam, DDOS attacks, latency-sensitive traffic (VOIP, etc.), etc. then it gets complex and debated.
As for BMI being stupid, thank you for ignoring all my points about it. It is an acceptable measure for the average person. It does not apply to some individuals, of which body builders are a part of (football players and other atheletes also using body building techniques would fit under this "does not apply to" rule).
For a sufficiently restricted definition of "average person". BMI isn't worth a damn for about 1/4 of the population (16% are determined to be overweight when they aren't, 9% aren't overweight when they are)
BMI is a bad measurement because it is scaled wrong. People are not two dimensional, yet BMI only uses a square factor and it really breaks down past 6 feet, which is barely above average height (5'10") in the US
Anyway, I seriously doubt anyone would mistake a body builder/athlete for an obese person
A statistician using nonsense BMI numbers for obesity statistics certainly would.
This illustration is more clear.
http://docjones.nodalpoint.net/att_breakup.jpg
Viagra also works ok for blood pressure (it isn't very effective for treating angina), though it is not used for that for 2 reasons.
1. Plenty of other medications that work well for that, and it doesn't perform any better than ones already available.
2. Viagra reacts synergisticly with nitroglycerin and will cause your blood pressure to fall through the floor if they get combined, turning one crisis into a different one.
It's not the message content, but rather the traffic patterns. Lots of email providers use dumb systems like "if a particular mailserver sends me more than X messages at once, increase their spam probability by Y" and similar. Epsilon has that data, either from the ISPs or from their own testing and uses that to get around those measures.
Epsilon's service includes dodging anti-spam measures, which would be difficult to do if it's not your primary business.
WRONG!
Time started at 8:45:54 PM, December 13, 1901.
there's the thousands times normal iodine contamination leaking into the seawater, with the potential to either make a lot of fish very sick or worse, bioaccumulate in fish tissue for decades to come.
What exactly is going to bioaccumlate for decades? Iodine-131 has a half life of 8 days and decays into stable Xenon-131.
About the only books I could get were Harry Potter and His Dark Materials. Both were the UK editions
Did anyone else read that sentence and wonder when they came out with an 8th book?
Need more coffee.
Look up something called the Laffer Curve in your vast amounts of spare time and examine the effects of tax rates.
Yes, the Laffer curve is very pretty. Now please present your evidence to support your assertion that we are in the centre or right side of that curve.
Though most of the time, you just tell your credit card company certain charges are invalid, and they grab the money from the merchant, which may then get passed to business insurance, if they're lucky
FTFY. If you think the credit card companies pay for fraud, you're crazy. If they actually were having to eat those costs, we might get actual security in this system.
Yeah, it's not like the government forced AT&T to fund Bell labs as a condition of keeping their monopoly or anything.
Yes, a research division that the US federal government forced AT&T to fund as a condition of being allowed to keep their monopoly.
Compared to Rogers, Comcast is eligible for canonization.
Doing a quick search, about half of microATX boards have only 2 slots.
Which is why you get a real ATX motherboard with 4 (or 6 for upper class Intel) slots rather than a little microATX board with no expansion capability.
Here's a simple rule of thumb: if you don't want people searching for evidence of your crimes, DON'T DO THE CRIMES.
or be remotely associated with anyone who might have committed a crime.
I not clear on how not knowing where a company is headquartered helps GeoHotz's case.
It matters for arguing that California is an inappropriate venue. The case being in California could be disastrous, as it would be expensive for geohot to appear in court for his defense.
Also, I believe California has some whacky trade secret laws Sony could utilize.
Place your webbrowser caches onto it
Very bad idea. That's random writes, where SSDs are typically far slower than normal hard disks.
That's a problem with some controllers (Marvell's Da Vinci controller and whatever the hell WD uses in their ones, for example) that don't handle garbage collection well. after being in use for some time, the write speeds and IOPS goes all over the place. It's not a problem with better controllers, like Sandforce's stuff.
the SSD market still has a bunch of garbage in the mix and you need to research stuff to avoid getting burned.
Peak oil is a perfectly reasonable concept, they're just using a poor explanation of it. The amount of oil that exists is not relevant. Peak oil refers the amount of oil that can be practically (cheaply/quickly/easily) extracted, and that is what reaches a peak. Even if you had an infinite supply of oil somewhere, that doesn't matter if you can only extract a few thousand barrels a day or it costs more to extract it than you can sell it for.
Example : The Athabasca oil sands up here in Canada. almost 2 trillion barrels of oil, more than most of the rest of the world combined, and enough to sustain current oil usage worldwide (83 million barrels/day) for the next 50 years. Less than 1/10th of that is able to be practically extracted at current prices and it is slow, messy, and expensive to extract and convert into a useful form. At present, we're barely getting a million barrels a day and that will only scale up to 3 million in the next decade with a dozen companies going balls out to expand capacity.
Highest corporate tax? From the numbers I have handy, US corporations range from 35% (over 18.6 million top federal rate with no state tax, such as Nevada) to 47% (12% state tax over 250k, Iowa). And as you may have noticed from this story, that rate is perforated with loopholes.
Canada has top rates of 48-54% (38% federal with 10-16% provincial) or 11-15.5% (11% federal with 0-4.5% provincial) for small businesses.
You should also check their hands. Some of them might be mutes.
The issue Apple has is additional enforcement of the 4 freedoms of free software. The GPL2 had a pair of loopholes which GPL3 closed.
1. anti-tivoization - You must be able to take the source provided (under freedom 1), modify it, compile it, and run it on the device (freedom 0). iOS does not allow this due to the requirement that all code must be signed by Apple before it will run. They would be in full compliance if they provided an option to allow unsigned code or allowed users to add their own certificates, but they don't.
2. Patents - If your GPL3 code is covered by a patent, you are required to license that patent to anyone who you give/sell your software too, along with anyone they give/sell the software too, and so on down the chain, otherwise they could sue someone distributing the software (freedom 2) or their modifications of such (freedom 3). They can still sue anyone infringing on that patent while not using their code, though it would make proving the infringement more difficult.
The only time you would be required to release signing keys is if you conveyed GPLed software inside a User Product, and its hardware checked the software for a valid cryptographic signature before it would function
That sounds exactly like a certain Apple product. Without jailbreaking, you cannot run non-signed code on iOS, which runs afoul of that clause. If they simply have an option to add your own certificate or run unsigned code, they would be in compliance, but they don't want to do that, probably due to them making promises to media companies or something.
They probably also don't like the patent retaliation clause either.