I knew about the meat part. I knew it going in. However, serving is what we do in my family, both sides of the tree, man or woman. (Shrug). I'm most annoy about the screw up since it ended my career.
Got that one right. I'm a disabled vet as a direct result of a shipyard accident in the US Navy. Both the Navy and VA really fucked up by not following up on neurological problems that developed over the next few years. Bone spurs were forming in the cervical (neck) vertabrae, slicing through the spinal cord. What should of happened is that when they found the symptoms were not a result of damage outside the spine, they should have done an MRI. Oops. The Veteran's Administration also failed to follow up for an additional seven years over the Navy's four before doing the MRI. Then they waited for another four years before telling me that I'm inoperable and terminal. Oops! I have a team of doctors, now, at the VA who can't help me on the pain issues or much of anything else other than trying to keep me from killing myself as I have done, unsatisfactorily, over a dozen times. Whatever.
The actual point of the post is that my medical team keep pushing me to sue the US Navy and the VA for malpractice (and the US Navy for wrongful termination;-0). Yeah, like that's gonna fly. You have to get a Federal Judge's permission by finding an overwhelming need for justice in your case. Hell, you also need a lawyer who's willing to go out on a limb as, in my case, what disability I do get just allows a hand to mouth existence. No room for legal fees there. I get just enough ($1K) to stay off SSI and that's after a twenty-three year wait.
Now, I do like to keep track of these things, but the last lawsuit that did go through, well this cardiac surgeon killed 60+ (65?) patients. A bunch of people kept going before a judge to certify and finally, FINALLY, after killing all those people, they're allowed to sue for malpractice. Fortunately,.I'm not to the point of really blaming anybody. I should have pushed for other tests beyond the electro-myelogram [it tickled, which is NOT a good thing for an EMG, in case you've never had one. Almost every patient screams.] For all our experience in delivering destruction, it's funny that you hardly ever going postal at the VA facilities or the courthouse. Lucky, I guess.
Actually, you're probably better off implementing the whole job lot of the physical sciences in scalars, vectors, tensors, yada, yada. Then it wouldn't be anywhere as difficult to figure out which type you get out the other side of the equations. Especially when dealing with cross-products and phasing.
I raised the point some time back that perhaps the various providers could lend instance idle-time to various distributed computing projects as, perhaps, a tax deduction. At least a half-step closer, although you have a good point about usability.
Right. My first PC occupied the entire first floor of the Science building and that was while I was a preteen. Centralization is okay for some things but I'm definitely more in the mind of a libertarian cluster pervading my universe. [That even sounds nice.] A veritable (virtual?) device cloud that connects or disconnects as suits, each autonomous (rule-guided) as required, and constrained by budget. Here, I'm personally hardware rich but well, my wallet (and accounts) look mighty bare. Others usually the opposite.
So, Amazon is bringing something more to the table, beyond their free tier in my case. Now to fiddle with other stuff while they bang things a few million times to work out the kinks.
Actually? No. 99% of all problems are with the wetware device between chair and keyboard. No joke, just a few decades of experience in & running support.
Given the frivolous nature of the comments on this article thus far it seems that few of you have ever considered the effects of a serious EMP attack on your way of life. The mere fact that NK can put something in orbit means they don't necessarily have to have the tech to deliver it to the us as you would a ballistic missile, but just wait for the oppotune time to de-orbit it. In addition, the US happens to be in a location where the earth's magnetic field can significantly enhance the effect of a NEMP. My admittedly hazy memory says the effect of catastrophic failure of US power infrastructure from a well placed NEMP was 70% of the population due to starvation, rioting and the other horsemen of the apocalypse. In addition, the estimate was decades to restore full services if you even could under such circumstances.
Actually, I'm quite aware of what the effects may be. There's just not a whole lot anyone, except the military, can do. We're already quite prepared for the follow-on effects (Four Horsemen). Short of creating an absolute Faraday cage around the house here, something I've actually done before in uniform, not much anyone can do. Hmm..., thinking about it, perhaps a small Faraday cage for the life-saving electronics might be in order.
Publicly? None that I'm aware of and it's an indicator I've been looking to for a while. Small-scale EMP is actually harder to achieve that large-scale. Toss a nuke on a rocket and get above the atmosphere before detonation is good enough for that attack. BTW, GP is correct. The military is far more prepared to handle either small-scale or large. Resetting our devices after such an attack was something I would have had to do, way back when.
Actually, I happen to know the fundamentals quite well, seeing as I was around when we were inventing most all of them from scratch. [Why yes, I was there for the birth of the ARPAnet.] What is fundamental in browsing technology today is that the normal defaults that I encounter are to use hardware decode, and HTML 5 is specified in such a way to actually make it happen, in an objective (Object) sort of way. However, you have a flip-side here where you also must absolutely use a server-side codec that can support streaming hardware encode at a sufficient frame-rate and resolution. Exactly how many people really, really have that kind of hardware laying around? For more than one stream? No problem here. Which is why I specifically beefed up my server on the graphical end for when such a solution happened within financial striking range of real people, not gamers and technological crazies like me.
BTW, there is nothing so silly as assuming that only one particular approach will result in an optimal solution. Holding up object-oriented approaches as something holy is the sign of an evangelist (at best), not someone rational. IT is something I do as I'm quite good at it in addition to my normal day jobs (field systems engineer). It's one kind of approach. There are numerous others.
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and i thought it was a liberterians wet dream - true market forces in action, the market self regulating itself by supply and demand.
Sort of. Libertarians (capital L) would rather see a return to something like the gold standard, near as I can tell with actual gold, silver, possibly other precious metals, in circulation. Bitcoins still fall under fiat currency as it has nothing more, or less, than a perceived (psychological) value, It's a bit more since there are only supposed to be some absolute maximum number that can be in circulation which isn't true of most (all?) fiat currencies.
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Bitcoin value isn't attached to anything.
Actually, if you understand political-economy, neither do the various fiat currencies we have today. All we have is a shared psychological conditioning that attaches a value to something (pieces of artistic paper) that have no inherent value of their own. When a fiat currency goes bad, you don't see people burying it in the backyard hoping it will have value again in the future. OTOH, you do find precious metals, gems, jewelry, sometimes other works of artistic value, and the odd person with some Swiss Francs. Now I'd add a flash drive with a few bitcoins.
Actually I was quite used to that lag gaming from the central valley, CA, to Blizzard Los Angeles ( >200 ms lag) servers, way back when Diablo was new. It's all what you are used to with such things. Painful was also the description of what I was used to using the web with Mosaic back when the web was shiny &new as compared to, say, local BBS machines when viewed in retrospect. These days? I have to VPN a good way around the planet with Comcast basic internet in order to see that kind of lag.
Yes they do have them and I'm looking at them and other solutions. They all have one problem, you need money. Usually lots of it to get it done well. My need is for household use, the target devices being everything in sight, especially (eventually) tablets to be hosted on my monster server/workstation. Households aren't something the big guys are even targeting, which makes about zero sense as being able to 'consume' on your portable devices anywhere, especially at home, really should be a valid target. [DLNA doesn't fill the bill since we'd have to junk what we already have that networks but doesn't do DLNA.]
Now then I can consider the SO/HO and perhaps the S in SMB as a niche as, again, the big guys are fobbing off exactly the wrong solution in many situations around here (Central Valley, California) where money is the main limitation to setting up a solution that "just works." Whatever. At least I have something shiny to play with:-).
I happen to like McDonald's french-fries, but then again, I developed that addiction very young. As for your assessment that it's the wrong way to think about risk, your dead on. It's just safer to assume that you are being surveilled and as a rule, do your best not getting on anybody's radar. I assess that now you can actually use some level of encryption, if your concerned about privacy or not serving up your media collection to the masses, and not land on that radar. "The tallest tree is the first one chopped down." Don't go freakazoid on this stuff.
For myself, I appreciate all of these techniques. I've never been worried about my 'stuff,' it's just making sure that the people I care about don't get chopped down.
Yep. Despite increased stress, financial and physical/psychological, injuries and perhaps (extremely rarely?) a few deaths, we still use the same tool! Says a hell of lot. Oh and the new and improved version provides an even better user/device agent-monitoring experience , not user-experience. {Sigh}
I'm glad I'm no longer doing engineering for any large concerns, public and private.
You need to hang out with non-basement-living-nerds more. It's being used all over the place in general populace. First few times, before I got a translation, I went "huh?" After enlightenment it became "are you out of your mind?" That was several years back when Skype ran solo.
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Parts of the collection at Alexandria were destroyed by "Christians."
Wow. Jabberwocky on serious steroids. Perhaps we need a +/-1 Inscrutable here!
I have a little problem with articles that get basics about Roman government wrong. Not that I have anything invested in any case.
I knew about the meat part. I knew it going in. However, serving is what we do in my family, both sides of the tree, man or woman. (Shrug). I'm most annoy about the screw up since it ended my career.
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;-0). Yeah, like that's gonna fly. You have to get a Federal Judge's permission by finding an overwhelming need for justice in your case. Hell, you also need a lawyer who's willing to go out on a limb as, in my case, what disability I do get just allows a hand to mouth existence. No room for legal fees there. I get just enough ($1K) to stay off SSI and that's after a twenty-three year wait.
Sovereign immunity is a real bitch.
Got that one right. I'm a disabled vet as a direct result of a shipyard accident in the US Navy. Both the Navy and VA really fucked up by not following up on neurological problems that developed over the next few years. Bone spurs were forming in the cervical (neck) vertabrae, slicing through the spinal cord. What should of happened is that when they found the symptoms were not a result of damage outside the spine, they should have done an MRI. Oops. The Veteran's Administration also failed to follow up for an additional seven years over the Navy's four before doing the MRI. Then they waited for another four years before telling me that I'm inoperable and terminal. Oops! I have a team of doctors, now, at the VA who can't help me on the pain issues or much of anything else other than trying to keep me from killing myself as I have done, unsatisfactorily, over a dozen times. Whatever.
The actual point of the post is that my medical team keep pushing me to sue the US Navy and the VA for malpractice (and the US Navy for wrongful termination
Now, I do like to keep track of these things, but the last lawsuit that did go through, well this cardiac surgeon killed 60+ (65?) patients. A bunch of people kept going before a judge to certify and finally, FINALLY, after killing all those people, they're allowed to sue for malpractice. Fortunately,.I'm not to the point of really blaming anybody. I should have pushed for other tests beyond the electro-myelogram [it tickled, which is NOT a good thing for an EMG, in case you've never had one. Almost every patient screams.] For all our experience in delivering destruction, it's funny that you hardly ever going postal at the VA facilities or the courthouse. Lucky, I guess.
Actually, you're probably better off implementing the whole job lot of the physical sciences in scalars, vectors, tensors, yada, yada. Then it wouldn't be anywhere as difficult to figure out which type you get out the other side of the equations. Especially when dealing with cross-products and phasing.
I raised the point some time back that perhaps the various providers could lend instance idle-time to various distributed computing projects as, perhaps, a tax deduction. At least a half-step closer, although you have a good point about usability.
Right. My first PC occupied the entire first floor of the Science building and that was while I was a preteen. Centralization is okay for some things but I'm definitely more in the mind of a libertarian cluster pervading my universe. [That even sounds nice.] A veritable (virtual?) device cloud that connects or disconnects as suits, each autonomous (rule-guided) as required, and constrained by budget. Here, I'm personally hardware rich but well, my wallet (and accounts) look mighty bare. Others usually the opposite.
So, Amazon is bringing something more to the table, beyond their free tier in my case. Now to fiddle with other stuff while they bang things a few million times to work out the kinks.
That's what I have in mind.
Actually? No. 99% of all problems are with the wetware device between chair and keyboard. No joke, just a few decades of experience in & running support.
Except in each iteration the code gets sloppier.
Given the frivolous nature of the comments on this article thus far it seems that few of you have ever considered the effects of a serious EMP attack on your way of life. The mere fact that NK can put something in orbit means they don't necessarily have to have the tech to deliver it to the us as you would a ballistic missile, but just wait for the oppotune time to de-orbit it. In addition, the US happens to be in a location where the earth's magnetic field can significantly enhance the effect of a NEMP. My admittedly hazy memory says the effect of catastrophic failure of US power infrastructure from a well placed NEMP was 70% of the population due to starvation, rioting and the other horsemen of the apocalypse. In addition, the estimate was decades to restore full services if you even could under such circumstances.
Actually, I'm quite aware of what the effects may be. There's just not a whole lot anyone, except the military, can do. We're already quite prepared for the follow-on effects (Four Horsemen). Short of creating an absolute Faraday cage around the house here, something I've actually done before in uniform, not much anyone can do. Hmm..., thinking about it, perhaps a small Faraday cage for the life-saving electronics might be in order.
Actually, no. Remember that the West developed the Neutron Bomb which destroyed the people and left all that capital for ready use!
Publicly? None that I'm aware of and it's an indicator I've been looking to for a while. Small-scale EMP is actually harder to achieve that large-scale. Toss a nuke on a rocket and get above the atmosphere before detonation is good enough for that attack. BTW, GP is correct. The military is far more prepared to handle either small-scale or large. Resetting our devices after such an attack was something I would have had to do, way back when.
Actually, I happen to know the fundamentals quite well, seeing as I was around when we were inventing most all of them from scratch. [Why yes, I was there for the birth of the ARPAnet.] What is fundamental in browsing technology today is that the normal defaults that I encounter are to use hardware decode, and HTML 5 is specified in such a way to actually make it happen, in an objective (Object) sort of way. However, you have a flip-side here where you also must absolutely use a server-side codec that can support streaming hardware encode at a sufficient frame-rate and resolution. Exactly how many people really, really have that kind of hardware laying around? For more than one stream? No problem here. Which is why I specifically beefed up my server on the graphical end for when such a solution happened within financial striking range of real people, not gamers and technological crazies like me.
BTW, there is nothing so silly as assuming that only one particular approach will result in an optimal solution. Holding up object-oriented approaches as something holy is the sign of an evangelist (at best), not someone rational. IT is something I do as I'm quite good at it in addition to my normal day jobs (field systems engineer). It's one kind of approach. There are numerous others.
and i thought it was a liberterians wet dream - true market forces in action, the market self regulating itself by supply and demand.
Sort of. Libertarians (capital L) would rather see a return to something like the gold standard, near as I can tell with actual gold, silver, possibly other precious metals, in circulation. Bitcoins still fall under fiat currency as it has nothing more, or less, than a perceived (psychological) value, It's a bit more since there are only supposed to be some absolute maximum number that can be in circulation which isn't true of most (all?) fiat currencies.
Bitcoin value isn't attached to anything.
Actually, if you understand political-economy, neither do the various fiat currencies we have today. All we have is a shared psychological conditioning that attaches a value to something (pieces of artistic paper) that have no inherent value of their own. When a fiat currency goes bad, you don't see people burying it in the backyard hoping it will have value again in the future. OTOH, you do find precious metals, gems, jewelry, sometimes other works of artistic value, and the odd person with some Swiss Francs. Now I'd add a flash drive with a few bitcoins.
Never used Swype or one of it's copycats?
Now you're just trolling, aren't you :)
Nope, MozeeToby wasn't. Some of the automatics are very interesting!
Actually I was quite used to that lag gaming from the central valley, CA, to Blizzard Los Angeles ( >200 ms lag) servers, way back when Diablo was new. It's all what you are used to with such things. Painful was also the description of what I was used to using the web with Mosaic back when the web was shiny &new as compared to, say, local BBS machines when viewed in retrospect. These days? I have to VPN a good way around the planet with Comcast basic internet in order to see that kind of lag.
Yes they do have them and I'm looking at them and other solutions. They all have one problem, you need money. Usually lots of it to get it done well. My need is for household use, the target devices being everything in sight, especially (eventually) tablets to be hosted on my monster server/workstation. Households aren't something the big guys are even targeting, which makes about zero sense as being able to 'consume' on your portable devices anywhere, especially at home, really should be a valid target. [DLNA doesn't fill the bill since we'd have to junk what we already have that networks but doesn't do DLNA.] Now then I can consider the SO/HO and perhaps the S in SMB as a niche as, again, the big guys are fobbing off exactly the wrong solution in many situations around here (Central Valley, California) where money is the main limitation to setting up a solution that "just works." Whatever. At least I have something shiny to play with :-).
Nice, and just what I would roll on my own.
I happen to like McDonald's french-fries, but then again, I developed that addiction very young. As for your assessment that it's the wrong way to think about risk, your dead on. It's just safer to assume that you are being surveilled and as a rule, do your best not getting on anybody's radar. I assess that now you can actually use some level of encryption, if your concerned about privacy or not serving up your media collection to the masses, and not land on that radar. "The tallest tree is the first one chopped down." Don't go freakazoid on this stuff.
For myself, I appreciate all of these techniques. I've never been worried about my 'stuff,' it's just making sure that the people I care about don't get chopped down.
Yep. Despite increased stress, financial and physical/psychological, injuries and perhaps (extremely rarely?) a few deaths, we still use the same tool! Says a hell of lot. Oh and the new and improved version provides an even better user/device agent-monitoring experience , not user-experience. {Sigh}
I'm glad I'm no longer doing engineering for any large concerns, public and private.
Actually that's a DOOH! on your end. Meant as written. Plenty of walls and fences these days so the others are redundant.
You need to hang out with non-basement-living-nerds more. It's being used all over the place in general populace. First few times, before I got a translation, I went "huh?" After enlightenment it became "are you out of your mind?" That was several years back when Skype ran solo.