INS systems on most aircraft already due true heading and magnetic.
The problem is that most itty bitty, tiny hobbyist planes don't....But my smartphone does. I can't see the technology being that far out of reach for most aircraft owners.
At this point, it's more about inertia, and how big such a change would be (manuals rewritten, all airports changed, etc).
Before the vaccine schedule, the measles were routinely among the top 5 killers in our nation. Before the vaccine, everyone knew kids that had died of measles, and many that had nearly died.
There used to be over 500,000 cases of the measles yearly in the US, killing 5,000+ children every year. Now we sometimes have years where the measles don't kill a single person in the US, and that's on a much, much larger population. Usually the number is in low single digits, but sometimes an outbreak occurs in an un-vaccinated community that ends up killing dozens, or even hundreds.
You can now thank all of the other parents today and from generations ago that decided to vaccinate against this disease, and that it has nearly been eradicated from our population. Just make sure that you don't take your kids to Amish country, or other areas where vaccinations are not common and the disease runs it's course. If they happen to have an outbreak that year, it might turn out badly. At that point they won't be protected by the herd immunity that the rest of us responsible parents are providing them.
Uh, the passwords were simply hashed with no salts.
Because of that, any 14 character password of random noise could be cracked in under 3 minutes. RfQ$It!qIRFv#$ isn't an easy to crack password, but it was crackable off the Gawker breach in under 3 minutes.
ok, say that the Russians, or some other actor wanted to stage a raid and try to capture some of those nukes. Should the US government provide them blueprints of the facility, guard rotation and schedules, lists of the COTS items purchased to detect illicit entry, etc? Because apparently you're saying so......
Knowing that nukes are kept over there, in that general area is worthless information. The fact that you think it is the most important piece shows how little you know about physically securing a location.
Those US infrastructure documents that were published did specifically show the layout of a number of physical security measures including fences, holes and nooks to hide in, security blind spots, etc.
The fact that Theo used his position of power to show the email to everyone does mean that he is at least tacitly endorsing and/or making the claim. Otherwise he could have just ignored it.
Nothing seriously needing George W. Bush's attention was actually happening.
What the fuck? No, seriously, what the fuck?!?! Fucking A, do you really believe this?
9/11 just happened, and it wasn't anything seriously enough happening to require our President's attention?!? God damn man, seriously?!?!?
Like, maybe getting informed as to what was happening beyond shit whispered in his ear? Calling up National Guard, declaring disaster areas, etc? He's not supossed to do any of that? What is this England, and he's royalty, some figurehead?
Seriously, I am just mouth agape at this point. My god.
You still have to hand off between satellites, and they still come North/South. They also move fast, which means that most of the sky needs to be clear.
Cell phones have cells all around you in various directions. Can't do that with sats.
As advocates of Democracy and transparency, let's break the law and act in secret to take down big companies, which in turn hurts small businesses who use these payment services. Let's also inconvenience random shoppers. Let's create all kinds of random collateral damage to make a point about supporting transparency by supporting a completely secretive organization.
Uh, they took down their public homepage. It didn't affect any credit card transactions in the least. No small business was hurt and no random shoppers were inconvenienced.
I just love how, even on a tech site, taking down a webpage somehow means that their whole credit card system was failing. No transactions were harmed in any way.
With every employer, if you get sick more than the given amount of sick days, they require you start using your vacation time or go unpaid. Exactly the same situation with combined leave.
But if you're sick less than the number of sick days, you end up forfeiting those sick days. But with combined leave, that's extra vacation.
Seems like a no brainer for combining them. The employer might not like it, but in the end, it also encourages a healthy workforce; if you stay healthy, you get extra vacation days.
That's all fine and good for peering, but that's not what this is.
Terminating segments are different from peering segments. The data terminates inside of Comcast's network. Comcast's network has specifically asked for that data to be delivered to it. Then they want to charge Level 3 for delivering that data to it.
Now, if Level 3 was passing massive amounts of data *through* Comcast's network, without having similar amounts pass through theirs, that would be a peering disagreement.
But this is not peering, it's terminating. The data is inherently going to be imbalanced, but the *sink* is in Comcast's network, and the *source* is outside of it.
They do already have all of those safeguards. The problem is that some security officer somewhere wasn't following required procedures....that person's head is going to seriously roll.
Just a question, if "four years later you are competing with your own technology plus Chinese improvements", then why haven't you improved it yourself just as well or better? If during those four years, the Chinese improvements are so advanced that you can't compete, then it's your own fault, not "lax Chinese labor and pollution".
Uh, the original company had to spend the R&D money to get it up to that speed, expecting a ROI over the next couple of years.
The Chinese company had none.
The problem here is that if you can't get any ROI, because a company that just copied your design immediately starts selling it, and at a lower price since they didn't spend any R&D money, then the companies here aren't going to do any R&D because it's a net loss.
I'm not a huge fan of a true laissez faire economical system, but please, don't give it such a bad rap with such a horrible set of statements.
Please show me any laissez faire economic treatment that gives you full control of all of the air over your property. By your argument, in my hot state like NM, if your land was shaded, you could sue me for stealing your cool, clean air merely by walking near the property line, creating turbulence in my wake and mixing the hot and cool air. Much less even kicking up dust and "dirtying" your air by that walking.
Not to mention your comment about also owning all of the area below it. If that were the case, everyone would own the core of the Earth, and the land on the antipode of where their land is. It makes no sense.
That is not the basis for *any* rational economic policy, and hence is also not the basis for a laissez faire economical system, which is at least mostly coherent at its core....
Dude? You're an MS shop and a business traveler and they don't have you use an encrypted exchange connection, which WP7 can't do? Or encrypt your contacts, which WP7 can't do?
A number of people I know wanted to try the WP7 phone as a business phone, but they couldn't, because for some god-awful reason, WP7 doesn't work with encrypted exchange. As a traveling business phone, it's actually *worse* for most people than an iPhone or Android phone.
Damn straight. I don't think that everyone is seeing the total loss of confidence and how jaded the younger generations are becoming with the whole stock market fiasco.
Lots of us just are refusing to play that game at this point.
It's sad, when I can go on a microfinance site, give money to some random, nearly unverified person across the internet, and not only have better confidence that my money is being well-kept, taken care of and safe, but also providing a better return than putting that money into the stock market, even with the most conservative of investing strategies!
Right, but that liquidity comes at a price because the HTF's get to essentially bid up your asking price until the max asking price.
Say that a stock is running in the $2.35 range. You'd like to buy it right around there, but you're worried that it will trend up, or some buzz will hit or whatever, and since you can't sit around all day waiting, you put in a buy order for $2.50.
Without HFT, you'd normally just get it filled at the $2.35, maybe $2.36 and be done with it.
But if your trade ends up getting gamed by an HFT (the algorithm sees the wide gap between the price and the max buy amount), you end up paying $2.50. That extra 10% that you were willing to pay in order to ensure that you don't get stuck out in the cold in the case of bad timing, really just means that you get screwed out of that 10%.
The only one that wins here is the HFT. The investor is out actual money. The stock price is more unstable because he bought high, and therefore liquidity is either hurt because more people are on the sidelines waiting for the price to become more stable, or liquidity is helped because a ton of people jump in to ride the price wave, but that's not that kind of liquidity that is good for a stock, so really the HFT is the only one to win, and then it doesn't even provide the gain that it's supposed to be providing.
High frequency trading looks like it provides liquidity when you plug it into the models and theories, but in reality doesn't do much of that. Making 100,000+ trades in half a second that vary by a quarter of a penny in asking price, and canceling all but one before they go through is not providing liquidity, despite meeting the definition of what many consider liquidity.
Just because there's a theory of how the markets work, doesn't mean that it perfectly applies to such exotic outgrowths like high frequency trading.
Where should he look for the Golden Goose that will make up 50% or more of the problem?
I'm seriously waiting, because hey 1/60th for a couple day trip seems good on my end. Keep it up, and by the end of the year, ten billion here, ten billion there adds up.
A couple of times a year, I keep seeing stories about Voyager going faster or slower than predicted or some other anomaly that current theories don't predict. Knowing that our theories aren't correct and that we have limited instruments on Voyager to gather data for new theories, why wouldn't we send out a number more insterstellar probes? Because we'll be able to go faster soon? Well, only if all of our theories are correct, which we know that some aren't......
Not to mention that people like Samsung make a lot of the ultra-high end items that he puts in his phone. This isn't going to happen anymore. Reports were that the iPhone 4 was going to have Samsung's Super AMOLED display that is just "magical" in daylight situations and in battery life. But Samsung wouldn't grant them an exclusive license, because they wanted to use it also, so they went out, partnered with a display company and come up with a different display tech that he could tout as "magical".
He's scared, because regardless of how big he is, Samsung, Motorola, and other manufacturers that also produce components aren't going to give him exclusive rights, and it's going to be much, much harder in the future to come out with differentiating hardware in the future. Even their current display provider is looking for ways out so that they can supply Android devices also. He's not the king of the castle that can lock up hardware manufacturers anymore.
Jobs made the right decision with the display since Samsung later left HTC high and dry with the display's when their Galaxy S line took off, and they gobbled up all of their own displays before shipping more to HTC.
Yea they are. Many of the ROM creators and other coders have submitted patches to Google that got accepted and are in the distribution for everyone. I think that the highest profile of this was Cyanogenmod and his scheduler.
So, yea, the whole community is benefiting from it being open.
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INS systems on most aircraft already due true heading and magnetic. The problem is that most itty bitty, tiny hobbyist planes don't....But my smartphone does. I can't see the technology being that far out of reach for most aircraft owners. At this point, it's more about inertia, and how big such a change would be (manuals rewritten, all airports changed, etc).
Before the vaccine schedule, the measles were routinely among the top 5 killers in our nation. Before the vaccine, everyone knew kids that had died of measles, and many that had nearly died.
There used to be over 500,000 cases of the measles yearly in the US, killing 5,000+ children every year. Now we sometimes have years where the measles don't kill a single person in the US, and that's on a much, much larger population. Usually the number is in low single digits, but sometimes an outbreak occurs in an un-vaccinated community that ends up killing dozens, or even hundreds.
You can now thank all of the other parents today and from generations ago that decided to vaccinate against this disease, and that it has nearly been eradicated from our population. Just make sure that you don't take your kids to Amish country, or other areas where vaccinations are not common and the disease runs it's course. If they happen to have an outbreak that year, it might turn out badly. At that point they won't be protected by the herd immunity that the rest of us responsible parents are providing them.
Uh, the passwords were simply hashed with no salts.
Because of that, any 14 character password of random noise could be cracked in under 3 minutes. RfQ$It!qIRFv#$ isn't an easy to crack password, but it was crackable off the Gawker breach in under 3 minutes.
ok, say that the Russians, or some other actor wanted to stage a raid and try to capture some of those nukes. Should the US government provide them blueprints of the facility, guard rotation and schedules, lists of the COTS items purchased to detect illicit entry, etc? Because apparently you're saying so......
Knowing that nukes are kept over there, in that general area is worthless information. The fact that you think it is the most important piece shows how little you know about physically securing a location.
Those US infrastructure documents that were published did specifically show the layout of a number of physical security measures including fences, holes and nooks to hide in, security blind spots, etc.
The fact that Theo used his position of power to show the email to everyone does mean that he is at least tacitly endorsing and/or making the claim. Otherwise he could have just ignored it.
I just went myself. Loaded instantly. Probably your connection.
Nothing seriously needing George W. Bush's attention was actually happening.
What the fuck? No, seriously, what the fuck?!?! Fucking A, do you really believe this?
9/11 just happened, and it wasn't anything seriously enough happening to require our President's attention?!? God damn man, seriously?!?!?
Like, maybe getting informed as to what was happening beyond shit whispered in his ear? Calling up National Guard, declaring disaster areas, etc? He's not supossed to do any of that? What is this England, and he's royalty, some figurehead?
Seriously, I am just mouth agape at this point. My god.
You still have to hand off between satellites, and they still come North/South. They also move fast, which means that most of the sky needs to be clear.
Cell phones have cells all around you in various directions. Can't do that with sats.
As advocates of Democracy and transparency, let's break the law and act in secret to take down big companies, which in turn hurts small businesses who use these payment services. Let's also inconvenience random shoppers. Let's create all kinds of random collateral damage to make a point about supporting transparency by supporting a completely secretive organization.
Uh, they took down their public homepage. It didn't affect any credit card transactions in the least. No small business was hurt and no random shoppers were inconvenienced.
I just love how, even on a tech site, taking down a webpage somehow means that their whole credit card system was failing. No transactions were harmed in any way.
With every employer, if you get sick more than the given amount of sick days, they require you start using your vacation time or go unpaid. Exactly the same situation with combined leave.
But if you're sick less than the number of sick days, you end up forfeiting those sick days. But with combined leave, that's extra vacation.
Seems like a no brainer for combining them. The employer might not like it, but in the end, it also encourages a healthy workforce; if you stay healthy, you get extra vacation days.
That's all fine and good for peering, but that's not what this is.
Terminating segments are different from peering segments. The data terminates inside of Comcast's network. Comcast's network has specifically asked for that data to be delivered to it. Then they want to charge Level 3 for delivering that data to it.
Now, if Level 3 was passing massive amounts of data *through* Comcast's network, without having similar amounts pass through theirs, that would be a peering disagreement.
But this is not peering, it's terminating. The data is inherently going to be imbalanced, but the *sink* is in Comcast's network, and the *source* is outside of it.
Our classified computers have all USB ports disabled.
Same with everything that can transmit data except the ethernet jack. A RW drive in a classified computer? You've got to be kidding me!
Some security officer wasn't doing their job...
They do already have all of those safeguards. The problem is that some security officer somewhere wasn't following required procedures....that person's head is going to seriously roll.
Just a question, if "four years later you are competing with your own technology plus Chinese improvements", then why haven't you improved it yourself just as well or better? If during those four years, the Chinese improvements are so advanced that you can't compete, then it's your own fault, not "lax Chinese labor and pollution".
Uh, the original company had to spend the R&D money to get it up to that speed, expecting a ROI over the next couple of years.
The Chinese company had none.
The problem here is that if you can't get any ROI, because a company that just copied your design immediately starts selling it, and at a lower price since they didn't spend any R&D money, then the companies here aren't going to do any R&D because it's a net loss.
I'm not a huge fan of a true laissez faire economical system, but please, don't give it such a bad rap with such a horrible set of statements.
Please show me any laissez faire economic treatment that gives you full control of all of the air over your property. By your argument, in my hot state like NM, if your land was shaded, you could sue me for stealing your cool, clean air merely by walking near the property line, creating turbulence in my wake and mixing the hot and cool air. Much less even kicking up dust and "dirtying" your air by that walking.
Not to mention your comment about also owning all of the area below it. If that were the case, everyone would own the core of the Earth, and the land on the antipode of where their land is. It makes no sense.
That is not the basis for *any* rational economic policy, and hence is also not the basis for a laissez faire economical system, which is at least mostly coherent at its core....
Dude? You're an MS shop and a business traveler and they don't have you use an encrypted exchange connection, which WP7 can't do? Or encrypt your contacts, which WP7 can't do?
A number of people I know wanted to try the WP7 phone as a business phone, but they couldn't, because for some god-awful reason, WP7 doesn't work with encrypted exchange. As a traveling business phone, it's actually *worse* for most people than an iPhone or Android phone.
no shit. His point was that they're not really having much success with new items. Hence the use of the word "stagnation".
Coming in and saying that they're successful leveraging their established brands really just reinforces the point.
Damn straight. I don't think that everyone is seeing the total loss of confidence and how jaded the younger generations are becoming with the whole stock market fiasco.
Lots of us just are refusing to play that game at this point.
It's sad, when I can go on a microfinance site, give money to some random, nearly unverified person across the internet, and not only have better confidence that my money is being well-kept, taken care of and safe, but also providing a better return than putting that money into the stock market, even with the most conservative of investing strategies!
Right, but that liquidity comes at a price because the HTF's get to essentially bid up your asking price until the max asking price.
Say that a stock is running in the $2.35 range. You'd like to buy it right around there, but you're worried that it will trend up, or some buzz will hit or whatever, and since you can't sit around all day waiting, you put in a buy order for $2.50.
Without HFT, you'd normally just get it filled at the $2.35, maybe $2.36 and be done with it.
But if your trade ends up getting gamed by an HFT (the algorithm sees the wide gap between the price and the max buy amount), you end up paying $2.50. That extra 10% that you were willing to pay in order to ensure that you don't get stuck out in the cold in the case of bad timing, really just means that you get screwed out of that 10%.
The only one that wins here is the HFT. The investor is out actual money. The stock price is more unstable because he bought high, and therefore liquidity is either hurt because more people are on the sidelines waiting for the price to become more stable, or liquidity is helped because a ton of people jump in to ride the price wave, but that's not that kind of liquidity that is good for a stock, so really the HFT is the only one to win, and then it doesn't even provide the gain that it's supposed to be providing.
Regular trading provides liquidity.
High frequency trading looks like it provides liquidity when you plug it into the models and theories, but in reality doesn't do much of that. Making 100,000+ trades in half a second that vary by a quarter of a penny in asking price, and canceling all but one before they go through is not providing liquidity, despite meeting the definition of what many consider liquidity.
Just because there's a theory of how the markets work, doesn't mean that it perfectly applies to such exotic outgrowths like high frequency trading.
Where should he look for the Golden Goose that will make up 50% or more of the problem?
I'm seriously waiting, because hey 1/60th for a couple day trip seems good on my end. Keep it up, and by the end of the year, ten billion here, ten billion there adds up.
A couple of times a year, I keep seeing stories about Voyager going faster or slower than predicted or some other anomaly that current theories don't predict. Knowing that our theories aren't correct and that we have limited instruments on Voyager to gather data for new theories, why wouldn't we send out a number more insterstellar probes? Because we'll be able to go faster soon? Well, only if all of our theories are correct, which we know that some aren't......
Not to mention that people like Samsung make a lot of the ultra-high end items that he puts in his phone. This isn't going to happen anymore. Reports were that the iPhone 4 was going to have Samsung's Super AMOLED display that is just "magical" in daylight situations and in battery life. But Samsung wouldn't grant them an exclusive license, because they wanted to use it also, so they went out, partnered with a display company and come up with a different display tech that he could tout as "magical".
He's scared, because regardless of how big he is, Samsung, Motorola, and other manufacturers that also produce components aren't going to give him exclusive rights, and it's going to be much, much harder in the future to come out with differentiating hardware in the future. Even their current display provider is looking for ways out so that they can supply Android devices also. He's not the king of the castle that can lock up hardware manufacturers anymore.
Jobs made the right decision with the display since Samsung later left HTC high and dry with the display's when their Galaxy S line took off, and they gobbled up all of their own displays before shipping more to HTC.
No, AT&T has disabled this feature. AT&T is stupid, we knew that. The fact that AT&T is stupid has no bearing on whether Android is open or not.
Every other Android phone has that feature.
Yea they are. Many of the ROM creators and other coders have submitted patches to Google that got accepted and are in the distribution for everyone. I think that the highest profile of this was Cyanogenmod and his scheduler.
So, yea, the whole community is benefiting from it being open.