this is another blogger crisis. they scream for better internet speeds and when a deal to enable this finally happens they scream fraud and extortion
Um, just because the 'deal' make something better doesn't mean it's a good deal. I for one am not too pleased with this 'deal with the devil.' Netflix has kind of shot us all in the foot.
They should re-tool all of their factories, embrace the inevitable, and minimize (or prevent) losses by marketing it for storage and reducing the price of the discs and drives. The only thing that can save Blu-Ray now is to re-purpose it.
Um, no. I'm not likely to ever trust consumer recorded optical media ever again. They still have to solve long term storage issues with the dyes. I've lost way too much data to recordable DVD's going belly up after a few years, despite storing them properly.
Only long term storage mediums I'm presently conformable with are standard hard drives in external chassis, or tape. But there's not a lot in the consumer price range for tape these days, so I don't have that.
I'm guessing because half is better than none and that this fix addresses the evil that the big ISPs are doing right now.
Yeah, and those companies are going to fight this tooth and nail through lobbying, and we get half a fix if anything at all, may as well go for broke, cuz they're going to fight just as hard if it's half or all in.
Removing salt from ocean water is a big thing to set up, but don't forget that in addition to getting drinking water, you also get electric power out of the operation as well.
Actually this isn't as off the mark as it seems to be. A nuclear power plant could double as a desalinization plant. But no one seems to like nuclear power plants.
and when you get your shit deleted you'll be the first to waste someone else's restoring it
Sorry, I'd have no one to blame but myself. If I get hacked cuz I had a weak password, it's on me. Now if other people who choose lame passwords could just take the same responsibility for their actions, we'd be all good.
For what it's worth, I've never had anything of mine hacked into by a password guess. I've had a few times where someone found an 'issue' with my web server and there were problems, but never been password hacked, not in 25 years of computing in any online capacity.
No. The majority of accounts are trivial crap that nobody cares if it goes down in flames. Let the user choose.
Yeah, this exactly. Why the heck do I need a minimum 8 character password with at least one number one upper case letter and one symbol to register to a forum on gardening? Silliness.
I really dislike any authentication system that rejects MY chosen password. It's my security, not yours, that I'm gambling on if I want a easy to type password. And the ones that make you change it x number of days are even worse.
This is outright stupid. You can't force people to choose a decent password, they either will or they won't and no 'system' is going to force it upon them. At best, you're just creating a support irritation as people forget the password they were forced into changing.
Just dumb, can't say it enough. Leave me and my (in)secure passwords alone!
And you totally missed the point. No wonder american businesses don't give a flying f about anything but their bottom line. Apparently, customers don't either.
If a 12-year old vehicle turns up with a major safety defect, car makers would be fixing it.
I think Microsoft should just bite the bullet and resume security patching of flaws in XP if/when they turn up.
Why not? It's a small price to pay to keep a good PR image of caring about your customers. And it's the right thing to do, something woefully missing from American businesses.
Maybe it's my eyes going bad in my old age, or my super human ability to auto-decypher your post... but it looks like plain unencrypted English to me.;)
I'm not much interested in MPGe, or range, or any of that silliness, while fascinating.
The real question that should be asked is CO2 emissions per mile, and then compare to vehicles like the hybrids.
Efficiency and range of electric cars is utterly meaningless unless there's a carbon footprint size attached to these vehicles. We need to be striving for less pollution above all else.
Remember, all your plugins are coal powered for the most part!
Even if this is less efficient than a conventional ICE, it's still less moving parts therefore less things to wear out, which should make it last even longer and require less maintenance.
This is why you encrypt EVERYTHING. Nothing should be sent in the clear, it makes it really friggin hard to identify what might be illegal and what might just a SSL session with your bank.
Will people EVER learn this? Encrypt, always, everywhere, excessively.
Who the hell wants a ton of little reactors all over the place that when they run out of fuel we basically bury it and hope no one stumbles upon it.
Stick with the big plants, just use the new safer designs and BUILD them. This was a complete waste of money. This idea was never going to fly and still won't. As a strong proponent of nuclear power, I don't even like this idea (due to the waste left behind.)
It's unreliable, low power generation. It has to be backed up by something else (usually natural gas.) That is fact.
Another fact, just setting aside costs, assuming can build wind without limitations, we'd have to have these things pretty much EVERYWHERE on our planet and it'd take years upon years just to build the things. And how about maintenance for hundreds of thousands of wind turbines? Multiply the failure potential (and harm potential) of wind power by the huge number of new generators. You're going to see a lot more loss of life from building and maintaining hundreds of thousands of wind generators than any nuclear accident could or has caused.
It's the most absurd idea I've come across. It's a really bad joke.
Solar is nicer idea. At least when these things break down, they don't hurt people, but still intermittent, still needs to be backed up by a fossil fuel plant to compensate for intermittence. So its not a real answer, its another bad joke.
Sorry, you are still missing my point. Subtract what I said about sabotage, you are STILL left with failure modes caused by incompetence and greed. If you think those wonderful designs cannot be compromised by either of those, then you are living in a dream world. Doesn't matter if it's *PASSIVE* safety or not.
You're the one in a dream world if you think humanity is going to continue to flourish and prosper -without- nuclear power. We simply will not be a happy species without an abundance of power. This is the answer. Without it, the loss of life from wars over the dwindling resources will far exceed anything imaginable by nuclear power generation.
Some of the new designs are not water cooled at all, and the system has to be running for a reaction to continue firing. If something goes wrong (loss of power, damage to the system), the reactors simply cannot continue, they shut down for lack of fissile material, due to the very design of the system, if there's a loss of power to the system, the thing can't keep going, it just shuts down.
Please, try to read up on the new reactor designs such as LFTR and IFR designs. Both address safety in a passive manner and are capable of recycling most if not all of our current spent fuel sitting in pools all over the place. How are these designs NOT the direction we should be going? Nothing is 100% safe, but these are VERY safe, and considering the rather UNSAFE designs of the past which we're using all over the place, and nuclear's rather impressive safety record. I mean, three accidents over the entire life of nuclear power? That is really impressive. And these new designs just take the safety to a whole new level.
I think he meant, new reactor designs do not fail catastrophically. The built in *PASSIVE* safety of these new designs would mean it take a deliberate act (sabotage) to cause a reactor to fail in a way that involves the release of radioactive materials.
You can't put fail and sabotage together and say the reactor is unsafe. *ANYTHING* is unsafe if it's sabotaged correctly.
I'm starting to become convinced there is simply no way to travel in a meaningful way among the stars. No species has figured out how to do anything like FTL or even slow boating. Or they tried and failed.
Sad. But its really starting to seem like we're stuck here unless we wanna try to slow boat to another star system. I don't think there is a way to travel among the stars in a way that is actually useful.
As far as self-destruction.. dunno.. impossible to predict, but if the religious nuts get their way, we'll annihilation ourselves eventually.
Exactly. Does it matter if the project changes names? Why don't the people interested in 'fixing' OpenSSL just leave it named OpenSSL? Why change? Seems to me that forking OpenSSL to something new is giving the finger to those who developed SSL in the past, and saying 'we're not going to work with you.' It just seems very wasteful. Collaborate and fix it together, rather than splinter. Ever heard of divide and conquer? Why would open source community divide and conquer itself? Seems counter-productive.
It's almost sad the 'dialup' model of internet service died. Just imagine if dialup continued to evolve and achieve the speeds our broadband connections have now. Yes I know all about the physical limitations of dialup modems, but this is just a hypothetical.
Just imagine if all the lil mom'n'pop ISPs were still in business because dialup was the dominate internet service as it used to be. Net neutrality wouldn't even be a discussion right now, if that were still the way it worked.
I also imagine, the first person who comes up with a new 'dialup' like service that yanks the internet out of the grubby hands of big corporations, this issue will go away pretty quick, and that person is going to be very rich.
Race is on, folks, make dialup (though these days I imagine its going to be a wifi type solution) as fast as broadband, so everyone can compete and this problem simply disappears.
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this is another blogger crisis. they scream for better internet speeds and when a deal to enable this finally happens they scream fraud and extortion
Um, just because the 'deal' make something better doesn't mean it's a good deal. I for one am not too pleased with this 'deal with the devil.' Netflix has kind of shot us all in the foot.
They should re-tool all of their factories, embrace the inevitable, and minimize (or prevent) losses by marketing it for storage and reducing the price of the discs and drives. The only thing that can save Blu-Ray now is to re-purpose it.
Um, no. I'm not likely to ever trust consumer recorded optical media ever again. They still have to solve long term storage issues with the dyes. I've lost way too much data to recordable DVD's going belly up after a few years, despite storing them properly.
Only long term storage mediums I'm presently conformable with are standard hard drives in external chassis, or tape. But there's not a lot in the consumer price range for tape these days, so I don't have that.
I'm guessing because half is better than none and that this fix addresses the evil that the big ISPs are doing right now.
Yeah, and those companies are going to fight this tooth and nail through lobbying, and we get half a fix if anything at all, may as well go for broke, cuz they're going to fight just as hard if it's half or all in.
Seems like half of a fix to me. Should all be common carrier status. Why settle for half a fix?
You just know ISPs gunna find loopholes in half a fix.
Removing salt from ocean water is a big thing to set up, but don't forget that in addition to getting drinking water, you also get electric power out of the operation as well.
Actually this isn't as off the mark as it seems to be. A nuclear power plant could double as a desalinization plant. But no one seems to like nuclear power plants.
and when you get your shit deleted you'll be the first to waste someone else's restoring it
Sorry, I'd have no one to blame but myself. If I get hacked cuz I had a weak password, it's on me. Now if other people who choose lame passwords could just take the same responsibility for their actions, we'd be all good.
For what it's worth, I've never had anything of mine hacked into by a password guess. I've had a few times where someone found an 'issue' with my web server and there were problems, but never been password hacked, not in 25 years of computing in any online capacity.
No. The majority of accounts are trivial crap that nobody cares if it goes down in flames. Let the user choose.
Yeah, this exactly. Why the heck do I need a minimum 8 character password with at least one number one upper case letter and one symbol to register to a forum on gardening? Silliness.
I really dislike any authentication system that rejects MY chosen password. It's my security, not yours, that I'm gambling on if I want a easy to type password. And the ones that make you change it x number of days are even worse.
This is outright stupid. You can't force people to choose a decent password, they either will or they won't and no 'system' is going to force it upon them. At best, you're just creating a support irritation as people forget the password they were forced into changing.
Just dumb, can't say it enough. Leave me and my (in)secure passwords alone!
And you totally missed the point. No wonder american businesses don't give a flying f about anything but their bottom line. Apparently, customers don't either.
Two rather disliked companies teaming up? Not excited. FRIGHTENED!
Just a simple thought.
If a 12-year old vehicle turns up with a major safety defect, car makers would be fixing it.
I think Microsoft should just bite the bullet and resume security patching of flaws in XP if/when they turn up.
Why not? It's a small price to pay to keep a good PR image of caring about your customers. And it's the right thing to do, something woefully missing from American businesses.
Maybe it's my eyes going bad in my old age, or my super human ability to auto-decypher your post... but it looks like plain unencrypted English to me. ;)
It wasn't when it left my computer. :D
Because people keep signing them. Duh?
I'm not much interested in MPGe, or range, or any of that silliness, while fascinating.
The real question that should be asked is CO2 emissions per mile, and then compare to vehicles like the hybrids.
Efficiency and range of electric cars is utterly meaningless unless there's a carbon footprint size attached to these vehicles. We need to be striving for less pollution above all else.
Remember, all your plugins are coal powered for the most part!
Even if this is less efficient than a conventional ICE, it's still less moving parts therefore less things to wear out, which should make it last even longer and require less maintenance.
This is why you encrypt EVERYTHING. Nothing should be sent in the clear, it makes it really friggin hard to identify what might be illegal and what might just a SSL session with your bank.
Will people EVER learn this? Encrypt, always, everywhere, excessively.
Direct money toward large nuclear reactors!
Who the hell wants a ton of little reactors all over the place that when they run out of fuel we basically bury it and hope no one stumbles upon it.
Stick with the big plants, just use the new safer designs and BUILD them. This was a complete waste of money. This idea was never going to fly and still won't. As a strong proponent of nuclear power, I don't even like this idea (due to the waste left behind.)
Wind is a really really bad joke I'm afraid.
It's unreliable, low power generation. It has to be backed up by something else (usually natural gas.) That is fact.
Another fact, just setting aside costs, assuming can build wind without limitations, we'd have to have these things pretty much EVERYWHERE on our planet and it'd take years upon years just to build the things. And how about maintenance for hundreds of thousands of wind turbines? Multiply the failure potential (and harm potential) of wind power by the huge number of new generators. You're going to see a lot more loss of life from building and maintaining hundreds of thousands of wind generators than any nuclear accident could or has caused.
It's the most absurd idea I've come across. It's a really bad joke.
Solar is nicer idea. At least when these things break down, they don't hurt people, but still intermittent, still needs to be backed up by a fossil fuel plant to compensate for intermittence. So its not a real answer, its another bad joke.
Sorry, you are still missing my point. Subtract what I said about sabotage, you are STILL left with failure modes caused by incompetence and greed. If you think those wonderful designs cannot be compromised by either of those, then you are living in a dream world. Doesn't matter if it's *PASSIVE* safety or not.
You're the one in a dream world if you think humanity is going to continue to flourish and prosper -without- nuclear power. We simply will not be a happy species without an abundance of power. This is the answer. Without it, the loss of life from wars over the dwindling resources will far exceed anything imaginable by nuclear power generation.
Some of the new designs are not water cooled at all, and the system has to be running for a reaction to continue firing. If something goes wrong (loss of power, damage to the system), the reactors simply cannot continue, they shut down for lack of fissile material, due to the very design of the system, if there's a loss of power to the system, the thing can't keep going, it just shuts down.
Please, try to read up on the new reactor designs such as LFTR and IFR designs. Both address safety in a passive manner and are capable of recycling most if not all of our current spent fuel sitting in pools all over the place. How are these designs NOT the direction we should be going? Nothing is 100% safe, but these are VERY safe, and considering the rather UNSAFE designs of the past which we're using all over the place, and nuclear's rather impressive safety record. I mean, three accidents over the entire life of nuclear power? That is really impressive. And these new designs just take the safety to a whole new level.
I think he meant, new reactor designs do not fail catastrophically. The built in *PASSIVE* safety of these new designs would mean it take a deliberate act (sabotage) to cause a reactor to fail in a way that involves the release of radioactive materials.
You can't put fail and sabotage together and say the reactor is unsafe. *ANYTHING* is unsafe if it's sabotaged correctly.
Fascinating paper you linked there. Thanks!
I'm starting to become convinced there is simply no way to travel in a meaningful way among the stars. No species has figured out how to do anything like FTL or even slow boating. Or they tried and failed.
Sad. But its really starting to seem like we're stuck here unless we wanna try to slow boat to another star system. I don't think there is a way to travel among the stars in a way that is actually useful.
As far as self-destruction.. dunno.. impossible to predict, but if the religious nuts get their way, we'll annihilation ourselves eventually.
Exactly. Does it matter if the project changes names? Why don't the people interested in 'fixing' OpenSSL just leave it named OpenSSL? Why change? Seems to me that forking OpenSSL to something new is giving the finger to those who developed SSL in the past, and saying 'we're not going to work with you.' It just seems very wasteful. Collaborate and fix it together, rather than splinter. Ever heard of divide and conquer? Why would open source community divide and conquer itself? Seems counter-productive.
It's almost sad the 'dialup' model of internet service died. Just imagine if dialup continued to evolve and achieve the speeds our broadband connections have now. Yes I know all about the physical limitations of dialup modems, but this is just a hypothetical.
Just imagine if all the lil mom'n'pop ISPs were still in business because dialup was the dominate internet service as it used to be. Net neutrality wouldn't even be a discussion right now, if that were still the way it worked.
I also imagine, the first person who comes up with a new 'dialup' like service that yanks the internet out of the grubby hands of big corporations, this issue will go away pretty quick, and that person is going to be very rich.
Race is on, folks, make dialup (though these days I imagine its going to be a wifi type solution) as fast as broadband, so everyone can compete and this problem simply disappears.