They also practice front running. But I think that door is closing and it will be illegal to front run with fast computers the same way it is already illegal for a human to front run.
You can do all kinds of things which are not "huge data" and you won't have a problem.
Netflix pushed things very hard and changed the foundation of the "all the bandwidth you want" model.
Because previously the average customer downloaded a fraction of what they downloaded after netflix.
ISP's have the option of charging their customers more (maybe a lot more) or charging Netflix (and amazon prime and hulu) which can then pass that cost on to its customers.
Comcast are not nice dudes- but it's not all on one side.
And this is the key in working with any population.
Some people don't need notes. Some need anchor notes Some need to read the book ahead of time and ask questions. And some need to type things down because they can't write fast enough and miss portions of the lecture. And some use digitial recorders.
An extra hard disk onsite is as good a backup as physical dvd or bluray disks.
The problem with streamed media is they lose the rights and bam- you can't watch it any more.
Going forward- they seem to be fragmenting in to many stations- which each want 10 bucks a month.
Still- I stopped buying DVD's and Blurays several years ago when I hit 50ish. I only buy something if I'm certain I'll actually watch it again before I die.
Most of the "luddites" died homeless of exposure and starvation.
They could see right then that the factory owners were not going to train them on the new machines and that they would die homless of exposure and starvation so they were opposed to the new machines unless they could get training on them.
Ludd was right. It was bad for thousands of people who were abandoned to die ugly deaths by society which then closed ranks and ignored their existence.
What's good for society may be very bad for large groups of human beings. And often, the cost of carrying those human beings along would be TINY yet those with capital prefer to have a 70.8% profit instead of a 70% profit.
Electronics in my experience do great for a few years and then die requiring a replacement. Mechanical items made with good quality out of metal often last *DECADES* or even longer.
Sure mechanical made out of plastic fails. Electronics might last longer if they were made heavier grade but they are made as cheap as possible too.
The way I understand, it was high ammonia levels from her body not cleaning her blood enough. So probably a liver issue of some kind.
She was in her early 70's.
For several years she'd gotten kinda dotty and spooky. We had all assumed it was just part of the aging process. The first time she had to get a transfusion- she recovered her faculties. It was like going from a 100iq to a 120iq.
The way she described it was "foggy thinking" and "hard to think". Apparently nothing they could do with the underlying condition that caused the blood cleanup problems.
But on the third time- she died of blood poisoning- which is a risk from getting a blood transfusion.
But it was kinda like I got to see her again after she had been gone for a long time, replaced by a sort of dotty, eccentric person. She was suddenly sharp, intelligent and the fuzziness went away.
And then I have to remember the netflix, hulu, pandora, google, etc. etc. etc. password.
And when I get it wrong-- I have to reset it.
And then I have to change it on EVERY device.
The other struggle is that
SITE A REQUIRES CAPITALS. SiTe b treats capitals like lower case. Site c requires 1st letter capital. siTe d requires at least 1 capital. Site! e requires punctuation. Site~ f doesn't allow !'s. Site1 g requires at least 1 number 5173 h requires only numbers
SiteSite1 i Has the above restrictions but requires 8 or more letters. Sitesite j only allows 8 letters- but requires 4 or more Site k won't work with XKCD since it doesn't allow ' 's Site L has some permutation of these rules and won't let me reuse prior passwords- or double letters, or various other sequences, or english words in the dictionary-- so my password ends up being almost completely arbitrary.
So these days-- I write algorithmic encoded passwords on paper. So you can look at the paper - and it doesn't mean anything to you. It's not a simple substitution cypher.
But it still sucks when I buy a new device and have to change all the passwords for something before I started writing down passwords.
Another thing password services (not job passwords) have is a duration of YEARS. I'm supposed to remember a password I created 7 years ago that met arbitrary rules- which they won't tell me now. Meh.
Glad to hear it! It might be your area vs metropolitan areas.
The police in my town are actually scared of criminals and won't go into bad areas with only one cruiser and the second anything actually happens one or more cruisers sprint over as well. I drive by an area a few miles from my house and you see what looks like a routine ticket stop and there are three cruisers with lights on.
Except criminals of all stripes escalate over time.
By catching a simple phone thief today, you might prevent a violent assault to steal a phone three months from now. Or even keep the phone thief from being shot and some person spending 25k and two years of their shattered lives defending themselves after killing the thief.
long story short, starting over a decade ago, cops didn't give a flying fuck about helping us with crime, all they cared about is keeping the money rolling in
FTFY.
Perhaps the victims didn't try the police first. But my experience with the police and small property thefts is that they don't feel it is worth their time.
When My vehicle was broken into a few years ago- fingerprints visible all over the window that had been pried open - they didn't even bother to take fingerprints. Clearly minor crimes are not on their priority list.
What should happen is you tell the police you have this program; show them some proof you own the phone; and they go retrieve the phone with the attitude that it is *probably* your phone but not definitely your phone until they hear the side of the people with the phone or see how those people react.
We also need to update our felony amounts. Stealing a phone really only warrants jail time- not prison time. The felony amounts are set too low and make a lot of crimes felonies that would not have been 50 years ago.
For the last year (roughly), it's autosuggestions have gotten worse- not better. Sometimes it suggests a word I've never even heard of over a much more common word. It even puts the common word in the auto complete/correction list.
But repeatedly auto complete/correcting it doesn't seem to dissuade it from choosing the weird word.
That would require a duplicate of production... which is not practical for many companies even today.
But, it would be great. Mirroring is used instead since you can "hotswap" over to the mirror (which my last company did once a month, reasonably seamlessly after five or six painful non-seamless swaps at the beginning).
We know what happened on iwo jima and okinawa. 22000 japanese solders- 19000 of them died. 6800 u.s. soldiers dead- alot more that survived without one or more limbs. Okinawa 12000 u.s. soldiers dead- again- 50000 more wounded. Up to 40% of the civilians dead- many (thousands!) by suicide or "suicide" at the hands of japanese solders. Large numbers (caught on film) were jumping off cliffs toir the deaths ahead of u.s. soldiers 110,000 Japanese soldiers dead. Only 7000 were captured or surrendered.
And this wasn't even mainland japan!
On the mainland, there were 10,000 kamakaze planes which the japanese estimated would sink 400 significant usa naval vessels with specific training to hit transports before they got in range of shore.
On the main island, children and women were engaging in daily training to fight the usa. For years, any japanese citizens who expressed any pacifist feelings either had to flee the country or were arrested and sentenced to death; so what was left was pretty unified against the usa invasion and ready to fight to the death- and that resolve was backed up by japanese soldiers all too willing to kill civilians who didn't fight.
They still had nearly 600,000 combat ready troops and 28 million civilians trained specifically how to kill people with handheld weapons. American soldiers would have been forced to kill seniors, children, women as they advanced across the island.
One in 10 european citizens died in many of the countries but the losses would have much higher in japan. The emperor was their god and the japanese land was sacred. The death rate for japanese would have been much higher. A mainland japan invasion could have very easily seen more civilian deaths than the holocaust based on the civilian casualty rate at okinawa.
Even the minimum casualty rate estimated for okinawa would have been close to five million civilians dead. The army would have seen another 550,000 killed with about 50,000 captured based on okinawa- more if it went like iwo jima. And none of this would have counted knock on effects of starvation from the complete destruction of the infrastructure, road systems, electrical systems, etc.
Nukes are bad-- nothing is bad as them for poisoning the land long term. But total war for another year would have been much worse than the use of two nukes in japan.
The dollar is good as long as the U.S. is good. If the U.S. economy collapses or goes into hyperinflation- the dollar is going to become worthless.
I understand the difference between treasury bonds and dollars and I understand you can no longer exchange dollars for gold.
The dollar is backed by the us government, government businesses, and us citizens (and to a lesser extent the rest of the world who holds assets valued in dollars). It not as simple as saying "it's a fiat currency backed by nothing".
The US government is not going to let the dollar become worthless in any direct and immediate way or repudiate the ability to pay debts to them using dollars. They may take actions which have the consequence over a long period of time of making the dollar become worthless.
You can exchange dollars for US Treasury bills. The US Government is not going to block your ability to do that. Repayment of those debts is going to be in dollars as well. To some extent the two are fungible.
Bitcoin has value because people who hold them say they are valuable and are willing to let you pay debts with them, purchases goods and services with them. There is no legal requirement that a company sell you goods or services for bitcoins .
US Dollars are legal tender. Bitcoins (so far) are not.
Clear enough?
I understand that "full faith and credit" has a specific meaning and I was playing a bit fast and loose with it.
The problem with unprincipled people is that you have no clue how they are going to act.
Rand Paul as president would be mollified by congress.
In the end, you'd get a fiscally conservative, anti-abortion president.
This is an improvement over the "spending like a drunken sailor, anti abortion" presidents the republicans have been running since reagan (except bush sr).
Rand Paul seems sane to me. I don't agree with his social positions but they seem sane. You sound like you have a different opinion. That's cool.
You probably want to use "duckduckgo" instead of google as your default search provider.
Google tracks a lot of information about you- even when you are anonymous. Last I heard it was 57 different things. I also keep googleleadservices and googleanalytics disabled in noscript.
Slashdot Mirror
They also practice front running. But I think that door is closing and it will be illegal to front run with fast computers the same way it is already illegal for a human to front run.
You can do all kinds of things which are not "huge data" and you won't have a problem.
Netflix pushed things very hard and changed the foundation of the "all the bandwidth you want" model.
Because previously the average customer downloaded a fraction of what they downloaded after netflix.
ISP's have the option of charging their customers more (maybe a lot more) or charging Netflix (and amazon prime and hulu) which can then pass that cost on to its customers.
Comcast are not nice dudes- but it's not all on one side.
Just remember to...
Listen carefully, math on tape is hard to follow.
And this is the key in working with any population.
Some people don't need notes.
Some need anchor notes
Some need to read the book ahead of time and ask questions.
And some need to type things down because they can't write fast enough and miss portions of the lecture.
And some use digitial recorders.
An extra hard disk onsite is as good a backup as physical dvd or bluray disks.
The problem with streamed media is they lose the rights and bam- you can't watch it any more.
Going forward- they seem to be fragmenting in to many stations- which each want 10 bucks a month.
Still- I stopped buying DVD's and Blurays several years ago when I hit 50ish. I only buy something if I'm certain I'll actually watch it again before I die.
Most of the "luddites" died homeless of exposure and starvation.
They could see right then that the factory owners were not going to train them on the new machines and that they would die homless of exposure and starvation so they were opposed to the new machines unless they could get training on them.
Ludd was right. It was bad for thousands of people who were abandoned to die ugly deaths by society which then closed ranks and ignored their existence.
What's good for society may be very bad for large groups of human beings. And often, the cost of carrying those human beings along would be TINY yet those with capital prefer to have a 70.8% profit instead of a 70% profit.
Electronics in my experience do great for a few years and then die requiring a replacement.
Mechanical items made with good quality out of metal often last *DECADES* or even longer.
Sure mechanical made out of plastic fails. Electronics might last longer if they were made heavier grade but they are made as cheap as possible too.
Well, if you can
find my house
break into my house
find the password sheet
decrypt the passwords
figure out which sites they relate to.
You are more than welcome to use my netflix account until I have to change the password when I buy my next smart phone or bluray player.
The way I understand, it was high ammonia levels from her body not cleaning her blood enough. So probably a liver issue of some kind.
She was in her early 70's.
For several years she'd gotten kinda dotty and spooky. We had all assumed it was just part of the aging process. The first time she had to get a transfusion- she recovered her faculties. It was like going from a 100iq to a 120iq.
The way she described it was "foggy thinking" and "hard to think". Apparently nothing they could do with the underlying condition that caused the blood cleanup problems.
I have started to use Startpage.
Thank you!
She would recover for about six weeks.
But on the third time- she died of blood poisoning- which is a risk from getting a blood transfusion.
But it was kinda like I got to see her again after she had been gone for a long time, replaced by a sort of dotty, eccentric person. She was suddenly sharp, intelligent and the fuzziness went away.
I struggle when I get a new phone or tablet...
And then I have to remember the netflix, hulu, pandora, google, etc. etc. etc. password.
And when I get it wrong-- I have to reset it.
And then I have to change it on EVERY device.
The other struggle is that
SITE A REQUIRES CAPITALS.
SiTe b treats capitals like lower case.
Site c requires 1st letter capital.
siTe d requires at least 1 capital.
Site! e requires punctuation.
Site~ f doesn't allow !'s.
Site1 g requires at least 1 number
5173 h requires only numbers
SiteSite1 i Has the above restrictions but requires 8 or more letters.
Sitesite j only allows 8 letters- but requires 4 or more
Site k won't work with XKCD since it doesn't allow ' 's
Site L has some permutation of these rules and won't let me reuse prior passwords- or double letters, or various other sequences, or english words in the dictionary-- so my password ends up being almost completely arbitrary.
So these days-- I write algorithmic encoded passwords on paper.
So you can look at the paper - and it doesn't mean anything to you. It's not a simple substitution cypher.
But it still sucks when I buy a new device and have to change all the passwords for something before I started writing down passwords.
Another thing password services (not job passwords) have is a duration of YEARS. I'm supposed to remember a password I created 7 years ago that met arbitrary rules- which they won't tell me now. Meh.
Glad to hear it! It might be your area vs metropolitan areas.
The police in my town are actually scared of criminals and won't go into bad areas with only one cruiser and the second anything actually happens one or more cruisers sprint over as well. I drive by an area a few miles from my house and you see what looks like a routine ticket stop and there are three cruisers with lights on.
Except criminals of all stripes escalate over time.
By catching a simple phone thief today, you might prevent a violent assault to steal a phone three months from now. Or even keep the phone thief from being shot and some person spending 25k and two years of their shattered lives defending themselves after killing the thief.
Better to nip it in the bud.
long story short, starting over a decade ago, cops didn't give a flying fuck about helping us with crime, all they cared about is keeping the money rolling in FTFY.
Same thing for my Samsung Epic. You can't rechip it. Shortly after you steal it, it's bricked.
Perhaps the victims didn't try the police first. But my experience with the police and small property thefts is that they don't feel it is worth their time.
When My vehicle was broken into a few years ago- fingerprints visible all over the window that had been pried open - they didn't even bother to take fingerprints. Clearly minor crimes are not on their priority list.
What should happen is you tell the police you have this program; show them some proof you own the phone; and they go retrieve the phone with the attitude that it is *probably* your phone but not definitely your phone until they hear the side of the people with the phone or see how those people react.
We also need to update our felony amounts. Stealing a phone really only warrants jail time- not prison time. The felony amounts are set too low and make a lot of crimes felonies that would not have been 50 years ago.
For the last year (roughly), it's autosuggestions have gotten worse- not better. Sometimes it suggests a word I've never even heard of over a much more common word. It even puts the common word in the auto complete/correction list.
But repeatedly auto complete/correcting it doesn't seem to dissuade it from choosing the weird word.
Er...
Counterpoint: Mitt Romney.
That would require a duplicate of production... which is not practical for many companies even today.
But, it would be great. Mirroring is used instead since you can "hotswap" over to the mirror (which my last company did once a month, reasonably seamlessly after five or six painful non-seamless swaps at the beginning).
Dude,
We know what happened on iwo jima and okinawa.
22000 japanese solders- 19000 of them died.
6800 u.s. soldiers dead- alot more that survived without one or more limbs.
Okinawa
12000 u.s. soldiers dead- again- 50000 more wounded.
Up to 40% of the civilians dead- many (thousands!) by suicide or "suicide" at the hands of japanese solders. Large numbers (caught on film) were jumping off cliffs toir the deaths ahead of u.s. soldiers
110,000 Japanese soldiers dead. Only 7000 were captured or surrendered.
And this wasn't even mainland japan!
On the mainland, there were 10,000 kamakaze planes which the japanese estimated would sink 400 significant usa naval vessels with specific training to hit transports before they got in range of shore.
On the main island, children and women were engaging in daily training to fight the usa. For years, any japanese citizens who expressed any pacifist feelings either had to flee the country or were arrested and sentenced to death; so what was left was pretty unified against the usa invasion and ready to fight to the death- and that resolve was backed up by japanese soldiers all too willing to kill civilians who didn't fight.
They still had nearly 600,000 combat ready troops and 28 million civilians trained specifically how to kill people with handheld weapons. American soldiers would have been forced to kill seniors, children, women as they advanced across the island.
One in 10 european citizens died in many of the countries but the losses would have much higher in japan. The emperor was their god and the japanese land was sacred. The death rate for japanese would have been much higher. A mainland japan invasion could have very easily seen more civilian deaths than the holocaust based on the civilian casualty rate at okinawa.
Even the minimum casualty rate estimated for okinawa would have been close to five million civilians dead. The army would have seen another 550,000 killed with about 50,000 captured based on okinawa- more if it went like iwo jima. And none of this would have counted knock on effects of starvation from the complete destruction of the infrastructure, road systems, electrical systems, etc.
Nukes are bad-- nothing is bad as them for poisoning the land long term. But total war for another year would have been much worse than the use of two nukes in japan.
The dollar is good as long as the U.S. is good. If the U.S. economy collapses or goes into hyperinflation- the dollar is going to become worthless.
I understand the difference between treasury bonds and dollars and I understand you can no longer exchange dollars for gold.
The dollar is backed by the us government, government businesses, and us citizens (and to a lesser extent the rest of the world who holds assets valued in dollars). It not as simple as saying "it's a fiat currency backed by nothing".
The US government is not going to let the dollar become worthless in any direct and immediate way or repudiate the ability to pay debts to them using dollars. They may take actions which have the consequence over a long period of time of making the dollar become worthless.
You can exchange dollars for US Treasury bills. The US Government is not going to block your ability to do that. Repayment of those debts is going to be in dollars as well. To some extent the two are fungible.
Bitcoin has value because people who hold them say they are valuable and are willing to let you pay debts with them, purchases goods and services with them. There is no legal requirement that a company sell you goods or services for bitcoins .
US Dollars are legal tender. Bitcoins (so far) are not.
Clear enough?
I understand that "full faith and credit" has a specific meaning and I was playing a bit fast and loose with it.
That's a good point.
The problem with unprincipled people is that you have no clue how they are going to act.
Rand Paul as president would be mollified by congress.
In the end, you'd get a fiscally conservative, anti-abortion president.
This is an improvement over the "spending like a drunken sailor, anti abortion" presidents the republicans have been running since reagan (except bush sr).
Rand Paul seems sane to me. I don't agree with his social positions but they seem sane. You sound like you have a different opinion. That's cool.
You probably want to use "duckduckgo" instead of google as your default search provider.
Google tracks a lot of information about you- even when you are anonymous. Last I heard it was 57 different things. I also keep googleleadservices and googleanalytics disabled in noscript.
You also probably want Better privacy too. It gets rid of supercookies.
Hopefully some more ideas will come out of this thread.