If Apple provided the ability for two-factor authentication, and customers didn't use it, and they got phished - what exactly is Apple apologizing for? PEBKAC?
This is a research project, designed to find answers to those things you called out. In regards to power, MS acknowledges that the majority of power is being consumed by computers, but that a significant portion is dedicated to cooling issues (in a standard DC). Might as well give it a try.
One thing that can have more catastrophic problems is failure of network gear. Usually this is some of the more reliable gear in a DC, but failures certainly aren't unheard of (and trouble in cable and transceivers is a lot more common than switch gear failure - though usually the failure footprint is a lot smaller). Though every DC work its salt will have redundant network paths, that still might mean you'd be running without redundancy for the duration of the installation. That will definitely be a problem during network gear upgrades.
Still, I like the overall concept, but wanted a few more details - eg, how the heat exchangers work, if this is going to be oxygen-limited, does that mean the cylinder will be nitrogen filled? Is there any provision for dealing with onboard leakage (bilge pumps)? Batteries on-board?
Finally, I know this is just a research project, but I'd like to see a cost breakdown compared to a standard colo build.
With all the revelations, the main takeaway I got is the NSA is pissed that they got caught acting poorly. Given their lack of apology, it's clear the NSA isn't at all motivated to, you know - change, and stuff. All the NSA seems to want to do is deliver maximum stitches to maximum snitches.
I think it likely that Oracle would attempt to use its newfound "Java APIs are copyrighted" court finding to turn OpenJDK and competing implementations into infringing implementations.
No idea what you're talking about. Liberal here, all in favor of strong encryption. Maybe you're using too broad of a brush or assuming that there are only two opposing viewpoints.
It's clearly true that strong encryption hinders the ability of law enforcement to monitor such communications and potentially prevent crimes rather than prosecute crimes. The far greater danger is government erosion of basic tenets of privacy and freedom, and government-forceable encryption can only lead to ever encroaching police state monitoring. Witness overreach by Russia and China in the monitoring of their own citizens to see the pitfalls of allowing unfettered so-called "law-and-order".
This administration in particular has demonstrated that it is committed to silencing and prosecuting dissent; providing tools that enable Trump and future leaders this sort of unchecked aggression is bad policy, hopefully to be opposed across the political spectrum.
Off the top of my head - if each Twitter user had a "reliability" reputation associated with their account that decreased on false retweeting and increased with "true" retweeting, and their ability to tweet frequency-limited by that reputation score, would that put a check to this problem?
I'm really conflicted about this. On the one hand, it seems likely that for 80% of road conditions encountered, an autonomous car might do a better job than humans, though from a utility perspective, I have serious doubts that I could use my automated car to take me up a BLM dirt road, or drive in Montana white-outs. Testing's happening mostly in the Bay Area and Phoenix, both of which have, not no weather, but little severe weather except a few seasonal rainstorms (duststorms?).
On the other hand, I do believe there's a certain cult fetish building around autonomous cars and a bit too much emphasis on the infallibility of technology. Technology fails around us all the time (voice recognition in particular sucks), and I don't think there's nearly enough skepticism being paid to the issues of reliability, hardening against gaming, or dealing with human malice (road rage, dealing with non-autonomous vehicles and their drivers, etc.)
It's a future I don't want, that seems inevitable.
It'd be a financial disaster at least for owners to simply ban diesel vehicles outright; first, ban the sale of diesel vehicles (new and used). After 10 years or so, then you can consider banning outright (maybe allow permitting for "historic" vehicles).
It was formerly known as as the ITL - Inhalation Toxicology Laboratory. https://www.lm.doe.gov/ITL/ITL_factsheet.pdf
It developed a reputation as a horrible workplace (not just the usual killing-a-bunch-of-strays stuff), so I'm sure they decided they needed to rebrand themselves away from that.
They are now one and the same. https://goo.gl/maps/Vc6vk9F7BWm
I used to eat my lunch just outside the ITL (as it was formerly known), under the two water towers. It's at the very edge of Kirtland AFB. Pretty quiet, no one really goes out there... knew some folks who worked there who said it was a soul crushing place, as you might imagine. My sister once interviewed for a position that would've required her to take care of the dog and cat subjects.
It's natural that there're going to be more questions with new frameworks, and as those questions get answered - fewer new questions. That is the nature of Stack Overflow - look for someone who's already answered your question, before you ask.
To propose a new high quality format that doesn't add anything significantly new to our music options seems a little short sighted. Imagine a format that presents each recorded master track as a separate component, along with as-released mixing settings. You'd gain the ability to not only listen to what the sound engineer came up with, you'd be able to make your own mixes. It'd also make creative mashups much, much easier. That's what I want - not this.
This is clearly the question that corporate co-authors Nvidia and Logicblox hoped you would ask.
The paper seems to represent more of an evolutionary rather than revolutionary approach, but suffers from some unfortunate hand-waving, particularly in their attempt to negate the real cost of memory->PCIe transfers (to their credit, at least they call out that latency), their unwillingness to perform comparisons on like-to-like base hardware, and their rather odd choice of front-end environment. Coupled with their odd price-performance metric, I suspect that Nvidia marketing got way up in Gatech's business on this. My suspicion is that there are real use cases where SIMD processing is going to substantially speedup relational database performance on easily partitioned datasets, but as more vectorization effort is placed on main CPU, the advantages of kicking off to coprocessor will eventually go the way of the 387.
I dunno; the summary is patently wrong: three nukes DID shutdown because of Sandy. Salem-1 remains shutdown because of failure of 4 of 6 coolant pumps. Efforts to repair those 4 continue today. From the comments below, it seems as though *5* of 6 pumps were actually adversely affected. So yay, the system SCRAM'ed and the massive redundancy built into nukes kept this from turning into an incident... but closer than I would have preferred.
From the cited article: "Salem-1 shut early Tuesday morning "when four of the station's six circulating water pumps were no longer available due to weather impacts from Hurricane Sandy," the company said in a statement that day.
Waves hit the plant's circulating water building, requiring the shutdown, PSEG Nuclear chairman and CEO Ralph Izzo said during a press teleconference Wednesday morning. One of five pumps has been repaired, and the other four are expected to be repaired Wednesday, Izzo said. He did not say when Salem-1 is expected to return to service."
It's setting the hook; you use the actual words out so that someone who does get interested in this stuff has a jumping off place for, at the very least, a wikipedia fishing trip.
Being smart IS better than being dumb - clearly a smarter person has the ability to formulate more solutions to more abstract problems - but it's not SUFFICIENT. I think a lot of smart people fall into this trap. Being smart doesn't make you moral, empathetic, doesn't make you hard-working, patient, generous, driven, doesn't make you good looking, athletic - doesn't weigh in on any part of who you are other than that of your intellect. If you can't apply your intellect to understand the levers of society, and make concessions to them, then that is to your detriment, and is your problem. Perhaps it's your "I'm 170" attitude that is creating barriers for you?
You were called on the floor as being sociopathic, almost certainly for this: "fuck it, you know what, I don't care anymore. Enough of trying to do good for others, I'm doing this for *me* and the rest of the world can go fuck itself."
You rebut: "I'm in this life for ME now." It would appear that your self-description certainly fits the dictionary definition, if not the DSM-IV. If you're "sick of doing for others", then you never really were in it for doing for others, you were in it for, as you say, yourself.
I recall it was always quality of search results returned in the early days that made Google really shine. The light interface and innocuous ads did stroke the "do no evil" meme and seemed pretty responsive as well. Their search engine worked so much better than AltaVista that there wasn't much contest (and Yahoo's browse-your-category mechanism was horrendous). This is my perspective as a geek, though; I couldn't tell you what others thought.
Now it's all just a horrible mess, and search results are once against mostly crap, I contend through detestable SEO efforts.
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If Apple provided the ability for two-factor authentication, and customers didn't use it, and they got phished - what exactly is Apple apologizing for? PEBKAC?
This is a research project, designed to find answers to those things you called out. In regards to power, MS acknowledges that the majority of power is being consumed by computers, but that a significant portion is dedicated to cooling issues (in a standard DC). Might as well give it a try.
One thing that can have more catastrophic problems is failure of network gear. Usually this is some of the more reliable gear in a DC, but failures certainly aren't unheard of (and trouble in cable and transceivers is a lot more common than switch gear failure - though usually the failure footprint is a lot smaller). Though every DC work its salt will have redundant network paths, that still might mean you'd be running without redundancy for the duration of the installation. That will definitely be a problem during network gear upgrades.
Still, I like the overall concept, but wanted a few more details - eg, how the heat exchangers work, if this is going to be oxygen-limited, does that mean the cylinder will be nitrogen filled? Is there any provision for dealing with onboard leakage (bilge pumps)? Batteries on-board?
Finally, I know this is just a research project, but I'd like to see a cost breakdown compared to a standard colo build.
With all the revelations, the main takeaway I got is the NSA is pissed that they got caught acting poorly. Given their lack of apology, it's clear the NSA isn't at all motivated to, you know - change, and stuff. All the NSA seems to want to do is deliver maximum stitches to maximum snitches.
I sleep better.
So everyone gets charged except for the cop that actually killed a man? That seems a huge lapse of justice.
I think it likely that Oracle would attempt to use its newfound "Java APIs are copyrighted" court finding to turn OpenJDK and competing implementations into infringing implementations.
No idea what you're talking about. Liberal here, all in favor of strong encryption. Maybe you're using too broad of a brush or assuming that there are only two opposing viewpoints.
It's clearly true that strong encryption hinders the ability of law enforcement to monitor such communications and potentially prevent crimes rather than prosecute crimes. The far greater danger is government erosion of basic tenets of privacy and freedom, and government-forceable encryption can only lead to ever encroaching police state monitoring. Witness overreach by Russia and China in the monitoring of their own citizens to see the pitfalls of allowing unfettered so-called "law-and-order".
This administration in particular has demonstrated that it is committed to silencing and prosecuting dissent; providing tools that enable Trump and future leaders this sort of unchecked aggression is bad policy, hopefully to be opposed across the political spectrum.
It's just as easy for people with friends, and family. Seriously. I thought it was going to be a big deal, that I would somehow "miss" it. I don't.
Do it the way we did it - sample for yourself and see how you feel. This is one of the weirdest, most passive "Ask Slashdot"s I think I've seen.
Off the top of my head - if each Twitter user had a "reliability" reputation associated with their account that decreased on false retweeting and increased with "true" retweeting, and their ability to tweet frequency-limited by that reputation score, would that put a check to this problem?
I'm really conflicted about this. On the one hand, it seems likely that for 80% of road conditions encountered, an autonomous car might do a better job than humans, though from a utility perspective, I have serious doubts that I could use my automated car to take me up a BLM dirt road, or drive in Montana white-outs. Testing's happening mostly in the Bay Area and Phoenix, both of which have, not no weather, but little severe weather except a few seasonal rainstorms (duststorms?).
On the other hand, I do believe there's a certain cult fetish building around autonomous cars and a bit too much emphasis on the infallibility of technology. Technology fails around us all the time (voice recognition in particular sucks), and I don't think there's nearly enough skepticism being paid to the issues of reliability, hardening against gaming, or dealing with human malice (road rage, dealing with non-autonomous vehicles and their drivers, etc.)
It's a future I don't want, that seems inevitable.
No driver's license required; insurance is definitely required in the same way that you must carry liability insurance on your house.
It'd be a financial disaster at least for owners to simply ban diesel vehicles outright; first, ban the sale of diesel vehicles (new and used). After 10 years or so, then you can consider banning outright (maybe allow permitting for "historic" vehicles).
It was formerly known as as the ITL - Inhalation Toxicology Laboratory. https://www.lm.doe.gov/ITL/ITL_factsheet.pdf
It developed a reputation as a horrible workplace (not just the usual killing-a-bunch-of-strays stuff), so I'm sure they decided they needed to rebrand themselves away from that.
They are now one and the same. https://goo.gl/maps/Vc6vk9F7BWm
I used to eat my lunch just outside the ITL (as it was formerly known), under the two water towers. It's at the very edge of Kirtland AFB. Pretty quiet, no one really goes out there... knew some folks who worked there who said it was a soul crushing place, as you might imagine. My sister once interviewed for a position that would've required her to take care of the dog and cat subjects.
It's natural that there're going to be more questions with new frameworks, and as those questions get answered - fewer new questions. That is the nature of Stack Overflow - look for someone who's already answered your question, before you ask.
To propose a new high quality format that doesn't add anything significantly new to our music options seems a little short sighted. Imagine a format that presents each recorded master track as a separate component, along with as-released mixing settings. You'd gain the ability to not only listen to what the sound engineer came up with, you'd be able to make your own mixes. It'd also make creative mashups much, much easier. That's what I want - not this.
This is clearly the question that corporate co-authors Nvidia and Logicblox hoped you would ask.
The paper seems to represent more of an evolutionary rather than revolutionary approach, but suffers from some unfortunate hand-waving, particularly in their attempt to negate the real cost of memory->PCIe transfers (to their credit, at least they call out that latency), their unwillingness to perform comparisons on like-to-like base hardware, and their rather odd choice of front-end environment. Coupled with their odd price-performance metric, I suspect that Nvidia marketing got way up in Gatech's business on this. My suspicion is that there are real use cases where SIMD processing is going to substantially speedup relational database performance on easily partitioned datasets, but as more vectorization effort is placed on main CPU, the advantages of kicking off to coprocessor will eventually go the way of the 387.
It's hard to see the connection between anything mentioned in the article and being turned into a horrible person.
I dunno; the summary is patently wrong: three nukes DID shutdown because of Sandy. Salem-1 remains shutdown because of failure of 4 of 6 coolant pumps. Efforts to repair those 4 continue today. From the comments below, it seems as though *5* of 6 pumps were actually adversely affected. So yay, the system SCRAM'ed and the massive redundancy built into nukes kept this from turning into an incident... but closer than I would have preferred.
http://www.platts.com/RSSFeedDetailedNews/RSSFeed/ElectricPower/8872230
From the cited article:
"Salem-1 shut early Tuesday morning "when four of the station's six circulating water pumps were no longer available due to weather impacts from Hurricane Sandy," the company said in a statement that day.
Waves hit the plant's circulating water building, requiring the shutdown, PSEG Nuclear chairman and CEO Ralph Izzo said during a press teleconference Wednesday morning. One of five pumps has been repaired, and the other four are expected to be repaired Wednesday, Izzo said. He did not say when Salem-1 is expected to return to service."
Missing my mod points right now. Well played, sir. Well played.
I actually thought it was fine - not of the same caliber of the original - though a bit moralizing.
It's setting the hook; you use the actual words out so that someone who does get interested in this stuff has a jumping off place for, at the very least, a wikipedia fishing trip.
Being smart IS better than being dumb - clearly a smarter person has the ability to formulate more solutions to more abstract problems - but it's not SUFFICIENT. I think a lot of smart people fall into this trap. Being smart doesn't make you moral, empathetic, doesn't make you hard-working, patient, generous, driven, doesn't make you good looking, athletic - doesn't weigh in on any part of who you are other than that of your intellect. If you can't apply your intellect to understand the levers of society, and make concessions to them, then that is to your detriment, and is your problem. Perhaps it's your "I'm 170" attitude that is creating barriers for you?
You were called on the floor as being sociopathic, almost certainly for this: "fuck it, you know what, I don't care anymore. Enough of trying to do good for others, I'm doing this for *me* and the rest of the world can go fuck itself."
You rebut: "I'm in this life for ME now." It would appear that your self-description certainly fits the dictionary definition, if not the DSM-IV. If you're "sick of doing for others", then you never really were in it for doing for others, you were in it for, as you say, yourself.
I recall it was always quality of search results returned in the early days that made Google really shine. The light interface and innocuous ads did stroke the "do no evil" meme and seemed pretty responsive as well. Their search engine worked so much better than AltaVista that there wasn't much contest (and Yahoo's browse-your-category mechanism was horrendous). This is my perspective as a geek, though; I couldn't tell you what others thought.
Now it's all just a horrible mess, and search results are once against mostly crap, I contend through detestable SEO efforts.