Not necessary. Google apparently has a similar work-from-home policy (that is, not for the general populace), so the change of policy at Yahoo just reflects her background.
Isn't making the elevator go faster a job for an engineer? Does one really need to be a mathematician to know that a faster elevator moves people faster?
If the elevator can make stops along the way, it probably refers to mean travel time, and it's an entirely different problem.
That being said, the "surfboard feature" is really, really, old. A lot of elevators have on-demand overrides which prevent intermediate stops. So the article might just be an infomercial for the elevator company after all.
Sure, you have to ignore the decline in violence (simply looking at absolute numbers would help in a few cases). But there could still be periodic patterns against the general backdrop of decline. However, there is little evidence for that.
Now all kinds of things could go wrong and lead to rising violence levels in the next years (global financial meltdown followed by a drop in international trade, countries trying to collect on their debts by military force etc., which would eventually have an effect on personal violence as well), but if these things happen exactly in 2020 (and not earlier or later, or not at all), it will be coincidence, and not related to some recurring societal patterns. Our world is already very, very different from the 1970, and no matter what happens, there are so many things which are quite irreversible, at least in the course of a decade or two (the global rise in English literacy, for instance).
The guy isn't a mathematician, he's an ecologist. And I find it hard to believe that by 2020, social acceptance of domestic violence (say) rises again to mid-20th century levels. The reporter's suggestion that the precise moment in time of the Egyptian revolution was predictable is likely based on a misunderstanding of Turchin's work.
By the way, the field isn't as new as the article suggests. Steven Pinker's recent book, The Better Angels of Our Nature, collects quite a bit of quantitative research in this area, most of which does not support the existence of stable cycles.
I think the ending was fine at the time it was written. Nowadays, selling AV software doesn't seem a better job than high-speed pizza delivery, but that's not Stephenson's fault.
The leak has already happened. Most countries lack the notion that something is still classified even if it's been printed in newspapers, just because the government hasn't officially declassified it yet.
It's not about containing the leak, it's about punishment. In this regard, it would be like any other copyright case. Just because something is brought up as evidence in court, no one receives any copyright-related rights, and certainly not retroactively. (See the Oracle vs Google case for an example.)
Why doesn't Amazon use a reverse proxy which performs additional checks and routes the requests to the right customer? (With Server Name Indication, that would work for TLS, too.) Without that, it's simply not possible to switch IP addresses quickly between non-cooperating targets.
People have been doing this for ages, it's called virtualization. There are even modes which seamlessly integrate application windows running under different operating systems, and to share folders. So this allegedly new technology appears to be a step backwards.
Just so it's clear to everyone, you don't need a "genuine" version of Windows to download and install critical updates.
That depends on where you are. In Germany, Microsoft has run warning dialogs that security updates may break your installation if you use an illegal copy. Microsoft has integrated WGA with the update process, making people using illegal copies uneasy about using the update process. There have even been conflicted statements about whether critical updates are available to everyone. Apparently, this does confuse users, even those who have paid the licensing fee for the software they run.
For a while, transcripts of Skype calls have been showing up in German court records. Law enforcement already has got access, probably through a variety of means.
Cloud-based services can cut revenue sharing deals with access network operators, which will then exempt certain services from bandwidth limits. This is already happening with IPTV. In the end, this will mean that if you don't use the major cloud-based services, potential users would essentially have to pay their ISPs for using your service.
http://kids.us/ was a manual attempt in that direction. It seems mostly dormant.
There are so many things which can go wrong with such a service, especially if you try to automate it: You might pick up something erroneously. Domain ownership or content changes suddenly. An inappropriate advertisement is included. Google would have to be right every time, or someone will spot the mistake and unleash the hellhounds. Parents are rather nervous about what their children might potentially see on the Internet, even if it is a restricted subset.
I'm also sure that many parents think that Star Wars isn't suitable for six-year-olds.
The original McAfee blog article says this (why not link to the original resource in the first place?):
However, we’ve seen only the PC version in a downloader/dropper in the wild.
So this is not different at all from the Java-based Facebook suicide Trojan horse which circulated in Spring 2010 (but was not spotted by most AV companies back then).
Some routers have extremely unsafe defaults and ignore syntax errors in commands. If you add a single letter to a command which corrects the default (perhaps while the configuration file is open in an editor), producing a syntax error, this can trigger far-reaching outages. Taking down a data center is not even the worst thing that can happen. For example, if an ISP accidentally redistributes the global BGP table into OSPF, they can produce a world-wide outage affecting thousands of routers and almost all customers. All with a single erroneous command executed on a single router which doesn't even have to be particularly central to the whole network.
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Not necessary. Google apparently has a similar work-from-home policy (that is, not for the general populace), so the change of policy at Yahoo just reflects her background.
If the elevator can make stops along the way, it probably refers to mean travel time, and it's an entirely different problem.
That being said, the "surfboard feature" is really, really, old. A lot of elevators have on-demand overrides which prevent intermediate stops. So the article might just be an infomercial for the elevator company after all.
Sure, you have to ignore the decline in violence (simply looking at absolute numbers would help in a few cases). But there could still be periodic patterns against the general backdrop of decline. However, there is little evidence for that.
Now all kinds of things could go wrong and lead to rising violence levels in the next years (global financial meltdown followed by a drop in international trade, countries trying to collect on their debts by military force etc., which would eventually have an effect on personal violence as well), but if these things happen exactly in 2020 (and not earlier or later, or not at all), it will be coincidence, and not related to some recurring societal patterns. Our world is already very, very different from the 1970, and no matter what happens, there are so many things which are quite irreversible, at least in the course of a decade or two (the global rise in English literacy, for instance).
The guy isn't a mathematician, he's an ecologist. And I find it hard to believe that by 2020, social acceptance of domestic violence (say) rises again to mid-20th century levels. The reporter's suggestion that the precise moment in time of the Egyptian revolution was predictable is likely based on a misunderstanding of Turchin's work.
By the way, the field isn't as new as the article suggests. Steven Pinker's recent book, The Better Angels of Our Nature, collects quite a bit of quantitative research in this area, most of which does not support the existence of stable cycles.
Pretty close to 0% for their Tegra CPUs with integrated GPUs.
I think the ending was fine at the time it was written. Nowadays, selling AV software doesn't seem a better job than high-speed pizza delivery, but that's not Stephenson's fault.
The leak has already happened. Most countries lack the notion that something is still classified even if it's been printed in newspapers, just because the government hasn't officially declassified it yet.
It's not about containing the leak, it's about punishment. In this regard, it would be like any other copyright case. Just because something is brought up as evidence in court, no one receives any copyright-related rights, and certainly not retroactively. (See the Oracle vs Google case for an example.)
The two are unrelated, actually. There a players which offer unconditional skipping and which use the disc directly.
And most Android devices have their own equivalent of Secure Boot, limiting consumers what kind of operating systems they can run on the hardware.
Good point. There are APIs that provide TTL information (such as res_query), but Firefox does not seem to use them. Interesting.
Does this really help if ELB misdirects requests? Or would this setup result in stable ingress IP addreses, so that ELB worked perfectly?
Browsers are sometimes forced to disregard TTL values to prevent certain type of attacks which involve quickly changing DNS records.
Why doesn't Amazon use a reverse proxy which performs additional checks and routes the requests to the right customer? (With Server Name Indication, that would work for TLS, too.) Without that, it's simply not possible to switch IP addresses quickly between non-cooperating targets.
That depends on what hardware you've got. Nowadays, there is PCI and USB pass-through, and video and 3D acceleration in guest systems.
In general, you'd lose hard disk sharing because the disk partitions have to remain consistent over sleeps. It's also far from instantaneous.
People have been doing this for ages, it's called virtualization. There are even modes which seamlessly integrate application windows running under different operating systems, and to share folders. So this allegedly new technology appears to be a step backwards.
There are no jurors in this case, not even lay judges. The German judicial system is different.
That depends on where you are. In Germany, Microsoft has run warning dialogs that security updates may break your installation if you use an illegal copy. Microsoft has integrated WGA with the update process, making people using illegal copies uneasy about using the update process. There have even been conflicted statements about whether critical updates are available to everyone. Apparently, this does confuse users, even those who have paid the licensing fee for the software they run.
For a while, transcripts of Skype calls have been showing up in German court records. Law enforcement already has got access, probably through a variety of means.
Cloud-based services can cut revenue sharing deals with access network operators, which will then exempt certain services from bandwidth limits. This is already happening with IPTV. In the end, this will mean that if you don't use the major cloud-based services, potential users would essentially have to pay their ISPs for using your service.
http://kids.us/ was a manual attempt in that direction. It seems mostly dormant.
There are so many things which can go wrong with such a service, especially if you try to automate it: You might pick up something erroneously. Domain ownership or content changes suddenly. An inappropriate advertisement is included. Google would have to be right every time, or someone will spot the mistake and unleash the hellhounds. Parents are rather nervous about what their children might potentially see on the Internet, even if it is a restricted subset.
I'm also sure that many parents think that Star Wars isn't suitable for six-year-olds.
The original McAfee blog article says this (why not link to the original resource in the first place?):
So this is not different at all from the Java-based Facebook suicide Trojan horse which circulated in Spring 2010 (but was not spotted by most AV companies back then).
Some routers have extremely unsafe defaults and ignore syntax errors in commands. If you add a single letter to a command which corrects the default (perhaps while the configuration file is open in an editor), producing a syntax error, this can trigger far-reaching outages. Taking down a data center is not even the worst thing that can happen. For example, if an ISP accidentally redistributes the global BGP table into OSPF, they can produce a world-wide outage affecting thousands of routers and almost all customers. All with a single erroneous command executed on a single router which doesn't even have to be particularly central to the whole network.
Apple had a similar issue:
http://www.net.princeton.edu/announcements/ipad-iphoneos32-stops-renewing-lease-keeps-using-IP-address.html
At this point, one has to wonder what Princeton is doing on their network that they keep uncovering such bugs.