My g/f's from Japan and when we went to visit recently I noticed a lot of homes had toilets with a sink built into the top of the toilet tank. When you flushed, the water to fill the tank came out a faucet and you could wash your hands with it. Not only recycles but saves room in a 1/2 bath... a simple little thing we should see more of here in the states. As an example...
Durring the Great Depression, gangsters and bank robbers were pop-icons and even cult hero's in the U.S because they were perceived as sticking it to "the man". This is strikingly similar, we have a group of thieves trying to cast their actions as being for the "greater good".
Stratfor guys pop up occasionally on Coast to Coast AM and Alex Jones. At one point Alex Jones was accused of being part of Stratfor. Feel free to draw your own conclusions based on that.
You already know that it's a tangled mess. You need to map that tangle throughly before you start fixing/replacing/retiring anything. The conversation you do not want to have with your superiors is why retiring system X (which costs $5,000/month) took down system Y (which makes $100,000/month). You need to map out both the business processes (which systems they touch) and the system dependencies (trust no one, log network data and look at the traffic between boxes). Do not start pulling strings until you know what they're connected to.
You're not going to do this by yourself... at the very least you're going to need someone who knows the business side throughly. I've walked into a situation like this before for a very, very large company and I swear it took years off of my life but I learned a whole hell of a lot from the experience. Best of luck.
FTA (and the summary): The ShenWei chips are based on the Loongson/Godson architecture. Loongsoon is a family of chips... just like Core 2's, Bulldozer's, etc. They are MIPs based, not Alpha based.
Loongson is a licensed MIPs implementation. Apparently early versions even made sure to clear of patent issues by not implementing a few instructions. So the accusation of being an Alpha "rip-off" is 100% wrong.
You can't just compare a consultants rate to an employees salary. The government is paying for the employee's health care, pension, etc. As an independent consultant I have to pay for all that out of my rate. Additionally I have to carry Errors & Omissions Insurance, General Liability, Workman's Comp and several other things that are just the cost of doing business. A one-to-one comparison is very misleading.
1817 : Major Brokerage leases building on Wall ST!
1836 : Major Brokerage house installs first telegraph!!
1890 : Major Brokerage house installs first telephone!!!
1990 : Major Brokerage house has access to internet!!!!
Sound investing is based on research but it is also based on the ability to react quickly to that information. If a company in the US announces that their CFO has been indicted, then investment firms in the UK are definitely going to pay to get that information and react to it as quickly as possible. Before you could submit bids to the fed electronically, investment firms used to place runners in pay phone booths next to the Fed so they could call them at the last minute and have them get in the best bid. Fundamentally, there is no difference between that and this.
And yes, "black box" high-frequency traders are going to be the primary users of this line but that doesn't mean there aren't valid and legitimate (as far as the average consumer is concerned) uses for this line.
Spectrum and the amount of data that can be carried over it is a limited resource (and even with improvements in technology, information theory puts a cap on how much data can be pushed through at a given frequency). If the spectrum is not licensed for use then two things happen. 1) The number of users skyrockets and the overall throughput available for user goes down and 2) the quality of signals degrades and the overall throughput goes down.
This is why wi-fi in many areas of NYC sucks, even though it's designed to handle these issues there are areas that are just over-saturated and you will _never_ get anywhere near the promised bandwidth of the devices.
Okay... so we're dealing with two different issues:
1. Determining who voted for who (breach of privacy)
2. Manipulating cast votes (voting fraud)
The issue raised by this article was voting fraud in which case you don't need to link a vote to a voter you just need to manipulate votes in a way that's not detectible. So you're changing the overall votes not someones specific vote (which you'd want to avoid at all cost).
But he hasn't proven that he as access to anything that is not public. He's provided a dump of public data that should be public data.
He hasn't even shown access to any tables that contain vote counts... not one. Simple fact of the matter is that he hasn't proven or even demonstrated access to any data that could be used to directory manipulate an election.
The only thing I see is links to voter reports. If they manipulated those links/documents on election day they might be able to point media outlets to documents that would change their reporting and disenfranchise voters... but that's a very huge stretch.
I'm assuming you're not from the U.S. A "race" here is referring to the election and not the ethnicity of the person or person(s) involved. The literal translation in this sense in "contest"... i.e. the "race" to the finish line. You'll notice that there's a "race" lookup table which contains Sheriff, Councilman, etc. It's referring to those "contests", not black, white, asian, latino, etc.
You're misunderstanding "poll workers"... these are lobby groups who are outside the polls trying to influence your votes, look at the pollworker_links table later in the dump. They're tracking who was there and who they represent... which is exactly what they should be doing. And yes, this data should be public (by law actually).
Then he should have provided some proof that he had access to the data or could have manipulated it. For example, there are X number of registered voters in zip code Y voted for Z. He could have even show a table structure that linked election data to voters (e.g. this election had table key 12345678 and here's a count of voters for 12345678. He hasn't provided any evidence of an actually breach of voting casting records, just that he has access public data in a sql database.
And don't get me wrong, that's not a good thing... if you can manipulate voting stats/reports on an election night you can change an election... but this article makes it sound like they have access to actual voting casting records which there is zero proof of. Everything shown is public record.
I'll add to this that the voting roster and your voting record (when and where) are public record as well... the only thing that's private is who you voted for. Everything else is a matter of public knowledge and should be, this is the only way you can keep things honest. If there are X number of votes, that should match X number of registered voters. By the same token, districts should only have X number of voters and you should only vote in your district (which is why you need to know where someone voted).
If anyone took 30 seconds to scan this scandalous "voting" data it's very apparent that this is data about the elections and not the actual voting or voters. All of this data can and should be public knowledge (e.g. Elections, Candidates, Races, what special interest groups are working the polls as well as voter statistics). A quick google search will give you almost all of this data because want it should be public knowledge.
This would be a story if this data wasn't available.
If I jailbreak my iPhone I can SSH into, run Apache, set it up as a router, do anything I want b/c it's a fully functional copy of Unix. Apple can dumb down the interface on OS X/XI as much as they want as long as I can:
1. Still get a shell prompt
2. Still have root access
Now, if I have to root my desktop/laptop... well then I'm going to get upset.
1. I appreciate everyone's input about the comparative levels of radiation and I'm working with my g/f to translate the xkcd chart to Japanese to put things in perspective for her family (we'll be sending it to Mr. Munroe when we finish for him to post if he likes).
2. We've already purchased Vaseline glass beads.
3. I'm very interested in the detailed comments that testing is pointless b/c we couldn't get access to the equipment/environment needed to properly test and will be following those up.
From a practical and scientific standpoint we both understand that the exposure they are subject to where they live is less than being at altitude on a flight to Japan. However her family and the country as a whole has been through a very traumatic event... first from a force they can't predict (the earthquake) and now from one they can't really see (radioactive contamination). So why we can look at this objectively and say the exposure really doesn't amount to much unless you're near the site, they'll never be able to because of what they have been through. Realistically, if you survived a plane crash you'd probably be hesitant about getting on a plane even though the statistical chances of you being in two commercial plane crashes are practically 0. Just the way the human psyche works. Anyway, I would like to keep them from throwing money away if testing food is a complete impracticality (#3).
Thanks for all the excellent input and we will be reviewing it throughly.
I don't know why they even bother mentioning this... it's not like the whole world was on the fence about the guy and looking for some reason to love him or hate him. The only people who this would possible impact are those who do think he's a hero. And guess what, they're not going to believe a word of it.
As many others have pointed out... you can't "park" it in Low Earth Orbit (LEO). Station keeping would cost too much. You could park in a Lagrangian Point but the question is why? At this point there's nothing sexy or special about the shuttle. It's a 20+ y/o technology that served it's purpose but is now outdated and expensive. We need to free the funds up for other programs.
And doing so will not "kill" space exploration. There are several commercial companies actively involved in putting objects in LEO and they are there b/c they are cheaper and arguably more reliable than the shuttle. These same companies can deliver supplies to the ISS and will soon be able to deliver people. If we need to do heavy lifting into LEO we have the Delta and Russian heavy lift platforms to fall back on. Which is exactly what we need for deep space exploration.
This is no different than all the explorers we've named our space probes after. They broadened our horizons and then moved on. Let commerce take over the "easy" stuff and let NSA, ESA, etc. go after "the stars".
First "first shuttle pilot" and "first female shuttle commander"? How is that any more different or special then "first female pilot" or "first female commander" both achieved by the Soviets in 1963? First African American is historic for America but not for other countries that came to their senses long before us. Putting a politician in space? People have been dreaming of that _long_ before rockets were even invented.
NASA is making the unpopular but correct call of killing this "ancient" (compare 20+ years of flights to Apollo) program and moving on. NASA's job isn't making social statements... it's to broaden our technical and scientific understanding. They've exhausted the shuttle platform and they're moving on.
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My g/f's from Japan and when we went to visit recently I noticed a lot of homes had toilets with a sink built into the top of the toilet tank. When you flushed, the water to fill the tank came out a faucet and you could wash your hands with it. Not only recycles but saves room in a 1/2 bath... a simple little thing we should see more of here in the states. As an example...
Durring the Great Depression, gangsters and bank robbers were pop-icons and even cult hero's in the U.S because they were perceived as sticking it to "the man". This is strikingly similar, we have a group of thieves trying to cast their actions as being for the "greater good".
Stratfor guys pop up occasionally on Coast to Coast AM and Alex Jones. At one point Alex Jones was accused of being part of Stratfor. Feel free to draw your own conclusions based on that.
You already know that it's a tangled mess. You need to map that tangle throughly before you start fixing/replacing/retiring anything. The conversation you do not want to have with your superiors is why retiring system X (which costs $5,000/month) took down system Y (which makes $100,000/month). You need to map out both the business processes (which systems they touch) and the system dependencies (trust no one, log network data and look at the traffic between boxes). Do not start pulling strings until you know what they're connected to.
You're not going to do this by yourself... at the very least you're going to need someone who knows the business side throughly. I've walked into a situation like this before for a very, very large company and I swear it took years off of my life but I learned a whole hell of a lot from the experience. Best of luck.
FTA (and the summary): The ShenWei chips are based on the Loongson/Godson architecture. Loongsoon is a family of chips... just like Core 2's, Bulldozer's, etc. They are MIPs based, not Alpha based.
Loongson is a licensed MIPs implementation. Apparently early versions even made sure to clear of patent issues by not implementing a few instructions. So the accusation of being an Alpha "rip-off" is 100% wrong.
That's what I get for not RTFA completely.
You can't just compare a consultants rate to an employees salary. The government is paying for the employee's health care, pension, etc. As an independent consultant I have to pay for all that out of my rate. Additionally I have to carry Errors & Omissions Insurance, General Liability, Workman's Comp and several other things that are just the cost of doing business. A one-to-one comparison is very misleading.
1817 : Major Brokerage leases building on Wall ST!
1836 : Major Brokerage house installs first telegraph!!
1890 : Major Brokerage house installs first telephone!!!
1990 : Major Brokerage house has access to internet!!!!
Sound investing is based on research but it is also based on the ability to react quickly to that information. If a company in the US announces that their CFO has been indicted, then investment firms in the UK are definitely going to pay to get that information and react to it as quickly as possible. Before you could submit bids to the fed electronically, investment firms used to place runners in pay phone booths next to the Fed so they could call them at the last minute and have them get in the best bid. Fundamentally, there is no difference between that and this.
And yes, "black box" high-frequency traders are going to be the primary users of this line but that doesn't mean there aren't valid and legitimate (as far as the average consumer is concerned) uses for this line.
Spectrum and the amount of data that can be carried over it is a limited resource (and even with improvements in technology, information theory puts a cap on how much data can be pushed through at a given frequency). If the spectrum is not licensed for use then two things happen. 1) The number of users skyrockets and the overall throughput available for user goes down and 2) the quality of signals degrades and the overall throughput goes down. This is why wi-fi in many areas of NYC sucks, even though it's designed to handle these issues there are areas that are just over-saturated and you will _never_ get anywhere near the promised bandwidth of the devices.
Okay... so we're dealing with two different issues:
1. Determining who voted for who (breach of privacy)
2. Manipulating cast votes (voting fraud)
The issue raised by this article was voting fraud in which case you don't need to link a vote to a voter you just need to manipulate votes in a way that's not detectible. So you're changing the overall votes not someones specific vote (which you'd want to avoid at all cost).
But he hasn't proven that he as access to anything that is not public. He's provided a dump of public data that should be public data.
He hasn't even shown access to any tables that contain vote counts... not one. Simple fact of the matter is that he hasn't proven or even demonstrated access to any data that could be used to directory manipulate an election.
The only thing I see is links to voter reports. If they manipulated those links/documents on election day they might be able to point media outlets to documents that would change their reporting and disenfranchise voters... but that's a very huge stretch.
I'm assuming you're not from the U.S. A "race" here is referring to the election and not the ethnicity of the person or person(s) involved. The literal translation in this sense in "contest"... i.e. the "race" to the finish line. You'll notice that there's a "race" lookup table which contains Sheriff, Councilman, etc. It's referring to those "contests", not black, white, asian, latino, etc.
You're misunderstanding "poll workers"... these are lobby groups who are outside the polls trying to influence your votes, look at the pollworker_links table later in the dump. They're tracking who was there and who they represent... which is exactly what they should be doing. And yes, this data should be public (by law actually).
Then he should have provided some proof that he had access to the data or could have manipulated it. For example, there are X number of registered voters in zip code Y voted for Z. He could have even show a table structure that linked election data to voters (e.g. this election had table key 12345678 and here's a count of voters for 12345678. He hasn't provided any evidence of an actually breach of voting casting records, just that he has access public data in a sql database.
And don't get me wrong, that's not a good thing... if you can manipulate voting stats/reports on an election night you can change an election... but this article makes it sound like they have access to actual voting casting records which there is zero proof of. Everything shown is public record.
I'll add to this that the voting roster and your voting record (when and where) are public record as well... the only thing that's private is who you voted for. Everything else is a matter of public knowledge and should be, this is the only way you can keep things honest. If there are X number of votes, that should match X number of registered voters. By the same token, districts should only have X number of voters and you should only vote in your district (which is why you need to know where someone voted).
If anyone took 30 seconds to scan this scandalous "voting" data it's very apparent that this is data about the elections and not the actual voting or voters. All of this data can and should be public knowledge (e.g. Elections, Candidates, Races, what special interest groups are working the polls as well as voter statistics). A quick google search will give you almost all of this data because want it should be public knowledge.
This would be a story if this data wasn't available.
I should amend that to say *sactioned* root access (i.e. I don't have to jailbreak the machine).
If I jailbreak my iPhone I can SSH into, run Apache, set it up as a router, do anything I want b/c it's a fully functional copy of Unix. Apple can dumb down the interface on OS X/XI as much as they want as long as I can:
1. Still get a shell prompt
2. Still have root access
Now, if I have to root my desktop/laptop... well then I'm going to get upset.
Probably be a waste of your time, I had a math professor or two try to and you see how much good it did ;-)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Banana_equivalent_dose
Found it while I was researching and quantifies what many of you have been pointing out about the effective level of contamination.
1. I appreciate everyone's input about the comparative levels of radiation and I'm working with my g/f to translate the xkcd chart to Japanese to put things in perspective for her family (we'll be sending it to Mr. Munroe when we finish for him to post if he likes).
... first from a force they can't predict (the earthquake) and now from one they can't really see (radioactive contamination). So why we can look at this objectively and say the exposure really doesn't amount to much unless you're near the site, they'll never be able to because of what they have been through. Realistically, if you survived a plane crash you'd probably be hesitant about getting on a plane even though the statistical chances of you being in two commercial plane crashes are practically 0. Just the way the human psyche works. Anyway, I would like to keep them from throwing money away if testing food is a complete impracticality (#3).
2. We've already purchased Vaseline glass beads.
3. I'm very interested in the detailed comments that testing is pointless b/c we couldn't get access to the equipment/environment needed to properly test and will be following those up.
From a practical and scientific standpoint we both understand that the exposure they are subject to where they live is less than being at altitude on a flight to Japan. However her family and the country as a whole has been through a very traumatic event
Thanks for all the excellent input and we will be reviewing it throughly.
I don't know why they even bother mentioning this... it's not like the whole world was on the fence about the guy and looking for some reason to love him or hate him. The only people who this would possible impact are those who do think he's a hero. And guess what, they're not going to believe a word of it.
As many others have pointed out... you can't "park" it in Low Earth Orbit (LEO). Station keeping would cost too much. You could park in a Lagrangian Point but the question is why? At this point there's nothing sexy or special about the shuttle. It's a 20+ y/o technology that served it's purpose but is now outdated and expensive. We need to free the funds up for other programs.
And doing so will not "kill" space exploration. There are several commercial companies actively involved in putting objects in LEO and they are there b/c they are cheaper and arguably more reliable than the shuttle. These same companies can deliver supplies to the ISS and will soon be able to deliver people. If we need to do heavy lifting into LEO we have the Delta and Russian heavy lift platforms to fall back on. Which is exactly what we need for deep space exploration.
This is no different than all the explorers we've named our space probes after. They broadened our horizons and then moved on. Let commerce take over the "easy" stuff and let NSA, ESA, etc. go after "the stars".
First "first shuttle pilot" and "first female shuttle commander"? How is that any more different or special then "first female pilot" or "first female commander" both achieved by the Soviets in 1963? First African American is historic for America but not for other countries that came to their senses long before us. Putting a politician in space? People have been dreaming of that _long_ before rockets were even invented.
NASA is making the unpopular but correct call of killing this "ancient" (compare 20+ years of flights to Apollo) program and moving on. NASA's job isn't making social statements... it's to broaden our technical and scientific understanding. They've exhausted the shuttle platform and they're moving on.