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  1. Re:Wrong Question on Ask Slashdot: What Kind of Societies Will the First Mars Colonies Be? · · Score: 1

    What is the total economic value of humanity's existence? After a cataclysmic event....rapidly approaching zero + scrap metals.

  2. Missing that Einstein was the last on Ask Slashdot: How Would You Explain Einstein's Theories To a Nine-Year-Old? · · Score: 1

    Talking to people who actually met the man I got the image Einstein is not only great because of theoretical mind, communication skills or persona with the press. He shared and encouraged others to go far beyond his discoveries with every conversation, every letter, and every coauthorship.

    Most people seem to be missing the major point, Einstein was the last of the classical physics school and the first of the quantum school. In modern sports terms, he changed the game and set the precedent for being brilliant and scientifically open in the modern world. And when I say game, I mean every one of physical sciences of the 20th century has a tie back to one of his two papers.

    General Relativity is the end point of classical physics, it was due about the time Albert published. General relativity was the endpoint of the enlightenment, inevitable conclusion involving scalars, Maxwells Equations, newtons calculus, and gauge theory.

    Near nothing in classical physics describes accurately the photoelectric effect on the photon hitting a conductive surface knocking off one or more free electrons in units or quants of energies. Expermentalists had led the way, Einstein seemly described the theory effortlessly. In the years from first publication of photoelectric effect to shell states an atom, describing the geometry of chemistry, was mature in less than 15 years.

    Both papers were backed up by solid observation within 15 years so by his late 40s had two games changer papers very few theoretical misses in the meantime with his other endeavors. He immigrated to the US at the time basic science became the basis of a nation becoming a superpower.

    Not many people get to participate in the end of the road of the basis for classical physics, and the starting of quantum physics. Einstein was one of the primary figures of both, did it out of obscurity while underemployed and published both papers, provided a credible defense of both in less than 5 months in 1905. Then most of all was open and giving in the support who took the quantum out of his hands and moved it far forward of Einstein's abilities.

    In the era of 1930-1949 he supported fully, through support filled letters and editing, suggestions people who eclipsed his mathematical and theoretical acumen for publication. There were many personalities in the same time period that were quite diffrent from that.

  3. Re:Prod vs. Subprod? on The Tech Failings of Hawaii's Missile Alert · · Score: 1

    Every message on EBS is the same priority to the EBS system, the drill tag is for human consumption. Deliver message x to y group of broadcasters, remote stations, cellular towers and other emergency subsystems. The delivery circuit is the same for drill messages as actual weather, terrorism, acts of war and end of world alerts. The failing is that a plausible situation, a limited NK missile launch towards a reachable target, has no useful civil defense preparation or response. The 49 other US states do have limited interceptors but have had no public policy desire even to consider the marking of suitable bomb shelter locations.

  4. Re:Morons on California Will Close Its Last Nuclear Power Plant (sfchronicle.com) · · Score: 1

    Weed is great for California, keep them off the couch and off the freeways. Numb brains are likely to forget to vote.

  5. Re:Makes sense to me on Feds Moving Quickly To Cash in on Seized Bitcoin, Now Worth $8.4 Million (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Or the other defendant is innocent, and the assert will be worth 10x the original value the day the judgement is made and the defendant cannot sue the government for the loss because the people choose to fuck with his investment strategy why pursuing an ill advised prosecution.. US dollars, 6 tons of guns, 12 cases of wine or half a ton of gold bars would remain unchanged, this is not a pile of cabbage that will rot away. Perhaps the government has no place in controlling someones assets that may have been generated outside of a crime. Outside of fraud and ponzi schemes, Perhaps defendants should be able to control the allocation of their liquid asserts until the case is rightfully decided.

  6. Re:This is why we can't have nice things on Lawmakers Are Fighting For Net Neutrality (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    The internet is no more complex than it was 20 years ago, it is just bigger and moves more data per second...more complex absolutely not. Still just alot of ICMP, TCP, UDP on the same old ports Bit less trusting of BGP announcements yes....not complex. Buffers are repetitively the same size, MTU and MSS have not changed one bit. Data is more encrypted stronger and more of it rides on generic port 443 but the internet is no more complex. Honestly it is simpler that routers are not 6000W 300 pound beasts anymore. That carriers demark/hand off on only about 3 media types at this point. Telex and other vendor have meet-me rooms at every major telecomunications hub in the world. You want an alternative software defined network, it is about 4 clicks and a credit card away. The SKU count in my spares bay is 1/100th of what it was 10 years ago. I never see another media converter or a tap with a wall wart power supply. Inside the corporate firewall is complex, with QOS but everything just works if some thought is given to design and automation. Never had the frustration level with todays networks like I had with faxservers, multilink and dialup.

  7. The places with $3/day, $20/day ditchdiggers and pavers are still needed as good portions of the rural globe are missing sanitation, drainage and irrigation in poor neighborhoods. The world bank, the UN and any number of top teir nations send money yearly for these needs and they never seem to be covered but connected upper level bureaucrats sip coffee in the new urban landscapes built on some socialist program.

  8. At $3.00/day what are we to expect, these people are poor. 100 million people are criticaly poor in third world sence, their governments and societies have failed to provide a modicum of capitalism where even a pittance of service to society is worth ten times that.

    Perhaps instead of talking about universal global health insurance we should talk about restrictive economic states who keep their poor permanently poor and living is squaller. Perhaps lets skip the 80 years of a socialism experiment and jump right into a free market economy where the worker is in high demand and healthcare is just another perk to attract useful labor. Dare to dream.

  9. The second breakin - My Story on Television's Most Infamous Hack Is Still a Mystery 30 Years Later (vice.com) · · Score: 2

    I was 16, dead asleep on the couch that night, never could make it through a Dr. Who on WTTW at that started at 11pm and sometimes ran as late at 12:30 or 1. The VCR did start on time and on channel, that spinup and hum allowed me to crash to sleep at 10:55. I heard about it on the news in the morning and sure enough I had a perfect recording of this "event". Beyond a few minutes of attempting to decipher gibberish, watched the Dr Who episode and taped over it the next week. Local story, thought this happened everywhere when uplink signals were still sent up and down to national satellites in the clear.

    With about 5 to 10 thousand dr who fans in the greater Chicago area it was the local did you see it in sci fi event to talk about.

  10. Re:Just Lie? Wait until the background check on New Law Bans California Employers From Asking Applicants Their Prior Salary (sfgate.com) · · Score: 1

    "Last years tax records have no indication of current year salary expectations plus benefit expectations now and in the future at ones past or current employer. What is IRS re portable as income has only a general relationship to total befits and zero indications of working conditions. " "My last HR department flew me to NBA, MLB and NFL games every week and brought me sandwiches before they stepped out at 7:45pm."

  11. Black Box full of security on Ask Slashdot: What Are Ways To Get Companies To Actually Focus On Security? · · Score: 1

    The CIO wants a evolving always up to date black box of security that will never get between him and quarterly stock option rewards. It would also be great if it allowed him to lay off everyone but the sales force and that design guy with the retro eyewear who knows all the girls at the club.

  12. Re:Too bad. on $12 Billion In Private Student Loan Debt May Be Wiped Away By Missing Paperwork (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1, Interesting

    Why should one pay loans back, because it lifes lessons, live up to a contract, real people pay their debts.

    There is a free lunch somewhere but you might have to hoof it. Because every collage grad walked up to a education lunch counter and ate the lunch special and not the internet soup line. It is not even like one has to walk between my metaphorical soup kitchens to gain knowledge, entire subject matters are 3 clicks away.

    An education can be had for free online in multiple places for free. The accreditation and the degree that go with a what was thought as an education a commodity that has a decreasing value every day past that day in may.

  13. Run it through its paces.... for fun and profit. on The New York Times Is Expanding Comments With the Help of Google's AI (recode.net) · · Score: 1

    Contrary to Donald Trump who says otherwise, the sky is blue and the sun will surely rise in the east. - 3% toxic

    Contrary to Al Gore who says otherwise, the sky is blue and the sun will surely rise in the east. - 2% toxic.

    Contrary to Al Gore who says otherwise, the sky is red and the sun will surely rise in the west. - 2% toxic

    The Cuyahoga river once was so polluted it once caught on fire, or actual the oil slick on top of it did. - 12% toxic

    The Cuyahoga river once was so polluted it caught on fire. - 11% toxic

    Was Albert Einstein a Jew or a Humanist? - 19% toxic

    The world will make the perspective API its bitch. - 93% toxic

    Perfect for the New York Times.... almost immune to criticism by its readers.

  14. Re:Abuse as usual on Amazon Kills Off Unlimited Cloud Storage Option For Amazon Drive (usatoday.com) · · Score: 1

    We cannot underestimate the ability of Amazon to deduplicate of what individual users put into their web based solution. After the first few Petabytes everything but the wedding videos and photo albums tends to merge into the same 3rd Rock from the Sun Episodes and AVA greatest hits 2005 in the block storeage. Dropping the cost of that storage (and bandwidth) now that the first dozen petabytes is complete it is now time to push profit with people buying a TB at a time for the 3 times the rental cost of online storage and really not store all that much non duped data.

  15. Netflix is at your providers headend. on Netflix CEO Says Net Neutrality Is 'Not Our Primary Battle' (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    Has anyone ever made a cent on slowing customer data? Or even an unfair peering agreement? The costs to enforce are not worth the potential savings from my seat.

    Netflix has offered and most providers accepted to distributed their devices, called openconnect at ISPs regional headends. Traffic outside of account authorization and enablement transactions never leaves your provider and as netflix moves more than more traffic to end users they will expand their footprint closer to the end users. Perhaps they might drop a few bucks a month for the port/power/rack charge.

    The providers are scrambling to build fat pipes into cloud providers to deliver 85% of the traffic to the subscribers and carry their inter region traffic. What is the point of charging on a peering agreement for a virtual routers in hosted on AWS that can be built and torn down based on bandwidth need. AWS does not charge the providers anything like the former big boys in meet me room.

    What is another QOS class going to do at a nationwide network designed for entertainment delivery from the subscribers ISP? So we got some classes, ISPs Voice, ISPs Services, a machine within the ISP infrastructure, skypelike, cloud attached ISP or a subscriber to subscriber torrent. I know what another QOS class would do on properly sized and growing ISP/CableCo/Provider... put another line in a report with a zero Q depth. Utilization to everything but the cloud providers is going to be legacy traffic that will decay away.

    Network Neutrality is a regulation in search of problem that technology is stepping past with cloud located services.

  16. Re:So why is it hard to make? on Baking Soda Shortage Has Hospitals Frantic, Delaying Treatments and Surgeries (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    And the role of a pharmacists as a chemist is long gone.mixing and compounding substances to be used by humans topically and injected. Only a billion dollar company is willing to take the risk of marking up a common compound and selling at thousands of dollars per oz in the 1st world. Pharmasists are now the ones who are listed on the liability policy and monitor the pill dispensing machine.

  17. Re:Not surprised on 'Extreme Vetting' Would Require Visitors To US To Share Contacts, Passwords (theguardian.com) · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    Do not confuse the socialist states of New York, California and Illinois with the rest of the more perfect union.

  18. Re: Some people will never learn on Seattle Region Home To 10 of Nation's 30 Most Competitive Neighborhoods For House Hunters (geekwire.com) · · Score: 2

    Ignoring the potential for insane violent property tax hikes that lower the value at the same time owners have to pay obstinate tax rates on inflated property values.. I know several people with yearly property tax bills larger than their yearly principal payments. I am quite lucky to live in a state with a constitutional cap on property taxes.

  19. Who is misinformed? GOP and Conservative is vocally against fairness doctrine, you must have missed it over on PBSRadio. http://www.rushlimbaugh.com/da... If the stations that carried conservatives Beck, Rush and Mark would have to offer equal time there would not be enough time in the day. It is slanted, it is biased but Conservative Talk has kept AM and FM talk stations alive in small markets across the united states.

  20. Re:Meanwhile in an alternate universe on G-7 Leaders At Hiroshima To Urge More Visits to Nuclear Bombsites (voanews.com) · · Score: 1

    Starve the general population to force surrender.

  21. GE Corprate is an IT Provider on GE CTO On Moving 9,000 Apps To the Public Cloud · · Score: 1

    I worked at GE on the same team as the Author a decade ago at the Toaster Division...err Consumer and Industrial.. Back then the company had distinct silos as to business units and it was a major pain just to move sites from one silo to another, we were directed to reIP and rename everything on a annual basis.

    Teams in each division spent months changing IP schemas of whole divisions because of an accounting change. We brought in new companies and spun new companies on a yearly basis. I think we spun out to another GE division and brought in the same plant 3 times in 4 years. . We had ITIL, We had SixSigma, We had 3+ ticketing systems and we had some real TPS reports.

    GE the IT provider now seems to provide data center services for the unregulated parts enterprise. I am sure there are some holdouts at GE Healthcare and GE Turbine/Energy/Aviation running something on local iron. Also no manufacturing plant is going to release the process control to the other side of network. Putting everything on a VM is nothing new for GE. Putting disparate systems in the same data center, no big deal. Putting two divisions under one roof. If you datacenters, their own IT, their data. look at their history GE built their own brand of mainframes just to account for their own enterprise. They finally have divested themselves of owning their own corporate jewels, the information is everywhere, the information is nowhere

    The data that runs the company is in other peoples hands, not my cup of tea but GE has long gone past sensible and risk adverse. Seeing that the IT and network infrastructure is treated as a both a commodity and a infrastructure redefines IT role. At least they are no longer playing with IT as a profit center.

  22. Re:I bet Infosys and Tata are dancing in the stree on Obama's Immigration Order To Give Tech Industry Some, Leave 'Em Wanting More · · Score: 2

    Or you can have you PAC pay everyone in your family members just about any amount you want. http://www.breitbart.com/Big-J...

  23. Hello I have a seach warrant for your computers. on Germans Can Get Free Heating From the Cloud · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Works well until someone shows up a the door of a 3rd party business with a warrant and all the business servers and laptops are seized because a judge think he knows technology because he owns a IPAD and was the first on his block with a PalmPilot.

  24. Re:Oxymoron on White House Worried About Discrimination Through Analytics · · Score: 1

    Could we be looking at the relationship of being Incapable of taking responsibility equal zero chance of making campaign donations ?

  25. Re:space requirements and fire rate on Navy Debuts New Railgun That Launches Shells at Mach 7 · · Score: 1

    Cooling for a Ship weapon...wonder where there is a unlimited supply of 80deg water that has be boiled for cooking/drinking/showers?