Oh, and don't tell me 'battery banks!' because unless someone comes up with a way of directly storing electric power that scales up very, very cheaply, it's not really a practical solution to have bank after bank after bank of Li+ (or whatever) batteries, which in way less than 20 years will have to be junked and replaced, too.
Meet the Aquion -- batteries made of manganese oxide, carbon and salt. Everything is cheap and easily mined.
Just wait another ~15 years until key patents expire.
The turbines are typically spaced 7 diameters apart, which for one of those 7kW turbines is 2900 feet. In a 441 acre square plot, you can fit nine turbines. Solar in a 441 acre plot generates a fuckload more power.
But only during the day.
I remember the first time this happened (probably about 10 years ago), I was working for a firm and they were embracing wikis and other such tools. My manager asked me to write down our trouble shooting steps in a wiki. See this line in the logs or these symptoms, and follow these steps. I kind of surprised myself how I reduced one of my great assets to something a person could follow steps on a wiki. Obviously if a new symptom showed up, not all the steps would be there. What I mean is that before there would be a problem and it would me to the rescue. Most people didn't even know where to start. Kudos to me! I realized, I just outlined the steps that most people could now follow.
Yeah, it's easy to automate part of my job. Look, it's very easy to type 'yum update' every few days, let's write it down on that fine wiki. Most people could do my work now, eh?
But once in a while shit hits the fan and suddenly openvz contaners aren't working anymore after simple update and is there anything on that wiki about handling the problem that never happened before?..
I personally only consider the first one a cure. Under the second definition you are still negatively impacted by the disease which is, to me, a perversion of the term cure. You may not be at risk of death or injury from the disease but your life is still negatively impacted by the disease by requiring you to upkeep treatment in order to avoid the death or injury.
I personally consider both as cure because I have incurable problem: asthma.
That "negative impact" is much better than no treatment at all. I have an asthma and always had since 1979. I was disabled person in USSR, because they had no real drugs to deal with asthma. Later, when USSR dissolved I was able to get some first-aid inhalers (like Berotek), but these did not work well, sometimes they stopped working and I had to call emergency (in 1995 that happened 3 times during the year) and doctors were unable do anything to stop asthma attack. Later in 1999 I learned about hormone-based inhalers and I use them for more than 15 years now.
Now look, in 2000 I was able to dance ballroom dances and do other sports after I got normal treatment. Yes, I have to use inhaler every day. So what? Do you see the difference between healthy life and vegetable-like life inside your room only (in 1995 I was unable to work because of smokers around bus stops, and no, there were no cars at that time). For me, it IS a REAL cure and I don't give a fuck if I have to use them every day, that's about 10 seconds of my life per day.
The classic example of "why does my radio need to talk to the engine?" is that feature in some cars where the volume automatically adjusts based on speed, so when you hit highway speeds you can still hear the music that was a comfortable volume at a stoplight.
So what? Don't talk to the engine, use microphone to pick up noise level and adjust accordingly.
To manufacturers, this is a problem. When phones are good enough that there's nothing substantially better to upgrade to, people tend not to buy new hardware. A way has to be found to force them to upgrade. Hence, the lack of SD cards (no way to put in a bigger one) and the lack of a replaceable battery.
It's not that simple. The problem is that market is saturated with lots of bad sd cards. SD card forgery is rampant. 2gb marked as 16gb is something way too common.
Now what happens when user insert lousy card? He complains that phone is slow or broken and blames the phone (and not himself for buying card for 1/4 of its real market price). And manufacturers see this as their biggest problem. No sd card slot, no problem.
A well programmed random number generator is going to be better than kind of "random drawing". The problem was the lack of oversight in having the code be submitted. Any code changes that would hurt the reputation of an organization this badly should require multiple sign offs by code reviewers.
Then add random from hardware truly random generator to random number from physical lottery and use the result. It's going to be very difficult to rig both systems (handled by different teams) to work together.
And while I *do* drive fewer than 150 miles most days, having to have another car (or rent one) the times I do want to go more than 150 miles would be a strike or two against an electric.
You need PHEV, not all-electric car. PHEV will use electricity for 40-50 miles 95% of time and gasoline engine will kick in if you need to travel more than your battery can store. THIS is the future of electric cars for nearest 20-30 years.
The counter to a vibrant and well-informed democracy is to throw so much information (or misinformation) out there that it becomes impossible for the rest of the participants to remain well informed. They burn out, and then it loses the whole vibrant part and you've lost.
The counter to information overflow is to develop distributed crypto-backed reputation system and filter out misinformation.
Running a full 'sandboxed' JVM in a browser needs to be taken out the back and shot and on this basis java is indeed probably very insecure, Oracle should of flagged this as a legacy setup disabed by default a very long time ago;
So, every iLO on HP servers out there must be now obsolete?
This is a primary reason why I2P (Invisible Internet Project) exists. Its much less centralized than Tor, mixes other peoples' traffic with yours by default, and over the years has typically used stronger encryption than Tor. Its just more private and secure overall.
Unfortunately it does not scale well. Some time ago Russian government created new censorship laws and popular book piracy site Flibusta responded with "trainig", turning off its regular website and leaving only Tor and I2P sites, to see how well it works. And suddently I2P was bogged down. It seems that I2P architecture wasn't designed to handle serious traffic and serious amount of users.
That's how Russia was devastated in 90x: austerity. IMF demanded to cut budget spending without caring about real situation, Eltsyn's government caved in and thus police and judges went for many, many years without adequate pay. Guess, who really rule in Russia now? The same people who HAD to exploit their position or just starve on their $10/month salary. Those who did not want to be corrupted HAD to leave law enforcement, court system and other most important positions in government -- or lean to take bribes and to extort money from population.
How can you provide complete secrecy of the voter's choice? Let's say I want to buy a vote. In the current system, the person I am paying disappears into a booth, and I actually have no idea how they voted.
BTW, physical presence system is easily gamed too: they intimidate you to vote for Edinaya Rossiya (ruling party in Russia) or loose the job (teachers, budget workers, government-owned companies, etc -- lots of people) and demand you to make a photo of your ballot with correct check mark. Guess what? 99% of people complied with that... the remaining 1% found some tricks like placing a short thread on empty square and the photo then mark another party. But these were minority.
Even physical voting security is hard, because they game it in many, many ways and it must be done via very strict procedure with free media watching that. Online voting is pure madness.
Similar problem with deniable encryption. [wikipedia.org] It sounds great, but if the bad guys think you've fooled them, they'll just keep beating you with the $5 wrench [xkcd.com] even after you've broken and given them the real password.
The purpose of deniable encryption is not to hide something from thugs with hot iron but from LEGAL authorities. In some jurisdictions you must give up your keys or face jail time, but if you give up some keys from deniable system they can't prove that you have something else on that encrypted drive and thus you avoid jail time, loss of the job, etc.
I don't understand this idiotic binary logic -- if it can't protect you from the torture than you should not do it at all. Deniable encryption has its place and alas, there is no sensible password manager with it:(
The only solution is to make it illegal to disengage the self-driving in non-accident situations and to have hefty fines for people gaming self-driving cars (perhaps by having obligatory dashcams on each of them).
Self-driving car already has excellent data from its radar and cameras. Just store accident data and report to police, immediately. People will learn FAST to avoid self-driving cars (and to hate 'em too).
The police (and other government agencies) WILL want some kind of kill switch or even "drive that criminal into the jail" feature and they WILL force manufacturers to implement it. In most stupid and 'secret' way. Now the trouble is that we see the pattern repeating during last decades: hackers are always ahead of technology and police. So they WILL get access to that 'feature' and then we'll see lots of kidnapping, robberies and other fun stuff. Just stop a victim in dark place and then send him the other way as far as possible. And no, you won't be able to press gas pedal and drive away from that mugger.
A few crimes of this kind on TV and the public will refuse any car with significant amount of intelligence.
How many people will regret their childish decision without any chances to switch career later, because they received "cafeteria only" education? And often parents force kids to take certain "family" career path, but kids can grow up and switch careers... if they have got generic education.
Yes, I agree that will eventually change, but it will likely be very slow. Many, many regulatory decisions have been made not based on the prevailing science of the time, but on what people were willing to accept.
Most probably it's going to be accepted incrementally, one by one, until we wake up with already self-driving car. Nobody (well, almost) complains about ABS now and nobody argues that ABS is much better for 99% of drivers (and remaining 1% is way too overconfident). It's just there.
The same is going to happen with automatic collision avoidance. With sign recognition. With lane following. One change at time.
Yes, jumping in front of those automated cars, with their cameras, facial recognition, GPS, and 8G connections. I'm sure it will be huge - there's no way those punks would be easily caught!
Unless cameras could see through the fabric of the hood/mask/disguise these punks are going to be safe from poice.
The code can be 100% reliable, and then a solar flare can be released which causes a surge in electromagnetic interference, leading to a random bit flip in memory, corrupting a portion of code meant to handle just that situation and then what?
And then another subsystem immediately detects memory checksum failure and brakes the car, broadcasting emergency braking signal to all cars around.
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He wasn't. He was appointed by Paul von Hindenburg
That the bean counters should never be in charge of making operational decisions?
Can you guarantee in writing that no bean counters will run EVERY fucking nuclear power station? Ever?!
Oh, and don't tell me 'battery banks!' because unless someone comes up with a way of directly storing electric power that scales up very, very cheaply, it's not really a practical solution to have bank after bank after bank of Li+ (or whatever) batteries, which in way less than 20 years will have to be junked and replaced, too.
Meet the Aquion -- batteries made of manganese oxide, carbon and salt. Everything is cheap and easily mined.
Just wait another ~15 years until key patents expire.
The turbines are typically spaced 7 diameters apart, which for one of those 7kW turbines is 2900 feet. In a 441 acre square plot, you can fit nine turbines. Solar in a 441 acre plot generates a fuckload more power. But only during the day.
What constitutes sufficiently strong security practices?
This is the main question. What if government mandates certain antivirus program on every computer and who cares if you run linux?
I remember the first time this happened (probably about 10 years ago), I was working for a firm and they were embracing wikis and other such tools. My manager asked me to write down our trouble shooting steps in a wiki. See this line in the logs or these symptoms, and follow these steps. I kind of surprised myself how I reduced one of my great assets to something a person could follow steps on a wiki. Obviously if a new symptom showed up, not all the steps would be there. What I mean is that before there would be a problem and it would me to the rescue. Most people didn't even know where to start. Kudos to me! I realized, I just outlined the steps that most people could now follow.
Yeah, it's easy to automate part of my job. Look, it's very easy to type 'yum update' every few days, let's write it down on that fine wiki. Most people could do my work now, eh?
But once in a while shit hits the fan and suddenly openvz contaners aren't working anymore after simple update and is there anything on that wiki about handling the problem that never happened before?..
I personally only consider the first one a cure. Under the second definition you are still negatively impacted by the disease which is, to me, a perversion of the term cure. You may not be at risk of death or injury from the disease but your life is still negatively impacted by the disease by requiring you to upkeep treatment in order to avoid the death or injury.
I personally consider both as cure because I have incurable problem: asthma.
That "negative impact" is much better than no treatment at all. I have an asthma and always had since 1979. I was disabled person in USSR, because they had no real drugs to deal with asthma. Later, when USSR dissolved I was able to get some first-aid inhalers (like Berotek), but these did not work well, sometimes they stopped working and I had to call emergency (in 1995 that happened 3 times during the year) and doctors were unable do anything to stop asthma attack. Later in 1999 I learned about hormone-based inhalers and I use them for more than 15 years now.
Now look, in 2000 I was able to dance ballroom dances and do other sports after I got normal treatment. Yes, I have to use inhaler every day. So what? Do you see the difference between healthy life and vegetable-like life inside your room only (in 1995 I was unable to work because of smokers around bus stops, and no, there were no cars at that time). For me, it IS a REAL cure and I don't give a fuck if I have to use them every day, that's about 10 seconds of my life per day.
The classic example of "why does my radio need to talk to the engine?" is that feature in some cars where the volume automatically adjusts based on speed, so when you hit highway speeds you can still hear the music that was a comfortable volume at a stoplight. So what? Don't talk to the engine, use microphone to pick up noise level and adjust accordingly.
To manufacturers, this is a problem. When phones are good enough that there's nothing substantially better to upgrade to, people tend not to buy new hardware. A way has to be found to force them to upgrade. Hence, the lack of SD cards (no way to put in a bigger one) and the lack of a replaceable battery.
It's not that simple. The problem is that market is saturated with lots of bad sd cards. SD card forgery is rampant. 2gb marked as 16gb is something way too common.
Now what happens when user insert lousy card? He complains that phone is slow or broken and blames the phone (and not himself for buying card for 1/4 of its real market price). And manufacturers see this as their biggest problem. No sd card slot, no problem.
A well programmed random number generator is going to be better than kind of "random drawing". The problem was the lack of oversight in having the code be submitted. Any code changes that would hurt the reputation of an organization this badly should require multiple sign offs by code reviewers.
Then add random from hardware truly random generator to random number from physical lottery and use the result. It's going to be very difficult to rig both systems (handled by different teams) to work together.
And while I *do* drive fewer than 150 miles most days, having to have another car (or rent one) the times I do want to go more than 150 miles would be a strike or two against an electric.
You need PHEV, not all-electric car. PHEV will use electricity for 40-50 miles 95% of time and gasoline engine will kick in if you need to travel more than your battery can store. THIS is the future of electric cars for nearest 20-30 years.
The counter to a vibrant and well-informed democracy is to throw so much information (or misinformation) out there that it becomes impossible for the rest of the participants to remain well informed. They burn out, and then it loses the whole vibrant part and you've lost.
The counter to information overflow is to develop distributed crypto-backed reputation system and filter out misinformation.
Is it just a clone of Ergodox in fancy wooden box and slightly different PCB?
Running a full 'sandboxed' JVM in a browser needs to be taken out the back and shot and on this basis java is indeed probably very insecure, Oracle should of flagged this as a legacy setup disabed by default a very long time ago;
So, every iLO on HP servers out there must be now obsolete?
This is a primary reason why I2P (Invisible Internet Project) exists. Its much less centralized than Tor, mixes other peoples' traffic with yours by default, and over the years has typically used stronger encryption than Tor. Its just more private and secure overall.
Unfortunately it does not scale well. Some time ago Russian government created new censorship laws and popular book piracy site Flibusta responded with "trainig", turning off its regular website and leaving only Tor and I2P sites, to see how well it works. And suddently I2P was bogged down. It seems that I2P architecture wasn't designed to handle serious traffic and serious amount of users.
That's how Russia was devastated in 90x: austerity. IMF demanded to cut budget spending without caring about real situation, Eltsyn's government caved in and thus police and judges went for many, many years without adequate pay. Guess, who really rule in Russia now? The same people who HAD to exploit their position or just starve on their $10/month salary. Those who did not want to be corrupted HAD to leave law enforcement, court system and other most important positions in government -- or lean to take bribes and to extort money from population.
How can you provide complete secrecy of the voter's choice? Let's say I want to buy a vote. In the current system, the person I am paying disappears into a booth, and I actually have no idea how they voted.
BTW, physical presence system is easily gamed too: they intimidate you to vote for Edinaya Rossiya (ruling party in Russia) or loose the job (teachers, budget workers, government-owned companies, etc -- lots of people) and demand you to make a photo of your ballot with correct check mark. Guess what? 99% of people complied with that... the remaining 1% found some tricks like placing a short thread on empty square and the photo then mark another party. But these were minority.
Even physical voting security is hard, because they game it in many, many ways and it must be done via very strict procedure with free media watching that. Online voting is pure madness.
Similar problem with deniable encryption. [wikipedia.org] It sounds great, but if the bad guys think you've fooled them, they'll just keep beating you with the $5 wrench [xkcd.com] even after you've broken and given them the real password.
The purpose of deniable encryption is not to hide something from thugs with hot iron but from LEGAL authorities. In some jurisdictions you must give up your keys or face jail time, but if you give up some keys from deniable system they can't prove that you have something else on that encrypted drive and thus you avoid jail time, loss of the job, etc.
I don't understand this idiotic binary logic -- if it can't protect you from the torture than you should not do it at all. Deniable encryption has its place and alas, there is no sensible password manager with it :(
Screw the adverts, where is my brain-wave keyboard to type faster than I touch-type on qwerty?
The only solution is to make it illegal to disengage the self-driving in non-accident situations and to have hefty fines for people gaming self-driving cars (perhaps by having obligatory dashcams on each of them).
Self-driving car already has excellent data from its radar and cameras. Just store accident data and report to police, immediately. People will learn FAST to avoid self-driving cars (and to hate 'em too).
The police (and other government agencies) WILL want some kind of kill switch or even "drive that criminal into the jail" feature and they WILL force manufacturers to implement it. In most stupid and 'secret' way. Now the trouble is that we see the pattern repeating during last decades: hackers are always ahead of technology and police. So they WILL get access to that 'feature' and then we'll see lots of kidnapping, robberies and other fun stuff. Just stop a victim in dark place and then send him the other way as far as possible. And no, you won't be able to press gas pedal and drive away from that mugger.
A few crimes of this kind on TV and the public will refuse any car with significant amount of intelligence.
How many people will regret their childish decision without any chances to switch career later, because they received "cafeteria only" education? And often parents force kids to take certain "family" career path, but kids can grow up and switch careers... if they have got generic education.
Yes, I agree that will eventually change, but it will likely be very slow. Many, many regulatory decisions have been made not based on the prevailing science of the time, but on what people were willing to accept.
Most probably it's going to be accepted incrementally, one by one, until we wake up with already self-driving car. Nobody (well, almost) complains about ABS now and nobody argues that ABS is much better for 99% of drivers (and remaining 1% is way too overconfident). It's just there.
The same is going to happen with automatic collision avoidance. With sign recognition. With lane following. One change at time.
Yes, jumping in front of those automated cars, with their cameras, facial recognition, GPS, and 8G connections. I'm sure it will be huge - there's no way those punks would be easily caught!
Unless cameras could see through the fabric of the hood/mask/disguise these punks are going to be safe from poice.
The code can be 100% reliable, and then a solar flare can be released which causes a surge in electromagnetic interference, leading to a random bit flip in memory, corrupting a portion of code meant to handle just that situation and then what?
And then another subsystem immediately detects memory checksum failure and brakes the car, broadcasting emergency braking signal to all cars around.