I like your signature line, I propose we be civil to each other
I don't like that the US is so heavily dependent on foreign trade but that is the mess we are in right now. I agree we must act.
My company manages software for a number of major retailers that I'm sure you and most everyone else shops at all the time. We manage all their product data and purchase order systems. Most of our customers are healthcare, hardware, crafts, sporting goods retailers and transportation parts. I'm not fear mongering, I am saying that this is something I deal with on a daily basis. This is not a hobby for me or something I'm guessing at at a high or philosophical level - its my career.
I know the country of origin for the products these companies sell and how many purchase orders are being written. It's staggering.
We need to cautiously ramp down slowly. Terriffs are one way to accomplish that goal, but it is surely going to have unintended consequences. These terriffs are going to be a consumption tax until domestic sources kick in. With a tight labor market that's going to take time if it happens at all. That in conjunction with all the current policy changes are all inflationary.
But shutting off the Internet to China? It would be like blowing off your head to stop the migraine headache.
I propose we Teach Peace to China. It's Cheaper Than War.
The supply chain for much of the products we all buy in the US depends on Internet connectivity to China. I'm starting to realize that few people truly understand how much the US and China depend on each other. We have created a complex financial ecosystem that depends on the Internet.
All the purchase orders for the billions of things we buy and depend upon could not be processed. Store shelves would be empty and hyperinflation would take root due to the scarcity of supply of pretty much everything.
What's good for the gander is good for the goose. The hypocrisy about using personal technology for government business has reached new levels.
Honestly though, President Trump likely uses the iPhone for his tweets which are intended to be public anyway. If some government want to commit an act of war to get their tweets the hard way, I can only shake my head.
End of the line for ever more powerful digital computing is coming fast. Better be prepared.
While Moore's law is definitely in big trouble, the spirit of what it hoped to offer may not be. The cost of chips continues to come down. The power consumption continues to come down. While the transistor density may no longer be increasing as fast, they continue to increase CPU core counts on larger dies.
CPU chips for most real world applications haven't been the bottleneck for a while. Solid state non volatile storage continues to advance and this is the primary remedy for most application slowness.
Machine learning technology may be the future of what people want for ultra powerful low cost computers. Architectural advances can offer vastly more bang for the buck than raw transistor count. Not only to graphic chip architectures offer this but extensions to Intel machine instructions like AVX have a more dramatic impact than the tick/tock of Moore's Law
IMHO the death of Moore's Law != the death of more powerful computing.
We use commas to separate thousands, so for this American: "101,325 pascals (Pa)"
However for most non-scientific Americans this is also wrong.
Its 29.921252402 inches of mercury.
In the US they have been just sending small parcels straight through without taxes, duties or paperwork. Except for drug smuggling, it has been a tremendous boon for everyone. The drug smuggling issue is being addressed with dogs and technology,but its taking time to get it right.
The middlemen are benefiting from the current loose arrangement. The increased cost will choke off demand and then supply and then innovation and competition.
We/. types benefit greatly by being able to buy arduino clones and electronic stuff like that on eBay and getting it at an affordable cost. Most of us will just stop playing with that kind of thing when the cost goes through the roof if its even available at any cost. This will have a lot of unintended consequences.
During the debate, the president said he was going to add 28 million more jobs. I was confused, because we didn't have 28 million people out of work (unless the unemployment figures are rigged). Add on top of that a rejection of immigrants so it will take generations to expand the labor force. Now I read in the news that there are substantially more job openings than applicants.
Who is going to make our stuff if we can't make it here or import it at a reasonable cost? Mythical robots and AI?
While its true that both country's are building coal plants, they are building even more renewable capacity and backpedaling on further reliance on fossil fuels.
>It doesn't matter what the USA does, mathematically insignificant to global carbon load.
Unfortunately, the US contribution to global carbon load is not insignificant: http://www.globalcarbonatlas.o...
>You don't understand basic math. Your contribution is nothing.
My contribution is non-zero - it is you that don't understand math.
>Your electricity is coming from nuclear plants and coal & oil fired power plants. You've fallen victim to a scam that generates negligible amounts of power but puts money in middle men's pockets.
In 2017, more than 10% of power generation in the US was renewable (https://news.nationalgeographic.com/2017/06/solar-wind-renewable-energy-record/). Even with their problems, RECs are “one of the simplest and most direct ways to support renewable technologies,” says Jeff Deyette, a senior analyst with the Union of Concerned Scientists.
>Tesla is circling the drain and Musk is losing his mind, he has no viable plan to make cars profitably.
Numerous experts agree that Tesla vehicles are a feat of engineering and can be very profitable (https://www.thestreet.com/investing/tesla-model-3-is-already-really-profitable-14653241). Tesla stock has jumped 10% in the last week.
Think about this every time you see another Tesla on the road and remember we are also the kind of people who buy renewable energy.
I do want to thank you. You weak arguments give me the opportunity to make my unassailable case and hopefully make a difference however small.
Moving cropland toward the pole may not work very well because the soil up there may not be nearly as fertile and the temperature swings will be wild with short turbulent growing seasons...
Q) your electricity is still coming from exactly the same places it did before you "switched".
A) You are simply incorrect. The supply for me is Commonwealth Edison, but the generation dollars go to renewable generators. See https://www.green-e.org/long-r... for more information.
Q) no, do not invest in Tesla which makes overpriced toys for the well-to-do. wait until the major car makers make an electric car, because they can do it profitably and at a price most here can afford.
A) If you wait for cars from the mainstream manufacturers, it will be too late. Competition from Tesla is forcing them to act. Don't let the politicians beholden to the fossil fuel industry and Wall Street kill Tesla. If Tesla goes down, the car manufacturers will abandon electric cars. The survival of hundreds of millions of people may depend on transitioning to electric vehicles right now.
Q) and no, your small contribution means nothing, China and soon India will be the big carbon emitters and so it matters not what anyone in the USA does. China is under a very tight control, that's why it matters that we consider governments and not "per capita" bullshit
A) My contribution may be small, but it is not nothing. If enough people get their head out of their ass and do something we together can make a difference. Arguments that small individual contributions are meaningless are specious. You seem intelligent so you know better.
There is no reason not to try. The time for waiting is over. Do something now.
Let's not argue how serious the threat is - let's immediately do what we can to deal with it.
Go online and switch your electrical power supply to renewables. Its $20 a month extra for me and I drive an electric car.
Make your next car electric. Yes it costs more but its worth it. Buy a share of Tesla stock. Is it a good investment? Who knows but the ultimate goal of Tesla is too important to let fail because investors want to play games to make money.
We can all make our own small contribution easily and together its a big deal.
Common sense in machine learning is accomplished using a Gaussian distribution (bell curve). You can even do it in databases using standard deviation functions.
Maybe... Being old enough to witness and understand the invention of nearly all of our modern computing technology, I can tell you that when you are inventing something new you are concerned with getting it to work. Safety and security improvement often comes later (if at all).
Google already has a variety of censorship controls, and we can all agree that its a good thing.
Google suppresses sites known to host malware, child pornography, and probably lots of other stuff. This is good in my opinion.
The question is where do you draw the line? As an American, I don't feel I have the right to tell the Chinese, where they should draw their line. I would offer advice if asked, but nobody is asking me and its not any of my business.
If Google wants to expand its operations abroad, it has to obey the laws where they operate. If that bothers you, don't by Google stock and use DuckDuckGo.
Let's not forget the obvious geopolitical angle: The U.S. has positioned itself on a path contrary to the entire rest of the world by dropping renewables and doubling down on fossil fuels.
Government Policy != Human behavior in the US.
Maybe our pursuit of "ideal democracy" has yielded some shockingly poor choices leading to a government hostile to good climate common sense. Yep, we have the BoatyMcBoatFace of the "Environmental Protection Agency" world.
But that doesn't mean the the US citizens don't care. We are voting with their pocketbooks and making serious progress here addressing climate change - without being forced by an oppressive government.
I'm starting to see a lot of Teslas on the road.
You have to give the US credit for being the first country to introduce and buy a product that has a significant chance to change how we fuel transportation.
I do agree that industry and consumers alone cannot be the solution. Government must play a role instead of subsidizing the fossil fuel industry.
Q) Curious if your servers have a separate Ethernet port for the management processor?
A) Yes, all our HP and SuperMicro Servers have a separate management port that we do not use. We don't have that many to manage.
Thanks for the response. I'm looking for something specific to look for. I have Supermicro servers that I'm will to tear down and test. All I've heard so far is unsubstantiated theories.
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With less than a 2% usage rate for Linux on total desktops out there (quick google search), there is little doubt is was Windows.
For this to occur, there couldn't have been a firewall with content filtering, anti-virus, or likely even a patch management policy.
For gross network security management negligence like this, any operating system would likely have been compromised.
Jeesh - can't our government use a firewall with content filtering???
I like your signature line, I propose we be civil to each other
I don't like that the US is so heavily dependent on foreign trade but that is the mess we are in right now. I agree we must act.
My company manages software for a number of major retailers that I'm sure you and most everyone else shops at all the time. We manage all their product data and purchase order systems. Most of our customers are healthcare, hardware, crafts, sporting goods retailers and transportation parts. I'm not fear mongering, I am saying that this is something I deal with on a daily basis. This is not a hobby for me or something I'm guessing at at a high or philosophical level - its my career.
I know the country of origin for the products these companies sell and how many purchase orders are being written. It's staggering.
We need to cautiously ramp down slowly. Terriffs are one way to accomplish that goal, but it is surely going to have unintended consequences. These terriffs are going to be a consumption tax until domestic sources kick in. With a tight labor market that's going to take time if it happens at all. That in conjunction with all the current policy changes are all inflationary.
But shutting off the Internet to China? It would be like blowing off your head to stop the migraine headache.
I propose we Teach Peace to China. It's Cheaper Than War.
The supply chain for much of the products we all buy in the US depends on Internet connectivity to China. I'm starting to realize that few people truly understand how much the US and China depend on each other. We have created a complex financial ecosystem that depends on the Internet.
All the purchase orders for the billions of things we buy and depend upon could not be processed. Store shelves would be empty and hyperinflation would take root due to the scarcity of supply of pretty much everything.
What's good for the gander is good for the goose. The hypocrisy about using personal technology for government business has reached new levels.
Honestly though, President Trump likely uses the iPhone for his tweets which are intended to be public anyway. If some government want to commit an act of war to get their tweets the hard way, I can only shake my head.
End of the line for ever more powerful digital computing is coming fast. Better be prepared.
While Moore's law is definitely in big trouble, the spirit of what it hoped to offer may not be. The cost of chips continues to come down. The power consumption continues to come down. While the transistor density may no longer be increasing as fast, they continue to increase CPU core counts on larger dies.
CPU chips for most real world applications haven't been the bottleneck for a while. Solid state non volatile storage continues to advance and this is the primary remedy for most application slowness.
Machine learning technology may be the future of what people want for ultra powerful low cost computers. Architectural advances can offer vastly more bang for the buck than raw transistor count. Not only to graphic chip architectures offer this but extensions to Intel machine instructions like AVX have a more dramatic impact than the tick/tock of Moore's Law
IMHO the death of Moore's Law != the death of more powerful computing.
For Americans: "101.325 pascals (Pa)"
We use commas to separate thousands, so for this American: "101,325 pascals (Pa)"
However for most non-scientific Americans this is also wrong.
Its 29.921252402 inches of mercury.
In the US they have been just sending small parcels straight through without taxes, duties or paperwork. Except for drug smuggling, it has been a tremendous boon for everyone. The drug smuggling issue is being addressed with dogs and technology,but its taking time to get it right.
The middlemen are benefiting from the current loose arrangement. The increased cost will choke off demand and then supply and then innovation and competition.
We /. types benefit greatly by being able to buy arduino clones and electronic stuff like that on eBay and getting it at an affordable cost. Most of us will just stop playing with that kind of thing when the cost goes through the roof if its even available at any cost. This will have a lot of unintended consequences.
During the debate, the president said he was going to add 28 million more jobs. I was confused, because we didn't have 28 million people out of work (unless the unemployment figures are rigged). Add on top of that a rejection of immigrants so it will take generations to expand the labor force. Now I read in the news that there are substantially more job openings than applicants.
Who is going to make our stuff if we can't make it here or import it at a reasonable cost? Mythical robots and AI?
China is the world leader in renewable energy: https://futurism.com/china-new...
33% of India's current energy production is renewable or Hydro: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
While its true that both country's are building coal plants, they are building even more renewable capacity and backpedaling on further reliance on fossil fuels.
>It doesn't matter what the USA does, mathematically insignificant to global carbon load.
Unfortunately, the US contribution to global carbon load is not insignificant: http://www.globalcarbonatlas.o...
>You don't understand basic math. Your contribution is nothing.
My contribution is non-zero - it is you that don't understand math.
>Your electricity is coming from nuclear plants and coal & oil fired power plants. You've fallen victim to a scam that generates negligible amounts of power but puts money in middle men's pockets.
In 2017, more than 10% of power generation in the US was renewable (https://news.nationalgeographic.com/2017/06/solar-wind-renewable-energy-record/). Even with their problems, RECs are “one of the simplest and most direct ways to support renewable technologies,” says Jeff Deyette, a senior analyst with the Union of Concerned Scientists.
>Tesla is circling the drain and Musk is losing his mind, he has no viable plan to make cars profitably.
Numerous experts agree that Tesla vehicles are a feat of engineering and can be very profitable (https://www.thestreet.com/investing/tesla-model-3-is-already-really-profitable-14653241). Tesla stock has jumped 10% in the last week.
Think about this every time you see another Tesla on the road and remember we are also the kind of people who buy renewable energy.
I do want to thank you. You weak arguments give me the opportunity to make my unassailable case and hopefully make a difference however small.
Good to know. Maybe it will soon be time to move to Alaska :-)
Alaska is next up on our bucket list of places to visit for a week or two.
Not that I can recall :-)
This is all welcome good news and a case where I'm glad to be wrong. I like beer :-)
Moving cropland toward the pole may not work very well because the soil up there may not be nearly as fertile and the temperature swings will be wild with short turbulent growing seasons...
Q) your electricity is still coming from exactly the same places it did before you "switched".
A) You are simply incorrect. The supply for me is Commonwealth Edison, but the generation dollars go to renewable generators. See https://www.green-e.org/long-r... for more information.
Q) no, do not invest in Tesla which makes overpriced toys for the well-to-do. wait until the major car makers make an electric car, because they can do it profitably and at a price most here can afford.
A) If you wait for cars from the mainstream manufacturers, it will be too late. Competition from Tesla is forcing them to act. Don't let the politicians beholden to the fossil fuel industry and Wall Street kill Tesla. If Tesla goes down, the car manufacturers will abandon electric cars. The survival of hundreds of millions of people may depend on transitioning to electric vehicles right now.
Q) and no, your small contribution means nothing, China and soon India will be the big carbon emitters and so it matters not what anyone in the USA does. China is under a very tight control, that's why it matters that we consider governments and not "per capita" bullshit
A) My contribution may be small, but it is not nothing. If enough people get their head out of their ass and do something we together can make a difference. Arguments that small individual contributions are meaningless are specious. You seem intelligent so you know better.
There is no reason not to try. The time for waiting is over. Do something now.
Let's not argue how serious the threat is - let's immediately do what we can to deal with it.
Go online and switch your electrical power supply to renewables. Its $20 a month extra for me and I drive an electric car.
Make your next car electric. Yes it costs more but its worth it. Buy a share of Tesla stock. Is it a good investment? Who knows but the ultimate goal of Tesla is too important to let fail because investors want to play games to make money.
We can all make our own small contribution easily and together its a big deal.
Actually its much easier than you think.
Common sense in machine learning is accomplished using a Gaussian distribution (bell curve). You can even do it in databases using standard deviation functions.
You're in for a treat. We've had ours for 5-1/2 years and its been amazing.
Maybe... Being old enough to witness and understand the invention of nearly all of our modern computing technology, I can tell you that when you are inventing something new you are concerned with getting it to work. Safety and security improvement often comes later (if at all).
Google already has a variety of censorship controls, and we can all agree that its a good thing.
Google suppresses sites known to host malware, child pornography, and probably lots of other stuff. This is good in my opinion.
The question is where do you draw the line? As an American, I don't feel I have the right to tell the Chinese, where they should draw their line. I would offer advice if asked, but nobody is asking me and its not any of my business.
If Google wants to expand its operations abroad, it has to obey the laws where they operate. If that bothers you, don't by Google stock and use DuckDuckGo.
Let's not forget the obvious geopolitical angle: The U.S. has positioned itself on a path contrary to the entire rest of the world by dropping renewables and doubling down on fossil fuels.
Government Policy != Human behavior in the US.
Maybe our pursuit of "ideal democracy" has yielded some shockingly poor choices leading to a government hostile to good climate common sense. Yep, we have the BoatyMcBoatFace of the "Environmental Protection Agency" world.
But that doesn't mean the the US citizens don't care. We are voting with their pocketbooks and making serious progress here addressing climate change - without being forced by an oppressive government.
I'm starting to see a lot of Teslas on the road.
You have to give the US credit for being the first country to introduce and buy a product that has a significant chance to change how we fuel transportation.
I do agree that industry and consumers alone cannot be the solution. Government must play a role instead of subsidizing the fossil fuel industry.
Q) Curious if your servers have a separate Ethernet port for the management processor?
A) Yes, all our HP and SuperMicro Servers have a separate management port that we do not use. We don't have that many to manage.
Thanks for the response. I'm looking for something specific to look for. I have Supermicro servers that I'm will to tear down and test. All I've heard so far is unsubstantiated theories.