you: "I would have loved to see a Sanders-Trump debate, but it would have been a much closer election than the one we have now."
me: "At this point it's all speculation, and the election is a lot closer than many predicted right after the primaries. The impact of Trump's October surprise is diminishing, and I suspect election day will show a closer election than current thinking."
you: "Bernie is like Trump; he caused a lot of non-voters to show up at rallies, and did well in the primary, but didn't really have much support."
No, it's not; that's pretty much a fixed one-time cost for most of what you are talking about, and the rest can be amortized over time into the cost of the vehicles.
A cost is a cost, including maintenance which is not "one-time", and neither is rent or taxes on the property if they bought it outright. They even have employees at some stations. It's not "free", and while Tesla could absorb the cost and spread it out over the cost of their vehicles, what's so bad about people actually paying for what they use?
having sufficient generating capacity to handle net output exceeding net demand, including rain days
Which really depends on just how much energy that can generate with solar at their stations versus how much they use. My understanding, after a brief search, is that solar isn't a very big component of the stations, and there's probably an economic reason for that.
I'm talking about for-profit companies, not foundations.
Jesus.
You made no such distinction in your comment, and neither did the AC who started this who insisted we needed to start paying for software. In a world with open source software to cover practically every basic need in computing, your statement on its face was dumb. That's your fault for using terms like "100%" and not considering the obvious counter-examples.
You also haven't considered the "freemium" model, where the base package is given away for free and premiums are sold on top of it.
So, what is the solution to the problems UBI is supposed to cure? Most probably the answer is WAR. Currently, nobody dares to comprehend this possibility.
THE solution is murder and destruction on a wide scale? That's fucking dumb,
First of all, if you look at the current situation, there's enough stuff to go around. Automating and increasing production means there is even more stuff to go around. So you don't need to violently murder a large number of people because you lack the imagination to come up with a better plan. Even maintaining the status quo and seeing how things shake out is a better plan.
At best UBI will create a society similar to the one in Atlas Shrugged. I do not like to live in such society.
Uh huh. So you'd rather live in one dominated by 1984-style unnecessary wars.
It's not free to buy, install, and maintain the solar cells and the charging station around it. It's not free when it hasn't been raining all week and the system needs to rely on grid power.
And for the libertard crowd who shout "Freeze Peach!"?
Oh look, you're using "hate speech" and disparaging two groups of people, those who value liberty and the mentally disabled by using a word derivative of "retard". Please report yourself to the nearest education center.
You're free to create your own Facebook clone. What right do you have to force your idea of perfect user policies on Facebook, according to your own philosophy?
Yes, legally, at least in the United States, Facebook can set their own policies. Most people who advocate for free speech aren't trying to legally force Facebook to do anything. They're, gasp, using their free speech to argue against Facebook's politically biased policies.
Facebook would like to pretend they aren't politically biased and support free speech, because it's a good marketing tool and they don't want to limit their audience to just the left. They should be called out on their bullshit.
Say what you want about Slashdot, but it's always been great about free speech, and I really appreciate that.
With your country being nr. 41 on the list of press freedom I'd say you can't really claim to be that free...
Funny that many of the countries where press freedom is ranked higher than the US have stricter laws about things like "hate speech". I'll take the United States protection of free speech over any of those countries.
And your link confirms that they were misusing data, so my opinion on that, which is all I was commenting on, hasn't changed:
"But Graham points out that the real story here is how companies are sharing all sorts of information with security researchers under the belief that it will only be used for malware research... and not for spying on what server is connecting to what server"
It was more than just association, it was also favors and donations. You very rarely find refrigerators full of money or an explicit quid-pro-quo. That's why the Clintons aren't in jail.
Be honest with yourself when doing this: Place a 4k monitor and a 1080p monitor side by side with lots of text showing.
I don't have a 4k monitor lying around, so this isn't going to happen. I've seen them in the stores and have not been gobsmacked.
Your 1080p monitor is far superior to the 13 inch television (CRT, not LCD) that I had to use a monitor way back when, but if asked, I would have said that the 13 television works... just as you are saying your 1080p monitor works.
Aliasing was very obvious in the older monitors, as was some screen blurring. They "worked", but I looked forward to bigger monitors with higher resolution.
Give up your absurd 1080p monitor, get a 4k monitor
I'll get one when this monitor dies, which could be several years. Who knows, maybe it'll be 8k by then.
Of course you won't, because you said you would and instead got modded up. Cheap trick.
but yes: Barack Hussein Obama
Magnitudes cleaner than the Clintons or Trump, but he still got his nose dirty. Do you remember in his first presidential campaign his ties to Tony Rezko became an issue?
And he's still a politician and acts like one. Still a scoundrel, just not as rotten as some others have been.
I'd think they would chew up most of their CPU producing them, and run out of storage space rather quickly.
Data storage is ridiculously cheap these days, and appending to a log isn't going to be a significant CPU or I/O operation in comparison to just serving the request in the first place.
Also, pretty much every ISP (and many private entities) run their own caching DNS server.
The story says the ISPs give these guys access to their logs. This also wouldn't surprise me if it was done to help protect their network as part of a common cause.
I guess this whole story was a troll. I don't see how it ever got accepted.
The story is from a somewhat credible source. Slate generally doesn't spew fabrications. The reporter makes claims as to checking sources. It's still possible this is all bullshit and a ruse, but it feels authentic to me:
"(I communicated extensively with Tea Leaves and two of his closest collaborators, who also spoke with me on the condition of anonymity, since they work for firms trusted by corporations and law enforcement to analyze sensitive data. They persuasively demonstrated some of their analytical methods to me--and showed me two white papers, which they had circulated so that colleagues could check their analysis. I also spoke with academics who vouched for Tea Leaves' integrity and his unusual access to information. "This is someone I know well and is very well-known in the networking community," said Camp. "When they say something about DNS, you believe them. This person has technical authority and access to data.")"
I spent four months working on a non-HiDPI 27" display and was driven crazy. Now that I have a 4K 27" display, things are so much clearer.
Notice how I was talking about my desktop 23" display vs a 15" laptop, and you are using a 27" display. The bigger the display, the more resolution matters. So for me, 1080 is fine at 23". At 27" I might feel differently. At 15", I have a hard time feeling like this is going to be some kind of game changer when I'm not having problems at 23".
How the fuck did these guys get between the Trump server and the DNS server making the queries? (Yes, I RTFA.)
Then you should know, because the article tells you: "Some of the most trusted DNS specialists--an elite group of malware hunters, who work for private contractors--have access to nearly comprehensive logs of communication between servers. They work in close concert with internet service providers, the networks through which most of us connect to the internet, and the ones that are most vulnerable to massive attacks. To extend the traffic metaphor, these scientists have cameras posted on the internetâ(TM)s stoplights and overpasses. They are entrusted with something close to a complete record of all the servers of the world connecting with one another."
So basically they are a non-government version of the NSA with warrantless wiretapping powers, which they used to investigate communication between Trump and Russia without permission from the parties involved. Well, it's only "metadata", the kind of thing that Snowden revealed the NSA was collecting on a massive scale, so everything's fine!
There's a difference between discovering natural laws and engineering products that either do or do not work, versus trying to measure and model climate history, present, and future in a highly political environment.
In other words, success in one area of science (and engineering) does not guarantee success in another.
these comparisons miss the fact that the Retina display is sooo much better for the vast majority of things that most Linux users do with computers. Text-mode consoles and development are infinitely easier with high-dpi text; I've literally more than doubled the amount of time I can use a computer in a day without developing a headache by using higher-quality displays
I have zero problems with my 1080 display. The text looks fine and is not blurry. I do not get headaches and I'm on the computer pretty much all day. If I wanted to see an individual pixel, I'd have to get out a magnifying glass. And this is on a 23" desktop monitor, so the DPI has to be much lower compared to a 15" laptop at 1080.
I suspect most people are drooling over resolution numbers and not actual performance. That's not to say that you aren't helped by it, but my guess is you're in the minority, because I really don't hear about getting headaches as a common complaint from computer users.
I just answer the phone, then as soon as I determine it's a scam / telemarketer, put the receiver down and walk away. Takes them at least 15 seconds to realize nobody's responding, and minimal effort on my part.
Same here, at least back when I had a landline and these calls were rife. I used to string them out, but then I realized I didn't want to waste my time wasting there's.
Nowadays I don't answer my phone unless I recognize the number. If they legitimately need to talk to me they can leave a message.
Bernie really seemed to struggle with taking a centrist position. At some point in a primary race, the frontrunner needs to start to appear more moderate and gain mainstream supporters.
We don't know how Bernie would have changed, because he was running in the primary to appeal to his base. Bernie's biggest problem, besides super-delegates and the DNC being against him, was that young people are notoriously bad at actually going out to vote.
On the other hand, instead of having two obviously corrupt and disliked candidates, Bernie at least would have been the anti-corruption vote.
I would have loved to see a Sanders-Trump debate, but it would have been a much closer election than the one we have now.
At this point it's all speculation, and the election is a lot closer than many predicted right after the primaries. The impact of Trump's October surprise is diminishing, and I suspect election day will show a closer election than current thinking.
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In reality, like all the other celebrity crybabies who said they'd move to Canada if Trump wins, you'll stay in the US.
*cough*
you: "I would have loved to see a Sanders-Trump debate, but it would have been a much closer election than the one we have now."
me: "At this point it's all speculation, and the election is a lot closer than many predicted right after the primaries. The impact of Trump's October surprise is diminishing, and I suspect election day will show a closer election than current thinking."
you: "Bernie is like Trump; he caused a lot of non-voters to show up at rallies, and did well in the primary, but didn't really have much support."
No, it's not; that's pretty much a fixed one-time cost for most of what you are talking about, and the rest can be amortized over time into the cost of the vehicles.
A cost is a cost, including maintenance which is not "one-time", and neither is rent or taxes on the property if they bought it outright. They even have employees at some stations. It's not "free", and while Tesla could absorb the cost and spread it out over the cost of their vehicles, what's so bad about people actually paying for what they use?
having sufficient generating capacity to handle net output exceeding net demand, including rain days
Which really depends on just how much energy that can generate with solar at their stations versus how much they use. My understanding, after a brief search, is that solar isn't a very big component of the stations, and there's probably an economic reason for that.
I'm talking about for-profit companies, not foundations.
Jesus.
You made no such distinction in your comment, and neither did the AC who started this who insisted we needed to start paying for software. In a world with open source software to cover practically every basic need in computing, your statement on its face was dumb. That's your fault for using terms like "100%" and not considering the obvious counter-examples.
You also haven't considered the "freemium" model, where the base package is given away for free and premiums are sold on top of it.
No guarantee, but it lowers the chances from 100%. If you're getting something for free, YOU are the commodity.
So where's your evidence that Debian is selling out its users?
So, what is the solution to the problems UBI is supposed to cure? Most probably the answer is WAR. Currently, nobody dares to comprehend this possibility.
THE solution is murder and destruction on a wide scale? That's fucking dumb,
First of all, if you look at the current situation, there's enough stuff to go around. Automating and increasing production means there is even more stuff to go around. So you don't need to violently murder a large number of people because you lack the imagination to come up with a better plan. Even maintaining the status quo and seeing how things shake out is a better plan.
At best UBI will create a society similar to the one in Atlas Shrugged. I do not like to live in such society.
Uh huh. So you'd rather live in one dominated by 1984-style unnecessary wars.
It's not free to buy, install, and maintain the solar cells and the charging station around it. It's not free when it hasn't been raining all week and the system needs to rely on grid power.
Then what was the reason for us NOT executing Emperor Hirohito?
Probably because Japan unconditionally surrendered and he was useful as a puppet for propaganda reasons.
And for the libertard crowd who shout "Freeze Peach!"?
Oh look, you're using "hate speech" and disparaging two groups of people, those who value liberty and the mentally disabled by using a word derivative of "retard". Please report yourself to the nearest education center.
You're free to create your own Facebook clone. What right do you have to force your idea of perfect user policies on Facebook, according to your own philosophy?
Yes, legally, at least in the United States, Facebook can set their own policies. Most people who advocate for free speech aren't trying to legally force Facebook to do anything. They're, gasp, using their free speech to argue against Facebook's politically biased policies.
Facebook would like to pretend they aren't politically biased and support free speech, because it's a good marketing tool and they don't want to limit their audience to just the left. They should be called out on their bullshit.
Say what you want about Slashdot, but it's always been great about free speech, and I really appreciate that.
With your country being nr. 41 on the list of press freedom I'd say you can't really claim to be that free...
Funny that many of the countries where press freedom is ranked higher than the US have stricter laws about things like "hate speech". I'll take the United States protection of free speech over any of those countries.
And your link confirms that they were misusing data, so my opinion on that, which is all I was commenting on, hasn't changed:
"But Graham points out that the real story here is how companies are sharing all sorts of information with security researchers under the belief that it will only be used for malware research... and not for spying on what server is connecting to what server"
Perhaps your opinion may now have been changed after this story was thoroughly debunked.
That the DNS data is innocuous? I never gave an opinion on that in either direction. That they had access to 3rd party logs? Is that debunked?
It was more than just association, it was also favors and donations. You very rarely find refrigerators full of money or an explicit quid-pro-quo. That's why the Clintons aren't in jail.
Be honest with yourself when doing this: Place a 4k monitor and a 1080p monitor side by side with lots of text showing.
I don't have a 4k monitor lying around, so this isn't going to happen. I've seen them in the stores and have not been gobsmacked.
Your 1080p monitor is far superior to the 13 inch television (CRT, not LCD) that I had to use a monitor way back when, but if asked, I would have said that the 13 television works... just as you are saying your 1080p monitor works.
Aliasing was very obvious in the older monitors, as was some screen blurring. They "worked", but I looked forward to bigger monitors with higher resolution.
Give up your absurd 1080p monitor, get a 4k monitor
I'll get one when this monitor dies, which could be several years. Who knows, maybe it'll be 8k by then.
I know I'm going to get modded down for this
Of course you won't, because you said you would and instead got modded up. Cheap trick.
but yes: Barack Hussein Obama
Magnitudes cleaner than the Clintons or Trump, but he still got his nose dirty. Do you remember in his first presidential campaign his ties to Tony Rezko became an issue?
And he's still a politician and acts like one. Still a scoundrel, just not as rotten as some others have been.
Do the root servers really keep such logs?
Judging by the story, I would say yes.
I'd think they would chew up most of their CPU producing them, and run out of storage space rather quickly.
Data storage is ridiculously cheap these days, and appending to a log isn't going to be a significant CPU or I/O operation in comparison to just serving the request in the first place.
Also, pretty much every ISP (and many private entities) run their own caching DNS server.
The story says the ISPs give these guys access to their logs. This also wouldn't surprise me if it was done to help protect their network as part of a common cause.
I guess this whole story was a troll. I don't see how it ever got accepted.
The story is from a somewhat credible source. Slate generally doesn't spew fabrications. The reporter makes claims as to checking sources. It's still possible this is all bullshit and a ruse, but it feels authentic to me:
"(I communicated extensively with Tea Leaves and two of his closest collaborators, who also spoke with me on the condition of anonymity, since they work for firms trusted by corporations and law enforcement to analyze sensitive data. They persuasively demonstrated some of their analytical methods to me--and showed me two white papers, which they had circulated so that colleagues could check their analysis. I also spoke with academics who vouched for Tea Leaves' integrity and his unusual access to information. "This is someone I know well and is very well-known in the networking community," said Camp. "When they say something about DNS, you believe them. This person has technical authority and access to data.")"
I spent four months working on a non-HiDPI 27" display and was driven crazy. Now that I have a 4K 27" display, things are so much clearer.
Notice how I was talking about my desktop 23" display vs a 15" laptop, and you are using a 27" display. The bigger the display, the more resolution matters. So for me, 1080 is fine at 23". At 27" I might feel differently. At 15", I have a hard time feeling like this is going to be some kind of game changer when I'm not having problems at 23".
How the fuck did these guys get between the Trump server and the DNS server making the queries? (Yes, I RTFA.)
Then you should know, because the article tells you: "Some of the most trusted DNS specialists--an elite group of malware hunters, who work for private contractors--have access to nearly comprehensive logs of communication between servers. They work in close concert with internet service providers, the networks through which most of us connect to the internet, and the ones that are most vulnerable to massive attacks. To extend the traffic metaphor, these scientists have cameras posted on the internetâ(TM)s stoplights and overpasses. They are entrusted with something close to a complete record of all the servers of the world connecting with one another."
So basically they are a non-government version of the NSA with warrantless wiretapping powers, which they used to investigate communication between Trump and Russia without permission from the parties involved. Well, it's only "metadata", the kind of thing that Snowden revealed the NSA was collecting on a massive scale, so everything's fine!
There's a difference between discovering natural laws and engineering products that either do or do not work, versus trying to measure and model climate history, present, and future in a highly political environment.
In other words, success in one area of science (and engineering) does not guarantee success in another.
Don't forget the magic pixie dust they sprinkle in every build. That's gotta be worth a lot, right?
these comparisons miss the fact that the Retina display is sooo much better for the vast majority of things that most Linux users do with computers. Text-mode consoles and development are infinitely easier with high-dpi text; I've literally more than doubled the amount of time I can use a computer in a day without developing a headache by using higher-quality displays
I have zero problems with my 1080 display. The text looks fine and is not blurry. I do not get headaches and I'm on the computer pretty much all day. If I wanted to see an individual pixel, I'd have to get out a magnifying glass. And this is on a 23" desktop monitor, so the DPI has to be much lower compared to a 15" laptop at 1080.
I suspect most people are drooling over resolution numbers and not actual performance. That's not to say that you aren't helped by it, but my guess is you're in the minority, because I really don't hear about getting headaches as a common complaint from computer users.
I just answer the phone, then as soon as I determine it's a scam / telemarketer, put the receiver down and walk away.
Takes them at least 15 seconds to realize nobody's responding, and minimal effort on my part.
Same here, at least back when I had a landline and these calls were rife. I used to string them out, but then I realized I didn't want to waste my time wasting there's.
Nowadays I don't answer my phone unless I recognize the number. If they legitimately need to talk to me they can leave a message.
Bernie really seemed to struggle with taking a centrist position. At some point in a primary race, the frontrunner needs to start to appear more moderate and gain mainstream supporters.
We don't know how Bernie would have changed, because he was running in the primary to appeal to his base. Bernie's biggest problem, besides super-delegates and the DNC being against him, was that young people are notoriously bad at actually going out to vote.
On the other hand, instead of having two obviously corrupt and disliked candidates, Bernie at least would have been the anti-corruption vote.
I would have loved to see a Sanders-Trump debate, but it would have been a much closer election than the one we have now.
At this point it's all speculation, and the election is a lot closer than many predicted right after the primaries. The impact of Trump's October surprise is diminishing, and I suspect election day will show a closer election than current thinking.
I've posted this before, but I guess that I'll have to keep reposting it every time someone claims there was no proof of intent.
A very good post. Just who do the Clinton apologists think they are fooling, besides themselves?
How many utterly bullshit conspiracy theories about the clintons does it take before we stop being so credulous?
Maybe if there weren't so many credulous, documented cases of Clinton scandals around people wouldn't be so credulous about the made up ones.