1) the friendly DoSS machine should be distributed (screen saver's are fair game for this)
2) although initial marketing/word spreading should be via a centralized site, this will inevitably become a target, so distrabution should quickly become P2P base (BT etc...) once word has spread
2) The mechanism for centrally controling the targets HAS to be centralized
3) you need to hide the centralized server behing something nice like Tor
No you didn't! I remain un modded-upped.:( Pah! If you were God fearing you'd have modded me good'n propper. As it is I must smite thee with my rightous worm of truth. Actually that sounds gay, scrap that.
Paranoid yeh. Is that what they're saying about me now?
They niether want to increase, nor allay paranoia. They want to keep some paranoid and a bit twichy, and the rest saying, 'don't be so bloody mad, look its on the tape you freak'.
This creates a lovely fog bank of fevered discussion around strategic irrelevancies. That clouds out any real issues "Why are we at war with a country that hasn't attacked us?", "If more Americans kill Americans, than terrorists, why don't we torture Americans to extract 'Intelligence' on their next targets?", "why is 'liberal' a dirty word in the 'Land of the Free'?" etc...
Any small time time interested party, who doesn't like being small time. e.g. an unscrupulous mp3 download site trying to make a buck selling files it probably doesn't really have the rights to anyway, doesn't like the fact that its putative clients can still simply use Kazza/Morpheus/BT and would like to see a migration of folks from these options to their easy, low cost download service.
beside the big boys using a mercinary, this is the most likely sinario in view.
Due to the huge response to this thread I think its obvious that this IS a huge issue. Many have said they found it easier setting up Ubuntu than XP re hardware "just working". But many more the to contrary. I have (like many of you) a wide and extensive range of hardware and virtual platforms. Ranging from a stonking bleeding edge workstation, to an 8 yearold 366 laptop, to VPC on various setups. I'm 100% certain that XP blows Ubuntu out of the water when it comes to things "just working". Whether the drivers are not available, not installed, not configure, or simply badly written, NOTHING works out of the box. VPC won't let you install without a LOT of fiddling (some of which involves clicking options on a corruptted screen display), and don't get me started on hyperthreading enabled systems, wireless - er nope, sound - nope (it's rare XP won't get you sound going), EVEN my mouse!
don't get me wrong, I love OSS, and Ubuntu espcially, but the debate is if its ready for the unwashed. And no! its not. Its not even at the stage where I'll use it for work (I see it more of a hobby at the mo). But it's so very close to being very useful to huge numbers of people. M$ are likely to get more and more snippy about pirate copies of their OS on machines (to the point where they'll simply not work any more). People in India, China, Africa, South America, infact anyone wanting to save cash, will flood to it in their droves as soon as these issues of 'automagic' hardware recognistion and error free driving of these devices are squashed for the majority.
And then Macromedia, Real, Adobe, even M$ will happily bow to the whims of the hundreds of millions of new users on Linux. And the gripes of "I can't open that on my system" will automagically dissapear too.
We're still missing the big one here re Maxwell's demon, which is that we're talking about a closed sytem, which means we need to include the energy gone into creating the Demon. In this case it would include the energy needed to produce human kind, inorder for the boffins to make the system, in order to order the molecules. Or would it? Because that would mean that we'd need to include the creation of the universe. Which means our little tubules have to process a LOT of hot and cold molecules.
Nice post (not heard this one before, despite being a big fan of thought experiments and entropy). ASadly the TFA does say there needs to be a "strong electrical field" applied locally, in order to flick the switch. Which I doubt costs less in energy than the Useful Heat gain from intelligent molecule selection and seperation.
Of course having a lot of newspapers and books online from other countries also aids academic researching.
Not to get too tree huggin liberal here, but I think it may serve a greater purpose than even that. Nationalistic politics has been the bane of this world for a long time. Being able to chat with folks from arouns the world IS bringing people together (and bringing out the worst in a few nutters). But being able to read papers from other countires is helping people see just how similar the people of the world are. I read a lot of US news already (from news sites), from the UK. If I could read previous years' news, I'd be able to catch up on my American wife's cultural history.
Good points well raised. (BTW I'm a newbie at/. WTF is with the Karma system? This is the second time someone's knocked karma off me for making a fairly malign comment and I've barely made ten posts. Am I being an arse or is someone else?
Yer your point of veiw is a valid one for sure. I live in London, which challanges Tokyo on cost of rent. And now I've finally got enough to start considering the property ladder (aged 30 with wife and child), I've got passed what seems the imsermountable task of nesting in such a costly city. So I know what you're saying. I could see these Pods doing well in London, as more and more folk have a cyber interest now. But will you get addicts staying for too long, not here I don't think, but could be wrong.
hmmm. Not that simple. Would you rather live in a country were just the govt has guns or everyone has guns. Well... Me, I like the fact that per capita, the UK has less than a tenth of the gun crime of the US. I'm actually against the video system being open to all. But I could be wrong, and I'm not against them piloting it. However, how much say will we (the electorate) have in assessing the outcomes of the pilot?
Still. Having lived in Shoreditch, I can tell you its likely to be better than anything showing on ITV.
Actually, this thing about not being able to meet other people because their (Japanese people's) houses are so microscopic, is starting to grate. The biggest difference between a Japanese house and an American house (that I've noticed) is a house in the US tends to be noisy, lawless, and untidy. Making it difficult to have people round. A Japanese house (yes probably through necessity) is, in comparison, polite quiet and tidy. And the home made food infinitely more apatising. So the pods being a refuge idea is a US construct I think.
This whole US v Jap thing is tiered. More so than the Germany v England thing here (in the UK). Japan WILL do some things better than/before the US. Live with it.
Exactly. I agree. Global terrorism doesn't kill as many Americans, as Americans are Killed by Americans, with American arms, and American cars. Why go to all the trouble of watching hundreds of millions of people having conversations, across a contenent an ocian away, when there's obviously better things to be focussing on, a lot closer to home.
US foreign policy would have to get REALLY bad to incite such levels of attack, as to equal what's going on on US soil without terrorists. Really doesn't add up does it? Looking from the EU, we just can't believe what happened in New Orleans. To watch us more closely just seems silly.
Possible. It's all in the WikiP link. But H is REALLY flamible. But also a hell of a thing to try and contain. It'll seep through almost anything. Which means you'll need to think about just how thick and strong (and therefore heavy) you want to make your fuel/ballast tanks.
For the greatestest quote of all time (though Dr Strangelove has some corkers)
I tell you Sid, that one of these days we'll look in to our microscope and find ourselves staring right into God's eyes, and the first one who blinks is going to lose his testicles.
NZ consumes around 151,900 blue barrels a day that's around 8815 million litres a year. So this plant will be able to provide around 0.01% of NZ's fuel.
But, there is going to be no single replacement for fossil fuels, there's going to be many (and this is just the first plant).
Firstly, cheers for the stats and secondly I agree. A thousand such plants is not crazy to imagine. And ten such renewable production methods (recycled vegoil, purpose grown vegoil, alcohol, waste methane, produced methane,...) all competeing for our custom, is not barmy either. Its only a matter of time
Sory but light breaking lightspeed, is not breaking news. CERENKOV RADIATION has been observed for some time now. As have the negative refractive indexes of super lenses.
Apart from the obvious, points, like some of the better designs still have browser compatibility issues (http://www.proximalabs.com/slashdot/redesign3.htm l is my fave, but renders with errors in IE), I'd like to beg and plead that accessibility issues are considered:
1) check what happens when you resize fonts/zoom the page using IE FireFox and Safari's respective functions
2) Currently slashdot isn't bad for being readable through a screen reader, please check the new CSS doesn't break this.
3) although menus should ideally be top and left, to tiers of menus on the left is not good (although I do like that one - forgot whos it was now)
I'm sick of blaming the US government (even though they appear to be evil incarnate). I'm going to start blaming the American people. Sort your f###ing arses out! No this is not going to be a mindless flame/trolling spree. I'm just venting/airing some thoughts.
Firstly I'm a UK cit. and have an US wife and child, so I'm not a Yank hater.
Here's the thing:
1) these "powers" that the US govt are acquiring at great pace, are of no use what so ever to them. As some posts have pointed out, in practice, there is little to no evidence to show they help stop terrorism. But a theoretical consideration can lead to the same conclusion. The commander in Chief can not make sense of this data (he doesn't seem to be able to tie his shoe laces unaided, but that's another story). The data sets are so vast, that even the analysis of them is so abstract, and so lost amongst so many other such forms of 'inteligence' that they serve no practical purpose, and will never be acted upon.
2)There are obvious civ liberty issues here, which have already been discussed to death.
3)As an English speaking software engineer, I could do business in/with the US. And due to my family ties, I could prob even become a US cit. pretty easily, but while the US govt keeps doing this kind of thing, I won't even make a phone call to your "Great" nation. So for the greatest bastion of capitalism, this kind of insane governance is really harming the US' trading. As I am fare from alone in thinking this way.
Now off topic :
4)For a government who proclaims to be the spreader of democracy around the globe, when was the last time you can remember them actually doing something the majority of citizens wanted?
5)The US govt is now forcing/persuading other govts (like the UK, but again, we are far from alone) to do things their electorate do not want to happen. This is spreading AntiDemocracy!
I'm happy to sacrifice the very little karma I have to say this. It needs to be said.
I've made it clear that no job or project is more important than my family.
This is a good one. I recently landed the perfect job (for me). Well paid, work from home, for good people, doing good things. And I'm sure it was in no small part due to my attitude in the interview. I made it clear (without sounding like an arsehole)that I had certain unbending priorities beyond work (family responsibilities mainly, but also certain work ethics). Done right, this comes across as you being ascertive, responsible, and knowing your own mind. Why not make it clear in your own mind, what level of support you can provide, and then go to your superior[s], and tell them that this is what you can do, but no more.
If my experience is anything to go by, this may even improve your chances of promotion/standing in their eyes. I know your question is how to drop the ones who ask you for too much support, but again, if you're anything like me then the 'how' will come easily, if you get the 'when' to drop an EU sorted, in both your own mind, and the mind of you superiors.
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1) the friendly DoSS machine should be distributed (screen saver's are fair game for this)
2) although initial marketing/word spreading should be via a centralized site, this will inevitably become a target, so distrabution should quickly become P2P base (BT etc...) once word has spread
2) The mechanism for centrally controling the targets HAS to be centralized
3) you need to hide the centralized server behing something nice like Tor
Now go build it!, I'm sick of this spam crap.
Done. Now what?
:( Pah! If you were God fearing you'd have modded me good'n propper. As it is I must smite thee with my rightous worm of truth. Actually that sounds gay, scrap that.
No you didn't! I remain un modded-upped.
Paranoid yeh. Is that what they're saying about me now?
They niether want to increase, nor allay paranoia. They want to keep some paranoid and a bit twichy, and the rest saying, 'don't be so bloody mad, look its on the tape you freak'.
This creates a lovely fog bank of fevered discussion around strategic irrelevancies. That clouds out any real issues "Why are we at war with a country that hasn't attacked us?", "If more Americans kill Americans, than terrorists, why don't we torture Americans to extract 'Intelligence' on their next targets?", "why is 'liberal' a dirty word in the 'Land of the Free'?" etc...
but this is just plane silly!
Hmmm. What would Jesus hack?
Any small time time interested party, who doesn't like being small time. e.g. an unscrupulous mp3 download site trying to make a buck selling files it probably doesn't really have the rights to anyway, doesn't like the fact that its putative clients can still simply use Kazza/Morpheus/BT and would like to see a migration of folks from these options to their easy, low cost download service.
beside the big boys using a mercinary, this is the most likely sinario in view.
Due to the huge response to this thread I think its obvious that this IS a huge issue. Many have said they found it easier setting up Ubuntu than XP re hardware "just working". But many more the to contrary. I have (like many of you) a wide and extensive range of hardware and virtual platforms. Ranging from a stonking bleeding edge workstation, to an 8 yearold 366 laptop, to VPC on various setups. I'm 100% certain that XP blows Ubuntu out of the water when it comes to things "just working". Whether the drivers are not available, not installed, not configure, or simply badly written, NOTHING works out of the box. VPC won't let you install without a LOT of fiddling (some of which involves clicking options on a corruptted screen display), and don't get me started on hyperthreading enabled systems, wireless - er nope, sound - nope (it's rare XP won't get you sound going), EVEN my mouse!
don't get me wrong, I love OSS, and Ubuntu espcially, but the debate is if its ready for the unwashed. And no! its not. Its not even at the stage where I'll use it for work (I see it more of a hobby at the mo). But it's so very close to being very useful to huge numbers of people. M$ are likely to get more and more snippy about pirate copies of their OS on machines (to the point where they'll simply not work any more). People in India, China, Africa, South America, infact anyone wanting to save cash, will flood to it in their droves as soon as these issues of 'automagic' hardware recognistion and error free driving of these devices are squashed for the majority.
And then Macromedia, Real, Adobe, even M$ will happily bow to the whims of the hundreds of millions of new users on Linux. And the gripes of "I can't open that on my system" will automagically dissapear too.
We're still missing the big one here re Maxwell's demon, which is that we're talking about a closed sytem, which means we need to include the energy gone into creating the Demon. In this case it would include the energy needed to produce human kind, inorder for the boffins to make the system, in order to order the molecules. Or would it? Because that would mean that we'd need to include the creation of the universe. Which means our little tubules have to process a LOT of hot and cold molecules.
:)
Paradox busted I say
Nice post (not heard this one before, despite being a big fan of thought experiments and entropy). ASadly the TFA does say there needs to be a "strong electrical field" applied locally, in order to flick the switch. Which I doubt costs less in energy than the Useful Heat gain from intelligent molecule selection and seperation.
Of course having a lot of newspapers and books online from other countries also aids academic researching.
Not to get too tree huggin liberal here, but I think it may serve a greater purpose than even that. Nationalistic politics has been the bane of this world for a long time. Being able to chat with folks from arouns the world IS bringing people together (and bringing out the worst in a few nutters). But being able to read papers from other countires is helping people see just how similar the people of the world are. I read a lot of US news already (from news sites), from the UK. If I could read previous years' news, I'd be able to catch up on my American wife's cultural history.
Obviously that should have been benign not malign. I think I've answered my own question ;)
Good points well raised. (BTW I'm a newbie at /. WTF is with the Karma system? This is the second time someone's knocked karma off me for making a fairly malign comment and I've barely made ten posts. Am I being an arse or is someone else?
Yer your point of veiw is a valid one for sure. I live in London, which challanges Tokyo on cost of rent. And now I've finally got enough to start considering the property ladder (aged 30 with wife and child), I've got passed what seems the imsermountable task of nesting in such a costly city. So I know what you're saying. I could see these Pods doing well in London, as more and more folk have a cyber interest now. But will you get addicts staying for too long, not here I don't think, but could be wrong.
hmmm. Not that simple. Would you rather live in a country were just the govt has guns or everyone has guns. Well... Me, I like the fact that per capita, the UK has less than a tenth of the gun crime of the US. I'm actually against the video system being open to all. But I could be wrong, and I'm not against them piloting it. However, how much say will we (the electorate) have in assessing the outcomes of the pilot?
Still. Having lived in Shoreditch, I can tell you its likely to be better than anything showing on ITV.
Actually, this thing about not being able to meet other people because their (Japanese people's) houses are so microscopic, is starting to grate. The biggest difference between a Japanese house and an American house (that I've noticed) is a house in the US tends to be noisy, lawless, and untidy. Making it difficult to have people round. A Japanese house (yes probably through necessity) is, in comparison, polite quiet and tidy. And the home made food infinitely more apatising. So the pods being a refuge idea is a US construct I think.
This whole US v Jap thing is tiered. More so than the Germany v England thing here (in the UK). Japan WILL do some things better than/before the US. Live with it.
Exactly. I agree. Global terrorism doesn't kill as many Americans, as Americans are Killed by Americans, with American arms, and American cars. Why go to all the trouble of watching hundreds of millions of people having conversations, across a contenent an ocian away, when there's obviously better things to be focussing on, a lot closer to home.
US foreign policy would have to get REALLY bad to incite such levels of attack, as to equal what's going on on US soil without terrorists. Really doesn't add up does it? Looking from the EU, we just can't believe what happened in New Orleans. To watch us more closely just seems silly.
Possible. It's all in the WikiP link. But H is REALLY flamible. But also a hell of a thing to try and contain. It'll seep through almost anything. Which means you'll need to think about just how thick and strong (and therefore heavy) you want to make your fuel/ballast tanks.
Hindenburg :s
For the greatestest quote of all time (though Dr Strangelove has some corkers)
I tell you Sid, that one of these days we'll look in to our microscope and find ourselves staring right into God's eyes, and the first one who blinks is going to lose his testicles.
NZ consumes around 151,900 blue barrels a day that's around 8815 million litres a year. So this plant will be able to provide around 0.01% of NZ's fuel.
But, there is going to be no single replacement for fossil fuels, there's going to be many (and this is just the first plant).
Firstly, cheers for the stats and secondly I agree. A thousand such plants is not crazy to imagine. And ten such renewable production methods (recycled vegoil, purpose grown vegoil, alcohol, waste methane, produced methane,...) all competeing for our custom, is not barmy either. Its only a matter of time
"It is impossible to get group velocities that are faster than c (the speed of light in a free vacuum, a universal constant.) "
The negative refractive index of a super lense proves this wrong. Again. This is old news.
Sory but light breaking lightspeed, is not breaking news. CERENKOV RADIATION has been observed for some time now. As have the negative refractive indexes of super lenses.
Leaching the TARDIS. Now there's the making of a great mashup.
Apart from the obvious, points, like some of the better designs still have browser compatibility issues (http://www.proximalabs.com/slashdot/redesign3.htm l is my fave, but renders with errors in IE), I'd like to beg and plead that accessibility issues are considered:
:)
1) check what happens when you resize fonts/zoom the page using IE FireFox and Safari's respective functions
2) Currently slashdot isn't bad for being readable through a screen reader, please check the new CSS doesn't break this. 3) although menus should ideally be top and left, to tiers of menus on the left is not good (although I do like that one - forgot whos it was now)
Cheers
I'm sick of blaming the US government (even though they appear to be evil incarnate). I'm going to start blaming the American people. Sort your f###ing arses out! No this is not going to be a mindless flame/trolling spree. I'm just venting/airing some thoughts.
Firstly I'm a UK cit. and have an US wife and child, so I'm not a Yank hater.
Here's the thing:
1) these "powers" that the US govt are acquiring at great pace, are of no use what so ever to them. As some posts have pointed out, in practice, there is little to no evidence to show they help stop terrorism. But a theoretical consideration can lead to the same conclusion. The commander in Chief can not make sense of this data (he doesn't seem to be able to tie his shoe laces unaided, but that's another story). The data sets are so vast, that even the analysis of them is so abstract, and so lost amongst so many other such forms of 'inteligence' that they serve no practical purpose, and will never be acted upon.
2)There are obvious civ liberty issues here, which have already been discussed to death.
3)As an English speaking software engineer, I could do business in/with the US. And due to my family ties, I could prob even become a US cit. pretty easily, but while the US govt keeps doing this kind of thing, I won't even make a phone call to your "Great" nation. So for the greatest bastion of capitalism, this kind of insane governance is really harming the US' trading. As I am fare from alone in thinking this way.
Now off topic :
4)For a government who proclaims to be the spreader of democracy around the globe, when was the last time you can remember them actually doing something the majority of citizens wanted?
5)The US govt is now forcing/persuading other govts (like the UK, but again, we are far from alone) to do things their electorate do not want to happen. This is spreading AntiDemocracy!
I'm happy to sacrifice the very little karma I have to say this. It needs to be said.
God bless the anti nationalists.
I've made it clear that no job or project is more important than my family.
This is a good one. I recently landed the perfect job (for me). Well paid, work from home, for good people, doing good things. And I'm sure it was in no small part due to my attitude in the interview. I made it clear (without sounding like an arsehole)that I had certain unbending priorities beyond work (family responsibilities mainly, but also certain work ethics). Done right, this comes across as you being ascertive, responsible, and knowing your own mind. Why not make it clear in your own mind, what level of support you can provide, and then go to your superior[s], and tell them that this is what you can do, but no more.
If my experience is anything to go by, this may even improve your chances of promotion/standing in their eyes. I know your question is how to drop the ones who ask you for too much support, but again, if you're anything like me then the 'how' will come easily, if you get the 'when' to drop an EU sorted, in both your own mind, and the mind of you superiors.