I have always been curious about a solar project that large over desert and what negative impact, if any, it might directly have on the environment vs. the positive environmental impact of reducing greenhouse gas emissions. After all, we are talking about imposing a radical change on an environment that has been relative static for a few millennial. While sand of course reflects sunlight, solar panel reflect it right back up much more so. The consequence? I am not aware that anyone has a clue. Then there is the morning dew. Yes, even the Sahara has it. An unknown amount of that will condense on the bottom of the solar panels and fall back down. I can only suspect that would be very gradual, but given time... In fact, perhaps in a couple of decades we will have created conditions that will allow us to remove some of the panels and engineer the ground into farm-able land. I have similar questions about large scale wind power.
I am admittedly not making a point, just tossing out some conjecture for discussion as I have had these questions for a very long time.
Some nasty malware that only allows for the viewing of Trump related content. Sadly, I have encountered more than a few people who I doubt would notice.
If I ran around installing Linux or FreeBSD on everyone's computer and then instructed them to start a VM for Windows programs my phone would be ringing ten times as much as it does already for free support requests. To be fair, I do recommend Linux for a lot of people, and even take the time to sit down with them for a few hours to get them acquainted while putting plenty of basic documentation in their documents folder, but I tell the vast majority of people to stick with Windows or get a Mac. Never forget how advanced you are, I know very well it is easy to take for granted as I sometimes do so myself. Fact of the matter is, Linux is not for a whole lot of people. And FreeBSD? For a regular person? As a desktop OS? Huh? I love FreeBSD, it is my go to server OS. But even I have never bothered installing a GUI on it and using it as a day to day desktop driver. Anti-virus software is a complex subject, but I will sooner explain the whole messy situation and advise on best practices and what software is best rather than just nuke their hard drive and replace the OS. That is almost always overkill. Oh, and there is such a thing as anti-virus software for Linux. Comodo for one. Although I have no idea what it does or why anyone would need it. If someone could shed light on that it would be cool.
Text is a terrible format for efficient storage of and access to structured data
Access to binary logs is O(1) instead of O(n)
journalctl outputs a pixel-perfect copy of what/var/log/messages was
You can query more effectively and precisely than with awk, sed and grep
You can still use awk, sed and grep if you want
You can run syslogd in parallel and have your text file as well
The binary format is well documented
Traditional logs are binary as well as soon as they are rotated and compressed
For fucks sake already, can we not have a single Linux related discussion that has nothing to do with systemd without it spiraling into a systemd flame fest? Systemd is not the devil. All I read here from detractors are people who are regurgitating bullshit they overheard while riding the bandwagon they blindly jumped on without actually having a single clue what they are talking about. Talk about the blind leading the blind. Meanwhile anyone with a clue who tries to chime in with a voice of reason is simply drowned out. Does using the word binary in sentence where you also refer to logs make you feel like some kind of super hacker? Sometimes I really think that's what all this never ending bullshit is about.
A good argument. that will probably get modded up. For the sake of argument, I shall propose an alternate. If Juniper as a company overall did not know this was happening, it still looks like an inside job. Perhaps this is the true cost of handing out H1B Visa's left and right. If that is the case, that individual or those individuals are long since back in their country.
There was the test ban treaty of 1963, and the comprehensive test ban treaty of 1996. On August 5, 1963, representatives of the United States, Soviet Union and Great Britain signed the Limited Nuclear Test Ban Treaty, which prohibited the testing of nuclear weapons in outer space, underwater or in the atmosphere. Of note, this does not include underground testing. But that is still very limiting. France and China were asked to sign the treaty, but refused.
In 1996, the United Nations General Assembly adopted the Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty, prohibiting “any nuclear weapon test explosion or any other nuclear explosion.”
Interestingly enough, the United States was the first nation to sign the Comprehensive Test Ban treaty, which happened in 1996. Around 180 nations followed. In 1999 the United States senate rejected the treaty.
A quick ctrl + f reveals that the word "comprehensive" is not in the article.
So that there you have it: two treatise. Oh, one last thing. I scraped pretty much all of that from the article linked to in your post. Did you not read the article you linked to?
A galaxy full of upright walking bi-pedal aliens that all around just happen look and overall act like humans currently do. The notion of such widespread parallel evolution across such time and space is pretty darn unlikely. At the same time it is not like I can't suspend disbelief to enjoy fiction.
Before someone mentions it, I know they did try to resolve the parallel problem in TNG.
It's been nice to see over the past few years more stories about patent trolls going down hard rather than getting away with theft. It seems to coincide with a certain judge in Texas retiring.
That is truly the question. As someone who believes in life before death but not after, I accept the likelihood of oblivion, but would just assume avoid it all the same.
Then it will happen eventually. Humans are just that persistent. If this is flat out not possible, then it just won't happen. Either way we will rightfully scoff at any such radical claim until it is demonstrated to work and is proven safe. If it is possible, I would not mind if this really is it.
As it stands my own continued existence is a product of gene therapy, and it's not even entirely human DNA. This being such a radical treatment, it was the sort of thing we all scoffed at before it was demonstrated to work, albeit not entirely safely. This is only increasingly become the norm. The science we are dealing with is advancing faster than we can keep up with. At some point very soon, we may just have to hit the brakes on genetic manipulation so that we can catch up with what we have created.
But I do have a couple errant thoughts on the matter.
Consider a little town in Texas who's name I cannot recall (talking population in the hundreds). A wireless carrier decided this was a strategic place to build a tower. The townspeople made quite a row about believing it would impact their health. All the same, the tower went up. Upon completion, a percent of the town's population "fell very ill". This quickly proceeded to become a substantial percentage of the town's population. A lawsuit was prepared.However, before it got anywhere the townspeople got clued in by the carrier on a fun little fact: the tower went up but was never turned on. The health of the townspeople returned to normal. Oops.
I have talked to people over the years that insist on sensitivity to electromagnetic waves. For the longest time I scoffed at the notion without a second thought. Consider that this has been the case for many diseases over time, most notably and recently Fibromyalgia was considered to be all in the heads of its suffers. Now it is not only established as being real, but treatments have even been developed for it. I was on board with it being psychological. Oops.
Consider further that now, just as when it was considered to be non-existent outside of the imagination, there are in fact legions of people who read about the symptoms, and decide they have the symptoms when in fact it really is just in their heads. This would have lent to it not being taken seriously in the first place.
Okay, let's go one step further. Consider that we are pumping more and more radio waves of increasingly varied spectrum through pretty much anything that want stop them cold. Consider that exposing the environment and consequently ourselves to all of this is a first in human evolution.
Also, we do have properties of an antennae. I am not saying this does not wreak of bullshit, but whether or not there are at all any consequences of any type to anything is something that should be under the constant scrutiny of objective science as the number of and reach of emf continues to grow.
I am not trying to push a conclusion here, because I do not have one... just saying.
I have no problem with rollover. It's a feature I frequently use. Also, my quad-core i7 does not seem to mind. Neither does a CPU from ten years ago. Beyond that CPUs exist so that they can, well... do shit.
Clearly you have never worked as a high level engineer in a complex environment. Fortunately, I have. With a device like this, the level of ability to modify its complexity becomes problematic. Over time, different admins and engineers will make and unmake radically different changes that they think are clever at the time. When an engineer, who may not have properly documented every change they made to the machine leaves, another comes along and does the same. Sometimes changes are unmade, sometimes they are not and then another change is made that flies in the face of previous modifications. Eventually someone will realize that they are not quite sure of the totality of what the thing is doing. At this point it becomes easier to wipe the machine and start over then perform a complete analysis. That is not how things should work. If you want a router with the ability to do absolutely fucking everything a router has no business doing, toss OpenBSD on a box and go to town.
it can run a complete Linux distro, no problem, so it can function as a server.
Great. So maybe this thing really is pretty secure out of the box. But if your going to stick something that capable\configurable on a business LAN, it is inevitable that some junior admin will be assigned to set it up and in the process create a gaping security hole. I have seen it happen on lesser devices. A secure router should have a limited set of well documented functions, not the ability to run Sendmail.
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I have always been curious about a solar project that large over desert and what negative impact, if any, it might directly have on the environment vs. the positive environmental impact of reducing greenhouse gas emissions. After all, we are talking about imposing a radical change on an environment that has been relative static for a few millennial. While sand of course reflects sunlight, solar panel reflect it right back up much more so. The consequence? I am not aware that anyone has a clue. Then there is the morning dew. Yes, even the Sahara has it. An unknown amount of that will condense on the bottom of the solar panels and fall back down. I can only suspect that would be very gradual, but given time... In fact, perhaps in a couple of decades we will have created conditions that will allow us to remove some of the panels and engineer the ground into farm-able land. I have similar questions about large scale wind power.
I am admittedly not making a point, just tossing out some conjecture for discussion as I have had these questions for a very long time.
If there's a new way, I'll be the first in line.
Peace sells, but who's buying?
About the Distracted Walking Skyrocket?
Or...
A Distracted Skyrocket walks into an emergency room and says to the intake nurse...
You beat me to it. I just woke up and read that five or six times before my eyes met the summary. Talk about confused. At least it made me smile.
Some nasty malware that only allows for the viewing of Trump related content. Sadly, I have encountered more than a few people who I doubt would notice.
If I ran around installing Linux or FreeBSD on everyone's computer and then instructed them to start a VM for Windows programs my phone would be ringing ten times as much as it does already for free support requests. To be fair, I do recommend Linux for a lot of people, and even take the time to sit down with them for a few hours to get them acquainted while putting plenty of basic documentation in their documents folder, but I tell the vast majority of people to stick with Windows or get a Mac. Never forget how advanced you are, I know very well it is easy to take for granted as I sometimes do so myself. Fact of the matter is, Linux is not for a whole lot of people. And FreeBSD? For a regular person? As a desktop OS? Huh? I love FreeBSD, it is my go to server OS. But even I have never bothered installing a GUI on it and using it as a day to day desktop driver. Anti-virus software is a complex subject, but I will sooner explain the whole messy situation and advise on best practices and what software is best rather than just nuke their hard drive and replace the OS. That is almost always overkill. Oh, and there is such a thing as anti-virus software for Linux. Comodo for one. Although I have no idea what it does or why anyone would need it. If someone could shed light on that it would be cool.
Fund industry to get them there.
You pretty much answered your own question, especially with criteria number three: Get involved in Open Source AI.
http://opencog.org/
http://wiki.opencog.org/w/The_Open_Cognition_Project
I am sure there is more than OpenCog. Google is your friend on this one.
What's wrong with binary logs?
/var/log/messages was
Text is a terrible format for efficient storage of and access to structured data
Access to binary logs is O(1) instead of O(n)
journalctl outputs a pixel-perfect copy of what
You can query more effectively and precisely than with awk, sed and grep
You can still use awk, sed and grep if you want
You can run syslogd in parallel and have your text file as well
The binary format is well documented
Traditional logs are binary as well as soon as they are rotated and compressed
For fucks sake already, can we not have a single Linux related discussion that has nothing to do with systemd without it spiraling into a systemd flame fest? Systemd is not the devil. All I read here from detractors are people who are regurgitating bullshit they overheard while riding the bandwagon they blindly jumped on without actually having a single clue what they are talking about. Talk about the blind leading the blind. Meanwhile anyone with a clue who tries to chime in with a voice of reason is simply drowned out. Does using the word binary in sentence where you also refer to logs make you feel like some kind of super hacker? Sometimes I really think that's what all this never ending bullshit is about.
A good argument. that will probably get modded up. For the sake of argument, I shall propose an alternate. If Juniper as a company overall did not know this was happening, it still looks like an inside job. Perhaps this is the true cost of handing out H1B Visa's left and right. If that is the case, that individual or those individuals are long since back in their country.
We probably won't know that until the next version.
There was the test ban treaty of 1963, and the comprehensive test ban treaty of 1996. On August 5, 1963, representatives of the United States, Soviet Union and Great Britain signed the Limited Nuclear Test Ban Treaty, which prohibited the testing of nuclear weapons in outer space, underwater or in the atmosphere. Of note, this does not include underground testing. But that is still very limiting. France and China were asked to sign the treaty, but refused.
In 1996, the United Nations General Assembly adopted the Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty, prohibiting “any nuclear weapon test explosion or any other nuclear explosion.”
Interestingly enough, the United States was the first nation to sign the Comprehensive Test Ban treaty, which happened in 1996. Around 180 nations followed. In 1999 the United States senate rejected the treaty.
A quick ctrl + f reveals that the word "comprehensive" is not in the article.
So that there you have it: two treatise. Oh, one last thing. I scraped pretty much all of that from the article linked to in your post. Did you not read the article you linked to?
A galaxy full of upright walking bi-pedal aliens that all around just happen look and overall act like humans currently do. The notion of such widespread parallel evolution across such time and space is pretty darn unlikely. At the same time it is not like I can't suspend disbelief to enjoy fiction.
Before someone mentions it, I know they did try to resolve the parallel problem in TNG.
It's been nice to see over the past few years more stories about patent trolls going down hard rather than getting away with theft. It seems to coincide with a certain judge in Texas retiring.
That is truly the question. As someone who believes in life before death but not after, I accept the likelihood of oblivion, but would just assume avoid it all the same.
Then it will happen eventually. Humans are just that persistent. If this is flat out not possible, then it just won't happen. Either way we will rightfully scoff at any such radical claim until it is demonstrated to work and is proven safe. If it is possible, I would not mind if this really is it.
As it stands my own continued existence is a product of gene therapy, and it's not even entirely human DNA. This being such a radical treatment, it was the sort of thing we all scoffed at before it was demonstrated to work, albeit not entirely safely. This is only increasingly become the norm. The science we are dealing with is advancing faster than we can keep up with. At some point very soon, we may just have to hit the brakes on genetic manipulation so that we can catch up with what we have created.
"Nevertheless effective treatments need to be found for these symptoms"
Perhaps the submitter was thinking along the lines of lithium.
But I do have a couple errant thoughts on the matter.
Consider a little town in Texas who's name I cannot recall (talking population in the hundreds). A wireless carrier decided this was a strategic place to build a tower. The townspeople made quite a row about believing it would impact their health. All the same, the tower went up. Upon completion, a percent of the town's population "fell very ill". This quickly proceeded to become a substantial percentage of the town's population. A lawsuit was prepared.However, before it got anywhere the townspeople got clued in by the carrier on a fun little fact: the tower went up but was never turned on. The health of the townspeople returned to normal. Oops.
I have talked to people over the years that insist on sensitivity to electromagnetic waves. For the longest time I scoffed at the notion without a second thought. Consider that this has been the case for many diseases over time, most notably and recently Fibromyalgia was considered to be all in the heads of its suffers. Now it is not only established as being real, but treatments have even been developed for it. I was on board with it being psychological. Oops.
Consider further that now, just as when it was considered to be non-existent outside of the imagination, there are in fact legions of people who read about the symptoms, and decide they have the symptoms when in fact it really is just in their heads. This would have lent to it not being taken seriously in the first place.
Okay, let's go one step further. Consider that we are pumping more and more radio waves of increasingly varied spectrum through pretty much anything that want stop them cold. Consider that exposing the environment and consequently ourselves to all of this is a first in human evolution.
Also, we do have properties of an antennae. I am not saying this does not wreak of bullshit, but whether or not there are at all any consequences of any type to anything is something that should be under the constant scrutiny of objective science as the number of and reach of emf continues to grow.
I am not trying to push a conclusion here, because I do not have one... just saying.
I much appreciate this. These true old timers are getting hard to find.
I would mod this interesting if I could.
I have no problem with rollover. It's a feature I frequently use. Also, my quad-core i7 does not seem to mind. Neither does a CPU from ten years ago. Beyond that CPUs exist so that they can, well... do shit.
I use a PS/2 to USB adapter for my gigantic clickity clack circa 1991 mechanical keyboard. And I am very grateful for that ability. Thank you USB!
Clearly you have never worked as a high level engineer in a complex environment. Fortunately, I have. With a device like this, the level of ability to modify its complexity becomes problematic. Over time, different admins and engineers will make and unmake radically different changes that they think are clever at the time. When an engineer, who may not have properly documented every change they made to the machine leaves, another comes along and does the same. Sometimes changes are unmade, sometimes they are not and then another change is made that flies in the face of previous modifications. Eventually someone will realize that they are not quite sure of the totality of what the thing is doing. At this point it becomes easier to wipe the machine and start over then perform a complete analysis. That is not how things should work. If you want a router with the ability to do absolutely fucking everything a router has no business doing, toss OpenBSD on a box and go to town.
Great. So maybe this thing really is pretty secure out of the box. But if your going to stick something that capable\configurable on a business LAN, it is inevitable that some junior admin will be assigned to set it up and in the process create a gaping security hole. I have seen it happen on lesser devices. A secure router should have a limited set of well documented functions, not the ability to run Sendmail.