The statistical effect of millions of empty, neglected GoDaddy hosted sites will not ultimately mean a great deal. It does raise a question for me, however; what benefit does GoDaddy hope to realize with IIS? My last contact with IIS was about 9 years ago. At that time it was fragile, insecure and plagued with mysterious "metabase" corruption problems. The thought of using such a thing for large scale hosting seems absurd and I've ignored it ever since.
Has it since improved enough to entice really large operations?
Bitcoin is an innovative payment network and a new kind of money.
Now, IANAL, but I suspect walking into court with an argument that bitcoin isn't a new kind of money when its creators clearly and demonstrably assert that it is a new kind of money is likely to fail pretty hard.
And yes, I'm well aware of the of the distinction between money and currency. Gold bugs, sufferers of Fed derangement syndrome and others spend a lot of time proselytizing about this stuff. The thing is that the SEC and the courts don't, which is why no one has ever succeeded in evading financial laws by attacking the legitimacy of fiat money.
who gets the unenviable (and expensive!) job of decontaminating what is essentially a toxic waste dump?
Lead recovery is a common service offered essentially everywhere there are outdoor ranges and berms. Bullets don't penetrate far into berms so it's a relatively easy job. Depending on how much lead is recovered it can actually be profitable, as opposed to "expensive." Indoor ranges contract with recyclers and cash in.
It's a fully locked device. This is not a Nexus successor.
How conventional. Google could have thrown a grenade into the portable world. Instead they make a Samsung wannabe, complete with bloated marketing budget.
OTOH, regulations can be used for evil, to lock out competition and fix prices for example.
The taxi drivers assert that this is a safety matter. They claim that without well regulated taxi service people are going to get hurt riding in cars driven by who knows whom.
I honestly can't say which of either taxi drivers or random ride share people are a greater threat. I just know the GP wasn't wrong pointing out that this brand new 'outrage' has its basis in regulation, whether the little statist neck beards around here like it or not.
Here is a dire warning from 13 years ago about the imminent collapse of the Internet due to routing table growth. Lots of speculation in the comments about IPv4 address exhaustion as well. Clinton was actually still in office then.
Our routers do not need biologically inspired routing algorithms. Our routers do not need AI. Route aggregation, IPv6 and faster hardware will suffice.
Ten or so years ago I got into an ugly argument with a Libertarian buddy
The last ten years have been the safest in the history of US commercial aviation. We're having entire years with no airline fatalities. US airlines have become so safe that foolish MIT professors are claiming major incidents among first world airlines are on the "brink of extinction".
The safety of western airlines has done nothing but improve since the 70's. Every year the average improves. This is despite the claims of statists everywhere that "deregulation" was compromising safety. This is despite an endless barrage of fear mongering anecdotes such as your rant about entry-level pilot salaries.
Every claim about how the market was doomed to produce a reckless airline industry has been proven false. The combination of market force and market neutral regulation has produced an amazingly safe and efficient system.
There is history now. There is data. Face it and rethink your worldview. It's wrong, and the less time you spend indulging it the better.
The gp understands the reality that with the exception of Cuba, N. Korea and perhaps a few others, no nation on Earth will risk trade troubles with the US over Snowden. The US is the biggest single sovereign importer of finished goods in the world and therefore holds an economic trump card over every other nation.
One more reason why the US being the planet's trade whore is bad for everyone.
And no, sanctions for harboring Snowden won't violate any trade laws. This is "national security" and every trade agreement you can think of has a great big national security exception. The President can invent a trade sanction against anyone at any time for anything plausibly related to "national security."
Creating a ubiquitous network is the first step to placing a government camera in every home. Should the Internet have been precluded to avoid centralization of power and control?
WRT citizens; SDN can only implement policies established by people. The correct approach (for a start) to dealing with these policies is this and this, not banning the tools.
WRT business; you're going to lose the argument hard on this one. One appeal of SDN is cost savings; cheaper hardware, easier management, less net complexity, better asset utilization, etc. There is no possible way you're going to convince anyone that has a budget and competitors (that includes governments, BTW) that they will be better off with systems that cost more. Forget it. 'Security' arguments won't preclude it either.
Our problems stem from huge institutions. The bigger an entity becomes the less it must collaborate; so bad things develop and survive for longer periods without discovery and resistance. Nations with hundreds of millions or billions are the problem. Global corporations are the problem. It is too easy to collude when a few entities have exclusive and global reach and all that is needed undermine liberty or privacy or establish some new rent seeker is a handshake among the masters-of-the-universe. Big systems should require lots of collaboration.
Dismantling big institutions is the solution. Trying to ban inevitabilities like SDN is a waste of time.
So why dont you look at the range of years +/- 5 or 10 years around 1983 and compare it with a -5 to -10 years period of recent years?
Because that would be cherry picking weather. You are selecting a period of cold years that ended in the late 70's to early 80's when you were a kid and citing these as some norm. Climate doesn't have a norm.
I too can remember those winters. I was a kid in the N.E. US in the winter of '78-79 and I remember -50 deg. F or worse for days on end. I don't miss it. Mild winters don't mean there is something wrong you have to fix.
Weather is not climate when there is a big snowstorm. Weather is not climate when a hurricane develops and floods New York. Weather is not climate during a drought. 30 year old weather is also not climate.
2011 was the hottest summer in the US in 75 years. That means 75 years ago it was hotter. It also means 2012 was cooler than both, and all of these were cooler than the summer of 1895, which is 88 years older than 30 years ago.
So no, do not cherry pick old weather reports when developing your views on climate, as does the parent. Because Weather Is Not Climate.
Network capacity has always been measured in bits and powers of 10, not 2. 100BASE-T is 100,000,000 bits per second. A full DS-1 line is 1.544 Mbps. Analog modems include rates such as 2400 bps and 33.6 Kbps.
The isn't some nefarious marketing plot. I've never heard of any network service or medium specified in bytes per second.
You know, I have no love for Holder and all the other hate mongers and race baiters that have ginned up this Trayvon/Zimmerman case, but that particular story is not credible. As near as I can tell it originated from an Orlando Sentinel story that supposedly quotes some pressure group representative who claims that during a teleconference some DOJ official solicited "tips" via an email address that isn't actually "active" yet. There is no recording of this call and no other corroboration that I can find. It has merely ricocheted around the right wing echo chamber with remarkable velocity.
There is more than enough abuse of power occurring in this matter that it isn't actually necessary to make stuff up.
On a windy day you can pick up a hantavirus infection as well if you're near any varmint feces in a Western state. HPS fatality rate is 50%. Doctors know about it and they're not telling anybody. We need to close off New Mexico, Colorado, Arizona, California, Washington, Texas, Utah and Montana.
Or not. Life is risky and temporary. Your wish to invoke power to assuage a brand new fear or outrage you were given sometime during the last 10 minutes is a result of training. You're behaving exactly as intended.
1. Why is everyone so upset that evidence about Martin's background that Zimmerman couldn't have known was kept out of court?
The jury was specifically instructed that they could consider the physical capabilities of GZ and TM when evaluating the affirmative claim of self defense, and the prosecution met no resistance from the court as they built up a narrative around GZ's gym training. Yet TMs conversations about his history of street fighting was kept from the jury on the ludicrous grounds that TMs double password protected text message traffic couldn't be attributed to him. Some people find that unjust.
2. At what point does getting out of your car and pursuing somebody become an aggressive act?
That is situational. If a DA thinks you were the aggressor you get charged. If a jury thinks you weren't you get acquitted. You now have your answer for this situation.
What I'm wondering is why that law didn't give Martin the right to stand his ground when Zimmerman pursued him?
People, the jury included, don't believe TM was threatened by GZ's supposed "pursuit." They believe GZ followed but kept his distance while reporting to police. They believe TM chose to close the distance start a street fight. For people with this view, any appeal to Stand Your Ground on behalf of TM is farcical. If you suspect someone is following you you are not automatically empowered to double back and beat them to death.
hit the max pay out cap (easy to do when acetaminophen sold for $1.50 a tablet (you can buy 100 of those for the same price at Amazon))
I guess I'm just a lost cause. I continue to fail to understand how it is that first instinct of people when confronted with this problem isn't to ask why these prices are so ridiculously inflated, but instead demand some cap be eliminated so the ridiculously inflated prices can continue to be indulged.
Here is a question: what do you think is going to happen to the price of acetaminophen administered in a hospital when the hospital knows with metaphysical certitude that the payer of the bill can't drop the patient and can't impose a cap?
Whatever problems you imagine are already being suffered in the form of SPDY. HTTP/2.0 emerged from SPDY and SPDY is supported by popular clients including Chrome and Firefox which handle traffic from Google, Twitter and Facebook, all of whom are serving SPDY today.
Wireshark has been picking apart SPDY for a couple years now. Developers see decomposed HTTP traffic in their browser consoles or HTTP APIs with little awareness of SPDY, so they rarely care.
Bandwidth costs money. Those rare instances when someone has to bench-check an HTTP transaction using a raw TCP stream have a really low priority.
The US government invented MBSs. The US government made the MBS market via fannie, freddy and the whole clan of bubble inflating quasi-government enterprises buying trillions in MBSs. Government is the reason mortgages became liquid assets. Prior to then mortgages were balance sheet assets held by deposit banks and Wall Street didn't get to play with them.
then you're probably fine with big government spying on people
These goose stepping lefties have no problem indulging double standards. They cheered Obama on as he created the CFPB to sift through all electronic financial transactions. Moaning about NSA metadata collection on one hand and trumpeting the absolute nullification of privacy in financial matters on the other... somehow, in the minds of these people, the same government that can wade through your entire financial history with impunity is supposed to have the utmost respect for your phone calls and emails.
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The statistical effect of millions of empty, neglected GoDaddy hosted sites will not ultimately mean a great deal. It does raise a question for me, however; what benefit does GoDaddy hope to realize with IIS? My last contact with IIS was about 9 years ago. At that time it was fragile, insecure and plagued with mysterious "metabase" corruption problems. The thought of using such a thing for large scale hosting seems absurd and I've ignored it ever since.
Has it since improved enough to entice really large operations?
From the tippy-top of the bitcoin.org website:
Bitcoin is an innovative payment network and a new kind of money.
Now, IANAL, but I suspect walking into court with an argument that bitcoin isn't a new kind of money when its creators clearly and demonstrably assert that it is a new kind of money is likely to fail pretty hard.
And yes, I'm well aware of the of the distinction between money and currency. Gold bugs, sufferers of Fed derangement syndrome and others spend a lot of time proselytizing about this stuff. The thing is that the SEC and the courts don't, which is why no one has ever succeeded in evading financial laws by attacking the legitimacy of fiat money.
At least not without an army.
who gets the unenviable (and expensive!) job of decontaminating what is essentially a toxic waste dump?
Lead recovery is a common service offered essentially everywhere there are outdoor ranges and berms. Bullets don't penetrate far into berms so it's a relatively easy job. Depending on how much lead is recovered it can actually be profitable, as opposed to "expensive." Indoor ranges contract with recyclers and cash in.
How unlockable (if at all) is the bootloader?
It's a fully locked device. This is not a Nexus successor.
How conventional. Google could have thrown a grenade into the portable world. Instead they make a Samsung wannabe, complete with bloated marketing budget.
Not interested.
I think you are confusing a political system with a religion.
I think the concept of theocracy has escaped you somehow.
How many Microsoft SkyDrive users will be confused by the rename of this product and switch to Dropbox?
Both.
OTOH, regulations can be used for evil, to lock out competition and fix prices for example.
The taxi drivers assert that this is a safety matter. They claim that without well regulated taxi service people are going to get hurt riding in cars driven by who knows whom.
I honestly can't say which of either taxi drivers or random ride share people are a greater threat. I just know the GP wasn't wrong pointing out that this brand new 'outrage' has its basis in regulation, whether the little statist neck beards around here like it or not.
Here is a dire warning from 13 years ago about the imminent collapse of the Internet due to routing table growth. Lots of speculation in the comments about IPv4 address exhaustion as well. Clinton was actually still in office then.
Our routers do not need biologically inspired routing algorithms. Our routers do not need AI. Route aggregation, IPv6 and faster hardware will suffice.
Check back in 2026 and see if I'm not right.
Ten or so years ago I got into an ugly argument with a Libertarian buddy
The last ten years have been the safest in the history of US commercial aviation. We're having entire years with no airline fatalities. US airlines have become so safe that foolish MIT professors are claiming major incidents among first world airlines are on the "brink of extinction".
The safety of western airlines has done nothing but improve since the 70's. Every year the average improves. This is despite the claims of statists everywhere that "deregulation" was compromising safety. This is despite an endless barrage of fear mongering anecdotes such as your rant about entry-level pilot salaries.
Every claim about how the market was doomed to produce a reckless airline industry has been proven false. The combination of market force and market neutral regulation has produced an amazingly safe and efficient system.
There is history now. There is data. Face it and rethink your worldview. It's wrong, and the less time you spend indulging it the better.
The gp understands the reality that with the exception of Cuba, N. Korea and perhaps a few others, no nation on Earth will risk trade troubles with the US over Snowden. The US is the biggest single sovereign importer of finished goods in the world and therefore holds an economic trump card over every other nation.
One more reason why the US being the planet's trade whore is bad for everyone.
And no, sanctions for harboring Snowden won't violate any trade laws. This is "national security" and every trade agreement you can think of has a great big national security exception. The President can invent a trade sanction against anyone at any time for anything plausibly related to "national security."
it's not even as much as the fed reserve wastes in a month
The fed is printing $85 billion a month just to keep the federal debt bubble from popping and bankrupting Earth.
Creating a ubiquitous network is the first step to placing a government camera in every home. Should the Internet have been precluded to avoid centralization of power and control?
WRT citizens; SDN can only implement policies established by people. The correct approach (for a start) to dealing with these policies is this and this, not banning the tools.
WRT business; you're going to lose the argument hard on this one. One appeal of SDN is cost savings; cheaper hardware, easier management, less net complexity, better asset utilization, etc. There is no possible way you're going to convince anyone that has a budget and competitors (that includes governments, BTW) that they will be better off with systems that cost more. Forget it. 'Security' arguments won't preclude it either.
Our problems stem from huge institutions. The bigger an entity becomes the less it must collaborate; so bad things develop and survive for longer periods without discovery and resistance. Nations with hundreds of millions or billions are the problem. Global corporations are the problem. It is too easy to collude when a few entities have exclusive and global reach and all that is needed undermine liberty or privacy or establish some new rent seeker is a handshake among the masters-of-the-universe. Big systems should require lots of collaboration.
Dismantling big institutions is the solution. Trying to ban inevitabilities like SDN is a waste of time.
So why dont you look at the range of years +/- 5 or 10 years around 1983 and compare it with a -5 to -10 years period of recent years?
Because that would be cherry picking weather. You are selecting a period of cold years that ended in the late 70's to early 80's when you were a kid and citing these as some norm. Climate doesn't have a norm.
I too can remember those winters. I was a kid in the N.E. US in the winter of '78-79 and I remember -50 deg. F or worse for days on end. I don't miss it. Mild winters don't mean there is something wrong you have to fix.
weather report from 30 years ago
Remember kids; Weather Is Not Climate.
Weather is not climate when there is a big snowstorm. Weather is not climate when a hurricane develops and floods New York. Weather is not climate during a drought. 30 year old weather is also not climate.
2011 was the hottest summer in the US in 75 years. That means 75 years ago it was hotter. It also means 2012 was cooler than both, and all of these were cooler than the summer of 1895, which is 88 years older than 30 years ago.
So no, do not cherry pick old weather reports when developing your views on climate, as does the parent. Because Weather Is Not Climate.
Network capacity has always been measured in bits and powers of 10, not 2. 100BASE-T is 100,000,000 bits per second. A full DS-1 line is 1.544 Mbps. Analog modems include rates such as 2400 bps and 33.6 Kbps.
The isn't some nefarious marketing plot. I've never heard of any network service or medium specified in bytes per second.
Stop making stuff up out of ignorance.
Someone has installed geninue appearing fake road signs warning that vehicle speed is 'enforced' by missile launching drones.
wrt to Colorado; tired of being governed by coastal state refugees a set of rural counties in Northern Colorado are pursuing statehood.
You know, I have no love for Holder and all the other hate mongers and race baiters that have ginned up this Trayvon/Zimmerman case, but that particular story is not credible. As near as I can tell it originated from an Orlando Sentinel story that supposedly quotes some pressure group representative who claims that during a teleconference some DOJ official solicited "tips" via an email address that isn't actually "active" yet. There is no recording of this call and no other corroboration that I can find. It has merely ricocheted around the right wing echo chamber with remarkable velocity.
There is more than enough abuse of power occurring in this matter that it isn't actually necessary to make stuff up.
On a windy day you can pick up a hantavirus infection as well if you're near any varmint feces in a Western state. HPS fatality rate is 50%. Doctors know about it and they're not telling anybody. We need to close off New Mexico, Colorado, Arizona, California, Washington, Texas, Utah and Montana.
Or not. Life is risky and temporary. Your wish to invoke power to assuage a brand new fear or outrage you were given sometime during the last 10 minutes is a result of training. You're behaving exactly as intended.
1. Why is everyone so upset that evidence about Martin's background that Zimmerman couldn't have known was kept out of court?
The jury was specifically instructed that they could consider the physical capabilities of GZ and TM when evaluating the affirmative claim of self defense, and the prosecution met no resistance from the court as they built up a narrative around GZ's gym training. Yet TMs conversations about his history of street fighting was kept from the jury on the ludicrous grounds that TMs double password protected text message traffic couldn't be attributed to him. Some people find that unjust.
2. At what point does getting out of your car and pursuing somebody become an aggressive act?
That is situational. If a DA thinks you were the aggressor you get charged. If a jury thinks you weren't you get acquitted. You now have your answer for this situation.
What I'm wondering is why that law didn't give Martin the right to stand his ground when Zimmerman pursued him?
People, the jury included, don't believe TM was threatened by GZ's supposed "pursuit." They believe GZ followed but kept his distance while reporting to police. They believe TM chose to close the distance start a street fight. For people with this view, any appeal to Stand Your Ground on behalf of TM is farcical. If you suspect someone is following you you are not automatically empowered to double back and beat them to death.
Yes. Specify the x11-backend.so when starting Weston and it runs on top of X.
First, false dilemma.
Second, taxing people that have disposable income is a lot more effective then trying to tax people that don't.
Third, get a grip. We're discussing extra-solar planets. Not every story is another opportunity for you to exhibit your training as a malcontent.
hit the max pay out cap (easy to do when acetaminophen sold for $1.50 a tablet (you can buy 100 of those for the same price at Amazon))
I guess I'm just a lost cause. I continue to fail to understand how it is that first instinct of people when confronted with this problem isn't to ask why these prices are so ridiculously inflated, but instead demand some cap be eliminated so the ridiculously inflated prices can continue to be indulged.
Here is a question: what do you think is going to happen to the price of acetaminophen administered in a hospital when the hospital knows with metaphysical certitude that the payer of the bill can't drop the patient and can't impose a cap?
Are you even aware that you're supposed to care?
Whatever problems you imagine are already being suffered in the form of SPDY. HTTP/2.0 emerged from SPDY and SPDY is supported by popular clients including Chrome and Firefox which handle traffic from Google, Twitter and Facebook, all of whom are serving SPDY today.
Wireshark has been picking apart SPDY for a couple years now. Developers see decomposed HTTP traffic in their browser consoles or HTTP APIs with little awareness of SPDY, so they rarely care.
Bandwidth costs money. Those rare instances when someone has to bench-check an HTTP transaction using a raw TCP stream have a really low priority.
I wasn't aware the SEC employed gulags and torturers.
I wasn't aware the SEC was effective.
Housing Market Happened
The US government invented MBSs. The US government made the MBS market via fannie, freddy and the whole clan of bubble inflating quasi-government enterprises buying trillions in MBSs. Government is the reason mortgages became liquid assets. Prior to then mortgages were balance sheet assets held by deposit banks and Wall Street didn't get to play with them.
then you're probably fine with big government spying on people
These goose stepping lefties have no problem indulging double standards. They cheered Obama on as he created the CFPB to sift through all electronic financial transactions. Moaning about NSA metadata collection on one hand and trumpeting the absolute nullification of privacy in financial matters on the other... somehow, in the minds of these people, the same government that can wade through your entire financial history with impunity is supposed to have the utmost respect for your phone calls and emails.