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I am fully with you on a capital tax. It would ensure a system of constant high utilisation.

Where it gets shouted down is from old people that have lived in their homes for 50 years and seen their property prices rise to make them millionaires on paper but with no real income. They claim its unfair to force someone from their home.

Having studied Alzheimer's disease, it's easier on the mind to live in one place for the majority of your life. Being forced to move later in life can be traumatic.

Once you start taxing capitol you'll end up with no more overpriced valuations, conservative banking will be back in vogue.

We still have the democratic system, as things get tighter and people poorer they'll start voting for a tax on capitol.

In the UK the the proposal of a mansion tax keeps popping up, this is really the future of owning capital, just owning it will have a cost. Which is actually a great capitalist strategy because if a 10 room mansion is being under utilised the owner is going to be compelled to use it more efficiently.

Human nature is to reject change, we all trend towards the familiar.

Those out liners that do reject change are usually hailed or hurt.

Thank you for that, certainly the most interesting is to see the most/least frugal car owners at the bottom of the page.

Seeing Lexus and Audi owners in the frugal list is kind of funny.

Whilst the Open Street Map is free its important to note that the Ordinance Survey maps are some of the most detailed in the world. They offer a free access option and a paid option. Whilst the organisation is operated out of public money I am not opposed to its usage terms that are in effect a tax on business use.

http://www.ordnancesurvey.co.uk/business-and-government/help...

Initially my reaction was the same as the herd, however on reflection I see that he's trying to address a problem in the mobile space.

Really the mobile phone market is currently a duopoly and that's bad for consumers. We are now getting past the initial innovation part of the curve and starting to see level growth in terms of the number of devices in the market place and platform changes.

What we need to start thinking about is perhaps a standard on which Apps are built. Right now its like the 90s where you'd build a site for IE and one for Netscape.

> Can someone suggest when it is actually useful over a properly tuned relational database?

In your own question you kind of hint at it. You need a tuned database. NoSQL lowers the barrier to entry for fast persistent data storage with replication. NoSQL doesn't replace SQL databases, it's looking to optimise a use case where transactions are not required.

Personally I use Mongo a bit like a cache, sitting in front of a SQL DB. Things that need to be ACID are handed back and forth. Those that don't are kept in Mongo and I get the best of both worlds.

The problem with refactoring is the cost. Its rewriting code to no client perceivable benefit. The retesting, the inevitable new bug introduced during deployment.

As developers I think we need to assume the cost of refactoring and factor that into time estimates for our work. What the author is in effect saying is that we should factor 20% extra into our estimates for rewriting code. Which is fair, I just don't see a need to specify a day for it. Just put it in your project plan.

I am surprised that the developers don't just seek sponsorship from corporate entities, especially with distributions which can get given priority support.

Asking the populous to donate seems like a short term fix.

That is an interesting point of view, the government and the state are two separate things. You cannot overthrow a state (since it is a community) but you can overthrow a hostile government.

The American militia were part of the revolution to overthrow the British government and the recognition of that is codified in the Second Amendment.

Firstly I am surprised the Daily Mail created this piece, their readers care more about spending money on the NHS rather than space.

Secondly I was a little puzzled but the statement that Orion could be used to send people to Mars. If that were true then does that mean we are leaving them there to die?

Of course a 25% tax on profit leaves them in exactly the same position. The tax scheme is to have no profit by pay it as IP rights to another company in a low tax country.

It sounds like they are doing something but in fact they are not.

They just need a sales tax 25% for multinationals. That would be a level playing field.

Given that its built on open source, it would be hard for you to be locked into something.

More likely is that they'll offer support contracts, a pay for IDE and build services. Which if you are making money with your Apps then it provides assurance to you to pay for those things.

I like the idea of 100% up time. It's an engineering problem that is hard and people shy away from.

Updating the Linux kernel whilst its running has been in development for a long time, however it really needs to also happen for the whole stack.

There is a problem with JavaScript in that there is no security mechanism currently in place to ensure the JS file you are running is what you expect to be running.

Imagine your on your favourite social network that used a JS based encryption in a p2p chat to your friend. On that same page advertisers are pushing content to you. That content could be a malicious JS file which can eavesdrop on your conversation, all the while you think its encrypted.

Perhaps you should switch up from cifs to smbfs? I used to use cifs in Maverick but now appear to get slightly better stability and performance using smbfs with my Window 2012 server and 10.10.

Jury is still out on 10.10.1.

I've been making comments to that effect for years. The FCC shouldn't be looking at this, the FTC should:

"The Federal Trade Commission's Bureau of Competition enforces the nation's antitrust laws, which form the foundation of our free market economy. The antitrust laws promote the interests of consumers; they support unfettered markets and result in lower prices and more choices."

Unfettered markets being the operative words.

Rather than lower the threshold, which is just lowering the bar, how about adding a time parameter to the points? (Older points are worth more, but not visibly so)

Someone that has been using the site for a few years but only commented in a positive way is surely more valid a moderator than a new account that has submitted 10 articles in the last month. The time parameter adds continuity to the quality of flagging.

Nothing particularly unusual about the data, as time goes by delays accumulate. Its the reason you should pick a morning appointment for the doctors or why the Oscars overruns.

For an airport operator its best to maximise the utilisation of slots available and just let customers suffer the delays.

You are not weighing in the cons as well. You could drop dead, you could end up with liver failure causing more costs and pain.

Early access only serves the pharmaceuticals to sell more.

Medicine is a science which needs to keep its rigour in the face of emotion.

Memory management takes the form of optimism, they'll not clear down memory in case the user asks for the same thing again. For people with lots of RAM (8GB+) this is fine.

However if you have a 4GB computer and generally single task, then a memory clean tool can work in your favour.

I have several virtual machines that start up overnight and close down in the morning, at that point I want my memory flushed to start a fresh with my applications not the VM's cached data, which wont be needed again for another 12 hours.

This is of course a corner case and just last week I upgraded to 16GB of RAM mitigating the requirement. But there is no one size fits all memory manager out there.

The important part of the bones link was:

The medical examiner claims this is a male skeleton, not less than 45 years of age, probably stocky and a mixed European/pacific heritage.

Obviously this is a little light hearted data analysis. However it could lead to a more detailed correlation analysis. Just for an exercise in data analysis.

What I would be more interested in is an analysis of the lyrics used. I get jarred on a song that uses double negatives and colloquialisms that I have no reference to, it should be interesting to test the reading level of songs to determine how smart the writers/artists are.

I would love to see the comparison between running this and just buying cloud compute time.

Given its a constant operation which probably requires high speed interconnects. However it would be interesting to see how close in cost cloud is to a bare metal build.

Getting maths correct is actually a hard problem to solve. Reading the problems that engineers have had over the years with floating point numbers will give you an insight into the situation.

http://floating-point-gui.de/xkcd/

A good quality math library that is optimised to take advantage of new processor extensions whilst still being correct is worth a lot.

I would imagine that there is a lack of engineering time to make this open source, rather than some nefarious purpose.

That's how things were designed back then. Its more of a choose your own adventure layout.

From the linked page the list of blocked items was:

Cablemodem Side - blocked Port 80 inbound (unless customer has Static IP) WWW / HTTP Service Prevents customers from running a WWW server Port 25 outbound (unless destination is smtp.rcn.com) SMTP Mail Service Prevents customers from using outbound e-mail servers other than smtp.rcn.com Static IP subscribers are not effected by this restriction and may use any SMTP server they wish. Port 135 RPC DCE endpoint resolution Prevent attacks via this port. Port 137 NETBIOS Name Service Prevents attacks via this port. Port 138 NETBIOS Datagram Service Prevent attacks via this port. Port 139 NETBIOS Session Service Prevent attacks via this port. Port 445 Server Message Block (SMB) over TCP/IP for file sharing Port is a security risk to customers if it is open. Port 1900 uPNP port used mostly in LAN situations Port may be a security risk to customers if it is open. Port 21 FTP Permits customers to use FTP Port 22 SSH Permits customers to use SSH Port 23 Telnet Permits customers to use Telnet Cablemodem Side - not blocked Service on this port Customer impact Port 135 RPC DCE endpoint resolution This port is a security risk to customers if it is open. Port 445 Server Message Block (SMB) over TCP/IP for file sharing This port is a security risk to customers if it is open. Port 4444 Kerberos 5 to 4 ticket xlator | NV Video default This port is a security risk to customers if it is open.

I see no reason for these other than for their own commercial interest: FTP, SSH and HTTP.

The rest, even port 25 I would accept. Email needs to be tied down, nobody should be dealing with the hassle of running their own email server at home.

I would disagree with you there. Yes there is something to be said for simplicity, however advancement often comes with complexity.

I think the engineering model is going to have to take into account the new economics of selling cars. Last month I brought a new BMW, I negotiated a 5 year servicing deal which means I am only liable for tires, brake pads and possibly the clutch if it is burnt out but not if there is a mechanical fault. BMW have a vested interest in making cars that can last for as long as possible.

We should all be considering how we can place the liability of equipment makers back on the manufacturers. We'll end up with a less throw away society.

That observation is based on history. COBOL used to reign where Java sits now. The nature of corporations is changing, for the last nearly 20 years Java has enabled corporates to capitalise on investments in new hardware at a greater pace than COBOL did.

Golang is the new Java, you are watching it being born. Its not ready for the corporate world, its not on any large organisations radar (apart from its creator for course). The point is that Golang solves the problems of the future, it offer parallel execution to normal programmers.

In the future banks and large companies are going to stop having data centres of their own, CPU's are going to have 32+ cores. Java does not solve those problems natively.

Java is great, its got 40+ years of life left in it, but don't say that Java is strong because of its ecosystem. Ecosystems change from decade to decade.

Sounds like they are build from the same source but with different assets/flags:

https://code.google.com/p/chromium/wiki/ChromiumBrowserVsGoo...

This post appears to be about the Debian fork and the stalling of the development process.