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Comment Not everyone should equal when it comes to voting (Score 1) 413

Government purports to represent voters, but it's unclear whether that's the best solution. In the US, the government represent the concerns of people in a particular area, and that area happens to have voters in it.

The US Senate is designed to give equal representation to states, no matter how big or small. Puny states like MD or RI have as much voting power as NY and CA. Fair? No, if you count "fairness" by "representative based on population."

However, the Senate is fair if you count them as representatives of the States.

Likewise for Congressional districts. A Rep represents a district, and by extension the voters in a district.

By representing by straight vote count you will over-represent urban voters, which is exactly what's happening in most of the states today. That's bad for a number of reasons, the first being that concerns of urban voters are different than concerns of rural voters; the urban voters will always win on a straight up-and-down vote.

While this may seem great to the urbanistas, a bit of reflection should enlighten you as to why this would be a bad idea.

Comment So, does water cost more? (Score 3, Insightful) 377

What are the possible choices for farmers?

1. grow crappy crops with free seeds and lots of expensive water,
2. grow good groups with seeds that you need to pay for but use less water?

#2 will make you more money, so the cost of the seeds is a non-factor. #1 will make you poor, because when it doesn't rain your crops die.

So, what exactly is the issue?

Comment Tor seismic analysis? (Score 5, Interesting) 135

I wonder if they're doing their tracking by just sending traffic the servers in question from multiple places and with control over a few exit nodes. They'd basically be sending seismic waves through Tor and timing the responses. After a while and with enough exit nodes you could start figuring out where the other nodes are. With enough traffic analysis from ISPs or whatever you could find out where the TOR nodes actually are. At that point it becomes easier to figure out physically where they are.

This is theoretical, but it would be fun to try.

Comment It's about control (Score 2, Interesting) 863

Who controls the system, the system administrator or software developers?

How many packages come with init scripts that actually work?

How many packages have dependencies that aren't documented?

How many packages work only on a narrow subset of environments that are tested by the developers?

The answer, of course, is "all of them."

Today, the competent administrator can control startup, dependencies, etc on a granular basis. With systemd, that control has gone - somewhere else.

Who gets called when stuff fucks up because some bozo fucked up their package's systemd configuration? It won't be the package developer, that's for sure.

Comment Retards (Score 2) 268

The Jedi were, in the end, a bunch of idiots who were so blind that they (1) didn't notice they were spending billions of credits a year building a clone army, (2) didn't realize, even after some kid mentioned it to yoda, that all their systems were compromised, and (3) were so bad at tactics that they dropped 100% of their forces into - some dumb arena to fight someone.

Their last practitioner, Obi-Wan, left his best friend to die after cutting off both of his arms and his legs, and spent the rest of his life as a trapdoor spider waiting to turn his best friend's son into a weapon pointed at his old friend.

Why would anyone want to be like these yo-yos?

Comment Yeah, but you're not using your XPS anymore (Score 1) 355

Dell's equipment service life is 3 years. The difference between your XPS is the Black Macbook is that the guy was still using the macbook for daily tasks. Your XPS is probably on a shelf somewhere.

My late 2009 i7 iMac is unfortunately still going strong, with 16gb of ram and a 4TB fusion drive. It'll last for another few years. I have a mac mini 2009 that's been cranking away in a colo 24x7 for the last 4-5 years with no issues.

You can see the difference between Apple products on eBay every day. I've been trying to pick up a old Mac Pro, and Mac Pros from 2009 are going for $1k+. It's unreal and sort of ridiculous.

Even the prices for iDevices are crazy. Look on glyde.com: the 3GS is still $48, $100+ for a 4s. These phones are ancient. You can't give old cellphones away that aren't iPhones.

Comment you need some wireless backhaul (Score 1) 279

What you need to do is get one of these wireless backhaul things and put one at one end of your house, and one on the other.

http://www.microwave-eetimes.c...

Then you've got a 4Gbps backhaul from your fiber point to the rest of your house. Stock up on a bunch of those, and you should be able to exercise your fiber like crazy.

As a bonus, you can cook your dinner by just putting your food in the beam pathway.

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