seacious
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11 years ago
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on: Postmortem of Heroku's June 23 Downtime
To your aside: I for one really appreciate Heroku's color scheme. I find high contrast color schemes very fatiguing, and prefer light-ish on dark-ish color schemes like Heroku's. I don't really believe in a universally ideal color scheme. I think we should instead focus on building and supporting tooling to help people adapt content to their needs.
seacious
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11 years ago
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on: Living the Fitbit life
I have been both fat and slim. I don't think the change was caused by a change in my moral turpitude.
seacious
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11 years ago
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on: Missing E-Mail Is the Least of the IRS's Problems
My bad. I wish there were gender neutral pronouns I could use so that I wouldn't have to worry about shit like this when it doesn't matter.
seacious
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11 years ago
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on: Missing E-Mail Is the Least of the IRS's Problems
He's probably not referring so much to the specific limits on mailbox size as he is to the policy of forcing responsibility for maintaining permanent archives on the users of the system rather than the administrators of it.
seacious
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11 years ago
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on: Missing E-Mail Is the Least of the IRS's Problems
"Such policies indicate either an agency that is not concerned with preserving good audit chains or one that has an extremely penny-wise, pound-foolish approach to IT policy."
I think AND is more appropriate than OR here.
seacious
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11 years ago
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on: Canadian court ruling orders Google to block sites worldwide
I wonder if this will eventually lead to google making use of a decentralized federated search strategy where they provide the technology to everyone who wants their site to be findable by means of google, but do not actually produce the results themselves. From a technological pov that would certainly be far more challenging than their current system, but it might make them less of a target legally.
seacious
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11 years ago
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on: CIA rendition jet was waiting in Europe to snatch Snowden
Governments always expect to be tracked, the only surprising thing is when voters see the results and pay attention.
seacious
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11 years ago
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on: Absurd Creature of the Week: The 120-Foot-Long Jellyfish
Yeah, but how do you get the journalists to drink it?
seacious
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11 years ago
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on: She's Her Own Twin
We don't really know how common chimerism, because it is expensive to test for. It requires sampling many different tissues/ parts of the body and comparing the gentic material found in each. Some kinds of chimerism are easy to detect and are believed to be relatively common. See:
http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.149...
seacious
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11 years ago
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on: Virginia orders Uber, Lyft to stop operating in state
Very nearly all of modern science is based on appeals to authority. I don't have the training or time to validate even 1/10'000th of the things that a modern 'scientific' person is supposed to believe.
seacious
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11 years ago
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on: Raptor robot runs at 28.58 mph, faster than any human [video]
Especially since a very active human will only require the energy equivalent of a liter or two of gas per day.
seacious
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11 years ago
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on: The Cobra Effect that is disabling paste on password fields
I downloaded Hawken and played it once and enjoyed. When I went to play again I realized that I would have to type my 20 character random password in in order to be able to play, alt tabbing between the password manager and the game repeatedly.
I uninstalled the game.
seacious
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11 years ago
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on: It's the Latency, Stupid (1996)
A slight nitpick that I mention only because I just learned this recently. The marble on the other end wouldn't come out instantaneously. Time it would take after starting to push the new marble in for the marble on the other side to start coming out is determined by speed of the pressure wave that would propogate through the marbles. You can see a really cool demonstration of this principle here:
http://a.gifb.in/092011/1317143770_slinky_dropped_in_slowmot...
seacious
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11 years ago
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on: Dragon V2 Unveil – Webcast
Probably pretty similar to how it feels when soyuz capsules land on land on parachute descent. It's not a new technique.
seacious
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11 years ago
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on: Amazon Flexes Its Muscles in Fight Against Publishers
What practice of Hachette is amazon objecting to? The article doesn't specify the cause of the conflict.
seacious
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11 years ago
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on: Pervasive Monitoring Is an Attack
Most blackhats will cheerfully acknowledge that what they are doing is wrong. They just think it isn't
very wrong. Everyone does things they know to be wrong. Even
very wrong.
Update: Formatting. (can't we get a preview, please?)
seacious
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11 years ago
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on: Russia Bans Rocket Engine Sales to U.S. Military
The Delta IV is more expensive than the Atlas V to launch. Will the ULA get more money as a result? Is the contract cost plus or is it fixed rate?
seacious
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11 years ago
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on: Dumb.domains
Or both at once! That would make data collection considerably easier.
seacious
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11 years ago
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on: Oracle wins appeal re Java API copyrightability [pdf]
It seems pretty likely that this will go to the SCOTUS. The court has been taking a lot of IP related cases recently and this one is pretty huge.
seacious
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12 years ago
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on: Tech firms write to U.S. FCC to oppose 'net neutrality' plan
It seems significant to mention that the tech firms are opposing
ineffectual net neutrality plans. Not opposing net neutrality.
edit: formatting
