Science is a Process. Scientists are people. They are a mix of biological and cultural aspects to people preconceptions. A large man with a deep booming voice will get more attention than a small woman with a high quite voice. We need to be conscious of these aspects that affect us on the emotional level, so we can compensate for them, so we can actually follow the process of science. Not just get stuck in our own prejudice. When you say to yourself I am above this, that normally means you stop paying attention and you let your instincts take over.
Lowering consumption is difficult. Most of the innovative ways to do so, also require a large upfront cost. Even changing your Light bulbs to LED. When you are use to paying Less then a dollar for a bulb to paying 5 dollars for a LED bulb. Even if this bulb last 10 times longer, and uses 1/10 the power. Having people make the initial investment is difficult.
Deflation and Inflation are not a bad thing on their own. If their rate is in balanced with the rest of the economy it isn't that big of a deal. If the economy slows a relative deflation is a good thing, because it will make our prices cheaper so it would be purchased more from other economies. Inflation when the economy is good is also a good sign. As we can purchase more from cheaper economies. The problem is when these go at a rate faster then the growth of the actual economy. Deflation during a strong economy, causes over consumption where people buy things that they cannot really afford for the long term. Inflation during a week economy, causes under consumption where people can't buy things that they need to simulate the economy.
This may lead to its actual demise. With the value increasing so much so fast, with the designed supply limit. Means actually buying anything with bitcoins will be a loss. With the average 3% inflation of the US dollar, that is values is derived from a complex economy. It means I am willing to spend my Dollar, on things that may grant a temporary reward ($20 for a Pizza) or a long term reward such as investment in some company that actually makes something. Because after 7 years that $20 Pizza would only be about $25.00 so that benefit of having a Pizza for your short term pleasure isn't a major loss. Bitcoins may be too valuable to buy anything, because their value will just go up, with a mostly fixed supply, any increase of demand will cause hording.
If Switzerland power is nearly all nuclear then going to renewables makes sense. If there are still existing coal or other fossils fuel plants. There could be a risk. If their is a delay in renewable energy deployment, fossel fuel plans are much easier to start up and build. Nuclear sucks, but carbon pollution is currently the ecological problem that is much higher than what nuclear has.
Speed is becoming less and less of an issue. As computers are getting faster all the time. But we get sectors who reach "good enough" speed every day. And then can start focusing on other problems that language like C and C++ may not handle as well. My biggest problem I have seen is deployment and change control. Being able to safely test out alpha/beta code safely on production data with real world usage. A lot of this stuff is under business processes. But there should be more tool and environments that allow for a more dynamic deployment process. Your code may be 10% faster, but if it down 4 days a year for updates then all that performance is wasted.
I would actually recommend a diverse network. Windows, Linux and Macintosh. While a little harder to maintain it prevents from having all your eggs in the same basket. The biggest problem I see is over MS integration. Even doing little things such as using Apache instead of IIS on Windows. Make sure your Web Apps follow the standards and works on different browsers often can save a big headache in the future.
If you are portraying the future, then having a cast of mixed race indivuals vs the token minority makes more sense. Over half of our population is Asian, Africans have a wider genetic biodiversity. As transportation increases people are going to be hooking up across skin color shades. They are also a large pool of talented actors who belong to minority groups who get forced to play token parts. Perhaps for this they found the best actors for the show regardless of their race, and happen to get a more diverse team.
From my experience/not scientific. Older Doctors (like older people in any profession) will use their experience increasingly over time. While younger doctors, will supplement their lack of experience with learning the new methods. The younger doctors today, are far more willing to query their Electronic Health Records and see the full patient history, trust the Drug to Drug and Allergy alerts. Do wider analysis on what others may have done for this particular case. While the older doctor, will just complain that using the computers is slower to enter in the data, have their assistants enter in the data, while they ignore the benefits.
Doctors (much like IT workers) have an inflated Ego, this makes them hard to retrain.
Back in the mid 1990s Gateway 2000 made high quality desktops by the end of the decade they tried to compete with the cheaper manufacturers. Creating PC that after people own it, they don't go with gateway again.
Back in the early 2000s Dell made high quality desktops by the middle of the decade they tried to compete with the cheaper manufacturers. Creating PC that after people own it, they don't go with Dell again.
There is a big risk to have Android running on cheap devices. As people will associate the problems with the cheap device with the OS so when they figure they will want something nicer then they will no go with Android. Having a separate OS is smart because it can help the Premium devices to run with a premium OS.
I would ask you to also stop reading unverified blogs as well.
Most of the stuff uncovered isn't as much war crimes, but more of bad PR. The real debate isn't what America did, but why was so much of this classified, where most of the content isn't classified worthy.
The problem with these Laws is Location and cost of living is different across the country. 55K in a rural area. Is enough for a modest home, and a acre or two of land. Where you income can take care of a family of 4. Or if you move to a different location, 55k you will be at poverty.
Just as long sites are designed to work with the actual HTML standards, and the browser supports them, why should I really care if someone is using one browser or the other. I personally like some browsers better than others, I am fine to use what I am happy with. But what gets me are sites, who limit what you can use because they use a browser non-standard thing, that forces me to use an other browser.
I have tried Opera off an on over the past decades, While I never had any problems with it, I never really though it was that great. But I am a limited Tab Person, so it never bothered me anyways.
Microsoft back in the late 1990's won the browser war, however they failed to get their objectives. So now we have a population of browsers that we are free to use based on our personal preferences. And that is a good thing. I take the exception of "Should you leave google chrome for the opera browser" We should use what we want because they should support the actual standards, and our choice isn't on if it renders the page, but on external features that we may or may not need or want.
The last time Microsoft got in the middle of security problems, It allowed Apple to break out and we had a period of time 2006-2012 where Macintosh PC were all the rage. None of the Linux Distributions have the mussel to take advantage of a misstep from Microsoft.
What happens if a Still used software isn't owned by anyone any more. The Company is out of business, There is no source code available. There is a point where the end user has some responsibility to update their system. Like the Model-T they may still keep it, and use it for a hobby, but knowing full well if you take it on the Highway and get in an accident you are probably going to get killed.
Easier said than done. Many of these closed source software are using purchased 3rd party libraries, that will not allow for the code to be open sourced. Then there is still code that is used in your current product that you may not want to share. Finally you want people to pay for the new version, and not just get a hold of a perfectly functional older version.
Well it is there fault for not staying current. I have worked in big organizations were movement is slow... However intentionally keeping your systems dangerously out of date, is just bad management.
I will need to agree with conditions. If the Tech company is selling service contracts for that product, they will need to update it. However like XP and older, where the company isn't selling support, and had let everyone know that it off service, they shouldn't need to keep it updated. Otherwise I am still waiting for my MS DOS 6 patch as it is still vulnerable to the stoner virus.
There is the cost of getting caught. A multi-national attack hugging big organization will have a lot of people out for blood. Just hitting one or two areas you may get some jail time, but if this guy gets caught he is in serious trouble.
Bank robbers are not in it to make a load of money unless they are planning to break the vault. Normally they are just trying to get some cash to pay for drugs or a loan shark. But compared to deploying a wide scale attack, a normal bank robbery doesn't require a lot of planning, unlike the a technical attack where there is days of planning.
I agree. Being that there are so many randomware attacts which even after you pay you don't get your data back. It really doesn't make any sence to pay it. And either you restore or just consider your data loss. The problem with criminal money making, is that there will be someone willing to mess up your "business plan" with no legal recourse. What is this guy going to do sue the malware makers who don't decrypt people's data after paying for it?
However most of security problems are not from targeted attack but from broad sweeping ones. Back in the 1980 an insecure server was a server that didn't need a password to login. And for the most part they were safe because they didn't have information that people wanted or were such a small group they were not targeted for anything as to connect to the server they needed to know the telephone number and at $0.10 per call it was expensive to war dial. Once computers started to be connected to the internet at a significant level then they really needed authentication because it got easier and cheaper to just try a bunch of IP addresses. Biometric may not be good for access to a secure location or a high targeted attack. But for the bulk of the systems who are more or less just fallout from a wide attack can be much safer.
The real problem with biometric is the relative difficulty to program. We still have newly developed apps that store the passwords in clear text. Expecting developers to widely use a biometric alorithms which is much harder to code then a SELECT uid FROM users WHERE loginname=@login and password=@password Most institutions will not pay for skilled developers so they have kids out of college or an offshore developer with just rudimentary stills who may have energy and ambition but lack the experience to think of problems in term of full lifecycle needs. Forcing most programs to use the same biometric API and treating the data in the most haphazard way possible.
I thought protecting the United States from someone who had been using his posisition to increase his own profits, while still offering nothing to the general population, has a history of statiing things that go against what we considered acceptable and violating the constitution. Was a good thing that we should stand up for. I am not normally a political person. But Trump is dangerous and needs to be taken out of office or at least insure our checks and balance system stays strong to make sure his damage is minimized
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Science is a Process. Scientists are people. They are a mix of biological and cultural aspects to people preconceptions. A large man with a deep booming voice will get more attention than a small woman with a high quite voice.
We need to be conscious of these aspects that affect us on the emotional level, so we can compensate for them, so we can actually follow the process of science. Not just get stuck in our own prejudice.
When you say to yourself I am above this, that normally means you stop paying attention and you let your instincts take over.
Lowering consumption is difficult. Most of the innovative ways to do so, also require a large upfront cost. Even changing your Light bulbs to LED. When you are use to paying Less then a dollar for a bulb to paying 5 dollars for a LED bulb. Even if this bulb last 10 times longer, and uses 1/10 the power. Having people make the initial investment is difficult.
Deflation and Inflation are not a bad thing on their own.
If their rate is in balanced with the rest of the economy it isn't that big of a deal. If the economy slows a relative deflation is a good thing, because it will make our prices cheaper so it would be purchased more from other economies.
Inflation when the economy is good is also a good sign. As we can purchase more from cheaper economies.
The problem is when these go at a rate faster then the growth of the actual economy.
Deflation during a strong economy, causes over consumption where people buy things that they cannot really afford for the long term.
Inflation during a week economy, causes under consumption where people can't buy things that they need to simulate the economy.
This may lead to its actual demise. With the value increasing so much so fast, with the designed supply limit. Means actually buying anything with bitcoins will be a loss. With the average 3% inflation of the US dollar, that is values is derived from a complex economy. It means I am willing to spend my Dollar, on things that may grant a temporary reward ($20 for a Pizza) or a long term reward such as investment in some company that actually makes something. Because after 7 years that $20 Pizza would only be about $25.00 so that benefit of having a Pizza for your short term pleasure isn't a major loss. Bitcoins may be too valuable to buy anything, because their value will just go up, with a mostly fixed supply, any increase of demand will cause hording.
If Switzerland power is nearly all nuclear then going to renewables makes sense. If there are still existing coal or other fossils fuel plants. There could be a risk. If their is a delay in renewable energy deployment, fossel fuel plans are much easier to start up and build.
Nuclear sucks, but carbon pollution is currently the ecological problem that is much higher than what nuclear has.
Speed is becoming less and less of an issue. As computers are getting faster all the time. But we get sectors who reach "good enough" speed every day. And then can start focusing on other problems that language like C and C++ may not handle as well. My biggest problem I have seen is deployment and change control. Being able to safely test out alpha/beta code safely on production data with real world usage. A lot of this stuff is under business processes. But there should be more tool and environments that allow for a more dynamic deployment process.
Your code may be 10% faster, but if it down 4 days a year for updates then all that performance is wasted.
I would actually recommend a diverse network. Windows, Linux and Macintosh. While a little harder to maintain it prevents from having all your eggs in the same basket.
The biggest problem I see is over MS integration. Even doing little things such as using Apache instead of IIS on Windows. Make sure your Web Apps follow the standards and works on different browsers often can save a big headache in the future.
If you are portraying the future, then having a cast of mixed race indivuals vs the token minority makes more sense.
Over half of our population is Asian, Africans have a wider genetic biodiversity. As transportation increases people are going to be hooking up across skin color shades.
They are also a large pool of talented actors who belong to minority groups who get forced to play token parts. Perhaps for this they found the best actors for the show regardless of their race, and happen to get a more diverse team.
From my experience/not scientific.
Older Doctors (like older people in any profession) will use their experience increasingly over time. While younger doctors, will supplement their lack of experience with learning the new methods.
The younger doctors today, are far more willing to query their Electronic Health Records and see the full patient history, trust the Drug to Drug and Allergy alerts. Do wider analysis on what others may have done for this particular case. While the older doctor, will just complain that using the computers is slower to enter in the data, have their assistants enter in the data, while they ignore the benefits.
Doctors (much like IT workers) have an inflated Ego, this makes them hard to retrain.
Back in the mid 1990s Gateway 2000 made high quality desktops by the end of the decade they tried to compete with the cheaper manufacturers. Creating PC that after people own it, they don't go with gateway again.
Back in the early 2000s Dell made high quality desktops by the middle of the decade they tried to compete with the cheaper manufacturers. Creating PC that after people own it, they don't go with Dell again.
There is a big risk to have Android running on cheap devices. As people will associate the problems with the cheap device with the OS so when they figure they will want something nicer then they will no go with Android. Having a separate OS is smart because it can help the Premium devices to run with a premium OS.
I would ask you to also stop reading unverified blogs as well.
Most of the stuff uncovered isn't as much war crimes, but more of bad PR. The real debate isn't what America did, but why was so much of this classified, where most of the content isn't classified worthy.
The problem with these Laws is Location and cost of living is different across the country.
55K in a rural area. Is enough for a modest home, and a acre or two of land. Where you income can take care of a family of 4.
Or if you move to a different location, 55k you will be at poverty.
Just as long sites are designed to work with the actual HTML standards, and the browser supports them, why should I really care if someone is using one browser or the other. I personally like some browsers better than others, I am fine to use what I am happy with. But what gets me are sites, who limit what you can use because they use a browser non-standard thing, that forces me to use an other browser.
I have tried Opera off an on over the past decades, While I never had any problems with it, I never really though it was that great. But I am a limited Tab Person, so it never bothered me anyways.
Microsoft back in the late 1990's won the browser war, however they failed to get their objectives. So now we have a population of browsers that we are free to use based on our personal preferences. And that is a good thing.
I take the exception of "Should you leave google chrome for the opera browser" We should use what we want because they should support the actual standards, and our choice isn't on if it renders the page, but on external features that we may or may not need or want.
Most mission critical systems, are running some custom made applications, that was built for a particular OS.
The last time Microsoft got in the middle of security problems, It allowed Apple to break out and we had a period of time 2006-2012 where Macintosh PC were all the rage. None of the Linux Distributions have the mussel to take advantage of a misstep from Microsoft.
What happens if a Still used software isn't owned by anyone any more. The Company is out of business, There is no source code available. There is a point where the end user has some responsibility to update their system. Like the Model-T they may still keep it, and use it for a hobby, but knowing full well if you take it on the Highway and get in an accident you are probably going to get killed.
Easier said than done. Many of these closed source software are using purchased 3rd party libraries, that will not allow for the code to be open sourced. Then there is still code that is used in your current product that you may not want to share. Finally you want people to pay for the new version, and not just get a hold of a perfectly functional older version.
Well it is there fault for not staying current. I have worked in big organizations were movement is slow... However intentionally keeping your systems dangerously out of date, is just bad management.
I will need to agree with conditions. If the Tech company is selling service contracts for that product, they will need to update it. However like XP and older, where the company isn't selling support, and had let everyone know that it off service, they shouldn't need to keep it updated. Otherwise I am still waiting for my MS DOS 6 patch as it is still vulnerable to the stoner virus.
There is the cost of getting caught. A multi-national attack hugging big organization will have a lot of people out for blood. Just hitting one or two areas you may get some jail time, but if this guy gets caught he is in serious trouble.
Bank robbers are not in it to make a load of money unless they are planning to break the vault. Normally they are just trying to get some cash to pay for drugs or a loan shark.
But compared to deploying a wide scale attack, a normal bank robbery doesn't require a lot of planning, unlike the a technical attack where there is days of planning.
I agree. Being that there are so many randomware attacts which even after you pay you don't get your data back. It really doesn't make any sence to pay it. And either you restore or just consider your data loss.
The problem with criminal money making, is that there will be someone willing to mess up your "business plan" with no legal recourse. What is this guy going to do sue the malware makers who don't decrypt people's data after paying for it?
However most of security problems are not from targeted attack but from broad sweeping ones. Back in the 1980 an insecure server was a server that didn't need a password to login. And for the most part they were safe because they didn't have information that people wanted or were such a small group they were not targeted for anything as to connect to the server they needed to know the telephone number and at $0.10 per call it was expensive to war dial. Once computers started to be connected to the internet at a significant level then they really needed authentication because it got easier and cheaper to just try a bunch of IP addresses. Biometric may not be good for access to a secure location or a high targeted attack. But for the bulk of the systems who are more or less just fallout from a wide attack can be much safer.
The real problem with biometric is the relative difficulty to program. We still have newly developed apps that store the passwords in clear text. Expecting developers to widely use a biometric alorithms which is much harder to code then a
SELECT uid FROM users WHERE loginname=@login and password=@password
Most institutions will not pay for skilled developers so they have kids out of college or an offshore developer with just rudimentary stills who may have energy and ambition but lack the experience to think of problems in term of full lifecycle needs. Forcing most programs to use the same biometric API and treating the data in the most haphazard way possible.
Write up a "told you so" as in a root cause analysis.
I thought protecting the United States from someone who had been using his posisition to increase his own profits, while still offering nothing to the general population, has a history of statiing things that go against what we considered acceptable and violating the constitution. Was a good thing that we should stand up for.
I am not normally a political person. But Trump is dangerous and needs to be taken out of office or at least insure our checks and balance system stays strong to make sure his damage is minimized