Disagree: what you can't do is carry $40,000 of removable and identifiable technology on your person. But no one can afford that anyway, which is where cyberpunk falls short: the tech people will have is what can be mass produced. It's costs billions to build a modern chip fab, but it costs $100 to buy a processor from it. There's no point trying to make a custom processor, because the fab to build it would cost more then it was ever useful for, but simultaneously would also be able to build 10 million of them.
This is oddly timely - I was commenting to someone the other day that the most interesting and useful websites I use usually have absolutely no fancy web design whatever.
In their trend of being surprisingly useful, here's some entertaining stories of trying to cash out Bitcoin courtesy of SA goons: http://buttcoin.org/easy
More importantly, there's no requirement in physics that the universe be elegant for it's theories easy to understand. It's perfectly plausible that planets could move on circles and on other circles and so on and so forth. Of course all this was being done in the Roman times and was an effort in keeping the Earth at the center of the universe, but if the OP notes he thinks money should be moved elsewhere then I ask where - we need better theories of the universe, and the other candidates are at the exact same level of development.
Given that no documents have been released showing that the NSA intentionally weakened Dual_EC_DRBG other then Bruce Schnier swearing up and down he totally saw it (he may be a good cryptographer, how good is he at reading and understanding internal memos of an intelligence agency? Why have these memos not been released, even in a redacted form if they contain other sensitive info?)
Everyone already knew it was weak. The NIST specification notes (circumspectly) that there's a possible weakness and outlines means to fix it (by generating new factors for it). What exactly does the Guardian think academics should be doing?
That eas my take from the paper - although this still seems very theoretical. The DNA computation implementation example isn't very useful because DNA is too unstable and too involved with regular biology to be used like that.
The problem here is they're srill missing all the components to let you build something: you need a couple of molecules which can bind to useful cell receptors, change their state and unbind. Or you need a message carrier to bind to them and do the same. Then you need a whole family of drugs which can be selectively inhibited by your messengers.
And then all of this needs to possibly avoid localization effects - i.e. your messengers need to avoid being concentrated in the body such that they might activate a whole bunch of drugs one-way, which then get absorbed faster then messengers elsewhere can deactivate them due to a positivs signal in one location.
ZFS without RAID will still detect corrupt files, and more importantly tell you exactly which files are corrupt. So a distributed group of ZFS drives could be used to rebuild a complete backup by only copying uncorrupt files from each.
You still need redundancy, but you can get away without the RAID in each case.
SpaceX started merely as a loss-making venture poaching ex-government and contractor employees, and taking government money - it really had nothing meritocratic to bring to the table.
You call it poaching, I call it free job market. You call it "nothing meritocratic", I call it an exciting work environment. Work for legacy space transport providers is outright boring and mindnumbing, like work for any big corporation these days. SpaceX cares about their employees a bit more.
I'm pretty sure it's more a case of you'd have to do significant work to stop those employees from building rockets with company resources.
Well for one thing, the guards don't need to have the keys or equipment on hand to breach silo doors. Which you can then rig with intrusion alarms which have to provide a positive signal to some nearby authority to respond.
Kind of hard for 12 guards to cut through a meter of re-inforced door when the local national guard gets told "go and shoot all these guys if you see them trying to enter this building when the alarm goes off".
Worth noting is I don't know of any one who's suitably solved all of these cross-platform yet either.
I [i]still[/i] can't have calendar events and tasks live side-by-side in Google Calendar, nor a decent Tasks app on my phone (iOS, Android, any platform pretty much). Same story with notes and synchronizing them anywhere useful.
Except the problem is false sensor readings can't be handled by a pilot either. Trusting your human senses just doesn't work with piloting, and has been the cause of any number of light plane and several major jetliner accidents too.
When sensors on a plane malfunction, you can't just look out the window and know what's wrong. Similarly there's a lot of concern about exactly the type of deferrence you suggest - co-pilots that, due to their culture, feel unable to question or overrule perceived bad decisions of the captain.
It's a complicated problem and is not easily explained as laziness on anyone's part.
Its been on my wishlist for unmanned travel that we'd try packaging up Earth plants and sending them to grow on alien worlds in some way. The Moon is a good starting point - Elon Musk got into SpaceX because he wanted to do it on Mars with a Greenhouse.
Personally I wish we'd just man up and shoot the appropriate organisms into Venus' atmosphere to start the terraforming process.
You don't realize this but at the end of that research it is unlikely you have improved anyone's life. At best you've made a small contribution which will sum to the whole which might eventually, someday, form the basis of a viable treatment for some new issue.
I've always wondered why Canonical is hitching it's wagon to advertising. I suspect because it's easy - but it's always seemed like there's an opportunity somewhere between EC2 virtualization and the benefits of remote X that would've meant they could've set up a "run on the cloud" type service that would be nicely integrated into the deskop.
Thin clients which can farm out their heavy lifting to EC2 (for say, graphics/CAD etc) seems like a possible winner if they could claim some referral money from it.
This seems pointless though. You don't deploy source code. You deploy binaries. But separating it out into fragments hardly solves anything - what happens when Bundle A's new patch needs to call some features in Bundle B?
Templates also have a tendency to massively explode compilation problems by returning utterly incomprehensible error messages. Not to mention, the syntax itself is not what I'd call "pretty".
It would still be a benevolent dictator. That's the optimal organization for stability, provided they largely make decisions which go your way. Linus is a good benevolent dictator - he's got a bunch of principles for development, and he sticks to them. A replacement would have to be another benevolent dictator who didn't get all aspirational about "making his mark" on the kernel - which is the real danger.
That said I suspect any one of the people Linus works closely with would probably easily be able to take over in any event, since at that level I severely doubt there's anything other then a superficial perception of hierarchy.
This was my takeaway from the movie as well - the Asgard are a technologically stagnated advanced society, hence their apparent blending of magic and science: the machines keep working well enough to keep everything running, but their actual understanding is quite limited. Certainly seemed that way from the fact that the Dark Elves after 5000 years were at least at technological parity.
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Disagree: what you can't do is carry $40,000 of removable and identifiable technology on your person. But no one can afford that anyway, which is where cyberpunk falls short: the tech people will have is what can be mass produced. It's costs billions to build a modern chip fab, but it costs $100 to buy a processor from it. There's no point trying to make a custom processor, because the fab to build it would cost more then it was ever useful for, but simultaneously would also be able to build 10 million of them.
Which makes you a complete idiot, because a huge number of people have died from being punched in the head once.
That's not to mention how you can blind them, create permanent disabilities etc.
And you know, on top of "beat some sense into them" as a worldview making you functionally indistinguishable to fascists.
...saying they'll punch someone in the face if they wear Google Glass near them.
Without looking at any other comments, was I right?
This is oddly timely - I was commenting to someone the other day that the most interesting and useful websites I use usually have absolutely no fancy web design whatever.
It's still a bad idea then.
In their trend of being surprisingly useful, here's some entertaining stories of trying to cash out Bitcoin courtesy of SA goons: http://buttcoin.org/easy
More importantly, there's no requirement in physics that the universe be elegant for it's theories easy to understand. It's perfectly plausible that planets could move on circles and on other circles and so on and so forth. Of course all this was being done in the Roman times and was an effort in keeping the Earth at the center of the universe, but if the OP notes he thinks money should be moved elsewhere then I ask where - we need better theories of the universe, and the other candidates are at the exact same level of development.
Fortunately, theoretical physics is cheap.
Given that no documents have been released showing that the NSA intentionally weakened Dual_EC_DRBG other then Bruce Schnier swearing up and down he totally saw it (he may be a good cryptographer, how good is he at reading and understanding internal memos of an intelligence agency? Why have these memos not been released, even in a redacted form if they contain other sensitive info?)
Everyone already knew it was weak. The NIST specification notes (circumspectly) that there's a possible weakness and outlines means to fix it (by generating new factors for it). What exactly does the Guardian think academics should be doing?
That eas my take from the paper - although this still seems very theoretical. The DNA computation implementation example isn't very useful because DNA is too unstable and too involved with regular biology to be used like that.
The problem here is they're srill missing all the components to let you build something: you need a couple of molecules which can bind to useful cell receptors, change their state and unbind. Or you need a message carrier to bind to them and do the same. Then you need a whole family of drugs which can be selectively inhibited by your messengers.
And then all of this needs to possibly avoid localization effects - i.e. your messengers need to avoid being concentrated in the body such that they might activate a whole bunch of drugs one-way, which then get absorbed faster then messengers elsewhere can deactivate them due to a positivs signal in one location.
It's interesting that this seems very similar to what Google's doing with Google Play Services on Android.
ZFS without RAID will still detect corrupt files, and more importantly tell you exactly which files are corrupt. So a distributed group of ZFS drives could be used to rebuild a complete backup by only copying uncorrupt files from each.
You still need redundancy, but you can get away without the RAID in each case.
SpaceX started merely as a loss-making venture poaching ex-government and contractor employees, and taking government money - it really had nothing meritocratic to bring to the table.
You call it poaching, I call it free job market. You call it "nothing meritocratic", I call it an exciting work environment. Work for legacy space transport providers is outright boring and mindnumbing, like work for any big corporation these days. SpaceX cares about their employees a bit more.
I'm pretty sure it's more a case of you'd have to do significant work to stop those employees from building rockets with company resources.
Well for one thing, the guards don't need to have the keys or equipment on hand to breach silo doors. Which you can then rig with intrusion alarms which have to provide a positive signal to some nearby authority to respond.
Kind of hard for 12 guards to cut through a meter of re-inforced door when the local national guard gets told "go and shoot all these guys if you see them trying to enter this building when the alarm goes off".
Worth noting is I don't know of any one who's suitably solved all of these cross-platform yet either.
I [i]still[/i] can't have calendar events and tasks live side-by-side in Google Calendar, nor a decent Tasks app on my phone (iOS, Android, any platform pretty much). Same story with notes and synchronizing them anywhere useful.
Except the problem is false sensor readings can't be handled by a pilot either. Trusting your human senses just doesn't work with piloting, and has been the cause of any number of light plane and several major jetliner accidents too.
When sensors on a plane malfunction, you can't just look out the window and know what's wrong. Similarly there's a lot of concern about exactly the type of deferrence you suggest - co-pilots that, due to their culture, feel unable to question or overrule perceived bad decisions of the captain.
It's a complicated problem and is not easily explained as laziness on anyone's part.
Dropping one of the larger water-ice bearing rocks onto a dead planet doesn't have to be done slowly at all.
Ok this is awesome.
Its been on my wishlist for unmanned travel that we'd try packaging up Earth plants and sending them to grow on alien worlds in some way. The Moon is a good starting point - Elon Musk got into SpaceX because he wanted to do it on Mars with a Greenhouse.
Personally I wish we'd just man up and shoot the appropriate organisms into Venus' atmosphere to start the terraforming process.
You don't realize this but at the end of that research it is unlikely you have improved anyone's life. At best you've made a small contribution which will sum to the whole which might eventually, someday, form the basis of a viable treatment for some new issue.
I've always wondered why Canonical is hitching it's wagon to advertising. I suspect because it's easy - but it's always seemed like there's an opportunity somewhere between EC2 virtualization and the benefits of remote X that would've meant they could've set up a "run on the cloud" type service that would be nicely integrated into the deskop.
Thin clients which can farm out their heavy lifting to EC2 (for say, graphics/CAD etc) seems like a possible winner if they could claim some referral money from it.
Low vitamin D is incredibly common though - i.e. basically every office worker has low vitamin D. Not good, but our culture has certain effects.
This seems pointless though. You don't deploy source code. You deploy binaries. But separating it out into fragments hardly solves anything - what happens when Bundle A's new patch needs to call some features in Bundle B?
Templates also have a tendency to massively explode compilation problems by returning utterly incomprehensible error messages. Not to mention, the syntax itself is not what I'd call "pretty".
It would still be a benevolent dictator. That's the optimal organization for stability, provided they largely make decisions which go your way. Linus is a good benevolent dictator - he's got a bunch of principles for development, and he sticks to them. A replacement would have to be another benevolent dictator who didn't get all aspirational about "making his mark" on the kernel - which is the real danger.
That said I suspect any one of the people Linus works closely with would probably easily be able to take over in any event, since at that level I severely doubt there's anything other then a superficial perception of hierarchy.
This was my takeaway from the movie as well - the Asgard are a technologically stagnated advanced society, hence their apparent blending of magic and science: the machines keep working well enough to keep everything running, but their actual understanding is quite limited. Certainly seemed that way from the fact that the Dark Elves after 5000 years were at least at technological parity.
We live in the one without a girl and a lighthouse...
The PC is dying. Just like it was last year, the year before, in 2004, 2001, 1995...