So the US is a huge nuclear-armed threat to my life.
Hardly .
You might be struck with something non-nuclear. Maybe all the way up to a MOAB, but that is extremely doubtful. Whatever a drone strike could pull off.
When the poster mentioned that state actors fear MAD, what he really means is that State actors are going to consider consequences a hell of lot more rationally, and thoroughly before acting. The US would have to be pushed severely before using nuclear anything. Especially, when nuclear has such severe long lasting consequences and there are so many other options.
Non-state actors have no such concerns beyond the present need. Most of the time we are talking about mentally unstable sociopaths that justify their actions in whatever way they want. If that Holmes guy had access to nuclear technology he would have used it. Terrorists are not so different because their primary interest is causing widespread fear and instability in societies to bully them into compliance with their demands. The group usually does not want to die, but they are far more tolerant of losses than state actors.
I was not worried about Iraq having nuclear weapons because, and we know this now, it would have been nigh impossible for Saddam to have ordered a strike. His government would not have complied with those wishes. His sons were true gangsters, but they would not have used nuclear either. Too many people in the chain.
North Korea was far more concerning because of the ideological indoctrination that everyone receives there. They could honestly believe that nuclear aggression might be their last option. However, because we know how much corruption there is over there with their incredibly faithful reenactment of The Animal Farm, it is not likely that the upper echelons would truly risk anything that would endanger their standards of living.
Iran is only slightly concerning because of their religious nature and ongoing war with Israel, but is just as doubtful that they would truly use nuclear weapons. Seriously, Iran is just way too close to Israel. Their own populations would be just as affected.
As for the US.... while it may be true the President can order a strike we all damn well know if we were not at Defcon 1 the chances of the order being followed are near zero. So many people in that chain are rational people. Unless they also felt threatened, or that there was an extremely good reason, they probably would not comply. There would need to be some consensus amongst thousands of individuals involved in that chain for any hope of a nuclear strike to commence.
Quickest way for the President to be removed from office and committed for psych eval? Order a nuclear strike out of nowhere, or specifically at "that durrr butthead on Slashdot".
You're not under any nuclear threat from the US. The biggest threat from the US is the Intellectual Property legislation and bullshit coming from our corporations. You need to be afraid of that threat to your liberty first.
It's okay. Very few people are going to listen to you or be aligned with your principles. Give it just a few years and people will tell you to just get over it, nothing really big happened, and it only really affected you if your were guilty.
Tech Support - "Have you tried turning it off and turning it back on?" Passenger - "It's crushing my fucking nuts!! I can't see shit man. Where's the fucking power button?!" Tech Support - "Sir, I cannot help you if you continue to use such language. Please wait for a supervisor" Supervisor - "What version of Windows are you using?"
The definition also says suppress. Your equating the word censor as having the same action and connotation as edit. They are not interchangeable in meaning and spirit.
There is a reason why the definition for censorship contains the word suppress, which means to forcibly prevent the development, action, or expression of (a feeling, impulse, idea, etc.); restrain.
You argue about language being used in a standard way, then stick to that principle. The standard usage of censorship is negative and means the forcible suppression of expression of objectionable content.
Only weasel like dickweeds in the entertainment industry try to say, "content has been edited for television", when we all damn well know it has been censored.
You're starting to remind of President Clinton and the word "is".......
Am I making sense? We are focusing on things that are easy to teach like piles of math. Things that are complex and can create aware citizens seems to interest the system less.
No, you are not making sense. Math teaches the critical thinking skills and logic that cover everything you just spoke about. From legal contracts, to finances, to real estate, those critical thinking skills and logic help you figure shit out.
Let's also be clear here. We are not talking about math classes that only mathematicians take. Algebra is basic, and Calculus is at most intermediate.
Maybe we might teach those skills with something other than pure math, but those skills are essential. Without them, it is going to get pretty scary. I already feel like an intellectual titan walking around in society when I look at younger people these days, and I'm the guy that would get invited as the idiot to parties with real intellectuals.
I agree to a point. General education is useful to provide a well rounded education. Sometime in the teen years you can start allowing children to specialize, which is something adults do anyways. Heck, even our brains do it, unless I am wrong about my limited understanding of neuroscience.
The value in math is not what you can do with it. Highest math courses I passed were Calculus and I never went on to anything else in college. To this day I don't use very high level math, the standard deviation equation being a notable exception. I just don't need an absolute ton of math to be programming and administrating the systems that I do. I know there is a *huge* amount of math involved in the platforms that I am using, but I'm working at a much higher level of abstraction and can just use a math class or plugin where required.
The true value of math is learning critical thinking skills and logic. While only a very small percentage of students will ever use it daily, 100% could be benefiting from the critical thinking skills and logic.
Regardless of specialization, those skills need to be taught. Could there be a better way than pure math? Perhaps.
I'm pretty sure Craigslist will have a much better return...
Ohhh.. you'll get applicants all right. Not what you are looking for though.
Try it. If you sell an "antique writing desk with hutch" it will get instantly translated into, "I'm desperate for vagina. Call or email me at all hours of the fucking night if you have vagina to sell me".
Craigslist should just renamed to questionablehookuplists.com
Or have principles which prevent you from engaging in such behavior.
Valuing privacy and refusing to participate in information sharing with a company that will only use it in ways you don't approve of hardly makes you suspicious. If some people really do find that suspicious and can't understand the reasons... screw em. You will have as much success changing their minds as changing ultra-religious fanatics minds about their intolerance and bigotry.
The real concern is if businesses or governments start using the lack of social networking presence as grounds for investigations or refusal to be employed.
Well, it serves the purposes of bathrooms, which is why it was designed.
Although I don't know why public bathrooms, or pissoirs are related to augmented reality.
I did find this little gem looking up the definition:
Pissoirs first became widespread in France but exist throughout the world, from Scandinavia to Australia. They fell out of fashion in the late 20th century, but have seen something of a revival, with ultra modern versions being built in places like Berlin. Britain, which shares anglo-saxon prudishness with America has recently relaxed its taboo against open air urinals, due to the problem of binge drinking and subsequent al fresco urination. In the south of England, cylindrical pissoirs which are hidden during the day, telescope out of the ground at night, for the relief of marauding drunken hordes.
Wow. I did not know you Brits took drinking so seriously. It's sounds like a sport.
What I admit is that there is no way on fucking Earth I would every pay for it ever again.
Just one simple realization.
I'm paying over $100 per month for a company to sell my ass like meat to the advertisers.
If I am going to bend over and get fucked on a regular basis, I'm sure as hell not going to smile and hand over my money while they do it. All that "quality" programming infected with commercial advertisements everywhere is not anywhere near the definition of a reacharound.
Add to this the further realization that these companies are suing with twisted logic like skipping commercials is theft & copyright infringement (both). So that the same time they want me to be a paying customer each month, they hate me and treat me like a dirty criminal and lobby for laws to progressively eliminate any semblance of choice and free will in my home.
I wish I figured that out sooner instead of spending nearly 10 years paying exorbitant fees to these ass clowns.
Cut the cord nearly 10 years ago now and I don't care how expensive they make the Internet. I'm only going to spend up to $100 per month on it, and it will include everything. Period. Otherwise, I will just go without.
Hard drives are getting bigger all the time. I can download 1 or 2 shows and just arrange get togethers with friends on the weekends to sync up hard drives. Say hello to the sneakernets again.
Skype has ~650 million users. With Skype support in Asterisk it makes a lot cheaper to take inbound international calls, and still route Skype calls into a traditional call center. There has been some interest expressed by clients that I work with.
There is a big difference between a platform that is reputed to be P2P with strong encryption being trusted to carry communications, and a platform that is openly advertising support for backdoors with law enforcement.
As for completely unverifiable security, are you saying one would be an idiot to trust any SAAS platform that they could not dissect before hand with respect to business?
At some point some trust must be placed with 3rd party corporations, and agreements put into place, but it is quite different when that corporation is announcing something like this.
Microsoft can kiss business use goodbye. They have been pushing an API for Skype that I have been casually looking into for awhile.
When Microsoft says it is going to make it easier for the authorities to tap into conversations all I really hear is, "We are going to implement a backdoor and pray like fucking crazy hackers don't find it to pwn us".
I can't in good conscience recommend using Skype to any business for communications, which can often be sensitive, as long as Microsoft is putting in backdoors. Need to find another platform.
That also precludes communications platforms from integrating with Skype like Asterisk. Sure, a POTS connection is not nearly as secure as Skype would be, but it is far more difficult to tap a POTS line from thousands of miles away.
What is interesting is if Microsoft's enterprise communications platform Lync suffers from the same vulnerabilities. They might just be fucking themselves out of the business sector for communications entirely.
It doesn't seem that way. These suits can act a higher pressure which allows them to dock to the spacecraft in the first place. So they must be sturdier.
Also, it's not like when the suit leaves that the ship is exposed to space. There must be an additional "hatch" that is closed around the suit opening to allow it to leave.
So when docked you have the structural integrity of the suit itself (life support backpack plus suit plus helmet) and the structural integrity of the "hatch" that is not mentioned.
It's not a full blown traditional airlock because there is not a separate space that has to have the pressure equalized before you can enter the space craft. In a way it is a mini-airlock because you will still need to equalize that small space in between the hatch and the suit.
The greatest advantage to this is speed. No pre-breathing and cycle time in a big airlock. You could be out in space in minutes it sounds like, or less.
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So the US is a huge nuclear-armed threat to my life.
Hardly .
You might be struck with something non-nuclear. Maybe all the way up to a MOAB, but that is extremely doubtful. Whatever a drone strike could pull off.
When the poster mentioned that state actors fear MAD, what he really means is that State actors are going to consider consequences a hell of lot more rationally, and thoroughly before acting. The US would have to be pushed severely before using nuclear anything. Especially, when nuclear has such severe long lasting consequences and there are so many other options.
Non-state actors have no such concerns beyond the present need. Most of the time we are talking about mentally unstable sociopaths that justify their actions in whatever way they want. If that Holmes guy had access to nuclear technology he would have used it. Terrorists are not so different because their primary interest is causing widespread fear and instability in societies to bully them into compliance with their demands. The group usually does not want to die, but they are far more tolerant of losses than state actors.
I was not worried about Iraq having nuclear weapons because, and we know this now, it would have been nigh impossible for Saddam to have ordered a strike. His government would not have complied with those wishes. His sons were true gangsters, but they would not have used nuclear either. Too many people in the chain.
North Korea was far more concerning because of the ideological indoctrination that everyone receives there. They could honestly believe that nuclear aggression might be their last option. However, because we know how much corruption there is over there with their incredibly faithful reenactment of The Animal Farm, it is not likely that the upper echelons would truly risk anything that would endanger their standards of living.
Iran is only slightly concerning because of their religious nature and ongoing war with Israel, but is just as doubtful that they would truly use nuclear weapons. Seriously, Iran is just way too close to Israel. Their own populations would be just as affected.
As for the US.... while it may be true the President can order a strike we all damn well know if we were not at Defcon 1 the chances of the order being followed are near zero. So many people in that chain are rational people. Unless they also felt threatened, or that there was an extremely good reason, they probably would not comply. There would need to be some consensus amongst thousands of individuals involved in that chain for any hope of a nuclear strike to commence.
Quickest way for the President to be removed from office and committed for psych eval? Order a nuclear strike out of nowhere, or specifically at "that durrr butthead on Slashdot".
You're not under any nuclear threat from the US. The biggest threat from the US is the Intellectual Property legislation and bullshit coming from our corporations. You need to be afraid of that threat to your liberty first.
I've heard him narrate before, but nobody narrates like Nemoy.
Shatner: I'm talking with native Martian life. I want to get to the raw nerve.
Yeah, somehow I doubt that. I've seen what Kirk does with the natives....
LOL.
I would rather struggle listening to a heavy Indian accent than some Jersey Shore idiot trying to help me all day long....
You fell for it.
The AC is just running interference for the shill account :)
So vagina is not very popular around here? I need to make a poll.....
This meme isn't doing too well is it? Just keep trying.
Yeah... vagina isn't doing to well on the Internet....
+1000
It's okay. Very few people are going to listen to you or be aligned with your principles. Give it just a few years and people will tell you to just get over it, nothing really big happened, and it only really affected you if your were guilty.
I just keeping thinking it is a Ubuntu release
I can see tech support now.
Tech Support - "Have you tried turning it off and turning it back on?"
Passenger - "It's crushing my fucking nuts!! I can't see shit man. Where's the fucking power button?!"
Tech Support - "Sir, I cannot help you if you continue to use such language. Please wait for a supervisor"
Supervisor - "What version of Windows are you using?"
Please.
The definition also says suppress. Your equating the word censor as having the same action and connotation as edit. They are not interchangeable in meaning and spirit.
There is a reason why the definition for censorship contains the word suppress, which means to forcibly prevent the development, action, or expression of (a feeling, impulse, idea, etc.); restrain.
You argue about language being used in a standard way, then stick to that principle. The standard usage of censorship is negative and means the forcible suppression of expression of objectionable content.
Only weasel like dickweeds in the entertainment industry try to say, "content has been edited for television", when we all damn well know it has been censored.
You're starting to remind of President Clinton and the word "is".......
Am I making sense? We are focusing on things that are easy to teach like piles of math. Things that are complex and can create aware citizens seems to interest the system less.
No, you are not making sense. Math teaches the critical thinking skills and logic that cover everything you just spoke about. From legal contracts, to finances, to real estate, those critical thinking skills and logic help you figure shit out.
Let's also be clear here. We are not talking about math classes that only mathematicians take. Algebra is basic, and Calculus is at most intermediate.
Maybe we might teach those skills with something other than pure math, but those skills are essential. Without them, it is going to get pretty scary. I already feel like an intellectual titan walking around in society when I look at younger people these days, and I'm the guy that would get invited as the idiot to parties with real intellectuals.
I agree to a point. General education is useful to provide a well rounded education. Sometime in the teen years you can start allowing children to specialize, which is something adults do anyways. Heck, even our brains do it, unless I am wrong about my limited understanding of neuroscience.
The value in math is not what you can do with it. Highest math courses I passed were Calculus and I never went on to anything else in college. To this day I don't use very high level math, the standard deviation equation being a notable exception. I just don't need an absolute ton of math to be programming and administrating the systems that I do. I know there is a *huge* amount of math involved in the platforms that I am using, but I'm working at a much higher level of abstraction and can just use a math class or plugin where required.
The true value of math is learning critical thinking skills and logic. While only a very small percentage of students will ever use it daily, 100% could be benefiting from the critical thinking skills and logic.
Regardless of specialization, those skills need to be taught. Could there be a better way than pure math? Perhaps.
I'm pretty sure Craigslist will have a much better return ...
Ohhh.. you'll get applicants all right. Not what you are looking for though.
Try it. If you sell an "antique writing desk with hutch" it will get instantly translated into, "I'm desperate for vagina. Call or email me at all hours of the fucking night if you have vagina to sell me".
Craigslist should just renamed to questionablehookuplists.com
Or have principles which prevent you from engaging in such behavior.
Valuing privacy and refusing to participate in information sharing with a company that will only use it in ways you don't approve of hardly makes you suspicious. If some people really do find that suspicious and can't understand the reasons... screw em. You will have as much success changing their minds as changing ultra-religious fanatics minds about their intolerance and bigotry.
The real concern is if businesses or governments start using the lack of social networking presence as grounds for investigations or refusal to be employed.
Well, it serves the purposes of bathrooms, which is why it was designed.
Although I don't know why public bathrooms, or pissoirs are related to augmented reality.
I did find this little gem looking up the definition:
Pissoirs first became widespread in France but exist throughout the world, from Scandinavia to Australia. They fell out of fashion in the late 20th century, but have seen something of a revival, with ultra modern versions being built in places like Berlin. Britain, which shares anglo-saxon prudishness with America has recently relaxed its taboo against open air urinals, due to the problem of binge drinking and subsequent al fresco urination. In the south of England, cylindrical pissoirs which are hidden during the day, telescope out of the ground at night, for the relief of marauding drunken hordes.
Wow. I did not know you Brits took drinking so seriously. It's sounds like a sport.
Fuck. Amen.
We should do away with all the courts and due process too. Make a lot simpler. Break a deal - Spin the wheel.
If you have an argument with another person... Thunderdome bitches. Put that on TV and the whole system pays for itself!
It's not a waste of time for a slashdot story apparently. Look at the rest of the comments.
It sure has brought out plenty of butthurt and bitter people that are very rude and condescending people.
You know what? It doesn't matter what people "care" about. Most of them are idiots who care about going to heaven.
Take that gem for instance. I think the article itself is trolling.
Well... yes. That is a pretty big advantage there.
What I admit is that there is no way on fucking Earth I would every pay for it ever again.
Just one simple realization.
I'm paying over $100 per month for a company to sell my ass like meat to the advertisers.
If I am going to bend over and get fucked on a regular basis, I'm sure as hell not going to smile and hand over my money while they do it. All that "quality" programming infected with commercial advertisements everywhere is not anywhere near the definition of a reacharound.
Add to this the further realization that these companies are suing with twisted logic like skipping commercials is theft & copyright infringement (both). So that the same time they want me to be a paying customer each month, they hate me and treat me like a dirty criminal and lobby for laws to progressively eliminate any semblance of choice and free will in my home.
I wish I figured that out sooner instead of spending nearly 10 years paying exorbitant fees to these ass clowns.
Cut the cord nearly 10 years ago now and I don't care how expensive they make the Internet. I'm only going to spend up to $100 per month on it, and it will include everything. Period. Otherwise, I will just go without.
Hard drives are getting bigger all the time. I can download 1 or 2 shows and just arrange get togethers with friends on the weekends to sync up hard drives. Say hello to the sneakernets again.
if you trusted it before you were an idiot.
That's a bit harsh.
Skype has ~650 million users. With Skype support in Asterisk it makes a lot cheaper to take inbound international calls, and still route Skype calls into a traditional call center. There has been some interest expressed by clients that I work with.
There is a big difference between a platform that is reputed to be P2P with strong encryption being trusted to carry communications, and a platform that is openly advertising support for backdoors with law enforcement.
As for completely unverifiable security, are you saying one would be an idiot to trust any SAAS platform that they could not dissect before hand with respect to business?
At some point some trust must be placed with 3rd party corporations, and agreements put into place, but it is quite different when that corporation is announcing something like this.
Microsoft can kiss business use goodbye. They have been pushing an API for Skype that I have been casually looking into for awhile.
When Microsoft says it is going to make it easier for the authorities to tap into conversations all I really hear is, "We are going to implement a backdoor and pray like fucking crazy hackers don't find it to pwn us".
I can't in good conscience recommend using Skype to any business for communications, which can often be sensitive, as long as Microsoft is putting in backdoors. Need to find another platform.
That also precludes communications platforms from integrating with Skype like Asterisk. Sure, a POTS connection is not nearly as secure as Skype would be, but it is far more difficult to tap a POTS line from thousands of miles away.
What is interesting is if Microsoft's enterprise communications platform Lync suffers from the same vulnerabilities. They might just be fucking themselves out of the business sector for communications entirely.
It doesn't seem that way. These suits can act a higher pressure which allows them to dock to the spacecraft in the first place. So they must be sturdier.
Also, it's not like when the suit leaves that the ship is exposed to space. There must be an additional "hatch" that is closed around the suit opening to allow it to leave.
So when docked you have the structural integrity of the suit itself (life support backpack plus suit plus helmet) and the structural integrity of the "hatch" that is not mentioned.
It's not a full blown traditional airlock because there is not a separate space that has to have the pressure equalized before you can enter the space craft. In a way it is a mini-airlock because you will still need to equalize that small space in between the hatch and the suit.
The greatest advantage to this is speed. No pre-breathing and cycle time in a big airlock. You could be out in space in minutes it sounds like, or less.
I'd rather compete for a chance at North Korean citizenship.
So you want to be on the Apple version of that reality show?
Wow, just wow. I'm having trouble processing this.
That's exactly what I thought having to see his balls hanging off the edge of the couch every morning....