At 15 years old he'll have to live most of his life with the effects of climate change, unlike the mostly old-fart climate conspiracy theorists who don't care what happens after they die.
0.01%? Some quick searching tells me that it costs $225M for a Soyuz launch with a full crew. Are you saying it costs somewhere near $22.5k to fuel up a Soyuz rocket? That's half the cost of fueling up a private jet.
And that's a pretty good comparison to use. If space travel were as affordable as private jet flight, which is far closer to Star Trek than it is to today's reality, it would still be only an amusement for the hyper-rich, unaffordable to the vast majority of earth's populace.
There are only two developments that could lower the energy cost of a space launch significantly: 1: Practical fusion power, and 2: Breaking the laws of physics as we currently know them.
So for the foreseeable future, private space travel will never happen except as an amusement for the hyper-rich, due to the amount of energy required. See also: supersonic passenger flight.
How dare they accuse BitTorrent of being nothing more than a platform for piracy! My torrent library contains numerous Linux ISOs, libre software installers, and Creative Commons-licensed movies and books.
That's all non-infringing material, and it makes up nearly 3% of my library!
S3 would be more expensive and less reliable (simply due to being somewhat more centralized). The only people who could use S3 and can't use Bittorrent are those on ISPs that block Bittorrent.
If the patients, medical staff, or visitor can be considered to be an attacker, then no medical device will ever be secure without physical access restrictions.
The GP's idea should only be used as nearly a last resort, but it's not worthless. This is basically how many SCADA & PLC systems are secured since the device itself has no meaningful security. They're considered to be physically secure however.
So back to the physical access problem. Will these medical devices have to be locked in secure server cages next to each patient's bed regardless of their programming, or not?
If the 99% lets that happen, we deserve it. We'd have to be bred into a nearly different species of complacent sheep to let things reach the point where this is possible.
This sounds like the "rising tide causes inflation" theory, which runs on Underpants Gnome logic as far as I can tell. Prices would have to rise uniformly across the entire country, or even the entire world as people would begin importing as many of the things they need as possible from countries unaffected by this mysterious phenomenon.
I see no mention of pulling upward on bootstraps or the application of gumption to the situation! No indication that these entitled youngsters just need to try much harder than $CURRENT_TRYING_LEVEL to get out of these low-paying jobs which were *only meant to support teenagers getting a first job while in school* (which makes it OK if hard-working, educated adults are stuck with them forever).
What kind of bleeding-heart liberal nonsense is this!?:-P
At 30 you weren't "ready to die," you were lucky to not have been randomly killed by something yet. You might have been in great health at 30 until you got an infected cut on your little finger and died from it.
Some fun old games I recall that were a massive PITA to get running are Crusader: No Remorse and Crusader: No Regret. They were isometric sci-fi shoot-em-ups where you played as a character that looked an awful lot like Boba Fett with a coat of red paint. I remember the game had a lot of puzzles as well. It was a total PITA to run even on Windows 9x, IIRC you'd have to restart in DOS mode to get it to run.
The bat-suit in Batman Beyond / Batman of the Future had exactly this on the gloves. Batman would often press them on the outside of a window to hear what people inside were saying.
If you think that "socialist" is anywhere near synonymous with "communist" or somehow at odds with a liberal democracy, you're the one who needs to get a clue. Seems like you're using the American snarl word definition of "socialist."
Ah, the old "a rising tide causes inflation" argument. I still haven't heard an alternate theory of inflation to explain this. It's just "1) Workers' wages go up, 2) ??? 3) ZOMG inflation!!!"
There's an effect of "what the market will bear" but it's NOT the same as inflation, and people who tout this theory generally like to pretend that this effect doesn't exist anyway.
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At 15 years old he'll have to live most of his life with the effects of climate change, unlike the mostly old-fart climate conspiracy theorists who don't care what happens after they die.
We can indeed stop driving gas-powered cars, and power them and your house from carbon-neutral energy sources. Talk about defeatism...
0.01%? Some quick searching tells me that it costs $225M for a Soyuz launch with a full crew. Are you saying it costs somewhere near $22.5k to fuel up a Soyuz rocket? That's half the cost of fueling up a private jet.
And that's a pretty good comparison to use. If space travel were as affordable as private jet flight, which is far closer to Star Trek than it is to today's reality, it would still be only an amusement for the hyper-rich, unaffordable to the vast majority of earth's populace.
There are only two developments that could lower the energy cost of a space launch significantly: 1: Practical fusion power, and 2: Breaking the laws of physics as we currently know them.
So for the foreseeable future, private space travel will never happen except as an amusement for the hyper-rich, due to the amount of energy required. See also: supersonic passenger flight.
Zombies don't target the power grid, but they may unintentionally cause outages by shambling into power equipment.
How dare they accuse BitTorrent of being nothing more than a platform for piracy! My torrent library contains numerous Linux ISOs, libre software installers, and Creative Commons-licensed movies and books.
That's all non-infringing material, and it makes up nearly 3% of my library!
S3 would be more expensive and less reliable (simply due to being somewhat more centralized). The only people who could use S3 and can't use Bittorrent are those on ISPs that block Bittorrent.
Defaults that work well give me no incentive to change...so gnome-terminal (known as mate-terminal on most of my systems) and osso-xterm.
See also: How climate conspiracy theorists get quoted in news articles.
If the patients, medical staff, or visitor can be considered to be an attacker, then no medical device will ever be secure without physical access restrictions.
The GP's idea should only be used as nearly a last resort, but it's not worthless. This is basically how many SCADA & PLC systems are secured since the device itself has no meaningful security. They're considered to be physically secure however.
So back to the physical access problem. Will these medical devices have to be locked in secure server cages next to each patient's bed regardless of their programming, or not?
If the 99% lets that happen, we deserve it. We'd have to be bred into a nearly different species of complacent sheep to let things reach the point where this is possible.
This sounds like the "rising tide causes inflation" theory, which runs on Underpants Gnome logic as far as I can tell. Prices would have to rise uniformly across the entire country, or even the entire world as people would begin importing as many of the things they need as possible from countries unaffected by this mysterious phenomenon.
And there you go, proving the GP's point.
The concept sounds similar to the terrafoam welfare dorms from Marshall Brain's Manna:
http://marshallbrain.com/manna...
At least this building would have individual bathrooms, and the building's small enough that there are windows for everyone...
I see no mention of pulling upward on bootstraps or the application of gumption to the situation! No indication that these entitled youngsters just need to try much harder than $CURRENT_TRYING_LEVEL to get out of these low-paying jobs which were *only meant to support teenagers getting a first job while in school* (which makes it OK if hard-working, educated adults are stuck with them forever).
What kind of bleeding-heart liberal nonsense is this!? :-P
At 30 you weren't "ready to die," you were lucky to not have been randomly killed by something yet. You might have been in great health at 30 until you got an infected cut on your little finger and died from it.
Some fun old games I recall that were a massive PITA to get running are Crusader: No Remorse and Crusader: No Regret. They were isometric sci-fi shoot-em-ups where you played as a character that looked an awful lot like Boba Fett with a coat of red paint. I remember the game had a lot of puzzles as well. It was a total PITA to run even on Windows 9x, IIRC you'd have to restart in DOS mode to get it to run.
Just a bunch of paranoid misogynist nutjobbery. At least that's how I'll treat it until there's some evidence.
Yes but that's not a climate/energy policy problem.
The bat-suit in Batman Beyond / Batman of the Future had exactly this on the gloves. Batman would often press them on the outside of a window to hear what people inside were saying.
Came here for Social Injustice Enthusiast butthurt; leaving satisfied.
Mint is like Ubuntu before they started turning it into a tablet OS composed of buzzwords.
If you think socialism is an economic system, you're using the American snarl word definition.
If you think that "socialist" is anywhere near synonymous with "communist" or somehow at odds with a liberal democracy, you're the one who needs to get a clue. Seems like you're using the American snarl word definition of "socialist."
Ah, the old "a rising tide causes inflation" argument. I still haven't heard an alternate theory of inflation to explain this. It's just "1) Workers' wages go up, 2) ??? 3) ZOMG inflation!!!"
There's an effect of "what the market will bear" but it's NOT the same as inflation, and people who tout this theory generally like to pretend that this effect doesn't exist anyway.