That is a bunch of horse shit. The flash point of plastic is higher than its 250C melting point, so the heat is self limiting. Paper's flash point is ~ 200C, which is still far higher than most CPUs can operate due to thermal throttling.
Rather, reasons not to leave your laptop on your bed include rupturing the battery (which will ignite), reducing the life of the components inside, performance, and sterility if you leave it on your lap.
No real hacker that can read in English would bother, as any valuable information to the CIA or any other Gov't org is held on the SIPRNET/NIPRNET, which is in no way connected to the internet.
Hactivists might in protest, but as XKCD pointed out, the CIA is nothing more than a digital poster, and actions to it have just as much value.
There is a time for everything. Getting off this planet is a long way off, and delays to the first manned mission will be a blip in comparison. We might not have a suitable colony for large population transfers for hundreds of years, regardless of when we do the first launch.
For that reason, I support focusing on problems now, and let the universities/private funding mature/progress the technology to get to Mars reliably in the mean time.
It is very much the computing/long thought problem. We progress in technology at such a fast rate (NASA is a contributor, but a small player in the grand scheme)that by the time we do design and start doing something productive in space, we probably could have done it faster, cheaper, and safer if we had waited anyways.
As for us killing ourselves off... That fate transcends distance barriers if it is in our nature.
That's based on the premise (that economists disagree with, btw) that bringing back manufacturing jobs *will* improve the economy.
Yes, in the past manufacturing employed a large section of the population, but during that time (50's/60's), there really wasn't such a thing as disposable incoome for the middle class. You had your tiny ranch house, your station wagon, and single TV, and scraped up what was left over for food and future hand-me-down clothes.
Nowadays we are all more affluent thanks to cheaper manufacturing overseas, and the end of that would not only make our standard of living lower, but thanks to robotics and automation (and environmental regulations), there isn't any gauruntee that anyone would be better off.
That is, it wasn't the solution 10 years ago when our economy was fine... I don't see why you think it is now.
I see that aws a problem with our communication infrastructure being privatized, not with people living outside of cities for their plethora of valid reasons.
Well, anti-thiests, those that believe there is no god, not those that don't have a belief that there is a god (there is a difference, it isn't a dichotomy, with the third state being the lack of care or interest to form an opinion either way), might be a minority, but they are a very vocal one.
I've never been approached by Christians pushing religion, but I encounter anti-thiests pushing bigotry and anti-religion on a weekly basis on the internet (between facebook and this/other sites).
All of those stores were way overpriced, and filled with clueless employees. Microcenter, pricing the same or better than Newegg, carrying equal or better stock, and having employees who know about their products, does more business than the large regional mall's Apple store.
I don't quite understand what the trouble is. If you truly are an "experiencd" java/c/c++ developer, then you should also be fluent in shell scripting and perl from all the debug/build/log parse utilities you've written to make your life easier (and that have a similar paradigm).
That is, unless you developed only on Windows, in which case there is a much bigger problem that needs to be corrected first, before you even *think* about tackling the "future" through iTechnology.
Exactly. That's why I don't believe ANYTHING unless I can conclusively prove it through scientific experimentation. I don't believe scientists or doctors or experts or teachers, because that sickness called faith will cause me to be a mindless automaton. I don't even believe I'm real or writing this right now.
Somebody hasn't read the mythical man month. It is widely believed (and a belief I share, as a relatively talented, 1 yr of working experience in middleware/embedded-ware electrical/computer engineer surrounded by senior developers) that a good developer is ~10x more productive than an average one (in terms of maintenance costs, productivity, and understanding how software interacts with problems).
Software devs become better as they age and gain experience, especially with big picture things like deciding what to spend time on and what can be left on the side (debugging tools for a big system are valuable, extra features are not, for example).
So worth 150k? Many are (not all), and in ways bean counters generally don't understand. I believe this to be one of the reasons software development in general tends to struggle to meet demands. Get experienced people, let them turn out the complicated code (stuff prone to races, memory leaks, etc) and let the newer people perform support roles (populating the other ends of interfaces, building infrastructure pieces, etc).
Except as the geneticist in TFA pointed out, it isn't 1 gene, its many, many.
They all produce some change, which is why evolution takes time to produce features or turn them on (and why, say, large portions of the population don't have a mutation to produce Vitamin C). There isn't just a magic switch to turn on adaptations, regardless if our ancestors might have had a trait in the past.
It took many generations to lose traits incrementally, and will be the same when getting them back in the same way.
From an evolutionary standpoint, I would think such a radical mutation impossible, unless his family has been selectively breeding for night vision for thousands of years.
I suspect instead this is just sensationalism and the boy has moderately better vision in low light, without the reflective light collection mechanisms that exist in other animals.
Really? Because getting the nv drivers to work correctly with a 1440x900 monitor was like pulling teeth, which is why I abandoned my brand of choice for an ATI card this latest go 'round.
IMO, its doing a pretty good job. I worked a while on the IA team, and from my experiences, breaches have been small and severely limited in damage ever since the USB drive debacle a few years ago (backdoor installed on vendor distributed drives from a tech conference caused gigs of classified data to be stolen).
It takes 6 hours to receive an email through the firewall and filter, but at least there is no spam.
There are a lot of misconceptions about how contractors work, because typically, their profit margins are no higher than in other lines of business.
The government is big on COTS hardware/software, and only turn to contractors for specialized circumstances. Those extra zeros come from the unusual design requirements and low volume orders.
Take the x thousand dollar hammer example. On the surface, that seems absurd, since one can buy a hammer for less than 10$. But when the hammer is going into space and is made of a difficult to machine titanium alloy (tool steel shatters at cold temperatures), is egonomic even through spacesuit gloves, is lightened without reducing mechanical efficiency (makes sense at an estimated 1000$/pound/launch), and only 10 are made (despite flat machining costs), that X or XX thousand dollar price tag seems very affordable.
The same thing happens in other areas. I work on submarines and some components use joysticks. Sure, commercial joysticks can be obtained for under 100$, but a waterproofed, pov only motion, high durability (sailors treat equipment like crap, and failure is not an option) piece of clockwork machinery that maybe 50 will be made, you are looking at just shy of XX thousand per.
I don't know about that. Since Foxconn does employ numerous lines from other companies, one line paying 3x more than the others would likely cause unrest, possibly enough to pressure the other companies to do the same.
No, because here we have the EPA, land and building codes that cost actual money, and engineers with 4/6 year degrees that aren't willing to work for minimum wage.
I don't know what mythos you are referring to, but I doubt it will affect anyone outside your sect.
Besides, Catholics don't speak for all Christianity, and their mythos is radically different from anyone elses. Most denominations that I know don't teach that the north star has any added significance.
LOIC can't bring down the gov't. The gov't doesn't see illegal attacks as civil disobedience. There is nothing that will push the gov't to crack down on these people like scaring them with a little anarchy.
If you want to protest, do so legally and publicly. The Guy Fawkes mask protests were a great gimmick to get media attention and raise awareness. Chances are, elected officials will be more likely to act in your favor if they see their jobs and sweet money flow coming to an end.
VGA has already been phased out. It takes effort to find a graphics card that supports it nowadays. The only products that use it are either embedded or are designed to support legacy hardware (projectors, etc).
DVI, on the other hand, will probably be around for a long time, at least until replacemt has convincing reasons to cause people to switch. The blight of HDMI (inconsistent throughput for even the PALTRY 1080p in most cables) will certainly not replace the other two formats as long as their cost/length remains higher/comparable to DVI.
I don't know what you are calling a miniature supercomputer, but a console is not that. Consoles were less powerful than their computer counterparts WHEN THEY WERE RELEASED. The illusion of power has been maintained by extreme optimization of games on each console platform, specialized hardware for games rather than generalized computing hardware, lower required display resolution (most games can only be pushed out at 720p, far lower than PC resolutions), and designers removing taxing parts f games (number of players/match, framerates due to lower required response times, etc).
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That is a bunch of horse shit. The flash point of plastic is higher than its 250C melting point, so the heat is self limiting. Paper's flash point is ~ 200C, which is still far higher than most CPUs can operate due to thermal throttling.
Rather, reasons not to leave your laptop on your bed include rupturing the battery (which will ignite), reducing the life of the components inside, performance, and sterility if you leave it on your lap.
No real hacker that can read in English would bother, as any valuable information to the CIA or any other Gov't org is held on the SIPRNET/NIPRNET, which is in no way connected to the internet.
Hactivists might in protest, but as XKCD pointed out, the CIA is nothing more than a digital poster, and actions to it have just as much value.
There is a time for everything. Getting off this planet is a long way off, and delays to the first manned mission will be a blip in comparison. We might not have a suitable colony for large population transfers for hundreds of years, regardless of when we do the first launch.
For that reason, I support focusing on problems now, and let the universities/private funding mature/progress the technology to get to Mars reliably in the mean time.
It is very much the computing/long thought problem. We progress in technology at such a fast rate (NASA is a contributor, but a small player in the grand scheme)that by the time we do design and start doing something productive in space, we probably could have done it faster, cheaper, and safer if we had waited anyways.
As for us killing ourselves off... That fate transcends distance barriers if it is in our nature.
That's based on the premise (that economists disagree with, btw) that bringing back manufacturing jobs *will* improve the economy.
Yes, in the past manufacturing employed a large section of the population, but during that time (50's/60's), there really wasn't such a thing as disposable incoome for the middle class. You had your tiny ranch house, your station wagon, and single TV, and scraped up what was left over for food and future hand-me-down clothes.
Nowadays we are all more affluent thanks to cheaper manufacturing overseas, and the end of that would not only make our standard of living lower, but thanks to robotics and automation (and environmental regulations), there isn't any gauruntee that anyone would be better off.
That is, it wasn't the solution 10 years ago when our economy was fine... I don't see why you think it is now.
I see that aws a problem with our communication infrastructure being privatized, not with people living outside of cities for their plethora of valid reasons.
Well, anti-thiests, those that believe there is no god, not those that don't have a belief that there is a god (there is a difference, it isn't a dichotomy, with the third state being the lack of care or interest to form an opinion either way), might be a minority, but they are a very vocal one.
I've never been approached by Christians pushing religion, but I encounter anti-thiests pushing bigotry and anti-religion on a weekly basis on the internet (between facebook and this/other sites).
All of those stores were way overpriced, and filled with clueless employees. Microcenter, pricing the same or better than Newegg, carrying equal or better stock, and having employees who know about their products, does more business than the large regional mall's Apple store.
I type fine one handed, and faster than most with both hands.
Example is this post. You just have to learn to shift around more.
I don't quite understand what the trouble is. If you truly are an "experiencd" java/c/c++ developer, then you should also be fluent in shell scripting and perl from all the debug/build/log parse utilities you've written to make your life easier (and that have a similar paradigm).
That is, unless you developed only on Windows, in which case there is a much bigger problem that needs to be corrected first, before you even *think* about tackling the "future" through iTechnology.
Exactly. That's why I don't believe ANYTHING unless I can conclusively prove it through scientific experimentation. I don't believe scientists or doctors or experts or teachers, because that sickness called faith will cause me to be a mindless automaton. I don't even believe I'm real or writing this right now.
Well that's not entirely true either. More often than not, martyrs are the minority thinkers, not independent.
Few are revolutionary or novel, they just are part of the group that got the short end.
Plenty of rational people think and do irrational things. Its called mass hysteria, and is a pretty common phenomenon.
Perfect assignment then, since that sort of thing happens frequently.
Somebody hasn't read the mythical man month. It is widely believed (and a belief I share, as a relatively talented, 1 yr of working experience in middleware/embedded-ware electrical/computer engineer surrounded by senior developers) that a good developer is ~10x more productive than an average one (in terms of maintenance costs, productivity, and understanding how software interacts with problems).
Software devs become better as they age and gain experience, especially with big picture things like deciding what to spend time on and what can be left on the side (debugging tools for a big system are valuable, extra features are not, for example).
So worth 150k? Many are (not all), and in ways bean counters generally don't understand. I believe this to be one of the reasons software development in general tends to struggle to meet demands. Get experienced people, let them turn out the complicated code (stuff prone to races, memory leaks, etc) and let the newer people perform support roles (populating the other ends of interfaces, building infrastructure pieces, etc).
Except as the geneticist in TFA pointed out, it isn't 1 gene, its many, many.
They all produce some change, which is why evolution takes time to produce features or turn them on (and why, say, large portions of the population don't have a mutation to produce Vitamin C). There isn't just a magic switch to turn on adaptations, regardless if our ancestors might have had a trait in the past.
It took many generations to lose traits incrementally, and will be the same when getting them back in the same way.
From an evolutionary standpoint, I would think such a radical mutation impossible, unless his family has been selectively breeding for night vision for thousands of years.
I suspect instead this is just sensationalism and the boy has moderately better vision in low light, without the reflective light collection mechanisms that exist in other animals.
Really? Because getting the nv drivers to work correctly with a 1440x900 monitor was like pulling teeth, which is why I abandoned my brand of choice for an ATI card this latest go 'round.
IMO, its doing a pretty good job. I worked a while on the IA team, and from my experiences, breaches have been small and severely limited in damage ever since the USB drive debacle a few years ago (backdoor installed on vendor distributed drives from a tech conference caused gigs of classified data to be stolen).
It takes 6 hours to receive an email through the firewall and filter, but at least there is no spam.
There are a lot of misconceptions about how contractors work, because typically, their profit margins are no higher than in other lines of business.
The government is big on COTS hardware/software, and only turn to contractors for specialized circumstances. Those extra zeros come from the unusual design requirements and low volume orders.
Take the x thousand dollar hammer example. On the surface, that seems absurd, since one can buy a hammer for less than 10$. But when the hammer is going into space and is made of a difficult to machine titanium alloy (tool steel shatters at cold temperatures), is egonomic even through spacesuit gloves, is lightened without reducing mechanical efficiency (makes sense at an estimated 1000$/pound/launch), and only 10 are made (despite flat machining costs), that X or XX thousand dollar price tag seems very affordable.
The same thing happens in other areas. I work on submarines and some components use joysticks. Sure, commercial joysticks can be obtained for under 100$, but a waterproofed, pov only motion, high durability (sailors treat equipment like crap, and failure is not an option) piece of clockwork machinery that maybe 50 will be made, you are looking at just shy of XX thousand per.
I don't know about that. Since Foxconn does employ numerous lines from other companies, one line paying 3x more than the others would likely cause unrest, possibly enough to pressure the other companies to do the same.
No, because here we have the EPA, land and building codes that cost actual money, and engineers with 4/6 year degrees that aren't willing to work for minimum wage.
That is what makes China so attractive.
I don't know what mythos you are referring to, but I doubt it will affect anyone outside your sect.
Besides, Catholics don't speak for all Christianity, and their mythos is radically different from anyone elses. Most denominations that I know don't teach that the north star has any added significance.
LOIC can't bring down the gov't. The gov't doesn't see illegal attacks as civil disobedience. There is nothing that will push the gov't to crack down on these people like scaring them with a little anarchy.
If you want to protest, do so legally and publicly. The Guy Fawkes mask protests were a great gimmick to get media attention and raise awareness. Chances are, elected officials will be more likely to act in your favor if they see their jobs and sweet money flow coming to an end.
VGA has already been phased out. It takes effort to find a graphics card that supports it nowadays. The only products that use it are either embedded or are designed to support legacy hardware (projectors, etc).
DVI, on the other hand, will probably be around for a long time, at least until replacemt has convincing reasons to cause people to switch. The blight of HDMI (inconsistent throughput for even the PALTRY 1080p in most cables) will certainly not replace the other two formats as long as their cost/length remains higher/comparable to DVI.
I don't know what you are calling a miniature supercomputer, but a console is not that. Consoles were less powerful than their computer counterparts WHEN THEY WERE RELEASED. The illusion of power has been maintained by extreme optimization of games on each console platform, specialized hardware for games rather than generalized computing hardware, lower required display resolution (most games can only be pushed out at 720p, far lower than PC resolutions), and designers removing taxing parts f games (number of players/match, framerates due to lower required response times, etc).