You made an assumption, at no point did I imply anything about the OP. My point was about how silicon valley operates, not the submitter. The failure is yours.
Asinine behavior like this is what inspires people to write up how to's for removing these things. Turns out a fair number of these how to's already exist.
Bannon represented Trump's base far better than any other person in his inner circle. Without Bannon Trump will have a far harder time keeping in sync with the people responsible for putting him in office. It wasn't the globalists like McMaster that got him elected, it was people like Bannon who helped him connect with people from the lay person to the disenfranchised (both Dem and Rep).
We seem to get a story like this at least every other month. Just to keep some perspective on how ludicrous this is, here's a list of nation states that have landed something on the moon without crashing it:
US China USSR
A few more have deliberately crashed something on the moon: India Japan ESA
Don't feed the marketing trolls by posting stories like this please. It wastes time and electrons that could be put to far better use....
Its not like a truck full of cows shows up at the typical pet food factory. Pet food tends to be made from human food byproducts.
"The raw ingredients used in rendering are generally just leftovers of the meat, poultry and fishing industries." - http://www.petmd.com/dog/nutri...
There is no additional impact from cow farts by using animal already raised for human consumption to begin with. If the study got the manufacturing of the food this wrong, how badly was the rest botched?
Did the AI get programmed to only target politically incorrect content? Unfortunately double standards for YouTube, Twitter and other sites are all too common. Color me skeptical that this is anything other than an automated political censorship tool.
I'm sure the lawyers are the RIAA and MPAA are already working on how to ruin this. Check for a job listing for a gene editing specialist. How does one ruin gene editing with DRM?
The only reason to spend half a billion dollars is if you think you can get more than that in return. Think of it as a way to show much they stand to gain at the public expense if network neutrality is defeated.
When I hear about a story like this I think about an experience I had back when Doom II was released. I had hooked up my computer to my home stereo to show the game off to my roommates. I lived in an apartment in a bad neighborhood at the time.
I started to play and got as far as two shotgun blasts in before pressing pause to answer the phone. Shortly after the phone rang there was a very loud and forceful knock at the door. Said knock was followed by 'open up, police!'.
I went to the door, confused why the police were banging on my door. Several officers were standing outside with their guns in their hands while I had my phone in my hand. In my confusion I asked them what they wanted. They said they had reports of shots being fired and demanded entrance to my apartment. I let them in and showed them my computer with the game still paused. They were incredulous and didn't believe me, searching the apartment instead.
Ten seconds later they came back after finding nothing of interest. They then let me show them the computer game. I then showed them that by clicking the keyboard I could make the shotgun noise they heard.
Many additional police vehicles were outside. The officers had not yet bothered to tell the many additional cops outside that the shotgun was just a videogame. Much panic ensued as the officers outside started to yell 'shots fired' with their fellow officers inside my apartment./repeat of my own comment from some time ago.
Unfortunately the 'it's good if people just use pure Linux" defense ignores how Linux is used by the vast majority of people. When it comes to security you have to compensate for how end users use the product - not purists. Jane the accountant doesn't give a damn about ideology, she just wants her stuff to work.
Same goes for windows, and it's something Microsoft struggled with for a long time before finally understanding that they had to accept users as they are. You can lock down Windows fairly tightly as well - especially if you avoid third party software. However this is moot because that isn't how people use it.
Whether it's Android, an OpenWRT wi-fi router or otherwise is really moot. You have to design user behavior resistance in from the beginning. It's like Windows with bad drivers, the fact that it crashed from proprietary third party drivers didn't stop anyone from blaming Microsoft when their system goes tit's up.
This has nothing to do technology, science or the related culture of anything remotely related to geek / nerd concerns. What's next, a story about the Kardashians?
This is meaningless dribble. Prefab housing will never be built in numbers large enough to be anything other than green-washing. If Google wanted to do something meaningful about housing prices it would do one of two things:
Set up shop in a place where housing isn't already undergoing a huge shortage. Lobby to remove height based restrictions for housing.
These are the only two real world options. You have to either change the supply (remove height restrictions) or you have to change the demand (set up shop elsewhere).
You cannot circumvent the laws of supply and demand. Even though government after government has attempted to do so over the years.
This is a perfect example of green-washing. Let's start with their own claimed numbers. "250 grams of particulate matter a day". Let's give them perfect efficiency and say that is 100% carbon. 250 grams x 365 days = 91,250 grams. Divide that by 1000 to and we see that this art installation claims 91.25 kilograms of particulate per year. This is indeed more than the average mature tree that captures 21.7 kilograms of carbon per year.
Now let's compare that to their claim of "greenhouse gases by removing 240 metric tons of CO2 a year.". 240 metric tons = 240,000 Kilograms. We seem to be off by a several orders of magnitude. Perhaps they meant that a bunch of these 'trees' could total 240 metric tons? 240 tons divided by 91.25 kilograms = 2386.02014. Ah, assuming perfect efficiency we 'only' need 2386 moss trees at $25,000 a piece.
That equals a cost of "$59,650,000" to remove 240 metric tons of carbon. That works out to $248,541 per ton to capture CO2. (this of course assumes that have already discovered a perfect disposal plan for the carbon that has been capture. Let's compare this to the cost of something that zero sex appeal that we know actually works - sequestering carbon underground.
"But injecting huge amounts of water along with the CO2 â" 25 tons of liquid for each ton of gas â" adds to the cost. CarbFix scientists have estimated that transportation and injection could cost about $17 per ton of CO2, about twice the cost of transporting and injecting the gas alone." # https://www.nytimes.com/2015/0...
This isn't an art project, this is a fake news con for gullible people that don't understand science or math.
Because in reality business, government and other large customers have an enormous sunk cost in legacy applications that don't run on 64 bit windows. While 16 bit applications won't run at all, a very large number of 32 bit applications also won't run properly on 64 bit windows.
These applications run everything from factory machines to payroll and you can't simply replace them with a visit to Amazon. Replacing them can easily cause a chain reaction of expenses (hardware, software, machines, programming time, training and migration). I've seen platforming changes that cost millions of dollars, without any of that going to license costs.
The vast majority of users aren't technical and see their computer as nothing more than a tool. Why pay large amounts of money to replace a tool that works without perceivable benefit?
Think of it this way, if they are cracking phones than chances are they are doing so via warrants.
The privacy issue isn't cops using warrants, the issue is cops performing surveillance without warrants via IMSI catchers (AKA stingrays). One of these involves a singular target with a warrant, the other inevitably gathers data on people where the is no warrant.
Once they figured out that the document was taken all they had to do was look and see who accessed the document. They did that and showed that 6 people printed the document. They did a forensic scan of all 6 desktops and found that one had a record of emailing the Intercept.
She was busted without needing the microdots at all. The only thing the microdots did was nail her ass to the wall. It was her own stupidity that put her against the wall to begin with.
There have been a large number of politically motivated leaks lately. At one point things got so bad the Brits publicly declared they wouldn't share intel anymore.
So far this is the first of these leaks to actually result in an arrest. Several well known leaks came when only a small handful of high level people could have gotten the data to begin with. The FBI needs to arrest all of the people doing the leaking, not just low level contractors. Perhaps this arrest is just the first in series, can it really be that hard to track down these leaks?
Fire tablets are fairly decent, however they have one major drawback. The lack of the Google play store for regular apps makes the tablets second tier for actual use. If Amazon would get the Google app store on their fire tablets they could easily become the dominant android tablet on the market.
Than Firefox decided to get on a rapid release calendar. Users and businesses asked them to go back to a standard release cycle. People told Mozilla that the rapid release cycle made maintenance too cumbersome. Damn the torpedoes and full speed ahead! The switch to a rapid release cycle started in May of 2011.
You can actually see the impact this decision had by looking at historical browser trends. The previous slow decline in browser share transitioned into a 1% loss in one month - their quickest loss ever. Within 6 months Chrome overtook Firefox in browser share and never looked back.
The result of the rapid release cycle was a disastrous impact, if you updated it you broke something, if you didn't update other things broke. Packaging, deploying, extensions, patching and testing became a nightmare for the enterprise. Requests for support for the enterprise were blown off by offering extended support release - which completely missed the point. The result was IT departments chose to use browsers that were willing to offer real enterprise support.
The cries of users fell on deaf ears - all that mattered was making developers happy. Chrome didn't win, Firefox committed suicide through hubris.
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You made an assumption, at no point did I imply anything about the OP. My point was about how silicon valley operates, not the submitter. The failure is yours.
If you aren't paying for the product you are the product.
Asinine behavior like this is what inspires people to write up how to's for removing these things. Turns out a fair number of these how to's already exist.
http://www.instructables.com/i...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
https://trackimo.com/disable-g...
Looks like Time's puppet master attack worked.
Bannon represented Trump's base far better than any other person in his inner circle. Without Bannon Trump will have a far harder time keeping in sync with the people responsible for putting him in office. It wasn't the globalists like McMaster that got him elected, it was people like Bannon who helped him connect with people from the lay person to the disenfranchised (both Dem and Rep).
We seem to get a story like this at least every other month. Just to keep some perspective on how ludicrous this is, here's a list of nation states that have landed something on the moon without crashing it:
US
China
USSR
A few more have deliberately crashed something on the moon:
India
Japan
ESA
Don't feed the marketing trolls by posting stories like this please. It wastes time and electrons that could be put to far better use....
Its not like a truck full of cows shows up at the typical pet food factory. Pet food tends to be made from human food byproducts.
"The raw ingredients used in rendering are generally just leftovers of the meat, poultry and fishing industries."
- http://www.petmd.com/dog/nutri...
There is no additional impact from cow farts by using animal already raised for human consumption to begin with. If the study got the manufacturing of the food this wrong, how badly was the rest botched?
Did the AI get programmed to only target politically incorrect content? Unfortunately double standards for YouTube, Twitter and other sites are all too common. Color me skeptical that this is anything other than an automated political censorship tool.
I'm sure the lawyers are the RIAA and MPAA are already working on how to ruin this. Check for a job listing for a gene editing specialist. How does one ruin gene editing with DRM?
The only reason to spend half a billion dollars is if you think you can get more than that in return. Think of it as a way to show much they stand to gain at the public expense if network neutrality is defeated.
When I hear about a story like this I think about an experience I had back when Doom II was released. I had hooked up my computer to my home stereo to show the game off to my roommates. I lived in an apartment in a bad neighborhood at the time.
I started to play and got as far as two shotgun blasts in before pressing pause to answer the phone. Shortly after the phone rang there was a very loud and forceful knock at the door. Said knock was followed by 'open up, police!'.
I went to the door, confused why the police were banging on my door. Several officers were standing outside with their guns in their hands while I had my phone in my hand. In my confusion I asked them what they wanted. They said they had reports of shots being fired and demanded entrance to my apartment. I let them in and showed them my computer with the game still paused. They were incredulous and didn't believe me, searching the apartment instead.
Ten seconds later they came back after finding nothing of interest. They then let me show them the computer game. I then showed them that by clicking the keyboard I could make the shotgun noise they heard.
Many additional police vehicles were outside. The officers had not yet bothered to tell the many additional cops outside that the shotgun was just a videogame. Much panic ensued as the officers outside started to yell 'shots fired' with their fellow officers inside my apartment. /repeat of my own comment from some time ago.
Unfortunately the 'it's good if people just use pure Linux" defense ignores how Linux is used by the vast majority of people. When it comes to security you have to compensate for how end users use the product - not purists. Jane the accountant doesn't give a damn about ideology, she just wants her stuff to work.
Same goes for windows, and it's something Microsoft struggled with for a long time before finally understanding that they had to accept users as they are. You can lock down Windows fairly tightly as well - especially if you avoid third party software. However this is moot because that isn't how people use it.
Whether it's Android, an OpenWRT wi-fi router or otherwise is really moot. You have to design user behavior resistance in from the beginning. It's like Windows with bad drivers, the fact that it crashed from proprietary third party drivers didn't stop anyone from blaming Microsoft when their system goes tit's up.
This has nothing to do technology, science or the related culture of anything remotely related to geek / nerd concerns. What's next, a story about the Kardashians?
Get this crap out of here.
Shouldn't this be under the censorship icon?
This is meaningless dribble. Prefab housing will never be built in numbers large enough to be anything other than green-washing. If Google wanted to do something meaningful about housing prices it would do one of two things:
Set up shop in a place where housing isn't already undergoing a huge shortage.
Lobby to remove height based restrictions for housing.
These are the only two real world options. You have to either change the supply (remove height restrictions) or you have to change the demand (set up shop elsewhere).
You cannot circumvent the laws of supply and demand. Even though government after government has attempted to do so over the years.
How did flamebait from buzzfeed ever get posted to the front page of Slashdot?
This is a perfect example of green-washing. Let's start with their own claimed numbers. "250 grams of particulate matter a day". Let's give them perfect efficiency and say that is 100% carbon. 250 grams x 365 days = 91,250 grams. Divide that by 1000 to and we see that this art installation claims 91.25 kilograms of particulate per year. This is indeed more than the average mature tree that captures 21.7 kilograms of carbon per year.
Now let's compare that to their claim of "greenhouse gases by removing 240 metric tons of CO2 a year.". 240 metric tons = 240,000 Kilograms. We seem to be off by a several orders of magnitude. Perhaps they meant that a bunch of these 'trees' could total 240 metric tons? 240 tons divided by 91.25 kilograms = 2386.02014. Ah, assuming perfect efficiency we 'only' need 2386 moss trees at $25,000 a piece.
That equals a cost of "$59,650,000" to remove 240 metric tons of carbon. That works out to $248,541 per ton to capture CO2. (this of course assumes that have already discovered a perfect disposal plan for the carbon that has been capture. Let's compare this to the cost of something that zero sex appeal that we know actually works - sequestering carbon underground.
"But injecting huge amounts of water along with the CO2 â" 25 tons of liquid for each ton of gas â" adds to the cost. CarbFix scientists have estimated that transportation and injection could cost about $17 per ton of CO2, about twice the cost of transporting and injecting the gas alone."
# https://www.nytimes.com/2015/0...
This isn't an art project, this is a fake news con for gullible people that don't understand science or math.
Because in reality business, government and other large customers have an enormous sunk cost in legacy applications that don't run on 64 bit windows. While 16 bit applications won't run at all, a very large number of 32 bit applications also won't run properly on 64 bit windows.
These applications run everything from factory machines to payroll and you can't simply replace them with a visit to Amazon. Replacing them can easily cause a chain reaction of expenses (hardware, software, machines, programming time, training and migration). I've seen platforming changes that cost millions of dollars, without any of that going to license costs.
The vast majority of users aren't technical and see their computer as nothing more than a tool. Why pay large amounts of money to replace a tool that works without perceivable benefit?
Think of it this way, if they are cracking phones than chances are they are doing so via warrants.
The privacy issue isn't cops using warrants, the issue is cops performing surveillance without warrants via IMSI catchers (AKA stingrays). One of these involves a singular target with a warrant, the other inevitably gathers data on people where the is no warrant.
Sounds like they are doing the right thing.
I would really hope your wrong, however I have a bad feeling your not....
Once they figured out that the document was taken all they had to do was look and see who accessed the document. They did that and showed that 6 people printed the document. They did a forensic scan of all 6 desktops and found that one had a record of emailing the Intercept.
She was busted without needing the microdots at all. The only thing the microdots did was nail her ass to the wall. It was her own stupidity that put her against the wall to begin with.
Some are motivated by greed - Aldrich Ames is one such example.
There have been a large number of politically motivated leaks lately. At one point things got so bad the Brits publicly declared they wouldn't share intel anymore.
So far this is the first of these leaks to actually result in an arrest. Several well known leaks came when only a small handful of high level people could have gotten the data to begin with. The FBI needs to arrest all of the people doing the leaking, not just low level contractors. Perhaps this arrest is just the first in series, can it really be that hard to track down these leaks?
Fire tablets are fairly decent, however they have one major drawback. The lack of the Google play store for regular apps makes the tablets second tier for actual use. If Amazon would get the Google app store on their fire tablets they could easily become the dominant android tablet on the market.
Firefox was once far larger than Chrome, at one point they had a third of the market.
https://upload.wikimedia.org/w...
Than Firefox decided to get on a rapid release calendar. Users and businesses asked them to go back to a standard release cycle. People told Mozilla that the rapid release cycle made maintenance too cumbersome. Damn the torpedoes and full speed ahead! The switch to a rapid release cycle started in May of 2011.
https://wiki.mozilla.org/Rapid...
You can actually see the impact this decision had by looking at historical browser trends. The previous slow decline in browser share transitioned into a 1% loss in one month - their quickest loss ever. Within 6 months Chrome overtook Firefox in browser share and never looked back.
The result of the rapid release cycle was a disastrous impact, if you updated it you broke something, if you didn't update other things broke. Packaging, deploying, extensions, patching and testing became a nightmare for the enterprise. Requests for support for the enterprise were blown off by offering extended support release - which completely missed the point. The result was IT departments chose to use browsers that were willing to offer real enterprise support.
The cries of users fell on deaf ears - all that mattered was making developers happy. Chrome didn't win, Firefox committed suicide through hubris.