It's not only social media sites, it's the whole internet! Giving everyone a way to communicate with others makes it impossible to control the terrorists.
And not only the terrorists, also the pedofiles, the drug lords, all kinds of criminals can communicate using the internet.
We're in a slippery slope that ends in total chaos.
A slippery slope that started with the telephone.
Every technological advance beyond what we had at the end of the 19th century is inherently evil and has to be destroyed. It's so obvious that only terrorists and other criminals have a reason to deny it.
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Or, in other words, why the fuck are we listening to the director of the signals intelligence and cryptography agency? Everything that comes out of his mouth has necessarily to be a lie.
INT. HIGH RANK MILITARY CONFERENCE ROOM - UNDERGROUND
(A GENERAL takes center stage and points to a map of Japan with a large red circle around Tokio.)
GENERAL: (In a dramatic tone) The disaster drill for nuclear power plants has highlighted some issues. The 2-day drill began on Sunday on the scenario that an earthquake had triggered an accident at the Shika plant in Ishikawa Prefecture. A group of residents gathered at a port to flee in boats on the assumption that the earthquake had made roads unusable. But the sea was too rough to sail, and officials had not considered an alternative in case of bad weather. Participating organizations were connected via a video link, but there were problems with the sound. Officials at the Toyama Prefectural government office could not hear part of the evacuation order.
***
EXT. OCEAN - NIGHT
(A gargantuan lizard shape moving underwater gets more and more defined as it moves closer to the surface. Then, it emerges.)
There are a few reasons astrophysicists know that it is extremely unlikely that dark matter is baryonic. First of all if all the stars in a galaxy shine on an object it heats up, this heat causes the release of radiation, called thermal radiation, and every (baryonic) object above zero kelvin (or -273.14 deg celcius) emits this radiation. However, dark matter does not emit any radiation at all (hence the name dark!)
If dark matter were baryonic it would also mean that it could become light emitting. If we got a clump of baryonic matter* and put it in space it would gravitationally contract, and would eventually form a star or black hole** - both of which we would be able to see.
So, because of these reasons the dark matter in galaxies and in galaxy groups/clusters cannot be baryonic, and so cannot be planets, dead stars, asteroids, etc. It would definetely not be planets as there is no way 10-100 times the mass of the stars in a galaxy would be planets, as the mechanism for making planets relies on supernovae, and the number of supernovae needed for the that many planets would be far too high to match our observations. I hope that this answered your question!
*provided the clump of baryonic matter was large, and the amount there is in galaxies definitely is!
** we don't observe black holes directly, but can see radiation from their accretion disks.
Well, for the UK it's normal. They are both in the Coalition of the United, together with the United Arab Emirates.
The Swedes' alliance, otoh, makes no sense. Why would you ally to a country with uglier women? Or, in the case of Sweden, why would you ally to anyone*?
*: well, maybe they could lower the bar a tiny bit to let Ukraine in.
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Every bittorrent user has tried that excuse when they were caught and I don't think it has ever worked.
And one day, more bad people start doing illegal things from general population's computers not for stealth, with for incrimination. Interesting times will ensue.
Or, in other words, the judicial system is using the fundamentally flawed argument of "it was your computer". As long as they may work, fundamentally flawed arguments eventually fail. And the more they've been used, the more spectacularly they fail. Because if they fail late enough, their failure brings the excarcelation of innocent people, and those things can kill political careers.
Tell me, Muse, of that apparatus of many resources, who wandered far and wide, after monitoring the planted fields. Many the men whose crops it saw, whose ways it learned. Many the sorrows it suffered on flight, while trying to bring itself and its data back alive. Yet despite its wishes it failed to save it, because of the corn foolishly projecting twice the cattle of Helios, the Sun, so the god denied them their return. Tell us of these things, beginning where you will, Goddess, Daughter of Zeus.
If everyone who has heard of the Dunning-Kruger effect is "familiar with David Dunning", then his Christmas card list must be an epic. Why am I not on it then?
Because you drank too much on David's last Christmas party and you puked on the punch bowl.
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So, the LHC should just create a Facebook profile and store all the data on steganographied selfies and baby pictures.
Technically speaking, everything we generate, including data, alters the universe.
He committed horrible atrocities against Sony and EA's profits!!
It would be less sad if they had at least proved that.
It's not only social media sites, it's the whole internet! Giving everyone a way to communicate with others makes it impossible to control the terrorists.
And not only the terrorists, also the pedofiles, the drug lords, all kinds of criminals can communicate using the internet.
We're in a slippery slope that ends in total chaos.
A slippery slope that started with the telephone.
Every technological advance beyond what we had at the end of the 19th century is inherently evil and has to be destroyed. It's so obvious that only terrorists and other criminals have a reason to deny it.
-
Or, in other words, why the fuck are we listening to the director of the signals intelligence and cryptography agency? Everything that comes out of his mouth has necessarily to be a lie.
Vanguard Technologies' EVA Parachute
Just hide redundant AIs everywhere. They are light and you never know what mistakes you'll have to recover from.
After all, recovering lost kermen from after bizarre accidents that leave them stranded on some pointless orbit, is half the fun.
No wonder they have so many monsters
We prefer the term "Normality impaired", thank you.
INT. HIGH RANK MILITARY CONFERENCE ROOM - UNDERGROUND
(A GENERAL takes center stage and points to a map of Japan with a large red circle around Tokio.)
GENERAL: (In a dramatic tone)
The disaster drill for nuclear power plants has highlighted some issues. The 2-day drill began on Sunday on the scenario that an earthquake had triggered an accident at the Shika plant in Ishikawa Prefecture. A group of residents gathered at a port to flee in boats on the assumption that the earthquake had made roads unusable. But the sea was too rough to sail, and officials had not considered an alternative in case of bad weather. Participating organizations were connected via a video link, but there were problems with the sound. Officials at the Toyama Prefectural government office could not hear part of the evacuation order.
***
EXT. OCEAN - NIGHT
(A gargantuan lizard shape moving underwater gets more and more defined as it moves closer to the surface. Then, it emerges.)
GODZILLA : (In a dramatic tone) Roar.
Typical KSP. You click the wrong button, unfold the lander module's legs during take off and everything goes to heck.
Please remind me how their is no corruption in your country again.
Easy, we give the politicians the power to define what is corruption and what isn't.
Why stop it?
Getting the government involved in regulating the site to preemptively prevent these transactions is stupid.
Unless the point is to find a reason for getting the government involved in regulating the site.
Good for finding the mistake. Bad for attributing to stupidity what could easily be imagined as malice.
(FYI)
There are a few reasons astrophysicists know that it is extremely unlikely that dark matter is baryonic. First of all if all the stars in a galaxy shine on an object it heats up, this heat causes the release of radiation, called thermal radiation, and every (baryonic) object above zero kelvin (or -273.14 deg celcius) emits this radiation. However, dark matter does not emit any radiation at all (hence the name dark!)
If dark matter were baryonic it would also mean that it could become light emitting. If we got a clump of baryonic matter* and put it in space it would gravitationally contract, and would eventually form a star or black hole** - both of which we would be able to see.
So, because of these reasons the dark matter in galaxies and in galaxy groups/clusters cannot be baryonic, and so cannot be planets, dead stars, asteroids, etc. It would definetely not be planets as there is no way 10-100 times the mass of the stars in a galaxy would be planets, as the mechanism for making planets relies on supernovae, and the number of supernovae needed for the that many planets would be far too high to match our observations. I hope that this answered your question!
*provided the clump of baryonic matter was large, and the amount there is in galaxies definitely is!
** we don't observe black holes directly, but can see radiation from their accretion disks.
They formed around stars and then got ejected by meteor impact, star explosion or whatever.
Dark Matter is rogue planets!
(repeat over and over until it becomes paradigm)
Well, for the UK it's normal. They are both in the Coalition of the United, together with the United Arab Emirates.
The Swedes' alliance, otoh, makes no sense. Why would you ally to a country with uglier women? Or, in the case of Sweden, why would you ally to anyone*?
*: well, maybe they could lower the bar a tiny bit to let Ukraine in.
[Disclaimer: This post, combining a bad joke, an off-topic comment and some trolling, should replace all my posts for the day. I have a lot of work and had to optimize my daily Slashdot contribution.]
Because otherwise you'd see the 1 frame marketing ads.
1 frame?
You've not been in youtube recently right?
I think they prefer their ads to be of the several hundred frames high volume persuasion.
maybe you could retire to your cold fjord ?
FNORD!
Oh, fjord. Ok, nothing to see here. Move along.
Every bittorrent user has tried that excuse when they were caught and I don't think it has ever worked.
And one day, more bad people start doing illegal things from general population's computers not for stealth, with for incrimination. Interesting times will ensue.
Or, in other words, the judicial system is using the fundamentally flawed argument of "it was your computer". As long as they may work, fundamentally flawed arguments eventually fail. And the more they've been used, the more spectacularly they fail. Because if they fail late enough, their failure brings the excarcelation of innocent people, and those things can kill political careers.
Tell me how you intend to make a *profit* by going into space with massive amounts of technology and resources???
To get the same things we already have here?
It's a matter of weight, not of composition. Even relatively small asteroids can contain metals priced in the hundreds of billions of dollars.
http://www.asterank.com/
You could buy 80 million $1000 computers for that amount!
Or pay the salary of the CEO of each of the handful of IT corporations that paid your political campaign!
Tell me, Muse, of that apparatus of many resources, who wandered far and wide, after monitoring the planted fields. Many the men whose crops it saw, whose ways it learned. Many the sorrows it suffered on flight, while trying to bring itself and its data back alive. Yet despite its wishes it failed to save it, because of the corn foolishly projecting twice the cattle of Helios, the Sun, so the god denied them their return. Tell us of these things, beginning where you will, Goddess, Daughter of Zeus.
"Mainstream" tech sites are bad enough already.
But, "Mainstream" sites are too ... ... waaaait a second.
"SugarString publishes thoughtful tech-focused stories that track humanity’s climb towards the new next."
Well, they want to be part of that climb towards the new next.
Nobody said the new next was not going to be a shitty place.
Now I wonder what's the official age at which one can start laughing at younger people for the shitty world they're going to inherit.
We need a law against journalists using numbers. It would be less misleading to have them report as:
"[...]a Cray XC40 containing much storage and capable of a large number of flops."
If everyone who has heard of the Dunning-Kruger effect is "familiar with David Dunning", then his Christmas card list must be an epic. Why am I not on it then?
Because you drank too much on David's last Christmas party and you puked on the punch bowl.