You need to make a national ID program before you do that, so every citizen has easy and free access to an ID.
No, you don't. You just need to mandate that the states provide it. Which would be a good idea, in general.
Most (maybe all) states already have a very low cost "non-drivers ID", what we used to call a "drinker's license". If people are complaining that voter ID laws discriminate, then fix the difficulty in getting the ID, and leave the very sensible requirement to reduce vote fraud.
Though, really, in-person vote fraud is likely to be peanuts compared to electronic vote fraud this year. The Russians have already demonstrated their willingness to hack US systems in order to help Trump. It's not like anyone has a right to be surprised if Trump wins with 100% of the electronic vote, since we will of course ignore security until it's too late.
There's a meaningful difference between "some Mormons" and "the Mormons". This doesn't seem to be a business owned by the church, so saying it's owned by "the Mormons" is misleading.
Another thing that MS has going for it is their focus on business intelligence. That is going to be a huge differentiator as more business learn the power of BI.
Anyone remember the dot-com bubble? BI is the new Pets.com; data scientist is the new web master.
A: Human gene editing could lead us to a dark place, let's not do that.
B: This will cause us to be left behind in the science of human gene editing!
A: Yes, well, that was rather the point, wasn't it?
Obviously this was the intent. I'd personally be willing to take a few risks to get the cure for cancer, but if Europe takes the risks we still get the cure for cancer - just not the profits from it.
You know, it's really hard to believe from the books that Batman is straight. Frank Miller has a lot of fun with that in DKR (the final fight between Joker and Bats is in the Tunnel of Love - really).
He's actually pretty hard to kill, per the comic book lore (they tend to reboot every few decades because of how ridiculous it gets). Doomsday certainly didn't stop beating him in the most famous Superman story (which they tried to ham-handedly shove into the movie, in a half-assed way, very badly done).
Superman vs. Batman is ridiculous every time they try it, from the movie to the comics to the animated series. A practical take on Superman vs. Batman would end in about 2 seconds, with Batman dead or permanently disabled for tugging on Superman's cape. No, I don't care how much prep time he has.
I found the fight in Dark Knight Returns convincing. Hard to tell the passage of time in a comic book fight scene, but I'd say it was less than 30 seconds of violence. No spoilers here, but I found the conclusion easy to believe.
Or, another take on "Superman vs. Batman" where Bruce Wayne slept with Louis Lane - that's gotta sting.
he movie was particularly awful. Ben Afleck is horrible
Call me crazy, but I actually liked Batfleck. Only redeeming element of the movie. Gal Gadot made a perfectly good Wonder Woman, as well, but she had no business being in the film. The fundamental problem, irredeemable in both this and Man of Steel is that's not Superman. Superman is a paladin. Batman is the brooding and dark one FFS. I don't know WTF they were thinking with the production and direction of both of these.
A the best Superman stories always set things up where he's physically able to solve the problem immediately through brute force, but won't because his moral compass is unwavering. Take that away and all that's left is the stuff written for the 8-10 year old boys (the original target audience of the books).
Frank Miller told the story well in Dark Knight Returns. The key in that story was that Batman's goal in the fight was not to kill Superman, just to give him enough of a beating to encourage Superman to back off. Batman, of course, knows about kryptonite and has the resources to acquire some. Still, hundreds of people have tried to beat Superman using Kryptonite over the years, and he's still there.
DKR is a very good read, and in one book invented the "dark Batman" that everyone expects today. Miller is the one who took Batman from Adam West to Dark Night.
You could not be a respectable part of middle class society beyond a certain age unless you were married. Heck, you don't have to go that far back until it applied to basically everyone. There was also a much stronger expectation of a stable relationship being a path to marriage, and the general sense that while sex before marriage could be overlooked, marriage and family was the point of it all (which, before the pill, was a reasonable idea). Sex was just a lot less available, for both sexes, unless you were at least pretending to be working up to marriage, and very often pretense would lead through inertia to reality.
Mechanically (so to speak) the pill changed everything, but society lags reality. From what I saw, it was only really in the 90s that it started to be OK to be in a long term relationship with no plans for marriage.
SS is already taxable (if you have non-trivial retirement income), so it already pays less for the "rich". Still, I could see it maybe happening after the boomers are gone, but since the youngest Boomers are 50-ish, I doubt it will have much impact for the 47s.
Even as a monitor, my TV was unwatchable until I found that damn "motion smoothing" setting and killed it. It also took a while to change it from "show room display settings" to something more reasonable for my living room. As a geek, I was able to get it all sorted, but it was pretty poor usability the whole way.
I dont want a smart TV that sends all I watch and do to the internet.
Heh, even if you're watching a torrent or something, if your smart TV has a network connection it's phoning home with what you're watching (or hashes of screenshots thereof). Sadly, no one is selling high-end panels without all the "smart"-ness unless you want to pay 2-3x for industrial stuff.
Heinlein once wrote "every generation thinks they invented sex". This is what he meant. And he was writing about kids in the 1950s thinking that people at the turn of the century were having less oral sex (or other experimentation).
Rest assured, before the invention of the pill, oral sex was really quite popular.
Poverty is coupled to birth rate, not sexual activity. (The two stopped being in sync when the pill was invented, after all).
Before industrialization, surviving societies were those that had enough kids such that more than 2 made it to reproductive age, just like any other species. That meant strong societal pressure to have as many kids as you could, enshrined in tradition and religion and law. That habit changes very quickly after kids become a cost, rather than the primary form of wealth for the poor.
The money is a bit of a distraction (or abstraction) from the actual problem: a very old-biased population put too large of a burden of care on the young. The higher the percentage of the working population providing elder care, the lower the remainder producing general goods and services everyone needs. Increased automation can make that a non-issue, but I'd rather not have a race condition there.
That won't happen. It's politically impossible to cut SS. Instead, the government will just print enough money to keep the SS checks coming, regardless of the damage to the currency. SS liability isn't so bad when measured against currency-collapsing events, so at 47 we likely won't live to see the inevitable fall.
Well, there are two different trends now affecting men. The first is that marriage is now all downside, no upside, but that's true only because it doesn't cause less sex. The other is that the traditional male theme of "put up with her, however crazy, because that's just how relationships work" is fading.
Men my age and older are used to resolving all domestic arguments and conflict of any kind by just letting her win. The new, far healthier IMO approach is "it's not worth the drama". Men less willing to put up with daily drama for sex are, of course, getting less sex.
SMR drives are different - the S is for Shingled. It's an oddball recording technology that requires an entire track be written to change any block. They're really the worst choice for random write patterns.
Seagate Archive drives are designed for cold storage, as they say 6 times on their web page for the drive. If you don't know what "cold storage" means, it means "not RAID".
So, you build a RAID array out of drives designed for "not RAID", and they started failing on you. And this is somehow Seagate's fault? The mind boggles.
Are you seriously thinking that all an individuals' actions should be for the betterment of the larger society?!?!
There's a fine line there that casual arguments tend to obscure.
All of us have a moral duty to take enough action for the betterment of society so as to give at least as much to society as we consume over our lifetimes. More than just monetarily, of course, but that's a good measure for most of it.
Far too often people fall into the trap of attacking the extremes (or worse, defending them), when those are irrelevant. No sane person will seriously claim than either arr or none of an individuals actions should be for the betterment of society. But it's totally reasonable to argue about the details of what the balaance is, and how to measure it.
Seriously, Slashdot, how low will you go? This is a straight smear and as much as I dislike how Thiel has chosen to wield his power, this paints you pretty desperate.
Quoting a Gawker story on Thiel, no less! I mean, sure, it's interesting that Gawker is going out the way it lived, writing hit-pieces, learning nothing, but really, the content of those hit pieces isn't interesting.
A rootkit doesn't need anything quite that low level.
By definition a rootkit runs in kernel mode.
It's quite difficult these days on Windows to directly modify the kernel files to gain persistence, plus it's quite obvious that a key file has the wrong checksum. Much easier to have a driver that does whatever you want it to do, such as directly diddle kernel memory, or change a file contents between disk and user mode.
All of which come in pre-packaged malware kits, of course. Heck, it's probably the default for Metasploit for detection avoidance.
Drivers as a source of viruses? Talk about unreasonable
You misunderstand. It's not "that driver was a virus", it's "that virus installed a driver, and now there's no getting rid of it". It's the most straightforward way to make a persistent root kit.
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You need to make a national ID program before you do that, so every citizen has easy and free access to an ID.
No, you don't. You just need to mandate that the states provide it. Which would be a good idea, in general.
Most (maybe all) states already have a very low cost "non-drivers ID", what we used to call a "drinker's license". If people are complaining that voter ID laws discriminate, then fix the difficulty in getting the ID, and leave the very sensible requirement to reduce vote fraud.
Though, really, in-person vote fraud is likely to be peanuts compared to electronic vote fraud this year. The Russians have already demonstrated their willingness to hack US systems in order to help Trump. It's not like anyone has a right to be surprised if Trump wins with 100% of the electronic vote, since we will of course ignore security until it's too late.
There's a meaningful difference between "some Mormons" and "the Mormons". This doesn't seem to be a business owned by the church, so saying it's owned by "the Mormons" is misleading.
Another thing that MS has going for it is their focus on business intelligence. That is going to be a huge differentiator as more business learn the power of BI.
Anyone remember the dot-com bubble? BI is the new Pets.com; data scientist is the new web master.
A: Human gene editing could lead us to a dark place, let's not do that.
B: This will cause us to be left behind in the science of human gene editing!
A: Yes, well, that was rather the point, wasn't it?
Obviously this was the intent. I'd personally be willing to take a few risks to get the cure for cancer, but if Europe takes the risks we still get the cure for cancer - just not the profits from it.
You know, it's really hard to believe from the books that Batman is straight. Frank Miller has a lot of fun with that in DKR (the final fight between Joker and Bats is in the Tunnel of Love - really).
He's actually pretty hard to kill, per the comic book lore (they tend to reboot every few decades because of how ridiculous it gets). Doomsday certainly didn't stop beating him in the most famous Superman story (which they tried to ham-handedly shove into the movie, in a half-assed way, very badly done).
The problem with a different box is that it's a different remote, which is a show-stopper for many.
Superman vs. Batman is ridiculous every time they try it, from the movie to the comics to the animated series. A practical take on Superman vs. Batman would end in about 2 seconds, with Batman dead or permanently disabled for tugging on Superman's cape. No, I don't care how much prep time he has.
I found the fight in Dark Knight Returns convincing. Hard to tell the passage of time in a comic book fight scene, but I'd say it was less than 30 seconds of violence. No spoilers here, but I found the conclusion easy to believe.
Or, another take on "Superman vs. Batman" where Bruce Wayne slept with Louis Lane - that's gotta sting.
he movie was particularly awful. Ben Afleck is horrible
Call me crazy, but I actually liked Batfleck. Only redeeming element of the movie. Gal Gadot made a perfectly good Wonder Woman, as well, but she had no business being in the film. The fundamental problem, irredeemable in both this and Man of Steel is that's not Superman. Superman is a paladin. Batman is the brooding and dark one FFS. I don't know WTF they were thinking with the production and direction of both of these.
A the best Superman stories always set things up where he's physically able to solve the problem immediately through brute force, but won't because his moral compass is unwavering. Take that away and all that's left is the stuff written for the 8-10 year old boys (the original target audience of the books).
Frank Miller told the story well in Dark Knight Returns. The key in that story was that Batman's goal in the fight was not to kill Superman, just to give him enough of a beating to encourage Superman to back off. Batman, of course, knows about kryptonite and has the resources to acquire some. Still, hundreds of people have tried to beat Superman using Kryptonite over the years, and he's still there.
DKR is a very good read, and in one book invented the "dark Batman" that everyone expects today. Miller is the one who took Batman from Adam West to Dark Night.
Then don't give it a network connection.
Indeed. Making all the "smart" features worthless, sadly.
You could not be a respectable part of middle class society beyond a certain age unless you were married. Heck, you don't have to go that far back until it applied to basically everyone. There was also a much stronger expectation of a stable relationship being a path to marriage, and the general sense that while sex before marriage could be overlooked, marriage and family was the point of it all (which, before the pill, was a reasonable idea). Sex was just a lot less available, for both sexes, unless you were at least pretending to be working up to marriage, and very often pretense would lead through inertia to reality.
Mechanically (so to speak) the pill changed everything, but society lags reality. From what I saw, it was only really in the 90s that it started to be OK to be in a long term relationship with no plans for marriage.
SS is already taxable (if you have non-trivial retirement income), so it already pays less for the "rich". Still, I could see it maybe happening after the boomers are gone, but since the youngest Boomers are 50-ish, I doubt it will have much impact for the 47s.
Medica*, OTOH, is a ticking bomb.
I want no TV, I want a monitor. Simple as that.
Even as a monitor, my TV was unwatchable until I found that damn "motion smoothing" setting and killed it. It also took a while to change it from "show room display settings" to something more reasonable for my living room. As a geek, I was able to get it all sorted, but it was pretty poor usability the whole way.
I dont want a smart TV that sends all I watch and do to the internet.
Heh, even if you're watching a torrent or something, if your smart TV has a network connection it's phoning home with what you're watching (or hashes of screenshots thereof). Sadly, no one is selling high-end panels without all the "smart"-ness unless you want to pay 2-3x for industrial stuff.
. In the 1950's people were having less oral sex
Heinlein once wrote "every generation thinks they invented sex". This is what he meant. And he was writing about kids in the 1950s thinking that people at the turn of the century were having less oral sex (or other experimentation).
Rest assured, before the invention of the pill, oral sex was really quite popular.
Poverty is coupled to birth rate, not sexual activity. (The two stopped being in sync when the pill was invented, after all).
Before industrialization, surviving societies were those that had enough kids such that more than 2 made it to reproductive age, just like any other species. That meant strong societal pressure to have as many kids as you could, enshrined in tradition and religion and law. That habit changes very quickly after kids become a cost, rather than the primary form of wealth for the poor.
The money is a bit of a distraction (or abstraction) from the actual problem: a very old-biased population put too large of a burden of care on the young. The higher the percentage of the working population providing elder care, the lower the remainder producing general goods and services everyone needs. Increased automation can make that a non-issue, but I'd rather not have a race condition there.
That won't happen. It's politically impossible to cut SS. Instead, the government will just print enough money to keep the SS checks coming, regardless of the damage to the currency. SS liability isn't so bad when measured against currency-collapsing events, so at 47 we likely won't live to see the inevitable fall.
Well, there are two different trends now affecting men. The first is that marriage is now all downside, no upside, but that's true only because it doesn't cause less sex. The other is that the traditional male theme of "put up with her, however crazy, because that's just how relationships work" is fading.
Men my age and older are used to resolving all domestic arguments and conflict of any kind by just letting her win. The new, far healthier IMO approach is "it's not worth the drama". Men less willing to put up with daily drama for sex are, of course, getting less sex.
SMR drives are different - the S is for Shingled. It's an oddball recording technology that requires an entire track be written to change any block. They're really the worst choice for random write patterns.
You wot mate?
Seagate Archive drives are designed for cold storage, as they say 6 times on their web page for the drive. If you don't know what "cold storage" means, it means "not RAID".
So, you build a RAID array out of drives designed for "not RAID", and they started failing on you. And this is somehow Seagate's fault? The mind boggles.
Are you seriously thinking that all an individuals' actions should be for the betterment of the larger society?!?!
There's a fine line there that casual arguments tend to obscure.
All of us have a moral duty to take enough action for the betterment of society so as to give at least as much to society as we consume over our lifetimes. More than just monetarily, of course, but that's a good measure for most of it.
Far too often people fall into the trap of attacking the extremes (or worse, defending them), when those are irrelevant. No sane person will seriously claim than either arr or none of an individuals actions should be for the betterment of society. But it's totally reasonable to argue about the details of what the balaance is, and how to measure it.
Seriously, Slashdot, how low will you go? This is a straight smear and as much as I dislike how Thiel has chosen to wield his power, this paints you pretty desperate.
Quoting a Gawker story on Thiel, no less! I mean, sure, it's interesting that Gawker is going out the way it lived, writing hit-pieces, learning nothing, but really, the content of those hit pieces isn't interesting.
That ... actually makes a lot of sense, thanks.
A rootkit doesn't need anything quite that low level.
By definition a rootkit runs in kernel mode.
It's quite difficult these days on Windows to directly modify the kernel files to gain persistence, plus it's quite obvious that a key file has the wrong checksum. Much easier to have a driver that does whatever you want it to do, such as directly diddle kernel memory, or change a file contents between disk and user mode.
All of which come in pre-packaged malware kits, of course. Heck, it's probably the default for Metasploit for detection avoidance.
Drivers as a source of viruses? Talk about unreasonable
You misunderstand. It's not "that driver was a virus", it's "that virus installed a driver, and now there's no getting rid of it". It's the most straightforward way to make a persistent root kit.