I would actually be fascinated to see some research(probably not practical to carry out, unfortunately) as to which mode of business produces a greater proportion of destructive and sociopathic leadership...
Does a criminal environment, with its, er, vigorous, competition and possibility of advancement through killing people? Or does the rule of law, where smirking and saying "We did nothing illegal" won't get you shot by the people you've just stiffed?
Momentum is, indeed, a problem(yes, you will get some exciting bruises and/or broken bones); but blunt trauma over a fairly large area is more of a "oh Fuck is that going to hurt in the morning" problem, while a bullet hit somewhere specific is a trifle more serious...
I'm sure that this work will have no applications to the design of future nuclear fuel rod assemblies, which bear no relationship whatsoever with closely packed fuel pellets inside an array of thin cylinders...
The existence of the mobile printers really seems like a nail in the coffin of this camera thing: The Pandigital 4x6 version(MMC/SD/SDHC/Pictbridge with AC power) has been knocked down to ~$65 on their site.
Polaroid's somewhat classier GL10 3x4; but with Bluetooth from most smartphones or Pictbridge and a 35 print rechargable battery is still ~$170 on their site(shopping around might help; but I didn't).
Unless you are dedicated to polaroid in itself(in which case the still-available classic chemical stuff is probably better), buying a $300 shitty P&S+3x4 printer rather than the much better ~$130 camera of your choice(and/or the phone you already have) plus a GL10 seems like a very niche move.
If you have a wall socket or vehicle inverter handy, the $65 4x6 seems even more technically competitive, assuming that having to shove in a USB cable isn't a total deal-killer...
Unfortunately, 'ZINK' is "zero ink" in the sense that "the necessary dyes or precursors are embedded in our unique proprietary paper and then heat-activated by the printer".
Technologically speaking, 'ZINK' is substantially more advanced than your basic monochrome thermal printer, as seen in most label and receipt printers everywhere, and I give their tech guys full credit; but I cannot help but be extremely unimpressed by the likely value proposition of a printer where you have to buy the manufacturer's proprietary paper(and in the correct size for your mobile gimmick widget, unless you feel like doing some cutting). At present the stuff isn't cheap and either due to limited market or patents on the paper technology, no generic compatibles appear to exist...
We're only pretending to support them, but antisemitism is rising and we have a president who thinks his life would be a lot easier if Israel didn't exist. Guess our loyalty doesn't run very deep.
Were you operating on the misconception that our 'loyalty' to any of our allies is particularly deep(or that of any of our allies to us)?
The fact that Apple has largely abandoned the server market, and is the only source of hardware on which OSX is blessed to run probably doesn't help.
Yeah, you can get the "Mac Pro Server"(Oh Boy! you can by a rack shelf and then put two of them on it, for up to 4 whole sockets in 12Us! The bitchin' Radeon HD 5770(whose mini displayport and DVI outputs aren't compatible with my KVM gear) totally takes my mind off the fact that xserves would have done 24 sockets in the same space. Dual PSUs aren't an option; but does your shitbox dell server have bluetooth or S/P-DIF audio? Thought not...) or a "Mac Mini Server"(a server that supports up to 8GB of RAM, fuck yeah! Wait, you mean that "apple remote control" is the name of an attractive IR remote, not a LoM card? Shit, no wonder is seemed so cheap.)
For many people's desktop requirements, the fact that Apple refuses to make a sucky-but-wildly-inexpensive tower isn't actually a huge deal. The server market is a whole lot less forgiving of deviations from reasonable form factors and common redundancy and management features...
Are you seriously suggesting that precious Capital is worth more than some roofer who could be replaced by an undocumented immigrant for 1/3 the price tomorrow?
You must be one of them commies I've been warned about...
I'm pretty sure, given the context(and the fact that things like sales taxes are already common, not novel and interesting proposals), that 'financial transactions' means 'transactions conducted in Finance, capital F', the sort of wacky securities stuff that has caused a bit of trouble in the past few years...
I'm sure that we'll hear soon enough that the dead hand of government wishes to prevent granny from retiring on her 401k; but that this isn't a sales tax proposal(except to the extent that it might make the sale of securities closer to being subject to the same conditions that presently govern the sale of actual goods and services...)
Probably not too much, in an achitectural sense. Probably a lot, but not a terribly surprising lot, in an institutional sense.
Building impressively secure systems(while by no means easy, it is serious software engineering and/or comp sci) is something that people can do and have done. Building impressively secure systems that aren't wildly expensive and wholly incompatible with the shoddy-but-feature-rich crap that people like to buy is substantially harder.
Building impressively secure systems that aren't wildly expensive, or wholly incompatible, and provide security by association to said shoddy-but-feature-rich crap is Just Plain Hard.
I suspect that their problem is less that there is something fundamentally broken with SELinux and more that they have no realistic chance of being able to say "SHUT DOWN EVERYTHING!"(on both their own networks and those of contractors who might as well be an extension of them, in terms of sensitivity) and give BOFH Hardass the opportunity to run roughshod over every consideration that isn't security to his heart's content for a few years and make the users live with the results...
While the OSDK might not exist, the dynamic duo of AK-47-and-offspring and RPG-7-and-descendants are arguably the equivalent of the MP3 format: Originally proprietary, and not really all that fantastic compared to some of the competition; but cheap, ubiquitous, and widely cloned...
There is absolutely nothing sinister about the abnormally high specificity of my spontaneous candor. In particular, there are no such things as "Reptoids from Delta Reticulon Plus" for us to definitely not be.
Implausible. Heavy metal poisoning is only modestly fatal, either at alarming doses or if you draw the short straw in the carcinogen lottery; but has a huge band of unpleasant but nonfatal effects at lower doses.
With uncontrolled emissions into the environment, you would likely see a uselessly small die-off, largely among people with occupational exposure, and a huge number of subtly to seriously impaired people with cognitive issues, chronic health problems, or both. Killing nearly nobody and creating a large number of chronically sick people is not exactly a clever population control strategy, even if you don't have any ethical reservations about it...
Well, it suggests that ancient near-eastern science fiction writers are still holding up pretty well compared to contemporary science fiction writers, since the figure for Americans who believe in angels is 55%, fully 16% higher than UFOs...
Ah, you underestimate the true conspiracy theorist's(don't let yourself be fooled by the plants) capacity for discerning the sinister complexity of the labyrinthine wheels within wheels...
By craftily wording their inquiry as though it were merely a risible question about aliens, our petitioner has forced Them to reveal that there is "no credible evidence" to suggest that the US Government has communicated with extraterrestrial beings, such as the so-called 'astronauts' who participated in the moon landing hoax, or 'space probes' that allegedly disprove the Hollow Earth theory!
We warmly welcome any further inquiries concerning matters distant from pressing issues that make the questioner look slightly insane for doubting us!
In fact, just in the spirit of openness, we voluntarily announce that neither we, nor the British royal family, are Pod People, or Reptoids from Delta Reticulon Minus. If you have any further requests for information or policy change that we can easily dismiss as being outside the window of political consideration, please let us know.
In recognition of their excellence in, and the cultural importance of, the art of Security Theatre as well as the DHS' impressive work in broadening the appeal of the Theatre Arts beyond stereotypical culture snobs, theatre tech geeks, and effeminate thesbians and into the untapped domain of jackbooted authoritarians, we should really place the DHS under the National Endowment for the Arts...
They might find it a bit difficult, at first, being under a department with a budget of less than $200 million, and having cultural reactionaries hate your guts; but I'm sure that they would adjust. They might also find collaboration with some of the more opaque postmodern artistic movements useful in crafting future regulations. Imagine how resistant to the forces of government transparency and oversight they could be if future watch lists and legally murky policies were not only secret; but took the form of abstract expressionist paintings or heavily redacted found-object collage. Wikileaks and their ilk would be helpless!
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I would actually be fascinated to see some research(probably not practical to carry out, unfortunately) as to which mode of business produces a greater proportion of destructive and sociopathic leadership...
Does a criminal environment, with its, er, vigorous, competition and possibility of advancement through killing people? Or does the rule of law, where smirking and saying "We did nothing illegal" won't get you shot by the people you've just stiffed?
Momentum is, indeed, a problem(yes, you will get some exciting bruises and/or broken bones); but blunt trauma over a fairly large area is more of a "oh Fuck is that going to hurt in the morning" problem, while a bullet hit somewhere specific is a trifle more serious...
I'm sure that this work will have no applications to the design of future nuclear fuel rod assemblies, which bear no relationship whatsoever with closely packed fuel pellets inside an array of thin cylinders...
The existence of the mobile printers really seems like a nail in the coffin of this camera thing: The Pandigital 4x6 version(MMC/SD/SDHC/Pictbridge with AC power) has been knocked down to ~$65 on their site.
Polaroid's somewhat classier GL10 3x4; but with Bluetooth from most smartphones or Pictbridge and a 35 print rechargable battery is still ~$170 on their site(shopping around might help; but I didn't).
Unless you are dedicated to polaroid in itself(in which case the still-available classic chemical stuff is probably better), buying a $300 shitty P&S+3x4 printer rather than the much better ~$130 camera of your choice(and/or the phone you already have) plus a GL10 seems like a very niche move.
If you have a wall socket or vehicle inverter handy, the $65 4x6 seems even more technically competitive, assuming that having to shove in a USB cable isn't a total deal-killer...
Unfortunately, 'ZINK' is "zero ink" in the sense that "the necessary dyes or precursors are embedded in our unique proprietary paper and then heat-activated by the printer".
Technologically speaking, 'ZINK' is substantially more advanced than your basic monochrome thermal printer, as seen in most label and receipt printers everywhere, and I give their tech guys full credit; but I cannot help but be extremely unimpressed by the likely value proposition of a printer where you have to buy the manufacturer's proprietary paper(and in the correct size for your mobile gimmick widget, unless you feel like doing some cutting). At present the stuff isn't cheap and either due to limited market or patents on the paper technology, no generic compatibles appear to exist...
We're only pretending to support them, but antisemitism is rising and we have a president who thinks his life would be a lot easier if Israel didn't exist. Guess our loyalty doesn't run very deep.
Were you operating on the misconception that our 'loyalty' to any of our allies is particularly deep(or that of any of our allies to us)?
It suggests that even politicians loath politicians and find their company insufferable.
"Several technology companies have expressed an interest in buying the division, which is seen as attractive for its patents."
Nothing could possibly go wrong with this.
The fact that Apple has largely abandoned the server market, and is the only source of hardware on which OSX is blessed to run probably doesn't help.
Yeah, you can get the "Mac Pro Server"(Oh Boy! you can by a rack shelf and then put two of them on it, for up to 4 whole sockets in 12Us! The bitchin' Radeon HD 5770(whose mini displayport and DVI outputs aren't compatible with my KVM gear) totally takes my mind off the fact that xserves would have done 24 sockets in the same space. Dual PSUs aren't an option; but does your shitbox dell server have bluetooth or S/P-DIF audio? Thought not...) or a "Mac Mini Server"(a server that supports up to 8GB of RAM, fuck yeah! Wait, you mean that "apple remote control" is the name of an attractive IR remote, not a LoM card? Shit, no wonder is seemed so cheap.)
For many people's desktop requirements, the fact that Apple refuses to make a sucky-but-wildly-inexpensive tower isn't actually a huge deal. The server market is a whole lot less forgiving of deviations from reasonable form factors and common redundancy and management features...
Are you seriously suggesting that precious Capital is worth more than some roofer who could be replaced by an undocumented immigrant for 1/3 the price tomorrow?
You must be one of them commies I've been warned about...
I'm pretty sure, given the context(and the fact that things like sales taxes are already common, not novel and interesting proposals), that 'financial transactions' means 'transactions conducted in Finance, capital F', the sort of wacky securities stuff that has caused a bit of trouble in the past few years...
I'm sure that we'll hear soon enough that the dead hand of government wishes to prevent granny from retiring on her 401k; but that this isn't a sales tax proposal(except to the extent that it might make the sale of securities closer to being subject to the same conditions that presently govern the sale of actual goods and services...)
Probably not too much, in an achitectural sense. Probably a lot, but not a terribly surprising lot, in an institutional sense.
Building impressively secure systems(while by no means easy, it is serious software engineering and/or comp sci) is something that people can do and have done.
Building impressively secure systems that aren't wildly expensive and wholly incompatible with the shoddy-but-feature-rich crap that people like to buy is substantially harder.
Building impressively secure systems that aren't wildly expensive, or wholly incompatible, and provide security by association to said shoddy-but-feature-rich crap is Just Plain Hard.
I suspect that their problem is less that there is something fundamentally broken with SELinux and more that they have no realistic chance of being able to say "SHUT DOWN EVERYTHING!"(on both their own networks and those of contractors who might as well be an extension of them, in terms of sensitivity) and give BOFH Hardass the opportunity to run roughshod over every consideration that isn't security to his heart's content for a few years and make the users live with the results...
Does "active climate measures" mean dusting off the zany-but-endearing-in-a-slightly-creepy-way techno-utopianism of good old Project Plowshare?
There must be a way to obtain carbon offset credits by using nuclear explosives to propel dust into the upper atmosphere and cause global cooling...
While the OSDK might not exist, the dynamic duo of AK-47-and-offspring and RPG-7-and-descendants are arguably the equivalent of the MP3 format: Originally proprietary, and not really all that fantastic compared to some of the competition; but cheap, ubiquitous, and widely cloned...
Military procurement projects never fail. They only get canceled by democrats who are weak on national defense...
"I’d blame the program’s setbacks on the fact that we lived in a rich man’s world,"
So, the development is five years behind schedule because the budget used to be too large?
There is absolutely nothing sinister about the abnormally high specificity of my spontaneous candor. In particular, there are no such things as "Reptoids from Delta Reticulon Plus" for us to definitely not be.
Implausible. Heavy metal poisoning is only modestly fatal, either at alarming doses or if you draw the short straw in the carcinogen lottery; but has a huge band of unpleasant but nonfatal effects at lower doses.
With uncontrolled emissions into the environment, you would likely see a uselessly small die-off, largely among people with occupational exposure, and a huge number of subtly to seriously impaired people with cognitive issues, chronic health problems, or both. Killing nearly nobody and creating a large number of chronically sick people is not exactly a clever population control strategy, even if you don't have any ethical reservations about it...
Well, it suggests that ancient near-eastern science fiction writers are still holding up pretty well compared to contemporary science fiction writers, since the figure for Americans who believe in angels is 55%, fully 16% higher than UFOs...
Ah, you underestimate the true conspiracy theorist's(don't let yourself be fooled by the plants) capacity for discerning the sinister complexity of the labyrinthine wheels within wheels...
By craftily wording their inquiry as though it were merely a risible question about aliens, our petitioner has forced Them to reveal that there is "no credible evidence" to suggest that the US Government has communicated with extraterrestrial beings, such as the so-called 'astronauts' who participated in the moon landing hoax, or 'space probes' that allegedly disprove the Hollow Earth theory!
We warmly welcome any further inquiries concerning matters distant from pressing issues that make the questioner look slightly insane for doubting us!
In fact, just in the spirit of openness, we voluntarily announce that neither we, nor the British royal family, are Pod People, or Reptoids from Delta Reticulon Minus. If you have any further requests for information or policy change that we can easily dismiss as being outside the window of political consideration, please let us know.
In recognition of their excellence in, and the cultural importance of, the art of Security Theatre as well as the DHS' impressive work in broadening the appeal of the Theatre Arts beyond stereotypical culture snobs, theatre tech geeks, and effeminate thesbians and into the untapped domain of jackbooted authoritarians, we should really place the DHS under the National Endowment for the Arts...
They might find it a bit difficult, at first, being under a department with a budget of less than $200 million, and having cultural reactionaries hate your guts; but I'm sure that they would adjust. They might also find collaboration with some of the more opaque postmodern artistic movements useful in crafting future regulations. Imagine how resistant to the forces of government transparency and oversight they could be if future watch lists and legally murky policies were not only secret; but took the form of abstract expressionist paintings or heavily redacted found-object collage. Wikileaks and their ilk would be helpless!
I herd you like linux on the desktop, so I put an unprecedented number of dubiously thought out desktops on your linux.
Unfortunately, that makes about as much sense as the current state of gnome and gnome-derived desktops...
My understanding is that millions of twits will tweet in terror and be suddenly silenced...
Wouldn't an 'emergency broadcast' that interferes with America's God-given right to television constitute, in itself, an national emergency?