I'm not on the ARPAnet. I'm on the Internet. Using a computer built by a private company with a CPU developed by a private company running an OS developed by private entities containing IP developed overwhelmingly by private actors communicating with you over network connections built, maintained, and paid for by private citizens and businesses.
Saying ARPA therefore all government spending is good is like saying Sikorsky therefore all non-helicopter transportation is bad.
The federal government has no business doing commercial product R&D that's actually being done in the private sector. Federal scientific organizations exist only to fulfil the mission of the federal government. In this case, it's science for defense and science for metrology standards. What kind of car private citizens drive and what kind of power plant generates the electricity when you flip on the lightswitch is not something the federal government needs to be very deep into.
Even more to the point: A mathematical idea does not exist if it cannot be expressed as a computer program in a language with ASCII characters or a markup language that expresses relationships in combinations of ASCII characters. That is to say, if you can't typeset your math in LaTeX or implement an algorithm in C or Perl or Python or MATLAB, then you've got nothing.
Stop with the whiny editorializing in the headlines. Headlines are for facts, not for your opinion about how long it should take people who do real work to do it.
The problem isn't spotting the base, anyone with an internet connection can look at satellite photos. The problem is outlining the patrol and supply routes. Not just for military, I might add. If you're an aid worker in some third world hole and the only one in town using this fitness app, and you take the same route to work every day, so it's nice and bright on the map, then you just bought yourself an invitation to get targeted for robbery or or kidnapping.
Erdogan decides to throw people in jail for looking at him funny and the blame is on the particular die he decides to roll for the arbitrary selection criterion?
That's like Trump going out in the middle of 5th Avenue and shooting a random stranger with the blame going to the guy who sold him is shoes.
Haven't you been paying attention? They're all out shilling for why X11 is dead and Wayland is the way of the future. Expect systemd integration sometime next year.
I stopped at the new version of Nautilus in Gnome3 overlaying a status bar message on top of the lowest item in list view...that always popped up if you moused over any file and no way to turn it off so you can actually see the last file in the listing. Amateur hour nonsense like that touted as a finished product is why I refuse to use anything they make ever again.
It depends on what your organization does. If the workflow is that (for lack of a better word) trained button-pushers sit at fixed workstations and use software that someone else has written for them, then you can go pretty far with security at next to no human cost. You can have smart card readers and short timeouts on locking screensavers and a whitelist of software with per-instance authentication tied to that 2FA token and it won't disrupt the work.
If, on the other hand, people move around between workstations, or need to be able to run arbitrary software (for example stuff sent by a client or vendor, or stuff they wrote themselves, or the software they run is a programmable environment like MATLAB that you can do nasty stuff with if you put your mind to it), then you can't have that without incurring a real penalty on productivity and encouraging your employees to work around the security infrastructure. You pretty much guarantee the latter if any portion of your workforce does R&D work that requires moving equipment between network jacks or needing to be able to send arbitrary packets from one gizmo to another or from a gizmo in the lab to their workstation. Or if several people on the same team need to be able to unlock the screen on the same machine and get at the same instance of the user session.
There is no silver bullet. Tiered access is good, sales clerks don't need to be able to get at the HR database or the preparatory documents for a patent filing, but there is no silver bullet.
I read the book many years after I saw the film, so I was expecting it to be an outlier from the other Heinlein stories I read given the propaganda surrounding it, but I honestly didn't see any of this so-called fascist stuff in the original Klingon.
The only place I can guess it comes from is the protagonists line somewhere toward the end about humanity and the bugs being locked in natural competition to sort out who's the superior species. I read that as a statement about Darwinian evolution being applicable to civilizations of sentient beings and not just thoughtless animals. I can see see how certain people would throw the N-word and the F-word at that line of thinking, but I just don't.
Tesla was still making its Model 3 batteries partly by hand
I guess the robots aren't taking over, are they? You'd almost think that success at one specific repetitive task doesn't transfer to success at a completely different repetitive task.
For all the doomsaying, he hasn't actually done or tried to do anything out of the ordinary. But listening to one side of the debate, you'd think he's hatching a plan to enslave half the globe and roast the other half in nuclear fire to feed it.
Next they're going to make a ground-breaking announcement--to be repeated by a breathless media--that living alone is a net carbon source.
No kidding. Man shapes his environment. Has since before written history. The answer to all of this nonsense should be a big fat So What? You're not going to guilt me into not living and not having children. You're also not going to guilt me into taking a vow of poverty and subsistence farming. And you sure as shit aren't going to make me take you seriously when you're turning of the lights in the name of Earth Hour while electronics to spread your message and jetting about in private aircraft to Davos and SxSW.
Back in the good old days, children were taught to be proud of the accomplishments of civilized man and to aspire to make the next step in human history. Today children are taught to be guilty and apologize for things their predecessors worked hard for, and sometimes died for. I remember it distinctly in the mid 90s, when as a child I gulped down all the tree-hugger propaganda the public schools were shilling hard for. I found some of my homeworks and essays from back then a while back and I bought it hook line and sinker. There I was, an eleven-year-old boy, writing essays about how we're all doomed and ruining the Earth.
Then I grew up, worked hard, learned history, and matured to the point of being able to think critically about the relative merits of arguments about the historical context of things instead of just swallowing what they give me. And I have come to the conclusion that zero human impact on the environment is not possible and progressively lower impacts require regressively harsher restrictions on freedom. Where you set the line is not a question of science but a question of philosophy. And I have learned the most important lesson of all: demagogues and tyrants depend on erasing that distinction. Racism claimed the mantle of science. Eugenics claimed the mantle of science. Communists claimed the mantle of science. Now the greenies are claiming the mantle of science.
Reagan used to say that freedom isn't passed down through the blood; it must be taught to the next generation. Same thing with loonie left nonsense like this. They'll keep talking, so we have to keep refuting them. The antidote to bad ideas in the public sphere is good ideas in the public sphere. Jordan Peterson and Cathy Newman is a perfect example.
Russian and Ukraine had pretty tight trade relations. And then what happened?
History and economics are not an exact science. Acting as though they are and assuming nothing but economic self-interest motivates people will lead you astray.
Economic integration is good in that it leads to lower prices but it is bad in that it can reduce people's ability to feel like they can stand on their own two feet, especially if the integration is attempted between first-world and third-world countries, as the history of the past several decades shows. That's a psychological cost and it's a real cost. The real cost is that you lose your ability to make stuff. Not just the stuff you buy cheap from over there but also the other stuff that isn't so cheap to buy from over there. The latter happens because your industrial base is eroded and that's just plain bad.
You don't see this as bad if you're a white-collar or academic type who goes to work to wrestle with abstractions of your own making instead of real things. That's a blind spot you have. And your pronouncements on the subject aren't the whole story. If you had an ounce of humility you'd understand that instead of doubling down on globalist dogma.
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I'm not on the ARPAnet. I'm on the Internet. Using a computer built by a private company with a CPU developed by a private company running an OS developed by private entities containing IP developed overwhelmingly by private actors communicating with you over network connections built, maintained, and paid for by private citizens and businesses.
Saying ARPA therefore all government spending is good is like saying Sikorsky therefore all non-helicopter transportation is bad.
The federal government has no business doing commercial product R&D that's actually being done in the private sector. Federal scientific organizations exist only to fulfil the mission of the federal government. In this case, it's science for defense and science for metrology standards. What kind of car private citizens drive and what kind of power plant generates the electricity when you flip on the lightswitch is not something the federal government needs to be very deep into.
Even more to the point: A mathematical idea does not exist if it cannot be expressed as a computer program in a language with ASCII characters or a markup language that expresses relationships in combinations of ASCII characters. That is to say, if you can't typeset your math in LaTeX or implement an algorithm in C or Perl or Python or MATLAB, then you've got nothing.
written in the 26 letters of the English alphabet and an occasional punctuation mark, then you didn't really have that thought at all.
Call it the 1337 form of the Sapir-Worf hypothesis.
Grow the fuck up.
Disturbingly close my ass. Jews are people and monkeys aren't. That, and only that, is why gassing Jews, Gypsies, and gays was Wrong with a capital W.
Gassing people because you want to and testing on monkeys because you need to don't live on the same planet.
I fail to see what the problem is. Would it have been better to test it on humans in some third-world shithole?
Stop with the whiny editorializing in the headlines. Headlines are for facts, not for your opinion about how long it should take people who do real work to do it.
The problem isn't spotting the base, anyone with an internet connection can look at satellite photos. The problem is outlining the patrol and supply routes. Not just for military, I might add. If you're an aid worker in some third world hole and the only one in town using this fitness app, and you take the same route to work every day, so it's nice and bright on the map, then you just bought yourself an invitation to get targeted for robbery or or kidnapping.
So the "silence" is what's hard?
WaPo article says yes.
Stupid spreads like wildfire.
What part of radio silence is hard? The radio or the silence?
Erdogan decides to throw people in jail for looking at him funny and the blame is on the particular die he decides to roll for the arbitrary selection criterion?
That's like Trump going out in the middle of 5th Avenue and shooting a random stranger with the blame going to the guy who sold him is shoes.
Haven't you been paying attention? They're all out shilling for why X11 is dead and Wayland is the way of the future. Expect systemd integration sometime next year.
I stopped at the new version of Nautilus in Gnome3 overlaying a status bar message on top of the lowest item in list view...that always popped up if you moused over any file and no way to turn it off so you can actually see the last file in the listing. Amateur hour nonsense like that touted as a finished product is why I refuse to use anything they make ever again.
It depends on what your organization does. If the workflow is that (for lack of a better word) trained button-pushers sit at fixed workstations and use software that someone else has written for them, then you can go pretty far with security at next to no human cost. You can have smart card readers and short timeouts on locking screensavers and a whitelist of software with per-instance authentication tied to that 2FA token and it won't disrupt the work.
If, on the other hand, people move around between workstations, or need to be able to run arbitrary software (for example stuff sent by a client or vendor, or stuff they wrote themselves, or the software they run is a programmable environment like MATLAB that you can do nasty stuff with if you put your mind to it), then you can't have that without incurring a real penalty on productivity and encouraging your employees to work around the security infrastructure. You pretty much guarantee the latter if any portion of your workforce does R&D work that requires moving equipment between network jacks or needing to be able to send arbitrary packets from one gizmo to another or from a gizmo in the lab to their workstation. Or if several people on the same team need to be able to unlock the screen on the same machine and get at the same instance of the user session.
There is no silver bullet. Tiered access is good, sales clerks don't need to be able to get at the HR database or the preparatory documents for a patent filing, but there is no silver bullet.
I liked them both too.
I read the book many years after I saw the film, so I was expecting it to be an outlier from the other Heinlein stories I read given the propaganda surrounding it, but I honestly didn't see any of this so-called fascist stuff in the original Klingon.
The only place I can guess it comes from is the protagonists line somewhere toward the end about humanity and the bugs being locked in natural competition to sort out who's the superior species. I read that as a statement about Darwinian evolution being applicable to civilizations of sentient beings and not just thoughtless animals. I can see see how certain people would throw the N-word and the F-word at that line of thinking, but I just don't.
Lobsters. Get with the times.
Tesla was still making its Model 3 batteries partly by hand
I guess the robots aren't taking over, are they? You'd almost think that success at one specific repetitive task doesn't transfer to success at a completely different repetitive task.
Nuclear weapons have kept the peace among the great powers for over seven decades.
The lobsters?
For all the doomsaying, he hasn't actually done or tried to do anything out of the ordinary. But listening to one side of the debate, you'd think he's hatching a plan to enslave half the globe and roast the other half in nuclear fire to feed it.
Next they're going to make a ground-breaking announcement--to be repeated by a breathless media--that living alone is a net carbon source.
No kidding. Man shapes his environment. Has since before written history. The answer to all of this nonsense should be a big fat So What? You're not going to guilt me into not living and not having children. You're also not going to guilt me into taking a vow of poverty and subsistence farming. And you sure as shit aren't going to make me take you seriously when you're turning of the lights in the name of Earth Hour while electronics to spread your message and jetting about in private aircraft to Davos and SxSW.
Back in the good old days, children were taught to be proud of the accomplishments of civilized man and to aspire to make the next step in human history. Today children are taught to be guilty and apologize for things their predecessors worked hard for, and sometimes died for. I remember it distinctly in the mid 90s, when as a child I gulped down all the tree-hugger propaganda the public schools were shilling hard for. I found some of my homeworks and essays from back then a while back and I bought it hook line and sinker. There I was, an eleven-year-old boy, writing essays about how we're all doomed and ruining the Earth.
Then I grew up, worked hard, learned history, and matured to the point of being able to think critically about the relative merits of arguments about the historical context of things instead of just swallowing what they give me. And I have come to the conclusion that zero human impact on the environment is not possible and progressively lower impacts require regressively harsher restrictions on freedom. Where you set the line is not a question of science but a question of philosophy. And I have learned the most important lesson of all: demagogues and tyrants depend on erasing that distinction. Racism claimed the mantle of science. Eugenics claimed the mantle of science. Communists claimed the mantle of science. Now the greenies are claiming the mantle of science.
To hell with all of them.
Reagan used to say that freedom isn't passed down through the blood; it must be taught to the next generation. Same thing with loonie left nonsense like this. They'll keep talking, so we have to keep refuting them. The antidote to bad ideas in the public sphere is good ideas in the public sphere. Jordan Peterson and Cathy Newman is a perfect example.
Russian and Ukraine had pretty tight trade relations. And then what happened?
History and economics are not an exact science. Acting as though they are and assuming nothing but economic self-interest motivates people will lead you astray.
Economic integration is good in that it leads to lower prices but it is bad in that it can reduce people's ability to feel like they can stand on their own two feet, especially if the integration is attempted between first-world and third-world countries, as the history of the past several decades shows. That's a psychological cost and it's a real cost. The real cost is that you lose your ability to make stuff. Not just the stuff you buy cheap from over there but also the other stuff that isn't so cheap to buy from over there. The latter happens because your industrial base is eroded and that's just plain bad.
You don't see this as bad if you're a white-collar or academic type who goes to work to wrestle with abstractions of your own making instead of real things. That's a blind spot you have. And your pronouncements on the subject aren't the whole story. If you had an ounce of humility you'd understand that instead of doubling down on globalist dogma.