Having an airship travel 1000km isn't that difficult, the problem is making sure that enough of the 1000km it travels is in the desired direction and done within the desired time;).
Fact is mass vaccinations are like self inflicted pandemics (just hopefully beneficial ones;) ).
Unlike some other medical stuff you are applying it to those that are healthy. With the other stuff you can balance the side effects with the fact that the patient is sick and might actually get better as a result of the medical drug/treatment. So the safety testing and "passing" is a bit easier.
Peanuts are regarded as safe, but you won't mass apply it to everyone who is healthy because there are a few who would die.
So it might be that a very small percentage of the population are more sensitive to mercury for whatever reason. Note: not saying it is the cause of autism. Just that we shouldn't be surprised if there are problems.
That's rewarding those who are willing to invest the time and effort into making themselves more valuable to prospective employers, and that's a Good Thing.
It's not merely time and effort though.
No matter how much time and effort you put into training a dog, it's not going to be able to write complex software. No matter how much time and effort you put into 100m running, you're not going to run faster than Usain Bolt.
There are many people who are willing to invest the time and the effort (and they do), they just aren't as lucky as we are. Some aren't born in the right place. Some aren't born with the right smarts. Some aren't born with the right skills or genes.
If we take the no-mercy 100% free market capitalist approach, one day it might turn out that most humans are redundant, and you have a society with a few classes: 1) The Rulers (who own almost everything) 2) The Tech Priests (who create and program the robots, factories and war machines for the rulers). 3) The Worshippers/Servants/Slaves (who do whatever 1) and 2) want ). 4) The "unnecessary"
This scenario may be very unlikely - since in a democracy the voters (many who would fall in class 4 ) should in theory change things before they get too screwed. But voters have often voted against their own long-term interests.
1) They talk about unregistered usb drives. If you can plug in usb devices they better make sure you can't boot off usb devices otherwise everything can be bypassed;).
2) "reverse ssh" outbound on port 443, or similar stuff- you can set it up with plausible deniability - victim of hack etc.
3) Taking the hardware away for a while- worse if people are actually allowed notebook PCs.
I know it's against standard policy but did you RTFA? He addresses this pointing out that the asteroids are so widely distributed it's likely it would take more energy to collect them than they would produce in their lifetime.
I don't seem to have seen that in the article. Anyway once you've created the initial colonies from materials on earth, you send the colonies to the asteroids, not drag the asteroids to them.
Most asteroids you'd want to mine would be more massive than a space colony, so you send a colony to the asteroid not the other way around! The end products would typically be a lot less massive and more valuable, you can then trade them with other colonies that have produced stuff you want from other asteroids.
Thing is, he said "do the math" but he hardly did any math.
Plus he seems to assume that colonizing space is the same thing as going to Mars. You don't have to go to Mars to colonize space. And in my opinion going to Mars is a stupid idea as the "next step".
In fact what NASA should do instead of being so obsessed with Mars is to learn how to build practical space stations with artificial gravity - possible methods are spinning space stations using tethers and counterweights (which don't have to be deadweight); and radiation shielding - this could be done with lots of water (you'd probably want to bring lots of water anyway). It costs a lot to send tons of water up, but the space shuttle has cost many billions. For a billion USD you can send up 100 tons of stuff.
Once you've built a space station where humans can survive as long as you keep sending them supplies, rather than till their bones, muscles and other stuff rot away ( http://www.spacedaily.com/reports/Astronauts_reporting_vision_problems_999.html ), then going to Mars (but not landing there) just becomes a matter of time, supplies and not too bad luck. Without the artificial gravity the people in space will rot away pretty quickly.
Once you have a decent space station, it will be more hospitable than Mars. The asteroid belt would be a more practical destination than Mars - you don't have to fight gravity as much to get resources. What you need for the next step are space stations which can convert stuff like asteroids and sunlight into resources you can use.
Once you have practical space factories, mining systems and power supplies (in addition to the first bit - artificial gravity and shielding), you can have a sustainable space colony. You don't have to keep sending them water - there are asteroids with lots of water ( http://www.space.com/1526-largest-asteroid-fresh-water-earth.html ).
Yes there are lots of other details to get right and it will cost a lot of money. But for perspective the Federal Reserve has created more than 9 trillion US dollars since 2008.
You have evidence that the government is restrained by the Constitution and the FOIA?
They're definitely more restrained than corporations are, otherwise you wouldn't have this story. Quote:
The judge declared the clause in the Stored Communications Act that allows this unconstitutional. Though it was a 6th Circuit decision, and thus technically only meant to apply to the four states in that higher courtâ(TM)s jurisdiction, the IRS plans to comply with it nationally.
The US Gov has to at least pretend to respect the constitution as long as the voters and Judges consider it important enough. And they still do or pretend to in many cases.
In contrast, from what I understand of US laws, if the corporations ever own everything you'd all be screwed.
If people think that voters can't vote "properly" for the few options every few years, what makes them think that people can vote "properly" with their wallets for the few options every day?
The problem is not government nor quantity of government. The problem is quality of government. And ultimately that depends on the quality of the voters. Voter education is important.
Thing is, if the Gov haters ever succeed in getting rid of Government, the Corporations are likely to become the defacto Government (who else otherwise?) but not be restrained by the Constitution and pesky laws like this and the FOIA.
Do you think there should be a.here TLD, reserved officially for local use in an analogous way to the way that the RFC1918 IP addresses are reserved officially for private use?
Currently many are coming up with their own adhoc TLDs for local use. In my opinion this is suboptimal. Having a standard official TLD would allow more interesting things to "organically grow" on it.
So are you saying that people like Theo de Raadt and John Carmack shouldn't be allowed to program? After all opensshd and at least one quake server version have had "attacker can run arbitrary code" exploits.
If even the "John Carmack" programmers can't program in C, then as I said: "a world without C and UNIX might not necessarily be worse".
Thing is there's stuff like both America/Denver and America/Phoenix can be in MST but America/Phoenix does not go to MDT (no daylight savings).
Similarly: America/Adak and Pacific/Honolulu can both be HST but Honolulu doesn't do HDT.
So people may know what time zone they are in but the computer can't be certain if you just entered 3 letters. I suppose they could have an extra page where they ask you more questions.
But that sort of thing could be a lot of work when you add the rest of the world into the picture. So the OS bunch are just going to ask you for your proper timezone name/location and you're going to have to remember it.
I looked that up coz I got the impression that I saw their name before on some snack food. And looks like my memory was OK - they only got rid of Pringles recently.
Just go look at the number of remote vulnerabilities in services/servers written in C.
And it takes an idiot to allow this to happen.
And the world you are living in has very few idiots who would allow this to happen? Lucky you, nice of you to visit, perhaps you should return to your world soon - it's not safe here.
You are talking about programmers who should never be allowed to program anything in the first place, therefore all your points are invalid.
How's that invalid? I said:
Yes you can have sql injection IF the programmer is really crap, but with C you'd have sql injection as well as exploitable buffer overflows etc.
So I'm saying with the same level of programmer and one who is not really crap, you won't have SQL injections with Java (you used Java as an example), but you will still have remote exploits with a C program doing the same thing.
If you are saying the only programmers who should be be allowed to program will never have remote arbitrary execution exploits when writing stuff like webservers, SSH servers, DNS servers, DHCP servers, mail servers using C then there must be very few people in the world who can write programs in C.
Which is kind of my point.
If the same programmers used a safer language they would not have such problems. There is an entire of class of problems that would just not exist if they didn't program in C.
Using C is like driving a manual car without a clutch. It can be done if you are careful and skilled. But only a few people in the world can do it and keep doing it without making mistakes.
Whereas the rest of the programmers should only drive autos. They will make different mistakes and probably stupider mistakes, but they are far less likely to destroy their car transmission in 5 minutes. Nowadays with the latest technology the auto transmission is actually even faster and better than humans in changing gears at the right time, and does it far more consistently.
For the same quality of programmer writing a network server/service it is a lot harder to have "remote attacker can execute arbitrary code of the attacker's choice" with Java than it is with C.
You may not like the truth, but it is the truth. Just go look at the number of remote vulnerabilities in services/servers written in C. When there's a "execute arbitrary machine code" bug in a Java program, it is usually a bug in Java and not a bug in the program. You have to intentionally write it in.
Yes you can have sql injection if the programmer is really crap, but with C you'd have sql injection as well as exploitable buffer overflows etc.
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Workaround is to send to 480 nonexistent accounts at the start of the day ;).
Having an airship travel 1000km isn't that difficult, the problem is making sure that enough of the 1000km it travels is in the desired direction and done within the desired time ;).
Those who sell peanuts get richer?
Fact is mass vaccinations are like self inflicted pandemics (just hopefully beneficial ones ;) ).
Unlike some other medical stuff you are applying it to those that are healthy. With the other stuff you can balance the side effects with the fact that the patient is sick and might actually get better as a result of the medical drug/treatment. So the safety testing and "passing" is a bit easier.
Peanuts are regarded as safe, but you won't mass apply it to everyone who is healthy because there are a few who would die.
So it might be that a very small percentage of the population are more sensitive to mercury for whatever reason. Note: not saying it is the cause of autism. Just that we shouldn't be surprised if there are problems.
That's rewarding those who are willing to invest the time and effort into making themselves more valuable to prospective employers, and that's a Good Thing.
It's not merely time and effort though.
No matter how much time and effort you put into training a dog, it's not going to be able to write complex software. No matter how much time and effort you put into 100m running, you're not going to run faster than Usain Bolt.
There are many people who are willing to invest the time and the effort (and they do), they just aren't as lucky as we are. Some aren't born in the right place. Some aren't born with the right smarts. Some aren't born with the right skills or genes.
If we take the no-mercy 100% free market capitalist approach, one day it might turn out that most humans are redundant, and you have a society with a few classes:
1) The Rulers (who own almost everything)
2) The Tech Priests (who create and program the robots, factories and war machines for the rulers).
3) The Worshippers/Servants/Slaves (who do whatever 1) and 2) want ).
4) The "unnecessary"
This scenario may be very unlikely - since in a democracy the voters (many who would fall in class 4 ) should in theory change things before they get too screwed. But voters have often voted against their own long-term interests.
I see no evidence that Apple's recipe and method were copied.
AFAIK Apple is suing based on the final look and taste of the chocolate cake.
Yeah the article says:
they used several standard industry benchmarks to compare Windows 8 performance with that of Windows 7 running on the same machine
But they don't mention anything about McAfee, Norton Antivirus, Lotus Notes[1] and Industry Standard Crapware/Craplets (see Sony, Dell, HP etc ). ;).
[1] I don't use Lotus Notes, but I do hear many grumbles about it: http://www-10.lotus.com/ldd/dominowiki.nsf/dx/lotus_notes_cold_start_observations
There are plenty of other holes too.
;).
1) They talk about unregistered usb drives. If you can plug in usb devices they better make sure you can't boot off usb devices otherwise everything can be bypassed
2) "reverse ssh" outbound on port 443, or similar stuff- you can set it up with plausible deniability - victim of hack etc.
3) Taking the hardware away for a while- worse if people are actually allowed notebook PCs.
4) If there's firewire, this can be a big hole.
The point is why should Jobs and Apple be allowed to stop others from implementing stuff too?
So if I come up with a better chocolate cake, nobody else can try to sell a chocolate cake that's about as good?
Sounds stupid to me, but maybe not to Apple fans.
I know it's against standard policy but did you RTFA? He addresses this pointing out that the asteroids are so widely distributed it's likely it would take more energy to collect them than they would produce in their lifetime.
I don't seem to have seen that in the article. Anyway once you've created the initial colonies from materials on earth, you send the colonies to the asteroids, not drag the asteroids to them.
Most asteroids you'd want to mine would be more massive than a space colony, so you send a colony to the asteroid not the other way around! The end products would typically be a lot less massive and more valuable, you can then trade them with other colonies that have produced stuff you want from other asteroids.
Thing is, he said "do the math" but he hardly did any math.
Plus he seems to assume that colonizing space is the same thing as going to Mars. You don't have to go to Mars to colonize space. And in my opinion going to Mars is a stupid idea as the "next step".
In fact what NASA should do instead of being so obsessed with Mars is to learn how to build practical space stations with artificial gravity - possible methods are spinning space stations using tethers and counterweights (which don't have to be deadweight); and radiation shielding - this could be done with lots of water (you'd probably want to bring lots of water anyway). It costs a lot to send tons of water up, but the space shuttle has cost many billions. For a billion USD you can send up 100 tons of stuff.
Once you've built a space station where humans can survive as long as you keep sending them supplies, rather than till their bones, muscles and other stuff rot away ( http://www.spacedaily.com/reports/Astronauts_reporting_vision_problems_999.html ), then going to Mars (but not landing there) just becomes a matter of time, supplies and not too bad luck. Without the artificial gravity the people in space will rot away pretty quickly.
Once you have a decent space station, it will be more hospitable than Mars. The asteroid belt would be a more practical destination than Mars - you don't have to fight gravity as much to get resources. What you need for the next step are space stations which can convert stuff like asteroids and sunlight into resources you can use.
Once you have practical space factories, mining systems and power supplies (in addition to the first bit - artificial gravity and shielding), you can have a sustainable space colony. You don't have to keep sending them water - there are asteroids with lots of water ( http://www.space.com/1526-largest-asteroid-fresh-water-earth.html ).
Yes there are lots of other details to get right and it will cost a lot of money. But for perspective the Federal Reserve has created more than 9 trillion US dollars since 2008.
You have evidence that the government is restrained by the Constitution and the FOIA?
They're definitely more restrained than corporations are, otherwise you wouldn't have this story. Quote:
The judge declared the clause in the Stored Communications Act that allows this unconstitutional. Though it was a 6th Circuit decision, and thus technically only meant to apply to the four states in that higher courtâ(TM)s jurisdiction, the IRS plans to comply with it nationally.
The US Gov has to at least pretend to respect the constitution as long as the voters and Judges consider it important enough. And they still do or pretend to in many cases.
In contrast, from what I understand of US laws, if the corporations ever own everything you'd all be screwed.
If people think that voters can't vote "properly" for the few options every few years, what makes them think that people can vote "properly" with their wallets for the few options every day?
The problem is not government nor quantity of government. The problem is quality of government. And ultimately that depends on the quality of the voters. Voter education is important.
Yep, the Corporations own and operate it.
Thing is, if the Gov haters ever succeed in getting rid of Government, the Corporations are likely to become the defacto Government (who else otherwise?) but not be restrained by the Constitution and pesky laws like this and the FOIA.
Do you think there should be a .here TLD, reserved officially for local use in an analogous way to the way that the RFC1918 IP addresses are reserved officially for private use?
Currently many are coming up with their own adhoc TLDs for local use. In my opinion this is suboptimal. Having a standard official TLD would allow more interesting things to "organically grow" on it.
See also: http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-yeoh-tldhere-01
If there's going to be censorship, this might be a way for the kids to see porn - do some part time work for the ISP ;).
I don't need perl pretty. You want pretty, you write perl programs in a pretty style, or switch to python or something else.
But if they can make perl as fast as the fastest javascript that would be very nice.
The moment you allow other people or their devices to access the info then this technology becomes useless.
The External Transmitter Feature Disabler that'll really work is called a nuclear bomb.
So are you saying that people like Theo de Raadt and John Carmack shouldn't be allowed to program? After all opensshd and at least one quake server version have had "attacker can run arbitrary code" exploits.
If even the "John Carmack" programmers can't program in C, then as I said: "a world without C and UNIX might not necessarily be worse".
There's been a case where they suspect the guy died from an overdose:
http://www.newscientist.com/blogs/shortsharpscience/2008/09/how-chilis-can-kill.html
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1063598/Aspiring-chef-dies-hours-making-ultra-hot-sauce-chilli-eating-contest.html
From what I understand the guy had eaten chilis before with no problems.
Maybe he was allergic to something else. Or was unlucky to suddenly become allergic to chillis.
Thing is there's stuff like both America/Denver and America/Phoenix can be in MST but America/Phoenix does not go to MDT (no daylight savings).
Similarly: America/Adak and Pacific/Honolulu can both be HST but Honolulu doesn't do HDT.
So people may know what time zone they are in but the computer can't be certain if you just entered 3 letters. I suppose they could have an extra page where they ask you more questions.
But that sort of thing could be a lot of work when you add the rest of the world into the picture. So the OS bunch are just going to ask you for your proper timezone name/location and you're going to have to remember it.
P&G actually used to own Pringles, Jif.
I looked that up coz I got the impression that I saw their name before on some snack food. And looks like my memory was OK - they only got rid of Pringles recently.
Yeah, the submitter fails AI.
Maybe one day AIs will only pass the Turing test if they pretend to be stupid.
It's way past carousel time for almost everyone who gets the reference ;).
Just go look at the number of remote vulnerabilities in services/servers written in C.
And it takes an idiot to allow this to happen.
And the world you are living in has very few idiots who would allow this to happen? Lucky you, nice of you to visit, perhaps you should return to your world soon - it's not safe here.
You are talking about programmers who should never be allowed to program anything in the first place, therefore all your points are invalid.
How's that invalid? I said:
Yes you can have sql injection IF the programmer is really crap, but with C you'd have sql injection as well as exploitable buffer overflows etc.
So I'm saying with the same level of programmer and one who is not really crap, you won't have SQL injections with Java (you used Java as an example), but you will still have remote exploits with a C program doing the same thing.
If you are saying the only programmers who should be be allowed to program will never have remote arbitrary execution exploits when writing stuff like webservers, SSH servers, DNS servers, DHCP servers, mail servers using C then there must be very few people in the world who can write programs in C.
Which is kind of my point.
If the same programmers used a safer language they would not have such problems. There is an entire of class of problems that would just not exist if they didn't program in C.
Using C is like driving a manual car without a clutch. It can be done if you are careful and skilled. But only a few people in the world can do it and keep doing it without making mistakes.
Whereas the rest of the programmers should only drive autos. They will make different mistakes and probably stupider mistakes, but they are far less likely to destroy their car transmission in 5 minutes. Nowadays with the latest technology the auto transmission is actually even faster and better than humans in changing gears at the right time, and does it far more consistently.
For the same quality of programmer writing a network server/service it is a lot harder to have "remote attacker can execute arbitrary code of the attacker's choice" with Java than it is with C.
You may not like the truth, but it is the truth. Just go look at the number of remote vulnerabilities in services/servers written in C. When there's a "execute arbitrary machine code" bug in a Java program, it is usually a bug in Java and not a bug in the program. You have to intentionally write it in.
Yes you can have sql injection if the programmer is really crap, but with C you'd have sql injection as well as exploitable buffer overflows etc.