Wonder why I never thought of that! This should put to rest one of the main counter-arguments against renewables. 'But solar will never be competitive if there wasn't any subsidies...'
Now this makes me wonder how much I'd be paying for my gas without these hidden subsidies. Europe pays a lot more per gallon, between 2-3 times, and most every other country, except the producers, pays more.
The Romans couldn't even conquer Persia, let alone the 10000 feet above sea level Afghanisthan where their animals would've had a hard time. The easternmost the Romans got to was Parthia (Mesopotamia, now Iraq) after much trouble.
How about how much money is present in the geography studied? And also about one's relative wealth: 'keeping up with the Joneses'. And the amount of average debt of people in the location?
I'd imagine that these two factors definitely play a leading role in people's mood!
I spent four hours reading this and thank you for posting this. As someone unfamiliar in computer security, the ideas I got were:
1. Full Disclosure is the norm in the computer security world today and has empirically been shown to improve security much more than bug secrecy.
2.. An idea of why FreeBSD and OpenBSD are considered more secure. It seems that basically there is a direct correlation between the rate of change in the code and security holes, as writing new code and changing code leads to mistakes and fixing security holes is always post-facto.
3. It seems like given a particular security hole, it is quite possible for an exploit to gain control sufficiently enough to watch over what I do, what files I open, what my network traffic is, etc, scary etc. This is actually quite scary.
4. I didn't know the security industry was huge, and there are plenty of well-paid, full-time programmers looking for exploits.
Given the above fact, that each found (and who knows, how many unfound) exploit can lead to not trusting my own computer, I would rather prefer that everything is open and well-known, with a reasonable window of secrecy. Especially since it is seems very easy for kernel developers to make mistakes while coding fast (they are human after all, doing a tough human endeavor, they are not any kind of gods). It is better that they make life easy for the good guys, since the well-paid bad guys are going to find out anyway.
Why don't the kernel developers spend time fooling the business folk instead of us? It is easier to pull wool over their eyes technically anyway. Or best of all, why not just tell the truth?
spender and PaxTeam are obviously very experienced and no one seems to have a proper, head-to-head rebuttal to them, other than FUD. I wonder why?
And maybe it is just me, or do some of the comments posted above seem to want to distract my attention? This is getting scarier.
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You're right. Not many people know that he is actually a recipient of the Grace Murray Hopper Award, which is usually considered the younger cousin of the Turing Award.
http://awards.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=9380313&srt=all&aw=145&ao=GMHOPPER&yr=1990
Wonder why I never thought of that! This should put to rest one of the main counter-arguments against renewables. 'But solar will never be competitive if there wasn't any subsidies...'
Now this makes me wonder how much I'd be paying for my gas without these hidden subsidies. Europe pays a lot more per gallon, between 2-3 times, and most every other country, except the producers, pays more.
The Romans couldn't even conquer Persia, let alone the 10000 feet above sea level Afghanisthan where their animals would've had a hard time. The easternmost the Romans got to was Parthia (Mesopotamia, now Iraq) after much trouble.
How about how much money is present in the geography studied? And also about one's relative wealth: 'keeping up with the Joneses'. And the amount of average debt of people in the location? I'd imagine that these two factors definitely play a leading role in people's mood!
who are these 'inner circle' of administrators? how do they get paid? and who pays them? Fannie Mae? Freddie Mac?
i don't care about jimmy wales' sex life, but how about his financial life?
Fuck you! If you want to strip me down to my underwear in my own home, you should be kicked into jail!
with regard to this story about Stallman's warning about cloud computing, Vint Cerf seems to strike a similar echo, though from different viewpoints.
Me personally, I'm with them, the more power to me, the better.
I spent four hours reading this and thank you for posting this. As someone unfamiliar in computer security, the ideas I got were:
1. Full Disclosure is the norm in the computer security world today and has empirically been shown to improve security much more than bug secrecy.
2.. An idea of why FreeBSD and OpenBSD are considered more secure. It seems that basically there is a direct correlation between the rate of change in the code and security holes, as writing new code and changing code leads to mistakes and fixing security holes is always post-facto.
3. It seems like given a particular security hole, it is quite possible for an exploit to gain control sufficiently enough to watch over what I do, what files I open, what my network traffic is, etc, scary etc. This is actually quite scary.
4. I didn't know the security industry was huge, and there are plenty of well-paid, full-time programmers looking for exploits.
Given the above fact, that each found (and who knows, how many unfound) exploit can lead to not trusting my own computer, I would rather prefer that everything is open and well-known, with a reasonable window of secrecy. Especially since it is seems very easy for kernel developers to make mistakes while coding fast (they are human after all, doing a tough human endeavor, they are not any kind of gods). It is better that they make life easy for the good guys, since the well-paid bad guys are going to find out anyway.
Why don't the kernel developers spend time fooling the business folk instead of us? It is easier to pull wool over their eyes technically anyway. Or best of all, why not just tell the truth?
spender and PaxTeam are obviously very experienced and no one seems to have a proper, head-to-head rebuttal to them, other than FUD. I wonder why?
And maybe it is just me, or do some of the comments posted above seem to want to distract my attention? This is getting scarier.