I would say that is very hopeful thinking. The biggest threat does not actually come from the explosion itself (okay, yes, the explosion is also bad), but from the nuclear fallout that occurs after.
Nuclear fallout can affect HUGE areas of the world. When a nuclear device is detonated, radioactive particles get launched into the atmosphere that can travel across the globe.
I also see comments below about the bombs dropped on Japan - people need to keep in mind that was 65 years ago AND the bomb types were nuclear FISSION, not nuclear fusion. There's a distinct difference. I'm not exactly sure what types of bombs Pakistan and India have, but it's probably bad either way.
People tend to forget that NEED is the real motivation behind technological advances and implementation. Japan, for example, has a high need to handle transit, housing, and recreation within their limited space and with a high population density. Therefore, Japan's need has compelled them to implement technology to handle these limitations. Such examples can be seen in their train infrastructure or space efficient housing.
On the other hand, the United States’ need for the same technology is not as high. Generally speaking, our space constraints are not as limiting and we don't have such a high population density that mass public transit has becomes a necessity rather than a convenience, thus we have large automobiles and expansive houses. The same examples can be drawn for most of the developed world. The transit system in Europe is more developed because the price of gasoline as a commodity is higher - they have a need for a cheaper alternative.
To think that one country is leaps and bounds ahead of others is naive. There are no countries full of Cowboy Astronaut Millionaires. With how globally tied together our countries have become, technological advances tend to propagate worldwide in a year or two, taking into account social and political considerations - the only exception to the trend is military technology.
I would say that JavaScript has potential, just like Luke Skywalker. Both had the ability to do great things and both had/have the ability to do terrible things.
Question is... who is.. Who's JavaScript's father? And will he lead him down the dark side?
Sparks: Um, ok, but remember, you'll have the strength of five gorillas. Debbie DuPree: Why settle for a cat Hesh? You could be a robot... tiger. Marco: No, no, no! Absolamente no! If I have to be five foot nothing Hesh can't be a tiger! Captain Murphy: Your not the boss of tiger bot Hesh!
The only way to control this is by requiring users to have login names and controlling who can post what (perhaps instituting a probationary period of say 3-7 days so that they don't get spammed with new users).
Otherwise, this is just going to be a repeat of YouTube and other file sharing networks, copyright material still gets uploaded, even if it eventually gets deleted.
This is exactly why the Pirate Bay claims not to have any responsibility for the content on the site - they do not micromanage any of the who or what, they simply provide the service of hosting.
That's exactly the dismissive attitude that allows the problem to continue. Ire and denial.
Or perhaps it's your attitude that perpetuates the problem.
Making a mountain out of a molehill does nothing useful. There are plenty of people out there who support women, but don't like the attitude of the women who have zero tolerance. Instead, they cast a negative light on what should be a positive and progressive movement.
If you really want to help women out, focus on encouraging them to like science and engineering rather than crying foul every time some moron on the internet says something stupid (hopefully that comment is not quoted for irony).
But once again, you're buying into the conspiracy theory that all information is controlled.
I don't doubt there are cases where scandals are revealed as means of political assassination, but I seriously doubt that ALL cases fall into this category.
I wish I had specific examples to show that people come forward of their own volition, but I imagine that even that would be undermined with the notion "it was X who made him/her come forward."
The reality of the situation is that the government WANTS you to think they're in control of every situation and all news. It gives the guise that they are competent. But as I mentioned above, that just isn't the case.
The leakiest of organizations in any country is the government. Anything leaked is leaked deliberately with a concrete reasoning behind it.
This implies that the government is competent, which in turn implies that the members of the government are competent.
I don't mean to come across as flame bait, but have you read the news in the last couple years? Political corruption or scandals happen all the time. You don't honestly believe that people each time our government reveals one of these occurrences it was done on purpose, do you? There isn't a conspiracy at every turn, people just do stupid things. That is the nature of government and of humanity.
But I do have to agree with you on the reporters; they tend of have an agenda.
I think an interesting question is "do black holes only increase entropy?"
Taken from Wikipedia on the definition of Hawking Radiation (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hawking_radiation) , "...rotating black holes should create and emit particles.â This implies that a black hole must have an angular momentum associated with it in order to emit Hawking Radiation and thus a higher entropic state.
Now, let us take a classic example, a celestial body interacting with a black hole. For the purposes of argument, let us theoretically allow the planet to be at maximum entropy. That is, there is no useful energy in the system to allow for interaction. We will take the black hole to have a high amount of entropy, perhaps because it has not interacted with any matter in a good while.
By the conservation of angular momentum (since we discussed the black hole has to have angular momentum to emit Hawking Radiation), the matter from the celestial body will not simply be devoured by the black hole, but accumulated on what is known as an accretion disk (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Accretion_disk). Summarily, the accretion disk is transference of matter from one celestial body to a stronger gravitational brother (i.e. the black hole) whereby matter is siphoned from the less dense object to the denser object. The matter on the accretion disk is accelerated and becomes superheated through friction; in the process, X-rays and other forms of radiation are emitted.
Basically, we have gone from two high entropic states (inert planet and a black hole with little interaction) to a lower entropic state, because the energy in the planet was changed from a useless, uniform state, to a volatile state.
This is going to be the next mass destruction movie that Hollywood makes (they seem to be out of Natural disasters). Quick! We must fight entropy! Arrange the crayons in your box alphabetically and color.
It would be right up there with Speed 3, Glacier of Doom.
This seems like a GREAT way to lose all your money quickly.
I guess after it happens, you'll at least have something to really tweet about (as opposed to the fact you bought the new Brittney Spears album - no one cares!).
The article linked in the topic doesn't have very many details about who or what these companies are. I imagine that the majority of Malware sources are from some overseas nation (Russian derivatives most likely) and that filing these suits probably will go no where.
It is possible this is just a Microsoft publicity stunt designed to deter these kinds of businesses from propagating.
I imagine there might be some of that Placebo effect taking place.
They did a study a while back where they gave cheap wine to ordinary people and labeled it as expensive wine. Then they did the opposite, labeling the expensive wine as cheap wine. When people were asked which wine they liked better, guess what? they liked the "cheap" wine labeled as expensive wine the best.
While I don't doubt that the Stradivari violins may be top notch, I doubt there is that much variance between a "modern" top notch violin and what he created.
While you are arguing semantics (symantecs, lol) between hackers and crackers, I think you strongly, strongly overestimate the ability of the general populace to rise to this specific occasion.
Technology has developed at such an accelerated rate that there are few, at the least, who really know how things work. I think I've stated this before in another article, but to most people, computers are virtually magic. The level of understanding and specific knowledge required to do so is so in-depth that really, the only people who do so are those in the computer field. While that is a generalization, it also happens to be a fairly accurate one.
On to your politics argument: this is not a life or death scenario where the driving force is necessitated by a resolution. I'm not sure that the internet has reached a specific state of critical mass that requires the general populace to solve this issue. And as such, the majority of people will remain ignorant so long as they can check their email and post their tweets.
As I said, it is a novel idea to be proactive, but the suggested method is akin to trying to catch the wind with your bare hands.
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I would say that is very hopeful thinking. The biggest threat does not actually come from the explosion itself (okay, yes, the explosion is also bad), but from the nuclear fallout that occurs after.
Nuclear fallout can affect HUGE areas of the world. When a nuclear device is detonated, radioactive particles get launched into the atmosphere that can travel across the globe.
Nuclear Fallout
I also see comments below about the bombs dropped on Japan - people need to keep in mind that was 65 years ago AND the bomb types were nuclear FISSION, not nuclear fusion. There's a distinct difference. I'm not exactly sure what types of bombs Pakistan and India have, but it's probably bad either way.
People tend to forget that NEED is the real motivation behind technological advances and implementation. Japan, for example, has a high need to handle transit, housing, and recreation within their limited space and with a high population density. Therefore, Japan's need has compelled them to implement technology to handle these limitations. Such examples can be seen in their train infrastructure or space efficient housing.
On the other hand, the United States’ need for the same technology is not as high. Generally speaking, our space constraints are not as limiting and we don't have such a high population density that mass public transit has becomes a necessity rather than a convenience, thus we have large automobiles and expansive houses. The same examples can be drawn for most of the developed world. The transit system in Europe is more developed because the price of gasoline as a commodity is higher - they have a need for a cheaper alternative.
To think that one country is leaps and bounds ahead of others is naive. There are no countries full of Cowboy Astronaut Millionaires. With how globally tied together our countries have become, technological advances tend to propagate worldwide in a year or two, taking into account social and political considerations - the only exception to the trend is military technology.
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Here's the original story:
http://linux.slashdot.org/story/09/12/14/210207/SFLC-Sues-14-Companies-For-BusyBox-GPL-Violations
I know what you're talking about... Orc women... so ... hot!
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I would say that JavaScript has potential, just like Luke Skywalker. Both had the ability to do great things and both had/have the ability to do terrible things.
Question is... who is.. Who's JavaScript's father? And will he lead him down the dark side?
Hey, it's expensive to have things travel Moose.
(From Sealab 2021)
Sparks: Um, ok, but remember, you'll have the strength of five gorillas.
Debbie DuPree: Why settle for a cat Hesh? You could be a robot... tiger.
Marco: No, no, no! Absolamente no! If I have to be five foot nothing Hesh can't be a tiger!
Captain Murphy: Your not the boss of tiger bot Hesh!
Don't you mean FOX news?
I was thinking more along the lines of ear plugs...
I guess it's the "cheaper" "cheaper" alternative to shipping your whole QA department over to India.
The only way to control this is by requiring users to have login names and controlling who can post what (perhaps instituting a probationary period of say 3-7 days so that they don't get spammed with new users).
Otherwise, this is just going to be a repeat of YouTube and other file sharing networks, copyright material still gets uploaded, even if it eventually gets deleted.
This is exactly why the Pirate Bay claims not to have any responsibility for the content on the site - they do not micromanage any of the who or what, they simply provide the service of hosting.
That's exactly the dismissive attitude that allows the problem to continue. Ire and denial.
Or perhaps it's your attitude that perpetuates the problem.
Making a mountain out of a molehill does nothing useful. There are plenty of people out there who support women, but don't like the attitude of the women who have zero tolerance. Instead, they cast a negative light on what should be a positive and progressive movement.
If you really want to help women out, focus on encouraging them to like science and engineering rather than crying foul every time some moron on the internet says something stupid (hopefully that comment is not quoted for irony).
But once again, you're buying into the conspiracy theory that all information is controlled.
I don't doubt there are cases where scandals are revealed as means of political assassination, but I seriously doubt that ALL cases fall into this category.
I wish I had specific examples to show that people come forward of their own volition, but I imagine that even that would be undermined with the notion "it was X who made him/her come forward."
The reality of the situation is that the government WANTS you to think they're in control of every situation and all news. It gives the guise that they are competent. But as I mentioned above, that just isn't the case.
The leakiest of organizations in any country is the government. Anything leaked is leaked deliberately with a concrete reasoning behind it.
This implies that the government is competent, which in turn implies that the members of the government are competent.
I don't mean to come across as flame bait, but have you read the news in the last couple years? Political corruption or scandals happen all the time. You don't honestly believe that people each time our government reveals one of these occurrences it was done on purpose, do you? There isn't a conspiracy at every turn, people just do stupid things. That is the nature of government and of humanity.
But I do have to agree with you on the reporters; they tend of have an agenda.
I think an interesting question is "do black holes only increase entropy?"
Taken from Wikipedia on the definition of Hawking Radiation (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hawking_radiation) , "...rotating black holes should create and emit particles.â This implies that a black hole must have an angular momentum associated with it in order to emit Hawking Radiation and thus a higher entropic state.
Now, let us take a classic example, a celestial body interacting with a black hole. For the purposes of argument, let us theoretically allow the planet to be at maximum entropy. That is, there is no useful energy in the system to allow for interaction. We will take the black hole to have a high amount of entropy, perhaps because it has not interacted with any matter in a good while.
By the conservation of angular momentum (since we discussed the black hole has to have angular momentum to emit Hawking Radiation), the matter from the celestial body will not simply be devoured by the black hole, but accumulated on what is known as an accretion disk (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Accretion_disk). Summarily, the accretion disk is transference of matter from one celestial body to a stronger gravitational brother (i.e. the black hole) whereby matter is siphoned from the less dense object to the denser object. The matter on the accretion disk is accelerated and becomes superheated through friction; in the process, X-rays and other forms of radiation are emitted.
Basically, we have gone from two high entropic states (inert planet and a black hole with little interaction) to a lower entropic state, because the energy in the planet was changed from a useless, uniform state, to a volatile state.
This is going to be the next mass destruction movie that Hollywood makes (they seem to be out of Natural disasters). Quick! We must fight entropy! Arrange the crayons in your box alphabetically and color.
It would be right up there with Speed 3, Glacier of Doom.
This seems like a GREAT way to lose all your money quickly.
I guess after it happens, you'll at least have something to really tweet about (as opposed to the fact you bought the new Brittney Spears album - no one cares!).
The article linked in the topic doesn't have very many details about who or what these companies are.
I imagine that the majority of Malware sources are from some overseas nation (Russian derivatives most likely) and that filing these suits probably will go no where.
It is possible this is just a Microsoft publicity stunt designed to deter these kinds of businesses from propagating.
This system provides no real benefit to the American populace other than to instill fear.
I don't stop what I'm doing because for some reason or another, the day has been ranked a "red" terrorist day.
Really, all it does (besides instilling fear) is give news sources something to talk about briefly.
I imagine there might be some of that Placebo effect taking place.
They did a study a while back where they gave cheap wine to ordinary people and labeled it as expensive wine. Then they did the opposite, labeling the expensive wine as cheap wine. When people were asked which wine they liked better, guess what? they liked the "cheap" wine labeled as expensive wine the best.
While I don't doubt that the Stradivari violins may be top notch, I doubt there is that much variance between a "modern" top notch violin and what he created.
Is this the Matrix? Cuz if it is, we're a virus too. And I'm pretty sure that I'm alive...
While you are arguing semantics (symantecs, lol) between hackers and crackers, I think you strongly, strongly overestimate the ability of the general populace to rise to this specific occasion.
Technology has developed at such an accelerated rate that there are few, at the least, who really know how things work. I think I've stated this before in another article, but to most people, computers are virtually magic. The level of understanding and specific knowledge required to do so is so in-depth that really, the only people who do so are those in the computer field. While that is a generalization, it also happens to be a fairly accurate one.
On to your politics argument: this is not a life or death scenario where the driving force is necessitated by a resolution. I'm not sure that the internet has reached a specific state of critical mass that requires the general populace to solve this issue. And as such, the majority of people will remain ignorant so long as they can check their email and post their tweets.
As I said, it is a novel idea to be proactive, but the suggested method is akin to trying to catch the wind with your bare hands.