I suspected there were counter points. My city has ~70k population that borders a city about 10x larger on one side and country on the other. I'm curious if you are in a higher populated area, or it is more about region than population?
I second this in my area too. When I bought my house, it was about $700 a month for a 1 bedroom apartment with not much square feet beyond that. For a 20 year mortgage the payment was about the same for a 4 bedroom house with 2000 square feet (including unfinished workshop) a quarter acre property and a full garage. Plus I paid extra and paid off the mortgage early.
I don't see a problem with what the news agencies are asking. Google and FB just need to start charging the news agencies for all the traffic they send their way and pay them from this revenue.
So find a way to make alternative energy appealing enough to convince everyone to spend their own money to switch to alternative energy. Which seems like some of the other responses, get alternatives to the point that it makes economic sense.
While it seems like a great idea to have the government write laws to guide people in the direction that is best for everyone, the government represents the people and if you can't convince the people, it is hard to get the government to follow.
I think the only real hope is for researchers, and a few industrial visionaries like you mention in Musk, to get technology to the point where renewables truly make sense as a replacement to existing energy sources.
Windows 10 gives you as many customizable heirarchical popup menus from the taskbar as you want. You claim to be some sort of power user, yet you seem dead set against learning even the barest minimum about the operating system's power user features. Perhaps you've already received your lobotomy?
I've used this and am very pleased with it myself, though I prefer that nice hierarchical popup menu to actually be my start menu, so I am using classic shell. As a developer who releases multiple versions of software to less power users (hardware engineering customers for example), we are so far forced to deal with windows 10 eliminating start menu folder depth by releasing gawd awful folder names with versions and other crap in the folder name to differentiate from previously released versions.
And naming a wifi ssid "holocaust never happened" is drastically different from naming a wifi ssid "bomb on board". One offends people, the other suggests a life threatening event is possible.
If there was a bomb on board, I bet you trying to ground the flight would set it off a lot sooner than not. Assuming it was remote detonated. People who actually follow through on these sorts of things rarely warn others of it.
Or it could be a faulty bomb and getting the aircraft on the ground gives emergency crews enough time to disarm it. If I handed you a bag and told you it was a bomb and would blow up if you let go of it, would you just laugh about it?
i hope you're really suggesting they are the same thing. If so, fuck off dummy.
Nope. Yelling fire can lead to deaths which is prosecuted one way. A bomb threat leads to the authorities making sure there isn't a bomb there, which shouldn't lead to any deaths but costs government money. Just like murder and graffiti are two different crimes, both of these situations should be handled appropriately for the situation.
why would you want to criminalize someone for naming an access point?
Why would you want to criminalize someone for yelling fire in a crowded theater, leading to a stampede that kills people? There are limits to most anything.
Not much project management or the developers can do when corporate wants the software to be faster, cheaper and better, but is willing to settle for the first two.
"One of his tasks is to insert 56 bolts on the flywheel housing of each engine as it moves down the line and tighten the bolts in a certain sequence. He now uses a tool that is connected to a computer screen, which guides him to the right bolt and will not allow him to tighten the wrong one. It also knows exactly when the bolt is tight enough and then stops."
Though I wonder if they also include digital time cards to get their numbers.
The convenient excuse that the results of this hack are classified allows the author to make what would likely be a boring and unimportant story sensational. Exactly what systems did they access? A 757 is a pretty old aircraft. NONE of the flight critical systems are networked off the aircraft. I suspect they hackers got access to a non-critical system like ACARS or IFE. The $1M per SLOC is also very misleading. While the FIRST line of code might cost that much on a flight critical system, each successive line of of code is pretty much in line with a traditional software project. You can also spread that cost across the entire fleet of operating aircraft. And since the 757 and 767 systems are almost identical, that's a lot of airplanes that could be upgraded for a single price tag.
They do mention maintenance crews and I do wonder about an impostor hooking up a hacking device to a maintenance interface. If this is left while the airplane is flying, it could try to put the aircraft into maintenance mode in flight. Though I think they already have software in place to try to prevent such a thing from being done by accident, and I would hope maintenance crews are fairly well monitored as they could do far worse with an explosive device attached somewhere you can't see it.
This article claims that one line of code costs a million dollars to fix and would "bankrupt" Southwest.
News flash: Southwest wouldn't be the ones fixing the fucking code! It would be the manufacturer who would then absorb that cost, not the airline. Besides, if this problem is valid the FAA and other regulators will be involved to force the manufacturer to address the issue.
This article is a perfect example of why journalism is headed for self-destruction.
Not to mention a lot of that is fixed costs. Changing 1 more line of code wouldn't cost $1 more but is also wouldn't cost $1M more.
With coal plants being discontinued, I prefer solar and wind to charge electric cars without heavy rare earth batteries (not fully rare earth free but going the right direction): http://fortune.com/2016/07/12/...
When you just look at the bad side, new technology is almost always the worst thing to ever come along. The internet has potential to be horrifically misused, no better portal to spread misinformation that appears to be truth. At the same time, real knowledge has spread further via the internet than just about any other invention short of the printing press, maybe even more so.
Your taxes actually go to maintaining a country's infrastructure that actually allows the businesses that pay people that cash? Terribly inefficiently admittedly, but at the moment we don't have better alternatives.
Yeah, my cocker raises royal hell when she hears a UPS truck pull into the driveway. I think letting them into my house (no entry way here) is just asking for a lawsuit.
My perspective on this is why not lock the door? It is almost no inconvenience to lock/unlock it, even in a safe neighborhood, and the potential benefits are quite significant.
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I suspected there were counter points. My city has ~70k population that borders a city about 10x larger on one side and country on the other. I'm curious if you are in a higher populated area, or it is more about region than population?
I second this in my area too. When I bought my house, it was about $700 a month for a 1 bedroom apartment with not much square feet beyond that. For a 20 year mortgage the payment was about the same for a 4 bedroom house with 2000 square feet (including unfinished workshop) a quarter acre property and a full garage. Plus I paid extra and paid off the mortgage early.
And poor (insert local business) that doesn't have the money to pay for the premium internet pipe.
I don't see a problem with what the news agencies are asking. Google and FB just need to start charging the news agencies for all the traffic they send their way and pay them from this revenue.
So find a way to make alternative energy appealing enough to convince everyone to spend their own money to switch to alternative energy. Which seems like some of the other responses, get alternatives to the point that it makes economic sense.
While it seems like a great idea to have the government write laws to guide people in the direction that is best for everyone, the government represents the people and if you can't convince the people, it is hard to get the government to follow.
I think the only real hope is for researchers, and a few industrial visionaries like you mention in Musk, to get technology to the point where renewables truly make sense as a replacement to existing energy sources.
Politicians are not even artificially intelligent?
I can definitely point out some Turing test failures among politicians.
Windows 10 gives you as many customizable heirarchical popup menus from the taskbar as you want. You claim to be some sort of power user, yet you seem dead set against learning even the barest minimum about the operating system's power user features. Perhaps you've already received your lobotomy?
I've used this and am very pleased with it myself, though I prefer that nice hierarchical popup menu to actually be my start menu, so I am using classic shell. As a developer who releases multiple versions of software to less power users (hardware engineering customers for example), we are so far forced to deal with windows 10 eliminating start menu folder depth by releasing gawd awful folder names with versions and other crap in the folder name to differentiate from previously released versions.
It has NEVER been illegal to yell "Fire" in a Crowded theater, it's an old and incorrect quote.
https://definitions.uslegal.co...
Yep, terrorists never warn before hand: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
And naming a wifi ssid "holocaust never happened" is drastically different from naming a wifi ssid "bomb on board". One offends people, the other suggests a life threatening event is possible.
If there was a bomb on board, I bet you trying to ground the flight would set it off a lot sooner than not. Assuming it was remote detonated. People who actually follow through on these sorts of things rarely warn others of it.
Or it could be a faulty bomb and getting the aircraft on the ground gives emergency crews enough time to disarm it. If I handed you a bag and told you it was a bomb and would blow up if you let go of it, would you just laugh about it?
i hope you're really suggesting they are the same thing. If so, fuck off dummy.
Nope. Yelling fire can lead to deaths which is prosecuted one way. A bomb threat leads to the authorities making sure there isn't a bomb there, which shouldn't lead to any deaths but costs government money. Just like murder and graffiti are two different crimes, both of these situations should be handled appropriately for the situation.
The minor action isn't what needs to be stopped, it's the extreme over-reaction that needs to be addressed.
Putting the aircraft down on a possible bomb thread doesn't seem like an extreme over reaction. And the cost of the diversion isn't cheap.
Yes, because reactions to possible emergencies are always carefully and cautiously thought out: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
why would you want to criminalize someone for naming an access point?
Why would you want to criminalize someone for yelling fire in a crowded theater, leading to a stampede that kills people? There are limits to most anything.
Not much project management or the developers can do when corporate wants the software to be faster, cheaper and better, but is willing to settle for the first two.
From the article:
"One of his tasks is to insert 56 bolts on the flywheel housing of each engine as it moves down the line and tighten the bolts in a certain sequence. He now uses a tool that is connected to a computer screen, which guides him to the right bolt and will not allow him to tighten the wrong one. It also knows exactly when the bolt is tight enough and then stops."
Though I wonder if they also include digital time cards to get their numbers.
The convenient excuse that the results of this hack are classified allows the author to make what would likely be a boring and unimportant story sensational. Exactly what systems did they access? A 757 is a pretty old aircraft. NONE of the flight critical systems are networked off the aircraft. I suspect they hackers got access to a non-critical system like ACARS or IFE. The $1M per SLOC is also very misleading. While the FIRST line of code might cost that much on a flight critical system, each successive line of of code is pretty much in line with a traditional software project. You can also spread that cost across the entire fleet of operating aircraft. And since the 757 and 767 systems are almost identical, that's a lot of airplanes that could be upgraded for a single price tag.
They do mention maintenance crews and I do wonder about an impostor hooking up a hacking device to a maintenance interface. If this is left while the airplane is flying, it could try to put the aircraft into maintenance mode in flight. Though I think they already have software in place to try to prevent such a thing from being done by accident, and I would hope maintenance crews are fairly well monitored as they could do far worse with an explosive device attached somewhere you can't see it.
This article claims that one line of code costs a million dollars to fix and would "bankrupt" Southwest.
News flash: Southwest wouldn't be the ones fixing the fucking code! It would be the manufacturer who would then absorb that cost, not the airline. Besides, if this problem is valid the FAA and other regulators will be involved to force the manufacturer to address the issue.
This article is a perfect example of why journalism is headed for self-destruction.
Not to mention a lot of that is fixed costs. Changing 1 more line of code wouldn't cost $1 more but is also wouldn't cost $1M more.
With coal plants being discontinued, I prefer solar and wind to charge electric cars without heavy rare earth batteries (not fully rare earth free but going the right direction): http://fortune.com/2016/07/12/...
When you just look at the bad side, new technology is almost always the worst thing to ever come along. The internet has potential to be horrifically misused, no better portal to spread misinformation that appears to be truth. At the same time, real knowledge has spread further via the internet than just about any other invention short of the printing press, maybe even more so.
Your taxes actually go to maintaining a country's infrastructure that actually allows the businesses that pay people that cash? Terribly inefficiently admittedly, but at the moment we don't have better alternatives.
Quite a few actually, they just spend a crap ton more before they finally can them... http://www.businessinsider.com...
Yeah, my cocker raises royal hell when she hears a UPS truck pull into the driveway. I think letting them into my house (no entry way here) is just asking for a lawsuit.
My perspective on this is why not lock the door? It is almost no inconvenience to lock/unlock it, even in a safe neighborhood, and the potential benefits are quite significant.