The problem with nukes is the scale of their destruction and the potential to poisons regions or the world. Drones are just another new weapons system. They don't relate at all to nukes. They still could use some international controls and other attention from potential combatants but that could be said of all kinds of weapons.
The premise of TFA is that tech displaces jobs from the focus of new efficiencies to other jobs not eliminated by or created by the new technology. History has proved this out so far. But history has also shown that technology's advances are coming at a faster and faster pace. It take TIME to transition from one job to another. The types of advances we're now seeing in technology aren't industry specific they are generalized advances in computer intelligence, cost efficiency and universality. The advance in vision and motion that displaces the worker from factory X can displace them tomorrow from factory Y and from orchard Z. The white collar world has seen the disappearance of middle management but will see decisioning frameworks outperforming boardrooms full of meat shells sooner than anyone cares to believe.
Workers at all levels will find themselves running away from a wave that is moving faster than their capacity to adapt. IF the advance of technology slows as a consequence of less people capable of buying new tech that could reach some kind of equilibrium but I wouldn't count on that, would you?
That's a steal!! We should build that thing tomorrow and send the damn super rich there BEFORE they turn this place into anymore of a s**thole. They can move the stock exchanges up there too. Just think, they could wave down at main street while we go about some honest business for a change.
I find the KKK extremely distasteful. I find race and religious hatred distasteful. I see no problem saying mean things about the President of the US as long as they aren't death threats. These were clearly scary, rude assholes building a terrifying weapon which merits extremely close ongoing scrutiny.
As far as I can tell, however, that's all these guy were. They were haters seeking funding for a prototype of a weapon that they said they wanted to sell to Israel. Being a hater is shitty but legal. Developing weapons is basically legal although there are legal restrictions that I doubt these guys obeyed. Selling weapons to a US ally is legal. Their stated intent was to build a weapon that would be useful against the enemies of Israel. Was there another stated intent that nobody has reported on yet?
If they didn't state an intent to illegally harm people with this weapon, then how are these guys guilty of terrorism. It seems to me that they are guilty of being dickheads and possibly guilty of some forms of endangerment or trafficking in weapons.
Make a robot friendly chassis and things get interesting fast. The whole data center could be one giant self-healing stack. You put fresh parts in one end and take dead parts out the other.
Your team members are clearly not feeling the cost of their failure or the benefit of better practices. Schedule a 1.5 hour meeting where you go over the worst code that week and the best code that week. When bugs show up in a release track them back to the developer(s) involved and rename the bug to include their names.
Identify WHAT DEVELOPERS NEED TO LEARN OR CHANGE during each code review and provide the resources for them to learn the better practice.
Pay bonuses for good code and good practices. If you're afraid that some people will quit... don't be.
VW was founded by Ferdinand Porsche. The Porsche family has been involved in the development of nearly every VW in history. Ferdinand Piëch, his grandson, ran Audi and VW.... It's turtles all the way down for the connection between Porsche, VW and Audi.
Howard Hughes used that trick for years. Eventually it was invalidated but only in a California court. This is the best idea here because it could give the OP's wife cause to seize the domains.
These were just conversation. I have no idea whether NDAs applied or anything. I don't want to get anyone in trouble. But, yeah, the guy who told me about the hydrology said that the first study didn't consider the effects of shear or of water leaching up. Apparently it was a strait static analysis of the statistics of water getting in and out of the storage area based on its current configuration and gravity.
Here's a tiny tip of the iceberg of design work on Yucca mountain: http://www.desertspace.org/wwwroot/warning_sign/index.html. All I can say is that there was money available to build granite statues and icons of demons or whatever might scare the shit out of people. I thought it was a REALLY GREAT idea given a 10,000 year timeframe.
Sorry, I'm not invested enough to get clearance from friends and relations to name them.
1. A friend of mine was on a team that was tasked with confirming the first hydrology study of Yucca Mountain that was used to select it for nuclear waste storage. Their results showed significant risk to the water table over the 10,000 year use period. Their results were tables and another confirmation study was done that looked remarkably like the first study.
2. A relative of mine works at WED - Disney's design firm. He was asked to bid on a project for some branch of the government; I think it was the Department of Energy. The project was to come up with a combination of sculture and architecture for Yucca Mountain that was so primordially frightening that it would keep humans away for 10,000 years even if they couldn't read warning and no matter what culture had evolved.
Just some fun data points for my fellow/. community members.
Insightful? It's the standard nerd argument that everyone except us is a mouth breathing moron and that we need to lower ourselves to appeal to their needs. I think both of those points are flawed.
No he's not. He's just saying that the defaults are there for not technical people. That's not a criticism. Someone's not a "mouth breathing moron" just because they aren't capable of managing a rooted smart phone!
The absence of a MicroSD slot is a big signal that this device is meant to drive more usage of online storage. It's a portal into GoogleDrive just as Amazon's products are portals into their storefront and storage. The devices are beautiful and they have enough storage available to strike a balance. I, for one, am more tolerant and trusting of Google than of phone carriers (which isn't saying much). We have all kinds of options for open hardware. This isn't totally open, it's a relatively fair balance which is to be expected from Google.
My company, Otixo.com, was created to give people (like iPad users) more freedom in situations like this by using WebDAV. It doesn't replace the MicroSD slot but at least it gives you the choice of any storage provider including any server with FTP or WebDAV....
I'm looking at the Nexus 4 to replace my aging HTC Inspire from AT&T. If I choose it, it will be a hell of a lot more open than what I've got.
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Please, PLEASE, somebody mod this guy up FUNNY. LOL ROFLMAO
Traffic comes from EMPLOYMENT. Economic growth used to be a good gauge of employment. That's not a reliable correlation anymore.
This explains a LOT about why Netflix is such a pathetic, stagnant piece of shit. "A players..." - who hires someone who even talks like that?
... the NSA director is right about what he needs to do his job.
Wired has an article about the threats the NSA has to worry about:(sarcasm) http://www.wired.com/dangerroom/2012/10/insider-threat/
Here's an article about our potential terrorist veterans: (sarcasm) http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2009/apr/16/napolitano-stands-rightwing-extremism/?page=all
Here's a list by paranoids: (sarcasm) http://thetruthwins.com/archives/patriots-and-christians-have-been-repeatedly-labeled-as-potential-terrorists-since-obama-became-president
The problem with nukes is the scale of their destruction and the potential to poisons regions or the world. Drones are just another new weapons system. They don't relate at all to nukes. They still could use some international controls and other attention from potential combatants but that could be said of all kinds of weapons.
More mod points for this guy!!!
Silverlight crashed while I was watching this. I can't stop laughing.
It resulted in the 4th Amendment.
The premise of TFA is that tech displaces jobs from the focus of new efficiencies to other jobs not eliminated by or created by the new technology. History has proved this out so far. But history has also shown that technology's advances are coming at a faster and faster pace. It take TIME to transition from one job to another. The types of advances we're now seeing in technology aren't industry specific they are generalized advances in computer intelligence, cost efficiency and universality. The advance in vision and motion that displaces the worker from factory X can displace them tomorrow from factory Y and from orchard Z. The white collar world has seen the disappearance of middle management but will see decisioning frameworks outperforming boardrooms full of meat shells sooner than anyone cares to believe.
Workers at all levels will find themselves running away from a wave that is moving faster than their capacity to adapt. IF the advance of technology slows as a consequence of less people capable of buying new tech that could reach some kind of equilibrium but I wouldn't count on that, would you?
That's a steal!! We should build that thing tomorrow and send the damn super rich there BEFORE they turn this place into anymore of a s**thole. They can move the stock exchanges up there too. Just think, they could wave down at main street while we go about some honest business for a change.
They're nice guys too. https://www.cx.com/
Math can be very hard. What is often lost is that math MAKES THINGS EASY.
Really glad to hear that it was Jewish Americans who turned the crazies in.
Sorry Black Parrot, it was the KKK that turned them in.
I find the KKK extremely distasteful. I find race and religious hatred distasteful. I see no problem saying mean things about the President of the US as long as they aren't death threats. These were clearly scary, rude assholes building a terrifying weapon which merits extremely close ongoing scrutiny.
As far as I can tell, however, that's all these guy were. They were haters seeking funding for a prototype of a weapon that they said they wanted to sell to Israel. Being a hater is shitty but legal. Developing weapons is basically legal although there are legal restrictions that I doubt these guys obeyed. Selling weapons to a US ally is legal. Their stated intent was to build a weapon that would be useful against the enemies of Israel. Was there another stated intent that nobody has reported on yet?
If they didn't state an intent to illegally harm people with this weapon, then how are these guys guilty of terrorism. It seems to me that they are guilty of being dickheads and possibly guilty of some forms of endangerment or trafficking in weapons.
Make a robot friendly chassis and things get interesting fast. The whole data center could be one giant self-healing stack. You put fresh parts in one end and take dead parts out the other.
I think the TFA and all involved have gotten so used to a daily candy shop of FRICKIN' MIRACLES. That they're inured to the taste of sugar.
Your team members are clearly not feeling the cost of their failure or the benefit of better practices. Schedule a 1.5 hour meeting where you go over the worst code that week and the best code that week. When bugs show up in a release track them back to the developer(s) involved and rename the bug to include their names.
Identify WHAT DEVELOPERS NEED TO LEARN OR CHANGE during each code review and provide the resources for them to learn the better practice.
Pay bonuses for good code and good practices. If you're afraid that some people will quit... don't be.
VW was founded by Ferdinand Porsche. The Porsche family has been involved in the development of nearly every VW in history. Ferdinand Piëch, his grandson, ran Audi and VW.... It's turtles all the way down for the connection between Porsche, VW and Audi.
Howard Hughes used that trick for years. Eventually it was invalidated but only in a California court. This is the best idea here because it could give the OP's wife cause to seize the domains.
The heads of the FBI and DEA report DIRECTLY to POTUS. The original commenter use the term properly.
These were just conversation. I have no idea whether NDAs applied or anything. I don't want to get anyone in trouble. But, yeah, the guy who told me about the hydrology said that the first study didn't consider the effects of shear or of water leaching up. Apparently it was a strait static analysis of the statistics of water getting in and out of the storage area based on its current configuration and gravity.
Here's a tiny tip of the iceberg of design work on Yucca mountain: http://www.desertspace.org/wwwroot/warning_sign/index.html. All I can say is that there was money available to build granite statues and icons of demons or whatever might scare the shit out of people. I thought it was a REALLY GREAT idea given a 10,000 year timeframe.
Sorry, I'm not invested enough to get clearance from friends and relations to name them.
1. A friend of mine was on a team that was tasked with confirming the first hydrology study of Yucca Mountain that was used to select it for nuclear waste storage. Their results showed significant risk to the water table over the 10,000 year use period. Their results were tables and another confirmation study was done that looked remarkably like the first study.
2. A relative of mine works at WED - Disney's design firm. He was asked to bid on a project for some branch of the government; I think it was the Department of Energy. The project was to come up with a combination of sculture and architecture for Yucca Mountain that was so primordially frightening that it would keep humans away for 10,000 years even if they couldn't read warning and no matter what culture had evolved.
Just some fun data points for my fellow /. community members.
Insightful? It's the standard nerd argument that everyone except us is a mouth breathing moron and that we need to lower ourselves to appeal to their needs. I think both of those points are flawed.
No he's not. He's just saying that the defaults are there for not technical people. That's not a criticism. Someone's not a "mouth breathing moron" just because they aren't capable of managing a rooted smart phone!
This was really insightful. Anyone got mod points?
The absence of a MicroSD slot is a big signal that this device is meant to drive more usage of online storage. It's a portal into GoogleDrive just as Amazon's products are portals into their storefront and storage. The devices are beautiful and they have enough storage available to strike a balance. I, for one, am more tolerant and trusting of Google than of phone carriers (which isn't saying much). We have all kinds of options for open hardware. This isn't totally open, it's a relatively fair balance which is to be expected from Google.
My company, Otixo.com, was created to give people (like iPad users) more freedom in situations like this by using WebDAV. It doesn't replace the MicroSD slot but at least it gives you the choice of any storage provider including any server with FTP or WebDAV....
I'm looking at the Nexus 4 to replace my aging HTC Inspire from AT&T. If I choose it, it will be a hell of a lot more open than what I've got.