The Syrian civil war has been linked to global warming (in fact the whole - and better still, conflicts "like that" were predicted in the late 1990's. There was even a Pentagon report about how GW (if valid) would impact global stability and geopolitics.
iI remember reading an article long ago that said that the Voynich manuscript was made by a con man that wanted to make some quick cash by writing down some gibberish in a book, claiming that it had mystical origins, and selling it off to someone with more money than common sense. \\
The UI absolutely MUST refresh/respond/update quickly - in fact, instantly. No matter what.
Driver takes eyes off the road to find soft-button on touchscreen. Driver looks back at the road and continues driving. Cheapo CPU takes 1-10 seconds to register the touch event, process, and update the screen. Possibly longer if device is running "value add" software (adware from manufacturers trying to sell software-as-a-service, (like OnStar or other bullshit) on the car), possibly longer if request relies on data that can't be retrieved without latency issues, etc. Driver keeps looking down every 2 seconds to see if there was a response, whether it was valid, whether he touched the right button, whether he's got network connectivity, is this thing even on? CRASH.
I think that's an extraordinary claim. Are there any photos showing this rock in the path of the rover before it clipped it? The unusual composition of this rock bears investigating, and suggests some other origin (like a meteor impact). Why is the composition inconsistent with other rocks? Because it's not from there.
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Those patriotic workers on the so-called "gualg planets" are not slaves. There is great satisfaction in laboring for the glory of the Federation, and they are happy to do that while drinking sunshine and shitting rainbows.
when people are specifically brought up (raised) under a paradigm that stresses "material wealth == you're a good person" - then yes, I'd argue that for some of the less-well-adjusted people, wants are infinite.
But that is a function of culture and upbringing. There is no reason to believe that most people will put a limit on their wants, especially when they see that the universe is finite. For those whose wants are infinite, I suppose that a treatment of behavioral therapy, plus various medications, can probably cure this.
so why wouldn't he just take out Assange the old-fashioned way if we cared about Assange at all?
I think that they believe that if they can interrogate him, he will reveal other sources (insiders) who may currently be a danger to national security.
The cult of "national security" can justify pretty much any thing, including rendition, torture, or assassination, if they can justify it to protect the bedwetting conservitard cowards, who are willing to spend any amount of other people's tax money to protect their economic hegemony.
I don't understand why; when we (the USA) want a terrorist, we can just go start a 10+ year-long invasion and occupation of a foreign country. (and still not succeed until we find out that he's in a different country altogether, being protected by our allies to whom we pay billions per year in military aid).
Yet, when we want a journalist, exercising his free-press privileges, we can trap him in an embassy while he's seeking asylum from extradition.
When there is a DDOS, faith in the system will go down, people will want to panic-sell to get their value, if they think there will be a technical problem getting their value in the future. This will trigger divestment, and will reduce the monetary value of bitcoins - which affects the value of those who held instead of selling.
COPD is actually pretty bad, and there isn't a whole lot that having a ton of money can do. Maybe a heart/lung transplant. But at 82, that's a pretty rough surgery.
The US is lucky in a sense -- despite all this, their technology development pipeline is very deep, their resources are huge, and they are culturally adapted to change in a way that most other cultures are not.
Yes - but I pose this question to today's generals: What are you going to do if China shoots down enough critical communications, surveillance, and positioning satellites, and at the same time, takes out all the carrier groups in a region with these missiles, as a prelude to some major action? What's the plan? We got nothing. Our best-effort will restore those services in years, probably decades. The Chinese have demonstrated antisatellite warfare capabilites. And a willingness to test them.
(Von Braun being WHY we have ballistic missiles in the first-place; his strategy being: con the military-industrial complex into funding the basic research to apply to civilian space exploration&settlement - which worked okay. Unless you lived in London.)
Many NASA workers (and others in scientific or engineering fields) have workflows that require certain software, that may be platform specific, for which, there is no viable alternative. Especially on Linux, there are a lot of highly customized applications for doing the kind of image processing and data collection that doesn't exist on other platforms, and more especially, may have been written by NASA employees in the first place. HP's not going to port that. They're going to try to find the "next best thing" (hey, you can do your data collation in excel, right?). I find it hard to believe that an HP service organization is going to accommodate and integrate a hybrid Mac/Linux/Windows/*BSD environment for these workers, that also complies with the general government IT regulations, (like HSPD-12/FIPS-201, for example). (Some of these top-down requirements for IA are astoundingly ignorant, because while they work in a nice-cushy office building with a homogenous network, you start throwing these other platforms into the mix, dependencies on legacy systems, and distribute that over sites that don't have good network service, you're going to be signing off a crapload of waivers.)
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The Syrian civil war has been linked to global warming (in fact the whole - and better still, conflicts "like that" were predicted in the late 1990's. There was even a Pentagon report about how GW (if valid) would impact global stability and geopolitics.
iI remember reading an article long ago that said that the Voynich manuscript was made by a con man that wanted to make some quick cash by writing down some gibberish in a book, claiming that it had mystical origins, and selling it off to someone with more money than common sense. \\
much more creativity than Joseph Smith. . .
The UI absolutely MUST refresh/respond/update quickly - in fact, instantly. No matter what.
Driver takes eyes off the road to find soft-button on touchscreen.
Driver looks back at the road and continues driving.
Cheapo CPU takes 1-10 seconds to register the touch event, process, and update the screen. Possibly longer if device is running "value add" software (adware from manufacturers trying to sell software-as-a-service, (like OnStar or other bullshit) on the car), possibly longer if request relies on data that can't be retrieved without latency issues, etc.
Driver keeps looking down every 2 seconds to see if there was a response, whether it was valid, whether he touched the right button, whether he's got network connectivity, is this thing even on? CRASH.
I figure this out. I'll just legally change my name to "XBox Signoff", and see what happens.
Are we a simulation of a simulated universe, or are we a simulation of a REAL universe?
I think that's an extraordinary claim. Are there any photos showing this rock in the path of the rover before it clipped it? The unusual composition of this rock bears investigating, and suggests some other origin (like a meteor impact). Why is the composition inconsistent with other rocks? Because it's not from there.
Athletes. Not engineers.
Those patriotic workers on the so-called "gualg planets" are not slaves. There is great satisfaction in laboring for the glory of the Federation, and they are happy to do that while drinking sunshine and shitting rainbows.
when people are specifically brought up (raised) under a paradigm that stresses "material wealth == you're a good person" - then yes, I'd argue that for some of the less-well-adjusted people, wants are infinite.
But that is a function of culture and upbringing. There is no reason to believe that most people will put a limit on their wants, especially when they see that the universe is finite. For those whose wants are infinite, I suppose that a treatment of behavioral therapy, plus various medications, can probably cure this.
Same thing they do on every other issue.
"Fuck you" to the rural communities, and "whatver you want/need" to the big cities, and especially the Prison Guards' and Police Unions.
so why wouldn't he just take out Assange the old-fashioned way if we cared about Assange at all?
I think that they believe that if they can interrogate him, he will reveal other sources (insiders) who may currently be a danger to national security.
The cult of "national security" can justify pretty much any thing, including rendition, torture, or assassination, if they can justify it to protect the bedwetting conservitard cowards, who are willing to spend any amount of other people's tax money to protect their economic hegemony.
Dude's not a terrorist.
I don't understand why; when we (the USA) want a terrorist, we can just go start a 10+ year-long invasion and occupation of a foreign country. (and still not succeed until we find out that he's in a different country altogether, being protected by our allies to whom we pay billions per year in military aid).
Yet, when we want a journalist, exercising his free-press privileges, we can trap him in an embassy while he's seeking asylum from extradition.
It's still great as a pump-n-dump scheme for the financiers who work the deal, and a couple insider majority shareholders.
What's not to like?
HSPD-12 says that since 2006, they are REQUIRED (**SHALL**) to use them.
Doesn't mean they do. Just sayin'.
You mean. . . dinosaurs?
How does this not affect wallets and funds.
When there is a DDOS, faith in the system will go down, people will want to panic-sell to get their value, if they think there will be a technical problem getting their value in the future. This will trigger divestment, and will reduce the monetary value of bitcoins - which affects the value of those who held instead of selling.
I hope that when they're computing pie charts, that they use 3.0 as the constant for PI, as their bible commands.
COPD is actually pretty bad, and there isn't a whole lot that having a ton of money can do. Maybe a heart/lung transplant. But at 82, that's a pretty rough surgery.
yeah, that was a dick-move.
Thanks!
Actually, I think the NASA shot is better than the HiRise one?
http://photojournal.jpl.nasa.g...
http://static.uahirise.org/ima...
The US is lucky in a sense -- despite all this, their technology development pipeline is very deep, their resources are huge, and they are culturally adapted to change in a way that most other cultures are not.
Yes - but I pose this question to today's generals:
What are you going to do if China shoots down enough critical communications, surveillance, and positioning satellites, and at the same time, takes out all the carrier groups in a region with these missiles, as a prelude to some major action? What's the plan? We got nothing. Our best-effort will restore those services in years, probably decades. The Chinese have demonstrated antisatellite warfare capabilites. And a willingness to test them.
They would never do that. That would violate international treaties.
And our superpowers NEVER violate international treaties.
This sounds like a good "Von Braun" strategy.
(Von Braun being WHY we have ballistic missiles in the first-place; his strategy being: con the military-industrial complex into funding the basic research to apply to civilian space exploration&settlement - which worked okay. Unless you lived in London.)
I need a 320x200, heavily compressed jpeg, with a space.com logo watermark across the bottom 1/3.
It's not simple "OS preference" either.
Many NASA workers (and others in scientific or engineering fields) have workflows that require certain software, that may be platform specific, for which, there is no viable alternative. Especially on Linux, there are a lot of highly customized applications for doing the kind of image processing and data collection that doesn't exist on other platforms, and more especially, may have been written by NASA employees in the first place. HP's not going to port that. They're going to try to find the "next best thing" (hey, you can do your data collation in excel, right?). I find it hard to believe that an HP service organization is going to accommodate and integrate a hybrid Mac/Linux/Windows/*BSD environment for these workers, that also complies with the general government IT regulations, (like HSPD-12/FIPS-201, for example). (Some of these top-down requirements for IA are astoundingly ignorant, because while they work in a nice-cushy office building with a homogenous network, you start throwing these other platforms into the mix, dependencies on legacy systems, and distribute that over sites that don't have good network service, you're going to be signing off a crapload of waivers.)