I realize this sort of reasoning seems plausible, but it's predicated on the unfounded, unproven assumption that mozilla.org makes decisions for reasons that have an underlying logic to them.
But the ironic thing [1] is
our conservative friends say many interesting things about
California, but you can forget most of them. They were,
for example very interested when the state's finances were
in trouble, but dropped the story when we fixed it by
electing Democrats.
[1] Actually that isn't ironic. The ironic thing is you need to look up the word ironic and think about it. But then, that wasn't actually ironic either.
Some of the low digit accounts were auctioned off some time back. The shills are trying harder to not look like shills these days.
What I'm looking forward to out of this mess is the conclusion that we need to start using real, traceable back to meat-space IDs or else any enemy of the United States (Russian, China, Kock Brothers, etc) will be jamming the internet with unreliable garbage.
Another thing that'd be cool is the realization that as-supported sites are a bust, and in fact maybe for profit sites are pretty useless, and we all switch over to the non-profit model.
And fresh from that success, it's time to for the linux distros to go after mobile users. I'm sure Google will make easier pickings than Microsoft.
(Wouldn't it be cool, if someone, anyone ever paid a price for failure? Like wouldn't it be great if the "designers" who repeatedly screwed up gnome, KDE (and oh, maybe firefox?) were never let near a computer again?)
Apple employees should have some decals like this made up:
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Brand's "How Buildings Learn" is indeed an excellent book. One of the things he mentions is that surveys show that whenever anyone hires an architect to design a new building for an organization, everyone hates it and likes their old building better. In other words, the software UX community has recently reached parity with Architecture.
Not that it matters to you, but no one can find any evidence of these hordes of fraudulent voters swaying any recent elections. You've gotta go back decades before you find even half-way plausible stories to that effect.
Paper is pretty secure here, where most anyone and especially members of all parties, can watch the whole process.
Yes, that's pretty much it. There are scams you can use with paper ballots, but they're harder to get it to scale [1]. Arguably, a hybrid system (as is common these days) of paper ballots counted electronically could be better than a pure paper system-- then you can use computer techniques to look for problems, and paper hand counts to check afterwards.
Equally important is that the process is so simple that the average person can easily understand the process.
Yeah, exactly. You might have your spooky crypto-magic uncrackable system deployed perfectly, but it's too complicated for citizen's to understand, you could get demagogues whipping up distrust for the system. Counting the vote accurately doesn't help if no one believes you.
[1] One year, the coast guard found the lids of ballot boxes floating around in the San Francisco bay...
This is what the pro-nuke people never address-- we are gradually turning the world into a dumping ground for nuclear waste
This is waste from cold-war era weapons production, it has
nothing to do with waster from power production.
starting with the cooling pools at thousands of reactors worldwide.
The dry storage of high level wastes at nuclear plants
is actually working fine, because among other things the
amount of waste is small, certainly compared to the amount
of energy generated. (There isn't another power source that
could possibly do this, by the way: "oh well, let's just
keep it all here for now".)
You see, you are not some genius who's discovered a problem
no one has ever thought about, and no, there is no vast
conspiracy to prevent clean-ups of spills.
There is, however an interesting feature planted inside
your skull that prevents you from hearing anyone who says
anything remotely sensible on the subject-- no doubt we're
all shills from the conspiracy, right?
The "nuclear proliferation" concern doesn't really seem to be a problem with nuclear energy-- there aren't any examples of countries pursuing nuclear power as a blind for weapons development, and preventing them from using nuclear power doesn't stop them from developing weapons if they really want to.
If you're envisioning that a nefarious player could hi-jack a nuclear freighter and use the material for bombs, that's not really an issue because the fuel suitable for power is only like 5% enriched, vs the 95% or so you need for bomb grade material. Starting from ore wouldn't be that much harder.
(On the other hand, you could hi-jack a nuclear freighter and use it as a power plant-- I half-way expect that's what we're going to end up doing with the US Nuclear Navy... we've got a fleet of reliable, transportable electric power plants that can steam into any harbor and begin supplying power...)
The central trouble is that wind and solar are relatively diffuse energy sources, so there isn't a lot of margin to spend on tricks like storage devices or superconducting networks or what not. This is not to say that it can't be done, but it's all going to take some finese. I wish them well-- sincerely, we need all the clean power we can get-- but what I expect is that the "renewables" enthusiasts will continue to be quietly accepting of burning natural gas in "peakers" to fill in the gaps.
"Mr. Fusion" isn't necessary-- there are multiple things that would work-- but it certainly wouldn't hurt.
It's easy to be cynical about Fusion these days, but we could still get there. Try listening to Bussard on the subject (from back in 2006)...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
I would be happy with some form of carbon-pricing bolted on to
the market to make the emitters pay for some of the damage that
they do.
Kind of like Obama's "Clean Power Plan", for example, but like
everything else of any importance it's all on hold until we get
rid of the obstructionists.
One of my biggest peeves with the "environmentalists" is that
they've all but stopped talking about carbon pricing, because it
would make nuclear power look good, and you can't have that.
They've picked their winners, and they want subsidies for them,
and won't hear about anything else.
The nature of the cell network means that any cellphone is a defacto tracking device. Your whereabouts are logged, and because you have shared them with a third party you have no expectation of privacy. They don't even require a warrant for law enforcement. Also, private citizens can simply purchase the location data from most providers.
See, they call it a "smart phone", because it's the phone that's smart.
Yes, this is clearly the number one demon facing the internet, once facebook has protected us from this scourge we will all be able to rest easy again. Thank you for saving the internet facebook.
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I realize this sort of reasoning seems plausible, but it's predicated on the unfounded, unproven assumption that mozilla.org makes decisions for reasons that have an underlying logic to them.
Last official census was in 2010. There were some estimates in recent years that show the state is still growing, but a bit slower than usual: http://worldpopulationreview.c... http://journal.firsttuesday.us...
But the ironic thing [1] is our conservative friends say many interesting things about California, but you can forget most of them. They were, for example very interested when the state's finances were in trouble, but dropped the story when we fixed it by electing Democrats.
[1] Actually that isn't ironic. The ironic thing is you need to look up the word ironic and think about it. But then, that wasn't actually ironic either.
I believe you're thinking of the Linux desktop.
Or perhaps Firefox.
Some of the low digit accounts were auctioned off some time back. The shills are trying harder to not look like shills these days.
What I'm looking forward to out of this mess is the conclusion that we need to start using real, traceable back to meat-space IDs or else any enemy of the United States (Russian, China, Kock Brothers, etc) will be jamming the internet with unreliable garbage.
Another thing that'd be cool is the realization that as-supported sites are a bust, and in fact maybe for profit sites are pretty useless, and we all switch over to the non-profit model.
And fresh from that success, it's time to for the linux distros to go after mobile users. I'm sure Google will make easier pickings than Microsoft.
(Wouldn't it be cool, if someone, anyone ever paid a price for failure? Like wouldn't it be great if the "designers" who repeatedly screwed up gnome, KDE (and oh, maybe firefox?) were never let near a computer again?)
"I've decided it's okay to be rude to people holding phones.".
"But... that means you can be rude to everyone.
"Yes! Exactly!"
Apple employees should have some decals like this made up: arrow icon
Brand's "How Buildings Learn" is indeed an excellent book. One of the things he mentions is that surveys show that whenever anyone hires an architect to design a new building for an organization, everyone hates it and likes their old building better. In other words, the software UX community has recently reached parity with Architecture.
Yes, there's bad architecture. A round glass pentagon. Pretty brilliant all right, just the sort of thing I'd expect from Jobs.
Yeah, like 100%.
Obviously.
Not that it matters to you, but no one can find any evidence of these hordes of fraudulent voters swaying any recent elections. You've gotta go back decades before you find even half-way plausible stories to that effect.
Yes, that's pretty much it. There are scams you can use with paper ballots, but they're harder to get it to scale [1]. Arguably, a hybrid system (as is common these days) of paper ballots counted electronically could be better than a pure paper system-- then you can use computer techniques to look for problems, and paper hand counts to check afterwards.
Yeah, exactly. You might have your spooky crypto-magic uncrackable system deployed perfectly, but it's too complicated for citizen's to understand, you could get demagogues whipping up distrust for the system. Counting the vote accurately doesn't help if no one believes you.
[1] One year, the coast guard found the lids of ballot boxes floating around in the San Francisco bay...
This is waste from cold-war era weapons production, it has nothing to do with waster from power production.
The dry storage of high level wastes at nuclear plants is actually working fine, because among other things the amount of waste is small, certainly compared to the amount of energy generated. (There isn't another power source that could possibly do this, by the way: "oh well, let's just keep it all here for now".)
You see, you are not some genius who's discovered a problem no one has ever thought about, and no, there is no vast conspiracy to prevent clean-ups of spills.
There is, however an interesting feature planted inside your skull that prevents you from hearing anyone who says anything remotely sensible on the subject-- no doubt we're all shills from the conspiracy, right?
Citation needed.
(You bleeding xenophobic idiot.)
The "nuclear proliferation" concern doesn't really seem to be a problem with nuclear energy-- there aren't any examples of countries pursuing nuclear power as a blind for weapons development, and preventing them from using nuclear power doesn't stop them from developing weapons if they really want to.
If you're envisioning that a nefarious player could hi-jack a nuclear freighter and use the material for bombs, that's not really an issue because the fuel suitable for power is only like 5% enriched, vs the 95% or so you need for bomb grade material. Starting from ore wouldn't be that much harder.
(On the other hand, you could hi-jack a nuclear freighter and use it as a power plant-- I half-way expect that's what we're going to end up doing with the US Nuclear Navy... we've got a fleet of reliable, transportable electric power plants that can steam into any harbor and begin supplying power...)
The central trouble is that wind and solar are relatively diffuse energy sources, so there isn't a lot of margin to spend on tricks like storage devices or superconducting networks or what not. This is not to say that it can't be done, but it's all going to take some finese. I wish them well-- sincerely, we need all the clean power we can get-- but what I expect is that the "renewables" enthusiasts will continue to be quietly accepting of burning natural gas in "peakers" to fill in the gaps.
But it pales in significance to the energy "renewables" enthusisasts put into writing gosh-wow headlines.
"Mr. Fusion" isn't necessary-- there are multiple things that would work-- but it certainly wouldn't hurt.
It's easy to be cynical about Fusion these days, but we could still get there. Try listening to Bussard on the subject (from back in 2006)... https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
And we have another prediction for peak oil.
You know, when predictions are wrong you're supposed to think about revising your underlying mental model.
If we "run out of oil" by then, you can take this as a far-sighted committment to dealing with the problem before it's upon us.
I would be happy with some form of carbon-pricing bolted on to the market to make the emitters pay for some of the damage that they do.
Kind of like Obama's "Clean Power Plan", for example, but like everything else of any importance it's all on hold until we get rid of the obstructionists.
One of my biggest peeves with the "environmentalists" is that they've all but stopped talking about carbon pricing, because it would make nuclear power look good, and you can't have that. They've picked their winners, and they want subsidies for them, and won't hear about anything else.
I went with "nothing" a long time ago. My life is okay. Really.
What's under discussion isn't "the internet", but rather a particular type of client. One can use the internet without using a mobile device.
Which is not to make the claim that the internet is not a cesspool, but just staying away from mobile phones will help you dodge some of the turds.
If you're first thought is "Oh my god, how will I upload photos of my lunch to facenorth?" you have bigger problems than the state of the internet.
See, they call it a "smart phone", because it's the phone that's smart.
Except not using a "smart" phone.
A fate worse than death.
Yes, this is clearly the number one demon facing the internet, once facebook has protected us from this scourge we will all be able to rest easy again. Thank you for saving the internet facebook.