That is a very serious concern, considering how code has a tendency to go bad if it isn't tweaked often enough for no good reason.
Sarcasm aside, "bit rot" is a real problem. Today's perfectly good code that is not maintained will become less useful over time, because the world changes, and therefore the set of potential scenarios in which the old code might be useful shrinks. If the code is not updated to track the world's changes, the code becomes less useful, and eventually the amount of work it would take to resuscitate the code becomes greater than the benefit the code would provide, rendering the code irrelevant.
The problem is, very few cars run on electricity and no commercial airliners do.
There are two possible long-term solutions to that problem: either replace the cars and airliners with new ones that run on electricity, or find a way to manufacturer gasoline and jet fuel from electricity.
Neither of those is cheap or easy, but at least they are solutions. Hoping that a miracle will occur before fossil fuels become too scarce is not a solution.
Chernobyl is not a lesson on the dangers of nuclear power, but the dangers of communist engineering.
The lesson is that nuclear materials and sloppy engineering/management/maintenance don't mix.
The problem is, in a world with ubiquitous nuclear power plants, there will always be some plants that are not-well designed or well-run. 99% of the nuclear power plants will be fine, and the other 1% will cause enough damage to give nuclear power a bad name.
And the democrats want to pump money into unworkable schemes to fund their "green energy" friends.
Unworkable? Why, because you say so?
It's easy to assert that anything new and different is "unworkable". Just keep in mind that you are expressing your skepticism via a home computer, another piece of technology that was widely claimed to be unworkable, just before it caught on and changed the world.
The second they reach human mental parity they'll already have every resource they'll need to just take over. Of course by this time they'll be feeding us, clothing us, and driving us to our soccer games
Right, but they won't want to take over. Why not? Because feeding us, clothing us, and driving us to our soccer games is the only thing that really makes them happy. Why is that? Because we programmed them to feel that way.
Of course, if you ever decide you don't want to be fed, clothed, or driven to soccer games anymore.... then they might get a bit cross. I wouldn't want to be in your shoes then.
Current operating systems support IPv6, but consumer grade routers and a few ISP's havent jumped on the bandwagon yet
All very true, but unlike DNF, the code for IPv6 definitely exists and definitely works. It's just (haha!) a matter of actually installing it in the places it needs to be installed.
Take everything allocated to Egypt and give it to someone else. If they complain, just say "You shut down the Internet in your country, you obviously didn't want them anymore."
So you would take away the Egyptian peoples' IPv4 access forever, because their tyrannical ruler engaged in Internet censorship?
I love the "take the world by the balls and lead" part, there, seems like when a Republican tries to do that, the "Imperialist!" cries go up from the earnestly offended around the world.
100,000+ civilians dead after a misbegotten trillion-dollar snipe hunt for WMDs that -- oops -- didn't actually exist, and you find it remarkable that people objected?
The world learnt a lesson from Germany: When a government goes off the rails and tries to dominate its citizens.. the next step is the domination of the world.
Well, at least in practical terms we won't -- what we will do is endlessly argue about it and make excuses.:-/
The key to American behavior is Florida. As long as Florida is above water, any money spent fighting global warming will be considered wasted. The day Disney World has to close permanently due to perpetual flooding, global warming will become Public Enemy #1 and no expense will be spared to stop it. (Of course, by that point it will likely be too late, so all the money thrown at the problem then will in fact be wasted... and thus the prophecy fulfills itself)
On land, fences and walls guard the nuclear power plant, so a truck can't (easily) get to it. A plane can, of course, and that is a security concern.
In water, OTOH, you don't need a plane, because you can float over any fence. Still, I take your point that there will be security; the question is will it be effective?
1) buy remote controlled submarine from marijuana cartel (or Discovery channel) 2) fill it with explosives 3) have it follow the electric cables from shore to the underwater nuclear plant 4) press the big red button on your remote control 5) (obligatory) ??? 7) terror! (or at least, rolling blackouts)
Or if the above is too complicated, you can use a rowboat, gps, and a depth charge.
Not really. It's not like Jerusalem, where there can be only one. If someone doesn't like getting power from Big Sahara Solar Array, it's perfectly straightforward for them to set up their own solar array and use that instead. Even North Korea and Iran can use solar, without getting on the US shit list for doing so.
And in real life it's unlikely that anyone would build a single array that large anyway. Instead you'd end up with many smaller arrays in various locations, with their combined output (eventually) adding up to however much power humanity feels it needs to produce.
Its called Earth, I think it's pretty close to you. Remember things like the Earth's tide is controlled by the Moon.
Huh. So the worry is that we will mine so much material out of the moon that the moon's mass will decrease significantly, thus affecting the Earth's tides?
Well, let's look at some numbers and see if that's a legitimate concern. The mass of the moon is about 74 quintillion tons. For the sake of argument, let's consider an absolute worst case scenario, where greedy mining companies swarm the moon and remove a trillion tons of material from it every year for the next 10,000 years. At the end of that 10,000 years, the moon will still contain 99.986% of its current mass.
Slashdot Mirror
I put that sentence (with the quote marks) into Google, and all it returned was a link to this Slashdot thread.
Damn you Google!
Many people seem to be uncapable to grasp the difference between hiring former Microsoft execs and falling under Microsoft's control.
Including, it would seem, the decision-makers at Nokia.
That is a very serious concern, considering how code has a tendency to go bad if it isn't tweaked often enough for no good reason.
Sarcasm aside, "bit rot" is a real problem. Today's perfectly good code that is not maintained will become less useful over time, because the world changes, and therefore the set of potential scenarios in which the old code might be useful shrinks. If the code is not updated to track the world's changes, the code becomes less useful, and eventually the amount of work it would take to resuscitate the code becomes greater than the benefit the code would provide, rendering the code irrelevant.
Lets fit them with a homicidal hunter/killer AI and unleash hordes (HORDES!) of them on our enemies in one of our wars! Then we'd be talking!
Cool! Philip K. Dick is alive and posting to Slashdot!
The problem is, very few cars run on electricity and no commercial airliners do.
There are two possible long-term solutions to that problem: either replace the cars and airliners with new ones that run on electricity, or find a way to manufacturer gasoline and jet fuel from electricity.
Neither of those is cheap or easy, but at least they are solutions. Hoping that a miracle will occur before fossil fuels become too scarce is not a solution.
Chernobyl is not a lesson on the dangers of nuclear power, but the dangers of communist engineering.
The lesson is that nuclear materials and sloppy engineering/management/maintenance don't mix.
The problem is, in a world with ubiquitous nuclear power plants, there will always be some plants that are not-well designed or well-run. 99% of the nuclear power plants will be fine, and the other 1% will cause enough damage to give nuclear power a bad name.
And the democrats want to pump money into unworkable schemes to fund their "green energy" friends.
Unworkable? Why, because you say so?
It's easy to assert that anything new and different is "unworkable". Just keep in mind that you are expressing your skepticism via a home computer, another piece of technology that was widely claimed to be unworkable, just before it caught on and changed the world.
Never understood why, if you object to eating meat, you form your veggies into meat-like products. I don't make carrot shapes out of my ground beef.
But you can still eat real carrots whenever you want to, so your situation isn't equivalent...
The second they reach human mental parity they'll already have every resource they'll need to just take over. Of course by this time they'll be feeding us, clothing us, and driving us to our soccer games
Right, but they won't want to take over. Why not? Because feeding us, clothing us, and driving us to our soccer games is the only thing that really makes them happy. Why is that? Because we programmed them to feel that way.
Of course, if you ever decide you don't want to be fed, clothed, or driven to soccer games anymore.... then they might get a bit cross. I wouldn't want to be in your shoes then.
Current operating systems support IPv6, but consumer grade routers and a few ISP's havent jumped on the bandwagon yet
All very true, but unlike DNF, the code for IPv6 definitely exists and definitely works. It's just (haha!) a matter of actually installing it in the places it needs to be installed.
I'm not a fan of the current government in China but this a rare gold star for them from me.
I'll send it to them, but I don't think they'll be too keen.... they've already got some, you see.
Take everything allocated to Egypt and give it to someone else. If they complain, just say "You shut down the Internet in your country, you obviously didn't want them anymore."
So you would take away the Egyptian peoples' IPv4 access forever, because their tyrannical ruler engaged in Internet censorship?
I'm not sure I see the logic behind that.
IPv6 or Duke Nukem Forever?
I've got IPv6 running on my Mac right now. OTOH, I looked on the App Store, and didn't see Duke Nukem Forever available for download. :^(
I love the "take the world by the balls and lead" part, there, seems like when a Republican tries to do that, the "Imperialist!" cries go up from the earnestly offended around the world.
100,000+ civilians dead after a misbegotten trillion-dollar snipe hunt for WMDs that -- oops -- didn't actually exist, and you find it remarkable that people objected?
The world learnt a lesson from Germany: When a government goes off the rails and tries to dominate its citizens.. the next step is the domination of the world.
You're ignoring all of the other authoritarian governments that haven't tried to dominate the world.
Germany was an exception, not the rule.
they probably deserve to be ripped off- they sure as hell don't deserve your help, so why waste your time?
What part of the word "friends" didn't you understand?
Well, at least in practical terms we won't -- what we will do is endlessly argue about it and make excuses. :-/
The key to American behavior is Florida. As long as Florida is above water, any money spent fighting global warming will be considered wasted. The day Disney World has to close permanently due to perpetual flooding, global warming will become Public Enemy #1 and no expense will be spared to stop it. (Of course, by that point it will likely be too late, so all the money thrown at the problem then will in fact be wasted... and thus the prophecy fulfills itself)
On land, fences and walls guard the nuclear power plant, so a truck can't (easily) get to it. A plane can, of course, and that is a security concern.
In water, OTOH, you don't need a plane, because you can float over any fence. Still, I take your point that there will be security; the question is will it be effective?
1) buy remote controlled submarine from marijuana cartel (or Discovery channel)
2) fill it with explosives
3) have it follow the electric cables from shore to the underwater nuclear plant
4) press the big red button on your remote control
5) (obligatory) ???
7) terror! (or at least, rolling blackouts)
Or if the above is too complicated, you can use a rowboat, gps, and a depth charge.
Not really. It's not like Jerusalem, where there can be only one. If someone doesn't like getting power from Big Sahara Solar Array, it's perfectly straightforward for them to set up their own solar array and use that instead. Even North Korea and Iran can use solar, without getting on the US shit list for doing so.
And in real life it's unlikely that anyone would build a single array that large anyway. Instead you'd end up with many smaller arrays in various locations, with their combined output (eventually) adding up to however much power humanity feels it needs to produce.
Cute species of whatever are nice things...
It'll combine the nail-biting drama of Chernobyl with the easy accessibility of the Deepwater Horizon! ;)
Its called Earth, I think it's pretty close to you. Remember things like the Earth's tide is controlled by the Moon.
Huh. So the worry is that we will mine so much material out of the moon that the moon's mass will decrease significantly, thus affecting the Earth's tides?
Well, let's look at some numbers and see if that's a legitimate concern. The mass of the moon is about 74 quintillion tons. For the sake of argument, let's consider an absolute worst case scenario, where greedy mining companies swarm the moon and remove a trillion tons of material from it every year for the next 10,000 years. At the end of that 10,000 years, the moon will still contain 99.986% of its current mass.
My conclusion: Earth's tides are safe for now.
"The Capitalists will sell us the rope with which we will hang them." -- Vladimir Ilyich Lenin
There's a whole new planet just waiting to be overexploited and ruined by greedy corporations out there...
Ruined how exactly? Is there some flourishing lunar ecosystem (complete with 10-foot smurfs) that I am not aware of?