There's a church near where I work that has a sign in the window: "Come in and learn the latest scientific evidence for Biblical truth!"
I always smile when I see it, because they don't seem to realize they've already surrendered the epistemological war -- by admitting that weighing scientific evidence is the proper way to ascertain the truth (or falsity) of a claim.
Sure, they can fight a rear-guard action for a while by looking for scraps of evidence that appear to support Scripture (or whatever their take on Scripture is), but unless God starts making public appearances is an independently verifiable, repeatable manner, then the church has already laid the groundwork for their own logical impeachment.
The whole bedrock of religion is faith -- to believe that some things are true regardless of whether there is evidence for them or not. Once you've tacitly admitted that evidence is required, then faith is superfluous, and the church becomes just a group of extremely amateur scientists whose theories can't hold up under examination.
Cops destroy recordings and "lose" devices all the time. Streaming video is the only real solution and not practical in this case.
I kind of like the "secret y-cable" idea... the dash cam streams to a dashboard computer, but also secretly to a second computer that is harder to find (and which the cops are unlikely to look for anyway, once they've confiscated the obvious device and think they've already achieved their goal).
As an added benefit, when you get into court your lawyer will have lots of fun comparing your backup-footage against the prosecutor's (possibly) edited footage -- any differences will make it clear to you (and to the jury) just what the police were trying to hide.
Exactly - what's wrong with that? If the other guy wants a camera to prove it's my fault, let him get his own camera, don't expect me to use my camera to prove my own guilt.
What's wrong with that is your (hypothetical) lack of honesty. If you're guilty and you know it, you should admit your guilt and deal with the consequences, and then the presence and/or ownership of a camera becomes a non-issue. It's part of being a responsible adult.
Because the concern is that the sd card contains video of you breaking the law and you'd rather the police not be able to view it.
In that case, as your attorney my advice would be:
(1) Don't break the law or (2) If you do break the law, don't record yourself doing it
Having a sophisticated video-recording system in your car that nevertheless somehow "loses" all potentially incriminating footage is probably not going to make anyone look good in a court of law, if it came to that.
Why yes, yes there is. It's called building it yourself.
Just be sure to put it in a professional-looking case when you're done. If a policeman sees any homemade-looking electronics in your car, he'll assume you're a terrorist.:^P
With an assembler. (of course, real men didn't need an assembler, they toggled in the hexadecimal opcodes directly in hex, using a hickory switch and a quart of whiskey)
But I'm also aware without government subsidies, it's not economically viable. On the large scale.
Yet. The point at which solar energy becomes cheaper than the competition is called 'grid parity', and it's already happened in some countries. Over the next few years we'll see it happen in more and more places.
particularly when I doubt you can name a capability that OSX has that Windows does not
Built-in bash shell and Unix environment by default is what does it for me. (I know you can sort of fake it using Cygwin and whatnot on a Windows box, but I'd rather pay the extra money and not have to fake it). I was a die-hard BeOS user back in the day, and MacOS/X is the closest thing to the BeOS user experience that is readily available now.
Why not just a debian or RH flavor and be done with it if you really want a *nix?
Because I also want to be able to buy and use commercial software. Linux/Unix are fine, but it's also nice to be able to get software X you rather than having to search around for "something like X"
Also, I think the Mac desktop experience is a bit nicer.
Keep in mind that I'm pretty well paid and also I can usually get my employer to pay for my computer purchases. If money was an issue I'd probably be using Linux on a cheap PC, but it's not, so why skimp?
But Im sure someone somewhere will explain why the aluminum makes the extra $2000 for the Mac worth it.
The case is very nice, but it's not worth $2000 extra.
The ability to run MacOS/X (without "hackintosh" style shenanigans) is really nice, and is worth $2000 extra if you have that kind of money lying around (or, more realistically, if your employer does).
If you think $2000 extra is too much to spend, you're probably right. On the other hand, plenty of people will spend an extra $20,000 on a nicer brand of car; sometimes people want what they want, and are willing to pay extra for it.
We notice you have high blood pressure, your provider suggests you eat tofu, Tofu is on sale at shoprite today. Even if google SAID they wouldn't use the data for that purpose, do you really believe that at this point?
Assuming they do that using the same rules they currently use for GMail ads (e.g. scanning by machine only, not by humans), I don't see a problem with that. If tofu is a product that would help you, why not ads for tofu?
It sounds like you're saying that it's okay for Google to know you have high blood pressure, but only as long as they pretend they don't know.
account owners shrug it off as their account being hacked, as if it's something so common it happens to all of us weekly
From what I've read, in China it may well happen to people weekly. Talk about a festering hellhole of information insecurity... between the government hacking corps, the theft and physical bugging of laptops, the Great Firewall of China, and the industrial espionage and corruption, I'm surprised any computing gets done there at all.:^P
People don't bring in their own printers. They use the one that is already set up and configured.
Of course people bring in their own printers. They go to the store, find a cheap computer for sale (no printer included), and they buy it and figure they'll get a printer when they see one for sale cheap. Or they already have a printer at home they want to use, so they don't want to buy a new one. Or the printer breaks, and they need to replace it.
Finally, just as they have to call a competent person when all else fails in a Windows environment, they simply need to do the same with Linux. Your assumption that they don't have the same issues with Windows is mistaken.
I never assumed that -- you assumed I assumed that. Of course Windows has its problems also. However, when a newbie has problem with Windows, they can call the printer manufacturer's tech support line and get led through the necessary troubleshooting. If they try that with a Linux machine, the tech support people aren't going to be able to help them.
Your belief that Windows "just works" and Linux "is hard" is based on your ignorance, not experience and a solid grasp on reality.
I never said anything remotely like "Windows just works" or "Linux is hard", so I don't know why you are pretending to quote me.
But your post does bring up another issue -- when someone tries to get help with Linux, often the only help available is online from some condescending prick, who thinks being rude is a good way to demonstrate Linux's superiority. Bravo.
not only is it true that they couldn't care less if it is Linux or Windows, it is also true that they have no idea that it isn't Windows.
... until someone sends them a Word document and it doesn't display correctly; or they want to print something and can't get their printer to work and the support people can't figure out why the Windows printer driver won't install.:^(
So after all that money spent on rovers, scientists still can't tell us something we don't already know?
From the second paragraph of TFA: "Scientists identified sulfur, nitrogen, hydrogen, oxygen, phosphorus and carbon -- some of the key chemical ingredients for life -- in the powder Curiosity drilled out of a sedimentary rock near an ancient stream bed in Gale Crater on the Red Planet last month."
That's something we didn't already know. Don't mistake your own inability to read the article for a shortcoming on NASA's part.
If all it takes is a sufficiently large fraction of participants in the network to use an outdated implementation, then an adversary who can corrupt that many participants can successfully attack the network.
I think that is an inevitable consequence of any p2p system, simply because the participants are the network. It's not like there is some central bitcoin server running on trusted hardware somewhere that can "withstand the attack".
I think it is fair to demand something better
Okay, how could it be improved? (Other than just never having any bugs starting from the very first release, of course... which would be nice but isn't terribly realistic)
This image of North Koreans being insane and doing insane things is itself a kind of propaganda.
"Insane" probably isn't quite the right word, but the North Korean people definitely are brainwashed to the point where they don't do a lot of rational thinking. This is a pretty interesting documentary about them.
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There's a church near where I work that has a sign in the window: "Come in and learn the latest scientific evidence for Biblical truth!"
I always smile when I see it, because they don't seem to realize they've already surrendered the epistemological war -- by admitting that weighing scientific evidence is the proper way to ascertain the truth (or falsity) of a claim.
Sure, they can fight a rear-guard action for a while by looking for scraps of evidence that appear to support Scripture (or whatever their take on Scripture is), but unless God starts making public appearances is an independently verifiable, repeatable manner, then the church has already laid the groundwork for their own logical impeachment.
The whole bedrock of religion is faith -- to believe that some things are true regardless of whether there is evidence for them or not. Once you've tacitly admitted that evidence is required, then faith is superfluous, and the church becomes just a group of extremely amateur scientists whose theories can't hold up under examination.
Cops destroy recordings and "lose" devices all the time. Streaming video is the only real solution and not practical in this case.
I kind of like the "secret y-cable" idea... the dash cam streams to a dashboard computer, but also secretly to a second computer that is harder to find (and which the cops are unlikely to look for anyway, once they've confiscated the obvious device and think they've already achieved their goal).
As an added benefit, when you get into court your lawyer will have lots of fun comparing your backup-footage against the prosecutor's (possibly) edited footage -- any differences will make it clear to you (and to the jury) just what the police were trying to hide.
Exactly - what's wrong with that? If the other guy wants a camera to prove it's my fault, let him get his own camera, don't expect me to use my camera to prove my own guilt.
What's wrong with that is your (hypothetical) lack of honesty. If you're guilty and you know it, you should admit your guilt and deal with the consequences, and then the presence and/or ownership of a camera becomes a non-issue. It's part of being a responsible adult.
Because the concern is that the sd card contains video of you breaking the law and you'd rather the police not be able to view it.
In that case, as your attorney my advice would be:
(1) Don't break the law
or
(2) If you do break the law, don't record yourself doing it
Having a sophisticated video-recording system in your car that nevertheless somehow "loses" all potentially incriminating footage is probably not going to make anyone look good in a court of law, if it came to that.
People who ask for things like this generally are against the idea of wirelessly broadcasting their personal data.
If the data is well-encrypted, who cares if it's being broadcast? Without the password, it's just worthless noise.
Why yes, yes there is. It's called building it yourself.
Just be sure to put it in a professional-looking case when you're done. If a policeman sees any homemade-looking electronics in your car, he'll assume you're a terrorist. :^P
How was the first compiler compiled?
With an assembler. (of course, real men didn't need an assembler, they toggled in the hexadecimal opcodes directly in hex, using a hickory switch and a quart of whiskey)
But I'm also aware without government subsidies, it's not economically viable. On the large scale.
Yet. The point at which solar energy becomes cheaper than the competition is called 'grid parity', and it's already happened in some countries. Over the next few years we'll see it happen in more and more places.
Really though, what do they mean? I did not see where they define what they consider renewable.
Apple's definition of renewable is Solar, wind, hydro, and geothermal
particularly when I doubt you can name a capability that OSX has that Windows does not
Built-in bash shell and Unix environment by default is what does it for me. (I know you can sort of fake it using Cygwin and whatnot on a Windows box, but I'd rather pay the extra money and not have to fake it). I was a die-hard BeOS user back in the day, and MacOS/X is the closest thing to the BeOS user experience that is readily available now.
Why not just a debian or RH flavor and be done with it if you really want a *nix?
Because I also want to be able to buy and use commercial software. Linux/Unix are fine, but it's also nice to be able to get software X you rather than having to search around for "something like X"
Also, I think the Mac desktop experience is a bit nicer.
Keep in mind that I'm pretty well paid and also I can usually get my employer to pay for my computer purchases. If money was an issue I'd probably be using Linux on a cheap PC, but it's not, so why skimp?
I can't pay my taxes with bitcoins, I can't buy food, I can't repay my mortgage, I can't buy petrol. What can I do with a bitcoin?
You can send them to me...
But Im sure someone somewhere will explain why the aluminum makes the extra $2000 for the Mac worth it.
The case is very nice, but it's not worth $2000 extra.
The ability to run MacOS/X (without "hackintosh" style shenanigans) is really nice, and is worth $2000 extra if you have that kind of money lying around (or, more realistically, if your employer does).
If you think $2000 extra is too much to spend, you're probably right. On the other hand, plenty of people will spend an extra $20,000 on a nicer brand of car; sometimes people want what they want, and are willing to pay extra for it.
We notice you have high blood pressure, your provider suggests you eat tofu, Tofu is on sale at shoprite today. Even if google SAID they wouldn't use the data for that purpose, do you really believe that at this point?
Assuming they do that using the same rules they currently use for GMail ads (e.g. scanning by machine only, not by humans), I don't see a problem with that. If tofu is a product that would help you, why not ads for tofu?
It sounds like you're saying that it's okay for Google to know you have high blood pressure, but only as long as they pretend they don't know.
China and Apple have the same mentality:
We know what is best for you, and we will not give you any choice about that.
The difference being that Apple is often right -- and when it isn't, its users are free to switch over to the competition instead.
account owners shrug it off as their account being hacked, as if it's something so common it happens to all of us weekly
From what I've read, in China it may well happen to people weekly. Talk about a festering hellhole of information insecurity... between the government hacking corps, the theft and physical bugging of laptops, the Great Firewall of China, and the industrial espionage and corruption, I'm surprised any computing gets done there at all. :^P
People don't bring in their own printers. They use the one that is already set up and configured.
Of course people bring in their own printers. They go to the store, find a cheap computer for sale (no printer included), and they buy it and figure they'll get a printer when they see one for sale cheap. Or they already have a printer at home they want to use, so they don't want to buy a new one. Or the printer breaks, and they need to replace it.
Finally, just as they have to call a competent person when all else fails in a Windows environment, they simply need to do the same with Linux. Your assumption that they don't have the same issues with Windows is mistaken.
I never assumed that -- you assumed I assumed that. Of course Windows has its problems also. However, when a newbie has problem with Windows, they can call the printer manufacturer's tech support line and get led through the necessary troubleshooting. If they try that with a Linux machine, the tech support people aren't going to be able to help them.
Your belief that Windows "just works" and Linux "is hard" is based on your ignorance, not experience and a solid grasp on reality.
I never said anything remotely like "Windows just works" or "Linux is hard", so I don't know why you are pretending to quote me.
But your post does bring up another issue -- when someone tries to get help with Linux, often the only help available is online from some condescending prick, who thinks being rude is a good way to demonstrate Linux's superiority. Bravo.
not only is it true that they couldn't care less if it is Linux or Windows, it is also true that they have no idea that it isn't Windows.
... until someone sends them a Word document and it doesn't display correctly; or they want to print something and can't get their printer to work and the support people can't figure out why the Windows printer driver won't install. :^(
Yes make Goodwill have to lose money recycling your junk computers. Grand idea.
Not in my experience. Goodwill sells plenty of working used computers for $15-$50 each.
Now if the computers were non-working, that would be another story.
So after all that money spent on rovers, scientists still can't tell us something we don't already know?
From the second paragraph of TFA: "Scientists identified sulfur, nitrogen, hydrogen, oxygen, phosphorus and carbon -- some of the key chemical ingredients for life -- in the powder Curiosity drilled out of a sedimentary rock near an ancient stream bed in Gale Crater on the Red Planet last month."
That's something we didn't already know. Don't mistake your own inability to read the article for a shortcoming on NASA's part.
If all it takes is a sufficiently large fraction of participants in the network to use an outdated implementation, then an adversary who can corrupt that many participants can successfully attack the network.
I think that is an inevitable consequence of any p2p system, simply because the participants are the network. It's not like there is some central bitcoin server running on trusted hardware somewhere that can "withstand the attack".
I think it is fair to demand something better
Okay, how could it be improved? (Other than just never having any bugs starting from the very first release, of course... which would be nice but isn't terribly realistic)
Three words in and you lost 99% of your readership. Can't you be arsed to make a proper summary??
"News for Nerds", AC. If you don't already know what a Bitcoin Blockchain is, then GTFO. ;)
A cryptographic currency system needs to be secure regardless of how it is implemented
That's kind of an impossible standard, don't you think?
This image of North Koreans being insane and doing insane things is itself a kind of propaganda.
"Insane" probably isn't quite the right word, but the North Korean people definitely are brainwashed to the point where they don't do a lot of rational thinking. This is a pretty interesting documentary about them.
He has 49 been since 2001, and will be long after the dolphins leave and the earth is demolished. Once does not age past death, only decompose.
Do the scientists that do carbon-dating know about this? It certainly is going to throw off their results...
So the little bit of extra entertainment you got as a gift from the extremely useful service that you get to use for free didn't live up to your expectations?
Wah. See if you can get your money back.