Serious question here -- what makes Java inherently less secure than, say, JavaScript? AFAICT they are both languages that run in a sandbox inside your web browser. Is today's anti-Java-applet push just because the malware-of-week exploits a Java implementation bug, and next week we'll be saying "Turn. Off. JavaScript. Too." as the next malware exploits a JavaScript implementation bug instead... or is there some fundamental difference that I'm missing?
The really really really smart car-maker spends 10 seconds to figure out that faking engine noise is a total waste of time
... and later goes out of business due to lawsuits filed by people injured by its "stealth cars".
and car electricity.
Think about how much electricity it takes to move two tons of mass at highway speeds. Now think about how much electricity it takes to power a single medium-sized speaker.
I think you'll see that electricity usage is not a significant concern here.
That sounds like a step backwards to me. Any utility in that is lost when something doesnâ(TM)t sync up properly. When I hit a key, I want to know it has been sent and received and see the result.. not see the result as my shell predicts it.
Easy to say until you are (attempting to) type in a longish shell command into a server across an overloaded Internet connection. In that situation, you have two choices: either wait 1 second after each character, to make sure you typed it correctly, or blindly type a bunch of characters at once and hope you didn't make any typos. And if you did make a typo, then you're really in the sh*t, because now you have to figure out how many characters you actually since then, and press backspace EXACTLY that number of times, plus one, and then retype the mistyped character and the newer ones. And if you get THAT wrong, then you're completely hosed, and all you can do is wait the necessary 15-30 seconds for everything to (presumably) sync up, and then figure out what you need to do next.
Either method is infuriating, and unnecessary. Since your shell command is only valid as a whole, and will only be executed after you press return, there is no point in sync'ing with the server except at the point where you press return.
I'm thoroughly convinced that both the democrats and republicans are seriously math challenged.
Maybe a few of them are, but most of them are just giving the voters what they want. It's the voters who are math challenged, and they punish austerity by voting (or keeping) its proponents out of office. Natural selection in action.
For one thing, he isn't going to be on the ballot. I guess you could write him in, but that won't have any effect on who becomes President next January.
So what is one supposed to do for in-person professional social networking between graduation and one's 25th birthday?
One is supposed to figure out a solution. It's really not that difficult if you're willing to think outside the box. Here are some ideas to get you started:
find a rental company that will rent to under-25-year-olds
The public will only decide if the car manufacturers let us. And so far there are no electric vehicles available here. Only hybrids.
Dunno where "here" is for you, but where I am (near Los Angeles, CA) there are plenty of electric vehicles available. I see them zipping around town on a near-daily basis now.
The US should not be in the business of caring what Iran and North Korea want.
Fair enough, but by the same token Iran and North Korea are not in the business of caring what the US wants. So expecting those countries to abandon their nukes just because that would make things simpler for the US is expecting too much.
As a further note, consider that the behavior of Iran and particularly North Korea can hardly be considered logical, as evidenced by widespread poverty.
Widespread poverty could be just as easily explained by the harsh economic sanctions that have been in place against both for quite a while now. I suppose you could say that the logical thing would be for those government to knuckle under and do whatever the US (et al) wants, but if the situation were reversed, would you want your country to submit to a foreign power like that? Probably not, even if it would make some economic sense to do so.
It's also useless since it costs so much. Why not just remove the ICE and add more battery? For $50k you could get massive range.
But you can't fill up your massive battery in 5 minutes at any standard gas station. You can argue the tradeoffs one way or another, but certainly there is room in the market for both hybrid and full-electric models, and the public will decide which suits them better.
Provided one is eligible by age to rent a car (it's not for recent graduates), and provided the trip doesn't cross a state line. Or what am I severely missing?
Most car rental companies will allow you to drive a rented car to another state.
As for being under 25... wait a few years and that problem will solve itself:^)
I've got a wireless virtual network on top of my neighbor's wireless. [...] I serve IP addresses through a GSky high powered Wifi interface to cabins further up from me.
Yep. Especially since if you're building a coal plant, the harmful (and slightly radioactive) byproducts goes up the flu, or is collected into fly ash that can be buried in landfills.
Fortunately, coal and nuclear are not the only options we have.
Could you imagine the poisoning of he ecosystem from all of the pulverized gallium, cesium, and other toxic elements from a destroyed solar plant
I can imagine it would be quite minimal -- most of it would stay inside the panels (or fragments of panels), and all of the debris could be easily cleaned up and disposed of safely by anyone with a good pair of work gloves and a pickup truck. And that's for a PV plant -- if you're talking solar thermal, then there aren't any toxic elements in the first place -- you've got just a bunch of broken mirrors (non-toxic) and no-longer-molten salt (also non-toxic) to clean up.
Compare that with the debris at Fukushima, which only robots can even get near, and nobody knows of any cheap way to dispose of it even once they can get near it -- current estimated cleanup cost is $250 billion dollars.
The only type of plant that can be trusted to withstand that double-whammy without radiation leakage is a CANDU reactor, thanks to heavy water moderation.
Actually, there are some other types of power plant that can handle that much damage without radiation leakage: wind, solar, hydroelectric, geothermal, natural gas, diesel, etc. No fancy backup systems necessary, they are 100% fail-safe by design.
(Coal plants don't make the cut though, as they are emitting radiation even under normal operation:^P )
You need layers of defences, detection, prevention, repair, redundancy etc.
... which is why "too cheap to meter" nuclear power is so bloody expensive. By the time you've built your defenses, detection, prevention, and redundancy (and gone through the 10-year planning process, paid off or muscled out the NIMBYs, settled the lawsuits, weathered the protests, and hired the highly trained nuclear technicians and emergency response personnel you'll need on hand at all times) you've spent so much money that it would have been cheaper to just build a different type of power plant and avoid the whole mess.
It's no coincidence that the male part and female part mate up much better than male-male or female-female connections.
Well, if we're going to go there... it should also be pointed out that all human beings have both "male" and "female" parts (topologically speaking). That's no coincidence either.
Actually, it is falsifiable. If global average temperatures don't continue to rise, despite increasing CO2 concentrations, then the theory is disproven.
"Oh, you want to try YouTube? No problem! Here you go -- videos are all blocked, but you can read YouTube's high quality comments sections as much as you like!"
I am not saying everyone but damn people not even basic AV.
What exactly is "basic AV"? Does that refer to a program that automatically downloads known malware signatures, and checks email attachments and downloaded software against them before allowing them to execute?
Because if so, MacOS/X includes that functionality now -- so your Mac buddies probably have basic AV, even if they don't know it. No monthly tribute to Symantec (et al) is required.
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Turn. Off. Java.
Serious question here -- what makes Java inherently less secure than, say, JavaScript? AFAICT they are both languages that run in a sandbox inside your web browser. Is today's anti-Java-applet push just because the malware-of-week exploits a Java implementation bug, and next week we'll be saying "Turn. Off. JavaScript. Too." as the next malware exploits a JavaScript implementation bug instead ... or is there some fundamental difference that I'm missing?
It's about time someone reminded them that Windows is far more secure, it's just targetted more.
... so using Windows is like living in the Green Zone in Baghdad? Sounds appealing!
The really really really smart car-maker spends 10 seconds to figure out that faking engine noise is a total waste of time
... and later goes out of business due to lawsuits filed by people injured by its "stealth cars".
and car electricity.
Think about how much electricity it takes to move two tons of mass at highway speeds. Now think about how much electricity it takes to power a single medium-sized speaker.
I think you'll see that electricity usage is not a significant concern here.
So your own article claiming how many electric cars there are backs up my point that there aren't yet any available.
All I can tell you is that I see them driving around my neighborhood, so either I'm hallucinating or they are available here.
That sounds like a step backwards to me. Any utility in that is lost when something doesnâ(TM)t sync up properly. When I hit a key, I want to know it has been sent and received and see the result.. not see the result as my shell predicts it.
Easy to say until you are (attempting to) type in a longish shell command into a server across an overloaded Internet connection. In that situation, you have two choices: either wait 1 second after each character, to make sure you typed it correctly, or blindly type a bunch of characters at once and hope you didn't make any typos. And if you did make a typo, then you're really in the sh*t, because now you have to figure out how many characters you actually since then, and press backspace EXACTLY that number of times, plus one, and then retype the mistyped character and the newer ones. And if you get THAT wrong, then you're completely hosed, and all you can do is wait the necessary 15-30 seconds for everything to (presumably) sync up, and then figure out what you need to do next.
Either method is infuriating, and unnecessary. Since your shell command is only valid as a whole, and will only be executed after you press return, there is no point in sync'ing with the server except at the point where you press return.
The Congress has no authority to regulate who we must, or must not, allow into our private homes.
True, but what does that have to do with the 14th amendment? Are you conflating public businesses with private homes?
I'm thoroughly convinced that both the democrats and republicans are seriously math challenged.
Maybe a few of them are, but most of them are just giving the voters what they want. It's the voters who are math challenged, and they punish austerity by voting (or keeping) its proponents out of office. Natural selection in action.
What's wrong with Paul?
For one thing, he isn't going to be on the ballot. I guess you could write him in, but that won't have any effect on who becomes President next January.
So what is one supposed to do for in-person professional social networking between graduation and one's 25th birthday?
One is supposed to figure out a solution. It's really not that difficult if you're willing to think outside the box. Here are some ideas to get you started:
find a rental company that will rent to under-25-year-olds
buy a cheap used car
borrow a friend's car
bike
take the bus
take the train
take a taxi
walk
buy a skateboard
use ZipCar
buy a scooter or motorcycle
use the phone or the Internet to avoid the trip
The public will only decide if the car manufacturers let us. And so far there are no electric vehicles available here. Only hybrids.
Dunno where "here" is for you, but where I am (near Los Angeles, CA) there are plenty of electric vehicles available. I see them zipping around town on a near-daily basis now.
The US should not be in the business of caring what Iran and North Korea want.
Fair enough, but by the same token Iran and North Korea are not in the business of caring what the US wants. So expecting those countries to abandon their nukes just because that would make things simpler for the US is expecting too much.
As a further note, consider that the behavior of Iran and particularly North Korea can hardly be considered logical, as evidenced by widespread poverty.
Widespread poverty could be just as easily explained by the harsh economic sanctions that have been in place against both for quite a while now. I suppose you could say that the logical thing would be for those government to knuckle under and do whatever the US (et al) wants, but if the situation were reversed, would you want your country to submit to a foreign power like that? Probably not, even if it would make some economic sense to do so.
It's also useless since it costs so much. Why not just remove the ICE and add more battery? For $50k you could get massive range.
But you can't fill up your massive battery in 5 minutes at any standard gas station. You can argue the tradeoffs one way or another, but certainly there is room in the market for both hybrid and full-electric models, and the public will decide which suits them better.
Provided one is eligible by age to rent a car (it's not for recent graduates), and provided the trip doesn't cross a state line. Or what am I severely missing?
Most car rental companies will allow you to drive a rented car to another state.
As for being under 25... wait a few years and that problem will solve itself :^)
Studies have shown this. The only way to make bikes come out ahead is to mandate that the rider not wear a helmet.
Can I bike if I promise to eat a lot of extra ice cream between trips?
I've got a wireless virtual network on top of my neighbor's wireless. [...] I serve IP addresses through a GSky high powered Wifi interface to cabins further up from me.
Cool.... is your neighbor aware of all this? ;^)
Yep. Especially since if you're building a coal plant, the harmful (and slightly radioactive) byproducts goes up the flu, or is collected into fly ash that can be buried in landfills.
Fortunately, coal and nuclear are not the only options we have.
Could you imagine the poisoning of he ecosystem from all of the pulverized gallium, cesium, and other toxic elements from a destroyed solar plant
I can imagine it would be quite minimal -- most of it would stay inside the panels (or fragments of panels), and all of the debris could be easily cleaned up and disposed of safely by anyone with a good pair of work gloves and a pickup truck. And that's for a PV plant -- if you're talking solar thermal, then there aren't any toxic elements in the first place -- you've got just a bunch of broken mirrors (non-toxic) and no-longer-molten salt (also non-toxic) to clean up.
Compare that with the debris at Fukushima, which only robots can even get near, and nobody knows of any cheap way to dispose of it even once they can get near it -- current estimated cleanup cost is $250 billion dollars.
The only type of plant that can be trusted to withstand that double-whammy without radiation leakage is a CANDU reactor, thanks to heavy water moderation.
Actually, there are some other types of power plant that can handle that much damage without radiation leakage: wind, solar, hydroelectric, geothermal, natural gas, diesel, etc. No fancy backup systems necessary, they are 100% fail-safe by design.
(Coal plants don't make the cut though, as they are emitting radiation even under normal operation :^P )
You need layers of defences, detection, prevention, repair, redundancy etc.
... which is why "too cheap to meter" nuclear power is so bloody expensive. By the time you've built your defenses, detection, prevention, and redundancy (and gone through the 10-year planning process, paid off or muscled out the NIMBYs, settled the lawsuits, weathered the protests, and hired the highly trained nuclear technicians and emergency response personnel you'll need on hand at all times) you've spent so much money that it would have been cheaper to just build a different type of power plant and avoid the whole mess.
It's no coincidence that the male part and female part mate up much better than male-male or female-female connections.
Well, if we're going to go there... it should also be pointed out that all human beings have both "male" and "female" parts (topologically speaking). That's no coincidence either.
Actually, it is falsifiable. If global average temperatures don't continue to rise, despite increasing CO2 concentrations, then the theory is disproven.
Hmm, so what is the global equivalent of the Lap-Band (tm)?
"Oh, you want to try YouTube? No problem! Here you go -- videos are all blocked, but you can read YouTube's high quality comments sections as much as you like!"
It's beyond perverse...
Except, it can't jump back out through the window.. Who needs a robot that can't even do self-defenestration?
Add some explosives to that robot and you have Philip K Dick's idea of a hand grenade....
I am not saying everyone but damn people not even basic AV.
What exactly is "basic AV"? Does that refer to a program that automatically downloads known malware signatures, and checks email attachments and downloaded software against them before allowing them to execute?
Because if so, MacOS/X includes that functionality now -- so your Mac buddies probably have basic AV, even if they don't know it. No monthly tribute to Symantec (et al) is required.