Doesnt that pretty much defeat SSL? And what on earth would make you believe that they weren't compromised.
I can create an uncompromised cert authority in the next 5 min on my laptop, and it would be effective for exchanging communication between us, if you choose to trust it. And this should be enough as long as the emails are not stored in plain text on servers controlled by US companies. Which seems to me exactly what this ban is about, isn't it?
You can't go demanding that other people don't have the basic food safety you do.
I only implied (not said explicitelly) that the supermarkets and produce wholesellers will need larger cool spaces for keeping the produce for longer (as spoilage at the buyers side will be lower, the demand of fresh produce will lower as well)
Will this push them to sell the excess of US produce in Ethiopia or Somalia? Given the transport costs, somehow I doubt it; and, if I'm right, food unsafety for the other people will continue without me demanding it
Finally... no, I'm not saying the fenugreen paper is bad. I'm just saying that it will do very little to guarantee the food security of those that are in need for it in today. Saying otherwise it's like saying "eat all your greens, sweetie, people in India will be starving if you don't"
Refrigeration doesn't do much with produce. Other than keeping it cold.
Ummm... reduces lost of water by evaporation (juicier for longer time).
Slows down the ripening process... when if comes to shelf life, the supermarkets will count as a loss a too high quantity of ripen fruits that need to be sold in a short time (at a lower price). Because ripe fruits can be damaged not only by bacteria/fungi but also by... hold on... their own weight (have you tasted a peach ripen on the tree until juicy, fragrant and so soft you can take a bite from it with you lips? You won't be able to ever buy it from the supermarket).
I usually keep my fruit un-refrigerated. It tastes better and lasts just as long.
From which I deduce you eat all your fruit mostly within 2 weeks of purchase. The fruit wholesalers may keep it for 2 years in cold storage though (and still have the audacity to sell it to you as fresh).
...imperialism, the highest and last stage of capitalism, is in irreversable decay.
It's so rotten, one might rightly say imperialism is already with one foot into the grave. The silver lining: communism is one step ahead of imperialism.
So, what Intel are saying, is that they are going to take a SSD controller with unstable, buggy firmware - and then add a feature that allows users to modify the internal constants the firmware uses to do it's job. This can only end very badly,...
How come? Personally, I can see the benefits... run the SSD to glowing hot, write your data then cut he power. Upon cooling down, the data will be compressed (by thermal shrinking) in a hardware mode... and is only common-sense that being hard is better than being soft when it comes to compression.
No, the solution is complete deregulation. If achieved, the free market fairy will grant the commercial operators the wish of taking as much profit as efficiently as possible and, if something wrong happens, just do nothing ('cause that would go against their duty to shareholders).
You see, in spite of still existing regulation, Tepco is already heralding the new age.
...to say that it's an example of free enterprise in space is laughable. The company's most high-profile missions -- the Dragon capsules to and from the ISS -- are fully paid for by NASA. SpaceX is essentially a government contractor. It's "profitable" because the government is paying it do things (and because it can do those things more efficiently than the government could itself, for a variety of structural reasons). So, yeah, I have no doubt that Elon Musk could set up a Mars colony if the U.S. government paid him to do it. I'm just not sure that really constitutes "private business" doing the job.
Hang on.... before NASA paying SpaceX to do things... wasn't it a period of time when SpaceX took the risk of developing its capabilities without being funded by the govt?
I consider the CSM currently one of the most reliable and unbiased of US media sources out there.
For media news (social, political and the like), I can believe it.
Can you say the same for scientific type of news? (I'm indeed asking for opinion/references here, as opposed to raising the question to cast a doubt).
NASA has been doing these tests for at least 35 years. The way they drop them hasn't changed much. Hell, even using the black dots isn't new for them. But all the media outlets carried this like it was something brand-new
Wel, it might have been quite new for the Christian Science Monitor. It's not likely helicopter crashes could be studied based on Bible.
Helicopters are not very efficient, require tons of maintenance and are hard to fly. Exactly what about this seemed like a good idea to you?
If cost only is in your focus: crash them all, then, and save the costs.
but... just a hunch... maybe there are some benefits as the reason of helicopters still existing today?
Between the CIA and the DoDIA they have over half a billion in the category "open source". Very interesting.
The notion of CIA and "open" impacts my mind pretty much as cognitive dissonance.
If I leave aside the software context and put "CIA + open source" alongside, the impact is double (what the hell can be source from CIA and still be open?)
>> vice-president for Skype, Mark Gillett, says that "the capture devices are not yet there"
Wow that was a bit of a slip. There is and its even a Microsoft product. Seems to me this is exactly the sort of thing Kinnect is useful for.
Slip... yes (like in the Freudian one). But not the one you think... he meant that the capture device to plug Skype-3D into the PRISM is not yet ready.
Unfortunatelly (for you) Obi Wan Kenobi was fired together with those 90% of sysadms.
Yours,
NSA
PS. In the interest of the percentage we require from your paid taxes, we strongly suggest you to upgrade your 3D camera set. The captured clips are of a terrible quality: the pale blue color and intermitent flickering currently requires 250% more CPU power for data extraction than the transmissions we capture from more conscious citizens
Seems the NSA decided to double down on the Tor network since the cat is out of the bag.
Not that smart, I might even be grateful to them for the extra bandwitdh (still keeping in mind other elements may still make part of the communication trackable: DNS queries, cookies and what not).
(The only way in which it could make sense is if the aluminum was used in space to build spaceships, and the "waste" oxygen was used for breathing, but even then I'm not convinced that mining the stuff on earth is a wise choice in the first place...)
To be fair, there's nothing wrong with mining the stuff on earth... just sending it on orbit for processing.
If we are in the territory of "the tech of the future", a pair of space elevators with orbital power station at the end would solve both the transmission of (the excess of) power down and the recovery of (part) the energy used in sending up the stuff for processing. However, a space elevator is technologically harder than mining the Moon
Since fusion on a stellar scale is already producing approximately 120 watts/square meter to any spot near earth orbit,
Off by one order of magnitude: varies between 1.412 kW/sqm in early January to 1.321 kW/sqm in early July.
any outer space program capable of mining the moon is far more capable of erecting solar sails that can use part of the solar wind and light pressure to maintain geosynchronous orbits, even for locations not in the "24-hourorbit" geosynchronous orbit used currently for inexpensive satellite communications and patented by Arthur C. Clarke.
Harvesting the energy is not necessary the problem: the problem is transmitting it to the Earth surface.
We would be dealing with beaming down probably Mega-to-Terawatts of microwaves per station (Tera being more likely, doesn't make too much sense to take the cost of building a monster into orbit for just Mega).
I wonder what can go wrong with this? (hint: just imagine the beam crossing, by a "honest mistake" or "an act of God", over a high density populated area)
There is simply _no point_ to tritium based fusion powerplants, even with cold fusion,
Weaponizing fusion is as easy as weaponizing solar sails: the difficulty is _not_ weaponizing fusion power, reguilating it to prevent a catastrophic chain reaction.
Ummmm... weaponsing fusion has been done (even before controlling it) and, somehow, the human race managed to maintain a control over those weapons (proof: I'm still able to waste time on/.). Weaponising energetic microwave beams from orbit? Well, not as much, considering that we are yet to attempt an orbital power station approach.
My point above: I not saying that orbital power stations are a bad idea. I'm not saying that it is worse than harvesting He3 from moon or controlled fusion energy on Earth surface. What I'm saying: we absolutely do not have enough experience to make a judgement which one of the two (controlled fusion over orbital power stations) would be better and/or safer. (in other words, stop taking sides).
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Doesnt that pretty much defeat SSL? And what on earth would make you believe that they weren't compromised.
I can create an uncompromised cert authority in the next 5 min on my laptop, and it would be effective for exchanging communication between us, if you choose to trust it.
And this should be enough as long as the emails are not stored in plain text on servers controlled by US companies. Which seems to me exactly what this ban is about, isn't it?
You can't go demanding that other people don't have the basic food safety you do.
I only implied (not said explicitelly) that the supermarkets and produce wholesellers will need larger cool spaces for keeping the produce for longer (as spoilage at the buyers side will be lower, the demand of fresh produce will lower as well)
Will this push them to sell the excess of US produce in Ethiopia or Somalia? Given the transport costs, somehow I doubt it; and, if I'm right, food unsafety for the other people will continue without me demanding it
Finally... no, I'm not saying the fenugreen paper is bad. I'm just saying that it will do very little to guarantee the food security of those that are in need for it in today.
Saying otherwise it's like saying "eat all your greens, sweetie, people in India will be starving if you don't"
Refrigeration doesn't do much with produce. Other than keeping it cold.
Ummm... reduces lost of water by evaporation (juicier for longer time).
Slows down the ripening process... when if comes to shelf life, the supermarkets will count as a loss a too high quantity of ripen fruits that need to be sold in a short time (at a lower price). Because ripe fruits can be damaged not only by bacteria/fungi but also by... hold on... their own weight (have you tasted a peach ripen on the tree until juicy, fragrant and so soft you can take a bite from it with you lips? You won't be able to ever buy it from the supermarket).
I usually keep my fruit un-refrigerated. It tastes better and lasts just as long.
From which I deduce you eat all your fruit mostly within 2 weeks of purchase. The fruit wholesalers may keep it for 2 years in cold storage though (and still have the audacity to sell it to you as fresh).
...imperialism, the highest and last stage of capitalism, is in irreversable decay.
It's so rotten, one might rightly say imperialism is already with one foot into the grave.
The silver lining: communism is one step ahead of imperialism.
Cut food waste by extending the life of fresh produce or... drive up the demand for cooled storage devices?
So, what Intel are saying, is that they are going to take a SSD controller with unstable, buggy firmware - and then add a feature that allows users to modify the internal constants the firmware uses to do it's job. This can only end very badly,...
How come? Personally, I can see the benefits... run the SSD to glowing hot, write your data then cut he power. Upon cooling down, the data will be compressed (by thermal shrinking) in a hardware mode... and is only common-sense that being hard is better than being soft when it comes to compression.
In Quebec we get steamed hot dogs but we get a filet mignon bill.
And you still complain? Then what will you do when Quebec runs out of steam?
The solution is more government!
No, the solution is complete deregulation. If achieved, the free market fairy will grant the commercial operators the wish of taking as much profit as efficiently as possible and, if something wrong happens, just do nothing ('cause that would go against their duty to shareholders).
You see, in spite of still existing regulation, Tepco is already heralding the new age.
...to say that it's an example of free enterprise in space is laughable. The company's most high-profile missions -- the Dragon capsules to and from the ISS -- are fully paid for by NASA. SpaceX is essentially a government contractor. It's "profitable" because the government is paying it do things (and because it can do those things more efficiently than the government could itself, for a variety of structural reasons). So, yeah, I have no doubt that Elon Musk could set up a Mars colony if the U.S. government paid him to do it. I'm just not sure that really constitutes "private business" doing the job.
Hang on.... before NASA paying SpaceX to do things... wasn't it a period of time when SpaceX took the risk of developing its capabilities without being funded by the govt?
I guess you've never heard of them before.
Indeed, I didn't.
I consider the CSM currently one of the most reliable and unbiased of US media sources out there.
For media news (social, political and the like), I can believe it.
Can you say the same for scientific type of news? (I'm indeed asking for opinion/references here, as opposed to raising the question to cast a doubt).
NASA has been doing these tests for at least 35 years. The way they drop them hasn't changed much. Hell, even using the black dots isn't new for them. But all the media outlets carried this like it was something brand-new
Wel, it might have been quite new for the Christian Science Monitor.
It's not likely helicopter crashes could be studied based on Bible.
Helicopters are not very efficient, require tons of maintenance and are hard to fly. Exactly what about this seemed like a good idea to you?
If cost only is in your focus: crash them all, then, and save the costs.
but... just a hunch... maybe there are some benefits as the reason of helicopters still existing today?
Between the CIA and the DoDIA they have over half a billion in the category "open source". Very interesting.
The notion of CIA and "open" impacts my mind pretty much as cognitive dissonance.
If I leave aside the software context and put "CIA + open source" alongside, the impact is double (what the hell can be source from CIA and still be open?)
So, having a way to change your identity to another users is brilliant? All System Admins must be brilliant!
This is why they fire 90% of them.
The rest 10% don't know (yet) how to type the man su or man sudo
>> vice-president for Skype, Mark Gillett, says that "the capture devices are not yet there"
Wow that was a bit of a slip. There is and its even a Microsoft product. Seems to me this is exactly the sort of thing Kinnect is useful for.
Slip... yes (like in the Freudian one). But not the one you think... he meant that the capture device to plug Skype-3D into the PRISM is not yet ready.
Greetings underling,
Unfortunatelly (for you) Obi Wan Kenobi was fired together with those 90% of sysadms.
Yours,
NSA
PS. In the interest of the percentage we require from your paid taxes, we strongly suggest you to upgrade your 3D camera set. The captured clips are of a terrible quality: the pale blue color and intermitent flickering currently requires 250% more CPU power for data extraction than the transmissions we capture from more conscious citizens
For sites they can have a certificate for, yes, they may. But they can't have certificates for all the sites in the world.
5. careful with that geo-pricing schemes.
Exactly!
Seems the NSA decided to double down on the Tor network since the cat is out of the bag.
Not that smart, I might even be grateful to them for the extra bandwitdh (still keeping in mind other elements may still make part of the communication trackable: DNS queries, cookies and what not).
(The only way in which it could make sense is if the aluminum was used in space to build spaceships, and the "waste" oxygen was used for breathing, but even then I'm not convinced that mining the stuff on earth is a wise choice in the first place...)
To be fair, there's nothing wrong with mining the stuff on earth... just sending it on orbit for processing.
If we are in the territory of "the tech of the future", a pair of space elevators with orbital power station at the end would solve both the transmission of (the excess of) power down and the recovery of (part) the energy used in sending up the stuff for processing. However, a space elevator is technologically harder than mining the Moon
Explained, with pictures.
The NSA are the ones that have pushed people to use TOR.
... and, don't forget, provides most of the exit nodes.
Too much access to large amounts of cheap energy would mean that ...[etc]
Nay... such an opinion just goes to show the honourable academic holding it is no true Scotsman.
Since fusion on a stellar scale is already producing approximately 120 watts/square meter to any spot near earth orbit,
Off by one order of magnitude: varies between 1.412 kW/sqm in early January to 1.321 kW/sqm in early July.
any outer space program capable of mining the moon is far more capable of erecting solar sails that can use part of the solar wind and light pressure to maintain geosynchronous orbits, even for locations not in the "24-hourorbit" geosynchronous orbit used currently for inexpensive satellite communications and patented by Arthur C. Clarke.
Harvesting the energy is not necessary the problem: the problem is transmitting it to the Earth surface.
We would be dealing with beaming down probably Mega-to-Terawatts of microwaves per station (Tera being more likely, doesn't make too much sense to take the cost of building a monster into orbit for just Mega).
I wonder what can go wrong with this? (hint: just imagine the beam crossing, by a "honest mistake" or "an act of God", over a high density populated area)
There is simply _no point_ to tritium based fusion powerplants, even with cold fusion,
Tritium and He3 are two different beasts.
Weaponizing fusion is as easy as weaponizing solar sails: the difficulty is _not_ weaponizing fusion power, reguilating it to prevent a catastrophic chain reaction.
Ummmm... weaponsing fusion has been done (even before controlling it) and, somehow, the human race managed to maintain a control over those weapons (proof: I'm still able to waste time on /.).
Weaponising energetic microwave beams from orbit? Well, not as much, considering that we are yet to attempt an orbital power station approach.
My point above: I not saying that orbital power stations are a bad idea. I'm not saying that it is worse than harvesting He3 from moon or controlled fusion energy on Earth surface.
What I'm saying: we absolutely do not have enough experience to make a judgement which one of the two (controlled fusion over orbital power stations) would be better and/or safer. (in other words, stop taking sides).
Take DDT for example. It's basically harmless to humans,
Ummm... no