A fritterware that just (as in "barely") works - and it seems not to be the first either.
anyone who trust their gps without checking the plausibility of the route is an utter fool
I know it is possible, I was there about 4 years ago, with a proper GPS. The roads (when you can call them as such) are "washboard" - something very much like this.
It's already been shown you can design decentralized networks that require no "bootstrap" information like DNS in order to find other nodes and communicate.
[Citation needed]. No, I'm not being sarcastic and don't intend to cast a malicious doubt over the statement: I'm just signaling my (potential) gratitude for some relevant links (would they be made available). Thanks in advance.
Robots are replacing workers everywhere and we need a new economy to deal with the situation.
...or we need to grow the economy. Value creation isnt zero sum.
Perhaps a little of both?
Question is: for how long?
I mean, if the "workers" can't afford to buy the widgets, where's the growth in the economy produced by the" value creation"? Let me rephrase: in extreme, if there aren't any buyers, what meaning the "economy" term still retains?
I like to observe the ineptitude of governments around the world in driving IPv6 adoption and compare it with their similarly inept response to Global Warming.
We're out of IPv4s, we've been out for ages. What has changed? Nothing. So what.
UK still has almost two IPv4 addresses/each person. If considering the Internet users only, UK has about 2.43 IPv4/each user (exaggerating a bit, you can say that each Internet user in UK can have one client and one server with their own IPv4). If you throw into the picture the number of households (which can share a NAT-ing router) - it comes to 6.7 IPv4/household.
According to Hurricane Electric Asia (APNIC) has 18M addresses left while Europe (RIPE) has 17M. I will grant you that the US (ARIN) has nearly 100M, but we also have the largest use which explains the big allocation. And yet we're doing something about migrating to IPv6...
Yeap, free them as soon as possible...:) and sell them while they still have value:)
Putting together other twolists, one can see that
* UK - 63 mils population, IPV4/population=1.958, IPV4/internet users=2.342 - 0.21% IPv6 adoption * US - 313 mils population, IPv4/population=4.911, IPv4/internet users=6.28 - 1.97% IPv6 adoption
In UK's case, the IPV6 adoption may have little to do with the need - as countries with lower need (higher IPV4 availability) adopted IPv6 in higher percentage?
Good idea. Now we just need to figure out how to be able to build it light enough to fly while being strong enough not to get crushed by the air pressure.
Simple: build them in stratosphere, where the air pressure is already lower.
McAfee said he would seek political asylum in Guatemala, which has been embroiled in a long-running territorial dispute with Belize. There is no extradition treaty between the two countries...
Do we have credible reports of someone actually being killed because of hacking? The media and politicians for the last few years have been hyping the hell out of the hacker menace and the "cyber" war but no one is even providing any body counts
As another poster insightfully pointed out, the correct statement is "the absence of evidence is not the proof of absence".
That's because you may not have looked or may not have had a chance to observe it.
Even if you searching long enough, not finding something is still not a proof of impossibility. Here's an example: "based on my numerous attempts, I must conclude that is impossible for me to win the lottery. Yes, I know, almost every week somebody wins it, but it's not me." - is this a true statement?
Smooth 3D curves still have only one tangent in each point. This is also true for higher dimensions.
By allowing multiple recipients (readers/listeners/etc), a told story - even a/. one - becomes a surface (due to the multitude points of view). Being originated in a single PoV, a tangent is a curve until it becomes another story on itself. (but I'm not convinced that I want this tangent evolving into a surface)
Water is another, of course, but that may be available in the form of ice at the poles.
Now sure you have a lot of sunlight available on the moon, but we don't have any machines that run on sunlight. This light has to be harvested and converted into electricity: currently done though methods like solar panels or via steam driving generators.
Sure, you'll need to first send something capable of harvesting the Sun power. However, once you have some kW (maybe tens of kW?), you can set up something to self-replicate in a reasonable time. Like: extract some volatiles from regolith - like He - and build a Stilling engine working between +600K concentrated and 30K (in the shadow, with enough radiative surface of the heat sink). One can even think of sending a programmable-replicator automaton, powered by a Stirling radioisotope generator (200-300W of power) and, as the first task, replace/supplement the radioisotope heat source with a solar concentrator.
Repeat after me: the absence of evidence is not the evidence of absence [wikipedia.org]
A phrase often ritually quoted by people whithout thinking about it first. I believe it was here in Slashdot that I read a comment to the effect of: "YES, YES IT IS. Absence of evidence is not PROOF of absence, but it certainly is EVIDENCE of it"
The impossibility of unicorns is next to irrelevant. What matters is the unlikelihood of unicorns, just like the unlikelihood of murderous hackers is the issue at hand.
In what context? * If it's in the context of "unicorn insurance", I almost agree (my reserve: one can't properly assess the risk without knowing enough details of the situation, and what's enough varies from case to case. Or... do you think it's possible for a building/construction project manager to manage a software development proj without knowing anything about SoftEng?) * If it's in the context of "impossible to kill someone by hacking", then it's relevant.
Keep in mind:
* the solar energy flux on the Moon's surface is approx equal with the one in Sahara (even a bit better due to no atmospheric absorption on the Moon)
* the "Moon daylight" is 14 times longer than on Earth (true:so is the Moon night)
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Are those real or ESRs inventions?
Doesn't seem to you that
the term describes anything that eats huge amounts of time for quite marginal gains in function but seduces people into using it anyway
apply quite well to Apple products? Invention or not, I guess the description worths a term on its own, fritterware it's OK with me.
The future might include pee brains in addition to pea brains.
That's nothing... see when they'll come with dung-heads.
And by Darwin, I do *not* mean the one that runs their iPhone ...
You mean... the capital of Northern Territory? Do they offer awards now for people lost in the outback?
(ducks)
As much as I enjoy a good old apple bashing,
A fritterware that just (as in "barely") works - and it seems not to be the first either.
anyone who trust their gps without checking the plausibility of the route is an utter fool
I know it is possible, I was there about 4 years ago, with a proper GPS. The roads (when you can call them as such) are "washboard" - something very much like this.
We really need to start pushing encryption into the masses.
Push? How? Like... a global vaccination program?
It's already been shown you can design decentralized networks that require no "bootstrap" information like DNS in order to find other nodes and communicate.
[Citation needed].
No, I'm not being sarcastic and don't intend to cast a malicious doubt over the statement:
I'm just signaling my (potential) gratitude for some relevant links (would they be made available).
Thanks in advance.
Robots are replacing workers everywhere and we need a new economy to deal with the situation.
Perhaps a little of both?
Question is: for how long?
I mean, if the "workers" can't afford to buy the widgets, where's the growth in the economy produced by the" value creation"?
Let me rephrase: in extreme, if there aren't any buyers, what meaning the "economy" term still retains?
I like to observe the ineptitude of governments around the world in driving IPv6 adoption and compare it with their similarly inept response to Global Warming.
Yeah, and similar consequences? http://penrose.uk6x.com/
We're out of IPv4s, we've been out for ages. What has changed? Nothing. So what.
UK still has almost two IPv4 addresses/each person.
If considering the Internet users only, UK has about 2.43 IPv4/each user (exaggerating a bit, you can say that each Internet user in UK can have one client and one server with their own IPv4).
If you throw into the picture the number of households (which can share a NAT-ing router) - it comes to 6.7 IPv4/household.
According to Hurricane Electric Asia (APNIC) has 18M addresses left while Europe (RIPE) has 17M. I will grant you that the US (ARIN) has nearly 100M, but we also have the largest use which explains the big allocation. And yet we're doing something about migrating to IPv6...
Yeap, free them as soon as possible... :) and sell them while they still have value :)
Putting together other two lists, one can see that
* UK - 63 mils population, IPV4/population=1.958, IPV4/internet users=2.342 - 0.21% IPv6 adoption
* US - 313 mils population, IPv4/population=4.911, IPv4/internet users=6.28 - 1.97% IPv6 adoption
In UK's case, the IPV6 adoption may have little to do with the need - as countries with lower need (higher IPV4 availability) adopted IPv6 in higher percentage?
Good idea. Now we just need to figure out how to be able to build it light enough to fly while being strong enough not to get crushed by the air pressure.
Simple: build them in stratosphere, where the air pressure is already lower.
Oh? Really?
From the cited list, how many of them lived in 20th century? What about nowadays?
Otherwise, for you to have a point, the post you are replying should have been saying "The public didn't care".
For a minute there, I thought John McAfee'd been arrested.
Wouldn't that be nice?
I mean... would that happen, we may read some news on /. (instead of watching the first season of a cheap drama)
McAfee said he would seek political asylum in Guatemala, which has been embroiled in a long-running territorial dispute with Belize. There is no extradition treaty between the two countries...
Apparently the real geeks left Slashdot ages ago.
Casted to void?
Frank Z's good to fend the today's everyday distortions (good God, I can sometimes swear the whole world is trippin' and it's only me that's lucid).
Do we have credible reports of someone actually being killed because of hacking? The media and politicians for the last few years have been hyping the hell out of the hacker menace and the "cyber" war but no one is even providing any body counts
Repeat after me: the absence of evidence is not the evidence of absence.
Ya, but it serves people policies by pretending it's an issue when it's unlikely to be one.
FTFY.
That's because you may not have looked or may not have had a chance to observe it.
Even if you searching long enough, not finding something is still not a proof of impossibility.
Here's an example: "based on my numerous attempts, I must conclude that is impossible for me to win the lottery. Yes, I know, almost every week somebody wins it, but it's not me." - is this a true statement?
Smooth 3D curves still have only one tangent in each point. This is also true for higher dimensions.
By allowing multiple recipients (readers/listeners/etc), a told story - even a /. one - becomes a surface (due to the multitude points of view). Being originated in a single PoV, a tangent is a curve until it becomes another story on itself.
(but I'm not convinced that I want this tangent evolving into a surface)
Energy will be a big issue.
Water is another, of course, but that may be available in the form of ice at the poles.
Now sure you have a lot of sunlight available on the moon, but we don't have any machines that run on sunlight. This light has to be harvested and converted into electricity: currently done though methods like solar panels or via steam driving generators.
Sure, you'll need to first send something capable of harvesting the Sun power. However, once you have some kW (maybe tens of kW?), you can set up something to self-replicate in a reasonable time. Like: extract some volatiles from regolith - like He - and build a Stilling engine working between +600K concentrated and 30K (in the shadow, with enough radiative surface of the heat sink). One can even think of sending a programmable-replicator automaton, powered by a Stirling radioisotope generator (200-300W of power) and, as the first task, replace/supplement the radioisotope heat source with a solar concentrator.
Repeat after me: the absence of evidence is not the evidence of absence [wikipedia.org]
A phrase often ritually quoted by people whithout thinking about it first. I believe it was here in Slashdot that I read a comment to the effect of: "YES, YES IT IS. Absence of evidence is not PROOF of absence, but it certainly is EVIDENCE of it"
Cool. Thanks for being precise.
The impossibility of unicorns is next to irrelevant. What matters is the unlikelihood of unicorns, just like the unlikelihood of murderous hackers is the issue at hand.
In what context?
* If it's in the context of "unicorn insurance", I almost agree (my reserve: one can't properly assess the risk without knowing enough details of the situation, and what's enough varies from case to case. Or... do you think it's possible for a building/construction project manager to manage a software development proj without knowing anything about SoftEng?)
* If it's in the context of "impossible to kill someone by hacking", then it's relevant.
The OP didn't fix the context well enough.
Is the sound of portals flying over your head.
What? You want to say two different tangents in the same point can't exist? Should be pretty boring to live in a world with a 2D space geometry
SIMULATED moon rocks?
Way better than VIRTUAL moon rocks... with the later, one would print those objects in the Cloud.
Not 3d laser printing their bases. Where would they get the energy to do this?
Sun?
Keep in mind:
* the solar energy flux on the Moon's surface is approx equal with the one in Sahara (even a bit better due to no atmospheric absorption on the Moon)
* the "Moon daylight" is 14 times longer than on Earth (true:so is the Moon night)