I'd say "Texit" since Texas is the only state that has the right to secede... but it's a red state and their leadership is every bit as out of touch with reality. I swear, Republicans and Reality aren't even kissing cousins anymore.
Just be sure not to shave before attempting to board. The beard (or lack thereof) might throw off their face reader. Plus, if reaching epic level, it could provide some minor cushion for the blow.
I was going to say the exact same thing. The money isn't really in the ticket sales. It's in the theater's ability to gouge $7 for $0.50 worth of popcorn, or $5 for a soda that costs maybe $0.20 to make. I'm sure other concessions net similar profits... when you can get the same candy at a gas station for half the price, or a grocery store for 1/4th the price, you know someone is seeing dollar signs.
While not cheating per se, my old employer stopped looking at my alma mater purely because they stopped teaching C/C++ and moved to Java. Makes sense too, since one of my professors wasn't happy with the change either. He calls Java a "training wheels language".
What you're really talking about are penetration aids, basically cheap ways to confuse your opponent, but they would never launch a full "fake ICBM". You've got to realize that a single ICBM is incredibly expensive, each Minuteman III costs somewhere around $7 Milper missile. Compare that to ~$1Mil for the AGM-86 (ALCM), less for non-nuclear options.
You may think that multiple warheads (or fake warheads) would be a good answer, but MIRV's have been decommissioned in the U.S. Not to mention the total number of nuclear weapons has shrunk due to the START Treaty.
One of the big things about a countries nuclear posture is just how much damage they would be able to do to an adversary. Nobody wants the big superpowers to launch an all-out strike on anyone else, there would be thousands of re-entry vehicles coming in. Besides, cities aren't great strategic targets in general. If i wanted to make sure you couldn't hit me back, I'd take out your weapons and means to make more weapons, and likely your influential leadership.
So if they could make more money by raising prices they would already be doing it.
Who's to say they don't?
My parents started with Comcast some 20 years ago paying $40 a month for Basic+ cable (enough for Nickelodeon and ESPN and such). I remember having somewhere on the order of 60-70 channels. When they finally cut the cord last year, they were paying $150 a month, including the "mandatory cable box" for roughly 150 channels, many of which had both SD and HD versions.
I cut the cord much earlier, but I started at $55 a month for ~100 channels in 2005, ended at $80 for ~100 channels, after 4 years. The only changes? A golf channel and 3 new religious channels that I couldn't give a crap about. It was either Comcast or DSL, and both often failed to deliver advertised speeds, not to mention lengthy downtimes when they happened.
That's because the ISP's take more of an organized crime approach. They know you don't have a choice and they are more than happy to charge you top dollar for shit service. They are also more than happy to offer crap you didn't ask for and raise your payments at a moments notice.
I'd say they are like a protection ring, but you won't get a bloody nose for refusal to pay/comply.
He's the President. He's the highest level classification authority in the U.S. It even says in the Executive Order (possibly an old one):
(a) Top Secret. The authority to classify information originally as Top Secret may be exercised only by: (1) the President;
Then for Secret and Confidential it's folks appointed by the Pres.
In Section 3.4 it even states that the President is exempt from the declassification process. The real argument is would any sane person give away that kind of information to a country that has been an antagonist for decades.
People are forgetting the most important part. Microsoft is actively trying to get some of these capabilities back into mainstream Git. They're actually, gasp!, giving back!
The programmer may have some knowledge of the medical field(s) that the A.I. will be used in, but likely will not have the in-depth understanding that at PhD with a decade of experience would have. On the flip side, whomever is consulted for accurate diagnoses of the dozens/hundreds/thousands of ailments may not be the one actively using the A.I.
Is it a design flaw if the A.I. misdiagnoses a rare disease about which very little is known? If so, where does the blame lie? The developers? The experts? The manufacturer? Whomever put the inputs in?
I've been rewatching Daredevil season 2 and I have to agree with all your points. Jon Bernthal as The Punisher is quite possibly my favorite Marvel character these days. In one episode Punisher goes from being tortured, to kicking everyones ass, to opening up his backstory to Daredevil. Bernthal's ability to go from badass to raging bull to broken man was incredible in that episode. Very well written, and even though The Punisher is by far the most violent, brutal killer in the Marvel TV universe, you still feel for him after that broken man scene.
Comic books have been telling (sometimes retelling) great stories for decades. At least someone is taking notice and bringing them to life.
Besides... it's 1300 light years away. Whatever we are seeing today happened 1300 years ago, you know, when Charlamagne was in power, Japan was in the Nara period and Buddhism was first beginning.
Whatever society created that giant whatever-it-is could be long gone by now. Even if we were to launch some satellite toward the thing today for a closer look, it would be 3000 years before the satellite got there, and another 1300 before an image came back.
Or, you know, it could just be some other debris in space that blocked our view. Maybe sufficiently large asteroid, or even one of our own space junk in orbit around Earth.
I wish more people thought and felt this way. Text is one of the most impersonal ways to communicate with anyone. You lose all intonation, inflection, and other non-verbal cues.
With Facebook remembering every damned thing about us and reminding us of stuff, we've gone from actively remembering someones birthday and calling/gifting them with something to a "happy birthday!" damn-near autogenerated message on FB. For being a "social" media platform, I can't imagine a more anti-social way to acknowledge someone.
Similarly, I don't see the CIA, NSA, FBI releasing code for their intelligence, data gathering/mining and investigations.
Just cruise on over to Wikileaks, if you're curious.
Just thinking about it, I suspect that a lot of this code isn't written by the US Government, but by contractors who can patent/copyright and make it ineligible for this program.
You're mostly correct there. An Engineer for the Gov won't actually do much real engineering. They'll be a technical lead or P.O.C. for a contractor that does. However, the rights the government has to the code depends on the contract. We won't ever see anything for the B-2 because it is wholly owned by Northrop Grumman and leased to the Fed. There are some contracts where the government is granted unlimited license to the code, hardware and data. I suspect when that hardware is decommissioned, then we will see some stuff released to the public (barring any national security stuff).
That leaves... Javascript used for different website apps. I would be surprised if anything much of anything else was published through this program.
The Fed actually does have a librarian whose job it is to make sure data/code/documents are sorted and labelled properly. Every year they review old documents to see what needs to stay classified, what doesn't, and what could be made public domain.
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I'd say "Texit" since Texas is the only state that has the right to secede... but it's a red state and their leadership is every bit as out of touch with reality. I swear, Republicans and Reality aren't even kissing cousins anymore.
Just be sure not to shave before attempting to board. The beard (or lack thereof) might throw off their face reader. Plus, if reaching epic level, it could provide some minor cushion for the blow.
Finally, my dream of having a laptop loaded with apps is coming true!
Gone are those days of being productive with actual software and reasonably powerful processors.
Not to mention the Egyptian caste system. More in-breeding within the ranks than fraternizing with the peasants.
I was going to say the exact same thing. The money isn't really in the ticket sales. It's in the theater's ability to gouge $7 for $0.50 worth of popcorn, or $5 for a soda that costs maybe $0.20 to make. I'm sure other concessions net similar profits... when you can get the same candy at a gas station for half the price, or a grocery store for 1/4th the price, you know someone is seeing dollar signs.
While not cheating per se, my old employer stopped looking at my alma mater purely because they stopped teaching C/C++ and moved to Java. Makes sense too, since one of my professors wasn't happy with the change either. He calls Java a "training wheels language".
What you're really talking about are penetration aids, basically cheap ways to confuse your opponent, but they would never launch a full "fake ICBM". You've got to realize that a single ICBM is incredibly expensive, each Minuteman III costs somewhere around $7 Mil per missile. Compare that to ~$1Mil for the AGM-86 (ALCM), less for non-nuclear options.
You may think that multiple warheads (or fake warheads) would be a good answer, but MIRV's have been decommissioned in the U.S. Not to mention the total number of nuclear weapons has shrunk due to the START Treaty.
One of the big things about a countries nuclear posture is just how much damage they would be able to do to an adversary. Nobody wants the big superpowers to launch an all-out strike on anyone else, there would be thousands of re-entry vehicles coming in. Besides, cities aren't great strategic targets in general. If i wanted to make sure you couldn't hit me back, I'd take out your weapons and means to make more weapons, and likely your influential leadership.
So if they could make more money by raising prices they would already be doing it.
Who's to say they don't?
My parents started with Comcast some 20 years ago paying $40 a month for Basic+ cable (enough for Nickelodeon and ESPN and such). I remember having somewhere on the order of 60-70 channels. When they finally cut the cord last year, they were paying $150 a month, including the "mandatory cable box" for roughly 150 channels, many of which had both SD and HD versions.
I cut the cord much earlier, but I started at $55 a month for ~100 channels in 2005, ended at $80 for ~100 channels, after 4 years. The only changes? A golf channel and 3 new religious channels that I couldn't give a crap about. It was either Comcast or DSL, and both often failed to deliver advertised speeds, not to mention lengthy downtimes when they happened.
That's because the ISP's take more of an organized crime approach. They know you don't have a choice and they are more than happy to charge you top dollar for shit service. They are also more than happy to offer crap you didn't ask for and raise your payments at a moments notice.
I'd say they are like a protection ring, but you won't get a bloody nose for refusal to pay/comply.
It doesn't really say anything about humans being obsolete when an AI trounces a human at tic-tac-toe.
Last time that came up there was the threat of Global Thermonuclear War. The computer was even innocent about it "Want to play a game?"
He's the President. He's the highest level classification authority in the U.S. It even says in the Executive Order (possibly an old one):
(a) Top Secret. The authority to classify information originally as Top Secret may be exercised only by:
(1) the President;
Then for Secret and Confidential it's folks appointed by the Pres.
In Section 3.4 it even states that the President is exempt from the declassification process. The real argument is would any sane person give away that kind of information to a country that has been an antagonist for decades.
I personally like Chris Pratt's method for weight loss.
People are forgetting the most important part. Microsoft is actively trying to get some of these capabilities back into mainstream Git. They're actually, gasp!, giving back!
Good news, everyone! Boeing is making the first prototype for our delivery service of the future.
Where else would we get all of our cheap plastic crap?
The question then becomes "who is the expert?"
The programmer may have some knowledge of the medical field(s) that the A.I. will be used in, but likely will not have the in-depth understanding that at PhD with a decade of experience would have. On the flip side, whomever is consulted for accurate diagnoses of the dozens/hundreds/thousands of ailments may not be the one actively using the A.I.
Is it a design flaw if the A.I. misdiagnoses a rare disease about which very little is known? If so, where does the blame lie? The developers? The experts? The manufacturer? Whomever put the inputs in?
Rajeev Suri and Tim Cook wouldn't exactly make the cutest couple. To say nothing of either being the other's type.
I've been rewatching Daredevil season 2 and I have to agree with all your points. Jon Bernthal as The Punisher is quite possibly my favorite Marvel character these days. In one episode Punisher goes from being tortured, to kicking everyones ass, to opening up his backstory to Daredevil. Bernthal's ability to go from badass to raging bull to broken man was incredible in that episode. Very well written, and even though The Punisher is by far the most violent, brutal killer in the Marvel TV universe, you still feel for him after that broken man scene.
Comic books have been telling (sometimes retelling) great stories for decades. At least someone is taking notice and bringing them to life.
Besides... it's 1300 light years away. Whatever we are seeing today happened 1300 years ago, you know, when Charlamagne was in power, Japan was in the Nara period and Buddhism was first beginning.
Whatever society created that giant whatever-it-is could be long gone by now. Even if we were to launch some satellite toward the thing today for a closer look, it would be 3000 years before the satellite got there, and another 1300 before an image came back.
Or, you know, it could just be some other debris in space that blocked our view. Maybe sufficiently large asteroid, or even one of our own space junk in orbit around Earth.
I love open software, but since so many eyeballs can look at the code, do I really want that in my car? (because the many eyeballs stuff)
I would rather have many companies working on one solid OS than the many mixed disparate crap-fests that we have in cars now.
I agree that my infotainment system should be completely separate and distinct from ALL mechanical control (e.g. gas, brake, steering).
I wish more people thought and felt this way. Text is one of the most impersonal ways to communicate with anyone. You lose all intonation, inflection, and other non-verbal cues.
With Facebook remembering every damned thing about us and reminding us of stuff, we've gone from actively remembering someones birthday and calling/gifting them with something to a "happy birthday!" damn-near autogenerated message on FB. For being a "social" media platform, I can't imagine a more anti-social way to acknowledge someone.
I'm pretty sure he had it right... after all, it's what the ad sites live for.
I just checked my CentOS 7... still rocking 3.10. Just got the 375.66 nVidia drivers too. No idea how old any of it is, but the system is stable.
Similarly, I don't see the CIA, NSA, FBI releasing code for their intelligence, data gathering/mining and investigations.
Just cruise on over to Wikileaks, if you're curious.
Just thinking about it, I suspect that a lot of this code isn't written by the US Government, but by contractors who can patent/copyright and make it ineligible for this program.
You're mostly correct there. An Engineer for the Gov won't actually do much real engineering. They'll be a technical lead or P.O.C. for a contractor that does. However, the rights the government has to the code depends on the contract. We won't ever see anything for the B-2 because it is wholly owned by Northrop Grumman and leased to the Fed. There are some contracts where the government is granted unlimited license to the code, hardware and data. I suspect when that hardware is decommissioned, then we will see some stuff released to the public (barring any national security stuff).
That leaves... Javascript used for different website apps. I would be surprised if anything much of anything else was published through this program.
The Fed actually does have a librarian whose job it is to make sure data/code/documents are sorted and labelled properly. Every year they review old documents to see what needs to stay classified, what doesn't, and what could be made public domain.
Oh come now... we all know that
sed -i 's/[0-9]{3}\.[0-9]{3}\.[0-9]{3}/nnn\.nnn\.nnn/g' *
is one of the trickiest command line operations someone can do. I mean, it's right up there with
"grep -Rne '([0-9]{3}\.){2}[0-9]{3}' *"
*no, I haven't actually tested these...