they can put that on the requirements list for network and storage controller vendors. But that does leave the issue of where the vendors are going to find good FreeBSD hackers to write these drivers.
Isn't there a cart and horse misalignment here. If you're a hardware vendor looking to get a big (and FB are big buyers of hardware) contract, and the tendering terms include "must have drivers for [Open Source system]", then won't you look at what you've already got on the shelf in terms of capabilities, and then burn custom firmware - or even an entire new product - that fits that driver at the hardware/ register level.
Or, if you know that your NewShiny line of product is likely to be punted to FB by Sales, then you damned well make sure that it works with $FB-favoured-OS$ while you're still designing the damned thing.
I saw one of those a couple of years ago - even drove it for a day while my car got fixed. Very strange experience.
Of course, if you've only got a license for an automatic, then you'd struggle to find a hire car here. Maybe one automatic per hire (larger) hire centre? A percent or several of the count.
Please clarify what you mean by "right fucking now". Is it the time to take your bicycle from the stand by the door to whichever building you're in and start cycling towards your destination, or is it the time to get into the parking area (several floors further up, down or sideways), get to the vehicle, get through the access barrier, paying your parking fee, then start to negotiate the one-way system to get to the road leading to your destination.
The time to/ from parking, and the time to find parking are things that are normally left out of the "right fucking now" equation. Being in reasonable condition, and knowing my town well in terms of non-vehicle routes, I can normally beat a car over distances of up to 3 miles - about 20 minutes door to door. That's pretty "right fucking now" if you're looking for a taxi too.
(Of course, on foot I can beat someone on a bike for really short journeys ; there's a non-trivial time to undoing the bike lock, stowing and re-deploying it.)
When will we see the first virus that simply uploads a hash-matching file to your gmail, live.com, dropbox, drive,.... account and waits for the SWAT team to pounce?
They're probably already in existence. General purpose ones, and toolkits for crafting targeted attacks.
how do these "automated technologies" distinguish that?
They don't ; they flag people (OK ; accounts) for human-based investigation.
It's a variant on the "Echelon" signature that has been doing the rounds since the late '80s / early '90s.
Which doesn't mean to say it's significantly wrong.
The last time I had to travel through the US - due to weather shit-canning some of my flights - I was very surprised to get one of those electronic visa things at all (what they called - ESTA, or something like that?). Which told me enough about the system's ineffectiveness.
someone from the National Institutes of Health reached out to Samaritan's Purse, one of the two North Carolina-based Christian relief groups the two were working with, and offered to have vials of an experimental drug called ZMapp sent to Liberia, according to CNN's unnamed source
they claim to be able to trust in their invisible sky fairy to protect them from diseases (bullets, communists, whatever), but when they find themselves in shit, they call for the best drugs science can develop, despite science being the total antithesis of the invisible sky fairy that they have faith in when the weather is nice.
they couldn't care less that there are voles about.
If you want a bird that will eat voles, get a bird that has evolved to eat voles. Try either a falcon (kestrel, hobby, or other variants of "raptor"), or an ostrich. In either case, expect it to put "chicken" on it's menu too.
Big things eat little things ; the size difference between chicken and vole isn't enough in favour of the chicken for the vole to be considered "food" (unless it's a baby?). Few insects are that big though, so they're on "Chicken Menu v1.0"
Because the decline of male absolute supremacy parallels the rise of thought that things other than the pursuit of [harems ; money ; prestige] might just possibly be of significance?
Because you consider the pursuit of anything other than your own blind bigoted self-interest to be reprehensible, foreign, or just plain against the word of (your) god?
Speaking as a geologist, you'd embarrass a dinosaur.
(Before you ask... quick check : yes, I've still got two balls and dried semen on my dick from poking the wife last night. But coming inside a woman is doubtless an experience that doesn't lay in your past, or your future.)
You're the douchebag who feels the need to brag to everyone at the party that he doesn't even *OWN* a TV, and then wonders why people don't like you.
Sounds like one of those stupid cunts of ACs who go to the wrong parties.
What's wrong with treating the crap that people put on TV to part us from our money as if it's crap whose only reason for existence is to part us from our money?
Configuring the Nightfall system as a Klemperer rosette would be one way of achieving the result - but the symmetry would still be broken by the orbiting moon that gives the eclipse.
You'd have to have the various stars in more-or-less concentric orbits of different periods. Then, at some point, they'd all get lined up in one (small angle of direction) from which they could all be simultaneously eclipsed. Ah, no, I see my error ; you only need to get them into one half of the sky for the other half to experience darkness.
But again, that wouldn't work for a Klemperer rosette configuration, either from the central location (not necessarily occupied) or from any of the rosette objects in a rosette of more than three objects (here there are 6 objects).
You've gotten less that half-way through your last mammoth before it's no longer safe to eat, so now you gotta kill another.
Actually, you do have a point. So people don't do that.
Mammoths (and bison, and caribou/elk, and horses - to name some of the other usual suspects) are quite dangerous animals when they're full grown. And they are very protective of their young, until they get to a certain age.
So, going from the actual skeletal evidence, what it seems happened, repeatedly, was that hunting would target the yearling (or two-year) youngsters, separate them from the adults, kill and eat them. Getting to the infants through the adults is too dangerous, and getting the adults is too dangerous too. So you take out the middling ones.
Take out 50% of the yearlings (two-yearlings) every year for one generation, and you have halved the population. After five generations, the herds become small enough that they can't protect their infants so effectively... and you get a populations crash.
Quoth the hunter : "But we never took out too many. We were hunting sustainably!"
Fishermen say the same. And they believe it's true. Population dynamics are not intuitive.
So my question is: what is holding everyone else back from freeing themselves from contacts and glasses?
I've had to, in the past, pull steel splinters (from a rock-hammer, a day-to-day tool at the time) from embedded in the surface of my prescription lenses. When I go out of my office and into the workspace in which I work, I am required by company site policy to wear protective spectacles, even if of no optical effect. So I wear my prescription safety spectacles.
Lasik eye surgery would do nothing to remove the obligation to use that PPE (Personal Protective Equipment).
Dissent on this point is taken as a resignation. You're escourted off the site, with your belongings, never to return and never to work for that client again, anywhere in the world, in any position.
that carpenter gets special moral authority from his claimed relation to God, and there's only a handful of individuals in history who've been credited with such significance.
There's no shortage of people claiming such a relationship with the FSM. On my friend's locked hospital ward the last time he had one of his episodes, there were 4 claimants.
The number who have actually had such a relationship remains the same as the number of gods - zero.
Or are you hoping to grow in legend until your distant descendents come to worship you as well?
Well, It's not impossible for my legend to grow. Does that mean I'd need to log into FaceSpace and MyBook more than every few months? But it's absolutely impossible for my descendants to worship me, absent one of (1) The Plastic Hippy having had a 15 month pregnancy after we broke up, or (2) someone microsurgically repairs my vasa deferens then anally rapes my corpse with a cattle prod to get a semen sample (the latter has happened, and Diane Blood seems proud to have raped her husband's corpse so. I would hope the necessary repair work would suggest to the courts my strong desire to not have descendants ; since it would require the work of lawyers, I'm not going to bet on it never happening.)
You've plotted three chapters for the compendium "Generation Ship Tales", examining the fates of the generation ships sent out by Earth in the 3000s.
ha, ha, but serious. There's a sea of ideas out there for SF authors to mine, but they don't seem terribly inclined to dip into that particular pond. targeted anthologies ("Dangerous Visions", the Berserker universe) have a decent track record for getting people to play with an idea.
Then again, if the atmosphere clears up in a year or two, then they either are even more advanced than we are or they destroyed themselves and their planet healed itself.
We've two data points for the cleaning up of atmospheres after a sudden bout of pollution : the ozone hole we created in a few decades is steadily reducing and dispersing since the 1990 ban on producing CFCs ; that looks as if it'll be cleared up in a century or two (large, sulphate-rich volcanic eruptions not occurring, which may put it back by a few years or decades). Whether that was an externally detectable pollution event is more dubious - it was hard enough to detect from here.
The other datum is the decay of the PETM carbon dioide spike of 55 Myr ago. That took between 100,000 and 150,000 years to return to something resembling an equilibrium CO2 content in the atmosphere and reduce temperatures to something approaching their pre-PETM levels.
Combining the two, expect it to take 10s of thousands of years for a major pollution spike to "heal". If you look at it from the other end of the telescope, that's around 10 overturnings of the oceans (our largest and most massive environmental component).
We can almost create artificial gravity by finding a way to generate Higgs Bosons and attach them to matter.
Do you have a vaguely credible citation for that - an Arxiv paper, or a professor of physics describing a roadmap. I've never heard even a hint of anyone planning to do that. (Besides, for a long, long time, it'll be much easier to mimic gravity with centripetal acceleration of the floor.)
and we're almost done with fusion.
Well, give or take a decade or three. It does appear to be closer now than when I was an optimistic schoolkid hitch-hiking to university.
We already developed algae that can strip CO2 out of the air.
I'll grant you that. It means that when I stop drilling oil wells, I can start drilling wells to dump CO2 into. That's fine by me. (You do realise that we've got gigatonnes of CO2 that need to come out of the atmosphere and back into the ground before we can even start to consider the job done?)
I think you're being highly optimistic on a 20 year timescale. Maybe 20 years once we get the political will together and start to actually address the problem. 50 years being highly optimistic ; well over a century being realistic.
What kind of moron came up with that? Let's see, life was here for like 500 million years, for about 150 we've been ruining the atmosphere, and 100 years from now we'll have solved it.
OK. And now let's look at the real figures :
There has been life on the planet for approximately 3500 million years (definite fossils to 3.2 billion, more disputed going back to 3800 million).
The first major pollution event - the production of oxygen - started around 2600 million years ago, with oxygen becoming ubiquitous (if at 1/100th of current levels) by about 2300 million.
Multicellular life first left fossils (the Ediacara fauna) about 600 million years ago (what you think was the origin of life?).
Multicellular life came onto land about 420 million years ago.
For about 150 years we've been polluting the atmosphere significantly (NB : there is detectable pollution in the Greenland ice cores dating back to Roman times. If you consider lead dust from Britain under the Romans "significant".), and we're continuing to do it at an accelerating rate. Going on the previous occasion when this happened, it'll take around 100,000 to 150,000 years for the atmospheric perturbation to self-correct. At that scale, it doesn't really matter if we die this year, next year or 1000 years from now.
and 100 years from now we'll have solved it.
Can you cite a source for that? I've never heard that sort of claim, even from pot-smoking AGW-denying oilfield trash. (Actually, working in the oil field, I haven't met AGW-denying trash. We know fine and well what we're doing.)
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Isn't there a cart and horse misalignment here. If you're a hardware vendor looking to get a big (and FB are big buyers of hardware) contract, and the tendering terms include "must have drivers for [Open Source system]", then won't you look at what you've already got on the shelf in terms of capabilities, and then burn custom firmware - or even an entire new product - that fits that driver at the hardware/ register level.
Or, if you know that your NewShiny line of product is likely to be punted to FB by Sales, then you damned well make sure that it works with $FB-favoured-OS$ while you're still designing the damned thing.
are you driving an automatic? How peculiar.
I saw one of those a couple of years ago - even drove it for a day while my car got fixed. Very strange experience.
Of course, if you've only got a license for an automatic, then you'd struggle to find a hire car here. Maybe one automatic per hire (larger) hire centre? A percent or several of the count.
Please clarify what you mean by "right fucking now". Is it the time to take your bicycle from the stand by the door to whichever building you're in and start cycling towards your destination, or is it the time to get into the parking area (several floors further up, down or sideways), get to the vehicle, get through the access barrier, paying your parking fee, then start to negotiate the one-way system to get to the road leading to your destination.
The time to/ from parking, and the time to find parking are things that are normally left out of the "right fucking now" equation. Being in reasonable condition, and knowing my town well in terms of non-vehicle routes, I can normally beat a car over distances of up to 3 miles - about 20 minutes door to door. That's pretty "right fucking now" if you're looking for a taxi too.
(Of course, on foot I can beat someone on a bike for really short journeys ; there's a non-trivial time to undoing the bike lock, stowing and re-deploying it.)
They're probably already in existence. General purpose ones, and toolkits for crafting targeted attacks.
They don't ; they flag people (OK ; accounts) for human-based investigation.
Which doesn't mean to say it's significantly wrong.
The last time I had to travel through the US - due to weather shit-canning some of my flights - I was very surprised to get one of those electronic visa things at all (what they called - ESTA, or something like that?). Which told me enough about the system's ineffectiveness.
It must be a couple of weeks since I poured sand into that particular Web2.0 gearbox. I do hope it's high-precision.
If the owner was a senior hitman for the (New York?) Mafia, you may have had a poi &£$£%$&%* < NO CARRIER >
they claim to be able to trust in their invisible sky fairy to protect them from diseases (bullets, communists, whatever), but when they find themselves in shit, they call for the best drugs science can develop, despite science being the total antithesis of the invisible sky fairy that they have faith in when the weather is nice.
If you want a bird that will eat voles, get a bird that has evolved to eat voles. Try either a falcon (kestrel, hobby, or other variants of "raptor"), or an ostrich. In either case, expect it to put "chicken" on it's menu too.
Big things eat little things ; the size difference between chicken and vole isn't enough in favour of the chicken for the vole to be considered "food" (unless it's a baby?). Few insects are that big though, so they're on "Chicken Menu v1.0"
[SHRUG] And this is going to make me change my computer to Windoze ... how?
Film at 11?
So unsurprising.
Why do you consider it "leftist"?
Speaking as a geologist, you'd embarrass a dinosaur.
(Before you ask ... quick check : yes, I've still got two balls and dried semen on my dick from poking the wife last night. But coming inside a woman is doubtless an experience that doesn't lay in your past, or your future.)
Sounds like one of those stupid cunts of ACs who go to the wrong parties.
What's wrong with treating the crap that people put on TV to part us from our money as if it's crap whose only reason for existence is to part us from our money?
And exactly how are you going to define that?
You'd have to have the various stars in more-or-less concentric orbits of different periods. Then, at some point, they'd all get lined up in one (small angle of direction) from which they could all be simultaneously eclipsed. Ah, no, I see my error ; you only need to get them into one half of the sky for the other half to experience darkness.
But again, that wouldn't work for a Klemperer rosette configuration, either from the central location (not necessarily occupied) or from any of the rosette objects in a rosette of more than three objects (here there are 6 objects).
Or Jobbies?
(That's Scots for turds. as well as some Mac Fanboi.)
Actually, you do have a point. So people don't do that.
Mammoths (and bison, and caribou/elk, and horses - to name some of the other usual suspects) are quite dangerous animals when they're full grown. And they are very protective of their young, until they get to a certain age.
So, going from the actual skeletal evidence, what it seems happened, repeatedly, was that hunting would target the yearling (or two-year) youngsters, separate them from the adults, kill and eat them. Getting to the infants through the adults is too dangerous, and getting the adults is too dangerous too. So you take out the middling ones.
Take out 50% of the yearlings (two-yearlings) every year for one generation, and you have halved the population. After five generations, the herds become small enough that they can't protect their infants so effectively ... and you get a populations crash.
Quoth the hunter : "But we never took out too many. We were hunting sustainably!"
Fishermen say the same. And they believe it's true. Population dynamics are not intuitive.
Does this mean that IE has acquired a second user? And do they use it simultaneously?
I've had to, in the past, pull steel splinters (from a rock-hammer, a day-to-day tool at the time) from embedded in the surface of my prescription lenses. When I go out of my office and into the workspace in which I work, I am required by company site policy to wear protective spectacles, even if of no optical effect. So I wear my prescription safety spectacles.
Lasik eye surgery would do nothing to remove the obligation to use that PPE (Personal Protective Equipment).
Dissent on this point is taken as a resignation. You're escourted off the site, with your belongings, never to return and never to work for that client again, anywhere in the world, in any position.
There's no shortage of people claiming such a relationship with the FSM. On my friend's locked hospital ward the last time he had one of his episodes, there were 4 claimants.
The number who have actually had such a relationship remains the same as the number of gods - zero.
Well, It's not impossible for my legend to grow. Does that mean I'd need to log into FaceSpace and MyBook more than every few months? But it's absolutely impossible for my descendants to worship me, absent one of (1) The Plastic Hippy having had a 15 month pregnancy after we broke up, or (2) someone microsurgically repairs my vasa deferens then anally rapes my corpse with a cattle prod to get a semen sample (the latter has happened, and Diane Blood seems proud to have raped her husband's corpse so. I would hope the necessary repair work would suggest to the courts my strong desire to not have descendants ; since it would require the work of lawyers, I'm not going to bet on it never happening.)
ha, ha, but serious. There's a sea of ideas out there for SF authors to mine, but they don't seem terribly inclined to dip into that particular pond. targeted anthologies ("Dangerous Visions", the Berserker universe) have a decent track record for getting people to play with an idea.
We've two data points for the cleaning up of atmospheres after a sudden bout of pollution : the ozone hole we created in a few decades is steadily reducing and dispersing since the 1990 ban on producing CFCs ; that looks as if it'll be cleared up in a century or two (large, sulphate-rich volcanic eruptions not occurring, which may put it back by a few years or decades). Whether that was an externally detectable pollution event is more dubious - it was hard enough to detect from here.
The other datum is the decay of the PETM carbon dioide spike of 55 Myr ago. That took between 100,000 and 150,000 years to return to something resembling an equilibrium CO2 content in the atmosphere and reduce temperatures to something approaching their pre-PETM levels.
Combining the two, expect it to take 10s of thousands of years for a major pollution spike to "heal". If you look at it from the other end of the telescope, that's around 10 overturnings of the oceans (our largest and most massive environmental component).
Do you have a vaguely credible citation for that - an Arxiv paper, or a professor of physics describing a roadmap. I've never heard even a hint of anyone planning to do that. (Besides, for a long, long time, it'll be much easier to mimic gravity with centripetal acceleration of the floor.)
Well, give or take a decade or three. It does appear to be closer now than when I was an optimistic schoolkid hitch-hiking to university.
I'll grant you that. It means that when I stop drilling oil wells, I can start drilling wells to dump CO2 into. That's fine by me. (You do realise that we've got gigatonnes of CO2 that need to come out of the atmosphere and back into the ground before we can even start to consider the job done?)
I think you're being highly optimistic on a 20 year timescale. Maybe 20 years once we get the political will together and start to actually address the problem. 50 years being highly optimistic ; well over a century being realistic.
OK. And now let's look at the real figures :
There has been life on the planet for approximately 3500 million years (definite fossils to 3.2 billion, more disputed going back to 3800 million).
The first major pollution event - the production of oxygen - started around 2600 million years ago, with oxygen becoming ubiquitous (if at 1/100th of current levels) by about 2300 million.
Multicellular life first left fossils (the Ediacara fauna) about 600 million years ago (what you think was the origin of life?).
Multicellular life came onto land about 420 million years ago.
For about 150 years we've been polluting the atmosphere significantly (NB : there is detectable pollution in the Greenland ice cores dating back to Roman times. If you consider lead dust from Britain under the Romans "significant".), and we're continuing to do it at an accelerating rate. Going on the previous occasion when this happened, it'll take around 100,000 to 150,000 years for the atmospheric perturbation to self-correct. At that scale, it doesn't really matter if we die this year, next year or 1000 years from now.
Can you cite a source for that? I've never heard that sort of claim, even from pot-smoking AGW-denying oilfield trash. (Actually, working in the oil field, I haven't met AGW-denying trash. We know fine and well what we're doing.)
Can't we just bury it in a hole in the ground (even if it leaves a small hill) and use the wood for something useful?