I think the only real solution is going to come from OSHA requiring deliberate control system sabotage as a HAZOP scenario to evaluate
... which will then be done with the usual level of bullshit.
I remember a "security exercise" a few years ago when I was working on an offshore oil production platform - back when we had a real domestic terrorist war going on, before the Americans had their 2001 scare - and it was utter bullshit. Literally a mock bomb which would have looked like a joke in a Disney movie-for-babies, placed where it couldn't have done anything apart from re-arrange the rust flakes. Then I nearly got run off from the installation for deriding the exercise and saying where I'd have planted the same size of bomb to achieve six-months to a year of shutdown of the region.
But hey - I just happen to have given 30 seconds thought to the subject. And we all know that t'rrists congenitally can't think for more than 28.3 seconds at a time. So that's everyone safe, isn't it?
The standard of enemy to consider for a real hazard assessment is an attacker who knows your system and equipment as well as you do. Otherwise, you're depending on the correctly-derided security by obscurity.
The resolution of the WMAP probe was probably too low, but the planck probe has had a much higher resolution.
Planck is due to report it's first tranche of data in August, IIRC.
Being first still matters. As the guys who got the Nobel in 1993 for showing that the loss of energy from a pair of co-orbiting neutron stars is consistent with the expected radiation of gravity waves will be fastidious about not pointing out. While wearing big cheesy grins. And gold medals.
The big question is what was worth killing 238 people for
"God" (by whatever name he's using when he talks to you) is almost certainly the answer. Whether it's the rational god of the sane beleiver, or the whispering-in-the-ear god of the psychotic pilot doesn't really matter at this point.
people of almost every faith used to come together for pilgrimage,
People of multiple faiths coming together? I think you're referring to either the Rape of Constantinople, or any randomly-selected Crusade.
From your department of Uncomfortable Truths : for most of the last couple of millennia, if you wanted religious tolerance in your government, you needed to go and live in a Muslim state. Not the last century or so, I'll agree. But taken in the longer view, that's the case.
Personally, I'd just put the lot of them on a too-small island with a couple of rocks and keep on adding more religious people to the pile until the screams stopped. Throw another Pope, Imam or Rabbi in for good measure every so often.
I'm planting the seeds right now. your ship should be ready (well, the trees will be ready to be cut and go into seasoning for 5-8 years) in about 3 centuries. If you send your shipwrights around with the detail designs in about 60 years, we can get the main joints marked up and get them growing.
Why are people taking medical advice from her over their doctors?
Because,
She is a bleach blonde playboy model [...] a recipient of botox and breast implants,
... she's got big tits and full lips, so she must be right.
Britain's worst anti-vaccination mass murderer was a run-of-the-mill surgeon with a dodgy line in research ethics and failure to declare a financial interest (which is why he lost his license to practice - and presumably why he's practising in America now.).
that's barely more than the apparently-now-discontinued offering from Garmin, which used telephone networks rather than satellite.
Fascinating. Tell me again about your extensive experience at getting phone communications from somewhere a mere 50km from land. Oh, you were talking about using Iridium. Different scale of costs - which is probably why the quarter-billion dollar vessel I'm sitting on (and have been on for 45 days of the last month - bitch, moan) has two Iridium phones to several hundred (completely useless) GSM phones on board.
Then again, we're nearly 100km from land. Then again, being 1m from the land (i.e., standing on it) doesn't guarantee you getting phone coverage either.
Jeez, conservatives didn't celebrate this much when Joseph Freaking Stalin died.
So, your conservatives are a bunch of lightweights? Or didn't really, really hate Stalin in the way that Thatcher was hated in Britain.
Didn't Hate Week sate your hatred? You know, the week after she died when you had hate parades to show just how much you hated her. No, seriously, this really happened. Hate parades
I know : I was involved in organising our local ones. And I'm proud of it.
Dig the bitch up, so that we can burn her again. Unfortunately - and quite sensibly - they ashed the bitch and have hidden the ashes.
I hope that her son gets the jail time that he deserves for trying to make his own private countries in Africa.
William the Bastard (his name at the time ; the "Conquerer" bit was only added a few generations later) was sufficiently far back that everyone in Britain is related to him by multiple routes. While both Guillame Le BatÃrd and Charlemagne were of Germanic descent, I think Charlemagne's antecedents came out of the forests of Germania (as the Romans called it), probably under the impetus of invading Tatars from the east. Guillame Le BatÃrd, on the other hand, came from a more Nordic stock, and his immediate ancestors were involved in stealing land from Charlemagne's descendants. Probably there were indirect relationships, but by means of political marriages, not blood.
Nasty bunch of robber barons, the lot of them. Your Welsh antecedents were probably no better. Ditto for my antecedents in Britain and Ireland.
Enjoy your castle. I'll enjoy central heating and negligible death duties.
People were using things like RC helicopters to fly mobile phones (and earlier 2-way radios) into prisons for communications during break-out attempts since - certainly the early 1990s, and probably years before that. Other contraband too (i.e. drugs, weapons, money).
When I actually sat down and thought about it, losing a fully configured Android phone is actually a big deal as it provides ready access to all kinds of accounts, including ones Google account.
[Shrug]
When I trashed my phone - just before coming to work 7 weeks ago - had to pick up a £10 basic phone from a supermarket to allow me to be in contact while travelling. But it made me think - is that phone really any use with all it's complicated facilities? It's an address book, an alarm clock... and that's about it.
Trying to read or reply to email on it - an absolute nightmare (I've tried 3 different apps for 3 different accounts and deleted them all - 'nuff said)
Surfing the internet - screen is too small, but far. And even when you've got a connection, it's ridiculously too slow.
Twitter and shit like that - I already get by text message, so [SHRUG].
Nope, when I get back from work, I think it's going to be upgrading to a basic phone (and recovering my normal phone number) for me. Oh, and using my tablet, with an added external keyboard and wall-wart for day-to-day mobile access. Or a netbook - essentially the same form factor. Which, since it lives in my rucksac, is considerably less pick-pocketable then a phone.
See Germany in the interwar era, or Zimbabwe a few years ago.
You mean the inter-war period, before Hitler and cronies took over.
Just because they were a bunch of psychopathic arseholes doesn't mean that they didn't improve the economy for those members of their society that they didn't set out to kill. (Gays, gypsies, left-wingers as well as Jews.)
For that to hold, the company has to expressly forbid using the laptop for personal purposes
Which my employer does for one. (And it's a non-trivial point : I've been away at a work location for 41 days now, using the work's laptop because I don't have enough baggage allowance to take my own, using the work's network because there isn't another (nearest mobile phone service is about 30km over the horizon ; leaving the site is impossible due to sharks).
It's part of the deal that most people accepted when they signed their contract (it wasn't mentioned in mine, because it wasn't envisaged a credible idea at that time).
Silicon Valley, where the unfortunate phrase "drank the Kool-Aid" was coined.
Strange, I thought that it originated in the Jonestown mass murder-suicide of several hundreds (thousands) of Christian idiots in Venezuela somewhere, in the late 1970s. The group members were given their self-administered poison dissolved in "Kool-Aid", partly to hide it's nature from the many children murdered by their religious parents.
As the old saying goes - religion poisons EVERYTHING it touches.
Realistically, his greatest historical accomplishment was simply not having his tomb raided by treasure hunters.
Actually, his tomb was raided. How much they got away with, we'll probably never know, but not a great amount. When Carter entered the tomb, there were clear signs of repairs to the doorway,and the interior was a jumbled mess, as if the place had been partly ransacked, and then a lot of stuff almost literally thrown back in - by inference by the equivalent of the Police.
Safe to say - if some people got blamed, they'd have died slow, excruciatingly painful and highly public deaths. Probably after watching all their families die the same way, spaced out over a period of days. Watched by the neighbours. Shrinking violets, the Egyptians were not.
Descendents, certainly ; more closely related than any other randomly selected Egyptian is a lot more dubious. By the time you get back to when the Romans ruled, probably every Egyptian alive then is an ancestor of every Egyptian alive today. Go back another 1400 years (the equivalent to going back from today to Attila the Hun and the Visigoths) and everyone in the area is related to each other.
Seems to me it's more hate for Windows 8 than it's hate for Microsoft.
Don't worry, there are as-yet untapped wells of hatred for both M$ and Win8, they're just not blowing out quite simultaneously. Perhaps M$ should re-introduce Vista to improve it's public image?
But part of it also may be poor training coupled with a youthful sense of invulnerability of students the young.
FTFY
I know for a fact that I did things when I was a youth (mid-teens to mid-20s) which I knew were pretty dangerous and not very smart at the time, and which make me shudder today. Kids, on the other hand, just seem to keep on killing themselves, and never getting any better at not killing themselves. Cars, drugs, and histrionics over sex/ love seeming to remain the biggest killers, but with a wide range of other stupidities too.
I suppose he has a picture of a dollar in his attic, and every time a Bitcoin is mined, it fades a little...
That is possibly the funniest thing that I've heard about Bitcoin since... well, since I heard about Bitcoin.
It was always obvious that if it were able to do the things that it said it could, then "the man" would shut it down, hard. And it looks like they did. Not a surprise.
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... which will then be done with the usual level of bullshit.
I remember a "security exercise" a few years ago when I was working on an offshore oil production platform - back when we had a real domestic terrorist war going on, before the Americans had their 2001 scare - and it was utter bullshit. Literally a mock bomb which would have looked like a joke in a Disney movie-for-babies, placed where it couldn't have done anything apart from re-arrange the rust flakes. Then I nearly got run off from the installation for deriding the exercise and saying where I'd have planted the same size of bomb to achieve six-months to a year of shutdown of the region.
But hey - I just happen to have given 30 seconds thought to the subject. And we all know that t'rrists congenitally can't think for more than 28.3 seconds at a time. So that's everyone safe, isn't it?
The standard of enemy to consider for a real hazard assessment is an attacker who knows your system and equipment as well as you do. Otherwise, you're depending on the correctly-derided security by obscurity.
You want to scar a moa with a symbol by pressing a piece of red-hot iron into it's flesh.
Go right ahead ; I'll be watching from over there, using this telescope.
Planck is due to report it's first tranche of data in August, IIRC.
Being first still matters. As the guys who got the Nobel in 1993 for showing that the loss of energy from a pair of co-orbiting neutron stars is consistent with the expected radiation of gravity waves will be fastidious about not pointing out. While wearing big cheesy grins. And gold medals.
"God" (by whatever name he's using when he talks to you) is almost certainly the answer. Whether it's the rational god of the sane beleiver, or the whispering-in-the-ear god of the psychotic pilot doesn't really matter at this point.
People of multiple faiths coming together? I think you're referring to either the Rape of Constantinople, or any randomly-selected Crusade.
From your department of Uncomfortable Truths : for most of the last couple of millennia, if you wanted religious tolerance in your government, you needed to go and live in a Muslim state. Not the last century or so, I'll agree. But taken in the longer view, that's the case.
Personally, I'd just put the lot of them on a too-small island with a couple of rocks and keep on adding more religious people to the pile until the screams stopped. Throw another Pope, Imam or Rabbi in for good measure every so often.
I'm planting the seeds right now. your ship should be ready (well, the trees will be ready to be cut and go into seasoning for 5-8 years) in about 3 centuries. If you send your shipwrights around with the detail designs in about 60 years, we can get the main joints marked up and get them growing.
No, seriously.
Because,
Britain's worst anti-vaccination mass murderer was a run-of-the-mill surgeon with a dodgy line in research ethics and failure to declare a financial interest (which is why he lost his license to practice - and presumably why he's practising in America now.).
Fascinating. Tell me again about your extensive experience at getting phone communications from somewhere a mere 50km from land. Oh, you were talking about using Iridium. Different scale of costs - which is probably why the quarter-billion dollar vessel I'm sitting on (and have been on for 45 days of the last month - bitch, moan) has two Iridium phones to several hundred (completely useless) GSM phones on board.
Then again, we're nearly 100km from land. Then again, being 1m from the land (i.e., standing on it) doesn't guarantee you getting phone coverage either.
Yes.
So, your conservatives are a bunch of lightweights? Or didn't really, really hate Stalin in the way that Thatcher was hated in Britain.
I know : I was involved in organising our local ones. And I'm proud of it.
Dig the bitch up, so that we can burn her again. Unfortunately - and quite sensibly - they ashed the bitch and have hidden the ashes.
I hope that her son gets the jail time that he deserves for trying to make his own private countries in Africa.
Nasty bunch of robber barons, the lot of them. Your Welsh antecedents were probably no better. Ditto for my antecedents in Britain and Ireland.
Enjoy your castle. I'll enjoy central heating and negligible death duties.
Oops, not logged in ; fixed.
People were using things like RC helicopters to fly mobile phones (and earlier 2-way radios) into prisons for communications during break-out attempts since - certainly the early 1990s, and probably years before that. Other contraband too (i.e. drugs, weapons, money).
[Shrug]
When I trashed my phone - just before coming to work 7 weeks ago - had to pick up a £10 basic phone from a supermarket to allow me to be in contact while travelling. But it made me think - is that phone really any use with all it's complicated facilities? It's an address book, an alarm clock ... and that's about it.
Nope, when I get back from work, I think it's going to be upgrading to a basic phone (and recovering my normal phone number) for me. Oh, and using my tablet, with an added external keyboard and wall-wart for day-to-day mobile access. Or a netbook - essentially the same form factor. Which, since it lives in my rucksac, is considerably less pick-pocketable then a phone.
What, in the (allegedly) Land of the Free and Home of the Brave, is the State doing issuing licenses to businesses to operate?
You mean the inter-war period, before Hitler and cronies took over.
Just because they were a bunch of psychopathic arseholes doesn't mean that they didn't improve the economy for those members of their society that they didn't set out to kill. (Gays, gypsies, left-wingers as well as Jews.)
Livin' the American Dream!
There will be a film about this modern American hero (despite the fact that he's not American, and is gay. I think.), if there isn't one already.
Which my employer does for one. (And it's a non-trivial point : I've been away at a work location for 41 days now, using the work's laptop because I don't have enough baggage allowance to take my own, using the work's network because there isn't another (nearest mobile phone service is about 30km over the horizon ; leaving the site is impossible due to sharks).
It's part of the deal that most people accepted when they signed their contract (it wasn't mentioned in mine, because it wasn't envisaged a credible idea at that time).
Strange, I thought that it originated in the Jonestown mass murder-suicide of several hundreds (thousands) of Christian idiots in Venezuela somewhere, in the late 1970s. The group members were given their self-administered poison dissolved in "Kool-Aid", partly to hide it's nature from the many children murdered by their religious parents.
As the old saying goes - religion poisons EVERYTHING it touches.
It doesn't smell like ether eitherrrrrrrr..... [crump]
Actually, his tomb was raided. How much they got away with, we'll probably never know, but not a great amount. When Carter entered the tomb, there were clear signs of repairs to the doorway ,and the interior was a jumbled mess, as if the place had been partly ransacked, and then a lot of stuff almost literally thrown back in - by inference by the equivalent of the Police.
Safe to say - if some people got blamed, they'd have died slow, excruciatingly painful and highly public deaths. Probably after watching all their families die the same way, spaced out over a period of days. Watched by the neighbours. Shrinking violets, the Egyptians were not.
Pour les Francais, quelque roi apres de Charlemagne.
For anglophone Americans ... we're back to the Dick and Johnny show again.
FTFY
Descendents, certainly ; more closely related than any other randomly selected Egyptian is a lot more dubious. By the time you get back to when the Romans ruled, probably every Egyptian alive then is an ancestor of every Egyptian alive today. Go back another 1400 years (the equivalent to going back from today to Attila the Hun and the Visigoths) and everyone in the area is related to each other.
Don't worry, there are as-yet untapped wells of hatred for both M$ and Win8, they're just not blowing out quite simultaneously. Perhaps M$ should re-introduce Vista to improve it's public image?
FTFY
I know for a fact that I did things when I was a youth (mid-teens to mid-20s) which I knew were pretty dangerous and not very smart at the time, and which make me shudder today. Kids, on the other hand, just seem to keep on killing themselves, and never getting any better at not killing themselves. Cars, drugs, and histrionics over sex/ love seeming to remain the biggest killers, but with a wide range of other stupidities too.
That is possibly the funniest thing that I've heard about Bitcoin since ... well, since I heard about Bitcoin.
It was always obvious that if it were able to do the things that it said it could, then "the man" would shut it down, hard. And it looks like they did. Not a surprise.