But Steve Jobs was born in Hawaii (if you believe that obviously forged document), and is a Muslim. So doesn't that make him a non-American and probably a traitor.
(I may be getting my neo-fascist fucktard memes mixed up here. Slightly.)
Oops, I forgot to use twenty+ exclamation marks. But that would just disturb the Force of Slashcode, so I won't bother ; take them as read and insert randomly as you see fit.
(Oh gods, am I going to have to find a link for that? I fear so! For the uninitiated amongst you, be ashamed and hand your geek cards in at the door as you leave.
In addition to derGoldstein's valid points, as a geologist (a planetary scientist specialising in the planet that you reside on) the title, summary and article all seemed perfectly correct to me. "Hotspot" has been a geological term for some 25 years longer than it's been a computing term - in fact I was deeply puzzled by the first few comments talking about telephone companies and didn't make the connection until later. (Then again, people have died in my work for using wireless when misconfigured cards have set off detonators. I never did trust wireless networking and use it as little as possible. I wish I could get a laptop without it.)
800Myr ago? That would make it some of the most recent volcanism on the Moon. Pretty damned important ; doubly so because there's about 50km more rock to get from the core to the surface on the far side of the Moon than on the near side. That's like... the thickness of the Himalayas.
No volcanoes on the Moon? BULLSHIT. The volcanoes on the Moon are (mostly) not (very) active, and are considerably different to volcanoes on the Earth (and to volcanoes on Mars, Venus, Triton or Io), but that doesn't make them any the less volcanoes. They may not fit your mental model of a "volcano", but unless you're some doyenne of volcanology whose existence I've not heard of before and the concept of whose existence I find, literally incredible, that marks a problem with you, not with the volcanicity of these volcanoes.
I love it when people come out with such intensely didactic statements as yours. It marks the author very clearly as someone who doesn't know what he's talking about, and whose opinion is of less value than the birdshit on my car roof.
This information was mostly created by NASA. The Authors mostly have jobs at Universities. So why does a member of the public have to pay $32 to read this paper?
The authors are at a mixture of American and German institutions (that information is freely available) ; the publication is British (costs a little research). So surely your question should be "why should anyone who is not British, German or American have to pay â30(Euro symbol, thank you incompetence of Slashcode) to read the full article?
To which the answer is : you do have the choice of paying around â150 (I don't know this years price scheme) and getting access to thousands of such article per year.
Your choice. Or perhaps you'd like the job of administering the paywall that keeps out non-Anglo-Americo-Deutsch people who haven't paid their sheckels?
It's not Apple's product after it's sold to a customer.
If that is sufficiently true across a sufficiently large number of jurisdictions, then things will gradually (say, overnight) change so that you'll not be able to buy an iPhone 4 (or whatever the next generation will be ; I stopped counting when they started putting numbers on the things), but you'll only be able to lease them.
Which would you, as Jobs, prefer? $450 once and not having the heart and soul of your customer for ever and eternity, or $35/month for 15 months, the heart and soul of the lessor for those 15 months, plus the ability to (legally) brick the phone at the end of the 15 months (in the process fucking them over for daring to think un-iThoughts). Unless the lessor has already signed up for an iPhone 4.5 on an 18 month contract.
It's got to stop somewhere--and it ought to be at the first-sale doctrine.
I don't know which countries that ruling applies, but it's easy to circumvent: don't sell your device to anyone, just lease the machines via leasing agents. If the agent gives their customer the mistaken impression that the customer has brought, say, an iLeash, then that's a matter between the agent and the lessor-under-the-misapprehension-that-he's-a-purchaser.
I'd like to know how Siemens will prevent future infections from using the same attack vector.
Why would they bother. No one who has any choice in the matter is going to be using a Siemens PLC again, and anyone who's doing a major redesign of their next version of MachineX (which already has Siemens PLCs in it) will be struggling hard to find a way to rip them out and shitcan them.
But no doubt Siemens factored the cost of this lost future business into their bill to Mossad/ CIA.
Would you use a PLC with a known dangerous vulnerability that is out in the wild? Didn't think so.
Maybe Siemens wanted out of that field all together.
IF (and it's a real "if" ; I don't have to compare PLCs on a year-to-year basis) Siemens were really the best supplier for this sort of device, and they were a near monopoly supplier, then the whole episode in and of itself is an utter condemnation of monopolistic situations, and a strong encouragement to not use the market leader for anything, until it is not clear who is the market leader.
For a deeply militaristic society like America, the failure of the recruiting sergeants to either attract, bribe or compel the best of the best of students to surrender their moral judgement and come to their institution is a serious failure of the military recruitment machinery.
And to the AC, yes, everyone did do well no doubt. But for a country that so visibly depends on it's military to project it's opinions on the rest of the world, the failure to be even in contention is a problem.
"hardware failure" is an inadequate excuse. When I have a hardware failure in my scuba breathing gear, I don't die, I switch to my alternative system and at the worst do an "under-control abort".
I can imagine the excuses coming into The Admiralty for the "Chariots" mission : "Sorry sir, we had a hardware failure. The Tirpitz is still a viable threat." In fact the story was "We had multiple hardware failures and lost several men, but the Tirpitz is disabled for the foreseeable future."
I wonder if any of the equipment is still on the bottom of Loch Cairnbawn? That would be a helluva a dive - 80m if I recall the charts properly.
... all round for the US Navy Academy team : operating in what should be their own "home waters", but being beaten into 7th place !
No, but seriously, someone has got some explaining to do. Inadequate resources? Or if the financial/ engineering resources were available, a worrying lack of innovative resource or a major fuck-up in management (I don't envisage an [Any Country] Naval Academy team being hot on brainstorming out-of-the-box ideas, at least not without having to get the plans past the Officer In Charge of the project first.)
Or maybe the higher placed institutions really do have naval engineering talent vastly in advance of that at the Naval Academy. In which case, the Recruitment Department has got some major explaining to do.
Coming soon : Navy SEALS Press Gang detained by portly Montreal Security Guard.
Hate to tell you this, m8, but you've been on death row since some time before your mother gave the final push and you came flopping out, mewling and puking.
But don't let that make you think you're in any way special ; you're probably not.
We can not be sure there are no indigenous Vegans, the star is 26 light years away..
However, we can be sure that there are no indigenous Vegans who happen to have FTL travel and an [ahemm] fascination with Kylie Minogue's bum, because if there were, they'd be here in about 20 minutes!
(And if they do appear in 19 minutes... I'll be as surprised as the next small furry creature from Alpha Centaurus!)
Do you also never get up during commercial breaks in ad-supported televisions shows lest you feel a pang of guilt that you stole?
No ; I generally don't waste my eyeball time with the lowest-common-denominator retarded shit that advertising-paid TV puts on, in order to get the largest number of the stupidest people to buy the most unappealing crap for the highest price... that advertising can support.
I wish the wife would let me get rid of the TV and go back to using the radio like I did before we married. Or, failing that, pay for the damned thing herself.
Because the obvious use for CDF is at work as part of a presentation to help a group understand the impact of some complex data.
Guessing your "group" is a "handful", five people ; and the software is $3000-ish a pop (by the time the tax man has visited, and some Admin from IT has put down his coffee to authorise you installing it, both of which are not zero-cost), then the software needs to save something like $600/person.
That's easy to do if it means one day fewer in a bullshit meeting because Dumbo-Fred from BeanCounter Central didn't get it on the third time of telling. Factor in extended (or using the software, reduced) time to market, cost of missed opportunity...
$3000 is piss-cheap in a business setting. Paricularly for a general purpose tool like this. You don't have to burn the licence and sandpaper the CD after the first project is finished.
Disclaimer - I'm an "Expert level" user of a piece of software that retails for around $15k/seat to install and around $3k/seat/year for codes for the dongle to make it work ; my Boss charges clients around $1000/day for me to get my ass to work on their data and to make the software sing and dance to the tunes they want. Clients don't have a problem with that - it's still cheaper than the time for their own staff to climb up to "Expert" level to configure the software, when what they really want is their 10 "Users" using a customised configuration in a company-wide standard way without knowing how to fuck with the configuration.
Back to work now - chaining another clients hands to our wagon, with golden handcuffs, while tempting them with a carrot wrapped around a deeply barbed hook.
$3000 for Mathematica? [Pffft] I wouldn't be surprised if we'd got a copy somewhere in the developers toy box. I wouldn't be surprised if we'd lost a copy from the developer's toy box. There's actually a couple of bugs that I know need fixing (before a client notices, and I have to bodge a workaround, again), but the developers just don't understand (because they're code jockeys, not users. I wonder if this might be the tool to get the idea into their skull... shortly followed by out of the bug tracker.
Besides, in hacking their email, it's already compromised as evidence, anyway.
How so? Say that Anonymouse reveal the fact that on 2001-09-11 12:00 +00:00, Murdoch (father or son, I don't care which) sent an email instructing "you 19 towel-heads to quit whinging and get on with it, or your familes get it!" ; the appropriate authorities then descend upon Iron Mountain (or whoever has the contract for News International's off-site archiving), clutching whatever subpoenas are required (an used condom, say ; probably something that binding), shoot everyone in the building, then start raking through the boxes of tapes. A fair bit of tape loading and searching later, in forensically controlled conditions, they demonstrate that such an email was sent, from Murdoch's computer, when the CCTV footage shows him to have been alone in the building.
Is that evidence compromised? I think not. Even though it is the same evidence, simply from a non-tampered source. Or to be more precise, from a source with no evidence of unauthorised access between it's creation and it's seizing by the evidence teams and a maintained chain of custody since then.
which will allow busy passengers to decide whether it would be better to move to another checkpoint."
what is this about allowing people to choose which line they're going to stand around to go through. Most airports, certainly most larger airports, you're waved into a channel and that's the one you're going through. Switching lanes is most explicitly not allowed. Full stop, end of ergument, or the police officers with the sub-machine guns are going to be talking to the back of your head while you kiss concrete.
Maybe Finland is more civilised. But if the Finns have direct air links with Paranoia Centre (the USA, and they know that it's their own fault that many people want to kill them), I doubt they'll be allowed to be civilized.
By these definitions, I can definitively prove that your great-great grandparents never existed.
That might be true in your country (not knowing which one that is), but in my country, it's not even difficult. I've seen photographs of my great-great grandfather, with a woman who may have been his wife (but was unlikely to be his sister) ; my father (who cares more about these things than I) assures me that he's checked the paperwork to validate the family connection, and talked to family members who knew him.
Going back 5 generations isn't even difficult in much of the world. On my mothers side, her brother has taken matters back with high confidence to about 10 generations (+/-1 ; like I said, I don't care much about this sort of thing, so didn't go to any effort to memorise what he clearly found fascinating. I just keep his teacup full and made interested noises from time to time.)
Of course, there are plenty of places without the penchant for bureaucracy that makes proofs like this easy. But in the computer-literate world, they're probably in the minority.
Slashdot Mirror
(I may be getting my neo-fascist fucktard memes mixed up here. Slightly.)
Oops, I forgot to use twenty+ exclamation marks. But that would just disturb the Force of Slashcode, so I won't bother ; take them as read and insert randomly as you see fit.
"Come on, chop chop. We haven't got all day you know."
(Oh gods, am I going to have to find a link for that? I fear so! For the uninitiated amongst you, be ashamed and hand your geek cards in at the door as you leave.
Now.)
800Myr ago? That would make it some of the most recent volcanism on the Moon. Pretty damned important ; doubly so because there's about 50km more rock to get from the core to the surface on the far side of the Moon than on the near side. That's like ... the thickness of the Himalayas.
No volcanoes on the Moon? BULLSHIT. The volcanoes on the Moon are (mostly) not (very) active, and are considerably different to volcanoes on the Earth (and to volcanoes on Mars, Venus, Triton or Io), but that doesn't make them any the less volcanoes. They may not fit your mental model of a "volcano", but unless you're some doyenne of volcanology whose existence I've not heard of before and the concept of whose existence I find, literally incredible, that marks a problem with you, not with the volcanicity of these volcanoes.
I love it when people come out with such intensely didactic statements as yours. It marks the author very clearly as someone who doesn't know what he's talking about, and whose opinion is of less value than the birdshit on my car roof.
Said Becquerel's brother about the mysterious markings on his photographic plates.
Or, to quote a (possibly apocryphal) bumper sticker : "If we knew what we were doing, or what it was for, we couldn't call it research."
The authors are at a mixture of American and German institutions (that information is freely available) ; the publication is British (costs a little research). So surely your question should be "why should anyone who is not British, German or American have to pay â30(Euro symbol, thank you incompetence of Slashcode) to read the full article?
To which the answer is : you do have the choice of paying around â150 (I don't know this years price scheme) and getting access to thousands of such article per year.
Your choice. Or perhaps you'd like the job of administering the paywall that keeps out non-Anglo-Americo-Deutsch people who haven't paid their sheckels?
HERETIC!
Burn the HERETIC!
If that is sufficiently true across a sufficiently large number of jurisdictions, then things will gradually (say, overnight) change so that you'll not be able to buy an iPhone 4 (or whatever the next generation will be ; I stopped counting when they started putting numbers on the things), but you'll only be able to lease them.
Which would you, as Jobs, prefer? $450 once and not having the heart and soul of your customer for ever and eternity, or $35/month for 15 months, the heart and soul of the lessor for those 15 months, plus the ability to (legally) brick the phone at the end of the 15 months (in the process fucking them over for daring to think un-iThoughts). Unless the lessor has already signed up for an iPhone 4.5 on an 18 month contract.
I don't know which countries that ruling applies, but it's easy to circumvent: don't sell your device to anyone, just lease the machines via leasing agents. If the agent gives their customer the mistaken impression that the customer has brought, say, an iLeash, then that's a matter between the agent and the lessor-under-the-misapprehension-that-he's-a-purchaser.
Why would they bother. No one who has any choice in the matter is going to be using a Siemens PLC again, and anyone who's doing a major redesign of their next version of MachineX (which already has Siemens PLCs in it) will be struggling hard to find a way to rip them out and shitcan them.
But no doubt Siemens factored the cost of this lost future business into their bill to Mossad/ CIA.
Would you use a PLC with a known dangerous vulnerability that is out in the wild? Didn't think so.
Maybe Siemens wanted out of that field all together.
IF (and it's a real "if" ; I don't have to compare PLCs on a year-to-year basis) Siemens were really the best supplier for this sort of device, and they were a near monopoly supplier, then the whole episode in and of itself is an utter condemnation of monopolistic situations, and a strong encouragement to not use the market leader for anything, until it is not clear who is the market leader.
If they choose names that make them look like military, then that's how they can expect to be treated.
And demonstrated treatments (usual criteria : safe + effective) ?
FTFY
"Shithole at the end of the Universe" would fit as well, and be more accurate, but more of a mouthful.
Try leaving. There is, so far, no law against it.
And to the AC, yes, everyone did do well no doubt. But for a country that so visibly depends on it's military to project it's opinions on the rest of the world, the failure to be even in contention is a problem.
"hardware failure" is an inadequate excuse. When I have a hardware failure in my scuba breathing gear, I don't die, I switch to my alternative system and at the worst do an "under-control abort".
I can imagine the excuses coming into The Admiralty for the "Chariots" mission : "Sorry sir, we had a hardware failure. The Tirpitz is still a viable threat." In fact the story was "We had multiple hardware failures and lost several men, but the Tirpitz is disabled for the foreseeable future."
I wonder if any of the equipment is still on the bottom of Loch Cairnbawn? That would be a helluva a dive - 80m if I recall the charts properly.
No, but seriously, someone has got some explaining to do. Inadequate resources? Or if the financial/ engineering resources were available, a worrying lack of innovative resource or a major fuck-up in management (I don't envisage an [Any Country] Naval Academy team being hot on brainstorming out-of-the-box ideas, at least not without having to get the plans past the Officer In Charge of the project first.)
Or maybe the higher placed institutions really do have naval engineering talent vastly in advance of that at the Naval Academy. In which case, the Recruitment Department has got some major explaining to do.
Coming soon : Navy SEALS Press Gang detained by portly Montreal Security Guard.
But don't let that make you think you're in any way special ; you're probably not.
... and possibly Assange might not end up dieing in a freak accident in Guantanamo.
Oh, hang on, that's a shill extradition request being made by some proxies for the Govt. of the US. So that's not in the slightest affected, is it?
However, we can be sure that there are no indigenous Vegans who happen to have FTL travel and an [ahemm] fascination with Kylie Minogue's bum, because if there were, they'd be here in about 20 minutes!
(And if they do appear in 19 minutes ... I'll be as surprised as the next small furry creature from Alpha Centaurus!)
No ; I generally don't waste my eyeball time with the lowest-common-denominator retarded shit that advertising-paid TV puts on, in order to get the largest number of the stupidest people to buy the most unappealing crap for the highest price ... that advertising can support.
I wish the wife would let me get rid of the TV and go back to using the radio like I did before we married. Or, failing that, pay for the damned thing herself.
Guessing your "group" is a "handful", five people ; and the software is $3000-ish a pop (by the time the tax man has visited, and some Admin from IT has put down his coffee to authorise you installing it, both of which are not zero-cost), then the software needs to save something like $600/person.
That's easy to do if it means one day fewer in a bullshit meeting because Dumbo-Fred from BeanCounter Central didn't get it on the third time of telling. Factor in extended (or using the software, reduced) time to market, cost of missed opportunity ...
$3000 is piss-cheap in a business setting. Paricularly for a general purpose tool like this. You don't have to burn the licence and sandpaper the CD after the first project is finished.
Disclaimer - I'm an "Expert level" user of a piece of software that retails for around $15k/seat to install and around $3k/seat/year for codes for the dongle to make it work ; my Boss charges clients around $1000/day for me to get my ass to work on their data and to make the software sing and dance to the tunes they want. Clients don't have a problem with that - it's still cheaper than the time for their own staff to climb up to "Expert" level to configure the software, when what they really want is their 10 "Users" using a customised configuration in a company-wide standard way without knowing how to fuck with the configuration.
Back to work now - chaining another clients hands to our wagon, with golden handcuffs, while tempting them with a carrot wrapped around a deeply barbed hook.
$3000 for Mathematica? [Pffft] I wouldn't be surprised if we'd got a copy somewhere in the developers toy box. I wouldn't be surprised if we'd lost a copy from the developer's toy box. There's actually a couple of bugs that I know need fixing (before a client notices, and I have to bodge a workaround, again), but the developers just don't understand (because they're code jockeys, not users. I wonder if this might be the tool to get the idea into their skull ... shortly followed by out of the bug tracker.
How so? Say that Anonymouse reveal the fact that on 2001-09-11 12:00 +00:00, Murdoch (father or son, I don't care which) sent an email instructing "you 19 towel-heads to quit whinging and get on with it, or your familes get it!" ; the appropriate authorities then descend upon Iron Mountain (or whoever has the contract for News International's off-site archiving), clutching whatever subpoenas are required (an used condom, say ; probably something that binding), shoot everyone in the building, then start raking through the boxes of tapes. A fair bit of tape loading and searching later, in forensically controlled conditions, they demonstrate that such an email was sent, from Murdoch's computer, when the CCTV footage shows him to have been alone in the building.
Is that evidence compromised? I think not. Even though it is the same evidence, simply from a non-tampered source. Or to be more precise, from a source with no evidence of unauthorised access between it's creation and it's seizing by the evidence teams and a maintained chain of custody since then.
In hexadecimal.
Ka...ching!
what is this about allowing people to choose which line they're going to stand around to go through. Most airports, certainly most larger airports, you're waved into a channel and that's the one you're going through. Switching lanes is most explicitly not allowed. Full stop, end of ergument, or the police officers with the sub-machine guns are going to be talking to the back of your head while you kiss concrete.
Maybe Finland is more civilised. But if the Finns have direct air links with Paranoia Centre (the USA, and they know that it's their own fault that many people want to kill them), I doubt they'll be allowed to be civilized.
That's the speed of illumination you're talking about, not the speed of light.
That might be true in your country (not knowing which one that is), but in my country, it's not even difficult. I've seen photographs of my great-great grandfather, with a woman who may have been his wife (but was unlikely to be his sister) ; my father (who cares more about these things than I) assures me that he's checked the paperwork to validate the family connection, and talked to family members who knew him.
Going back 5 generations isn't even difficult in much of the world. On my mothers side, her brother has taken matters back with high confidence to about 10 generations (+/-1 ; like I said, I don't care much about this sort of thing, so didn't go to any effort to memorise what he clearly found fascinating. I just keep his teacup full and made interested noises from time to time.)
Of course, there are plenty of places without the penchant for bureaucracy that makes proofs like this easy. But in the computer-literate world, they're probably in the minority.