We aren't really buying more nuclear weapons, these days. We're replacing old nukes with newer models, but we are not increasing the size of our arsenal.
War with Russia or China would be nuclear. We have no use anything other than nukes if we battle a technologically advanced enemy. We do have use for weaponry that would allow us to wage war against technologically primitive adversaries more quickly and with fewer casualties.
Florida can stay populated and air conditioned. We just need clean power sources (nuke, hydro, tidal, wind, solar). The solution is power sources, not abandoning half of the planet.
This thing is a "cyber sidearm" like a rape-whistle is a "sonic sidearm," a video camera is an "optical sidearm," or a stool sample is a "digestive sidearm."
I'm sorry, chairforce, but to call something a sidearm, it must actively attack, not passively report.
Not having a computer is better in terms of energy demand than even having a very efficient computer.
You're saying that it is more energy efficient to have to drive to the bank than to do your banking online?
Owning a computer is critical to functioning efficiently in modern society. Offering incentive NOT to own a computer is like offering incentive NOT to learn how to read and write; it's totally counterproductive.
to every issue: abortion, freedom of expression, privacy, gun rights, etc., there are people who can think clearly
They can't think clearly about an issue if censorship prevents them from learning the facts about the issue.
PS: Please finish your damn movie so I don't have to read your sig in every thread every day. If you spent more time filming and less time posting to slashdot, you might be done with it already.
Actually, I couchsurfed through Europe recently, and exactly zero of the houses/apartments/hotels I stayed in had AC. Bordeaux can be a bitch in the summer because open windows == mosquitoes, closed windows == too hot to sleep well. Not even the Louve had AC (as far as I could tell).
The general excuse for this lack of what Americas view as a common necessity was that it is "a waste of energy." I'm guessing that it has more to do with a lack of money than environmentalism, since Europeans make half as much money as Americans and pay more in taxes.
It is good to know that some places in Europe have AC. I don't know where you live but I hope you put it in your nursing homes, too.
I love the way that, especially in Europe, people who live in moderate climates suggest that nobody should be using air conditioning. I would love to see you move to a hot, humid climate, and watch you in pathetic misery as you drown in your own sweat.
Anti-AC crusaders have blood on their hands for all the elderly who die during Europe's infrequent heat-waves.
I'm all for green technology, but if you think I'm going to watch my grandma die of heat stroke so that you can end the "evils" of climate control, you are dead fucking wrong.
In the time it takes you to post this question and read the replies, you could have gotten a job at McDonald's and earned enough money to buy some real hardware.
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Game playing is, by definition, AI. The ultimate goal of AI is to build Lt. Cmdr. Data, but that doesn't mean other challenges are not AI.
Some people say changing the BIOS around is like rearranging the deck chairs on the Titanic. That's not true; the BIOS isn't sinking. In fact, the BIOS is soaring; if anything, it's like rearranging the deck chairs on the Hindenburg.
In the event of a total destruction of Earth's biosphere, an off-world, self-sustainable colony could take the hundreds or thousands of years necessary to study what happened to Earth, and reterraform it.
So quit whining and start your own PR machine to stimulate public interest in funding your area of research. Do you really need equipment as expensive as a particle accelerator to continue your research?
God: When you do things right, people won't be sure you've done anything at all.
And when you do things wrong, as is unquestionably demonstrated by the suffering and injustice of the world, people will logically conclude that you either don't exist, or you're an evil asshole.
I apologize for the tone. I've noticed that unrelated frustrations can sometimes color my web correspondence. However, I stand by my criticism.
Requiring someone buy your software to do work for your company is the most opaque back-door sales technique I can imagine. That's the joke, in my opinion.
Furthermore, requiring specific software packages is certainly outside the scope of a "policy" document. That is the domain of technical standards. Requiring "at-rest data protection" would be the sort of thing included in a policy document.
So, even supposing you were upfront about calling your standard a standard: It is unreasonable to require the installation of invasive, OS-modifying software other companys' systems, because doing so would no doubt break all sorts of processes in use at that company, in addition to being a direct violation of those companys' own standards.
In conclusion, there is no problem in requiring compliance with high-level security policies. Requiring compliance with company-specific standards, such as detailed password complexity requirements and OS modifications, is just not practical.
I am in no way speaking on behalf of my company when stating this or any other opinions to slashdot.
PGP is a hilarious company, these days. My company was going to do some consulting work for them, and they announced that we could not work with them unless we complied with their security "policy." We thought it would be no problem--our security is some of the best in the industry.
We read their "policy" and started laughing, however. It isn't a policy so much as a standard, which explicitly requires all computers run PGP Whole Disk Encryption. No other form of data protection is acceptable.
I'm inclined to send this message back to them and include "piss off" in my reply, but I don't know how much the potential contract was worth. But any way you look at it, PGP corp is a joke these days.
I respect Takei greatly. I am an advocate of gay rights. But I also thought that "Takei hitting Uranus" joke was pretty funny. Does that make me a bad person?
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We aren't really buying more nuclear weapons, these days. We're replacing old nukes with newer models, but we are not increasing the size of our arsenal.
War with Russia or China would be nuclear. We have no use anything other than nukes if we battle a technologically advanced enemy. We do have use for weaponry that would allow us to wage war against technologically primitive adversaries more quickly and with fewer casualties.
Florida can stay populated and air conditioned. We just need clean power sources (nuke, hydro, tidal, wind, solar). The solution is power sources, not abandoning half of the planet.
This thing is a "cyber sidearm" like a rape-whistle is a "sonic sidearm," a video camera is an "optical sidearm," or a stool sample is a "digestive sidearm."
I'm sorry, chairforce, but to call something a sidearm, it must actively attack, not passively report.
Owning a computer is critical to functioning efficiently in modern society. Offering incentive NOT to own a computer is like offering incentive NOT to learn how to read and write; it's totally counterproductive.
PS: Please finish your damn movie so I don't have to read your sig in every thread every day. If you spent more time filming and less time posting to slashdot, you might be done with it already.
Actually, I couchsurfed through Europe recently, and exactly zero of the houses/apartments/hotels I stayed in had AC. Bordeaux can be a bitch in the summer because open windows == mosquitoes, closed windows == too hot to sleep well. Not even the Louve had AC (as far as I could tell).
The general excuse for this lack of what Americas view as a common necessity was that it is "a waste of energy." I'm guessing that it has more to do with a lack of money than environmentalism, since Europeans make half as much money as Americans and pay more in taxes.
It is good to know that some places in Europe have AC. I don't know where you live but I hope you put it in your nursing homes, too.
I love the way that, especially in Europe, people who live in moderate climates suggest that nobody should be using air conditioning. I would love to see you move to a hot, humid climate, and watch you in pathetic misery as you drown in your own sweat.
Anti-AC crusaders have blood on their hands for all the elderly who die during Europe's infrequent heat-waves.
I'm all for green technology, but if you think I'm going to watch my grandma die of heat stroke so that you can end the "evils" of climate control, you are dead fucking wrong.
In the time it takes you to post this question and read the replies, you could have gotten a job at McDonald's and earned enough money to buy some real hardware.
Game playing is, by definition, AI. The ultimate goal of AI is to build Lt. Cmdr. Data, but that doesn't mean other challenges are not AI.
Some people say changing the BIOS around is like rearranging the deck chairs on the Titanic. That's not true; the BIOS isn't sinking. In fact, the BIOS is soaring; if anything, it's like rearranging the deck chairs on the Hindenburg.
If you were a hot young woman, you would probably be asking the question "is there any such thing as beer that isn't free?"
You're dead wrong.
In the event of a total destruction of Earth's biosphere, an off-world, self-sustainable colony could take the hundreds or thousands of years necessary to study what happened to Earth, and reterraform it.
So quit whining and start your own PR machine to stimulate public interest in funding your area of research. Do you really need equipment as expensive as a particle accelerator to continue your research?
Television focuses on sensationalist presentation? The USA once went to war over sensationalist presentation in the print media.
I apologize for the tone. I've noticed that unrelated frustrations can sometimes color my web correspondence. However, I stand by my criticism.
Requiring someone buy your software to do work for your company is the most opaque back-door sales technique I can imagine. That's the joke, in my opinion.
Furthermore, requiring specific software packages is certainly outside the scope of a "policy" document. That is the domain of technical standards. Requiring "at-rest data protection" would be the sort of thing included in a policy document.
So, even supposing you were upfront about calling your standard a standard: It is unreasonable to require the installation of invasive, OS-modifying software other companys' systems, because doing so would no doubt break all sorts of processes in use at that company, in addition to being a direct violation of those companys' own standards.
In conclusion, there is no problem in requiring compliance with high-level security policies. Requiring compliance with company-specific standards, such as detailed password complexity requirements and OS modifications, is just not practical.
I am in no way speaking on behalf of my company when stating this or any other opinions to slashdot.
For future reference: You NEVER want to follow a vulgar joke with a less vulgar joke. There's just no point in it.
PGP is a hilarious company, these days. My company was going to do some consulting work for them, and they announced that we could not work with them unless we complied with their security "policy." We thought it would be no problem--our security is some of the best in the industry.
We read their "policy" and started laughing, however. It isn't a policy so much as a standard, which explicitly requires all computers run PGP Whole Disk Encryption. No other form of data protection is acceptable.
I'm inclined to send this message back to them and include "piss off" in my reply, but I don't know how much the potential contract was worth. But any way you look at it, PGP corp is a joke these days.
I respect Takei greatly. I am an advocate of gay rights. But I also thought that "Takei hitting Uranus" joke was pretty funny. Does that make me a bad person?