You're getting back on the right track, since Democrats got an 11.6% nationwide margin last November. If you just don't vote Republican next year, maybe the government you get will operate your schools well enough that you'll learn to read, instead of depend on AM talk radio. It's too late for Miss Teen South Carolina, but most of her classmates have already got a few kids, who might get a chance that their parents generation never did.
Yeah, I went to Cuba, because I'm not a slave living in my mother's basement.
And I didn't say the "embargo" doesn't really exist, just that it's not really an embargo. The selective enforcement of it to keep Cubans screwed, allow Castro to keep his tyrannical reign, and allow some privileged American corporations to make money off the scam is not an "embargo", but a scam.
So there's a snappy answer to your stupid question. BTW, that's _Cracked_ you've been coloring outside the lines, not _Mad_.
Makes me think a bit of the situation in Cuba. Lots of U.S. firms would like to do business there, have it opened up to trade, see relations normalized. I mean we've normalized relations with Vietnam even though POW/MIA groups feel the country still hasn't been as forthcoming as it could be on the subject of missing servicemen from the war. But POW/MIA groups can't swing Florida in a presidential election, so every president has given in to a small special interest group, and kept a hard line on Cuba.
So, while American companies are denied access to Cuba as a market, a source for materials, and a source for goods, those benefits go to companies in countries where a small block of Cuban immigrants don't hold the disproportionate political sway they do here.
When I was in Cuba a few years ago, there were plenty of American corporate offices, all in one heavily guarded (by Cuban military/police) compound in one of the best locations in Havana, right in the center of the city. There were probably other locations, too, and certainly enough business operations to support their offices.
The Cuban "embargo" is nearly entirely a fraud, except the part that keeps individual Cubans cut off from the rest of the world, and (most) individual Americans cut off from Cuba. It's proven to do nothing to force political change there, and to promote political corruption here in the US (and in Cuba, and elsewhere in cooperation). It's one of the greatest political crimes in American history. And it's going on right now, and will continue tomorrow. Along with the propaganda that it is really an embargo.
I remember when Java was still in its first beta that Mitsubishi (among others, mostly Japanese) announced a Java CPU that executed bytecode in HW, not a SW JVM. It integrated a DSP, evidently targeted at consumer multimedia apps. Maybe a "set-top box" which was the main vision for "converged" PC/TV/network devices back then, around 1995.
What ever happened to Java CPU/DSPs? By now, if they'd worked out, I'd expect most consumer devices to include them, but I don't know about any. Maybe they required development of a "Java OS", which also never went "mass market". Where are they now?
Those low-broadband areas are the same ones that vote reliably Republican.
It's yet another demonstration that the less informed, the less connected to other people outside your clannish town, the less modern you are, the more likely you are to vote for Republicans, or to not vote while your neighbors choose Republicans to "represent" you.
This story is (anonymously) tagged "conspiracytheory". I'd like to see the coincidence theorist explain how this happened without Microsoft's trademark coordinating manipulations.
For the moment, which you are offering as the basis of comparison, all the petrofuel that wouldn't be used in electric generation plants would be available for transport.
Over the longer run, solar is best harnessed by biomass which can produce biodiesel and (less efficiently) either m/ethanol or gasoline. Over the longest run, switching to more immediate biodiesel products. Meanwhile, solar can drive other chemical processes that force carbon atoms together into high energy bonds to be internally combusted, if we insist on keeping that anachronistic fetish.
Do solar cells increase global warming more than their actual typical alternative, Greenhouse gas emitting petrofuels located elsewhere, plus asphalt roofs heating up in the sunlight?
Besides, much of the solar energy that would have become heat if just warming the air does not become heat, because it is stored in chemical bonds and gravity-resisting structures, except over a time so long that we're going to be past petrofuels entirely.
I think you're completely wrong about every factor. Except maybe the CO2 released and (mostly petrofuel, currently) energy consumed in manufacturing solar cells. Though the energy budget for producing all that petrofuel, all the extra energy it releases (just from combustion) into the environment, all the energy to clean up its mess.
If you can give me some numbers to dispute the evident superiority of solar panels instead of petrofuels and heated up asphalt, let's see them. Otherwise, stop guessing based solely on your gut prejudice against solar energy, wherever it comes from.
I wonder how much sunlight would have to be absorbed by power cells instead of all being converted to heat by the usual materials that currently absorb it, before it makes any dent in the increase in global warming.
Solar's big advantage is that it supplies the most electricity midday, when demand peaks.
I like the advantage (over petrofuels) that its fuel is free, without forcing the US to kowtow to foreign tyrants who sometimes try to kill us, and sometimes need to get rescued from people trying to kill them, and nearly always are at the center of global warfare.
The data of value in/etc/passwd is not the passwords, which are hidden, as I said (omitted and replaced with an x). Attacking programs can get useful info other than the password, as I detailed in the post to which you replied.
I don't know why you bothered to post something that merely asserts a nonvulnerability that I'd already "prebutted", but to which you did not reply meaningfully.
No, I get that Bush needs to be impeached (and Clinton didn't). But the people in this country who aren't demanding every day that Bush be impeached need these comparisons to be spelled out. I'm available for that pedantic duty.
Riiiiiight, because there is no difference between getting a blowjob and lying us into endless war in Iraq, spying on us with the NSA, politically purging US Attorneys who don't prosecute opposition candidates enough...
The Attorney General serves at the pleasure of the president. Bush is not pleased with this offered resignation.
So Gonzales must stay in the job. Bush's pleasure is the only principle that our country exists to serve. Gonzales said so himself, even if he can't remember.
It shows how little you know about security. There's more in/etc/passwd than hidden passwords. There's a list of system users, which can indicate specific SW installed on that system. Some of which has specific vulnerabilities. So an attacking app like Skype (or something that exploits Skype) can detect SW to attack without other tests that can trigger an alarm.
Before you go shooting off your mouth with insults about security, make sure you know what you're talking about. Don't piss off people with superior security-fu to whom you've given your website's URL.
Because most American homes don't have BitTorrent, or broadband connections, or the savvy to use BitTorrent.
NASA could seed BitTorrent with a version that includes an "opt-out" from the postal delivery. That might cover a few hundred thousand homes out of the 100M in America. But I expect that lots of BitTorrent enthusiasts would also want to collect the "official release" on physical media, including the book that anyone can look at without using a computer.
But BitTorrent could save a bit of work, trees and plastic. And probably promote the programme to another fan base, while giving news media another story to report on, also promoting it.
Nice sizzle to sell the steak, but hardly trimming enough fat to really matter.
This probably shows how important it is to use AppArmor in any closed-source application in Linux to restrict any undue access to your files.
It shows how important it is to secure your system, whether Linux, Windows, or any other, against trusting any app too much with resources not created by, or explicitly granted to, the trusted app.
It also shows that it's too hard to trust closed source apps on any platform, even when closed source is the default status.
It also shows that AppArmor can protect you from untrustworthy apps, unless it won't run on your platform (like Windows).
It also shows why Linux is more trustworthy than is Windows, especially when Linux is used with open source apps, which are the default, which can be inspected by lots of people for trustworthiness.
That kind of untrustworthiness also shows that Skype cannot be trusted not to spy on all your phone conversations and address books. I know I don't trust it. This latest "secret prying" behavior erodes any trust that's misplaced in giving it access to your personal data, including media (that includes your conversations).
We'd only have to send out 100M discs to send one to each home, not to each individual person. And since we'd send them with the return postage/address, and some fraction of people would send them back, we wouldn't even be sending 100M.
I have in fact been part of a direct marketing (mail) campaign. I helped BBDO in Canada switch from direct mail for Visa cards, at $2.50 per "impression", to Web marketing, by first participating in the postal version. Most of that $2.50 was in the rest of the campaign, not the mailing costs (also not the postage). They paid retail rates for postage, and mailed something on the order of a million letters, across a year. So my actual experience tells me that the large majority of the cost of this project will be postage, which, at government rates (subsidized by bulk mail profits like years of AOL CDs) should be well under a dollar. Especially since we're already investing in most of the production costs with this digitizing project we're discussing in this Slashdot story. So yes, we're talking about a fraction of a percent of NASA's annual budget reinvested in promotion. Which should return at least that fraction in increased budgets (or reduced risk of cuts). If NASA runs this project every couple of years, it's 0.3% of the budget - if every 5 years, it's 0.12%. A very small risk for a very high return.
As for the satellite repair, while 1/3 of the documentary might have been about that NASA activity. But those repairs constituted a very tiny fraction of the space images practically all Americans recalled seeing on TV. These days, nearly every mission is in the context of some kind of failure, even those that are hitchless but through which we hold our breath because of so many spectacular failures. And satellite repair isn't as discouraging as threatening to shut down Hubble, or repair its defective lenses, or the several Shuttle explosions and regular threats of more. Satellites getting repaired was viewed as ingenious, while the record since 1985 has been full of actual tragedy.
Remember, I'm not talking about degraded NASA performance. Especially since too-small budgets forced cheap but promotable missions like the Mars rovers, NASA's bang (on TV) per buck has largely increased, especially compared to our foreign competitors. But until the Challenger exploded six months after that movie was released, Americans viewed NASA as a relentless triumph over adversity (including Apollo 13). Since then. despite the actual stats, the TV version of NASA doesn't look so good.
The programme I propose is a great way to restore NASA's image to the glory its achievements merit.
Yes, I think that distributing the discs to 100M homes will cost <$1 each. AOL sent something like a BILLION CDs. Though they were successful, I don't think they spent over a $BILLION sending them. And they didn't send them to every American in one operation, while production costs were as low as now, nor did they get "wholesale" government postage rates or other economies of the scale this operation would have.
We Americans have already paid to produce this content. There's plenty of it available for corporate exploitation, but none have pulled it off. Why subsidize even further entrepreneurs who can't pull off for profit the presentation of what Americans have already bought for ourselves, except the postage?
Yes, it would be an excellent use of the $16B NASA gets. It would probably cost about $100M or less, under 0.625% of its annual budget. Which would be an investment in getting more budget. If promoting its triumph to Americans can't get a 0.625% return on our investment, then it either needs more invested, or the system is incapable of serving all Americans. Which is a failure of the system, because there's no doubt that Americans would like the programmes more than 0.625% additional with some tangible results in our hands.
One reason why Americans were more optimistic in the mid-1980s was because we were used to seeing inspiring NASA advances displayed in hugely impressive glory on our main media: TV and movies. Since then, TV has largely left us images of NASA failures (even impressive space repairs are tainted by the knowledge that we're fixing a failure, however predictable). While we've moved onto the Internet and DVDs for much of our entertainment.
Recapturing America's imagination requires sticking images into the media that engage our imagination. That was a PR battle to win in the 1960s, when it was TV. If we win it again in more personal, more interactive media, we will again inspire Americans more, and tap that enthusiasm in bigger NASA budgets.
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You're getting back on the right track, since Democrats got an 11.6% nationwide margin last November. If you just don't vote Republican next year, maybe the government you get will operate your schools well enough that you'll learn to read, instead of depend on AM talk radio. It's too late for Miss Teen South Carolina, but most of her classmates have already got a few kids, who might get a chance that their parents generation never did.
Yeah, I went to Cuba, because I'm not a slave living in my mother's basement.
And I didn't say the "embargo" doesn't really exist, just that it's not really an embargo. The selective enforcement of it to keep Cubans screwed, allow Castro to keep his tyrannical reign, and allow some privileged American corporations to make money off the scam is not an "embargo", but a scam.
So there's a snappy answer to your stupid question. BTW, that's _Cracked_ you've been coloring outside the lines, not _Mad_.
Yes, because no one ever keeps secrets for a while in exchange for both getting paid and not getting caught themselves.
When I was in Cuba a few years ago, there were plenty of American corporate offices, all in one heavily guarded (by Cuban military/police) compound in one of the best locations in Havana, right in the center of the city. There were probably other locations, too, and certainly enough business operations to support their offices.
The Cuban "embargo" is nearly entirely a fraud, except the part that keeps individual Cubans cut off from the rest of the world, and (most) individual Americans cut off from Cuba. It's proven to do nothing to force political change there, and to promote political corruption here in the US (and in Cuba, and elsewhere in cooperation). It's one of the greatest political crimes in American history. And it's going on right now, and will continue tomorrow. Along with the propaganda that it is really an embargo.
I remember when Java was still in its first beta that Mitsubishi (among others, mostly Japanese) announced a Java CPU that executed bytecode in HW, not a SW JVM. It integrated a DSP, evidently targeted at consumer multimedia apps. Maybe a "set-top box" which was the main vision for "converged" PC/TV/network devices back then, around 1995.
What ever happened to Java CPU/DSPs? By now, if they'd worked out, I'd expect most consumer devices to include them, but I don't know about any. Maybe they required development of a "Java OS", which also never went "mass market". Where are they now?
Those low-broadband areas are the same ones that vote reliably Republican.
It's yet another demonstration that the less informed, the less connected to other people outside your clannish town, the less modern you are, the more likely you are to vote for Republicans, or to not vote while your neighbors choose Republicans to "represent" you.
This story is (anonymously) tagged "conspiracytheory". I'd like to see the coincidence theorist explain how this happened without Microsoft's trademark coordinating manipulations.
PRISM claims that free publication of science reports on the Web will undermine peer review.
For the moment, which you are offering as the basis of comparison, all the petrofuel that wouldn't be used in electric generation plants would be available for transport.
Over the longer run, solar is best harnessed by biomass which can produce biodiesel and (less efficiently) either m/ethanol or gasoline. Over the longest run, switching to more immediate biodiesel products. Meanwhile, solar can drive other chemical processes that force carbon atoms together into high energy bonds to be internally combusted, if we insist on keeping that anachronistic fetish.
If that's supposed to be a sarcastic joke, it should be funny, not just wrong.
Do solar cells increase global warming more than their actual typical alternative, Greenhouse gas emitting petrofuels located elsewhere, plus asphalt roofs heating up in the sunlight?
Besides, much of the solar energy that would have become heat if just warming the air does not become heat, because it is stored in chemical bonds and gravity-resisting structures, except over a time so long that we're going to be past petrofuels entirely.
I think you're completely wrong about every factor. Except maybe the CO2 released and (mostly petrofuel, currently) energy consumed in manufacturing solar cells. Though the energy budget for producing all that petrofuel, all the extra energy it releases (just from combustion) into the environment, all the energy to clean up its mess.
If you can give me some numbers to dispute the evident superiority of solar panels instead of petrofuels and heated up asphalt, let's see them. Otherwise, stop guessing based solely on your gut prejudice against solar energy, wherever it comes from.
I wonder how much sunlight would have to be absorbed by power cells instead of all being converted to heat by the usual materials that currently absorb it, before it makes any dent in the increase in global warming.
I like the advantage (over petrofuels) that its fuel is free, without forcing the US to kowtow to foreign tyrants who sometimes try to kill us, and sometimes need to get rescued from people trying to kill them, and nearly always are at the center of global warfare.
The data of value in /etc/passwd is not the passwords, which are hidden, as I said (omitted and replaced with an x). Attacking programs can get useful info other than the password, as I detailed in the post to which you replied.
I don't know why you bothered to post something that merely asserts a nonvulnerability that I'd already "prebutted", but to which you did not reply meaningfully.
How about those MemorySticks that have no competition for filling the slots in Sony equipment (including PCs) that requires them?
No, I get that Bush needs to be impeached (and Clinton didn't). But the people in this country who aren't demanding every day that Bush be impeached need these comparisons to be spelled out. I'm available for that pedantic duty.
Riiiiiight, because there is no difference between getting a blowjob and lying us into endless war in Iraq, spying on us with the NSA, politically purging US Attorneys who don't prosecute opposition candidates enough...
The Attorney General serves at the pleasure of the president. Bush is not pleased with this offered resignation.
So Gonzales must stay in the job. Bush's pleasure is the only principle that our country exists to serve. Gonzales said so himself, even if he can't remember.
I said /etc/passwd passwords are hidden - by being omitted. You repeated what I said as if you're disagreeing.
The rest of your post is just as worthless. You're not worth teaching how to read, much less how computer security actually works.
Goodbye, crunchy.
It shows how little you know about security. There's more in /etc/passwd than hidden passwords. There's a list of system users, which can indicate specific SW installed on that system. Some of which has specific vulnerabilities. So an attacking app like Skype (or something that exploits Skype) can detect SW to attack without other tests that can trigger an alarm.
Before you go shooting off your mouth with insults about security, make sure you know what you're talking about. Don't piss off people with superior security-fu to whom you've given your website's URL.
Because most American homes don't have BitTorrent, or broadband connections, or the savvy to use BitTorrent.
NASA could seed BitTorrent with a version that includes an "opt-out" from the postal delivery. That might cover a few hundred thousand homes out of the 100M in America. But I expect that lots of BitTorrent enthusiasts would also want to collect the "official release" on physical media, including the book that anyone can look at without using a computer.
But BitTorrent could save a bit of work, trees and plastic. And probably promote the programme to another fan base, while giving news media another story to report on, also promoting it.
Nice sizzle to sell the steak, but hardly trimming enough fat to really matter.
It shows how important it is to secure your system, whether Linux, Windows, or any other, against trusting any app too much with resources not created by, or explicitly granted to, the trusted app.
It also shows that it's too hard to trust closed source apps on any platform, even when closed source is the default status.
It also shows that AppArmor can protect you from untrustworthy apps, unless it won't run on your platform (like Windows).
It also shows why Linux is more trustworthy than is Windows, especially when Linux is used with open source apps, which are the default, which can be inspected by lots of people for trustworthiness.
That kind of untrustworthiness also shows that Skype cannot be trusted not to spy on all your phone conversations and address books. I know I don't trust it. This latest "secret prying" behavior erodes any trust that's misplaced in giving it access to your personal data, including media (that includes your conversations).
We'd only have to send out 100M discs to send one to each home, not to each individual person. And since we'd send them with the return postage/address, and some fraction of people would send them back, we wouldn't even be sending 100M.
I have in fact been part of a direct marketing (mail) campaign. I helped BBDO in Canada switch from direct mail for Visa cards, at $2.50 per "impression", to Web marketing, by first participating in the postal version. Most of that $2.50 was in the rest of the campaign, not the mailing costs (also not the postage). They paid retail rates for postage, and mailed something on the order of a million letters, across a year. So my actual experience tells me that the large majority of the cost of this project will be postage, which, at government rates (subsidized by bulk mail profits like years of AOL CDs) should be well under a dollar. Especially since we're already investing in most of the production costs with this digitizing project we're discussing in this Slashdot story. So yes, we're talking about a fraction of a percent of NASA's annual budget reinvested in promotion. Which should return at least that fraction in increased budgets (or reduced risk of cuts). If NASA runs this project every couple of years, it's 0.3% of the budget - if every 5 years, it's 0.12%. A very small risk for a very high return.
As for the satellite repair, while 1/3 of the documentary might have been about that NASA activity. But those repairs constituted a very tiny fraction of the space images practically all Americans recalled seeing on TV. These days, nearly every mission is in the context of some kind of failure, even those that are hitchless but through which we hold our breath because of so many spectacular failures. And satellite repair isn't as discouraging as threatening to shut down Hubble, or repair its defective lenses, or the several Shuttle explosions and regular threats of more. Satellites getting repaired was viewed as ingenious, while the record since 1985 has been full of actual tragedy.
Remember, I'm not talking about degraded NASA performance. Especially since too-small budgets forced cheap but promotable missions like the Mars rovers, NASA's bang (on TV) per buck has largely increased, especially compared to our foreign competitors. But until the Challenger exploded six months after that movie was released, Americans viewed NASA as a relentless triumph over adversity (including Apollo 13). Since then. despite the actual stats, the TV version of NASA doesn't look so good.
The programme I propose is a great way to restore NASA's image to the glory its achievements merit.
Yes, I think that distributing the discs to 100M homes will cost <$1 each. AOL sent something like a BILLION CDs. Though they were successful, I don't think they spent over a $BILLION sending them. And they didn't send them to every American in one operation, while production costs were as low as now, nor did they get "wholesale" government postage rates or other economies of the scale this operation would have.
We Americans have already paid to produce this content. There's plenty of it available for corporate exploitation, but none have pulled it off. Why subsidize even further entrepreneurs who can't pull off for profit the presentation of what Americans have already bought for ourselves, except the postage?
Yes, it would be an excellent use of the $16B NASA gets. It would probably cost about $100M or less, under 0.625% of its annual budget. Which would be an investment in getting more budget. If promoting its triumph to Americans can't get a 0.625% return on our investment, then it either needs more invested, or the system is incapable of serving all Americans. Which is a failure of the system, because there's no doubt that Americans would like the programmes more than 0.625% additional with some tangible results in our hands.
One reason why Americans were more optimistic in the mid-1980s was because we were used to seeing inspiring NASA advances displayed in hugely impressive glory on our main media: TV and movies. Since then, TV has largely left us images of NASA failures (even impressive space repairs are tainted by the knowledge that we're fixing a failure, however predictable). While we've moved onto the Internet and DVDs for much of our entertainment.
Recapturing America's imagination requires sticking images into the media that engage our imagination. That was a PR battle to win in the 1960s, when it was TV. If we win it again in more personal, more interactive media, we will again inspire Americans more, and tap that enthusiasm in bigger NASA budgets.