>If you want it, you've got it. >$ sudo apt-get install synaptic
No. The reality and the point is that each new generation won't know about it, but will use the new shiny default "tool." Synaptic use will thus go down.
Equally, good software enforces best practices. While the dream of an Ubuntu Desktop is one thing, lowering the complexity of the software installation process lowers the intelligence bar for using *nix, which in the end, lowers the chance that the users will ever get as far as #, much less #sudo apt-get.
2nd paragraph people: major infrastructural components are the most vulnerable, yes they can be protected, and currently, not enough are. A 100-kiloton explosion 20 miles over, say, Paducah Kentucky would likely devastate the US.
Page 18 of the report you link is where you should be reading.
Since ground zero is in space, the kind of localized EMP it takes to fry micro-electronics is missing (right)? Controller systems and etc are vulnerable because of their interconnects-- essentially, any wiring acts as a conductive antenna.
This is why I started with the joke "doesn't anyone read the Congressional reports...?"
Lessee.... http://www.empcommission.org/docs/empc_exec_rpt.pdf ? The first two paragraphs, especially the second beginning with "a single nuclear weapon exploded at high altitude above the United States..." should do.
I think you're assuming a different scenario than I.
I'm assuming EMP will travel and accelerate over major lines (power etc) and have little effect to non-grid connected devices. This seems consistent with scenarios I've seem.
You seem to be assuming localized EMP, ie, near the device (local nuke or EMP "bomb").
EMP bombs? What are you talking about? Doesn't anyone read the Congressional Reports on these things?
A single 10kiloton bomb detonating at 10miles or so above the NorthEast seaboard or so will generate sufficient pulse to take out most electrical infrastructure from Maine to Florida to Chicago or so.
Four or five weeks later, after the die-out of the cities is over, people with enough intelligence to read the books to learn to produce their own food (currently, less than half of the US population) will likely have a distinct advantage.
My nearest eReader is five feet away from any connected power cord, which is the primary means of propagation for EMP, right?
At 64GB, that's... at least 40K books in graphical format, more if it were text or other highly compressible format, or such?
Whereas, the nearest university library (exactly 2.5 blocks away) is just chuck-full of stuff that's going to go boom during an EMP event in the US, and then catch fire... I'm betting on my eReader.
It's pretty loose. I've not boarded flights after check-in quite a number of times-- from overbooked flights to having to email a document and missing boarding. My baggage has never been pulled in any of these circumstances. I frequently standby later or later in the day and see my baggage fly on the original flight. YMMV; I've flow 500K on two airlines, but don't think that anything but elite status really matters. US airports remain pathetically insecure -- if you can afford a full first fare, you can make it past security at almost any US airport at any time you want. Just get some skin whitening formula and a fake ID that says your name is "Mitt Romeny":)
My mom is 90 and an elite flyer on an airline she has taken nearly monthly for over a decade. If we book less than 24 hours in advance, she still gets flagged for special screening by TSA. The only thing that helps a little is that if it's full fare, as a disabled senior the carrier has to hold the flight for 15 minutes... You can imagine the pissing contests between the airline personnel and the TSA.
I don't know. Every time I see the fly at the bottom of a urinal, I aim at the floor. The planners have still manipulated me, I guess-- but I leave them with a bigger mess to clean up.
Is going to be launched into space? Or is it going to be Akhmajenadad? Salaam ayatollaka! Inquiring minds want... Well, in Iran, knowledge shoots inquiring...
Perry's is not only assaulting its patrons-- illegally-- it's declaring it in advance. I think we're up to felony assault there, with the premeditation and the threatening.
They're free to open a private club if that's what they want, and have any stupid rules they want. So long as they're a public business, they have to play by the rules everyone else does.
As far as you, I'm done. Please find a lake and help the gene pool.
And I'm free to tell them that a business operating publicly must serve all comers.
Practically, I get Perry's point and like the general idea (I haven't used cell phones for several years).
Looking over the press, Perry himself evidently confronted people personally. That seems fine, all else aside.
Turning on a "fire alarm" system (and claiming that it is "automatic based on the signal," etc., is quite another thing. Some obnoxious trader distrurbing other patrons is one thing; people in line on their phones, holding up the line, is similar; some poor bloke whose only available time to call is pregnant wife, for example, is on his lunch break, would be quite another case.
Perry's (as reported) simply goes too far. Plenty of businesses put up warning signs that you cannot use your phone when ordering (etc)-- human solution. Turning on the fire alarm *every time*, even if the person is being considerate, without any concern for the situation, is not a "human solution."
They're offering public accommodation. If they don't want to take all comers (under reasonable boundaries), I suggest they open a private club, not a public business.
The actual article/report doesn't seem to blame the internet much, it just says "in a broadband age." Otherwise, it seems to support the opinion of most people here-- local news vacuums, more or less.
Why? Lots of reasons. Not much of an independent revenue module-- local news organizations tend to lack tech skills. Local channels are the low end of the heap, meaning my local channel makes racist and other gaffes (recent: they broadcast that they don't have soap in a mid-east country) that alientate anyone but the lowest common denominator of "viewers." Lack of actual journalistic standards and willingness to follow them-- trying for the momentary splash, not to deliver excellence.
Of course, Internet "news" and culture... how much better?
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>If you want it, you've got it.
>$ sudo apt-get install synaptic
No. The reality and the point is that each new generation won't know about it, but will use the new shiny default "tool." Synaptic use will thus go down.
Equally, good software enforces best practices. While the dream of an Ubuntu Desktop is one thing, lowering the complexity of the software installation process lowers the intelligence bar for using *nix, which in the end, lowers the chance that the users will ever get as far as #, much less #sudo apt-get.
Everyone seems to be linking to the same report.
2nd paragraph people: major infrastructural components are the most vulnerable, yes they can be protected, and currently, not enough are. A 100-kiloton explosion 20 miles over, say, Paducah Kentucky would likely devastate the US.
It probably would leave my Kindle alone, though :)
*EMP from high-altitude detonation.
Page 18 of the report you link is where you should be reading.
Since ground zero is in space, the kind of localized EMP it takes to fry micro-electronics is missing (right)? Controller systems and etc are vulnerable because of their interconnects-- essentially, any wiring acts as a conductive antenna.
This is why I started with the joke "doesn't anyone read the Congressional reports...?"
Lessee.... http://www.empcommission.org/docs/empc_exec_rpt.pdf ? The first two paragraphs, especially the second beginning with "a single nuclear weapon exploded at high altitude above the United States..." should do.
>Every prediction that I have seen in my lifetime that stretched beyond that has been mostly nonsense.
How exactly do you intend to prove that?
(The problem here is the reporter, not Brewster, btw).
I think you're assuming a different scenario than I.
I'm assuming EMP will travel and accelerate over major lines (power etc) and have little effect to non-grid connected devices. This seems consistent with scenarios I've seem.
You seem to be assuming localized EMP, ie, near the device (local nuke or EMP "bomb").
Make sense?
... and like the one that said microprocessor capacity would double every 1.5 years or so?
Who said that? He must have been a real loser! Tech morons and their predictions!
EMP bombs? What are you talking about? Doesn't anyone read the Congressional Reports on these things?
A single 10kiloton bomb detonating at 10miles or so above the NorthEast seaboard or so will generate sufficient pulse to take out most electrical infrastructure from Maine to Florida to Chicago or so.
Four or five weeks later, after the die-out of the cities is over, people with enough intelligence to read the books to learn to produce their own food (currently, less than half of the US population) will likely have a distinct advantage.
/me looks at eReader.
My nearest eReader is five feet away from any connected power cord, which is the primary means of propagation for EMP, right?
At 64GB, that's... at least 40K books in graphical format, more if it were text or other highly compressible format, or such?
Whereas, the nearest university library (exactly 2.5 blocks away) is just chuck-full of stuff that's going to go boom during an EMP event in the US, and then catch fire... I'm betting on my eReader.
Repeat after me: there must be a free (as in speech) books movement. There must be a free (as in speech) books movement...
It's pretty loose. I've not boarded flights after check-in quite a number of times-- from overbooked flights to having to email a document and missing boarding. My baggage has never been pulled in any of these circumstances. I frequently standby later or later in the day and see my baggage fly on the original flight. YMMV; I've flow 500K on two airlines, but don't think that anything but elite status really matters. US airports remain pathetically insecure -- if you can afford a full first fare, you can make it past security at almost any US airport at any time you want. Just get some skin whitening formula and a fake ID that says your name is "Mitt Romeny" :)
I wish.
My mom is 90 and an elite flyer on an airline she has taken nearly monthly for over a decade. If we book less than 24 hours in advance, she still gets flagged for special screening by TSA. The only thing that helps a little is that if it's full fare, as a disabled senior the carrier has to hold the flight for 15 minutes ... You can imagine the pissing contests between the airline personnel and the TSA.
Mr Quaker:
I have just directed your baggage to Mars Colony, to arrive on the April 1 3929 shuttle.
-- SKYNET
Nudging technology means hands wash you.
I don't know. Every time I see the fly at the bottom of a urinal, I aim at the floor. The planners have still manipulated me, I guess-- but I leave them with a bigger mess to clean up.
Is going to be launched into space? Or is it going to be Akhmajenadad? Salaam ayatollaka! Inquiring minds want... Well, in Iran, knowledge shoots inquiring...
Do you have a point?
Perry's is not only assaulting its patrons-- illegally-- it's declaring it in advance. I think we're up to felony assault there, with the premeditation and the threatening.
They're free to open a private club if that's what they want, and have any stupid rules they want. So long as they're a public business, they have to play by the rules everyone else does.
As far as you, I'm done. Please find a lake and help the gene pool.
Perry's: where the customer is always right, as long as the customer agrees with the hardhats who own the place!
(Have they found a way to keep niggers and kikes out as well? It is Chicago after all!)
And I'm free to tell them that a business operating publicly must serve all comers.
Practically, I get Perry's point and like the general idea (I haven't used cell phones for several years).
Looking over the press, Perry himself evidently confronted people personally. That seems fine, all else aside.
Turning on a "fire alarm" system (and claiming that it is "automatic based on the signal," etc., is quite another thing. Some obnoxious trader distrurbing other patrons is one thing; people in line on their phones, holding up the line, is similar; some poor bloke whose only available time to call is pregnant wife, for example, is on his lunch break, would be quite another case.
Perry's (as reported) simply goes too far. Plenty of businesses put up warning signs that you cannot use your phone when ordering (etc)-- human solution. Turning on the fire alarm *every time*, even if the person is being considerate, without any concern for the situation, is not a "human solution."
I know there's little point to arguing with the morons on /.(*), but... consider the following...
I press the button on a 135db air horn 2" away from your ear.
Does this example get you anywhere?
(*) There was a time, now in the distant past, when one came here because the norm was above average...
Ooh, you're a brilliant one. Care to try that again? Do a little googling first?
Actually, I'm also free to go there and give them crap. See how a free society works? I'll put it on my list.
Wrong, as usual.
They're offering public accommodation. If they don't want to take all comers (under reasonable boundaries), I suggest they open a private club, not a public business.
The actual article/report doesn't seem to blame the internet much, it just says "in a broadband age." Otherwise, it seems to support the opinion of most people here-- local news vacuums, more or less.
Why? Lots of reasons. Not much of an independent revenue module-- local news organizations tend to lack tech skills. Local channels are the low end of the heap, meaning my local channel makes racist and other gaffes (recent: they broadcast that they don't have soap in a mid-east country) that alientate anyone but the lowest common denominator of "viewers." Lack of actual journalistic standards and willingness to follow them-- trying for the momentary splash, not to deliver excellence.
Of course, Internet "news" and culture... how much better?
You are aware that ANYONE with your checking account number has the same access though the US's ACH system? Hmm?