Sure. Black Boxes. Right, the ones in airplanes. No airliner in the world messes around with them, nor did they back before planes were in pretty much constant contact with every plane at all times. Screw around with the black boxes and the plane pretty quickly won't be allowed in most countries' airspace. If the regulations are similar for cars (they won't be) then opening a black box will only be possible after an accident.
So you're either from Vancouver, which gets no snow, or a major city where everyone lived in walking distance. I lived in SW Ontario growing up and we had generally 4-5 snow/ice days every year. Plus a couple fog days. Most of those were just that the buses didn't run, but for my high school that was 99% of the students that couldn't make it. Probably about once a year there was something that totally closed the school. They don't ask teachers to come in when there's an inch of ice on the roads and the police are screaming at everyone to not drive until the plows get some sand and salt down.
Interestingly the good ol' USA does practice taxation without representation. I'm a US citizen. I've never lived there, but citizenship transfers one generation (2 now, but the second costs $$$). There are a few states where children of residents can vote, but not many. My parents are from Ohio, which does not allow me to vote there since I've never lived there. The IRS will happily take its share of my income, however, should I ever rise to the point where my Canada tax credits don't cover my US tax level (The US being about the only country in the world that taxes citizens regardless of where they live). The magic number right now is around 90k. So if I make over 90k I will pay US taxes with no ability to vote for representation in the states. Wonderful system.
I suggest you read about trusting trust. To be certain there isn't anything embedded in an open source program you need to read not only the program's source code, but also the source for the compiler that built it and every version of the compiler that built that compiler. You're probably going to be much better off just going through the disassembled machine code for the program, but in that case it no longer makes a difference if the code is open source or not.
Grants don't cover the student equipment, or the people to maintain it. In a small school the students may leach off of the faculty, but if you have a couple thousand students that need equipment good luck getting by on grants alone.
Liberal arts aren't money sinks nearly as much as CS is in the very near term, and engineering is worse. It has to do with the equipment required to run the program and the amount that the profs expect to be paid.
Kind of feels like that a scene in The Simpsons where Burns and Smithers walk through several layers of heavy security with lots of big heavy doors, only to end up in a little shed with an open door and a broken window. As long as I can click on a link and give an app the ability to write on my wall as me, with no explicit permissions to do so, I don't think extra password security is all that meaningful.
Thing is, a lot of meat will respond poorly to this sort of unexpected event. With software they can fix it, push it out to everyone, and suddenly every car is driving better. This is why commercial aviation is so safe, every time there's a problem it gets fixed and tested in every single future model. Imagine if we could get to the point where riding in a car was as safe as riding in a plane!
Except all you actually know is that you haven't smashed anything in a manner they thought to test for. In my experience while unit tests do decrease obvious bugs, they also decrease real testing after developing a feature where the developer runs the feature a few times to verify it actually works.
Who cares what the interest rate on a credit card is? Why would you ever pay it? Anyone who gives a cent of interest to a credit card company doesn't know what they're doing with money.
University of Waterloo does this as well. Except the courses you need for the expensive majors (engineering, CS, accounting) are only open to people in those majors. So you could go into general math, take all the math and electives, and then switch to CS, but you would find that it will take you longer to get the degree as you have to follow the pre-req paths. It's a system that is slimy, annoying, and should be gotten rid of, but then the guy running the place might have a few less pennies for himself at the end of the year.
Funny then that Columbus never made it to his destination. Turns out the Church was right, he was wrong, and if there hadn't been a continent in the way his ship would have run out of supplies well before they made it to Asia. Exploration for it's own sake is more than enough reason to explore the local orbiting hunks of rock.
Most of those wouldn't be supersonic for large portions of their journey though. The Concorde only really ran trans-Atlantic flights for a reason, most countries won't allow anyone but their own military to break the speed of sound in their airspace. Over the ocean no one cares, but over land planes are loud enough, you don't need to allow sonic booms over populated areas.
A 1TB drive will hold a whole 33 bluerays. And I need 2 at least, in case 1 dies. And I need surge protection and a computer/NAS to put them on. And I'm still screwed if there's a fire or flood, so I guess I need off-site storage as well. The provider can kill them on me, but I'll bet I can sue the provider for not providing access to something I've paid for. All in all, I'll take the cloud storage any day, as soon as they find a way to stream to me in HD smoothly, and the providers lean on the ISPs a bit to get rid of the low caps.
Funny you mention Star Trek. The physics they use to go FTL don't break relativity. They may not work by modern physics, but the general idea was that by manipulating gravity you can curve space around the ship to cause you to change position in space faster than light without actually having to move faster than light. From my understanding, at the time it wasn't impossible given the limitations of our understanding of gravity.
Sure it is. Science is based on the faith and trust that the physical world makes sense. It is based on faith that the physical laws that we believe to be consistent actually are. Just because something has worked for the past few billion years doesn't mean it won't change tomorrow. It's certainly strong evidence that it won't, but philosophers have been trying to get a base for science from which you can start to really prove things for thousands of years, and all of their arguments are pretty weak. Descartes only really managed to prove that he himself must exist in some way, and had to invoke God to go from there to a base of knowledge. String theory has no tests that can actually be run in the real world (other than one that failed), and people still call it science for some reason. Even advanced maths are based on laws that we create to make consistent systems, at the very root there is something that can't be proven, it must simply be believed.
Not disagreeing with your post - but how many of your companies VPs and CxOs have MBAs? I work for a 20k person tech company and all but one of the senior management positions are held by people with MBAs. It isn't enough to get the position, but it is required.
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Sure. Black Boxes. Right, the ones in airplanes. No airliner in the world messes around with them, nor did they back before planes were in pretty much constant contact with every plane at all times. Screw around with the black boxes and the plane pretty quickly won't be allowed in most countries' airspace. If the regulations are similar for cars (they won't be) then opening a black box will only be possible after an accident.
So you're either from Vancouver, which gets no snow, or a major city where everyone lived in walking distance. I lived in SW Ontario growing up and we had generally 4-5 snow/ice days every year. Plus a couple fog days. Most of those were just that the buses didn't run, but for my high school that was 99% of the students that couldn't make it. Probably about once a year there was something that totally closed the school. They don't ask teachers to come in when there's an inch of ice on the roads and the police are screaming at everyone to not drive until the plows get some sand and salt down.
Interestingly the good ol' USA does practice taxation without representation. I'm a US citizen. I've never lived there, but citizenship transfers one generation (2 now, but the second costs $$$). There are a few states where children of residents can vote, but not many. My parents are from Ohio, which does not allow me to vote there since I've never lived there. The IRS will happily take its share of my income, however, should I ever rise to the point where my Canada tax credits don't cover my US tax level (The US being about the only country in the world that taxes citizens regardless of where they live). The magic number right now is around 90k. So if I make over 90k I will pay US taxes with no ability to vote for representation in the states. Wonderful system.
I suggest you read about trusting trust. To be certain there isn't anything embedded in an open source program you need to read not only the program's source code, but also the source for the compiler that built it and every version of the compiler that built that compiler. You're probably going to be much better off just going through the disassembled machine code for the program, but in that case it no longer makes a difference if the code is open source or not.
It created another post, therefor it can't be a bug right?
Why do you care? You're dead...
Grants don't cover the student equipment, or the people to maintain it. In a small school the students may leach off of the faculty, but if you have a couple thousand students that need equipment good luck getting by on grants alone.
Liberal arts aren't money sinks nearly as much as CS is in the very near term, and engineering is worse. It has to do with the equipment required to run the program and the amount that the profs expect to be paid.
Clicking a random link while logged into facebook is not permission to post something on my wall as me. Well, right now it is, but it shouldn't be.
Kind of feels like that a scene in The Simpsons where Burns and Smithers walk through several layers of heavy security with lots of big heavy doors, only to end up in a little shed with an open door and a broken window. As long as I can click on a link and give an app the ability to write on my wall as me, with no explicit permissions to do so, I don't think extra password security is all that meaningful.
Thing is, a lot of meat will respond poorly to this sort of unexpected event. With software they can fix it, push it out to everyone, and suddenly every car is driving better. This is why commercial aviation is so safe, every time there's a problem it gets fixed and tested in every single future model. Imagine if we could get to the point where riding in a car was as safe as riding in a plane!
Except all you actually know is that you haven't smashed anything in a manner they thought to test for. In my experience while unit tests do decrease obvious bugs, they also decrease real testing after developing a feature where the developer runs the feature a few times to verify it actually works.
Who cares what the interest rate on a credit card is? Why would you ever pay it? Anyone who gives a cent of interest to a credit card company doesn't know what they're doing with money.
try this:
Log into any linux box
open a console session
type 'man sed'
Then tell me you don't need an advanced degree to read a manual.
University of Waterloo does this as well. Except the courses you need for the expensive majors (engineering, CS, accounting) are only open to people in those majors. So you could go into general math, take all the math and electives, and then switch to CS, but you would find that it will take you longer to get the degree as you have to follow the pre-req paths. It's a system that is slimy, annoying, and should be gotten rid of, but then the guy running the place might have a few less pennies for himself at the end of the year.
And the reason you can't do the same with cloud storage is....
Funny then that Columbus never made it to his destination. Turns out the Church was right, he was wrong, and if there hadn't been a continent in the way his ship would have run out of supplies well before they made it to Asia. Exploration for it's own sake is more than enough reason to explore the local orbiting hunks of rock.
Most of those wouldn't be supersonic for large portions of their journey though. The Concorde only really ran trans-Atlantic flights for a reason, most countries won't allow anyone but their own military to break the speed of sound in their airspace. Over the ocean no one cares, but over land planes are loud enough, you don't need to allow sonic booms over populated areas.
Over 10% is hardly a drop in the bucket.
A 1TB drive will hold a whole 33 bluerays. And I need 2 at least, in case 1 dies. And I need surge protection and a computer/NAS to put them on. And I'm still screwed if there's a fire or flood, so I guess I need off-site storage as well. The provider can kill them on me, but I'll bet I can sue the provider for not providing access to something I've paid for. All in all, I'll take the cloud storage any day, as soon as they find a way to stream to me in HD smoothly, and the providers lean on the ISPs a bit to get rid of the low caps.
Funny you mention Star Trek. The physics they use to go FTL don't break relativity. They may not work by modern physics, but the general idea was that by manipulating gravity you can curve space around the ship to cause you to change position in space faster than light without actually having to move faster than light. From my understanding, at the time it wasn't impossible given the limitations of our understanding of gravity.
If you're that worried you shouldn't use unencrypted email. It all goes through your ISP, and they can save whatever they want.
Sure it is. Science is based on the faith and trust that the physical world makes sense. It is based on faith that the physical laws that we believe to be consistent actually are. Just because something has worked for the past few billion years doesn't mean it won't change tomorrow. It's certainly strong evidence that it won't, but philosophers have been trying to get a base for science from which you can start to really prove things for thousands of years, and all of their arguments are pretty weak. Descartes only really managed to prove that he himself must exist in some way, and had to invoke God to go from there to a base of knowledge. String theory has no tests that can actually be run in the real world (other than one that failed), and people still call it science for some reason. Even advanced maths are based on laws that we create to make consistent systems, at the very root there is something that can't be proven, it must simply be believed.
So string theory is solidly under faith then?
Not disagreeing with your post - but how many of your companies VPs and CxOs have MBAs? I work for a 20k person tech company and all but one of the senior management positions are held by people with MBAs. It isn't enough to get the position, but it is required.