Correct. Hashing the account number in the URL wouldn't help much. While it means you can't grab a specific account by knowing its number, you can still grab random accounts by trying random hashes.
Why don't they use chains or something to hold those bad boys down in choppy waters?
They do. Chains break, particularly when they're trying to tie down this much weight. We're talking tens of of thousands of tons, here.
Or, I don't know, built steel railings along the perimeters?
They do that, too. Once again, they break, particularly with this amount of weight (see above). Also, you can't as a practical matter erect railings high enough to hold in containers as high as they stack them.
Yes, there is a dearth of local reporters of quality -- but hasn't that always been the case?
To an extent; after all, there's always a dearth of almost anything of quality, especially on a local scale. But it's far, far worse now than it used to be. In my hometown of Washington DC, there used to be five daily newspapers. Now there's really only one (neither the Times nor the Examiner can be taken seriously). Thing is, as several other posters have noted, the decline started well before the Internet started doing news reporting. In fact, well before there was an Internet. The decline started back in the 1950s, or even earlier.
This. Oh, so much, this. There's the people who say, "We need this. X should do it," and there's the people who say, "We need this. I'm going to see how I can do it (and maybe make a profit at it)"
"*May* provide". "Is *encouraged*". In other words, they don't hafta. And they ain't gonna.
You can argue (and argue successfully, IMHO), that they haven't used electronic formats to the greatest extent feasible. But they're not obligated to do so. They're only "encouraged".
But they have disclosed. I'll bet money that their disclosure obeys Alaska's public records laws. We're just lucky that they forgot the "Beware of the Leopard" sign.
Encryption addresses the specific issue being brought up here.
Encryption addresses *part* of the specific issue being brought up here. Encryption secures privacy and integrity. It does nothing for the third leg of security: availability.
Yes, the fertility rate in poor countries is well above replacement, but it has fallen considerably, and the fall in fertility in rich countries now almost completely counterbalances it; most first world countries are now reproducing below the replacement rate. And, most importantly, as the poor countries get richer (and they are getting steadily richer), their fertility rates start falling just as they have in the countries that are already rich, a process that has already started.
The land used in corporate farming is now an inert substrate which is being used to grow crops hydroponically using fertilizers and pesticides derived from oil.
So then, if there's no value left in Midwest soil, why does it continue to be intensively farmed when labor and land would be so much cheaper elsewhere?
The problem with your idea is that "Green Revolution" agriculture is harmful to the soil. Because it involves machinery and pesticides it creates dead soil on top of hardpan. The land will no longer produce vegetables after years of monocropping.
Indeed. One only has to look at the devastation of the American Midwest, unable to produce any crops after decades of mechanized farming...
Wait, no. The Midwest produces more crops today then it ever did. Something's wrong here...
they're all fighting over the same simple question: who, specifically, should live on this little patch of ground?
And this is different the past, um, *how*, exactly?
And you're right, those wars will get bigger and nastier as time goes on.
Except that they're getting smaller and less frequent. One report estimates that total violent conflict around world (both between states and within states) has dropped by over 50% from 1991 to 2008.
The fact is that there are not infinite resources.
Which makes it pretty lucky for us that there are not now, nor will there be in the future, infinite people. It's levelling off now; the overall birth rate of the earth is only slightly above replacement rate now and is projected to continue falling. The general consensus is that we're going to plateau at 9 billion people.
Well, you see, that's your problem. You know how to do things, so they have you do things. People who know how to get *other* people to do things for them--that's management material!
Only in that she was sunk by her own side. In the end, just about all the U-boats were sunk in action, and most went down with all hands. Over the entire course of the war, the U-boat service suffered a 75-80% casualty rate (and I can think of few nastier deaths than being trapped in a sinking submarine)--and yet, they were a all-volunteer outfit and never had a shortage of recruits.
Except that there was. The U-235 was a Type VIIC, commissioned 19 Dec 1942. She never saw combat service and was used as a training boat. Sunk by a US bombing raid on 14 May, 1943, she was successfully raised and put back into service. She was finally sunk for good when a German torpedo boat attacked her by mistake on 14 April, 1945. She went down with all 47 hands.
And this is where you lose the thread. From the point of mathematic proof, "as many odd integers as possible" has *nothing* to do with "all odd integers" unless you stumble upon one that proves it false. Finding any finite number of odd integers for which it is true accomplishes nothing towards proving it true for all odd integers.
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Argh. *doesn't* mean much.
But since they couldn't do it, the original plan does mean much, now does it?
...who?
But you already eat your own reprocessed shit. What do you think agriculture is?
Correct. Hashing the account number in the URL wouldn't help much. While it means you can't grab a specific account by knowing its number, you can still grab random accounts by trying random hashes.
They do. Chains break, particularly when they're trying to tie down this much weight. We're talking tens of of thousands of tons, here.
They do that, too. Once again, they break, particularly with this amount of weight (see above). Also, you can't as a practical matter erect railings high enough to hold in containers as high as they stack them.
Get off of iCloud!
To an extent; after all, there's always a dearth of almost anything of quality, especially on a local scale. But it's far, far worse now than it used to be. In my hometown of Washington DC, there used to be five daily newspapers. Now there's really only one (neither the Times nor the Examiner can be taken seriously). Thing is, as several other posters have noted, the decline started well before the Internet started doing news reporting. In fact, well before there was an Internet. The decline started back in the 1950s, or even earlier.
This. Oh, so much, this. There's the people who say, "We need this. X should do it," and there's the people who say, "We need this. I'm going to see how I can do it (and maybe make a profit at it)"
"*May* provide". "Is *encouraged*". In other words, they don't hafta. And they ain't gonna.
You can argue (and argue successfully, IMHO), that they haven't used electronic formats to the greatest extent feasible. But they're not obligated to do so. They're only "encouraged".
But they have disclosed. I'll bet money that their disclosure obeys Alaska's public records laws. We're just lucky that they forgot the "Beware of the Leopard" sign.
Because the average AAA game development budget is now eight figures. Next question?
Encryption addresses *part* of the specific issue being brought up here. Encryption secures privacy and integrity. It does nothing for the third leg of security: availability.
Then you need to stop reading alarmist crud and start reading facts:
Here, have a wikipedia article: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Total_fertility_rate
And here, have a UN report to go with it: http://www.un.org/esa/population/publications/longrange2/WorldPop2300final.pdf
Yes, the fertility rate in poor countries is well above replacement, but it has fallen considerably, and the fall in fertility in rich countries now almost completely counterbalances it; most first world countries are now reproducing below the replacement rate. And, most importantly, as the poor countries get richer (and they are getting steadily richer), their fertility rates start falling just as they have in the countries that are already rich, a process that has already started.
It's a space station probe?
So then, if there's no value left in Midwest soil, why does it continue to be intensively farmed when labor and land would be so much cheaper elsewhere?
Indeed. One only has to look at the devastation of the American Midwest, unable to produce any crops after decades of mechanized farming...
Wait, no. The Midwest produces more crops today then it ever did. Something's wrong here...
And this is different the past, um, *how*, exactly?
Except that they're getting smaller and less frequent. One report estimates that total violent conflict around world (both between states and within states) has dropped by over 50% from 1991 to 2008.
Which makes it pretty lucky for us that there are not now, nor will there be in the future, infinite people. It's levelling off now; the overall birth rate of the earth is only slightly above replacement rate now and is projected to continue falling. The general consensus is that we're going to plateau at 9 billion people.
First, you have to get your PMP cane and hat.
And a helluva lot of good it did *them*....
Well, you see, that's your problem. You know how to do things, so they have you do things. People who know how to get *other* people to do things for them--that's management material!
Only in that she was sunk by her own side. In the end, just about all the U-boats were sunk in action, and most went down with all hands. Over the entire course of the war, the U-boat service suffered a 75-80% casualty rate (and I can think of few nastier deaths than being trapped in a sinking submarine)--and yet, they were a all-volunteer outfit and never had a shortage of recruits.
Except that there was. The U-235 was a Type VIIC, commissioned 19 Dec 1942. She never saw combat service and was used as a training boat. Sunk by a US bombing raid on 14 May, 1943, she was successfully raised and put back into service. She was finally sunk for good when a German torpedo boat attacked her by mistake on 14 April, 1945. She went down with all 47 hands.
And this is where you lose the thread. From the point of mathematic proof, "as many odd integers as possible" has *nothing* to do with "all odd integers" unless you stumble upon one that proves it false. Finding any finite number of odd integers for which it is true accomplishes nothing towards proving it true for all odd integers.