I'm a nerd who is interested in technology. Personally I wish there were more stories about interesting bits of C code or the latest CPU architecture developments, but I also like these stories because humans are an important part of tech. There are issues we can take an engineering approach to, quantify the problem, understand it and come up with fixes. Applying science and engineering skills to everything is pretty much the definition of what a hacker is, what nerds are about.
Unfortunately we do get a lot of people who for a variety of reasons just want to pretend none of it is real. Despite that progress is being made, which makes tech more enjoyable and more rewarding for most of us.
I know it's traditional not to RTFA, but from TFS:
"Female employees and employees of color are systematically undervalued compared to their male and white or Asian American peers because female employees and employees of color receive, on average, lower rankings despite equal or better performance,"
Homosexuality is objectively, quantifiably a bad thing?
Or maybe it's just the AI is prone to picking up on asshats using "gay" as an insult, and a bunch of 4chan conspiracy theories about Jews that have somehow become mainstream now.
It really sounds like you guys don't actually like Star Trek, because that episode was classic Trek. It's always been about not so subtle social justice, that was the basic premise and the best thing about it.
If you don't like these issues being addressed directly then Trek is not the show for you.
They have seen a lot of NSA malware before, and been monitoring them for years. They regularly inform US authorities when infections are found in the US, because the NSA isn't supposed to do domestic spying.
Their version of events is much more believable than the others offers so far. Guy takes home the NSA malware, disables Kaspersky to install some warez and then realizes his machine has been p0wned, so does multiple full scans. The NSA malware is picked up during those scans and automatically submitted for analysis (the default behaviour). During this time his machine had an open backdoor.
What really worries me here is that Kaspersky apparently deleted the NSA malware and source code once they realized what it was. They should have analyzed it, generated signatures and published details. Failure to do so is far worse than simply sharing it with the Russian government, who I'd assume already had copies anyway given how leaky the NSA is.
We should be thanking Germany. Not only did they prove that this was feasible and not economically crippling as some had predicted, but they encouraged other countries to follow suit. It's actually possible that large parts of Europe might be coal, nuclear and largely combustion engine free within my lifetime. Likely, even.
Different orders of magnitude. Strong cologne in a confined space is just as bad as vaping in a confined space. I've actually had both cause eye irritation before.
If pay a few bucks for Ubuntu if it wasn't shit. I'd love to get off Windows, I'm happy to pay for it, but basic stuff like the mouse and scaling have to work.
Well, people say I'm an SJW and I didn't really have much of an emotional reaction to that stuff. I'm under no illusions about historical figures being saints, that strikes me as rather childish to be honest.
The term is a meaningless slur, an instant win cheat code for arguments, a dog whistle.
Yeah, but look at how many 1 star reviews using the term "SJW" there are.
It's clear that a lot of people had decided this show was crap before it even aired, and were primed and triggered by anti-SJW rants on Reddit and YouTube to hate it from the start.
If you scroll past them and read the more balanced reviews, or check YouTube reviews from long established Star Trek fan channels, they are generally quite positive.
I guess another possibility is that Lorca wants her to stew in Klingon captivity for a while in the hope that she ends up siding with him on taking risks to rescue valuable POWs.
Unrelated to their current difficulties. Toshiba owned Westinghouse Electric Company, and nuclear power has been in decline for a decade. There were doubts about the AP1000 reactor design, and they became more urgent after Fukushima in 2011. As renewables developed quickly there was less and less money being thrown at nuclear, and some poor engineering/project management lead to massive losses on plants being constructed in Georgia and South Carolina.
It's not just Toshiba/Westinghouse though, European nuclear power systems are struggling to get built and make any money now too. It's a dying industry, the promised renaissance was cancelled, and Toshiba bought in at just the wrong moment.
So what is the alternative? If you have a skills shortage you should try to hush it up, and whatever you do don't advertise well paid positions with those skills because it might cause people to acquire them and drive down wages in 5 years time.
This is how it has always worked. New skills come into demand due to advances in technology or changes in society. Initially they are highly paid, eventually they become common and less well paid. No point complaining about it, you just have to keep developing new skills and hope that society can manage the change.
I refer you to DS9. On that show we saw what the Federation was like at war. How war itself screwed people up, and how sometimes principals had to be sacrificed. And there has always been Section 31.
Discovery is exploring that in more detail by focusing on a ship where the captain is willing to do what it takes to win the war. Or rather was willing, at the end of the last episode we saw that he had taken some advice and decided not to be so cavalier.
It would be boring if every Star Trek show was the same. The Orville is going to fall into that trap eventually - for every episode so far you can point to an episode of Star Trek with basically the same plot. I guess that's why they are trying to introduce a race of religious extremists to have a war with, to give them somewhere to go beyond recycling old sci-fi tropes we have seen countless times before.
To a person from the 1600s, the idea of social equality of races, genders and especially religions is an alien concept
Maybe not as much as you think. Race as we think of it today was largely invented in the 1800s, and is pretty arbitrary really. Why is skin colour a big deal but hair colour or eye colour not? Could it be because the lines were drawn in order to prove that northern Europeans were superior to all others?
With religion too, while Europe was all about monotheism other parts of the world were happily co-existing and even mixing elements of multiple religions. Japan is an interesting example, where most people participate in both Buddhism and Shintoism at different times of their lives.
Star Trek had this problem long before Discovery came around. The technology on the 1960s Enterprise is worse than what we have today in many respects, e.g. the filament lamps, huge physical buttons, mechanical computer voices. So when Enterprise and the NX-01 came around it looked more advanced than Kirk's ship.
The tardigrade supercomputer is a well established trope in Star Trek, where for some reason autopilot and similar technologies are inferior to biology and can be enhanced by interfacing with the characters, mainly to generate some jeopardy for them.
Erm, the fact that it's devoid of white men is a constant giant fuck you to, well, white men.
The captain is a white male. The doctor is a while male. Sarak is a white male. Excluding aliens they make up 66% of the main cast, or 75% if you include the alien first officier (who is male and has white skin).
Why are you so obsessed with this, to the point of having to lie about it?
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I'm a nerd who is interested in technology. Personally I wish there were more stories about interesting bits of C code or the latest CPU architecture developments, but I also like these stories because humans are an important part of tech. There are issues we can take an engineering approach to, quantify the problem, understand it and come up with fixes. Applying science and engineering skills to everything is pretty much the definition of what a hacker is, what nerds are about.
Unfortunately we do get a lot of people who for a variety of reasons just want to pretend none of it is real. Despite that progress is being made, which makes tech more enjoyable and more rewarding for most of us.
I know it's traditional not to RTFA, but from TFS:
"Female employees and employees of color are systematically undervalued compared to their male and white or Asian American peers because female employees and employees of color receive, on average, lower rankings despite equal or better performance, "
Homosexuality is objectively, quantifiably a bad thing?
Or maybe it's just the AI is prone to picking up on asshats using "gay" as an insult, and a bunch of 4chan conspiracy theories about Jews that have somehow become mainstream now.
It really sounds like you guys don't actually like Star Trek, because that episode was classic Trek. It's always been about not so subtle social justice, that was the basic premise and the best thing about it.
If you don't like these issues being addressed directly then Trek is not the show for you.
They have seen a lot of NSA malware before, and been monitoring them for years. They regularly inform US authorities when infections are found in the US, because the NSA isn't supposed to do domestic spying.
He promised a fully automated drive from coast to coast by the end of this year. That's the closest promise that will be broken.
That's why security conferences need to move out of the US.
Their version of events is much more believable than the others offers so far. Guy takes home the NSA malware, disables Kaspersky to install some warez and then realizes his machine has been p0wned, so does multiple full scans. The NSA malware is picked up during those scans and automatically submitted for analysis (the default behaviour). During this time his machine had an open backdoor.
What really worries me here is that Kaspersky apparently deleted the NSA malware and source code once they realized what it was. They should have analyzed it, generated signatures and published details. Failure to do so is far worse than simply sharing it with the Russian government, who I'd assume already had copies anyway given how leaky the NSA is.
We should be thanking Germany. Not only did they prove that this was feasible and not economically crippling as some had predicted, but they encouraged other countries to follow suit. It's actually possible that large parts of Europe might be coal, nuclear and largely combustion engine free within my lifetime. Likely, even.
Different orders of magnitude. Strong cologne in a confined space is just as bad as vaping in a confined space. I've actually had both cause eye irritation before.
I feel the same way about combustion engines, coal burning power stations etc.
Then again I'm pretty happy to have fluoride in the water. I guess it's a question of harm, rather than "forced medication".
If pay a few bucks for Ubuntu if it wasn't shit. I'd love to get off Windows, I'm happy to pay for it, but basic stuff like the mouse and scaling have to work.
The holodeck would have been in TOS if it had not been cancelled. Councillors too.
Well, people say I'm an SJW and I didn't really have much of an emotional reaction to that stuff. I'm under no illusions about historical figures being saints, that strikes me as rather childish to be honest.
The term is a meaningless slur, an instant win cheat code for arguments, a dog whistle.
Yeah, but look at how many 1 star reviews using the term "SJW" there are.
It's clear that a lot of people had decided this show was crap before it even aired, and were primed and triggered by anti-SJW rants on Reddit and YouTube to hate it from the start.
If you scroll past them and read the more balanced reviews, or check YouTube reviews from long established Star Trek fan channels, they are generally quite positive.
Good point, only alpha white males count. The beta cucks are just an insult to the alpha's manliness.
I guess another possibility is that Lorca wants her to stew in Klingon captivity for a while in the hope that she ends up siding with him on taking risks to rescue valuable POWs.
Unrelated to their current difficulties. Toshiba owned Westinghouse Electric Company, and nuclear power has been in decline for a decade. There were doubts about the AP1000 reactor design, and they became more urgent after Fukushima in 2011. As renewables developed quickly there was less and less money being thrown at nuclear, and some poor engineering/project management lead to massive losses on plants being constructed in Georgia and South Carolina.
It's not just Toshiba/Westinghouse though, European nuclear power systems are struggling to get built and make any money now too. It's a dying industry, the promised renaissance was cancelled, and Toshiba bought in at just the wrong moment.
So what is the alternative? If you have a skills shortage you should try to hush it up, and whatever you do don't advertise well paid positions with those skills because it might cause people to acquire them and drive down wages in 5 years time.
This is how it has always worked. New skills come into demand due to advances in technology or changes in society. Initially they are highly paid, eventually they become common and less well paid. No point complaining about it, you just have to keep developing new skills and hope that society can manage the change.
Sure, but even the Federation shuttles and Defiant had curved CRTs.
I refer you to DS9. On that show we saw what the Federation was like at war. How war itself screwed people up, and how sometimes principals had to be sacrificed. And there has always been Section 31.
Discovery is exploring that in more detail by focusing on a ship where the captain is willing to do what it takes to win the war. Or rather was willing, at the end of the last episode we saw that he had taken some advice and decided not to be so cavalier.
It would be boring if every Star Trek show was the same. The Orville is going to fall into that trap eventually - for every episode so far you can point to an episode of Star Trek with basically the same plot. I guess that's why they are trying to introduce a race of religious extremists to have a war with, to give them somewhere to go beyond recycling old sci-fi tropes we have seen countless times before.
To a person from the 1600s, the idea of social equality of races, genders and especially religions is an alien concept
Maybe not as much as you think. Race as we think of it today was largely invented in the 1800s, and is pretty arbitrary really. Why is skin colour a big deal but hair colour or eye colour not? Could it be because the lines were drawn in order to prove that northern Europeans were superior to all others?
With religion too, while Europe was all about monotheism other parts of the world were happily co-existing and even mixing elements of multiple religions. Japan is an interesting example, where most people participate in both Buddhism and Shintoism at different times of their lives.
Star Trek had this problem long before Discovery came around. The technology on the 1960s Enterprise is worse than what we have today in many respects, e.g. the filament lamps, huge physical buttons, mechanical computer voices. So when Enterprise and the NX-01 came around it looked more advanced than Kirk's ship.
The tardigrade supercomputer is a well established trope in Star Trek, where for some reason autopilot and similar technologies are inferior to biology and can be enhanced by interfacing with the characters, mainly to generate some jeopardy for them.
Correction, not the doctor, the chief engineer. The doctor, who hasn't had much screen time, is a black male.
Erm, the fact that it's devoid of white men is a constant giant fuck you to, well, white men.
The captain is a white male. The doctor is a while male. Sarak is a white male. Excluding aliens they make up 66% of the main cast, or 75% if you include the alien first officier (who is male and has white skin).
Why are you so obsessed with this, to the point of having to lie about it?