Every word they've said After Snowden has been public relations. "Our extended family" "sensationalized the leaks" "wrongly cast doubt" "more of a rogue element than a national treasure"
"Denial, Anger, Acceptance" is the third episode of The Sopranos.
Because anything that the people do that's ad-hoc, effective and lower in cost threatens not only the government but the consultants and planning-boards and corporations that get the big tax bucks we pay. The System routing around potential damage
ALL the software - and much of the hardware - I was using 10-15 years ago to craft, record and sounds is long dead... because of OS and I/O changes. Anything at all proprietary is therefore inaccessible, and much of the hardware is worth a tiny fraction of what it cost. The OSS stuff, on the other hand... CSound, MIDI, file formats... remain sturdy and viable.
I'm quite sure Albini remains at the top of his game, particularly including the technical side of the game, and so his opinion will deservedly carry a lot of weight for anyone who doesn't have a recording contract. (Those also have about a 5-year lifetime.) Analog tape remains the only sane archival choice for a 20-30 lifespan, by which time there may finally be alternatives with an even longer lifespan.
Clearly all the years of talk of security and encryption has accomplished is to lull many of us into a false sense of security. (Much like meeting with the TSA at the airport.) That false sense has kept many of us from asking the hard questions and really thinking about the weaknesses of the whole setup... which, as we are seeing more and more clearly, is rotten to the stinking core.
Good. Thinking about it all is good, and so is talking about it.
Hiroshima was long time ago, that's not scary. When I think about what the US faces (screw Japan) if those 400 tons of fuel catch fire and start burning for years, I'm already scared. When I think about TEPCO trying to 'fix' that alone, I'm more scared. Rocky Flats and Hanford and a terrorist with two halves of a plutonium baseball are a joke by comparison.
Something better get us all scared soon, because there's nothing else scarier on the planet right now... and few people in the US seem to realize that.
It looks as though Earhardt might have washed up on an island somewhere, so yeah, it seems worth holding out hope.
I was just reading the other day about some Japanese guys whose boat was blown out to sea and they eventually wound up in the US. At the time it was illegal to leave Japan, so it was decades before some of them found a safe way back in. Their families were stunned.
But this is the Internet. You don't have to know anything about a subject, or even understand what someone's saying to remit some dopey argument because there's nothing worth watching on TV.
But this is Slashdot. So thanks for making the modest suggestion, even though that never seems to penetrate the cloud cover.
Yes, global warming trends show the price of the alternative: seashores being drowned and lengthy, very hot summers and an eventual massive die-off of humanity for lack of foodstuffs. I'm SO glad I won't live to see and suffer it.
Bravo to Germans for sholdering the burden. Here in the US we'd actually have to do without all the stuff we cram into our "Public Storage" spaces. And that 4th iPad.
Semi-humorously, since WA state banned plastic bags, the stores have used that as an excuse to start charging for paper bags. Which are completely recyle-able. As though they decided to punish the voters for doing the right thing.
Your situation is dually atypical. All-electric remains rare, and WA has a surplus of hydroelectric power.
Five houses into $1M is too expensive. Five houses into $100,000, on the other hand, could certainly make sense in well-off housing clusters located in a more rural setting. The first units will no doubt be purchased by corporate-sized entities that would have no problem with price and the investment could pay for itself with the efficiency gain.
As the effects of climate-warming become so obvious that not even our insane so-called leaders can ignore them, such devices will come in handy to power the massive air-conditioning they'll need to continue their worthless existences.
In the case of "Can an alligator run the hundred-metre hurdles?" we know from experience that an alligator is a big animal, a reptile, with short legs. And we know from experience that 100m hurdles are about 3 feet high and require a runner to repeatedly leap into the air. And we know from experience that alligators can run but can't jump. THEN we logically conclude the answer is no with high probability.
Winograd's SHRDLU could be modified to let the computer solve the problem. But general intelligence learns these things through nature and nurture. We're not so intelligent about what makes us intelligent. Some of our "experts" still insist we're not conscious. On the other hand, if they spent their whole lives asleep, they'd be pretty crappy experts. And so the nonsense plows on.
Don't see it working out for long-distance travel (turns at high speed, elevation changes, land-purchasing/leasing problems), but for regional/urban transport, the whole air-pressure-differential tube-transport thing (preferably in transparent tubes for the view) is a winner... with individual programmable capsules that do the driving with built-in collision dampers. All the motive power is created at one location; powered by renewable energy, it eliminates pollution and fuel costs.
I was instantly reminded of Steve Jobs saying that 7-inch tablets were dumb.
Then I was reminded of an education conference I attended long ago and said that lots of PCs could be connected together and work on the same problem. The University's CS prof just blinked like he'd never heard anything so wacky.
Oh yeah, and I also remember IBM laughing at how cute PC's were. A year or two before they started sweating blood.
PCs could also paid for themselves within a year when they first came out. If you could program, you had to hide not to find countless opportunities to make a buck. Small businessmen who could finally afford a computer needed (or at least wanted to brag about) customized software to help them with alla stuff people had been doing manually/on paper for years.
You gotta be kidding me -- a b&w vector diagram lifted from some tech website, cheesy drum riffs for 20 seconds over a third-grader title screen, then two greybeards sitting in an ill-miked boxy echo chamber start out "Tell me Doug, what is a slingatron" ?????
Best parody of old-skool production values, or quarter-serious proposal for a $10 kickstarter?
For how many more generations -- in the complete absense of -any- result from -any- gravity-wave detector -- will people continue to hold onto the concept?
We finally let go of instantaneous-action-at-a-distance some time ago. But we continue to make ineffable mystical inferences from our love of simpifying mathematics. Occam-pretty models aside, there is zero evidence that gravity is wavelike or particle-like in any way. Suggesting that it is an emergent quantum property. Whatever we see that appears to "curve space" that photons travel through, the Newtonian "gravity" model has failed utterly. It's just waiting for someone too unorthodox to stay inside the box to sweep aside generations of stubborn clinging.
"as proven by the US Navy and, *gasp* the French..."
I keep hearing that about that French. But when you look into what's gone on in France in the way of leaks and closures you'll discover that there's an untold story. And you'll learn that the story is the same everywhere. Nuclear was not and never was ready for prime time.
"Maybe they shouldnt have been in the nuclear game at all"
Maybe they shouldn't have bought those US-designed nukes after all. May they should have taken advantage of Japan's enormous, untapped supply of offshore windpower. But we had them under our thumb, no? The men who bought from GE were the good buddies of US business, and they did well in Japan. For a few decades. But in hindsight?? A fools' gamble.
"How many wind farms could you build for just 50 billion? How many solar panels would that buy?"
Oh wait, that's not the funny part. The funny part is that the US taxpayer already poured HUNDREDS of billions of dollars into the US nuclear power program. Back in the 50s and 60s when a Billion was very serious money too.
Suppose we'd invested $10 billion in wind and solar research back in the 1950s. And then instead of building all those nukes, we'd built wind plants instead. We'd already have enjoyed a half-century of windpower, with no waste still waiting for a solution, and nothing but perennial maintenance costs - for much MUCH less than a single nuclear plant costs now. We'd have saved so much, we could have been slowly converting to solar since the 1980s and maintenance costs would have been even lower.
But no, we decided to burn OIL and uranium. Now the poles are melting.
Way back a hundred years ago, some very wise men decided to build big hydroelectric dams. Those dams are still producing power, with reserve capacity that isn't even used part of the year. You can't get better electric rates anywhere else. THEY are the power heros in this country. And the jackoffs who decided to go nuclear and burn up all the fossil fuels in three generations??? Their grandchildren will be cursing their names and their graves.
Thanks heros. Too bad so many of us JUST DIDN'T GET IT.
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Every word they've said After Snowden has been public relations. "Our extended family" "sensationalized the leaks" "wrongly cast doubt" "more of a rogue element than a national treasure"
"Denial, Anger, Acceptance" is the third episode of The Sopranos.
Sometimes the the needs of the many outweigh the needs of the few.
Star Trek warned about dancing with the devil in the pale moonlight.
I'm pretty sure the DoD could scrape some together by looking under some rocks somewhere if it had to.
Sun's ultraviolet creates H2O2 from CO2; H2O2 'scrubs' methane. Next question??
Because anything that the people do that's ad-hoc, effective and lower in cost threatens not only the government but the consultants and planning-boards and corporations that get the big tax bucks we pay. The System routing around potential damage
ALL the software - and much of the hardware - I was using 10-15 years ago to craft, record and sounds is long dead ... because of OS and I/O changes. Anything at all proprietary is therefore inaccessible, and much of the hardware is worth a tiny fraction of what it cost. The OSS stuff, on the other hand ... CSound, MIDI, file formats ... remain sturdy and viable.
I'm quite sure Albini remains at the top of his game, particularly including the technical side of the game, and so his opinion will deservedly carry a lot of weight for anyone who doesn't have a recording contract. (Those also have about a 5-year lifetime.) Analog tape remains the only sane archival choice for a 20-30 lifespan, by which time there may finally be alternatives with an even longer lifespan.
Clearly all the years of talk of security and encryption has accomplished is to lull many of us into a false sense of security. (Much like meeting with the TSA at the airport.) That false sense has kept many of us from asking the hard questions and really thinking about the weaknesses of the whole setup... which, as we are seeing more and more clearly, is rotten to the stinking core.
Good. Thinking about it all is good, and so is talking about it.
Hiroshima was long time ago, that's not scary. When I think about what the US faces (screw Japan) if those 400 tons of fuel catch fire and start burning for years, I'm already scared. When I think about TEPCO trying to 'fix' that alone, I'm more scared. Rocky Flats and Hanford and a terrorist with two halves of a plutonium baseball are a joke by comparison.
Something better get us all scared soon, because there's nothing else scarier on the planet right now ... and few people in the US seem to realize that.
It looks as though Earhardt might have washed up on an island somewhere, so yeah, it seems worth holding out hope.
I was just reading the other day about some Japanese guys whose boat was blown out to sea and they eventually wound up in the US. At the time it was illegal to leave Japan, so it was decades before some of them found a safe way back in. Their families were stunned.
[these clocks] could help industry build GPS systems that can rapidly pinpoint locations with sub-centimeter-scale precision
Now, if only I could get transceivers to strap to fruit flies, I might find out where they're all coming from.
But this is the Internet. You don't have to know anything about a subject, or even understand what someone's saying to remit some dopey argument because there's nothing worth watching on TV.
But this is Slashdot. So thanks for making the modest suggestion, even though that never seems to penetrate the cloud cover.
What a BS title. Snowden and Greenwald -were- using GPG/PGP ... long-established fact.
It comes at a price...
Yes, global warming trends show the price of the alternative: seashores being drowned and lengthy, very hot summers and an eventual massive die-off of humanity for lack of foodstuffs. I'm SO glad I won't live to see and suffer it.
Bravo to Germans for sholdering the burden. Here in the US we'd actually have to do without all the stuff we cram into our "Public Storage" spaces. And that 4th iPad.
I'm ready for the flood of excuses (technical and not) about how the US could do it but...
Man, we are so fat and lazy.
Semi-humorously, since WA state banned plastic bags, the stores have used that as an excuse to start charging for paper bags. Which are completely recyle-able. As though they decided to punish the voters for doing the right thing.
Your situation is dually atypical. All-electric remains rare, and WA has a surplus of hydroelectric power.
Five houses into $1M is too expensive. Five houses into $100,000, on the other hand, could certainly make sense in well-off housing clusters located in a more rural setting. The first units will no doubt be purchased by corporate-sized entities that would have no problem with price and the investment could pay for itself with the efficiency gain.
As the effects of climate-warming become so obvious that not even our insane so-called leaders can ignore them, such devices will come in handy to power the massive air-conditioning they'll need to continue their worthless existences.
As Terry Winograd proved looooong ago with SHRDLU, a computer can have a chance at navigating the contents of a query/command IFF it understands the context.
In the case of "Can an alligator run the hundred-metre hurdles?" we know from experience that an alligator is a big animal, a reptile, with short legs. And we know from experience that 100m hurdles are about 3 feet high and require a runner to repeatedly leap into the air. And we know from experience that alligators can run but can't jump. THEN we logically conclude the answer is no with high probability.
Winograd's SHRDLU could be modified to let the computer solve the problem. But general intelligence learns these things through nature and nurture. We're not so intelligent about what makes us intelligent. Some of our "experts" still insist we're not conscious. On the other hand, if they spent their whole lives asleep, they'd be pretty crappy experts. And so the nonsense plows on.
Don't see it working out for long-distance travel (turns at high speed, elevation changes, land-purchasing/leasing problems), but for regional/urban transport, the whole air-pressure-differential tube-transport thing (preferably in transparent tubes for the view) is a winner ... with individual programmable capsules that do the driving with built-in collision dampers. All the motive power is created at one location; powered by renewable energy, it eliminates pollution and fuel costs.
I was instantly reminded of Steve Jobs saying that 7-inch tablets were dumb.
Then I was reminded of an education conference I attended long ago and said that lots of PCs could be connected together and work on the same problem. The University's CS prof just blinked like he'd never heard anything so wacky.
Oh yeah, and I also remember IBM laughing at how cute PC's were. A year or two before they started sweating blood.
PCs could also paid for themselves within a year when they first came out. If you could program, you had to hide not to find countless opportunities to make a buck. Small businessmen who could finally afford a computer needed (or at least wanted to brag about) customized software to help them with alla stuff people had been doing manually/on paper for years.
It'll be the same story here.
You gotta be kidding me -- a b&w vector diagram lifted from some tech website, cheesy drum riffs for 20 seconds over a third-grader title screen, then two greybeards sitting in an ill-miked boxy echo chamber start out "Tell me Doug, what is a slingatron" ?????
Best parody of old-skool production values, or quarter-serious proposal for a $10 kickstarter?
For how many more generations -- in the complete absense of -any- result from -any- gravity-wave detector -- will people continue to hold onto the concept?
We finally let go of instantaneous-action-at-a-distance some time ago. But we continue to make ineffable mystical inferences from our love of simpifying mathematics. Occam-pretty models aside, there is zero evidence that gravity is wavelike or particle-like in any way. Suggesting that it is an emergent quantum property. Whatever we see that appears to "curve space" that photons travel through, the Newtonian "gravity" model has failed utterly. It's just waiting for someone too unorthodox to stay inside the box to sweep aside generations of stubborn clinging.
"as proven by the US Navy and, *gasp* the French..."
I keep hearing that about that French. But when you look into what's gone on in France in the way of leaks and closures you'll discover that there's an untold story. And you'll learn that the story is the same everywhere. Nuclear was not and never was ready for prime time.
"Maybe they shouldnt have been in the nuclear game at all"
Maybe they shouldn't have bought those US-designed nukes after all. May they should have taken advantage of Japan's enormous, untapped supply of offshore windpower. But we had them under our thumb, no? The men who bought from GE were the good buddies of US business, and they did well in Japan. For a few decades. But in hindsight?? A fools' gamble.
"How many wind farms could you build for just 50 billion? How many solar panels would that buy?"
Oh wait, that's not the funny part. The funny part is that the US taxpayer already poured HUNDREDS of billions of dollars into the US nuclear power program. Back in the 50s and 60s when a Billion was very serious money too.
Suppose we'd invested $10 billion in wind and solar research back in the 1950s. And then instead of building all those nukes, we'd built wind plants instead. We'd already have enjoyed a half-century of windpower, with no waste still waiting for a solution, and nothing but perennial maintenance costs - for much MUCH less than a single nuclear plant costs now. We'd have saved so much, we could have been slowly converting to solar since the 1980s and maintenance costs would have been even lower.
But no, we decided to burn OIL and uranium. Now the poles are melting.
Way back a hundred years ago, some very wise men decided to build big hydroelectric dams. Those dams are still producing power, with reserve capacity that isn't even used part of the year. You can't get better electric rates anywhere else. THEY are the power heros in this country. And the jackoffs who decided to go nuclear and burn up all the fossil fuels in three generations??? Their grandchildren will be cursing their names and their graves.
Thanks heros. Too bad so many of us JUST DIDN'T GET IT.