There is a false meme that the big-business people and the big-government people are not one and the same. I call them DemoPublicans. What we live under is best called cartel-socialism where the big-business people funnel money to their big-government buddies to insure lockout of any competition. The result is the disappearing middle class - a clear indicator of the level of corruption. ( Yes - the old guard Republicans are practicing me-too socialism - socialism-lite. )
The fact is that the USA in now more socialist (48% of GDP is government spending) than Russia (35%)) - Keynesian economics of course doesn't work long term and anyone that thinks the general public is better off than we were before Tarp and the great expansion of government over the last years must have a government job.
The key problem with Keynesian is quite simple - yes they can print money - but they can not print wealth. Wealth only comes from the activity of productive people - who are getting screwed to the point that they are slowing or stopping productive activity. This screwing is a direct consequence of Keynesian spending.
You know - I am complaining about nanny regulations - not the cops. Non of my friends that are cops give a s*** about how much water and electricity I use. And you might notice that the security issues here are a little different than in the middle east. (Was that a drunk post?)
I'm all for the limited government - hard to see the need for the 48% of the economy we have now - making us much more of a socialist country than the Russians (at 35%) . How about 5%?
OK - open source has a really good OCR engine - tesseract.
But that is only one part - you need software that can recognize layout - differentiate pictures from text etc.
There are two approaches - put a text layer under a bitmap (searchable image) - or make a real document with fonts and pictures where needed (clear-scan) . (Hopefully a ODT file ).
Even in Windows clear-scan is iffy - diagrams with text confuse the software. Clear-scan to ODT is what we want - but can't have yet..
"Oh my, you believe it's the environmentalists keeping nuclear plants from being built, because they're so powerful, but strangely they can't seem to do much about coal and oil, huh?"
I didn't say anything about environmentalists.
"Lives don't matter."
Hope you realize that there are people in coal and oil that don't want nuclear... but I don't think you realize I understand just how corrupt government is.. (my take it is the DemoPulicans at fault.)
Fukushima was bad - and yes a few people died - more will later but nothing compared to other methods (see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... ) how many die every year in the oil and coal business?
Those were old technology plants that didn't get updated like they did in the USA. There are newer safer technologies that are not going on line due to the insane regulations.
By stopping nuclear plants - it has cost a lot of lives - dead in the middles east - cost of imported oil it would have replaced has been estimated to be similar to the national debt.
Yes - you are right - it isn't like water falls out of the sky or something...
Here is a hint - don't live in deserts and let those of us that don't use all the water we want - water isn't 'used up' . What do they teach people in school these days?
The only reason we are burning stuff to make electricity is the excessive regulations that prevented the development of cheap nuclear power. Ludites.
There is a real world to enjoy.
It is sad that so many are falling for the fake crises to promote world socialism - of course it will be world tyranny - and there will be no where to run to - they will make slaves of your children.
You do realize why they had to change the soap for 'high efficiency' washing machines? They use so little water that there is still soap in the clothes - so it had to be changed so it wouldn't irritate the skin.
I would rather have a machine that really gets the clothes clean and well rinsed.
The reason they suck is they now have very weak motors - to change that out is not an easy modification. One can change the computer to use enough water.
People are washing on the long cycles and multiple times - using a lot of water in the sink rinsing so they will get clean - the regs are not doing what they think.
I wish I could have the Maytag I bought in 1986 - it worked really well.
They have destroyed Dishwashers, Washing machines, water-heaters, shower heads (they did improve conditioners. )
I just want the government to stay the F*** out of my life.
If there are backdoors in UEFI BIOSs, encryption won't help.
I hate analogies but try this - if you have a steel-plated front door with a high quality lock, what happens when they get a copy of the key from a corrupt government cop that opens the front window?
Keys to backdoors will be stolen and compromised. Humans have not mutated into some other species.
Look - what happens when the mob/bad-guys/bad-country threatens the families of the key keepers? Centralized control of keys is a grave danger to economic security. A seriously stupid and dangerous idea.
The economy is the RESULT of people doing 'stuff'. "It" is not a servant of anyone. If that 'stuff' is wealth destroying feel good nonsense - wealth is destroyed - thus mathless degrees have no ROI. If instead that 'stuff' is production - wealth is created ( why we are seeing the general transfer of capital to Asia.)
Under the cartel/socialist system we have now, the creation of wealth in the USA is declining because the rewards are steered to the corrupt rather than the productive. It is simply political theater that there the 'big-business' and 'big-government' people are not one and the same.
A good measure of corruption is the size of the middle class - which is disappearing.
I hope Sanders gets elected so it finishes collapsing sooner rather than later. The longer they prop it up - the farther it will fall.
Here is a hint - while it is quite possible to print money - it is not possible to print wealth. The idea that printing money works was thoroughly tested by the Mugabe school of economics.
Now that women get married to the government instead of men - men have lost agency of purpose - and not a lot of reason to go to school or find productive work. Socialism is a form of reverse eugenics where the fit are forced to support the unfit (see https://www.youtube.com/watch?... ). The quest for utopia has a really bad track record...
Uhh - I heard they have already added back doors - called UEFI (or EFI which often includes (not making this up) secure boot )
Now the people who told me this could all have been lying. Yet I noticed that Coreboot can no longer support any motherboards that are less than 5 years old. Where can I get a copy of a BIOS that secure government computers use?
In order to comply with PCI one has to jump through a bunch of hoops - but what if you really think the system isn't secure due to the BIOS? Why do we need proprietary BIOSs of closed source that can write to the harddrive - connect to the network? What about the firmware on the harddrive? Or even the microcode for the CPU?
I know the way engineers think - 'I'm so smart that no one will find this back door' - but what if the bad guys threaten someones family? Will they get the secret sauce? Or perhaps there are people that work for spooks in other countries that have the resources to disassemble multi megabyte BIOS?
Gold almost worthless??? -- Lets make the wires of our houses out of gold! - oops only a swimming pool of the stuff exists.. there is this thing - scarcity vs demand. And when fiat currencies fail - what do people turn to?
You could buy dollars - bits of paper that have value based on what the political elites tell you - of course those same people tell lies about most everything. So how is gold going to become worthless - in the long run vs fiat currency? Gold looks like a pretty good buy right now. Gold is worth something because it has utility (because of it's scarcity, it holds value in small amounts thus useful for trade - longterm storage of wealth - not really an investment - more of a safe haven when currencies fail)
Now why is bitcoin worth something? ( holds value because of it's scarcity - even more useful for trade than gold - yet to see the long term).
Interesting time we live in - the Feds must keep the price of stocks inflated or people will realize the pension funds are broke - but doing that will eventually destroy the dollar - some precipitating event - unexpected of course.. next week - or 20 years???
I remember them - hurt like hell. Not only that - inject dirt from the skin that caused infections.
Here is the clue - the article does not mention "pain". To hard to figure that question might count? Why don't journalists do the obvious research to ask about even the basics? Bad idea - bad article.
Exactly - these scans can't see how they are interconnected - only the gross physical structure.
The actual DNA information for making a brain isn't that much - it is the interconnections that are formed that make it the úber complex structure that it is. These connections are effected by hormones as well as stimulus.
Also - MRI images are not very useful - they can't see a lot of things. Diffuse damage from ME is invisible, yet the damage is there. Just because it uses a computer, is complex, white lab coats etc does not mean it is 'all knowing'.
Of course it reads like most of the 'venture-volture'(tm) - ratings not connected to each other (fer-instance 2000 cycle - without the depth of the cycle - you can get that out of a lead-acid if you tweak the depth of discharge to 2%.)
The key spec for a rechargeable batter is the total amount of power you can draw out of the battery before reaching 60% capacity with the cycle depth specified. -- and a Cost !
Yet, it could be that for super cheap applications Na batteries make sense..
Exactly - it is almost if they were trying to give a bad name to OS software.
There are very good reasons that Debs act like they do - and even M$ is now adopting the repository approach (but of course if the code isn't open, it can't prevent bad things from happening).
One could make the argument that all software should be it's own blob - no dependencies because hardrive are now huge - but having 6 different versions running reduces the chance that someone else will be facing the same bug as you are - and making bugs less likely to get fixed. Exactly what happens in the proprietary world. ( I've seen software that depends on bugs to function ).
Snappy also adversely effects security - I'll let someone else explain why..
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There is a false meme that the big-business people and the big-government people are not one and the same. I call them DemoPublicans. What we live under is best called cartel-socialism where the big-business people funnel money to their big-government buddies to insure lockout of any competition. The result is the disappearing middle class - a clear indicator of the level of corruption. ( Yes - the old guard Republicans are practicing me-too socialism - socialism-lite. )
The fact is that the USA in now more socialist (48% of GDP is government spending) than Russia (35%)) - Keynesian economics of course doesn't work long term and anyone that thinks the general public is better off than we were before Tarp and the great expansion of government over the last years must have a government job.
The key problem with Keynesian is quite simple - yes they can print money - but they can not print wealth. Wealth only comes from the activity of productive people - who are getting screwed to the point that they are slowing or stopping productive activity. This screwing is a direct consequence of Keynesian spending.
You know - I am complaining about nanny regulations - not the cops. Non of my friends that are cops give a s*** about how much water and electricity I use. And you might notice that the security issues here are a little different than in the middle east. (Was that a drunk post?)
I'm all for the limited government - hard to see the need for the 48% of the economy we have now - making us much more of a socialist country than the Russians (at 35%) . How about 5%?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
OK - open source has a really good OCR engine - tesseract.
But that is only one part - you need software that can recognize layout - differentiate pictures from text etc.
There are two approaches - put a text layer under a bitmap (searchable image) - or make a real document with fonts and pictures where needed (clear-scan) . (Hopefully a ODT file ).
Even in Windows clear-scan is iffy - diagrams with text confuse the software. Clear-scan to ODT is what we want - but can't have yet..
Notes and links on this: https://wiki.xtronics.com/inde...
"Oh my, you believe it's the environmentalists keeping nuclear plants from being built, because they're so powerful, but strangely they can't seem to do much about coal and oil, huh?"
I didn't say anything about environmentalists.
"Lives don't matter."
Hope you realize that there are people in coal and oil that don't want nuclear ... but I don't think you realize I understand just how corrupt government is.. (my take it is the DemoPulicans at fault.)
Homework assignment - look up the deaths/KWH generated of different forms of power generation.
http://motherboard.vice.com/bl...
Fukushima was bad - and yes a few people died - more will later but nothing compared to other methods (see
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... ) how many die every year in the oil and coal business?
Those were old technology plants that didn't get updated like they did in the USA. There are newer safer technologies that are not going on line due to the insane regulations.
By stopping nuclear plants - it has cost a lot of lives - dead in the middles east - cost of imported oil it would have replaced has been estimated to be similar to the national debt.
Yes - you are right - it isn't like water falls out of the sky or something...
Here is a hint - don't live in deserts and let those of us that don't use all the water we want - water isn't 'used up' . What do they teach people in school these days?
The only reason we are burning stuff to make electricity is the excessive regulations that prevented the development of cheap nuclear power. Ludites.
There is a real world to enjoy.
It is sad that so many are falling for the fake crises to promote world socialism - of course it will be world tyranny - and there will be no where to run to - they will make slaves of your children.
You do realize why they had to change the soap for 'high efficiency' washing machines? They use so little water that there is still soap in the clothes - so it had to be changed so it wouldn't irritate the skin.
I would rather have a machine that really gets the clothes clean and well rinsed.
The reason they suck is they now have very weak motors - to change that out is not an easy modification. One can change the computer to use enough water.
People are washing on the long cycles and multiple times - using a lot of water in the sink rinsing so they will get clean - the regs are not doing what they think.
I wish I could have the Maytag I bought in 1986 - it worked really well.
They have destroyed Dishwashers, Washing machines, water-heaters, shower heads (they did improve conditioners. )
I just want the government to stay the F*** out of my life.
If there are backdoors in UEFI BIOSs, encryption won't help.
I hate analogies but try this - if you have a steel-plated front door with a high quality lock, what happens when they get a copy of the key from a corrupt government cop that opens the front window?
Keys to backdoors will be stolen and compromised. Humans have not mutated into some other species.
Look - what happens when the mob/bad-guys/bad-country threatens the families of the key keepers? Centralized control of keys is a grave danger to economic security. A seriously stupid and dangerous idea.
The economy is the RESULT of people doing 'stuff'. "It" is not a servant of anyone. If that 'stuff' is wealth destroying feel good nonsense - wealth is destroyed - thus mathless degrees have no ROI. If instead that 'stuff' is production - wealth is created ( why we are seeing the general transfer of capital to Asia.)
Under the cartel/socialist system we have now, the creation of wealth in the USA is declining because the rewards are steered to the corrupt rather than the productive. It is simply political theater that there the 'big-business' and 'big-government' people are not one and the same.
A good measure of corruption is the size of the middle class - which is disappearing.
I hope Sanders gets elected so it finishes collapsing sooner rather than later. The longer they prop it up - the farther it will fall.
Here is a hint - while it is quite possible to print money - it is not possible to print wealth. The idea that printing money works was thoroughly tested by the Mugabe school of economics.
Now that women get married to the government instead of men - men have lost agency of purpose - and not a lot of reason to go to school or find productive work. Socialism is a form of reverse eugenics where the fit are forced to support the unfit (see https://www.youtube.com/watch?... ). The quest for utopia has a really bad track record...
We live in the age of cartelism - not capitalism. Business as usual - buy the political elites needed to screw the public.
I get a kick out of the people that think big business is somehow different than big government.. Same people running both shows.
Almost all regulations are literally written by the industry they regulate with the sole purpose to keep out competition.
If encryption is outlawed - only outlaws will have encryption. Businesses trying to do secure transactions will get screwed.
So the government holds a key/backdoor - when(not if) they leak the key - who is indemnified?
I suppose this thinking would outlaw BTC?
All your representatives will be compromised as well - and will do as they are told by the puppet masters.
"UEFI is just a new standard of firmware that replaces BIOS."
No it is not. That simply is not true. It is a lot more - It is a little OS of it's own that has all the tools to compromise the OS you install.
Uhh - I heard they have already added back doors - called UEFI (or EFI which often includes (not making this up) secure boot )
Now the people who told me this could all have been lying. Yet I noticed that Coreboot can no longer support any motherboards that are less than 5 years old. Where can I get a copy of a BIOS that secure government computers use?
In order to comply with PCI one has to jump through a bunch of hoops - but what if you really think the system isn't secure due to the BIOS? Why do we need proprietary BIOSs of closed source that can write to the harddrive - connect to the network? What about the firmware on the harddrive? Or even the microcode for the CPU?
I know the way engineers think - 'I'm so smart that no one will find this back door' - but what if the bad guys threaten someones family? Will they get the secret sauce? Or perhaps there are people that work for spooks in other countries that have the resources to disassemble multi megabyte BIOS?
Gold almost worthless??? -- Lets make the wires of our houses out of gold! - oops only a swimming pool of the stuff exists.. there is this thing - scarcity vs demand. And when fiat currencies fail - what do people turn to?
You could buy dollars - bits of paper that have value based on what the political elites tell you - of course those same people tell lies about most everything. So how is gold going to become worthless - in the long run vs fiat currency? Gold looks like a pretty good buy right now. Gold is worth something because it has utility (because of it's scarcity, it holds value in small amounts thus useful for trade - longterm storage of wealth - not really an investment - more of a safe haven when currencies fail)
Better yet - how about bitcoin? http://www.google.com/finance?...
Now why is bitcoin worth something? ( holds value because of it's scarcity - even more useful for trade than gold - yet to see the long term).
Interesting time we live in - the Feds must keep the price of stocks inflated or people will realize the pension funds are broke - but doing that will eventually destroy the dollar - some precipitating event - unexpected of course.. next week - or 20 years???
Exactly!
I remember them - hurt like hell. Not only that - inject dirt from the skin that caused infections.
Here is the clue - the article does not mention "pain". To hard to figure that question might count? Why don't journalists do the obvious research to ask about even the basics? Bad idea - bad article.
Exactly - these scans can't see how they are interconnected - only the gross physical structure.
The actual DNA information for making a brain isn't that much - it is the interconnections that are formed that make it the úber complex structure that it is. These connections are effected by hormones as well as stimulus.
Also - MRI images are not very useful - they can't see a lot of things. Diffuse damage from ME is invisible, yet the damage is there. Just because it uses a computer, is complex, white lab coats etc does not mean it is 'all knowing'.
Not at all - I think it is a much better application than firefox - spinning it off is a good thing - I don't want them to screw it up.
Simply the best mail client out there - good IMAP support..
I'm impressed by what the Russians accomplished - see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Think - a smaller population base to support the project, much less money - and they came close.
When I first saw this I thought it was a joke..
Of course it reads like most of the 'venture-volture'(tm) - ratings not connected to each other (fer-instance 2000 cycle - without the depth of the cycle - you can get that out of a lead-acid if you tweak the depth of discharge to 2%.)
The key spec for a rechargeable batter is the total amount of power you can draw out of the battery before reaching 60% capacity with the cycle depth specified. -- and a Cost !
Yet, it could be that for super cheap applications Na batteries make sense..
Bump the parent
Yes - all the ECUs do this - and my informants tell me they all cheat - this is really about selective prosecution because VW is non UAW.
Really? Hey I came up with a really good way to store hydrogen.
Attach the hydrogen atoms to a ring of carbon. Much more efficient than these ideas..
See the link from the paper here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
Make them long - make them memorable forget the upper/number/Special nonsense.
Some of us know not to trust the government.
"...assume that people will trust it just because it's Google."
Exactly - it is almost if they were trying to give a bad name to OS software.
There are very good reasons that Debs act like they do - and even M$ is now adopting the repository approach (but of course if the code isn't open, it can't prevent bad things from happening).
One could make the argument that all software should be it's own blob - no dependencies because hardrive are now huge - but having 6 different versions running reduces the chance that someone else will be facing the same bug as you are - and making bugs less likely to get fixed. Exactly what happens in the proprietary world. ( I've seen software that depends on bugs to function ).
Snappy also adversely effects security - I'll let someone else explain why..