I suspect the satellite launch has more of political than military purpose. China's economy is going downhill and so it seems is its hopes of Olympic gold, its standing as number 2 (behind US) being threatened: http://www.reuters.com/article...
Who knows, maybe the propaganda bureau decided some good news is in order.
The problem stated in the summary was just to make surveillance more "expensive" not impossible for the spying parties. An ad hoc communication/information system that doesn't pass through, e.g Facebook/Google's servers fits the bill. A step up would be a system that doesn't use commercial ISPs, e.g. mesh networks. So there's still a world of choice before you start using your CB radios or narrow-casting using lasers.
"hope you have robust offisite backups that are secured
The linux kernel and software ecosystem is a bit sloppy from security and maturity perspective, there are better open source OS with better security libraries"
Maybe you mean offlne not offsite. There's this thing cryptocoiners call paper wallet which stores the crypto keys in printed forms, which are naturally kept offline until the moment you import them into your wallet program by scanning their machine-readable QR codes or if you're incredibly patient manually inputting the alphanumeric codes.
The wallet programs of most if not all Bitcoin-like crypocurrencies are open source so can be ported to ANY operating system that has a compiler/build system built for it, your choice of poison.
"Translation: I'm ignoring the idiocy of Trump's statement, and inventing a rationale that allows me to not feel like a contemptible moron for supporting the man."
Have you heard of the word "rhetorical"? Or do you use Google Translate for all your professional communication needs? Non-disclosure: I'm neither a Trump fan nor a hater.
"That's why the capitalists won and will continue to win."
Capitalism then is lot like Moore's Law. It's true until proven false, i.e. until you reach the edge of the cage. The cage being the unpredictability of quantum particles for Moore's Law and the limits of mass production, when relentless competition drives it to near zero margins of profit. Just because something has been true for so long doesn't mean it will be true forever. We're seeing the unravelling of capitalism right now.
The promise of future employment should also be considered a form of soft corruption. When a politico "retires" from public life he promptly get hired by industry. I don't know what's worse giving them a lifetime pension so they don't have to work or allowing the conflict of interest likely to arise when they're hired by a private company. This could be a case for the Socratic ideal of letting only old men become leaders. They serve in office until the day they die.
How about the Apollo 11 or alternatively the Apollo 17 landing site, the last time humans foot boots on the lunar ground? Preserve it from future droid/drone attacks from hardcore space enthusiasts too poor to get their organic selves onto a rocketship.
Rent seeking is not what you think it is. But I get your point. Such a "rental" model isn't going to last long when we're in the final days of the unholy Roman empire. In the jobless future, the only business that'll matter is show business. Yes, games and porn, the better to keep the masses from revolting.
So here's my advice to Nadella, Sell off Office and your other enterprise software businesses soon be made obsolete by Big Data AI. Focus on the Xbox, VR, etc. Your main costumer is going to be the government, the.001 percent, who will do everything in their power to remain in power. An entertained population fed with the minimum necessary to keep their stomachs growling will the prime objective.
So who were the jokers who modded this funny? It's actually quite insightful. An extreme example of how women talk and speak like women (and men talk like men) can be found in cultures where there's a fairly great segregation between the sexes, even if the country has liberal/open attitudes toward sexuality (not Al Qaeda-prudish, etc). In Japan, for example, there are clear gender markers in speech, so that an American man talking with feminine speech patterns is clearly marked out as a Japanese woman's boyfriend (i.e. he learned Japanese mostly from his conversations with the woman).
Who knows, maybe men talk more to the point than women, even to the point of offending the other party, something that might be bad in the real, "social" world (where tact is an advantage), but good within the time-constrained frame of an interview. I wonder, how women would rank if the interview took place in stages. Would this male advantage still hold?
So I'm not a dictator if I do only one or two things on your list?
Seriously, dictators come in all sizes and shapes. Not all of them with a funny-looking moustache and a military suit. Zuckerberg may well be a smiling dictator who'll manifest his "dictatorial" tendencies only when his hold on power or influence is threaened.
I thought Wikipedia and its sister Wikis, which together make up the Wikimedia project, are the largest software project on the planet, based on any number of metrics from number of contributors, code base (yes, Virginia, HTML, wiki markup and natural languages such as English, German, Russian, etc. are and should be considered as code), cultural impact, and geographical dispersal. For better or for worse, politicians and plagiarists alike use Wikipedia.
"The universal income has been tried before in Soviet Socialism.
It has been above and beyond universal income. In a socialist system most of the people had a place to live, a job, education was free, healthcare was free, one or two years maternity and the pay was more or less the same for all professions. Socialism failed miserably and It will keep failing every single time."
Soviet socialism failed because of things other than free access to basic human needs and services. Ever heard of the word totalitarianism? Dictatorship of the proletariat? None of the (saner) advocates of UBI propose trading our FB/Twitter trolling/ranting rights for a monthly underage pension. UBI with the excess baggage of Soviet-style lifestyle control (can't choose where you want to live, travel, whoreship, etc) won't fly. Now show me an example of UBI implemented by a country as democratic, even if superficially, as Switzerland, the US or Canada, and then we can have a meaningful discussion.
Yes, everybody knew after 9/11 (or maybe even before) who the perpetrators were. The question was where. During the Cold War, it was easy enough to locate the targets of retaliation. Just stick a pin in your red-colored globe. Now, what would we do? Bomb every country in the Middle East except Israel and Turkey? Bomb maybe even India because they have a large Muslim population there? North Korea is probably an exception to the confusion. At least we know where to send the postcard.
Obama wants all the child pornographers in jail but not the all child abusers? But of course! War is a far worse form of child abuse, and nobody gets punished for it.
"The Yuan invasion of the Japanese islands. 1274 and 1281. I'm not posting in an attempt of starting a 1st-grader "who started it?" game. I am simply pointing to a well known, extremely important point in the history of warfare."
Doesn't count. China itself was under Mongol domination. That would make it more like the *attempted* Mongol invasion of Japan, which failed thanks to the original Kamikaze ("God Wind"), a freak storm that decimated the Mongol fleet.
The problem with treaties like the TPP is that they cover so much ground that even if the intention *were* good some minor apparatchik could sneak in a malicious provision. Those opposed to the treaty, which I'm sure has some or a few good provisions, could then be accused of wanting to throw out the baby along with the bath water, when their intention all along was to toss out the baby (our civil liberties).
NIH syndrome or something close to that. Japan only consumes/uses tech invented or heavily modified, like anime was once knockoffs of old American cartoons. Some exception for military hardware made in the USA. India gladly uses foreign tech and has the benefit of the Indian diaspora (number of US tech companies are led by Indian expats and some of these return to their former homeland).
It's the posters/users job to be funny, cute or downright irrelevant. But here we have another headline that means nothing or everything. Do a Disney? You mean, make cartoons, sue file sharers to oblivion, etc?
WTF I had to look up this one in the mighty wikipedia (https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/suss). Would be nice if you used plainer words or this one of those weird British attempts to balkanize the English language?
The space is pretty much the norm, by Asian standards. So basically they've taken an idea from East Asian (e.g. Japan but also including the less developed countries of South-East Asia and the non-ghost cities of China) countries with high urban densities and marketed it for Americans who don't want to live in the suburbs. The big difference is that they forgot to add additional stacks, since the typical configuration is packed both horizontally and vertically (i.e. high-rises).
What about Mediatek, Samsung (Exynos SoCs in many of their top-selling phones and tablets), the Chinese fabless semicons like Rockchip, Allwinner, etc, even Intel (Asus Zen phones/tablets)? Statistics please without qualifiers like, a near monopoly on tablets sold by LG, Moto, and so-and-so company.
Indifference is different from grudge. Parent says he couldn't be bothered to switch back. Could mean either grudge or he's simply happy with his marriage.
"More desktop users are using Windows 10 than use Linux - of any kernel number. By that logic, Windows must be better."
Apples to oranges. Windows 10 is an OS. Linux is a kernel. If you mean GNU/Linux, then yes desktop Windows, by that logic, is the better desktop OS (can play latest and greatest games, easier to install, better hardware support, etc). You can include Android and various other systems (embedded or otherewise) that use the Linux kernel, then you have an installed base larger than all Windows versions combined. Many of them power the Net of things, but Android is a front-facing Linux-based system (one of many). For many mobile use cases, Android is the better OS (more difficult than IOS but less confusing than Winphone).
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I suspect the satellite launch has more of political than military purpose. China's economy is going downhill and so it seems is its hopes of Olympic gold, its standing as number 2 (behind US) being threatened: http://www.reuters.com/article...
Who knows, maybe the propaganda bureau decided some good news is in order.
The problem stated in the summary was just to make surveillance more "expensive" not impossible for the spying parties. An ad hoc communication/information system that doesn't pass through, e.g Facebook/Google's servers fits the bill. A step up would be a system that doesn't use commercial ISPs, e.g. mesh networks. So there's still a world of choice before you start using your CB radios or narrow-casting using lasers.
"hope you have robust offisite backups that are secured
The linux kernel and software ecosystem is a bit sloppy from security and maturity perspective, there are better open source OS with better security libraries"
Maybe you mean offlne not offsite. There's this thing cryptocoiners call paper wallet which stores the crypto keys in printed forms, which are naturally kept offline until the moment you import them into your wallet program by scanning their machine-readable QR codes or if you're incredibly patient manually inputting the alphanumeric codes.
The wallet programs of most if not all Bitcoin-like crypocurrencies are open source so can be ported to ANY operating system that has a compiler/build system built for it, your choice of poison.
"Translation: I'm ignoring the idiocy of Trump's statement, and inventing a rationale that allows me to not feel like a contemptible moron for supporting the man."
Have you heard of the word "rhetorical"? Or do you use Google Translate for all your professional communication needs? Non-disclosure: I'm neither a Trump fan nor a hater.
"That's why the capitalists won and will continue to win."
Capitalism then is lot like Moore's Law. It's true until proven false, i.e. until you reach the edge of the cage. The cage being the unpredictability of quantum particles for Moore's Law and the limits of mass production, when relentless competition drives it to near zero margins of profit. Just because something has been true for so long doesn't mean it will be true forever. We're seeing the unravelling of capitalism right now.
The promise of future employment should also be considered a form of soft corruption. When a politico "retires" from public life he promptly get hired by industry. I don't know what's worse giving them a lifetime pension so they don't have to work or allowing the conflict of interest likely to arise when they're hired by a private company. This could be a case for the Socratic ideal of letting only old men become leaders. They serve in office until the day they die.
How about the Apollo 11 or alternatively the Apollo 17 landing site, the last time humans foot boots on the lunar ground? Preserve it from future droid/drone attacks from hardcore space enthusiasts too poor to get their organic selves onto a rocketship.
Rent seeking is not what you think it is. But I get your point. Such a "rental" model isn't going to last long when we're in the final days of the unholy Roman empire. In the jobless future, the only business that'll matter is show business. Yes, games and porn, the better to keep the masses from revolting.
So here's my advice to Nadella, Sell off Office and your other enterprise software businesses soon be made obsolete by Big Data AI. Focus on the Xbox, VR, etc. Your main costumer is going to be the government, the .001 percent, who will do everything in their power to remain in power. An entertained population fed with the minimum necessary to keep their stomachs growling will the prime objective.
So who were the jokers who modded this funny? It's actually quite insightful. An extreme example of how women talk and speak like women (and men talk like men) can be found in cultures where there's a fairly great segregation between the sexes, even if the country has liberal/open attitudes toward sexuality (not Al Qaeda-prudish, etc). In Japan, for example, there are clear gender markers in speech, so that an American man talking with feminine speech patterns is clearly marked out as a Japanese woman's boyfriend (i.e. he learned Japanese mostly from his conversations with the woman).
Who knows, maybe men talk more to the point than women, even to the point of offending the other party, something that might be bad in the real, "social" world (where tact is an advantage), but good within the time-constrained frame of an interview. I wonder, how women would rank if the interview took place in stages. Would this male advantage still hold?
So I'm not a dictator if I do only one or two things on your list?
Seriously, dictators come in all sizes and shapes. Not all of them with a funny-looking moustache and a military suit. Zuckerberg may well be a smiling dictator who'll manifest his "dictatorial" tendencies only when his hold on power or influence is threaened.
I thought Wikipedia and its sister Wikis, which together make up the Wikimedia project, are the largest software project on the planet, based on any number of metrics from number of contributors, code base (yes, Virginia, HTML, wiki markup and natural languages such as English, German, Russian, etc. are and should be considered as code), cultural impact, and geographical dispersal. For better or for worse, politicians and plagiarists alike use Wikipedia.
"The universal income has been tried before in Soviet Socialism.
It has been above and beyond universal income. In a socialist system most of the people had a place to live, a job, education was free, healthcare was free, one or two years maternity and the pay was more or less the same for all professions. Socialism failed miserably and It will keep failing every single time."
Soviet socialism failed because of things other than free access to basic human needs and services. Ever heard of the word totalitarianism? Dictatorship of the proletariat? None of the (saner) advocates of UBI propose trading our FB/Twitter trolling/ranting rights for a monthly underage pension. UBI with the excess baggage of Soviet-style lifestyle control (can't choose where you want to live, travel, whoreship, etc) won't fly. Now show me an example of UBI implemented by a country as democratic, even if superficially, as Switzerland, the US or Canada, and then we can have a meaningful discussion.
Yes, everybody knew after 9/11 (or maybe even before) who the perpetrators were. The question was where. During the Cold War, it was easy enough to locate the targets of retaliation. Just stick a pin in your red-colored globe. Now, what would we do? Bomb every country in the Middle East except Israel and Turkey? Bomb maybe even India because they have a large Muslim population there? North Korea is probably an exception to the confusion. At least we know where to send the postcard.
Obama wants all the child pornographers in jail but not the all child abusers? But of course! War is a far worse form of child abuse, and nobody gets punished for it.
"The Yuan invasion of the Japanese islands. 1274 and 1281. I'm not posting in an attempt of starting a 1st-grader "who started it?" game. I am simply pointing to a well known, extremely important point in the history of warfare."
Doesn't count. China itself was under Mongol domination. That would make it more like the *attempted* Mongol invasion of Japan, which failed thanks to the original Kamikaze ("God Wind"), a freak storm that decimated the Mongol fleet.
The problem with treaties like the TPP is that they cover so much ground that even if the intention *were* good some minor apparatchik could sneak in a malicious provision. Those opposed to the treaty, which I'm sure has some or a few good provisions, could then be accused of wanting to throw out the baby along with the bath water, when their intention all along was to toss out the baby (our civil liberties).
NIH syndrome or something close to that. Japan only consumes/uses tech invented or heavily modified, like anime was once knockoffs of old American cartoons. Some exception for military hardware made in the USA. India gladly uses foreign tech and has the benefit of the Indian diaspora (number of US tech companies are led by Indian expats and some of these return to their former homeland).
"You would be more correct by saying "Men with mustaches pretty much hold the record for murdering the most people."
That would make you "un bigote" (Spanish word for mustache)!
It's the posters/users job to be funny, cute or downright irrelevant. But here we have another headline that means nothing or everything. Do a Disney? You mean, make cartoons, sue file sharers to oblivion, etc?
WTF I had to look up this one in the mighty wikipedia (https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/suss). Would be nice if you used plainer words or this one of those weird British attempts to balkanize the English language?
The space is pretty much the norm, by Asian standards. So basically they've taken an idea from East Asian (e.g. Japan but also including the less developed countries of South-East Asia and the non-ghost cities of China) countries with high urban densities and marketed it for Americans who don't want to live in the suburbs. The big difference is that they forgot to add additional stacks, since the typical configuration is packed both horizontally and vertically (i.e. high-rises).
"Today, TAG Heuer officially announced its Connected Watch, which is its fist watch"
Finally the watch you can use to punch all those smart watch haters.
"Qualcomm has a near monopoly on Android SoCs"
What about Mediatek, Samsung (Exynos SoCs in many of their top-selling phones and tablets), the Chinese fabless semicons like Rockchip, Allwinner, etc, even Intel (Asus Zen phones/tablets)? Statistics please without qualifiers like, a near monopoly on tablets sold by LG, Moto, and so-and-so company.
Indifference is different from grudge. Parent says he couldn't be bothered to switch back. Could mean either grudge or he's simply happy with his marriage.
"More desktop users are using Windows 10 than use Linux - of any kernel number. By that logic, Windows must be better."
Apples to oranges. Windows 10 is an OS. Linux is a kernel. If you mean GNU/Linux, then yes desktop Windows, by that logic, is the better desktop OS (can play latest and greatest games, easier to install, better hardware support, etc). You can include Android and various other systems (embedded or otherewise) that use the Linux kernel, then you have an installed base larger than all Windows versions combined. Many of them power the Net of things, but Android is a front-facing Linux-based system (one of many). For many mobile use cases, Android is the better OS (more difficult than IOS but less confusing than Winphone).