I might want to say as representing an unofficial "NSA spook" (as in I toured through their building once or twice) that the NSA uses a whole lot of Linux boxes. Most of the rest of the government doesn't.
"You are "buying" a walled garden full of security holes and endless paid upgrades"
Let me see if I got this. The government should boycott Apple because it's too secure for the FBI to break into. At the same time, Apple is too full of security holes for said government to trust it. Is this the kind of logic that politicians use?
So, how many tons of additional CO2 were released in order to remove a tiny bit of CO2 from the atmosphere?
According to TFA, the process is solar. Solar processes are automatically exempt from any quibbles over land usage, maintenance requirements, useful life, or carbon generated by mining and manufacturing. Such objections may only be raised if someone mentions nuclear.
The same blog notes a continuing problem with slack operations at the Springfield plant. Because of its hiring of two-dimensional yellow employees with diminished concern about safety and a poor diet, closure of the local Lard Lad franchise and alcoholism awareness training for all employees was recommended. Video of high-level waste being accidentally brought home in an employee's car and being tossed out onto a public street when discovered was submitted to the NRC in evidence.
Data and algorithms would be too expensive for Americans to afford. In any case, the data and algorithms available in Europe and Asia would be so much better than ours that there would be "Internet tourism" overseas to take advantage of them.
Taking the train to Berlin shortly after reunification, I was struck by the difference between prosperous Braunschweig and the next town, run-down, freshly liberated Magdeburg. In Berlin, I saw the Brandenburger Tor standing by itself in the open, recalling how much grainy newsreel footage I had grown up with of people being shot for sneaking through it.
Costly at first to feed and house millions of Germans who had been starving for two generations and had been used to planned poverty, but they caught up surprisingly fast.
Koreans have been one people since the beginning of history. We tend to forget that the whole idea of North Korea dates back only to the immediate postwar years. NK is a fake country that has existed this long only because of the perceived support of China, which is now finding the place to be more trouble than it's worth. When the wall comes down. no matter what the reason, Both Korea will immediately cease to exist, and there won't even be any equivalent of Ostalgie.
"Did you miss the bit about warrantless mass surveillance of the US people by the NSA?"
Which if it were really as good as you paranoids think it is, there would be no Apple controversy. Police agencies would be trying to lull terrorists and criminals into thinking there data is safe in iPhones, which they would be merrily decryptin. And there wouldn't be this global rash of ransomware attacks, because we would be able to identify where the threats were coming from and trace their Bitcoin transfers.
How about a course in logic, particularly Boolean logic? I agree, very few people really need to understand logarithms or even polynomials. But learning how to think, and solve problems is important.
My favorite high school class was geometry, and not because I ever had any great need to measure the elements of circles, lines and polygons. What I took to was the idea of formal proof, and what I didn't know at the time was that it was pointing me to a career in software development, a field whose very existence very few people were aware of at the time.
It's not necessary to make all school math 'practical' but to explain it in terms that are observable in the world around us. Poisson distributions ('bell curves") are all around us if we care to look. And before getting bogged down in the fine points of l'Hôpital's Rule, explain derivatives as the rates of change that we see around us (resting object, moving object, falling object...).
"Meanwhile I saw a bitcoin vending machine in the vestibule of a restaurant the other day, next to the other candy machines, and was happy to be able to seamlessly exchange currencies in a few seconds. The arbitrage between that machine and Amazon makes purse.io a huge boon for local residents."
How are customers adjusting to the idea of swiping in a Bitcoin purchase, and then waiting an hour for the blockchain to update before their soda drops? How large a crowd accumulates around the machine on hot days?
So Australia is in an anti-science race with the US, then?
With a little more cooperation between the two societies instead, we could both reach the Stone Age faster. The US can contribute a lot of Bible technology and has the world's most powerful set of activist lawyers who are old hands at shutting down science, while Australia can contribute the police-state methods that we have been behind in.
Cybercrime has gone through a rough patch recently because of the fragmentation of its OS base. So many users still on XP, and the higher-end users cycling rapidly through Windows 7, then 8 and 8.1, and now 10. As soon as the majority of users can be migrated to 10 as Microsoft intends, cybercrime will be off and running again.
"...vastly reduce downtime and maintenance/manpower costs..."
After a few years pass, what's the maintenance going to look like on hundreds of thousands of wind turbine nacelles filled with complex gearing that has been whipped by salt spray, pooped on by birds and visited by the occasional gang of metal thieves? What happens when sand dunes 'walk' over your solar array?
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I might want to say as representing an unofficial "NSA spook" (as in I toured through their building once or twice) that the NSA uses a whole lot of Linux boxes. Most of the rest of the government doesn't.
Actually, I have seen the same thing at JPL.
"You are "buying" a walled garden full of security holes and endless paid upgrades"
Let me see if I got this. The government should boycott Apple because it's too secure for the FBI to break into. At the same time, Apple is too full of security holes for said government to trust it. Is this the kind of logic that politicians use?
Until they start bitching about a lithium shortage.
Republicants don't want better batteries
Of course we do, in milking our gay space cows.
So, how many tons of additional CO2 were released in order to remove a tiny bit of CO2 from the atmosphere?
According to TFA, the process is solar. Solar processes are automatically exempt from any quibbles over land usage, maintenance requirements, useful life, or carbon generated by mining and manufacturing. Such objections may only be raised if someone mentions nuclear.
The same blog notes a continuing problem with slack operations at the Springfield plant. Because of its hiring of two-dimensional yellow employees with diminished concern about safety and a poor diet, closure of the local Lard Lad franchise and alcoholism awareness training for all employees was recommended. Video of high-level waste being accidentally brought home in an employee's car and being tossed out onto a public street when discovered was submitted to the NRC in evidence.
Data and algorithms would be too expensive for Americans to afford. In any case, the data and algorithms available in Europe and Asia would be so much better than ours that there would be "Internet tourism" overseas to take advantage of them.
Taking the train to Berlin shortly after reunification, I was struck by the difference between prosperous Braunschweig and the next town, run-down, freshly liberated Magdeburg. In Berlin, I saw the Brandenburger Tor standing by itself in the open, recalling how much grainy newsreel footage I had grown up with of people being shot for sneaking through it.
Costly at first to feed and house millions of Germans who had been starving for two generations and had been used to planned poverty, but they caught up surprisingly fast.
Koreans have been one people since the beginning of history. We tend to forget that the whole idea of North Korea dates back only to the immediate postwar years. NK is a fake country that has existed this long only because of the perceived support of China, which is now finding the place to be more trouble than it's worth. When the wall comes down. no matter what the reason, Both Korea will immediately cease to exist, and there won't even be any equivalent of Ostalgie.
And...imagine how many more products a unified Korea could make?
Just stop paying attention and he will go away.
It works on internet trolls right? Right?
It's time to eliminate AC countries.
At the next data security conference, let's poll the experts on this question. Let's see what percentage of FBI supporters we get.
"You jail the recalcitrant CEO. Short of that you jail the highest ranked company official in teh country. Simple."
And what army gets the dastardly execs from Cupertino to Paris?
"Did you miss the bit about warrantless mass surveillance of the US people by the NSA?"
Which if it were really as good as you paranoids think it is, there would be no Apple controversy. Police agencies would be trying to lull terrorists and criminals into thinking there data is safe in iPhones, which they would be merrily decryptin. And there wouldn't be this global rash of ransomware attacks, because we would be able to identify where the threats were coming from and trace their Bitcoin transfers.
Sure, you need all that storage for a "gaming" rig. ;)
The toilet paper roll on your desk is just for wiping your nose as well, right?
Yes, you could download the entire San Fernando Valley onto one of those puppies.
Aha! An ALGEBRA book! An Arab name for a weapon of math instruction.
How about a course in logic, particularly Boolean logic? I agree, very few people really need to understand logarithms or even polynomials. But learning how to think, and solve problems is important.
My favorite high school class was geometry, and not because I ever had any great need to measure the elements of circles, lines and polygons. What I took to was the idea of formal proof, and what I didn't know at the time was that it was pointing me to a career in software development, a field whose very existence very few people were aware of at the time.
It's not necessary to make all school math 'practical' but to explain it in terms that are observable in the world around us. Poisson distributions ('bell curves") are all around us if we care to look. And before getting bogged down in the fine points of l'Hôpital's Rule, explain derivatives as the rates of change that we see around us (resting object, moving object, falling object...).
"Meanwhile I saw a bitcoin vending machine in the vestibule of a restaurant the other day, next to the other candy machines, and was happy to be able to seamlessly exchange currencies in a few seconds. The arbitrage between that machine and Amazon makes purse.io a huge boon for local residents."
How are customers adjusting to the idea of swiping in a Bitcoin purchase, and then waiting an hour for the blockchain to update before their soda drops? How large a crowd accumulates around the machine on hot days?
What flagpole sitter has been in microgravity the whole time? We need to know the effects of long-term exposure.
Can we get some sort of software to simply block these politicians?
To put it another way, how far can the sun sink after having set on the British Empire?
Voila, mon ami! Vingt turbines françaises sont cassées!
http://www.france24.com/en/201...
So Australia is in an anti-science race with the US, then?
With a little more cooperation between the two societies instead, we could both reach the Stone Age faster. The US can contribute a lot of Bible technology and has the world's most powerful set of activist lawyers who are old hands at shutting down science, while Australia can contribute the police-state methods that we have been behind in.
Cybercrime has gone through a rough patch recently because of the fragmentation of its OS base. So many users still on XP, and the higher-end users cycling rapidly through Windows 7, then 8 and 8.1, and now 10. As soon as the majority of users can be migrated to 10 as Microsoft intends, cybercrime will be off and running again.
"...vastly reduce downtime and maintenance/manpower costs..."
After a few years pass, what's the maintenance going to look like on hundreds of thousands of wind turbine nacelles filled with complex gearing that has been whipped by salt spray, pooped on by birds and visited by the occasional gang of metal thieves? What happens when sand dunes 'walk' over your solar array?
Energy sprawl means maintenance sprawl.