If anyone using a cellphone doesn't understand Caller-ID, or that the entire system is based on knowing where your phone is (to wtihin the range of a given tower), then they're probably not worthy of having privacy.
Being able to find someone's name and location is not exactly a privacy issue.
Next thing you know, the nuffers will be posting stories about the privacy implications of the Marauder's Map.
Because nukes are bad, and reducing their numbers is good domestic politics for the left and bad for the right.
And because reducing our dependence on them sets an example; because then other nations might reduce their dependence; and because the world may then be more amenable to helping us prevent non-nuclear nations from getting them.
Ballistic missiles don't fly around obstacles. Hell, we can phone Pooty-poot and say, "we're putting one down the throats of the Klingons, don't get your panties in a bunch."
It's fucking expensive.
Hello. This is national fucking defense. We got way past worrying about expense a long fucking time ago. Something about people not wanting to die in the progress of losing the fucking nation. Happens to fucking everyone. Come up with a better and cheaper solution instead of just whining about fucking taxes?
Who are you realistically going to strike with it. Anywhere in the middle east, North Korea, and most of Europe is currently within fighter range and can be hit in relatively short time from conventional fighter/bombers.
As others have pointed out, the ability to paint those places with appropriate force takes time. Days, if not weeks. This device can be done with its job within an hour of launch, no matter where that job needs to be done. Places we don't currently have any force presence can be covered with conventional-strike capability, instead of having to choose between a nuclear strike or waiting days to do anything.
Having superpowers that have the right tools is a good thing, especially when you live one village away from the maniacs.
Diplomacy takes thinking. Hardliners rarely bother with thinking, preferring to repeat the part of history they were taught. You know, the part written by the victors, who were retroactively justifying their use of force and the collateral damage it caused.
All politics is local. We can't even keep Arizona in line on Human Rights, and I'm pretty sure they're still our ally. Pretty sure. That's the best I can give you.
But Bush was okay with invading an irrelevant backwater to get one man, even though he knew that would turn a 5-year war against a well-defined terrorist corpration into a 100-year war against a race and a religion.
"I don't see how this even begins to approach the amount they are in for.."
It doesn't.
They are offering something that costs them nearly $0, in compensation for large-cost effort repairing machines broken by rogue software, which is precisely they were originally paid large-cost actual $$ to prevent.
Not getting more revenue is not at all the same thing as "paying for repairs". In "paying for repairs", they would transfer $ to the affected parties, and those parties could still buy a competing product and be even in $ terms for those two years.
So instead of waiting for the first Service Pack, you wait for the next release? or the random chance a patch for this problem will show up? But as you've noticed, new releases and new patches bring the risk of new bugs.
Right now, the proprietary OS on my hardware is being updated automatically every 3-5 days with patches and whatnot.
Big pieces of software come with big lists of bugs; it doesn't matter what the business model is.
Well, sure, then. The number is good for one transaction. Exposing it is no problem at all. In fact, it's entirely the point of a one-time-use identifier. You can tattoo your old ones down your arm like Angelina Jolie's spawning coordinates.
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Sure. Her house is on the moon.
She can't be from this planet.
Sure. Moon aliens. From the Earth.
If anyone using a cellphone doesn't understand Caller-ID, or that the entire system is based on knowing where your phone is (to wtihin the range of a given tower), then they're probably not worthy of having privacy.
Being able to find someone's name and location is not exactly a privacy issue.
Next thing you know, the nuffers will be posting stories about the privacy implications of the Marauder's Map.
I saw nothing in any of this that said anything about "taking" anything.
"Taking out" an enemy, sure. But that's nowhere near a war of acquisition.
Because nukes are bad, and reducing their numbers is good domestic politics for the left and bad for the right.
And because reducing our dependence on them sets an example; because then other nations might reduce their dependence; and because the world may then be more amenable to helping us prevent non-nuclear nations from getting them.
It looks like a nuclear ballistic missile launch.
Ballistic missiles don't fly around obstacles. Hell, we can phone Pooty-poot and say, "we're putting one down the throats of the Klingons, don't get your panties in a bunch."
It's fucking expensive.
Hello. This is national fucking defense. We got way past worrying about expense a long fucking time ago. Something about people not wanting to die in the progress of losing the fucking nation. Happens to fucking everyone. Come up with a better and cheaper solution instead of just whining about fucking taxes?
Who are you realistically going to strike with it. Anywhere in the middle east, North Korea, and most of Europe is currently within fighter range and can be hit in relatively short time from conventional fighter/bombers.
As others have pointed out, the ability to paint those places with appropriate force takes time. Days, if not weeks. This device can be done with its job within an hour of launch, no matter where that job needs to be done. Places we don't currently have any force presence can be covered with conventional-strike capability, instead of having to choose between a nuclear strike or waiting days to do anything.
Having superpowers that have the right tools is a good thing, especially when you live one village away from the maniacs.
Diplomacy takes thinking. Hardliners rarely bother with thinking, preferring to repeat the part of history they were taught. You know, the part written by the victors, who were retroactively justifying their use of force and the collateral damage it caused.
All politics is local. We can't even keep Arizona in line on Human Rights, and I'm pretty sure they're still our ally. Pretty sure. That's the best I can give you.
Dang it. You should phone me when you're going to post things like that. I used up all my mod points this morning.
But Bush was okay with invading an irrelevant backwater to get one man, even though he knew that would turn a 5-year war against a well-defined terrorist corpration into a 100-year war against a race and a religion.
Seems wierd. Isn't.
Downgrading from nuke-tipped ICBMs to conventional-explosive tipped hypersonic cruise missiles is the less-hawkish stance.
The previous administration was all too happy to dump the program when they realized the Russians were asking them to keep the nukes.
Obama is willing to put in the effort to resolve the technical problem of identifying these objects as non-nuclear.
"I don't see how this even begins to approach the amount they are in for.."
It doesn't.
They are offering something that costs them nearly $0, in compensation for large-cost effort repairing machines broken by rogue software, which is precisely they were originally paid large-cost actual $$ to prevent.
Not getting more revenue is not at all the same thing as "paying for repairs". In "paying for repairs", they would transfer $ to the affected parties, and those parties could still buy a competing product and be even in $ terms for those two years.
Someone set us up the patch...
(had to be said, and probably was, but it's monday, and I don't use McRapifee, so i felt compelled)
Then you're his target audience.
This guy is giving second-hand and speculative "evidence", and it's not holding up to scrutiny.
The tobacco industry has plenty of "qualified" people on its research staff as well, and it still sells cancer on a stick.
See above about argumentum ad verecundiam
look up argumentum ad verecundiam, then come back and apologize
It's plenty hardcore once you try to go past the velvet ropes of the user-friendly part.
So instead of waiting for the first Service Pack, you wait for the next release? or the random chance a patch for this problem will show up? But as you've noticed, new releases and new patches bring the risk of new bugs.
Right now, the proprietary OS on my hardware is being updated automatically every 3-5 days with patches and whatnot.
Big pieces of software come with big lists of bugs; it doesn't matter what the business model is.
The police, and policy in general, are simple:
1. Ignore something.
2. If there's a crime associated with it, stop ignoring it, and start treating it as the crime.
3. Ignore something else.
And so on.
Everyone rent Breach.
Even the CIA has its bandwidth leeches.
So what you're asking is, who regulates the regulators?
Well, sure, then. The number is good for one transaction. Exposing it is no problem at all. In fact, it's entirely the point of a one-time-use identifier. You can tattoo your old ones down your arm like Angelina Jolie's spawning coordinates.
50 pills * 30 mg = 1.5 grams of codeine.
LD 50 for codeine is 0.8 grams.
You won't feel a thing. Except maybe the itching.
Agree. The US FOIA charge is some ridiculous amount per page of information.
Yeah, but we're fucking up their friends.
It's because business is going to China and toursim is going to the UAE.