It's the same in other countries too. The foundation of the state is a monopoly on the legitimate use violence. Haven't you been paying attention for the last few thousand years?
Drones can fly fast and fly low. If you can detect something flying fast and low from background noise and target it, that's great. If there are 30 of them flying fast right at you, that's a harder problem.
If there are 50 of them (they're cheap), then you're SOL.
If there are 100 of them (for redundancy) coming at you from all directions, then you're totally SOL.
Again, you only need a parrot-sized drone to do damage. Those can really go fast, especially if you don't care if they come back.
The problem with an EMP is you can't focus it. Focus an EMP and blast the electronics out of the sky. If anything you could disrupt the motors.
These things are going to become a major problem. If you have enough of them, you could outfit them with grapeshot and basically saturate an area. If they're cheap enough you could cover a really, really, really large area. Put lots of plastic explosive on them and you could do some serious damage to buildings and depots.
Today, a drone swarm would be basically unstoppable. Take a bunch of parrot AR drones and some plastic explosive and you'd be able to destroy or heavily damage any facility from afar. Good luck trying to stop them with anything.
It's amusing that academics complain about the salary differentials in the private sector, then do the same thing in their universities. Change yourself first, then agitate for change in the outside world.
If you aren't willing to eat your own dog food why are you trying to get someone else to eat it?
Go back to the day to app stores like getjar. Did you even know they existed? Did you know how people bought and sold software before app stores? Did you know how developers did?
I do, and it was expensive to sell. The app store led the way to what is almost a zero-cost way to sell your software. You didn't have to provide a few thousand copies of your software as "payment." You didn't have to print a box, manual, and make physical media.
Saying the app store and its execution weren't a great revolution shows that you are totally ignorant of how software was made and sold only a few years ago. Small developers for software really didn't exist. Nobody pays for shareware, and making a living as a small dev was basically impossible. The app store basically recreated the hobby developer market, period, and brought it to a level of mainstream that was never attained by normal PCs.
Better PR? Apple does have better PR. But Apple also does things that nobody else things will work, and makes it work well. Making something work well is substantially harder than you can imagine.
What the principal says can translate to practically the whole public school curriculum:
"learning gains don't necessarily transfer to the real world, or last much longer than the end of the school year"
Very little in public education in the US has actually been proven, vetted, or has any evidence of efficacy. In fact, the PS system as a whole has been condemned many times for poor performance, bad practices, lack of accountability, and is essentially a money pit designed to enrich union teachers.
Kids get "educated" despite the public schools, not because of them.
What he's saying is that the only "secure" version of something is x.x, x.y, z.x. Anything else is "insecure."
Well fuck, what about all those XP installations? Default apache configs? Systems using heartbleed SSL? What about if they're hosted on platforms that aren't current? What about embedded platforms?
Basically, 99% of the internet is insecure.
I mean, come on: 82.27% of perl installs are secure? 77.59% of python installs? Get real.
The financial system is fundamentally held together by one thing: trust. The US Dollar isn't the key currency because the US was the largest economy, or because we have the most weapons - although those things factor into it. The US Dollar is where it is because the US has the political will and ability to support the world financial system when things go bad, even though those actions may cause severe short-term problems in its own economy.
Do you trust China to manage your currency? Even the Chinese don't trust their government when it comes to money. Russia? The EU?
The article sounds pretty ridiculous, but in reality studies have shown that imagining practice is almost as good as practice.
Those "mirror neurons" sound like neurons being used to simulate actions of others. Saying that they automatically reflect actions taken by another is a stretch in humans. In monkeys, maybe it's triggering a pavlovian-style neural pathway.
I would rather not try to base a whole philosophy of something or another on animal studies. Try it on some college students first and see.
"Watching porn triggered the same neural pathways as actual sex." "When people see violent things it's like they're doing those violent things in their mind."
I think a more accurate statement which is consistent with humanity is:
"Kids model their behavior on what they see adults doing." That isn't the same as "mirror neurons" by far.
I remember Cloudera saying that most people use hadoop for ETL. Not sure if you've checked, but hadoop is like the ne plus ultra of ETL tools. It's worth a look if you have to transform lots and lots of data.
This is totally not a story about unintended consequences. If you read all three parts (which is a great read), you'll see that the cycle went like this:
Native fish taken out by alweifes Alewifes taken out by Salmon Salmon taken out by too few alewives (overfeeding) Native species recover, because of no alewifes
The original guy did exactly what he set out to do: destroy alewives with salmon and build a fishing economy. That was pretty successful. After that population crashed they eventually discovered that the original fish came back, due to the lack of alewives.
The unintended consequences in this case are positive - marine biologists were able to learn something totally unexpected by doing experiments on a large scale.
The original goal was never to get the native species back; it was to make the lakes back into a commercial fishery. Is the state today "better" because the native species are back? Who knows. Just because things are status quo ante doesn't mean it's better. That population is just as vulnerable to a die off as it used to be.
That's why it's better to read the article instead of skimming it.
Government purports to represent voters, but it's unclear whether that's the best solution. In the US, the government represent the concerns of people in a particular area, and that area happens to have voters in it.
The US Senate is designed to give equal representation to states, no matter how big or small. Puny states like MD or RI have as much voting power as NY and CA. Fair? No, if you count "fairness" by "representative based on population."
However, the Senate is fair if you count them as representatives of the States.
Likewise for Congressional districts. A Rep represents a district, and by extension the voters in a district.
By representing by straight vote count you will over-represent urban voters, which is exactly what's happening in most of the states today. That's bad for a number of reasons, the first being that concerns of urban voters are different than concerns of rural voters; the urban voters will always win on a straight up-and-down vote.
While this may seem great to the urbanistas, a bit of reflection should enlighten you as to why this would be a bad idea.
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It's the same in other countries too. The foundation of the state is a monopoly on the legitimate use violence. Haven't you been paying attention for the last few thousand years?
"Betters" are the ones with the guns.
Nicotine is just like caffeine, except better. Why would you want a vaccine for it?
The only problem with nicotine is that the easiest way to get it is smoking. But now with vaping or gum it should be safer.
Drones can fly fast and fly low. If you can detect something flying fast and low from background noise and target it, that's great. If there are 30 of them flying fast right at you, that's a harder problem.
If there are 50 of them (they're cheap), then you're SOL.
If there are 100 of them (for redundancy) coming at you from all directions, then you're totally SOL.
Again, you only need a parrot-sized drone to do damage. Those can really go fast, especially if you don't care if they come back.
The problem with an EMP is you can't focus it. Focus an EMP and blast the electronics out of the sky. If anything you could disrupt the motors.
These things are going to become a major problem. If you have enough of them, you could outfit them with grapeshot and basically saturate an area. If they're cheap enough you could cover a really, really, really large area. Put lots of plastic explosive on them and you could do some serious damage to buildings and depots.
Today, a drone swarm would be basically unstoppable. Take a bunch of parrot AR drones and some plastic explosive and you'd be able to destroy or heavily damage any facility from afar. Good luck trying to stop them with anything.
It's amusing that academics complain about the salary differentials in the private sector, then do the same thing in their universities. Change yourself first, then agitate for change in the outside world.
If you aren't willing to eat your own dog food why are you trying to get someone else to eat it?
It's a labor camp where people are making money.
Go back to the day to app stores like getjar. Did you even know they existed? Did you know how people bought and sold software before app stores? Did you know how developers did?
I do, and it was expensive to sell. The app store led the way to what is almost a zero-cost way to sell your software. You didn't have to provide a few thousand copies of your software as "payment." You didn't have to print a box, manual, and make physical media.
Saying the app store and its execution weren't a great revolution shows that you are totally ignorant of how software was made and sold only a few years ago. Small developers for software really didn't exist. Nobody pays for shareware, and making a living as a small dev was basically impossible. The app store basically recreated the hobby developer market, period, and brought it to a level of mainstream that was never attained by normal PCs.
Better PR? Apple does have better PR. But Apple also does things that nobody else things will work, and makes it work well. Making something work well is substantially harder than you can imagine.
What the principal says can translate to practically the whole public school curriculum:
"learning gains don't necessarily transfer to the real world, or last much longer than the end of the school year"
Very little in public education in the US has actually been proven, vetted, or has any evidence of efficacy. In fact, the PS system as a whole has been condemned many times for poor performance, bad practices, lack of accountability, and is essentially a money pit designed to enrich union teachers.
Kids get "educated" despite the public schools, not because of them.
Hey, what about that hiatus that didn't exist, and then it existed. Does it not exist again?
What he's saying is that the only "secure" version of something is x.x, x.y, z.x. Anything else is "insecure."
Well fuck, what about all those XP installations? Default apache configs? Systems using heartbleed SSL? What about if they're hosted on platforms that aren't current? What about embedded platforms?
Basically, 99% of the internet is insecure.
I mean, come on: 82.27% of perl installs are secure? 77.59% of python installs? Get real.
When you gate check a stroller, you get the stroller at the next hop, not at your destination.
You can also gate-check your bag, and it gets dumped into the normal cargo hold and meets you at the final destination. That's not the one you want.
Be sure you do the right one.
Wow, they must have really ticked off their gods. A 100 year drought? What did they do, accidentally sacrifice a non-virgin?
Real keyboardists use Alps switches, not Cherry MX.
Actually, you really don't get it.
The financial system is fundamentally held together by one thing: trust. The US Dollar isn't the key currency because the US was the largest economy, or because we have the most weapons - although those things factor into it. The US Dollar is where it is because the US has the political will and ability to support the world financial system when things go bad, even though those actions may cause severe short-term problems in its own economy.
Do you trust China to manage your currency? Even the Chinese don't trust their government when it comes to money. Russia? The EU?
Good luck with that.
The article sounds pretty ridiculous, but in reality studies have shown that imagining practice is almost as good as practice.
Those "mirror neurons" sound like neurons being used to simulate actions of others. Saying that they automatically reflect actions taken by another is a stretch in humans. In monkeys, maybe it's triggering a pavlovian-style neural pathway.
I would rather not try to base a whole philosophy of something or another on animal studies. Try it on some college students first and see.
"Watching porn triggered the same neural pathways as actual sex."
"When people see violent things it's like they're doing those violent things in their mind."
I think a more accurate statement which is consistent with humanity is:
"Kids model their behavior on what they see adults doing." That isn't the same as "mirror neurons" by far.
Bad music. Wish they had a front facing camera. Why not get a go pro sponsorship?
I remember Cloudera saying that most people use hadoop for ETL. Not sure if you've checked, but hadoop is like the ne plus ultra of ETL tools. It's worth a look if you have to transform lots and lots of data.
Yeah, I remember when 1mhz was fast.
Look on eBay for parts; you can upgrade your device to 240GB. It's pretty easy to do, for the most part.
"I'm going to sit here and drink my coffee."
Great, my data is protected by federal laws.
So what happens when there's an "unauthorized release" of your data by a federal agency?
Nothing!
That's why the laws on "unauthorized release" are bogus when you're talking about the government. No penalty = no enforcement = no care.
The TLA agencies care about your data when they need to ensure your cooperation with an ongoing investigation.
Where's the oversight? Oh, it was by the same people that oversee the NSA, never mind.
This is totally not a story about unintended consequences. If you read all three parts (which is a great read), you'll see that the cycle went like this:
Native fish taken out by alweifes
Alewifes taken out by Salmon
Salmon taken out by too few alewives (overfeeding)
Native species recover, because of no alewifes
The original guy did exactly what he set out to do: destroy alewives with salmon and build a fishing economy. That was pretty successful. After that population crashed they eventually discovered that the original fish came back, due to the lack of alewives.
The unintended consequences in this case are positive - marine biologists were able to learn something totally unexpected by doing experiments on a large scale.
The original goal was never to get the native species back; it was to make the lakes back into a commercial fishery. Is the state today "better" because the native species are back? Who knows. Just because things are status quo ante doesn't mean it's better. That population is just as vulnerable to a die off as it used to be.
That's why it's better to read the article instead of skimming it.
So, Rocket for Android would be called Pocket Rocket?
Government purports to represent voters, but it's unclear whether that's the best solution. In the US, the government represent the concerns of people in a particular area, and that area happens to have voters in it.
The US Senate is designed to give equal representation to states, no matter how big or small. Puny states like MD or RI have as much voting power as NY and CA. Fair? No, if you count "fairness" by "representative based on population."
However, the Senate is fair if you count them as representatives of the States.
Likewise for Congressional districts. A Rep represents a district, and by extension the voters in a district.
By representing by straight vote count you will over-represent urban voters, which is exactly what's happening in most of the states today. That's bad for a number of reasons, the first being that concerns of urban voters are different than concerns of rural voters; the urban voters will always win on a straight up-and-down vote.
While this may seem great to the urbanistas, a bit of reflection should enlighten you as to why this would be a bad idea.