I agree. but it should be noted that in the USA the police cannot require you to "cooperate" unless they arrest you (though they will tell you otherwise). The only thing they can demand is that you not get in their way.
How do you know that Northrup didn't suggest them? Or that Northrop wasn't the lowest qualified bidder by being the only one not to include backups in their bid? When you buy a computer do you expect the vendor to throw in a free backup system even though you didn't ask for it "because you should have it"?
The fighting is about politics, not minerals. This will just make everyone in the region poorer. The minerals will continue to come out albeit at a reduced rate while yet another layer of criminal politicians seize the opportunity to enrich themselves by falsifying the documents necessary to get the stuff on the legal market.
This is just more feelgood crap from the assholes in Washington.
> But I have about as much idea of what's going on inside of my Ubuntu as I did > my Windows, from a backdoor perspective.
However, hundreds of highly skilled Debian Developers know exactly what is going on inside Debian. And many of them live outside the USA and don't particularly like or trust the US government. Many of those same people are also Ubuntu developers. While it is not inconceivable that some agency (not necessarily of the US government) might slip a trojan in, it is highly unlikely.
If it was something that was frequently attempted some would have been spotted. You can bet such a thing would get as much embarrassing attention as possible (and that's a lot). Why risk it when almost everyone runs Windows and most Linux servers run buggy Php apps? Just choose one of the zillions of existing exploits and be happy. No one will ever know you aren't just another cracker.
A "smart meter" such as you describe could belong to and be controlled by the customer. It would just need access to the current price. Such meters could be deployed right now with no need for new regulations or investment by utility companies.
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I agree. but it should be noted that in the USA the police cannot require you to "cooperate" unless they arrest you (though they will tell you otherwise). The only thing they can demand is that you not get in their way.
Sure, as long as it wasn't too difficult to wipe it and install Debian.
How do you know that Northrup didn't suggest them? Or that Northrop wasn't the lowest qualified bidder by being the only one not to include backups in their bid? When you buy a computer do you expect the vendor to throw in a free backup system even though you didn't ask for it "because you should have it"?
Sounds to me like the state got what it ordered.
> The difference is that the Daily Show and Colbert Report are both more
> entertaining are more accurate...
I.e., more in line with your politics.
> MS killed Netscape because MS gained the edge in development of HTML and
> JavaScript standards.
No. IE beat Netscape because it was free and came with the OS. No other reason.
> redundancy.
+5 Funny.
Why virtual servers? If you are going to run multiple services on one machine (and that's fine if it can handle the load) just do it.
> But nobody talks bad about hybrids.
No, not nobody. Just not anyone who gets listened to.
> You don't have to strip mine for Lithium.
Instead you stripmine for coal.
> New research from UC Berkeley and ICF International puts a period at the end
> of the discussion...
New research my ass. A back-of-the-envelope calculation by anyone who passed first year physics suffices.
The fighting is about politics, not minerals. This will just make everyone in the region poorer. The minerals will continue to come out albeit at a reduced rate while yet another layer of criminal politicians seize the opportunity to enrich themselves by falsifying the documents necessary to get the stuff on the legal market.
This is just more feelgood crap from the assholes in Washington.
> I don't think that's exactly what's meant by mass-energy equivalence.
It is exactly what is meant by mass-energy equivalence.
> Can't draw? Just visualize!
Those who can't draw can't visualize (unless they are physically disabled).
> when someday nanobots will build an interface directly inside the brain?
Without you even knowing about it.
What makes you think that the life of the hunter-gatherer is lower stress?
> But I have about as much idea of what's going on inside of my Ubuntu as I did
> my Windows, from a backdoor perspective.
However, hundreds of highly skilled Debian Developers know exactly what is going on inside Debian. And many of them live outside the USA and don't particularly like or trust the US government. Many of those same people are also Ubuntu developers. While it is not inconceivable that some agency (not necessarily of the US government) might slip a trojan in, it is highly unlikely.
If it was something that was frequently attempted some would have been spotted. You can bet such a thing would get as much embarrassing attention as possible (and that's a lot). Why risk it when almost everyone runs Windows and most Linux servers run buggy Php apps? Just choose one of the zillions of existing exploits and be happy. No one will ever know you aren't just another cracker.
> The NSA, CIA or FBI made the backdoor. And then forced Microsoft to include
> it in the final build of the OS.
In that case it might actually work.
"It's for the RIAA."
> Windows would have no viruses...
What gives you that idea?
> Hey man, information wants to be free.
How, then, is Google to profit from it?
> Is this the price you pay for having each tab run in a separate process?
That depends on the OS. On some the price of creating a new process is very high. On others a process costs only a little more than a thread.
A "smart meter" such as you describe could belong to and be controlled by the customer. It would just need access to the current price. Such meters could be deployed right now with no need for new regulations or investment by utility companies.
Won't happen, of course.
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Some say math is discovered. Others say it is invented. You are one of the latter.
...will require far more computing power than would thinking. It's still very useful, though, because it allows us to study thinking.