Our space program since Apollo has gotten better. Unless you think their is some scientific value in sending humans to play golf on other worlds.
Laugh and minimize all you want, but the one geologist to land on the Moon managed to learn more (and faster) in his one short trip than all of the Mars rovers combined. Why, you ask? Because he didn't have to waste time looking at a picture and speculating on what a shadow or shape looked like it could be. Instead, he just walked up to an item of interest, looked at it, and was able to discern in seconds something that, well, takes teams of scientists weeks on end to speculate over nowadays.
...then there's that niggling fact that someday, space may be the only habitable home we have left after this one gets wrecked - be it by us or by the first asteroid that decides not to simply pass by. It would be nice to already have the tech to live there - preferably long before we're forced to learn it on a tight schedule.
Let's discuss something a little more pressing, shall we Mr. President?
At risk of being modded into oblivion as a troll, this speech today happened exactly because of those "more pressing" matters.
The dude (and many of his acolytes, e.g. Nancy Pelosi) are being slammed with demands that the NSA knock off their rolling 4th Amendment violations program, that the IRS stop targeting political opponents, and a whole host of other scandals that the White House just can't seem to shake.
So, what do you do when you find yourself in trouble? Go talk about hot-button issues that your supporters love and care about - it makes your supporters love you again, and your opponents go talk about something else until that something else dies down or gets forgotten. Poll number drooping among your supporters due to missteps? Talk about gay marriage. IRS caught targeting groups who oppose you? Make abortion pills OTC for teenage girls. You lose an embassy due to incompetence and you get caught spinning the story badly? Seize a tragedy and bring up gun control. Your NSA and Justice Department get caught violating the crap out of everyone's rights and even the New York Times is hating on you for it? Talk about climate change.
To be perfectly fair, if Obama had an "(R)" after his name, he'd bring up anti-abortion initiatives, immigration controls, and similar... The point is that there's a whole lot of political moves that are equivalent to a "Look over there!" maneuver, and it's getting pretty blatant. So before you go shouting "flamebait", stop and think about this for a minute. These initiatives and changes comes pretty hot on the heels of any scandal that threatens to wake up (and more frighteningly, enrage) the public en masse...
Chances are that readers here think that being naked in a cave with everyone including shivering Natalie Portman, Olivia Munn and Misti Dawn might not be all bad. ICBW
ICBW indeed. Include a shivering naked Roseanne Barr, and see how far that fantasy flies.
I seriously doubt it will be implemented against any company or person that is sufficiently connected to the PRC government - this list would include pretty much every existing big company HQ'd in China.
Now potential competitors to the aforementioned companies, and anyone who the PRC government doesn't like? Oh hell yes it'll be implemented - even if the offender has to get a little governmental 'assistance' in generating pollution sufficient to warrant execution.
So tell me - what's to stop Microsoft from dropping this in a year later, after they've convinced the public to buy a metric ton of these things (and more importantly, the games to with them)?
The more I see console maker assholery, the more I like using my actual computer for gaming...
Meh - I smell a trial balloon that fell with a thud.
I can see them floating it out there to get reactions, that they can then show the bigger and more assholish game studios (*cough*EA*cough*) and say "See? We told you this is a bad idea."...that or Ballmer really is that frickin' stupid...
Funnier still, the MS fanboys use that name as well (well, they use it as shorthand for "XBox One", or rather, they intend that it comes out as "XBOne")
Sorry, but it's a zombie. Vampires are at least smart enough to avoid those things which they are vulnerable to, and avoid drawing undue attention to themselves.
SCO hasn't a single functioning brain left in its ranks. See also that whole parade of crap they've loudly spewed over the past 10 years.
The MS store should sell a Windows 8 to Windows 7 downgrade service. It'd likely help Best Buy sell more Windows machines that are stagnating on the shelf with Windows 8.
Indeed - I'm surprised that BB hasn't pushed the whole Geek Squad setup directly at this service. They'd make a mint from the ignorant.
Xbox One + Accessories Surface + Accessories Nokia Smart Phones
He said "decent". It also helps if they exist and are for sale.
Seriously... The first isn't even RTM yet (and the gamers are currently screaming about how they're all gonna buy PS4s because of the stupid DRM). The second? Which one? The one that can actually run "my Windows software", or the one whose screen/UI looks just like it but doesn't run "my Windows software"? The third? Okay, maybe, if it didn't have to compete with those massive Android and iOS ecosystems.
Funny you mention the year 1984......as recently as when that book was originally written, if this kind of news came out? I suspect that half the federal government would have been recalled, impeached, and imprisoned. That is, if the White House wasn't burned down first.
Problem is, you have to *keep* fighting against any and all loss of rights. People are corrupt, greedy, and stupid... this naturally leads to an erosion of individual rights.
Freedom is a high-maintenance thing, but the cost of not doing the maintenance is slavery; if history is any indication, the outcome is all too damned common.
What was the saying again? "A republic, if you can keep it." People keep forgetting that last bit.
Don't worry. Under PRISM the NSA can watch movies all day long using your credentials..
Laugh all you want, but I recall working for a certain gov't project while in uniform, and we had access to *all* the satellite channels in the barracks out on the test range. They eventually ditched the pr0n channels in an attempt to cut back on the divorce rate.
(Seriously - true story. Only diff is it wasn't the NSA, but the USAF back in the late 1980's.)
To be fair, most auto manufacturers don't incorporate a functionality that kills the engine of a stolen car (GM has OnStar which does it, but that requires a subscription by the owner).
Yep. Now imagine all the myriad of things that they already do behind closed doors & in the shadows that we don't know about...and will most likely never find out about.
Depends -
Sometimes it's a good/legitimate thing (the F-117 Stealth Fighter program was originally a black-funded project.)
Sometimes it's a grab for power (the recent NSA crap.)
The submitter probably doesn't have access to their version control.
He doesn't need it if The Wayback Machine has an older copy of the page, and if they kept a copy of his code along with it. If this is true, he can estimate the date it changed, and point prospective clients to that - let 'em argue against a third party website archive at that point.
Hell, I think if I wrote website code, I'd make it a point to request that archive.org uploaded a copy of the thing into their archive the moment I released the code to production.
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Our space program since Apollo has gotten better. Unless you think their is some scientific value in sending humans to play golf on other worlds.
Laugh and minimize all you want, but the one geologist to land on the Moon managed to learn more (and faster) in his one short trip than all of the Mars rovers combined. Why, you ask? Because he didn't have to waste time looking at a picture and speculating on what a shadow or shape looked like it could be. Instead, he just walked up to an item of interest, looked at it, and was able to discern in seconds something that, well, takes teams of scientists weeks on end to speculate over nowadays.
Let's discuss something a little more pressing, shall we Mr. President?
At risk of being modded into oblivion as a troll, this speech today happened exactly because of those "more pressing" matters.
The dude (and many of his acolytes, e.g. Nancy Pelosi) are being slammed with demands that the NSA knock off their rolling 4th Amendment violations program, that the IRS stop targeting political opponents, and a whole host of other scandals that the White House just can't seem to shake.
So, what do you do when you find yourself in trouble? Go talk about hot-button issues that your supporters love and care about - it makes your supporters love you again, and your opponents go talk about something else until that something else dies down or gets forgotten. Poll number drooping among your supporters due to missteps? Talk about gay marriage. IRS caught targeting groups who oppose you? Make abortion pills OTC for teenage girls. You lose an embassy due to incompetence and you get caught spinning the story badly? Seize a tragedy and bring up gun control. Your NSA and Justice Department get caught violating the crap out of everyone's rights and even the New York Times is hating on you for it? Talk about climate change.
To be perfectly fair, if Obama had an "(R)" after his name, he'd bring up anti-abortion initiatives, immigration controls, and similar... The point is that there's a whole lot of political moves that are equivalent to a "Look over there!" maneuver, and it's getting pretty blatant. So before you go shouting "flamebait", stop and think about this for a minute. These initiatives and changes comes pretty hot on the heels of any scandal that threatens to wake up (and more frighteningly, enrage) the public en masse...
Chances are that readers here think that being naked in a cave with everyone including shivering Natalie Portman, Olivia Munn and Misti Dawn might not be all bad.
ICBW
ICBW indeed. Include a shivering naked Roseanne Barr, and see how far that fantasy flies.
This man is in denial.
Well, to be fair, maybe they'll kick up the source code to github for a rootkit?
I don't know. If you have the death penalty I can see pollution being a worthy offense.
So who do you execute, then? The entire board of directors, the guy(s) that did it directly, or all of them?
I seriously doubt it will be implemented against any company or person that is sufficiently connected to the PRC government - this list would include pretty much every existing big company HQ'd in China.
Now potential competitors to the aforementioned companies, and anyone who the PRC government doesn't like? Oh hell yes it'll be implemented - even if the offender has to get a little governmental 'assistance' in generating pollution sufficient to warrant execution.
So tell me - what's to stop Microsoft from dropping this in a year later, after they've convinced the public to buy a metric ton of these things (and more importantly, the games to with them)?
The more I see console maker assholery, the more I like using my actual computer for gaming...
Meh - I smell a trial balloon that fell with a thud.
I can see them floating it out there to get reactions, that they can then show the bigger and more assholish game studios (*cough*EA*cough*) and say "See? We told you this is a bad idea." ...that or Ballmer really is that frickin' stupid...
Funnier still, the MS fanboys use that name as well (well, they use it as shorthand for "XBox One", or rather, they intend that it comes out as "XBOne")
Sorry, but it's a zombie. Vampires are at least smart enough to avoid those things which they are vulnerable to, and avoid drawing undue attention to themselves.
SCO hasn't a single functioning brain left in its ranks. See also that whole parade of crap they've loudly spewed over the past 10 years.
I only wish we had badgers out here to cull. My two dogs at home really need something to hunt besides moles and rabbits...
The MS store should sell a Windows 8 to Windows 7 downgrade service. It'd likely help Best Buy sell more Windows machines that are stagnating on the shelf with Windows 8.
Indeed - I'm surprised that BB hasn't pushed the whole Geek Squad setup directly at this service. They'd make a mint from the ignorant.
Xbox One + Accessories
Surface + Accessories
Nokia Smart Phones
He said "decent". It also helps if they exist and are for sale.
Seriously...
The first isn't even RTM yet (and the gamers are currently screaming about how they're all gonna buy PS4s because of the stupid DRM).
The second? Which one? The one that can actually run "my Windows software", or the one whose screen/UI looks just like it but doesn't run "my Windows software"?
The third? Okay, maybe, if it didn't have to compete with those massive Android and iOS ecosystems.
If there's a Microsoft isle I'd hate to be shipwrecked there.
...unless you're comatose, drinking fresh mango juice, with goldfish shoals nibbling at your toes?
(Problem is, Mr. Ballmer is too frickin' big to be Rimmer... now the guy running the XBox division? He'd fit.)
Given the ruthless efficiency with which the PRISM system collected communications, I'd compare it more closely to the former East German (DDR) Stasi
Funny you mention the year 1984... ...as recently as when that book was originally written, if this kind of news came out? I suspect that half the federal government would have been recalled, impeached, and imprisoned. That is, if the White House wasn't burned down first.
That is all.
Problem is, you have to *keep* fighting against any and all loss of rights. People are corrupt, greedy, and stupid... this naturally leads to an erosion of individual rights.
Freedom is a high-maintenance thing, but the cost of not doing the maintenance is slavery; if history is any indication, the outcome is all too damned common.
What was the saying again? "A republic, if you can keep it." People keep forgetting that last bit.
...and then there were no remaining AOL users.
What a beautiful dream.
Let's modify that a bit...
There was a rape. She has female reproductive organs. Therefore there is probable cause for prostitution. Done.
Don't worry. Under PRISM the NSA can watch movies all day long using your credentials..
Laugh all you want, but I recall working for a certain gov't project while in uniform, and we had access to *all* the satellite channels in the barracks out on the test range. They eventually ditched the pr0n channels in an attempt to cut back on the divorce rate.
(Seriously - true story. Only diff is it wasn't the NSA, but the USAF back in the late 1980's.)
So get a red stapler - easier to see.
(better yet, steal one.)
Not "Can't." WON'T. Big fucking difference there.
To be fair, most auto manufacturers don't incorporate a functionality that kills the engine of a stolen car (GM has OnStar which does it, but that requires a subscription by the owner).
Yep. Now imagine all the myriad of things that they already do behind closed doors & in the shadows that we don't know about...and will most likely never find out about.
Depends -
Sometimes it's a good/legitimate thing (the F-117 Stealth Fighter program was originally a black-funded project.)
Sometimes it's a grab for power (the recent NSA crap.)
The submitter probably doesn't have access to their version control.
He doesn't need it if The Wayback Machine has an older copy of the page, and if they kept a copy of his code along with it. If this is true, he can estimate the date it changed, and point prospective clients to that - let 'em argue against a third party website archive at that point.
Hell, I think if I wrote website code, I'd make it a point to request that archive.org uploaded a copy of the thing into their archive the moment I released the code to production.
Well that depends on how you calculate time doesn't it?
Time is a like a series of tubes, the more tubes you have, the faster time flows.
Well, that's true until you have a sufficiently large bit o' gravity nearby - then the tubes start clogging up like an old man's arteries.