Sure, but then the US will also be held responsible for the consequences by future generations in all countries. You can ignore reality for some time, but it will come back and bite you in the ass at some day. It's a bit like ignoring bills by not opening them. Nice short-term solution, but not good in the long run. (Just so you don't get me wrong, in saying that I'm assuming that more than 95% of climate scientists are currently not entirely wrong, of course. If they turn out to be wrong in 50 years from now, which is always a possibility, then the laugh is on you. If...)
No, Autopilot in German means exactly the same as in English and also has the same connotation.
But there is just no story here. A company tells their marketing department to conduct a statistically insignificant fake survey. Nothing new. The whole story is about as meaningful as when Coca Cola comes up with a study that shows that soft drinks don't make people fat or when tobacco companies showed that smoking doesn't cause cancer.
Wait, I take this hasty post back, it was way to flower-powery. Yes, browsers need built-in fact checkers, but to make sure they really check the facts correctly, the browser extension needs to be run by a government agency, e.g. some subdivision of the NSA, and to prevent against Russian hacker attacks this authority needs to be located at a secure and secluded location like Area 51.
Most halfway normal and educated people have no problems with discerning reality from imagination and propaganda, and the rest will not believe in extra 'checked' facts anyway. Yes, on the Internet conspiracy crackpots can easily find forums on which they reinforce their world views but they're not a new phenomenon. Most of them probably need a bit more sleep, the feeling of being needed and a bit less sorrows much more than facts.
They target Europe by thousands of trolls on forums and social media, which spread disinformation on a massive scale and link up with already existing protest-voter sentiments, and by financial and ideological support to right-wing groups. So far, it works amazingly well and I can only hope that authorities across Europe start to take actions against this. At least the botnets and fake media accounts should be destroyed more actively.
But in addition, "U.S. military hackers have penetrated Russia's electric grid, telecommunications networks and the Kremlin's command systems, making them vulnerable to attack by secret American cyber weapons should the U.S. deem it necessary, according to a senior intelligence official and top-secret documents reviewed by NBC News."
Is it just me, or does anyone else think that this is insane?
I completely agree with you. If this is true, then this high-ranking NBC source in the US government/intelligence apparatus has gone insane. Making such claims defies all logic whether they are true or not, such an announcement makes no sense, neither from a military nor from a diplomatic point of view.
The rest of what you say is kind of irrelevant and more of an opinion, though. The claims of this anonymous source are criminally irresponsible no matter whether Russia tries to influence US elections or not.
I'd rather call them Daesh. By calling them "Islamic State" you're actually following their propaganda. They are neither a state nor are they islamic. They are savages.
The auditor has a vital business interest in finding bugs and making them public to you, whereas the maker of the proprietary software has a vital interest in keeping any bugs secret from you and fixing them silently whenever it pleases him or he has the time.
And you're absolutely right in doing so. It's way easier to sweep issues under the carpet when you're closed-source, and every private company that wants to make money will do so if a problem arises and can be fixed silently.
I'm saying that you shouldn't believe them, based on experience and a vast history of failures of private security companies. That's not "as you choose".
Disinformation by ambiguity only works when your military commanders don't brag about what they did on social media, when they are not identifiable by name and picture easily, when they don't chat about the shot down plane and the rocket launcher over wiretapped mobile phones, and when the launcher isn't filmed and photographed all the way from and to the launch site and all the way back to Russia.
You write that because you have a preconceived dogmatic political agenda and are unable to step out of it even for a moment. I've met many people on the right and on the left who have this problem (lack of understanding other political positions), especially those at the extremes of the spectrum. Okay, you think she doesn't have any Christian and humanist ideals. So what, maybe you're right, but that's not what I'm talking about. Still she has managed to get through some policies against the will of most in her own party, against most of the opposition and against many in the population, knowing very well that step would ruin her career. That alone deserves some credits, because most other German politicians are way more opportunistic.
I've never been a fan of Merkel (wrong party anyway), but I'm pretty sure that her emails wouldn't reveal anything but hard work and things we already know. Whether you agree with her or not, this woman earns some respect, especially since she has clearly chosen her Christian and humanist ideals over her political future when she decided a refugee politics that is compatible with the German constitution instead of carving in to dumb populism.
Flight simulation, audio processing with huge number of tracks and soft synths, compiling large software projects, stuff like that. It's really not hard to get to the limits of off-the-shelf PCs and I don't have the money for a 5k workstation either.
This is a very common myth about peace loving hippies that lacks any evidence whatsoever. If at all, what can be said on the basis of history is that heavily armed aggressors tend to loose big most of the time. Best example is Germany which has lost two world wars and nearly every other war it started, even though it was armed to the teeth each time.
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Sure, but then the US will also be held responsible for the consequences by future generations in all countries. You can ignore reality for some time, but it will come back and bite you in the ass at some day. It's a bit like ignoring bills by not opening them. Nice short-term solution, but not good in the long run. (Just so you don't get me wrong, in saying that I'm assuming that more than 95% of climate scientists are currently not entirely wrong, of course. If they turn out to be wrong in 50 years from now, which is always a possibility, then the laugh is on you. If...)
And the good thing for Tesla is: They will soon be dead anyway.
No, Autopilot in German means exactly the same as in English and also has the same connotation.
But there is just no story here. A company tells their marketing department to conduct a statistically insignificant fake survey. Nothing new. The whole story is about as meaningful as when Coca Cola comes up with a study that shows that soft drinks don't make people fat or when tobacco companies showed that smoking doesn't cause cancer.
Wait, I take this hasty post back, it was way to flower-powery. Yes, browsers need built-in fact checkers, but to make sure they really check the facts correctly, the browser extension needs to be run by a government agency, e.g. some subdivision of the NSA, and to prevent against Russian hacker attacks this authority needs to be located at a secure and secluded location like Area 51.
Of course not.
Most halfway normal and educated people have no problems with discerning reality from imagination and propaganda, and the rest will not believe in extra 'checked' facts anyway. Yes, on the Internet conspiracy crackpots can easily find forums on which they reinforce their world views but they're not a new phenomenon. Most of them probably need a bit more sleep, the feeling of being needed and a bit less sorrows much more than facts.
They target Europe by thousands of trolls on forums and social media, which spread disinformation on a massive scale and link up with already existing protest-voter sentiments, and by financial and ideological support to right-wing groups. So far, it works amazingly well and I can only hope that authorities across Europe start to take actions against this. At least the botnets and fake media accounts should be destroyed more actively.
I encourage moderators to look at the posting history of this demented idiot before they vote his post up.
But in addition, "U.S. military hackers have penetrated Russia's electric grid, telecommunications networks and the Kremlin's command systems, making them vulnerable to attack by secret American cyber weapons should the U.S. deem it necessary, according to a senior intelligence official and top-secret documents reviewed by NBC News."
Is it just me, or does anyone else think that this is insane?
I completely agree with you. If this is true, then this high-ranking NBC source in the US government /intelligence apparatus has gone insane. Making such claims defies all logic whether they are true or not, such an announcement makes no sense, neither from a military nor from a diplomatic point of view.
The rest of what you say is kind of irrelevant and more of an opinion, though. The claims of this anonymous source are criminally irresponsible no matter whether Russia tries to influence US elections or not.
Go fuck yourself, little wannabe troll.
I'd rather call them Daesh. By calling them "Islamic State" you're actually following their propaganda. They are neither a state nor are they islamic. They are savages.
How is that sentence possible? Using "daesh" does not appraise IS at all. They hate that name.
The auditor has a vital business interest in finding bugs and making them public to you, whereas the maker of the proprietary software has a vital interest in keeping any bugs secret from you and fixing them silently whenever it pleases him or he has the time.
False dichotomy. Security is not a simple Yes/No matter. There is no absolute security but you can increase it, e.g. by auditing source code.
And you're absolutely right in doing so. It's way easier to sweep issues under the carpet when you're closed-source, and every private company that wants to make money will do so if a problem arises and can be fixed silently.
I'm saying that you shouldn't believe them, based on experience and a vast history of failures of private security companies. That's not "as you choose".
A simple Google search could have told you that you're wrong.
Disinformation by ambiguity only works when your military commanders don't brag about what they did on social media, when they are not identifiable by name and picture easily, when they don't chat about the shot down plane and the rocket launcher over wiretapped mobile phones, and when the launcher isn't filmed and photographed all the way from and to the launch site and all the way back to Russia.
You write that because you have a preconceived dogmatic political agenda and are unable to step out of it even for a moment. I've met many people on the right and on the left who have this problem (lack of understanding other political positions), especially those at the extremes of the spectrum. Okay, you think she doesn't have any Christian and humanist ideals. So what, maybe you're right, but that's not what I'm talking about. Still she has managed to get through some policies against the will of most in her own party, against most of the opposition and against many in the population, knowing very well that step would ruin her career. That alone deserves some credits, because most other German politicians are way more opportunistic.
I've never been a fan of Merkel (wrong party anyway), but I'm pretty sure that her emails wouldn't reveal anything but hard work and things we already know. Whether you agree with her or not, this woman earns some respect, especially since she has clearly chosen her Christian and humanist ideals over her political future when she decided a refugee politics that is compatible with the German constitution instead of carving in to dumb populism.
Maybe not, because they would have asked him whether it's okay if they run a sex smear campaign against Trump and he would have said No.
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I very much hope so.
Flight simulation, audio processing with huge number of tracks and soft synths, compiling large software projects, stuff like that. It's really not hard to get to the limits of off-the-shelf PCs and I don't have the money for a 5k workstation either.
This is a very common myth about peace loving hippies that lacks any evidence whatsoever. If at all, what can be said on the basis of history is that heavily armed aggressors tend to loose big most of the time. Best example is Germany which has lost two world wars and nearly every other war it started, even though it was armed to the teeth each time.
Better than you, apparently.
Right, because terrorists customarily reverse engineer custom firmware from surveillance companies for educational purposes.