And long term, unless the US is derelict in extending naval dominance into space to protect the trade routes there, as they do on the high seas today.
Hint: Any conflicts will be between powerful countries seeking resources. Whiney also-rans who feel things like they own asteroids they have no means to get to, will not enter into the equation in practice.
The US recognizes people may eventually mine asteroids. I don't see a problem. The idea the proper state of a free human is to presumptively kneel for permission for everything from the King is a historical anachronism unfortunately adopted by modern democracies happy to let The People feel a taste of royal power.
Your attitude is akin to the concrete canyon dwellers in New York and California dictating how places like Arizona and Idaho should use their land.
Because they misjudged how badly outliers like people with Bittorrent servers would affect total data usage?
They were going after normal users who wanted to surf with a mind unfettered by worries of overage charges.
You are like a lardass suing an all you can eat buffet because he can't sit in his booth gorging steadily for 18 hours. And people have done that, and won. Like phone companies, now they have to compensate by raising prices, or stopping calling it all you can eat.
There's an old saying, "What this country needs is a good war."
Without any real problems (the West's worst medical problem now is too much food) lesser issues float up and take over their role as rage inflection points.
Tweaking can also be akin to overtraining a neural net such that it learns many individual data points rather than extracting a useful generalization, and thus it is absolutely useless for prediction. It can reproduce what it learned wonderfully, but then stumbles when you run it off the end of known data points.
“If we were able to engineer a mechanism where we’re splitting a key and having a third party escrow it where the government could ask for it, the very next thing that would happen is that China et al will ask for the same solution. And we’re unlikely to give them the same solution,”
You're likely to give them the same, or a similar solution.
And the first thing they will use it for is to crack open all messaging to spy on political threats to them. This stuff is regularly abused in the US, with no technological barriers to a political operative misusing the system currently (i.e. without a warrant.) But at least they'd have to hide it or get in severe trouble. In China, Russia, many other countries, there is no fear because it's official policy.
I know a Jordanian-Palestinian-American who can tell you all about how Jordan bulldozed his and many other Palestinian villages.
It wasn't until fairly recent decades that other middle-eastern muslim countries' leaders realized they could use the Palestinians to redirect their local populations' anger against an external enemy -- Israel. It stops them from focusing their hatred on their own dictatorships.
Go read 1984. Hell, I'm sure half of you can quote it in your support of anti-George W. memes.
Internet access should be enshrined as a right. This extends beyond just remote rural citizens to everyday citizens everyday lives.
You are talking about a legislative right, one created by the local legislature, that you can take advantage of.
A fundamental right are things like life, liberty, property, and so on. Freedom of speech, and of the press, and religion, and so on. They are fundamental because they precede government giving them to you -- you have them automatically, which is why they are fundamental.
> I recall when 486's had a math co-processor and there were no mmx instructions or other such multimedia or physics sets.
This. Floating point was done the hard way with a software library back in the old days, or with a dedicated co-processor if you had the money for it. Multi-core does not need floating point to be considered such.
I don't know that it is a loss. So what you look at and talk about on a particular web site is scanned and you are placed into one of many potential advertising bins.
Seriously, I don't see how this is a bad thing. It may even arguably be a good thing by only serving you ads for things you might be interested in.
88. What do you have between your legs? 89. What do you wish you had between your legs? 90. What do you wish your sex partners had between their legs? 91. Do you want sex with people with male or female faces? 92. Do you want sex with people wit male or female bodies, junk aside? 93. Are you a hot lipstick lesbian trapped in a man's body? 94. Are you a furry? 95. Dragonkin? 96. Squirrelkin? 97. Were you born physically male, but mentally a female anthropomorphic red fox?
Yes, but only if you have at least a BS in computer programming and have taken software engineering.
The key point to engineering in this context is not that you know how to program, but that you understand the process of creating programs. Engineering is more than just desiging a product, it is designing the designing of a product.
In the world of hardware and manufacturing, engineering designs a product not just with respect to end use or replacement, but with respect to manufacturing -- just how do we fit these parts together? We must engineer an assembly line for it, costs, routing, etc.
Engineering is a lot more than hacking together stuff until it works.
In that sense, very little of what progammers do is real engineering, at least on small products and apps.
If you've ever run into poorly-commented source code, or lack of coding standards, that's poor software engineering.
If you've ever run into source code that is hard to expand or change, that is poor software engineering. Especially stuff that is already spaghetti code. It is 50 years since programmers could claim, "Gosh, we built it to do one thing, and not forsee expansion."
If you have worked on a large project with many platforms, and every 3 years systems people introduce yet another Greatest Framework For All Time, requiring massive rewrites, that is poor software engineering.
Because "manufacturing" amounts to doing a new release in most cases, or server restarts or reflashing in the worst case, there isn't really any assembly line engineering. But even then you must consider not destroying saved data of customers (I once had an idiot from Game Spy say "tuff shit" to me when a release update destroyed a saved game file. "Didn't you read (some fine point somewhere)?"
That is poor software engineering. That won't work with a million customers.
What you call "race to the bottom" is capitalism causing the skyrocketting wealth and health of over 3 billion Asians, as happened in the West over a hundred years ago, and hence the average health and wealth of the combined de facto common market of 6 billion continues to increase at an excellent clip.
And to call it stagnation in the West is an exaggeration as well, given you have technological wonders for purchase that didn't exist when this process got under way 20 years ago, and you are better off (phones, medicine, and so on.)
And technological advancement should accelerate given those 3 billion generate still more wealth to be used as investment, including R&D.
Some aspects of the TPP may be bad, but opening up further trade is not one of them.
They don't pull over white people jogging in a subdivision street. This is a symptom of the "3 felonies a day" problem, where there are so many laws you can get stopped for something any time an officer wants to.
This is really a fuck up by the FCC. Manufacturers need rooms like this to bring into existence these wonderful, radio-using things.
This is some ignorannt savage at the FCC casually tossing out an insensate ruling costing a hundred companies tens of millions to buy and install thousands of repeaters in these thousands of little boxes.
And why? Because someone might fall and can't get uppin'? And need to call 911?
But hey, literally the guiding motto of the current regulators is "We don't have to consider cost impacts, yey!"
We ordered one for work, but it didn't play Doom. The tech support guy said they didn't consider Doom a necessary program to support, or a true PC-compatible program, I for get the terminology. We sent it back anyway. I suspect they got a lot of grief over that.
Slashdot Mirror
Wow, 3x as far out as Pluto, which is so way way out there it was itself named for the god of the underworld, of death.
And this is 3x further than that! In fact, it is so far out there, I officially name it (pick one):
Trump
Bernie
And long term, unless the US is derelict in extending naval dominance into space to protect the trade routes there, as they do on the high seas today.
Hint: Any conflicts will be between powerful countries seeking resources. Whiney also-rans who feel things like they own asteroids they have no means to get to, will not enter into the equation in practice.
The US recognizes people may eventually mine asteroids. I don't see a problem. The idea the proper state of a free human is to presumptively kneel for permission for everything from the King is a historical anachronism unfortunately adopted by modern democracies happy to let The People feel a taste of royal power.
Your attitude is akin to the concrete canyon dwellers in New York and California dictating how places like Arizona and Idaho should use their land.
> for lonely millenials
"If there's a hanger on my door knob, don't come-a-knockin' because I am busy making sweet love to my palm."
Because they misjudged how badly outliers like people with Bittorrent servers would affect total data usage?
They were going after normal users who wanted to surf with a mind unfettered by worries of overage charges.
You are like a lardass suing an all you can eat buffet because he can't sit in his booth gorging steadily for 18 hours. And people have done that, and won. Like phone companies, now they have to compensate by raising prices, or stopping calling it all you can eat.
There's an old saying, "What this country needs is a good war."
Without any real problems (the West's worst medical problem now is too much food) lesser issues float up and take over their role as rage inflection points.
And of course they are nothing of the sort.
Tweaking can also be akin to overtraining a neural net such that it learns many individual data points rather than extracting a useful generalization, and thus it is absolutely useless for prediction. It can reproduce what it learned wonderfully, but then stumbles when you run it off the end of known data points.
“If we were able to engineer a mechanism where we’re splitting a key and having a third party escrow it where the government could ask for it, the very next thing that would happen is that China et al will ask for the same solution. And we’re unlikely to give them the same solution,”
You're likely to give them the same, or a similar solution.
And the first thing they will use it for is to crack open all messaging to spy on political threats to them. This stuff is regularly abused in the US, with no technological barriers to a political operative misusing the system currently (i.e. without a warrant.) But at least they'd have to hide it or get in severe trouble. In China, Russia, many other countries, there is no fear because it's official policy.
I know a Jordanian-Palestinian-American who can tell you all about how Jordan bulldozed his and many other Palestinian villages.
It wasn't until fairly recent decades that other middle-eastern muslim countries' leaders realized they could use the Palestinians to redirect their local populations' anger against an external enemy -- Israel. It stops them from focusing their hatred on their own dictatorships.
Go read 1984. Hell, I'm sure half of you can quote it in your support of anti-George W. memes.
Internet access should be enshrined as a right. This extends beyond just remote rural citizens to everyday citizens everyday lives.
You are talking about a legislative right, one created by the local legislature, that you can take advantage of.
A fundamental right are things like life, liberty, property, and so on. Freedom of speech, and of the press, and religion, and so on. They are fundamental because they precede government giving them to you -- you have them automatically, which is why they are fundamental.
> I recall when 486's had a math co-processor and there were no mmx instructions or other such multimedia or physics sets.
This. Floating point was done the hard way with a software library back in the old days, or with a dedicated co-processor if you had the money for it. Multi-core does not need floating point to be considered such.
I don't know that it is a loss. So what you look at and talk about on a particular web site is scanned and you are placed into one of many potential advertising bins.
Seriously, I don't see how this is a bad thing. It may even arguably be a good thing by only serving you ads for things you might be interested in.
> to delight of social scientists
And social justice warriors.
88. What do you have between your legs?
89. What do you wish you had between your legs?
90. What do you wish your sex partners had between their legs?
91. Do you want sex with people with male or female faces?
92. Do you want sex with people wit male or female bodies, junk aside?
93. Are you a hot lipstick lesbian trapped in a man's body?
94. Are you a furry?
95. Dragonkin?
96. Squirrelkin?
97. Were you born physically male, but mentally a female anthropomorphic red fox?
(600 more questions deleted.)
Yes, but only if you have at least a BS in computer programming and have taken software engineering.
The key point to engineering in this context is not that you know how to program, but that you understand the process of creating programs. Engineering is more than just desiging a product, it is designing the designing of a product.
In the world of hardware and manufacturing, engineering designs a product not just with respect to end use or replacement, but with respect to manufacturing -- just how do we fit these parts together? We must engineer an assembly line for it, costs, routing, etc.
Engineering is a lot more than hacking together stuff until it works.
In that sense, very little of what progammers do is real engineering, at least on small products and apps.
If you've ever run into poorly-commented source code, or lack of coding standards, that's poor software engineering.
If you've ever run into source code that is hard to expand or change, that is poor software engineering. Especially stuff that is already spaghetti code. It is 50 years since programmers could claim, "Gosh, we built it to do one thing, and not forsee expansion."
If you have worked on a large project with many platforms, and every 3 years systems people introduce yet another Greatest Framework For All Time, requiring massive rewrites, that is poor software engineering.
Because "manufacturing" amounts to doing a new release in most cases, or server restarts or reflashing in the worst case, there isn't really any assembly line engineering. But even then you must consider not destroying saved data of customers (I once had an idiot from Game Spy say "tuff shit" to me when a release update destroyed a saved game file. "Didn't you read (some fine point somewhere)?"
That is poor software engineering. That won't work with a million customers.
FUX faux Fox Fawkes!
They hired a transexual, Laverne Cox, to play the transvestite in a remake of Rocky Horror.
I presume she will wear leiderhosen?
What you call "race to the bottom" is capitalism causing the skyrocketting wealth and health of over 3 billion Asians, as happened in the West over a hundred years ago, and hence the average health and wealth of the combined de facto common market of 6 billion continues to increase at an excellent clip.
And to call it stagnation in the West is an exaggeration as well, given you have technological wonders for purchase that didn't exist when this process got under way 20 years ago, and you are better off (phones, medicine, and so on.)
And technological advancement should accelerate given those 3 billion generate still more wealth to be used as investment, including R&D.
Some aspects of the TPP may be bad, but opening up further trade is not one of them.
Quit trying to store Death Stars in your unlimited vehicle rental unit!
Nobody would take it on themselves to do this. It was a high level manager in consultation with the very highest, all obviously off the record.
Also, US companies will get burned on this, and not just for diesel engines. VW is just the tip of the iceberg.
And laws against encryption, where in the US encrypted speech is considered speech, and thus protected by the 1st Amendment.
They don't pull over white people jogging in a subdivision street. This is a symptom of the "3 felonies a day" problem, where there are so many laws you can get stopped for something any time an officer wants to.
Will it work with AMC.com on 5.0 Android? Chrome is a POS there to watch shows.
This is really a fuck up by the FCC. Manufacturers need rooms like this to bring into existence these wonderful, radio-using things.
This is some ignorannt savage at the FCC casually tossing out an insensate ruling costing a hundred companies tens of millions to buy and install thousands of repeaters in these thousands of little boxes.
And why? Because someone might fall and can't get uppin'? And need to call 911?
But hey, literally the guiding motto of the current regulators is "We don't have to consider cost impacts, yey!"
We ordered one for work, but it didn't play Doom. The tech support guy said they didn't consider Doom a necessary program to support, or a true PC-compatible program, I for get the terminology. We sent it back anyway. I suspect they got a lot of grief over that.
Now was the perfect time to do your cow moooooooooo stuff, and you blew it. You had one job to do.