Because it isn't economical (yet) to develop "general purpose" robots. Machines can "help" mine, but they cannot do it all independent of a human (yet). They also can't economically self-repair (yet).
I don't think the Sauds are counting on being able to raise their oil prices in the near future.
I think what happened was that the market underestimated the supply of "light, sweet" crude, and presumed that supply would force oil prices to stay at about $40/barrel long term.
The Sauds, on the other hand, saw demand for their product disappearing within 20 years, if alternative energy production kept developing at its current pace. They have accepted that they cannot constrain their output in order to favorably affect pricing, because that will wipe out the "value" of oil once oil becomes "replaceable" as an energy resource. Instead, they've decided to "sell" while they still can, even if the price sucks. If their ability to keep providing oil still holds, they will have put off the alternative energy production problem for another 40 years, rather than 20.
Burnt investors then won't play again in the future
Hardly. Real investors only look at the numbers and probabilities. If the Sauds are counting on being able to raise their oil prices again, in the near future, they've embarked upon a truly stupid strategy. The Wright brothers weren't the first people to attempt powered flight. Alternative power is here to stay, the real question is "when" they will return a profit that justifies the investment cost.
Or why not do what the US is doing, and merely hiring commercial companies to provide a service based on a technology implemented roughly 60 years ago?
> Snowden exposed way too much classified information.
Says who? The bureaucrats breaking the law, if not raping everyone's Constitutional rights?
> In doing so, he compromised national security and turned public opinion against him. Now the message of Snowden is mostly lost to the general public, which is a shame.
When the general public, after the ass raping of their privacy rights, are watching the TV, and are convinced by paid whores that Snowden has committed a greater crime, that is the shame.
What we need is... Bathacker. A man with the skills to track down these nefarious hackers, and give them the beating of their lives. That will stop sociopathic hackers from ever breaking into a school's website!
Sounds ridiculous? So does your suggestion. No one hacks a website, and then make a public spectacle of it, in order to do "good". They do it because they're (relatively) computer talented attention whores. Just think about what you're suggesting. "Oh gee, if the crooked school administrator only stole a small amount, then nobody would really be harmed."
Furthermore, you don't know if this problem was first pointed in the manner you suggested. District superintendents are hired by local politicians called "school board members". You can have people who are housewives basically making decisions on finance and corporate operations. School district superintendents are basically Fortune 10,000 CEOs; small company business owners. Yes, they have a requisite managerial background, but that doesn't make their staff good at hiring competent system administrators (or able to justify their salaries to district voters).
A hacker group publicly embarrassing a system administrator is only a symptom of a much larger problem. The problem doesn't go away by convincing hackers to be more "discreet" at first.
What I find tragic about the situation is the likelihood that this is an unfixable situation. The reality is that there aren't enough competent computer specialists, let alone computer specialists with competence in security issues in the private sector. So how the hell is a school district going to be able to shell out an adequate salary to hire them, or even determine which ones aren't idiots?
Unfortunately, there's no "simple" way to address the systemic issue. Frankly, in this situation, the school district is better off having a benign hacker group publicly embarrass them, rather than have a more "professional" criminal loot their information. If you want to stop "hacker" groups from publicly embarrassing your school district, its simple. Hire a competent legal firm, have them hire a competent computer forensic specialist. It takes little effort to collect evidence against a "hacker" group that primarily operates on attention (& personality dysfunction). Hand it over the FBI or state prosecutors, while the law firm prepares the civil suit to destroy the individuals responsible.
After the spectacle of ruining the hackers lives, eventually the district will cease to be publicly embarrassed. It may cost a couple of million for the district, who will then have to take it away from the educational budget. But what people aren't grasping is that this is a predictable fixed cost. No one is grasping that the real solution is going to have to be implemented on a societal level.
Yes and there are just soooo many fossil fuels on Mars to burn to create greenhouse gasses.
There could be. We won't really know until man sends a scientific expedition to study the issue for an extended visit. Or send robots capable of doing geological analysis.
Yeah, after all, who could believe electrical power can be collected from panels that catch energy from the sun? Who really believes that one day humans will make working robots that can complete tasks, like constructing cars, or driving? (Or put together sealed buildings without direct human intervention?) Landing man on the moon is obviously science FICTION.
(And why on earth couldn't human bodies survive in an 0.38 Earth gravity environment? Fluids will still move around like they're in a gravity environment, bones won't have reason to elongate or become structurally weaker, etc. etc.)
Fuck, you are one stupid anonymous coward. What the hell are you doing here?
How the f**k did they raised the price on the F-35C??? Its just supposed to be a retractible tailhook, slightly larger wings, and some frame reinforcements. Were they able to make the 2nd engine mandatory?
so make your bid the lowest for which you can actually provide the contracted service.
No. You first determine what would be the lowest bid for which you can provide for the service at no loss + 10%, then you make the **highest** bid you can make and still feel confident about winning the auction.
What a joy that would be for pharma CEOs like Valeant. Instead of buying out companies, and raising their drug price by 500x, they can farm out software bids to programmers for $1, instead of the hundreds of thousands of dollars per job to software bureaus. And still overprice their drug by 5000%.
While I agree that seL4 is innovative and exciting, its not an OS or a distro. Its a microkernel, where afterwards, you have to implement your own OS services, hopefully with an exceptionally secure design. (Or just use it as a base for your own unique embedded environment, which is overkill). If you only value your own design flexibility, you'll have an easier time implementing your dream OS in forth, rather than seL4. (If that OS requires multitasking, perhaps one could build a forth environment on top of the microkernel.)
Its kind of pointless to be screwing around with seL4, if you're not some computer science guru, who wants to build an OS with security as top consideration on top of a vetted securely designed microkernel. Its like wanting to use a CNC milling machine to only cut metal pipes in two.
Once you brought up GNU HURD, I then realized you were making an obscene joke. But it would sort of be exciting (not really innovative) in the sense of trying to actually make it do something without crashing. (I half-heartedly wonder if there was anything salvageable from HURD's original designs that would justify the effort to create a MACH emulation layer on top of seL4.)
That wasn't sequestration! That was negotiated agreements to cut gov't spending.
Sequestration was prearranged budgeting that would partially cripple of the military, in order to meet its operating budgeting, along with spending cuts which would have hit medicare, and other elective gov't spending, if the federal budget wasn't passed or the credit borrowing ceiling was exceeded. Those provisions never kicked in. The federal budget got passed every year in the Obama administration, as well as every ceiling raise.
What sequestration? The latest budget agreement will keep increasing gov't credit ceiling past 2016, and no sequestration provisions are taking effect.
I think you're pretty delusional if you think there's a difference between Republican asshattery and Democrat asshattery.
Does Citizen or some other watchmaker produce a watch with similar to the Skyhawk that is either mechanical, or does not depend on radio synchronization?
Almost 7 digit Slashdot UID? Pfft. Talk about newb.
(And the only reason why mine is so high was that I was spending years as an anonymous coward reading Slashdot before I bothered getting the account, back in the early 2000's.)
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Who's going to protect America from your campaign contributors, Marco Rubio?
Because it isn't economical (yet) to develop "general purpose" robots. Machines can "help" mine, but they cannot do it all independent of a human (yet). They also can't economically self-repair (yet).
I don't think the Sauds are counting on being able to raise their oil prices in the near future.
I think what happened was that the market underestimated the supply of "light, sweet" crude, and presumed that supply would force oil prices to stay at about $40/barrel long term.
The Sauds, on the other hand, saw demand for their product disappearing within 20 years, if alternative energy production kept developing at its current pace. They have accepted that they cannot constrain their output in order to favorably affect pricing, because that will wipe out the "value" of oil once oil becomes "replaceable" as an energy resource. Instead, they've decided to "sell" while they still can, even if the price sucks. If their ability to keep providing oil still holds, they will have put off the alternative energy production problem for another 40 years, rather than 20.
Burnt investors then won't play again in the future
Hardly. Real investors only look at the numbers and probabilities. If the Sauds are counting on being able to raise their oil prices again, in the near future, they've embarked upon a truly stupid strategy. The Wright brothers weren't the first people to attempt powered flight. Alternative power is here to stay, the real question is "when" they will return a profit that justifies the investment cost.
Or why not do what the US is doing, and merely hiring commercial companies to provide a service based on a technology implemented roughly 60 years ago?
An anonymous coward is someone who thinks their opinion matters when they express it anonymously.
> Snowden exposed way too much classified information.
Says who? The bureaucrats breaking the law, if not raping everyone's Constitutional rights?
> In doing so, he compromised national security and turned public opinion against him. Now the message of Snowden is mostly lost to the general public, which is a shame.
When the general public, after the ass raping of their privacy rights, are watching the TV, and are convinced by paid whores that Snowden has committed a greater crime, that is the shame.
Yes, when confronted by reality, make a rule. That will always fix the problem.
dbill has it right. No good deed goes unpunished. If you're going to do it, run like hell.
What we need is... Bathacker. A man with the skills to track down these nefarious hackers, and give them the beating of their lives. That will stop sociopathic hackers from ever breaking into a school's website!
Sounds ridiculous? So does your suggestion. No one hacks a website, and then make a public spectacle of it, in order to do "good". They do it because they're (relatively) computer talented attention whores. Just think about what you're suggesting. "Oh gee, if the crooked school administrator only stole a small amount, then nobody would really be harmed."
Furthermore, you don't know if this problem was first pointed in the manner you suggested. District superintendents are hired by local politicians called "school board members". You can have people who are housewives basically making decisions on finance and corporate operations. School district superintendents are basically Fortune 10,000 CEOs; small company business owners. Yes, they have a requisite managerial background, but that doesn't make their staff good at hiring competent system administrators (or able to justify their salaries to district voters).
A hacker group publicly embarrassing a system administrator is only a symptom of a much larger problem. The problem doesn't go away by convincing hackers to be more "discreet" at first.
What I find tragic about the situation is the likelihood that this is an unfixable situation. The reality is that there aren't enough competent computer specialists, let alone computer specialists with competence in security issues in the private sector. So how the hell is a school district going to be able to shell out an adequate salary to hire them, or even determine which ones aren't idiots?
Unfortunately, there's no "simple" way to address the systemic issue. Frankly, in this situation, the school district is better off having a benign hacker group publicly embarrass them, rather than have a more "professional" criminal loot their information. If you want to stop "hacker" groups from publicly embarrassing your school district, its simple. Hire a competent legal firm, have them hire a competent computer forensic specialist. It takes little effort to collect evidence against a "hacker" group that primarily operates on attention (& personality dysfunction). Hand it over the FBI or state prosecutors, while the law firm prepares the civil suit to destroy the individuals responsible.
After the spectacle of ruining the hackers lives, eventually the district will cease to be publicly embarrassed. It may cost a couple of million for the district, who will then have to take it away from the educational budget. But what people aren't grasping is that this is a predictable fixed cost. No one is grasping that the real solution is going to have to be implemented on a societal level.
Yes and there are just soooo many fossil fuels on Mars to burn to create greenhouse gasses.
There could be. We won't really know until man sends a scientific expedition to study the issue for an extended visit. Or send robots capable of doing geological analysis.
Cynicism was never cool. Cynicism is about making a pithy response to a desperately held set of lies or lack of intellect.
fixing the Earth is at least 2 orders of magnitude easier by every metric.
Have you ever lived around human beings? We can't even fix "climate change" issues on this planet.
Yeah, after all, who could believe electrical power can be collected from panels that catch energy from the sun? Who really believes that one day humans will make working robots that can complete tasks, like constructing cars, or driving? (Or put together sealed buildings without direct human intervention?) Landing man on the moon is obviously science FICTION.
(And why on earth couldn't human bodies survive in an 0.38 Earth gravity environment? Fluids will still move around like they're in a gravity environment, bones won't have reason to elongate or become structurally weaker, etc. etc.)
Fuck, you are one stupid anonymous coward. What the hell are you doing here?
Nope. I was around then. Just didn't care.
$337 million each for the F-35C
How the f**k did they raised the price on the F-35C??? Its just supposed to be a retractible tailhook, slightly larger wings, and some frame reinforcements. Were they able to make the 2nd engine mandatory?
so make your bid the lowest for which you can actually provide the contracted service.
No. You first determine what would be the lowest bid for which you can provide for the service at no loss + 10%, then you make the **highest** bid you can make and still feel confident about winning the auction.
What a joy that would be for pharma CEOs like Valeant. Instead of buying out companies, and raising their drug price by 500x, they can farm out software bids to programmers for $1, instead of the hundreds of thousands of dollars per job to software bureaus. And still overprice their drug by 5000%.
While I agree that seL4 is innovative and exciting, its not an OS or a distro. Its a microkernel, where afterwards, you have to implement your own OS services, hopefully with an exceptionally secure design. (Or just use it as a base for your own unique embedded environment, which is overkill). If you only value your own design flexibility, you'll have an easier time implementing your dream OS in forth, rather than seL4. (If that OS requires multitasking, perhaps one could build a forth environment on top of the microkernel.)
Its kind of pointless to be screwing around with seL4, if you're not some computer science guru, who wants to build an OS with security as top consideration on top of a vetted securely designed microkernel. Its like wanting to use a CNC milling machine to only cut metal pipes in two.
Once you brought up GNU HURD, I then realized you were making an obscene joke. But it would sort of be exciting (not really innovative) in the sense of trying to actually make it do something without crashing. (I half-heartedly wonder if there was anything salvageable from HURD's original designs that would justify the effort to create a MACH emulation layer on top of seL4.)
That wasn't sequestration! That was negotiated agreements to cut gov't spending.
Sequestration was prearranged budgeting that would partially cripple of the military, in order to meet its operating budgeting, along with spending cuts which would have hit medicare, and other elective gov't spending, if the federal budget wasn't passed or the credit borrowing ceiling was exceeded. Those provisions never kicked in. The federal budget got passed every year in the Obama administration, as well as every ceiling raise.
What sequestration? The latest budget agreement will keep increasing gov't credit ceiling past 2016, and no sequestration provisions are taking effect.
I think you're pretty delusional if you think there's a difference between Republican asshattery and Democrat asshattery.
Imagine having the eidetic memory required to remember them in your head, and then actually having to depend your life on it.
Its kinda sad, all this pulp sci-fi that's going to be lost to future generations.
Does Citizen or some other watchmaker produce a watch with similar to the Skyhawk that is either mechanical, or does not depend on radio synchronization?
Yeah, say that when an EMP hits.
Almost 7 digit Slashdot UID? Pfft. Talk about newb.
(And the only reason why mine is so high was that I was spending years as an anonymous coward reading Slashdot before I bothered getting the account, back in the early 2000's.)