Most of the economic damage from 9/11 was directly attributable to our reaction, not their action. People stopped flying, traveling, going to work, in some cases for days, in some cases for months. If we had reacted to China and Russia's efforts by panicking, they would have succeeded as well. Not to mention, ISIS hasn't achieved anything even close to an attack on that scale.
ISIS has hacked exactly nothing, and even if they did, what, exactly, are they going to accomplish that nation-states and experienced hackers haven't? An isolated incident of economic harm? Hell, they haven't even threatened to hack Facebook, just assassinate the CEO, as if the continued existence of one is more than tangentially related to the other. And even the credibility of that threat is only slightly above laughable. I'd take it seriously enough if I were Zuckerberg, but I don't think our country is going to go into national mourning or anything if they somehow followed through on it.
And electronic systems may be more vulnerable than physical targets, but it's a lot quicker and easier to rebuild a server and eliminate the vulnerabilities than doing the same thing with a building or a city. Moreover, taking out a power grid is hardly doomsday. If such an attack did occur, then it would certainly warrant a counterstrike (as I mentioned in my first post), but let's not put the cart before the horse.
It's funny you point that out. In Arabic, Insha'Allah -- God willing -- is basically a filler word. They say it *all the time*, to roughly the same degree a teenager would say "like." It's unlikely they gave it's inclusion any thought, but perhaps they should.:)
ISIS actually doesn't understand that. Middle Eastern cultures tend to assume that if they threaten the West and the West doesn't attack them, it's because of weakness
Citation other than Donald Trump needed.
they can't figure out that each threat makes it incrementally more likely that enough people will say "to hell with the civilian casualties, these guys are evil and they need to be bombed into rubble".
So... they want us to attack, but they can't figure out that provoking an attack will result in an attack? I'm not following.
The audience isn't the government; it's the populus. And given that Hitler, Stalin, and Mao were ultimately unsuccessful -- and only one by armed conflict -- I think it's safe to say that superior ideas triumphed over superior physical might.
ISIS is about as much of a threat to the world at large as a playground bully. It's a highly localized threat. Sure, on the way home from school, a few punches might get thrown, but it's hardly going to upset the world order. The reason governments care is because they don't want to deal with the refugees, not because ISIS is going to invade.
Of course ISIS would *love* to destroy America (or Europe, or anyone, really), but intent and capability are two separate things. China has the capability to destroy us, but not the intent. ISIS has the intent, but not the capability. Don't get me wrong -- ISIS believes they have the capability, because they believe they have God on their side, but if we buy into that, who's the real fool?
We should be paying about as much attention to ISIS in our national security policy as we do to Boko Haram, which is pretty much not at all. Oh no, someone shot his co-workers! That's what we call "Tuesday," in America. In the 80s, it was called "going postal," and it was so common they made a video game about it. Not that it's not incredible shitty for the people involved, but let's keep this in perspective. Our civilization was not shaken to its foundation because of a killing spree. It's a criminal matter, not one of national security, which is the security of our nation as a whole, not the guaranteed safety of every individual who happens to live here, as if such a thing were even possible.
ISIS doesn't piss me off as much as the reactionary people who use the existence of anyone who doesn't like America to promote some overhaul of society in order to save the nation from a mosquito bite. Make a retaliatory strike if we need to, but full-out war, and all of the sacrifices and paranoid security measures that go along with it, are completely unnecessary. We voluntarily change our lives far more than any terrorist group ever could. But we never learn, it seems.
Transportation is a small contributor to methane emissions. A better perspective is total anthropogenic methane emissions in the US... for 2014, this was about 28.3 million metric tons (MMT). So this leak was about 0.3% of that. For another comparison, manure management contributes about 2.4 MMT annually, and agriculture overall accounts for 10MMT. (http://www3.epa.gov/climatechange/Downloads/ghgemissions/US-GHG-Inventory-2016-Main-Text.pdf, Table 2-12, Sum of CH4 emissions in CO2 eq. divided by 25.)
I mean, this wasn't great, but let's keep things in perspective. If this was a catastrophe, then we have much bigger problems.
Standard apps don't have access to files outside of their own folder for the most part, let alone system files. It's possible on a jailbroken phone, but if you're paranoid about the security of your data, you probably don't want to jailbreak your phone and open an attack vector for unsigned apps to be unwittingly installed.
Besides, most phones will go dead after enough time has passed before the filesystem could be wiped, and who wants to risk losing all of their data if something other than theft or death (hospitalization, left at home during vacation, broken screen) prevents them from accessing their phone within the timeline? Deadman switches are a very sharp double-edged sword.
That's not quite accurate either. Apple could write the software so that it only executes on the device with the UDID in question, and refuses to run on any others. As it is, OS updates must be signed to install, so modifying this "special" OS to check for a different UDID would render it useless.
If it's not sentient, and I *own it*, then it should be completely servile, not something that balances its own wants, or those of some third party, against mine. That said, Cortana is a service, and while MS is generally happy to screw its customers, it clearly doesn't want to be in the business of providing sexual services, so I file this under "who cares."
Right. Her points may be true, but it's like complaining that the fashion industry doesn't cater to men. It never will, and it's not sexist, it's just that men don't want 30,000 varieties of shirts and shoes --at least not enough for it to be economically viable.
I will start respecting third wave feminism when it starts advocating for women to register for the draft, for more women in male-dominated blue collar industries, and when women start marrying men who earn less than them. For bonus points, eschew and rebuke female privileges and exceptions, like the "right" to slap a man, serve lighter sentences for the same offenses, automatically being granted child custody, etc. True equal treatment means taking the bad along with the good.
It's not just stopping distance. Energy = mass * velocity squared, so getting hit at 35MPH is twice as energetic as getting hit at 25MPH.
Personally, I don't understand why anyone would speed on a residential street unless they haven't thought about it at all. Car doors can open at any time, people can be backing out of their driveway, and of course, kids and pets can run out into the street at any time. I just sort of assume it's going to happen and give every blind spot a wide berth and/or slow down a bit more than 25MPH.
I am the second fastest vehicle you will see on the highway (because the other guy can have that prize in the form of a ticket) but there are just too many potential hazards on a residential street. Even if you, dear reader, believe that a kid deserves to get hit, by you, for running into the street in front of his house just as much as if he ran into a freeway, an accident still takes up hours of time to resolve, and potentially years in jail for killing a pedestrian, if that happens, and you happened to have been speeding. At best, you're spending lots of money for a good lawyer, and many days at criminal trial, not to mention the wrongful death civil trial that's sure to follow. It's just a shitty risk/reward ratio, in purely selfish terms. Make up that time on the freeway, or by making sure you're not staring at your phone the next time the light turns green, or by learning to merge properly so as not to cause traffic jams.
God, I can't wait for autonomous vehicles to be mandated.
He said he would get them to do it. Carrot vs. stick. There is more nuance involved.
Do you honestly believe that Donald Trump, the man with his name plastered across everything he owns, does anything with nuance? Sorry, but unless he spells it out, you can be sure he's letting people hear whatever they want to hear, everyone believing they can read between the lines. Your interpretation is probably the best articulated, most intelligent, and compelling version of a defense for Trump's platform, but unless he spells it out with his own words, it's still speculation and probably wishful thinking.
Politicians are not saviors -- they don't have our interests at heart any more than we have theirs -- and Trump in particular has a track record of poor strategy and implementation, even when he has total control. You don't need to be good at any particular business to make a lot of money in business; you just have to know when to bail. Just ask Carly.
Nobody who works for the government considers it to be a unified entity, therefore the OPM gets the blame for the OPM hacks, and other agencies go on thinking their shit don't stink.
Then you just undercut your own argument, since more money was spent at the height of the Apollo program. But whatever, nobody every admits being wrong on the internet. I get it.
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Most of the economic damage from 9/11 was directly attributable to our reaction, not their action. People stopped flying, traveling, going to work, in some cases for days, in some cases for months. If we had reacted to China and Russia's efforts by panicking, they would have succeeded as well. Not to mention, ISIS hasn't achieved anything even close to an attack on that scale.
ISIS has hacked exactly nothing, and even if they did, what, exactly, are they going to accomplish that nation-states and experienced hackers haven't? An isolated incident of economic harm? Hell, they haven't even threatened to hack Facebook, just assassinate the CEO, as if the continued existence of one is more than tangentially related to the other. And even the credibility of that threat is only slightly above laughable. I'd take it seriously enough if I were Zuckerberg, but I don't think our country is going to go into national mourning or anything if they somehow followed through on it.
And electronic systems may be more vulnerable than physical targets, but it's a lot quicker and easier to rebuild a server and eliminate the vulnerabilities than doing the same thing with a building or a city. Moreover, taking out a power grid is hardly doomsday. If such an attack did occur, then it would certainly warrant a counterstrike (as I mentioned in my first post), but let's not put the cart before the horse.
It's funny you point that out. In Arabic, Insha'Allah -- God willing -- is basically a filler word. They say it *all the time*, to roughly the same degree a teenager would say "like." It's unlikely they gave it's inclusion any thought, but perhaps they should. :)
ISIS actually doesn't understand that. Middle Eastern cultures tend to assume that if they threaten the West and the West doesn't attack them, it's because of weakness
Citation other than Donald Trump needed.
they can't figure out that each threat makes it incrementally more likely that enough people will say "to hell with the civilian casualties, these guys are evil and they need to be bombed into rubble".
So... they want us to attack, but they can't figure out that provoking an attack will result in an attack? I'm not following.
I could, but that would be redundant.
The audience isn't the government; it's the populus. And given that Hitler, Stalin, and Mao were ultimately unsuccessful -- and only one by armed conflict -- I think it's safe to say that superior ideas triumphed over superior physical might.
en masse
ISIS is about as much of a threat to the world at large as a playground bully. It's a highly localized threat. Sure, on the way home from school, a few punches might get thrown, but it's hardly going to upset the world order. The reason governments care is because they don't want to deal with the refugees, not because ISIS is going to invade.
Of course ISIS would *love* to destroy America (or Europe, or anyone, really), but intent and capability are two separate things. China has the capability to destroy us, but not the intent. ISIS has the intent, but not the capability. Don't get me wrong -- ISIS believes they have the capability, because they believe they have God on their side, but if we buy into that, who's the real fool?
We should be paying about as much attention to ISIS in our national security policy as we do to Boko Haram, which is pretty much not at all. Oh no, someone shot his co-workers! That's what we call "Tuesday," in America. In the 80s, it was called "going postal," and it was so common they made a video game about it. Not that it's not incredible shitty for the people involved, but let's keep this in perspective. Our civilization was not shaken to its foundation because of a killing spree. It's a criminal matter, not one of national security, which is the security of our nation as a whole, not the guaranteed safety of every individual who happens to live here, as if such a thing were even possible.
ISIS doesn't piss me off as much as the reactionary people who use the existence of anyone who doesn't like America to promote some overhaul of society in order to save the nation from a mosquito bite. Make a retaliatory strike if we need to, but full-out war, and all of the sacrifices and paranoid security measures that go along with it, are completely unnecessary. We voluntarily change our lives far more than any terrorist group ever could. But we never learn, it seems.
Does anyone believe that Facebook would cease to exist without Mark Zuckerberg?
Yes, the guy who raised his hand -- would you kindly to help transfer my millions of dollars?
Transportation is a small contributor to methane emissions. A better perspective is total anthropogenic methane emissions in the US... for 2014, this was about 28.3 million metric tons (MMT). So this leak was about 0.3% of that. For another comparison, manure management contributes about 2.4 MMT annually, and agriculture overall accounts for 10MMT.
(http://www3.epa.gov/climatechange/Downloads/ghgemissions/US-GHG-Inventory-2016-Main-Text.pdf, Table 2-12, Sum of CH4 emissions in CO2 eq. divided by 25.)
I mean, this wasn't great, but let's keep things in perspective. If this was a catastrophe, then we have much bigger problems.
It's not about keeping Facebook out of the school; it's about limiting the use of school resources (i.e. taxpayer dollars) to approved activities.
Standard apps don't have access to files outside of their own folder for the most part, let alone system files. It's possible on a jailbroken phone, but if you're paranoid about the security of your data, you probably don't want to jailbreak your phone and open an attack vector for unsigned apps to be unwittingly installed.
Besides, most phones will go dead after enough time has passed before the filesystem could be wiped, and who wants to risk losing all of their data if something other than theft or death (hospitalization, left at home during vacation, broken screen) prevents them from accessing their phone within the timeline? Deadman switches are a very sharp double-edged sword.
That's not quite accurate either. Apple could write the software so that it only executes on the device with the UDID in question, and refuses to run on any others. As it is, OS updates must be signed to install, so modifying this "special" OS to check for a different UDID would render it useless.
Yes. As noted in the request, software updates can be installed when the device is in DFU mode, and that doesn't require the phone to be unlocked.
That could be because of this.
Ctrl+O
Not to mention the chain placement, which is probably +/- 0.5yds itself.
If it's not sentient, and I *own it*, then it should be completely servile, not something that balances its own wants, or those of some third party, against mine. That said, Cortana is a service, and while MS is generally happy to screw its customers, it clearly doesn't want to be in the business of providing sexual services, so I file this under "who cares."
Right. Her points may be true, but it's like complaining that the fashion industry doesn't cater to men. It never will, and it's not sexist, it's just that men don't want 30,000 varieties of shirts and shoes --at least not enough for it to be economically viable.
I will start respecting third wave feminism when it starts advocating for women to register for the draft, for more women in male-dominated blue collar industries, and when women start marrying men who earn less than them. For bonus points, eschew and rebuke female privileges and exceptions, like the "right" to slap a man, serve lighter sentences for the same offenses, automatically being granted child custody, etc. True equal treatment means taking the bad along with the good.
It's not just stopping distance. Energy = mass * velocity squared, so getting hit at 35MPH is twice as energetic as getting hit at 25MPH.
Personally, I don't understand why anyone would speed on a residential street unless they haven't thought about it at all. Car doors can open at any time, people can be backing out of their driveway, and of course, kids and pets can run out into the street at any time. I just sort of assume it's going to happen and give every blind spot a wide berth and/or slow down a bit more than 25MPH.
I am the second fastest vehicle you will see on the highway (because the other guy can have that prize in the form of a ticket) but there are just too many potential hazards on a residential street. Even if you, dear reader, believe that a kid deserves to get hit, by you, for running into the street in front of his house just as much as if he ran into a freeway, an accident still takes up hours of time to resolve, and potentially years in jail for killing a pedestrian, if that happens, and you happened to have been speeding. At best, you're spending lots of money for a good lawyer, and many days at criminal trial, not to mention the wrongful death civil trial that's sure to follow. It's just a shitty risk/reward ratio, in purely selfish terms. Make up that time on the freeway, or by making sure you're not staring at your phone the next time the light turns green, or by learning to merge properly so as not to cause traffic jams.
God, I can't wait for autonomous vehicles to be mandated.
He said he would get them to do it. Carrot vs. stick. There is more nuance involved.
Do you honestly believe that Donald Trump, the man with his name plastered across everything he owns, does anything with nuance? Sorry, but unless he spells it out, you can be sure he's letting people hear whatever they want to hear, everyone believing they can read between the lines. Your interpretation is probably the best articulated, most intelligent, and compelling version of a defense for Trump's platform, but unless he spells it out with his own words, it's still speculation and probably wishful thinking.
Politicians are not saviors -- they don't have our interests at heart any more than we have theirs -- and Trump in particular has a track record of poor strategy and implementation, even when he has total control. You don't need to be good at any particular business to make a lot of money in business; you just have to know when to bail. Just ask Carly.
Or Bill Gates.
Nobody who works for the government considers it to be a unified entity, therefore the OPM gets the blame for the OPM hacks, and other agencies go on thinking their shit don't stink.
Then you just undercut your own argument, since more money was spent at the height of the Apollo program. But whatever, nobody every admits being wrong on the internet. I get it.
NASA is actually quite popular.
http://www.pewresearch.org/fac...
Stop peddling your fictitious forces! We're not buying it!