Carbon interests REALLY like hydrogen cars because it preserves the carbon cycle. In theory you can get hydrogen from water, in reality it's far less expensive to get it from natural gas or another fossil fuel stack.
Your point is valid but I've got one better. The only people that will use this will do so for what I consider nefarious purposes. Criminals, politicians you name it, if it makes the public aware of exactly what they've done they will demand to be erased.
Once the tool is created it will be available for government to use and suddenly we have the memory hole and Oceania has always been at war with Eastasia.
I like the idea of being able to make someone like facebook delete all your personal information but that's not how this tool is going to be used. It's going to be used by a politician to force Google to delete links to all stories about an affair they had. It will be used to censor the news not to maintain privacy as claimed. Frankly it's a politicians wet dream.
WWII?, the same thing happened during the french revolution when the Monarchy blamed anarchist for any number of actions their own soldiers commited. This isn't a game of trying to find the first incident, it's probably been happening since og claimed ug shat on the food so he could steal his new cool invention the wheel.
I've never met a 16 year old that didn't understand what they were doing. On the other hand I've met plenty that didn't care. Not even 100 years ago 16 years old was an adult in many places able to exercise contracts, get married and work full time. My grandparents married at 17/16. I don't ascribe to the view that 16 years old is incapable of understanding their actions, that ability develops as early as 5 years old. I do ascribe to the view that our society and most western societies don't hold those 16 year old's to that level and that results in kids like this doing these horrible things.
I also don't think he should face quite the same penalties as an older individual but it's foolish to suggest they don't understand the consequences. Most 16 year olds fully understand, in fact they understand so well that they fully grasp that society will not punish them as harshly because of their age and willfully engage in actions like this because they know there is no long term consequence for their action.
That said he should spend the next two years of his life in a juvenile correctional institution receiving the counseling, assistance and parenting he clearly needs. Afterwards his record should be sealed and he should be told that should he commit these actions again he will end up in real prison.
I would bet he thinks things would be "better" outside the US because he's not only never been outside the US but he's foolish beyond measure maybe even an anarchist.
The only place you are going to get away from private property is off this planet, you might also consider that even if someone you know made your clothes the materials that went into them certainly didn't abide the values you ascribe. The same would apply to the food you eat, the transportation you use right on down to the soap and water you use to bathe. Yes, even the water isn't "free" of either ownership or any of the other "values" you claim.
Spying prevents war, it's credited with preventing the Cuba missile crisis from being a very real nuclear war because each sides spying revealed not only how serious the issue was but what was required to end the threat (the Soviets requirement was removing nuclear missiles from Turkey). And that's just a single incident, spying has probably prevented more wars than anyone can imagine.
You do realize that these Swatting are caused by someone with the fake caller ID of the address calling emergency services and claiming there home has been invaded by someone with guns and they are actively killing people and have numerous hostages. Or some other variant where someone with a gun is in the process of killing someone with a bunch lined up and the caller is either a hidden victim or the person doing the active killing. There is usually included a statement that the cops need to hurry and that any attempt at contact will result in the "killer" immediately killing multiple people.
The scenario presented doesn't give police many options. Though I don't like SWAT teams nor the militarization of the police, but reacting to these scenarios as if it was a prank is only going to result in a real scenario going bad in a way that results in multiple people being killed and everyone laying blame on the cops for not taking it seriously.
Maybe you should read the transcript of these SWAT'ings and lay out what procedure you would have put in place to determine that it was a prank and not the real thing and prove how smart you are. Keep in mind that in some jurisdictions there may be laws on the books that require this type of response.
The reason you are only aware of those instances (and of course implying those are the first instances) is because you are a partisan hack.
FYI swatting has been used significantly longer that your partisan views ascribe. I a guy that someone tried to swat (the community didn't have a swat) in 1994 via modem redial on a BBS. Why don't you try climbing out of your partisan cave? There is nothing more disgusting than anyone trying to claim (or imply in this case) that persecution makes them right or virtuous in their cause.
Cars are one product on the market that is highly recyclable with for profit recycling of almost every part, the recycling is not only easy but common. Most cars are 90+% recyclable with that 10% or so being things like tires and foam for the seats that generally can't be made into new products. This is partly because cars are made of steel and steel is the most easily recycled material we use. Every steel smelter can recycle steel, no special equipment or processes are required.
The problem with carbon fiber is the same problem we face with PVC and most of the plastics (not all, several of the plastics are highly recyclable), they can't be recycled in a viable for profit process. Most are just burned or buried because there is negative value in recycling including some plastics that have no viable process for reuse of the material including some that are toxic to reprocess.
Egad, what terrible advice. Yes freshman year is the lightest workload if you came from a good HS but it can be hard for people that come from crappy school systems.
But there is something more important and that's having fun. Collage is the last real time in your life you can goof off and have a good time without severe repercussions. Studies need to be important and good grades a must but with the lighter work load freshman year you should be having fun. That means making friends, dating and having a good time. Once you graduate are looking at almost 50 years of continuous 40+ hour workweeks with 2 weeks of time off a year.
Enjoy collage, its your last chance to act like a kid.
Without government incentives Solar PV is cost competitive at the utility scale with Nuclear (solar is slightly cheaper). With government incentives it's cost competitive with coal (coal is a few cents per megawatt cheaper).
Costs are continuing to fall, in 2010 solar PV breached $1 a watt for the panels which took it within range of nuclear at utility scale. Currently the price is running in the $0.50 range (that's a 50percent drop in cost in 2 years). With the massive supply chain investment China has made it's very possible that panel prices will continue falling at the same rate for years to come. It's completely feasible that within 5 years solar PV will be cost competitive with coal power without subsidy (that is without solar receiving subsidies but coal continuing to receive it's billions in subsidies).
Utilities are running away from coal faster than an Olympic sprinter. Most of the major utilities are divesting coal assets as fast as they can. They see the writing on the wall, why don't you?
There is substance to it in some locations. NY and DC are prime examples of a protected marketplace where the regulators and taxi companies are in collusion to limit competition. In these market the regulator isn't a regulator anymore, they are part and parcel of enforcing monopolies for the benefit of the existing taxi services. This is the reason NY medallions are so expensive.
But have you considered that in some markets those limits have a place in some markets. Limited markets had problems in the past with too many taxi's driving everyone out of business. This happened because too many people and companies put taxi's on the road, the result was far more taxi's than there was demand and ultimately driving all of them out of business. It also resulted in a bunch of the taxi's cutting corners in ways that put the public at risk.
I'm all for leveling the playing field and bringing these internet taxi services into the fold but that means they obey the same regulations as everyone else. I don't want my wife killed by some Uber or Lyft driver that's been driving for 30 hours and fell asleep at the wheel nor do I want convicted rapists out there driving cars in a taxi service hunting for new victims. Most of the municipal taxi regulations throughout the country are good regulations, we shouldn't be painting the entire country with the incompetence seen in NY's regulator and demanding an end to sensible regulations where the regulator isn't in the pocket of the taxi companies.
I see this argument all the time but for the most part there is little substance behind it. Most cities are only trying to ensure that some basic rules are being followed. Like background checks on the drivers, that the cars are maintained and insured with commercial drivers insurance and that the drivers aren't driving 18 hours a day.
I'd be willing to bet that most of the drivers for Lyft and Uber are doing so with their regular non-commercial insurance (which won't cover a damn thing once they find out they were) and are driving significantly more hours than allowed and that at least some of those drivers are able to drive so long because they are taking amphetamines (just like truckers do that drive those kind of hours).
Outside placed like New York these taxi commissions are charged with protecting the public from taxi drivers that have a dozen rape convictions, taxi's that haven't seen a mechanic in 20 years and drivers running around hopped up on speed driving 36 hours straight. The vast majority of these commissions are only interested in these public safety objectives and Uber and Lyft don't give a damn about. The few places they've been threatened with the same rules and expenses they drop the market because they can't make money, which is frankly understandable because in competitive taxi markets (ie almost anywhere outside NY and DC) the margins are razor thin and Uber/Lyft can only make money because they don't do the checks everyone else has to.
SysV is likely to always be supported regardless of what you think of improved init systems. Personally I think systemD is a good thing and combined with wayland is going to close some serious gaps Linux has had for ages.
Honestly if sticking with SysV is so important you can either stop upgrading or you can move to a niche Linux distribution or even move to one of the BSD's.
Putting an executable in the directory and running it is not the same as installing it and you bloody well know it or are an idiot. The only way to install a program in the user directory without admin rights is to use a program like portable apps that creates a secondary registry and mirrors admin-only windows resources in the user directory. It's absurd that such features require proprietary extensions outside windows. I need no such proprietary programs in Linux, the capability is understood and fully supported by the OS.
For the most part Windows is still fully impossible to use in a fully locked down state without either secondary programs that can provide restricted admin features or routinely giving admin rights to programs. This is the primary reason Windows can never be secured and won't be fixed until Microsoft recognizes and restricts Admin access to actual system updates.
In almost all Cellular phones there are at least two processors and operating systems. There is the regular operating system and processor that you use to use the phone. There is another processor though, with it's own proprietary OS that operates the radio. This processor actually has override control over the entire phone with access to main memory and the at least theoretical ability to override and interrupt the main processor whenever it see fit. This processor also initializes first and then boots the main processor and main operating system. In theory it could insert completely transplant and undetectable backdoor by man-in-the-middle'ing the entire boot process and replacing main memory when necessary.
Do modern cell phones do this? We have no way of knowing because the radio OS is entirely proprietary and secret and often completely inaccessible. Keep in mind because the processor controls the radio it would be possible for it to be updated over the radio.
RMS is right, a modern cellphone is Stalin's wet dream.
Don't worry, next year when there are 10 category 5 storms he'll downplay that too. Honestly though it's not climate unless you are talking decades as the smallest unit of measurement.
Insurance rates on the Gulf coast are going to go through the roof. Too bad all the people that made their money in oil will move out and leave behind all the poor to take the pain. Insurance rates in Florida are now subsidized by the state because of Hugo and a couple other major Hurricanes in the 90's, that just might be the norm in the future along the entire Gulf coast and US eastern seaboard.
Glad I live inland in the west, we'll just run out of water rather than be drowned in it.
I can install programs to my home directory, the only reason to install in/usr is that the program needs to be multi-user. In such a multi-user situation the program should be installed by the administrator to ensure libraries are shared. But nothing forces me to use SU to install a program, I can choose to install to my home directory and the program will run fine, unlike windows.
There is nothing parallel about the two operations. When I can install a program in windows to my user directory you will have reached the most basic of feature parity and the most important of security operations. SU access should only be needed to configure the system directly or replace system level libraries or binaries. To need SU to install a user program is the worst kind of security.
Russian intelligence operatives along with Spetnaz Russian special forces out of uniform are occupying Ukrainian government offices. They are doing so with the assistance of several prominent Ukrainian oligarchs that backed and supported Yankovitch. It's been estimated that fewer than 15% of the "protestors" are actually even Ukrainian and many of those that are Ukrainian are being supported (and paid) by those oligarchs.
When US special forces out of uniform but still acting at the direction of the US government are seizing Mexican government offices by force let me know.
Which was my point. Until Microsoft forces ISV's to not use admin accounts and to run software and installs as the user this problem will not go away. This is complicated by the fact that with non-admin accounts you have no right access to program files and will need admin rights to install. Every time that dialog comes up makes it more likely people will simply click the dialog to make it go away, this is the key lesson Microsoft still hasn't learned. That elevated dialog is nothing like the SU in Linux because it's used to do things other than alter major system parameters or files..
As a user on Linux I can install software from my user account, I can run that software, delete it and do any of a million things with that software, the only reason I would need SU is to install for more than my user account, or to alter system parameters. No such privilege separation exists in Windows outside hacks like "portable apps" whose functionality should be part of windows. Even with the dramatically turned down UAC Windows still has broken privileges.
How about just ditching windows? The prevalence of viruses and their propagation through windows systems is entirely at the feet of MS and their security. They still install the base user as administrator.
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Carbon interests REALLY like hydrogen cars because it preserves the carbon cycle. In theory you can get hydrogen from water, in reality it's far less expensive to get it from natural gas or another fossil fuel stack.
Why do you think Bush promoted it?
Your point is valid but I've got one better. The only people that will use this will do so for what I consider nefarious purposes. Criminals, politicians you name it, if it makes the public aware of exactly what they've done they will demand to be erased.
Once the tool is created it will be available for government to use and suddenly we have the memory hole and Oceania has always been at war with Eastasia.
I like the idea of being able to make someone like facebook delete all your personal information but that's not how this tool is going to be used. It's going to be used by a politician to force Google to delete links to all stories about an affair they had. It will be used to censor the news not to maintain privacy as claimed. Frankly it's a politicians wet dream.
WWII?, the same thing happened during the french revolution when the Monarchy blamed anarchist for any number of actions their own soldiers commited. This isn't a game of trying to find the first incident, it's probably been happening since og claimed ug shat on the food so he could steal his new cool invention the wheel.
I've never met a 16 year old that didn't understand what they were doing. On the other hand I've met plenty that didn't care. Not even 100 years ago 16 years old was an adult in many places able to exercise contracts, get married and work full time. My grandparents married at 17/16. I don't ascribe to the view that 16 years old is incapable of understanding their actions, that ability develops as early as 5 years old. I do ascribe to the view that our society and most western societies don't hold those 16 year old's to that level and that results in kids like this doing these horrible things.
I also don't think he should face quite the same penalties as an older individual but it's foolish to suggest they don't understand the consequences. Most 16 year olds fully understand, in fact they understand so well that they fully grasp that society will not punish them as harshly because of their age and willfully engage in actions like this because they know there is no long term consequence for their action.
That said he should spend the next two years of his life in a juvenile correctional institution receiving the counseling, assistance and parenting he clearly needs. Afterwards his record should be sealed and he should be told that should he commit these actions again he will end up in real prison.
I would bet he thinks things would be "better" outside the US because he's not only never been outside the US but he's foolish beyond measure maybe even an anarchist.
The only place you are going to get away from private property is off this planet, you might also consider that even if someone you know made your clothes the materials that went into them certainly didn't abide the values you ascribe. The same would apply to the food you eat, the transportation you use right on down to the soap and water you use to bathe. Yes, even the water isn't "free" of either ownership or any of the other "values" you claim.
And that is a very good thing.
Spying prevents war, it's credited with preventing the Cuba missile crisis from being a very real nuclear war because each sides spying revealed not only how serious the issue was but what was required to end the threat (the Soviets requirement was removing nuclear missiles from Turkey). And that's just a single incident, spying has probably prevented more wars than anyone can imagine.
You do realize that these Swatting are caused by someone with the fake caller ID of the address calling emergency services and claiming there home has been invaded by someone with guns and they are actively killing people and have numerous hostages. Or some other variant where someone with a gun is in the process of killing someone with a bunch lined up and the caller is either a hidden victim or the person doing the active killing. There is usually included a statement that the cops need to hurry and that any attempt at contact will result in the "killer" immediately killing multiple people.
The scenario presented doesn't give police many options. Though I don't like SWAT teams nor the militarization of the police, but reacting to these scenarios as if it was a prank is only going to result in a real scenario going bad in a way that results in multiple people being killed and everyone laying blame on the cops for not taking it seriously.
Maybe you should read the transcript of these SWAT'ings and lay out what procedure you would have put in place to determine that it was a prank and not the real thing and prove how smart you are. Keep in mind that in some jurisdictions there may be laws on the books that require this type of response.
The reason you are only aware of those instances (and of course implying those are the first instances) is because you are a partisan hack.
FYI swatting has been used significantly longer that your partisan views ascribe. I a guy that someone tried to swat (the community didn't have a swat) in 1994 via modem redial on a BBS. Why don't you try climbing out of your partisan cave? There is nothing more disgusting than anyone trying to claim (or imply in this case) that persecution makes them right or virtuous in their cause.
Cars are one product on the market that is highly recyclable with for profit recycling of almost every part, the recycling is not only easy but common. Most cars are 90+% recyclable with that 10% or so being things like tires and foam for the seats that generally can't be made into new products. This is partly because cars are made of steel and steel is the most easily recycled material we use. Every steel smelter can recycle steel, no special equipment or processes are required.
The problem with carbon fiber is the same problem we face with PVC and most of the plastics (not all, several of the plastics are highly recyclable), they can't be recycled in a viable for profit process. Most are just burned or buried because there is negative value in recycling including some plastics that have no viable process for reuse of the material including some that are toxic to reprocess.
Egad, what terrible advice. Yes freshman year is the lightest workload if you came from a good HS but it can be hard for people that come from crappy school systems.
But there is something more important and that's having fun. Collage is the last real time in your life you can goof off and have a good time without severe repercussions. Studies need to be important and good grades a must but with the lighter work load freshman year you should be having fun. That means making friends, dating and having a good time. Once you graduate are looking at almost 50 years of continuous 40+ hour workweeks with 2 weeks of time off a year.
Enjoy collage, its your last chance to act like a kid.
Without government incentives Solar PV is cost competitive at the utility scale with Nuclear (solar is slightly cheaper). With government incentives it's cost competitive with coal (coal is a few cents per megawatt cheaper).
Costs are continuing to fall, in 2010 solar PV breached $1 a watt for the panels which took it within range of nuclear at utility scale. Currently the price is running in the $0.50 range (that's a 50percent drop in cost in 2 years). With the massive supply chain investment China has made it's very possible that panel prices will continue falling at the same rate for years to come. It's completely feasible that within 5 years solar PV will be cost competitive with coal power without subsidy (that is without solar receiving subsidies but coal continuing to receive it's billions in subsidies).
Utilities are running away from coal faster than an Olympic sprinter. Most of the major utilities are divesting coal assets as fast as they can. They see the writing on the wall, why don't you?
Did you notice the exemption for traditional holiday costumes? Hello Santa.
Both parties are anti-business, it just depends on the business. Anyone that claims otherwise is just a partisan or willfully blind.
There is substance to it in some locations. NY and DC are prime examples of a protected marketplace where the regulators and taxi companies are in collusion to limit competition. In these market the regulator isn't a regulator anymore, they are part and parcel of enforcing monopolies for the benefit of the existing taxi services. This is the reason NY medallions are so expensive.
But have you considered that in some markets those limits have a place in some markets. Limited markets had problems in the past with too many taxi's driving everyone out of business. This happened because too many people and companies put taxi's on the road, the result was far more taxi's than there was demand and ultimately driving all of them out of business. It also resulted in a bunch of the taxi's cutting corners in ways that put the public at risk.
I'm all for leveling the playing field and bringing these internet taxi services into the fold but that means they obey the same regulations as everyone else. I don't want my wife killed by some Uber or Lyft driver that's been driving for 30 hours and fell asleep at the wheel nor do I want convicted rapists out there driving cars in a taxi service hunting for new victims. Most of the municipal taxi regulations throughout the country are good regulations, we shouldn't be painting the entire country with the incompetence seen in NY's regulator and demanding an end to sensible regulations where the regulator isn't in the pocket of the taxi companies.
I see this argument all the time but for the most part there is little substance behind it. Most cities are only trying to ensure that some basic rules are being followed. Like background checks on the drivers, that the cars are maintained and insured with commercial drivers insurance and that the drivers aren't driving 18 hours a day.
I'd be willing to bet that most of the drivers for Lyft and Uber are doing so with their regular non-commercial insurance (which won't cover a damn thing once they find out they were) and are driving significantly more hours than allowed and that at least some of those drivers are able to drive so long because they are taking amphetamines (just like truckers do that drive those kind of hours).
Outside placed like New York these taxi commissions are charged with protecting the public from taxi drivers that have a dozen rape convictions, taxi's that haven't seen a mechanic in 20 years and drivers running around hopped up on speed driving 36 hours straight. The vast majority of these commissions are only interested in these public safety objectives and Uber and Lyft don't give a damn about. The few places they've been threatened with the same rules and expenses they drop the market because they can't make money, which is frankly understandable because in competitive taxi markets (ie almost anywhere outside NY and DC) the margins are razor thin and Uber/Lyft can only make money because they don't do the checks everyone else has to.
And I wish people that want Linux to stay frozen would just stop upgrading or move to a system that sure to stay in 1970.
SysV is likely to always be supported regardless of what you think of improved init systems. Personally I think systemD is a good thing and combined with wayland is going to close some serious gaps Linux has had for ages.
Honestly if sticking with SysV is so important you can either stop upgrading or you can move to a niche Linux distribution or even move to one of the BSD's.
My experience was exactly the opposite, it was easily the worst text book I've ever purchased and was utterly useless.
Putting an executable in the directory and running it is not the same as installing it and you bloody well know it or are an idiot. The only way to install a program in the user directory without admin rights is to use a program like portable apps that creates a secondary registry and mirrors admin-only windows resources in the user directory. It's absurd that such features require proprietary extensions outside windows. I need no such proprietary programs in Linux, the capability is understood and fully supported by the OS.
For the most part Windows is still fully impossible to use in a fully locked down state without either secondary programs that can provide restricted admin features or routinely giving admin rights to programs. This is the primary reason Windows can never be secured and won't be fixed until Microsoft recognizes and restricts Admin access to actual system updates.
In almost all Cellular phones there are at least two processors and operating systems. There is the regular operating system and processor that you use to use the phone. There is another processor though, with it's own proprietary OS that operates the radio. This processor actually has override control over the entire phone with access to main memory and the at least theoretical ability to override and interrupt the main processor whenever it see fit. This processor also initializes first and then boots the main processor and main operating system. In theory it could insert completely transplant and undetectable backdoor by man-in-the-middle'ing the entire boot process and replacing main memory when necessary.
Do modern cell phones do this? We have no way of knowing because the radio OS is entirely proprietary and secret and often completely inaccessible. Keep in mind because the processor controls the radio it would be possible for it to be updated over the radio.
RMS is right, a modern cellphone is Stalin's wet dream.
Don't worry, next year when there are 10 category 5 storms he'll downplay that too. Honestly though it's not climate unless you are talking decades as the smallest unit of measurement.
Insurance rates on the Gulf coast are going to go through the roof. Too bad all the people that made their money in oil will move out and leave behind all the poor to take the pain. Insurance rates in Florida are now subsidized by the state because of Hugo and a couple other major Hurricanes in the 90's, that just might be the norm in the future along the entire Gulf coast and US eastern seaboard.
Glad I live inland in the west, we'll just run out of water rather than be drowned in it.
I can install programs to my home directory, the only reason to install in /usr is that the program needs to be multi-user. In such a multi-user situation the program should be installed by the administrator to ensure libraries are shared. But nothing forces me to use SU to install a program, I can choose to install to my home directory and the program will run fine, unlike windows.
There is nothing parallel about the two operations. When I can install a program in windows to my user directory you will have reached the most basic of feature parity and the most important of security operations. SU access should only be needed to configure the system directly or replace system level libraries or binaries. To need SU to install a user program is the worst kind of security.
Russian intelligence operatives along with Spetnaz Russian special forces out of uniform are occupying Ukrainian government offices. They are doing so with the assistance of several prominent Ukrainian oligarchs that backed and supported Yankovitch. It's been estimated that fewer than 15% of the "protestors" are actually even Ukrainian and many of those that are Ukrainian are being supported (and paid) by those oligarchs.
When US special forces out of uniform but still acting at the direction of the US government are seizing Mexican government offices by force let me know.
Which was my point. Until Microsoft forces ISV's to not use admin accounts and to run software and installs as the user this problem will not go away. This is complicated by the fact that with non-admin accounts you have no right access to program files and will need admin rights to install. Every time that dialog comes up makes it more likely people will simply click the dialog to make it go away, this is the key lesson Microsoft still hasn't learned. That elevated dialog is nothing like the SU in Linux because it's used to do things other than alter major system parameters or files..
As a user on Linux I can install software from my user account, I can run that software, delete it and do any of a million things with that software, the only reason I would need SU is to install for more than my user account, or to alter system parameters. No such privilege separation exists in Windows outside hacks like "portable apps" whose functionality should be part of windows. Even with the dramatically turned down UAC Windows still has broken privileges.
How about just ditching windows? The prevalence of viruses and their propagation through windows systems is entirely at the feet of MS and their security. They still install the base user as administrator.