Users generally use code, they don't write it. They matter because they are who the code is written for, however they don't matter when it comes to modifying the code./feed
What's to stop an attacker from packaging a patched source and putting it in the place where most of the rolling release distributions are actually pulling it from?
The ban on speaking of them was bad enough that they finally realized that the gag on nazi 'symbolism' lead to German children who had little idea
Don't forget who wrote the German constitution after the war. The Allies were desperate to turn the German people into monsters and make them feel guilty for being German that even the word "Nazi" became associated with the foulest demons from Hell. Reality is that there were a very few fanatics running the show, and the rest of the sheep did what they were told. It becomes easy to do unusual things when everyone else is doing them. Then eventually when war started what choice did the conscript have when he was given a gun and put on a battlefield? Not every German soldier delighted in killing, nor is the joy of seeing a person die unique to the German people. I've seen more than one video of US troops hooting like drunk teenagers while watching humans being turned to hamburger by a variety of ordnance in Iraq and Afghanistan. What makes them different from supposed "war criminals"? While killing is an accepted part of war, you're not supposed to LIKE it.
Er you're backwards. People have fewer kids out of the fear of not being able to afford them or maintain their previous lifestyle. Understanding that this fear is real and not imagined is a function of education, not income. There's nothing magical about being poor that forces you to have more kids. Condoms and other forms of birth control are not that expensive. Here in the third world, where I live, there are government programs that give them away free. I've had many women from poor families save money to come to me as the village doctor for a shot of medroxyprogesterone which will keep her period free for up to 6 months - it costs about $8. I usually don't charge for this.
However the poor are usually also poorly educated, so they fall prey to religion (the Pope says condoms are evil), superstition, or other factors that lead them to avoid birth control. Or the men simply don't give a shit about the women getting pregnant and the woman thinks she can "trap" a man with a baby - none of which lead to healthy functional relationships. This dysfunction tends to perpetuate poverty vertically.
This again leads back to my conclusion that people with a liberal mindset believe that resources are running out
Resources will never run out, thanks to conservation of matter. What will get tighter all the time, however, is resources per capita. If technology fails to continue its trend of being able to do more with less and if we keep breeding like rabbits then necessarily we will all suffer important changes to our lifestyle as the amount of available resources per individual falls.
Also you have to bear in mind that resources have a cycle - from discovery and mining, drilling, production or whatever - through being manufactured and distributed into usable products, to belonging to someone and being used in the manner they're supposed to be used and finally after succumbing to entropy, being discarded and/or recycled. That means that with many people you have a huge amount of resources "out of the loop" at any given time, meaning that either you have to make goods that last a lifetime, or highly disposable goods that are cycled quickly. Guess which avenue those who make and sell the resources would prefer...
I don't know if it's Murphy's Law or something, but the technology to kill us or enslave us is always far easier to get working than the technology to help us better ourselves.Of course a big part of the problem is a lot of people believe that killing some of us makes the rest of us better.
If you measure wealth by the amount of "stuff" you have and you use debt to obtain "stuff", then debt is wealth. The US has (too much) houses, infrastructure, vehicles, and an unparalleled standard of living. Its creditors have stacks of paper that say IOU. Who is wealthy? Of course the game only works as long as people are willing to play it.
every poor family can have the access to cheap energy to heat their homes and to power the car
You have no idea what poverty is. Their car? This is why the charitable efforts of Westerners always fail. You simply do not understand what you are talking about. Real poor people don't have a car. They are lucky to have a bicycle or shoes. Now if you consider a person poor because he has a car older than 6 years or does not have a Mercedes, then yeah ok... But understand that there are still a lot of people on the planet who ride in other people's vehicles.
The drones are probably controlled by satellite, which begs another question. Exactly what is stopping someone in Pakistan from talking to a satellite owned by a country other than Pakistan, over a VPN? Used to be expensive as fuck, I can't imagine it's very cheap nowadays, the bandwidth and latency suck, but I'm sure that Hughes is dying to sell you an account. And of course if you're engaged in nefarious, lucrative and very private business then what's a couple hundred bucks a month between friends?
Save yourselves some money and some bother, and just disconnect yourselves from the internet! That way you'll be Safe (tm).
This has just prevented pretty much anyone who works for a Fortune 500 company from doing anything in Pakistan on company laptops. I dunno, maybe that's a good thing? I can imagine that now more than one "elected official" will point to Pakistan as a shining example to follow (just like what happened earlier with RIM and the Blackberry in India and Saudi Arabia and later everywhere) and VPNs will no longer be allowed because of course they could be the tools of terrorists. Damn, why did I have to wake up in this parallel universe 10 years ago.
Oh, so there aren't millions of people infected with HIV then, because in your world everyone tests immediately and tests are flawless and everyone informs everyone else. Fact.
I'm done playing the fool and arguing with a troll. I feel better. Do you?
Additionally, there would be less prostitution since it is less profitable of an occupation in an area where there are 2 people per km2.
Yeah there are no prostitutes. Just everyone goes to pay Widow Mary a visit, and of course a gentleman has to be courteous like and leave her some money afterwards, poor thing. Actually you could argue that in a rural area there is more of a probability that a given gentleman will come into contact with, call her the "town slut", than in a city.
Bubonic plague != pneumonic plague. It's the same organism but a different infection route. Pneumonic plague spreads like wildfire - that's the real "Black Death". It's still treatable but it's one of those diseases where by the time you realize you have it, you've already infected other people, and by the time you're sick enough to seek help it's probably too late. Only thing that will work here is prophylactic antibiotics for anyone who has been in contact with an infected person, aggressive treatment of the infected and lots of luck.
I agree that if you lock yourself in a room and never have sex with anyone and never need a transfusion or organ transplant or share a dirty needle or are born from an infected mother, then it's pretty much impossible for you to get the disease. Now who lives like this? Yes HIV and its transmission is well known - in more educated countries. How about in rural areas? How about in poor countries? How about when there is war, and people are busy worrying about other things?
Africa has proven that this disease has the potential to spread rapidly, quite explosively as a matter of fact, when the conditions are right. It's all very well to sit in your air conditioned office somewhere in the west and say "it won't happen to me" - because if you live long enough then the socio-economic conditions of your country will change. Look at what's just happened in the middle east and north Africa. Don't kid yourself into thinking "that will never ever happen here". It's happened in the US before when it erupted in a civil war, and it almost happened again in the 1970's. The disease, however, is not ever going away. So it's just going to sit there waiting until the conditions are right. I'm not fear-mongering, I'm just a guy who understands how disease works. HIV is with us forever, and therefore the danger is with us forever.
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This is the version of Windows that you skip, right? Every other version is the good version?
On the bright side going too fast over a bump will shoot them off into orbit.
Omg, I'm not sure but possibly this is even worse than goatse. How can I get that song out of my head now? Arrrgh!
I wrote this post in flash but you can't see it.
Now just imagine what someone somewhere is doing to all the Macs and iOS stuff.
Windows just sees the .exe and says "whoopee, we can execute it!"
Nahh come on be fair! Windows can execute a lot of stuff that isn't .exe too.
Users generally use code, they don't write it. They matter because they are who the code is written for, however they don't matter when it comes to modifying the code. /feed
What's to stop an attacker from packaging a patched source and putting it in the place where most of the rolling release distributions are actually pulling it from?
git, and the SHA-1 keys.
The ban on speaking of them was bad enough that they finally realized that the gag on nazi 'symbolism' lead to German children who had little idea
Don't forget who wrote the German constitution after the war. The Allies were desperate to turn the German people into monsters and make them feel guilty for being German that even the word "Nazi" became associated with the foulest demons from Hell. Reality is that there were a very few fanatics running the show, and the rest of the sheep did what they were told. It becomes easy to do unusual things when everyone else is doing them. Then eventually when war started what choice did the conscript have when he was given a gun and put on a battlefield? Not every German soldier delighted in killing, nor is the joy of seeing a person die unique to the German people. I've seen more than one video of US troops hooting like drunk teenagers while watching humans being turned to hamburger by a variety of ordnance in Iraq and Afghanistan. What makes them different from supposed "war criminals"? While killing is an accepted part of war, you're not supposed to LIKE it.
show that we have good enough control over our single-qubit operations that our probability of error is 1 per 50,000 logic operations.
They forgot to add: "we calculated this probability on our quantum computer"
Er you're backwards. People have fewer kids out of the fear of not being able to afford them or maintain their previous lifestyle. Understanding that this fear is real and not imagined is a function of education, not income. There's nothing magical about being poor that forces you to have more kids. Condoms and other forms of birth control are not that expensive. Here in the third world, where I live, there are government programs that give them away free. I've had many women from poor families save money to come to me as the village doctor for a shot of medroxyprogesterone which will keep her period free for up to 6 months - it costs about $8. I usually don't charge for this.
However the poor are usually also poorly educated, so they fall prey to religion (the Pope says condoms are evil), superstition, or other factors that lead them to avoid birth control. Or the men simply don't give a shit about the women getting pregnant and the woman thinks she can "trap" a man with a baby - none of which lead to healthy functional relationships. This dysfunction tends to perpetuate poverty vertically.
This again leads back to my conclusion that people with a liberal mindset believe that resources are running out
Resources will never run out, thanks to conservation of matter. What will get tighter all the time, however, is resources per capita. If technology fails to continue its trend of being able to do more with less and if we keep breeding like rabbits then necessarily we will all suffer important changes to our lifestyle as the amount of available resources per individual falls.
Also you have to bear in mind that resources have a cycle - from discovery and mining, drilling, production or whatever - through being manufactured and distributed into usable products, to belonging to someone and being used in the manner they're supposed to be used and finally after succumbing to entropy, being discarded and/or recycled. That means that with many people you have a huge amount of resources "out of the loop" at any given time, meaning that either you have to make goods that last a lifetime, or highly disposable goods that are cycled quickly. Guess which avenue those who make and sell the resources would prefer...
I don't know if it's Murphy's Law or something, but the technology to kill us or enslave us is always far easier to get working than the technology to help us better ourselves.Of course a big part of the problem is a lot of people believe that killing some of us makes the rest of us better.
Oh man, all I see is the letter 'R'. Is this a trick question?
If you measure wealth by the amount of "stuff" you have and you use debt to obtain "stuff", then debt is wealth. The US has (too much) houses, infrastructure, vehicles, and an unparalleled standard of living. Its creditors have stacks of paper that say IOU. Who is wealthy? Of course the game only works as long as people are willing to play it.
a car is a necessity in much of the US
Believe it or not the US with it's 300 million people only represents 4% of the world population. So who gives a shit what is necessary in the US?
every poor family can have the access to cheap energy to heat their homes and to power the car
You have no idea what poverty is. Their car? This is why the charitable efforts of Westerners always fail. You simply do not understand what you are talking about. Real poor people don't have a car. They are lucky to have a bicycle or shoes. Now if you consider a person poor because he has a car older than 6 years or does not have a Mercedes, then yeah ok... But understand that there are still a lot of people on the planet who ride in other people's vehicles.
The drones are probably controlled by satellite, which begs another question. Exactly what is stopping someone in Pakistan from talking to a satellite owned by a country other than Pakistan, over a VPN? Used to be expensive as fuck, I can't imagine it's very cheap nowadays, the bandwidth and latency suck, but I'm sure that Hughes is dying to sell you an account. And of course if you're engaged in nefarious, lucrative and very private business then what's a couple hundred bucks a month between friends?
Because it's none of your damned.... sigh, I give up. Take it all. But you get to live in this shitty world too.
Save yourselves some money and some bother, and just disconnect yourselves from the internet! That way you'll be Safe (tm).
This has just prevented pretty much anyone who works for a Fortune 500 company from doing anything in Pakistan on company laptops. I dunno, maybe that's a good thing? I can imagine that now more than one "elected official" will point to Pakistan as a shining example to follow (just like what happened earlier with RIM and the Blackberry in India and Saudi Arabia and later everywhere) and VPNs will no longer be allowed because of course they could be the tools of terrorists. Damn, why did I have to wake up in this parallel universe 10 years ago.
Oh, so there aren't millions of people infected with HIV then, because in your world everyone tests immediately and tests are flawless and everyone informs everyone else. Fact.
I'm done playing the fool and arguing with a troll. I feel better. Do you?
Additionally, there would be less prostitution since it is less profitable of an occupation in an area where there are 2 people per km2.
Yeah there are no prostitutes. Just everyone goes to pay Widow Mary a visit, and of course a gentleman has to be courteous like and leave her some money afterwards, poor thing. Actually you could argue that in a rural area there is more of a probability that a given gentleman will come into contact with, call her the "town slut", than in a city.
Your model does not correlate well with observed facts.
Bubonic plague != pneumonic plague. It's the same organism but a different infection route. Pneumonic plague spreads like wildfire - that's the real "Black Death". It's still treatable but it's one of those diseases where by the time you realize you have it, you've already infected other people, and by the time you're sick enough to seek help it's probably too late. Only thing that will work here is prophylactic antibiotics for anyone who has been in contact with an infected person, aggressive treatment of the infected and lots of luck.
I agree that if you lock yourself in a room and never have sex with anyone and never need a transfusion or organ transplant or share a dirty needle or are born from an infected mother, then it's pretty much impossible for you to get the disease. Now who lives like this? Yes HIV and its transmission is well known - in more educated countries. How about in rural areas? How about in poor countries? How about when there is war, and people are busy worrying about other things?
Africa has proven that this disease has the potential to spread rapidly, quite explosively as a matter of fact, when the conditions are right. It's all very well to sit in your air conditioned office somewhere in the west and say "it won't happen to me" - because if you live long enough then the socio-economic conditions of your country will change. Look at what's just happened in the middle east and north Africa. Don't kid yourself into thinking "that will never ever happen here". It's happened in the US before when it erupted in a civil war, and it almost happened again in the 1970's. The disease, however, is not ever going away. So it's just going to sit there waiting until the conditions are right. I'm not fear-mongering, I'm just a guy who understands how disease works. HIV is with us forever, and therefore the danger is with us forever.