It's not as if Trump will get unelected or nuking the Kreml would help anyone. Putin got a little slap on the wrist and US authorities and party officials will hopefully secure their machines better in future. Now the world can move on.
No, that's a different problem that has erroneously been considered structurally equivalent to the corresponding original trolley problem. The difference has to do with agency, the doctrine of side effect, and a bunch of other issues. You're right, though, I should have said 'like most trolley problems' instead of 'all trolley' problems and instantly regretted the choice of words after I posted.
Oops, my apologies! I admit that with all this pizzagate nonsense and whatnot it has sometimes become increasingly hard for me to distinguish sarcasm and satire from real opinions.:/ (Shouldn't have resorted to cheap wordplay insults anyway...)
I could use it for flight simulation and audio processing, which both require loads of CPU and RAM. But I've just checked their website and a high end Origin PC is a bit out of my preferred price range. An upper mid-range PC will also do.
The simultaneously funny and sad thing about your statement is that even if that were true, it would be very wise and smart to invest in renewable energy for a long list of other reasons. Oil reserves will run out eventually, that's 100% sure, and so will natural gas. On a side note, most of the latter is produced by Russia, so if you want to be almost completely dependent on that country, please go ahead. Putin would be delighted to deliver large quantities of compressed liquid natural gas to the US. He wrote his final thesis at the then inofficial and secret KGB school on how to strategically influence and dominate other countries by exporting mineral and raw material resources including natural gas.
Don't worry, you will get security updates for almost a year, after which you can simply buy a new Samsung Galaxy phone to keep your new desktop machine up-to-date and A-Okay.
It's a fucking newspaper, a bunch of journalists who try to get good stories and where looking for a followup story. The editor in chief was sloppy on this one, that's all. Do I now need to educate you about what "political propaganda" is? Are you really that uneducated or just trolling? Do you really want to pretend you have never seen real propaganda? Here is propaganda and that is propaganda. When a reputable journal like the Washington Post makes a mistake and they immediately correct themselves, that does not even remotely qualify as propaganda for reasons that should be completely obvious to anyone with half a brain. (And, of course, "political propaganda" is redundant. Propaganda is political by definition.)
The first to are created with the intention of writing news and informing readers but something goes wrong - the source turns out to be incorrect, withdraws previous statements or the fact checking was wrong. Journalists make mistakes like every other human being. Fake news is something completely different, it's not news at all and not intended as such, just like a fake policeman isn't a policeman and never intended to be one. The writer of fake news has evil intentions and you cannot trust this person at all, just like you wouldn't trust a fake policeman.
If you can't see the difference between these fake news and journalistic mistakes, then you're bound to get serious problems with perceiving reality as it is.
CommonLisp is a good choice for large, production-type software running on a centralized server. It's insanely powerful, has advanced debugging facilities, and some implementations such as SBCL are fairly fast. The disadvantage is that it's harder to find programmers who are already familiar with it.
These are quite nice and powerful languages, although I'd personally like Forth more if it was a bit less low-level. For startups, I recommend CommonLisp (SBCL).
Why so sarcastic? Just about every programmable system can be broken into, and it's not management who develop these systems but private companies. As long as companies aren't held accountable for their lax security, problems like this are never going to be fixed, no matter what 'management' wants or tries.
Nation states don't act that way, and Putin is also very good at this spy business and very rational. It almost looks as if he's using game theory for his little imperialist plots. (Too bad he can't get rid of the accompanying KGB mindset.) Obama just showed him a middle finger as a good-bye, which is not very surprising. By reacting, Putin would practically force Trump to play tough guy against Russia or have a really bad start and weak standing as a president. By not reacting, he leaves the door open for Trump to play this affair down a bit further, start fresh, better relationships with Russia and make nice oil deals for Exxon Mobile. Putin already got exactly what he want, so why should he create troubles for Trump? It's a reasonable decision.
You appear to lack insight into how intelligence agencies work. These agencies are very professional and act rationally. They will use the cheapest and lowest level attack that is the least attributable to them first, and only if that doesn't work resort to more complicated means. They also compartmentalize their know-how to different working groups. Moreover, when plausible deniability is necessary, like in this case, the tools need to be generic and unsophisticated. It would be ridiculous to put some complex electronic warfare code online when a simple fishing attack suffices, and nobody in his right mind does that.
What a bullshit. The above post is a typical example of how Russian propaganda works. Spreading doubt by repeating blatant bullshit. The Czech government doesn't publish fake news or propaganda. Russians and manu0601 just don't get what propaganda is and that not the whole world thinks in the same twisted way as they do. Hint: Giving a press conference is not propaganda. (BTW, there is not much propaganda from the Russian government either except in the Ukraine conflict, when the Russian government simply 'lost it' - the downing of that airliner was really a big mishap and after the first misstep was taken, there was no turning back.)
The state sponsored Russian trolls do not spread much fake news and their goals are not to inform anyone about anything. They are not an 'alternate source of information', as they would like to spin their purpose for obvious reasons. It's all about spreading disinformation and doubts to further some extremely imperialist, outdated and fairly fascist world view that Putin and his rich oligarch friends for some bizarre reason deem appropriate.
The big question is why they keep cultivating this outdated world view. Putin and his oligarch friends are consistently leading their country backwards and want to spread their idiocy elsewhere when there is no reason for it. The Cold War is long over, they could have opened up their country easily. Russia could be a flourishing major world power and economy by now. Instead, Putin has turned it into a fucked up oligarchic shithole that attempts to annex other countries and propagates ridiculous outdated views about 'masculinity' and 'nationalism' to the outside world that make no sense in the 21st Century. Meanwhile, everyone with a brain moves away from Russia (even the oligarchs!) or drinks himself to death. It's really quite mysterious why Putin keeps ruining his country even though he could easily change it for the better. Maybe this has something to do with his past and/or lack of sound advisors. Anyway, Russia is a really weird anachronism. The problem is that Putin may be the last one who could fix it, his successor might be like a transition from Lenin to Stalin...
Well, so far not many people have given a fuck about them, so the closed-minded nerds are not totally wrong. Smartwatches and VR glasses are the video telephone systems of the 80s.
Which machine do you plug it into? Endpoints are notoriously insecure, that's the #1 problem that needs to be fixed before anything else is even worth considering. Every current smart phone and PC is 100% hackable, no matter which operating system it is running. Modern PCs even have a separate operating system built into them, which can run independently of anything else that is running, can be activated and accessed from the network, and can access all disks and all memory. With this kind of "security" in place, your one time pad is moot. Hardware tokens face similar problems, especially since almost all of them are supposed to be connected to - guess what - your PC, and then often even via USB, which is even more insecure and the #1 entry point for hardware keystroke loggers and malicious firmware installers.
Widespread "Consensus" is not the measure of scientific fact.
It definitely should be for laymen.
Moreover, scientific facts are not brought into existence by 'disputes'. You can discuss on public forums whether the earth is flat or not all day long and link to various flat-earth conspiracy blogs, and those discussions will not give you the slightest insight about the earth's shape. If you think you have something to contribute, get invited to an international conference on climate science. That will be easy if you know something about climate science and have done some research.
Like it or not, there is a real dispute
No there isn't, as huge meta-study has already shown one or two years ago. Unless you're a climate scientist, the 'dispute' is only in your mind.
I also found this terminology misleading. I thought 'water protectors' were government employees whose job is to measure and protect the quality of drinking water reservoirs.
No, he's right. It is wrong to try to discuss climate change with people who have a political agenda and think, for whatever bizarre illogical reasons, that the question whether there is man-made global warming or not is a political matter, something that is related in any way to political opinion. Such people are helpless cases. Don't discuss with them, instead show them their disrespect and ridicule them. That has a better overall effect on them and they do not want to discuss science anyway. When there is overwhelming consensus in the scientific community, there is nothing to discuss for laymen anyway, and experts can take it to the conferences and publications.
I'm as sick as the original poster of these invented non-topics, contrary to what people say not everything is worth discussing and no amount of discussion has ever settled a scientific question either. BTW, just to make this clear, such people exist on the left and right political spectrum, the climate change non-issue is just an example of a topic that has been instrumentalized by the political 'right wing', but anyone who has ever had the pleasure to 'discuss' social constructivism and the claim that all science is just political and man-made with some misguided 'lefty' knows that the problem has no partisan borders.
Mark Twain described the problem with those people very eloquently: "Never argue with stupid people, they will drag you down to their level and then beat you with experience."
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I admit that I get some kind of vague sadistic pleasure from watching Republicans getting their ass fucked by Putin voluntarily.
I think Donald Trump did the best job, he did a tremendous job downplaying cyber and all this democracy thing, better than anyone else.
It's not as if Trump will get unelected or nuking the Kreml would help anyone. Putin got a little slap on the wrist and US authorities and party officials will hopefully secure their machines better in future. Now the world can move on.
No, that's a different problem that has erroneously been considered structurally equivalent to the corresponding original trolley problem. The difference has to do with agency, the doctrine of side effect, and a bunch of other issues. You're right, though, I should have said 'like most trolley problems' instead of 'all trolley' problems and instantly regretted the choice of words after I posted.
Oops, my apologies! I admit that with all this pizzagate nonsense and whatnot it has sometimes become increasingly hard for me to distinguish sarcasm and satire from real opinions. :/ (Shouldn't have resorted to cheap wordplay insults anyway...)
I could use it for flight simulation and audio processing, which both require loads of CPU and RAM. But I've just checked their website and a high end Origin PC is a bit out of my preferred price range. An upper mid-range PC will also do.
Oh wait, can I pretend to be an idiot?
You don't have to pretend that...
Says who? The reality-denial troll? Maybe that gives you some integrity in your delusional mind, but not in reality.
The simultaneously funny and sad thing about your statement is that even if that were true, it would be very wise and smart to invest in renewable energy for a long list of other reasons. Oil reserves will run out eventually, that's 100% sure, and so will natural gas. On a side note, most of the latter is produced by Russia, so if you want to be almost completely dependent on that country, please go ahead. Putin would be delighted to deliver large quantities of compressed liquid natural gas to the US. He wrote his final thesis at the then inofficial and secret KGB school on how to strategically influence and dominate other countries by exporting mineral and raw material resources including natural gas.
Don't worry, you will get security updates for almost a year, after which you can simply buy a new Samsung Galaxy phone to keep your new desktop machine up-to-date and A-Okay.
It's a fucking newspaper, a bunch of journalists who try to get good stories and where looking for a followup story. The editor in chief was sloppy on this one, that's all. Do I now need to educate you about what "political propaganda" is? Are you really that uneducated or just trolling? Do you really want to pretend you have never seen real propaganda? Here is propaganda and that is propaganda. When a reputable journal like the Washington Post makes a mistake and they immediately correct themselves, that does not even remotely qualify as propaganda for reasons that should be completely obvious to anyone with half a brain . (And, of course, "political propaganda" is redundant. Propaganda is political by definition.)
Get a life!
Why can't you guys (=people with a political agenda in every post) not even get the simplest distinctions right? This wasn't a fake news story.
false/wrong news != erroneous/incorrect news != fake news
The first to are created with the intention of writing news and informing readers but something goes wrong - the source turns out to be incorrect, withdraws previous statements or the fact checking was wrong. Journalists make mistakes like every other human being. Fake news is something completely different, it's not news at all and not intended as such, just like a fake policeman isn't a policeman and never intended to be one. The writer of fake news has evil intentions and you cannot trust this person at all, just like you wouldn't trust a fake policeman.
If you can't see the difference between these fake news and journalistic mistakes, then you're bound to get serious problems with perceiving reality as it is.
This kind of hatred is of no use. You need to learn to face your fears and deal with them, rather then projecting them onto others.
CommonLisp is a good choice for large, production-type software running on a centralized server. It's insanely powerful, has advanced debugging facilities, and some implementations such as SBCL are fairly fast. The disadvantage is that it's harder to find programmers who are already familiar with it.
These are quite nice and powerful languages, although I'd personally like Forth more if it was a bit less low-level. For startups, I recommend CommonLisp (SBCL).
It's not fake news, it's ordinary journalism.
Why so sarcastic? Just about every programmable system can be broken into, and it's not management who develop these systems but private companies. As long as companies aren't held accountable for their lax security, problems like this are never going to be fixed, no matter what 'management' wants or tries.
Nation states don't act that way, and Putin is also very good at this spy business and very rational. It almost looks as if he's using game theory for his little imperialist plots. (Too bad he can't get rid of the accompanying KGB mindset.) Obama just showed him a middle finger as a good-bye, which is not very surprising. By reacting, Putin would practically force Trump to play tough guy against Russia or have a really bad start and weak standing as a president. By not reacting, he leaves the door open for Trump to play this affair down a bit further, start fresh, better relationships with Russia and make nice oil deals for Exxon Mobile. Putin already got exactly what he want, so why should he create troubles for Trump? It's a reasonable decision.
You appear to lack insight into how intelligence agencies work. These agencies are very professional and act rationally. They will use the cheapest and lowest level attack that is the least attributable to them first, and only if that doesn't work resort to more complicated means. They also compartmentalize their know-how to different working groups. Moreover, when plausible deniability is necessary, like in this case, the tools need to be generic and unsophisticated. It would be ridiculous to put some complex electronic warfare code online when a simple fishing attack suffices, and nobody in his right mind does that.
What a bullshit. The above post is a typical example of how Russian propaganda works. Spreading doubt by repeating blatant bullshit. The Czech government doesn't publish fake news or propaganda. Russians and manu0601 just don't get what propaganda is and that not the whole world thinks in the same twisted way as they do. Hint: Giving a press conference is not propaganda. (BTW, there is not much propaganda from the Russian government either except in the Ukraine conflict, when the Russian government simply 'lost it' - the downing of that airliner was really a big mishap and after the first misstep was taken, there was no turning back.)
The state sponsored Russian trolls do not spread much fake news and their goals are not to inform anyone about anything. They are not an 'alternate source of information', as they would like to spin their purpose for obvious reasons. It's all about spreading disinformation and doubts to further some extremely imperialist, outdated and fairly fascist world view that Putin and his rich oligarch friends for some bizarre reason deem appropriate.
The big question is why they keep cultivating this outdated world view. Putin and his oligarch friends are consistently leading their country backwards and want to spread their idiocy elsewhere when there is no reason for it. The Cold War is long over, they could have opened up their country easily. Russia could be a flourishing major world power and economy by now. Instead, Putin has turned it into a fucked up oligarchic shithole that attempts to annex other countries and propagates ridiculous outdated views about 'masculinity' and 'nationalism' to the outside world that make no sense in the 21st Century. Meanwhile, everyone with a brain moves away from Russia (even the oligarchs!) or drinks himself to death. It's really quite mysterious why Putin keeps ruining his country even though he could easily change it for the better. Maybe this has something to do with his past and/or lack of sound advisors. Anyway, Russia is a really weird anachronism. The problem is that Putin may be the last one who could fix it, his successor might be like a transition from Lenin to Stalin...
Well, so far not many people have given a fuck about them, so the closed-minded nerds are not totally wrong. Smartwatches and VR glasses are the video telephone systems of the 80s.
Which machine do you plug it into? Endpoints are notoriously insecure, that's the #1 problem that needs to be fixed before anything else is even worth considering. Every current smart phone and PC is 100% hackable, no matter which operating system it is running. Modern PCs even have a separate operating system built into them, which can run independently of anything else that is running, can be activated and accessed from the network, and can access all disks and all memory. With this kind of "security" in place, your one time pad is moot. Hardware tokens face similar problems, especially since almost all of them are supposed to be connected to - guess what - your PC, and then often even via USB, which is even more insecure and the #1 entry point for hardware keystroke loggers and malicious firmware installers.
Widespread "Consensus" is not the measure of scientific fact.
It definitely should be for laymen.
Moreover, scientific facts are not brought into existence by 'disputes'. You can discuss on public forums whether the earth is flat or not all day long and link to various flat-earth conspiracy blogs, and those discussions will not give you the slightest insight about the earth's shape. If you think you have something to contribute, get invited to an international conference on climate science. That will be easy if you know something about climate science and have done some research.
Like it or not, there is a real dispute
No there isn't, as huge meta-study has already shown one or two years ago. Unless you're a climate scientist, the 'dispute' is only in your mind.
I also found this terminology misleading. I thought 'water protectors' were government employees whose job is to measure and protect the quality of drinking water reservoirs.
No, he's right. It is wrong to try to discuss climate change with people who have a political agenda and think, for whatever bizarre illogical reasons, that the question whether there is man-made global warming or not is a political matter, something that is related in any way to political opinion. Such people are helpless cases. Don't discuss with them, instead show them their disrespect and ridicule them. That has a better overall effect on them and they do not want to discuss science anyway. When there is overwhelming consensus in the scientific community, there is nothing to discuss for laymen anyway, and experts can take it to the conferences and publications.
I'm as sick as the original poster of these invented non-topics, contrary to what people say not everything is worth discussing and no amount of discussion has ever settled a scientific question either. BTW, just to make this clear, such people exist on the left and right political spectrum, the climate change non-issue is just an example of a topic that has been instrumentalized by the political 'right wing', but anyone who has ever had the pleasure to 'discuss' social constructivism and the claim that all science is just political and man-made with some misguided 'lefty' knows that the problem has no partisan borders.
Mark Twain described the problem with those people very eloquently: "Never argue with stupid people, they will drag you down to their level and then beat you with experience."