As others have already said repeatedly, more succinctly, and with less hand-waving, tap-dancing, backpedaling bullshit: Biometrics are a username, not a password. You can't see any difference between someone disagreeing with you versus actually being mistaken. The world *is* changing, but as it thrashes through a lot of trial and error with new technology trying to get it right, there are missteps. You seem to be allergic to anyone pointing out those missteps because you have too much emotional investment in the idea itself. You accuse me of not being able to deal with the change in technology, but you can't even deal with the change to your idealized image of what the tech *should be* rather than how it's actually implemented. Now put down the huffing rag and get back to the drive through window, bro. Customers are waiting.
Most of the military uses Windows in one capacity or another. It's horrifying, but true. I just hope really hard they never "upgrade" the USAF Missileers off the ancient IBM systems they use to M$ anything. We'd all get self-nuked about 15 minutes later. Wouldn't even be Skynet either, just a BSOD.
I worked for years as a security analyst mainly just developing exploits and pen-test frameworks. I have to say that I'm now completely disillusioned with IT security and it now bores me to tears. The Chinese and/or other state actors have stolen soooooo fucking much from us. The F35, hypersonic missiles, complete lists of government agents/employees from the OMB, the list is very very long. You partisans will probably all assume I am a Trump-lover but I don't like him. I do, however, have to admit that he seems to at least be able to talk about Chinese IP theft unlike 99% of other politicians who just seem so sprung on the globalism gravy train they can't see that these people are behaving like *enemies*. Love or hate Trump, we gotta address this problem. My preference would be to emulate the Skunkworks and be super militant about physical security and just crucify a few people for bringing in USB sticks and smart phones in to flaunt the rules. I'd also force people to stop using computers for things they didn't need them for and just put the data/research at greater risk. Computers don't solve all problems with equal effectiveness, despite some people wanting to use them everywhere. However, I'd also take action against China. I bet if you started de-coupling all their domains from DNS root servers you'd get their attention. If they broke off and formed "Chinanet" then that'd be just fine - fewer hacks on our servers from their dirtbag inhabitants and government. When I geoip block China on my firewalls hack attempts go down by about 90%. They are rarely smart enough to use on-shore machines to hack from (it happens, but rarely, I found some Chinese hosting asshole in LA that had a nest of them once).
Dead@Desk is also my nightmare. It comes from one terrible experience. It happened to a guy I knew pretty well. I worked with this guy pretty closely on a night shift with only two other people for a couple of years. We both switched jobs and ended up at the same hellhole company. About a month before I quit, I went to lunch and I saw him with his head down on his desk. That was pretty normal. He was a somewhat heavy guy in his 50's and he would often read or take a ciesta during lunch time. So, I thought nothing of it. When I came back from lunch there were fire trucks and ambulances parked in the front of the building. I had this sinking feeling and as I went back to my desk someone stopped me at the elevator and told me that my buddy Dan had just had a stroke and died. I still feel guilty to this day because I don't know if he was alive, dead, or needing help when I left and I saw him with his head down. I feel like I should have noticed something and maybe it would have helped. He left behind a very kind wife and a couple of grown kids who were devastated. It also made me a little angry at others who sat closer to him and said they only said something after they noticed the smell of urine (and that was much too late). Anyhow, sorry for the depressing story, but man Dead@Desk is a real thing in IT and let's all plan on pulling the ripcord before that happens.
The only thing cooler than suicide-surfing a 100ft Tsunami would be riding in the chest or helmet of a Gundam-style surfing robot... with a 12ft electric katana on it's back.
Last time I checked digging a hole in the ground didn't require any rare Earth metals. There are places where you don't even have to dig down very far to be able to create steam. I know that not all areas are suitable (swamp might be tough for example), but it seems like the real miracle technology we need right now isn't just some cheap form of producing energy it's more that we need a cheap way to *store* it and *move* it. Liquid fuels provide tremendous energy density and are pretty ideal other than their CO2 issues. So, I wish that the efficiency of tech to convert CO2 to wood alcohol (running a fuel cell "backwards") would improve or something like that would emerge. Imagine building a solar farm in the desert but then using trucks, trains, or pipelines to move liquid fuels anywhere they are needed. Tidal power also seems like an easy win, but I'm no energy scientist or mechanical engineer; so I realize I'm just wishing and speculating.
Wouldn't it depend on where the wave came ashore? I mean they look boring out at sea, but aren't there cases where they get huge and take out massive areas? I'm thinking of the Cascadia subduction zone earthquake in A.D. 1700 in Oregon, for example. Don't you think that had to be a huge ass wave to have smashed that far inland. I don't know man, I'm no geologist, seismologist, or whatever kind of ologist that studies Tsunamis. I don't claim to know, but it seems likely in some situations they'd be massive waves. The trouble would be paddling out to them:-)
Companies are always so tight with their pay grades. They don't want the plebs to know *exactly* how much the C-level folks are fucking them. They don't want the chicks to know how many guys are making 2x as they make in the same job. They don't want the guy who just keeps his head down to perk up and wonder why all the loudmouth assholes make more than him but do less. Hack these corporate bastards and post their pay levels on every pastebin and blog you can find. The corporate feudal dickheads hate when their payroll figures are released, which can only mean it's a good thing.
Learn to quote. You are quoting yourself as if I'm delivering your childish logic pretzel. Mr. Coward, the phrase "agreeable terms" is mutually exclusive with "coercion". Let's call that AC-full-of-shit-point-number-one. Also, notice also I use the term "while" when describing leftist finger wagging, which isn't indicating a causal relationship as you suggest. Fascists combine commercial private industry with government. Both Hitler and Mussolini both did that and advocated for doing more of it. It's a defining element of fascism not a random regurgitation and it's exactly what you appear to want. Mutually beneficial treaties which outlaw easily replaced chemicals are a helluva lot less coercive than placing big taxes on individual purchase of essential items like fuel. Conflating the two contributes to your pathological reasoning and shows you have a weak argument rather than any real point. You are also a complete fucking retard if you think "World pollution levels are being managed" they weren't being managed in 1900 in the US when we dumped absolute shittons of CO2 and they aren't being managed in China _today_ either. So, you are utterly delusional there. Because you exhibit zero reading comprehension, you remind me of a retarded second grade ESL student, Coward.
Well, that's what I was originally suggesting. Do NOT tell them, then give them a week to work in the same office fighting with the other Co-CEO. Then sell the whole thing as a reality TV show.:-)
But seriously, sure, of course, the psycho CEO types would run away quick if they knew they had to share power.
Special interest groups can try, but "better" usually wins in the end. It's true we can talk about stable ancient cultures that didn't develop technology much due to various social reasons (Egypt, China, Zulus, etc...), but there is a very long list of success for the "it just works better". In almost all cases, despite large groups of people decrying the downside and the loss of their job, better tech will win. Printing presses, knitting frames, computers, automobiles, and many other technical inventions nearly completely obsoleted their forgoing technologies over the objections and howls of many. However, I also believe entrenched powers can fight superior tech and win for a lot longer than you'd think was possible. My example there would how the Japanese managed to keep guns out of their country for hundreds of years, despite knowing of them, having some working examples, and possessing the tech to re-create them. So, the question is if the evil fucks who constitute the oil industry have enough power to do that. Chevron bought the patent to large format NiMH batteries to sit on it. So, there is some reason to believe you are right. I just question how long it could actually hold in the face of truly superior technology.
Well, I was joking a bit. I can see the arrangement working in some situations. After all, married couples somehow still decide where to eat out and what movie to go see. I also study Roman history and the Republic is much more interesting to me. The article points out that the situation did falter somewhat in the time of the Republic, but was re-established. Anyhow, I'm not saying having two people lead jointly is a fatal arrangement. It's just that the current type of people who become corporate CEOs strike me as the types who would have an absolute meltdown if they had to share power.
You are a moron, Mr Coward. Take back your Republican detector back to Theftway. It's broken. You partisans just need to kill each other and leave the rest of us in peace. Some of us can think without "The Party" from 1984 telling us what lines to spout.
Spoken like a true fascist. If coercion worked sometime somewhere _ever_ then just use a lot more coercion! For someone who goes around anonymously calling people ignorant, you don't seem very bright yourself. Forcing individuals to change their unenlightened ways while shaking your finger in their face has worked oh so well *sarcastic smirk*. That's why we have > 400PPM CO2 in the air right this very minute, Mr Coward. The French just had weeks of rioting at least partially related to environmental policy being overbearing. So, I'd say your strategy of being an overbearing judgemental asshole has a very shitty track record in light of that FACT.
Totally agree. A good example is "Operating Systems Design and Implementation" by Andrew Tannenbaum. It's still (right this very fucking minute) $180 new on Amazon. I used that book in college for my Operating Systems 200 class. I'd lost my copy. So, I got on Ebay and ordered one for $8. However, when it came, it was brand new and said "Asian Edition" but was 100% English and other than that label on the cover... identical.
iknowrite? He's been doing it for decades, too. I go to Vegas almost every year for some convention or other and he's *always* on all kinds of billboards and doing shows. I even got dragged to one of them. Damn he sucks. It's like listening to my 12 year old cousins tell knock-knock jokes for two hours. However, you gotta give him credit for putting together a long career as a comic with no much to work with!
Let me know how that meeting with security goes. I'm sure they will love your "just use faces" idea. If they don't, lecture them about the world changing too fast. Maybe that'll somehow lend some credence to your ridiculous point.
I believe you about the environmentalist lobby. I know NRC permitting is a bitch and can take decades. However, what about critical mass? No reactors can reach that and cause a thermonuclear explosion? What if the site is abandoned will most plants just sit there and not dump radioactive waste and water into the ground like Fukushima? I want the lights on like anyone and I'd love to see nuclear power solve a bunch of environmental crisis. However, I don't want to do it at the cost of burying my head in the sand and denying that those plants can be very dangerous (especially in a nasty economic breakdown where nobody wants to pay for prevention *or* cleanup). On the other hand I get mighty jealous looking at countries like France having 70% + nuclear power.
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They've always used their customers as beta testers. That shit started at least as early as the MS-DOS days.
As others have already said repeatedly, more succinctly, and with less hand-waving, tap-dancing, backpedaling bullshit: Biometrics are a username, not a password. You can't see any difference between someone disagreeing with you versus actually being mistaken. The world *is* changing, but as it thrashes through a lot of trial and error with new technology trying to get it right, there are missteps. You seem to be allergic to anyone pointing out those missteps because you have too much emotional investment in the idea itself. You accuse me of not being able to deal with the change in technology, but you can't even deal with the change to your idealized image of what the tech *should be* rather than how it's actually implemented. Now put down the huffing rag and get back to the drive through window, bro. Customers are waiting.
Yep. What was not accurate was the folks who took his work and tried to predict the end of the world.
Most of the military uses Windows in one capacity or another. It's horrifying, but true. I just hope really hard they never "upgrade" the USAF Missileers off the ancient IBM systems they use to M$ anything. We'd all get self-nuked about 15 minutes later. Wouldn't even be Skynet either, just a BSOD.
I worked for years as a security analyst mainly just developing exploits and pen-test frameworks. I have to say that I'm now completely disillusioned with IT security and it now bores me to tears. The Chinese and/or other state actors have stolen soooooo fucking much from us. The F35, hypersonic missiles, complete lists of government agents/employees from the OMB, the list is very very long. You partisans will probably all assume I am a Trump-lover but I don't like him. I do, however, have to admit that he seems to at least be able to talk about Chinese IP theft unlike 99% of other politicians who just seem so sprung on the globalism gravy train they can't see that these people are behaving like *enemies*. Love or hate Trump, we gotta address this problem. My preference would be to emulate the Skunkworks and be super militant about physical security and just crucify a few people for bringing in USB sticks and smart phones in to flaunt the rules. I'd also force people to stop using computers for things they didn't need them for and just put the data/research at greater risk. Computers don't solve all problems with equal effectiveness, despite some people wanting to use them everywhere. However, I'd also take action against China. I bet if you started de-coupling all their domains from DNS root servers you'd get their attention. If they broke off and formed "Chinanet" then that'd be just fine - fewer hacks on our servers from their dirtbag inhabitants and government. When I geoip block China on my firewalls hack attempts go down by about 90%. They are rarely smart enough to use on-shore machines to hack from (it happens, but rarely, I found some Chinese hosting asshole in LA that had a nest of them once).
Dead@Desk is also my nightmare. It comes from one terrible experience. It happened to a guy I knew pretty well. I worked with this guy pretty closely on a night shift with only two other people for a couple of years. We both switched jobs and ended up at the same hellhole company. About a month before I quit, I went to lunch and I saw him with his head down on his desk. That was pretty normal. He was a somewhat heavy guy in his 50's and he would often read or take a ciesta during lunch time. So, I thought nothing of it. When I came back from lunch there were fire trucks and ambulances parked in the front of the building. I had this sinking feeling and as I went back to my desk someone stopped me at the elevator and told me that my buddy Dan had just had a stroke and died. I still feel guilty to this day because I don't know if he was alive, dead, or needing help when I left and I saw him with his head down. I feel like I should have noticed something and maybe it would have helped. He left behind a very kind wife and a couple of grown kids who were devastated. It also made me a little angry at others who sat closer to him and said they only said something after they noticed the smell of urine (and that was much too late). Anyhow, sorry for the depressing story, but man Dead@Desk is a real thing in IT and let's all plan on pulling the ripcord before that happens.
The only thing cooler than suicide-surfing a 100ft Tsunami would be riding in the chest or helmet of a Gundam-style surfing robot... with a 12ft electric katana on it's back.
Last time I checked digging a hole in the ground didn't require any rare Earth metals. There are places where you don't even have to dig down very far to be able to create steam. I know that not all areas are suitable (swamp might be tough for example), but it seems like the real miracle technology we need right now isn't just some cheap form of producing energy it's more that we need a cheap way to *store* it and *move* it. Liquid fuels provide tremendous energy density and are pretty ideal other than their CO2 issues. So, I wish that the efficiency of tech to convert CO2 to wood alcohol (running a fuel cell "backwards") would improve or something like that would emerge. Imagine building a solar farm in the desert but then using trucks, trains, or pipelines to move liquid fuels anywhere they are needed. Tidal power also seems like an easy win, but I'm no energy scientist or mechanical engineer; so I realize I'm just wishing and speculating.
Wouldn't it depend on where the wave came ashore? I mean they look boring out at sea, but aren't there cases where they get huge and take out massive areas? I'm thinking of the Cascadia subduction zone earthquake in A.D. 1700 in Oregon, for example. Don't you think that had to be a huge ass wave to have smashed that far inland. I don't know man, I'm no geologist, seismologist, or whatever kind of ologist that studies Tsunamis. I don't claim to know, but it seems likely in some situations they'd be massive waves. The trouble would be paddling out to them :-)
Companies are always so tight with their pay grades. They don't want the plebs to know *exactly* how much the C-level folks are fucking them. They don't want the chicks to know how many guys are making 2x as they make in the same job. They don't want the guy who just keeps his head down to perk up and wonder why all the loudmouth assholes make more than him but do less. Hack these corporate bastards and post their pay levels on every pastebin and blog you can find. The corporate feudal dickheads hate when their payroll figures are released, which can only mean it's a good thing.
Perhaps you should study some Marcus Aurelius and learn to cope with the world around you as it is, not as you wish it to be.
I'm just sayin'. Imagine someone riding that mother fucker with a GoPro.
Learn to quote. You are quoting yourself as if I'm delivering your childish logic pretzel. Mr. Coward, the phrase "agreeable terms" is mutually exclusive with "coercion". Let's call that AC-full-of-shit-point-number-one. Also, notice also I use the term "while" when describing leftist finger wagging, which isn't indicating a causal relationship as you suggest. Fascists combine commercial private industry with government. Both Hitler and Mussolini both did that and advocated for doing more of it. It's a defining element of fascism not a random regurgitation and it's exactly what you appear to want. Mutually beneficial treaties which outlaw easily replaced chemicals are a helluva lot less coercive than placing big taxes on individual purchase of essential items like fuel. Conflating the two contributes to your pathological reasoning and shows you have a weak argument rather than any real point. You are also a complete fucking retard if you think "World pollution levels are being managed" they weren't being managed in 1900 in the US when we dumped absolute shittons of CO2 and they aren't being managed in China _today_ either. So, you are utterly delusional there. Because you exhibit zero reading comprehension, you remind me of a retarded second grade ESL student, Coward.
Well, that's what I was originally suggesting. Do NOT tell them, then give them a week to work in the same office fighting with the other Co-CEO. Then sell the whole thing as a reality TV show. :-)
But seriously, sure, of course, the psycho CEO types would run away quick if they knew they had to share power.
Special interest groups can try, but "better" usually wins in the end. It's true we can talk about stable ancient cultures that didn't develop technology much due to various social reasons (Egypt, China, Zulus, etc...), but there is a very long list of success for the "it just works better". In almost all cases, despite large groups of people decrying the downside and the loss of their job, better tech will win. Printing presses, knitting frames, computers, automobiles, and many other technical inventions nearly completely obsoleted their forgoing technologies over the objections and howls of many. However, I also believe entrenched powers can fight superior tech and win for a lot longer than you'd think was possible. My example there would how the Japanese managed to keep guns out of their country for hundreds of years, despite knowing of them, having some working examples, and possessing the tech to re-create them. So, the question is if the evil fucks who constitute the oil industry have enough power to do that. Chevron bought the patent to large format NiMH batteries to sit on it. So, there is some reason to believe you are right. I just question how long it could actually hold in the face of truly superior technology.
Thanks for explaining that so clearly. I'd mod you up if I could.
Isn't it funny that people who are pro-systemd are always ACs when telling their betters how dumb they are? That kinda says it all, right there.
Well, I was joking a bit. I can see the arrangement working in some situations. After all, married couples somehow still decide where to eat out and what movie to go see. I also study Roman history and the Republic is much more interesting to me. The article points out that the situation did falter somewhat in the time of the Republic, but was re-established. Anyhow, I'm not saying having two people lead jointly is a fatal arrangement. It's just that the current type of people who become corporate CEOs strike me as the types who would have an absolute meltdown if they had to share power.
You are a moron, Mr Coward. Take back your Republican detector back to Theftway. It's broken. You partisans just need to kill each other and leave the rest of us in peace. Some of us can think without "The Party" from 1984 telling us what lines to spout.
Spoken like a true fascist. If coercion worked sometime somewhere _ever_ then just use a lot more coercion! For someone who goes around anonymously calling people ignorant, you don't seem very bright yourself. Forcing individuals to change their unenlightened ways while shaking your finger in their face has worked oh so well *sarcastic smirk*. That's why we have > 400PPM CO2 in the air right this very minute, Mr Coward. The French just had weeks of rioting at least partially related to environmental policy being overbearing. So, I'd say your strategy of being an overbearing judgemental asshole has a very shitty track record in light of that FACT.
Totally agree. A good example is "Operating Systems Design and Implementation" by Andrew Tannenbaum. It's still (right this very fucking minute) $180 new on Amazon. I used that book in college for my Operating Systems 200 class. I'd lost my copy. So, I got on Ebay and ordered one for $8. However, when it came, it was brand new and said "Asian Edition" but was 100% English and other than that label on the cover ... identical.
It sounds hilarious. I'd love to see two CEO psychopaths having a retard slap-fight. I'd buy the pay-per-view.
iknowrite? He's been doing it for decades, too. I go to Vegas almost every year for some convention or other and he's *always* on all kinds of billboards and doing shows. I even got dragged to one of them. Damn he sucks. It's like listening to my 12 year old cousins tell knock-knock jokes for two hours. However, you gotta give him credit for putting together a long career as a comic with no much to work with!
Let me know how that meeting with security goes. I'm sure they will love your "just use faces" idea. If they don't, lecture them about the world changing too fast. Maybe that'll somehow lend some credence to your ridiculous point.
I believe you about the environmentalist lobby. I know NRC permitting is a bitch and can take decades. However, what about critical mass? No reactors can reach that and cause a thermonuclear explosion? What if the site is abandoned will most plants just sit there and not dump radioactive waste and water into the ground like Fukushima? I want the lights on like anyone and I'd love to see nuclear power solve a bunch of environmental crisis. However, I don't want to do it at the cost of burying my head in the sand and denying that those plants can be very dangerous (especially in a nasty economic breakdown where nobody wants to pay for prevention *or* cleanup). On the other hand I get mighty jealous looking at countries like France having 70% + nuclear power.