I don't care for Cook personally, or Apple, or the entire Apple-sphere.
But this is one thing he and I have a meeting of the minds on.
My privacy is valuable. Which is why I'm so parsimonious doling out pieces of it. Why the hell should I have to submit five forms of identification, provide blood, sperm and stool samples, open up my financial data back to the date of my birth, get a hundred and thirteen character witnesses, etc, etc just to participate online?
Fuck that noise. I'd rather shiver in a cave in the woods.
On top of that, my privacy also protects me from theft of my identity and, theoretically, also provides protection against illegal behavior by bad actors with government credentials. Hence, it guards my freedom.
And don't tell me it never happens. It does.
If you have zero use for your freedoms, rights and liberties, by all means. Go ahead and shotgun all your data to the Internet.
But the second you (or anyone (and I mean ANYONE) else) demands that I do the same, you're going to be met with a giant "fuck you" and a fist in the face.
1: All activity on your system will be logged down to the keystroke and sent off to law enforcement for eventual perusal. 2: Windows will gradually being replacing all third-party apps with Microsoft products in the same field. 3: All authentication will be moving over to strict degradation porn. To log into your system, you'll need to allow the system to snap a picture of you engaged in some form of depraved sexual act. 4: Ads and popups and pop-unders will now no longer be browser-only "features". The OS will randomly pop them up, completely stealing focus away from whatever you're doing and won't release focus again until you've spent real money on whatever was advertised. And if Microsoft logs any legal complaints, to either cops or lawyers, they'll delete your whole system and brick the hardware. 5: You will be required to tie a bank account and at least one credit card to WindowsPay. Otherwise you risk being randomly logged out at 15 second intervals...
No. Because just about every goddamn trailer since the history of trailers has come out using scenes that may or may not have been cut, or even scenes SPECIFICALLY filmed JUST for the trailer.
Bitching about it at this late date basically requires that you turn your fucking brain COMPLETELY off.
Fuck, they've got CRE down in the water there! Basically it's a bacteria that's resistant to antibiotics that are generally considered "drugs of last resort".
And while CRE may not kill you itself, if you're a CRE carrier, and something else compromises your immune system, you're in SEVERELY deep shit!
In short, a company that had a stranglehold AND a crotch-grab on the mobile market for YEARS, then pissed it away, devolving into utter irrelevancy after bending and spreading for various governments has now decided that, since they're totally and utterly fucked, they may as well try to give the industry that they gave away a big black eye by patent trolling.
Fuck Blackberry. I can't wait till they go the way of Caldera.
No. No I'm not. Those drives simply don't have the features to survive in an array environment.
So, like an ordinary desktop drive (which is also missing those features), they'll eventually desync and fall out of the array.
If they tried to put the drives under load (like migrating the contents of one NAS to another), it's ENTIRELY possible that the drives died due to thermal excess (which is what happens when you run them for long periods of time).
And if they're packed in a small NAS box (think Synology DS1515, Drobo, etc), all up tight to one another? They'll cook themselves in short order.
Again, SMR Archive drives ARE NOT meant to be run in RAID/NAS environments! PERIOD! Talk to the manufacturers. They'll tell you the same thing.
They've basically turned over their master encryption key to law enforcement.
And they not only did not tell investors or device owners about it, they used legal shenanigans to try and stop the fact that they'd done this from leaking!
Right now I'd put more trust in dropping the soap in the presence of an unrepentant serial prison rapist than in Blackberry security right now.
Fuck, I'd trust HILLARY CLINTON before I'd trust Blackberry!
Because communism has succeeded SO admirably thus far.
But no. Every idiot out there thinks they have the right recipe for successful communism.
WAKE THE FUCK UP!
Communism is a perfect form of government. For social insects.
With any hint of self interest (enlightened or otherwise), and the system eventually breaks down. And it usually fucks up the lives of a lot of people on the way down.
I've seen it before. Companies that would be willing to drop millions (or billions) turned away. Simply because they attempted to lowball their first bid.
Also, they fail to communicate that this is a preliminary offer, and that if it's not acceptable, there's lots of room for negotiation.
A single clean coal plant generates about 1 million tons of CO2 a year (compared to a standard coal plant which pukes out about 10x as much) and recaptures about 90% of it.
Not saying we should continue with coal.
And not saying we shouldn't pursue ever better forms of renewable power and power storage tech.
I'm saying that nuclear and renewables play a complimentary role in an overall plan that delivers power reliably without being subject to huge swings in price.
"We can get by without non-renewables but only if we replace them with something else."
No. Because what happens when you have a shortfall on your renewables output? It DOES happen. And no, simply building "bigger" doesn't alleviate it.
Or are we still supposed to use non-renewables like NG for all the shortfalls that happen? I thought one of the reasons to use renewables was to cut out the CO2?
"While nuclear is a good option, it's quite expensive"
Because of a hostile regulatory environment set in place by the anti-nuke crowd. And because things like solar and wind have MASSIVE subsidies.
And no, massive solar and then more massive battery farms is NOT the answer. The amount of land use required would be astronomical. Also, battery technology is nowhere NEAR ready for that sort of thing. Not even in 20-30 years.
Nuclear power can do what solar can, with a fraction of the land budget and is FAR more energy-dense. The largest complete, producing solar farm on the planet currently stands at 550MW, putting out about 1.3 Terawatt/hours annually. It covers 9.5 square miles. ONE nuclear reactor (based on 50 year old designs) has roughly DOUBLE that output. The largest operating nuclear facility in the world (not the largest nuclear facility in the world) is in Canada, and comprises 8 reactors at a combined 6.3GW, putting out roughly 45 Terawatt/hours annually. It covers roughly 3.5 square miles.
There's also the environmental offsets of obtaining (see mining) all the constituent materials used in massive solar installations and the ecological damage they do. Moreover, there's the adjunct offsets and damage of producing all those batteries and the waste involved.
Sure, nuclear waste is unpleasant shit. But, again, it's hundreds of times more compact than the end-product waste you're talking about.
Again, renewables simply don't provide a stable power output. PERIOD. And the storage technologies that would be required to stabilize them simply aren't up to snuff yet (and if you think they are, you're delusional or you've got a racket going selling the stuff).
And why is producing methanol during a power surplus as a fuel a bad idea?
We're not going to see an all-electric passenger vehicle fleet in this country anytime in the foreseeable future.
Creating methanol binds CO2 out of the atmosphere, sequestering it while stored.. Sure, burning methanol releases it again, but it then becomes an essentially carbon-neutral propostion.
Ask any child of five. And they could have told you this was going to be a problem.
But hey, let's just shut down all non-renewables! Because we can get by without them!
Until we can't...
This is why we need something like modern nuclear for base load power. Build enough to cover base load with future demand in mind. The cover shortfalls with renewables and storage.
And if there's any power in excess of demand, use it to convert carbon dioxide into methanol. Which can then be stored or burned for fuel.
Hell, in most cases a pre-existing PC should be perfectly acceptable. Just make sure your PSU is 400W or more and has the necessary connectors. Then drop $200 on a video card and you're gaming!
I think that the term "autopilot" simply gives end-users the wrong mindset for the feature. It encourages them to simply disengage from the act of driving completely. Which is fucking idiotic.
It's essentially a "driver assist" feature. It's not meant to simply be turned on and walked away from like the autopilot in a plane.
Even there, it's still monitored by someone in the cockpit. On top of that, jets normally don't have to worry about millions of other jets in their slice of the sky at any given time...
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I don't care for Cook personally, or Apple, or the entire Apple-sphere.
But this is one thing he and I have a meeting of the minds on.
My privacy is valuable. Which is why I'm so parsimonious doling out pieces of it. Why the hell should I have to submit five forms of identification, provide blood, sperm and stool samples, open up my financial data back to the date of my birth, get a hundred and thirteen character witnesses, etc, etc just to participate online?
Fuck that noise. I'd rather shiver in a cave in the woods.
On top of that, my privacy also protects me from theft of my identity and, theoretically, also provides protection against illegal behavior by bad actors with government credentials. Hence, it guards my freedom.
And don't tell me it never happens. It does.
If you have zero use for your freedoms, rights and liberties, by all means. Go ahead and shotgun all your data to the Internet.
But the second you (or anyone (and I mean ANYONE) else) demands that I do the same, you're going to be met with a giant "fuck you" and a fist in the face.
So now we're going to see him pop out a rubber "cartilage" shark skeleton that screams "Allahu *BLUB*BLUB!*
1: All activity on your system will be logged down to the keystroke and sent off to law enforcement for eventual perusal.
2: Windows will gradually being replacing all third-party apps with Microsoft products in the same field.
3: All authentication will be moving over to strict degradation porn. To log into your system, you'll need to allow the system to snap a picture of you engaged in some form of depraved sexual act.
4: Ads and popups and pop-unders will now no longer be browser-only "features". The OS will randomly pop them up, completely stealing focus away from whatever you're doing and won't release focus again until you've spent real money on whatever was advertised. And if Microsoft logs any legal complaints, to either cops or lawyers, they'll delete your whole system and brick the hardware.
5: You will be required to tie a bank account and at least one credit card to WindowsPay. Otherwise you risk being randomly logged out at 15 second intervals...
Yeah, it's a bit like playing the lottery. But it's one of those "I did this dumb thing and got rich anyhow" type stories I love.
This is why Apple's bug bounty program is a complete and utter sham.
No. Because just about every goddamn trailer since the history of trailers has come out using scenes that may or may not have been cut, or even scenes SPECIFICALLY filmed JUST for the trailer.
Bitching about it at this late date basically requires that you turn your fucking brain COMPLETELY off.
Fuck, they've got CRE down in the water there! Basically it's a bacteria that's resistant to antibiotics that are generally considered "drugs of last resort".
And while CRE may not kill you itself, if you're a CRE carrier, and something else compromises your immune system, you're in SEVERELY deep shit!
In short, a company that had a stranglehold AND a crotch-grab on the mobile market for YEARS, then pissed it away, devolving into utter irrelevancy after bending and spreading for various governments has now decided that, since they're totally and utterly fucked, they may as well try to give the industry that they gave away a big black eye by patent trolling.
Fuck Blackberry. I can't wait till they go the way of Caldera.
Unsafe living quarters
Polluted water
Disease
Sorry, only fucking IDIOTS went to Rio this year.
No. No I'm not. Those drives simply don't have the features to survive in an array environment.
So, like an ordinary desktop drive (which is also missing those features), they'll eventually desync and fall out of the array.
If they tried to put the drives under load (like migrating the contents of one NAS to another), it's ENTIRELY possible that the drives died due to thermal excess (which is what happens when you run them for long periods of time).
And if they're packed in a small NAS box (think Synology DS1515, Drobo, etc), all up tight to one another? They'll cook themselves in short order.
Again, SMR Archive drives ARE NOT meant to be run in RAID/NAS environments! PERIOD! Talk to the manufacturers. They'll tell you the same thing.
No. The archive disks aren't designed for a long duty cycle. They are meant to have data dumped onto them and then work as a read only disk.
The constant usage of a RAID array will cause drive failure via thermally induced URE in short order
It is NOT a "given" that they've done this.
It's a FACT.
http://www.zdnet.com/article/c...
They've basically turned over their master encryption key to law enforcement.
And they not only did not tell investors or device owners about it, they used legal shenanigans to try and stop the fact that they'd done this from leaking!
Right now I'd put more trust in dropping the soap in the presence of an unrepentant serial prison rapist than in Blackberry security right now.
Fuck, I'd trust HILLARY CLINTON before I'd trust Blackberry!
Because communism has succeeded SO admirably thus far.
But no. Every idiot out there thinks they have the right recipe for successful communism.
WAKE THE FUCK UP!
Communism is a perfect form of government. For social insects.
With any hint of self interest (enlightened or otherwise), and the system eventually breaks down. And it usually fucks up the lives of a lot of people on the way down.
I've seen it before. Companies that would be willing to drop millions (or billions) turned away. Simply because they attempted to lowball their first bid.
Also, they fail to communicate that this is a preliminary offer, and that if it's not acceptable, there's lots of room for negotiation.
As such, valuable prizes walk away from them.
Seriously. It's already known that your company basically already sold its own encryption keys, and thus isn't a trustworthy platform anymore.
Stop trying to curry favor. Your company crashed. You're essentially obsolete. Your heyday ain't coming back.
So please, all you're doing is shaming yourself further, to make a buck.
What's next? Prostituting your own children for money?
Ask any child of five.
I would recommend to look at facts and hard data instead.
Well, I was trying to soften the blow a bit...
The same people who told us climate change wasn't real are now telling us we can't go 100% renewable.
Look at most of the solar and wind facilities being put in.
They're not "100% renewable".
They're hybrid solar/NG and wind/NG facilities. So that when solar or wind production tapers off, they "augment" by burning natural gas.
The Ivanpah solar plant in California generated 46,000 tons of CO2 emissions in its first year.
http://gizmodo.com/if-a-solar-...
A single clean coal plant generates about 1 million tons of CO2 a year (compared to a standard coal plant which pukes out about 10x as much) and recaptures about 90% of it.
Not saying we should continue with coal.
And not saying we shouldn't pursue ever better forms of renewable power and power storage tech.
I'm saying that nuclear and renewables play a complimentary role in an overall plan that delivers power reliably without being subject to huge swings in price.
Because nuclear = bombs...
No. Because what happens when you have a shortfall on your renewables output? It DOES happen. And no, simply building "bigger" doesn't alleviate it.
Or are we still supposed to use non-renewables like NG for all the shortfalls that happen? I thought one of the reasons to use renewables was to cut out the CO2?
Because of a hostile regulatory environment set in place by the anti-nuke crowd.
And because things like solar and wind have MASSIVE subsidies.
And no, massive solar and then more massive battery farms is NOT the answer. The amount of land use required would be astronomical.
Also, battery technology is nowhere NEAR ready for that sort of thing. Not even in 20-30 years.
Nuclear power can do what solar can, with a fraction of the land budget and is FAR more energy-dense.
The largest complete, producing solar farm on the planet currently stands at 550MW, putting out about 1.3 Terawatt/hours annually. It covers 9.5 square miles.
ONE nuclear reactor (based on 50 year old designs) has roughly DOUBLE that output.
The largest operating nuclear facility in the world (not the largest nuclear facility in the world) is in Canada, and comprises 8 reactors at a combined 6.3GW, putting out roughly 45 Terawatt/hours annually. It covers roughly 3.5 square miles.
There's also the environmental offsets of obtaining (see mining) all the constituent materials used in massive solar installations and the ecological damage they do. Moreover, there's the adjunct offsets and damage of producing all those batteries and the waste involved.
Sure, nuclear waste is unpleasant shit. But, again, it's hundreds of times more compact than the end-product waste you're talking about.
Again, renewables simply don't provide a stable power output. PERIOD. And the storage technologies that would be required to stabilize them simply aren't up to snuff yet (and if you think they are, you're delusional or you've got a racket going selling the stuff).
And why is producing methanol during a power surplus as a fuel a bad idea?
We're not going to see an all-electric passenger vehicle fleet in this country anytime in the foreseeable future.
Creating methanol binds CO2 out of the atmosphere, sequestering it while stored..
Sure, burning methanol releases it again, but it then becomes an essentially carbon-neutral propostion.
So what, exactly, is so "bad" about it?
Ask any child of five. And they could have told you this was going to be a problem.
But hey, let's just shut down all non-renewables! Because we can get by without them!
Until we can't...
This is why we need something like modern nuclear for base load power. Build enough to cover base load with future demand in mind.
The cover shortfalls with renewables and storage.
And if there's any power in excess of demand, use it to convert carbon dioxide into methanol. Which can then be stored or burned for fuel.
Prison sentences, for insults.
Words.
Sticks and stones and all of that?
Nope. Now we have "microaggressions".
All because our population is becoming ridiculously infantilized.
So point and laugh now.
Victim culture will have us at the same level soon.
Is anyone really and truly surprised that the government has been lying to us for years?
Especially this Obama government? Say one thing, do another. Or, if possible, just never say anything at all...
This is typical of Chicago Machine politics. "Thou Shalt Not Get Caught" is the primary rule.
1: Kids are fucking EXPENSIVE!
2: It's a greater punishment to make them raise their OWN little bastards.
Because nobody can buy a basic gaming box for about $800.
Nope. Just never happens.
http://www.dell.com/us/p/alien...
Never!
Hell, in most cases a pre-existing PC should be perfectly acceptable. Just make sure your PSU is 400W or more and has the necessary connectors.
Then drop $200 on a video card and you're gaming!
http://www.newegg.com/Product/...
It isn't hard. It's just the bar is set higher than "vegetable-level idiocy".
I think that the term "autopilot" simply gives end-users the wrong mindset for the feature. It encourages them to simply disengage from the act of driving completely.
Which is fucking idiotic.
It's essentially a "driver assist" feature. It's not meant to simply be turned on and walked away from like the autopilot in a plane.
Even there, it's still monitored by someone in the cockpit. On top of that, jets normally don't have to worry about millions of other jets in their slice of the sky at any given time...