onsider this: your average secretary for a CEO / Chairman / President of a company may or may not have the technological literacy to know whether or not his / her machine has become infected, and is now sending the VIP's electronic Rolodex / tax returns to some bad people. But the VIP is totally cool with how things are, until some insider breaks his company, or personally targets him. And then it's asking IT / the FBI to track down some people who have had a six month start, and probably swept their tracks right before their big heist. This is how technology illiteracy is killing companies.
What if anything does this have to do with a cyber attack on the electrical grid?
The electrical grid does not make up a sizable chunk of the internet. Sure there's connectivity between various electrical sites but that's on physically separate networks that without someone plugging the wrong cable in aren't going to be accessible from the internet. The problem is they've attached lots of the command and control nodes to the internet, but the core electrical infrastructure is not on the internet.
So you're comparing our electric grid to Iran? What you're talking about is a personnel training issue - it's entirely fixable without granting the government massive cyber surveillance powers (well more than they have already).
Ok, so they figure out the secretary visits eBay and plays solitaire. If you unplung the damned grid from the internet it can't be 'cyber' attacked in any way.
A *rifle* isn't something anyone is using for crime these days. It's handguns. Much like the 3D printed gun.
There is an epidemic of gun violence in this country, mostly of recent vintage with high capacity assault rifles. Do you agree we should do *something* about it?
Banning the 3D printing of rifles, pistols, shotguns, and machine guns is a pipe dream.
Show me where I said anything of the sort? I'm a firm believer in 3D printing and am planning on purchasing one in the not too distant future (sooner if they do actually try to ban them).
3D printing is no different than printing the anarchists cookbook on your printer. The fundamental difference is that a stack of paper can't be used to kill anyone. We need to address the societal issues we have with violence and guns are at the heart of it.
And I'll agree 'gun control' is going to become more and more misguided. Because guns can be created at home by absolutely anyone with no skill whatsoever.
But 'more' guns on the streets isn't ever going to be a good thing. We need to find a way to regulate ammunition then, or black powder or something because simply giving everyone a gun is a very very bad idea.
Did you see what you missed there? Gun violence is 'down'. However, so is gun ownership, so your point is moot. And of course that we're still wildly ahead of other civilized countries in deaths per capita by guns. Maybe people would use other weapons, heck even likely, but a knife can't kill as many people as quickly or as surely as a gun. And a 5 year old is going to be hard pressed to kill an adult with a knife.
I would not consider the killing of a home invader by the home owner to be "gun violence" but Brady Campaign does.
No they don't. Source?
Even if "gun violence" is high I am not so sure that is a bad thing.
Just wow. violence is a 'good' thing?
If someone breaks into the home of another they should expect some "gun violence" from the home owner in return. That would be something praiseworthy.
Pipe dreams are nice things. That's not what's happening today so it's irrelevant.
As someone smarter than me has said, "There are four types of homicide, felonious, excusable, justifiable, and praiseworthy."
First off, your guns are made of metal. Making a usable firearm isn't something the average person can do. you need tools, machining equipment etc. now can you make something that fires a round or two cheaply and badly? Sure. But those things are more likely blow up when you practice with them than do any serious damage to the public.
This is simply push a button get a gun technology. You can't see the difference between those things? Perhaps you shouldn't be handling guns then...
Is there hype over 3D printing? Sure, but the potential of this technology (that I'm in favor of) is going to disrupt so many things you take for granted it's not funny. When they develop food safe plastics to use? Good bye sales of low end dinner sets. Plastic silverware industry? Completely upended. Dead? Maybe not but when a good chunk of the population can print their own at home, the 'market' is vastly changed.
Push a button, get a widget is a huge change. But when that widget is capable of being hidden from metal detectors...and can shoot people? Big big difference.
The "greenhouse effect" of CO2 is dwarfed by the effect of water vapor
Yes, yes it is. It's what's called a Feedback Loop. Take a balanced seesaw with 1 lb on one side and 10 lbs on the other at distances that make the forces equal.
Now move the 1lb weight outward a bit or add a some weight. Once the 10lb ball starts rolling it's going to be 10x harder to stop.
Now multiply by the scale of an atmosphere and it's *really* a bad idea to play chicken with that type of situation.
If we nudge water vapor to increase more heat, it keeps getting stronger as more water evaporates due to the higher temps...
Indeed. So is reading. Ever heard of ice cores? They have the ACTUAL ATMOSPHERIC GAS from all those years trapped in them to be measured. No guessing, no assumptions, the ACTUAL GAS.
Yes it was. Do you want the laws specifically written so that some people can get out of them and others can't? Granted there's some of that there now, but remotely on the level of the tax code.
There was just a case of a Maryland woman who was ticketed in DC for driving with expired tags.
The problem? Someone in Maryland fat fingered a DELETE action and deleted her tags instead of the ones they meant to delete. Since she was deleted she got no renewal reminder.
Now we scale this up to, no I'm sorry Mr. Smith, you don't exist, therefore you must be trying to subvert the system.
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onsider this: your average secretary for a CEO / Chairman / President of a company may or may not have the technological literacy to know whether or not his / her machine has become infected, and is now sending the VIP's electronic Rolodex / tax returns to some bad people. But the VIP is totally cool with how things are, until some insider breaks his company, or personally targets him. And then it's asking IT / the FBI to track down some people who have had a six month start, and probably swept their tracks right before their big heist. This is how technology illiteracy is killing companies.
What if anything does this have to do with a cyber attack on the electrical grid?
The electrical grid does not make up a sizable chunk of the internet. Sure there's connectivity between various electrical sites but that's on physically separate networks that without someone plugging the wrong cable in aren't going to be accessible from the internet. The problem is they've attached lots of the command and control nodes to the internet, but the core electrical infrastructure is not on the internet.
So you're comparing our electric grid to Iran? What you're talking about is a personnel training issue - it's entirely fixable without granting the government massive cyber surveillance powers (well more than they have already).
Ok, so they figure out the secretary visits eBay and plays solitaire. If you unplung the damned grid from the internet it can't be 'cyber' attacked in any way.
I don't see IBM getting a particularly great ROI for doing the work to opensource 1-2-3
unfortunately 'good will' doesn't usually factor into such calculations. There's plenty of benefit for IBM, just not financial.
It's a good news/bad news situation.
Good News: Currently IP law *is* abandonware. It sunsets the monopolies.
Bad News: It sunsets about as fast as a Venusian day
We obviously need to fix the latter, but fortunately the Founding Fathers new these things should be 'limited'.
A *rifle* isn't something anyone is using for crime these days. It's handguns. Much like the 3D printed gun.
There is an epidemic of gun violence in this country, mostly of recent vintage with high capacity assault rifles. Do you agree we should do *something* about it?
Banning the 3D printing of rifles, pistols, shotguns, and machine guns is a pipe dream.
Show me where I said anything of the sort? I'm a firm believer in 3D printing and am planning on purchasing one in the not too distant future (sooner if they do actually try to ban them).
3D printing is no different than printing the anarchists cookbook on your printer. The fundamental difference is that a stack of paper can't be used to kill anyone. We need to address the societal issues we have with violence and guns are at the heart of it.
And I'll agree 'gun control' is going to become more and more misguided. Because guns can be created at home by absolutely anyone with no skill whatsoever.
But 'more' guns on the streets isn't ever going to be a good thing. We need to find a way to regulate ammunition then, or black powder or something because simply giving everyone a gun is a very very bad idea.
Do you agree with that?
You mean the violence rate has fallen at the same time as gun ownership have fallen? 'Shocking'. It proves that fewer guns mean fewer deaths...
I would not consider the killing of a home invader by the home owner to be "gun violence" but Brady Campaign does.
No they don't. Source?
Even if "gun violence" is high I am not so sure that is a bad thing.
Just wow. violence is a 'good' thing?
If someone breaks into the home of another they should expect some "gun violence" from the home owner in return. That would be something praiseworthy.
Pipe dreams are nice things. That's not what's happening today so it's irrelevant.
As someone smarter than me has said, "There are four types of homicide, felonious, excusable, justifiable, and praiseworthy."
Seems like just everybody qualifies then....
the ATF do not believe that anyone but themselves are responsible enough to own firearms
Given the gun violence rate in this country...maybe their correct?
First off, your guns are made of metal. Making a usable firearm isn't something the average person can do. you need tools, machining equipment etc. now can you make something that fires a round or two cheaply and badly? Sure. But those things are more likely blow up when you practice with them than do any serious damage to the public.
This is simply push a button get a gun technology. You can't see the difference between those things? Perhaps you shouldn't be handling guns then...
Is there hype over 3D printing? Sure, but the potential of this technology (that I'm in favor of) is going to disrupt so many things you take for granted it's not funny. When they develop food safe plastics to use? Good bye sales of low end dinner sets. Plastic silverware industry? Completely upended. Dead? Maybe not but when a good chunk of the population can print their own at home, the 'market' is vastly changed.
Push a button, get a widget is a huge change. But when that widget is capable of being hidden from metal detectors...and can shoot people? Big big difference.
No house is going under tomorrow.
You might want to check out those pacific island communities that are literally flooded at high tides *NOW*
Uh, it's not an either or situation...
The "greenhouse effect" of CO2 is dwarfed by the effect of water vapor
Yes, yes it is. It's what's called a Feedback Loop. Take a balanced seesaw with 1 lb on one side and 10 lbs on the other at distances that make the forces equal.
Now move the 1lb weight outward a bit or add a some weight. Once the 10lb ball starts rolling it's going to be 10x harder to stop.
Now multiply by the scale of an atmosphere and it's *really* a bad idea to play chicken with that type of situation.
If we nudge water vapor to increase more heat, it keeps getting stronger as more water evaporates due to the higher temps...
Indeed. So is reading. Ever heard of ice cores? They have the ACTUAL ATMOSPHERIC GAS from all those years trapped in them to be measured. No guessing, no assumptions, the ACTUAL GAS.
a better baseline than doing it in a city where local emissions may influence
so instead do it next to a volcano?
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Just kidding, the juxtaposition just sounds hilarious
sheesh. 640 kilayears should be enough for anybody
it's used as an instrument to social engineer votes in their favor (power) and dependency on government (control).
Yes and Jim Crow laws were the exact same thing for the legal code. That's my point.
Freely giving up your privacy is far far far cry from being forced to do it.
Yes it was. Do you want the laws specifically written so that some people can get out of them and others can't? Granted there's some of that there now, but remotely on the level of the tax code.
Watch Rand conveniently NOT filibuster this. Maybe that will teach the Libertarians that he ain't one of them...
Laws have to be somewhat abstract because if you try to to make it cover everything possible, you get the US Tax Code spaghetti crap.
There was just a case of a Maryland woman who was ticketed in DC for driving with expired tags.
The problem? Someone in Maryland fat fingered a DELETE action and deleted her tags instead of the ones they meant to delete. Since she was deleted she got no renewal reminder.
Now we scale this up to, no I'm sorry Mr. Smith, you don't exist, therefore you must be trying to subvert the system.