If only Monsanto had stuck with F-1 hybrids, we'd be okay. They problem is now the genes that Monsanto put into their soybeans have found there way into other non Monsanto soybean stocks, which they've claimed as their own.
What's worse, these genes are showing up in weeds... There's now a whole class of round up ready weeds. Also I've heard there's a strain of poppy out there that's also round up resistant as well...
Just wait until the BT gene starts jumping to weeds (if it hasn't already)
At least when it comes to doing top secret stuff, I would think...
* Isolate your networks from the outside world. * All backups are double encrypted. No single person has the password to decrypt. * Enforce strict no carry in / no carry out policy. All your personal belongings go into a locker. Notebooks are numbered and are checked in and out. Pens / Pencils / etc. are supplied. * Have a phone system that only works internally. Want to call home and see how the wife is doing? Go check out your cell phone and go outside, when your done it's put back into a locker. * You don't have a PC at your desk, you've got a thin client.
It factors down into people, polices and procedures.
I know this is crazy talk, but if you read the article they specifically say that their standard procedure is to put the phone in a Faraday bag. From there the phone is then brought to a shielded room for dissection.
Like everything else... it's people, policies and procedures.
Just because an agent has a kit containing a Faraday bag, doesn't mean they'll use it...
It's not a far stretch to envision that future car systems would be able to pull down firmware updates so a car company could save face by just not telling anybody about a problem and silently fixing it in the field (They already do this at dealerships FYI...)
Now imagine someone hijacks the system and sends their own update.
Considering that in cars like the Tourage the key doesn't actually shut the car off, it merely tells the computer that you'd like to shut off the power... Jaguar has had drive by wire systems for a while now where there actually isn't any physical linkage between the wheel and the tires.
Use your imagination and the hilarity that could ensue...
I've got an HTC Eris running Android and I've experienced non of this sluggish or buggy behavior. It gets ~3 days nominal use on a charge or 1.5 days if I'm constantly listing to music, etc.
I only wish I could say the same thing for my Blackberry Storm.
Honestly, I think this guy "Al Amrikee" has violated the first rule of a public argument... Never pick a fight with someone who buys their ink by the barrel.
What his miscalculation is going to be is that South Park has a HUGE bully pulpit and they are NOT afraid to use it. They'll look America in the face and say "These people are wrong and this is why." South Park will do is do an episode detailing the stupidity of this explaining how they've made fun of every other religious figure and that fair is fair.
But they won't stop there. South Park will do an episode of him getting butt raped by a guy named "Mohammad" in a bear suit. They'll call him out by name and make fun of him.
IMHO, Itanium has been a complete success for one company... Intel.
In one single swoop they managed to knock a company (HP) out of the CPU business and take an architecture (PA-RISC) off the map.
I think Intel hedged it's bets. If Itanium was successful, then Intel would have reaped the benefits. However, it failing was good for Intel as well. I think it's interesting that as soon as Itanium hit the market, Intel rolled out their 64bit XEON cpus that very quickly were running circles around Itanium in terms of performance.
I'm suspecting that even when the LHC is running at full power, the Femri will continue on. If you've got a perfectly good working particle accelerator, it makes sense to do your lower powered experiments at Fermi and the high powered ones at the LHC.
Who knows, these are governmental bureaucracies we're dealing with...
I second that notion. Until btrfs gets some road miles under its feet, when it comes to storing multiple terabytes of data, I've been very happy with ZFS. I've currently got ~50TB worth of data on ZFS without any issue.
Am I the only computer scientist around here who thinks this number is um... suspect. Maybe after it's been compiled it prints out to 100 million lines of assembler but I'm seriously suspecting there is some serious number padding going on here...
What does this number include? Does this include all the lines of VHDL for the processors? If there are 30 processors in a car and there all the same type, do those lines VHDL code get counted 30 times?
I'm pretty sure the F-22 only has a couple million lines of code in it and it's completely fly by wire.
As for the NHTSA having no engineers to analyze, that's mildly irresponsible. There job is to set policy and make sure that a device adheres to set safety standards, i.e. when a car is going 60mph and it hits a wall the airbags should deploy properly. Delving into the code that analyzes the accelerometers and impact sensors to decide it's time to deploy the airbag is silly.
That a bunch of gamers got together and raised 1.7M dollars for charity last year to give to sick kids in the hospital, including two hospitals in Australia on the east coast...
There is no mention of where this missile was fired from. Quite likely it was launched from an Island or a special built towed platform... See something like "Sea Launch".
It wasn't launched from a sub. The caustic nature of the fuel combined with the complexity of the launch systems make them both unreliable and incredibly dangerous. In fact Sea Launch almost had to write off their entire mobile launch platform because a turbopump got clogged during a launch causing a rather large explosion.
I don't believe any navies currently have liquid fueled SLBM's deployed, though I could be wrong. Also, it would be cost prohibitive to modify a sub to launch such a missile for a single test.
The only two nations I can think of that we'd be shooting down missiles of this type would be Iran and North Korea.
Seriously... We're willing to spend practically infinite amounts of money propping up banks that ought to have failed, and giving hilarious bonuses to idiots on wall st. but we're unwilling to think strategically about the survival of the human race?
Are you fucking kidding me?!?
We need to get our asses going on getting a colony on either the Moon or Mars or both and working out the logistics of making it self sustaining.
It's just not a matter of if, but when we'll have another extinction level event and we need to spread out and be prepared.
I can think of a whole bunch of examples where this technology could be misused.
Here's an obvious example. You feel passionately about some cause so you go to some rally in a park somewhere. Mind you this rally is totally peaceful and people even cleanup after themselves!
However, unknown to you the "Feds" have setup a program that queries this database looking for anybody whose within the boundaries of the park and puts all the names into a big dossier.
It would be very easy to append that dossier to the do not fly list.
Suddenly you're turned away at the airport and when you go to investigate why (if you can even find out!) you're told "You attended a rally for 'X', we've deemed the people of X and those whose support X (it's a bad letter anyway...) to be a terrorist organization or an organization that supports terrorists."
We might as well ask for flying unicorns while we're at it. It's not like we're going to get either... at best we'll get something like a weasel with a horn glued to its ass...
Nope, not a line of it. Luckily this is the internet so I can make completely unqualified statements!
It just seems odd that OSX was working quite nicely on netbooks and now suddenly a patch later they are not.
Who knows, maybe there's some feature that all the other Intel processors have that the Atom doesn't and Apple wanted to suddenly use it, stranger things have happened.
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If only Monsanto had stuck with F-1 hybrids, we'd be okay. They problem is now the genes that Monsanto put into their soybeans have found there way into other non Monsanto soybean stocks, which they've claimed as their own.
What's worse, these genes are showing up in weeds... There's now a whole class of round up ready weeds. Also I've heard there's a strain of poppy out there that's also round up resistant as well...
Just wait until the BT gene starts jumping to weeds (if it hasn't already)
At least when it comes to doing top secret stuff, I would think...
* Isolate your networks from the outside world.
* All backups are double encrypted. No single person has the password to decrypt.
* Enforce strict no carry in / no carry out policy. All your personal belongings go into a locker. Notebooks are numbered and are checked in and out. Pens / Pencils / etc. are supplied.
* Have a phone system that only works internally. Want to call home and see how the wife is doing? Go check out your cell phone and go outside, when your done it's put back into a locker.
* You don't have a PC at your desk, you've got a thin client.
It factors down into people, polices and procedures.
I know this is crazy talk, but if you read the article they specifically say that their standard procedure is to put the phone in a Faraday bag. From there the phone is then brought to a shielded room for dissection.
Like everything else... it's people, policies and procedures.
Just because an agent has a kit containing a Faraday bag, doesn't mean they'll use it...
I think the Federal Government needs to move and eliminate all Federal funding for the Texas school system.
If they're going to turn all their children into ignorant fools, they can do it on their own dime!
It's not a far stretch to envision that future car systems would be able to pull down firmware updates so a car company could save face by just not telling anybody about a problem and silently fixing it in the field (They already do this at dealerships FYI...)
Now imagine someone hijacks the system and sends their own update.
Considering that in cars like the Tourage the key doesn't actually shut the car off, it merely tells the computer that you'd like to shut off the power...
Jaguar has had drive by wire systems for a while now where there actually isn't any physical linkage between the wheel and the tires.
Use your imagination and the hilarity that could ensue...
I always prefer to send my resume in hand written LaTeX
What this just did was make the waters much less safe for any ship that's capable of carrying a shipping container.
Now any navy in the world that sees a ship larger than a skiff is going to see a threat and act accordingly.
I've got an HTC Eris running Android and I've experienced non of this sluggish or buggy behavior. It gets ~3 days nominal use on a charge or 1.5 days if I'm constantly listing to music, etc.
I only wish I could say the same thing for my Blackberry Storm.
Honestly, I think this guy "Al Amrikee" has violated the first rule of a public argument... Never pick a fight with someone who buys their ink by the barrel.
What his miscalculation is going to be is that South Park has a HUGE bully pulpit and they are NOT afraid to use it. They'll look America in the face and say "These people are wrong and this is why." South Park will do is do an episode detailing the stupidity of this explaining how they've made fun of every other religious figure and that fair is fair.
But they won't stop there. South Park will do an episode of him getting butt raped by a guy named "Mohammad" in a bear suit. They'll call him out by name and make fun of him.
In short, they will publicly fuck him up bad.
IMHO, Itanium has been a complete success for one company... Intel.
In one single swoop they managed to knock a company (HP) out of the CPU business and take an architecture (PA-RISC) off the map.
I think Intel hedged it's bets. If Itanium was successful, then Intel would have reaped the benefits. However, it failing was good for Intel as well. I think it's interesting that as soon as Itanium hit the market, Intel rolled out their 64bit XEON cpus that very quickly were running circles around Itanium in terms of performance.
I hope they don't name it "The Hobbit" if it's going to deal with the 60 years between The Hobbit and LOTR.
I'm suspecting that even when the LHC is running at full power, the Femri will continue on. If you've got a perfectly good working particle accelerator, it makes sense to do your lower powered experiments at Fermi and the high powered ones at the LHC.
Who knows, these are governmental bureaucracies we're dealing with...
I second that notion. Until btrfs gets some road miles under its feet, when it comes to storing multiple terabytes of data, I've been very happy with ZFS. I've currently got ~50TB worth of data on ZFS without any issue.
If the government was in charge of operating systems, we'd still be using govdos 5.0...
I'm pretty sure smuggling guns wrapped in drugs would be better than playing smurfs on ColecoVision...
Am I the only computer scientist around here who thinks this number is um... suspect. Maybe after it's been compiled it prints out to 100 million lines of assembler but I'm seriously suspecting there is some serious number padding going on here...
What does this number include? Does this include all the lines of VHDL for the processors? If there are 30 processors in a car and there all the same type, do those lines VHDL code get counted 30 times?
I'm pretty sure the F-22 only has a couple million lines of code in it and it's completely fly by wire.
As for the NHTSA having no engineers to analyze, that's mildly irresponsible. There job is to set policy and make sure that a device adheres to set safety standards, i.e. when a car is going 60mph and it hits a wall the airbags should deploy properly. Delving into the code that analyzes the accelerometers and impact sensors to decide it's time to deploy the airbag is silly.
That a bunch of gamers got together and raised 1.7M dollars for charity last year to give to sick kids in the hospital, including two hospitals in Australia on the east coast...
There is no mention of where this missile was fired from. Quite likely it was launched from an Island or a special built towed platform... See something like "Sea Launch".
It wasn't launched from a sub. The caustic nature of the fuel combined with the complexity of the launch systems make them both unreliable and incredibly dangerous. In fact Sea Launch almost had to write off their entire mobile launch platform because a turbopump got clogged during a launch causing a rather large explosion.
I don't believe any navies currently have liquid fueled SLBM's deployed, though I could be wrong. Also, it would be cost prohibitive to modify a sub to launch such a missile for a single test.
The only two nations I can think of that we'd be shooting down missiles of this type would be Iran and North Korea.
Thanks!!! People on Slashdot are SO helpful!!!
I also sent in my mothers maiden name, plus all of my checking account numbers and routing codes!
Now, I'm off to install comet cursors!!!
I was up taking care of my infant daughter, looking out my sliding glass windows I could see it like a blue diamond in the sky rising.
Totally amazing.
Seriously... We're willing to spend practically infinite amounts of money propping up banks that ought to have failed, and giving hilarious bonuses to idiots on wall st. but we're unwilling to think strategically about the survival of the human race?
Are you fucking kidding me?!?
We need to get our asses going on getting a colony on either the Moon or Mars or both and working out the logistics of making it self sustaining.
It's just not a matter of if, but when we'll have another extinction level event and we need to spread out and be prepared.
I can think of a whole bunch of examples where this technology could be misused.
Here's an obvious example. You feel passionately about some cause so you go to some rally in a park somewhere. Mind you this rally is totally peaceful and people even cleanup after themselves!
However, unknown to you the "Feds" have setup a program that queries this database looking for anybody whose within the boundaries of the park and puts all the names into a big dossier.
It would be very easy to append that dossier to the do not fly list.
Suddenly you're turned away at the airport and when you go to investigate why (if you can even find out!) you're told "You attended a rally for 'X', we've deemed the people of X and those whose support X (it's a bad letter anyway...) to be a terrorist organization or an organization that supports terrorists."
We might as well ask for flying unicorns while we're at it. It's not like we're going to get either... at best we'll get something like a weasel with a horn glued to its ass...
Nope, not a line of it. Luckily this is the internet so I can make completely unqualified statements!
It just seems odd that OSX was working quite nicely on netbooks and now suddenly a patch later they are not.
Who knows, maybe there's some feature that all the other Intel processors have that the Atom doesn't and Apple wanted to suddenly use it, stranger things have happened.
Ha! Ha!
My native naive kernel naively is native!
Sorry about that, my caffeine level was way below optimum...