Same here. We just don't know. It seems many are ready to assume Snowden is telling the truth when he says he gave all the information to a journalist and didn't keep any copy of that information which everyone knows is multiple GB. Only a very tiny portion of that information was required to make the point. Why did he stole the rest and what did he actually do with it? No one knows but Snowden itself. He can say anything, nobody can verify if he is telling the truth. Due to a large sympathy movement, people are prone to believe he is right and he is telling the truth. I don't see why. Not telling the truth has its advantages as well in his case.
The narrative behind the "Matrix" or "computer simulation" interpretation of the world is just a sequel or variant of the very old religious idea of the human created to live in a world controlled by God or gods. There is nothing new and nothing to see here. It is very boring it gets so much public attention.
Is there any real life example of people in USA who suffered from surveillance of the NSA over the last decade or two? Otherwise, it is only smoke to say Snowden did a great service to USA. What and who exactly did he save? Not from a theoretical standing point of view, in reality, in real life. I really doubt anyone will be able to give a single example here. Well, okay, it was against the Constitution. That's bad, yes. But who was really hurt?
Well, a bug will produce collateral damages, however it will not lead to human race extinction or not even near it. An autonomous killing robot still need to refuel, replenish ammo, etc. So, it is not entirely autonomous. It still relies on external systems to keep going. Beside that, if this kind of race toward an autonomous killing machine is launched, there will be also development for counter measures against it. It is not like your ennemy will sit and rest waiting for being killed by your machine. No matter how wonderful may your killing machine be, there will be efficient counter measures against it.
Exactly that, instead of wasting and spending weeks in discussions about the trailers and possible trailers, they just accepted the trailer proposed by Watson. The discussion near the end about Watson creativity is pure marketing bullshit from IBM.
I wonder why this comment is rated as insightful. For a Windows 7, Windows 8 or whatever version of Windows user but 10, the alternative is not Windows 10 or Linux. If he cannot keep his old version of Windows, he will jump to Windows 10 which is much more similar to his computer experience than Linux. This user is not driven by irrational hate against Microsoft and Windows since he would like to continue to use an older version of Windows.
Bucky Fuller is an idiot.There is no way a gallon of gasoline could be valued at $1 million. You can sell something only at the price someone is willing to buy it. It has nothing to do with the production costs. However, to make a profit, your production cost must be lower than your selling cost. There is no one to pay for the time and energy it costs to create petroleum, no one can pretend to ask someone to pay that cost.
You are full of shit, NSA has adopted AES in its Suite B and recommend it for top secret communications with the government since 2005. It upgraded the recommendation recently for top secret communications making a key size larger or equal to 384 mandatory.
There was a consensus around the Y2K bug either. I mean, a consensus isn't by itself a proof of anything. A consensus hold until another one replaces it. Consensus are not facts.
Focussing on a single argument, even if I could argue on others:
2) crops grow better
Most food crops are harvested between 30th and 50th latitude too. Around the 23th latitude (both north and south) you have either large deserts, where nothing grows, or you have the rain forests, which don't have any meaningful soils to put food crops on.
Pretty much naive picture here. First of all, this should be weighted by the amount of land available for the considered latitudes. Second, desertification has many causes which are not related to the temperature itself. For exemple, the Himalayas prevent clouds from the Indian Ocean to reach Tibet on the other side creating large dry areas and deserts. To summarize, your arguments aren't any better than the points you are trying to defeat.
Yes because 'programmers' never make mistakes, right?
These aren't mistakes, they are encoding the messages rather than encrypting them using a public encoding scheme (anyway, a private encoding scheme wouldn't be better). So, they did actually think about the security, but due to incompetence in the field, they pick an encoding scheme to secure the communication. That's not the first time I have seen such a thing. Some coders believe because they cannot read the message it is encrypted.
That's why this satellite won't deliver its promises at my opinion. I doubt it is possible to maintain decent quantum characteristics to perform quantum cryptography in this environment. They will increase the intensity of the laser beam to decrease the error rate which would be otherwise unacceptable. This will open the channel to side attacks.
By working out formulas to integrate the different sets of information and thereby track one-second-resolution drive cycles, the MIT researchers were able to demonstrate that the daily energy requirements of some 90 percent of personal cars on the road in the U.S. could be met by today's EVs, with their current ranges, at an overall cost to their owners -- including both purchase and operating costs -- that would be no greater than that of conventional internal-combustion vehicles.
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Grow up kid!
So, we finally know why Snowden wants the presidential pardon.
Same here. We just don't know. It seems many are ready to assume Snowden is telling the truth when he says he gave all the information to a journalist and didn't keep any copy of that information which everyone knows is multiple GB. Only a very tiny portion of that information was required to make the point. Why did he stole the rest and what did he actually do with it? No one knows but Snowden itself. He can say anything, nobody can verify if he is telling the truth. Due to a large sympathy movement, people are prone to believe he is right and he is telling the truth. I don't see why. Not telling the truth has its advantages as well in his case.
The narrative behind the "Matrix" or "computer simulation" interpretation of the world is just a sequel or variant of the very old religious idea of the human created to live in a world controlled by God or gods. There is nothing new and nothing to see here. It is very boring it gets so much public attention.
Is there any real life example of people in USA who suffered from surveillance of the NSA over the last decade or two? Otherwise, it is only smoke to say Snowden did a great service to USA. What and who exactly did he save? Not from a theoretical standing point of view, in reality, in real life. I really doubt anyone will be able to give a single example here. Well, okay, it was against the Constitution. That's bad, yes. But who was really hurt?
In short, you are naive.
Well, a bug will produce collateral damages, however it will not lead to human race extinction or not even near it. An autonomous killing robot still need to refuel, replenish ammo, etc. So, it is not entirely autonomous. It still relies on external systems to keep going. Beside that, if this kind of race toward an autonomous killing machine is launched, there will be also development for counter measures against it. It is not like your ennemy will sit and rest waiting for being killed by your machine. No matter how wonderful may your killing machine be, there will be efficient counter measures against it.
Well said.
Anti-matter engines are for sissies, real men teleport.
Exactly that, instead of wasting and spending weeks in discussions about the trailers and possible trailers, they just accepted the trailer proposed by Watson. The discussion near the end about Watson creativity is pure marketing bullshit from IBM.
Pretty much silly reasoning given the number of Linux servers around the world. Almost every large corporate is depending on Linux for something.
I wonder why this comment is rated as insightful. For a Windows 7, Windows 8 or whatever version of Windows user but 10, the alternative is not Windows 10 or Linux. If he cannot keep his old version of Windows, he will jump to Windows 10 which is much more similar to his computer experience than Linux. This user is not driven by irrational hate against Microsoft and Windows since he would like to continue to use an older version of Windows.
Ever try a drug cartel's property in Mexico or Columbia?
Bucky Fuller is an idiot.There is no way a gallon of gasoline could be valued at $1 million. You can sell something only at the price someone is willing to buy it. It has nothing to do with the production costs. However, to make a profit, your production cost must be lower than your selling cost. There is no one to pay for the time and energy it costs to create petroleum, no one can pretend to ask someone to pay that cost.
More like 1993.
You are full of shit, NSA has adopted AES in its Suite B and recommend it for top secret communications with the government since 2005. It upgraded the recommendation recently for top secret communications making a key size larger or equal to 384 mandatory.
It's a trap to control the mind of those who knows HAARP is capable of mind control and make them believe HAARP cannot control mind.
Standard bikes bashing here. Usually it triggers the standard cars bashing and at the end of the day, nobody wins.
Yep, I still wear my glasses, I am not elligible for a corneal surgery.
There was a consensus around the Y2K bug either. I mean, a consensus isn't by itself a proof of anything. A consensus hold until another one replaces it. Consensus are not facts.
Focussing on a single argument, even if I could argue on others:
2) crops grow better
Most food crops are harvested between 30th and 50th latitude too. Around the 23th latitude (both north and south) you have either large deserts, where nothing grows, or you have the rain forests, which don't have any meaningful soils to put food crops on.
Pretty much naive picture here. First of all, this should be weighted by the amount of land available for the considered latitudes. Second, desertification has many causes which are not related to the temperature itself. For exemple, the Himalayas prevent clouds from the Indian Ocean to reach Tibet on the other side creating large dry areas and deserts. To summarize, your arguments aren't any better than the points you are trying to defeat.
Yes because 'programmers' never make mistakes, right?
These aren't mistakes, they are encoding the messages rather than encrypting them using a public encoding scheme (anyway, a private encoding scheme wouldn't be better). So, they did actually think about the security, but due to incompetence in the field, they pick an encoding scheme to secure the communication. That's not the first time I have seen such a thing. Some coders believe because they cannot read the message it is encrypted.
That's why this satellite won't deliver its promises at my opinion. I doubt it is possible to maintain decent quantum characteristics to perform quantum cryptography in this environment. They will increase the intensity of the laser beam to decrease the error rate which would be otherwise unacceptable. This will open the channel to side attacks.
It's just me or this seems a load of shit?
By working out formulas to integrate the different sets of information and thereby track one-second-resolution drive cycles, the MIT researchers were able to demonstrate that the daily energy requirements of some 90 percent of personal cars on the road in the U.S. could be met by today's EVs, with their current ranges, at an overall cost to their owners -- including both purchase and operating costs -- that would be no greater than that of conventional internal-combustion vehicles.