You can't compare the edible seaweed in the market with seaweed for ethanol production. It's probably a completely different plant. Just like there are many different types of plants on land, there are many different types of plants in the sea.
What really irks me is that case of American hikers caught by the Iranians in Iraq. First of all, why do they have to go to Iraq to go hiking? They KNOW it's dangerous. By being caught, they gave Iran a bargaining chip. What the hell is wrong with these people?
Why is everyone so down in Intel? More competition is good for us, the consumer! Although software is very important so in hardware, no one wants a tablet that needs to be recharged every 2 hours.
Europeans aren't anti-science, they're against GM modified crops because they fear it's not safe. They don't want to be experimented on. I don't see GM modified crops as a problem, if they are tested for safety properly. But I would rather err on the safe side.
Although I don't have a lot of experience with powershell, I find it very slow. And it's really difficult and slow to do tasks like "rm -rf". I remember I had to delete around 50k to 100k of small files once, and the powershell script just sat there eating up 100% of the CPU. I just ended up using some complicated batch script to do the equivalent of "rm -rf".
I always wondered why FPGA's aren't used for this kind of stuff, or if they already are. I would imagine they would even be faster because you can design a circuit specifically optimized for the problem. But now that I think about it, NVidia and AMD put considerable amounts of resources into making them super fast and cheap. I guess price/performance ratio would be pretty damn good on a GPU vs FPGA.
I am not for more rules and regulations, and more powers for government. And I am certainly not anti-free market as you suggest I am. But I believe that, where possible, governments should create taxes and laws to direct the market in a certain direction. We already do it with environmental protection laws, creating national parks, taxing cigarettes, etc. It is a fact that there's not an infinite amount of oil available in the world. It is possible that we will run out of oil in 50 years (more likely it will get too expensive and we'll move on to use something else instead). Sure, oil prices will spike on news of disasters, but as soon as the disaster is over prices plummet again as oil supplies return. The time frame of what you call "market planning" is in the months to years range. Certainly not decades or centuries.
History shows that it is human nature to use up all resources in an area, then move on to somewhere else. Look at the Mayans. Unfortunately, it'll be a long time before we'll be leaving this planet, if ever. So I would rather see that we make the effort to conserve the resources we have.
Taxing gas is an effective way to encourage people to conserve. Look at how well people conserved when gas prices spiked in 2008. But I guess what you're saying is that the most valued use for oil is for Americans to burn it up in their SUVs, while sending the oil money to the middle east. That's just a difference of opinion.
As a society, we have a goal to reduce gas consumption. However, the market does not function to meet the arbitrary goals of our society. Rather, it works to allocate scarce resources as efficiently as possible. The market does not plan for the long term. If we KNOW that oil will run out sometime in the future, doesn't it make sense to do something to reduce fuel consumption in cars? You just have to look at Europe to see how well gas tax works. No one drives a gas guzzling SUV, yet everyone who needs a car drives one.
Think of it this way, given that the FBI and law enforcement has limited resources, shouldn't some of these resources be spent prosecuting the biggest theft in history? Because we prosecute the small guys we SHOULD prosecute the big guys.
No, it was caused by a whole lot of fraud. The people at the bottom giving out the loans lied on the mortgage applications. The banks packaged up these toxic mortgages and paid the rating agencies rubber-stamped AAA on these worthless securities. Companies like Goldman Sachs sold these worthless securities to their customers, then bet against them knowing they were worthless. The financial execs knew what was going on, it is fraud, it is illegal, and it is because of them that the poverty and joblessness is increasing. This is theft on a MASSIVE scale.
I agree 100%. What add-in are you guys using for cookie management? I'm currently using Cookie Monster. Just curious what the other./ people are using.
What's amazing is, this is reported now.... why didn't the mainstream media report this in 2008, while the country was being robbed? It's not like it was a secret.
His intention was not to steal, but probably just curiosity. He didn't cause any damage, and judging from his description, it was probably some simple URL manipulation. Is it illegal? Probably. Immoral? My moral compass says no. Law != morality. Just look at history, and this is obvious.
Stop violating federal and state laws. You've just confessed to the world that you are committing federal and state felonies. Stop being a criminal.
At what point do you become a criminal? By looking at the URL bar and seeing an SQL statement, which can be used for SQL injection attacks? For changing a few characters in the URL bar and seeing that they're sending you other people's credit card numbers? I agree that he should just fuck em and ignore it.
I'm not saying American developers aren't skilled. Looking at Apple, Google, Intel, etc, that's clearly not the case. I'm saying, that America needs MORE highly skilled workers. These highly-skilled immigrants are just fulfilling the lack of supply of talent. I completely agree with you about outsourcing to India. I've seen it for myself. People over there come and go every 6 months, because wages are spiraling up. It's completely unproductive. My point is, brilliant people are born all over the world. It would be in America's best interest to try to attract these brilliant people to their country, and allow them to create an innovative atmosphere like Silicon Valley. It would create more jobs.
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Root your phone and use Droid Firewall. All apps by default have no network permissions. Once it's setup, it works really well.
What really irks me is that case of American hikers caught by the Iranians in Iraq.
My problem isn't them getting killed, but giving the Iranians some leverage... It's irresponsible.
Thank you, you have saved me from reading the article.
You can't compare the edible seaweed in the market with seaweed for ethanol production. It's probably a completely different plant. Just like there are many different types of plants on land, there are many different types of plants in the sea.
What really irks me is that case of American hikers caught by the Iranians in Iraq. First of all, why do they have to go to Iraq to go hiking? They KNOW it's dangerous. By being caught, they gave Iran a bargaining chip. What the hell is wrong with these people?
Why is everyone so down in Intel? More competition is good for us, the consumer! Although software is very important so in hardware, no one wants a tablet that needs to be recharged every 2 hours.
Europeans aren't anti-science, they're against GM modified crops because they fear it's not safe. They don't want to be experimented on. I don't see GM modified crops as a problem, if they are tested for safety properly. But I would rather err on the safe side.
Although I don't have a lot of experience with powershell, I find it very slow. And it's really difficult and slow to do tasks like "rm -rf". I remember I had to delete around 50k to 100k of small files once, and the powershell script just sat there eating up 100% of the CPU. I just ended up using some complicated batch script to do the equivalent of "rm -rf".
I always wondered why FPGA's aren't used for this kind of stuff, or if they already are. I would imagine they would even be faster because you can design a circuit specifically optimized for the problem. But now that I think about it, NVidia and AMD put considerable amounts of resources into making them super fast and cheap. I guess price/performance ratio would be pretty damn good on a GPU vs FPGA.
I am not for more rules and regulations, and more powers for government. And I am certainly not anti-free market as you suggest I am. But I believe that, where possible, governments should create taxes and laws to direct the market in a certain direction. We already do it with environmental protection laws, creating national parks, taxing cigarettes, etc. It is a fact that there's not an infinite amount of oil available in the world. It is possible that we will run out of oil in 50 years (more likely it will get too expensive and we'll move on to use something else instead). Sure, oil prices will spike on news of disasters, but as soon as the disaster is over prices plummet again as oil supplies return. The time frame of what you call "market planning" is in the months to years range. Certainly not decades or centuries.
History shows that it is human nature to use up all resources in an area, then move on to somewhere else. Look at the Mayans. Unfortunately, it'll be a long time before we'll be leaving this planet, if ever. So I would rather see that we make the effort to conserve the resources we have.
Taxing gas is an effective way to encourage people to conserve. Look at how well people conserved when gas prices spiked in 2008. But I guess what you're saying is that the most valued use for oil is for Americans to burn it up in their SUVs, while sending the oil money to the middle east. That's just a difference of opinion.
I thought conservatives were about getting the government off our backs. Get the US government off our backs!
As a society, we have a goal to reduce gas consumption. However, the market does not function to meet the arbitrary goals of our society. Rather, it works to allocate scarce resources as efficiently as possible. The market does not plan for the long term. If we KNOW that oil will run out sometime in the future, doesn't it make sense to do something to reduce fuel consumption in cars? You just have to look at Europe to see how well gas tax works. No one drives a gas guzzling SUV, yet everyone who needs a car drives one.
Think of it this way, given that the FBI and law enforcement has limited resources, shouldn't some of these resources be spent prosecuting the biggest theft in history? Because we prosecute the small guys we SHOULD prosecute the big guys.
No, it was caused by a whole lot of fraud. The people at the bottom giving out the loans lied on the mortgage applications. The banks packaged up these toxic mortgages and paid the rating agencies rubber-stamped AAA on these worthless securities. Companies like Goldman Sachs sold these worthless securities to their customers, then bet against them knowing they were worthless. The financial execs knew what was going on, it is fraud, it is illegal, and it is because of them that the poverty and joblessness is increasing. This is theft on a MASSIVE scale.
I agree 100%. What add-in are you guys using for cookie management? I'm currently using Cookie Monster. Just curious what the other ./ people are using.
The problem is, your OS allows you to run for a week without restarting. Switch to windows, and your Firefox memory problem will go away.
What's amazing is, this is reported now.... why didn't the mainstream media report this in 2008, while the country was being robbed? It's not like it was a secret.
Turn on your sarcasm detector.
Don't you get it? Every time a song is copied, someone loses money. No wonder we have a financial crisis!
His intention was not to steal, but probably just curiosity. He didn't cause any damage, and judging from his description, it was probably some simple URL manipulation. Is it illegal? Probably. Immoral? My moral compass says no. Law != morality. Just look at history, and this is obvious.
Yes, you become a criminal as soon as you click the link that some incompetent developer created and dumps credit card numbers to your browser.
Exactly! If you see that your neighbour accidentally left his door open, don't do anything. IT'S NON OF YOUR FUCKING BUSINESS.
There's a 3rd option. Give out the info anonymously, and see how quickly it gets resolved.
Stop violating federal and state laws. You've just confessed to the world that you are committing federal and state felonies. Stop being a criminal.
At what point do you become a criminal? By looking at the URL bar and seeing an SQL statement, which can be used for SQL injection attacks? For changing a few characters in the URL bar and seeing that they're sending you other people's credit card numbers? I agree that he should just fuck em and ignore it.
I'm not saying American developers aren't skilled. Looking at Apple, Google, Intel, etc, that's clearly not the case. I'm saying, that America needs MORE highly skilled workers. These highly-skilled immigrants are just fulfilling the lack of supply of talent. I completely agree with you about outsourcing to India. I've seen it for myself. People over there come and go every 6 months, because wages are spiraling up. It's completely unproductive. My point is, brilliant people are born all over the world. It would be in America's best interest to try to attract these brilliant people to their country, and allow them to create an innovative atmosphere like Silicon Valley. It would create more jobs.