Hillary is smart, but she's also arrogant and greedy. I'm not saying it would have been OK to do this, but had she and Bill hired true IT security gurus, and their money and power gave them access to such people and such people may well be Democratic Party supporters on top of that, and used, say, a really hardened version of one of the BSD operating systems and had super tight firewall and security controls in place on their personal email server, they could have at least argued that their server was better than what Uncle Sam was using.
the security of her private email server wasn't really the issue, so this would have mattered not at all.
I'm not saying that would have justified using it from a legal standpoint,
But this gets to the issue nicely - her private email server existed to bypass FOIA requests. Which was illegal. Period.
Note that if Pence's private email account bypassed an Illinois equivalent to the FOIA, then it was illegal. If it didn't, it probably didn't matter at all. Not like Illinois deals in classified information, after all....
Besides the entire premise of TMIAHM was terrible, why build a moonbase when the same kind of biodomes could be constructed on Earth
Do remember that in Moon is a Harsh Mistress that the "colonies" were actually prisons (political prisons, mostly, it seemed). The escape-proof kind of prison. Which is why a biodome wouldn't be a reasonable replacement.
It should, perhaps, be noted that the definition of "threat" used by militaries and governments uses "capabilities" more than "intentions".
IOW, if it's possible that it could be done, it's a military threat, even without any actual intentions of doing so.
And a linear accelerator on the moon could certainly be built that is capable of bombarding Earth. Not likely to be done that way, but it's possible.
Of course, it's also possible to build a linear accelerator on the moon that is NOT capable of bombarding Earth. Specifically, design it for small payloads (say, Oddly enough, the latter form would be more generally useful, and cheaper to build....
That aside, we've got too many people incarcerated now. We don't need to waste space/money on (relatively) trivial shit - fine him heavily, and be done with it....
Not sure where the "outnumber" in the title of TFA came from. The link never bothered to mention the number of robots, though it might have been sorta implied by the comment about our sneakers having more intelligence than us by then...
If I were guessing, I'd guess someone mistranslated a word, and out "editors" didn't catch the mistranslation....
Unfortunately guys like Trump really do embolden people and cause an increase in hate crime.
Massive increase in hate crime, all right. Let's see. We have one (1) murder confirmed by a drunkard since The Donald got to be The Pres.
On average, we have somewhere around 750 murders nationwide in any given month. and ONE (1) of them attributed to "hate" (presumably, the rest of them were just "extreme dislike"?). So, 0.14% increase in murder due to "hate crimes" since The Donald got to be The Pres....
Somehow, I can't find it in myself to see a massive epidemic in "hate crimes" in a drunkard doing something stupid....
ho said anything that the goal was to "impress" you or the American people? If the goal is to use the moon as a base, NASA has to re-develop the technology to get back there.
There's no economic benefit to a moon base, so it's all for show anyway.
Think back to, oh, 1600. Imagine the conversations in taprooms in England- "there's no economic benefit to a colony in North America, so it's really just for show anyway"....
I'll bet there's no way in hell he's managing to keep those tweets secret!
And this ignoring that based on the number of tweets he's making, he's not even making most of the tweets ascribed to him.
In any case, when there's some reason to suspect he's using an unsecured phone to talk to people about classified information, then it'll be time to get excited.
Note, by the by, that you're not talking to the unclassified world with your secure government phone. That one is just for talking to the OTHER secure government phones, not to your hairdresser....
So, the CEO of a company that makes electric buses asserts that they're cheaper than other types of bus....
Just curious, if the maker of electric buses is considered a reliable source for this sort of thing, why isn't the maker of, well, anything else, considered an equally reliable source about his products?
Or is this guy a reliable source because he's saying what you all want to hear?
I'm by no means an expert but recent media has made this seem to be the case.
Your image showed the most expensive nuclear as cheaper than the cheapest residential solar. Utility-scale solar was comparable to, or cheaper than, nuclear, but that didn't include the required back-up power (your utility-scale unit is just as susceptible to clouds as your home system, which requires a backup)....
Note that the FOIA forbade what she did - the whole point of her private server wasn't to make it a convenient place for her to look at classified stuff, but a place for her to hide from the law.
Note also that if you or I had done what she did while working for the government, we'd be in jail now....
Look at a map sometime, every state has hundreds of small towns with 500 or 600 people (or less) geographically distant from anything that could be considered a big or medium sized city.
Let's, for the sake of argument, assume that "hundreds" averages 300, and that "medium or big city" averages 1,000,000.
So, we're talking 160K living in those small towns, compared to 1000K in the one city.
When we further consider that small towns tend to be weighted toward an older demographic (young people do move to the "City" (more often the 'burbs than the city itself), not so much in reverse), we don't see any reason why your statement and what you're responding to can't both be true....
Note, by the by, that I moved about a dozen times before I was 25 (being an Army brat accounted for most of those moves). And only three more times before I was 50 (and one of those was basically from one side of the city to the other). I *might* move again before I die. Maybe....
twelve characters, mixed case, numbers, and non-letter-number characters
Hmm, those contraints rather limit the set of possible passwords, thus weakening the security of the system.
Ignoring the 12 character limit, would be better if mixed case, numbers, and non-letter-number characters were ALLOWED, but not required.
As to the character limit, I think I may have used a password that short this decade by personal choice. Maybe. Of course, passwords for websites (online bill pay, that sort of thing) frequently don't allow passwords that long....
I admit I won't be using it, but that's mostly because I don't buy new cars. If it could be retrofitted to older cars without too much trouble, I'd put it on my car right now. Otherwise, ten or so years after it's available on everything, I'll have it on my car.
And by then, I expect to be either dead or no longer driving....
The radiation problem is inside the containment building (you know, where it's supposed to be), and so far has harmed exactly zero of the general public.
And if it stays that way for the next century (it won't - that's what half-life means, after all), the general public will have sustained an estimated zero casualties as a result.
Do remember that police officers in the USA have shot more black males than in the last year than all the deaths due to nuclear power in the USA (I'd include Japan, but then some idiot would bring up Hiroshima and Nagasaki, and I'd have to explain the difference between nuclear weapons and nuclear power) in the last century.....
You assume there is competition and you assume when their is competition that companies are forced to make a better product. Go buy a appliance sometime asshole.
Oddly enoiugh, I did that this past December. And oddly enough, there were multiple choices, from cheap junk to quite expensive (and high quality) appliances.
Which means a range of choices for everyone who wants a dishwasher, for instance. Pick what's in your budget and fits your needs.
Now, alternately, we can go with the "one model fits all" theory. It has, after all, worked so well in the past. Oh, wait, it hasn't.l...
I'm curious, where do you live that there are no choices in appliances?
Companies certainly had their time and place in history, but these days it seems to be less about making a quality product for the consumer and more about making as much profit for the shareholders as possible.
And how, pray tell, does one make as much profit for the owners (or, if you prefer, shareholders) without, well, selling a product people want to buy for a price they are willing to pay?
It's not like competition is illegal (unless you're a taxidriver, or government employee, of course), so if your product isn't quite up to snuff, someone else can start a competing business with a better product and take all your customers....
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Last I checked, Blue Origin was strictly suborbital right now. Do they really expect to go from suborbital to lunar surface in only three years???
Or are they planning on getting to Earth orbit atop someone else's boosters, and going the rest of the way on their own?
the security of her private email server wasn't really the issue, so this would have mattered not at all.
But this gets to the issue nicely - her private email server existed to bypass FOIA requests. Which was illegal. Period.
Note that if Pence's private email account bypassed an Illinois equivalent to the FOIA, then it was illegal. If it didn't, it probably didn't matter at all. Not like Illinois deals in classified information, after all....
Do remember that in Moon is a Harsh Mistress that the "colonies" were actually prisons (political prisons, mostly, it seemed). The escape-proof kind of prison. Which is why a biodome wouldn't be a reasonable replacement.
***sighs*** someday, I'll remember to NOT use the LT symbol for anything other than tags.
In the above, after the word "say" insert "Less Than 100kg per projectile)."
IOW, if it's possible that it could be done, it's a military threat, even without any actual intentions of doing so.
And a linear accelerator on the moon could certainly be built that is capable of bombarding Earth. Not likely to be done that way, but it's possible.
Of course, it's also possible to build a linear accelerator on the moon that is NOT capable of bombarding Earth. Specifically, design it for small payloads (say, Oddly enough, the latter form would be more generally useful, and cheaper to build....
Not sure where the "outnumber" in the title of TFA came from. The link never bothered to mention the number of robots, though it might have been sorta implied by the comment about our sneakers having more intelligence than us by then...
If I were guessing, I'd guess someone mistranslated a word, and out "editors" didn't catch the mistranslation....
Massive increase in hate crime, all right. Let's see. We have one (1) murder confirmed by a drunkard since The Donald got to be The Pres.
On average, we have somewhere around 750 murders nationwide in any given month. and ONE (1) of them attributed to "hate" (presumably, the rest of them were just "extreme dislike"?). So, 0.14% increase in murder due to "hate crimes" since The Donald got to be The Pres....
Somehow, I can't find it in myself to see a massive epidemic in "hate crimes" in a drunkard doing something stupid....
In which case, stopping someone from making the video would be prior restraint of speech....
Think back to, oh, 1600. Imagine the conversations in taprooms in England- "there's no economic benefit to a colony in North America, so it's really just for show anyway"....
1) The volt is not a measure of power.
2) You're not getting 200KV out of a cellphone battery.
I'll bet there's no way in hell he's managing to keep those tweets secret!
And this ignoring that based on the number of tweets he's making, he's not even making most of the tweets ascribed to him.
In any case, when there's some reason to suspect he's using an unsecured phone to talk to people about classified information, then it'll be time to get excited.
Note, by the by, that you're not talking to the unclassified world with your secure government phone. That one is just for talking to the OTHER secure government phones, not to your hairdresser....
And think of the possibilities: mammoth steaks in every restaurant! My mouth waters at the thought....
Note, for the humour-impaired, that the above was a joke. Now if we were to re-engineer the Dodo (tastes like chicken!), then we'd be cooking....
So, the CEO of a company that makes electric buses asserts that they're cheaper than other types of bus....
Just curious, if the maker of electric buses is considered a reliable source for this sort of thing, why isn't the maker of, well, anything else, considered an equally reliable source about his products?
Or is this guy a reliable source because he's saying what you all want to hear?
'm having a hard time figuring out whether it was the author, of one of our less literate editors, though...
Your image showed the most expensive nuclear as cheaper than the cheapest residential solar. Utility-scale solar was comparable to, or cheaper than, nuclear, but that didn't include the required back-up power (your utility-scale unit is just as susceptible to clouds as your home system, which requires a backup)....
Note that the FOIA forbade what she did - the whole point of her private server wasn't to make it a convenient place for her to look at classified stuff, but a place for her to hide from the law.
Note also that if you or I had done what she did while working for the government, we'd be in jail now....
Let's, for the sake of argument, assume that "hundreds" averages 300, and that "medium or big city" averages 1,000,000.
So, we're talking 160K living in those small towns, compared to 1000K in the one city.
When we further consider that small towns tend to be weighted toward an older demographic (young people do move to the "City" (more often the 'burbs than the city itself), not so much in reverse), we don't see any reason why your statement and what you're responding to can't both be true....
Note, by the by, that I moved about a dozen times before I was 25 (being an Army brat accounted for most of those moves). And only three more times before I was 50 (and one of those was basically from one side of the city to the other). I *might* move again before I die. Maybe....
Hmm, those contraints rather limit the set of possible passwords, thus weakening the security of the system.
Ignoring the 12 character limit, would be better if mixed case, numbers, and non-letter-number characters were ALLOWED, but not required.
As to the character limit, I think I may have used a password that short this decade by personal choice. Maybe. Of course, passwords for websites (online bill pay, that sort of thing) frequently don't allow passwords that long....
Hire.
If this is how you spell when making proposals to the higher-ups, it's no wonder they ignore your suggestions.
Not so sure "only a few people really want".
I admit I won't be using it, but that's mostly because I don't buy new cars. If it could be retrofitted to older cars without too much trouble, I'd put it on my car right now. Otherwise, ten or so years after it's available on everything, I'll have it on my car.
And by then, I expect to be either dead or no longer driving....
The radiation problem is inside the containment building (you know, where it's supposed to be), and so far has harmed exactly zero of the general public.
And if it stays that way for the next century (it won't - that's what half-life means, after all), the general public will have sustained an estimated zero casualties as a result.
Do remember that police officers in the USA have shot more black males than in the last year than all the deaths due to nuclear power in the USA (I'd include Japan, but then some idiot would bring up Hiroshima and Nagasaki, and I'd have to explain the difference between nuclear weapons and nuclear power) in the last century.....
Unlikely in the extreme.
I've never heard anyone, anywhere, say that they bought an expensive car because the maker's costs were higher wherever he/she was located.
For that matter, I've never heard anyone, anywhere, use that reasoning for paying more for anything. .
Oddly enoiugh, I did that this past December. And oddly enough, there were multiple choices, from cheap junk to quite expensive (and high quality) appliances.
Which means a range of choices for everyone who wants a dishwasher, for instance. Pick what's in your budget and fits your needs.
Now, alternately, we can go with the "one model fits all" theory. It has, after all, worked so well in the past. Oh, wait, it hasn't.l...
I'm curious, where do you live that there are no choices in appliances?
And how, pray tell, does one make as much profit for the owners (or, if you prefer, shareholders) without, well, selling a product people want to buy for a price they are willing to pay?
It's not like competition is illegal (unless you're a taxidriver, or government employee, of course), so if your product isn't quite up to snuff, someone else can start a competing business with a better product and take all your customers....