So, I guess your analogy here is, let's hope the Chinese dominate us militarily so they can wipe out a few of our cities in the blink of an eye if need be so we'll surrender before they have to do something really bad to us.
Yup, I linked to a page claiming to "debunk" this "myth" on the basis it would take a solar panel the size of Georgia to power the whole earth. Big deal! Vastly more land is consumed by agriculture. Just reclaiming all the space on rooftops, roadways, and parking lots for solar would account for a lot of that, puttng power generation right where it's needed.
And then there's there's the 2/3 of the earth covered by water nobody is making much use of. If cheap solar devices can produce hydrogen, it can be shipped long distances efficiently.
But the thing about McAfee is that they *do* market themselves as "security experts". Therefore they should be held to a higher standard.
Go ahead and hold them to whatever standard you like. The fact is, computer security in general is completely unmanageable. ALL solutions fix a certain set of problems while not fixing (or creating) others.
Everything I have seen points to an inescapable conclusion: you cannot protect any network of significant size from intrusions and leaks. Nobody has accomplished it for any significant amount of time. Even openbsd can't do it, and that's on a "default install" which is 0.0001% of the problem faced by any real enterprise.
My point isn't to destroy the important distinction between better and worse - there are important distinctions. But that distinction is lost with the simplistic assertion that "McAfee should know better."
Manybe I'm reading the wrong thing into this, but it sounds like you could also upload all the songs you already own and access those from anywhere, like a slingbox backed by google's bandwidth:
The delays are largely due to the fact that Google is negotiating for cloud music rights and not just the authorization to distribute the songs themselves. The search giant wants to be able to store users' existing music libraries on the company's servers. Labels are in similar discussions with Apple.
Labels have never given out licensing rights for digital lockers, so it's not like they can just grab an old template and work off that
So for example, you could imagine google suing Apple to let people move their entire iTunes collection from Apple to google music.
I would rephrase that - poverty encourages violent crime and small-time property crime. Large scale (Wall Street or Soviet Union) crime is caused by concentration of power/wealth. So, it's both extremes that are harmful.
but by definition 95% of the time when disaster doesn't happen we end up with some people saying there was nothing to be afraid of in the first place.
And the 5% of the time when it does happen, there' s hell to pay because everybody is pointing fingers and saying I-told-you-so, in hindsight of course. Slashdot alone has dozens of posts along those lines to almost every story.
Contrary to the prevailing meme here, I've been a little surprised how measured and non-alarmist news coverage has been. I don't think one major news outlet in the US has failed to report that there's no risk in the US, and that the only Japanese who can expect to be severely harmed by radiation, so far, are the workers fighting to control the disaster. Beyond that, I'm sorry, but this radiation leak is still a newsworthy event. The tap water in Japan's water is deemed too polluted for infants to drink. It's not as if nothing bad happened.
Yup, all those dumb consumers should have paid more for electronics to preserve diversity among producers, what were they thinking?
Seriously, defense is probably the only industry critical enough and rich enough to even attempt such a thing, but even they get criticized for the inefficiencies inherent in the approach, such as giving preferential treatment to small businesses, subsidizing Boeing, and so on.
Teachers get a large fraction of their pay in the form of health care and pension benefits, so you need to include total lifetime compensation in that calculation.
"Ultimate cause" has a specific meaning in philosophy.
What is that meaning? "Ultimate cause" implies something that does not itself have a cause, which makes no sense.
IMHO the reason humans tend to attribute ourselves as the "ultimate cause" of things is very simple: 1) we're egocentric, and 2) we don't understand ourselves.
The Christian Science Monitor *is* mainstream media, and it also is a very reputable news source, and has been since its inception about 100 years ago.
NBC Nightly News has run a segment with their chief medical correspondent two nights in a row telling concerned people on the west coast of the US to NOT bother buying iodine pills because there is no risk to them, and the pills do more harm than good unless you really need to take them.
Why do so many green solutions seem to reduce efficiency and increase energy usage when the end-to-end cycle is considered?
Largely because of naysayers who distort facts as necessary to reach that conclusion, or simply assume it to be the case with or without any evidence, such as the post you replied to. ("Order of magnitude" does have an actual definition.)
Ha, I bought lunch at Burger King yesterday and couldn't even buy a milkshake for dessert without raising suspicion and an ID check due to running a second transaction too soon after the first. Compared to cash, electronic payment has far more options for preventing theft.
Actually this whole thread sounds *exactly*like what people were saying 14 years ago, how they would NEVER shop on the World Wide Web.
I was under the impression there are a lot of high-functioning professionals secretly addicted to cocaine because it doesn't adversely affect your performance short-term like, say, alcohol does. True or false?
oh sure they'll be happy to take YOUR money stupid gringo, but they sure as hell don't want their money going to buy your products!
I think it's simple economics rather than some devious strategy. Their standard of living is much lower, so their cost of production is much lower, so most of the trade goes one way.
It's like globalization has opened a partition between two halves of a swimming pool filled to different heights, so it's equalizing. You can't expect water to go uphill.
No, the models don't have to be that accurate. The sensors and a rough model are the main thing - *immediately* knowing there will be an event and roughly where, so people can be warned. Was that helpful today? Yes!
This wealth of data allowed scientists to estimate the intensity, wave height and projected time of landfall for the tsunami that struck Japan and then came ashore on the rest of the Pacific Rim. This lead time gave local authorities around the world the ability to close beaches and evacuate low-lying areas in advance.
...Hundreds of miles away, many people working in Toyko skyscrapers knew the earthquake was coming.
We don't know how many lives it saved, but it seems, many. It's nice to know something was learned in 2004, and something was done about it.
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Did I get that right?
Yup, I linked to a page claiming to "debunk" this "myth" on the basis it would take a solar panel the size of Georgia to power the whole earth. Big deal! Vastly more land is consumed by agriculture. Just reclaiming all the space on rooftops, roadways, and parking lots for solar would account for a lot of that, puttng power generation right where it's needed.
And then there's there's the 2/3 of the earth covered by water nobody is making much use of. If cheap solar devices can produce hydrogen, it can be shipped long distances efficiently.
Go ahead and hold them to whatever standard you like. The fact is, computer security in general is completely unmanageable. ALL solutions fix a certain set of problems while not fixing (or creating) others.
Everything I have seen points to an inescapable conclusion: you cannot protect any network of significant size from intrusions and leaks. Nobody has accomplished it for any significant amount of time. Even openbsd can't do it, and that's on a "default install" which is 0.0001% of the problem faced by any real enterprise.
My point isn't to destroy the important distinction between better and worse - there are important distinctions. But that distinction is lost with the simplistic assertion that "McAfee should know better."
So for example, you could imagine google suing Apple to let people move their entire iTunes collection from Apple to google music.
I would rephrase that - poverty encourages violent crime and small-time property crime. Large scale (Wall Street or Soviet Union) crime is caused by concentration of power/wealth. So, it's both extremes that are harmful.
I think it's more likely the Constitution will be amended to reflect modern realities. Not that likely, but more likely.
And the 5% of the time when it does happen, there' s hell to pay because everybody is pointing fingers and saying I-told-you-so, in hindsight of course. Slashdot alone has dozens of posts along those lines to almost every story.
So, we have reached the point in the supply curve where the remaining supply suddenly evaporates due to hoarding.
Contrary to the prevailing meme here, I've been a little surprised how measured and non-alarmist news coverage has been. I don't think one major news outlet in the US has failed to report that there's no risk in the US, and that the only Japanese who can expect to be severely harmed by radiation, so far, are the workers fighting to control the disaster. Beyond that, I'm sorry, but this radiation leak is still a newsworthy event. The tap water in Japan's water is deemed too polluted for infants to drink. It's not as if nothing bad happened.
Seriously, defense is probably the only industry critical enough and rich enough to even attempt such a thing, but even they get criticized for the inefficiencies inherent in the approach, such as giving preferential treatment to small businesses, subsidizing Boeing, and so on.
Hey, I didn't rush out and load up on AT&T stock when they got the iPhone, did you?
Teachers get a large fraction of their pay in the form of health care and pension benefits, so you need to include total lifetime compensation in that calculation.
What about people who swim vigorously enough to sweat?
What is that meaning? "Ultimate cause" implies something that does not itself have a cause, which makes no sense.
IMHO the reason humans tend to attribute ourselves as the "ultimate cause" of things is very simple: 1) we're egocentric, and 2) we don't understand ourselves.
In this case that is an unwarranted prejudice.
The Christian Science Monitor *is* mainstream media, and it also is a very reputable news source, and has been since its inception about 100 years ago.
NBC Nightly News has run a segment with their chief medical correspondent two nights in a row telling concerned people on the west coast of the US to NOT bother buying iodine pills because there is no risk to them, and the pills do more harm than good unless you really need to take them.
Largely because of naysayers who distort facts as necessary to reach that conclusion, or simply assume it to be the case with or without any evidence, such as the post you replied to. ("Order of magnitude" does have an actual definition.)
Actually this whole thread sounds *exactly*like what people were saying 14 years ago, how they would NEVER shop on the World Wide Web.
I was under the impression there are a lot of high-functioning professionals secretly addicted to cocaine because it doesn't adversely affect your performance short-term like, say, alcohol does. True or false?
All of that is based on people as people, not as ideas.
If you want ideas to predominate, come to slashdot or, I guess, 4chan.
I think it's simple economics rather than some devious strategy. Their standard of living is much lower, so their cost of production is much lower, so most of the trade goes one way.
It's like globalization has opened a partition between two halves of a swimming pool filled to different heights, so it's equalizing. You can't expect water to go uphill.
Which is why there was no such warning system until the 2004 tsunami made it painfully clear it was well worth a public investment.
Japan has 95% cellphone penetration.
We don't know how many lives it saved, but it seems, many. It's nice to know something was learned in 2004, and something was done about it.