Sorry, but no. This operation was equivalent to painting a red cross on your vehicle so you can get closer to the bad guys before opening fire on them. (In fact it was almost precisely that). In doing so, they painted a target on the backs of medical workers for the next 50 years. It's a nightmare come true for Doctors Without Borders and similar organizations, and they have condemned it.
Any of you familiar enough with this kind of thing to identify what sort of hardware they used? This seems like a really neat application of special-purpose hardware. Please, no complaining about how bad it would probably score on Linpack - this is a purpose-built computer for a specific job. Custom boards are so seldom justified these days, I envy the engineers who got to do this.
I am honestly surprised the recipient doesn't get a cut of this. And it would certainly lead to some interesting new spam magnet strategies; perhaps you could entice paid spam by spec'ing out options on a new Lexus at their website, for example.
What do you think about going after al-Qaeda bomb makers, instead of just the dupes whom they get to bury them by the roadside, or trigger them? And why do you think it?
Safe gun owners would be less affected by exposure to liability because, by definition, they are lower risk. Evaluating the risks would fall to insurance companies I suppose.
I ride motorcycles. A 21 year old guy who decides to buy a 1300 CC, 200 mph superbike pays a lot for insurance, and even more if he has a history of accidents. This prompts some of them to ride something more affordable, at least until they get older and more experienced and the insurance is cheaper. And at least if one of us hurts somebody, the victim is compensated.
If the killer's mother had been offered an insurance discount to keep her guns in a safe, or if she found it more affordable to own a shotgun than an AR-15 platform weapon originally designed for the battlefield, then the damage would have been less.
automobile fatalities excluding pedestrians were a bit more than 4 times the number of firearms fatalities. Why has there been no national debate on how to make them more idiot proof?
Wow, thanks for the analogy.
Where is the special cutout in the law that specifically shields automakers from liability, like there is for gun makers? Are there currently on the books dozens of regulations requiring safety features for guns, like there are for cars? Is there mandatory licensing, registration, and personal insurance requirements for guns, like there is for cars?
What we already do for cars today goes well beyond any gun control measures that are even being considered. Which is odd.
I'm glad guns are exempt -- many if not most product safety lawsuits are shining examples of why we need tort reform.
Really? What happened to those bedrock conservative principles of accountability and responsibility? Concern over free riders, and externalities? We see all of that here. If gun makers and owners bore the cost of the resulting mayhem, market forces could be unleashed to work their magic and arbitrary government mandates like loaded round indicators would be unnecessary because vested interests would have a financial incentive to solve the problem. Right?
These days it's kind of hard to wrap your head around just how little 21 Kilobytes of RAM is. You laptop or desktop has about 8 GB RAM, which is 400,000 times 21 KB. Put another way, 8GB RAM costs $40; at that rate, the RAM for 10 of these calculators would cost 1 cent.
There's also a natural tendency for entrepreneurs to be massively optimistic by nature.
Perhaps there is also a natural tendency for funding sources to favor those who over-promise. You notice this study was of "the top 50 most-funded Kickstarter projects," so this may be as much a reflection of what gets funded as anything else. Especially since the whole point of kickstarter is to allow naive people to invest.
So the project has to meet that date even if it means dropping features and shipping with bugs.
I don't think slipping requirements or quality rather than delivery date qualifies as "meeting the deadline" in any meaningful sense. Of course meeting requirements and quality are much easier to fudge than the date, so they are often first to give way.
It's somewhat nonsensical to say that 1 factor is a "myth" because there are "actually" 3! (Which is what they are doing). Every factor you add will explain more and more of the variance in the large suite of tests you are administering, but there is a diminishing return in the predictive accuracy. The choice of how many factors to identify is therefore somewhat arbitrary. I wish the paper wasn't behind a paywall, so we could all see how independent are the factors they selected.
Oh, I agree. By "Adam and Eve," I really did mean to imply that the human race would be starting over with practically nothing from that point. Of course they wouldn't even survive at all without robotic nannies of some sort that do not currently exist, and we can only speculate what Tarzan-like effects would result.
Well, the old argument (reasonable, I think) is that sending multi-generation ships doesn't make much sense currently since our technology is still developing fast enough that people leaving later would arrive sooner. (Granted, it hardly seems that way for the last 40 years or so, but then again we'd have to make huge progress just to attempt it, so, we have to assume the will to make progress.)
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If we want to send people for thousands of years, I think it should be an artificial uterus with some deep-frozen zygotes in it. When you arrive you crack open the eggs, and voila! Adam and Eve.
Well, they have to make some sort of prediction for business planning purposes; maybe the reason they share them with the world is because they know they can't really do it! But they want some "wisdom of crowds" from people like us.
IBM is one company that I cannot begrudge for making predictions. Unlike, say, HP, IBM still invests heavily in basic and applied research (from materials science to Watson) and perhaps more than anybody else, seems to get results, with a fairly steady flow of world-firsts. So they are shaping the future and not just dreaming up sci-fi for page hits.
Which sucked, in my opinion. Zip drives and Jaz drives (and their media) were an excellent idea, but poorly executed.
Are you sure? Based on the rest of your post, I'm strongly tempted to conclude that "hey, maybe there's a reason everybody else packages the mechanism along with the media!"
Floppies were never very reliable. Optical media was never very reliable. I thought flash had finally solved it, but recently had my first experience with an SD card that worked in all but a single machine - a machine that has worked with all SD cards but that one. Bummer.
So, what is Cisco to do? Keep cashing in on high-end stuff and just hope and pray that commoditization stops short of their core market? This is how most tech companies die, and often not for lack of trying.
Microsoft got big by invading from the low end, so they've been paranoid about having that done to them since day 1. And yet it is happening before our eyes, with stagnation in the PC business and Android on mobile devices eating their lunch.
It's a dumb idea and nobody likes it and it would never happen, so there's little point in 500 people taking time to say the same thing about it.
So instead, what are some better ideas to solve the same problem?
Best would be moving the Internet back towards distributed implementations of standards that are actually open.
Short of that, certain companies could consider offering choosing to guarantee a stable API to build on for a certain number of years, like the promotion, "CenturyLink High-Speed Internet. $19.95/mo. for five years." I doubt Flickr would do this because they are already the market leader, but it's something for younger, hungrier companies to consider to build market share.
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Sorry, but no. This operation was equivalent to painting a red cross on your vehicle so you can get closer to the bad guys before opening fire on them. (In fact it was almost precisely that). In doing so, they painted a target on the backs of medical workers for the next 50 years. It's a nightmare come true for Doctors Without Borders and similar organizations, and they have condemned it.
Any of you familiar enough with this kind of thing to identify what sort of hardware they used? This seems like a really neat application of special-purpose hardware. Please, no complaining about how bad it would probably score on Linpack - this is a purpose-built computer for a specific job. Custom boards are so seldom justified these days, I envy the engineers who got to do this.
This is a falsehood. What somebody is willing to do depends mainly on their situation. Sometimes the situation itself can and should be changed.
I am honestly surprised the recipient doesn't get a cut of this. And it would certainly lead to some interesting new spam magnet strategies; perhaps you could entice paid spam by spec'ing out options on a new Lexus at their website, for example.
Don't sweat it. You just started an argument over the definition of "nerd." You're in.
What do you think about going after al-Qaeda bomb makers, instead of just the dupes whom they get to bury them by the roadside, or trigger them? And why do you think it?
The problem is the key control isn't all that retarded. Re-entering your password every time a disk block is read from disk isn't too appealing.
I ride motorcycles. A 21 year old guy who decides to buy a 1300 CC, 200 mph superbike pays a lot for insurance, and even more if he has a history of accidents. This prompts some of them to ride something more affordable, at least until they get older and more experienced and the insurance is cheaper. And at least if one of us hurts somebody, the victim is compensated.
If the killer's mother had been offered an insurance discount to keep her guns in a safe, or if she found it more affordable to own a shotgun than an AR-15 platform weapon originally designed for the battlefield, then the damage would have been less.
Wow, thanks for the analogy.
Where is the special cutout in the law that specifically shields automakers from liability, like there is for gun makers? Are there currently on the books dozens of regulations requiring safety features for guns, like there are for cars? Is there mandatory licensing, registration, and personal insurance requirements for guns, like there is for cars?
What we already do for cars today goes well beyond any gun control measures that are even being considered. Which is odd.
Really? What happened to those bedrock conservative principles of accountability and responsibility? Concern over free riders, and externalities? We see all of that here. If gun makers and owners bore the cost of the resulting mayhem, market forces could be unleashed to work their magic and arbitrary government mandates like loaded round indicators would be unnecessary because vested interests would have a financial incentive to solve the problem. Right?
These days it's kind of hard to wrap your head around just how little 21 Kilobytes of RAM is. You laptop or desktop has about 8 GB RAM, which is 400,000 times 21 KB. Put another way, 8GB RAM costs $40; at that rate, the RAM for 10 of these calculators would cost 1 cent.
Perhaps there is also a natural tendency for funding sources to favor those who over-promise. You notice this study was of "the top 50 most-funded Kickstarter projects," so this may be as much a reflection of what gets funded as anything else. Especially since the whole point of kickstarter is to allow naive people to invest.
I don't think slipping requirements or quality rather than delivery date qualifies as "meeting the deadline" in any meaningful sense. Of course meeting requirements and quality are much easier to fudge than the date, so they are often first to give way.
It's somewhat nonsensical to say that 1 factor is a "myth" because there are "actually" 3! (Which is what they are doing). Every factor you add will explain more and more of the variance in the large suite of tests you are administering, but there is a diminishing return in the predictive accuracy. The choice of how many factors to identify is therefore somewhat arbitrary. I wish the paper wasn't behind a paywall, so we could all see how independent are the factors they selected.
Oh, I agree. By "Adam and Eve," I really did mean to imply that the human race would be starting over with practically nothing from that point. Of course they wouldn't even survive at all without robotic nannies of some sort that do not currently exist, and we can only speculate what Tarzan-like effects would result.
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If we want to send people for thousands of years, I think it should be an artificial uterus with some deep-frozen zygotes in it. When you arrive you crack open the eggs, and voila! Adam and Eve.
Comcast discontinued their cap about 8 months ago.
Maybe the analogy isn't obvious enough?
...and I'm going to take a dump in a public swimming pool. Wanna be friends?
Of course, he may have also wiped it before smashing it.
IBM is one company that I cannot begrudge for making predictions. Unlike, say, HP, IBM still invests heavily in basic and applied research (from materials science to Watson) and perhaps more than anybody else, seems to get results, with a fairly steady flow of world-firsts. So they are shaping the future and not just dreaming up sci-fi for page hits.
Are you sure? Based on the rest of your post, I'm strongly tempted to conclude that "hey, maybe there's a reason everybody else packages the mechanism along with the media!"
Floppies were never very reliable. Optical media was never very reliable. I thought flash had finally solved it, but recently had my first experience with an SD card that worked in all but a single machine - a machine that has worked with all SD cards but that one. Bummer.
Microsoft got big by invading from the low end, so they've been paranoid about having that done to them since day 1. And yet it is happening before our eyes, with stagnation in the PC business and Android on mobile devices eating their lunch.
So instead, what are some better ideas to solve the same problem?
Best would be moving the Internet back towards distributed implementations of standards that are actually open.
Short of that, certain companies could consider offering choosing to guarantee a stable API to build on for a certain number of years, like the promotion, "CenturyLink High-Speed Internet. $19.95/mo. for five years." I doubt Flickr would do this because they are already the market leader, but it's something for younger, hungrier companies to consider to build market share.
If they were to find out a state employee actually perpetrated the hack then you would have some kind of point.