"Technical experts and legal scholars repeatedly stress that the idea of a 'cyber Pearl Harbor'—a devastating sneak attack on U.S. infrastructure by a powerful state actor that launched a sustained international conflict—is wildly overblown"
Man - I've been away from Slashdot too long. I forgot how intelligent the conversations here can be. No really!
The honest truth is that I have no clue whether it's happening or not, but it is refreshing to hear it debated based on data and math. So much of this conversation gets framed around "You're an idiot to believe that" or "You're a fool to deny it" rather than "The evidence seems to be pointing toward something, but we're still trying to figure out what".
What these people never think about is the fact that these animals being edible is what keeps people breeding, raising and feeding them. Cows, pigs and chickens have never been endangered species because they are (or make) good food. I own 30 or so chickens that I buy food for, built a safe coop for, let out into a pasture every morning and close in each night. I do this because they make yummy eggs.
The bison is no longer endangered because people started raising them for meat. A hundred years ago, there were 800 or so. Now there are over 300,000.
If you couldn't use cows for milk or meat, who would spend the money on fencing, irrigation and hay to keep a herd around?
You might have her try out Edubuntu. It is pretty different than just another OS, but I think it does a good job of showing how Linux can fit a specific niche in a really interesting way.
They also have a "Weblive" version where you can play with it for 2 hours online before even downloading. That's here
Sometime around 1993 or 1994, I took a day trip to San Francisco with some of my college room mates. I remember going to Seacliff, overlooking the old Bath House and there being an arcade museum in one of the buildings up on the hill. There were some games that at the time were classics - like Battle Zone and such - and you could actually play them, which was incredibly cool.
The existing version of chat has an option to do audio chat with another Gmail user.
Starting a voice chat requires a separate connection hand shake. So I can be text chatting with someone and if they try to move to voice and I don't want to, I just don't answer the call. If you need an excuse, it's that you don't have a microphone on your machine, or whatever.
My guess is that this will work in a similar fashion.
I started working for HP shortly after Carly came in, and I had the privilege to work with a number of 30+ year HP employees. They had worked for (and in several cases personally met) Bill and Dave and they had nothing but praise for them. They also had an amazing loyalty to the company - a loyalty that took one beating after another under Carly's leadership.
Maybe you're right that no employee of a tech company has anything good to say these days, but it wasn't the case at HP for many years.
As to the current situation, I know a number of people that still work there and they are miserable - far more so than when I left 5 years ago. Things were tough when I left, but it sounds like they've gotten far worse over time.
One thing not in the equation here: Hardware is cheap, but having that hardware managed isn't so cheap. When you scale from a couple of servers to a big bank of server, you have to pick up system admins to manage all of those boxen.
Less expensive than a programmer (some times) but certainly not free.
That's an interesting perspective, but I have my doubts if the two are connected. Oil prices are driven by speculation in the futures market. People betting on where the long term price of oil will fall.
Beijing cutting production and driving for a short period of time has probably had a very small effect on current global usage and certainly wouldn't drive predictions of long term usage.
My understanding (and I am often wrong, so take this with a grain of salt) is that prices are dropping because there is worry amongst the traders that a bubble has formed and some of the more cautious are selling before it bursts.
Some may also be speculating that the efforts in congress to open up continental shelf drilling will be successful, which would mean an increase in long term supply.
The area in Ventura County where this is happening is pretty close to where there are already quite a few oil pumps. A large chunk of the land alongside the highway going from Ventura toward Fillmore (the hotspot is North of Fillmore) is owned by some oil company.
The offramps indicate that it's Shell, but it may have changed hands since the roads were named.
My point is that some oil company already has a pretty strong presence in the area, so maybe it wouldn't be as difficult as you think. On the other hand, it sounds like the area is inside the Los Padres National Forest, so it may well be untouchable.
OnStar? This chain of thought is all very well, but what about when the cops decide to track your movements - just because they can? Or what about the bad guys learn how to work it
And what if they decide to start using their guns to shoot people - just because they can? Or what if the bad guys get guns?
This sort of risk should be mitigated with insurance, not technology.
The same goes for this case. People just need to get better life insurance policies.
BTW, I am aware that this argument is a prime example of several logical fallacies. I'm honestly not trying to argue with your point - the parallel just struck me as funny.
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"Technical experts and legal scholars repeatedly stress that the idea of a 'cyber Pearl Harbor'—a devastating sneak attack on U.S. infrastructure by a powerful state actor that launched a sustained international conflict—is wildly overblown"
No one expects the Spanish Inquisition
Man - I've been away from Slashdot too long. I forgot how intelligent the conversations here can be. No really!
The honest truth is that I have no clue whether it's happening or not, but it is refreshing to hear it debated based on data and math. So much of this conversation gets framed around "You're an idiot to believe that" or "You're a fool to deny it" rather than "The evidence seems to be pointing toward something, but we're still trying to figure out what".
What these people never think about is the fact that these animals being edible is what keeps people breeding, raising and feeding them. Cows, pigs and chickens have never been endangered species because they are (or make) good food. I own 30 or so chickens that I buy food for, built a safe coop for, let out into a pasture every morning and close in each night. I do this because they make yummy eggs.
The bison is no longer endangered because people started raising them for meat. A hundred years ago, there were 800 or so. Now there are over 300,000.
If you couldn't use cows for milk or meat, who would spend the money on fencing, irrigation and hay to keep a herd around?
Or you could... you know - read books.
Just sayin'
Or we could - you know - boost the voltage a transformer and transfer the power over small conductors with relatively low losses,
And for longer runs we could use High Voltage DC
But liquid nitrogen and sapphire would work too...
FWIW - I found a great project a while ago that makes it pretty easy to make a USB drive image. It's the Linux Live USB Creator.
You might have her try out Edubuntu. It is pretty different than just another OS, but I think it does a good job of showing how Linux can fit a specific niche in a really interesting way.
They also have a "Weblive" version where you can play with it for 2 hours online before even downloading. That's here
Sometime around 1993 or 1994, I took a day trip to San Francisco with some of my college room mates. I remember going to Seacliff, overlooking the old Bath House and there being an arcade museum in one of the buildings up on the hill. There were some games that at the time were classics - like Battle Zone and such - and you could actually play them, which was incredibly cool.
Am I the only one that remembers this?
You can make WiFi unusable, however.
Technically possible but not practical for economic reasons.
From what I remember of a recent Steve Jobs announcement, all you have to do is have a room full of reporters using laptops.
The existing version of chat has an option to do audio chat with another Gmail user.
Starting a voice chat requires a separate connection hand shake. So I can be text chatting with someone and if they try to move to voice and I don't want to, I just don't answer the call. If you need an excuse, it's that you don't have a microphone on your machine, or whatever.
My guess is that this will work in a similar fashion.
I started working for HP shortly after Carly came in, and I had the privilege to work with a number of 30+ year HP employees. They had worked for (and in several cases personally met) Bill and Dave and they had nothing but praise for them. They also had an amazing loyalty to the company - a loyalty that took one beating after another under Carly's leadership.
Maybe you're right that no employee of a tech company has anything good to say these days, but it wasn't the case at HP for many years.
As to the current situation, I know a number of people that still work there and they are miserable - far more so than when I left 5 years ago. Things were tough when I left, but it sounds like they've gotten far worse over time.
I'm sure that Ruby on Rails could have a fully functional web site made from this data in about half an hour.
The downside is that if more than two people try to access the data, it will display a whale suspended by balloons.
(Please Note: This post is a joke, and not an attempt to start a flame war).
As much as this is a bummer, it's actually a great example of the OSS model at work.
If this was a closed source solution, where the company got acquired and the product wasn't strategic, the solution would just be gone.
With OSS though, another company - for whom the solution is strategic - can step in and pick up the project.
New meme?
In DRM Apple, the iPhone unlocks you!
Not sure it has the same ring to it...
I'm your counter counter example
One thing not in the equation here: Hardware is cheap, but having that hardware managed isn't so cheap. When you scale from a couple of servers to a big bank of server, you have to pick up system admins to manage all of those boxen.
Less expensive than a programmer (some times) but certainly not free.
I do the same with :set noai
(as in no autoindent)
Used to drive me nuts before I learned that one.
This struck me as funny because Killians is made by Coors
Not sure if you intended the irony or not.
My impression was that you were implying that the advertising from the big guys doesn't affect you because you just go get your "non-big guy" beer.
I worked at HP when the Compaq merger happened.
We used to joke that we needed to either buy Apple or MIT next, because owning nearly 1% of the ipv4 space just wasn't enough.
That's an interesting perspective, but I have my doubts if the two are connected. Oil prices are driven by speculation in the futures market. People betting on where the long term price of oil will fall.
Beijing cutting production and driving for a short period of time has probably had a very small effect on current global usage and certainly wouldn't drive predictions of long term usage.
My understanding (and I am often wrong, so take this with a grain of salt) is that prices are dropping because there is worry amongst the traders that a bubble has formed and some of the more cautious are selling before it bursts.
Some may also be speculating that the efforts in congress to open up continental shelf drilling will be successful, which would mean an increase in long term supply.
The area in Ventura County where this is happening is pretty close to where there are already quite a few oil pumps. A large chunk of the land alongside the highway going from Ventura toward Fillmore (the hotspot is North of Fillmore) is owned by some oil company.
The offramps indicate that it's Shell, but it may have changed hands since the roads were named.
My point is that some oil company already has a pretty strong presence in the area, so maybe it wouldn't be as difficult as you think. On the other hand, it sounds like the area is inside the Los Padres National Forest, so it may well be untouchable.
for the iPhone Flea
One song and 5 phone numbers - that's all I need.
You're not the only one wondering. Investors are as well. Found this story called Youtube Ads Underperforming
But could it run Linux?
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Mod me down if you must. It had to be said.
OnStar? This chain of thought is all very well, but what about when the cops decide to track your movements - just because they can? Or what about the bad guys learn how to work it
And what if they decide to start using their guns to shoot people - just because they can? Or what if the bad guys get guns?
This sort of risk should be mitigated with insurance, not technology.
The same goes for this case. People just need to get better life insurance policies.
BTW, I am aware that this argument is a prime example of several logical fallacies. I'm honestly not trying to argue with your point - the parallel just struck me as funny.