I can understand not wanting carcinogens pumped into the water table, but the earthquake aspect seems like a non-issue to me as long as they're small. If small earthquakes are triggered, it means stresses in the fault lines were already present and are being relieved. Having a number of small earthquakes seems preferable to letting the stress build up until it triggers a large quake.
The problem with this is that those drones have encrypted radios and if they didn't get wiped in time closely guarded encryption keys.
Say what? Not changing crypto keys for every mission implies a level of incompetence I find hard to believe. Having hardwired crypto keys even more so.
technology merely a few thousand years ahead of ours should be visible across much of the galaxy.
Why do you assume that? Maybe other forms of life don't use technology the way we do. Maybe they choose to use non-broadcast forms of technology. Maybe their communications tech has moved well beyond anything we've yet discovered, i.e., people using radios are going to be invisible to people looking for smoke signals. Maybe the galaxy is populated by planet-eating space goats that are attracted to coherent electromagnetic transmissions, and wise civilizations have learned not to broadcast. There can be lots of reasons why we don't see other's technology.
Neural transmission is like the transmission in your car. Magnets attract the iron in your blood. The little bits of iron jam the gears and prevent normal operation.
Wait a second! What's this magnet doing behind my ear?
Apple had the data on the device and included it in a readable format in backups to your sync machine, but they weren't "collecting" it in any meaningful sense of the word. The info wasn't being sent back to Apple or to third parties without consent, it was used as a cache to speed local operations. Is caching now considered collecting?
My roommate's cousin's girlfriend's acupuncturist told me that Nobel's wife had a three-way with a mathematician and Lady Ada Lovelace (whose nickname was Linda). Nobel found the videotapes and swore there would never be a Nobel Prize category for math, computer science, or three-ways.
I'm looking forward to confirming this on Wikipedia tomorrow after I'm done reading about Paul Revere.
Except that Kurmas was talking specifically about the intro programming course. Having taught intro programming dozens of times myself, I sympathize deeply - sometimes a student with no prior background ends up doing great, but in this day and age it usually means they are people who have actively avoided learning anything about how computers work. Given how readily available computers are, if an incoming student hasn't shown enough interest to read up on and play around with VB or a scripting language I suspect that a CS degree is not going to be a happy match for them.
There are also the students who consider themselves computer literate because they know how to use MS Office and a web browser but couldn't think logically if their lives depended on it. I can't begin to communicate how heartbreakingly frustrating it is to deal with the 10% or so who seem incapable of mastering the difference between a loop and a conditional. If they can't grasp fundamental concepts in logic and algorithms they're never going to make it in CS.
If you are going to let others use your identity (and your IP address is one form of identification), you need to accept that others may do things that land you in hot water.
Bad premise. Since IP's can be both dynamic and shared, there's no way that it should be viewed as a form of identification.
I don't think it is ego as much as them wanting to be paid for their work.... They get paid to write journal articles so they wouldn't see it as beneficial to start doing the same thing and not getting paid.
No, we don't get paid to write journal articles. In some fields, the money goes the other way - there's a publication fee to get your article into print. The reason we publish in journals is that it's required to get tenure and promotions. Editing Wikipedia carries no weight when it comes to P&T, and fighting edit trolls can be a huge time sink so it just isn't worth it.
Or does anybody else see a potential problem with accelerating the rate at which bacteria and fungi can convert biomass into puddles of sugary goo? My house is biomass, my clothes are biomass, my family and I are biomass... It's already hard enough to kill unwanted fungi, ask anybody who has had athlete's foot. If it were aggressive and fast, think what a nightmare you could have.
Yeah, my roommate used to sneak us in to play it. We were blown away that such things could be rendered in real-time. It' still pretty awesome given the hardware limitations of the time.
It doesn't matter that somebody else will take the job, at the end of the day we all have to answer to ourselves. I admire somebody who knows what it takes to be able to look at himself in the mirror the next day.
One example is that Nancy Reagan believed in astrology, and white house staffers have stated that it influenced policy decisions made by the Reagan administration.
The only logical ways out of the trap are either break the two party lock by voting for someone else, or reject the current democratic process.
False dichotomy. You can also work within the system to any number of varying degrees, which involves being willing to compromise.
I actually think your post is indicative of a huge problem in American politics today. More and more people are advocating a rejection of democracy when they don't get their way.
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Can't you just dump salt water in the ocean?
I just love the coastline along eastern Ohio!
I can understand not wanting carcinogens pumped into the water table, but the earthquake aspect seems like a non-issue to me as long as they're small. If small earthquakes are triggered, it means stresses in the fault lines were already present and are being relieved. Having a number of small earthquakes seems preferable to letting the stress build up until it triggers a large quake.
The problem with this is that those drones have encrypted radios and if they didn't get wiped in time closely guarded encryption keys.
Say what? Not changing crypto keys for every mission implies a level of incompetence I find hard to believe. Having hardwired crypto keys even more so.
Why do you consider Python a teaching language but not Ruby?
technology merely a few thousand years ahead of ours should be visible across much of the galaxy.
Why do you assume that? Maybe other forms of life don't use technology the way we do. Maybe they choose to use non-broadcast forms of technology. Maybe their communications tech has moved well beyond anything we've yet discovered, i.e., people using radios are going to be invisible to people looking for smoke signals. Maybe the galaxy is populated by planet-eating space goats that are attracted to coherent electromagnetic transmissions, and wise civilizations have learned not to broadcast. There can be lots of reasons why we don't see other's technology.
NPR did a segment on this yesterday. The best code was "Burned: skis on fire while water-skiing."
If you've ever seen what a snapping turtle can do to a broomstick handle, the code for a turtle attack wouldn't surprise you in the least.
Neural transmission is like the transmission in your car. Magnets attract the iron in your blood. The little bits of iron jam the gears and prevent normal operation.
Wait a second! What's this magnet doing behind my ear?
Apple had the data on the device and included it in a readable format in backups to your sync machine, but they weren't "collecting" it in any meaningful sense of the word. The info wasn't being sent back to Apple or to third parties without consent, it was used as a cache to speed local operations. Is caching now considered collecting?
My roommate's cousin's girlfriend's acupuncturist told me that Nobel's wife had a three-way with a mathematician and Lady Ada Lovelace (whose nickname was Linda). Nobel found the videotapes and swore there would never be a Nobel Prize category for math, computer science, or three-ways.
I'm looking forward to confirming this on Wikipedia tomorrow after I'm done reading about Paul Revere.
Except that Kurmas was talking specifically about the intro programming course. Having taught intro programming dozens of times myself, I sympathize deeply - sometimes a student with no prior background ends up doing great, but in this day and age it usually means they are people who have actively avoided learning anything about how computers work. Given how readily available computers are, if an incoming student hasn't shown enough interest to read up on and play around with VB or a scripting language I suspect that a CS degree is not going to be a happy match for them.
There are also the students who consider themselves computer literate because they know how to use MS Office and a web browser but couldn't think logically if their lives depended on it. I can't begin to communicate how heartbreakingly frustrating it is to deal with the 10% or so who seem incapable of mastering the difference between a loop and a conditional. If they can't grasp fundamental concepts in logic and algorithms they're never going to make it in CS.
I disagree.
Well okay then. You convinced me!
You forgot about Kansas.
If you are going to let others use your identity (and your IP address is one form of identification), you need to accept that others may do things that land you in hot water.
Bad premise. Since IP's can be both dynamic and shared, there's no way that it should be viewed as a form of identification.
A smell like you wouldn't believe.
I don't think it is ego as much as them wanting to be paid for their work. ... They get paid to write journal articles so they wouldn't see it as beneficial to start doing the same thing and not getting paid.
No, we don't get paid to write journal articles. In some fields, the money goes the other way - there's a publication fee to get your article into print. The reason we publish in journals is that it's required to get tenure and promotions. Editing Wikipedia carries no weight when it comes to P&T, and fighting edit trolls can be a huge time sink so it just isn't worth it.
Or does anybody else see a potential problem with accelerating the rate at which bacteria and fungi can convert biomass into puddles of sugary goo? My house is biomass, my clothes are biomass, my family and I are biomass... It's already hard enough to kill unwanted fungi, ask anybody who has had athlete's foot. If it were aggressive and fast, think what a nightmare you could have.
Yeah, my roommate used to sneak us in to play it. We were blown away that such things could be rendered in real-time. It' still pretty awesome given the hardware limitations of the time.
The problem the US has that most emerging countries don't have is right-of-ways.
It doesn't matter that somebody else will take the job, at the end of the day we all have to answer to ourselves. I admire somebody who knows what it takes to be able to look at himself in the mirror the next day.
One example is that Nancy Reagan believed in astrology, and white house staffers have stated that it influenced policy decisions made by the Reagan administration.
...does collapse only happen when *I* make a measurement? If so, why should I be uniquely privileged?
"Thou art god"?
aka Poor Man's Opera
It is a false dichotomy - the two choices you offered as the "only" ones are not the only choices available.
The previous administration used the #stfu tag.
The only logical ways out of the trap are either break the two party lock by voting for someone else, or reject the current democratic process.
False dichotomy. You can also work within the system to any number of varying degrees, which involves being willing to compromise.
I actually think your post is indicative of a huge problem in American politics today. More and more people are advocating a rejection of democracy when they don't get their way.