This is exactly what I came here to ask. Particularly when someone is facing jail time, as he is...and almost assuredly as a direct result of alienating all of the authorities who might otherwise have protected him.
The whole thing is a ginned up controversy created to get black people to go out and vote in the same numbers they did for Obama. The side effects are a significantly increased murder rate and rates of violent crime in urban areas...and the reduction in 911 calls that you point out.
The interesting part is that I am not sure that it is going to accomplish its intended goal. But we'll have the blowback for years to come.
Considering that it was _much_ better sounding than any general purpose (ie, not an audio produce like a keyboard synthesizer) computer music I heard before about 1987, yes.
That said, they didn't do much justice to "In the Mood". It really was a great tune and needs a proper brass band to do it right.
You assume quality of service in the infrastructure. I don't think that's a safe assumption. The weak link is that your workers and the jobs they do will be dependent on a connection to a public network which can and will be interdicted. These issues will become more and more common as time goes on. I think the demonstration that Akamai couldn't handle the Krebs situation illustrates the problem clearly, for those who can see ahead. No amount of encryption or firewalling can fix that problem - network segmentation will be the ultimate answer, which will present its own issues for a distributed workforce. That environment will chill attempts to move infrastructure to the cloud for a long time.
The point isn't to have everything survive. The point is to have enough of it survive that future people can piece together things about our time based upon imperfect reproduction of our suite of data. If 10% of our documents survive, i'd consider it a win.
Perhaps I do, but there are many extant examples. I can't find many examples of early 1980's hard drives that still work. The oldest I have that is still technically readable is ~ 1988, and lack of lubrication will break that one before long.
If we just put our data on survivable media - stuff that doesn't require electricity and/or moving parts - we would be covered. No need for swords, rapine and enslavement.
All of this presumes we don't have a semi-apocalyptic event. Not enough to end human life, but enough to disrupt the fragile data centers, including the supply chain of electronics and the electric power they need.
Why does Microsoft insist on trying to catch up in sectors where vendor lock-in is already apparent? Trying to translate your AWS applications to what Microsoft has in Azure is hard, as hard as a Windows to Linux transition was 10 years ago.
So that's why i'm going to respond to it with a counter-argument. Sure, you preserve things as VMs. That is great. The hard drive or flash drive that you have the data on has a fixed lifespan, probably under 10 years. Unless you copy it to new media regularly, the data dies. This is what Vint is worried about. If I had a book of knowledge printed in the 1700s, it would still be stable today. The bindings would be cracked and we should really reprint it, but if I preserved it in a low humidity environment we'd probably still have the book in a couple hundred years. He wants to be able to say the same about our digital data.
In regards 'preserving what is important', we have no idea what will be considered important in the future. The Romans ended up preserving Cicero's letters, a few other sets of correspondence, some plays and novels, a regrettable few nonfiction manuals for medicine and war, and mostly annals and chronicles of war and emperors.
Vegetius got preserved because it was a military manual, yet if you had asked a learned Roman about what works they would have preserved, it wouldn't have been that. They probably would have favored one of the histories or the Aeneid (of which we got bits and pieces of the history, but we did get the Aeneid).
I couldn't find a thread I liked in this post, though. I'm a Trump supporter, but I am a realist. I have a hard time imagining anything Assange could release that would be material to this race.
I'll be pleased to be proven wrong, but I'm a skeptic.
We also must take into account that the payouts to Clinton's "bimbo" "accusers" amount in the millions at this point. Certainly justifies some quotes around the words used to describe them, and also qualifies the "alleged" nature of the offenses. People don't usually pay out large sums on BS charges.
It wasn't that simple. The lack of transmission of Greek originals in the West was due to lack of knowledge of Greek more than anything else. The Romans treated Greek sort of like we did Latin up until a few years ago - a vestige of a higher civilization worth learning and preserving. They admired the ancient Greeks and strove to emulate them in some ways. It was only the upper crust in Rome that knew and used Greek, though. When the Empire broke up during the 4th and 5th centuries in the West, this method of transmission dried up. Greek became relatively unknown in the West, while Latin soldiered on and eventually became the vulgar Romance languages we have today - French, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, etc. Even English is composed of about 60% Latin roots.
Envision yourself as a medieval monk/scribe copying scrolls. You'll copy the ones you understand, right? So it was in reality. Moreover, there wasn't a significant difference between say a 7th century scribe and a 12th century scribe in terms of level of religiosity. If the knowledge was to be disdained because it was heathen, that would have happened regardless of the exact century, at least up until the Reformation in the 1600s.
But a funny thing happened when Pope Urban II pronounced a crusade to conquer Jerusalem in 1095. The crusaders brought along lay people, and the resultant states of Outremer started mining Muslim documents and passing knowledge back to Europe. The sack and conquest of Constantinople by Venice in 1204 brought even more Greek knowledge to light. In Constantinople, living knowledge of Greek could also be found. Lastly, the fall of the Byzantines in 1453 was accompanied by a migration of much of the remaining knowledge and people who understood Greek to the West. All of a sudden, Plato, Aristotle, Archimedes, Thucydides and Herodotus became available piece by piece via Latin translation from the archives of the Byzantine Empire and the Muslims in Baghdad and Alexandria.
There were no mass protests against Greek knowledge, and there was *lots* of Latin literature that was translated by religious scribes in the Middle Ages that should not have happened, if what you say is true. Have you ever seen what Juvenal had to write, for instance?
nope. Making it an open auction was not the brightest of moves if you wanted a payday...it advertises the shelf life of your information too honestly, and lets people watch who pays. Anyone who might have been tempted to pay a lot for it...isn't going to do it this way.
I suspect we are supposed to think that this is just someone who didn't know how to market it properly. I doubt that. Someone is embarrassing, provoking, or lulling someone into a false sense of security, and had an interest in making it as public as possible. The Borat note seems to support that thesis.
This "survey" is useless, since the number that normally don't turn out is more than the most hyperbolic security threat number they offer. If they said 50% were going to stay home, then i'd start to take notice.
The woman who threw the dog shit bag in the video also made some rude gestures until she realized she was on camera. And she is one of the local democrats.
I disagree entirely. I started a D&D campaign and found a bunch of people on Meetup that wanted to play at my house. Now i have a bunch of friends. It's really that simple.
Jobs? You haven't found what you are good at yet, apparently. Keep looking.
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She was hired because she was a woman. That was the statement. It's irrefutably true. You're an asshole.
Data taps leading to USG systems, you mean.
This is exactly what I came here to ask. Particularly when someone is facing jail time, as he is...and almost assuredly as a direct result of alienating all of the authorities who might otherwise have protected him.
The whole thing is a ginned up controversy created to get black people to go out and vote in the same numbers they did for Obama. The side effects are a significantly increased murder rate and rates of violent crime in urban areas...and the reduction in 911 calls that you point out.
The interesting part is that I am not sure that it is going to accomplish its intended goal. But we'll have the blowback for years to come.
Considering that it was _much_ better sounding than any general purpose (ie, not an audio produce like a keyboard synthesizer) computer music I heard before about 1987, yes.
That said, they didn't do much justice to "In the Mood". It really was a great tune and needs a proper brass band to do it right.
You assume quality of service in the infrastructure. I don't think that's a safe assumption. The weak link is that your workers and the jobs they do will be dependent on a connection to a public network which can and will be interdicted. These issues will become more and more common as time goes on. I think the demonstration that Akamai couldn't handle the Krebs situation illustrates the problem clearly, for those who can see ahead. No amount of encryption or firewalling can fix that problem - network segmentation will be the ultimate answer, which will present its own issues for a distributed workforce. That environment will chill attempts to move infrastructure to the cloud for a long time.
The point isn't to have everything survive. The point is to have enough of it survive that future people can piece together things about our time based upon imperfect reproduction of our suite of data. If 10% of our documents survive, i'd consider it a win.
Perhaps I do, but there are many extant examples. I can't find many examples of early 1980's hard drives that still work. The oldest I have that is still technically readable is ~ 1988, and lack of lubrication will break that one before long.
If we just put our data on survivable media - stuff that doesn't require electricity and/or moving parts - we would be covered. No need for swords, rapine and enslavement.
All of this presumes we don't have a semi-apocalyptic event. Not enough to end human life, but enough to disrupt the fragile data centers, including the supply chain of electronics and the electric power they need.
It's not an unrealistic consideration, right?
I'm not entirely convinced the move is inevitable.
Why does Microsoft insist on trying to catch up in sectors where vendor lock-in is already apparent? Trying to translate your AWS applications to what Microsoft has in Azure is hard, as hard as a Windows to Linux transition was 10 years ago.
This feels like Zune or Windows Phone writ large.
So that's why i'm going to respond to it with a counter-argument. Sure, you preserve things as VMs. That is great. The hard drive or flash drive that you have the data on has a fixed lifespan, probably under 10 years. Unless you copy it to new media regularly, the data dies. This is what Vint is worried about. If I had a book of knowledge printed in the 1700s, it would still be stable today. The bindings would be cracked and we should really reprint it, but if I preserved it in a low humidity environment we'd probably still have the book in a couple hundred years. He wants to be able to say the same about our digital data.
In regards 'preserving what is important', we have no idea what will be considered important in the future. The Romans ended up preserving Cicero's letters, a few other sets of correspondence, some plays and novels, a regrettable few nonfiction manuals for medicine and war, and mostly annals and chronicles of war and emperors.
Vegetius got preserved because it was a military manual, yet if you had asked a learned Roman about what works they would have preserved, it wouldn't have been that. They probably would have favored one of the histories or the Aeneid (of which we got bits and pieces of the history, but we did get the Aeneid).
I couldn't find a thread I liked in this post, though. I'm a Trump supporter, but I am a realist. I have a hard time imagining anything Assange could release that would be material to this race.
I'll be pleased to be proven wrong, but I'm a skeptic.
We also must take into account that the payouts to Clinton's "bimbo" "accusers" amount in the millions at this point. Certainly justifies some quotes around the words used to describe them, and also qualifies the "alleged" nature of the offenses. People don't usually pay out large sums on BS charges.
Actual information...
It wasn't that simple. The lack of transmission of Greek originals in the West was due to lack of knowledge of Greek more than anything else. The Romans treated Greek sort of like we did Latin up until a few years ago - a vestige of a higher civilization worth learning and preserving. They admired the ancient Greeks and strove to emulate them in some ways. It was only the upper crust in Rome that knew and used Greek, though. When the Empire broke up during the 4th and 5th centuries in the West, this method of transmission dried up. Greek became relatively unknown in the West, while Latin soldiered on and eventually became the vulgar Romance languages we have today - French, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, etc. Even English is composed of about 60% Latin roots.
Envision yourself as a medieval monk/scribe copying scrolls. You'll copy the ones you understand, right? So it was in reality. Moreover, there wasn't a significant difference between say a 7th century scribe and a 12th century scribe in terms of level of religiosity. If the knowledge was to be disdained because it was heathen, that would have happened regardless of the exact century, at least up until the Reformation in the 1600s.
But a funny thing happened when Pope Urban II pronounced a crusade to conquer Jerusalem in 1095. The crusaders brought along lay people, and the resultant states of Outremer started mining Muslim documents and passing knowledge back to Europe. The sack and conquest of Constantinople by Venice in 1204 brought even more Greek knowledge to light. In Constantinople, living knowledge of Greek could also be found. Lastly, the fall of the Byzantines in 1453 was accompanied by a migration of much of the remaining knowledge and people who understood Greek to the West. All of a sudden, Plato, Aristotle, Archimedes, Thucydides and Herodotus became available piece by piece via Latin translation from the archives of the Byzantine Empire and the Muslims in Baghdad and Alexandria.
There were no mass protests against Greek knowledge, and there was *lots* of Latin literature that was translated by religious scribes in the Middle Ages that should not have happened, if what you say is true. Have you ever seen what Juvenal had to write, for instance?
nope. Making it an open auction was not the brightest of moves if you wanted a payday...it advertises the shelf life of your information too honestly, and lets people watch who pays. Anyone who might have been tempted to pay a lot for it...isn't going to do it this way.
I suspect we are supposed to think that this is just someone who didn't know how to market it properly. I doubt that. Someone is embarrassing, provoking, or lulling someone into a false sense of security, and had an interest in making it as public as possible. The Borat note seems to support that thesis.
Because this runoff would go to the oceans. Would that somehow be better? How?
That is one of the worst mixed metaphors I have ever seen in English. You should write a novel and challenge Amanda McKittrick Ros.
Oh fuck off, AC. I said "Baltimore area". It's Harford County. It's a Republican area, like most of the suburbs are.
The smell of retarded asshole fills the air near your post.
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This "survey" is useless, since the number that normally don't turn out is more than the most hyperbolic security threat number they offer. If they said 50% were going to stay home, then i'd start to take notice.
Sounds like an excuse for laziness.
The woman who threw the dog shit bag in the video also made some rude gestures until she realized she was on camera. And she is one of the local democrats.
That is the Oracle way. Encouraging substitute goods might as well be their corporate motto.
I disagree entirely. I started a D&D campaign and found a bunch of people on Meetup that wanted to play at my house. Now i have a bunch of friends. It's really that simple.
Jobs? You haven't found what you are good at yet, apparently. Keep looking.
Women? Women want security. Give it to them.
Anything they don't agree with is fascism. Call me when someone is setting up concentration camps and we can talk.