Point taken. "million years" was an implied "at least", not a deadline. But still...
a) I assumed the multiple destinations would then be responsible for their own existential musings and subsequent expansion activities, if needed.
b) Are you sure the current single Earth is cable of nine nines of probability of sustainability? Before you answer, consider external events that might jeopardize this particular bit of real estate... solar events, large rocks, gamma rays from remote sources, etc.
If you could launch a rocket with pioneers and their supplies that would destroy the Earth, but ensure the survival of homo sapiens throughout the local galaxy, on multiple destination star systems, for the next million years, would that be OK?
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Wow. Did you have that block of text all ready to go? Because the time of your comment (4:44) is the exact same minute as the story (4:44), and it's clearly too much text to write in less than 60 seconds.
I knew you were going to say that. Because it is only 2:21 where I am, so I must have early access to the replies to first posts by subscribers! Whee...
1) pick your political persuasion (often determines number 2)
2) pick your (in your opinion) reasonable activity
3) do it in a jurisdiction that doesn't agree that it is reasonable
4) be a criminal!
The world would be better off with fewer asshats, and the asshats are often not who you have been told they are.
I don't know anything about this deal, but my first thought was something like "a subcontractor for Boeing in Italy? WTF? Must be some political thing to get business, not an engineering thing."
E.g. give European customers reasons to buy Boeing vs Airbus...
Lots of products get really screwed up for political or marketing reasons.
Unfortunately, if it weren't for that seamier side of things, a lot of cool tech gadgets wouldn't get made at all.
I generally do smaller projects (say, 4-5 man month projects, done in 90 periods... so I do a lot of the coding, bringing in db or web guys as needed.)
I have the luxury of doing things any way I want, but I don't have the luxury of doing anything I want.
So, if it is something that needs to be on a Windows platform, I pick C#. This is because I can get the most done the fastest. Ok, so it won't run on a non-windows platform well. Meh.
At the other extreme, hand-coded assembly language was the only choice. When you have perform FFTs as fast as possible, to the point where you have to prevent a cache flush, and need to keep the multi-stage floating point pipeline full... Ok, so it won't run on another CPU well, if at all. Meh.
Aside from the assembly coding, I tend to find that my personal projects are usually most productively done in the same high-level language that I am using professionally at the moment.
Fascism come from the opposite direction from where you would think...
True freedom will leave me alone, and it will leave it to me to do what is right. If you tell me what is right, it is not. When you cram-down-my-throat, what you think is right, well, that, prima facie is, just wrong.
If you invent the knife and then tell me I can only use it if I don't draw blood, why give it to me? I can decide if I am fighting off a wild beast to save my children or carving art with it.
Tissue = Kleenex (tm)
Steel Wool = Brillo (tm)
Cellophane Tape = Scotch Tape (tm)
Photocopy = Xerox(tm)
PC Operating System = Microsoft Windows(tm)
Look it up on the Internet = "Google(tm) it"
The list goes on...
Good marketing yes, but I can think of competing products for all this stuff. None of them seem exclusive to me.
I never look down my nose at people doing the crap jobs and yes they are way underpaid for the hard work they do.
crap jobs get crap pay because it is easy to replace the laborer.
If there is a job that can be handed over to an honor camp prisoner to do with 15 minutes of training, it is not worth much. (The proverbial street-sweeper, ditch-digger, etc. type jobs.)
That said, even the crappiest jobs pay more than the minimum wage, when and if the crap-slinger gets good at it (e.g. more productive than the sod who can do just the basic job, but not as quickly or as well, if quality matters.)
if I took the declaration of independence as a.txt file, are there any attacks that could subtly, or non-subtly, change the wording without increasing or decreasing the size of the file
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Point taken. "million years" was an implied "at least", not a deadline. But still...
a) I assumed the multiple destinations would then be responsible for their own existential musings and subsequent expansion activities, if needed.
b) Are you sure the current single Earth is cable of nine nines of probability of sustainability? Before you answer, consider external events that might jeopardize this particular bit of real estate... solar events, large rocks, gamma rays from remote sources, etc.
If you could launch a rocket with pioneers and their supplies that would destroy the Earth, but ensure the survival of homo sapiens throughout the local galaxy, on multiple destination star systems, for the next million years, would that be OK?
Dir sir,
As Czar of Internet Contribution Efficiency (formerly "Czar of Resource Access and Consumption*), I think your Slashdot user ID is suspiciously low for you to possibly be a worthwhile contributor to any society, virtual or real.
Henceforth, will you please consider refraining from consuming precious online resources? Any further postings from you that don't include the phrase "get off my lawn" will be investigated thoroughly by other un-elected officials.
* Alas, that title was changed due to the unfortunate acronym formed by certain smarty-pants of questionable political reliability, with whom we have dealt with...
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Wow. Did you have that block of text all ready to go? Because the time of your comment (4:44) is the exact same minute as the story (4:44), and it's clearly too much text to write in less than 60 seconds.
I knew you were going to say that. Because it is only 2:21 where I am, so I must have early access to the replies to first posts by subscribers! Whee...
Just to keep it clear.
Given the amount of discussion, this is obviously not a silly question.
You're new here, right?
illustrate the ridiculousness of the whole policy
1) pick your political persuasion (often determines number 2)
2) pick your (in your opinion) reasonable activity
3) do it in a jurisdiction that doesn't agree that it is reasonable
4) be a criminal!
The world would be better off with fewer asshats, and the asshats are often not who you have been told they are.
"void where prohibited"
I don't know anything about this deal, but my first thought was something like "a subcontractor for Boeing in Italy? WTF? Must be some political thing to get business, not an engineering thing."
E.g. give European customers reasons to buy Boeing vs Airbus...
Lots of products get really screwed up for political or marketing reasons.
Unfortunately, if it weren't for that seamier side of things, a lot of cool tech gadgets wouldn't get made at all.
sigh
I generally do smaller projects (say, 4-5 man month projects, done in 90 periods... so I do a lot of the coding, bringing in db or web guys as needed.)
I have the luxury of doing things any way I want, but I don't have the luxury of doing anything I want.
So, if it is something that needs to be on a Windows platform, I pick C#. This is because I can get the most done the fastest. Ok, so it won't run on a non-windows platform well. Meh.
At the other extreme, hand-coded assembly language was the only choice. When you have perform FFTs as fast as possible, to the point where you have to prevent a cache flush, and need to keep the multi-stage floating point pipeline full... Ok, so it won't run on another CPU well, if at all. Meh.
Aside from the assembly coding, I tend to find that my personal projects are usually most productively done in the same high-level language that I am using professionally at the moment.
If voice recognition worked...
Fascism come from the opposite direction from where you would think...
True freedom will leave me alone, and it will leave it to me to do what is right. If you tell me what is right, it is not. When you cram-down-my-throat, what you think is right, well, that, prima facie is, just wrong.
If you invent the knife and then tell me I can only use it if I don't draw blood, why give it to me? I can decide if I am fighting off a wild beast to save my children or carving art with it.
No, it is PRESSURE SENSITIVE. It will upcase letters when you press THEM HARD.
I wonder when this cold war bubble will burst
17 years from now (or whatever the patent time is now).
If someone is looking up a word, don't they already know about it?
If it is a "bad" word, the dictionary ought to tell you, in addition to the definition, that it is not a polite word.
Even my paper dictionary has "fuck" in it. My kids know all the "bad" words, and they know when not to use them (when their mother is around.)
Does the iPhone prevent them from browsing urbandictionary.com?
Tissue = Kleenex (tm)
Steel Wool = Brillo (tm)
Cellophane Tape = Scotch Tape (tm)
Photocopy = Xerox(tm)
PC Operating System = Microsoft Windows(tm)
Look it up on the Internet = "Google(tm) it"
The list goes on...
Good marketing yes, but I can think of competing products for all this stuff. None of them seem exclusive to me.
Two words: class action.
Why? you and a bunch of other lawyer friends out of work?
I never look down my nose at people doing the crap jobs and yes they are way underpaid for the hard work they do.
crap jobs get crap pay because it is easy to replace the laborer.
If there is a job that can be handed over to an honor camp prisoner to do with 15 minutes of training, it is not worth much. (The proverbial street-sweeper, ditch-digger, etc. type jobs.)
That said, even the crappiest jobs pay more than the minimum wage, when and if the crap-slinger gets good at it (e.g. more productive than the sod who can do just the basic job, but not as quickly or as well, if quality matters.)
or just write a script to check my favorite stock values... pretty random, as far as I can tell. But trending down :-(
To keep out the innocent neighbor kids or the maid who comes on the wrong day. You only want to dispose of bodies that deserve it.
You'll sleep better that way.
if I took the declaration of independence as a .txt file, are there any attacks that could subtly, or non-subtly, change the wording without increasing or decreasing the size of the file
Just add politicians and wait...
I don't know, can I be Clint Eastwood? He's still pretty intimidating.
Technically, it is a "quotes" section... memorable? Meh.
Almost New - In orbit. Space Station. NR
Shipping - no delivery options. Get there yourself.
Maybe I can help. How much collateral damage can you handle?