believe that nuclear energy is like a controlled atomic bomb
I once saw someone argue that a reactor has far more uranium in it than the Hiroshima and Nagasaki bombs, thus if something went wrong it would be far worse.
I wanted to explain to him just how fucking stupid that was, but I just didn't have that kind of time. I instead told him to research the difference between "critical mass" and "supercritical mass".
And, you're right. This was your average liberal-leaning guy that is all about science unless you're talking about nuclear science. Then it's all horrific world-ending hysteria.
We're still deploying Mountain Lion, because until two days ago, Mavericks wouldn't work reliably with our VPN, and asked you for your proxy authentication for every single image on an HTTPS page unless you turned off certificate revocation, which is an even bigger hole in SSL than the one they just patched.
Sometimes the IT department has reasons that they just aren't sharing, but are quite valid. That being said, it's a fairly new revelation that we're getting everyone with a Mac to 10.8.5 - most of them were still running 10.5.8 because there was no enterprise-wide standards until I declared them and deployed an infrastructure to enforce them. It's so nice to have everyone on one OS version, rather than the SEVENTEEN we had before spanning from 10.5.8 to 10.8.2.
Your IT guys probably suck then. I've been evaluating Mavericks since it was in beta, and only with 10.9.2 is it an OS that works with all our infrastructure at the same time; so only this week have I even thought about qualifying it to run on our network. This has been the case with every version of OS X - if you mass move a production environment to a.0 or.1 release since 10.5, you're asking for it; I can't count the number of times that DirectoryServices or SMB has been broken in early life releases, and I've been using OS X since it still had the Mac OS 9 UI on it (original Mac OS X Server 1.0).
If you have an automated application deployment system that's worth talking about, it's drop-dead simple to create an upgrade PKG that completely automatically upgrades any supported Mac to 10.9.2, and even in-line any other packages for agents or frameworks that you need. The only issue we'll have is with laptops, as we're forced to use a data-at-rest encryption software that isn't named FileVault. For those, we'll have to mass-decrypt them before deploying, then re-encrypt afterwards.
100% wrong on OS X. 10.7 and 10.8 still used OpenSSL for certificate verification in the SecureTransport API. Only Mavericks was affected as far as Mac OS X versions go.
The first version of Mac OS that required 64-bit was 10.8. In 10.6, it defaulted to the 32-bit kernel on all Macs except Xserve; in 10.7 it defaulted to 64-bit kernel on any Mac with a 64-bit CPU, but still had a 32-bit kernel for the Core Duo / Core Solo hardware, and MacPro1,1 due to 32-bit EFI.
Only with 10.8 did they jettison the 32-bit kernel.
Yeah, but Apple has supported the hardware they sell with OS versions for a window of 5 years for quite some time now. A 2006 Mac is now 8 years old, and having used one of those MacBookPro1,1 laptops for some time myself, I'm surprised it still runs - the fans in those things had a tendency to gum up after about 6 years, and then the GPU would bake itself.
Whether you're talking about bits on a wire, cotton-based paper with green ink, or shiny rocks; all currencies suffer from the same issue - you can make more. Saying that one is better than the other is ridiculous.
Yes, there's a finite amount of gold out there, but we've been mining it for hundreds of years and we haven't stopped finding it yet. Tying a national currency (and one that is used as a reserve currency for every single government on the planet) to a shiny rock is just asking for some large country that has a vested interest in seeing the dollar collapse to flood the market with that shiny rock.
Then what happens to your gold standard? What happens if science perfects nuclear alchemy and manages to subtract a bit of atomic weight from lead and turn it into gold?
Yes, laws can change. But, the guys who set up this country 225+ years ago were wise enough to hold some laws over others, and make them so hard to change that it is unlikely to happen outside of extraordinary circumstances. That is why they wrote a separate process for Constitutional Amendments, and then proceeded to ratify ten of them enshrining for all to see the basic freedoms that are owned by the people, and can never* be touched by government.
And, as James Madison was a genius, he saved the most important one for last: "The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people."
This is the one that exists specifically so some CHUD won't think that the other nine were a list of enumerated rights, and if it's not listed, then it doesn't exist.
*for various values of "never". See: Clinton, Bush, Obama administrations and policies.
What is gained, is that restricting people from being racist in their own home sets a dangerous precedent in law.
If the government can regulate what is thought and said in a private home regarding racism, what's to prevent the government from regulating what can be thought and said in a private home regarding religion, taxes, science, or any other topic?
Are you really advocating for the revocation of the first amendment? I sure hope not.
The brilliance of James Madison, and the first amendment is this: Other people are free to express their stupidity, prejudice, and backwards-ass thinking, and I'm free to call them stupid because of what they say.
Any law that limits any of that is unconstitutional, and would immediately be thrown out by any judge worth wearing the robe.
You level, you then get a half-decent amount of gear, and then you do your daily chores and stand around in the en vogue city waiting for something to do.
I have daily chores already, I don't need digital daily chores.
It was a Navy base starting in World War II, and then used for "Atomic Warfare Training" until the end of the cold war.
I'm guessing they're on about the crap disposal procedures they used in the 50's and 60's regarding chunks of radioactive material, as well as the procedures used to hose down the "USS Pandemonium" with radioactive shit (simulating a nice coat of nuclear fallout), and then clean it off.
They'll just take care of that through a disclosure form in the 8 inches of paperwork that a prospective homeowner has to go through. And, when that one comes up, the realtor will just say "Aww, that's just one of those forms the State makes us put in there. This next one deals with..."
Piers Morgan is a great example of how to take a ratings lead in a time slot, reduce it to last place by lecturing your audience in a condescending way, and then get fired.
That kind of thing may play on Fox News, but not on CNN.
I guess that my high school in Oregon was really ahead of the curve then, requiring all Junior-year students to take a personal finance and economics course. In the 1990s.
This headline caused quite the WTF exception in my mind, because I guess that was just standard everywhere.
It seems that since the iPad, every damn thing needs to be capacitive touch, whether it makes sense or not.
Touchscreen interfaces in a car is about the worst idea I can imagine. Hey, let's put in a device that FORCES YOU TO TAKE YOUR EYES OFF THE ROAD in order to operate it. Oh, and it can also be a massive source of light while you're driving at night!
BMW's iDrive controller is really good - the jog wheel can be used without looking at anything, and it has contoured buttons around it for specific functions, also useable quite easily without ever looking. The new version has a capacitive trackpad thing on top of it too, for if you just absolutely have to have that "touch" bullshit.
Japanese auto companies can dodge the import tariffs on completed autos if they are built in Kentucky, Indiana, Ohio, and North Carolina. American auto companies can also dodge the tariffs (and UAW strong-arming) by building them in Mexico.
I'm pretty sure there's one team that work on the cabin electronics and infotainment, and a completely different and separate team that works on the mechanical engineering of automatic transmissions. After all, there isn't a whole lot of crossover between coding embedded systems for MP3 playback, and torque converters.
More than that, doesn't Intel has an ARM license from when they acquired the detritus left over from the Compaq / DEC merger? They made the StrongARM series, and XScale CPUs for some time. I don't know if they sold the license to Marvell, or if it was just the XScale designs.
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I once saw someone argue that a reactor has far more uranium in it than the Hiroshima and Nagasaki bombs, thus if something went wrong it would be far worse.
I wanted to explain to him just how fucking stupid that was, but I just didn't have that kind of time. I instead told him to research the difference between "critical mass" and "supercritical mass".
And, you're right. This was your average liberal-leaning guy that is all about science unless you're talking about nuclear science. Then it's all horrific world-ending hysteria.
Hello. IT guy here.
We're still deploying Mountain Lion, because until two days ago, Mavericks wouldn't work reliably with our VPN, and asked you for your proxy authentication for every single image on an HTTPS page unless you turned off certificate revocation, which is an even bigger hole in SSL than the one they just patched.
Sometimes the IT department has reasons that they just aren't sharing, but are quite valid. That being said, it's a fairly new revelation that we're getting everyone with a Mac to 10.8.5 - most of them were still running 10.5.8 because there was no enterprise-wide standards until I declared them and deployed an infrastructure to enforce them. It's so nice to have everyone on one OS version, rather than the SEVENTEEN we had before spanning from 10.5.8 to 10.8.2.
Your IT guys probably suck then. I've been evaluating Mavericks since it was in beta, and only with 10.9.2 is it an OS that works with all our infrastructure at the same time; so only this week have I even thought about qualifying it to run on our network. This has been the case with every version of OS X - if you mass move a production environment to a .0 or .1 release since 10.5, you're asking for it; I can't count the number of times that DirectoryServices or SMB has been broken in early life releases, and I've been using OS X since it still had the Mac OS 9 UI on it (original Mac OS X Server 1.0).
If you have an automated application deployment system that's worth talking about, it's drop-dead simple to create an upgrade PKG that completely automatically upgrades any supported Mac to 10.9.2, and even in-line any other packages for agents or frameworks that you need. The only issue we'll have is with laptops, as we're forced to use a data-at-rest encryption software that isn't named FileVault. For those, we'll have to mass-decrypt them before deploying, then re-encrypt afterwards.
100% wrong on OS X. 10.7 and 10.8 still used OpenSSL for certificate verification in the SecureTransport API. Only Mavericks was affected as far as Mac OS X versions go.
The first version of Mac OS that required 64-bit was 10.8. In 10.6, it defaulted to the 32-bit kernel on all Macs except Xserve; in 10.7 it defaulted to 64-bit kernel on any Mac with a 64-bit CPU, but still had a 32-bit kernel for the Core Duo / Core Solo hardware, and MacPro1,1 due to 32-bit EFI.
Only with 10.8 did they jettison the 32-bit kernel.
Yeah, but Apple has supported the hardware they sell with OS versions for a window of 5 years for quite some time now. A 2006 Mac is now 8 years old, and having used one of those MacBookPro1,1 laptops for some time myself, I'm surprised it still runs - the fans in those things had a tendency to gum up after about 6 years, and then the GPU would bake itself.
Good thing that they provide a tool inside the Mavericks installer to create a bootable USB stick, eh?
sudo /Applications/Install\ OS\ X\ Mavericks.app/Contents/Resources/createinstallmedia --volume /Volumes/USB_stick_to_format --applicationpath /Applications/Install\ OS\ X\ Mavericks.app --nointeraction
If Terminal.app isn't your thing, there are several no-cost options with a GUI that you can download that invoke that command.
Whether you're talking about bits on a wire, cotton-based paper with green ink, or shiny rocks; all currencies suffer from the same issue - you can make more. Saying that one is better than the other is ridiculous.
Yes, there's a finite amount of gold out there, but we've been mining it for hundreds of years and we haven't stopped finding it yet. Tying a national currency (and one that is used as a reserve currency for every single government on the planet) to a shiny rock is just asking for some large country that has a vested interest in seeing the dollar collapse to flood the market with that shiny rock.
Then what happens to your gold standard? What happens if science perfects nuclear alchemy and manages to subtract a bit of atomic weight from lead and turn it into gold?
Yes, laws can change. But, the guys who set up this country 225+ years ago were wise enough to hold some laws over others, and make them so hard to change that it is unlikely to happen outside of extraordinary circumstances. That is why they wrote a separate process for Constitutional Amendments, and then proceeded to ratify ten of them enshrining for all to see the basic freedoms that are owned by the people, and can never* be touched by government.
And, as James Madison was a genius, he saved the most important one for last: "The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people."
This is the one that exists specifically so some CHUD won't think that the other nine were a list of enumerated rights, and if it's not listed, then it doesn't exist.
*for various values of "never". See: Clinton, Bush, Obama administrations and policies.
What is gained, is that restricting people from being racist in their own home sets a dangerous precedent in law.
If the government can regulate what is thought and said in a private home regarding racism, what's to prevent the government from regulating what can be thought and said in a private home regarding religion, taxes, science, or any other topic?
Are you really advocating for the revocation of the first amendment? I sure hope not.
The brilliance of James Madison, and the first amendment is this: Other people are free to express their stupidity, prejudice, and backwards-ass thinking, and I'm free to call them stupid because of what they say.
Any law that limits any of that is unconstitutional, and would immediately be thrown out by any judge worth wearing the robe.
Nope, you're right.
You level, you then get a half-decent amount of gear, and then you do your daily chores and stand around in the en vogue city waiting for something to do.
I have daily chores already, I don't need digital daily chores.
It was a Navy base starting in World War II, and then used for "Atomic Warfare Training" until the end of the cold war.
I'm guessing they're on about the crap disposal procedures they used in the 50's and 60's regarding chunks of radioactive material, as well as the procedures used to hose down the "USS Pandemonium" with radioactive shit (simulating a nice coat of nuclear fallout), and then clean it off.
It was all in TFA, in case you were curious.
They'll just take care of that through a disclosure form in the 8 inches of paperwork that a prospective homeowner has to go through. And, when that one comes up, the realtor will just say "Aww, that's just one of those forms the State makes us put in there. This next one deals with..."
You and me both. Every junior in my high school had to take economics / personal finance. That was in the mid 90's, and it wasn't new then.
While I don't disagree with you, the article is talking about Oklahoma K-12 education, not universities.
Piers Morgan is a great example of how to take a ratings lead in a time slot, reduce it to last place by lecturing your audience in a condescending way, and then get fired.
That kind of thing may play on Fox News, but not on CNN.
The hippies in Portland begat the hipsters that are now in Portland.
Just try and tell me that Portland isn't the #1 market for fixie bikes, American Spirit cigarettes, and Pabst. JUST TRY.
I guess that my high school in Oregon was really ahead of the curve then, requiring all Junior-year students to take a personal finance and economics course. In the 1990s.
This headline caused quite the WTF exception in my mind, because I guess that was just standard everywhere.
I can't agree more about the touch screens.
It seems that since the iPad, every damn thing needs to be capacitive touch, whether it makes sense or not.
Touchscreen interfaces in a car is about the worst idea I can imagine. Hey, let's put in a device that FORCES YOU TO TAKE YOUR EYES OFF THE ROAD in order to operate it. Oh, and it can also be a massive source of light while you're driving at night!
BMW's iDrive controller is really good - the jog wheel can be used without looking at anything, and it has contoured buttons around it for specific functions, also useable quite easily without ever looking. The new version has a capacitive trackpad thing on top of it too, for if you just absolutely have to have that "touch" bullshit.
I had that too. Delta 757 with those crappy screens in the back of the headrest?
One word: tariffs.
Japanese auto companies can dodge the import tariffs on completed autos if they are built in Kentucky, Indiana, Ohio, and North Carolina. American auto companies can also dodge the tariffs (and UAW strong-arming) by building them in Mexico.
Thanks, NAFTA!
I'm pretty sure there's one team that work on the cabin electronics and infotainment, and a completely different and separate team that works on the mechanical engineering of automatic transmissions. After all, there isn't a whole lot of crossover between coding embedded systems for MP3 playback, and torque converters.
But that might be just me.
More than that, doesn't Intel has an ARM license from when they acquired the detritus left over from the Compaq / DEC merger? They made the StrongARM series, and XScale CPUs for some time. I don't know if they sold the license to Marvell, or if it was just the XScale designs.
It's pretty darn open: http://opensource.apple.com/so...