Sorry, but independently sustainable settlement on other planets is impossible for the foreseeable future.
Settling on other planets would be silly, because they suffer all the same problems as Earth. Any long-term human settlement will be in free-flying habitats, because building them is much easier than terraforming Mars, they can move on if resources become scare and they're much more difficult targets for people who want to kill you.
We're all going to become happy fluffy hippies and live a sustainable lifestyle in little teepees where we'll end all conflict by singing happy songs and shit.
Given that a large fraction of traffic on the Internet is music and movie torrents, shouldn't the government be taxing the media companies to subsidise the ISPs?
I would actually be surprised if the military didn't have a massive supercomputer specifically for this purpose able to bruteforce an insane number of passwords per second
The entire US defence budget since the beginning of time couldn't build a machine powerful enough to brute-force a 256-bit key before the United States ceases to exist.
Well, other than pure luck because you chose all zeros as your key.
Key escrow protects the company in case the employee gets hit by a car.
If your company is reliant on files on a random employee's computer rather than hosted on a fault-tolerant server that's regularly backed up, you're probably fscked anyway.
I think the effort would be better spent on finding the illegal act instead of hoping that Joe Terrorist happened to send an email to his mom about the bomb he's building.
But real criminals may shoot you, whereas people downloading MP3s or movie torrents rarely do.
Hence why spies have cyanide pills and such - such that it then becomes impossible for them to even give up the password.
My SSD is encrypted with AES in hardware. As I understand it, you only have to send one ATA command to the disk to tell it to generate a new key and thereby make the existing data unreadable to anyone.
Personally I'd prefer a 'wipe key' button on my laptop to a cyanide pill in my teeth.
offshoring costs you 1/4 the money, and you get 1/2 the performance.
that means, you are getting twice the efficiency.
LOL.
Then they tell you that yes, absolutely, they will deliver on time. Then the day before they're supposed to deliver they say actually, it's not done and they'll need more money to complete it. Six months later they send you a complete pile of crap that doesn't work. Then you pay your own developers to rewrite it into a less buggy piece of crap that you can actually ship with only a huge collection of bugs that randomly fsck up your users' day.
Meanwhile you're a year behind the competition who didn't decide to save money by outsourcing. But, don't worry, the manager who made that decision took his big bonus and moved on to a new job where they're convincing their new boss to follow the same plan that was so successful for you.
Which is not actually that helpful, because then you have tons of PNG-capable applications that can't read PNGs. TIFF used to be this way, where TIFF actually means it can be compressed like ten different ways and support was very mixed.
Only ten different ways? Back in the early 90s I was creating TIFF files that I doubt anyone can display these days; we had our own TIFF tags assigned and could compress files however we wanted to.
This is why TIFF was:
1. Very useful for app developers. 2. A total disaster for interoperability.
Most of the arguments against an American universal healthcare system are based on the idea that *this* government wouldn't do a good job even if various European nations handle it well.
We are talking about the same Europe which is currently going bankrupt because it ran out of other people's money to pay for its welfare state, right? Not another Europe that I previously wasn't aware of?
Don't forget DRM: this way Microsoft can ensure that you can't install drivers or other software that can break the DRM system. Only a signed OS runs, only signed drivers run, eventually only signed applications from the Windows App Store run.
How is it unfriendly to anything not Windows? They are just implementing the Secure Boot feature of UEFI, if you want to boot an OS that doesn't support it then turn Secure Boot off in the BIOS.
And when Microsoft refuses to 'Windows certify' motherboards that don't allow you to turn it off...?
I think the latter would be tricky because, practically speaking, the lunar atmosphere is a vacuum.
Good luck breathing vacuum.
Which part of 'the dust sticks to just about everything' is proving hard to understand? The Apollo astronauts said that the LEM's interior was covered in dust after a few spacewalks and smelled like gunpowder because they were breathing it in all the time after it fell off their dust-covered suits. They also had to continually clean it off the Lunar Rover's radiator so it wouldn't overheat.
This is one of the biggest problems with living on the Moon, not a silly joke.
Use sealed bearings and don't breath the lunar atmosphere?
The latter is tricky when it sticks to just about everything. The only simple solution I've seen proposed is to use space suits that 'dock' with the habitat (i.e. you back up to an airlock, latch to it and climb out of the suit) rather than suits you put on or remove inside the habitat.
Except they weren't tolerated, so your theory goes up in flames (as expected when you get the relationship between corporate power and regulation backwards).
How long would the 'tea party' have been allowed to live in tents in a public park making a mess before they were thrown out and then charged for not having the right permits, insurance, etc?
Because the Chinese cannot be allowed to prevail in the random lines in the desert race. We must immediately invest billions of dollars of stimulus funding to eliminate the random lines in the desert gap.
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Sorry, but independently sustainable settlement on other planets is impossible for the foreseeable future.
Settling on other planets would be silly, because they suffer all the same problems as Earth. Any long-term human settlement will be in free-flying habitats, because building them is much easier than terraforming Mars, they can move on if resources become scare and they're much more difficult targets for people who want to kill you.
We're all going to become happy fluffy hippies and live a sustainable lifestyle in little teepees where we'll end all conflict by singing happy songs and shit.
Given that a large fraction of traffic on the Internet is music and movie torrents, shouldn't the government be taxing the media companies to subsidise the ISPs?
I would actually be surprised if the military didn't have a massive supercomputer specifically for this purpose able to bruteforce an insane number of passwords per second
The entire US defence budget since the beginning of time couldn't build a machine powerful enough to brute-force a 256-bit key before the United States ceases to exist.
Well, other than pure luck because you chose all zeros as your key.
Key escrow protects the company in case the employee gets hit by a car.
If your company is reliant on files on a random employee's computer rather than hosted on a fault-tolerant server that's regularly backed up, you're probably fscked anyway.
I think the effort would be better spent on finding the illegal act instead of hoping that Joe Terrorist happened to send an email to his mom about the bomb he's building.
But real criminals may shoot you, whereas people downloading MP3s or movie torrents rarely do.
Hence why spies have cyanide pills and such - such that it then becomes impossible for them to even give up the password.
My SSD is encrypted with AES in hardware. As I understand it, you only have to send one ATA command to the disk to tell it to generate a new key and thereby make the existing data unreadable to anyone.
Personally I'd prefer a 'wipe key' button on my laptop to a cyanide pill in my teeth.
offshoring costs you 1/4 the money, and you get 1/2 the performance.
that means, you are getting twice the efficiency.
LOL.
Then they tell you that yes, absolutely, they will deliver on time. Then the day before they're supposed to deliver they say actually, it's not done and they'll need more money to complete it. Six months later they send you a complete pile of crap that doesn't work. Then you pay your own developers to rewrite it into a less buggy piece of crap that you can actually ship with only a huge collection of bugs that randomly fsck up your users' day.
Meanwhile you're a year behind the competition who didn't decide to save money by outsourcing. But, don't worry, the manager who made that decision took his big bonus and moved on to a new job where they're convincing their new boss to follow the same plan that was so successful for you.
Slippery slope fallacy does not an argument make.
The only 'slippery slope fallacy' is the laughable claim that once there's a power that the government can easily abuse... they won't abuse it.
Is that the data messaging probably costs the carrier more than SMS...
Why worry about prior art? Just patent it and then sue posters who can't afford to fight your lawyers.
I don't remember covering 'proof by claiming that something is unlikely' in my Physics degree.
Which is not actually that helpful, because then you have tons of PNG-capable applications that can't read PNGs. TIFF used to be this way, where TIFF actually means it can be compressed like ten different ways and support was very mixed.
Only ten different ways? Back in the early 90s I was creating TIFF files that I doubt anyone can display these days; we had our own TIFF tags assigned and could compress files however we wanted to.
This is why TIFF was:
1. Very useful for app developers.
2. A total disaster for interoperability.
Most of the arguments against an American universal healthcare system are based on the idea that *this* government wouldn't do a good job even if various European nations handle it well.
We are talking about the same Europe which is currently going bankrupt because it ran out of other people's money to pay for its welfare state, right? Not another Europe that I previously wasn't aware of?
It's possible but rather unlikely that a mainstream desktop system would be shipped in a way that didn't allow the owner to choose a different OS.
Why is that unlkely?
You buy a computer with Windows installed and the UEFI won't let it boot any other OS.
Why won't that happen?
What makes you think Microsoft won't offer better terms to companies who refuse to let other operating systems run on their hardware?
Why do you trust these people?
Don't forget DRM: this way Microsoft can ensure that you can't install drivers or other software that can break the DRM system. Only a signed OS runs, only signed drivers run, eventually only signed applications from the Windows App Store run.
Duh, that was 'refuses to certify motherboards that do allow you to turn it off', obviously.
How is it unfriendly to anything not Windows? They are just implementing the Secure Boot feature of UEFI, if you want to boot an OS that doesn't support it then turn Secure Boot off in the BIOS.
And when Microsoft refuses to 'Windows certify' motherboards that don't allow you to turn it off...?
I think the latter would be tricky because, practically speaking, the lunar atmosphere is a vacuum.
Good luck breathing vacuum.
Which part of 'the dust sticks to just about everything' is proving hard to understand? The Apollo astronauts said that the LEM's interior was covered in dust after a few spacewalks and smelled like gunpowder because they were breathing it in all the time after it fell off their dust-covered suits. They also had to continually clean it off the Lunar Rover's radiator so it wouldn't overheat.
This is one of the biggest problems with living on the Moon, not a silly joke.
Use sealed bearings and don't breath the lunar atmosphere?
The latter is tricky when it sticks to just about everything. The only simple solution I've seen proposed is to use space suits that 'dock' with the habitat (i.e. you back up to an airlock, latch to it and climb out of the suit) rather than suits you put on or remove inside the habitat.
How can an communist complain when someone steals 'their' stuff? Hey, there is no such thing as private property, man.
Except they weren't tolerated, so your theory goes up in flames (as expected when you get the relationship between corporate power and regulation backwards).
How long would the 'tea party' have been allowed to live in tents in a public park making a mess before they were thrown out and then charged for not having the right permits, insurance, etc?
The OWS movement will need to do what the Tea Party did...actively influence election outcomes.
The OWS movement are actively influencing election outcomes. Just not the way they want to.
If Obama loses the election, it will be in no small part due to the OWS movement.
Because the Chinese cannot be allowed to prevail in the random lines in the desert race. We must immediately invest billions of dollars of stimulus funding to eliminate the random lines in the desert gap.
Ion boards should have at least four, but they're not cheap.