Bacteria never had access to the atomic bomb either. Nations of Asia and the Middle East have them. They're also in a major industrial growth phase scrapping for offshore drilling rights. I read somewhere other the weekend of China and India facing off in waters. Not good. Nuclear armed nations tend to be more mature an reasonable with the power they now wield. But that's not a given. The PLC could give two-shits about India's population, and India wouldn't blink-twice before making China take another spin at the wheel of life. Pakistan is a wild card, and Iran seems hellbent on going after Israel with religious zeal. As for America and Russia, hopefully they realize there's nothing to be gained from being involved. Stay away from that powder keg.
due to unsustainable population areas means we're just making it worse
I'm not going to tread those waters, but I'm come close to it without offending anyone. I would agree that our hand-outs are and have been making things worse around the world. In the name of God (American's are mostly Christian), we feel it's our duty to feed the needy and hungry. Personally, I agree. But the fact it, it also perpetuates dictators and corrupt regimes in the process. If it wasn't for global economy crashing, there wouldn't have been an Arab Spring and the domino of revolutions that followed. It was an event that was destined to happen, but our "aid" kept prolonging the inevitable. The road to hell is paved with good intentions and all that.
It's both refreshing and sad to know that you've just now figured this out. For most of my life, I've always known the media was firstly self-serving. Anything else would be an afterthought on their part.
Most certainly he's talking of SCOTUS members legislating from the bench with a hand-waving excuse that the founders wouldn't have done such and such had they known our technology and/or society today. I have a big problem with that philosophy. Being a SCOTUS member means you apply judgment as it's stated. If that means civilians have the right to fully automatic weapons per 2nd amendment, so be it. That doesn't mean however you can't propose an amendment to clarify the 2nd amendment later. I have no problem with amending this document as intended.
A company isn't automatically responsible for any action some rogue employee takes.
True. If he went rogue to save his own ass. But if he was directed and had the e-mails to prove it, both him and the company would be liable. Even if the company instructed him to do something illegal, the individual is still held accountable as well.
The closest i've came to witnessing this first hand is when a co-worker of mine (many years go) was instructed to illegally dump UPS batteries and old CRT monitors. They didn't want to pay the recycling fee so they told him to "just make it go away, starting with the dumpster behind the building". Uh, no. You don't do shit like that I told him. They fired his ass for something minor and vague as being insubordinate. I told him that it was better he got fired now instead of later. He wouldn't want to work for a company like that anyways. A few months later, I jumped ship and worked for another company too. Shady shady shady. That company I worked for can rot in hell for all I care.
It's financial. As a nation, we are monetarily -broken-. Our policies, regulations, currency spending, and fiat currency; it's lead us all to ruin. Right now, there not a damn thing this administration or any future one can do to fix it. Of course, we can't exactly blame Obama or Bush, but they both certainly made things worse in their own way. In fact, this problem started at least 50 to 60 years go. Perhaps longer.
I hate to say it, but we're defaulting. We just need someone to officially declare it and take the political arrows to solidify the truth. Until that happens, we wont have reform and we wont stand together.
Not sure if it's possible, but I could imagine someone creating a virus specifically targeting an individual based on their DNA. For example, we could all pass the virus and it would do nothing but replicate and infect eventually finding it's way to the intended programmed target. At this point, it drops it's deadly payload of instructions and kills the target. Basically, a tool of assassination. Of course, there's always that what-could-possibly-go-wrong moment and the damn thing mutates killing us all.
Assuming that's even possible to place a QC die in the same CPU package. If the hardware to manipulate a quantum chip is complex enough, it may come in the form of a PCIe card at best. Otherwise, it could take form as a completely separate break-out box using a Thunderbolt interface.
The Chinese people and its government are many things, but they don't hate America and they're not looking to kill us. This isn't the cold war, and they don't have an axe to grind like the Russians did. In fact, many Chinese admire American history and our culture to some degree. They just wont admit it in public as they're extremely prideful and fear losing face. They're actions speak otherwise however. Look at all the stuff they copy, the modern music they compose, and the cars they drive. They too want that prosperous western lifestyle.
China still has a long way to go in grasping core western philosophies and understanding exactly what made Europe and America so great so fast. They're learning though as they emulate our lifestyle. Hopefully the good parts over the bad. If anything however, the west needs China more than anything now. They're keeping us grounded to reality. They have engineers who think in terms of raw engineering. They don't have mental obstructions of "can't", rather, if the math adds up they simple just "do". It's that attitude that we've lost with regards to nuclear energy, and human space exploration at least. Also, they have extremely strong family ties. A behavior that's been eroding away in western culture.
Better yet, it also makes it easier to figure out who else is using encryption. That would be the following.
A. The Pakistan government B. Al-Qaeda (ok, so that could be filed under 'A', whatever) C. Some poor innocent geek in a dusty basement being targeted with a drone.
Money can corrupt one's vision of what they really want in life. Once he figures out how much money he can earn by scanning and selling side scan bathymetry data, he'll make a killing reselling this to the oil and gas industry. But then again, I suspect that's his real goal. The Gulf of Mexico is rather convenient isn't it? Not that it hasn't already been mapped before, but high resolution data that's up-to-date is always in demand.
Speaking of bedbugs, I'm surprised we haven't had an Ask Slashdot article on how to get rid of these damn things. I've personally run into these in hotels and other people's apartment complexes (they migrate between units through the walls). Nasty little fuckers. And they stink when you crush em. Next time you're bored, take a trip to a local apartment complex and count the number of mattresses and box springs in the dump areas. All I know is this. If you're unemployed, there's a shit-ton of money to be made here in cleanup and mitigation. If there was ever a parasite to be paranoid and freaked out over, it's bedbugs. Good news, they're not known to spread diseases. Most likely because of their feeding and moulting cycles.
And before any of you start to pass judgement on those that had an infestation of bedbugs, keep in mind that does *not* mean the victims were dirty bastards. It's not uncommon for 4 and 5 star hotels to get infested. As a precaution, please look up the place of residence at http://bedbugregistry.com/ for more info. If you live in an apartment or other shared dwelling, you're fucked. Sorry, but you will eventually get bit. The only advice I have is that you use white sheets (to monitor potential blood stains) and keep the bed at least 1ft from a wall. Check the bed once a week and wash the sheets (all of them) at least twice a month. A huge PITA for even the most clean among us, but necessary. They detect people at night via heat and CO2, so having a ceiling fan on at night should help confuse the critters enough to not take notice as they move at night from one apartment unit - through your bedroom - and over to someone elses unit.
I'm sure you know this but for those that don't, they didn't bury the bodies, they burned them. Too many bodies to dispose of in a timely manor. That, and the stench was unbearable.
Laws of physics not withstanding, I think it's a bit presumptuous to conclude our universe can be predicted with the right computing hardware in calculating every sub-atomic particle in motion down to the quantum level. We have no proof one way or another that the universe has a predictable non-random outcome. And even if it it did, how do "you" know what multi-verse you exist in should there be divergence at every universal fork (permutation)? Of course, that's another big assumption in of itself.
Low hanging fruit. It's a risk free action that yields results of said policy and justifies their existence to continue their nazi activities. Basically, the same reasons that the SWAT team goes after a pimply faced script kiddie with a gun pointed to the back of his head point-blank. Ya, tough guys! Rawwwrrrrr!!!
Weight. Moving an entire canister of liquid is heavy. Pumping liquid however distributes the weight while in transfer. Besides, think of the delay in progress and increase in hazards by moving full canisters of fuel. You only move them if they're small enough to be lifted by your average man. Say, for lawn mowing and emergency trips to refuel a stranded car on the road.
You know, if I was an enviro-nazi, I would demand all citizens with wooden guitars have their piece audited. If it fails the test, we shred the wood and put them into a giant pile. And the end, we burn the wood in a giant bonfire. And just like the Nazis, they too are oppressive AND stupid. Fuck them, and fuck all of you that vote these fuckers into office.
With thin or non-existant (in some cases it costs you) profit margins on the hardware, one would think HP should just close the doors and sell all the assets to ZTE or Lenovo. But in fact, America's weakness in this area is actually our strength. We have transitioned from a manufacturing based economy to one that's based on service. Apple knows this. They have the winning formula. Dell has it too to a lesser extent. Focus on premium support and special offerings. Make your company so damn good, that it too has a cult following among CIOs. Engineering is important, but HP needs to focus on marketing as to why they're special. Not on price, but on the ability to hand-hold and provide outstanding customer support. The idea being even if they sell a product with a shitty MTBF rate, all that can be washed away with up-selling them to a better product line and/or hand-holding them further to resolve the issue. Above all, don't get them irate if you can help it. Make your customers feel welcome and not as though they're walking through some revolving door of two-faced madness.
Oh come on! Let's just say what everyone else knows. No one has, so I'll just say it. It's political, period. Pure and simple. We have DC and NY along with other eastern coast cities that generally vote Democrat. And guess the types of media that is in the tank for them? Wild guess anyone? This is nothing more than a hype so at the end of the day, the politicians come out as heros for putting their own neck on the line and getting their hands dirty.
If we can ride out Ike, i'm sure the rest of you should have less trouble with Irene. Good luck, and be safe.
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Bacteria never had access to the atomic bomb either. Nations of Asia and the Middle East have them. They're also in a major industrial growth phase scrapping for offshore drilling rights. I read somewhere other the weekend of China and India facing off in waters. Not good. Nuclear armed nations tend to be more mature an reasonable with the power they now wield. But that's not a given. The PLC could give two-shits about India's population, and India wouldn't blink-twice before making China take another spin at the wheel of life. Pakistan is a wild card, and Iran seems hellbent on going after Israel with religious zeal. As for America and Russia, hopefully they realize there's nothing to be gained from being involved. Stay away from that powder keg.
due to unsustainable population areas means we're just making it worse
I'm not going to tread those waters, but I'm come close to it without offending anyone. I would agree that our hand-outs are and have been making things worse around the world. In the name of God (American's are mostly Christian), we feel it's our duty to feed the needy and hungry. Personally, I agree. But the fact it, it also perpetuates dictators and corrupt regimes in the process. If it wasn't for global economy crashing, there wouldn't have been an Arab Spring and the domino of revolutions that followed. It was an event that was destined to happen, but our "aid" kept prolonging the inevitable. The road to hell is paved with good intentions and all that.
It's both refreshing and sad to know that you've just now figured this out. For most of my life, I've always known the media was firstly self-serving. Anything else would be an afterthought on their part.
Most certainly he's talking of SCOTUS members legislating from the bench with a hand-waving excuse that the founders wouldn't have done such and such had they known our technology and/or society today. I have a big problem with that philosophy. Being a SCOTUS member means you apply judgment as it's stated. If that means civilians have the right to fully automatic weapons per 2nd amendment, so be it. That doesn't mean however you can't propose an amendment to clarify the 2nd amendment later. I have no problem with amending this document as intended.
A company isn't automatically responsible for any action some rogue employee takes.
True. If he went rogue to save his own ass. But if he was directed and had the e-mails to prove it, both him and the company would be liable. Even if the company instructed him to do something illegal, the individual is still held accountable as well.
The closest i've came to witnessing this first hand is when a co-worker of mine (many years go) was instructed to illegally dump UPS batteries and old CRT monitors. They didn't want to pay the recycling fee so they told him to "just make it go away, starting with the dumpster behind the building". Uh, no. You don't do shit like that I told him. They fired his ass for something minor and vague as being insubordinate. I told him that it was better he got fired now instead of later. He wouldn't want to work for a company like that anyways. A few months later, I jumped ship and worked for another company too. Shady shady shady. That company I worked for can rot in hell for all I care.
It's financial. As a nation, we are monetarily -broken-. Our policies, regulations, currency spending, and fiat currency; it's lead us all to ruin. Right now, there not a damn thing this administration or any future one can do to fix it. Of course, we can't exactly blame Obama or Bush, but they both certainly made things worse in their own way. In fact, this problem started at least 50 to 60 years go. Perhaps longer.
I hate to say it, but we're defaulting. We just need someone to officially declare it and take the political arrows to solidify the truth. Until that happens, we wont have reform and we wont stand together.
Not sure if it's possible, but I could imagine someone creating a virus specifically targeting an individual based on their DNA. For example, we could all pass the virus and it would do nothing but replicate and infect eventually finding it's way to the intended programmed target. At this point, it drops it's deadly payload of instructions and kills the target. Basically, a tool of assassination. Of course, there's always that what-could-possibly-go-wrong moment and the damn thing mutates killing us all.
On a serious note, impersonating any police officer is a BFD! As in, the employee will be facing jail time and the company fined.
Pizza so good, it's out of this world.
"I cast... magic cyber missile! Fear my incantations for your servers are feeble to stop them."
Anyone else just find this nerd fight entertaining? Pass the popcorn :)
Assuming that's even possible to place a QC die in the same CPU package. If the hardware to manipulate a quantum chip is complex enough, it may come in the form of a PCIe card at best. Otherwise, it could take form as a completely separate break-out box using a Thunderbolt interface.
The Chinese people and its government are many things, but they don't hate America and they're not looking to kill us. This isn't the cold war, and they don't have an axe to grind like the Russians did. In fact, many Chinese admire American history and our culture to some degree. They just wont admit it in public as they're extremely prideful and fear losing face. They're actions speak otherwise however. Look at all the stuff they copy, the modern music they compose, and the cars they drive. They too want that prosperous western lifestyle.
China still has a long way to go in grasping core western philosophies and understanding exactly what made Europe and America so great so fast. They're learning though as they emulate our lifestyle. Hopefully the good parts over the bad. If anything however, the west needs China more than anything now. They're keeping us grounded to reality. They have engineers who think in terms of raw engineering. They don't have mental obstructions of "can't", rather, if the math adds up they simple just "do". It's that attitude that we've lost with regards to nuclear energy, and human space exploration at least. Also, they have extremely strong family ties. A behavior that's been eroding away in western culture.
Better yet, it also makes it easier to figure out who else is using encryption. That would be the following.
A. The Pakistan government
B. Al-Qaeda (ok, so that could be filed under 'A', whatever)
C. Some poor innocent geek in a dusty basement being targeted with a drone.
Money can corrupt one's vision of what they really want in life. Once he figures out how much money he can earn by scanning and selling side scan bathymetry data, he'll make a killing reselling this to the oil and gas industry. But then again, I suspect that's his real goal. The Gulf of Mexico is rather convenient isn't it? Not that it hasn't already been mapped before, but high resolution data that's up-to-date is always in demand.
Speaking of bedbugs, I'm surprised we haven't had an Ask Slashdot article on how to get rid of these damn things. I've personally run into these in hotels and other people's apartment complexes (they migrate between units through the walls). Nasty little fuckers. And they stink when you crush em. Next time you're bored, take a trip to a local apartment complex and count the number of mattresses and box springs in the dump areas. All I know is this. If you're unemployed, there's a shit-ton of money to be made here in cleanup and mitigation. If there was ever a parasite to be paranoid and freaked out over, it's bedbugs. Good news, they're not known to spread diseases. Most likely because of their feeding and moulting cycles.
And before any of you start to pass judgement on those that had an infestation of bedbugs, keep in mind that does *not* mean the victims were dirty bastards. It's not uncommon for 4 and 5 star hotels to get infested. As a precaution, please look up the place of residence at http://bedbugregistry.com/ for more info. If you live in an apartment or other shared dwelling, you're fucked. Sorry, but you will eventually get bit. The only advice I have is that you use white sheets (to monitor potential blood stains) and keep the bed at least 1ft from a wall. Check the bed once a week and wash the sheets (all of them) at least twice a month. A huge PITA for even the most clean among us, but necessary. They detect people at night via heat and CO2, so having a ceiling fan on at night should help confuse the critters enough to not take notice as they move at night from one apartment unit - through your bedroom - and over to someone elses unit.
I'm sure you know this but for those that don't, they didn't bury the bodies, they burned them. Too many bodies to dispose of in a timely manor. That, and the stench was unbearable.
Laws of physics not withstanding, I think it's a bit presumptuous to conclude our universe can be predicted with the right computing hardware in calculating every sub-atomic particle in motion down to the quantum level. We have no proof one way or another that the universe has a predictable non-random outcome. And even if it it did, how do "you" know what multi-verse you exist in should there be divergence at every universal fork (permutation)? Of course, that's another big assumption in of itself.
Low hanging fruit. It's a risk free action that yields results of said policy and justifies their existence to continue their nazi activities. Basically, the same reasons that the SWAT team goes after a pimply faced script kiddie with a gun pointed to the back of his head point-blank. Ya, tough guys! Rawwwrrrrr!!!
Weight. Moving an entire canister of liquid is heavy. Pumping liquid however distributes the weight while in transfer. Besides, think of the delay in progress and increase in hazards by moving full canisters of fuel. You only move them if they're small enough to be lifted by your average man. Say, for lawn mowing and emergency trips to refuel a stranded car on the road.
You know, if I was an enviro-nazi, I would demand all citizens with wooden guitars have their piece audited. If it fails the test, we shred the wood and put them into a giant pile. And the end, we burn the wood in a giant bonfire. And just like the Nazis, they too are oppressive AND stupid. Fuck them, and fuck all of you that vote these fuckers into office.
With thin or non-existant (in some cases it costs you) profit margins on the hardware, one would think HP should just close the doors and sell all the assets to ZTE or Lenovo. But in fact, America's weakness in this area is actually our strength. We have transitioned from a manufacturing based economy to one that's based on service. Apple knows this. They have the winning formula. Dell has it too to a lesser extent. Focus on premium support and special offerings. Make your company so damn good, that it too has a cult following among CIOs. Engineering is important, but HP needs to focus on marketing as to why they're special. Not on price, but on the ability to hand-hold and provide outstanding customer support. The idea being even if they sell a product with a shitty MTBF rate, all that can be washed away with up-selling them to a better product line and/or hand-holding them further to resolve the issue. Above all, don't get them irate if you can help it. Make your customers feel welcome and not as though they're walking through some revolving door of two-faced madness.
Chainmail. It's back in vogue. Didn't you know? TSA is clueless, so don't ever expect them to know anything anyhow.
Oh come on! Let's just say what everyone else knows. No one has, so I'll just say it. It's political, period. Pure and simple. We have DC and NY along with other eastern coast cities that generally vote Democrat. And guess the types of media that is in the tank for them? Wild guess anyone? This is nothing more than a hype so at the end of the day, the politicians come out as heros for putting their own neck on the line and getting their hands dirty.
If we can ride out Ike, i'm sure the rest of you should have less trouble with Irene. Good luck, and be safe.
Ya, I'd stay too for that payout. Hazard pay can be nice.
Wouldn't that be a meat popsicle?