Yes, and you choose not to gouge your eyes and and then bitch about it after the fact.
If you did, you would deserve the same response.
Its an issue for ANY OS, NOT just commercial ones. Its not like Linux can run every binary ever made for it past, present and future.
Before someone starts telling me how you can run apps compiled 10 years ago on a modern Linux distro, go read up on GCC ABI changes and why what you claim is an utter lie from the start before you start telling me about how you're doing it.
If you don't upgrade, it does play games and runs linux. Thats what you bought. When you add a new software update you are now using something other than what you bought. You want both.
You could still play all the games you already owned. Sony could not stop you from playing them. They didn't magically flip a bit on every DVD they sold IN THE PAST and your old games stop working on the device.
New games may require an upgrade, but there again YOU WANT THE CHANGE and you're bitching that you dont' get your cake and eat it too.
You do realize they didn't actually lose half their value right? You do realize the only people their stock price dropping actually hurt were the people riding the bubble not the company itself, right?
You can't name a single thing now they do thats worse than they did 10 years ago. If anything, they've opened up ever so slightly since Jobs died.
Seriously? Its obvious you're lying when you talk about having trouble with 'java, python, web' as a developer... since until recently it came with all 3 of those things built in and working 'out of the box'. Python and Apache httpd are still part of the base install, though Java no longer is, thats a recent change.
"Overblown hyperbole"??? They changed their whole UI to make it more iOS-like.
Do you even use OSX or are you just reading from some website somewhere? I've been with OSX since it came out off and on, and solid since 10.5, the only time I've notice changes is for a few days immediately following an upgrade between one of those point releases when something with the dock changed that I can't even remember now (context menus or something), and after getting used to it I can't even remember what the change was, it was that trivial
Do you need scrollbars eating screen real estate when they aren't needed or you aren't scrolling? They appear when you scroll if you need them, just scroll a tiny bit and poof, there they are... and they get larger if you hover near them so they are easier to hit. What EXACTLY is your complaint?
What else are you bitching about? You don't have to use launchpad or the AppStore. Notification center can easily be turned off if you're that upset by it.
What HIG are you following that says these things are counter-intuitive? What research do you have to suggest you know better than them? How many years designing UIs do you have? How much empirical testing have you done on the matter?
You sound more like someone who just bitches anytime they upgrade and things are different. You sound like one of those people who expect massive upgrades for free to something they bought 10 years ago, and then bitch like a raving nutter when the never version is in ANY way different than the old.
I'm willing to bet you feel ignored an aweful lot and don't even understand why.
If you don't take anything new from them, they won't take anything away from you.
You don't have to upgrade anything, and you won't lose anything.
You're argument is retarded. Its retarded to say Sony took away 'Other OS' when you could have simply not upgraded, its retarded to say Microsoft took something away from you when you couldn't run some Windows (insert anything before Windows 8) from before in Windows 8.
You don't get to say they took shit away from you when you actively have to do something yourself to have the change effect you.
You're blaming the gun manufacture for your suicide when your dumb ass put the gun in your mouth and pulled the trigger. Next you'll blame them cause you're too stupid to even do that right and just blew the side of your face off instead of doing the job properly.
If there is something in OS X that bothers you because its like iOS... stop using it. There is nothing in OSX that came from iOS that is even on by default except notification center, let alone are you forced to use it. Notification center is hardly intrusive but its certainly trivial to turn off.
What exactly is your problem? What examples do you have of things from iOS that being forced on you in OSX now?
Clearly, collecting data that people broadcast openly into the street as if they were yelling at the top of their lungs in the middle of a crowded arena is actually exactly taking the steps required to visit a website, find a loophole, exploit and download data.
I'm not saying Swartz deserved 35 years in jail (and he wouldn't have gotten that anyway), but to pretend willfully stealing data is the same as overhearing it and recording that... well that just make you look fucking stupid.
Google's mistake is that they were honest about it what they did by accident. It isn't even actually illegal to do it intentionally contrary to popular belief in most places, regardless of what this court case makes you think. The should have just kept their mouths shut. People who understand the technology don't care about what people did. The only people that care are the ones that heard Google say 'yea, we shouldn't have done that' and then they look for reasons to tear Google apart.
Swartz on the other hand took direct action to steal data for the express purpose of stealing the data. It wasn't an accident, it was intentional. That changes the punishment in and of itself from both a moral and a legal perspective. Swartz sounds (if you think you know the truth about the Swartz case, you're just ignorant) like he probably wasn't doing anything actually wrong either from a moral perspective, but from a legal one there is no question that he violated the most basic federal computer crimes law. Unauthorized access to any computer system is illegal, period, no ifs ands or buts about it. The only exception to that is if the 'access' wasn't your choice and was forced on you, such as say the perfect example... wifi signals broadcast at you. It is not legal to steal someones data and then say 'look, I stole some of your data, fix it!'
Slashdotters may think this is the moral high ground, but it isn't. What if he'd stolen say... a confidential database of aids patients in the area... and then someone stole it from him or he lost his laptop... and now that aids patient database becomes public... Would you still be so fucking stupid as to think it was OK for him to steal data he never had any rights too in any way? What if you were in that database? What if your child, who got aids through some shitty accident like the utrarare blood transfusion instances (rare now days anyway) and suddenly he can't go to school anymore because everyone is afraid of the little kid with HIV so your kid gets isolated from everyone and can't go to school... would it still be OK for Swartz to have stolen the data?
Swartz was unstable and depressed, stop pretending that he was an angel that was trying to protect us from the evil bad code and data leaks.
Google accidently stored and didn't immediately throw packets that BY DEFINITION THEY CAN NOT IGNORE and you act like its the same thing as intentional data theft.
Let me give you a hint, your wifi adapter... right now... is listening in on EVERY FREAKING SSID ON YOUR CHANNEL AND PROBABLY THE ONES NEXT TO IT AS WELL. If you have a wifi card the difference between you and Google is that Google wrote down what you threw out.
Google is not evil and Swartz wasn't your fucking hero, grow up.
Actually, they don't. Unless you consider their entire male population as reservists but ignore everyone else's. Which they do and we don't.
Don't let actual knowledge of the situation prevent you from submitting a truthful depiction of the situation or anything, always better to sensationalize and lie.
Uhm, when you throw a bunch of people into a room without any idea about what they are doing and they design something... you get bit coin. Its not really complicated, its pretty clear for many obvious reasons that the people doing this don't actually understand what they are trying to create.
Considering the problem has absolutely nothing to do with encryption/digital signatures and everything to do with simply using the wrong database format. Technically its just a shitty database format with technical limitations they ran into due to poorly thinking things through when implementing.
I think its pretty awesome that the summary is clear due to your knowledge of distributed crypto.
My knowledge tends to say you're talking out your ass, but hey, when does reality matter or anything right?
More telling about BitCoin however is that ridiculously 'should have tested for that' bugs like this exist. Shows the level of forethought and insight that went into this protocol. They pulled the same ignorant mistake that we've been making fun of Microsoft over for... what... 30 years now?
You can send money now without a trusted 3rd party... look, I'm transferring you a bajizzillion dollars right this instant in this message! Since you don't need anyone else to verify it, it must be true! Whats that? Bitcoin does require others to verify, it just doesn't have any way to confirm that those others should be trusted either... my bad.
Email is in no way decentralized. Neither is anything else on the Internet that actually works.
Email DEPENDS on DNS, DNS is most certainly centralized. Both are then delegated to individual organizations to control, but they are in no way decentralized. You fail to understand how things you speak of work.
Email can not replace the post office either. Email can not provide me with a certified legal proof that the recipient received the message. Email'd scans of most objects aren't accepted, though we are getting to the point where we can scan checks and email them if you want to wait extra days for the bank to verify you aren't scamming them. You utterly fail to take into account all the services the USPS offers.
BitCoin solves no problem that were actual problems before BitCoin existed and introduces ones that everyone else in the world resolved via common sense thousands of years ago. You can't makeup a currency without anything backing it of value. Fiat currencies have governments. BitCoin's entire point as you put it is to not have anyone who can back it, brilliant plan.
You BitCoin guys live in a fantasy world. BitCoin is as likely to work properly as pure communism or socialism.
How can you deny that there is a value to having a Paypal with no 'central authority' or any 'One trusted third party'?
Because I'm smart enough to understand why 'decentralized' as far as hackers go, universally fails.
Real people don't even use paypal, we have credit and debit cards tied to real bank accounts not to some scummy ass company known for ripping its customers off.
My bank will epay many things electronicly via their website, and anyone they can't do electronically they'll put a physical check in their mailbox within 3 weekdays of my request.
Perhaps you should grow up and get a bank account like normal people and stop dicking with paypal.
Paypal solves no problem that wasn't already solved before it existed, it serves no useful purpose. The only thing it does better is advertise on the Internet so people dont' realize how many other companies will process transactions for you just like any other CC transaction.
Paypal is for idiots, they deserve to wait 10 days for being stupid in the first place.
No central authority translates to chaos, you just haven't seen that with bitcoin yet as its not time for the scam to be drained out by its proprietors. Once they scam is called, your bitcoins will be worth the bits that make them up. The entire things is trivial to subvert, got its susceptible to just about all the same attacks that used to wreak havoc on IRC, 'trusting the majority' without universal and always on access to EVERYONE to get a FULL MAJORITY OPINION means the system is easily subverted with a net split. You don't have to run the scam long, just long enough to satisfy the seller that your transaction is legit.
I'm not so ignorant to think that 'the majority' is right. In my experience, the 'majority' is almost universally wrong about just about everything. The 'majority' is easy to sway and manipulate. This applies to people just the same as bitcoin nodes.
You simple fail to understand how bitcoin isn't anything like you think it is.
I'm fairly confident you could drop 900 missiles on the US and not get most of my friends. I admit, I'm currently in an urban area so I'd get toasted, but America isn't (insert whatever country your from that clearly is THE SHIT compared to us) so don't assume we're as retarded and all live in 3 cities. America is broken into the 3 parts. West coast, East of the Mississippi, and 'no mans land' in the middle. While they could wipe out the east and west coasts and a few of the larger central cities with those 900, they wouldn't be able to blanket the entire area of the East of the Missippi.
Facts from areas with ACTUAL bombs dropped on them show that the 'fallout' isn't nearly as life ending as its made out to be in hollywood. In fact, there are more people living on land that has had nukes detonated on it now than there were before the nukes were detonated.
900 nukes would not make Fallout a reality, contrary to what you might think. I'd worry if you thought we'd get his by say... 4000 or so (the entire ACTIVE arsenel of russia or the US for instance)... well, I'd be a little more concerned with how much habitable parts of the US there were left.
If the radiation from the blast is going to kill you, you'll be vaporized by the heat first.
The math for 'anti-matter weaponry' is all wrong. Unless we find that nature creates it in copious amounts that we can easily harvest from space or something like that, we're never going to be doing anything extreme with anti-matter.
Couple in the fact that any sort of anti-matter requires active magnetic confinement in order to not annihilate itself makes the whole idea a non-starter. Maybe if we invent room temp superconductors so we can use magnetic locking and such to produce the right fields without active feedback, but I can't imagine anyone wanting to be within 20 kilometers of any sort of even minor sized stockpile.
With a nuke detonating near other nukes, it is actually not likely that the other nukes will go critical and the ones that do are not going to achieve their normal yield as the geometry will be off internally (one side collapsing in rather than a perfect sphere). With anti-matter, one detonation will most certainly knock out any sort of nearby electronics if it doesn't vaporize them already, meaning all your confinement systems for your anti-matter are going to fail almost instantly.
Nuclear materials are relatively safe contrary to popular belief. If you know how to handle them you're pretty much going to be fine, don't ingest it;)
Antimatter is the definition of annihilation for all practical purposes. Its also pretty much the closest thing we have to a StarTrek transporter as well, since it will convert you to energy instantly on contact.
While your post clearly shows your ignorance of reality, this particular bit stuck out.
Nuclear weapons are never 'waste'. They contained EXTREMELY enriched uranium. Just because it doesn't go 'boom with a thud' any more, its still nicely packaged energy waiting to be used. Warheads get reprocessed and used to fuel reactors. The reality of it is, probably some of the power you used to type your message, and I know the power I'm using to type this message came from what was previously a nuclear bomb.
Nukes contain what is arguably one of the most precious resources on our planet. While we can actually just 'make more', the amount of energy that goes into it is ridiculous and impractical. Its not something you want to waste.
Because even France has more nukes than China currently does? The US and Russia both have well over an order of magnitude more weapons than China. We could probably watch them launch most of their nukes if not all of them, then shoot down the ones that get close and not break a sweat. As far as we can tell, they only have a few hundred bombs. We could (the US) easily survive direct hits from almost their entire stockpile and survive well enough that they wouldn't want to invade us anymore than we wanted to fight a land war in Japan. Remember, America is not like the rest of the world, we have A LOT of people living in rural areas. Take out EVERY city and you STILL have significant populations of people to deal with.
On the contrary, we can drop roughly 7,000 on them in less than an hour if we wanted to turn the Gobi into a big glass parking lot.
China probably would like more evenly related numbers.
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Yes, and you choose not to gouge your eyes and and then bitch about it after the fact.
If you did, you would deserve the same response.
Its an issue for ANY OS, NOT just commercial ones. Its not like Linux can run every binary ever made for it past, present and future.
Before someone starts telling me how you can run apps compiled 10 years ago on a modern Linux distro, go read up on GCC ABI changes and why what you claim is an utter lie from the start before you start telling me about how you're doing it.
Upgrades in all cases I presented are a choice.
If you don't upgrade, it does play games and runs linux. Thats what you bought. When you add a new software update you are now using something other than what you bought. You want both.
You could still play all the games you already owned. Sony could not stop you from playing them. They didn't magically flip a bit on every DVD they sold IN THE PAST and your old games stop working on the device.
New games may require an upgrade, but there again YOU WANT THE CHANGE and you're bitching that you dont' get your cake and eat it too.
And you could have continued to use the old versions of Chrome and Firefox.
When you upgrade that software, YOU ARE TAKING AWAY YOUR OPTIONS.
You're complaining that they don't continue giving you free shit, not that they are taking something away.
YOU ARE NOT ENTITLED TO SOFTWARE UPDATES TO YOUR FAVORITE VERSION OF SOFTWARE FOR LIFE NO MATTER HOW SPECIAL YOU THINK YOU ARE.
Yes, I was yelling and if I could yell louder some how I would. Get some perspective and a clue.
What restrictions? I hear you saying 'all restrictions' but you aren't actually naming any ... just like everyone else who uses that tired meme.
You do realize they didn't actually lose half their value right? You do realize the only people their stock price dropping actually hurt were the people riding the bubble not the company itself, right?
You can't name a single thing now they do thats worse than they did 10 years ago. If anything, they've opened up ever so slightly since Jobs died.
Seriously? Its obvious you're lying when you talk about having trouble with 'java, python, web' as a developer ... since until recently it came with all 3 of those things built in and working 'out of the box'. Python and Apache httpd are still part of the base install, though Java no longer is, thats a recent change.
You sir, are a liar.
Office 365 is actually not as bad as I thought it would be.
Yea, 12 hour service outages aren't a problem or anything!
"Overblown hyperbole"??? They changed their whole UI to make it more iOS-like.
Do you even use OSX or are you just reading from some website somewhere? I've been with OSX since it came out off and on, and solid since 10.5, the only time I've notice changes is for a few days immediately following an upgrade between one of those point releases when something with the dock changed that I can't even remember now (context menus or something), and after getting used to it I can't even remember what the change was, it was that trivial
Do you need scrollbars eating screen real estate when they aren't needed or you aren't scrolling? They appear when you scroll if you need them, just scroll a tiny bit and poof, there they are ... and they get larger if you hover near them so they are easier to hit. What EXACTLY is your complaint?
What else are you bitching about? You don't have to use launchpad or the AppStore. Notification center can easily be turned off if you're that upset by it.
What HIG are you following that says these things are counter-intuitive? What research do you have to suggest you know better than them? How many years designing UIs do you have? How much empirical testing have you done on the matter?
You sound more like someone who just bitches anytime they upgrade and things are different. You sound like one of those people who expect massive upgrades for free to something they bought 10 years ago, and then bitch like a raving nutter when the never version is in ANY way different than the old.
I'm willing to bet you feel ignored an aweful lot and don't even understand why.
Yes you can, the clock just got all fucked up.
That sounds unpleasant to say the least.
if you're the kind of person who likes vim.
Two wrongs don't make a right. And no, emacs isn't right either.
If you don't take anything new from them, they won't take anything away from you.
You don't have to upgrade anything, and you won't lose anything.
You're argument is retarded. Its retarded to say Sony took away 'Other OS' when you could have simply not upgraded, its retarded to say Microsoft took something away from you when you couldn't run some Windows (insert anything before Windows 8) from before in Windows 8.
You don't get to say they took shit away from you when you actively have to do something yourself to have the change effect you.
You're blaming the gun manufacture for your suicide when your dumb ass put the gun in your mouth and pulled the trigger. Next you'll blame them cause you're too stupid to even do that right and just blew the side of your face off instead of doing the job properly.
If there is something in OS X that bothers you because its like iOS ... stop using it. There is nothing in OSX that came from iOS that is even on by default except notification center, let alone are you forced to use it. Notification center is hardly intrusive but its certainly trivial to turn off.
What exactly is your problem? What examples do you have of things from iOS that being forced on you in OSX now?
This is just an example of the older generations 'not getting it'. This has all happened before and it will all happen again, and again, and again.
Your parents said the same sort of things about you at one point. The specifics were different, but the people acting the same.
Clearly, collecting data that people broadcast openly into the street as if they were yelling at the top of their lungs in the middle of a crowded arena is actually exactly taking the steps required to visit a website, find a loophole, exploit and download data.
I'm not saying Swartz deserved 35 years in jail (and he wouldn't have gotten that anyway), but to pretend willfully stealing data is the same as overhearing it and recording that ... well that just make you look fucking stupid.
Google's mistake is that they were honest about it what they did by accident. It isn't even actually illegal to do it intentionally contrary to popular belief in most places, regardless of what this court case makes you think. The should have just kept their mouths shut. People who understand the technology don't care about what people did. The only people that care are the ones that heard Google say 'yea, we shouldn't have done that' and then they look for reasons to tear Google apart.
Swartz on the other hand took direct action to steal data for the express purpose of stealing the data. It wasn't an accident, it was intentional. That changes the punishment in and of itself from both a moral and a legal perspective. Swartz sounds (if you think you know the truth about the Swartz case, you're just ignorant) like he probably wasn't doing anything actually wrong either from a moral perspective, but from a legal one there is no question that he violated the most basic federal computer crimes law. Unauthorized access to any computer system is illegal, period, no ifs ands or buts about it. The only exception to that is if the 'access' wasn't your choice and was forced on you, such as say the perfect example ... wifi signals broadcast at you. It is not legal to steal someones data and then say 'look, I stole some of your data, fix it!'
Slashdotters may think this is the moral high ground, but it isn't. What if he'd stolen say ... a confidential database of aids patients in the area ... and then someone stole it from him or he lost his laptop ... and now that aids patient database becomes public ... Would you still be so fucking stupid as to think it was OK for him to steal data he never had any rights too in any way? What if you were in that database? What if your child, who got aids through some shitty accident like the utrarare blood transfusion instances (rare now days anyway) and suddenly he can't go to school anymore because everyone is afraid of the little kid with HIV so your kid gets isolated from everyone and can't go to school ... would it still be OK for Swartz to have stolen the data?
Swartz was unstable and depressed, stop pretending that he was an angel that was trying to protect us from the evil bad code and data leaks.
Google accidently stored and didn't immediately throw packets that BY DEFINITION THEY CAN NOT IGNORE and you act like its the same thing as intentional data theft.
Let me give you a hint, your wifi adapter ... right now ... is listening in on EVERY FREAKING SSID ON YOUR CHANNEL AND PROBABLY THE ONES NEXT TO IT AS WELL. If you have a wifi card the difference between you and Google is that Google wrote down what you threw out.
Google is not evil and Swartz wasn't your fucking hero, grow up.
Actually, they don't. Unless you consider their entire male population as reservists but ignore everyone else's. Which they do and we don't.
Don't let actual knowledge of the situation prevent you from submitting a truthful depiction of the situation or anything, always better to sensationalize and lie.
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Yes, they are, they cost about $100 and walmart sells them.
You may have heard of them, they are called 'Kinect' and with oversampling, the resolution is rather impressive.
Google for Kinect Fusion or here is one of the related links: http://www.theverge.com/2013/3/6/4071162/kinect-fusion-3d-object-scanning-coming-in-future-kinect-for-windows
Uhm, when you throw a bunch of people into a room without any idea about what they are doing and they design something ... you get bit coin. Its not really complicated, its pretty clear for many obvious reasons that the people doing this don't actually understand what they are trying to create.
Considering the problem has absolutely nothing to do with encryption/digital signatures and everything to do with simply using the wrong database format. Technically its just a shitty database format with technical limitations they ran into due to poorly thinking things through when implementing.
I think its pretty awesome that the summary is clear due to your knowledge of distributed crypto.
My knowledge tends to say you're talking out your ass, but hey, when does reality matter or anything right?
More telling about BitCoin however is that ridiculously 'should have tested for that' bugs like this exist. Shows the level of forethought and insight that went into this protocol. They pulled the same ignorant mistake that we've been making fun of Microsoft over for ... what ... 30 years now?
Not even close.
You can send money now without a trusted 3rd party ... look, I'm transferring you a bajizzillion dollars right this instant in this message! Since you don't need anyone else to verify it, it must be true! Whats that? Bitcoin does require others to verify, it just doesn't have any way to confirm that those others should be trusted either ... my bad.
Email is in no way decentralized. Neither is anything else on the Internet that actually works.
Email DEPENDS on DNS, DNS is most certainly centralized. Both are then delegated to individual organizations to control, but they are in no way decentralized. You fail to understand how things you speak of work.
Email can not replace the post office either. Email can not provide me with a certified legal proof that the recipient received the message. Email'd scans of most objects aren't accepted, though we are getting to the point where we can scan checks and email them if you want to wait extra days for the bank to verify you aren't scamming them. You utterly fail to take into account all the services the USPS offers.
BitCoin solves no problem that were actual problems before BitCoin existed and introduces ones that everyone else in the world resolved via common sense thousands of years ago. You can't makeup a currency without anything backing it of value. Fiat currencies have governments. BitCoin's entire point as you put it is to not have anyone who can back it, brilliant plan.
You BitCoin guys live in a fantasy world. BitCoin is as likely to work properly as pure communism or socialism.
How can you deny that there is a value to having a Paypal with no 'central authority' or any 'One trusted third party'?
Because I'm smart enough to understand why 'decentralized' as far as hackers go, universally fails.
Real people don't even use paypal, we have credit and debit cards tied to real bank accounts not to some scummy ass company known for ripping its customers off.
My bank will epay many things electronicly via their website, and anyone they can't do electronically they'll put a physical check in their mailbox within 3 weekdays of my request.
Perhaps you should grow up and get a bank account like normal people and stop dicking with paypal.
Paypal solves no problem that wasn't already solved before it existed, it serves no useful purpose. The only thing it does better is advertise on the Internet so people dont' realize how many other companies will process transactions for you just like any other CC transaction.
Paypal is for idiots, they deserve to wait 10 days for being stupid in the first place.
No central authority translates to chaos, you just haven't seen that with bitcoin yet as its not time for the scam to be drained out by its proprietors. Once they scam is called, your bitcoins will be worth the bits that make them up. The entire things is trivial to subvert, got its susceptible to just about all the same attacks that used to wreak havoc on IRC, 'trusting the majority' without universal and always on access to EVERYONE to get a FULL MAJORITY OPINION means the system is easily subverted with a net split. You don't have to run the scam long, just long enough to satisfy the seller that your transaction is legit.
I'm not so ignorant to think that 'the majority' is right. In my experience, the 'majority' is almost universally wrong about just about everything. The 'majority' is easy to sway and manipulate. This applies to people just the same as bitcoin nodes.
You simple fail to understand how bitcoin isn't anything like you think it is.
I'm fairly confident you could drop 900 missiles on the US and not get most of my friends. I admit, I'm currently in an urban area so I'd get toasted, but America isn't (insert whatever country your from that clearly is THE SHIT compared to us) so don't assume we're as retarded and all live in 3 cities. America is broken into the 3 parts. West coast, East of the Mississippi, and 'no mans land' in the middle. While they could wipe out the east and west coasts and a few of the larger central cities with those 900, they wouldn't be able to blanket the entire area of the East of the Missippi.
Facts from areas with ACTUAL bombs dropped on them show that the 'fallout' isn't nearly as life ending as its made out to be in hollywood. In fact, there are more people living on land that has had nukes detonated on it now than there were before the nukes were detonated.
900 nukes would not make Fallout a reality, contrary to what you might think. I'd worry if you thought we'd get his by say ... 4000 or so (the entire ACTIVE arsenel of russia or the US for instance) ... well, I'd be a little more concerned with how much habitable parts of the US there were left.
If the radiation from the blast is going to kill you, you'll be vaporized by the heat first.
The math for 'anti-matter weaponry' is all wrong. Unless we find that nature creates it in copious amounts that we can easily harvest from space or something like that, we're never going to be doing anything extreme with anti-matter.
Couple in the fact that any sort of anti-matter requires active magnetic confinement in order to not annihilate itself makes the whole idea a non-starter. Maybe if we invent room temp superconductors so we can use magnetic locking and such to produce the right fields without active feedback, but I can't imagine anyone wanting to be within 20 kilometers of any sort of even minor sized stockpile.
With a nuke detonating near other nukes, it is actually not likely that the other nukes will go critical and the ones that do are not going to achieve their normal yield as the geometry will be off internally (one side collapsing in rather than a perfect sphere). With anti-matter, one detonation will most certainly knock out any sort of nearby electronics if it doesn't vaporize them already, meaning all your confinement systems for your anti-matter are going to fail almost instantly.
Nuclear materials are relatively safe contrary to popular belief. If you know how to handle them you're pretty much going to be fine, don't ingest it ;)
Antimatter is the definition of annihilation for all practical purposes. Its also pretty much the closest thing we have to a StarTrek transporter as well, since it will convert you to energy instantly on contact.
also the whole waste management thing....
While your post clearly shows your ignorance of reality, this particular bit stuck out.
Nuclear weapons are never 'waste'. They contained EXTREMELY enriched uranium. Just because it doesn't go 'boom with a thud' any more, its still nicely packaged energy waiting to be used. Warheads get reprocessed and used to fuel reactors. The reality of it is, probably some of the power you used to type your message, and I know the power I'm using to type this message came from what was previously a nuclear bomb.
Nukes contain what is arguably one of the most precious resources on our planet. While we can actually just 'make more', the amount of energy that goes into it is ridiculous and impractical. Its not something you want to waste.
Because even France has more nukes than China currently does? The US and Russia both have well over an order of magnitude more weapons than China. We could probably watch them launch most of their nukes if not all of them, then shoot down the ones that get close and not break a sweat. As far as we can tell, they only have a few hundred bombs. We could (the US) easily survive direct hits from almost their entire stockpile and survive well enough that they wouldn't want to invade us anymore than we wanted to fight a land war in Japan. Remember, America is not like the rest of the world, we have A LOT of people living in rural areas. Take out EVERY city and you STILL have significant populations of people to deal with.
On the contrary, we can drop roughly 7,000 on them in less than an hour if we wanted to turn the Gobi into a big glass parking lot.
China probably would like more evenly related numbers.