All things being equal though, would you rather spend that time reading a book, using your computer, or just sleeping, rather than staring at the bumper of the car in front and concentrating on not being crushed like a cardboard cup by the semi in the next lane?
9) refers to the amount of fresh water that has to be processed to make a pound of beef, not the amount the beef has in it. If you only count water that's destroyed... well, none of it is. After you eat the beef you piss or shit out the tissue water and even turn much of the other stuff into carbon dioxide and water. But we still have to spend the energy reprocessing all that water to raise the cow and process it's carcass.
I agree that many of the technologies just make dystopia easier to do as well though. Drones? Everyone will be watching everything. AI? That's what will be doing the watching and reporting to it's masters for signs of dissent. Pocket supercomputers? A window into the soul of every user that nicely complements the airborne drone tracking their movements.
And yes, computerized medicine (and other forms of labour) don't help unless you make the fruits of those labours widely available - and not just to those with jobs, because eliminating jobs is the whole point of them.
You know businesses pay a percentage to handle cash as well, right?
Here in the UK you can get a business account that provides free handling of automated transactions if you have a slightly elevated cash handling rate. The rate for a normal "cash handling" business is 4.8-6.2%
Now, I get that you can avoid some of that by paying your suppliers in cash, etc. But it's a myth that cash payments are inherently advantageous to all merchants.
Just use the license keys to install new Win 10 VMs. Then you have the best of both worlds - Win 7 VMs and fresh Win 10 VMs. They'll both continue to work - MS can't rescind your Win 7 license and can't tell that you've not just downgraded.
It hashes every file you read and write and denies you access to them.
We had that configured on a whitelist basis. The programmers had the option of overriding it, but as you can imagine, clicking through a dialog every time you make a 1-char change to every script file can be quite frustrating.
It also took a file-heavy process that used to run in 90 seconds and made it consume 14 minutes.
Real security is incompatible with mass air transit. Or indeed, free movement of people. The cost of real security is way higher than 10x the cost of the TSA.
This and the whole situation you have with shootings of blacks should be no surprise. You give one group of people power over another group with insufficient checks and balances, they misbehave and turn into giant douches.
Amazon have a ginormous online retail business to support their efforts to enter the market. It doesn't matter to them if they make a profit for a while, so they can overbid and make a loss.
16GB RAM (upgraded some years ago for some heavy Java work)
512GB SSD for operating systems
2TB spinning rust for games and home folders
Obutto r3volution desk with 3x 24" 1920x1080 monitors mounted on it
HTC Vive
IBM Model M
All home-build from parts, I've had the same case for over a decade.
Dual-booting Windows 10 and Ubuntu 16.04 ; Ubuntu is where it spends most of it's time, as this is my work OS. I no longer attempt to be productive on Windows (and haven't done for around 7 years), it contains only games. If I need Windows for work purposes, I have a Windows 7 VM I use for that.
For work, Eclipse, a bunch of text editors (usually ones with a vi emulation... or vim), normal Unix tools like VPN clients, secure shell, etc.
When I got a job that was mostly working at home, I also upgraded from an external USB drive to a RAID-0 NAS box, which has 4TB of RAID-0 in it. It's an x86 box rather than one of the ARM ones, so I can run normal Linux stuff on it in the potted Linux the vendor supplies.
Wireless router is an Asus RT16N flashed with OpenWRT (chosen specifically for compatibility).
My laptop is a Thinkpad 460s - slim and light but upgradeable enough to take over from my desktop for development if need be.
And I never see the flipside acknowledged which is that you raise taxes at the higher end to pay for it. You know they're good for it, the state just gave them $10,000.
America blows 17% of GDP on healthcare when systems in other countries prove you can have healthcare of equal or better quality for 12% or less. The world-renowned UK NHS is spending a mere 6.6% of UK GDP this year (although in reality we should be targeting more like 8%).
Move to a single payer system that cut costs down as far as an easily-attainable 60% of your current spend and you'd have an extra trillion dollars or so a year.
So, your parents depended on social services to get started, and you got a scholarship.
You are the very definition of not pulling yourself up by your bootstraps, but benefiting from the kindness of strangers. The bequests that paid for your scholarship and the taxes that paid for your parents to integration in your new home are as responsible for your success as your hard work is.
Well done for your hard work, but for every guy like you, there's a bunch of guys in the same situation who fought for those opportunities and came second, didn't get the scholarship, couldn't go to med school. Just because their story didn't resonate as well with the scholarship board doesn't mean they are any less talented, or any less talented than the rich kids who's parents paid their way - why don't they get your opportunities too? Because equality of opportunity is a lie.
Upside : free, works on all three big desktop OSs and both big phone OSs (I think Windows Phone too..), 50 participants in the free plan, up to 40 minute meetings in the free plan (TBH - this is a feature! Who wants to webconf for more than 40 minutes....)
Downside : not all the features work on Linux.
You'd have to be nuts not to be thinking about using a WebRTC client though.
What they call "Skype for Business" now is basically Lync. Same program, same protocols, they just rebranded it to capitalise on the brand recognition.
Basically, they're capitalising on corporate dipshittery. It's impossible to attest to the destruction of digital data, because it's so readily copyable. If you must be sure that a given data vessel is unrecoverable, then physically destroy it - unless it's something exotic, it will be cheaper than all that paperwork.
There are some useful features there like license harvesting though - I presume a lot of people wipe a HD and then go "DOH!" as their expensive enterprise software licenses go up in smoke.
Blancco are just capitalising on ignorance (and risk-aversion in the business community which only tends to regard something you pay for as being a safe bet, despite the usual license agreements which preclude the vendor having any liability anyway).
And why is the US still throwing money at the F35, unless it can be flown without pilots.
This still isn't a justification. The F35 is a multi-role aircraft - i.e. - not the best at anything. Your $150M aircraft would be pwned by old F-16s refitted to be drones, let alone anything new designed specifically to be a drone.
The reason that money is being thrown at the F35 is because Lockheed like money, and know where to sprinkle loose change to get the best returns.
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The government in the UK has already announced laws to do that.
http://www.theactuary.com/news...
And the insurance industry seem to be onboard too..
http://www.autocar.co.uk/car-n...
All things being equal though, would you rather spend that time reading a book, using your computer, or just sleeping, rather than staring at the bumper of the car in front and concentrating on not being crushed like a cardboard cup by the semi in the next lane?
9) refers to the amount of fresh water that has to be processed to make a pound of beef, not the amount the beef has in it. If you only count water that's destroyed... well, none of it is. After you eat the beef you piss or shit out the tissue water and even turn much of the other stuff into carbon dioxide and water. But we still have to spend the energy reprocessing all that water to raise the cow and process it's carcass.
I agree that many of the technologies just make dystopia easier to do as well though. Drones? Everyone will be watching everything. AI? That's what will be doing the watching and reporting to it's masters for signs of dissent. Pocket supercomputers? A window into the soul of every user that nicely complements the airborne drone tracking their movements.
And yes, computerized medicine (and other forms of labour) don't help unless you make the fruits of those labours widely available - and not just to those with jobs, because eliminating jobs is the whole point of them.
You're upgrading the hour you gained though, you'll feel better and be healthier.
You know businesses pay a percentage to handle cash as well, right?
Here in the UK you can get a business account that provides free handling of automated transactions if you have a slightly elevated cash handling rate. The rate for a normal "cash handling" business is 4.8-6.2%
Now, I get that you can avoid some of that by paying your suppliers in cash, etc. But it's a myth that cash payments are inherently advantageous to all merchants.
You don't need to upgrade them.
Just use the license keys to install new Win 10 VMs. Then you have the best of both worlds - Win 7 VMs and fresh Win 10 VMs. They'll both continue to work - MS can't rescind your Win 7 license and can't tell that you've not just downgraded.
Ugh, Bit9 is pure evil, from a programmer POV.
It hashes every file you read and write and denies you access to them.
We had that configured on a whitelist basis. The programmers had the option of overriding it, but as you can imagine, clicking through a dialog every time you make a 1-char change to every script file can be quite frustrating.
It also took a file-heavy process that used to run in 90 seconds and made it consume 14 minutes.
Real security is incompatible with mass air transit. Or indeed, free movement of people. The cost of real security is way higher than 10x the cost of the TSA.
It's like the Stanford Prison Experiment, only with a lot more experimental groups.
This and the whole situation you have with shootings of blacks should be no surprise. You give one group of people power over another group with insufficient checks and balances, they misbehave and turn into giant douches.
That cashier will probably have to make the difference up out of their pay packet, so he just stole $80 from someone who likely cannot afford it.
Stone cold cunt.
Amazon have a ginormous online retail business to support their efforts to enter the market. It doesn't matter to them if they make a profit for a while, so they can overbid and make a loss.
For Netflix, it's their core business.
All home-build from parts, I've had the same case for over a decade.
Dual-booting Windows 10 and Ubuntu 16.04 ; Ubuntu is where it spends most of it's time, as this is my work OS. I no longer attempt to be productive on Windows (and haven't done for around 7 years), it contains only games. If I need Windows for work purposes, I have a Windows 7 VM I use for that.
For work, Eclipse, a bunch of text editors (usually ones with a vi emulation... or vim), normal Unix tools like VPN clients, secure shell, etc.
When I got a job that was mostly working at home, I also upgraded from an external USB drive to a RAID-0 NAS box, which has 4TB of RAID-0 in it. It's an x86 box rather than one of the ARM ones, so I can run normal Linux stuff on it in the potted Linux the vendor supplies.
Wireless router is an Asus RT16N flashed with OpenWRT (chosen specifically for compatibility).
My laptop is a Thinkpad 460s - slim and light but upgradeable enough to take over from my desktop for development if need be.
And I never see the flipside acknowledged which is that you raise taxes at the higher end to pay for it. You know they're good for it, the state just gave them $10,000.
America blows 17% of GDP on healthcare when systems in other countries prove you can have healthcare of equal or better quality for 12% or less. The world-renowned UK NHS is spending a mere 6.6% of UK GDP this year (although in reality we should be targeting more like 8%).
Move to a single payer system that cut costs down as far as an easily-attainable 60% of your current spend and you'd have an extra trillion dollars or so a year.
So, your parents depended on social services to get started, and you got a scholarship.
You are the very definition of not pulling yourself up by your bootstraps, but benefiting from the kindness of strangers. The bequests that paid for your scholarship and the taxes that paid for your parents to integration in your new home are as responsible for your success as your hard work is.
Well done for your hard work, but for every guy like you, there's a bunch of guys in the same situation who fought for those opportunities and came second, didn't get the scholarship, couldn't go to med school. Just because their story didn't resonate as well with the scholarship board doesn't mean they are any less talented, or any less talented than the rich kids who's parents paid their way - why don't they get your opportunities too? Because equality of opportunity is a lie.
ShakespeareCorp doesn't legislate for his plays to be kept in copyright every time they come close to entering the public domain.
My last lot used Zoom.us
Upside : free, works on all three big desktop OSs and both big phone OSs (I think Windows Phone too..), 50 participants in the free plan, up to 40 minute meetings in the free plan (TBH - this is a feature! Who wants to webconf for more than 40 minutes....)
Downside : not all the features work on Linux.
You'd have to be nuts not to be thinking about using a WebRTC client though.
What they call "Skype for Business" now is basically Lync. Same program, same protocols, they just rebranded it to capitalise on the brand recognition.
Love those Kuru Toga pencils :-)
Would it really be slower? I'm assuming the rate limit is the disk IO speed, not the CPU time.
DBAN seems to be owned by the company posting the article as well - their front page links to Blancco software and has a comparison chart :
http://dban.org/download
Basically, they're capitalising on corporate dipshittery. It's impossible to attest to the destruction of digital data, because it's so readily copyable. If you must be sure that a given data vessel is unrecoverable, then physically destroy it - unless it's something exotic, it will be cheaper than all that paperwork.
There are some useful features there like license harvesting though - I presume a lot of people wipe a HD and then go "DOH!" as their expensive enterprise software licenses go up in smoke.
Hah, hadn't realized that Blancco is apparently just the monetization of DBAN.
You don't need to do it under Windows though - burn a Linux USB and off you go.
Hell, there's a bootable image just for it : Darik's Boot and Nuke
Blancco are just capitalising on ignorance (and risk-aversion in the business community which only tends to regard something you pay for as being a safe bet, despite the usual license agreements which preclude the vendor having any liability anyway).
And why is the US still throwing money at the F35, unless it can be flown without pilots.
This still isn't a justification. The F35 is a multi-role aircraft - i.e. - not the best at anything. Your $150M aircraft would be pwned by old F-16s refitted to be drones, let alone anything new designed specifically to be a drone.
The reason that money is being thrown at the F35 is because Lockheed like money, and know where to sprinkle loose change to get the best returns.
If they've hired ex-Nokia employees, it might be a descendant of Maemo.