And you also hear much, much more about predatory pedophiles stalking random children; not that by far the biggets and most common threat of such type to children comes from close family and "friends" of that family.
A bias in reporting; cases with decent private security aren't so visible, their personnel put into much less extreme situations overall.
What are you talking about?! They have God Allmighty on their side (who also explicitly gave them whole Universe to exploit as they see fit), the absolute standard of integrity. Way beyond the league of some fallible blasphemers...
First of all the big bang, evolution and earth's origin doesn't effect massive amounts of the world economy.
Efforts to subvert methods leading to all of those theories are making great, long-term harm to us. Look at this image; it's obviously way overboard and not exactly accurate (as I wrote there as zima), but...well, you get the idea now, right?
Sure, basing out understanding of the world on faith was certainly a beneficent adaptation for a long, long time. But that time has passed.
From what I can see, people who end up in long-term private security jobs (the ones we are likely to come in contact with, not some almost mercenaries / private special forces) are way too often: a) rejected during the process of police recruitment b) then rejected during the process of municipal police recruitment c) then rejected during the process of jail duty recruitment d) then rejected from "higher trust" private security, like internal one in the banks (you might really swap a/b/c/d, the order here might differ) e) now they finally found somebody who won't care that much about their background and poor psychological evaluation
Yup, certainly contributes to making those private security firms responsible...
Don't miss that what I've said about appeal of work to emotionally insecure individuals might apply to everyone involved, not just the one harassed worker.
How could a fossil that is few billion years old be of Earth origin, if the meteorite is here for only a very short time?
Anyway, if we would rely mostly on comparing things like nucleotides (not that they actually can)...well, that bit of information doesn't have to provide us with definite answer at all. With life that is so old, we aren't certain at all that Earth life relied on "the same four nucleotides" back then. Heck, it might have been that, while Earth life was different, the one on Mars was by a random chance similar to our current "model"...
I like this new world, new kind of culture (yes, the elders would yell "the world is falling down!" anyway), ideas - for which people will pay, if they are worth anything. It's perhaps related to how, apparently, heavy p2p users actually buy a lot of music...only it's not so often from the major labels anymore (but often with "useless" nice physical addons, quite common in indie world).
Two different spheres, but in a way with converging ideas. Hey, RIAA would like us to believe that p2p users are thieves. And why would those hippie Linux users, wanting everything for free and loathing closed source software, pay more in this case?... (and when not being watched)
Thing is, there's not much reason to really try it here first - as you wrote, it would be more practical to just use humans.
But outside of Earth it's different; what a human needs there is much more complex than simple "food and shelter and science tools"...all those things mean an infrastructure to keep him alive that dwarfs any required by robots. As a matter of fact, we rely on robots quite a lot more than on humans when in LEO and beyond... (look at the proportion between manned and unmanned (yes, those are robots!) Earth satellites; even manned ones have robots onboard (Canadarm, Canadarm2, etc.) or rely on them for survival (Progress, ATV); and when beyond LEO...)
You need "maintenance shop, technicians, spare parts, operations specialists" merely to survive anyway. And it seems that a fleet of robots + very small human crew (which doesn't even need to land on Mars, orbit is near enough; plus for example in Jupiter system it's really a bad idea for humans to go nearer Jupiter than orbit of Callisto) needs much less resources than large human expedition...maybe so large that humans will work hard most of the time to remain alife (instead of using small supplies and relying on redundancy of equipment, which is possible with small crew)
BTW, do you know what is the main impediment for driverless car? Presence of humans around. Eliminate human drivers, and you can have a robot transport today...and we do have it! (automated trams, metro, etc.)
"Mantisoid" would seem appropriate for those I was (also) describing:) (many legs or wheels for movement, vaguely human-like torso for possibility of efficient teleoperation; and in the case of many legged one, part of those legs might simply transform into arm-like usage)
You forget that "we happen to be the absolute best tool users ever to exist" is absolutelly the case only in Earth environment; we evolved for conditions here after all.
But exploration outside of Earth isn't nearly as straightforward for humans. We even have robots on ISS after all... (Canadarm2 for example and also the vaguely humanoid one on top of Canadarm2, meant for teleoperation; apparently eliminating large part of spacewalks even in comfy 0g enviroment, surrounded by very predictable objects and under protection of Earth magnetosphere is still worth the effort of developing robots)
Few humans on Mars can't explore nearly the same area as a fleet of robots can. But those few humans are enough to assist this fleet when needed and take a closer look when its warranted.
The best part is that this story plays nicely with one opinion about such institutions, popular here and there - that working for TSA appeals to people who need to compensate for their emotional insecurity.
Human-form robot might be optimal for maintaining (generally working in) small spaces (and human habitats outside Earth will be like that for some time) meant for humans - you don't have to do wastefull changes to the design of habitat just to accomodate the robot.
Also, a humanoid torso with "arms" (might be more than two! Switching between apropriate ones / using inactive arm or arms (if even more than 3) as a temporary hold of objects being worked on) and stereoscopic cameras where the head should be might be optimal for teleoperation, giving great "immersion" (I imagine the inactive arms would have to be greatly de-emphasized via realtime video processing, to not mess too much with the brain of human operator)
Wouldn't it be beneficial if the media included personalised keys, especially if hidden inside the crypto hardware? (on top of usual safety - accesible only in some way which isn't really possible from normal OSes, for example confirming that access takes place from ring level which is not generally used, but on which the OS included in the media relies on; probably not possible with USB of course - but a) who knows (not me;p ) b) there are certainly other ways)
Generally, it doesn't have to be one of the old standards together with some of their faults - it will be an end-to-end solution after all...
Now...how many times will you reboot instead of simply resolving to VM usage?:P
The knowledge about this possibility will trickle down eventually; I wouldn't be even surpised from "turnkey" VM solutions with malignant payload hidden, targetted at usual banner-clickers.
And some people (well...us) inevitably will start using it under VM, because it's much more convenient. Eventually the knowledge will trickle down and we will be mostly where we started.
Heck, we would probably see "turnkey" VM solutions with malignant payload hidden, targetted at usual banner-clickers.
I didn't say the threat is hypothetical (heck, just about anything can be a target of attacks), but that the scenario is; a scenario where this becomes a big enough problem that it "takes the blame from Windows".
We're definatelly not there yet; and we might even never be (also because of mentioned efforts of course)
They asked filesharers whether they would be "nice" if given the chance? Well duh, people tend to paint themselves in better light when presented with such questions.
The Dutch thing is actually a study, with nice numbers.
I have clocked months using Chrome as my main browser (also quite recently, around 2009/2010 date change)...a common thing for me really, I go through most browsers over the year and check their progress; in my case its performance was unbearable in the end. But then for me it's "overall snappiness", and also when generously using such features as...tabs.
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And you also hear much, much more about predatory pedophiles stalking random children; not that by far the biggets and most common threat of such type to children comes from close family and "friends" of that family.
A bias in reporting; cases with decent private security aren't so visible, their personnel put into much less extreme situations overall.
What are you talking about?! They have God Allmighty on their side (who also explicitly gave them whole Universe to exploit as they see fit), the absolute standard of integrity. Way beyond the league of some fallible blasphemers...
First of all the big bang, evolution and earth's origin doesn't effect massive amounts of the world economy.
Efforts to subvert methods leading to all of those theories are making great, long-term harm to us. Look at this image; it's obviously way overboard and not exactly accurate (as I wrote there as zima), but...well, you get the idea now, right?
Sure, basing out understanding of the world on faith was certainly a beneficent adaptation for a long, long time. But that time has passed.
From what I can see, people who end up in long-term private security jobs (the ones we are likely to come in contact with, not some almost mercenaries / private special forces) are way too often:
a) rejected during the process of police recruitment
b) then rejected during the process of municipal police recruitment
c) then rejected during the process of jail duty recruitment
d) then rejected from "higher trust" private security, like internal one in the banks (you might really swap a/b/c/d, the order here might differ)
e) now they finally found somebody who won't care that much about their background and poor psychological evaluation
Yup, certainly contributes to making those private security firms responsible...
Don't miss that what I've said about appeal of work to emotionally insecure individuals might apply to everyone involved, not just the one harassed worker.
What happens in 2051?
How could a fossil that is few billion years old be of Earth origin, if the meteorite is here for only a very short time?
Anyway, if we would rely mostly on comparing things like nucleotides (not that they actually can)...well, that bit of information doesn't have to provide us with definite answer at all. With life that is so old, we aren't certain at all that Earth life relied on "the same four nucleotides" back then. Heck, it might have been that, while Earth life was different, the one on Mars was by a random chance similar to our current "model"...
I like this new world, new kind of culture (yes, the elders would yell "the world is falling down!" anyway), ideas - for which people will pay, if they are worth anything. It's perhaps related to how, apparently, heavy p2p users actually buy a lot of music...only it's not so often from the major labels anymore (but often with "useless" nice physical addons, quite common in indie world).
Two different spheres, but in a way with converging ideas. Hey, RIAA would like us to believe that p2p users are thieves. And why would those hippie Linux users, wanting everything for free and loathing closed source software, pay more in this case?... (and when not being watched)
Thing is, there's not much reason to really try it here first - as you wrote, it would be more practical to just use humans.
But outside of Earth it's different; what a human needs there is much more complex than simple "food and shelter and science tools"...all those things mean an infrastructure to keep him alive that dwarfs any required by robots. As a matter of fact, we rely on robots quite a lot more than on humans when in LEO and beyond... (look at the proportion between manned and unmanned (yes, those are robots!) Earth satellites; even manned ones have robots onboard (Canadarm, Canadarm2, etc.) or rely on them for survival (Progress, ATV); and when beyond LEO...)
You need "maintenance shop, technicians, spare parts, operations specialists" merely to survive anyway. And it seems that a fleet of robots + very small human crew (which doesn't even need to land on Mars, orbit is near enough; plus for example in Jupiter system it's really a bad idea for humans to go nearer Jupiter than orbit of Callisto) needs much less resources than large human expedition...maybe so large that humans will work hard most of the time to remain alife (instead of using small supplies and relying on redundancy of equipment, which is possible with small crew)
BTW, do you know what is the main impediment for driverless car? Presence of humans around. Eliminate human drivers, and you can have a robot transport today...and we do have it! (automated trams, metro, etc.)
He probably also fell into a trap of not wanting even more people to know about his "problem"...
Long enough delay is enough. Has the PS3 been cracked open yet? (and this one even uses roughly standard media for game delivery)
"Mantisoid" would seem appropriate for those I was (also) describing :) (many legs or wheels for movement, vaguely human-like torso for possibility of efficient teleoperation; and in the case of many legged one, part of those legs might simply transform into arm-like usage)
You forget that "we happen to be the absolute best tool users ever to exist" is absolutelly the case only in Earth environment; we evolved for conditions here after all.
But exploration outside of Earth isn't nearly as straightforward for humans. We even have robots on ISS after all... (Canadarm2 for example and also the vaguely humanoid one on top of Canadarm2, meant for teleoperation; apparently eliminating large part of spacewalks even in comfy 0g enviroment, surrounded by very predictable objects and under protection of Earth magnetosphere is still worth the effort of developing robots)
Few humans on Mars can't explore nearly the same area as a fleet of robots can. But those few humans are enough to assist this fleet when needed and take a closer look when its warranted.
The best part is that this story plays nicely with one opinion about such institutions, popular here and there - that working for TSA appeals to people who need to compensate for their emotional insecurity.
Human-form robot might be optimal for maintaining (generally working in) small spaces (and human habitats outside Earth will be like that for some time) meant for humans - you don't have to do wastefull changes to the design of habitat just to accomodate the robot.
Also, a humanoid torso with "arms" (might be more than two! Switching between apropriate ones / using inactive arm or arms (if even more than 3) as a temporary hold of objects being worked on) and stereoscopic cameras where the head should be might be optimal for teleoperation, giving great "immersion" (I imagine the inactive arms would have to be greatly de-emphasized via realtime video processing, to not mess too much with the brain of human operator)
BTW, so why exactly do you need Ariane V to launch James Webb Space Telescope? ;)
HAL: Open the rover bay doors, Dave.
Dave Bowman: I'm sorry, HAL. I'm afraid I can't do that.
Wouldn't it be beneficial if the media included personalised keys, especially if hidden inside the crypto hardware? (on top of usual safety - accesible only in some way which isn't really possible from normal OSes, for example confirming that access takes place from ring level which is not generally used, but on which the OS included in the media relies on; probably not possible with USB of course - but a) who knows (not me ;p ) b) there are certainly other ways)
Generally, it doesn't have to be one of the old standards together with some of their faults - it will be an end-to-end solution after all...
Now...how many times will you reboot instead of simply resolving to VM usage? :P
The knowledge about this possibility will trickle down eventually; I wouldn't be even surpised from "turnkey" VM solutions with malignant payload hidden, targetted at usual banner-clickers.
And some people (well...us) inevitably will start using it under VM, because it's much more convenient. Eventually the knowledge will trickle down and we will be mostly where we started.
Heck, we would probably see "turnkey" VM solutions with malignant payload hidden, targetted at usual banner-clickers.
I didn't say the threat is hypothetical (heck, just about anything can be a target of attacks), but that the scenario is; a scenario where this becomes a big enough problem that it "takes the blame from Windows".
We're definatelly not there yet; and we might even never be (also because of mentioned efforts of course)
Wouldn't some game where you have to defeat an enityty similar to SKynet or Shodan be more in the spirit of the evening and rewarding?
"It goes on to speculate about home routers being targeted and infected."
^that looks to me more like wondering about a "what if?" hypothetical scenario, not something which actually takes the blame from Windows just yet...
They asked filesharers whether they would be "nice" if given the chance? Well duh, people tend to paint themselves in better light when presented with such questions.
The Dutch thing is actually a study, with nice numbers.
I have clocked months using Chrome as my main browser (also quite recently, around 2009/2010 date change)...a common thing for me really, I go through most browsers over the year and check their progress; in my case its performance was unbearable in the end. But then for me it's "overall snappiness", and also when generously using such features as...tabs.