that he though they were logical. Also that they are opposed to bribery. Or that they make any sense whatsoever. Half the time they say one thing one week, then something totally contrdictory the next week. All depends who they are talking to, and how many votes or how much money they think they can get from it.
In otherwards, politics probably isn't for you anyway...:)
Not only that, much of the execution had to do with hardware device drivers. Many of those probalems were caused by manufactures that were reluctent and/or slow to produce drivers for Vista rather than XP. About the only thing MS might be at fault for is if they didn't communicate the changes in enough time.
Part of the reason WIndows 7 worked so well is that Vista slogged through 2 years or so of getting people to re-write drivers.
I know I was one of the early adopters (ya I know... sigh, it WAS painful).
Vista works perfectly fine now. Should I have to re-install it clean it would again be a bit of a pain, as I would have to run a million updates, as my physical version is old. But at least the drivers actually exist now. Before half of them didn't or they were so halfassed phoned in by companies that they were buggy as heck.
Anyway I think people are still holding on to how Vista was when it launched, which was bad. However its not that bad anymore. That said, when Windows 7 came out (and yes I wish I waited), it made the working Vista irrelevent. Were I to buy now, I'd get Windows 7.
I agree. They must hire emo hipster developers, who want to share their bleak outlook on life with the rest of us.
Apple. You make how much money a year? iTunes is like your flagship software that links all sorts of your buisness together. You come up with that?
I mean it updates about every 0.25 days with a new version, but seems worse and worse. If I was ever involved in that project, they first thing I would say, OK we are going to blow up iTunes and start fresh, as that abominated bloated corpse of evil has to go!
Well CE and ME were about as fast as cement that's true.
NT was pretty solid. Of course it was used for so long, that it eventually started to run into technological issues like XP did. You can only apply so many paches until you're runing more patches than OS.
Oh and I am sure there is a joke in there somewhere about patches and cement, but I'll let someone else have fun..
Energy is dangerous. All energy is dangerous is treated the wrong way. Period. We use gas every day and it is one of the more reactive and dangerous material out there. However it has a high potential energy. Just a like a chemical reaction that takes place in a bullet. The amount of kinetic energy is great, and if you point it at your eye, yeah a bit more dangerous.
So yes. Take ANY source of energy and I bet I could prove a way to make it potentially a lot more dangerous. However in this case it seems more of a mental excercise. Yes you can change Throium into weapons grade stuff. Would you? No you would not, because you would likely die in the process, it likely wouldn't work well if at all, and there arer much easiers and better documented and proven ways to make weapon grade stuff from other means.
What people don't seem to realize is that MOST of the reactors that were build long ago, the technology was selected for the exact oposite reasons we are discussing today, and if you think about it, why didn't they go with Thorium when fuel is so easy to come by? Because they needed nuclear weapons, and if it can be created as a by-product from an energy source, then WIN-WIN! So peoples arguements about this seem very silly to me. It might make sense if you totally shut down all other reactors, were going to build only thorium, then might say that while difficult it is possible to make weapons, etc... Its like having gun store on every corner, with free guns for everyone, and then getting worked up about someone posting the design for a particular part of one type of gun on the internet. Yeah, you could maybe figure out how to build a gun and hurt someone, however it would be hard to do, and you're likely to kill yourself in the process, particulary when you can just walk down the street and just get a gun anyway. A totally horrible analogy and an exageration but whatever.
I think I would be more concerned with air and water in that order (and shelter for that matter) before I am too worried about food. Otherwise it is just a neet way to chaperone 30 years worth or food to Mars. I would hazard that the transportation requirements for both of those things might exceed that of food. Unless they can figure out a reliable and effective way to produce in situ.
I understand what the cops are getting at, creating a standard they can use. However they tried something like this on ISP up here and Canada, and there was a bit of row to say the least. Cops it seems in general will constantaly ask for more and more powers in order to basically make their job easier. I can't really fault them for that, or for trying. However it has to be a balance in personal rights of privacy also. Which means the public has to say "No" at a certain point when they feel it is too much. Up here in Canada I think we do a better job or that. There are a whole lot of crazy laws down in the US that will let the state pretty much arbitrarly spy on you. The usual arguement is you got nothin' to fear if you ain't got nothin' to hide.
I would prefere at least in this case to let companies set their own standards, and let the market figure it out. I know I think I would pick the one with 0 rentention if given the chance.
One could also make the arguement just like the conservatives might say, criminals don't register guns, well if I am going off someone, I think I'll encrypt it using another method if I really feel the need to text it to someone. Of course there dumb criminals also... Then again, cops shouldn't have dificulty catching those ones. Besides, most phones record the information anyway unless your purposly delete it. Get warrent, find phone, etc... Phone encrypted?
I know you all like to make fun of the rest of the world's gay colour money, but you know you're like the one place in the world where all your money of all denominations are all the exact same colour right? Yeah, cause that is easy to figure out as well...
Canada did it a long time ago, and you'll notice that our money is worth more than the US now...
as an aside, one of the side effects of going to the 1$ and 2$ coins, is that after the bar you develop what is known now as "Bar Change" in that you have about 5lb of coins in your right pocket...
I am not sure why no one seems to draw this parallel:
Kids are required by law to attend school. Why is that? What is the purpose behind that?
Off the top of my head, I would say A) Because it is in the states best interest to have educated productive people who can contribute to society as a whole, and B) Because to not do so would put that child at such a dissadvantage in life as to cause real harm.
I would argue that teaching "creationism" and rejecting evolution would violate both A & B which I would imagine is the whole purpose behind the law. To do otherwise you are circumventing the law, by basically using fake school. As such this should be enforcable anyway. What this is saying is simply making it clear that if you do not teach evolution, you are not considered a "school" under the law, and any kids attending would be seen as breaking the law. Which of course their parents would be responsible for.
I think everyone has seen the video of the US Apache killing obvious cilvilians. The crew making jokes and laughing about it. I bet the families of the dead might think differently about "no one's life is immediatly at stake".
So you are saying if you are a military officer, and you find evidence of criminal behavior, and you believe that it is condoned at the highest levels, and that reporting it through proper military channels would do nothing, that they should just sit by and let said criminal behavior continue?
I believe the term you are looking for is "Moral Obligation". It might have been against the law, but given the circumstances may have been necessary. Manning may have to pay for that decision, it depends how they try it. Likely he is screwed as I can't see politically how the US will allow it. Which means the case will ultimatly be decided politically rather than perhaps just on the merits, which isn't great.
Anyway he might have done it a bit differently, and had a better arguement to defend himself with (like being a bit selective). I just know after seeing some of that stuff... well I do not doubt it would never have gotten released, none of the people would have ever been disaplined, and that the actions were definatly wrong.
The basic definition of Laws are what the moral majority believes to be right. I would like to think any american could watch that video and say, no that is morally wrong, and we will not have that, thus it being unlawful. Arguing that there is a pre-existing law that would prevent anyone from knowing about those unlawful acts, I am not sure is correct either.
Sounds like the perfect story for as science fiction movie!
"During the hight of the cold war, the US created nuclear lauch capability on the moon as a doomsday weapon. In the event of a nuclear strike that had wiped out all of the US launch capability, the moon station would be used to ensure that the enemies of the US were also wiped out. Due the the communications delay between the Moon and the Earth it was decided to automate the station to detect the specific situation, and proceed with a retalitory response. Fast forward to current day, when the cold war over and nuclear dissarment, the now forgotten station has come online and transmitted to a dusty computer no one remembers what it was for (until they look it up terrified), the intention to lauch a full scale nuclear attack on a countdown. The recieving transmitter of course has failed, not allowing the cancel codes to be recived. In addition moon station defences have been activated to prevent possible Russian infiltrators from sabotaging the station. Now NASA must send a special crew on short notice to the moon to disable the station!"
Possible twists...
"Amageddon remake - A plucky group of interesting non-experts must make the journey rather than normal crew, however one of them is a secret plant with his own agenda for a faction within the government that think the "accidental" strike might be a good thing!"
"Space Cowboys remake - A group of old folks must make the journey rather than normal crew, as no one else remembers how the moon station was constructed, or what the defences are, no documentation has survived this long, and it only exists in the memory of these old pluky engineers":)
Wonder how hard it would have been to divert the beer line directly into the plumbing. Beer from the faucets, shower, and toliet! Water the lawn? Beer! Its what plants crave!
My big question that the article seems a bit light on, is other than the "size" of the data, they make no mention of what kind of data was used.
It's all very well and good if they used a randomized contents of a HD, then just replicated it. It is something else entirely if they used very specialized data for this particular test.
i.e. that speed works very well but only if the data consists of all 1's.
Also some pretty limited applications for this technology at present unless computers get faster, and storage gets massive. I mean you would fill just about anything in no time, and there are limits to how much data can be processed simply streaming it in.
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that he though they were logical. Also that they are opposed to bribery. Or that they make any sense whatsoever. Half the time they say one thing one week, then something totally contrdictory the next week. All depends who they are talking to, and how many votes or how much money they think they can get from it.
In otherwards, politics probably isn't for you anyway... :)
As a Canadian I have no idea what grits are.
As a Slashdotter I am still mystified at the whole petrified thing.
because they decided to name their company "A123"...
Just sayin'
Not only that, much of the execution had to do with hardware device drivers. Many of those probalems were caused by manufactures that were reluctent and/or slow to produce drivers for Vista rather than XP. About the only thing MS might be at fault for is if they didn't communicate the changes in enough time.
Part of the reason WIndows 7 worked so well is that Vista slogged through 2 years or so of getting people to re-write drivers.
I know I was one of the early adopters (ya I know... sigh, it WAS painful).
Vista works perfectly fine now. Should I have to re-install it clean it would again be a bit of a pain, as I would have to run a million updates, as my physical version is old. But at least the drivers actually exist now. Before half of them didn't or they were so halfassed phoned in by companies that they were buggy as heck.
Anyway I think people are still holding on to how Vista was when it launched, which was bad. However its not that bad anymore. That said, when Windows 7 came out (and yes I wish I waited), it made the working Vista irrelevent. Were I to buy now, I'd get Windows 7.
I agree. They must hire emo hipster developers, who want to share their bleak outlook on life with the rest of us.
Apple. You make how much money a year? iTunes is like your flagship software that links all sorts of your buisness together. You come up with that?
I mean it updates about every 0.25 days with a new version, but seems worse and worse. If I was ever involved in that project, they first thing I would say, OK we are going to blow up iTunes and start fresh, as that abominated bloated corpse of evil has to go!
Well CE and ME were about as fast as cement that's true.
NT was pretty solid. Of course it was used for so long, that it eventually started to run into technological issues like XP did. You can only apply so many paches until you're runing more patches than OS.
Oh and I am sure there is a joke in there somewhere about patches and cement, but I'll let someone else have fun..
OK, I'm going to say something crazy.
Energy is dangerous. All energy is dangerous is treated the wrong way. Period. We use gas every day and it is one of the more reactive and dangerous material out there. However it has a high potential energy. Just a like a chemical reaction that takes place in a bullet. The amount of kinetic energy is great, and if you point it at your eye, yeah a bit more dangerous.
So yes. Take ANY source of energy and I bet I could prove a way to make it potentially a lot more dangerous. However in this case it seems more of a mental excercise. Yes you can change Throium into weapons grade stuff. Would you? No you would not, because you would likely die in the process, it likely wouldn't work well if at all, and there arer much easiers and better documented and proven ways to make weapon grade stuff from other means.
What people don't seem to realize is that MOST of the reactors that were build long ago, the technology was selected for the exact oposite reasons we are discussing today, and if you think about it, why didn't they go with Thorium when fuel is so easy to come by? Because they needed nuclear weapons, and if it can be created as a by-product from an energy source, then WIN-WIN! So peoples arguements about this seem very silly to me. It might make sense if you totally shut down all other reactors, were going to build only thorium, then might say that while difficult it is possible to make weapons, etc... Its like having gun store on every corner, with free guns for everyone, and then getting worked up about someone posting the design for a particular part of one type of gun on the internet. Yeah, you could maybe figure out how to build a gun and hurt someone, however it would be hard to do, and you're likely to kill yourself in the process, particulary when you can just walk down the street and just get a gun anyway. A totally horrible analogy and an exageration but whatever.
I think I would be more concerned with air and water in that order (and shelter for that matter) before I am too worried about food. Otherwise it is just a neet way to chaperone 30 years worth or food to Mars. I would hazard that the transportation requirements for both of those things might exceed that of food. Unless they can figure out a reliable and effective way to produce in situ.
I know it isn't quite the same thing, but I bet the first ship to send colonists at NA was a pretty dicey endevor as well.
I like your optimism...
Yeah, well try using Netflix Canada, which has about 1/4 of the US content.
If you are interested in seeing what is currently being done:
http://www.aclu.org/cell-phone-location-tracking-request-response-cell-phone-company-data-retention-chart
and
http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2011/09/cellular-customer-data/
I understand what the cops are getting at, creating a standard they can use. However they tried something like this on ISP up here and Canada, and there was a bit of row to say the least. Cops it seems in general will constantaly ask for more and more powers in order to basically make their job easier. I can't really fault them for that, or for trying. However it has to be a balance in personal rights of privacy also. Which means the public has to say "No" at a certain point when they feel it is too much. Up here in Canada I think we do a better job or that. There are a whole lot of crazy laws down in the US that will let the state pretty much arbitrarly spy on you. The usual arguement is you got nothin' to fear if you ain't got nothin' to hide.
I would prefere at least in this case to let companies set their own standards, and let the market figure it out. I know I think I would pick the one with 0 rentention if given the chance.
One could also make the arguement just like the conservatives might say, criminals don't register guns, well if I am going off someone, I think I'll encrypt it using another method if I really feel the need to text it to someone. Of course there dumb criminals also... Then again, cops shouldn't have dificulty catching those ones. Besides, most phones record the information anyway unless your purposly delete it. Get warrent, find phone, etc... Phone encrypted?
http://xkcd.com/538/
Those that don't want vaccines can go get put on a list. They don't get vaccine, everyone else does. Let the invisible hand of darwin figure it out.
Those aren't the drones we are looking for. Move along.
Wasn't someone asking for an "OFF" switch for the internets just the other day?
You know, for the sake of the children and national defence and other such fairy tales...
Hey slashdot, 1943 called. They want their story back!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_military_chocolate#The_Tropical_Bar
I know you all like to make fun of the rest of the world's gay colour money, but you know you're like the one place in the world where all your money of all denominations are all the exact same colour right? Yeah, cause that is easy to figure out as well...
Canada did it a long time ago, and you'll notice that our money is worth more than the US now...
as an aside, one of the side effects of going to the 1$ and 2$ coins, is that after the bar you develop what is known now as "Bar Change" in that you have about 5lb of coins in your right pocket...
I am not sure why no one seems to draw this parallel:
Kids are required by law to attend school. Why is that? What is the purpose behind that?
Off the top of my head, I would say A) Because it is in the states best interest to have educated productive people who can contribute to society as a whole, and B) Because to not do so would put that child at such a dissadvantage in life as to cause real harm.
I would argue that teaching "creationism" and rejecting evolution would violate both A & B which I would imagine is the whole purpose behind the law. To do otherwise you are circumventing the law, by basically using fake school. As such this should be enforcable anyway. What this is saying is simply making it clear that if you do not teach evolution, you are not considered a "school" under the law, and any kids attending would be seen as breaking the law. Which of course their parents would be responsible for.
How do you think "Greenland" got it's name? Sarcastic Danes?
I think everyone has seen the video of the US Apache killing obvious cilvilians. The crew making jokes and laughing about it. I bet the families of the dead might think differently about "no one's life is immediatly at stake".
So you are saying if you are a military officer, and you find evidence of criminal behavior, and you believe that it is condoned at the highest levels, and that reporting it through proper military channels would do nothing, that they should just sit by and let said criminal behavior continue?
I believe the term you are looking for is "Moral Obligation". It might have been against the law, but given the circumstances may have been necessary. Manning may have to pay for that decision, it depends how they try it. Likely he is screwed as I can't see politically how the US will allow it. Which means the case will ultimatly be decided politically rather than perhaps just on the merits, which isn't great.
Anyway he might have done it a bit differently, and had a better arguement to defend himself with (like being a bit selective). I just know after seeing some of that stuff... well I do not doubt it would never have gotten released, none of the people would have ever been disaplined, and that the actions were definatly wrong.
The basic definition of Laws are what the moral majority believes to be right. I would like to think any american could watch that video and say, no that is morally wrong, and we will not have that, thus it being unlawful. Arguing that there is a pre-existing law that would prevent anyone from knowing about those unlawful acts, I am not sure is correct either.
Sounds like the perfect story for as science fiction movie!
"During the hight of the cold war, the US created nuclear lauch capability on the moon as a doomsday weapon. In the event of a nuclear strike that had wiped out all of the US launch capability, the moon station would be used to ensure that the enemies of the US were also wiped out. Due the the communications delay between the Moon and the Earth it was decided to automate the station to detect the specific situation, and proceed with a retalitory response. Fast forward to current day, when the cold war over and nuclear dissarment, the now forgotten station has come online and transmitted to a dusty computer no one remembers what it was for (until they look it up terrified), the intention to lauch a full scale nuclear attack on a countdown. The recieving transmitter of course has failed, not allowing the cancel codes to be recived. In addition moon station defences have been activated to prevent possible Russian infiltrators from sabotaging the station. Now NASA must send a special crew on short notice to the moon to disable the station!"
Possible twists...
"Amageddon remake - A plucky group of interesting non-experts must make the journey rather than normal crew, however one of them is a secret plant with his own agenda for a faction within the government that think the "accidental" strike might be a good thing!"
"Space Cowboys remake - A group of old folks must make the journey rather than normal crew, as no one else remembers how the moon station was constructed, or what the defences are, no documentation has survived this long, and it only exists in the memory of these old pluky engineers" :)
Wonder how hard it would have been to divert the beer line directly into the plumbing. Beer from the faucets, shower, and toliet! Water the lawn? Beer! Its what plants crave!
My big question that the article seems a bit light on, is other than the "size" of the data, they make no mention of what kind of data was used.
It's all very well and good if they used a randomized contents of a HD, then just replicated it. It is something else entirely if they used very specialized data for this particular test.
i.e. that speed works very well but only if the data consists of all 1's.
Also some pretty limited applications for this technology at present unless computers get faster, and storage gets massive. I mean you would fill just about anything in no time, and there are limits to how much data can be processed simply streaming it in.
Heh, I remember when I was younger connecting to 300 baud modems with my 2400 baud modem and thinking "man that's slow, it must be very old!" lol