You forget the money required to find out the actual sequence of commands that would do actual damage in an actual real-world plant. That could be very, very expensive for someone living halfway around the world from the intended target or it could cost nothing for, say, a technician at Natanz.
The kritzkrieg is a horrible, horrible waste of a slot, true. Would you say the same about the blutsauger?
The huntsman is akin to an IWIN button at the moment, in the hands of someone even marginally competent.
The direct hit is just as bad at short/medium range.
Speaking of ill-considered changes... Do you remember the first iteration of Force-a-Nature? Everyone was playing Scout. BOOM headshot! was suddenly all that was going on in a game that used to be about team tactics.
That's when things started going south, imo.
Oh and speaking of first iterations... how will you like it when Valve nerfs your bought-and-paid-for item?
Too much. But that's not the issue here. The issue is that you cannot opt out of this whole bullshit. You get wasted if you don't have the money or time to plow into these things. I want no upgrades, damn it! I used to love how the classes in TF2 were so well balanced and no-one got a free lunch. That all went out the window with the introduction of items.
Annoying is more likely. I used to enjoy |TF2 so much, I played in preference to any other fps out there. Not anymore. What's worse, grinding noobs for items in tf2 is even more boring than grinding mobs for items in other games - at least some mobs have interesting behaviors and abilities designed in, while noobs are utterly boring and predictable.
People were talking about Japan in the same disparaging terms during the early seventies. Ten years later those same people were all "japanese work ethic" this and "kaizen" that and "we must be saved from cheap, excellent, innovative Jap cars" the other.
So what? These things can and will be sold across borders, regardless of whether there is a company on US soil that is legally able to put them on store shelves. A lawsuit would bring much-needed publicity, the closing of a front company with maybe two employees total and not much else.
Yeah, vote the military-industrial complex out of power. Right. Your country is fucked already. Get over it, get out while you still can, and do not go to Canada or the UK.
No it doesn't. Most/all the people will only get the first e-mail, their personal data gets pwnt by the media corps and that's the end of that. A much smaller percentage will be made an example of.
Speaking of designer viruses, how about a non-lethal bioweapon? Would unleashing a highly-contagious designer flu virus that decreases the productivity of everyone infected by 50% for three months without killing anyone warrant a nuclear response?
Yet such an attack would surely cripple the economy.
3) sounds very much like the objections of early mathematicians when they had to deal with prime numbers. "there isn't a function that generates all the possible primes, so how can we work with them?"
vendor_id : GenuineIntel cpu family : 6 model : 15 model name : Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Duo CPU T7250 @ 2.00GHz
Why would I want a more "configurable" desktop? I want a more usable one, for sure.
I can turn off desktop effects, for sure, but plasma (afair) is now an integral part of KDE and so it still starts and hogs resources.
I like a lot of things about KDE (the office suite in particular), but the recent infatuation of the devs with ripping off Apple UI design ain't one of them.
The bad thing was just a numbering conventions issue - 4.0 should have been stable, not a pre-alpha foisted on unsuspecting lusers for further testing.
Kubuntu is an eldritch horror that I bet has done more harm to the cause of Linux on the desktop than anything else in the past two years. Plasma is a resource hog, pure and simple - all the useless eyecandy of Aero combined with the clunkyness of KDE!
Yes. The servers tasked with performing MITM against encrypted traffic in and out of the US, probably. I didn't say this, btw - it's just the only way in which your statement would possibly make sense. Where do you work?
No, not really. What Dewey is describing is the perfect bureaucrat or factory worker - a being solely driven by reason and motivated by money, while making allowance for the fact that individuals are different and thus should be conditioned differently to set them on their respective paths towards one and the same end state - that of a drone.
The old hardware's too pricy to keep making, there's not enough of the new cheap stuff so they're bleeding in new and interesting ways - not having enough product to sell is making distributors angry and their profits small. They're hoping that passing on some of the savings to some of the distributors will make them less angry. That will make their per-unit profit even smaller but they hope to compensate with volume, maybe, someday, when they are able to make enough of the damn things.
"The government" is just a government, failible and oft-failing like every other construct. The people it is supposed to serve would do better if more of "the government"'s actions and inevitable mistakes are brought to light, for if not, what chance do we the people stand to correct them?
Get over your myopia.
Troop movements? Operational secrecy is enough. There is no reason to hide the historical record of wars, aye, even to the last cartridge spent - other than to hide the incompetence, malice aforethought and corruption of some military and political leaders.
Tax records are already open, in progressive countries, and boy do they help weed out the corrupt.
To keep Obama safe, given that he's already pissed off a lot of people, you just need operational secrecy, again - one only needs make sure that no adversary is keeping tabs NOW, location and direction info will be worthless in minutes or hours at most. Not to mention, if America were more of a democracy it could do away with the office of president - dispersal is the best defense, having high-value targets at all is a strategic weakness.
Delicate negotiations with a company to make available some revolutionary technology to solve "global warming"? Why not go public, in the most damaging way possible? "Look, Company X has a fix for global warming, but they've refused to sell at a fair price -in fact, at any price." Should encourage other corps to not try and keep revolutionary tech under wraps ever again.
Diplomats working behind the scenes to free civilians from captivity in some Islamic hell hole? Well, yes, the world DOES need to know, in detail, exactly how the white-garbed mullahs with their long beards and avuncular manners are actually hardened mobsters and drug dealers, who haggle for hostages exclusively in terms of dollars/head and/or political clout - that should put paid to any notions that radical Islam is a religion like any other or that those people are clerics in any true sense.
To keep NBC weapons safe, you... ahem... waitaminit... why ARE there NBC weapons at all? Hardly targetable at all, definitely unacceptable in limited warfare. If you are not actively trying to bring about the end of the world you'd want your government to dispose of such weapons as quickly and as publicly as possible, replacing them, of course, with other things that can keep you safer, such as, I dunno, better diplomacy (best done on public stage, btw, just ask Woodrow Wilson) or more ways to make your society and culture resilient, such as producing better, smarter, nicer, healthier, more dangerous citizens.
These kinds of weapons can and should be wielded publicly and their existence, location and capabilities widely advertised. Who can defend against a million potential assassins/soldiers? Against ten million hackers or intelligence collection/analysis agents? Who can stop the flow of the best and the brightest to the countries, cultures and corporations where they are truly appreciated and can live to their fullest?
Slashdot Mirror
You forget the money required to find out the actual sequence of commands that would do actual damage in an actual real-world plant. That could be very, very expensive for someone living halfway around the world from the intended target or it could cost nothing for, say, a technician at Natanz.
Parent post needs to get a +1 informative...
The kritzkrieg is a horrible, horrible waste of a slot, true. Would you say the same about the blutsauger?
The huntsman is akin to an IWIN button at the moment, in the hands of someone even marginally competent.
The direct hit is just as bad at short/medium range.
Speaking of ill-considered changes... Do you remember the first iteration of Force-a-Nature? Everyone was playing Scout. BOOM headshot! was suddenly all that was going on in a game that used to be about team tactics.
That's when things started going south, imo.
Oh and speaking of first iterations... how will you like it when Valve nerfs your bought-and-paid-for item?
Too much. But that's not the issue here. The issue is that you cannot opt out of this whole bullshit. You get wasted if you don't have the money or time to plow into these things. I want no upgrades, damn it! I used to love how the classes in TF2 were so well balanced and no-one got a free lunch. That all went out the window with the introduction of items.
Annoying is more likely. I used to enjoy |TF2 so much, I played in preference to any other fps out there. Not anymore. What's worse, grinding noobs for items in tf2 is even more boring than grinding mobs for items in other games - at least some mobs have interesting behaviors and abilities designed in, while noobs are utterly boring and predictable.
People were talking about Japan in the same disparaging terms during the early seventies. Ten years later those same people were all "japanese work ethic" this and "kaizen" that and "we must be saved from cheap, excellent, innovative Jap cars" the other.
So what? These things can and will be sold across borders, regardless of whether there is a company on US soil that is legally able to put them on store shelves. A lawsuit would bring much-needed publicity, the closing of a front company with maybe two employees total and not much else.
Boy are you going to be in for a surprise when you find out that US laws emphatically do NOT apply in China :)) .
Yeah, vote the military-industrial complex out of power. Right. Your country is fucked already. Get over it, get out while you still can, and do not go to Canada or the UK.
No it doesn't. Most/all the people will only get the first e-mail, their personal data gets pwnt by the media corps and that's the end of that. A much smaller percentage will be made an example of.
Speaking of designer viruses, how about a non-lethal bioweapon? Would unleashing a highly-contagious designer flu virus that decreases the productivity of everyone infected by 50% for three months without killing anyone warrant a nuclear response?
Yet such an attack would surely cripple the economy.
3) sounds very much like the objections of early mathematicians when they had to deal with prime numbers. "there isn't a function that generates all the possible primes, so how can we work with them?"
Yours is possibly the least useful answer I've ever had on /. and that's saying something.
No peak, just lack of demand. Iran is venting tons of the stuff into the atmosphere, what with all the natural gas they're burning at the wellheads.
Curling?
$cat
vendor_id : GenuineIntel
cpu family : 6
model : 15
model name : Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Duo CPU T7250 @ 2.00GHz
Why would I want a more "configurable" desktop? I want a more usable one, for sure.
I can turn off desktop effects, for sure, but plasma (afair) is now an integral part of KDE and so it still starts and hogs resources.
I like a lot of things about KDE (the office suite in particular), but the recent infatuation of the devs with ripping off Apple UI design ain't one of them.
The bad thing was just a numbering conventions issue - 4.0 should have been stable, not a pre-alpha foisted on unsuspecting lusers for further testing.
Kubuntu is an eldritch horror that I bet has done more harm to the cause of Linux on the desktop than anything else in the past two years. Plasma is a resource hog, pure and simple - all the useless eyecandy of Aero combined with the clunkyness of KDE!
Thanks for the clarification. Will do.
Yes. The servers tasked with performing MITM against encrypted traffic in and out of the US, probably. I didn't say this, btw - it's just the only way in which your statement would possibly make sense. Where do you work?
No, not really. What Dewey is describing is the perfect bureaucrat or factory worker - a being solely driven by reason and motivated by money, while making allowance for the fact that individuals are different and thus should be conditioned differently to set them on their respective paths towards one and the same end state - that of a drone.
The old hardware's too pricy to keep making, there's not enough of the new cheap stuff so they're bleeding in new and interesting ways - not having enough product to sell is making distributors angry and their profits small. They're hoping that passing on some of the savings to some of the distributors will make them less angry. That will make their per-unit profit even smaller but they hope to compensate with volume, maybe, someday, when they are able to make enough of the damn things.
An evening in a "free speech zone" or whatever they call them these days does not fit with my idea of a good time, so no.
I do.
Anything and everything about the Government and its workings should be a matter of public record.
Secrets breed lies, corruption and shadow hierarchies, while granting few and dubious benefits.
"The government" is just a government, failible and oft-failing like every other construct. The people it is supposed to serve would do better if more of "the government"'s actions and inevitable mistakes are brought to light, for if not, what chance do we the people stand to correct them?
Get over your myopia.
Troop movements? Operational secrecy is enough. There is no reason to hide the historical record of wars, aye, even to the last cartridge spent - other than to hide the incompetence, malice aforethought and corruption of some military and political leaders.
Tax records are already open, in progressive countries, and boy do they help weed out the corrupt.
To keep Obama safe, given that he's already pissed off a lot of people, you just need operational secrecy, again - one only needs make sure that no adversary is keeping tabs NOW, location and direction info will be worthless in minutes or hours at most. Not to mention, if America were more of a democracy it could do away with the office of president - dispersal is the best defense, having high-value targets at all is a strategic weakness.
Delicate negotiations with a company to make available some revolutionary technology to solve "global warming"? Why not go public, in the most damaging way possible? "Look, Company X has a fix for global warming, but they've refused to sell at a fair price -in fact, at any price." Should encourage other corps to not try and keep revolutionary tech under wraps ever again.
Diplomats working behind the scenes to free civilians from captivity in some Islamic hell hole? Well, yes, the world DOES need to know, in detail, exactly how the white-garbed mullahs with their long beards and avuncular manners are actually hardened mobsters and drug dealers, who haggle for hostages exclusively in terms of dollars/head and/or political clout - that should put paid to any notions that radical Islam is a religion like any other or that those people are clerics in any true sense.
To keep NBC weapons safe, you ... ahem... waitaminit... why ARE there NBC weapons at all? Hardly targetable at all, definitely unacceptable in limited warfare. If you are not actively trying to bring about the end of the world you'd want your government to dispose of such weapons as quickly and as publicly as possible, replacing them, of course, with other things that can keep you safer, such as, I dunno, better diplomacy (best done on public stage, btw, just ask Woodrow Wilson) or more ways to make your society and culture resilient, such as producing better, smarter, nicer, healthier, more dangerous citizens.
These kinds of weapons can and should be wielded publicly and their existence, location and capabilities widely advertised. Who can defend against a million potential assassins/soldiers? Against ten million hackers or intelligence collection/analysis agents? Who can stop the flow of the best and the brightest to the countries, cultures and corporations where they are truly appreciated and can live to their fullest?