I think it would take an established IT organisation to get behind FOSS for it to be accepted in the market place. The only such organisation I have experience with won't have a bar of it. All their people are trained on windows.
would require military 'jurisdiction' over every network node and server and firewall defending something deemed 'important'.
The military defend against threats in the air and on sea without having jurisdiction over those domains. You identified data security for the electricity grid as a vulnerability. Perhaps a military security agency could deploy measures to protect that specific asset.
At home I have an inbox which gets ~200 spams a day at the moment. 1000 at the peak. Every day I browse the Sender field just in case it contains a legit message, then I delete the lot. Last night I noticed an email from an old friend who I hadn't heard from for three of four years. I opened the message and sure enough it was spam. I am pretty sure it came from her PC. My old address must still be in her address book.
I ride a bicycle to work and I keep a towel in my locker. To celebrate towel day today I exchanged my old towel (and the emergency food supply it carries) with a fresh one from home.
There is this joke about an American tourist in Sydney who asks a question along the lines of "How does X in Australia compare with other parts of the third world?".
On the face of it this is not such a stupid question because from the POV of a US person most of the rest of the world is in the third world. The US is big and people there don't generally need to travel. I don't think the education system is to blame on its own. Having the opportunity to travel makes a big difference I think.
My assumption is that by running hot you emit more small molecules and fewer big molecules. So you get the nitrogen oxides but you are saved the nasty organic stuff.
I wonder about the economics of carrying cryogenic oxygen (or a different oxidiser) and not using air at all.
20 years ago I worked with an application on VMS. It used some form based UI tool which you get with the OS. (was it ACMS? I can't remember now) anyway you could set a timeout on a form which kicked you back to another screen if you didn't complete it within a specified time. One form with 20 fields or something had a timeout of ten seconds. There was something strange about the guy who wrote that...
Obviously we need an entropy generation program that feeds it the input from simulated mouse waggling. We can use/dev/urandom as the input! Of course, we have to take care to make it more randomer.
Don't do that. The extra entropy will feed right back into/dev/urandom before you know it you will have this perpetual entropy generator massively increasing entropy in the universe then it will all be over.
Cells in the eye are sensitive to light. I find that to be of some use. Light sensitivity is useful in other areas. For example knowing to avoid a fire, or when to bask in the sun. Faster messaging is generally a good thing. You get faster reflexes, more bandwidth.
Maybe your thought processes are not as reliant on chemical messaging as you think.
Japanese university-educated people don't even know why Chinese people are upset with Japanese people (protip: WWII). They are just not taught the facts. The base of the ruling party in Japan are right-wing farmers in Japan (and the yakuza!); reconciliation is not in their interests.
Yeah there is a semi-famous court case here in Australia. A bunch of Japanese tourists paid a Malaysian tour operator for a holiday in Malaysia and Australia. During the Malaysian leg their bags went missing so the operator kindly bought them new bags which were strangely heavy. So they got to Australia, dragging these heavy bags through customs to the amusment of all present and got busted for importing some massive quantity of illegal drugs.
My wife is Malaysian. A Japanese person who knew what I know about the attitude of Malaysians to the Japanese would stay the hell away from them. But they don't know of course.
Iran, despite it's horrible name and extremely objectionable nuke policy, is actually the most progressive (and tolerant) muslim country in existence, with the possible exception of the secular Turkey.
Your premise is wrong. The barrier between us and other animals is not artificial. We are not like other animals. If you want a simple way to convince yourself that animals are not self-aware, put them in front of a mirror.
I don't know what the animal thinks when put in front of the mirror, any more than I know what you think. We may look for expected behaviour like testing to see if the animal touches a spot painted on its face but such tests are loaded with assumptions which have nothing to do with conciousness.
Conciousness is basically an invention to allow us to kill animals and satisfy our conscience.
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I think it would take an established IT organisation to get behind FOSS for it to be accepted in the market place. The only such organisation I have experience with won't have a bar of it. All their people are trained on windows.
In longitude it is pretty close.
would require military 'jurisdiction' over every network node and server and firewall defending something deemed 'important'.
The military defend against threats in the air and on sea without having jurisdiction over those domains. You identified data security for the electricity grid as a vulnerability. Perhaps a military security agency could deploy measures to protect that specific asset.
At home I have an inbox which gets ~200 spams a day at the moment. 1000 at the peak. Every day I browse the Sender field just in case it contains a legit message, then I delete the lot. Last night I noticed an email from an old friend who I hadn't heard from for three of four years. I opened the message and sure enough it was spam. I am pretty sure it came from her PC. My old address must still be in her address book.
Oh no not again!
C'mon. You have to build bypasses.
I agree, Nothing cool and froody about that.
Don't you just love the American World Series? Exactly how many nations compete in this "World" Series?
The Japanese wanted too, once.
I ride a bicycle to work and I keep a towel in my locker. To celebrate towel day today I exchanged my old towel (and the emergency food supply it carries) with a fresh one from home.
There is this joke about an American tourist in Sydney who asks a question along the lines of "How does X in Australia compare with other parts of the third world?".
On the face of it this is not such a stupid question because from the POV of a US person most of the rest of the world is in the third world. The US is big and people there don't generally need to travel. I don't think the education system is to blame on its own. Having the opportunity to travel makes a big difference I think.
My assumption is that by running hot you emit more small molecules and fewer big molecules. So you get the nitrogen oxides but you are saved the nasty organic stuff.
I wonder about the economics of carrying cryogenic oxygen (or a different oxidiser) and not using air at all.
Fortunately the Chinese are also a short walk away, and if NK keeps firing nukes on their doorstep they may lose patience with the situation.
Fresh random crap is available free of charge from my sisters facebook page.
Sorry for raising that unfortunate memory. I think tuzo is right. It must have been DECForms.
20 years ago I worked with an application on VMS. It used some form based UI tool which you get with the OS. (was it ACMS? I can't remember now) anyway you could set a timeout on a form which kicked you back to another screen if you didn't complete it within a specified time. One form with 20 fields or something had a timeout of ten seconds. There was something strange about the guy who wrote that...
Obviously we need an entropy generation program that feeds it the input from simulated mouse waggling. We can use /dev/urandom as the input! Of course, we have to take care to make it more randomer.
Don't do that. The extra entropy will feed right back into /dev/urandom before you know it you will have this perpetual entropy generator massively increasing entropy in the universe then it will all be over.
If you are going to go that far just build a big gas chromatograph. Run an electric current through them and measure how far their molecules move.
Hubble uses spectroscopy to do that. I don't think you can use that method to pick one person out of a crowd.
Encrypt it and post it literally anywhere. Only the owner will have the decryption key.
Just normal sunglasses would do the trick nicely, not to mention traditional Muslim head wear.
Cells in the eye are sensitive to light. I find that to be of some use. Light sensitivity is useful in other areas. For example knowing to avoid a fire, or when to bask in the sun. Faster messaging is generally a good thing. You get faster reflexes, more bandwidth.
Maybe your thought processes are not as reliant on chemical messaging as you think.
Japanese university-educated people don't even know why Chinese people are upset with Japanese people (protip: WWII). They are just not taught the facts. The base of the ruling party in Japan are right-wing farmers in Japan (and the yakuza!); reconciliation is not in their interests.
Yeah there is a semi-famous court case here in Australia. A bunch of Japanese tourists paid a Malaysian tour operator for a holiday in Malaysia and Australia. During the Malaysian leg their bags went missing so the operator kindly bought them new bags which were strangely heavy. So they got to Australia, dragging these heavy bags through customs to the amusment of all present and got busted for importing some massive quantity of illegal drugs.
My wife is Malaysian. A Japanese person who knew what I know about the attitude of Malaysians to the Japanese would stay the hell away from them. But they don't know of course.
Iran, despite it's horrible name and extremely objectionable nuke policy, is actually the most progressive (and tolerant) muslim country in existence, with the possible exception of the secular Turkey.
What about Malaysia?
You know what, I've been 100% against torture from the beginning
Well good for you!
Your premise is wrong. The barrier between us and other animals is not artificial. We are not like other animals. If you want a simple way to convince yourself that animals are not self-aware, put them in front of a mirror.
I don't know what the animal thinks when put in front of the mirror, any more than I know what you think. We may look for expected behaviour like testing to see if the animal touches a spot painted on its face but such tests are loaded with assumptions which have nothing to do with conciousness.
Conciousness is basically an invention to allow us to kill animals and satisfy our conscience.