No, what he has in mind is a terrorist plot to let off a nuke or chem weapon in a major city. The question he's posing is "how far do you want to take this privacy route?" It's a bit like those morons in Texas strutting around with their sidearms. A bit of thought would lead them to a terrorist group doing a lot more than strutting around with their sidearms, but they'll feel good about themselves because they are armed.
" Why should we care about their opinions more than they care about ours?" err...because without a strong science environment, you can kiss any future economic growth in a very competitive world goodbye? Don't believe me, look at the Asian countries and how much they devote to science. They get it, and you won't.
BIng, bing, bing!!!! We have a winner for the Most Unlikely Story to Suck in a Rant on Systemd. Please collect your award and post your speech, we're dying to hear all about it.
Yep, Russia meddled and took part of Georgia because the evil U.S. was there. And they decided to steal part of the Ukraine for the same reason. And those islands in the S. China Sea, why Vietnam and the other nations to which they are closer are only doing the bidding of the U.S. hence the need for China to militarize them. N. Korea, yep, those naughty Americans are preventing the Norks from slaughtering the Sorks as they deserve. And those Muslim fanatics, why they'd be fluffy bunny rabbits were it not for the U.S. And Assad of Syria, we just know he was playing secret footsie with Americans before he decided to slaughter his people and chase a few million out of the country. Those naughty Americans.
As others below have mentioned, it is very difficult to formally verify large complex systems. However, it is made even more complex in that there aren't enough research results to cover such a system in its complexity. Also, computer scientists tend to think the world revolves around their code, so if they get that correct, then the system will run correctly. The real world isn't like that, and it is not all captured in software, much of the system is hardware. Trying to capture the correct interaction between hardware and software is very, very hard...and it isn't clear that even if you could that you could verify the result before the universe dies.
"As for the universe we don't have a clue." Actually, we do. The Universe is expanding because of dark energy. In few trillion years, there will be only island galaxies (I might be off by a trillion or two) which cannot see anything around them, not even the echos of the Big Bang we can see now. After that, the galaxies collapse into black holes and there is nothing...which is actually something...quantum virtual particle pair creation means more or less that emptiness is unstable. So eventually, another small region could inflate into another universe. It is possible that we have a multiverse, and in one of those universes, you are correct, but not this one.
Clinton only balanced the budget because with a Republican Congress, he wasn't allowed to spend. The economy was going through the dot.com bubble which inflated tax receipts. He sent bombers into the Balkans only after several massacres happened and it was clear to all concerned that the Serbs were the major dicks there.
And liberals are generally not in favor of free market reforms or free trade agreements. They believe the U.S. is still some sort of island utopia and live all by itself.
Negotiating with the Commies has been a conservative aim since Eisenhower. It was what they used to keep the Kremlin in check until Bush Jr. took his eye off the ball. Reagan did, however, government somewhat like a liberal. Well he had too seeing as he had Democrat congress who agreed to a military buildup and tax cuts. The agreement was they were supposed to cut spending to balance it all out, but they more or less didn't do it and continued expanding social programs.
The politics of Reagan and Clinton is LOT more complicated than your analysis.
Errrr....because the CIA doesn't want to be responsible for a million dead Iraqis? Aside from the obvious moral issues, the legal ones would be awful if anyone found out...and it would come out sooner or later. It would be considered a war crime.
While the CIA is not part of the Defense Department, when asked by some Senate committee members if the U.S. would carpet bomb Daesh, General Paul Selva (Air Force) said, "The U.S. military will never carpet bomb." This is why Hayden said recently that were a President Trump to order carpet bombing, the Pentagon would refuse to carry out the order thus causing a Constitution crisis.
It is clear why they wouldn't do this or take out the dam, the U.S. military does not want to kill millions of people. They learned the hard way in Iraq that you cannot kill your way out the problem. And it causes every Tom, Dick, and Joe-Bob Ahmed who had a family member killed to join the opposition. Other generals during that war and in Afghanistan said the same thing.
Now if the people running for the presidency would come up to speed, then they wouldn't be saying similar stupid things.
Err...the NSA is part of the military. And they do not like to play nice with the civilian authorities because any whizzy things they let out of their labs could find its way into a lawsuit and then public domain. And the NSA is not the brain that can crack anything, that only comes from TV. NSA is actually quite circumspect in any promises to technical virility. The woman professor, Landau, on the panel in yesterday's Inquisition more or less told the representatives that the FBI was behind the times technically and in terms of mindset. Too bad Comey was on the earlier panel, I'd have like to see her tell that to his face, and she certainly seemed prepared to do it.
Issa is generally a dolt about most things. His understanding of tech is at least 20 years old.
What was really entertaining was watching Trey Gowdy act like a chicken with his hair on fire and being very angry about it. One expected him to cross the streams and blame Benghazi on Apple. Sensenbrenner from Wisconsin was similarly brain-dead asking why Apple didn't come to the hearing with a bill or a list of fixes for Congress to implement, Gowdy seemed incensed about this as well but one got the impression anything to get incensed about would do, he isn't particular. Me thinks he'll be running for President on the Eejit Ticket next go 'round. Comey came across as lame technically, the NYC district attorney, Cyrus Vance Jr., was more or less ready to run any civil liberties under the bus and didn't think there was any issue as long as he could throw someone in the klink if they got in his way.
Two different agencies, and the ACA plans are run by the insurance companies, the ones who are have been fucking us all along. Only Bernie is stupid enough to think the Feds could take over health insurance under a single payer. Personally, I don't think he gives a flying rat's ass about universal health care, he just doesn't like rich people and intends to use it as bludgeon to take their money. However, rich people have accountants and lawyers and tax shelters, and they don't have to continue living in the U.S., Switzerland is happy to take them and their money.
These IRA problems are mainly is the result of inadequate funding over the recent years by the Republicans who figure money not spent is money saved. The IRS screwed themselves years back with an upgrade that cost billions but never made it into production.
Actually, they should focus kids on math, science, and the liberal arts. It does a company or government no good to hire Joe Star Programmer who knows zilch about anything but programming. Joe Star being unable to communicate in clear sentences and well-thought out paragraphs will cause havoc. Joe Star with no science background is plain useless in any lab. Joe Star who cannot, using the correct math skills, attack a technical problem outside of programming isn't useful to anyone other than a software house...and it is dubious they'd be all that useful there too.
You heard it here first, Hospital Administrators. Get out there and create your own hospital intranets. If you act now, you can ask this fellow to help you, there's no doubt he can set one up in an afternoon.
Whatever, I gather we're all to recreate the internet in miniature for our critical systems because...what was that again, I sort of fell asleep half way through your screed.
Oh c'mon, a dirty trick doesn't rise to the level of "evil". Hitler was evil, Stalin was evil, this is just MS showing in precise terms just how they feel about their customers. If you are using MS, you are used to this sort of thing and have decided to accept it. So change your app preferences back and go back to sucking the MS teat.
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No, what he has in mind is a terrorist plot to let off a nuke or chem weapon in a major city. The question he's posing is "how far do you want to take this privacy route?" It's a bit like those morons in Texas strutting around with their sidearms. A bit of thought would lead them to a terrorist group doing a lot more than strutting around with their sidearms, but they'll feel good about themselves because they are armed.
Yup, the Freedom of Information Act and all the millions the government spends to give you access.
"if Stephen Hawking's so smart, why ain't he rich?" If Trump is so smart, why ain't he a world-renown physicist?
" Why should we care about their opinions more than they care about ours?" err...because without a strong science environment, you can kiss any future economic growth in a very competitive world goodbye? Don't believe me, look at the Asian countries and how much they devote to science. They get it, and you won't.
Really, who has Britain invaded since WWII? Iraq? Errr...maybe you believe Iraq is in the EU?
Yeah, those organizations are completely free of particular company influence, let them decide.
BIng, bing, bing!!!! We have a winner for the Most Unlikely Story to Suck in a Rant on Systemd. Please collect your award and post your speech, we're dying to hear all about it.
Yep, Russia meddled and took part of Georgia because the evil U.S. was there. And they decided to steal part of the Ukraine for the same reason. And those islands in the S. China Sea, why Vietnam and the other nations to which they are closer are only doing the bidding of the U.S. hence the need for China to militarize them. N. Korea, yep, those naughty Americans are preventing the Norks from slaughtering the Sorks as they deserve. And those Muslim fanatics, why they'd be fluffy bunny rabbits were it not for the U.S. And Assad of Syria, we just know he was playing secret footsie with Americans before he decided to slaughter his people and chase a few million out of the country. Those naughty Americans.
As others below have mentioned, it is very difficult to formally verify large complex systems. However, it is made even more complex in that there aren't enough research results to cover such a system in its complexity. Also, computer scientists tend to think the world revolves around their code, so if they get that correct, then the system will run correctly. The real world isn't like that, and it is not all captured in software, much of the system is hardware. Trying to capture the correct interaction between hardware and software is very, very hard...and it isn't clear that even if you could that you could verify the result before the universe dies.
Yep, we can always count on China to keep the sea lanes free and open.
Why is this modded interesting? It is pure conjecture.
To shoot the machine in the head when it gets too big for its britches.
"As for the universe we don't have a clue." Actually, we do. The Universe is expanding because of dark energy. In few trillion years, there will be only island galaxies (I might be off by a trillion or two) which cannot see anything around them, not even the echos of the Big Bang we can see now. After that, the galaxies collapse into black holes and there is nothing...which is actually something...quantum virtual particle pair creation means more or less that emptiness is unstable. So eventually, another small region could inflate into another universe. It is possible that we have a multiverse, and in one of those universes, you are correct, but not this one.
Clinton only balanced the budget because with a Republican Congress, he wasn't allowed to spend. The economy was going through the dot.com bubble which inflated tax receipts. He sent bombers into the Balkans only after several massacres happened and it was clear to all concerned that the Serbs were the major dicks there.
And liberals are generally not in favor of free market reforms or free trade agreements. They believe the U.S. is still some sort of island utopia and live all by itself.
Negotiating with the Commies has been a conservative aim since Eisenhower. It was what they used to keep the Kremlin in check until Bush Jr. took his eye off the ball. Reagan did, however, government somewhat like a liberal. Well he had too seeing as he had Democrat congress who agreed to a military buildup and tax cuts. The agreement was they were supposed to cut spending to balance it all out, but they more or less didn't do it and continued expanding social programs.
The politics of Reagan and Clinton is LOT more complicated than your analysis.
Errrr....because the CIA doesn't want to be responsible for a million dead Iraqis? Aside from the obvious moral issues, the legal ones would be awful if anyone found out...and it would come out sooner or later. It would be considered a war crime.
While the CIA is not part of the Defense Department, when asked by some Senate committee members if the U.S. would carpet bomb Daesh, General Paul Selva (Air Force) said, "The U.S. military will never carpet bomb." This is why Hayden said recently that were a President Trump to order carpet bombing, the Pentagon would refuse to carry out the order thus causing a Constitution crisis.
It is clear why they wouldn't do this or take out the dam, the U.S. military does not want to kill millions of people. They learned the hard way in Iraq that you cannot kill your way out the problem. And it causes every Tom, Dick, and Joe-Bob Ahmed who had a family member killed to join the opposition. Other generals during that war and in Afghanistan said the same thing.
Now if the people running for the presidency would come up to speed, then they wouldn't be saying similar stupid things.
Err...the NSA is part of the military. And they do not like to play nice with the civilian authorities because any whizzy things they let out of their labs could find its way into a lawsuit and then public domain. And the NSA is not the brain that can crack anything, that only comes from TV. NSA is actually quite circumspect in any promises to technical virility. The woman professor, Landau, on the panel in yesterday's Inquisition more or less told the representatives that the FBI was behind the times technically and in terms of mindset. Too bad Comey was on the earlier panel, I'd have like to see her tell that to his face, and she certainly seemed prepared to do it.
Issa is generally a dolt about most things. His understanding of tech is at least 20 years old.
What was really entertaining was watching Trey Gowdy act like a chicken with his hair on fire and being very angry about it. One expected him to cross the streams and blame Benghazi on Apple. Sensenbrenner from Wisconsin was similarly brain-dead asking why Apple didn't come to the hearing with a bill or a list of fixes for Congress to implement, Gowdy seemed incensed about this as well but one got the impression anything to get incensed about would do, he isn't particular. Me thinks he'll be running for President on the Eejit Ticket next go 'round. Comey came across as lame technically, the NYC district attorney, Cyrus Vance Jr., was more or less ready to run any civil liberties under the bus and didn't think there was any issue as long as he could throw someone in the klink if they got in his way.
Stop watching crime shows, it is bad for you...and they are not real.
Two different agencies, and the ACA plans are run by the insurance companies, the ones who are have been fucking us all along. Only Bernie is stupid enough to think the Feds could take over health insurance under a single payer. Personally, I don't think he gives a flying rat's ass about universal health care, he just doesn't like rich people and intends to use it as bludgeon to take their money. However, rich people have accountants and lawyers and tax shelters, and they don't have to continue living in the U.S., Switzerland is happy to take them and their money.
These IRA problems are mainly is the result of inadequate funding over the recent years by the Republicans who figure money not spent is money saved. The IRS screwed themselves years back with an upgrade that cost billions but never made it into production.
Actually, they should focus kids on math, science, and the liberal arts. It does a company or government no good to hire Joe Star Programmer who knows zilch about anything but programming. Joe Star being unable to communicate in clear sentences and well-thought out paragraphs will cause havoc. Joe Star with no science background is plain useless in any lab. Joe Star who cannot, using the correct math skills, attack a technical problem outside of programming isn't useful to anyone other than a software house...and it is dubious they'd be all that useful there too.
You heard it here first, Hospital Administrators. Get out there and create your own hospital intranets. If you act now, you can ask this fellow to help you, there's no doubt he can set one up in an afternoon.
Sheesh, how young can a person be, it's Kool-Aid...and get the fuck off my lawn...
Whatever, I gather we're all to recreate the internet in miniature for our critical systems because...what was that again, I sort of fell asleep half way through your screed.
Oh c'mon, a dirty trick doesn't rise to the level of "evil". Hitler was evil, Stalin was evil, this is just MS showing in precise terms just how they feel about their customers. If you are using MS, you are used to this sort of thing and have decided to accept it. So change your app preferences back and go back to sucking the MS teat.
He's married to one of the Kardashian's butts.
"That means that the firmware is in flash memory somewhere and can be updated, which is a huge security flaw"
You mean as opposed to being burned into the hardware where any security flaw is there forever?