we do not have a choice of not shipping it. If we stop shipping oil significant portion of human population will starve and/or freeze and die
There's always choices. People can be relocated to areas where they don't need heating oil, using far less energy than a winter's heating oil contains.
We've dug a pretty deep hole with the food from oil thing, but that was a hole of our own digging, and will be reversed one way or another before the oil runs out - why not start today?
Ya know, long pipelines (100s of miles) leak, all of them, all the time. Installing and maintaining a pipeline is a huge expense, even compared to a railroad.
If this kind of system were to include actual failed password attempts on the system. It would be fair to take the 3rd standard deviation above the mean, but on a system that never gets its passwords tested, it is unreasonable to assume that all passwords are under a maximal attack all the time.
Also, what's wrong with "pacing" password attempts - exponential increase of time delay between failed attempts up to maybe 30 minutes. It will take a very long time to guess test1234%^ at 30 minutes per guess.
120 proof in pure powdered form, if you mix it 1:1 by weight into water, you'll have something slightly less potent than Vodka or Rum, with 20% sugar in the mixture (from the powder coating.)
When legal basis is secret, everything is legal... or illegal, as the keepers of the secrets deem fit.
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Australia has been doing drones "legally" for a whole lot longer than the U.S.
Here, it was just forbidden for commercial use, period (well, sure, you can do it with some special paperwork and exemption certificates and hearings and....). Interesting development if it is freely legal now.
Sounds good, but only if you have a 2nd driver (for the drone) onboard. Otherwise, regardless of how self-piloting the drone is, you should be parked, stationary and out of the way of any traffic, before giving attention over to a flying vehicle with 3 degrees of freedom and a crappy blurry jumpy video feed.
They must just be asking a lot of people who are understand math and have a little discipline. A carpenter can become a millionaire by retirement, all you have to do is start saving and keep saving.
I fully intend to be a millionaire by the time I retire, and with inflation that should be enough for a tent and some camping supplies.
^^^This, exactly!
I assume the people asking / answering the question are talking about being a millionaire in today's dollars... already it is easier by a factor of 4 since I graduated high school (1984) to accumulate 7 figures in your net worth.
So, you're saying we don't need more PhDs in Mathematics, like the article says we don't need more biomedical researchers, we should all retrain to do elder care and innovate improvements in Depends and Shuffleboard?
If we all bow down and worship the medical professionals for their opinions on all things medical, we are fools.
I have heard, from a recently minted M.D., the opinion that "it doesn't matter if breast cancer screening causes breast cancer, because once we detect it, we can treat it." I, lacking a medical degree, am obviously not smart enough to fathom this reasoning, how we should go around breaking people because we think we know how to fix them later?
The delusion here, with any public figure who reaches tens or hundreds of millions of people, is that you are dealing with "a person."
Think about "Joe the Plumber" - he was just a guy who got a microphone stuck in his face, spoke his mind, and had it spread out on a national stage. The professionals don't operate like that, they've got "hive mind" at work with people monitoring public opinion in the various "markets," script writers carefully choosing words that balance the varying perceptions of those words, and "message managers" that emphasize, and de-emphasize, the various messages to various groups. People who attempt to be public figures at a national level without that kind of support are eaten alive by the ones who do it competitively.
Bands that promote themselves through YouTube have "a chance" to gain some popularity, but I haven't seen any of these garage phenomena reach Nirvana proportions, and, in my opinion, that's a good thing. McCarthy is at Nirvana scale, and Obama makes her look like a sad side show.
McCarthy, and her PR team, have a well reasoned, defensible position, including the last line re: measles vs. autism - even if there is no scientific proof of a measles vaccine / autism link, it is still a valid statement.
The McCarthy PR campaign also projects a strong sense of the "whatever pleases, or resonates with, the most people right now" - taking that same message and emphasizing different perceptions of it at different times.
Personally, I think the McCarthy "message" is being promoted first and foremost to benefit the McCarthy team (her, her publicist, and the whole crew that make a phenomenon like that happen....) There might have been an inkling of a heartfelt idea at the core of it, but it's been blown up way beyond that.
No modern "career job" is useful after an Apocalypse. If you are involved in any kind of competitive (free market) industry, you are using the infrastructure to its best advantage. "Modern" farming knows little to nothing about how to farm without fuel or pesticides. Similarly, modern medicine isn't about basic hygiene or simple infection control.
If you want to be useful after an Apocalypse, take up survivalism as a hobby, learn to grow your own food, make your own tools, including weapons for hunting / defense, and do construction without power tools. But, don't think you can make a living in the real world with these skills, unless you are a promoting your hobby and selling it as a service to others - which takes: modern technology to effectively do your advertising and customer handling, competitively.
Also, the dominant early Apocalypse survivors will be all about Max Max style scavenging of whatever is leftover, you won't get down to the true basic skills until the stores are picked clean and structures have fallen to rubble - and the "natural world" may not resemble anything familiar... adaptability is key.
I believe their major malfunction centers on "sense and avoid" - that's the standard for human piloted aircraft and they want drones to do it before they turn them loose.
Problem is, drones range in size from gnats to 707s, and there's absolutely no standardization of sense and avoid tech that works, or even has a chance of working across the spectrum of players.
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Of all major industries, energy is the field with the lowest ratio of research funding to revenue
which they more than compensate for via ownership of a major political party.
we do not have a choice of not shipping it. If we stop shipping oil significant portion of human population will starve and/or freeze and die
There's always choices. People can be relocated to areas where they don't need heating oil, using far less energy than a winter's heating oil contains.
We've dug a pretty deep hole with the food from oil thing, but that was a hole of our own digging, and will be reversed one way or another before the oil runs out - why not start today?
Ya know, long pipelines (100s of miles) leak, all of them, all the time. Installing and maintaining a pipeline is a huge expense, even compared to a railroad.
That being said, they have their places.
If this kind of system were to include actual failed password attempts on the system. It would be fair to take the 3rd standard deviation above the mean, but on a system that never gets its passwords tested, it is unreasonable to assume that all passwords are under a maximal attack all the time.
Also, what's wrong with "pacing" password attempts - exponential increase of time delay between failed attempts up to maybe 30 minutes. It will take a very long time to guess test1234%^ at 30 minutes per guess.
120 proof in pure powdered form, if you mix it 1:1 by weight into water, you'll have something slightly less potent than Vodka or Rum, with 20% sugar in the mixture (from the powder coating.)
When legal basis is secret, everything is legal... or illegal, as the keepers of the secrets deem fit.
Australia has been doing drones "legally" for a whole lot longer than the U.S.
Here, it was just forbidden for commercial use, period (well, sure, you can do it with some special paperwork and exemption certificates and hearings and....). Interesting development if it is freely legal now.
Sounds good, but only if you have a 2nd driver (for the drone) onboard. Otherwise, regardless of how self-piloting the drone is, you should be parked, stationary and out of the way of any traffic, before giving attention over to a flying vehicle with 3 degrees of freedom and a crappy blurry jumpy video feed.
Doesn't have to be... along with the 15 inch holes, I was thinking we could trade the ball and clubs in for ballistic missiles...
And, before FTP, there was Kermit...
Looks like the head on a Budweiser, after it has been spilled in the mud.
Didn't you know? There's not enough grain by product going into our landfills - we must not allow a grain landfill gap!
Extrasolar planet hunting is... spotty at best.
If we actually sent a spaceship into a Jupiter sized orbit of another star, it would still take awhile to spot all the inner planets.
Not only did computers get better, look at basic transportation over the last 500 years... oceangoing sailing ships to jets and spacecraft.
500 more years and we just might be travelling near light speed on the way there.
But, everyone aspired to be that cigar smoking boss, so everyone getting "comfy" chairs was progress, right?
You don't need to become one of those 1000, all you have to be is delusional enough to believe that you will be fabulously wealthy...
They must just be asking a lot of people who are understand math and have a little discipline. A carpenter can become a millionaire by retirement, all you have to do is start saving and keep saving.
I fully intend to be a millionaire by the time I retire, and with inflation that should be enough for a tent and some camping supplies.
^^^This, exactly!
I assume the people asking / answering the question are talking about being a millionaire in today's dollars... already it is easier by a factor of 4 since I graduated high school (1984) to accumulate 7 figures in your net worth.
So, you're saying we don't need more PhDs in Mathematics, like the article says we don't need more biomedical researchers, we should all retrain to do elder care and innovate improvements in Depends and Shuffleboard?
Looking around, there are plenty of zealots on all sides of this issue.
If we all bow down and worship the medical professionals for their opinions on all things medical, we are fools.
I have heard, from a recently minted M.D., the opinion that "it doesn't matter if breast cancer screening causes breast cancer, because once we detect it, we can treat it." I, lacking a medical degree, am obviously not smart enough to fathom this reasoning, how we should go around breaking people because we think we know how to fix them later?
The delusion here, with any public figure who reaches tens or hundreds of millions of people, is that you are dealing with "a person."
Think about "Joe the Plumber" - he was just a guy who got a microphone stuck in his face, spoke his mind, and had it spread out on a national stage. The professionals don't operate like that, they've got "hive mind" at work with people monitoring public opinion in the various "markets," script writers carefully choosing words that balance the varying perceptions of those words, and "message managers" that emphasize, and de-emphasize, the various messages to various groups. People who attempt to be public figures at a national level without that kind of support are eaten alive by the ones who do it competitively.
Bands that promote themselves through YouTube have "a chance" to gain some popularity, but I haven't seen any of these garage phenomena reach Nirvana proportions, and, in my opinion, that's a good thing. McCarthy is at Nirvana scale, and Obama makes her look like a sad side show.
McCarthy, and her PR team, have a well reasoned, defensible position, including the last line re: measles vs. autism - even if there is no scientific proof of a measles vaccine / autism link, it is still a valid statement.
The McCarthy PR campaign also projects a strong sense of the "whatever pleases, or resonates with, the most people right now" - taking that same message and emphasizing different perceptions of it at different times.
Personally, I think the McCarthy "message" is being promoted first and foremost to benefit the McCarthy team (her, her publicist, and the whole crew that make a phenomenon like that happen....) There might have been an inkling of a heartfelt idea at the core of it, but it's been blown up way beyond that.
..."avoid a shooting war", "national security or law enforcement need"....
Why does it always come down to those things?
Because that's their job?
Seriously, upgrading the server or refactoring the software? Why does IT always have such drama, can't they just scale up and down like Sales?
No modern "career job" is useful after an Apocalypse. If you are involved in any kind of competitive (free market) industry, you are using the infrastructure to its best advantage. "Modern" farming knows little to nothing about how to farm without fuel or pesticides. Similarly, modern medicine isn't about basic hygiene or simple infection control.
If you want to be useful after an Apocalypse, take up survivalism as a hobby, learn to grow your own food, make your own tools, including weapons for hunting / defense, and do construction without power tools. But, don't think you can make a living in the real world with these skills, unless you are a promoting your hobby and selling it as a service to others - which takes: modern technology to effectively do your advertising and customer handling, competitively.
Also, the dominant early Apocalypse survivors will be all about Max Max style scavenging of whatever is leftover, you won't get down to the true basic skills until the stores are picked clean and structures have fallen to rubble - and the "natural world" may not resemble anything familiar... adaptability is key.
I believe their major malfunction centers on "sense and avoid" - that's the standard for human piloted aircraft and they want drones to do it before they turn them loose.
Problem is, drones range in size from gnats to 707s, and there's absolutely no standardization of sense and avoid tech that works, or even has a chance of working across the spectrum of players.