I don't understand this at all - I am not 85, but I still have a phone, and it's the only thing that works reliably. I have had several cell phones, and even in Silicon Valley, they don't connect at my house reliably, they don't connect at my work (parking lot) reliably, they can't be used in the building at all (prohibited and shielded anyway), they don't work at any hotel I go to. I don't talk while driving, but when I check, they aren't connected when you are on the highway aside from poulated areas. Basically, they seem to be more-or-less a stunt, or hit-or-miss proposition whether there is any signal.
How can people use these things, they seem utterly unreliable.
Bullshit, degrees in physics and mathematics and 37 years in a *highly technical* related field, including complex simulations of highly non-linear systems. Sound like anything that could possibly be related to this. If you wanted to play dueling credentials, you would lose, Mr. AC.
This isn't about 'science', it's about freedom of speech, and trying to suppress people's opinions. Moreover, "science" generally refers to falsifiable propositions, and the submitter attempts to remove any way to falsify the proposition by suppressing, preemtively, any sort of falsifying evidence. The use of the word "denialism" is no different from "heresy" in this context.
If someone posts something that is incorrect, you should be able to very clearly show why it is not without resorting to sticking your fingers in your ears and going "la la la" loudly to avoid hearing it.
One thing has been very consistent - the fact that the "solution", regardless of the problem, is for rich countries of the west to be subject to draconian restrictions, while paying massive wealth redistribution/"reparations" to the lesser countries. While allowing the same lesser countries to spew the alleged problem greenhouse gasses with no real restrictions at all. This was the solution in the 70's when the concern was an "inevitable" ice age, now it is the solution for the "inevitable" greenhouse effects.
The second aircraft was in flames prior to the flight terminating abruptly on the ground. It has been suggested that overworked controls fighting with an overly aggressive antistall device may have caused that.
"Overworking the controls" does not cause a fire! That's utterly absurd, no amount of "working the controls" will cause a fire, absent some other almost inconceivable design error.
That's like asking a computer to "compute pi to the last digit", then have sproinging noises and smoke come out.
Some of what was reported about her behavior seems so over-the-top that it's hard to believe. Letting the dog run around in the lab? What the hell, she should never be allowed within 100 miles of anything important.
Interesting but ultimately futile, since they will still be mining your data indefinitely.
It is possibly too obvious to point out, but no one seemed to care one whit about it until it became a supposed scandal - by selling the data to the Trump campaign. No one gave a tinker's damn about it when Obama very famously did the same.
Claiming that you are an "AI" company is just marketing buzz for most. Last year they would have been "blockchain startups", in 1999 they would have been "internet companies", and in 1960 they would have been somehow worked the word "rocket" into the name. It's been this way forever.
If you find you are suddenly in danger of being unable to use some functionality of your device then you have leashed yourself with closed-source software. If they had invested in contributing to an open source software then they would not be leashed. The real problem is that when people think of open source software, they think that because it's free that they should not allocate money toward supporting the software.
This is delusional. People buy "closed source" software from known companies because they at least have a hope (and usually a contract) to *support it*. Open source generally had *no support whatsoever*, or at best it's at the whim of some open-source zealot. Something goes wrong with your Motorola radio, you call Motorola. They give you a support number or website, they are contractually/legally obligated to support you under terms you agreed to.
You buy/acquire an open-source "free software" product, you have *nothing*. Maybe theres a website where you can go, ask a question, and maybe someone answers your question, or maybe not, depends on how some individual feels about it that day. There's no one even pretending to be accountable for it, there's no one who gives a damn about your problem. Heck, if it's the police, you might ask a question and then get descended by a bunch of neckbeard shouting "fuck the police" or refusing to support you on their precious principles that law enforcement are the oppressors, or something equally stupid. It might have foriegn content when that is not allowed, and you can't tell, because it's not traceable and no one is responsible.
Maybe you can hire some flaky hippy-types who job-hop every 6 months, maybe the know what they are doing or not, and guess what, you are now, quite unexpectedly, in the software development business.
That's why people buy software from actual established companies, and that's why any responsible purchasing agent requires that the terms of support be explicitly stated in a contract. That's effectively impossible to ensure any of these things in a open-source contract, and unless there is something done about it, *you will never, ever make any headway*.
It has nothing to do with SpaceX (or PT Barnum, Jr.). It has to do with making sure that they at least are able to cheaply monitor the "low-hanging fruit" of big centralized communications centers. They will work the more difficult problem of decentralized systems later with much more sophisticated and complex SIGINT systems (which they are well-capable of doing).
This is effectively remaking the old Soviet KGB domestic spying organization, and predictable as the sun rising in the East.
People have been doing that experiment, and validating it with flight data, since 1964. 1985, "we predict a double-bit memory error once every 28.5 days". Cut to 2018 - observed upset rate = 28.496 days.
There essentially no question what space does to computers. And in any case, we still send things costing far, far more than $100 million into space (that is, *almost everything launched* is much more than that) and every one of them already has one or more computers in them, they follow the predictions plenty well enough to predict the results.
"Pretty good" - compared to what? It was clearly the worst of the commonly-used audio formats in terms of fideltity,.iIt was at best acceptable, but was also the only practical method for car audio before the CD came along, and, and you could make mix tapes with it.
Despite what he music industry said about it, the use case was generally to allow you to record off of records you already had just so you could play them in the car.
I am not sure what they are trying to prove with this experiment. The environment inside the space station is hardly any more daunting than sitting on a table in Cupertino. The real issue is when you get above the Van Allen belts and get a few zaps from solar flares.
I am sure they know this, but, also, processors for the space environment are also a perfectly well-known quantity. Analysis alone should get them a very reliable answer on life time, upset rate, etc.
Trump is *the duly-elected President of the United States*, he can say exactly what he wants to say at any time. He has also abided by every court decision that applied - even though he doesn't have to - the executive is *co-equal* to the judicial branch.
Elon Musk is a nouveau-riche huskster trying to manipulate stock prices, and has already been sanctioned for it - and is now ignoring the sanctions.
The inevitable confusion with Captain Marvel (Billy Batson saying Shazam!, now tih DC) does it no favors, either. A lot more people have heard about him than Carol Danvers.
Virtually everyone is "anti-war". That doesn't mean you have to be a pacifist, in fact, the more lethal and effective your weapons, the easier it is to avoid it. As evidenced by the fact that almost no one here has ever had to fight in a war, get drafted, or killed, and why there have been no major world conflicts since 1945.
The US military exists to *prevent you from getting killed*, "provide you with the freedom to succeed in life*, and is generally responsible for your extremely safe, wealthy, and comfortable life.
These people were plenty happy to take the money for every sort of creepy spying behavior, putting out crap software and selling it largely through strongarm tactics and bribery. But serve the legitimate aims of government, there they draw the line.
This is hallmark virtue signalling, because they know that this will go ahead anyway, and they can all say they are going to quit, but almost none of them will.
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I don't understand this at all - I am not 85, but I still have a phone, and it's the only thing that works reliably. I have had several cell phones, and even in Silicon Valley, they don't connect at my house reliably, they don't connect at my work (parking lot) reliably, they can't be used in the building at all (prohibited and shielded anyway), they don't work at any hotel I go to. I don't talk while driving, but when I check, they aren't connected when you are on the highway aside from poulated areas. Basically, they seem to be more-or-less a stunt, or hit-or-miss proposition whether there is any signal.
How can people use these things, they seem utterly unreliable.
Bullshit, degrees in physics and mathematics and 37 years in a *highly technical* related field, including complex simulations of highly non-linear systems. Sound like anything that could possibly be related to this. If you wanted to play dueling credentials, you would lose, Mr. AC.
This isn't about 'science', it's about freedom of speech, and trying to suppress people's opinions. Moreover, "science" generally refers to falsifiable propositions, and the submitter attempts to remove any way to falsify the proposition by suppressing, preemtively, any sort of falsifying evidence. The use of the word "denialism" is no different from "heresy" in this context.
If someone posts something that is incorrect, you should be able to very clearly show why it is not without resorting to sticking your fingers in your ears and going "la la la" loudly to avoid hearing it.
So, you are *utterly intolerant" of views aside from your own? I *am* a trained scientist, I don't advocate that at all.
One thing has been very consistent - the fact that the "solution", regardless of the problem, is for rich countries of the west to be subject to draconian restrictions, while paying massive wealth redistribution/"reparations" to the lesser countries. While allowing the same lesser countries to spew the alleged problem greenhouse gasses with no real restrictions at all. This was the solution in the 70's when the concern was an "inevitable" ice age, now it is the solution for the "inevitable" greenhouse effects.
Those things may well have happened, but they are certainly NOT the result of "overworking the controls".
"Overworking the controls" does not cause a fire! That's utterly absurd, no amount of "working the controls" will cause a fire, absent some other almost inconceivable design error.
That's like asking a computer to "compute pi to the last digit", then have sproinging noises and smoke come out.
Buzzword bingo it is!
Some of what was reported about her behavior seems so over-the-top that it's hard to believe. Letting the dog run around in the lab? What the hell, she should never be allowed within 100 miles of anything important.
Interesting but ultimately futile, since they will still be mining your data indefinitely.
It is possibly too obvious to point out, but no one seemed to care one whit about it until it became a supposed scandal - by selling the data to the Trump campaign. No one gave a tinker's damn about it when Obama very famously did the same.
Claiming that you are an "AI" company is just marketing buzz for most. Last year they would have been "blockchain startups", in 1999 they would have been "internet companies", and in 1960 they would have been somehow worked the word "rocket" into the name. It's been this way forever.
Solved in 1906. See also: vacuum tube.
This is delusional. People buy "closed source" software from known companies because they at least have a hope (and usually a contract) to *support it*. Open source generally had *no support whatsoever*, or at best it's at the whim of some open-source zealot. Something goes wrong with your Motorola radio, you call Motorola. They give you a support number or website, they are contractually/legally obligated to support you under terms you agreed to.
You buy/acquire an open-source "free software" product, you have *nothing*. Maybe theres a website where you can go, ask a question, and maybe someone answers your question, or maybe not, depends on how some individual feels about it that day. There's no one even pretending to be accountable for it, there's no one who gives a damn about your problem. Heck, if it's the police, you might ask a question and then get descended by a bunch of neckbeard shouting "fuck the police" or refusing to support you on their precious principles that law enforcement are the oppressors, or something equally stupid. It might have foriegn content when that is not allowed, and you can't tell, because it's not traceable and no one is responsible.
Maybe you can hire some flaky hippy-types who job-hop every 6 months, maybe the know what they are doing or not, and guess what, you are now, quite unexpectedly, in the software development business.
That's why people buy software from actual established companies, and that's why any responsible purchasing agent requires that the terms of support be explicitly stated in a contract. That's effectively impossible to ensure any of these things in a open-source contract, and unless there is something done about it, *you will never, ever make any headway*.
It has nothing to do with SpaceX (or PT Barnum, Jr.). It has to do with making sure that they at least are able to cheaply monitor the "low-hanging fruit" of big centralized communications centers. They will work the more difficult problem of decentralized systems later with much more sophisticated and complex SIGINT systems (which they are well-capable of doing).
This is effectively remaking the old Soviet KGB domestic spying organization, and predictable as the sun rising in the East.
The line is not that fine, this is a broad jump across it.
Of course, the real issue is that they need to figure out a new way to shake down the major US players for more cash.
People have been doing that experiment, and validating it with flight data, since 1964. 1985, "we predict a double-bit memory error once every 28.5 days". Cut to 2018 - observed upset rate = 28.496 days.
There essentially no question what space does to computers. And in any case, we still send things costing far, far more than $100 million into space (that is, *almost everything launched* is much more than that) and every one of them already has one or more computers in them, they follow the predictions plenty well enough to predict the results.
"Pretty good" - compared to what? It was clearly the worst of the commonly-used audio formats in terms of fideltity, .iIt was at best acceptable, but was also the only practical method for car audio before the CD came along, and, and you could make mix tapes with it.
Despite what he music industry said about it, the use case was generally to allow you to record off of records you already had just so you could play them in the car.
I am not sure what they are trying to prove with this experiment. The environment inside the space station is hardly any more daunting than sitting on a table in Cupertino. The real issue is when you get above the Van Allen belts and get a few zaps from solar flares.
I am sure they know this, but, also, processors for the space environment are also a perfectly well-known quantity. Analysis alone should get them a very reliable answer on life time, upset rate, etc.
Trump is *the duly-elected President of the United States*, he can say exactly what he wants to say at any time. He has also abided by every court decision that applied - even though he doesn't have to - the executive is *co-equal* to the judicial branch.
Elon Musk is a nouveau-riche huskster trying to manipulate stock prices, and has already been sanctioned for it - and is now ignoring the sanctions.
Trump is not responsible for laws that have existed for decades, or is he responsible for Musk quite obviously violating the terms of his settlement.
He broke the law, he agreed to a settlement to keep him out of jail and reduce the fine, and then he broke the settlement. This is black and white.
The inevitable confusion with Captain Marvel (Billy Batson saying Shazam!, now tih DC) does it no favors, either. A lot more people have heard about him than Carol Danvers.
The Karman line, as computed by Karman, was 52 miles.
Virtually everyone is "anti-war". That doesn't mean you have to be a pacifist, in fact, the more lethal and effective your weapons, the easier it is to avoid it. As evidenced by the fact that almost no one here has ever had to fight in a war, get drafted, or killed, and why there have been no major world conflicts since 1945.
The US military exists to *prevent you from getting killed*, "provide you with the freedom to succeed in life*, and is generally responsible for your extremely safe, wealthy, and comfortable life.
These people were plenty happy to take the money for every sort of creepy spying behavior, putting out crap software and selling it largely through strongarm tactics and bribery. But serve the legitimate aims of government, there they draw the line.
This is hallmark virtue signalling, because they know that this will go ahead anyway, and they can all say they are going to quit, but almost none of them will.
Yes, 50 years ago, and having to develop the entire thing from scratch instead of opening a bunch of catalogs and buying the parts.
One ridiculous medical quack cure after another, this one is from the *middle ages*, for God's sake.
Eat from the food pyramid, get some exercise, take medicine only when necessary, and you will maximize your chances.
Extradition for this? I think you need to, maybe, learn something about the law.