Cut subsidies to USA/EU farmers, so they no longer can do "dumping" to farmers from other countries. That will be a a great help to those farmers.
It might be a help to those farmers but it will NOT be a help to the rest of the population in those countries who cannot afford to compete with the price that developed countries will pay for the crops which they produce. Hence the result will be farmers here going bust and people over there starving. I don't like farm subsidies but I like the probable result of getting rid of them even less.
First, the issue that relying in subsidized foreign imports means that there is a lot more risk that any disruption (increase of the fuel cost needed for delivery / war / embargo / the foreign country enters bankruptcy and no longer can subsidize the food) causes starvation in your country.
Second, the issue about how is going to pay the country for that food that it no longer can produce locally. The foreign food means a greater imbalance of foreign comerce; as most of these countries have no industry worth mentioning the only they can sell is raw materials (and history shows us how usually this relationship is biased against the producers.
The summary has almost more info about the system than TFA. Do not waste your time reading it; do not feed click-whores. Even the time.com article linked in the TFA only talks about earthquake detection but nothing about this iOS feature.
Now up to the question: What is the issue with the OS? Does it detect vibrations characteristic of an earthquake or it is just an app that connects to a warning center? In the later issue this is as related to iOS as, say, Notepad is related to Vista.
The analogy only works in part. In your case, your maximum possible loss is the device itself and any data not properly backed up. In the case explained in the article, the exploit means that your data ends in untrusted hands.
Of course, it depends a lot of the nature of the data that you have in your phone. For my phone, it would be a greatest setback breaking the device than making public any data held in it. But maybe some other people has in their smartphones the numbering of their secret banks accounts in Switzerland.
... the John Carmack of Open Source *nix Kernels.
Seriously, what has he personally done in the past 5 years other than fsck us with first Bitlocker and then Git, a decade long string of incompatible 2.6.x releases, and finally, in order to 'me too' bad judgements by other open source companies, releasing a half baked kernel as 3.0 that might as well have been called 2.7 or 2.8 for all the new features it provides. (That is to say... none?)
I think that doing "a decade long string of [...] releases" in just 5 years is quite an accomplishment.
It is always the responsability of the "server" code (let it be hypervisor, sandbox, whatever) to ensure that the host system only has access to its assigned resources. If a host goes crazy and formats its hard drive, it should not affect any other host.
Could you point us to any instances where a host system corrupted another host system? There is always the probability of a bug but I have neither found it nor heard of it, maybe I have been just lucky...
Wow! it looks like you are having a hard day! I sincerely hope you get better soon, now try to relax. If you cannot, it is time to go to bed early. And drink less coffee.
NO. it's your job to prove what you say, not our job to prove you wrong.
You wildly miss the point. My absurd theory is as probable as the GP theory, because as we do not have any data about aliens any affirmation about them has the same standing.
Next time I'll write some reading helps, just for you.
We don't look like that, and to any other species WE are the aliens. So clearly not all aliens fit into your idea.
So you redefine "alien" in order to get right? You do define yourself as an "alien"? I hope this works you well when you argue with other people. With me it does not work, sorry (but thank you for tying).
As a side note, you can not even prove me wrong even with semantic twists. First you need to find at least one alien species. Did you thought of it?:-)
The irony here is that Stanislaw Lem had no imagination himself when it came to anything outside his little preconceived box.
That's your opinion.
I found him wildly refreshing, Some of the themes (absurd societies, failure to communicate) appear through their books in different forms, that happens a lot with writters. Most SF I have read just assumes that aliens are "humans" (if not in form, in mental processes) and you end with the same old history. Lem's works remind that the universe is wide and strange, and that we should not take anything for granted (I know, it is disturbing). With Ijon Tichy he also makes a good laugh at everything, it is good to not to take ourselves too seriously.
And all societies with be like Western society, and all economic systems will be like capitalism, and all religions will be like Christianism...
No.
Aliens are grey, with pink stripes and yellow dots. They glow in the dark with a powerful blue light. They eat ammonia and rock, and shit bars of pure gold (24/24). They have five sexes, their families are comprised by 4 members of the first sex, 3 of the second, 8 of the third and 1 of the fourth. Politically they support the entelomostarquia, through there are some supporters of the proportearquia. Sometimes they all get to a cliff and jump down it (they mostly do that for fun).
Some free-thinkers speculate about the posibilities of carbon based, bipedal life-forms, but of course nobody takes those fools seriously.
All of the alien races in the entire universe are like I just described.
Now, prove me wrong.
As imagination is a terrible thing to waste, I recommend you to begin reading some of Stanislaw Lem's books.
I think more TFS worthy the fact that anybody gives a shit about those wild (unless they know something about ET's that we don't) speculations. They should not present themselves as "scientifics" in those "papers".
Whatever scenario you or I or someone drunk in a bar can come out with is exactly equally valid; they do not have any data to work over as scientifics.
I am going to be the devils'advocate and suppose that it is just the media spin; after all one guy can be an scientific from 8 to 5 and then go to the bar and speculate about what colour ET's underwear was. As long as they did not claim that they were doing something more than "wildly speculating", it is not so grave.
Anyway, the part (media or participants) who put the enfasis in the science aspect should be feathered, to begin with.
Actually first on the block should be foreign aid. Then I would agree with cutting defense as well as any and every other program out there with NO exceptions.
Better yet. Cut farmers'subsidies. Then foreign farmers won't have to compete with artificially cheap USA/EU food (even in their local markets). Then foreign help will be not so necessary and you probably can cut it, too. And probably there will be less for bases everywhere and you can cut Defense spending!!.
At the same time, let me introduce myself and of my abilities to help with your plans for Earth doom, if I am allowed to switch sides.
I can't believe noone posted this yet!
First point: if the aliens attack us for the good of the galaxy, or if they attack us for selfish interest, I do not think it matters a lot. The issue would be how we fight back (or avoid being exterminated, or if we decide to surrender and spend our last days in an hedonistic orgy).
Now, more to the issue, I want to know what those guys were smoking, because I want to try it (just a little, a lot less that those guys did). Not because they think the aliens may be hostile, but because they publicly discuss about a subject they do not know shit about. We do not know if they exist, if they can reach us, or anything, and yet we discuss about their motives? Maybe they are a Solaris like entity and kills all of us because it can not even recognize us as living beings, as we are so different from them. Maybe for them the real "live" planet in the solar system is Venus. Yet someone posts those allucinations as news.
Beats me that the public is stupid enough to link/click in articles like that, unless it is just to make fun of them.
What is with the Ender's books? I heard of it so I read the first one. It is just like a bad high school movie (shy young boy who has a glorious fate, who is a do-gooder but kills whoever gets in his path because he is "forced to do", and who becomes a world hero by playing video games and not risking anything). I realize it is ideal for nerdsturbation and nerdgasms, but didn't think that alone was enough to suppress critical thinking of so many people.
What puzzless me more is that obsession with aliens being human-like enough that we can identify their reasoning as we do with people of our species. People has no imagination and things of aliens in human terms: childs (ET), mongol invaders (Independence day, savage animals (Alien), psychos (Predator)...). Really different aliens are not so "popular", because there is less you can write about them (the alien from Dark Star, or many of the aliens from Stanislaw Lem novels).
Our advance rate has improved because we are in a point where the new technology obtained by investigation ease further investigation. Since an alien race technologically superior enough that can attack us will presumibly have the same technology and better, it is not risky to think that their rate of improvement is also equal or superior.
That's what it means when men are separated from the boys, that men have the control, they know what it takes, while the boys still have their training wheels attached.
LOL. A bitter over-emocional about your language, aren't you? Or is it just your ego talking? Hey, if what you want is to brag better switch to whitespace, or brainfuck.
If there is a problem with torque, steering or breaking, then I know about it to manage it. But if the car can take care of that for me so I can get to concentrate in the things the car can't do, it is just a win-win.
Obviously you will say "but what if you have to drive in a 70's car (without ABS, assisted steering and so on) on a snowy road by night?" Then it will be a ride different to what I am used to, and I'll go slower. But given how little I have to do that, I think that the improved performance of not having to deal with petty details is worth it. If I find I must it often, then I'll learn to do it quickly.
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Cut subsidies to USA/EU farmers, so they no longer can do "dumping" to farmers from other countries. That will be a a great help to those farmers.
It might be a help to those farmers but it will NOT be a help to the rest of the population in those countries who cannot afford to compete with the price that developed countries will pay for the crops which they produce. Hence the result will be farmers here going bust and people over there starving. I don't like farm subsidies but I like the probable result of getting rid of them even less.
First, the issue that relying in subsidized foreign imports means that there is a lot more risk that any disruption (increase of the fuel cost needed for delivery / war / embargo / the foreign country enters bankruptcy and no longer can subsidize the food) causes starvation in your country.
Second, the issue about how is going to pay the country for that food that it no longer can produce locally. The foreign food means a greater imbalance of foreign comerce; as most of these countries have no industry worth mentioning the only they can sell is raw materials (and history shows us how usually this relationship is biased against the producers.
So basically it is an app that will come installed by default. Another "duh" news from the /. editors.
The summary has almost more info about the system than TFA. Do not waste your time reading it; do not feed click-whores. Even the time.com article linked in the TFA only talks about earthquake detection but nothing about this iOS feature.
Now up to the question: What is the issue with the OS? Does it detect vibrations characteristic of an earthquake or it is just an app that connects to a warning center? In the later issue this is as related to iOS as, say, Notepad is related to Vista.
The analogy only works in part. In your case, your maximum possible loss is the device itself and any data not properly backed up. In the case explained in the article, the exploit means that your data ends in untrusted hands.
Of course, it depends a lot of the nature of the data that you have in your phone. For my phone, it would be a greatest setback breaking the device than making public any data held in it. But maybe some other people has in their smartphones the numbering of their secret banks accounts in Switzerland.
... the John Carmack of Open Source *nix Kernels. Seriously, what has he personally done in the past 5 years other than fsck us with first Bitlocker and then Git, a decade long string of incompatible 2.6.x releases, and finally, in order to 'me too' bad judgements by other open source companies, releasing a half baked kernel as 3.0 that might as well have been called 2.7 or 2.8 for all the new features it provides. (That is to say... none?)
I think that doing "a decade long string of [...] releases" in just 5 years is quite an accomplishment.
(Ducks)
It is always the responsability of the "server" code (let it be hypervisor, sandbox, whatever) to ensure that the host system only has access to its assigned resources. If a host goes crazy and formats its hard drive, it should not affect any other host.
Could you point us to any instances where a host system corrupted another host system? There is always the probability of a bug but I have neither found it nor heard of it, maybe I have been just lucky...
Sorry sir, but you are in the wrong thread.
Fortunately, nothing of value has been lost.
Very informative, thank you (HINT: I was raised by a pair of untrained monkeys) :-)
Do not forget to fix customers so they use the services at regular intervals, so there are no more peak hours or days.
I suggest trying with a hammer (it does not work very well, but is very satisfactory).
Unless someone has proof of alien life, that paper is wank material. And not the type of wank material that I like to read.
BTW, I am deaf-mute, you insensitive clod! Mark my workds, when our galactic overlords come you will be first in my list!
And now relax and do not post so much, it is altering you too much. :-)
Wow! it looks like you are having a hard day! I sincerely hope you get better soon, now try to relax. If you cannot, it is time to go to bed early. And drink less coffee.
NO. it's your job to prove what you say, not our job to prove you wrong.
You wildly miss the point. My absurd theory is as probable as the GP theory, because as we do not have any data about aliens any affirmation about them has the same standing.
Next time I'll write some reading helps, just for you.
We don't look like that, and to any other species WE are the aliens. So clearly not all aliens fit into your idea.
So you redefine "alien" in order to get right? You do define yourself as an "alien"? I hope this works you well when you argue with other people. With me it does not work, sorry (but thank you for tying).
As a side note, you can not even prove me wrong even with semantic twists. First you need to find at least one alien species. Did you thought of it? :-)
The irony here is that Stanislaw Lem had no imagination himself when it came to anything outside his little preconceived box.
That's your opinion.
I found him wildly refreshing, Some of the themes (absurd societies, failure to communicate) appear through their books in different forms, that happens a lot with writters. Most SF I have read just assumes that aliens are "humans" (if not in form, in mental processes) and you end with the same old history. Lem's works remind that the universe is wide and strange, and that we should not take anything for granted (I know, it is disturbing). With Ijon Tichy he also makes a good laugh at everything, it is good to not to take ourselves too seriously.
That is my opinion.
You do not get it.
Cut subsidies to USA/EU farmers, so they no longer can do "dumping" to farmers from other countries. That will be a a great help to those farmers.
And all societies with be like Western society, and all economic systems will be like capitalism, and all religions will be like Christianism...
No.
Aliens are grey, with pink stripes and yellow dots. They glow in the dark with a powerful blue light. They eat ammonia and rock, and shit bars of pure gold (24/24). They have five sexes, their families are comprised by 4 members of the first sex, 3 of the second, 8 of the third and 1 of the fourth. Politically they support the entelomostarquia, through there are some supporters of the proportearquia. Sometimes they all get to a cliff and jump down it (they mostly do that for fun).
Some free-thinkers speculate about the posibilities of carbon based, bipedal life-forms, but of course nobody takes those fools seriously.
All of the alien races in the entire universe are like I just described.
Now, prove me wrong.
As imagination is a terrible thing to waste, I recommend you to begin reading some of Stanislaw Lem's books.
I think more TFS worthy the fact that anybody gives a shit about those wild (unless they know something about ET's that we don't) speculations. They should not present themselves as "scientifics" in those "papers".
Whatever scenario you or I or someone drunk in a bar can come out with is exactly equally valid; they do not have any data to work over as scientifics.
I am going to be the devils'advocate and suppose that it is just the media spin; after all one guy can be an scientific from 8 to 5 and then go to the bar and speculate about what colour ET's underwear was. As long as they did not claim that they were doing something more than "wildly speculating", it is not so grave.
Anyway, the part (media or participants) who put the enfasis in the science aspect should be feathered, to begin with.
Maybe we can get to make our version of Sarah Palin (and look-alikes) to go interestellar (or even intraestellar)...
And if there is food, it will have evolver for billions of years there. So our bugs will probably become the food.
Actually first on the block should be foreign aid. Then I would agree with cutting defense as well as any and every other program out there with NO exceptions.
Better yet. Cut farmers'subsidies. Then foreign farmers won't have to compete with artificially cheap USA/EU food (even in their local markets). Then foreign help will be not so necessary and you probably can cut it, too. And probably there will be less for bases everywhere and you can cut Defense spending!!.
welcome our new galactic saviors!
At the same time, let me introduce myself and of my abilities to help with your plans for Earth doom, if I am allowed to switch sides.
I can't believe noone posted this yet!
First point: if the aliens attack us for the good of the galaxy, or if they attack us for selfish interest, I do not think it matters a lot. The issue would be how we fight back (or avoid being exterminated, or if we decide to surrender and spend our last days in an hedonistic orgy).
Now, more to the issue, I want to know what those guys were smoking, because I want to try it (just a little, a lot less that those guys did). Not because they think the aliens may be hostile, but because they publicly discuss about a subject they do not know shit about. We do not know if they exist, if they can reach us, or anything, and yet we discuss about their motives? Maybe they are a Solaris like entity and kills all of us because it can not even recognize us as living beings, as we are so different from them. Maybe for them the real "live" planet in the solar system is Venus. Yet someone posts those allucinations as news.
Beats me that the public is stupid enough to link/click in articles like that, unless it is just to make fun of them.
What is with the Ender's books? I heard of it so I read the first one. It is just like a bad high school movie (shy young boy who has a glorious fate, who is a do-gooder but kills whoever gets in his path because he is "forced to do", and who becomes a world hero by playing video games and not risking anything). I realize it is ideal for nerdsturbation and nerdgasms, but didn't think that alone was enough to suppress critical thinking of so many people.
LOL. Straight to the issue.
What puzzless me more is that obsession with aliens being human-like enough that we can identify their reasoning as we do with people of our species. People has no imagination and things of aliens in human terms: childs (ET), mongol invaders (Independence day, savage animals (Alien), psychos (Predator)...). Really different aliens are not so "popular", because there is less you can write about them (the alien from Dark Star, or many of the aliens from Stanislaw Lem novels).
Our advance rate has improved because we are in a point where the new technology obtained by investigation ease further investigation. Since an alien race technologically superior enough that can attack us will presumibly have the same technology and better, it is not risky to think that their rate of improvement is also equal or superior.
Depends on what you mean by danger. Physical threat, probably not, but what about ideas? Religions, for example...
Yeah. Aliens are dying by the millions because they can't stop laughing so hard that they can't breath and asfixiate themselves.
That's what it means when men are separated from the boys, that men have the control, they know what it takes, while the boys still have their training wheels attached.
LOL. A bitter over-emocional about your language, aren't you? Or is it just your ego talking? Hey, if what you want is to brag better switch to whitespace, or brainfuck.
If there is a problem with torque, steering or breaking, then I know about it to manage it. But if the car can take care of that for me so I can get to concentrate in the things the car can't do, it is just a win-win.
Obviously you will say "but what if you have to drive in a 70's car (without ABS, assisted steering and so on) on a snowy road by night?" Then it will be a ride different to what I am used to, and I'll go slower. But given how little I have to do that, I think that the improved performance of not having to deal with petty details is worth it. If I find I must it often, then I'll learn to do it quickly.
Simple as that.