Unfortunately, being the U.S. Government, they will no doubt pull the same sort of stupidity
Nothing is fraud-proof. Nothing is bullet-proof either. However you can make something bullet-resistant. How resistant is commensurate with the amount of effort you put into it.
People love saying government is stupid and can never do anything right, but that's not true with everything. Currency is one example: there is enough political will and a real-world need to prevent counterfeiting (fraud). Government puts a good deal of effort into preventing counterfeiting, and the penalty is quite harsh and is well-enforced. While not 100% fraud-proof, they have done a pretty good job. I have not had a problem with being given counterfeit money recently, and I don't know of anyone who has.
Most likely the high cost and long wait times resulting from EPA, OSHA and various state agency regulations (not to mention fighting Greenpeace and other hippies) make it more economical to just import the stuff from China rather than try to mine it and build a processing plant here.
Sure it gets bashed on Slashdot for not being open source but so what? Slashdotters would love to see Ogg audio take over the world and MP3 die a painful death too, and I don't see that happening either.
I've seen CRU's climate model source code. It's complete shit. It couldn't predict a wet paper bag let alone the world's climate in 50 years. No wonder they kept it hidden and refused all requests to see it.
Hacking other people's computer and publishing their private files on the internet is generally a bad thing, but not in this case.
ok these bags may be better than the current method but it's still pretty much a band-aid solution. It's hardly going to "save the world".
What I don't get is, why doesn't Kenya and all these other 3rd world countries build a real sewer system? It's not rocket science; the Romans did it over 2000 years ago using nothing but hand tools, rocks and some volcanic cement. Yes it was labor intensive, but AFAIK labor shortage isn't a problem in most 3rd world countries, is it? Besides they should be able to get access to some heavy diesel equipment on loan through UNICEF or World Bank or some such organization.
not for my 1.5 terabyte HDD which is about half full.
Right now backing up from hard drive to hard drive takes forever (hours). How the fuck am I gonna back up to a remote server over the internet at 60 kbytes/sec?
That's true, but it's a very recent phenomenon, and it only applies to developed/rich countries.
Historically, in some cultures (notably Far East and city-dwelling Jews of Medieval Europe) the higher your IQ, more children you had in general. Just from my own personal knowledge... my maternal grandmother's dad was a rich self-made guy around the turn of century in Korea. Again, generally speaking, higher IQ people usually make more money than lower IQ people. Now the culture in the Far East at the time was such that rich, successful men were able to not only pay for the upbringing of children better, it was completely normal and culturally acceptable for such "outstanding citizens" (rich guys) to have 2 or 3 concubines. Actually for all intents and purposes these were 2nd and 3rd families with different women.
My grandma has 3 sisters, and something like 12 half-siblings. Her dad had a wife (my grandma's mom) and 3 concubines.
And according to most studies, East Asians have a mean IQ somewhat higher than whites. Akashic Jews have the highest IQ of all.
Some other racial groups (you can guess which ones) generally excel at athleticism and generally do worse on IQ tests. From this (and from direct observation also) we can infer that historically, their culture favored the strong/athletic/warrior types and those were the men who were able to breed the most, not the brainy types.
Reading TFA and the author's description of the mouseover/click problem, I get the sense that it's not a Flash problem per se but actually a fundamental limitation of the touchscreen interface. Simply put, the mouse/keyboard combination is a vastly more efficient and powerful way of accepting user input than a touchscreen.
Crete has been an island for more than five million years, meaning that the toolmakers must have arrived by boat. So this seems to push the history of Mediterranean voyaging back more than 100,000 years, specialists in Stone Age archaeology say.
There have been some pretty severe ice ages within the last million years when the sea levels were very low. For instance Japan used to be connected to Korea (and the Sea of Japan was a lake) only 18,000 years ago. Crete was probably really close to Greece back then too, maybe even connected.
100mb ethernet is four wires, yes? And I have four wires for every two coax cables.
The four wires in your coax are not twisted. It's not gonna work.
Pay $100 for those coax-ethernet transceiver things, or string some Cat5e. Seriously, if you can afford to buy a big ass house then what's another couple hundred??
So France wants to stop people from looking at child porn on the internet cos it's such a BAD THING... but they complain about Roman Polanski being arrested and they want him freed?
He didn't merely look at child porn, he drugged and raped a 13 year old for fuck's sake.
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I'm guessing it would be the same thing he does every night... fuck Demi Moore.
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Unfortunately, being the U.S. Government, they will no doubt pull the same sort of stupidity
Nothing is fraud-proof. Nothing is bullet-proof either. However you can make something bullet-resistant. How resistant is commensurate with the amount of effort you put into it.
People love saying government is stupid and can never do anything right, but that's not true with everything. Currency is one example: there is enough political will and a real-world need to prevent counterfeiting (fraud). Government puts a good deal of effort into preventing counterfeiting, and the penalty is quite harsh and is well-enforced. While not 100% fraud-proof, they have done a pretty good job. I have not had a problem with being given counterfeit money recently, and I don't know of anyone who has.
he eats planets for lunch
1. Move them all into CLOUD computing 2. ??? 3. Profit!
Non-maroons who do stuff like this, do it from net cafes using a chain of anonymous proxys, and they do not get caught.
It's just the maroons like this one that you hear about.
not everyone here is an old fogey -_-
The campaign seeks to 'strike a blow for freedom' against a wave of h.264 adoption in otherwise open HTML5 video implementations."
They can dream about unicorns and world peace too but doesn't mean it's gonna happen...
Most likely the high cost and long wait times resulting from EPA, OSHA and various state agency regulations (not to mention fighting Greenpeace and other hippies) make it more economical to just import the stuff from China rather than try to mine it and build a processing plant here.
Bust Out Another Thousand
Sure it gets bashed on Slashdot for not being open source but so what? Slashdotters would love to see Ogg audio take over the world and MP3 die a painful death too, and I don't see that happening either.
on them...
Maybe like, push all the pages about Tiananmen Square and Falun Gong to the top of search results for searches containing "China"
Muahhaha
In fact, since I have far more female friends than male friends (I like women), someone might think I was female.
Or gay..
I've seen CRU's climate model source code. It's complete shit. It couldn't predict a wet paper bag let alone the world's climate in 50 years. No wonder they kept it hidden and refused all requests to see it.
Hacking other people's computer and publishing their private files on the internet is generally a bad thing, but not in this case.
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ok these bags may be better than the current method but it's still pretty much a band-aid solution. It's hardly going to "save the world".
What I don't get is, why doesn't Kenya and all these other 3rd world countries build a real sewer system? It's not rocket science; the Romans did it over 2000 years ago using nothing but hand tools, rocks and some volcanic cement. Yes it was labor intensive, but AFAIK labor shortage isn't a problem in most 3rd world countries, is it? Besides they should be able to get access to some heavy diesel equipment on loan through UNICEF or World Bank or some such organization.
is this gonna put Bloom Energy out of business?
before those 1am facebook sessions or Mark Zuckerberg is gonna read all her emails
Online backup is practical
not for my 1.5 terabyte HDD which is about half full.
Right now backing up from hard drive to hard drive takes forever (hours). How the fuck am I gonna back up to a remote server over the internet at 60 kbytes/sec?
Too bad smarter people tend to breed less
That's true, but it's a very recent phenomenon, and it only applies to developed/rich countries. Historically, in some cultures (notably Far East and city-dwelling Jews of Medieval Europe) the higher your IQ, more children you had in general. Just from my own personal knowledge... my maternal grandmother's dad was a rich self-made guy around the turn of century in Korea. Again, generally speaking, higher IQ people usually make more money than lower IQ people. Now the culture in the Far East at the time was such that rich, successful men were able to not only pay for the upbringing of children better, it was completely normal and culturally acceptable for such "outstanding citizens" (rich guys) to have 2 or 3 concubines. Actually for all intents and purposes these were 2nd and 3rd families with different women.
My grandma has 3 sisters, and something like 12 half-siblings. Her dad had a wife (my grandma's mom) and 3 concubines.
And according to most studies, East Asians have a mean IQ somewhat higher than whites. Akashic Jews have the highest IQ of all.
Some other racial groups (you can guess which ones) generally excel at athleticism and generally do worse on IQ tests. From this (and from direct observation also) we can infer that historically, their culture favored the strong/athletic/warrior types and those were the men who were able to breed the most, not the brainy types.
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Reading TFA and the author's description of the mouseover/click problem, I get the sense that it's not a Flash problem per se but actually a fundamental limitation of the touchscreen interface. Simply put, the mouse/keyboard combination is a vastly more efficient and powerful way of accepting user input than a touchscreen.
Crete has been an island for more than five million years, meaning that the toolmakers must have arrived by boat. So this seems to push the history of Mediterranean voyaging back more than 100,000 years, specialists in Stone Age archaeology say.
There have been some pretty severe ice ages within the last million years when the sea levels were very low. For instance Japan used to be connected to Korea (and the Sea of Japan was a lake) only 18,000 years ago. Crete was probably really close to Greece back then too, maybe even connected.
100mb ethernet is four wires, yes? And I have four wires for every two coax cables.
The four wires in your coax are not twisted. It's not gonna work.
Pay $100 for those coax-ethernet transceiver things, or string some Cat5e. Seriously, if you can afford to buy a big ass house then what's another couple hundred??
So France wants to stop people from looking at child porn on the internet cos it's such a BAD THING... but they complain about Roman Polanski being arrested and they want him freed?
He didn't merely look at child porn, he drugged and raped a 13 year old for fuck's sake.
I'm guessing it would be the same thing he does every night ... fuck Demi Moore.
Ewww