Wouldn't releasing this pressure in small increments prevent it from being released all at once? Otherwise a quake is going to happen sooner or later anyway. Better to be 10 small quakes than 1 large quake, right?
Probably. The trick is that we'd need to know the right places to set off our small quakes, and how big we'd need to make them. I like to think that if we actually had the kind of knowledge to do that stuff safely, we'd already be using it right now to accurately predict earthquakes.
Uninformed geo-engineering is basically the equivalent of a surgeon slicing off chunks of your organs because they might develop cancer and kill you.
> Am I wrong, or is the phrase "unfocused, money-losing" pretty much > the definition of the stuff that Microsoft is rolling out these days? > SilverLight, Bing, Zune,.NET languages,...
No, no... those are focused on money-losing. Unless someone has a better explanation?
> so it's kind of a big deal when one of the founders of the > movement calls them out.
Not really.
RMS has called out damn near everyone with anything to do with free/open source software. I think it's almost at the point now where most projects/organizations should take it as a badge of honour when they've gotten large and important enough that RMS considers it a problem if they aren't 100% compliant with his concept of freedom.
> check the exchange rate, 1USD buys you about 98 cents Canadian.
Technically true. However, even accounting for the exchange rate and ignoring taxes, Canadian sticker prices for most consumer goods are about 20% more than in the US. Even for stuff manufactured in Canada.
> They complain that Wi-Fi frequencies are causing them problems.
Right. So you didn't RTFA? Particularly the part about the lady who claims to be so sensitive to EM that she avoids the use of electricity?
Anyhow, I don't discount the possibility that someone might have EM sensitivities. I'm just not going to take ad-hoc experiments with tiny sample sizes as "proof" anymore than I'm going to take the word of random self-diagnosing people.
Irony: In order to escape wireless emissions, people move to a place where a bunch of massive radio telescopes stand next door as proof that wireless emissions are everywhere.
Correlation isn't causality: moving from a populated area to the middle of nowhere and having your symptoms "disappear" proves that wireless emissions were the root of the problem.
>... and then fling the whole thing against a wall.
Don't forget to pick everything up, dump it into a paper bag, light the bag on fire, and leave it at the entrance to the Marketing department. They sold the client a "candle light dinner"... let them deliver it.
> HP should come out with a world class ultra > lightweight laptop to compete with the MacBook Air...
No, no, no.
First, HP should invent a time machine, and send someone back to 1999 to kill everyone on the board who thought hiring Carly Fiorina might possibly be a good idea.
> Anyway, some of these product introductions is like making one cast > and then giving up on the entire pond after 15 seconds.
If the guy in the boat next to you is using what looks like the same line, lure, bait, and boat and is pulling in 309 fish per second, it not actually be the dumbest strategy.
Why can't Apple and Amazon build those same automated factories here?
Because, as the series of articles makes clear, most of the infrastructure needed to build and operate those factories is also overseas. Now just about everything needs to be shipped back. Expertise and equipment to build the factories, raw inputs at whatever level of refinement you choose, etc. Heck, is there even a local infrastructure for handling the waste by-products of these automated factories?
That's the point... it's not just a factory here and there. Unless you've got a factory that can take beach sand and petroleum in one end and pump iPad's out the other, you need an entire community to work around your factory to keep things flowing. That community is pretty much gone.
At the time, almost every OS on the net was vulnerable even the guys who didn't have BSD-derived stacks like MS Windows.
The main difference being that when the Ping 'o Death became public knowledge, patches were available for all the free OSes... I read about it on BUGTRAQ, tested it against random Linux boxes in my office, then had every public-facing system patched and re-tested before lunch (which, those days, was about 50 minutes after I made it to the office).
The POD was one of the first incidents where the suits I worked with started looking at this open source model as maybe being a bit more than just something to "explore" to keep the geeks amused.
Bar discipline mostly only occurs in two cases: drug and alcohol related problems and stealing from clients. Lying to the bar during the application process can also screw you. That's about it.
I've heard that peppering legal filings with gay porn is a pretty quick way to get sanctioned.
I cannot allow this ridiculous assertion to go unchallenged: can armor that fails to protect its wearer from being clubbed to death by mere teddy-bears, and reduces the accuracy of the Empire's finest to one notch above slapstick truly be called "functional"?
Dude, relax. They were just using stunt armor in the movie. Creative liberties, etc. The real stuff is apparently a lot better.
> And how do you handle liability? If a pipe bursts and floods the place, who > eats the loss for the equipment (or whose insurance company more likely)? > What about a break-in?
Not to mention having your door kicked down at 4am by a SWAT team, your dog shot, and your furnace and water heater confiscated because the authorities traced the kiddie porn some asshole stored on the server in your basement...
> On the other side of the coin, the attitude people are copping here, > that Google has every right to remove sites from its searches whenever > it wants, is flat-out wrong.
Legally, they almost certainly do have that right. They're not a regulated utility, nor are they a monopoly. I'd agree that it's a real dickish move without provocation, though.
In this case, I'd say it's justified whether or not the order requires the "nuke 'em from orbit" solution. In fact, I'd say they've shown remarkable restraint by waiting for an actual judicial order.
Personally, if I were providing someone with services (i.e. sending people searching for stuff to their sites) and they sued me for providing them with services, I'd be looking at cutting off all business ties about 10 minutes after my lawyers confirmed I'd been served with a real lawsuit. In fact, I'd be tempted to make it a published policy.
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Probably. The trick is that we'd need to know the right places to set off our small quakes, and how big we'd need to make them. I like to think that if we actually had the kind of knowledge to do that stuff safely, we'd already be using it right now to accurately predict earthquakes.
Uninformed geo-engineering is basically the equivalent of a surgeon slicing off chunks of your organs because they might develop cancer and kill you.
Amen. My SOP when installing a new system is "apt get purge nano".
> Perhaps I should have said "frothing distance",
> or possibly "sweating distance".
How 'bout "squirting distance"?
> Am I wrong, or is the phrase "unfocused, money-losing" pretty much .NET languages, ...
> the definition of the stuff that Microsoft is rolling out these days?
> SilverLight, Bing, Zune,
No, no... those are focused on money-losing. Unless someone has a better explanation?
> so it's kind of a big deal when one of the founders of the
> movement calls them out.
Not really.
RMS has called out damn near everyone with anything to do with free/open source software. I think it's almost at the point now where most projects/organizations should take it as a badge of honour when they've gotten large and important enough that RMS considers it a problem if they aren't 100% compliant with his concept of freedom.
> Tax wealth not income
You do realize that wealth is essentially just accumulated income, right?
> check the exchange rate, 1USD buys you about 98 cents Canadian.
Technically true. However, even accounting for the exchange rate and ignoring taxes, Canadian sticker prices for most consumer goods are about 20% more than in the US. Even for stuff manufactured in Canada.
> you mean "doesn't prove", right ?
If you're reading it in the "serious voice", yes, that would be more appropriate. However, I was writing in the "snarky, sarcastic voice".
> They complain that Wi-Fi frequencies are causing them problems.
Right. So you didn't RTFA? Particularly the part about the lady who claims to be so sensitive to EM that she avoids the use of electricity?
Anyhow, I don't discount the possibility that someone might have EM sensitivities. I'm just not going to take ad-hoc experiments with tiny sample sizes as "proof" anymore than I'm going to take the word of random self-diagnosing people.
Irony: In order to escape wireless emissions, people move to a place where a bunch of massive radio telescopes stand next door as proof that wireless emissions are everywhere.
Correlation isn't causality: moving from a populated area to the middle of nowhere and having your symptoms "disappear" proves that wireless emissions were the root of the problem.
> Fifty is plenty of time for an artist to reap the rewards of their talents.
Do you really believe this has anything to do with artists?
> ... and then fling the whole thing against a wall.
Don't forget to pick everything up, dump it into a paper bag, light the bag on fire, and leave it at the entrance to the Marketing department. They sold the client a "candle light dinner"... let them deliver it.
Please, no. You wouldn't want the hit team distracted by petty, scripted infighting, would you?
> HP should come out with a world class ultra
> lightweight laptop to compete with the MacBook Air...
No, no, no.
First, HP should invent a time machine, and send someone back to 1999 to kill everyone on the board who thought hiring Carly Fiorina might possibly be a good idea.
Meh... supermodels are dime a dozen.
> Anyway, some of these product introductions is like making one cast
> and then giving up on the entire pond after 15 seconds.
If the guy in the boat next to you is using what looks like the same line, lure, bait, and boat and is pulling in 309 fish per second, it not actually be the dumbest strategy.
> If only I had known then how much this UID would help me get the girls...
Tell me about it. 4 digits just gets me porn stars. I want those cheerleaders, dammit!
I think it's fair to say that the average uid in the comments on this post will be the lowest in the last few years... possibly the last decade.
Because, as the series of articles makes clear, most of the infrastructure needed to build and operate those factories is also overseas. Now just about everything needs to be shipped back. Expertise and equipment to build the factories, raw inputs at whatever level of refinement you choose, etc. Heck, is there even a local infrastructure for handling the waste by-products of these automated factories?
That's the point... it's not just a factory here and there. Unless you've got a factory that can take beach sand and petroleum in one end and pump iPad's out the other, you need an entire community to work around your factory to keep things flowing. That community is pretty much gone.
The main difference being that when the Ping 'o Death became public knowledge, patches were available for all the free OSes... I read about it on BUGTRAQ, tested it against random Linux boxes in my office, then had every public-facing system patched and re-tested before lunch (which, those days, was about 50 minutes after I made it to the office).
The POD was one of the first incidents where the suits I worked with started looking at this open source model as maybe being a bit more than just something to "explore" to keep the geeks amused.
I've heard that peppering legal filings with gay porn is a pretty quick way to get sanctioned.
Dude, relax. They were just using stunt armor in the movie. Creative liberties, etc. The real stuff is apparently a lot better.
> And how do you handle liability? If a pipe bursts and floods the place, who
> eats the loss for the equipment (or whose insurance company more likely)?
> What about a break-in?
Not to mention having your door kicked down at 4am by a SWAT team, your dog shot, and your furnace and water heater confiscated because the authorities traced the kiddie porn some asshole stored on the server in your basement...
> Travel by the standard means of the time (in this case, automobiles), is a natural right.
There's also the bit in TFA about the guy driving as part of his job. Many western jurisdictions have some concept of a "right to make a living"...
> On the other side of the coin, the attitude people are copping here,
> that Google has every right to remove sites from its searches whenever
> it wants, is flat-out wrong.
Legally, they almost certainly do have that right. They're not a regulated utility, nor are they a monopoly. I'd agree that it's a real dickish move without provocation, though.
In this case, I'd say it's justified whether or not the order requires the "nuke 'em from orbit" solution. In fact, I'd say they've shown remarkable restraint by waiting for an actual judicial order.
Personally, if I were providing someone with services (i.e. sending people searching for stuff to their sites) and they sued me for providing them with services, I'd be looking at cutting off all business ties about 10 minutes after my lawyers confirmed I'd been served with a real lawsuit. In fact, I'd be tempted to make it a published policy.