What you want is for me (and almost everybody else) to abandon whatever reasons I used to choose my car and get a car that you think will be better for me, or actually, it won't be better for me, but maybe better for the environment. I guess that you also want me to pay for it too.
Oh my god! Having to deal with the laws of physics (energy density, available hydrocarbons, etc) and physical systems must be such a drag.
You're not entitled to a car, nor cheap gas, nor inexpensive mobility. The price of oil will continue to climb, and wide expanses will get more costly to traverse. You can mitigate this with an electric car or electrified public transportation, but you don't get to whine that it's not fair things aren't going to stay the same.
How do you figure it'll come crashing down? Most manufacturing will simply move to automation locally (ever see the robotic system Caterpiller uses to build Diesel engines in Ohio with only a handful of people? Pure awesome).
Building things can always be fully automated. Research and critical thinking? Not so much.
There is a *huge* difference between the government getting in the way of me making a cash transaction, (as I have recourse through the courts) and the government telling Visa/Mastercard/Paypal/Bank Of America "it'd be a really bad idea to process those transactions". Those "private businesses" are under no obligation to process my transaction, while the US government is going to have to expend serious effort to show why a private party transaction with currency shouldn't be permitted to take place (depending on legality of said transaction).
The government can *easily* interfere with credit transactions. Witness Wikileaks, offshore gambling, and so forth. The government can't do much if I go to my bank, withdraw X amount of cash, and go hand it to someone.
It's still a form of stored value that can be transacted between 2 parties without government interference (if the transfer is done physically). Can't say the same for Visa/Mastercard/Paypal/Bank of America.
The post I responded to said "when was the last time that a government science fund produced something worth....". I take that to imply all government research, not just the NSF. Quite frankly, the NSF provides funding for a huge amount of research:
The National Science Foundation (NSF) is a United States government agency that supports fundamental research and education in all the non-medical fields of science and engineering. Its medical counterpart is the National Institutes of Health. With an annual budget of about US$6.87 billion (fiscal year 2010), the NSF funds approximately 20 percent of all federally supported basic research conducted by the United States' colleges and universities. In some fields, such as mathematics, computer science, economics and the social sciences, the NSF is the major source of federal backing.
Emphasis mine. Think about that ~$7 billion dollars the next time Wall Street requires $800 billion to be bailed out from a disaster of their own making.
How about we eliminate all farm subsidies in general? Did you know we *pay* Brazil tens of millions of dollars a year to allow us to subsidize our cotton farmers? God. damn. ridiculous.
On the other hand, I think the DoD could use some good ol' fashioned cost cutting, while eliminating the wage cap on social security contributions.
/You say "progressive" like it's a bad thing //Republican: A polite term for someone raping America while wearing a smile and telling us its for our own good
Seriously, when was the last time that a government science fund produced something worth $24,000,000,000? Every major invention I can think of came from a private company doing research for a specific need, not a government program doing research in order to keep scientists eating from the taxpayers' pork trough.
How ironic that your ability to communicate that to us is only due to DARPA funding what was the initial Internet. Lasers, most of moden medicine, the Internet, all resulted from government research. Private companies don't want to invest in basic research because the time 'till return is "too long" for them (5-20 years out). In short, you're a fucking moron.
As long as Amazon agrees with a) what you're hosting or b) your business. Otherwise, they'll smoke your AWS account faster than you could say "I should've bought my own gear".
Amazon AWS: Scalable and reliable, as long as we agree with you.
"but who cares if Keanu Reeves is fighting a raptor on top of a truck that's racing around the deck off a cruise liner that's going to explode if it goes below the speed of sound"
Thank goodness the constitution grants everyone the right to both, and doesn't grant some fool on Slashdot the ability to revoke either from someone based on their arguments.
Firearms exist because there is demand for them. If there was no demand for them, they'd be melted down for more useful purposes and no one would craft them to sell them. Are some of the uses to kill? Yes. Are some of those killings justified? You better believe it.
I'm not responsible for the poor choices other gun owners make, only my own choices. Should everyone not be permitted a car because those over 80 are attracted to farmer's markets like magnets to steel?
So you're saying that there are no situations in which someone may need to be killed? Society may be polite, but I'm sure when intruders robbing your home decide it'd be fun to rape your wife and daughter, you'd be in a much better position with a firearm than simply calling 911 (if you're able) and waiting the 8-12 minutes its going to take for law enforcement to arrive.
Firearms exist because I don't have a personal bodyguard or a police officer to follow me around. You have a right to defend yourself from those who would otherwise harm you.
Iridium satellites use solar panels. Almost no currently in use satellites orbiting Earth use RTG units, as those are reserved for craft venturing out past the asteroid belt, where solar radiation is insufficient to support the power requirements of the craft.
Aren't Kerberos and the authentication Google Accounts and Facebooks Connect the same thing? They both rely on authenticating an individual and using a provided token for authorization, one is PAM based and the other is for Web properties.
Central authentication is the way to go, you just need to make your central authentication rock solid from both a security and reliability standpoint (i.e. properly implemented Kerberos).
Does that liquidity remain when the market collapses as it did in May because of high frequency trading? Hell no, those HFT firms are the first to hit HF STOP into their console when shit gets real.
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Would you live on those 35 acres if it cost $15/gal for gas and it cost you several hundred dollars to get a few pounds of goods to your home?
What you want is for me (and almost everybody else) to abandon whatever reasons I used to choose my car and get a car that you think will be better for me, or actually, it won't be better for me, but maybe better for the environment. I guess that you also want me to pay for it too.
Oh my god! Having to deal with the laws of physics (energy density, available hydrocarbons, etc) and physical systems must be such a drag.
You're not entitled to a car, nor cheap gas, nor inexpensive mobility. The price of oil will continue to climb, and wide expanses will get more costly to traverse. You can mitigate this with an electric car or electrified public transportation, but you don't get to whine that it's not fair things aren't going to stay the same.
How do you figure it'll come crashing down? Most manufacturing will simply move to automation locally (ever see the robotic system Caterpiller uses to build Diesel engines in Ohio with only a handful of people? Pure awesome).
Building things can always be fully automated. Research and critical thinking? Not so much.
No lag with line of site 2.4ghz camera at only 27 miles max.
Maximum tested range is 27 miles. Maximum estimated range by their calculations is 120 miles.
There is a *huge* difference between the government getting in the way of me making a cash transaction, (as I have recourse through the courts) and the government telling Visa/Mastercard/Paypal/Bank Of America "it'd be a really bad idea to process those transactions". Those "private businesses" are under no obligation to process my transaction, while the US government is going to have to expend serious effort to show why a private party transaction with currency shouldn't be permitted to take place (depending on legality of said transaction).
The government can *easily* interfere with credit transactions. Witness Wikileaks, offshore gambling, and so forth. The government can't do much if I go to my bank, withdraw X amount of cash, and go hand it to someone.
It's still a form of stored value that can be transacted between 2 parties without government interference (if the transfer is done physically). Can't say the same for Visa/Mastercard/Paypal/Bank of America.
Innovation will simply move to less patent-encumbered locations (i.e. China/India).
Could we get an app to use the iPad as a ps3 remote? Tcp or Bluetooth for connectivity, doesn't matter to me.
The post I responded to said "when was the last time that a government science fund produced something worth....". I take that to imply all government research, not just the NSF. Quite frankly, the NSF provides funding for a huge amount of research:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Science_Foundation
The National Science Foundation (NSF) is a United States government agency that supports fundamental research and education in all the non-medical fields of science and engineering. Its medical counterpart is the National Institutes of Health. With an annual budget of about US$6.87 billion (fiscal year 2010), the NSF funds approximately 20 percent of all federally supported basic research conducted by the United States' colleges and universities. In some fields, such as mathematics, computer science, economics and the social sciences, the NSF is the major source of federal backing.
Emphasis mine. Think about that ~$7 billion dollars the next time Wall Street requires $800 billion to be bailed out from a disaster of their own making.
How about we eliminate all farm subsidies in general? Did you know we *pay* Brazil tens of millions of dollars a year to allow us to subsidize our cotton farmers? God. damn. ridiculous.
On the other hand, I think the DoD could use some good ol' fashioned cost cutting, while eliminating the wage cap on social security contributions.
Seriously, when was the last time that a government science fund produced something worth $24,000,000,000? Every major invention I can think of came from a private company doing research for a specific need, not a government program doing research in order to keep scientists eating from the taxpayers' pork trough.
How ironic that your ability to communicate that to us is only due to DARPA funding what was the initial Internet. Lasers, most of moden medicine, the Internet, all resulted from government research. Private companies don't want to invest in basic research because the time 'till return is "too long" for them (5-20 years out). In short, you're a fucking moron.
And just think, it could have all been prevented by *not connecting your scada production network to the fucking Internet*.
PostgreSQL drives the .ORG DNS root.
As long as Amazon agrees with a) what you're hosting or b) your business. Otherwise, they'll smoke your AWS account faster than you could say "I should've bought my own gear".
Amazon AWS: Scalable and reliable, as long as we agree with you.
"but who cares if Keanu Reeves is fighting a raptor on top of a truck that's racing around the deck off a cruise liner that's going to explode if it goes below the speed of sound"
Sir, I do think I'd pay to see that.
Thank goodness the constitution grants everyone the right to both, and doesn't grant some fool on Slashdot the ability to revoke either from someone based on their arguments.
Firearms exist because there is demand for them. If there was no demand for them, they'd be melted down for more useful purposes and no one would craft them to sell them. Are some of the uses to kill? Yes. Are some of those killings justified? You better believe it.
I'm not responsible for the poor choices other gun owners make, only my own choices. Should everyone not be permitted a car because those over 80 are attracted to farmer's markets like magnets to steel?
The law isn't always used for justice. It's also used for revenge and control.
So you're saying that there are no situations in which someone may need to be killed? Society may be polite, but I'm sure when intruders robbing your home decide it'd be fun to rape your wife and daughter, you'd be in a much better position with a firearm than simply calling 911 (if you're able) and waiting the 8-12 minutes its going to take for law enforcement to arrive.
Firearms exist because I don't have a personal bodyguard or a police officer to follow me around. You have a right to defend yourself from those who would otherwise harm you.
Iridium satellites use solar panels. Almost no currently in use satellites orbiting Earth use RTG units, as those are reserved for craft venturing out past the asteroid belt, where solar radiation is insufficient to support the power requirements of the craft.
Aren't Kerberos and the authentication Google Accounts and Facebooks Connect the same thing? They both rely on authenticating an individual and using a provided token for authorization, one is PAM based and the other is for Web properties.
Central authentication is the way to go, you just need to make your central authentication rock solid from both a security and reliability standpoint (i.e. properly implemented Kerberos).
For the love of $deity folks, mod this up.
(Just checked, luckily not on the list)
Does that liquidity remain when the market collapses as it did in May because of high frequency trading? Hell no, those HFT firms are the first to hit HF STOP into their console when shit gets real.
http://www.zerohedge.com/article/how-hft-quote-stuffing-caused-market-crash-may-6-and-threatens-destroy-entire-market-any-mom
Real market makers maintain liquidity during a crisis. HFT firms are parasites.