How silly. It is a Scientific and Technological Advanced Research laboratory particle accelerator, and its mission is to re-establish the reality distortion field.
That and Tim Cook hopes it can give the next iPhone super speed.
I don't recall most bridge engineers needing to deal with authentication, authorization, encryption (in transit and at rest), hashing, firewalls, routing tables, protocol configurations, and numerous other things that can be incredibly complicated while being very easy to misconfigure.
Do bridge engineers come back out to add new features to bridges every few weeks?
Has a bridge ever been moved from crossing a busy highway to crossing a river?
Are there bridge hackers who can unleash botnets to exploit vulnerabilities in hundreds of thousands of bridges around the world at the same time? How many orchestrated DOS attacks are conducted on bridges?
Hell, most bridges are vulnerable to something as simple as exploding a fuel truck nearby. (Which happened again to the exact same bridge less than 3 years later.)
Yes, people would be screaming. Bridges would need to be tremendously more complicated and would be subject to attacks that can be performed at nearly the speed of light. But that isn't the case; your analogy is flawed.
Frankly, it's easy when your discipline is built on top of a very consistent foundation such as physics. Software engineering is built on layers upon layers of mathematical and organizational abstraction, each layer making it easier to reason about things but potentially introducing issues which are outside of what you expected to deal with. (Not to mention that the number of computer systems in the world is so large that we simply can't produce enough qualified engineers to adequately harden all of them, or even most of them.)
Actually, it is. The next big update to Windows 10, currently in preview, now runs Ubuntu directly on top of the Windows kernel (no virtualization, recompile, Cygwin, etc.).
I use devices across the OS spectrum and synchronization is very helpful. I don't tend to use Safari for this reason; Apple is terrible at porting (and their past attempts of porting apps to other platforms indicates they really don't care). Microsoft has been ok and has actually gotten better as of late, but until Edge is ported and offers synchronization, I don't see much point to bothering with it.
I'm just not sure about how well the Fair Tax would be implemented. The ideal is that income and payroll taxes (and others) would shift to consumption taxes. Obviously for the income tax side it is simply a shift in when you pay it, from up front to upon using it in a purchase.
But what about payroll taxes? If employees (consumers) must now make up the difference in the tax revenue that is lost to payroll taxes, they'll need to be compensated by shifting that money into their income. Are there any guarantee that employers must shift the eliminated payroll tax into pay increases?
(This is assuming the Fair Tax is tax revenue neutral.)
Like adding a drum magazine when you want to go shoot stop signs or murder 50 people.
Or for military purposes.
Which is another reason people like the gun. Military guns are thought to be proven and more reliable... which you want when you are defending yourself.
You still have yet to show that this is an "assault weapon". Because it isn't. You just can't separate the Hollywood look of this gun from its function, and until you can do that, there's no use continuing this discussion.
But none of those things make a gun an "assault weapon", which is defined as "a rapid-fire, magazine-fed automatic rifle designed for infantry use". It is not automatic, which is defined as a single-pull-multiple-fire gun. It is semi-automatic, you must pull the trigger per shot. So are most pistols, including those pink ones designed to look so much less dangerous (but aren't).
If the AR-15 were a weapon that’s suitable only for indiscriminate, spray-n-pray mass slaughter, then it wouldn’t be so popular with police. There is no conceivable circumstance in which a police officer—not even a SWAT team member—would need to mow down hordes of people.
The AR-15 is less a model of rifle than it is an open-source, modular weapons platform that can be customized for a whole range of applications, from small pest control to taking out 500-pound feral hogs to urban combat. Everything about an individual AR-15 can be changed with aftermarket parts—the caliber of ammunition, recoil, range, weight, length, hold and grip, and on and on.
People buy these because it's cheaper to buy one gun and change parts out for a few different needs, than to buy a few guns.
This isn't a no-guns-anywhere vs. everyone-including-violent-criminals-and-the-clinically-insane-must-have-guns argument. Only a few atoms of common sense are needed to realise that there is a spectrum of possibilities, and that arguing for or against extremes is just talking to hear yourself talk.
First, the American people need education. They need to know what guns are used for (other than mass murder), what types of guns are actually available and the difference between automatic and semi-automatic, and in my opinion I like the idea of required gun safety training. They also need to learn about mental instability, and understand the signs that someone might be a threat to them or others.
It disgusts me that while posting this, I got an email from Joe Biden (mailing list) "calling on the government to ban AR-15-type assault weapons from civilian ownership". This is the second-in-command of the United States and he believes, incorrectly, that the AR-15 is an assault weapon.
At what point does it make less sense to say that the asteroid is orbiting the Earth, and more sense to say that both are orbiting the sun near each other with the same orbital period?
You clearly don't understand the purpose of deductions.
Deductions typically fall into 2 categories: - structuring the basic tax code, other than percentage brackets (e.g. standard deductions, removing a double tax) - providing incentives for behavior that benefits society (e.g. use of clean energy, philanthropy, increasing economic activity in certain ways)
If you owe the government taxes, then you've already taken deductions. They aren't gifts; they are money you never owed. If you keep any tax money that you owe the government, it's called tax fraud.
(I don't think those arguments hold much water since the municipality can upgrade as needed.)
I only mentioned regulation for cases that the city doesn't own the conduit and lines. Obviously if Comcast owns that infrastructure then it would probably prefer not to allow other ISPs to use any of it.
Realistic arguments: the municipal fiber will eventually be less capable than newer technologies, or perhaps it will become saturated. (I don't think those arguments hold much water since the municipality can upgrade as needed.)
I don't see why layer 1-2 infrastructure necessarily has to be owned by the city, they just need to be well regulated. E.g. don't allow them to also provide Internet services, or force reasonable pricing, etc.
Well, I only have one such friend in the specific group that gets together. Still you're right, it's kind of surprising even then. But I know plenty of Android users (and was one myself until the grass looked greener... unfortunately it has since browned...).
I use iMessage, and I don't have many problems with it. But one friend who doesn't have iOS can't join group iMessages, so a group that meets regularly at different locations often plans things without him and sometimes we even forget to notify him.
Yes, we are bad friends.
But I'd like to be a better friend by including him. Apple would rather him buy an iPhone.
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How silly. It is a Scientific and Technological Advanced Research laboratory particle accelerator, and its mission is to re-establish the reality distortion field.
That and Tim Cook hopes it can give the next iPhone super speed.
Just give it a bigger display and a stylus.
And next year forget about the bigger display.
He who conquers makes the rules.
If you want to immigrate against their wishes, conquer them.
I don't recall most bridge engineers needing to deal with authentication, authorization, encryption (in transit and at rest), hashing, firewalls, routing tables, protocol configurations, and numerous other things that can be incredibly complicated while being very easy to misconfigure.
Do bridge engineers come back out to add new features to bridges every few weeks?
Has a bridge ever been moved from crossing a busy highway to crossing a river?
Are there bridge hackers who can unleash botnets to exploit vulnerabilities in hundreds of thousands of bridges around the world at the same time? How many orchestrated DOS attacks are conducted on bridges?
Hell, most bridges are vulnerable to something as simple as exploding a fuel truck nearby. (Which happened again to the exact same bridge less than 3 years later.)
Yes, people would be screaming. Bridges would need to be tremendously more complicated and would be subject to attacks that can be performed at nearly the speed of light. But that isn't the case; your analogy is flawed.
Frankly, it's easy when your discipline is built on top of a very consistent foundation such as physics. Software engineering is built on layers upon layers of mathematical and organizational abstraction, each layer making it easier to reason about things but potentially introducing issues which are outside of what you expected to deal with. (Not to mention that the number of computer systems in the world is so large that we simply can't produce enough qualified engineers to adequately harden all of them, or even most of them.)
I've heard this a lot on Slashdot. I haven't used Edge very much. So, please tell me what makes you think it is so bad at web browsing.
(I'm not asking about OS compatibility, your UI design preferences, or other things that aren't related primarily to the browsing experience.)
Actually, it is. The next big update to Windows 10, currently in preview, now runs Ubuntu directly on top of the Windows kernel (no virtualization, recompile, Cygwin, etc.).
Relevant but invalid argument.
I use devices across the OS spectrum and synchronization is very helpful. I don't tend to use Safari for this reason; Apple is terrible at porting (and their past attempts of porting apps to other platforms indicates they really don't care). Microsoft has been ok and has actually gotten better as of late, but until Edge is ported and offers synchronization, I don't see much point to bothering with it.
Someone who believes Edge is just a rebrand of IE is sorely lacking in research. That is a complete falsification.
Get your facts straight if you want people to listen to your opinions.
An assault weapon must be fully automatic. That is by definition.
Knives can be used for urban combat. So can fists. Are we going to call them all "assault knives" and "assault fists"?
The only period of time I mentioned is "orbital period", which for the Earth is one year.
"At what point" was asking about how far away they need to be.
I'm just not sure about how well the Fair Tax would be implemented. The ideal is that income and payroll taxes (and others) would shift to consumption taxes. Obviously for the income tax side it is simply a shift in when you pay it, from up front to upon using it in a purchase.
But what about payroll taxes? If employees (consumers) must now make up the difference in the tax revenue that is lost to payroll taxes, they'll need to be compensated by shifting that money into their income. Are there any guarantee that employers must shift the eliminated payroll tax into pay increases?
(This is assuming the Fair Tax is tax revenue neutral.)
I never made such a claim.
Like adding a drum magazine when you want to go shoot stop signs or murder 50 people.
Or for military purposes.
Which is another reason people like the gun. Military guns are thought to be proven and more reliable... which you want when you are defending yourself.
You still have yet to show that this is an "assault weapon". Because it isn't. You just can't separate the Hollywood look of this gun from its function, and until you can do that, there's no use continuing this discussion.
But none of those things make a gun an "assault weapon", which is defined as "a rapid-fire, magazine-fed automatic rifle designed for infantry use". It is not automatic, which is defined as a single-pull-multiple-fire gun. It is semi-automatic, you must pull the trigger per shot. So are most pistols, including those pink ones designed to look so much less dangerous (but aren't).
Suggested reading: https://medium.com/@jonst0kes/why-i-need-an-ar-15-832e05ae801c#.fql7xrb9x
If the AR-15 were a weapon that’s suitable only for indiscriminate, spray-n-pray mass slaughter, then it wouldn’t be so popular with police. There is no conceivable circumstance in which a police officer—not even a SWAT team member—would need to mow down hordes of people.
The AR-15 is less a model of rifle than it is an open-source, modular weapons platform that can be customized for a whole range of applications, from small pest control to taking out 500-pound feral hogs to urban combat. Everything about an individual AR-15 can be changed with aftermarket parts—the caliber of ammunition, recoil, range, weight, length, hold and grip, and on and on.
People buy these because it's cheaper to buy one gun and change parts out for a few different needs, than to buy a few guns.
This isn't a no-guns-anywhere vs. everyone-including-violent-criminals-and-the-clinically-insane-must-have-guns argument. Only a few atoms of common sense are needed to realise that there is a spectrum of possibilities, and that arguing for or against extremes is just talking to hear yourself talk.
First, the American people need education. They need to know what guns are used for (other than mass murder), what types of guns are actually available and the difference between automatic and semi-automatic, and in my opinion I like the idea of required gun safety training. They also need to learn about mental instability, and understand the signs that someone might be a threat to them or others.
It disgusts me that while posting this, I got an email from Joe Biden (mailing list) "calling on the government to ban AR-15-type assault weapons from civilian ownership". This is the second-in-command of the United States and he believes, incorrectly, that the AR-15 is an assault weapon.
At what point does it make less sense to say that the asteroid is orbiting the Earth, and more sense to say that both are orbiting the sun near each other with the same orbital period?
You clearly don't understand the purpose of deductions.
Deductions typically fall into 2 categories:
- structuring the basic tax code, other than percentage brackets (e.g. standard deductions, removing a double tax)
- providing incentives for behavior that benefits society (e.g. use of clean energy, philanthropy, increasing economic activity in certain ways)
If you owe the government taxes, then you've already taken deductions. They aren't gifts; they are money you never owed. If you keep any tax money that you owe the government, it's called tax fraud.
I didn't know that China understood the concept of design protection.
Funny... I could swear that I said
(I don't think those arguments hold much water since the municipality can upgrade as needed.)
I only mentioned regulation for cases that the city doesn't own the conduit and lines. Obviously if Comcast owns that infrastructure then it would probably prefer not to allow other ISPs to use any of it.
Realistic arguments: the municipal fiber will eventually be less capable than newer technologies, or perhaps it will become saturated. (I don't think those arguments hold much water since the municipality can upgrade as needed.)
I don't see why layer 1-2 infrastructure necessarily has to be owned by the city, they just need to be well regulated. E.g. don't allow them to also provide Internet services, or force reasonable pricing, etc.
Also turn off camera access, it can use AI to cross-reference photos to recognize your location.
gravity waves propagating through spacetime faster than the speed of light would mean that the universe doesn't work the way we thought
FTFY.
Science.
Well, I only have one such friend in the specific group that gets together. Still you're right, it's kind of surprising even then. But I know plenty of Android users (and was one myself until the grass looked greener... unfortunately it has since browned...).
"Breaking and entering" is a strong word. The mat was easy to move and there was a key underneath it (which worked).
I use iMessage, and I don't have many problems with it. But one friend who doesn't have iOS can't join group iMessages, so a group that meets regularly at different locations often plans things without him and sometimes we even forget to notify him.
Yes, we are bad friends.
But I'd like to be a better friend by including him. Apple would rather him buy an iPhone.