What I'm reading is that yes, it made 5 patches that were accepted but the more important question is how many patches did it make total? If it made 800 patches and only 5 were accepted, that's kind of a problem.
Also, there is good reason to distrust robotic submissions: there is no cognitive reasoning in generating patches. This means that it could very well make things worse rather than making them better. Sure, it could make your project build but it could also create an innocuous bug that breaks the code's functionality in the process which is likely to take even more time to correct because in addition to fixing the problem you also have to find it. Build failures already tell you where the problem exists.
It's really simple to get to the bottom of this with logic. Apple is super legalistic (like a rabid dog) so the fact that they haven't sued Bloomberg for libel/defamation means that it's real and it happened. Apple doesn't play well with others so when they get trapped by the truth, they say carefully crafted bullshit to mislead the public. I guarantee there is an asterisk for every one of Tim Cooks statements about this.
I never claimed it would be easy of fast to turn things around and sure, maybe LFTR will be just another unfulfilled dream but wind and solar are very real and quite extant. The current problem for them is being able to generate enough batteries to meet our needs. However, we are quickly improving our battery technology and large scale production lines are being built.
I have nothing against U238 breeder reactors per se but the fact that it's a dual use technology means they aren't a practical global solution. Nuclear waste isn't nice either but it's easy to contain in one place until we develop the tech to properly render it inert. Frankly, I think such reactors are more effort than they are worth considering we have real alternatives. On top of that, when causing pollution equals paying money, the paradigm shift will begin in the energy markets which will collapse coal energy market entirely on day one because it will have no future.
Honestly, the hardest part of solving this problem isn't technical, it's getting people to acknowledge it's a problem.
Even the best human descriptions of processes to generate the desired outcome can leave out minute details (like holding the vial at an incline of 45 degrees!). However, if you have an automated lab setup then you can simply share the instructions that were given to the machine that generated the desired result. Great for chemists, less so for psychologists.:P
We do not have the technology to remove the billions of tons of CO2 we've pumped into the atmosphere.
Sure we do, it's just going to take a million of CO2 capture plants and several decades.
Quite the opposite, ever since Al Gore's movie, we've done nothing. We're just making it increasingly worse. We knew about this in the late 60's early 70's. We've done nothing. What makes you so optimistic that we're suddenly going to do something?
The noose is tightening and people are beginning to feel it. “Men and nations behave wisely when they have exhausted all other resources.”
Not going to change our diesel ships and trucks. Coal is still a big deal for energy generating plants. Electric cars and such, it's a step sideways, not forward. The energy we're pumping into these electric cars is still mostly coming from dirty power generation.
Of course, there's been no incentive to even bother not polluting. When that changes, everything will change with it.
Everyone is too afraid of the actual solution: Nuclear power.
Not at all. You forget that, stars are giant nuclear reactors. U238 breeder reactors are a very expensive form of nuclear power that are a dual purpose technology. We need to invest in developing liquid fluoride thorium reactors as once developed they can be installed in nations with even the most malicious intent and not be a threat as they do not create isotopes ad infinitium.
Fantasy is all this is. Accept that we've triggered some unstoppable consequences and adapt. Or die.
Defeatism does nothing to address the issue. The only adaptation that will suffice is fixing the atmosphere.
This can actually be undone because we have the technology. However, it requires people to actually believe it's real, care and vote for leaders who care. There are far too many people who simply don't believe/care until it personally affects them. For proof of this, you need look no further than the newspaper.
How we turn this around is actually charge corporations money to pollute and use that money to clean up the pollution. We can build the machines needed to remove CO2 from the air and the solar panels need to power them but they need to be paid for. Pushing this policy globally would make it easy to undo the atmospheric damage we've already done.
Robocalls are annoying but they rely on the fact that most people will hang up or ignore the call. The "take me off you list" option just gets you on another persons list, so I've discovered the best way (sans legislation) is to answer the call and press '1' immediately then '2' and put your phone back in your pocket. This will get you connected to a call center and waste about five seconds of their time before they hang up. It requires almost no effort to do this and imposes a slight penalty. If more people actually do this, it will have serious impact on their bottom line.
Being just another smartphone on the market isn't going to cut it when you're charging sky high prices. No, this doesn't mean you should add a 5th camera ("fuck it, we're doing six!") or making it so thin that it bends if held tightly. What it means is you give people what they want. It's not complex either, it's removable battery packs, a headphone jack, a MicroSD Card slot and solid but modular construction that is robust that still allows the owner to replace parts if/when they break it.
It's not sexy but it's what we want. Sadly, you want to sell us a new version of the same phone every year, like Apple and make a killing but that requires an insane amount of capital. Just give us what we want and you will sell lots of smartphones, just not every single year ad infinitum.
My viewpoints are irrelevant in terms of predicting and knowing what other people will do.
Actually, no, they are inextricably bound because if you understood people better then you would realize why your viewpoints are so flawed. Sorry but you suck in this regard.
Except you and I both know they wouldn't quit after the contract was won.
Incorrect, you presume they would not quit. If I were you, I would presume far fewer things because of how extreme your viewpoint is on so many issues. You are not a good judge of character.
And yes boys and girls, sometimes you as a nation have to kill those people trying to kill you. That's the real world. Grow up.
Perhaps... but that doesn't mean people should have to take part in something they find morally objectionable, does it?
Also, you might find this hard to believe but a lot more people are killed by domestic bad actors than foreign bad actors. It makes little sense to spend so much on people who are such a small threat.
Many Microsoft employees don't believe that what we build should be used for waging war. When we decided to work at Microsoft, we were doing so in the hopes of "empowering every person on the planet to achieve more," not with the intent of ending lives and enhancing lethality
It's for this very reason that these employees should quit. I mean...the USA is a "free" country, no?
Why would you quit if doing so would do nothing to prevent the very thing you objected to? It only makes sense to quit after you make your objections clear and they ignore them.
You should be glad this is the land of the free because people like you are free to say the absolute dumbest things without being jailed.;)
you already voted for a president that takes unilateral military action in nations we are not at war with. That is active consnet folks. If you say pull the trigger refusing the make the bullets is just lying to yourself.
What an absolute lack of nuance! Seriously, if you even considered decisions made between "lesser of two evils" then this argument falls apart.
A few months ago, a disease caused by an engineered biological weapon played the antagonist in a fictional outbreak scenario that ended with more than 100 million dead and the global economy crippled.
Not the sysadmin they want but the sysadmin they deserve?
The sysadmin they deserve is Janit0r. Janit0r took devices offline permanently with BrickerBot because people couldn't be bothered to maintain and secure their devices.
I'll say it plainly, if you do not maintain your devices then anyone should be free to brick them. The obvious argument is "but it's not yours!" but this disregards that like an unvaccinated child, it puts everyone else at risk. The only alternative to this is to hack the devices so that they permanently DoS the manufacturer and sellers of the device. The situation will not improve until companies are forced to make devices secure.
Right because Microsoft had a "come to Jesus moment" and is on the straight and narrow with only the open source community's best interests in mind. That's what's called a delusion.
There is a better and more complete article on The Washington Post that describes the type of crap Facebook purged. Spoiler: it's clickbait that leads to other profit driven sites. Don't assume it's all conservative media either because it's not. They got crazy shit for folks of all types.
Bottom line: this is good for all (even slightly) rational actors.
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What I'm reading is that yes, it made 5 patches that were accepted but the more important question is how many patches did it make total? If it made 800 patches and only 5 were accepted, that's kind of a problem.
Also, there is good reason to distrust robotic submissions: there is no cognitive reasoning in generating patches. This means that it could very well make things worse rather than making them better. Sure, it could make your project build but it could also create an innocuous bug that breaks the code's functionality in the process which is likely to take even more time to correct because in addition to fixing the problem you also have to find it. Build failures already tell you where the problem exists.
It's really simple to get to the bottom of this with logic. Apple is super legalistic (like a rabid dog) so the fact that they haven't sued Bloomberg for libel/defamation means that it's real and it happened. Apple doesn't play well with others so when they get trapped by the truth, they say carefully crafted bullshit to mislead the public. I guarantee there is an asterisk for every one of Tim Cooks statements about this.
When you are caught between a rock and a hard place, sue the hard place! ;)
I'll take the research with a grain of salt!
And if the research is correct then you'll also take it with a bit of plastic. ;)
Seems like you don't know the difference between a breeder and burner reactor. Go read Wikipedia.
I never claimed it would be easy of fast to turn things around and sure, maybe LFTR will be just another unfulfilled dream but wind and solar are very real and quite extant. The current problem for them is being able to generate enough batteries to meet our needs. However, we are quickly improving our battery technology and large scale production lines are being built.
I have nothing against U238 breeder reactors per se but the fact that it's a dual use technology means they aren't a practical global solution. Nuclear waste isn't nice either but it's easy to contain in one place until we develop the tech to properly render it inert. Frankly, I think such reactors are more effort than they are worth considering we have real alternatives. On top of that, when causing pollution equals paying money, the paradigm shift will begin in the energy markets which will collapse coal energy market entirely on day one because it will have no future.
Honestly, the hardest part of solving this problem isn't technical, it's getting people to acknowledge it's a problem.
Even the best human descriptions of processes to generate the desired outcome can leave out minute details (like holding the vial at an incline of 45 degrees!). However, if you have an automated lab setup then you can simply share the instructions that were given to the machine that generated the desired result. Great for chemists, less so for psychologists. :P
We do not have the technology to remove the billions of tons of CO2 we've pumped into the atmosphere.
Sure we do, it's just going to take a million of CO2 capture plants and several decades.
Quite the opposite, ever since Al Gore's movie, we've done nothing. We're just making it increasingly worse. We knew about this in the late 60's early 70's. We've done nothing. What makes you so optimistic that we're suddenly going to do something?
The noose is tightening and people are beginning to feel it.
“Men and nations behave wisely when they have exhausted all other resources.”
Not going to change our diesel ships and trucks. Coal is still a big deal for energy generating plants. Electric cars and such, it's a step sideways, not forward. The energy we're pumping into these electric cars is still mostly coming from dirty power generation.
Of course, there's been no incentive to even bother not polluting. When that changes, everything will change with it.
Everyone is too afraid of the actual solution: Nuclear power.
Not at all. You forget that, stars are giant nuclear reactors. U238 breeder reactors are a very expensive form of nuclear power that are a dual purpose technology. We need to invest in developing liquid fluoride thorium reactors as once developed they can be installed in nations with even the most malicious intent and not be a threat as they do not create isotopes ad infinitium.
Fantasy is all this is. Accept that we've triggered some unstoppable consequences and adapt. Or die.
Defeatism does nothing to address the issue. The only adaptation that will suffice is fixing the atmosphere.
This can actually be undone because we have the technology. However, it requires people to actually believe it's real, care and vote for leaders who care. There are far too many people who simply don't believe/care until it personally affects them. For proof of this, you need look no further than the newspaper.
In North Carolina, hurricanes did what scientists could not: Convince Republicans that climate change is real
How we turn this around is actually charge corporations money to pollute and use that money to clean up the pollution. We can build the machines needed to remove CO2 from the air and the solar panels need to power them but they need to be paid for. Pushing this policy globally would make it easy to undo the atmospheric damage we've already done.
Robocalls are annoying but they rely on the fact that most people will hang up or ignore the call. The "take me off you list" option just gets you on another persons list, so I've discovered the best way (sans legislation) is to answer the call and press '1' immediately then '2' and put your phone back in your pocket. This will get you connected to a call center and waste about five seconds of their time before they hang up. It requires almost no effort to do this and imposes a slight penalty. If more people actually do this, it will have serious impact on their bottom line.
Simply ignoring robocalls wont fix the issue.
Being just another smartphone on the market isn't going to cut it when you're charging sky high prices. No, this doesn't mean you should add a 5th camera ("fuck it, we're doing six!") or making it so thin that it bends if held tightly. What it means is you give people what they want. It's not complex either, it's removable battery packs, a headphone jack, a MicroSD Card slot and solid but modular construction that is robust that still allows the owner to replace parts if/when they break it.
It's not sexy but it's what we want. Sadly, you want to sell us a new version of the same phone every year, like Apple and make a killing but that requires an insane amount of capital. Just give us what we want and you will sell lots of smartphones, just not every single year ad infinitum.
Can we have a link to material that might verify this claim?
A search of "RID Hijacking" revealed (among other things) a commit to metaploit on Feb 20. (likely merged in from a fork)
Git commit dates can be faked so there is also an announcement from @BlackHatEvents about it from June 24.
I'm quite inclined to believe their claim.
My viewpoints are irrelevant in terms of predicting and knowing what other people will do.
Actually, no, they are inextricably bound because if you understood people better then you would realize why your viewpoints are so flawed. Sorry but you suck in this regard.
Good day.
Except you and I both know they wouldn't quit after the contract was won.
Incorrect, you presume they would not quit. If I were you, I would presume far fewer things because of how extreme your viewpoint is on so many issues. You are not a good judge of character.
And yes boys and girls, sometimes you as a nation have to kill those people trying to kill you. That's the real world. Grow up.
Perhaps... but that doesn't mean people should have to take part in something they find morally objectionable, does it?
Also, you might find this hard to believe but a lot more people are killed by domestic bad actors than foreign bad actors. It makes little sense to spend so much on people who are such a small threat.
Many Microsoft employees don't believe that what we build should be used for waging war. When we decided to work at Microsoft, we were doing so in the hopes of "empowering every person on the planet to achieve more," not with the intent of ending lives and enhancing lethality
It's for this very reason that these employees should quit. I mean...the USA is a "free" country, no?
Why would you quit if doing so would do nothing to prevent the very thing you objected to? It only makes sense to quit after you make your objections clear and they ignore them.
You should be glad this is the land of the free because people like you are free to say the absolute dumbest things without being jailed. ;)
you already voted for a president that takes unilateral military action in nations we are not at war with. That is active consnet folks. If you say pull the trigger refusing the make the bullets is just lying to yourself.
What an absolute lack of nuance! Seriously, if you even considered decisions made between "lesser of two evils" then this argument falls apart.
Come on, it's not like we are dangerously unprepared for pandemic.
A few months ago, a disease caused by an engineered biological weapon played the antagonist in a fictional outbreak scenario that ended with more than 100 million dead and the global economy crippled.
There's a nice song about the subject of "smart" things. ;)
Not the sysadmin they want but the sysadmin they deserve?
The sysadmin they deserve is Janit0r. Janit0r took devices offline permanently with BrickerBot because people couldn't be bothered to maintain and secure their devices.
I'll say it plainly, if you do not maintain your devices then anyone should be free to brick them. The obvious argument is "but it's not yours!" but this disregards that like an unvaccinated child, it puts everyone else at risk. The only alternative to this is to hack the devices so that they permanently DoS the manufacturer and sellers of the device. The situation will not improve until companies are forced to make devices secure.
Right because Microsoft had a "come to Jesus moment" and is on the straight and narrow with only the open source community's best interests in mind. That's what's called a delusion.
Why do you hate freedom of speech?
Did you have a reading comprehension failure or did someone get put in jail for their speech?
"Remember, the freedom of speech means you stay out of jail but does nothing to force people to listen to you."
racist liberal monsters
Yes, we know your white male grievance is that you have been lowered to mere equality with other races. That's not racism, it's humanism.
I saw that as a dispassionate Libertarian
Ha! Good one. Did you write that before or after accusing people of being "racist liberal monsters"?
There is a better and more complete article on The Washington Post that describes the type of crap Facebook purged. Spoiler: it's clickbait that leads to other profit driven sites. Don't assume it's all conservative media either because it's not. They got crazy shit for folks of all types.
Bottom line: this is good for all (even slightly) rational actors.