I'll take my plate of crow now.
FTR, what compels us is years of reading articles in credible computing circles that have said exactly what I said. Yes, upon further reflection, it does strike me that's industry bullshit from the folks who think automation works for everything. That said, I have not seen the claim credibly challenged before today.
Clearly there is a lot of money out there selling the automated aircraft. I have known a lot of credible people in the computing, programming and robotics fields who have repeated this claim. My best response is that it is apparent pilots don't have the same sort of lobby out there explaining their side of the problem. Because frankly it looks like pilots have been decidedly left out of the discussion.
Bear in mind, around these parts we're awfully prone to liking a good story about autonomous vehicles. Very simply put, good PR has sold me a lie that sits very easily with my mind.
I wonder if someone has a website of European budget carriers that allow this . . . because I could easily see Vuelling and Czech Air jumping on this. This is important stuff, folks. Otherwise, I'm taking sheets of plastic with me when I travel.
150 years is daunting. And if you toss in no cure to Alzheimer's or the same relative physical decline around 40-80 years old, then the most likely single outcome will be an increase in suicides.
One, because to be honest up-sampled DVDs look pretty good.
Two, most movies are now shot in a style that looks like someone let a cat piss on the celluloid. Seriously, who the fuck wants to pop in the Battlestar Galactica Blu-Ray and see film grain and shitty lighting in hi-def!?
Three, for the price point, Blu-Ray doesn't deliver enough value except for the rare really well-shot movie.
Four, digital downloads. All things being equal, anything on disc is slightly antiquated. I rarely buy a disc of anything anymore.
OMFG . . . when cluelessness attacks. How can anyone say that the post-Enron regulatory framework was anything except a clusterfuck? Show me the goddamned accountability in terms of real jail time.
Somewhere out there is a featherweight considered the best pound-for-pound fighter in the world. Doesn't mean in a straight fight he wouldn't get killed by the best heavyweight.
Considering the number of hacked major websites I've now heard of storing their passwords in plaintext, my faith in industry standards is shot. When sites the size of Gawker, Reddit and Plenty of Fish fail this really braindead obvious level of security, I think people who implement plain MD5 start to feel like geniuses.
A custom CMS isn't a bad thing is you commit hard to securing it.
For various reasons, I've built custom CMSes. What I've committed to doing is limiting the accepted inputs. If something only needs an ID, then the inputs should be scrubbed down to only accept integers. If something only needs a name, scrub the inputs down to a regular expression covering letters, spaces and integers.
Where people get in trouble is not scrubbing their input aggressively.
FB owns a lot of users and a couple really worthwhile properties that those users beat the hell out of. As a consequence, FB will experience the same type of long death that arises from a large user base reluctant to move all their stuff to a new service. Hell, look how many active users Yahoo Mail still has.
The only real downside for FB is that Zynga can plug into any potential successor. That means should a successor emerge in the near future, Zynga can move overnight into that space. Since a lot of FB users are there only for the Zynga games, any move by Zynga into a successor's space would be massively damaging to FB.
Since dolphins turn tricks in kind for fish, should the tax laws require the dolphins to report their fish consumption as income? And if that's the case, we can tax the aquatic bastards.
The EU, as currently conceived, just flat-out doesn't have the power to enforce laws in individual countries. Look at the recent abortion ruling by the EU against Ireland. Ireland's response amounted to "And . . . ?"
The first time the EU tries to make this stick, they're going to have to go to court against every member nation the company in question operates in.
The Europeans need to face facts: they're not remotely as committed to the ideal of unity in practice as their speeches would suggest. Look at the bailout. The Eurozone basically exists so Germany and France can export surplus productivity to lazier, poorer countries. The Eurozone exists to correct flaws in the German Mark that the Germans themselves could never fix. But, when it comes time to pay up for indulging those lazier, poorer countries for profit, the Germans and French bitch and complain ceaselessly about having to do it. And worse, they force their partners into austerity measures that fundamentally extend the failures of the Mark to the Euro.
The Europeans are too stupid for their own good. The invent a unified government that no one ever intended to obey. They implement a a common currency that no one wants to back -- and then bitch when it turns out ya kinda have to back your currency no matter how badly your partners piss on it.
If it weren't for improving the passport rules, the EU would go down in history as an abject internationalist failure alongside the League of Nations.
The only question for the Europeans now is whether they do what the early US did. The early US figured out that the original Articles of Confederation were useless and barely empowered the government to do anything (sound familiar?). Eventually a new constituent assembly was called and a real Constitution (admittedly full of poisonous compromises) was written.
Until the EU gets down to the business of writing a non-pathetic organizing document, they might as well save the bullshit and let the Chinese steal everything.
In a first world nation, 98% of everything is done by robotics already. Look at a train. A train is a giant computer on rails with a couple humans there to intervene in the rare emergency.
The romanticism of space settlement is likely to give way to something like the movie Moon (2009). Hopefully we don't have to resort to cloning Sam Rockwell.
In all seriousness, I think any World Cup would be more heavily viewed than a Mars landing. We're just not thinking very hard about the people we begrudgingly share this planet with. They like thems some soccer. Just sayin'.
Now, if the World Cup were held on Mars (The Off-world Cup?), then we're talkin' some numbers.
The naming rights section just fuckin' killed me for its raw retardness about economics.
The reason a corporation pays $400m for the naming rights to a stadium is because there's a high level assurance the fucking thing will be built.
Selling rights to shit in a Mars mission has one fatal flaw: there's no proof the goddamned thing will ever happen. Only a complete dumbfuck or someone totally desperate to see their idea get off the ground would make this sales pitch without realizing the simple assurances that all corporations expect in exchange for their promotional consideration.
Space settlement will start occurring when the minerals crisis starts hitting here on Earth in about 20 to 30 years. And we're not gonna hit Mars -- it's going to be prospecting the asteroids for scarce minerals.
When your business model is "Shit! Corporations'll fall for any bullshit!" then you are legally required disclaim yourself as a dumbfuck in all future conversations.
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I'll take my plate of crow now. FTR, what compels us is years of reading articles in credible computing circles that have said exactly what I said. Yes, upon further reflection, it does strike me that's industry bullshit from the folks who think automation works for everything. That said, I have not seen the claim credibly challenged before today. Clearly there is a lot of money out there selling the automated aircraft. I have known a lot of credible people in the computing, programming and robotics fields who have repeated this claim. My best response is that it is apparent pilots don't have the same sort of lobby out there explaining their side of the problem. Because frankly it looks like pilots have been decidedly left out of the discussion. Bear in mind, around these parts we're awfully prone to liking a good story about autonomous vehicles. Very simply put, good PR has sold me a lie that sits very easily with my mind.
Fair enough. I'll concede the pilots are still of utility when the shit hits the fan.
No they don't. If it's not a puddle jumper, the damn thing lands itself.
What's the big deal? The pilots on a commercial flight are just there to make the passengers feel better.
Just sayin . . .
I wonder if someone has a website of European budget carriers that allow this . . . because I could easily see Vuelling and Czech Air jumping on this. This is important stuff, folks. Otherwise, I'm taking sheets of plastic with me when I travel.
Oh, and a racist. So, about that . . . um, fuck Ron Paul.
150 years is daunting. And if you toss in no cure to Alzheimer's or the same relative physical decline around 40-80 years old, then the most likely single outcome will be an increase in suicides.
What they meant to say was "28 Days Later".
Good PR: the cure to shitty coding.
One, because to be honest up-sampled DVDs look pretty good.
Two, most movies are now shot in a style that looks like someone let a cat piss on the celluloid. Seriously, who the fuck wants to pop in the Battlestar Galactica Blu-Ray and see film grain and shitty lighting in hi-def!?
Three, for the price point, Blu-Ray doesn't deliver enough value except for the rare really well-shot movie.
Four, digital downloads. All things being equal, anything on disc is slightly antiquated. I rarely buy a disc of anything anymore.
OMFG . . . when cluelessness attacks. How can anyone say that the post-Enron regulatory framework was anything except a clusterfuck? Show me the goddamned accountability in terms of real jail time.
Somewhere out there is a featherweight considered the best pound-for-pound fighter in the world. Doesn't mean in a straight fight he wouldn't get killed by the best heavyweight.
Considering the number of hacked major websites I've now heard of storing their passwords in plaintext, my faith in industry standards is shot. When sites the size of Gawker, Reddit and Plenty of Fish fail this really braindead obvious level of security, I think people who implement plain MD5 start to feel like geniuses.
A custom CMS isn't a bad thing is you commit hard to securing it.
For various reasons, I've built custom CMSes. What I've committed to doing is limiting the accepted inputs. If something only needs an ID, then the inputs should be scrubbed down to only accept integers. If something only needs a name, scrub the inputs down to a regular expression covering letters, spaces and integers.
Where people get in trouble is not scrubbing their input aggressively.
Somehow I suspect that controlling the ISPs makes a man in the middle exploit a tiny bit easier.
His life is about to get a lot weird on the . . . Moon.
FB owns a lot of users and a couple really worthwhile properties that those users beat the hell out of. As a consequence, FB will experience the same type of long death that arises from a large user base reluctant to move all their stuff to a new service. Hell, look how many active users Yahoo Mail still has.
The only real downside for FB is that Zynga can plug into any potential successor. That means should a successor emerge in the near future, Zynga can move overnight into that space. Since a lot of FB users are there only for the Zynga games, any move by Zynga into a successor's space would be massively damaging to FB.
Since dolphins turn tricks in kind for fish, should the tax laws require the dolphins to report their fish consumption as income? And if that's the case, we can tax the aquatic bastards.
Is the slavery so over-the-top if you consider them sentient beings?
Unless you consider fish to be currency, in which case dolphins are just independent contractors.
The EU, as currently conceived, just flat-out doesn't have the power to enforce laws in individual countries. Look at the recent abortion ruling by the EU against Ireland. Ireland's response amounted to "And . . . ?"
The first time the EU tries to make this stick, they're going to have to go to court against every member nation the company in question operates in.
The Europeans need to face facts: they're not remotely as committed to the ideal of unity in practice as their speeches would suggest. Look at the bailout. The Eurozone basically exists so Germany and France can export surplus productivity to lazier, poorer countries. The Eurozone exists to correct flaws in the German Mark that the Germans themselves could never fix. But, when it comes time to pay up for indulging those lazier, poorer countries for profit, the Germans and French bitch and complain ceaselessly about having to do it. And worse, they force their partners into austerity measures that fundamentally extend the failures of the Mark to the Euro.
The Europeans are too stupid for their own good. The invent a unified government that no one ever intended to obey. They implement a a common currency that no one wants to back -- and then bitch when it turns out ya kinda have to back your currency no matter how badly your partners piss on it.
If it weren't for improving the passport rules, the EU would go down in history as an abject internationalist failure alongside the League of Nations.
The only question for the Europeans now is whether they do what the early US did. The early US figured out that the original Articles of Confederation were useless and barely empowered the government to do anything (sound familiar?). Eventually a new constituent assembly was called and a real Constitution (admittedly full of poisonous compromises) was written.
Until the EU gets down to the business of writing a non-pathetic organizing document, they might as well save the bullshit and let the Chinese steal everything.
In a first world nation, 98% of everything is done by robotics already. Look at a train. A train is a giant computer on rails with a couple humans there to intervene in the rare emergency.
The romanticism of space settlement is likely to give way to something like the movie Moon (2009). Hopefully we don't have to resort to cloning Sam Rockwell.
Would be "The Planet Mars, sponsored by Sprint". You can't rename a whole planet -- people would forget where the story is set and start tuning out.
In all seriousness, I think any World Cup would be more heavily viewed than a Mars landing. We're just not thinking very hard about the people we begrudgingly share this planet with. They like thems some soccer. Just sayin'.
Now, if the World Cup were held on Mars (The Off-world Cup?), then we're talkin' some numbers.
The naming rights section just fuckin' killed me for its raw retardness about economics.
The reason a corporation pays $400m for the naming rights to a stadium is because there's a high level assurance the fucking thing will be built.
Selling rights to shit in a Mars mission has one fatal flaw: there's no proof the goddamned thing will ever happen. Only a complete dumbfuck or someone totally desperate to see their idea get off the ground would make this sales pitch without realizing the simple assurances that all corporations expect in exchange for their promotional consideration.
Space settlement will start occurring when the minerals crisis starts hitting here on Earth in about 20 to 30 years. And we're not gonna hit Mars -- it's going to be prospecting the asteroids for scarce minerals.
When your business model is "Shit! Corporations'll fall for any bullshit!" then you are legally required disclaim yourself as a dumbfuck in all future conversations.