People will indulge in homeopathy, chiropractery and crystal healing. OK, they're not the sharpest knives in the drawer, but do you think banning these things will help? How's that worked out for drugs? Or cigarettes? Those have disappeared. Right? Oh, wait, they haven't.
For all these things, put the warnings on the label and let Darwin take care of the rest.
It will be back. A little more time. A few more congressmen will be investigated and blackmailed. Small slips of paper with a string of offshore bank account numbers and a dollar figure will mysteriously appear on the desks of some wavering legislators, who know the money will be theirs if they cast a vote for TPP. It's all standard operating procedure in DC.
The oligarchs want this, and by hook or by crook, they'll get it.
Actually, we have a pretty good idea about gas reserves. Energetically, they're about equivalent to known conventional oil reserves. This sounds good and will extend us to the end of the century, despite the rapid increase in consumption rates and the energy penalty for trying to liquefy it into a petroleum substitute (i.e. take 30% of the top, energetically)
Coal? Hard to say. It's *there* but using it economically is doubtful. Moreover, the same rules apply. We've long since mined out the easy, very "net-energy-positive" stuff. What's left is a lot of brown coal and bituminous coal that's not so easy, or cheap to get.
The bottom line, however, is cost. Supplying globe spanning "just-in-time" supply chains requires *cheap* transportation fuel. The "cheap" part is what goes away long before we run out of hydrocarbons.
The casualty is an integrated worldwide industrial civilization (and about 6+ billion people who starve). Local areas with access to hydrocarbons and technology to use it survive. Everyone else? Not so much.
A law so secret that you can't even view it unless you're a congressperson, and even then you have to go to a locked room without recording equipment.
But how could that be suspicious at all?
And now we find out it's written and conceived by multinational corporations.
And we all know how benevolent and caring *they* are.
More seriously, anyone who votes for this has been bribed or blackmailed. It's an obvious takeover of nation-states by a globe spanning elite corporate-state.
But probably not the guy obviously dressed as a storm trooper with a fake blaster. What was he doing to do in that costume? Shoot someone and run away. Because it's so easy to be inconspicuous running in a storm trooper outfit....
Pretty much. The NSA stops and so the surveillance shifts to some other obscure agency that does exactly the same thing, but without the NSA's charter. The internet is a two edged sword. It makes corruption and incompetence harder to hide, but guarantees almost universal surveillance.
Ya' know, when we were watching Star Trek or Babylon 5 as kids, we kind of assumed universal surveillance, a global government and that all money was electronic. Not that it's starting to happen, it's scary as crap. I think it's because we don't have aliens as a common enemy. It's not us against them. It's us against us.
Aside from scheduling repairs at a time convenient only for the repair guy, the last "technician" they sent out had obvious gang tattoos and seemed more interested in casing my house than repairing my cable, which he was unable to do (I ended up fixing the cable break in the attic later that day. Damn squirrels).
So, I turned off the cable. Still have U-Verse for Netflix, which is similarly awful (They tend to not tell you anything), but at least they've never sent anyone who I or my family might have to be scared of.
I agree, however, I see no reason to give them any more courtesy than I receive. Moreover, there isn't any real solution to the problem as long as the world is moving to it's final form (i.e. transnational oligarchy), prior to the world's inevitable resource collapse (hydrocarbons, phosphates, water). This will "solve* the problem, but not in a good way.
A subtle mistake in a script. A few well placed words in some documentation that nobody will read for a few months to a few years and POP goes the server security. (*Cough* SONY *Cough, cough*).
I've heard rumors of this device and it's claims of a bright future. Ridiculous! Why, such a device would have to be millions of times larger than Earth to be sustainable. It would also have to output energy 24/7 with no more than 5% variation. It would probably even be dangerous to look at without eye protection and the simulated output models indicate that it would significantly increase rates of skin cancer in certain vulnerable individuals. Such a dangerous, impossible to build device is just more blue-sky thinking by those "head-in-the-clouds" environmentalists.
So, you think the junior flunky in India that this was outsourced to is making big bucks? Somehow, I doubt it. What I don't doubt is that the dweebs with MBAs couldn't make a coherent decision to save their lives. Cost savings on a spreadsheet do not equal a viable business that makes money. You have to get "dirty" and get into the business details, or you will be in for a series of epic fails.
No, I'm pretty sure it's sheer stupidity. I just tried to turn on.net 3.5 framework, which many different software packages require. At the moment, it's almost impossible to do. Microsoft's own security packages have made.net 3.5 almost impossible to install and use.
For the record, you *can* do it, if you have original media and can run an obscure set of commands through an elevated cmd prompt. I only burned up 2 or 3 hours of otherwise productive time working around yet another "security" issue.
Security's motto: Our job's not done until you can't do yours.
If we, the people, can't even look at the content of a trade deal, I'm not too enthusiastic about letting the government look at the content of my activity.
For my money, Mr. Obama. the NSA, et. al. scan take a flying fuck at a rolling doughnut.
At my nameless three letter organization, here's how security works.
"Oh, you didn't name your database server according to our specifications required by our lame monitoring tool that can't handle nonstandard system names? Rename your server. Oh, and if it breaks the database, that's your problem."
"We just patched all the servers for greater security. Too bad you can't use your software to control or monitor them anymore, but that's your problem."
"Due to a breach, everyone must change their password. Too bad it happened while you were off for a few days and needed to log in for an emergency, but that's your problem."
Security's motto: We break stuff, put ALL the burden on the users, walk away AND we get paid for it!
I don't know any other job where you can receive money for making stuff *not* work.
Most don't. Programmers tend to be particularly bad, particularly when they're trying to think up new jargon to describe their latest brainwave.
Microsoft, with it's culture rooted in 90's C++ techno-machismo is the worst. If I have to hear "Consume services" once more, I may puke. Want to download Powershell from the Microsoft site? Did you expect a file name like "Powershell 4.0 for 64-bit"? Well, peasant, screw you! You shall have decide if you want to download "Windows6.1-KB2819745-x64-MultiPkg.msu", or "Windows6.1-KB2819745-x86-MultiPkg.msu." Don't know your chip numbers? Tough luck, techno-illiterate. We expect you to keep up!
If I ran the world, every software developer on Earth would be handed a copy of this book: http://xkcd.com/thing-explaine.... Not that I think things should be written like this, but at least it would prompt the worst offenders to *think* before they wrote.
Sure, it's a little costlier than a full blown slave at a Chinese Apple phone factory, but be assured, it's only a temporary setback until we can get indentured servitude for student loan defaults back on the books.
It works because it forces developers meet regularly, track progress, discuss problems, pay attention to requirements, be aware of the schedule and what everyone else is doing, The rest is theology, more or less.
If your C++ code is not good enough or Java code is painfully slow, it's not because the technology is bad - it's because you haven't learned how to use it right. That way, you won't be satisfied with Rust either, but just for some other reasons."
Gods, I wish we could force EVERY programmer to take some basic neurophysiology and at least one human factors course.
If the language is hard to use and makes it easy to make mistakes, the language design is wrong. NOT the humans. The humans, by definition *can't* be wrong. A language is like any other machine. In this case, it's purpose is to provide a highly granular interface to the system FOR HUMANS.
Machines, any machine, exist for exactly, and only one reason, to serve humans efficiently (i.e to reduce human physical and cognitive labor to a minimum while allowing them to accomplish their goals).
If a language accomplishes that, the language is well designed. If it doesn't do that due to obfuscated syntax, a lack of safety checks, over-engineering (It does so much) and under-design (What it does is almost impossible to understand and use), then the language is badly designed, and the language designers, incompetent, because they neglected to consider the human part of the system in their design.
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People will indulge in homeopathy, chiropractery and crystal healing. OK, they're not the sharpest knives in the drawer, but do you think banning these things will help? How's that worked out for drugs? Or cigarettes? Those have disappeared. Right? Oh, wait, they haven't.
For all these things, put the warnings on the label and let Darwin take care of the rest.
It will be back. A little more time. A few more congressmen will be investigated and blackmailed. Small slips of paper with a string of offshore bank account numbers and a dollar figure will mysteriously appear on the desks of some wavering legislators, who know the money will be theirs if they cast a vote for TPP. It's all standard operating procedure in DC.
The oligarchs want this, and by hook or by crook, they'll get it.
A government that does this:
http://www.theguardian.com/wor...
is simply no longer interested in the rule of law other than to further their handler's interests.
So, request away! Ask for a pony while you're at it.
Actually, we have a pretty good idea about gas reserves. Energetically, they're about equivalent to known conventional oil reserves. This sounds good and will extend us to the end of the century, despite the rapid increase in consumption rates and the energy penalty for trying to liquefy it into a petroleum substitute (i.e. take 30% of the top, energetically)
Coal? Hard to say. It's *there* but using it economically is doubtful. Moreover, the same rules apply. We've long since mined out the easy, very "net-energy-positive" stuff. What's left is a lot of brown coal and bituminous coal that's not so easy, or cheap to get.
The bottom line, however, is cost. Supplying globe spanning "just-in-time" supply chains requires *cheap* transportation fuel. The "cheap" part is what goes away long before we run out of hydrocarbons.
The casualty is an integrated worldwide industrial civilization (and about 6+ billion people who starve). Local areas with access to hydrocarbons and technology to use it survive. Everyone else? Not so much.
Since there's virtually no chance that we have enough energy positive, affordable oil to run an industrial civilization by that time anyway.
You GO guys.
Even though they missed these obvious connections, and even though the TSA misses 95% of all threatening bottles of liquid over 3 oz.
Nothing happened.
Meanwhile, over 30,000 people died in traffic accidents in 2014.
Something is wrong here.
A law so secret that you can't even view it unless you're a congressperson, and even then you have to go to a locked room without recording equipment.
But how could that be suspicious at all?
And now we find out it's written and conceived by multinational corporations.
And we all know how benevolent and caring *they* are.
More seriously, anyone who votes for this has been bribed or blackmailed. It's an obvious takeover of nation-states by a globe spanning elite corporate-state.
But probably not the guy obviously dressed as a storm trooper with a fake blaster. What was he doing to do in that costume? Shoot someone and run away. Because it's so easy to be inconspicuous running in a storm trooper outfit....
Pretty much. The NSA stops and so the surveillance shifts to some other obscure agency that does exactly the same thing, but without the NSA's charter. The internet is a two edged sword. It makes corruption and incompetence harder to hide, but guarantees almost universal surveillance.
Ya' know, when we were watching Star Trek or Babylon 5 as kids, we kind of assumed universal surveillance, a global government and that all money was electronic. Not that it's starting to happen, it's scary as crap. I think it's because we don't have aliens as a common enemy. It's not us against them. It's us against us.
Aside from scheduling repairs at a time convenient only for the repair guy, the last "technician" they sent out had obvious gang tattoos and seemed more interested in casing my house than repairing my cable, which he was unable to do (I ended up fixing the cable break in the attic later that day. Damn squirrels).
So, I turned off the cable. Still have U-Verse for Netflix, which is similarly awful (They tend to not tell you anything), but at least they've never sent anyone who I or my family might have to be scared of.
I agree, however, I see no reason to give them any more courtesy than I receive. Moreover, there isn't any real solution to the problem as long as the world is moving to it's final form (i.e. transnational oligarchy), prior to the world's inevitable resource collapse (hydrocarbons, phosphates, water). This will "solve* the problem, but not in a good way.
A subtle mistake in a script. A few well placed words in some documentation that nobody will read for a few months to a few years and POP goes the server security. (*Cough* SONY *Cough, cough*).
Plausible deniability. It's what's for breakfast!
I've heard rumors of this device and it's claims of a bright future. Ridiculous! Why, such a device would have to be millions of times larger than Earth to be sustainable. It would also have to output energy 24/7 with no more than 5% variation. It would probably even be dangerous to look at without eye protection and the simulated output models indicate that it would significantly increase rates of skin cancer in certain vulnerable individuals. Such a dangerous, impossible to build device is just more blue-sky thinking by those "head-in-the-clouds" environmentalists.
So, you think the junior flunky in India that this was outsourced to is making big bucks? Somehow, I doubt it. What I don't doubt is that the dweebs with MBAs couldn't make a coherent decision to save their lives. Cost savings on a spreadsheet do not equal a viable business that makes money. You have to get "dirty" and get into the business details, or you will be in for a series of epic fails.
No, I'm pretty sure it's sheer stupidity. I just tried to turn on .net 3.5 framework, which many different software packages require. At the moment, it's almost impossible to do. Microsoft's own security packages have made .net 3.5 almost impossible to install and use.
For the record, you *can* do it, if you have original media and can run an obscure set of commands through an elevated cmd prompt. I only burned up 2 or 3 hours of otherwise productive time working around yet another "security" issue.
Security's motto: Our job's not done until you can't do yours.
USA citizens killed by terrorists in 2011? 17 ( http://www.theatlantic.com/int... ). About the same number killed by furniture.
USA citizens killed by automobiles in 2011? 32,479 ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L... )
We're coming for you, GM...
Thus combining rigid control with a complete extraction of personal dignity. Sounds about like what upper management is aiming for.
If we, the people, can't even look at the content of a trade deal, I'm not too enthusiastic about letting the government look at the content of my activity.
For my money, Mr. Obama. the NSA, et. al. scan take a flying fuck at a rolling doughnut.
At my nameless three letter organization, here's how security works.
"Oh, you didn't name your database server according to our specifications required by our lame monitoring tool that can't handle nonstandard system names? Rename your server. Oh, and if it breaks the database, that's your problem."
"We just patched all the servers for greater security. Too bad you can't use your software to control or monitor them anymore, but that's your problem."
"Due to a breach, everyone must change their password. Too bad it happened while you were off for a few days and needed to log in for an emergency, but that's your problem."
Security's motto: We break stuff, put ALL the burden on the users, walk away AND we get paid for it!
I don't know any other job where you can receive money for making stuff *not* work.
Most don't. Programmers tend to be particularly bad, particularly when they're trying to think up new jargon to describe their latest brainwave.
Microsoft, with it's culture rooted in 90's C++ techno-machismo is the worst. If I have to hear "Consume services" once more, I may puke. Want to download Powershell from the Microsoft site? Did you expect a file name like "Powershell 4.0 for 64-bit"? Well, peasant, screw you! You shall have decide if you want to download "Windows6.1-KB2819745-x64-MultiPkg.msu", or "Windows6.1-KB2819745-x86-MultiPkg.msu." Don't know your chip numbers? Tough luck, techno-illiterate. We expect you to keep up!
If I ran the world, every software developer on Earth would be handed a copy of this book: http://xkcd.com/thing-explaine.... Not that I think things should be written like this, but at least it would prompt the worst offenders to *think* before they wrote.
We might see a great deal of improvement, particularly for the underachieving ones.
Sure, it's a little costlier than a full blown slave at a Chinese Apple phone factory, but be assured, it's only a temporary setback until we can get indentured servitude for student loan defaults back on the books.
It works because it forces developers meet regularly, track progress, discuss problems, pay attention to requirements, be aware of the schedule and what everyone else is doing, The rest is theology, more or less.
By making drugs illegal, they become expensive and create a pool of dark money which can then be rerouted to:
1) Banks ( http://www.huffingtonpost.com/... )
2) Federal agencies and lobbyists ( http://www.thenation.com/artic... )
3) Three letter agencies ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C... )
4) Local police ( http://my.chicagotribune.com/#... ) where traffic stops are now an entrepreneurial opportunity, as in "I had a thought about drugs, so give me all of your money."
If your C++ code is not good enough or Java code is painfully slow, it's not because the technology is bad - it's because you haven't learned how to use it right. That way, you won't be satisfied with Rust either, but just for some other reasons."
Gods, I wish we could force EVERY programmer to take some basic neurophysiology and at least one human factors course.
If the language is hard to use and makes it easy to make mistakes, the language design is wrong. NOT the humans. The humans, by definition *can't* be wrong. A language is like any other machine. In this case, it's purpose is to provide a highly granular interface to the system FOR HUMANS.
Machines, any machine, exist for exactly, and only one reason, to serve humans efficiently (i.e to reduce human physical and cognitive labor to a minimum while allowing them to accomplish their goals).
If a language accomplishes that, the language is well designed. If it doesn't do that due to obfuscated syntax, a lack of safety checks, over-engineering (It does so much) and under-design (What it does is almost impossible to understand and use), then the language is badly designed, and the language designers, incompetent, because they neglected to consider the human part of the system in their design.