If Bennnet does actually post ever, I stand corrected.
I've seen him respond to comments on one of his submissions. I stopped reading his spew some time ago, but I will occasionally read the comments because invariably somebody in the community will post a better, more insightful, more correct discussion of the topic.
But...
But still no one simply fucking cares what he has to say.
Yup.
Why would a company automate away a $2/hour job if a machine to do the same thing costs $100,000 a year?
Why would a fish choose a touring bike over a mountain bike?
The machine doesn't cost $100,000/year. It costs $60,000 once, and maintenance costs $100/year, and the up-front price just keeps dropping. Eventually it will cost less than a table and chairs, if it doesn't already.
The gap between the average idiot and the politician is a hares breath...
That'd be a "hair's breadth," as in the diameter of a hair. I don't think rabbit exhalations have anything to do with it.
Carry on.
Did you mean this guy?
Sorry, yes, Eric. I have no idea why my brain found Josef in that slot in my memory and didn't even question it.
Oh look. Another numbskull with no clue what the word means, but spells it with the extra a because they think it makes them look/sound smart.
Most people don't know that ephebophile is a word. Including the Firefox spellchecker, I might add.
Interesting 85 percent absorption rate, though.
And highly suspect, considering the theoretical upper limit is 86%. The number of real machines that achieve that high a percentage of their theoretical limit is vanishingly small. Unless Josef Drexler has managed to perfect a nanoassembler that builds solar panels, that 85% isn't happening.
It's young men queuing with plush mushroom hats...
What I want to know is where is my plush mushroom hat? I've been gaming on PCs since the '80s and I never got my standard issue plush mushroom hat. I want my hat.
They're not concerned about helping bears and other animals, they're concerned about making money.
That much should be obvious when they claim a mass walrus haulout is bad for polar bears. That's just idiotic. As far as the polar bears are concerned, it's free lunch. A LOT of free lunch. This is going to cause a mild boom in polar bear population in the spring, because many mothers will be well fed this fall.
Or the giant areas of highly acidic oceans that lack enough oxygen for fish to survive. Both of these are from us burning fossil fuels.
No, that's not. That's from us dumping massive amounts of nitrogen fertilizer into watersheds, causing algae blooms, which suck all the oxygen out of the water. It has nothing to do with burning anything.
I can save the NSF a bunch of money with this initiative. There's a data center in Utah that's not being used (for anything legal) with a huge amount of data storage capacity. The NSF should have it.
What I don't understand is the lack of concern about security.
I'm far more afraid of a terrorist/criminal organization getting access to these back doors, and reading all of the encrypted documents that companies (including government contractors) want to secure, than hidden communication allowing them to get away.
Let us consider for a moment how huge the black market is for exploits today. That market is huge while pursuing only the hope of finding a way in. Now imagine what happens when there's a government guaranteed way in.
Obviously the US Congress should move immediately to enact this law. After all, think of the Nigerian children.
It's not PR spin. They're not allowed to throttle LTE service for grandfathered unlimited accounts. It's part of the agreement they made with the government when they bought the 700Mhz spectrum. They were probably hoping everyone had forgotten.
What were the terms of that agreement, exactly? Because they sold the 700Mhz spectrum they bought to T-Mobile for $2.4 billion. Are they still bound by the terms of that auction, even though they no longer hold the fruits of that auction?
White hats? If white hats were building actively guided systems capable of that sort of range, you'd be seeing miniature computer boards running Linux, Squid and Tor relays launched into stable orbits that crossed nations with restricted network access. We don't.
I don't usually comment in the gun threads, since it's not my hobby, and usually someone would have noticed this remark and answered it by now, but we're 400 posts and counting into the thread and still no one has, so I will.
We do. Ham radio enthusiasts (who have a not-inconsiderable intersection with gun enthusiasts) have put multiple relay satellites in orbit, and you could call them miniature. They're certainly reasonably small compared to normal commercial satellites, even if they're mostly not CubeSats. Some of them are intentionally put into inclined orbits, so they cover more of the Earth's surface, including crossing nations with restricted network access. No, they don't build actively guided systems of their own to do it. They launch as secondary payloads. They operate mainly as store-and-forward systems. Email, basically, or Internet newsgroups.
I don't recognize your reference to neocon stupidity, but I concur that it was stupid. There are existing orbital solutions to the problem of rampant censorship.
As usual, when I hear futurists telling us about the awesome the future will be
In the future, you will be able to carry a device in your pocket that will allow you, for less than the price of a cup of coffee, to have a conversation with anyone else on Earth who has a similar device. On a whim.
The future could be awesome. But no, no one will ever build such a system. It's impractical, way more than anybody will ever be able to afford. And there are so many details, and it would require such a huge planet-girdling system. It can't possibly happen.
You underestimate what feats of engineering have already been accomplished, and overestimate the size of the feat Elon Musk is talking about.
Show me an example of these codes please. I have been researching this for the past two hours and have looked at multiple occupancy permitting codes across the U.S. and there just isn't any such requirement that I've been able to find.
The codes you're looking for tend to be at the city, township, or county level. A great many of them have not been put online yet, and haven't really changed in 30 or 40 years.
"Ninety percent of baseball is half mental." -- Yogi Berra
