Comment Re:The human eye is proof God exists (Score 0) 187
So, you're refuting religion in general with a principle of a religion Lucas made up, stating as an absolute that only religion deals in absolutes?
Just checking here.
So, you're refuting religion in general with a principle of a religion Lucas made up, stating as an absolute that only religion deals in absolutes?
Just checking here.
I never have understood the world's fetish with the US dollar. Every nation has a currency. The US economy is just as prone to stagnation, deficit, over, and under valuing as any other currency.
I'd like nothing better than to see the Rothschild's hold on international markets broken. If it takes China to do that, then all power to China in the endeavour.
Oil...no matter where you buy it on the planet, or from whom...is priced in dollars. In no market is the price of a barrel of crude listed in euros, pounds sterling, or any other currency for that matter.
Why does this matter in this case? Because Russia is basically an entire economy propped up solely on oil revenues. If the ruble devalues against the dollar, then essentially they are subjected to a brutal form of arbitrage where oil is cheaper from Russia than other places. So they get less money than the other oil producers do. If they boost production, it drives the cost of oil down even further. If they restrict production, they get less money that way too. Either way, they're fucked.
And you know what? GOOD. Fuck them.
The original story was a books for childs that started with "In a hole in the ground there lived a hobbit" and kept being childish most of the way. This movie? "Die Hard: Dwarfs edition", deserving a PG-13 or R rating for violence and mass slaughtering. It was like watching the porn version of Cindirella. The basic elements were there, but is not the same.
Anyway, may worth to see the CGI work.
Seems Gollum was right...
Captain Obvious used to own the patent until it expired.
The engineering fraternity where I did my undergrad had been doing research on this topic since at least the early 1990s, and I suspect since well before that.
My understanding of their procedure was they had a couple of beers the night before
Sure. But software shouldn't be able to make hardware damage itself.
Also, designing something like a steelworks without some kind of hardware-level override is so stupid it borders on criminal.
This is like saying "Sure, but car's shouldn't have anything that propels them forward...that's how car crashes happen."
The sole and entire point of control systems (aka SCADA, DCS, or ICS) is to make it possible for software to control hardware. And it's impossible to make *anything* that can't be broken or cause damage if it's abused. When you factor in things like blast furnaces, substations, or other real-time applications that involve massive amounts of energy (kinetic, electrical, thermal or otherwise), you're harnessing one hell of a big thing, and that means careful balances and lots of risk. You can't have a situation where there's thousands of degrees of heat and gigantic crucibles of molten steel and yet have it impossible for something to be done wrong.
It always makes me crazy when assholes (yes, that's my word for a novice who pontificates about the "incompetence" of actual professionals without citing anything concrete or meaningful) who don't have any experience whatsoever with control systems put forth their idolized version of reality that somehow means that everything can be simple and as safe as a Fisher-Price toy, despite the fact that these environments have never been foolproof in all of human history. Trains crash, pressure vessels explode, chemicals leak, boilers beer-can, transformers flash...it's always been that way, and always will be. Control systems make them less likely to do so for accidental reasons, but also allow an attacker to force it to happen for deliberate ones. That's the trade-off, and to this day it's still a trade-off that's had a positive outcome. It makes no more sense to back out these systems than it did for banking to go back to using adding machines, just because there were cyber security incidents early on in the financial sector. The next step forward is better security for these environments, which is in the process of happening as we speak.
The best suggestion in the whole thread - but a very poor reflection on the others
As what? You certainly cant use it as a video driver. There are more kinds of wierdness than a ghost train, and it often prevents the machine from booting at all.
The biggest difference between time and space is that you can't reuse time. -- Merrick Furst
