Yeah, I want my home automation systems to be dependent on my DSL link so that the furnace can go out if SaskTel hiccoughs.

I want my refrigerator to be hackable from the internet so all my food can spoil.

I want someone who is into doxing to be able to flash my house lights randomly for giggles.

IoT: Just say "No!"

Hacker News has a fairly good track record causing something resembling the Slashdot effect at least on lower capacity servers. Its pretty rare you hear anyone comment that they got a traffic surge when their blog appeared on the front page of Slashdot any more, though it is quite common to hear comments about traffic surges from Hacker News.

Iraq used chemical weapons to pretty good effect to stave off Iranian human wave attacks during the Iran Iraq war. If they hadnâ(TM)t it would have somewhat increased the likelihood that Iran would have won the war. With the help of chemical weapons Iraq fought a much larger country to a stalemate.

The Reagan administration and numerous western companies were fine with Iraq using chemical weapons against Iran during that era. They didnt want Iran to win that war.

Java's "StringBuffer" object can deal with concatenating source code fragments to produce 6 million lines of code in under 8 minutes and write it to a 7200rpm HDD on Linux. Java handles string concatenation quite efficiently if you're using the proper data objects instead of naively doing actual string concatenations that require much more buffer re-allocation than simply extending the end point of a buffer that is periodically reallocated with n extra bytes each time. And that's only on a creaky old P4 3.8GHz with DDR2-800 memory.

I call "bullshit" on the paper.

What is "offensive" is politicians who try to censor discontent with their policies and behaviour. I realize it's mere fantasy, but politicians should always be held accountable under both the law and public opinion. They're supposed to be there to represent us, not line their own pockets.

Don't.

:P :P :P

Even if it's not an intentional scam, the numbers, timeline, and science just don't add up. NASA has a lot more experience with this kind of thing, and they're suggesting numbers nearly 20 times as big for a project like this.

I'd trust NASA's experience long before I'd trust some rich guy's wishful thinking. Especially if I were planning to put my life on the line. Not that an overweight 50 year old would qualify for such a project. :P

No, that happened because we left before there was a half-decent force in place to keep Iraq functioning, and because the many crossed "red lines" in Syria turn out to be no red lines at all (says the administration), and that conflict has been allowed to fester - a situation the sort of people who morphed their groups into ISIS just love.

Even by asking that, you are triggering. How dare you.

Non-spun, non-insane, credible citation required.

So if you give your neighbor some used garden tools including a good brush clearing machete, and then your neighbor is run out of their house by MS13 so they can set up a meth lab, and they happen to use the machete to kill a rival drug dealer ... are you supporting MS13?

Get a grip.

And every other company and country and school that's played with the stuff, right? Because that patent dried up a long time ago, and many, many parties make and work with the stuff. Not to ruin your narrative or anything.

Yeah, but in California that sort of vagueness is still enough to have your business trashed by over-eager regulators who think that "probably" sounds close enough, even if it does mean "we drowned a rat in a vat of the stuff, and even though it died from lack of oxygen, it probably would have come down with cancer later anyway."

Meanwhile, being out in the fresh air and sunshine as much as our ancestors were will probably also give you cancer.

Because where they are located as a group (not to be confused with the "lone wolf" types that the communication in question is trying to egg on), they've brutally killed thousands of people, and are armed with pretty nice toys, left behind by the courageous Iraqi regulars who went running for the hills when ISIS showed up.

If some group in the US did anything LIKE what ISIS is doing in across huge swaths of land in the Middle East, and did so with tens of thousands of people gleefully participating, then you'd see far MORE press about it that we're seeing about ISIS. But because there are no such huge groups of prisoner-burning, foreigner-decapitating militarized crazies occupying the equivalent of large portions of multiple states in the US, there's nothing to talk about.

Well, they control land, have a standing army, control and sell oil resources, and have people from around the world traveling to submit to their regime. That's about as (or more) put together as, say, Yemen is right now - a country that the EU recognizes.

So you're proposing control over the internet as a solution, here?