Comment Re:Good for NSA (Score 1) 287
It's pretty much open season on the US now, and you can expect to see virus attacks on US infrastructure in the future. All thanks to the NSA.
I wouldn't mind getting some new infrastructure. Burn it all down.
It's pretty much open season on the US now, and you can expect to see virus attacks on US infrastructure in the future. All thanks to the NSA.
I wouldn't mind getting some new infrastructure. Burn it all down.
He has a problem with not enough black people being hired? Well he's black. Lock him in a room with a semiconductor design textbook, and don't let him out until he is qualified to be hired. Let's see how much he cares then.
I'll jump into the middle of this AC argument!
Godel's incompleteness theorems don't mean that you can't make fully verified software. It means that you can make software which can't be verified. Big deal. Verification is coming; in some areas, like medical/aero software and processor design it's already here.
Entire processors have been verified mathematically to perform as designed. That's some serious complexity right there. Much medical and aeronautical software is verified.
...Apple, Microsoft, Google, Mozilla, and Red Hat...
... all create consumer products for casual users. Casual users don't demand perfect software, so of course they don't get it. Some companies do have that expertise though, and it isn't cheap.
Having money isn't corrupt. It is the means by which the money is acquired that may be corrupt.
Granted, as US law is setup now, it's nearly impossible to become rich without your hands in the US treasury, or special legal status not afforded to the general public. But it's not the "being rich" itself that is the problem.
The Suni / Shiite fighting are constantly fighting each other in Iraq, even leading to a named Iraq civil war...as I said. The US has completely avoided going to war with any country that is actually willing to fighting back. The question isn't whether the US would win in Panama, it's whether or not Panama would be willing to fight back. The only thing a country really has to be able to do to defend itself against the US is to make it known that they will attack the mainland US in retaliation.
Yeah, the US would kick their ass faster than we won in Vietnam. I mean against North Korea. I mean the last country we fought that wasn't dragging it's bleeding body out of a civil war. When was that, 1940?
If there be any among us who would wish to dissolve this Union or to change its republican form, let them stand undisturbed as monuments of the safety with which error of opinion may be tolerated where reason is left free to combat it.
--Thomas Jefferson
A single point is certainly a triangle, all side lengths are zero. It would be very irregular not to include a single point in the definition of triangles.
To be fair, a digitally-switching transistor is almost infinitely simpler than a neuron, but you could make the argument that a transistor configured in analog mode that summed several inputs and acted as a decision maker is much closer to a neuron. The trick is getting all of those transistors working together in some sort of "analog computer" fashion, as the brain's network reconfigures itself quite a bit, which is a lot harder to achieve at billion-scale on a die.
Using human neurons as a model for the future of computing might not be the utopia that we are all dreaming of....
because after 40 years in the military, getting a pension check means you're a "Taker".
There hasn't been any power in 70 years that has attempted or been remotely capable of overthrowing the sovereignty of US citizens over their own government.
So yes, your assumption is a safe one, the military the largest welfare organization in the US, and everyone knows it.
Yes, little more than freeloading scum. As opposed to all the government employed military welfare, government paid teaching unions, government quota taxi drivers, government guaranteed student loan payed university staff, government paid arrest-you-for-smoking-marijuana workers... Instead paying attention to the mooching class actually spending this tax money, and call the ones who work to earn it "freeloading scum".
I've heard of this happening as well. It's why I believe that the most important election anyone can vote in is for Judges. Judges decide what police are allowed to do and that will affect your life more than any Federal and even most State policies.
They tried this in Florida for DUI checkpoints. Refusing a search was sufficient to make you "suspicious". They have a judge on site and everything.
Depends on how silly the charge is. In the case in the article, it wasn't silly. Even if they threaten to arrest you, then you should still deny permission because a search can only hurt you.
The only real question remaining is whether to rely on the courts or vigilante justice to correct the police.
Scientists will study your brain to learn more about your distant cousin, Man.
