Making police look like stupid thugs... is there anything you can't do!

That is one thing the Cloud is very good at in modern times, offsite backup, which so many struggled with years ago.

I know I was looking at getting security cameras for my house, and the only ones I looked at were the ones with Cloud capability... A thief might steal your cameras, or computer, or recording device, or destroy them, however if it has already uploaded to the Cloud.... :)

It likely had more to do with MIT revoking his professor title, rather than the other way around. It makes more sense to say that MIT revoked his professor title, and then took down his lectures. You know, because he is no longer a professor at MIT anymore...

Another example are Land Mines, they are banned by much of the world, however the US never agreed to any ban/treaty.

While an interesting comment, it is sort of counter to your argument. A space program isn't something that normal enterprising people can do, it is something that only their governments can do. While you might argue that due to educational culture, the Chinese might be more inclined to produce more engineers than say financial advisers, however I don't think that there is a lack of those people in the other space fairing nations.

I would agree with this one, as I have seen it around on job competitions a lot. Many of the other ones like Oracle are specific to a particular job, just like some of the code heavy ones.

That said, I think this is more endemic of the whole issue of HR departments and Management that make the decisions not having a clue and need some sort of thing to base a decision on. I've seen many just list a great many certs and other qualifications, where if I had everything they were asking for, I certainly wouldn't be applying for their crappy job because I would be some sort of computer god. Not to mention silly things like years of experience that do not match up with the length of time a certain piece of technology has even existed for.

I find that so much crap is listed as qualifications that you don't really know what the actual job is because it is basically *everything*. I have done a number of interviews that were pretty much a waste of my time, because you try and guess from the Job title (which can be ambiguous) and the qualifications (which can be a bunch of BS and include everything including the kitchen sink), then when you actually get the interview and see what kinds of specific questions they are asking you see the actual focus of the job (which has little to do with 90% of the qualifications listed) and find you are either ill suited, or not interested, you just did a lot of work for nothing. It is frustrating to say the least.

Many people mention things like them being hardened and dependable, but another thing older technology has is that it can run on a lot less power. Which is pretty important when you are pretty much limited to solar power and whatever you have for batteries on hand which need to do a number of other things as well. Likely any savings on power conservation is more desirable than additional unneeded CPU cycles.

Not only that, but I think it is more relevant to developer lock in to a particular platform. Just like C# and Apple, and say porting video games from Xbox to Playstation. They want exclusivity on applications developed for their particular platform. This is nothing new. It is just a way to exclude competition to their particular market, and to prevent or at least make it more difficult to get the same functionality from a competing service.

As probably many people mentioned, any coder worth their salt can use or learn any new language without too much effort. Coders with multiple experience would of course have an edge.

Nope. I doubt this worries any power utility or industry.

The biggest obstacle to home rooftop solar power is the capitol costs VS electrical prices.

1) Capitol costs are high, and electrical prices are low, so to break even on a large investment is like 20 years, which is too long.
2) Capitol costs are in solar panels and installation, very few have battery systems, most either do nothing or sell back to grid (hence part of the issue with electrical prices)
3) Batteries would help in remote location installs, but in that case the effect on electrical providers would be nil as they won't be providing service anyway.

About the only situation where this might come into play would be if electrical prices go up, and consumers lack the ability (for whatever reason, hostile regulation for example) to sell back to the grid. In such a case then it might make battery storage feasible. However again it would depend on the cost of the batteries, how long they last, and a host of other factors.

Anyway in the near term, this has little significance on anything really.

#4: I have also been involved with the board game scene. I have a bunch, and have attended BGGCON in TX several years in the past (from Canada), and well as more local events.

While I have been introduced and own a bunch of games, I had a friend go full on. Over the years he has probably amassed 4-500 games. Some games depreciate, others keep their value, and some actually increase, where they have gone out of print, or what have you. In all, with a growing number of fans, he could sell his games for quite a LOT of money (if would probably take him a few years due to volume), as in many thousands of dollars...

How many of us can say that about our video games... they are worthless.

Never really thought about the effects of infant mortality, interesting if truly how they calculate that statistic.

As to your analogy and saying I am wrong, I am not sure how you have proved either. That is fine if you and your buddy have 100MB and 1GB connections, however if most of the connections in your country are SIGNIFICANTLY less that than by a very large margin, I am not sure what you are talking about. I understand that in many large metropolitan cities, a good connection can be found for many areas, however outside that it is not good.

If you are suggesting that MOST of the US has extremely good connections, and that there is a small but very poor portion (your dead baby analogy) bringing down the statistics, I think you are incorrect.

I created the Event Horizon to reach the stars, but she's gone much, much farther than that. She tore a hole in our universe, a gateway to another dimension. A dimension of pure chaos. Pure... evil. When she crossed over, she was just a telescope. But when she came back... she was alive! Look at her, Miller. Isn't she beautiful?

Well unless your Hacker is sitting in a trunk splicing wires, or splinter cell infiltration level expert of Sony HQ, your limitation is going to be last mile. Unless they are storing their ill gotten gains on some cloud that happens to be sitting on a fat pipe (even then you're sharing resources with other users).

I think the parent (likely in the US) was thinking about how long it takes them to DL Frozen to their home PC and thinking about how many hours that takes, then dividing 100TB by the Bluray version size, and going, wow that would take a long time. Though heck, just doing a transfer over a network of 100TB is going to eat time. I guess I am just saying that were the Hackers and Data both actually sitting in say urban Japan, rather than your Redneck Hackers of the US, their times are going to be significantly better by many levels of magnitude.

Then again, they were sketchy as to the details. It could be that Sony has had a leak for years, and hackers have just be trickle draining them without being detected, and Sony is reluctant to admit that they have had a breach for so long...

I suspect that because Sony is a Japanese company, and has their headquarters in Japan, likely has most of their important datacenters in Japan, which unlike the USA, has incredible internet speed, and because Sony is a tech monster, likely has some pretty serious connections to their stuff.

Now couple that with what we have already seen of general network incompetence with the last huge Sony breach to their Playstation network, due to them simply not updating their software to a version several years out of date, I don't think it is all that surprising.

However you are right, 100TB is nothing to sneeze at, and would take some time, and likely multiple connections to work. I suspect that Sony was clueless about what was going on, until someone complained about slow network connectivity, and eventually some sysadmin started looking at things, and started to see connections, and bandwidth saturation, and then trying to figure out who was doing it, and on finding it wasn't Sony, needed approval about severing the connections (if even technically that easy)... and once approvals and technical fix were done, well 100TB is gone.

I suspect with the amount of interconnectedness of distributed networks, it wasn't as simple as walking outside with an axe.

Space is not, by it's very nature and name. Couple that by being very big (vast understatement).

So yes, their very well might be life all over the place (relatively speaking), however baring some magic technology and revolutionary understanding of the basic principles of the universe, we'll never meet, see, or communicate with them in any way.

A space anchor. I have thought of it before.

The universe is expanding. Everything in it is moving around. Were one to somehow achieve stationary stature relative to the rest of the universe, presumably things would just fly by you and you would not need to exert effort at all.

How you might maneuver to someplace you want to go might be a bit of a problem. Possibly using space grapples or something like that to time points of stationary stature VS resuming spatial influences.

Specifically how one does that might be a bit troublesome, but an interesting thought problem. However without something analogous to wind, you would be forever just going with the tide, or in generally one direction as to where things are moving for you. How you get back might be a bit of an issue.