Comment Re:That clinches it. (Score 1) 393
In that sense, every year is the year of the DOS command line desktop.
In that sense, every year is the year of the DOS command line desktop.
Duh. Where there is human, there is light, noise and I dare say a pollution map wouldn't be that much different.
Wilderness is of course quiet. If you're prey, you're quiet 'cause if you're noisy you get eaten. If you're predator, you're quiet because if your prey hears you you won't eat.
The whole thing is just hype. Enormous time and money? Deployment aside, I could DEVELOP something like this BY MYSELF. Virtual file systems? I wrote one on Fuse on a whim, to intercept disk access calls and check against policy. Exploiting a kernel driver? Same as exploiting anything else; it's a zero-day malware. Hundreds of CNC servers? Vanilla botnet--a deployment issue. Detecting iPhones and doing weird shit? Yeah, I work in DevOps; I have a server that detects mobile phones and redirects them to a mobile site.
Software of a given size doesn't require special time or money; it requires skill. Creating a full MacOSX clone with a BSD-like kernel and DPDF windowing system? That requires a ton of time and expert skill effort, because it's millions of lines of complex code. Creating a Windows 7 clone? Same. Creating a Linux clone from scratch? Same. Creating a WinAMP clone? Much less time and effort. Creating a FileZilla clone? Similar to a WinAMP clone. Creating a computer worm? It's a few thousand lines of code; it's single-person basement work for anyone familiar with the various techniques involved.
All of these technological breakthroughs were old in 1999.
T-Mobile offers Wi-Fi calling, but it sucks.
Let's say that I want to download something for a few minutes. My call turns to garbage.
I could theoretically configure my AT&T hardware to prioritize Wi-Fi calling traffic, but there is no insight given by T-Mobile or AT&T into doing that. I'm not wasting my time to save gigantic multinational corporations a few pennies.
Wait, really? Hooooo boy, I think all those Chinese martial arts movies that US pirates copy mean that they can prep for some quality time in a Chinese prison?
He didn't get across the border. That's exactly the point. I hate Kimmie from way back, but this still doesn't mean that he should be subject to the whims of a douchebag DOJ who thinks his precious laws mean shit anything outside its jurisdiction.
Kimmie isn't a US citizen. He operates no business in the US. So how the fuck does the US DOJ want to justify an extradition?
You're right. The legal web is way more complex. Way more complex than the US DOJ wants to admit because "Duh, but we wanna!" is not going to work out for them.
Are you seriously that clueless? This is either a scam or some profoundly wishful thinking.
The sky is blue, the president is black, and Russia is bombing Ukraine. None of that is relevant, either.
You cannot demonstrate that no new technology is required to create a colony on Mars. Economic viability, perhaps. Technology? The primary concern is energy; anything from a nuclear power plant to space lasers can handle that. In 1964, we demonstrated an electric helicopter powered by pointing a big microwave dish at and using a rectifier and antenna to convert the microwave beam into an electrical potential; microwave beam power transmission is well-established and proven, but prohibitively expensive.
We have a sealed habitat up in orbit around the Earth. We can readily build a giant sealed habitation dome on Mars. We use LED lights for high-efficiency electricity-to-plant-mass conversion here at home; orbital solar with microwave beam transmission would power an artificial sun readily. New Zealand is growing chickens at a rate of 1.3fcr, producing 1 pound of chicken meat per 1.3 pounds of chicken feed: you can have meat and grain. Air and water purification technology exist already. Again, it's prohibitively expensive, but technologically reachable.
You can theorize that the martian atmosphere may provide technological challenges that exceed these things; but the only way to demonstrably prove that we can't do it with current technology is to build a model in a Martian environment. If we have the technology to maintain a terrestrial simulated Martian environment, then we also have the technology to maintain a Martian simulated terrestrial environment; this won't help us to simulate things like solar-orbital power, however, due to atmospheric scattering not present on Mars, and long distances present in the Mars orbit-to-surface path.
You cannot demonstrably prove that we don't have the technology to maintain an independent Mars colony; you can only theorize.
Are you a Chinese Engineer? Like in the tale of them being tasked with adding a button to a user interface and they put the button on the inside of the non-consumer serviceable device. Asked why, the reply was that it's cheaper to put it there and it was nowhere in the spec that it must be possible to actually press the button.
The stupid and the tattooed?
I think we're onto something here. Can anyone name a few CEOs with tats?
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