I got one word for you. Stuxnet.

The free market has shown time and time again that it is corrupt. When the only incentive is greed, no government will be allowed stand in the way of profits. The amazing things is that these companies manage to get politicians and voters to go against their own self interests by supporting such a destructive system. It's true that this is no more than a religion, where the worshipers keep sacrificing humans out of an irrational fear the socialism that lurks under the bed.

This could potentially approach the inner Van Allen belt. No thanks.

You might as well declare all standardization to be bad for security and that every financial site have it's own browser plugin.

If it's something as important as financial information, why not?

The UK has a limited list of medical treatments that are gov approved.
They dont add to that approved list much each year and over the decades.
Same care given in the 1950-1990 is kept going for decades more.
The USA moves on with new meds, care and supports its top experts. The freedom to innovate.
Next decade the UK approves a few more US imports as advanced new medical care in the UK.
A decade later a few more new products are approved for use in the UK.
Thats how the UK gov keep its cost per person of medical care down.
By only having very few approved the new products.

Your math must not have been strong in school. Here is the problem explained in graphical format so that you can understand. Troubador

This is after a company that, during interviews, will have each person you talk to typing *the entire time* noting everything you say or do.

On the subject of drug dealers, I believe they're the only company allowed to process cocaine. Incidentally, Coca Cola gets the cocaine-free remnants from their mutual supplier.

I wasn't talking about a revolt, or some organized movement. I was talking about a distraught parent snapping out. And I don't think it's impossible.

This. A million times this.

Markets don't fucking regulate themselves, not until enough people have died. In the meantime, they (and the imbecilic plebes) will pretend and claim that external government regulation hampers quality and shit. News at 11.

Perhaps more Southerners would consider voting for Democrats if liberals would learn to treat them with less disdain.

Let's just ignore the bogeyman of Democrats taking away people's guns, or how they'll raise the minimum wage which will kill businesses, or that they'll make sure corporations pay their fair share of taxes or, horror of horrors, will teach kids all about our nation's history, the good, the bad, and the ugly.

Instead, they'll concentrate on how giving corporations will magically give them a raise, how God and guns come first above all else, and, oh yeah, Democrats are socialist who want to thwart capitalism by making it so you don't have to pay exorbitant costs for your medications. And did we mention those heathens want to give our kids a well rounded education devoid of religious teachings?

Meanwhile, drug price rises $97,500%, minimum wage is still $7.50, no one received a raise from the tax cuts, and Southern states consistently rank near or at the bottom of both the education and poverty scale. So yes, disdain is completely warranted because these people, and many others, keep doing the same thing over and over even though they get the short end of the stick each time. Perhaps if they wouldn't be so stupid (can I use the word stupid or will that offend the Southerners?) and stop doing the same thing over and over, things might improve. But instead, they hunker down in their Confederate flag draped bomb shelters afraid they might be exposed to new thoughts and ideas which might possibly make their lives better.

People in the USA publishing their own ideas and thoughts is not a "Moscow" problem.
People all over the USA are publishing their own thoughts, ideas, words, comments.
In the USA people have that protected freedom. To publish on topics the mil, gov, ad brands, academics, staff, NGO, philanthropists have talked about..

In the USA people have freedom of speech and freedom after speech.
The ability to be the press and enjoy new methods and tools to publish.
People in the USA also have the freedom to find, link, share, comment on and enjoy content.
Their time after work, their content to link, share, comment, add to, print, save... freedom is great like that.

Re "clueless loudmouths"... people have a right and freedom to talk, publish, use the internet..
Their ISP costs, their time after work, their freedom to search for, find, share, enjoy.
As for "Moscow"? They are too busy designing jet transport, submarines, farming, reading books, ice skating, shopping, learning, enjoying the arts, doing work in space... Exporting energy, gems, wood, food... keeping their nation safe, working and happy.

Doing what normal people do in normal nations.
Just like what people in the USA are free to do.

The trick been people in the USA have the freedom from their own gov to publish, read, comment on climate science, a climate tax and climate spending.

Thinking that people should have to access their information through a proprietary site interface is stupid. You might as well declare all standardization to be bad for security and that every financial site have it's own browser plugin.

If your credentials have been compromised then doing anything besides changing them is just hand-waving.

The issue is that the floor is below the cost of living and the slope of increasing rewards is much steeper than the slope of increasing ability. Beyond that, certain types of ability are rewarded well beyond value.

I don't think any used car salesman has ever managed to increase the price of a car by 97,500% AND forced someone to buy it or go without a car at all.

Don't be quite so fast to think that. There's something (I believe it's the Orphan Drug Act) that allows the government to grant monopolies for generics, too. I believe this was how Shkreli managed to fuck over so many people with his price increases.

Has a great reputation. From 2006-1012 their subsidy SpecGx supplied 28.9 billion oxycodone pills to the market. Worst than any drug dealer. Not to mention their tax avoidance history.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

It is important to deter others

Mod parent up.

Permitting access without authentication, ACLs and long session persistence is clearly insane, but coders aren't responsible for the outcome in terms of actual liability. No one will pressure API guards because, also insanely, we limit the liability in breaches to a pittance of actual damages.

If liability could be bestowed on organizations (who was it this week, MGM, the USPOTUS, and others) that would ransack their assets and put them in jail, then people would respect protecting access to the APIs, via certs, multiple ACLs, etc etc.

Until then, read about the breaches and weep, because without uncertain liability, there is no motivation to comply. It's that simple.

No-one needs to refute those papers because those papers themselves don't refute man-made climate change, they gave been mis-represented by the site you linked.

From my experience in companies offering APIs for financial applications I can say that the most immediate and obvious risk is the irresponsible use of unverified code downloaded from arbitrary repositories on the Internet.

When I hinted my supervisors to the risk, pointing out actual cases that already happened where malware was injected into web services via public NPM repositories (with other repositories like PIP, Gems, CPAN being no less risky), I was just told that it is industry standard to use those repositories, and nobody bothered to set up any sort of code or signature verification. Some suggested to buy services which scan packets for known CVE vulnerabilities - but that would of course not prevent any non-previously identified malware from being submitted via a public repository.

I can only shrug and attest that IT security is fucked, royally, because nobody wants to be responsible for the software he runs anymore.

B11 becomes C12 which immediately (or close enough to it) decays into three alpha particles. (I think there might be an intermediary isotope, but it's one of those ephemeral ones.)

You can indeed capture raw ions and use them to directly generate electricity. This is because all ions have a charge to them. In fact, this is the way that batteries generate charge.

How many cells makes a child? No one has an abortion before they know they're pregnant, obviously, so we're always talking about more than a "few" cells, the way that English word is normally used. There's rather a lot of cells after 6 weeks, and only more as time goes by.

So, how many cells exactly? Give me a precise number. I mean, clearly you can, since you're the one with all the answers here. It's an easy question, right? You're not dodging or anything?

Or maybe we should stop trying to pretend difficult moral questions have easy answers?

I advocate it. Executives responsible for things like this should be dragged from their homes and offices and executed publicly.

The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.

At one point we had laws specifically prohibiting price gouging, and we required corporations to operate for the public benefit. Note that "for the public benefit" is not the same as "not-for-profit".

Found this:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

I remember Assault on Wall Street (2013), which describes, with additional bad life choices by the villain, your claim.

It's unlikely, because Americans 'need' their corporations and politicians work tirelessly to shift blame away from CEOs and directors. (The members of a de facto oligarchy.) While it is correct to claim 'evil government' in this case, that's far too many bullets for one person to dispense. This is why so many middle-class 'prophets' claim the poor will turn against an evil government to save the rich corporations.

That self-absorbed prediction is wrong for 2 reasons: Revolts are started by the middle-class but as long as they drop their protest placards and return to work at Monday morning, the 'new age' will never arrive. Plus, corporations own the US government, or enough of it, and don't want a revolt undoing that.

Like a book that is published and printed many times over?
A magazine or newspaper.
A small booklet or leaflet.

People are using tech to give many people access to ideas, science, thoughts, views, history, art, politics...cartoons...
Is a printing press not doing that "automatize" in same way given then amount of productive work a few people can do and the amount of pages they can "copy".
An author can "automatize" a book many times over... as an ebook, printed book... a link for free...their content, their ability to sell, link..give away.

The problem is not the "automatize"... its the content some NGO, think tank, brand, ad company, staff, mil, experts dont like..
Thats why the USA has protected press freedoms, freedom of speech and freedom after speech.
The freedom to use tools to print, publish.
Should that "automatize" freedom stop with some topics? With digital methods?
Let people read, publish and communicate. Its their time after work to read, enjoy, link, comment on.

Just like they did with books, a newspaper, a leaflet.
That printing press is now digital and people have the ability to find what they want to read, link, comment on.

But is it morally different? Do you believe that babies are supernaturally endowed with humanness in the passage through the birth canal (and C-sections produce, what, soulless homuncli)? Sounds like an odd religion.

Just when, in your religious beliefs, is a soul or humanness or whatever you call it imbued in a human? What ritual or event produces it? You seem very sure you have the answer, so please explain clearly.

FWIW, this fusion path is well-known and has been considered since someone first did the math decades ago and figured out that it would be possible. We just haven't had the right equipment to make it possible, though we may now. So this isn't quite cold fusion, though it is a serious engineering challenge.

ROFL - lameness filter

It would be more accurate to say that a sustained high temp isn't required. The kinetic energy of the incoming proton plasma will be stupid-high, thus so will the temperature. But this doesn't require sustaining that temperature, like a tokomak fusion reactor would.

Damn not being able to edit after posting. PB, not PBe.