Comment Re:Robustness, too! (Score 2, Funny) 274
Killing people is going to be a regrettable necessity for some centuries to come.
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Killing people is going to be a regrettable necessity for some centuries to come.
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What's the ultimate UI goal? Terminator vision.
Which was pretty inexplicable in the context of the Terminator. The visual processing system derived information about the environment, then integrated it as text into the signal from which it was derived such that it had to be processed a second time to be acted upon?
There only needs to be distance because your eye's lens has a minimum focal length. As long as you can arrange for the light to enter the lens *as if* it comes from some distance away, it doesn't actually need to do so. That's easier said than done, mind you.
Indeed, the free market will sort it out. Like for instance, dodo eggs got really expensive, so the price went up, fewer people bought dodo eggs, so the price went down... um... hang on.
If you think the new VW 2-seater has an efficient combustion engine... man, wait till you see what a great conversion rate modern power stations get!
Perhaps you haven't noticed that resources aren't exactly evenly distributed the world over? Good luck keeping your military-industrial complex ticking over without oil.
Rumors of my death have been greatly exaggerated.
But would user analysts spend their spare time analysing users like hackers spend their spare time hacking?
Like for instance being alert and open to the fact that there's a lottery each week, having the courage to buy a ticket, and having the intelligence to have previously time-travelled into the future to determine which numbers are going to come up. Who needs luck?
Google doesn't live by free. It lives by selling advertising.
Being 0wn3d has nothing to do with the platform
Two decades in the field has left you with the impression that all platforms are equally secure? You must not have been paying much attention.
Unless you happen to blaspheme against the Holy Spirit. Then no amount of accepting Jesus into your life can save you. Thanks be to God!
Field of windmills stretching along 100 miles of coastline
That's great and everything, but have you ever done the maths for the yield of such windmills?
This guy has. He leaves you to draw your own conclusions.
You could have just as easily mentioned that the sun is eventually going to kill off all life on the planet. Neither fact is relevant.
The timescales most certainly are relevant. We're currently in a pretty serious situation with respect to global carbon emissions. Given that we selfish humans won't sacrifice our power requirements, fission almost certainly needs to provide some of our power in the short to medium term future. I don't know of any "renewable" resource that fits with your "inexhaustible over a timescale of centuries" requirement -- land is required to capture wind, coast to capture tide, etc. and the numbers don't add up (see e.g. http://www.withouthotair.com/).
Not having air condtitioning working is a MAJOR emergency here come august, a house with closed windows and no ac can easily reach 95 degrees in August.
The emergency services in DFW must be sick and tired of having to go to people's houses simply to open their windows for them.
Always draw your curves, then plot your reading.
