Certain topics do not lend themselves very well to the scientific method.
It's kind of hard to set up 100 universes, say, and run them through a few billion years. You can't do the experiment part.
Sometimes a hypothesis has potentially observable implications, even if a mad scientist can't reproduce everything in their lab.
I think it has been decades since cosmologists believed the universe is expanding at a constant rate.
IANAPhysicist, but isn't a thrust of 1g specific to the mass you are accelerating? Same device pushing heavier mass gives less acceleration?
Is a claim that you can create a thrust of 1g even meaningful without additional details?
For color, the best critique of PHP is entitled, "PHP a fractal of bad design."
Eevee's article from April 2012 was about PHP 5.3, not PHP 8. PHP versions 5.4, 5.6, and 7 came out soon afterward, fixing a lot of the flaws she pointed out. A retrospective eight years later showed how much the language had progressed on the road to 8.
Otherwise you can be patient and wait a few months to be able see it at home where there are all the things you like.
"a few months"? I remember a decade ago when Hop took literally a year to go from theaters to DVD sell-through, and then another month after that to get to Redbox.
I've set Grammas and Grandpas on Linux after they became tired of Windows and it's not ready for primetime abilities.
Until the grandmother asks you "Now how do I put my CDs on my iPhone? Under Windows, I put the CD in the drive and started iTunes."
I don't know what specific software Quasar1999 was running. In my own case, the proprietary Windows-only program is iTunes for loading MP3s onto my roommate's iPhone SE 3. In the case of other people I regularly talk to online, the proprietary Windows-only program is VRChat.
If the average person who futzes around with Windows can't run Linux Mint, they're being deliberately obtuse. Or they're stupid.
Say my roommate wants me to load MP3s onto her iPhone. I haven't figured out how to do that other than through iTunes for Windows, which does not run in Wine, or Finder for macOS. Am I "deliberately obtuse" or "stupid"?
Even more regrettably, it seems almost all free-software advocates I have known are mindlessly following along instead of rejecting such absurdly invasive Big-Brother brain-damaged computers under the euphemisim of "smart something."
Which handheld computer with a cellular radio that respects users' freedom is compatible with U.S. mobile networks? Last I checked, things like the Fairphone were made for the European market, with no attempt to get onto Verizon's or AT&T's allowlist.
If you are a nation-state, it's prudent to assume any unfriendly nation-state is doing whatever it can to prepare for conflict, including laying the groundwork for a future attack that may or may not ever happen.
The outage of 911 systems in [Nevada, South Dakota, and Nebraska] Wednesday [April 18] evening was caused by the installation of a light pole, according to Lumen, a company that supports some of those systems.
The article goes on to say:
Molzen declined to elaborate on exactly how the light pole installation resulted in the 911 outage, or where the pole was located. The 911 director in Douglas County, Nebraska, which encompasses Omaha, said in a statement Lumen informed the county the outage was related to a “fiber cut.”
My questions is: If a city/locality contracts out its 911 system, shouldn't it have a reliable backup in place?
The outage in Del Rio, Texas at about the same time is not related.
Sensitive data should be hard to steal in bulk.*
Put the data warehouse behind a slow-speed link - one that's just fast enough for normal, expected traffic. "Slow speed link" may vary by time-of-day or other circumstances.
The goal is that if there's a big rush of traffic, requests will get queued or dropped and someone will notice and be able to hit the "emergency stop" button.
Sensitive data that will never be needed "in real time" should be stored in a system that can only be accessed by a few people (or robots serving the same purpose) who have the job of taking requests, copying the data to temporary storage, then moving the temporary storage to someplace where the person who needs it can get to it. Think of it as a cache with a 5-minute loading time.
If industry does this, some things will be less convenient and more expensive to run, but the risks of large-scale, hit-and-run data thefts will go way down. This won't fix small-scale thefts or slowly-drain-the-data-warehouse attacks, but it will help.
* Sensitive data should be hard to steal, period, but that may be too much to ask.
and people he's worried will exploit him.
I reckon one of his biggest worries right now is how to find a running mate that won't backstab him with the 25th Amendment at the first opportunity.
I won't return in coin by calling you an idiot, because I don't think you are one. What I think you are is too *ignorant* to realize you're talking about evolution. "Survival of the fittest" is a phrase coined by Herbert Spencer in 1864 to refer to natural selection, a concept that's in the actual *title* of Darwin's book.
These days I don't take anyone's claims without some kind of external verification, given the amount of partisan spin flooding every conversation. (BTW, not a big Disney fan, or a fan of any of the big media companies in general.)
"No matter where you go, there you are..." -- Buckaroo Banzai
