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by bdunbar 15y ago
they'd have a vested interest in being the first or best at creating interstellar space travel. I've privately thought the Church needs to only aim a little lower: develop cheap access to space, then terraform Mars. One billion and change
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by bdunbar 15y ago
This effort would need an analogous long term funding source. No need to re-invent the wheel: turn the problem over to the religious. The Roman Catholics has a long organizational history, millions of adherents, a large and functional bur
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by bdunbar 15y ago
Makes me think more of being on a boat. I haven't experienced the effect I've slept aboard LSTs, and on smaller boats. I don't think I've ever slept better, or longer.
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by bdunbar 15y ago
Most people are not hackers. If they've got evidence of wrong doing on their hard drive it's likely kept in Excel. Wipedisk - whazzat? I send my file to Recycle and it's gone, right? If you think your suspect is going to execute a 'wipe
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by bdunbar 15y ago
sent a SWAT-like team If by 'SWAT-like' you mean cops with guns, body armor, breaking down a door at first light, yes. to collect on a debt? Investigating fraud. This is not a new thing - the police have been doing things like this for
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by bdunbar 15y ago
Interesting from a DIY point of view. Also interesting that the battlespace is being prepared for boots on the ground intervention by - among other things - getting the home front in the mood for intervention by showing plucky rebels with h
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by bdunbar 15y ago
Not after the first time it was fired.
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by bdunbar 15y ago
Sounds like a sound and profitable business plan. I still am kind of surprised those things are not more common in the West were large sums of money are at stake... Anyone who watches the 'Law and Order' shows knows the police frown on ri
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by bdunbar 15y ago
What else would you have done? I'd do what actually happened: innovate with technology and tactics to break through the trench line.
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by bdunbar 15y ago
The New Orleans Chamber of Commerce would throw a snit fit if the government issued a travel warning for their fair city. The Chamber of Commerce in Cape Town is somewhat less influential in that regard. About your larger point, maybe. If
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by bdunbar 15y ago
Does anyone live in a place where crime is a problem as you describe it? I have. It seems that the Westerner attitude is that "somewhere else" things are really bad. If I lived in a place where crime was a problem, I'd say so. New Orle
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by bdunbar 15y ago
is it justified or is this just my lack of experience of living in the states running amok ? The latter. Most of us live in places where crime is not a problem. We're not all in mortal fear for our lives, having property stolen left and
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by bdunbar 15y ago
Most lots have either parking meters or gates and attendants. I don't know where you are from. In Dallas, the downtown lots closest to the center (expensive) had gates and attendants. Further out (cheaper) were lots where you slid cash i
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by bdunbar 15y ago
It's not mutual fear but recognition of a fact of life: citizens who might be armed should not be messed with. I've lived in places where anyone could be assumed to be armed, that all householders had firearms. I've lived in places whe
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by bdunbar 15y ago
A bureaucracy doesn't have to make a profit. There is no incentive to use technology to make anything redundant.
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by bdunbar 15y ago
Maybe? I can only speculate that the hack wasn't in the code at all, but something he installed on the individual ATM. "Oh, look: you can login to the ATM after installing the code. Hey what if I ..." If so he didn't bypass the code revie
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by bdunbar 15y ago
Any code that has monetary effects has to go through a series of code reviews The article reported that he installed malware on select ATMs. I acknowledge that this leaves a great deal to the imagination, but one suspects a code review wo
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by bdunbar 15y ago
It is very frustrating when a group gathers statistics and measures everything it can. And the others do not. I administer servers. Our group tires to measure what it can, keeps historical data. Then we get a call from the application ow
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by bdunbar 15y ago
It looks like you've re-invented Midnight Commander, which was a re-invention of Norton Commander, which was probably a re-invention of something else. Which is a good thing! I look forward to downloading and trying it out.
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by bdunbar 15y ago
Real engineers build things like bridges and websites. Bankers build dreams and leverage the shit out of it to put the whole country in debt. Without banking you can't have infrastructure: no financing, no cement, no salaries, one can't a
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by bdunbar 15y ago
I don't know about the majority of manufacturing in mainland China. I do know that the several thousand people my employer has in manufacturing there are not slave labor.
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by bdunbar 15y ago
I have not worked full-time from home, but have worked from home on occasion, with a home-schooled boy. He was between 8 - 10 years old. Sometimes his mother was present, occasionally I was teaching him school and working. I can't imagine
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by bdunbar 15y ago
Until we all stop living on a globe.
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by bdunbar 15y ago
places the internet above the sovereignty of any nation How would that work?
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by bdunbar 16y ago
Imagine that your data has to hop through dozens of cheap consumer routers with unreliable links to reach its destination. By golly - he's re-invented FidoNet. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FidoNet
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by bdunbar 16y ago
From 'Retrievability of high-level nuclear waste from geologic repositories - Regulatory and rock mechanics/design considerations' by Naiem S.Tanious, Mysore S.Nataraja, US Nuclear Regulatory Commission; Jaak J.K.Daemen, University of Arizo
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by bdunbar 16y ago
<I>Nobody on earth has a viable long-term strategy for managing waste products today,</i> IIRC this is not true. There are, however, a strategies that people don't like. Doesn't mean they're not viable.