I met him briefly at one of the West Coast Computer Faires, in the early days of AutoDesk, or maybe pre-AutoDesk.
His name was familiar to me from the infamous "Pervading Animal Game" on the Univac mainframes. "Introducing a new way of distributing software, Pervasive Release. If someone asks you for your program, you can tell them that in all likelihood, they already have it." There were a number of other, more serious programs in the Univac 1108 ecosystem that had his name on them.
It would be unfair to call this a virus, as it went to great lengths to insure that it couldn't do any harm, other than the few kilobytes it took up in a "program file". (Think "directory" in modern terms.)
That's what I want -- I want all political anything, left right and center, expunged from my FaceBook.
There's a browser plugin "Social Fixer" that can do this really well by all accounts, but alas, almost all my facebooking is on my phone, which it doesn't support.
One analysis I read ages ago showed that an electric car (even of that time) was enough more efficient than a gasoline or Diesel car that even if the electricity to charge the batteries came entirely from coal, it was a net CO2 win.
"People need to place more effort on maintaining factual reputation. If someone spews bullshit once, they are on probation. If they do it twice, I don't listen to them anymore."
Bingo. Michael Moore has been on my personal _index expurgatorius_ for decades.
Much of what this film says is outdated enough to constitute deliberate mendacity, and deliberate mendacity is Moore's stock and trade.
Of course, Moore's latest documendacity doesn't mention nuclear as a carbon-free energy source.
I've long said that the moment an energy source -- ANY energy source -- threatens to be able to produce enough reliable 24x7 power to keep technological civilization from collapsing, All The Usual Suspects will find some reason to oppose it. The goal is the collapse of technological civilization and the depopulation of the planet. (These types assume that they will not be personally snapped because they are Oh So Special.)
I hadn't thought wind and solar were likely to meet the challenge of producing sufficient 24x7 energy to power our technological civilization, but Moore & co. seem to think there's a risk that it might.
Heh... Recalling a demonstration by an EE prof way back when. He had the bank of capacitors charging up on his desk, and was writing on the blackboard the equations of how much energy was stored. Hand raised in the back of the room. "Uh, Dr. Miagawa, I think you slipped a decimal point there." Prof looks over his work again, says "Oh, dear" unplugs the charger and backs away. He tapes two meter sticks together with a screwdriver on the end to discharge his little electrobomb. WHAMO, screwdriver vaporizes.
I'm pretty much convinced this was not a mistake, it was a "Be really CAREFUL with this stuff!" object lesson.
Agreed. Stories like this keep popping up, because this is something the whole world desperately needs. EEStor was one of the previous claimants to the title, but they flew by night.
After so many disappointments, I'm down to "Let me know when I can buy one at Fry's, until then, I am not holding my breath."
Talk about what if something magically dissolves the concrete casks betrays that the person bringing that up has no idea what they're talking about. The wastes are not in any liquid or soluble form inside the casks. They're solid chunks of glass, like tektites, meteoric glass that's known to have sat in sea water unchanged for over a billion years.
Those interested in what is already there at Yucca Mountain should go to Google Earth. Search for "Sedan Crater." Scan south.
But always keep in mind Gene Spafford's observation: Debugging is twice as hard as programming. So, if you write a program as cleverly as you can, you are by definition not smart enough to debug it.
Talking about reactor waste with an image of 55 gallon steel drums with the radiation trefoil on them... Sheer ignorant incompetence.
"Near-infinite" power source from decay of Carbon 14. In some low power applications this would be close enough to eternal as makes no difference, but calling it a "near-infinite" source of power in general is pretty wildly exaggerated.
The anti-nuclear self-proclaimed environmentalists simply do not seem to understand the concept of "Base Load." They believe, or pretend to believe, that industrial civilization can be powered by "sunny days when the wind is blowing" energy, and doesn't need 24x7 365 days a year energy.
I call this arithmetic denialism.
If you don't want to be an arithmetic denier, show me the energy source that can provide 24x7 energy all 356 days a year in sufficient quantity to power industrial/technological civilization. I see a startling lack of any energy source that passes muster with the anti-nuke sort of "environmentalist."
Adding backdoors would lead to the Huaweization of American tech companies -- Sales of US tech products outside of the US would drop drastically. And the non-stupid bad actors (however small that subset is) would use something open-source, or perhaps sourced from their non-US allies.
"Ross Ulbricht, convicted of various crimes associated with launching the dark web site Silk Road, was sent away in 2015 for life without chance of parole. In his case, the government purported to believe that websites that allow people to exchange bitcoin for illegal objects are so damaging, so heinous, that justice demanded nothing less."
Uh... I believe soliciting murder of rivals may have had something do to with it. Leaving out that little ... detail... kind of casts a shadow on how much actual reasoning there might be in this reason.com article. I quit reading at this point.
I was thinking about switching over to it since Roadtrippers keeps cranking down the number of legs you can have in a trip for the free version. I guess I won't, now.
Ten minutes? How long does it take to type a user agent string into the curl command line?
In my case, a user agent string pretending to be Firefox is already part of my .curlrc, so it's no time at all, just grab the PoC code and fire away. (I've got commented out user-agent lines for a bunch of other browsers that I can uncomment as the need or mood strikes me.)
I met him briefly at one of the West Coast Computer Faires, in the early days of AutoDesk, or maybe pre-AutoDesk.
His name was familiar to me from the infamous "Pervading Animal Game" on the Univac mainframes. "Introducing a new way of distributing software, Pervasive Release. If someone asks you for your program, you can tell them that in all likelihood, they already have it." There were a number of other, more serious programs in the Univac 1108 ecosystem that had his name on them.
It would be unfair to call this a virus, as it went to great lengths to insure that it couldn't do any harm, other than the few kilobytes it took up in a "program file". (Think "directory" in modern terms.)