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Would you feel more secure flying in a 747 that has more duct tape holding it together than nuts and bolts due to budget cuts and supervisors caring more about meeting time schedules than passenger safety, or a new 747. It's all fun and games to say "Old and Tried is better" but everytime that 747 lands it is "suppose to" be given a through field check and any problems are "suppose to" ground the flight until fully repaired. Airline regulations are "suppose to" treat every "Old and Tried" 747 exactly like a "New and Unpredictable" 747. It doesn't matter if we get re-usability or not, it astonishes me still that we knew that Apollo 13 had problems and we STILL launched it despite knowing those problems existed because we had to stick to time schedules and decided a little "duct tape" would suffice. Unless we get better work ethic, we'll always have failure; and as failure is calculated as such (1 - 0.99999^n) where n is the number of systems that can go wrong and weren't checked in triplicate, the greatest cause for failure is not having enough time/money/manpower to sufficiently lower n. Re-usability is akin to landing that 747 and saying "this hunk of metal is as sturdy as the titanic" then realizing a loose bolt, which should have been caught, is what caused the crash after it took off without being inspected. Even if reusable, the rocket will be stripped down to parts, fully tested (ideally, in practice probably not, have to keep that insurance premium up) then reassembled with worn parts replaced. The rocket is the same as a brand new rocket (which is good) instead of an old used rocket, protective layers failing, with a 90% failure rate.

I really don't get why it is so hard for people to grasp that the future is here and now. Programming a Neural Net (enough of that ANN politically incorrect nonsense) is like rearing a child, watching it take its first steps, getting it to learn how to walk, and soon you have it doing chores around the house like a little personal servant. You are dealing with a creature of limited intellect, but still a creature none-the-less. You don't open it up, change a few variables, and hope that fixes problems because you don't even know what any of those variables are doing, it'd be akin to sticking a searing hot rod up your nose to cure insanity. What I will say is that this is a publicity stunt. Remember, Neural Networks are trained to do a single task, in this case to "complete the image" based on knowledge of prior images. A neural network that is exposed only to buildings sees buildings when it looks a trees, a network that is exposed only to "You can be buff too if you buy my video of me lifting barbells" deduces that there must be an arm next to the barbell. See, the REAL interest isn't the nonsensical "dream" trash, but that our mind is doing this ALL OF THE TIME! In other words, what was created was PERCEPTION. The arm is there, but it is blocked by the optic nerve, so we draw it back in. We've never seen a fish before, but we have seen these other things, perhaps it is like one of those. The "dreams" are a side-effect of perception; but perception is what is more interesting to think about. *(If artificial is something that was created by humans, and two humans procreate, does that mean you're an artificial human?)

That's okay. I leave the universe and encapsulate the universe in a marble. MY Universe Containing Xannari Ferrows' hill.

-100 (-) We win!

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It's called an octothorpe! ~The Coalition Against the Numerous Corruptions of the English Language and Etiquette Due to Social Media (CANCELED-SM) Granted, you are given a Kerbal... then the NSA storms your house (in cooperation with the Brasilian Government) and kidnaps you and the Kerbal. You are subjected to enhanced interrogation techniques repeatedly while the Kerbal has a "live" autopsy performed on it, and I'm not talking about streaming. I wish that the person, whose post in this thread has the string "#10666" as the post identifier, where string is defined as the context between and excluding quotation marks, despite possibilities of there being multiple posts having said identifier, will be banned.

Or... the other side will just sit back and do nothing as we do nothing :'( -78 (-)

Quoted For Truth Turning a group of people you don't agree with, no matter how puerile their complains, into the "moaners" or "trolls" is also trolling. Of course you can think it, you can want to strangle their little necks and force them to join you and your ways... but you can't say it; social etiquette and all.

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What does this actually mean, I wonder. If things are as informal as you say, what does a rank change actually do?

It's a bloody forum. If someone wants to hack SSL, they can hack SSL, it just requires getting access to the private key on the server, and given the server is not a financial server hence paying thousands of dollars to protect investments and check in triplicate for potential exploits, if you're stupid enough to use the same password someone could just as easily gain access to the hash table and break out the old cracking tools. Or get a trusted man-in-the-middle to just spy on you cause security is all an illusion anyways. I'm who I says I am, sees the NSA swears it! (Just wanted to explain that I understand the theory in that making things appear more secure brings more security, but the fact is that if using https will make you feel more comfortable using anything aside from "Password" to protect a form account, that is enough reason NOT to use https. Injecting into the stream is something that remains a problem due to man-in-the-middle attacks which can only be solved with local copies of certificates. SSL is not magical, the handshake is a period of extreme vulnerability that leaves you defenseless against the owner of the network. (https://casecurity.org/2015/01/08/gogo-found-spoofing-google-ssl-certificates/) Other things to note is that if you use a "cheap" SSL key. I think SSL3 requires 2048bit keys and that is because it needs to be due to massively parallel processing allowing multiple attacks against a key and hence 512bit keys being less secure than initially thought; the problem is that to the user it still appears as HTTPS whether SSL1 or SSL2/3 thus bringing the idea of security. Security is what YOU do to protect yourself against the incompetence of others, not what you expect others to do for you.)

Granted. Gold becomes unstable and spontaneously undergoes nuclear fission, becoming 2 Krypton + 1 Nitrogen (because I said so) and floats away. Unfortunately this means most electrical devices no longer function and we hence lack the technology to repair them due to all electrical devices, including manufacturing plants, no longer functioning. Humanity destroys itself in a week. I wish that the person, whose post in this thread has the number "10663" denoting the post number, despite possibilities of there being multiple posts having said number, will be banned.

Why does every crackpot alien conspiracy theorist begin their paragraphs with "I am not a crackpot alien conspiracy theorist" ;p *Nevermind, it's just a joke and the way you write that follows their format precisely.

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Unfortunately I am a sore loser. I reveal that the mun is actually a death star. Byebye Kerbin. My hill.

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No, the fun is in making it yourself Press the button to know everything, but be unable to use that knowledge to bring a task to fruition

No, such a supply would violate the conservation of mass-energy and tear apart the fabric of the universe. Press the button to go back in time, but have no means of returning.

Enough with the many eyes fallacy, I talked of that already. What should be called "spyware" are often called "features," can be disabled yes, but on by default and transmitting usage data that can easily be put in a database; the time when we cared about our privacy is over. Even going so far as to say you can just recompile Firefox is part of the "Many Eyes" fallacy, there are alternatives that remove the "features", but they gain no popularity. Since Firefox is also trademarked (yep) they can't even brand it with the name nor the logo and and distros that use Firefox have to compile and distribute Firefox with the default settings (some leeway may be granted) or else they have to rebrand it as something else. Camacha's argument was that Microsoft should make a free product with no expectation of monetary gain because that is how the current economy is, but that is untrue; loads of money is made, whether you are aware of it or not. (To note, the "features" I mention are simple things like phishering (don't know if they're finally just downloading the database rather than sending urls to check), using internet-search in the addressbar, tags stating you're using the default search engine and to give mozilla money for that, sync or other cloud based 'improvements'. Basically, any communication that is not simply between the server you are connecting to and you.) - - - Updated - - - Microsoft isn't doing anything wrong here, the problem was that people started extending their offer past the initial group they wanted to reward... it's like a company saying "Thank you all for participating, join us tomorrow for free cake" and you invited the entire neighborhood. Actions have consequences.

Semantics. It's a joke, I'm shaming C# because it is a "modern language." People expect GC and self-managing memory, despite the problems that arise from the use of those. Even with C++ people are going to be passing more off to the GC than doing themselves, even if doing it themselves can create routes of optimization that leads to better performance. Basically, the only way to escape the problems of modern programming is to escape modern programming all together.