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His first fatality was a computer store owner. He wounded a police officer, a secretary, two graduate students, a research assistant, professors in engineering, psychology, and computer science, a geneticist, twelve airline passengers, and the president of United Airlines. He also murdered an advertising executive and a timber industry lobbyist. Sort of random, wouldn't you say?

  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ted_Kaczynski

This will never happen as India loves Pepsi because their CEO is from India. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

They are "partnering" with people the same way MS did:
Embrace, Extend, Extinguish

Pepsi hasn't owned KFC, Taco Bell or Pizza Hut (you forgot them) since 1997.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

He is alleged to have possessed classified material, but that's not the same as being charged with the mishandling or publishing of that material.

The indictment consists of a list of alleged circumstances around the violation, then the charged violation itself. In this case, the allegations cover precisely what material Assange (allegedly) had, and what he was (allegedly) trying to obtain by committing his (alleged) crime of conspiring to crack a password without authorization. The charges themselves do not rely on the information being classified, though that is material information that might ultimately be useful in any sentencing.

Assange is still not being added as "a party to Manning's crimes", though from reading that list, I'm not sure if Assange's indictment would be in reference to a particular one of Manning's crimes.

Haven't I heard this one before?

Pretty sure, due to international treaties, there is no such thing as a surplus, de-militarized B-52. No matter how deep your pockets.

I remember reading, some years ago, about how some Russian company was going to buy up surplus Backfire bombers and convert an air-launched cruise missile into something which could take small payloads to orbit. The idea was to use the old, supersonic bomber as a reusable first stage and the cruise missile (rocket-powered, not jet-powered) as a second stage, with a supersonic launch speed reducing the need for a third stage. With the former Soviet Union selling off all kinds of military hardware, it would be cheaper to re-use existing aircraft / tech than developing something new.

Nothing appears to have come of the idea. I suspect that, even with the possibilities of acquiring such aircraft, the economics didn't work out. It will be interesting to see if this aircraft can manage to overcome the economic hurdles and actually launch stuff.

X-15s were launched from B-52s, that is true. But that was under the auspices of the USAF / NASA. And it wasn't just their relatively deep pockets which made that possible.

I suspect this announcement to be some kind of joke or publicity stunt. I would think orbital advertising would piss off too many people to be advantageous. But I could be wrong.

It's basically impossible to live an ethical life these days because the world is too integrated and interconnected. Every action can be eventually traced back to some badness of some kind.

That's exaggerated nonsense.
Even in Scotland, let alone outside of it where true Scotsmen are REALLY difficult to ferret out.

You just have to get used to the fact that you can't make sweeping feel-good generalizations and that you need to evaluate each moral or ethical choice on case by case basis, following the best information you got at hand at the moment.
That's all there is to it.
That way you can still have a family containing members who happen to not give too much of a fuck about your particular economic boycotting preferences.
Particularly those of the underage kind who can be really difficult sometimes and who stubbornly refuse to accept that they are at fault for ruining everything for everyone by eating that particular brand of sugary... stuff.

Downside is that, besides spending time and calories on each choice, you must actually have morals and ethics - you can't rely on those borrowed from other people.
But it's OK, most of those are sweeping generalizations and cherry-picked nonsense anyway.
That is when they are not neolithic nonsense masquerading as moral high ground while giving you a carte blanche to stone to death or otherwise murder people you don't like or who happen to have the stuff you'd like for yourself.

Also, if the ethical and moral responsibility is shareable and transferable, that would mean that it is also dilutable.
After all, we can't be blamed today for all the shit the first primates did no more than can you personally be blamed for every shady action that someone in your extended human-to-human network did.
Clearly, individual guilt lessens as one moves away from the source, regardless of the increase in "interconnections and integration".

Just eat your strawberries, don't actively try to shit all over the place, clean up after yourself a bit and try not to think of the tigers too much.

First, the Internet doesn't owe anyone a living. If you can't make money on the Internet, then don't be on the Internet.
Second, there's the example of Randall Munroe and his xkcd comic. He allows free use of all his webcomic, and the quality of his content has allowed his survival by other means.

There is no potential for collusion if people actively want to hire you.

There's this thing called history. You might want to spend a little time learning it. Because what you claim is impossible actually happened.

The new slashdot handlers need to come up with better headlines.

The answer is No.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

No.

"in the vast majority of cases, that the story is tendentious or over-sold. It is often a scare story, or an attempt to elevate some run-of-the-mill piece of reporting into a national controversy and, preferably, a national panic. To a busy journalist hunting for real information a question mark means 'don't bother reading this bit'"

** Marr, Andrew (2004). My Trade: a short history of British journalism. London: Macmillan. p. 253. ISBN 978-1-4050-0536-4.

Of course they know, are you really that arrogant?!? No probably just spreading misinformation for whatever reason.
Read https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/..., continents have moved between 250km and 70km from todays position.

You're an evil person.

Who knew that being Ethical was sooo difficult?

Do what American business did and change the definition of Ethics!

Does Ethical behavior make it more difficult to make money, then simply change your Ethics to being all about making money (i.e. Enhancing Shareholder Value)

Just make sure that you also own the media so that they can brainwash large segments of your population into believing that scraping by while the plutocrats dine on endangered species and leave the scraps for you to fight over is a _good_ thing.

A rating system is not going to help when abundance of similar commodities flooding the market. Everybody will start rigging as describe by Campbell's law .

It is obvious Amazon has no incentive to "fix" it ,as confusion simply push customer towards Amazon prime selected product.

SUVs are an American niche market for the most part and as such they are uninteresting for the future of the EV.

I think Ford and GM will be VERY surprised to hear that. In 2015 worldwide SUV sales were approximately 20 million units. If you think that is a niche market, you have a very curious definition of the term niche.

Also, I don't think consumers are going to care much about self driving in the near term at least it's an option most of them will be willing to dispense with.

It's a moot discussion because any reasonable semblance of a fully autonomous self driving car that could be sold to the public in volume is still quite a few years off. (meaning a car that technically doesn't need a steering wheel or a human to touch any controls ever) At least 10-15 in my opinion and probably more in reality. That said, self driving tech is going to work its way piecemeal into regular cars driven by humans. This has already happened. Lane keeping, adaptive cruise control, emergency braking, self parking, and lots more are already technologies in day to day use today. More are coming and eventually they will push humans out of the drivers seat or at least mitigate some of the worst failures of human drivers.

You probably buy a lot more stuff from PepsiCo then you realize.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

I'm in complete agreement with you. Luckily we have a handy list of products to avoid. wiki list of assets

Sure China has their own "Negroes and Mexicans".

One quick look at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethnic_minorities_in_China should clear that up. Lots of ethnic minorities that are persecuted, enslaved and belittled to the benefit of the TRUE Han Chinese (/s you racist bastard).

That's of course leaving aside the Asian cultural mindset where all the different Asian cultures are "inferior" to each other. The Chinese and Japanese have been especially guilty of this over the centuries. Go ask the Koreans, Thai or Philippine people about it.

A bit larger scale though... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spacecraft_in_Red_Dwarf#Nova_5

Yup: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

Fuck that; their target needs to be a certain office building or these "brilliant ideas" are ar risk of continuing.

And on a personal note, if I ever needed a reason to boycott PepsiCo products, there it is.

Boycott every fucking thing they make just for thinking that this might be a good idea.

Nobody is forcing anyone in Eastern Europe to be criminal, that's a ridiculous claim. So many Gypsies in Eastern Europe live in poverty because those countries are, by European Union standards, quite poor themselves. A lot of people there live in poverty - some of them are Gypsies.

Poverty IS the major cause of crime.
There's no better proof of that than observing exact same practices as done by the poor and by the rich.
In the case of the poor it's a crime.
In the case of the rich, at worst it's a "legal issue". At best it's "aggressive and shrewd business practice".

And that's disregarding the epigenetic burden of generations of poverty (all them fun diseases that weren't really a burden on poor people before all food became cheap processed carbs and fats), inherited psychological trauma and downright segregational injury one might "luck into" by choosing to be born poor.
Particularly when choosing to be born into a poor country where such health issues will tend to be ignored, untreated or too expensive to treat - for much longer than in the rich countries.

Which is where you should look for that "forcing".
Much like with those stereotypes of belligerent Irish drunkards and criminals - the real cause for prejudice may actually be older prejudice from centuries ago.

Ah yes. Nice of you to leave out her name. But here is the more detailed information: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Readers here can now verify your claims.

Let's just say they were a mixed blessing: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

The fact there is a whole folklore surrounding them, complete with protest songs, does indicate a few issues at the very least.

Nice post. You couldn't have outed your ignorance much more effectively, even if you'd tried. All the "alternative facts" one could wish for.

So, you adopt a few "socialist" policies, most of which fall more into the populist category than any thing else, but I'll humor you. Suddenly you're a socialist. That's like saying that anyone who for any reason makes the nazi-salute is a Nazi. Non-sequitur.

Totalitarianism and authoritarianism are explicit traits of nominally communist dictatorships, so therefore the nazi regime couldn't be totalitarian and authoritarian? WTF? Non-sequitur again. Those traits, btw, have nothing to do with left or right, it comes with the "dictatorship" thingy.

Socialists are indeed not communists and nobody claimed anything else. However, you're still making the gigantic "mistake" to think that the party initially has anything to do with what it eventually became. In the nazi-mind everyone who was considered a threat to the state was to be eliminated. And by "the state", they meant the people, which btw meant the party, which ultimately meant Hitler.

I would think that my post so far would indicate pretty clearly to anyone of at least average intelligence that I'm pretty clear about what happened in the Nazi-reich. You on the other hand, are making a really solid effort to ignore all kinds of inconvenient facts.

Facts like the extremely unlikely socialists Alfried Krupp and Alfred Hugenberg, who apparently do not exist in your universe, or pretending that the Nazis killed other Nazis during the Night of the Long knives for apparently because they were.. nazis and conservatives, the true victims of history. Haugenberg's case is particularly interesting. A true conservative, a monarchist who were never a member of the Nazi-party, but who never the less not only was instrumental in getting the Nazis into power, but actually got keep his seat in the Reichstag until 1945, despite all other parties than the Nazi-party being banned. You can simply not be so stupid or illiterate that you couldn't find on the page I linked that it was the socialists within the the Nazi-party which were the main target of the operation. Which didn't preclude a whole bunch of unrelated scores to be settled in the process, including mistaken identities etc. The real target was people like e.g the Strassers, their sympathizers and other left leaning elements. Hitler needed to get rid of them, and Röhm in particular, or he was not going to get the support he needed from the patrons like he needed and the army.

Here's another inconvenient fact for you to chew on btw. If the Nazis were socialists, why was the largest company in Germany 1945 a building company owned by the SS, not the state, which rented out slave workers much like the blights of society does today? That's fascism and extreme capitalism at work for you.

For a smaller manufacturer focusing mainly on the cheaper half of the market, like Ford, it is hard to justify large investments in EVs not (yet) bought by their typical customer that won't be profitable for some years.

Are you seriously describing Ford as a small manufacturer? Ford is one of the 5 biggest automakers on the planet. They are huge by any reasonable description.

Ford make their money selling affordable B and C segment cars and margins are razor thin.

What are you talking about? Ford makes their money selling large pickups and SUVs. You clearly haven't looked at their financials statements. They lose money (and lots of it) on smaller passenger cars which is why they recently announced they were getting out of that market segment.

They have also lost a lot of market share because of uncompetitive products and questionable reliability and now Brexit is threatening the one market where they are reasonably successful, so I can imagine large investments in EVs are not the top priority at Ford.

The UK market is NOT a big market for Ford and Brexit only really matters to them insofar as it affects the global economy. Ford only sold about 375K vehicles in Britain in 2018 versus about 6 million vehicles sold worldwide. Any company that is not investing heavily in EVs already is playing a very dangerous game where they are basically hoping the technology will fail.

They will get to it when the EV market is more mature.

Any company that waits that long will almost certainly lose massive market share. They won't be able to get batteries at a competitive price and their technology will be one or more generations behind the curve. Playing wait and see is a huge risk when it comes to a technology shift like we are seeing with EVs.

Which is more likely?

- That Google engineers are laughing maniacally in the style of a movie's evil character, while thinking at the best strategy to kill their competition in a horrible death?
For no reason except for the evulz, because they aren't making their money by *selling* software, they make money by marketing the shit out of people online, no matter what browser they used, as long as these people online to be marked?

- Or that they're just horribly lazy, because they test of their product on their own web engine, because that's what they use themselves while developing? And it happens to work anyway, because once you factor in Google Chrome and all the other browser running on a Blink/WebKit/KHTML core, you happen to cover close to 90% of all only browser, so often errors go unnoticed and later aren't put on top of the priority list due to low exposure?

In the absence of equivalent to the Halloween documents leak, I would more likely presume the second options.

I'm not saying that it's not bad. It *is*. Their careless-ness could very easily lead to a new era of microsoft-levels of monopolies and smothering of alternatives. They are seriously at risk to fuck up the computing ecosystem, and instance taking care about competitive behaviour (like the EU) should monitor them closely and force them out of such destructive behaviours.

It's only that the phenomenon probably isn't conscious and planned, it very likely due to very massive levels of carelessness, simply because they can get away with it. Somebody (like e.g.: the EU) should come and slap them on the hands, and theach them not to try to get away with carelessness but pay attention.

Do you know what happened to the Socialists in the Nazi party? Let me educate you.

There was nothing "socialist" about the NSDAP in the end, it was a criminal gang, a conservative think tank, a personal cult and an instrument for social control, all rolled into one. Don't be fooled by the nominally socialist remains in the German state after the Nazis came into power; they were all ruses, smoke and mirrors to keep the masses calm in the totalitarian, authoritarian and very much right wing dystopia.

And before you start arguing about the conservatism, read up on Alfried Krupp von Bohlen und Halbach and Alfred Hugenberg. You could call them many things, like capitalists, monarchists, instrumental in the Nazi takeover, arseholes. But not "socialists".

Your attempts to link the left to Nazism is laughably pathetic, particularly when you take into account how many socialists and communists put into the concentration camps or outright just killed. And that's without even looking at the little kerfuffle with Stalin.

Do you know what happened to the Socialists in the Nazi party? Let me educate you.

There was nothing "socialist" about the NSDAP in the end, it was a criminal gang, a conservative think tank, a personal cult and an instrument for social control, all rolled into one. Don't be fooled by the nominally socialist remains in the German state after the Nazis came into power; they were all ruses, smoke and mirrors to keep the masses calm in the totalitarian, authoritarian and very much right wing dystopia.

And before you start arguing about the conservatism, read up on Alfried Krupp von Bohlen und Halbach and Alfred Hugenberg. You could call them many things, like capitalists, monarchists, instrumental in the Nazi takeover, arseholes. But not "socialists".

Your attempts to link the left to Nazism is laughably pathetic, particularly when you take into account how many socialists and communists put into the concentration camps or outright just killed. And that's without even looking at the little kerfuffle with Stalin.

Do you know what happened to the Socialists in the Nazi party? Let me educate you.

There was nothing "socialist" about the NSDAP in the end, it was a criminal gang, a conservative think tank, a personal cult and an instrument for social control, all rolled into one. Don't be fooled by the nominally socialist remains in the German state after the Nazis came into power; they were all ruses, smoke and mirrors to keep the masses calm in the totalitarian, authoritarian and very much right wing dystopia.

And before you start arguing about the conservatism, read up on Alfried Krupp von Bohlen und Halbach and Alfred Hugenberg. You could call them many things, like capitalists, monarchists, instrumental in the Nazi takeover, arseholes. But not "socialists".

Your attempts to link the left to Nazism is laughably pathetic, particularly when you take into account how many socialists and communists put into the concentration camps or outright just killed. And that's without even looking at the little kerfuffle with Stalin.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

Lots of nations had plans for nuclear weapons.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Some got very near to testing.

My rule of thumb for reading reviews for electronics:

Start with the 1-star reviews. Read them carefully. Every complaint they list will be an actual problem with the device. Only ignore the complaints if you think you know the solution, or if you think it's obvious the reviewer is a moron.
Ignore any review that contains blatantly incorrect spelling or grammar(*).
Finally, ignore all of the 5-star reviews, unless they're ALL 5-star reviews. In that case, ignore any review that only says positive things.

* Yes, I realize I'm probably invoking Muphry's law in this post.

Chrome can open MHTML files, Firefox used to (with an add-on) but not anymore, and there are free viewers available. All one has to do is to set the association of .MHT files to another program.

You could also try associating .mht files with say, an antivirus program instead of a defunct browser. Seems like a difficult fix...

Chrome can open MHTML files, Firefox used to (with an add-on) but not anymore, and there are free viewers available. All one has to do is to set the association of .MHT files to another program.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wik...

When the telecoms rolled out stuff like GPRS to support simple packet data applications. And lots of manufacturers embedded 2G GPRS modems in their products? Ant then the telecoms pulled the rug out from under 2G, rendering a lot of expensive equipment useless. Never again. Fooled me one, shame on you. Fool me again, shame on me.

Cows might not be a great example of this problem, as they are inevitably going to be rotated through a production line. Where new hardware can be fitted and the old stuff retired. Maybe the cellular companies can trade sheep (humans with fondleslabs) up to the latest shiny tech. But businesses have a much longer investment horizon for embedded hardware.

In his work on static electricity, Faraday's ice pail experiment demonstrated that the charge resided only on the exterior of a charged conductor, and exterior charge had no influence on anything enclosed within a conductor. This is because the exterior charges redistribute such that the interior fields emanating from them cancel one another. This shielding effect is used in what is now known as a Faraday cage.

Would become? It either became, or it didn't. Was the company started in 1998, or did it become JD.com in 1998?

In 1998 it had not become the company it is now, so the construction is absolutely correct. If you think it is wrong then obtain copy of Fowler. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

Why not all countries start using a unified social credit score, instead of credit scores, driver license scores, etc, like China???

Canada is way ahead of even China on this, with a Social Credit Party that dates back to 1935.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

In order for a "porch thief" to be put away for life under a "three strikes" sentencing guideline, they'd have to, you know, commit three violent felonies, and theft of a package is not typically a violent felony by any metric I'm aware of.

Your problem is that you're switching to CLI and expecting the same interface. I'm more of a Ctrl-Insert to copy and Shift-Insert kind of guy, and that works most of the time in both Windows and Linux.

Also it's trivial to configure XTerm or whatever terminal you like to use whatever key combination you want for cut and paste. Not that the end user should have to have to do this themselves.

Standardized interfaces are overrated. As a lefty even everyday tools like scissors and chainsaws made bad design choices for user experience.

Yea, everyone knows if you're the sort of megalomaniac that thinks they can go toe-to-toe with a frikkin superpower and who enjoys rubbing feces on the walls*, you work to become President of the United States. Don't worry, there's apparently a lot of sub 91 IQ people base that'll support you in your cries of victimhood and your baseless lies of nobility.

* Which is worse: rubbing feces on the wall or suggesting grabbing women by the pussy? Think about that one a while.

He doesn't do them to screw you, he does them to enhance his own image. When I first heard about the cat I was pretty confused, Mendax never gave a toss about animals, why would he want a cat? This NPR commentary explains it.

And no, it's not a smear campaign, that's the real Assange, they're describing him as he actually is.

the energy of 2.2lb (1kg) of payload at launch is approximately 275 kJ but to

Sorry, but you are doing the wrong maths. Rockets are not like cars, the important metric is delta-V, not energy.
Calculating kinetic energy to achieve orbit is a rookie error. - unless you happen to have a giant rail gun or space elevator.

This is why rocket "power" is always quoted in Newtons, not Watts.

Take a look at the Rocket Equation: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
The maths is just simple algebra, no calculus needed - have fun!

Neither "energy" nor delta-V ( velocity/momentum) are the reason for air launch though.
It avoids problems of getting through the low, dense atmosphere, and you can have a more efficient rocket if it only has to operate in thinner air.

But Elon Musk stated that the total benefit amounted to 5% payload increase, so they scrapped the idea. Its easier to just build a 5% bigger rocket.

Sounds similar to IBM MVS https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... I always though the IBM ecosystem was boring because of its business orientated stance but they did lots of amazing development in hardware and operating systems.

The real problem is that Stratolaunh was designed with a much larger SpaceX rocket in mind that got cancelled. So the 3x Pegasus is a fallback plan.

Considering how rarely Pegasus launches (43 launches in 29 years), it doesn't seem like a wining proposition.

Stratolaunch can probably fly higher than the L1011, which would give Pegasus new mission options it did not have before.

The Pegasus L1011 is the last L1011 flying in the world, so it would be a shame to see it be retired, but I suppose that is the lifecycle of aircraft.

No.

"Any headline that ends in a question mark can be answered by the word no."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

If the headline asks a question, try answering 'no'. In the vast majority of cases, the story is tendentious or over-sold. It is often a scare story, or an attempt to elevate some run-of-the-mill piece of reporting into a national controversy and, preferably, a national panic. To a busy journalist hunting for real information a question mark means 'don't bother reading this bit'

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

No.