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Didn't creimer replaced the editors with the Kia hamsters when he bought Slashdot for three pennies on April 1st?

You can't cause an accident by stopping in the middle of a turn at an intersection.

Of course you can. And get cited for it, too.

People coming to an abrupt stop should be an expected action.

Not for no reason, its not. You, and several other posters here really need to get over yourselves, as every last one of you would end up in an accident if a vehicle suddenly breaks in front of you for no reason whatsoever.

If you almost hit someone because they stopped suddenly... thatâ(TM)s on you, not the other driver.

Not if there was no reason for the other vehicle to suddenly stop. You people need to get off your high horses, as you'd all end up rear ending vehicles in front of you if they slammed on their breaks for no reason.

Kid running into the street? That's a reason. Someone running a red light on the cross street? That's a reason. Break checking someone just to be a dick? Not a reason. And thank to Green Mountain for several examples of why you're legally wrong as well:

Code of Virginia
 46.2-888. Stopping on highways; general rule.

No person shall stop a vehicle in such manner as to impede or render dangerous the use of the highway by others, except in the case of an emergency, an accident, or a mechanical breakdown.

I'm not an ambi-turner. It's a problem I had since I was a baby. I can't turn left.

I have a question, how many beer cans would someone have to melt down to make an AR-15? I'm asking for a friend.

Soda cans and it's just a lower receiver, but close enough:
https://youtu.be/on1d9Bz34bU

Rotten Tomatoes Critics' rating of "Death Of A Nation": 0%
Rotten Tomatoes Audience rating of "Death Of A Nation": 90%
Source

How about the Pilgrims of Plymouth Rock as an example?

Sheldon walks out of the room and turns off the light. The screen goes black, and then slowly dissolves into a fuzzy pattern, then a dimly-lit ceiling. The camera reframes, and you see Wernher von Braun in bed with his wife.

He wakes her up and says, "Honey, wake up, you won't believe the nightmare I just had." Link

Contrast with a master of comedy, real audience and no need for pauses while the crew hold up "laugh now" signs.

https://youtu.be/tcliR8kAbzc

Agreed -- ignoring those 2+ billion Android devices (in 2017, no less) is strange.

If we ignore Android and look at the rest of the consumer space, then yes, we see Linux is a drop-in-the-bucket -- on the desktop it is estimated to roughly have only 2 %

However, Linux is dominating in other areas -- it is a wildly successful in the server space. 100% of the Top 500 Supercomputers in the world run Linux. Not bad for a "hobby" OS. /sarcasm I wish I could "fail" like that. =P

Why does Linux need to upstage Windows before it is considered "successful" ??

This is called the Color Rendering Index. Old street lamps have a low index, which is why everything beneath it shines a monochromatic orange.

The Amazing Story of Elizabeth Vargas

First, there is no use case for voter ID. It's a solution in search of a problem so rare it may as well not exist. All the cases voter ID cultists use when arguing for requiring ID - wouldn't have been prevented by ID. Vote registration fraud, felons voting, voting in person and by absentee, voting in more than one state - not prevented by ID.

Second, voting is a right. You do not need to show an ID to enjoy your rights. You don't need to display your drivers license to enter a church. You don't need a passport so the military doesn't commandeer your house for a temporary barracks. You don't need a birth certificate to have an attorney if you are put on trial, be free from torture, or be forced to testify against yourself. Skip second amendment comparisons unless you read the first sentence of it and note the lack of a right to purchase arms.

Third, step outside your privilege bubble already. It can cost hundreds of dollars to get a "free" ID if you don't have one already. Today's voter ID laws could have barred Ronald Reagan from voting in any of his runs for governor or the presidency as he, like millions of Americans, was born at home and had no birth certificate.

And all for a problem so. rare. it. may. as. well. not. exist.

Or, maybe, it is not too partisan to call out the same guys, who have once mocked an opponent for being computer illiterate?

Good job conflating a candidate's computer literacy with the competence of an IT department.

So, as Equifax and Ashley Madison — to name just a few — before, DNC has learned to take data-security seriously the hard-way. A welcome change nonetheless, for sure.

Would it to be proper to mention, that the RNC has successfully foiled such an attack back in 2016? No? Too partisan? Ok...

Or, maybe, it is not too partisan to call out the same guys, who have once mocked an opponent for being computer illiterate?

https://youtu.be/iY57ErBkFFE

https://youtu.be/dn2r11gYShM If it's not righteous, it's not excellent! He's just tired of visiting all the porn sites that promote simulated incest. That crap is so dirty.

• Missiles and experimental aircraft - 1.1 to 1.25x
• Aircraft carrying passengers - 1.5x
• Boats - 2.0 to 2.5x
• Cars - 3x
• Static structures like buildings - 10x

These are general rule of thumb. Specific parts may have higher or lower safety margins depending on how predictable or unpreditable the stresses will be. I would imagine bridges fall under the same category as buildings. Although suspension bridges have always been a bit of a balancing act between weight and strength. Some quick googling suggests the safety margin for the suspension elements is typically 2.0 to 4.0.

Also, if you're using metal, corrosion is inevitable. Even stainless steel will corrode (it called stainless, not stainnever). You need to adhere to a strict regimen of inspecting the metal parts for corrosion and protecting it painting, lubricating, replacing). It sounds like this bridge used pre-stressed concrete stays instead of metal wire stays. Concrete is extremely strong in compression, but weak in tension. If you pre-compress it with metal rebar, that can make it usable in tensile applications where you normally wouldn't think it would work. Basically, the rebar is pulling the concrete in compression more than the load is pulling it in tension, so the concrete remains in net compression and doesn't fall apart. But that balancing act between tension and compression is highly dependent on the metal rebar suffering minimal corrosion and retaining its strength.

Tempered glass is another example of how pre-stressing a fragile material to keep it under compression can make it stronger (strong enough to survive being shot by a bullet).

• Missiles and experimental aircraft - 1.1 to 1.25x
• Aircraft carrying passengers - 1.5x
• Boats - 2.0 to 2.5x
• Cars - 3x
• Static structures like buildings - 10x

These are general rule of thumb. Specific parts may have higher or lower safety margins depending on how predictable or unpreditable the stresses will be. I would imagine bridges fall under the same category as buildings. Although suspension bridges have always been a bit of a balancing act between weight and strength. Some quick googling suggests the safety margin for the suspension elements is typically 2.0 to 4.0.

Also, if you're using metal, corrosion is inevitable. Even stainless steel will corrode (it called stainless, not stainnever). You need to adhere to a strict regimen of inspecting the metal parts for corrosion and protecting it painting, lubricating, replacing). It sounds like this bridge used pre-stressed concrete stays instead of metal wire stays. Concrete is extremely strong in compression, but weak in tension. If you pre-compress it with metal rebar, that can make it usable in tensile applications where you normally wouldn't think it would work. Basically, the rebar is pulling the concrete in compression more than the load is pulling it in tension, so the concrete remains in net compression and doesn't fall apart. But that balancing act between tension and compression is highly dependent on the metal rebar suffering minimal corrosion and retaining its strength.

Tempered glass is another example of how pre-stressing a fragile material to keep it under compression can make it stronger (strong enough to survive being shot by a bullet).

What have the Romans ever done for us?

... your data would not be collected and you wouldn't have ads.

Netflix is one of the best examples that this is not true. They get money from their viewers, but gladly take more money through targeted product placement, in part enabled by detailed user data.

Good point. I recently watched a video about product placement on Netflix - too bad it's in German. But let's just point out their sitcom that keeps mentioning how great Uber is, and that Eggo saw an 14% year-on-year in sales.

Ohh, and all of this is made possible by BEN (founded by Bill Gates) - oh, wait, that only talks about their former business in photo licensing. I guess their own site says it much better: UNSKIPPABLE - UNBLOCKABLE - UNSTOPPABLE

Source (in German): https://youtu.be/w4qcADRcJP0

Obligatory reference:

https://youtu.be/mpw_FB2QrjQ

Okay, two Google Home devices arguing back and forth, but the same basic idea. The dialog is actually funny!

Hate speech vs free speech ...

*facepalm*

Censored Speech vs Free Speech ...

FTFY.

There is NO such thing as "hate speech". As soon as you start censoring contrary opinion based on artificial labels you no longer have free speech -- you have censored speech which is one step removed from fascism. Ignoring a problem doesn't make it go away!

As George Carlin summarized:

Political Correctness is fascism pretending to be Manners" -- George Carlin

Jordan Peterson points out the same thing -- Facebook censoring SOME speech and not others is a very bad idea.

"@0:29 Now they have decided that they are ethically responsible for the content on their platforms. So good luck with that decision. Because they have an awful lot of content and drawing the lines is going to be extraordinary difficult thing to do.
@0:45 Basically, the way these companies were setup up to begin with is that people could post content and then other people could watch it, and basically decide by their viewing, they could value the content by their proclivity to view.
And now they have decided as a consequence of this decision that they are going to be in the business of arbitrarily determining what should and shouldn't be presented for public viewing and they'll never run out of decisions to make."

Liberals wanting "tolerance" have swung so far around that they have now become conservatives -- intolerant of anything they disagree with.

As Francois-Marie Arouet famously said:

I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it.

Without the ability to communicate about a subject there is no opportunity to learn about it.

Without an opportunity to comment and criticize there is no growth.

Why is this an issue? Because censorship is a slippery slope.

As Martin Niemoller famously said:

First they came for the Socialists, and I did not speak out -- Because I was not a Socialist.

Then they came for the Trade Unionists, and I did not speak out -- Because I was not a Trade Unionist.

Then they came for the Jews, and I did not speak out -- Because I was not a Jew.

Then they came for me -- and there was no one left to speak for me.

History has shown this time and time again.

Paraphrasing another YouTuber who summarized philosopher John Stuart Mill:

If we censor hate speech our fundamental beliefs of what is right and wrong are not tested.

If our beliefs are aren't argued against then we don't attempt to rationalize what we believe to be true.

We don't think about why our beliefs are right.

When we don't question our beliefs we don't think about them.

And when we don't think about our beliefs we don't learn new things. We don't advance and improve our thoughts about what is right and wrong.

He argued that even if someone's argument is wrong it still serves a purpose of making us rationalize and check our beliefs and even improve them.

Being able to listen to an argument that is wrong lets us understand what makes an argument wrong and improve our own beliefs from learning from someone else's failure.

People have forgotten:

What you resists, persists

The truth is:

Only children censor.
Adults communicate and even laugh at taboo subjects.

Censorship is NOT the solution -- it is precisely the problem.

Someone kill this piece of shit.

I'm not one to say, "I told you so", but if you look at the comments from when this story first came out, you will see I commented that his obvious attempt to manipulate stock price could get him in serious trouble with the SEC. A long thread of Musk fans and the Anonymous Coward telling me that was nonsense and nothing Musk did was improper followed. Matter of fact, the thread is still active with back-benchers arguing with me about how Musk doesn't need to do any of this because he's a billionaire and really doesn't care about the stock price of Tesla.

Well...

https://youtu.be/9AajslFuPro

Here is the thread. I told you so.

https://slashdot.org/comments....

I'm so impressed by your insight. Can I have your autograph? Dumbass. If you need to say, "I told you so," you are just some dip shit. Everyone is right some time in their life. Apparently, it's so uncommon of you that you have to declare it.

I'm not one to say, "I told you so", but if you look at the comments from when this story first came out, you will see I commented that his obvious attempt to manipulate stock price could get him in serious trouble with the SEC. A long thread of Musk fans and the Anonymous Coward telling me that was nonsense and nothing Musk did was improper followed. Matter of fact, the thread is still active with back-benchers arguing with me about how Musk doesn't need to do any of this because he's a billionaire and really doesn't care about the stock price of Tesla.

Well...

https://youtu.be/9AajslFuPro

Here is the thread. I told you so.

https://slashdot.org/comments....

Do you have stairs in your house?

I am protected.

Ever seen Doctor Who's Daleks -- The New Generation? Link

And don't tell me Siri hasn't noticed companies selling drones, Rooba's, and duct tape.

Hate speech vs free speech ...

*facepalm*

Censored Speech vs Free Speech ...

FTFY.

There is NO such thing as "hate speech". As soon as you start censoring contrary opinion based on artificial labels you no longer have free speech -- you have censored speech which is one step removed from fascism. Ignoring a problem doesn't make it go away!

As George Carlin summarized:

Political Correctness is fascism pretending to be Manners" -- George Carlin

Jordan Peterson points out the same thing -- Facebook censoring SOME speech and not others is a very bad idea.

"@0:29 Now they have decided that they are ethically responsible for the content on their platforms. So good luck with that decision. Because they have an awful lot of content and drawing the lines is going to be extraordinary difficult thing to do.
@0:45 Basically, the way these companies were setup up to begin with is that people could post content and then other people could watch it, and basically decide by their viewing, they could value the content by their proclivity to view.
And now they have decided as a consequence of this decision that they are going to be in the business of arbitrarily determining what should and shouldn't be presented for public viewing and they'll never run out of decisions to make."

Liberals wanting "tolerance" have swung so far around that they have now become conservatives -- intolerant of anything they disagree with.

As Francois-Marie Arouet famously said:

I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it.

Without the ability to communicate about a subject there is no opportunity to learn about it.

Without an opportunity to comment and criticize there is no growth.

Why is this an issue? Because censorship is a slippery slope.

As Martin Niemoller famously said:

First they came for the Socialists, and I did not speak out -- Because I was not a Socialist.

Then they came for the Trade Unionists, and I did not speak out -- Because I was not a Trade Unionist.

Then they came for the Jews, and I did not speak out -- Because I was not a Jew.

Then they came for me -- and there was no one left to speak for me.

History has shown this time and time again.

Paraphrasing another YouTuber who summarized philosopher John Stuart Mill:

If we censor hate speech our fundamental beliefs of what is right and wrong are not tested.

If our beliefs are aren't argued against then we don't attempt to rationalize what we believe to be true.

We don't think about why our beliefs are right.

When we don't question our beliefs we don't think about them.

And when we don't think about our beliefs we don't learn new things. We don't advance and improve our thoughts about what is right and wrong.

He argued that even if someone's argument is wrong it still serves a purpose of making us rationalize and check our beliefs and even improve them.

Being able to listen to an argument that is wrong lets us understand what makes an argument wrong and improve our own beliefs from learning from someone else's failure.

People have forgotten:

What you resists, persists

The truth is:

Only children censor.
Adults communicate and even laugh at taboo subjects.

Censorship is NOT the solution -- it is precisely the problem.

Not sure if trolling or just haven't seen Total Recall...

While I understand the security related downfalls of IOT, there actually are some potential benefits to having a fleet of water heaters connected to the internet. In the UK, there is a government trial/pilot program in place testing smart water tanks for storing excess grid energy. https://youtu.be/z1Z4JCoPAGc

Someone with your severely limited abilities should rather go get an iPad. As a bonus you'll be less likely to screw it up.

I can't imagine using Photoshop without a keyboard and mouse, or not being able to access my files from my file server. Video rendering on the iPad will probably suck donkey balls.

My PC has an eight-core processor and a Nvidia 1050 Ti 4GB video card. A minute of 1080p video renedered on the processor takes a minute. A minute of 1080p video rendered on the Nvidia card takes 10 seconds. I don't think an iPad has the same performance of my PC for rendering videos longer than a short clip.

I have a hearing loss in one ear, so my audio will always be suspect. I use a Zoom H2 audio recorder with a pop filter 12" away from my mouth, Audacity to clean up and normalize the audio, and sync the audio to the video and apply a "voice enhancement" eq to the audio in the video editor.

I use PhotoShop daily!

Bonus: get some silver coins, view recommendations on my special Youtube channel dedicated to the topic! They constitute a fail-safe insurance strategy for your retirement!
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I was hoping my fellow computer scientists would have learned that just because we have the ability to do something doesn't mean that we should do it. HA! I'm just kidding, fuck it, let's put internet in some more shit! ;)

I always have a new battery in my iPhone 6s, As a Sprint very special customer for 20+ years, Sprint will always give me a new battery.

I still use my iPhone 6s and reduce my monthly bill from $80 to $50. As a phone and a video camera, the iPhone 6s isn't obsolete and I use it to make my videos on youtube. As a Sprint very special customer for 20+ years, Sprint will always give me a new iPhone for free if I decide to stop using the 6s as a phone in the next several years.
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I think I have a better solution as usual! :)

Dear datavirtue,

I still use my iPhone 6s and reduce my monthly bill from $80 to $50. As a phone and a video camera, the iPhone 6s isn't obsolete and I use it to make my videos on youtube. As a Sprint very special customer for 20+ years, Sprint will always give me a new iPhone for free if I decide to stop using the 6s as a phone in the next several years.

Also I use PhotoShop daily! :)

I have a hearing loss in one ear, so my audio will always be suspect. I use a Zoom H2 audio recorder with a pop filter 12" away from my mouth, Audacity to clean up and normalize the audio, and sync the audio to the video and apply a "voice enhancement" eq to the audio in the video editor.

My PC has an eight-core processor and a Nvidia 1050 Ti 4GB video card. A minute of 1080p video renedered on the processor takes a minute. A minute of 1080p video rendered on the Nvidia card takes 10 seconds. I don't think an iPad has the same performance of my PC for rendering videos longer than a short clip.

I can't imagine using Photoshop without a keyboard and mouse, or not being able to access my files from my file server. Video rendering on the iPad will probably suck donkey balls.

Blackmagic also charges high prices for their gear as Apple does. Need an HDMI to USB3 capture device? Blackmagic is $300. Any generic company is $50.

I take public transit. A local bus take me down the street to pick up the express bus, the express bus drops me off in Palo Alto, and a local bus take me down the street to my job. An hour each way. Driving through Palo Alto during rush hour is insane. Since I work in government I.T., I start work at 7:00AM.

Bonus: get some silver coins, view recommendations on my special Youtube channel dedicated to the topic! They constitute a fail-safe insurance strategy for your retirement!
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Time for some entertainment: Link to Hitler Spoof .

That's an old one. Here's a newer and better one - https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

Time for some entertainment: Link to Hitler Spoof .

you might find this approach interesting: abrasive weeding. Lower tech than bots pulling weeds, but promising. Of course, there are questions: weed root removal, crop damage, etc..

I still use my iPhone 6s and reduce my monthly bill from $80 to $50. As a phone and a video camera, the iPhone 6s isn't obsolete and I use it to make my videos on youtube. As a Sprint very special customer for 20+ years, Sprint will always give me a new iPhone for free if I decide to stop using the 6s as a phone in the next several years.

Also I use PhotoShop daily!

I have a hearing loss in one ear, so my audio will always be suspect. I use a Zoom H2 audio recorder with a pop filter 12" away from my mouth, Audacity to clean up and normalize the audio, and sync the audio to the video and apply a "voice enhancement" eq to the audio in the video editor.

My PC has an eight-core processor and a Nvidia 1050 Ti 4GB video card. A minute of 1080p video renedered on the processor takes a minute. A minute of 1080p video rendered on the Nvidia card takes 10 seconds. I don't think an iPad has the same performance of my PC for rendering videos longer than a short clip.

I can't imagine using Photoshop without a keyboard and mouse, or not being able to access my files from my file server. Video rendering on the iPad will probably suck donkey balls.

Blackmagic also charges high prices for their gear as Apple does. Need an HDMI to USB3 capture device? Blackmagic is $300. Any generic company is $50.

I take public transit. A local bus take me down the street to pick up the express bus, the express bus drops me off in Palo Alto, and a local bus take me down the street to my job. An hour each way. Driving through Palo Alto during rush hour is insane. Since I work in government I.T., I start work at 7:00AM.
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I still use my iPhone 6s and reduce my monthly bill from $80 to $50. As a phone and a video camera, the iPhone 6s isn't obsolete and I use it to make my videos on youtube. As a Sprint very special customer for 20+ years, Sprint will always give me a new iPhone for free if I decide to stop using the 6s as a phone in the next several years.

Also I use PhotoShop daily!

I have a hearing loss in one ear, so my audio will always be suspect. I use a Zoom H2 audio recorder with a pop filter 12" away from my mouth, Audacity to clean up and normalize the audio, and sync the audio to the video and apply a "voice enhancement" eq to the audio in the video editor.

My PC has an eight-core processor and a Nvidia 1050 Ti 4GB video card. A minute of 1080p video renedered on the processor takes a minute. A minute of 1080p video rendered on the Nvidia card takes 10 seconds. I don't think an iPad has the same performance of my PC for rendering videos longer than a short clip.

I can't imagine using Photoshop without a keyboard and mouse, or not being able to access my files from my file server. Video rendering on the iPad will probably suck donkey balls.

Blackmagic also charges high prices for their gear as Apple does. Need an HDMI to USB3 capture device? Blackmagic is $300. Any generic company is $50.

I take public transit. A local bus take me down the street to pick up the express bus, the express bus drops me off in Palo Alto, and a local bus take me down the street to my job. An hour each way. Driving through Palo Alto during rush hour is insane. Since I work in government I.T., I start work at 7:00AM.
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Giant mutant sharks of course: https://youtu.be/Fa7ck5mcd1o?t...

Curious, none of them would dare be seen taking a position like "I don't want to work with a company that relies on H1B visas."

If you want to talk ethics and activism, I have news for you. All that bullshit about diversity your corporate HR departments spew about hiring and visas is just a smokescreen around the fact that our immigration system is subtly more pernicious than indentured servitude.

Indentured servants had full recourse to the King's Justice in the colonies. H1bs don't have the equivalent of that in the United States.

This is why your corporation and its leadership support all of that immigration. It's to pit you and the immigrants against each other in a race to the bottom that lets them suck up that tasty arbitrage to achieve dizzying new levels of profit without having to pay you any more.

But sure, piss and moan about drones while supporting a company that makes great use of a system that is closer to the Peculiar Institution than a free market labor economy.

Apparently you haven't seen Joe Rogan's bit on Texans.

Have some levity: https://youtu.be/FeYbuFQ9rqQ

Enjoy.

See also https://youtu.be/w3_0x6oaDmI

Right. Of course we can trust Apple. Obviously.

A LOT more than we can trust an ANONYMOUS, COWARD, don'tcha think?

Right. Of course we can trust Apple. Obviously.

Reason TV's got this one covered.

*whistles a tune*

This sounds like a white-collar issue, of which most slashdot readers are. But ask any blue-collar worker if incentives are worth more than money and the expected answer will be obvious.
https://youtu.be/FFrag8ll85w?t...

Companies could set arbitrary prices on goods, charging whatever they wanted. ... Turns out they weren't that great of an idea after all.

Maybe I'm older than I think. Don't y'all remember this phrase? Link "I owe my soul to the company store" at 0:51

Sixteen Tons" is a song ... based on life in coal mines The line, "You load sixteen tons and what do you get? Another day older and deeper in debt," came from a letter ... Another ... from their father, a coal miner, who would say, "I can't afford to die. I owe my soul to the company store."

I'm sure, just like Wal*Mart, they've always got the lowest price.

Link: Regulators forced "Mr. Sam" [Walton] to modify his slogan of "Always the lowest price" to the hedged "Always low prices!"

Sees Disconnect Between Hype and Reality

https://youtu.be/9AajslFuPro

Trigglypuff is my Word of the Day awardwinner!

I cannot take credit for coining the word "Trigglypuff".

Trigger Warming! Vomit Warning! This video clip and the Trigglypuff featured cannot be UN-seen once viewed!!

https://youtu.be/7hdQsEyION4