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You shouldn't be dissing I.T. closet cleaners. They often volunteer to do jobs that everyone else spent years avoiding.

There was a camera pointed at her face the whole time. And of course a camera watching the road. You can watch the video and get a horrific example of distracted driving.

Here

And if Faraday Cage is not available, you can try to get Nicolas Cage.

yeah he will do anything...
https://youtu.be/eExfV_xKaiM?t...

I'll just leave this here.

https://youtu.be/sqvOt9LY4xQ

You're welcome. :)

Error 53 "security keys don't match"

If it said that, maybe people wouldn't be as annoyed. From what I can see on Apple's website about error 53 there is no indication of "security keys don't match".
My initial response however was to the bulk of the statement, all of which is about 3rd party parts.

The courts can't hold apple accountable for third party repairs that weren't within the spec of the official original parts used.

You repaired your phone with a substandard part, so what if it works for *THAT* IOS version - it's not going to work for any future versions if apple decide to fully utilise that part's speed/capabilities, and apple can't know the shit parts third party repairers are going to try to pass-off as working.

Let me iterate that again - the spec on the replacement part has changed, to that of a lower specification which *appears* to work. A typical 'car' analogy would be you getting to sue GM because your aftermarket fuel filter fucked the engine over after another 10k miles.

My response was that the whole 3rd party parts does not cover this. The same error occurs with original parts. Perhaps if there was one error code for 3rd party parts and another for "security keys don't match", or maybe the error was descriptive enough to allow the end user some way of figuring out the issue, or maybe if Apple wasn't so bad about right to repair issues, didn't gouge their customers for repairs and allowed 3rd partied to purchase official parts, OR had repair programs in place that covered any repair that an end user may have eg Linus Tech Tips iMac Pro. There might be something in it.

The editors got bought out by an I.T. closet cleaner for three pennies on April 1, 2018.

You shouldn't be dissing I.T. closet cleaners. They often volunteer to do jobs that everyone else spent years avoiding.

It's worse than that - the guy on this youtube video opens it with an adhesive gopro mount and a screwdriver.

They should have hired a professional IT closet cleaner for the job. That's Goat C for you.

Ah yes, 40 years ago was a classic time in cinema. It's too bad we no longer get such intelligent fare as The Swarm, Laserblast and everyone's favorite The Star Wars holiday Special

Or maybe... just maybe... you've forgotten that 99% of what was produced back them was garbage too, just like 99% of what's produced today.

Sure, 99% of what was produced 40 years ago was crap... But the crap has gotten worse. There isn't a 1978 equivalent of Love Island... I can think of some 1998 equivalents, but these were budget shows which were relegated to late night TV... So much so I cant even remember the names of the shows.

Ah yes, 40 years ago was a classic time in cinema. It's too bad we no longer get such intelligent fare as The Swarm, Laserblast and everyone's favorite The Star Wars holiday Special

Or maybe... just maybe... you've forgotten that 99% of what was produced back them was garbage too, just like 99% of what's produced today.

Sure, 99% of what was produced 40 years ago was crap... But the crap has gotten worse. There isn't a 1978 equivalent of Love Island... I can think of some 1998 equivalents, but these were budget shows which were relegated to late night TV... So much so I cant even remember the names of the shows.

LOL . . . right . . . "exceptions" . . . . I suppose if you want to call them "exceptions" it should be noted that many of them are seminal figures in the history of math an science. Seminal figures tend to be "exceptions." And contrary to the your nonsense claim it is easily seen that Christians have played key roles in the development of math and science in the West. If you want to deny that you are moving into the realm of parody. You might as well put on a John Cleese voice and ask, "What have Christians ever done for math and science?" That could get to be a long and embarrassing list.

If you go down that road I might have to ask: are you from the Canadian Atheist's Front, or the Atheist Front of Canada? Militant, but not mindful of history.

Come on. All the cool kids use node.js

Indeed, even Hitler agrees with that

Ah yes, 40 years ago was a classic time in cinema. It's too bad we no longer get such intelligent fare as The Swarm, Laserblast and everyone's favorite The Star Wars holiday Special

Or maybe... just maybe... you've forgotten that 99% of what was produced back them was garbage too, just like 99% of what's produced today.

Ah yes, 40 years ago was a classic time in cinema. It's too bad we no longer get such intelligent fare as The Swarm, Laserblast and everyone's favorite The Star Wars holiday Special

Or maybe... just maybe... you've forgotten that 99% of what was produced back them was garbage too, just like 99% of what's produced today.

You shouldn't be dissing I.T. closet cleaners. They often volunteer to do jobs that everyone else spent years avoiding.

An I.T. closet cleaner bought Slashdot for three pennies on April 1, 2018.

Just hire an I.T. closet cleaner and buy a Goat C shirt.

People could move to Windows 10.

"GET DOWN! GET DOWN, NOW!!!" https://youtu.be/HCeCVZqcpnE?t...

This is for Loop, not Hyperloop.

Think SkyTran, but faster and underground. And with both passenger capsules and car capsules.

Also, to anyone who doesn't know how Boring Company is working to reduce tunneling costs... Link.

Speaking of Beijing, here's an old clip of Obama talking about his Asian foreign policy in 1992. Kind of telling.

So what if a net filtering tool developer looks like Poppin Fresh? You must not have paid attention to the energy with which Poppin moves around in some of the Pillsbury commercials.

Land that jump dude
Show me your moves
I can dig up more.

There are plenty of other "acrofatic" characters, and you might be able to catch one of them on someone's P***scope stream.

You are so right! I felt so inspired by your post, that this morning I got up a little earlier. Brew a cup of organic fair trade dark roast double macchiato with gluten free almond milk, pulled up my MacBook pro (large Green Peace logo on the back, small "Feel The Bern" ones around it) and watched this: https://youtu.be/jswkS7895WY
I posted 17 selfies on FB/Insta/Tweeter. Thanks for a great tip!

It does already do some automatic emergency breaking and they are working on improving the performance of this; but it's not a trivial problem to solve.

See https://youtu.be/kFF1AHeIf14?t...

You shouldn't be dissing I.T. closet cleaners. They often volunteer to do jobs that everyone else spent years avoiding. For example, creimer cleared out a 600-sqft storage closet that no one had seen the floor in eight years. He did that in between tickets over a six week period. He also finished deploying 750 PCs and 1,500 monitors ahead of schedule, ending his 12-month contract after nine months.

You shouldn't be dissing I.T. closet cleaners. They often volunteer to do jobs that everyone else spent years avoiding. For example, creimer cleared out a 600-sqft storage closet that no one had seen the floor in eight years. He did that in between tickets over a six week period. He also finished deploying 750 PCs and 1,500 monitors ahead of schedule, ending his 12-month contract after nine months.

Key word is "begin to". And just so you know, the real news is that with the last update, Tesla went in the other direction. It used to be that you could have your hands off the wheel for minutes at a time when conditions were good. After the update it's more like 15-20 seconds. A number of people are complaining.

BTW, Musk had a comment recently concerning motorcycles.

we are 'online' 24x7

Pshaw, amateurs. Try 4x24x7, and that's on the devices I can see right now, NM the server farm in the background. And let's not talk about the open tabs in the background (or the saved bookmarks -- oh, the HUMANITY! My eyes! The goggles do nothing!)

The names of the accused and the crimes, and even their photographs were already available to the public.

And in his own words:

This is the problem, you see that - it's not my concern, it's not his concern.. hundreds of young girls have been gang raped in our country in every town and city across this country, and some of the alleged perpetrators are in court today, and people need to know what's going on.

At no point in that livestream does Robinson assert that the persons involved are guilty and that the trial is a waste of time. He states the need to be careful what he says, and that there is a press restriction on reporting the details of the case. The worst that I could find was that when asking those entering the courthouse, of which he did not identify, was "how do you feel about the verdict" he characterizes some of the profanity-laced responses he receives.

I'm willing to give Robinson the benefit of the doubt, because it is all too evident what happens to those who act as whistleblowers or are otherwise problematic for a corrupt political establishment. The myriad of laws that exist are conveniently enforced with extreme prejudice for personas non grata, in other words, "show me the man and I'll show you the crime."

Re: "it has too many youtube videos"

There are two, and both are timestamped. The first takes you directly to the most important quote:

"My first introduction to petroglyphs was by David Talbott. I went to a meeting of his by accident, and learned something about what they were doing. And then he showed me some pictures, and I looked at the pictures and I said 'Where did you get these pictures?', because I had never seen them outside of an unclassified environment, to tell you the truth. And they're on rocks ...

'Where are these rocks stored? What vault?'

He's got these rocks ... You know, I was kind of, you know, what am I gonna do now?

And he said, 'Oh no, they're all over, they're petroglyphs, they're all over the place.'

And I was stunned. Having worked in what's called high-energy density plasmas, high-energy density nuclear physics, I was stunned that these pictures - apparently thousands of years old - preceded what we had only been recording for about two years with our new facilities which cost a lot of money."

Anthony Peratt, On the Origins of Icons from Antiquity,
Redhill, May 21, 2005
https://youtu.be/6meaU1QcSdA?t...

Re: "but I don't see the rock solid evidence"

That's not my fault. That's because Slashdot is too old fashioned to display imagery on the site, and you apparently didn't go through all of the materials. There is a map of the sequence of plasma formations - the Peratt instability map - in one of the links, where the petroglyphs are correlated with reconstructions of the laboratory forms. The video shows the actual declassified laboratory imagery.

Realize that for each of these types of petroglyphs, they all have a view of the south magnetic pole.. That is discussed in the video as well.

If you read the patent instead of just looking at the pictures, he explains that

And if you had read the patent OR my entire post you'd notice that the steam engine thing I mention is a QUOTE from the patent.
"External firing of a steam boiler" is a quote from the patent.

As for his turbines "that can operate at much higher speeds than traditional gas turbine engines"... that is not true either.
His turbine HAD higher efficiency vs the axial turbines OF THAT ERA - on account of axial turbines' low efficiency AT THE TIME.
Later test have shown that Tesla's turbine had lower efficiency compared to contemporary turbines.

Tesla claimed that a steam version of his device would achieve around 95 percent efficiency.[14][15]
Actual tests of a Tesla steam turbine at the Westinghouse works showed a steam rate of 38 pounds per horsepower-hour, corresponding to a turbine efficiency in the range of 20%, while contemporary steam turbines could often achieve turbine efficiencies of well over 50%.

Again... outdated.
And with the patent running out almost a century ago - if it was better it would be used everywhere today. It's not.

Also, it is not about the gyroscopic torque.
It's about the fact that should a propeller have enough force to lift the machine vertically it would also create enough thrust for that fixed wing to start tilting the machine backward.
I.e. The same forces which lift a plane that takes off horizontally, would flip over this machine during vertical takeoff.
It would stall at liftoff.

He lacked understanding how it is that the plane flies. He thought it was similar to propellers of a boat pushing at the water.
He didn't understand that it was the shape of the wings - yet he drew them with an airfoil curve.
The only, sorta, working tail-sitters had contra-rotating propellers for a reason - one prop is not enough and in a fixed wing it would destabilize the plane at liftoff.

Tesla was not a wizard.
He was a clever, educated and obsessive genius at the time when a lot of technology was new and inefficient and when most people lacked the will or ability to do the necessary experimentation or calculations.
He was a human computer programmed for engineering and physics of the time.
Then the time passed him by.

You mean they need not applie because only appropriate quantum apps app appceptably?

That seems appsolutely appropriate, appnt I right?

It isn't just Germany, right?:
cyber cyber cyber cyber cyber cyber cyber ...

It's a 2.5GHz Xeon server chip, overclocked to hell, with a 2000W chiller on it.

And a 1600W power supply.

Here's an interview with an intel engineer, later.

https://youtu.be/ozcEel1rNKM

At my daughter's high school, any student whose phone rings in class has to get up in front of the class and dance The Macarena. This is a surprisingly effective deterrent.

Until you get to the showoff with six different remixes of "Macarena" on his phone, including the one that sounds like it's straight out of Mortal Kombat ("La Mezcla Guerrillera by Fangoria") and the one that sounds like almost a mash-up with "Unbelievable" by EMF ("Bass Bumpers Remix").

Source: Macarena Non Stop

I don't think China would hesitate... https://www.popularmechanics.c... Unless Google is helping China, such waste of talent in the US would just be a repeat of... https://youtu.be/pKiqsJ7VUAs

https://youtu.be/TXs2UfPv39s?t...

This should clear it up for you.

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On the off chance that you're completely serious about suicide; I've been personally affected by more than one of those, along with an entire community. I've spent over an hour trying to articulate my thoughts and I could go on for pages about what that decision means to people you know and people you don't know, but ultimately I keep coming back to this : screw you. No, seriously. You matter to people whether you know or acknowledge the fact. The better choice would be to take on the burden of being alive and strive to make the world a better place. Take on responsibility and you'll find meaning. I'm not sure if you've listened to Jordan Peterson or not, but he goes on at length about adopting responsibility to your life purpose. I think if you're really in the place you say you're at, you stand to lose nothing by considering the option that makes a positive difference. Check out his latest sit down with Joe Rogan; I'm pretty sure he touches on the subject (and some others you might relate to) during the episode : https://youtu.be/6T7pUEZfgdI

Lots of part of Canada are like that. The cops are so bored that their only real job is to generate revenue through ticketing people for no good reason.

Like in Quebec: https://youtu.be/nsV3MrshZt4?t=1891

I can't find an article about this and it doesn't seem to be mentioned in the Polygon article, but the Content ID system that Youtube uses to flag copyright violations is apparently going to have significant changes this month. This is per Matthew Patrick (MatPat/The Game Theory)--who is basically as close to the company as someone can be without working there--in a recent livestream of theirs.

Other long-running issues he address in that same 15-ish minutes are Youtube tools being confusing, a severe lack of response from Youtube support (and conflicting responses, even when that person has better access than xXxStoneddGamer567xXx), and he's talked in the past about how Youtube extremely over-reacts to controversies. Their "solutions" rarely take care of the original issue and instead punish a significant number of other creators.

Youtube has been relying on critical mass for years now.

In the last few years Youtube has increasingly been courting "mainstream" outlets, including launching their Youtube TV service, and these outlets have pushed original creators more to the sidelines. While MatPat doesn't explain what these Content ID changes will be, my expectation is that the system will become far, far less lenient toward infringements real, imagined, or claimed (thanks, DMCA!). If so, there will likely be a "purge" of creators.

If that is the case, I'm hoping that some company can step up to with a video-focused service that caters to smaller creators (or creator groups.) Vimeo might be able to branch into this, but their current (apparent) focus on completely-original content (and content not too far removed from television or film festivals) makes me think this is unlikely.

That's all... not what the article is about. No matter what platform, this is essentially about young workaholics who don't know how to recognize they are overworking themselves. No platform switch will fix this. They'll burn out and others will take their places... then burn out, etc.

Due to Polygon's bizarre politics, they do imply this is a problem Youtube needs to solve, but that's just silly.

This could be the reason why "Tesla is still in the process of moving from 3,500 to 5,000-6,000 per week by the end of this quarter".

Basically they might be stockpiling cars until after the next quarter starts (July) so that the maximum number of buyers can take advantage of the full tax credit.

I can't find an article about this and it doesn't seem to be mentioned in the Polygon article, but the Content ID system that Youtube uses to flag copyright violations is apparently going to have significant changes this month. This is per Matthew Patrick (MatPat/The Game Theory)--who is basically as close to the company as someone can be without working there--in a recent livestream of theirs.

Other long-running issues he address in that same 15-ish minutes are Youtube tools being confusing, a severe lack of response from Youtube support (and conflicting responses, even when that person has better access than xXxStoneddGamer567xXx), and he's talked in the past about how Youtube extremely over-reacts to controversies. Their "solutions" rarely take care of the original issue and instead punish a significant number of other creators.

Youtube has been relying on critical mass for years now.

In the last few years Youtube has increasingly been courting "mainstream" outlets, including launching their Youtube TV service, and these outlets have pushed original creators more to the sidelines. While MatPat doesn't explain what these Content ID changes will be, my expectation is that the system will become far, far less lenient toward infringements real, imagined, or claimed (thanks, DMCA!). If so, there will likely be a "purge" of creators.

If that is the case, I'm hoping that some company can step up to with a video-focused service that caters to smaller creators (or creator groups.) Vimeo might be able to branch into this, but their current (apparent) focus on completely-original content (and content not too far removed from television or film festivals) makes me think this is unlikely. Twitch's focus on live-streaming really limits content, and the platform serves gaming and some creative setups only which will make it a non-starter for people looking to move. Vine could make a comeback, striking while the iron is hot. Outside of those two I simply don't know of any other alternatives, either established or up-and-coming. Most of my video consumption these days comes from small creators, and I would really hate to lose this kind of access to what they create.

Maybe PornHub could take a stab at it, they've taken many interesting actions already. (Snowplowing, alerting users about tracking by their country, etc.)