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https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

Greg Wyler CEO / Founder OneWeb talks about the production of satellites constellation: https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

He talks about speed and latency starting after ~40 seconds into the clip.

A dry, but good video

1.5 billion?

Are you sure?

We'd all be gone in about 6 years.

I realize there are many here who would view tat as a good thing, but yer math needs some help.

Heh. That's almost as good as the Virginia governor's repeated claim that the US loses 93 million lives per day to gun violence. If true, the US population would be wiped out in less than four days. (When called on it, it he clarified that he meant 93 per day, not 93 million per day. That figure is reasonably correct if you include suicides. It seems like more than a slip of the tongue, though, because he stated the 93 million figure twice, and enunciated it slowly and forcefully.)

English, motherfucker. Do you speak it?

A strange game. The only winning move is not to play. How about a nice game of chess?

SPAAAAAACE!

But how do you know it is unwanted until you try? And that advance could be a simple, "Care to go grab a quick lunch?" or "Can I get you a cup of coffee while I am out, since I am headed to the break room anyway?"

If she says no, then suddenly that can be considered an unwanted advance. Sometimes I think that the WOPR had it right...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

... from TFA:

On the latter point you only have to look at recent goings on at a company like Uber [and this] to understand where such concerns are coming from.

3 comments, all critical of the women for complaining.

Those sounds mostly like anons but you are right that there are some men on slashdot that seem to be uncomfortable with the prospect of working side-by-side with women. I condemn them and their old world view.

whether it's about pay,

muh wage gap?

sexual harassment, discrimination in its many forms

It's true that the world is far from perfect but I try to work every day to improve it when and where I can. However, the reality is that the business world is structured in a way that is most beneficial to the company rather than the employees of the company itself. This is the nature of capitalism: a self-optimizing system with an eternal greed and a total indifference to consequences of it's actions.

and then you wonder why your cubby-farm mates are almost all dudes.

I am under no illusions about why that is but it does not align with your narrative.

Feminists just don't want women to have to be held accountable for the truth. So much for equality.

So that's how they write women so well...

YouTube Ex. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jbMUGQQ2Pn4

D-STAR https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/D-STAR

I was being half-snarky... the GOP health bill hasn't passed yet.
But for real, the Canada thing simply means that a cop is empowered to DO something if he sees a driver with a cell phone in his/her hand while driving, and the driver can't weasel out of it simply by claiming it was turned off, requiring the cop to prove he could tell whether it was on or off from the vantage point of his cruiser.

It's just a legal attempt, democratically passed, to get around the fact that cell phones impair drivers as much as being rip-roaring drunk, but there's no blood-alcohol test they can run on a texter to prove that he was actually texting and not just allegedly holding a switched-off phone while driving (yeah, right), particularly if the texter ditched or destroyed his phone at or just after being pulled-over or engaging in an accident.

That's right, some damn fool can kill your sister, but by raising his hand swearing in court that his phone was off just before it was thrown from his car and destroyed, there's reasonable doubt to that vehicular manslaughter charge.

Yeah, maybe there's evidence out there in cyberland, but what's to compel that knucklehead to serve up his Facebook password? Does the district have the money to subpoena the carrier, the provider, Facebook, and to carry out the cyber-forensics to prove he was texting, and not just ordinary driver careless oh gosh I didn't see the light change. Accidents happen, sorry about your sister, think of how my insurance is gonna go up and thank god my airbag worked right.

So, given that the risk of being T-Boned and instantly transformed into a quadriplegic by an asshole texter is very fucking real, please do enumerate the hardships and dangers of the so-called "nanny-state" that outweigh this attempt to put some teeth into no-texting-while-driving laws, particularly with respect to Canada.
I mean, is there evidence of waves of depressed Molson-drinking immigrants flooding over from the great North, thirsting for the Freedom to text and drive without oppression from storm-trooping Mounties?
I don't think so, I haven't seen it.
But maybe I'm wrong. Any Canadians in slashdot-land want to weigh in? Any youse guys feeling repressed up North up there? or are you guys just so chill you can live fine with your hands off your phones while driving?

This ain't no woodpecker.

One work around is to make it where the zipper handle is locked too so it can't be moved back and forth across the zipper. At least then, it will be obvious it's been opened. It will still be easy to open in under a couple seconds with a ball point pen tho.

Here's one of many examples on Youtube.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

And one example (of many) of a device that helps some.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

One work around is to make it where the zipper handle is locked too so it can't be moved back and forth across the zipper. At least then, it will be obvious it's been opened. It will still be easy to open in under a couple seconds with a ball point pen tho.

Here's one of many examples on Youtube.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

And one example (of many) of a device that helps some.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

People who tow trailers have known about this for decades.

I wonder how much money was spent on this, rather than, say, cancer research. Sigh...

These are physicists. Whatever they might study, it won't be cancer.

Yes, but perhaps the suitcase industry would have hired biotechs to study cancer rather than physicists to study wheels if they knew about the pre-existing research.

Nobody hired anybody for this. This was just a couple of university physicists who got curious about something they noticed and decided to work out the cause.

Philip DeFranco had a video about that and Casey Neistat's latest video being a Samsung ad in disguise yesterday. Good episode.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bhro-CO1QA4

Reminds me of this scene from Fahrenheit 451: https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

People who tow trailers have known about this for decades.

I wonder how much money was spent on this, rather than, say, cancer research. Sigh...

These are physicists. Whatever they might study, it won't be cancer.

Yes, but perhaps the suitcase industry would have hired biotechs to study cancer rather than physicists to study wheels if they knew about the pre-existing research.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?... It's interesting to watch as a whole, but the takeaway is that if someone with basically infinite resources (i.e. NSA/CIA/GCHQ or whatever it's called in your part of the world) wants to get you then you are done. Quoth Rob Joyce from the video: "we own you"

People who tow trailers have known about this for decades.

As demonstrated in that video, trailer sway isn't caused by rocking back and forth between the wheels causing swerving but by weight distribution away from the axle creating large yaw inertia. With suitcases, while packing the weight far from the wheels does make the rocking worse, it will still happen even with the weight packed close to them (low yaw inertia). So, we're mostly talking about different effects. As evidenced by the fact that if your trailer starts rocking you should ease off the throttle, not go faster.[1]

Even if this were the same effect, there's a huge difference between merely knowing about a phenomenon and having some rules of thumb about how to handle it, derived from experience, and having a mathematical model and a computer simulation of the phenomenon. Having those opens up many more options for finding solutions.

[1] In my experience, the very best thing to do is to use the brake controller to activate the trailer brakes and slow that way, assuming a trailer that has electric brakes. I've only experienced sway on one trailer that doesn't have brakes; my flatbed (no brakes) when I have the tractor loaded too far back and not enough weight on the tongue. Easing off the throttle calms it down. None of the other trailers I've had (boat, utility, ATV) have ever swayed.

People who tow trailers have known about this for decades.

I wonder how much money was spent on this, rather than, say, cancer research. Sigh...

These are physicists. Whatever they might study, it won't be cancer.

It was available two days ago. Kids found Puss in Boots on Wednesday and played around with it on the Roku.

It reminded me of Dragon's Lair but with a lot fewer decisions and a lot more time to make them. For all you young'uns, yeah we had this in the 1980s, contemporaneous with the Choose Your Own Adventure books. The video of the storyline with alternate decisions and endings were stored on a laserdisc (which unlike a videotape allowed random access). And inputs you made with a joystick and buttons at certain times determined your progress through the story and which video was played. (The approx 1 sec blackout while the LD player seeked to the correct video has been edited out of that YouTube video. So it as a lot more annoying to play than the video makes it seem. RAM was way too expensive to pre-cache multiple possibilities like we can today.)

The oldest example I know is Inigo Gets Out by Amanda Goodenough, from 1987 on an Apple Mac.

Douglas Adams and Tom Baker mention it in 'Hyperland'

The oldest example I know is Inigo Gets Out by Amanda Goodenough, from 1987 on an Apple Mac.

Douglas Adams and Tom Baker mention it in 'Hyperland'

Will it come with a 3DO emulator? https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

People who tow trailers have known about this for decades.

I wonder how much money was spent on this, rather than, say, cancer research. Sigh...

Considering the fact that Obama was trying to ram TPP through, trying to blame this on the Republicans and Trump is ridiculous.

First of all, realize that the TPP is NOT about free trade. It's about intellectual property control and a variety of other topics. "Free trade" is a generic cover for the whole thing. The real motivators are things that would be balked at if they were negotiated separately.

For details as to what TPP really IS about, well, here's a very short summary:

The TPP and Intellectual Property

And the EFF's position on it:

EFF on TPP
EFF and the Copyright Trap

I'm not going to go into a lot of research for that particular question since this has already been hashed out a million times before.

However, as for the Democrat portion... well, first off, Obama spearheaded TPP and intended to try to get it rammed through towards the end of his term.

Obama and the TPP

Hillary in fact praised it as the "gold standard" while it was in development (in secret, I might add, to the point where Congressmen had to go to a secure room to look at the drafts and could not keep their notes on it with them):

Hillary on the Gold Standard

TPP Secrecy (note the caption on the picture)

Now she did try to back off on this and flip-flopped, although this might well have been a pose for the campaign:

Hillary and TPP

But the fact is that the Democrats did not officially oppose it.

Rejecting formal TPP opposition

Some would say that the fact that Hillary is particularly likely to lie about this to get elected, even among politicians. But people specifically close to her indicated that, if she was elected, she'd flip-flop on it pretty rapidly.

Terry McAuliffe's view on TPP flipping

Additionally, while people seem to very much enjoy shitting on the Republicans for draconian copyright laws, fact is that the Democrats are just as bad, and in some cases, worse:

Congressional support for SOPA and PIPA

This raises doubts as to what parts of TPP would be "renegotiated," if that had happened, which was one option that seemed to be spoken of for a Hillary presidency. Suffice it to say that it is likely that the IP law portions would not receive renegotiation that would be considered consumer-friendly.

Stereotypical "Republicans are evil 'cuz Republicans" and "Trump is evil 'cuz Trump" is not going to fly here, unless you're also willing to jump on board the "Democrats are evil 'cuz Democrats" train. Fact of the matter is, both sides are bought and paid for by the technology and content generation industries. This was the sentiment when SOPA was defeated by massive Internet backlash:

Backlash after massive SOPA protests

And Democrats were certainly benefiting from Hollywood donations which "encouraged" them to support SOPA:

So in short, both sides are filthy here. You can blame one side or the other for the majority of the problem a

The more important question is, were those responsible sacked?

People who tow trailers have known about this for decades.

and when the line jams and the place shuts down do want some on side to un jam it or do you want to wait 30 min to an hour for someone to come over to fix it? also when people beat up an vending machine after losing $0.75 - $1.00+ on an candy just wait for them to lose $7-$12 on a meal.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

Did you order the fat ass meal!?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

Keep "Hand Solo if you KNOW what I MEAN" out of the Star Wars Universe!

Get one of these or make your own... https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

Comcast's careful cable operations are legendary. They really care about all their customers and the public at large. Right? Right? Remember this? https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

BBC1 put up a message apologising for the fault and played saxophone music.

Let me guess...

This is how it should have been played out

I can't deny that there can be pirated material on youtube, but these 'outrageous' segments are usually to be found on the official channel. https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

Facebook, the flame thrower! to get the teenagers back.

60% of what oliver said wasn't true or stretched or bent a little .. here is a video that lays it out https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

if he only has to prove one thing then dude wins

I've never had an HBO subscription so I've never watched John Oliver

That's no excuse. He posts his entire show on youtube the day after it airs.

I'm not sure why we're making fun of his accent.

Because the alt-reich hate, hate, hate, HATE the guy, but they aren't smart enough to come up with a criticism of substance.

I don't know what that lady was quoted for her colonoscopy but when I just googled for the price I got results saying anywhere from under $1,000 to over $5,400. Also I don't know what her deductible was but $8,000 doesn't sound unbelievable either before or after Obamacare. I know I had "good" insurance before Obamacare and the deductible was $3,000 or more. I passed on the plan that would have left me with a $10,000 deductible.

According to the segment (around 2:15) the AC refers, Cathie Owen was in the Medicaid Gap where she didn't was not poor enough to qualify for Medicaid but she couldn't afford health insurance on her own. While it isn't stated she has no insurance, it certainly implies that she did not. She also had a family history of colon cancer so most likely that was one reason she couldn't afford insurance as pre-existing conditions left her without affordable insurance. Without insurance, costs are insanely high for anything.

Also, it seems like it might cause a Streisand effect. Wouldn't that be lovely.

Well then, let's make sure we know what the offensive action was...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aw6RsUhw1Q8

Cease-and-decist letter brief clip

https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

More complete piece on Coal economy

https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

Cease-and-decist letter brief clip

https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

More complete piece on Coal economy

https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

Congressman Jason Chaffetz has been trying to warn the American people about some pretty disturbing stuff the government is doing with facial recognition. Basically if you have a drivers license, there is a 50/50 chance you are in the FBI's database. He also hints that any social media account you have with a picture is linked.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

No one has done anything for the LOLs, or even the lols, for 10+ years. You do it for the keks these days. Do try to keep up with the kids on your lawn.

When I hear the word hyper loop it reminds me of Just Playin' by JT Playaz. The reason for this is the lyrics of the chorus "The heart of the core, they seek for more, The melody, the hype of the loop" which sounds like the hyper the loop.