You'd have a planet whose entire population would have synchronized menses.
Although I suspect that if they wanted to, the mission planners could issue de-synced birth control regimens to force the cycles out of step. Not sure if there's a reason, to but I wouldn't be surprised if someone tries it during long mission isolation experiments.
Indeed. Slashdot is a nebulous ghost of what it once was. The insightful and informative community seems to have departed for elsewhere, leaving us with trolls, juveniles and politically motivated archive-oriented moderators.
I'm very unhappy with the state of PBS in Los Angeles.
For the second biggest TV market in the US, it has a miserable selection of mediocre PBS stations, and very little original content (unlike say WGBH or KQED) but it seems like KOCE is slowly stepping up its game...
Never say anything on a phone that you would hate to see in a newspaper (or on a blog) - that most definitely includes credit card numbers.
That goes for the camera, too. Don't take photos with your phone that you would never want revealed in public.
I would have written the same thing last Friday, but the whole fapocalypse thing last weekend underlines the risk. Unless you encrypt it yourself, your data isn't secure, not on the cloud, and not even on your own phone.
(So, can we just assume that the purpose of these towers are to collect nude photos of celebrities?)
The FBI said it is “addressing the matter,” calling the leak an “unlawful release of material involving high profile individuals.”
So, for Moot, do you see this weekend's celeb photo dump as threatening the continued existence of 4chan as we know it? Will you change the site policies in response?
What's truly scary, is that in the US some people consider Public Integrity (both the nonprofit and the concept) to be "far left."
From the site's "about" page:
Our mission: To serve democracy by revealing abuses of power, corruption and betrayal of public trust by powerful public and private institutions, using the tools of investigative journalism.
Yep. Anarcho-communist FUDmongers, the lot of 'em.
Only seven stories later on the main page, Fark announced a partnership with several university and private media research centers. Lots of farkers believe it's related:
Thank you for the intelligent comment. I worked on the original instrument design at Hamilton Sundstrand over 10 years ago, and it was heartbreaking to learn of the original launch failure. A lot of us suspected but had no evidence that the failure was someone's desired outcome... now that OCO-2 is on station and collecting data we finally feel a sense of accomplishment.
And we'll not only learn who's contributing CO2 to the atmosphere, (and when, and where) but also what's consuming it, so we can not only reduce emissions but we can also sequester it better (e.g., by planting forests in the right places).
I guarantee we'll learn something we didn't expect. And scientists, being scientists, will embrace the surprises rather than reject them. This instrument will help us understand the problem better, produce better model forecasts, and plan better solutions.
Many of the comments on First Look and even here are disturbing, both in their rancor and in their bigotry. These kind of haters represent a tiny but vocal minority of the US population but they seem seem to swarm to the comments sections of any story that touches on one of their hot button issues. This is especially true at "mainstream" media sites like Yahoo News, CNN, etc. Clearly their intent is to disguise their minority status and make it appear as if their radical opinions are mainstream.
Do they have RSS feeds or Twitter Bots or something that tell them "Muslim story on First Look - Troll Force GO!" or something? It's fkn amazing.
And it does real damage to our society by promoting the kind of racism and abuse depicted in TFA, both institutional and cultural, even when the majority of the people hold no such opinions...
This driver ignores texts received while driving. If it's important, they can place a voice call and I'll answer it using my bluetooth earpiece.
It's not that hard. Really, your phone is not your brain... you can put it to sleep while driving. It's OK, your friends can wait for you to get back to them with "OMG LOL!"
There are more dimensions to emotions than just Relaxed vs. Angry. For it to be useful for something other than biofeedback this system will need to distinguish Relaxed from other states like Flow, Focused, or Bored and also distinguish Angry from Adrenaline Rushed, or Jubilant, or even Sexually Excited.
FTA, it sounds to me that this system would confuse many different emotions, so unless a player has a fetish for watching a cartoon avatar smash things, it will be just another footnote laboratory novelty.
national security HAS BEEN SEVERELY DAMAGED BY SNOWDEN
1 - Prove it. Snowden provided proof that laws were bent, stretched and even broken and that things for which the American people would never approve were being done in secret, and that things which don't need to be classified have been given that protection just to save the people in charge from embarassment or to intimidate whistleblowers. It's now the State Department/Pentagon's burden of proof to demonstrate the claim of damage to national security.
2 - Show why it trumps the Fourth and Fifth Amendments, and possibly others, not to mention innumerable laws and statutes. No where in the Constitution does it say that "National Security" overrides the Bill of Rights. Why does the 4th Amendment get short shrift? Try pulling that shit with the 2nd amendment and see what happens.
Both are necessary for "people who fully support Snowden without acknowledging the risks to national security" to conclude he didn't act in the name of the greater good.
Snowden did break the law. Few suggest he didn't. In a perfect world, his actions could be fairly judged and his punishment determined according to the above considerations. Unfortunately, I doubt this will ever happen.
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And you didn't have them warn your 2007 self to sell all your stock and real estate?
You're an idiot!
You'd have a planet whose entire population would have synchronized menses.
Although I suspect that if they wanted to, the mission planners could issue de-synced birth control regimens to force the cycles out of step. Not sure if there's a reason, to but I wouldn't be surprised if someone tries it during long mission isolation experiments.
At least for one week out of four, once all the women sync up.
the correct answer to space travel is obvious, its dwarfs
Obviously. Because dwarfs with high constitutions get saving throw bonuses, and they all get to hit bonuses vs. space orcs and galactic goblinoids.
Don't you mean complement it?
That was my thought. They're going to make themselves even MORE out of touch with even MORE of the various American subcultures.
No. It will dwindle to include only young sociopaths who can fool a lie detector.
You should go scrawl "Free Candy" on his car with a bar of soap...
(Maybe he'll even like it and make it permanent.)
Indeed. Slashdot is a nebulous ghost of what it once was. The insightful and informative community seems to have departed for elsewhere, leaving us with trolls, juveniles and politically motivated archive-oriented moderators.
Wish I had a mod point for you today.
I'm very unhappy with the state of PBS in Los Angeles.
For the second biggest TV market in the US, it has a miserable selection of mediocre PBS stations, and very little original content (unlike say WGBH or KQED) but it seems like KOCE is slowly stepping up its game...
Never say anything on a phone that you would hate to see in a newspaper (or on a blog) - that most definitely includes credit card numbers.
That goes for the camera, too. Don't take photos with your phone that you would never want revealed in public.
I would have written the same thing last Friday, but the whole fapocalypse thing last weekend underlines the risk. Unless you encrypt it yourself, your data isn't secure, not on the cloud, and not even on your own phone.
(So, can we just assume that the purpose of these towers are to collect nude photos of celebrities?)
a product with a name like "VME Dominator"
Sounds like something you'd find at the Adult Factory Outlet in West Hollywood...
Maybe he didn't last week, but this week, the FBI may do it for him.
So, for Moot, do you see this weekend's celeb photo dump as threatening the continued existence of 4chan as we know it? Will you change the site policies in response?
What's truly scary, is that in the US some people consider Public Integrity (both the nonprofit and the concept) to be "far left."
From the site's "about" page:
Yep. Anarcho-communist FUDmongers, the lot of 'em.
Spot on.
Only seven stories later on the main page, Fark announced a partnership with several university and private media research centers. Lots of farkers believe it's related:
http://www.fark.com/comments/8...
Of course, given that it's named DERP institute, even more people believe it's a joke.
If they had a fleshlight app for the iPhone, I'd have to disable my "shake to activate/deactivate" flashlight app. Permanently.
But at least my compass app would never need to ask for recalibration!
Thank you for the intelligent comment. I worked on the original instrument design at Hamilton Sundstrand over 10 years ago, and it was heartbreaking to learn of the original launch failure. A lot of us suspected but had no evidence that the failure was someone's desired outcome... now that OCO-2 is on station and collecting data we finally feel a sense of accomplishment.
And we'll not only learn who's contributing CO2 to the atmosphere, (and when, and where) but also what's consuming it, so we can not only reduce emissions but we can also sequester it better (e.g., by planting forests in the right places).
I guarantee we'll learn something we didn't expect. And scientists, being scientists, will embrace the surprises rather than reject them. This instrument will help us understand the problem better, produce better model forecasts, and plan better solutions.
Happy birthday, Nikola, you crazy bastard!
Emergent behavior may be necessary for creativity, but is not sufficient.
Nice servers don't go down.
Many of the comments on First Look and even here are disturbing, both in their rancor and in their bigotry. These kind of haters represent a tiny but vocal minority of the US population but they seem seem to swarm to the comments sections of any story that touches on one of their hot button issues. This is especially true at "mainstream" media sites like Yahoo News, CNN, etc. Clearly their intent is to disguise their minority status and make it appear as if their radical opinions are mainstream.
Do they have RSS feeds or Twitter Bots or something that tell them "Muslim story on First Look - Troll Force GO!" or something? It's fkn amazing.
And it does real damage to our society by promoting the kind of racism and abuse depicted in TFA, both institutional and cultural, even when the majority of the people hold no such opinions...
No, they're going to sabotage this launch just like the last one.
That way they get to keep their pork barrel projects, without suffering the inconvenient results of pesky little things like facts...
This driver ignores texts received while driving. If it's important, they can place a voice call and I'll answer it using my bluetooth earpiece.
It's not that hard. Really, your phone is not your brain... you can put it to sleep while driving. It's OK, your friends can wait for you to get back to them with "OMG LOL!"
There are more dimensions to emotions than just Relaxed vs. Angry. For it to be useful for something other than biofeedback this system will need to distinguish Relaxed from other states like Flow, Focused, or Bored and also distinguish Angry from Adrenaline Rushed, or Jubilant, or even Sexually Excited.
FTA, it sounds to me that this system would confuse many different emotions, so unless a player has a fetish for watching a cartoon avatar smash things, it will be just another footnote laboratory novelty.
national security HAS BEEN SEVERELY DAMAGED BY SNOWDEN
1 - Prove it. Snowden provided proof that laws were bent, stretched and even broken and that things for which the American people would never approve were being done in secret, and that things which don't need to be classified have been given that protection just to save the people in charge from embarassment or to intimidate whistleblowers. It's now the State Department/Pentagon's burden of proof to demonstrate the claim of damage to national security.
2 - Show why it trumps the Fourth and Fifth Amendments, and possibly others, not to mention innumerable laws and statutes. No where in the Constitution does it say that "National Security" overrides the Bill of Rights. Why does the 4th Amendment get short shrift? Try pulling that shit with the 2nd amendment and see what happens.
Both are necessary for "people who fully support Snowden without acknowledging the risks to national security" to conclude he didn't act in the name of the greater good.
Snowden did break the law. Few suggest he didn't. In a perfect world, his actions could be fairly judged and his punishment determined according to the above considerations. Unfortunately, I doubt this will ever happen.