Weird.. How can they verify that it's your card if they can't ask for ID? At the very least, a PIN-code should be required. In Sweden, merchants are REQUIRED to ask for ID as a condition for using a credit/debit card unless they have a card terminal where you can verify with your PIN-code.. Of course this is often ignored in places with a lot of people like bars without card terminals and for minor purchases, then signing the receipt is all they want you to do.
You don't have to use the same right of way as the existing line, the Connecticut coast for instance, build the new line further inland and avoid all the suburbs along the NEC.
There's usually a signalling system to prevent that, it would probably require some pretty decent skills to override the ATC, not to mention that controllers can simply cut power if they are informed that a train has been hijacked.
Personal service to the few very wealthy will not be enough to replace all the jobs lost, especially as services jobs become automated as well. -The automated checkout lines that exist today is really just the beginning for the service industry, it's not going to stop there.. I do think that replacing manual labor with robotics is a good thing, but in our present economic system, it spells disaster for a huge portion of the population.. We need to make sure that the increased productivity caused by automation is evenly distributed, not concentrated in the hands of the few already very wealthy who happen to own the businesses that become automated.
I think we need to think about radically reforming the economy as automation becomes more and more common. Eventually only creative work will be available to humans, and while creative work is great I doubt it can provide enough jobs for the entire population. If we don't do something radical to make sure everyone shares in the fruits of the increased productivity of society, we will have a huge permanently unemployed underclass, some middle to upper class workers and a few massively wealthy owners of the automated factories/services etc. I'm very interested in machine learning and automation, I'm doing my master's in that field, but I'm also concerned about what will happen to our society.
They usually post old exams on the course webpage at my university. I've never seen an old exam reused though, you can get a general idea of what will be on the exam (assuming the course doesn't have a new professor in which case there may or may not be an example exam) and it's generally a good idea to study a few of them before the exam.
I assume they cheat on home exams and such? Home exams can be a good idea, but it's obviously not suited to some types of exams (the bad ones). If all you need to do for the exam is regurgitate facts, then of course students will use whatever resources are available to them in a non-proctored environment. How about designing the exams such that they need some original though, and assumes that you're going to make use of the Internet or other as a source of information. I at least have never had a home exam that only requires you to regurgitate some facts, if you're going to insist on making such an exam, you better make sure its proctored. For essays there are services that can detect plagiarizing, I don't know how well they work only that it's pretty common at my university whenever essay writing is involved.
As much as I like freedom of speech and democracy (real democracy, not the kind where you choose between a few figureheads who then go on to do nothing of what they promised), at this stage of its development dictatorship is probably a good thing in China, it allows them to get things done. India could never do what China is doing with their infrastructure, they'd be tied up in the courts for years.
Any computer with an SSH server installed can act as a SOCKS5 proxy.. Seems like it would be somewhat easier to just set up a few of those and allow the Chinese people free roam of the Internet. (of course then they could learn all sorts of things not endorsed by the US government, that can't be good:P)
There are thousands of actors that can act at least as well as Will Smith can, probably hundreds of thousands, perhaps even millions, I don't see why Will Smith (or any other actor) should make you more likely to watch a movie. The writing and direction is much more important to the success of a movie.
Anyways, our society is full of examples of people contributing little to society (stock traders come to mind) are paid millions, yet those who contribute a lot (nurses and teachers for instance) are often paid below the average salary.
I agree that you would want root access and proper tools and such, but what I'm saying is that it doesn't matter much which distribution is used when the computer is preinstalled and preconfigured with that distribution, and by distribution I mean the likes of Ubuntu and Arch, not Android which has a completely different userspace from a standard GNU/Linux distribution.
But what does it matter when the software comes preinstalled? It's not like they're going to install and configure each and every laptop individually when they can install and configure one laptop as they want and then dump the image onto all the others.. I'm not saying Mint is not better out of the box than Ubuntu, but when it comes preinstalled and preconfigured, the distribution does not matter much.
There are tons of buses on the motorway all the time, especially during rush hours.. Just equip them with this system and you're done. Though if the bus is in a bus lane I don't know how it would work legally, maybe the cars attached to the bus would have special permission to use the bus lane?
I can't speak for the GP, but I can say that I will happily pay my taxes once I'm finished with my education. Without the taxes of others, I wouldn't have been able to have an education (my parents were never exactly wealthy) and would earn quite a bit less than I will. I'm willing to pay my fair share in order to make for a society with equal opportunity for all, where no one has to starve and no one can be denied health care.
Care to provide an example of a healthy country with a low tax rate? My own country (Sweden) would be considered healthy by any reasonable observer, yet we've had some of the highest taxes in the world for at least the past 50 years, during which the economy has grown. We provide tax-funded health care, education (including college), subsidized childcare, subsidized parental leave, etc, etc. We couldn't do that without our high level of taxation. The same is true of all of our Nordic neighbors and quite a few other European countries...
You must have some pretty damned weird unions in that case. Ours negotiate things like minimum pay, overtime pay, working conditions, etc, not holes...
How do they use abortion as a wedge issue? What could abortion possibly have to do with this issue?
I realize Americans don't believe in unions (and from I hear you're even worse in Texas), but grow some fucking balls and take care of the situation. This is the sort of stuff that could have been prevented had you had some collective bargaining. Hell this could have been prevented if you had some decent labor laws. Not only would virtually no-one over here accept such working conditions, it would most likely be illegal.
Well if everyone bough him equally with some tiny amount, I don't see the problem, of course if he is bought by a single or a subset of the population there is a big conflict of interest.
Not that our campaign financing system is anything to brag about, we're the only country in Europe which doesn't require parties to publicly declare where their contributions came from, which the moderates (right wing on economic issues, moderate on social issues) and the christian democracts (right of center to right on economic issues, extreme right on social issues), have taken full advantage of. Which segment of contributors the money came from is of course quite obvious for both parties...
If the government breaks its own laws in order to achieve its goals, it has taken the first steps toward becoming a dictatorship.
If a private citizen breaks laws in order to achieve his goals he is simply a criminal, in the eyes of the law of course.
If a private citizen breaks laws in order to reveal vital information which has been hidden from the public eye, he will certainly be a criminal in the eyes of the law (assuming he has actually broken one), but he is in no way a dictator. He is vital to the democratic process, as voters cannot make an informed choice between parties or candidates without having all the relevant information available to them...
But that requires one sensor for each parking spot, while this monitors changes in the electromagnetic environment to locate free spots further away as well. One sensor can take care of multiple spots.
Well there are probably a lot of casual readers who aren't even registered who don't get this option.. It makes sense to reward those with decent karma with an opt-out, they do contribute an essential part of slashdot..
How is this either troll or flamebait? Slashdot mods gone insane with rage. Could it be the mention of socialism? McCarthyism still seems to be running high among Americans.
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Weird.. How can they verify that it's your card if they can't ask for ID? At the very least, a PIN-code should be required.
In Sweden, merchants are REQUIRED to ask for ID as a condition for using a credit/debit card unless they have a card terminal where you can verify with your PIN-code.. Of course this is often ignored in places with a lot of people like bars without card terminals and for minor purchases, then signing the receipt is all they want you to do.
Don't you have a PIN-code on your credit card?? Anyone can find out what your zip code is...
You don't have to use the same right of way as the existing line, the Connecticut coast for instance, build the new line further inland and avoid all the suburbs along the NEC.
There's usually a signalling system to prevent that, it would probably require some pretty decent skills to override the ATC, not to mention that controllers can simply cut power if they are informed that a train has been hijacked.
Personal service to the few very wealthy will not be enough to replace all the jobs lost, especially as services jobs become automated as well. -The automated checkout lines that exist today is really just the beginning for the service industry, it's not going to stop there..
I do think that replacing manual labor with robotics is a good thing, but in our present economic system, it spells disaster for a huge portion of the population.. We need to make sure that the increased productivity caused by automation is evenly distributed, not concentrated in the hands of the few already very wealthy who happen to own the businesses that become automated.
I think we need to think about radically reforming the economy as automation becomes more and more common. Eventually only creative work will be available to humans, and while creative work is great I doubt it can provide enough jobs for the entire population. If we don't do something radical to make sure everyone shares in the fruits of the increased productivity of society, we will have a huge permanently unemployed underclass, some middle to upper class workers and a few massively wealthy owners of the automated factories/services etc.
I'm very interested in machine learning and automation, I'm doing my master's in that field, but I'm also concerned about what will happen to our society.
They usually post old exams on the course webpage at my university. I've never seen an old exam reused though, you can get a general idea of what will be on the exam (assuming the course doesn't have a new professor in which case there may or may not be an example exam) and it's generally a good idea to study a few of them before the exam.
I assume they cheat on home exams and such? Home exams can be a good idea, but it's obviously not suited to some types of exams (the bad ones). If all you need to do for the exam is regurgitate facts, then of course students will use whatever resources are available to them in a non-proctored environment. How about designing the exams such that they need some original though, and assumes that you're going to make use of the Internet or other as a source of information. I at least have never had a home exam that only requires you to regurgitate some facts, if you're going to insist on making such an exam, you better make sure its proctored.
For essays there are services that can detect plagiarizing, I don't know how well they work only that it's pretty common at my university whenever essay writing is involved.
The main engine of Atlas V is the Russian RD-180...
As much as I like freedom of speech and democracy (real democracy, not the kind where you choose between a few figureheads who then go on to do nothing of what they promised), at this stage of its development dictatorship is probably a good thing in China, it allows them to get things done. India could never do what China is doing with their infrastructure, they'd be tied up in the courts for years.
Any computer with an SSH server installed can act as a SOCKS5 proxy.. Seems like it would be somewhat easier to just set up a few of those and allow the Chinese people free roam of the Internet. (of course then they could learn all sorts of things not endorsed by the US government, that can't be good :P)
There are thousands of actors that can act at least as well as Will Smith can, probably hundreds of thousands, perhaps even millions, I don't see why Will Smith (or any other actor) should make you more likely to watch a movie. The writing and direction is much more important to the success of a movie.
Anyways, our society is full of examples of people contributing little to society (stock traders come to mind) are paid millions, yet those who contribute a lot (nurses and teachers for instance) are often paid below the average salary.
I agree that you would want root access and proper tools and such, but what I'm saying is that it doesn't matter much which distribution is used when the computer is preinstalled and preconfigured with that distribution, and by distribution I mean the likes of Ubuntu and Arch, not Android which has a completely different userspace from a standard GNU/Linux distribution.
But what does it matter when the software comes preinstalled? It's not like they're going to install and configure each and every laptop individually when they can install and configure one laptop as they want and then dump the image onto all the others.. I'm not saying Mint is not better out of the box than Ubuntu, but when it comes preinstalled and preconfigured, the distribution does not matter much.
There are tons of buses on the motorway all the time, especially during rush hours.. Just equip them with this system and you're done. Though if the bus is in a bus lane I don't know how it would work legally, maybe the cars attached to the bus would have special permission to use the bus lane?
I can't speak for the GP, but I can say that I will happily pay my taxes once I'm finished with my education. Without the taxes of others, I wouldn't have been able to have an education (my parents were never exactly wealthy) and would earn quite a bit less than I will. I'm willing to pay my fair share in order to make for a society with equal opportunity for all, where no one has to starve and no one can be denied health care.
Care to provide an example of a healthy country with a low tax rate? My own country (Sweden) would be considered healthy by any reasonable observer, yet we've had some of the highest taxes in the world for at least the past 50 years, during which the economy has grown. We provide tax-funded health care, education (including college), subsidized childcare, subsidized parental leave, etc, etc. We couldn't do that without our high level of taxation. The same is true of all of our Nordic neighbors and quite a few other European countries...
You must have some pretty damned weird unions in that case. Ours negotiate things like minimum pay, overtime pay, working conditions, etc, not holes...
How do they use abortion as a wedge issue? What could abortion possibly have to do with this issue?
I realize Americans don't believe in unions (and from I hear you're even worse in Texas), but grow some fucking balls and take care of the situation. This is the sort of stuff that could have been prevented had you had some collective bargaining. Hell this could have been prevented if you had some decent labor laws. Not only would virtually no-one over here accept such working conditions, it would most likely be illegal.
Now when we're invaded by aliens, we'll just induce a couple of thunderstorms directly beneath their ships as they approach!
Well if everyone bough him equally with some tiny amount, I don't see the problem, of course if he is bought by a single or a subset of the population there is a big conflict of interest.
Not that our campaign financing system is anything to brag about, we're the only country in Europe which doesn't require parties to publicly declare where their contributions came from, which the moderates (right wing on economic issues, moderate on social issues) and the christian democracts (right of center to right on economic issues, extreme right on social issues), have taken full advantage of. Which segment of contributors the money came from is of course quite obvious for both parties...
If the government breaks its own laws in order to achieve its goals, it has taken the first steps toward becoming a dictatorship.
If a private citizen breaks laws in order to achieve his goals he is simply a criminal, in the eyes of the law of course.
If a private citizen breaks laws in order to reveal vital information which has been hidden from the public eye, he will certainly be a criminal in the eyes of the law (assuming he has actually broken one), but he is in no way a dictator. He is vital to the democratic process, as voters cannot make an informed choice between parties or candidates without having all the relevant information available to them...
But that requires one sensor for each parking spot, while this monitors changes in the electromagnetic environment to locate free spots further away as well. One sensor can take care of multiple spots.
Well there are probably a lot of casual readers who aren't even registered who don't get this option.. It makes sense to reward those with decent karma with an opt-out, they do contribute an essential part of slashdot..
How is this either troll or flamebait? Slashdot mods gone insane with rage. Could it be the mention of socialism? McCarthyism still seems to be running high among Americans.
Mod parent up!