I don't even know if CNE is really their stock ticker (I assume you know that it is) but I can tell you it's pretty common in the publishing industry to refer to the company as "CNE", so I'd give the summary writer a pass on that one.
The prototype, called WiFO, uses LEDs that are beyond the visual spectrum for humans and creates an invisible cone of light about one meter square in which the data can be received.
Obviously, the state not allowing itself to intervene is obviously not an exercise of the power of the state - it's an exercise in restraint of said power.
Obviously, that's just semantics - one could just as easily frame it as "the state is using it's power to make it more difficult for individuals to seek redress against corporations that discriminate against them." No matter how you look at it, the state is using its power to make discrimination easier.
The actual discriminatory power in this case comes from the individuals and corporations that discriminate - if there are none willing to do so, or if there are few enough and their scale is small, then it's all of no consequence. Even if said discrimination is pervasive, it is still limited to what private entities can legally do - so it's a very far cry from what government-powered discrimination can do (for example, it is not legal for corporations in the USA to summarily round up their customers and murder them in gas chambers; or to incarcerate them because they married a person of a different race).
So what? So because the corporations can't round up people and execute them, that makes this law okay? Your argument boils down to "well, at least Indiana isn't making it legal for corporations to start KILLING gay people, so we should be happy that they're only making it easier to discriminate against gay people."
By not allowing the state to intervene when individuals or corporations actively discriminate against homosexuals, isn't the power of the state in this case being used for exactly that purpose?
Any reason, like the color of someone's skin, or the fact that they're female, or that they're Jewish...... just throwing a few out there, to see where you draw the line.
Hey thanks for your off-topic attempt to convince people to not vote for Hilary in 2016. You're really doing your part to keep Slashdot all about news for nerds.
For the millionth time, nobody disallowed these assholes their freedom of speech. You can chant whatever racist things you want to chant, and you won't go to jail for it. You won't even be forced by a court to pay a fine.
However, freedom of speech doesn't mean "I get to say whatever I want and not face any consequences from society after I say it." If you're a racist asshole, and you make your racist assholery public, expect the public to treat you like a racist asshole. There's a reason these guys are only chanting that bullshit on a bus, and not out in the open in the quad. They know they're racist assholes, and they know if they spew this bullshit in public, they'll have to face repercussions. Which they now are. Exactly the right thing happened in this case.
No crime committed, and no one is going to jail. The non-existent "thought police" aren't arresting anyone.
Freedom of speech gives you the right to be a total asshole. However, it doesn't guarantee you the right to not be treated like an asshole when you act like an asshole. If you act like a total asshole, don't cry about "free speech!" when the rest of society treats you like one.
Bullshit. The chart came from one Dr. Roy Spencer, who is not only a climatologist who has made a career out of claiming he's right and most scientists are wrong, but is also a noted creationist ("intelligent design, as a theory of origins, is no more religious, and no less scientific, than evolutionism" is my favorite quote from him on the topic).
I know it's not fashionable to RTFA, but clearly you didn't.
Users visit NoFlyZone.org and enter their home address along with some basic information. This data is then processed by the NoFlyZone.org database, which registers the address and its GPS coordinates. This information is then relayed to drone manufacturers to create a geofence around the home and render their products unable to fly over the property.
They're asking for manufacturers to voluntarily respect this list and disable their drones from flying in those zones. Now, whether this will work is another discussion.
the address and its GPS coordinates... is then relayed to drone manufacturers to create a geofence around the home and render their products unable to fly over the property.
So we're going to count on the manufacturers to voluntarily add a feature to their drones that makes them unable to fly in a huge list of tiny spaces? Oh okay. This should solve everything./sarcasm
And millions like him, in his age group. The movies are different; the thing that stays the same is that old people have always, and will always, say that "it was better back in my day!" or even the days before they were kids.
You can call this point of view flamebait or trolling if you want, as some old mod did earlier today, but the fact is this: the stalest cliche on the planet is that old people don't like what young people are listening to or watching on a screen, whatever the size of that screen happens to be, and they can't remember that when they were young, the old people of that time didn't like what THEY were enjoying.
PS, there was plenty of crap in movies back when you were a kid too. You just don't remember it as well as you remember the good movies - because the crap was crap, and you didn't bother watching it more than once.
You want manual intervention before surge pricing gets activated, every time? Kind of defeats the purpose of having a computer respond to the supply-and-demand levels of every single place Uber operates. The whole point of that system is that it's designed to quickly respond to rapidly changing levels of drivers and passengers, and it doesn't do either party any good if a human has to review every single surge pricing moment before the surge pricing goes into effect. It's a ridiculous premise.
With regard to concerts and sporting events, why should Uber make rides free during those events? One would think Uber drivers would go to such areas at the conclusion of the event in hopes of picking up fares, so there would be less need for surge pricing, and if there were was need for surge pricing, that would still serve the purpose of getting more drivers on the roads.
Let's not forget a key point that everyone seems to ignore - NO ONE IS FORCING YOU TO TAKE UBER. It's merely an extra choice, meaning you now have more choices for transportation than you did before. That's a good thing. If you take a handful of negative news stories about Uber (many of them unjustified attempts by press to create a story out of nothing, like in Australia), and decide you don't want to use Uber, that's fine; you can still take a taxi, or a bus, or a train, or your own car.
The original point was that North Korea attacked Sony, a corporation with more revenue than the entire country attacking it. The GP's ridiculous post posited that because NK attacked "Sony PICTURES ENTERTAINMENT", we should only count SPE's revenue when making such a comparison, as if the parent company didn't care that their subsidiary was attacked. You've taken that tangent to a silly level of off-topic.
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I don't even know if CNE is really their stock ticker (I assume you know that it is) but I can tell you it's pretty common in the publishing industry to refer to the company as "CNE", so I'd give the summary writer a pass on that one.
being annoying anywhere outside of a rave?
I know it's not fashionable to RTFA at Slashdot, but really....
The prototype uses LEDs that are beyond the visual spectrum for humans
The prototype, called WiFO, uses LEDs that are beyond the visual spectrum for humans and creates an invisible cone of light about one meter square in which the data can be received.
Obviously, the state not allowing itself to intervene is obviously not an exercise of the power of the state - it's an exercise in restraint of said power.
Obviously, that's just semantics - one could just as easily frame it as "the state is using it's power to make it more difficult for individuals to seek redress against corporations that discriminate against them." No matter how you look at it, the state is using its power to make discrimination easier.
The actual discriminatory power in this case comes from the individuals and corporations that discriminate - if there are none willing to do so, or if there are few enough and their scale is small, then it's all of no consequence. Even if said discrimination is pervasive, it is still limited to what private entities can legally do - so it's a very far cry from what government-powered discrimination can do (for example, it is not legal for corporations in the USA to summarily round up their customers and murder them in gas chambers; or to incarcerate them because they married a person of a different race).
So what? So because the corporations can't round up people and execute them, that makes this law okay? Your argument boils down to "well, at least Indiana isn't making it legal for corporations to start KILLING gay people, so we should be happy that they're only making it easier to discriminate against gay people."
By not allowing the state to intervene when individuals or corporations actively discriminate against homosexuals, isn't the power of the state in this case being used for exactly that purpose?
Any reason, like the color of someone's skin, or the fact that they're female, or that they're Jewish...... just throwing a few out there, to see where you draw the line.
Wow, you've taken "blame the victim" to a whole new level. Bravo.
Hey thanks for your off-topic attempt to convince people to not vote for Hilary in 2016. You're really doing your part to keep Slashdot all about news for nerds.
For the millionth time, nobody disallowed these assholes their freedom of speech. You can chant whatever racist things you want to chant, and you won't go to jail for it. You won't even be forced by a court to pay a fine.
However, freedom of speech doesn't mean "I get to say whatever I want and not face any consequences from society after I say it." If you're a racist asshole, and you make your racist assholery public, expect the public to treat you like a racist asshole. There's a reason these guys are only chanting that bullshit on a bus, and not out in the open in the quad. They know they're racist assholes, and they know if they spew this bullshit in public, they'll have to face repercussions. Which they now are. Exactly the right thing happened in this case.
No crime committed, and no one is going to jail. The non-existent "thought police" aren't arresting anyone.
Freedom of speech gives you the right to be a total asshole. However, it doesn't guarantee you the right to not be treated like an asshole when you act like an asshole. If you act like a total asshole, don't cry about "free speech!" when the rest of society treats you like one.
Agreed. As a corollary to that point, why are we not allowed to WATCH the video and judge for ourselves?
You are. https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
Bullshit. The chart came from one Dr. Roy Spencer, who is not only a climatologist who has made a career out of claiming he's right and most scientists are wrong, but is also a noted creationist ("intelligent design, as a theory of origins, is no more religious, and no less scientific, than evolutionism" is my favorite quote from him on the topic).
Here's a nice summation of how he fudged numbers in order to come up with that bogus chart: http://blog.hotwhopper.com/201...
To your point of "I may be wrong", let me say, yes.... yes you are.
Your definition of "many" isn't a big enough number to be a viable source of income for keeping a smartphone manufacturer alive.
Those two things (yours and the GP's post) are not mutually exclusive.
Users visit NoFlyZone.org and enter their home address along with some basic information. This data is then processed by the NoFlyZone.org database, which registers the address and its GPS coordinates. This information is then relayed to drone manufacturers to create a geofence around the home and render their products unable to fly over the property.
They're asking for manufacturers to voluntarily respect this list and disable their drones from flying in those zones. Now, whether this will work is another discussion.
the address and its GPS coordinates ... is then relayed to drone manufacturers to create a geofence around the home and render their products unable to fly over the property.
So we're going to count on the manufacturers to voluntarily add a feature to their drones that makes them unable to fly in a huge list of tiny spaces? Oh okay. This should solve everything. /sarcasm
Oil prices are going back up, and will be at three digits a barrel by Memorial Day due to OPEC production cuts.
I'd just like to point out that if this Anonymous Coward knew this as fact, he could be a multi-millionaire by Memorial Day with ease.
If you agree with him, then so could you.
Good luck with that.
Oh yeah, the old "Back in MY day....!" argument. Excellent way to explain away everything with one centuries-old ridiculous premise.
Jobs' genius and Ballmer's ineptitude are not mutually exclusive concepts.
there are plenty of us over 40-year-olds who use a phone for calling very regularly. :-)
FTFY
And millions like him, in his age group. The movies are different; the thing that stays the same is that old people have always, and will always, say that "it was better back in my day!" or even the days before they were kids.
You can call this point of view flamebait or trolling if you want, as some old mod did earlier today, but the fact is this: the stalest cliche on the planet is that old people don't like what young people are listening to or watching on a screen, whatever the size of that screen happens to be, and they can't remember that when they were young, the old people of that time didn't like what THEY were enjoying.
PS, there was plenty of crap in movies back when you were a kid too. You just don't remember it as well as you remember the good movies - because the crap was crap, and you didn't bother watching it more than once.
Breaking News: Old guys say that movies were better "back in my day."
Film at..... uh, VOD at 11.....
You want manual intervention before surge pricing gets activated, every time? Kind of defeats the purpose of having a computer respond to the supply-and-demand levels of every single place Uber operates. The whole point of that system is that it's designed to quickly respond to rapidly changing levels of drivers and passengers, and it doesn't do either party any good if a human has to review every single surge pricing moment before the surge pricing goes into effect. It's a ridiculous premise.
With regard to concerts and sporting events, why should Uber make rides free during those events? One would think Uber drivers would go to such areas at the conclusion of the event in hopes of picking up fares, so there would be less need for surge pricing, and if there were was need for surge pricing, that would still serve the purpose of getting more drivers on the roads.
Let's not forget a key point that everyone seems to ignore - NO ONE IS FORCING YOU TO TAKE UBER. It's merely an extra choice, meaning you now have more choices for transportation than you did before. That's a good thing. If you take a handful of negative news stories about Uber (many of them unjustified attempts by press to create a story out of nothing, like in Australia), and decide you don't want to use Uber, that's fine; you can still take a taxi, or a bus, or a train, or your own car.
The original point was that North Korea attacked Sony, a corporation with more revenue than the entire country attacking it. The GP's ridiculous post posited that because NK attacked "Sony PICTURES ENTERTAINMENT", we should only count SPE's revenue when making such a comparison, as if the parent company didn't care that their subsidiary was attacked. You've taken that tangent to a silly level of off-topic.