Wow, I'm shocked. CEOs in Silicon Valley have similar characteristics to CEOs in NYC, Washington DC, and beyond. Where's the news here? Did many people really think that the most valuable companies in Silicon Valley are actually still being led by the people responsible for their initial invention(s)?
The civilized world has at least a base level of universal health care for everyone within their country. We find that gets in the way of profit so we won't allow it to happen. This isn't a partisan issue, either - the health insurance industry owns politicians of every flavor and invests heavily to ensure that this does not change.
The civilized world has at least a base level of universal health care for everyone within their country. We find that gets in the way of profit so we won't allow it to happen. This isn't a partisan issue, either - the health insurance industry owns politicians of every flavor and invests heavily to ensure that this does not change.
If the batteries will be made in Nevada, and shipped to Australia, I'm curious to know how they plan to transport them. It seems to me the most logical way would be by boat but could they get there quickly enough? If these are lithium ion batteries would it be possible to ship them by air given all the shipping restrictions that are placed on lithium ion batteries currently? If they go by boat how would they be packed to minimize the chance of a catastrophe en route?
People who spend all their time on facebook are already having all their activity sold to the highest bidder. What would their complaint be when their ISP asks for a cut on the action?
The GOP now claims to be the party that represents rural America. In MN they have the majority of both the state house and state senate. If the state senate committee was divided up to match the division of the chamber itself, then the GOP only needed to convince one or two democrats to approve the bill past committee in order to get it up to a vote in the chamber.
If they couldn't bring themselves to work with the democrats enough to get just one or two senators to approve the bill to go past committee, they have nothing to bitch about. This should not have been a difficult bill to get moved forward. More likely they are getting their wheels greased by the farm implement industry just as much (if not more) than the democrats and as a result they couldn't be bothered to put any real effort into seeing this bill go through; it was in their interest to just make a statement by saying they wrote and proposed it.
Craftsman is a very confusing and ambiguous situation. A lot of their tools are now Chinese made, but not all of them. Of course the "evolv" brand is 100% Chinese, but amongst what is stamped Craftsman you have to examine the individual piece to know where it was made.
From what I've seen, all the Craftsman power tools are now Chinese made. All the automotive tools (jacks, lifts, etc) are as well. Hand tools, however, are a mixed bag. You can come across the same ratchet twice and one will be American the other Chinese. It seems that in general the ones in the combo packs are Chinese and the ones sold individually are American but that is not the case every time. The screwdrivers seem to be mostly American made - particularly the rare "Professional" ones.
Indeed Craftsman used to be the last holdout. The store branded tools at Lowe's and Home Depot were American made for a while (back in the 90s and very early 00s) but went all Chinese a while back. Making things even more frustrating is the use of other brand names that are associated with American companies (DeWalt being a great example) to sell Chinese made hand tools.
So where to get American made tools without contacting your Snap-on, Mac, or Matco rep? I have good luck on craigslist. Sometimes good tools show up at pawn shops as well.
Sears almost never signs a lease. Even when they are attached to the largest malls in the country they almost without exception insist on owning their property. While other anchors will lease, Sears many decades ago made the decision to essentially never begin negotiations unless they could own their property, regardless of how large the mall was or any other terms. Their real estate portfolio is massive, but until they start selling off some of their underperforming stores (which is difficult to determine as none of them are performing well) it will be very hard to determine the value.
as they just sold off many of their best-known brands (including Craftsman, Kenmore, and Die-Hard).
Hmmm....wonder how they have the money to stay in business....
That brought in about enough money to keep the lights on a little bit longer. It doesn't bring in enough money to cover payroll for very long. Equally important, it just took away one of the biggest incentives they ever had for people to go to their stores. Why go to Sears when you can get Craftsman and Kenmore at Home Depot or Lowe's? Why go to Sears when tons of tire shops now sell Die-Hard batteries?
Eddie Lampert is living out his Lord of the Flies fantasy with his employees right now, with disastrous effects. If customers don't want to go in the door because they can't stand how the stores are run, they'll have a really hard time staying afloat. The last time I went in to a tools section at my local Sears it took over 10 minutes to get an employee to a register while 6 customers were walking around in the area (and employees from other departments were following orders to not help anyone in tools). If any of those 6 had been of the unscrupulous variety they could have easily walked out the door with hundreds of dollars of merchandise before the employee had even shown up; and as the parking lot was mostly empty they could have been long gone before anyone had noticed.
... is that RadioShack collapsed before Sears. My corporate dead pool for 2017 had Sears first, then RadioShack. I still can't find anyone who can explain why Sears is still open at all at this point, especially as they just sold off many of their best-known brands (including Craftsman, Kenmore, and Die-Hard).
I don't buy any kind of uber fancy paper towels from the store but I can certainly wring them out and reuse them when I am wiping up a big spill in the kitchen or near the table.
By my understanding of mobile phone technology and protocols those are the two least compatible networks in the USA at the present time. All the customers of one would eventually be stuck buying phones running the protocol of the other. Wouldn't a Sprint / Verizon merger make a lot more sense from a technology standpoint?
Merging with Comcast might make some sense, but I don't recall hearing Comcast ever express a previous interest in going into the mobile market.
This is somewhat orthogonal to the topic, but the CRT was a requisite for the home user to play light gun games on systems like the NES. However in the arcade we still see new installments of Time Crisis and others, and they are even done on wide screen monitors. This suggests to me that they have moved to LCDs, but I can't find good information on how they work if they did. Anyone know the answer?
If it could offer me a reality where Windows doesn't make me miserable 40 hours a week, that would be great. I've had to start dealing with Windows Server 2012R2 and it makes me want to shove hot pokers in my eyes to escape the pain of the layout of the new GUI. On top of that the enormous flaw in the.NET implementation on it also breaks some of the applications that are most critical to my work, and nobody seems to give a shit about that problem.
I would set up a VM inside of the 2012 server to run 7, except we're already running 2012 as a VM on a Linux system - by which point I can no longer make 64 bit virtualization a reality. And of course stacking my turtles that high doesn't seem like the greatest idea either...
Pence has the correct consonant after his name, so we don't need to investigate this any further. Only people with that cursed mark of the Devil need to be investigated (repeatedly) for offenses relating to email. We all know that Mr. Pence is the very model of morality and will be completely transparent and forthcoming on this innocent mistake.
I think the odds are very high that an existing virus or bacterium would incorporate bits of the DNA and start replicating it. Even the cell itself would probably do that.
I can tell you that the odds are actually very, very, vanishingly small. The reason being that it is energetically costly for a cell or virus to pick up DNA from the environment and incorporate it into its own genome - hence there needs to be a good reason for this to happen in order for it to occur. The DNA strands on their own won't be bringing with them machinery to incorporate themselves into a genome, and they would not be long enough to present any advantage for the cell or virus to warrant incorporation.
Much more likely is that the cell or virus would see the short strands of DNA as a food source and proceed to digest it.
The question you are probably asking, that I don't know the answer to, is "what are the odds that a given one of these strands contains instructions that, when put in some kind of cell, would end up creating a virus". I'd imagine the odds would be really steep
Rather astronomically steep, actually. Being as the DNA is being designed to carry a message in nucleic acid space, the sequences would likely be highly nonsenical when translated into amino acid (protein) space; meaning they would almost certainly be of no utility to living organisms. And being as they are dealing with very short strands of DNA, if these were transfected into a living cell the target cell would almost certainly see them as food and treat them as such.
The real news in this story is that we now have companies that can create designer DNA from scratch.
Where have you been the past decade or two? This technology is working with DNA strands that are ~200 nucleotides long. We've been able to generate sequences of that length on demand in commercial apparatuses for years already.
Unfortunately, I think the error rate may be higher than typical storage hardware. Enzymes will need to be designed and placed to repair the DNA strands.
That is why they are using such short pieces of DNA. There are already enzymes that replicate short strands with exceptionally high fidelity; it would be much more difficult if we were duplicating very long pieces. There are even DNA polymerases that do their own error-checking that are especially good for this type of work.
I'll give you the benefit of the doubt here and assume you are not trolling with that one, and share just a couple ways how these are not similar.
Commenting on a website is not even somewhat similar to voting in terms of impact
A website - even one run by a government - has the right to restrict what others post on it by any metric they wish. In our country you have no right to go post whatever you want on whitehouse.gov or any other government website.
I encourage you to go back and try reading what I wrote, before you make such sweeping assumptions about its content. I never defended any position of hers in my comments. I merely pointed out that she is a very popular target of the Slashdot conservative majority. Being as you likely didn't read any of the actual text involved - one would have to go far beyond the slashdot summary and even beyond the shitty Washington Times article that said summary links to in order to do so - it doesn't surprise me that you also didn't read what I wrote before you hit the submit button to reply to it.
In other words, your bias is showing. Try putting some thought into your comments next time.
Look at the conservative voice being bolstered by the Slashdot conservative majority after launching into an attack on me. Just because I pointed out the Ms. Wu has approval on Slashdot roughly equal to that of the Ebola virus doesn't mean I agree with everything she says.
The double standard in effect here is also telling. The POTUS says all kinds of stupid shit on Twitter, at least weekly. Yet he is not held to everything he posts there but Slashdot readers are on a roll attacking this person who wants to run for congress over this tweet. The fact that she is even aware of the amount of damage something dropped from space could do suggests she likely has a better grasp on physics than our POTUS, even if her tweet did not show a good understanding of the matter of launching something from the surface of the Moon.
And your claim of her saying that someone would just "throw" the rock is supported by what? Yeah, nothing. But go ahead and insert whatever you want into the argument, you'll win this one by majority vote alone (as you've already seen). Slashdot will happily bash her at any opportunity while praising the GOP in the same breath regardless of which one shows a better understanding of physical reality.
OK, we get that Slashdot hates Brianna Wu. We know that there are few harsher adjectives around here than the dreaded "Social Justice Warrior". We get that compared to the Slashdot voice, Brianna is a Communist (although compared to the Slashdot voice, Ronald Reagan is one, too).
What makes this front page entry a disappointment though is how far it wandered from reality just to attack one person. All that is being discussed here is the possibility of a kinetic weapon - which has had an entry on wikipedia for over a decade. Wu's statement was then twisted to be used as an attack against her.
And seriously, what does Slashdot have to gain by attacking her, anyways? She wants to represent Massachusetts. Most of Slashdot would see the majority of the voting public in Massachusetts to be total Communists regardless, and if Wu doesn't get the nomination some other person of similar political persuasion will.
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Wow, I'm shocked. CEOs in Silicon Valley have similar characteristics to CEOs in NYC, Washington DC, and beyond. Where's the news here? Did many people really think that the most valuable companies in Silicon Valley are actually still being led by the people responsible for their initial invention(s)?
The civilized world has at least a base level of universal health care for everyone within their country. We find that gets in the way of profit so we won't allow it to happen. This isn't a partisan issue, either - the health insurance industry owns politicians of every flavor and invests heavily to ensure that this does not change.
The civilized world has at least a base level of universal health care for everyone within their country. We find that gets in the way of profit so we won't allow it to happen. This isn't a partisan issue, either - the health insurance industry owns politicians of every flavor and invests heavily to ensure that this does not change.
I think the fastest route would be a Falcon rocket going through a tunnel bored straight from Nevada to Australia.
Imagine a Beowulf cluster of that!
If the batteries will be made in Nevada, and shipped to Australia, I'm curious to know how they plan to transport them. It seems to me the most logical way would be by boat but could they get there quickly enough? If these are lithium ion batteries would it be possible to ship them by air given all the shipping restrictions that are placed on lithium ion batteries currently? If they go by boat how would they be packed to minimize the chance of a catastrophe en route?
People who spend all their time on facebook are already having all their activity sold to the highest bidder. What would their complaint be when their ISP asks for a cut on the action?
The GOP now claims to be the party that represents rural America. In MN they have the majority of both the state house and state senate. If the state senate committee was divided up to match the division of the chamber itself, then the GOP only needed to convince one or two democrats to approve the bill past committee in order to get it up to a vote in the chamber.
If they couldn't bring themselves to work with the democrats enough to get just one or two senators to approve the bill to go past committee, they have nothing to bitch about. This should not have been a difficult bill to get moved forward. More likely they are getting their wheels greased by the farm implement industry just as much (if not more) than the democrats and as a result they couldn't be bothered to put any real effort into seeing this bill go through; it was in their interest to just make a statement by saying they wrote and proposed it.
Craftsman is a very confusing and ambiguous situation. A lot of their tools are now Chinese made, but not all of them. Of course the "evolv" brand is 100% Chinese, but amongst what is stamped Craftsman you have to examine the individual piece to know where it was made.
From what I've seen, all the Craftsman power tools are now Chinese made. All the automotive tools (jacks, lifts, etc) are as well. Hand tools, however, are a mixed bag. You can come across the same ratchet twice and one will be American the other Chinese. It seems that in general the ones in the combo packs are Chinese and the ones sold individually are American but that is not the case every time. The screwdrivers seem to be mostly American made - particularly the rare "Professional" ones.
Indeed Craftsman used to be the last holdout. The store branded tools at Lowe's and Home Depot were American made for a while (back in the 90s and very early 00s) but went all Chinese a while back. Making things even more frustrating is the use of other brand names that are associated with American companies (DeWalt being a great example) to sell Chinese made hand tools.
So where to get American made tools without contacting your Snap-on, Mac, or Matco rep? I have good luck on craigslist. Sometimes good tools show up at pawn shops as well.
Sears almost never signs a lease. Even when they are attached to the largest malls in the country they almost without exception insist on owning their property. While other anchors will lease, Sears many decades ago made the decision to essentially never begin negotiations unless they could own their property, regardless of how large the mall was or any other terms. Their real estate portfolio is massive, but until they start selling off some of their underperforming stores (which is difficult to determine as none of them are performing well) it will be very hard to determine the value.
as they just sold off many of their best-known brands (including Craftsman, Kenmore, and Die-Hard).
Hmmm....wonder how they have the money to stay in business....
That brought in about enough money to keep the lights on a little bit longer. It doesn't bring in enough money to cover payroll for very long. Equally important, it just took away one of the biggest incentives they ever had for people to go to their stores. Why go to Sears when you can get Craftsman and Kenmore at Home Depot or Lowe's? Why go to Sears when tons of tire shops now sell Die-Hard batteries?
Eddie Lampert is living out his Lord of the Flies fantasy with his employees right now, with disastrous effects. If customers don't want to go in the door because they can't stand how the stores are run, they'll have a really hard time staying afloat. The last time I went in to a tools section at my local Sears it took over 10 minutes to get an employee to a register while 6 customers were walking around in the area (and employees from other departments were following orders to not help anyone in tools). If any of those 6 had been of the unscrupulous variety they could have easily walked out the door with hundreds of dollars of merchandise before the employee had even shown up; and as the parking lot was mostly empty they could have been long gone before anyone had noticed.
... is that RadioShack collapsed before Sears. My corporate dead pool for 2017 had Sears first, then RadioShack. I still can't find anyone who can explain why Sears is still open at all at this point, especially as they just sold off many of their best-known brands (including Craftsman, Kenmore, and Die-Hard).
I don't buy any kind of uber fancy paper towels from the store but I can certainly wring them out and reuse them when I am wiping up a big spill in the kitchen or near the table.
By my understanding of mobile phone technology and protocols those are the two least compatible networks in the USA at the present time. All the customers of one would eventually be stuck buying phones running the protocol of the other. Wouldn't a Sprint / Verizon merger make a lot more sense from a technology standpoint?
Merging with Comcast might make some sense, but I don't recall hearing Comcast ever express a previous interest in going into the mobile market.
This is somewhat orthogonal to the topic, but the CRT was a requisite for the home user to play light gun games on systems like the NES. However in the arcade we still see new installments of Time Crisis and others, and they are even done on wide screen monitors. This suggests to me that they have moved to LCDs, but I can't find good information on how they work if they did. Anyone know the answer?
If it could offer me a reality where Windows doesn't make me miserable 40 hours a week, that would be great. I've had to start dealing with Windows Server 2012R2 and it makes me want to shove hot pokers in my eyes to escape the pain of the layout of the new GUI. On top of that the enormous flaw in the .NET implementation on it also breaks some of the applications that are most critical to my work, and nobody seems to give a shit about that problem.
I would set up a VM inside of the 2012 server to run 7, except we're already running 2012 as a VM on a Linux system - by which point I can no longer make 64 bit virtualization a reality. And of course stacking my turtles that high doesn't seem like the greatest idea either...
Pence has the correct consonant after his name, so we don't need to investigate this any further. Only people with that cursed mark of the Devil need to be investigated (repeatedly) for offenses relating to email. We all know that Mr. Pence is the very model of morality and will be completely transparent and forthcoming on this innocent mistake.
I'd imagine the odds would be really steep...
I think the odds are very high that an existing virus or bacterium would incorporate bits of the DNA and start replicating it. Even the cell itself would probably do that.
I can tell you that the odds are actually very, very, vanishingly small. The reason being that it is energetically costly for a cell or virus to pick up DNA from the environment and incorporate it into its own genome - hence there needs to be a good reason for this to happen in order for it to occur. The DNA strands on their own won't be bringing with them machinery to incorporate themselves into a genome, and they would not be long enough to present any advantage for the cell or virus to warrant incorporation.
Much more likely is that the cell or virus would see the short strands of DNA as a food source and proceed to digest it.
The question you are probably asking, that I don't know the answer to, is "what are the odds that a given one of these strands contains instructions that, when put in some kind of cell, would end up creating a virus". I'd imagine the odds would be really steep
Rather astronomically steep, actually. Being as the DNA is being designed to carry a message in nucleic acid space, the sequences would likely be highly nonsenical when translated into amino acid (protein) space; meaning they would almost certainly be of no utility to living organisms. And being as they are dealing with very short strands of DNA, if these were transfected into a living cell the target cell would almost certainly see them as food and treat them as such.
The real news in this story is that we now have companies that can create designer DNA from scratch.
Where have you been the past decade or two? This technology is working with DNA strands that are ~200 nucleotides long. We've been able to generate sequences of that length on demand in commercial apparatuses for years already.
Unfortunately, I think the error rate may be higher than typical storage hardware. Enzymes will need to be designed and placed to repair the DNA strands.
That is why they are using such short pieces of DNA. There are already enzymes that replicate short strands with exceptionally high fidelity; it would be much more difficult if we were duplicating very long pieces. There are even DNA polymerases that do their own error-checking that are especially good for this type of work.
..requiring a literacy test to vote?
I'll give you the benefit of the doubt here and assume you are not trolling with that one, and share just a couple ways how these are not similar.
Republicans tend to have a hard time with jokes that don't end in "Clinton" - especially the republicans that run this joint.
your attempt to defend the indefensible
I encourage you to go back and try reading what I wrote, before you make such sweeping assumptions about its content. I never defended any position of hers in my comments. I merely pointed out that she is a very popular target of the Slashdot conservative majority. Being as you likely didn't read any of the actual text involved - one would have to go far beyond the slashdot summary and even beyond the shitty Washington Times article that said summary links to in order to do so - it doesn't surprise me that you also didn't read what I wrote before you hit the submit button to reply to it.
In other words, your bias is showing. Try putting some thought into your comments next time.
Look at the conservative voice being bolstered by the Slashdot conservative majority after launching into an attack on me. Just because I pointed out the Ms. Wu has approval on Slashdot roughly equal to that of the Ebola virus doesn't mean I agree with everything she says.
The double standard in effect here is also telling. The POTUS says all kinds of stupid shit on Twitter, at least weekly. Yet he is not held to everything he posts there but Slashdot readers are on a roll attacking this person who wants to run for congress over this tweet. The fact that she is even aware of the amount of damage something dropped from space could do suggests she likely has a better grasp on physics than our POTUS, even if her tweet did not show a good understanding of the matter of launching something from the surface of the Moon.
And your claim of her saying that someone would just "throw" the rock is supported by what? Yeah, nothing. But go ahead and insert whatever you want into the argument, you'll win this one by majority vote alone (as you've already seen). Slashdot will happily bash her at any opportunity while praising the GOP in the same breath regardless of which one shows a better understanding of physical reality.
OK, we get that Slashdot hates Brianna Wu. We know that there are few harsher adjectives around here than the dreaded "Social Justice Warrior". We get that compared to the Slashdot voice, Brianna is a Communist (although compared to the Slashdot voice, Ronald Reagan is one, too).
What makes this front page entry a disappointment though is how far it wandered from reality just to attack one person. All that is being discussed here is the possibility of a kinetic weapon - which has had an entry on wikipedia for over a decade. Wu's statement was then twisted to be used as an attack against her.
And seriously, what does Slashdot have to gain by attacking her, anyways? She wants to represent Massachusetts. Most of Slashdot would see the majority of the voting public in Massachusetts to be total Communists regardless, and if Wu doesn't get the nomination some other person of similar political persuasion will.