First of all, the summary here sucks. I thought at first that it was 83 grenades since 2001, it is actually a year-to-date total. Second, 83 grenades in total isn't that many considering how many airports we have in this country and how many people travel in a given day.
You said you have programmers working on these projects. They probably each have their own preferred way to do this, why not ask them? If they can't come to a consensus, you could have them write their own solution.
We see people complaining about this problem a lot, and yet for some reason they are afraid to actually put energy into a real solution. Repeat after me : filters can never end spam. That's right, never. All your filters (same can be said for every filter, everywhere) do is encourage the spammers to make their spam more obfuscated to improve their odds of passing future filters. It is a huge waste of time and resources and it's an arms race that the spammers will win.
If you want to actually end spam, you need to collaborate with other people who want to end spam. The way to end spam is not through technology but through economics; as their is only one reason why spam is sent - it is profitable. If you can interrupt the flow of money to the spammer they will move on to a different venture. Until then you're only spinning your wheels and wasting time, storage, and CPU cycles.
Sure the system started as a mac mini but it is very highly modified and running windows. In hindsight they could have just as well started from a different platform.
It's clearly not the fault of the driver for answering the text while driving
I'm not sure they are excusing the driver for being an idiot, they are just saying that there was an idiot accomplice who contributed to the crash.
Isn't the point of text messaging that you can send it and they can read when convinenent?
No, the purpose of text messaging - at least in the US - is to maximize the profitability of the cellular networks. Even if you have an "unlimited texting plan" on your cell phone you are saving your cell phone company bucketloads of money every time you send a text rather than making a phone call, regardless of how quickly you can read and write messages.
That said, the people who send the most messages - and are most likely to get in a car accident while dealing with them - don't wait until it's "convenient".
I wonder if there is a movement to force cellphone makers to disable texting when car-speed motions are detected...similar to how in-dash DVD players are disabled via the parking brake sensor.
That wouldn't fly, for several reasons.
Cell phone companies make way too much money off text messaging to embrace anything that slows down that profit
It would also prevent passengers from sending messages
Anything that increases the cost of a phone and doesn't add games, sounds, or other non-phone functionality will never gain acceptance on the market
That said, I agree that we have a huge problem with text messages being sent while driving. I support a zero tolerance policy that would take someone's license away for at least a year the first time they are caught, but of course the problem is enforcement more than anything - catching someone in the act is quite difficult. Unfortunately we need a different solution, and I'm not sure what that will be. Until then the rest of us have to watch out and hope that we don't get run down by some blithering fuckhead who can't wait until they park their failmobile shitwagen to send their goddamned message about their stupid cat to their BFF.
I read about this on WaPo about half an hour ago, where I noticed they did an incredibly intelligent and thoughtful thing: they disabled comments. Now if only that were possible on/.
The right thing here for slashdot would have been to not feature this story at all. It isn't about technology in any meaningful way. This was run just to draw eyeballs in and get people excited in the discussion. Being as pretty well nobody here is discussing the technical aspects of what Manning has been sentenced to 37 years in jail for, it seems to have worked well for its intended purpose.
This article is so highly paywalled I have tried to access it from two large public research universities and neither of them has access to this yet even though they subscribe to Cell. They want the same $31.50 for the article from those universities as they want from anyone else.
I see Soulskill just posted his first - and invariably last - story that dares to suggest Paullowers (of which slashdot of course has many) are not the true chosen ones. This type of opinion cannot stand here and must be punished for being presented. If he's lucky he will only lose his job over this.... Soulskill, I'm sorry that you tried to suggest anything other than The Official Gospel here, now you have to pay. I'd say you could get a job working for a liberal news organization but I can't think of any that are left in the US.
And yeah, Paullowers I know I just pissed you off. Go ahead and mod me down. My karma and I can take it.
There are of course times when you can give notice and expect no negative response - for example if you are moving across the country so your significant other can further their career, or if you are going back to school full-time are a couple examples - but even if you do get a negative response you can at least honestly tell your future employer that you did the right thing. It is still likely to work out better for you than just bailing on a moment's notice.
As for being laid off or fired, notice of those varies a lot to. While the latter almost never has an advance notice, the former often will if the position is professional. I've known people who have had up to 6 months advance notice of layoffs in some situation. On the other hand I've had times where I've gone to work on Monday and Tuesday and then been laid off that Wednesday but those were not professional positions.
But if you already have an offer and a start date for your next job, you don't have that much to worry about. Try to be cordial and hope that your current employer reciprocates.
Your software is querying the battery, which in turn takes battery power. If you keep asking it to check on itself every minute, you are decreasing its life expectancy in so doing. While it wouldn't produce as rich of a data set, if you really want to know how long your battery lasts at idle, you need to track it with pen and paper.
He isn't allowed to run for this office again anyways. American voters have no choice but to vote him out of office in November 2016. There is no opportunity to vote him out at any time before then.
Closet drudge readers? Hardly. We have had drudge stories on the front page for years now. The conservative voice is easily in the majority here on slashdot. Drudge stories on the front page of slashdot is just an example of slashdot catering to their own base.
If the exchanges are to be run by the states, why is the federal government responsible for their IT data security? The states want more flexibility and responsibility, let them manage that aspect on their own.
It appears we took down the NRA site that his summary linked to. Apparently the slashdot conservatives wanted to get the talking points from it before the slashdot liberal pointed out that lead is bad?
(yes, I know I'll be down-modded for this. let me have it)
But lead is bad. Surely even a slashdot conservative can recognize that.
Except that (to a slashdot conservative) guns are good, and anything that goes against guns in any way, shape, or form must be discredited. If Microsoft announced tomorrow that Windows 8 came with a free AR16 and a box of ammo there would be a front page story touting how undeniably stable, awesome, secure, awesome, and better-than-everything-else-ever it is. Hell all congress and hollywood had to do to make SOPA popular here was include guns in it - if there had been a measure written in to the bill that made every empty video rental store into a Sunday gun show it would have been the most popular bill ever.
It appears we took down the NRA site that his summary linked to. Apparently the slashdot conservatives wanted to get the talking points from it before the slashdot liberal pointed out that lead is bad?
(yes, I know I'll be down-modded for this. let me have it)
I actually just sent something back to them recently and was waiting for its replacement to ship. I see they plan to honor such liabilities, so I should still see the replacement come. Nonetheless, I was planning to purchase some additional items from them soon and now that clearly won't happen as I live a couple thousand miles away from their store. I guess it's back to Microcenter for me...
You are free to make whatever baseless assumptions you want based on my UID.
Likely was barely sentient enough to remember Ronnie losing his marbles
Ronald Ray-Gun never had his marbles, at least not since he entered politics. The best thing he ever did was an accidental case of brilliant acting when he managed to convince the Soviets that the Star Wars Missile Defense was real, but that wasn't what he set out to do. Everything else he did was horseshit.
and to read Bush I's lips on the boob toob.
I remember Bush telling us "read my lips, no new taxes" and then raising taxes. I also remember him describing Reaganomics as "voodoo economics", and vomiting on the lap of a foreign dignitary. Those events of course did not all occur in one day.
conservative movement of the Reagan era is LONG gone
However, this is simply incorrect. Two names, often heard together: Grover Norquist.
While Grover holds every republican in Washington by the scrotum, he himself is not an elected official. Furthermore, what Grover dictates is many orders of magnitude more conservative fiscally than anything that Reagan did. While he may idolize Reagan's legacy, Reagan is FDR in comparison to what Grover keeps insisting on. In reality, Obama is more conservative fiscally than Reagan, and is indeed the most conservative president in US history.
... is praising a very conservative employer. Why are we surprised by this? Obama has done more for the conservative movement than Reagan ever could have dreamed of. He gives lots of lip service to raising minimum wage, reducing tax burden on the lowest income brackets, making health care and education more accessible, etc; but his actions counter those promises. He has cut taxes more than Reagan, he has reduced government more than Reagan, we have seen union membership continue to plummet even more quickly than it did under Reagan, and we have seen college tuition rise even more than it did under Reagan. On top of all that minimum wage hasn't increased anywhere near as much as inflation, while employers have continued to amass more power over their employees.
I don't know why anyone is surprised to see Obama praising the Amazon warehouse. It cuts jobs and neglects the value of employees; those are classic conservative values. And don't try to claim that the massive health insurance industry bailout act (aka "ObamaCare") is somehow not a conservative act; Reagan would have crapped himself with excitement over signing a bill into law that forces average Americans to become consumers of for-profit businesses.
I send all the C that I write to IOCCC. When they get back to me with failures to understand and/or run it, I know it is OK to release to the general public. It is the greatest development system I've ever found, and it costs me nothing. Who needs beta testers when I can just submit my code to IOCCC?
Thinkpads are generally the only laptops available with non-touchpad pointing devices. Forcing government employees to use crappy touchpads is inhumane.
I don't expect the AC to come back to reply to my reply but I'll play along anyways...
if not, why not?
Find me such a study. And since you specifically included the A, you must provide a study that demonstrates anthropogenic global warming, not just one that shows that the climate is changing.
Amazing how skepticism on scientific studies is modded up when fracking is mentioned
If you were paying attention you would have seen that my comment was hit with "troll" as well.
but modded down when it's AGW.
Can you show a discussion that was held here on slashdot that was about a peer-reviewed published paper on AGW - emphasis on the A? I will bet you $5 that you cannot. You will find plenty of articles here on AGW but most of them will be about articles from the NY Times and other such non-research sources. On top of that, you'll find that in general the top-rated comments in those discussions here will be the ones declaring AGW to be a hoax.
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First of all, the summary here sucks. I thought at first that it was 83 grenades since 2001, it is actually a year-to-date total. Second, 83 grenades in total isn't that many considering how many airports we have in this country and how many people travel in a given day.
You said you have programmers working on these projects. They probably each have their own preferred way to do this, why not ask them? If they can't come to a consensus, you could have them write their own solution.
Rather boring and uneventful. How did this ever get posted anyways?
If it is anti-government it goes on the front page, simple as that.
We see people complaining about this problem a lot, and yet for some reason they are afraid to actually put energy into a real solution. Repeat after me : filters can never end spam. That's right, never. All your filters (same can be said for every filter, everywhere) do is encourage the spammers to make their spam more obfuscated to improve their odds of passing future filters. It is a huge waste of time and resources and it's an arms race that the spammers will win.
If you want to actually end spam, you need to collaborate with other people who want to end spam. The way to end spam is not through technology but through economics; as their is only one reason why spam is sent - it is profitable. If you can interrupt the flow of money to the spammer they will move on to a different venture. Until then you're only spinning your wheels and wasting time, storage, and CPU cycles.
Sure the system started as a mac mini but it is very highly modified and running windows. In hindsight they could have just as well started from a different platform.
It's clearly not the fault of the driver for answering the text while driving
I'm not sure they are excusing the driver for being an idiot, they are just saying that there was an idiot accomplice who contributed to the crash.
Isn't the point of text messaging that you can send it and they can read when convinenent?
No, the purpose of text messaging - at least in the US - is to maximize the profitability of the cellular networks. Even if you have an "unlimited texting plan" on your cell phone you are saving your cell phone company bucketloads of money every time you send a text rather than making a phone call, regardless of how quickly you can read and write messages.
That said, the people who send the most messages - and are most likely to get in a car accident while dealing with them - don't wait until it's "convenient".
This was last friday.
I wonder if there is a movement to force cellphone makers to disable texting when car-speed motions are detected...similar to how in-dash DVD players are disabled via the parking brake sensor.
That wouldn't fly, for several reasons.
That said, I agree that we have a huge problem with text messages being sent while driving. I support a zero tolerance policy that would take someone's license away for at least a year the first time they are caught, but of course the problem is enforcement more than anything - catching someone in the act is quite difficult. Unfortunately we need a different solution, and I'm not sure what that will be. Until then the rest of us have to watch out and hope that we don't get run down by some blithering fuckhead who can't wait until they park their failmobile shitwagen to send their goddamned message about their stupid cat to their BFF.
I read about this on WaPo about half an hour ago, where I noticed they did an incredibly intelligent and thoughtful thing: they disabled comments. Now if only that were possible on /.
The right thing here for slashdot would have been to not feature this story at all. It isn't about technology in any meaningful way. This was run just to draw eyeballs in and get people excited in the discussion. Being as pretty well nobody here is discussing the technical aspects of what Manning has been sentenced to 37 years in jail for, it seems to have worked well for its intended purpose.
This article is so highly paywalled I have tried to access it from two large public research universities and neither of them has access to this yet even though they subscribe to Cell. They want the same $31.50 for the article from those universities as they want from anyone else.
I see Soulskill just posted his first - and invariably last - story that dares to suggest Paullowers (of which slashdot of course has many) are not the true chosen ones. This type of opinion cannot stand here and must be punished for being presented. If he's lucky he will only lose his job over this.... Soulskill, I'm sorry that you tried to suggest anything other than The Official Gospel here, now you have to pay. I'd say you could get a job working for a liberal news organization but I can't think of any that are left in the US.
And yeah, Paullowers I know I just pissed you off. Go ahead and mod me down. My karma and I can take it.
There are of course times when you can give notice and expect no negative response - for example if you are moving across the country so your significant other can further their career, or if you are going back to school full-time are a couple examples - but even if you do get a negative response you can at least honestly tell your future employer that you did the right thing. It is still likely to work out better for you than just bailing on a moment's notice.
As for being laid off or fired, notice of those varies a lot to. While the latter almost never has an advance notice, the former often will if the position is professional. I've known people who have had up to 6 months advance notice of layoffs in some situation. On the other hand I've had times where I've gone to work on Monday and Tuesday and then been laid off that Wednesday but those were not professional positions.
But if you already have an offer and a start date for your next job, you don't have that much to worry about. Try to be cordial and hope that your current employer reciprocates.
Your software is querying the battery, which in turn takes battery power. If you keep asking it to check on itself every minute, you are decreasing its life expectancy in so doing. While it wouldn't produce as rich of a data set, if you really want to know how long your battery lasts at idle, you need to track it with pen and paper.
Vote this man out of office
He isn't allowed to run for this office again anyways. American voters have no choice but to vote him out of office in November 2016. There is no opportunity to vote him out at any time before then.
Are that many /.ers closet Drudge readers?
Closet drudge readers? Hardly. We have had drudge stories on the front page for years now. The conservative voice is easily in the majority here on slashdot. Drudge stories on the front page of slashdot is just an example of slashdot catering to their own base.
This would be great for those long flights I'm on that don't have AC outlets to plug my laptop in to.
If the exchanges are to be run by the states, why is the federal government responsible for their IT data security? The states want more flexibility and responsibility, let them manage that aspect on their own.
It appears we took down the NRA site that his summary linked to. Apparently the slashdot conservatives wanted to get the talking points from it before the slashdot liberal pointed out that lead is bad?
(yes, I know I'll be down-modded for this. let me have it)
But lead is bad. Surely even a slashdot conservative can recognize that.
Except that (to a slashdot conservative) guns are good, and anything that goes against guns in any way, shape, or form must be discredited. If Microsoft announced tomorrow that Windows 8 came with a free AR16 and a box of ammo there would be a front page story touting how undeniably stable, awesome, secure, awesome, and better-than-everything-else-ever it is. Hell all congress and hollywood had to do to make SOPA popular here was include guns in it - if there had been a measure written in to the bill that made every empty video rental store into a Sunday gun show it would have been the most popular bill ever.
It appears we took down the NRA site that his summary linked to. Apparently the slashdot conservatives wanted to get the talking points from it before the slashdot liberal pointed out that lead is bad?
(yes, I know I'll be down-modded for this. let me have it)
I actually just sent something back to them recently and was waiting for its replacement to ship. I see they plan to honor such liabilities, so I should still see the replacement come. Nonetheless, I was planning to purchase some additional items from them soon and now that clearly won't happen as I live a couple thousand miles away from their store. I guess it's back to Microcenter for me...
UID > 1m
You are free to make whatever baseless assumptions you want based on my UID.
Likely was barely sentient enough to remember Ronnie losing his marbles
Ronald Ray-Gun never had his marbles, at least not since he entered politics. The best thing he ever did was an accidental case of brilliant acting when he managed to convince the Soviets that the Star Wars Missile Defense was real, but that wasn't what he set out to do. Everything else he did was horseshit.
and to read Bush I's lips on the boob toob.
I remember Bush telling us "read my lips, no new taxes" and then raising taxes. I also remember him describing Reaganomics as "voodoo economics", and vomiting on the lap of a foreign dignitary. Those events of course did not all occur in one day.
conservative movement of the Reagan era is LONG gone
However, this is simply incorrect. Two names, often heard together: Grover Norquist.
While Grover holds every republican in Washington by the scrotum, he himself is not an elected official. Furthermore, what Grover dictates is many orders of magnitude more conservative fiscally than anything that Reagan did. While he may idolize Reagan's legacy, Reagan is FDR in comparison to what Grover keeps insisting on. In reality, Obama is more conservative fiscally than Reagan, and is indeed the most conservative president in US history.
... is praising a very conservative employer. Why are we surprised by this? Obama has done more for the conservative movement than Reagan ever could have dreamed of. He gives lots of lip service to raising minimum wage, reducing tax burden on the lowest income brackets, making health care and education more accessible, etc; but his actions counter those promises. He has cut taxes more than Reagan, he has reduced government more than Reagan, we have seen union membership continue to plummet even more quickly than it did under Reagan, and we have seen college tuition rise even more than it did under Reagan. On top of all that minimum wage hasn't increased anywhere near as much as inflation, while employers have continued to amass more power over their employees.
I don't know why anyone is surprised to see Obama praising the Amazon warehouse. It cuts jobs and neglects the value of employees; those are classic conservative values. And don't try to claim that the massive health insurance industry bailout act (aka "ObamaCare") is somehow not a conservative act; Reagan would have crapped himself with excitement over signing a bill into law that forces average Americans to become consumers of for-profit businesses.
I send all the C that I write to IOCCC. When they get back to me with failures to understand and/or run it, I know it is OK to release to the general public. It is the greatest development system I've ever found, and it costs me nothing. Who needs beta testers when I can just submit my code to IOCCC?
Thinkpads are generally the only laptops available with non-touchpad pointing devices. Forcing government employees to use crappy touchpads is inhumane.
if not, why not?
Find me such a study. And since you specifically included the A, you must provide a study that demonstrates anthropogenic global warming, not just one that shows that the climate is changing.
Amazing how skepticism on scientific studies is modded up when fracking is mentioned
If you were paying attention you would have seen that my comment was hit with "troll" as well.
but modded down when it's AGW.
Can you show a discussion that was held here on slashdot that was about a peer-reviewed published paper on AGW - emphasis on the A? I will bet you $5 that you cannot. You will find plenty of articles here on AGW but most of them will be about articles from the NY Times and other such non-research sources. On top of that, you'll find that in general the top-rated comments in those discussions here will be the ones declaring AGW to be a hoax.