In case you didn't remember what that whole American Revolution was about, the US was supposed to be better.
It was about a lack of representation in parliament, and onerous taxation, not about spying.
Everyone spies, get over it. You and I dont have to like it, but its absurd to single the US out over this. If you want something to be outraged about, be outraged over domestic (not international) spying.
Apparently, a navy cruiser with one of the most advanced air defense systems was no defense for a malfunctioning drone.
As has been pointed out, and as 5 minutes of consideration would reveal, theres a pretty good chance all of the defenses were not on and were not in "kill mode" during a training exercise. Theres also a pretty good chance they were not in "lets kill our training drone" mode.
Im personally a bigger fan of the poll where 80% of respondants admitted that most of the polls statistics that they quote are actually made up on the spot.
The conservative would say that, at least if you can get most of the work shunted over to the private side, when they fail they go out of business. The government has no such fear to keep it in line. The closest we have there are elections, but you have to screw up REALLY badly for one issue to make or break an election cycle.
And of course we'll get a barrage of holier-than-thou comments how we should embrace nuclear power,
If the problem is too much CO2 emissions, and nuclear power can both meet our energy needs AND avoid emitting any CO2, Im not really clear what the issue is. It also, for the record, has probably the fewest associated deaths of all energy sources except maybe solar / wind (you really dont want to bring up hydro power)
That second link is a short blurb which indicates that the woman died not because of any radiation, but because she was forced to evacuate the area while hospitalized; seems to me thats a policy, not planning, problem.
The whole "got leukemia while 50km away from Fukushima" thing reeks of nonsense and "coorelation not causation": there were 3 workers who went INSIDE of the reactors, and the dosage they recieved is considered "slightly worrying". IIRC noone other than those 3 received any significant dose, and someone 50km away might have received a CAT scan's worth. Pretty sure you dont get leukemia 3 years after getting a CAT scan.
Ive never heard of Enenews, but the site reeks of hysteria and trying to create non-existent links. For goodness sake two of those stories talk about heart problems; radiation doesnt cause heart disease, it causes cancer and kills your white blood cells. And its not like we dont have a pretty good handle on what dosages will and will not cause effects.
Regardless, the "0 deaths" thing is referring to radiation / nuclear power related deaths, not deaths from bad policy, the tsunami, or being displaced due to either of those.
There's no escaping the fact that this whole situation exists because of complete and utter ineptitude throughout. Fukushima shouldn't have even happened if they at least had a sane policy on both ageing nuclear reactors, and the protection of them against natural disasters
This was one of the largest quakes in recorded history followed by a tsunami which leveled huge parts of the Japanese coastline. Show me the coal plants that survived that tsunami.
Obviously there were things that could have been done better, but claiming that someone is at fault for not engineering the plant to handle a massive tsunami is a bit over the top.
I dont think the solution is crazy. Far too much money was thrown at the project, that money and apparent lack of any penalties for not delivering attracted the worst kind of contractors. There is a mistaken belief, I think, that throwing enough money at a project will make sure it gets done. Rather, it makes sure that someone will figure out a way to be awarded that money regardless of their ability to do the work.
FreeBSD isnt for the desktop. Next time you need a quick-deploy firewall with advanced features in a virtual environment, and you stumble across pfSense or m0n0wall, remember to thank FreeBSD for making such a stable system.
My experience with it has been limited to a few appliances (freenas, pfsense, etc), but I've generally found it to be way more stable and better performing than linux alternatives (openfiler, untangle). Im sure there are a myriad of technical and non-technical reasons for that, but either way, I hope the FreeBSD folks keep it up.
If government contracts weren't doled out as political favors the data wouldn't be so noisy.
If people didnt do shenanigans generally, i dont think anyone would be arguing about the size or role of government anyways.
The point is that people DO do screw things, and having a massive budget and no fear of going under when you screw up doesnt really help things. I feel like if we had set the budget for this website at ~1 million or some such, we probably would have overrun the budget a little but could still have pulled this off.
"Robots rising up" requires robots with desires / goals / the ability to make decisions, none of which we have ever come close to creating artificially.
If your wireless mouse has a 300ms delay, you have serious problems.
Your crappy mouse aside, 300ms is sufficient to get halfway around the world; If I had to guess, your average latency to a big co like Google or Amazon shouldnt be much higher than 30ms. Its also not like minimizing perception of lag hasnt been figured out a million times before, with every online game ever, RDP, etc etc etc. Clientside prediction + efficient netcode can make the perception of lag all but disappear.
You clearly havent used this product though, so Im really not sure why you thought being an "IT manager" qualified you to review it.
The jacket can be dropped at a LOT of locations-- UPS, anywhere with an amazon locker, or at-home pickup.
Going to the store is a massive hassle for someone as tall-but-thin as I am; MANY stores are simply out of the question as they dont have large sizes, and those that do you have to hunt for a long time.
Some stores additionally (Costco) dont really have a place to try stuff on, though they do sometimes stock decent clothes. You end up having to guess if the item is "tall" enough (it almost never is), and if youre wrong, yes you have to come back to return it.
Online shopping is really just less of a hassle, because of a few things; I can easily see what sizes of particular brands fit well by checking my history, i can quickly find the right size without digging through a metric ton of clothes, and I dont have to stand in line.
Ensure is $40 for 24 bottles, or ~8 days (im assuming 1 bottle = 1 meal?) Soylent is ~$60 for 1 weeks worth.
I went in on this kickstarter too on a lark, but Im not sure I'd call it economical; home meals tend to be closer to $1-2 each vs the $3/meal for soylent.
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In case you didn't remember what that whole American Revolution was about, the US was supposed to be better.
It was about a lack of representation in parliament, and onerous taxation, not about spying.
Everyone spies, get over it. You and I dont have to like it, but its absurd to single the US out over this. If you want something to be outraged about, be outraged over domestic (not international) spying.
Apparently, a navy cruiser with one of the most advanced air defense systems was no defense for a malfunctioning drone.
As has been pointed out, and as 5 minutes of consideration would reveal, theres a pretty good chance all of the defenses were not on and were not in "kill mode" during a training exercise. Theres also a pretty good chance they were not in "lets kill our training drone" mode.
Im personally a bigger fan of the poll where 80% of respondants admitted that most of the polls statistics that they quote are actually made up on the spot.
The conservative would say that, at least if you can get most of the work shunted over to the private side, when they fail they go out of business. The government has no such fear to keep it in line. The closest we have there are elections, but you have to screw up REALLY badly for one issue to make or break an election cycle.
And of course we'll get a barrage of holier-than-thou comments how we should embrace nuclear power,
If the problem is too much CO2 emissions, and nuclear power can both meet our energy needs AND avoid emitting any CO2, Im not really clear what the issue is. It also, for the record, has probably the fewest associated deaths of all energy sources except maybe solar / wind (you really dont want to bring up hydro power)
That second link is a short blurb which indicates that the woman died not because of any radiation, but because she was forced to evacuate the area while hospitalized; seems to me thats a policy, not planning, problem.
The whole "got leukemia while 50km away from Fukushima" thing reeks of nonsense and "coorelation not causation": there were 3 workers who went INSIDE of the reactors, and the dosage they recieved is considered "slightly worrying". IIRC noone other than those 3 received any significant dose, and someone 50km away might have received a CAT scan's worth. Pretty sure you dont get leukemia 3 years after getting a CAT scan.
Ive never heard of Enenews, but the site reeks of hysteria and trying to create non-existent links. For goodness sake two of those stories talk about heart problems; radiation doesnt cause heart disease, it causes cancer and kills your white blood cells. And its not like we dont have a pretty good handle on what dosages will and will not cause effects.
Regardless, the "0 deaths" thing is referring to radiation / nuclear power related deaths, not deaths from bad policy, the tsunami, or being displaced due to either of those.
There's no escaping the fact that this whole situation exists because of complete and utter ineptitude throughout. Fukushima shouldn't have even happened if they at least had a sane policy on both ageing nuclear reactors, and the protection of them against natural disasters
This was one of the largest quakes in recorded history followed by a tsunami which leveled huge parts of the Japanese coastline. Show me the coal plants that survived that tsunami.
Obviously there were things that could have been done better, but claiming that someone is at fault for not engineering the plant to handle a massive tsunami is a bit over the top.
I dont think the solution is crazy. Far too much money was thrown at the project, that money and apparent lack of any penalties for not delivering attracted the worst kind of contractors. There is a mistaken belief, I think, that throwing enough money at a project will make sure it gets done. Rather, it makes sure that someone will figure out a way to be awarded that money regardless of their ability to do the work.
Pretty sure its golden as of 2.1.
FreeBSD isnt for the desktop. Next time you need a quick-deploy firewall with advanced features in a virtual environment, and you stumble across pfSense or m0n0wall, remember to thank FreeBSD for making such a stable system.
My experience with it has been limited to a few appliances (freenas, pfsense, etc), but I've generally found it to be way more stable and better performing than linux alternatives (openfiler, untangle). Im sure there are a myriad of technical and non-technical reasons for that, but either way, I hope the FreeBSD folks keep it up.
If government contracts weren't doled out as political favors the data wouldn't be so noisy.
If people didnt do shenanigans generally, i dont think anyone would be arguing about the size or role of government anyways.
The point is that people DO do screw things, and having a massive budget and no fear of going under when you screw up doesnt really help things. I feel like if we had set the budget for this website at ~1 million or some such, we probably would have overrun the budget a little but could still have pulled this off.
Back in reality, this will stop a large number of infections from occurring.
process the entire OS
Im not sure what that combination of words means, and It surely does not follow from "being only 4MB".
I could write a LOT of 4MB programs that take a long time to "process".
Great. Another configuration change to manage on all our workstations.
Use the chrome GPO templates, thats sort of why theyre there.
"Robots rising up" requires robots with desires / goals / the ability to make decisions, none of which we have ever come close to creating artificially.
Its not likely to happen soon because there are some pretty massive obstacles.
If we develop tanks that don't require humans,
And if we find dwarven blacksmiths who can work mithril, perhaps we wont need heavy tank armor anymore.
But here in the real world, machines require maintenance by humans.
Maybe so, but thats not terribly relevant to this console, which never came with that feature to begin with.
No, it isn't... You aren't thinking big enough. What happens when the robots decide they don't want to fight?
We can worry about that when we have robots that can make decisions. We're pretty far from that right now, so I dont think we have to worry about it.
When AC makes a statement, dont trust it.
No, you cannot sue the US government without its permission due to sovereign immunity.
And in the future if you dont know, its best not to speak authoritatively.
If your wireless mouse has a 300ms delay, you have serious problems.
Your crappy mouse aside, 300ms is sufficient to get halfway around the world; If I had to guess, your average latency to a big co like Google or Amazon shouldnt be much higher than 30ms. Its also not like minimizing perception of lag hasnt been figured out a million times before, with every online game ever, RDP, etc etc etc. Clientside prediction + efficient netcode can make the perception of lag all but disappear.
You clearly havent used this product though, so Im really not sure why you thought being an "IT manager" qualified you to review it.
Retail store also takes like an hour, its impossible to find sizes that fit me (tall), the selection sucks, and the prices suck.
And the jacket can be returned at amazon lockers, which are all over the place, or at UPS, or they can pick it up @ home for $5.
The jacket can be dropped at a LOT of locations-- UPS, anywhere with an amazon locker, or at-home pickup.
Going to the store is a massive hassle for someone as tall-but-thin as I am; MANY stores are simply out of the question as they dont have large sizes, and those that do you have to hunt for a long time.
Some stores additionally (Costco) dont really have a place to try stuff on, though they do sometimes stock decent clothes. You end up having to guess if the item is "tall" enough (it almost never is), and if youre wrong, yes you have to come back to return it.
Online shopping is really just less of a hassle, because of a few things; I can easily see what sizes of particular brands fit well by checking my history, i can quickly find the right size without digging through a metric ton of clothes, and I dont have to stand in line.
Ensure is $40 for 24 bottles, or ~8 days (im assuming 1 bottle = 1 meal?)
Soylent is ~$60 for 1 weeks worth.
I went in on this kickstarter too on a lark, but Im not sure I'd call it economical; home meals tend to be closer to $1-2 each vs the $3/meal for soylent.
They also complain when we dont.