It's just a couple of prongs that make a connection. It's easy to waterproof the connector, it's not so easy to make the act of connecting it waterproof.
I can think of several ways to allow you to connect something underwater while maintaining waterproof capabilities, but then it would cease to be a USB cable.
It's really just the same for the other side. There are plenty of honorable characteristics about what you call the far right, conservatives, or republicans.
Both sides have drawbacks, fallacious logic, and shortsightedness in their positions and ideas. To use a label as an insult, when it only represents a set of ideals, is just bigotry.
Fucking Liberal. Fucking Republican. Neither one of them is justified. While some ideologies and concepts might truly be mutually exclusive, it is just depressing that we have all this vitriol between them. No one wants to work together to find an intelligent solution and middle ground, and meanwhile, we sink further into the shitter.
The whole article is +5 Troll and just designed to stir up every demographic on Slashdot that it can.
Not entirely. A decentralized network where I am in absolute control over my information is the minimum requirement for me to start to participate in social networking.
It can be very attractive, if you package up the features right, and to both hosting providers and users.
What was not mentioned is how we could use DNS SRV records. A hosting provider can set up those SRV records to distribute all sorts of services attached to the social networking profile.
Right now the hosting provider is the one absorbing the cost for the bandwidth, storage, and operation when that could be just as easily shifted to the user.
Consider the hosting provider as really just providing a configuration and maintenance service and cheap nodes (Raspberry PI's with external storage) hooked up in homes like appliances.
The hosting provider can:
1) Profit from the sales of the nodes. 2) Reduced infrastructure cost by leveraging the nodes bandwidth and storage. 3) Reduced fail over costs by allowing nodes to cache/store linked profile data, with user consent. 4) Profit from the sales/maintenance of the domains. 5) Profit from maintenance and service of the nodes. 6) Reduced costs of compliance with totalitarian governments since they have access to no data whatsoever. They only configure services and don't read data. 7) Upsell additional services like VOIP and email gateways. While the nodes could certainly negotiate VOIP directly (more so with IPv6), for quite some time you will need origination and termination services for traditional phone networks. Email is the same, but could face problems with PBL's, etc. and could certainly benefit from an SMTP relay (secured) that would have higher levels of trust. 8) Gateway for additional upsells like offsite encrypted backup of files, and other services we are not considering yet.
The consumer can:
1) Own their very own "name" on the Internet with a plethora of uses. www.desler.com/profile - www.desler.com/message - www.desler.com/location. They will own this for as long as they pay for the domain. If we get to a more censorship resistance form of DNS, this is even more attractive as it makes it very difficult for corporations and governments to control it.
2) Rest easy knowing that their profile data, communications, files, whatever is right at their fingertips and not held hostage by anyone. They could transfer the name, configuration, and upsells to whoever they wanted. Additionally, they could have more than one provider. Why be limited to one provider, when there is technically no reason why they could not be getting VOIP from one, and backup services from another?
3) Rest easy knowing that all of their data is encrypted and secured. No company is reading the data to target advertising, or disclosing anything potentially embarrassing by accident.
4) Rest easy knowing that their friends and family can be keeping parts of their data backed up, and with the purchase of another node, they can get it all back (without interruption) in a matter of hours.
5) Feel empowered to customize their own node to their personal tastes. They would not be limited to what Facebook feels it should look like. Profile Themes?
6) They don't have to wait for a companies to get off their butts and create a service. With open source and a vibrant community, new plugins could be created all the time that allow new forms of social interaction.
7) Screw XBOX live and their advertising, etc. They can have online gaming because their own nodes can be configured to transfer gaming data from attached devices. Could work just as easily for Android, iWhatever. Imagine a gaming protocol standard that worked off www.desler.com/gaming?
8) Feel in control over their profile and their data being shared. With an open source platform they can have far more granular control over what data is shared between who, and feel confident it is actually being enforced.
That's just what I can think about in 10 minutes on a break. The benefits are endless for the consumer, and it's not like it is impossible for hosting companies to make money at this.
Thanks for making me feel as old as fuck this morning:)
Back in my day, online meant you accessed it through a modem on a BBS. If you were really advanced you were using a protocol that allowed you to start to display the picture while it was downloading.
With a slow modem, or a BBS in another country, this meant you could literally fap fap fap to a picture and try to hold it till you got to the pussy. Or if you were Japanese and into some sort of weird fetish, the feet.
No thumbnails. Every picture was a guess. Which... made trolling a BBS with pictures of chicks with dicks hilarious because the guy could have literally going to town for 10 minutes.
Now a days you can look at 1000 pictures in hi resolution in 10 minutes........
I was responding to the cynicism that we could not discuss any solution to education that required more money because it would never get approved or be too hard.
That greatly offended me because in context that would mean that education has a lower budget priority than the military, pork projects, and corrupt bail outs of truly sociopathic people in Wall Street.
I still think that teachers are underpaid, overworked, and in some cases, not held to a high enough standard.
Once again, I realize money alone does not solve the problem. All I am trying to say is that given education's importance in our society, money should not be a factor in whatever we decide to do. We act like money is no object with respect to the military and Wall Street.....
That's a possible explanation, but would people really spend hundreds of dollars out of spite?
I would buy it, but not out of spite. If it really is an awesome Android phone with good reviews, and was likely to disappear soon due to spurious, shameful, and spiteful legal action, I would probably rush out to buy it.
That said, I am heavily constrained right now with a cell phone contract and prevented from buying any phone. In the future I cannot depend on subsidies either, as any upgrade of a phone cancels my current unlimited contract.
I think you misunderstood me. What I mean to say is that education should be funded, and at a much higher priority. If there is a solution, and it is reasonable with a chance of working, then it should be funded period.
Education should be the 1st priority for all funding, everywhere. It's the very foundation of our society. Without it, we don't need to worry about infrastructure, and without either of them, we don't need to worry about a military to protect what is no longer there.
I agree with your sentiments that we need to figure out what is wrong first, I just wanted to strongly add that we should not have a defeatist attitude about the funding of any proposed solutions.
I don't have a simplistic view that more money will solve education in of itself.
We desperately need to do more for education, whatever that may be. It offends me to no end when we discuss what can be done about education, and we stop ourselves short over money. The primary reason for this is all the stupid, unimportant, and corrupt shit that gets higher priority over education, and also infrastructure.
It's easier to get money approved for a military contractor to screw around with a ton of money and deliver next to nothing, than it is to fix or build a bridge. I'm not saying we should spend nothing on the military, but let's be reasonable. It is far more important to keep a bridge that is servicing people in working order than have some new military shiny.
We should also be looking at other offensive spending scandals like AIG, Wall Street, and where I am, an upper 8 figure boondoggle of an database and web services platform for the DMV.
There is more than enough money and resources once you cut out the 1%'ers and their associated corrupt bullshit.
Yes, I get the cynicism. "It will never happen so let's figure out how to work with what we have". Well, that is utter bullshit. As long as we continue to not the fix the problem it will only get far worse. At some point we have to take a stand and make real meaningful reform in government from education, campaign finance reform, legislative procedures, etc.
Crap like this just touched a raw nerve with me. Let's figure out a solution to education first, just fucking fund it regardless, and then figure out what to cut to make it work. At least we can give all the people involved in education a turn at the corruption trough to get their fair share.
If you don't have a revolutionary idea on how to pay for your program then don't even bother with it, or it will end up in the junk-pile labeled "one million and one education reform ideas".
I have a *revolutionary* idea.
FUCKING PAY FOR IT .
Fucking Christ. Seriously?
Why do we have to bail out all the fucking sociopathic douchnozzles on Wall Street? Those utter assholes at AIG who used millions to host a party? How many fucking cruise missiles do we need? How about one less billion dollar stealth jet?
How is that education and infrastructure, the very fucking backbone of our society needs to beg and plead to not get last priority over a bunch of fucking assholes in Congress that just give the money to their "friends" in the form of massive Military Industrial Complex, Wall Street, and Pork bailouts?
I'm a taxpayer. I care about the cost. What irks me when they raise taxes is that it does not solve the problem. It's as if I gave you a million fucking dollars for groceries for the year, and you come back to me saying you need more. I don't have a problem with paying for something, as long as it is done correctly and not without parasitic levels of corruption and inefficiency.
It's like that douchebag that owns Papa Johns Pizza trying to tell me that my pizza will cost a whole extra dollar to pay for health care for his employees. Ummm, yeah, what's the problem you fucking dick. I would gladly pay the dollar if I knew it was going to your employee's (and their families) health care.
Some things should be paid for. Education is one of them. Cut the military budget by 25% and dump it into education.
I'm pretty sure we can terrorize the rest of the world with drone strikes with 25% less money.
If the good people are on one side of the argument, and you're on the other side, isn't that a clue that YOU'RE WRONG?
Wait... what? That's some pretty twisted logic you have there. How is it that you are determining the "good" side in an argument then making an absolutist statement in regards to the non-good side, based solely on your value judgement?
Wellll... karma is pretty much a statement of right or wrong correct? The karma system here at Slashdot seems to indicate that opposing statements to your views are "good" (all them +5's). Therefore, by your logic, you are indeed wrong.
The appropriate response is a self-criticism, an essay on exactly what you did wrong and how you'll never do it again, plus paying a fine proportional to your income to Slashdot
The production of the batteries is interesting, but I have to be a little incredulous on the mpg.
High mpg on the Prius is only achieved overall. The combustion engine on its own is probably not that efficient. Driving the Prius balls to the wall only ensures you are using the combustion engine and never on the electric. No surprise there. However, I have been in many rushes over the last decade (some cases just driving aggressive), and never saw mpg under 30. 17 mpg is astoundingly low.
The fact you get such better gas mileage in Europe proves it is possible and the US only lags behind due the politics, which is sad.
Pollution as a byproduct of producing the batteries is one reason why I would look into alternatives like air powered cars, or hydrogen cars with point source hydrogen production. I would love to see aluminum/gallium hydrogen cars on the market, but until then I can only work with the existing market for alternative cars.
We are passing legislation requiring increased mpg in the next couple of years as a standard, so we are making some progress I guess. Don't be too hard on us Prius owners. We are trying and not all of us are douchy self-righteous people, I promise:)
let alone anyone else, would clearly exhibit a dearth of faculties, as you would be willing to forfeit your existence over something so trivial as a piece of technology.
Your failure is thinking the choice of technology is trivial. It is not trivial, but in fact crucial to our very future. That is not hyperbole.
How we approach computing in the future with respect to freedom, privacy, and anonymity will be a deciding factor in the very nature of freedom, privacy, and anonymity outside of computing.
It is inarguable that our lives in cyberspace and "meat space" are progressively becoming so intertwined as to be effectively indistinguishable. If you want to argue that is untrue, explain how somebody was arrested for a tweet? How the stock markets can lost a half a billion in a matter of moments affecting the economies? How we could have massive power outages due to negligence or malicious hackers? How an incorrectly entered piece of data in an insurance carrier platform can result in suspended license plates and somebody being pulled over and arrested? How child porn could be put on a machine and result in the loss of freedom for an individual?
The walled garden is a very simple paradigm:
1) You own nothing. 2) Your very existence is at the discretion of the garden. Failure to comply with the will of the garden can result in punishment, which can be all the way up to expulsion from the garden. 3) You may only perform actions that are compliance with the will of the garden. 4) You may not perform any actions that could endanger the garden, or make it less "shiny". 5) The garden cannot be wrong.
At first glance that may seem like hyperbole, but is quite accurate.
Now apply that to real life and see if you would not be part of a revolution to overthrow it .
A walled garden approach to computing is absolutely detrimental to just about everything. Only the lack of sophistication with people in the garden allows them to be there. At this point it is almost impossible to argue that cyberspace is not a dimension of our lives in which so much of what we can do, will do, and what others will do to us, is manifested there. We affect it, it affects us.
There is a disparity in how we understand our rights, freedom, and privacy in "meat space" and cyber space. Something that an average person would revolt against in meat space is curiously just fine in cyberspace, even though it will have the same affect ultimately.
If I choose a clamshell phone I am not financially supporting that abhorrent infrastructure and philosophy. Is the clamshell phone locked down and hard to modify? Perhaps, but it is certainly the lesser of two evils.
Why would you rail against tyranny and oppression in the "real world" and be so quick to accept it in cyberspace?
That's incredibly narrow speech. You make it sound like we have no freedom of speech because we can't threaten the President. That narrow restriction does not only apply to him/her either, but also applies to my neighbor as well.
So aside from some very narrow restrictions on speech, there is a much greater freedom of speech in the US, and you certainly cannot view the UK and the US as equals in that regard.
It is supposed to be a kick ass Android product. Pretty good chance it will be banned from sales in the future.
I can easily see people that might have waited otherwise rushing to get it now before they can't. What's the alternative? Apple??
Yeah, right. There are quite a number of people out there that would sooner die then choose Apple because of their shiny retarded walled garden approach to computing. I'll go back to a clamshell phone before I choose Apple for anything.
I don't know what Apple is thinking here. People that want Apple, largely have it. People that will never choose Apple are not going to embrace them, especially if they approach competition like this. Nobody likes to be forced.
I think that Silicon Valley and innovation these days mostly means software development and services on the Internet, and not so much hardware devices and operating system.
I also wonder why technologically minded people would want to move to a place and innovate when you get arrested for a tweet. Now before +Troll, think about it for a second. Most people responsible for innovation these days don't like regulations constraining the Internet, and certainly not regulations and laws that get users thrown in jail.
The UK truly is a pit of shit right now as far the Internet, freedom, privacy, freedom of speech, etc. is concerned. Not exactly attractive to most of the talent in the rest of the world. If you are already there you are just making the best of it.
You don't need civics class for that now. You can learn all about it with Johnny Depp in their wonderfully instructive series Pirates of the Caribbean.
I was not aware that cars got that much better gas mileage in Europe.
As for the Prius being worse... I don't know about all that. I understand your point about the construction of the car, but I had really not heard that before.
I bought them because they were relatively cheap, zero or partial zero emissions, and were much cheaper to operate than a normal car or SUV. Still are.
Would still have rather bought them instead of any Flex Fuel car that does far more damage to the environment producing corn, when they could be using other biofuels. That's money and politics though.
I still think voting with my wallet ultimately helped because it showed a willingness to embrace alternative technologies. I'm still willing to give an air car, or all electric vehicle a go too.
Do you have any links or citations about the production of the Prius being more damaging to the environment than the operation of an SUV?
Boys who chose to be circumcised, only did so out of religious traditions and they were pretty heavily pressured by their culture to do so. Compared to the world population, it is quite rare.
No man chooses to mutilate his penis unless he has a mental disorder, or challenges with sexual identity. It's either done as a baby where they have no choice, or practically not at all.
My entire life all I have heard is, "it's good for you". However, if the science does not support it, and I mean strongly support it, then there is no reason to risk the boy's dick.
That needs emphasis. If there is a non-zero risk to the boy's dick, than the medical benefit has to be overwhelming. Like uncircumcised penises have a 50% chance of falling off.
Are the strange experiments with small frequency differences between regions of the power grid somehow tied to some conspiracy to mess with time references between people's machines, perhaps to kill traffic by messing with time-to-live handling, or perhaps identify where packets are from even when their addresses are invalid?
Whhaaatt?
That's like the MAFIAA hiring occult members to come up with esoteric ways to kill traffic. Or better yet.... Daffy Duck's plan to get to Planet X, the last source of Illudium Phosdex, the shaving creme atom.
How does an ant "discover" anything? Which is really funny that I ask, since they "discovered" my kitchen this morning. All 10 fucking million of them.....
I would think that there methods are constantly evolving over time. To say that they used these same exact methods for the last million years might be pretty presumptuous based on evolution alone.
It is kind of neat that mathematical algorithms we come up with are present in nature due to their very efficiency. It says a lot about effective evolution is.
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It's just a couple of prongs that make a connection. It's easy to waterproof the connector, it's not so easy to make the act of connecting it waterproof.
I can think of several ways to allow you to connect something underwater while maintaining waterproof capabilities, but then it would cease to be a USB cable.
One interesting aspect of the report is that the conspiracy theorists tend to side with the corporations over science
How do you know there wasn't a conspiracy by the conspiracy theorists to taint the data?
It's really just the same for the other side. There are plenty of honorable characteristics about what you call the far right, conservatives, or republicans.
Both sides have drawbacks, fallacious logic, and shortsightedness in their positions and ideas. To use a label as an insult, when it only represents a set of ideals, is just bigotry.
Fucking Liberal. Fucking Republican. Neither one of them is justified. While some ideologies and concepts might truly be mutually exclusive, it is just depressing that we have all this vitriol between them. No one wants to work together to find an intelligent solution and middle ground, and meanwhile, we sink further into the shitter.
The whole article is +5 Troll and just designed to stir up every demographic on Slashdot that it can.
This is nothing but nerd fantasy.
Not entirely. A decentralized network where I am in absolute control over my information is the minimum requirement for me to start to participate in social networking.
It can be very attractive, if you package up the features right, and to both hosting providers and users.
What was not mentioned is how we could use DNS SRV records. A hosting provider can set up those SRV records to distribute all sorts of services attached to the social networking profile.
Right now the hosting provider is the one absorbing the cost for the bandwidth, storage, and operation when that could be just as easily shifted to the user.
Consider the hosting provider as really just providing a configuration and maintenance service and cheap nodes (Raspberry PI's with external storage) hooked up in homes like appliances.
The hosting provider can:
1) Profit from the sales of the nodes.
2) Reduced infrastructure cost by leveraging the nodes bandwidth and storage.
3) Reduced fail over costs by allowing nodes to cache/store linked profile data, with user consent.
4) Profit from the sales/maintenance of the domains.
5) Profit from maintenance and service of the nodes.
6) Reduced costs of compliance with totalitarian governments since they have access to no data whatsoever. They only configure services and don't read data.
7) Upsell additional services like VOIP and email gateways. While the nodes could certainly negotiate VOIP directly (more so with IPv6), for quite some time you will need origination and termination services for traditional phone networks. Email is the same, but could face problems with PBL's, etc. and could certainly benefit from an SMTP relay (secured) that would have higher levels of trust.
8) Gateway for additional upsells like offsite encrypted backup of files, and other services we are not considering yet.
The consumer can:
1) Own their very own "name" on the Internet with a plethora of uses. www.desler.com/profile - www.desler.com/message - www.desler.com/location. They will own this for as long as they pay for the domain. If we get to a more censorship resistance form of DNS, this is even more attractive as it makes it very difficult for corporations and governments to control it.
2) Rest easy knowing that their profile data, communications, files, whatever is right at their fingertips and not held hostage by anyone. They could transfer the name, configuration, and upsells to whoever they wanted. Additionally, they could have more than one provider. Why be limited to one provider, when there is technically no reason why they could not be getting VOIP from one, and backup services from another?
3) Rest easy knowing that all of their data is encrypted and secured. No company is reading the data to target advertising, or disclosing anything potentially embarrassing by accident.
4) Rest easy knowing that their friends and family can be keeping parts of their data backed up, and with the purchase of another node, they can get it all back (without interruption) in a matter of hours.
5) Feel empowered to customize their own node to their personal tastes. They would not be limited to what Facebook feels it should look like. Profile Themes?
6) They don't have to wait for a companies to get off their butts and create a service. With open source and a vibrant community, new plugins could be created all the time that allow new forms of social interaction.
7) Screw XBOX live and their advertising, etc. They can have online gaming because their own nodes can be configured to transfer gaming data from attached devices. Could work just as easily for Android, iWhatever. Imagine a gaming protocol standard that worked off www.desler.com/gaming?
8) Feel in control over their profile and their data being shared. With an open source platform they can have far more granular control over what data is shared between who, and feel confident it is actually being enforced.
That's just what I can think about in 10 minutes on a break. The benefits are endless for the consumer, and it's not like it is impossible for hosting companies to make money at this.
Thanks for making me feel as old as fuck this morning :)
Back in my day, online meant you accessed it through a modem on a BBS. If you were really advanced you were using a protocol that allowed you to start to display the picture while it was downloading.
With a slow modem, or a BBS in another country, this meant you could literally fap fap fap to a picture and try to hold it till you got to the pussy. Or if you were Japanese and into some sort of weird fetish, the feet.
No thumbnails. Every picture was a guess. Which... made trolling a BBS with pictures of chicks with dicks hilarious because the guy could have literally going to town for 10 minutes.
Now a days you can look at 1000 pictures in hi resolution in 10 minutes........
is slightly less powerful than a single queef
Clearly, you have never been exposed to the Road Warrior Queef.
I'm sorry, you're missing my point entirely.
I was responding to the cynicism that we could not discuss any solution to education that required more money because it would never get approved or be too hard.
That greatly offended me because in context that would mean that education has a lower budget priority than the military, pork projects, and corrupt bail outs of truly sociopathic people in Wall Street.
I still think that teachers are underpaid, overworked, and in some cases, not held to a high enough standard.
Once again, I realize money alone does not solve the problem. All I am trying to say is that given education's importance in our society, money should not be a factor in whatever we decide to do. We act like money is no object with respect to the military and Wall Street.....
That's a possible explanation, but would people really spend hundreds of dollars out of spite?
I would buy it, but not out of spite. If it really is an awesome Android phone with good reviews, and was likely to disappear soon due to spurious, shameful, and spiteful legal action, I would probably rush out to buy it.
That said, I am heavily constrained right now with a cell phone contract and prevented from buying any phone. In the future I cannot depend on subsidies either, as any upgrade of a phone cancels my current unlimited contract.
I think you misunderstood me. What I mean to say is that education should be funded, and at a much higher priority. If there is a solution, and it is reasonable with a chance of working, then it should be funded period.
Education should be the 1st priority for all funding, everywhere. It's the very foundation of our society. Without it, we don't need to worry about infrastructure, and without either of them, we don't need to worry about a military to protect what is no longer there.
I agree with your sentiments that we need to figure out what is wrong first, I just wanted to strongly add that we should not have a defeatist attitude about the funding of any proposed solutions.
I don't have a simplistic view that more money will solve education in of itself.
We desperately need to do more for education, whatever that may be. It offends me to no end when we discuss what can be done about education, and we stop ourselves short over money. The primary reason for this is all the stupid, unimportant, and corrupt shit that gets higher priority over education, and also infrastructure.
It's easier to get money approved for a military contractor to screw around with a ton of money and deliver next to nothing, than it is to fix or build a bridge. I'm not saying we should spend nothing on the military, but let's be reasonable. It is far more important to keep a bridge that is servicing people in working order than have some new military shiny.
We should also be looking at other offensive spending scandals like AIG, Wall Street, and where I am, an upper 8 figure boondoggle of an database and web services platform for the DMV.
There is more than enough money and resources once you cut out the 1%'ers and their associated corrupt bullshit.
Yes, I get the cynicism. "It will never happen so let's figure out how to work with what we have". Well, that is utter bullshit. As long as we continue to not the fix the problem it will only get far worse. At some point we have to take a stand and make real meaningful reform in government from education, campaign finance reform, legislative procedures, etc.
Crap like this just touched a raw nerve with me. Let's figure out a solution to education first, just fucking fund it regardless, and then figure out what to cut to make it work. At least we can give all the people involved in education a turn at the corruption trough to get their fair share.
If you don't have a revolutionary idea on how to pay for your program then don't even bother with it, or it will end up in the junk-pile labeled "one million and one education reform ideas".
I have a *revolutionary* idea.
FUCKING PAY FOR IT .
Fucking Christ. Seriously?
Why do we have to bail out all the fucking sociopathic douchnozzles on Wall Street? Those utter assholes at AIG who used millions to host a party? How many fucking cruise missiles do we need? How about one less billion dollar stealth jet?
How is that education and infrastructure, the very fucking backbone of our society needs to beg and plead to not get last priority over a bunch of fucking assholes in Congress that just give the money to their "friends" in the form of massive Military Industrial Complex, Wall Street, and Pork bailouts?
I'm a taxpayer. I care about the cost. What irks me when they raise taxes is that it does not solve the problem. It's as if I gave you a million fucking dollars for groceries for the year, and you come back to me saying you need more. I don't have a problem with paying for something, as long as it is done correctly and not without parasitic levels of corruption and inefficiency.
It's like that douchebag that owns Papa Johns Pizza trying to tell me that my pizza will cost a whole extra dollar to pay for health care for his employees. Ummm, yeah, what's the problem you fucking dick. I would gladly pay the dollar if I knew it was going to your employee's (and their families) health care.
Some things should be paid for. Education is one of them. Cut the military budget by 25% and dump it into education.
I'm pretty sure we can terrorize the rest of the world with drone strikes with 25% less money.
Geeez, I need to take a vacation or something. My first thought was, "What the fuck does virtualization have to do with a Half Life mod?"
If the good people are on one side of the argument, and you're on the other side, isn't that a clue that YOU'RE WRONG?
Wait... what? That's some pretty twisted logic you have there. How is it that you are determining the "good" side in an argument then making an absolutist statement in regards to the non-good side, based solely on your value judgement?
Wellll... karma is pretty much a statement of right or wrong correct? The karma system here at Slashdot seems to indicate that opposing statements to your views are "good" (all them +5's). Therefore, by your logic, you are indeed wrong .
The appropriate response is a self-criticism, an essay on exactly what you did wrong and how you'll never do it again, plus paying a fine proportional to your income to Slashdot
Yes, it is very interesting. He should provide the location of his daughters dormitory for peer review. Don't worry sir, it's for science.
The production of the batteries is interesting, but I have to be a little incredulous on the mpg.
High mpg on the Prius is only achieved overall. The combustion engine on its own is probably not that efficient. Driving the Prius balls to the wall only ensures you are using the combustion engine and never on the electric. No surprise there. However, I have been in many rushes over the last decade (some cases just driving aggressive), and never saw mpg under 30. 17 mpg is astoundingly low.
The fact you get such better gas mileage in Europe proves it is possible and the US only lags behind due the politics, which is sad.
Pollution as a byproduct of producing the batteries is one reason why I would look into alternatives like air powered cars, or hydrogen cars with point source hydrogen production. I would love to see aluminum/gallium hydrogen cars on the market, but until then I can only work with the existing market for alternative cars.
We are passing legislation requiring increased mpg in the next couple of years as a standard, so we are making some progress I guess. Don't be too hard on us Prius owners. We are trying and not all of us are douchy self-righteous people, I promise :)
let alone anyone else, would clearly exhibit a dearth of faculties, as you would be willing to forfeit your existence over something so trivial as a piece of technology.
Your failure is thinking the choice of technology is trivial. It is not trivial, but in fact crucial to our very future. That is not hyperbole.
How we approach computing in the future with respect to freedom, privacy, and anonymity will be a deciding factor in the very nature of freedom, privacy, and anonymity outside of computing.
It is inarguable that our lives in cyberspace and "meat space" are progressively becoming so intertwined as to be effectively indistinguishable. If you want to argue that is untrue, explain how somebody was arrested for a tweet? How the stock markets can lost a half a billion in a matter of moments affecting the economies? How we could have massive power outages due to negligence or malicious hackers? How an incorrectly entered piece of data in an insurance carrier platform can result in suspended license plates and somebody being pulled over and arrested? How child porn could be put on a machine and result in the loss of freedom for an individual?
The walled garden is a very simple paradigm:
1) You own nothing.
2) Your very existence is at the discretion of the garden. Failure to comply with the will of the garden can result in punishment, which can be all the way up to expulsion from the garden.
3) You may only perform actions that are compliance with the will of the garden.
4) You may not perform any actions that could endanger the garden, or make it less "shiny".
5) The garden cannot be wrong.
At first glance that may seem like hyperbole, but is quite accurate.
Now apply that to real life and see if you would not be part of a revolution to overthrow it .
No hyperbole at all.
A walled garden approach to computing is absolutely detrimental to just about everything. Only the lack of sophistication with people in the garden allows them to be there. At this point it is almost impossible to argue that cyberspace is not a dimension of our lives in which so much of what we can do, will do, and what others will do to us, is manifested there. We affect it, it affects us.
There is a disparity in how we understand our rights, freedom, and privacy in "meat space" and cyber space. Something that an average person would revolt against in meat space is curiously just fine in cyberspace, even though it will have the same affect ultimately.
If I choose a clamshell phone I am not financially supporting that abhorrent infrastructure and philosophy. Is the clamshell phone locked down and hard to modify? Perhaps, but it is certainly the lesser of two evils.
Why would you rail against tyranny and oppression in the "real world" and be so quick to accept it in cyberspace?
That's incredibly narrow speech. You make it sound like we have no freedom of speech because we can't threaten the President. That narrow restriction does not only apply to him/her either, but also applies to my neighbor as well.
So aside from some very narrow restrictions on speech, there is a much greater freedom of speech in the US, and you certainly cannot view the UK and the US as equals in that regard.
Not really all that many factors.
It is supposed to be a kick ass Android product. Pretty good chance it will be banned from sales in the future.
I can easily see people that might have waited otherwise rushing to get it now before they can't. What's the alternative? Apple??
Yeah, right. There are quite a number of people out there that would sooner die then choose Apple because of their shiny retarded walled garden approach to computing. I'll go back to a clamshell phone before I choose Apple for anything.
I don't know what Apple is thinking here. People that want Apple, largely have it. People that will never choose Apple are not going to embrace them, especially if they approach competition like this. Nobody likes to be forced.
I think that Silicon Valley and innovation these days mostly means software development and services on the Internet, and not so much hardware devices and operating system.
I also wonder why technologically minded people would want to move to a place and innovate when you get arrested for a tweet. Now before +Troll, think about it for a second. Most people responsible for innovation these days don't like regulations constraining the Internet, and certainly not regulations and laws that get users thrown in jail.
The UK truly is a pit of shit right now as far the Internet, freedom, privacy, freedom of speech, etc. is concerned. Not exactly attractive to most of the talent in the rest of the world. If you are already there you are just making the best of it.
You don't need civics class for that now. You can learn all about it with Johnny Depp in their wonderfully instructive series Pirates of the Caribbean.
I was not aware that cars got that much better gas mileage in Europe.
As for the Prius being worse... I don't know about all that. I understand your point about the construction of the car, but I had really not heard that before.
I bought them because they were relatively cheap, zero or partial zero emissions, and were much cheaper to operate than a normal car or SUV. Still are.
Would still have rather bought them instead of any Flex Fuel car that does far more damage to the environment producing corn, when they could be using other biofuels. That's money and politics though.
I still think voting with my wallet ultimately helped because it showed a willingness to embrace alternative technologies. I'm still willing to give an air car, or all electric vehicle a go too.
Do you have any links or citations about the production of the Prius being more damaging to the environment than the operation of an SUV?
Wait until he's 18, and give him the choice.
*snicker*
Oh yes, they will be lining up won't they?
Boys who chose to be circumcised, only did so out of religious traditions and they were pretty heavily pressured by their culture to do so. Compared to the world population, it is quite rare.
No man chooses to mutilate his penis unless he has a mental disorder, or challenges with sexual identity. It's either done as a baby where they have no choice, or practically not at all.
My entire life all I have heard is, "it's good for you". However, if the science does not support it, and I mean strongly support it, then there is no reason to risk the boy's dick.
That needs emphasis. If there is a non-zero risk to the boy's dick, than the medical benefit has to be overwhelming. Like uncircumcised penises have a 50% chance of falling off.
Are the strange experiments with small frequency differences between regions of the power grid somehow tied to some conspiracy to mess with time references between people's machines, perhaps to kill traffic by messing with time-to-live handling, or perhaps identify where packets are from even when their addresses are invalid?
Whhaaatt?
That's like the MAFIAA hiring occult members to come up with esoteric ways to kill traffic. Or better yet.... Daffy Duck's plan to get to Planet X, the last source of Illudium Phosdex, the shaving creme atom.
How does an ant "discover" anything? Which is really funny that I ask, since they "discovered" my kitchen this morning. All 10 fucking million of them.....
I would think that there methods are constantly evolving over time. To say that they used these same exact methods for the last million years might be pretty presumptuous based on evolution alone.
It is kind of neat that mathematical algorithms we come up with are present in nature due to their very efficiency. It says a lot about effective evolution is.