Douglas Adams foresaw the pros and cons forty years ago in The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy:
A loud clatter of gunk music flooded through the Heart of Gold cabin as Zaphod searched the sub-etha radio wave bands for news of himself. The machine was rather difficult to operate. For years radios had been operated by means of pressing buttons and turning dials; then as the technology became more sophisticated the controls were made touch-sensitive--you merely had to brush the panels with your fingers; now all you had to do was wave your hand in the general direction of the components and hope. It saved a lot of muscular expenditure, of course, but meant that you had to sit infuriatingly still if you wanted to keep listening to the same program.
Zaphod waved a hand and the channel switched again.
Or is that just the rotation rate out where we are (an unfashionable district of the western spiral arm), and the rim takes longer?
I think that's the case. Just like our own sun doesn't rotate uniformly, the interior of a spiral galaxy rotates faster than the outer rim.
Galaxies are not rigid discs, they're made up of particulate matter. Each particle is free to move according to the particular forces acting upon it. Think water swirling the drain rather than a record spinning on a player.
“Discovering such regularity in galaxies really helps us to better understand the mechanics that make them tick,” he said. “You won’t find a dense galaxy rotating quickly, while another with the same size but lower density is rotating more slowly.”
OK, but why? It seems counter-intuitive that dense galaxies and sparse galaxies, big galaxies and small galaxies, would all rotate at roughly the same speed. The astronomy.com article is light on details and the Royal Astronomical Society's abstract is somewhat incomprehensible to a layman like myself.
And how is that different than the Debit and Visa networks? Thats how merchant services works.
You typically tie a credit card to your Android Pay account (not sure how it works with Apple), so now Android AND Visa/Mastercard/Discover/etc take a cut.
Personally, I like the convenience and it does seem more secure than even the chip-on-the-credit-card scheme.
Why in the hell would Vermont even have the authority to "license" a corporation to exist
Vermont is perfectly within it's rights to demand certain conditions to any cable company's operation within it's borders.
Corporate charters are granted by, yup, the government. Their very existence is allowed and controlled by the government, and (recent Supreme Court rulings equating them to people notwithstanding) have regulations that stipulate how and where they may operate. Without government regulation a corporation becomes nothing more than a group of people working towards a common goal, but without the legal ability pay bills on behalf of the group (without a whole lot of extra work every time someone enters or leaves the group).
Not sure why this is marked as flamebait since it's true.
It's like marketing. You can have the best product in the world but if your marketing sucks then nobody will buy it.
GP has a good point but started their response off like a douchebag. GGP has a perfectly good question that should be addressed.
Yes, the Sahara is a desert and no there isn't much life there -- but there is native life. Turning it into planted forest would seriously disturb that life. Is it worth it?
I've listened to admissions people, since my own kids are in high school now. The reason admissions offices are dropping the test requirement is that it no longer has a strong correlation with college success. That's it. The colleges are not dumbing anything down; to the contrary, admissions offices are widening the scope of their criteria in an effort to find the things that DO correlate with success.
The SAT is broken and doesn't serve anyone but the College Board. Good by and good riddance to it.
In places like Cuba, where you don't have internet all over the place, then it works to have the packets routed through people cell phones or other devices to go out to all.
IIRC, even in Cuba they don't use mesh networks, they use sneaker nets everywhere.
I can't tell you if you're trolling or just misunderstanding what the argument is about, but I'll bite.
There is a huge difference between regulations regarding blocking a competitor 100% and allowing one customer to pay for faster service, which has no net effect on others that choose not to pay for faster service EXCEPT to make them slower only by comparison to those that paid for faster service. (It's like arguing that first class mail got slower when the post office started offering priority mail service.)
That isn't what NN is about. You, the customer, are free to purchase higher or lower tiers of bandwidth. You always have been, and probably always will be. Each byte is given the same priority of service, no matter where it's bound or what type of byte it is.
Net Neutrality is all about how those bytes are handled. It affects services that you may subscribe to (Netflix, Youtube, Facebook, Skype), commercial websites you may frequent (Amazon, Reddit, Slashdot), or non-commercial sites (bit-torrent, your cousin's blog). This list is not exhaustive, but you get the idea.
If Net Neutrality is repealed, your ISP may charge you more to simply unblock any of the above -- you're not guaranteed access, because they will no longer be required to treat all bytes the same way. They may also charge the site (not you) money just to allow them onto the ISP's network. Once they're allowed, the ISP may charge you yet again to make one site -- but not other sites -- go faster for you so you can effectively use it. This is on top of the subscription fees you may already pay to the ISP and the service.
With NN, ISPs work like telephones. You may call any other phone, and talk as long as you want, under terms that apply equally to the entire class of calls. The phone company may not intentionally interfere, may not listen in, and may not dictate which other subscribers you may, or may not, call.
Without NN, ISPs get to work more like Cable TV and decide what you get and what you don't get. Don't like it? Get another ISP that offers a different package. (haha, you only have one ISP to choose from.)
Like choosing to use insecure-by-design languages.
The vast majority of security bugs would disappear if languages like Ada, PL/1, FORTRAN and COBOL were used instead.
Very few public, large-scale projects are coded using the older 'safe' languages. (Ignoring Rust for the moment, which is safe, but it's also new and is gaining wider distribution through Firefox). That might be a clue that there's an inherent problem with many safe languages -- whether it be performance, difficulty in actually getting useful things done, or something else.
Why not just look at the price and stop worrying about everyone else and whether they got a better deal?
The reason is two-fold:
Some people are swayed by the idea of a discount
There's an old joke that goes something like, "A man will pay $20 for a $10 item that he needs. A woman will pay $10 for a $20 item that she doesn't need." If you remove the sexism part, it underscores the problem: some people will shop just because they think they're getting a deal. They probably get a dopamine rush, not unlike gambling.
Once a store gets on that treadmill it's very, very hard to get off of it
Once a store goes down the route of discounting, in order to attract the emotional deal-hunters, they tend to alienate the intellectual shoppers. If they try to stop they lose their emotional customer base but, having already lost their intellectual customers, they're left with almost nobody.
You were once the youngest organism on the planet. But at the same time you’re also as old as life itself, an unbroken line of cell divisions stretching back 3.5 billion years.
Yes, it's a false dichotomy. We're programmed to grow old and die. Mice and Humboldt Squid live about the same amount of time, about two years. Humans, whales, and macaws live about the same amount of time, around a century. Your lifespan is neither determined by the size of your body or the speed at which you live. We all seem to age in the same ways - young and fresh, then adult, then old and frail.
Your cellular lineage is ancient, so it's not something intrinsic to the matter making up the cells. What's left but the instructions encoded in the genes?
If the "preload" directive doesn't happen and a third party doesn't relay that the undesirable content is at least transmitted, the first server can continue to wait until the demand is met.
That's only a minor inconvenience to ad blockers, as they can load the data then throw it away without passing it to the rendering layer.
It seems to me that what's really happening is that the content servers will proxy the ads from the third parties through themselves, bypassing the host-based restriction that ad blockers provide. You can't block the ads without blocking the content.
...because we have better thing to do than invest hours in repairing our credit?
Thats... not how it works. If someone fraudulently charges something against your credit card, you simply call up the CC company and report it. In most cases, that's it, it's gone, they handle it, you're done. Your credit history will not be tarnished because disputed charges are not reported until the matter is settled, and only then if the matter is not settled in your favor.
More than once my CC company has called me to ask if I had made certain charges, the same day they were made, and before I had even looked at my usage. I said no, those aren't mine, and that was that.
America already imprisons far more people than other countries, and we expend huge resources to do it, despite evidence that it increases future crime through direct recidivism as well as indirectly by destroying families and degrading communities.
Maybe that's because we're putting the wrong people in jail.
Then why have this "false" radio-off setting? Why not turn them off the way users expect when they, for instance, toggle the radios off using the easy-to-find settings?
Also, FTFA:
...both Bluetooth and Wi-Fi will become active again when you toggle them off in the Control Center at 5 AM local time, according to Apple's documentation
The way to protect against viruses is to not run any code that you have no reason to trust. If you are having unprotected sex with a dozen strangers per day, you are going to get an STD even if you ask each stranger "hey, have you been checked out lately?" before each encounter.
Hey look, another Linux user that thinks s/he's totally safe from viruses because he somehow knows better.*
If we're going to talk about cybersecurity like we're really talking about sex, with terms like 'monogamy' and 'condoms', then the closest correct analogy I can give you is that your workplace is your home, every single co-worker is your wife, and the servers are your bed.
Your wife is generally pretty honest but sometimes she hears the call of the void and sleeps around, just this one time because you weren't "getting it done". Now she's crawling back into to your shared bed with a wicked bad case of crabs, raging gonorrhoea, and (you don't know it yet, but you'll find out in a few weeks) bedbugs.
Lets get real: antivirus is backup protection for organizations that skew towards the average -- and every large organization skews toward the average by virtue of having a larger pool of people. You may follow best practices but your co-workers might not, and infections will spread despite your best efforts infections will break out. It's an inherent risk of collaborative environments.
And since you brought it up, how do YOU know that the repo of your choice is trustworthy? You don't, you're trusting other professionals that are smarter than you to keep it safe. Do mistakes happen, can a maintainer release compiled code with a virus embedded in it? You better believe it can happen, and it probably already has happened at least once but nobody was told because that would be a PR disaster.
* Disclaimer: I, too, am a linux user: I use it exclusively at home and about 90% of the time at work, and have done so for over a decade. I also used to be an IT professional and know the Windows side as well, I'm not a one-trick pony. I know what Linux is capable of, but I also know what users are capable of.
The affirmative action response is to force them, through quotas, to hire people that they have worked so hard to keep out... rather than just removing these people in the first place. Why?
Because quotas are measurable. On average, if your population is 50% women or 15% black, your company should reflect those proportions as close as possible. Creating quotas is a way to give you a measurable target, especially if your company is large.
[W]hen pressed, liberals can never seem to find these people. They can never point to the people who see a resume from a woman who graduated with a 4.0 from MIT, trash it, and give the job to a high-school dropout just because he's a man.
Nearly every individual hiring decision can be defended. Sexual and racial biases show up in trends, though. What does it mean when your company is overwhelmingly male and white?
Given that the black community in the US has a much higher unemployment rate than the national average, it's safe to say that few companies are as diverse as demographics suggests they should be -- and one possible reason for that is bias in hiring decisions. Similarly, female unemployment is higher than male, and those women that are hired are disproportionately skewed towards junior, lower-paying positions. One out of every two C-Suite positions should be occupied by a woman, but they're not.
Slashdot Mirror
But don't sign your checks "XX" because that's kind of girly.
"XX" is fine, "XO" is the girly one.
Different departments, different people, different agendas
Douglas Adams foresaw the pros and cons forty years ago in The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy:
A loud clatter of gunk music flooded through the Heart of Gold cabin as Zaphod searched the sub-etha radio wave bands for news of himself. The machine was rather difficult to operate. For years radios had been operated by means of pressing buttons and turning dials; then as the technology became more sophisticated the controls were made touch-sensitive--you merely had to brush the panels with your fingers; now all you had to do was wave your hand in the general direction of the components and hope. It saved a lot of muscular expenditure, of course, but meant that you had to sit infuriatingly still if you wanted to keep listening to the same program.
Zaphod waved a hand and the channel switched again.
Or is that just the rotation rate out where we are (an unfashionable district of the western spiral arm), and the rim takes longer?
I think that's the case. Just like our own sun doesn't rotate uniformly, the interior of a spiral galaxy rotates faster than the outer rim.
Galaxies are not rigid discs, they're made up of particulate matter. Each particle is free to move according to the particular forces acting upon it. Think water swirling the drain rather than a record spinning on a player.
OK, but why? It seems counter-intuitive that dense galaxies and sparse galaxies, big galaxies and small galaxies, would all rotate at roughly the same speed. The astronomy.com article is light on details and the Royal Astronomical Society's abstract is somewhat incomprehensible to a layman like myself.
Can someone explain?
I thought this would have already decided by federal law? It doesn't seem like it is even up to Facebook or its userbase.
Facebook's customers are international and, unfortunately, pedophilia is not universally banned.
What's not legal in the US may be perfectly allowed, and even considered normal, in other parts of the world.
And how is that different than the Debit and Visa networks? Thats how merchant services works.
You typically tie a credit card to your Android Pay account (not sure how it works with Apple), so now Android AND Visa/Mastercard/Discover/etc take a cut.
Personally, I like the convenience and it does seem more secure than even the chip-on-the-credit-card scheme.
Why in the hell would Vermont even have the authority to "license" a corporation to exist
Vermont is perfectly within it's rights to demand certain conditions to any cable company's operation within it's borders.
Corporate charters are granted by, yup, the government. Their very existence is allowed and controlled by the government, and (recent Supreme Court rulings equating them to people notwithstanding) have regulations that stipulate how and where they may operate. Without government regulation a corporation becomes nothing more than a group of people working towards a common goal, but without the legal ability pay bills on behalf of the group (without a whole lot of extra work every time someone enters or leaves the group).
Not sure why this is marked as flamebait since it's true.
It's like marketing. You can have the best product in the world but if your marketing sucks then nobody will buy it.
GP has a good point but started their response off like a douchebag. GGP has a perfectly good question that should be addressed.
Yes, the Sahara is a desert and no there isn't much life there -- but there is native life. Turning it into planted forest would seriously disturb that life. Is it worth it?
Make American Whole Again!
I've listened to admissions people, since my own kids are in high school now. The reason admissions offices are dropping the test requirement is that it no longer has a strong correlation with college success. That's it. The colleges are not dumbing anything down; to the contrary, admissions offices are widening the scope of their criteria in an effort to find the things that DO correlate with success.
The SAT is broken and doesn't serve anyone but the College Board. Good by and good riddance to it.
In places like Cuba, where you don't have internet all over the place, then it works to have the packets routed through people cell phones or other devices to go out to all.
IIRC, even in Cuba they don't use mesh networks, they use sneaker nets everywhere.
Re: Binary
by DontBeAMoran ( 4843879 )
.... FTFY [Fails to actually fix the joke]
That's a pretty relevant user name you've got there...
I can't tell you if you're trolling or just misunderstanding what the argument is about, but I'll bite.
There is a huge difference between regulations regarding blocking a competitor 100% and allowing one customer to pay for faster service, which has no net effect on others that choose not to pay for faster service EXCEPT to make them slower only by comparison to those that paid for faster service. (It's like arguing that first class mail got slower when the post office started offering priority mail service.)
That isn't what NN is about. You, the customer, are free to purchase higher or lower tiers of bandwidth. You always have been, and probably always will be. Each byte is given the same priority of service, no matter where it's bound or what type of byte it is.
Net Neutrality is all about how those bytes are handled. It affects services that you may subscribe to (Netflix, Youtube, Facebook, Skype), commercial websites you may frequent (Amazon, Reddit, Slashdot), or non-commercial sites (bit-torrent, your cousin's blog). This list is not exhaustive, but you get the idea.
If Net Neutrality is repealed, your ISP may charge you more to simply unblock any of the above -- you're not guaranteed access, because they will no longer be required to treat all bytes the same way. They may also charge the site (not you) money just to allow them onto the ISP's network. Once they're allowed, the ISP may charge you yet again to make one site -- but not other sites -- go faster for you so you can effectively use it. This is on top of the subscription fees you may already pay to the ISP and the service.
With NN, ISPs work like telephones. You may call any other phone, and talk as long as you want, under terms that apply equally to the entire class of calls. The phone company may not intentionally interfere, may not listen in, and may not dictate which other subscribers you may, or may not, call.
Without NN, ISPs get to work more like Cable TV and decide what you get and what you don't get. Don't like it? Get another ISP that offers a different package. (haha, you only have one ISP to choose from.)
Do you see the difference?
Bad design choices
Like choosing to use insecure-by-design languages.
The vast majority of security bugs would disappear if languages like Ada, PL/1, FORTRAN and COBOL were used instead.
Very few public, large-scale projects are coded using the older 'safe' languages. (Ignoring Rust for the moment, which is safe, but it's also new and is gaining wider distribution through Firefox). That might be a clue that there's an inherent problem with many safe languages -- whether it be performance, difficulty in actually getting useful things done, or something else.
Why not just look at the price and stop worrying about everyone else and whether they got a better deal?
The reason is two-fold:
There's an old joke that goes something like, "A man will pay $20 for a $10 item that he needs. A woman will pay $10 for a $20 item that she doesn't need." If you remove the sexism part, it underscores the problem: some people will shop just because they think they're getting a deal. They probably get a dopamine rush, not unlike gambling.
Once a store goes down the route of discounting, in order to attract the emotional deal-hunters, they tend to alienate the intellectual shoppers. If they try to stop they lose their emotional customer base but, having already lost their intellectual customers, they're left with almost nobody.
You were once the youngest organism on the planet. But at the same time you’re also as old as life itself, an unbroken line of cell divisions stretching back 3.5 billion years.
Yes, it's a false dichotomy. We're programmed to grow old and die. Mice and Humboldt Squid live about the same amount of time, about two years. Humans, whales, and macaws live about the same amount of time, around a century. Your lifespan is neither determined by the size of your body or the speed at which you live. We all seem to age in the same ways - young and fresh, then adult, then old and frail.
Your cellular lineage is ancient, so it's not something intrinsic to the matter making up the cells. What's left but the instructions encoded in the genes?
If the "preload" directive doesn't happen and a third party doesn't relay that the undesirable content is at least transmitted, the first server can continue to wait until the demand is met.
That's only a minor inconvenience to ad blockers, as they can load the data then throw it away without passing it to the rendering layer.
It seems to me that what's really happening is that the content servers will proxy the ads from the third parties through themselves, bypassing the host-based restriction that ad blockers provide. You can't block the ads without blocking the content.
Anime fans will know that it's because someone accidentally woke up Adam
...because we have better thing to do than invest hours in repairing our credit?
Thats... not how it works. If someone fraudulently charges something against your credit card, you simply call up the CC company and report it. In most cases, that's it, it's gone, they handle it, you're done. Your credit history will not be tarnished because disputed charges are not reported until the matter is settled, and only then if the matter is not settled in your favor.
More than once my CC company has called me to ask if I had made certain charges, the same day they were made, and before I had even looked at my usage. I said no, those aren't mine, and that was that.
America already imprisons far more people than other countries, and we expend huge resources to do it, despite evidence that it increases future crime through direct recidivism as well as indirectly by destroying families and degrading communities.
Maybe that's because we're putting the wrong people in jail.
Fortunately, his version of iOS still allows him to turn off the radios.
You can turn off both radios in the settings app
Then why have this "false" radio-off setting? Why not turn them off the way users expect when they, for instance, toggle the radios off using the easy-to-find settings?
Also, FTFA:
...both Bluetooth and Wi-Fi will become active again when you toggle them off in the Control Center at 5 AM local time, according to Apple's documentation
What the hell is the point of THAT?!
The way to protect against viruses is to not run any code that you have no reason to trust. If you are having unprotected sex with a dozen strangers per day, you are going to get an STD even if you ask each stranger "hey, have you been checked out lately?" before each encounter.
Hey look, another Linux user that thinks s/he's totally safe from viruses because he somehow knows better.*
If we're going to talk about cybersecurity like we're really talking about sex, with terms like 'monogamy' and 'condoms', then the closest correct analogy I can give you is that your workplace is your home, every single co-worker is your wife, and the servers are your bed.
Your wife is generally pretty honest but sometimes she hears the call of the void and sleeps around, just this one time because you weren't "getting it done". Now she's crawling back into to your shared bed with a wicked bad case of crabs, raging gonorrhoea, and (you don't know it yet, but you'll find out in a few weeks) bedbugs.
Lets get real: antivirus is backup protection for organizations that skew towards the average -- and every large organization skews toward the average by virtue of having a larger pool of people. You may follow best practices but your co-workers might not, and infections will spread despite your best efforts infections will break out. It's an inherent risk of collaborative environments.
And since you brought it up, how do YOU know that the repo of your choice is trustworthy? You don't, you're trusting other professionals that are smarter than you to keep it safe. Do mistakes happen, can a maintainer release compiled code with a virus embedded in it? You better believe it can happen, and it probably already has happened at least once but nobody was told because that would be a PR disaster.
* Disclaimer: I, too, am a linux user: I use it exclusively at home and about 90% of the time at work, and have done so for over a decade. I also used to be an IT professional and know the Windows side as well, I'm not a one-trick pony. I know what Linux is capable of, but I also know what users are capable of.
The affirmative action response is to force them, through quotas, to hire people that they have worked so hard to keep out... rather than just removing these people in the first place. Why?
Because quotas are measurable. On average, if your population is 50% women or 15% black, your company should reflect those proportions as close as possible. Creating quotas is a way to give you a measurable target, especially if your company is large.
[W]hen pressed, liberals can never seem to find these people. They can never point to the people who see a resume from a woman who graduated with a 4.0 from MIT, trash it, and give the job to a high-school dropout just because he's a man.
Nearly every individual hiring decision can be defended. Sexual and racial biases show up in trends, though. What does it mean when your company is overwhelmingly male and white?
Given that the black community in the US has a much higher unemployment rate than the national average, it's safe to say that few companies are as diverse as demographics suggests they should be -- and one possible reason for that is bias in hiring decisions. Similarly, female unemployment is higher than male, and those women that are hired are disproportionately skewed towards junior, lower-paying positions. One out of every two C-Suite positions should be occupied by a woman, but they're not.