And before anyone else misunderstands - yes I'm aware he borrowed the name from the Simpsons. This guy knows how to play the game, but that fact alone makes his posturing even more bogus.
Having been around for a few years I was aware of the Androids Dungeon Inc., although not of the Android Data product. Its not as unknown as people imply.
The Two companies are in the same class (although really this is out of date - Computing and related technologies have now become such a major part of the economy that more classes are needed.)
But that doesn't matter. Their trademark is 'Android' data, they can't claim use of the word Android alone any more than they can the word data.
or any name using the letters A, N, D, R, O, I or T...
I seriously doubt the Iranians censor much in the way of non-pornographic English material.
I was at a conference in Tehran a few months ago, attitudes are much more liberal than you would expect. There was some internet censorship which i checked out fairly thoroughly, - most porn sites (The intention is obviously everything, but its not 100%), some torrent sites (No copyright law there so you can get anything for a few dollars in the shops anyway), and social networking sites like facebook, also youtube etc. I was staying in a very small hotel, So I'm sure it was the same as everyone else gets.
I didn't find any problems with any mainstream news sites.
I also didn't find any black holes - whenever anything was blocked a notice came up in Farsi and English with details of how to contact them if i felt something should or shouldn't be blocked.
I also found that I could VPN back home to get to anything that was blocked.
In contrast the access in Dubai was much more limited, and where I was staying I couldn't use a VPN.
$('#me').devilsAdvocate(function(){
alert('that unbridled capitalism is what funded the research behind 94% of the worlds drug discoveries.');
var sucks = 1;
var sorry = 0; });
A Large Fraction of the worthwhile Drug research in the USA has been funded by the NIH (I.e the Federal Government) Research institutions aren't normally allowed to produce drugs, so It gets licensed out to Private drug companies (And there's a whole bunch of issues there) that's where the money gets made, But to pretend that unbridled capitalism funds all the research is nonsense, although it often does fund the further trials / licensing/ approvals process etc.)
Some people say if you diversify enough, then you add so much noise that the sum becomes abstract, and you can start to treat it as a statistical problem rather than an intell problem. *sigh* Yeah, I guess you might get away with that.
For a while.
Its a perfectly valid idea, as long as your investment portfolio covers a reasonable number of planets with unconnected economies you should be fine whatever happens.
It makes me sad. I am not a computer geek. Not even a little. Why is it that having a uterus somehow means you can't do VERY BASIC THINGS?
It doesn't mean you can't, but in my experience (as a guy probably twice the age of most posters here, so my perspective may be different) it means you have a choice as to whether you bother or not - there will always be some guy anxious to help.
A lot of women just don't see any need to learn this stuff for themselves. Its actually very sad (especially when they get older and the free help becomes a lot harder to find) but it is real.
This is the important point, The breathalyser is a measuring device, the software is only a relatively small part of the total systm. I suspect it is just a legal red herring.
What is important is the overall details of the calibration and qualification procedures used to check the device. (Probably an ANSI standard or similar)
Much as we'd all like software to be open source, the legal desire to pick through the code, find an irrelevant bug or questionable programming practice, and get some drunk back on the road is not a cause we should be fighting.
I was working down at Kennedy briefly in the 1980's. I was told then that they no longer had the capability or information to reproduce Apollo hardware. Apparently most of the blueprints were shredded as a matter of 'policy'
twenty years on from that there would be nothing left. Only the most junior staff from the Apollo days could still be around. it won't be in their heads.
So, when the Catholics and Protestants were shooting and bombing each other, and bombing London, we should be suspicious of all Catholics and Protestants?
>
Works for me.
whenever I saw an Irish politician on the TV, I always used to figure that violence was probably justified to get rid of these idiots. Both sides pretty much equally.
But they weren't white and conventional, so obviously in the deranged 1950's fantasy these people inhabit they couldn't be 'proper' Americans.
Seriously all the people involved should have been fired anyway, this was so far beyond dumb that you figure they would be unlikely to cope with anything involving judgement.
The big problem with Islam, IMHO, is that the moderate Islamists are so reluctant to make a stand against the fundamentalists..
I have to call bullshit on this, The deranged lunatics who pass for Christian 'leaders' in the US don't seem to get much public criticism at all - In contrast there is huge debate within muslim societies. and you won't find that many willing to support the crazier preachers outside radical circles.
Atta was never a religious leader - he was a terrorist / martyr depending on your interpretation. Its a very different thing
Unfortunately there is a war on in the middle east, and America has planted itself firmly on the side that most regard as the original aggressor. (The situation got 'slightly confused' after about 1950) Its typical to see George Bush out repainting the target rings on every American just before he goes off into well-deserved oblivion.
We do exactly the same in the UK, low-taxed diesel for agriculture/marine use is dyed red.
During the UK fuel distribution crisis a few years back the government allowed this to be used in road going cars/trucks for a few weeks, other than that using it gets a big fine.
Dyeing the road fuel doesn't work as well, as dilution is tougher to spot.
Pumped storage is used quite widely, but you need a LOT of capacity to make it work - say a lake of a few hundred acres with a few hundred feet elevation before the engineering becomes economic.
This would not be economic to create artificially - so it is limited to locations where the geography is suitable
Or, just as likely, we supported people and groups that did that, or worse.
Argggh No Mod Points
Someone mod this guy up.
America has a long history of being blind to the Faults of its Allies. Remember most of the stuff Saddam was hanged for happened while he was "Our SOB"
Both right, the contamination issue brought it into the news, Then the origins were discussed and the PR nightmare really began.
Would take issue with the adverse comments on UK tap water. it varies hugely around the country. London is awful, as you'd expect. Scotland, Wales and many parts of England are excellent
and frankly, i think we need a replacement for lead shot too. that doesn't go away either when you shoot it into the woods. of course, its used because its heavy.
A long long time ago
I was involved in making an electromagnetic sorting device to check the load in shotgun shells around 15 years ago, as I recall Lead = Bad, Steel or Bismuth = good.
I think you're mixing things up. Tungsten is far too expensive to be using for practice ammunition in small arms. But it's been suggested as a substitute for depleted uranium in armor-piercing rounds for tanks and aircraft due to toxicity concerns with DU.
APDS rounds have been made out of Tungsten for a long time - at least 25 years to my personal knowledge, I believe a lot longer
Armor-piercing small arms ammunition will have a dense core (steel or tungsten) surrounded by lead and a jacket, which keeps the barrel from getting torn up by the harder material..
Steel is not particularly dense, S.g. is around 8, compared to 9 for copper, 11 for lead or about 19 for tungsten or DU
I consider it a blessing that America is NOT like Europe. For one thing, someone tried to steal my car this morning (yes I'm serious), but because I carry a gun, I was able to chase him off.* Had I been European, where guns are all but banned, my $25,000 car would be gone. That represents a loss of one whole year of my life (50 weeks at work).
As noted elsewhere we mostly have insurance...
If a $25k car represents a years income then you definitely are in the category of people who would be better off in Europe. If cash is all that matters to you i reckon the 'break even income' for the average family is probably around $120-150k, if you earn less than that then you would probably be better off in Western Europe - slightly higher taxes, but you get a lot more of it back
Absolutely fine providing they confine themselves to passing laws making pi=3 or whatever, Once they get real power then people who have shown that they are non-rational can do terrible damage. If the likes of 'President Palin' get power, rather than being just a lunatic fringe then things could get very bad indeed. There is nothing on earth more dangerous than people who believe that they are doing gods work.
America has had some years of the Bush-Chaney neocon kleptocracy. Not great, but at least they were semi-rational.
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And before anyone else misunderstands - yes I'm aware he borrowed the name from the Simpsons. This guy knows how to play the game, but that fact alone makes his posturing even more bogus.
Having been around for a few years I was aware of the Androids Dungeon Inc., although not of the Android Data product. Its not as unknown as people imply.
The Two companies are in the same class (although really this is out of date - Computing and related technologies have now become such a major part of the economy that more classes are needed.)
But that doesn't matter. Their trademark is 'Android' data, they can't claim use of the word Android alone any more than they can the word data.
or any name using the letters A, N, D, R, O, I or T...
I seriously doubt the Iranians censor much in the way of non-pornographic English material.
I was at a conference in Tehran a few months ago, attitudes are much more liberal than you would expect. There was some internet censorship which i checked out fairly thoroughly, - most porn sites (The intention is obviously everything, but its not 100%), some torrent sites (No copyright law there so you can get anything for a few dollars in the shops anyway), and social networking sites like facebook, also youtube etc. I was staying in a very small hotel, So I'm sure it was the same as everyone else gets.
I didn't find any problems with any mainstream news sites.
I also didn't find any black holes - whenever anything was blocked a notice came up in Farsi and English with details of how to contact them if i felt something should or shouldn't be blocked.
I also found that I could VPN back home to get to anything that was blocked.
In contrast the access in Dubai was much more limited, and where I was staying I couldn't use a VPN.
Its Not that likely that rewriting the code will actually improve anything.
Remember that most of that code was written when programming labour was (relatively) cheap and hardware was expensive.
Its likely to have been checked and optimised to a much higher degree than we consider justifiable these days.
Chances of screwing things up and introducing significant new bugs are close to 100%
So a parent being responsible for their children is delusional? And you're telling me not to have children?
To believe that any real level of control is possible is pretty deluded.
You do what you can to give them the tools to make reasonable judgement calls and hope for the best.
In this case it seems that wasn't enough.
$('#me').devilsAdvocate(function(){
alert('that unbridled capitalism is what funded the research behind 94% of the worlds drug discoveries.');
var sucks = 1;
var sorry = 0;
});
A Large Fraction of the worthwhile Drug research in the USA has been funded by the NIH (I.e the Federal Government) Research institutions aren't normally allowed to produce drugs, so It gets licensed out to Private drug companies (And there's a whole bunch of issues there) that's where the money gets made, But to pretend that unbridled capitalism funds all the research is nonsense, although it often does fund the further trials / licensing/ approvals process etc.)
Its a perfectly valid idea, as long as your investment portfolio covers a reasonable number of planets with unconnected economies you should be fine whatever happens.
It makes me sad. I am not a computer geek. Not even a little. Why is it that having a uterus somehow means you can't do VERY BASIC THINGS?
It doesn't mean you can't, but in my experience (as a guy probably twice the age of most posters here, so my perspective may be different) it means you have a choice as to whether you bother or not - there will always be some guy anxious to help.
A lot of women just don't see any need to learn this stuff for themselves. Its actually very sad (especially when they get older and the free help becomes a lot harder to find) but it is real.
This is the important point, The breathalyser is a measuring device, the software is only a relatively small part of the total systm. I suspect it is just a legal red herring.
What is important is the overall details of the calibration and qualification procedures used to check the device. (Probably an ANSI standard or similar)
Much as we'd all like software to be open source, the legal desire to pick through the code, find an irrelevant bug or questionable programming practice, and get some drunk back on the road is not a cause we should be fighting.
I was working down at Kennedy briefly in the 1980's. I was told then that they no longer had the capability or information to reproduce Apollo hardware. Apparently most of the blueprints were shredded as a matter of 'policy'
twenty years on from that there would be nothing left. Only the most junior staff from the Apollo days could still be around. it won't be in their heads.
If anybody on a plane makes a claim that a group of people are acting auspicious then they have very little choice.
I'm damn sure that couple with the screaming baby behind me were talking about terrorism, Its a six hour flight, we can't be too careful
So, when the Catholics and Protestants were shooting and bombing each other, and bombing London, we should be suspicious of all Catholics and Protestants?
>
Works for me.
whenever I saw an Irish politician on the TV, I always used to figure that violence was probably justified to get rid of these idiots. Both sides pretty much equally.
But they weren't white and conventional, so obviously in the deranged 1950's fantasy these people inhabit they couldn't be 'proper' Americans.
Seriously all the people involved should have been fired anyway, this was so far beyond dumb that you figure they would be unlikely to cope with anything involving judgement.
The big problem with Islam, IMHO, is that the moderate Islamists are so reluctant to make a stand against the fundamentalists..
I have to call bullshit on this, The deranged lunatics who pass for Christian 'leaders' in the US don't seem to get much public criticism at all - In contrast there is huge debate within muslim societies. and you won't find that many willing to support the crazier preachers outside radical circles.
Atta was never a religious leader - he was a terrorist / martyr depending on your interpretation. Its a very different thing
Unfortunately there is a war on in the middle east, and America has planted itself firmly on the side that most regard as the original aggressor. (The situation got 'slightly confused' after about 1950) Its typical to see George Bush out repainting the target rings on every American just before he goes off into well-deserved oblivion.
We do exactly the same in the UK, low-taxed diesel for agriculture/marine use is dyed red.
During the UK fuel distribution crisis a few years back the government allowed this to be used in road going cars/trucks for a few weeks, other than that using it gets a big fine.
Dyeing the road fuel doesn't work as well, as dilution is tougher to spot.
Pumped storage is used quite widely, but you need a LOT of capacity to make it work - say a lake of a few hundred acres with a few hundred feet elevation before the engineering becomes economic.
This would not be economic to create artificially - so it is limited to locations where the geography is suitable
I think people misunderstand the nature of law enforcement in the UK (and elsewhere)
1) we have LOTS of laws
2) Every one is guilty of something
3) The police know that you are guilty
4) At the moment they have to specify what of.
The primary strategy is to try and remove requirement ( 4) but an automated identification of your special crime would be a big help.
Or, just as likely, we supported people and groups that did that, or worse.
Argggh
No Mod Points
Someone mod this guy up.
America has a long history of being blind to the Faults of its Allies. Remember most of the stuff Saddam was hanged for happened while he was "Our SOB"
That is a BIG part of the image problem.
Both right, the contamination issue brought it into the news, Then the origins were discussed and the PR nightmare really began.
Would take issue with the adverse comments on UK tap water. it varies hugely around the country. London is awful, as you'd expect. Scotland, Wales and many parts of England are excellent
it pollutes the environment
and frankly, i think we need a replacement for lead shot too. that doesn't go away either when you shoot it into the woods. of course, its used because its heavy.
A long long time ago
I was involved in making an electromagnetic sorting device to check the load in shotgun shells around 15 years ago, as I recall Lead = Bad, Steel or Bismuth = good.
I think you're mixing things up. Tungsten is far too expensive to be using for practice ammunition in small arms. But it's been suggested as a substitute for depleted uranium in armor-piercing rounds for tanks and aircraft due to toxicity concerns with DU.
APDS rounds have been made out of Tungsten for a long time - at least 25 years to my personal knowledge, I believe a lot longer
Armor-piercing small arms ammunition will have a dense core (steel or tungsten) surrounded by lead and a jacket, which keeps the barrel from getting torn up by the harder material. .
Steel is not particularly dense, S.g. is around 8, compared to 9 for copper, 11 for lead or about 19 for tungsten or DU
Read the article before you comment./p>
But....
This is slashdot.
are you suggesting that information is a prerequisite to opinion?
That will never catch on as an approach.
I consider it a blessing that America is NOT like Europe. For one thing, someone tried to steal my car this morning (yes I'm serious), but because I carry a gun, I was able to chase him off.* Had I been European, where guns are all but banned, my $25,000 car would be gone. That represents a loss of one whole year of my life (50 weeks at work).
As noted elsewhere we mostly have insurance...
If a $25k car represents a years income then you definitely are in the category of people who would be better off in Europe. If cash is all that matters to you i reckon the 'break even income' for the average family is probably around $120-150k, if you earn less than that then you would probably be better off in Western Europe - slightly higher taxes, but you get a lot more of it back
Assuming you regard Fox news as 'close to the centre' I'm guessing he'd he condemned as a dangerous liberal...
"I see no reason to fear them at all."
Absolutely fine providing they confine themselves to passing laws making pi=3 or whatever, Once they get real power then people who have shown that they are non-rational can do terrible damage. If the likes of 'President Palin' get power, rather than being just a lunatic fringe then things could get very bad indeed. There is nothing on earth more dangerous than people who believe that they are doing gods work.
America has had some years of the Bush-Chaney neocon kleptocracy. Not great, but at least they were semi-rational.