Let's examine smartphones (or PDA-phones, as we used to call them). The moron hordes started pouring into the market when the iPhone came out. At that time I was using a phone which not only came with HTTP download, Copy & paste, transport-agnostic multi-platform syncing, a system search app, and some primitive multitasking, but would allow me to compile and run apps right on that phone.
The company that made my old phone promptly went belly-up. The last fully open smartphone, from a dying company, went out of production earlier this year. Now all you can buy is a closed toy phone or an "open" phone (please ignore locked bootloader).
Don't forget the Apple fans who want it to "just work" and argue that you shouldn't have to know anything about the device you're using, and consider even a device's ability to be tinkered with a weakness.
No, being a nerd is at least as unpopular as any other time in any Gen. X / Y'ers memory.
If you're a baby boomer, you may remember the time we've all read about where the phrase "...doctor or lawyer" as used to list prestigious high-paying jobs, was "...doctor or lawyer or scientist." That's about as close to cool as being nerdy has ever been.
Also, who got the impression that a hackerspace is any less nerdy than any of the high school geek clubs? Sure there are a few that are populated by hipsters, but most of them are still just what we used to call an electronics lab.
For once a Bitcoin fan is right. One thing Bitcoin is good for is untraceable payment. Wikileaks would just have to set up a shell company to accept the payments since the credit card companies are now the Payment Morality Police. If child porn sites can collect membership fees with Bitcoin then I don't see why it can't work for Wikileaks.
Nope, that was the encrypted file which had its key leaked in a book recently. Now the US has nothing to lose by going up against him, especially since that incompetent or malicious idiot DDB deleted all the other leaks that had been placed on the Wikileaks server, likely including the BoA leaks.
And I'd say there's a good chance he'll be renditioned to Guantanamo or somewhere if he walks away from the court battle in Sweden. Jeppesen Dataplan, one of the shell airlines that runs the torture taxis, has an office there after all...
Industry money equates to indirect votes. (you can buy votes with it) Constituent mindshare equates to direct votes. (piss off one and you've lost one for sure, probably 10x for each you hear from)
But constituent mindshare is a weak effect, especially when in most Western countries, useful idiots who buy into trickle-down economics and all that bullshit make up 30-60% of the voting base, acting as unpaid corporate lobbyists. It's an effect that's easy to overpower with industry money.
I'm sure it's not literally at random, there's some method to their madness, but their track record looks prettyrandom to any outsider.
And there are many more innocent people who have been tortured due to cases of mistaken identity and misplaced suspicion. You'd think they'd check those things before they start the torture, but you'd be wrong.
Maybe he was thinking of the CIA that picks up random middle-eastern dudes and tortures the shit out of them (as in, electrocution, and dick cutting followed by salted lime juice, not just waterboarding).
You know this needs to lift itself into the air right? It's not an airship, it's more like a small helicopter. It surely uses at least as much as an electric compact car would under heavy acceleration. The other problem is range. For now gasoline is still way more space & weight-efficient than any kind of battery at this scale.
Because getting natural gas involves fracking. Otherwise natural gas would be ahead of diesel. There is a similar caveat to geothermal, some plants operate in a way that brings underground toxins to the surface when the turbines are cleaned.
I always wondered if this was possible. I thought the main problem would be sluggishness due to the increased mass of the props, but dividing the load among many smaller props helps to reduce this problem. But now it works! SWEET! And the increased number of props means better redundancy so more engines can fail without it dropping out of the sky.
Now it looks like they need more power. No need to be green at this stage, try hooking up a Rotax/micro-turbine generator to get some more juice and see how it goes! If I had the money I'd totally be trying this stuff. With an explosively deployed chute this sort of craft could be quite safe.
The TSA will not be allowed to piss off the corporate elite. If this passes, it will be quickly reversed and whoever came up with it will be fired so hard their old pay slips will burst into flames.
Agreed 100% if he made money on mining, but mining is stupidly risky, something between blind gambling and cage-match HFT. But there are other ways to make money from BitCoin.
BitCoin mining is retarded, but the whole system isn't stupid.
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I used to live within sight of a nuclear power plant. I still spend time around there often.
Let's examine smartphones (or PDA-phones, as we used to call them). The moron hordes started pouring into the market when the iPhone came out. At that time I was using a phone which not only came with HTTP download, Copy & paste, transport-agnostic multi-platform syncing, a system search app, and some primitive multitasking, but would allow me to compile and run apps right on that phone.
The company that made my old phone promptly went belly-up. The last fully open smartphone, from a dying company, went out of production earlier this year. Now all you can buy is a closed toy phone or an "open" phone (please ignore locked bootloader).
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Don't forget the Apple fans who want it to "just work" and argue that you shouldn't have to know anything about the device you're using, and consider even a device's ability to be tinkered with a weakness.
No, being a nerd is at least as unpopular as any other time in any Gen. X / Y'ers memory.
If you're a baby boomer, you may remember the time we've all read about where the phrase "...doctor or lawyer" as used to list prestigious high-paying jobs, was "...doctor or lawyer or scientist." That's about as close to cool as being nerdy has ever been.
Seconded.
Also, who got the impression that a hackerspace is any less nerdy than any of the high school geek clubs? Sure there are a few that are populated by hipsters, but most of them are still just what we used to call an electronics lab.
For once a Bitcoin fan is right. One thing Bitcoin is good for is untraceable payment. Wikileaks would just have to set up a shell company to accept the payments since the credit card companies are now the Payment Morality Police. If child porn sites can collect membership fees with Bitcoin then I don't see why it can't work for Wikileaks.
Nope, that was the encrypted file which had its key leaked in a book recently. Now the US has nothing to lose by going up against him, especially since that incompetent or malicious idiot DDB deleted all the other leaks that had been placed on the Wikileaks server, likely including the BoA leaks.
And I'd say there's a good chance he'll be renditioned to Guantanamo or somewhere if he walks away from the court battle in Sweden. Jeppesen Dataplan, one of the shell airlines that runs the torture taxis, has an office there after all...
Oh jeez do you actually believe this?
They can sell their music cheap and DRM-free. Then there will be no incentive to pirate, and there will be no parasitic middleman to pay off.
Industry money equates to indirect votes. (you can buy votes with it)
Constituent mindshare equates to direct votes. (piss off one and you've lost one for sure, probably 10x for each you hear from)
But constituent mindshare is a weak effect, especially when in most Western countries, useful idiots who buy into trickle-down economics and all that bullshit make up 30-60% of the voting base, acting as unpaid corporate lobbyists. It's an effect that's easy to overpower with industry money.
Hell didn't you read Obama's responses to the petitions? it was frankly the most nicely worded 'please go fuck off and die" I've ever read!
That petition site even has a "please take these petitions seriously instead of just acting like you care" petition.
Sure thing:
http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=2504320&cid=37912938
I'm sure it's not literally at random, there's some method to their madness, but their track record looks pretty random to any outsider.
And there are many more innocent people who have been tortured due to cases of mistaken identity and misplaced suspicion. You'd think they'd check those things before they start the torture, but you'd be wrong.
Maybe he was thinking of the CIA that picks up random middle-eastern dudes and tortures the shit out of them (as in, electrocution, and dick cutting followed by salted lime juice, not just waterboarding).
You know this needs to lift itself into the air right? It's not an airship, it's more like a small helicopter. It surely uses at least as much as an electric compact car would under heavy acceleration. The other problem is range. For now gasoline is still way more space & weight-efficient than any kind of battery at this scale.
Their "we can do anything, beware us!!" pissing contest quickly turned around when they realized shit just got real.
...when they stopped messing with the FBI and defense contractors and moved up to Mexican drug cartels.
Because getting natural gas involves fracking. Otherwise natural gas would be ahead of diesel. There is a similar caveat to geothermal, some plants operate in a way that brings underground toxins to the surface when the turbines are cleaned.
Hardly. I mostly used a freeware app called Navegador for PalmOS.
Nuclear first, easy question.
My full preference set is wind, solar thermal, solar PV, geothermal, hydro, nuclear, diesel, natural gas, coal.
The summary even fed them a line to make a quip about...
Hey now, my Debian LXDE netbook is quite responsive.
It has RAID1 and RAID10-like modes at least:
https://www.linux.com/learn/tutorials/371623-weekend-project-get-started-with-btrfs
I always wondered if this was possible. I thought the main problem would be sluggishness due to the increased mass of the props, but dividing the load among many smaller props helps to reduce this problem. But now it works! SWEET! And the increased number of props means better redundancy so more engines can fail without it dropping out of the sky.
Now it looks like they need more power. No need to be green at this stage, try hooking up a Rotax/micro-turbine generator to get some more juice and see how it goes! If I had the money I'd totally be trying this stuff. With an explosively deployed chute this sort of craft could be quite safe.
Flying car tiem? :D
The TSA will not be allowed to piss off the corporate elite. If this passes, it will be quickly reversed and whoever came up with it will be fired so hard their old pay slips will burst into flames.
Funny, I need the hiking/fishing type GPS far more often than street maps.
Agreed 100% if he made money on mining, but mining is stupidly risky, something between blind gambling and cage-match HFT. But there are other ways to make money from BitCoin.
BitCoin mining is retarded, but the whole system isn't stupid.