You don't need any of that. Get a LiveCD of any os you want. Burn it, you're done. You boot to the CD/DVD and its a clean OS every boot. They can't break it because they can't write to it.
Because you're clearly using it in a disparagingly. They're as learned as can be expected given their situation. Medical staff need to take that into account and deal with them appropriately. If my dentist told me to fix tooth he was going to drill a hole in my head, then tried to strap me to a chair forcibly, punching him in the face would not be an over reaction. If I had a medical degree, you could argue, I'd have know that what he said was an appropriate remedy, but that doesn't negate his responsibly as a doctor to communicate with me in an appropriate manner that didn't lead to me reacting violently. It's part of a medical professionals job.
Don't fall for the media frenzy. Keep in mind they are making a lot of money off of all your panicked clicks.
This is certainly a tragedy for Africa. Just like the last 5 Ebola outbreaks were. This one's bigger but that mostly appears to be due to changes in culture and population than any change in the disease. But, by and large, Ebola is hard to transmit. It's prevalent in Africa because of poor sanitation. I've been to Africa (not this region, but others) The sanitation there is awful and even I, being careful, pretty much caught everything under the sun. There is no clean water to wash with. I bought bottled water and washed with that... didn't matter. The food is handled by dozens of people before you get it and there's no way to wash that either. The people that handled it clearly couldn't wash up properly either.
In regards to the medical facilities... they are woefully understaffed, under trained and short on equipment. The biggest difference the United States could make is to send over more of all of these. If the troops were sending are of this nature, it will certainly do a lot of good.
As far as a threat to us in the west though? No... short of it going airborne which, despite the soulless talking heads on TV are saying, is extremely unlikely. And if it were already airborne, we'd all already have it. Luckily, ultra deadly diseases like this burn out very quickly. It's hard to be virulent and deadly at the same time. The dead aren't that great at walking around and infecting people.
When the populace actively attack medical workers, violently disrupt quarantines, and engage in ebola spreading funerary customs? 3000 soldiers seems hardly enough to combat that level of ignorance of how disease transmission works.
When medical workers take your relatives away, lock them into camps where the litteraly die from either the disease or starvation, then refuse to let you burrie your relatives... you might react rather violently when they came for you as well.
Logically we in the west can think about this and say that all of those things were required to control the outbreak. But now think of it from the perspective of a villager that has never set foot in a school and the only news they get is via word of mouth and text message.
Which is why I think attaching something that harnesses that energy to a fragile structure connected to a well capable of ruining a large part of the local ecosystem is a bad idea.
That's hilarious... but it could work if its tethered.
I don't think it'll work with an oil platform. The waves are too strong and the steel is too weak. Platforms get destroyed in storms already... now imagine if it had big wave capturing devices attached to it. Perhaps in an emergency it could cut the wave device loose?
Ships can be taken out of the water. Propellers are not moving parts. They are fixed, to a shaft that enters the dry part of the boat through a series of bushings. The "Mechanism" is inside the boat.
These wave capture devices are complex folding structures that are entirely under water. Even something as simple as a hing is going to fail in short order under water. Ever had a fish tank? Even freshwater tanks have to have their pumps constantly cleaned and maintained. It's fact. Moving parts in salt water is a terrible idea.
More importantly, the fact that the majority of the value in the car is in a perishable resource. That battery will NOT last forever, and when it needs a new one you'd be better off scrapping the entire car and buying a new one. How good is that for the environment?
So, you want to install a "Wave harnessing device" on a boat who's primary mission is to stay moored in the same place without moving despite wind and waves? You don't see a problem with that?
It'd be the equivalent of mounting a windmill to a blimp.
I could understand (from radical fundamentalist point of view) other bans, but why math? Even Koran (I think?) has writings on commerce (math), tithe (math) and so on.
For most people that view the Koran or the Bible in the most extreme and literal ways, it's generally held that your entire life should be dedicated to serving God. You're supposed to spend your entire life reading the Bible/Koran and serving God. All other activities should be in support of that mission. i.e. you need to be able to read to be able to read the bible so English is ok. Any activity that is not in direct service of God is considered sinful. I suspect that in most rural Iraqi villages the only subjects were Math, social studies and English. So basically they're telling everyone that if they teach anything but the Koran they're getting flogged.
It's interesting that he chose not to answer (or Slashdot chose not to forward) the several highly moderated questions on whether the show truly makes geek culture mainstream ("laughing with the characters"), or if it just holds geeks up for ridicule to millions of ordinary Americans ("laughing at them"). From Saltzberg's answers, it's at least clear that he has no geek background and simply caught on a good business idea.
Right, I never liked that show because I constantly have people comparing me to people on that show. "Those aren't geeks" is what I tell them.
It's a very similar phenomenon to Spinal Tap, Bill and Ted, Waynes world, etc... I used to have long hair, be in a band, etc... People would try and relate to me by referencing those movies. Those movies were ridiculing my way of life, and had nothing to do with what being into metal and in a band was really like. People who watched them thought I was like that, but the fact of the matter is, being in a metal band is extremely difficult. There's no way you could be as stupid as Metal guys were portrayed in those movies, and put on a live show. It took me and my first band months of practice to get our first show together. I couldn't be getting trashed every night and pulled that off. You don't just jam metal, every single note has to be exact... like classical music.
Anyways, done with my rant. Big Bang Theory makes fun of Geeks, it doesn't help us at all.
If some new startup had some better/cheaper/faster alternative to Oracle we'd probably try them out where I work, but I bet they'd get 1/10th the money we're willing to pay Oracle. Trust is a valuable thing. (and yea, I know Oracle sucks, but they aren't going out of business anytime soon)
Don't assume SpaceX is getting less money because their better. SpaceX is getting less money because they know if they charged the same as Boeing there's no way in hell they would have gotten the contract.
I guess I over complicated it by simplifying it? lol... anyways, yes, what you're saying is what I meant to get across. My goal was to clarify how this works to whomever may stumble across it, and figured I'd have errors that replies like yours would correct. Thanks!
For those that were unaware, this is my explanation (it should be mostly correct)
double non-taxation, otherwise known as a "Double Irish" It takes advantage of weakness in Irish law that allows companies to not pay taxes on subsidiaries that are outside Ireland. So a large multinational corporation, located the United States, needs to subsidiaries for this to work. They open one subsidiary in Ireland. They open a second subsidiary in a low, or no tax country like Bermuda. The Irish company owns the Bermuda company. The Bermuda company owns the US Companies IP rights for outside the US. The Bermuda company licenses those rights to the Irish company. The Licensing fees the Irish company pays to the Bermuda company are as close to 100% of the profits the Irish company makes as possible. Everything over that amount gets changed at the Irish corporate rate of 12.4% The profits all get transferred to the Bermuda subsidiary where there are no corporate taxes. So they avoid all taxes on that money and other governments can't come after them because there are treaties between most countries that prevent them from charging a company based in a different partner country for taxes. This is to prevent situations where you'd pay taxes in both countries for the same money. Bermuda isn't a part of those treaties but Ireland is. So this loophole in Irish law is upending the entire Global tax system.
"AI" has nothing to do with robots. Why do we keep relating the 2? A Robot may very well be controlled by and AI, or it might be controlled by a human. There is absolutely no reason why this experiment had to be done with robots. Especially given how simple it was.
And most importantly, this wasn't a failure of AI or an example of the difficulty of ethics in robotics. It was crappy code. I think anyone that's worked with JavaScript in the past likely has some pretty good ideas regarding how to improve this algorithm.
When I was bullied, neither my money nor my pride were the target. They just wanted to look strong in front of their friends, and I did not have the strength of muscle to fight back.
That's when you just start screaming "Assault! Assault!" as loud as possible. Again, your problem was pride. You didn't want to seam weak so you just took it and pretended like they weren't hurting you. let go of the pride, embrace revenge, scream for an adult and then get them expelled.
I don't see why this is such a huge deal in the US. Why not both allow so-called "Fast Lanes" and also mandate a high minimum for the "Not-so-fast Lanes" which will prevent ISPs from serving subpar rates to customers?
Because our country was founded to escape the fascist oppression of and English king that used arbitrary rules/laws/policies to oppress us. People at the time were extremely upset that these laws were getting passed and we had no say in what laws were passed. We were taxed, sent to jail, required to serve in the military, yet had no say in English parliament. Thats where the American saying "No taxation without representation" comes from.
Similarly, laws recently in the US, including Net Neutrality, seems to be getting enacted by comity despite vast and overwhelming opposition by the public. Given the way our laws work here... the government does not get into the nitty gritty of how a thing works usually. So, more likely than not, this ruling will be as simple as net neutrality is Ok or its not ok. Much like Gun control... guns are legal here with few limitations. Freedom of speach in this country is so extreme here is shocking to most of the rest of the world. For good or for ill that's how it turns out.
So the problem is, if the feds give them an inch, the ISPs will take a hell of a lot more than a mile. The FCC will find it impossible to enforce any particular form of net neutrality given their current power. They can either green light it as a whole and hope the ISPs play nice (yea right) or just say "NO!" and be done with it once and for all.
But this is a sworn declaration, and if it's a sworn declaration then it must be true because it's not like anyone has been caught lying under oath on this topic is it!
Honestly, sworn declarations on this topic and the lack of punishment for breaching their oath when swearing the truth means you might as well read "Sworn declaration" as "In a conversation with his mate Dave down the pub".
Actually, I'd say its worse than that. I can't remember a statement that the NSA has ever made publicly that wasn't a lie. By that fact alone I'd say this "declaration" is evidence that Snowden was truthful.
This is a good example of greenwashing. They're using solar steam generators to extract heavy crude oil and tar sands. This oil is difficult to extract and environmentally costly to refine. From Wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/H... "With present technology, the extraction and refining of heavy oils and oil sands generates as much as three times the total CO2 emissions compared to conventional oil." This oil should probably be left in the ground.
It reduces the CO2 footprint of the oil by reducing how many fossil fuels are needed to extract it. You can't just "Stop using oil" that's not possible, even remotely. So get over.
Using renewable energy to tap unrenewable energy... Seems not really enduring. Why not just use directly the renewable energy in first place?
This reduces the carbon footprint of the Oil itself. Most people tend to forget that over half the CO2 released by oil is done prior to it ever getting into your gas tank. If we could make it carbon neutral up to that point we'd be making significant progress. This is a good thing no matter how you look at it.
..might simply have been not appreciably better than glass alternatives.
if true (this sounds like speculation) kudos apple for not releasing something just because they could.
Or it could have been stronger, just not in Apples application. The shape of the phone and/or the mounting may have caused the glass to flex in such a way that it shattered easier. I suspect this leak was intentional, and Apple is trying to target the technology so other phones can't use it as a selling point by saying "Look, we have stronger glass than apple!"
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You don't need Linux to be free of Adobe and Microsoft. Just a Mac.
And you don't need vaccines to be free of the Flu, just a handgun.
You don't need any of that.
Get a LiveCD of any os you want. Burn it, you're done.
You boot to the CD/DVD and its a clean OS every boot. They can't break it because they can't write to it.
To be really safe, tape the DVD drive shut.
Because you're clearly using it in a disparagingly. They're as learned as can be expected given their situation. Medical staff need to take that into account and deal with them appropriately. If my dentist told me to fix tooth he was going to drill a hole in my head, then tried to strap me to a chair forcibly, punching him in the face would not be an over reaction. If I had a medical degree, you could argue, I'd have know that what he said was an appropriate remedy, but that doesn't negate his responsibly as a doctor to communicate with me in an appropriate manner that didn't lead to me reacting violently. It's part of a medical professionals job.
Don't fall for the media frenzy. Keep in mind they are making a lot of money off of all your panicked clicks.
This is certainly a tragedy for Africa. Just like the last 5 Ebola outbreaks were. This one's bigger but that mostly appears to be due to changes in culture and population than any change in the disease. But, by and large, Ebola is hard to transmit. It's prevalent in Africa because of poor sanitation. I've been to Africa (not this region, but others) The sanitation there is awful and even I, being careful, pretty much caught everything under the sun. There is no clean water to wash with. I bought bottled water and washed with that... didn't matter. The food is handled by dozens of people before you get it and there's no way to wash that either. The people that handled it clearly couldn't wash up properly either.
In regards to the medical facilities... they are woefully understaffed, under trained and short on equipment. The biggest difference the United States could make is to send over more of all of these. If the troops were sending are of this nature, it will certainly do a lot of good.
As far as a threat to us in the west though? No... short of it going airborne which, despite the soulless talking heads on TV are saying, is extremely unlikely. And if it were already airborne, we'd all already have it. Luckily, ultra deadly diseases like this burn out very quickly. It's hard to be virulent and deadly at the same time. The dead aren't that great at walking around and infecting people.
When the populace actively attack medical workers, violently disrupt quarantines, and engage in ebola spreading funerary customs? 3000 soldiers seems hardly enough to combat that level of ignorance of how disease transmission works.
When medical workers take your relatives away, lock them into camps where the litteraly die from either the disease or starvation, then refuse to let you burrie your relatives... you might react rather violently when they came for you as well.
Logically we in the west can think about this and say that all of those things were required to control the outbreak. But now think of it from the perspective of a villager that has never set foot in a school and the only news they get is via word of mouth and text message.
Hurricanes. Hurricanes are the problem.
Remember this oil rig?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/D...
And that was without the wave capturing nonsense attached.
Which is why I think attaching something that harnesses that energy to a fragile structure connected to a well capable of ruining a large part of the local ecosystem is a bad idea.
It'd be the equivalent of mounting a windmill to a blimp.
That's more feasible than you think
That's hilarious... but it could work if its tethered.
I don't think it'll work with an oil platform. The waves are too strong and the steel is too weak. Platforms get destroyed in storms already... now imagine if it had big wave capturing devices attached to it. Perhaps in an emergency it could cut the wave device loose?
Ships can be taken out of the water.
Propellers are not moving parts. They are fixed, to a shaft that enters the dry part of the boat through a series of bushings. The "Mechanism" is inside the boat.
These wave capture devices are complex folding structures that are entirely under water. Even something as simple as a hing is going to fail in short order under water. Ever had a fish tank? Even freshwater tanks have to have their pumps constantly cleaned and maintained. It's fact. Moving parts in salt water is a terrible idea.
More importantly, the fact that the majority of the value in the car is in a perishable resource. That battery will NOT last forever, and when it needs a new one you'd be better off scrapping the entire car and buying a new one. How good is that for the environment?
So, you want to install a "Wave harnessing device" on a boat who's primary mission is to stay moored in the same place without moving despite wind and waves? You don't see a problem with that?
It'd be the equivalent of mounting a windmill to a blimp.
Moving parts = bad idea.
Moving parts in salt water?
Repairs under water?!?!
It's as simple as that.
I could understand (from radical fundamentalist point of view) other bans, but why math? Even Koran (I think?) has writings on commerce (math), tithe (math) and so on.
For most people that view the Koran or the Bible in the most extreme and literal ways, it's generally held that your entire life should be dedicated to serving God. You're supposed to spend your entire life reading the Bible/Koran and serving God. All other activities should be in support of that mission. i.e. you need to be able to read to be able to read the bible so English is ok. Any activity that is not in direct service of God is considered sinful. I suspect that in most rural Iraqi villages the only subjects were Math, social studies and English. So basically they're telling everyone that if they teach anything but the Koran they're getting flogged.
It's interesting that he chose not to answer (or Slashdot chose not to forward) the several highly moderated questions on whether the show truly makes geek culture mainstream ("laughing with the characters"), or if it just holds geeks up for ridicule to millions of ordinary Americans ("laughing at them"). From Saltzberg's answers, it's at least clear that he has no geek background and simply caught on a good business idea.
Right, I never liked that show because I constantly have people comparing me to people on that show. "Those aren't geeks" is what I tell them.
It's a very similar phenomenon to Spinal Tap, Bill and Ted, Waynes world, etc... I used to have long hair, be in a band, etc... People would try and relate to me by referencing those movies. Those movies were ridiculing my way of life, and had nothing to do with what being into metal and in a band was really like. People who watched them thought I was like that, but the fact of the matter is, being in a metal band is extremely difficult. There's no way you could be as stupid as Metal guys were portrayed in those movies, and put on a live show. It took me and my first band months of practice to get our first show together. I couldn't be getting trashed every night and pulled that off. You don't just jam metal, every single note has to be exact... like classical music.
Anyways, done with my rant. Big Bang Theory makes fun of Geeks, it doesn't help us at all.
If some new startup had some better/cheaper/faster alternative to Oracle we'd probably try them out where I work, but I bet they'd get 1/10th the money we're willing to pay Oracle. Trust is a valuable thing. (and yea, I know Oracle sucks, but they aren't going out of business anytime soon)
Don't assume SpaceX is getting less money because their better. SpaceX is getting less money because they know if they charged the same as Boeing there's no way in hell they would have gotten the contract.
I guess I over complicated it by simplifying it? lol... anyways, yes, what you're saying is what I meant to get across. My goal was to clarify how this works to whomever may stumble across it, and figured I'd have errors that replies like yours would correct. Thanks!
For those that were unaware, this is my explanation (it should be mostly correct)
double non-taxation, otherwise known as a "Double Irish"
It takes advantage of weakness in Irish law that allows companies to not pay taxes on subsidiaries that are outside Ireland.
So a large multinational corporation, located the United States, needs to subsidiaries for this to work.
They open one subsidiary in Ireland.
They open a second subsidiary in a low, or no tax country like Bermuda.
The Irish company owns the Bermuda company.
The Bermuda company owns the US Companies IP rights for outside the US.
The Bermuda company licenses those rights to the Irish company.
The Licensing fees the Irish company pays to the Bermuda company are as close to 100% of the profits the Irish company makes as possible. Everything over that amount gets changed at the Irish corporate rate of 12.4%
The profits all get transferred to the Bermuda subsidiary where there are no corporate taxes. So they avoid all taxes on that money and other governments can't come after them because there are treaties between most countries that prevent them from charging a company based in a different partner country for taxes. This is to prevent situations where you'd pay taxes in both countries for the same money. Bermuda isn't a part of those treaties but Ireland is. So this loophole in Irish law is upending the entire Global tax system.
"AI" has nothing to do with robots. Why do we keep relating the 2? A Robot may very well be controlled by and AI, or it might be controlled by a human. There is absolutely no reason why this experiment had to be done with robots. Especially given how simple it was.
And most importantly, this wasn't a failure of AI or an example of the difficulty of ethics in robotics. It was crappy code. I think anyone that's worked with JavaScript in the past likely has some pretty good ideas regarding how to improve this algorithm.
When I was bullied, neither my money nor my pride were the target. They just wanted to look strong in front of their friends, and I did not have the strength of muscle to fight back.
That's when you just start screaming "Assault! Assault!" as loud as possible.
Again, your problem was pride. You didn't want to seam weak so you just took it and pretended like they weren't hurting you.
let go of the pride, embrace revenge, scream for an adult and then get them expelled.
I don't see why this is such a huge deal in the US. Why not both allow so-called "Fast Lanes" and also mandate a high minimum for the "Not-so-fast Lanes" which will prevent ISPs from serving subpar rates to customers?
Because our country was founded to escape the fascist oppression of and English king that used arbitrary rules/laws/policies to oppress us. People at the time were extremely upset that these laws were getting passed and we had no say in what laws were passed. We were taxed, sent to jail, required to serve in the military, yet had no say in English parliament. Thats where the American saying "No taxation without representation" comes from.
Similarly, laws recently in the US, including Net Neutrality, seems to be getting enacted by comity despite vast and overwhelming opposition by the public. Given the way our laws work here... the government does not get into the nitty gritty of how a thing works usually. So, more likely than not, this ruling will be as simple as net neutrality is Ok or its not ok. Much like Gun control... guns are legal here with few limitations. Freedom of speach in this country is so extreme here is shocking to most of the rest of the world. For good or for ill that's how it turns out.
So the problem is, if the feds give them an inch, the ISPs will take a hell of a lot more than a mile. The FCC will find it impossible to enforce any particular form of net neutrality given their current power. They can either green light it as a whole and hope the ISPs play nice (yea right) or just say "NO!" and be done with it once and for all.
Minecraft is the only game out there that uses Java
What on earth are you talking about? Lots of games use Java.
Minecrafts sister game comes to mind: http://www.wurmonline.com/
But this is a sworn declaration, and if it's a sworn declaration then it must be true because it's not like anyone has been caught lying under oath on this topic is it!
Honestly, sworn declarations on this topic and the lack of punishment for breaching their oath when swearing the truth means you might as well read "Sworn declaration" as "In a conversation with his mate Dave down the pub".
Actually, I'd say its worse than that. I can't remember a statement that the NSA has ever made publicly that wasn't a lie. By that fact alone I'd say this "declaration" is evidence that Snowden was truthful.
This is a good example of greenwashing.
They're using solar steam generators to extract heavy crude oil and tar sands. This oil is difficult to extract and environmentally costly to refine.
From Wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/H...
"With present technology, the extraction and refining of heavy oils and oil sands generates as much as three times the total CO2 emissions compared to conventional oil."
This oil should probably be left in the ground.
It reduces the CO2 footprint of the oil by reducing how many fossil fuels are needed to extract it. You can't just "Stop using oil" that's not possible, even remotely. So get over.
Using renewable energy to tap unrenewable energy... Seems not really enduring. Why not just use directly the renewable energy in first place?
This reduces the carbon footprint of the Oil itself. Most people tend to forget that over half the CO2 released by oil is done prior to it ever getting into your gas tank. If we could make it carbon neutral up to that point we'd be making significant progress. This is a good thing no matter how you look at it.
..might simply have been not appreciably better than glass alternatives.
if true (this sounds like speculation) kudos apple for not releasing something just because they could.
Or it could have been stronger, just not in Apples application. The shape of the phone and/or the mounting may have caused the glass to flex in such a way that it shattered easier. I suspect this leak was intentional, and Apple is trying to target the technology so other phones can't use it as a selling point by saying "Look, we have stronger glass than apple!"