Ultima 7/7.5: http://www.gog.com/game/ultima... Revolutionary when it came out. My friends and I in high-school literally sat their with our mouths hanging open the first time we launched the game. The MMO based on it was one of the first I'd call a true mmo: http://www.uo.com/ (let the flame wars begin on that statement, just so you know ahead of time: I don't care)
Recent Ukrainian events summed up for those that care:
1954 Crimea was given as a "Gift" to Ukraine by Russia/USSR and Nikita Khrushchev (an ethnic Ukrainian) as a symbolic gesture commemorating the 300th anniversary of Crimea becoming part of the Russian empire. 1991 Ukraine voted overwhelmingly for independence from Russia 1994 Ukraine signed a treaty with Russia and the USA to disarm its nuclear arsenal in return for a treaty that guaranteed Russia and USA would come to their aid if they were ever invaded. 2010 Viktor Fedorovych Yanukovych was elected president. He had been a minister of an eastern Ukrainian province. The US and Europe had supported his opponent, and Russia had supported him. Likely both sides illegally influenced the election with money and espionage. In the following years, there is little doubt he ran the country in the ground, he was a terrible president. 2014 The Ukrainian parliament voted overwhelmingly to remove him from the presidential office. A poll in April showed his approval rating at 5% This event was likely assisted by the US and Europe and was basically a Coup de'etat. Russia freaked out and had Russian agents already in place in Ukraine start stiring up violent unrest. They've basically been in a state of civil war since. Russia is providing troops and hardware, the west seem a little more reluctant to provide direct support.
Russias primary goals are to keep the strategic port in the black sea open and prevent Ukraine from joining the EU.
assuming they ever pay. I've been involved in a few court ordered settlements before and have never seen a penny. In all cases the offender simply made it more expensive to get the money than the money was worth. It's a very easy thing to do. It's unfortunately Judges aren't more sympathetic in these sorts of cases.
With bitcoin being good for money laundering, the big banks will lose that source of revenue.
Money laundering was never hard in the first place. Disreputable banks just make it a tad more palatable to people who don't consider their behavior "wrong" and I doubt bitcoin changes that at all.
It's 1 billion mobile users, not smartphone users. When I was in Africa, everyone had a feature phone... everyone. You could buy them at Kiosks for less than $10, and phone cards to fill them with minutes. A $300 phone would be completely insane there... but a $33 phone? Yea, they'd have to save up but that's doable. Especially when a lot of people I ran into were using the feature phone like a desktop... running entire businesses off the things.
My kids 6 and all the kids at school were talking about the new Mario Kart game. He wanted it sooo bad but I wasn't about to get him started on consoles so I downloaded SNES and the orgional Mario Kart game... now he's bragging to all the kids he's got the "FIRST" one, and they have the lame version. lol
This is the wrong way to go about it. The government should not be involved in this at all.
Mandate the standard not the use of the technology. i.e. "IF you are going to implement this safety feature, communication with the other vehicle must happen via RF (or whatever) on X frequency. Pulse Y indicates speed, pulse Z indicates direction..." etc...
The problem with this is that if all cops feel like they're being audited all of the time, they're less likely to let you off the hook for a minor violation.
And my other option is to have the cop shoot me 8 times, then when I fall on the ground walk over and double tap me in the head to make sure I don't get back up?
It's a good idea, don't get me wrong. It's about time we used this ubiquitous cheap technology in an obviously beneficial way. It's a good move, and one I support.
But either after this comes about, or as part of the deal, the content of that camera needs to be stored offsite and specifically out of the reach of the police officer. Otherwise we're going to see a lot of data simply go missing at convenient times. To be frank, we can't trust police departments to hold onto evidence that could incriminate themselves.
And any evidence that an officer tampered with their camera in an effort to suppress incriminating evidence should be dealt with exactly as if they had destroyed evidence. Because that's what it is.
Actually this is a real problem... so much so that in departments that have these cameras, many require the officer to write their report before being allowed to view the video. If they can see the video, they often end up crafting their report to fit the video of the incident while the victim/perpetrator doesn't have that advantage.
Just a few years ago, I got pulled over for honking my horn at someone that was about to hit me. I don't think the cop saw the other car... but whatever. When he walked up to the car he yelled "Something wrong with your horn??!?!" to which I replied "Nope, I just tested it and it worked just fine." his reply was to draw his gun on me. I'm white, was 35 at the time, ware business casual and a business haircut.
This isn't a race issue, it's a cop issue. I've had numerous run-ins with the police like this that more or less boil down to me having a smart mouth and not "respecting their authority" because, quite frankly, I don't. I shouldn't be afraid every time I get pulled over, but I am. That's not right.
My son is adopted, and African American, and you're damned sure he's getting the talk when he's old enough. The police are not your friends, they are not here to help. They can legally murder you where you stand and get away with it on a routine basis. I would not say that the majority of them are "Good guys" and this is just a few bad eggs. I think the position attracts certain kinds of people that have ego problems and use the job to exert a psychological need to control others. The screening process and training they receive needs to change radically. I've never had a positive encounter with a police officer. Even when my home got broken into they used the opportunity to search my belonging because it was a "crime scene" That sort of behavior engenders distrust and leads to less crime being reported.
This is why monopolistic behavior should be stopped, middle management doesn't even know how bad they are breaking their market - they suffer. I can't imagine this fellow was any more useless than the rest of them. What is needed is that they listen to their technical staff before things shatter like this, as you say the network engineers would rather have things run smoothly.
It's not monopolistic at all. There are plenty of competitors. If there weren't we wouldn't be having layoffs and sending support overseas. Customers want the cheapest rates possible and will except sub-par service if that's what it takes.
Once again showing why analog is better for phones than digital. When was the last time you ever heard of an analog phone line not able to transmit a call? Now compare that to how many times you've have dropped calls or, in this case, no ability to make a call, on a digital line. But let's keep saying the move to digital is better than what we had, despite the overwhelming evidence to the contrary.
It was, in fact, and analog POTS line. POTS lines go down all the time... all over the place. The difference is, IP traffic is like an airliner going down... when it happens, it's big and happens to lots of people, so it gets more attention. POTS outages usually effect only a few hundreds people, but there are lots and lots of them all over the place all day long.
ALL telephone service, being analog or or IP phone gets MUXed at the DSA and turned digital within 30k feet of your house anyway. The biggest problems with IP phones is the phone... not the transmission. I've seen the code in those things and it's ridiculously bad. People want cheap phones... When your call is analog to the DSA, it goes digital in a $20k piece of a equipment. THAT's the difference.
Also... if you have fiber on premiss, you'll almost never have an outage. We'd install fiber somewhere and that area would disappear off our alarm board over night. Most outages are Lightening related.
The standards in science shall be based in core existing disciplines of biology, chemistry, and physics; incorporate grade-level mathematics and be referenced to the mathematics standards; focus on academic and scientific knowledge rather than scientific processes; and prohibit political or religious interpretation of scientific facts in favor of another.
It does not say they can't teach the scientific process. It says their focus should be on the knowledge gained from it prohibits religious or political interpretations of those facts.
Once again, the left's opinions are just as stupid as the rights. If you jumped to a conclusion on this story before reading the actual bill, you're the problem. You're easily manipulated by a group of people that are playing to your preconceived notions and fears just to engender false outrage to discredit their opponents. The Right has Fox news, Rush, etc... The left Has arstechnica, msnbc, etc... It's all BS. For the love of God think for yourself and stop voting for people with (D) or (R) after their names.
The level of stress and anxiety on the admins during these outages would break most people. I used to do that and literally could not take it, so I switched to a less stressful job. At least with Cable companies it's only TV and Internet, I had to deal with phones as well. We literally had a man DIE during one of our outages because his family couldn't call 911. Even with data lines only all kinds of things break... Police stations data interconnects... hospitals lose access to databases... power companies might not be able to dispatch. Even small outages are a very big deal, and are taken very seriously. The residential side is irritating but not that big of a deal. It's the commercial side that makes it hard to sleep at night sometimes. The guys that do this, do care... if they didn't they sure as hell wouldn't put up with the miserable job.
I work for an ISP. Trying to figure this stuff out from the consumer side is kind of pointless. When things break this bad, we're bringing things down and back up again faster than you can blink. Even if the problem is just DNS, we might end up turning all the interfaces on the core routers up and down. So your tests might have just been showing you the recovery efforts. Trust me, these things are never as simple as the right person noticing and flipping a switch. I guarantee you there were 20 or 30 bleary eyed techs on a conference call with each other trying to keep their kids quite this morning and thinking to themselves "I really need to retire"
Wow the Europeans confirming the existence of the Higgs Boson and then ramping up the LHC power output has really stung the American Physics community into action. First they put on a dog and pony show about "Hints of Physics beyond the Standard Model" last week, and now this crap? Why is it that we feel we must hold up fanciful speculation as some sort of achievement? In Europe they get results, here we just publish fantasy and partial fact dressed up as wondrous discovery and pat ourselves on the back and hey we might even get on CNN if its "Star Trek" enough.
How about doing real some science guys, like the egg-heads in Europe do?
Uh... Holography is the cutting edge of particle physics right now. There is very strong evidence supporting this idea, and it may very well be true. This isn't crap at all. I suspect people like you said the same thing about a variable time rate back in the day.
No, Dark matter does not interact with normal matter. We can "See" light and radiation pass unimpeded through areas that contain detected dark mater. It does not reflect, bounce off of or interact in any other way... except it's gravitational pull. That's why it's called "Dark" Moving light/radiation will bend around it, but not bounce off of it.
I just had my third 1tarabyte+ hard drive fail tonight. I remember when hard drives DIDNT fail. It wasn't even a think I thought could happen. It's nice they can get them so large now, but I don't want that much in one place. I'd rather have several smaller drivers raided waiting for the inevitable.
Everywhere huh? Google Fiber serves less than 10,000 people (last I checked) out of over 300 million in this country. Google shows up in a town, then asks people to sign up, and only installs where the capacity is concentrated. This ensures the highest amount of profit possible. I keep coming into these threads and trying to explain this but Slashdot seems to be completely oblivious to how ISPs work. Yes, to the tiny part of the country google is offering service they are doing great. But they are never coming to your house... not unless you live in a major metropolitan area. The problem with internet access in this country is not located where Google is offering service. When some rural town gets Google fiber, let me know... then they'll be on to something. But this? They're offering service in areas that are already flooded with ISP options, this is not progress.
Unless it's free... and has some sort of start button... Windows is dead.
People aren't even buying PC's anymore. I build all the PC's for my friends and family. I used to do 20+ a year. This year I've done 1. People have their phones, windows got all wonky and hard to use with Win8, and it's insanely expensive. They can get a chrome book for $200+ Why would anyone that's not hardcore into Games buy a windows PC?
Make the OS free and go back to the ease of use of WnXP/Win7 and people might deal with it. Oh, and they need it to work well on low resource devices. The bloat needs to go.
Except the terribly bad design we typically see in embedded design is normally to provide a back-door way to prevent just this kind of problem. "Oh, you lost your password? No problem, hold down these three buttons and cycle power and it'll reset everything to factory defaults, and then you can login with this default password."
You mean someone could steel my private prosthetic arm data?!?!?! Eegads!!!
I'd show up at the companies headquarters, use my prosthetic fist to punch the CEO in the face repeatedly, and then say "I think it's a bug in your software. No? Show me the source and prove it... otherwise I think this bug will continue to afflict us both"
Have you Americans *still* not gotten over this whole Marxist/Communist/Socialist = EVIL thing yet? Your government really did a good job with the propaganda during the Cold War it seems.
Because it does technically run counter to what our country was founded on. The basis of all of those beliefs seem to be the whole Vulcan thing "The needs of the many outweigh the needs of the one" The USA was founded on a strong principle of individual freedom.
In truth, any system taken to an extreme is bad. Those three were taken way too far. Stalin really did murder somewhere around 30 million people after all: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S...
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Rogue: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R...
Seriously been playing this game since the early 80s and have never "Won" there are thousands of variants but there's a particularly nice Android version: https://play.google.com/store/...
Ultima 7/7.5: http://www.gog.com/game/ultima...
Revolutionary when it came out. My friends and I in high-school literally sat their with our mouths hanging open the first time we launched the game. The MMO based on it was one of the first I'd call a true mmo: http://www.uo.com/ (let the flame wars begin on that statement, just so you know ahead of time: I don't care)
https://www.everquest.com/ -- first 3D mmo worth its salt. Huge time sink though.
Robocraft -- Build robots out of legos... then blow them up. Super fun. It's my current game. http://store.steampowered.com/...
Recent Ukrainian events summed up for those that care:
1954 Crimea was given as a "Gift" to Ukraine by Russia/USSR and Nikita Khrushchev (an ethnic Ukrainian) as a symbolic gesture commemorating the 300th anniversary of Crimea becoming part of the Russian empire.
1991 Ukraine voted overwhelmingly for independence from Russia
1994 Ukraine signed a treaty with Russia and the USA to disarm its nuclear arsenal in return for a treaty that guaranteed Russia and USA would come to their aid if they were ever invaded.
2010 Viktor Fedorovych Yanukovych was elected president. He had been a minister of an eastern Ukrainian province. The US and Europe had supported his opponent, and Russia had supported him. Likely both sides illegally influenced the election with money and espionage. In the following years, there is little doubt he ran the country in the ground, he was a terrible president.
2014 The Ukrainian parliament voted overwhelmingly to remove him from the presidential office. A poll in April showed his approval rating at 5% This event was likely assisted by the US and Europe and was basically a Coup de'etat. Russia freaked out and had Russian agents already in place in Ukraine start stiring up violent unrest. They've basically been in a state of civil war since. Russia is providing troops and hardware, the west seem a little more reluctant to provide direct support.
Russias primary goals are to keep the strategic port in the black sea open and prevent Ukraine from joining the EU.
assuming they ever pay. I've been involved in a few court ordered settlements before and have never seen a penny. In all cases the offender simply made it more expensive to get the money than the money was worth. It's a very easy thing to do. It's unfortunately Judges aren't more sympathetic in these sorts of cases.
With bitcoin being good for money laundering, the big banks will lose that source of revenue.
Money laundering was never hard in the first place. Disreputable banks just make it a tad more palatable to people who don't consider their behavior "wrong" and I doubt bitcoin changes that at all.
It's 1 billion mobile users, not smartphone users. When I was in Africa, everyone had a feature phone... everyone. You could buy them at Kiosks for less than $10, and phone cards to fill them with minutes. A $300 phone would be completely insane there... but a $33 phone? Yea, they'd have to save up but that's doable. Especially when a lot of people I ran into were using the feature phone like a desktop... running entire businesses off the things.
My kids 6 and all the kids at school were talking about the new Mario Kart game. He wanted it sooo bad but I wasn't about to get him started on consoles so I downloaded SNES and the orgional Mario Kart game... now he's bragging to all the kids he's got the "FIRST" one, and they have the lame version. lol
This is the wrong way to go about it. The government should not be involved in this at all.
Mandate the standard not the use of the technology. i.e. "IF you are going to implement this safety feature, communication with the other vehicle must happen via RF (or whatever) on X frequency. Pulse Y indicates speed, pulse Z indicates direction..." etc...
The problem with this is that if all cops feel like they're being audited all of the time, they're less likely to let you off the hook for a minor violation.
And my other option is to have the cop shoot me 8 times, then when I fall on the ground walk over and double tap me in the head to make sure I don't get back up?
Weighing the options here... hrm....
It's a good idea, don't get me wrong. It's about time we used this ubiquitous cheap technology in an obviously beneficial way. It's a good move, and one I support.
But either after this comes about, or as part of the deal, the content of that camera needs to be stored offsite and specifically out of the reach of the police officer. Otherwise we're going to see a lot of data simply go missing at convenient times. To be frank, we can't trust police departments to hold onto evidence that could incriminate themselves.
And any evidence that an officer tampered with their camera in an effort to suppress incriminating evidence should be dealt with exactly as if they had destroyed evidence. Because that's what it is.
Actually this is a real problem... so much so that in departments that have these cameras, many require the officer to write their report before being allowed to view the video. If they can see the video, they often end up crafting their report to fit the video of the incident while the victim/perpetrator doesn't have that advantage.
Just a few years ago, I got pulled over for honking my horn at someone that was about to hit me. I don't think the cop saw the other car... but whatever. When he walked up to the car he yelled "Something wrong with your horn??!?!" to which I replied "Nope, I just tested it and it worked just fine." his reply was to draw his gun on me. I'm white, was 35 at the time, ware business casual and a business haircut.
This isn't a race issue, it's a cop issue. I've had numerous run-ins with the police like this that more or less boil down to me having a smart mouth and not "respecting their authority" because, quite frankly, I don't. I shouldn't be afraid every time I get pulled over, but I am. That's not right.
My son is adopted, and African American, and you're damned sure he's getting the talk when he's old enough. The police are not your friends, they are not here to help. They can legally murder you where you stand and get away with it on a routine basis. I would not say that the majority of them are "Good guys" and this is just a few bad eggs. I think the position attracts certain kinds of people that have ego problems and use the job to exert a psychological need to control others. The screening process and training they receive needs to change radically. I've never had a positive encounter with a police officer. Even when my home got broken into they used the opportunity to search my belonging because it was a "crime scene" That sort of behavior engenders distrust and leads to less crime being reported.
This is why monopolistic behavior should be stopped, middle management doesn't even know how bad they are breaking their market - they suffer. I can't imagine this fellow was any more useless than the rest of them. What is needed is that they listen to their technical staff before things shatter like this, as you say the network engineers would rather have things run smoothly.
It's not monopolistic at all. There are plenty of competitors. If there weren't we wouldn't be having layoffs and sending support overseas. Customers want the cheapest rates possible and will except sub-par service if that's what it takes.
Once again showing why analog is better for phones than digital. When was the last time you ever heard of an analog phone line not able to transmit a call? Now compare that to how many times you've have dropped calls or, in this case, no ability to make a call, on a digital line.
But let's keep saying the move to digital is better than what we had, despite the overwhelming evidence to the contrary.
It was, in fact, and analog POTS line. POTS lines go down all the time... all over the place. The difference is, IP traffic is like an airliner going down... when it happens, it's big and happens to lots of people, so it gets more attention. POTS outages usually effect only a few hundreds people, but there are lots and lots of them all over the place all day long.
ALL telephone service, being analog or or IP phone gets MUXed at the DSA and turned digital within 30k feet of your house anyway. The biggest problems with IP phones is the phone... not the transmission. I've seen the code in those things and it's ridiculously bad. People want cheap phones... When your call is analog to the DSA, it goes digital in a $20k piece of a equipment. THAT's the difference.
Also... if you have fiber on premiss, you'll almost never have an outage. We'd install fiber somewhere and that area would disappear off our alarm board over night. Most outages are Lightening related.
The section of the bill and what it says exactly:
The standards in science shall be based in core existing disciplines of biology, chemistry, and physics; incorporate grade-level mathematics and be referenced to the mathematics standards; focus on academic and scientific knowledge rather than scientific processes; and prohibit political or religious interpretation of scientific facts in favor of another.
It does not say they can't teach the scientific process. It says their focus should be on the knowledge gained from it prohibits religious or political interpretations of those facts.
Once again, the left's opinions are just as stupid as the rights. If you jumped to a conclusion on this story before reading the actual bill, you're the problem. You're easily manipulated by a group of people that are playing to your preconceived notions and fears just to engender false outrage to discredit their opponents. The Right has Fox news, Rush, etc... The left Has arstechnica, msnbc, etc... It's all BS. For the love of God think for yourself and stop voting for people with (D) or (R) after their names.
The level of stress and anxiety on the admins during these outages would break most people. I used to do that and literally could not take it, so I switched to a less stressful job. At least with Cable companies it's only TV and Internet, I had to deal with phones as well. We literally had a man DIE during one of our outages because his family couldn't call 911. Even with data lines only all kinds of things break... Police stations data interconnects... hospitals lose access to databases... power companies might not be able to dispatch. Even small outages are a very big deal, and are taken very seriously. The residential side is irritating but not that big of a deal. It's the commercial side that makes it hard to sleep at night sometimes. The guys that do this, do care... if they didn't they sure as hell wouldn't put up with the miserable job.
I work for an ISP. Trying to figure this stuff out from the consumer side is kind of pointless. When things break this bad, we're bringing things down and back up again faster than you can blink. Even if the problem is just DNS, we might end up turning all the interfaces on the core routers up and down. So your tests might have just been showing you the recovery efforts. Trust me, these things are never as simple as the right person noticing and flipping a switch. I guarantee you there were 20 or 30 bleary eyed techs on a conference call with each other trying to keep their kids quite this morning and thinking to themselves "I really need to retire"
Wow the Europeans confirming the existence of the Higgs Boson and then ramping up the LHC power output has really stung the American Physics community into action. First they put on a dog and pony show about "Hints of Physics beyond the Standard Model" last week, and now this crap? Why is it that we feel we must hold up fanciful speculation as some sort of achievement? In Europe they get results, here we just publish fantasy and partial fact dressed up as wondrous discovery and pat ourselves on the back and hey we might even get on CNN if its "Star Trek" enough.
How about doing real some science guys, like the egg-heads in Europe do?
Uh... Holography is the cutting edge of particle physics right now. There is very strong evidence supporting this idea, and it may very well be true. This isn't crap at all. I suspect people like you said the same thing about a variable time rate back in the day.
No, Dark matter does not interact with normal matter. We can "See" light and radiation pass unimpeded through areas that contain detected dark mater. It does not reflect, bounce off of or interact in any other way... except it's gravitational pull. That's why it's called "Dark" Moving light/radiation will bend around it, but not bounce off of it.
I can't imagine the identities of a bunch of ex-cons are that valuable.
In the US that's 1% of the population.
I just had my third 1tarabyte+ hard drive fail tonight. I remember when hard drives DIDNT fail. It wasn't even a think I thought could happen. It's nice they can get them so large now, but I don't want that much in one place. I'd rather have several smaller drivers raided waiting for the inevitable.
Everywhere huh? Google Fiber serves less than 10,000 people (last I checked) out of over 300 million in this country. Google shows up in a town, then asks people to sign up, and only installs where the capacity is concentrated. This ensures the highest amount of profit possible. I keep coming into these threads and trying to explain this but Slashdot seems to be completely oblivious to how ISPs work. Yes, to the tiny part of the country google is offering service they are doing great. But they are never coming to your house... not unless you live in a major metropolitan area. The problem with internet access in this country is not located where Google is offering service. When some rural town gets Google fiber, let me know... then they'll be on to something. But this? They're offering service in areas that are already flooded with ISP options, this is not progress.
Unless it's free... and has some sort of start button... Windows is dead.
People aren't even buying PC's anymore. I build all the PC's for my friends and family. I used to do 20+ a year. This year I've done 1. People have their phones, windows got all wonky and hard to use with Win8, and it's insanely expensive. They can get a chrome book for $200+ Why would anyone that's not hardcore into Games buy a windows PC?
Make the OS free and go back to the ease of use of WnXP/Win7 and people might deal with it. Oh, and they need it to work well on low resource devices. The bloat needs to go.
Except the terribly bad design we typically see in embedded design is normally to provide a back-door way to prevent just this kind of problem. "Oh, you lost your password? No problem, hold down these three buttons and cycle power and it'll reset everything to factory defaults, and then you can login with this default password."
You mean someone could steel my private prosthetic arm data?!?!?! Eegads!!!
I'd show up at the companies headquarters, use my prosthetic fist to punch the CEO in the face repeatedly, and then say "I think it's a bug in your software. No? Show me the source and prove it... otherwise I think this bug will continue to afflict us both"
Apparently the authors of this research have never actually driven a DeLorean. It was stainless steel, weight 3000lbs, and only has 130hp.
So basically it's a car the weight of a Buick with the engine of a Geo Metro.
Have you Americans *still* not gotten over this whole Marxist/Communist/Socialist = EVIL thing yet? Your government really did a good job with the propaganda during the Cold War it seems.
Because it does technically run counter to what our country was founded on. The basis of all of those beliefs seem to be the whole Vulcan thing "The needs of the many outweigh the needs of the one" The USA was founded on a strong principle of individual freedom.
In truth, any system taken to an extreme is bad. Those three were taken way too far. Stalin really did murder somewhere around 30 million people after all: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S...