There is a plaintiff in this case. If you think the system is being abused they'd be the target of your animosity. Not that Samsung is innocent of abusing the system, but there are very few out there as outright hostile as Apple when it comes to these things.
Don't be silly, everyone knows that apple invented the computer, the Internet, the MP3 player, the smartphone, the smart watch and that Steve Jobs figured out how to solve climate change and buried the secret deep within iTunes, if only we could get the damned program to run properly so we could save the world.
"which entered our ancestors' genomes thousands of years ago" Millions. One might hope that errors of three orders of magnitude would be uncommon on Slashdot.
There are 2 different articles linked here. They are very similar but differ slightly.
From the first Article:
More than 1,000 copies of HERV-H litter the human genome. The DNA sequences are unique to humans and great apes, apparently invading primates less than 20 million years ago, said evolutionary geneticist Cedric Feschotte of the University of Utah, who did not take part in this research.
So the sequences invaded PRIMATES "less than" 20 million years ago.
From the second
Researchers from Canada and Singapore have discovered that the ancient viruses which entered our ancestors' genomes thousands of years ago have altered the way our cells behave; the material left by dead viruses in our cells is the answer.
And here it says "Thousands" which are actually probably in the hundreds of thousands.
What you describe is illegal, if you have any evidence of this feel free to forward it to the SEC. Once an order hits the exchange it is on equal footing in regards to being matched with any offers. Some aspects of HFT work by anticipating demand and hitting the exchange before others, this has always been the case since markets were invented.
You didn't read the article did you? This is exactly what they are doing.
Because the mutual fund or index you're invested in is buying and selling all the time. The HFTs are basically taxing every trade. Not just a few tenths of a percent per year... it's per TRADE which is daily. They are reducing the overall profitability of the entire market. Just how badly you'd be affected would relate to how often your funds make trades.
I'm not sure which truck it was... but if it was an F150 or other full sized, then it probably still had a pitman arm, and therefor would not be as bad as most cars would be.
If she were in the middle of an evasive maneuver and the engine stalled and she lost power steering... well then that would make a lot of sense to me. That would be about the absolute worst time for this to happen. I'd likely crash as well.
3. Try the breaks, you likely have vacuum failure and they will be VERY hard.
False. Your brakes will not be very hard after losing power. They will be very hard after a few pumps at the break after engine failure. You'll typically get 2 or 3 good stomps out of it before they go very hard.
You can try this yourself at any time. Stop the car, step on the bake to see how hard they are. They won't be. Give it a few good pumps, and yes they'll be very hard.
That would depend entirely on the car, the break-booster, the condition of the vacuum system, etc... I drive older cars and I guarantee none of them would hold vacuum after the engine was off. Tracking down a vacuum leak is nearly impossible in a car that age and even if you find it vacuum fittings are not something you can find at Autozone (or anywhere else for that matter) Even the dealers stop selling these kind of parts after a certain age. You should assume your breaks are going to be hard. If they are not, great... use them to stop the car as soon as possible.
So the neighbor kid was diagnosed with this... and I didn't want to irritate his parents by pointing out the obvious but that kids just obnoxious, there's nothing wrong with him. But oh well... then the school brought in a specialist for MY kid, and they determined that my kid was having trouble in school because he was bi-lingual. You see, my son was born in Africa and we adopted him when he was 2. The funny thing is, he never spoke their language. The only word he knew in his native language when we got him was "Abas" which means "Father" which he'd yell whenever he was afraid of something. I pointed this out to the school but they insisted. Being somewhat of a libertarian I objected to the school wasting money on a special program for him. Then they got nasty. I was trying to impede the progress of my child and it would not be tolerated. A week later the teacher had an assistant 2 days of the week provided by the state to handle her "Bi-lingual" class. Ah, it was all clear now... The school diagnoses disabilities to garner more aid, and more resources from state and federal agencies. They push parents to doctors they know will produce favorable diagnoses and use anything they can find in the childs background to get the result they want.
Ok, yes, sue evil GM. But you're still dead. Everyone reading about this: You should know how to control your car if the engine dies at speed. It should be a fundamental skill like "driving in snow" or "parallel parking"
1. If you have time, turn on your hazards 2. Put the car in neutral 3. Try the breaks, you likely have vacuum failure and they will be VERY hard. You may need to use both feet and literally stand on the peddle. But you need to at least know how they are going to react before you start your breaking procedure. 4. You have lost power steering. If you are moving at a high rate of speed this wont be noticeable yet but will become a real problem as you slow down. So get your car lined up with the shoulder, of, if you can't simply stop in your lane. If you try to make radical changes in direction that will slow you down very quickly and as I said steering will become dramatically more difficult, so try not to do that because the direction you swerve might not be a direction you particularly want to go and it may then be very difficult to alter your course any further. 5. You can use your horn continuously during this operation. In many states this is the only situation where continuous horn operation is permitted. i.e. you can lay into your horn until the car comes to a rest.
I've found myself in this situation twice in my life. I drive old cars so... anyways, if you're used to it, it's not so bad. When my father taught me how to drive one of the ways he tested me was to turn off the engine on me. Then, surprisingly, they did the same thing during my drivers test. Later in my life when those two engine stalls happened to me I was well prepared. One happened on an off-ramp in a large Buick, and that was a bit scary. But I was still able to control the car.
btw. if anyone is wondering why this is such a problem now, when not too long ago there was no power steering (and the power steering bit is most assuredly killed this woman) it's because of Rack and Pinion. It has no leverage/mechanical advantage. The ratio to the steering wheel is basically 1 to 1. They actually invented rack and pinion long before it was ever used and it had many advantages over recirculating ball steering, but they didn't think it was useful because of lack of leverage. It was later adopted after the invention of power steering... but now, of course, if you lose power steering, you have trouble turning the wheel. There's a full history of it on Wikipedia I believe.
It doubles your chance of failure as well as your speed. But in practical use, the speed wont quite be doubled... and double the chance of failure is still very low if this is just a gaming laptop or something you remote into work with. My primary computer runs Raid-0 and I've never had a failure. But I only keep windows and games on that drive. I store all my documents, photos, music and movies on a 10TB Raid-1 array.
I once spent $250 on a 20mb hard-drive so I have a hard time complaining about the price of disk space now-a-days.
How did Rogue have grind? You lost everything when you died. I never did beat that damned game, and I've spent more hours in Rogue or it's variants than any other game in history. lol. But that wasn't grind... it was suspense and mystery to me.
Africa, the continent in need of this kind of aid, refuses to take even GMO food aid: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/afr... Which is eminently safer than whatever's in this peanut butter.
It's often been said: The world doesn't have a food shortage problem. It has a distribution problem.
African, one of the most famine stricken places on earth has 60% of the worlds uncultivated arable land. http://philmatibeceo.wordpress...
In the U.S. where food is plentiful, we end up throwing food away if it's even remotely suspect of carrying sickness.
You think a guy steeling that kind of cash would have gotten something other than a Honda Civic from England. He either has bad taste in cars or he wasn't squandering money quite as lavishly as this article leads you to believe.
You mean like, the entire idea of a bluetooth watch connected to your cellphone? I find it the hight of irony that Apple would be so blatant in their copying of hardware and calling it "inspiration" given their attitude towards any one who even makes icons a similar shape to theirs. Also ironic, the shackle like feel of apple hardware clamped to your wrist.
The greatest thing about CFLs is how easy it is to make sun lamps now. Remember where we're from... we're designed for very long, sunlight filled days most of the year.
When I read the title I thought to my self "That's a clever way to word something, so people will be outraged, read the article and then find that it's really about them sampling paint and finding pollutants there." But no, it was as ridiculous as the title suggested. Can we revoke their science card?
AT&T and Verizon have been abandoning rural phone for years now. They sell their rural territories and invest in metropolitan areas because there's less expense in metropolitan areas. The same equipment that serves 100 people in a rural area serves 10,000 in newyork. Yet it costs the same. These laws force AT&T to serve the rural customers they have.
If they do away with these laws then the only option rural customers will have (the majority of the country) is cellular if it's available... and in many areas it is not. Even if you can get cellular, how much will that cost? Will AT&T provide cellphones at a price poor farming families can afford? Or are we going to further penalize those that choose not to live in smog choked city centers?
I agree there must be some deregulation. The cable companies and satellite providers have a distinct and unfair advantage over those services that are under regulation (telcos) But those telcos are under those regulations for a reason and we can't lose sight of that. They've used their easements and regulatory position for decades for profit. I'm sorry they aren't working so hot for them now, but sometimes you've got to pay the piper.
Clearly you never played UO. UO, being the first "real" mmo had fixed all of those problems from the start, by having no XP and items that decayed rather quickly. Basically your character had a capped number of skill points and you could lock skills at their current level or turn them up or down. So once you hit the cap, if you wanted to change how you played by, for example, going from Sword fighting to magic... you would set your swords to down, and your magic to up, and then use magic a lot until your magic capped out. This system had it's problems, but none of them were like what you describe above.
The primary problem with this system was that it was skill based, and I mean the skill of the PLAYER. Which a lot of people didn't like because... they weren't very good at it. Move over to an mmo like EQ and WOW and if you've been playing for 2 years, and some noob comes on, it doesn't matter how good they are. You put the time in, you're level 60, you're going to be that much more powerful than them. In UO, if you were good at that sort of thing, you could be just as twinked out as any other player in the game in a matter of weeks or even days. And even if you weren't you could still manage to kill them in PVP if you knew what you were doing.
Have you ever seen the penalty for something like this cost a company more than they saved by breaking the law in the first place? They've already won.
By far and away the worst episode ever was Conspiracy. I remember being a teenager and seeing it live and thinking WTF is going on?!?!?! I saw it later as an adult and I still have no clue what the authors were thinking.
The hurricane situation is a lot stupider than this one. The states force insurance companies to provide insurance to everyone and dictate that the rates can't be too high. So the insurance company raises the rate state-wide to cover the costs of the people living in the most prone areas. My mother-in-laws Florida home that just sold for a whopping $60k had premium that was $5000 per year before she sold it. That's INSANE. But the majority of the states revenue comes from the coast so that's what they protect.
The difference between now, and before snowden is simple. Before Snowden, the majority of the public thought the government and politicians were up to no good, and would bend the spirit of the law and constitution to suit their purposes. After Snowden we now know that the Government and politicians think their goals are just and righteous enough that they feel justified in just flat out ignoring the law and the constitution. That's an entirely different game.
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There is a plaintiff in this case. If you think the system is being abused they'd be the target of your animosity. Not that Samsung is innocent of abusing the system, but there are very few out there as outright hostile as Apple when it comes to these things.
Don't be silly, everyone knows that apple invented the computer, the Internet, the MP3 player, the smartphone, the smart watch and that Steve Jobs figured out how to solve climate change and buried the secret deep within iTunes, if only we could get the damned program to run properly so we could save the world.
"which entered our ancestors' genomes thousands of years ago"
Millions. One might hope that errors of three orders of magnitude would be uncommon on Slashdot.
There are 2 different articles linked here. They are very similar but differ slightly.
From the first Article:
More than 1,000 copies of HERV-H litter the human genome. The DNA sequences are unique to humans and great apes, apparently invading primates less than 20 million years ago, said evolutionary geneticist Cedric Feschotte of the University of Utah, who did not take part in this research.
So the sequences invaded PRIMATES "less than" 20 million years ago.
From the second
Researchers from Canada and Singapore have discovered that the ancient viruses which entered our ancestors' genomes thousands of years ago have altered the way our cells behave; the material left by dead viruses in our cells is the answer.
And here it says "Thousands" which are actually probably in the hundreds of thousands.
Facebook and Zynga will steal it anyway.
What you describe is illegal, if you have any evidence of this feel free to forward it to the SEC. Once an order hits the exchange it is on equal footing in regards to being matched with any offers. Some aspects of HFT work by anticipating demand and hitting the exchange before others, this has always been the case since markets were invented.
You didn't read the article did you? This is exactly what they are doing.
Because the mutual fund or index you're invested in is buying and selling all the time. The HFTs are basically taxing every trade. Not just a few tenths of a percent per year... it's per TRADE which is daily. They are reducing the overall profitability of the entire market. Just how badly you'd be affected would relate to how often your funds make trades.
The problem is, given their resources and drive to spy, I doubt there's an alternative that hasn't been targeted by them.
I'm not sure which truck it was... but if it was an F150 or other full sized, then it probably still had a pitman arm, and therefor would not be as bad as most cars would be.
If she were in the middle of an evasive maneuver and the engine stalled and she lost power steering... well then that would make a lot of sense to me. That would be about the absolute worst time for this to happen. I'd likely crash as well.
3. Try the breaks, you likely have vacuum failure and they will be VERY hard.
False. Your brakes will not be very hard after losing power. They will be very hard after a few pumps at the break after engine failure. You'll typically get 2 or 3 good stomps out of it before they go very hard.
You can try this yourself at any time. Stop the car, step on the bake to see how hard they are. They won't be. Give it a few good pumps, and yes they'll be very hard.
That would depend entirely on the car, the break-booster, the condition of the vacuum system, etc... I drive older cars and I guarantee none of them would hold vacuum after the engine was off. Tracking down a vacuum leak is nearly impossible in a car that age and even if you find it vacuum fittings are not something you can find at Autozone (or anywhere else for that matter) Even the dealers stop selling these kind of parts after a certain age. You should assume your breaks are going to be hard. If they are not, great... use them to stop the car as soon as possible.
So the neighbor kid was diagnosed with this... and I didn't want to irritate his parents by pointing out the obvious but that kids just obnoxious, there's nothing wrong with him. But oh well... then the school brought in a specialist for MY kid, and they determined that my kid was having trouble in school because he was bi-lingual. You see, my son was born in Africa and we adopted him when he was 2. The funny thing is, he never spoke their language. The only word he knew in his native language when we got him was "Abas" which means "Father" which he'd yell whenever he was afraid of something. I pointed this out to the school but they insisted. Being somewhat of a libertarian I objected to the school wasting money on a special program for him. Then they got nasty. I was trying to impede the progress of my child and it would not be tolerated. A week later the teacher had an assistant 2 days of the week provided by the state to handle her "Bi-lingual" class. Ah, it was all clear now... The school diagnoses disabilities to garner more aid, and more resources from state and federal agencies. They push parents to doctors they know will produce favorable diagnoses and use anything they can find in the childs background to get the result they want.
Ok, yes, sue evil GM. But you're still dead. Everyone reading about this: You should know how to control your car if the engine dies at speed. It should be a fundamental skill like "driving in snow" or "parallel parking"
1. If you have time, turn on your hazards
2. Put the car in neutral
3. Try the breaks, you likely have vacuum failure and they will be VERY hard. You may need to use both feet and literally stand on the peddle. But you need to at least know how they are going to react before you start your breaking procedure.
4. You have lost power steering. If you are moving at a high rate of speed this wont be noticeable yet but will become a real problem as you slow down. So get your car lined up with the shoulder, of, if you can't simply stop in your lane. If you try to make radical changes in direction that will slow you down very quickly and as I said steering will become dramatically more difficult, so try not to do that because the direction you swerve might not be a direction you particularly want to go and it may then be very difficult to alter your course any further.
5. You can use your horn continuously during this operation. In many states this is the only situation where continuous horn operation is permitted. i.e. you can lay into your horn until the car comes to a rest.
I've found myself in this situation twice in my life. I drive old cars so... anyways, if you're used to it, it's not so bad. When my father taught me how to drive one of the ways he tested me was to turn off the engine on me. Then, surprisingly, they did the same thing during my drivers test. Later in my life when those two engine stalls happened to me I was well prepared. One happened on an off-ramp in a large Buick, and that was a bit scary. But I was still able to control the car.
btw. if anyone is wondering why this is such a problem now, when not too long ago there was no power steering (and the power steering bit is most assuredly killed this woman) it's because of Rack and Pinion. It has no leverage/mechanical advantage. The ratio to the steering wheel is basically 1 to 1. They actually invented rack and pinion long before it was ever used and it had many advantages over recirculating ball steering, but they didn't think it was useful because of lack of leverage. It was later adopted after the invention of power steering... but now, of course, if you lose power steering, you have trouble turning the wheel. There's a full history of it on Wikipedia I believe.
It doubles your chance of failure as well as your speed. But in practical use, the speed wont quite be doubled... and double the chance of failure is still very low if this is just a gaming laptop or something you remote into work with. My primary computer runs Raid-0 and I've never had a failure. But I only keep windows and games on that drive. I store all my documents, photos, music and movies on a 10TB Raid-1 array.
I once spent $250 on a 20mb hard-drive so I have a hard time complaining about the price of disk space now-a-days.
How did Rogue have grind? You lost everything when you died. I never did beat that damned game, and I've spent more hours in Rogue or it's variants than any other game in history. lol. But that wasn't grind... it was suspense and mystery to me.
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What's wrong with this picture?
Africa, the continent in need of this kind of aid, refuses to take even GMO food aid:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/afr...
Which is eminently safer than whatever's in this peanut butter.
It's often been said: The world doesn't have a food shortage problem. It has a distribution problem.
African, one of the most famine stricken places on earth has 60% of the worlds uncultivated arable land.
http://philmatibeceo.wordpress...
In the U.S. where food is plentiful, we end up throwing food away if it's even remotely suspect of carrying sickness.
It makes perfect sense to me.
You think a guy steeling that kind of cash would have gotten something other than a Honda Civic from England. He either has bad taste in cars or he wasn't squandering money quite as lavishly as this article leads you to believe.
What Apple's iWatch Can Learn From Pebble
You mean like, the entire idea of a bluetooth watch connected to your cellphone? I find it the hight of irony that Apple would be so blatant in their copying of hardware and calling it "inspiration" given their attitude towards any one who even makes icons a similar shape to theirs. Also ironic, the shackle like feel of apple hardware clamped to your wrist.
The greatest thing about CFLs is how easy it is to make sun lamps now. Remember where we're from... we're designed for very long, sunlight filled days most of the year.
You don't have kids.
When I read the title I thought to my self "That's a clever way to word something, so people will be outraged, read the article and then find that it's really about them sampling paint and finding pollutants there." But no, it was as ridiculous as the title suggested. Can we revoke their science card?
AT&T and Verizon have been abandoning rural phone for years now. They sell their rural territories and invest in metropolitan areas because there's less expense in metropolitan areas. The same equipment that serves 100 people in a rural area serves 10,000 in newyork. Yet it costs the same. These laws force AT&T to serve the rural customers they have.
If they do away with these laws then the only option rural customers will have (the majority of the country) is cellular if it's available... and in many areas it is not. Even if you can get cellular, how much will that cost? Will AT&T provide cellphones at a price poor farming families can afford? Or are we going to further penalize those that choose not to live in smog choked city centers?
I agree there must be some deregulation. The cable companies and satellite providers have a distinct and unfair advantage over those services that are under regulation (telcos) But those telcos are under those regulations for a reason and we can't lose sight of that. They've used their easements and regulatory position for decades for profit. I'm sorry they aren't working so hot for them now, but sometimes you've got to pay the piper.
Clearly you never played UO. UO, being the first "real" mmo had fixed all of those problems from the start, by having no XP and items that decayed rather quickly. Basically your character had a capped number of skill points and you could lock skills at their current level or turn them up or down. So once you hit the cap, if you wanted to change how you played by, for example, going from Sword fighting to magic... you would set your swords to down, and your magic to up, and then use magic a lot until your magic capped out. This system had it's problems, but none of them were like what you describe above.
The primary problem with this system was that it was skill based, and I mean the skill of the PLAYER. Which a lot of people didn't like because... they weren't very good at it. Move over to an mmo like EQ and WOW and if you've been playing for 2 years, and some noob comes on, it doesn't matter how good they are. You put the time in, you're level 60, you're going to be that much more powerful than them. In UO, if you were good at that sort of thing, you could be just as twinked out as any other player in the game in a matter of weeks or even days. And even if you weren't you could still manage to kill them in PVP if you knew what you were doing.
Have you ever seen the penalty for something like this cost a company more than they saved by breaking the law in the first place? They've already won.
By far and away the worst episode ever was Conspiracy.
I remember being a teenager and seeing it live and thinking WTF is going on?!?!?!
I saw it later as an adult and I still have no clue what the authors were thinking.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C...
The hurricane situation is a lot stupider than this one. The states force insurance companies to provide insurance to everyone and dictate that the rates can't be too high. So the insurance company raises the rate state-wide to cover the costs of the people living in the most prone areas. My mother-in-laws Florida home that just sold for a whopping $60k had premium that was $5000 per year before she sold it. That's INSANE. But the majority of the states revenue comes from the coast so that's what they protect.
The difference between now, and before snowden is simple. Before Snowden, the majority of the public thought the government and politicians were up to no good, and would bend the spirit of the law and constitution to suit their purposes. After Snowden we now know that the Government and politicians think their goals are just and righteous enough that they feel justified in just flat out ignoring the law and the constitution. That's an entirely different game.