Slashdot has been getting worse and worse. And this thread just cements it for me. I've deployed to the sandbox three times. EVERY COMMENT (save two or three) in this discussion is arrogant, dismissive, and completely wrong.
It's amazing how you can all be so comfortable expounding on topics you have no experience with.
Check my post history if you think I'm trolling. It's been a good run, but this was the last straw.
So Apple is beginning to reply over this blackeye.
FTA:
In June 2010, Congressmen Edward J. Markey, D-Mass., and Joe Barton, R-Texas wrote a letter to Apple CEO Steve Jobs inquiring about Apple's privacy policy and location-based services
In response the company's general counsel Bruce Sewall wrote a letter explaining its practice, and shedding light on the rationale the company uses to monitor users.
Apple hasn't responded to this current snafu. The whole article is based on a letter from last year.
>>Does the iPhone actually have such a button (in general, not just relating to tagging pictures)? If so, I would agree with you that this amounts to nothing but clueless end-users. I do not suspect that as the case, however.
Settings-> 'location services'. Turn it off. Voila.
Before the early days of AIM, LOL meant little old lady and NAD meant no apparent distress. I don't know how far back that dates; I first read it in The House of God iirc.
I just got a chuckle imagining one of my younger cousins trying to parse tHoG. -b
Shielding the hundreds of miles of wire on a small fighter like the F-16 would add thousands of pounds to the unloaded weight of the aircraft, reducing available payload for fuel or ordnance. In aviation- and more specifically, military aviation- there is a constant struggle between weight and strength/redundancy. Panels are chemically milled to thin out areas with lower stress concentration, a process that saves only a few grams or ounces per panel. The airframe is built to be just strong enough to fly between 300-400 hours without disintegrating in midair, whereupon it must be taken apart and have many parts replaced. The manufacturer and the AF decided that it was worth the extra maintenance costs to have an airframe that can turn x degrees-per-second faster, or take off from a runway that is y feet shorter, than a stronger, heavier airframe.
The point is- these aircraft are not built like a long-haul commercial passenger fleet, nor are they built like the heavily defended flying fortresses of yesteryear. Modern fighters are built and equipped for very specific missions, and afaik none of those missions include surviving major emp. You can ask about nuclear warheads, but the simple answer is that the fighter fleet is not an 'anti-nuclear' force. An F-16 doesn't need to be nuclear hardened because an F-16 close enough to a nuke to have its circuits fried will almost certainly be a loss anyways. The base I work at was once a primary target for soviet ICBMs due to nearby silos and our nuclear munitions. It would be laughable to expect the planes on the ground to scramble after a nuclear detonation or hope to land on the glowing crater where the runway used to be.
tl;dr- non-rf cables aren't shielded except in areas of the aircraft where it is absolutely necessary.
the BBC has a world service and even special channels for certain regions of the world like BBC America.
And the BBC's web player doesn't work for US viewers. Doesn't Britain know that it's part of a larger world that might be interested in such a service?
Or maybe it's foolish to harangue slashdot users over the policies of a company they have no control over.
I'm not saying that normal houses don't have their share of waste or that the finished airplane house was leaking hydraulic fluid. I'm saying that it's stupid to call either of them green or sustainable.
I could build a house out of vcr's because of some fetish with magnetic tape but it wouldn't be green or sustainable just because it saved some vcr's from the dump. It would just be a self-indulgent, if whimsical, drain on my extravagant wealth. (the $50,000 quoted in tfa is a minuscule portion of the house's actual cost)
Sorry to respond to myself but I just had to add some things.
-no, they sure as hell did not disassemble all 4,500,000 pieces. Most of that number is fasteners (rivets) which are destroyed by being removed (and need to be replaced).
-here are a few things that aren't part of a "sustainable" house: many pounds of lead, cadmium all over the place, hydraulic fluid, fuel cells with fuel residue, halon fire suppression system, primer loaded with chromates, toxic insulation, plastic and fabric treated with flame retardants, etc.
-trucked cross-country
What this amounts to is a pile of used scrap aluminum generously sprinkled with hazardous waste. 8 years in aviation maintenance has been enough for me to lose any childhood fantasies about living in airplanes.
It just bugs me that they're using words like green and sustainable around an airplane. Might as well build a house out of pre-RoHS electronics.
Seems pretty healthy to me. If you want to point fingers, try firefox (currently using 723 MB real) or itunes (currently using 275 MB real). That just blows my mind. Two of the (ostensibly) most basic programs using more RAM than would fit into my first hard drive.
Bad news: the scotus has already ruled that police can, in fact, legally stand by as you are raped. Even if they know about it. Even if you call for help.
You'd usually find a ring of them around a building, two deep, with an additional course laid on top of that. They are, as the wiki article mentions, "one of the less heralded life- and labor-saving devices of war" (among other uses).
You're kidding, right? You can't turn on the tv without seeing stories and ads about investing in gold. Even glen beck is hawking gold and you cam hardly call him obscure.
This aircraft will not be man-rated. That shaves off years. Then consider that Boeing has decades of cutting-edge research already done and ready to apply.
I work in aerospace. Give me four years and I'll build you an airplane myself. Give me four years and a team of some of the finest engineers on the planet and I'll give you an aircraft that can stay aloft for five years.
This thing will not be another f-22. Even if it was, those problems are solved now anyways. This project is simply a matter of optimizing certain parameters well beyond what is considered typical. Just like the sr71, the a380, or the f-22.
So what this guy is saying is that the price point for bribing the police
You're not the first person to equate 'permit' with 'bribe'.
I'm not a big fan of paying for permits, but I understand why they exist.
You're a poacher unless you buy a hunting/fishing/trapping license. You're in violation of most city ordinances unless you purchase a building permit to work on your house. Where I live you need to purchase a license to buy handguns and 'assault rifles'. Want to camp in a state/national park? Need to buy a permit.
Those are just a few examples I can think of where you need to pay officials for the privilege of doing something. Are you seriously saying that you consider a camping permit a bribe?
The logic behind this guy's proposal seems shaky, but the issuance of permits for privileges is not a new thing.
I have had to go through that process as well, and it was incredibly frustrating. People get tagged in photos they aren't actually in all the time. So I had to pass the test by guessing which friend was tagged in a picture of a snowmobile or an infant.
I don't know if it's just my friends or if it's commonplace- either way, the system is broken.
This whole story reminds me of a dirty campaign trick from a few years back- I'm not going to figure out which campaign or which election, since that's not important to this example.
Basically what happened was that someone went around stapling up fliers all over poor/wrong color/undesirable neighborhoods exhorting them to vote- but the date on the flier was the day after the real election. When I read about this, the events in question were recent enough to make me pretty angry, and I brought it up at the break table one day. Someone said, "If a person can't figure out what day the election is on, do you really want them voting?"
Someone had the humorous idea of redirecting visitors to a violent DC neighborhood. Probably thinking, "If someone can't figure out the difference between a violent neighborhood and the lincoln memorial, do you want them rallying?" I think in Beck's case the answer would be YES, YES that is exactly who we want, so I can see this being turned into a HUGE national news story as FOX uses this for free advertising and for the sympathy angle. The other networks will pick it up as 'Beck accuses liberals of trying to trick his fans' and that the pure-as-the-driven-snow liberals are shocked- SHOCKED- that anyone would accuse them of underhanded tactics (at least tactics that aren't embarrassingly obvious and transparent from the beginning).
This situation is breaking right as I plan a vacation to europe, and that process is beginning to take on a somewhat frantic flavor...
I have found the ideal way to learn geography (besides going to war*):
At work we have a sealant mixing table where you'll have a captive set of eyes for at least five minutes while the machine does its thing. Someone decided to put up a 3x4 world map directly in front of the worker's station.
So now, for five minutes, 3 or 4 times a day, I get to stare at the world. You start kind of centered in front of Cape Goodenough, from which point you can sort of wander north and east looking for interesting names. At some point we'll have to shift the map to the right a bit, since the neck can get sore from staring towards the americas.
*Oh and I feel I should point out, despite chagrin, that a few of my brothers-in-arms couldn't find themselves on a map when they're deployed. I work with one guy who- in the same breath- talked about deploying to Curaçao where he drank, yes, Curaçao (but pronounced curakow). He couldn't make the connection that the country he was in was spelled the same way as the drink he was ordering. And no one had corrected him in ~10 years.
On ships and so on, they use names and stuff like that to encode words, so that when they speak them out over the radio there's less chance of being misheard. I don't know what that system is called but perhaps somebody else does. Sorry if I explained that badly.
While there are several versions throughout the history of radio, the most common phonetic/spelling alphabet these days is the NATO phonetic alphabet:
We still use it in the military for standardized communications. For more specialized applications, you might hear the letter 'A' as 'acer' or 'T' as 'talon' to let the listener know that you are using a specific identifier (bay A, truck T, etc.) instead of spelling a word.
The transmission seems to follow the standard russian spelling template. Make of that what you will; I just thought I'd get you started.
Imagine, people infected with something which diverts their basic instincts, millions more parasites start growing in their flesh and they protect them as an otherwise sentient free humans with all the zeal and ferocity that someone will protect their children.
I had to read this a few times before I figured out that you *weren't* talking about sex drive and childmaking.
You want zombies, you should check out your local dive bar around closing time.
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Slashdot has been getting worse and worse. And this thread just cements it for me. I've deployed to the sandbox three times. EVERY COMMENT (save two or three) in this discussion is arrogant, dismissive, and completely wrong.
It's amazing how you can all be so comfortable expounding on topics you have no experience with.
Check my post history if you think I'm trolling. It's been a good run, but this was the last straw.
-b
Except that iTunes has been uploading what music you have for years, via the Genius feature. There have been no legal repercussions for users, afaik.
-b
So Apple is beginning to reply over this blackeye.
FTA:
In June 2010, Congressmen Edward J. Markey, D-Mass., and Joe Barton, R-Texas wrote a letter to Apple CEO Steve Jobs inquiring about Apple's privacy policy and location-based services
In response the company's general counsel Bruce Sewall wrote a letter explaining its practice, and shedding light on the rationale the company uses to monitor users.
Apple hasn't responded to this current snafu. The whole article is based on a letter from last year.
-b
>>Does the iPhone actually have such a button (in general, not just relating to tagging pictures)? If so, I would agree with you that this amounts to nothing but clueless end-users. I do not suspect that as the case, however.
Settings-> 'location services'. Turn it off. Voila.
-b
Before the early days of AIM, LOL meant little old lady and NAD meant no apparent distress. I don't know how far back that dates; I first read it in The House of God iirc.
I just got a chuckle imagining one of my younger cousins trying to parse tHoG.
-b
Yes, we need all the help we can get. Here's your mop...
-b
Citation needed.
-b
Shielding the hundreds of miles of wire on a small fighter like the F-16 would add thousands of pounds to the unloaded weight of the aircraft, reducing available payload for fuel or ordnance. In aviation- and more specifically, military aviation- there is a constant struggle between weight and strength/redundancy. Panels are chemically milled to thin out areas with lower stress concentration, a process that saves only a few grams or ounces per panel. The airframe is built to be just strong enough to fly between 300-400 hours without disintegrating in midair, whereupon it must be taken apart and have many parts replaced. The manufacturer and the AF decided that it was worth the extra maintenance costs to have an airframe that can turn x degrees-per-second faster, or take off from a runway that is y feet shorter, than a stronger, heavier airframe.
The point is- these aircraft are not built like a long-haul commercial passenger fleet, nor are they built like the heavily defended flying fortresses of yesteryear. Modern fighters are built and equipped for very specific missions, and afaik none of those missions include surviving major emp. You can ask about nuclear warheads, but the simple answer is that the fighter fleet is not an 'anti-nuclear' force. An F-16 doesn't need to be nuclear hardened because an F-16 close enough to a nuke to have its circuits fried will almost certainly be a loss anyways. The base I work at was once a primary target for soviet ICBMs due to nearby silos and our nuclear munitions. It would be laughable to expect the planes on the ground to scramble after a nuclear detonation or hope to land on the glowing crater where the runway used to be.
tl;dr- non-rf cables aren't shielded except in areas of the aircraft where it is absolutely necessary.
-b
the BBC has a world service and even special channels for certain regions of the world like BBC America.
And the BBC's web player doesn't work for US viewers. Doesn't Britain know that it's part of a larger world that might be interested in such a service?
Or maybe it's foolish to harangue slashdot users over the policies of a company they have no control over.
I'm not saying that normal houses don't have their share of waste or that the finished airplane house was leaking hydraulic fluid. I'm saying that it's stupid to call either of them green or sustainable.
I could build a house out of vcr's because of some fetish with magnetic tape but it wouldn't be green or sustainable just because it saved some vcr's from the dump. It would just be a self-indulgent, if whimsical, drain on my extravagant wealth.
(the $50,000 quoted in tfa is a minuscule portion of the house's actual cost)
Sorry to respond to myself but I just had to add some things.
-no, they sure as hell did not disassemble all 4,500,000 pieces. Most of that number is fasteners (rivets) which are destroyed by being removed (and need to be replaced).
-here are a few things that aren't part of a "sustainable" house: many pounds of lead, cadmium all over the place, hydraulic fluid, fuel cells with fuel residue, halon fire suppression system, primer loaded with chromates, toxic insulation, plastic and fabric treated with flame retardants, etc.
-trucked cross-country
What this amounts to is a pile of used scrap aluminum generously sprinkled with hazardous waste. 8 years in aviation maintenance has been enough for me to lose any childhood fantasies about living in airplanes.
It just bugs me that they're using words like green and sustainable around an airplane. Might as well build a house out of pre-RoHS electronics.
-b
Have any of you ever seen a 747?
-b
This article is much more illuminating:
http://www.speroforum.com/site/article.asp?id=41255&t=Vatican%3A+++Pope+urges+Catholic+press+to+help+discover+truth+in+an+increasingly+virtual+world
I'm not even going to waste my time ridiculing slashdot's editorial decisions...
-b
From experience OS/X guzzle memory like no other OS I know.
What?
MBP here with two browsers open 24x7 plus whatever other stuff I have open (avg 4-5 open windows).
Here's the output of my 'uptime' command:
14:59 up 6 days, 14:14, 2 users, load averages: 0.22 0.34 0.54
Here's the top of my 'top' output:
Processes: 60 total, 3 running, 57 sleeping, 319 threads 15:01:50
Load Avg: 0.35, 0.35, 0.51 CPU usage: 4.5% user, 5.1% sys, 90.93% idle
SharedLibs: 8988K resident, 1988K data, 0B linkedit.
MemRegions: 26148 total, 927M resident, 22M private, 454M shared.
PhysMem: 854M wired, 2181M active, 525M inactive, 3560M used, 408M free.
VM: 134G vsize, 1036M framework vsize, 928794(0) pageins, 150(0) pageouts.
Networks: packets: 11435804/7468M in, 10101665/1550M out.
Disks: 1329934/17G read, 604685/24G written.
Seems pretty healthy to me. If you want to point fingers, try firefox (currently using 723 MB real) or itunes (currently using 275 MB real). That just blows my mind. Two of the (ostensibly) most basic programs using more RAM than would fit into my first hard drive.
-b
Bad news: the scotus has already ruled that police can, in fact, legally stand by as you are raped. Even if they know about it. Even if you call for help.
http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Warren_v._District_of_Columbia
Also:
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/06/28/politics/28scotus.html
I have some experience with these barriers- Every American base in Iraq uses thousands of them for building fortification.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hesco_bastion
You'd usually find a ring of them around a building, two deep, with an additional course laid on top of that. They are, as the wiki article mentions, "one of the less heralded life- and labor-saving devices of war" (among other uses).
I felt pretty safe having them around.
-b
You're kidding, right? You can't turn on the tv without seeing stories and ads about investing in gold. Even glen beck is hawking gold and you cam hardly call him obscure.
This aircraft will not be man-rated. That shaves off years. Then consider that Boeing has decades of cutting-edge research already done and ready to apply.
I work in aerospace. Give me four years and I'll build you an airplane myself. Give me four years and a team of some of the finest engineers on the planet and I'll give you an aircraft that can stay aloft for five years.
This thing will not be another f-22. Even if it was, those problems are solved now anyways. This project is simply a matter of optimizing certain parameters well beyond what is considered typical. Just like the sr71, the a380, or the f-22.
-b
So what this guy is saying is that the price point for bribing the police
You're not the first person to equate 'permit' with 'bribe'.
I'm not a big fan of paying for permits, but I understand why they exist.
You're a poacher unless you buy a hunting/fishing/trapping license.
You're in violation of most city ordinances unless you purchase a building permit to work on your house.
Where I live you need to purchase a license to buy handguns and 'assault rifles'.
Want to camp in a state/national park? Need to buy a permit.
Those are just a few examples I can think of where you need to pay officials for the privilege of doing something. Are you seriously saying that you consider a camping permit a bribe?
The logic behind this guy's proposal seems shaky, but the issuance of permits for privileges is not a new thing.
-b
I have had to go through that process as well, and it was incredibly frustrating. People get tagged in photos they aren't actually in all the time. So I had to pass the test by guessing which friend was tagged in a picture of a snowmobile or an infant.
I don't know if it's just my friends or if it's commonplace- either way, the system is broken.
-b
This whole story reminds me of a dirty campaign trick from a few years back- I'm not going to figure out which campaign or which election, since that's not important to this example.
Basically what happened was that someone went around stapling up fliers all over poor/wrong color/undesirable neighborhoods exhorting them to vote- but the date on the flier was the day after the real election. When I read about this, the events in question were recent enough to make me pretty angry, and I brought it up at the break table one day. Someone said, "If a person can't figure out what day the election is on, do you really want them voting?"
Someone had the humorous idea of redirecting visitors to a violent DC neighborhood. Probably thinking, "If someone can't figure out the difference between a violent neighborhood and the lincoln memorial, do you want them rallying?" I think in Beck's case the answer would be YES, YES that is exactly who we want, so I can see this being turned into a HUGE national news story as FOX uses this for free advertising and for the sympathy angle. The other networks will pick it up as 'Beck accuses liberals of trying to trick his fans' and that the pure-as-the-driven-snow liberals are shocked- SHOCKED- that anyone would accuse them of underhanded tactics (at least tactics that aren't embarrassingly obvious and transparent from the beginning).
This situation is breaking right as I plan a vacation to europe, and that process is beginning to take on a somewhat frantic flavor...
-b
I have found the ideal way to learn geography (besides going to war*):
At work we have a sealant mixing table where you'll have a captive set of eyes for at least five minutes while the machine does its thing. Someone decided to put up a 3x4 world map directly in front of the worker's station.
So now, for five minutes, 3 or 4 times a day, I get to stare at the world. You start kind of centered in front of Cape Goodenough, from which point you can sort of wander north and east looking for interesting names. At some point we'll have to shift the map to the right a bit, since the neck can get sore from staring towards the americas.
*Oh and I feel I should point out, despite chagrin, that a few of my brothers-in-arms couldn't find themselves on a map when they're deployed. I work with one guy who- in the same breath- talked about deploying to Curaçao where he drank, yes, Curaçao (but pronounced curakow). He couldn't make the connection that the country he was in was spelled the same way as the drink he was ordering. And no one had corrected him in ~10 years.
-b
For the record, the game- and it is a standalone game, not an expansion- is called Fallout: New Vegas.
And if Bethesda was behind it, the radio signal would be Chinese, not Russian.
I'll go away now.
-b
On ships and so on, they use names and stuff like that to encode words, so that when they speak them out over the radio there's less chance of being misheard. I don't know what that system is called but perhaps somebody else does. Sorry if I explained that badly.
While there are several versions throughout the history of radio, the most common phonetic/spelling alphabet these days is the NATO phonetic alphabet:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ICAO_spelling_alphabet
We still use it in the military for standardized communications. For more specialized applications, you might hear the letter 'A' as 'acer' or 'T' as 'talon' to let the listener know that you are using a specific identifier (bay A, truck T, etc.) instead of spelling a word.
The transmission seems to follow the standard russian spelling template. Make of that what you will; I just thought I'd get you started.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_spelling_alphabet
-b
Imagine, people infected with something which diverts their basic instincts, millions more parasites start growing in their flesh and they protect them as an otherwise sentient free humans with all the zeal and ferocity that someone will protect their children.
I had to read this a few times before I figured out that you *weren't* talking about sex drive and childmaking.
You want zombies, you should check out your local dive bar around closing time.