There, in bold, do you need more clues to realize all this recycling they fill their big mouths is all about?
Their recycling is all about making the second hand and repair markets something irrelevant so that people have little option but to buy their new products.
Is it that, or has someone already removed the easiest/most valuable components from those and now shipped what's left to Thailand? From what I've seen, no recycler is going to take the time to carefully removed the screws and clips form a plastic case when it's much faster to simply smash/cut the case open to grab the valuable bits.
Given the distance, how did they verify that the effect was not from the magnetic field generated by the speaker and not the sound?
Didn't read TFA, but from the summary, it sounds like the speaker that is already in the computer will also work. Regardless, have you ever taken apart a HDD? They have pretty damn strong magnets in them. It will take a very powerful magnet to disrupt a HDD from 4 inches away. I doubt Even a large subwoofer would cause an issue at that distance.
I am curious if this has something to do with the hearing loss of the people at the embassy in Cuba. High decibel ultra sonic sound can cause hearing loss as well as having other effects on humans.
How hard can it be. Have you seen the type of people ET's probe? There isn't even any mass transit systems in those places. If you turn on the History channel these days you'd think half of the people in the mid-west have been probed.
crashed into the rear end of a fire department utility truck, which was stopped at a red light, at an estimated speed of 60 MPH
Does anyone know if auto pilot takes into account the speed limit of the road it is on? If so, does it get that data by downloading it into it's GPS? Or by reading the speed limit signs? Also, did TFA state the speed limit of the road the accident occurred on? I generally don't see 60 MPH speed limits on roads with stop lights.
Does it matter? My cost as a hotel owner would be to pay minimum wage to some worker that cleans the room and the toilet, changes the sheet, towels, soaps etc. I would be delegating the work... not doing it myself.
What other cost is there in maintenance? The maintenance cost seems quite tiny compared to the hotel itself.
It's not that I'm not agreeing with you in principle, but you really have no clue at all. The upkeep and maintenance on any property is not cheap, and a commercial property even more so.
Property taxes are not low on commercial properties in most places. Parking lots have to be repaved regularly, roofs need to be replaced, unless it's a mom and pop hotel, it will need to be remodeled every 10 years or so.
Insurance premiums ain't cheap. People flood bathrooms and fall asleep while smoking in rooms that they shouldn't be smoking in. So then there's all of legal and collections crap that takes lawyers and other people to deal with.
If you think you have a high utility bill in the summer or winter, just imagine what it costs in electricity for a hotel. Water usage it also considerable. You also have heater/AC units in every room. They break and need to be fixed and replaced. Beds need to be replaced frequently, carpet wears out. Maintenance men and grounds keepers need to be paid as well as equipment.
As far as I know, all Hilton type hotels have at least a breakfast service. So a kitchen needs expensive equipment, which again need to be maintained/fixed. Staff is needed to prepare, serve and clean up. I would guess a lot of food gets thrown out as well.
Basically think of all of the expenses you have at home, but times a couple hundred. Plus the cost of having someone clean your house, mow the grass and trim the bushes, cook the meals, fix all of the shit that gets broken and worn out (but faster because it's higher traffic and no one gives a damn about it), etc.
If owning and running a hotel worked the way you seem to think, I'd go buy or build one tomorrow. But it's not some simple one time cost and it just rakes in money type of situation.
I'm cautiously optimistic on this. While it sounds like progress toward restoring our rights at the boarder, I wonder what the definition of "suspicion" is in this case. If it's simply that the boarder agent states that the person looked nervous to them, then I'm not sure if this will make much of a difference in practice. But I didn't read past the summary either.
Some of us are old enough to remember Reagan. We thought he would be the stupidest man to ever be elected president, especially during his second term when the Alzheimer's had really kicked in and Nancy's astrologer was running the joint.
Yeah, I remember Regan too. Honestly, at the time he seemed a hell of a lot smarter than Carter. I don't feel that Carter was really stupid, knowing what I know now. But at the time I didn't hold him in high regard. Of course our decisions back then weren't based on much other than disgust for the last guy in office. Ford lost to Carter simply because Ford pardoned Nixon. Carter made some bad decisions and had a bit of bad luck, so Regan had the benefit of not being Carter.
My slashdot username is truly relevant again. I coined it in the lead-up to the J.W. Bush "weapons of mass delusion" Gulf War.
I could never have imagined a more dumb-ass president than JW. Boy was I wrong.
When I saw "J.W. Bush" the first time, I assumed it was a typo, but then you referred to "JW" again. I wasn't aware of a third Bush being the president of the US. Are you talking about a president from a country other than the US? Or was Jeb Bush elected and changed his middle name when I wasn't' paying attention?
Will someone make graphene cereal already? I mean everything is better with graphene. Where are the Graphene Puffs? I know they'll stay crunchier in milk than regular cereal. They probably won't go stale as fast either.
I know it'll be better for the environment. Graphene Puffs won't need as much protective packaging to avoid being crushed, so less waste and weight to transport. Plus they'll be lighter per box than regular cereal.
I'm sure that they'll be the perfect weight loss food as well. One bowl of Graphene Puffs should take about 4000 years to digest.
I'm curious what your results on the self-driving car quiz would be. Hey, if you do well enough, they could use you to program the next generation of self-driving algorithms!
That was a stupid quiz. I wasn't once offered any of the following:
C. Kill everyone
D. Set off a dirty bomb
E. spread Anthrax through the tailpipe of the car
Probably on the 'criminally insane' setting.
I'm looking at it as population control a la Death Race 2000.
so if I'm a self driving car with no backup operator, do I prioritize the safety of my passengers? if I have to run down 5 people to keep my rider safe, do I do that?
The car should run over the 5 pedestrians, then the litter of puppies across the street and finally drive off of a bridge. Bonus points if the horn sounds like a maniacal laugh or plays Dixie.
what if I have to do the whole run over your mother / a baby / a nun or run over a bunch of assholes? how are they ever going to solve for this, because whatever it chooses will be wrong
Run over my mother, sideswipe the baby so it goes airborne into a dumpster, and back over the 5 assholes. Preferably spinning the tires on their dismembered corpses. The nun is difficult. I'm not sure if it will piss off more people to hit the nun, or avoid her after all of the other carnage.
You're right, some situations are difficult. Oh wait, avoid the nun and run a bus full of orphans off of a cliff. That will probably piss the nun off to. Problem solved.
HGST (nee IBM) haven't been that common, but have been very reliable. I bought a fair number during the DeskStar days and was very happy with them. I still have a few HGST humming happily away.
You may have had the HGST Deskstars, but it's obvious you didn't ever use any of the IBM Deathstars. I had hundreds of the 60GB ones fail from the click of death. 100% failure rate on those damn things. I have 15K RPM SCSI Seagates that still work fine, along with an array of Micropolis Tomahawk SCSI drives. Not that I spin those up very often. They sound like a jet engine starting.
I've said it before, but hard drive manufacturers have been pretty cyclical over the years as to which was good and which was bad. Seagate, WD, Connor, Micropolis, Quantum, etc all ranged from being the best hard drive manufacturer to the worst on a fairly regular interval. At this point there are only two real HD companies left. Seagate and WD. One of those two companies acquired all of the others that are left. All of the other manufacturers are bankrupt or their parent company closed down HD operations. HGST, Samsung, Toshiba, etc. are all owned by Seagate or WD. Some of those are still operating independently as part of the terms of their sale, but they will all be folded into their parent company at some point.
That sounds right to me. I don't know how may TB of storage I have as I haven't bothered to add it all up in a while. But I have three times that amount in backups. I run one mirrored backup daily to a set of drives, another that runs monthly, I think that one's differential, and a third that runs two weeks after the monthly backup to external drives that I swap out to an offsite location. Actually I guess since I keep a set of external drives on site and one off site, I actually have 4X the drive capacity for backups than what I'm actually storing. Plus a couple TB of internet storage for family pictures and videos.
My usual suggestion is the loser pays is capped at the *lesser* amount that the parties paid for defense/offense.
I'd go a step further and would like to see the amount of money that either side can spend be capped as well. Or at least capped, to a reasonable amount, in relation to what the non corporation can spend. Depending on the patent it may very well be worth it for a large corporation to throw millions of dollars at a individual knowing that they will only recoup, say $20K, in legal fees when they will make hundreds of millions off of a patent. If a corporation needs to spend $50K for each dollar an individual spends to defend a patent, then they don't have much of a case.
I don't understand the first ("Star Map") link in the summary. It is only 8 million pixels, it cannot show 1.3 billion independent stars.
Thanks for your comment. It made me decide to take a look. I don't remember the last time I had to wait for an image to load from the top down like that. It kind of felt like I was back in 1997 downloading Hubble images from NASA over dial up.
The Tesla S dominates the US large luxury sedan market (34% take rate, easily outselling all competitors) and owns the dragstrip. The 3 is already the best selling EV by a wide margin and will likely be the best selling sedan in the US by year-end.
I have nothing against Tesla, I think the Model S is a nice car. But I do wish you fanboys would share some of what you are smoking. Ford has sold almost 2.5 million vehicles so far this year. GM has sold almost 2.1 million, Toyota a little over 2.1 million. Mercedes 375K, BMW 305K. Tesla has sold a total of 55,120 which equates to.32% of all vehicles sold in the US.
I'm pretty sure you're the same AC I've responded to before. So I'll say it again, the highest estimate of model 3's that I've seen is just over 17K. The Chevy Bolt hit 20K before the end of last year Nissan has delivered 300K Leafs as of January of this year. The Model 3 has had the highest sales of any EV for the last 2 months. That doesn't make it the best selling EV.
The S does not "own the drag strip". Top fuel dragsters accelerate from 0 to 100 mph in.8 seconds and finish the 1/4 mile in 3.7 seconds. They can damn near finish the 1/4 mile in the time it takes a Model S to get to 60 mph. If you want batshit crazy street legal, then look no further than the TransStar Racing Dagger GT. They can be ordered in 3000 HP with a 0 to 60 time of 1 second and hit 250 mph at the end of the 1/4 mile. If that's too exotic of you, then the Dodge Challenger SRT Demon does the 1/4 mile in 9.65. Or we can go back to the 1964 Ford Fairlane Thunderbolt. One of those ran the 1/4 mile in 10.365 seconds.
Personally, I like to be able to take turns too. So I would rather lose at the drag strip in my Corvette and be able to take turns at over 1g. Granted, the S P100D can hit a respectable.89g.
No kidding. Those little bastards always want the newest iPhone. I say we should eliminate the child labor laws and make them work in the mines to earn the money for those $800 phones. It's obvious that that's where they want to be anyhow. Just look at how popular Minecraft was. If we tell them that it's "double super ultra HD 8K+" resolution, and we throw a couple of rabid dogs dressed as zombies in the mix they'll be lining up to "play" in the mines.
I've been putting the Taskbar on the right side of the screen for as long as it's been possible to do. Part of it stems from using Linux in the mid 90'S and I would set up multiple virtual desktops and that's where I happened to place the controls for it. Then when I went to multiple monitors it made even more sense because it would place the start menu along the right side of one monitor and just to the left of the other. When wide screen monitors were sold it allowed me to make the Taskbar a bit wider, which meant I could put more stuff in it and still be able to read a bit of text.
I've been using tree style tabs for a very long time too. This places the tabs along the left side of the browser. With a 16:9 monitor I was able to make this wider to.
Perhaps the author should stop using a wide format monitor like it's a 4:3 and these will become non issues.
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including crushed game consoles
There, in bold, do you need more clues to realize all this recycling they fill their big mouths is all about?
Their recycling is all about making the second hand and repair markets something irrelevant so that people have little option but to buy their new products.
Is it that, or has someone already removed the easiest/most valuable components from those and now shipped what's left to Thailand? From what I've seen, no recycler is going to take the time to carefully removed the screws and clips form a plastic case when it's much faster to simply smash/cut the case open to grab the valuable bits.
Given the distance, how did they verify that the effect was not from the magnetic field generated by the speaker and not the sound?
Didn't read TFA, but from the summary, it sounds like the speaker that is already in the computer will also work. Regardless, have you ever taken apart a HDD? They have pretty damn strong magnets in them. It will take a very powerful magnet to disrupt a HDD from 4 inches away. I doubt Even a large subwoofer would cause an issue at that distance.
I am curious if this has something to do with the hearing loss of the people at the embassy in Cuba. High decibel ultra sonic sound can cause hearing loss as well as having other effects on humans.
"send a probe" is a non-trivial undertaking
How hard can it be. Have you seen the type of people ET's probe? There isn't even any mass transit systems in those places. If you turn on the History channel these days you'd think half of the people in the mid-west have been probed.
we should start to think of the planet as one giant computer
Does it run Linux?
At least the brakes worked.
Tesla should use that as a marketing slogan for autopilot.
If and kicks on and is incorrectly applying the brake pressure, causing longer distances, that is one thing that can be adjusted remotly.
If it needs an update to fix this, it should have never been sold to a customer.
crashed into the rear end of a fire department utility truck, which was stopped at a red light, at an estimated speed of 60 MPH
Does anyone know if auto pilot takes into account the speed limit of the road it is on? If so, does it get that data by downloading it into it's GPS? Or by reading the speed limit signs? Also, did TFA state the speed limit of the road the accident occurred on? I generally don't see 60 MPH speed limits on roads with stop lights.
Does it matter? My cost as a hotel owner would be to pay minimum wage to some worker that cleans the room and the toilet, changes the sheet, towels, soaps etc. I would be delegating the work... not doing it myself.
What other cost is there in maintenance? The maintenance cost seems quite tiny compared to the hotel itself.
It's not that I'm not agreeing with you in principle, but you really have no clue at all. The upkeep and maintenance on any property is not cheap, and a commercial property even more so.
Property taxes are not low on commercial properties in most places. Parking lots have to be repaved regularly, roofs need to be replaced, unless it's a mom and pop hotel, it will need to be remodeled every 10 years or so.
Insurance premiums ain't cheap. People flood bathrooms and fall asleep while smoking in rooms that they shouldn't be smoking in. So then there's all of legal and collections crap that takes lawyers and other people to deal with.
If you think you have a high utility bill in the summer or winter, just imagine what it costs in electricity for a hotel. Water usage it also considerable. You also have heater/AC units in every room. They break and need to be fixed and replaced. Beds need to be replaced frequently, carpet wears out. Maintenance men and grounds keepers need to be paid as well as equipment.
As far as I know, all Hilton type hotels have at least a breakfast service. So a kitchen needs expensive equipment, which again need to be maintained/fixed. Staff is needed to prepare, serve and clean up. I would guess a lot of food gets thrown out as well.
Basically think of all of the expenses you have at home, but times a couple hundred. Plus the cost of having someone clean your house, mow the grass and trim the bushes, cook the meals, fix all of the shit that gets broken and worn out (but faster because it's higher traffic and no one gives a damn about it), etc.
If owning and running a hotel worked the way you seem to think, I'd go buy or build one tomorrow. But it's not some simple one time cost and it just rakes in money type of situation.
Sorry. I didn't catch that when my phone auto-completed it. Old eyes and all.
I'm cautiously optimistic on this. While it sounds like progress toward restoring our rights at the boarder, I wonder what the definition of "suspicion" is in this case. If it's simply that the boarder agent states that the person looked nervous to them, then I'm not sure if this will make much of a difference in practice. But I didn't read past the summary either.
Some of us are old enough to remember Reagan. We thought he would be the stupidest man to ever be elected president, especially during his second term when the Alzheimer's had really kicked in and Nancy's astrologer was running the joint.
Yeah, I remember Regan too. Honestly, at the time he seemed a hell of a lot smarter than Carter. I don't feel that Carter was really stupid, knowing what I know now. But at the time I didn't hold him in high regard. Of course our decisions back then weren't based on much other than disgust for the last guy in office. Ford lost to Carter simply because Ford pardoned Nixon. Carter made some bad decisions and had a bit of bad luck, so Regan had the benefit of not being Carter.
My slashdot username is truly relevant again. I coined it in the lead-up to the J.W. Bush "weapons of mass delusion" Gulf War.
I could never have imagined a more dumb-ass president than JW. Boy was I wrong.
When I saw "J.W. Bush" the first time, I assumed it was a typo, but then you referred to "JW" again. I wasn't aware of a third Bush being the president of the US. Are you talking about a president from a country other than the US? Or was Jeb Bush elected and changed his middle name when I wasn't' paying attention?
Will someone make graphene cereal already? I mean everything is better with graphene. Where are the Graphene Puffs? I know they'll stay crunchier in milk than regular cereal. They probably won't go stale as fast either.
I know it'll be better for the environment. Graphene Puffs won't need as much protective packaging to avoid being crushed, so less waste and weight to transport. Plus they'll be lighter per box than regular cereal.
I'm sure that they'll be the perfect weight loss food as well. One bowl of Graphene Puffs should take about 4000 years to digest.
I'm curious what your results on the self-driving car quiz would be. Hey, if you do well enough, they could use you to program the next generation of self-driving algorithms!
That was a stupid quiz. I wasn't once offered any of the following:
C. Kill everyone
D. Set off a dirty bomb
E. spread Anthrax through the tailpipe of the car
Probably on the 'criminally insane' setting.
I'm looking at it as population control a la Death Race 2000.
so if I'm a self driving car with no backup operator, do I prioritize the safety of my passengers? if I have to run down 5 people to keep my rider safe, do I do that?
The car should run over the 5 pedestrians, then the litter of puppies across the street and finally drive off of a bridge. Bonus points if the horn sounds like a maniacal laugh or plays Dixie.
what if I have to do the whole run over your mother / a baby / a nun or run over a bunch of assholes? how are they ever going to solve for this, because whatever it chooses will be wrong
Run over my mother, sideswipe the baby so it goes airborne into a dumpster, and back over the 5 assholes. Preferably spinning the tires on their dismembered corpses. The nun is difficult. I'm not sure if it will piss off more people to hit the nun, or avoid her after all of the other carnage.
You're right, some situations are difficult. Oh wait, avoid the nun and run a bus full of orphans off of a cliff. That will probably piss the nun off to. Problem solved.
HGST (nee IBM) haven't been that common, but have been very reliable. I bought a fair number during the DeskStar days and was very happy with them. I still have a few HGST humming happily away.
You may have had the HGST Deskstars, but it's obvious you didn't ever use any of the IBM Deathstars. I had hundreds of the 60GB ones fail from the click of death. 100% failure rate on those damn things. I have 15K RPM SCSI Seagates that still work fine, along with an array of Micropolis Tomahawk SCSI drives. Not that I spin those up very often. They sound like a jet engine starting.
I've said it before, but hard drive manufacturers have been pretty cyclical over the years as to which was good and which was bad. Seagate, WD, Connor, Micropolis, Quantum, etc all ranged from being the best hard drive manufacturer to the worst on a fairly regular interval. At this point there are only two real HD companies left. Seagate and WD. One of those two companies acquired all of the others that are left. All of the other manufacturers are bankrupt or their parent company closed down HD operations. HGST, Samsung, Toshiba, etc. are all owned by Seagate or WD. Some of those are still operating independently as part of the terms of their sale, but they will all be folded into their parent company at some point.
You have 60TB to back up 20TB of data?
That sounds right to me. I don't know how may TB of storage I have as I haven't bothered to add it all up in a while. But I have three times that amount in backups. I run one mirrored backup daily to a set of drives, another that runs monthly, I think that one's differential, and a third that runs two weeks after the monthly backup to external drives that I swap out to an offsite location. Actually I guess since I keep a set of external drives on site and one off site, I actually have 4X the drive capacity for backups than what I'm actually storing. Plus a couple TB of internet storage for family pictures and videos.
My usual suggestion is the loser pays is capped at the *lesser* amount that the parties paid for defense/offense.
I'd go a step further and would like to see the amount of money that either side can spend be capped as well. Or at least capped, to a reasonable amount, in relation to what the non corporation can spend. Depending on the patent it may very well be worth it for a large corporation to throw millions of dollars at a individual knowing that they will only recoup, say $20K, in legal fees when they will make hundreds of millions off of a patent. If a corporation needs to spend $50K for each dollar an individual spends to defend a patent, then they don't have much of a case.
ree only when compared to non-prime buyers, and Amazon insists on $35 or more for 'free' ship.
Actually Amazon dropped that back to $25 some time ago. They just didn't make a big deal about it.
I don't understand the first ("Star Map") link in the summary. It is only 8 million pixels, it cannot show 1.3 billion independent stars.
Thanks for your comment. It made me decide to take a look. I don't remember the last time I had to wait for an image to load from the top down like that. It kind of felt like I was back in 1997 downloading Hubble images from NASA over dial up.
The Tesla S dominates the US large luxury sedan market (34% take rate, easily outselling all competitors) and owns the dragstrip. The 3 is already the best selling EV by a wide margin and will likely be the best selling sedan in the US by year-end.
I have nothing against Tesla, I think the Model S is a nice car. But I do wish you fanboys would share some of what you are smoking. Ford has sold almost 2.5 million vehicles so far this year. GM has sold almost 2.1 million, Toyota a little over 2.1 million. Mercedes 375K, BMW 305K. Tesla has sold a total of 55,120 which equates to .32% of all vehicles sold in the US.
I'm pretty sure you're the same AC I've responded to before. So I'll say it again, the highest estimate of model 3's that I've seen is just over 17K. The Chevy Bolt hit 20K before the end of last year Nissan has delivered 300K Leafs as of January of this year. The Model 3 has had the highest sales of any EV for the last 2 months. That doesn't make it the best selling EV.
The S does not "own the drag strip". Top fuel dragsters accelerate from 0 to 100 mph in .8 seconds and finish the 1/4 mile in 3.7 seconds. They can damn near finish the 1/4 mile in the time it takes a Model S to get to 60 mph. If you want batshit crazy street legal, then look no further than the TransStar Racing Dagger GT. They can be ordered in 3000 HP with a 0 to 60 time of 1 second and hit 250 mph at the end of the 1/4 mile. If that's too exotic of you, then the Dodge Challenger SRT Demon does the 1/4 mile in 9.65. Or we can go back to the 1964 Ford Fairlane Thunderbolt. One of those ran the 1/4 mile in 10.365 seconds.
Personally, I like to be able to take turns too. So I would rather lose at the drag strip in my Corvette and be able to take turns at over 1g. Granted, the S P100D can hit a respectable .89g.
Bring back jobs to the Pennsylvania coal minors
No kidding. Those little bastards always want the newest iPhone. I say we should eliminate the child labor laws and make them work in the mines to earn the money for those $800 phones. It's obvious that that's where they want to be anyhow. Just look at how popular Minecraft was. If we tell them that it's "double super ultra HD 8K+" resolution, and we throw a couple of rabid dogs dressed as zombies in the mix they'll be lining up to "play" in the mines.
I've been putting the Taskbar on the right side of the screen for as long as it's been possible to do. Part of it stems from using Linux in the mid 90'S and I would set up multiple virtual desktops and that's where I happened to place the controls for it. Then when I went to multiple monitors it made even more sense because it would place the start menu along the right side of one monitor and just to the left of the other. When wide screen monitors were sold it allowed me to make the Taskbar a bit wider, which meant I could put more stuff in it and still be able to read a bit of text.
I've been using tree style tabs for a very long time too. This places the tabs along the left side of the browser. With a 16:9 monitor I was able to make this wider to.
Perhaps the author should stop using a wide format monitor like it's a 4:3 and these will become non issues.
Bajau takes free diving to the extreme, staying underwater for as long as 13 minutes at depths of around 200 feet.
Kevin Costner scoffs at the Bajau pathetic diving abilities.
Well, 93 million people die EACH DAY from gun violence;
Where did you get that figure from? If it were accurate, then almost 34 billion people die per year from gun violence.