Except your reply (presumably not to me) included:
So you have a mechanical locks and a starter pack. Your battery dies, and you say to yourself "Thank god I had mechanical locks or I'd be stranded"?.
Nothing about a starter pack was in the post you said you were replying to, so you got that from my post.
Obviously we eventually started talking to each other. But this conversation between you and I started with you inserting yourself and responding to a reply to a different person.
No need for me to transport anything magically, friend, because I have a starter pack in the car.
Specifically this one.
Feel free to weigh in, but if your going to jump into the middle of a conversation, it helps if you have some context.
Context? You mean like you presumably making an attribution mistake, then blaming it on me? As well as going netcop and demanding no one trespass on tour private conversations here on Slashdot?
I'm going to just write this off to you having a bad day, because I don't want to think I'm carrying on a conversation with an insane person.
Thou needest a chill pill, muchacho! And don't act like everyone is picking on you after your snarky comment:
My snarky comment was in response to another snarky comment.
Or are you just planning to walk away and buy a new car?
Except your reply (presumably not to me) included:
So you have a mechanical locks and a starter pack. Your battery dies, and you say to yourself "Thank god I had mechanical locks or I'd be stranded"?.
Nothing about a starter pack was in the post you said you were replying to, so you got that from my post.
Just sayin', since you had had a reply that included specifi stuff from my post and not the other, you can understand why I might have thought you were replying to me?
So you have a mechanical locks and a starter pack. Your battery dies, and you say to yourself "Thank god I had mechanical locks or I'd be stranded"?.
Also notice that what I did not say is "mechanical locks are bad and we shouldn't have them". What I said was that they don't help you start your engine if your battery is dead. Can you imagine a scenario where having mechanical locks helps you start your engine? Ok so I guess the *can* help. But so can just about everything else.
But cool, now I know. I shouldn't say things like "Having working spark plugs won't help help you start your car if your battery is dead", because slashdot nitpickers will point out that yes in fact having working spark plugs will technically *help* you start your car if you have some way of overcoming your dead battery problem.
Thanks for clearing that up.
Thou needest a chill pill, muchacho! And don't act like everyone is picking on you after your snarky comment:
Not anymore than I presume you plan on magically transporting a new battery to the remote place where your car has broken down.
No need for me to transport anything magically, friend, because I have a starter pack in the car.
Now you know what I want? I ant something like a fob that I wear around my neck, that when I walk up to the car, it opens. I hit a switch. and it starts. I'll assume it will work as well as my rf fob on my present keys.
There is so much wrong with the idea of a smartphone app to open and start your car that when somoene makes a pure snark comment like your apparent need for "magic," you are going to have to take the responses you get.
I'd suggest the big projects will always tend to have problems. The reason is simple.
Really simple. The big projects aren't easy, and often have never been done before. And that's not how private industry works. Their idea of a big risk is New Coke or Pepsi free. Maybe an app for our smartphones. Going to the moon, or Going to Mars, or a freaky awesome new jet fighter isn't even on their radar, unless they can mitigate the risk.
Or a nuclear power generation plant either. I wonder, have there been any built without Government help?
As for adjusting the/. posting, there is a fine line between editorial comment and starting a PC police here, so the article should stand unless the poster wishes to adjust it. Either way seems fine. (I think maybe the cat was already out of the bag that this group likes X better than N.;-)
I'm not so certain the line is all that fine. Let us take an example
Suppose someone wants to post an article using one of the last gasps of denialism, the discrepancies between satellite and radiosonde data. Maybe with links to one of the denialist blogs. People such as myself will squawk long and loud to note the data is outdated, and the discrepancies have long since been correlated.
So in fact, I like the postings of the useful idiots - they are also useful to me.
If some useful idiot like schwit1, with an obvious agenda wants to post trollish articles, with ill formed opinions, and whack-a-doodle conclusions - no problem.
At first. But the actual fine line gets crossed when Slashdot starts to look like a libertarian or denialist home front. Till then, we'll raise hell and have fun.
Indeed. I call bullshit on the summary's FUD. Criticizing NASA for not using the software of fledgling, unproven companies? Criticizing NASA for using custom software for their completely unique launch system? There are good reasons to criticize some of NASA's recent decisions, but this article is not among them.
Private industry always does better, that's why they don't have anything to do with NASA. That's why they have all their own launch facilities, tracking and all aspects of operations.
Correlation is enough for short-term prediction, which is all they're claiming.
But if ocean temperatures (which are rising) are the indicator to this prediction, you folks in the east had best be getting ready for more frequent, longer, and hotter heat waves.
And a notice is a darn nice thing to have. If a city knows that a heat wave is likely, they can prepare for it. And that will save lives.
While to me, at first it seems like understanding the causation will follow pretty quickly - after all, this is energy stored in the ocean, so it's going to want to shed it somewhere, who knows for certain? A good use of research dollars.
I suspect people getting snarky about this are just venting because its related to you-know-what.
Scientists believe there was no darkness before humanity and their CFC pollutants came along. Modeling shows conclusively that temperatures were milder, bowling scores were much higher, golf scores much lower, and waterslides were much more excellent in the pre-Phanerozoic eons.
I'd extend that to ALL keyless entry systems include a mechanical lock as backup, because yes, car batteries DO go dead... especially when they are constantly drawing current because they are listening for keyless entry transmitters!
I have an idea. A metal stick, with a preconfigured way of opening and starting the vehicle.
We'll call it a ignition key. Off to the patent office we go!
After being threatened by vaccine industry totalitarians and science bullies, De Niro blackballed the VAXXED documentary from the Tribeca Film Festival, playing right into the hands of state-run medical propagandists who are all pro-vaccine.
What the hell is happening? This is big - really big! We're all gonna be keeled, And no one is paying attention!!!!!!! Vote Trump/Palin 2016 - Americas last and only hope.
Isn't it methyl mercury that bio-accumulates? Ethyl mercury gets crapped out in pretty short order from what I remember. Citation?
Do you think AC and his ilk even care? This autism/thimerosol/vaccine has been so exposed and debunked so completely that those few left are in the same bed as lunar landing conspiracists, chemtrail watchers, and Birthers.
No way they will give up their position.
On the other hand, I like to piss the assholes off.
Thiemerosol has *not* been completely removed from vaccines. It is present in full strength in the nearly useless annual flu vaccine (only 40% - 60% effective, according to CDC. You want to to get an annual dose of bio-accumulative neurotoxic ethyl mercury for a slim chance of not getting basically a strong cold ? ) AND, on the other vaccines like the DTaP, it is still present in "trace" amounts. So get your facts right.
Measles, mumps, and rubella (MMR) vaccines do not and never did contain thimerosal. Varicella (chickenpox), inactivated polio (IPV), and pneumococcal conjugate vaccines have also never contained thimerosal.
Influenza (flu) vaccines are currently available in both thimerosal-containing (for multi-dose vaccine vials) and thimerosal-free versions.
Also from the article:
Research does not show any link between thimerosal in vaccines and autism, a neurodevelopmental disorder. Many well conducted studies have concluded that thimerosal in vaccines does not contribute to the development of autism. Even after thimerosal was removed from almost all childhood vaccines, autism rates continued to increase, which is the opposite of what would be expected if thimerosal caused autism.
So now you are left with only your own most powerful weapons, the conspiracy card and putting your fingers in your ears and screaming at the top of your lungs NANANANANANANANAH I CAN'T HEEEARR YOUUUUU!
Kinda weird that some folks are so hell bent on declaring thimerosol the bad guy that they are willing to allow the real cause (if there is one) go untouched.
Facts, they aren't just for breakfast any more.
Okay, so they move the goalposts and call it the vaccines themselves. Now its on shaky grounds, as there is less commonality between different vaccines.
We live i strange times, when people get their science education from Politicians and women who's main talent is taking off their clothing, and documented frauds with a plan to extract money via the sympathy gene.
But those darned scientists? Never! That's crazy talk!!
I thought this was supposed to be a tech news site....in the past weeks....since dice took over...it's only mainstream crap...and wasn't expecting this from timothy.... maybe from that manishs guy...
The anti-vaccine issue is about science. About how some idiots will reject it, and endanger their children's lives.
Anti-vaxxers are just one teeny little step away from being the people who refuse to give their diabetic children insulin on religious grounds.
If I don't know the number, I don't answer.
The ultimate white list. So until the cancerous lesions can spoof th enumbers of the people I do recognize, this method works pretty good.
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Except your reply (presumably not to me) included:
So you have a mechanical locks and a starter pack. Your battery dies, and you say to yourself "Thank god I had mechanical locks or I'd be stranded"?.
Nothing about a starter pack was in the post you said you were replying to, so you got that from my post.
Obviously we eventually started talking to each other. But this conversation between you and I started with you inserting yourself and responding to a reply to a different person.
No need for me to transport anything magically, friend, because I have a starter pack in the car.
Specifically this one.
Feel free to weigh in, but if your going to jump into the middle of a conversation, it helps if you have some context.
Context? You mean like you presumably making an attribution mistake, then blaming it on me? As well as going netcop and demanding no one trespass on tour private conversations here on Slashdot?
I'm going to just write this off to you having a bad day, because I don't want to think I'm carrying on a conversation with an insane person.
Thou needest a chill pill, muchacho! And don't act like everyone is picking on you after your snarky comment:
My snarky comment was in response to another snarky comment.
Or are you just planning to walk away and buy a new car?
Except your reply (presumably not to me) included:
So you have a mechanical locks and a starter pack. Your battery dies, and you say to yourself "Thank god I had mechanical locks or I'd be stranded"?.
Nothing about a starter pack was in the post you said you were replying to, so you got that from my post.
Just sayin', since you had had a reply that included specifi stuff from my post and not the other, you can understand why I might have thought you were replying to me?
At this very moment, my dad's computer is attempting to download Windows 10 in the background, automatically without asking permission.
He has Dialup internet.
Let that sink in.
Nope... It does not sink in. Dialup internet went extinct long before Windows 10 was even conceived.
You are quite wrong.
http://time.com/3856066/aol-ve...
2.1 million people in America using dialup as of last May.
So you have a mechanical locks and a starter pack. Your battery dies, and you say to yourself "Thank god I had mechanical locks or I'd be stranded"?.
Also notice that what I did not say is "mechanical locks are bad and we shouldn't have them". What I said was that they don't help you start your engine if your battery is dead. Can you imagine a scenario where having mechanical locks helps you start your engine? Ok so I guess the *can* help. But so can just about everything else.
But cool, now I know. I shouldn't say things like "Having working spark plugs won't help help you start your car if your battery is dead", because slashdot nitpickers will point out that yes in fact having working spark plugs will technically *help* you start your car if you have some way of overcoming your dead battery problem.
Thanks for clearing that up.
Thou needest a chill pill, muchacho! And don't act like everyone is picking on you after your snarky comment:
Not anymore than I presume you plan on magically transporting a new battery to the remote place where your car has broken down.
No need for me to transport anything magically, friend, because I have a starter pack in the car.
Now you know what I want? I ant something like a fob that I wear around my neck, that when I walk up to the car, it opens. I hit a switch. and it starts. I'll assume it will work as well as my rf fob on my present keys.
There is so much wrong with the idea of a smartphone app to open and start your car that when somoene makes a pure snark comment like your apparent need for "magic," you are going to have to take the responses you get.
I wasn't being snarky, you were. Calm down.
But douchebags have always been douchebags.
I'm not a douchebag - I'm an asshole. Get your pejoratives straight.
I'd suggest the big projects will always tend to have problems. The reason is simple.
Really simple. The big projects aren't easy, and often have never been done before. And that's not how private industry works. Their idea of a big risk is New Coke or Pepsi free. Maybe an app for our smartphones. Going to the moon, or Going to Mars, or a freaky awesome new jet fighter isn't even on their radar, unless they can mitigate the risk.
Or a nuclear power generation plant either. I wonder, have there been any built without Government help?
As for adjusting the /. posting, there is a fine line between editorial comment and starting a PC police here, so the article should stand unless the poster wishes to adjust it. Either way seems fine. (I think maybe the cat was already out of the bag that this group likes X better than N.;-)
I'm not so certain the line is all that fine. Let us take an example
Suppose someone wants to post an article using one of the last gasps of denialism, the discrepancies between satellite and radiosonde data. Maybe with links to one of the denialist blogs. People such as myself will squawk long and loud to note the data is outdated, and the discrepancies have long since been correlated.
So in fact, I like the postings of the useful idiots - they are also useful to me.
If some useful idiot like schwit1, with an obvious agenda wants to post trollish articles, with ill formed opinions, and whack-a-doodle conclusions - no problem.
At first. But the actual fine line gets crossed when Slashdot starts to look like a libertarian or denialist home front. Till then, we'll raise hell and have fun.
Indeed. I call bullshit on the summary's FUD. Criticizing NASA for not using the software of fledgling, unproven companies? Criticizing NASA for using custom software for their completely unique launch system? There are good reasons to criticize some of NASA's recent decisions, but this article is not among them.
Private industry always does better, that's why they don't have anything to do with NASA. That's why they have all their own launch facilities, tracking and all aspects of operations.
All the proof we need.
Oh....... wait.....
Correlation is enough for short-term prediction, which is all they're claiming.
But if ocean temperatures (which are rising) are the indicator to this prediction, you folks in the east had best be getting ready for more frequent, longer, and hotter heat waves.
And a notice is a darn nice thing to have. If a city knows that a heat wave is likely, they can prepare for it. And that will save lives.
While to me, at first it seems like understanding the causation will follow pretty quickly - after all, this is energy stored in the ocean, so it's going to want to shed it somewhere, who knows for certain? A good use of research dollars.
I suspect people getting snarky about this are just venting because its related to you-know-what.
Scientists believe there was no darkness before humanity and their CFC pollutants came along. Modeling shows conclusively that temperatures were milder, bowling scores were much higher, golf scores much lower, and waterslides were much more excellent in the pre-Phanerozoic eons.
They also think that humor was funnier.
Or are you just planning to walk away and buy a new car?
Not anymore than I presume you plan on magically transporting a new battery to the remote place where your car has broken down.
I carry a starter pak in the back of my car. A pity if I can't get into it to attach the starter pack to the battery and give it a jump.
Sigh..
It is if you need to get in to the car to pop the hood (or trunk depending on model) to charge the battery!!
Or are you just planning to walk away and buy a new car?
Probably will have to buy a new car after the inevitable patent infringement cases get settled.
Wondering what will happen if the phone is turned off or the batteries die while driving? Not every new idea is a good one.
I'd extend that to ALL keyless entry systems include a mechanical lock as backup, because yes, car batteries DO go dead... especially when they are constantly drawing current because they are listening for keyless entry transmitters!
I have an idea. A metal stick, with a preconfigured way of opening and starting the vehicle.
We'll call it a ignition key. Off to the patent office we go!
After being threatened by vaccine industry totalitarians and science bullies, De Niro blackballed the VAXXED documentary from the Tribeca Film Festival, playing right into the hands of state-run medical propagandists who are all pro-vaccine.
You better check this out. You think Vaccines are dangerous? https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
What the hell is happening? This is big - really big! We're all gonna be keeled, And no one is paying attention!!!!!!! Vote Trump/Palin 2016 - Americas last and only hope.
Wait until she stops investing in Weight Watchers, she'll be an easier target.
Pretty well played there, AC!
They have been in the game for over 30 years, so they don't need to blow their own trumpets like the new guys do.
And yet - we are reading this article.
Isn't it methyl mercury that bio-accumulates? Ethyl mercury gets crapped out in pretty short order from what I remember. Citation?
Do you think AC and his ilk even care? This autism/thimerosol/vaccine has been so exposed and debunked so completely that those few left are in the same bed as lunar landing conspiracists, chemtrail watchers, and Birthers.
No way they will give up their position.
On the other hand, I like to piss the assholes off.
Thiemerosol has *not* been completely removed from vaccines. It is present in full strength in the nearly useless annual flu vaccine (only 40% - 60% effective, according to CDC. You want to to get an annual dose of bio-accumulative neurotoxic ethyl mercury for a slim chance of not getting basically a strong cold ? ) AND, on the other vaccines like the DTaP, it is still present in "trace" amounts. So get your facts right.
M'kay
http://www.cdc.gov/vaccinesafe...
From the article:
Measles, mumps, and rubella (MMR) vaccines do not and never did contain thimerosal. Varicella (chickenpox), inactivated polio (IPV), and pneumococcal conjugate vaccines have also never contained thimerosal.
Influenza (flu) vaccines are currently available in both thimerosal-containing (for multi-dose vaccine vials) and thimerosal-free versions.
Also from the article:
Research does not show any link between thimerosal in vaccines and autism, a neurodevelopmental disorder. Many well conducted studies have concluded that thimerosal in vaccines does not contribute to the development of autism. Even after thimerosal was removed from almost all childhood vaccines, autism rates continued to increase, which is the opposite of what would be expected if thimerosal caused autism.
So now you are left with only your own most powerful weapons, the conspiracy card and putting your fingers in your ears and screaming at the top of your lungs NANANANANANANANAH I CAN'T HEEEARR YOUUUUU!
Kinda weird that some folks are so hell bent on declaring thimerosol the bad guy that they are willing to allow the real cause (if there is one) go untouched. Facts, they aren't just for breakfast any more.
Mabbe either Obama or Putin should man up and drop those a-bombs on the proper targets...
Leave Oprah Winfrey out of this.
Yes because if he said "intense mamatic activity" he'd be a pornographer.
Man, there have been some big eruptions in that field!
So the science is settled. But is it? Why is there still research on vaccines, if the science is settled. There are no new illesnesses?
Yup, the science is pretty much settled. Thimerosol has been completely removed from vaccines as a result of anti-vaxxers outrage. The difference?
http://www.cdc.gov/vaccinesafe...
Okay, so they move the goalposts and call it the vaccines themselves. Now its on shaky grounds, as there is less commonality between different vaccines.
Here's your science teacher's data:
http://www.jennymccarthybodyco...
We live i strange times, when people get their science education from Politicians and women who's main talent is taking off their clothing, and documented frauds with a plan to extract money via the sympathy gene.
But those darned scientists? Never! That's crazy talk!!
I thought this was supposed to be a tech news site....in the past weeks....since dice took over...it's only mainstream crap...and wasn't expecting this from timothy.... maybe from that manishs guy...
The anti-vaccine issue is about science. About how some idiots will reject it, and endanger their children's lives.
Anti-vaxxers are just one teeny little step away from being the people who refuse to give their diabetic children insulin on religious grounds.
They have a fall back position. They'll show films about the faked moon landing, and chemtrails.
If I don't know the number, I don't answer. The ultimate white list. So until the cancerous lesions can spoof th enumbers of the people I do recognize, this method works pretty good.
I disagree: ***selling price*** of PV panels is coming down. However, the energy cost of creating solar panels isn't.
That makes no sense. The energy cost of the solar panels is part of the selling cost.
They lose money on every sale, but make up for it in volume.