In all seriousness, texting while doing something else has become a conspicuous problem.
And how - I've personally saved two young ladies who were texting and walking out into traffic. Both gave me a nasty look at first, then realized the situation and thanked me.
because arrogant asshats like you are unwilling to accept responsibility for the hazard to air navigation that you created. We've already had incidents, though they've been deemed "birdstrikes". You're flying something that has shit for software and shitheads for operators, and actually are a very real hazard.
Do you shit your pants when you see a radio controlled airplane Coward? They are scary, so you better head back down to mommies basement - she'll keep you safe.
So if I owned property within 30 miles, I can't fly my little RC plane or Quadcopter in my backyard?
Because....why? And how does doing that affect you or anyone else?
From TFA
You read th ecommenhts in here don't you? 99 percent of slash dotters shit their pants when the hear the word "drone" mentioned.
Translate that to the rest of the country, subtract say 20 percent for sanity, and you have 80 percent of people thinking that that little parrot drone is going to steal their security.
They taught creationism and sex ed at my Catholic school. You seem to be a hundred or so years behind in this discussion.
Since you are disgreeing with me, I suspect you meant they taught "evolution" and not they taught "Creationism" at your Catholic school?. You make the mistake of getting all spun up because I mentionied Catholics, and apparently the second mistake that Catholics are a monolithic group.
Your story, if true, is an aberration. On average the educational system did very well before Washington DC gained greater and greater influence.
Yes, absolutely. I came on here to lie about my experience. Because I am from the Guvmint, We are not actually incompetent, we are here to destry America.
Hey - No problem. So Your story, if you aren't a gaddamned liar, means nothing.
Talk without casting innuendos on my veracity, and I can be rather civilized in return. I do not know what I have done to offend you, but since you choose to call me a liar, Fuck you very much, asshole.
Of course not, there are plenty of other large, dangerous concentrations of power.
Well it should be obvious, but the sizable contingent of libertariand here, who manage to have the dual concpt of Guvmint is evil, and that the free market is the cure for all that ails society, and the tea baggers, who are simply consumed by hatred, appear to think otherwise.
Even now however, there are highly placed Catholic figures like Cardinal Christoph Schönborn, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...önborn who deny it
So anyhow dear low information coward, my experience deals with a time before the Catholic Church accepted evolution, and even now, there are elements who deny it.
That's true because DoE is the Department of Energy which has nothing to do with education.
They piss away billions of dollars and damage education by imposing bullshit federal regulations on local schools.
What specific "bullshit federal regulations" are you referring to?
Anything - We have us here, a true Teabagger, who thinks the only thing the Government should do is pay for his hoveround, and his medicine - but not anyone elses, cuz thatz socialism! -
They have no idea about anything, but they are very enthusiastic about hating everything else as long as they get theirs.
While I don't pretend to be an expert I do know that the Dept of Education has very little to do with and almost no authority regarding determining curriculum outside of No Child Left Behind the recently passed Every Student Succeeds Act.
Just those program titles show a glaring problem with our concept of educating children. Rosy feelgood titles that sound like Garrison Keillor's "Lake Wobegone, where all the women are strong, the men are good looking, and all the children are above average."
Problem is, he was making a joke, and America seems to have taken it seriously.
There will be children left behind. There will be students who don't succeed.
There are people who are doing well if they get their shoes tied in the morning
But we act as if all we need to do is teach them in some majick formula sort of way, that they will all grow up to be bosses.
We basically are now getting education by idiots for idiots.
Why is this flamebait? Which part of "A civics teacher is fit for teaching CS" doesn't seem idiotic enough to the modpoint distributor? Which is more idiotic, the department or the by-it-educated masses?
Because the teachers are not necessarily idiots - they just might not be qualified.
Because the students are not idiots just because they don't know about computer science.
Whoa! My reply to states rights guy shows exactly what happens when you get an asshat like her involved. Short versions - I grew up in a town where creationists ruled. They meddle for very large values of meddling.
One idea that came up in the debate was to have federal funds only be used for one time costs, like building the school, and not operational costs, like teacher salaries. That way there would be less opportunity for ongoing meddling. I think we are now seeing the wisdom of their shared concerns regarding centralizing too much control and authority in Washington DC.
Because all evilz come from teh guvmint, eh?
I came from a locally controlled school system - which by your standards would be turning out the best and brightest, untainted by socialist concepts like big federal government and the always present corruption that government entails.
Pardon me while I guffaw.
Guffaw!
Man, I got the whole way through the school system without hearing the word dinosaur. The curriculum was scrubbed clean of anything that suggested the universe was older than 6000 some years old. Sex education was a one day class telling us if we had sex outside of marriage, we'd get VD and die.
Wasn't until University that I got to see the "forbidden" knowledge.
You need to grow up in a town run by Catholic creationists to fully understand true meddling in the education process.
Something like blood testing should have a outside validation for their machines. Why is the company validating these machines on their own?
You aren't getting the bigger picture. We've all been primed for a new age of "illnesses". As minor issues are turned into full blown syndromes. and lucky us! there is a maintenance medicine we can take for the rest of our life to take care of this dreadful disease.
I forsee that Theranos' blood testing machines will provide the breakthrough on finding new illnesses like Bellybutton Stink syndrome, and perhaps even the holy grail of modern medicine - Overactive ear hair! And whoever they are leasing this technology to will have just the maintenance med for that.
but you are not under any moral obligation to drive yourself into the side of a building in order to avoid the other car, child or cyclist. Self driving cars should operate under the same premise: it should never be considered necessary to sacrifice the driver.
While you are correct, don't think for a minute that there won't be a lot of pressure to give a heirarchy weighting to decisions made by the cars.
We make fun all the time by saying "Think of the Children", but I'll bet if you polled a sizable group of people in some hypothetical You could save one person, an adult or a child scenario, probably most would save the child and leave the adult to die.
All of which is to say, if there is the possibility to apply weighting to a vehicle's collision avoidance system, the is no question there won't be a lot of agitation to do so.
Which then beings up the Escalade set. In a NatGeo article a few years back, they had a feature on petrofuels. They had a short bit in it interviewing a woman who owned a Hummer. When asked why she made the choice of vehicle, she stated "Because if I get into an accident, I want to know I'll win!"
If there's any justice in this world, that pathological bitch will be run over by a autonomous M1A1 Abrams tank. But I hear the same sentiments, if not so mememememe! oriented, from the owners of those vehicles. Their safety is paramount, and when I ask if they are okay with killing the person in the normal sized car they hit, they say they are okay with it, because the person in the normal sized car should have bouth what they are driving (they ignore the vehicle size arms race problem)
I can see it now - the 2025 Cadillac Escalade with MyFamily! autonomous driving protection.
I can see the slogan now - When all is chaos, your family makes it though with MyFamily!
Thermisters? See, even the names of basic components are designed to perpetuate the male domination of STEM fields.
Start a campaign the rename them thermadams. Start it now!
No no! you see, that was a mistake, probably made by a testosterone fueld member of the patriarchy. We shal correct it, so that is like the others:
Transisters, resisters, so we march on to remove sexist names, and replace them with....other sexist names?
side note - working with some female technicians, there are some awkward moments when dealing with male and female sockets and plugs. Though most of the ladies would get it out of the way by talking about the gender early on.
And let's not forget the learning verse for the color codes of resistors!
Bad
Boys
Rape
Our
Young
Girls
But
Violet
Gives
Willingly
for
Gold
or
Silver
Cannot believe my electronics instructor used that one. It was the 70's for certain, but sheesh.
I read that as Erection Engineer but I'm mildly buzzed from a couple of drinks. That's an unusual state for me. I have an excuse. They are all being a bit loud, getting to know each other, and getting drunk so I have a minute.
Drunk people are incredibly annoying until I have a couple drinks myself. Why I loathe coming in late to a party.
I didn't have one but my older brother had a chemistry set that had all sorts of things they'd never even dream of letting a kid have in today's litigious society. It had a variety of acids, all sorts of stuff.
BAM! memory time kicks in. I had one of hose old school chemistry kits, and it had real actual chemicals, and real actual experiments. I hate to go into old guy mode, but as safety culture takes a tighter and tighter grip over the country, Chemistry kits have become lame, almost useless.
I'm expecting vinegar and baking soda reactions to be made illegal soon, and some brown skin kid arrested for doing one in a school science fair experiment as a teacher thinks it might be some terst explodey thing "Well, there were all these bubbles and stuff - and we just ca't be too careful these days!"
We used to buy black powder and use our empty BB gun's CO2 cartridges. We'd fill them up, tamp 'em down, throw in a waterproof fuse, and then cause hate and discontent with various inanimate things.
When we couldn't get into town to get black powder, a friend an I used to pry the tops off of bullets, and empty out the contents. Hope I didn't just make some safety culturists faint!
We had potato guns, paint can dust bombs, machetes, hatchets, saws, gasoline and a book of matches...
And we were learning things as well. Today's kids are in this weird world where safety culture is trying to insulate them from every possible source of injury. So they hit the teenage years with a weird sense of immortality mixed in with normal teenage rebellion, and no idea about this kinda stuff. So we get YouTube videos of teenagers sticking bottle rockets up their asses and lighting them https://www.youtube.com/watch?... , or taping firecrackers to their lips https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
and on and on. Not one of us stupid old time kids would ever do that, even if we stole some of Grandpa's beer and Wild Turkey, and took off to the woods with a box of M81's. We were hell on mailboxes, which was kinda bad. But the point is, we did happen to grow up without doing serious harm to ourselves.
How much does your $100 million satellite cost per-unit if you build five of them, instead? If a launch also costs $100 million, you might not bother, but if a launch costs $1million, would it be worth it to build enough to have a reasonable chance of success across several launches?
Depends on the nature of the satellite, I would think. Like the mirrors for space telescopes are ridiculously expensive high-precision work where building a spare just in case is out of the question.
What is not known by many, is that there is another, and rather flawless Hubble Telescope mirror made by Eastman Kodak.
It's an interesting subject. I could have found the problem with the Perkin Elmer mirror withan led and a 5 dollar home made tester. It was a shameful thing that the good mirror is sitting in a museum on earth, while the flawed one has cost so many millions to fix.
Yep. It's kind of like why nearly all cars in Singapore are high-end luxury cars- the parking spaces cost something like $150,000 a year. They're so expensive that if you can afford the parking space it's not an issue to put a $100,000 car in it. Same with upbuilding a limo- if it's $50,000 to cut up a sedan and turn it into a limo then there's not a lot of reason to start with a Chevrolet at $30,000 compared to a Cadillac at $50,000.
Your parking lot analogy has another facet. If we make satellites disposable, we better have good ways to get them out of the way if they fail. Because for as big as space is, orbital mechanics makes certain orbits, certain space real estate, very desirable, and you'll find them in those orbits. So if we're throwing up relatively unreliable sats, we better have a very reliable way to get them out of the desireable orbits when they quickly fail.
Plus When you get outside of the earth's atmosphere, you really need well built devices just to function for much time at all
Slashdot Mirror
Who in their right fucking mind would want to put their business in Oracle's hands?
Remember when they totally botched the nation's new health care system?
I remember when we went Oracle . A 6 month job that turned out to be a permanent, never ending curse.
In all seriousness, texting while doing something else has become a conspicuous problem.
And how - I've personally saved two young ladies who were texting and walking out into traffic. Both gave me a nasty look at first, then realized the situation and thanked me.
They both went right back to testing, however
because arrogant asshats like you are unwilling to accept responsibility for the hazard to air navigation that you created. We've already had incidents, though they've been deemed "birdstrikes". You're flying something that has shit for software and shitheads for operators, and actually are a very real hazard.
Do you shit your pants when you see a radio controlled airplane Coward? They are scary, so you better head back down to mommies basement - she'll keep you safe.
So if I owned property within 30 miles, I can't fly my little RC plane or Quadcopter in my backyard?
Because....why? And how does doing that affect you or anyone else?
From TFA
You read th ecommenhts in here don't you? 99 percent of slash dotters shit their pants when the hear the word "drone" mentioned.
Translate that to the rest of the country, subtract say 20 percent for sanity, and you have 80 percent of people thinking that that little parrot drone is going to steal their security.
Becuz trsts^H^H^H^H^H^H sheer coawardly fear!
They taught creationism and sex ed at my Catholic school. You seem to be a hundred or so years behind in this discussion.
Since you are disgreeing with me, I suspect you meant they taught "evolution" and not they taught "Creationism" at your Catholic school?. You make the mistake of getting all spun up because I mentionied Catholics, and apparently the second mistake that Catholics are a monolithic group.
Your story, if true, is an aberration. On average the educational system did very well before Washington DC gained greater and greater influence.
Yes, absolutely. I came on here to lie about my experience. Because I am from the Guvmint, We are not actually incompetent, we are here to destry America.
Hey - No problem. So Your story, if you aren't a gaddamned liar, means nothing.
Talk without casting innuendos on my veracity, and I can be rather civilized in return. I do not know what I have done to offend you, but since you choose to call me a liar, Fuck you very much, asshole.
Because all evilz come from teh guvmint, eh?
Of course not, there are plenty of other large, dangerous concentrations of power.
Well it should be obvious, but the sizable contingent of libertariand here, who manage to have the dual concpt of Guvmint is evil, and that the free market is the cure for all that ails society, and the tea baggers, who are simply consumed by hatred, appear to think otherwise.
You need to grow up in a town run by Catholic creationists to fully understand true meddling in the education process.
The stated teaching of the Catholic Church has been evolution for a long time. Go troll somebody else, hater.
Do you think that time did not start or there were no people around until the Catholic church accepted evolution?
I graduated High School in 1972. Pope John Paul noted in 1996 that the theory of evolution was acceptable:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Even now however, there are highly placed Catholic figures like Cardinal Christoph Schönborn, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...önborn who deny it
So anyhow dear low information coward, my experience deals with a time before the Catholic Church accepted evolution, and even now, there are elements who deny it.
Idiots are present at all levels of delegation :P
100 percent correct. Idiots also abound where people decide the guvmint is the source of all problems.
And it isn't even a socialistic attitude that tells me this is an idiotic notion. Lots of things should be left to the marketplace.
It's things like Enron.
They have no students. They operate no schools.
That's true because DoE is the Department of Energy which has nothing to do with education.
They piss away billions of dollars and damage education by imposing bullshit federal regulations on local schools.
What specific "bullshit federal regulations" are you referring to?
Anything - We have us here, a true Teabagger, who thinks the only thing the Government should do is pay for his hoveround, and his medicine - but not anyone elses, cuz thatz socialism! -
They have no idea about anything, but they are very enthusiastic about hating everything else as long as they get theirs.
While I don't pretend to be an expert I do know that the Dept of Education has very little to do with and almost no authority regarding determining curriculum outside of No Child Left Behind the recently passed Every Student Succeeds Act.
Just those program titles show a glaring problem with our concept of educating children. Rosy feelgood titles that sound like Garrison Keillor's "Lake Wobegone, where all the women are strong, the men are good looking, and all the children are above average."
Problem is, he was making a joke, and America seems to have taken it seriously.
There will be children left behind. There will be students who don't succeed.
There are people who are doing well if they get their shoes tied in the morning
But we act as if all we need to do is teach them in some majick formula sort of way, that they will all grow up to be bosses.
I honestly despair for the future of the US.
We basically are now getting education by idiots for idiots.
Why is this flamebait? Which part of "A civics teacher is fit for teaching CS" doesn't seem idiotic enough to the modpoint distributor? Which is more idiotic, the department or the by-it-educated masses?
Because the teachers are not necessarily idiots - they just might not be qualified.
Because the students are not idiots just because they don't know about computer science.
There may be good reasons for keeping control over schools away from local authorities:
https://boingboing.net/2015/12...
Whoa! My reply to states rights guy shows exactly what happens when you get an asshat like her involved. Short versions - I grew up in a town where creationists ruled. They meddle for very large values of meddling.
One idea that came up in the debate was to have federal funds only be used for one time costs, like building the school, and not operational costs, like teacher salaries. That way there would be less opportunity for ongoing meddling. I think we are now seeing the wisdom of their shared concerns regarding centralizing too much control and authority in Washington DC.
Because all evilz come from teh guvmint, eh?
I came from a locally controlled school system - which by your standards would be turning out the best and brightest, untainted by socialist concepts like big federal government and the always present corruption that government entails.
Pardon me while I guffaw.
Guffaw!
Man, I got the whole way through the school system without hearing the word dinosaur. The curriculum was scrubbed clean of anything that suggested the universe was older than 6000 some years old. Sex education was a one day class telling us if we had sex outside of marriage, we'd get VD and die.
Wasn't until University that I got to see the "forbidden" knowledge.
You need to grow up in a town run by Catholic creationists to fully understand true meddling in the education process.
And you think that actually helps? The key may already be uploaded and linked to your computer ID.
Their keylogger has already given it to them
Something like blood testing should have a outside validation for their machines. Why is the company validating these machines on their own?
You aren't getting the bigger picture. We've all been primed for a new age of "illnesses". As minor issues are turned into full blown syndromes. and lucky us! there is a maintenance medicine we can take for the rest of our life to take care of this dreadful disease.
I forsee that Theranos' blood testing machines will provide the breakthrough on finding new illnesses like Bellybutton Stink syndrome, and perhaps even the holy grail of modern medicine - Overactive ear hair! And whoever they are leasing this technology to will have just the maintenance med for that.
Turns out they were shooting a tentacle porn movie. The squid was a rubber dummy.
What kind of company gives itself a name that is so close to "Thanatos"? Creepy at best.
Looks like they finally found a replacement for Carly Fiorina. I see a bright future for Ms Holmes.
but you are not under any moral obligation to drive yourself into the side of a building in order to avoid the other car, child or cyclist. Self driving cars should operate under the same premise: it should never be considered necessary to sacrifice the driver.
While you are correct, don't think for a minute that there won't be a lot of pressure to give a heirarchy weighting to decisions made by the cars.
We make fun all the time by saying "Think of the Children", but I'll bet if you polled a sizable group of people in some hypothetical You could save one person, an adult or a child scenario, probably most would save the child and leave the adult to die.
All of which is to say, if there is the possibility to apply weighting to a vehicle's collision avoidance system, the is no question there won't be a lot of agitation to do so.
Which then beings up the Escalade set. In a NatGeo article a few years back, they had a feature on petrofuels. They had a short bit in it interviewing a woman who owned a Hummer. When asked why she made the choice of vehicle, she stated "Because if I get into an accident, I want to know I'll win!"
If there's any justice in this world, that pathological bitch will be run over by a autonomous M1A1 Abrams tank. But I hear the same sentiments, if not so mememememe! oriented, from the owners of those vehicles. Their safety is paramount, and when I ask if they are okay with killing the person in the normal sized car they hit, they say they are okay with it, because the person in the normal sized car should have bouth what they are driving (they ignore the vehicle size arms race problem)
I can see it now - the 2025 Cadillac Escalade with MyFamily! autonomous driving protection.
I can see the slogan now - When all is chaos, your family makes it though with MyFamily!
According to a story in Forbes
Naaaaah.
PS It's the same article you linked to just a few days ago.
And since Forbes wont let you in if you are running an adblocker, now there is a really good reason to not RTFA.
Thermisters? See, even the names of basic components are designed to perpetuate the male domination of STEM fields.
Start a campaign the rename them thermadams. Start it now!
No no! you see, that was a mistake, probably made by a testosterone fueld member of the patriarchy. We shal correct it, so that is like the others:
Transisters, resisters, so we march on to remove sexist names, and replace them with ....other sexist names?
side note - working with some female technicians, there are some awkward moments when dealing with male and female sockets and plugs. Though most of the ladies would get it out of the way by talking about the gender early on.
And let's not forget the learning verse for the color codes of resistors!
Bad
Boys
Rape
Our
Young
Girls
But
Violet
Gives
Willingly
for
Gold
or
Silver
Cannot believe my electronics instructor used that one. It was the 70's for certain, but sheesh.
I read that as Erection Engineer but I'm mildly buzzed from a couple of drinks. That's an unusual state for me. I have an excuse. They are all being a bit loud, getting to know each other, and getting drunk so I have a minute.
Drunk people are incredibly annoying until I have a couple drinks myself. Why I loathe coming in late to a party.
I didn't have one but my older brother had a chemistry set that had all sorts of things they'd never even dream of letting a kid have in today's litigious society. It had a variety of acids, all sorts of stuff.
BAM! memory time kicks in. I had one of hose old school chemistry kits, and it had real actual chemicals, and real actual experiments. I hate to go into old guy mode, but as safety culture takes a tighter and tighter grip over the country, Chemistry kits have become lame, almost useless.
I'm expecting vinegar and baking soda reactions to be made illegal soon, and some brown skin kid arrested for doing one in a school science fair experiment as a teacher thinks it might be some terst explodey thing "Well, there were all these bubbles and stuff - and we just ca't be too careful these days!"
We used to buy black powder and use our empty BB gun's CO2 cartridges. We'd fill them up, tamp 'em down, throw in a waterproof fuse, and then cause hate and discontent with various inanimate things.
When we couldn't get into town to get black powder, a friend an I used to pry the tops off of bullets, and empty out the contents. Hope I didn't just make some safety culturists faint!
We had potato guns, paint can dust bombs, machetes, hatchets, saws, gasoline and a book of matches...
And we were learning things as well. Today's kids are in this weird world where safety culture is trying to insulate them from every possible source of injury. So they hit the teenage years with a weird sense of immortality mixed in with normal teenage rebellion, and no idea about this kinda stuff. So we get YouTube videos of teenagers sticking bottle rockets up their asses and lighting them https://www.youtube.com/watch?... , or taping firecrackers to their lips https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
and on and on. Not one of us stupid old time kids would ever do that, even if we stole some of Grandpa's beer and Wild Turkey, and took off to the woods with a box of M81's. We were hell on mailboxes, which was kinda bad. But the point is, we did happen to grow up without doing serious harm to ourselves.
How much does your $100 million satellite cost per-unit if you build five of them, instead? If a launch also costs $100 million, you might not bother, but if a launch costs $1million, would it be worth it to build enough to have a reasonable chance of success across several launches?
Depends on the nature of the satellite, I would think. Like the mirrors for space telescopes are ridiculously expensive high-precision work where building a spare just in case is out of the question.
What is not known by many, is that there is another, and rather flawless Hubble Telescope mirror made by Eastman Kodak.
http://airandspace.si.edu/coll...
It's an interesting subject. I could have found the problem with the Perkin Elmer mirror withan led and a 5 dollar home made tester. It was a shameful thing that the good mirror is sitting in a museum on earth, while the flawed one has cost so many millions to fix.
Yep. It's kind of like why nearly all cars in Singapore are high-end luxury cars- the parking spaces cost something like $150,000 a year. They're so expensive that if you can afford the parking space it's not an issue to put a $100,000 car in it. Same with upbuilding a limo- if it's $50,000 to cut up a sedan and turn it into a limo then there's not a lot of reason to start with a Chevrolet at $30,000 compared to a Cadillac at $50,000.
Your parking lot analogy has another facet. If we make satellites disposable, we better have good ways to get them out of the way if they fail. Because for as big as space is, orbital mechanics makes certain orbits, certain space real estate, very desirable, and you'll find them in those orbits. So if we're throwing up relatively unreliable sats, we better have a very reliable way to get them out of the desireable orbits when they quickly fail.
Plus When you get outside of the earth's atmosphere, you really need well built devices just to function for much time at all