Once all/most cars are automated, they would be able to go 100+ mph in areas traditionally 50 mph and 150+ mph in areas traditionally 65 mph. This is of course weather permitting and the road isn't flagged as craptastic.
HIGHLY doubt it. Coming from someone that frequently exceeds 100mph on the track I can tell you until tires get better and maintenance gets better, cars are NOT suited to going over 100mph continuously.
150mph? Lol, have you ever been 150mph? I have, very frequently in a car designed to do it. Cars (the kind that are currently being put out by factories) will not be able to safely travel at that speed. Even if the computers are super-computers and have the most "realest time" OS... you still have to work against physics. Suspension and tires, more important than who is driving.
Put bluntly, you've lied to yourself if you claim you would do much better. Maybe a little better, because I don't even care that I don't care, whereas you apparently feel bad that you can't possibly take a personal interest in the 10k people around you on a given day - But let's not get too meta here.
Would you notice one less homeless guy on your regular walk? 20 faceless business commuters replaced by 20 entirely different faceless business commuters? A new cashier at your morning coffee spot (assuming you go to a chain rather than to a mom n' pop personally staffed by "Mom")?
And more to the point, would you care if you never saw any of those people again? Hell, I have to admit I might notice the park bench unoccupied by drunk-guy, but it has zero impact on the rest of my life.
Actually, I started a non-profit just because of this. Not enough people care. And I do notice. I have a bit better memory than most people so the faces and stories stay in my mind longer. But I allowed it to bother me enough that I did something about it.
So, my non-profit asks for you to crack open your wallet and give a few dollars, that you may continue to ignore those that are less fortunate. Carry on.
Really, it is sad. Whether you have been able to come up with some type of justification or not.
Violates both to the extreme? Don't make me laugh. It does neither. It's a silly piece of paper that neither qualifies someone for a job nor does it guarantee they will be competent. College degrees are used by incompetent hiring managers, and desperately clung too by fools that think their degree is their crowing glory. Some of the best developers I know either don't have degrees in CS, but some non-engineering field like music, or don't have any degree at all.
He has a degree. Just not in CS.
Kind of makes your criticism look rather stupid, doesn't it?
Actually, no... it makes his rant look pretty spot on. Did you read it?
I may be an old fashioned relic but my word is my bond. It is important from a practical level I cannot do business with you if you are lying unless I mean to simply screw you over.
I have no way of negotating with you in good faith. if I want repeat busness I cannot pursue a strategy of wringing ever last drop from a deal simply achieve what I need at a profitable arrangement for both parties. If you lie to me I cannot do this.
I hope you are old... and well beyond the working years.
Cause I haven't worked at a job that I haven't been lied to, in decades. And before someone says anything, I'm considering ALL lies. Even the "white ones".
I also haven't worked in any situation where negotiations were on the table and lies were not proffered. Or, facts eliminated.
You must be one lucky mutha to be able to work with all that damn righteousness surrounding you.
If people are dense enough to store all of their priceless data on a free to use social network, with no back-up and want to complain when it goes down and loose it all, its on them.
The thing I hate about Facebook is it intensifies stupid by allowing the masses to think that using a word in a sentence, improperly, is ok.
It's a service that let's you stay in touch with people you want to, if you want, when you want. Could you also find them in the phone book and call them? Or send them pictures on email instead. Likely, but I find Facebook an easier approach. If others don't I am fine with that too, but why this hate on changes in ways to communicate that people find convenient. It's like some people long after mobile phones where common place would argue against it in much the same way, or against IM, or against email, etc. (yeah, I'm old).
Why? I pass dozens or hundreds of people on my walk from the parking lot to work every morning. Some I even recognize, more-or-less, and a handful I'll even wish a merry "good morning".
And if each and every one of them died last night, I wouldn't even notice the difference on my way in today.
Wow, I hadn't really formed an opinion about you til you said that.
What a ridiculous self-serving question... "Hey, I got money, I wanna blow it by lookin like a big deal. Can you help me achieve my asshattery?"
Multi- terabytes of storage on two computers, mine and my roommates. Easily accessible on any of 3 HTPCs and 3 laptops througout the house. ONE cheap ass router from the provider, with 4 ports and wifi. Not one damn rackable item anywhere. I did IT for nearly two decades and the last fucking thing I want to see in my home, my sanctuary... is something that looks like my old work.
Oh, I get it... closet... riiiight. Closed off, where you don't see it. The one where you have to put in its own cooling system and monitoring system.
And no, I'm not spilling forth jelly bile... I have a "perfect closet" to house every bit of equipment in. But why? Then I have to cut two holes in there and pipe in cooling, which isn't easy or cheap here. (The cooling part) And then a monitoring setup to make sure it stays cool. Where a regular PC in a regular room will suffer the indignities of too much heat... a closet that loses its cooling will destroy EVERYTHING. Including things that might not have died.
So, I have this thing called an OFFICE in my home, where my work equipment resides. Install an OFFICE in your home before you install an "I am self-important rack closet". If you have an office, great... you still don't need a rack closet just to break out a dozen ports. In fact, the talent there would be to put the switch behind a painting or something... like you do a wall safe. THAT, would be 'modern'. Use the "closet space" for something useful.
A home office is always more impressive than a hole you stuff all your electronics in. I stopped being impressed by rackables in a house somewhere around the first dot com bubble.
Except that gunbroker requires transfer through a licensed firearms dealer.
Is that a new rule on GunBroker? I've done many in-state purchases from there, person to person, no FFL holder involved. No govt docs.
Or are you just stating the federal law regarding the shipment of weapons from one state to another? My mom had to FFL ship my OWN guns from NC to AZ. $70 of BS, just to get my own guns.
It doesn't matter what site you get a gun from, if you use the mail system to ship it (OR receive it!) and don't have a FFL, you are committing a felony. Darknet or not.
So, it's silly to commit an 'easy to get caught at Felony', when you can do a gun show purchase.
Heck it's even 'easier' to do a straw purchase. Just ask the Mexican cartels.
What's worse, the one notable statement of what he could find:
M9 Tactical handgun with an illegal silencer, unregistered of course.
Is not an illegal weapon. Most states in the US, you can purchase an unregistered weapon from person to person. Further here in AZ, that is NOT an illegal silencer (unless you don't purchase the very cheap $200 license to own a silencer).
Gregg started with $1000 and a took journey into the darker side of the Internet using two tools: Bitcoin and the Tor Bundle."
No..., he didn't.
It makes it seem like he did. But I doubt the veracity after reading the entire article.
Considering the article description, there would be no point to have converted the money, unless he's never done it before and likes OMG ponies. Because in order for it to be a black market purchase, you must purchase something, that doesn't exist on the regular market. ie, He needed to commit a crime.
Sounds like a reason to blow a grand on stuff you shouldn't, in the name of writing an article.
Until you read the article and see it's a talk thru.
Then you read the entire article and realize, it's not even a talk-thru, it's a talk-about. And not even a good one at that. There is really no info, except, get bitcoins, use Tor, find stuff.
Because the timing and location of those comments are unpredictable and they occur seemingly at random the great "comment hunt" triggers all of the same mental processes as a gambling addiction. So, Slashdot is essentially an Internet slot machine, and they payout is in obscure knowledge. Also, I'm used to the green color, that doesn't hurt.
So, Slashdot is essentially an Internet slot machine, and they payout is in obscure knowledge. Also, I'm used to the green color, that doesn't hurt.
Dammit... is that why I keep coming back? Darn these addictions.
Not to be a grammar nazi, but "building" is exactly what it is. Once it's habitable, you call it a "built".
That's fine, and I accept that, as it is, 'the definition'.
However, we went further and callled it the tallest building. And there, is the rub. As for "record" of tallest building, it is not... since the record is for 'habitable buildings', ie, not this one.
If it's not habitable, it's not a building, per se, ie, it's not "the tallest building in NYC".
Maybe the tallest non-supported construct. Tallest building is many months off.
NOT news for nerds btw. I've been doing drafting and architecture for over 20 years, this is just NEWS. If we start 'building out' the definition of nerd... we're are just going to have to call this a "news site". You can't say there are "nerds" in every occupation, where are the molecular gastronomists? That's nerdy. Where are all my tuner nerds? THIS version of nerds, means, from the very beginning, techy, electronic driven NERDS.
And it won't work to call this just a news site, cause news, is usually news on the first day. Not 4 days later, a week later, a month later.
It'll happen soon, probably this year. Readership will decline pretty hard. Slashdot has not in months, nee well over a year, surprised me with a fresh story that I didn't catch somewhere else, ON THE DAY IT HAPPENED. Without a retool, this is probably my last year reading Slashdot.
Travel will never be 100% safe. Just fucking accept that fact and get on with life with some dignity!
So many things that go boom, aren't metallic. Most I believe.
I'm glad you're willing to die to be a martyr, I'm not. However, I am willing to be groped (once again, it will not destroy my moral fiber) than be blown up. Since I think most side with me... you are just being facetious.
Individual neurons in birds' brains can relay crucial information about Earth's magnetic field, possibly providing the animals with an 'internal GPS'.
You mean compass.
The authors found that vestibular neurons — which are linked to balance systems in the inner ear — fired differentially in response to alterations in the field’s direction, intensity and polarity, and that these cells were especially sensitive to the bandwith that covers Earth’s geo-magnetic field.
Combining information on direction, intensity and polarity could provide more than just a compass heading; it could be used to produce positional and directional information because of the way Earth's field varies in different locations. “It could theoretically be used as a GPS unit,” says Dickman.
Newp, they most definitely mean, GPS. A compass will only provide limited directional data. GPS provides 3d data. Direction, intensity and polarity would suffice for 3d positioning, ala GPS.
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Once all/most cars are automated, they would be able to go 100+ mph in areas traditionally 50 mph and 150+ mph in areas traditionally 65 mph. This is of course weather permitting and the road isn't flagged as craptastic.
HIGHLY doubt it. Coming from someone that frequently
exceeds 100mph on the track I can tell you until tires
get better and maintenance gets better, cars are NOT
suited to going over 100mph continuously.
150mph? Lol, have you ever been 150mph? I have, very
frequently in a car designed to do it. Cars (the kind that
are currently being put out by factories) will not be able
to safely travel at that speed. Even if the computers are
super-computers and have the most "realest time" OS...
you still have to work against physics. Suspension and
tires, more important than who is driving.
-AI
That, is really sad.
Put bluntly, you've lied to yourself if you claim you would do much better. Maybe a little better, because I don't even care that I don't care, whereas you apparently feel bad that you can't possibly take a personal interest in the 10k people around you on a given day - But let's not get too meta here.
Would you notice one less homeless guy on your regular walk? 20 faceless business commuters replaced by 20 entirely different faceless business commuters? A new cashier at your morning coffee spot (assuming you go to a chain rather than to a mom n' pop personally staffed by "Mom")?
And more to the point, would you care if you never saw any of those people again? Hell, I have to admit I might notice the park bench unoccupied by drunk-guy, but it has zero impact on the rest of my life.
Actually, I started a non-profit just because of this. Not enough people care.
And I do notice. I have a bit better memory than most people so the faces
and stories stay in my mind longer. But I allowed it to bother me enough that
I did something about it.
So, my non-profit asks for you to crack open your wallet and give a few dollars,
that you may continue to ignore those that are less fortunate. Carry on.
Really, it is sad. Whether you have been able to come up with some type
of justification or not.
-AI
http://www.swpc.noaa.gov/SolarCycle/
Hmmm.
Matches periodicity, not intensity.
Of course if it's the subatomic particle stream
causing cloud seeding, then sunspot number
may be moot in lieu of intensity.
-AI
Violates both to the extreme? Don't make me laugh. It does neither. It's a silly piece of paper that neither qualifies someone for a job nor does it guarantee they will be competent. College degrees are used by incompetent hiring managers, and desperately clung too by fools that think their degree is their crowing glory. Some of the best developers I know either don't have degrees in CS, but some non-engineering field like music, or don't have any degree at all.
He has a degree. Just not in CS.
Kind of makes your criticism look rather stupid, doesn't it?
Actually, no... it makes his rant look pretty spot on. Did you read it?
-AI
I may be an old fashioned relic but my word is my bond. It is important from a practical level I cannot do business with you if you are lying unless I mean to simply screw you over.
I have no way of negotating with you in good faith. if I want repeat busness I cannot pursue a strategy of wringing ever last drop from a deal simply achieve what I need at a profitable arrangement for both parties. If you lie to me I cannot do this.
I hope you are old... and well beyond the working years.
Cause I haven't worked at a job that I haven't been lied to, in decades.
And before someone says anything, I'm considering ALL lies. Even
the "white ones".
I also haven't worked in any situation where negotiations were on
the table and lies were not proffered. Or, facts eliminated.
You must be one lucky mutha to be able to work with all that
damn righteousness surrounding you.
-AI
If people are dense enough to store all of their priceless data on a free to use social network, with no back-up and want to complain when it goes down and loose it all, its on them.
The thing I hate about Facebook is it intensifies stupid
by allowing the masses to think that using a word in a
sentence, improperly, is ok.
Twice.
-AI
It's a service that let's you stay in touch with people you want to, if you want, when you want. Could you also find them in the phone book and call them? Or send them pictures on email instead. Likely, but I find Facebook an easier approach. If others don't I am fine with that too, but why this hate on changes in ways to communicate that people find convenient. It's like some people long after mobile phones where common place would argue against it in much the same way, or against IM, or against email, etc. (yeah, I'm old).
What's a Phone Book? /s
-AI
Why? I pass dozens or hundreds of people on my walk from the parking lot to work every morning. Some I even recognize, more-or-less, and a handful I'll even wish a merry "good morning".
And if each and every one of them died last night, I wouldn't even notice the difference on my way in today.
Wow, I hadn't really formed an opinion about you til you said that.
That, is really sad.
-AI
Its right above the product description. [quote]Firearms may only be shipped to a licensed dealer (FFL Holder).[/quote]
Right, nothing new there, that's called federal law.
-AI
My question is how do you then attached the frickin shark to the 747? Maybe you can shoot the shark at the missile?
That's what the rail gun is for.
-AI
What a ridiculous self-serving question... "Hey, I got money,
I wanna blow it by lookin like a big deal. Can you help me
achieve my asshattery?"
Multi- terabytes of storage on two computers, mine and
my roommates. Easily accessible on any of 3 HTPCs and
3 laptops througout the house. ONE cheap ass router from
the provider, with 4 ports and wifi. Not one damn rackable
item anywhere. I did IT for nearly two decades and the last
fucking thing I want to see in my home, my sanctuary... is
something that looks like my old work.
Oh, I get it... closet... riiiight. Closed off, where you don't see
it. The one where you have to put in its own cooling system
and monitoring system.
And no, I'm not spilling forth jelly bile... I have a "perfect closet"
to house every bit of equipment in. But why? Then I have to cut
two holes in there and pipe in cooling, which isn't easy or cheap
here. (The cooling part) And then a monitoring setup to make sure
it stays cool. Where a regular PC in a regular room will suffer
the indignities of too much heat... a closet that loses its cooling
will destroy EVERYTHING. Including things that might not have
died.
So, I have this thing called an OFFICE in my home, where my
work equipment resides. Install an OFFICE in your home before
you install an "I am self-important rack closet". If you have an
office, great... you still don't need a rack closet just to break out
a dozen ports. In fact, the talent there would be to put the switch
behind a painting or something... like you do a wall safe. THAT,
would be 'modern'. Use the "closet space" for something useful.
A home office is always more impressive than a hole you stuff
all your electronics in. I stopped being impressed by rackables
in a house somewhere around the first dot com bubble.
-AI
Wickedlasers put a laser on a frickin shark.
http://www.heraldsun.com.au/technology/sci-tech/reports-of-shark-seen-with-frickin-laser-attached-to-its-head-turn-out-to-be-true/story-fn5iztw3-1226342846334
Generals got jelly.
-AI
Except that gunbroker requires transfer through a licensed firearms dealer.
Is that a new rule on GunBroker? I've done many in-state purchases
from there, person to person, no FFL holder involved. No govt docs.
Or are you just stating the federal law regarding the shipment of
weapons from one state to another? My mom had to FFL ship
my OWN guns from NC to AZ. $70 of BS, just to get my own guns.
It doesn't matter what site you get a gun from, if you use the mail
system to ship it (OR receive it!) and don't have a FFL, you are
committing a felony. Darknet or not.
So, it's silly to commit an 'easy to get caught at Felony', when you
can do a gun show purchase.
Heck it's even 'easier' to do a straw purchase. Just ask the Mexican
cartels.
-AI
Good luck with that.
Knock Knock who's there?
Hu?
Hu Who?
Oh, did we make a foolish corporate decision?
-AI
Well it would have been a bit more in-depth, but after the first few deliveries of premium 'shrooms and acid drops, he kinda lost focus...
Lol, well played.
-AI
What's worse, the one notable statement of what he could find:
M9 Tactical handgun with an illegal silencer, unregistered of course.
Is not an illegal weapon. Most states in the US, you can purchase
an unregistered weapon from person to person. Further here in AZ,
that is NOT an illegal silencer (unless you don't purchase the very
cheap $200 license to own a silencer).
So, basically, he told us about a http://www.gunbroker.com/ that
takes bitcoins. Lol.
Btw, $2000, your own Stargate PS90
http://www.gunbroker.com/Auction/ViewItem.aspx?Item=284429588
for those that shall troll me, yes... Stargate used P90's but unless
you are a LEO... THOSE are illegal for commoners.
Man I wish I had a spare 2 grand.
-AI
Gregg started with $1000 and a took journey into the darker side of the Internet using two tools: Bitcoin and the Tor Bundle."
No..., he didn't.
It makes it seem like he did. But I doubt the veracity after reading the entire article.
Considering the article description, there would be no point to have converted the
money, unless he's never done it before and likes OMG ponies. Because in order
for it to be a black market purchase, you must purchase something, that doesn't
exist on the regular market. ie, He needed to commit a crime.
And then write about it.
Tits or GTFO.
-AI
Sounds like a reason to blow a grand on stuff you shouldn't,
in the name of writing an article.
Until you read the article and see it's a talk thru.
Then you read the entire article and realize, it's not even a
talk-thru, it's a talk-about. And not even a good one at that.
There is really no info, except, get bitcoins, use Tor, find
stuff.
Wow. In depth reporting at its finest.
-AI
If it's not habitable, it's not a building, per se, ie, it's not "the tallest building in NYC".
Would you prefer "Tallest ongoing erection in NYC?"
NYC is a big place, I'm sure there are bigger pricks =)
-AI
Because the timing and location of those comments are unpredictable and they occur seemingly at random the great "comment hunt" triggers all of the same mental processes as a gambling addiction. So, Slashdot is essentially an Internet slot machine, and they payout is in obscure knowledge. Also, I'm used to the green color, that doesn't hurt.
So, Slashdot is essentially an Internet slot machine, and they payout is in obscure knowledge. Also, I'm used to the green color, that doesn't hurt.
Dammit... is that why I keep coming back? Darn these addictions.
-AI
Not to be a grammar nazi, but "building" is exactly what it is. Once it's habitable, you call it a "built".
That's fine, and I accept that, as it is, 'the definition'.
However, we went further and callled it the tallest building.
And there, is the rub. As for "record" of tallest building, it
is not... since the record is for 'habitable buildings', ie, not
this one.
Thus, tallest construct.
-AI
If it's not habitable, it's not a building, per se, ie, it's not "the tallest building in NYC".
Maybe the tallest non-supported construct. Tallest building is many months off.
NOT news for nerds btw. I've been doing drafting and architecture for over 20 years,
this is just NEWS. If we start 'building out' the definition of nerd... we're are just going
to have to call this a "news site". You can't say there are "nerds" in every occupation,
where are the molecular gastronomists? That's nerdy. Where are all my tuner nerds?
THIS version of nerds, means, from the very beginning, techy, electronic driven NERDS.
And it won't work to call this just a news site, cause news, is usually news on the first day.
Not 4 days later, a week later, a month later.
It'll happen soon, probably this year. Readership will decline pretty hard. Slashdot
has not in months, nee well over a year, surprised me with a fresh story that I didn't
catch somewhere else, ON THE DAY IT HAPPENED. Without a retool, this is probably
my last year reading Slashdot.
-AI
Travel will never be 100% safe. Just fucking accept that fact and get on with life with some dignity!
So many things that go boom, aren't metallic. Most I believe.
I'm glad you're willing to die to be a martyr, I'm not. However, I am willing to be groped
(once again, it will not destroy my moral fiber) than be blown up. Since I think most side
with me... you are just being facetious.
-AI
4 day old receives transplant and new life on Slashdot.
-AI
You mean compass.
Newp, they most definitely mean, GPS. A compass will only provide limited
directional data. GPS provides 3d data. Direction, intensity and polarity
would suffice for 3d positioning, ala GPS.
-AI