Welp, until someone mods it out, you can get an older version at this page. OldVersion rocks for when companies fuck up their own product (see: Winamp after the AOL buyout).
You'd still pay something like that (if you pay at all) in quite a few European countries that have yet to succumb to private corporate interests. Instead, they actually take care of their citizens.
It is what it is, because/. is free and open to all - even shills.
Well, for now. But now that posts can be flagged and deleted, posts or entire segments of "discussion" are liable to disappear now. Slashdot has jumped the shark.
Thanks. All we need right now are more parents ignorant of what their children are doing to make this a better society.
Hey, you know when your kids fuck up? That's an opportunity to ask why and maybe teach them how to do things better. A mistake (even a huge mistake) on their part isn't necessarily a reflection on your parenting. How you respond to their mistake is a reflection on your parenting. Plugging your fingers in your ears and loudly humming are the sort of things that helps cultivate a culture of ignorance and irresponsibility.
Right, they start somewhere insane and then dial it down. The applications are immediate.
Will it be practical for combat in the next 20 years? Probably not. But it could be used in EOD (Explosives and Ordinance Disposal) where you would have the advantage of human dexterity in disabling a bomb without having to risk an actual person. (They already use small robots as is.) It could also be useful in firefighting situations - a tethered "avatar" robot could go far closer to a fire and fight it (or inside a building in danger of collapsing) than a human could. (I refrain from saying that it would do things a human is unwilling to do, because we have and have had brave men step into incredibly dangerous situations to save lives. It is an important and honorable sacrifice, but with technology it can no longer be a necessity.)
To be fair to the first post, using solar panels or windmills and car batteries is very common in Africa. They're used to recharge cell phones or lightbulbs at night. If there could be an efficient and cheap electrical stove, that could probably be plugged into the existing, ad-hoc infrastructure.
I wonder (and thus pose the question to my fellow Slashdotters) if there's any sort of mathematical or scientific reasoning behind building a really big reactor over a bunch of small ones? Is there some sort of economy of scale that makes it more efficient or profitable to have one 1,000 MW reactor over ten 100 MW reactors?
Or even better, you could build one of these factories into a robotic dog's head, attach it to Big Dog, and have the world's most perfect anti-intruder system.
My faith teaches me to be kind and respectful to people, to be obedient to the law, to work hard and support my family, not to get into too much debt, to spend time with my wife, and in turn with my children, to be honest and have integrity, and to live a healthy lifestyle.
I think these are good things?
They are good things, and it's fantastic that you took those lessons away.
You're not the problem. People who read the bible and say 'Jesus loved everyone and helped the poor, so I will too" are not the problem. People who read the bible and say "I should kill everyone who doesn't believe and make sure gay people can never marry" (or something similar are the problem. Far, far too many people embrace the dark side of a religion rather than the good. (I anticipate Jedi analogies soon enough.)
In the absence of that though, I really feel we should all just live and let live. If you don't believe in God? Fine. I don't hate you for it. My best friend is an Atheist. He doesn't hate me because I do though, he realises that it makes me happy, and he's happy with that.
With the exception of a few militant Atheists who want to purge all religion from the world, the vast majority that I have met (and myself ) really are like that. We're totally fine with the whole "live and let live" thing. Believe whatever you want, no matter how crazy it might seem to us.
What I and many others do not tolerate is when that belief causes harm to others. That is dangerous and something we wish to end. I don't want to see another child die because his parents thought he could be made better by just praying. I don't want to see Scientology (or any other religion) succeed in infiltrating our government. I don't want to see the Catholic church succeed in keeping birth control out of the hands of impoverished women.
Far too many religions take the benefits of society while giving little or nothing in return. Religious hospitals who do not respect civil rights and law. Religious charities who don't hire someone because of their belief (or lack thereof). Institutional discrimination in everything but name that they get away with because of their freedom to believe.
If they don't help our society via charity (and play by the same rules - I'm looking at you, Catholic Charities), they shouldn't get shit for tax breaks or any other kind of government support.
I'd be impressed when somebody did that too. Call me when you have proof somebody did (no, there is no proof Jesus did all that).
Sure. Just give me a few minutes to compile a short list of doctors who used science and medicine to heal the unfortunate in our society rather than bullshit wonky voodoo.
When I was first reading up on the different religions of the world (as well as terminology and history), I learned the only difference between a cult and a religion is the number of followers. I guess "pseudo-religion" is just the current PC term for "cult", which has negative connotations (and for good reason).
I understand that things are much harder in most of the world. I just don't want the impression that the U.S. is filled with abundance and streets paved with gold.
One mistake people commonly make is "$3 a day? That's more than people in Africa make! Surely you can get enough for that!" Yes, if I lived in Africa. Instead, I live in America, where the only option for $3 a day is pretty much grains (which are laced with corn).
We live in an interesting time where the poor are actually fatter than the rich due to the low quality of cheap food. It's expensive to eat healthy now.
He was smart and he cared about us, but he was also a hardass because he was in the Army back when that meant something (i.e. they were total badasses who did things to their own soldiers that would be illegal today).
There's a saying that there's two kinds of gym teachers - in great shape and horrendously overweight. He was the former.
The flag is so subtle that I hadn't even noticed it...
Wasn't there a big shitstorm over *one* post being deleted a few years back? I think it was due to a court order or something of the like... maybe about the HDCP keys or something? Bah.
I think the fact that posts *cannot* be deleted makes people consider what they are going to post a little more carefully. Aside from the usual spam and idiocy, I generally find the commentary here to be of a higher quality in general than places like Reddit or the comments section in other news sites. I feel that this is going to go into the shitter now.
Slashdot Mirror
Yes, that. Sign up with a new account and compartmentalize your activities appropriately.
Remember when information compartmentalization was the concern of 3 letter agencies and not part of the everyday life of the average citizen?
Welp, until someone mods it out, you can get an older version at this page. OldVersion rocks for when companies fuck up their own product (see: Winamp after the AOL buyout).
You'd still pay something like that (if you pay at all) in quite a few European countries that have yet to succumb to private corporate interests. Instead, they actually take care of their citizens.
It is what it is, because /. is free and open to all - even shills.
Well, for now. But now that posts can be flagged and deleted, posts or entire segments of "discussion" are liable to disappear now. Slashdot has jumped the shark.
Thanks. All we need right now are more parents ignorant of what their children are doing to make this a better society.
Hey, you know when your kids fuck up? That's an opportunity to ask why and maybe teach them how to do things better. A mistake (even a huge mistake) on their part isn't necessarily a reflection on your parenting. How you respond to their mistake is a reflection on your parenting. Plugging your fingers in your ears and loudly humming are the sort of things that helps cultivate a culture of ignorance and irresponsibility.
Right, they start somewhere insane and then dial it down. The applications are immediate.
Will it be practical for combat in the next 20 years? Probably not. But it could be used in EOD (Explosives and Ordinance Disposal) where you would have the advantage of human dexterity in disabling a bomb without having to risk an actual person. (They already use small robots as is.) It could also be useful in firefighting situations - a tethered "avatar" robot could go far closer to a fire and fight it (or inside a building in danger of collapsing) than a human could. (I refrain from saying that it would do things a human is unwilling to do, because we have and have had brave men step into incredibly dangerous situations to save lives. It is an important and honorable sacrifice, but with technology it can no longer be a necessity.)
To be fair to the first post, using solar panels or windmills and car batteries is very common in Africa. They're used to recharge cell phones or lightbulbs at night. If there could be an efficient and cheap electrical stove, that could probably be plugged into the existing, ad-hoc infrastructure.
I wonder (and thus pose the question to my fellow Slashdotters) if there's any sort of mathematical or scientific reasoning behind building a really big reactor over a bunch of small ones? Is there some sort of economy of scale that makes it more efficient or profitable to have one 1,000 MW reactor over ten 100 MW reactors?
Yes, because "it isn't constitutional" has stopped our government from doing so many things over the years.
This is one of those things that an amendment would be worth IMO.
Or even better, you could build one of these factories into a robotic dog's head, attach it to Big Dog, and have the world's most perfect anti-intruder system.
My faith teaches me to be kind and respectful to people, to be obedient to the law, to work hard and support my family, not to get into too much debt, to spend time with my wife, and in turn with my children, to be honest and have integrity, and to live a healthy lifestyle.
I think these are good things?
They are good things, and it's fantastic that you took those lessons away.
You're not the problem. People who read the bible and say 'Jesus loved everyone and helped the poor, so I will too" are not the problem. People who read the bible and say "I should kill everyone who doesn't believe and make sure gay people can never marry" (or something similar are the problem. Far, far too many people embrace the dark side of a religion rather than the good. (I anticipate Jedi analogies soon enough.)
In the absence of that though, I really feel we should all just live and let live. If you don't believe in God? Fine. I don't hate you for it. My best friend is an Atheist. He doesn't hate me because I do though, he realises that it makes me happy, and he's happy with that.
With the exception of a few militant Atheists who want to purge all religion from the world, the vast majority that I have met (and myself ) really are like that. We're totally fine with the whole "live and let live" thing. Believe whatever you want, no matter how crazy it might seem to us.
What I and many others do not tolerate is when that belief causes harm to others. That is dangerous and something we wish to end. I don't want to see another child die because his parents thought he could be made better by just praying. I don't want to see Scientology (or any other religion) succeed in infiltrating our government. I don't want to see the Catholic church succeed in keeping birth control out of the hands of impoverished women.
Far too many religions take the benefits of society while giving little or nothing in return. Religious hospitals who do not respect civil rights and law. Religious charities who don't hire someone because of their belief (or lack thereof). Institutional discrimination in everything but name that they get away with because of their freedom to believe.
If they don't help our society via charity (and play by the same rules - I'm looking at you, Catholic Charities), they shouldn't get shit for tax breaks or any other kind of government support.
I'd be impressed when somebody did that too. Call me when you have proof somebody did (no, there is no proof Jesus did all that).
Sure. Just give me a few minutes to compile a short list of doctors who used science and medicine to heal the unfortunate in our society rather than bullshit wonky voodoo.
When I was first reading up on the different religions of the world (as well as terminology and history), I learned the only difference between a cult and a religion is the number of followers. I guess "pseudo-religion" is just the current PC term for "cult", which has negative connotations (and for good reason).
and they're currently trying to blame the depression they caused on the black guy.
To be fair, having a black president and having our credit rating subsequently drop doesn't exactly help Obama's case.
Judging by your nickname, she'd probably opt for an option faster than divorce...
I don't understand why the free market isn't working
Because we don't have a free market. It's rigged to high hell.
Yes, this was the one I was thinking of.
To the other posters in sibling/child threads, thank you nevertheless for your efforts.
I understand that things are much harder in most of the world. I just don't want the impression that the U.S. is filled with abundance and streets paved with gold.
One mistake people commonly make is "$3 a day? That's more than people in Africa make! Surely you can get enough for that!" Yes, if I lived in Africa. Instead, I live in America, where the only option for $3 a day is pretty much grains (which are laced with corn).
We live in an interesting time where the poor are actually fatter than the rich due to the low quality of cheap food. It's expensive to eat healthy now.
He was smart and he cared about us, but he was also a hardass because he was in the Army back when that meant something (i.e. they were total badasses who did things to their own soldiers that would be illegal today).
There's a saying that there's two kinds of gym teachers - in great shape and horrendously overweight. He was the former.
Thanks for the fun, Mr. Patreka.
The flag is so subtle that I hadn't even noticed it...
Wasn't there a big shitstorm over *one* post being deleted a few years back? I think it was due to a court order or something of the like... maybe about the HDCP keys or something? Bah.
I think the fact that posts *cannot* be deleted makes people consider what they are going to post a little more carefully. Aside from the usual spam and idiocy, I generally find the commentary here to be of a higher quality in general than places like Reddit or the comments section in other news sites. I feel that this is going to go into the shitter now.
Shitzu
Welp, you got that half right.
Hi-yooooooooooooo!
~swings an invisible golf club~
give it a catty name
Ooh, how about W7 SP3 "Look at that bitch Chantelle with her new shoes, she think she cute"?
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You have stated a:
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[x] dislike
[ ] irrational hatred
[ ] pathological urge to destroy
towards Apple. Here's why you're right...
(We totally need one of these...)