There's a world of difference between "serving ads" (which I don't mind if they're not animated), and "tracking me". The latter should carry the death penalty. People will still pay for online ads tailored to the content of the site instead of the browsing history of the user.
Odd, I've never had Amazon ship me a 2nd day package by USPS. Other people selling on their site, sure, but I don't pay for 2nd day for them anyhow (since it's not free in that case).
Oh, I think they want it fixed (Samsung makes actual products), they just lack the commitment to the American political system. Apple can afford to be the biggest donor to every Senator and Congressman. Every one, and all their opponents, for that matter. Apple just needs to decide this is important.
But I think even Texans will make an exception for... unfortunate events... should they occur in a limited portion of East Texas. That might clear the bar on the "he needed killin'" defense.
No, those are from subscription channels. Not "OMG a nipple PANIC" broadcast American TV. You couldn't show Game of Thrones on YouTube any more than broadcast TV, because prudes and puritans, the lot of them.
The XL portion was never meant to reduce oil prices in the US, it was meant to increase profit margins by reducing costs to transport the oil and oil products to higher priced markets.
Can we take down the environmentalism straw man yet?
Nope - because oil is a world market. It will certainly reduce prices in the US by increasing the global oil supply.
The US is a net exporter of everything energy-related except oil. Becoming a net exporter of oil would be terriffic - both for environmental reasons (using less), and because we'd no longer have a strategic interest in the Middle-East (of course, oil supply form there also affects world markets, but we'd be self-sufficient if it came to a real war, and so would maybe engage in fewer small wars over there!).
No, it's not censorship. Censorship is the government controlling your actions by coercion, the threat of using force against you.
Untrue. "Government censorship" is not redundant. Government censorship is the kind backed with force, sure, but anyone with a communications platform can be a censor. And it's no more appealing when a big player like Google indulges in censorship than when the government does.
I doubt this one's the Feds. Google has consistently been a prudish company. Blogger is now under the same rules as YouTube. Google seems determined to make the internet as tame as American TV. No good will come of that (well, I'm sure Google knows where the money is, so some good will come to the stockholders).
That's the problem with any backdoor - once it's public that it exists, it's only a matter of time before everyone has the key. The stupid Lenovo spyware was exploited the same day it became public that it existed. This may take a little longer, but we can be certain that every bad actor will get this - organized crime as well as government (the distinction seems less clear over time).
Perhaps. I'm of the opposite opinion - that if countries start being ejected for financial mismanagement, the skeptical might be encouraged that the Euro is a currency run by grown-ups. But we have no actual data either way - perhaps we'll see the experiment performed, and then we'll know.
Once the possibility of someone exiting the Euro becomes real other countries will be tempted or pushed out basically making it pointless.
It was an economic marriage. And like in any marriage there are good times and bad times. Unfortunately some in Europe don't think of it this way.
Not pointless - there's real economic benefit to a single currency for Europe.
If it's a marriage, then Greece is the abusive, cheating spouse. They've gone from irresponsibly spending more than they could ever repay (since they can't inflate their way out of debt), through a brief attempt at surviving austerity (terms of the debt relief they got - everyone knew it would suck), to saying "screw you, we're too big to fail, we're gonna spend spend spend, what are you gonna do about it?"
Greece was in a better economic position than most of Eastern Europe at the start of all this, with a better standard of living (even had they chosen to live within their means) than many later entrants in to Euro. But they chose to spend vastly more than they were making, running up the highest debt-to-GDP ratio in Europe, inflating that standard of living artificially until they could borrow no more.
What the US thinks of that isn't very relevant, but those Easter European countries that made real sacrifice to join the Euro, and who have been keeping their debt down and surviving with a much lower standard of living than Greece and directly paying for Greece's first bailout in some cases aren't impressed with Greece's excuses. At this point, a "Grexit" will be less disruptive than continued bailouts.
I've never noticed the difference in search results. Maybe I just don't care. Or maybe Google's "search bubble", where they give you results based on creepily stalking your search history works out well for you and prevents you from seeing results you don't like.
I missed the calculator built into Google at first, but then I found that with ddg you can just do !wa for wolfram alpha, which is more comprehensive than Google calculator. "!wa speed of light in furlongs per fortnight" works as well as Google, but theres a lot of stuff like "!wa factor 65535" or "!wa integral sin(x) dx" that Google just returns search terms for - Wolfram Alpha is pretty awesome.
DuckDuckGo uses Bing, but it does some nice enhancements, like putting Wikipedia results first very often. If you want to live a Google-free life, and don't want to give your search history to MS either - ddg.gg.
I have a lot of audio patch cords that clearly come from the same factory as the Monster cables, just with a "DaytonAudio" label instead, that sold for $3-5. It's not like they bad cables or anything. I can't match your price though.
Plenty of stuff really is physically impossible, is the thing. And, sadly, we keep getting more and more evidence that there's no shortcut, no way to travel FTL. I still have my hopes about that, there are still some dark corners and possibilities, but if it's actually impossible, then the number of civilizations doesn't change that.
There are an infinity of odd numbers, but none of them are divisible by two. If something's not possible, then it doesn't matter how often you try. The whole "space jump" idea, while neat SF, seems more firmly impossible the more physics we learn, sadly enough.
There are still plenty of people interested in getting stuff to run in 256-512 MB with a 700 MHz ARM. I think about half the tendency for code bloat in the past 15 years has been the decline of cheap hobby PCs - a vacuum that has now been filled. Still seems like a lot to me, but it does at least impose a little restraint and interest in optimization.
(The other half is of course managed languages, but really slimming down C# to work on a RP doesn't seem impractical - just something that MS hasn't had a reason to focus on.)
Why, for instance, 10 cubic-kilometer voxels? Why not 100, or 1, or 0.1? How about 10^{15} cubic kilometers, which is about the volume of the sun? Adjust this number correctly, and you can match any energy density you want.
Fundamentally, you can't model the universe as voxels in the first place. The Holographic principle, or at least the part about maximum information density, seems quite solid. There's a maximum entropy available in a volume (and thus a maximum amount of information needed to describe that volume) that's proportional to surface area, not volume. The number is absurdly high, well over 10^100 per square meter, but for extremely large volumes the cube/square effect starts making that limit meaningful. And that limit always prevents you from using voxels of the "natural" size of one cubic Planck length - the precision we know can model everything.
Perhaps the 10 cubic-kilometer voxels are reasoned from the limit for the visible universe? Still sounds high, even for that volume, and the visible universe seems like an arbitrary boundary.
Uranium is a heavy metal. Don't ingest those. Lead bullets? Also a heavy metal. Nothing to do with radioactivity, because U238 isn't meaningfully radioactive.
No, I'm not going to teach you basic science. This is/., you're expect to do that work yourself.
You're scare-mongering about an imaginary boogieman and need to be shunned from polite conversation, just like the anti-Vaxxers, the anti-GMO crowd, the "no irradiated food" crowd and the rest of them.
Depleted uranium is not meaningfully radioactive. Far less so than a banana. That makes the rest of your screed lies, bullshit, and stupidity. Not to mention those "on the receiving end" of a 10 kg projectile travelling at ~1000 meters per second don't suffer for long at all.
When you start comparing bullets to nuclear bombs, you should really stop and realize you don't know what the fuck you're talking about. Science more; don't come back till you do. You're an embarrassment to Slashdot, and that's a really low bar.
Well, they didn't need to "lengthen" it unless they only had the rights to the first book. There were, what, 6 books in the series? Though I guess I can see it if the first book wasn't enough for even 1 season.
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There's a world of difference between "serving ads" (which I don't mind if they're not animated), and "tracking me". The latter should carry the death penalty. People will still pay for online ads tailored to the content of the site instead of the browsing history of the user.
Odd, I've never had Amazon ship me a 2nd day package by USPS. Other people selling on their site, sure, but I don't pay for 2nd day for them anyhow (since it's not free in that case).
Oddly, that sounds about right.
Oh, I think they want it fixed (Samsung makes actual products), they just lack the commitment to the American political system. Apple can afford to be the biggest donor to every Senator and Congressman. Every one, and all their opponents, for that matter. Apple just needs to decide this is important.
Don't mess with Texas.
But I think even Texans will make an exception for ... unfortunate events ... should they occur in a limited portion of East Texas. That might clear the bar on the "he needed killin'" defense.
No, those are from subscription channels. Not "OMG a nipple PANIC" broadcast American TV. You couldn't show Game of Thrones on YouTube any more than broadcast TV, because prudes and puritans, the lot of them.
The XL portion was never meant to reduce oil prices in the US, it was meant to increase profit margins by reducing costs to transport the oil and oil products to higher priced markets.
Can we take down the environmentalism straw man yet?
Nope - because oil is a world market. It will certainly reduce prices in the US by increasing the global oil supply.
The US is a net exporter of everything energy-related except oil. Becoming a net exporter of oil would be terriffic - both for environmental reasons (using less), and because we'd no longer have a strategic interest in the Middle-East (of course, oil supply form there also affects world markets, but we'd be self-sufficient if it came to a real war, and so would maybe engage in fewer small wars over there!).
No, it's not censorship. Censorship is the government controlling your actions by coercion, the threat of using force against you.
Untrue. "Government censorship" is not redundant. Government censorship is the kind backed with force, sure, but anyone with a communications platform can be a censor. And it's no more appealing when a big player like Google indulges in censorship than when the government does.
I doubt this one's the Feds. Google has consistently been a prudish company. Blogger is now under the same rules as YouTube. Google seems determined to make the internet as tame as American TV. No good will come of that (well, I'm sure Google knows where the money is, so some good will come to the stockholders).
That's the problem with any backdoor - once it's public that it exists, it's only a matter of time before everyone has the key. The stupid Lenovo spyware was exploited the same day it became public that it existed. This may take a little longer, but we can be certain that every bad actor will get this - organized crime as well as government (the distinction seems less clear over time).
Perhaps. I'm of the opposite opinion - that if countries start being ejected for financial mismanagement, the skeptical might be encouraged that the Euro is a currency run by grown-ups. But we have no actual data either way - perhaps we'll see the experiment performed, and then we'll know.
Once the possibility of someone exiting the Euro becomes real other countries will be tempted or pushed out basically making it pointless.
It was an economic marriage. And like in any marriage there are good times and bad times. Unfortunately some in Europe don't think of it this way.
Not pointless - there's real economic benefit to a single currency for Europe.
If it's a marriage, then Greece is the abusive, cheating spouse. They've gone from irresponsibly spending more than they could ever repay (since they can't inflate their way out of debt), through a brief attempt at surviving austerity (terms of the debt relief they got - everyone knew it would suck), to saying "screw you, we're too big to fail, we're gonna spend spend spend, what are you gonna do about it?"
Greece was in a better economic position than most of Eastern Europe at the start of all this, with a better standard of living (even had they chosen to live within their means) than many later entrants in to Euro. But they chose to spend vastly more than they were making, running up the highest debt-to-GDP ratio in Europe, inflating that standard of living artificially until they could borrow no more.
What the US thinks of that isn't very relevant, but those Easter European countries that made real sacrifice to join the Euro, and who have been keeping their debt down and surviving with a much lower standard of living than Greece and directly paying for Greece's first bailout in some cases aren't impressed with Greece's excuses. At this point, a "Grexit" will be less disruptive than continued bailouts.
I've never noticed the difference in search results. Maybe I just don't care. Or maybe Google's "search bubble", where they give you results based on creepily stalking your search history works out well for you and prevents you from seeing results you don't like.
I missed the calculator built into Google at first, but then I found that with ddg you can just do !wa for wolfram alpha, which is more comprehensive than Google calculator. "!wa speed of light in furlongs per fortnight" works as well as Google, but theres a lot of stuff like "!wa factor 65535" or "!wa integral sin(x) dx" that Google just returns search terms for - Wolfram Alpha is pretty awesome.
Startpage is google, right? Sadly, it's blocked at work for me, but I don't even like to give traffic to google - who knows what they can figure out.
DuckDuckGo uses Bing, but it does some nice enhancements, like putting Wikipedia results first very often. If you want to live a Google-free life, and don't want to give your search history to MS either - ddg.gg.
I have a lot of audio patch cords that clearly come from the same factory as the Monster cables, just with a "DaytonAudio" label instead, that sold for $3-5. It's not like they bad cables or anything. I can't match your price though.
Plenty of stuff really is physically impossible, is the thing. And, sadly, we keep getting more and more evidence that there's no shortcut, no way to travel FTL. I still have my hopes about that, there are still some dark corners and possibilities, but if it's actually impossible, then the number of civilizations doesn't change that.
Now someone just needs to port it to the C64!
There are an infinity of odd numbers, but none of them are divisible by two. If something's not possible, then it doesn't matter how often you try. The whole "space jump" idea, while neat SF, seems more firmly impossible the more physics we learn, sadly enough.
I have been running C# ASP.NET on Raspbian Apache/ModMono for a solid 3 years. No problems.
Worth making this AC more visible. That's pretty cool.
There are still plenty of people interested in getting stuff to run in 256-512 MB with a 700 MHz ARM. I think about half the tendency for code bloat in the past 15 years has been the decline of cheap hobby PCs - a vacuum that has now been filled. Still seems like a lot to me, but it does at least impose a little restraint and interest in optimization.
(The other half is of course managed languages, but really slimming down C# to work on a RP doesn't seem impractical - just something that MS hasn't had a reason to focus on.)
Why, for instance, 10 cubic-kilometer voxels? Why not 100, or 1, or 0.1? How about 10^{15} cubic kilometers, which is about the volume of the sun? Adjust this number correctly, and you can match any energy density you want.
Fundamentally, you can't model the universe as voxels in the first place. The Holographic principle, or at least the part about maximum information density, seems quite solid. There's a maximum entropy available in a volume (and thus a maximum amount of information needed to describe that volume) that's proportional to surface area, not volume. The number is absurdly high, well over 10^100 per square meter, but for extremely large volumes the cube/square effect starts making that limit meaningful. And that limit always prevents you from using voxels of the "natural" size of one cubic Planck length - the precision we know can model everything.
Perhaps the 10 cubic-kilometer voxels are reasoned from the limit for the visible universe? Still sounds high, even for that volume, and the visible universe seems like an arbitrary boundary.
Uranium is a heavy metal. Don't ingest those. Lead bullets? Also a heavy metal. Nothing to do with radioactivity, because U238 isn't meaningfully radioactive.
No, I'm not going to teach you basic science. This is /., you're expect to do that work yourself.
You're scare-mongering about an imaginary boogieman and need to be shunned from polite conversation, just like the anti-Vaxxers, the anti-GMO crowd, the "no irradiated food" crowd and the rest of them.
Depleted uranium is not meaningfully radioactive. Far less so than a banana. That makes the rest of your screed lies, bullshit, and stupidity. Not to mention those "on the receiving end" of a 10 kg projectile travelling at ~1000 meters per second don't suffer for long at all.
When you start comparing bullets to nuclear bombs, you should really stop and realize you don't know what the fuck you're talking about. Science more; don't come back till you do. You're an embarrassment to Slashdot, and that's a really low bar.
Well, they didn't need to "lengthen" it unless they only had the rights to the first book. There were, what, 6 books in the series? Though I guess I can see it if the first book wasn't enough for even 1 season.