From the link: "Updated: NASAâ(TM)s initial assessment is that the object is in fact a piece of plastic that has fallen off Curiosity. Further analysis will be performed before a final judgment is made."
If I drive my 1.4L Hyundai i20 hard, it will hit 90MPH on a slip road onto the motorway. It'll do 45MPG without much effort to drive economically. With that in mind, there are only two reasons to be going slower than the traffic you're joining; Traffic buildup meaning everyone is going slowly, or because the person is just an awful driver and should have their license taken off them.
I haven't played Super Mario Bros. 3 in two decades, but I'm fairly sure that the game's manual termed that ability "the Racoon suit", just as the underwater thing was "the Frog suit". The game's Wikipedia article seems to agree.
The difference is that the Frog Suit isn't made from imaginary frogs.
Firstly, I've not watched Pokemon for well over a decade, so I've no idea how Pokeball technology has advanced in that time, but I've always likened them to genie lamps. If you watch Disney's Aladdin, the inside of the lamp is very well set, with lounge furniture and ornamental adornments throughout. The genie is shrunken down, without any observable discomfort or harm, to fit well in this diminutive abode.
I also liken Pokeballs and Pokemon to genie's lamps and genies respectively because, as you have rightly pointed out, NEITHER OF THEM FUCKING EXIST.
I was under the impression that the manufacturing processes to make the power plant / batteries for *POPULAR BRAND OF HYBRID VEHICLE* released the equivalent quantity of CO2 into the atmosphere as would be saved by the reduced CO2 released by the hybrid drive over it's serviceable life. The net being a loss to society, as the process for making the batteries released toxic elements not used in making regular combustion engine cars.
You know the answer as well as I do; Firstly, this is a tech demo. There's no plan to roll these out. Secondly, this is just another company trying to muzzle their way into the government pork barrel. They won't catch anything with these machines, because if they do they undermine everything the TSA, RapiScan et al have attempted. That will either mean a massive enquiry into public spending (hahaha) or more money to the TSA and contractors for R&D.
I don't see a winning situation here, except maybe shelving the project and keeping the security theatre status quo.
The obvious solution is to stop flying to / from the USA. Obviously it's difficult if you need to fly for work, but then again I suppose some people's principles do have a price.
You mean like IE 8 / 9 / 10 default settings? The one which pops up just the once, and has only two radio buttons "Accept default search engine, accelerators, privacy settings, and data collection settings" or "Advanced" which takes you through a 9 page wizard which pops up three new tabs when you've finished, all of which you close without looking at them because you just want to watch cat videos on YouTube?
Yeah. I know how Microsoft asks you what choice you want to make, and I can see why advertisers will tell them to sit on it and swivel when they enable DNT by default. This needs to be explicit, or backed by legislation. The latter isn't happening any time soon.
If a significant number of people turn it on, it will be ignored.
Unlikely. Right now, the choice is "Don't look at the sites which use behavioural advertising if you don't want to be tracked" or "Run an adblocker which cuts the revenue stream from free-to-read sites". With the third Do Not Track option, people can still be shown advertising without worrying about behavioural profiling. It's a middle ground for everyone; Punters get privacy, sites get revenue from ad clicks, advertisers sell stuff through adverts.
From my perspective, if I found that the system worked as it should (MS backed down, the DNT flag is set by the user) and the advertisers still didn't honour it, I'd be tempted to go "scorched earth" and block advertisers at the border of every network I maintain. Putting the domain list in EasyList (Used by adblock+ etc) into iptables wouldn't be difficult at all. Let's see them, track me when they don't even know I exist. Your ball, advertisers.
It is not mandatory for advertisers to honour the "Do not track" flag. Internet users need to turn the option on themselves, or they have not expressed their desire to not be trackedthemselves, only to accept the default settings as Microsoft deems fit.
If Microsoft enable it by default, it definitely won't be honoured. If it is only set by the actions of the user, it might be honoured. Now Microsoft decides to piss in the advertiser's cornflakes and expects them to still eat them. Nice job.
The kind of money which affords lobbyists isn't found by retailing purchasing. It's from government contracts. Your tax pays for government schemes, which go to businesses, which pay for lobbyists, which get the government to approve spending tax on...
Why do you think so many ex politicians get jobs in the private sector, or big name guys in industry get government positions? Revolving door, circle jerk... Call it what you want. Just don't think that listening to Jamendo instead of iTunes will actually make the slightest bit of difference. The whole thing is autonomous now.
You Can't Print a Gun If You Have No 3D Printer, How Can You Print a Gun If You Have No 3D Printer. You, Yes You Behind The Bike Shed, Stand Still Laddie!
Did you exchange a walk on part in the war, for the lead role in a (3D printed) cage?
I'm all for this. In fact, I think it should be mandatory to ride a moped for at least one year before you can drive a car. You can ride a moped at 16 in the UK after taking a £100 day course, meaning you could start to drive at 17 as you can now. Not only will it make you more aware of how traffic reacts to smaller vehicles, but it gives you invaluable experience of how handling changes in the wet, which isn't always obvious to a new car driver (We don't do skid-pan training here). Then again, I also think drivers should be retested every 10 years until their 60th birthday, then every 5 years. I see yuppies swerving in and out of traffic on the motorway daily, but a pensioner pulling out of the wrong side of a junction into oncoming traffic is something else.
No, the real problem is cyclists are small and drivers aren't given enough experience when learning to drive to identify small targets; They learn that pedestrian-sized obstacles are on pavements.
Cyclists should wear helmets because it can save their life if hit by a car, not to stop a bruise when they fall over at traffic lights because their fancy shoes didn't unclip.
Host a Tor relay. As other nodes close to you request data posted by other nodes, you yourself become a host to make loading quicker in the future, speeding up the network. It becomes quite resilient.
Yes, this means you're potentially hosting something illegal, but you can't access it (the cache is encrypted) and it can't be traced to you (you are just another anonymous node between the host and the client).
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From the link: "Updated: NASAâ(TM)s initial assessment is that the object is in fact a piece of plastic that has fallen off Curiosity. Further analysis will be performed before a final judgment is made."
Sorry to burst your bubble, guys.
You could even use it to commit the crime if you so desired, but you'll need a fair bit of hair to choke a full grown man.
He'd only need to inhale 5ml of saliva to drown, though.
If I drive my 1.4L Hyundai i20 hard, it will hit 90MPH on a slip road onto the motorway. It'll do 45MPG without much effort to drive economically. With that in mind, there are only two reasons to be going slower than the traffic you're joining; Traffic buildup meaning everyone is going slowly, or because the person is just an awful driver and should have their license taken off them.
I haven't played Super Mario Bros. 3 in two decades, but I'm fairly sure that the game's manual termed that ability "the Racoon suit", just as the underwater thing was "the Frog suit". The game's Wikipedia article seems to agree.
The difference is that the Frog Suit isn't made from imaginary frogs.
The way that Pokémon are stuffed into pokéballs is similar to how circuses chain elephants inside railroad cars and let them out only to perform confusing and often painful tricks that were taught using sharp steel-tipped bullhooks and electric shock prods,' No. No, they are NOTHING ALIKE. For one thing, elephants are real and pokemon don't actually fucking exist.
Firstly, I've not watched Pokemon for well over a decade, so I've no idea how Pokeball technology has advanced in that time, but I've always likened them to genie lamps. If you watch Disney's Aladdin, the inside of the lamp is very well set, with lounge furniture and ornamental adornments throughout. The genie is shrunken down, without any observable discomfort or harm, to fit well in this diminutive abode.
I also liken Pokeballs and Pokemon to genie's lamps and genies respectively because, as you have rightly pointed out, NEITHER OF THEM FUCKING EXIST.
Starting sentences in the heading and continuing them in the comment body should be a stoning offence.
Many thanks for posting this. This is exactly the kind of response I was looking for.
I was under the impression that the manufacturing processes to make the power plant / batteries for *POPULAR BRAND OF HYBRID VEHICLE* released the equivalent quantity of CO2 into the atmosphere as would be saved by the reduced CO2 released by the hybrid drive over it's serviceable life. The net being a loss to society, as the process for making the batteries released toxic elements not used in making regular combustion engine cars.
You know the answer as well as I do; Firstly, this is a tech demo. There's no plan to roll these out. Secondly, this is just another company trying to muzzle their way into the government pork barrel. They won't catch anything with these machines, because if they do they undermine everything the TSA, RapiScan et al have attempted. That will either mean a massive enquiry into public spending (hahaha) or more money to the TSA and contractors for R&D.
I don't see a winning situation here, except maybe shelving the project and keeping the security theatre status quo.
The obvious solution is to stop flying to / from the USA. Obviously it's difficult if you need to fly for work, but then again I suppose some people's principles do have a price.
You mean like IE 8 / 9 / 10 default settings? The one which pops up just the once, and has only two radio buttons "Accept default search engine, accelerators, privacy settings, and data collection settings" or "Advanced" which takes you through a 9 page wizard which pops up three new tabs when you've finished, all of which you close without looking at them because you just want to watch cat videos on YouTube?
Yeah. I know how Microsoft asks you what choice you want to make, and I can see why advertisers will tell them to sit on it and swivel when they enable DNT by default. This needs to be explicit, or backed by legislation. The latter isn't happening any time soon.
If a significant number of people turn it on, it will be ignored.
Unlikely. Right now, the choice is "Don't look at the sites which use behavioural advertising if you don't want to be tracked" or "Run an adblocker which cuts the revenue stream from free-to-read sites". With the third Do Not Track option, people can still be shown advertising without worrying about behavioural profiling. It's a middle ground for everyone; Punters get privacy, sites get revenue from ad clicks, advertisers sell stuff through adverts.
From my perspective, if I found that the system worked as it should (MS backed down, the DNT flag is set by the user) and the advertisers still didn't honour it, I'd be tempted to go "scorched earth" and block advertisers at the border of every network I maintain. Putting the domain list in EasyList (Used by adblock+ etc) into iptables wouldn't be difficult at all. Let's see them, track me when they don't even know I exist. Your ball, advertisers.
It is not mandatory for advertisers to honour the "Do not track" flag. Internet users need to turn the option on themselves, or they have not expressed their desire to not be trackedthemselves, only to accept the default settings as Microsoft deems fit.
If Microsoft enable it by default, it definitely won't be honoured. If it is only set by the actions of the user, it might be honoured. Now Microsoft decides to piss in the advertiser's cornflakes and expects them to still eat them. Nice job.
The kind of money which affords lobbyists isn't found by retailing purchasing. It's from government contracts. Your tax pays for government schemes, which go to businesses, which pay for lobbyists, which get the government to approve spending tax on...
Why do you think so many ex politicians get jobs in the private sector, or big name guys in industry get government positions? Revolving door, circle jerk... Call it what you want. Just don't think that listening to Jamendo instead of iTunes will actually make the slightest bit of difference. The whole thing is autonomous now.
Am I the only one who thought "age/sex/location"? Surely you'd need the "11th finger" above the desk for that to work?
Far too much time on IRC in my youth.
Pants are optional, but recommended for you.
Well, I kinda have to. I keep stepping on it.
Yeah. Haemorrhoids can be a bitch.
I thought at this point is had become obvious that quantum cryptography was just a nice scam to fund fundamental physics research?
We shouldn't need to scam anyone to fund fundamental physics research.
I think they posted the release in hopes of letting the online community discuss ideas, and will then harvest those.
I think I speak for the whole "Online Community" when I say that our idea is "Die in a fire."
The obvious mistake is that you're buying games which includes this online authentication.
There's a reason for me not owning a single Ubi game past Assassin's Creed.
You Can't Print a Gun If You Have No 3D Printer, How Can You Print a Gun If You Have No 3D Printer. You, Yes You Behind The Bike Shed, Stand Still Laddie!
Did you exchange a walk on part in the war, for the lead role in a (3D printed) cage?
Sorry, that should have been a double break, not bold.
I'm all for this. In fact, I think it should be mandatory to ride a moped for at least one year before you can drive a car. You can ride a moped at 16 in the UK after taking a £100 day course, meaning you could start to drive at 17 as you can now. Not only will it make you more aware of how traffic reacts to smaller vehicles, but it gives you invaluable experience of how handling changes in the wet, which isn't always obvious to a new car driver (We don't do skid-pan training here).
Then again, I also think drivers should be retested every 10 years until their 60th birthday, then every 5 years. I see yuppies swerving in and out of traffic on the motorway daily, but a pensioner pulling out of the wrong side of a junction into oncoming traffic is something else.
No, the real problem is cyclists are small and drivers aren't given enough experience when learning to drive to identify small targets; They learn that pedestrian-sized obstacles are on pavements.
Cyclists should wear helmets because it can save their life if hit by a car, not to stop a bruise when they fall over at traffic lights because their fancy shoes didn't unclip.
Host a Tor relay. As other nodes close to you request data posted by other nodes, you yourself become a host to make loading quicker in the future, speeding up the network. It becomes quite resilient.
Yes, this means you're potentially hosting something illegal, but you can't access it (the cache is encrypted) and it can't be traced to you (you are just another anonymous node between the host and the client).
You, sir, are definitely in the right place.