As you say, computers in the keyboard have been around for a very long time. So with less space, fewer ports, and fewer options (and assuming the user wants a keyboard) What's the advantage in having it in the mouse? There may be a use case I haven't considered but so far all I see is a gimmick.
This isn't even about convincing the American public to support the NSA. It's about giving politicians talking points to justify the support they intend to continue to give.
It's a statistical fact that many women make career choices that will or do give them time to take care of a family. This results in them earning lower pay and avoiding highly technical fields. Furthermore it's well known that a good portion of brilliance is dedication. To women considering a career knowing that "brilliance" is necessary is the same as knowing dedication and willingness to devote time to it is necessary -- to the exclusion of having a family that makes demands on one's time. Some women make that choice. Some don't.
As long as the choice is there; as long as the trade-off for women is the same as for men there's no sexism in this. And if a woman has a hard time finding a man willing to stay at home and support her, well, that's the choice men have and make and should be free to make.
In fact to distort these fields by making it harder for men to enter, that's sexism. Let people make their own choices and stop trying to distort markets until reality matches certain twisted worldviews.
We don't need a full cure for aging just yet -- or anytime soon. We just need to start solving the problem at a rate that increases life expectancy by one year, every year on average.
I find that many people claiming aging is absolutely inevitable are suffering from a case of sour grapes. SENS is a very real, very realizable goal. The human body is of limited complexity and we're putting the pieces of the puzzle together fast. Skepticism is understandable, after all people have been promising cures for aging ever since the emperor of China ate mercury. But recent advances show real promise and are based on real research.
It's popular to say one wishes for death at an arbitrary age... until one is that age and it's time to try to live or try to die. The upshot of recent newsis there's a very real chance that the first person to reach escape velocity is already alive. Here's to hope for a prosperous and very long life for each of us.
About a month ago I purchased a used Dell Latitude, known for exceptional battery life and reasonable ruggedness. The second reason is why I wanted it. But after using it a bit I just can't go back to a laptop with little battery life. I'm hoping laptop manufacturers notice the desire consumers have for efficient products. My CPU is an I-5 2500 series, introduced after Inter started pushing for lower power usage. I say: Bravo!
The route from "this is harassment that should be censored" to "this is something we 'all' disagree with so it should be censored" is a very slippery slope and the internet is piled high with the bones of dead forums who fell down that path. What is harassment? I can't say, "I'm going to kill you" but can I say "I wish you were dead"? Can I say "I hope your dog dies"? "You are an idiot for these reasons"? Can I say "Go play in traffic"?
There are various hug boxes on the internet where even vigorous disagreement backed with reason is seen as harassment. A more appropriate question than "should harassment be stopped" is "Who should be permitted to define harassment for a community"?
Riptide? Who cares when a drone can cover me? Surf THAT wave? Sure! There's a drone to keep me from drowning. i wonder how far I can swim out before I get too tired to swim?
Humanity's utter stupidity in seeking the very newest thrill almost guarantees two new sports and many new deaths from this. But that's what makes us human.
The press at large isn't interested in informing the public one whit but in encouraging actions by the public in one direction or another. I'm depressed that so many people rely on bought-and-sold sources of information.
At least rely on the internet for your news. Contrary to popular belief it is better: It's much harder to manipulate the beliefs of the masses when argument can be had right at the source of information.
For the driverless car system to truly work as desired, there would need to be more centralized control over our entire transportation system, from the roads and highways to the cars we're allowed to use, the speed we're allowed to travel and the places we're allowed to go
In what universe is this true? While central control may turn out to optimize driving in a helpful manner there are myriad benefits to driverless cars that have nothing to do with transportation systems as a whole.
It's trivial to get fingerprints of a politician. If, say, China doesn't lift the fingerprints off of every presidential candidate's glass at a fundraiser I'll eat my shoe. This really is nothing special.
There's been a lot of complaints about the NSA but you must admit this is one of the best, most *redacted* news we've heard in recent years. It's proof that the system works. When Obama promised *redacted* we thought he wouldn't actually follow through but here we have many reports allowing us, as good citizens, to make better voting choices.
The NSA is a good start but let's keep the pressure on. Agencies like *redacted* need a good housecleaning as well.
There are present day computers powerful enough to calculate the physics for that, but they're the very latest gaming rigs and use a kilowatt of juice. Barring advances in algorithms I just can't see how this is going to happen without 4 more doublings of processor power and a huge (hundreds of megabytes) L2/L3 cache. I bet that bird brain was going all out.
I would think they're going to have to wait on the "autonomous" side of it for a few years a la the autonomous ground vehicle race.
I've heard that before. The sad fact is for no real gain the US suffered a major permanent loss of credibility that will inevitably give other torturers an excuse. Bush and company need a very large, very public trial and the US needs to make a very large, very public, and very heartfelt apology complete with setting up every victim for life and adding it to the history books. That's the only way to make it right.
If I were working for a large, wealthy government and had developed an e-warfare weapon powerful enough to selectively knock a whole country off the grid I would pick a good moment of crisis, blame it on that country, and then test my weapon. I would test it against a country no one likes.
I respectfully disagree. While it would be harder to survive on the moon many, dare I say "most" global disasters that could wipe out humanity on earth wouldn't effect a self-sustaining moon colony. Furthermore having one of those would springboard mankind to other far-away places.
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As you say, computers in the keyboard have been around for a very long time. So with less space, fewer ports, and fewer options (and assuming the user wants a keyboard) What's the advantage in having it in the mouse? There may be a use case I haven't considered but so far all I see is a gimmick.
This isn't even about convincing the American public to support the NSA. It's about giving politicians talking points to justify the support they intend to continue to give.
I like how you smoothly slide in the presumption that GamerGate is about attacking women, or about women at all. Very low-key.
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I'm not hailing this as the end of abusive laws in the US but this is DAMNED good news.Bravo!
Nothing is stopping you...
It's a statistical fact that many women make career choices that will or do give them time to take care of a family. This results in them earning lower pay and avoiding highly technical fields. Furthermore it's well known that a good portion of brilliance is dedication. To women considering a career knowing that "brilliance" is necessary is the same as knowing dedication and willingness to devote time to it is necessary -- to the exclusion of having a family that makes demands on one's time. Some women make that choice. Some don't.
As long as the choice is there; as long as the trade-off for women is the same as for men there's no sexism in this. And if a woman has a hard time finding a man willing to stay at home and support her, well, that's the choice men have and make and should be free to make. In fact to distort these fields by making it harder for men to enter, that's sexism. Let people make their own choices and stop trying to distort markets until reality matches certain twisted worldviews.
We don't need a full cure for aging just yet -- or anytime soon. We just need to start solving the problem at a rate that increases life expectancy by one year, every year on average.
I find that many people claiming aging is absolutely inevitable are suffering from a case of sour grapes. SENS is a very real, very realizable goal. The human body is of limited complexity and we're putting the pieces of the puzzle together fast. Skepticism is understandable, after all people have been promising cures for aging ever since the emperor of China ate mercury. But recent advances show real promise and are based on real research.
It's popular to say one wishes for death at an arbitrary age... until one is that age and it's time to try to live or try to die. The upshot of recent newsis there's a very real chance that the first person to reach escape velocity is already alive. Here's to hope for a prosperous and very long life for each of us.
are the calls of some birds that are extinct.
That's a very interesting idea and I, for one, endorse it.
About a month ago I purchased a used Dell Latitude, known for exceptional battery life and reasonable ruggedness. The second reason is why I wanted it. But after using it a bit I just can't go back to a laptop with little battery life. I'm hoping laptop manufacturers notice the desire consumers have for efficient products. My CPU is an I-5 2500 series, introduced after Inter started pushing for lower power usage. I say: Bravo!
The route from "this is harassment that should be censored" to "this is something we 'all' disagree with so it should be censored" is a very slippery slope and the internet is piled high with the bones of dead forums who fell down that path. What is harassment? I can't say, "I'm going to kill you" but can I say "I wish you were dead"? Can I say "I hope your dog dies"? "You are an idiot for these reasons"? Can I say "Go play in traffic"?
There are various hug boxes on the internet where even vigorous disagreement backed with reason is seen as harassment. A more appropriate question than "should harassment be stopped" is "Who should be permitted to define harassment for a community"?
Who would pay someone to troll in a "microbial life on mars" story? I think it's more likely an attempt to test Slashdot's spam filters.
Riptide? Who cares when a drone can cover me? Surf THAT wave? Sure! There's a drone to keep me from drowning. i wonder how far I can swim out before I get too tired to swim?
Humanity's utter stupidity in seeking the very newest thrill almost guarantees two new sports and many new deaths from this. But that's what makes us human.
The press at large isn't interested in informing the public one whit but in encouraging actions by the public in one direction or another. I'm depressed that so many people rely on bought-and-sold sources of information.
At least rely on the internet for your news. Contrary to popular belief it is better: It's much harder to manipulate the beliefs of the masses when argument can be had right at the source of information.
For the driverless car system to truly work as desired, there would need to be more centralized control over our entire transportation system, from the roads and highways to the cars we're allowed to use, the speed we're allowed to travel and the places we're allowed to go
In what universe is this true? While central control may turn out to optimize driving in a helpful manner there are myriad benefits to driverless cars that have nothing to do with transportation systems as a whole.
It's trivial to get fingerprints of a politician. If, say, China doesn't lift the fingerprints off of every presidential candidate's glass at a fundraiser I'll eat my shoe. This really is nothing special.
They'll never get over 50%: more than half are NSA nodes.
There's been a lot of complaints about the NSA but you must admit this is one of the best, most *redacted* news we've heard in recent years. It's proof that the system works. When Obama promised *redacted* we thought he wouldn't actually follow through but here we have many reports allowing us, as good citizens, to make better voting choices.
The NSA is a good start but let's keep the pressure on. Agencies like *redacted* need a good housecleaning as well.
There are present day computers powerful enough to calculate the physics for that, but they're the very latest gaming rigs and use a kilowatt of juice. Barring advances in algorithms I just can't see how this is going to happen without 4 more doublings of processor power and a huge (hundreds of megabytes) L2/L3 cache. I bet that bird brain was going all out. I would think they're going to have to wait on the "autonomous" side of it for a few years a la the autonomous ground vehicle race.
The days of torture are behind now.
I've heard that before. The sad fact is for no real gain the US suffered a major permanent loss of credibility that will inevitably give other torturers an excuse. Bush and company need a very large, very public trial and the US needs to make a very large, very public, and very heartfelt apology complete with setting up every victim for life and adding it to the history books. That's the only way to make it right.
If I were working for a large, wealthy government and had developed an e-warfare weapon powerful enough to selectively knock a whole country off the grid I would pick a good moment of crisis, blame it on that country, and then test my weapon. I would test it against a country no one likes.
I respectfully disagree. While it would be harder to survive on the moon many, dare I say "most" global disasters that could wipe out humanity on earth wouldn't effect a self-sustaining moon colony. Furthermore having one of those would springboard mankind to other far-away places.
yes. No such agency that has compromised Tor already.