It's really incredible that a company who people literally hand all their life details to still can't make a somewhat accurate interests profile for more than 60%. One could probably get 50% to call it somewhat accurate by randomly assigning popular interests horoscope-style.
NASA's version was far more of a publicity stunt, since it was all about involving kids in classrooms around the country. But apparently NASA didn't accomplish the mission. China did. Good for China.
Before Neil Armstrong, did anyone ever suggest or was there any reason to believe that a man could not take a step on the moon?
Doing something first on the moon is newsworthy. It's also an essential verification step before creating a moon base, and that's China's stated purpose.
'No idea' is exactly how much clue we have about ancient skin cancer rates. Skin does not tend to be found on skeletons thousands of years old, certainly not in sufficient quantity for a statistical projection.
Disney's marketing strategy has always been to have the customer's kids hold them hostage. That may allow them to be more successful at overcharging than CBS.
$100-$200/month for people who "can't live" without every show is fine. It's basically a-la-carte cable, which is what everyone has been asking for. The many people who can live without most of the shows will still save money.
An attack that requires getting the victim to click a malicious link is far, far less serious than an attack which can be carried out without the victim's participation.
With domain registration data available for most large clients on registrar WHOIS databases, most of the attacks would have relied on sending the domain owner a malicious link by email and hoping that they click.
^ And whois privacy makes the attack much less likely. These kinds of cross-site scripting attacks are basically one step above phishing.
Should be fixed, but nothing to worry too much about.
Musk is from South Africa. He lives in the USA because it's expedient. He's not some American agent pushing America's agenda, and China knows that.
The risk of landing in prison is far, far higher in the USA than in China for anyone who isn't a political activist. The USA has 4% of the world's population and 22% of the world's prisoners.
It doesn't get used because the "knowingly" part is virtually impossible to prove. All a company has to do is testify that they're idiots to avoid penalty.
It's actually true in this case. These bugs are in journald, the alternative to which is plain text logging. There has never been a security vulnerability in a plain text log file.
Sentient beings would use reasonable amounts of power to communicate. Only natural forces can be expected to create such incredibly high-energy bursts.
Among other considerations, a transmitter which could send such a powerful signal might necessarily vaporize the planet it's on in the process of releasing so much energy.
Because an educated society is a more functional society. And if you care for nothing in the world but $$$ and have zero moral scruples, an educated society leads to higher wages and profit on average. It'll cost you more in the long run to keep your neighbors in poverty than it would to educate them into productive taxpayers.
Once you hit your 1 TB data cap, what's the choice? Oh, I don't know, perhaps watch stuff in 1080p instead of 4K or 8K? Hmm should I pay $100 a month for cable or should I watch stuff at a slightly lower bitrate that I probably can't even see the difference of... tough choice.
Not really. This is simply a signal that their remaining customers are people who won't consider switching to streaming, either because they're old or because they want live local sports. There's no point trying to compete with streaming on cost because that's a losing proposition by far, so may as well milk the cable customers before they die off.
HandBrake has menu options to select subtitles and audio tracks when ripping a DVD. I haven't personally tried to include them, but it should work, and then you can just use VLC's menu to select the desired subtitles or audio track?
The brain is the physical model of the mind, as presented through the senses and mind of an observer. Just as a rock our physical model of how it is to observe/interact with a rock, rather than a non-interacting rock in itself.
If you believe mind is some nebulous other thing which the brain, try having a brain injury. Or just a swift knock on the head. See how well the brain damage describes the state of your consciousness then.
Sounds like good news for the people of Cleveland and Tampa. Can't imagine how awful it was biking through the snow and rain and humid heat and everything else those cities will throw at you.
As long as you poop outside in the dirt like Americans do in national parks, it's fine.
But I think you'll find every vegan admits to being morally imperfect, and merely wishes to minimize the harm of their diet to the degree they personally find practical. Everyone has an ecological footprint, carbon emissions, steps on the occasional ant, etc. It's irrational to suggest that the impossibility of doing no harm means people can't make choices about which times of harm they personally feel like participating in to what degree.
The grandparent is actually entirely correct. Comcast's internet advertised pricing is all-inclusive, with a few caveats: you have to own your own modem and you have to understand whether you're looking at one of their first 12 months contract discount prices or one of the normal prices. My bill is always exactly what I expect it to be. Comcast cable tv, I gather, takes a much more deceptive approach... but I gather that's the case with most of their competitors in the tv industry as well.
As for state and local taxes, I don't know where you live but in California we don't have any of those on internet service. My comcast bill (which I just checked for you) has a line for "Taxes, surcharges & fees" which reads "$0.00".
The only nerdy part of it is the update that they're having server problems. So slashdot has been posting completely un-nerdy stories for at least 18 years now.
This isn't actually about the far left or the far right at all. It's about the media finding the 3 people in the world they can slip a buck to in order to have them create a controversy to write about. The controversy then generates all sorts of outrage from people about how horrible it is that anyone would get offended over such a stupid thing and [insert political bias], which makes it go viral, and ka-ching!
Preventing knowledge from disseminating is always a loss. Preventing great minds from collaborating, however, is the much bigger loss -- the US and China and the rest of the world could all be enjoying a lot of knowledge we don't currently have, if their scientists were allowed to work together.
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It's really incredible that a company who people literally hand all their life details to still can't make a somewhat accurate interests profile for more than 60%. One could probably get 50% to call it somewhat accurate by randomly assigning popular interests horoscope-style.
NASA in 2013 had planned to launch pretty much this same exact experiment by 2015: http://blogs.discovermagazine....
NASA's version was far more of a publicity stunt, since it was all about involving kids in classrooms around the country. But apparently NASA didn't accomplish the mission. China did. Good for China.
Before Neil Armstrong, did anyone ever suggest or was there any reason to believe that a man could not take a step on the moon?
Doing something first on the moon is newsworthy. It's also an essential verification step before creating a moon base, and that's China's stated purpose.
'No idea' is exactly how much clue we have about ancient skin cancer rates. Skin does not tend to be found on skeletons thousands of years old, certainly not in sufficient quantity for a statistical projection.
Disney's marketing strategy has always been to have the customer's kids hold them hostage. That may allow them to be more successful at overcharging than CBS.
$100-$200/month for people who "can't live" without every show is fine. It's basically a-la-carte cable, which is what everyone has been asking for. The many people who can live without most of the shows will still save money.
An attack that requires getting the victim to click a malicious link is far, far less serious than an attack which can be carried out without the victim's participation.
^ And whois privacy makes the attack much less likely. These kinds of cross-site scripting attacks are basically one step above phishing.
Should be fixed, but nothing to worry too much about.
Musk is from South Africa. He lives in the USA because it's expedient. He's not some American agent pushing America's agenda, and China knows that.
The risk of landing in prison is far, far higher in the USA than in China for anyone who isn't a political activist. The USA has 4% of the world's population and 22% of the world's prisoners.
Give a man a fish, and he eats for a day. Give him internet access to look up how and where to best catch fish and buy supplies, and he eats for life.
It doesn't get used because the "knowingly" part is virtually impossible to prove. All a company has to do is testify that they're idiots to avoid penalty.
It's actually true in this case. These bugs are in journald, the alternative to which is plain text logging. There has never been a security vulnerability in a plain text log file.
Sentient beings would use reasonable amounts of power to communicate. Only natural forces can be expected to create such incredibly high-energy bursts.
Among other considerations, a transmitter which could send such a powerful signal might necessarily vaporize the planet it's on in the process of releasing so much energy.
Room and board for an online school? Sure, a very Second Life dorm is provided.
Because an educated society is a more functional society. And if you care for nothing in the world but $$$ and have zero moral scruples, an educated society leads to higher wages and profit on average. It'll cost you more in the long run to keep your neighbors in poverty than it would to educate them into productive taxpayers.
Once you hit your 1 TB data cap, what's the choice? Oh, I don't know, perhaps watch stuff in 1080p instead of 4K or 8K? Hmm should I pay $100 a month for cable or should I watch stuff at a slightly lower bitrate that I probably can't even see the difference of... tough choice.
Not really. This is simply a signal that their remaining customers are people who won't consider switching to streaming, either because they're old or because they want live local sports. There's no point trying to compete with streaming on cost because that's a losing proposition by far, so may as well milk the cable customers before they die off.
HandBrake has menu options to select subtitles and audio tracks when ripping a DVD. I haven't personally tried to include them, but it should work, and then you can just use VLC's menu to select the desired subtitles or audio track?
The brain is the physical model of the mind, as presented through the senses and mind of an observer. Just as a rock our physical model of how it is to observe/interact with a rock, rather than a non-interacting rock in itself.
If you believe mind is some nebulous other thing which the brain, try having a brain injury. Or just a swift knock on the head. See how well the brain damage describes the state of your consciousness then.
Sounds like good news for the people of Cleveland and Tampa. Can't imagine how awful it was biking through the snow and rain and humid heat and everything else those cities will throw at you.
As long as you poop outside in the dirt like Americans do in national parks, it's fine.
But I think you'll find every vegan admits to being morally imperfect, and merely wishes to minimize the harm of their diet to the degree they personally find practical. Everyone has an ecological footprint, carbon emissions, steps on the occasional ant, etc. It's irrational to suggest that the impossibility of doing no harm means people can't make choices about which times of harm they personally feel like participating in to what degree.
The grandparent is actually entirely correct. Comcast's internet advertised pricing is all-inclusive, with a few caveats: you have to own your own modem and you have to understand whether you're looking at one of their first 12 months contract discount prices or one of the normal prices. My bill is always exactly what I expect it to be. Comcast cable tv, I gather, takes a much more deceptive approach... but I gather that's the case with most of their competitors in the tv industry as well.
As for state and local taxes, I don't know where you live but in California we don't have any of those on internet service. My comcast bill (which I just checked for you) has a line for "Taxes, surcharges & fees" which reads "$0.00".
Consider this popular story from 2001: https://slashdot.org/story/01/...
The only nerdy part of it is the update that they're having server problems. So slashdot has been posting completely un-nerdy stories for at least 18 years now.
This isn't actually about the far left or the far right at all. It's about the media finding the 3 people in the world they can slip a buck to in order to have them create a controversy to write about. The controversy then generates all sorts of outrage from people about how horrible it is that anyone would get offended over such a stupid thing and [insert political bias], which makes it go viral, and ka-ching!
Preventing knowledge from disseminating is always a loss. Preventing great minds from collaborating, however, is the much bigger loss -- the US and China and the rest of the world could all be enjoying a lot of knowledge we don't currently have, if their scientists were allowed to work together.
You like having to touch the same screen as a bunch of sick people on a plane?