The remoteness of Mars might offer some advantages if you want to lord over your new world as an absolute dictator and reintroduce slavery on a massive scale or things like that which might draw attack anywhere on Earth. The ability to ration air would offer a new tool for ensuring your subjects don't revolt, as well.
The likely suspects are students. Students have been calling in bomb threats on their schools for many, many years. I remember a bomb threat one day at my elementary school in the late 1980s. 99.9% are false threats of course.
Islamic State is America's biggest fan, they use all our equipment. Generally America gives weapons and equipment to a moderate rebel group (or the Iraqi govt), which is quickly intercepted by IS and the moderates then offer to surrender the equipment in exchange for not being beheaded, or simply run.
I'm pretty sure Dice/Slashdot isn't getting paid a cent for it, and the editors are just as lazy/incompetent as ever. And Forbes isn't paying, since the same thing happened when startswithabang articles were on medium.com. It's possible that the people who vote up these articles in the firehose are being paid, but it's more likely that they just think it sounds interesting but don't bother to RTFA, like most slashdoters.
The moon is called Luna when we want to be really clear which moon we're talking about. It's just that in most contexts nobody would mean any moon other than the nearby visible one.
If they were trying to do everything the same as before with the same people, for nostalgia's sake, it'd be shit. But with a new cast, new characters and new writers it looks likely to be sufficiently original.
So, the question is, which is worse, the killing of 14 people or being a racist?
Which is worse, a world where 14 people out of 7 billion are killed occasionally or a world where everyone is instructed to inform on their neighbors whenever they have poorly supported suspicions? How long do you think geeks will last in a world where behavior that looks odd or scary or antisocial to the average person is reported? What if your garage project looks like a bomb to someone, or a rumor circulates that you're a hacker?
We also need to define civilization. We've not even ruled out the possibility of other civilizations in our own solar system, below the ice of Europa or Enceladus. We can surmise that they're probably not space-faring, but we haven't mapped those worlds in enough detail to rule out even that.
Here in California, it's not *required* to report if there's no injuries but it's still a good idea to have the highway patrol come and take statements to establish who's at fault. They were happy to come do so in my recent non-injury accident and it was important to have everything documented, especially since the other guy didn't have insurance.
anyone hit with a blaster is pretty much fucked, it seems.
No, blaster shots only kill you if you're wearing full body armor like a stormtrooper. If the blaster shot hits bare skin -- say Princess Leia's arm on Endor -- you'll wince in pain but shake it off and be back to full health within a few seconds.
Why bother existing if your purpose was to be the open source users-first browser but you've ended up as the only browser that forces ads onto users and your commercial competitors feel less commercial?
All it did was give new or occasional firefox users an immediate negative impression of the browser. When the first thing I see on my first day is ads, and no other browsers have ads, I don't come back.
That might be a feature rather than a bug. You're more likely to notice being directed to the wrong state than to notice delivering a block away from where you should.
Now all services will be delivered to the person on the first floor below your apartment because nobody will think about the vertical direction not specified by the three words. Not very helpful.
Unless you're developing something others will use, in which case using a database that customers are much more likely to already have set up is a big advantage.
Tautologies are meaningless. If you've defined self-interested action in a way that makes it impossible not to act in your self-interest, then you're no longer communicating anything meaningful. The trick people use is to come up with a tautological definition when pressed to defend their point, but imply a different definition the rest of the time so that people will take it as having meaning. This tricks people into thinking that people are choosing to be selfish, even though your hidden definition makes it not a choice at all.
airplanes are very wasteful because they need to use a lot of energy just to prevent falling.
It's not as if airplane engines are on the bottom providing upward thrust. Air pressure + speed keeps them aloft. The hyperloop does theoretically help the wind resistance slowing problem though.
I'm running 14.04 on my desktop PC. But since these vulnerabilities are both to local attackers and the worst they do is force a reboot, I'm not rushing to reboot.
I've never seen picketers accosting people outside of gun shops -- and I live in California a block from a gun shop and pass others gun shops fairly often as well. At abortion clinics it's every day life.
We don't all want laptops. I want a large monitor, I want to be able to move the keyboard around to comfortable positions, I want a mouse, and any minor computing I might want to do away from home is covered by my phone. I've got an old laptop but I only turn it on once every couple of months.
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The remoteness of Mars might offer some advantages if you want to lord over your new world as an absolute dictator and reintroduce slavery on a massive scale or things like that which might draw attack anywhere on Earth. The ability to ration air would offer a new tool for ensuring your subjects don't revolt, as well.
The likely suspects are students. Students have been calling in bomb threats on their schools for many, many years. I remember a bomb threat one day at my elementary school in the late 1980s. 99.9% are false threats of course.
Islamic State is America's biggest fan, they use all our equipment. Generally America gives weapons and equipment to a moderate rebel group (or the Iraqi govt), which is quickly intercepted by IS and the moderates then offer to surrender the equipment in exchange for not being beheaded, or simply run.
Unless saying "that's a galaxy" is exploring, we've explored a lot less than 5% of the space. 0% of the other oceans in this solar system.
Better than staying awake listening for a t-rex all night.
I'm pretty sure Dice/Slashdot isn't getting paid a cent for it, and the editors are just as lazy/incompetent as ever. And Forbes isn't paying, since the same thing happened when startswithabang articles were on medium.com. It's possible that the people who vote up these articles in the firehose are being paid, but it's more likely that they just think it sounds interesting but don't bother to RTFA, like most slashdoters.
The moon is called Luna when we want to be really clear which moon we're talking about. It's just that in most contexts nobody would mean any moon other than the nearby visible one.
If they were trying to do everything the same as before with the same people, for nostalgia's sake, it'd be shit. But with a new cast, new characters and new writers it looks likely to be sufficiently original.
Which is worse, a world where 14 people out of 7 billion are killed occasionally or a world where everyone is instructed to inform on their neighbors whenever they have poorly supported suspicions? How long do you think geeks will last in a world where behavior that looks odd or scary or antisocial to the average person is reported? What if your garage project looks like a bomb to someone, or a rumor circulates that you're a hacker?
We also need to define civilization. We've not even ruled out the possibility of other civilizations in our own solar system, below the ice of Europa or Enceladus. We can surmise that they're probably not space-faring, but we haven't mapped those worlds in enough detail to rule out even that.
Doing that, of course, will be illegal and will be rare enough to make you stand out as a target.
Here in California, it's not *required* to report if there's no injuries but it's still a good idea to have the highway patrol come and take statements to establish who's at fault. They were happy to come do so in my recent non-injury accident and it was important to have everything documented, especially since the other guy didn't have insurance.
Or add a huge tax to gasoline to triple the price and use it to make public transit free.
anyone hit with a blaster is pretty much fucked, it seems.
No, blaster shots only kill you if you're wearing full body armor like a stormtrooper. If the blaster shot hits bare skin -- say Princess Leia's arm on Endor -- you'll wince in pain but shake it off and be back to full health within a few seconds.
Why bother existing if your purpose was to be the open source users-first browser but you've ended up as the only browser that forces ads onto users and your commercial competitors feel less commercial?
All it did was give new or occasional firefox users an immediate negative impression of the browser. When the first thing I see on my first day is ads, and no other browsers have ads, I don't come back.
That might be a feature rather than a bug. You're more likely to notice being directed to the wrong state than to notice delivering a block away from where you should.
Now all services will be delivered to the person on the first floor below your apartment because nobody will think about the vertical direction not specified by the three words. Not very helpful.
Unless you're developing something others will use, in which case using a database that customers are much more likely to already have set up is a big advantage.
Shading the arctic during the summer wouldn't be a crop yield concern, and that's the area of fasted temperature increase.
Tautologies are meaningless. If you've defined self-interested action in a way that makes it impossible not to act in your self-interest, then you're no longer communicating anything meaningful. The trick people use is to come up with a tautological definition when pressed to defend their point, but imply a different definition the rest of the time so that people will take it as having meaning. This tricks people into thinking that people are choosing to be selfish, even though your hidden definition makes it not a choice at all.
airplanes are very wasteful because they need to use a lot of energy just to prevent falling.
It's not as if airplane engines are on the bottom providing upward thrust. Air pressure + speed keeps them aloft. The hyperloop does theoretically help the wind resistance slowing problem though.
I'm running 14.04 on my desktop PC. But since these vulnerabilities are both to local attackers and the worst they do is force a reboot, I'm not rushing to reboot.
I've never seen picketers accosting people outside of gun shops -- and I live in California a block from a gun shop and pass others gun shops fairly often as well. At abortion clinics it's every day life.
We don't all want laptops. I want a large monitor, I want to be able to move the keyboard around to comfortable positions, I want a mouse, and any minor computing I might want to do away from home is covered by my phone. I've got an old laptop but I only turn it on once every couple of months.