If "that's what the public wants the mayor to do" then the public wouldn't be buying ginormous sized beverages and thus there wouldn't be a problem in the first place. The fact that they are buying the large sodas means the public wants it. I can see slapping a warning on the side of the containers that say "Hey fatty, you keep drinking this much crap and you're going to die from diabeetus," but a ban seems to infringe on peoples' freedom of choice. (Unlike the bans on foie gras, there's no one torturing corn plants to make the soda.)
From my personal experience, the grocery stores are the only places I've encountered the self checkout lanes. When you don't put something on the scale after scanning it, the software pops up a display saying to place it on the scale with a button right beneath it to ignore it and continue ringing products up. The software messes up fairly frequently so the employees don't bat an eye. This would be trivially bypassed here.
I was under the impression that the transformers on residential electrical poles could cause small (relatively speaking) EMPs when damaged/detonated. Is this not the case?
This telescope will be used both to look for and observe known Near-Earth asteroids, and can also be pointed down to Earth for remote sensing operations.
"Remote sensing operations" being what exactly?/spideysense
I know this is slashdot, but you could at least read the article before the knee-jerk response kicks in.
To test this idea, the researchers injected a nerve-blocking drug to temporarily paralyze one hand and forearm in the monkeys.
They used a drug to temporarily paralyze the hand. They didn't break its spine, they didn't kill it. There was probably a tiny bit of pain and fear, no different from vaccinating a child. Please try to keep things in context.
How is that abuse? A crime was committed. He didn't lift the prints off of a public place. I see nothing morally wrong with investigating a legitimate crime when the police can't be bothered to do so themselves.
The spindly protrusions off of the wheels, are those somehow helping to stabilize the flight trajectory after launching? How come they don't cover the plastic wheels with some kind of rubber tread to increase traction and decrease the scratching/scrambling noise the plastic makes. I would imagine a bit of stealth would be necessary for the environments this will be used in. Or would that not actually help in the dirt/sand?
That said, launching off of a roof and landing on concrete and still working perfectly afterward... that's some solid engineering. Most things would have shattered into about a million pieces after that.
Part of the problem here is they've effectively cordoned off the other services. There's us and them. Now all they have to do is squeeze them out with increasingly smaller bandwidth caps so that you'll use more Comcast controlled services to not go over your cap (and likely justify it with their inability to handle the traffic volume instead of actually upgrading their damned equipment which we paid for years ago, which they just pocketed the money for instead.) or they'll just start charging for anything non-comcraptastic. This is why it's a net neutrality problem.
Part of the problem is that the applications for most jobs have all these fields listed to fill out and a little note on it that if you don't completely fill out the application you may be disqualified from employment. It's a sneaky little way for them to get around the law.
Granted the torrent file itself might not be encrypted but many torrent programs utilize encryption of the transfer of the file pieces. Deluge and Azureus/Vuze off the top of my head.
This used to be the case. I can personally assure you this no longer holds. (at least not in Chicago) If it happened to the cop him/herself, then yes, your comment still holds. But now that quotas and revenue generation seem to have gotten even more of a grip on the city, cops tend to not give a flying fuck about who your family is (unless you're the mayor's family).
herbs can be medically active and effective. Why not apply the scientific method to understanding how these less invasive treatments work instead of demonizing them because they are "traditional"?
A.) That's where we got many, if not most, of our drugs from. B.) That field of research is called Pharmacognosy.
The problem comes in with dosage. You can't know how much of a substance you are getting with herbs. Each plant will have varying concentrations of the active ingredient(s). The pill you take from the doctor or pharmacy has the same amount every time. Little to no guesswork involved in figuring out the right dosage. The maximum dosage is listed right on the bottle. Show me where it lists the concentration of active ingredients and max dosage on the herbal supplement. Until that's there, for Pete's sake, please listen to sound medical advice.
Translation: "We're going to charge you more and blame more things on piracy." Funny part is, the more they blame things on piracy and try to lock it down the more people will actually move to piracy in order to get what they want. It's completely counter productive.
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They're only protecting their customers to secure their ability to keep screwing them up the ass.
If "that's what the public wants the mayor to do" then the public wouldn't be buying ginormous sized beverages and thus there wouldn't be a problem in the first place. The fact that they are buying the large sodas means the public wants it. I can see slapping a warning on the side of the containers that say "Hey fatty, you keep drinking this much crap and you're going to die from diabeetus," but a ban seems to infringe on peoples' freedom of choice. (Unlike the bans on foie gras, there's no one torturing corn plants to make the soda.)
If ever there were a word that disrupted the flow of something it would be "Csíkszentmihályi." ...good lords that's painful to read.
From my personal experience, the grocery stores are the only places I've encountered the self checkout lanes. When you don't put something on the scale after scanning it, the software pops up a display saying to place it on the scale with a button right beneath it to ignore it and continue ringing products up. The software messes up fairly frequently so the employees don't bat an eye. This would be trivially bypassed here.
Babies shouldn't be SEALs. They should wait until they are adults before training to go after terrorists.
I was under the impression that the transformers on residential electrical poles could cause small (relatively speaking) EMPs when damaged/detonated. Is this not the case?
This telescope will be used both to look for and observe known Near-Earth asteroids, and can also be pointed down to Earth for remote sensing operations.
"Remote sensing operations" being what exactly? /spideysense
I know this is slashdot, but you could at least read the article before the knee-jerk response kicks in.
To test this idea, the researchers injected a nerve-blocking drug to temporarily paralyze one hand and forearm in the monkeys.
They used a drug to temporarily paralyze the hand. They didn't break its spine, they didn't kill it. There was probably a tiny bit of pain and fear, no different from vaccinating a child. Please try to keep things in context.
How is that abuse? A crime was committed. He didn't lift the prints off of a public place. I see nothing morally wrong with investigating a legitimate crime when the police can't be bothered to do so themselves.
...and yet, here you are.
How this comment looks to critical thinkers:
you accuse him of not being wet. How do you know that he doesn't have a PhD in staying dry
And so... It has come to this.
You can tell it to not to auto update, you can play offline, and you can make local backups of games. Just sayin'.
The spindly protrusions off of the wheels, are those somehow helping to stabilize the flight trajectory after launching? How come they don't cover the plastic wheels with some kind of rubber tread to increase traction and decrease the scratching/scrambling noise the plastic makes. I would imagine a bit of stealth would be necessary for the environments this will be used in. Or would that not actually help in the dirt/sand?
That said, launching off of a roof and landing on concrete and still working perfectly afterward... that's some solid engineering. Most things would have shattered into about a million pieces after that.
Part of the problem here is they've effectively cordoned off the other services. There's us and them. Now all they have to do is squeeze them out with increasingly smaller bandwidth caps so that you'll use more Comcast controlled services to not go over your cap (and likely justify it with their inability to handle the traffic volume instead of actually upgrading their damned equipment which we paid for years ago, which they just pocketed the money for instead.) or they'll just start charging for anything non-comcraptastic. This is why it's a net neutrality problem.
Part of the problem is that the applications for most jobs have all these fields listed to fill out and a little note on it that if you don't completely fill out the application you may be disqualified from employment. It's a sneaky little way for them to get around the law.
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Just sayin'...
Granted the torrent file itself might not be encrypted but many torrent programs utilize encryption of the transfer of the file pieces. Deluge and Azureus/Vuze off the top of my head.
Anyone fingered by an ISP should sue them entrapment.
And molestation.
How very convenient. Perhaps they should train them in a uniform way so that we (the public) have a way to refute the evidence against us.
Unless you're a family member of one.
This used to be the case. I can personally assure you this no longer holds. (at least not in Chicago) If it happened to the cop him/herself, then yes, your comment still holds. But now that quotas and revenue generation seem to have gotten even more of a grip on the city, cops tend to not give a flying fuck about who your family is (unless you're the mayor's family).
Only in the military can you label a $500,000 piece of equipment as "disposable"...
herbs can be medically active and effective. Why not apply the scientific method to understanding how these less invasive treatments work instead of demonizing them because they are "traditional"?
A.) That's where we got many, if not most, of our drugs from.
B.) That field of research is called Pharmacognosy.
The problem comes in with dosage. You can't know how much of a substance you are getting with herbs. Each plant will have varying concentrations of the active ingredient(s). The pill you take from the doctor or pharmacy has the same amount every time. Little to no guesswork involved in figuring out the right dosage. The maximum dosage is listed right on the bottle. Show me where it lists the concentration of active ingredients and max dosage on the herbal supplement. Until that's there, for Pete's sake, please listen to sound medical advice.
If they cannot operate their automobiles properly they should have their licenses revoked. Privilege, not a right.
Translation: "We're going to charge you more and blame more things on piracy."
Funny part is, the more they blame things on piracy and try to lock it down the more people will actually move to piracy in order to get what they want. It's completely counter productive.