Has engadget taken to serving all site picture from an ad server? 'cause I expected to see a picture of the Ludicrous Fridge and I didn't get it. Nor does the linked Samsung site (in Korean language) have a picture.
In agriculture, where you actively control which species is growing, crops will grow faster in a high CO2 atmosphere. However that additional growth will be in the form of carbohydrate; the protein density of crops will drop, because the synthesis of proteins is nitrogen limited (proteins are composed of amino acids, which are carboxylic acids with an NH2 group).
Most crops are radically over-fertilized with nitrogen though. This is why nitrogen runoff is such a problem. Very likely protein density will not change, since the requisite nitrogen to sustain protein synthesis is available.
This process of "converting" emails from secure to insecure is go-to-prison stuff.
No it's not. The process of converting classified data to unclassified data, from any specific classification level to any other specific and lower level is very well defined. FOIA requests are fulfilled using precisely this process. The process is so well defined that there exist automated systems to make it happen, which are certified and in production in military environments, and have been for longer than you've been alive. Lockheed Martin sells Radiant Mercury for precisely this purpose, and it is in use all over the world.
It is entirely possible to legally and actually convert a classified document into an unclassified document that still includes significant amounts of information. Admittedly it's easier to convert data from Top Secret to Secret than it is to convert either of those to Unclassified, but it is possible. In the case of hand-written conversions, it is only possible to determine if each conversion was done correctly by individually analyzing them, which is why only 5500 emails have been released to date. When the process is being followed methodically by trained staffers, the release of classified information is considered accidental, and contrary to your elementary school zero-tolerance mindset, it is recognized and penalized as such. In other words, no prison.
You and all of your ilk have a vastly simplistic worldview. Zero-tolerance does not work, anywhere. It is a massive failure in school systems, and it should not exist in either our government or our schools. "Due diligence" and "best effort" are recognized legal phrases for a reason. Mistakes can happen, and grotesque penalties for people dutifully attempting to follow the rules is not only a gross injustice, it also induces the sort of bureaucratic ass-covering that results in total paralysis. We need our government to work. We need our schools to work. Grow up, and stop advocating a completely unachievable perfection paired with crucifixion for transgressors. It's childish and counterproductive.
For the record, I've never voted for Hillary Clinton and never will, and I'm thoroughly anti-dynasty. I do not want another Clinton presidency, ever. I do not want another Bush presidency, ever. I do not want another Kennedy presidency, ever. No dynasties. No ruling families.
I could barely get tech interviews and my qualifications and experience were oft questioned (I had a good internship and grades and projects and such).This didn't happen to the guys I graduated with. It's something I've heard MANY times from MANY women. It's a slow pushing out of women in technology by men in technology because it's frankly just not worth the bullshit.
May I ask how many of those interviewing managers questioning your qualifications were non-technical? From what I've seen, that's the source of the problem. Non-technical managers who hate hiring developers of any kind because they're a "cost center" have no ability at all to judge the worth of any developer, because they don't understand what a developer does, or how a developer does what a developer does, so they latch on to the one visible thing they can understand: you're a girl. And monkey boy doing the hiring doesn't see many girls, so obviously there must be something odd about you, so obviously you have to be questioned much more closely about your qualifications.
I submit that actual technical people wouldn't treat you this way. They certainly don't in my workplace.
Yes. You CARE. We have all been hearing the dirge of the so-called progressives: "if you CARE about people, this is the way you should feel about X situation", or else MISOGYNY.
The fact that you care makes it all right for you to mischaracterize the problem?
And modded Troll... Looks like a certain permanently butthurt Slashdot "editor" is wielding mod points today. Anything contrary to the party line is being modded down en masse.
Thank you for being one of the numerous women on Slashdot who aren't putting up with the big lie.
And now, after I undid moderation, it's showing your post as 30% Interesting, 30% Overrated, and 20% Redundant. Previous it was 20% Interesting, 20% Redundant, 20% Insightful.
Looks like the shills are out in force, trying to enforce the message. Welcome to 2016...
What total bullshit. I modded you +1 Informative and lame wannabe Beta Slashcode agreed that I had. It told me so. I was looking right at it. Then it stored a -1 Redundant to the database.
Posting to undo moderation.
Although.... on further reflection, perhaps Redundant is appropriate moderation.
Every time Dice is looking for their Friday pop in the numbers and posts one of these assinine stories, the established self-identified women of Slashdot remark that they don't see it. Not once does one of you post to say, "It's true! It's all True! And your little dog too!" Not once. Every post I see says, "No, this is BS, women are treated no worse than any man."
In terms of absolute numbers, the men do worse in Open Source because such a large majority of the contributors are presumptive males, but bad behavior is everywhere on the Internet, so the men take most of the flack. I'd be willing to bet that the men take more of the abuse even per capita, just because the only women who are taking shit are only present in the community in order to cause the shit in the first place (Anita Sarkeesian and her ilk). The women who are actually part of the community have no such problems. I know because they say so.
Take your average 300 foot tall starship. The water pressure difference form top to bottom is 10 atmospheres. That becomes a rather serious issue in diving.
Why the fuck don't you make some of the people drawing your handouts work for the system by providing those services. You just employed several people and cut 15m off the top.
Because they can't. There are existing national laws that say that in order for those people to be employed as civil servants, the total cost must be £15 million. It's illegal to pay less. The combination of mandatory salaries and capped maximum case loads demands it.
The city is not offering a basic income. They're trying to get around the maximum case load cap. They're essentially doing an end-run around the law in order to try to increase efficiency. Branding it "basic income" is a sleight of hand to try to get away with it. They may or may not succeed, but regardless, they won't create anything like a basic income in the process.
YOU are the treasoner.... YOU let it happen, YOU didn't protest, YOU voted for them, YOU sat at home.
Since he knows about the treason of Jane Fonda, he most likely didn't sit at home. Most likely he's a former Marine. The Marines will never forgive Jane Fonda.
Real ID is unconstitutional as all HELL!! It IS a national "ID card" - which is ILLEGAL under the constitution. Those that see terrorists around every corner are weak paranoid LEMMINGS! And have been FULLY brainwashed by the government!
I would like to spend a mod point on +1 Paranoid Ranting
Though of course it's not paranoia if they really are out to get you.
Physical switches cost money. Once you have some other control mechanism, it's almost inevitable that it'll become the only mechanism.
This seems unlikely anywhere the idiot hipsters haven't taken over. All of us have those physical switches right now. That's all we have, right now. Only an idiot hipster would remove the physical switch for a "cleaner user interface experience". Then they'll complain about their insomnia when the hidden electronically controlled switch fails. The rest of us will just turn off the damn light.
Though everyone loves Mars and those rovers are exciting, I was thinking how cool it would be to have a modern lunar rover with the HD cameras.
You are wanting to read this. In short, Google thinks so too, and is putting up $30 million in prizes if the competing teams can put a rover on the Moon and roll it 500 meters. The deadline is the end of 2017. One of the teams has signed a launch contract already, so they might make it. Audi has signed on to back the German team, so there may be a rover with an Audi logo on it rolling around on the Moon in a year or two.
But it's strange that you don't understand that the DHS is controlled by the executive branch of the government.
Within the limits of the law, and you did acknowledge that the law establishing the DHS was written by Republicans, yes? The executive branch of the government has essentially no discretion about where money is spent. The law says "thou shalt buy drones" and so they do. They have to. Congress said so, so therefore it is done. It doesn't matter what party affiliation the titular head of the administration has. The executive branch follows the law.
Now we all know that the executive branch has ways of making itself felt, especially foot-dragging as a tactic, but we also know the fix is in for the DHS, good and fucking hard. They get what they want, when they want, because the military-industrial complex is the best politically connected industry in the country. You think the little parenthetical letter after the president's name matters a damn when it comes to DHS spending? Don't make me laugh.
Humans of many nationalities worked on making it a reality.
No they didn't. Due to ITAR restrictions, SpaceX employees are US citizens or permanent residents. The vast majority are US citizens.
SpaceX, being privately held, doesn't have to divulge employee details publicly. I'd bet money that their employees and direct contractors are 100% US citizens. It makes the paperwork a lot easier, and they did get DOD approval for launching national security payloads. That's essentially impossible if non-citizens are involved, especially in this day and age.
That is what should be celebrated: the whole world came together to make this happen.
No they didn't. The whole world sat on their asses and watched it happen on TV (except the ones waving AK-47s in the air and chanting, "Death to America!"). Americans did the jobs that made it happen. Nobody else did.
I literally cringed when I heard the USA chants... leave it to USAians to make it about them when so many from many countries worked so hard to make it a reality.
What are you babbling about? SpaceX manufactures the entire rocket in Hawthorne, California. All of the metal bending, all of the welding, everything except a handful of chips is made in that plant. There were zero other countries involved in designing, building, launching, and performing the only first stage rocket recovery in history. Due to ITAR, all SpaceX employees are US citizens or permanent residents (green card holders). The vast majority are citizens. Even the company that paid for the launch, Orbcomm, is a US company.
In a time when such nationalism is frowned upon, their USA chant was entirely justified. It was solely a US effort, and solely a US success.
I'm also curious as to how closely to center it landed on its pad, would it have been successful if they had gone for a ocean platform landing or did a larger pad make all the difference.
Check out the landing image. I believe the appropriate phrase is "nailed it!"
How do they think all these strange circular features appeared all over the surface of Mars? Look at any virtual fly-by, there's not any safe plot of land large enough to hold a bed, let alone a house.
Over millions of years. Spirit tooled around on the surface of Mars for 5 years before getting stuck in a bed of sand. Never hit by a meteor. Opportunity has been trundling around on the surface of Mars for over a decade, and is still going. No meteors. Curiosity, the size of a small car, has been rolling around on the surface of Mars for 3 years, and is also still going. Still no meteors. Mars is pretty safe from random falling rock.
Nor is Mars all that cold. In the summer, the day time temperature is right around 70F. If it had a reasonable atmosphere, nights would be cool, but not chilly. There's plenty of oxygen. The whole surface of Mars is various metal oxides. There's lots of oxygen to be had.
The lack of an atmosphere is the problem. There are various proposals for fixing that, all of which are mathematically possible. And none of which are possible within the attention span of the human race, other than making the project a religion. Which is certainly a possibility.
An account repeatedly posting links to the same website, forbes.com. That website is full of ads, which are being shown to the audience that clicks through from Slashdot. The content is scienc-y stuff that would attract an audience's like Slashdot.
The fact that this is happening again and again is no coincidence. There is clearly collusion and someone is getting paid. A shockingly low amount, I suspect. You have to question the wisdom of an operation that doesn't even bother disguising the posting account, and then markets to the one audience in the world that is most enthusiastic about ad-blockers.
They made hundreds of millions of dollars off of a single fraudulent copyright claim and will experience no repercussions. These are the people RIAA is fighting for.
These people fund the RIAA (along with the other major labels), so naturally the RIAA fights for them.
I don't understand much about the technical details of Bitcoin anonymity...
You misunderstood the availability of anonymity in Bitcoin transactions. There isn't any. There is only pseudonymity. The blockchain is public. Your wallet is uniquely identified. It's only necessary to tie your wallet ID to your own ID to know everything you've ever done with Bitcoins. And that's usually quite simple, because extremely few people get paid in Bitcoins, so somewhere along the line is a currency exchange that knows both of those identifiers. And judging by the recent past, they're full of security holes. Alternatively, if you purchased something with Bitcoins, you accepted delivery of that something somehow. Since very few people have functioning dead drops, odds are you can be identified that way too, either directly by an address or indirectly by ownership of an account (when accepting digital products).
Actual anonymity is achievable while still using Bitcoins, but it is a serious, serious effort, that is in no way facilitated by Bitcoins themselves.
Slashdot Mirror
You mean http://goatse.cx.
Ordinarily I have no use for stupid fucking hashtags, but.... #kidstoday
The irony was irresistible. You couldn't even make it a live link...
Has engadget taken to serving all site picture from an ad server? 'cause I expected to see a picture of the Ludicrous Fridge and I didn't get it. Nor does the linked Samsung site (in Korean language) have a picture.
In agriculture, where you actively control which species is growing, crops will grow faster in a high CO2 atmosphere. However that additional growth will be in the form of carbohydrate; the protein density of crops will drop, because the synthesis of proteins is nitrogen limited (proteins are composed of amino acids, which are carboxylic acids with an NH2 group).
Most crops are radically over-fertilized with nitrogen though. This is why nitrogen runoff is such a problem. Very likely protein density will not change, since the requisite nitrogen to sustain protein synthesis is available.
This process of "converting" emails from secure to insecure is go-to-prison stuff.
No it's not. The process of converting classified data to unclassified data, from any specific classification level to any other specific and lower level is very well defined. FOIA requests are fulfilled using precisely this process. The process is so well defined that there exist automated systems to make it happen, which are certified and in production in military environments, and have been for longer than you've been alive. Lockheed Martin sells Radiant Mercury for precisely this purpose, and it is in use all over the world.
It is entirely possible to legally and actually convert a classified document into an unclassified document that still includes significant amounts of information. Admittedly it's easier to convert data from Top Secret to Secret than it is to convert either of those to Unclassified, but it is possible. In the case of hand-written conversions, it is only possible to determine if each conversion was done correctly by individually analyzing them, which is why only 5500 emails have been released to date. When the process is being followed methodically by trained staffers, the release of classified information is considered accidental, and contrary to your elementary school zero-tolerance mindset, it is recognized and penalized as such. In other words, no prison.
You and all of your ilk have a vastly simplistic worldview. Zero-tolerance does not work, anywhere. It is a massive failure in school systems, and it should not exist in either our government or our schools. "Due diligence" and "best effort" are recognized legal phrases for a reason. Mistakes can happen, and grotesque penalties for people dutifully attempting to follow the rules is not only a gross injustice, it also induces the sort of bureaucratic ass-covering that results in total paralysis. We need our government to work. We need our schools to work. Grow up, and stop advocating a completely unachievable perfection paired with crucifixion for transgressors. It's childish and counterproductive.
For the record, I've never voted for Hillary Clinton and never will, and I'm thoroughly anti-dynasty. I do not want another Clinton presidency, ever. I do not want another Bush presidency, ever. I do not want another Kennedy presidency, ever. No dynasties. No ruling families.
I could barely get tech interviews and my qualifications and experience were oft questioned (I had a good internship and grades and projects and such).This didn't happen to the guys I graduated with. It's something I've heard MANY times from MANY women. It's a slow pushing out of women in technology by men in technology because it's frankly just not worth the bullshit.
May I ask how many of those interviewing managers questioning your qualifications were non-technical? From what I've seen, that's the source of the problem. Non-technical managers who hate hiring developers of any kind because they're a "cost center" have no ability at all to judge the worth of any developer, because they don't understand what a developer does, or how a developer does what a developer does, so they latch on to the one visible thing they can understand: you're a girl. And monkey boy doing the hiring doesn't see many girls, so obviously there must be something odd about you, so obviously you have to be questioned much more closely about your qualifications.
I submit that actual technical people wouldn't treat you this way. They certainly don't in my workplace.
Yes. You CARE. We have all been hearing the dirge of the so-called progressives: "if you CARE about people, this is the way you should feel about X situation", or else MISOGYNY.
The fact that you care makes it all right for you to mischaracterize the problem?
And modded Troll... Looks like a certain permanently butthurt Slashdot "editor" is wielding mod points today. Anything contrary to the party line is being modded down en masse.
Thank you for being one of the numerous women on Slashdot who aren't putting up with the big lie.
And now, after I undid moderation, it's showing your post as 30% Interesting, 30% Overrated, and 20% Redundant. Previous it was 20% Interesting, 20% Redundant, 20% Insightful.
Looks like the shills are out in force, trying to enforce the message. Welcome to 2016...
Fuck 'em. And Happy New Year. :)
What total bullshit. I modded you +1 Informative and lame wannabe Beta Slashcode agreed that I had. It told me so. I was looking right at it. Then it stored a -1 Redundant to the database.
Posting to undo moderation.
Although.... on further reflection, perhaps Redundant is appropriate moderation.
Every time Dice is looking for their Friday pop in the numbers and posts one of these assinine stories, the established self-identified women of Slashdot remark that they don't see it. Not once does one of you post to say, "It's true! It's all True! And your little dog too!" Not once. Every post I see says, "No, this is BS, women are treated no worse than any man."
In terms of absolute numbers, the men do worse in Open Source because such a large majority of the contributors are presumptive males, but bad behavior is everywhere on the Internet, so the men take most of the flack. I'd be willing to bet that the men take more of the abuse even per capita, just because the only women who are taking shit are only present in the community in order to cause the shit in the first place (Anita Sarkeesian and her ilk). The women who are actually part of the community have no such problems. I know because they say so.
And thank you for that.
Take your average 300 foot tall starship. The water pressure difference form top to bottom is 10 atmospheres. That becomes a rather serious issue in diving.
Muffin-top starship?
Why the fuck don't you make some of the people drawing your handouts work for the system by providing those services. You just employed several people and cut 15m off the top.
Because they can't. There are existing national laws that say that in order for those people to be employed as civil servants, the total cost must be £15 million. It's illegal to pay less. The combination of mandatory salaries and capped maximum case loads demands it.
The city is not offering a basic income. They're trying to get around the maximum case load cap. They're essentially doing an end-run around the law in order to try to increase efficiency. Branding it "basic income" is a sleight of hand to try to get away with it. They may or may not succeed, but regardless, they won't create anything like a basic income in the process.
YOU are the treasoner.... YOU let it happen, YOU didn't protest, YOU voted for them, YOU sat at home.
Since he knows about the treason of Jane Fonda, he most likely didn't sit at home. Most likely he's a former Marine. The Marines will never forgive Jane Fonda.
Real ID is unconstitutional as all HELL!! It IS a national "ID card" - which is ILLEGAL under the constitution. Those that see terrorists around every corner are weak paranoid LEMMINGS! And have been FULLY brainwashed by the government!
I would like to spend a mod point on +1 Paranoid Ranting
Though of course it's not paranoia if they really are out to get you.
Physical switches cost money. Once you have some other control mechanism, it's almost inevitable that it'll become the only mechanism.
This seems unlikely anywhere the idiot hipsters haven't taken over. All of us have those physical switches right now. That's all we have, right now. Only an idiot hipster would remove the physical switch for a "cleaner user interface experience". Then they'll complain about their insomnia when the hidden electronically controlled switch fails. The rest of us will just turn off the damn light.
Though everyone loves Mars and those rovers are exciting, I was thinking how cool it would be to have a modern lunar rover with the HD cameras.
You are wanting to read this. In short, Google thinks so too, and is putting up $30 million in prizes if the competing teams can put a rover on the Moon and roll it 500 meters. The deadline is the end of 2017. One of the teams has signed a launch contract already, so they might make it. Audi has signed on to back the German team, so there may be a rover with an Audi logo on it rolling around on the Moon in a year or two.
Also just like Saudi Arabia, the rest of the society is so broke they're broken, so poor they can't even pay attention.
Props for the KMFDM reference.
But it's strange that you don't understand that the DHS is controlled by the executive branch of the government.
Within the limits of the law, and you did acknowledge that the law establishing the DHS was written by Republicans, yes? The executive branch of the government has essentially no discretion about where money is spent. The law says "thou shalt buy drones" and so they do. They have to. Congress said so, so therefore it is done. It doesn't matter what party affiliation the titular head of the administration has. The executive branch follows the law.
Now we all know that the executive branch has ways of making itself felt, especially foot-dragging as a tactic, but we also know the fix is in for the DHS, good and fucking hard. They get what they want, when they want, because the military-industrial complex is the best politically connected industry in the country. You think the little parenthetical letter after the president's name matters a damn when it comes to DHS spending? Don't make me laugh.
Humans of many nationalities worked on making it a reality.
No they didn't. Due to ITAR restrictions, SpaceX employees are US citizens or permanent residents. The vast majority are US citizens.
SpaceX, being privately held, doesn't have to divulge employee details publicly. I'd bet money that their employees and direct contractors are 100% US citizens. It makes the paperwork a lot easier, and they did get DOD approval for launching national security payloads. That's essentially impossible if non-citizens are involved, especially in this day and age.
That is what should be celebrated: the whole world came together to make this happen.
No they didn't. The whole world sat on their asses and watched it happen on TV (except the ones waving AK-47s in the air and chanting, "Death to America!"). Americans did the jobs that made it happen. Nobody else did.
I literally cringed when I heard the USA chants... leave it to USAians to make it about them when so many from many countries worked so hard to make it a reality.
What are you babbling about? SpaceX manufactures the entire rocket in Hawthorne, California. All of the metal bending, all of the welding, everything except a handful of chips is made in that plant. There were zero other countries involved in designing, building, launching, and performing the only first stage rocket recovery in history. Due to ITAR, all SpaceX employees are US citizens or permanent residents (green card holders). The vast majority are citizens. Even the company that paid for the launch, Orbcomm, is a US company.
In a time when such nationalism is frowned upon, their USA chant was entirely justified. It was solely a US effort, and solely a US success.
I'm also curious as to how closely to center it landed on its pad, would it have been successful if they had gone for a ocean platform landing or did a larger pad make all the difference.
Check out the landing image. I believe the appropriate phrase is "nailed it!"
How do they think all these strange circular features appeared all over the surface of Mars? Look at any virtual fly-by, there's not any safe plot of land large enough to hold a bed, let alone a house.
Over millions of years. Spirit tooled around on the surface of Mars for 5 years before getting stuck in a bed of sand. Never hit by a meteor. Opportunity has been trundling around on the surface of Mars for over a decade, and is still going. No meteors. Curiosity, the size of a small car, has been rolling around on the surface of Mars for 3 years, and is also still going. Still no meteors. Mars is pretty safe from random falling rock.
Nor is Mars all that cold. In the summer, the day time temperature is right around 70F. If it had a reasonable atmosphere, nights would be cool, but not chilly. There's plenty of oxygen. The whole surface of Mars is various metal oxides. There's lots of oxygen to be had.
The lack of an atmosphere is the problem. There are various proposals for fixing that, all of which are mathematically possible. And none of which are possible within the attention span of the human race, other than making the project a religion. Which is certainly a possibility.
An account repeatedly posting links to the same website, forbes.com. That website is full of ads, which are being shown to the audience that clicks through from Slashdot. The content is scienc-y stuff that would attract an audience's like Slashdot.
The fact that this is happening again and again is no coincidence. There is clearly collusion and someone is getting paid. A shockingly low amount, I suspect. You have to question the wisdom of an operation that doesn't even bother disguising the posting account, and then markets to the one audience in the world that is most enthusiastic about ad-blockers.
At least it's not Bennett.
They made hundreds of millions of dollars off of a single fraudulent copyright claim and will experience no repercussions. These are the people RIAA is fighting for.
These people fund the RIAA (along with the other major labels), so naturally the RIAA fights for them.
Why Doesn't SpaceX Provide Timely Information?
Lawyers.
Even though FAA rules don't preclude company communication during an accident investigation, ass-covering lawyers insist on a total shutdown anyway.
And since you're paying your lawyers to cover your ass... you do what they say.
I don't understand much about the technical details of Bitcoin anonymity...
You misunderstood the availability of anonymity in Bitcoin transactions. There isn't any. There is only pseudonymity. The blockchain is public. Your wallet is uniquely identified. It's only necessary to tie your wallet ID to your own ID to know everything you've ever done with Bitcoins. And that's usually quite simple, because extremely few people get paid in Bitcoins, so somewhere along the line is a currency exchange that knows both of those identifiers. And judging by the recent past, they're full of security holes. Alternatively, if you purchased something with Bitcoins, you accepted delivery of that something somehow. Since very few people have functioning dead drops, odds are you can be identified that way too, either directly by an address or indirectly by ownership of an account (when accepting digital products).
Actual anonymity is achievable while still using Bitcoins, but it is a serious, serious effort, that is in no way facilitated by Bitcoins themselves.
"contributes to projects that incorporate or design unbreakable cryptographic algorithms and has repositories for the distribution of the same"
yes? your child is a terrorist
Also a mathematical genius.