I'm sorry, but fourteen year olds are not "children" by every definition...
Oh yes they fucking are.
No they're not. By the biological definition, once a specimen has reached sexual maturity, it is an adult. Is a 14 year old human physically mature? No. Is a 14 year old human emotionally mature? No. Is a 14 year old human sexually mature? Hell yes. Effectively every 14 year old girl and damn near all of the 14 year old boys are capable of doing their part of what the species does to make more of their species.
So no, 14 year olds are not children by every definition. We would be better off if we acknowledged that and made allowances for it.
The creation of the category "teenager" should have filled that bill, but too many societies on Earth are positively schizophrenic about acknowledging the sexual realities of being a teenager. On the one hand, they're wishing with all their might that teenagers are still children—asexual, trusting, obedient, happy almost by default—and on the other, commercial advertising and entertainment sexually flaunts teenage bodies as the very peak of desirability and perfection, and it's all downhill after that. The reality is complicated, but it does include sex and sexual things.
So here we have a government getting all up in arms about a naked 14 year old boy. Do they think this is the first time in history a teenage girl saw a naked teenage boy unsolicited? Are they stupid? Teenage boys have been flashing teenage girls and vice versa since the dawn of time, when some near-monkey first said, "Shit, it's cold out here. I'ma wrap this bear skin around my naked ass." A week later, a near-monkey girl flipped up her skirt and mooned a boy, and a near-monkey boy dropped his drawers and waggled his penis at a girl, and it's been happening ever since. The use of the precious cell phone is fucking irrelevant, and the police register is fucking moronic. He didn't do a damn thing that hadn't been done before, and civilization didn't fall because of it, then or now.
For ocean communications coverage, they attached a laser communications system to some sharks.
Generating the artificial sharknado in order to improve coverage was challenging, but necessary. A shark's laser at sea level just doesn't provide enough coverage to be cost effective.
A year from now, I look forward to hearing Comcast whine about how "No legitimate user could seriously expect to pay $30 for 1.5 petabytes per month. Obviously, unlimited didn't mean unlimited - We intended it to give only another 300GB. We need to limit these greedy users out of fairness to our other customers."
A year from now? What color is the sky in your world? Comcast won't deploy anything capable of 1.5 petabytes per month anytime this century. Even when Google finishes their rollout in their 20th city (around 2080), they still won't bother. They'll just whine and cry, because that's so much cheaper than investing in infrastructure.
It's because it's easy to install a new firmware (ddwrt or tomato), set your country as JP and use channel 13 for instance at full power...
A poor example. The FCC clarified some time ago that they didn't intend to restrict the usage of channel 13 in the way that current firmwares do (usually by locking it out entirely).
If the rule hadn't so obviously been written by Belkin's lawyers as a money grab, we'd be less annoyed with it. As it is, the reason you cite sounds more like an excuse than a reasonable (and legal) justification.
It would be absolutely fantastic if people would be rational about tech news. Tech people/netizens are starting to sound like my grandfather now. Every change is something to be feared.
It ain't paranoia if they really are out to get you.
Considering DD-WRT was mentioned by name as something that would explicitly be banned, yes, this is something to be feared. If the FCC was doing their job, the job of regulating transmitters in order to preserve the utility of the commons that is the electromagnetic spectrum, the job that someone else pointed out they've been doing for 80 years, then there would be no problem. But when the proposed rule is worded primarily for the purpose of enriching a tiny handful of corporations, and only tangentially justified by their actual mandate, we're going to start sounding a bit shrill about it.
Tired of how shrill Slashdot has become lately? Blame the problem. Regulatory capture, and ongoing attempts such as this to extend it. This is the new normal. So of course we're going to become suspicious of every change, and of course we're going to be shrill about every change, because even when it's not such a blatant attempt at profiteering as this one is, Occam's Razor leads us to the conclusion that it's just a more subtle attempt at profiteering at our expense that we haven't figured out yet. The expense not only of our pocketbooks, but also our freedom, specifically the freedom to do whatever the hell we want with our possessions.[1]
The people running the FCC are people, but they are not just like me. Not in the least like me. The people running the FCC tell 300 million people what they can and can not do. I don't. They are not remotely like me. Therefore if I want to be suspicious of their motives, I damn well can be. Judging by past behavior, I damn well should be.
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[1] And before the pedantic among us 'correct' me and tell me I don't have the freedom to do whatever the hell I want with my possessions, it was a rhetorical device. The previous paragraph acknowledging the problem of preserving the commons was your clue. I am perfectly well aware that this is a worthy and laudable goal, and if the number of cases of WiFi AP firmware modification resulting in out-of-spec radio performance that interferes with other uses of the spectrum ever rises above zero, the FCC might have a good reason to issue a new rule. But it still wouldn't be this rule.
Persson also began hosting wild parties where guests like Skrillex, Selena Gomez, and Tony Hawk would sometimes make appearances.
I'd hire a ninja keep those people out. And another ninja to beat my ass if I had actually invited them.
Those people? Those people are precisely the kind of people who would show up to a Notch party. They were all raised middle class, at best, and I'd be shocked if any of them are more than double digit millionaires.
...
Yeah, I looked it up. Skrillex is worth an estimated $36 million, Selena Gomez is worth $20 million, and, surprise, surprise, Tony Hawk is worth $140 million. Still, none of them came from even big money, let alone old money.
With the exception of 2 or 3 posts here, Notch probably got better advice from Tony Hawk than he has from anybody else. Which is amusing to think about.
Traditional reasons for the differences in names between oceans, otherwise, God only knows why we don't just pick a word and stick with it - not like there's a functional difference....
In the future, OnHub can support smart devices that you bring into your home, whether they use Bluetooth® Smart Ready, Weave, or 802.15.4. We also plan to design new OnHub devices with other hardware partners in the future. Stay tuned for news from our second partner, ASUS, later this year.
In other words, they told the world up front that it's for home automation. So... Shock! Horror! It's for home automation!
This thread is full from top to bottom of why the Alphabet name was created. The Google guys want to be able to sell neat hardware without the tremendous "Google will spy on meh!" backlash. If the hardware is designed, manufactured, branded, and sold by a company that ISN'T an advertising company, maybe people will be able to believe it.
Maybe.
As for the device itself, I don't understand why all the angst about only two ports. My router is a Linux box. It has only two ports. It only needs two ports. The switch is a nice 24 port gigabit device, $70 on sale at NewEgg. It moves Ethernet packets around. My wifi access point is the dumbest possible no-name in bridge mode. It moves wifi packets around. I don't want either device to be routing anything at the IP level. Not their jobs.
I have to agree, I don't see why it's not a beige box. Infrastructure should not be seen. Isn't that the point of wifi? Invisible packets flying through the air! To this.... vase-looking thing on the kitchen counter? They justify it with "it werks better if it's out in the open!" I think I can live with a little signal degradation, and dispense with the electronic vase that my mother-in-law is going to try to pour water into.
Now that we've established the Belgium part is a fabrication, I'll wager good money the Chile and China parts are also fabrications. I've got a working visa in Hong Kong, no need to register with the police there. Shortly I'll have one for the UK, done a crapload of research, again no need to register with the police.
The GP left out the part where he's a registered sex offender. What can he say? He likes to piss on buildings. The fact that it was an elementary school at 10:00AM is all just a big misunderstanding. Is it his fault they site the bar within staggering distance of a school? And he just woke up. And he drank a LOT the night before. Perfectly natural mistake.
But he has to check in with police everywhere he goes.
It's there, but we have to put an absurd amount of relatively rare resources into photovoltaic cells to make *use* of that energy.
You have peculiar notions about what solar cells are made of.
By weight, a finished monocrystalline solar panel is primarily silicon, 2nd most abundant element in Earth's crust, followed by aluminum, 3rd most abundant element in Earth's crust. The n-dopant that is half of what makes the silicon a semiconductor is phosphorous, 11th most abundant element in Earth's crust. The p-dopant that is the other half of what makes the silicon a semiconductor is boron, 41st most abundant element in Earth's crust, considerably more common than beryllium or tin, somewhat less common than lead. There is a tiny bit of silver on the upper surface, as a conductor, 65th most common element in Earth's crust, and the only remotely rare element in the list. Fortunately it is used in proportion to its rarity, so it's not a limiting factor to speak of.
In short, solar panel production is not in any way material limited. The Earth is made of the necessary elements, almost in the proportions they are used. There is enough of the necessary materials available to plate the entire surface of the Earth in solar cells, oceans included.
Fortunately no such excess is necessary. A population of 20 billion could enjoy the average per-person energy availability of an American without covering an appreciable fraction of the Earth's surface in solar panels, and you couldn't tell the difference in terms of the material used.
su is not only for root. it has a dual purpose: switch user or super user. Sometimes you might have to run a command as another user. So if you need to login as Gary you $su gary and type in Gary's password.
Yes, but not quite. If you need to login as Gary, you $su gary and type in your password. You never know Gary's password.
Unless you're using systemd su. Then I suppose maybe you do have to demand Gary's password. That sounds like something Poettering would think up.
There should be pushback. But there won't be pushback.
In North Dakota? A machine points a weapon at them with no visible human, you can bet North Dakotans will shoot back, and they won't be shy about using lethal weapons. This is practically an invitation to a skeet-shoot. Any reluctance to fire at law enforcement simply doesn't exist when it's nothing but a buzzing flying thing. Even if it's a larger one, if it's low and slow enough to employ a non-lethal weapon successfully, it's GOING to get shot down, repeatedly. Yeah, you'll be brought up on charges. It won't stop people, no matter how much of an example they make of the first few.
If a girl can improve her reading comprehension and strengthen her vocabulary by reading trashy novels...
If? Have you actually read one of those things? I have, basically on a dare, and I was assured by the woman who issued the challenge that it was typical of the genre. And there will be no vocabulary strengthening from trashy romance novels. They're apparently written using the apocryphal 700 words that newspapers are supposed to use. Wielders of extended vocabularies, they are not. With the exception of being excellent sources of synonyms for "breasts" and "penis". Somehow I don't think the children would have any trouble picking those up on their own, so I'm thinking the trashy novel is not a big win.
They are missing a perfect opportunity to conduct testing on the effects of alcohol on the human body while weightless!
You do realize half the station personnel at any time are Russian, right? And that they get a personal baggage allowance? Which is inspected by other Russians? That was practically the first experiment conducted on the human body in space, aside from just living and breathing.
In 1789 "press" meant a movable type device that printed a single sheet, at most a few times a minute. I wonder, how far from that can you go and still claim the 1st amendment applies?
To be fair, it was kind of a funny comment. All someone has to do to get +5 is read the article, summarize the relevant points, and suddenly you are the most knowledgeable guy in the room because no one reads the articles.
With good reason. Half the time the article is wrong, either in whole or in part, and you have to read six other things too before you really have any understanding of the topic.
For years, the summary was usually insanely wrong. Diametrically opposed to the linked article. It was bizarre. I'm convinced it was Slashdot editor policy to pick the worst possible article summary submission for the front page in order to drive comments correcting it. So yeah, you had to read the comments to find out what was actually said (because you weren't going to read the article, because it was wrong anyway).
Just like you CAN install a hotrod intake manifold, but doing so shouldn't be required in order to drive.
Well finally you got around to the car analogy, with the very last sentence. Now it all makes sense. That should have been your first sentence, not your last.
$5 says that the 600MHz spectrum gets sold to cell companies.
You plebs don't need a $50 WiFi router that can reach a mile away.
If it was for sale, then you'd get your $5. But it's not. "Whitespace" spectrum is unlicensed, limited use of existing licensed spectrum which will not change hands. This is what Google has been after since the 700 MHz auction in 2008. The existing licensed users (OTA TV stations) stay in place, and maintain priority. But they're not using all of the spectrum in every major market, and there are very few licensed users in rural areas. All of that empty spectrum (minus guard bands around the licensed users) can be used ad hoc by transmitters that obey the power caps.
This ruling makes available TV channels 2 through 51 for the general public, as long as there is no incumbent licensed user. In practice, that means rural users could get lots of bandwidth. City users in the most crowded television markets get almost nothing.
Time dilation isn't proven, otherwise we wouldn't have been able to see anything.
What are you babbling about? The GPS system has detailed time dilation compensation built into it. It's not only proven, it has to be accounted for in the engineering of a functioning system in worldwide use.
GPS satellites are moving at 14,000 km/hr relative to Earth's surface, a Special Relativity time dilation of 7 microseconds per day. But Earth-based clocks are deeper in the gravity well of Earth, so they suffer a General Relativity time dilation of 45 microseconds per day. The nanosecond accurate clocks on board the satellites are pre-calibrated before launch to tick more slowly than they should while on Earth, so once in orbit, they tick at a General-Relativity-time-dilation-compensated rate that then matches Earth clocks. The software still has to compensate for any additional, unpredictable drift caused by orbital variances.
Time dilation is quite real, and must be accounted for, or GPS and Galileo wouldn't work at all. Uncompensated clock error amounts to 10km on Earth per day.
Which is absolutely stupid- Marvel has shown that they know how to do superhero movies and that they are willing to play ball to get control back (look at the deal they made with Sony for Spiderman). They'd be happy to do the same for Fantastic Four. The problem is the same studio owns XMen, and doesn't want to lose that cash cow.
So presumably sometime around 2020, we'll see Marvel Studio do Fantastic Four. Hugh Jackman is quitting as Wolverine. He'll be in the next X-Men movie, and in one more Wolverine movie, and then he's done. Which, given that he'll turn 50 before the last Wolverine movie comes out, is hard to hold against him. But it means the end of X-Men being a cash cow.
Yes, Patrick Stewart and Ian McKellen have done fantastic jobs, but neither Professor X nor Magneto are the main draws for X-Men. It's going to be extremely difficult to recast Wolverine, and I pity the actor who tries. Hugh Jackman has made the role his own.
I am reminded of Joe Haldeman's Forever Peace, exploring the direct military implementation of a more sophisticated form of the same technology. Violently, as Joe Haldeman always does.
Funny enough in some countries that are pushing for 'hard time' for copyright infringement, I could commit manslaughter(maybe as much as 2nd degree) here in Canada and be out before they would be.
Of course, they want it for the threat, not the actual incarceration rate.
Not a bona-fide Made Man with establishment credentials? Starting to get traction in local elections? A nice man in a black suit shows up at your door step with a suitcase full of printout (on tractor feed paper). He sits down in your living room and shows you and your wife the list of hundreds of copyright infringements you have committed, and asks you wouldn't it be a shame if your wife and kids were put out on the street because you were languishing in jail for longer than someone who committed manslaughter and really wouldn't it be a good idea to withdraw from the race and stop making press? Of course it would. And he was never there. And nobody would believe you if you said he was.
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I'm sorry, but fourteen year olds are not "children" by every definition...
Oh yes they fucking are.
No they're not. By the biological definition, once a specimen has reached sexual maturity, it is an adult. Is a 14 year old human physically mature? No. Is a 14 year old human emotionally mature? No. Is a 14 year old human sexually mature? Hell yes. Effectively every 14 year old girl and damn near all of the 14 year old boys are capable of doing their part of what the species does to make more of their species.
So no, 14 year olds are not children by every definition. We would be better off if we acknowledged that and made allowances for it.
The creation of the category "teenager" should have filled that bill, but too many societies on Earth are positively schizophrenic about acknowledging the sexual realities of being a teenager. On the one hand, they're wishing with all their might that teenagers are still children—asexual, trusting, obedient, happy almost by default—and on the other, commercial advertising and entertainment sexually flaunts teenage bodies as the very peak of desirability and perfection, and it's all downhill after that. The reality is complicated, but it does include sex and sexual things.
So here we have a government getting all up in arms about a naked 14 year old boy. Do they think this is the first time in history a teenage girl saw a naked teenage boy unsolicited? Are they stupid? Teenage boys have been flashing teenage girls and vice versa since the dawn of time, when some near-monkey first said, "Shit, it's cold out here. I'ma wrap this bear skin around my naked ass." A week later, a near-monkey girl flipped up her skirt and mooned a boy, and a near-monkey boy dropped his drawers and waggled his penis at a girl, and it's been happening ever since. The use of the precious cell phone is fucking irrelevant, and the police register is fucking moronic. He didn't do a damn thing that hadn't been done before, and civilization didn't fall because of it, then or now.
For ocean communications coverage, they attached a laser communications system to some sharks.
Generating the artificial sharknado in order to improve coverage was challenging, but necessary. A shark's laser at sea level just doesn't provide enough coverage to be cost effective.
A year from now, I look forward to hearing Comcast whine about how "No legitimate user could seriously expect to pay $30 for 1.5 petabytes per month. Obviously, unlimited didn't mean unlimited - We intended it to give only another 300GB. We need to limit these greedy users out of fairness to our other customers."
A year from now? What color is the sky in your world? Comcast won't deploy anything capable of 1.5 petabytes per month anytime this century. Even when Google finishes their rollout in their 20th city (around 2080), they still won't bother. They'll just whine and cry, because that's so much cheaper than investing in infrastructure.
It's because it's easy to install a new firmware (ddwrt or tomato), set your country as JP and use channel 13 for instance at full power...
A poor example. The FCC clarified some time ago that they didn't intend to restrict the usage of channel 13 in the way that current firmwares do (usually by locking it out entirely).
If the rule hadn't so obviously been written by Belkin's lawyers as a money grab, we'd be less annoyed with it. As it is, the reason you cite sounds more like an excuse than a reasonable (and legal) justification.
It would be absolutely fantastic if people would be rational about tech news. Tech people/netizens are starting to sound like my grandfather now. Every change is something to be feared.
It ain't paranoia if they really are out to get you.
Considering DD-WRT was mentioned by name as something that would explicitly be banned, yes, this is something to be feared. If the FCC was doing their job, the job of regulating transmitters in order to preserve the utility of the commons that is the electromagnetic spectrum, the job that someone else pointed out they've been doing for 80 years, then there would be no problem. But when the proposed rule is worded primarily for the purpose of enriching a tiny handful of corporations, and only tangentially justified by their actual mandate, we're going to start sounding a bit shrill about it.
Tired of how shrill Slashdot has become lately? Blame the problem. Regulatory capture, and ongoing attempts such as this to extend it. This is the new normal. So of course we're going to become suspicious of every change, and of course we're going to be shrill about every change, because even when it's not such a blatant attempt at profiteering as this one is, Occam's Razor leads us to the conclusion that it's just a more subtle attempt at profiteering at our expense that we haven't figured out yet. The expense not only of our pocketbooks, but also our freedom, specifically the freedom to do whatever the hell we want with our possessions.[1]
The people running the FCC are people, but they are not just like me. Not in the least like me. The people running the FCC tell 300 million people what they can and can not do. I don't. They are not remotely like me. Therefore if I want to be suspicious of their motives, I damn well can be. Judging by past behavior, I damn well should be.
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[1] And before the pedantic among us 'correct' me and tell me I don't have the freedom to do whatever the hell I want with my possessions, it was a rhetorical device. The previous paragraph acknowledging the problem of preserving the commons was your clue. I am perfectly well aware that this is a worthy and laudable goal, and if the number of cases of WiFi AP firmware modification resulting in out-of-spec radio performance that interferes with other uses of the spectrum ever rises above zero, the FCC might have a good reason to issue a new rule. But it still wouldn't be this rule.
Persson also began hosting wild parties where guests like Skrillex, Selena Gomez, and Tony Hawk would sometimes make appearances.
I'd hire a ninja keep those people out.
And another ninja to beat my ass if I had actually invited them.
Those people? Those people are precisely the kind of people who would show up to a Notch party. They were all raised middle class, at best, and I'd be shocked if any of them are more than double digit millionaires.
Yeah, I looked it up. Skrillex is worth an estimated $36 million, Selena Gomez is worth $20 million, and, surprise, surprise, Tony Hawk is worth $140 million. Still, none of them came from even big money, let alone old money.
With the exception of 2 or 3 posts here, Notch probably got better advice from Tony Hawk than he has from anybody else. Which is amusing to think about.
It's "for all in tents and porpoises", dum-dum.
"Dum-dum". I like that. The word has fallen out of favor in recent times. We need to bring it back.
Kids these days swear too much. They should be saying "dum-dum". Sarcastically.
Traditional reasons for the differences in names between oceans, otherwise, God only knows why we don't just pick a word and stick with it - not like there's a functional difference....
We did. It's called a tropical cyclone. Good for all oceans.
Trojan horse? Seriously? ++Clickbait;
From their own blurb:
In the future, OnHub can support smart devices that you bring into your home, whether they use Bluetooth® Smart Ready, Weave, or 802.15.4. We also plan to design new OnHub devices with other hardware partners in the future. Stay tuned for news from our second partner, ASUS, later this year.
In other words, they told the world up front that it's for home automation. So... Shock! Horror! It's for home automation!
This thread is full from top to bottom of why the Alphabet name was created. The Google guys want to be able to sell neat hardware without the tremendous "Google will spy on meh!" backlash. If the hardware is designed, manufactured, branded, and sold by a company that ISN'T an advertising company, maybe people will be able to believe it.
Maybe.
As for the device itself, I don't understand why all the angst about only two ports. My router is a Linux box. It has only two ports. It only needs two ports. The switch is a nice 24 port gigabit device, $70 on sale at NewEgg. It moves Ethernet packets around. My wifi access point is the dumbest possible no-name in bridge mode. It moves wifi packets around. I don't want either device to be routing anything at the IP level. Not their jobs.
I have to agree, I don't see why it's not a beige box. Infrastructure should not be seen. Isn't that the point of wifi? Invisible packets flying through the air! To this.... vase-looking thing on the kitchen counter? They justify it with "it werks better if it's out in the open!" I think I can live with a little signal degradation, and dispense with the electronic vase that my mother-in-law is going to try to pour water into.
Now that we've established the Belgium part is a fabrication, I'll wager good money the Chile and China parts are also fabrications. I've got a working visa in Hong Kong, no need to register with the police there. Shortly I'll have one for the UK, done a crapload of research, again no need to register with the police.
The GP left out the part where he's a registered sex offender. What can he say? He likes to piss on buildings. The fact that it was an elementary school at 10:00AM is all just a big misunderstanding. Is it his fault they site the bar within staggering distance of a school? And he just woke up. And he drank a LOT the night before. Perfectly natural mistake.
But he has to check in with police everywhere he goes.
It's there, but we have to put an absurd amount of relatively rare resources into photovoltaic cells to make *use* of that energy.
You have peculiar notions about what solar cells are made of.
By weight, a finished monocrystalline solar panel is primarily silicon, 2nd most abundant element in Earth's crust, followed by aluminum, 3rd most abundant element in Earth's crust. The n-dopant that is half of what makes the silicon a semiconductor is phosphorous, 11th most abundant element in Earth's crust. The p-dopant that is the other half of what makes the silicon a semiconductor is boron, 41st most abundant element in Earth's crust, considerably more common than beryllium or tin, somewhat less common than lead. There is a tiny bit of silver on the upper surface, as a conductor, 65th most common element in Earth's crust, and the only remotely rare element in the list. Fortunately it is used in proportion to its rarity, so it's not a limiting factor to speak of.
In short, solar panel production is not in any way material limited. The Earth is made of the necessary elements, almost in the proportions they are used. There is enough of the necessary materials available to plate the entire surface of the Earth in solar cells, oceans included.
Fortunately no such excess is necessary. A population of 20 billion could enjoy the average per-person energy availability of an American without covering an appreciable fraction of the Earth's surface in solar panels, and you couldn't tell the difference in terms of the material used.
su is not only for root. it has a dual purpose: switch user or super user. Sometimes you might have to run a command as another user. So if you need to login as Gary you $su gary and type in Gary's password.
Yes, but not quite. If you need to login as Gary, you $su gary and type in your password. You never know Gary's password.
Unless you're using systemd su. Then I suppose maybe you do have to demand Gary's password. That sounds like something Poettering would think up.
There should be pushback. But there won't be pushback.
In North Dakota? A machine points a weapon at them with no visible human, you can bet North Dakotans will shoot back, and they won't be shy about using lethal weapons. This is practically an invitation to a skeet-shoot. Any reluctance to fire at law enforcement simply doesn't exist when it's nothing but a buzzing flying thing. Even if it's a larger one, if it's low and slow enough to employ a non-lethal weapon successfully, it's GOING to get shot down, repeatedly. Yeah, you'll be brought up on charges. It won't stop people, no matter how much of an example they make of the first few.
If a girl can improve her reading comprehension and strengthen her vocabulary by reading trashy novels...
If? Have you actually read one of those things? I have, basically on a dare, and I was assured by the woman who issued the challenge that it was typical of the genre. And there will be no vocabulary strengthening from trashy romance novels. They're apparently written using the apocryphal 700 words that newspapers are supposed to use. Wielders of extended vocabularies, they are not. With the exception of being excellent sources of synonyms for "breasts" and "penis". Somehow I don't think the children would have any trouble picking those up on their own, so I'm thinking the trashy novel is not a big win.
Why, Raymond Bradbury is the ... warmest...
I think you're neglecting the fact that he's dead.
Just sayin'.
They are missing a perfect opportunity to conduct testing on the effects of alcohol on the human body while weightless!
You do realize half the station personnel at any time are Russian, right? And that they get a personal baggage allowance? Which is inspected by other Russians? That was practically the first experiment conducted on the human body in space, aside from just living and breathing.
In 1789 "press" meant a movable type device that printed a single sheet, at most a few times a minute. I wonder, how far from that can you go and still claim the 1st amendment applies?
Well done.
To be fair, it was kind of a funny comment. All someone has to do to get +5 is read the article, summarize the relevant points, and suddenly you are the most knowledgeable guy in the room because no one reads the articles.
With good reason. Half the time the article is wrong, either in whole or in part, and you have to read six other things too before you really have any understanding of the topic.
For years, the summary was usually insanely wrong. Diametrically opposed to the linked article. It was bizarre. I'm convinced it was Slashdot editor policy to pick the worst possible article summary submission for the front page in order to drive comments correcting it. So yeah, you had to read the comments to find out what was actually said (because you weren't going to read the article, because it was wrong anyway).
Just like you CAN install a hotrod intake manifold, but doing so shouldn't be required in order to drive.
Well finally you got around to the car analogy, with the very last sentence. Now it all makes sense. That should have been your first sentence, not your last.
$5 says that the 600MHz spectrum gets sold to cell companies.
You plebs don't need a $50 WiFi router that can reach a mile away.
If it was for sale, then you'd get your $5. But it's not. "Whitespace" spectrum is unlicensed, limited use of existing licensed spectrum which will not change hands. This is what Google has been after since the 700 MHz auction in 2008. The existing licensed users (OTA TV stations) stay in place, and maintain priority. But they're not using all of the spectrum in every major market, and there are very few licensed users in rural areas. All of that empty spectrum (minus guard bands around the licensed users) can be used ad hoc by transmitters that obey the power caps.
This ruling makes available TV channels 2 through 51 for the general public, as long as there is no incumbent licensed user. In practice, that means rural users could get lots of bandwidth. City users in the most crowded television markets get almost nothing.
... totally insane homeless people, and startup tech firms.
But you repeat yourself.
Time dilation isn't proven, otherwise we wouldn't have been able to see anything.
What are you babbling about? The GPS system has detailed time dilation compensation built into it. It's not only proven, it has to be accounted for in the engineering of a functioning system in worldwide use.
GPS satellites are moving at 14,000 km/hr relative to Earth's surface, a Special Relativity time dilation of 7 microseconds per day. But Earth-based clocks are deeper in the gravity well of Earth, so they suffer a General Relativity time dilation of 45 microseconds per day. The nanosecond accurate clocks on board the satellites are pre-calibrated before launch to tick more slowly than they should while on Earth, so once in orbit, they tick at a General-Relativity-time-dilation-compensated rate that then matches Earth clocks. The software still has to compensate for any additional, unpredictable drift caused by orbital variances.
Time dilation is quite real, and must be accounted for, or GPS and Galileo wouldn't work at all. Uncompensated clock error amounts to 10km on Earth per day.
Which is absolutely stupid- Marvel has shown that they know how to do superhero movies and that they are willing to play ball to get control back (look at the deal they made with Sony for Spiderman). They'd be happy to do the same for Fantastic Four. The problem is the same studio owns XMen, and doesn't want to lose that cash cow.
So presumably sometime around 2020, we'll see Marvel Studio do Fantastic Four. Hugh Jackman is quitting as Wolverine. He'll be in the next X-Men movie, and in one more Wolverine movie, and then he's done. Which, given that he'll turn 50 before the last Wolverine movie comes out, is hard to hold against him. But it means the end of X-Men being a cash cow.
Yes, Patrick Stewart and Ian McKellen have done fantastic jobs, but neither Professor X nor Magneto are the main draws for X-Men. It's going to be extremely difficult to recast Wolverine, and I pity the actor who tries. Hugh Jackman has made the role his own.
I am reminded of Joe Haldeman's Forever Peace, exploring the direct military implementation of a more sophisticated form of the same technology. Violently, as Joe Haldeman always does.
Food for thought.
Funny enough in some countries that are pushing for 'hard time' for copyright infringement, I could commit manslaughter(maybe as much as 2nd degree) here in Canada and be out before they would be.
Of course, they want it for the threat, not the actual incarceration rate.
Not a bona-fide Made Man with establishment credentials? Starting to get traction in local elections? A nice man in a black suit shows up at your door step with a suitcase full of printout (on tractor feed paper). He sits down in your living room and shows you and your wife the list of hundreds of copyright infringements you have committed, and asks you wouldn't it be a shame if your wife and kids were put out on the street because you were languishing in jail for longer than someone who committed manslaughter and really wouldn't it be a good idea to withdraw from the race and stop making press? Of course it would. And he was never there. And nobody would believe you if you said he was.