This is Slashdot. The title invites a question, and TFS doesn't answer it.
That's easy. Paper jams persist because Xerox has a team of engineers to prevent them. The team designs the printer or copier to prevent most paper jams.
However, they still let it have a few paper jams. If they would design the machine to have no paper jams . . . their skills would not be needed, and they would get fired.
So paper jams persist to provide job security for those who are paid to prevent them.
It seems likely on the order of tomorrow's sunrise that educating the public about the Bitcoin would certainly not lead to more folks purchasing it.
Even if they are educated, folks still will speculate in Bitcoins anyway. It's like gambling, alcohol, tobacco and opiates. People like to mess with stuff that they know is bad for them.
I can understand why there is high interest in Blockchain among students. Even if it is riddled with scams right now, Blockchain skills are good to have when applying for your first job. That and Automation and AI.
Bitcoin is going to run its course, and a lot of folks are going to make a lot of money from idiots during that run. Hell, even Beanie Babies made money for folks . . . for a while.
Oh, it gets much better than that. From Wikipedia:
Similar to fiberglass, Duroplast has limited possibilities for efficient disposal. As discarded Trabants began to fill junkyards, disposing of the bodies inspired creative solutions. One of these was developed by a Berlin biotechnology company, who experimented with a bacterium that would consume the body in 20 days.[2][3] Urban legends, depicted in the movie Black Cat White Cat and described in a song by the Serbian band Atheist Rap, described recycling Duroplast by
feeding the cars to pigs, sheep and other farm animals.
Duroplast flavored bacon? Yum, yum!
After the Berlin Wall fell, Germans voted with their wallets on how they felt about Duraplast cars. Although, the Trabi was overall a crappy car, so it wasn't just the Duroplast. It's amusing that just across the border, the West Germans were building BMWs and Porsches.
That shows you how bad communism is. Under communism, you can take take a nation of Germans, and only make crappy cars with them.
A few generations ago, 16 year olds lied to Army recruiters to be able to parachute into Nazi-occupied Western Europe during WWII.
Today 16 year olds parachute into Nazi-occupied Western Europe in online games.
There is no need for the real thing.
And you could try to convince the Germans to go all Nazi again and occupy Western Europe with polluting diesel tanks, but they couldn't be bothered with it because they can do that online.
Hey, but our 16 year olds today will put in an extensive effort to lie their ways into online games that are only allow for folks older than 18.
Wow, with this technology they would be able to produce enough salt to last them forever!
Folks in South East Asia like to season their food with plenty of salty soy sauce and putrid dead fish sauce. So I see no need for them for desalinated water.
Just pump soy and fishy tasting sea water directly into the taps at home, and market the water as "pre seasoned". No-one drinks tap water these days anyway. All other uses for water like cooking, bathing and washing can be done with fishy soy sauce water.
These atoll dwelling critters are a bunch of whining bowheads. They just need to put their villages up on stilts. Plenty of folks in South East Asia do that:
Tourists love to stay in those waterworld resorts, so a foreign investor would probably bankroll it.
Additionally, they could just accept a super-container ship full of junk cars, and dump them on the atoll. Add a healthy tanker full of coral fertilizer and steroids from Monsanto, and the cars will be beautiful reef a year later. Old computers and terminals could also be used as well.
Yeah, well that's tough luck that their country is becoming inhabitable, but that happens to places all over the world, for as long as we know history. The Middle East is not the rosy garden of the Bible any more. Or for modern examples, look at Camden, New Jersey or Detroit. If the place where you are living becomes uninhabitable, humans pack their bags and go somewhere else.
A waterworld would be an excellent place for ornery Slashdotters to live: you would never need to yell at kids to get off your lawn.
Well, he can't buy some. They use the Über gig model.
If he wants to ride in a rocket, he will have to use the app, just like everyone else.
He doesn't have any problems with the rocket taxi unions. He shot the union leaders out of circus canons spiked with C-4, or killed them in other cruel, unusual or bizarre methods.
That is a perfect field because you can apply for grants in many different fields.
I dunno. The field name contains two words that CDC doctors says causes Heebie-Jeebies in Congress Critters. Astro: Wasting good money on worthless space exploration. Biologist: Abortionist.
So funding for a Space Abortionist . . . I think not!
Most people who play video games where you get a gun and kill other people, never dream of killing people in real life at all (most, especially non-Americans, don't have guns and have never handled one).
When they kick at your front door
How you gonna come?
With your hands on your head
Or on the trigger of your gun?
I guess that question is answered for non-Americans, then.
I grew up watching "The Three Stooges" with other school kids. We didn't go into the schoolyard and gouge eyeballs out, tear out hair or put heads in vices.
Now we see the violence inherent in the system . . .
Whether a child is violent or not has one overwhelming factor: The parents, or lack thereof.
Don't blame schools, video games or Global Warming on your child's behavior.
. . . I'm a little disappointed that they are choosing a city for their new HQ.
I would have preferred something more obscenely, conspicuously techie, like on a floating barge in the middle of the Pacific Bermuda Triangle. Or at the bottom of an abandoned mine shaft, housing long term nuclear particle detection experiment.
I suspect quite a few of us have tagged HD images bundled together and ready to upload.
My list of of twenty pictures:
Hillary.
Donald.
A can of Cheez Whiz.
A fractal cow: http://mndl.hu/2008-02-01-frac... A Bitcoin.
A Jai Alai Cesta.
John Small Berries.
A build break.
An iPhone battery.
Bacon.
Bigfoot.
Queen Elizabeth's Crown Jewels.
An ingrown toenail.
Twenty years to life, with no chance of parole.
"The Economist" international Big Mac index.
A Nobel Peace Prize.
An Ig Nobel.
Winter Storm f "Friederike".
A Ford F-450 Super Duty Limited.
Slashdot.
Slashdot Mirror
Where do you get the detonator and explosive from?
From the cabinet beneath your kitchen sink.
Or in your bathroom closet, where you keep your cleaning stuff.
Or a big jar of iodine crystals and a bottle of ammonia.
There are still a few minor "stability" issues with that last one.
Is it possible to get my money back?
It's a good time to review the definitions of "real" and "virtual" at this point.
If you can see it, and it's there . . . it's real.
If you can see it, and it's not there . . . it's virtual.
If you can't see it, and it's not there . . . it's gone.
These financial fumblers will get their lawsuit . . . but their money is long gone.
> those people are appointed appointed by whom ?
Russian hackers, of course.
This is Slashdot. The title invites a question, and TFS doesn't answer it.
That's easy. Paper jams persist because Xerox has a team of engineers to prevent them. The team designs the printer or copier to prevent most paper jams.
However, they still let it have a few paper jams. If they would design the machine to have no paper jams . . . their skills would not be needed, and they would get fired.
So paper jams persist to provide job security for those who are paid to prevent them.
It seems likely on the order of tomorrow's sunrise that educating the public about the Bitcoin would certainly not lead to more folks purchasing it.
Even if they are educated, folks still will speculate in Bitcoins anyway. It's like gambling, alcohol, tobacco and opiates. People like to mess with stuff that they know is bad for them.
I can understand why there is high interest in Blockchain among students. Even if it is riddled with scams right now, Blockchain skills are good to have when applying for your first job. That and Automation and AI.
Bitcoin is going to run its course, and a lot of folks are going to make a lot of money from idiots during that run. Hell, even Beanie Babies made money for folks . . . for a while.
Russia or North Korea?
Just wait and see who wins all the medals.
It would be very suspicious if Canada and the Scandinavian countries left without any medals.
Oh, it gets much better than that. From Wikipedia:
Similar to fiberglass, Duroplast has limited possibilities for efficient disposal. As discarded Trabants began to fill junkyards, disposing of the bodies inspired creative solutions. One of these was developed by a Berlin biotechnology company, who experimented with a bacterium that would consume the body in 20 days.[2][3] Urban legends, depicted in the movie Black Cat White Cat and described in a song by the Serbian band Atheist Rap, described recycling Duroplast by
feeding the cars to pigs, sheep and other farm animals.
Duroplast flavored bacon? Yum, yum!
After the Berlin Wall fell, Germans voted with their wallets on how they felt about Duraplast cars. Although, the Trabi was overall a crappy car, so it wasn't just the Duroplast. It's amusing that just across the border, the West Germans were building BMWs and Porsches.
That shows you how bad communism is. Under communism, you can take take a nation of Germans, and only make crappy cars with them.
A few generations ago, 16 year olds lied to Army recruiters to be able to parachute into Nazi-occupied Western Europe during WWII.
Today 16 year olds parachute into Nazi-occupied Western Europe in online games.
There is no need for the real thing.
And you could try to convince the Germans to go all Nazi again and occupy Western Europe with polluting diesel tanks, but they couldn't be bothered with it because they can do that online.
Hey, but our 16 year olds today will put in an extensive effort to lie their ways into online games that are only allow for folks older than 18.
Wow, with this technology they would be able to produce enough salt to last them forever!
Folks in South East Asia like to season their food with plenty of salty soy sauce and putrid dead fish sauce. So I see no need for them for desalinated water.
Just pump soy and fishy tasting sea water directly into the taps at home, and market the water as "pre seasoned". No-one drinks tap water these days anyway. All other uses for water like cooking, bathing and washing can be done with fishy soy sauce water.
Actually communication directly via twitter makes no sense what so ever, defiantly no spy vs spy.
The NSA is using Twitter as a Numbers Station: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Nothing new or exciting about this.
These atoll dwelling critters are a bunch of whining bowheads. They just need to put their villages up on stilts. Plenty of folks in South East Asia do that:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Tourists love to stay in those waterworld resorts, so a foreign investor would probably bankroll it.
Additionally, they could just accept a super-container ship full of junk cars, and dump them on the atoll. Add a healthy tanker full of coral fertilizer and steroids from Monsanto, and the cars will be beautiful reef a year later. Old computers and terminals could also be used as well.
Yeah, well that's tough luck that their country is becoming inhabitable, but that happens to places all over the world, for as long as we know history. The Middle East is not the rosy garden of the Bible any more. Or for modern examples, look at Camden, New Jersey or Detroit. If the place where you are living becomes uninhabitable, humans pack their bags and go somewhere else.
A waterworld would be an excellent place for ornery Slashdotters to live: you would never need to yell at kids to get off your lawn.
which came first: it was the human, and not the egg. ;-)
Now we just need to grow some human bacon in the lab and then we will be all set for breakfast.
Kim Jong Un would like to buy some
Well, he can't buy some. They use the Über gig model.
If he wants to ride in a rocket, he will have to use the app, just like everyone else.
He doesn't have any problems with the rocket taxi unions. He shot the union leaders out of circus canons spiked with C-4, or killed them in other cruel, unusual or bizarre methods.
The fidelity difference between that and lossless is way below what the human ear can discriminate.
Which is why I don't use human ears when I am listening to my high fidelity audio system.
...is now limited to bonzais and flower pots only.
Not being able to answer questions is not problem for Apple users.
They already know everything better anyway.
What the law says doesn't matter (see what I did there?), because the science is settled:
Particles cause Global Warming, and they don't even have a bad conscience about doing so.
You people are insane.
No . . . they are prepping for their lawsuit against Subway for ruining the planet.
We definitely need more automation to solve Global Warming. More robots means less human workers eating sandwiches, and ruining the planet even more.
What to do with all those former human workers who can't or refuse to be retrained . . . ?
Soylent Green.
That is a perfect field because you can apply for grants in many different fields.
I dunno. The field name contains two words that CDC doctors says causes Heebie-Jeebies in Congress Critters. Astro: Wasting good money on worthless space exploration. Biologist: Abortionist.
So funding for a Space Abortionist . . . I think not!
Cars in the UK don't have titles.
Nonsense . . . my Morris Minor has an OBE.
The guy who sold it to me told me it inherited the title from its father, the "Yo" man Beef Wellington Triumph TR4.
If you look in the trunks, you'll find Jimmy Hoffa in one.
Most people who play video games where you get a gun and kill other people, never dream of killing people in real life at all (most, especially non-Americans, don't have guns and have never handled one).
When they kick at your front door
How you gonna come?
With your hands on your head
Or on the trigger of your gun?
I guess that question is answered for non-Americans, then.
I grew up watching "The Three Stooges" with other school kids. We didn't go into the schoolyard and gouge eyeballs out, tear out hair or put heads in vices.
Now we see the violence inherent in the system . . .
Whether a child is violent or not has one overwhelming factor: The parents, or lack thereof.
Don't blame schools, video games or Global Warming on your child's behavior.
Bad parenting, period.
You would think they could spare a billion or two to buy us all a healthy portion of Net Neutrality.
Maybe hire a few hit men, to take out whoever is really behind the repeal of Net Neutrality. But . . . do we even have an idea who that is . . . ?
What happens then if I'm passed out drunk in a driverless Lyft?
The Lyft car will be programmed to drop you off at the Soylent Green factory, just outside of town.
. . . I'm a little disappointed that they are choosing a city for their new HQ.
I would have preferred something more obscenely, conspicuously techie, like on a floating barge in the middle of the Pacific Bermuda Triangle. Or at the bottom of an abandoned mine shaft, housing long term nuclear particle detection experiment.
I suspect quite a few of us have tagged HD images bundled together and ready to upload.
My list of of twenty pictures:
Hillary.
Donald.
A can of Cheez Whiz.
A fractal cow: http://mndl.hu/2008-02-01-frac...
A Bitcoin.
A Jai Alai Cesta.
John Small Berries.
A build break.
An iPhone battery.
Bacon.
Bigfoot.
Queen Elizabeth's Crown Jewels.
An ingrown toenail.
Twenty years to life, with no chance of parole.
"The Economist" international Big Mac index.
A Nobel Peace Prize.
An Ig Nobel.
Winter Storm f "Friederike".
A Ford F-450 Super Duty Limited.
Slashdot.
Ok, Google AI . . . get at it . . .
Maybe Monsanto or somebody else can simply engineer a bacteria that eats old clothes . . . ?
Now, it might be tricky deciding what exactly is old, but the results are guaranteed to be a hilariously hit at parties.