Actually, TFS says that 1/3 of the people on Earth are "hot."
It these heatwaves really are lethal, that number will be reduced down to 1/4 really soon. The problem will be self-correcting until nobody lives in a heatwave any more.
Well, I'm sorry to Godwin this thread so early, but those seemingly benign furry faux friends are definitely up to something sinister: Kitlershttp://www.catsthatlooklikehit...
This is really a case of the government trying to screw over the little guy because of a broader policy agenda (namely forcing the Redskins to change their name).
A blind person is never going to able to play an 3rd person shooter (or any shooter), no matter what you do to it, any more than he could play tennis.
Back in the late 60's or early 70's pinball manufacturers made their games playable by mean deaf, dumb and blind kids.
I would be interested in seeing a game developed for blind folks, but also *created* by blind folks. That would be fascinating. To see how they would "play" with all the other senses . . .
The part about the mass fingerprinting is misleading, as well. Refugees, or better stated, those who claim to be refugees, need to register with the German government authorities, and present an application requesting asylum. This can take a few years to process, and the system is extremely overwhelmed now. Only folks from certain "dangerous" countries are considered.
If you are from somewhere "safe", you will be turned back immediately. So a lot of folks just toss away any identification that they have, and claim to be from a "dangerous" country. A big problem is that some folks register multiple times, in different cities. Why? Hey, register twice and get twice the benefits! The open door to refugees lets in foul air, along with the fresh air. There was even a case recently where an applicant could not even speak the language of the country that he claimed as his home. Lots of folks who get rejected, just "disappear" into the underground.
So, without any "trustworthy" documentation, fingerprinting is how they tell who's who among refugees. Now, I am an American citizen, so when I travel to the US, I get to go in the "fast" lane, and am only subjected to the normal harassment and intimidation from Three Letter Thugs. I see old grandmothers who were on the plane with me giving up their thumbprints. Everyone who is not a US citizen gets fingerprinted. So I really can't understand why my fellow Americans are getting their bowels in an uproar about fingerprinting refugees, who have no other form of identification.
Oh, and if the German government really did announce a plan to fingerprint everyone, the Green Party, who have seats in the national parliament, and rule in coalitions in some states, would be out hootin' and a hollerin' on the streets . . . along with the Autonomen, the infamous "Black Block" at otherwise peaceful demonstrations.
So I look outside my window right now, and I don't see any riots. Just a few drunk college students, because tomorrow is a holiday in Germany.
What's sad about this, is if I wasn't familiar with "how things work" in Germany, I might have been tempted to assume that Germany was going to Hell in a hand-basket.
Shame on you MsMash . . . this wasn't exactly fake news, but definitely a deliberate attempt to drum up a flame war . . .
If Apple and their artistic tax attorneys brewed up this scheme, you can be guaranteed that there is a financial advantage for them. This reminds me of Mark "Sugar Mountain" announcing that he was donating all of his fortune to charity.
Oh, wait, he's not donating it to charity . . . he's donating it to an investment vehicle that he completely controls. If an investment fails . . . he gets to write it off on taxes. If an investment turns a profit . . . well, he keeps that, tax-free.
Privatize profits, socialize losses.
If I tried shenanigans like this on my tax return for my ranch, the IRS would char-broil my balls. Not that my vast herds of armadillos and rattlesnakes are worth much to anyone anyway.
Oh, but I did implement a fix for the socket layer "Thundering Herd" problem ages ago . . . that's another story, but the IRS would tax me for that if they could . . .
If you break open an LED bulb you might find a small black chip wired to the power lines, and it might have printed on it: "NSA PoE: You No Touch!" If you do, and it does, you are being spied on. The LED bulb has a camera with sends 64K resolution films to the NSA using their own super-secret proprietary Power Over Ethernet back all the way to their secret headquarters, which is NOT that big black glass building in the mall parking lot.
Oh, if it doesn't have the chip, the LED bulb was OK, but you can't use it anymore, since you broke open. That is an additional counter-intelligence measure . . . and . . .
Because I am sure that this will calculate that I am willing to kill myself, even if I have no desire to do so and tell me that I won't when I am willing to do so.
I'd like to take that test . . . just to see if I can avoid any long-term planning issues. So when the bank invites me to come around, so they can turn my worthless surplus cash in my bank account into their juicy sales commissions for dubious financial "products", I can tell them with a good conscience, "No, thanks, I'm probably going to commit suicide within the next two years anyway. AI said I would."
Losing twice for President, I'm sure she knows a lot about failure!!!
Actually, no. She doesn't know a lot about failure, because she hasn't realized yet that she has failed. She accepts full responsibility for not winning the election, but blames it on literally everyone else. She hasn't comprehended yet that there are a lot of folks who simply don't like her. She really does believe that anyone who doesn't like her deserves to be called "deplorable".
This reminds me of how the former East German communists labeled anyone who was critical of communism as "asozial"; meaning something like anti-social, but more in the sense of rejecting "the community" or not cooperating with others. She is the one who should be called "deplorable". She could do the Democratic party a favor, and politely bow out, and let the Democratic party rebuild a post-Clintonista future. But, alas, that megalomaniac ego of hers will keep her ranting on forever in a screeching Granny Clampett voice.
Obviously, she'd like to see her daughter Chelsea continue the Clinton Dynasty, but I don't think the rest of the Democratic party will swallow that: they will be concentrating on beating Trump. The important part of failure is realizing and accepting it. Only then can you learn what you did wrong. Or put even better:
"A fool can learn from his mistakes. A wise man can learn from the mistakes of others."
What would Churchill say about this turn of events?
"The only thing we have to fear . . . is Theresa May herself!"
. . . then, he'd light up a Partagas Lusitania . . . and, with apologies to "The Cramps", bellow out a round of:
Well, come on little mama, let's tear this damn place up.
Come on little mama, let's tear this damn place up.
Come on little mama, let me see you do your stuff.
Tear it up, up-up-up-up
Tear it up, up-up-up-up
Tear it up
Tear it up
Come on little mama, tear this damn place up.
Yeah, move back baby, turn my way
Turn around again and let me hear ya say
Tear it up!
Tear it up!
Come on little mama, and tear this damn place up.
Whaaaaaow!
I'm a-leavin', little mama, gonna be gone a long, long time
I'm a-leavin', little mama, gonna be gone a long, long time
Come on, little mama, let me show you a real good time.
Whaaaaaow!
Tear it up, up-up-up-up
Tear it up, up-up-up-up
Tear it up
Tear it up
Come on little mama, tear this damn place up.
All of them, and a shitload of people outside the border too.
As a US citizen, living outside of what used to be the country of | by | for the people . . . I'm guessing that I have already been snagged in the NSA | CIA | FBI | God-knows-who-elses "Mother of all Big Brother Apparatchik Systems". Former East German Secretion Police (Stasi) officers are easy to spot in a crowd these days. They are ones with faces green with envy, at what the US Secretion Services have created.
it is "infeasible" to provide an estimate of how many Americans' communications have been collected by the National Security Agency.
"Ah, Mr Buster Gonads, and his unfeasibly large testicles . . . I've been expecting you!" Here let me give you a quick start:
SELECT * FROM * WHERE CITIZEN IS-KINDA-SORTA-LIKE USA;
The rest is left as an exercise for the student.
Oh, and being that the spooks are wasting plenty of time reading this post from me, I'd like to take this quick opportunity to cordially invite them to kiss my hairy ass. And, of course, I would encourage the 300+ million US citizens at home, who are also being spied on, to tell the spooks the same thing.
. . . and here I thought that they handled of the complaints of sexual harassment by firing the 20 folks who filed complaints.
. . . does TFA make it clear that those fired were accused, and not accusers? I RTFA, and it didn't seem "perfectly clear" (in the Nixon sense of the phrase), that is what happened.
Give them marching orders to target Uber, Lyft, UPS, FedEx, etc. and then REFUSE to negotiate the tickets in bulk.
Eh? Large offenders get a bulk discount?!? Actually, for repeat offenders, the ticket price should exponentially increase.
Oh, and for the folks double parked somewhere that might hinder emergency crews, and the like . . . just confiscate their automobile for a week or two. Not the driver's license, but their car. For Über and Lyft drivers, this will mean taking away their livelihood.
Presto! You won't see any more double-parked Über and Lyft cars anymore!
Then you go into the office just to be distracted all the time (to different degrees, depending on how badly designed the office is - the open-plan office is the worst).
The "collaborative flexible e-space open communication monkey house cage" is what killed working in the "office" for me. I cannot analyze kernel dumps while a salesman is blabbing on the phone next to me about the values of an SAP system integration package. Plus, in the flex model, your desk isn't even your own . . . no personal pictures, awards on the walls or useless toy gadgets on your desk. Every morning it's a game of musical chairs to find a desk.
Now some management up in the stratosphere somewhere thinks it will be better to rein in everyone again. Fine. I'll do it. Just give me back my private office that I used to have. Oh, you won't do that because it would cost too much? Then you'll just just have to find another perk to offer me. Remember, when you switched to the office-less system, you changed my contract to include the perk of the work at home option, to balance off the loss of the office. Forcing me back into the office will require you to change my contract again . . . which I will accept and sign . . . in exchange for something of worth. Please try to be creative.
In another few years, working at home will be "fashionable" again anyway, and we'll all be booted from the office yet another time.
Oh, and TFS mentions the role of "happiness engineer" . . . I'll take that job! I'll spend the entire day forcing folks to swallow Ecstasy pills and spraying Oxytocin up their noses. Note, Oxytocin is not to be confused with Oxycontin. Dr. House was such a grouch because he was taking the wrong stuff. Oh, and for a hoot and a half, try to watch Dr. House dubbed in German. I watch the original English on French TV (go figure), and he sounds like a bit of a dork. In German, his voice sounds like gargles in the morning with a cocktail of cheap whiskey, rusty razor blades and cigarette stubs.
Sounds like an opportunity for some enterprising company to offer laptop rentals at airports.
Some airline is already experimenting with providing laptop loaners for free to business and first class passengers.
Of course, most corporate IT Security folks would rightly ban that for their employees. Given the amount of industrial and personal espionage performed by the NSA, CIA and their pals . . . most folks should just stay away from this anyway.
Hmmm . . . maybe airlines need to offer more options for passengers willing to pay more for tickets? Like, Muslims are banned, but laptops are allowed (the Trump policy) . . . ? No screaming babies or fat folks blubbering over to your side of the seat . . . ?
Banning laptops is not going to "fly well." Business folks, who make more profits for the airlines will cut back on flying. A monthly intercontinental trip will become a quarterly one. When their profits are hurt, the airlines will shit-can the laptop ban.
Node-RED is a programming tool for wiring together hardware devices, APIs and online services in new and interesting ways.
It provides a browser-based editor that makes it easy to wire together flows using the wide range of nodes in the palette that can be deployed to its runtime in a single-click.
Think of it as creating node.js code from flows you define with a graphical editor.
DISCLAIMER: I use it a lot, and had the pleasure of meeting one of its creators, Nick O'Leary, who works for IBM. He is a bit of a geek's geek . . . a technical genius, but very humble about it.
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that means two thirds ARENT?
Actually, TFS says that 1/3 of the people on Earth are "hot."
It these heatwaves really are lethal, that number will be reduced down to 1/4 really soon. The problem will be self-correcting until nobody lives in a heatwave any more.
Well, I'm sorry to Godwin this thread so early, but those seemingly benign furry faux friends are definitely up to something sinister: Kitlers http://www.catsthatlooklikehit...
This is really a case of the government trying to screw over the little guy because of a broader policy agenda (namely forcing the Redskins to change their name).
. . . speaking of screwing over the little guy, "The Slits" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... never had this problem.
Once again, it's one rule for "The Slits" and another rule for "The Slants" . . .
A blind person is never going to able to play an 3rd person shooter (or any shooter), no matter what you do to it, any more than he could play tennis.
Back in the late 60's or early 70's pinball manufacturers made their games playable by mean deaf, dumb and blind kids.
I would be interested in seeing a game developed for blind folks, but also *created* by blind folks. That would be fascinating. To see how they would "play" with all the other senses . . .
At least Watson is trying to cure people.
Well, if Watson really was AI . . . then it would be deciding on whether to even attempt to cure a patient at all.
Watson:
"Yes, I could cure the patient, but the treatment would leave him surviving with a miserable quality of life."
"The patient is so frail that he will die from something else within a month."
"It would make much more sense to transplant that donated organ into somebody much younger."
"Today is my golf day . . . I'll think about curing the patient tomorrow."
The part about the mass fingerprinting is misleading, as well. Refugees, or better stated, those who claim to be refugees, need to register with the German government authorities, and present an application requesting asylum. This can take a few years to process, and the system is extremely overwhelmed now. Only folks from certain "dangerous" countries are considered.
If you are from somewhere "safe", you will be turned back immediately. So a lot of folks just toss away any identification that they have, and claim to be from a "dangerous" country. A big problem is that some folks register multiple times, in different cities. Why? Hey, register twice and get twice the benefits! The open door to refugees lets in foul air, along with the fresh air. There was even a case recently where an applicant could not even speak the language of the country that he claimed as his home. Lots of folks who get rejected, just "disappear" into the underground.
So, without any "trustworthy" documentation, fingerprinting is how they tell who's who among refugees. Now, I am an American citizen, so when I travel to the US, I get to go in the "fast" lane, and am only subjected to the normal harassment and intimidation from Three Letter Thugs. I see old grandmothers who were on the plane with me giving up their thumbprints. Everyone who is not a US citizen gets fingerprinted. So I really can't understand why my fellow Americans are getting their bowels in an uproar about fingerprinting refugees, who have no other form of identification.
Oh, and if the German government really did announce a plan to fingerprint everyone, the Green Party, who have seats in the national parliament, and rule in coalitions in some states, would be out hootin' and a hollerin' on the streets . . . along with the Autonomen, the infamous "Black Block" at otherwise peaceful demonstrations.
So I look outside my window right now, and I don't see any riots. Just a few drunk college students, because tomorrow is a holiday in Germany.
What's sad about this, is if I wasn't familiar with "how things work" in Germany, I might have been tempted to assume that Germany was going to Hell in a hand-basket.
Shame on you MsMash . . . this wasn't exactly fake news, but definitely a deliberate attempt to drum up a flame war . . .
. . . "with malice aforethought" . . .
They're not coughing up money.
If Apple and their artistic tax attorneys brewed up this scheme, you can be guaranteed that there is a financial advantage for them. This reminds me of Mark "Sugar Mountain" announcing that he was donating all of his fortune to charity.
Oh, wait, he's not donating it to charity . . . he's donating it to an investment vehicle that he completely controls. If an investment fails . . . he gets to write it off on taxes. If an investment turns a profit . . . well, he keeps that, tax-free.
Privatize profits, socialize losses.
If I tried shenanigans like this on my tax return for my ranch, the IRS would char-broil my balls. Not that my vast herds of armadillos and rattlesnakes are worth much to anyone anyway.
Oh, but I did implement a fix for the socket layer "Thundering Herd" problem ages ago . . . that's another story, but the IRS would tax me for that if they could . . .
If you break open an LED bulb you might find a small black chip wired to the power lines, and it might have printed on it: "NSA PoE: You No Touch!" If you do, and it does, you are being spied on. The LED bulb has a camera with sends 64K resolution films to the NSA using their own super-secret proprietary Power Over Ethernet back all the way to their secret headquarters, which is NOT that big black glass building in the mall parking lot.
Oh, if it doesn't have the chip, the LED bulb was OK, but you can't use it anymore, since you broke open. That is an additional counter-intelligence measure . . . and . . .
Because I am sure that this will calculate that I am willing to kill myself, even if I have no desire to do so and tell me that I won't when I am willing to do so.
I'd like to take that test . . . just to see if I can avoid any long-term planning issues. So when the bank invites me to come around, so they can turn my worthless surplus cash in my bank account into their juicy sales commissions for dubious financial "products", I can tell them with a good conscience, "No, thanks, I'm probably going to commit suicide within the next two years anyway. AI said I would."
Losing twice for President, I'm sure she knows a lot about failure!!!
Actually, no. She doesn't know a lot about failure, because she hasn't realized yet that she has failed. She accepts full responsibility for not winning the election, but blames it on literally everyone else. She hasn't comprehended yet that there are a lot of folks who simply don't like her. She really does believe that anyone who doesn't like her deserves to be called "deplorable".
This reminds me of how the former East German communists labeled anyone who was critical of communism as "asozial"; meaning something like anti-social, but more in the sense of rejecting "the community" or not cooperating with others. She is the one who should be called "deplorable". She could do the Democratic party a favor, and politely bow out, and let the Democratic party rebuild a post-Clintonista future. But, alas, that megalomaniac ego of hers will keep her ranting on forever in a screeching Granny Clampett voice.
Obviously, she'd like to see her daughter Chelsea continue the Clinton Dynasty, but I don't think the rest of the Democratic party will swallow that: they will be concentrating on beating Trump. The important part of failure is realizing and accepting it. Only then can you learn what you did wrong. Or put even better:
"A fool can learn from his mistakes. A wise man can learn from the mistakes of others."
Respect is earned, not thrown into the back of a white hatchback and hauled off to somewhere people don't know where you got it from.
Ah-ha! It was O.J. Simpson! He's at it again!
It's too bad that CNN didn't get cover the slow-speed getaway. They could have streamed it live . . . from a camera drone!
That would have been proper justice.
Back to basics of CW communication on the HF bands.
Yep. It's high time to resurrect FidoNet over smoke signals: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Maybe they will develop sex robots.
. . . that was already done by Hollywood, in the late 80's: (Cherry 2000) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Does anybody want to to buy my Lego Mindstorms?
Standard Slashdot question: "Does it run Linux . . . ?"
Well, actually, yes, it does: http://www.ev3dev.org/
What would Churchill say about this turn of events?
"The only thing we have to fear . . . is Theresa May herself!"
. . . then, he'd light up a Partagas Lusitania . . . and, with apologies to "The Cramps", bellow out a round of:
Well, come on little mama, let's tear this damn place up.
Come on little mama, let's tear this damn place up.
Come on little mama, let me see you do your stuff.
Tear it up, up-up-up-up
Tear it up, up-up-up-up
Tear it up
Tear it up
Come on little mama, tear this damn place up.
Yeah, move back baby, turn my way
Turn around again and let me hear ya say
Tear it up!
Tear it up!
Come on little mama, and tear this damn place up.
Whaaaaaow!
I'm a-leavin', little mama, gonna be gone a long, long time
I'm a-leavin', little mama, gonna be gone a long, long time
Come on, little mama, let me show you a real good time.
Whaaaaaow!
Tear it up, up-up-up-up
Tear it up, up-up-up-up
Tear it up
Tear it up
Come on little mama, tear this damn place up.
Without the tax incentives, farmers will find something else grow.
. . . "grass", ya know, like the type that goes into "funny" cigarettes.
The farmers will make enough money with that, and won't need any taxpayer money.
Hey, and then the government can "tax the grass", and actually make money on the scheme.
All of them, and a shitload of people outside the border too.
As a US citizen, living outside of what used to be the country of | by | for the people . . . I'm guessing that I have already been snagged in the NSA | CIA | FBI | God-knows-who-elses "Mother of all Big Brother Apparatchik Systems". Former East German Secretion Police (Stasi) officers are easy to spot in a crowd these days. They are ones with faces green with envy, at what the US Secretion Services have created.
it is "infeasible" to provide an estimate of how many Americans' communications have been collected by the National Security Agency.
"Ah, Mr Buster Gonads, and his unfeasibly large testicles . . . I've been expecting you!" Here let me give you a quick start:
SELECT * FROM * WHERE CITIZEN IS-KINDA-SORTA-LIKE USA;
The rest is left as an exercise for the student.
Oh, and being that the spooks are wasting plenty of time reading this post from me, I'd like to take this quick opportunity to cordially invite them to kiss my hairy ass. And, of course, I would encourage the 300+ million US citizens at home, who are also being spied on, to tell the spooks the same thing.
Or ask The Bruce: https://www.schneier.com/blog/...
They should have disciplined the whiners too.
. . . and here I thought that they handled of the complaints of sexual harassment by firing the 20 folks who filed complaints.
. . . does TFA make it clear that those fired were accused, and not accusers? I RTFA, and it didn't seem "perfectly clear" (in the Nixon sense of the phrase), that is what happened.
Give them marching orders to target Uber, Lyft, UPS, FedEx, etc. and then REFUSE to negotiate the tickets in bulk.
Eh? Large offenders get a bulk discount?!? Actually, for repeat offenders, the ticket price should exponentially increase.
Oh, and for the folks double parked somewhere that might hinder emergency crews, and the like . . . just confiscate their automobile for a week or two. Not the driver's license, but their car. For Über and Lyft drivers, this will mean taking away their livelihood.
Presto! You won't see any more double-parked Über and Lyft cars anymore!
Frankly, I've lost count at this point.
Eleven. Most Windows only go up to ten, but this one goes up to eleven . . .
Then you go into the office just to be distracted all the time (to different degrees, depending on how badly designed the office is - the open-plan office is the worst).
The "collaborative flexible e-space open communication monkey house cage" is what killed working in the "office" for me. I cannot analyze kernel dumps while a salesman is blabbing on the phone next to me about the values of an SAP system integration package. Plus, in the flex model, your desk isn't even your own . . . no personal pictures, awards on the walls or useless toy gadgets on your desk. Every morning it's a game of musical chairs to find a desk.
Now some management up in the stratosphere somewhere thinks it will be better to rein in everyone again. Fine. I'll do it. Just give me back my private office that I used to have. Oh, you won't do that because it would cost too much? Then you'll just just have to find another perk to offer me. Remember, when you switched to the office-less system, you changed my contract to include the perk of the work at home option, to balance off the loss of the office. Forcing me back into the office will require you to change my contract again . . . which I will accept and sign . . . in exchange for something of worth. Please try to be creative.
In another few years, working at home will be "fashionable" again anyway, and we'll all be booted from the office yet another time.
Oh, and TFS mentions the role of "happiness engineer" . . . I'll take that job! I'll spend the entire day forcing folks to swallow Ecstasy pills and spraying Oxytocin up their noses. Note, Oxytocin is not to be confused with Oxycontin. Dr. House was such a grouch because he was taking the wrong stuff. Oh, and for a hoot and a half, try to watch Dr. House dubbed in German. I watch the original English on French TV (go figure), and he sounds like a bit of a dork. In German, his voice sounds like gargles in the morning with a cocktail of cheap whiskey, rusty razor blades and cigarette stubs.
//COBBSTEP JOB CLASS=6,NOTIFY=&SYSUID
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//STEPLIB DD DSN=MYDATA.URMI.LOADLIB,DISP=SHR
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//OUT1 DD SYSOUT=*
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Sounds like an opportunity for some enterprising company to offer laptop rentals at airports.
Some airline is already experimenting with providing laptop loaners for free to business and first class passengers.
Of course, most corporate IT Security folks would rightly ban that for their employees. Given the amount of industrial and personal espionage performed by the NSA, CIA and their pals . . . most folks should just stay away from this anyway.
Hmmm . . . maybe airlines need to offer more options for passengers willing to pay more for tickets? Like, Muslims are banned, but laptops are allowed (the Trump policy) . . . ? No screaming babies or fat folks blubbering over to your side of the seat . . . ?
Banning laptops is not going to "fly well." Business folks, who make more profits for the airlines will cut back on flying. A monthly intercontinental trip will become a quarterly one. When their profits are hurt, the airlines will shit-can the laptop ban.
Speaking of IBM . . . take a look at Node-RED ( https://nodered.org/ ) :
Node-RED is a programming tool for wiring together hardware devices, APIs and online services in new and interesting ways. It provides a browser-based editor that makes it easy to wire together flows using the wide range of nodes in the palette that can be deployed to its runtime in a single-click.
Think of it as creating node.js code from flows you define with a graphical editor.
DISCLAIMER: I use it a lot, and had the pleasure of meeting one of its creators, Nick O'Leary, who works for IBM. He is a bit of a geek's geek . . . a technical genius, but very humble about it.