On the other hand . . . good old Jacob Bronowski taught us the eating meat was a very important step in the Ascent of Man. Meat is a more concentrated form of protein, and freed up time to work on other stuff, besides food collection in the stone ages.
Maybe you should learn not to jump to conclusions lest you show yourself to be the moron.
The backpack manages to capture and collect the gases emitted through the cow’s mouth or intestinal tract via a tube inserted through the cow’s skin (which the researchers claim is painless).
It still sounds like a lot of stress for the cows. Their lives are miserable enough, adding this stuff would only make matters worse for them. Stress for a cow probably means less milk yield, and a longer growth period before it is ripe for McDonald's. Hell, it's like developing colostomy bags for cows.
People don't get sued in the US because they did something wrong . . . they get sued because they have money. A sexual harassment at a workplace . . . who gets sued? Not the perpetrator . . . he has no money. The employer company gets sued, because they have enough money to make it worthwhile for the lawyer involved.
If there is no obvious reason to sue, the lawyer will create one. The driver has already stated that Tesla's autopilot gave him a "false sense of security", or some weasel words like that. Maybe he can complain about anxiety caused by the "accident", even if it was obviously his own fault.
I've always thought that autonomous driving will not fail with technology on the roads. But this Waterloo will not be decided on the playing fields of Eton, but in the US courts with some shifty lawyers.
The usual pro-H1B supporters on here say there's nothing wrong, and it's really good that all these people are being brought in to displace American works and push wages down.
The sad truth is that not all H1Bs like the situation either. I met one who worked for an American international subsidiary in India and was now a H1B in the US. Four of them lived in a two room apartment, provided by their employer. They never went out to lunch with the other American folks on their project . . . because their wages were so low, that they could simply not afford it. Instead, they went home and cooked for themselves.
The one I met lamented that he wanted to go back to India to get married and start a family. He also commented that they could sense the disdain for H1Bs among their American colleagues.
So, American workers do not like H1Bs, the H1Bs don't like being H1Bs . . . who likes the H1B concept? Oh, yeah . . . top level management. Well, at least someone is happy here.
The comments here are the same as the old article. As a school teacher would say, compare and contrast.
We are going to do this.
Why, is it worth it?"
We did this.
Why, is it worth it?"
The about to happen/did happen is irrelevant to the content of the comments. We're basically discussing the same stuff that we did a couple of days ago.
Fuck you Comcast!
Comcast and the rest of the cable companies are the modern day digital equivalent versions of the highwayman robbery!
I don't live in the US anymore, but from the comments I read here, I get the feeling that folks in the US have absolutely no trust in their ISPs. And this lack of trust is duly deserved, as the ISPs develop dubious offers full of gotchas and catches:
"It's totally unlimited at speed X! Except when it's not unlimited and speed X is the theoretical maximum."
A good business relationship requires trust between buyer and seller. If the buyer does not trust the seller, he will go elsewhere. The trouble with ISPs in the US, it seems that the choice is extremely limited. And they are all bad as the rest. It's like a "bazaar of crooks".
So how to fix this? I would nice to see bunch of smaller ISPs, who really cared about their customers. As opposed to a few gargantuan ISPs who obviously don't need to care about their customers.
Not certain. The guy claimed he was reaching into the glove box.
He's not going to sue. I find that highly suspicious. In America, everybody sues over things like spilled hot coffee, poodles in microwaves and confusing the gas and break pedal. So if he is not going to sue, he has something to hide.
If the driver did sue Tesla, Tesla would send in a battalion of private detectives to investigate everything with a scanning electron microscope. If the accident was his fault, he can't afford that to happen. Ditto for the insurance company suing Tesla; the driver cannot let that happen either.
So what I think we'll see is that the driver will make an undisclosed "deal" with the insurance company, and Tesla won't get sued. And this story will be soon forgotten.
Having the bottom of the foot stabbed with a large needle.
When I was a child, I had an ingrown toenail once, and the doctor needed to chop away some flesh. In order to numb the toe, he needed to insert the needle under the toenail. Now THAT is painful! He had two nurses hold my leg, because the pain is so bad that people involuntarily jerk their leg.
Maybe some acids.
Like Lysergic acid diethylamide? That would be a whole different study.
The real interesting thing will be when detection tools for this malware are created.
Well, in order for detection tools to be developed . . . folks will need access to the NSA toolkit code. The honorable thing for the ShadowBrokers to do, would be to make this freely and openly available for all.
But the fact that they are offering this as an auction, shows us that the ShadowBrokers are just in it for the money.
I'm guessing that China, Russia and the NSA itself will create bidding "fronts" to bid for them, and no private entities will be able to match their funds. So whatever is in that toolkit will still stay secret.
Self driving cars being the main culprit for making things boring
Boring? I'm thinking that bugs and glitches will turn the roads into a distributed demolition derby. Very exciting to watch!
Of course, we already have enough demolition derbies caused by human drivers.
I was on a business trip in Austin, Texas years ago in the month of December . . . and . . . *gasp* . . . the temperature dropped below freezing! And then there was drizzle, and black ice all over the roads. The local television news put up a camera on an overpass bridge and broadcasted pickup trucks doing Winter Olympic Figure Skating moves, since the folks there don't know how to drive on ice.
"Oh, I guess I just need to floor the gas pedal . .."
"Captain, a giant flying USB memory stick would like to dock with our station . . . should we allow it?
Does the ISS provide power to the spacecraft while docked, perhaps recharging its batteries?
That was my idea. If you have every had the pleasure of seeing black and white cinema serial episodes of "Buck Rogers" and "Flash Gordon", they were brilliant. The engines sounded like an electric razor and smoked like they had a lit sparkler on their tails. They needed to charge those things up somewhere.
And where would the ISS Power Station and Convenience Kwik e Mart get its power from?
Meanwhile, North Korean garlic, chili and cabbage head leader, Kimchi Jong-Un, has announced that they have successfully launched a giant rocket pin, which intercepted "a real big ass balloon".
Well, I hope that this parking space will be outfitted with a electric charging socket, which will pave the way for electric spacecraft. Critics of electric cars point out the lack of public charging opportunities.
Otherwise, spacecraft emissions will cause outer space warming!
Think about taking your Tesla XXX out for a Sunday drive, and then zipping up into space to the ISS Shopping Mall Food Court to grab a burger.
Ask any IT security folks what the biggest threat is to security.
They'll tell you, "The loose nut behind the keyboard!".
Hmm . . . maybe MTV could film a series titled, "Computer Jackass" . . . ? All the IT support folks that I've talked to privately have hilariously stories of people doing . . . well, stuff that they should have enough common sense not to do:
"I couldn't find the shutdown button, so I just pulled the power plug."
How about a new competition: "Beach Strip Volleyball" . . . ?
Each side starts with ten players, and when the ball doesn't get over the net, the last person to touch the ball must take off a piece of clothing. Naked folks get tossed off the court, when they make an error, so the folks on the court dwindle down.
Slashdot Mirror
After a few years of terrorists tricking the system with their face alterations, what is it that will come?
I'm thinking that we should all start walking around in public wearing Groucho Goggles: https://www.google.com/search?...
You might want to read this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
On the other hand . . . good old Jacob Bronowski taught us the eating meat was a very important step in the Ascent of Man. Meat is a more concentrated form of protein, and freed up time to work on other stuff, besides food collection in the stone ages.
Maybe you should learn not to jump to conclusions lest you show yourself to be the moron.
The backpack manages to capture and collect the gases emitted through the cow’s mouth or intestinal tract via a tube inserted through the cow’s skin (which the researchers claim is painless).
It still sounds like a lot of stress for the cows. Their lives are miserable enough, adding this stuff would only make matters worse for them. Stress for a cow probably means less milk yield, and a longer growth period before it is ripe for McDonald's. Hell, it's like developing colostomy bags for cows.
What is he can sue for?
People don't get sued in the US because they did something wrong . . . they get sued because they have money. A sexual harassment at a workplace . . . who gets sued? Not the perpetrator . . . he has no money. The employer company gets sued, because they have enough money to make it worthwhile for the lawyer involved.
If there is no obvious reason to sue, the lawyer will create one. The driver has already stated that Tesla's autopilot gave him a "false sense of security", or some weasel words like that. Maybe he can complain about anxiety caused by the "accident", even if it was obviously his own fault.
I've always thought that autonomous driving will not fail with technology on the roads. But this Waterloo will not be decided on the playing fields of Eton, but in the US courts with some shifty lawyers.
The usual pro-H1B supporters on here say there's nothing wrong, and it's really good that all these people are being brought in to displace American works and push wages down.
The sad truth is that not all H1Bs like the situation either. I met one who worked for an American international subsidiary in India and was now a H1B in the US. Four of them lived in a two room apartment, provided by their employer. They never went out to lunch with the other American folks on their project . . . because their wages were so low, that they could simply not afford it. Instead, they went home and cooked for themselves.
The one I met lamented that he wanted to go back to India to get married and start a family. He also commented that they could sense the disdain for H1Bs among their American colleagues.
So, American workers do not like H1Bs, the H1Bs don't like being H1Bs . . . who likes the H1B concept? Oh, yeah . . . top level management. Well, at least someone is happy here.
"Oh man your shell scripts suck!"
I'm thinking that this could pave the way to a new geeky genre of the "Yo Mama" jokes.
"Yo NSA code is so bad, __________".
The comments here are the same as the old article. As a school teacher would say, compare and contrast.
We are going to do this.
Why, is it worth it?"
We did this.
Why, is it worth it?"
The about to happen/did happen is irrelevant to the content of the comments. We're basically discussing the same stuff that we did a couple of days ago.
"42 inches (one meter) "
And 1 meter used to be 39.37 inches
Conversion factors are different on Earth and in Space. It's got something to do with relativity.
I think.
Fuck you Comcast! Comcast and the rest of the cable companies are the modern day digital equivalent versions of the highwayman robbery!
I don't live in the US anymore, but from the comments I read here, I get the feeling that folks in the US have absolutely no trust in their ISPs. And this lack of trust is duly deserved, as the ISPs develop dubious offers full of gotchas and catches:
"It's totally unlimited at speed X! Except when it's not unlimited and speed X is the theoretical maximum."
A good business relationship requires trust between buyer and seller. If the buyer does not trust the seller, he will go elsewhere. The trouble with ISPs in the US, it seems that the choice is extremely limited. And they are all bad as the rest. It's like a "bazaar of crooks".
So how to fix this? I would nice to see bunch of smaller ISPs, who really cared about their customers. As opposed to a few gargantuan ISPs who obviously don't need to care about their customers.
Is there even a successor to ISS planned?
Sure there is . . . the Chinese are working on it already: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Maybe the Chinese will rent out rooms on it on Airbnb . . . ?
Not certain. The guy claimed he was reaching into the glove box.
He's not going to sue. I find that highly suspicious. In America, everybody sues over things like spilled hot coffee, poodles in microwaves and confusing the gas and break pedal. So if he is not going to sue, he has something to hide.
If the driver did sue Tesla, Tesla would send in a battalion of private detectives to investigate everything with a scanning electron microscope. If the accident was his fault, he can't afford that to happen. Ditto for the insurance company suing Tesla; the driver cannot let that happen either.
So what I think we'll see is that the driver will make an undisclosed "deal" with the insurance company, and Tesla won't get sued. And this story will be soon forgotten.
Oh, yeah: https://news.slashdot.org/stor...
Having the bottom of the foot stabbed with a large needle.
When I was a child, I had an ingrown toenail once, and the doctor needed to chop away some flesh. In order to numb the toe, he needed to insert the needle under the toenail. Now THAT is painful! He had two nurses hold my leg, because the pain is so bad that people involuntarily jerk their leg.
Maybe some acids.
Like Lysergic acid diethylamide? That would be a whole different study.
It tracks mouse movements and other signs that you're not trying to game the system
This sounds like a challenge to me. Can you write a bot that can fool the Edge bot detection system . . . ?
Search on a tech topic. Open the StackOverflow result. Take some time, and follow some of the links to death.
In another tab, search for porn, and follow the links.
Hey presto! Normal user browser behavior!
The real interesting thing will be when detection tools for this malware are created.
Well, in order for detection tools to be developed . . . folks will need access to the NSA toolkit code. The honorable thing for the ShadowBrokers to do, would be to make this freely and openly available for all.
But the fact that they are offering this as an auction, shows us that the ShadowBrokers are just in it for the money.
I'm guessing that China, Russia and the NSA itself will create bidding "fronts" to bid for them, and no private entities will be able to match their funds. So whatever is in that toolkit will still stay secret.
Self driving cars being the main culprit for making things boring
Boring? I'm thinking that bugs and glitches will turn the roads into a distributed demolition derby. Very exciting to watch!
Of course, we already have enough demolition derbies caused by human drivers.
I was on a business trip in Austin, Texas years ago in the month of December . . . and . . . *gasp* . . . the temperature dropped below freezing! And then there was drizzle, and black ice all over the roads. The local television news put up a camera on an overpass bridge and broadcasted pickup trucks doing Winter Olympic Figure Skating moves, since the folks there don't know how to drive on ice.
"Oh, I guess I just need to floor the gas pedal . . ."
How about a RealDoll as the President of the United States . . . ?
Course, the customer will get screwed, but hey.
The joke used to be, that it is not over, until the fat lady sings.
Today, it is not over, until the customer gets screwed.
Data, power or both?
"Captain, a giant flying USB memory stick would like to dock with our station . . . should we allow it?
Does the ISS provide power to the spacecraft while docked, perhaps recharging its batteries?
That was my idea. If you have every had the pleasure of seeing black and white cinema serial episodes of "Buck Rogers" and "Flash Gordon", they were brilliant. The engines sounded like an electric razor and smoked like they had a lit sparkler on their tails. They needed to charge those things up somewhere.
And where would the ISS Power Station and Convenience Kwik e Mart get its power from?
Solar and nukes.
Obviously, with unmanned, you don't need to worry about pilot unions and strikes.
"hey, y'all! watch this!"
Meanwhile, North Korean garlic, chili and cabbage head leader, Kimchi Jong-Un, has announced that they have successfully launched a giant rocket pin, which intercepted "a real big ass balloon".
Well, I hope that this parking space will be outfitted with a electric charging socket, which will pave the way for electric spacecraft. Critics of electric cars point out the lack of public charging opportunities.
Otherwise, spacecraft emissions will cause outer space warming!
Think about taking your Tesla XXX out for a Sunday drive, and then zipping up into space to the ISS Shopping Mall Food Court to grab a burger.
Ask any IT security folks what the biggest threat is to security.
They'll tell you, "The loose nut behind the keyboard!".
Hmm . . . maybe MTV could film a series titled, "Computer Jackass" . . . ? All the IT support folks that I've talked to privately have hilariously stories of people doing . . . well, stuff that they should have enough common sense not to do:
"I couldn't find the shutdown button, so I just pulled the power plug."
How about a new competition: "Beach Strip Volleyball" . . . ?
Each side starts with ten players, and when the ball doesn't get over the net, the last person to touch the ball must take off a piece of clothing. Naked folks get tossed off the court, when they make an error, so the folks on the court dwindle down.
Now that would be a sport that I would watch!
They can build decent aircraft but can't figure out how to properly maintain a pool... and for the Olympics no less... geez...
Brazil has nice big beaches, full of topless chicks, covering up their butts with shoestring bikinis.
Why would anyone want to go to a pool at all . . . ?