So, if our nuclear waste has about 97% of the nuclear fuel's energy, and the French can keep their lights on by running that on down to about 10%, do you think we could sell it to them?
Hell yes it has. The internet lets smart people communicate with other smart people in a much less location dependent fashion. The results of their collaboration make the world a better place. The most obvious example is the alleviation of suffering brought about more rapidly by advances in medicine that happened more rapidly because people can send one another documents via the internet. When I read product reviews online and don't have to spend my money twice because I bought something shitty the first time, that's not just convenience, that's actual money I can use to improve my life in other ways. The same holds true for my ability to find good second hand stuff I'd otherwise never have learned about and for being able to learn the specific pitfalls associated with particular diy projects from people who have made that information available online. Quantifiable happiness is controlled by chemicals in the brain. If you want to learn how to change your life circumstances so as to reliably trigger them more frequently, there's articles about that on the internet.
So, what if my mom is nothing like an IT pro, but is reasonably good at shopping? There's a lot of internet security products on the market designed to protect the computers of people who are not IT pros. Are you saying that reading reviews and trusting one of these products that was liked by reviewers to be competent at providing internet security is not a successful strategy - that only the system vendor can do this job sufficiently well?
Use a botnet to get others to do your browsing for you. Include lots of noise in the botnet's behavior so that it's difficult to tell what among the information it retrieves is the information you want. Make the botnet appear to be a failure at accomplishing some different goal, so that the people who investigate botnets pass over investigating yours in favor of investigating one of the ones that appears to be doing something successfully.
Alternatively, use mind control to get a billionaire to put a network of free tor nodes in low earth orbit. You'll be harder to pinpoint if the size of the "parking lot" where you pick up the free wifi is a couple hundred km across.
It'd be easier to do justice to one of the juveniles in a 2 hour movie. I can think of a few SF movie making teams that have it in 'em to do one of those successfully. Whether they'd want to would be a different question. I don't know how much interest there'd be in the portrayal of a 1950 view of the future, where one of the attractions would have to be that it was showing a 1950 view of the future. The temptation to satirize the implied "America great again" message inherent in seeing that from where we stand today could prove overwhelming, as could the viewer temptation to perceive satire regardless of intent.
Harsh Mistress came to mind first for me. The more I think about either story, the more I think they'd each do better as a mini-series on Netflix. Too much of the world building would have to be cut out in something that's just a couple of hours, and one hour of a Friday movie would doubtless be fight scenes.
They could sell those cards preformatted and painted with their own logo (I'm imagining a road sign style evergreen with a capital "B" on it). And, the software could warn people when attempting to use a card with a different format that the card will have to be reformatted to be useful and that all data on the card will be erased during the reformatting process. That's exactly what happens if I plug a card or external drive with a Non-MS format into a Windows box. People have gotten on ok with external hard drives formatted for Mac and Windows PCs for a long time. Google has a sufficiently powerful brand to use a different format if they want. Also, when other manufacturers can implement the format used by Google without a license fee, manufacturers that pay the MS Tax now might well adopt additionally the new format, hoping to transition away from the MS Tax in the future.
When I search for something on Google, a list of categories appears. Right now it's: All, Maps, Images, Videos, and under More: News, Books, Flights. Additionally, in one of the search result spots, there's a list of images and a link to click for more images. Well, not long ago, one of the categories was Shopping, and sometimes, there would be a list of shopping search results, like the list of images. Someone in the EU wants Google to give Their shopping search site equal billing with its own categories when someone does a search on Google. If I had a site that got such equal billing, I could probably make a ton of money charging merchants a small fee for their shops to appear on my site. I think they want to claim that Google having a link to only their own shopping search results on their general purpose search site is like Microsoft having IE integrated with Windows Explorer on their own OS. I think the notion is that because Google has so much market share on general purpose search, they're supposed to act in regard to search, somewhat more like a public utility than a private enterprise. I just bought the cheapest laptop available at Walmart in Costa Rica, and if Win10 in EU looks anything like this (it's my first Win10 product), MS has a fine example that times may have changed in regard to this theory.
I reckon the result will be no more Google shopping. But, perhaps, for people with Google accounts, the search page could have plugins that would allow users to cooperate with 3rd parties to edit the functionality of the search page on browsers that have their Google account cookie. Managing a search page plugin store ought to be a similar headache to managing the Android app store. Of course, if those 3rd parties had a good enough product, they could probably get users to add that fine search directly to their browser. On another hand, there'd likely be a big market for search page skins, and not seeing their skin would encourage users to make sure their browser has that cookie.
I remember reading a number of years ago that the yield size of nuclear warheads was decreasing as the missiles became more accurate. Interesting to see what's happened to accuracy under Putin.
I looked at smartwatches recently, wanting to get my sister something she could use to record the voice of the married asshole who's been hitting on her while his wife is at work - and continue to use after that situation has been resolved. I think that when smartwatch manufacturers are putting the brains, software and features of the big thick watches built into something with the size and battery life of a Pebble Time Round, buying one won't seem like a compromise anymore. Every Walmart has for sale a large collection of digital watches whose features would be the envy of the first (pointless) digital watches. Half of 'em will be smartwatches here before too long.
Ah, but wait until there's a trade agreement where an "Investor - State Dispute Settlement" court gets to make these decisions. Then you only need for cocaine manufacturers to issue stock.
TFA said "landholders could operate drones of up to 25 kilograms on their properties without the need for approvals." Perhaps you could put one of those rubber band propeller blades on top of the camera looking at your lawn and tell them it's a drone that happens to be, at the present moment, parked.
Appliances such as mixer stands - you'll find 5qt and under KitchenAid mixers with the weak motor and plastic gear case at many stores, but most don't stock the 6qt and larger models with the stronger motor and transmission with metal gears. Soo. I'm going to Amazon for that.
I'm an Amazon customer for many things, but for electric kitchen appliances, I go to Pleasant Hill Grain. It's still an online purchase. They seem to know what they're talking about, and the prices are close enough to those on Amazon. I ended up buying Ankarsrum instead of KitchenAid. My elderly mother is very happy with it.
As an alternative to the flip phone, you could get a $30 BLU Dash Jr, then install a copy of EDS Lite and a securely encrypted copy of the goatse.cx page. When they ask about the encrypted file, you could tell them it's information of a personal nature that you obtained via the internet, and you'll very likely be happy to assist with decrypting it, after you consult with an attorney, of course.
When a Fishing Expedition goes horribly wrong, you end up tied to a dock for a couple of weeks waiting on parts while others catch the fish you were intending to catch. I hope all the publicity helps this situation play out similarly.
Do understand that if there's a variation in the percentages _and also_ there's something like a blog entry from HR "It's really risky hiring *insert race here,* they never think outside the box." Then, the percentages can certainly support a claim that this other evidence of bias is substantive.
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So, if our nuclear waste has about 97% of the nuclear fuel's energy, and the French can keep their lights on by running that on down to about 10%, do you think we could sell it to them?
Hell yes it has. The internet lets smart people communicate with other smart people in a much less location dependent fashion. The results of their collaboration make the world a better place. The most obvious example is the alleviation of suffering brought about more rapidly by advances in medicine that happened more rapidly because people can send one another documents via the internet. When I read product reviews online and don't have to spend my money twice because I bought something shitty the first time, that's not just convenience, that's actual money I can use to improve my life in other ways. The same holds true for my ability to find good second hand stuff I'd otherwise never have learned about and for being able to learn the specific pitfalls associated with particular diy projects from people who have made that information available online. Quantifiable happiness is controlled by chemicals in the brain. If you want to learn how to change your life circumstances so as to reliably trigger them more frequently, there's articles about that on the internet.
So, what if my mom is nothing like an IT pro, but is reasonably good at shopping? There's a lot of internet security products on the market designed to protect the computers of people who are not IT pros. Are you saying that reading reviews and trusting one of these products that was liked by reviewers to be competent at providing internet security is not a successful strategy - that only the system vendor can do this job sufficiently well?
If you're going to commit identity theft, wouldn't you prefer a more tangible reward?
A strip is 14 seconds per bust, and tearing one generally results in electrostatic discharge.
Use a botnet to get others to do your browsing for you. Include lots of noise in the botnet's behavior so that it's difficult to tell what among the information it retrieves is the information you want. Make the botnet appear to be a failure at accomplishing some different goal, so that the people who investigate botnets pass over investigating yours in favor of investigating one of the ones that appears to be doing something successfully.
Alternatively, use mind control to get a billionaire to put a network of free tor nodes in low earth orbit. You'll be harder to pinpoint if the size of the "parking lot" where you pick up the free wifi is a couple hundred km across.
It'd be easier to do justice to one of the juveniles in a 2 hour movie. I can think of a few SF movie making teams that have it in 'em to do one of those successfully. Whether they'd want to would be a different question. I don't know how much interest there'd be in the portrayal of a 1950 view of the future, where one of the attractions would have to be that it was showing a 1950 view of the future. The temptation to satirize the implied "America great again" message inherent in seeing that from where we stand today could prove overwhelming, as could the viewer temptation to perceive satire regardless of intent.
Harsh Mistress came to mind first for me. The more I think about either story, the more I think they'd each do better as a mini-series on Netflix. Too much of the world building would have to be cut out in something that's just a couple of hours, and one hour of a Friday movie would doubtless be fight scenes.
Or Samsung, since it's software being rolled. Is Tizen disappearing?
They could sell those cards preformatted and painted with their own logo (I'm imagining a road sign style evergreen with a capital "B" on it). And, the software could warn people when attempting to use a card with a different format that the card will have to be reformatted to be useful and that all data on the card will be erased during the reformatting process. That's exactly what happens if I plug a card or external drive with a Non-MS format into a Windows box. People have gotten on ok with external hard drives formatted for Mac and Windows PCs for a long time. Google has a sufficiently powerful brand to use a different format if they want. Also, when other manufacturers can implement the format used by Google without a license fee, manufacturers that pay the MS Tax now might well adopt additionally the new format, hoping to transition away from the MS Tax in the future.
When I look at this comparison of file systems, btrfs looks nice.
So why not ditch that antiquated format?
When I search for something on Google, a list of categories appears. Right now it's: All, Maps, Images, Videos, and under More: News, Books, Flights. Additionally, in one of the search result spots, there's a list of images and a link to click for more images. Well, not long ago, one of the categories was Shopping, and sometimes, there would be a list of shopping search results, like the list of images. Someone in the EU wants Google to give Their shopping search site equal billing with its own categories when someone does a search on Google. If I had a site that got such equal billing, I could probably make a ton of money charging merchants a small fee for their shops to appear on my site. I think they want to claim that Google having a link to only their own shopping search results on their general purpose search site is like Microsoft having IE integrated with Windows Explorer on their own OS. I think the notion is that because Google has so much market share on general purpose search, they're supposed to act in regard to search, somewhat more like a public utility than a private enterprise. I just bought the cheapest laptop available at Walmart in Costa Rica, and if Win10 in EU looks anything like this (it's my first Win10 product), MS has a fine example that times may have changed in regard to this theory.
I reckon the result will be no more Google shopping. But, perhaps, for people with Google accounts, the search page could have plugins that would allow users to cooperate with 3rd parties to edit the functionality of the search page on browsers that have their Google account cookie. Managing a search page plugin store ought to be a similar headache to managing the Android app store. Of course, if those 3rd parties had a good enough product, they could probably get users to add that fine search directly to their browser. On another hand, there'd likely be a big market for search page skins, and not seeing their skin would encourage users to make sure their browser has that cookie.
I remember reading a number of years ago that the yield size of nuclear warheads was decreasing as the missiles became more accurate. Interesting to see what's happened to accuracy under Putin.
Glad to be of service
I looked at smartwatches recently, wanting to get my sister something she could use to record the voice of the married asshole who's been hitting on her while his wife is at work - and continue to use after that situation has been resolved. I think that when smartwatch manufacturers are putting the brains, software and features of the big thick watches built into something with the size and battery life of a Pebble Time Round, buying one won't seem like a compromise anymore. Every Walmart has for sale a large collection of digital watches whose features would be the envy of the first (pointless) digital watches. Half of 'em will be smartwatches here before too long.
Have you tried WeSharpenIt at 2309 E Street?
Ah, but wait until there's a trade agreement where an "Investor - State Dispute Settlement" court gets to make these decisions. Then you only need for cocaine manufacturers to issue stock.
TFA said "landholders could operate drones of up to 25 kilograms on their properties without the need for approvals." Perhaps you could put one of those rubber band propeller blades on top of the camera looking at your lawn and tell them it's a drone that happens to be, at the present moment, parked.
Appliances such as mixer stands - you'll find 5qt and under KitchenAid mixers with the weak motor and plastic gear case at many stores, but most don't stock the 6qt and larger models with the stronger motor and transmission with metal gears. Soo. I'm going to Amazon for that.
I'm an Amazon customer for many things, but for electric kitchen appliances, I go to Pleasant Hill Grain. It's still an online purchase. They seem to know what they're talking about, and the prices are close enough to those on Amazon. I ended up buying Ankarsrum instead of KitchenAid. My elderly mother is very happy with it.
For uMatrix, I let it block
doubleclick.net
google-analytics.com
googlesyndication.com
googleadservices.com
but have the following rules to permit Google stuff so pages work:
* accounts.google.com frame allow
* ajax.googleapis.com * allow
* apis.google.com * allow
* apis.google.com frame allow
* chart.googleapis.com * allow
* content.googleapis.com * allow
* content.googleapis.com frame allow
* fonts.googleapis.com * allow
* google.com * allow
* googlecommerce.com * allow
* googletagmanager.com * allow
* googletagservices.com * allow
* googleusercontent.com * allow
* googlevideo.com * allow
* gstatic.com * allow
* maps.googleapis.com * allow
* www.google.com frame allow
* www.googlecommerce.com frame allow
* www.googletagmanager.com * inherit
* www.googletagservices.com * inherit
* www.youtube.com frame allow
* youtube.com * allow
* ytimg.com * allow
As an alternative to the flip phone, you could get a $30 BLU Dash Jr, then install a copy of EDS Lite and a securely encrypted copy of the goatse.cx page. When they ask about the encrypted file, you could tell them it's information of a personal nature that you obtained via the internet, and you'll very likely be happy to assist with decrypting it, after you consult with an attorney, of course.
When a Fishing Expedition goes horribly wrong, you end up tied to a dock for a couple of weeks waiting on parts while others catch the fish you were intending to catch. I hope all the publicity helps this situation play out similarly.
I wonder if these people could make a locking gas cap.
Do understand that if there's a variation in the percentages _and also_ there's something like a blog entry from HR "It's really risky hiring *insert race here,* they never think outside the box." Then, the percentages can certainly support a claim that this other evidence of bias is substantive.