No deck crew? You really expect the officers or the cook to handle lines? I don't think they're manned by just three. Container ships carrying the refrigerated containers usually have at least three people just to watch those things. They've been known to be less than perfectly reliable. The totally automated vessels need to have a lot more redundant systems than do the less automated ones. I have to wonder whether the people (like Rolls Royce) who are trying to sell these hugely expensive automation systems will manage to get the customer overhead down far enough to compete with having mariners before some other company makes robots for providing that same automation with older vessels.
I thought about this, and when the phone is "cop locked" it shouldn't be totally locked down. FIngerprint should open it into "dumb phone" mode. In dumbphone mode, you should be able to make calls and send texts, but without the address book or call history; you should be able to receive calls, but only from people on the "all circumstances receive" list; you should be able to record photos, audio, and video, but not review that content. You should be able to play some fiddly little game that doesn't keep score.
Also, when someone "cop locks" their phone, the user should have the option to set it to broadcast a wifi ssid indicating that this happened, so that others nearby who have chosen for their phones to respond to that can have their phones automatically "cop locked." That way, during an incident, everyone in a group doesn't have to simultaneously whip their phones out and start punching the power button. And, of course this capability would need the corresponding ability to lock the phone down if it detects the presence of jamming that could prevent detection of the other signal.
If this is a thing, a phone should probably automatically go into a similar mode (the exception being to receive every call with only fingerprint needed to answer) after a half hour or so without active user interaction - also so you don't have to whip out your phone and lock it down when you're minding your own business in an urban environment and cops show up, mistaking you for a participant in a matter that concerns them.
Of course, once security awareness is incorporated into modes of operation, then one could go in the other direction as well. There could be three modes: dumbphone, tourist, and secure location. In tourist mode, your secure location password vault, secure location contacts, secure location messages to regular contacts, secure communication apps, secure files and secure location mode itself would all seem not to exist. That way, you could share your phone with a friend without sharing your surprise party planning messages. Everyone might know this mode has the potential to exist, but it'd still be rude to have a "secure mode" button sitting there thumbing its nose at your phone use guests.
Real spies won't need a secret mode, though. They could use apps located on nfc devices to encrypt their secrets into tourist mode pics in (relatively) plain sight.
First I looked here, and learned that one has to join a Worldcon. Then I looked here and learned that minimum price of entry is $50. The money is apparently the only requirement. I also read this about the voting system. Any member can nominate five works for every category. The six of these nominees in each category with the most nominations are the ones voted on to win via instant runoff voting. So if you feel frustrated about the resulting choices, consider that this is how they got that way, and also, it never hurts to remember that Sturgeon's Law applies as well to opinions as it does everywhere else.
Since everyone will have a different opinion about what is crap, what would probably work better than having an award system is something like what Booklamp attempted to be. Perhaps a search tool for book related social media could help.
You'd also think that they'd have to admit that Apple has enough market share for anti-trust matters to be relevant, but I think what it'll actually come own to is how well connected the law firm is to the Chinese government, and whether any equally well-connected law firm is willing to represent Apple.
HCCI engines really like constant load. Skyactiv-X might well be best employed in a car that also has a battery. If they run it in a car without a battery, they might have more success going camshaftless, like the engine Koenigsegg is building for Qoros. That way a computer could instantly compensate for the changing conditions.
McMaster used to be famous for never telling you the brand name, just describing the functionality, so that they could switch brands as they found a better priced product for achieving the same goal. However, you can find a selection of different quality levels for some tools by looking at differences in the described function. Their "pipe and conduit thread repairing taps" (which can shatter if you drop them on a hard surface) are a much more inexpensive way to have the larger sizes on hand, especially if you're mostly using them to clean up rusty pipe fittings or hand tap pvc. However, they're nothing like the quality of the same size pipe tap in the "pipe and conduit thread taps for hardened steel" category. Similarly, the $35 4066A75 6" diameter hole saw isn't something I'd want to use even on wood, but it's great for adding new passageways to insulating concrete forms and is less expensive than any 6" hole saw I might find locally. The $109 4002A54 6 1/2" dia hole saw and the $267 4002A64 6" diameter hole saw are of significantly better quality, and that's without yet transitioning to the ones with carbide teeth.
One impression I get from McMaster is that they're using tags rather than trees, so that they avoid the shelf organizer's dilemma of "do I put all the mild steel bolts together and then sub sort into inch and metric, or do I put all the Inch together and then subsort into mild and stainless?" RockAuto on the other hand, actually has trees, as no other distinctions matter until the "will it fit" imperative has been met.
One thing that might be interesting for McMaster to try is to allow customers to add their own tags (stored in a big cookie, not messing up the tags for everyone else), so that a customer might tag a 6-32 x 5/16 oval head slotted with "electrical wall plate" or some other locally significant use that could make repeat searching faster. If they see a statistically significant percentage of customers having a similar tag for a product, that might inform additions to their official tag collection.
They're getting a good name in lithium batteries also. I've seen some sellers of 18650s advertise that they buy Panasonic cells and add their own button, protection circuit and label.
Back when Amazon attempted Amazon Supply, I had hoped for their site to try and copy the functionality of McMaster.com, but they really failed at search there also. I think that some programmers look at Yahoo vs Google and get the impression that categorized search (and for replacement parts, categorized hierarchical search) is universally less useful for people, but at sites like McMaster and RockAuto, it's very much exactly what people need.
The phrase "Original Sin" isn't applicable. The technology for packet switching predates the technology for the encryption Darth Technoid would like to be applied to the packets. If you want to talk about making a transition from where we are now to something different, you can't just say "secure by default." You have to be very specific about the design of the technology for where you want to end up and then about the transition process to get there from where we are now. Otherwise, it's like asking "should all school lunches come with universal health protecting pills for free." Whether or not you agree is irrelevant if the pills don't exist.
For most of those people staring at a screen, it's not the device that interests them, but rather the content. They have found a way to interact with more interesting people who are not in physical proximity. Here's a nice article on neurochemicals the brain uses to reward behavior. It's possible to design computer games that stimulate the release of these chemicals, particularly dopamine. In some cases, this can lead to behavior that qualifies as addiction. Most of the time, you're seeing people replacing behavior that's valued by someone in their physical proximity with behavior that's valued by people who are more distant. Whether the support systems in our society are sufficiently good that we can so frequently disregard physical proximity as an organizing factor in the web of value exchange that we use to construct our place in society is a discussion worth having, and probably worth having in secondary school. However, it's not a discussion about addiction.
The school actually says that they decided to ditch lectures because they read literature that says they're less successful? You'd think being a school they might say "we tried different methods, and this new one works best." If educated students is what their business produces, then they might ought to measure the results in order to have quality control on their production. If they can't point to their QC to show that the new method works better, they should be providing a discount price for their newly inferior service.
Maybe, but I think part of the problem is fundamental. The people with the site providing the service want money. The advertisers are willing to pay the money, but want value for it by showing us the ads. We want the service and the nicer browsing experience without the ads while spending no money. So, there's conflict.
Personally, I have less problem with the ads themselves than with the scripts that deliver them. It's hard to trust in their benign nature - kind of like looking at a spider on the wall and trying to tell myself that this one is ok to let roam in my living space.
Or, maybe just sandbox all the content from each site, like the priv8 plugin does. All the content from the site in the sandbox, and part of it rendered for the user.
I expect it depends on how it's managed at the other end - what the advertisers require for the site to show that they're keeping their end of the bargain. Maybe if the failure to load the unwanted content has the appearance of being due to a badly intermittent connection the sending site meets their obligation for having tried to send the adds.
I've found a few sites that are getting good at disabling functionality unless everything loads. Of the sites I've encountered, I think the Chase banking site is the most sensitive to content blocking.
Firefox could make it more difficult for sites to know you're using an add blocker. The browser could download the "page they think you see" and render the page that's been filtered by your ad/script blocking plugins. Of course, users with a slow connection would need to be able to disable this feature.
So, would Toronto work, or do all the Five Eyes countries need to be avoided? The Adelaide Hotel in Toronto might enjoy hosting a conference like this one.
Snopes isn't born with the knowledge they use to make their pronouncements. They do research. Considering the words they wrote, they ought to have done more. At this point, I am totally indifferent as to whether you personally were made happy or not.
Now that's what I call infrastructure investment! I wonder how much energy they could save if the tunnel is smooth enough that the air can move at the same speed as the train.
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No deck crew? You really expect the officers or the cook to handle lines? I don't think they're manned by just three. Container ships carrying the refrigerated containers usually have at least three people just to watch those things. They've been known to be less than perfectly reliable. The totally automated vessels need to have a lot more redundant systems than do the less automated ones. I have to wonder whether the people (like Rolls Royce) who are trying to sell these hugely expensive automation systems will manage to get the customer overhead down far enough to compete with having mariners before some other company makes robots for providing that same automation with older vessels.
I thought about this, and when the phone is "cop locked" it shouldn't be totally locked down. FIngerprint should open it into "dumb phone" mode. In dumbphone mode, you should be able to make calls and send texts, but without the address book or call history; you should be able to receive calls, but only from people on the "all circumstances receive" list; you should be able to record photos, audio, and video, but not review that content. You should be able to play some fiddly little game that doesn't keep score.
Also, when someone "cop locks" their phone, the user should have the option to set it to broadcast a wifi ssid indicating that this happened, so that others nearby who have chosen for their phones to respond to that can have their phones automatically "cop locked." That way, during an incident, everyone in a group doesn't have to simultaneously whip their phones out and start punching the power button. And, of course this capability would need the corresponding ability to lock the phone down if it detects the presence of jamming that could prevent detection of the other signal.
If this is a thing, a phone should probably automatically go into a similar mode (the exception being to receive every call with only fingerprint needed to answer) after a half hour or so without active user interaction - also so you don't have to whip out your phone and lock it down when you're minding your own business in an urban environment and cops show up, mistaking you for a participant in a matter that concerns them.
Of course, once security awareness is incorporated into modes of operation, then one could go in the other direction as well. There could be three modes: dumbphone, tourist, and secure location. In tourist mode, your secure location password vault, secure location contacts, secure location messages to regular contacts, secure communication apps, secure files and secure location mode itself would all seem not to exist. That way, you could share your phone with a friend without sharing your surprise party planning messages. Everyone might know this mode has the potential to exist, but it'd still be rude to have a "secure mode" button sitting there thumbing its nose at your phone use guests.
Real spies won't need a secret mode, though. They could use apps located on nfc devices to encrypt their secrets into tourist mode pics in (relatively) plain sight.
First I looked here, and learned that one has to join a Worldcon. Then I looked here and learned that minimum price of entry is $50. The money is apparently the only requirement. I also read this about the voting system. Any member can nominate five works for every category. The six of these nominees in each category with the most nominations are the ones voted on to win via instant runoff voting. So if you feel frustrated about the resulting choices, consider that this is how they got that way, and also, it never hurts to remember that Sturgeon's Law applies as well to opinions as it does everywhere else.
Since everyone will have a different opinion about what is crap, what would probably work better than having an award system is something like what Booklamp attempted to be. Perhaps a search tool for book related social media could help.
You'd also think that they'd have to admit that Apple has enough market share for anti-trust matters to be relevant, but I think what it'll actually come own to is how well connected the law firm is to the Chinese government, and whether any equally well-connected law firm is willing to represent Apple.
HCCI engines really like constant load. Skyactiv-X might well be best employed in a car that also has a battery. If they run it in a car without a battery, they might have more success going camshaftless, like the engine Koenigsegg is building for Qoros. That way a computer could instantly compensate for the changing conditions.
McMaster used to be famous for never telling you the brand name, just describing the functionality, so that they could switch brands as they found a better priced product for achieving the same goal. However, you can find a selection of different quality levels for some tools by looking at differences in the described function. Their "pipe and conduit thread repairing taps" (which can shatter if you drop them on a hard surface) are a much more inexpensive way to have the larger sizes on hand, especially if you're mostly using them to clean up rusty pipe fittings or hand tap pvc. However, they're nothing like the quality of the same size pipe tap in the "pipe and conduit thread taps for hardened steel" category. Similarly, the $35 4066A75 6" diameter hole saw isn't something I'd want to use even on wood, but it's great for adding new passageways to insulating concrete forms and is less expensive than any 6" hole saw I might find locally. The $109 4002A54 6 1/2" dia hole saw and the $267 4002A64 6" diameter hole saw are of significantly better quality, and that's without yet transitioning to the ones with carbide teeth.
One impression I get from McMaster is that they're using tags rather than trees, so that they avoid the shelf organizer's dilemma of "do I put all the mild steel bolts together and then sub sort into inch and metric, or do I put all the Inch together and then subsort into mild and stainless?" RockAuto on the other hand, actually has trees, as no other distinctions matter until the "will it fit" imperative has been met.
One thing that might be interesting for McMaster to try is to allow customers to add their own tags (stored in a big cookie, not messing up the tags for everyone else), so that a customer might tag a 6-32 x 5/16 oval head slotted with "electrical wall plate" or some other locally significant use that could make repeat searching faster. If they see a statistically significant percentage of customers having a similar tag for a product, that might inform additions to their official tag collection.
Maybe if their job description included "free speech and uncensored internet for telescope workers and their associates" they'd see more applicants.
They're getting a good name in lithium batteries also. I've seen some sellers of 18650s advertise that they buy Panasonic cells and add their own button, protection circuit and label.
Wal-Mart Stores Inc. (NYSE: WMT) is publicly held. The sale couldn't happen in secret.
Back when Amazon attempted Amazon Supply, I had hoped for their site to try and copy the functionality of McMaster.com, but they really failed at search there also. I think that some programmers look at Yahoo vs Google and get the impression that categorized search (and for replacement parts, categorized hierarchical search) is universally less useful for people, but at sites like McMaster and RockAuto, it's very much exactly what people need.
The phrase "Original Sin" isn't applicable. The technology for packet switching predates the technology for the encryption Darth Technoid would like to be applied to the packets. If you want to talk about making a transition from where we are now to something different, you can't just say "secure by default." You have to be very specific about the design of the technology for where you want to end up and then about the transition process to get there from where we are now. Otherwise, it's like asking "should all school lunches come with universal health protecting pills for free." Whether or not you agree is irrelevant if the pills don't exist.
For most of those people staring at a screen, it's not the device that interests them, but rather the content. They have found a way to interact with more interesting people who are not in physical proximity. Here's a nice article on neurochemicals the brain uses to reward behavior. It's possible to design computer games that stimulate the release of these chemicals, particularly dopamine. In some cases, this can lead to behavior that qualifies as addiction. Most of the time, you're seeing people replacing behavior that's valued by someone in their physical proximity with behavior that's valued by people who are more distant. Whether the support systems in our society are sufficiently good that we can so frequently disregard physical proximity as an organizing factor in the web of value exchange that we use to construct our place in society is a discussion worth having, and probably worth having in secondary school. However, it's not a discussion about addiction.
The school actually says that they decided to ditch lectures because they read literature that says they're less successful? You'd think being a school they might say "we tried different methods, and this new one works best." If educated students is what their business produces, then they might ought to measure the results in order to have quality control on their production. If they can't point to their QC to show that the new method works better, they should be providing a discount price for their newly inferior service.
I wonder how fast this happens. Could some sort of "infidelity testing service" spring up out of this research?
I'm right with you there.
Maybe, but I think part of the problem is fundamental. The people with the site providing the service want money. The advertisers are willing to pay the money, but want value for it by showing us the ads. We want the service and the nicer browsing experience without the ads while spending no money. So, there's conflict.
Personally, I have less problem with the ads themselves than with the scripts that deliver them. It's hard to trust in their benign nature - kind of like looking at a spider on the wall and trying to tell myself that this one is ok to let roam in my living space.
Or, maybe just sandbox all the content from each site, like the priv8 plugin does. All the content from the site in the sandbox, and part of it rendered for the user.
I expect it depends on how it's managed at the other end - what the advertisers require for the site to show that they're keeping their end of the bargain. Maybe if the failure to load the unwanted content has the appearance of being due to a badly intermittent connection the sending site meets their obligation for having tried to send the adds.
I've found a few sites that are getting good at disabling functionality unless everything loads. Of the sites I've encountered, I think the Chase banking site is the most sensitive to content blocking.
Firefox could make it more difficult for sites to know you're using an add blocker. The browser could download the "page they think you see" and render the page that's been filtered by your ad/script blocking plugins. Of course, users with a slow connection would need to be able to disable this feature.
So, would Toronto work, or do all the Five Eyes countries need to be avoided? The Adelaide Hotel in Toronto might enjoy hosting a conference like this one.
You missed a couple.
Snopes isn't born with the knowledge they use to make their pronouncements. They do research. Considering the words they wrote, they ought to have done more. At this point, I am totally indifferent as to whether you personally were made happy or not.
Now that's what I call infrastructure investment! I wonder how much energy they could save if the tunnel is smooth enough that the air can move at the same speed as the train.
Thanks for taking the time to reply. When I imagined transcontinental high speed rail, it made me wonder how the high speed does in the mountains.