Does their fake meat have really complete protein (not missing or deficient in any essential amino acids) or is it just the typical vegetarian junk that's incomplete in one way or another? Taste is not important; nutrition is. If it's protein is not as complete as the meat they're trying to replace, then it's useless.
Freedom and government are mutually antagonistic concept
When you get too many people involved on both sides of the equation, then yes, it is. The longer I live, the more convinced I get that there are just too many people alive at the same time on this planet, and just like in those behavioral experiments where they let rats breed to the point of overpopulating their cage, the social structure breaks down and Bad Things start happening.
So far as Putin goes: Sure, he can have his own little version of the Internet within Russian boundaries, much like China does, if that's what he really wants -- but it won't be the Internet anymore, it'll be a Walled Garden, and lacking in the richness (said with slight sarcastic overtones, due to my cynicism) and creativity of the actual Internet, due to an oppressive, authoritarian government, and just like in China, people will go through Hell and High Water trying to get out of it, and into the real Internet. Sorry Putin, the genie is long since out of the bottle, and isn't interested in going back into it.
They don't have to make it impossible, just illegal. And guess what, TPP and its ilk are trying to spread anti DRM circumvention laws to other countries
And you know what? It won't matter. Just like always, any method of locking something down will be broken in a week or less, and spread like wildfire. The tighter they squeeze, the more will slip through their fingers, and there is nothing they can do to stop it.
Oh, quit being so pedantic and literal. A box on wheels with no manual controls rolling down the road unoccupied is likely to never happen. That's the takeaway, that's been my opinion from the beginning, and I'm sticking to it. That being said, no one is saying we won't have a more advanced 'cruise control' or 'driver assist' system.
I want to call a car and have it come when I want it, take me where I want to go, then go away until I need it again.
The technology you're looking for there is a 'mature technology'; it's been around for almost a hundred years in motorized form, and even longer before the automobile: It's 'calling a cab', or 'calling a friend for a ride', or 'taking the bus' if you're willing to walk to where it stops, or 'asking mom/dad to take you/pick you up' if you're young enough for that to apply. More recently, it's 'call Uber/Lyft/{insert name of ride-sharing company here}'. I suggest you use one of these mature, thoroughly-proven technologies instead of waiting for one that likely won't ever exist.
âoeThe notion of ceding control of something as fundamental to life as driving to a big, opaque corporation - people are not comfortable with that,â he says. Additionally, other companies and research groups looking at automating cars are âoevery clearly not going for the Google approach to fully driverless cars.â
And so many of you said I was nuts; not so nuts now, am I?
Now they're, what exactly? I just don't see people wanting to buy Playboy with no nudity. At that point, get a Victoria's Secret catalog
Exactly, precisely this, plus: While it's completely true that you can find 'every imaginable sex act for free' on the Internet, the quality of the women in online porn videos is rarely, if ever, up to the standards that Playboy has traditionally upheld.Playboy was always the gold standard in that regard; women featured in the magazine didn't need to be masturbating (with or without toys), or engaging in intercourse, in order to be incredibly arousing. Second-tier was always Penthouse, featuring almost Playboy level women, but with more outright sex.. then there was Oui, Hustler, and so on.. Playboy might survive on the quality of it's non-pictorial related content, but I wouldn't hold out much hope for that. It's been a good run, Playboy, but I guess you're more likely to go the way of the dinosaur, if you stick to this plan of action.
What we need is a new generation of adblockers: Have it download whatever the ad material is, but just don't render it, and if it includes javascript, fake-execute it in a sandbox. Then advertisers will get paid, and you don't have to see ads, and nobody is the wiser because they won't know the difference. Face it: People who don't want to see ads are going to do whatever they have to to not be subjected to them, and people who don't care about ads will see them.
What do people think of the idea of candidates being limited to a hard dollar amount they can spend on their campaign, regardless of the source of the money? 'Buying' an election is ludicrous at best, criminal at worst, if you ask me.
5-digit Slashdot userid numberAh haha, I know where you work, friend; did you author the utility of which I speak? Silicon Valley campus, or north of here?
Friend, there is something I've been saying for decades now: The surest way to ruin a Good Thing is to get a bunch of people involved in it. That's what's happening here: There are too many people in the world, and more to the point too many people on the Internet, and it's just ruining everything for everyone because whereas it's actually a small percentage of people who might get offended at something so small, that small percentage represents a huge number of people, who are not going to allow themselves to be ignored. Case in point: I work at a large technology corporation. There is a small software tool that developers use, and a 32-bit hexadecimal value that shows up in one dialog box defaults to the hex value "DEADBEEF". Clever, right? Also harmless and not at all intended to be offensive. But someone got offended and they made them change it. Stupid, isn't it? Get enough people together and collectively they don't have a sense of humor anymore.
All of her friends were there, the room decorated with balloons and streamers, an arc of letters proclaiming "Happy Birthday, Jenny!" in purple, her favorite color, the cake chocolate with chocolate frosting, her mother, smiling ear-to-ear at how happy her daughter was to have a room full of people there to honor her on her Special Day. Yet the man in the suit, standing in the corner with his hands at parade rest isn't smiling. Men like him never smiled; they just stand there, expressionless, reactionless, like a Beefeater guard. As everyone starts to sing 'Happy Birthday', the man in the suit notes the time and date, and the exact number of celebrants who are actually singing. All six candles are blown out in one huge breath by little Jenny, to a rousing "Hooray!" from everyone except the man in the suit, cake is cut and shared, presents are opened to the ooohs and aaahs of the children. Some time later, after the children have gone in the other room to play in the manner children play with one another, the man in the suit breaks his discipline and approaches the mother, handing her a clipboard and a pen. "Please sign here, ma'am, to certify your acceptance of the royalties bill. Thank you. We'll expect payment in full within 30 days." Things just weren't the same after the Trans Pacific Partnership agreement went into effect. Even something as simple as singing 'Happy Birthday', which once was put into the public domain, became complicated, as the decision was reversed, the original rights-holder claiming perpetual ownership, and demanding royalties for every 'performance' of the song, even in private venues like little Jenny's birthday party, an event which had to be registered ahead of time, along with a signed statement of intent to perform the song, and a security deposit made against the actual royalties, based on the actual number of participants performing the song on the scheduled date. At least the party wasn't held in a public place, Jenny's mother thinks with a sense of relief; the surcharge in that case would have bankrupted them..
You want to 're-ignite' the PC market? How about you start with not trying to take complete control of our computers, which by the way we didn't get handed to us for free, we PAID for them, and furthermore stop spying on us and leave us the hell alone!
Or it reveals that the testing mechanism was always wrong. It's a leap to say..
There's an easy way to test this: You load an emissions analyzer into a vehicle (they can be small) and drive around while collecting the data. Doesn't have to be any more complicated than that. You use whatever streets you have available and drive around for half an hour or so and then look at the data. If they're rigging the vehicles' systems to detect when it's being tested as opposed to actually being driven, then testing it this way will defeat their defeat mechanism.
I'm sorry to say that as soon as this whole issue came up I suspected that other (if not all) vehicle manufacturers would be in on it.
I wouldn't at all be surprised if there was/is a culture of 'plausible deniability' going on at Volkswagen, but that doesn't mean there isn't an entire long list of people who are responsible, either directly, or through carefully managed ignorance of plans and events.
No I don't play games or really care about the facts, I just felt like making sarcastic remarks about China and their BFF Best Korea. China bullshit puts me in that sort of mood. Their economy will tank, and they'll blame the West for it somehow. Meanwhile Best Korea keeps yapping and baring it's teeth like a chihuahua with rabies. Elsewhere in the world there are serious assholes running around blowing up archeological sites and cutting off people's heads just for the hell of it, and Russia is blowing up everyone but who they should be blowing up. All of it makes me a bit irate some days, you know what I mean?
All you really need for that is a microcontroller fast enough to not be a bottleneck, and two ethernet interfaces. The rest of the 'router' is just an embedded ethernet switch; you don't need it to be part of the hardware, it can be external. From there a stripped-down version of Linux, NAT routing software, and firewall software, and you're ready to go. It's been a long time since I looked but I believe all the above are downloadable right now.
In about 40 months China will have spent it's entire net currency reserve from the last 30 years. I don't expect it to continue that long, but even China can't bleed $100Billion/month.
Oh, don't worry for China. When they're out of money an in danger of their economy collapsing, they'll probably just let North Korea off it's leash and let them start an armed conflict with someone, probably South Korea, to draw the U.S. into a war.. which then China, naturally, will have to jump into to defend it's friend North Korea, and WW3 will begin. Everyone knows that war is great for an economy, right? That'll solve all their problems.
I applaud that undying spark of hope for humanity within you that actually believes everything that you just said there -- and I echo it, with regards to Humanity taken as a whole. But the sad fact is that on an individual basis, people can be incredibly dumb, either intrinsically (i.e., incapable of knowing any better), through lack of education, or via wilful ignorance (i.e., "don't know, don't want to know"). I wish that I'd live long enough to see an end to believing in mysticism and superstition, but I know I won't..
Two reasons: One, the open-source community will find a way to work around it anyway. Two, it'll be about as effective against criminal or terrorist hacking as the lock on a sliding glass door is at keeping out burglars: It'll deter the casual criminal, but it won't even slow down the professionals.
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Does their fake meat have really complete protein (not missing or deficient in any essential amino acids) or is it just the typical vegetarian junk that's incomplete in one way or another? Taste is not important; nutrition is. If it's protein is not as complete as the meat they're trying to replace, then it's useless.
the standards that Playboy has traditionally airbrushed in
Since the likelihood of ever meeting any Playboy models is virtually zero, does it really matter that much?
Freedom and government are mutually antagonistic concept
When you get too many people involved on both sides of the equation, then yes, it is. The longer I live, the more convinced I get that there are just too many people alive at the same time on this planet, and just like in those behavioral experiments where they let rats breed to the point of overpopulating their cage, the social structure breaks down and Bad Things start happening.
So far as Putin goes: Sure, he can have his own little version of the Internet within Russian boundaries, much like China does, if that's what he really wants -- but it won't be the Internet anymore, it'll be a Walled Garden, and lacking in the richness (said with slight sarcastic overtones, due to my cynicism) and creativity of the actual Internet, due to an oppressive, authoritarian government, and just like in China, people will go through Hell and High Water trying to get out of it, and into the real Internet. Sorry Putin, the genie is long since out of the bottle, and isn't interested in going back into it.
They don't have to make it impossible, just illegal. And guess what, TPP and its ilk are trying to spread anti DRM circumvention laws to other countries
And you know what? It won't matter. Just like always, any method of locking something down will be broken in a week or less, and spread like wildfire. The tighter they squeeze, the more will slip through their fingers, and there is nothing they can do to stop it.
Oh, quit being so pedantic and literal. A box on wheels with no manual controls rolling down the road unoccupied is likely to never happen. That's the takeaway, that's been my opinion from the beginning, and I'm sticking to it. That being said, no one is saying we won't have a more advanced 'cruise control' or 'driver assist' system.
I want to call a car and have it come when I want it, take me where I want to go, then go away until I need it again.
The technology you're looking for there is a 'mature technology'; it's been around for almost a hundred years in motorized form, and even longer before the automobile: It's 'calling a cab', or 'calling a friend for a ride', or 'taking the bus' if you're willing to walk to where it stops, or 'asking mom/dad to take you/pick you up' if you're young enough for that to apply. More recently, it's 'call Uber/Lyft/{insert name of ride-sharing company here}'. I suggest you use one of these mature, thoroughly-proven technologies instead of waiting for one that likely won't ever exist.
âoeThe notion of ceding control of something as fundamental to life as driving to a big, opaque corporation - people are not comfortable with that,â he says. Additionally, other companies and research groups looking at automating cars are âoevery clearly not going for the Google approach to fully driverless cars.â
And so many of you said I was nuts; not so nuts now, am I?
Now they're, what exactly? I just don't see people wanting to buy Playboy with no nudity. At that point, get a Victoria's Secret catalog
Exactly, precisely this, plus: While it's completely true that you can find 'every imaginable sex act for free' on the Internet, the quality of the women in online porn videos is rarely, if ever, up to the standards that Playboy has traditionally upheld. Playboy was always the gold standard in that regard; women featured in the magazine didn't need to be masturbating (with or without toys), or engaging in intercourse, in order to be incredibly arousing. Second-tier was always Penthouse, featuring almost Playboy level women, but with more outright sex.. then there was Oui, Hustler, and so on.. Playboy might survive on the quality of it's non-pictorial related content, but I wouldn't hold out much hope for that. It's been a good run, Playboy, but I guess you're more likely to go the way of the dinosaur, if you stick to this plan of action.
What we need is a new generation of adblockers: Have it download whatever the ad material is, but just don't render it, and if it includes javascript, fake-execute it in a sandbox. Then advertisers will get paid, and you don't have to see ads, and nobody is the wiser because they won't know the difference. Face it: People who don't want to see ads are going to do whatever they have to to not be subjected to them, and people who don't care about ads will see them.
What do people think of the idea of candidates being limited to a hard dollar amount they can spend on their campaign, regardless of the source of the money? 'Buying' an election is ludicrous at best, criminal at worst, if you ask me.
Fun fact, thanks for pointing that out. :-)
5-digit Slashdot userid numberAh haha, I know where you work, friend; did you author the utility of which I speak? Silicon Valley campus, or north of here?
Get a sense of humor
Friend, there is something I've been saying for decades now: The surest way to ruin a Good Thing is to get a bunch of people involved in it. That's what's happening here: There are too many people in the world, and more to the point too many people on the Internet, and it's just ruining everything for everyone because whereas it's actually a small percentage of people who might get offended at something so small, that small percentage represents a huge number of people, who are not going to allow themselves to be ignored. Case in point: I work at a large technology corporation. There is a small software tool that developers use, and a 32-bit hexadecimal value that shows up in one dialog box defaults to the hex value "DEADBEEF". Clever, right? Also harmless and not at all intended to be offensive. But someone got offended and they made them change it. Stupid, isn't it? Get enough people together and collectively they don't have a sense of humor anymore.
Call it 'Bratli' and use '.bra' as an extension instead; problem solved! :-)
All of her friends were there, the room decorated with balloons and streamers, an arc of letters proclaiming "Happy Birthday, Jenny!" in purple, her favorite color, the cake chocolate with chocolate frosting, her mother, smiling ear-to-ear at how happy her daughter was to have a room full of people there to honor her on her Special Day. Yet the man in the suit, standing in the corner with his hands at parade rest isn't smiling. Men like him never smiled; they just stand there, expressionless, reactionless, like a Beefeater guard. As everyone starts to sing 'Happy Birthday', the man in the suit notes the time and date, and the exact number of celebrants who are actually singing. All six candles are blown out in one huge breath by little Jenny, to a rousing "Hooray!" from everyone except the man in the suit, cake is cut and shared, presents are opened to the ooohs and aaahs of the children. Some time later, after the children have gone in the other room to play in the manner children play with one another, the man in the suit breaks his discipline and approaches the mother, handing her a clipboard and a pen. "Please sign here, ma'am, to certify your acceptance of the royalties bill. Thank you. We'll expect payment in full within 30 days." Things just weren't the same after the Trans Pacific Partnership agreement went into effect. Even something as simple as singing 'Happy Birthday', which once was put into the public domain, became complicated, as the decision was reversed, the original rights-holder claiming perpetual ownership, and demanding royalties for every 'performance' of the song, even in private venues like little Jenny's birthday party, an event which had to be registered ahead of time, along with a signed statement of intent to perform the song, and a security deposit made against the actual royalties, based on the actual number of participants performing the song on the scheduled date. At least the party wasn't held in a public place, Jenny's mother thinks with a sense of relief; the surcharge in that case would have bankrupted them..
You want to 're-ignite' the PC market? How about you start with not trying to take complete control of our computers, which by the way we didn't get handed to us for free, we PAID for them, and furthermore stop spying on us and leave us the hell alone!
Or it reveals that the testing mechanism was always wrong. It's a leap to say..
There's an easy way to test this: You load an emissions analyzer into a vehicle (they can be small) and drive around while collecting the data. Doesn't have to be any more complicated than that. You use whatever streets you have available and drive around for half an hour or so and then look at the data. If they're rigging the vehicles' systems to detect when it's being tested as opposed to actually being driven, then testing it this way will defeat their defeat mechanism.
I'm sorry to say that as soon as this whole issue came up I suspected that other (if not all) vehicle manufacturers would be in on it.
I wouldn't at all be surprised if there was/is a culture of 'plausible deniability' going on at Volkswagen, but that doesn't mean there isn't an entire long list of people who are responsible, either directly, or through carefully managed ignorance of plans and events.
No I don't play games or really care about the facts, I just felt like making sarcastic remarks about China and their BFF Best Korea. China bullshit puts me in that sort of mood. Their economy will tank, and they'll blame the West for it somehow. Meanwhile Best Korea keeps yapping and baring it's teeth like a chihuahua with rabies. Elsewhere in the world there are serious assholes running around blowing up archeological sites and cutting off people's heads just for the hell of it, and Russia is blowing up everyone but who they should be blowing up. All of it makes me a bit irate some days, you know what I mean?
All you really need for that is a microcontroller fast enough to not be a bottleneck, and two ethernet interfaces. The rest of the 'router' is just an embedded ethernet switch; you don't need it to be part of the hardware, it can be external. From there a stripped-down version of Linux, NAT routing software, and firewall software, and you're ready to go. It's been a long time since I looked but I believe all the above are downloadable right now.
Come on Volkswagen execs, you really expect us to believe that?
In about 40 months China will have spent it's entire net currency reserve from the last 30 years. I don't expect it to continue that long, but even China can't bleed $100Billion/month.
Oh, don't worry for China. When they're out of money an in danger of their economy collapsing, they'll probably just let North Korea off it's leash and let them start an armed conflict with someone, probably South Korea, to draw the U.S. into a war.. which then China, naturally, will have to jump into to defend it's friend North Korea, and WW3 will begin. Everyone knows that war is great for an economy, right? That'll solve all their problems.
I applaud that undying spark of hope for humanity within you that actually believes everything that you just said there -- and I echo it, with regards to Humanity taken as a whole. But the sad fact is that on an individual basis, people can be incredibly dumb, either intrinsically (i.e., incapable of knowing any better), through lack of education, or via wilful ignorance (i.e., "don't know, don't want to know"). I wish that I'd live long enough to see an end to believing in mysticism and superstition, but I know I won't..
Two reasons:
One, the open-source community will find a way to work around it anyway.
Two, it'll be about as effective against criminal or terrorist hacking as the lock on a sliding glass door is at keeping out burglars: It'll deter the casual criminal, but it won't even slow down the professionals.
To be used for new torture techniques?
Oh, perhaps some actual legitimate medical uses.. but also new weaponry. They might even be trying for mind control over distances.