And yet another member of the Bush family outs himself as a traitor to his country, just like the rest of his family going back for generations. Fuck Jeb Bush sideways with a rusty chainsaw. Or better yet take the entire crop of GOP 'candidates' out to the wood chipper, they'd all do the U.S. more good as mulch than they'll ever do as politicians.
..not that the DNC is any better, really. In 2016 we're faced with 'bad or worse' for choices yet again, except this time around the bar has been set lower than ever.
Because short of lubing it up with buckyballs, you're not going to get much slipperier than this.
I'm surprised, no, shocked that they didn't manage to work in a 'for the children!' angle to this.
So tell me, asshole San Jose officials: How long after that do you plan on adding facial recognition and audio recording to your garbage truck surveillance network, hmm?
Come on, assholes, I know your type, why don't you just cut to the chase: What you really want, I'll bet, is barcodes tattooed on everyone, or RFID implants, with readers on every lamppost and telephone pole, and in people's houses too if you can get away with it, so you can track people everywhere they go. You know, to cut down on crime, and for the children!
..OK, I'm being extreme on purpose (or am I?). But enough with the gods-be-damned surveillance state bullshit!
Damnit.. how many times do I have to say it? I AM NOT ADVOCATING PEOPLE BE CENSORED! What I WANT is for the trolls and assholes of the internet to learn to behave! In the meantime they are ruining things for everyone else because there ARE people out there who DO want to practice censorship! Now: How do we teach these idiots to stop being idiots?
You can sit there and preach 'Freedom of speech!' all you want, but trolls, people who start arguments just for the sake of arguing and not because they have a point to make, and other idiots are abusing 'freedom of speech' and ruining it for everyone else. Note that I'm estimating that the 'trolls and other idiots' are only a tiny percentage of everyone, but they're still wrecking things for everyone else; isn't this how things usually work? So because of jackasses, everyone has to pay. Does that make the 99.999% of the rest of you as mad as it makes me? Sure it does. Go find the trolls and idiots and punch them in the mouth until they learn they can't get away with fucking things up for everyone else. And to the inevitable jackasses who are going to attempt to flame me for allegedly advocating censorship: Go punch yourself in the mouth, you're no better than the other jackasses I'm referring to above.
My impression of so-called 'junk DNA' is that they're like some conditional (if/then) statements in a programming language: the condition required to run that code may rarely, if ever, occur, therefore that code sits there 99.9999999999% of the time doing absolutely nothing. Except, of course, for that one time when it does run. We've made much progress in the last 100 or so years with regards to understanding the mechanisms of life, but we're far, far away still from understanding all of it.
It doesn't. It's a basic small pickup truck. I prioritized fuel economy over everything else, and bought it used, so it's not like I got to pick and choose options anyway. No electric windows or doorlocks, no cruise control, not even automatic intermittent wipers. Sure there's an ECC, but you'd have to physically access the vehicle's CANBUS to mess with it I'm sure, and I wouldn't at all be surprised if it's firmware is read-only. Regardless the transmission is manual, the clutch, brakes, and steering all have mechanical linkages (regardless of any power assist under computer control), and of course the parking brake (a necessity with a manual transmission) is 100% mechanical. The only basic control that has no mechanical linkage is the throttle, which is connected to (I believe) a potentiometer (like a video game would be), but even if someone sabotaged the ECC such that the throttle went wide open suddenly, all I have to do is kick it into neutral and kill the engine, roll safely to a stop.
There is nothing on my computer that I can't live without. That is by design not chance, by the way. My computer, my phone, and any other electronics I have are just tools and conveniences, not a lifestyle. The house burns to the ground? Life goes on.
You know what? Maybe we shouldn't go anywhere until as an entire race we fix our fuck-ups here on Earth or die trying. This includes how we treat each other as well. Otherwise we're likely to just repeat the same stupid mistakes and perpetuate the same shitty behavior somewhere else.
I have a 2008 Toyota Tacoma with a 5-speed manual transmission, and no electric anything. Radio is aftermarket. Other than someone having physical access to the vehicle, am *I* safe?
So far as I know my 2008 Toyota Tacoma with a 5-speed manual transmission doesn't have any wireless anything built into it, and you'd have to have physical access to the vehicle in order to 'hack' anything in it. The throttle pedal may be connected to a potentiometer, but the brake pedal, steering wheel, clutch pedal, and parking brake are all mechanically connected to their various systems and will all still function even with the engine off.
In part this is exactly my point. In addition to this the average person, I'm sad to say, can't even do math beyond basic arithmetic, let alone understand a complex scientific explanation of how a new, untested medication may work, or in what ways it may hurt (or kill) them if it goes wrong, and quite frankly if it's an untested or not a well-tested medication, there are too many known unknowns and unknown unknowns about it to make an informed decision anyway; you'd literally be playing Russian Roulette with your health and life.
Your supposed 'FUCK YOU' to the DNC is actually going to be a gigantic 'FUCK YOU' to the entire country. As to the rest of your rant, I suggest you limit yourself to yelling at the neighborhood kids to get off your lawn and stay away from the polls, greatgrandpa, since you don't seem to understand what the consequences of your action will be for the entire country. And since you don't seem to have your reading glasses on and therefore didn't see or understand the rest of what I said, I'll say it again: HIlary and the other DNC candidates aren't anything to shout about either, but at least they're not going to fuck the entire country as bad as the current crop of batshit insane GOP idiots will.
Haven't there been previous studies that showed that allowing employees to goof off a little bit actually helped their overall productivity, led to fewer mistakes, better overall employee health (due, I suppose, to lower stress levels) and such? Posted here on/., for that matter? I can't see being micromanaged as being good for anyone.
Prove to me that the average person who might need a new, untested medication is intelligent enough, can do and understand the research competently enough to make an informed decision, and I'll agree with you. As is, however, I don't believe that to be the case. Therefore there must be rules and procedures to protect people from something that might potentially harm or kill them.
He's not going to be the GOP candidate, and a GOP candidate isn't going to get elected, either, because they're all extremist whack-jobs one way or another. Not that Hilary or any other potential Democrat candidate is really any better; in fact there are no candidates from any party that are worth a damn.
OK, fine. Unlike religion, science is open to being questioned. Go learn all you can learn, and prove your point through experimentation, or prove to yourself that you're wrong in the process. Speculation is just pissing in the wind.
Friend, I'll tell you what's 'going on in Redmond': The same thing that goes on at Facebook, and countless other companies these days: You are the product they're selling, and you're paying for the 'privilege' of being such by buying Windows 10. They're collecting data from your computer whether you like it or not, and selling that data to someone else.
Back in the 80's, I was one of the people who voted to shut down Rancho Seco. I've come to regret that decision, even if it seemed like the right thing to do at the time. Renewables are fine and good, but they're not the end-all, be-all solution to the problem. Nice, clean Fusion power is the answer, but it's not here yet. In the meantime Fission will have to do. We'll just have to be better at designing the reactors, and absolutely better at managing them than previously. Or, perhaps, thorium reactors.
I don't have any family. But that doesn't stop me from wanting to ensure there's a planet left to live on, a thousand (or more) years from now. How do we get the other 7 billion people on this planet to feel the same way?
If science is correct and climate change is real and is being caused by humans, then doing something about it means everybody gets to live. If the climate change deniers are wrong, then everything dies. Choice seems simple to me: Clean up your shit, Humanity. It's not like we have anything to lose except our tendency to be lazy pigs.
Sorry, but all of you lazy people out there who dream of a day when you can just tell your autonomous lawn mower, "Mow the front lawn, please" and allow it on it's way, unmanned, will just have to be disappointed. In the end, lawnmowing regulatory agencies will demand there be a full set of manual controls, along with an unimpeachable manual override, and a properly trained, tested, licensed, and insured lawncare equipment operator will be required at those controls at all times. Seriously, it's a safety issue; you can't have a box on wheels with sharp, high-speed blades whirling unless there is a competent human being available at all times as the last backup system, regardless of how many mechanical or electronic backup systems you have on the mower. Otherwise what will happen when the day comes that your so-called 'autonomous' lawn mower malfunctions and runs out of control, colliding with a human being and cutting off their toes? Or the family dog for that matter.
..OK, enough fooling around. Anyone who has read my comments on autonomous cars will know I'm trying to be funny. Hope someone enjoyed that..
In all seriousness: How is this an innovation? I lived with some friends in their house for a year, and they have (and have had for years now) a fully autonomous lawn mower. There's a wire they ran that defines the perimeter of the area to be mowed. Does a pretty good job, too. Designers even had a sense of humor; if the bumper collides with something (or you kick it) it makes a "BOING!" sound effect.
Also, in all seriousness: Why even bother having a lawn at all? Grass is one of the most boring things imaginable. It also uses a rediculous amount of water, and a rediculous amount of labor to make it look decent. Alternately there are plenty of other types of ground cover that look as good if not better, use a fraction of the water (some don't even need to be watered at all, really), and little to no upkeep.
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And yet another member of the Bush family outs himself as a traitor to his country, just like the rest of his family going back for generations. Fuck Jeb Bush sideways with a rusty chainsaw. Or better yet take the entire crop of GOP 'candidates' out to the wood chipper, they'd all do the U.S. more good as mulch than they'll ever do as politicians.
..not that the DNC is any better, really. In 2016 we're faced with 'bad or worse' for choices yet again, except this time around the bar has been set lower than ever.
Because short of lubing it up with buckyballs, you're not going to get much slipperier than this.
I'm surprised, no, shocked that they didn't manage to work in a 'for the children!' angle to this.
So tell me, asshole San Jose officials: How long after that do you plan on adding facial recognition and audio recording to your garbage truck surveillance network, hmm?
Come on, assholes, I know your type, why don't you just cut to the chase: What you really want, I'll bet, is barcodes tattooed on everyone, or RFID implants, with readers on every lamppost and telephone pole, and in people's houses too if you can get away with it, so you can track people everywhere they go. You know, to cut down on crime, and for the children!
..OK, I'm being extreme on purpose (or am I?). But enough with the gods-be-damned surveillance state bullshit!
Memo to Idiot Politicians: IT DOESN'T WORK.
Damnit.. how many times do I have to say it? I AM NOT ADVOCATING PEOPLE BE CENSORED! What I WANT is for the trolls and assholes of the internet to learn to behave! In the meantime they are ruining things for everyone else because there ARE people out there who DO want to practice censorship! Now: How do we teach these idiots to stop being idiots?
You can sit there and preach 'Freedom of speech!' all you want, but trolls, people who start arguments just for the sake of arguing and not because they have a point to make, and other idiots are abusing 'freedom of speech' and ruining it for everyone else. Note that I'm estimating that the 'trolls and other idiots' are only a tiny percentage of everyone, but they're still wrecking things for everyone else; isn't this how things usually work? So because of jackasses, everyone has to pay. Does that make the 99.999% of the rest of you as mad as it makes me? Sure it does. Go find the trolls and idiots and punch them in the mouth until they learn they can't get away with fucking things up for everyone else. And to the inevitable jackasses who are going to attempt to flame me for allegedly advocating censorship: Go punch yourself in the mouth, you're no better than the other jackasses I'm referring to above.
Interesting. You're implying then that there's some mechanism doing the editing of the source code?
Quit touching my junk
Your junk is microscopic; be glad that anyone is willing to go to the trouble of touching it.
My impression of so-called 'junk DNA' is that they're like some conditional (if/then) statements in a programming language: the condition required to run that code may rarely, if ever, occur, therefore that code sits there 99.9999999999% of the time doing absolutely nothing. Except, of course, for that one time when it does run. We've made much progress in the last 100 or so years with regards to understanding the mechanisms of life, but we're far, far away still from understanding all of it.
It doesn't. It's a basic small pickup truck. I prioritized fuel economy over everything else, and bought it used, so it's not like I got to pick and choose options anyway. No electric windows or doorlocks, no cruise control, not even automatic intermittent wipers. Sure there's an ECC, but you'd have to physically access the vehicle's CANBUS to mess with it I'm sure, and I wouldn't at all be surprised if it's firmware is read-only. Regardless the transmission is manual, the clutch, brakes, and steering all have mechanical linkages (regardless of any power assist under computer control), and of course the parking brake (a necessity with a manual transmission) is 100% mechanical. The only basic control that has no mechanical linkage is the throttle, which is connected to (I believe) a potentiometer (like a video game would be), but even if someone sabotaged the ECC such that the throttle went wide open suddenly, all I have to do is kick it into neutral and kill the engine, roll safely to a stop.
There is nothing on my computer that I can't live without. That is by design not chance, by the way. My computer, my phone, and any other electronics I have are just tools and conveniences, not a lifestyle. The house burns to the ground? Life goes on.
You know what? Maybe we shouldn't go anywhere until as an entire race we fix our fuck-ups here on Earth or die trying. This includes how we treat each other as well. Otherwise we're likely to just repeat the same stupid mistakes and perpetuate the same shitty behavior somewhere else.
It's called 'the hard drive in the computer on my desk'.
I have a 2008 Toyota Tacoma with a 5-speed manual transmission, and no electric anything. Radio is aftermarket. Other than someone having physical access to the vehicle, am *I* safe?
So far as I know my 2008 Toyota Tacoma with a 5-speed manual transmission doesn't have any wireless anything built into it, and you'd have to have physical access to the vehicle in order to 'hack' anything in it. The throttle pedal may be connected to a potentiometer, but the brake pedal, steering wheel, clutch pedal, and parking brake are all mechanically connected to their various systems and will all still function even with the engine off.
In part this is exactly my point. In addition to this the average person, I'm sad to say, can't even do math beyond basic arithmetic, let alone understand a complex scientific explanation of how a new, untested medication may work, or in what ways it may hurt (or kill) them if it goes wrong, and quite frankly if it's an untested or not a well-tested medication, there are too many known unknowns and unknown unknowns about it to make an informed decision anyway; you'd literally be playing Russian Roulette with your health and life.
Your supposed 'FUCK YOU' to the DNC is actually going to be a gigantic 'FUCK YOU' to the entire country. As to the rest of your rant, I suggest you limit yourself to yelling at the neighborhood kids to get off your lawn and stay away from the polls, greatgrandpa, since you don't seem to understand what the consequences of your action will be for the entire country. And since you don't seem to have your reading glasses on and therefore didn't see or understand the rest of what I said, I'll say it again: HIlary and the other DNC candidates aren't anything to shout about either, but at least they're not going to fuck the entire country as bad as the current crop of batshit insane GOP idiots will.
Haven't there been previous studies that showed that allowing employees to goof off a little bit actually helped their overall productivity, led to fewer mistakes, better overall employee health (due, I suppose, to lower stress levels) and such? Posted here on /., for that matter? I can't see being micromanaged as being good for anyone.
Prove to me that the average person who might need a new, untested medication is intelligent enough, can do and understand the research competently enough to make an informed decision, and I'll agree with you. As is, however, I don't believe that to be the case. Therefore there must be rules and procedures to protect people from something that might potentially harm or kill them.
He's not going to be the GOP candidate, and a GOP candidate isn't going to get elected, either, because they're all extremist whack-jobs one way or another. Not that Hilary or any other potential Democrat candidate is really any better; in fact there are no candidates from any party that are worth a damn.
So far as I'm concerned they hadn't been testing new drugs thoroughly enough, and people were getting hurt or dying because of it.
FF is open-source, is it not? Get the source, chop out all the stuff you don't like/want, and compile your own personal fork of it.
OK, fine. Unlike religion, science is open to being questioned. Go learn all you can learn, and prove your point through experimentation, or prove to yourself that you're wrong in the process. Speculation is just pissing in the wind.
Friend, I'll tell you what's 'going on in Redmond': The same thing that goes on at Facebook, and countless other companies these days: You are the product they're selling, and you're paying for the 'privilege' of being such by buying Windows 10. They're collecting data from your computer whether you like it or not, and selling that data to someone else.
Back in the 80's, I was one of the people who voted to shut down Rancho Seco. I've come to regret that decision, even if it seemed like the right thing to do at the time. Renewables are fine and good, but they're not the end-all, be-all solution to the problem. Nice, clean Fusion power is the answer, but it's not here yet. In the meantime Fission will have to do. We'll just have to be better at designing the reactors, and absolutely better at managing them than previously. Or, perhaps, thorium reactors.
I don't have any family. But that doesn't stop me from wanting to ensure there's a planet left to live on, a thousand (or more) years from now. How do we get the other 7 billion people on this planet to feel the same way?
Exactly.
If science is correct and climate change is real and is being caused by humans, then doing something about it means everybody gets to live. If the climate change deniers are wrong, then everything dies. Choice seems simple to me: Clean up your shit, Humanity. It's not like we have anything to lose except our tendency to be lazy pigs.
Sorry, but all of you lazy people out there who dream of a day when you can just tell your autonomous lawn mower, "Mow the front lawn, please" and allow it on it's way, unmanned, will just have to be disappointed. In the end, lawnmowing regulatory agencies will demand there be a full set of manual controls, along with an unimpeachable manual override, and a properly trained, tested, licensed, and insured lawncare equipment operator will be required at those controls at all times. Seriously, it's a safety issue; you can't have a box on wheels with sharp, high-speed blades whirling unless there is a competent human being available at all times as the last backup system, regardless of how many mechanical or electronic backup systems you have on the mower. Otherwise what will happen when the day comes that your so-called 'autonomous' lawn mower malfunctions and runs out of control, colliding with a human being and cutting off their toes? Or the family dog for that matter.
..OK, enough fooling around. Anyone who has read my comments on autonomous cars will know I'm trying to be funny. Hope someone enjoyed that..
In all seriousness: How is this an innovation? I lived with some friends in their house for a year, and they have (and have had for years now) a fully autonomous lawn mower. There's a wire they ran that defines the perimeter of the area to be mowed. Does a pretty good job, too. Designers even had a sense of humor; if the bumper collides with something (or you kick it) it makes a "BOING!" sound effect.
Also, in all seriousness: Why even bother having a lawn at all? Grass is one of the most boring things imaginable. It also uses a rediculous amount of water, and a rediculous amount of labor to make it look decent. Alternately there are plenty of other types of ground cover that look as good if not better, use a fraction of the water (some don't even need to be watered at all, really), and little to no upkeep.