Are you saying we've already evolved past this point, or that we're past the point where we can evolve past it and are going to self-destruct? Please clarify.
Wait a minute here.. how is my stance 'wrong' in any sense of the word? How is seeking actual knowledge and challenging things like 'doctine' and 'dogma' wrong? How is discouraging blind faith wrong?
You're modded as (5, Funny), but it's not funny: That's exactly what the religious types will say: "See? God did it!" because we can't determine with any reasonable degree of certainty what's outside our Universe, we only have theories.
This whole 'religion' thing is going to plague us for at least a few thousand years more (if we're lucky) until we've evolved past the need for it. Assuming the human race is still around in a few thousand years, that is.
Honestly, you sound like someone who doesn't take a stand on something unless someone's got a gun (figuratively, or literally) to your head. I really don't think fence-sitting is an option anymore; if you're not part of the solution, then you're part of the problem. But whatever.
You're just full of irony, aren't you, calling me a zealot? How can we 'concede' any points at all to people who aren't being rational in the first place? Really, it makes no sense.
Here's the problem I have with what you're saying: Interpretation of what you said in your comment, which is very much ironic. The willfully-ignorant religious nutjobs will stop reading after "The bible does not disagree wtih reality". In this day and age where we do very much so have willfully ignorant people running around spreading their ignorance, superstition, and religious nonsense to anyone gullible enough, unintelligent enough, or under-educated enough to listen, we need to keep pressing the point that things like science, education, independent thought, and the search for knowledge and actual truth are important, real, and right, and that sticking your head in the sand is wrong. We've still got more than enough ability, as a race, to destroy ourselves utterly, as a race, and my money says that the willfully ignorant pseudo-religious nonsense that we see more and more of lately may be what triggers it. We've got people out there who not only believe in the Apocalypse, but are waiting for it with baited breath because they think that The End will fix everything that's wrong with the world, and they'll be "taken home" by their God.
Yes, please, in this case. I'm getting sick and bloody well tired of this tendency in recent times towards more ignorance, superstition, and pseudo-religious/spiritual nonsense, and away from knowledge, learning, and reason. Sue the living crap out of them.
We just finally got pretty much everyone who matters to use a USB connector, now you want to go back to the Walled Garden of proprietary connectors, or even worse, try to get everyone to agree on a new standard?
I'm surprised I haven't made it obvious enough. I'm not talking about individuals, except maybe individuals who also happen to be in control of large companies/corporations, I'm talking about large companies/corporations that are doing things that affect large percentages of the population, especially in the areas of essential services like energy, and it probably is something that governments should be regulating, unfortunately, because left to their own devices large companies/corporations have proven time and time again that they'll prioritize based on profits and not on what's best for the people depending on them. Again, I cannot stress enough that I'm not talking about government regulation of all business, just essentials like energy, that if screwed up in the name of profit, the environment gets severely damaged, people get seriously ill or die, etc. We're well past the point where things like electricity and fuel can be considered "non-essentials", and therefore it's time to start prioritizing safety and people first and profit second. If, for instance, nuclear power plants had been managed properly in the first place, placing safety and the serving the public interest first, then we likely wouldn't have had incidents like Three Mile Island that scared so many people that nuclear power is now considered anathema.
Actually, it doesn't omit that at all, it states their prototype is 2000mAh. For discharge time, you'd have to know what the power requirements are for the phone they used to demonstrate it, and probably what the discharge curve for the battery looks like.
At 2.5W, you won't be charging this battery in mere seconds with a standard USB connection. Anyone else notice the rather large connector the demonstrator plugged in to charge it? You'd have to have a charger capable of supplying several amps to charge it that fast. Assuming it's a 3.6V nominal battery at 2000mAh, that's 7.2WH. For a typical 2.5W USB connection, you'd still take 2.88 hours to charge your phone (longer if you take inefficiencies into account). Also, can a mini- or micro-USB connector's power pins handle several amps without getting burned? Don't get me wrong, I'm not discounting the possibilities of this development, but I am saying the demonstration was a bit misleading, and that there are problems that would have to be worked out before it'd be practical for a phone battery.
Or maybe he was put in power by the NSA in the first place, and as such in his role as a puppet President, he won't sign any such 'executive order' unless his NSA masters order him to do so.
If what you're saying is true (and it's entirely possible that it is), then we're already well past the point where anything can be done to stop this, and the NSA/CIA/intellgence community is already the de-facto ultimate power in the United States.
Totally out of left field, but what can I say, my mind makes weird-sounding connections sometimes, so just hang with it for a minute..
Crude oil is nasty stuff. Nobody is arguing that point. But while people complain about that (and this case in particular, and rightly so), they're complaining about it on their computers, or on their phones, both of which have high-end semiconductor devices and batteries in them that required even more noxious, toxic, dangerous chemicals to produce -- but nobody is complaining about their phones, or computers, or their nice quiet hybrid or 100% electric car, now are they? A modern bicycle contains components that required some sort of nasty chemicals and processes to produce, but nobody thinks about that, do they? Even shoes, used to for walking of all things, the most 'green' of all transportation devices, requires some rather nauseating chemicals to produce the synthetic rubber and other synthetic materials in them.
My point here is this: Mismanagement is the problem. It's like the old argument: 'Guns don't kill people, people kill people'. Gun control advocates give you a dirty look when they hear this, but it's 100% true, now isn't it? Should we continue to transition away from fossil fuels like petroleum and coal? Absolutely! But don't forget that it's humans' management (or the lack thereof) that ends up causing many of the disasterous problems (like in this news story!) and not what's being managed.
What I'm finally leading up to is this: Things like nuclear power (which, in one form or another, whether it's fission or fusion) are, in and of themselves, not evil; it's the mismanagement of it in the past that's left the nasty taste in people's mouths and the lasting negative sentiments in their minds. If we, as a civilization, had been more thoughtful and careful with our technology, maybe this little disasters in the Los Angeles area wouldn't have happened in the first place.
Seriously, human race: It's time to grow up and start learning to put aside the base desires for power and money where the public interest is concerned and think more about what's good for our collective civilzation over the long run.
Prepare for the worst, hope for the best. Words to live by; I suggest you embrace that. Sticking your head in the sand (when you're not wearing your rose-colored glasses) doesn't accomplish anything other than allowing Bad People to accomplish Bad Things.
Kim Jong Un is just throwing a temper-tantrum because Putin is getting all the attention right now, and how can North Korea be best Korea when it's not in the spotlight? Nothing worse in my opinion than a despotic dictator with little-dog-syndrome who is also a blatant attention whore. Meanwhile we got Putin trying to either re-form the Soviet Union, or trying to start World War III, or maybe both simultaneously. #FML.
How about: Have you considered not going to Burning Man in your own vehicle? Having been born and lived in the U.S. my entire life I certainly understand the automobile culture, but for cryin' out loud, people, can't some of you carpool to this thing? Or get together and rent a truck or a bus or something?
Honestly, it sounds like it was a monumentally bad idea in the first place. Who thought anyone would even watch such a thing? As others have commented: I'd be more interested in the end product of bringing these people together, not watching how they do it.
Honestly, this sounds like a solution in search of a problem. Why would the average person want or even need to control each bulb in their house individually? Also, won't this make each bulb very expensive, and as others have pointed out, more of a security problem? I just want lighting that's inexpensive and efficient, and I think I represent the majority in this case. You want to remotely control your lighting? There are already products and systems to do that, you don't need the bulbs themselves to do it.
Until there is 100% coverage of 100% of all the places there is POTS now, you can't abandon POTS at all, and IDGAF about their 'business model' or profits or any of that. It could quickly and easily become a public safety issue. If even one person died because they couldn't quickly and easily call 911 because the POTS phone that used to be sitting there isn't there anymore, then we've screwed up. Also, wireless signals are not as reliable as wired phone service is, there can be pocket areas where the signal is poor to non-existent, and wireless signals can be tampered with (i.e., jammed, intentionally or unintentionally) whereas wired phone service cannot easily be (you have to physically cut the lines). There is a possible gotcha for the wireless companies if they get their way, though: With no more POTS, then wireless would pretty much have to be declared a Public Utility, since it would be taking the place of POTS. Not sure if they've considered that, or if they're living in some rose-colored-glasses world where that's not going to happen.
1. As you've already observed: Windows 8 is trash. Nobody is forcing you to use it. Dump it and install Windows 7, or if you're so against Microsoft, or if you're one of the "FOSS only!" crowd, then install some flavor of Linux instead.
2. Nobody is forcing you to use Google Chrome, either. Pick another browser.
3. The government isn't "allowing anyone to fuck you over", you just have an acute case of Buyer's Regret and are now taking it out on me and everyone else in this comment thread.
4. How the fuck did you come up with a link between the GOP and anything else you've been ranting about? You're not making any sense at all.
5. What makes you think that anyone anywhere is going to take the temper-tantrum-like rantings you posted here seriously at all, let alone posted as an Anonymous Coward? You sound more like an escapee from 4chan/b than you do a responsible, well-adjusted adult. Maybe you should go back there and lurk more instead of shitposting on Slashdot. Either way: Please leave, you're just embarassing yourself and annoying everyone around you, you're sure as fuck not impressing anyone.
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Are you saying we've already evolved past this point, or that we're past the point where we can evolve past it and are going to self-destruct? Please clarify.
Wait a minute here.. how is my stance 'wrong' in any sense of the word?
How is seeking actual knowledge and challenging things like 'doctine' and 'dogma' wrong? How is discouraging blind faith wrong?
You're modded as (5, Funny), but it's not funny: That's exactly what the religious types will say: "See? God did it!" because we can't determine with any reasonable degree of certainty what's outside our Universe, we only have theories.
This whole 'religion' thing is going to plague us for at least a few thousand years more (if we're lucky) until we've evolved past the need for it. Assuming the human race is still around in a few thousand years, that is.
Honestly, you sound like someone who doesn't take a stand on something unless someone's got a gun (figuratively, or literally) to your head. I really don't think fence-sitting is an option anymore; if you're not part of the solution, then you're part of the problem. But whatever.
You're just full of irony, aren't you, calling me a zealot?
How can we 'concede' any points at all to people who aren't being rational in the first place? Really, it makes no sense.
Here's the problem I have with what you're saying: Interpretation of what you said in your comment, which is very much ironic. The willfully-ignorant religious nutjobs will stop reading after "The bible does not disagree wtih reality".
In this day and age where we do very much so have willfully ignorant people running around spreading their ignorance, superstition, and religious nonsense to anyone gullible enough, unintelligent enough, or under-educated enough to listen, we need to keep pressing the point that things like science, education, independent thought, and the search for knowledge and actual truth are important, real, and right, and that sticking your head in the sand is wrong. We've still got more than enough ability, as a race, to destroy ourselves utterly, as a race, and my money says that the willfully ignorant pseudo-religious nonsense that we see more and more of lately may be what triggers it. We've got people out there who not only believe in the Apocalypse, but are waiting for it with baited breath because they think that The End will fix everything that's wrong with the world, and they'll be "taken home" by their God.
Yes, please, in this case.
I'm getting sick and bloody well tired of this tendency in recent times towards more ignorance, superstition, and pseudo-religious/spiritual nonsense, and away from knowledge, learning, and reason. Sue the living crap out of them.
Is it just me, or is the EU government showing more respect for people's privacy than here in the U.S.?
We just finally got pretty much everyone who matters to use a USB connector, now you want to go back to the Walled Garden of proprietary connectors, or even worse, try to get everyone to agree on a new standard?
I'm surprised I haven't made it obvious enough.
I'm not talking about individuals, except maybe individuals who also happen to be in control of large companies/corporations, I'm talking about large companies/corporations that are doing things that affect large percentages of the population, especially in the areas of essential services like energy, and it probably is something that governments should be regulating, unfortunately, because left to their own devices large companies/corporations have proven time and time again that they'll prioritize based on profits and not on what's best for the people depending on them. Again, I cannot stress enough that I'm not talking about government regulation of all business, just essentials like energy, that if screwed up in the name of profit, the environment gets severely damaged, people get seriously ill or die, etc. We're well past the point where things like electricity and fuel can be considered "non-essentials", and therefore it's time to start prioritizing safety and people first and profit second. If, for instance, nuclear power plants had been managed properly in the first place, placing safety and the serving the public interest first, then we likely wouldn't have had incidents like Three Mile Island that scared so many people that nuclear power is now considered anathema.
Actually, it doesn't omit that at all, it states their prototype is 2000mAh. For discharge time, you'd have to know what the power requirements are for the phone they used to demonstrate it, and probably what the discharge curve for the battery looks like.
At 2.5W, you won't be charging this battery in mere seconds with a standard USB connection. Anyone else notice the rather large connector the demonstrator plugged in to charge it? You'd have to have a charger capable of supplying several amps to charge it that fast. Assuming it's a 3.6V nominal battery at 2000mAh, that's 7.2WH. For a typical 2.5W USB connection, you'd still take 2.88 hours to charge your phone (longer if you take inefficiencies into account). Also, can a mini- or micro-USB connector's power pins handle several amps without getting burned? Don't get me wrong, I'm not discounting the possibilities of this development, but I am saying the demonstration was a bit misleading, and that there are problems that would have to be worked out before it'd be practical for a phone battery.
I'm not really sure who you are talking to, or to what you're referring? Please, clarify.
Or maybe he was put in power by the NSA in the first place, and as such in his role as a puppet President, he won't sign any such 'executive order' unless his NSA masters order him to do so.
If what you're saying is true (and it's entirely possible that it is), then we're already well past the point where anything can be done to stop this, and the NSA/CIA/intellgence community is already the de-facto ultimate power in the United States.
Totally out of left field, but what can I say, my mind makes weird-sounding connections sometimes, so just hang with it for a minute..
Crude oil is nasty stuff. Nobody is arguing that point. But while people complain about that (and this case in particular, and rightly so), they're complaining about it on their computers, or on their phones, both of which have high-end semiconductor devices and batteries in them that required even more noxious, toxic, dangerous chemicals to produce -- but nobody is complaining about their phones, or computers, or their nice quiet hybrid or 100% electric car, now are they? A modern bicycle contains components that required some sort of nasty chemicals and processes to produce, but nobody thinks about that, do they? Even shoes, used to for walking of all things, the most 'green' of all transportation devices, requires some rather nauseating chemicals to produce the synthetic rubber and other synthetic materials in them.
My point here is this: Mismanagement is the problem. It's like the old argument: 'Guns don't kill people, people kill people'. Gun control advocates give you a dirty look when they hear this, but it's 100% true, now isn't it? Should we continue to transition away from fossil fuels like petroleum and coal? Absolutely! But don't forget that it's humans' management (or the lack thereof) that ends up causing many of the disasterous problems (like in this news story!) and not what's being managed.
What I'm finally leading up to is this: Things like nuclear power (which, in one form or another, whether it's fission or fusion) are, in and of themselves, not evil; it's the mismanagement of it in the past that's left the nasty taste in people's mouths and the lasting negative sentiments in their minds. If we, as a civilization, had been more thoughtful and careful with our technology, maybe this little disasters in the Los Angeles area wouldn't have happened in the first place.
Seriously, human race: It's time to grow up and start learning to put aside the base desires for power and money where the public interest is concerned and think more about what's good for our collective civilzation over the long run.
Prepare for the worst, hope for the best. Words to live by; I suggest you embrace that. Sticking your head in the sand (when you're not wearing your rose-colored glasses) doesn't accomplish anything other than allowing Bad People to accomplish Bad Things.
Kim Jong Un is just throwing a temper-tantrum because Putin is getting all the attention right now, and how can North Korea be best Korea when it's not in the spotlight? Nothing worse in my opinion than a despotic dictator with little-dog-syndrome who is also a blatant attention whore. Meanwhile we got Putin trying to either re-form the Soviet Union, or trying to start World War III, or maybe both simultaneously. #FML.
How about: Have you considered not going to Burning Man in your own vehicle? Having been born and lived in the U.S. my entire life I certainly understand the automobile culture, but for cryin' out loud, people, can't some of you carpool to this thing? Or get together and rent a truck or a bus or something?
All I get to see in the mirrors are my elbows...
I've been a rider for over 30 years, and I'm telling you: You don't know how to adjust your mirrors, then.
Also agreed.
Mirrors don't require power, and even if they're damaged, they still function (unless completely destroyed).
Honestly, it sounds like it was a monumentally bad idea in the first place. Who thought anyone would even watch such a thing?
As others have commented: I'd be more interested in the end product of bringing these people together, not watching how they do it.
Honestly, this sounds like a solution in search of a problem. Why would the average person want or even need to control each bulb in their house individually? Also, won't this make each bulb very expensive, and as others have pointed out, more of a security problem? I just want lighting that's inexpensive and efficient, and I think I represent the majority in this case. You want to remotely control your lighting? There are already products and systems to do that, you don't need the bulbs themselves to do it.
I agree with you.
Until there is 100% coverage of 100% of all the places there is POTS now, you can't abandon POTS at all, and IDGAF about their 'business model' or profits or any of that. It could quickly and easily become a public safety issue. If even one person died because they couldn't quickly and easily call 911 because the POTS phone that used to be sitting there isn't there anymore, then we've screwed up. Also, wireless signals are not as reliable as wired phone service is, there can be pocket areas where the signal is poor to non-existent, and wireless signals can be tampered with (i.e., jammed, intentionally or unintentionally) whereas wired phone service cannot easily be (you have to physically cut the lines). There is a possible gotcha for the wireless companies if they get their way, though: With no more POTS, then wireless would pretty much have to be declared a Public Utility, since it would be taking the place of POTS. Not sure if they've considered that, or if they're living in some rose-colored-glasses world where that's not going to happen.
1. As you've already observed: Windows 8 is trash. Nobody is forcing you to use it. Dump it and install Windows 7, or if you're so against Microsoft, or if you're one of the "FOSS only!" crowd, then install some flavor of Linux instead.
2. Nobody is forcing you to use Google Chrome, either. Pick another browser.
3. The government isn't "allowing anyone to fuck you over", you just have an acute case of Buyer's Regret and are now taking it out on me and everyone else in this comment thread.
4. How the fuck did you come up with a link between the GOP and anything else you've been ranting about? You're not making any sense at all.
5. What makes you think that anyone anywhere is going to take the temper-tantrum-like rantings you posted here seriously at all, let alone posted as an Anonymous Coward? You sound more like an escapee from 4chan/b than you do a responsible, well-adjusted adult. Maybe you should go back there and lurk more instead of shitposting on Slashdot. Either way: Please leave, you're just embarassing yourself and annoying everyone around you, you're sure as fuck not impressing anyone.
I mean, wow. Just, wow.