That management center would then help you avoid a traffic jam by sending traffic information to your car via a cellular signal. However, such a system is even further out in the future and it is unclear who would even pay for the technology. Consider the fact that Ford says that the combined technology could reduce gasoline consumption by 4 billion gallons a year, which could cost the government upwards of $1 billion in tax revenue. Would or could the government pay for such a system? I doubt it.
Odd reasoning. For one thing, GPS systems already can do this. For another, "Could the government pay" for the tax cut? Since we're talking about politics, that doesn't make sense. Taxes get cut if the politicians can sell it, not because of silly things like numbers, or because tax revenue is higher than spending.
I think Einstein may have been overstating things. Some details may often be safely left in books, but a portion of the memorization I did in school has served me quite well, despite what I thought at the time. You have to build a framework of knowledge in any subject area to know what details you can look up in the first place, and having at least a foggy recollection of things you memorized at one time helps. "Is it in a book or not" is not a good standard for that.
But the ad hominem at the end is not necessary, mate, and will make any audience side against you.
Sometimes a mild ad-homenim gives the criticism a little extra sting. Maybe the next time Dan East gets paranoid that evil biologists are trying to kill him and make wild-eyed comments about it, he'll think back to the last time he let paranoia get the better of him, and think twice.
Maybe not, but "grow up" is pretty tame. I might have called him a luddite or a hypocrite, or suggested he calm down, but it's the internet, he should have a thick enough skin for that to roll off of.
Yeah, sounds just like a private lab far away from the scrutiny of the public eye. Hell, the freshmen might even have trouble getting into the lab for late-night makeout/pot smoking sessions! Doubt it, though.
Davisite here. They would indeed have quite a hard time wandering in. Keeping non-authorized humans out would be enough of a concern purely for the contamination aspect. They study tuberculosis, HIV, and several other diseases out there, and the monkeys aren't cheap. They don't want dirty humans getting their stock sick. The much, much, much bigger security issue is the psycho animal rights movement native to northern California. The primate center is high on their hit list. Security is tight.
If a college student wandered about a mile out of town (it is a small town, so that's not -too- far from campus) away from nearly any signs of civilization, they'd be greeted with a large imposing fence that screams "Go away" and could probably keep a speeding car from charging on through. If they tried to go through the gate, they'd be greeted by at least one armed security guard. They presumably would not be on the approved list, and given the above security concerns, would have a hard time talking their way past. Safe to assume the doors are locked too.
On an Android tablet, that feature can be turned off (I assume it's the same on an iPad).
I assume it's not. Giving the user the option to modify things is something apple only does sparingly, they sell it as AMAZING NEW FEATURE with the latest OS.
You want your iphone to play something besides the 6 included tones for a text message alert? Whoa, slow down there buddy! Just because other, dumber phones have had that option for about a decade, things aren't that simple with the iphone. Fortunately, apple engineers have FINALLY found a way to make your wish come true when you buy iOS5!
No, I'm serious. You can't change the SMS text tone on the iphone, still, to this day. Well, you can of course through jailbreaking quite easily, but otherwise no. It's going to be included in OS5 evidently. Being able to change the background and lock the orientation of the phone was one of the "features" of OS 4. It's utterly absurd.
Turning off the dangerous blue flash, no way is that an option. I'm guessing apple is debating whether they can get away with putting that as part of OS5 and charging people money for it. Personally, I'm going to be looking for something to solve it on Cydia. (Yes I have an iphone, yes it is a deeply flawed product, yes, I do still use it.)
She wasn't arrested for a refusing a patdown. She was arrested for being belligerent.
Belligerent? To the mighty polite folks of TSA?!? No!
I don't know if you've ever been through an airport, but about half the TSA agents I've come across, their manners would be nice for prison guards, but for paying customers who have done nothing wrong, it's rude. I'm not talking about the invasions of privacy either, they bark orders at you like you're cattle.
I'm guessing TSA was the first one to pop an attitude when she said she didn't want her daughter photographed nude. But of course, it's okay when -they- do it, just like real law enforcement.
You're offering up a false dichotomy, that it is "either this, or that". Nothing is further from the truth. SOMETHING is going on with the bees, and we had better find out what it is. If it is really THAT dire, then this is an "all hands on deck" moment for science. Trying to fix the bees when it is not their fault is stupid.
And you're offering up another false dichotomy. We try to make resistant bees AND we try to solve the problem with the mites. There are other scientists working on the problem with the existing bees. We have enough scientists to work on both. Hopefully we'll solve the problem without breeding new bees. If that fails, hopefully we can fix the bees.
Not trying to make resistant bees because "it's not their fault" is stupid. Plus, that's not really what we do. Aside from fish, we domesticate (read: fiddle with the genetics of) everything we eat or use in the production of food. Why would bees be any different?
Worst case scenario would be that they fail. From TFA:
bees pollinate 90% of the world’s food crops
This is not like tinkering around with a ton of fissile material for a lawn ornament, this is breeding bees to ensure we have food. Creating a second breed of killer bees is not a nightmare scenario. There have been 11 deaths in the US due to killer bees since the 90's. Imagine we create a killer bee variety that's worse, and that number rises a thousandfold. Compare that nightmare scenario to 90% of the crops worldwide failing to be pollinated.
Which would you rather risk?
If you're that paranoid that every article about biological research makes you worry about "I am legend" scenarios or clouds of murderous insects, I don't know what you're doing typing on a computer. Skynet and the matrix people! What could possibly go wrong?!?
Every time there is a push to reduce our privacy rights online, it's ALWAYS in the guise of child pornography. I mean seriously, how serious of a problem is it? Why does law enforcement need to know I go to slashdot.com daily or watch porn every other day? Why don't they just store data for child pornography sites?
See, I would phrase that as "So law enforcement is saying they are incompetent and utter failures at actually preventing children from being exploited in the production of child porn?" or "Why isn't law enforcement going after the source of this scourge?" or "Is Michael Brown, sheriff in Bedford County, Va., and a board member and executive committee member of the National Sheriffs' Association turning a blind eye to the production of child porn?"
Not because it's true, or those questions are at all logical, but because you need to fight fire with fire. Seriously. Someone should write an opinion piece and go on Fox news and say "By taking this route, Michael Brown, sheriff in Bedford County, Va., and a board member and executive committee member of the National Sheriffs' Association is essentially giving up on child molesters. This government intrusion into internet providers' business does nothing to stop children from being sexually exploited. It is his job to stop children from being sexually exploited, not tell small businesses how to to run themselves. This will only increase internet fees and cost American jobs, and will do nothing to stop child molesters from murdering your children."
Maybe tighten that up a little. It's a fine line between the type of crazy that those people believe and the type of crazy that even those people realize is crazy.
The only company I would trust LESS than Facebook with my personal data, the only company with an even more cavalier attitude towards privacy, is Google. I'm more likely to hire Casey Anthony to babysit my daughters.
Only because you extended the argument out to absurd lengths.
Your sole argument was that 200 jobs are not enough of a concern regardless of the output of the operation... as if somehow manpower is the primary component in determining the worth of an operation.
I clearly said nothing about manpower. Just jobs. From a utilitarian perspective, 200 jobs is not worth it, whether they're desk jobs or elbow grease jobs. What number of jobs would be worth it? I don't know, but it's higher than 200.
Are you a union steward?
If I were, I'd be taking the stance of "every job is sacred." I'm taking the opposite.
I was talking about global climate change, he's on the energy committee and is one of the evil people making sure the US continues to use petroleum to power our cars and continues to burn coal to generate electricity.
I know your engineers are pretty good, but if they've found a way to have their own separate climate, that would be a surprise to me...
My cable company won't even let me subscribe to HBO or Showtime until I already subscribe to a $80/mo bundle of other channels that I don't watch.
Pretty sure you can sign up for HBO without your cable company and just watch it streaming though, without signing up for cable. I was considering that for Game of Thrones. Using my VGA or HDMI cable, I'd still even be able to watch it on my big TV.
In the end though I decided HBO was just being greedy, should get on board with netflix or hulu, and that I shouldn't reward such greedy business models.
Speaking as someone who only uses the streaming and will evidently see a 2 dollar a month reduction... uh... evidently yes. Keep the DVD and I'll keep the $2. Not sure why netflix didn't do this before.
Anyway, BI is BS.
Now, they are forcing people like me who were paying $9.99 a month, to drop to a streaming only plan at $7.99 a month. That's $24 in revenue they are missing out from one customer, per year, and they are going to be millions like me who make that decision.
So he's whining about raising the price, and then saying on top of that netflix is going to be losing money when he pays the lower price. It's kind of like he's whining about having to keep his cake and whining about having to eat it too.
Not having to mail out DVDs is more efficient and cheaper. Their long-term goal is to do away with mailing DVDs out as is. They like it, we like it since it loads in minutes, not days. The one and only problem is the greedy-ass studios. They're who I'm mad at putting limits on what can be streamed. They're the ones I blame, they're the ones screwing over me.
For the moment, our interests align with netflix. Hopefully, getting everyone to switch to streaming will put more pressure on the studios to grow up and stop acting like not buying physical media is sacrilegious, and will force the telecom monopoly to be reasonable about how much bandwidth we can consume.
Mailed DVDs really are only good for the post office, which aside from DVD delivery service, is mostly dead weight these days.
I think that comes from the fact that the target demographic for the apple mini thinks that "processor" is a fancy word for "blender." I didn't think they advertised components of apple products. You buy an apple laptop, it comes in either "normal" or "fancy metal 'pro.'" My limited experience has been that if you ask a mac user for details on their computer, they'll say "Well... it's white?" Not exactly a lot of demand for better processors.
I hate to be insensitive, but jobs do not have infinite value. That's only 200 jobs lost at that plant, according to the article. That's not enough jobs to justify burning coal to power those inefficient bulbs.
Same guy who apologized to BP for all those hard questions they were getting about that thing in the gulf. He also has called for two witch hunts into global warming studies.
This isn't the guy fiddling while Rome burns. This is one of Nero's dedicated foot soldiers actively setting the fires on command. Except that there are multiple Neros, and it's not Rome, it's the world that's being set on fire.
Please, somebody, print this in 2000pt Helvetica and place it on a banner opposite every international MS HQ for at least the next year and preferably until they *actually* release Windows 8.
2000pt papyrus might make them go faster. I understand there are people who have strong feelings about that particular font. Seems like such people whining at the water cooler might speed things along.
"We at MS are happy to finally release windows 8, a full nine months ahead of schedule. We are also happy to announce that it will work on all current PCs, and does not support the use of certain typesets. NOW CHERYL WILL YOU SHUT THE FUCK UP ABOUT THAT BANNER AND GODDAMN PAPYRUS!?!?"
Between this, the prequels and taking the license from Decipher and giving it to Wizards of the Coast who ruined it, I'm moving further and further away from Star Wars. And in my young adult years, this was my religion. Congratulations, Lucasfilm, you've done the impossible. You've made me hate and avoid something I once loved.
You mean the prequels alone weren't enough? That's like saying your wife cheated on you, murdered your pets, stole your car, and then saying you're starting to dislike her.
searches using terms like "sex," "porn," "girl" and "streaming" on the Microsoft [Safety & Security Center] site were returning links to pornographic websites at or near the top of the results list
1. Put links to your porn site in MS' safety and security center search bar
2.Wait for people to search for porn in the safety and security center search bar
3.???
4. PROFIT!!!
I want to believe that this is just some automated process that searches the web for search bars and then tries to put in their own porn links. Alternatively, I want to believe that this is just a few porn marketers who are so dumb, they put links to their porn sites in a search field for MS safety and security. But I can't convince myself.
It's depressing to realize that there are actually people dumb enough to go to an antivirus website and start searching for porn.
"Dang! I musta gotten a virus! Don't know how, all I've been doing with this here computer is lookin up pictures of nekkid ladies. Well, better look for something to fix this from microsoft.... boring boring boring, I wanna see nekkid ladies! OOH! PORN!!"
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That management center would then help you avoid a traffic jam by sending traffic information to your car via a cellular signal. However, such a system is even further out in the future and it is unclear who would even pay for the technology. Consider the fact that Ford says that the combined technology could reduce gasoline consumption by 4 billion gallons a year, which could cost the government upwards of $1 billion in tax revenue. Would or could the government pay for such a system? I doubt it.
Odd reasoning. For one thing, GPS systems already can do this. For another, "Could the government pay" for the tax cut? Since we're talking about politics, that doesn't make sense. Taxes get cut if the politicians can sell it, not because of silly things like numbers, or because tax revenue is higher than spending.
Silly journalists...
I think Einstein may have been overstating things. Some details may often be safely left in books, but a portion of the memorization I did in school has served me quite well, despite what I thought at the time. You have to build a framework of knowledge in any subject area to know what details you can look up in the first place, and having at least a foggy recollection of things you memorized at one time helps. "Is it in a book or not" is not a good standard for that.
But the ad hominem at the end is not necessary, mate, and will make any audience side against you.
Sometimes a mild ad-homenim gives the criticism a little extra sting. Maybe the next time Dan East gets paranoid that evil biologists are trying to kill him and make wild-eyed comments about it, he'll think back to the last time he let paranoia get the better of him, and think twice.
Maybe not, but "grow up" is pretty tame. I might have called him a luddite or a hypocrite, or suggested he calm down, but it's the internet, he should have a thick enough skin for that to roll off of.
Yeah, sounds just like a private lab far away from the scrutiny of the public eye. Hell, the freshmen might even have trouble getting into the lab for late-night makeout/pot smoking sessions! Doubt it, though.
Davisite here. They would indeed have quite a hard time wandering in. Keeping non-authorized humans out would be enough of a concern purely for the contamination aspect. They study tuberculosis, HIV, and several other diseases out there, and the monkeys aren't cheap. They don't want dirty humans getting their stock sick. The much, much, much bigger security issue is the psycho animal rights movement native to northern California. The primate center is high on their hit list. Security is tight.
If a college student wandered about a mile out of town (it is a small town, so that's not -too- far from campus) away from nearly any signs of civilization, they'd be greeted with a large imposing fence that screams "Go away" and could probably keep a speeding car from charging on through. If they tried to go through the gate, they'd be greeted by at least one armed security guard. They presumably would not be on the approved list, and given the above security concerns, would have a hard time talking their way past. Safe to assume the doors are locked too.
It would not be trivial.
On an Android tablet, that feature can be turned off (I assume it's the same on an iPad).
I assume it's not. Giving the user the option to modify things is something apple only does sparingly, they sell it as AMAZING NEW FEATURE with the latest OS.
You want your iphone to play something besides the 6 included tones for a text message alert? Whoa, slow down there buddy! Just because other, dumber phones have had that option for about a decade, things aren't that simple with the iphone. Fortunately, apple engineers have FINALLY found a way to make your wish come true when you buy iOS5!
No, I'm serious. You can't change the SMS text tone on the iphone, still, to this day. Well, you can of course through jailbreaking quite easily, but otherwise no. It's going to be included in OS5 evidently. Being able to change the background and lock the orientation of the phone was one of the "features" of OS 4. It's utterly absurd.
Turning off the dangerous blue flash, no way is that an option. I'm guessing apple is debating whether they can get away with putting that as part of OS5 and charging people money for it. Personally, I'm going to be looking for something to solve it on Cydia. (Yes I have an iphone, yes it is a deeply flawed product, yes, I do still use it.)
The most important scientists work in high paying, high profile jobs like breast and penis enlargement, hair growth and other valuable things.
No they don't. You're a moron.
She wasn't arrested for a refusing a patdown. She was arrested for being belligerent.
Belligerent? To the mighty polite folks of TSA?!? No!
I don't know if you've ever been through an airport, but about half the TSA agents I've come across, their manners would be nice for prison guards, but for paying customers who have done nothing wrong, it's rude. I'm not talking about the invasions of privacy either, they bark orders at you like you're cattle.
I'm guessing TSA was the first one to pop an attitude when she said she didn't want her daughter photographed nude. But of course, it's okay when -they- do it, just like real law enforcement.
You're offering up a false dichotomy, that it is "either this, or that". Nothing is further from the truth. SOMETHING is going on with the bees, and we had better find out what it is. If it is really THAT dire, then this is an "all hands on deck" moment for science. Trying to fix the bees when it is not their fault is stupid.
And you're offering up another false dichotomy. We try to make resistant bees AND we try to solve the problem with the mites. There are other scientists working on the problem with the existing bees. We have enough scientists to work on both. Hopefully we'll solve the problem without breeding new bees. If that fails, hopefully we can fix the bees.
Not trying to make resistant bees because "it's not their fault" is stupid. Plus, that's not really what we do. Aside from fish, we domesticate (read: fiddle with the genetics of) everything we eat or use in the production of food. Why would bees be any different?
bees pollinate 90% of the world’s food crops
This is not like tinkering around with a ton of fissile material for a lawn ornament, this is breeding bees to ensure we have food. Creating a second breed of killer bees is not a nightmare scenario. There have been 11 deaths in the US due to killer bees since the 90's. Imagine we create a killer bee variety that's worse, and that number rises a thousandfold. Compare that nightmare scenario to 90% of the crops worldwide failing to be pollinated.
Which would you rather risk?
If you're that paranoid that every article about biological research makes you worry about "I am legend" scenarios or clouds of murderous insects, I don't know what you're doing typing on a computer. Skynet and the matrix people! What could possibly go wrong?!?
It's EA, so there's a chance Popcap will survive.
After all, they're not Activision.
Every time there is a push to reduce our privacy rights online, it's ALWAYS in the guise of child pornography. I mean seriously, how serious of a problem is it? Why does law enforcement need to know I go to slashdot.com daily or watch porn every other day? Why don't they just store data for child pornography sites?
See, I would phrase that as "So law enforcement is saying they are incompetent and utter failures at actually preventing children from being exploited in the production of child porn?" or "Why isn't law enforcement going after the source of this scourge?" or "Is Michael Brown, sheriff in Bedford County, Va., and a board member and executive committee member of the National Sheriffs' Association turning a blind eye to the production of child porn?"
Not because it's true, or those questions are at all logical, but because you need to fight fire with fire. Seriously. Someone should write an opinion piece and go on Fox news and say "By taking this route, Michael Brown, sheriff in Bedford County, Va., and a board member and executive committee member of the National Sheriffs' Association is essentially giving up on child molesters. This government intrusion into internet providers' business does nothing to stop children from being sexually exploited. It is his job to stop children from being sexually exploited, not tell small businesses how to to run themselves. This will only increase internet fees and cost American jobs, and will do nothing to stop child molesters from murdering your children."
Maybe tighten that up a little. It's a fine line between the type of crazy that those people believe and the type of crazy that even those people realize is crazy.
You're an admin, but are incapable of signing up for a regular, free gmail account?
The only company I would trust LESS than Facebook with my personal data, the only company with an even more cavalier attitude towards privacy, is Google. I'm more likely to hire Casey Anthony to babysit my daughters.
I hope you're exaggerating...
That's kind of an odd chain of thought.
Only because you extended the argument out to absurd lengths.
Your sole argument was that 200 jobs are not enough of a concern regardless of the output of the operation... as if somehow manpower is the primary component in determining the worth of an operation.
I clearly said nothing about manpower. Just jobs. From a utilitarian perspective, 200 jobs is not worth it, whether they're desk jobs or elbow grease jobs. What number of jobs would be worth it? I don't know, but it's higher than 200.
Are you a union steward?
If I were, I'd be taking the stance of "every job is sacred." I'm taking the opposite.
I was talking about global climate change, he's on the energy committee and is one of the evil people making sure the US continues to use petroleum to power our cars and continues to burn coal to generate electricity.
I know your engineers are pretty good, but if they've found a way to have their own separate climate, that would be a surprise to me...
My cable company won't even let me subscribe to HBO or Showtime until I already subscribe to a $80/mo bundle of other channels that I don't watch.
Pretty sure you can sign up for HBO without your cable company and just watch it streaming though, without signing up for cable. I was considering that for Game of Thrones. Using my VGA or HDMI cable, I'd still even be able to watch it on my big TV.
In the end though I decided HBO was just being greedy, should get on board with netflix or hulu, and that I shouldn't reward such greedy business models.
So I pirated it and enjoyed it even more.
What, you thought customers mattered? How quaint.
Speaking as someone who only uses the streaming and will evidently see a 2 dollar a month reduction... uh... evidently yes. Keep the DVD and I'll keep the $2. Not sure why netflix didn't do this before.
Anyway, BI is BS.
Now, they are forcing people like me who were paying $9.99 a month, to drop to a streaming only plan at $7.99 a month. That's $24 in revenue they are missing out from one customer, per year, and they are going to be millions like me who make that decision.
So he's whining about raising the price, and then saying on top of that netflix is going to be losing money when he pays the lower price. It's kind of like he's whining about having to keep his cake and whining about having to eat it too.
Not having to mail out DVDs is more efficient and cheaper. Their long-term goal is to do away with mailing DVDs out as is. They like it, we like it since it loads in minutes, not days. The one and only problem is the greedy-ass studios. They're who I'm mad at putting limits on what can be streamed. They're the ones I blame, they're the ones screwing over me.
For the moment, our interests align with netflix. Hopefully, getting everyone to switch to streaming will put more pressure on the studios to grow up and stop acting like not buying physical media is sacrilegious, and will force the telecom monopoly to be reasonable about how much bandwidth we can consume.
Mailed DVDs really are only good for the post office, which aside from DVD delivery service, is mostly dead weight these days.
I think that comes from the fact that the target demographic for the apple mini thinks that "processor" is a fancy word for "blender." I didn't think they advertised components of apple products. You buy an apple laptop, it comes in either "normal" or "fancy metal 'pro.'" My limited experience has been that if you ask a mac user for details on their computer, they'll say "Well... it's white?" Not exactly a lot of demand for better processors.
I hate to be insensitive, but jobs do not have infinite value. That's only 200 jobs lost at that plant, according to the article. That's not enough jobs to justify burning coal to power those inefficient bulbs.
Same guy who apologized to BP for all those hard questions they were getting about that thing in the gulf. He also has called for two witch hunts into global warming studies.
This isn't the guy fiddling while Rome burns. This is one of Nero's dedicated foot soldiers actively setting the fires on command. Except that there are multiple Neros, and it's not Rome, it's the world that's being set on fire.
You're saying you're happy with your product and then asking why you should buy another product?
Man, they've trained you well.
Please, somebody, print this in 2000pt Helvetica and place it on a banner opposite every international MS HQ for at least the next year and preferably until they *actually* release Windows 8.
2000pt papyrus might make them go faster. I understand there are people who have strong feelings about that particular font. Seems like such people whining at the water cooler might speed things along.
"We at MS are happy to finally release windows 8, a full nine months ahead of schedule. We are also happy to announce that it will work on all current PCs, and does not support the use of certain typesets. NOW CHERYL WILL YOU SHUT THE FUCK UP ABOUT THAT BANNER AND GODDAMN PAPYRUS!?!?"
Between this, the prequels and taking the license from Decipher and giving it to Wizards of the Coast who ruined it, I'm moving further and further away from Star Wars. And in my young adult years, this was my religion. Congratulations, Lucasfilm, you've done the impossible. You've made me hate and avoid something I once loved.
You mean the prequels alone weren't enough? That's like saying your wife cheated on you, murdered your pets, stole your car, and then saying you're starting to dislike her.
searches using terms like "sex," "porn," "girl" and "streaming" on the Microsoft [Safety & Security Center] site were returning links to pornographic websites at or near the top of the results list
1. Put links to your porn site in MS' safety and security center search bar
2.Wait for people to search for porn in the safety and security center search bar
3.???
4. PROFIT!!!
I want to believe that this is just some automated process that searches the web for search bars and then tries to put in their own porn links. Alternatively, I want to believe that this is just a few porn marketers who are so dumb, they put links to their porn sites in a search field for MS safety and security. But I can't convince myself.
It's depressing to realize that there are actually people dumb enough to go to an antivirus website and start searching for porn.
"Dang! I musta gotten a virus! Don't know how, all I've been doing with this here computer is lookin up pictures of nekkid ladies. Well, better look for something to fix this from microsoft.... boring boring boring, I wanna see nekkid ladies! OOH! PORN!!"
Five bucks = expensive?
For something that sounds like little more than a wikipedia page with some decorations.