As I understand it (according to President Obama's own words during his announcement), we had the support of the Pakistani president and, possibly their intelligence/military services. In other words, we had permission.
Can we actually get a real story on the front page at some point today?
I think my favorite part of April Fool's Day is watching people on Slashdot bitch about April Fool's Day. In answer to your question, no, you will not get a real story on the front page today.;)
It's an option that gets activated for your profile once you generate enough good positive karma. It was introduced with the UI redesign a couple months ago. Word has it that if you continue to meta-moderate and generate more good Karma, Slashdot will send you a Natalie Portman hot grits T-shirt eventually.
So you're saying that our Congress-critters should all start Couchsurfing profiles? Hell, that might actually help this country's political system out more than any other idea I've heard on the table so far.
WHERE do you think all the jobs are coming from, hm? It's not UNIONS. It's not the Government (even though they employ people...)
IT'S THAT "TOP 10%".
Give me a pen and paper and I will sell a religion to enough people to live like a king. Jobs aren't handed down from on high by some elite-class overlords. People don't make money because the higher ups mercifully employ them. Folks make money by working hard and coming up with something other folk perceive to be so valuable that it can be sold.
It doesn't take tax free aristocrats to make money in a society. It takes people willing to work on something that few people already do.
Of course, you may be joking/parodying, but I couldn't tell.
I'm scratching my head a bit as to why Mozilla went down this road at all.
Well it seems like a bit of a publicity ploy for Mozilla to me, albeit, a good one. Mozilla has had issues with FF in recent versions (I'm looking at you FF3 bloat), but it still remains the poster child browser for a private/independent/free browser. I think the devs at Mozilla know full well that the Do Not Track flag requires the unlikely compliance from other entities. However, by making the feature easy to use and by publicizing it, it has brought the problem of, "Random data mining companies are harvesting everything about you," right into the main view of every user that configures their own Option settings in FF.
Furthermore, if users start checking the option because it sounds like a good idea, but there is still a big fuss about companies tracking users anyway, the users will start to ask what the hell is going on. If Mozilla takes the time to explain that, for true non-tracking web-browsing, those data mining companies have to take it down a notch, it could very well increase public criticism of data mining in general.
So all in all, I think adding the "Do Not Track" option was much more of a political move by Mozilla than an actual technical one. It's nice to see someone with money and clout sticking up for such things for once.
Great! I can't wait for the NSA to follow suit and respect the "Do Not Track," option in FF4. Then we will know with all certainty that Hell has frozen over, we will be able to opt out of TSA ball-groping by using flying pigs for transportation instead of planes, that girl I had a crush on in HS will finally kiss me, and all my preparations for the zombie apocalypse will finally show their true value as the world crumbles around us as the final sign of the times.
I am not saying that's a good or bad thing. I am simply saying that your mother, by your own admission, is utilizing more medical resources than she can afford. The difference between what she CAN pay and what is being CHARGED is payed by taxpayers.
Do you really think that the $$$ numbers charged to patients are indicative of the costs associated with that patient? When I see medical bill line items like a few rubber tubes costing a few hundred dollars, I start to get skeptical that the amount of money we are being told it costs to keep us healthy is actually based in any reality.
Take this for example, I pay ~$1500 a year for my health insurance (that's after a large portion of it has been subsidized by my employer). I haven't gone to the doctor in the last three years for anything other than a brief check-up/physical that required almost no expense on my doctor's part in terms of supplies. (I'll give that someone had to pay for those three sets of latex gloves and the three wooden tongue depressors). Every check up results in a, "You're healthy, young, and dandy, now go have fun." Yet, still, I pay ~$1500 per year for insurance. When it comes right down to it, I am a dream customer for medical insurance. I don't get sick. I live a healthy lifestyle. I put almost no demands on the medical industry. And yet I have to buck up a few thousand bucks every two years just to be told I am healthy.
How in the hell does my cost of insurance in any way reflect how much the medical industry actually spends annually to keep me healthy? The answer: It doesn't.
That Tesla CEO douchebag should just take his lumps and go racing if he thinks he thinks he has the car for it.
That "Tesla CEO douchebag" is the founder of four companies one of which already reshaped the entire landscape of the industry it was a part of (internet sales), and has since been sold. One of which is currently revolutionizing the American launch vehicle (read rockets) landscape by providing cheaper and (hopefully) more reliable and more frequent access to space than any other company that has come before it. One of which is is actually trying to make some progress into developing a greener society, rather than just blathering on about how evil oil is like many companies in that industry are currently doing. And the final of which is actually trying to develop some inventive, new, efficient methods to make electric cars that people actually want to buy.
While not all of Musk's ventures are currently at the success level of Paypal, they certainly are noteworthy, and they certainly aren't afraid to try something new and better, kind of like how Google provide a new and better search engine that changed the internet forever. So you can piss and moan about how silly it is to sue Top Gear all you want. But referring to Musk as a CEO douchebag is inflammatory at best, and downright stupid at worst. That man has stated, in no uncertain terms, that he fully intends to retire on Mars. He has done for pushing this county's industries into the future than just about any other inventor/engineer/scientist/techie that I can think of in the last decade. So show some damn respect.
That Tesla CEO douchebag should just take his lumps and go racing if he thinks he thinks he has the car for it.
That "Tesla CEO douchebag" is the founder of four companies, one of which already reshaped the entire landscape of the industry it was a part of (internet sales), and has since been sold. Another is currently revolutionizing the American launch vehicle (read: rockets) landscape by providing cheaper and (hopefully) more reliable and more frequent access to space than any other company that has come before it. One of which is is actually trying to make some progress into developing a greener society, rather than just blathering on about how evil oil is like many companies in that industry are currently doing. And the final of which is actually trying to develop some inventive, new, efficient methods to make electric cars that people actually want to buy.
While not all of Musk's ventures are currently at the success level of Paypal, they certainly are noteworthy, and they certainly aren't afraid to try something new and better, kind of like how Google provide a new and better search engine that changed the internet forever. So you can piss and moan about how silly it is to sue Top Gear all you want. But referring to Musk as a "CEO douchebag" is inflammatory at best, and downright stupid at worst. That man has stated, in no uncertain terms, that he fully intends to retire on Mars. He has done more for pushing this county's industries into the future than just about any other inventor/engineer/scientist/techie that I can think of in the last decade. So show some damn respect.
Yeah, I think less than free is meant to imply "them" paying "you" in the sense that Google will pay you to use their products. And frankly, they already do that to some extent. There are folks on YouTube with sponsored, or registered or partnered channels or something like that. Google pays those folks to keep producing YouTube content. Google AdSense is set up in such a way that you can slap it on your own blog or website or whatever and get paid to have random people click on the useless shit you have to spout off into the internet voids. I would even wager, though I am not entirely certain, that Google probably is willing to pay out some cash to Android app developers whose apps are used enough to generate advertising revenue were they to include some kind of embedded ad with the app.
So yes, Google "gives" you stuff for less than free in the same sense that your employer gives you the tools you need to do your job for "less than free." They pay you to utilize the tools they want you to use to produce a product that generates more profit for them.
TFS makes it sound like my 350 lb motorcycle should be paying an equal tax amount for road repair as a 3 ton big rig that travels the state distance. Nonetheless, one of the reasons I chose to start riding a motorcycle was because I wanted to reduce the amount of damage my vehicle was doing to the road it travels on. How does this new tax fairly address the fact that some commuters and travelers make a conscious effort to negatively impact roadways as little as possible?
Also, isn't this supposed to be addressed by state laws that require folks to re-register their vehicles every year?
Oh wait, I get it, this is just another case of the government proposing a law that hurts those citizens which possess some manner of self-imposed responsibility. And other countries wonder why we Americans hate every god damned thing that our bloody federal overlords get their hands on. I'm starting to see the wisdom held by those folks that say fuck it and don't bother to do their part in supporting society. It's not like the extra effort ever gets rewarded anymore.
...unless we can use those interfaces to have robots dress them, cook for them, undress them, change their catheter bag, wash them, iron their bedding (to prevent sores), etc...
Well, to be fair, those robots aren't going to exist in any practical manner until the victim has some means to control them. A proper handicap-aid system that allows a victims of a particular debilitating condition (MS, ALS, tetraplegia, etc.) to function like they did before they were disabled is still a long ways off, yes. But developing neural interfaces alongside appropriately sensitive hardware for use in the types of applications you are describing is necessary to get there one day. Technology of this sort tends to come in baby steps.
If nothing else it gives the common layman a means of observing or testing out or otherwise becoming familiar with the concept of peer review, even if it is a flawed implementation of that concept. You would be surprised at how many non-Slashdotters do not understand, or, for that matter, have not even heard about the concept of peer reviewed science.
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As I understand it (according to President Obama's own words during his announcement), we had the support of the Pakistani president and, possibly their intelligence/military services. In other words, we had permission.
This was the only comment that actually made me LOL in a very long time on slashdot. Thank you sir.
It makes me feel all warm and fuzzy inside.
That's because it is small enough to penetrate your skin, and it is currently opening a microscopic blackhole in your liver.
Nope, none. The world agreed to stop doing anything interesting worth reporting on April Fool's Day. Didn't you get the memo?
Can we actually get a real story on the front page at some point today?
I think my favorite part of April Fool's Day is watching people on Slashdot bitch about April Fool's Day. In answer to your question, no, you will not get a real story on the front page today. ;)
What do Age/Sex/Location have to do with gesture reading e-mail systems?
It's an option that gets activated for your profile once you generate enough good positive karma. It was introduced with the UI redesign a couple months ago. Word has it that if you continue to meta-moderate and generate more good Karma, Slashdot will send you a Natalie Portman hot grits T-shirt eventually.
Good luck.
The one day of the year Slashdot is not useless
FTFY. ;)
If you think this site is anything other than a huge waste of time and a wonderful type of entertainment, you're probably kidding yourself. =D
that's why I choose to live in a giant bucket.
So you're saying that our Congress-critters should all start Couchsurfing profiles? Hell, that might actually help this country's political system out more than any other idea I've heard on the table so far.
WHERE do you think all the jobs are coming from, hm? It's not UNIONS. It's not the Government (even though they employ people...)
IT'S THAT "TOP 10%".
Give me a pen and paper and I will sell a religion to enough people to live like a king. Jobs aren't handed down from on high by some elite-class overlords. People don't make money because the higher ups mercifully employ them. Folks make money by working hard and coming up with something other folk perceive to be so valuable that it can be sold.
It doesn't take tax free aristocrats to make money in a society. It takes people willing to work on something that few people already do.
Of course, you may be joking/parodying, but I couldn't tell.
I'm scratching my head a bit as to why Mozilla went down this road at all.
Well it seems like a bit of a publicity ploy for Mozilla to me, albeit, a good one. Mozilla has had issues with FF in recent versions (I'm looking at you FF3 bloat), but it still remains the poster child browser for a private/independent/free browser. I think the devs at Mozilla know full well that the Do Not Track flag requires the unlikely compliance from other entities. However, by making the feature easy to use and by publicizing it, it has brought the problem of, "Random data mining companies are harvesting everything about you," right into the main view of every user that configures their own Option settings in FF.
Furthermore, if users start checking the option because it sounds like a good idea, but there is still a big fuss about companies tracking users anyway, the users will start to ask what the hell is going on. If Mozilla takes the time to explain that, for true non-tracking web-browsing, those data mining companies have to take it down a notch, it could very well increase public criticism of data mining in general.
So all in all, I think adding the "Do Not Track" option was much more of a political move by Mozilla than an actual technical one. It's nice to see someone with money and clout sticking up for such things for once.
Great! I can't wait for the NSA to follow suit and respect the "Do Not Track," option in FF4. Then we will know with all certainty that Hell has frozen over, we will be able to opt out of TSA ball-groping by using flying pigs for transportation instead of planes, that girl I had a crush on in HS will finally kiss me, and all my preparations for the zombie apocalypse will finally show their true value as the world crumbles around us as the final sign of the times.
I am not saying that's a good or bad thing. I am simply saying that your mother, by your own admission, is utilizing more medical resources than she can afford. The difference between what she CAN pay and what is being CHARGED is payed by taxpayers.
Do you really think that the $$$ numbers charged to patients are indicative of the costs associated with that patient? When I see medical bill line items like a few rubber tubes costing a few hundred dollars, I start to get skeptical that the amount of money we are being told it costs to keep us healthy is actually based in any reality.
Take this for example, I pay ~$1500 a year for my health insurance (that's after a large portion of it has been subsidized by my employer). I haven't gone to the doctor in the last three years for anything other than a brief check-up/physical that required almost no expense on my doctor's part in terms of supplies. (I'll give that someone had to pay for those three sets of latex gloves and the three wooden tongue depressors). Every check up results in a, "You're healthy, young, and dandy, now go have fun." Yet, still, I pay ~$1500 per year for insurance. When it comes right down to it, I am a dream customer for medical insurance. I don't get sick. I live a healthy lifestyle. I put almost no demands on the medical industry. And yet I have to buck up a few thousand bucks every two years just to be told I am healthy.
How in the hell does my cost of insurance in any way reflect how much the medical industry actually spends annually to keep me healthy? The answer: It doesn't.
That Tesla CEO douchebag should just take his lumps and go racing if he thinks he thinks he has the car for it.
That "Tesla CEO douchebag" is the founder of four companies one of which already reshaped the entire landscape of the industry it was a part of (internet sales), and has since been sold. One of which is currently revolutionizing the American launch vehicle (read rockets) landscape by providing cheaper and (hopefully) more reliable and more frequent access to space than any other company that has come before it. One of which is is actually trying to make some progress into developing a greener society, rather than just blathering on about how evil oil is like many companies in that industry are currently doing. And the final of which is actually trying to develop some inventive, new, efficient methods to make electric cars that people actually want to buy.
While not all of Musk's ventures are currently at the success level of Paypal, they certainly are noteworthy, and they certainly aren't afraid to try something new and better, kind of like how Google provide a new and better search engine that changed the internet forever. So you can piss and moan about how silly it is to sue Top Gear all you want. But referring to Musk as a CEO douchebag is inflammatory at best, and downright stupid at worst. That man has stated, in no uncertain terms, that he fully intends to retire on Mars. He has done for pushing this county's industries into the future than just about any other inventor/engineer/scientist/techie that I can think of in the last decade. So show some damn respect.
That Tesla CEO douchebag should just take his lumps and go racing if he thinks he thinks he has the car for it.
That "Tesla CEO douchebag" is the founder of four companies, one of which already reshaped the entire landscape of the industry it was a part of (internet sales), and has since been sold. Another is currently revolutionizing the American launch vehicle (read: rockets) landscape by providing cheaper and (hopefully) more reliable and more frequent access to space than any other company that has come before it. One of which is is actually trying to make some progress into developing a greener society, rather than just blathering on about how evil oil is like many companies in that industry are currently doing. And the final of which is actually trying to develop some inventive, new, efficient methods to make electric cars that people actually want to buy.
While not all of Musk's ventures are currently at the success level of Paypal, they certainly are noteworthy, and they certainly aren't afraid to try something new and better, kind of like how Google provide a new and better search engine that changed the internet forever. So you can piss and moan about how silly it is to sue Top Gear all you want. But referring to Musk as a "CEO douchebag" is inflammatory at best, and downright stupid at worst. That man has stated, in no uncertain terms, that he fully intends to retire on Mars. He has done more for pushing this county's industries into the future than just about any other inventor/engineer/scientist/techie that I can think of in the last decade. So show some damn respect.
Probably, I don't pay enough attention to inter-company relationships/politics to remember stuff like that though.
Here, let me help. Perl was, is, and always will be better than Python at everything forever.
Yeah, I think less than free is meant to imply "them" paying "you" in the sense that Google will pay you to use their products. And frankly, they already do that to some extent. There are folks on YouTube with sponsored, or registered or partnered channels or something like that. Google pays those folks to keep producing YouTube content. Google AdSense is set up in such a way that you can slap it on your own blog or website or whatever and get paid to have random people click on the useless shit you have to spout off into the internet voids. I would even wager, though I am not entirely certain, that Google probably is willing to pay out some cash to Android app developers whose apps are used enough to generate advertising revenue were they to include some kind of embedded ad with the app.
So yes, Google "gives" you stuff for less than free in the same sense that your employer gives you the tools you need to do your job for "less than free." They pay you to utilize the tools they want you to use to produce a product that generates more profit for them.
Unfortunately even that realm is getting threatened with a decrease in funds.
Imagine being unable to use your cell phone or internet for week
You mean I might finally be able to get some work done? Maybe that's our ticket out of the economic crisis....
TFS makes it sound like my 350 lb motorcycle should be paying an equal tax amount for road repair as a 3 ton big rig that travels the state distance. Nonetheless, one of the reasons I chose to start riding a motorcycle was because I wanted to reduce the amount of damage my vehicle was doing to the road it travels on. How does this new tax fairly address the fact that some commuters and travelers make a conscious effort to negatively impact roadways as little as possible?
Also, isn't this supposed to be addressed by state laws that require folks to re-register their vehicles every year?
Oh wait, I get it, this is just another case of the government proposing a law that hurts those citizens which possess some manner of self-imposed responsibility. And other countries wonder why we Americans hate every god damned thing that our bloody federal overlords get their hands on. I'm starting to see the wisdom held by those folks that say fuck it and don't bother to do their part in supporting society. It's not like the extra effort ever gets rewarded anymore.
...unless we can use those interfaces to have robots dress them, cook for them, undress them, change their catheter bag, wash them, iron their bedding (to prevent sores), etc...
Well, to be fair, those robots aren't going to exist in any practical manner until the victim has some means to control them. A proper handicap-aid system that allows a victims of a particular debilitating condition (MS, ALS, tetraplegia, etc.) to function like they did before they were disabled is still a long ways off, yes. But developing neural interfaces alongside appropriately sensitive hardware for use in the types of applications you are describing is necessary to get there one day. Technology of this sort tends to come in baby steps.
If nothing else it gives the common layman a means of observing or testing out or otherwise becoming familiar with the concept of peer review, even if it is a flawed implementation of that concept. You would be surprised at how many non-Slashdotters do not understand, or, for that matter, have not even heard about the concept of peer reviewed science.
Nah, he forgot about Milla Jovovich.