Actually, taser's aren't non-lethal.... they are just somewhat less lethal than guns.
Approximately out of every 3 people who has been tasered requires urgent medical aid to prevent death or other serious long-term complications.... Does that seem particularly "non-lethal" to you?
... for EV's to become the norm over gasoline vehicles. Note, in areas where EV's may be currenntly lacking, to hopefully diffuse arguments from people who may want to get defensive over the issue, this list does not represent excuses to *NOT* currently buy an EV, they represent hurdles that I sincerely believe that EV manufacturers and the companies that support them will need to eventually overcome if electric cars are to ever actually become the norm. If an EV happens to work for you or meet your lifestyle currently, that's great and I have no argument with you... but that doesn't mean it's going to work for everybody, or even necessarily most people, which is generally what would have to be achieved for EV's to *really* become mainstream, which is what I'm trying to talk about here.
With that disclaimer out of the way, the three things that I believe need to eventually happen are:
They need to be good. This means having a respectable range. To the best of my knowledge, only one manufacturer, Tesla, has really made any strides in this area. I would consider this problem to be a solved one, because if one manufacturer can do it, then so can others.... at least theoretically.
They need to affordable. This means that they should be priced either at or below approximately what a person would ordinarily pay for an otherwise comparably sized and equipped gasoline car, ideally up front, but if not, otherwise no longer than about 5 to 6 years with the price of gasoline saved.... any longer than that to become cost-effective would mean that you are probably going to be spending more than the money you save on gasoline on your monthly payments on the car, which will mean that it will take longer before the cost effectiveness of the EV because of gasoline savings is realized, unless you lengthen the term of the car loan somewhat, meaning you are spending even more money on the car overall, also causing it to take longer before the cost effectiveness of the EV can be realized. There's some promise in this area.... but we aren't there yet.
Finally, EV's need to be convenient.... ideally, as convenient, or nearly as convenient to own as current gasoline vehicles. That means that if you accidentally forget to charge your car overnight, you should be able to make a 5 minute pitstop at a charging station on your way to work, which should be able to effectively top you up on charge and get you where you need to go. It means that such fast charging stations need to be nearly as ubiquitous as gas stations currently are, giving people who drive them no lack of opportunity to recharge their car at their convenience. The article summary addresses a couple of other factors that negatively impact the current convenience of owning an EV, and I won't rehash them here.
... to blame for this. The software only lied about compliance, it still required that the hardware was non-compliant. Not that I'm saying lying about it is acceptable, but there's no possible way I can see that the people who built the non-compliant hardware can be any less responsible.
Assuming no changes were made to the FCC's rules, and if a router manufacturer were to do this.... that is, they lock down the radio portion of their router so it can't possibly be modified by the end user, but still leave the firmware of their router otherwise ordinarily modifiable as it is currently, would the manufacturer still be in violation of the current rule proposal?
If the thing has any smarts, it would only report sustained periods over the speed limit, perhaps by reporting whether an average speed over an interval has been excessive, where the duration of the allowed interval is a function of how far over the speed limit one actually drives. If you drive 5mph over the speed limit, the duration may be something like 5 minutes, while if you drive 25 mph over the speed limit, the duration may be something like only 15 seconds. And of course, it should report just how fast the car is actually going, not just simply that the speed limit was exceeded, so the parent can use their own discretion at determining if their kid only needs to be perhaps firmly reminded to pay more attention to how fast they are going in the future, or reprimanded or even having their driving privileges revoked for driving like a maniac.
I'm saying that if we spent as more time each doing our own level best to treat everybody with respect instead of constantly pointing out the facts about how awful life is that it just isn't fair for everyone, we'd be a heckuvalot further along. Each person is responsible for their own thoughts and deeds. and it is those thoughts and deeds that can change the world, not complaining that other people aren't doing their fair share, which is all that pointing these kinds of gender discrepancies is.
And I am suggesting that those articles really need to just stop. News flash: the world isn't fair. Live with it.
Instead of bitching about the world not being as ideal as we want it to be, or clamouring at other people to do what is right, if we each just do our own part to try and make this world better, then in reality, that should be enough. Complaining that the person next to you or somebody else isn't pulling their share of social responsibility doesn't accomplish anything. Just live your life and try to be a good person that is kind to everyone, regardless of gender, race, or anything else. If that's not enough to make the world any better, harping at other people to improve their behaviour sure as hell won't be, which is really all that these kinds of articles do.
Nope... not seeing it. Sorry.... You made several remarks that have absolutely no substantiation outside of possible conspiracy theories, so either you were trying to be deliberately amusing by satirizing something that I didn't pick up on, or else you are a troll. Really, if you had an iota of proof to back up what you said, you would have already supplied it, but then anyone else could have picked your arguments to shreds. In actuality, I expect the only reason nobody else has bothered to call you on the bullshit is because I was the only one naive enough to not realize you were trolling the whole time.
That's just an excuse to be apathetic about it, or worse... to even bother to try.
Instead of saying "oh, that's just not realistic", just take responsibility for your own actions and just fucking do the right thing. Anything else is just making excuses about why you shouldn't bother.
Actually, your previous comment was just so heavily laden with laughable absurdity that I had not reasonable choice but to assume that you were deliberately trying to be amusing..... either that, or you were just trolling the whole time.
... worrying about whether or not a particular race or gender are underrepresented somewhere, and just fucking treat every human being you encounter with dignity and respect in whatever career path they may have chosen.
If things like gender are to genuinely supposed to not influence our reactions in the workplace, then we need to stop fucking focusing on them and accept people, men and women, for who they are, or whatever interests they happen to have that may, or may not, happen to direct them into a particular industry.
You keep saying that, but there is no evidence to support that theory. While Apple had indeed previously worked on a fork of Linux called mkLinux before they released OSX, this was not actually a precursor to OSX (it may have been Apple's initial intention at the time to make it the OS for Macs, but this is not how things ultimately played out). Apple ultimately discarded the mkLinux project and instead evolved NeXTSTEP (also called OpenStep) into OSX near the turn of the century.
OSX is very obviously derived from NeXTSTEP, which itself is supposedly derived from 4.3BSD, with core elements taken from Mach. NeXTSTEP's initial release was in '89, which makes it impossible for it to be a derivative of Linux.
Yeah... I did some research after posting the question, and apparently the intent is to shift liability to the cardholder. However, maximum liability for fraudulent use of chip and PIN is still capped, at various levels depending on how quickly you report that your PIN has been compromised, as long as it is apparent that you were not acting with intent to commit fraud or being willfully negligent with regards to deliberately sharing your PIN.
It wasn't her employers that asked Kaley Cuoco-Sweeting to cut her hair... that was *HER* choice. She wanted to do it, not her employers. The writers decided to give an in-story reason for it, but it wasn't their idea... not sure where you got the notion that it was.
As for her being the only hot woman on the show, both Mellissa Rauch and Mayim Bialik are pretty damn easy on the eyes when you see them out of character.
The guy who first said it was nerd blackface was using racist oriented language to produce an emotional reaction, rather than relying on the strength of his arguments that the show was a bad one to convince people, he used deliberately emotionally charged words to strongly polarize the reaction to its use, and because the reaction to blackface is negative in popular culture today, the use of the term would be more likely to produce empathy to the writer's perspective than it would be to polarize one's against it.
My point is that the characters *ARE* fairly "normal" when compared with such a group, and since many of the characters are supposed to be geeks and/or nerds anyways, it's my observation that the characters are not that unrepresentative of the subculture that they are supposed to be portraying. In my opinion, people who say they don't know any nerds like the characters on that show probably haven't ever attended events where nerds of *ALL* types tend to gather. The characters may come across as being grossly exaggerated for comedic effect to some people, but in general, I'd say they are pretty spot on with regards to the kinds of people that are actually out there. Maybe they aren't *exactly* "normal", even for the demographic that they represent, but as I said above, if they did a show about more "typical" nerds, how the characters would handle whatever situations might ensue on the show would probably not be interesting enough to most people to form a successful comedy series, as BBT has done.
I watch BBT, and I laugh... not just at the characters, but also at myself, because I know as well as my wife does that many of the things that some of the characters do are not unlike how I respond to situations as well.
The show is OK, but isn't really for geeks and none of the characters are much like any geek I've ever known.
Go to a con sometime.... you will encounter every geek stereotype you can imagine. While one might legitimately argue that the characters on BBT are exaggerations of what the the average geek is probably like, if what I encounter whenever I go to a con is any indication at all, I would say they are probably not more than a standard deviation or so away from the norm, and I find that it is not remotely an unbelievable cross-section of nerd-dom. Truth be told, it's unlikely many people would consider a sitcom about more typical nerds to be very funny anyways (and while a lot of people don't think BBT is very funny, one only has to look at the ratings to realize that there exists no small number of people that think otherwise).
But honestly, many of the people I encounter at cons make the characters on BBT seem tame in comparison, I have more than encountered my share of Sheldons, Leonards, Howards, and Raj's.
The fact that moving electrons have an external magnetic field coupled with the fact that they can tunnel across short distances would, I think, tend to place a rather hard limit on how small you can make electronic components that still function in a predictable and consistent manner.
Given that we are talking now about distances that can be measured in only a few dozen atoms of size, I'm pretty sure we're getting pretty darn close to those limits already, and I'm not sure there's any point in trying to shrink electronics any more than we already have.
Even if it were true that the technology is unbreakable, if you are forced to surrender your PIN under duress, such as threat of harm or death to either oneself or to those that they would care for, the transactions that may ensue with the obtained PIN as a result are still considered fraudulent as long as the incident is reported as soon as practicable.
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Actually, taser's aren't non-lethal.... they are just somewhat less lethal than guns.
Approximately out of every 3 people who has been tasered requires urgent medical aid to prevent death or other serious long-term complications.... Does that seem particularly "non-lethal" to you?
With that disclaimer out of the way, the three things that I believe need to eventually happen are:
... to blame for this. The software only lied about compliance, it still required that the hardware was non-compliant. Not that I'm saying lying about it is acceptable, but there's no possible way I can see that the people who built the non-compliant hardware can be any less responsible.
Assuming no changes were made to the FCC's rules, and if a router manufacturer were to do this.... that is, they lock down the radio portion of their router so it can't possibly be modified by the end user, but still leave the firmware of their router otherwise ordinarily modifiable as it is currently, would the manufacturer still be in violation of the current rule proposal?
If the thing has any smarts, it would only report sustained periods over the speed limit, perhaps by reporting whether an average speed over an interval has been excessive, where the duration of the allowed interval is a function of how far over the speed limit one actually drives. If you drive 5mph over the speed limit, the duration may be something like 5 minutes, while if you drive 25 mph over the speed limit, the duration may be something like only 15 seconds. And of course, it should report just how fast the car is actually going, not just simply that the speed limit was exceeded, so the parent can use their own discretion at determining if their kid only needs to be perhaps firmly reminded to pay more attention to how fast they are going in the future, or reprimanded or even having their driving privileges revoked for driving like a maniac.
I'm saying that if we spent as more time each doing our own level best to treat everybody with respect instead of constantly pointing out the facts about how awful life is that it just isn't fair for everyone, we'd be a heckuvalot further along. Each person is responsible for their own thoughts and deeds. and it is those thoughts and deeds that can change the world, not complaining that other people aren't doing their fair share, which is all that pointing these kinds of gender discrepancies is.
And I am suggesting that those articles really need to just stop. News flash: the world isn't fair. Live with it.
Instead of bitching about the world not being as ideal as we want it to be, or clamouring at other people to do what is right, if we each just do our own part to try and make this world better, then in reality, that should be enough. Complaining that the person next to you or somebody else isn't pulling their share of social responsibility doesn't accomplish anything. Just live your life and try to be a good person that is kind to everyone, regardless of gender, race, or anything else. If that's not enough to make the world any better, harping at other people to improve their behaviour sure as hell won't be, which is really all that these kinds of articles do.
Nope... not seeing it. Sorry.... You made several remarks that have absolutely no substantiation outside of possible conspiracy theories, so either you were trying to be deliberately amusing by satirizing something that I didn't pick up on, or else you are a troll. Really, if you had an iota of proof to back up what you said, you would have already supplied it, but then anyone else could have picked your arguments to shreds. In actuality, I expect the only reason nobody else has bothered to call you on the bullshit is because I was the only one naive enough to not realize you were trolling the whole time.
Bullshit.
That's just an excuse to be apathetic about it, or worse... to even bother to try.
Instead of saying "oh, that's just not realistic", just take responsibility for your own actions and just fucking do the right thing. Anything else is just making excuses about why you shouldn't bother.
Actually, your previous comment was just so heavily laden with laughable absurdity that I had not reasonable choice but to assume that you were deliberately trying to be amusing..... either that, or you were just trolling the whole time.
If things like gender are to genuinely supposed to not influence our reactions in the workplace, then we need to stop fucking focusing on them and accept people, men and women, for who they are, or whatever interests they happen to have that may, or may not, happen to direct them into a particular industry.
My bad, I didn't realize that you were trying to be all ironic and going for satire. 'scuse me.
You keep saying that, but there is no evidence to support that theory. While Apple had indeed previously worked on a fork of Linux called mkLinux before they released OSX, this was not actually a precursor to OSX (it may have been Apple's initial intention at the time to make it the OS for Macs, but this is not how things ultimately played out). Apple ultimately discarded the mkLinux project and instead evolved NeXTSTEP (also called OpenStep) into OSX near the turn of the century.
OSX is very obviously derived from NeXTSTEP, which itself is supposedly derived from 4.3BSD, with core elements taken from Mach. NeXTSTEP's initial release was in '89, which makes it impossible for it to be a derivative of Linux.
Oh my gosh... imagine that!
Actors portraying characters that don't resemble the actor's actual persona in the slightest!
Whoever would have imagined...?
Yeah... I did some research after posting the question, and apparently the intent is to shift liability to the cardholder. However, maximum liability for fraudulent use of chip and PIN is still capped, at various levels depending on how quickly you report that your PIN has been compromised, as long as it is apparent that you were not acting with intent to commit fraud or being willfully negligent with regards to deliberately sharing your PIN.
It wasn't her employers that asked Kaley Cuoco-Sweeting to cut her hair... that was *HER* choice. She wanted to do it, not her employers. The writers decided to give an in-story reason for it, but it wasn't their idea... not sure where you got the notion that it was.
As for her being the only hot woman on the show, both Mellissa Rauch and Mayim Bialik are pretty damn easy on the eyes when you see them out of character.
The guy who first said it was nerd blackface was using racist oriented language to produce an emotional reaction, rather than relying on the strength of his arguments that the show was a bad one to convince people, he used deliberately emotionally charged words to strongly polarize the reaction to its use, and because the reaction to blackface is negative in popular culture today, the use of the term would be more likely to produce empathy to the writer's perspective than it would be to polarize one's against it.
I fullly agree with the guy who wrote this.
One could say the same thing about many of the complaints that nerds often make about the show.
My point is that the characters *ARE* fairly "normal" when compared with such a group, and since many of the characters are supposed to be geeks and/or nerds anyways, it's my observation that the characters are not that unrepresentative of the subculture that they are supposed to be portraying. In my opinion, people who say they don't know any nerds like the characters on that show probably haven't ever attended events where nerds of *ALL* types tend to gather. The characters may come across as being grossly exaggerated for comedic effect to some people, but in general, I'd say they are pretty spot on with regards to the kinds of people that are actually out there. Maybe they aren't *exactly* "normal", even for the demographic that they represent, but as I said above, if they did a show about more "typical" nerds, how the characters would handle whatever situations might ensue on the show would probably not be interesting enough to most people to form a successful comedy series, as BBT has done.
I watch BBT, and I laugh... not just at the characters, but also at myself, because I know as well as my wife does that many of the things that some of the characters do are not unlike how I respond to situations as well.
Go to a con sometime.... you will encounter every geek stereotype you can imagine. While one might legitimately argue that the characters on BBT are exaggerations of what the the average geek is probably like, if what I encounter whenever I go to a con is any indication at all, I would say they are probably not more than a standard deviation or so away from the norm, and I find that it is not remotely an unbelievable cross-section of nerd-dom. Truth be told, it's unlikely many people would consider a sitcom about more typical nerds to be very funny anyways (and while a lot of people don't think BBT is very funny, one only has to look at the ratings to realize that there exists no small number of people that think otherwise).
But honestly, many of the people I encounter at cons make the characters on BBT seem tame in comparison, I have more than encountered my share of Sheldons, Leonards, Howards, and Raj's.
The fact that moving electrons have an external magnetic field coupled with the fact that they can tunnel across short distances would, I think, tend to place a rather hard limit on how small you can make electronic components that still function in a predictable and consistent manner.
Given that we are talking now about distances that can be measured in only a few dozen atoms of size, I'm pretty sure we're getting pretty darn close to those limits already, and I'm not sure there's any point in trying to shrink electronics any more than we already have.
Photonics, however, holds promise, IMO.
It would have been more helpful if the summary had at least... you know... summarized what loophole actually was.
Even if it were true that the technology is unbreakable, if you are forced to surrender your PIN under duress, such as threat of harm or death to either oneself or to those that they would care for, the transactions that may ensue with the obtained PIN as a result are still considered fraudulent as long as the incident is reported as soon as practicable.
It's also used in Canada... it acts as a replacement for signature on CC purchases that take chip and pin.