I have the same ISP (Cox) and I have never had any issues with their Netflix bandwidth speeds. Previously I had Charter, and would occasionally see issues there, but nothing like what Verizon did to Netflix.
I don't trust any single source for news. Why would anyone think that they were getting unfiltered news from a website like Facebook?
I know folks are going to have to report to a Congressional Committee over this, but why is this a story? NBC leans heavily liberal, Fox leans heavily conservative, CNN does something which only people in airports actually see.
Facebook may get sued by those who pay for advertisements on their website, which may be fair, based on the wording of contracts.
Is it just because Gawker is screaming about this at the moment, that this is news? There is no unbiased news anymore, why does this shock or confuse anyone?
The better argument would be to argue that they kill bats, which they are known to do via causing their lungs to explode.
But fossil fuels have killed at least hundreds of thousands (most likely higher) of animals via spills, pollution from burning, and transportation.
Everything we do has an impact. But continuing to burn things, will endanger the entire planet, where killing birds or bats in an area will have a much more minor impact on the global environment.
Sometimes it's necessary to maintain the secrecy of an investigation, like to find out who a terrorist's conspirators are. That said, Slashdot is primarily concerned with ensuring that terrorists have privacy to plot their attacks, that they have strong first, second, and fourth amendment rights, and that the contents of dead terrorists' phones aren't decrypted by investigators. Sorry, Slashdot, but the Bill of Rights was never meant to protect treason.
Microsoft says in the suit that federal courts have issued nearly 2,600 secrecy orders to the company over the past 18 months, and more than two-thirds of those orders didn’t have a defined ending date.
I seriously doubt that the 2,600 orders that Microsoft has received in the past 18 months, are all for foreign adversaries.
And even if they are for an American who the law thinks is a terrorist, the law needs to respect that person's rights. Otherwise if the person is convicted the conviction will eventually be overturned.
If we start ignoring all of our constitutional rights because of terrorism, then what are we fighting for at that point?
Actually if you wash a newer black car, LiDAR tends to have an issue with it at that point in time. Anything that is true black after a rain storm will cause issues for this.
Actually LiDAR has an issue with black objects, because it absorbs the beam and does not give a return value.
I am guessing the have enough sensors and enough programming to account for this, that and there are very few objects which are black enough to absorb all of the light from a LiDAR sensor. But I do wonder if this was a part of the test course.
The best method that I had previously heard for this was to replace trigonometry with a programming class. This would allow students to first understand solving equations in algebra or possibly algebra 2 then study a simple programming language ( Python would be the best one at the moment in my opinion). And programming would teach more complex equation solving skills. But most previous opinions that I have heard on this say it would be an optional replacement for trigonometry.
This just seems stupid to mandate that everyone learn to program when some people will just not be able to understand it. I ran into folks who wanted to be CS majors in my first programming class in college and they failed that really easy programming class. If there are people who think they can learn to program and later find out they can't, why would you mandate that everyone take a programming class.
There are major issues that can be fixed by this. It could lead to early identification of genes that cause MS, Type-1 Diabetes, certain types of Cancer, sickle cell anemia, and tons of other diseases. Yes eventually identifying these genes will cause doctors to want to correct these genes and create a "designer baby" and we won't know all of the side effects of this when we do it, but do you think the people who suffer through these diseases give a shit about that.
As human knowledge expands, it should be used to correct these things. And yes, when knowledge of this becomes wide spread and could cause folks to want to create a "perfect" human being, that will need to be handled then. But that is at least a decade away (probably a lot more than that), and in the mean time can't we fix some of the bad things and craft better laws/regulations to catch the people who will eventually abuse this.
It is obvious that the programmers of these machines think that there are too many people and they are using these "mistakes" to eliminate the weakest among us.
Either that or it is Skynet beginning to figure out how to kill humans.
If this is a Dyson Sphere we have less than 1400 years before they will see a transmission from us. And then we need to hope they are friendly or just don't care about primitive planets.
If they are building a Dyson Sphere they started this before 600 AD, and our technology is not going to be anywhere close to what they will have.
Not really, this is the same as turning someone in the mob and using them against others.
I am against government surveillance, but this seems to be just the government using an illegal site to figure out who is using it. They just kept the site running for a couple weeks to catch and track down its users, who were breaking the law by being on a child porn site.
Occasionally we have seen stars that have been ejected from their galaxies. This can happen during galaxy mergers.
How do we not know that this is just a massive star that turned into a black hole after it got ejected from its original galaxy? After all massive stars do not last that long because of their size.
Early satellite data is saying it was just an atomic bomb, the kind they have tested previously.
Some experts' very early assessment was that North Korea's device may not have been a true hydrogen bomb, and might instead have been a simpler fission device that had been "boosted."
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Al Gore tried to warn us about ManBearPig, but no one would listen to him.
ManBearPig
I wish I had points to vote this up.
I have the same ISP (Cox) and I have never had any issues with their Netflix bandwidth speeds. Previously I had Charter, and would occasionally see issues there, but nothing like what Verizon did to Netflix.
I don't trust any single source for news. Why would anyone think that they were getting unfiltered news from a website like Facebook?
I know folks are going to have to report to a Congressional Committee over this, but why is this a story? NBC leans heavily liberal, Fox leans heavily conservative, CNN does something which only people in airports actually see.
Facebook may get sued by those who pay for advertisements on their website, which may be fair, based on the wording of contracts.
Is it just because Gawker is screaming about this at the moment, that this is news? There is no unbiased news anymore, why does this shock or confuse anyone?
The better argument would be to argue that they kill bats, which they are known to do via causing their lungs to explode.
But fossil fuels have killed at least hundreds of thousands (most likely higher) of animals via spills, pollution from burning, and transportation.
Everything we do has an impact. But continuing to burn things, will endanger the entire planet, where killing birds or bats in an area will have a much more minor impact on the global environment.
Except at night, when solar is a lot more expensive. Or when it rains.
I am sure the scientists and engineers here completely forgot about night time.
Well then it seems like the best option is to just burn coal or oil, because it has no draw backs.
Also from what I read they appear to be tidally locked, which probably means they aren't likely to be able to sustain complex life.
I am guessing NASA is interested because they might be able to sustain microbial life on them.
I will let you look at the other replies to this and also point out, that because the FISA court is not public, the evidence all comes from leaks.
If there is nothing corrupt going on here, why do two-thirds of the orders have no end date on them?
It is obvious that both Google and Microsoft have issues with some of these, maybe there is a reason for that.
Sometimes it's necessary to maintain the secrecy of an investigation, like to find out who a terrorist's conspirators are. That said, Slashdot is primarily concerned with ensuring that terrorists have privacy to plot their attacks, that they have strong first, second, and fourth amendment rights, and that the contents of dead terrorists' phones aren't decrypted by investigators. Sorry, Slashdot, but the Bill of Rights was never meant to protect treason.
Microsoft says in the suit that federal courts have issued nearly 2,600 secrecy orders to the company over the past 18 months, and more than two-thirds of those orders didn’t have a defined ending date.
I seriously doubt that the 2,600 orders that Microsoft has received in the past 18 months, are all for foreign adversaries.
And even if they are for an American who the law thinks is a terrorist, the law needs to respect that person's rights. Otherwise if the person is convicted the conviction will eventually be overturned.
If we start ignoring all of our constitutional rights because of terrorism, then what are we fighting for at that point?
Actually if you wash a newer black car, LiDAR tends to have an issue with it at that point in time. Anything that is true black after a rain storm will cause issues for this.
Actually LiDAR has an issue with black objects, because it absorbs the beam and does not give a return value.
I am guessing the have enough sensors and enough programming to account for this, that and there are very few objects which are black enough to absorb all of the light from a LiDAR sensor. But I do wonder if this was a part of the test course.
It was just a dream, Bender. There's no such thing as two.
I think I may try to overthrow....
Hey get away from me!!! I didn't do anything!!!!!!
I'm not saying it is aliens, but it is aliens.
The best method that I had previously heard for this was to replace trigonometry with a programming class. This would allow students to first understand solving equations in algebra or possibly algebra 2 then study a simple programming language ( Python would be the best one at the moment in my opinion). And programming would teach more complex equation solving skills. But most previous opinions that I have heard on this say it would be an optional replacement for trigonometry.
This just seems stupid to mandate that everyone learn to program when some people will just not be able to understand it. I ran into folks who wanted to be CS majors in my first programming class in college and they failed that really easy programming class. If there are people who think they can learn to program and later find out they can't, why would you mandate that everyone take a programming class.
There are major issues that can be fixed by this. It could lead to early identification of genes that cause MS, Type-1 Diabetes, certain types of Cancer, sickle cell anemia, and tons of other diseases. Yes eventually identifying these genes will cause doctors to want to correct these genes and create a "designer baby" and we won't know all of the side effects of this when we do it, but do you think the people who suffer through these diseases give a shit about that.
As human knowledge expands, it should be used to correct these things. And yes, when knowledge of this becomes wide spread and could cause folks to want to create a "perfect" human being, that will need to be handled then. But that is at least a decade away (probably a lot more than that), and in the mean time can't we fix some of the bad things and craft better laws/regulations to catch the people who will eventually abuse this.
It is obvious that the programmers of these machines think that there are too many people and they are using these "mistakes" to eliminate the weakest among us.
Either that or it is Skynet beginning to figure out how to kill humans.
Now you can be tracked within 42 centimeters of your actual location.
Before someone would have to go to the spot and take a second to look around for you.
I wish I had points to vote this up.
It is obvious that the female run government is just trying to replace us men with better genetic specimens.
If these women weren't so shallow this would never be happening.
If this is a Dyson Sphere we have less than 1400 years before they will see a transmission from us. And then we need to hope they are friendly or just don't care about primitive planets.
If they are building a Dyson Sphere they started this before 600 AD, and our technology is not going to be anywhere close to what they will have.
Not really, this is the same as turning someone in the mob and using them against others.
I am against government surveillance, but this seems to be just the government using an illegal site to figure out who is using it. They just kept the site running for a couple weeks to catch and track down its users, who were breaking the law by being on a child porn site.
Occasionally we have seen stars that have been ejected from their galaxies. This can happen during galaxy mergers.
How do we not know that this is just a massive star that turned into a black hole after it got ejected from its original galaxy? After all massive stars do not last that long because of their size.
Early satellite data is saying it was just an atomic bomb, the kind they have tested previously.
Some experts' very early assessment was that North Korea's device may not have been a true hydrogen bomb, and might instead have been a simpler fission device that had been "boosted."
NPR Story
This was the first working version that they created. Remember the first computers were the size of a room and not very fast.
The problem is they need a market for this in order to refine it and make the necessary modifications.