You don't have to present any sort of certificate of mastery to the guy at the parts counter.
No, but you generally have to know something to actually make substantial mechanical changes. Most people who are capable of making the vehicle make substantially more power, for example, are also capable of understanding the value of increasing braking force. People who just buy a tune off the internet get into trouble all the time.
Something about Pale Moon with noscript and craigslist doesn't interact well, even with all scripts enabled I can't deobfuscate email addresses. So I C&P the url into the run dialog, prefixed by iexplore, and it pops right up. There's always the risk that a malformed image will own my browser, but I'm not actually browsing any site, just loading specific pages with stuff that I want to make an offer on.
If the logic of forced vaccination holds up, shouldn't we also be putting people in jail for giving children junk food -- as well as for producing or selling junk food consumed by children?
Maybe. But what we should definitely do is prohibit advertising to children, as they do in some nations, because studies have shown that young children cannot differentiate between commercials and programming. (There are several jokes there, yes.)
But please focus on gently and kindly educating others instead of sending police of some sort around to force them to do whatever you think is in their best interest.
That's been tried, and it's not working. You can give them the facts calmly and reasonably, and they will dismiss you as part of some kind of conspiracy, or as an unwitting tool. Then their precious little snowflakes carry some disease to others, who suffer. Is it kind to permit that to happen to them? Is that gentility?
The idiot who threw the boiling water should be prosecuted for assault -- at this point, this can't be argued to be an accident, it's more like shooting into the air on a crowded street,
That's not assault, though, it's reckless endangerment.
Killing an innocent bystander is no selection, at least unless the trait we're selecting against isn't "don't stand near dangerous morons".
I don't promote such selection, but it seems fairly valid. Do you ever watch stuff, whether it's a candid video of someone getting injured, or even a fictional movie, and find yourself thinking "looks like it's time to go!" Some people don't have that sense, and they suffer for it.
Yet you can do complete overhauls of mechanical cars legally. Personal responsibility is what is missing here. If you don't have the skill to do it. Don't
The problem is that this software will be available to Joe Schmoe, who can just plug it in without understanding the repercussions. You can't completely overhaul a mechanical car without at least a little knowledge.
All my cheap, small electronics come from China, and tend to arrive via ePacket->USPS handoff. I can't remember the last time I got anything via FedEx. I have had more problems with FedEx than any other shipper, but it's all been stuff related to the fact that they don't have distribution centers everywhere like UPS does, so if there's a problem getting a package, it becomes a BIG problem. I can't just have them send it to the local center and then go get it, there isn't one! They come from over a mountain range where I live now, and where I lived last, they were both over a mountain range and in a different county.
If you hire consultants from some consulting company, they may very well come with their own computers for development+documentation.
That's fine. If he's using the same devices for work and personal use, then he's doing it wrong, and any contract should reflect that fact and prohibit such behavior.
If history is any indication, no one is going to do this. There is already a process for recycling ALL plastics into useful gases and liquids by cooking them under pressure, but nobody is using that either, because it's a PITA. 2300 bar is a shit-ton of pressure. For comparison, really serious diesel engine cylinder pressures only get up to about 180 bar. More importantly, supercritical water behaves itself even less than the normally-compressed stuff. It's not that the process doesn't work, it's just not likely to be commercially viable.
Sadly, they published in a closed-access journal and not in PNAS or similar, so I don't get to read the study to find out what kind of vessel was used, but it's probably exotically expensive.
If employees are using the apps on their personal devices, they should not have sensitive government data on those devices.
Sensitive data should never be on personal devices, period. If users need sensitive data on portable devices, those devices should be provided by the employer, and no personal data (or use) should be permitted on those devices. There are zero exceptions. If that means users need to carry two devices, so be it. What are they getting paid for, anyway?
California is probably as good as it gets in the US, since they allow home-grow for personal use.
California left it up to the counties, most of which have fucked it up completely. They want licensing and registration, there's all kinds of places you can't have it at all, you can only use it in a private residence in almost every county...
TN has cheap land, it's a good place for a warehouse, but it lacks many of the aspects that attract techies to NY.
That depends on where in TN you are. If you're near Nashville, then it's got much of the same stuff; food, culture, relatively liberal politics. Neither one has reasonable cannabis laws, though. (Neither does California any more, oddly, but at least they are less unreasonable.)
Not at all. The laws regarding privacy in a public forum (like the internet) generally don't care whether or not your wish to be tracked. Absent express laws to the contrary there is a general presumption that you are not entitled to privacy in public outside of some specific circumstances.
That's why DNT was not only worthless as you point out, but an actively bad idea. Without some legislation to back it up, all it ever did was make it easier to fingerprint users who used browsers which did not set the flag by default. With some legislation, it might have accomplished something.
Microsoft turning on that flag for everyone could not possibly have made any difference in the behavior of advertisers that were already ignore that flag. The only thing that turning the flag on by default did was give advertisers that *didn't* already ignore it a compelling reason to do so. They most certainly did poison the well.
People were already tracking users by fingerprinting at the time when the DNT flag was added, so it was obvious that it would not only not reduce tracking, but actually increase it since it would make fingerprinting easier. Turning it on by default when virtually nobody would ever turn it off actually makes it LESS useful in tracking, because it's less of a differentiator. So no, you are 100% wrong about this.
There's really no utility to having more than 720p on a cellphone, unless you're using it for VR. But I also want a true 720p display, with no notch, because I want to be able to view 720p video without scaling, and because notches are stupid.
They also had inferior performance (and price-performance) to x86 processors
IBM didn't make x86 processors, except for that brief time when they partnered with Cyrix.
That's orthogonal to the argument. Apple should have either gone multicore ARM (they were an ARM licensor from way back, the Newton was ARM) with a GPU coprocessor, or they should have just jumped to x86 instead of PPC. The ARM decision only necessarily makes sense in hindsight, so x86 is the one that would have made sense. PPC cost too much more than x86, though, so it never made any sense.
And seeing as not every publication is a trade publication, how would the writing and distribution of publications that aren't trade publications be funded? Paywalls?
Probably. People are blocking ads, so they're going to have to figure out an alternate funding source regardless. I realize I'm ahead of the curve in this, but if I can't view a site through an ad blocker, I just go somewhere else.
Motorola's implementations were considered superior to IBM's until the G5 came along,
What? By whom? They offered superior price-performance, but they had inferior performance, notably because only the PPC601 implemented the full POWER instruction set. They also had inferior performance (and price-performance) to x86 processors. The G4 was about the same as a good Intel chip (but for more money) and the G5 was faster than an Intel chip for about a month, then it was slower again.
Frankly, unless you are built like your typical NBA player, holding one of those big phones to your ear makes you look like a jerk.
A bigger phone can have a bigger antenna, so you might look like a bigger jerk, but you can also have a bigger signal meter reading. Also, if you spend so much time on your phone that this is a consideration, get a headset already.
With that said, a smaller phone is harder to break, and not everyone wants to do anything but make calls and maybe look up the occasional bit of data someplace, so not everyone needs a phablet. But really, if you're concerned that holding up a big phone will make you look like a jerk, you're a dork.
The trouble is that RISC is great if you happen to be a compiler, but it's no fun for a human.
The trouble is Motorola wasn't competent to develop a high speed CPU, so they had to get involved with IBM and make PowerPC. Plenty of cellphones were made with low-power PPC cores. But who cares how friendly RISC cores are to assembly programmers? Assembler is less important than ever before, for anyone who isn't writing a compiler, because compilers keep doing more optimization. Unless you're writing code for the baseband processor in a cellphone, you're probably not going to bother with assembler. The other big examples, stuff like graphics for example, tend to just be handed off to coprocessors of some type or another.
I wish Google realized the complexity when deploying fiber, the California method just doesn't work in Kentucky.
The California method is to put it on poles, except for runs between counties which go where there are no poles. California is BIG. Not just in terms of the size of the state, which is third-largest (and twice as big as e.g. England) but also in terms of the distribution of population, which is everywhere. So we have the second-longest road network, and poles all along most of the roads.
Utility lines are a blight especially in urban areas.
Urban areas have population densities sufficient to justify shared conduit. Suburban and rural areas already have utility lines. So there's really no justification for this shallow trenching BS anywhere.
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You don't have to present any sort of certificate of mastery to the guy at the parts counter.
No, but you generally have to know something to actually make substantial mechanical changes. Most people who are capable of making the vehicle make substantially more power, for example, are also capable of understanding the value of increasing braking force. People who just buy a tune off the internet get into trouble all the time.
Something about Pale Moon with noscript and craigslist doesn't interact well, even with all scripts enabled I can't deobfuscate email addresses. So I C&P the url into the run dialog, prefixed by iexplore, and it pops right up. There's always the risk that a malformed image will own my browser, but I'm not actually browsing any site, just loading specific pages with stuff that I want to make an offer on.
If I'm not supposed to use it, why is it there?
If the logic of forced vaccination holds up, shouldn't we also be putting people in jail for giving children junk food -- as well as for producing or selling junk food consumed by children?
Maybe. But what we should definitely do is prohibit advertising to children, as they do in some nations, because studies have shown that young children cannot differentiate between commercials and programming. (There are several jokes there, yes.)
But please focus on gently and kindly educating others instead of sending police of some sort around to force them to do whatever you think is in their best interest.
That's been tried, and it's not working. You can give them the facts calmly and reasonably, and they will dismiss you as part of some kind of conspiracy, or as an unwitting tool. Then their precious little snowflakes carry some disease to others, who suffer. Is it kind to permit that to happen to them? Is that gentility?
The idiot who threw the boiling water should be prosecuted for assault -- at this point, this can't be argued to be an accident, it's more like shooting into the air on a crowded street,
That's not assault, though, it's reckless endangerment.
Killing an innocent bystander is no selection, at least unless the trait we're selecting against isn't "don't stand near dangerous morons".
I don't promote such selection, but it seems fairly valid. Do you ever watch stuff, whether it's a candid video of someone getting injured, or even a fictional movie, and find yourself thinking "looks like it's time to go!" Some people don't have that sense, and they suffer for it.
Yet you can do complete overhauls of mechanical cars legally.
Personal responsibility is what is missing here. If you don't have the skill to do it. Don't
The problem is that this software will be available to Joe Schmoe, who can just plug it in without understanding the repercussions. You can't completely overhaul a mechanical car without at least a little knowledge.
This is now a FedEx monopoly
All my cheap, small electronics come from China, and tend to arrive via ePacket->USPS handoff. I can't remember the last time I got anything via FedEx. I have had more problems with FedEx than any other shipper, but it's all been stuff related to the fact that they don't have distribution centers everywhere like UPS does, so if there's a problem getting a package, it becomes a BIG problem. I can't just have them send it to the local center and then go get it, there isn't one! They come from over a mountain range where I live now, and where I lived last, they were both over a mountain range and in a different county.
If you hire consultants from some consulting company, they may very well come with their own computers for development+documentation.
That's fine. If he's using the same devices for work and personal use, then he's doing it wrong, and any contract should reflect that fact and prohibit such behavior.
If history is any indication, no one is going to do this. There is already a process for recycling ALL plastics into useful gases and liquids by cooking them under pressure, but nobody is using that either, because it's a PITA. 2300 bar is a shit-ton of pressure. For comparison, really serious diesel engine cylinder pressures only get up to about 180 bar. More importantly, supercritical water behaves itself even less than the normally-compressed stuff. It's not that the process doesn't work, it's just not likely to be commercially viable.
Sadly, they published in a closed-access journal and not in PNAS or similar, so I don't get to read the study to find out what kind of vessel was used, but it's probably exotically expensive.
If employees are using the apps on their personal devices, they should not have sensitive government data on those devices.
Sensitive data should never be on personal devices, period. If users need sensitive data on portable devices, those devices should be provided by the employer, and no personal data (or use) should be permitted on those devices. There are zero exceptions. If that means users need to carry two devices, so be it. What are they getting paid for, anyway?
California is probably as good as it gets in the US, since they allow home-grow for personal use.
California left it up to the counties, most of which have fucked it up completely. They want licensing and registration, there's all kinds of places you can't have it at all, you can only use it in a private residence in almost every county...
TN has cheap land, it's a good place for a warehouse, but it lacks many of the aspects that attract techies to NY.
That depends on where in TN you are. If you're near Nashville, then it's got much of the same stuff; food, culture, relatively liberal politics. Neither one has reasonable cannabis laws, though. (Neither does California any more, oddly, but at least they are less unreasonable.)
Is there anything dumber in this world (that are still recognisable human) than socialists?
I would say capitalists, but they are not still recognisable as humans. Darn.
I would have said Viol8, but ditto.
Not at all. The laws regarding privacy in a public forum (like the internet) generally don't care whether or not your wish to be tracked. Absent express laws to the contrary there is a general presumption that you are not entitled to privacy in public outside of some specific circumstances.
That's why DNT was not only worthless as you point out, but an actively bad idea. Without some legislation to back it up, all it ever did was make it easier to fingerprint users who used browsers which did not set the flag by default. With some legislation, it might have accomplished something.
Microsoft turning on that flag for everyone could not possibly have made any difference in the behavior of advertisers that were already ignore that flag. The only thing that turning the flag on by default did was give advertisers that *didn't* already ignore it a compelling reason to do so. They most certainly did poison the well.
People were already tracking users by fingerprinting at the time when the DNT flag was added, so it was obvious that it would not only not reduce tracking, but actually increase it since it would make fingerprinting easier. Turning it on by default when virtually nobody would ever turn it off actually makes it LESS useful in tracking, because it's less of a differentiator. So no, you are 100% wrong about this.
There's really no utility to having more than 720p on a cellphone, unless you're using it for VR. But I also want a true 720p display, with no notch, because I want to be able to view 720p video without scaling, and because notches are stupid.
They also had inferior performance (and price-performance) to x86 processors
IBM didn't make x86 processors, except for that brief time when they partnered with Cyrix.
That's orthogonal to the argument. Apple should have either gone multicore ARM (they were an ARM licensor from way back, the Newton was ARM) with a GPU coprocessor, or they should have just jumped to x86 instead of PPC. The ARM decision only necessarily makes sense in hindsight, so x86 is the one that would have made sense. PPC cost too much more than x86, though, so it never made any sense.
And seeing as not every publication is a trade publication, how would the writing and distribution of publications that aren't trade publications be funded? Paywalls?
Probably. People are blocking ads, so they're going to have to figure out an alternate funding source regardless. I realize I'm ahead of the curve in this, but if I can't view a site through an ad blocker, I just go somewhere else.
Motorola's implementations were considered superior to IBM's until the G5 came along,
What? By whom? They offered superior price-performance, but they had inferior performance, notably because only the PPC601 implemented the full POWER instruction set. They also had inferior performance (and price-performance) to x86 processors. The G4 was about the same as a good Intel chip (but for more money) and the G5 was faster than an Intel chip for about a month, then it was slower again.
Slashdot really need to implement a comment edit feature.
It has one. You preview your comment, and then you have a chance to edit it before you submit it. If you hit submit without previewing, that's on you.
I do it all the time, but I don't bitch about it, because it's my own damn fault. Guess what you're bitching about?
Frankly, unless you are built like your typical NBA player, holding one of those big phones to your ear makes you look like a jerk.
A bigger phone can have a bigger antenna, so you might look like a bigger jerk, but you can also have a bigger signal meter reading. Also, if you spend so much time on your phone that this is a consideration, get a headset already.
With that said, a smaller phone is harder to break, and not everyone wants to do anything but make calls and maybe look up the occasional bit of data someplace, so not everyone needs a phablet. But really, if you're concerned that holding up a big phone will make you look like a jerk, you're a dork.
The trouble is that RISC is great if you happen to be a compiler, but it's no fun for a human.
The trouble is Motorola wasn't competent to develop a high speed CPU, so they had to get involved with IBM and make PowerPC. Plenty of cellphones were made with low-power PPC cores. But who cares how friendly RISC cores are to assembly programmers? Assembler is less important than ever before, for anyone who isn't writing a compiler, because compilers keep doing more optimization. Unless you're writing code for the baseband processor in a cellphone, you're probably not going to bother with assembler. The other big examples, stuff like graphics for example, tend to just be handed off to coprocessors of some type or another.
LIRC supports those windows remotes.
I wish Google realized the complexity when deploying fiber, the California method just doesn't work in Kentucky.
The California method is to put it on poles, except for runs between counties which go where there are no poles. California is BIG. Not just in terms of the size of the state, which is third-largest (and twice as big as e.g. England) but also in terms of the distribution of population, which is everywhere. So we have the second-longest road network, and poles all along most of the roads.
Utility lines are a blight especially in urban areas.
Urban areas have population densities sufficient to justify shared conduit. Suburban and rural areas already have utility lines. So there's really no justification for this shallow trenching BS anywhere.