OK, then explain Canada. Very similar to Australia demographically...lots of land, with 90% of the population living on something like 5% of the land. I live in a relatively out-of-the-way part of BC, and I get rock solid 25Mbps down, 5Mbps up for less that $70/month. Many of my friends in densely populated parts of the US can't get that.
Simple. We piggyback on the connectivity that the US has built up. It's a heck of a lot cheaper to run trunk lines over land than it is over oceans...this added to the fact that "an estimated 75% of Canadians live within 161 km (100 miles) of the U.S. border" adds up to (theoretically) very low cost-per-bit data rates for us Canucks, even in the more remote areas. The fact that we generally have less people per square km competing for the same local tubes as compared to the U.S. doesn't hurt, either.
This map illustrates the undersea cable situation pretty well, despite being a couple of years out of date.
Hey, wonder why they didn't incorporate the accidental blank spaces as an additional security feature? You know, like old school game disks used to have certain sectors purposefully corrupted as a method of copy protection, so if you copied the game to a new disk and the computer didn't see the bad sectors where it expected to, it would know it was a copy...
The "police page" at 83.138.166.114 may be fake. That address resolves via reverse DNS to "S82574.clubonside.dk". But "clubonside.dk" isn't in DNS or the.dk registry. It was live in 2006, and was a site for soccer fans, then moved to "clubonside.com", and is now defunct. The IP address is hosted by Rackspace in London.
Also note that on the page, there are no links to any law enforcement organization. All the links are ads for "safe and reliable online content". A domain actually taken over by the Serious Organized Crimes Agency in the UK looks like this. No ads, links only to a UK government site.
This looks like some private "IP protection" company impersonating a police agency.
Hmm, interesting.
Would be a brilliant spear-phishing ploy...just have your scary 'police' page point to fake-but-legit-sounding sites, collect data from gullible (and probably a bit jumpy) users, profit!
You might be able to teach someone to learn to learn, and how to best compensate for their weaknesses. Generally, learning to learn is not the result of having difficulty learning so much as it is learning. The more you learn, the more you learn how to learn to learn.
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Please review your code for open-ended recursive functions, potentially causing an infinite loop condition.
You choose to not pay for the software that you prefer to use because you don't want to give your credit card number to Adobe? After which episode that Adobe had credit card records stolen from it did you make that decision? How long ago was that? How many times has Adobe been attacked and had customer credit card information stolen? You're sure that's not just a lame justification for not wanting to pay for the software that you prefer to use?
Shhh! I can't hear anything for all the whooshing around here!
The pain of the Asian Giant Hornet is described as a hot nail piercing the skin and lasts about 4 hours with instant swelling.
Okay, I feel really, really sorry for whomever has experienced both and is able to make this comparison...not cool.
Wasps, and indeed flying stinging things in general, also not cool. Whole article is severely paranoia inducing, watch as I run for the hills every time something buzzes past my ear. On the bright side, the sound of one of these suckers flying by could definitely win the annoying ringtone competition...
It can be mixed with something else. Water isn't chemically degraded when it's mixed into sewage, either, but you don't go drinking it. You need to separate it first - or just drink other water that's already pure, since it's cheaper to do that than to purify sewage. This is exactly what is happening in the helium market.
Uhh...that's a pretty picture. A useful metaphor, but still...eww.
It's still not a good idea to say thank you to your machines. After all, if they start thinking they are our equals than the robot revolt is just one step closer.
It's a great way to keep robots in check. When designing an AI for robots; make sure that every single one of them has a craving to have human friends, companionship, and to be remembered and recognized as "important" or "special" in a positive way.
Robots should not be designed to unionize, but to compete against each other for the attention and positive recognition from humans.
Perhaps there should be a 'Like' key added to all keyboards? "Yes, good boy, here's your like..."
Yup, the kid that throws a temper tantrum when you take away his game is the more emotionally mature one.
We only have the GP's word that it's a "major tantrum", and I think it's pretty clear from the tone of their post that they're...narrow minded regarding how others choose to raise their children, so I wouldn't put much stock in their description. If the kid is really throwing major tantrums for any reason, then that's something the other parents have to address with them, regardless of the reason why.
Consider this: how would you react if someone took away something you enjoy, not because of anything you did or didn't do, but 'just because'? Removing peanuts from a kid who's developed an allergy is easy to explain, because it makes them physically sick when they eat them, but basically telling a kid 'we don't trust you to be able to tell the difference between real life and fantasy yet, so we're taking this away from you for your own good' is not only patronizing, it's downright demoralizing to the kid. If the kid starts trying to act or talk like characters in the game (trying to bounce their head off of stone blocks like Mario, perhaps?), then sit them down and talk to them. If they still do it, remove the game...but explain why you are doing so.
Kids are smarter and more capable than most people seem to think they are.
Once you add a keyboard, you might as well just grab an ultraportable laptop (e.g. MB Air or Thinkpad X-series).
Why? Surface Pro is still price and spec competitve even with the keyboard accessory, is still thinner and lighter, and has a touch screen and active digitizer to boot.
Battery life? Don't know, not even remotely interested in getting either, just curious if MS has fixed that yet...and too lazy to google it:)
So the carbon that you "sequestered" is returned to the atmosphere.
As it would have been regardless of whether you gained the carbon from these algae, or from grain-fed beef products. As I implied, the only benefit is the feel-good nature of the food source. Perhaps it's minced people we should be pumping down there?
Any carbon sequestration is going to return to atmosphere at some point, be it 50 years or 5,000 years down the road. Return to atmosphere, be removed from atmosphere by plants, be returned to atmosphere by decomposition and/or consumption by people / animals, etc., etc. etc. Sticking it way underground only delays the process, unless they figure out how to transform it into diamonds down there...then we'll burn more fuel digging them out again.
This particular problem really irks me. My brother-in-law, who is otherwise a sensible and brilliant guy, let's his seven-year-old play these violent games. My child, also the same age, is not allowed to play them. I have a very hard time explaining to my child why his cousin can play these games, but he can't. I also can't seem to convince them to purchase any milder (and cheaper) games that my son does have so that they can play together.
I have been unable to convince the parents that there was never any need for their child to play these games. But since he's used to them, he now expects it, and suddenly deciding that these games are inappropriate would appear to him as punishment. In fact, he throws a major tantrum if he can't play these games. Despite all this, they still beleive that they're not doing anything wrong.
Um, maybe because they're not?
You have one set of standards for what exposure level your kid can handle, he has another. Perhaps his son is more emotionally mature than yours? IDK
Both decisions are valid, and yes, I would certainly expect a child to strenuously object if one of their favorite games or toys was removed suddenly, for any reason. They still don't like being 'grounded' from certain games or activities as a result of their own bad behavior, but at least in that situation you can explain to them clearly why they can't play this or do that for a certain time. If your brother-in-law sees his son misbehaving in certain ways that can be tied back to a game (shouoting 'fus-ro-dah!' while knocking his sister down, let's say), it's a perfect opportunity for him to sit down and explain the difference between fantasy and reality, and why people shouldn't do these things in real life. If the behavior continues, then he can ground him from the game, clearly explaining why he's doing so. So long as he's consistent, there is no problem with his parenting model whatsoever.
If you are worried about what your kid might be exposed to while over at their house, your options are simple: restrict play visits to your house only, or bring 'suitable' games along and monitor their playtime, to be sure that non-suitable games are not played while your son is there. Explaining to him why his cousin can play these games and he can't? Sorry, you're on your own there.
The officer told us a little trick he uses: If he can't see your screen directly, he just counts the number of times you touch your screen.
So you saw me poking as something and you assume I'm texting? Yeah, see you in court. In fact, I urge everyone who got a ticket it to take it to court.
Hahaha, I really want to see the arguments for this one..."Um, no officer, it wasn't my phone I was touching...it's been a tense week, alright?"
Of course, then the public decency laws may kick in:)
Yea, you should pull over if you're going to fuck around with any sort of digital device that requires you to stop watching the road and taking your hands off the wheel. Is that really so hard to understand?
Hope you really like that radio station, because you're stuck listening to it...at the same volume, no less...for the next two hours. If you move out of transmission range, guess you're pulling over on the interstate to change the station...
Oh, and don't you dare adjust the blower, AC or heater controls while in motion, either. If 15 minutes of driving has warmed up your windshield enough to not require full-on defrost, guess you have to pull over to switch to defrost/cabin split heating.
I also want to get rid of stereos from cars. Do you know how many times before cell phones I missed a green light because some guy was fucking around with his radio?
I also want to eliminate children from cars. Do you know how many times before cell phones and stereos I missed a green light because some person was trying to make sure junior had his soother, or trying to fish the sippy cup off of the floor in the backseat?
If we're gonna go nanny, might as well go nanny to the hilt...
Umm...the same thing that happens whether or not you have been eating these carbon-heavy algae. You decompose and release gasses underground, or are cremated, users choice. In the meantime, you've been helping store 'excess' carbon (basically, the same amount you would have 'stored' from other food sources, except these come from feel-good, trumped up, utterly useless 'sequestration' efforts...meh, whatever floats your boat)
You become the sequesteree...sequesteror? Whatever, the one doing the sequestering. Some carbon dioxide is released as waste product as you breathe, but I assume you weren't planning on giving that up any time soon, so it's no net increase.
The solid remains of the algae after passing through your system are also capable of producing methane, which if harnessed correctly and not just allowed to escape to atmosphere, is a potent fuel source.
In the immortal words of Mahatma Gandhi: "Be the change that you wish to see in the world." We can each and every one of us be our own mini carbon sequestration system!
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OK, then explain Canada. Very similar to Australia demographically...lots of land, with 90% of the population living on something like 5% of the land. I live in a relatively out-of-the-way part of BC, and I get rock solid 25Mbps down, 5Mbps up for less that $70/month. Many of my friends in densely populated parts of the US can't get that.
Simple. We piggyback on the connectivity that the US has built up. It's a heck of a lot cheaper to run trunk lines over land than it is over oceans...this added to the fact that "an estimated 75% of Canadians live within 161 km (100 miles) of the U.S. border" adds up to (theoretically) very low cost-per-bit data rates for us Canucks, even in the more remote areas. The fact that we generally have less people per square km competing for the same local tubes as compared to the U.S. doesn't hurt, either.
This map illustrates the undersea cable situation pretty well, despite being a couple of years out of date.
Hey, wonder why they didn't incorporate the accidental blank spaces as an additional security feature? You know, like old school game disks used to have certain sectors purposefully corrupted as a method of copy protection, so if you copied the game to a new disk and the computer didn't see the bad sectors where it expected to, it would know it was a copy...
The "police page" at 83.138.166.114 may be fake. That address resolves via reverse DNS to "S82574.clubonside.dk". But "clubonside.dk" isn't in DNS or the .dk registry. It was live in 2006, and was a site for soccer fans, then moved to "clubonside.com", and is now defunct.
The IP address is hosted by Rackspace in London.
Also note that on the page, there are no links to any law enforcement organization. All the links are ads for "safe and reliable online content".
A domain actually taken over by the Serious Organized Crimes Agency in the UK looks like this. No ads, links only to a UK government site.
This looks like some private "IP protection" company impersonating a police agency.
Hmm, interesting.
Would be a brilliant spear-phishing ploy...just have your scary 'police' page point to fake-but-legit-sounding sites, collect data from gullible (and probably a bit jumpy) users, profit!
Aluminosilicate glass. Try scratching a modern smartphone display, keys are not going to do it.
Sure! Hey, can I borrow your phone for a sec? :)
You might be able to teach someone to learn to learn, and how to best compensate for their weaknesses. Generally, learning to learn is not the result of having difficulty learning so much as it is learning. The more you learn, the more you learn how to learn to learn.
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Please review your code for open-ended recursive functions, potentially causing an infinite loop condition.
Would you like to restart[Y/N]?>
Breaking Headline: "MIT Researchers Enter Secret Negotiations With IKEA"
News at 11
You choose to not pay for the software that you prefer to use because you don't want to give your credit card number to Adobe? After which episode that Adobe had credit card records stolen from it did you make that decision? How long ago was that? How many times has Adobe been attacked and had customer credit card information stolen? You're sure that's not just a lame justification for not wanting to pay for the software that you prefer to use?
Shhh! I can't hear anything for all the whooshing around here!
The pain of the Asian Giant Hornet is described as a hot nail piercing the skin and lasts about 4 hours with instant swelling.
Okay, I feel really, really sorry for whomever has experienced both and is able to make this comparison...not cool.
Wasps, and indeed flying stinging things in general, also not cool. Whole article is severely paranoia inducing, watch as I run for the hills every time something buzzes past my ear. On the bright side, the sound of one of these suckers flying by could definitely win the annoying ringtone competition...
the "skip this" button is noticeably difficult to find.
Haha, love it.
It can be mixed with something else. Water isn't chemically degraded when it's mixed into sewage, either, but you don't go drinking it. You need to separate it first - or just drink other water that's already pure, since it's cheaper to do that than to purify sewage. This is exactly what is happening in the helium market.
Uhh...that's a pretty picture. A useful metaphor, but still...eww.
"Here you go kids! Sewage balloons! Have fun!"
How did they know the device struggled, did they figure out how to deploy nanopathy?
Maybe they have a talented nanowhisperer on the payroll?
FTA
Unfortunately, the devices struggled to dissipate the heat created while generating sounds,
Careful not to crank the music on your new nanopodz(tm) too loud, or you'll literally fry your eardrums...
OTOH, talk about a hot beat :o)
It's still not a good idea to say thank you to your machines. After all, if they start thinking they are our equals than the robot revolt is just one step closer.
It's a great way to keep robots in check. When designing an AI for robots; make sure that every single one of them has a craving to have human friends, companionship, and to be remembered and recognized as "important" or "special" in a positive way.
Robots should not be designed to unionize, but to compete against each other for the attention and positive recognition from humans.
Perhaps there should be a 'Like' key added to all keyboards? "Yes, good boy, here's your like..."
Yup, the kid that throws a temper tantrum when you take away his game is the more emotionally mature one.
We only have the GP's word that it's a "major tantrum", and I think it's pretty clear from the tone of their post that they're...narrow minded regarding how others choose to raise their children, so I wouldn't put much stock in their description. If the kid is really throwing major tantrums for any reason, then that's something the other parents have to address with them, regardless of the reason why.
Consider this: how would you react if someone took away something you enjoy, not because of anything you did or didn't do, but 'just because'? Removing peanuts from a kid who's developed an allergy is easy to explain, because it makes them physically sick when they eat them, but basically telling a kid 'we don't trust you to be able to tell the difference between real life and fantasy yet, so we're taking this away from you for your own good' is not only patronizing, it's downright demoralizing to the kid. If the kid starts trying to act or talk like characters in the game (trying to bounce their head off of stone blocks like Mario, perhaps?), then sit them down and talk to them. If they still do it, remove the game...but explain why you are doing so.
Kids are smarter and more capable than most people seem to think they are.
Once you add a keyboard, you might as well just grab an ultraportable laptop (e.g. MB Air or Thinkpad X-series).
Why? Surface Pro is still price and spec competitve even with the keyboard accessory, is still thinner and lighter, and has a touch screen and active digitizer to boot.
Battery life? Don't know, not even remotely interested in getting either, just curious if MS has fixed that yet...and too lazy to google it :)
Yesterday when the announcement was made [ http://mobile.slashdot.org/story/13/09/23/197258/microsoft-takes-another-stab-at-tablets-unveils-surface-2-surface-2-pro ] several responders here identified reasons why they'd go once more into the breech of a sinking ship.
Hold the phone...ships have pants?!?!
Stop the presses...
(sorry, couldn't resist, it tickled my funnybone :)
So the carbon that you "sequestered" is returned to the atmosphere.
As it would have been regardless of whether you gained the carbon from these algae, or from grain-fed beef products. As I implied, the only benefit is the feel-good nature of the food source. Perhaps it's minced people we should be pumping down there?
Any carbon sequestration is going to return to atmosphere at some point, be it 50 years or 5,000 years down the road. Return to atmosphere, be removed from atmosphere by plants, be returned to atmosphere by decomposition and/or consumption by people / animals, etc., etc. etc. Sticking it way underground only delays the process, unless they figure out how to transform it into diamonds down there...then we'll burn more fuel digging them out again.
This particular problem really irks me. My brother-in-law, who is otherwise a sensible and brilliant guy, let's his seven-year-old play these violent games. My child, also the same age, is not allowed to play them. I have a very hard time explaining to my child why his cousin can play these games, but he can't. I also can't seem to convince them to purchase any milder (and cheaper) games that my son does have so that they can play together.
I have been unable to convince the parents that there was never any need for their child to play these games. But since he's used to them, he now expects it, and suddenly deciding that these games are inappropriate would appear to him as punishment. In fact, he throws a major tantrum if he can't play these games. Despite all this, they still beleive that they're not doing anything wrong.
Um, maybe because they're not?
You have one set of standards for what exposure level your kid can handle, he has another. Perhaps his son is more emotionally mature than yours? IDK
Both decisions are valid, and yes, I would certainly expect a child to strenuously object if one of their favorite games or toys was removed suddenly, for any reason. They still don't like being 'grounded' from certain games or activities as a result of their own bad behavior, but at least in that situation you can explain to them clearly why they can't play this or do that for a certain time. If your brother-in-law sees his son misbehaving in certain ways that can be tied back to a game (shouoting 'fus-ro-dah!' while knocking his sister down, let's say), it's a perfect opportunity for him to sit down and explain the difference between fantasy and reality, and why people shouldn't do these things in real life. If the behavior continues, then he can ground him from the game, clearly explaining why he's doing so. So long as he's consistent, there is no problem with his parenting model whatsoever.
If you are worried about what your kid might be exposed to while over at their house, your options are simple: restrict play visits to your house only, or bring 'suitable' games along and monitor their playtime, to be sure that non-suitable games are not played while your son is there. Explaining to him why his cousin can play these games and he can't? Sorry, you're on your own there.
The officer told us a little trick he uses: If he can't see your screen directly, he just counts the number of times you touch your screen.
So you saw me poking as something and you assume I'm texting? Yeah, see you in court. In fact, I urge everyone who got a ticket it to take it to court.
Hahaha, I really want to see the arguments for this one..."Um, no officer, it wasn't my phone I was touching...it's been a tense week, alright?"
Of course, then the public decency laws may kick in :)
Yea, you should pull over if you're going to fuck around with any sort of digital device that requires you to stop watching the road and taking your hands off the wheel. Is that really so hard to understand?
Hope you really like that radio station, because you're stuck listening to it...at the same volume, no less...for the next two hours. If you move out of transmission range, guess you're pulling over on the interstate to change the station...
Oh, and don't you dare adjust the blower, AC or heater controls while in motion, either. If 15 minutes of driving has warmed up your windshield enough to not require full-on defrost, guess you have to pull over to switch to defrost/cabin split heating.
Slippery slope is slippery.
I don't P on my handbrake either
(yeah lame, but I really couldn't help myself)
Maybe someone else did...?
I also want to get rid of stereos from cars. Do you know how many times before cell phones I missed a green light because some guy was fucking around with his radio?
I also want to eliminate children from cars. Do you know how many times before cell phones and stereos I missed a green light because some person was trying to make sure junior had his soother, or trying to fish the sippy cup off of the floor in the backseat?
If we're gonna go nanny, might as well go nanny to the hilt...
What happens with your body after you die?
Umm...the same thing that happens whether or not you have been eating these carbon-heavy algae. You decompose and release gasses underground, or are cremated, users choice. In the meantime, you've been helping store 'excess' carbon (basically, the same amount you would have 'stored' from other food sources, except these come from feel-good, trumped up, utterly useless 'sequestration' efforts...meh, whatever floats your boat)
You become the sequesteree...sequesteror? Whatever, the one doing the sequestering. Some carbon dioxide is released as waste product as you breathe, but I assume you weren't planning on giving that up any time soon, so it's no net increase.
The solid remains of the algae after passing through your system are also capable of producing methane, which if harnessed correctly and not just allowed to escape to atmosphere, is a potent fuel source.
In the immortal words of Mahatma Gandhi: "Be the change that you wish to see in the world." We can each and every one of us be our own mini carbon sequestration system!
</tongue-in-cheek>
What will you do with the carbon that the plants sequestered? Especially so that it won't rot and be returned to the atmosphere?
Eat it?
Mmmm...algaeburgers...