Are you serious? CEOs are different than regular employees
Yes, I am. Rights should apply to everyone, not just the people that you believe are worthy.
If you think that people shouldn't have the right to donate to a political cause without fear of reprisal from their employer, fine. But to give that right to some people and not others is wrong.
Really, this story is just "Some idiot injured someone, and is now lying to try to dodge legal responsibilities." This happens every day; it's just "news" to slashdot because he used the magic word "hack."
Soylent News is probably a more realistic alternative to Slashdot than technocrat.net. One of the major problems with technocrat.net is that Bruce has already killed it a couple times in the past when he lost interest -- so why would people move there now?
Also, although Soylent News is using old Slashcode, it's still much more functional than the technocrat software.
One thing that always struck me when I watched the episode was that apparently their language involves repeating one of a selection of a half-dozen sentences that reference this story. How could a species possibly advance to high technology if they were hampered by communication in that way?
The other thing that seems rather ridiculous is that the Federation has never met these aliens before, and yet the Enterprise's computer has the details of their mythological figures.
I actually like the episode, but the details of the aliens' language doesn't bear any sort of close scrutiny.
Well, assuming that you have a cell phone that matches the Ouya in power. And that you like having to tether it to your TV every time you want to play a game.
Also, while there's no fundamental reason why developers couldn't release a game that is optimized for controller play on a TV that runs on your standard Android phone, in practice that is not what has happened. They seem to be hoping to change that by allowing Ouya games to run on other Android platforms, but that's still on the horizon.
There were some serious mistakes made in the design and marketing for Ouya, but I like mine and have bought a fair number of games. It's not "redundant."
Apparently Bram has already said that he thinks it's a bad idea.
A lot of the proposed changes are apparently to remove support for "obsolete" systems and configurations. It's really doubtful that it would ever be merged into the main vim codebase.
Since nobody else is commenting, I guess that I'm not the only one that had never heard of Docker.
The story doesn't bother to summarize what Docker is. Or even give a link to an explanation. That may not be completely unreasonable, because it's hard to find any understandable information on the main website either. Apparently a "container" is a method of delivering an application that is geared towards VMs and cloud computing, but that's about all I got out of it.
Dont complain about problems with firefox while running 3rd party code, particularly addons that can conflict.
Of course, the response whenever somebody complains that yet another feature has been removed from Firefox is, "well, you can just get an add-on that does what you want."
This is because, as I noted, when cops do bad things the video suddenly isn't available, either because it was turned off, the tape was "lost" or the equipment was "broken" and couldn't record.
Your argument doesn't make sense. Why would people file complaints of actual police misconduct when there's no camera available, but suddenly stop filing those complaints when the camera was there (even if the footage was "lost")?
And that also doesn't address the other statistic, a reduced number of incidents using force. What, are those incidents no longer being reported because officers can throw away the footage? That doesn't make sense either.
I suspect you should have a good chat with Kelly Thomas and revise your storyline.
What storyline -- that sometimes people lie about what police do? Do you seriously believe that doesn't happen? And anyone who believes it does is a fascist?
Not only this -- I suspect that a large part of the 90% drop in complaints has to do with the fact that it makes it a lot harder for people to lie about their interaction with a police officer.
Fact is as long as they can turn the cameras on or off and the video is in police custody this will do almost nothing to reduce police abuse. Either the camera will be off, the video will be "lost" or the recording device will be "broken". They want the video for convictions, but they will make damn sure the video is lost or the camera is off when they go to beat the shit out of some innocent person.
And yet, the actual evidence cited in the summary shows the exact opposite result of your theory.
Kind of funny, considering that you also posted a comment about how the anti-vaccination movement ignores real evidence that contradicts their views.
There are at minimum 20k planes, but possibly up to 100k. Let's estimate that half of 20k planes have this installed, at an expenditure of one trillion dollars.
You're off by a factor of a thousand here -- 10k * $100k is $1 billion, not $1 trillion. According to the article, ongoing costs would be in the hundreds of millions per year per airline, so a rough order-of-magnitude estimate might be $1 billion per year.
Worth it? Maybe. I'd like to see some examples of where a system like this would have actually saved some lives first -- the article doesn't give any. After all, there's an awful lot of things you can do for $1 billion a year that are more likely to save lives than betting it on the off chance of an airliner crash.
It's a frequent "let's play absurd" argument from meat eaters that plants have a central nervous system, too, and suffer and that they are being nice to plants by not eating meat.
What I learn from your statement is that apparently vegetarianism stunts your sense of humor.
Your test is showing that too many students are unprepared for college? Well, we can solve that problem -- just change the test!
There's something fundamentally wrong with our schools when it is a rarity for a high school graduate to be capable of composing a short written essay.
What I was referring to was 26% * 115 million = 30 million. That means that the minimum number of Blu-ray players sold must be at least 30 million if 26% of households were to have a Blu-ray player. So if 26% of American homes have a Blu-ray player, then the 2.5 million number is an order of magnitude off.
There have been 2.5 million Blu-ray players sold in the United States.... Only 26% of American homes have a Blu-ray player.
There's something wrong with your numbers here -- there were about 115 million households in the U.S. in 2010. The sources I can find with a quick Googling say the number is more like 40 million Blu-ray players.
I do agree that trying to compare not knowing Blu-ray to not knowing what a car is is a really bad comparison. There is no segment of society that has not had personal experience with cars. There are lots of people who will have never seen or used a Blu-ray player.
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Are you serious? CEOs are different than regular employees
Yes, I am. Rights should apply to everyone, not just the people that you believe are worthy.
If you think that people shouldn't have the right to donate to a political cause without fear of reprisal from their employer, fine. But to give that right to some people and not others is wrong.
That's right! Human rights for all, except the humans I don't like!
Really, this story is just "Some idiot injured someone, and is now lying to try to dodge legal responsibilities." This happens every day; it's just "news" to slashdot because he used the magic word "hack."
Soylent News is probably a more realistic alternative to Slashdot than technocrat.net. One of the major problems with technocrat.net is that Bruce has already killed it a couple times in the past when he lost interest -- so why would people move there now?
Also, although Soylent News is using old Slashcode, it's still much more functional than the technocrat software.
Given that Bruce restarted Technocrat.net in response to the Great Slashdot Beta Uprising, this question is certainly not offtopic.
Particularly, those with a number of years left of health, but for which eventually, will die anyways.
Good news! That already describes all of our astronauts.
Perhaps OKCupid should also use IP addresses to block anyone from the state of California too.
One thing that always struck me when I watched the episode was that apparently their language involves repeating one of a selection of a half-dozen sentences that reference this story. How could a species possibly advance to high technology if they were hampered by communication in that way?
The other thing that seems rather ridiculous is that the Federation has never met these aliens before, and yet the Enterprise's computer has the details of their mythological figures.
I actually like the episode, but the details of the aliens' language doesn't bear any sort of close scrutiny.
Already been done: http://uploads.neatorama.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/09/Fred-Flintstone-Barney-Rubble-Car.jpg
Dwarf-like? Is this planet like Dopey, or more like Thorin Oakenshield?
Didn't we just go through this whole rigmarole of redefining Pluto as a "dwarf planet" so we could use that as a real term for bodies like this?
Well, assuming that you have a cell phone that matches the Ouya in power. And that you like having to tether it to your TV every time you want to play a game.
Also, while there's no fundamental reason why developers couldn't release a game that is optimized for controller play on a TV that runs on your standard Android phone, in practice that is not what has happened. They seem to be hoping to change that by allowing Ouya games to run on other Android platforms, but that's still on the horizon.
There were some serious mistakes made in the design and marketing for Ouya, but I like mine and have bought a fair number of games. It's not "redundant."
Apparently Bram has already said that he thinks it's a bad idea.
A lot of the proposed changes are apparently to remove support for "obsolete" systems and configurations. It's really doubtful that it would ever be merged into the main vim codebase.
Since nobody else is commenting, I guess that I'm not the only one that had never heard of Docker.
The story doesn't bother to summarize what Docker is. Or even give a link to an explanation. That may not be completely unreasonable, because it's hard to find any understandable information on the main website either. Apparently a "container" is a method of delivering an application that is geared towards VMs and cloud computing, but that's about all I got out of it.
And if you read the article you linked to, you'll realize that people's deposits didn't just disappear, even when the banks failed.
Dont complain about problems with firefox while running 3rd party code, particularly addons that can conflict.
Of course, the response whenever somebody complains that yet another feature has been removed from Firefox is, "well, you can just get an add-on that does what you want."
This is because, as I noted, when cops do bad things the video suddenly isn't available, either because it was turned off, the tape was "lost" or the equipment was "broken" and couldn't record.
Your argument doesn't make sense. Why would people file complaints of actual police misconduct when there's no camera available, but suddenly stop filing those complaints when the camera was there (even if the footage was "lost")?
And that also doesn't address the other statistic, a reduced number of incidents using force. What, are those incidents no longer being reported because officers can throw away the footage? That doesn't make sense either.
I suspect you should have a good chat with Kelly Thomas and revise your storyline.
What storyline -- that sometimes people lie about what police do? Do you seriously believe that doesn't happen? And anyone who believes it does is a fascist?
Not only this -- I suspect that a large part of the 90% drop in complaints has to do with the fact that it makes it a lot harder for people to lie about their interaction with a police officer.
Fact is as long as they can turn the cameras on or off and the video is in police custody this will do almost nothing to reduce police abuse. Either the camera will be off, the video will be "lost" or the recording device will be "broken". They want the video for convictions, but they will make damn sure the video is lost or the camera is off when they go to beat the shit out of some innocent person.
And yet, the actual evidence cited in the summary shows the exact opposite result of your theory.
Kind of funny, considering that you also posted a comment about how the anti-vaccination movement ignores real evidence that contradicts their views.
There are at minimum 20k planes, but possibly up to 100k. Let's estimate that half of 20k planes have this installed, at an expenditure of one trillion dollars.
You're off by a factor of a thousand here -- 10k * $100k is $1 billion, not $1 trillion. According to the article, ongoing costs would be in the hundreds of millions per year per airline, so a rough order-of-magnitude estimate might be $1 billion per year.
Worth it? Maybe. I'd like to see some examples of where a system like this would have actually saved some lives first -- the article doesn't give any. After all, there's an awful lot of things you can do for $1 billion a year that are more likely to save lives than betting it on the off chance of an airliner crash.
It's a frequent "let's play absurd" argument from meat eaters that plants have a central nervous system, too, and suffer and that they are being nice to plants by not eating meat.
What I learn from your statement is that apparently vegetarianism stunts your sense of humor.
If you're buying bottled water in preference to drinking tap water, then you're not actually poor.
Your test is showing that too many students are unprepared for college? Well, we can solve that problem -- just change the test!
There's something fundamentally wrong with our schools when it is a rarity for a high school graduate to be capable of composing a short written essay.
What I was referring to was 26% * 115 million = 30 million. That means that the minimum number of Blu-ray players sold must be at least 30 million if 26% of households were to have a Blu-ray player. So if 26% of American homes have a Blu-ray player, then the 2.5 million number is an order of magnitude off.
There have been 2.5 million Blu-ray players sold in the United States. ... Only 26% of American homes have a Blu-ray player.
There's something wrong with your numbers here -- there were about 115 million households in the U.S. in 2010. The sources I can find with a quick Googling say the number is more like 40 million Blu-ray players.
I do agree that trying to compare not knowing Blu-ray to not knowing what a car is is a really bad comparison. There is no segment of society that has not had personal experience with cars. There are lots of people who will have never seen or used a Blu-ray player.