My fiance has cut sugar out of her diet and found that her general mood is much happier and more consistent. After a day of eating sugar she would be really depressed and down, low energy and such, but now she has more physical and mental energy on a normal basis. That sugar crash really is killer!
Those people demanding that level of safety are wrong and 3-letter organizations should be respecting their rights since those are guaranteed, unlike absolute protection. It is impossible for the government to protect you from 100% of all possible attacks all the time no matter how many rights are infringed, and that should not be their goal.
Can you give some examples? Like, what was the simplest, stupidest app you were asked to develop and how much did you make? How many fart apps featuring the persons own farts?
Not always, but in this situation society has specifically defined what is responsible use, which means that you can go to dinner, have a drink, and drive home. I find that morally right for people to follow what society has defined as normal and acceptable behavior.
Update on my post... this was the quickest, simplest, most pleasant experience ever with an ISP, this was awesome. Please up-vote radish's post!!
I've been having disconnects around 1pm every day for the past couple of weeks. It would always come back after a couple minutes, and would be fine from then on until the next day. Looking at my modem logs, I see T2, T3, and T4 timeouts whenever this would happen and many un-correctable errors.. I simply made a post with my info (it is private, only the TWC members can see it) and posted the modem logs to it. About 3 hours later I had a reply from a TWC tech who said they looked at their logs and confirmed my internet drops, and had scheduled a tech to come out tomorrow. At first I was like uggg a tech coming out will be worthless and stuff....but then I got a call from TWC about an hour later. The lady said my issue had already been escalated to a senior tech who had checked it out remotely and made a fix and that my service call wouldn't be needed anymore, hooray! I checked back into my router and can see that they pumped up the Power across all the downstream channels, which we'll see if that actually resolves the issue, but it was so simple to just make a forum post with my router logs and get an actual technical fix and not just a bunch of 'restart the modem' and crap on the phone. Will definitely use this for future issues.
I don't get it, what is the big tech challenge to overcome here? Seems like the biggest issues are legal (exemptions from the FAA already made though) or logistical.
The interesting thing is the FCC just recently redefined the speeds of officially defined broadband to 25m down and 3m up. If any portion of the connection doesn't meet or exceed that, it's not broadband as far as the federal government and FCC is concerned. What if the ISPs redefine their offerings as 24/3 or 50/2.5 up and down respectfully. That would suggest that all this new regulation could be avoided if they simply didn't offer "broadband".
Interesting point. That makes me question, would not offering "broadband" be against the franchise agreements they have in place with cities that keep competition out? Probably dependson the specific agreement with each city?
After everything is said and done, the one thing we need NASA to do, is save the human race: Both by getting us off this rock, and by keeping other rocks from hitting us. We are no closer to either of those goals than we were in 1980, so I feel no particular inclination to keep on giving them any money.
Wouldn't you say having rovers and observers on Mars and beyond for years at a time is going to help us get off this rock and possibly save our planet at some point?
Such statistics are meaningless in my book. Light bulb manufacturers claim their bulbs will last five years or seven years but when you look at the fine print they say that's given under the idea you're turning the light on, leaving it running for 3 hours, and turning it off once per day -- nobody uses light bulbs like that.
But this is the opposite direction as your light bulb example, very few people write 3.2 TB of data every day for 5 years straight, so for most users something else will break before cell writes becomes a real issue.
In Japan we had earthquake drills of the housing community one time per year, and one time per year in the company.
Just curious, do companies in the US do this? In Belgium we have a yearly firedrill, because that will be the most likely disaster. So do US companies in earthquake country have drills or do companies in "Tornado Alley train for that?
My company in Los Angeles seems woefully under-prepared for earthquakes. We have an annual fire drill, but when I asked about earthquake drills, the response was basically "get under the desk while it's shaking, then we'll wing it and someone will announce evacuation if needed."
I think the general attitude is that new building codes will handle most earthquakes, and if the big one hits then everyone is screwed anyway. For reference my office is only 4 stories though, curious what other companies do.
I could see the protection in having my "official interactions" recorded, and I can get behind that in theory too, but I'd still hesitate to give a complete thumbs up to the "you have to wear a wire continuously" level of intrusion. It really seems excessive. Perhaps if there were assurances that legal barriers existed on who/how the data could be accessed then it would be a lot more palatable.
If a cop has a uniform on (wired up) and is driving around in a cruiser interacting with the public, then every interaction is an "official interaction". My small talk at work can get me in trouble if I say the wrong things, why would an officers small talk while on the job be protected?
As for self-checkout, most places I saw experiment with those in the past two years (grocery stores and Costco) has ripped them out and gone back to using human cashiers. The reasons? Fraud/theft and speed (trained cashiers are faster, who would have thought?). Walmart and big box home improvement stores are the outliers still offering self-checkout in my area.
That's not automation though. Self checkout is just making the customer do the cashiers job for free before realizing that customers suck at doing these things correctly because it's not their job.
Where I live, not sure how common this is though, the police themselves have to announce, in advance, when and where a DUI checkpoint will be taking place.
I am playing a little bit of devil's advocate so I am purposefully being a little obtuse hehe, but I do think that this is a perfect example of a process that doesn't need to be applied anymore, at least in it's current form. Winning elections without winning popular vote just doesn't make sense in my mind. I guess I am generally leaning more toward Democracy than Democratic Republic...
Right now the 'battleground' states contain a mix of both urban and rural concerns. This enfranchises a cross section of the American electorate, albeit arbitrarily.If the electoral college were eliminated, there would no longer be any rural 'battleground' areas since winning the densest population centers would be the only key to victory, effectively disenfranchising the interests of huge geographic areas across the country. An artificial cross section of American society is better than giving a voice solely based on population/density.
But that isn't why they are battleground states. They are just battleground states because half the state disagrees with the other half, it's not necessarily urban vs rural, so we are arbitrarily setting our electorate cross section to be roughly half democrat half republican, even though the general population is not. And yes, winning more votes from citizens should be the only key to victory, not winning states based on winner take all electoral college rules. I don't see why population, density, or who your neighbors vote for should affect your voting power.
This is something that the founders were mindful of, which is why we have a Senate. The electoral college performs a somewhat similar function.
I do see the need for this balance in the Senate for legislation and daily representation in D.C., but not for Presidential elections. Voting once every 4 years for the leader of your country should be required of every citizen by law IMO.
Until a better way can be found to mitigate the consequences of tipping this balance, it must necessarily be another can kicked down the road. As political cans go, it's a lot more harmless than the debt.
Yup, one of the many things to add to the list...how sad:(
I don't see the problem you are describing. Currently, people in hard blue or red states are disenfranchised and have no voice because candidates generally focus on campaigning in the battleground states, and their vote does nothing if their state is guaranteed to go to who they aren't voting for. If there were no electoral college and it was all done by popular vote, that would even out the voting power by taking it away from battleground states and putting it equally into the hands of all US citizens. Campaigning in dense metro areas would just be the most efficient way of connecting to voters, why is that a bad thing?
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My fiance has cut sugar out of her diet and found that her general mood is much happier and more consistent. After a day of eating sugar she would be really depressed and down, low energy and such, but now she has more physical and mental energy on a normal basis. That sugar crash really is killer!
Those people demanding that level of safety are wrong and 3-letter organizations should be respecting their rights since those are guaranteed, unlike absolute protection. It is impossible for the government to protect you from 100% of all possible attacks all the time no matter how many rights are infringed, and that should not be their goal.
Can you give some examples? Like, what was the simplest, stupidest app you were asked to develop and how much did you make? How many fart apps featuring the persons own farts?
Not always, but in this situation society has specifically defined what is responsible use, which means that you can go to dinner, have a drink, and drive home. I find that morally right for people to follow what society has defined as normal and acceptable behavior.
Has it not occurred to you that people can go to a bar and drink, and upon leaving, still be under the legal limit?
Update on my post... this was the quickest, simplest, most pleasant experience ever with an ISP, this was awesome. Please up-vote radish's post!!
I've been having disconnects around 1pm every day for the past couple of weeks. It would always come back after a couple minutes, and would be fine from then on until the next day. Looking at my modem logs, I see T2, T3, and T4 timeouts whenever this would happen and many un-correctable errors.. I simply made a post with my info (it is private, only the TWC members can see it) and posted the modem logs to it. About 3 hours later I had a reply from a TWC tech who said they looked at their logs and confirmed my internet drops, and had scheduled a tech to come out tomorrow. At first I was like uggg a tech coming out will be worthless and stuff....but then I got a call from TWC about an hour later. The lady said my issue had already been escalated to a senior tech who had checked it out remotely and made a fix and that my service call wouldn't be needed anymore, hooray! I checked back into my router and can see that they pumped up the Power across all the downstream channels, which we'll see if that actually resolves the issue, but it was so simple to just make a forum post with my router logs and get an actual technical fix and not just a bunch of 'restart the modem' and crap on the phone. Will definitely use this for future issues.
Wow thanks for this. Been having daily disconnects recently, will give this a shot. Of course the one day I don't have mod points to give you...
I don't get it, what is the big tech challenge to overcome here? Seems like the biggest issues are legal (exemptions from the FAA already made though) or logistical.
That is video of the first failed one. They haven't released the video from today yet.
Just a couple pictures https://twitter.com/elonmusk
The interesting thing is the FCC just recently redefined the speeds of officially defined broadband to 25m down and 3m up. If any portion of the connection doesn't meet or exceed that, it's not broadband as far as the federal government and FCC is concerned. What if the ISPs redefine their offerings as 24/3 or 50/2.5 up and down respectfully. That would suggest that all this new regulation could be avoided if they simply didn't offer "broadband".
Interesting point. That makes me question, would not offering "broadband" be against the franchise agreements they have in place with cities that keep competition out? Probably dependson the specific agreement with each city?
Ah ok, thank you! Makes sense... after all, what other giant liquid tank is there on a rocket other than the fuel...
Any purpose for the camera other than for watching blobs of fuel float around? Just in case of RUD to see if something happened in the tank?
Anyone who watched the launch video...what is the purple water looking stuff that the camera switched to a couple times? Example at T+00:07:06
That and the black and white shot like at T+:00:09:08...not sure what I'm looking at, the actual sat still covered or something?
After everything is said and done, the one thing we need NASA to do, is save the human race: Both by getting us off this rock, and by keeping other rocks from hitting us. We are no closer to either of those goals than we were in 1980, so I feel no particular inclination to keep on giving them any money.
Wouldn't you say having rovers and observers on Mars and beyond for years at a time is going to help us get off this rock and possibly save our planet at some point?
Are any TSA screenings necessary?
Such statistics are meaningless in my book. Light bulb manufacturers claim their bulbs will last five years or seven years but when you look at the fine print they say that's given under the idea you're turning the light on, leaving it running for 3 hours, and turning it off once per day -- nobody uses light bulbs like that.
But this is the opposite direction as your light bulb example, very few people write 3.2 TB of data every day for 5 years straight, so for most users something else will break before cell writes becomes a real issue.
Just curious, do companies in the US do this?
In Belgium we have a yearly firedrill, because that will be the most likely disaster. So do US companies in earthquake country have drills or do companies in "Tornado Alley train for that?
My company in Los Angeles seems woefully under-prepared for earthquakes. We have an annual fire drill, but when I asked about earthquake drills, the response was basically "get under the desk while it's shaking, then we'll wing it and someone will announce evacuation if needed."
I think the general attitude is that new building codes will handle most earthquakes, and if the big one hits then everyone is screwed anyway. For reference my office is only 4 stories though, curious what other companies do.
Since when is a license to read an eBook revocable?
Amazon already did this back in 2009, not sure if they changed their policy like they claimed they would:
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07...
Make the ice caps melt faster, flood San Diego to put the fires out!
I could see the protection in having my "official interactions" recorded, and I can get behind that in theory too, but I'd still hesitate to give a complete thumbs up to the "you have to wear a wire continuously" level of intrusion. It really seems excessive. Perhaps if there were assurances that legal barriers existed on who/how the data could be accessed then it would be a lot more palatable.
If a cop has a uniform on (wired up) and is driving around in a cruiser interacting with the public, then every interaction is an "official interaction". My small talk at work can get me in trouble if I say the wrong things, why would an officers small talk while on the job be protected?
As for self-checkout, most places I saw experiment with those in the past two years (grocery stores and Costco) has ripped them out and gone back to using human cashiers. The reasons? Fraud/theft and speed (trained cashiers are faster, who would have thought?). Walmart and big box home improvement stores are the outliers still offering self-checkout in my area.
That's not automation though. Self checkout is just making the customer do the cashiers job for free before realizing that customers suck at doing these things correctly because it's not their job.
Yes it should be legal. You are the one broadcasting your information out to the public, why would it be illegal for someone to listen?
Where I live, not sure how common this is though, the police themselves have to announce, in advance, when and where a DUI checkpoint will be taking place.
Oops, commenting to remove accidental mod. Hit overrated, meant funny!
Your reply seems obtuse.
I am playing a little bit of devil's advocate so I am purposefully being a little obtuse hehe, but I do think that this is a perfect example of a process that doesn't need to be applied anymore, at least in it's current form. Winning elections without winning popular vote just doesn't make sense in my mind. I guess I am generally leaning more toward Democracy than Democratic Republic...
Right now the 'battleground' states contain a mix of both urban and rural concerns. This enfranchises a cross section of the American electorate, albeit arbitrarily.If the electoral college were eliminated, there would no longer be any rural 'battleground' areas since winning the densest population centers would be the only key to victory, effectively disenfranchising the interests of huge geographic areas across the country. An artificial cross section of American society is better than giving a voice solely based on population/density.
But that isn't why they are battleground states. They are just battleground states because half the state disagrees with the other half, it's not necessarily urban vs rural, so we are arbitrarily setting our electorate cross section to be roughly half democrat half republican, even though the general population is not. And yes, winning more votes from citizens should be the only key to victory, not winning states based on winner take all electoral college rules. I don't see why population, density, or who your neighbors vote for should affect your voting power.
This is something that the founders were mindful of, which is why we have a Senate. The electoral college performs a somewhat similar function.
I do see the need for this balance in the Senate for legislation and daily representation in D.C., but not for Presidential elections. Voting once every 4 years for the leader of your country should be required of every citizen by law IMO.
Until a better way can be found to mitigate the consequences of tipping this balance, it must necessarily be another can kicked down the road. As political cans go, it's a lot more harmless than the debt.
Yup, one of the many things to add to the list...how sad :(
I don't see the problem you are describing. Currently, people in hard blue or red states are disenfranchised and have no voice because candidates generally focus on campaigning in the battleground states, and their vote does nothing if their state is guaranteed to go to who they aren't voting for. If there were no electoral college and it was all done by popular vote, that would even out the voting power by taking it away from battleground states and putting it equally into the hands of all US citizens. Campaigning in dense metro areas would just be the most efficient way of connecting to voters, why is that a bad thing?