Perfect is the enemy of improvement. The crime of kidnapping/murder is far more serious than pick pocketing or card cloning. A lot fewer people will try the more serious crime.
The company was having trouble in 2013 so it laid off some employees without compensating them as required by French law
Had they compensated the employees correctly there would have been no lawsuits and no judgement to pay.
The employees who were laid off in 2013 sued and won
Where is the evidence that the lawsuits were filed after 2014. If they were filed before 2014 the fact that the company did better in 2014 is irrelevant.
Had the company had compensated the employees according to law it would not have had to pay lawyers and probably court costs and may have survived.
Is there a reason why all the obstacles are flat, low and pink? Can the lasers only see pink objects? What happens with higher/lower objects? What happens with irregular objects? What happens with different coloured objects? What happens on irregular ground?
You also apparently are unable to comprehend that my point was in regards to the annoying assumption that everyone has a facebook account.
The only assumption I made was that you didn't know what the problem and/or solution was therefore I gave you information. I couldn't care less whether or not you have a FB account. Your position that, since not everyone has FB accounts, no one should use FB links is flawed. If you don't have a FB account don't click on FB links.
Which is what people in my youth said about the Moon landing and, frankly, has been a constant refrain against all space flight.
There are a few differences between Apollo and a Mars base; 1. They came back from the moon 2. There was no long term commitment to re-supply as would be in the Mars mission. 3. We didn't have a space station on which to do research.
All the R&D you talk about can be done in earth or moon orbit which is at least an order of magnitude less expensive than putting people on Mars.
Option 3:You waste billions of dollars getting to an inhospitable planet where you spend the rest of you days in a hole praying that the next resupply mission reaches you before your supplied run out. You die in a predictable accident or are killed by the actions of a crazed colonist. All you succeed in doing is proving the obvious that a Mars outpost is unsustainable. You go down in history books as a stupid person who wasted billions for no gain.
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The difference being that Age of Sail colonists could live in pretty much the same condition as the one they left. On Mars the "colonists" will be living underground and will never again feel fresh air in their lungs or sun on their skin. They will be dependent on the next supply mission or they will die. All it will take is for one person to go insane, destroy critical equipment and everyone is dead. Living under Mars conditions for years is very likely to cause this to happen. Then there is the point that Earth will have to spend billions to keep a few people alive. Sorry but a Mars "colony" is just not viable.
and they will be unaffected by the deaths of the colonists.
Except for the things that could have been done with the money wasted on sending people to Mars to die. We are talking billions of dollars that have much better uses here on Earth.
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I don't understand why people are finding any problems with that.
The problem is that sending people to Mars is very expensive and the billions of dollars wasted on sending people to die on an inhospitable planet could be better used for other things.
There is no parallel between a Mars outpost and explorers in the Age of Sail. On Mars people will be living in holes in the ground only able to go outside in cumbersome suits and will have to be supported by shipments from earth for a very long time possibly forever. All for no gain for Earth. Age of Sail colonies quickly became self sufficient and able to live off the land or they failed.
Mars 1 is a scam to make money for the promoters and nothing more.
So you're handing your personal information out cheaply because you have no value in your own self worth as an individual?
I do not see how trading personal information has anything to do with self worth. My personal information has worth that I trade for the information on the site. I just not entitled enough to think that I deserve all information for free.
Then you're still new to the internet. That would be '91.
More than a century of research establishes that monitoring workers actually reduces the ability to perform complex tasks, such as operating a train, because of the distractive effect.
Considering that CCTV have only been readily available for the last 40 years is the other 60 years of study even relevant? I would consider a camera sitting unobtrusively in a corner as being very different than a person staring at me every second. In the latter case I would be concerned that the person would jump in and chastise/correct me if I didn't do what he thought I should be doing. That would make me second guess myself and would be as distraction. A camera could not do that and would not be an issue.
And why do you whore your personal information out so cheaply.
Because I understand the servers, programmers and ops staff require money and believe that seeing a few ads is fair exchange for the content I see. To me, giving advertisers enough information so I see fewer tampon ads (I am a single male) I see as a plus. Sorry but I am not part of the tinfoil hat brigade.
Some of us have been on the internet for a long time.
I love that assumption. I was on the internet when Gopher was new.
I have a strange ability to ignore ads. I guess I must be unique on Slashdot. Both of your "not free" examples take up significant amount of one's time. Ignoring ads takes no time.
Oh I don't know, how about the tour operators website?
Perhaps they want to keep their business site for business and not act as a new site for a volcano? The volcano is probably not going to be erupting for long so tour packages are probably not an option.
You sure hate Facebook. What did it ever do to you?
Why should a tour company jump through your hoops when they are comfortable using Facebook? They have no obligation to supply data for free in the format you prefer. Your way is not free as it cost a floppy disk and mailing costs. Free goes both ways.
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Perfect is the enemy of improvement. The crime of kidnapping/murder is far more serious than pick pocketing or card cloning. A lot fewer people will try the more serious crime.
From the summary
The developed models include an acetone-degradable version, which allows the entire robot's body to vanish in a liquid.
From the paper;
acetone-degradable model whose entire body (except magnet) dissolves in acetone.
The company was having trouble in 2013 so it laid off some employees without compensating them as required by French law
Had they compensated the employees correctly there would have been no lawsuits and no judgement to pay.
The employees who were laid off in 2013 sued and won
Where is the evidence that the lawsuits were filed after 2014. If they were filed before 2014 the fact that the company did better in 2014 is irrelevant.
Had the company had compensated the employees according to law it would not have had to pay lawyers and probably court costs and may have survived.
Most likely because they already had some pink Styrofoam lying around.
If you actually look at the idea you will see that there is pink paper taped to white foam.
Obstacle detection with lasers is already a solved problem,
If all the obstacles have to be pink to be detected that might be an issue.
Is there a reason why all the obstacles are flat, low and pink? Can the lasers only see pink objects? What happens with higher/lower objects? What happens with irregular objects? What happens with different coloured objects? What happens on irregular ground?
You also apparently are unable to comprehend that my point was in regards to the annoying assumption that everyone has a facebook account.
The only assumption I made was that you didn't know what the problem and/or solution was therefore I gave you information. I couldn't care less whether or not you have a FB account. Your position that, since not everyone has FB accounts, no one should use FB links is flawed. If you don't have a FB account don't click on FB links.
Which is what people in my youth said about the Moon landing and, frankly, has been a constant refrain against all space flight.
There are a few differences between Apollo and a Mars base;
1. They came back from the moon
2. There was no long term commitment to re-supply as would be in the Mars mission.
3. We didn't have a space station on which to do research.
All the R&D you talk about can be done in earth or moon orbit which is at least an order of magnitude less expensive than putting people on Mars.
In that scenario radiation would largely be a non-issue as, just on Earth, it would be stopped by the many miles of atmosphere.
You need to look at the science a bit. The Earth is protected from radiation by a magnetic field. Mars does not have one.
Option 3:You waste billions of dollars getting to an inhospitable planet where you spend the rest of you days in a hole praying that the next resupply mission reaches you before your supplied run out. You die in a predictable accident or are killed by the actions of a crazed colonist. All you succeed in doing is proving the obvious that a Mars outpost is unsustainable. You go down in history books as a stupid person who wasted billions for no gain.
The difference being that Age of Sail colonists could live in pretty much the same condition as the one they left. On Mars the "colonists" will be living underground and will never again feel fresh air in their lungs or sun on their skin. They will be dependent on the next supply mission or they will die. All it will take is for one person to go insane, destroy critical equipment and everyone is dead. Living under Mars conditions for years is very likely to cause this to happen. Then there is the point that Earth will have to spend billions to keep a few people alive. Sorry but a Mars "colony" is just not viable.
and they will be unaffected by the deaths of the colonists.
Except for the things that could have been done with the money wasted on sending people to Mars to die. We are talking billions of dollars that have much better uses here on Earth.
I don't understand why people are finding any problems with that.
The problem is that sending people to Mars is very expensive and the billions of dollars wasted on sending people to die on an inhospitable planet could be better used for other things.
There is no parallel between a Mars outpost and explorers in the Age of Sail. On Mars people will be living in holes in the ground only able to go outside in cumbersome suits and will have to be supported by shipments from earth for a very long time possibly forever. All for no gain for Earth. Age of Sail colonies quickly became self sufficient and able to live off the land or they failed.
Mars 1 is a scam to make money for the promoters and nothing more.
So you're handing your personal information out cheaply because you have no value in your own self worth as an individual?
I do not see how trading personal information has anything to do with self worth. My personal information has worth that I trade for the information on the site. I just not entitled enough to think that I deserve all information for free.
Then you're still new to the internet. That would be '91.
I have been in computing since 1982.
More than a century of research establishes that monitoring workers actually reduces the ability to perform complex tasks, such as operating a train, because of the distractive effect.
Considering that CCTV have only been readily available for the last 40 years is the other 60 years of study even relevant? I would consider a camera sitting unobtrusively in a corner as being very different than a person staring at me every second. In the latter case I would be concerned that the person would jump in and chastise/correct me if I didn't do what he thought I should be doing. That would make me second guess myself and would be as distraction. A camera could not do that and would not be an issue.
Where are the technical failsafes to limit the train's speed?
In the brain of any competent engineer actually doing his job.
We will have to agree to disagree on definitions.
And why do you whore your personal information out so cheaply.
Because I understand the servers, programmers and ops staff require money and believe that seeing a few ads is fair exchange for the content I see. To me, giving advertisers enough information so I see fewer tampon ads (I am a single male) I see as a plus. Sorry but I am not part of the tinfoil hat brigade.
Some of us have been on the internet for a long time.
I love that assumption. I was on the internet when Gopher was new.
Walled off content with free access is close enough for me. It is not a very high wall. A child could step over it.
I have a strange ability to ignore ads. I guess I must be unique on Slashdot. Both of your "not free" examples take up significant amount of one's time. Ignoring ads takes no time.
Posting it on slashdot, especially with other sources of photos of probably equal quality? Pure bait.
The tour company didn't post the link on Facebook. I doubt they even know Slashdot exists.
For the poster it is free and for the reader it is free. Costs are paid for by advertisers.
Oh I don't know, how about the tour operators website?
Perhaps they want to keep their business site for business and not act as a new site for a volcano? The volcano is probably not going to be erupting for long so tour packages are probably not an option.
You sure hate Facebook. What did it ever do to you?
your link is still broken.
It is not broke. It is just not view-able if not logged in.
Why should a tour company jump through your hoops when they are comfortable using Facebook? They have no obligation to supply data for free in the format you prefer.
Your way is not free as it cost a floppy disk and mailing costs. Free goes both ways.
I was logged in and could see it. I logged out and could not. I logged in again and could see it.
What kind of mind-wave uses facebook for crap like that?
Someone with a Facebook page?
A tour operator with a Facebook page posted photos on Facebook and it was linked to by someone else. Where do you think they should have been posted?