This is just proof that the computer running the simulation that we're in does not have the processing power to host a simulation inside of a simulation. Just give it a few years. When our overlords get around to upgrading their super computer, we will see that we do finally possess the power to run such simulations.
I figured that one out in seconds: "Despite the negative press covfefe" means "Despite the negative press coverage". Many messaging applications make the last word of a message exempt from autocorrect.
Did he fall asleep while writing his tweet? And why didn't he just admit it was a typo instead of trying to claim it had some super secret meaning?
I bet flying out HAMs into a disaster area is a lot cheaper than the minutes on a satellite phone, NOT!
Except that they already have the planes flying TO Puerto Rico with aid on board. You cannot fill every single spot on an airplane with cargo. There will be room for humans to go and help distribute the aid. Even better if said human can help unload the plane and then stay behind to run a radio. Plus most of the communication that needs to occur will likely be between nodes on the island. People will want to send messages in and out to loved ones, of course, but there will need to be a lot of communication between people on the ground. The island is large enough and mountainous enough that you would not be able to do that as easily by handheld radio
It's entirely possible this was an improved stealth variant that they were testing to explicitly find out if anyone noticed the noise. Which means they very well may have been flying below 500 ft.
That's pretty unlikely. I used to work at an airfield that had one (or more) of those in a hanger and they closed the doors any time anyone wandered anywhere near it. There's absolutely no reason to do something like that over Staten Island. This airfield was in a relatively populated area and, from experience of "watching" it fly around, I can tell you that you can hear it from several thousand feet away. You just can't very easily tell where it is or which direction it was heading. The only reason I could remotely track the aircraft was due to the anti-collision lights that they are required to use at that facility.
When I was 16, I was driving through the Mojave though, and did have a B2 bomber fly over my vehicle on a very deserted road. That thing was pretty quiet, and I would have never known it was overhead had it not been about 8am. It did a very low pass between two mountains and I could not hear it until it flew past my vehicle. About 2 minutes later some F16s came screaming through the pass. I assume that they were doing some tests on its radar cross-section. They were flying toward Groom Lake from Edwards AFB. This was before the US government officially acknowledged the B2, so it was quite a treat to see.
Neither the WSJ pre-paywall nor TFS say why they could not travel to Hong Kong. They say they can't leave China but Hong Kong has been in China since 1999, when the British gave it back.
What's actually going on here?
While you are correct that HK is part of China, it, Macau, and Tibet are all considered to be separate countries from a visa standpoint. You must have a passport to travel to those parts of the country and foreigners must have a multiple entry visa to go back and forth between mainland China and those regions.
If a Chinese person travels to Hong Kong, they aren't leaving China. Its been part of China since the 1990s.
The Chinese government considers travel from the mainland to Hong Kong to be foreign travel. If you had a single entry visa into China, flew to Mainland China and then went to Hong Kong, you would be denied entry back into Mainland China. They treat Macau and Tibet the exact same way.
after waiting in line and being groped by other strangers"?
Prostitution is illegal where I live. What choice do I have but to pay the TSA? I find that if I go through security three or four times on the same ticket, they give me extra service! Sometimes they even upgrade me to a private room where I feel a little less self conscious. Buying a plane ticket is much less expensive than getting bailed out of jail as a John.
...called his buddy, "Yeah, it's done. Go ahead and buy it for fifty cents on the dollar. Use the money you made by shorting Boeing."
Anybody who has shorted boeing in the last year has definitely not made money..
I believe the correct time to have shorted Boeing was right before the President said that he was going to cancel the order for Air Force One. Anyone who knew that he was going to announce that could have made money shorting Boeing. He did work out a new deal with AF1 that actually does make sense to the tax payers, but it did cause a dip in Boeing stock.
Backups will still be available via FOIA from the Dept. of Homeland Security.
Unfortunately your backup will only be available for CIA and NSA employees to peruse for dick pics. If you are not an employee of either of the above agencies, you'll never get to see your backup again!
And it didn't occur to you that something was wrong when streaming was still working after you left your house? Or did you think your wi-fi router had a 500 miles range?
I don't use spotify but I believe the subscription service for it allows you to save music locally to listen without streaming. It's quite possible that the GP thought it was using local media instead of streaming.
So what you are saying is that 20% market share is correct, right? Sure, they may have 60% - 70% of the market in the US (we have a lot of dummies here in the US that keep buying Apple because they are used to it). But what counts for a global company is how they sell globally.
That depends entirely on the profit margins of those markets. If Apple only has 20% of the market share but 90% of the total profits in the market, I would say that the demographic they target is far more valuable than the other 80% that goes to Android.
I live in California, one of the most expensive states, and spend $13K a year while maintaining an apartment and car. So don't tell me you have to live paycheck to paycheck on $30K.
You're going to have to provide more details than that. Are you in some rent controlled apartment in SF that you've been living in for the last 30 years? Because you couldn't get a studio where I grew up for $13k a year. Hell, I moved away for college to nowheres-ville so I could afford to move out and my apartment rent (in the ghetto) would have consumed much of that $13k you spend on ALL your expenses somehow. And that was years ago. That same apartment in the ghetto now would consume basically all of your $13k.
This is why I only use Rockomax Brand(TM) Decouplers! At twice the size of the next leading brand, they offer plenty of bang for your buck! And they come with handy arrows to indicate which side it will detach from.
Why do I have to use full size TM instead of the superscript in this day and age, oh Slashdot?
Amazon recalled some glasses which they believed to be counterfeit. Amazon has also said that customers who did not receive an email purchased glasses that were safe to use.
The instructions on the legitimate glasses I saw specifically said not to look at the sun for more than momentary glances, even with the glasses on. If they had legitimate eclipse glasses but failed to follow the instructions, they still could have easily cooked their eyes and it would not be anyone's fault but their own.
They had a metallic look to them that the Beemo ones did not, but the sun looked the same through them. I suppose the arguably fake ones might be passing UV that the real ones don't.
I spent a lot of time trying to find a decent filter for my camera and my understanding (which could be totally wrong) is that the metallic coating is to deal with IR and allow heat dissipation. You can apparently cook your eyeballs without knowing it. IR can also supposedly cook the sensor on your digital camera right through a neutral density filter, even if its an ND100000 filter that can safely filter out the UV and brightness of the sun itself.
"Bury, Quebec resident Daniel Lallier signed a four-year lease"
When you lease a car, you don't own it. It's owned by a third party and you lease it from them. A lease is a rental agreement with a specified time period.
Oh silly me. I must have forgot how to read. Thank god I accidentally covered myself when I said:
Now in this case, the vehicle was a lease and they may have additional rights prior to the purchase of the leased vehicle due to the fact that the dealership or manufacturer does own the vehicle in this case.
They later bought the car.
At which time they became owner of the vehicle and all objects permanently attached to it. Like I said in my last post.
The device was likely on the car to facilitate remotely disabling the car if they got behind on lease payments, and should have been mentioned in the leasing contract. Since they were no longer bound by that contract due to the ownership change, they have no right to remotely disable the car. If the dealership has a smart lawyer they're already mowing the guy's yard, sucking him off, and asking how many 0's he'd like on the settlement check.
You're right, they have no right to disable the car. And it doesn't matter why it was on the car, only that they no longer own the vehicle or the tracking device. If they were in the US, I would certainly report this to law enforcement as an unauthorized use of a computer system as they clearly used a computer at some point to unlawfully disable the device.
You missed several points. The biggest one is ownership. Until you pay the car off, the dealership is the actual owner
That is not how it works at all! At least not in the US and I doubt it works that way anywhere else in the world. When you purchase a car, even if the manufacturer loans you the money, the car is yours. You do not own it free and clear. There is a lien against it, and that can be used to repossess the car, but it is yours until such time that you default on the loan and a court with proper jurisdiction authorizes the repossession of the vehicle. Now in this case, the vehicle was a lease and they may have additional rights prior to the purchase of the leased vehicle due to the fact that the dealership or manufacturer does own the vehicle in this case.
However, once they transferred ownership to him, with the GPS tracker installed, HE became the owner of the GPS tracker. The law is pretty clear that anything that is permanently mounted to the vehicle (as in you couldn't just detach it and walk away with it immediately) is the property of the new owner. So if it really is so integrated into the car that it takes $200 worth of labor to remove it, the tracker is his. Perhaps the dealership ought to have removed their property prior to handing the vehicle's ownership over to him.
They exchanged emails, and my father had his number in his phone.
Are people really this dumb? They let people import contacts. They keep the email addresses and phone numbers of their users. It's a simple graph query.
But there is more than just that going on. I've had Facebook suggest that I friend a neighbor that I didn't even know the name of. I moved in next door, and talked to her on a daily basis when our dogs would run into each other on walks, but I never knew her name, and she never knew mine. We are no longer neighbors but LinkedIn now asks me if I want to add her to my network. Neither of us had a phone number for the other and it was a solid 2-3 months AFTER Facebook suggested that we be friends before she ever asked me my name.
Taxation to provide benefits that are Not common goods is also theft.
For example: If the government collects $100 from 1000 taxpayers, and then spends $100000 on a project or service that
only benefits 100 taxpayers, for example, maybe that tax money goes to a service that only helps parents with children,
and 900 taxpayers don't have kids, then that is stealing $100 from 900 taxpayers.
I agree with you wholeheartedly. That's why we need to end public education. I don't receive ANY benefit whatsoever from public schools. It's not like those schools keep children busy and out of trouble. And I don't want educated employees for my company. I want poor, uneducated masses that I can exploit for as little as possible. It's not like they'll turn to crime out of boredom or sheer desperation or anything like that.
In the US, it checks the balance before completing each transaction. That's what takes so long.
That isn't why the systems in the US are slower. I can hit a payment gateway in another country, which then hits a payment processor back in the US, and have the result returned to a terminal in under 200ms most of the time. The problem is with the way that they are implementing everything that occurs prior to the online request being generated. I have seen some terminals spend over 20 seconds negotiating the transaction details with the chip prior to generating the first application cryptogram. Depending on how many prompts you make the user go through, the whole process from card insertion to removal should only take 2-10 seconds. That assumes, of course, that the person doesn't spend more than 10 seconds keying in their PIN.
Wasting mod points to comment here but... Apparently this gentleman had over 90 off days in a row since he had never done a single commit during 90 days and discarded all of his uncommitted changes.
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This is just proof that the computer running the simulation that we're in does not have the processing power to host a simulation inside of a simulation. Just give it a few years. When our overlords get around to upgrading their super computer, we will see that we do finally possess the power to run such simulations.
There is no way that this craft could be made safe enough for people to trust it.
Ehhh... it's not exactly rocket science, you know.
I figured that one out in seconds: "Despite the negative press covfefe" means "Despite the negative press coverage". Many messaging applications make the last word of a message exempt from autocorrect.
Did he fall asleep while writing his tweet? And why didn't he just admit it was a typo instead of trying to claim it had some super secret meaning?
I bet flying out HAMs into a disaster area is a lot cheaper than the minutes on a satellite phone, NOT!
Except that they already have the planes flying TO Puerto Rico with aid on board. You cannot fill every single spot on an airplane with cargo. There will be room for humans to go and help distribute the aid. Even better if said human can help unload the plane and then stay behind to run a radio. Plus most of the communication that needs to occur will likely be between nodes on the island. People will want to send messages in and out to loved ones, of course, but there will need to be a lot of communication between people on the ground. The island is large enough and mountainous enough that you would not be able to do that as easily by handheld radio
My first thought is now he'll be able to properly explain himself.......
Yes! I've been waiting months for twitter to give him a high enough character count that he can explain what covfefe means to the rest of the world.
It's entirely possible this was an improved stealth variant that they were testing to explicitly find out if anyone noticed the noise. Which means they very well may have been flying below 500 ft.
That's pretty unlikely. I used to work at an airfield that had one (or more) of those in a hanger and they closed the doors any time anyone wandered anywhere near it. There's absolutely no reason to do something like that over Staten Island. This airfield was in a relatively populated area and, from experience of "watching" it fly around, I can tell you that you can hear it from several thousand feet away. You just can't very easily tell where it is or which direction it was heading. The only reason I could remotely track the aircraft was due to the anti-collision lights that they are required to use at that facility.
When I was 16, I was driving through the Mojave though, and did have a B2 bomber fly over my vehicle on a very deserted road. That thing was pretty quiet, and I would have never known it was overhead had it not been about 8am. It did a very low pass between two mountains and I could not hear it until it flew past my vehicle. About 2 minutes later some F16s came screaming through the pass. I assume that they were doing some tests on its radar cross-section. They were flying toward Groom Lake from Edwards AFB. This was before the US government officially acknowledged the B2, so it was quite a treat to see.
Neither the WSJ pre-paywall nor TFS say why they could not travel to Hong Kong. They say they can't leave China but Hong Kong has been in China since 1999, when the British gave it back.
What's actually going on here?
While you are correct that HK is part of China, it, Macau, and Tibet are all considered to be separate countries from a visa standpoint. You must have a passport to travel to those parts of the country and foreigners must have a multiple entry visa to go back and forth between mainland China and those regions.
If a Chinese person travels to Hong Kong, they aren't leaving China. Its been part of China since the 1990s.
The Chinese government considers travel from the mainland to Hong Kong to be foreign travel. If you had a single entry visa into China, flew to Mainland China and then went to Hong Kong, you would be denied entry back into Mainland China. They treat Macau and Tibet the exact same way.
Why advertise the auxiliary brain is small?
Truth in advertising laws required him to disclose the actual size of the unit.
after waiting in line and being groped by other strangers"?
Prostitution is illegal where I live. What choice do I have but to pay the TSA? I find that if I go through security three or four times on the same ticket, they give me extra service! Sometimes they even upgrade me to a private room where I feel a little less self conscious. Buying a plane ticket is much less expensive than getting bailed out of jail as a John.
...called his buddy, "Yeah, it's done. Go ahead and buy it for fifty cents on the dollar. Use the money you made by shorting Boeing."
Anybody who has shorted boeing in the last year has definitely not made money..
I believe the correct time to have shorted Boeing was right before the President said that he was going to cancel the order for Air Force One. Anyone who knew that he was going to announce that could have made money shorting Boeing. He did work out a new deal with AF1 that actually does make sense to the tax payers, but it did cause a dip in Boeing stock.
Backups will still be available via FOIA from the Dept. of Homeland Security.
Unfortunately your backup will only be available for CIA and NSA employees to peruse for dick pics. If you are not an employee of either of the above agencies, you'll never get to see your backup again!
And it didn't occur to you that something was wrong when streaming was still working after you left your house? Or did you think your wi-fi router had a 500 miles range?
I don't use spotify but I believe the subscription service for it allows you to save music locally to listen without streaming. It's quite possible that the GP thought it was using local media instead of streaming.
So what you are saying is that 20% market share is correct, right? Sure, they may have 60% - 70% of the market in the US (we have a lot of dummies here in the US that keep buying Apple because they are used to it). But what counts for a global company is how they sell globally.
That depends entirely on the profit margins of those markets. If Apple only has 20% of the market share but 90% of the total profits in the market, I would say that the demographic they target is far more valuable than the other 80% that goes to Android.
I live in California, one of the most expensive states, and spend $13K a year while maintaining an apartment and car. So don't tell me you have to live paycheck to paycheck on $30K.
You're going to have to provide more details than that. Are you in some rent controlled apartment in SF that you've been living in for the last 30 years? Because you couldn't get a studio where I grew up for $13k a year. Hell, I moved away for college to nowheres-ville so I could afford to move out and my apartment rent (in the ghetto) would have consumed much of that $13k you spend on ALL your expenses somehow. And that was years ago. That same apartment in the ghetto now would consume basically all of your $13k.
This is why I only use Rockomax Brand(TM) Decouplers! At twice the size of the next leading brand, they offer plenty of bang for your buck! And they come with handy arrows to indicate which side it will detach from.
Why do I have to use full size TM instead of the superscript in this day and age, oh Slashdot?
Amazon recalled some glasses which they believed to be counterfeit. Amazon has also said that customers who did not receive an email purchased glasses that were safe to use.
The instructions on the legitimate glasses I saw specifically said not to look at the sun for more than momentary glances, even with the glasses on. If they had legitimate eclipse glasses but failed to follow the instructions, they still could have easily cooked their eyes and it would not be anyone's fault but their own.
They had a metallic look to them that the Beemo ones did not, but the sun looked the same through them. I suppose the arguably fake ones might be passing UV that the real ones don't.
I spent a lot of time trying to find a decent filter for my camera and my understanding (which could be totally wrong) is that the metallic coating is to deal with IR and allow heat dissipation. You can apparently cook your eyeballs without knowing it. IR can also supposedly cook the sensor on your digital camera right through a neutral density filter, even if its an ND100000 filter that can safely filter out the UV and brightness of the sun itself.
Time to learn to read. I'll help you:
"Bury, Quebec resident Daniel Lallier signed a four-year lease"
When you lease a car, you don't own it. It's owned by a third party and you lease it from them. A lease is a rental agreement with a specified time period.
Oh silly me. I must have forgot how to read. Thank god I accidentally covered myself when I said:
Now in this case, the vehicle was a lease and they may have additional rights prior to the purchase of the leased vehicle due to the fact that the dealership or manufacturer does own the vehicle in this case.
They later bought the car.
At which time they became owner of the vehicle and all objects permanently attached to it. Like I said in my last post.
The device was likely on the car to facilitate remotely disabling the car if they got behind on lease payments, and should have been mentioned in the leasing contract. Since they were no longer bound by that contract due to the ownership change, they have no right to remotely disable the car. If the dealership has a smart lawyer they're already mowing the guy's yard, sucking him off, and asking how many 0's he'd like on the settlement check.
You're right, they have no right to disable the car. And it doesn't matter why it was on the car, only that they no longer own the vehicle or the tracking device. If they were in the US, I would certainly report this to law enforcement as an unauthorized use of a computer system as they clearly used a computer at some point to unlawfully disable the device.
You missed several points. The biggest one is ownership. Until you pay the car off, the dealership is the actual owner
That is not how it works at all! At least not in the US and I doubt it works that way anywhere else in the world. When you purchase a car, even if the manufacturer loans you the money, the car is yours. You do not own it free and clear. There is a lien against it, and that can be used to repossess the car, but it is yours until such time that you default on the loan and a court with proper jurisdiction authorizes the repossession of the vehicle. Now in this case, the vehicle was a lease and they may have additional rights prior to the purchase of the leased vehicle due to the fact that the dealership or manufacturer does own the vehicle in this case.
However, once they transferred ownership to him, with the GPS tracker installed, HE became the owner of the GPS tracker. The law is pretty clear that anything that is permanently mounted to the vehicle (as in you couldn't just detach it and walk away with it immediately) is the property of the new owner. So if it really is so integrated into the car that it takes $200 worth of labor to remove it, the tracker is his. Perhaps the dealership ought to have removed their property prior to handing the vehicle's ownership over to him.
Are people really this dumb? They let people import contacts. They keep the email addresses and phone numbers of their users. It's a simple graph query.
But there is more than just that going on. I've had Facebook suggest that I friend a neighbor that I didn't even know the name of. I moved in next door, and talked to her on a daily basis when our dogs would run into each other on walks, but I never knew her name, and she never knew mine. We are no longer neighbors but LinkedIn now asks me if I want to add her to my network. Neither of us had a phone number for the other and it was a solid 2-3 months AFTER Facebook suggested that we be friends before she ever asked me my name.
Taxation to provide benefits that are Not common goods is also theft. For example: If the government collects $100 from 1000 taxpayers, and then spends $100000 on a project or service that only benefits 100 taxpayers, for example, maybe that tax money goes to a service that only helps parents with children, and 900 taxpayers don't have kids, then that is stealing $100 from 900 taxpayers.
I agree with you wholeheartedly. That's why we need to end public education. I don't receive ANY benefit whatsoever from public schools. It's not like those schools keep children busy and out of trouble. And I don't want educated employees for my company. I want poor, uneducated masses that I can exploit for as little as possible. It's not like they'll turn to crime out of boredom or sheer desperation or anything like that.
In the US, it checks the balance before completing each transaction. That's what takes so long.
That isn't why the systems in the US are slower. I can hit a payment gateway in another country, which then hits a payment processor back in the US, and have the result returned to a terminal in under 200ms most of the time. The problem is with the way that they are implementing everything that occurs prior to the online request being generated. I have seen some terminals spend over 20 seconds negotiating the transaction details with the chip prior to generating the first application cryptogram. Depending on how many prompts you make the user go through, the whole process from card insertion to removal should only take 2-10 seconds. That assumes, of course, that the person doesn't spend more than 10 seconds keying in their PIN.
The Llama, which had been ignoring it for years, suddenly turned around and whipped *its* ass. Winamp hasn't been seen or heard from since.
Yeah but for $100,000 a month I would have GLADLY let that llama whip my ass. Just saying.
everybody gets tired, has off days, etc, etc.
Wasting mod points to comment here but... Apparently this gentleman had over 90 off days in a row since he had never done a single commit during 90 days and discarded all of his uncommitted changes.