And if you compare the cost of electricity in Germany versus the cost of electricity in France? This comparison on average cost of living between the two countries show that electricity is, on average 26% cheaper in France versus Germany. Just because its going down in Germany doesn't mean that electricity rates in Germany were ever reasonable to begin with.
Typical Slashdot. "New peer reviewed science study says something. But random guy on the internet says they're wrong!"
I'm not some random guy in the internet. I am Jittles. The font of all knowledge, wisdom, and science. If you can't handle that, you don't belong on the internet. If I tell you that there is a comet coming with Aliens hiding in its wake, you had better drink the kool-aid and be saved from this drab existence. Whatever I say goes, basically. It's time you learn to play by the rules.
Since the summary links you to a stupid news article and not the guides themselves, here is the ACLU Guide and EFF Guides here.
The EFF guide you linked has not been updated yet to reflect the Riley decision. Some of those answers need to be changed because they are incorrect now. The ACLU "Know Your Rights" manual does not appear to have been updated either, but it simply doesn't address the issue of cell phone searches incident to arrest at all.
You are correct - they have not been updated. Why are they even mentioned in the summary and the article? Either way, I think the sources themselves are more valuable than the silly article.
I'm happy to let the retarded engage in a secret underground of cigarettes.
Which cartel do you work for, exactly? Because I see an outright ban on tobacco going about the same as the ban on marijuana, heroine, crack, cocaine, etc etc. I assume the reason you want to see it banned is that you plan on making insane money on its illegal sale and manufacture. How many people actually start smoking at the age of 18 or later? I'd be willing to bet its a smaller fraction than the number of people who start smoking in high school. And it's not always a matter of intelligence or education. I know people who work in pulmonary critical care (doctors) who smoke. They know all the risks you do, and more. They also know they will die regardless of their decision to smoke, and they enjoy doing it for one reason or another.
I'm all for reasonable restrictions on smoking. I really dislike smokey bars, restaurants, and offices. I also dislike when someone smokes outside of my open residential window. But outright prohibition has never worked, and will never work. It just raises the "cool factor" because you're a rebel if you flout the law.
As an earthmoving project, each kilometer of wall is 18M cubic meters. The Panama Canal was about 250M cubic meters of earthmoving. So every 14KM of wall is one Panama Canal.
Yes but how many Library of Congresses is it per KM of wall? You need to stick with the established units of measure around here, son.
It seems Germany is leading the way in showing, by example, that every bit of American futzing about solar power and unions is, to put it down hard, a load of cultish crap designed to make rich people much richer.
They are an economic powerhouse with strong exports, a union-based worker's economy, and now they've shown you can run 50% of an industrial economy off the power of the sun, in something less than ten-twenty years. WHILE they absorbed a pauperized East Germany after the Soviets finally gave up. Oh yep - they innovate like mad. With health care for everyone.
Randites, avoiding the No True Scottman fallacy, examine why you are wrong on this. Seriously, before your wreck us beyond repair.
Uhh you understand that this was over a holiday weekend (3 day weekend) and that they were only briefly meeting that demand on an especially sunny afternoon? Germany has a lot of cool and cloudy weather. I spent almost a month of June 2013 in Germany and it was cloudy and cold 70% of the time.
I heard that the army uses helicopters not because they want to but because they have to (Air Force having jurisdiction over planes existing since late 40s as a seperate branch) and that in many missions they use helicopters planes would actually be superior.
Is this true?
The biggest case where this is an issue for the US Army is actually with drones. They can't operate the larger, more capable drones that they would like because they fall under the purview of the US Air Force. If its fixed wing and flies over a certain altitude, the army cannot operate it.
But what is Tesla's goal? Really?? It's to drive everyone else out of business.
Tesla's goal is to make Elon Musk and the other shareholders money. They don't care how many competitors they have, as long as they are making money. If driving other competitors out of business makes them more money, it is because they are able to charge higher prices with less competition. They don't make money by low-balling their price, unless that decreased price causes an increase in overall sales to compensate for the lower margin per sale.
But the fact that it hid it until someone finally tried it on a device is the simulator's fault.
I hate to break it to you, but an emulator isn't going to fix that either. The emulator will perform more slowly than the simulator, but it is still ultimately running on a completely different system than your final product. Perhaps your app is IO bound and you're running on a faster IO device than the target? The point of a simulator or emulator in this case is to verify your proof of concept. Not to say "I did my job." And if you already knew there was a performance issue on the actual hardware with your web based application, why would you think you could just code something up in Objective-C and have it perform better? Sure Obj-C should run faster than javascript, but you can't take that on faith. Until you see it running as it should natively on that platform, you have to assume the job is not done.
Actually, there is a vaccine. It's pretty new, having only been around for about a century...
Huh. I had no idea. I didn't think you could immunize against bacteria. Not only that, but we test so heavily for TB - both in education and in healthcare. Thanks for the education.
how many people do you know or have heard of catching stuff like german measles, rubella, smallpox, pertussis, tuberculosis, mumps, etc? And how many of those live in countries where vaccination is readily available (eg, most non-thirdworld nations).
There is no vaccine for tuberculosis. It is a bacterial infection of the lungs and cannot be prevented with a vaccine.
This manifests most discernably in the relatively huge sea level differences between the pacific side the Panama canal and the Atlantic side.
Now as to what mechanisms allow changes to be different, instead of just static value, it gets a little bit beyond my comprehension as to the exact mechanisms, but I believe it might have to do with where thermal expansion occurs(the deepest parts of the ocean most) and where land ice is melting to.
There is a sea level difference between the Eastern Pacific and the Western Pacific. My understanding is that just the flow of the wind across the water causes it to be deeper in the Eastern Pacific than the Western. You don't even need continental mass between the two ends to cause a difference in level.
You seem confused about the difference between recognizing that time when not dealing directly with the clientele is the appropriate time *during which* a break may be scheduled, and considering an entire 20 - 25% of the shift *to be* a legitimate break.
I don't know where you get 20-25% of the entire shift to be a break from. That would mean that they have 4 total classes and that they are free 1 of 4 class periods. The school I went to had 6 periods, which means that at most 16% of the shift is part of prep time. Except that you are excluding the fact that most schools require the teachers to be there at least 30 minutes before and 30 minutes after school ends. So even if they slacked off their entire prep period, and using the 6 period day I mention for my school, that is less than 14% of their total shift. And any teacher who spent 100% of their prep time slacking off is going to be spending personal time grading work. So, while the teachers may use their prep time to take a break, I doubt most teachers use even half their prep time as a break except in unusual circumstances. Not to mention the fact that teachers are treated a lot like factory workers. They cannot come and go with any sort of flexibility. They can't leave for a dentist appointment and add an extra hour on to the end of their day.
Do I envy some of the perks teachers get? Yes. But I believe that you are grossly overestimating the amount of free time that a teacher gets on a daily basis. If you knew anyone in the profession personally you would agree that most teachers work hard for very little respect or pay.
No longer do we have to have constant interruptions to worry about whether our changes are saved
Why would you interrupt your flow of work to save a document? That doesn't make any sense whatsoever. What I got into the habit of doing was hitting Ctrl-S after each thought. The thought was then saved and I thinking about what to write next anyway. Autosave doesn't know when I actually want to commit my changes and it could happen in the middle of an edit (say cut and paste to move some text around). If I lost power at that time I would rather have the unedited version of the document than the one with my precious text cut out of it and then lost in the event of a power failure.
If you think "prep" and "break" are synonymous, you are part of the problem. In other professions people get fired for that.
I dated a teacher for several years. That prep time was the only time during the entire day she had to go to the bathroom (except lunch). It was indeed the only time she got off between 8am (she was part of the ESE program and had to do IEPs basically every day) to 4pm. She was required to stand outside her door and monitor the halls during the 7 minute breaks between classes. So if she did not use her prep period as a break, when was she supposed to go to the bathroom? Or get something to drink? I don't know about your place of work, but I take a 2-5 minute break every hour. Perhaps I do not stop talking about work, but I stop staring at the monitor and let my eyes focus on objects in the distance. I go to the bathroom, get a drink, or just walk around for a few minutes. Should I be fired for that, too? I haven't heard any complaints about it from my boss. So why should a teacher get fired for having a second opportunity to take a bathroom break?
You sir, have obviously never encountered the problem. The message does one of two things: 1) Gets marked as delivered but is never delivered because the person has no iDevice or 2) Gets marked as undeliverable and is not resent as a text. I have a friend who has been trying to fix this for months and at first her messages disappeared into the abyss. Now they just fail to deliver and I have to manually resend it.
I have encountered the problem, and solved it for friends/family.
Since I'm an iOS developer, anybody who has any problem with their iPhone asks me how to fix it. And since I'm a tin-foil-hat-toting privacy advocate, I have studied various articles that reverse engineer how iMessage works. I know exactly what "delivered" means —it means some device somewhere decrypted the message. Apple's server cannot decrypt the message as they do not have the private key, so therefore they cannot possibly send a delivery confirmation.
Go ahead and try it out. Disable wifi and cellular data on an iPhone but leave the non-data cellular connection active, then send an iMessage to it.
The message will not change to "delivered" unless some other device is registered (and connected to the internet) to receive messages at that phone number. After some minutes, the blue message box on the sending device will change colour to green, signifying an SMS has been sent. Depending how good your cell carrier is, the SMS will be delivered instantly or after a few days (SMS is not a reliable messaging protocol...). This assumes you have not disabled SMS fallback on the sending device, which is the default.
I just did the test, and it proved my theory. Disconnecting my phone/ipad/mac caused a sending device to fail to show "delivered", and several minutes later my phone received an SMS message.
The system is overly complicated, mostly as a byproduct of Apple's end-to-end encryption system, which leads to a lot of customer confusion and miss-information when they try to diagnose one of the many things that can go wrong. But I know what I'm talking about, delivered means it was delivered to a device registered receive iMessages at that phone number.
What your test fails to cover is the case where there is A) a device that has not connected to iMessage in many months and B) falls into some bug on Apple's side where even changing the iTunes password does not reset the iMessage registration. Go onto the support forums and you will see that there are people that cannot disable iMessage short of calling Apple. Nothing in their support thread works. And in a lot of those cases the iPhones default to iMessage and never fail over to SMS. You have to manually force SMS and then it will switch back to iMessage after some period of not messaging the person.
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The price of electricity is falling in Germany owing to renewable energy. http://www.bloomberg.com/news/... They like wind power.
And if you compare the cost of electricity in Germany versus the cost of electricity in France? This comparison on average cost of living between the two countries show that electricity is, on average 26% cheaper in France versus Germany. Just because its going down in Germany doesn't mean that electricity rates in Germany were ever reasonable to begin with.
Typical Slashdot. "New peer reviewed science study says something. But random guy on the internet says they're wrong!"
I'm not some random guy in the internet. I am Jittles. The font of all knowledge, wisdom, and science. If you can't handle that, you don't belong on the internet. If I tell you that there is a comet coming with Aliens hiding in its wake, you had better drink the kool-aid and be saved from this drab existence. Whatever I say goes, basically. It's time you learn to play by the rules.
NBC is in bed with Comcast though and just wants more cable subscriptions instead of providing a quality service.
NBC is owned by comcast. Comcast is NBC's pimp man. You give it up and pay out your earnings when your pimp comes along.
Since the summary links you to a stupid news article and not the guides themselves, here is the ACLU Guide and EFF Guides here.
The EFF guide you linked has not been updated yet to reflect the Riley decision. Some of those answers need to be changed because they are incorrect now. The ACLU "Know Your Rights" manual does not appear to have been updated either, but it simply doesn't address the issue of cell phone searches incident to arrest at all.
You are correct - they have not been updated. Why are they even mentioned in the summary and the article? Either way, I think the sources themselves are more valuable than the silly article.
Since the summary links you to a stupid news article and not the guides themselves, here is the ACLU Guide and EFF Guides here.
I'm happy to let the retarded engage in a secret underground of cigarettes.
Which cartel do you work for, exactly? Because I see an outright ban on tobacco going about the same as the ban on marijuana, heroine, crack, cocaine, etc etc. I assume the reason you want to see it banned is that you plan on making insane money on its illegal sale and manufacture. How many people actually start smoking at the age of 18 or later? I'd be willing to bet its a smaller fraction than the number of people who start smoking in high school. And it's not always a matter of intelligence or education. I know people who work in pulmonary critical care (doctors) who smoke. They know all the risks you do, and more. They also know they will die regardless of their decision to smoke, and they enjoy doing it for one reason or another.
I'm all for reasonable restrictions on smoking. I really dislike smokey bars, restaurants, and offices. I also dislike when someone smokes outside of my open residential window. But outright prohibition has never worked, and will never work. It just raises the "cool factor" because you're a rebel if you flout the law.
As an earthmoving project, each kilometer of wall is 18M cubic meters. The Panama Canal was about 250M cubic meters of earthmoving. So every 14KM of wall is one Panama Canal.
Yes but how many Library of Congresses is it per KM of wall? You need to stick with the established units of measure around here, son.
It seems Germany is leading the way in showing, by example, that every bit of American futzing about solar power and unions is, to put it down hard, a load of cultish crap designed to make rich people much richer. They are an economic powerhouse with strong exports, a union-based worker's economy, and now they've shown you can run 50% of an industrial economy off the power of the sun, in something less than ten-twenty years. WHILE they absorbed a pauperized East Germany after the Soviets finally gave up. Oh yep - they innovate like mad. With health care for everyone. Randites, avoiding the No True Scottman fallacy, examine why you are wrong on this. Seriously, before your wreck us beyond repair.
Uhh you understand that this was over a holiday weekend (3 day weekend) and that they were only briefly meeting that demand on an especially sunny afternoon? Germany has a lot of cool and cloudy weather. I spent almost a month of June 2013 in Germany and it was cloudy and cold 70% of the time.
I heard that the army uses helicopters not because they want to but because they have to (Air Force having jurisdiction over planes existing since late 40s as a seperate branch) and that in many missions they use helicopters planes would actually be superior.
Is this true?
The biggest case where this is an issue for the US Army is actually with drones. They can't operate the larger, more capable drones that they would like because they fall under the purview of the US Air Force. If its fixed wing and flies over a certain altitude, the army cannot operate it.
But what is Tesla's goal? Really?? It's to drive everyone else out of business.
Tesla's goal is to make Elon Musk and the other shareholders money. They don't care how many competitors they have, as long as they are making money. If driving other competitors out of business makes them more money, it is because they are able to charge higher prices with less competition. They don't make money by low-balling their price, unless that decreased price causes an increase in overall sales to compensate for the lower margin per sale.
But the fact that it hid it until someone finally tried it on a device is the simulator's fault.
I hate to break it to you, but an emulator isn't going to fix that either. The emulator will perform more slowly than the simulator, but it is still ultimately running on a completely different system than your final product. Perhaps your app is IO bound and you're running on a faster IO device than the target? The point of a simulator or emulator in this case is to verify your proof of concept. Not to say "I did my job." And if you already knew there was a performance issue on the actual hardware with your web based application, why would you think you could just code something up in Objective-C and have it perform better? Sure Obj-C should run faster than javascript, but you can't take that on faith. Until you see it running as it should natively on that platform, you have to assume the job is not done.
It's actually more along the lines of 1.21 gigawatts.
Jumping jigawatts Marty!
Actually, there is a vaccine. It's pretty new, having only been around for about a century...
Huh. I had no idea. I didn't think you could immunize against bacteria. Not only that, but we test so heavily for TB - both in education and in healthcare. Thanks for the education.
how many people do you know or have heard of catching stuff like german measles, rubella, smallpox, pertussis, tuberculosis, mumps, etc? And how many of those live in countries where vaccination is readily available (eg, most non-thirdworld nations).
There is no vaccine for tuberculosis. It is a bacterial infection of the lungs and cannot be prevented with a vaccine.
This manifests most discernably in the relatively huge sea level differences between the pacific side the Panama canal and the Atlantic side.
Now as to what mechanisms allow changes to be different, instead of just static value, it gets a little bit beyond my comprehension as to the exact mechanisms, but I believe it might have to do with where thermal expansion occurs(the deepest parts of the ocean most) and where land ice is melting to.
There is a sea level difference between the Eastern Pacific and the Western Pacific. My understanding is that just the flow of the wind across the water causes it to be deeper in the Eastern Pacific than the Western. You don't even need continental mass between the two ends to cause a difference in level.
Now hiring Swift programmers. 10 years experience required. /sarcasm.
Don't worry, I've already updated my resume and linkedin profile to showcase my experience with Swift. I'm now taking appointments to interview me.
Every Thursday? That seems odd. Or was he on a grand jury?
You seem confused about the difference between recognizing that time when not dealing directly with the clientele is the appropriate time *during which* a break may be scheduled, and considering an entire 20 - 25% of the shift *to be* a legitimate break.
I don't know where you get 20-25% of the entire shift to be a break from. That would mean that they have 4 total classes and that they are free 1 of 4 class periods. The school I went to had 6 periods, which means that at most 16% of the shift is part of prep time. Except that you are excluding the fact that most schools require the teachers to be there at least 30 minutes before and 30 minutes after school ends. So even if they slacked off their entire prep period, and using the 6 period day I mention for my school, that is less than 14% of their total shift. And any teacher who spent 100% of their prep time slacking off is going to be spending personal time grading work. So, while the teachers may use their prep time to take a break, I doubt most teachers use even half their prep time as a break except in unusual circumstances. Not to mention the fact that teachers are treated a lot like factory workers. They cannot come and go with any sort of flexibility. They can't leave for a dentist appointment and add an extra hour on to the end of their day.
Do I envy some of the perks teachers get? Yes. But I believe that you are grossly overestimating the amount of free time that a teacher gets on a daily basis. If you knew anyone in the profession personally you would agree that most teachers work hard for very little respect or pay.
Once the world is free of people who can't stand to have others believe differently from them, it will be a better place.
NO! I cannot allow you to have such a view of the world. My world vision is much better than yours.
No longer do we have to have constant interruptions to worry about whether our changes are saved
Why would you interrupt your flow of work to save a document? That doesn't make any sense whatsoever. What I got into the habit of doing was hitting Ctrl-S after each thought. The thought was then saved and I thinking about what to write next anyway. Autosave doesn't know when I actually want to commit my changes and it could happen in the middle of an edit (say cut and paste to move some text around). If I lost power at that time I would rather have the unedited version of the document than the one with my precious text cut out of it and then lost in the event of a power failure.
If you think "prep" and "break" are synonymous, you are part of the problem. In other professions people get fired for that.
I dated a teacher for several years. That prep time was the only time during the entire day she had to go to the bathroom (except lunch). It was indeed the only time she got off between 8am (she was part of the ESE program and had to do IEPs basically every day) to 4pm. She was required to stand outside her door and monitor the halls during the 7 minute breaks between classes. So if she did not use her prep period as a break, when was she supposed to go to the bathroom? Or get something to drink? I don't know about your place of work, but I take a 2-5 minute break every hour. Perhaps I do not stop talking about work, but I stop staring at the monitor and let my eyes focus on objects in the distance. I go to the bathroom, get a drink, or just walk around for a few minutes. Should I be fired for that, too? I haven't heard any complaints about it from my boss. So why should a teacher get fired for having a second opportunity to take a bathroom break?
Eventually they'll run out of employees
Unless the drone strikes polarize them even more and cause people to join their cause out.
I'm pretty sure he voted in favor of telecom immunity prior to being elected into office, while he was still in the senate.
You sir, have obviously never encountered the problem. The message does one of two things: 1) Gets marked as delivered but is never delivered because the person has no iDevice or 2) Gets marked as undeliverable and is not resent as a text. I have a friend who has been trying to fix this for months and at first her messages disappeared into the abyss. Now they just fail to deliver and I have to manually resend it.
I have encountered the problem, and solved it for friends/family.
Since I'm an iOS developer, anybody who has any problem with their iPhone asks me how to fix it. And since I'm a tin-foil-hat-toting privacy advocate, I have studied various articles that reverse engineer how iMessage works. I know exactly what "delivered" means —it means some device somewhere decrypted the message. Apple's server cannot decrypt the message as they do not have the private key, so therefore they cannot possibly send a delivery confirmation.
Go ahead and try it out. Disable wifi and cellular data on an iPhone but leave the non-data cellular connection active, then send an iMessage to it.
The message will not change to "delivered" unless some other device is registered (and connected to the internet) to receive messages at that phone number. After some minutes, the blue message box on the sending device will change colour to green, signifying an SMS has been sent. Depending how good your cell carrier is, the SMS will be delivered instantly or after a few days (SMS is not a reliable messaging protocol...). This assumes you have not disabled SMS fallback on the sending device, which is the default.
I just did the test, and it proved my theory. Disconnecting my phone/ipad/mac caused a sending device to fail to show "delivered", and several minutes later my phone received an SMS message.
The system is overly complicated, mostly as a byproduct of Apple's end-to-end encryption system, which leads to a lot of customer confusion and miss-information when they try to diagnose one of the many things that can go wrong. But I know what I'm talking about, delivered means it was delivered to a device registered receive iMessages at that phone number.
What your test fails to cover is the case where there is A) a device that has not connected to iMessage in many months and B) falls into some bug on Apple's side where even changing the iTunes password does not reset the iMessage registration. Go onto the support forums and you will see that there are people that cannot disable iMessage short of calling Apple. Nothing in their support thread works. And in a lot of those cases the iPhones default to iMessage and never fail over to SMS. You have to manually force SMS and then it will switch back to iMessage after some period of not messaging the person.
Long press on the text message and say "Send as text message."