Now that they've identified that the elimination of that particular gene will produce immunity, they need to develop a quick way to test for it. Then test all the pigs they can find who aren't obviously infected. What are the odds of some pigs already having this trait? If they can find it as a mutation, then they can bypass all the GMO restrictions.
Thanks. I had heard about that when it was pre-announced, and I didn't realize it was out. It does still suffer from not having a cartridge slot, but otherwise it's perfect for the nostalgia gamers.
I'm not convinced that the new VCS console will succeed in competing with other gaming consoles, so I'm not convinced that it will ultimately be much more than a fancy retro gaming system itself.
I'll admit that I may have mixed up talk of the Flashback with the VCS.
I just don't get why this hasn't been out and on the market for over a year already. This is such a simple product. You can run an emulator on a Raspberry Pi or equivalent. Ideally you put in original joystick ports (use the Stalladaptor or something like that to make them show up on the computer as USB devices). If you really want to bring in the nostalgia crowd, build a cartridge reader that works as a USB flash reader. Outsource it all to Foxconn.
To really cash in, create a web store where you can lease any Atari cartridge game for $1/month or buy it outright for $20. Or set up a Netflix subscription model for $10/month for the full library.
Oh, and if you manufacture joysticks compatible with the original, don't be surprised at how many people buy them to use with their old equipment.
That's an interesting conundrum. I would have to look at how the information is available for sale. If it's available in a way that it is reasonable for ordinary individuals to purchase it (i.e., not prohibitively expensive or complicated), then the police could obtain it without a warrant in the same manner. If it's only available in bulk at an expensive price that only large businesses would be expected to afford, then police would need a warrant.
For example, if they were selling an individual's location history through a web site where you could enter their phone number and pay $20 with a credit card to get the information, then that's public information. If they were selling bulk location history quietly to partners such that most individuals wouldn't be in a position to obtain it (or even know it was being sold), then there's still an expectation of privacy (even if not fully met).
Of course, this ignores that it should be illegal for the phone company to be selling this information in the first place.
Citizenship should make no difference. The Bill of RIghts says "Congress should make no law..." There's nothing limiting those rights to citizens or even to domestic activities. At a higher level, they are a statement of our values--our understanding of human rights.
I recently upgraded to a 4K display since my employer was willing to provide me with one. I figured I would mostly just appreciate that it was a physically larger screen than I had had before. I also figured I would get most apps to scale such that they would take up the same space and look the same.
I had a few surprises.
Not surprising is that some apps just don't scale. I've had problems with tk-based apps in particular. But I expected problems with xterm, vncviewer, and other apps that all worked perfectly with a little tweaking. I was surprised how well most stuff worked. Occasionally the only solution is to run the app in a VNC session, and then use the vncviewer to scale it.
What has blown me away is how frustrating I find my other desktop with 1080p screens. My eyes never complained before, but now that I'm used to text properly scaled on a 4K screen, the 1K screens are painful.
So don't upgrade to 4K unless you're ready to upgrade all the computers you regularly use.
The question of what requires a warrant needs to have a simple answer that is easy to apply.
My solution: If an unaffiliated private individual would be expected to be able, both technically and legally, to conduct the same operation, then no warrant is required. In these cases, there is no expectation of privacy, as anyone could gather the same evidence.
Once you go beyond that standard, there is an expectation of privacy, so the government should require some checks on the power to violate that privacy. The standard check is a court-issued warrant.
This sounds like other manufacturers seeing what Tesla has done and deciding to do it themselves.
From a technical standpoint, I believe Tesla relies on Bluetooth, not NFC, but I'm not clear on much that matters. Bluetooth probably does a better job of working without having to pull your phone out.
I'm still waiting for Tesla to add this feature to the S and X lines.
Tesla says it hit 500 in one day, not that it was sustaining that, so the Bloomberg analysis is not inconsistent. Bloomberg also says that their model lags behind sudden changes. Overall, I think their tracker is fair, given the caveats they include.
Most houses in the US need two phases, as that's how they get the 240v circuits. We need 240v for the air conditioners, hot tub, EV chargers, hot water heater, oven, and clothes dryer. If you think you only need single phase, look at your circuit breaker panel, and find any double breakers--those are the 240v breakers that span both phases.
Sure, they could supply single-phase 240v power, but that would be a major infrastructure change.
What I want is to have encrypted VMs on my phone, with different fingerprints unlocking different VMs. Or perhaps different levels of unlocking. Unlocking the phone doesn't have to be a binary operation.
Something like this would also be great for handing my phone to my son so that he can play games, while locking him out of my email and such.
There have been successes like this in the past. It should be normal by now to do a DNA analysis of the cancer cells and the normal cells to isolate the combination of mutations causing any particular cancer. In some cases, they've developed vaccines that cause the immune system to target specific mutations. I've seen before and after photos of an amazing recovery. The problem is that a few months later, the cancer came back, and the patient soon died.
So why did the cancer come back?
Well, when you get cancer, the cells divide uncontrollably. With such rapid cell division, you also get new mutations. It's not unusual, therefore, for cancer to cause cancer. So you may kill off all the cancer cells with the original mutation, but you may get a new combination of mutations that the treatment misses.
Making this work, I have the good luck to have a company-provided phone, but they have a policy of buying one generation back to keep the price down. So I'm already starting a year into the service life of the phone. I think we're hitting the point now where phones are good enough for a lot longer than two years, so people are going to slow down on the upgrades. If the manufacturer stops providing updates, consumers will be using phones with security vulnerabilities.
I have to agree. A launch without any failures of a tested rocket platform isn't really big news these days. Stories like this should be relegated to "news for nerds" sites and the like, or the science section of more traditional news sites, and there focusing more on the satellites than the launch itself. Of course, as more news platforms are dynamic based on user preferences, seeing a story like this indicates that you should be interested, even if most people aren't.
If you get their credit card, you get 5% back on all your Amazon and Whole Foods purchases. If you assume you would otherwise get 1% back on other typical rewards cards, that's still 4% more. You need to spend $60/week to come out ahead. Anyone who shops at Whole Foods on a regular basis already does that, so Prime saves money.
Even if you had a 2% rewards card, you would need to spend $80/week. Prime still saves money.
And that's just for the grocery shopping alone, ignoring the various other benefits.
So the same proportional numbers give $62K income needed to afford the base $35K model, which is spot on. The performance model isn't designed to be affordable. It's designed to be profitable.
Of course, you know that, but you want to attack. Too bad your own facts show that the base Model 3 is affordable, just as promised. And that's without taking into account the reduced total cost of ownership for an electric car. And wait three years until you can buy one used for $20K that still drives just like new.
The standard input method shouldn't require anything special for touch-typists that will slow them down. Two spaces at the end of a sentence is a widely used standard, and there's no reason not to stick with it.
No, the problem was Evolution. I was archiving mail into a folder for a busy mailing list, and it was getting increasingly painful. This was talking to an IMAP server running on the same system; I never ended up needing to interface with Exchange.
I don't know the details of the IMAP protocols, but I think Evolution was doing far more work than was required, possibly re-scanning the folder before or after the move.
But start with Facebook. I'm sure Google grabs just as much if not more information, but Facebook seems to be more creepy in how they use it. Google doesn't bother me yet, but I won't install any Facebook apps on my phone.
I use Thunderbird on my desktop. I used to use Evolution, as at the time it had better Exchange compatibility, which I thought I was going to need, but I got extremely frustrated with it. It was super slow moving messages into large folders (like when I archive my mail instead of deleting it), and it seemed I was always fighting bugs. Thunderbird has been a vastly superior experience.
I will say that I'm not excited about Thunderbird, either. It does the job, but it feels clunky. It would be great to have better Exchange compatibility for the corporate environment.
For my Android phone, I use K-9 mail. Even without the Doctor Who reference, it's a great mobile mail client. I have had trouble with it not noticing new mail and beeping at me like I've told it to--it was flawless until a year or so ago. I wonder if I have a setting wrong?
I don't do a lot of webmail, but sometimes I want to bring something up on my car's browser (Model S). I used to use Squirelmail, which felt like a crude HTML wrapper on a text client, but after the recent browser update, I'm now able to use RoundCube, and it's much better. I haven't played with it too much, but so far it does everything I want.
They're talking about 12,000 satellites! (A few less than that, but they'll probably have to replace a few that fail.) And they're looking at a 5-7 year lifespan per satellite, which means once it's up and running, it will require putting up another 2,000 satellites per year. Even if they can do 20 satellites per launch, that's still a hundred launches per year. For reference, there were only 90 launches last year, and that's counting every launch by every country and company.
Estimates are that the Falcon 9 could lift 24 Starlink satellites per launch. The Falcon Heavy could get up to 67. The BFR could deploy over 300 per launch. Considering the need to deploy to different orbits, the Falcon 9 is probably the way to go.
Once they get serious about Starlink, they'll probably start adding a few to every launch that has excess capacity. (And by "serious" I mean having gotten the satellites in real production.)
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Now that they've identified that the elimination of that particular gene will produce immunity, they need to develop a quick way to test for it. Then test all the pigs they can find who aren't obviously infected. What are the odds of some pigs already having this trait? If they can find it as a mutation, then they can bypass all the GMO restrictions.
Thanks. I had heard about that when it was pre-announced, and I didn't realize it was out. It does still suffer from not having a cartridge slot, but otherwise it's perfect for the nostalgia gamers.
I'm not convinced that the new VCS console will succeed in competing with other gaming consoles, so I'm not convinced that it will ultimately be much more than a fancy retro gaming system itself.
I'll admit that I may have mixed up talk of the Flashback with the VCS.
I just don't get why this hasn't been out and on the market for over a year already. This is such a simple product. You can run an emulator on a Raspberry Pi or equivalent. Ideally you put in original joystick ports (use the Stalladaptor or something like that to make them show up on the computer as USB devices). If you really want to bring in the nostalgia crowd, build a cartridge reader that works as a USB flash reader. Outsource it all to Foxconn.
To really cash in, create a web store where you can lease any Atari cartridge game for $1/month or buy it outright for $20. Or set up a Netflix subscription model for $10/month for the full library.
Oh, and if you manufacture joysticks compatible with the original, don't be surprised at how many people buy them to use with their old equipment.
That's an interesting conundrum. I would have to look at how the information is available for sale. If it's available in a way that it is reasonable for ordinary individuals to purchase it (i.e., not prohibitively expensive or complicated), then the police could obtain it without a warrant in the same manner. If it's only available in bulk at an expensive price that only large businesses would be expected to afford, then police would need a warrant.
For example, if they were selling an individual's location history through a web site where you could enter their phone number and pay $20 with a credit card to get the information, then that's public information. If they were selling bulk location history quietly to partners such that most individuals wouldn't be in a position to obtain it (or even know it was being sold), then there's still an expectation of privacy (even if not fully met).
Of course, this ignores that it should be illegal for the phone company to be selling this information in the first place.
Citizenship should make no difference. The Bill of RIghts says "Congress should make no law..." There's nothing limiting those rights to citizens or even to domestic activities. At a higher level, they are a statement of our values--our understanding of human rights.
I recently upgraded to a 4K display since my employer was willing to provide me with one. I figured I would mostly just appreciate that it was a physically larger screen than I had had before. I also figured I would get most apps to scale such that they would take up the same space and look the same.
I had a few surprises.
Not surprising is that some apps just don't scale. I've had problems with tk-based apps in particular. But I expected problems with xterm, vncviewer, and other apps that all worked perfectly with a little tweaking. I was surprised how well most stuff worked. Occasionally the only solution is to run the app in a VNC session, and then use the vncviewer to scale it.
What has blown me away is how frustrating I find my other desktop with 1080p screens. My eyes never complained before, but now that I'm used to text properly scaled on a 4K screen, the 1K screens are painful.
So don't upgrade to 4K unless you're ready to upgrade all the computers you regularly use.
The question of what requires a warrant needs to have a simple answer that is easy to apply.
My solution: If an unaffiliated private individual would be expected to be able, both technically and legally, to conduct the same operation, then no warrant is required. In these cases, there is no expectation of privacy, as anyone could gather the same evidence.
Once you go beyond that standard, there is an expectation of privacy, so the government should require some checks on the power to violate that privacy. The standard check is a court-issued warrant.
My thought exactly.
This sounds like other manufacturers seeing what Tesla has done and deciding to do it themselves.
From a technical standpoint, I believe Tesla relies on Bluetooth, not NFC, but I'm not clear on much that matters. Bluetooth probably does a better job of working without having to pull your phone out.
I'm still waiting for Tesla to add this feature to the S and X lines.
Tesla says it hit 500 in one day, not that it was sustaining that, so the Bloomberg analysis is not inconsistent. Bloomberg also says that their model lags behind sudden changes. Overall, I think their tracker is fair, given the caveats they include.
Most houses in the US need two phases, as that's how they get the 240v circuits. We need 240v for the air conditioners, hot tub, EV chargers, hot water heater, oven, and clothes dryer. If you think you only need single phase, look at your circuit breaker panel, and find any double breakers--those are the 240v breakers that span both phases.
Sure, they could supply single-phase 240v power, but that would be a major infrastructure change.
What about Signal?
I've only used it for text messages, but supposedly it works for voice and video as well.
They also advertise for jobs where they already have a H1-B worker doing the job to prove that they can't find a qualified American to do it.
What I want is to have encrypted VMs on my phone, with different fingerprints unlocking different VMs. Or perhaps different levels of unlocking. Unlocking the phone doesn't have to be a binary operation.
Something like this would also be great for handing my phone to my son so that he can play games, while locking him out of my email and such.
There have been successes like this in the past. It should be normal by now to do a DNA analysis of the cancer cells and the normal cells to isolate the combination of mutations causing any particular cancer. In some cases, they've developed vaccines that cause the immune system to target specific mutations. I've seen before and after photos of an amazing recovery. The problem is that a few months later, the cancer came back, and the patient soon died.
So why did the cancer come back?
Well, when you get cancer, the cells divide uncontrollably. With such rapid cell division, you also get new mutations. It's not unusual, therefore, for cancer to cause cancer. So you may kill off all the cancer cells with the original mutation, but you may get a new combination of mutations that the treatment misses.
Making this work, I have the good luck to have a company-provided phone, but they have a policy of buying one generation back to keep the price down. So I'm already starting a year into the service life of the phone. I think we're hitting the point now where phones are good enough for a lot longer than two years, so people are going to slow down on the upgrades. If the manufacturer stops providing updates, consumers will be using phones with security vulnerabilities.
I have to agree. A launch without any failures of a tested rocket platform isn't really big news these days. Stories like this should be relegated to "news for nerds" sites and the like, or the science section of more traditional news sites, and there focusing more on the satellites than the launch itself. Of course, as more news platforms are dynamic based on user preferences, seeing a story like this indicates that you should be interested, even if most people aren't.
So it's totally appropriate here.
No, base price shipping today is $49,000 (plus $1000 destination fee), so $50,000. I have no idea where you're getting the extra $10K.
They should have the base price at $35,000 (plus destination fee) before the end of the year.
If you get their credit card, you get 5% back on all your Amazon and Whole Foods purchases. If you assume you would otherwise get 1% back on other typical rewards cards, that's still 4% more. You need to spend $60/week to come out ahead. Anyone who shops at Whole Foods on a regular basis already does that, so Prime saves money.
Even if you had a 2% rewards card, you would need to spend $80/week. Prime still saves money.
And that's just for the grocery shopping alone, ignoring the various other benefits.
So the same proportional numbers give $62K income needed to afford the base $35K model, which is spot on. The performance model isn't designed to be affordable. It's designed to be profitable.
Of course, you know that, but you want to attack. Too bad your own facts show that the base Model 3 is affordable, just as promised. And that's without taking into account the reduced total cost of ownership for an electric car. And wait three years until you can buy one used for $20K that still drives just like new.
There's no "no-break space" key on my keyboard.
The standard input method shouldn't require anything special for touch-typists that will slow them down. Two spaces at the end of a sentence is a widely used standard, and there's no reason not to stick with it.
No, the problem was Evolution. I was archiving mail into a folder for a busy mailing list, and it was getting increasingly painful. This was talking to an IMAP server running on the same system; I never ended up needing to interface with Exchange.
I don't know the details of the IMAP protocols, but I think Evolution was doing far more work than was required, possibly re-scanning the folder before or after the move.
Yes.
But start with Facebook. I'm sure Google grabs just as much if not more information, but Facebook seems to be more creepy in how they use it. Google doesn't bother me yet, but I won't install any Facebook apps on my phone.
I use Thunderbird on my desktop. I used to use Evolution, as at the time it had better Exchange compatibility, which I thought I was going to need, but I got extremely frustrated with it. It was super slow moving messages into large folders (like when I archive my mail instead of deleting it), and it seemed I was always fighting bugs. Thunderbird has been a vastly superior experience.
I will say that I'm not excited about Thunderbird, either. It does the job, but it feels clunky. It would be great to have better Exchange compatibility for the corporate environment.
For my Android phone, I use K-9 mail. Even without the Doctor Who reference, it's a great mobile mail client. I have had trouble with it not noticing new mail and beeping at me like I've told it to--it was flawless until a year or so ago. I wonder if I have a setting wrong?
I don't do a lot of webmail, but sometimes I want to bring something up on my car's browser (Model S). I used to use Squirelmail, which felt like a crude HTML wrapper on a text client, but after the recent browser update, I'm now able to use RoundCube, and it's much better. I haven't played with it too much, but so far it does everything I want.
It's high time we move all of .com to .exe.
Exactly!
The cost per launch (not price per launch) is what makes Starlink possible.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
They're talking about 12,000 satellites! (A few less than that, but they'll probably have to replace a few that fail.) And they're looking at a 5-7 year lifespan per satellite, which means once it's up and running, it will require putting up another 2,000 satellites per year. Even if they can do 20 satellites per launch, that's still a hundred launches per year. For reference, there were only 90 launches last year, and that's counting every launch by every country and company.
https://space.stackexchange.co...
Estimates are that the Falcon 9 could lift 24 Starlink satellites per launch. The Falcon Heavy could get up to 67. The BFR could deploy over 300 per launch. Considering the need to deploy to different orbits, the Falcon 9 is probably the way to go.
Once they get serious about Starlink, they'll probably start adding a few to every launch that has excess capacity. (And by "serious" I mean having gotten the satellites in real production.)