Maybe my child falls into some of the categories of unvaccinatable and relies on herd immunity. Maybe I just triggered your special topic so you just latched onto it without actually bothering to follow the conversation or the point of my post.
No it wasn't. It was based on soundbite summaries of scientific research providing small digestible (pun intended) headlines for the complex topics studied and the complex conclusions which were drawn.
I remember reading the research behind "omg fat bad" stories. Most of them weakly identified correlations between certain foods while concluding that you should be eating a balanced diet.
Pilot project. Feasability study. There's plenty of ways to describe such things, but "toy" is not the right one.
Speaking of toy projects, what was your idea again? Having to purchase ocean front land, build pipework and pumps, more complicated environmental regulations to navigate with NIMBYs to boot.
Your project just sunk itself (pun intended) unintentionally on cost benefit.
the massive number of sunk data centers could affect these lifeforms
Indeed. It may give them shelter and a home in an otherwise barren wasteland that is the typical ocean floor.
Don't get caught in the diving marketing materials. Most of the ocean floor is about as rich in environment as the middle of the Sahara. A completely empty and barren land with nothing but sand, water, and the occasional passing crab. Conversely when humans have in the past sunk things into the ocean they have turned the area in to one teeming with life in the form of what becomes an artificial reef.
You think housing is bad in Silicon Valley, try being a fish in the ocean.
You can keep claiming how not wrong you are, that doesn't make you any less wrong. The Houston area didn't even get a hurricane warning as the storm was expected to follow a path up to Austin. They did get a tropical storm warning at 9pm the day before the battering rain hit. That was it in terms of "warnings".
See, it's not just the reliability of landline...it's the instant and infallible (mostly) address lookup.
Or we could join the 21st century and actually send our GPS coordinates or other location service information to 911 operators.
Personally there are plenty of seconds saved NOT having to go find a landline. Plus in many countries the 911 operator will actually talk you through what to do which works exceptionally well when you're not forced to leave the victim.
That's just the thing. Most people who categorise themselves will stick to that category right until they don't.
I'm libertarian right until your unvacinated child plays with mine. Goverment regulation is socialism right until it is necessary to keep functioning.
etc.
I feel like writing a chrome plugin for Slashdot that replaces "I'm {$political_philosophy} and so..." with "On this specific point of discussion I hold {$political_philosophy} views." Though I fear it may kill the Slashdot comments section as people run out of things to argue about.
Everything has a tone. Communication extends far beyond the words that get put into some little box on an online form and people who blame the reader for the misunderstanding fundamentally fail to understand the point of communication.
But just as an example let me show you where the tone of your message fitted in:
sjbe: Nuclear not clean (negative) you: Solar panels not clean (negative) Solar panels limited life (negative) Prefer nuclear (positive) XXong: Solar panels are clean (positive) except for solder which makes it similar to every other device (positive) you: Not worried about solar (neutral). Proivded a reference link to chemicals while saying the parent didn't know what was in panels (negative and agressive). Said you're not worried about any of the things you just painted in a negative way (positive).
That post was highly confusing in tone.
XXong: breaks down some of the chemicals (aggressive positive) you: personal attack claiming GP didn't read (highly agressive negative), pointed out that you never said you were scared of chemicals (neutral), questioning why the parent is afraid of nuclear (which is interesting in context because the parent never said he was afraid of nuclear and only ever mentioned nuclear waste in positive light as a foudnational support to the cleanliness of solar waste)
And then this side discussion started.
Overall the entire conversation was very difficult to follow and your first reply about chemicals was confusing as hell to parse given the context of the conversation up until that point. Having a tone is not good or bad, it's just the underlying nature of the reply and doesn't detract from a conversation. But having inconsistent tones make it confusing to follow an arguement (and by extension often actually is the start of many arguements).
Yes the USB peripherel doesn't need to do much as a minimum to set up a connection. The USB Host on the other hand needs to support quite a bit more including having a dedicated driver for each USB class. If you setup your AVR for USB-CDC Serial on Atmel your entire USB code + application will be a fraction of the size of the driver that is invoked when you first plug it in (e.g. usbser.sys which is invoked when you use AVR LUFA's CDC Serial code is over 32kb). Likewise the example code for USB host applications in LUFA compile to something very small, but ultimately they are functionally very limited for their application, and the number of applications are incredibly limited as well. i.e. I haven't ever done it before but I don't see even the beefier AVRs having capability to act as a host for diverse devices, e.g. a serial device or an audio device depending on which is plugged in.
That's the attack surface there, a USB host stack designed to universally take a myiad of devices. Also LUFA is quite limited in its capabilitieis compared to what the USB stack itself permits, e.g. no USB 3 which further limits the size of the code needed to get things working.
USB support in a generic sense doesn't present much of an attack vector, but providing a very complete and universal implementation of USB that can act as a host and a device in a large variety of different ways like a smartphone potentially does.
But Han Solo was cool because Harrison Ford is a top-end actor who absolutely nailed the character of Han Solo. A Han Solo movie without Harrison Ford is basically a movie of going "Boy, that character isn't nearly as interesting as I remember. And that guy still isn't Harrison Ford!"
That's kind of the point of a movie so far in the past. You expect Harrison Ford to be interesting for his entire life and all of his development? Han cut his own cord first?
Personally I saw the movie as an interesting developmental start. This is Han Solo the completely intended well opposite of how you know him. He's clumsy, ignorant, idealistic, doesn't come across as calm or clever or even in control of his situation. Specifically there are some classic examples from the original StarWars that were turned completely around to represent this, "I have a bad feeling about this". This is a guy in love, and not jaded and grumpy.
Your problem is you expected Han to be a character that never developed and started off much the way he always was. If he was, what would even be the point of an origin story, let alone... an origin trilogy (yeah there's 2 more Solo movies coming).
Poe, formerly an elite and devoted hero of the resistance, is now a mutineer that just wants to blow everything up
As negative as this looks for male roles in the series, this is the direct result of being given the silent treatment by the women whom under he is in command.
The entire movie could have effectively not existed if maybe 3 additional sentences were said between the main characters. All conflict and tension was sloppily manufactured. Still thank god there wasn't any political shit in it.
I think the problem is that The Last Jedi was the worst Star Wars movie ever (yes, worse than Episode I)
Justify.
My own opinion was that the Last Jedi was as passable as a generic movie could be, whereas Episode 1 was a boring train wreak that I will happily pretend never actually existed and would rather not admit to ever spending money to see. It was like watching two talented actors flushing their careers down the toilet while reading the political section of the economist during a thunderstorm that makes some lights flash.
People always say things like this, but surely the tax authorities would be quite interested if it was actually true?
Why would they be? They expressly permit the kind of accounting that turned a profit into a loss. This doesn't just apply to movies or mega companies, I also made money on a rental property 2 years ago (well every year). On paper it made a $10k loss. I also got randomly audited by the tax department and they found the numbers to be perfectly fine.
I am noticing that the critics ratings is significantly higher
I'm not. 71% vs 65% is not only insignificant, it's well within a margin of error for two groups that generally and historically treat materials in different ways. In fact if you click through the rotten tomatoes box office selection right now you'll find that same margin of error for nearly all movies where critics agree with the audience.
Significant differences of opinion in these aggregating systems are the ones like Death Wish (17% vs 77%) or Lucy (66% vs 47%) or far more on point: The last Jedi (91% vs 46%) where a true difference between critics and die hard fans is to be foudn.
Yeah, nah. Slashdot level attention is not what it used to be. I mean it's nice to feel like a self important regular member of a large powerful community, but the reality is most companies couldn't give two shits about what goes on here on slashdot, and given the "attention" we give to stupid and mundane things they aren't wrong either.
I don't expect to own my username unless I copyright it
Copyrighting (you mean trademarking) does not automatically provide you ownership of a name in many scenarios. If this is a case of simply being pissed off about the domain then he should have bought the domain. No need to copyright anything. Nissan with all the lawyers and trademarks in the world couldn't get ownership of www.nissan.com for this very reason.
All the people were not healthy. They suffered from stress related illnesses
Yeah and? How many of them contracted black lung and died?
Given that they could not return for years..snip.. many of them have moved on.
My point exactly. And life carries on.
Those communities simply can't go back to how they were, and many are no longer viable.
So? You're failing to address my point about communities. They are nothing more than a group of people. Either those people formed new communities or joined other large communities. That is a zero sum game.
That's assuming people even wanted to go back.
Yep, which makes me consider the disaster even less of a disaster.
Do you routinely maliciously attack yourself? Firstly history is full of examples of big gaping security holes that have somehow been present since the early days of the PC, even in open source software. Secondly what's the use case that would generally expose this flaw to get it noticed? And finally, how big is the risk given that you need to ultimately grant permission for someone to use that software using your current user permissions in order to be exposed to a threat, a risk quite low and thus even if there was a problem it is unlikely to be given any priority to be looked into.
It's the same reason why I don't patch against Spectre on my home machines. If you're in a position to exploit it, I have lost long before you actually start your side channel attack.
Possible. But I think the risk is much bigger than you estimate. The amount of information exchange needed to identify a USB device is actually quite large and the process is quite complex involving a myriad of drivers long before the permission to release the device is presented to the user.
I think the attack surface is quite large, though I agree at present Android's handling of USB is superior to that of the iPhone's. However if they actually block ALL data including identification related data until the device is unlocked then that is a step up again.
It is patentable legally if the patent office says yes. Whether a court enforces it is a different question, but there's nothing illegal about patenting pretty much anything.
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Maybe my child falls into some of the categories of unvaccinatable and relies on herd immunity.
Maybe I just triggered your special topic so you just latched onto it without actually bothering to follow the conversation or the point of my post.
That policy was based on scientific research.
No it wasn't. It was based on soundbite summaries of scientific research providing small digestible (pun intended) headlines for the complex topics studied and the complex conclusions which were drawn.
I remember reading the research behind "omg fat bad" stories. Most of them weakly identified correlations between certain foods while concluding that you should be eating a balanced diet.
But that didn't sound sexy.
This sounds like a toy project.
Pilot project. Feasability study. There's plenty of ways to describe such things, but "toy" is not the right one.
Speaking of toy projects, what was your idea again? Having to purchase ocean front land, build pipework and pumps, more complicated environmental regulations to navigate with NIMBYs to boot.
Your project just sunk itself (pun intended) unintentionally on cost benefit.
the massive number of sunk data centers could affect these lifeforms
Indeed. It may give them shelter and a home in an otherwise barren wasteland that is the typical ocean floor.
Don't get caught in the diving marketing materials. Most of the ocean floor is about as rich in environment as the middle of the Sahara. A completely empty and barren land with nothing but sand, water, and the occasional passing crab. Conversely when humans have in the past sunk things into the ocean they have turned the area in to one teeming with life in the form of what becomes an artificial reef.
You think housing is bad in Silicon Valley, try being a fish in the ocean.
Huh? So? That's a very minor engineering problem compared to most of the other issues.
You can keep claiming how not wrong you are, that doesn't make you any less wrong. The Houston area didn't even get a hurricane warning as the storm was expected to follow a path up to Austin. They did get a tropical storm warning at 9pm the day before the battering rain hit. That was it in terms of "warnings".
20 years ago your phone never went down, it just worked. Always...
That isn't even remotely true.
See, it's not just the reliability of landline...it's the instant and infallible (mostly) address lookup.
Or we could join the 21st century and actually send our GPS coordinates or other location service information to 911 operators.
Personally there are plenty of seconds saved NOT having to go find a landline. Plus in many countries the 911 operator will actually talk you through what to do which works exceptionally well when you're not forced to leave the victim.
That's just the thing. Most people who categorise themselves will stick to that category right until they don't.
I'm libertarian right until your unvacinated child plays with mine.
Goverment regulation is socialism right until it is necessary to keep functioning.
etc.
I feel like writing a chrome plugin for Slashdot that replaces "I'm {$political_philosophy} and so ..." with "On this specific point of discussion I hold {$political_philosophy} views." Though I fear it may kill the Slashdot comments section as people run out of things to argue about.
Everything has a tone. Communication extends far beyond the words that get put into some little box on an online form and people who blame the reader for the misunderstanding fundamentally fail to understand the point of communication.
But just as an example let me show you where the tone of your message fitted in:
sjbe: Nuclear not clean (negative)
you: Solar panels not clean (negative) Solar panels limited life (negative) Prefer nuclear (positive)
XXong: Solar panels are clean (positive) except for solder which makes it similar to every other device (positive)
you: Not worried about solar (neutral). Proivded a reference link to chemicals while saying the parent didn't know what was in panels (negative and agressive). Said you're not worried about any of the things you just painted in a negative way (positive).
That post was highly confusing in tone.
XXong: breaks down some of the chemicals (aggressive positive)
you: personal attack claiming GP didn't read (highly agressive negative), pointed out that you never said you were scared of chemicals (neutral), questioning why the parent is afraid of nuclear (which is interesting in context because the parent never said he was afraid of nuclear and only ever mentioned nuclear waste in positive light as a foudnational support to the cleanliness of solar waste)
And then this side discussion started.
Overall the entire conversation was very difficult to follow and your first reply about chemicals was confusing as hell to parse given the context of the conversation up until that point. Having a tone is not good or bad, it's just the underlying nature of the reply and doesn't detract from a conversation. But having inconsistent tones make it confusing to follow an arguement (and by extension often actually is the start of many arguements).
Yes the USB peripherel doesn't need to do much as a minimum to set up a connection. The USB Host on the other hand needs to support quite a bit more including having a dedicated driver for each USB class. If you setup your AVR for USB-CDC Serial on Atmel your entire USB code + application will be a fraction of the size of the driver that is invoked when you first plug it in (e.g. usbser.sys which is invoked when you use AVR LUFA's CDC Serial code is over 32kb). Likewise the example code for USB host applications in LUFA compile to something very small, but ultimately they are functionally very limited for their application, and the number of applications are incredibly limited as well. i.e. I haven't ever done it before but I don't see even the beefier AVRs having capability to act as a host for diverse devices, e.g. a serial device or an audio device depending on which is plugged in.
That's the attack surface there, a USB host stack designed to universally take a myiad of devices. Also LUFA is quite limited in its capabilitieis compared to what the USB stack itself permits, e.g. no USB 3 which further limits the size of the code needed to get things working.
USB support in a generic sense doesn't present much of an attack vector, but providing a very complete and universal implementation of USB that can act as a host and a device in a large variety of different ways like a smartphone potentially does.
Therefore, Star Wars needs to bring 600 million to 1 billion every year to be on par. Disney needs The Force Awakens kind of film every year.
Implying that the only source of money for Starwars is major blockbuster movies?
But Han Solo was cool because Harrison Ford is a top-end actor who absolutely nailed the character of Han Solo. A Han Solo movie without Harrison Ford is basically a movie of going "Boy, that character isn't nearly as interesting as I remember. And that guy still isn't Harrison Ford!"
That's kind of the point of a movie so far in the past. You expect Harrison Ford to be interesting for his entire life and all of his development? Han cut his own cord first?
Personally I saw the movie as an interesting developmental start. This is Han Solo the completely intended well opposite of how you know him. He's clumsy, ignorant, idealistic, doesn't come across as calm or clever or even in control of his situation. Specifically there are some classic examples from the original StarWars that were turned completely around to represent this, "I have a bad feeling about this". This is a guy in love, and not jaded and grumpy.
Your problem is you expected Han to be a character that never developed and started off much the way he always was. If he was, what would even be the point of an origin story, let alone ... an origin trilogy (yeah there's 2 more Solo movies coming).
spoiler alert?
Yes I suppose the movie did spoil our view of the Starwars universe.
Poe, formerly an elite and devoted hero of the resistance, is now a mutineer that just wants to blow everything up
As negative as this looks for male roles in the series, this is the direct result of being given the silent treatment by the women whom under he is in command.
The entire movie could have effectively not existed if maybe 3 additional sentences were said between the main characters. All conflict and tension was sloppily manufactured. Still thank god there wasn't any political shit in it.
I think the problem is that The Last Jedi was the worst Star Wars movie ever (yes, worse than Episode I)
Justify.
My own opinion was that the Last Jedi was as passable as a generic movie could be, whereas Episode 1 was a boring train wreak that I will happily pretend never actually existed and would rather not admit to ever spending money to see. It was like watching two talented actors flushing their careers down the toilet while reading the political section of the economist during a thunderstorm that makes some lights flash.
People always say things like this, but surely the tax authorities would be quite interested if it was actually true?
Why would they be? They expressly permit the kind of accounting that turned a profit into a loss. This doesn't just apply to movies or mega companies, I also made money on a rental property 2 years ago (well every year). On paper it made a $10k loss. I also got randomly audited by the tax department and they found the numbers to be perfectly fine.
I am noticing that the critics ratings is significantly higher
I'm not. 71% vs 65% is not only insignificant, it's well within a margin of error for two groups that generally and historically treat materials in different ways. In fact if you click through the rotten tomatoes box office selection right now you'll find that same margin of error for nearly all movies where critics agree with the audience.
Significant differences of opinion in these aggregating systems are the ones like Death Wish (17% vs 77%) or Lucy (66% vs 47%) or far more on point: The last Jedi (91% vs 46%) where a true difference between critics and die hard fans is to be foudn.
Yeah, nah. Slashdot level attention is not what it used to be. I mean it's nice to feel like a self important regular member of a large powerful community, but the reality is most companies couldn't give two shits about what goes on here on slashdot, and given the "attention" we give to stupid and mundane things they aren't wrong either.
I don't expect to own my username unless I copyright it
Copyrighting (you mean trademarking) does not automatically provide you ownership of a name in many scenarios. If this is a case of simply being pissed off about the domain then he should have bought the domain. No need to copyright anything. Nissan with all the lawyers and trademarks in the world couldn't get ownership of www.nissan.com for this very reason.
Which is what made the tone of your reply so confusing.
All the people were not healthy. They suffered from stress related illnesses
Yeah and? How many of them contracted black lung and died?
Given that they could not return for years ..snip.. many of them have moved on.
My point exactly. And life carries on.
Those communities simply can't go back to how they were, and many are no longer viable.
So? You're failing to address my point about communities. They are nothing more than a group of people. Either those people formed new communities or joined other large communities. That is a zero sum game.
That's assuming people even wanted to go back.
Yep, which makes me consider the disaster even less of a disaster.
How come nobody noticed ?
Do you routinely maliciously attack yourself? Firstly history is full of examples of big gaping security holes that have somehow been present since the early days of the PC, even in open source software. Secondly what's the use case that would generally expose this flaw to get it noticed? And finally, how big is the risk given that you need to ultimately grant permission for someone to use that software using your current user permissions in order to be exposed to a threat, a risk quite low and thus even if there was a problem it is unlikely to be given any priority to be looked into.
It's the same reason why I don't patch against Spectre on my home machines. If you're in a position to exploit it, I have lost long before you actually start your side channel attack.
Possible. But I think the risk is much bigger than you estimate. The amount of information exchange needed to identify a USB device is actually quite large and the process is quite complex involving a myriad of drivers long before the permission to release the device is presented to the user.
I think the attack surface is quite large, though I agree at present Android's handling of USB is superior to that of the iPhone's. However if they actually block ALL data including identification related data until the device is unlocked then that is a step up again.
It is patentable legally if the patent office says yes. Whether a court enforces it is a different question, but there's nothing illegal about patenting pretty much anything.