6000 people at SpaceX plus tens of thousands of others in suppliers created an awesome piece of art as a stepping stone to getting humanity to Mars. It was hardly a narcissist piece: it was an homage to the hopes and dreams of all of us who enjoy science fiction and have dreamed of going to the stars ever since we were old enough to realize we could go there. Musk provided the framework and the impetus, but, I assure you, a whole lot of other people supported creating that visionary photograph of the astronaut driving to Mars.
Why can a plug-in even reach all the authentication tokens? Shouldn't it be only able to reach its own data? Doesn't this seem like a bug more in Firefox than in Grammerly? It sounds like a sandbox violation.
In liberte, egalite, and fraternite, that last word is gender-specific. There's been a push in France to create “écriture inclusive” in recent years, which would strip words of their inherent gender when it isn't needed or wanted, but there's a lot of pushback against such a foundational change. It's hard to gauge just how big a problem it is... is the fact that "terrorist" is gendered male in French responsible for an observed pattern of less inspection of women at security stations? That's a hard question to answer. Humans are so guided by our languages, it's hard to recognize when those inherent word biases are pushing us in our actions.
Plenty of innocent people settle. If they didnâ(TM)t admit guilt as part of the settlement, it means nothing. It just means their accountants decided paying you to go away was cheaper than fighting. Now... if you tell me they admitted guilt in the settlement, thatâ(TM)s different.
It is fair if using the brick as a doorstop causes it to catch fire and then you try to sue the brick maker for producing a defective product.
We aren't sure the reasons for NVidia's move, but there have been such lawsuits, at least according to other posts in Slashdot threads. Use in a datacenter exceeds the use ratings for the gamer-grade products. The more expensive datacenter-grade products have higher quality parts and don't overheat as easily. If that's true, it would seem NVidia's move is more than justified.
Dr. Who is a poor example since it's a British work and governed in the USA primarily by treaty, not by Constitution.
But, otherwise, what you say is good.
How exactly does art and science progress when the works are lost? The beginning of the sentence explicitly states the purpose and goal of the laws. Yes, those works have to pass into the public domain for progress to occur. That's the definition of progressing -- we don't keep recreating the same stuff over and over just because stuff keeps getting lost.
> Either way you are effectively stopped from using HTTP
> unless you pony up to a CA and pay for more HTTPS certificates.
Use Let's Encrypt for free certificates.
> We've gotten along just fine without this nonsense thus far;
No, we haven't. You mention "other than the use of force by these bad actors" -- yes, exactly, that is the sole and complete reason for us having to secure the Web. If you can find a way to force people to stop attacking the integrity of the network, we can avoid this change. But otherwise, help out by grepping/s/http/https in pages you own.
Also, the CPUs weren't as good -- the time needed to encrypt and decrypt would have been a far greater percent of the available CPU than today, even with the shorter keys of the era. It wasn't practical to do a lot with encryption in the mid-1990s. Zipping up some files the size of a floppy disk into a password-protected.zip could take 20 minutes on the desktop I had; only a couple minutes without the password.
The parent couldn't take the formula out of the too-large-to-be-a-carry-on bag? The only time I've seen a situation like this was a passenger using the "special health thing" as the excuse for getting the whole bag in as a carry-on instead of pulling the item out and checking the rest. The passenger was irate about it, but I (and most of the rest of the plane, based on comments I overheard as we sat on the tarmac) trivially sided with the airline.
Itâ(TM)s a pretty strong trait: we donâ(TM)t kill people we see as people. In analyses Iâ(TM)ve read of âoewhy didnâ(TM)t a given suicide bomber go through with itâ the biggest reason is that the bomber talked to someone on the train/plane/whatever and got to know them.
Travel overseas tends to change voter opinions about war against countries visited. Exchange programs during Cold War where US military met Russian military made soldiers less likely to fire nukes in later simulations. Thereâ(TM)s lots of examples. It takes some significant effort to get a military force able/willing to fire on command.
Asimov tackled this in his short story...That Thou Art Mindful Of Him. "Don't kill people" has a weakness... how do you define "people"? Dehumanizing the enemy is a major part of getting past the "don't kill" tendency in humans... that'll likely work for AIs also.
Blackmail is also illegal. If they can show that you were blackmailing them, now you're on the hook for criminal offense. Either accept it or report it. Vigilanteism discouraged.
Why worry about Big Brother systems? Everyone we've talked to who has one says the system is great! Surely that many people can't all be wrong... or coerced...
Most sites are charging what is required to continue producing that information. When I've looked into budgets for a couple news orgs, the subscription costs are pretty much inline with the production costs, with a moderate but pretty narrow profit margin. If that cost isn't worth the cost to all of us, those sites will go away -- which has happened to most of the nation's local newspapers. It's really hard in most parts of the country to get local news because there's no one reporting it anymore.
Major newspapers have been a $1 per day for a long time. Wall Street Journal went to $1.50 per issue in 2007. Subscription rates were $32, I think. Nowadays, print price subscription is $38/month. Similar rates for paper can be found across NYTimes, LATimes, and all the papers in between across the country. The cost of maintaining servers, secure sign-ons, archives... these things have taken the place of printing, so although overhead is likely smaller than it would be with paper and distro, it isn't zero, and paying the journalists/editors/delivery(now IT) staff has always been the most expensive aspect anyway. And all of that is BEFORE accounting for inflation.
Bottom line: reliable news costs real money. And $15/month for online is very reasonable when you look at the cost of supplying that content.
I disagree. I believe there is plenty of evidence over decades that the MASSIVE drop in the total number of wars on the planet is directly a result of the UN brining nations together to talk first and shoot second. Did it end war? No. Did it reduce it substantially? Yes, OMG, yes.
Presenting an argument that the UN is responsible for the drop is a huge undertaking, beyond the scope of this comment. Sorry, I cannot cite sources for that aspect, but I beg you to go research the history and impact of just meeting to talk and do nothing has had on incident after incident. The drop in wars and violence is well documented. This site has one of the most complete set of graphs and cited data on the matter that I know of: https://ourworldindata.org/war-and-peace/
I wouldn't expect slashdot to explain "BitCoin" every time the term is used these days. I wouldn't expect a music magazine to explain Madonna as Madonna Louise Ciccone. And combining both of those examples together, I wouldn't expect slashdot to explain ESR. For any term or phrase, there has to be some threshold of commonality where you can assume your audience knows what it is otherwise you have to constantly explain every term. ESR is sufficiently famous that "Who is ESR?" on Google lists Raymond as the first hit. Likewise "ESR computer". I think there are enough posts, links, and regular news about ESR to justify using that as the man's name, and it is easy enough to find for anyone who doesn't know that I don't think it creates a significant barrier to entry.
Having said that, everyone has a different standard... you mention "maybe Stroustrup, and Torvalds" -- I bet more people know ESR than Stroustrup. ESR makes it into the popular press from time to time. I've never seen Stroustrup pop up outside of tech literature. YMMV. (Acronym used without expansion on first reference for bonus irony points.)
FDA only has legal control if you sell across state lines, granted under the Constitution's Commerce Clause. They cannot take action within a state based on federal authority, but individual states have laws that either grant the FDA internal authority or have state agencies that accept FDA guidance, thus making it equivalent to the feds having direct authority.
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6000 people at SpaceX plus tens of thousands of others in suppliers created an awesome piece of art as a stepping stone to getting humanity to Mars. It was hardly a narcissist piece: it was an homage to the hopes and dreams of all of us who enjoy science fiction and have dreamed of going to the stars ever since we were old enough to realize we could go there. Musk provided the framework and the impetus, but, I assure you, a whole lot of other people supported creating that visionary photograph of the astronaut driving to Mars.
Why can a plug-in even reach all the authentication tokens? Shouldn't it be only able to reach its own data? Doesn't this seem like a bug more in Firefox than in Grammerly? It sounds like a sandbox violation.
In liberte, egalite, and fraternite, that last word is gender-specific. There's been a push in France to create “écriture inclusive” in recent years, which would strip words of their inherent gender when it isn't needed or wanted, but there's a lot of pushback against such a foundational change. It's hard to gauge just how big a problem it is... is the fact that "terrorist" is gendered male in French responsible for an observed pattern of less inspection of women at security stations? That's a hard question to answer. Humans are so guided by our languages, it's hard to recognize when those inherent word biases are pushing us in our actions.
Plenty of innocent people settle. If they didnâ(TM)t admit guilt as part of the settlement, it means nothing. It just means their accountants decided paying you to go away was cheaper than fighting. Now... if you tell me they admitted guilt in the settlement, thatâ(TM)s different.
It is fair if using the brick as a doorstop causes it to catch fire and then you try to sue the brick maker for producing a defective product.
We aren't sure the reasons for NVidia's move, but there have been such lawsuits, at least according to other posts in Slashdot threads. Use in a datacenter exceeds the use ratings for the gamer-grade products. The more expensive datacenter-grade products have higher quality parts and don't overheat as easily. If that's true, it would seem NVidia's move is more than justified.
Software is legally exempt from most defect product claims, at least in the USA.
Dr. Who is a poor example since it's a British work and governed in the USA primarily by treaty, not by Constitution.
But, otherwise, what you say is good.
How exactly does art and science progress when the works are lost? The beginning of the sentence explicitly states the purpose and goal of the laws. Yes, those works have to pass into the public domain for progress to occur. That's the definition of progressing -- we don't keep recreating the same stuff over and over just because stuff keeps getting lost.
> Either way you are effectively stopped from using HTTP > unless you pony up to a CA and pay for more HTTPS certificates. Use Let's Encrypt for free certificates.
> We've gotten along just fine without this nonsense thus far;
/s/http/https in pages you own.
No, we haven't. You mention "other than the use of force by these bad actors" -- yes, exactly, that is the sole and complete reason for us having to secure the Web. If you can find a way to force people to stop attacking the integrity of the network, we can avoid this change. But otherwise, help out by grepping
Also, the CPUs weren't as good -- the time needed to encrypt and decrypt would have been a far greater percent of the available CPU than today, even with the shorter keys of the era. It wasn't practical to do a lot with encryption in the mid-1990s. Zipping up some files the size of a floppy disk into a password-protected .zip could take 20 minutes on the desktop I had; only a couple minutes without the password.
Stop talking to co-workers?
The parent couldn't take the formula out of the too-large-to-be-a-carry-on bag? The only time I've seen a situation like this was a passenger using the "special health thing" as the excuse for getting the whole bag in as a carry-on instead of pulling the item out and checking the rest. The passenger was irate about it, but I (and most of the rest of the plane, based on comments I overheard as we sat on the tarmac) trivially sided with the airline.
True... it's also not yet the date that Musk is aiming at, so he hasn't missed that deadline yet.
Itâ(TM)s a pretty strong trait: we donâ(TM)t kill people we see as people. In analyses Iâ(TM)ve read of âoewhy didnâ(TM)t a given suicide bomber go through with itâ the biggest reason is that the bomber talked to someone on the train/plane/whatever and got to know them. Travel overseas tends to change voter opinions about war against countries visited. Exchange programs during Cold War where US military met Russian military made soldiers less likely to fire nukes in later simulations. Thereâ(TM)s lots of examples. It takes some significant effort to get a military force able/willing to fire on command.
Asimov tackled this in his short story ...That Thou Art Mindful Of Him. "Don't kill people" has a weakness... how do you define "people"? Dehumanizing the enemy is a major part of getting past the "don't kill" tendency in humans... that'll likely work for AIs also.
Blackmail is also illegal. If they can show that you were blackmailing them, now you're on the hook for criminal offense. Either accept it or report it. Vigilanteism discouraged.
Why worry about Big Brother systems? Everyone we've talked to who has one says the system is great! Surely that many people can't all be wrong... or coerced...
Most sites are charging what is required to continue producing that information. When I've looked into budgets for a couple news orgs, the subscription costs are pretty much inline with the production costs, with a moderate but pretty narrow profit margin. If that cost isn't worth the cost to all of us, those sites will go away -- which has happened to most of the nation's local newspapers. It's really hard in most parts of the country to get local news because there's no one reporting it anymore.
Major newspapers have been a $1 per day for a long time. Wall Street Journal went to $1.50 per issue in 2007. Subscription rates were $32, I think. Nowadays, print price subscription is $38/month. Similar rates for paper can be found across NYTimes, LATimes, and all the papers in between across the country. The cost of maintaining servers, secure sign-ons, archives... these things have taken the place of printing, so although overhead is likely smaller than it would be with paper and distro, it isn't zero, and paying the journalists/editors/delivery(now IT) staff has always been the most expensive aspect anyway. And all of that is BEFORE accounting for inflation.
Bottom line: reliable news costs real money. And $15/month for online is very reasonable when you look at the cost of supplying that content.
I disagree. I believe there is plenty of evidence over decades that the MASSIVE drop in the total number of wars on the planet is directly a result of the UN brining nations together to talk first and shoot second. Did it end war? No. Did it reduce it substantially? Yes, OMG, yes.
Presenting an argument that the UN is responsible for the drop is a huge undertaking, beyond the scope of this comment. Sorry, I cannot cite sources for that aspect, but I beg you to go research the history and impact of just meeting to talk and do nothing has had on incident after incident. The drop in wars and violence is well documented. This site has one of the most complete set of graphs and cited data on the matter that I know of: https://ourworldindata.org/war-and-peace/
Frankenstein is the *doctor*. The Creature has no name. Colloquially, it is "Frankenstein's Monster".
I wouldn't expect slashdot to explain "BitCoin" every time the term is used these days. I wouldn't expect a music magazine to explain Madonna as Madonna Louise Ciccone. And combining both of those examples together, I wouldn't expect slashdot to explain ESR. For any term or phrase, there has to be some threshold of commonality where you can assume your audience knows what it is otherwise you have to constantly explain every term. ESR is sufficiently famous that "Who is ESR?" on Google lists Raymond as the first hit. Likewise "ESR computer". I think there are enough posts, links, and regular news about ESR to justify using that as the man's name, and it is easy enough to find for anyone who doesn't know that I don't think it creates a significant barrier to entry.
Having said that, everyone has a different standard... you mention "maybe Stroustrup, and Torvalds" -- I bet more people know ESR than Stroustrup. ESR makes it into the popular press from time to time. I've never seen Stroustrup pop up outside of tech literature. YMMV. (Acronym used without expansion on first reference for bonus irony points.)
FDA only has legal control if you sell across state lines, granted under the Constitution's Commerce Clause. They cannot take action within a state based on federal authority, but individual states have laws that either grant the FDA internal authority or have state agencies that accept FDA guidance, thus making it equivalent to the feds having direct authority.
Michigan just jailed a woman in October for refusing to vaccinate. https://www.washingtonpost.com...