TFA mentions how they "understood privacy concerns in relation to internal X-ray use". FUCK THAT!
It's not a privacy issue. It's a fucking health concern.
A fucking dentist covers you up in lead before he takes an X-ray of your teeth, and these morons want to let someone with a questionable understanding of buttons do X-rays of your gut?
A terrorist could get up in the middle of a flight, walk over to a window, take his pants down, stick his ass up on the window, and... There you'd be thinking he was only mooning that... thing... on the wing... outside... when he would detonate.
And just imagine if he was ALREADY sitting next to a window. Cause, that is what they do. They sit next to a window waiting to blow themselves up. Those shouldn't be called window seats at all but "terrorist seats".
Why wouldn't there be? It's a skill, not an inherited genetic trait. Plus, editors retire all the time - they don't get euthanized or taken to a glue factory. But in general, editors are free to do freelance work as it attracts customers to their publisher. Also, a self-publishing author doesn't really need all those editors that a publishing company might need.
"tough shit, start waiting tables and give up the writing thing if you're not popular?"
And that is different from the current business model how exactly? Sure, it ain't as bad as in music industry, but still...
Unless you are selling at least tens of thousands of each book - you're not going to be making a living from writing alone. At 10% royalty a $20 hard copy owned by a publisher and a $2 self-published, self-marketed e-book make the same amount of money per book for the author. Granted, minus the advance, promotion and various other services that the publisher would provide. Also, minus any copyright limitations.
If anything, authors need to demand a larger piece of a smaller cake for the e-versions of their books. Most of the publisher's costs are non-existent for e-books, just as most of the risk. Author would probably be better off self-publishing through amazon.
I wouldn't refuse to watch more. I would refuse to watch it to begin with, just based on the description of it. Fucking sick.
Not even for science?
As for "It has to be real" claim, that they then compare to the movies... I call bullshit. Cause... I'm not really into torture-porn movies, I like when a movie has a story and not just, how did the summary put it... "more grotesque". But, from what I've seen, movies in general tend to be edited, so that those moments of "more grotesque" are short jabs of extreme moments - not continuous shots, as those would either point out the fakeness of the makeup/acting/effects or just make the whole thing way too "clinical" and not "scary and exciting".
So, comparing seconds of extreme violence and fake gore interspersed with shots of everything else in the movie AND continuous shots of actual or perceived harm lasting minutes... Not really the same thing.
They are not buyers. At least not any more. Or "in volume". Printers and scanners mentioned were probably bought separately by each department and each office (it's FOREIGN office... as in... has offices around the world) "as needed" and "as available locally" over some time IN THE PAST.
It's not like it would have been wise or advisable if they had thrown their hardware out along with the OS.
In my own experience of getting ordinary people to use computers, Linux computers needed a lot more fiddling then Windows machines.
It's not the price - it's the quantity. After all, any fiddling would be performed by hired employees who get the same paycheck one way or the other. But, if the quantity of daily fiddling needed exceeds the quantity of fiddling provided daily by the hired technical staff... costs WILL rise. Either through downtime, or through overtime, or through hiring more staff, or through training costs, or all of the above.
Me? I'm not planing on using anything. We were talking about the Elbonian/Somalian ex-pirate that turned out to be Slashdot editor known as samzenpus. And I guess that, had he been a Somalian he would have used whatever is available for the lowest price.
Come on, don't we have anyone here who hasn't outsourced their job to Elbonia?"
He's obviously an ex-pirate from Somalia, you insensitive clod.
I for one find it commendable that he gave up such a profitable yer risky profession of robbing people at RPG-point, to become a Slashdot editor. I say we welcome him with open ar... Oh, wait... my bad. It's samzenpus. Nah... he doesn't outsource to Elbonia.
That's his high-quality work actually. Or low-effort work... depending how you look at it. At least this time he didn't present "Google May Kill Chrome URL Bar" as "Google Executives Caught While Planning Murder!".
That's his "style". Why do they let him out of "idle" section is beyond me.
Pretty soon all "editors" will concentrate more on hype than on anything else, and summaries will have all the quality and integrity of io9 posts. Just wait and see... Soulskill is already somewhat of a samzenpus-lite.
If you bothered to use your brain for a 2#$!% minute, you would realize a few things:
1) Soldiers are not out there because they wanted to, they decided to serve their country so you could stay home and play your video games. If they did not sign up in enough numbers, they would force you to serve as soon as they run out of volunteers. Remember every time that a soldier gets killed or looses his legs because of a bomb, that it could had been you out there had he and many others not volunteered.
Or cause it is the only job they can get as there are not that many opportunities around. Or to pay for college. Or cause they are members of the Green Card Brigade. As for "your ass there instead" - there is always Canada. That is, unless your dad can arrange for you to "serve" behind a desk somewhere. Or to dick around in a military jet.
2) It is good to know military budget goes into medical research that can also be used to save civilians in, say, burning buildings and not entirely to develop new guns and bombs.
$9.7 billion budget divided over 5 million beneficiaries, 27,000 soldiers and 28,000 civilian employees, another 20,000 active-duty medical soldiers in field units, plus over 30,000 medical soldiers in the National Guard and Army Reserve.
That is only 1.29% of the $721.3 billion DOD budget, which is again only between 49.7 and 68% of the annual US Military budget. So it's actually more like 0.64 - 0.87% of the total military budget, for 2011 alone.
Just to illustrate how ridiculously little that is... A person making ~$50k a year, who would donate $50 each month to medical R&D - would do more for medical research funding, per dollar earned, then the entire military and defense budget of the United States of America. That is less than $2 a day.
TFA is talking about "5% to 20% of combat-related injuries" - not the number of grafts that are successful.
As for why does it vary that much... Well, data mentioned is probably taken from a source that lists various ways a soldier could be hurt - compared to various duties and services. So, pilots might have much greater incidence of falling from a high place and breaking various bones than say.. a cook. On another hand, drivers probably have a much higher incidence of various car accident related injuries than sailors.
Same goes for burns, or any other form of combat-related injury.
As in your, boy's and doctors'? Also, if possible, which doctors? I'm sure many would like to be able to avoid them. Either cause are really bad doctors, or cause god obviously hates them.
...for stupidity. Normal distribution... she is a very strict bitch. But a sexy one too. And anyone can ring her bell, IF you know what I mean. Nudge-nudge, wink-wink, say no more...
What kind of morons do you hang around with?
Depends. Sometimes they are your regular morons, and sometimes they just don't get the jokes like the ones I made in the post above. Those just get the "Whoosh!" sound instead. A very peculiar phenomenon indeed.
"So the stats come, our average customer is a woman about 30-s early 40-s, has 2 point 3 children on average. I interrupted him. I said, don't give me the average, give me the extremes, the average will take care of itself naturally"
You do realize that THAT is exactly where N-Gage came from? The very extreme value on the curve representing a normal distribution of mobile phone users.
If you are a gamer enough that you'd want your phone to come with a thick joystick pad, wouldn't you rather go the extra inch, and get yourself a separate PSP, that is the solid experience, and then some phone, as you need.
But if you are a gamer looking for a new "smart" phone, and along comes such a phone by a major manufacturer of phones AND game consoles, and such phone happens to also be a dedicated gaming console... Yeah... you're absolutely right. You should instead buy 3 iPhones and an iPad (make that 2 iPads), and 5 iPods and you'd be all set. I mean... we all know that iPad is actually the future of gaming. And you should always have your gadgets completely separated. One for music, one for video watching, one for video recording, one for storage, one for audio recording, one for audio listening, one for a flashlight, one for a fleshlight...
Many phones make great casual gaming devices. But this poor hybrid will see the same sad destiny as other gaming phones we've seen in the past.
But, but, but... you just said that phones are great casual gaming devices. You mean to say all these phones were actually abysmal failures?
Or are you actually saying that it will be an iPhone killer?
Oh and if you get it, don't get carried away playing for too long, or else you can't make critical calls on a wasted battery. Sucks, I know.
Let's say that hummingbirds come in sizes (or weights) 1 to 5. Average sized hummingbird would then be the sum of those sizes, divided by the number of sizes available. I.e. (1+2+3+4+5)/5 = 3 So the "average hummingbird size" would be 3, while the largest hummingbird size would be 5.
So, if this artificial hummingbird is "larger and heavier than an average hummingbird, but is smaller and lighter than the largest hummingbird currently found in nature" - that means that it's size is somewhere between 3 and 5.
If you weren't trolling there... well... don't know how to break it to you... then you are pretty darn clueless.
My point, both people deserve privacy even if they are "celebrities".
Except one of those people gave away their privacy willingly, readily, repeatedly and continuously in exchange for "fame and fortune" - and we should for some reason be sad cause it is coming to haunt them now.
And the other one was a victim of an assault... who has her privacy pretty much intact and locked up tight. So protected in fact, that it's left to public imagination to come up how "brutal and sustained" and "sexual" it was. Ranging from groping to a "gang rape by up to 20 muslim egyptians".
P.S. Don't know about you, but I find it absolutely hilarious how Rosen was forced to resign his fellowship at New York University - for committing a thoughtcrime. Truly a land of the free...
Remember that question the next time someone mentions how evil Chinese are for adjusting Yuan-Dollar exchange rate and making a killing out of it.
You've absolutely no way to get a positive ledger simply through the operation of the system, without stealing/pulling from someone else's ledger.
If you view "currency" as something to trade for goods, fiat currency is bad. IF you view it as a tool for manipulating markets, fiat is great.
Apparently, your view of the economy is limited to what you can hold in your hands. That does not work when you deal with planet-spanning concepts such as "currency". Or *GASP* utterly immaterial concepts such as music, video, software, education and various other "unbottleable" products of human effort. Heck, one of the reasons US dollar is not faring the same as Zimbabwean is because it is the one currency used world over to buy and sell oil with. A dollar tied to a brick of gold that no one ever spends on one side, and a ever-dwindling resource on the other would be simply torn to shreds trying to pull that off. Cause you can't just destroy gold when prices of oil soar up, and then magically make it appear again when the crisis subsides.
What you COULD do though is disrupt the global oil prices, wait for the oil-dollar-gold system to kick in, buy up a shitload of cheap gold, and then wait for the oil supply to turn back normal again. You could do that with a simple rumor. Or a single assassination. US economy would be sufficiently ruined by the time it is all settled that you could then buy up big chunks of it with essentially worthless gold. That is, unless James Bond stopped you.
Another alternative would be to let someone else control the global economy. Like Russians or Chinese. Commie-pinko utopia at last!
When you open up all the abbreviated comments above it it gets fixed. But only until you roll-em-up again.
Commenting this way feels like I'm using post-2007 MS Office with that stupid, paper wasting, default line-spacing and additional space after paragraph. Very annoying.
...did you just accidentally bump into that irrelevant thesis? Or are you just trolling?
Cause you are very much confusing someone who consciously chose to be in the spotlight for their own ego-boosting and enjoyment - and someone who was been a victim of "sexual assault". And now the person who liked the spotlight while it was warming their ego feels bad about "their make up being all smeared from the heat" and doesn't want that kind of publicity?
Sorry, but that is a COMPLETELY different category than someone who has (even *allegedly) been a victim of a CRIME. And who's privacy is obviously being handled with a little more more logic and reason than what you tried to push there, even by such a crude and cruel judge as public opinion.
Also, my personal view on the subject has about as much influence of public opinion as my ass has influence on oceanic currents and tides.
*I said "allegedly" cause, on one hand all we have so far is a very short yet VERY unclear report on something that has been characterized as "brutal and sustained sexual assault and beating" by thugs yelling, "Jew! Jew!" [sic] (Logan is not Jewish.) while at the same time being "not a rape." - and on another we have a climate of calling a very wide range of actions a "sexual assault". See: Julian Assange.
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Yeah, but that is your ordinary regular decompression.
This would an EXPLOSION AND A DECOMPRESSION. It would be much more decompressier.
TFA mentions how they "understood privacy concerns in relation to internal X-ray use". FUCK THAT!
It's not a privacy issue. It's a fucking health concern.
A fucking dentist covers you up in lead before he takes an X-ray of your teeth, and these morons want to let someone with a questionable understanding of buttons do X-rays of your gut?
A terrorist could get up in the middle of a flight, walk over to a window, take his pants down, stick his ass up on the window, and...
There you'd be thinking he was only mooning that... thing... on the wing... outside... when he would detonate.
And just imagine if he was ALREADY sitting next to a window. Cause, that is what they do. They sit next to a window waiting to blow themselves up.
Those shouldn't be called window seats at all but "terrorist seats".
Why wouldn't there be? It's a skill, not an inherited genetic trait. Plus, editors retire all the time - they don't get euthanized or taken to a glue factory.
But in general, editors are free to do freelance work as it attracts customers to their publisher.
Also, a self-publishing author doesn't really need all those editors that a publishing company might need.
Authors can't (generally speaking, I suppose some poets and spoken-word types could) go on tour and perform their craft for a live audience.
Sure they can. It's called "a reading".
"tough shit, start waiting tables and give up the writing thing if you're not popular?"
And that is different from the current business model how exactly? Sure, it ain't as bad as in music industry, but still...
Unless you are selling at least tens of thousands of each book - you're not going to be making a living from writing alone.
At 10% royalty a $20 hard copy owned by a publisher and a $2 self-published, self-marketed e-book make the same amount of money per book for the author.
Granted, minus the advance, promotion and various other services that the publisher would provide. Also, minus any copyright limitations.
If anything, authors need to demand a larger piece of a smaller cake for the e-versions of their books.
Most of the publisher's costs are non-existent for e-books, just as most of the risk. Author would probably be better off self-publishing through amazon.
I wouldn't refuse to watch more. I would refuse to watch it to begin with, just based on the description of it. Fucking sick.
Not even for science?
As for "It has to be real" claim, that they then compare to the movies... I call bullshit.
Cause... I'm not really into torture-porn movies, I like when a movie has a story and not just, how did the summary put it... "more grotesque".
But, from what I've seen, movies in general tend to be edited, so that those moments of "more grotesque" are short jabs of extreme moments - not continuous shots, as those would either point out the fakeness of the makeup/acting/effects or just make the whole thing way too "clinical" and not "scary and exciting".
So, comparing seconds of extreme violence and fake gore interspersed with shots of everything else in the movie AND continuous shots of actual or perceived harm lasting minutes... Not really the same thing.
They are not buyers. At least not any more. Or "in volume".
Printers and scanners mentioned were probably bought separately by each department and each office (it's FOREIGN office... as in... has offices around the world) "as needed" and "as available locally" over some time IN THE PAST.
It's not like it would have been wise or advisable if they had thrown their hardware out along with the OS.
From that very same parent post...
In my own experience of getting ordinary people to use computers, Linux computers needed a lot more fiddling then Windows machines.
It's not the price - it's the quantity.
After all, any fiddling would be performed by hired employees who get the same paycheck one way or the other.
But, if the quantity of daily fiddling needed exceeds the quantity of fiddling provided daily by the hired technical staff... costs WILL rise.
Either through downtime, or through overtime, or through hiring more staff, or through training costs, or all of the above.
(To those that don't get the joke, I'm playing off the use of undefined TLAs.) (Just like TLA.)
I for one welcome our Theatre of Living Arts representative.
So what RPG do you intend to use?)
Me? I'm not planing on using anything. We were talking about the Elbonian/Somalian ex-pirate that turned out to be Slashdot editor known as samzenpus.
And I guess that, had he been a Somalian he would have used whatever is available for the lowest price.
Come on, don't we have anyone here who hasn't outsourced their job to Elbonia?"
He's obviously an ex-pirate from Somalia, you insensitive clod.
I for one find it commendable that he gave up such a profitable yer risky profession of robbing people at RPG-point, to become a Slashdot editor.
I say we welcome him with open ar... Oh, wait... my bad. It's samzenpus. Nah... he doesn't outsource to Elbonia.
That's his high-quality work actually. Or low-effort work... depending how you look at it.
At least this time he didn't present "Google May Kill Chrome URL Bar" as "Google Executives Caught While Planning Murder!".
That's his "style". Why do they let him out of "idle" section is beyond me.
Pretty soon all "editors" will concentrate more on hype than on anything else, and summaries will have all the quality and integrity of io9 posts.
Just wait and see... Soulskill is already somewhat of a samzenpus-lite.
If you bothered to use your brain for a 2#$!% minute, you would realize a few things:
1) Soldiers are not out there because they wanted to, they decided to serve their country so you could stay home and play your video games. If they did not sign up in enough numbers, they would force you to serve as soon as they run out of volunteers. Remember every time that a soldier gets killed or looses his legs because of a bomb, that it could had been you out there had he and many others not volunteered.
Or cause it is the only job they can get as there are not that many opportunities around. Or to pay for college. Or cause they are members of the Green Card Brigade.
As for "your ass there instead" - there is always Canada. That is, unless your dad can arrange for you to "serve" behind a desk somewhere.
Or to dick around in a military jet.
2) It is good to know military budget goes into medical research that can also be used to save civilians in, say, burning buildings and not entirely to develop new guns and bombs.
$9.7 billion budget divided over 5 million beneficiaries, 27,000 soldiers and 28,000 civilian employees, another 20,000 active-duty medical soldiers in field units, plus over 30,000 medical soldiers in the National Guard and Army Reserve.
That is only 1.29% of the $721.3 billion DOD budget, which is again only between 49.7 and 68% of the annual US Military budget.
So it's actually more like 0.64 - 0.87% of the total military budget, for 2011 alone.
Just to illustrate how ridiculously little that is...
A person making ~$50k a year, who would donate $50 each month to medical R&D - would do more for medical research funding, per dollar earned, then the entire military and defense budget of the United States of America.
That is less than $2 a day.
TFA is talking about "5% to 20% of combat-related injuries" - not the number of grafts that are successful.
As for why does it vary that much...
Well, data mentioned is probably taken from a source that lists various ways a soldier could be hurt - compared to various duties and services.
So, pilots might have much greater incidence of falling from a high place and breaking various bones than say.. a cook.
On another hand, drivers probably have a much higher incidence of various car accident related injuries than sailors.
Same goes for burns, or any other form of combat-related injury.
Which god(s)?
As in your, boy's and doctors'?
Also, if possible, which doctors? I'm sure many would like to be able to avoid them. Either cause are really bad doctors, or cause god obviously hates them.
We aim to please here at Slashdot.
And no, not in THAT way.
...for stupidity. Normal distribution... she is a very strict bitch. But a sexy one too.
And anyone can ring her bell, IF you know what I mean. Nudge-nudge, wink-wink, say no more...
What kind of morons do you hang around with?
Depends. Sometimes they are your regular morons, and sometimes they just don't get the jokes like the ones I made in the post above.
Those just get the "Whoosh!" sound instead. A very peculiar phenomenon indeed.
...come Christmas time.
On a positive side, many gamers will actually get to see the world. The one outside.
"So the stats come, our average customer is a woman about 30-s early 40-s, has 2 point 3 children on average. I interrupted him. I said, don't give me the average, give me the extremes, the average will take care of itself naturally"
You do realize that THAT is exactly where N-Gage came from? The very extreme value on the curve representing a normal distribution of mobile phone users.
If you are a gamer enough that you'd want your phone to come with a thick joystick pad, wouldn't you rather go the extra inch, and get yourself a separate PSP, that is the solid experience, and then some phone, as you need.
But if you are a gamer looking for a new "smart" phone, and along comes such a phone by a major manufacturer of phones AND game consoles, and such phone happens to also be a dedicated gaming console...
Yeah... you're absolutely right.
You should instead buy 3 iPhones and an iPad (make that 2 iPads), and 5 iPods and you'd be all set. I mean... we all know that iPad is actually the future of gaming.
And you should always have your gadgets completely separated. One for music, one for video watching, one for video recording, one for storage, one for audio recording, one for audio listening, one for a flashlight, one for a fleshlight...
Many phones make great casual gaming devices. But this poor hybrid will see the same sad destiny as other gaming phones we've seen in the past.
But, but, but... you just said that phones are great casual gaming devices. You mean to say all these phones were actually abysmal failures?
Or are you actually saying that it will be an iPhone killer?
Oh and if you get it, don't get carried away playing for too long, or else you can't make critical calls on a wasted battery. Sucks, I know.
Yeah... I know. I hate when Wi-Fi does that.
Let's say that hummingbirds come in sizes (or weights) 1 to 5.
Average sized hummingbird would then be the sum of those sizes, divided by the number of sizes available. I.e. (1+2+3+4+5)/5 = 3
So the "average hummingbird size" would be 3, while the largest hummingbird size would be 5.
So, if this artificial hummingbird is "larger and heavier than an average hummingbird, but is smaller and lighter than the largest hummingbird currently found in nature" - that means that it's size is somewhere between 3 and 5.
If you weren't trolling there... well... don't know how to break it to you... then you are pretty darn clueless.
My point, both people deserve privacy even if they are "celebrities".
Except one of those people gave away their privacy willingly, readily, repeatedly and continuously in exchange for "fame and fortune" - and we should for some reason be sad cause it is coming to haunt them now.
And the other one was a victim of an assault... who has her privacy pretty much intact and locked up tight.
So protected in fact, that it's left to public imagination to come up how "brutal and sustained" and "sexual" it was.
Ranging from groping to a "gang rape by up to 20 muslim egyptians".
P.S. Don't know about you, but I find it absolutely hilarious how Rosen was forced to resign his fellowship at New York University - for committing a thoughtcrime.
Truly a land of the free...
Like the next generation of iThing being made of silver or gold. Target demographic would probably eat that right up.
As an added bonus, silver one could be marketed as "color-changing" - from silver to black.
In the future they should make them heavier. That should fix things.
How is that a benefit?
Remember that question the next time someone mentions how evil Chinese are for adjusting Yuan-Dollar exchange rate and making a killing out of it.
You've absolutely no way to get a positive ledger simply through the operation of the system, without stealing/pulling from someone else's ledger.
If you view "currency" as something to trade for goods, fiat currency is bad. IF you view it as a tool for manipulating markets, fiat is great.
Apparently, your view of the economy is limited to what you can hold in your hands.
That does not work when you deal with planet-spanning concepts such as "currency". Or *GASP* utterly immaterial concepts such as music, video, software, education and various other "unbottleable" products of human effort.
Heck, one of the reasons US dollar is not faring the same as Zimbabwean is because it is the one currency used world over to buy and sell oil with.
A dollar tied to a brick of gold that no one ever spends on one side, and a ever-dwindling resource on the other would be simply torn to shreds trying to pull that off.
Cause you can't just destroy gold when prices of oil soar up, and then magically make it appear again when the crisis subsides.
What you COULD do though is disrupt the global oil prices, wait for the oil-dollar-gold system to kick in, buy up a shitload of cheap gold, and then wait for the oil supply to turn back normal again. You could do that with a simple rumor. Or a single assassination.
US economy would be sufficiently ruined by the time it is all settled that you could then buy up big chunks of it with essentially worthless gold.
That is, unless James Bond stopped you.
Another alternative would be to let someone else control the global economy. Like Russians or Chinese. Commie-pinko utopia at last!
When you open up all the abbreviated comments above it it gets fixed. But only until you roll-em-up again.
Commenting this way feels like I'm using post-2007 MS Office with that stupid, paper wasting, default line-spacing and additional space after paragraph. Very annoying.
...did you just accidentally bump into that irrelevant thesis? Or are you just trolling?
Cause you are very much confusing someone who consciously chose to be in the spotlight for their own ego-boosting and enjoyment - and someone who was been a victim of "sexual assault".
And now the person who liked the spotlight while it was warming their ego feels bad about "their make up being all smeared from the heat" and doesn't want that kind of publicity?
Sorry, but that is a COMPLETELY different category than someone who has (even *allegedly) been a victim of a CRIME.
And who's privacy is obviously being handled with a little more more logic and reason than what you tried to push there, even by such a crude and cruel judge as public opinion.
Also, my personal view on the subject has about as much influence of public opinion as my ass has influence on oceanic currents and tides.
*I said "allegedly" cause, on one hand all we have so far is a very short yet VERY unclear report on something that has been characterized as "brutal and sustained sexual assault and beating" by thugs yelling, "Jew! Jew!" [sic] (Logan is not Jewish.) while at the same time being "not a rape." - and on another we have a climate of calling a very wide range of actions a "sexual assault".
See: Julian Assange.