So why did the summary mention it having something to do only with the spinal cord? My point was that everything involving the person's perception and consciousness is involved.
One specific development build of OSX didn't work properly on a completely unsupported platform, affecting perhaps tens of people nationwide. Subsequent builds did not exhibit this problem. News at 11.
Never mind that; Snow Leopard won't run on my PowerPC-based Mac, and it's not even 6 years old! Oh, right, Apple has stated that they don't support it anymore. (just agreeing with you, showing the absurdity of expecting it to work on any x86 machine you throw at it)
How would knowing your identity reveal anything? All you see are the codes that were on your ballow next to the choices you made. Each ballot has different codes.
Yes, but keeping him in would be punishing him for something he can't control. I agree with this early release, and I think we should release all the lions and tigers from zoos immediately. Their genes make them very dangerous, and they can't help it either. I need to contact PETA...
I suspect bias. I also suspect this article was meant to be humourous. BTW an American plug can handle 15 amps easily; it's how I run my spare heater.
What matters is watts, so countries which use higher voltages will have more friendly plugs, as they won't need metal as thick, etc. At 15 amps, you could run twice the heating from a UK outlet than a US one.
I was wondering why he didn't just type up the text of the document, but realized they could put unique, subtle word changes in each copy, still tracing it back.
Weren't the ears and eyes of the voluneers also involved? If they hadn't heard the claim, it wouldn't have had the same effect (and did they actually have a control where they rubbed a cream without saying it would diminish pain, perhaps saying it would prevent damage to the skin or perhaps even that it would make it hurt more?). I'd have RTFA except it's behind a paywall.
How about having a larger cutout near the pedal, AND having the damn pedal not go so close to the floor?
But still, as others have suggested, how are you sure this is what happened? Before the idea of the pedal getting stuck under the mat was publicized, you might have considered other possibilities, like operator error. I've experienced something like this at least twice now, where I confused the brake and accelerator pedals, which was very freaky. I've traced the issue to some some operations involving lots of shuffling between the two, where instead of mentally thinking "brake... ok, now accelerator", I'm just thinking "need to alternate between moving and stopping... OK, alternate again". If it became unclear as to whether I was accelerating or braking, that would fail, and the usual response, "press harder", would make it worse. One or two of the times, it occurred while backing out of a parking space. The other was making a right turn into a gas station, just after going through a traffic light. After the turn, I was fucking accelerating towards a guy standing just outside the building, within 30 feet. He didn't seem jarred, but I sure was.
Yeah, OK, good point. The cable modem is told "don't let user receive more than X bits per second, on average". The provider is saving cost by having your modem play nice, rather than having their neighborhood server do the limiting. If you modify YOUR modem, it's just requesting more bits per second, and the neighborhood server is giving those to you without complaint.
Put that way, it kind of reminds me of the way an open WiFi access point basically says every second or more, "Hey, there's an open access point, and here's how you connect" and then when you ask for a connection, it says "Sure! Here's your IP address." but then people claim you made unauthorized access because you didn't know the owner of the access point.
God damn it, this again? All these "sudden acceleration" accidents are caused by morons "suddenly" putting their foot on the gas pedal. Afterwards, they say that the car accelerated by itself - and it's impossible to prove them wrong.
It's possible to show the likelihood of such an event by testing the vehicle many times. You might find that yes, it's fairly likely, or that it's rare, or that it has less than a 1 in a million chance.
But I have to ask, let's say I am driving and do experience this; how can I prove it happened, and prove your "you're just an idiot" claim to be false?
So you're saying that this is like a car manufacturer making a special fuel only for its own cars, other people finding that this fuel improves the performance of cars not made by the company, and then accusing the company of intentionally locking them out when it makes an improvement to the fuel that works in the company's cars but fails in other brands? If the company somehow made the fuel dispenser so that it could only be operated with their cars, people would accuse it of blatantly locking others out. So I guess they want the company to be sure the fuel works (and improves performance) in all brands of cars, even though it specifically states that the fuel is only for its own cars.
(sorry for the long post... sadly I don't think I could have shortened it much, even given an eternity)
Duplicate slashdot articles will be links back to the original one?
No, see, this de-duplication is transparent at the interface level. So while dupes won't take extra disk space on Slashdot servers, we'll still see them as normal. Isn't it nice to know that this optimization will be taking place?
Welcome to the DMCA, the same nonsense that blocks you from selling mod chips. Did you really expect to "circumvent" the locks that cable companies put in place and nothing was going to happen?
There is a difference, though. A mod chip simply affects what you can do with your own hardware, while a hacked cable modem allows theft of bandwidth (yes, theft is the proper word here). It's little different than hacking your eletric meter or water meter.
I consider my time pretty valuable to me, so when a song pops in my head that I haven't heard in 10 years, and I want to listen to it, to me, it is more beneficial to me to just spend the.99 cents on a song than it is to waste a good hour hunting down a torrent or similar and wait for it to download, just to possibly find out it wasn't what I was looking for.
Wow, I hadn't realized iTunes had slashed its prices by 99%. When did this happen?
Obama administration agreed with the Bush administration's position on the case but insists it came to the decision differently
Look on the bright side: at least he understands modularity, where you can reimplement something while maintaining backwards-compatibility. Imagine all the governmentware he would have broken if he didn't re-implement the old interface!
What I don't see is a major benefit of the ds hardware over the iphone. Yes I can pull out the game cart quickly get going with another game, but I've lost several carts and that's $40+ down the drain.
Except when their DRM server or whatever thing the device phones home to is discontinued, or your device's memory gets corrupt, or you want to play those games on another device without paying for them all again, or you want to sell a game to someone else. A physical cartridge doesn't have any of the above problems, but like you said, you have to keep from losing them.
Do they really expect anyone who isn't already driving a hybrid or electric and/or driving super-energy conscious will be interested in helping a project like this and send in Data?
Well, they could expect at least one person to send in Data (two if you count when he went back in time and left his head in a cave). Wait, what were we talking about again?
My son, 12 now, with a middle eastern name but born in the US. We travel a lot and they always flag his name for a second check. [...] It is a minor irritant at his age now, but I am very worried about him when he is an adult. We are seriously thinking about changing his name but I am not sure that it will make a difference.
Change his name? He's gotten a first-rate education in what government really is and does. Not many kids have this opportunity.
And? You are storing precise representations of the values 0.1, 25.7, and 123.4, just as the text of this message also precisely represents those values. What would it mean to store the "real" value, rather than just a representation? Anything in the physical world will be a "mere" representation of concepts like the value 25.7.
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So why did the summary mention it having something to do only with the spinal cord? My point was that everything involving the person's perception and consciousness is involved.
Never mind that; Snow Leopard won't run on my PowerPC-based Mac, and it's not even 6 years old! Oh, right, Apple has stated that they don't support it anymore. (just agreeing with you, showing the absurdity of expecting it to work on any x86 machine you throw at it)
How would knowing your identity reveal anything? All you see are the codes that were on your ballow next to the choices you made. Each ballot has different codes.
Yes, but keeping him in would be punishing him for something he can't control. I agree with this early release, and I think we should release all the lions and tigers from zoos immediately. Their genes make them very dangerous, and they can't help it either. I need to contact PETA...
What matters is watts, so countries which use higher voltages will have more friendly plugs, as they won't need metal as thick, etc. At 15 amps, you could run twice the heating from a UK outlet than a US one.
Apparently it's already splitting Slashdot stories into two.
This joke was split in two; that's why the parent post also makes the same joke.
I was wondering why he didn't just type up the text of the document, but realized they could put unique, subtle word changes in each copy, still tracing it back.
Weren't the ears and eyes of the voluneers also involved? If they hadn't heard the claim, it wouldn't have had the same effect (and did they actually have a control where they rubbed a cream without saying it would diminish pain, perhaps saying it would prevent damage to the skin or perhaps even that it would make it hurt more?). I'd have RTFA except it's behind a paywall.
How about having a larger cutout near the pedal, AND having the damn pedal not go so close to the floor?
But still, as others have suggested, how are you sure this is what happened? Before the idea of the pedal getting stuck under the mat was publicized, you might have considered other possibilities, like operator error. I've experienced something like this at least twice now, where I confused the brake and accelerator pedals, which was very freaky. I've traced the issue to some some operations involving lots of shuffling between the two, where instead of mentally thinking "brake... ok, now accelerator", I'm just thinking "need to alternate between moving and stopping... OK, alternate again". If it became unclear as to whether I was accelerating or braking, that would fail, and the usual response, "press harder", would make it worse. One or two of the times, it occurred while backing out of a parking space. The other was making a right turn into a gas station, just after going through a traffic light. After the turn, I was fucking accelerating towards a guy standing just outside the building, within 30 feet. He didn't seem jarred, but I sure was.
Yeah, why be pessimistic about creeping totalitarianism when it might help you kick some bad habits?
Yeah, OK, good point. The cable modem is told "don't let user receive more than X bits per second, on average". The provider is saving cost by having your modem play nice, rather than having their neighborhood server do the limiting. If you modify YOUR modem, it's just requesting more bits per second, and the neighborhood server is giving those to you without complaint. Put that way, it kind of reminds me of the way an open WiFi access point basically says every second or more, "Hey, there's an open access point, and here's how you connect" and then when you ask for a connection, it says "Sure! Here's your IP address." but then people claim you made unauthorized access because you didn't know the owner of the access point.
It's possible to show the likelihood of such an event by testing the vehicle many times. You might find that yes, it's fairly likely, or that it's rare, or that it has less than a 1 in a million chance.
But I have to ask, let's say I am driving and do experience this; how can I prove it happened, and prove your "you're just an idiot" claim to be false?
I guess this means a return to sneakernet? That might improve local communities, not a bad thing in itself...
(sorry for the long post... sadly I don't think I could have shortened it much, even given an eternity)
How do you know they weren't cracking a PGP'd zip archive containing secret documents about alien protein folding technology?
No, see, this de-duplication is transparent at the interface level. So while dupes won't take extra disk space on Slashdot servers, we'll still see them as normal. Isn't it nice to know that this optimization will be taking place?
There is a difference, though. A mod chip simply affects what you can do with your own hardware, while a hacked cable modem allows theft of bandwidth (yes, theft is the proper word here). It's little different than hacking your eletric meter or water meter.
Wow, I hadn't realized iTunes had slashed its prices by 99%. When did this happen?
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Look on the bright side: at least he understands modularity, where you can reimplement something while maintaining backwards-compatibility. Imagine all the governmentware he would have broken if he didn't re-implement the old interface!
Except when their DRM server or whatever thing the device phones home to is discontinued, or your device's memory gets corrupt, or you want to play those games on another device without paying for them all again, or you want to sell a game to someone else. A physical cartridge doesn't have any of the above problems, but like you said, you have to keep from losing them.
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Well, they could expect at least one person to send in Data (two if you count when he went back in time and left his head in a cave). Wait, what were we talking about again?
Change his name? He's gotten a first-rate education in what government really is and does. Not many kids have this opportunity.
And? You are storing precise representations of the values 0.1, 25.7, and 123.4, just as the text of this message also precisely represents those values. What would it mean to store the "real" value, rather than just a representation? Anything in the physical world will be a "mere" representation of concepts like the value 25.7.