Sometimes doing something can be worse than not doing anything - that can be true sometimes, but nobody has suggested it's the case here. However the question has been asked "Why not place them into an area that is thought to be part of their normal migratory route?" Which is an interesting point.
Of course it's not like the US Fish and Wildlife Service hasn't considered that. [...] releasing the turtles on sand allows scientists to assess how they are coping with the move. The process also mimics turtles' natural behaviour.
I don't know which side has it right, all involved appear to have arrived at their conclusions by thoroughly considering the alternatives. I don't think it's very useful to delude ourselves that we can determine the correct approach just from a quick glance at a headline. There are lots of complex issues around - that's just the way the world works.
Linux is not just used on the desktop, it's pretty popular in the embedded world as well. Having to communicated with a single chip computer via a serial port is still a standard task in those setups.
Well - the taxi driver receives his income immediately, getting all his money in a lump sum. Authors (potentially) get paid over a period of time, as their books are sold. So if you were to set copyright e.g. for 25 years, then the income over that time would be considered the total income for the book. If the author dies after 17 years, then his children can inherit the savings from that time and the income for the remaining 8 years. Just as the taxi driver can pass all his savings to his descendants, an author should be able to do that, as well.
Well it's not that easy, I think. Someone like Christopher Reuel Tolkien (age 85) is still publishing - at that age you are more likely to be interested in earning money for your family or descendents rather than yourself. That in turn might only be possible if you are able to sell or transfer the rights to the work in some way. Still - 25 years after creation should be plenty of time to profit from the work and be a reasonable not to interfere with it becoming part of our culture and derivative works to be created. Of course Men At Work would then no longer earn any royalties on the song either.
Well if they really care about the fans (let's assume they do, for the sake of this argument) then they could provide an option where the fans can return the tickets to Ticketmaster in case they can't make it to the show for some reason. They could hold on to the money till after the show, and either refund fully (if all tickets were sold) or deduct a reasonable fee. As for the grandma problem - perhaps that could be taken care of by selling gift cards.
There are 32 national science academies which have publicly and formally declared that they agree with the theory of anthropogenic global warming and have recommended that greenhouse gases be reduced.
There is not one academy of sciences anywhere in the world which have stated that they disagree. That's a clear indicator of scientific consensus to put it mildly.
Certainly your point about putting faith in people is correct. None of us is able to investigate every single issue all by themselves, so you do need to find people who you can trust. However trusting someone is not the same as trusting anyone. It makes sense to trust someone on a personal issue when you've known them for decades, and when you've always found them to be reliable and honest. Similarly science has an incredible track record when it comes to finding out the truth, the Royal Society has a great reputation as a scientific institution, academic degrees and respect of peers in the field are on average pretty good indicators of a person's capabilities.
If you want to base political action on established science, then you need to act now. You'll never get a clearer indication than you already have. If you don't, then you need to base political action on something else - religion, fortune telling, gut feeling, wishful thinking or astrology don't seem good choices to me.
Well yeah, but just because an encryption method is theoretically secure doesn't mean that the implementation is bug-free and unbreakable. The interesting part is that the FBI apparently hasn't found a way to break it (through other means, *not* brute-forcing).
Right, but even if in the applicable jurisdiction you are required to give them the key, you have now complied with the agreement. Nobody can prove you haven't. Assuming you are in a civilized country that's already sufficient to protect your data. It doesn't work in othe
Well you don't necessarily need to recover on the fly. Seeing that your device has somehow entered an invalid state you could go through reset, run BIST (to make sure that nothing is permanently damaged) and restart the application. Log the event, so that if it happens frequently you can conclude something is damaged. It really depends on what you want to do though - if you have a mechanical backup system (e.g. power-steering, power-brakes) then "fail silent" is good enough (manual steering and manual braking would still be available). If you only have that system (e.g. steer-by-wire) you would probably want "fail operational" (like triple-voting).
Of course, most of the errors are going to be in the software (that's about a factor 10 for the complexity of the overall system, so between 10 and 10^2 times more likely to attract errors), so realistically you'd probably be better off to have two independent algorithms checking each other. That's very expensive in terms of development effort though, and hardware is comparably cheap.
The IT field is particularly nasty if you want to balance your home and work life.
Well, depends on what kind of task you do. IT can be a pretty good field to balance home and work, e.g. you can work from home and have flexible hours. That's great when you need to take care of a sick child, have a doctor's appointment in the middle of the afternoon, etc.
Devices like that are available in the automotive field, as well. Freescale makes this one: http://www.freescale.com/webapp/sps/site/prod_summary.jsp?code=MPC564xL
It has ECC on RAMs and Flash, Logic BIST and Memory BIST at reset and two CPUs running in lockstep which are constantly monitored by hardware.
Well then Fritz!Box 7390: http://www.avm.de/en/press/announcements/2010/2010_03_02_5.php3 It has 802.11n (2.4 GHz or 5 GHz), two USB 2.0 ports, gigabit Ethernet, VDSL and ADSL, print and media server, internal storage - also acts as a DECT base for cordless phones.
I don't really understand why we are still thinking of computers and networks like these huge expensive mainframes which fill entire houses and where you have to carefully maintain schedules of computing time and the like. Computers today are comparable to desks. They are as commonplace and as expensive as desks. Most people would laugh at the idea that you would need to sign a "desk usage policy" that there'd be someone employed to check that you are using your desk in accordance with company guidelines, that it would be an issue what an employee stores in their desk or whether an employee pens a private note on his desk.
Not particularly relevant though - the 1% calculation was only used as a reference point, there are no plans to actually supply the world's electricity demand via this route. The plan is for this to merely be one of the means by which to reach the EU's 20% renewables goal.
Expected lifespan is also subject to measurement error or outright lying (small shithole third world countries)
Ok, here is the list: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_life_expectancy - US is at place 38 with 78.2 years. The countries with higher life expectancy are mainly highly developed countries, but there are some exceptions - which ones would you discount as "potentially lying"? There are a few very small ones (like Malta, Luxembourg etc) but there are plenty left if you discount those in order to avoid "measurement error". Which ones do you want to remove as "too small"? Other countries make poor health choices, too. Yet the UK is at 79.4 years, Canada at 80.7 years.
I don't have a problem with debating the statistics, but so far you've only made claims that somehow they are flawed. Where are those flaws? What would the life expectancy of the US be, if it were to use the Canadian measurement system, what would infant mortality be if you adjust for the UK's definition of "nonviable"? Is there a credible medical organization which backs up these adjusted numbers?
It's a bit curious isn't it, that all the statistics just happen to favour all the other countries but the US?
The "health" improvements we've seen in the last decade+ can largely be chalked up to people returning to healthier natural diets, not the wonders of modern medicine.
I think there are still viruses around which spread via documents (word macro viruses and the like). Also the USB-stick path would still be an interesting way to spread viruses.
Ah yes you are right - sorry I overlooked that. Not sure if the light output is comparable though - you need to be able to illuminate a small room or read by the light of the lamp.
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Of course it's not like the US Fish and Wildlife Service hasn't considered that. [...] releasing the turtles on sand allows scientists to assess how they are coping with the move. The process also mimics turtles' natural behaviour.
I don't know which side has it right, all involved appear to have arrived at their conclusions by thoroughly considering the alternatives. I don't think it's very useful to delude ourselves that we can determine the correct approach just from a quick glance at a headline. There are lots of complex issues around - that's just the way the world works.
That's not really the expertise of 2012 nut jobs - you'll need some 11002012 nut jobs.
From TFA: The last extinction event in this chain happened 11 million years ago.
Sounds nice but is wrong: In the United States at the end of 2001, 10% of the population owned 71% of the wealth and the top 1% owned 38%.
Linux is not just used on the desktop, it's pretty popular in the embedded world as well. Having to communicated with a single chip computer via a serial port is still a standard task in those setups.
Well - the taxi driver receives his income immediately, getting all his money in a lump sum. Authors (potentially) get paid over a period of time, as their books are sold. So if you were to set copyright e.g. for 25 years, then the income over that time would be considered the total income for the book. If the author dies after 17 years, then his children can inherit the savings from that time and the income for the remaining 8 years. Just as the taxi driver can pass all his savings to his descendants, an author should be able to do that, as well.
A contract between the designer and the campaign only binds these two parties.
No, you only need to defend trademarks.
Well it's not that easy, I think. Someone like Christopher Reuel Tolkien (age 85) is still publishing - at that age you are more likely to be interested in earning money for your family or descendents rather than yourself. That in turn might only be possible if you are able to sell or transfer the rights to the work in some way. Still - 25 years after creation should be plenty of time to profit from the work and be a reasonable not to interfere with it becoming part of our culture and derivative works to be created. Of course Men At Work would then no longer earn any royalties on the song either.
Well if they really care about the fans (let's assume they do, for the sake of this argument) then they could provide an option where the fans can return the tickets to Ticketmaster in case they can't make it to the show for some reason. They could hold on to the money till after the show, and either refund fully (if all tickets were sold) or deduct a reasonable fee. As for the grandma problem - perhaps that could be taken care of by selling gift cards.
If it comes to insightful statements about the internet, I'd suggest to look elsewhere.
I don't think that's generally true, though admittedly it can be difficult depending on the issue. It's rather straightforward in this particular case: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scientific_opinion_on_climate_change
There are 32 national science academies which have publicly and formally declared that they agree with the theory of anthropogenic global warming and have recommended that greenhouse gases be reduced. There is not one academy of sciences anywhere in the world which have stated that they disagree. That's a clear indicator of scientific consensus to put it mildly.
Certainly your point about putting faith in people is correct. None of us is able to investigate every single issue all by themselves, so you do need to find people who you can trust. However trusting someone is not the same as trusting anyone. It makes sense to trust someone on a personal issue when you've known them for decades, and when you've always found them to be reliable and honest. Similarly science has an incredible track record when it comes to finding out the truth, the Royal Society has a great reputation as a scientific institution, academic degrees and respect of peers in the field are on average pretty good indicators of a person's capabilities.
If you want to base political action on established science, then you need to act now. You'll never get a clearer indication than you already have. If you don't, then you need to base political action on something else - religion, fortune telling, gut feeling, wishful thinking or astrology don't seem good choices to me.
Well yeah, but just because an encryption method is theoretically secure doesn't mean that the implementation is bug-free and unbreakable. The interesting part is that the FBI apparently hasn't found a way to break it (through other means, *not* brute-forcing).
Right, but even if in the applicable jurisdiction you are required to give them the key, you have now complied with the agreement. Nobody can prove you haven't. Assuming you are in a civilized country that's already sufficient to protect your data. It doesn't work in othe
Of course, most of the errors are going to be in the software (that's about a factor 10 for the complexity of the overall system, so between 10 and 10^2 times more likely to attract errors), so realistically you'd probably be better off to have two independent algorithms checking each other. That's very expensive in terms of development effort though, and hardware is comparably cheap.
Well, depends on what kind of task you do. IT can be a pretty good field to balance home and work, e.g. you can work from home and have flexible hours. That's great when you need to take care of a sick child, have a doctor's appointment in the middle of the afternoon, etc.
Devices like that are available in the automotive field, as well. Freescale makes this one: http://www.freescale.com/webapp/sps/site/prod_summary.jsp?code=MPC564xL It has ECC on RAMs and Flash, Logic BIST and Memory BIST at reset and two CPUs running in lockstep which are constantly monitored by hardware.
I haven't tried that, but apparently it is possible to use the print server under linux, e.g: http://forums.opensuse.org/get-help-here/hardware/397751-how-connect-usb-laser-printer-fritz-box.html
Well then Fritz!Box 7390: http://www.avm.de/en/press/announcements/2010/2010_03_02_5.php3 It has 802.11n (2.4 GHz or 5 GHz), two USB 2.0 ports, gigabit Ethernet, VDSL and ADSL, print and media server, internal storage - also acts as a DECT base for cordless phones.
Why do we still make this fuss about computers?
Not particularly relevant though - the 1% calculation was only used as a reference point, there are no plans to actually supply the world's electricity demand via this route. The plan is for this to merely be one of the means by which to reach the EU's 20% renewables goal.
Ok, here is the list: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_life_expectancy - US is at place 38 with 78.2 years. The countries with higher life expectancy are mainly highly developed countries, but there are some exceptions - which ones would you discount as "potentially lying"? There are a few very small ones (like Malta, Luxembourg etc) but there are plenty left if you discount those in order to avoid "measurement error". Which ones do you want to remove as "too small"? Other countries make poor health choices, too. Yet the UK is at 79.4 years, Canada at 80.7 years.
I don't have a problem with debating the statistics, but so far you've only made claims that somehow they are flawed. Where are those flaws? What would the life expectancy of the US be, if it were to use the Canadian measurement system, what would infant mortality be if you adjust for the UK's definition of "nonviable"? Is there a credible medical organization which backs up these adjusted numbers?
It's a bit curious isn't it, that all the statistics just happen to favour all the other countries but the US?
Where do you get this from? Obesity seems to be on the increase - not normally an indicator of "healthier natural diets": http://www.cdc.gov/obesity/data/trends.html#State
I think there are still viruses around which spread via documents (word macro viruses and the like). Also the USB-stick path would still be an interesting way to spread viruses.
Ah yes you are right - sorry I overlooked that. Not sure if the light output is comparable though - you need to be able to illuminate a small room or read by the light of the lamp.