Dear Dice, please let us know when you have something that wasn't reported in the major news outlets a day ago.
If you are coming here for cutting edge news, then you are in the wrong place.
The only reason I come back here is for the discussions about the stories. While I typically seen the major news pieces in other locations (and with more in-depth reporting than will ever be on/.) I haven't seen a site that comes close(*) to the/. comments section for it's structure, moderation and (gasp) insightful comments.
Many times I let the comments brew for a few hours and then read the ones that have risen to the top of the moderation system. That can give me a lot more insight into the background of a story than anywhere else.
* Yes I look at Soylent News every so often, but there is a tenth of the commenting there than there is here.
You already could. An Israeli defense firm designed a system that could fire Glocks and Uzis around a corner by the use of a folding "stock" and a camera/screen combination. It could also be fired regularly like a rifle.
Pfft.. you young people today. The Germans did it in the second world war without any fancy folding stocks Krummlauf/a.
Depends on the level of mnitoring a day. One ping a day, and inbound alerts on "quake detected"? A PIII on ADSL would probably handle that!
Or, of course, you could give the contract to EDS, and pay $38B.
You can't spec the back end system out on the non-earthquake situation.
The "value" in this guys solution is that you have a metric shitload of dumb sensors, and you process the data to determine the epicenter and then send out warnings appropriately. However once you are in an earthquake event, then you are going to get a sizable fraction of that metric shitload of sensors all instantly sending messages to the backend saying "Look at me! Look at me!", and your backend needs to be able to handle those messages without choking, perform the requisite calculations within fractions of a second, and then either get the 40 million warnings out instantly or try and decide what fraction of those warnings need to be sent - and again do that in a timely manner. . And that will take money for network infrastructure at the very least.
And given that it is intended as a life saving system you have to be able to regularly test and validate the reception of data and propagation of alert messages to a high level of certainty. Again, more costs. (If you have ever been in Hawaii then you should know that they test their tsunami sirens once a week)
Throw in some additional administrative costs for oversight and integration into *every* vendors cell network, and now you are talking about a decent chunk of change to run the entire system.
Yildirim says his Zizmos system will have virtually no installation or maintenance costs, because he plans to rely on the kindness of the crowd. Zizmos asks for volunteers to donate a tiny bit of interior wall space and a power outlet to host a sensor package, which is about the size of a deck of cards. Though these packages won’t go into the most remot areas along fault lines, and are far less sensitive than the types of sensors used by systems like ShakeAlert, the wider distribution, he says—10,000, or even 100,000 to cover California, compared with 1000 planned by the USGS—more than compensates for these deficits.
Oh my, I wonder what magical pixie dust he plans to use to bring the back end costs (setup and maintenance) to zero? A system that monitors 100,000 sensors and is capable of sending messages to almost 40 million people is not going to be done for free.
BTW Have you ever noticed that XKCD has turned into the personification of the joke about the monks sitting around and telling jokes by just saying the number out loud? Truth is truly stranger than fiction!
When I last checked a few years ago, one of the cons of using any of the HTML based app development systems was that effectively you bundle the complete source code of your app inside your app.
That said... I fail to see what exactly their problem or complaint actually is.
In this last week an anti-vaxxer group in Australia put out a post on their FB page likening forced vaccination to rape (penetration without consent). They even illustrated it with a photo of a guy standing over a women in a menacing pose and holding his hand over her mouth.
So at this point I have no clue what some of them are thinking, and wouldn't even know how to communicate with them. (Although this particular message was so off that even a lot of the anti-vaxxers who were members of that group were decrying how bad it was.)
But what is even scarier is that I saw on CNN yesterday that even ISIS is keeping up vaccinations in the territory that it controls.
So does the "Eating too quickly" reminder. That one is called "choking on your food"
These "solutions" all seem to be moving away from the idea of being aware of yourself. A cheaper, and more beneficial solution would due to take up a program of meditation.
If you don't understand that 3, 4 or 5 is the right passing score then you should have studied harder *+&
* For the humor impaired, please try and find the joke in there before you mod me down. + For the math impaired - yes there is a joke in there & For the humor AND math impaired, what the hell are you on/. for?
All they're doing is speaking the language of their user base. Slashbots are pedantic, rude and trollish. There's nothing wrong with an editor that tailors the content accordingly.
You can't control what other people say or do. But you can control how you react to it.
And labeling people who disagree with you as "hammerheads" is not a good reaction.
This is why I'm against electronic gambling. Not because of some moral "gambling is of the devil" thing... but because it would be trivial to rig these machines and then erase all evidence that anything fraudulent happened.
There was a case in Australia* with an a gaming machine based on a horse race scenario. Someone started winning big on it, and when the investigation was done it was discovered that when the game was not actively being played, it displayed a "demonstration" game.. that turned out to be the next real game that would be played (or some such). So all you had to do was to wait until the demo came on, then then when it finished, bet on the horse that one the demo.
A perfect example of stupidity in the place of malice. So while your reasoning is potentially valid (and with a nod to Dennis Ritchie and his paper on trusting compilers), there is a broader set of reasoning to be against electronic gaming.
* Writing from memory because I can't be bothered hitting google.
I've never seen a true microkernel that has the performance of a monolithic kernel. Nobody wants to buy a new computer and drag it down to a craw
Did you ever use OS-9 from Microware? (not to be confused with OS 9 from Apple)
Back in the day I ran OS-9 on a Tandy Co-Co and had a fully multi-user, pre-emptive multitasking system* running on a 6809E, 8 bit, sub 2MHz CPU. Later on I worked with a variety of industrial computers running OS-9 on 68K based systems and they worked just fine.
* I will give you that I only ever fired up the graphical desktop all of once just to see if it worked. After that I stayed in the command line.
If it ends up being Hillary Clinton vs. Jeb Bush, I will conclude it is time to flee the U.S. for a free country. Unfortunately I don't know of any countries out there that are both free enough to go to and yet stupid enough to let Americans in.
Oh well. There is always the safety of the grave to look forward to.
In both of the last elections there were a bunch of high profile people who claimed they would leave the US if Obama was (re-)elected. But when push came to shove they stayed in the US.
I'm betting that people like you will be making the same vociferous claims, and like those other people will stay in the country regardless of who wins the election. Lets face it, if you were so dis-enamored with the country that you are going to leave, then basing your decision to stay or go on something that only comes around once every 4 years is basically a crock of shit. If you are going, then you are already gone.
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Dear Dice, please let us know when you have something that wasn't reported in the major news outlets a day ago.
If you are coming here for cutting edge news, then you are in the wrong place.
The only reason I come back here is for the discussions about the stories. While I typically seen the major news pieces in other locations (and with more in-depth reporting than will ever be on /.) I haven't seen a site that comes close(*) to the /. comments section for it's structure, moderation and (gasp) insightful comments.
Many times I let the comments brew for a few hours and then read the ones that have risen to the top of the moderation system. That can give me a lot more insight into the background of a story than anywhere else.
* Yes I look at Soylent News every so often, but there is a tenth of the commenting there than there is here.
You already could. An Israeli defense firm designed a system that could fire Glocks and Uzis around a corner by the use of a folding "stock" and a camera/screen combination. It could also be fired regularly like a rifle.
Pfft .. you young people today. The Germans did it in the second world war without any fancy folding stocks Krummlauf /a.
Hmm.. the original article only seems to claim that the underground water is suitable for life, not that it was found.
Given the m vs m confusion, I don't find that all that surprising
LInk to the original publication: Deep groundwater and potential subsurface habitats beneath an Antarctic dry valley
Depends on the level of mnitoring a day. One ping a day, and inbound alerts on "quake detected"? A PIII on ADSL would probably handle that!
Or, of course, you could give the contract to EDS, and pay $38B.
You can't spec the back end system out on the non-earthquake situation.
The "value" in this guys solution is that you have a metric shitload of dumb sensors, and you process the data to determine the epicenter and then send out warnings appropriately. However once you are in an earthquake event, then you are going to get a sizable fraction of that metric shitload of sensors all instantly sending messages to the backend saying "Look at me! Look at me!", and your backend needs to be able to handle those messages without choking, perform the requisite calculations within fractions of a second, and then either get the 40 million warnings out instantly or try and decide what fraction of those warnings need to be sent - and again do that in a timely manner. . And that will take money for network infrastructure at the very least.
And given that it is intended as a life saving system you have to be able to regularly test and validate the reception of data and propagation of alert messages to a high level of certainty. Again, more costs. (If you have ever been in Hawaii then you should know that they test their tsunami sirens once a week)
Throw in some additional administrative costs for oversight and integration into *every* vendors cell network, and now you are talking about a decent chunk of change to run the entire system.
Yildirim says his Zizmos system will have virtually no installation or maintenance costs, because he plans to rely on the kindness of the crowd. Zizmos asks for volunteers to donate a tiny bit of interior wall space and a power outlet to host a sensor package, which is about the size of a deck of cards. Though these packages won’t go into the most remot areas along fault lines, and are far less sensitive than the types of sensors used by systems like ShakeAlert, the wider distribution, he says—10,000, or even 100,000 to cover California, compared with 1000 planned by the USGS—more than compensates for these deficits.
Oh my, I wonder what magical pixie dust he plans to use to bring the back end costs (setup and maintenance) to zero? A system that monitors 100,000 sensors and is capable of sending messages to almost 40 million people is not going to be done for free.
That's funny, I was thinking of https://xkcd.com/937/
BTW Have you ever noticed that XKCD has turned into the personification of the joke about the monks sitting around and telling jokes by just saying the number out loud? Truth is truly stranger than fiction!
So? How is that a con? O yeah , people still think in terms of providing a product instead of a service,.
It's cute that you think that everything can be a service. Which must be predicated on a belief that you can always access the internet.
When I last checked a few years ago, one of the cons of using any of the HTML based app development systems was that effectively you bundle the complete source code of your app inside your app.
Has this changed in recent years?
It's not a head transplant .. it's a BODY transplant.
That said... I fail to see what exactly their problem or complaint actually is.
In this last week an anti-vaxxer group in Australia put out a post on their FB page likening forced vaccination to rape (penetration without consent). They even illustrated it with a photo of a guy standing over a women in a menacing pose and holding his hand over her mouth.
So at this point I have no clue what some of them are thinking, and wouldn't even know how to communicate with them. (Although this particular message was so off that even a lot of the anti-vaxxers who were members of that group were decrying how bad it was.)
But what is even scarier is that I saw on CNN yesterday that even ISIS is keeping up vaccinations in the territory that it controls.
There are even places that rent out commercial grade simulators to the public.
Comes built-in. It's called "thirst"
So does the "Eating too quickly" reminder. That one is called "choking on your food"
These "solutions" all seem to be moving away from the idea of being aware of yourself. A cheaper, and more beneficial solution would due to take up a program of meditation.
If you don't understand that 3, 4 or 5 is the right passing score then you should have studied harder *+&
* For the humor impaired, please try and find the joke in there before you mod me down. /. for?
+ For the math impaired - yes there is a joke in there
& For the humor AND math impaired, what the hell are you on
Pilot: US Government Claims Of Plane Wi-Fi Hacking Wrong And Irresponsible
You missed the third and most important reason in TFA
Yorhmum
I bet for him, the Segway was no joke.
Early on I saw a guy with a cast on his leg using one at an airport, and thought it was a great use.
Now days all I see them used for are segway based city tours or "try a segway" sideshow events at the local state fair.
All they're doing is speaking the language of their user base. Slashbots are pedantic, rude and trollish. There's nothing wrong with an editor that tailors the content accordingly.
You can't control what other people say or do. But you can control how you react to it.
And labeling people who disagree with you as "hammerheads" is not a good reaction.
Those "Yammerheads" are your revenue source.
Just being able to use LINQ again in my professional life will be a blessing.
Is there any other language that has something comparable to LINQ?
This is why I'm against electronic gambling. Not because of some moral "gambling is of the devil" thing... but because it would be trivial to rig these machines and then erase all evidence that anything fraudulent happened.
There was a case in Australia* with an a gaming machine based on a horse race scenario. Someone started winning big on it, and when the investigation was done it was discovered that when the game was not actively being played, it displayed a "demonstration" game .. that turned out to be the next real game that would be played (or some such). So all you had to do was to wait until the demo came on, then then when it finished, bet on the horse that one the demo.
A perfect example of stupidity in the place of malice. So while your reasoning is potentially valid (and with a nod to Dennis Ritchie and his paper on trusting compilers), there is a broader set of reasoning to be against electronic gaming.
* Writing from memory because I can't be bothered hitting google.
I've never seen a true microkernel that has the performance of a monolithic kernel. Nobody wants to buy a new computer and drag it down to a craw
Did you ever use OS-9 from Microware? (not to be confused with OS 9 from Apple)
Back in the day I ran OS-9 on a Tandy Co-Co and had a fully multi-user, pre-emptive multitasking system* running on a 6809E, 8 bit, sub 2MHz CPU. Later on I worked with a variety of industrial computers running OS-9 on 68K based systems and they worked just fine.
* I will give you that I only ever fired up the graphical desktop all of once just to see if it worked. After that I stayed in the command line.
Sometimes theory doesn't live up to reality.
Yes, I've hurd that before.
If it ends up being Hillary Clinton vs. Jeb Bush, I will conclude it is time to flee the U.S. for a free country. Unfortunately I don't know of any countries out there that are both free enough to go to and yet stupid enough to let Americans in.
Oh well. There is always the safety of the grave to look forward to.
In both of the last elections there were a bunch of high profile people who claimed they would leave the US if Obama was (re-)elected. But when push came to shove they stayed in the US.
I'm betting that people like you will be making the same vociferous claims, and like those other people will stay in the country regardless of who wins the election. Lets face it, if you were so dis-enamored with the country that you are going to leave, then basing your decision to stay or go on something that only comes around once every 4 years is basically a crock of shit. If you are going, then you are already gone.
Still available (https://www.nic.sucks/domainsearch):
slashdot.sucks
Of course it is, even slashdot doesn't want Beta now!