Obviously, he should have set it to a photo of two women kissing. Then the teacher wouldn't have been so mad!
How do you know that the two "men" weren't really two transgendered women, who haven't yet requested various departments (DMV etc) to change to their gender, so officially are still female?
I think it is clearer to say 'in the likelihood that the request is denied'.
But those 3 extra words take up space on the newspaper page that could have been used for something else (advertising?). Yeah I know I read this off a web-page, but the editors of said page would have been educated old skool and are happy to cut out superfluous words.
As written it sounds like an Indian-English-ism
I only get that effect when I shake my head from side to side as I read the sentence.
It's interesting that the majority of examples of the word "revise" in the Oxford dictionary is to change things. The only exception is when referring to studying for exams, etc. "Revising" is definitely a word that is not used this way in the US or in Canada, where I grew up.
To me, this usage of revise (to study) is perfectly cromulent. The only problem I have with it is when I use it in this manner around Americans, who basically say "WTF? What are you going to change?"
Who the fuck writes "but keeps revising in likelihood request is denied". That isn't even English.
I hate to burst your bubble, but that is English, and British English at that. Revise is being used in the sense of to study:
reread work done previously to improve one's knowledge of a subject, typically to prepare for an examination. "students frantically revising for exams"
Perhaps your knowledge of English, is shall we say.. in need of revision?
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“[The ordinance] states that when a person is operating a vehicle they must provide full attention to the driving so that it won’t render that action to be unsafe
So the big question is how would that law treat a car which drives itself? And how will cops make a decision whether behavior of the person in the drivers seat counts as distracted driving or is simply the person taking advantage of an autonomous mode? I can see a lot of people being pulled over and booked when they were not actually driving the car. And even if cops can recognize an autonomous car, how do they know what mode it was driving in?
I said no such thing, and you are deliberately mis-representing my position for your own benefit - as can be seen by your ignoring the anything past the first sentence in my first paragraph. However I will concede that perhaps I should have prepended my statement with "in general".
So why have you ignored my US/Saudi comment? Do you think that the US should be a country of "do as I say and not as I do' in the international realm? Do you salivate at the application of the monroe doctrine? Do you support the takedown of Iran in the 50's?
See, I can make up all sorts of attacks (framed as questions) just like you.
One one hand I agree with her sentiments. But her view needs to expand beyond attacking a couple of people. IMHO the US has a bizarre relationship with the Saudis, who seem to be able to get away with a shitload of things that other countries in the middle east get beat down for. But I cannot explain why the US turns a blind eye to it all, except possibly in the name of oil.
On the other hand, she said all of this on Hannity, and he is not known to be the bastion of logic (or even at times coherent thought). And I say this from first hand listening experience. In addition during the last US federal election Hannity was basically running an "anybody but Hillary" campaign, so I am not surprised by the "Hillary bashing" coming out on that show now.
Disclaimer, I can't vote in US elections. So don't start accusing me of being for or against any political party. I merely observe.
The authors found that batteries appear on track to reach $230 per kilowatt-hour by 2018. The authors found that batteries appear on track to reach $230 per kilowatt-hour by 2018.
Perhaps some time after 2018 we will see editing of article summaries before they go to the front page as well? Nah, probably not.
Oh come on.. you are such a debbie downer. Don't you see the fantastic new technology that Dice is deploying to/.??? Duping the story used to take days, if not weeks. Now with the latest auto-dupe code they are pushing the limits and attempting to dupe the story within itself!
I think the big issue with the Heartbleed bug was that the OpenSSL code base was so egregiously poorly written and maintained that eyeballs started bleeding whenever they looked at it. imo, the OpenSSL code base never had enough eyeballs looking at it to make its bugs shallow. It was painful to look at, so eyeballs avoided looking at it.
I agree. Heatbleed is not a counter example, it is simply evidence that the original "Linus's Law" was not complete. A better version of it would be
Given enough eyeball hours, all bugs are shallow
With the definition of "enough" being dependent on the complexity of the code in question.
Except that very few people will actually be writing new code for their cars. Far more likely a few experts will do some mods and distribute it to any who want with instructions on how to install it. People who change their own brakes aren't manufacturing the brake pads in their garage - they are buying some third party hardware and following general procedures for installing them.
You're comparing apples (code) to oranges (break pads). Third party manufactured break pads will be subject to some oversight and regulation, especially as you can't just whip up break pads in your garage. On the other hand you are suggesting that anyone who really wants to can modify and install software without oversight or regulation - and that is not something I'd like to see in safety critical systems.
And if the people writing the code have to get it certified before it can be used, then that puts them on the level of car manufactures right now, and sort of defeats what is being proposed by the EFF, as you will still not really own the code that is in your car.
Brakes tend to be one of the easiest jobs going. Disk brakes maybe 10 minutes or so Drum brakes can take a bit longer. It is not a hard job. At least the dust is less toxic these days.
What the OP is alluding to is working on the code that controls things like the ABS, not the physical brakes themselves.
Wasn't the NSA accused of suggesting/modifying various encryption standards in order to weaken them? In which case they don't need back doors into the software as they can already unlock the data.
The current regulation does not prohibit travel by U.S. citizens to Cuba per se, but it makes it illegal for U.S. citizens to have transactions (spend money or receive gifts) in Cuba under most circumstances without a US government Office of Foreign Assets Control issued license.[21] Since even paying unavoidable airfare ticket taxes into a Cuban airport would violate this transaction law, it is effectively impossible for ordinary tourists to visit Cuba without breaking the monetary transaction rule.
The "OMG Ponies!" day was the best, but I'm liking the posts so far and found this amusing.
Yes they are amusing, but that is not what April fools day is about. It is supposed to be about (in western parlance - I'm not sure about other cultures) things from fooling you into believing something that isn't so all the way to outright pie in the face (ponies)
What we have here is someone not quite getting what the day is meant to about and as a result most of us are cringing rather than laughing.
Given that I am not a rocket scientist I just realized that I made an assumption about satellites in geosync orbits - that I don't know if the inclination of the earth is such that a satellite in a geosync orbit is always in sunlight.
I just took a look at that site, and while in general I agree with his conclusions, I am perplexed by some of the math that he uses.
For example I do not see why Tg is different for ground based versus space based systems, and why it so not eliminated as per the E term (and why is Tg higher for a space based system?). And the links he supplied for the lifetime of space based cells are frankly puzzling to me as I cannot see anything in them that backs up his assertions (which is different from saying his assertions are false).
In addition while a space based system has issues with transmission and degradation, he leaves out the fact that a space based PV system operates 24/7 with continuous output compared to an earth based system that has to deal with the vagaries of weather and that pesky thing called "night". Thus an Earth based PV system will always have to have additional non-PV infrastructure in order to deliver comparable energy delivery. So that will also change the overall economics.
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Obviously, he should have set it to a photo of two women kissing. Then the teacher wouldn't have been so mad!
How do you know that the two "men" weren't really two transgendered women, who haven't yet requested various departments (DMV etc) to change to their gender, so officially are still female?
I think it is clearer to say 'in the likelihood that the request is denied'.
But those 3 extra words take up space on the newspaper page that could have been used for something else (advertising?). Yeah I know I read this off a web-page, but the editors of said page would have been educated old skool and are happy to cut out superfluous words.
As written it sounds like an Indian-English-ism
I only get that effect when I shake my head from side to side as I read the sentence.
It's interesting that the majority of examples of the word "revise" in the Oxford dictionary is to change things. The only exception is when referring to studying for exams, etc. "Revising" is definitely a word that is not used this way in the US or in Canada, where I grew up.
To me, this usage of revise (to study) is perfectly cromulent. The only problem I have with it is when I use it in this manner around Americans, who basically say "WTF? What are you going to change?"
Who the fuck writes "but keeps revising in likelihood request is denied". That isn't even English.
I hate to burst your bubble, but that is English, and British English at that. Revise is being used in the sense of to study:
reread work done previously to improve one's knowledge of a subject, typically to prepare for an examination.
"students frantically revising for exams"
Perhaps your knowledge of English, is shall we say .. in need of revision?
Combine this with Googles new automated interview techniques and you can have people being moved automatically from company to company!
Imagine waking up and getting a message saying
Dear OzPeter,
We are sorry to hear that ABC Widget company has let you go. But don't worry, overnight you details were submitted to 14 different companies in your area who subscribe to Googles "Match Me" recruiting service. Based on information automatically provided by ABC Widget co through their Netflix firing algorithm, 9 of those companies bid on you, and we are happy to announce that you are now employed by XYZ Financial services.
Congratulations on your new position!
Please see the attached map to find your way to your new place of work.
Would you like us to update your:
Facebook status y/n?
Linked In profile: y/n?
Twitter account: y/n?
MySpace page: y/n?
Just today I saw this story Vegas woman gets $200 distracted driving ticket for applying lip balm at a red light. Apparently in Vegas the law is pretty vague, but strictly enforced.
“[The ordinance] states that when a person is operating a vehicle they must provide full attention to the driving so that it won’t render that action to be unsafe
So the big question is how would that law treat a car which drives itself? And how will cops make a decision whether behavior of the person in the drivers seat counts as distracted driving or is simply the person taking advantage of an autonomous mode? I can see a lot of people being pulled over and booked when they were not actually driving the car. And even if cops can recognize an autonomous car, how do they know what mode it was driving in?
You agree with pandering?
I said no such thing, and you are deliberately mis-representing my position for your own benefit - as can be seen by your ignoring the anything past the first sentence in my first paragraph. However I will concede that perhaps I should have prepended my statement with "in general".
So why have you ignored my US/Saudi comment? Do you think that the US should be a country of "do as I say and not as I do' in the international realm? Do you salivate at the application of the monroe doctrine? Do you support the takedown of Iran in the 50's?
See, I can make up all sorts of attacks (framed as questions) just like you.
One one hand I agree with her sentiments. But her view needs to expand beyond attacking a couple of people. IMHO the US has a bizarre relationship with the Saudis, who seem to be able to get away with a shitload of things that other countries in the middle east get beat down for. But I cannot explain why the US turns a blind eye to it all, except possibly in the name of oil.
On the other hand, she said all of this on Hannity, and he is not known to be the bastion of logic (or even at times coherent thought). And I say this from first hand listening experience. In addition during the last US federal election Hannity was basically running an "anybody but Hillary" campaign, so I am not surprised by the "Hillary bashing" coming out on that show now.
Disclaimer, I can't vote in US elections. So don't start accusing me of being for or against any political party. I merely observe.
The authors found that batteries appear on track to reach $230 per kilowatt-hour by 2018. The authors found that batteries appear on track to reach $230 per kilowatt-hour by 2018.
Perhaps some time after 2018 we will see editing of article summaries before they go to the front page as well? Nah, probably not.
Oh come on .. you are such a debbie downer. Don't you see the fantastic new technology that Dice is deploying to /.??? Duping the story used to take days, if not weeks. Now with the latest auto-dupe code they are pushing the limits and attempting to dupe the story within itself!
Mind blown!!!!!
I think the big issue with the Heartbleed bug was that the OpenSSL code base was so egregiously poorly written and maintained that eyeballs started bleeding whenever they looked at it. imo, the OpenSSL code base never had enough eyeballs looking at it to make its bugs shallow. It was painful to look at, so eyeballs avoided looking at it.
I agree. Heatbleed is not a counter example, it is simply evidence that the original "Linus's Law" was not complete. A better version of it would be
Given enough eyeball hours, all bugs are shallow
With the definition of "enough" being dependent on the complexity of the code in question.
Except that very few people will actually be writing new code for their cars. Far more likely a few experts will do some mods and distribute it to any who want with instructions on how to install it. People who change their own brakes aren't manufacturing the brake pads in their garage - they are buying some third party hardware and following general procedures for installing them.
You're comparing apples (code) to oranges (break pads). Third party manufactured break pads will be subject to some oversight and regulation, especially as you can't just whip up break pads in your garage. On the other hand you are suggesting that anyone who really wants to can modify and install software without oversight or regulation - and that is not something I'd like to see in safety critical systems.
And if the people writing the code have to get it certified before it can be used, then that puts them on the level of car manufactures right now, and sort of defeats what is being proposed by the EFF, as you will still not really own the code that is in your car.
Brakes tend to be one of the easiest jobs going. Disk brakes maybe 10 minutes or so Drum brakes can take a bit longer. It is not a hard job. At least the dust is less toxic these days.
What the OP is alluding to is working on the code that controls things like the ABS, not the physical brakes themselves.
We need to audit the auditors of the auditors as well.
So it's auditors all the way down?
Is this a deliberate choice of quote,or just randomly apropos?
You can fool all the people all of the time if the advertising is right and the budget is big enough. -- Joseph E. Levine
Wasn't the NSA accused of suggesting/modifying various encryption standards in order to weaken them? In which case they don't need back doors into the software as they can already unlock the data.
There is no constitutional authority for the federal government to prohibit us from visiting Cuba and spending money there.
-jcr
Technically there is no travel ban. You are just prohibited from spending money or receiving gifts in Cuba without a government license.
From United States embargo against Cuba
The current regulation does not prohibit travel by U.S. citizens to Cuba per se, but it makes it illegal for U.S. citizens to have transactions (spend money or receive gifts) in Cuba under most circumstances without a US government Office of Foreign Assets Control issued license.[21] Since even paying unavoidable airfare ticket taxes into a Cuban airport would violate this transaction law, it is effectively impossible for ordinary tourists to visit Cuba without breaking the monetary transaction rule.
Well, if we'd be in - say - September, that article would clearly indicate slashdot has been severely hacked.
We can only hope!
The "OMG Ponies!" day was the best, but I'm liking the posts so far and found this amusing.
Yes they are amusing, but that is not what April fools day is about. It is supposed to be about (in western parlance - I'm not sure about other cultures) things from fooling you into believing something that isn't so all the way to outright pie in the face (ponies)
What we have here is someone not quite getting what the day is meant to about and as a result most of us are cringing rather than laughing.
I agree .. reads like a bad Onion story.
Blackjack and hookers!
How many Eddie Murphy movies should the owner be forced by law to screen?
Torture is also illegal
IMHO the Hobby Lobby comes down to
Workers have to submit to the religious beliefs of the company's owners
And that was a decision by the Supreme Court.
Given that I am not a rocket scientist I just realized that I made an assumption about satellites in geosync orbits - that I don't know if the inclination of the earth is such that a satellite in a geosync orbit is always in sunlight.
This stupid idea gets floated every few years. It doesn't work, even in theory. Do the math yourself.
https://matter2energy.wordpress.com/2012/03/17/the-maury-equation-redux/
I just took a look at that site, and while in general I agree with his conclusions, I am perplexed by some of the math that he uses.
For example I do not see why Tg is different for ground based versus space based systems, and why it so not eliminated as per the E term (and why is Tg higher for a space based system?). And the links he supplied for the lifetime of space based cells are frankly puzzling to me as I cannot see anything in them that backs up his assertions (which is different from saying his assertions are false).
In addition while a space based system has issues with transmission and degradation, he leaves out the fact that a space based PV system operates 24/7 with continuous output compared to an earth based system that has to deal with the vagaries of weather and that pesky thing called "night". Thus an Earth based PV system will always have to have additional non-PV infrastructure in order to deliver comparable energy delivery. So that will also change the overall economics.
The WH has plenty of very secure infrastructure but you can't see it because it is underground.
And all the stuff rumored to be on the roof as well.