is the environmental impact. I have very little knowledge of thorium and even less on how it would be used in an engine, but I think the big selling point here would be whether it's more or less environmentally friendly than gasoline. Or at least that would be the selling point for me.
There goes one of my reasons for actually using G+. I thought the point was that it was just social networking without all the bullshit. Then they bring the bullshit.
Can someone actually find anywhere in the article where it states exactly what it means by "tell in advance half of the new contacts"? Does this mean they literally pin-pointed the exact person 50% of the time ahead of time? Because that sounds like a heap of bullshit. If it just means it predicts some aspects of the next person you will friend/be friended by, then I would find it much easier to believe yet much less impressive.
Wouldn't that mean, though, that high school kids couldn't upload pictures of each-other on Facebook, unless they got consent from every person that was in the photo.
And are either of those situations supposed to be good? Not to mention the fact that this is a GOVERNMENT employee. As in, they are doing research with the TAX DOLLAR. If anything, government-employed scientists should be the least likely to be silenced.
Funnily enough, I never had these problems with the old red-blue 3d glasses. It's just with the ones they have now that I have problems. And oddly, I actually thought the movies done with the whole red-blue thing (sorry I'm really not aware of the actual technology behind it) looked a LOT better. They seemed more 3d, where things would actually pop out at you, rather than the foreground just looking slightly closer than the background. Hopefully someone on/. has some ideas for why this is, as I have very little concept of the technology behind it.
You realise that would mean just turning into terrorists ourselves, right? The thinking behind terrorists attacks is generally "I dislike what you are doing so much so that I'm going to blow up this random bunch of civilians". Now your idea is to use that exact philosophy ON THE TERRORISTS, potentially harming thousands of innocent civilians and possibly even breeding more terrorists.
I'm not going to pretend I know how to stop terrorism, but I'm fairly certain it doesn't involve using the same philosophy they're using; the only result I can picture coming from that method would be a never-ending shit-throwing fight between terrorist organizations and government pretending not to be terrorist organizations.
I'm failing to see how tracking where you drive correlates with un-warranted searching. Not to say I like this idea of being able to track where people have been driving, but I don't see that it really infringes on the 4th amendment. Unless I'm thoroughly mistaken.
I think everyone is over-estimating Anonymous. I wouldn't be surprised if they just said it would be "irresponsible" as a way of trolling EVERYONE. I mean, you would expect them to just release them with little care for anything else, but why would they just hold on to them? Answer: It's fucking funny.
From the title I was kind of expecting that they were, like, splicing human and animal genes to create human-goats or something. I was rather disappointed. Oh well, at least it was one step closer to bringing the end of humanity as we know it. I'm almost looking forward to the point where we start having philosophical debates about whether goat-humans have the same rights as full humans. Of course we would then have to have the far right groups claiming that the pure human race is superior; and the far left groups promoting acceptance of these human hybrid things. I'm really hoping they get their act together and do this within my lifetime. It would be quite a show.
Although the show does its best to hide it, Jamie Hyneman is actually an incredibly smart man with amazing credentials scientifically. I doubt the fact that he was a part of Mythbusters really had anything to do with his selection for the making of this armor. If you actually RTFA that you linked, it explicitly states "This is not Hyneman's first work with the military", implying they actually hired him because he was the man for the job, not just because somebody in the Army likes Mythbusters.
XI: Thou shalt never release Half-Life 3. Ever. EVER. Instead thou shalt waist thine time making Left 4 Dead 2 and making countless hats in Team Fortress 2.
If he is smart he will build in some sort of in "app" purchases. "Upgrade your sand blocks to golden blocks for.99 cents" or "Purchase the new sword of awesomeness for 250 Minecraft dollars".
If and when that ever happens, I will stop playing Minecraft. That would be a very good way to completely alienate your entire fanbase.
Did anyone else find this read almost exactly as an ad would? "Their prices are so low I just don't know how they get away with it! It's practically a steal!" No? Just me?
Slashdot Mirror
Does anyone else get the feeling that this is just leading up to one giant tax-evasion scheme?
"If I just put all my money on this island in international waters, how can they tax me?"
No? Just me?
is the environmental impact.
I have very little knowledge of thorium and even less on how it would be used in an engine, but I think the big selling point here would be whether it's more or less environmentally friendly than gasoline. Or at least that would be the selling point for me.
Is this 'infinite invites' very limited or 'we actually mean it this time' very limited?
There goes one of my reasons for actually using G+. I thought the point was that it was just social networking without all the bullshit.
Then they bring the bullshit.
Can someone actually find anywhere in the article where it states exactly what it means by "tell in advance half of the new contacts"? Does this mean they literally pin-pointed the exact person 50% of the time ahead of time? Because that sounds like a heap of bullshit. If it just means it predicts some aspects of the next person you will friend/be friended by, then I would find it much easier to believe yet much less impressive.
You're absolutely right. They might discover my viking heritage and that I'm genetically pre-disposed to heart disease.
This absolutely can not happen.
Wouldn't that mean, though, that high school kids couldn't upload pictures of each-other on Facebook, unless they got consent from every person that was in the photo.
Do not speak like that about the overlord! You shall be smited by the low, low prices yet surprisingly good quality of the Aldi!
And are either of those situations supposed to be good?
Not to mention the fact that this is a GOVERNMENT employee. As in, they are doing research with the TAX DOLLAR. If anything, government-employed scientists should be the least likely to be silenced.
Google could be running the world, they're just too damn incompetent.
WORK HARDER!
I can see this solving a lot of problems with lazy workers in cold climates.
Funnily enough, I never had these problems with the old red-blue 3d glasses. It's just with the ones they have now that I have problems. And oddly, I actually thought the movies done with the whole red-blue thing (sorry I'm really not aware of the actual technology behind it) looked a LOT better. They seemed more 3d, where things would actually pop out at you, rather than the foreground just looking slightly closer than the background. /. has some ideas for why this is, as I have very little concept of the technology behind it.
Hopefully someone on
You realise that would mean just turning into terrorists ourselves, right?
The thinking behind terrorists attacks is generally "I dislike what you are doing so much so that I'm going to blow up this random bunch of civilians".
Now your idea is to use that exact philosophy ON THE TERRORISTS, potentially harming thousands of innocent civilians and possibly even breeding more terrorists.
I'm not going to pretend I know how to stop terrorism, but I'm fairly certain it doesn't involve using the same philosophy they're using; the only result I can picture coming from that method would be a never-ending shit-throwing fight between terrorist organizations and government pretending not to be terrorist organizations.
I'm failing to see how tracking where you drive correlates with un-warranted searching.
Not to say I like this idea of being able to track where people have been driving, but I don't see that it really infringes on the 4th amendment. Unless I'm thoroughly mistaken.
I think everyone is over-estimating Anonymous. I wouldn't be surprised if they just said it would be "irresponsible" as a way of trolling EVERYONE. I mean, you would expect them to just release them with little care for anything else, but why would they just hold on to them?
Answer: It's fucking funny.
You say you're from the interwho?
From the title I was kind of expecting that they were, like, splicing human and animal genes to create human-goats or something. I was rather disappointed.
Oh well, at least it was one step closer to bringing the end of humanity as we know it. I'm almost looking forward to the point where we start having philosophical debates about whether goat-humans have the same rights as full humans. Of course we would then have to have the far right groups claiming that the pure human race is superior; and the far left groups promoting acceptance of these human hybrid things.
I'm really hoping they get their act together and do this within my lifetime. It would be quite a show.
Although the show does its best to hide it, Jamie Hyneman is actually an incredibly smart man with amazing credentials scientifically. I doubt the fact that he was a part of Mythbusters really had anything to do with his selection for the making of this armor. If you actually RTFA that you linked, it explicitly states "This is not Hyneman's first work with the military", implying they actually hired him because he was the man for the job, not just because somebody in the Army likes Mythbusters.
By how much? Please give us an appropriate analogy. My brain only thinks in analogies.
Not love
The exact same argument could be used to say everyone should learn how to be a mechanic.
Wait, does that count as a car analogy?
XI: Thou shalt never release Half-Life 3. Ever. EVER. Instead thou shalt waist thine time making Left 4 Dead 2 and making countless hats in Team Fortress 2.
If he is smart he will build in some sort of in "app" purchases. "Upgrade your sand blocks to golden blocks for .99 cents" or "Purchase the new sword of awesomeness for 250 Minecraft dollars".
If and when that ever happens, I will stop playing Minecraft. That would be a very good way to completely alienate your entire fanbase.
Must be right
Did anyone else find this read almost exactly as an ad would?
"Their prices are so low I just don't know how they get away with it! It's practically a steal!"
No? Just me?