reminiscent of the visor that Geordi La Forge wore on âoeStar Trek: The Next Generation,â but Google has also been experimenting with a version that piggybacks on regular spectacles.
Yeah I'd say it's hit-or-miss depending on the models, even today.
I've got a lot of s30's that have run like champs for years now. I don't think I've had a single one go bad yet that didn't involve something stupid (knock on wood).
I do have some of their 9650 all-in-ones for kiosk applications and some of the old... 3125's (I think?). Those have been terrible. I just replace them with s30's and similar, and they're gtg forever.
basic clams end up with like 110,000 times the radioactivity of the surrounding seawater
I'm sure you're right that that kind of concentration happens, but I'm gunna guess the NOAA folks have some idea what they're talking about when they make claims like this.
In the seafood samples, the additional radioactivity from the cesium and silver was less than the naturally occurring sources, typically only about a third. The net result is that the 137 in fish was about 150 times lower than the legal limits in Japan. Even if all the isotopes were considered, the fish would be safe to eat.
Meanwhile, the other side is claiming they can very clearly see injuries on him, which I find equally odd.
To me, he doesn't look fully healed or obviously injured in the video, because he looks like people look on average security cameras. Hell, I couldn't tell for sure if a cop had his white hand in his pants pocket... much less if someone has a broken, or nearly so, nose.
What you can tell from the video is that he doesn't have badly broken legs. That's about the sum of it. I think anything else we see is just a rorschach test.
I wasn't there, so I have no real opinion on the whole thing other than to say, "I do hope they figure out what really happened so we can put it all to rest." There are important, unanswered questions about what happened and both theories seem entirely plausible to me.
I know many have already decided what happened, even if they don't actually know. But personally, I'm uncomfortable having any opinion until there's more credible, useful information. The police station's camera really doesn't tell us much (both sides are claiming it as evidence) and the eyewitness reports are... meh.
But this situation aside, the neighborhood watch thing is a minefield. I'm all for people taking responsibility for their neighborhood. Cops can't be everywhere, all the time, and they often encourage the neighborhood watch groups. But all that stops short of harassing innocent people or going looking for confrontations when there don't need to be any.
For anything outside your home that doesn't involve violence in progress, your weapon is your damn cellphone. Heading up the street to investigate some random pedestrian, armed, is (I think obviously) just dangerous and irresponsible.
But that doesn't mean this guy is a murderer, either. So we'll see.
This is not a huge story. The Treyvon Martin story is a huge story.
I think people get a little cranky about shoehorning hot-button issues onto slashdot, for the fight, by using less-than-suitable tech stories. What's "suitable" in the first place, of course, is entirely debatable.
If they're looking to catch the daytime lurker (and likely robber), I'd imagine you'd want it to be silent. At least for this job. A real alarm can come later if necessary.
So, for this, maybe a trailcam would do the job on the cheap. Otherwise I'm sure there are webcams that do it.
Yeah I don't know. I see this new mini-store but more locations idea they're talking about as a rehashed Radio Shack model.
Except Radio Shack lives and breathes mobile phones and a few other high margin, convenience items. Small items, limited catalog, contract $'s, all packed in very few sqft.
Is that really the fight Best Buy wants? Do they have any idea how to do that successfully? Because I don't see it.
This is all kinda funny. I just started moving machines away from Chrome and back to Firefox, which I hadn't really used in years. Chrome has been buggy for me, basic functionality is still missing in certain places and it uses way more resources (with or without plugins). I guess Chrome is faster with javascript (only, iirc), but I honestly can't tell the difference in everyday use.
Also, the android version of Firefox is pretty slick. The sync has worked nicely for me and the UI stays out of my way. That's saying a lot for a mobile browser, I think.
I imagine they'd probably have an equal amount of success (none at all) at an appropriate local bar or "book store" on any given friday night, without the aggravation of a costly, low-conversion ad campaign of attempted trickery on facebook.
The part I liked was this theory that some evil character might use facebook ads to find openly gay men by targeting their demographic with ads, hoping they fall for those ads, then somehow trying to convert their clicks to identities with real contact info... so, what, they can go commit a 'hate crime'...?
Even for crazy SOB's, that's about the worst plan ever. Like, villain in a TV special, dumb.
I guess we're usually somewhere between prediction and self-fulfilling prophecy.
When you sat at home watching Star Trek, were they predicting wireless tablets with then-impossible computational and display capabilities with access to absurd amounts of information, or were they giving us the motivation to make such things... and make them equally ubiquitous?
I expect we're all agreed that tech always seems very, "of course", in retrospect. Just don't get me started on Verne.:)
I've often wondered when prosthesis will be good enough that we'll prefer them over our natural, otherwise functional parts. I guess it's just a matter of time and effort.
I might just take a prosthetic testicle, given the option and all other outcomes being equal.
Though I wonder if they don't render most of the nasty bits of this herpes virus inert. I seem to remember reading something similar about an HIV based one.
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From the Wired article...
reminiscent of the visor that Geordi La Forge wore on âoeStar Trek: The Next Generation,â but Google has also been experimenting with a version that piggybacks on regular spectacles.
Not a problem. What you want is the hardware, to do with as you'd like. :)
Or, you know, the inevitable diy versions that'll probably burn your retinas.
Yeah I'd say it's hit-or-miss depending on the models, even today.
I've got a lot of s30's that have run like champs for years now. I don't think I've had a single one go bad yet that didn't involve something stupid (knock on wood).
I do have some of their 9650 all-in-ones for kiosk applications and some of the old... 3125's (I think?). Those have been terrible. I just replace them with s30's and similar, and they're gtg forever.
basic clams end up with like 110,000 times the radioactivity of the surrounding seawater
I'm sure you're right that that kind of concentration happens, but I'm gunna guess the NOAA folks have some idea what they're talking about when they make claims like this.
In the seafood samples, the additional radioactivity from the cesium and silver was less than the naturally occurring sources, typically only about a third. The net result is that the 137 in fish was about 150 times lower than the legal limits in Japan. Even if all the isotopes were considered, the fish would be safe to eat.
Just ignore the trolls. ;)
"Why do you want to climb Mount Everest?"
"Because it's there" ~ George Mallory
I'm late to the party here, but it sounds like we need version control with diff callouts for slashdot summaries.
Just a guess. ;)
Meanwhile, the other side is claiming they can very clearly see injuries on him, which I find equally odd.
To me, he doesn't look fully healed or obviously injured in the video, because he looks like people look on average security cameras. Hell, I couldn't tell for sure if a cop had his white hand in his pants pocket... much less if someone has a broken, or nearly so, nose.
What you can tell from the video is that he doesn't have badly broken legs. That's about the sum of it. I think anything else we see is just a rorschach test.
I wasn't there, so I have no real opinion on the whole thing other than to say, "I do hope they figure out what really happened so we can put it all to rest." There are important, unanswered questions about what happened and both theories seem entirely plausible to me.
I know many have already decided what happened, even if they don't actually know. But personally, I'm uncomfortable having any opinion until there's more credible, useful information. The police station's camera really doesn't tell us much (both sides are claiming it as evidence) and the eyewitness reports are... meh.
But this situation aside, the neighborhood watch thing is a minefield. I'm all for people taking responsibility for their neighborhood. Cops can't be everywhere, all the time, and they often encourage the neighborhood watch groups. But all that stops short of harassing innocent people or going looking for confrontations when there don't need to be any.
For anything outside your home that doesn't involve violence in progress, your weapon is your damn cellphone. Heading up the street to investigate some random pedestrian, armed, is (I think obviously) just dangerous and irresponsible.
But that doesn't mean this guy is a murderer, either. So we'll see.
This is not a huge story. The Treyvon Martin story is a huge story.
I think people get a little cranky about shoehorning hot-button issues onto slashdot, for the fight, by using less-than-suitable tech stories. What's "suitable" in the first place, of course, is entirely debatable.
If they're looking to catch the daytime lurker (and likely robber), I'd imagine you'd want it to be silent. At least for this job. A real alarm can come later if necessary.
So, for this, maybe a trailcam would do the job on the cheap. Otherwise I'm sure there are webcams that do it.
Yeah I don't know. I see this new mini-store but more locations idea they're talking about as a rehashed Radio Shack model.
Except Radio Shack lives and breathes mobile phones and a few other high margin, convenience items. Small items, limited catalog, contract $'s, all packed in very few sqft.
Is that really the fight Best Buy wants? Do they have any idea how to do that successfully? Because I don't see it.
Erm... how much more than a summary would you expect in a single post on slashdot?
I have no real opinion on it all, but was there some part of what he said that you actually disagreed with?
This is all kinda funny. I just started moving machines away from Chrome and back to Firefox, which I hadn't really used in years. Chrome has been buggy for me, basic functionality is still missing in certain places and it uses way more resources (with or without plugins). I guess Chrome is faster with javascript (only, iirc), but I honestly can't tell the difference in everyday use.
Also, the android version of Firefox is pretty slick. The sync has worked nicely for me and the UI stays out of my way. That's saying a lot for a mobile browser, I think.
But to each their own I guess.
Besides which, it seems like this should've been more of a slickdeals article than a slashdot one.
I guess I'm just getting old and hypercritical. :)
Exactly right. Nothing like a shitty summary to get the crowd all up-in-arms, though.
Good to know. That also kinda takes the hurt off the $28 million price tag for a gut job.
I imagine they'd probably have an equal amount of success (none at all) at an appropriate local bar or "book store" on any given friday night, without the aggravation of a costly, low-conversion ad campaign of attempted trickery on facebook.
"Cybernetic implants" sounds even cooler. I think I'll have to settle for corrective surgery for my vision... it's not quite so bad (thankfully).
The part I liked was this theory that some evil character might use facebook ads to find openly gay men by targeting their demographic with ads, hoping they fall for those ads, then somehow trying to convert their clicks to identities with real contact info... so, what, they can go commit a 'hate crime'...?
Even for crazy SOB's, that's about the worst plan ever. Like, villain in a TV special, dumb.
I guess we're usually somewhere between prediction and self-fulfilling prophecy.
When you sat at home watching Star Trek, were they predicting wireless tablets with then-impossible computational and display capabilities with access to absurd amounts of information, or were they giving us the motivation to make such things... and make them equally ubiquitous?
I expect we're all agreed that tech always seems very, "of course", in retrospect. Just don't get me started on Verne. :)
That's pretty awesome.
I've often wondered when prosthesis will be good enough that we'll prefer them over our natural, otherwise functional parts. I guess it's just a matter of time and effort.
Is this our cue to bring back those tired 1% jokes?
I might just take a prosthetic testicle, given the option and all other outcomes being equal.
Though I wonder if they don't render most of the nasty bits of this herpes virus inert. I seem to remember reading something similar about an HIV based one.
Yep, harmless, modified version of HIV used as treatment for lukemia:
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/44090512/ns/health-cancer/t/new-leukemia-treatment-exceeds-wildest-expectations/
Obviously he didn't live long enough to see what happened to Disney, and their brutal, $200 million loss on John Carter.
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/g/a/2012/03/20/bloomberg_articlesM15FX36JTSE801-M1793.DTL
I could count the funny jokes in this thread on one hand.