You have a good point, but I really don't see an issue that calls for more government regulation. Assholes fly their UAVs into private property, property owners and guests shoot them down. What we do not need is a regulation that allows the UAVs to trespass, nor one that prohibits property owners from defending their property.
So in the US, if someone parks on your property, you're allowed to crush their at?
You are certainly within your rights to have it towed at the owner's expense. And, yes, you are allowed to defend your property in a reasonable way. For a drone, your actions would be better defended with "No Trespassing" signs and shouting a warning to the drone and a demand that they leave. If the drone refuses to comply, you can't just pick it up and move it, and it's not practical to try to capture it to make sure it doesn't get damaged, so it's perfectly reasonable to shoot it down.
Out of interest, does shooting into the air (a dangerous pastime) result in a littering fine?
You have a good point, but I really don't see an issue that calls for more government regulation. Assholes fly their UAVs into private property, property owners and guests shoot them down. What we do not need is a regulation that allows the UAVs to trespass, nor one that prohibits property owners from defending their property.
So in the US, if someone parks on your property, you're allowed to crush their at?
So let's just become a horde of locusts jumping from planet to planet consuming their resources and polluting them into lifeless rocks until a coalition of alien species has to band together to eliminate the threat humanity represents to the galaxy.
Or, learn how to survive on this planet before going out and colonizing another one.
Until one day we arrive on a planet with a charismatic president, a crack pilot, a cable repair guy and a mac laptop.
Btw, the current naming convention for exoplanets is $PRIMARY-b, -c, -d.. etc in order of discovery, where the primary star is considered 'a'. SF conventional designation is I, II, III, IV etc (roman numerals) in order of average distance from the primary -- which assumes we know all the planets in a star's system.
Google often jumps into things without considering all of the details.
If it looks too good to be true, it probably is.
Google broadband is more likely to end up like Google Reader than it is GMail. I'd like to believe in free donuts and bacon, but I suspect that there are a few things about the economics of running an ISP that the utopians at Mountain View have missed when setting their initial price. Happy to be proven wrong, but Google doesn't have a great track record when it comes to predicting the long term viability of its projects.
Back when gmail launched, the typical offering from yahoo/hotmail/etc was about 10MB. Gmail launched with 1GB. It was such a ridiculous proposition at the time that people considered it an april fool.
"I pledge 50 billion" "(over 10 years)" "(( to be paid 10 dollars per year for 9 years and the balance in year 10))" "((( I'll re announce this every year for the next 5 years)))" "(((( I'll quiely cancel the project in year 6, and announce a replacement 10 year pledge, and repeat))))"
Amount of people in in the building about 3000 Amount of people on the freeways 200+million.
Understand why your comparison is shit?
Actually there were thousands more in the building that escaped. In fact i'd rather be in a random office in the wtc on sep 11 2001 than in a random seat in a totalled car.
I've just applied for a patent on a device I call a "fuse". You can put arrays of them in a thing I call a "fuse box". They prevent too much current from passing along a wire.
Can you sell them to the crew of the Enterprise? The number of exploding consoles they have...
I took a political quiz recently for fun, which pegged me as Democrat (I guess D & R were the only two outcomes)... which is funny, because I'm pretty solid in Libertarian ideals. Which also tends to be socially liberal, and conservative on other issues.
The republicans are a financially conservative party that wants to interfere with your personal life The democrats are a financially conservative party that doesn't want to interfere with your personal life
Provided they're legally and actually immigrating, and not just stopping by temporarily to make a quick buck. Our enconomy is already hurting and unemployment is high, we don't need leeches stopping in to steal our jobs then running off to spend the money elsewhere.
My 0.02.
Good. There's a lot of hippocrits on slashdot saying "immigration was ok for me/my parents/grandparents, but it's time it stopped".
The problem with immigration is when it's temporary, as you say, when the immigrant doesn't integrate with the country (learn language etc), and when most of the money earned is flushed out of the country back "home"
Actually, she is kicking herself out. She was allowed to come here by accepting the condition that her stay could not exceed 6 years. Now the six years are up and it is time to fulfill the final condition of her original entry permit. It's sad, but she chose this option.
We're in a period of unemployment. The fact she has a $50k job and is paying taxes is nice, but if she leaves perhaps someone already here will get the job, make $50k (or more) a year, pay taxes, and stop getting unemployment insurance payments. This local will not have the limit of working for just one company, can use this job as a step to a better, higher taxpaying one, and then reopen this job for another local to pay taxes on their income. At worst, any training this local gets isn't going to be forced to leave the country after 3 or 6 years and will stay in-country. As a local, he'll be a better role model for local students than "one of them foreigners comin' here to take all the jobs" would be.
If we're going to base our immigration policy on "has a job and pays taxes", then immigrants will lose every time.
It's also one less person in the U.S. buying groceries, buying cable tv, buying internet access, etc.
EST: eastern standard time (-5) EDT: eastern daylight time (-4)
Daylight saving time is from roughly March to roughly October when clocks are advanced an hour.
Yes. It's the "roughly march" that makes the problem, especially as the U.S. changes at a different time to Europe. People also write "EST" when they mean "EDT". Fortunately more people write "ET", which means an almost non-ambiguous time.
Beats the situation with GMT, which depending on the user can either mean GMT or BST
Time is unambiguous as long as people use it correctly, however trying to guess if people are using it correctly is the problem.
As I understand, there's no common way of getting the timezone or offset of a given browser. Slashdot times are displayed in Europe/London (for me), as i'm logged in, but I'm in south Africa this week, israel and Italy after that, then on a multi stop tour of the far east.
Now I know the offset to home, however if I'm not logged in slashdot displays one of the American time zones - not sure which. Central rings a bell.
If I look at a random airs, it claims a time, no idea on the zone unless it specifies it. I then have to work out if GMT means GMT or Europe/London. If its in EST it usually means America/Eastern, but is that GMT-4 or -5?
If it's like mine, you also have to manually set it for each of the timezones. So most of them are wrong for 1/2 of the year.
As soon as I step on a plane I set my watch for the destination time zone. Really helps with jet lag (not that I've needed it recently - not been more than 4 hours off home since January)
This is one of my pet annoyances in most "web 2.0" products. All those forums giving the time of a message as "a year ago" are driving me mad. Some of them at least have the actual date and time in the title attribute, but that doesn't help much on a mobile device. Let the software be exact, and leave the fuzziness to me, please.
CJ
At that level, yes.
When it comes to recent posts though, it's handy to avoid time zone confusion.
Problem is not that at all. Training doesn't work. You cannot train someone to be Picasso, similarly you cannot train someone to code like Linus. Sad truth is world needs less and less work. Everything is automated now. All jobs are disappearing and remaining ones require unreachable levels of talent and knowledge for regular persons. Unfortunately for you, fixing this is almost impossible due to Americans' obsession with the market capitalism.
Linux might be a great coder, but does he have 10 years experience with java 7? I can get that from my h1bs.
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You have a good point, but I really don't see an issue that calls for more government regulation. Assholes fly their UAVs into private property, property owners and guests shoot them down. What we do not need is a regulation that allows the UAVs to trespass, nor one that prohibits property owners from defending their property.
So in the US, if someone parks on your property, you're allowed to crush their at?
You are certainly within your rights to have it towed at the owner's expense. And, yes, you are allowed to defend your property in a reasonable way. For a drone, your actions would be better defended with "No Trespassing" signs and shouting a warning to the drone and a demand that they leave. If the drone refuses to comply, you can't just pick it up and move it, and it's not practical to try to capture it to make sure it doesn't get damaged, so it's perfectly reasonable to shoot it down.
Out of interest, does shooting into the air (a dangerous pastime) result in a littering fine?
Sideshow Bob: (to Marge) Madame, your children are no more... than a pair of ill-bred trouble-makers.
Homer: Lisa, too?
Sideshow Bob: Especially Lisa! But, especially Bart!
Ironically Maggie is the worst
You have a good point, but I really don't see an issue that calls for more government regulation. Assholes fly their UAVs into private property, property owners and guests shoot them down. What we do not need is a regulation that allows the UAVs to trespass, nor one that prohibits property owners from defending their property.
So in the US, if someone parks on your property, you're allowed to crush their at?
So let's just become a horde of locusts jumping from planet to planet consuming their resources and polluting them into lifeless rocks until a coalition of alien species has to band together to eliminate the threat humanity represents to the galaxy.
Or, learn how to survive on this planet before going out and colonizing another one.
Until one day we arrive on a planet with a charismatic president, a crack pilot, a cable repair guy and a mac laptop.
Btw, the current naming convention for exoplanets is $PRIMARY-b, -c, -d .. etc in order of discovery, where the primary star is considered 'a'. SF conventional designation is I, II, III, IV etc (roman numerals) in order of average distance from the primary -- which assumes we know all the planets in a star's system.
And it all goes wrong when Ceti Alpha VI blows up
Consider the following:
Google broadband is more likely to end up like Google Reader than it is GMail. I'd like to believe in free donuts and bacon, but I suspect that there are a few things about the economics of running an ISP that the utopians at Mountain View have missed when setting their initial price. Happy to be proven wrong, but Google doesn't have a great track record when it comes to predicting the long term viability of its projects.
Back when gmail launched, the typical offering from yahoo/hotmail/etc was about 10MB. Gmail launched with 1GB. It was such a ridiculous proposition at the time that people considered it an april fool.
I may be libertarian but I classify this as necessary infrastructure that will benefit the vast majority. Everything else is just more expensive.
I think the same about medical cover.
Nevermind.... it's over several years... duh
It's a great trick
"I pledge 50 billion"
"(over 10 years)"
"(( to be paid 10 dollars per year for 9 years and the balance in year 10))"
"((( I'll re announce this every year for the next 5 years)))"
"(((( I'll quiely cancel the project in year 6, and announce a replacement 10 year pledge, and repeat))))"
Amount of people in in the building about 3000
Amount of people on the freeways 200+million.
Understand why your comparison is shit?
Actually there were thousands more in the building that escaped. In fact i'd rather be in a random office in the wtc on sep 11 2001 than in a random seat in a totalled car.
I've just applied for a patent on a device I call a "fuse". You can put arrays of them in a thing I call a "fuse box". They prevent too much current from passing along a wire.
Can you sell them to the crew of the Enterprise? The number of exploding consoles they have...
I think if the United States was hit with couple game changer meteors NASA would have no problem with funding.
Unless it's Detroit, noone would notice.
I took a political quiz recently for fun, which pegged me as Democrat (I guess D & R were the only two outcomes)... which is funny, because I'm pretty solid in Libertarian ideals. Which also tends to be socially liberal, and conservative on other issues.
The republicans are a financially conservative party that wants to interfere with your personal life
The democrats are a financially conservative party that doesn't want to interfere with your personal life
America doesn't have a financially liberal party
Provided they're legally and actually immigrating, and not just stopping by temporarily to make a quick buck. Our enconomy is already hurting and unemployment is high, we don't need leeches stopping in to steal our jobs then running off to spend the money elsewhere.
My 0.02.
Good. There's a lot of hippocrits on slashdot saying "immigration was ok for me/my parents/grandparents, but it's time it stopped".
The problem with immigration is when it's temporary, as you say, when the immigrant doesn't integrate with the country (learn language etc), and when most of the money earned is flushed out of the country back "home"
And now she's likely to get kicked out.
Actually, she is kicking herself out. She was allowed to come here by accepting the condition that her stay could not exceed 6 years. Now the six years are up and it is time to fulfill the final condition of her original entry permit. It's sad, but she chose this option.
We're in a period of unemployment. The fact she has a $50k job and is paying taxes is nice, but if she leaves perhaps someone already here will get the job, make $50k (or more) a year, pay taxes, and stop getting unemployment insurance payments. This local will not have the limit of working for just one company, can use this job as a step to a better, higher taxpaying one, and then reopen this job for another local to pay taxes on their income. At worst, any training this local gets isn't going to be forced to leave the country after 3 or 6 years and will stay in-country. As a local, he'll be a better role model for local students than "one of them foreigners comin' here to take all the jobs" would be.
If we're going to base our immigration policy on "has a job and pays taxes", then immigrants will lose every time.
It's also one less person in the U.S. buying groceries, buying cable tv, buying internet access, etc.
The problem with H1B is it's not the free market.
#ohshit
#NOCARRIER
EST: eastern standard time (-5)
EDT: eastern daylight time (-4)
Daylight saving time is from roughly March to roughly October when clocks are advanced an hour.
Yes. It's the "roughly march" that makes the problem, especially as the U.S. changes at a different time to Europe. People also write "EST" when they mean "EDT". Fortunately more people write "ET", which means an almost non-ambiguous time.
Beats the situation with GMT, which depending on the user can either mean GMT or BST
Time is unambiguous as long as people use it correctly, however trying to guess if people are using it correctly is the problem.
As I understand, there's no common way of getting the timezone or offset of a given browser. Slashdot times are displayed in Europe/London (for me), as i'm logged in, but I'm in south Africa this week, israel and Italy after that, then on a multi stop tour of the far east.
Now I know the offset to home, however if I'm not logged in slashdot displays one of the American time zones - not sure which. Central rings a bell.
If I look at a random airs, it claims a time, no idea on the zone unless it specifies it. I then have to work out if GMT means GMT or Europe/London. If its in EST it usually means America/Eastern, but is that GMT-4 or -5?
If it's like mine, you also have to manually set it for each of the timezones. So most of them are wrong for 1/2 of the year.
As soon as I step on a plane I set my watch for the destination time zone. Really helps with jet lag (not that I've needed it recently - not been more than 4 hours off home since January)
The iWatch will issue a quick and decisive butt kicking to this useless bauble.
Why? In fact there is a big question whether anyone wants an iwatch at all.
Like most people, I rely on my phone telling me the time. However its a right hassle getting it out just to glance at it.
What would be awesome is a slimmed down device which just tells me the time (and maybe day of month), which I could wear on my wrist.
I trust apple will make something that fits this market that people don't even realise exists.
You know what?
Fuck fuzzy time.
This is one of my pet annoyances in most "web 2.0" products. All those forums giving the time of a message as "a year ago" are driving me mad. Some of them at least have the actual date and time in the title attribute, but that doesn't help much on a mobile device. Let the software be exact, and leave the fuzziness to me, please.
CJ
At that level, yes.
When it comes to recent posts though, it's handy to avoid time zone confusion.
What's with the "f_ck" and "a_s"? If you thought the word and probably say the word, why not type the word?
Fuck and Ass. There, no one died.
Between you hitting submit and slashdot entering in the database (500ms), Someone probably did die.
(snip jingoism)
It worked so well in iraq and Afghanistan.
some people need to be fired, from the top down.
score +5 Funny
The hospital may also be committing a serious crime. But you're right that responding in kind would be a very bad idea.
How about if you put a nat rule that turns the packet back at them? They end up port scanning themselves.
Problem is not that at all. Training doesn't work. You cannot train someone to be Picasso, similarly you cannot train someone to code like Linus. Sad truth is world needs less and less work. Everything is automated now. All jobs are disappearing and remaining ones require unreachable levels of talent and knowledge for regular persons. Unfortunately for you, fixing this is almost impossible due to Americans' obsession with the market capitalism.
Linux might be a great coder, but does he have 10 years experience with java 7? I can get that from my h1bs.