They need to try this in more than warm, sunny southern California. My sister has a Prius and loves it, though the battery
sometimes doesn't respond well to being parked outside overnight in sub-zero. You also have to wonder what cumulative
effect road salt ions will play. Seems the ions in the sea air in California like my 12v battery a lot, I do wonder how hybrids are
doing with their higher voltage.
Still, it's promising. I wished they gave us a little tip off on how the trial is going rather than all
the peripheral issues, but I suppose Honda wants to keep as much of that confidential as possible.
This has absolutely nothing to do with the reason news of Goo.... Goooo... Ggggg... I can't say the name... but it has nothing to do with them and their work with Open Office.
Of course not. It's just his latest Keep-Rich-Quick Scheme
I think the Google cookie is pretty evil. There's no chance I'm going to let Google track my viewing habits too.
It's bad enough, those stupid period-relevent ads I get stuck with on some DVDs*, but having to sit through a bunch of chose ads before I can watch TV isn't going to win me back to television.
This isn't new with DVDs, I've got VHS tapes with crap telling me of the next great movie coming up or offers from Disney or such, which look pretty silly 10 to 20 years later. At least with a tape I could open it up and snip out the offending leader. My DVD player sometimes doesn't allow me to skip these insidious things.
Small wonder I'd like to rip the stuff off the DVD and burn my own. With Google TV I'll probably have to time my potty break or such.
Technological advances aren't all good, some make crumpling a man's trachea with the Dark Side of the Force seem downright reasonable.
Science policy via opinion poll. Yea, just ask Kansas how well that works.
You know how Nuclear Waste Disposal works...
You can ask the public before hand or watch them bring your plans down later for not asking them.
I grew up in Midland, Michigan, where a battle raged for years to stop the construction of a nuclear power plant. Everyone was sold on it and fine with the plans of Consumers Power and Dow Chemical Company, but the woman at the end of the street, Rosemary Sinclair, a promiment local attorney fought it like a wildcat, bring in the Lone Tree Council, Myron Cherry (from Chicago) etc and fighting until the cost burden broke the back of Consumers.
The public is the LAST group you want involved with decisions like this.
And in the USA the public has been the roadblock to decisions on matters of this sort. You might like to see what a total mess Hanford in eastern Washington became while waiting for another site to open up to take in waste. Hanford was only intended for so much capacity for so much time.
Which is 100% wrong on how our National Nuclear Waste Facility and local facilities are figured out.
No it isn't. Bush hasn't even pursued this in public. The last time I even saw this issue in print was while Clinton was still president. If the current party in control of the House, Senate and Presidency want to attach it to an energy bill and get it signed into law there's probably not much stopping them.
Pegging Yucca Mountain to anything Bush has pursued lately is absurd.
What should The Guardian do? Bury the story because it doesn't play into your preconceived notions of progressive politics and what newspapers should print?
Instead of exaggeration by picking out one institute which has done one unusual thing for publicity (which is really nothing worse than the Page 2 women in some newspapers) they could have simply headed it "1700 forms distributed to broad cross-section of community seeking public input", but that would probably not pique interest, would it?
I'd expect this from The Mirror, Sun or News Of The World
The article author should point out that this is in Great Britain (United Kingdom) and is an
effort by the government (The Committee on Radioactive Waste Management) to get a broad range
of opinion, unlike George W. Bush's White House in the USA, which is just fine with it's own
set of selective facts and could care less what polls say.
More than 1,700 copies have been sent to groups including schools
and councils. But the move has fuelled criticism that the committee is pursuing
public consultation at the expense of expert advice.
I think this could be an issue of overreation. The public is being involved.
Maybe the government plans all along to just ditch the input, but if it all comes a cropper
then they do have the minor leg to stand on that they did consult
with the public, so the public ought to just shaddup about their NIMBYism*.
Interesting that the House of Lords has a Science and Technology Select Committee which is
highly critical of the project. Ironically it's the Lords which are often derrided for membership qualified
by title and/or heredity that are no stranger to bombast.
What's funnier, to me, is that you believe that by reading a book you're somehow "thinking for yourself",
I am. The author only starts the ball rolling. Follow-up research is what I do, which I'm interested in the subject. Often I find authors and various other scholars disagree, what makes a good story isn't necessarily accurate. Like many posts on slashdot. Best to do your own critical thinking.
I'm sure TV's just rotted my brain, right?
Something certainly has. You sure set up straw men and knock them down, The Bob knows why.
While this is exciting for amateur astronomers to see a process like this happening on Mars, it's also very forboding and ominous. Mars has a bad habit of becoming engulfed in planet wide dust storms which almost totally hide the surface features of the planet.
Also plays havoc with tracking giant sand worms and collecting spice.
America is more than anti-science. American culture in the broadest terms has become very anti-intellectual, which is really a super-set of being anti-science.
It's a funny thing, but with television, radio, imusic, internet, etc. etc. etc. you see people with less time they actually devote to thinking for themselves.
I'm some damn radical because I read books, which stir my imagination and inspire ideas, rather than having my ideas told to me.
I used to occasionally look at Forbes Magazine when some suit had left a copy behind, but I usually just used it to line the bottom of my birdcage. It wasn't long before my little birdie died. Maybe having to look at that rag was what killed the poor thing. I guess what I am really trying to say is that Forbes Magazine is not fit for the bottom of a birdcage.
It's about the message science is bringing. Some people, for religious, political or
business reasons don't want to hear what science is saying. This is initially a case of trying
to silence the messenger. Not just about science, either. Tell people the economy stinks, they can see
the evidence all around then, and they deny it.
Seems every couple generations people in the US have to re-learn the hard lessons of their forebearers. Silence science in this
country and it'll be carried on all the more in other countries. e.g. Stem Cell Research. The State of California approved a
bond for stem cell research, a few billion $ if IIRC, not much of it has been spent and it will be years
before any of it is, on research, because a bunch of Right To Lifers are fighting it on many fronts in
state courts.
But if blogging is journalism, then some of its practitioners seem to have learned the trade from Jayson Blair. Many repeat things without bothering to check on whether they are true, a penchant political operatives have been quick to exploit.
I'm sure the next time some candidate is attacked unfairly in the blogs, people will be screaming about it.
Hardly something unique to blogs. On this approaching anniversary of a radio play which caused mass hysteria because people tuned into the middle of it and didn't question word when it was passed along to them.
Microsoft: So many rants to choose, so little time.
CBS, CNN and ABC News: Big media are lap dogs to the powers that be. To afraid to really speak out for fear of harming revenue, stock value, etc.
IBM's Notes software: If you make software, someone, somewhere will complain.
Kryptonite bike locks: The best bike lock in the world, picked in seconds with a BIC pen.
The most effective defense against being slagged in blogs is to take the charm offensive. Be open and honest. If you've done wrong
apologies and move on. Strip their legs
out from under them. A harsh retort is more likely to get them a larger audience.
"Ackthpt is t3h rat basturd!1"
Yes, I'm afraid I am. Sorry, I'll try to do better next time. If I had $5, I would most certainly mail it to Happy Guy, 742 Evergreen Terrace, Springfield, USA
"...but it takes years for Microsoft to realize there was a problem and do something about it."
Or we could, I suppose, get mad at the people who developed SMTP, a system so insecure in and as of itself that anyone can pretend to be anyone else and get away with it.
More like the resistance to working together to improve the protocol. There is nothing quite as effective at encouraging nefarious activity like disagreement.
Of course, that was done in a kinder, gentler time when "spam" was unknown, so I guess they can be forgiven. Then again, much of the Windows code was created long before the terms "DoS" or "buffer overflow attack" came into existence.
Yeah, but it would have been much more difficult for these things to have happened if Microsoft defaulted to shipping a locked down, secure operating system distro, which the end user had to open up, thus learn a little about.
Naw. Much easier to hate MS. Somehow, they should have known better...
It's like this, chum, most of the Zombies in the world are running on their operating system. Taking an interest in how this happens should be paramount. It seems mostly they are doing this for the benefit of MSN and Hotmail users.
How come when it's Microsoft doing something it's called vigilante but when it's somebody else doing it, it's called a honeypot? Come on guys? I see this as a positive thing.
Maybe this is part of the upcoming movie Green Arrow Begins.
Microsoft should just have Steve Ballmer fucking kill them.
I understand a new measure of punishment available in Washington State is to stand a man up before a wall, offer him a last cigarette, blindfold him and then have Steve Ballmer throw a chair at him.
It takes 20 days to collect data which may be used to convict the scumbags, but it takes years
for Microsoft to realize there was a problem and do something about it. To be fair, this should be
law enforcement, but someone has to file those John Does in a complaint.
"At the same press conference, Dan Salsburg, the assistant director of the FTC's Bureau of Consumer Protection, urged all computer users to do their part to stymie zombies.
"The FTC is taking aggressive steps to stop zombies and protect consumers, but consumers also need to insure that zombies aren't on their computers," Salsburg said."
I'm sure they're shuffling paper like they've never quite shuffled before.
Microsoft set up a clean computer and then infected it. They monitored
the 'zombie' over the course of 20 days - 'In those 20 days, this one computer received
5 million connection requests from spammers, and sent 18 million spam messages'. This whole operation has lead to the (partial) identification of 13 different spamming groups, some of which reside in the US and may be prosecuted under the CAN-SPAM act.
I just don't want to see, a couple years from now, Microsoft being awarded patents on the invention of the Honeypot.
Slashdot Mirror
They need to try this in more than warm, sunny southern California. My sister has a Prius and loves it, though the battery sometimes doesn't respond well to being parked outside overnight in sub-zero. You also have to wonder what cumulative effect road salt ions will play. Seems the ions in the sea air in California like my 12v battery a lot, I do wonder how hybrids are doing with their higher voltage.
Still, it's promising. I wished they gave us a little tip off on how the trial is going rather than all the peripheral issues, but I suppose Honda wants to keep as much of that confidential as possible.
Of course not. It's just his latest Keep-Rich-Quick Scheme
Honestly, sounds utterly hokey.
Maybe it means UC finally gets some money.
The way these things work, assuming they do, the state will probably withdraw and amount equal to any settlement from UC funding.
Microsoft Explorer - Now with embedded liabilities!
It's bad enough, those stupid period-relevent ads I get stuck with on some DVDs*, but having to sit through a bunch of chose ads before I can watch TV isn't going to win me back to television.
This isn't new with DVDs, I've got VHS tapes with crap telling me of the next great movie coming up or offers from Disney or such, which look pretty silly 10 to 20 years later. At least with a tape I could open it up and snip out the offending leader. My DVD player sometimes doesn't allow me to skip these insidious things.
Small wonder I'd like to rip the stuff off the DVD and burn my own. With Google TV I'll probably have to time my potty break or such.
Technological advances aren't all good, some make crumpling a man's trachea with the Dark Side of the Force seem downright reasonable.
You know how Nuclear Waste Disposal works...
You can ask the public before hand or watch them bring your plans down later for not asking them.
I grew up in Midland, Michigan, where a battle raged for years to stop the construction of a nuclear power plant. Everyone was sold on it and fine with the plans of Consumers Power and Dow Chemical Company, but the woman at the end of the street, Rosemary Sinclair, a promiment local attorney fought it like a wildcat, bring in the Lone Tree Council, Myron Cherry (from Chicago) etc and fighting until the cost burden broke the back of Consumers.
And in the USA the public has been the roadblock to decisions on matters of this sort. You might like to see what a total mess Hanford in eastern Washington became while waiting for another site to open up to take in waste. Hanford was only intended for so much capacity for so much time.
No it isn't. Bush hasn't even pursued this in public. The last time I even saw this issue in print was while Clinton was still president. If the current party in control of the House, Senate and Presidency want to attach it to an energy bill and get it signed into law there's probably not much stopping them.
Pegging Yucca Mountain to anything Bush has pursued lately is absurd.
Instead of exaggeration by picking out one institute which has done one unusual thing for publicity (which is really nothing worse than the Page 2 women in some newspapers) they could have simply headed it "1700 forms distributed to broad cross-section of community seeking public input", but that would probably not pique interest, would it?
Consider the source, mate.
Maybe it's because women like Florrie Capp are more responsible than their mates.
I'd expect this from The Mirror, Sun or News Of The World
The article author should point out that this is in Great Britain (United Kingdom) and is an effort by the government (The Committee on Radioactive Waste Management) to get a broad range of opinion, unlike George W. Bush's White House in the USA, which is just fine with it's own set of selective facts and could care less what polls say.
I think this could be an issue of overreation. The public is being involved. Maybe the government plans all along to just ditch the input, but if it all comes a cropper then they do have the minor leg to stand on that they did consult with the public, so the public ought to just shaddup about their NIMBYism*.Interesting that the House of Lords has a Science and Technology Select Committee which is highly critical of the project. Ironically it's the Lords which are often derrided for membership qualified by title and/or heredity that are no stranger to bombast.
* Not In My Back Yard
Same as the brand name Lenovo instead of IBM, I suppose.
I am. The author only starts the ball rolling. Follow-up research is what I do, which I'm interested in the subject. Often I find authors and various other scholars disagree, what makes a good story isn't necessarily accurate. Like many posts on slashdot. Best to do your own critical thinking.
I'm sure TV's just rotted my brain, right?
Something certainly has. You sure set up straw men and knock them down, The Bob knows why.
Get out your abacus and multiply by 8
Also plays havoc with tracking giant sand worms and collecting spice.
I've got a Meade 125-ETX, I wonder how visible this will be. The last time Mars was close and I lugged the scope out It was mostly a brown smudge.
Mars will be 43,137,071 miles from Earth at around 11:25 p.m. ET Saturday.
That's 13,803,862,720 rods for the anti-science crowd.
It's a funny thing, but with television, radio, imusic, internet, etc. etc. etc. you see people with less time they actually devote to thinking for themselves.
I'm some damn radical because I read books, which stir my imagination and inspire ideas, rather than having my ideas told to me.
Read the Motley Fool
It's about the message science is bringing. Some people, for religious, political or business reasons don't want to hear what science is saying. This is initially a case of trying to silence the messenger. Not just about science, either. Tell people the economy stinks, they can see the evidence all around then, and they deny it.
Seems every couple generations people in the US have to re-learn the hard lessons of their forebearers. Silence science in this country and it'll be carried on all the more in other countries. e.g. Stem Cell Research. The State of California approved a bond for stem cell research, a few billion $ if IIRC, not much of it has been spent and it will be years before any of it is, on research, because a bunch of Right To Lifers are fighting it on many fronts in state courts.
CBS, CNN and ABC News: Big media are lap dogs to the powers that be. To afraid to really speak out for fear of harming revenue, stock value, etc.
IBM's Notes software: If you make software, someone, somewhere will complain.
Kryptonite bike locks: The best bike lock in the world, picked in seconds with a BIC pen.
The most effective defense against being slagged in blogs is to take the charm offensive. Be open and honest. If you've done wrong apologies and move on. Strip their legs out from under them. A harsh retort is more likely to get them a larger audience.
"Ackthpt is t3h rat basturd!1"
Yes, I'm afraid I am. Sorry, I'll try to do better next time. If I had $5, I would most certainly mail it to Happy Guy, 742 Evergreen Terrace, Springfield, USA
I wonder if anyone's started a blog critising AMD for eating Intel's lunch.
More like the resistance to working together to improve the protocol. There is nothing quite as effective at encouraging nefarious activity like disagreement.
Of course, that was done in a kinder, gentler time when "spam" was unknown, so I guess they can be forgiven. Then again, much of the Windows code was created long before the terms "DoS" or "buffer overflow attack" came into existence.
Yeah, but it would have been much more difficult for these things to have happened if Microsoft defaulted to shipping a locked down, secure operating system distro, which the end user had to open up, thus learn a little about.
Naw. Much easier to hate MS. Somehow, they should have known better...
It's like this, chum, most of the Zombies in the world are running on their operating system. Taking an interest in how this happens should be paramount. It seems mostly they are doing this for the benefit of MSN and Hotmail users.
The irony is, Spamming has been a serious center of creativity and innovation. Just the sort of thinkg Patent Law is there to protect.
Maybe this is part of the upcoming movie Green Arrow Begins.
I understand a new measure of punishment available in Washington State is to stand a man up before a wall, offer him a last cigarette, blindfold him and then have Steve Ballmer throw a chair at him.
Sounds unusual, if not cruel, to me.
It takes 20 days to collect data which may be used to convict the scumbags, but it takes years for Microsoft to realize there was a problem and do something about it. To be fair, this should be law enforcement, but someone has to file those John Does in a complaint.
"At the same press conference, Dan Salsburg, the assistant director of the FTC's Bureau of Consumer Protection, urged all computer users to do their part to stymie zombies. "The FTC is taking aggressive steps to stop zombies and protect consumers, but consumers also need to insure that zombies aren't on their computers," Salsburg said."
I'm sure they're shuffling paper like they've never quite shuffled before.
I just don't want to see, a couple years from now, Microsoft being awarded patents on the invention of the Honeypot.