As of my post there were 8 posts, all pessimistic either stemming from "they will never be able to do it" or "customers wont want to upgrade" or "most of my customers are still 100mb, and thats all anyone will ever need"
Who are you people? This is a cool and exciting new technology. Since when did this become a website full of luddites? (and seriously, the "100mb/640k is enough for everybody" people can go fuck yourselves)
Yep you nailed it here. The airlines are losing revenue because people are sick of the TSA and taking the train or bus, or just simply driving to their destination. Thus the TSA, in order to channel as much funds from the government into private contractor hands, is expanding into all forms of mass transit. If you have to get patdown in order to get on a freaking bus people are going to go nuts.
Perhaps the end goal is to keep people from travelling altogether.
Per kilogram it is more dense energy dense but not by volume. You still have to carry somewhere around 6 times the volume of hydrogen to equal the same volume amount of gasoline. Look at wikipedia. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Energy_density
Well hydrogen is the least dense of all matter. Of course it isn't going to be as energy dense per volume.
Excuse me. A bully is someone who is bigger than you, stronger than you and has a group of followers on his side. You were small, weak and alone. Are you saying that NK is the bully and US is the poor kid afraid to be beaten?
Sorry. I'm no proponent of NK, but from here it looks like that what US is doing is a provocation. Of mentally unstable, suicidal lunatic. If you want to show your force, go ahead and do it. On your half of the globe. Not in the backyard of the idiot.
Right, in this case NK is the bully and SK is the bullied. The US is the... uhh... teacher that is supposed to break up the fight, but is actually managing to escalate it... analogy breaking down... especially considering the culture of blaming the victims the US has...
The funkiest part for me is that you can have a more or less effective placebo. A sugar pill painkiller in a 'name brand' box is a more effective placebo than one in plain packaging, and both are more effective at the apparent relief of mild pain than doing nothing
Sometimes I wish I was stupid enough for placebo's to work on me. instead I have a medical professional explain every unknown medicine and procedure to me each time I receive one. It sucks the magic out of it, but I would like to think this makes me healthier as I have a much better knowledge of what treatment my body is getting.
Perhaps my comfort of knowing just what the treatment is doing to/for me is my placebo.
... But it's a worthwhile area of study to learn (possibly by observing the quacks) how *real* doctors can best harness the power of placebo effects in their patient care procedures, bolstering the effectiveness and reducing side effects of actual medications.
Agreed, something as simple as a bit of bedside manner can make a world of good to an ill patient. But this does not replace real treatment for real diseases. All the feel-good-placebo in the world is not going to do you a damn bit of good when you get cancer.
The placebo affect will not cure you of AIDS. Faith healing, homeopathy, and other bullshit cures might save a few people from getting unnecessary treatment of the common cold or taking antibiotics in an inappropriate time... but it also kiils people. And you are killing people for promoting it.
It's easy. If you can terminate your contract at any time, and all you lose are the benefits, then you are not a slave.
With work being plentiful and easy to obtain, this is no problem. Today it is a hassle for companies to hire labour, and nearly every person in the Western world is in at least 2x their annual salary in debt. Combine that with a generation-low employment rates, and it practically encourages employers to abuse their employees to squeeze every last drop from them before they burn out.
Granted we have supermarkets, cars, big screen TVs, and houses that the ancient world could never dream of... so getting in debt might be worth it. I would rather not live in an apartment and rely solely on public transportation and feet as I did in my youth.
That's because the field is young and dissemination of information is still sub-optimal. Give it a century or two, and the basic stuff will be as simple and standardized as elementary, high-school and undergraduate mathematics. (As in, no one reinvents the notation there, once it got stabilized over the centuries.)
If I am still doing this job in a century, kill me. (because we have invented some sort of immortality technique and the only way people can die is non-naturally)
i would say the probation people got off way too easy. Though most of the articles I found were of people being killed, most of those were murder charges and life-sentences. Very few articles about non-fatal events. It makes me wonder if non-injury rock throwings are even investigated at all.
The only issue I have is that this kid, probably non-violent dumb-ass, will come out of prison where he will experience many bad things, and probably learn many many bad things. When he comes out he probably won't be as non-violent any more.
I see two scenarios here: 1. He is stupid enough to not realize that shining a laser at an aircraft is a good way to make one crash. This person will never amount to anything other than the junior fry cook at McDonalds. 2. He was well aware of the danger and was attempting to murder a large number of people. I don't see how a couple of years in jail is going to make this person any more useless to society.
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Thank you for returning at least some of my faith in the community.
As of my post there were 8 posts, all pessimistic either stemming from "they will never be able to do it" or "customers wont want to upgrade" or "most of my customers are still 100mb, and thats all anyone will ever need"
Who are you people? This is a cool and exciting new technology. Since when did this become a website full of luddites? (and seriously, the "100mb/640k is enough for everybody" people can go fuck yourselves)
You want to get rid of the TSA?
Don't fly.
It's that simple.
No it's not. TSA is expanding to provide its services outside airports. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/christopher-elliott/the-tsa-wants-to-be-every_b_2393332.html
Yep you nailed it here. The airlines are losing revenue because people are sick of the TSA and taking the train or bus, or just simply driving to their destination. Thus the TSA, in order to channel as much funds from the government into private contractor hands, is expanding into all forms of mass transit. If you have to get patdown in order to get on a freaking bus people are going to go nuts.
Perhaps the end goal is to keep people from travelling altogether.
Can you do that with a car breaking down not an analogy?
Not an analogy? Ok, this was typed while sitting in my car that broke down?
Per kilogram it is more dense energy dense but not by volume. You still have to carry somewhere around 6 times the volume of hydrogen to equal the same volume amount of gasoline. Look at wikipedia. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Energy_density
Well hydrogen is the least dense of all matter. Of course it isn't going to be as energy dense per volume.
it's as barbaric as trying to create mass transit using 19-th century tram carriage propelled by small-scale nuclear blasts.
Yeah, but it would be awesome
Excuse me. A bully is someone who is bigger than you, stronger than you and has a group of followers on his side. You were small, weak and alone. Are you saying that NK is the bully and US is the poor kid afraid to be beaten?
Sorry. I'm no proponent of NK, but from here it looks like that what US is doing is a provocation. Of mentally unstable, suicidal lunatic. If you want to show your force, go ahead and do it. On your half of the globe. Not in the backyard of the idiot.
Right, in this case NK is the bully and SK is the bullied. The US is the... uhh... teacher that is supposed to break up the fight, but is actually managing to escalate it... analogy breaking down... especially considering the culture of blaming the victims the US has...
The funkiest part for me is that you can have a more or less effective placebo. A sugar pill painkiller in a 'name brand' box is a more effective placebo than one in plain packaging, and both are more effective at the apparent relief of mild pain than doing nothing
Sometimes I wish I was stupid enough for placebo's to work on me. instead I have a medical professional explain every unknown medicine and procedure to me each time I receive one. It sucks the magic out of it, but I would like to think this makes me healthier as I have a much better knowledge of what treatment my body is getting.
Perhaps my comfort of knowing just what the treatment is doing to/for me is my placebo.
The placebo effect does an amazing job on pain, nausea, and suckers when you sell out of LSD.
It does a shitty job on broken bones, evisceration, and being thrown into vats of acid.
Wait.
... But it's a worthwhile area of study to learn (possibly by observing the quacks) how *real* doctors can best harness the power of placebo effects in their patient care procedures, bolstering the effectiveness and reducing side effects of actual medications.
Agreed, something as simple as a bit of bedside manner can make a world of good to an ill patient. But this does not replace real treatment for real diseases. All the feel-good-placebo in the world is not going to do you a damn bit of good when you get cancer.
Who is to say that GP is not a skilled warrior?
The placebo affect will not cure you of AIDS. Faith healing, homeopathy, and other bullshit cures might save a few people from getting unnecessary treatment of the common cold or taking antibiotics in an inappropriate time... but it also kiils people. And you are killing people for promoting it.
It's easy. If you can terminate your contract at any time, and all you lose are the benefits, then you are not a slave.
With work being plentiful and easy to obtain, this is no problem. Today it is a hassle for companies to hire labour, and nearly every person in the Western world is in at least 2x their annual salary in debt. Combine that with a generation-low employment rates, and it practically encourages employers to abuse their employees to squeeze every last drop from them before they burn out.
Granted we have supermarkets, cars, big screen TVs, and houses that the ancient world could never dream of... so getting in debt might be worth it. I would rather not live in an apartment and rely solely on public transportation and feet as I did in my youth.
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Brilliant.
Well, I guess it voluntary.
You are not permitted to sign away your basic rights. What constitutes basic rights is up for debate, though.
I'm pretty sure that boring business desktops are why they still make 80 and 160 gig drives.
On the network side, we can't shove more 2TB nearlines in fast enough to keep the users happy; but every desktop still goes out largely empty.
And if you are buying your computers from a standard manufacturer, they cost the same as the TB drives. Might as well get the bigger drives.
Of course they don't use Amazon meat.
They don't use meat.
It will be a 'mile high' orgy.. with coke and blackjack
It will be mostly dudes.
> Has it stopped being an overly-verbose, memory-hogging, slow, insecure pain the ass?
FTFY
Sounds like you got screwed.
That's because the field is young and dissemination of information is still sub-optimal. Give it a century or two, and the basic stuff will be as simple and standardized as elementary, high-school and undergraduate mathematics. (As in, no one reinvents the notation there, once it got stabilized over the centuries.)
If I am still doing this job in a century, kill me. (because we have invented some sort of immortality technique and the only way people can die is non-naturally)
I find it really bizarre that Slashdot, a website that usually has intelligent discussion, is filled with climate change naysayers.
Is this real life?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Instrumental_temperature_record
The 9 warmest years on record happened this century. The Earth is heating up, and rapidly.
Who the fuck are you people?
What.
You deserve a metal for that one.
Let me guess... in rod form, and smacked up side my head?
Now for lasers:
Sentencing is all over the map, but 2.5 years is not outrageous here.
Lets compare it to kids sentenced for throwing rocks at cars. We will see that it is all over the map as far as sentencing goes.
5 years 1 person injured
Probation+Restitution
Probation 1 child seriously injured
i would say the probation people got off way too easy. Though most of the articles I found were of people being killed, most of those were murder charges and life-sentences. Very few articles about non-fatal events. It makes me wonder if non-injury rock throwings are even investigated at all.
The only issue I have is that this kid, probably non-violent dumb-ass, will come out of prison where he will experience many bad things, and probably learn many many bad things. When he comes out he probably won't be as non-violent any more.
I see two scenarios here:
1. He is stupid enough to not realize that shining a laser at an aircraft is a good way to make one crash. This person will never amount to anything other than the junior fry cook at McDonalds.
2. He was well aware of the danger and was attempting to murder a large number of people. I don't see how a couple of years in jail is going to make this person any more useless to society.
Well, at that point they would be trying him for manslaughter (or worse, depending on the evidence), and the sentencing that goes with that.
So, lets make it ok to shine lasers at anyone you want. As long as nobody gets blinded or killed it's all good!