We shouldn't trust anything to "just work", or "be safe". We should get out there and prove it. And even it isn't a matter of trusting it. Continual safety checks, monitoring and anaysis is the only way to keep any industrial system safe.
Perhaps they are including all the sales of people that would never have buy an iDevice because of fiascoes like this.
Or the fact that Apple is helping drive Samsung's sales on this. I wouldn't have heard of the Galaxy Tab if it wasn't for Apple. Now I think I will buy one before they are made illegal. Thanks Apple!
I wish people would get that chemistry != nanotechnology.
Our world is filled with nanoscale molecules, including many that we designed and created, but the word "nanotechnology" was specifically coined to describe building things by the manipulation of individual atoms.
Unless you count crystals like diamond as one big molecule... I am pretty sure every molecule is nanoscale. Even .
I am not saying we should not complain about issues. But packaging? Really?
Perhaps this is part of the filming unboxing culture that I just don't understand. As long as the item is not in one of those frustrating plastic packages that require the jaws of life to open, or it isn't wasting an obnoxious amount of material; I don't much care about the packaging.
Yeah, your smug "scare quote laden" impressions are incorrect. Go look at StraightTalk, or the prepay plan from T-Mobile that has 100 minutes and unlimited SMS and data. Sure, it's TMo so you don't have 3G out in Centralia, PA. As Winston Wolfe said, "move out of the sticks, gentlemen!"
So people wont move out of town because it has been on fire for 50 years, but will move if it doesnt have 3G coverage. Sounds typical, and sounds like a lot of my efforts at SimCity.
Why didn't the police just fingerprint the steering wheel? Running from an accident is a crime.
Or why not arrest all three of them. Isn't running from an accident a crime even if you were not the driver?
Though the most obvious answer is the police just didn't give a shit, which is usually the case for minor crimes for people that don't matter. Do the same thing to a politician's car and they will have the entire force crawling the streets for you.
This doesn't give them the right to assault the guy. They could tell him to leave the premises, of course. But to attack someone just because they are violating your business' rules? No.
Mr. Prophet, what you've just said is one of the most insanely idiotic things I have ever heard. At no point in your rambling, incoherent response were you even close to anything that could be considered a rational thought. Everyone in this room is now dumber for having listened to it. I award you no points, and may God have mercy on your soul.
and everyone is happy except the Friedmanites and Randites
Let me get this straight. The people who are opposed to bailing out the banks are upset with Iceland because they didn't bail out the banks?
Well, the real issue is that they are more interested in their philosophy being "right", than actually helping society out. If the entire world goes to shit following their philosophy you would hear them trumpeting about how "right" they are.
In Japan, people are praised for trying their best. In most seasons, no one wins the final obstacle. In America, there has to be a winner to celebrate, everyone else is a failure. I much prefer the Japanese way of looking at things.
Fast-forward to a week or two from now where we'll see a report on the state of the American education system, explaining how more schools are shifting to a model where kids are praised for trying their best rather than actually understanding the material, and this same poster will be deriding that exact same trait he's gushing over now when it's done by Americans.
Expect the word "coddling" when describing it being done by Americans and "supportive" when the Japanese do the exact same thing.
School should not be a competition. It is possible for everyone to win and it is possible for everyone to fail. (or rather, it should be this way; you are right about the coddling aspect though)
In Japan, people are praised for trying their best. In most seasons, no one wins the final obstacle. In America, there has to be a winner to celebrate, everyone else is a failure. I much prefer the Japanese way of looking at things.
And furthermore, in America there must be only one single winner in everything. You are never allowed to have multiple people complete some challenge and share in the victory. While in a lot of things it is reasonable to have only a single winner (or team of winners), such as most competition sports, people tend to spill this over into everything.
The principle behind the decision to have an alphabetical keyboard is based on a misunderstanding. I believe that the idea is this: not everybody knows qwerty (it's an odd feeling actually typing qwerty as a word. Try it and you'll see what I mean) but everybody knows the alphabet. This true but irrelevant. People know the alphabet as a one dimensional string, not as a two-dimensional array, so you're going to have to hunt and peck anyway.
Typing qwerty is quite natural... on a qwerty keyboard.
I can type by heart on a qwerty keyboard, but if someone asks me out of the blue "What is the letter to the right of the y on a qwerty keybaord?", I am going to need to look at a keyboard to find out.
Or just hit the key without looking...
uuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu
Yep thats it. What is even stranger is I typed u in that sentence without even knowing that it was right next to the y.
Try the BBC: "The Higgs boson is another nail in the coffin of religion", "What do you get if you divide science by God?", "Is there room for Higgs Boson & Religion?"
Vixie predicts an uncertain future where computer users don't understand or simply don't care about the risks involved.
As opposed to today when uhh...
At what point did the average home user understand or care about security? We should consider ourselves lucky that service providers at least pretend to care about security these days. Any home user that can understand computer security policy and practice is most likely in the industry, or trained to do so.
Now a High School / GED level computer security class might sound hilariously basic for someone on Slashdot; but might be as useful as drivers ed classes for the masses. Sure there are morons that will drive/compute unsafely no matter what training, but some basic learning on how to protect one's self would really help intelligent people that just don't know better.
http://www.fi.edu/learn/sci-tech/lightning-rod/lightning-rod.php?cts=benfranklin-weather-electricity...in addition to wanting to prove that lightning was electricity, Franklin began to think about protecting people, buildings, and other structures from lightning. This grew into his idea for the lightning rod. Franklin described an iron rod about 8 or 10 feet long that was sharpened to a point at the end. He wrote, "the electrical fire would, I think, be drawn out of a cloud silently, before it could come near enough to strike..."
Abraham Lincoln fights vampires, Ben Franklin fights Thor!
2) the parasite spreads itself by infecting the nervous system of rodents, causing them to become suicidally attracted to feline odors
Suicidally? Being attracted to something known to shorten your lifespan doesn't mean you're suicidal. Take one example: Americans gorging themselves on McDonald's, then flooding hospitals with heart disease cases in an attempt to stay alive. If they were suicidal, they'd just keep eating more burgers and look emo about it till they died.
Is it still suicide if one didn't intend to kill one's self? I believe it is more of an accidental death. Though some people would put Darwin Award level accidents into the suicide category.
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The question was would you trust it.
We shouldn't trust anything to "just work", or "be safe". We should get out there and prove it. And even it isn't a matter of trusting it. Continual safety checks, monitoring and anaysis is the only way to keep any industrial system safe.
Perhaps they are including all the sales of people that would never have buy an iDevice because of fiascoes like this.
Or the fact that Apple is helping drive Samsung's sales on this. I wouldn't have heard of the Galaxy Tab if it wasn't for Apple. Now I think I will buy one before they are made illegal. Thanks Apple!
Does anyone know the current $/km^2 of destruction for nuclear devices is these days?
It's a logarithmic scale with respect to megatons vs radius. Asteroid deorbinting might be more cost effective for something as big as a continent.
I paid good money to have you guys assassinated.
How much did you pay to have the entire country of Australia assassinated? Did they give you some kind of group rate?
I wish people would get that chemistry != nanotechnology.
Our world is filled with nanoscale molecules, including many that we designed and created, but the word "nanotechnology" was specifically coined to describe building things by the manipulation of individual atoms.
Unless you count crystals like diamond as one big molecule... I am pretty sure every molecule is nanoscale. Even .
I am not saying we should not complain about issues. But packaging? Really?
Perhaps this is part of the filming unboxing culture that I just don't understand. As long as the item is not in one of those frustrating plastic packages that require the jaws of life to open, or it isn't wasting an obnoxious amount of material; I don't much care about the packaging.
Also I like your username.
This article is why I hate hipsters and people that moan about their first world problems.
Yeah, your smug "scare quote laden" impressions are incorrect. Go look at StraightTalk, or the prepay plan from T-Mobile that has 100 minutes and unlimited SMS and data. Sure, it's TMo so you don't have 3G out in Centralia, PA. As Winston Wolfe said, "move out of the sticks, gentlemen!"
So people wont move out of town because it has been on fire for 50 years , but will move if it doesnt have 3G coverage. Sounds typical, and sounds like a lot of my efforts at SimCity.
If you are under 20 mod parent down.
If you are over 20 mod parent up.
Why didn't the police just fingerprint the steering wheel? Running from an accident is a crime.
Or why not arrest all three of them. Isn't running from an accident a crime even if you were not the driver?
Though the most obvious answer is the police just didn't give a shit, which is usually the case for minor crimes for people that don't matter. Do the same thing to a politician's car and they will have the entire force crawling the streets for you.
From the Relay rides website:
Insurance is included with every rental
Who does it insure? Liability insurance for the carrier/vehicle owner, or actual coverage of damage to the vehicle itself?
Mod parent down.
This doesn't give them the right to assault the guy. They could tell him to leave the premises, of course. But to attack someone just because they are violating your business' rules? No.
Walters' flight was successful and non-fatal, though he did commit suicide later in life. You might be thinking of Adelir Antonio de Carli.
when asked by a reporter why he had done it, Walters replied, "A man can't just sit around."
But apparently he can just sit around.... at 16000 feet.
Mr. Prophet, what you've just said is one of the most insanely idiotic things I have ever heard. At no point in your rambling, incoherent response were you even close to anything that could be considered a rational thought. Everyone in this room is now dumber for having listened to it. I award you no points, and may God have mercy on your soul.
WHOOOSH!
WHOOSH!
Actually the open source toilet makes a GNUOOSH sound.
and everyone is happy except the Friedmanites and Randites
Let me get this straight. The people who are opposed to bailing out the banks are upset with Iceland because they didn't bail out the banks?
Well, the real issue is that they are more interested in their philosophy being "right", than actually helping society out. If the entire world goes to shit following their philosophy you would hear them trumpeting about how "right" they are.
In Japan, people are praised for trying their best. In most seasons, no one wins the final obstacle. In America, there has to be a winner to celebrate, everyone else is a failure. I much prefer the Japanese way of looking at things.
Fast-forward to a week or two from now where we'll see a report on the state of the American education system, explaining how more schools are shifting to a model where kids are praised for trying their best rather than actually understanding the material, and this same poster will be deriding that exact same trait he's gushing over now when it's done by Americans.
Expect the word "coddling" when describing it being done by Americans and "supportive" when the Japanese do the exact same thing.
School should not be a competition. It is possible for everyone to win and it is possible for everyone to fail. (or rather, it should be this way; you are right about the coddling aspect though)
In Japan, people are praised for trying their best. In most seasons, no one wins the final obstacle. In America, there has to be a winner to celebrate, everyone else is a failure. I much prefer the Japanese way of looking at things.
And furthermore, in America there must be only one single winner in everything. You are never allowed to have multiple people complete some challenge and share in the victory. While in a lot of things it is reasonable to have only a single winner (or team of winners), such as most competition sports, people tend to spill this over into everything.
It would have made sense if people adopted the abcdef keyboard (alphabetical)
Douglas Adams answered this one many years ago:
The principle behind the decision to have an alphabetical keyboard is based on a misunderstanding. I believe that the idea is this: not everybody knows qwerty (it's an odd feeling actually typing qwerty as a word. Try it and you'll see what I mean) but everybody knows the alphabet. This true but irrelevant. People know the alphabet as a one dimensional string, not as a two-dimensional array, so you're going to have to hunt and peck anyway.
Typing qwerty is quite natural... on a qwerty keyboard.
I can type by heart on a qwerty keyboard, but if someone asks me out of the blue "What is the letter to the right of the y on a qwerty keybaord?", I am going to need to look at a keyboard to find out.
Or just hit the key without looking...
uuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu
Yep thats it. What is even stranger is I typed u in that sentence without even knowing that it was right next to the y.
Try the BBC: "The Higgs boson is another nail in the coffin of religion",
"What do you get if you divide science by God?", "Is there room for Higgs Boson & Religion?"
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-radio-and-tv-18712238
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/magazine/7955846.stm
http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/p00tt7kb/World_Have_Your_Say_WHYS_60_Is_there_room_for_Higgs_Boson_and_Religion/
Apparently the BBC was taken over by the people that run the Daily Mail.
As opposed to today when uhh...
At what point did the average home user understand or care about security? We should consider ourselves lucky that service providers at least pretend to care about security these days. Any home user that can understand computer security policy and practice is most likely in the industry, or trained to do so.
Now a High School / GED level computer security class might sound hilariously basic for someone on Slashdot; but might be as useful as drivers ed classes for the masses. Sure there are morons that will drive/compute unsafely no matter what training, but some basic learning on how to protect one's self would really help intelligent people that just don't know better.
So, for a gay liberal who cheered the recent opinion on Obamacare, remember that when you're up for execution for being homosexual.
What about us straight people who cheer the opinion?
You will be executed for being a communist the next time the parties change.
http://www.fi.edu/learn/sci-tech/lightning-rod/lightning-rod.php?cts=benfranklin-weather-electricity ...in addition to wanting to prove that lightning was electricity, Franklin began to think about protecting people, buildings, and other structures from lightning. This grew into his idea for the lightning rod. Franklin described an iron rod about 8 or 10 feet long that was sharpened to a point at the end. He wrote, "the electrical fire would, I think, be drawn out of a cloud silently, before it could come near enough to strike..."
Abraham Lincoln fights vampires, Ben Franklin fights Thor!
Actually lightning fatalities are about 24,000 a year.
http://www.vaisala.com/Vaisala%20Documents/Scientific%20papers/Annual_rates_of_lightning_fatalities_by_country.pdf
The fact that you could have just used google to find that instead of trying to spread vitriol says a lot about you.
Thor does not claim to be peaceful.
Exactly. Also:
Suicidally? Being attracted to something known to shorten your lifespan doesn't mean you're suicidal. Take one example: Americans gorging themselves on McDonald's, then flooding hospitals with heart disease cases in an attempt to stay alive. If they were suicidal, they'd just keep eating more burgers and look emo about it till they died.
Is it still suicide if one didn't intend to kill one's self? I believe it is more of an accidental death. Though some people would put Darwin Award level accidents into the suicide category.