I got stuck with the Facebook app on my Android phone as a courtesy of my service provider. Couldn't delete it and when I tried to disable it and nuke the data, it would of course start up the next time I powered on/off. And that 200 MB data file...wtf. I don't have a FB account but they sure do have an account on me.
I ended up having to root my phone to get rid of it.
Agreed. Find somewhere that's brutally hot, lots of coastline, and not a lot of coastal development. Go nuts with evaporation ponds and some automation and you sir have brought your country into the 21st century energy economy.
Yemen 2020 !!!
Love the expanse. Couldn't wait for Season 2 to come out on DVD/Netflix so bought the online episodes. Only show I've ever purchased rather than wait on.
Every time a science fiction writer publishes their book, they should also just fill out a couple dozen patent forms in the process. Of course the 'Epstein Drive' won't actually be invented before the sci-fi patent expires, but hey at least there will be prior art on the books...
Or if you have the money I guess you could just patent anything you want right now, as long as you are sure to include the notion that some sort of included "AI" will just make it work.
Agreed. I also don't own a Tesla, but have been a passenger any times and driven a few. In my experience an electric car is a far superior experience to the ICE vehicle. The outstanding, and well debated points, being the range and time-to-charge. However the edge cases supporting ICE over electric are becoming narrower. A previous poster mentioned driving Le Mans for instance...not exactly the commoner's problem.
Inevitably there is a Slashdot poster that needs to drive 2.5 hours each way to work, up a mountain, in the cold, but generally speaking the folks I talk to have no issues with range nor charging on the day-to-day, week-to-week, month-to-month, basis. Maybe they have to suck it up and hang out for 30-45 minutes for a charge on a vacation trip. Not a big deal over the course of a year's driving.
Seriously, this guy is a complete tool and needs to be replaced by someone with a clue. GOP is running the show so they can pick their team, but Ajit is going to hurt them in the long run with his terrible choices.
+1 for Office Space. TPS reports, the Bob's, co-workers with a case of the Monday's....and more. Still true 17 years (?!) later for IT in 99% of the country. And for the 1% living in the SV bubble, the TV show Silicon Valley covers it for you.
Using the term "Restore Internet freedom" is the dead give away that this is bad news for regular folks. Very much along the lines of terms "PATRIOT Act" and "Homeland Security". This is straight out, old school Soviet propaganda style terminology, and I've never understood why Americans are ok with it.
The question I have wondered is aside from the PR value of missile launches for show, wouldn't it be much easier for NK to smuggle a nuke into NY or DC? Just buy an apartment, park the nuke in the lead lined fridge and sit tight until needed. Much more straightforward than attempting to accurately aim an ICBM, dealing with re-entry, dealing with anti-missile defenses and so on.
"The Department of Defense is the world's largest single employer,"
Not Gattaca Corp, not Tyrell, not Weyland-Utani or Tessier-Ashpool. This demonstrates why we won't get super-cool things in our lifetimes. Sure DARPA shmarpa, but if we instead had 3.2 million people working on nano-tech, biology, AI, lunar colonies and FTL, then maybe we could get somewhere as a civilization.
The US has plenty of nukes, has demonstrated a willingness to use them. That is all we basically need for defense. All the rest of if is clearly for offensive military use, unfortunately which seems to have broad support no matter the human or monetary costs.
My one lingering hope with this all-Republican government is that they would barrel through a balanced budget. Which basically means drastically reducing the spending on defense and entitlements. All this other nickel and dime stuff is baloney... EV credits really? Is that even a decimal place I can get to on my calculator as a percentage of the total govt spending? I don't care if you take away PBS, or planned parenthood, or the Dept of Education. But do all nonsense after you take an axe to Defense spending and entitlements.
Where the heck are the tea party'ers that have been ballyhooing this for years? Such lying do-nothings.
But unlike the examples in the related story:
https://tech.slashdot.org/stor...
In order to create a collision in a busy channel you only need to put the ship a few hundred meters out of place to hit another ship. Possibly a narrow enough margin not to be detected as spoofing. That and the lack of basic skills, listening to the VHF, binoculars on watch, knowing navigation lights, etc etc. With a full deck on watch, just visually scanning there shouldn't be these fatal accidents even if instigated by bad actors.
Agreed. There have been so many security and privacy breaches, that it's time for an Arthur Anderson moment. This big company needs to go down in flames in order to set the example for the rest of corporate America. This corporation's entire function was all about storing and keeping safe this data. Ok, it's real function is making the CEO and execs rich, but secondary to that. It wasn't in the business of selling widgets and also storing credit card info, it's only business was data, and extremely sensitive data at that. I don't even know what the implications are now of basically every adult American having their SS# out there.
The fraud detection business will really have to step up it's game. Right now fraud detection are mostly phony services. But even well equipped big bank's are woeful at detecting fraud as is the venerable IRS. Watershed moment or will this just get overshadowed by hurricanes and earthquakes?
Or how about not sending 10,000's of Americans into war in the first place?
Actually political bi-partisanship only seems to manifest itself when the US decides to bomb, invade, or otherwise destabilize distant lands at the expense of the U.S. soldiers thrust into the cauldron.
Agreed. I have kids and thus Disney is part of our lives. But as others have said, I'm not about to add the "Disney Channel" to my Netflix and Amazon subscriptions. Nor HBO.com, nor CBS.com, nor Hulu. Two streaming platforms is plenty.
And here's the thing. Netflix successfully changed my viewing habits. We ditched cable many years ago, but now even OTA TV is rarely watched. Disney shows will go by the wayside for us, probably more PBS and older kids content will fill in nicely. What Disney Corp. fails to realize is that since my kids won't be watching their shows, they also won't want any of the associated merchandise either. Win win for a parent, too bad for DIS stock.
As an addition to the filtering available, I propose Slashdot allow users to filter out based on specific screen names. A blacklist if you will. I've already got several names of crackpots in mind, and no doubt people will have me on their lists. Win-win.
Agreed. At least they didn't drag this out by having a 'committee' perform an investigation. Sorry Eric Holder, nothing to see here. The guy got canned, and deservedly so.
Pro tip: If your CEO (Sundar Pichai) happens to be from a country and/or ethnicity where the people have been persecuted based on their race (aka genetics)....probably not a Harvard PhD caliber idea to recycle that tired line of argument in your own personal gender grievances on aforementioned CEO's corporate social network. Also don't interrupt your CEO's family vacation.
Side Note: Similar to that woman who was canned by Tesla for mouthing off, how is it that this guy passes for a "Senior Engineer"? His major LinkedIn endorsements are LaTex and MatLab.
At least they didn't drag this out by having a 'committee' perform an investigation. Sorry Eric Holder, nothing to see here. The guy got canned, and deservedly so.
Pro tip: If your CEO (Sundar Pichai) happens to be from a country and/or ethnicity where the people have been persecuted based on their race (aka genetics)....probably not a Harvard PhD caliber idea to recycle that tired line of argument in your own personal gender grievances on aforementioned CEO's corporate social network. Also don't interrupt your CEO's family vacation.
Side Note: Similar to that woman who was canned by Tesla for mouthing off, how is it that this guy passes for a "Senior Engineer"? His major LinkedIn endorsements are LaTex and MatLab.
This is a non-starter protest. And I think Netflix CEO Reed Hasting's opinion on Net Neutrality "We're big enough not to care" is likely shared by the others, they just won't say it. Now that Yahoo is owned by Verizon, even they won't be part of the 'opposition'. Cards are falling into place very nicely for our corporate information overlords.
Kudos to you Bezos and Amazon. You might be the last tech titan with actual principles.
That's billion with a "B". And recall that SF only has about 800,000 residents. According to SF Chronicle, San Francisco spends more money every year than at least 10 states, including Iowa and Maine. Kim is among the worst, but every politician in SF will spend up to and even slightly more money than they can get their hands on. This is just one more source of pork barrel money for them them. It has nothing to do with robots or job losses or housing or whatever.
The fact that SF is in the shape that it is in after $9 billion every year is proof of how terrible the people running the city are. Or a less charitable person might say how corrupt..
Zenimax is in MD, Oculus in CA...yet the trial is in the North District of Texas...? I've been around Slashdot long enough to understand why there are so many trials like this in the "North District of Texas" but it's still baloney that lawyers can shop the district they want to file in.
I for one would like my criminal trial to be held in the state which is most lenient to whatever my crime is....
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I got stuck with the Facebook app on my Android phone as a courtesy of my service provider. Couldn't delete it and when I tried to disable it and nuke the data, it would of course start up the next time I powered on/off. And that 200 MB data file...wtf. I don't have a FB account but they sure do have an account on me.
I ended up having to root my phone to get rid of it.
Agreed. Find somewhere that's brutally hot, lots of coastline, and not a lot of coastal development. Go nuts with evaporation ponds and some automation and you sir have brought your country into the 21st century energy economy. Yemen 2020 !!!
Love the expanse. Couldn't wait for Season 2 to come out on DVD/Netflix so bought the online episodes. Only show I've ever purchased rather than wait on.
Every time a science fiction writer publishes their book, they should also just fill out a couple dozen patent forms in the process. Of course the 'Epstein Drive' won't actually be invented before the sci-fi patent expires, but hey at least there will be prior art on the books... Or if you have the money I guess you could just patent anything you want right now, as long as you are sure to include the notion that some sort of included "AI" will just make it work.
Agreed. I also don't own a Tesla, but have been a passenger any times and driven a few. In my experience an electric car is a far superior experience to the ICE vehicle. The outstanding, and well debated points, being the range and time-to-charge. However the edge cases supporting ICE over electric are becoming narrower. A previous poster mentioned driving Le Mans for instance...not exactly the commoner's problem.
Inevitably there is a Slashdot poster that needs to drive 2.5 hours each way to work, up a mountain, in the cold, but generally speaking the folks I talk to have no issues with range nor charging on the day-to-day, week-to-week, month-to-month, basis. Maybe they have to suck it up and hang out for 30-45 minutes for a charge on a vacation trip. Not a big deal over the course of a year's driving.
Snapchat called, they want their spectacles back.
Seriously, this guy is a complete tool and needs to be replaced by someone with a clue. GOP is running the show so they can pick their team, but Ajit is going to hurt them in the long run with his terrible choices.
+1 for Office Space. TPS reports, the Bob's, co-workers with a case of the Monday's....and more. Still true 17 years (?!) later for IT in 99% of the country. And for the 1% living in the SV bubble, the TV show Silicon Valley covers it for you.
Using the term "Restore Internet freedom" is the dead give away that this is bad news for regular folks. Very much along the lines of terms "PATRIOT Act" and "Homeland Security". This is straight out, old school Soviet propaganda style terminology, and I've never understood why Americans are ok with it.
The question I have wondered is aside from the PR value of missile launches for show, wouldn't it be much easier for NK to smuggle a nuke into NY or DC? Just buy an apartment, park the nuke in the lead lined fridge and sit tight until needed. Much more straightforward than attempting to accurately aim an ICBM, dealing with re-entry, dealing with anti-missile defenses and so on.
"The Department of Defense is the world's largest single employer,"
Not Gattaca Corp, not Tyrell, not Weyland-Utani or Tessier-Ashpool. This demonstrates why we won't get super-cool things in our lifetimes. Sure DARPA shmarpa, but if we instead had 3.2 million people working on nano-tech, biology, AI, lunar colonies and FTL, then maybe we could get somewhere as a civilization.
The US has plenty of nukes, has demonstrated a willingness to use them. That is all we basically need for defense. All the rest of if is clearly for offensive military use, unfortunately which seems to have broad support no matter the human or monetary costs.
My one lingering hope with this all-Republican government is that they would barrel through a balanced budget. Which basically means drastically reducing the spending on defense and entitlements. All this other nickel and dime stuff is baloney... EV credits really? Is that even a decimal place I can get to on my calculator as a percentage of the total govt spending? I don't care if you take away PBS, or planned parenthood, or the Dept of Education. But do all nonsense after you take an axe to Defense spending and entitlements. Where the heck are the tea party'ers that have been ballyhooing this for years? Such lying do-nothings.
Lenevo and Tata will purchase the remnants.
But unlike the examples in the related story: https://tech.slashdot.org/stor... In order to create a collision in a busy channel you only need to put the ship a few hundred meters out of place to hit another ship. Possibly a narrow enough margin not to be detected as spoofing. That and the lack of basic skills, listening to the VHF, binoculars on watch, knowing navigation lights, etc etc. With a full deck on watch, just visually scanning there shouldn't be these fatal accidents even if instigated by bad actors.
I am seeing the development of a narrative where you end up taking the blame. Sort of like BP tried to do with TransOcean.
Agreed. There have been so many security and privacy breaches, that it's time for an Arthur Anderson moment. This big company needs to go down in flames in order to set the example for the rest of corporate America. This corporation's entire function was all about storing and keeping safe this data. Ok, it's real function is making the CEO and execs rich, but secondary to that. It wasn't in the business of selling widgets and also storing credit card info, it's only business was data, and extremely sensitive data at that. I don't even know what the implications are now of basically every adult American having their SS# out there. The fraud detection business will really have to step up it's game. Right now fraud detection are mostly phony services. But even well equipped big bank's are woeful at detecting fraud as is the venerable IRS. Watershed moment or will this just get overshadowed by hurricanes and earthquakes?
Or how about not sending 10,000's of Americans into war in the first place?
Actually political bi-partisanship only seems to manifest itself when the US decides to bomb, invade, or otherwise destabilize distant lands at the expense of the U.S. soldiers thrust into the cauldron.
Agreed. I have kids and thus Disney is part of our lives. But as others have said, I'm not about to add the "Disney Channel" to my Netflix and Amazon subscriptions. Nor HBO.com, nor CBS.com, nor Hulu. Two streaming platforms is plenty. And here's the thing. Netflix successfully changed my viewing habits. We ditched cable many years ago, but now even OTA TV is rarely watched. Disney shows will go by the wayside for us, probably more PBS and older kids content will fill in nicely. What Disney Corp. fails to realize is that since my kids won't be watching their shows, they also won't want any of the associated merchandise either. Win win for a parent, too bad for DIS stock.
As an addition to the filtering available, I propose Slashdot allow users to filter out based on specific screen names. A blacklist if you will. I've already got several names of crackpots in mind, and no doubt people will have me on their lists. Win-win.
Agreed. At least they didn't drag this out by having a 'committee' perform an investigation. Sorry Eric Holder, nothing to see here. The guy got canned, and deservedly so. Pro tip: If your CEO (Sundar Pichai) happens to be from a country and/or ethnicity where the people have been persecuted based on their race (aka genetics)....probably not a Harvard PhD caliber idea to recycle that tired line of argument in your own personal gender grievances on aforementioned CEO's corporate social network. Also don't interrupt your CEO's family vacation. Side Note: Similar to that woman who was canned by Tesla for mouthing off, how is it that this guy passes for a "Senior Engineer"? His major LinkedIn endorsements are LaTex and MatLab.
At least they didn't drag this out by having a 'committee' perform an investigation. Sorry Eric Holder, nothing to see here. The guy got canned, and deservedly so. Pro tip: If your CEO (Sundar Pichai) happens to be from a country and/or ethnicity where the people have been persecuted based on their race (aka genetics)....probably not a Harvard PhD caliber idea to recycle that tired line of argument in your own personal gender grievances on aforementioned CEO's corporate social network. Also don't interrupt your CEO's family vacation. Side Note: Similar to that woman who was canned by Tesla for mouthing off, how is it that this guy passes for a "Senior Engineer"? His major LinkedIn endorsements are LaTex and MatLab.
This is a non-starter protest. And I think Netflix CEO Reed Hasting's opinion on Net Neutrality "We're big enough not to care" is likely shared by the others, they just won't say it. Now that Yahoo is owned by Verizon, even they won't be part of the 'opposition'. Cards are falling into place very nicely for our corporate information overlords. Kudos to you Bezos and Amazon. You might be the last tech titan with actual principles.
That's billion with a "B". And recall that SF only has about 800,000 residents. According to SF Chronicle, San Francisco spends more money every year than at least 10 states, including Iowa and Maine. Kim is among the worst, but every politician in SF will spend up to and even slightly more money than they can get their hands on. This is just one more source of pork barrel money for them them. It has nothing to do with robots or job losses or housing or whatever. The fact that SF is in the shape that it is in after $9 billion every year is proof of how terrible the people running the city are. Or a less charitable person might say how corrupt..
What's the next research to get super-excited about only to find out it's "Not what you thought it was." ?
Zenimax is in MD, Oculus in CA...yet the trial is in the North District of Texas...? I've been around Slashdot long enough to understand why there are so many trials like this in the "North District of Texas" but it's still baloney that lawyers can shop the district they want to file in. I for one would like my criminal trial to be held in the state which is most lenient to whatever my crime is....