The real problem here is the utter insufficiency in determining when a person is really alive or dead.
^ This is the heart of the issue. Same with other dilemmas. Said differently, when does this thing become a human, and when does it cease to be a human?
I recall reading a sci-fi book back in the 70's, about a guy who was in a vegetative state. He was being kept alive on a machine, and unable to communicate. But his mind was still good enough that he could think logically. So, much of the story was about his thought process; whether or not he wished he were dead, and how this compares to a person who has good physical health but no mind. Sorry that I could not find it via Google. But it was an interesting read that got you thinking.
If a machine is faking a heart beat on an lump of rotting meat, then by all means pull the plug. But if there is still a functioning brain that lost connectivity with the body, then the decision becomes more difficult. In my case, if I'm capable of reasoning, then I'd just as well spend the rest of my life daydreaming while keeping a distant hope that I could someday be connected up to some sensors and actuators. But I can understand how many people would prefer that someone pulls the plug.
Either way, a living will would help a lot, and save the prospective plug-puller a lot of anguish.
Yes, good ol' Libertarian "The government shouldn't violate my right to violate others rights!"
I assume you made that up to sound clever.
From the very first part of their faq: http://www.lp.org/faq "Essentially, we believe all Americans should be free to live their lives and pursue their interests as they see fit as long as they do no harm to another." I'm pretty sure that the "do no harm to another" phrase applies here.
A Ford F-150 truck with Ecoboost weighs 4,935 pounds. A Tesla S weighs 4,647. Right about the same weight.
The F-150 is a full-size truck with a heavy chassis, and a 11,300 pound towing capacity. A Tesla S is a little sedan. By the time the Tesla S is beefed up to truck capability, it is going to weigh a lot more than the Tesla sedan, and also a lot more than the F-150.
The F-150 pays fuel taxes which are used for road maintenance. The much heavier Tesla will pay zero. Plus, the F-150 owner will help pay for the Tesla's rebate.
Exactly. With a straight face, they cite statistics comparing a new $100,000 Tesla with an old beater that is held together with duct tape and probably worth a few hundred bucks.
I never understood why social security numbers have become secret. It was my student ID both in undergrad and grad school. Available to everyone. Once upon a time, you were even supposed to keep your social security card in your wallet. Now it needs to be kept secret, along with my mother's maiden name.
Here's you chance to write an app that postpones texts until the GPS says you've stopped for more than a couple minutes. Implementation details are left as an exercise to the reader.
TFA says "a change of 1.7 ± 0.3 mm yr–1 for the 20th century". Meanwhile NOAA http://ibis.grdl.noaa.gov/SAT/SeaLevelRise/documents/NOAA_NESDIS_Sea_Level_Rise_Budget_Report_2012.pdf says 1.1-1.3 mm for the years 2007-2012. So for a layman, it would appear that the rate of ocean rise is slowing. Furthermore, if we project the most recent 1.2mm/yr average, it works out to be less than 5 inches over the next 100 years. Maybe enough to make me move my beer, but nothing to panic over.
Finally, this paper http://www.agu.org/pubs/crossref/pip/2012GL052885.shtml (which I only read the abstract) suggests a 60-Year Oscillation in Global Mean Sea Level. So, the choice of where in this cycle the measurements are taken, the results will vary drastically. And depending on the agenda of the funding source, the published conclusions can be drastically different.
Aw come on! So, the OP provided a lot of links and citations. This is supposed to be a good thing. If the underlines on the text are too difficult for you, then change your browser options.
If I were a criminal or politician, I'd want one for practicing facial expressions. Maybe also hide one at the podium next to my teleprompter, to make sure I'm properly conveying the right message. Or give one to the make-up staffer to ensure that I look just right to the people. The rest of us will have to wait until it comes out as a smartphone app.
A social security number is just a hash code to numerically identify a person. Kind of like a full name, except a little more precise. It was my student ID for both undergrad and grad school. It has since turned int a closely guarded secret, although it is included on the paperwork of pretty much anything you sign. There's got to be a better way.
Not to get too geeky with off-topic stuff, but this is slashdot...
The problem may be your USB charger rather than the cable. According to the USB standard, pins 1 and 4 supply power, while 2 and 3 (the data pins) are used to negotiate how much power may be taken. Some cheaper chargers leave 2 and 3 open, whereas the standard dictates that they should be jumpered together for charge-only devices. This didn't matter in the past. But a recent (last 6 months) update to Android (at least Motorola) switched from "take whatever we want" to "properly use the protocol". The fix is to jumper pins 2 and 3 on your charger.
According to the linked Slashdot article, Verizon had no way of knowing, and wasn't seeing any of the money. The guy was using Verizon's resources to scam Cisco.
'The service requests were fraudulent in that no parts needed to be replaced, and instead of placing the replacement parts into service in Verizon Wireless network, Baxter simply took them home and sold them to third-party re-sellers for his own profit.'"
Sorry to repeat myself and lose more karma. But the interest is that the robot is: 1: Cheap, as in feasible for small companies that cannot afford massive assembly plants 2a: Easy to program, as in the "robotic technician (programmer)" is a job that can now be done by a less-educated worker. Skilled? yes. Highly educated? no. 2b: Easy to program, as in agile response to changing requirements. 3: Safe, meaning that a small business does not need an expensive factory with shielded cages. Together, they bring automation to places where it used to not be feasible. Automation means increased productivity, and productivity is something that every business strives for.
Low-level US labor is not going to compete in price with China. But automation allows a single person, presumably in the US, to accomplish what would otherwise be done by a handful of menial laborers overseas. Once there is a factory, there are technicians, design engineers, parts people, management, cleaning staff, cafeteria, transportation, etc. In other words, a lot of jobs.
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Bad feeling? Wait until we find out that they use Apple maps for navigation.
The real problem here is the utter insufficiency in determining when a person is really alive or dead.
^ This is the heart of the issue. Same with other dilemmas. Said differently, when does this thing become a human, and when does it cease to be a human?
I recall reading a sci-fi book back in the 70's, about a guy who was in a vegetative state. He was being kept alive on a machine, and unable to communicate. But his mind was still good enough that he could think logically. So, much of the story was about his thought process; whether or not he wished he were dead, and how this compares to a person who has good physical health but no mind. Sorry that I could not find it via Google. But it was an interesting read that got you thinking.
If a machine is faking a heart beat on an lump of rotting meat, then by all means pull the plug. But if there is still a functioning brain that lost connectivity with the body, then the decision becomes more difficult. In my case, if I'm capable of reasoning, then I'd just as well spend the rest of my life daydreaming while keeping a distant hope that I could someday be connected up to some sensors and actuators. But I can understand how many people would prefer that someone pulls the plug.
Either way, a living will would help a lot, and save the prospective plug-puller a lot of anguish.
Yes, good ol' Libertarian "The government shouldn't violate my right to violate others rights!"
I assume you made that up to sound clever.
From the very first part of their faq: http://www.lp.org/faq "Essentially, we believe all Americans should be free to live their lives and pursue their interests as they see fit as long as they do no harm to another." I'm pretty sure that the "do no harm to another" phrase applies here.
This is mission control. I said to ask MARVIN http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marvin_the_Martian -- not MAVEN.
Here's the US ground station map. http://www.gps.gov/systems/gps/control/ Nothing in Russia.
Can't the Russians just put theirs in Cuba?
Think they considered hanging a camera on each of those balloons? Nah. Who would want that?
A Ford F-150 truck with Ecoboost weighs 4,935 pounds. A Tesla S weighs 4,647. Right about the same weight.
The F-150 is a full-size truck with a heavy chassis, and a 11,300 pound towing capacity. A Tesla S is a little sedan. By the time the Tesla S is beefed up to truck capability, it is going to weigh a lot more than the Tesla sedan, and also a lot more than the F-150.
The F-150 pays fuel taxes which are used for road maintenance. The much heavier Tesla will pay zero. Plus, the F-150 owner will help pay for the Tesla's rebate.
See above comments. FTFA: "to commercialize the unproven technology of floating offshore wind power" Keyword: floating.
Don't blame your reading skills on Fox.
Exactly. With a straight face, they cite statistics comparing a new $100,000 Tesla with an old beater that is held together with duct tape and probably worth a few hundred bucks.
It's not exponential. Energy required per unit distance is roughly proportional to the square of speed.
So, if AC's Vette gets 26 MPG at 66 mph, then it would work out to roughly 6.5 MPG at 132 mph.
Powerpoint. Because software runs best on an overhead projector.
I never understood why social security numbers have become secret. It was my student ID both in undergrad and grad school. Available to everyone. Once upon a time, you were even supposed to keep your social security card in your wallet. Now it needs to be kept secret, along with my mother's maiden name.
It is just a has code -- not a password.
"What you are noticing is the low levels of education and intelligence on the part of all the Slashdot editors."
What we are noticing is the laziness of some ACs, who criticize the wording of the summary without even reading the first sentence of TFA.
Odd as it may seem, some of us read /. for the content, and can overlook a few grammatical errors.
Before that steam drill shall beat me down, I'll die with my hammer in my hand. —John Henry
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Henry_(folklore)
Here's you chance to write an app that postpones texts until the GPS says you've stopped for more than a couple minutes. Implementation details are left as an exercise to the reader.
Okay, I'll bite.
TFA says "a change of 1.7 ± 0.3 mm yr–1 for the 20th century". Meanwhile NOAA http://ibis.grdl.noaa.gov/SAT/SeaLevelRise/documents/NOAA_NESDIS_Sea_Level_Rise_Budget_Report_2012.pdf says 1.1-1.3 mm for the years 2007-2012. So for a layman, it would appear that the rate of ocean rise is slowing. Furthermore, if we project the most recent 1.2mm/yr average, it works out to be less than 5 inches over the next 100 years. Maybe enough to make me move my beer, but nothing to panic over.
Finally, this paper http://www.agu.org/pubs/crossref/pip/2012GL052885.shtml (which I only read the abstract) suggests a 60-Year Oscillation in Global Mean Sea Level. So, the choice of where in this cycle the measurements are taken, the results will vary drastically. And depending on the agenda of the funding source, the published conclusions can be drastically different.
If the law is so bad that everyone is now finger-pointing, then why don't they just repeal it?
Aw come on! So, the OP provided a lot of links and citations. This is supposed to be a good thing. If the underlines on the text are too difficult for you, then change your browser options.
If I were a criminal or politician, I'd want one for practicing facial expressions. Maybe also hide one at the podium next to my teleprompter, to make sure I'm properly conveying the right message. Or give one to the make-up staffer to ensure that I look just right to the people. The rest of us will have to wait until it comes out as a smartphone app.
A real community member would be proud to shell out the 10 bucks for the domain name nenewal and donate it back to the project.
A social security number is just a hash code to numerically identify a person. Kind of like a full name, except a little more precise. It was my student ID for both undergrad and grad school. It has since turned int a closely guarded secret, although it is included on the paperwork of pretty much anything you sign. There's got to be a better way.
Not to get too geeky with off-topic stuff, but this is slashdot...
The problem may be your USB charger rather than the cable. According to the USB standard, pins 1 and 4 supply power, while 2 and 3 (the data pins) are used to negotiate how much power may be taken. Some cheaper chargers leave 2 and 3 open, whereas the standard dictates that they should be jumpered together for charge-only devices. This didn't matter in the past. But a recent (last 6 months) update to Android (at least Motorola) switched from "take whatever we want" to "properly use the protocol". The fix is to jumper pins 2 and 3 on your charger.
According to the linked Slashdot article, Verizon had no way of knowing, and wasn't seeing any of the money. The guy was using Verizon's resources to scam Cisco.
'The service requests were fraudulent in that no parts needed to be replaced, and instead of placing the replacement parts into service in Verizon Wireless network, Baxter simply took them home and sold them to third-party re-sellers for his own profit.'"
Non-Linux:
TRSDOS - in 1978 on RS Model 1
MSDOS
Linux:
SLS - in 1992, Kernel 0.99 pl 9 on my i486. - 35 floppies
Slackware
RedHat
CentOs
Fedora
RHEL - Still using it at home and work
Sorry to repeat myself and lose more karma. But the interest is that the robot is:
1: Cheap, as in feasible for small companies that cannot afford massive assembly plants
2a: Easy to program, as in the "robotic technician (programmer)" is a job that can now be done by a less-educated worker. Skilled? yes. Highly educated? no.
2b: Easy to program, as in agile response to changing requirements.
3: Safe, meaning that a small business does not need an expensive factory with shielded cages.
Together, they bring automation to places where it used to not be feasible. Automation means increased productivity, and productivity is something that every business strives for.
Low-level US labor is not going to compete in price with China. But automation allows a single person, presumably in the US, to accomplish what would otherwise be done by a handful of menial laborers overseas. Once there is a factory, there are technicians, design engineers, parts people, management, cleaning staff, cafeteria, transportation, etc. In other words, a lot of jobs.