I suspect, what will be discovered by science and research, is that our civilization has created mutagens, that have helped accelerate the rate at which members of the population have these conditions.
Romans with lead.
Recent history with things like DDT.
History shows us that we often do not know the downside of some of our choices. For example, we only found out about lead poisoning, and removing lead from automotive fuel and residential paints, in one generation.
So my guess is, like we have discovered that some substances are carcinogens, that some things we are exposed to routinely today, will be classified as mutagens, and restricted or banned.
For those that already express the condition, I fear there is no solution. A mutation in the current science, unlike the movie Gattaca, doesn't seem fixable.
Takes them an hour to do 25 elementary school math problems. Not because they are 'slow', but cannot stay on task, internally and externally distracted, all the time.
We feel pressured to always have them on meds, different meds if they don't seem to be behaving 'better', drugs roulette, so they can seem more Acceptable to Others.
IEPs. Basically years of adversarial polite conflict with the elementary school, the principal of the elementary school, to accomodate the child's special needs. The principal trying to say the child has a displine problem, and would not provide all the services called out in my child's IEP, until we escalated over the principal's head to the district itself.
My child, that I love, I worry about, contantly. I worry about them beeing bullied, teased, made to feel bad for them just being themselves, in a world that likes to be xenophobic for those that Dont Seem To Fit In.
For me, I feel a sense of resignated acceptance. I already expect for my child to always be living with me, even when I am retired. I torture myself with worry how they will do in this world, once I am no longer alive to help them.
For me, I feel a cosmic finger has pointed at me, and has judged my existance will be a bit more biblical Job than those whose kids are Normals.
For me, I will be happy to be proved wrong, and that my special needs child grows up okay, but so far, I do not see any hope of that yet.
Since buses are so big, seems they are a good candidate to add an on-board range extender engine, for those trips that might exceed battery range.
Also, seems they also have lots of roof surface area where PV could be installed, to also help with range, or running accessories, or charging when just parked in fleet parking lots, or at destinations.
Might be a bullet point to discuss how technology (fertilizers, vaccines, medicine) may, or has resulted in, a possible overshoot/overpopulation scenario.
The third is the deliberate sabotaging of security. The primary example we have of this is the NSA's BULLRUN program, which tries to "insert vulnerabilities into commercial encryption systems, IT systems, networks and endpoint communication devices."
This is where the Free and Open source community can assist.
1. By having free (as in GPL licensed) cryptographically secure psudorandom number generators that all can use to help secure their communications.
2. Also having Free and Open source encryption algorithms (like twofish) get both global deployments and acceptance will help.
3. Lastly, and this is the hardest part, having Users become comfortable with securing their communications by using the above 1 and 2 on all their sensitive communications, including phones.
For me, the coolest thing about any software becoming GPL, or released GPL from the outset, is the immediate learning and sharing possible with anyone that reads it.
Sometimes it allows other projects to say, "excellent idea, let's incorporate that, and give credit to them", which to my thinking, means all other GPL project(s) can potentially benefit each other synergistic-ly.
I think the trouble with getting Science Fiction shows broadcast has nothing to do with the costs of making the show.
I think the trouble is that the audience size for sci-fi show(s), no matter how excellent they are, is a fraction of a mainstream drama, police show, etc.
So the money that a broadcaster makes, based on selling advertizing (commercials) to that small audience, never allows them to make enough money.
Maybe, just maybe a streaming service like Netflix could do it, as I will guess a larger fraction of their audience are into sci-fi, but actual numbers and statistics are hard to find that are publically available.
If it is sunny and cold, perhaps the state can install more solar power plants. That might help save fuel during the day, for power generation at night.
According to wikipedia, for 2012, they had only 207MW of grid-connected PV in Massachusetts. Seems might be nice to scale that up to 1GW when they can. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S...
For my current job, an open office floor plan would be terrible, as the jobs of our dept requires lots of phone use, and I would find the constant voices of others destracting as I tried to concentrate on my work.
The white-collar workers all worked in a single large room. Desks all facing the top-level boss, and the bosses desk faced them, almost like an American elementary school classroom.
We mostly worked like we were in a library: quietly.
Zero privacy.
It did seem to keep people from being chatty or goofing off in the office, if I remember correctly.
Slashdot Mirror
Hopefully people will use them only when face-to-face isn't available.
I Forgot My Phone
http://youtu.be/OINa46HeWg8
I suspect, what will be discovered by science and research, is that our civilization has created mutagens, that have helped accelerate the rate at which members of the population have these conditions.
Romans with lead.
Recent history with things like DDT.
History shows us that we often do not know the downside of some of our choices. For example, we only found out about lead poisoning, and removing lead from automotive fuel and residential paints, in one generation.
So my guess is, like we have discovered that some substances are carcinogens, that some things we are exposed to routinely today, will be classified as mutagens, and restricted or banned.
For those that already express the condition, I fear there is no solution. A mutation in the current science, unlike the movie Gattaca, doesn't seem fixable.
One of my children is a 'special needs' kid.
Takes them an hour to do 25 elementary school math problems. Not because they are 'slow', but cannot stay on task, internally and externally distracted, all the time.
We feel pressured to always have them on meds, different meds if they don't seem to be behaving 'better', drugs roulette, so they can seem more Acceptable to Others.
IEPs. Basically years of adversarial polite conflict with the elementary school, the principal of the elementary school, to accomodate the child's special needs. The principal trying to say the child has a displine problem, and would not provide all the services called out in my child's IEP, until we escalated over the principal's head to the district itself.
My child, that I love, I worry about, contantly. I worry about them beeing bullied, teased, made to feel bad for them just being themselves, in a world that likes to be xenophobic for those that Dont Seem To Fit In.
For me, I feel a sense of resignated acceptance. I already expect for my child to always be living with me, even when I am retired. I torture myself with worry how they will do in this world, once I am no longer alive to help them.
For me, I feel a cosmic finger has pointed at me, and has judged my existance will be a bit more biblical Job than those whose kids are Normals.
For me, I will be happy to be proved wrong, and that my special needs child grows up okay, but so far, I do not see any hope of that yet.
So those that know how, can test and verify open-source alternatives are cryptographically secure, not back-doored, and safe for people to use.
Cool, but I'd rather see more companies just issue workers a cell phone and laptop, so they can telecommute from home.
If it was up to me, they would all have to use the orginal v1 USB port size (rectangular, about 1cm wide, maybe 0.3cm tall).
Tired of all these different [censored] mini-USB shapes, and the minis are all too fragile!
"You keep stalking me and all my fellow citizens, everywhere and all the time.
You have been caught trying to sabotage secure relationships.
Why can't you accept boundaries? Why can't you focus your efforts solely on targeted efforts?"
-- Signed, Publius ; )
Since buses are so big, seems they are a good candidate to add an on-board range extender engine, for those trips that might exceed battery range.
Also, seems they also have lots of roof surface area where PV could be installed, to also help with range, or running accessories, or charging when just parked in fleet parking lots, or at destinations.
Please share your vision for where you would like to see GNU/Hurd, and GNU software over the next 25 years, and what people would be doing with it.
Might be a bullet point to discuss how technology (fertilizers, vaccines, medicine) may, or has resulted in, a possible overshoot/overpopulation scenario.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M...!
In my opinion, they _so_badly_ want to be the One Ring.
I hope I live to see the day they are just a historical Wikipedia entry.
You would have to use a proprietary Apple envelope, or the stamp wouldn't stick.
The Apple envelope would be prettier than a regular envelope, but cost twice as much, too.
This is where the Free and Open source community can assist.
1. By having free (as in GPL licensed) cryptographically secure psudorandom number generators that all can use to help secure their communications.
2. Also having Free and Open source encryption algorithms (like twofish) get both global deployments and acceptance will help.
3. Lastly, and this is the hardest part, having Users become comfortable with securing their communications by using the above 1 and 2 on all their sensitive communications, including phones.
For me, the coolest thing about any software becoming GPL, or released GPL from the outset, is the immediate learning and sharing possible with anyone that reads it.
Sometimes it allows other projects to say, "excellent idea, let's incorporate that, and give credit to them", which to my thinking, means all other GPL project(s) can potentially benefit each other synergistic-ly.
Touch my file, head or tail, I give you permission.
** file porn **
I think the trouble with getting Science Fiction shows broadcast has nothing to do with the costs of making the show.
I think the trouble is that the audience size for sci-fi show(s), no matter how excellent they are, is a fraction of a mainstream drama, police show, etc.
So the money that a broadcaster makes, based on selling advertizing (commercials) to that small audience, never allows them to make enough money.
Maybe, just maybe a streaming service like Netflix could do it, as I will guess a larger fraction of their audience are into sci-fi, but actual numbers and statistics are hard to find that are publically available.
He needs an Erin Brokovich to help!
If it is sunny and cold, perhaps the state can install more solar power plants. That might help save fuel during the day, for power generation at night.
According to wikipedia, for 2012, they had only 207MW of grid-connected PV in Massachusetts. Seems might be nice to scale that up to 1GW when they can.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S...
I telecommute 4 days out of 5 currently.
So now, my dept only meets in person on Mondays.
For my current job, an open office floor plan would be terrible, as the jobs of our dept requires lots of phone use, and I would find the constant voices of others destracting as I tried to concentrate on my work.
I worked for a Japanese company in the 90s.
The white-collar workers all worked in a single large room. Desks all facing the top-level boss, and the bosses desk faced them, almost like an American elementary school classroom.
We mostly worked like we were in a library: quietly.
Zero privacy.
It did seem to keep people from being chatty or goofing off in the office, if I remember correctly.
In my opinion the next step after that, should be to abolish software patents.
Appreciated the presentation, demos of the application running on the different OS's and different GUI toolkits.
Also seems they discovered/re-discovered the concepts of the design pattern of Model-View-Controller while working on it : )
Agree, vending machines that act as a kiosk and/or take debit/credit cards as well as cash.
True, good point.
Good point.