The findings were related to changes in weather patterns: an unusually hot summer, drought, things like that. The study didn't seem to draw any conclusions about average climate vs. violence, but about deviation from average climate vs. violence. So, if Ireland gets a particularly warm summer, violence and crime are likely to go up.
Nah, he lacks the child-like enthusiasm and curiosity that is pretty much required for a doctor, in my mind anyways. I agree with the AC: he'd make a fantastic Master, but not so much a Doctor. Besides, he's probably too busy being Smaug/Sherlock.
Absolutely everything? To start with, there is the fact I'm going to pay tens of thousands (or hundreds of thousands, probably) of dollars into it and won't see a single dime of it back, because it will be bankrupt a decade or more before I'll even come closer to considering retiring. The system is inherently and utterly broken in a world were people are living longer and having fewer children. It cannot remain viable unless there are far fewer people retired than working, which, with the modern birthrate and age of living, is impossible. The only people who will benefit from the system are those who are already retired or relatively close to it. People under 30 or so? Won't see a dime from it. People in their 40s are likely to retire, only to discover the money drying up soon after.
Social Security was devised in a world with radically different demographics than the current one. Unless our society undergoes a massive reversion (which would have negative impacts in other areas), it's a totally non-viable system.
"Doesn't allow"? You mean none of the apps at launch do that. Considering you can write your own sender and receiver apps, it allows you to do just about anything you can code.
Ah, I see the trademark now. Of course, it wasn't filed until 2009 (which really does matter: registered or not, using a trademark that is already in use elsewhere does not entitle you to force the other to take it down). However, and much more importantly, the Everquest name isn't being used to sell anything. It's frankly nothing like Disney seeking to take down trademarked content, because the mark isn't being used for trade. The point of trademarks is to reduce confusion among consumers: since nothing is being sold with or under the name (by either Sony, EQ2Wire, or the account holder, presumably) it's not a trademark and therefore can't infringe.
If Sony had made a game with that name in it, he might have a point (although, even there, unless the character in it bears a resemblance to some character he is likewise selling, he probably has very little case), but the name was created by a user, not by Sony. It isn't even part of the product.
The whole claim is spurious. First, it's a European registered (but expired, apparently) trademark, and therefore not enforceable against a US business (yes, trademarks are regional: you can have an unrelated "SodaPop Industries" in two different regions of one country, and neither infringes the other unless they expand into the others region). Second, the trademark is for a business, it doesn't cover video game account names. A username isn't a trademark at all: to be a trademark, it has to be actually doing trade. Unless someone is running a business under that name (and a business in a similar field as the complainant), there is no infringement. Finally, the indexing website isn't using the name to identify itself, it's a search portal. Even if it was a trademark, and an infringing one, the EQ2Wire.com wouldn't be infringing in any way by indexing it.
Apparently the Slashdot editors don't even read the damned article. From the linked news update:
- For the moment, our Oculus Rift support is limited to the Windows version. The Rift device itself does support Mac and Linux, but we have not as of yet. Again, this is just a first-generation implementation, and as always you can expect us to refine and expand it to other platforms as we move forward.
Looks like a pretty low-budget game. Looks *entirely* like an EVE spin-off. Haven't played it, but im sure it is fun in its own unique way...
It was in development before EVE came on the scene (by at least a year). But, yeah, it only has a couple of actual developers. It was an indie game before indie games became "a thing." To be honest, I'm surprised they've managed to run the game as long as they have.
This probably means Snowden has agreed to turn over everything he's got to Russia. That way it can be quietly assimilated at a government level and just kind of go away at the public level. That gives Russia secrets they certainly want, and saves face for America publicly.
And make him an actual, valid in every sense of the word, traitor (as opposed to before, where he was a traitor only if you stretch the term a bit, and even then only in a very limited technical sense).
Nothing is stopping private companies from doing this, yet none of them do.
I may be being pedantic, but you were being hyperbolic, and only one of those things is actually wrong. Besides, they're not even the only company (or, for that matter, municipality) offering 1Gbps Internet in the US (costs vary, some are as low as $35, most much higher). I'll leave the Googling up to you.
A warrant is a court order, yes, but a court order is not necessarily a warrant. Warrants generally have a lot stricter rules on when and how they are issued. Specifically, a search warrant requires probable cause. A court order does not.
But it's not a secret, not anymore, so it hasn't been settled. Since we now know the program exists, and have proof that it exists, the case takes on a whole different aspect (namely, whether metadata collection infringes the various rights granted in the various cited amendments.)
Sure, if this was a vertically mounted accelerometer. It was not: it was an angular velocity sensor (I believe this is the technical specification page, although I could be wrong). The angular velocity of the craft on the launchpad is zero. If it's not, you have much much bigger problems than an improperly mounted sensor.
What seems more amazing is that a simple software check pre-launch (i.e. "do all the sensors think they are pointed up?") was not part of the SOP. Given that their exact function is orientation detection, skipping the opportunity for self-test via that function is somewhat baffling.
Obligatory: It's not rocket science!
The sensors in question were for angular velocity. Given that pre-launch the craft doesn't have any (peculiar) angular velocity, the sensors would return the correct results (zero) no matter how they were installed.
Yeah, but when a post like that is made at the same time the story goes live, by a brand new account? It's either a shill or a troll (although, shills usually seem to make a handful of innocous posts on other threads as well, which this guy seems to have neglected, so I'm thinking maybe troll... although the dozen or so ACs insisting he's trolling have me thinking shill again, but maybe I'm just being too cynical).
A salt does not increase security when cracking only a single password. They help with large sets of passwords, but brute forcing a single password takes the same time whether it is salted or not.
You... really know nothing about how ham radio operates, do you? They share a range of frequencies and broadcast areas, with different frequencies having different effective ranges. A good shortwave operator with good equipment on the right frequency at the right time of day might be able to communicate with someone halfway around the world (that's not an exaggeration). The system works because only people who are genuine enthusiasts go into the field, and they all work together to make sure it works. Half the appeal is that it's mostly user-regulated.
It isn't any more difficult to crack. Moreover, the absolute only way it would introduce any difficulty at all is if the NSA is scanning images of text. You can bet 95% or more of the data they intercept is already in digital form. The computer already knows what letters are what, so this will help precisely not at all, unless you start sending your emails in image formats, in which case, which is... yeah, not exactly a good plan. Just use encryption if it needs to be secure. This doesn't do anything.
Droids aren't intelligent beings. You wouldn't feel bad if you dropped and broke a smartphone on the ground, would you? Well, maybe you would, as you'd no longer have a smartphone and would have to pick up a replacement... but you wouldn't feel bad for the phone. Then why would you feel bad for C3-P0? Yes, droids are much much more advanced than a smartphone, but they are no more intelligent beings than a rock is. They don't experience joy or sorrow: they're just programmed to emulate it. Nowhere in Star Wars is it at all implied that they actually are intelligent, rational beings with free will (well, at least not standard droids: there are probably exceptions in some of the fiction).
Droids are quite simply not alive. They're a simulacrum of life (and a particularly good one), but that is not the same as life. It makes absolutely no sense to have any feelings towards them, beyond a kind of affection which one might feel for a particularly useful car or other tool. That's all they are: tools. They show some survival instinct, but that's just because you want your tools to survive if at all possible. They feel "pain", but only as a representation of damage (although I've always found it quite... odd that droids can be "tortured" in the Star Wards universe). They're not sentient beings.
The real issue is that we simply don't want or need anything to last for a thousand years anymore. It's just not effective: buildings, roads, and other structures are usually replaced well before that, simply because of shifting demographics and economy.
Because it cost billions of dollars to develop. You proceed cautiously when there are billions of dollars that could potentially vanish if the design doesn't sell or doesn't work.
He's lying, or he's the worst traitor in the history of the United States. It can't be both. If he's lying, then he didn't reveal any highly classified state secrets.
Or he lied about part of it, and revealed classified information in other parts (a classic time-"honored" tactic if your goal is to discredit an individual or institution, if that is Snowden's goal, although I have absolutely no evidence either way). This is not an either-or situation.
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The findings were related to changes in weather patterns: an unusually hot summer, drought, things like that. The study didn't seem to draw any conclusions about average climate vs. violence, but about deviation from average climate vs. violence. So, if Ireland gets a particularly warm summer, violence and crime are likely to go up.
Nah, he lacks the child-like enthusiasm and curiosity that is pretty much required for a doctor, in my mind anyways. I agree with the AC: he'd make a fantastic Master, but not so much a Doctor. Besides, he's probably too busy being Smaug/Sherlock.
What is wrong with social security?
Absolutely everything? To start with, there is the fact I'm going to pay tens of thousands (or hundreds of thousands, probably) of dollars into it and won't see a single dime of it back, because it will be bankrupt a decade or more before I'll even come closer to considering retiring. The system is inherently and utterly broken in a world were people are living longer and having fewer children. It cannot remain viable unless there are far fewer people retired than working, which, with the modern birthrate and age of living, is impossible. The only people who will benefit from the system are those who are already retired or relatively close to it. People under 30 or so? Won't see a dime from it. People in their 40s are likely to retire, only to discover the money drying up soon after.
Social Security was devised in a world with radically different demographics than the current one. Unless our society undergoes a massive reversion (which would have negative impacts in other areas), it's a totally non-viable system.
"Doesn't allow"? You mean none of the apps at launch do that. Considering you can write your own sender and receiver apps, it allows you to do just about anything you can code.
Ah, I see the trademark now. Of course, it wasn't filed until 2009 (which really does matter: registered or not, using a trademark that is already in use elsewhere does not entitle you to force the other to take it down). However, and much more importantly, the Everquest name isn't being used to sell anything. It's frankly nothing like Disney seeking to take down trademarked content, because the mark isn't being used for trade. The point of trademarks is to reduce confusion among consumers: since nothing is being sold with or under the name (by either Sony, EQ2Wire, or the account holder, presumably) it's not a trademark and therefore can't infringe.
If Sony had made a game with that name in it, he might have a point (although, even there, unless the character in it bears a resemblance to some character he is likewise selling, he probably has very little case), but the name was created by a user, not by Sony. It isn't even part of the product.
The whole claim is spurious. First, it's a European registered (but expired, apparently) trademark, and therefore not enforceable against a US business (yes, trademarks are regional: you can have an unrelated "SodaPop Industries" in two different regions of one country, and neither infringes the other unless they expand into the others region). Second, the trademark is for a business, it doesn't cover video game account names. A username isn't a trademark at all: to be a trademark, it has to be actually doing trade. Unless someone is running a business under that name (and a business in a similar field as the complainant), there is no infringement. Finally, the indexing website isn't using the name to identify itself, it's a search portal. Even if it was a trademark, and an infringing one, the EQ2Wire.com wouldn't be infringing in any way by indexing it.
Apparently the Slashdot editors don't even read the damned article. From the linked news update:
- For the moment, our Oculus Rift support is limited to the Windows version. The Rift device itself does support Mac and Linux, but we have not as of yet. Again, this is just a first-generation implementation, and as always you can expect us to refine and expand it to other platforms as we move forward.
Looks like a pretty low-budget game. Looks *entirely* like an EVE spin-off. Haven't played it, but im sure it is fun in its own unique way...
It was in development before EVE came on the scene (by at least a year). But, yeah, it only has a couple of actual developers. It was an indie game before indie games became "a thing." To be honest, I'm surprised they've managed to run the game as long as they have.
This probably means Snowden has agreed to turn over everything he's got to Russia. That way it can be quietly assimilated at a government level and just kind of go away at the public level. That gives Russia secrets they certainly want, and saves face for America publicly.
And make him an actual, valid in every sense of the word, traitor (as opposed to before, where he was a traitor only if you stretch the term a bit, and even then only in a very limited technical sense).
Do I need to quote you again?
Nothing is stopping private companies from doing this, yet none of them do.
I may be being pedantic, but you were being hyperbolic, and only one of those things is actually wrong. Besides, they're not even the only company (or, for that matter, municipality) offering 1Gbps Internet in the US (costs vary, some are as low as $35, most much higher). I'll leave the Googling up to you.
Nothing is stopping private companies from doing this, yet none of them do.
False.
A warrant is a court order, yes, but a court order is not necessarily a warrant. Warrants generally have a lot stricter rules on when and how they are issued. Specifically, a search warrant requires probable cause. A court order does not.
But it's not a secret, not anymore, so it hasn't been settled. Since we now know the program exists, and have proof that it exists, the case takes on a whole different aspect (namely, whether metadata collection infringes the various rights granted in the various cited amendments.)
Sure, if this was a vertically mounted accelerometer. It was not: it was an angular velocity sensor (I believe this is the technical specification page, although I could be wrong). The angular velocity of the craft on the launchpad is zero. If it's not, you have much much bigger problems than an improperly mounted sensor.
What seems more amazing is that a simple software check pre-launch (i.e. "do all the sensors think they are pointed up?") was not part of the SOP. Given that their exact function is orientation detection, skipping the opportunity for self-test via that function is somewhat baffling.
Obligatory: It's not rocket science!
The sensors in question were for angular velocity. Given that pre-launch the craft doesn't have any (peculiar) angular velocity, the sensors would return the correct results (zero) no matter how they were installed.
Your brain no longer functioning properly is not going to be solved by getting a new body, that will happen with age. Go read a science book!
Duh, obviously, that's why if the brain's a problem you get a new head! Come on, a five year old could figure this out!
Yeah, but when a post like that is made at the same time the story goes live, by a brand new account? It's either a shill or a troll (although, shills usually seem to make a handful of innocous posts on other threads as well, which this guy seems to have neglected, so I'm thinking maybe troll... although the dozen or so ACs insisting he's trolling have me thinking shill again, but maybe I'm just being too cynical).
A salt does not increase security when cracking only a single password. They help with large sets of passwords, but brute forcing a single password takes the same time whether it is salted or not.
You... really know nothing about how ham radio operates, do you? They share a range of frequencies and broadcast areas, with different frequencies having different effective ranges. A good shortwave operator with good equipment on the right frequency at the right time of day might be able to communicate with someone halfway around the world (that's not an exaggeration). The system works because only people who are genuine enthusiasts go into the field, and they all work together to make sure it works. Half the appeal is that it's mostly user-regulated.
It isn't any more difficult to crack. Moreover, the absolute only way it would introduce any difficulty at all is if the NSA is scanning images of text. You can bet 95% or more of the data they intercept is already in digital form. The computer already knows what letters are what, so this will help precisely not at all, unless you start sending your emails in image formats, in which case, which is... yeah, not exactly a good plan. Just use encryption if it needs to be secure. This doesn't do anything.
Droids aren't intelligent beings. You wouldn't feel bad if you dropped and broke a smartphone on the ground, would you? Well, maybe you would, as you'd no longer have a smartphone and would have to pick up a replacement... but you wouldn't feel bad for the phone. Then why would you feel bad for C3-P0? Yes, droids are much much more advanced than a smartphone, but they are no more intelligent beings than a rock is. They don't experience joy or sorrow: they're just programmed to emulate it. Nowhere in Star Wars is it at all implied that they actually are intelligent, rational beings with free will (well, at least not standard droids: there are probably exceptions in some of the fiction).
Droids are quite simply not alive. They're a simulacrum of life (and a particularly good one), but that is not the same as life. It makes absolutely no sense to have any feelings towards them, beyond a kind of affection which one might feel for a particularly useful car or other tool. That's all they are: tools. They show some survival instinct, but that's just because you want your tools to survive if at all possible. They feel "pain", but only as a representation of damage (although I've always found it quite... odd that droids can be "tortured" in the Star Wards universe). They're not sentient beings.
The real issue is that we simply don't want or need anything to last for a thousand years anymore. It's just not effective: buildings, roads, and other structures are usually replaced well before that, simply because of shifting demographics and economy.
Because it cost billions of dollars to develop. You proceed cautiously when there are billions of dollars that could potentially vanish if the design doesn't sell or doesn't work.
It's a technical term. See: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wide-body_aircraft
He's lying, or he's the worst traitor in the history of the United States. It can't be both. If he's lying, then he didn't reveal any highly classified state secrets.
Or he lied about part of it, and revealed classified information in other parts (a classic time-"honored" tactic if your goal is to discredit an individual or institution, if that is Snowden's goal, although I have absolutely no evidence either way). This is not an either-or situation.