Utterly meaningless, unless we see info like number of incidents per car of that make and model on the road; and what the root causes are. Until then, I'm holding judgement.
The lack of mention makes me think this is a media beatup.
Am I the only one who noticed that while once upon a time, SourceForge were great, that it's declining popularity (no thanks to Google Code and Github) and falling website hits forced them to put up more, spammier, scammier ads?
Then about a year or so ago, they went full-AOL, and the standards of the ads dropped dramatically, with misleading 'download button' ads leading to dodgy downloads; their hits must've dropped further, necessitating even more, even scammier ads.
Looks pretty much like a tailspin to me. Too bad, because Sourceforge was one of the first and best Open Source hosting platforms at one stage.
If I were in charge of it, I'd just take it out behind the shed and put it out of its misery.
Let's hear it from greedy fisherman and their right-wing supporters, who think it's humanity's God-given right to rape the oceans and trash the food chain upon which everything depends... human greed will do us in for sure, because it overrides even the survival instinct.
Given the roasting that Cold Fjord is getting here, I'm come around to the idea that disagreeing with the consensus on Slashdot is just an exercise in masochism.
So much for that free exchange of ideas, if you 're only going to cop waves of shrill abuse.
People don't just consider salary. I'm sure there are loads of super-talented engineers who'd given their two front teeth just for a chance to work for Elon Musk.
Elon Musk is the alpha-dog to rule them all. And not surprisingly, he hires alpha-dogs and superstars in all his businesses. THIS is how they achieved the near-impossible, by engineering and launching their own man-rated launcher and spacecraft all by themselves.
We know that small teams of highly-motivated and highly-skilled people can achieve great things. So it should really come as little surprise that they can pull writing an in-house SAP replacement in such a ridiculously small amount of time.
Guess we're seeing just how well the 'only hire A-players' policy works...
Assuming they're going to put fuel cells into racks and power DC power supplies directly, there's all sorts of little complications to work out.
Like -- what do you do with all that extra waste heat, and what impact would that have on overall costs, versus simply having the electricity fed in conventionally?
And what about the safety -- or lack thereof -- of running gas lines to every rack in a large facility?
Fuel cells don't exactly grow on trees either. The savings would have to be massive to justify the significant costs of the cells themselves.
Some fraudster in the UK went down recently for selling dousing rods as bomb detectors to the Iraqis. There were quite a few people credulous twits in the media who went after skeptics who were against this transparent ripoff, but it took a good ten years for enough momentum to build, to get this investigated, and for the criminal who ran this, to get charged with anything.
As far as I can tell, polygraphy is just as full of woo as phrenology, and it was invented roughly around the same time. I do wonder how long it'll take for the stupidity to be debunked sufficiently hard, for the public outcry to overcome the True Believers and have this snake oil abolished?
More defence pork, more hopelessly expensive boondoggles of dubious usefulness for an already outrageously overpowered military.
Totally misconceived as well; something moving that fast is going be as noisy as hell, not to mention the fact that it'll stand out like dog's balls on IR. Undoubtedly, everyone else will be scrambling to develop lots of nasty defensive weapons to counter it.
Guess the spoilt brats in the military industrial complex need another cash cow; God knows they know how to milk them dry.
Now if this isn't total bullshit, then surely it wouldn't be hard for somebody to bash together some code to allow me to (say) put together a ghetto point-to-point link to blat files between devices in my house. Or do cheapish sensor networks for household appliances...
The euro bill validators I've seen look pretty standalone to me. Presumably not just because having them networked leaves them open to attack, also because it's not really necessary.
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Depends on how you spend the money.
How are gun barrels typically made? Machined forgings?
How would a conventionally-made gun barrel compare with one made from laser-sintered metal powder?
Will 3D printing ever work for (say) car engine blocks and con-rods?
Utterly meaningless, unless we see info like number of incidents per car of that make and model on the road; and what the root causes are. Until then, I'm holding judgement.
The lack of mention makes me think this is a media beatup.
Am I the only one who noticed that while once upon a time, SourceForge were great, that it's declining popularity (no thanks to Google Code and Github) and falling website hits forced them to put up more, spammier, scammier ads?
Then about a year or so ago, they went full-AOL, and the standards of the ads dropped dramatically, with misleading 'download button' ads leading to dodgy downloads; their hits must've dropped further, necessitating even more, even scammier ads.
Looks pretty much like a tailspin to me. Too bad, because Sourceforge was one of the first and best Open Source hosting platforms at one stage.
If I were in charge of it, I'd just take it out behind the shed and put it out of its misery.
Let's hear it from greedy fisherman and their right-wing supporters, who think it's humanity's God-given right to rape the oceans and trash the food chain upon which everything depends... human greed will do us in for sure, because it overrides even the survival instinct.
So now I need a PhD in computer security to use Bitcoin without getting robbed?
In security, complexity is a smell.
By 'biased', are you implying that he's in a role where he has to be even-handed (e.g. a journalist), but is being opinionated?
Since when has having an opinion you disagree with, become a crime?
Please grow up.
Given the roasting that Cold Fjord is getting here, I'm come around to the idea that disagreeing with the consensus on Slashdot is just an exercise in masochism.
So much for that free exchange of ideas, if you 're only going to cop waves of shrill abuse.
(Whoops, replied to wrong comment.)
Tesla do a fuckton of software.
People don't just consider salary. I'm sure there are loads of super-talented engineers who'd given their two front teeth just for a chance to work for Elon Musk.
Elon Musk is the alpha-dog to rule them all. And not surprisingly, he hires alpha-dogs and superstars in all his businesses. THIS is how they achieved the near-impossible, by engineering and launching their own man-rated launcher and spacecraft all by themselves.
We know that small teams of highly-motivated and highly-skilled people can achieve great things. So it should really come as little surprise that they can pull writing an in-house SAP replacement in such a ridiculously small amount of time.
Guess we're seeing just how well the 'only hire A-players' policy works...
Assuming they're going to put fuel cells into racks and power DC power supplies directly, there's all sorts of little complications to work out.
Like -- what do you do with all that extra waste heat, and what impact would that have on overall costs, versus simply having the electricity fed in conventionally?
And what about the safety -- or lack thereof -- of running gas lines to every rack in a large facility?
Fuel cells don't exactly grow on trees either. The savings would have to be massive to justify the significant costs of the cells themselves.
Some fraudster in the UK went down recently for selling dousing rods as bomb detectors to the Iraqis. There were quite a few people credulous twits in the media who went after skeptics who were against this transparent ripoff, but it took a good ten years for enough momentum to build, to get this investigated, and for the criminal who ran this, to get charged with anything.
As far as I can tell, polygraphy is just as full of woo as phrenology, and it was invented roughly around the same time. I do wonder how long it'll take for the stupidity to be debunked sufficiently hard, for the public outcry to overcome the True Believers and have this snake oil abolished?
More defence pork, more hopelessly expensive boondoggles of dubious usefulness for an already outrageously overpowered military.
Totally misconceived as well; something moving that fast is going be as noisy as hell, not to mention the fact that it'll stand out like dog's balls on IR. Undoubtedly, everyone else will be scrambling to develop lots of nasty defensive weapons to counter it.
Guess the spoilt brats in the military industrial complex need another cash cow; God knows they know how to milk them dry.
Money is speech. Citizens United vs. FEC said so. THIS IS 'MERIKA.
(Bet it'd drive the dogs absolutely nuts though.)
Now if this isn't total bullshit, then surely it wouldn't be hard for somebody to bash together some code to allow me to (say) put together a ghetto point-to-point link to blat files between devices in my house. Or do cheapish sensor networks for household appliances...
The euro bill validators I've seen look pretty standalone to me. Presumably not just because having them networked leaves them open to attack, also because it's not really necessary.
It's a matter of degree, mostly.
And keeping elites accountable goes a long way to reining in the worst abuses.
Tin-foil turbans.
Do they still have that annoying memory leak? I gave up after waiting 10 years for the neckbeards to fix Firefox and just switched to Chrome.
The Greens, AFAICT, are lunar-Left cultural Marxists everywhere I've been.
Reads like he's a privileged tool. Must be a fucking bore himself.
Mod parent up. "Ideas people" suck.