What happened to the scientist that modeled the universe and concluded that not only are we alone in the universe, according to his model, even we shouldn't exist?
I remember commenting on that story, claiming it it was a near-mathematical impossibility for us to be alone in the universe, and his model was wrong. Of course, the usual naysayers came out of the woodwork, but now lo' and behold, here's another story that supports my assertion.
Of course, next week, we'll be back to being alone in the universe.....
While Tubman is a good choice (I personally would have preferred Dr. King, but I know they were going for a woman); why wasn't this done via a popular vote?
Were they afraid the American public would vote for Boaty McBoatface?
China routinely ignores copyright when it suits them. If Apple was to hand over the source code, I suspect that there would be, just a few months later, *EXACT* iPhone "clones" complete with 100% compatible operating system, except jail-broken of course, available for $100 each.
And then poof -- Apple is out of business.
And they would sport names such as "Arple IF-one" to really, really, make you wince. Right now, China is producing cars that look like BMWs, for domestic use within China. China is making $30 ham-radios that are clones of a Kenwood design, and the Kenwood is a $150 radio.
How are you going to compete with that? They do almost zero R&D, and then make cheap copies of existing products using the existing R&D of some other firm. When we get to the point of China making everything and all other companies are out of business, expect to see no innovation for decades that follow.
The first stage costs $60 million to build. The fuel costs $200,000 -- do the math.
I mean, if you don't mind $60 mil coming out of your pocket. The point is, re-use of the first stage enormously decreases costs per pound to orbit. If you can't figure that out, then I'm sorry, but, what are you doing on Slashdot?
Gee. if only the FBI put as much work into making sure automatic weapons don't get into the hands of criminals as much as they worried about telephones getting into the hands of criminals.
And you call the FBI to report it, they don't do anything.
They want weak encryption (or no encryption) that is easily cracked, with plenty of backdoors, and then when criminals expose these weaknesses, the government does nothing to protect the citizens from crime.
But hey, shoot up a private party, and as long as you have a funny-sounding name and vaguely brownish skin color, then the government wants to protect you, at any cost.
Of course, double standard -- if you're a white christian male and you shoot up a school full of kids, the response is "hey, shit happens", and the government does nothing.
Bzzzzt! Nice try but wrong. Good, honest people have plenty to hide: Their social security number Their credit card numbers The PIN to their bank account
Just because you're honest, doesn't mean you should be OPEN, because giving away your personal information that *should* be hidden is what gives nefarious people access to good people's money.
If you are referring to the article's image (about halfway down) I think that's Nikki Minaj, and yes, she's, well, "real" in that she's not photoshop, but she's also not real as in lots of surgery. Some people find her attractive, but those people also like Kardiashian butt as well.
Freedoms are not taken away by terrorists. They are taken away by power-hungry politicians who see opportunity to do so when a terrorist event happens. Get your facts straight.
We should ban all religion. This whole "my God is better than your God" dick-measuring contests is what gets everyone killed. Get rid of religion and you take away 99% of all reasons people want to kill each other.
We've had religion for tens of thousands of years, and, there's no documented proof of any god. It's a myth. Stop it, grow up, and take your first steps as a real person from under the shadow of "god made me do it".
Yesterday was St. Patricks. Do you have any idea how many people threw up in cabs last night?
Ok, so let's go 10 years into the future and Uber actually has self-driving cars. And their Mercedes S-class picks up two drunk students. One barfs in the car on their ride home. They stumble out and go on their way.
Then that same car gets routed to it's next pickup, a well to-do couple from a fine dining establishment. They open the door, and.......
Because the government spends all their time looking at these companies, while completely ignoring the activities of certain large banks. Isn't HSBC still providing money laundering services for terrorists? Frankly, I'm amazed that the government has money to pursue this kind of thing while the SEC has 4 whole people, and they are paid to look the other way.
That's a field where you're spending a ton of dough, and you won't have a product for 10 years. At least, that's how long it's going to take for the adoption and legalization of autonomous vehicles -- hey google -- when a person with no driver's license can step into a taxi that has no driver, let me know.
They keep claiming that their right to bear arms is to keep us safe from a tyrannical government. Except they never actually do it. We're right now witnessing our government being out of control, and threatening a company in a way they would NEVER threaten an arms manufacturer -- because the NRA is so powerful...
But now we need the gun nuts to pull out their pathetic rifles and defend us from a government armed with aircraft carriers, bombs, tanks, drones, nuclear missiles, and more ammo than any prepper could ever have.
Wait a minute... they are trusting the guy who created Napster, who essentially "let the genie out of the bottle" regarding music as MP3s -- to do something that *won't* have the exact same effect on films?
How fast before the Chinese develop a box that plugs in between HDMI cables, intercepts the stream to the monitor, and spools out the movie via USB to any convenient hard drive? In fact, I'm willing to bet such a box already exists. If I can think of it, so can someone else with more talent than me.
John Oliver showed a box for sale on Alibaba that brute forces open an iPhone, and can do it in a few seconds, apparently without utilizing the touch screen -- it all works directly via USB -- if they can build that, no streaming service is safe, first run movies will be pirated before their opening day is over.
The government is trying to regulate a PHONE because "terrorism" -- but of course, won't lift a finger to impose any regulation on the other, more important device used in terrorism -- the GUN itself.
So, lemme get this straight: you want to impose all these restrictions on my phone, listen to my every phone call, read every email and text message, look at pictures of my GF, and basically peer into my personal life and the personal lives of every American, all because you won't even regulate keeping an eye on someone when they buy 50000 rounds of ammo and large capacity magazines?
Dude, I have to show my driver's license to buy cold medication, but you won't even perform simple background checks when someone buys a gun?
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What happened to the scientist that modeled the universe and concluded that not only are we alone in the universe, according to his model, even we shouldn't exist?
I remember commenting on that story, claiming it it was a near-mathematical impossibility for us to be alone in the universe, and his model was wrong. Of course, the usual naysayers came out of the woodwork, but now lo' and behold, here's another story that supports my assertion.
Of course, next week, we'll be back to being alone in the universe.....
I assume by "Flak"; the author of the summary has indicated that we are firing Explosive Anti-Aircraft shells at them. I expect nothing less.
Of course, were it my choice, I would have used a tactical nuke, but that's just me.
I predict Mississippi won't even allow it within their borders.
Many in the south will deface it with a confederate flag.
You know it's gonna happen, don't deny.
While Tubman is a good choice (I personally would have preferred Dr. King, but I know they were going for a woman); why wasn't this done via a popular vote?
Were they afraid the American public would vote for Boaty McBoatface?
China routinely ignores copyright when it suits them. If Apple was to hand over the source code, I suspect that there would be, just a few months later, *EXACT* iPhone "clones" complete with 100% compatible operating system, except jail-broken of course, available for $100 each.
And then poof -- Apple is out of business.
And they would sport names such as "Arple IF-one" to really, really, make you wince. Right now, China is producing cars that look like BMWs, for domestic use within China. China is making $30 ham-radios that are clones of a Kenwood design, and the Kenwood is a $150 radio.
How are you going to compete with that? They do almost zero R&D, and then make cheap copies of existing products using the existing R&D of some other firm. When we get to the point of China making everything and all other companies are out of business, expect to see no innovation for decades that follow.
It's bigfoot.... in space!
So basically, AMC is allowing shootings in movie theaters?
But seriously -- they will allow you to text, but not use your built-in video camera? How will they tell the difference?
And of course, slipperly slope time is that complete loud phone conversations will start happening during the movie.
And beatings. Lots and lots of beatings.
The first stage costs $60 million to build.
The fuel costs $200,000 -- do the math.
I mean, if you don't mind $60 mil coming out of your pocket. The point is, re-use of the first stage enormously decreases costs per pound to orbit. If you can't figure that out, then I'm sorry, but, what are you doing on Slashdot?
Just imagine a beowulf clust........
Oh, never mind.....
I thought Ultra Violet was that comic-book shoot-em-up where Millia Jovovovvich shoots anything and everything that moves.
Gee. if only the FBI put as much work into making sure automatic weapons don't get into the hands of criminals as much as they worried about telephones getting into the hands of criminals.
And you call the FBI to report it, they don't do anything.
They want weak encryption (or no encryption) that is easily cracked, with plenty of backdoors, and then when criminals expose these weaknesses, the government does nothing to protect the citizens from crime.
But hey, shoot up a private party, and as long as you have a funny-sounding name and vaguely brownish skin color, then the government wants to protect you, at any cost.
Of course, double standard -- if you're a white christian male and you shoot up a school full of kids, the response is "hey, shit happens", and the government does nothing.
Really, this country is fucked. Completely.
Unfortunately, from what little I know of her, this is what made Kim Kardasian famous in the first place.
Bzzzzt! Nice try but wrong.
Good, honest people have plenty to hide:
Their social security number
Their credit card numbers
The PIN to their bank account
Just because you're honest, doesn't mean you should be OPEN, because giving away your personal information that *should* be hidden is what gives nefarious people access to good people's money.
For all you old timers still on Slashdot....
Where's the interview with Jaron Lanier?
If you are referring to the article's image (about halfway down) I think that's Nikki Minaj, and yes, she's, well, "real" in that she's not photoshop, but she's also not real as in lots of surgery. Some people find her attractive, but those people also like Kardiashian butt as well.
Sir Mix Alot would agree though.
If you write *anything* that assumes the perpetual existence of a linked library from somewhere on the internet, you deserve what you get.
Most kids these days don't remember a time where internet access required a dial-up modem -- or it wasn't a 100% certainty it would be available.
Freedoms are not taken away by terrorists. They are taken away by power-hungry politicians who see opportunity to do so when a terrorist event happens. Get your facts straight.
We should ban all religion. This whole "my God is better than your God" dick-measuring contests is what gets everyone killed. Get rid of religion and you take away 99% of all reasons people want to kill each other.
We've had religion for tens of thousands of years, and, there's no documented proof of any god. It's a myth. Stop it, grow up, and take your first steps as a real person from under the shadow of "god made me do it".
Yesterday was St. Patricks. Do you have any idea how many people threw up in cabs last night?
Ok, so let's go 10 years into the future and Uber actually has self-driving cars. And their Mercedes S-class picks up two drunk students. One barfs in the car on their ride home. They stumble out and go on their way.
Then that same car gets routed to it's next pickup, a well to-do couple from a fine dining establishment. They open the door, and.......
Because the government spends all their time looking at these companies, while completely ignoring the activities of certain large banks. Isn't HSBC still providing money laundering services for terrorists? Frankly, I'm amazed that the government has money to pursue this kind of thing while the SEC has 4 whole people, and they are paid to look the other way.
That's a field where you're spending a ton of dough, and you won't have a product for 10 years. At least, that's how long it's going to take for the adoption and legalization of autonomous vehicles -- hey google -- when a person with no driver's license can step into a taxi that has no driver, let me know.
They keep claiming that their right to bear arms is to keep us safe from a tyrannical government. Except they never actually do it. We're right now witnessing our government being out of control, and threatening a company in a way they would NEVER threaten an arms manufacturer -- because the NRA is so powerful...
But now we need the gun nuts to pull out their pathetic rifles and defend us from a government armed with aircraft carriers, bombs, tanks, drones, nuclear missiles, and more ammo than any prepper could ever have.
Wait a minute... they are trusting the guy who created Napster, who essentially "let the genie out of the bottle" regarding music as MP3s -- to do something that *won't* have the exact same effect on films?
How fast before the Chinese develop a box that plugs in between HDMI cables, intercepts the stream to the monitor, and spools out the movie via USB to any convenient hard drive? In fact, I'm willing to bet such a box already exists. If I can think of it, so can someone else with more talent than me.
John Oliver showed a box for sale on Alibaba that brute forces open an iPhone, and can do it in a few seconds, apparently without utilizing the touch screen -- it all works directly via USB -- if they can build that, no streaming service is safe, first run movies will be pirated before their opening day is over.
The government is trying to regulate a PHONE because "terrorism" -- but of course, won't lift a finger to impose any regulation on the other, more important device used in terrorism -- the GUN itself.
So, lemme get this straight: you want to impose all these restrictions on my phone, listen to my every phone call, read every email and text message, look at pictures of my GF, and basically peer into my personal life and the personal lives of every American, all because you won't even regulate keeping an eye on someone when they buy 50000 rounds of ammo and large capacity magazines?
Dude, I have to show my driver's license to buy cold medication, but you won't even perform simple background checks when someone buys a gun?
This country is truly fucked up.