This isn't a new phenomenon and is not unique to high tech gadgets. Consider food.
The last time I had a serous cold, my Doctor prescribed Over the Counter cold symtom drugs and Chicken soup. My insurance did not cover either item. The OTC drugs because they can be obtained without a prescription (and were since they are cheaper that way) and the soup because it's just normal food and the biggest cost was the time my wife spent boiling it.
If I was in a none tropical climate he might have ordered me to keep the heat up and sleep under a blanket. Insurance won't cover those item either. Hell they don't even cover the giant office chair my brother's employer got for his bad back. They could have goten a fancy smancy orthopedic chair but the 20% copay on that is more than the total price of the giant chair (by giant I mean it makes my 6'3" 180 Lb. Brother look like a child).
I was going to respond but you cleared it up better than I ever could.
Space travel is inherently dangerous. (Do I have to spell out why on Slashdot?). By trying to force enginears to eliminate rather thasn mitigate the danger NASA has taken far longer than it should to design an improved replacement for the shuttle.
By Improved I mean:
0. lower Construction cost
1. lower cost for throwaway components (boosters etc...)
2. Lower fuel consumption per payload/passenger pound.
3. Lower cost of serviceing between missions.
4. Shorter prep time for flight.
5. Larger cargo bay.
6. Less likely to blow up under stress.
etc...
It's not that nobody came up with anything better than the existing shuttle in those years. It's just that none of the improved models met NASA's upgraded standards.
Put another way, You are stuck driving an old Corolla because the best replacement anyone has proposed is Camry and your bosses want nothing less than an Armored Roles Royce Limousine that runs on solar and has a self driving AI.
True. Just like in the old days it was tough to stay in the shipping business after your ship sank.
Understand that once you start the countdown on a rocket most of the money has already been spent (90% to 99% in my estimation) If that blows up without delivering the results that get you payed (satellite in orbit etc...) your business is dead and your creditors crying. That's life.
What is a real problem is that NASA got to be so large and wealthy a bureaucracy that they were able to under employ most of the best rocket scientists for over a generation. Then put their ideas throgh such rigorous scrutiny that nothing new got built. Until finally rickety old space trucks (Challenger etc...) blew up and took people with them.
On a more serious note, If _I_ was developing a Game which involves huge real looking guns, I would have employees draw lots for who gets arested in a publicity stunt where we send him outside with it and call the police.
If the cops are particularly trigger happy (as In Jamaica) we would even chat with a specific police team to have them do the arrest without anyone getting hurt.
But that's just me thinking like a rapacious capitalist:)
At least that's what he looks like. Since he operated at a level just below the conceptual beings, (Like Eternity), He was only assigned a Gender so that his relationship with Death would make sense without having to explain homosexuality to teens in the 1970s.
There are no myth's of security, just the myth of security itself. Modern computer security is based on the fact that their are algorithms that no one knows how to reverse quickly. Doesn't mean that they can't be reversed however...
I disagree.
There are many security myths that have made it into company policy etc...
For-instance the idea that forcing all staff in a mid sized to large company to update their passwords every months or two is somehow more secure than allowing them to keep the same password indefinitely.
In practice, this causes them to use simpler passwords that just barely make whatever limits are imposed (I.e. a single number and one capital letter) and to rotate throgh slight modifications of this weak password.
Password#1
Password#2
Password#3
Etc...
Or worse yet. Some just write down the password in a place that's easy to find.
As for those Algorithms. Sure they can be broken. As long as you update them faster than the old ones are broken you should be fine. What bugs me though is when a single bug in an OS is exploited by a thousand different bits of malware and instead of fixing the bug we have a dozen antivirus vendors producing a detector for each of the thousand bits of malware.
If Disney has 1% of the business sense I think they do they will keep the Marvel brand separate and use it as the vehicle for any mature or violent content that come into their possession.
Of course they could all be drooling idiots over there, in which case, expect to see an Iron-man who never drinks, Wolverine who never kills and Mephistopheles who is just a male version of Cruela Devile.
However, everything I have seen so far suggest that Disney is run by the same kind of stone cold business men who Make cigarettes. I.e. No concern for the product or the customer except in so far as adjusting either help them to make money.
Human error, or a simple con (sell the moon rock and deliver petrified wood to the guy least likely to figure out he has been had) is far more likely of course.
Even so, finding petrified wood on the moon would drive thousands of scientists in dozens of disciplines at hundreds of universities to years of research and analysis just to figure out "why?".
This is an outrageous insult to the Dutch people. Expect to see a lot of burning embassies in the news soon.
Why would anyone be upset? It's not like America sold them this rock and told them it was from the moon. And why the knee-jerk assumption that petrified wood could not be a moon rock?
Now THAT discovery would make for an interesting scientific rethink.
I confuse the issue even further. I have a company issued laptop, from which I removed the company issued hard drive and then I installed my own Hard drive (80GB -> 300GB). They can have their laptop back at any time. I only need 47 seconds notice (I timed it).
There is well established precedence that fired employees must be given time to remove personal items from the office, company car, company apartment etc... This may have been derived from the rules governing eviction of a tenant.
Nobody (as far as I know) has sought to apply the same rule, either to data on a company drive or a personal drive in a company computer.
After all everyone knows that he and Cowboy Neal are the only two Anonymous Cowards on SlashDot and this particular post has better spelling than Cowboy Neal's norm.
My advise to Slashdoters in the Chicago region. Start scraping together what cash you can. A lot of the properties managed by this moronic company will be on the market soon. Cheap.
Which is why I so often chose the beach for 1st dates during my dating years and took soda and fruit juice to those encounters rather than alcohol of any kind.
If you soak her in warm salt water and scorch her in 100 degree heat for for a few hours and she still looks good in a bikini standing under the noonday sun you know that at the very least, she either looks good naturally or has modifications of some permanence.
I keep them in full view. Deliberately disorganizing them in such a manner that any other mortal would be speechless with confusion if he tried to find his way around my home office.
unfortunately for me, my 3 year old is no ordinary mortal. He can always find exactly the correct cable to unplug to create the maximum possible chaos. So now I am hiding them behind a closed door.
If the Toppys produce viable offspring via natural methods, there is the potential for an offspring that is even better than the Toppy, due to currently unknown gene combinations.
The same possibility as if the "Father" was extremely promiscuous.
Not to say this isn't significant. As far as I know this is the 1st time a Mammal has been cloned simply to reproduce a disierable set of genetic traits.
Technically, all that was proven was that this Kolodziej kid was able to traverse a distance in a given period of time, not that anyone else, least of all the defendant, was able to do the same. Plus, as far as we know, Kolodzeij did not need to take time out in order to kill anyone.
I may not be a fancy big New York Country Lawyer or anything, but it seems to me that this guy doesn't really have a case. Plus, everyone knows you're not supposed to believe anything until its been posted on at least two different blogs. TV just isn't a reliable source of information anymore.
What kind of CRACK do you need to smoke before modding this comment -1 Offtopic?
Please somebody: Fix this BS and suspend Mod privileges for whoever did it.
A country known for implementing irrational and unworkable systems then sticking to them for decades despite grave consequences. That this is a bank and not the Government just adds to the notion that something in the water causes deep mental issues.
You do realize that a data storage system can function just fine in open space right? So if you are going to get ridiculous you should add the weight of the entire universe.
Slashdot Mirror
This isn't a new phenomenon and is not unique to high tech gadgets. Consider food.
The last time I had a serous cold, my Doctor prescribed Over the Counter cold symtom drugs and Chicken soup. My insurance did not cover either item. The OTC drugs because they can be obtained without a prescription (and were since they are cheaper that way) and the soup because it's just normal food and the biggest cost was the time my wife spent boiling it.
If I was in a none tropical climate he might have ordered me to keep the heat up and sleep under a blanket. Insurance won't cover those item either. Hell they don't even cover the giant office chair my brother's employer got for his bad back. They could have goten a fancy smancy orthopedic chair but the 20% copay on that is more than the total price of the giant chair (by giant I mean it makes my 6'3" 180 Lb. Brother look like a child).
Thank you.
I was going to respond but you cleared it up better than I ever could.
Space travel is inherently dangerous. (Do I have to spell out why on Slashdot?). By trying to force enginears to eliminate rather thasn mitigate the danger NASA has taken far longer than it should to design an improved replacement for the shuttle.
By Improved I mean:
0. lower Construction cost
1. lower cost for throwaway components (boosters etc...)
2. Lower fuel consumption per payload/passenger pound.
3. Lower cost of serviceing between missions.
4. Shorter prep time for flight.
5. Larger cargo bay.
6. Less likely to blow up under stress. etc...
It's not that nobody came up with anything better than the existing shuttle in those years. It's just that none of the improved models met NASA's upgraded standards. Put another way, You are stuck driving an old Corolla because the best replacement anyone has proposed is Camry and your bosses want nothing less than an Armored Roles Royce Limousine that runs on solar and has a self driving AI.
True. Just like in the old days it was tough to stay in the shipping business after your ship sank.
Understand that once you start the countdown on a rocket most of the money has already been spent (90% to 99% in my estimation) If that blows up without delivering the results that get you payed (satellite in orbit etc...) your business is dead and your creditors crying. That's life.
What is a real problem is that NASA got to be so large and wealthy a bureaucracy that they were able to under employ most of the best rocket scientists for over a generation. Then put their ideas throgh such rigorous scrutiny that nothing new got built. Until finally rickety old space trucks (Challenger etc...) blew up and took people with them.
... When Natalee Portman naked and petrified stopped being funny.
:)
On a more serious note, If _I_ was developing a Game which involves huge real looking guns, I would have employees draw lots for who gets arested in a publicity stunt where we send him outside with it and call the police.
If the cops are particularly trigger happy (as In Jamaica) we would even chat with a specific police team to have them do the arrest without anyone getting hurt.
But that's just me thinking like a rapacious capitalist
Yes. A mean, evil, slender, effeminate, sadistic male. Check his Wiki page .
At least that's what he looks like. Since he operated at a level just below the conceptual beings, (Like Eternity), He was only assigned a Gender so that his relationship with Death would make sense without having to explain homosexuality to teens in the 1970s.
There are no myth's of security, just the myth of security itself. Modern computer security is based on the fact that their are algorithms that no one knows how to reverse quickly. Doesn't mean that they can't be reversed however...
I disagree.
There are many security myths that have made it into company policy etc...
For-instance the idea that forcing all staff in a mid sized to large company to update their passwords every months or two is somehow more secure than allowing them to keep the same password indefinitely.
In practice, this causes them to use simpler passwords that just barely make whatever limits are imposed (I.e. a single number and one capital letter) and to rotate throgh slight modifications of this weak password.
Password#1
Password#2
Password#3
Etc...
Or worse yet. Some just write down the password in a place that's easy to find.
As for those Algorithms. Sure they can be broken. As long as you update them faster than the old ones are broken you should be fine. What bugs me though is when a single bug in an OS is exploited by a thousand different bits of malware and instead of fixing the bug we have a dozen antivirus vendors producing a detector for each of the thousand bits of malware.
If Disney has 1% of the business sense I think they do they will keep the Marvel brand separate and use it as the vehicle for any mature or violent content that come into their possession.
Of course they could all be drooling idiots over there, in which case, expect to see an Iron-man who never drinks, Wolverine who never kills and Mephistopheles who is just a male version of Cruela Devile.
However, everything I have seen so far suggest that Disney is run by the same kind of stone cold business men who Make cigarettes. I.e. No concern for the product or the customer except in so far as adjusting either help them to make money.
Hmm... so much for my humor transfusion.
Human error, or a simple con (sell the moon rock and deliver petrified wood to the guy least likely to figure out he has been had) is far more likely of course.
Even so, finding petrified wood on the moon would drive thousands of scientists in dozens of disciplines at hundreds of universities to years of research and analysis just to figure out "why?".
Who says I'm not allowed to muck around with drives? Heck, the company even provides a screwdriver and wrist strap.
This is an outrageous insult to the Dutch people. Expect to see a lot of burning embassies in the news soon.
Why would anyone be upset? It's not like America sold them this rock and told them it was from the moon. And why the knee-jerk assumption that petrified wood could not be a moon rock?
Now THAT discovery would make for an interesting scientific rethink.
I confuse the issue even further. I have a company issued laptop, from which I removed the company issued hard drive and then I installed my own Hard drive (80GB -> 300GB). They can have their laptop back at any time. I only need 47 seconds notice (I timed it).
There is well established precedence that fired employees must be given time to remove personal items from the office, company car, company apartment etc... This may have been derived from the rules governing eviction of a tenant.
Nobody (as far as I know) has sought to apply the same rule, either to data on a company drive or a personal drive in a company computer.
Great resource. Except this course starts out a few steps beyond "computer literacy".
At least their Jamaican operation has sturdy walls and a very strong security system.
And now Taco will be sued.
After all everyone knows that he and Cowboy Neal are the only two Anonymous Cowards on SlashDot and this particular post has better spelling than Cowboy Neal's norm.
My advise to Slashdoters in the Chicago region. Start scraping together what cash you can. A lot of the properties managed by this moronic company will be on the market soon. Cheap.
On a side note, We have a residential facility named Horizon in Jamaica.
nope. Never conquered that whole "literacy" thing.
Actually you will likely discover the value of this advice months before you have a 3 year old.
Repeat after me. "Do not date blowup dolls".
A hot day at the beach is not the only situation in which they exhibit sub par performance.
Just ask Bud Bundy
Which is why I so often chose the beach for 1st dates during my dating years and took soda and fruit juice to those encounters rather than alcohol of any kind.
If you soak her in warm salt water and scorch her in 100 degree heat for for a few hours and she still looks good in a bikini standing under the noonday sun you know that at the very least, she either looks good naturally or has modifications of some permanence.
Which suggests you do not have a 3 year old of your own.
I don't know about you, but I love my cables.
I keep them in full view. Deliberately disorganizing them in such a manner that any other mortal would be speechless with confusion if he tried to find his way around my home office.
unfortunately for me, my 3 year old is no ordinary mortal. He can always find exactly the correct cable to unplug to create the maximum possible chaos. So now I am hiding them behind a closed door.
If the Toppys produce viable offspring via natural methods, there is the potential for an offspring that is even better than the Toppy, due to currently unknown gene combinations.
The same possibility as if the "Father" was extremely promiscuous.
Not to say this isn't significant. As far as I know this is the 1st time a Mammal has been cloned simply to reproduce a disierable set of genetic traits.
Irony so thick, even my warped mind could not have manufactured it.
Technically, all that was proven was that this Kolodziej kid was able to traverse a distance in a given period of time, not that anyone else, least of all the defendant, was able to do the same. Plus, as far as we know, Kolodzeij did not need to take time out in order to kill anyone. I may not be a fancy big New York Country Lawyer or anything, but it seems to me that this guy doesn't really have a case. Plus, everyone knows you're not supposed to believe anything until its been posted on at least two different blogs. TV just isn't a reliable source of information anymore.
What kind of CRACK do you need to smoke before modding this comment -1 Offtopic?
Please somebody: Fix this BS and suspend Mod privileges for whoever did it.
A country known for implementing irrational and unworkable systems then sticking to them for decades despite grave consequences. That this is a bank and not the Government just adds to the notion that something in the water causes deep mental issues.
You do realize that a data storage system can function just fine in open space right? So if you are going to get ridiculous you should add the weight of the entire universe.