I want the US Government to roll out something to solve this. Perhaps a mandated on-line program where companies are required to use a plug-in or standard modification to their shopping cart. Maybe create a website that allows individuals to find out how much sales tax they will pay before they buy something. There could be different deadlines on when companies would have to implement this, of course. Larger companies first, then the next year smaller companies would have to implement this.
I think this would solve everything, and I bet there'd be, like, 100% buy-in from everyone!
Once you've had enough pain in your life, you learn to appreciate the good things you have. If you wake up in the morning and the first thing you think is, "Oh yeah, carpet under my feet! I remember when I didn't have carpet, this is so much better." That sort of thing does wonders for your happiness levels.
Why pay? Connect to their access point and tunnel all of your traffic over DNS or ICMP. The firewalls that they use rarely block ICMP and almost never block UDP port 53. All you need is to have a client installed on your machine and run a server out on the interwebs somewhere that is running the right server software and acts as a proxy.
Why pay the hotel when you could pay the hosting company/ISP for a server on the interwebs that you use when you travel, but pay for all the time? Sounds brilliant.
Nate gets so much attention because he is right. A lot. In 2008 he got 49 of of 50 states correctly as well as all 35 senate races. In 2012 he got 50 out of 50 states right (he did, in fact, call Florida). As an exercise to the reader, I leave it to you to figure out how many senate races he correctly called.
It probably doesn't make the list, because, despite IMDB's forecast, there is no data. Ender's Game is scheduled for release in November 2013, and has already filmed. I find it hard to believe that any movie with modern special effects for release in 2013 would not have completed filming already, much less be uncast.
There already is one... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_2 Almost anyone has the capability of establishing a separate internet.
The United States government has several, separated by airgap/encryption. It is trivial to make one, however, just because they build it, will anyone come?
This is awesome! The longer Kepler is up, the more chance it has of finding Earth-like planets. It isn't simply a matter of probability, but the need to see three transits to get confirmation. So at least two Earth years, but often more like 3-5 years. The longer it is up, the more longer orbital period planets it will find!
I love this!
I appreciate your optimism, but the NASA senior review panel has absolutely nothing to do with funding decisions, which are all in the hands of Congress. Unless crowd-sourcing works (which is effective for such things as Kickstarter comic book drives, but not science, last I checked), and is more effective than the white house official petition website (aka, not effective) NASA will be out of luck, sad to say.
Considering the dinosaur clade includes birds, there is almost certainly a dinosaur in your backyard, if you have a backyard. The odds of seeing one would depend upon your eyesight, if you have a dinosaur feeder, if you have binoculars, day vs. night, etc. But I think we could use 50% as a nice estimate for daylight hours.
for the wry remark the editors usually leave after posting the summary. I think the world definitely needs to explore SAFE nuclear power options, especially those that use existing supplies of fissile and radioactive material.
Really??? Didn't the government just toss half a billion dollars to a failed solar startup and the tax payers are just supposed to take it? Half a billion is EASILY within the government's power.
Yeah, for a mere hundred thousand residents. So let's extrapolate. $500 million equals 100,000 households or 260,000 residents (from the article I posted, referencing 2.6 residents per household). Estimate 312,000,000 residents in the US for 2011 (based on google search), or 120,000,000 households (1200 times the reference amount). If you are following the math, that equates to $6 TRILLION to get Gbps internet to all US households. Where, exactly, is the US government supposed to find that, especially in the current environment where they can't even pass a tax cut paid for by a surcharge on "millionaires?" Where $1.3 Trillion is the budget deficit for 2011? Where a supercommittee can't agree on $120 Billion in deficit reduction per year (averaged over 10 years)?
Math fail.
False statement. Even if you provide gigabit connections to homes, it is technically impossible for our current equipment to utilize such an amount of information.
Companies are out to make money by selling a product, whether a service or a tangible item. These products cost the company money to produce and/or maintain. With customers increasing their demand for bandwidth, ISPs and cable providers have to increase their network to meet that demand, which costs a LOT of money. (Gigabit per second internet to about 100,000 homes would cost an estimated half a billion dollars). This money does not grow on trees. Governments cannot afford to make that investment, at least not now, and probably not ever.
The revenue to build the Gbps connections we all want, across the nation, will come from fees like this. Get used to it, or just unplug alltogether. (Incidentally, same applies to 3G/4G wireless connections. Doesn't matter if you have a fast connection to the tower if it has to use copper to get from the tower to the internet).
"The researcher, known as Neuralic" (from TFA). Where I come from, researchers are scientists, and have real names. Pretty confident that Neuralic is not on his birth certificate. Not that they may not deserve the name researcher, but c'mon. George Hotz calls himself a hacker, and he's a little more famous then Neuralic. And he uses his real name.
Not that this movie is any good, but such works SHOULD be transferred to digital/HD media before they are lost forever. How many classic silents are lost forever? If only the studios hadn't lost their copies... Anyway, continuing a trend to digitize movie archives? Nothing to see here, move along.
So who trusts the "trusted evaluators" in the first place? This could easily be abused into more of a group-think than slashdot, if indeed/. is guilty of group-think. I'm thinking more like a personal blog, where moderators must approve all comments. If the mod doesn't like it, the comment doesn't exist for the general public. Do we trust google to moderate our content for us?
I mean, I guess we (as a corporate whole) already do, based on their share of the search market, but seriously. How far should we let this go?
Easy, don't pitch price B. Pitch price Y, so that you support small mom and pop businesses with a sustainable profit, and give them your repeat business. Groupon is nothing more than a means of advertising a discount, except that instead of charging a set price (as in a newspaper) for distributing the coupon, they charge a percentage of the sales. Based on what I've seen elsewhere, groupon generally takes about 50% of Price Y. That may or may not be accurate, but I suspect it is somewhere in the ballpart. After all, iTunes charges 30%.
"Theorists generally believe that when two dark matter particles collide, they should annihilate each other to produce ordinary particles, such as an electron and its antimatter twin, a positron.
I suspect that the author doesn't know that "dark matter" isn't a synonym for "antimatter". The above paragraph, if true, would make the universe a very explode-y place.
Some dark matter candidates are, according to theory, their own anti-particle. The only reason it is not a more explode-y space is that dark matter interacts very weakly with other matter, including itself, and therefore has not been identified yet.
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I want the US Government to roll out something to solve this. Perhaps a mandated on-line program where companies are required to use a plug-in or standard modification to their shopping cart. Maybe create a website that allows individuals to find out how much sales tax they will pay before they buy something. There could be different deadlines on when companies would have to implement this, of course. Larger companies first, then the next year smaller companies would have to implement this.
I think this would solve everything, and I bet there'd be, like, 100% buy-in from everyone!
Once you've had enough pain in your life, you learn to appreciate the good things you have. If you wake up in the morning and the first thing you think is, "Oh yeah, carpet under my feet! I remember when I didn't have carpet, this is so much better." That sort of thing does wonders for your happiness levels.
I like hardwood floors, you insensitive clod!
Why pay? Connect to their access point and tunnel all of your traffic over DNS or ICMP. The firewalls that they use rarely block ICMP and almost never block UDP port 53. All you need is to have a client installed on your machine and run a server out on the interwebs somewhere that is running the right server software and acts as a proxy.
Why pay the hotel when you could pay the hosting company/ISP for a server on the interwebs that you use when you travel, but pay for all the time? Sounds brilliant.
Nate gets so much attention because he is right. A lot. In 2008 he got 49 of of 50 states correctly as well as all 35 senate races. In 2012 he got 50 out of 50 states right (he did, in fact, call Florida). As an exercise to the reader, I leave it to you to figure out how many senate races he correctly called.
... didn't make that list but it shows up in IMDB as being available in 2013.
It probably doesn't make the list, because, despite IMDB's forecast, there is no data. Ender's Game is scheduled for release in November 2013, and has already filmed. I find it hard to believe that any movie with modern special effects for release in 2013 would not have completed filming already, much less be uncast.
There already is one... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_2 Almost anyone has the capability of establishing a separate internet. The United States government has several, separated by airgap/encryption. It is trivial to make one, however, just because they build it, will anyone come?
This is awesome! The longer Kepler is up, the more chance it has of finding Earth-like planets. It isn't simply a matter of probability, but the need to see three transits to get confirmation. So at least two Earth years, but often more like 3-5 years. The longer it is up, the more longer orbital period planets it will find!
I love this!
I appreciate your optimism, but the NASA senior review panel has absolutely nothing to do with funding decisions, which are all in the hands of Congress. Unless crowd-sourcing works (which is effective for such things as Kickstarter comic book drives, but not science, last I checked), and is more effective than the white house official petition website (aka, not effective) NASA will be out of luck, sad to say.
Considering the dinosaur clade includes birds, there is almost certainly a dinosaur in your backyard, if you have a backyard. The odds of seeing one would depend upon your eyesight, if you have a dinosaur feeder, if you have binoculars, day vs. night, etc. But I think we could use 50% as a nice estimate for daylight hours.
I assume you mean a citation for the Spielburg anecdote. Unfortunately, it is exaggerated. Read more here: http://www.snopes.com/movies/other/spielberg.asp
Or sniffs, or Mat Cauthon says "Blood and Bloody Ashes." Or we hear about the wind blowing.
Science: Brian Greene (Physics) or Richard Dawkins (Biology) (particularly The Ancestor's Tale)
Sci-fi: The Lost Fleet series by John Hemry (aka Jack Campbell) or, if you never read Ender, you are a Philistine.
Fantasy: Honestly, whatever rocks your boat.
Literature: Does anyone read this outside of Modern English 317? But going back to Sci-fi, "The Time Traveler's Wife" is pretty good.
for the wry remark the editors usually leave after posting the summary. I think the world definitely needs to explore SAFE nuclear power options, especially those that use existing supplies of fissile and radioactive material.
Really??? Didn't the government just toss half a billion dollars to a failed solar startup and the tax payers are just supposed to take it? Half a billion is EASILY within the government's power.
Yeah, for a mere hundred thousand residents. So let's extrapolate. $500 million equals 100,000 households or 260,000 residents (from the article I posted, referencing 2.6 residents per household). Estimate 312,000,000 residents in the US for 2011 (based on google search), or 120,000,000 households (1200 times the reference amount). If you are following the math, that equates to $6 TRILLION to get Gbps internet to all US households. Where, exactly, is the US government supposed to find that, especially in the current environment where they can't even pass a tax cut paid for by a surcharge on "millionaires?" Where $1.3 Trillion is the budget deficit for 2011? Where a supercommittee can't agree on $120 Billion in deficit reduction per year (averaged over 10 years)? Math fail.
False statement. Even if you provide gigabit connections to homes, it is technically impossible for our current equipment to utilize such an amount of information.
64K should be enough for everyone, right?
Companies are out to make money by selling a product, whether a service or a tangible item. These products cost the company money to produce and/or maintain. With customers increasing their demand for bandwidth, ISPs and cable providers have to increase their network to meet that demand, which costs a LOT of money. (Gigabit per second internet to about 100,000 homes would cost an estimated half a billion dollars). This money does not grow on trees. Governments cannot afford to make that investment, at least not now, and probably not ever. The revenue to build the Gbps connections we all want, across the nation, will come from fees like this. Get used to it, or just unplug alltogether. (Incidentally, same applies to 3G/4G wireless connections. Doesn't matter if you have a fast connection to the tower if it has to use copper to get from the tower to the internet).
"The researcher, known as Neuralic" (from TFA). Where I come from, researchers are scientists, and have real names. Pretty confident that Neuralic is not on his birth certificate. Not that they may not deserve the name researcher, but c'mon. George Hotz calls himself a hacker, and he's a little more famous then Neuralic. And he uses his real name.
Screaming is different, too, from what I've heard. Or did I?
Not that this movie is any good, but such works SHOULD be transferred to digital/HD media before they are lost forever. How many classic silents are lost forever? If only the studios hadn't lost their copies... Anyway, continuing a trend to digitize movie archives? Nothing to see here, move along.
So who trusts the "trusted evaluators" in the first place? This could easily be abused into more of a group-think than slashdot, if indeed /. is guilty of group-think. I'm thinking more like a personal blog, where moderators must approve all comments. If the mod doesn't like it, the comment doesn't exist for the general public. Do we trust google to moderate our content for us?
I mean, I guess we (as a corporate whole) already do, based on their share of the search market, but seriously. How far should we let this go?
Easy, don't pitch price B. Pitch price Y, so that you support small mom and pop businesses with a sustainable profit, and give them your repeat business. Groupon is nothing more than a means of advertising a discount, except that instead of charging a set price (as in a newspaper) for distributing the coupon, they charge a percentage of the sales. Based on what I've seen elsewhere, groupon generally takes about 50% of Price Y. That may or may not be accurate, but I suspect it is somewhere in the ballpart. After all, iTunes charges 30%.
"Theorists generally believe that when two dark matter particles collide, they should annihilate each other to produce ordinary particles, such as an electron and its antimatter twin, a positron. I suspect that the author doesn't know that "dark matter" isn't a synonym for "antimatter". The above paragraph, if true, would make the universe a very explode-y place.
Some dark matter candidates are, according to theory, their own anti-particle. The only reason it is not a more explode-y space is that dark matter interacts very weakly with other matter, including itself, and therefore has not been identified yet.
I'm really confused. Dark matter is made out of spikes? Do they stab at thee from hell's heart or something?