I'm not even a gun advocate and i know the difference between fully automatic, semi automatic, machine gun, assault weapon and a hunting rifle. AR15 is a hunting rifle that looks more deadly. Most gun related deaths are from pistols. They account for something like 95% of all gun related deaths. Most gun related deaths are from illegal guns. There is only a small fraction of murders committed by their legal gun owners. Most gun related homicides are gang and drug related.
Assault weapon bans are absurd. They do nothing to even address curbing gun related homicides. If you really wanted to do that, ban pistols. You're also not addressing the root causes which in a majority of time are social related (drug and gang violence).
As many others have posted, a UPS will protect the whole computer from data loss in the case of a power outage. what about the data stored in memory without a UPS? Are you going to test that? the idea that a capacitor can store enough temporary power for shutdown is neat but worthless. SSDs were made to replace harddrives. what happens when you unplug power from harddrives in the middle of a write? Why would you want SSDs to be better than harddrives in that function? What does the failure rate of ocz ssds have anything to do with this crazy test?
It's probably not a low level employee's fault personally that this happened. However, why the fuck would a low level employee try to even address the issue by telling others how harsh his work is and to be grateful? If you don't see the problem with that, then you are at a loss for even trying to understand why this would inflame people who weren't with their families and had to work as well. Best course of action would have been to keep his mouth shut and let the company spin dr. explain what happened.
And each one of those violated their oath of office when they allowed the NSA to spy on all Americans without any oversight. He's just the last in the line of a long list of cowards who thought they were above the law and made excuses for it. Enough is enough.
Basically: When has the US public EVER had a choice on how tax money is spent? Is the answer never? I'm fairly sure it is. So why is this any different? This is 10B in loss. I can point out any year in the past 50 and show 100B in waste in every single year. That would be a very simple task, considering the waste is probably 10x greater than that on average each year. Welcome to America.
and my pet rock foiled the zebra invasion for the 20th time this year alone! Where's the proof of this foiled plot? How in the world was the US economy going to be taken down by malware? None of this adds up at all. It's more hand waving and gesturing to see if they can get some buy in from the utterly retarded.
Heapsort? Ohh you mean HeapSnort. In case you didn't get the reference, when visualized it really does look like someone snorting illicit drugs. Pretty neat stuff.
Sounds good, lets cut subsidies for corn, ethanol and all fossil fuels for starters.
The idea of subsidies is to encourage growth. So why again do fossil fuels need encouragement? They need as much encouragement as people need vehicles over 3 tons (suv's for example). Because that was well thought out.
I have no problem with solar subsidies. It's still an emerging market, costs have gone down because of it and research is still being invested. I have a problem with subsidies being applied to things that don't need encouragement.
Untrue. From someone who's taken a look at a few dozen devices with the same issue, it's not the spring that's the problem. Each usb female socket is basically a sheet metal shell that's locked together by overlapping metal. There is no reinforcement of that shell. Every single time after a year of constantly plugging in the cable, the force of doing so bends the metal shell allowing the cable to have some wiggle room. That wiggle room allows all cables regardless of the springs to slip and not connect properly.
Take a look at any older smartphone. Plug in the newest, shiniest usb cable. Any slightly bent female shells will cause you to have an intermittent connection for both power and data.
EVERY system is open to abuse, that's human nature.
Is it really abuse if that's what was intended all along? Do you really think GPS on cars is really about finding a car if it was stolen? Or tracking your every movement? No matter what the reason is, adding a real time location based device on any vehicle has but one motive, to track that vehicle's location history for the entire time that device is installed.
That's to be expected. Security of data is critically important to all businesses, even the American ones who are also affected by the NSA scandals. I would expect politicians to be in an uproar and call for the dismantling of the NSA and for all their secret projects to be disclosed and security holes patched up so America can once again be trusted.
Lol, who am i kidding. I expect people to be silenced, jailed, tortured and publicly humiliated if they dare speak the truth again, and for the NSA's budget to be quadrupled and even more data to be fed directly to them under the guise of stopping the leaks.
Global warming doesn't happen overnight. There will be no event that will trigger thousands of lives being lost overnight. Water levels will rise very slowly, more and more flooding will occur after years and infrastructure will be destroyed or submerged after years. The results will be more devastating because it will affect livelihood, food supplies, population centers, etc. There will be famine, wars for resources, dwindling power, cost of living increases and even more poverty. To most people they would consider those things as imaginary, like it won't happen to them or there will be a way to mitigate it.
Terrorism on the other hand is the boogieman. The threat of being blown up or being shot is a lot more "real" to people than the threat of being slowly starved to death. We pump billions into that because it's useless. It makes people feel more safe, and the illusion of safety is a) an easy sell and b) apparently people want this and are willing to spend money on it. Society as a whole craves this a lot more than it craves a future for humanity and our children. Simple human conditions allow political will to focus on useless, frivolous things with no way of knowing if it's effective because it's less risky and it's what people want.
What if for example the sun decided to go into a mini ice age state and cooling actually occurred? This has happened in the past and the current trends of solar activity is pointing to something quite different than experienced in the past 50 years. Would you want to be the politician who pushed a anti-greenhouse, eco friendly laws that would be used against you when they claim billions were wasted and economic growth was stalled thanks to your incorrect predictions of the future? Show me the risk in that or just pretending to be stupid and allowing the status quo to continue and just blame it on your predecessor's lack of planning if in fact the reverse is true?
Do i think a kid can unpack a markerbot, download a design for Eiffel towers and start printing them immediately? yes. I would expect kids to do this and see how easy and powerful a tool it will be. Then ease them into making modifications and then designing their own inventions from scratch.
It would be like woodshop 2.0, with less buzz saws.
sorry, i should of said cheap oem side with mid 3d graphics. The market doesn't exist for that. The typical non gaming user wouldn't care if it was the 3d graphics capability was from 3 years ago. If it can play video and run business apps that's all they care about
Old sandy bridge/ivy core chips already fit that market perfectly and the price will/have come down for those chips already. Or throw an old richland/trinity and they wouldn't know the difference.
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I'm not even a gun advocate and i know the difference between fully automatic, semi automatic, machine gun, assault weapon and a hunting rifle.
AR15 is a hunting rifle that looks more deadly.
Most gun related deaths are from pistols. They account for something like 95% of all gun related deaths.
Most gun related deaths are from illegal guns. There is only a small fraction of murders committed by their legal gun owners. Most gun related homicides are gang and drug related.
Assault weapon bans are absurd. They do nothing to even address curbing gun related homicides. If you really wanted to do that, ban pistols. You're also not addressing the root causes which in a majority of time are social related (drug and gang violence).
are you saying adding pitches and angels to an establish design makes it unique and therefore patentable?
That's an interesting way to view patents.
so uhh... wouldn't it make more sense to bomb infrastructure rather than shoot at it with a rifle?
Lets say... bomb a dam or something like a bridge?
ohh wait, i bet that's the next scare. Better invest in dam and bridge security companies.
As many others have posted, a UPS will protect the whole computer from data loss in the case of a power outage. what about the data stored in memory without a UPS? Are you going to test that? the idea that a capacitor can store enough temporary power for shutdown is neat but worthless. SSDs were made to replace harddrives. what happens when you unplug power from harddrives in the middle of a write? Why would you want SSDs to be better than harddrives in that function?
What does the failure rate of ocz ssds have anything to do with this crazy test?
Just let them play ET all day long. Pretty soon they'll be great at outdoor sports.
It's probably not a low level employee's fault personally that this happened. However, why the fuck would a low level employee try to even address the issue by telling others how harsh his work is and to be grateful? If you don't see the problem with that, then you are at a loss for even trying to understand why this would inflame people who weren't with their families and had to work as well.
Best course of action would have been to keep his mouth shut and let the company spin dr. explain what happened.
If you're too hot, the overheat cut off circuitry will cut in and turn off.... wait what are we talking about again?
More to the point, we have rovers on mars that draw penises. We own that place. The moon is so 50 years ago. Next stop Uranus.
And each one of those violated their oath of office when they allowed the NSA to spy on all Americans without any oversight.
He's just the last in the line of a long list of cowards who thought they were above the law and made excuses for it. Enough is enough.
I think you're explanation was a bit too wordy.
Basically: When has the US public EVER had a choice on how tax money is spent?
Is the answer never? I'm fairly sure it is. So why is this any different? This is 10B in loss. I can point out any year in the past 50 and show 100B in waste in every single year. That would be a very simple task, considering the waste is probably 10x greater than that on average each year.
Welcome to America.
and my pet rock foiled the zebra invasion for the 20th time this year alone!
Where's the proof of this foiled plot?
How in the world was the US economy going to be taken down by malware?
None of this adds up at all. It's more hand waving and gesturing to see if they can get some buy in from the utterly retarded.
he forgot to say in 1917.
It was solicited, he was asking for it.
Because job training is a thing of the past.
Heapsort?
Ohh you mean HeapSnort.
In case you didn't get the reference, when visualized it really does look like someone snorting illicit drugs. Pretty neat stuff.
Trust nothing. This is just a secret government ploy to lower the supplies for mind control protective headgear.
Sounds good, lets cut subsidies for corn, ethanol and all fossil fuels for starters.
The idea of subsidies is to encourage growth. So why again do fossil fuels need encouragement? They need as much encouragement as people need vehicles over 3 tons (suv's for example). Because that was well thought out.
I have no problem with solar subsidies. It's still an emerging market, costs have gone down because of it and research is still being invested. I have a problem with subsidies being applied to things that don't need encouragement.
Untrue. From someone who's taken a look at a few dozen devices with the same issue, it's not the spring that's the problem. Each usb female socket is basically a sheet metal shell that's locked together by overlapping metal. There is no reinforcement of that shell. Every single time after a year of constantly plugging in the cable, the force of doing so bends the metal shell allowing the cable to have some wiggle room. That wiggle room allows all cables regardless of the springs to slip and not connect properly.
Take a look at any older smartphone. Plug in the newest, shiniest usb cable. Any slightly bent female shells will cause you to have an intermittent connection for both power and data.
With constantly plugging a cable in and out of a device you will eventually wear it down and break it (becomes loose, etc).
You cannot wear out a wireless charger.
That is the distinction.
Is it really abuse if that's what was intended all along? Do you really think GPS on cars is really about finding a car if it was stolen? Or tracking your every movement? No matter what the reason is, adding a real time location based device on any vehicle has but one motive, to track that vehicle's location history for the entire time that device is installed.
That's to be expected. Security of data is critically important to all businesses, even the American ones who are also affected by the NSA scandals. I would expect politicians to be in an uproar and call for the dismantling of the NSA and for all their secret projects to be disclosed and security holes patched up so America can once again be trusted.
Lol, who am i kidding. I expect people to be silenced, jailed, tortured and publicly humiliated if they dare speak the truth again, and for the NSA's budget to be quadrupled and even more data to be fed directly to them under the guise of stopping the leaks.
Simple:
Lack of long term planning.
Global warming doesn't happen overnight. There will be no event that will trigger thousands of lives being lost overnight. Water levels will rise very slowly, more and more flooding will occur after years and infrastructure will be destroyed or submerged after years. The results will be more devastating because it will affect livelihood, food supplies, population centers, etc. There will be famine, wars for resources, dwindling power, cost of living increases and even more poverty. To most people they would consider those things as imaginary, like it won't happen to them or there will be a way to mitigate it.
Terrorism on the other hand is the boogieman. The threat of being blown up or being shot is a lot more "real" to people than the threat of being slowly starved to death. We pump billions into that because it's useless. It makes people feel more safe, and the illusion of safety is a) an easy sell and b) apparently people want this and are willing to spend money on it. Society as a whole craves this a lot more than it craves a future for humanity and our children. Simple human conditions allow political will to focus on useless, frivolous things with no way of knowing if it's effective because it's less risky and it's what people want.
What if for example the sun decided to go into a mini ice age state and cooling actually occurred? This has happened in the past and the current trends of solar activity is pointing to something quite different than experienced in the past 50 years. Would you want to be the politician who pushed a anti-greenhouse, eco friendly laws that would be used against you when they claim billions were wasted and economic growth was stalled thanks to your incorrect predictions of the future? Show me the risk in that or just pretending to be stupid and allowing the status quo to continue and just blame it on your predecessor's lack of planning if in fact the reverse is true?
Do i think a kid can unpack a markerbot, download a design for Eiffel towers and start printing them immediately? yes.
I would expect kids to do this and see how easy and powerful a tool it will be. Then ease them into making modifications and then designing their own inventions from scratch.
It would be like woodshop 2.0, with less buzz saws.
So hey just a question:
Isn't the entire internet a massive P2P network?
sorry, i should of said cheap oem side with mid 3d graphics. The market doesn't exist for that. The typical non gaming user wouldn't care if it was the 3d graphics capability was from 3 years ago. If it can play video and run business apps that's all they care about
Old sandy bridge/ivy core chips already fit that market perfectly and the price will/have come down for those chips already. Or throw an old richland/trinity and they wouldn't know the difference.