How much better would it be if people could get as energized by something that really matters as they do sports? (Or, indeed, as energized as they do over the sucky beta).
The Jade Rabbit is an awesome piece of scientific equipment, and it's on the moon. Let's hope if makes it through the night and continues to send data that will benefit all of humanity.
They don't really need the footage. Everyone is guilty of something. Selective procecution is the name of the game:
Prosecutors claim Qwest CEO Joseph Nacchio was guilty of insider trading, and that his prosecution had nothing to do with his refusal to allow spying on his customers without the permission of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court. But to this day, Nacchio insists that his prosecution was retaliation for refusing to break the law on the NSA's behalf.
Oh no, if we just spend enough money on schools, and feed little Johnny a federal breakfast, we'll find that everyone is smart enough to be an electrical engineer. Even all the little minority kids are geniuses but we lie and say they're not because racism. Bullshit, bullshit, bullshit. I'm sick of it.
Assuming that you're not just a racist troll (it's not clear from the posting) I think you're missing the point.
While I agree that there is an innateness to intelligence, failing to educate capable kids is bad for society. The geniuses (Einstein, Turing, etc.) may make it, but a potentially great brain surgeon may be working as a middle-manager at a department store because there was no path to medical school.
I'm not anti-government, but the statement above is still true. I am anti-stupidity and hypocracy.
You're local EPA can measure it's success in PPM of various pollutants. But we sorta forget that (which is odd, what with all the news of China's cities, or with the "Smog Days" in major American Cities).
The USFDA is pushing for companies to perform their own food inspection. I'm sure that there are some very dedicated and hardworking people at the USFDA. I'm equally sure that there's excess headcount. I don't think that the change in food inspection policy include actually decreasing headcount at the USFDA (might be wrong on that).
Police measure crime rates.
Despite filling the prisons and militarization of the police forces along with more money spent on police and quasi-police organizations (eg TSA) there has been no significant change in crime and people don't feel safer. They quote decreases like lower homicide rates, but much of that can be attributed to improved medical care.
Billions have been dropped in the "War on Drugs" with no measurable effect. You can't cut that simply because billions have already been spent - it's a success.
The Fed Reserve can measure economic growth. And the SEC can measure how much money was lost by investors on shoddy investments.
Yes, yes, a huge and successful bureaucracy, the SEC. It's good to see the government protect investors from bad investments while promoting lottery sales purchases. There's a balance to be struck there, and the size of the SEC is unrelated to that.
A bit more regulation before the housing bust woulda been nice. Anyone remember Glass-Seagal? As Liz Warren pointed out we had 50 years w/o a major bust until we repealed that...
OK, you're right, in this case we have a clear measure of the success of this department - they failed miserably. Did we defund them? Change anything? I agree that it's a legislative problem, but why do we fund a department that is unsuccessful in it's effort?
Thinking about it, we have a clear indication that some departments are successful. For example, NLRB. The GOP have been trying to defund that for a while. Given that we have a clear metric that useless organziation are fully funded, presumably the ones that are being defuned must be doing something.
For-profit organizations can measure their success by revenues. Government organization can only measure success by the size of the department - the number of people employed. More people, bigger budget, more successful. Similarly an "effective" Congress member has more aides, more campaign funds and more junkets paid by lobbists.
Hadn't thought of that. In my case it would be the GPS telling me that there is a faster route right before it tells me there is another 25 minute delay.
Actually I suspect that the problem is that I'm running Chromium and not Chrome proper. I don't really have any incentive to change that since I don't really have much immediate use for an Amiga emulator or the willingness to spend the time to get it to work. It'll happen eventually, and if I still care I'll check out the demo. This is Slashdot so I can expect a dup in a week or so to remind me, which may be far enough into the future.
Of course, if there isn't a dup in a week or two then I'll know for sure that Slashdot is irrevocably changed.
Interesting. From above the black box on Chromium 30.0.1599.114 (Chromium probably explains the lack of support on my system):
This page uses Portable Native Client, a technology currently only supported in Google Chrome (version 31 or higher; Android and iOS not yet supported).
Is it getting better or worse? If you go back a decade or so some of the problems listed didn't exist and things like required bribes (campaign contributions) from businesses were less of an issue. Changes like "Citizen's United", the Iraq war and increased domestic surveillance and big corporations dumping risk on the taxpayer ("too big to fail") which is coupled with the amount of corporate money in politics are all regressions. As is "trickle down economics" which, if you look at the 30 year experiment of lowering taxes for the rich and cutting social programs has not had the effect of raising the standard of living of all members of society - a "rising tide" did not lift all boat is a fact whatever your ideology. Then you have societal problems like school, theater, etc. shooting and gun violence that rivals many third world countries. At the minute there aren't many high-profile kidnappings, but I suspect that could change.
So no, the problems are not as bad, but continuing on the path we're on will get us there.
I answered that already. Your basic premise is that everyone is doing it. That still doesn't make the action morally acceptable. If it were, there would be no reason to keep it secret. We could just have a list of who's phone is being tapped on the NSA website.
That they don't have it there tells you that they have something to hide, that they are doing something that the population would find unacceptable. And yes, there are legitmate reasons to gather intelligence secretly, but these should have clear oversight (not the kangaroo court that currently overseas it) and should be publicly available after the reason for secrecy is past (not 50 years). This is different from the secret, mass surveillance without a legitmate cause that Snowden revealed.
Oh, and in your example it seems everyone is wrong, with which I don't argue.
I also note that you apparently have nothing to say about Russia stirring the pot on this with their political delegation.
Not a thing. If you cheat on your spouse and your buddy posts it on Facebook, they may be an asshole, but you still cheated on your spouse.
And just because everyone else is doing it and not being discovered (asymmetry) doesn't mean that you should.
For they US you really have to stretch the analogy. They didn't just cheat on their spouse, they went to everyone of their friends houses and cheated on someone there also.
I don't condone the violence, but it's interesting that you'll get headlines blaming the violence on Snowden and his release of the documents - not on the real source of the problem which was the covert activities of the US, and it seems now also the Australians.
The keys are physical entities and should not have been taken.
Did someone ask for the passwords BEFORE he left the job? If not, then I don't think that he should have the responsiblity to be an unpaid consultant AFTER he leaves. Asking him to provide the passwords, without paying for him as a consultant seems to me rather like asking someone to update a document, provide information on how to run a particular program/machine/process, etc. after they've left.
Providing them before you leave is, the professional thing to do, but if, for example, your employeer fires you and escorts you out the building without the sense can courtesy to at least try and benefit from your knowledge and experience then I think coming back and asking you questions ANY questions after the fact is unreasonable.
It's insane because they are cherry-picking the areas that have the most public visibility in an attempt to minimize the apparent damage, but knowing that the bills will fail. They have yet to pass a bill funding any of the social programs so, for example, kids don't get nutitional assistance. Almost no one (except the kids) are impacted by this, but whether you like it or not, it's a program the government put in place and so should fund. Ditto for the EPA, Natioinal Labor Relations Board, etc. etc. etc.
If the House doesn't like a program, there's a procedure. You pass a bill removing the program, get the Senate to pass the bill and the President to sign it. If you can't get that support, you shouldn't try to subvert democracy by the econmic equivelent of strapping a bomb to your chest.
That's the vertical whitespace, the horizontal whitespace is also there. You can get more stories and, importantly, more comments per page with the current layout. The delimiters are also better (green and gray bars). A fine, light-gray line with lots of space around it is not as clear a visual divider as the colored bars.
Part of the problem with the comment is the huge amount of horizontal white space. The text looks as though it's double spaced and every break looks to be at least two lines. If you look at the current design it's compact. There isn't much space between the comment and the "Reply to This... " line.
I think that marketing it as a "vulnerability" is a neat trick - how else would you make it onto Slashdot?
That said, it's a neat proof-of-concept that may, eventually, find some (voluntary) applications. Need to diagnose a vibration in a car, washing machine, etc.? Something in the house making an odd noise and you can't figure it out? Water/gas line leak while you're asleep. There's potential, and, as they inadvertantly point out, (4>3GS) the sensor technology is improving.
Slashdot Mirror
How much better would it be if people could get as energized by something that really matters as they do sports? (Or, indeed, as energized as they do over the sucky beta).
'We'll revisit the topic when some of these initial concerns have been addressed.'
We're going to keep introducing this legislation until people stop watching and we can pass it (see also SOPA).
The Jade Rabbit is an awesome piece of scientific equipment, and it's on the moon. Let's hope if makes it through the night and continues to send data that will benefit all of humanity.
Prosecutors claim Qwest CEO Joseph Nacchio was guilty of insider trading, and that his prosecution had nothing to do with his refusal to allow spying on his customers without the permission of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court. But to this day, Nacchio insists that his prosecution was retaliation for refusing to break the law on the NSA's behalf.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/...
I was thinking this one: http://xkcd.com/463/
Oh no, if we just spend enough money on schools, and feed little Johnny a federal breakfast, we'll find that everyone is smart enough to be an electrical engineer. Even all the little minority kids are geniuses but we lie and say they're not because racism. Bullshit, bullshit, bullshit. I'm sick of it.
Assuming that you're not just a racist troll (it's not clear from the posting) I think you're missing the point.
While I agree that there is an innateness to intelligence, failing to educate capable kids is bad for society. The geniuses (Einstein, Turing, etc.) may make it, but a potentially great brain surgeon may be working as a middle-manager at a department store because there was no path to medical school.
You're local EPA can measure it's success in PPM of various pollutants. But we sorta forget that (which is odd, what with all the news of China's cities, or with the "Smog Days" in major American Cities).
The USFDA is pushing for companies to perform their own food inspection. I'm sure that there are some very dedicated and hardworking people at the USFDA. I'm equally sure that there's excess headcount. I don't think that the change in food inspection policy include actually decreasing headcount at the USFDA (might be wrong on that).
Police measure crime rates.
Despite filling the prisons and militarization of the police forces along with more money spent on police and quasi-police organizations (eg TSA) there has been no significant change in crime and people don't feel safer. They quote decreases like lower homicide rates, but much of that can be attributed to improved medical care. Billions have been dropped in the "War on Drugs" with no measurable effect. You can't cut that simply because billions have already been spent - it's a success.
The Fed Reserve can measure economic growth. And the SEC can measure how much money was lost by investors on shoddy investments.
Yes, yes, a huge and successful bureaucracy, the SEC. It's good to see the government protect investors from bad investments while promoting lottery sales purchases. There's a balance to be struck there, and the size of the SEC is unrelated to that.
A bit more regulation before the housing bust woulda been nice. Anyone remember Glass-Seagal? As Liz Warren pointed out we had 50 years w/o a major bust until we repealed that...
OK, you're right, in this case we have a clear measure of the success of this department - they failed miserably. Did we defund them? Change anything? I agree that it's a legislative problem, but why do we fund a department that is unsuccessful in it's effort? Thinking about it, we have a clear indication that some departments are successful. For example, NLRB. The GOP have been trying to defund that for a while. Given that we have a clear metric that useless organziation are fully funded, presumably the ones that are being defuned must be doing something.
For-profit organizations can measure their success by revenues. Government organization can only measure success by the size of the department - the number of people employed. More people, bigger budget, more successful. Similarly an "effective" Congress member has more aides, more campaign funds and more junkets paid by lobbists.
For a contest involving writing source code, it's astounding and infuriating that the judges did not link to the source code in the results.
What did you expect? It's a contest for writing obfuscated code and you expect a webpage that has clear, concise information?
Hadn't thought of that. In my case it would be the GPS telling me that there is a faster route right before it tells me there is another 25 minute delay.
If you drive to work in LA where it takes more than an hour to get to or from work, you'd want to plug in.
Why would you need to charge if after driving 2 miles?
Actually I suspect that the problem is that I'm running Chromium and not Chrome proper. I don't really have any incentive to change that since I don't really have much immediate use for an Amiga emulator or the willingness to spend the time to get it to work. It'll happen eventually, and if I still care I'll check out the demo. This is Slashdot so I can expect a dup in a week or so to remind me, which may be far enough into the future.
Of course, if there isn't a dup in a week or two then I'll know for sure that Slashdot is irrevocably changed.
Runs perfectly on a Mac. (10.8)
Interesting. From above the black box on Chromium 30.0.1599.114 (Chromium probably explains the lack of support on my system):
This page uses Portable Native Client, a technology currently only supported in Google Chrome (version 31 or higher; Android and iOS not yet supported).
Needs Chrome 31 or high, no iOs or Android. Also:
/. is really loosing it.
Version 30.0.1599.114 Ubuntu 13.10 (30.0.1599.114-0ubuntu0.13.10.2)
So Windows only.
Is it getting better or worse? If you go back a decade or so some of the problems listed didn't exist and things like required bribes (campaign contributions) from businesses were less of an issue. Changes like "Citizen's United", the Iraq war and increased domestic surveillance and big corporations dumping risk on the taxpayer ("too big to fail") which is coupled with the amount of corporate money in politics are all regressions. As is "trickle down economics" which, if you look at the 30 year experiment of lowering taxes for the rich and cutting social programs has not had the effect of raising the standard of living of all members of society - a "rising tide" did not lift all boat is a fact whatever your ideology. Then you have societal problems like school, theater, etc. shooting and gun violence that rivals many third world countries. At the minute there aren't many high-profile kidnappings, but I suspect that could change.
So no, the problems are not as bad, but continuing on the path we're on will get us there.
If you want luxuries like reliable electricity
It's better than many third world countries but "reliable" is not the word I would apply to the US power grid
no hostage taking
Unless someone, somewhere declares you a terrorist, then they have a spot for you: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guantanamo_Bay_detention_camp
no need to bribe the local politician
In the US they are called "Campaign Contributions" - functionally identical
and no government shakedowns
Unless you don't cooperate with the NSA - http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/the-switch/wp/2013/09/30/a-ceo-who-resisted-nsa-spying-is-out-of-prison-and-he-feels-vindicated-by-snowden-leaks/
well, sometimes you have to pay your workers a bit more to go along with that...
Not really, the tax payers will pick up the slack - http://money.cnn.com/2013/06/04/news/companies/walmart-medicaid/
Kickstarter for a giant, granite pasta strainer...
I'm in.
I answered that already. Your basic premise is that everyone is doing it. That still doesn't make the action morally acceptable. If it were, there would be no reason to keep it secret. We could just have a list of who's phone is being tapped on the NSA website.
That they don't have it there tells you that they have something to hide, that they are doing something that the population would find unacceptable. And yes, there are legitmate reasons to gather intelligence secretly, but these should have clear oversight (not the kangaroo court that currently overseas it) and should be publicly available after the reason for secrecy is past (not 50 years). This is different from the secret, mass surveillance without a legitmate cause that Snowden revealed.
Oh, and in your example it seems everyone is wrong, with which I don't argue.
I also note that you apparently have nothing to say about Russia stirring the pot on this with their political delegation.
Not a thing. If you cheat on your spouse and your buddy posts it on Facebook, they may be an asshole, but you still cheated on your spouse.
And just because everyone else is doing it and not being discovered (asymmetry) doesn't mean that you should.
For they US you really have to stretch the analogy. They didn't just cheat on their spouse, they went to everyone of their friends houses and cheated on someone there also.
I don't condone the violence, but it's interesting that you'll get headlines blaming the violence on Snowden and his release of the documents - not on the real source of the problem which was the covert activities of the US, and it seems now also the Australians.
The keys are physical entities and should not have been taken.
Did someone ask for the passwords BEFORE he left the job? If not, then I don't think that he should have the responsiblity to be an unpaid consultant AFTER he leaves. Asking him to provide the passwords, without paying for him as a consultant seems to me rather like asking someone to update a document, provide information on how to run a particular program/machine/process, etc. after they've left.
Providing them before you leave is, the professional thing to do, but if, for example, your employeer fires you and escorts you out the building without the sense can courtesy to at least try and benefit from your knowledge and experience then I think coming back and asking you questions ANY questions after the fact is unreasonable.
It's insane because they are cherry-picking the areas that have the most public visibility in an attempt to minimize the apparent damage, but knowing that the bills will fail. They have yet to pass a bill funding any of the social programs so, for example, kids don't get nutitional assistance. Almost no one (except the kids) are impacted by this, but whether you like it or not, it's a program the government put in place and so should fund. Ditto for the EPA, Natioinal Labor Relations Board, etc. etc. etc.
If the House doesn't like a program, there's a procedure. You pass a bill removing the program, get the Senate to pass the bill and the President to sign it. If you can't get that support, you shouldn't try to subvert democracy by the econmic equivelent of strapping a bomb to your chest.
That's the vertical whitespace, the horizontal whitespace is also there. You can get more stories and, importantly, more comments per page with the current layout. The delimiters are also better (green and gray bars). A fine, light-gray line with lots of space around it is not as clear a visual divider as the colored bars.
Part of the problem with the comment is the huge amount of horizontal white space. The text looks as though it's double spaced and every break looks to be at least two lines. If you look at the current design it's compact. There isn't much space between the comment and the "Reply to This... " line.
I think that marketing it as a "vulnerability" is a neat trick - how else would you make it onto Slashdot?
That said, it's a neat proof-of-concept that may, eventually, find some (voluntary) applications. Need to diagnose a vibration in a car, washing machine, etc.? Something in the house making an odd noise and you can't figure it out? Water/gas line leak while you're asleep. There's potential, and, as they inadvertantly point out, (4>3GS) the sensor technology is improving.