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I think it's still true that Amtrak carries more passengers in the Washington, Boston, New York travel corridors than do the all the airlines combined. Those are the "high-speed Acela lines". Of course, it's just a coincidence that the lines that carry the most politicians are actually funded and effective, while the rest of the country languishes due to underfunding.
At the same time, these ads suck bandwidth and power - notice the fan running on your computer when you have many ad-hungry tabs running - and they don't complain.
Ads, and selling your personal data are an inefficient and irrational way to pay for Internet services, yet if you mandated, say $1/month for Facebook usage, the user base would vanish.
Didn't the FBI make a similar comment after it was revealed that they had questioned the Boston bomber in the past? Something to the effect that they could not follow up on every suspicisous character without turning the country into a police state.
So, which agency is being funded to study the effects of gun violence?
We keep hearing the mental health is a problem - seems intuitive, but intuition tells you the world is flat.
Would background checks make a difference, or are they just extra bureaucracy?
If you don't like the CDC doing the research, pick AND FUND and organization that will. Without real information it's impossible to know what solutions might exist. If you're confident of your position, as the NRA appears to be, then the research will back it up and you'll stop having to lobby to maintain the situation. They'll always be people who disagree, but you have a much stronger case with the facts on your side.
Without this research, it's basically impossible to determine how to decrease gun violence - everything is speculation. So, unless they have something to hide, the NRA should be fully supporting research.
It's especially difficult since the NRA long ago manged to ban US government funding of research into gun violence. So I doubt any PhD's exist in this area.
This spreadsheet may be the most detailed summary of gun violence available to US law makers.
If there's really no connection, why is EA opposed to research in that area? It would seem to me that more studies exhonorating video games would be a good thing.
I have a problem with scapegoating, but I also have a problem with prohibiting scientific research that might tell us what the actual problems are.
CFLs? Every Slashdotter needs to walk into a room and instantly have 6500K light or people... will... die
It does drive me crazy that we are expending effort and technology to emulate the yellow color of incandescent bulbs. Are buggy whips still mandatory in modern cars?
So you could take one to any vehicle registration office in Europe or the US and get a VIN/plates for them? The drive them at normal speeds on the road? Somehow I don't think that's the case.
Anyone can make a powered vehicle that's more efficient than a street-legal version, the problem is, that to drive it on the street you need to meet the safety requirements of the local country/state/municipality.
95 MPG? Please. High schoolers competing in the SAE Supermileage competition get 10x more than that on a regular basis, for about 1/3 the fucking cost, at comparable speeds.
Isn't this how most companies work? In order to get anything done, you form an ad-hoc group of capable people to work on a project.
Seems to me the only difference is that in a normal company that group then has to figure out how to outflank the management hierarchy in order to complete the project, whereas this model skips that step.
I've seen managers do many stupid things that are not in the best interest of their employer. Of course, useless degrees are useless no matter how you came by them but the numerous issues of "for-profit" education are not really the topic.
When I wrote the comment, I was specifically thinking of "Open University" degrees in the UK. They used to broadcast classes on TV at off-peak times and this is in pre-VCR days. So students actually had to get up a 5am, or stay up until 1am, to watch the lecture.
The attrition rate was extremely high, but, probably no higher than any current on-line courses. If you're going to work and study for a degree at the same time you'd either need to get up early, or stay up late no matter how the course is taught.
"Correspondence Courses", of which online is the latest incarnation, have always had these problems. Indeed, degrees obtained through this type of self-study are often very highly regarded, not just because you have the degree, but because you had the motivation and tenacity to complete the degree without all the traditional support structure of an bricks-and-mortar college.
What Google is doing here is like Best Buy sending my information to Sony if I purchase a Sony camera at Best Buy.
I'm not convinced that Best Buy doesn't sell it's customer lists to Sony. The only reason it would not give this information to Sony would be cash/business case related and have nothing to do with you or your opinions of what Best Buy should do with your name and address.
A better example is perhaps that if you buy something on eBay, the seller gets all your details - even if the product is electronic. (please tell me that this isn't news to you).
It's a transaction between you and the app seller, if you don't trust the app seller (or the eBay seller, or the shady website offering good deals) don't execute the transaction.
If your coffeemaker and fridge are that close, then there's a clear and frequent micro-break that your going to need shortly. Let's hope that's a little further away.
Comments of the type "just don't connect to the Internet" are a little short-sighted. Much of the energy, water, wastewater, etc. etc. infrastructure is remote. Think substations, liftstations, pumpstations, smart switches, etc. etc. For some of these a dedicated network may make sense, but there's a huge cost saving in using the existing networking buildout, ie the Internet, to monitor and indeed control these types of facilities. Many of these are small, a controller, something that does something (pump, switch, whatever) and a small amount of monitoring.
Securing this IS a challenge, espeically since the vast majority of the equipment used in these facility was (and continues to be) designed with no inherent security, but having someone drive to a remote facility to check it, or install an end-to-end custom network is a much bigger project and is simply not possible - taxpayer would (rightly) object to the cost.
There are many other situation where there is a solid "business case" for having an asset connected to the Internet, remote maintenance, tracking, etc. Not necessarily as critical, but would still benefit from a secure solution.
And once again for the 1,000,000 time, yes, and this isn't the place to get legal advice...
True, but there's really any advice that you should ask for from./er's? How to meet members of the opposite sex? Which Linux distro to use? Whether Metro is better than Unity?
Once you get it in perspective, the question makes as much sense as any other.
How do you figure that? The profit that was made(stolen), by individuals and institutions will never be repaid. There will be a trial and a few players, probably one big one - someone who made hundreds of millions - and a few bit-players will go to jail for a few year. Most will get off free. There'll be talk of major regulation but what will happen is this particular loophole will be closed - nothing fundamental.
A brilliant business plan, ready to be dusted off, slightly revised and reused in about 10 years or so (that's about the cycle). The profits massively cover the expenditure, no one (of consequence) gets hurt.
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I think it's still true that Amtrak carries more passengers in the Washington, Boston, New York travel corridors than do the all the airlines combined. Those are the "high-speed Acela lines". Of course, it's just a coincidence that the lines that carry the most politicians are actually funded and effective, while the rest of the country languishes due to underfunding.
It's interesting that there was a long discussion previously about how people would not allow "bitcoin-ware" (games support by bitcoin mining - http://ask.slashdot.org/story/13/05/02/1850202/ask-slashdot-would-you-accept-bitcoin-ware-apps) because it would cost them, primarily in terms of electricity usage.
At the same time, these ads suck bandwidth and power - notice the fan running on your computer when you have many ad-hungry tabs running - and they don't complain.
Ads, and selling your personal data are an inefficient and irrational way to pay for Internet services, yet if you mandated, say $1/month for Facebook usage, the user base would vanish.
People are wierd.
Didn't the FBI make a similar comment after it was revealed that they had questioned the Boston bomber in the past? Something to the effect that they could not follow up on every suspicisous character without turning the country into a police state.
All that programming on NeXT finally becomes useful.
Nah, a vector has magnitude and direction. I would say for at least human/2 the best you could hope for would approximate a drunken curve.
Good news is human/2 is finite unti human == infinte.
I believe this questions really requires a list of possible attack vectors. Is a list like that even possible, or is it infinite.
The known vectors are finite.
So, which agency is being funded to study the effects of gun violence?
We keep hearing the mental health is a problem - seems intuitive, but intuition tells you the world is flat.
Would background checks make a difference, or are they just extra bureaucracy?
If you don't like the CDC doing the research, pick AND FUND and organization that will. Without real information it's impossible to know what solutions might exist. If you're confident of your position, as the NRA appears to be, then the research will back it up and you'll stop having to lobby to maintain the situation. They'll always be people who disagree, but you have a much stronger case with the facts on your side.
Without this research, it's basically impossible to determine how to decrease gun violence - everything is speculation. So, unless they have something to hide, the NRA should be fully supporting research.
It's especially difficult since the NRA long ago manged to ban US government funding of research into gun violence. So I doubt any PhD's exist in this area.
This spreadsheet may be the most detailed summary of gun violence available to US law makers.
If there's really no connection, why is EA opposed to research in that area? It would seem to me that more studies exhonorating video games would be a good thing.
I have a problem with scapegoating, but I also have a problem with prohibiting scientific research that might tell us what the actual problems are.
CFLs? Every Slashdotter needs to walk into a room and instantly have 6500K light or people... will... die
It does drive me crazy that we are expending effort and technology to emulate the yellow color of incandescent bulbs. Are buggy whips still mandatory in modern cars?
So you could take one to any vehicle registration office in Europe or the US and get a VIN/plates for them? The drive them at normal speeds on the road? Somehow I don't think that's the case.
Anyone can make a powered vehicle that's more efficient than a street-legal version, the problem is, that to drive it on the street you need to meet the safety requirements of the local country/state/municipality.
95 MPG? Please. High schoolers competing in the SAE Supermileage competition get 10x more than that on a regular basis, for about 1/3 the fucking cost, at comparable speeds.
Ah, and those are street-legal?
As you requested. 95 mpg Honda Civic http://www.aerocivic.com/ With instructions.
In many northern lattitudes, this is the norm, daylight savings or not.
This is "Ask Slashdot", you always get one of those and sometimes both.
Isn't this how most companies work? In order to get anything done, you form an ad-hoc group of capable people to work on a project.
Seems to me the only difference is that in a normal company that group then has to figure out how to outflank the management hierarchy in order to complete the project, whereas this model skips that step.
I've seen managers do many stupid things that are not in the best interest of their employer. Of course, useless degrees are useless no matter how you came by them but the numerous issues of "for-profit" education are not really the topic.
When I wrote the comment, I was specifically thinking of "Open University" degrees in the UK. They used to broadcast classes on TV at off-peak times and this is in pre-VCR days. So students actually had to get up a 5am, or stay up until 1am, to watch the lecture.
The attrition rate was extremely high, but, probably no higher than any current on-line courses. If you're going to work and study for a degree at the same time you'd either need to get up early, or stay up late no matter how the course is taught.
"Correspondence Courses", of which online is the latest incarnation, have always had these problems. Indeed, degrees obtained through this type of self-study are often very highly regarded, not just because you have the degree, but because you had the motivation and tenacity to complete the degree without all the traditional support structure of an bricks-and-mortar college.
Who knew that learning to reed in school could be harmful.
What Google is doing here is like Best Buy sending my information to Sony if I purchase a Sony camera at Best Buy.
I'm not convinced that Best Buy doesn't sell it's customer lists to Sony. The only reason it would not give this information to Sony would be cash/business case related and have nothing to do with you or your opinions of what Best Buy should do with your name and address.
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A better example is perhaps that if you buy something on eBay, the seller gets all your details - even if the product is electronic. (please tell me that this isn't news to you)
It's a transaction between you and the app seller, if you don't trust the app seller (or the eBay seller, or the shady website offering good deals) don't execute the transaction.
If your coffeemaker and fridge are that close, then there's a clear and frequent micro-break that your going to need shortly. Let's hope that's a little further away.
Comments of the type "just don't connect to the Internet" are a little short-sighted. Much of the energy, water, wastewater, etc. etc. infrastructure is remote. Think substations, liftstations, pumpstations, smart switches, etc. etc. For some of these a dedicated network may make sense, but there's a huge cost saving in using the existing networking buildout, ie the Internet, to monitor and indeed control these types of facilities. Many of these are small, a controller, something that does something (pump, switch, whatever) and a small amount of monitoring.
Securing this IS a challenge, espeically since the vast majority of the equipment used in these facility was (and continues to be) designed with no inherent security, but having someone drive to a remote facility to check it, or install an end-to-end custom network is a much bigger project and is simply not possible - taxpayer would (rightly) object to the cost.
There are many other situation where there is a solid "business case" for having an asset connected to the Internet, remote maintenance, tracking, etc. Not necessarily as critical, but would still benefit from a secure solution.
And once again for the 1,000,000 time, yes, and this isn't the place to get legal advice...
True, but there's really any advice that you should ask for from ./er's? How to meet members of the opposite sex? Which Linux distro to use? Whether Metro is better than Unity?
Once you get it in perspective, the question makes as much sense as any other.
On the BBC website when I looked at it a few minutes ago, underneath the teaser for:
Richard III - Bones found in Car Park
was the headline:
Man arrested in shooting death
I can summarize in two words: Management cock-up.
How do you figure that? The profit that was made(stolen), by individuals and institutions will never be repaid. There will be a trial and a few players, probably one big one - someone who made hundreds of millions - and a few bit-players will go to jail for a few year. Most will get off free. There'll be talk of major regulation but what will happen is this particular loophole will be closed - nothing fundamental.
A brilliant business plan, ready to be dusted off, slightly revised and reused in about 10 years or so (that's about the cycle). The profits massively cover the expenditure, no one (of consequence) gets hurt.