Once again the chicken littles are coming and squaking at us about the environment. This while refusing to carry cloth bags, driving-- whether electric or gasoline, instead of walking or biking or even using public transportation. Some even burn more fuel in a day that many of us will burn in the rest of our lives, on their private jets.
I didn't believe you in the past. I was right not to believe you in the past. I don't believe you now. Of what I've seen of you, you are composed of two types: oportunistic liars, and their "useful idiots". Guess what? I probably won't believe you in the future. So go away and squack someplace else.
I agree in part and disagree in part. Swartz was not an asshole, he was however a moron, who let occupioer types convince him that just because you protest, you cannot be arrested for your protests. Which is just the opposite of what Martin Luther King said which is that if you break laws protesting an unjust law, you should gladly go to jail.
That said, let us remember that what Swartz did was download a bunch of papers describing research that was mostly paid for by the government, and that researches paid [1] to be published. The money used to pay to publish also mostly out of government money. Fact is that the system for publishing academic articles served us well for many years, but is now obsolete. The job could effectively done better by the government sponsoring e-journals, and would be much cheaper then the government is paying now, and be free to anyone with internet access.
The thing is that I believe the Boycott Elvesier movement has done more to promote the cause of publicly open journals then anything that Swartz did.
[1] Because I'm sure some idiot will come along and claim that Swartz was stealing from the authors of the papers.
While it's always entertaining to read the same tired MS bashing, I got my wife the Surface Pro 2 for her work, and she loves it. It's an amazing machine, well built, great display, and has a wacom digitizer for her to take notes with. For $1000? Name me another product as versatile and portable.
Are once again squaking even louder and more enthusiastically, because none wants to believe them about the sky falling. Yeah sure they are going to convert many people that way.
The US knew where the plane was all along, thanks to Boeings telemetry. They knew it was hijacked to Pakistan for a terrorist mission. They sent in special forces to kill the terrorists and destroy the planes. To save Pakistan the embarrassment of admitting the plane was hijacked there, the US is reprogramming the black box and is planting debris near Oz.
I don't subscribe to this theory. After 9/11, I can buy a hijack for terrorist purposes. I cannot buy the idea of a US coverup.
If these pings are the data the engines send to Boeing, then they are supposed to be sent every hour.So ping timings getting lomger? Since the pings are transmitted at the speed of light, over the distance the plane travels the change in ping timing would be too small to measure.
So the idea is to trap infrared for energy. But infrared is effectively heat ( crudely spoken ). So you are trapping heat. Doesn't that add to global warming?
This is why people look down on environmentalists.
First of all, the Science in "Bachelors of Science" means nothing. Many scientists do not have Bachelor of Science degrees they have Bachelor of Arts degrees -- usually referred to as a BA. Many non scientists have Bachelor of science degrees. It mainly depends on where you get your degree.
Secondly, much of what Nye does is not science but engineering. Blurring the distinction like that is harmful to science.
For example an older child may try to build a robot using an Arduino and fail. He correctly deems his project a failure. But then he hears ( assuming of course that the Higgs did not exist ) that LHC failed to find the Higgs, and determines that the money on LHC was wasted. WHen the opposite is true, that proving the Higgs does not exist is just as important frrom a science view as showing it does.
The best locks in world, which Linux does come with, do not help if the door is left unlocked. Microsoft OTOH has no doors.
The biggest threat to linux in the last five years has not been the architecture of linux, but the willingness of programmers, in particular weak programmers from the WIndows world coming over and applying the same philiosophies to linux development.
I too lived through the 80's as well as the 60's and the 70's. I've seen how effective Reagan's policies were. I remember Democrats ridiculing him when he challenged Gorbachov to tear down the Wall. I remember how when the Wall finally came down, those same Democrats were saying "we knew it had to come down sometime".
I remember something else. I remember the debates the last Presidential election. I remember Romney bringing up the threat of Russia. I also remember Obama's response "Mr Romney. The 80's called they want their foreign policy back."
It was the statement of an asshole who was certain he was "the smartest man in the room" ( google that phrase to see what I'm referring to ), and it deserves to be an albatross hung around his neck. I will keep citing it, because if people would remember more of these things our elections would be better.
Slashdot Mirror
when you can't tell whether an Apple patent story is serious or an April Fools joke.
Once again the chicken littles are coming and squaking at us about the environment. This while refusing to carry cloth bags, driving-- whether electric or gasoline, instead of walking or biking or even using public transportation. Some even burn more fuel in a day that many of us will burn in the rest of our lives, on their private jets.
I didn't believe you in the past. I was right not to believe you in the past. I don't believe you now. Of what I've seen of you, you are composed of two types: oportunistic liars, and their "useful idiots". Guess what? I probably won't believe you in the future. So go away and squack someplace else.
I think this was posted after 0:00 UMT
Incineration is illegal because it causes pollution.
Seriously, I remember about 35-40 years ago, the private grade school I attended would incinerate their trash. Then it was banned.
Isn't dumping so much of an edible in one location just eventually going to attract a large vermin population?
I agree in part and disagree in part. Swartz was not an asshole, he was however a moron, who let occupioer types convince him that just because you protest, you cannot be arrested for your protests. Which is just the opposite of what Martin Luther King said which is that if you break laws protesting an unjust law, you should gladly go to jail.
That said, let us remember that what Swartz did was download a bunch of papers describing research that was mostly paid for by the government, and that researches paid [1] to be published. The money used to pay to publish also mostly out of government money. Fact is that the system for publishing academic articles served us well for many years, but is now obsolete. The job could effectively done better by the government sponsoring e-journals, and would be much cheaper then the government is paying now, and be free to anyone with internet access.
The thing is that I believe the Boycott Elvesier movement has done more to promote the cause of publicly open journals then anything that Swartz did.
[1] Because I'm sure some idiot will come along and claim that Swartz was stealing from the authors of the papers.
So MIT as a body did not care about Swartz, but some busy bodies did. I wonder if it is a part of their job description?
Bernie Maddoff, Jeff Skilling.
You know that OS/2 is still being sold as eCommStation?
At the same time, good luck doing that as the PR backlash would be tremendous. So they are in practice safe. Probably.
They are safe until Russia decides to invade the rest of the Ubraine. Then it's over.
While it's always entertaining to read the same tired MS bashing, I got my wife the Surface Pro 2 for her work, and she loves it. It's an amazing machine, well built, great display, and has a wacom digitizer for her to take notes with. For $1000? Name me another product as versatile and portable.
Galaxy Note 10.1/ Almost half the price too.
Are once again squaking even louder and more enthusiastically, because none wants to believe them about the sky falling.
Yeah sure they are going to convert many people that way.
The US knew where the plane was all along, thanks to Boeings telemetry. They knew it was hijacked to Pakistan for a terrorist mission. They sent in special forces to kill the terrorists and destroy the planes. To save Pakistan the embarrassment of admitting the plane was hijacked there, the US is reprogramming the black box and is planting debris near Oz.
I don't subscribe to this theory. After 9/11, I can buy a hijack for terrorist purposes. I cannot buy the idea of a US coverup.
They spent two years looking for the Air France flight that went down.
OK. So the speed of light in vacum is about 0.033% faster in vacuum then radio transmissions in air. Doesn't affect the precision much.
If these pings are the data the engines send to Boeing, then they are supposed to be sent every hour.So ping timings getting lomger? Since the pings are transmitted at the speed of light, over the distance the plane travels the change in ping timing would be too small to measure.
You do know that feminism isn't about hating on men or trying to mooch off society right? Evidently you don't.
Well that is because there is empirical evidence to the contrary.
So the idea is to trap infrared for energy. But infrared is effectively heat ( crudely spoken ). So you are trapping heat. Doesn't that add to global warming?
This is why people look down on environmentalists.
First of all, the Science in "Bachelors of Science" means nothing. Many scientists do not have Bachelor of Science degrees they have Bachelor of Arts degrees -- usually referred to as a BA. Many non scientists have Bachelor of science degrees. It mainly depends on where you get your degree.
Secondly, much of what Nye does is not science but engineering. Blurring the distinction like that is harmful to science.
For example an older child may try to build a robot using an Arduino and fail. He correctly deems his project a failure. But then he hears ( assuming of course that the Higgs did not exist ) that LHC failed to find the Higgs, and determines that the money on LHC was wasted. WHen the opposite is true, that proving the Higgs does not exist is just as important frrom a science view as showing it does.
He wrote a good typesetting system, to bad he could not convince Microsoft to use it.
You don't pay attention much do you?
The best locks in world, which Linux does come with, do not help if the door is left unlocked.
Microsoft OTOH has no doors.
The biggest threat to linux in the last five years has not been the architecture of linux, but the willingness of programmers, in particular weak programmers from the WIndows world coming over and applying the same philiosophies to linux development.
See my reply to borcharc.
I too lived through the 80's as well as the 60's and the 70's. I've seen how effective Reagan's policies were. I remember Democrats ridiculing him when he challenged Gorbachov to tear down the Wall. I remember how when the Wall finally came down, those same Democrats were saying "we knew it had to come down sometime".
I remember something else.
I remember the debates the last Presidential election. I remember Romney bringing up the threat of Russia. I also remember Obama's response "Mr Romney. The 80's called they want their foreign policy back."
It was the statement of an asshole who was certain he was "the smartest man in the room" ( google that phrase to see what I'm referring to ), and it deserves to be an albatross hung around his neck. I will keep citing it, because if people would remember more of these things our elections would be better.
So how did RMS posses Shuttleworths body?