We understand your culture all too well when we visit places like San Francisco, walking on needles and slipping on poop in the streets. I'll keep our tyrannic culture, thank you.
If that East Texas district court that always rubber-stamps the patent trolls has to shut down too, that will give us a window of opportunity to ram through some major technological advances before the submarine patent machine can reawaken to stifle them once again.
Some people are just bent on making more work for themselves.
The keyboard shortcuts he is using are the ones I use most of the time anyway. The other actions, the ones that are so clumsy for him in this experiment, are the ones that a mouse makes easy.
So the point, if any, that he can make is that so many people lazily use their mice for interactions that would be faster on a keyboard. This is especially true for common actions that are the same across all applications, such as Ctrl-P, Ctrl-N, Ctrl-Z, Ctrl-C/V/X - even across OSes, using the appropriate modifier key.
Interesting, but because people who are actually experts in major fields would rather not be diverted into politics, your noble chamber would quickly become a House of Lobbyists.
The House represents populations, while the Senate represents areas. All of those proposals to ditch the Senate and the Electoral College come from people who would love to see those big-city blue towers on the voter demographic maps to rule us with absolute power. If that happened, we wouldn't need a House of Lords because AOC would rule as Queen.
The Washington Press corps aren't a watchdog. They go to the same parties as the politicians.
After last week's eruption of fake news, it's more like the 'Washington press corpse'. The public will trust news about their Congresscritters more when they're at home and being reported on by the County Catbox-Advertiser.
All of these can happen without the technology we accept into our houses and pockets. But with the technology, every idiot can get on the game.
And as soon as this happens, if it ever happens, the value of any such inferences will fade away. The first few callouts of men by the #MeToo movement were telling enough to end careers with few questions asked. But after Garrison Keillor was deplatformed after one relationship wet wrong and Aziz Ansari for one bad date, the validity of the movement's callouts plummeted into obscurity.
So it's going to be ransomware thugs versus the Bitcoin community of child porn sites, drug traders, basement-dwelling conspiracy theorists - and yes, other ransomware developers who use Bitcoin to get ransom payments without being traced. All the scams in the world collapsing into a black hole as the rest of us applaud.
Do you think that advertisers are the only ones who want your data and are willing to pay for it? I can imagine far worse than that.
Actually yes, I do think that only advertisers want my personal data. Your speech must be so much more important than mine. I genuflect in your august presence.
There are no leftists in America that want Stalin's Dream.
More to the point, the US left's interest in technology does not go beyond ranting on Twitter. There are no Elon Musks among the Stalinists, people who would be actually able to tap our cellphones and use our speech against us if they wanted to.
The security of hardware-tokenized smartphone payment systems is in the hardware, not the operating system. Software gets a one-time-use token, not your credit card number.
And why should I care that I'm being "tracked," meaning that advertisers are given data on how many people shop for pineapples on Tuesdays at my local market? Knowing who shops for what has been the age-old concern of every commercial trader forever.
If Google, Bing, et. al. just stop serving the EU entirely rather than comply, I'm imagining people all over the continent shambling around outside in the rain and looking for that "library" their parents told them about so they can reacquaint themselves with encyclopedias and microfilmed copies of old newspapers whenever they need to look something up.
Hopefully not all of those old libraries will have been converted into mosques by now.
We have no idea what you're talking about because your link is paywalled. If you're referring to Smiling Boy, that story has already turned into an exploding cigar. The Hollymedia are desperately trying to erase any signs that they ever played that fake story up.
It will take a generation to achieve full vehicular autonomy, but unmanned return of bikes and scooters is a valid and safe usage for the early-stage tech we have now.
Unethical? I'm not so sure. What if gene editing is the only way we come up with to defeat some of the worst diseases in humanity? Cancer, ALS, Diabetes, heart disease.
Yes, and China is generally more aware of the long-term need for edgy tech like this than the US and especially Europe. But intentionally faking approvals to rush changes into the human germline is the kind of ethics breach that if anything goes wrong can easily backfire against the technology as a whole. Furthermore, Jiankui's edit was not knocking out one disease-causing point mutation, the obvious first goal of a germline edit. Instead he blocked a major gene that normally powers parts of the human immune system.
“Blue Moon” is an expression not tied to a calendar month. Other than being a generali expression describing any rare event, it is applied to a second full moon in any month.
But was January's full moon ever commonly called a wolf moon, or is this all just a relatively recent popularization to help fill the endless news cycle?
For most of our lives the only full moon to be specially named in popular culture was the 'harvest moon' of September, which was deemed special because at that time of year the ecliptic is at a small angle to the horizon, causing the full Moon of that month to rise at about the same time every night, rather than the usual 50 minutes later each day. This helped farmers bring in the harvest.
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We understand your culture all too well when we visit places like San Francisco, walking on needles and slipping on poop in the streets. I'll keep our tyrannic culture, thank you.
If that East Texas district court that always rubber-stamps the patent trolls has to shut down too, that will give us a window of opportunity to ram through some major technological advances before the submarine patent machine can reawaken to stifle them once again.
On the other hand, evaluating all research by "who is signing the checks" is politics, not science. We call it argumentum ad monsantium.
Some people are just bent on making more work for themselves.
The keyboard shortcuts he is using are the ones I use most of the time anyway. The other actions, the ones that are so clumsy for him in this experiment, are the ones that a mouse makes easy.
So the point, if any, that he can make is that so many people lazily use their mice for interactions that would be faster on a keyboard. This is especially true for common actions that are the same across all applications, such as Ctrl-P, Ctrl-N, Ctrl-Z, Ctrl-C/V/X - even across OSes, using the appropriate modifier key.
The places between NYC/Boswash, Chicago and coastal California are not "empty." They have populations, and cultures, and count as part of our nation.
Interesting, but because people who are actually experts in major fields would rather not be diverted into politics, your noble chamber would quickly become a House of Lobbyists.
The House represents populations, while the Senate represents areas. All of those proposals to ditch the Senate and the Electoral College come from people who would love to see those big-city blue towers on the voter demographic maps to rule us with absolute power. If that happened, we wouldn't need a House of Lords because AOC would rule as Queen.
The Washington Press corps aren't a watchdog. They go to the same parties as the politicians.
After last week's eruption of fake news, it's more like the 'Washington press corpse'. The public will trust news about their Congresscritters more when they're at home and being reported on by the County Catbox-Advertiser.
All of these can happen without the technology we accept into our houses and pockets. But with the technology, every idiot can get on the game.
And as soon as this happens, if it ever happens, the value of any such inferences will fade away. The first few callouts of men by the #MeToo movement were telling enough to end careers with few questions asked. But after Garrison Keillor was deplatformed after one relationship wet wrong and Aziz Ansari for one bad date, the validity of the movement's callouts plummeted into obscurity.
So it's going to be ransomware thugs versus the Bitcoin community of child porn sites, drug traders, basement-dwelling conspiracy theorists - and yes, other ransomware developers who use Bitcoin to get ransom payments without being traced. All the scams in the world collapsing into a black hole as the rest of us applaud.
Do you think that advertisers are the only ones who want your data and are willing to pay for it? I can imagine far worse than that.
Actually yes, I do think that only advertisers want my personal data. Your speech must be so much more important than mine. I genuflect in your august presence.
There are no leftists in America that want Stalin's Dream.
More to the point, the US left's interest in technology does not go beyond ranting on Twitter. There are no Elon Musks among the Stalinists, people who would be actually able to tap our cellphones and use our speech against us if they wanted to.
The security of hardware-tokenized smartphone payment systems is in the hardware, not the operating system. Software gets a one-time-use token, not your credit card number.
And why should I care that I'm being "tracked," meaning that advertisers are given data on how many people shop for pineapples on Tuesdays at my local market? Knowing who shops for what has been the age-old concern of every commercial trader forever.
Do the stores in your neighborhood object when you tie your horse up outside?
I also don't want to miss out on a snack when hungry because my shitty phone's battery goes flat.
None of these systems prevents you from using cash when you want to.
If Google, Bing, et. al. just stop serving the EU entirely rather than comply, I'm imagining people all over the continent shambling around outside in the rain and looking for that "library" their parents told them about so they can reacquaint themselves with encyclopedias and microfilmed copies of old newspapers whenever they need to look something up.
Hopefully not all of those old libraries will have been converted into mosques by now.
We have no idea what you're talking about because your link is paywalled. If you're referring to Smiling Boy, that story has already turned into an exploding cigar. The Hollymedia are desperately trying to erase any signs that they ever played that fake story up.
It will take a generation to achieve full vehicular autonomy, but unmanned return of bikes and scooters is a valid and safe usage for the early-stage tech we have now.
In Soviet EU, history book have looseleaf pages! Is great accomplishment of Brussels Politburo!
Unethical? I'm not so sure. What if gene editing is the only way we come up with to defeat some of the worst diseases in humanity? Cancer, ALS, Diabetes, heart disease.
Yes, and China is generally more aware of the long-term need for edgy tech like this than the US and especially Europe. But intentionally faking approvals to rush changes into the human germline is the kind of ethics breach that if anything goes wrong can easily backfire against the technology as a whole. Furthermore, Jiankui's edit was not knocking out one disease-causing point mutation, the obvious first goal of a germline edit. Instead he blocked a major gene that normally powers parts of the human immune system.
“Blue Moon” is an expression not tied to a calendar month. Other than being a generali expression describing any rare event, it is applied to a second full moon in any month.
MIDI hasn't been updated in over 20 years, and even then it was incremental type updates. The spec itself hasn't really changed since...1983?
Because musical instruments, which MIDI was designed to control, don't change that quickly.
But was January's full moon ever commonly called a wolf moon, or is this all just a relatively recent popularization to help fill the endless news cycle?
For most of our lives the only full moon to be specially named in popular culture was the 'harvest moon' of September, which was deemed special because at that time of year the ecliptic is at a small angle to the horizon, causing the full Moon of that month to rise at about the same time every night, rather than the usual 50 minutes later each day. This helped farmers bring in the harvest.
I do use Android heavily and I do NOT like the fact that Google is working on some crappy Fuschia project to replace the Linux kernel in Android.
Why is this a problem? Just like all the other times, Google is just going to abandon the project before it really gets going.
Is it the researchers, or is it the journalists who are reporting on the science?