"I can't figure out WTF you're talking about in AZ, in fact it looks like astronomers there are winning victories to fight light pollution. The thing in HI is not left vs. science. To the extent that any of the people involved are lefties (which sure, some of them are) they have been whipped into a froth by right-wing politicians. And the battle ties into a fight for the land which the Hawaiian natives, frankly, have not given up fighting. Remember, it's not like they simply chose to join an empire."
You may not have been in Arizona long enough to have known what I was talking about, but protesters working for an outfit called Deep Green Resistance spent years filing fatuous lawsuits against the building of several large telescopes on Mt. Graham in the southeastern part of the state. The first excuse they used was critical habitat for red squirrels living on the mountain. When that fell flat, red squirrels being both common and not endangered by this particular type of human activity, Deep Green switched its attack to a claim that the site was sacred to the San Carlos Apache, a tribe which lives nowhere near the mountain and never evinced particular interest in it. During Clinton's second term construction was finally accomplished, years late and far over budget. That's the Greens' whole strategy - keep throwing groundless legal objections at the wall until even if nothing sticks, the target project becomes too expensive to finish. One argument that the Greens actually used in Arizona was "Build in Hawaii instead, because it's an even better site for astronomy!"
Having been unsuccessful in Arizona, Deep Green moved its attack to Hawaii, where they have been delaying the Thirty Meter Telescope by whipping up a native rights controversy. That is what is wending its way through the court system now.
This is Deep Green's manifesto against astronomy: https://dgrnewsservice.org/civ... The author of this piece, Will Falk, has been all over Mauna Kea, egging on the protesters.
If the device management and synchronization functions in iTunes were split into a separate application, the iTunes interface for music and video could be made more usable again for that specific purpose. There's nothing like having to keep relogging into iTunes Store when I just want to send a set of slideshow photos up to my iPad. And for s real exercise in frustration, just try exporting a set of albums from your iTunes library as MP3s on an SD card for playing in your car.
In the '80s the right was pro-science and technology, and the left (or at least the stereotype of the left) was anti-technology.
Since the Reagan era, though the right has completely swung around and is now anti-science, while the left has only weakly shifted over and embraced science.
I don't see any such change, unless you're counting skepticism on the right about the hard-to-pin-down effect of carbon on weather, even when we observe warming (are we all going to die of thirst, or are we going to drown?) I don't hear much from creationists these days either.
Meanwhile the left hates technology just as much as it did in the Seventies, and has even started hacking away against pure research itself, as evidenced by their crusade against astronomy - a discipline whose vested interest is in a totally clean environment - first in Arizona, and more recently in Hawaii. If Trump accomplishes just one thing, let him find a way of locking these little weasels out of the court system so we can get human progress moving again.
Right now the lead article on Ars Technica is a highly positive review of the current state of VASIMR rocket engine technology: https://arstechnica.com/scienc...
But the author seems to be a frustrated SJW who couldn't resist a totally irrelevant slam at current US immigration policy, even though nobody has ever accused VASIMR developer Franklin Chang-Díaz of having sneaked across the border on foot.
The upside-down bottle is still apt to drip extra product when dispensing condiments. Though this would not be a problem with shampoo, I have curiously not seen a single example of a shampoo bottle which is upside down by design. In fact, most shampoo seems to be specifically designed to fall over if propped in the inverted position. I suspect this is a conspiracy by Big Foot, the podiatry lobby.
by increasing materials used to prevent that waste.
A better innovation would be a container specifically designed to dispense from the bottom. I make a point of buying viscous products in flat-topped containers, but standing the bottle upside down is a poor alternative even for those wide-topped ketchup bottles that are designed to be stored that way. What I have in mind is a pump bottle that substitutes gravity feed for the pumping action and which totally isolates the product from the environment when the bottle is standing on the shelf. No more ketchupy fingers or sticky spot on the refrigerator shelf.
And most importantly, no more precariously balanced shampoo bottles that fall on my foot in the shower, ever.
"You don't need toxoplasma to turn you into a crazy cat lady. Three cats suffice."
The looniest women I ever met made a point of not having a cat, even though she had no problem being around the felines of others, on grounds that "If I die and am not found for a few days, my cat might eat me!"
More importantly, even, are that we can detect planets that small at this distance, and that such a small and cool star, the most common kind, has rocky planets. If the Copernican assumption holds, there are a lot more planets of this kind waiting to be discovered.
"I'd be skeptical of carbon dating. This cave had some sort of exposure to the outside world, so there should be interfering tritium from the 40's and 50's. Not as much as outside, but not zero either."
Cold War tritium is not going to affect carbon uptake by an organism that has not uptaken anything for 10K or more years.
We're supposed to believe that because this is Uber, and because everything about Uber is evil, this is News For Nerds. It would be if there was something about Uber's business model that made sexual harassment a problem on the customer side. But it's about office politics, a sphere in which the same set of problems could occur at Indianapolis Valve & Flange.
In fact, the Uber service model makes harassment less likely on the customer side than with traditional taxi services, because the anonymity factor is absent. If a problem occurs between an Uber driver and an Uber customer, logs show exactly who was involved at a given place and time.
Even though these bacteria are still alive, carbon dating should still work as long as the organism is no longer absorbing carbon from its environment.
Probably b'cos there is nothing that manufacturers can do about cosmic rays, which are beyond even gamma rays in the electromagnetic spectrum in terms of wavelength and frequency.
Not the manufacturer, but the CTOs: just put all data centers into old mines. This could be a great business for rural areas.
"I take my old monitors (CRT and LCD alike) to a place where I pay a somewhat hefty fee to recycle (I think around $20-$40). That's the best I can do to ensure they actually will be recycled, rather than taking it somewhere that supposedly would handle them for free... I do the same for pretty much any electronic device."
There IS no place that disposes of CRTs for free. If you do pay for environmentally proper disposal, they end up in the warehouse pile described in the article, in hope that someone at some time will find a way of recycling them.
Paying to have your old set stored in a pile is at least better than what most people actually do, which is sneak it into a dumpster some rainy night.
No private individual should carry around a phone that crammed with highly sensitive personal information that having to open it for border security is that big a problem. This doesn't apply in Bikkanavar's case because it was his work phone, secured by NASA. Keep on your own phone nothing but the data you need to support the mobile functions you actually use.
Even if you travel without setting up an international roaming plan, your smartphone is good at doing two things: allowing you to stay in communication by Skype and email wherever here is WiFi, and being your backup camera that in event of loss or problems with your Big Camera might be your only way of capturing the priceless views you will never pass by again. I once left for a five-week trip through several European countries thinking that I had arranged for international roaming with my carrier. Although I got No Service wherever I went due to a problem with the SIM, the Skype capability kept me in touch.
Encryption is just as breakable on paper as it is in the digital world. Each new encryption scheme is secure for a time, and then is eventually broken because of advances in computation.
Cash is 'better than digital'? In its role as ultimate backup if nothing else is working, then yes. But in such cases, specie, substances with culturally accepted value beyond what paper represents, is better still. If civilization collapses your stack of Benjamins are of no value. This collapse has already happened if your banknotes came from Zimbabwe or Venezuela.
The forgery problem is to digital's advantage because public key cryptography as a validator is already less forgeable than a signature - and as computing power increases to make it possible to break digital keys given sufficiently long periods of time, we just add more bits to the key. We still use signatures only because this is what the law, hundreds of years behind the technology, accepts. Oddly the law accepts fax, which is even worse than paper. This is why you have to haul the old fax machine out of the closet when communicating with courts.
Let's start with printers, photocopiers, faxes and PC's and hand calculators. They put hundreds of thousands of office workers out of work.
By making offices more efficient, this tech created a lot more office work, with a net gain of human employees even at the reduced ratio of machine to man.
I'll be happy to settle in on 40 acres in the back end of nowhere, raise some crops and animals and enjoy life. I want to work but I don't want a fucking job. I don't want a boss.
If you actually had to farm forty acres, you would want to invest in some up-to-date farm machinery, thereby starting the cycle all over again.
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"I can't figure out WTF you're talking about in AZ, in fact it looks like astronomers there are winning victories to fight light pollution. The thing in HI is not left vs. science. To the extent that any of the people involved are lefties (which sure, some of them are) they have been whipped into a froth by right-wing politicians. And the battle ties into a fight for the land which the Hawaiian natives, frankly, have not given up fighting. Remember, it's not like they simply chose to join an empire."
You may not have been in Arizona long enough to have known what I was talking about, but protesters working for an outfit called Deep Green Resistance spent years filing fatuous lawsuits against the building of several large telescopes on Mt. Graham in the southeastern part of the state. The first excuse they used was critical habitat for red squirrels living on the mountain. When that fell flat, red squirrels being both common and not endangered by this particular type of human activity, Deep Green switched its attack to a claim that the site was sacred to the San Carlos Apache, a tribe which lives nowhere near the mountain and never evinced particular interest in it. During Clinton's second term construction was finally accomplished, years late and far over budget. That's the Greens' whole strategy - keep throwing groundless legal objections at the wall until even if nothing sticks, the target project becomes too expensive to finish. One argument that the Greens actually used in Arizona was "Build in Hawaii instead, because it's an even better site for astronomy!"
Having been unsuccessful in Arizona, Deep Green moved its attack to Hawaii, where they have been delaying the Thirty Meter Telescope by whipping up a native rights controversy. That is what is wending its way through the court system now.
This is Deep Green's manifesto against astronomy: https://dgrnewsservice.org/civ...
The author of this piece, Will Falk, has been all over Mauna Kea, egging on the protesters.
If the device management and synchronization functions in iTunes were split into a separate application, the iTunes interface for music and video could be made more usable again for that specific purpose. There's nothing like having to keep relogging into iTunes Store when I just want to send a set of slideshow photos up to my iPad. And for s real exercise in frustration, just try exporting a set of albums from your iTunes library as MP3s on an SD card for playing in your car.
In the '80s the right was pro-science and technology, and the left (or at least the stereotype of the left) was anti-technology.
Since the Reagan era, though the right has completely swung around and is now anti-science, while the left has only weakly shifted over and embraced science.
I don't see any such change, unless you're counting skepticism on the right about the hard-to-pin-down effect of carbon on weather, even when we observe warming (are we all going to die of thirst, or are we going to drown?) I don't hear much from creationists these days either.
Meanwhile the left hates technology just as much as it did in the Seventies, and has even started hacking away against pure research itself, as evidenced by their crusade against astronomy - a discipline whose vested interest is in a totally clean environment - first in Arizona, and more recently in Hawaii. If Trump accomplishes just one thing, let him find a way of locking these little weasels out of the court system so we can get human progress moving again.
Right now the lead article on Ars Technica is a highly positive review of the current state of VASIMR rocket engine technology: https://arstechnica.com/scienc...
But the author seems to be a frustrated SJW who couldn't resist a totally irrelevant slam at current US immigration policy, even though nobody has ever accused VASIMR developer Franklin Chang-Díaz of having sneaked across the border on foot.
The upside-down bottle is still apt to drip extra product when dispensing condiments. Though this would not be a problem with shampoo, I have curiously not seen a single example of a shampoo bottle which is upside down by design. In fact, most shampoo seems to be specifically designed to fall over if propped in the inverted position. I suspect this is a conspiracy by Big Foot, the podiatry lobby.
This would be the "Do what I mean" instruction that developers have always dreamed of.
by increasing materials used to prevent that waste.
A better innovation would be a container specifically designed to dispense from the bottom. I make a point of buying viscous products in flat-topped containers, but standing the bottle upside down is a poor alternative even for those wide-topped ketchup bottles that are designed to be stored that way. What I have in mind is a pump bottle that substitutes gravity feed for the pumping action and which totally isolates the product from the environment when the bottle is standing on the shelf. No more ketchupy fingers or sticky spot on the refrigerator shelf.
And most importantly, no more precariously balanced shampoo bottles that fall on my foot in the shower, ever.
"... am so large I have to be careful to not cause major internal organ damage."
Yes, I know people who have similar trouble squeezing through doorways. At least get the step counting app.
There's a reason people that own one cat go crazy and have brain damage and end up owning more of those things.
See how memes persist even when scientific evidence comes along that refutes them? It's true because you wish it were true.
"You don't need toxoplasma to turn you into a crazy cat lady. Three cats suffice."
The looniest women I ever met made a point of not having a cat, even though she had no problem being around the felines of others, on grounds that "If I die and am not found for a few days, my cat might eat me!"
"...When I was a kid, there was a neighbor a block away who used to voice train and litter box train rabbits."
If rabbits could vocalize, what would they talk about? I'm guessing, mostly sex.
Dumbest content on slashdot. Carly fiorina would be rolling in her grave. Lulz, FP. See oldschool
If Carly really were rolling in her grave, HP would be the great company it once was and there would still be Republicans in California today.
Relevant xkcd: http://xkcd.com/1253/
I would rather see naming rights auctioned off to the highest bidder, with the proceeds to benefit space research. Let the human ego do some good.
More importantly, even, are that we can detect planets that small at this distance, and that such a small and cool star, the most common kind, has rocky planets. If the Copernican assumption holds, there are a lot more planets of this kind waiting to be discovered.
EDIT: And besides, tritium is hydrogen, not carbon.
"I'd be skeptical of carbon dating. This cave had some sort of exposure to the outside world, so there should be interfering tritium from the 40's and 50's. Not as much as outside, but not zero either."
Cold War tritium is not going to affect carbon uptake by an organism that has not uptaken anything for 10K or more years.
generic_assumption. generic_allegation.
We're supposed to believe that because this is Uber, and because everything about Uber is evil, this is News For Nerds. It would be if there was something about Uber's business model that made sexual harassment a problem on the customer side. But it's about office politics, a sphere in which the same set of problems could occur at Indianapolis Valve & Flange.
In fact, the Uber service model makes harassment less likely on the customer side than with traditional taxi services, because the anonymity factor is absent. If a problem occurs between an Uber driver and an Uber customer, logs show exactly who was involved at a given place and time.
Even though these bacteria are still alive, carbon dating should still work as long as the organism is no longer absorbing carbon from its environment.
Probably b'cos there is nothing that manufacturers can do about cosmic rays, which are beyond even gamma rays in the electromagnetic spectrum in terms of wavelength and frequency.
Not the manufacturer, but the CTOs: just put all data centers into old mines. This could be a great business for rural areas.
"I take my old monitors (CRT and LCD alike) to a place where I pay a somewhat hefty fee to recycle (I think around $20-$40). That's the best I can do to ensure they actually will be recycled, rather than taking it somewhere that supposedly would handle them for free... I do the same for pretty much any electronic device."
There IS no place that disposes of CRTs for free. If you do pay for environmentally proper disposal, they end up in the warehouse pile described in the article, in hope that someone at some time will find a way of recycling them.
Paying to have your old set stored in a pile is at least better than what most people actually do, which is sneak it into a dumpster some rainy night.
No private individual should carry around a phone that crammed with highly sensitive personal information that having to open it for border security is that big a problem. This doesn't apply in Bikkanavar's case because it was his work phone, secured by NASA. Keep on your own phone nothing but the data you need to support the mobile functions you actually use.
Even if you travel without setting up an international roaming plan, your smartphone is good at doing two things: allowing you to stay in communication by Skype and email wherever here is WiFi, and being your backup camera that in event of loss or problems with your Big Camera might be your only way of capturing the priceless views you will never pass by again. I once left for a five-week trip through several European countries thinking that I had arranged for international roaming with my carrier. Although I got No Service wherever I went due to a problem with the SIM, the Skype capability kept me in touch.
Wonder if inspired by this or just brilliant understanding of the future.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/San_Junipero
And does Second Life have a Quagmire Club?
Encryption is just as breakable on paper as it is in the digital world. Each new encryption scheme is secure for a time, and then is eventually broken because of advances in computation.
Cash is 'better than digital'? In its role as ultimate backup if nothing else is working, then yes. But in such cases, specie, substances with culturally accepted value beyond what paper represents, is better still. If civilization collapses your stack of Benjamins are of no value. This collapse has already happened if your banknotes came from Zimbabwe or Venezuela.
The forgery problem is to digital's advantage because public key cryptography as a validator is already less forgeable than a signature - and as computing power increases to make it possible to break digital keys given sufficiently long periods of time, we just add more bits to the key. We still use signatures only because this is what the law, hundreds of years behind the technology, accepts. Oddly the law accepts fax, which is even worse than paper. This is why you have to haul the old fax machine out of the closet when communicating with courts.
Let's start with printers, photocopiers, faxes and PC's and hand calculators. They put hundreds of thousands of office workers out of work.
By making offices more efficient, this tech created a lot more office work, with a net gain of human employees even at the reduced ratio of machine to man.
I'll be happy to settle in on 40 acres in the back end of nowhere, raise some crops and animals and enjoy life. I want to work but I don't want a fucking job. I don't want a boss.
If you actually had to farm forty acres, you would want to invest in some up-to-date farm machinery, thereby starting the cycle all over again.