So what would happen if they held the olympics, and nobody showed up?
I would try going the opposite way: have everybody tweet something about the Olympics. Let the IOC go bananas trying to identify and sue a billion or more people all over the world who use a medium that is largely anonymous.
We want to keep our spellings, but at the same time we have to go metric at some time. We have a choice between spending a lot to convert now, or spending an exorbitant amount to convert later.
The California water shortage is primarily due to increasing population, which turns a cycle of dry years into a crisis.
When problems like this crop up liberals wring their hands and preach for a return to their beloved Stone Age. Let scientists characterize the problem, and let engineers fix it.
Good idea. We should implement a Year Zero Policy for geeks. Force them to do manual labor for some time. Make that one year at the very least. They will either die or emerge as more decent persons. Either outcome is good.
I automatically disregard anything he says. He desperately needs to learn some science before he spouts rubbish about it.
Why are all you people with gloom as your default setting not in Philadelphia right now with your comrades? This is a nerd forum. We're the people you despise until you need us to get something done.
"10 million people live in, say, around Los Angeles. But to supply those 10 million people with water a fair percent of the watershed of California is tapped. If 1 million people moved into the all that mostly empty land between Los Angeles and Las Vegas, where are they going to get water?"
We're suffering from a shortage of technological hubris right now. Put someone like Kurzweil in charge of the California water system, and Los Angeles sucking Wyoming dry would quickly be replaced by desalination.
"Speaking as a Brit: we have just been through a month of unscrupulous back stabbing carried out by our MPs (Members of Parliament). "
So that's why everybody in the British government has quit since the big vote? At first we were just trying to figure out whether the new Prime Minister's name was going to rhyme with "garage" or not, and next thing we knew we were dealing with all these people who are totally new to us.
What good would having the phone do, unless it's unlocked? Can they require you to use touch ID, enter your passcode, or tell them your passcode?
No, they cannot require you to unlock it, because that would be self-incrimination. The San Bernardino rule applies: if they physically have your phone they can try to decrypt it.
Just look at the latest stuff from McIntosh and such, they're perhaps even uglier than they used to be, but that doesn't matter. Sound quality is still excellent and will completely trash anything you'll find at an Apple store or referred to by an Apple employee.
Because even with the mellow analog sound, how big is that tube smartphone going to be?
Ads in videos, whether pre-roll or interstitial, make a lot of free content possible. But why do so many of the ads stutter and freeze, requiring restart of the vid from the beginning?
There's already a free solution for land lines: nomorobo.com. Been using it for about 6 months. Works great!!!
Nomorobo works just fine, but supports only a small number of providers. Just as when you have to sign up for one of those online streaming channels, yours is probably not one of them
We have had the same increasing number of robocalls everyone else has, gradually spilling over onto my cell, but what finally put me over the top was a new type of call. The phone rings, I pick up, and before I say a word it just says "We are sorry. An application error has occurred. Goodbye."
We have all comm services bundled with cable, so the landline came 'free' on the account. the only use we had for it was as the notifier output for an old leak sensor. Now we're replacing the sensor with one of the newfangled Homekit models that beams its notifications through our router to a smartphone app.
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"Put it to country music and you've got a hit on your (artificial) hands."
'Frank was born with no arms or legs and is coming home from prison on the midnight train.'
So what would happen if they held the olympics, and nobody showed up?
I would try going the opposite way: have everybody tweet something about the Olympics. Let the IOC go bananas trying to identify and sue a billion or more people all over the world who use a medium that is largely anonymous.
person to ever be a candiate for the US presidency now prominently hits the Slashdot front page. Slashdot - how low can you go ?
We won't know that until we find all her emails.
My town has one of these, built by and for the annual film festival but used year round for opera simulcasts and special film screenings.
We want to keep our spellings, but at the same time we have to go metric at some time. We have a choice between spending a lot to convert now, or spending an exorbitant amount to convert later.
The California water shortage is primarily due to increasing population, which turns a cycle of dry years into a crisis.
When problems like this crop up liberals wring their hands and preach for a return to their beloved Stone Age. Let scientists characterize the problem, and let engineers fix it.
Good idea. We should implement a Year Zero Policy for geeks. Force them to do manual labor for some time. Make that one year at the very least. They will either die or emerge as more decent persons. Either outcome is good.
Your exact idea has been tried. This is how it turned out:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
I automatically disregard anything he says. He desperately needs to learn some science before he spouts rubbish about it.
Why are all you people with gloom as your default setting not in Philadelphia right now with your comrades? This is a nerd forum. We're the people you despise until you need us to get something done.
"10 million people live in, say, around Los Angeles. But to supply those 10 million people with water a fair percent of the watershed of California is tapped. If 1 million people moved into the all that mostly empty land between Los Angeles and Las Vegas, where are they going to get water?"
We're suffering from a shortage of technological hubris right now. Put someone like Kurzweil in charge of the California water system, and Los Angeles sucking Wyoming dry would quickly be replaced by desalination.
I'm glad there are still people who think like this, especially in California.
"Speaking as a Brit: we have just been through a month of unscrupulous back stabbing carried out by our MPs (Members of Parliament). "
So that's why everybody in the British government has quit since the big vote? At first we were just trying to figure out whether the new Prime Minister's name was going to rhyme with "garage" or not, and next thing we knew we were dealing with all these people who are totally new to us.
Which one, Uday or Qusay?
I think you mean Romano, Vittorio, Bruno or Benito Albino?
I am curious: where is that mural?
"Sub-garch" is the coolest word that ought to exist.
"What do you call Jew-on-Jew antagonism (DWS vs. BS)? "
MSNBC?
I can't believe they're using "our emails were hacked by Russians" as their excuse.
Next we'll be hearing that Trump is organizing all those shootings and bombings across Europe to boost his campaign. That's gotta be really expensive.
It was from REI.
Just be glad it wasn't some screed on Global Warming.
What in hell does this have to do with high-end outdoor gear?
What good would having the phone do, unless it's unlocked? Can they require you to use touch ID, enter your passcode, or tell them your passcode?
No, they cannot require you to unlock it, because that would be self-incrimination. The San Bernardino rule applies: if they physically have your phone they can try to decrypt it.
https://reason.com/blog/2016/0...
http://money.cnn.com/2016/07/2...
Yes, she was able to keep her phones. Sometimes the DYKWIA superpower can be used for good, not evil.
Just look at the latest stuff from McIntosh and such, they're perhaps even uglier than they used to be, but that doesn't matter. Sound quality is still excellent and will completely trash anything you'll find at an Apple store or referred to by an Apple employee.
Because even with the mellow analog sound, how big is that tube smartphone going to be?
So what's the objection to everyone using BT headsets? People hate wires today.
Ads in videos, whether pre-roll or interstitial, make a lot of free content possible. But why do so many of the ads stutter and freeze, requiring restart of the vid from the beginning?
There's already a free solution for land lines: nomorobo.com. Been using it for about 6 months. Works great!!!
Nomorobo works just fine, but supports only a small number of providers. Just as when you have to sign up for one of those online streaming channels, yours is probably not one of them
I keep looking for my imaginary friend, but he's never there.
At least this research shined some phlogiston on the subject of dark matter.
We have had the same increasing number of robocalls everyone else has, gradually spilling over onto my cell, but what finally put me over the top was a new type of call. The phone rings, I pick up, and before I say a word it just says "We are sorry. An application error has occurred. Goodbye."
We have all comm services bundled with cable, so the landline came 'free' on the account. the only use we had for it was as the notifier output for an old leak sensor. Now we're replacing the sensor with one of the newfangled Homekit models that beams its notifications through our router to a smartphone app.