There's a lot more potential to IoT than cellphone control of personal gadgets. I would really like to see bridge beams that provide continuous real-time reports of the stress they are under with daily traffic. Engineers would use the data not just to warn of imminent failure, but in the long run to design better infrastructure. So what if China might be watching the data stream to design better bridges of their own?
"The idea of rotating selection is stupid. Just make all the titles you have available actually available all the time."
Rotating selection is what makes Netflix Streaming so miserable. You constantly have to watch for those pitiful little lists of Netflix movies that 'expire' soon. I stay with Netflix DVD so I can get mostly every movie ever made.
You won't be lynched because your opponents are simply people who will not use your technology. If a GM human "fork" is a better fit for living on Europa than unmodified humans, the anti-GM people will...not be there to oppose you, and will probably have long since died of some disease they could have been vaccinated for. You will own the environment to which your new subspecies is adapted.
Federal agents claim jurisdiction outside the US when someone on the Internet somewhere plays on a poker site. The NSA, which already has a worldwide remit to look for information it wants, would have no trouble getting a hospital attack classified as a national security case, worthy of special ops. Classify it as terrorism, and we could nuke Mars.
"If any patient dies in connection with this attack, then it puts murder charges on the table. And the thing about murder is that there's no statute of limitations. Thus, these guys will be looking over their shoulders for the rest of their lives."
I've said it before: If the NSA is as good at mass surveillance as is being claimed, why aren't we seeing them finding ransomware purveyors and strangling them with their own intestines? It would give them the positive publicity they have been waiting for.
"What Iran really needs is a revolution to overthrow those theocratic motherfuckers."
Iran is like Cuba in that it has a whole professional/business class living in exile, in places like Silicon Valley and Beverly Hills. The relations they maintain with their relatives in the old country, reminding them that pre-mullah Iran was the only nation in the region to have industries and a middle class, are setting things up for the next revolution.
True enough, but every previous time the alarm "Everybody will be thrown out of work!" was raised, the conventional labor model was saved by having displaced ditch diggers retrain as heavy equipment operators, effectively giving each man a thousand times the productivity as in his old jobs. There is an increasing sense that the number of 'good jobs controlling the machines' is on the decline at the same time as our interest in applying technology is waning.
Because our recusing from genetic engineering will have effect on the ability of bad actors to exploit the tech. All it would do is prevent us from fighting back.
"Example: In some cultures, insects are a tasty snack. In America, "ZOMG, time to sue someone a cricket is in my soup!" I have tried these, and they're actually pretty good. Also carried at Whole Paycheck.
No, the essence of the traditional 911 system was a database with the physical location of every landline number. Even if you just picked up the phone and wheezed into it, help was on the way.
This has now been updated with cellphone autolocation. In my town, where mountain search-and-rescue is a big deal, I'm trying to get the 911 system to start accepting text messages. When somebody breaks a hip in a deep canyon, text will often get through when voice won't.
"Turn left at the big tree. Turn right where the church was before it burned down..."
In the old politically incorrect days, we used to call those 'chick directions'. Men use compass points when giving directions, while women use landmarks.
There have been instances of GPS guiding people across a bridge that no longer exists, but most of the problem is people not bothering to read maps when setting up a journey. Even if you have never been to Iceland before, having "satnav" (as they cal it in Europe) take you on a medallion cab ride to nowhere between the airport and a nearby hotel would be obvious to anyone who bothered to glance at the route as displayed on your device's map before pressing 'Start'.
It's really interesting, the levels to which Europe is currently trying to impose their laws on the rest of the world. Who do they think they are, imposing their laws on everyone, the U.S. or something?
European police agencies are in an arms race with the US in global law enforcement. It's regrettable that Thailand has underage prostitutes, but that is Thailand's problem. Where in the Constitution does it say that this justifies having the FBI police Asian countries?
The new font, which was called Bookerly, had been hailed as more readable. Looks as though it wasn't. Fortunately, Kindle allows a choice of several fonts, including the monitor-friendly Verdana
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"Cox Communications should take this case all the way to the US Supreme Court."
Which is now no longer majority controlled by the Oil & Pharma Party, but by appointees of the Hollywood & Lawyer Party. Good luck with that.
There's a lot more potential to IoT than cellphone control of personal gadgets. I would really like to see bridge beams that provide continuous real-time reports of the stress they are under with daily traffic. Engineers would use the data not just to warn of imminent failure, but in the long run to design better infrastructure. So what if China might be watching the data stream to design better bridges of their own?
"I felt the same way after my ISP switched from unlimited to 400GB per month."
Imagine how thrilled you'll be when they cut the cap to 150GB per month?
"The idea of rotating selection is stupid. Just make all the titles you have available actually available all the time."
Rotating selection is what makes Netflix Streaming so miserable. You constantly have to watch for those pitiful little lists of Netflix movies that 'expire' soon. I stay with Netflix DVD so I can get mostly every movie ever made.
"Scribd and Experts Exchange could possibly be the two most annoying sites on the internet for that."
But at least Experts Exchange has a funnier domain name.
[Deleting Scribd app]
"After 70 years with such risky science, We are not in a nuclear holocaust world."
That's why we ruin scenarios, both formal (Pentagon simulations, etc.) and fictional.
"I'm probably going to be lynched by saying this"
You won't be lynched because your opponents are simply people who will not use your technology. If a GM human "fork" is a better fit for living on Europa than unmodified humans, the anti-GM people will...not be there to oppose you, and will probably have long since died of some disease they could have been vaccinated for. You will own the environment to which your new subspecies is adapted.
Federal agents claim jurisdiction outside the US when someone on the Internet somewhere plays on a poker site. The NSA, which already has a worldwide remit to look for information it wants, would have no trouble getting a hospital attack classified as a national security case, worthy of special ops. Classify it as terrorism, and we could nuke Mars.
"Archiving suggests write-only"
Remember Iomega? That company released a number of write-only formats, but for some reason none of them caught on.
"If any patient dies in connection with this attack, then it puts murder charges on the table. And the thing about murder is that there's no statute of limitations. Thus, these guys will be looking over their shoulders for the rest of their lives."
I've said it before: If the NSA is as good at mass surveillance as is being claimed, why aren't we seeing them finding ransomware purveyors and strangling them with their own intestines? It would give them the positive publicity they have been waiting for.
"What Iran really needs is a revolution to overthrow those theocratic motherfuckers."
Iran is like Cuba in that it has a whole professional/business class living in exile, in places like Silicon Valley and Beverly Hills. The relations they maintain with their relatives in the old country, reminding them that pre-mullah Iran was the only nation in the region to have industries and a middle class, are setting things up for the next revolution.
"Automation is nothing new..."
True enough, but every previous time the alarm "Everybody will be thrown out of work!" was raised, the conventional labor model was saved by having displaced ditch diggers retrain as heavy equipment operators, effectively giving each man a thousand times the productivity as in his old jobs. There is an increasing sense that the number of 'good jobs controlling the machines' is on the decline at the same time as our interest in applying technology is waning.
"Who bothers with DVDs anymore? "
That's why Hollywood is asking the feds to reach back through time to mail an "antique based software company."
Edit: ...will have NO effect...
Because our recusing from genetic engineering will have effect on the ability of bad actors to exploit the tech. All it would do is prevent us from fighting back.
Just in time, researchers invented the high-maintenance sex robot. And womanhood was saved!
"Example: In some cultures, insects are a tasty snack. In America, "ZOMG, time to sue someone a cricket is in my soup!"
I have tried these, and they're actually pretty good. Also carried at Whole Paycheck.
http://smile.amazon.com/Chapul...
Slashdotters now concur on nuking North Korea.
No, the essence of the traditional 911 system was a database with the physical location of every landline number. Even if you just picked up the phone and wheezed into it, help was on the way.
This has now been updated with cellphone autolocation. In my town, where mountain search-and-rescue is a big deal, I'm trying to get the 911 system to start accepting text messages. When somebody breaks a hip in a deep canyon, text will often get through when voice won't.
"Turn left at the big tree. Turn right where the church was before it burned down..."
In the old politically incorrect days, we used to call those 'chick directions'. Men use compass points when giving directions, while women use landmarks.
There have been instances of GPS guiding people across a bridge that no longer exists, but most of the problem is people not bothering to read maps when setting up a journey. Even if you have never been to Iceland before, having "satnav" (as they cal it in Europe) take you on a medallion cab ride to nowhere between the airport and a nearby hotel would be obvious to anyone who bothered to glance at the route as displayed on your device's map before pressing 'Start'.
Some of these choices may be in the tablet apps but not in the e-ink reader.
How about we start with "Fuck off France"?
It's really interesting, the levels to which Europe is currently trying to impose their laws on the rest of the world. Who do they think they are, imposing their laws on everyone, the U.S. or something?
European police agencies are in an arms race with the US in global law enforcement. It's regrettable that Thailand has underage prostitutes, but that is Thailand's problem. Where in the Constitution does it say that this justifies having the FBI police Asian countries?
The new font, which was called Bookerly, had been hailed as more readable. Looks as though it wasn't. Fortunately, Kindle allows a choice of several fonts, including the monitor-friendly Verdana
"there are urban poor and rural rich communities."
But sometimes rural rich communities have to suffer from chintzy broadband caps, not to mention no Apple store.