It’s not just social media. So many online sites lack any meaningful way of being contacted if something goes wrong. A company hires developers to set up the site and establish a payments scheme and then seems to forget to hire any back office personnel to take care of customer service. At some point, this will take legislation to enforce standards of policy, an “Internet building code.”
Look at the tales from people whose PayPal accounts have been frozen for reasons they have never been given a clue about. This is a site primarily devoted to handling money. It gets worse from there.
The "dangers of wind turbines" narrative is fake too, being noting but a Denigrate Not My Solution argument. The real problem with wind and solar is the low energy density for each generating unit. Except for photovoltaic installations on existing structures, this causes energy sprawl, the need to pave over square kilometers of that sacred Environment to get utility-scale amounts of power. Dense, concentrated, small-footprint sources of energy that are available 24/7 are the best. The one renewable that fits this description is hydro (and in a few lucky places, geothermal).
I don't know whether you're European, but several years ago I went over there to hike the Wainwright. Every small village across Cumbria and Yorkshire was fighting the NIMBY battle to install a three-turbine wind facility. Had they just installed one big nuke at Windscale, the start of the hike and a place where the nuclear bullet has already been bitten, they could have powered the region while avoiding the whole mess, and left all those villages pristine.
Generally an industry becomes regulated to the degree that it is monopolistic. Since there can be only one network of sewer pipes in a city, we regulate utilities. But are the Oscars enough of a “monopoly” to justify external regulation? I’m tempted to say yes, on grounds that Hollywood’s own culture keeps demanding the external regulation of absolutely everything, so regulating the Oscars would be a beautiful object lesson on being careful what you wish for. But let us not descend to their level.
So why is the anti-vaxxer movement so heavily tied in many countries to the especially affluent, highly educated?
That’s where the partisan tilt comes in. Antivaxers on the right are tied to the Christian fundamentalist movement, with some help from the Nye County desert conspiracy community. As such, they are as far outside the nation’s conversational mainstream as the creationists are. On the left, meanwhile, the antivaxers went to the same schools as the No Nukers and food faddists. They dominate in Hollywood and The East Coast intellectual community. In milieux like this, old faiths like Communism find a natural successor in anti-science.
Credit the success of the antivax movement to our years of catering to anti-science activists in so many different arenas. Every time we let No Nukers prevent carbon-free energy infrastructure from being built, every time we let No GMO activists label our food to stoke fake fears, we make it easier for the next anti-science movement to flourish. What’s next, equal time for those who believe the Earth is flat?
Anti-science activists have the same right to public protest as everyone else, but we don’t have to keep giving them access to the court system to hobble progress. Legal cases involving science and technology should be argued by people with qualified knowledge in the fields involved, and only those people. We don’t like it when creationists try to replace public school curricula with their feelings about biology, do we?
After you take your laptop out of the bag and watch it emerge from the scanner, watch your MacBook Pro is become the object of an instant tug-of-war by people anxious to upgrade from Windows. The longest arm wins.
What exactly do you mean by "processed?" That word is the universal luddite excuse for "I'm afraid of this because new and because science involved somehow."
It would be a First Amendment violation or a government to get involved in policing Facebook as Zuckerberg wants to. Zuck exerts fine-grained control over the politics allowed on his platform with such actions as banning white separatist posting while allowing black separatist posts. Governments would Constitutionally be limited to policing the small number of specific First Amendment exceptions that have been judicially established over the years: https://fas.org/sgp/crs/misc/9...
Reality the only safe choice now, DO NOT BUY US AIRCRAFT
A whole set of EU pitot tubes would never ice over above a tropical storm, any more than an EU rudder would snap off in wake turbulence, would they now?
Really short or really long half lives are easier to deal with. The worst are the ones in the middle, with half life of 100-1000 years. Short enough that they can produce strong radiation, and long enough that it will remain a problem for generations.
Those intermediate half-life isotopes are the ones we should be recycling. Nuclear plants produce a lot of highly radioactive iodine, but that isotope decays to insignificance in three to six months. Thallium, on the other hand, has an extremely long half-life but there is very little of it, and because of the long half-life it does not emit much radiation.
Why I would want to use a credit card. And please be *precise*.
Credit cards save money for consumers because of the decreased security risk over carrying cash and the built-in fraud redress.
Not so well known is that they also save money for businesses. Businesses love to bellyache about the fee charged for credit cards, but the competitive VISA/Mastercard universe actually save money over the security risk of dealing in cash. Read up on what the newly legal marijuana businesses have to go through because they cannot legally do normal banking and have to deal in cash. Mountains of paper that makes them targets for robbery and embezzlement and is a nightmare for accountants.
Well, no actually. There aren't deposits of *this* radioactive materials.
The isotopes that came from the ground contained a lot more energy than the radioactives in this dump, and had longer half lives than the important isotopes being dumped.
The private scenario: now that the cost of access to space is plummeting, send up constellations of mid-altitude satellites to relay Internet service.
The public scenario: deploy an ultra high capacity fiber backbone along Interstate Highways, with taps at strategic exits. Access would be leased to local cable providers with the stipulation that each ‘data intrrchange’ be served by at least two competing providers and that one tap at each interchange be reserved for local volunteer organizations or municipalities. If this system pays for itself in large urban areas, service would be extended to an increasing number of rural tap points.
Because Google’s massive kill ratio makes users reluctant to try those products in the first place. Who wants to learn a newly introduced product that might summarily vanish tomorrow?
Why not test a sample of people who claim to have EM sensitivity against a random selection of subjects? The results of this will be of great interest either to researchers or to the self-identified EM sensitives.
Britain has plenty of rain, but you can't get that much of it through British plumbing. Worldwide, the range of coastal cities that will eventually need to start using desalination may be a lot larger than we once thought.
Slashdot ate my non-English quotation mark start. The quote was supposed to be: "In the Trump Administration, Science Is Unwelcome. So Is Advice."
Slashdot also dines on English typographic quotation marks, forcing you to use the same ASCII quotes that our hunter-gatherer forebears used in the nineteen hundreds. I suppose Jared Diamond would be proud.
Now think of how early in pregnancy a human fetus would have that stage of brain development. Kind of illuminates the abortion debate in a whole new way, doesn't it.
There are passable alternatives to Photoshop, but there is no other product that comes close to Lightroom for organizing photo collections. Although it now has the most commonly used editing functions from Photoshop, the heart of Lightroom is a cataloging system that leaves your original images in place in whatever organizing scheme you want, keeping track of your folder organization and image edits in one catalog file. Many competing products impose a specific file organization on you and store your photo collection as one enormous blob that will eventually overflow any storage medium you put it on. LR even keeps track of images you keep on offline external disks.
This sounds like an incredible invasion of privacy. If the device was not designed to do this, and I didn't purchase it to do this, why is it doing this?
Watch for the EU to define a new Right To Die of Undiagnosed Heart Trouble. Brussels could then fine Apple a jillion kajilllion brazillion Euro for violating it.
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It’s not just social media. So many online sites lack any meaningful way of being contacted if something goes wrong. A company hires developers to set up the site and establish a payments scheme and then seems to forget to hire any back office personnel to take care of customer service. At some point, this will take legislation to enforce standards of policy, an “Internet building code.”
Look at the tales from people whose PayPal accounts have been frozen for reasons they have never been given a clue about. This is a site primarily devoted to handling money. It gets worse from there.
The "dangers of wind turbines" narrative is fake too, being noting but a Denigrate Not My Solution argument. The real problem with wind and solar is the low energy density for each generating unit. Except for photovoltaic installations on existing structures, this causes energy sprawl, the need to pave over square kilometers of that sacred Environment to get utility-scale amounts of power. Dense, concentrated, small-footprint sources of energy that are available 24/7 are the best. The one renewable that fits this description is hydro (and in a few lucky places, geothermal).
I don't know whether you're European, but several years ago I went over there to hike the Wainwright. Every small village across Cumbria and Yorkshire was fighting the NIMBY battle to install a three-turbine wind facility. Had they just installed one big nuke at Windscale, the start of the hike and a place where the nuclear bullet has already been bitten, they could have powered the region while avoiding the whole mess, and left all those villages pristine.
Generally an industry becomes regulated to the degree that it is monopolistic. Since there can be only one network of sewer pipes in a city, we regulate utilities. But are the Oscars enough of a “monopoly” to justify external regulation? I’m tempted to say yes, on grounds that Hollywood’s own culture keeps demanding the external regulation of absolutely everything, so regulating the Oscars would be a beautiful object lesson on being careful what you wish for. But let us not descend to their level.
So why is the anti-vaxxer movement so heavily tied in many countries to the especially affluent, highly educated?
That’s where the partisan tilt comes in. Antivaxers on the right are tied to the Christian fundamentalist movement, with some help from the Nye County desert conspiracy community. As such, they are as far outside the nation’s conversational mainstream as the creationists are.
On the left, meanwhile, the antivaxers went to the same schools as the No Nukers and food faddists. They dominate in Hollywood and The East Coast intellectual community. In milieux like this, old faiths like Communism find a natural successor in anti-science.
Credit the success of the antivax movement to our years of catering to anti-science activists in so many different arenas. Every time we let No Nukers prevent carbon-free energy infrastructure from being built, every time we let No GMO activists label our food to stoke fake fears, we make it easier for the next anti-science movement to flourish. What’s next, equal time for those who believe the Earth is flat?
Anti-science activists have the same right to public protest as everyone else, but we don’t have to keep giving them access to the court system to hobble progress. Legal cases involving science and technology should be argued by people with qualified knowledge in the fields involved, and only those people. We don’t like it when creationists try to replace public school curricula with their feelings about biology, do we?
After you take your laptop out of the bag and watch it emerge from the scanner, watch your MacBook Pro is become the object of an instant tug-of-war by people anxious to upgrade from Windows. The longest arm wins.
would be a better headline.
An even better headline would be "Will security theater be slightly less inconvenient?" because we all know what the answer will be.
What exactly do you mean by "processed?" That word is the universal luddite excuse for "I'm afraid of this because new and because science involved somehow."
I'm sure that Tinder is about to require proof of all reported female dimensions, weight included.
Yeah, right...
It would be a First Amendment violation or a government to get involved in policing Facebook as Zuckerberg wants to. Zuck exerts fine-grained control over the politics allowed on his platform with such actions as banning white separatist posting while allowing black separatist posts. Governments would Constitutionally be limited to policing the small number of specific First Amendment exceptions that have been judicially established over the years:
https://fas.org/sgp/crs/misc/9...
Reality the only safe choice now, DO NOT BUY US AIRCRAFT
A whole set of EU pitot tubes would never ice over above a tropical storm, any more than an EU rudder would snap off in wake turbulence, would they now?
So basically this is what Google just announced in Stadia, but worse, because it will only run on Apple hardware.
But unlike a new Google product, it will still be available a year from now.
I like the Apple TV fine, but it is useless for playing locally stored content...
That's what AirPlay is for, and that runs only on Apple TV.
Really short or really long half lives are easier to deal with. The worst are the ones in the middle, with half life of 100-1000 years. Short enough that they can produce strong radiation, and long enough that it will remain a problem for generations.
Those intermediate half-life isotopes are the ones we should be recycling. Nuclear plants produce a lot of highly radioactive iodine, but that isotope decays to insignificance in three to six months. Thallium, on the other hand, has an extremely long half-life but there is very little of it, and because of the long half-life it does not emit much radiation.
Why I would want to use a credit card. And please be *precise*.
Credit cards save money for consumers because of the decreased security risk over carrying cash and the built-in fraud redress.
Not so well known is that they also save money for businesses. Businesses love to bellyache about the fee charged for credit cards, but the competitive VISA/Mastercard universe actually save money over the security risk of dealing in cash. Read up on what the newly legal marijuana businesses have to go through because they cannot legally do normal banking and have to deal in cash. Mountains of paper that makes them targets for robbery and embezzlement and is a nightmare for accountants.
Well, no actually. There aren't deposits of *this* radioactive materials.
The isotopes that came from the ground contained a lot more energy than the radioactives in this dump, and had longer half lives than the important isotopes being dumped.
The private scenario: now that the cost of access to space is plummeting, send up constellations of mid-altitude satellites to relay Internet service.
The public scenario: deploy an ultra high capacity fiber backbone along Interstate Highways, with taps at strategic exits. Access would be leased to local cable providers with the stipulation that each ‘data intrrchange’ be served by at least two competing providers and that one tap at each interchange be reserved for local volunteer organizations or municipalities. If this system pays for itself in large urban areas, service would be extended to an increasing number of rural tap points.
Because Google’s massive kill ratio makes users reluctant to try those products in the first place. Who wants to learn a newly introduced product that might summarily vanish tomorrow?
Why not test a sample of people who claim to have EM sensitivity against a random selection of subjects? The results of this will be of great interest either to researchers or to the self-identified EM sensitives.
Britain has plenty of rain, but you can't get that much of it through British plumbing. Worldwide, the range of coastal cities that will eventually need to start using desalination may be a lot larger than we once thought.
Slashdot ate my non-English quotation mark start. The quote was supposed to be: "In the Trump Administration, Science Is Unwelcome. So Is Advice."
Slashdot also dines on English typographic quotation marks, forcing you to use the same ASCII quotes that our hunter-gatherer forebears used in the nineteen hundreds. I suppose Jared Diamond would be proud.
Now think of how early in pregnancy a human fetus would have that stage of brain development. Kind of illuminates the abortion debate in a whole new way, doesn't it.
Any of you old-timers remember Beenz?
There are passable alternatives to Photoshop, but there is no other product that comes close to Lightroom for organizing photo collections. Although it now has the most commonly used editing functions from Photoshop, the heart of Lightroom is a cataloging system that leaves your original images in place in whatever organizing scheme you want, keeping track of your folder organization and image edits in one catalog file. Many competing products impose a specific file organization on you and store your photo collection as one enormous blob that will eventually overflow any storage medium you put it on. LR even keeps track of images you keep on offline external disks.
Does anything else even come close?
This sounds like an incredible invasion of privacy. If the device was not designed to do this, and I didn't purchase it to do this, why is it doing this?
Watch for the EU to define a new Right To Die of Undiagnosed Heart Trouble. Brussels could then fine Apple a jillion kajilllion brazillion Euro for violating it.