It's not socialism that's holding is back, but our fear of science and its applications. China romps because it has a number of engineers in high government positions, so its overall policy is that Big Things Get Built.
The law gives credit card customers the right to dispute errors, whereas debit card problems are notoriously hard to resolve. Someone taps your account, and you're stuck.
Apple Pay is exactly like using one of your credit cards by itself, but signed with your thumbprint. Whatever security Apple has is ADDED to the security of your credit card.
Because it's tapping your checking account directly, customers are not going to like this. And to use CurrentC, you have to open up an app on your smartphone and scan a QR code to make the transaction; with NFC, you just bring your phone up to a point near the register until the register recognizes a near-field chip, ready to ring up the sale as soon as you authenticate, which in Apple's case means placing your thumb on your phone's reader. NFC transactions are so fast that customers are going to want them used for everything. There are already vending machines that support it.
Space tourism has emerged as an unexpected market, at the same time as the increasing difficulty of mining on Earth is leading to interest in extracting valuable minerals from asteroids. And the more satellites we put into orbit, the more servicing is needed to maintain them. Meanwhile, NASA finds itself, perhaps intentionally, with no domestic way of getting astronauts and material into LEO. Why not exploit this opportunity to develop and sell both materials ferries and manned craft? Once the private sector develops a man-rated craft, there will be no limits to what we can do.
So will the middle class suffer a comedown from its exalted position in the current administration?
But okay, you're a Democrat. From Cynthia McKinney's site, in the middle of the front page, announcement of a talk by one of her brain trusters:
"This is audio from MPBN's "Speaking in Maine" featuring Bruce Gagnon, co-founder Global Network Against Weapons and Nuclear Power in Space...."
Got a pro-science, pro-technology Democrat who might interest our fellow Slashdotters? Or do you intend to create jobs by extracting energy from the rapidly revolving corpse of Franklin Roosevelt?
If Germany's CO2 has risen this much after closing of the older nuclear plants, you're not going to want to be anywhere around after the remaining newer nukes are closed, as they plan to, by 2020, as it transitions to Full Unicorn.
But hey, Germany is promising to make its new generation of giant strip mines into lakes by 2100, when the unicorn farmss are in full production and they don't need to belch any more lignite smoke.
If you want to demolish that academic cartel, perhaps the most effective way to do so would be for the tech community to embrace the very worst-case greenhouse gas scenario the Greens espouse. Let's see the look on their faces as we explain that the one way we can stop emitting carbon in one generation is to go nuclear. Be sure to wear a poncho to avoid spatter from those exploding heads.
Yes, and it's also the same Germany whose own Greens are causing it to increase its emissions of greenhouse gas: http://www.zeit.de/wirtschaft/... (In German, but the bar chart lists both CO2 and other greenhouse gases)
In these two cases, no jury was even able to get involved, because the cops were just not charged. Ultraviolent behavior and texting while driving are crimes for the little people, you see.
The problem is precedent. It has now been established in law that a cop can mow down a pedestrian while texting and not be charged for it (CA), and toss a hand grenade into a baby's crib during a wrong-address raid and not be charged for it (GA) . Small wonder that the right now hates cops just as much as the left ever did.
When I make my daily rounds here in town cleaning up terminally-clogged Windows installations as part of my IT service businesses I'm driving a Toyota, not a Delorean.
No, you were trying to shop on your Windows box and got too distracted trying to slap down popups from the vast wad of Nigerian scam sites that have embedded themselves in your OS and have now reduced its speed to virtually nothing. Time to do a clean install of Windows 7 and pray.
We desperately need a more ethical, and faster, approach to drug development than the double-blind trial. Build a supercomputer cluster that models the human body, and keep iteratively improving the model over time. Meanwhile, we use the model to directly assess the effects of new medications. Yes, developing such a model would be costly and at first risky. But compared to the ethics of giving half your population of ebola victims a placebo and watching them die in ways I wouldn't wish on anyone not working for ISIS, the problems in developing a model are trivial.
I get my content through a nationwide cable provider, but if I miss an episode of something on a cable network and want to catch up using the network's iPad app or website, my provider is never in the tiny list of Verify Your Provider options. So it's torrent time for me too.
Even over-the-air networks are starting to require Verify Your Provider now. What do the people who get the channel OTA do?
Go ahead and build a PC. Then you would have to run an operating system that has to self-adjust to the infinity of possible variations in specific implementations of that "standard." And such an OS would perform accordingly.
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It's not socialism that's holding is back, but our fear of science and its applications. China romps because it has a number of engineers in high government positions, so its overall policy is that Big Things Get Built.
The law gives credit card customers the right to dispute errors, whereas debit card problems are notoriously hard to resolve. Someone taps your account, and you're stuck.
You get your own blood drive:
http://www.archonstl.org/31/he...
Feel free to shop at Walgreens with the beads and shells of your forefathers.
Apple Pay is exactly like using one of your credit cards by itself, but signed with your thumbprint. Whatever security Apple has is ADDED to the security of your credit card.
NFC is not for Apple only. It's a multi-vendor standard.
Because it's tapping your checking account directly, customers are not going to like this. And to use CurrentC, you have to open up an app on your smartphone and scan a QR code to make the transaction; with NFC, you just bring your phone up to a point near the register until the register recognizes a near-field chip, ready to ring up the sale as soon as you authenticate, which in Apple's case means placing your thumb on your phone's reader. NFC transactions are so fast that customers are going to want them used for everything. There are already vending machines that support it.
Space tourism has emerged as an unexpected market, at the same time as the increasing difficulty of mining on Earth is leading to interest in extracting valuable minerals from asteroids. And the more satellites we put into orbit, the more servicing is needed to maintain them. Meanwhile, NASA finds itself, perhaps intentionally, with no domestic way of getting astronauts and material into LEO. Why not exploit this opportunity to develop and sell both materials ferries and manned craft? Once the private sector develops a man-rated craft, there will be no limits to what we can do.
So will the middle class suffer a comedown from its exalted position in the current administration?
But okay, you're a Democrat. From Cynthia McKinney's site, in the middle of the front page, announcement of a talk by one of her brain trusters:
"This is audio from MPBN's "Speaking in Maine" featuring Bruce Gagnon, co-founder Global Network Against Weapons and Nuclear Power in Space...."
Got a pro-science, pro-technology Democrat who might interest our fellow Slashdotters? Or do you intend to create jobs by extracting energy from the rapidly revolving corpse of Franklin Roosevelt?
...Is going to have to be to drive a silver stake through the whole civil forfeiture beast.
If Germany's CO2 has risen this much after closing of the older nuclear plants, you're not going to want to be anywhere around after the remaining newer nukes are closed, as they plan to, by 2020, as it transitions to Full Unicorn.
But hey, Germany is promising to make its new generation of giant strip mines into lakes by 2100, when the unicorn farmss are in full production and they don't need to belch any more lignite smoke.
If you want to demolish that academic cartel, perhaps the most effective way to do so would be for the tech community to embrace the very worst-case greenhouse gas scenario the Greens espouse. Let's see the look on their faces as we explain that the one way we can stop emitting carbon in one generation is to go nuclear. Be sure to wear a poncho to avoid spatter from those exploding heads.
Yes, and it's also the same Germany whose own Greens are causing it to increase its emissions of greenhouse gas:
http://www.zeit.de/wirtschaft/...
(In German, but the bar chart lists both CO2 and other greenhouse gases)
In these two cases, no jury was even able to get involved, because the cops were just not charged. Ultraviolent behavior and texting while driving are crimes for the little people, you see.
The problem is precedent. It has now been established in law that a cop can mow down a pedestrian while texting and not be charged for it (CA), and toss a hand grenade into a baby's crib during a wrong-address raid and not be charged for it (GA) . Small wonder that the right now hates cops just as much as the left ever did.
I'm wondering what would happen here in the Slashdot community if such a transaction came to light.
When I make my daily rounds here in town cleaning up terminally-clogged Windows installations as part of my IT service businesses I'm driving a Toyota, not a Delorean.
No, you were trying to shop on your Windows box and got too distracted trying to slap down popups from the vast wad of Nigerian scam sites that have embedded themselves in your OS and have now reduced its speed to virtually nothing. Time to do a clean install of Windows 7 and pray.
I wonder what would happen here is someone used Bitcoin to buy an Apple?
We desperately need a more ethical, and faster, approach to drug development than the double-blind trial. Build a supercomputer cluster that models the human body, and keep iteratively improving the model over time. Meanwhile, we use the model to directly assess the effects of new medications. Yes, developing such a model would be costly and at first risky. But compared to the ethics of giving half your population of ebola victims a placebo and watching them die in ways I wouldn't wish on anyone not working for ISIS, the problems in developing a model are trivial.
" or it may have been a foreign actor engaging in terrorism against the Canadian state"
In which case, it better not be Charlie Sheen. We thought we had him under control.
I get my content through a nationwide cable provider, but if I miss an episode of something on a cable network and want to catch up using the network's iPad app or website, my provider is never in the tiny list of Verify Your Provider options. So it's torrent time for me too.
Even over-the-air networks are starting to require Verify Your Provider now. What do the people who get the channel OTA do?
Go ahead and build a PC. Then you would have to run an operating system that has to self-adjust to the infinity of possible variations in specific implementations of that "standard." And such an OS would perform accordingly.
And if computers were put together with robot welds and 1" steel torsion bolts, would that make them easier to repair?